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All of you leaf peepers pay attention. Here's a tree story just for you. It's about that jingle we learned when we were kids: "Mighty oaks from little acorns grow."
Yes. They do. Huge. Such as a chalky-gray-barked, time-battered giant swamp white oak with a 300-year-old survival story begging to be told in Stewart State Forest.
Like a giant hand with enormous fingers, the oak reaches for us to listen. And it's a forest thriller, which is so timely because this tree must have dropped bushels of orangey fall leaves in almost three centuries.
It's life began when some absent-minded rodent popped an acorn in its mouth and dropped it into a crevice in an old stone wall at a big crossroad of trails in the forest.
That was maybe 300 years ago, figures interpretive naturalist Gary Keaton, beaming with a kid's joy at finding this oak on a recent Stewart Park and Reserve Coalition walk.
"This is really amazing," said Keaton, sizing up the girder thick lower limbs and estimating the trunk was more than 5 feet wide.
In fact, in the 18th century it may have been lonely because all the other trees were being stripped for firewood and charcoal to fuel raging iron furnaces during the American Revolution.
Keaton says, "I can imagine soldiers streaming this way from the (1777) battle at Forts Montgomery and Clinton welcoming this tree's shade."
This stubborn oak soldiered through hurricanes, lightening strikes, and fended off droughts by being born on boggy ground, thanks to that rodent that dropped the acorn there. And scientists now believe that trees like this can remember heavy winds and grow thicker to resist them.
"It's pretty miraculous that a tree lived for about 300 years," says Keaton, who calls trees like this mega senior citizen "sentinels that can talk." He means the oak's story can be read in its bark, location and how it grew – with its branches spread outward "which means they were out there in open space for the sun."
He said, "There are all sorts of pathogens; there are fires, woodcutters, animals, various and sundry bugs, so it's pretty miraculous that this tree has lived so long."
One of those sundry bugs is the always hungry acorn weevil who bores a long snout into acorn shells and sucks out the almost complete, miniature tree inside that's ready to break out and fling its tiny self into the sunshine. But no weevil got this Stewart tree.
And then there were always those gorgeous fall leaves it made.
Also, the tree gained survival allies. Farmers probably liked the tree for the shade it gave them and their animals because shade trees were far and few between in the days of extensive firewood cutting.
Besides, the oak most likely was used as a signpost, had saw-unfriendly nails in it. After all, the oak became a meeting place of sorts, says Keaton, for it stands on two major trail crossings.
Even now, with some of its lower limbs busted and others up top askew, this oak managed a respectable headdress of lovely, sunny, orangey, year 2012 fall leaves.
So mighty oaks from little acorns grow – with lots of luck.
Happily, it's not alone in beating the odds.
In New Paltz, a marvelous red and very large American smoke tree shelters the renovation of an 18th century farmhouse the way it must have done in years past, providing natural air conditioning, says owner William Charnock.
"It's a beautiful red color in the fall and turns later than the maples."
And this tree shares something with the Stewart oak.
They're both now much loved.
Wayne's World: Venerable 300-year-old oaks are 'sentinels that can talk'
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When many Americans receive the census questionnaire in the mail, they are unnerved by the number and detail of the questions asked. This has led various individuals and blogs to decry the U.S. Census as "unconstitutional!" However, a close examination of the Constitution reveals otherwise. Article 1, section 2, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to take a nationwide population census every 10 years. At minimum, such data is necessary to determine the number of seats each state occupies in the House of Representatives.
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The Dutch journalist Frits Eisenloeffel (1944-2001) captured the decolonization, liberation struggle and rebuilding process of various African nations during his travels on the African continent in the 1970s. The vast journalistic inheritance of Frits Eisenloeffel, including 20.000 photo's, now rests at the IISH.
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BOURBON — Cash prizes are to be had next month, as Bourbon residents will battle each other for the title of best-dressed home for the holidays.
Those interested in competing should fill out an application at the clerk's office before Dec. 12. Town Attorney Mark Wagner will judge and prizes are: $100 for first place, $75 for second place, and $50 for third place.
Homes in Bourbon may be well decorated for the holidays, but Clerk Kim Berger reported in Tuesday's town council meeting that she is having some issues with Christmas decorations downtown.
Berger ordered new town Christmas decorations last February from Wayne Manufacturing in Iowa. She recently learned that the company is now bankrupt and the town will not be receiving either the decorations they ordered — 17 large Christmas wreaths — or the $2,800 they spent.
"There might not be any options for us," said Berger Wednesday, adding that Wagner is looking into the situation.
Wagner noted in Tuesday's meeting that the company's assets may have already been absorbed.
Berger said that the old Christmas decorations — which the town had been using for 10 years — were in pretty bad condition.
"We had continuous issues with the lighting every time we put them up," said Berger.
She is working with another company to get decorations on short notice, and she hopes to have them by the week of Thanksgiving.


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2. Samon and lavender, as seen in an interior from Canadian House & Home.
3. Pale pink and cerulean, in an Autralian home from The Design Files.
4. Cobalt blue and pink, from artist Isabelle Tuchband's Sao Paolo home (as seen in The Selby).
5. Camel and pink (seen in an interior from Skona Hem).
6. Aqua and pink. BNO Design via Plush Palate.
7. Sky blue and deep red, from T Magazine.
8. Lavender and emerald green, in a Paris apartment from Design*Sponge.
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The Bluffton High girls lacrosse team's season came to an end Tuesday in the first round of the South Carolina High School League state tournament.
The Bobcats, seeded sixth in the Lower State bracket, lost at third-seeded Bishop England 13-7.
Bluffton completed its season with a 7-7 record.
Bluffton Bulldogs cheer registration April 22
The Bluffton Bulldogs cheerleading team will hold registration for the fall season on April 22.
Registration for returning cheerleaders will begin at 2 p.m. Newcomers will register at 3 p.m. The team accepts girls and boys ages 5-13. Cost is $75 per child, with family discounts of $70 for a second child and $65 for a third child. Only cash or money orders will be accepted. All new registrants must bring a copy of their birth certificates.
Go to blufftonbulldogs.org for the location.
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The eighth annual Hilton Head Harbor Wahoo Shootout fishing tournament will be held April 19-21 out of Hilton Head Harbor Marina.
Registration is 4-6 p.m. April 19 with the captain's meeting to follow at 6:30 p.m.
Captains must choose a fishing date of April 20 or 21. The first prize is set at $10,000, assuming 34 boats are entered.
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OK, now, I tried to play Yogurting, a japanese version, but I couldnt register, or start the game. Anyone knows why??
