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Surrey RCMP have confirmed that Mikayla Massie was found safe this morning (May 16).
Surrey RCMP are requesting the public’s help in finding a 13-year-old girl from Surrey.
Mikayla Marie Massie attended school at Clayton Heights Secondary yesterday (Wednesday, May 15) but did not return home after school. Police say she was spotted later in the the day, around 5:30 p.m., near 188 Street and Fraser Highway, but hasn’t been seen since.
Police are concerned as leaving home overnight without being in contact is out of character for Massie.
She is described as a Caucasian female who is 5’4″ tall and 90 lbs. She has long blond hair, which is usually in a ponytail. She was last seen wearing a cream coloured lacey top with a grey, two-tone Lululemon zip hoodie, red skinny jeans, black flat shoes. She was also carrying a grey backpack with blue trim.
Anyone who has seen or knows the whereabouts of Massie is asked to call the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502.


text: Massa Faces Sex Harassment Suit From Aide He Paid $40K Sketchy payout came day after resignation By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff Posted Apr 17, 2010 8:48 AM CDT 4 comments Comments This Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, former congressman for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester. (AP Photo/David Duprey) (Newser) – It's not a good time to be Eric Massa. The former New York congressman is facing a sex harassment complaint from his male former chief of staff—who took a sketchy $40,000 payout from Massa the day after his resignation, reports the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Massa cut the check March 4 for "campaign management;" sources tell the Washington Post that they weren't aware Joseph Racalto was working Massa's campaign. Racalto's attorney acknowledged yesterday that he filed the complaint March 23; it is at least the second Massa faces.

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Corruption Case Against Pinnick, Others Withdrawn By Government
The Nigerian Government on Tuesday withdrew the corruption charges against President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick and four other members of the board.
The Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu discharged and acquitted Pinnick, NFF Secretary, Sunusi Mohammed; 1st Vice-President, Seyi Akinwumi; 2nd Vice-President, Shehu Dikko and an executive member, Yusuff Fresh, after revealing that the office of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice wrote to withdraw the charges filed before the court by the disbanded Special Presidential and Investigation Panel.
The office of the AGF said that there was no basis for the charges filed against Pinnick and others
Mohammed Katu, counsel to the defendants while making his submission said, “We asked that since the prosecution has applied to withdraw the charges, the defendants should be acquitted.”
In May, Pinnick and four others were arraigned on 18 counts for allegedly diverting money gotten from the Federation of International Football Association for Nigeria’s appearing at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had also sealed properties belonging to Pinnick and other top ranking members of the NFF in relation to mismanagement of funds.


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The complexities of a special primary contest to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. in Congress gave way the final weekend before the election to more traditional campaigning as candidates Sunday visited churches and restaurants in search of votes.
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Chicago election officials report turnout is low in the primary election to find a successor to disgraced former Democratic U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super political action committee has spent at least $660,000 for 12 days of TV ads blasting Democratic congressional candidate Debbie Halvorson’s past support from the National Rifle Association, records...
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super political action committee has ramped up its attacks on 2nd Congressional District Democratic candidate Debbie Halvorson’s gun control views by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars more on a new TV...
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super political action committee on Friday endorsed former state Rep. Robin Kelly of Matteson in the special Democratic primary that is likely to decide the successor to former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr....
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Debbie Halvorson found herself alone among leading Democratic candidates Sunday when she indicated she would not support a ban on the semiautomatic firearm used in the Sandy Hook school shooting last month.
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State Sen. Toi Hutchinson of Olympia Fields gained the endorsement today of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle for the Democratic nomination in the special primary to decide a replacement for former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., aides to both...
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The first TV ad in the special primary election to replace ex-U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. comes from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super political action committee and targets Democrat Debbie Halvorson’s support of gun owner rights.
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Former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson lashed out Tuesday against an expensive ad campaign attacking her past support from the National Rifle Association and accused New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg of using his super political action committee to try to...
