The Qatar Golf Association (QGA) under the auspices of the Qatar Olympic Committee is pleased to announce the staging of the WAGR-2012 Qatar Open Amateur Golf Championship on the 12th, 13th, & 14th of January 2012 at the picturesque Doha Golf Club (DGC), 11 January is practice day. We are much delighted to invite all eligible amateur players to participate. Chance in a lifetime is waiting for the emerging Amateur Winner who will join with English Max Williams, the current defending champion of 2011 Qatar Open 25th edition, to compete among the best professionals on the European PGA Tour during the 2012 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters that will be held on 2-5 February 2012 at DGC. An Entry Form, Conditions of Play, and Event's programme are attached. Entry application is also available online at www.qga.com.qa. Please be aware that, except cost of internal transportation and lunches referred to in the Event's Programme which will be met by QGA, participants are required to make their own travel and hotel arrangements and responsible for all personal expenses. Visas can be arranged via the official hotel, InterContinental Doha Hotels & Resorts (ICDoha) at its link provided at www.qga.com.qa website or you may directly contact ICDoha at telephone numbers: +974-4484-4444 or fax numbers: +974-4483-9555 or email: reservations@icdoha.com.


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A towering big southern French red wine with smokey aromas with toasty oak and black fruit. Full-bodied.
Food pairings: Tourtière, roast beef, roasted venison.
Dark and inky with a strong musty cellar aroma reminiscent of my Aunt's old wine cellar. Earthy, herbs de Provence, fresh berries, wet wool. Lingering smoke and tannic finish. Suggest decanting if you're enjoying today. Pair this with salt,fat and protein.


Are you an Elfing family?
This will be our 2nd year of doing Elf on the Shelf.Last year we were pretty rubbish but this time around I have it all planned out.
The house for Evie our Elf is already in place and Olivia is super excited. As its situated in our dining room every morning she runs down stairs to check it and to see if Evie is now there.
Unlike the traditional Elf's Olivia is allowed to touch her elf. As I know a lot of other don't I do encourage her to leave Evie at home. Although she has been on the odd trip to nursery with her to make sure she is being good.
This year its been so hard trying to buying and collect all the bits and Olivia doesn't miss a thing. But I think that we are now pretty much there and I can't wait for the antics to begin.
We will then say goodbye to Evie Elf on Christmas Eve with a North Pole tea and she bring Olivia her Christmas Eve box. It's all about simple but fun for us as with Olivia only being 3.
What Elf antics do you have planned?


Nearly 6,000 workers went on strike this evening at a General Motors factory in Flint, Mich., joining fellow strikers at a nearby G.M. plant in an increasingly bitter fight that could close virtually all of the company's North American assembly plants within days.
G.M., the world's largest auto maker, had already closed seven of those assembly plants and temporarily laid off 18,600 workers for lack of parts from the initial strike last Friday at a metal-stamping plant in Flint. Most of G.M.'s 22 other assembly plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico are expected to quickly run out of the spark plugs, speedometers and other parts made by the giant factory where workers walked out this evening.
With some parts factories also likely to close, G.M. could be forced to temporarily lay off up to 200,000 more workers.
The workers struck over G.M. efforts to move production tasks to other factories, both inside and outside the country where costs are lower, a move they regard as a threat to job security. Hundreds of strikers shouting ''U.A.W.!'' and toting placards identifying their union locals mobbed the parts factory's gates. They were joined by workers from the metal-stamping factory.
Scattered among the picketers were members of the United Automobile Workers from across Michigan and even Ohio and Illinois who had come to show their anger at G.M., which has contended with steadily worsening labor relations in trying to make its factories run as efficiently as those of its rivals.
''We're going to fight, and we're going to keep fighting,'' Richard Shoemaker, the U.A.W.'s vice president for G.M. issues, said this evening.
Diane Young, a parts worker for 22 years who went on strike tonight, said the action was a regrettable necessity. ''It's a frustrating situation for both sides, but it's the only way to have a future,'' she said.
G.M. said in a terse statement that it was disappointed by the broadening of the strike. ''We have committed, talented people, and we encourage the union to join management leadership at both facilities to urgently reach settlements that help us effectively work with them to improve G.M.'s competitive position in the marketplace,'' the company said.
The spark plug factory workers have been increasingly alarmed in recent years as G.M. has bought more basic auto parts from outside companies, including some in Mexico, while selling its own factories or cutting back employment.
The metal-stamping factory workers have been worried that G.M. management is assigning to other G.M. factories considerable work on vehicles not yet in production, possibly signaling their plant's obsolescence. The strikers have also been infuriated by G.M.'s decision to remove, over the Memorial Day weekend, many of the stamping dies needed to produce hoods and other parts for G.M.'s new full-size pickup trucks. The dies are used like enormous molds to press sheet metal into auto parts.
As in eight other local strikes over the last three years, G.M. executives have vowed to proceed with their longstanding plans to cut costs. But senior U.A.W. officials have increasingly come to see this confrontation as an emotional struggle, perceiving a threat to the union's long-term survival in G.M.'s willingness to remove equipment from plants where workers are about to strike.
Negotiators stopped talking after the strike was called but planned to resume talks on Friday morning. With the broadening of the strike to a second factory, the overall walkout could last until the end of June. That is when union leaders will face increased pressure to settle so that U.A.W. members can collect full pay during the industry's annual summer vacation in early July.
National U.A.W. leaders almost never visited the picket lines during the strikes over the last three years. But they have been doing so daily this week. While senior U.A.W. and G.M. officials refrained from criticizing each other in public during the previous strikes, both sides have been doing so this time.
Even people close to the U.A.W. concede that the metal-stamping workers in Flint have had one of the most generous deals in the auto industry. Its provisions allowed some workers to draw a full day's pay for half a day's work. Workers agreed two years ago to give up many of these provisions in exchange for further G.M. investment in Flint. The union now contends that the investment has not been forthcoming, an accusation G.M. denies.
The truck parts metal-stamping equipment was transferred by G.M. to a parts factory in Ohio. G.M. has been planning to build the pickups initially in Oshawa, Ontario.
But Basil E. Hargrove, the president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, warned in a telephone interview this morning that G.M. should not count on Canadian workers' willingness to accept parts produced by equipment taken out of the Flint factory. The Canadian workers were angry that G.M. managers had made such a presumption.
Mr. Shoemaker said this evening that G.M. had agreed in negotiations to return the dies to Flint at the end of the strike. He also said that he had learned from G.M. that the dies had accidentally been damaged by nonunion workers during their removal from Flint and consequently had not been used.
G.M. officials said earlier today that the dies had been moved successfully and were producing new parts. The officials declined to comment on Mr. Shoemaker's remarks tonight.
G.M. executives have said repeatedly this year that to stay more competitive the company must become more efficient, meaning that each worker must produce more cars and components. While Ford and Chrysler now derive most of their automotive sales and profits from pickups, mini-vans and sport utility vehicles, with relatively little competition from foreign brands, G.M. still sells mostly cars and faces heavy pressure from imports and from nonunion factories in the United States.
That pressure has only increased as the dollar's value has soared in global foreign-exchange markets this year, which makes it even cheaper for foreign auto makers to sell their cars in this country with generous discounts.
G.M.'s stamping operations are particularly inefficient compared with those of rivals. The company gloated last summer that its cost for producing new dies was only twice that of its most efficient competitor -- but used to be eight times higher.
The stamping factory in Flint is among the least efficient of all and has been under great pressure from G.M. to improve its results or face closing. ''They have 14 stamping facilities, and they probably need 9 or 10,'' said David Bradley, an analyst at J. P. Morgan and Company.
A successful introduction of the new pickup is considered vital to G.M., which earns up to half its worldwide profits just from sales in North America of full-size pickups and the Suburban, Yukon and Tahoe sport utility vehicles, which share the same underbodies. G.M. plans to introduce new versions of the sport utility vehicles a year after the new pickups.


These declarations mean what fragile we are. To think that we are alone in the Universe and that we are the supremacy over the world is a theory similar to those that thought that the Earth was flat or like to those that thought that the entire Universe turned around our Planet.
We must be prepared for the war against aliens, because sure that if one day they decide to come here, it won't be for being friends.