And, if I change all the options to japanese, like you showed in first post, now, that only means that japanese is installed? I mean, it wont turn my computer into a japanese machine?? XD
And where can I get the East Asian Fonts.?
|2008-10-12, 07:05
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
I downloaded the umineko demo recently, but I can't get the file and folder names to display correctly. I've installed Japanese language support and all that according to the first poster, so why the scrambled letters? It means I can't quite unzip it properly
|2008-12-18, 21:25
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Yeah, i think so. this thread will be change the IP into janapase. i think you can creat a VPN for the IP then you can join it, so it can change the IP too for the game. http://www.internetgameservice.com/silkroadgold.php i am sure that.
|2008-12-31, 09:09
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Belgium
Age: 32
For anyone who's interested, two years ago I saved Kagami's "The Japanese Gaming Guide to Windows XP" website and rebuilt it with standards compliance in mind with his permission.
|2009-02-28, 01:34
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Location: Taiwan
A much better alternative to AppLocale is NTLEA (NT Locale Emulator Advance). More meant for Chinese users, I found it to be extremely useful when having to juggle through three languages at once (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. Why can't we all just get along -_-; ). It also works for applications that AppLocale doesn't seem to work for, and is simply much more convenient.
Made a quick download link here. Just simply unpack the file and run the NTLEA.exe contained within.
Choose the language you want your desired program to run in (usually Japanese in this case), and check the box next to "Add to shortcut menu". This will add the options "Execute by NTLEA" (to directly run the program in your previously selected language), and "Execute by NTLEA and Settings" (if you want to change the language before executing the application) in the right click menu. Besides Japanese, it also works for Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
Just throwing this out there in case anyone might be interested. Drop me a message if there happens to be any problems (it should run in English unless your language settings is set to Chinese or something). Credits to LOVEHINA-AVC for designing this ingenious program. Not sure if it will work on Vista.
|2009-03-25, 18:15
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I dont know if I just have an old version of Windows XP but the Japanese option in the region local thing your talking about isnt even there. It is unfortunate as well that I dont have the Windows Professional CD-Rom as well since every time I try to install the east asian language thing, a window pops up saying the file for xjnis frm the Windows Professional CD-Rom is needed but like I said, I dont have it. So does any one have a way around this? I would like to play Fate Stay Night but it doesnt seem I can as every time I click on icon a window thats blue with letters written all over appears.
|2009-04-20, 09:50
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Linux Ubuntu: Hardy heron and above
As this only has Windows XP I tough it would be nice to mention some ways to run Japanese games on Linux.
1. Install Wine (Program that enables you to play many windows programs in Linux enviroment) It should be available in Package manager.
2. Go to system->Administration->Languages selection and find Japanese and check it.
There should already be the languages you have chosen with your Linux installation and english checked so this just adds japanese character support for your system trough installation. Root password requared!
3. Install the game, or copy paste the game folder to place of your choice (for example if you have umineko installed on your windows computer you can copy the whole game folder and move it to your linux system and it will work. Probably doesnt work in all games but worth the try if you cant run installer trough wine)
4. Use terminal and navigate to your games folder and run wine in Japanese mode:
Umineko4 with WH language patch for example:
$ cd Umineko4
$ cd "[WH] Umineko English"
$ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine onscripter-en.exe
Note that many Visual novels are made for windows enviroment and wine can't probably all of them.
Probably works similary in many of the linux distributions.
Had some problems running Umineko no naku Koro NI on my system so I tough id share my findings to ease things for others with similar problems now and in the future. This one worked for my and I hope it works for any 1 else with similar problems.
|2009-05-07, 07:01
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 26
I've got a problem with playing the Umineko games (Windows XP)...
I tried to play EP4 (with the english patch), but it doesn't work - instead it says:
"You either do not have your computer set up to play japanese games, or you are missing some music files"
but the other patched Episodes of Umineko work fine ! So what's the problem?
I changed the options to jap once...then EPs 1-3 worked and then I turned it back (and the games still worked - only EP4 doesn't..).
* About changing the options to japanese.....it's a problem because it uninstalls every other language when I change it to jap....and I don't have the CD required for reinstalling everything....I also can't download the things it uninstalls because my comp will be set to jap... '''XD
What should I do? T_T
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|2009-08-16, 19:50
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Join Date: Aug 2009
I had the exact same problem by the way T_T
Anyways, just 'right click' in the screen and select 'system'.
And then click on 'Title Back' and you'll end up at the title screen
Make sure you do this when the text transition is complete; if that doesn't make sense, just keep right clicking and you'll see it soon enough.
I hope this helps!
By the way, if you just change your 'Non-Unicode' setting to Japanese, it should work perfectly fine.
It won't affect your OS or menus, at least it didn't do anything to mine.
Just go to Control Panel -> Regional/Language Options -> Administrative -> Change System Locale and select Japanese
Make sure you are changing the 'Non-Unicode' setting.
EDIT: Click 'F' to make it full-screen.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The surprise choice to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission has focused much of her time at the agency on the $3.7 trillion municipal-security market.
President Barack Obama on Monday picked longtime regulator Elisse Walter to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, after agency chief Mary Schapiro announced she was stepping down. Read about Schapiro to step down from SEC
Walter, a current Democratic commissioner on the agency's five-member panel, has been a key proponent of municipal-bond reforms such as setting up a uniform, detailed federal-disclosure system for the industry. Critics have complained that retail investors have very limited access to information about which market participants would be interested in buying or selling a municipal security.
She chaired an extensive review of municipal bonds at the SEC that produced a report on the subject in July. Read about the SEC calling for more muni-bond disclosure.
In an October speech, Walter continued to urge for reform of the industry. She pointed out that the municipal-securities report urged lawmakers to grant the SEC authority to set disclosure standards for the industry. She also noted that the report seeks to require municipal issuers to have audited financial statements. What's more, Walter said that improved disclosure for the industry would help retail investors obtain greater information and know if they are getting a "fair price."
The chairwoman's position should give Walter more of a platform to push for legislation to expand disclosure for the municipal-bond market, according to Brian Breheny, a partner at Skadden Arps in Washington. "I know she is interested in this issue and I would expect that she would put it at the top of her list, whether she is testifying before Congress or in other interactions on Capitol Hill," he said.
Breheny, who was the deputy director in the SEC corporation-finance unit while Walter was a commissioner, added that she is very engaged, smart, approachable and has lots of experience. "When you are a staff member it is important that when you show up to talk to an SEC commissioner that they understand the intricacies of the issues, and she always had an in-depth knowledge of the different issues when I met with her."
Sen. Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and member of the Senate Banking Committee, said he has found Walter to be "bright and talented," and that her review of the municipal-bond market was "thorough and thoughtful." Reed also said he is eager to hear her recommendations to Congress.
Columbia Law School Prof. John Coffee said a key advantage with Walter is that she does not require Senate confirmation, an often bruising process where some controversial White House nominees have a difficult time receiving the filibuster-proof 60 votes needed to be approved by the Senate.
However, Coffee noted that with Walter as chairwoman, the SEC will be split at least for the near term with two Republicans and two Democrats.
He contends that the White House can't rely on having that situation in place for much longer, because it hampers the Obama administration's efforts to reform the $2.7 trillion money-market fund industry. Reform efforts by Schapiro have stalled because another Democrat, Luis Aguilar, and the two Republicans on the panel have opposed her efforts.
"They can't go with four commissioners for a long time, because with Schapiro out, she [Walter] is the only voice for money-market fund reform on the commission," Coffee commented.
Walter is "incorruptible," he said, but people don't see her as someone with as much "political sense" as Schapiro.