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Twenty two candidates met a Monday deadline to file paperwork for a spot on the ballot in the special election to succeed former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
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SPRINGFIELD --- Former state Rep. Robin Kelly of Matteson will get the first spot on the ballot in special Democratic primary for the seat once held by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
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Shout out for cancer research. How do platelets help or hinder the process of treatment?
University of Otago researcher Dr Suetonia Palmer is one of three recipients of a $25,000 L’Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship, awarded in Melbourne on Tuesday.
The other two are a Melbourne researcher who battled leukemia as a teenager and a scientist recognized for her work in nanotechnology.
Dr Palmer received the award for her work in chronic kidney disease.
Working from temporary facilities as Christchurch rebuilds, she is guiding doctors and policy makers across the world as they attempt to make the best decisions for their patients.
The fellowship will take her work further and help her study what information people receive when their kidney disease worsens and they have to go on dialysis.
That usually requires four hours a day, four days a week in hospital. However, in Christchurch most people have dialysis machines at home.
Dr Palmer will determine what is best practice.
She is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Medicine.
Dr Kylie Mason from Melbourne’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute will investigate ways to reduce the side-effects of new cancer drugs and explore the role of platelets.
She has previously researched ways to extend the life of platelets, the cell fragments that manage blood clotting.
Cancer patients often need platelet transfusions but supply can be a challenge for blood banks because the cells only last five days.
Her work could pave the way to increase the blood bank life of platelets as well as helping cancer patients.
Her battle with leukemia sparked a lifelong interest and career in medicine and research.
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute director Dr Doug Hilton said Dr Mason’s personal battle with cancer had not only fueled her passion for medicine and research, but given her a unique perspective as a cancer patient, haematologist, scientist, and mother.
Melbourne scientist Dr Jia Baohua from Swinburne University of Technology was recognized for her role in developing low cost solar energy using nanotechnology to create thin-film solar cells.
Go Pam Maynard! July 9, 2012Posted by The Raise Project in Award Winners, Featured Prize, Women in Science.
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If blueprints aren’t your thing, it doesn’t mean you should rule out a career in Tech. There are such a wide variety of jobs in the field. Thanks for your insight, Ms. Maynard. And congrats on winning your First Women Award!
By Pam Maynard
At the very end of last month Real Business announced the winners of the 2012 First Women Awards. Designed to recognize pioneering women whose achievements open opportunities for others, the awards showcase the wealth of career opportunities available for women in the science and technology sectors, aiming to inspire more women into the profession by highlighting the success of leading women in the field.
This year I was one of the lucky ones to be honored with a win in the First Women of Science & Technology category.
I have been in the technology industry for over 15 years and can truly say that I enjoy my work and always look to push myself beyond the boundaries – both real and perceived – of being a female in the sector. The sad fact however is that despite ongoing efforts, technology remains a less-thought of career path for female graduates.
The key misconception out there is that women simply can’t have a successful career in technology. This is absolutely not true and is something that we should all be working to change. We need to get more women into technology at an early age but to do so we need to be able to highlight powerful examples of women who are excelling in their careers. If you look at organizations in the UK like Capgemini, Accenture and Microsoft, and other FTSE 100 companies you can find very successful females with technology-focused careers – the challenge now is to make sure we are raising their profiles as high as they can go.
Another misconception about technology as a career is that it is very narrow in scope. In fact, a career in technology is so much broader – it is not just about developing technology solutions and technology companies do not have to be full of technologists. There is a huge set of different roles that sit around the delivery of a technology solution and require different skillsets. Whether it is project management or business analysis, these types of roles often come with an increased requirement for collaboration – one of the softer skills found more in women than men. If companies want to start bringing in more female talent, they need to get better at recognizing and defining the skillset they require from employees and reflecting this back in their recruitment efforts.
If I were going to use my recent win as a platform to speak to girls considering a career in technology my first piece of advice above all else would be for them to have confidence in their value. Today’s young women need to have more self-belief and recognize the value in the unique skills and experience that they can bring to the sector. Males and females bring different skillsets to any work place and a balanced gender mix is optimal for the success of any business.