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i Gene flow: Gene flow is one of the factors that can lead to a deviation from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If one genotype rather than another moves into or out of a population, the genotype frequencies can't be predicted from the allele frequencies.
Suppose that all the individuals with the aa genotype fly away. You're left with a population that consists only of AA and Aa individuals, and you can't predict the frequency of genotypes accurately from the frequency of the alleles. What's important is not just that movement of individuals into or out of the population is occurring, but that this movement is related to the genotypes of the individuals.
i Selection: Imagine that individuals with the aa allele die without reproducing (which would be the case with lethal recessive alleles). In such a case, only AA and Aa individuals would be left in the population. Again, the frequency of genotypes can't be accurately predicted by the frequency of the alleles. A deviation from expectations under Hardy-Weinberg indicates that some evolutionary force is at play.
Inbreeding, which is a special case of nonrandom mating, occurs when individuals mate with relatives. Because related individuals are more likely to have similar genes, they're also more likely to have similar deleterious recessive genes (which is why the offspring of close relatives tend to have reduced fitness). If these individuals mate, chances increase that two individuals with the recessive trait will get together and produce offspring that end up with two copies of the recessive genes and the condition that the recessive genes cause.
It's been estimated that the average human has perhaps a few lethal recessive alleles. But these alleles are rare in the population and express themselves only if a person happens to have children with someone who has the same lethal recessive gene.
1 Nonrandom mating: The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium assumes that individuals mate randomly. If that's not the case — if AA individuals prefer other AA individuals, for example — after one generation of such mating, the proportion of individuals that is heterozygous will decrease. (Only matings between heterozygous individuals can produce more heterozygous individuals, but not all their offspring will be heterozygotes; some will be AA and aa.) Matings between homozygous individuals always produce homozygous offspring.
1 Random events (that is, genetic drift): When population sizes are small, random events can cause a deviation from Hardy-Weinberg. For example, while each allele in an individual has an equal chance of getting into a gamete, when only a small number of offspring are produced, just by chance one or another allele might be over (or under) represented, leading to yet another deviation from the expected genotype frequencies. Head to Chapter 6 for more information on genetic drift.


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All links and such after the jump. Keeping the main page clear of a bunch of bullet points and sentence fragments. Also, feel free to complement us on the image.
Freshman linebacker Caleb Lavey is done for the season. No specifics yet, but the elbow that he injured last week in practice is the culprit. Lavey was listed as the 3rd deep at MLB, so this isn't too big of a blow to the defense, but it's never good to lose depth, and you never want to see a kid get hurt. No word yet from Chesney's camp.
Saturday's scrimmage was closed, so there isn't a ton of useful information to come out of what transpired.. but there were some useful quotes after the scrimmage:
Bill Young quote from Bill Haisten's article: "We've got a chance to be a pretty good defensive football team," Young said. "Our speed is much better than it was a year ago."
Dana Holgorsen quote from Stillwater NewsPress: "I feel good about nine guys on offense, we've got to find nine more,"
Asked whether his receivers are adjusting well to the new offense, Holgorsen said: "The first group is. They're doing fine."
I am getting the impression that Holgorsen isn't real happy with the depth on offense right now. I'm also getting the impression that Dana isn't real big on coachspeak.
Follow fall camp, see photos, video, etc all at http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/fall-camp-2010.html
Also, a very tan Gundy issues answers some questions here for ScoutTV here. He is mostly naming guys that he feels like have performed well thus far in August practices. The guys he names are: Weeden, Blackmon, Gilbert, Furr, Donaldson, Gent, Lewis, Randle, Mitchell, Hedgepath, Craig, and his spf 4 tanning oil.
Picked up the 2010 Football Outsiders College Football Almanac over the weekend (pdf download available for $5 on the FO website). Applying all their dorky fancy F+/- and PWE's and whatnot to the 2010 season, Oklahoma State comes out 8-4, #32 in the country, and 4th in the South. Tons of great info in there, along with explanation of how they got to that #32 ranking. At $5, I really don't understand why you don't own this yet.
Another quote (this one from Gundy) that is setting up this season as a good competition between athleticism and experience. From AP:
"We're rolling some new guys in but I think we're more athletic and we have more speed than we've had in a number of years," coach Mike Gundy said. "We just don't have as much experience."
I'm not sure that he invented the term, but it is the first time I have heard it. @MattPil31 (Matt Pilgrim) referred to Stillwater as "illy Stilly". That has immediately moved up to the top of my list of alternative names for Stillwater... leapfrogging "Stilly" and "the place where I banged em".
Anyone interested in the QB competition in Lubbock? No? Well, apparently neither is Steven Sheffield. Or at least not interested in winning it. From RedRaiders.com:
"If you take this scrimmage and look at it from an outsider looking in, there's no way you'd say I did better than Potts. So of course, yeah, I hurt my chances.''
When asked in what way he had performed poorly, Sheffield replied, "Just everything."
"Every play basically," he said. "I didn't do many good things. More than anything, I just didn't do what I'd practiced all week and implement the stuff that we put in all week. I just made a bunch of dumb decisions. I don't know if I thought too much or didn't think enough, but yeah, it's got to improve. Real soon."
I don't care if he outperforms Potts the rest of the way, I wouldn't start a quarterback in the Big XII that has self-confidence issues. We might be a few weeks away from rumors about Sheffield being hand-fed chicken after games.
Because there has to be an arbitrary ranked list in every link dump, the ESPN bloggers rank the quarterback units in every conference. Oklahoma State is placed at #7 in the Big XII by David Ubben.
From Sean Keeley, a kid at an Angels game participating in a between innings fan promotion thing, falls and breaks his arm, then continues the event while his arm dangles at his side. Badass eleven year old alert.


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Peter Jenkins considers Kennedy's Review: a new focus on the needs of children in the NHS?
Articles from this issue are not yet available online. Divisional members and subscribers can download the pdf from the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal archive.
How do you work with clients who present with anxiety? What theory informs your practice? It might be, for instance, that as a practitioner, you don't accept a medicalised label and work with the whole person; at the other end of the spectrum, it might be that your aim is to help clients with a diagnosed anxiety disorder reduce their symptoms. The theme of this issue of HCPJ is 'anxiety' and its articles reflect some very different theoretical perspectives and corresponding therapy options for people with anxiety which should give plenty of food for thought.
Writing authoritatively about intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP), Robert J Neborsky and Sharon Lewis see anxiety arising out of a person's early attachment relationships, with the root cause of current symptoms being the avoidance of core emotions. In treatment, therefore, anxiety becomes a tool the clinician uses to help people recover from their symptoms.
Joseph Bray also describes a psychotherapeutic approach. The technique of focusing has its roots in neurobiology: from this perspective, distressing emotions – particularly fear – are correlated with the nervous system, and particularly the vagus nerves. In a fascinating article, the author describes the link between these nerves and a form of introspection that centres on inner body awareness and directs the client's attention towards the vast unknown territory of their physiology.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is the approach recommended in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines (the amended guideline is due early 2011 and it will be interesting to see if other modalities have gained the acceptable level of evidence for inclusion). Our guide to CBT in treating anxiety, the first in a series of brief guides, demonstrates how the theories behind cognitive therapy and behavioural therapy have come together into a coherent and flexible therapeutic approach.
In recent years, a 'third wave' of development has been incorporated into the CBT approach and prominent among these is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). Initial evidence suggests MBCT may be useful in treating clients with what was previously known as hypochondriasis. Although classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) as a somatoform disorder, hypochondriasis is now increasingly called health anxiety and is a clinically significant problem for up to five per cent of the population. With a randomised controlled trial underway, Freda McManus, Kate Muse and Christina Surawy expertly guide the reader through how this promising treatment may work.
Moving from a treatment perspective to a wider view, Richard Graham takes an insightful look at the societal influences which affect the course of anxiety in young people. Discussing, in turn, anxieties concerning appearance and anxieties resulting from the impact of the digital revolution, including video games and Facebook, the author points to the contemporary dimension of anxiety, and urges us to be open to its current manifestation to be able to help young people move confidently into adulthood.
Elsewhere, Sara Perren continues her informative series of articles on what it's like to be involved in a randomised controlled trial – essential reading for any practitioner thinking of doing the same; and Brian Rock and Anca Carrington outline the work of a new service offering support to clients and GPs in the management of complex cases.
As new editor of HCPJ, I'm very keen to receive your feedback on any of the articles which appear in this issue. As a result, you'll find prompts at the end of each piece, with contact details. Alternatively, please let me know what issues are affecting you as a practitioner today. As a member of BACP's Healthcare executive and a working (integrative) practitioner myself, I'm particularly interested in the experiences of therapists on the 'frontline' and what might be of interest to you. Ideas for articles are very welcome, as are possible contributors for our book reviews section.
Most of the articles in this issue were commissioned by outgoing editor, Penny Gray, who, after six years' hard work, is taking a much-earned sabbatical. Many thanks to Penny for her truly excellent work on the journal.