Recently, Walter raised concerns about a key provision in the JOBS Act, a statute approved by Congress in April to help improve capital formation. She warned that a provision in the law allowing hedge funds, private-equity firms and small businesses to publicly advertise could lead to an increase in fraud. Read about Walter's fear of fraud from hedge-fund ad rules
She said that if the provision, under consideration at the SEC, results in increased incidence of fraud or sale of securities to investors that don't have the sophistication to understand the risks, then the rules will have failed "not only investors, but small businesses as well."
How long will Walter stay?
It is unclear how long Walter will remain as chairwoman of the agency; however, it is unlikely to be as long as her predecessor's four years. That's partly because very few SEC leaders ever serve four-year or longer terms. Schapiro is one of the longest-serving heads of the SEC, having served longer than 24 of the previous 28 chairmen.
Walter served a five-year term that ended in June 2012, but panel members can serve an additional 18 months after their terms end, giving her until the end of 2013 before requiring Senate confirmation to continue. However, Obama plans to nominate someone for a full term in the near future, according to a person familiar with the situation.
It is also unclear how much of an impact Walter can have at a four-person split commission if the White House doesn't pick someone to replace her that is confirmed by the Senate.
Like Schapiro, Walter has worked in financial regulation for many years. Both Walter and Schapiro worked at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of their long regulatory careers.
Before joining the SEC, Walter served as a senior vice president for regulation and programs at FINRA. Before that, she served as CFTC general counsel.
Before joining the CFTC, Walter was the deputy director of the SEC's corporate-finance division. She served on the SEC's staff beginning in 1977, both in the corporate-finance division and in the agency's general-counsel office.
Walter also briefly served as acting chair of the agency in January 2009.
She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in mathematics and she received her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.


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My boy is 7.5 months and I've been working outside the home since he was 10 weeks. I pump 3x during the work day and am blessed by being able to put milk away in the deep freezer at the end of each week and still continuing to give my boy very generous bottles while he's at day care. It is a nice problem to have; I am blessed.
Where I am going with this is to see if other mommies have been able to reduce their pump frequency during the work day and still keep up with their supply. I do not have the ability to pump at my desk. I physically go to another building to pump and it's a major inconvience to my work day. It is also taking a toll on me physically and mentally. If I only had to pump twice during the workday, I think it would help me so much. I'm just not sure how it would ultimately affect my supply in the long run.
I can give further specifics on my pump schedule, I was just curious if I could back off my pump frequency for my mental health and productivity but still maintain a good supply.
My goal is to ebf until my boy is 12 months, then gradually wean from then. He will be a year Jan 25. My thought was to reduce my pump frequency down to twice a day (while at work) on Nov 1. We do have quite the freezer stash in case my supply took too much a hit and had to go back to 3x during the work day.
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Ala. Town to Get $840K for Delayed Demolition Work
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Federal officials say they will give a tornado-ravaged Alabama town $840,000 to fund the long-delayed demolition of nearly its entire downtown.
Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Danon Lucas said the grant will cover 90 percent of the cost of demolishing what's left of downtown Cordova. The town was hit by two tornadoes in the April 27, 2011, onslaught.
It could still be weeks before work begins. Officials must obtain final bids and supply additional documentation for the work, initially estimated to cost around $1 million.
Concerns over the historical significance of the damaged buildings resulted in delays in federal funding approval.
Located about 35 miles northwest of Birmingham, Cordova began in the 1880s at a spot where two railroad lines converged.


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The Delaware Valley (Pa.) football team is playing a playoff semifinal on Friday, but can win a championship at the same time.
The Delaware Valley (Pa.) football team is playing a playoff semifinal on Friday, but can win a championship at the same time.
And you thought the BCS was confusing?
Delaware Valley takes on host Scranton at 7 p.m. Friday in a District 2-11 Class AAAA subregional semifinal.
The winner advances to next Friday's subregional championship against Parkland or Pleasant Valley — and is also the District 2 champion, which comprises the northeastern part of the state.
Championship game, semifinal, preseason scrimmage — it doesn't matter. Fourth-seeded Delaware Valley just wants another shot at Scranton.
Top-seeded Scranton (11-0) handed Delaware Valley its only loss of the season, 34-27, on Oct. 19. The Warriors gave up leads of 20-0 and 27-20. Scranton wide receiver Karlon Quiller had four touchdowns.
"It's nice to get another shot at Scranton," said Delaware Valley lineman Jack Fagan. "There is a lot of stake and, of course, that loss will be in the back of our minds. We might have let the throttle off last time, but we won't again."
Delaware Valley advanced to the semifinals with a 46-45 overtime win over Whitehall, giving the program its first playoff win in school history. The Warriors trailed by 14 points in the second half and coach Keith Olsommer went for a two-point conversion for the win.
Quarterback Bryan Schor hit Martin Strenk with a pass to win it.
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Question about shelving,
hi all,
Here is the situation. I have been asked by a friend to build his wall bookshelf. It will be installed in a recessed wall. The bookshelf will be 12' long (3.5 m), 8' (2.44) high and 9" (23 cm) deep. I will make it into 3 pieces. For ease of explanation I will call them left, right and middle section. The left and right sections are 4'3" (1.3 m) wide and the middle section is 3' (90 cm) wide. All of them 9" deep.
The frame (sides, top and bottom) will be made of solid walnut, 1" thick. There will be a total of 6 to 8 shelves in each section. Each section will have 2 or 3 fixed shelves and the rest will be floating shelves, I mean resting on a pin similar to that http://www.leevalley.com/US/hardware/page.aspx?p=67955&cat=3,43648,43649
Each shelf will be approximately 3' to 4' long by 8" wide, 3/4" – 1" thick
Here are my questions:
1) I cannot find walnut as wide as 9" wide. I will glue pieces together to get the required width.
2) At the store they told me that the floating shelves will be warping over time? What do you think? They recommended walnut-baltic plywood. The issue that I have with plywood is that my shop is in the basement, very unpractical next to impossible to cut a 8×4 sheet and the store does not cut plywood. Using plywood would require edging too. It might be more stable over time but my question is walnut prone to warp a lot? I have no experience with walnut. I do have a bookshelf build in pine with floating shelves (1' wide, 55" long, ¾ thick) and they seem to be stable over time. I had this bookshelf for over 10 years the are still flat.
So the questions is should I use solid walnut or not? Would you use solid walnut for floating shelving to built your own library?
3) This is relative to how to anchor the unit to the wall. I was thinking to anchor (with what is to be determined) the left side of the left unit and the right side of the right unit to the recessed wall. The middle unit would be attached to the adjacent side from the left and right unit. Would it be ok?
Those are my main questions at the moment, but I am confident if this project goes ahead (and so far it seems it will) I will then have more questions.
I hope you will be able to help answer my questions. In advance thank you for your input, advice, comments and whatever I did not think of.
PS: If this topic is more appropriate in another forum please let me know.


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Empowering Women with Mobile Services
By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist
Last year, I wrote a series of editorials about how mobile data services — mobile agriculture and banking in particular — are becoming major economic drivers in developing economies. While these services can benefit all people in regions under-served by traditional infrastructure, women may benefit in particular.