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Anita Borg is an active benefactor for young, mid-level, and senior career women in STEM. We feature their awards in our searchable database. Do YOU qualify? Find out at http://raiseproject.org!
Recently named the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship recipients, Maletsabisa Molapo (24) and Joyce Mwangama (25) have a bright future ahead in the African Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape.
The scholarship is an international award initiated by Google that seeks to recognise women in ICT who perform with distinction in sciences degrees. It also seeks to encourage and reinforce the presence and leadership of women in technological fields, who currently remain a minority. The scholarship comprises a financial award for one academic year and a networking retreat to Google in Zurich, Germany.
Molapo and Mwangama are two of the three women awarded this prestigious scholarship in South Africa. Both young women are currently enrolled at the university of Cape Town (UCT) pursuing ICT related degrees. Molapo pursues a Masters in Computer Sciences degree as a Mandela Rhodes scholar whilst Mwangama is a candidate for a Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical Engineering in her second year of research.
Citing the genesis of her passion for technology, Molapo reminisces about her undergraduate days at the University of Lesotho (NUL), where she completed a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Systems and Networks in 2009. “I was the only female in my engineering class. I constantly felt the need to excel and be competent as a female in a male dominated class,” says Molapo.
Molapo ‘s interest in the application of ICTs in empowering communities, particularly women and youth, was the catalyst to her founding the National Association of Women in Technology in Lesotho whilst at NUL. The association seeks to cultivate a culture of academic and professional excellence among female technologists in Lesotho. “As students we used to visit high schools, citing our own stories in order to cultivate a culture of positivity towards academic and professional excellence. However, we noticed that girls did not do well in sciences and we challenged ourselves to make a difference,” says Molapo.
Mwangama on the other hand was born in Tanzania and migrated to Botswana at the age of 4. She currently holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Masters in Electrical Engineering both from UCT. Her interests include Next Generation Mobile Networks and Future Internet architectures and technologies. Talking of her vision for a robust African digital arena, Mwangama says her goals are not restricted by boarders. “The whole African digital and technological landscape is challenged. I believe mobile telecommunication is the next big thing and East Africa has understood how to utilise these for development,” she says. “Africa’s technologists must understand Africa’s difficulties and merge their creativity with technological advancement to solve our energy, internet, climate and social crises.
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Both students are set on completing their current degrees and venturing into the tech-world in full force. Molapo’s research in the area of Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and focuses on the use of mobile-videos to train low-literate health workers in Lesotho and Sierra Leone. She forms part of the executive leadership of the UCT Chapter of the United Nations Association of South Africa. She has been also been selected as a 2012 fellow of the Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa (MILEAD). Her interests are in ICTs for the promotion of health and education and Data Visualisations.
Mwangama’s PhD research revolves around the concept of the evolution of Mobile Broadband Networks, which is gaining momentum in the communications and networking research field. She also works for the Electrical Engineering Department at UCT as a Research and Teaching Assistant. Outside academics, Mwangama is heavily involved in volunteer and leadership positions within at her university and within the local community. She has run the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) student branch at UCT. She is also the Pre-University Activities coordinator for the Africa region where she is involved in initiatives to promote engineering and sciences to high school learners.
By the looks of things, both young women have a bright future in the industry and are both looking up to the networks created through the Google scholarship and Zurich trips.
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Highlighting Women in Science, a great series run through the University of Wisconsin, which points a well-deserved spotlight on female research.
June 04, 2012 College News – The Medical College of Wisconsin’s 6th annual Women in Science series will feature Michele Battle, PhD, a stem cell researcher and Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, at the June 21 luncheon presentation at the Woman’s Club in Milwaukee. This presentation is geared for the lay public.
Dr. Battle will discuss recent scientific advances that make it possible to transform human stem cells into organ-specific cell types. She is using government-approved stem cells in her laboratory to study the formation of the gastrointestinal tract. The ultimate goal of her research is to discover stem cell-based therapies to restore the function of diseased or damaged organs.