We considered doing an issue of our little home video on Blu-Ray, but then realized that you can only clean up something like "Duck & Cover" or a Sid Davis short so much. So, a DVD seemed like a nice compromise. Of course, in keeping with the cheap, bootleggish nature of the Archive, a homemade DVD-R (each handmade by Ben himself) seemed to be an even better choice.
...and maybe a bonus or two.
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Kingston WritersFest presents an exclusive evening with former US Ambassador Bruce Heyman and Vicki Heyman, co-authors of The Art of Diplomacy. Bruce served as the United States Ambassador to Canada under President Barack Obama from 2014 until 2017, and this book, written in alternating chapters with his partner Vicki, is a personal and insightful call to action and a much-needed book about one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world—the relationship between Canada and the US—and why diplomacy matters now more than ever before.
Ambassador Bruce Heyman appears regularly on CBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, CTV, CNBC, and other media outlets as an expert on trade and bilateral issues. Vicki Heyman was an American cultural envoy in Canada, leading cross-border conversations and programs related to the arts, social innovation, and youth engagement. She is on the board of the Council for Canadian American Relations, the international advisory board of C2 Montreal, and Chicago Media Project. Vicki and Bruce live in Chicago where they are co-founders of Uncharted,llc.
Books will be available for sale at the event, and a book signing will follow the onstage event.


Ian Milligan is a member of a small Christian community based in East Pollokshields in Glasgow which he co-founded with 4 others. The community has been in existence for nearly 40 years and many of the original members were encouraged by Jim and his teaching about the gospel and the Kingdom. Jim introduced Ian, as many others, to a range of literature and theology about Christian community, including pointing us towards the Anabaptist/Mennonite tradition and the writings of contemporary Mennonites such as John Yoder (Politics of Jesus) and Alan Kreider.
Ian worked as a volunteer and youth worker for FYT in Scotland in the mid-1970s and subsequently he worked in children's homes. He then moved into adult education, teaching social care and social work at Langside College and Strathclyde University in Glasgow. Ian is a senior lecturer at Strathclyde and works as International Advisor for CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children in Scotland. CELCIS is a Scottish-government funded resource centre delivering training, research and consultancy for staff and organisations which provide homes and care for children separated from their families. Ian has published on policy and practice around children in care in Scotland and internationally.


After a tour of the beautiful Catholic city of Burgos Spain we drove through the lovely countryside filled with fields of wheat and sunflowers. We went up into the mountains in the Basque country and stopped at the shrine and Loyola.
This was a delightful surprise for everyone with the beautiful Jesuit church, visiting the museum of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and having Mass in the room where he was born and later converted by giving his whole life to God. I share a lot of his story in the video. We were able to venerate a relic while we were there.
Another ride to the beautiful countryside up into France brought us to Lourdes. This is always a bustling city full of deeply Catholic people coming to pray, show their devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and ask God for healing. We arrived in time to visit the grotto and have a time of prayer inside the Grotto of Saint Bernadette.
Then a lovely dinner and someone out to join the procession and others went to bed. Hope you enjoy the videos including Monsignor Drolls excellent family in Loyola.


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Tyson Fury has already mastered one of the hardest things in professional wrestling, a former WWE superstar says
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Tyson Fury will be a huge draw in WWE, former superstar Jake Hager told Business Insider.
Hager, once known as Jack Swagger, says having a natural ability on the mic and making the crowd feel something is one of the toughest skills to learn in professional wrestling.
But Fury already has this. "He can pick up a microphone, entertain you, and tell you a story," Hager said.
Fury takes on Braun Strowman in WWE's "Crown Jewel" show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.
After, he will likely focus on the rematch against Deontay Wilder — a fight Hager expects Fury to win.
Tyson Fury has already mastered one of the hardest things in professional wrestling, according to the former WWE superstar Jake Hager.
Hager, formerly known as Jack Swagger, left WWE in 2017 as a two-time world champion. Shortly after, he signed with Bellator MMA, and has had three fights (two wins against one no contest) in a cage, but still wrestles and performs for the recently-founded promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Meanwhile, the former unified heavyweight boxing champion Fury is about to make his pro wrestling debut in WWE's "Crown Jewel" event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he takes on the bearded former strongman Braun Strowman in a singles match on Thursday.
Fury already has a clear advantage when it comes to success in sports entertainment, Hager told Business Insider, as the 31-year-old is so charismatic and so good on the mic that he can make the crowd feel whatever he wants them to.
Wrestling moves can be learned but it is confidence and ability on the mic that can prove to be tough skills to develop, according to Hager.
"I know he can pick up a microphone, entertain you, and tell you a story," he said.
Hager told Business Insider that Fury, an incredible boxer, will be a huge draw in WWE. And even though he does not know what he will be like in an actual professional wrestling ring, he is looking forward to seeing the character within it.
"In pro wrestling that was the hardest thing for me to learn, the entertainment aspect of it," Hager said. "Being a character and having something that the people can feel.
"Because, in pro wrestling, you can do all the moves in the world, everybody can, but if you don't make the people feel a certain way, they're not going to remember you and you're not going to get over.
"He definitely has that ability. He speaks intelligently about his own battles, his own journey, and I think that's great."
The lines between sports entertainment and combat sports are blurred
Hager, as Jack Swagger, performing with John Cena in WWE.
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There is much cross-pollination between boxing, professional wrestling, and mixed martial arts.
The 5-foot-8 boxer Floyd Mayweather bloodied the nose of the 7-foot giant Big Show in a WWE event in 2008 and the WWE superstar CM Punk attempted to fight in the UFC but was conclusively beaten both times, while Brock Lesnar has enjoyed great success in WWE and UFC as a champion in both firms.
Then there is the obvious influence when it comes to the showmanship and flashiness of promoting a legitimate fight or an event in boxing, MMA, and WWE.
Wrestlers like The Rock are still inspiring today's talent in Bellator MMA. Michael "Venom" Page, for example, previously told Business Insider that he spent a lot of time studying the way "The People's Champ" interacted with the crowd.
Hager said: "You'll see the lines blurred, crossed over, in combat sports and sports entertainment."
The American added that there was something quite WWE about the way Fury rose from the brink of a knockout defeat in the 12th round of his classic heavyweight fight with Deontay Wilder in 2018, only to grind out a draw. Hager said the way he got up from the canvas was like how The Undertaker came back to life in WWE.
"In that fight, Fury hit The Undetaker set-up. He was knocked down to the canvas then all of a sudden he sits up, stands up, and I wonder if The Undertaker is getting any royalties for that."
Once he has finished his stint in WWE this week, attention will likely return to the anticipated rematch between Fury and Wilder, who must first defeat Luis Ortiz in Las Vegas on November 23.
But Hager only sees one winner should they fight again. "I got Tyson over Wilder, for sure!"
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Sentinel and Enterprise: Financial-literacy group honors state Sen. Eldridge
Ruthie Liberman, vice president of public policy at Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath), noted Eldridge's hard work and dedication. "(Eldridge) was the first legislator I met with. I was incredibly nervous and it melted away because he's so dedicated, down to earth and cares so much about the people of Massachusetts," she said. "His team has worked tirelessly. They have had so many victories and have so many more in the works."
By Oriana Durand
Boston University Statehouse Program
BOSTON – Pam Hoffman, executive director of the Midas Collaborative, calls state Sen. Jamie Eldridge her group's "first stop" when looking for a legislative advocate for low-income families.
"He gets it. He's a fabulous listener, always thinking about his constituents, and he's been that way since Day One," said Hoffman, whose group honored Eldridge with its 2016 Assets and Opportunity Champion award Tuesday night.
The group, which helps low-income families save money and become financially independent, lauded Eldridge for his "tireless" work with Midas, which included legislation to expand the earned-income tax credit, saving working families up to $800 in taxes, and strategies to help people save money through college savings or individual development accounts.
Eldridge, an Acton Democrat who has served as a senator since 2009, called the honor "one of the most appreciated awards I've ever received."
"It speaks to a real challenge we have here in Massachusetts," he said. "The gap in income distribution is quite stark."
Since his collaboration with Midas began, Eldridge has filed the financial literacy bill, which provides financial education for kindergarten through 12th grades.
"If we're serious about adults making responsible financial decisions, financial education really needs to be a part of the K-12 curriculum," he said.
George Guild, president of the Massachusetts Council on Economic Education and co-writer with Eldridge of the financial literacy bill, commended the senator on his success and support over the years.
"We have been for years trying to write and pass legislation that might be acceptable to the larger group of folks. Jamie Eldridge has been a major supporter, and in fact, champion of that," he said in an interview before the awards ceremony.
Max Weinstein, head of Attorney General Maura Healey's Consumer Protection Division, presented the award to Eldridge, praising him for his efforts toward creating economic development among low-income families.
"He's beloved by his constituents because they know how hard he works for all families in Massachusetts," Weinstein said.
Ruthie Liberman, vice president of public policy at Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath), noted Eldridge's hard work and dedication.
"(Eldridge) was the first legislator I met with. I was incredibly nervous and it melted away because he's so dedicated, down to earth and cares so much about the people of Massachusetts," she said. "His team has worked tirelessly. They have had so many victories and have so many more in the works."
Eldridge, whose district includes Shirley, said his primary focus for the coming legislation session would be to offer comfort and support to families that fear President-elect Donald Trump's policies.
"I've talked to a lot of scared constituents who have fears on immigration, deportation, environmental and climate-change policy, and just generally the loss of federal aid," he said. "It is so important to unite and show that strength to help lift them up."
In addition to honoring Eldridge, the event celebrated founding Executive Director Margaret Miley, who was succeeded by Hoffman.
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As prototyping continue to emerge as a practical process across industries, more focus is directed to its benefits within a number of sectors. As it is, by having a prototype, testing of appearance and functionality is possible. The main purpose of prototyping can save companies money from spending more on repairs and improvement after the final product has already been created. Due to the simpler process of fixing and improving designs, more industries have been using prototyping services as a way of improving aspects of their business.
Industries like engineering, music and architecture have embraced the advantages allowed by fast prototyping. Saving from costs and time allotted to some processes in these fields are very apparent and are also applicable to other sectors.
Some companies rely on numerous enhancements and upgrades on design to come up with the best products. In engineering, when designs have flaws, instead of spending more money in coming up with a design from scratch, improvements are simply done on the programs written on computers and easily fix these issues. In medicine, models of organs can easily be achieved through fast prototyping and saves time and resources when professionals have to teach and learn skills in surgery.
In certain fields, before a new product is presented for assessment, a lot of research is done and worked on to some extent to get to the ideal output. For the testing phase, some models can be made from fast prototyping, which then essentially saves the company expenses on research and development. These savings can accumulate over time especially for products that need numerous experimentations and several tests.
Related to the R&D costs, using fast prototyping can save the company a lot of money with the use of cheaper raw materials in the testing phase as opposed to the use of the same materials all throughout from design to the final phase. In certain fields even, raw materials are rare, thus costing more. And since prototyping allows for a digital file in the database, it can be recalled or used for future references.
More so than anything else, the emergence of machining projects and processes that hasten the creation of prototypes, the time and manpower saved is the most beneficial. Especially when the needed output comes in volumes or if the testing phase goes on for a long time, time and manpower can take a toll on the company's resources. This is even the reason why some projects do not get materialized because of the cost and time allotment to design and testing alone.
There are more specific ways that companies benefit from fast prototyping. With all the applications, however, a common ground is usually on how an investment in the technology of prototyping can prove beneficial in terms of money saved. Not only does this fact is proven through increased efficiency, it is also manifested in gradual increase in company revenues.