In fact, the introduction of mobile banking, education, agriculture, and other services is already helping to empower millions of women in profound ways, and lift many families out of poverty. According to a newly released report from Pyramid Research:
The impact that mobile phone access and usage can have on women has never been greater. The proliferation of projects in the fields of mobile health, mobile education, mobile agriculture, mobile money/banking, mobile social networks and mobile innovation in general have all demonstrated that women in particular can benefit both directly and indirectly through time and cost savings, access to life-saving information, the ability to communicate with others (who may be at long distances), increases in access to business opportunities, the ability to perform monetary transactions, and even nurturing their ability to read and write.
Bridging the Gender Gap
However, there remains a significant gender gap in mobile phone adoption, especially in developing economies. According to a report from the GSM Association (GSMA) Development Fund and the Cherie Blair Foundation, as of 2010, 300 million fewer women than men had mobile phone subscriptions.
To address this problem, GSMA launched its "mWomen" program. The program aims to reduce that gap by 50 percent by 2014 by expanding mobile phone usage for 150 million women in the developing world. GSMA is working with a host of worldwide partners, NGOs, and mobile operators to try to achieve this objective.
While these groups highlight the many social reasons for expanding mobile phone access for women in developing economies, there are excellent economic reasons as well. According to the GSMA:
- Women will account for two thirds of all new mobile subscribers between 2010 and 2015.
- This represents a $13 billion revenue opportunity for mobile operators.
- 41 percent of women reported having increased income and professional opportunities once they owned a mobile phone.
Empowerment Ideas in Action
The mWomen program began with a series of policy recommendations, and has been very active, along with its NGO and mobile partners, in funding efforts to change the situation on the ground for women in middle- and low-income economies.
You can actually track these efforts at the mWomen website using an interactive 3D map, powered by Google Earth. Deployments profiled include:
- A project sponsored by Vodafone in Siwa, Egypt, where female trainers take mobile computing units into homes to teach women how to use the technology.
- Ovi Life Tools in Nigeria, sponsored by Nokia, which sends women's healthcare, pregnancy, and childcare information to women via text messages.
- The Agape Age Teenage Mothers & Young Wives Development Programme in Cameroon, which distributes mobile phones to groups of young women, provides them with weekly messages with health and economic information, and trains young mothers to be leaders.
Pyramid Research also highlighted a recent success story in Zimbabwe. Network operator Econet Wireless launched a mobile banking service, Eco-Cash, in 2011, which quickly became a vital tool for empowering women's groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the report describes:
Thelma Nare, a head of a women's cooperative, had the difficult task of collecting money from cooperative members to support the group's activities. Because of distances from banks and scheduling difficulties, some women were unable to make their payments regularly or on time. Without a regular income coming into the cooperative for support, many members would suffer from the continuing high levels of inflation in Zimbabwe.
"The usage of [the Eco-Cash] service creates a steady cash flow, reduces the need for long journeys into cities, and helps the cooperative members save money because they no longer need to rely on cross-border transporters who regularly requested steep commissions for their money transfer services," says Ronda Zelezny-Green, Associate Research Analyst at Pyramid Research. In the absence of a physical bank account, this women's cooperative can now get banking services like their urban counterparts. Some of the cooperative members have even used the service to receive money from husbands working abroad and to send money to their children studying at boarding schools.
These are just a few examples. You can check out the mWomen deployment tracker, as well as the group's blog, to find dozens more, with new programs launching seemingly every week.
Expanding mobile usage to tens of millions of women in the developing world over the next few years is no small task, but it's exciting to watch. And it's clear that service providers, mobile companies, and nonprofit groups worldwide are committed to making it happen.
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March 21, 2011, 08:47:03 PM »
I'm at Touro now (yea, I know), but I finished in the top 10% pretty easily and I have been accepted by BLS as a transfer. However, I already have 20k off at Touro and I'm confident they will offer me more. Add to that the fact that while at Touro I can live with my parents, roughly saving me 10k to 15k a year.
So the question is, is it better to stay at Touro paying almost 40k less a year and have a solid chance at finishing in the top 10%; or is it better to switch over to Brooklyn and pay more and be in a more competitive atmosphere.
As far as the peripheral issues go, I don't particularly like Touro's school location or the "campus" atmosphere. I would really like to live in Brooklyn / be closer to the city / take part in the school's clinics, but I am scared of incurring massive amounts of debt. Input would be much appreciated.
Re: Touro to...some other place in NY
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March 22, 2011, 10:13:51 AM »
What are the differences in OCI employers? (#, quality, etc)
I think you would definitely better off top 10% where you are than top 50% at BLS. But, if you were able to keep your rank at BLS it could offer some advantages.
Re: Touro to...some other place in NY
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March 23, 2011, 08:25:43 PM »
Yea that seems on point. I don't think Touro is some awful place my mentoring attorney at my summer job went there and he was AWESOME! If you finish in the top 10% with minimal debt I would say you are in a pretty good spot. Take into account the considerable debt you will take on by not being able to live with your parents and paying full tuition to go to Brooklyn Law School right? Not sure if you mean Boston Law School or Brooklyn Law School by your post, but the same logic applies to either one. Boston Law School is far from the best school in it's own market their is a school you might have heard of called Harvard in the area. In Boston I believe there is Boston College, NorthEastern, Suffolk, which are comparable schools and Harvard takes the cake in your own market so you can pay 100k more to be in fourth in your own market.
If Brooklyn Law School is what you are considering the same logic applies. I believe Brooklyn Law School has the highest tuition of any law school and it is in Bedstuy, which is ghetto I lived one subway stop from it and the facilities area not impressive. You will be in competition with NYU, Colombia, Fordham, Cardozo, then I guess Brooklyn woudl be fifth and NYLS, Pace, are in the discussion as well.
Read the below articles directly from the LSAC website condeming the rankings. Don't pay 100K plus more to go to the 5th best school in a market. If you wanted to be in Idaho then University of Idaho regardless of ranking is great, but going to a school that is fifth in it's own market is not going to open many more doors. At least in my opinion and it is certainly is not worth paying living expenses for two years and a highly increased tuition.
The View of Administrators Directly from the LSAC website.
page this text is on page 7. The first 7 pages explain the incomprehensible formula U.S. News uses, but read the below few paragraphs and I think you will get an understanding of how irrelavnt these rankings are.
Before reporting our findings, we briefly describe the range of opinions people express about rankings. The vast
majority of administrators we interviewed held negative views of rankings: Most believed that rankings were more
harmful than beneficial to their particular schools as well as to legal education generally. This result was not surprising
considering that for each of the past 10 years nearly every law school dean (173 of 181 deans of accredited law schools
in 2005a typical proportion in the 4 years we have kept track of these numbers) signed a letter publicly condemning
the rankings. This letter, sent to every student who registers to take the LSAT, questions the quality of information
provided by USN, alleging that the rankings cannot take each students special needs and circumstances into account
and fail to measure many factors that students claim are most important in their choice of law school. These omissions
include measures of the quality and accessibility of teachers, faculty scholarship, racial and gender diversity within the
faculty and student body, the size of first-year classes, the strength of alumni networks, student satisfaction with their
education, and cost.11 This letter summarizes one common criticism of ranking methodology: that USN fails to measure
many important attributes that constitute a quality law school.