Women in Science is an opportunity to meet outstanding female scientists and physicians and learn about their cutting-edge research. Series subscriptions are available for a suggested minimum donation of $250, which includes five presentations, and also supports two annual awards for promising women scientists. Admission, food and parking are included at all of the events in the series.
Dr. Battle’s luncheon presentation is sponsored by Anonymous Donors of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and held in cooperation with TEMPO Milwaukee. The event will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, 813 E. Kilbourn Avenue.
The mission of Women in Science is to showcase outstanding research and provide financial support for women scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Seven Scientists Win Kavli Prizes June 4, 2012Posted by The Raise Project in Award Winners, Featured Prize, Women in Science.
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Seven scientists whose work spanned the outer reaches of the solar system and penetrated the inner workings of brain circuits and nanotubes were named winners of the 2012 Kavli Prizes on Thursday. The $1 million awards, sponsored by the physicist, businessman and philanthropist Fred Kavli, are given every two years by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for work in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, “the biggest, the smallest and the most complex,” in the words of Mr. Kavli.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won the nanoscience prize for her research on carbon nanotubes, the chicken-wire wonder cylinders of pure carbon, and how they conduct heat and electricity. She is known around M.I.T. as “the queen of carbon,” according to her colleague Angela Belcher, who noted that she had been working on carbon fibers since the 1960s and had been able to predict the properties of nanotubes, which can be formed by rolling or twisting a sheet of carbon atoms only one atom wide, before they had been discovered in the lab.
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann of Rockefeller University, Winfried Denk of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, and Ann M. Graybiel of M.I.T. will split the neuroscience prize for work aimed at elucidating how the brain processes information from the environment. Dr. Bargmann has unraveled some of the logic of the neural circuits of C. elegans, a worm with only 300 nerve cells that is used in genetic research. Dr. Denk developed microscopy techniques that allowed researchers to make three-dimensional maps of the internal wiring in brain tissues.
Dr. Graybiel is an expert in the basal ganglia, structures in the forebrain that control movement and have been implicated in diseases like Parkinson’s and addiction. Her work, the academy said, shows how patterns of neural activity change and reorganize themselves as animals develop new skills or habits, both good and bad.
At a ceremony at New York University on Thursday morning, Dr. Bargmann was asked why we should study such a primitive worm. “The worms are our partners and collaborators,” she answered, adding that their systems are simple enough that “you can really try to understand the whole system at once.” Her research had shown, she said, that the brain has innate pathways that link certain signals to certain behaviors. For example, she said, “children are born knowing they like sweet things and reject bitter ones.”
The winners of the astrophysics prize will also split $1 million for exploring a hitherto unknown facet of the architecture and history of the solar system: a cloudy disk of ice and rock known as the Kuiper Belt. It looms outside the orbit of Neptune and contains at least 70,000 objects left over from the formation of the planets. David C. Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jane X. Luu of M.I.T.’s Lincoln Laboratory discovered the Kuiper Belt in the form of a slow-moving (meaning it was very far away) object in 1992.
The third winner of the astrophysics prize, Michael E. Brown of the California Institute of Technology, has discovered a series of massive bodies in the Kuiper Belt, including, in 2005, Eris, which is more massive than Pluto. His work led to a worldwide debate on the definition of planethood, which resulted in Pluto’s being dumped from the roster of planets and designated, like Eris and others, a dwarf planet.
The awards were announced by Nils Christian Stenseth, president of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, as part of a World Science Festival event. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and President Obama’s science adviser, spoke about the administration’s efforts to cultivate a climate of innovation, citing the trip of the private Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.
MIT’s Amy Finkelstein Wins John Bates Clark Medal April 30, 2012Posted by The Raise Project in Award Winners, Featured Prize.
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By Neil Shah of the Wall Street Journal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Amy Finkelstein won the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal.