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Joel P. Makovicka (born October 6, 1975, in Brainard, Nebraska) is a former American football fullback who played for the Arizona Cardinals (1999–2002).

Joel Makovicka is one of the most decorated fullbacks in Husker history and owns the school record with 13 career touchdowns as a fullback for Nebraska from 1995 to 1998. During his stay at Nebraska, Makovicka was a two-time first-team academic All-American and three-time first-team academic All-Big 12 performer. He also was a member of three national championship teams. The younger brother of another Husker walk-on fullback from Brainard, Neb., Jeff Makovicka, Joel finished his career with 1,447 yards rushing on an average of 5.9 yards per carry while making 22 starts for the scarlet and cream. As a junior, he produced the fourth-highest rushing total by a fullback in school history with 685 yards. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL Draft and started 10 games at fullback for the Cardinals as a rookie.

See also
 Colin Allred - former NFL linebacker who became a lawyer and US Representative
 Tommy Casanova - former NFL player who became an ophthalmologist
 Dennis Claridge – former NFL quarterback who became an orthodontist
 Dan Doornink – former NFL running back who became a medical doctor
 Laurent Duvernay-Tardif – current NFL player who earned a medical degree while playing in the league
 John Frank - Super Bowl winning SF 49er who became a NY City based plastic surgeon
 Bill McColl - former NFL player who became an orthopedic surgeon, father of Milt McColl
 Milt McColl - former NFL linebacker who became a medical doctor
 Frank Ryan – former NFL player and mathematician, who maintained an academic career while playing in the league
 Myron Rolle – former NFL defensive back who was also a Rhodes scholar and is now serving a neurosurgery residency
 John Urschel – former NFL player and mathematician who was a PhD candidate while playing in the league
 Byron White - former NFL running back who became a US Supreme Court Justice
 Rob Zatechka – former NFL guard who became a medical doctor