A second common methodological criticism is that the measures used by USN to estimate law school quality are bad
proxies for the actual quality of the schools. Klein and Hamilton (1998) conclude, for example, that 90% of the overall
differences in ranks among schools can be explained by the median LSAT score of their entering classes; this finding
suggests that despite their stated weights, the numerous other factors that comprise the rankings have small effects.12
Many deans criticize the quality of USN measures. To take one example, many suggest that respondents to the
reputational surveys are ill-informed about the schools they evaluate and that their evaluations are strategic responses. As
one dean put it:
The data on the reputational survey are so ba
d I dont understand how you get anything other than some
consensus There is clear consensus of the 10 or 12 schools that should get a five [where five is outstanding
and one is marginal]. How is there any difference between Chicago and Yale based on reputation? Anyone
who doesnt put Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, NU, or Berkeley as a five, is either being instrumental or is
an idiot.
Lempert (2001) characterizes the USN rankings as pseudoscience and, examining each component, characterizes every
factor used by USN as flawed.
Early public assessments of the rankings were very critical, and often expressed a sense of disbelief that the
rankingsproduced by journalists and statisticians with no expertise in legal educationwere being taken seriously. For
example, after USN published its first ranking issue in 1990, Guido Calabresi dean of Yale Law School (ranked number
1) called the rankings an idiot poll, while Dean Robert Clark of Harvard (ranked number 5) pronounced them Mickey
Mouse, just plain wacky, and totally bonkers (cited in Parloff, 1998; Webster, 1992). As one administrator
described his and his colleagues reaction to the initial rankings:
The survey came and we sort of looked at it and said, Isnt this interesting, somebodys doing a survey. And
then we probably filled it out and that was about it. And then all of the sudden some rankings came out and we
were in the top 25 which was a good thing for [our school]. It looked so crazy and arbitrary that we started
The opinion of many deans and other administrators has remained critical. In 1997, Judith Wegner, then dean of the
University of North Carolinas law school said, U.S. News methodology is so seriously flawed that it makes any
thinking person despair of journalistic ethics (Rovella, 1997). Carl Monk, executive director of the Association of
American Law Schools, called them dangerous and misleading (Cotts, 1998). Of the administrators we interviewed, a
majority shared these criticismssome vehemently:
The reification of this stuff to the decimal point that makes it into science is what makes [rankings] so
We hate [rankings]. And we hate the [guide] book. And it comes out at the wrong time, and it has the wrong
I wish Al Qaeda would make USN their next target.
It is important to note, however, that a minority of administrators believe that rankings have had a positive
Re: Touro to...some other place in NY
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March 24, 2011, 07:31:39 AM »
Yes, I am referring to Brooklyn Law. I will direct you to this artcile
, which pretty much says even if you have a full ride at Touro, it is not worth going to.
You say its not good being at the 5th ranked school in the market, well what does that make Touro.
SUNY Buffalo
CUNY Queens
BLS has a strong alumni base and a strong
reputation than Touro (which has either no reputation at large firms, or a poor one). I feel like, what is the point of wasting 3 years of my life in a school (however minimal the debt) to graduate and either not get a job, or a get a job paying 55k (which is what my friends who DIDNT go to law school are making right now). BLS is far from a guranteed Big Law or Mid Law spot, but at least it gets you in the game. Touro doesn't...I think
Re: Touro to...some other place in NY
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March 24, 2011, 07:42:08 AM »
Seriously, look at the OCI employer list between the two. Top 10% you will have a shot at interviews with virtually all of the OCI employers at both schools. How different are the lists?
Firms don't take summer associates that they dont want to make offers to. The mentality that firms have is that they want to make offers to 100% of their summer associates. Even in this economy, its over 80% offers.
If you can get a summer job at roughly the same group of firms, probably better to save the money. If not, jump.
Re: Touro to...some other place in NY
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March 24, 2011, 09:14:27 AM »
Yea there was an awesome website that literally listed the OCI employers at the school and it was pretty accurate. I cannot remember it though, which is of no use to anyone, but I do know it exists. I suppose you could just call the school, but they will fudge that information. Even if they got someone to come on campus they will call it an OCI interview even if the position was for an unpaid spot.
This is Brooklyn Law Schools numbers on Lawschooltransparency. 40% of the graduating class has listed their salaries. 10% make less than 70,000 which could mean they make minimum wage they don't have a minimum so I am always suspicious of that. Just assume that 10% is making 69k, because schools try to be as close to the truth about their numbers as possible. That means 40% of the class has a reported income. Brooklyn Cost 42k a year plus the cost of living for a year in Bedstuy, which is SCARY I am 6'8 and 260 pounds and I was scared walking around there at night you will be paying an additional 23k. Put that over two years 127K total to go to Brooklyn. This is collecting 8% interest don't forget. So more than 8,000 a year in interest payments will be headed your way.
Touro is 36K a year you are getting a 20k scholarship and not paying living expenses by living at home. So your debt assuming you don't get additional money will be 32K additional dollars to attend Touro. You will pay quite literally 100k more to go to a school that has a 40% employment rate. Do not forget the interest that collects on 100k. I mean 8,000 more in interest payments it will be in your life for quite some time and Brooklyn is the 5th best school in New York. Not to mention Harvard, Yale, Michigan, UCLA, USC, etc grads want to work in New York. Brooklyn is a decent school, but it won't open many more doors than Touro. It is nowhere the caliber of schools present in the New York Market and very few people outside of New York would know the difference between Touro or Brooklyn Law School.
I personally was in a similar situation to the one you are in and could have transferred to Hastings, but decided against it. I got an increased scholarship at my Tier 4 school, which I really like and have had some pretty cool jobs up to this point. I know people that have transferred to Santa Clara, USF, and Hastings some have done well others have not found an internship and one guy I know from undergrad went to GGU to start out transferred to Hastings and has been unemployed for a year now. This is because GGU, Hastings, USF, Santa Clara, are not IMPRESSIVE SCHOOLS. Employers want Stanford, Berkeley Grads in the area. Not to mention UCLA & USC grads move up to San Francisco as do Harvard, Yale, Colombia, NYU, etc. Going to the 48th, 78th, 93rd, or 114th school really is not going to impress anyone. I imagine if you are in the top 10% at Hastings you are set, but 90% chance you won't be and being the in top 40% at the 48th best school is not going to have employers knocking doors down for you. You are going to be sending resumes out just like the person in the top 40% at the 93rd best school.
Now with all the said Touro does have pretty minimal stats on lawschooltransparency.
it looks like only 8% of the students are accounted for, which might be the lowest I have seen. It is a tough decision, but Brooklyn is not a guarantee of anything and will cost you significantly more money than what you are paying. Either will work out, but take the money into consideration and also remember sometimes it is better to be the top student at a lower school than to be a mid level student at a decent school. Being in the top 5%-10% at any ABA school is impressive. Being the 232nd best student at the 63rd best school does not make you stand out.
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March 24, 2011, 02:12:04 PM »
Okay, firstly, I don't know where some people are getting there info but Brooklyn Law School is not in Bedstuy. It is in Brooklyn Heights (way west of Bed Stuy), which is a pretty affluent part of Brooklyn (1900 a month for one bedroom apartment). I'm not concerned about that in the slightest.