The economics profession’s most prestigious award after the Nobel Prize, the Clark medal is given every year to the nation’s most promising economist under the age of 40. It’s a good predictor of future Nobel Prize winners: Of the 34 people who have won the award since 1947 — the Clark used to be given biennially — 12 went on to the win the Nobel Prize later, including Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. (One economist calls the Nobel Prize “the Clark with a 25-year lag.”)
The 38-year-old Finkelstein has focused on public finance, health economics and the insurance market.
In one experiment, she and other researchers tracked a group of low-income, uninsured adults in Oregon who were randomly picked to get — or not get — the chance to apply for public health insurance. Because it was a randomized controlled trial, the experiment sidestepped common pitfalls that researchers examining the effects of insurance face, including the tendency of sicker people — or unusually healthy people — to seek insurance.
The result: A year later, those selected by the lottery to be able to apply for Medicaid were more likely to have Medicaid, used more health care, had lower out-of-pocket medical expenditures and reported better physical and mental health.
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Lincoln Financial Foundation Awards Million-Dollar Grant to Teach For America Funds to increase number of STEM teachers for low-income schools January 30, 2012Posted by The Raise Project in Featured Prize, New Award, Women in Science.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Today Lincoln Financial Foundation announced a $1 million grant over three years to Teach For America that will expand efforts to recruit new teachers with math and science expertise, and fund preparation and support to enhance these teachers’ effectiveness. The grant will benefit Teach For America’s national science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teacher-recruitment initiative, and includes grants for Teach For America’s sites in Connecticut and Philadelphia, where Lincoln Financial has major offices. Additionally, the two organizations will partner to maximize the leadership and impact of Teach For America alumni in STEM education and to expand educational opportunities for students in underserved schools.
Teach For America recruits, trains and supports top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in low-income urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity. Nearly one-third of the organization’s 9,000 corps members teach STEM subjects. This school year nearly 1,800 STEM teachers are impacting more than 130,000 students nationwide.
Lincoln Financial Foundation has sustained a strategic philanthropic program to improve the quality of life in the communities where the company maintains a significant business presence. By making education a priority, and specifically investing in initiatives that improve math and science skills, Lincoln Financial aims to increase high school graduation rates and college attendance.
Lincoln Financial Group President and CEO Dennis Glass commented, “There is substantial evidence that education is one of the most pressing issues in our country today. Too many Americans face significant hurdles when it comes to job readiness and economic self-sufficiency because they did not have access to quality schools, programs, teachers and mentors during their formative years. Teach For America helps to focus resources where they are most needed, creating a more solid foundation for future generations. At Lincoln, we have been committed for many years to expanding access to educational opportunities in our communities, and we are proud to join with Teach For America in this mission.”
According to the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress, even though math achievement scores are improving across the board, the gap between low-poverty and high-poverty students has remained about the same over the past decade.
“We’re grateful to Lincoln Financial for their support of Teach For America corps members and alumni who are working alongside so many others to end the disparities that exist in math and science education,” said Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach For America. “We are seeing an incredible moment of opportunity to enlist more top graduates with STEM degrees to bring their passion and commitment to our nation’s urban and rural classrooms. Lincoln’s partnership will help Teach For America seize this moment and inspire the next generation of leaders in math and science.”
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The Lincoln Financial Foundation, established in 1962, is a nonprofit organization formed and supported by Lincoln Financial Group. Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation /quotes/zigman/232274/quotes/nls/lnc LNC +0.58% and its affiliates. Under Lincoln Foundation guidelines, grants are made in the areas of education, human services, workforce/economic development and the arts. The Lincoln Foundation awards approximately $10 million annually to nonprofits in the communities where Lincoln Financial Group maintains a significant business presence. For more information visit http://www.LincolnFinancial.com/Foundation .
About Teach For America
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Today, 9,000 corps members are teaching in 43 regions across the country, while nearly 24,000 Teach For America alumni continue working from inside and outside the field of education for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence and equity. For more information, visit http://www.teachforamerica.org .