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Bank Director :: Should Banks Repurchase Stock Right Now?
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With expectations of regulatory reform and growth in organic capital generation, it is generally expected that over the next 12 months banks will continue to return capital to shareholders through continued M&A activity, dividend increases or share buybacks.
Given the current market environment, it is an opportune time for banks to consider initiating a share repurchase program.
As market volatility continues, a growing number of banks have been implementing share repurchase – or stock buyback – strategies to manage capital and shore up stability. During volatile periods, financial companies are frequently the first to feel the pain, and buyback programs are a means of getting in front of potential price dips and preserving value.
The buyback market set records in 2018 across many industries. As of late December, more than $1 trillion in share repurchase programs had been authorized – eclipsing the $655 billion total for 2017. The third quarter of 2018 was especially active, with financial institutions making up the third-largest sector. In the bank buyback space alone, 22 repurchase programs were announced in October, 18 in November and 27 in December.
Generally, companies that participate in share repurchase programs are carrying cash on the balance sheet in excess of what is necessary to fund daily operations and growth opportunities. The question then becomes how to use it. Given the relative slowdown lately in the M&A market, buybacks have presented banks with the opportunity to accomplish a variety of goals.
They will likely reduce the number of shareholders and future share liquidity.
Banks with pending acquisitions where the target shareholder vote has not taken place cannot execute a buyback unless the transaction is paid with solely cash, or unless the bank was repurchasing shares pursuant to SEC Rule 10b-18 in the three months preceding the announcement.
While there is no cookie-cutter profile for companies that elect to participate in share repurchase programs–they vary in terms of market capitalization, balance sheet composition and industry sector – there is a well-defined and strictly regulated process these types of transactions must follow.
While SEC Rule 10b-18 governs the parameters of a buyback, including the manner of purchase, the timing of the repurchases, the prices paid and the volume of shares repurchased, companies executing a buyback program should consider the benefits of Rule 10b5-1.
The rule provides companies the ability to establish a buyback plan in an open window that can be executed during closed trading periods. Many companies establish 10b5-1 plans to ensure continuous execution of their buyback strategy and to take advantage of periods of market volatility where opportunistic purchases may be realized.
The buyback market is busy and breaking records. The Corporate & Executive Services team at Raymond James has discussed repurchase programs with more than 50 regional banks in recent months.
Now is a good time for banks with excess capital to weigh their options and reach out to partner firms that can help develop and execute successful repurchase strategies.
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Peptides accelerate their uptake by activating a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway
Turner, Glenn C. and Du, Fangyong and Varshavsky, Alexander (2000) Peptides accelerate their uptake by activating a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway. Nature, 405 (6786). p. 579. ISSN 0028-0836. doi:10.1038/35014629. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150330-105345474
Protein degradation by the ubiquitin system controls the intracellular concentrations of many regulatory proteins. A protein substrate of the ubiquitin system is conjugated to ubiquitin through the action of three enzymes, E1, E2 and E3, with the degradation signal (degron) of the substrate recognized by E3. The resulting multi-ubiquitylated substrate is degraded by the 26S proteasome. Here we describe the physiological regulation of a ubiquitin-dependent pathway through allosteric modulation of its E3 activity by small compounds. Ubr1, the E3 enzyme of the N-end rule pathway (a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic system) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mediates the degradation of Cup9, a transcriptional repressor of the peptide transporter Ptr2. Ubr1 also targets proteins that have destabilizing amino-terminal residues. We show that the degradation of Cup9 is allosterically activated by dipeptides with destabilizing N-terminal residues. In the resulting positive feedback circuit, imported dipeptides bind to Ubr1 and accelerate the Ubr1-dependent degradation of Cup9, thereby de-repressing the expression of Ptr2 and increasing the cell's capacity to import peptides. These findings identify the physiological rationale for the targeting of Cup9 by Ubr1, and indicate that small compounds may regulate other ubiquitin-dependent pathways.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35014629 DOI Article
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Varshavsky, Alexander 0000-0002-4011-258X
© 2000 Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Received 5 January 2000; Accepted 5 April 2000. We thank A. Webster for her valuable contributions to establishing the in vitro system, and R. Deshaies, J. Dohmen, L. Prakash, H. Rao and J. Sheng for their gifts of plasmids and strains. We also thank C. Byrd, H. Rao, T. Iverson and especially R. Deshaies for helpful discussions and comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by grants to A.V. from the NIH.
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The background to this visit is given in Thomas Kautzor's page 'Railways of Haiti' elsewhere on this site.
We spent 2½ days around Port-au-Prince, looking for the remains of the country's closed railways.
At the 'Cimenterie Nationale (CINA, http://www.cina.com.ht/)' cement factory in Fond Mombin near Cabaret (31 km from PaP), we found plinthed 42" (1067mm) gauge 4wDE Moyse 36TDE 232/1954, new to Ciments Lafarge, Haiti. The factory opened in 1952 and the loco was used on its private siding, connected to the CNCFH line until it closed in the 1960s.
76 km along the Route Nationale 1 from PaP, between Augier and Deloge, a little way south of the Xaragua Beach Hotel, we found this railway bridge now used by farmers to access their fields.
When the railway reached the thinly-populated Cap-St-Marc, instead of cutting across the hills as the road does, it was built along the coast. At Ravine Sèche (83 km from PaP), we found this flat car, formerly used by SHADA for sisal traffic to its Montrouis factory, which closed in 1977. A cane car and another steel bridge used to be here as well, but were scrapped a few years ago. The flat car is for sale.
In St-Marc (95 km from PaP), the CNCFH station building on the main square next to the wharf and the customs office building still stands today.
From St-Marc, the railway continued inland for another 40 km to Les Verrettes to serve Standard Fruit Co. banana plantations in the fertile valley around Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite. One hundred meters north of St-Marc station, this overturned steel bridge is stuck into the riverbed. The Standard Fruit Co. warehouses north of town are still in use today.
PCS Baldwin 2-6-0 No. 21 (30" (762mm) gauge, Baldwin replacement boiler No. 458267) is preserved at the 'Parc Historique de la Canne à Sucre' in Tabarre, opposite the U.S. Embassy (http://parccanneasucre.org/ (link broken 5th April 2019) and http://parchistorique.ht/index.htm). It was moved here from the HASCO factory in 2004. The park is open daily, with the "Le Relais de Chateaublond" restaurant on site.
Also at the 'Parc Historique de la Canne à Sucre', this 24" (610mm) gauge diesel loco frame has a plate attached describing it as a "Décoville", however it is most certainly U.S.-built. It might have come from one of HASCO's narrow gauge plantation railways which connected with the 30" (762mm) main line in the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac east of Port-au-Prince.
The HASCO sugar factory, closed in 1992, sits next to the port in downtown Port-au-Prince, not far from Cité Soleil. Most of the machinery from the mill has been scrapped, but there are plans to turn the remaining buildings into a museum. These are the railway's loco shed and workshops.
HASCO B-B DE No. 5 (Whitcomb 44-ton 61094/1951, 300 h.p.) sits at the entrance to the cane unloading facility.
HASCO B-B DE No. 6 (Whitcomb 50DE-46 44-ton 61272/1952) is stored in a small shed close to the road to Cité Soleil.
This museum in a restored 18th century colonial plantation and sugar factory is part of the Moulin-sur-Mer Beach Resort (http://www.moulinsurmer.com/Museum-Ogier-Fombrun.html,domain active but link broken by 29th October 2017). It is located at Km 77 on Route Nationale 1, north of Montrouis and is open daily 10am-6pm (admission free). We found a Decauville skip with half of its "Petit-Bourg (France)" builder's plate still attached.
For reliable transportation in Port-au-Prince, you can contact English-speaking Antony Jean at info@shuttleht.com or cell. +509 3881 6162. He knows all of the above locations.


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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
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America and China, 1776 to the Present
by John Pomfret
Free with Trial
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day
From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns**—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—**were set in motion hundreds of years earlier.
Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important**—and often the most perplexing—**relationship between any two countries in the world.
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Elbow bursitis, also called olecranon bursitis or student's elbow, is the inflammation and swelling of the olecranon bursa, a small, cushioning sac of fluid, that protects the large, pointy olecranon bone at the back of the elbow.
The condition may be caused by a traumatic fall or hard blow, excessive leaning on the elbow, infection, or conditions such as gout, fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. At greatest risk are individuals who work as plumbers or air conditioning technicians who spend a lot of time crawling on their elbows.
Symptoms of olecranon bursitis include swelling around the point of the elbow, pain over the rear of the elbow, pain when leaning on the elbow, and/or pain when bending or straightening the elbow. If the bursa becomes infected, the skin may get warm and red, and the inspection may spread to other parts of the arm or body.
After evaluating your condition and confirming a diagnosis of olecranon bursitis with an ultrasound scan or MRI, an upper extremity subspecialist at Lancaster Orthopedic Group may suggest treatment with ice and anti-inflammatory medication to reduce pain and swelling, injection of corticosteroid medication directly into the bursa, an elbow pad to cushion the elbow, and avoiding direct pressure on the swollen elbow.
If the bursitis is caused by an infection, it may be necessary to remove fluid from the bursa, followed by antibiotic treatment. If conservative treatment is unsuccessful, the bursa can be surgically removed.