However, I did some research on OCI interviews. These figures are from lawschoolnumbers.com, so I can't attest to their veracity, but they seem pretty damn "jump worthy".
Total Law Firms: 149
NY Law Firms: 89
DC Law Firms: 8
CA Law Firms: 9
Total Law Firms: 1
NY Law Firms: 1
DC Law Firms: 0
CA Law Firms: 0
Re: Touro to...some other place in NY
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March 24, 2011, 02:50:18 PM »
It is pretty close to Bedstuy I lived there. I got off on the G-Train right in front of it. It is not a nice area the courts are there, but it is not nice. I am sure Brooklyn Law School will sugarcoat it's location, but it is not a nice area of Brooklyn. It is a a few blocks from Bedstuy, and I remember it being in Bedstuy. I lived right around Brooklyn Law School and it is not a good area although, that was 3 years ago and things might have changed.
If you haven't I recommend visiting the school. It is possible I am way off base, but check things out for yourself first hand. Everything you read here from me or anyone else is essentially unfounded information and not really worth that much.
Lawschoolnumbers.com website I don't know how accurate that is. The information is from 2007-2008 prior to the huge recession and lawschoolnumbers.com has not updated this for any of the schools. Lawschoolnumbers.com is designed to determine admissions chances more than employment prospects. Transferring is a huge decision and you should do some real research instead of looking at these websites. If you transfer you are going to be paying Brooklyn Law School 100,000 so call Brooklyn law school and ask for a list of the employers they had come for OCI. Then look to see what positions were paid or not, also see which ones actually came to campus and were not just resume collections. Schools are not forthcoming with their information, but you are going to pay them 100,000 dollars so get first hand info. Go on facebook and find people attending Brooklyn Law School and ask them what the OCI situation really was. Every school in the Bay Area at least lists a ton of employers on their OCI schedule, but does not distinguish the fact that many of the positions are unpaid, or nothing more than resume collections. All these schools are business and you are customer paying a lot of money so get REAL INFO. Not lawschoolnumbers.com 2007-2008 OCI employers that were offering unpaid positions. Lawschoolnumbers.com did not go research this they just got the info from the schools who reported the facts in the light most favorable to them. I am just some random guy on the internet so don't take anything I say to seriously, but if you were paying 100k for anything else I would imagine you woudl make a few phone calls. If you were buying a house and the ad said great neighborhood, wonderful neighbors, blah blah you might make a few phone calls and visits to verify these statements when considering law schools the same logic applies.
On the same note see what Touro's schedule is, go into Touro's career service office and see what is going on with them. The real thing to consider is that very few students at non T-14 schools get employment through OCI anyway. Even if there are actually 80 employers coming to Brooklyn for OCI, I find it unlikely that all 80 firms actually hire someone through OCI. A firm coming in for interviews often is nothing more than professional courtesy, and some firms have no intention of hiring anyone, but they show up as a favor to the school. Not to mention there are 470 Graduates from Brooklyn compared to 199 from Touro. So even if they had more people coming for OCI the percentages are not great. 470 people graduating is a lot of students. The competition will be much higher for any position there. These are all things to consider and Brooklyn might be the better school in the long run, but it has 300 more graduates than Touro that they are trying to find jobs for. You will be competing for jobs with people from NYU, Colombia, Fordham, Cardozo, Georgetown, Harvard, Yale, etc the difference between Brooklyn and Touro when compared to these schools is nominal.
I just don't know how much OCI means for tier 2,3,4 schools. You need to be in the top 10% or 20% to even get interviewed. That is how it was for my school's OCI. Even being in the top 10% or 20% did not mean they were hiring you. They were here for 6 hours 30 minute blocks interviewing 12 people at my school alone, not to mention the numerous other schools they visit. These OCI's result in them interviewing 50 people for 1 maybe 2 spots. This results in a 1 in 50 or 1 in 25 chance of getting hired if you place in the top 10% or 20% of the class. Now at Georgetown, Harvard etc I don't imagine the above process applies. However, when firms interview at GGU they also go to USF, Santa Clara, Hastings. They will only allow the top 20% from each school to even apply. Then they will receive a few hundred applications and select 48 people to interview then offer one or two spots. Is having the opportunity to go through this process worth paying 100k more for? That is a question only you can answer.
At the end of they day there are great schools and respected regional schools, which I think Fordham falls under not even Cardozo quite as much. However, to pay 100k more to go to NYLS or Brooklyn law school the 5th and 6th best school in a saturated market doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Again, I am a random guy on the internet so take everything I saw with a major grain of salt, but the whole game U.S. News and the schools play of misrepresenting facts drives me crazy and I want people to be aware of them. Good luck to you whatever you decide.
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March 24, 2011, 08:28:10 PM »
I think that Brooklyn is definitely better in terms of employment prospects, but $40k better? Yikes! Are they the only place where you applied to transfer? Any chance you could continue to live at home and take the LIRR in?
Re: Touro to...some other place in NY
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March 24, 2011, 10:50:27 PM »
That is much better summary of everything I tried to say.
Brooklyn is the better school and if they cost the same the answer would be obvious go to Brooklyn. I just don't think Brooklyn is worth the $42,375 a year in tuition alone?
Harvard costs the same amount. Harvard!
As stated above I don't think Brooklyn the 5th/6th best school in completely saturated market is worth the 42,375 a year price tag. So 84,750 in tuition alone accumulating interest. 22k in living costs estimated 44k over two years. Grand total of 128k for two years.
Even if you don't get additional scholarship money you are going to pay at most 40K to get through Touro and be at the 7th best place in the overly saturated market. Is it worth $84,570 accumulating interest to move from 7th place to 5th? The answer is maybe, but the cost is definitely something to consider.
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It was a bit like waiting for a new Pope to be elected.
Waiting for the new British prince to be born, I mean.
When a Pope is elected, you know, there is that huge crowd with all eyes focused on that window and balcony. And they are watching for the white smoke to signal that a new Pontiff has been elected. Then they wait for him to appear on the balcony.
In London, there was the huge crowd, packed in the street in front of the hospital, with all eyes focused on the door, waiting for the first glimpse of activity that would signal a new prince born to William and Kate.
And while there was no white smoke there would be blue water or pink water flowing in the fountains of Trafalgar Square indicating that the new arrival was a boy or a girl � a future king or queen of England.
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And then when it was learned that Kate had slipped into a back door at the hospital, the baby watch went into full operation. Television networks around the world focused on the door of that hospital, and commentators talked � and talked � and talked.
When will we know? How long will it be? Will it be a boy or a girl?
And the world waited. There were shadows behind the glass window in the door. Was something about to happen?
How much longer?
Day turned to night and night turned to day and no baby.
Then the word came. A baby had been born to Kate � and it was a boy! A future king! The water turned blue in Trafalgar fountains. The pubs opened and the celebrations began.
But when will they come out of the hospital?
When will we see the baby?
When will they tell use the name?
What is taking so long?
When will we see the baby?
Why don�t they come out?