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CONTENTS JULY 9, 2000:
Click. A PILL (P-53) TO TREAT CANCER WILL BE READY IN THREE YEARS.
Click. BIOFEM PROBE MOVING AHEAD.
Click. Los Angeles Near Critical Choice as 4th Officer Faces Charges
LAPD: Officials must decide whether to fight the Justice Department in court or make a deal.
Click. Open-casket funeral displays body of gay man beaten, run over
Click. POWER STRUGGLE SHUTS DOWN XIANA FAIRCHILD FOUNDATION. XIANA STILL MISSING.
British breakthrough brings chance of a pill to treat cancer within three years.
By Fred Bridgland © 9 July 2000, The Independent, London
Scientists begin trials in September on the world's first anti-cancer pill. The gene- based pill could be on the market in three years, offering a revolutionary alternative to "primitive" treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
The 90-strong international team of scientists will be led by Professor Sir David Lane, of Dundee University, who was knighted in the New Year's honours list and has been widely tipped as a future Nobel Prize winner. It will be based in a new multi-million- pound building in the middle of Dundee.
Professor Lane, 47, made his name with the discovery of the body's Guardian Angel or Gatekeeper Gene, known to scientists as p-53. The gene produces a protein which acts as a tumour suppressor: dysfunctional p-53 is a critical factor in, for example, 90 per cent of lung, bowel and cervical cancers and 50 per cent of brain cancers. Professor Lane is about to test a molecule which he believes will replicate this protein.
"The great beauty is that we would be turning on a natural protective cell function which does not do any of the damage caused by current treatments," Professor Lane told the Independent on Sunday.
Professor Lane's reputation has already drawn the backing of investors such as Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, the Cancer Research Campaign, Equitable Life and the founders of Stagecoach, enabling Lane to found his own company, Cyclacel.
Now he has found 10 terminal cancer patients in London and Glasgow to take part in the first phase of the clinical trials. He predicts a time scale of three to five years before Cyclacel can put a pill on the market – fast in drug development terms – so long as each clinical trial stage goes smoothly. Such a breakthrough would be a remarkable conclusion to what would by then have been a 30-year odyssey for Professor Lane since he discovered p-53 almost by accident, while studying for a PhD, only to have its protein dismissed by senior colleagues as an irritating contaminant.
He pressed ahead, establishing that the gene had a vital "watchdog" effect, springing into life when cancer – the uncontrollable division and proliferation of any of the body's hundred trillion cells – is threatened. It begins producing a protein that triggers responses from other genes responsible for inhibiting cell multiplication.
His renown has made Dundee University one of the world's leading centres of cancer research. Some 1,500 biochemists, cell biologists, developmental biologists and other specialists are concentrated in closely integrated departments devoted to unravelling cancer, which kills one in four Britons.
For Professor Lane, the Holy Grail has been to take p-53 beyond theory and the electron microscope to the ultimate stage of a successful clinical cure. But he discovered that, despite all the talent attracted to the university, traditional academic funding could never provide enough money for expensive clinical trials. He also feels there is a reluctance among the big drug companies to look for new cancer treatments.
The trialling process is long and complex. The volunteers in the Phase One trial will first be administered an agreed safe dose of the replicated p-53 protein molecule. "We'll then escalate the dose, checking for possible toxic effects while looking also for any responses in their tumours," he said.
Phase Two trials will be much bigger and more comprehensive, on perhaps 50 to 100 cancer sufferers, testing the drug's efficacy to the full and targeting particular cancers, such as that of the colon.
In Phase Three, serious questions will be asked of the scientists before they are allowed to patent a commercial drug. They will have to provide statistical proof that the p-53 cancer pill is superior to other therapies.
Professor Lane said: "At times this is so much fun I can hardly sleep at night thinking about it. But cracking p-53 is not the whole answer. The best way of avoiding colon cancer is to eat broccoli and to avoid lung cancer it's obvious that you should not smoke. Sometimes it's so depressing to give a lecture to medical students on the causes of cancer and then walk out of the hospital and see them and the nurses all lighting up."
Biofem probe moving ahead.
SHOOTING: Trial is set for one suspect. Police hope a TV show will help find another.
July 8, 2000, By BILL RAMS, The Orange County Register
SANTA ANA -- A judge set a trial date Friday for the man accused of being the getaway driver in the botched attempt to kill an Irvine drug company executive, and police are hoping that a national television re-creation of the crime will lead them to the shooter.
Dino D'Saachs, 56, of Alta Dena will stand trial beginning Sept. 11 for the Feb. 28 shooting of James Patrick Riley in front of Biofem Inc.'s Irvine Spectrum office.
The gunman is still at large -- but police are hoping that will change after the television show "America's Most Wanted" broadcasts a story tonight on the shooting.
Riley said this week that he has also offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter.
Police say they want to talk to Tony Rodriguez, a former employee of D'Saachs'. He was last seen with D'Saachs the day of the shooting.
The show is the latest event in one of the most bizarre criminal investigations in Orange County history. Police suspect that Riley's former partner, Dr. Larry Creed Ford, a friend of D'Saachs', masterminded the hit. But two days after the shooting - and a day after police searched his home - Ford shot and killed himself.
Then allegations surfaced that Ford was involved in advising South Africa on biochemical warfare. Police got a tip that Ford had stored dangerous chemicals in his home.
Police evacuated 200 homes in Ford's Woodbridge neighborhood and found illegal firearms and bottles filled with bacteria that cause cholera and typhoid fever.
The FBI has launched a weapons of mass destruction investigation, and officials are probing Ford's alleged ties to apartheid-era biochemical weapons in South Africa.
City Near Critical Choice as 4th Officer Faces Charges
By JIM NEWTON, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 9, 2000
Faced with decisions that could permanently change the way the Police Department is run, top Los Angeles officials are fast approaching an important crossroads: Whether to fight the U.S. Department of Justice in court over the management of the LAPD or to cut a deal that would require the city to implement a long list of reforms.
City and federal authorities have been meeting privately for weeks, and sources say the federal government has completed presenting its reform plan. That 103-page document covers major aspects of the LAPD's management, oversight and discipline, according to participants in the talks, who are scheduled to meet again this week.
The talks this week represent a watershed moment in the negotiations. Up to this point, Justice Department lawyers have been laying out their case while city officials asked questions or tried to understand various provisions. Now, it's up to the local team--made up of City Atty. James Hahn; Mayor Richard Riordan's chief of staff, Kelly Martin; Chief Legislative Analyst Ron Deaton; and Police Commission President Gerald Chaleff--to decide how to respond.
In its proposed decree, the federal government lays out the reforms that it wants the city to adopt or else face a lawsuit charging that the LAPD has engaged in a pattern or practice of misconduct. Although some observers have urged fighting that suit, most people involved in the talks--and many knowledgeable legal experts removed from them--believe the city would lose in court.
Among the highlights of that document, according to several people who have seen it:
* The Police Department would need to build and maintain a computerized officer-tracking system far beyond what it currently operates. The new system would track, not just officer discipline, but also such things as shootings, arrests, assignments, promotions and training recommendations.
* The Police Commission's inspector general would receive broad orders and authority to conduct audits of the LAPD's operations, discipline and other areas--duties that would probably require the city to beef up the inspector general's staff. Under the proposal, the inspector general or his staff would also be expected to respond to the scene of police shootings.
* The Police Department's Internal Affairs Group would be required to handle many of the more serious complaints currently investigated at the department's local police stations. As with the inspector general, that obligation would almost certainly force the city to spend more money.
* The LAPD would be directed to gather information about the ethnicity of the people it stops for traffic violations and other offenses, material that later could be used to determine whether police disproportionately focus their efforts on minorities--a practice known as "racial profiling."
* The city would have to agree to the appointment of an outside monitor who would report to a federal judge to ensure that the city government and the LAPD live up to the reforms demanded in the decree. This notion, in some ways, is the most controversial because it would shift the final say on some LAPD matters from the city government to a federal judge.
Although many specifics of such an agreement are still being discussed, in the end the choice for the local negotiating team is either to accept some version of the federal demands or to fight the matter in court.
Some have suggested just that. Top LAPD officials have argued that the city should not give in, and others, including some who have never seen the proposed reforms, have derided the federal proposal as a recipe for "takeover" of the LAPD.
That argument has gained some political traction as well, with businessman Steve Soboroff, an advisor to Riordan and candidate for mayor, using it to try to distinguish himself from the rest of the mayoral field.
"Anyone who has seen the federal government in action knows that a federal takeover of the Los Angeles Police Department would result in more bureaucracy, massive litigation costs and fewer officers on the street fighting crime," Soboroff said last month in a publicly released letter to City Atty. Hahn, who is the city's lead negotiator and also a candidate for mayor.
In response, Hahn called Soboroff's letter disappointing and irresponsible, and accused his rival of trying to make personal gain out of the police crisis.
"Politics," Hahn wrote, "has no place in an issue as important as resolving the Rampart crisis in LAPD."
Some observers familiar with the Justice Department's proposed order--and with the evidence the federal government has accumulated--argue that litigation would be costly, embarrassing and ultimately pointless. According to them and other experts, to prevail in court, the federal government would need to present only a handful of examples of officer misconduct. The Rampart case alone could supply dozens of such cases, and many other instances, from the clique of officers once known as Men Against Women to the year-after-year litany of police brutality allegations, provide fodder for more.
Once the government proved that rights were violated, it then would need only to demonstrate that deficiencies in LAPD management either allowed or fostered that misconduct--not that management collaborated or deliberately covered up abusive behavior.
Strengthening Internal Affairs