Television networks around the world focused on the door of that hospital. And the commentators talked � and talked � and talked.
And finally � finally � the door opened and William and Kate and little Prince What�s His Name came into view. The pubs opened and the celebrations continued. And everyone was happy.
Well, not quite. There was the matter of the name.
Why are they taking so long?
Why didn�t they have a named picked out long ago?
And then finally the name of the new prince was announced, and that was the answer to the last question from the �baby watchers.� But the name is not really important to me. What is important right now is that Little Prince What�s His Name has given the world a most welcome summer diversion � an escape if you will from all the unpleasant news that has been occurring around the globe.
Oh yes, the name. George Alexander Louis. William�s surname is Mountbatten-Windsor. So it follow that George Alexander Louis will be a Mountbatten-Windsor as well.
For a few days the British along with millions of other around the world enjoyed the anticipation, the speculation and the utter excitement involved in the birth of a young man who one day will sit on the throne now occupied by his great-grandmother.
Now back to the real world.
Don Bolden is editor emeritus of the Times-News. His column appears every Sunday. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NEW YORK -- Senior forward Andre Akpan of the Harvard men's soccer team was among three collegiate seniors and four underclassmen from across the country to sign a Major League Soccer contract, the MLS announced. MLS teams and adidas identified Akpan as one of the most promising young soccer players in the country, and he has signed a contract making him available for selection in the upcoming 2010 MLS SuperDraft.
Harvard's first finalist for the Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy, presented to the nation's top collegiate player, Akpan, a native of Grand Prairie, Texas, has garnered NSCAA and College Soccer News All-America status this fall. The Ivy League Player of the Year and unanimous choice to the All-Ivy League first team, Akpan completed his career as Harvard's all-time leading scorer with 127 points. He also ranks first in school history with 33 assists and is tied for Chris Ohiri '64 for first with 47 goals. In his senior season, Akpan led Harvard and the Ivy League with 12 goals and 30 points, while netting four game-winning tallies.
An Academic All-Ivy League choice, Akpan helped guide Harvard to a 14-4-1 overall record in 2009, as the team won the Ivy League title and reached the third round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1987. The Crimson was ranked as high as No. 6 in the national polls and advanced to the NCAA postseason for the fourth consecutive year.
The 2010 MLS SuperDraft takes place on Thursday, Jan. 14 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia at 2 p.m.. The first hour will be broadcast live on ESPN2; the remainder of the draft can be followed on MLSnet.com.
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Just the new girl around here looking for some lunch ideas.
Insulated bag with chiller pad. So long as you don't have to carry it around in your bag, why not get a small polystyrene box you can keep in the car? I have a biggish one that I rescued from work (we get regular deliveries of frozen things that come in polystyrene boxes) and keep in the car for putting the frozen and cold groceries in on the way home from the shop. One of the small size ones that fits a six pack of beer should work for your lunch.
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Social Networks In Healthcare: Breaking Down Barriers To Change
The following is a guest blog post by Ivo Nelson, Chairman of the Board of Next Wave Connect.
As U.S. hospitals, professionals, and patients from coast to coast grapple with a daunting maize of healthcare challenges that's growing more complex each day, it's easy to forget that the solutions we need might just be sitting in someone else's back yard. And no matter who might own those great ideas, harvesting their value depends upon finding the best ways to share and make the most of them.
Both of these themes were at the heart of an exceptional two-day event I attended in Copenhagen recently, hosted by Healthcare DENMARK. Called "The Ambassadors' Summit," each participant was invited to attend based upon his or her lifetime healthcare-industry contributions. The Summit provided our group the opportunity to compare ideas and benchmark best practices with peers from around the world. And while every national representative had something valuable to offer, some of the best thinking came directly from our hosts themselves.
Denmark has long stood out among nations for its health system, which is differentiated by its fundamental focus on the patient. The Danish system functions by placing the patient in the center of its care-delivery circle. Patients' involvement in their own care is essential for the system to work. And while few argue that patients should have a greater say in their own care, in Denmark they really do.
Because the Danes have made healthcare a true national – not political — priority, there's a team mentality country-wide to support it – to improve it continuously over time. It was this commitment that led Healthcare DENMARK to hold the Summit in the first place: they recognized that every country around the world has its own best practices to offer for consideration. For example, Summit Ambassadors from Germany brought participants their expertise in international healthcare systems, managed care, integrated care, secure data transfer, and theoretic medicine, among others. Colleagues from the United Kingdom shared insights from their roles in organizations like the World Health Care Congress and in subject areas such as healthcare analytics and health system financing, to name a few.
At the end of the Summit, we all agreed to return a year from now having advanced our own care systems by harnessing and developing the rich ideas we'd shared in just 48 hours. Easily said, but what will prove the best means of connecting all the ideas in all those back yards? The answer is social media used smartly – in a way that establishes closely defined social networks that engage communities interested in solving very specific problems.
As I left the Summit, I could already envision a new group of social communities that could invite the participation of the leaders who contributed so much to the Ambassadors Summit – effectively creating real-time conversations around the key issues that concerned each one of us. For example, we could launch a new community with a "Danish voice" to advance our nation's work to increase patient centricity. Another smart social network could consider the construction of new hospitals and the consolidation of existing ones. Other smart social healthcare communities could focus on medical homes, the roles of primary-care physicians, and the true connectivity of personal health records.
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JONATHAN MANN, CNN HOST: In the mess of Katrina, what happened to the money? One year after the storm, billions of dollars were promised, billions of dollars were spent, but with so much waste, so much delay and so much more money still needed.
Hello and welcome.
The air, the wind, the water. They're the elements of life, and a year ago the same powers, goaded by the unpredictability of nature, brought death instead to New Orleans and its surrounding areas. It was one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history; 1,800 people died and 3/4 of New Orleans was submerged. A catastrophe compounded by several manmade failures; levees that couldn't withstand the waters and leadership that couldn't see the disaster swirling in front of it.
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Joining us now to talk about what's gone wrong is Pratap Chatterjee, program director of CorpWatch, an investigative and activist organization based in San Francisco.
Thanks so much for being with us.
$44 billion should be solving a lot of problems, and yet people say the money isn't there, the help hasn't been there, only the problems are there. Why has the relief effort gone so badly?
PRATAP CHATTERJEE, CORPWATCH: Well, the problem is what we call a contracting pyramid. What you have is big companies at the top that get contracts, get paid a lot of money, and then very little trickles down to the ground.
I'll give you an example of where most of the money has gone, which is to hauling debris. There is a company called AshBritt. AshBritt is from Florida. They're well connected to Jeb Bush, the brother of the president, and they got $23 a cubic yard to haul debris.
Well, they subcontracted to another company called C&B Enterprise, and they paid them $9 a cubic yard. C&B Enterprise then hired a company called Amlee transportation, and they paid them $8 a cubic yard. Amlee then hired a guy by the name of Chris Hessler, paid him $7 a cubic yard and he, in turn, hired a guy by the name of Les Nirdlinger from New Jersey and paid him $3 a cubic yard. And this is repeated again and again.