Many experts believe that would be an easy task for the Justice Department. In fact, the LAPD already has admitted as much in its Board of Inquiry report on the Rampart scandal and in the chief's recent request for $9 million to beef up internal affairs.
"Had the department and the Rampart management team exercised more vigorous and coordinated oversight of area operations, and its CRASH [anti-gang] unit in particular, the crimes and misconduct that occurred may have been prevented, discouraged or discovered much earlier," the department's Board of Inquiry said, one of many such statements throughout that document.
Moreover, there are 61 pending federal lawsuits against the LAPD, and the plaintiffs in all of those argue that their civil rights were violated by LAPD officers. Although opinion is divided about whether a judge would agree, some legal experts believe that every one of those allegations could be joined with the federal case, creating a nightmarishly long and expensive lawsuit that many observers believe Los Angeles would lose.
Even if that did not occur, any lawsuit in which a plaintiff sued the LAPD in federal court and won would contain facts that might be admissible against the city in the current case.
All told, that leaves most observers convinced that, for the city, fighting the federal government in court would be a losing proposition.
"There's no way the city is going to be able to deny pattern or practice," USC law professor Erwin Chemerinsky said. The city's only hopes, if it were to fight in court, Chemerinsky added, would be either that the judge in the case impose a less stringent order than the Justice Department is seeking or that the lawsuit drag on into next year and that the next president would withdraw it.
Without exception, legal experts interviewed for this article dismissed the contention--advanced by Police Department brass and others--that a recent court victory by the city of Torrance over the Justice Department gives hope that Los Angeles might win, too. The Torrance case was an employment discrimination lawsuit with virtually no similarity to the allegations or legal challenges that Los Angeles would face.
That leaves Los Angeles officials faced with the question of haggling over what should be in an agreement here--and over what form that agreement should take.
Some of the federal government's proposed provisions are sure to invite opposition from at least some members of the city's negotiating team. Recommendations that the Police Commission assume a greater role--possibly in an advisory way--over LAPD discipline will undoubtedly draw the ire of Martin and Deputy Chief Martin Pomeroy, who also participates in the sessions. Martin and Pomeroy work for the mayor and chief, respectively, and both those officials have strenuously argued that the chief needs to remain the final, unfettered authority over police discipline--a view also advanced by former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who headed the 1991 commission that recommended many of the police reforms still being debated in Los Angeles.
Police Chief Bernard C. Parks in the past has also resisted calls for the LAPD to gather more information about the ethnicity of people stopped or arrested by police. Although participants in the talks say that issue has been put to the side for the moment, they expect the Justice Department to insist on some measures, setting up another point of potential conflict with the city negotiating team.
At the same time, both sides have given some indications of flexibility. One example cited by participants, for instance, involves the Justice Department's initial insistence that the computerized officer-tracking system, known by the acronym TEAMS, include with each officer a list of every partner with whom that officer ever worked.
According to negotiators and others, the Justice Department's intention was clear: to compile a record of relationships that might be telling if an officer someday landed in trouble. The problem with that is that the LAPD does not typically put two officers together as partners for months or years at a time. Often, officers are paired up at roll call, meaning that a single officer can work with scores, even hundreds, of other officers over the course of a career, some of them for just a shift or two.
As a result, the Justice Department's suggestion would have been unwieldy and would not have produced the information it was seeking, city officials said. After conversations about those issues, the Justice Department team appears to have backed off that proposal, negotiators said.
Open-casket funeral displays body of gay man beaten, run over
By VICKI SMITH, Associated Press
GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (July 9, 2000 12:30 p.m. EDT) - An open coffin at a funeral on Saturday displayed the battered body of a gay black man beaten and repeatedly struck by a car.
The father of Arthur "J.R." Warren Jr. ordered the open coffin Saturday at Mount Beulah Baptist Church "so they could see what they had done to his son," mourner Rick Ravenscroft said.
"It was pretty hideous," Ravenscroft said. "It took its toll on a lot of people. There was a lot of screaming and a lot of crying," he said.
Gay rights groups have demanded that police and prosecutors say whether the murder is a hate crime.
However, Marion County Sheriff Ron Watkins has downplayed speculation the murder was linked to Warren's sexuality and said there was "no indication" it was a hate crime.
Two white 17-year-olds allegedly confessed and are charged with first-degree murder, but authorities have refused to divulge their motive. Their names were not released because of their ages; the prosecutor has not yet decided whether to try them as adults.
Friends and relatives said Warren, 26, had told of being harassed for being different in the small, rural town of about 700 people, just north of Fairmont in north-central West Virginia.
Authorities have said the suspects apparently beat the slender, 5-foot-9 Warren in a vacant house they were painting last Monday night, then dumped his body on a highway and drove over him several times. The boys then allegedly returned to the house and wiped up some of the blood, Watkins said.
Investigators thought it was a hit-and-run case until a third teenager told them he had helped clean up the crime scene.
POWER STRUGGLE SHUTS DOWN XIANA FAIRCHILD FOUNDATION. XIANA STILL MISSING.
San Francisco Examiner 7/8/00
(07-08) 16:56 PDT VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) -- A spat between a missing girl's great aunt and another concerned woman has forced a shutdown of the volunteer center that was collecting money and coordinating search efforts.
Stephanie Kahalekulu, Xiana Fairchild's great-aunt, is sternly at odds with missing child advocate Kim Swartz over who should control the Xiana Fairchild Volunteer Center and the money donated to it.
Xiana, 8, has been missing since Dec. 9.
Swartz, whose own daughter Amber has been missing since 1988, says without her efforts, neither the center nor the funds donated to it would exist. So Swartz transferred the money into a bank account she controls.
``If I had not offered my nonprofit status, Xiana would have nothing,'' Swartz told the Contra Costa Times on Friday. ``We have run into people over and over again who said they were wary of donating but wanted to help.''
About $34,000 in donations to help fund the search efforts for Xiana are now accessible only by Swartz and the Amber Foundation, set up to help find her daughter.
Swartz' help in coordinating the funding was welcome by Xiana's family until she recently asked for $3,200 in reimbursement for expenses. Swartz and Kahalekulu disagreed over the expenses and the rift began.
The Amber Foundation board soon decided that Kahalekulu should no longer have direct access to the donation bank account. Swartz also changed the locks on the doors to the volunteer center because copies had been distributed to several people, she said.
Xiana's great aunt says she is dejected over the turn of events.
``It's like an iron stake has been put right in the middle of our efforts,'' Kahalekulu said. ``It's Xiana we're talking about. We're her family. It's not like we're not around. We're here. She has no right to do this.''
The two women have worked to arrange a meeting with a mediator to resolve their differences. Meanwhile, Kahalekulu has founded a new organization to continue working toward finding Xiana.
The Xiana Fairchild Foundation was established Friday by Kahalekulu and is accepting new donations to aid the search for the girl.
EDWIN MEESE III AGAINST THE FEDERALIZATION OF LOCAL CRIME. Panel Finds Too Many Crime Laws.
The Associated Press by Richard Carelli
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The avalanche of new laws Congress has passed since 1970 to make America's streets safe has failed, a report concludes.
``There is no persuasive evidence that federalization of local crime makes the streets safer for American citizens,'' says a report prepared by a blue- ribbon task force sponsored by the American Bar Association and chaired by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III.
``Crime legislation is popular. Most of the time it's just feel-good legislation'' because existing state and local laws are sufficient to address the targeted problems, Meese told reporters today as the report was made public.
Such duplication ``undermines the critical role of the states and local law enforcement,'' said Meese, the nation's top law-enforcement officer during the Reagan administration.
The 16-member task force says a Congress worried about being called ``soft on crime'' actually may be hurting the fight against street violence by passing federal laws that duplicate state and local efforts nationwide.
The 56-page report, backed up by hundreds of pages of statistical findings, calls on Congress to resist its political impulses.
``There is an understandable pressure on Congress not to vote against crime legislation even if it is misguided, unnecessary and harmful,'' the report's executive summary says. ``But there must be a recognition that a refusal to endorse a new federal crime is not a sign that a legislator is soft on crime.''
The product of a two-year study, the report notes with alarm that more than 40 percent of all federal criminal laws enacted since the Civil War were passed since 1970.
``Highly publicized criminal incidents are frequently accompanied by proposals for congressional responses for no reason other than that the conduct is serious, even if the activity is already handled by state law,'' the summary says.
The ``Federalization of Criminal Law'' report mirrors criticism raised by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in his year-end report on the federal judiciary in December. He blamed the trend on pressure in Congress ``to appear responsive to every highly publicized societal ill or sensational crime.''
The report states: ``Increased federalization is rarely, if ever, likely to have any appreciable effect on the categories of violent crime that most concern Americans, because in practice federal law enforcement can reach only a small percent of such activity.''
State law enforcement accounts for about 95 percent of all prosecutions nationwide.
``Inappropriate federalization'' can contribute to ``long-range damage to real crime control'' by diverting federal money better spent on state law- enforcement systems, the report says, and can deplete funding of federal law- enforcement efforts not duplicated by the states.
``The expanding coverage of federal criminal law, much of it enacted in the absence of a demonstrated and distinctive federal justification, is moving the nation rapidly toward two broadly overlapping, parallel and essentially redundant sets of criminal prohibitions. ... Such a system has little to commend it and much to condemn it,'' the report says.
``Sampling of the latest available statistics demonstrates that several recently enacted federal statutes, championed by many because they would have a claimed impact on crime, have hardly been used at all,'' the task force found.
Some of the laws cited dealt with drive-by shootings, interstate domestic violence, failure to report child abuse and murder by escaped prisoners.