Halliburton, in Plaquemine Parish -- actually, sorry, Halliburton in Mississippi got the contract to cleanup the Gulfport Base. So they hired a company called Tipton Friendly Rollins, who then subcontracted to a company called Kansas City Tree, who subcontracted to another company called Tovar, Karen Tovar Contracting.
So what happens is at the very top, you get a lot of money. At the very bottom, you know, the workers get very little of it. It's all taken up by overhead, administration and profits. So 1/6 of the money, on an average, ends up actually in the pockets of the workers, and very little work gets done, because in addition to a government bureaucracy that has properly been well criticized, you now have this layer, this pyramid of contracting, which is eating up 80 percent of the money. So you have twice the bureaucracy.
MANN: You're making a point that very few people do. Most of the attention, most of the criticism, has been focused on the bureaucracy itself, the fact that the federal government may make decisions and come up with money that isn't properly communicated to the states or the state government may have some of that money that isn't properly communicated to municipal governments, or the municipal governments themselves just fall down on the job. That's really what has been criticized in the case of New Orleans in particular.
How much of what we're seeing is government lethargy and how much of what we're seeing is money being filtered through the system and ultimately frittered away by private companies?
CHATTERJEE: I think it's a combination. I think you have to share the responsibility, and I speak of this as somebody who has investigated the same thing in Iraq and in Afghanistan. I've been to the Middle East and Central Asia several times. So this is not new. It's not unusual.
But one of the key numbers to remember here is that 1/6 of the contracts in dollar numbers goes to companies from Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama, so that's less than 17 percent. Thirty percent goes to companies in Virginia. When you look at the size of the business, 87 percent of the dollar value goes to big businesses, 13 percent to small companies. That's on the total number of contracts.
So you see this pattern and you look at.
MANN: Well, let me jump in and ask you about that, because wouldn't you expect that to happen anyway? If a storm hits an area and wipes out small businesses, it will be larger businesses from areas of the country that were not hit that are still going to have the equipment in place, the manpower in place and the ability to move quickly while everyone on the Gulf Coast is still trying to pick up the pieces and find out where they were going to spend the night.
CHATTERJEE: That's partly true, but not entirely true.
Right when the storm hit, in fact, the numbers were even lower. It was 10 percent of the contracts went to local businesses. But a year later you would think that they'd be able to set up and be able to do work. And oftentimes, these are the people that know best what to do.
Let me give you the example of a company called Kenyon. Kenyon was hired from out of state to pick up bodies. They picked up 1/3 of the bodies, 535 bodies. When you're searching for bodies in a place that's flooded, the best people to do that are local companies who know the back alleys, the back doors and that sort of thing. But when you hire someone from out of state who doesn't really know the geography, and everything is under water, you're going to end up paying what we paid, as taxpayers, to Kenyon, $6 million for 535 bodies. That's $12,500 per body. This company was buying, you know, its workers model cars, beef jerky, DVD players, when at the same time local business had volunteered to help, African American funeral parlors in Louisiana were willing to do this job. They were willing to do it for free and, in fact, in one of your previous news pieces that you did they actually talked about how local businesses and local volunteers are putting back, you know, Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana together.
Common Ground in the Ninth Ward, this is one of the most devastated communities, the federal government hasn't shown up to fix anything. The local people, Common Ground is run by Malik Rahim, have fixed houses, without being paid. The same thing in the community of Versailles. The Vietnamese American community there, 45 out of 53 businesses have been restored with no help from the federal government. And what do they get in return? Big business, Waste Management, Incorporated, is hauling debris from other parts of town and dumping it in the Chef Menteur landfill.
So, something is wrong here. The local community can pull together and has pulled together, but big business and corporations and big government bureaucracy, and really the responsibility is shared. Another example.
MANN: I'm going to cut you off. I think you could probably give us examples for a good long time.
CHATTERJEE: I could.
MANN: Another year, probably.
Pratap Chatterjee, of CorpWatch, thanks so much.
CHATTERJEE: Thanks so much.
MANN: We take another break. When we come back, why bother to rebuild? We'll hear from one survivor after the break.
Stay with us.
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Obituary published October 9, 2012 in The Mexico Ledger
Patsy Ruth Allen, 84, of Columbia, Mo., formerly of Centralia, passed away Sunday morning, Oct. 7, 2012 at Landmark Hospital Columbia.
Memorial services will be at Fenton Funeral Chapel, Centralia, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 at 2 p.m.
Jed Angel, Pastor of Friendship Christian Church, Centralia, will officiate. Visitation is at Fenton Funeral Chapel, Wednesday evening, Oct. 10, 2012 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Interment will be in Glendale Memorial Gardens, Centralia.
The family suggests memorials to the Humane Society of Central Missouri.
Patsy was born in Boone County near Hallsville, Mo. on Sept. 6, 1928, the daughter of William Thomas and Alpha Pearl (Forbis) Forsee, the third of seven children. She graduated from Hallsville High School in 1946 where she played basketball. She lived her entire life, except for about six months, in Boone County, living in Hallsville, Columbia and Centralia.
After graduation from high school, Patsy obtained her teaching certificate from the University of Missouri and taught for a time at High Hill School, a one room school near Centralia. She also worked about 42 years for Columbia Insurance Group, originally called Farmer's Mutual Insurance Company. After retirement, she worked for several years at the American Red Cross. The abiding love of Patsy's life was children, her own, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren and many others as well. Her love and kindness truly affected many people in her life.
Patsy was known to be a great cook, and she took great joy in baking and canning for family and friends. She also loved to write poems, and penned over the years for family and significant events.
Survivors include her sons, Larry Allen, Kansas City, Gary Allen, Sturgeon, grandchildren, Kari Allen, Kansas City; Deja Gravitt and husband, Ray, of Waxahachie, Texas; Jae Allen and wife, Kelli, Kansas City; and Shaun Allen of Columbia; six great-grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and two sisters, Joyce Miller, Mexico, and Martha Forsee, Columbia.
Patsy was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters, LaVern Wyatt and Mona Betz, brothers, Homer Forsee and William Joseph Forsee, her beloved granddaughter, Mandy and her niece, Mary Anne Lane.


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While it seems unlikely that the decision to award Jeremy Lin and Steve Novak, in particular, Bird Rights, the NBA will appeal and that process could take weeks to even months depending on the process.
What this means for the Knicks is that while under appeal the old (new) CBA rules apply and that the market place will operate as usual starting in July. This means that the Knicks may in fact be frozen out on potential free agents in the marketplace as they sit back and wait on a ruling from the appeal unless a resolution happens quickly.
Based on who I talked to around the league and in the legal world, this seems very unlikely.


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Mobility is essential to delivering public service for the future—and the possibilities for the use of mobile apps in human services are exciting.
Accenture estimates that the broad use of mobile apps among citizens could save caseworkers 62 days worth of time per year based on an analysis of 5,000 state agency workers. This means that caseworkers can focus this 62 days of "recovered time" on customers requiring more individualized attention. So what should agencies do to position themselves for this new value from mobile human services solutions?
Getting mobile apps right means seeing beyond the excitement of the latest "shiny object." It demands a strategic approach to building and sustaining mobile app adoption. Success is not about technology alone—that's the easy part. It's about communicating value and changing citizen behaviors.