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I was recently introduced to the idea of not using shampoo, also known as "no-pooing." I was fascinated by the concept of never having to use shampoo again. But like many of you most likely are right now, I was worried.
However, I told myself that if all the claims were true, then I have definitely found an easy, economical, non-toxic means to keep my hair clean and shiny!
Off to the store I went to purchase my baking soda and organic apple cider vinegar (ACV) concoction. I bet you are thinking… Baking soda? Apple cider vinegar? What, am I cleaning my floors?
You may be wondering how you can possibly live without shampoo because your hair would become an oily mess. Well, actually, the opposite will happened. Your hair will have never looked better. I know it, because I tried it.
When you shampoo your hair, you are stripping the natural oils away. Therefore, you are creating a demand and dependence on shampoo, because of all the oils that are being produced. However, when you stop shampooing, the oils will keep producing until they naturally find a balance.
Have you ever looked at the list of ingredients on a bottle of shampoo? It can be endless and usually contains ingredients that most of us can't identify. But we don't question these products because we think they must be safe, or they wouldn't be selling them.
Both Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and its close relative Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) are surfactants and detergents that may cause serious health issues. They are most frequently found in detergents, household cleaners, as well as personal care products such as toothpaste, mouthwash and shampoo to act as a foaming agent. Many studies have shown that these chemicals can cause eye damage, skin irritation and diarrhea.
Propylene Glycol is a cosmetic form of mineral oil, which is a byproduct of gasoline distilled from crude oil. It can be found in antifreeze and brake fluid, as well as shampoo. It is added to shampoo to help give hair that shiny look.
Whenever we wash our hair, we often forget the impact that it has on the environment. All the harmful ingredients get washed down the drain, polluting the lakes, rivers and oceans around us.
By not buying shampoo, we are reducing our consumption and demand for plastic that either needs to be produced or recycled.
Baking soda and apple cider vinegar are much cheaper than shampoo, so you will definitely be saving some money in the long run.
Mix one tablespoon of baking soda with approximately 1 cup of water. However, not everyone's hair is the same, so this can be tweaked to your needs. You can mix the baking soda and water in a squeeze bottle, which might make this process more manageable.
Add the baking soda and water to the ends of your hair as well as your scalp. Massage your scalp to incorporate the baking soda.
Now, do your regular body cleaning while the baking soda sits in your hair for about a minute.
Baking soda does wonders for your hair! It's very gentle, and it cleanses your hair from harmful chemicals.
Mix a small amount of AVC with about a cup of water. I used a glass spray bottle to spray my hair, which made it easier. Again, spray or apply the diluted AVC to your roots and a very little on your scalp. Massage once again. Rinse after a minute.
AVC detangles the hair follicles, seals the cuticle and balances the hair's pH levels.
Yes, your hair will smell a little vinegary, but you can always add some essential oils such as tea tree, lavender or rosemary. I found once I dried my hair the smell went away.
If your hair is too dry, try adding some oil such as coconut oil, which can do wonders for your hair!
If you find your hair is becoming too greasy, try adding less ACV. You can also try lemon or lime juice in place of the ACV.
You will have to remember, there will most definitely be an adjustment period which can last a few weeks to a few months. Your hair will be reacting to the surplus in oils, due to the lack of shampoo. Play around with the amounts to find the best fit for you.
It took me four washes for my hair not to look like it belonged on the head of a gross, greasy participant on Survivor. I don't wash my hair every day, so I would say after a week and a half, my hair looked awesome!
So, who's up for no-pooing? Come on, I know you want to! Enjoy the ride to a healthier you and environment!
Please let me know how it all works out for you!
oh my gosh, I could never do that. my hairs a train wreck as it is, need all the help it can get and I love the smell of shampoo – so does Hubster 😉 good for you though!
I'm going to try this! I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks!
Hi this is Ruby's sister johnnie. I am going to try this too. My boyfriend already does this because he has dreadlocksand extremly "green". He has the greatest hair I've ever seen and he hardly has to wash it.
That is great Johnnie! And I am so happy that you found me through your sister! Please let me know how your no-pooing goes either by email or yo can post on my FB fan page.Thanks for taking the time to read my post today!
Over the past year I have trained my hair to only require being washed once a week. When I shower I generally just rinse it with water other then my once a week shampoo. Thinking the transition to this would be very easy on my hair as it already doesn't rely on shampoo too much. A hairdresser years ago told me the less I wash my hair, the more natural it is, and she was right!
Going to have to try this and see how it works with my wild hair.
I understand the concern about the chemicals in the shampoo, but to use the argument of reducing plastic demand is a bit of a stretch. Your process includes 2 – 4 ingredients if you add essential oils, coconut oil, lemon juice etc. all of these items including your ACV and the baking soda have non-environmental packaging too.
Thats great Myra! Please let me know how your hair turns outs! And AVC, essential oils and coconut oil all come sin glass jars, so that is much better for your health and the environment! Thanks for sharing!
Not so ready to go "no pooing" all the time. What do you know about using this combo on occasion to strip your hair of all the extras?
It would definitely not do any harm to do on occasion to help your hair. I mean the idea behind doing the "no-pooing" is to have healthier hair. So you could start off slow and see how you feel. And eventually get to the "no-pooing" all the time! Like I say, a little can make a big difference! Good luck Erin!
Very intriguing idea! I checked and I have these chemicals in my shampoo- even the baby's! 🙁 As a side note, for those not ready to go no-pooing, there is a company called Green Beaver which offers many hygiene items chemical free.
Thrilled to have found your site! I went no-shampoo a year or so ago and haven't looked back. For me, it's as simple as Castile Soap. Nothing else, no concoctions. Just the same bar of olive-oil soap I use for face & body. It works great! Now of course I'm a guy, with fairly short hair, and it can be argued whether my hair needs are universal. But for what I need, I'm amazed how well it works. And I wonder how I got marketed & sold on putting all that gunk in my hair all those years.
Thanks. Your site is pretty awesome too! I love that you have gone no-pooing. I love Castile soap, too!
Do it! If you dot like it, you can always just shampoo your hair! My hair doesn't smell like Apple Cider Vinegar anymore! If I let my hair air dry, it is much less dry then if I dry it with a hairdryer! Good luck. Any questions, don't hesitate to contact me!
This is going to the top of my to-do list. Thanks.
Oh wow, that's great.any questions just ask!
I'm definitely trying this recipe!!! Thanks for sharing Steph.
I have had psoriasis problems for years and don't know what to do anymore. Who knows?! This just might be the trick.
MG, please let me know if it works for you. It took me a while to finally like my hair.It was dry at the beginning but the more I "no-poo" he better it gets! Good luck!
I'm thinking that maybe I should try a solution of water and lemon juice as a conditioner after washing it with the solution of water and baking soda (or maybe adding more baking soda to the water would do the trick). I did add lavender essential oil to the water vinegar solution. Maybe that's what give it that "thick" feel.
Do you know if this is good for chemically treated hair which usually requires a special shampoo?
I can't say for sure. I haven't died my hair in months but I still have the streaks in my hair and it's looks good and feels fine.
I love your attitude! Why wait. FYI your hair will probably be greasy for a few days or a week. Let me know how it goes!
I have been doing it for about 4 months too. I wash my hair every second day so 3 times a week approximately. I really like it! 🙂 Thanks Lisa for the comment!
I've seriously thought about this every time I step into the shower and see my shampoo and conditioner in there. I keep telling myself, once its gone, I'm going to find something more organic and natural. I'm glad I found this How-To so I can plan ahead and try this new method. Question: Do you use the raw ACV or the regular one? Does it matter?
Get off the fence and just try it! I promise you will like it!
That is great. I am celebrating my my no-pooing and blog anniversary at the same time…it's been 4 months!
Bite.The.Bullet, Charise! You can do it!