Pradel Research Award in Neuroscience Awarded to Dora E. Angelaki January 23, 2012Posted by The Raise Project in Featured Prize.
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Dora E. Angelaki, professor and chair of the department of neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine, is the recipient of the inaugural Pradel Research Award in Neuroscience. The $50,000 research award honors Angelaki for her fundamental discoveries on mechanisms of representation of vestibular sensory stimuli within the mammalian brain. Angelaki’s pioneering work has clarified how vestibular and visual signals combine to mediate perception and to direct appropriate motor behaviors. Her research findings have important implications in the design of more effective therapies to treat disorders of balance and movement.
Obama honors Mildred Dresselhaus with Fermi Award January 17, 2012Posted by The Raise Project in Award Winners, Featured Prize.
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President Barack Obama has named MIT’s Mildred S. Dresselhaus and Stanford University’s Burton Richter ’52 PhD ’56 as winners of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement. The award, administered on behalf of the White House by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), carries an honorarium of $50,000, shared equally, and a gold medal.
“The scientists being recognized today with the prestigious Enrico Fermi Award have provided scientific leadership throughout their careers that has strengthened America’s energy and economic security,” Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said in a statement. “I congratulate them for their achievements as pioneers in innovative research and thank them for their service.”
Chu will present the award to Dresselhaus and Richter in a Washington ceremony on a date to be announced later.
In a career spanning more than 50 years at MIT and its Lincoln Laboratory, Dresselhaus has made extensive research contributions and fundamental discoveries in condensed matter physics. She is also widely recognized for her considerable devotion to mentoring students, raising community awareness, and promoting progress on gender equity. She is widely respected as a premier mentor and advocate for women in science.
Dresselhaus, Institute Professor Emerita of Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has also served in many scientific leadership roles, including as the director of the DOE Office of Science; president of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; chair of the American Institute of Physics Governing Board; and co-chair of the most recent Decadal Study of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics.
Born and raised in New York City, Dresselhaus was inspired as an undergraduate at Hunter College by future Nobel Laureate Rosalyn Yalow, who recognized her talent and encouraged her to pursue science. She received an A.B. summa cum laude from Hunter College in 1951, an A.M. from Radcliffe College in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1958 from the University of Chicago. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge from 1951 to 1952.
In its official award citation, the White House said Dresselhaus was selected for the Fermi Award “for leadership in condensed matter physics, in energy and scientific policy, in service to the scientific community, and in mentoring women in the sciences.”
Richter — who led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1984 to 1999 and is now the Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences, emeritus, at Stanford — was cited “for pioneering the development and application of electron-positron colliders, visionary leadership as Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and important contributions in science and energy policy nationally and internationally.” He shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics with Samuel Ting, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics at MIT, for their co-discovery of the subatomic J/ψ particle.
Additional information about the Fermi Award is available at: http://science.energy.gov/fermi
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A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Establishes $100,000 Translational Science Prize December 21, 2011Posted by The Raise Project in Featured Prize, New Award.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 20, 2011 —
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Physician-scientists worldwide will vie for the newly established $100,000 annual Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science starting in 2012, the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute has announced.
The Taubman Prize will recognize work in the crucial field of translational research – research, like that supported by the Taubman Institute at the University of Michigan, which seeks to transform laboratory discoveries into clinical applications for patients suffering from disease.
The $100,000 award will be presented at the institute’s annual symposium, held each fall, to the clinician-scientist making the most significant contribution to translating basic research findings into medical practice. The winner will be asked to serve as keynote speaker for the event.
“This awards program is the next logical step for the Taubman Institute,” said Taubman Institute Director Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D.
“It complements our mission of supporting clinician-researchers as they strive to find cures and treatments that can move swiftly from the lab to patients, and it will bring even more eminent scientists to Ann Arbor to exchange knowledge and ideas with our Taubman Scholars and the U-M community,” says Feldman, who also is the Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology at U-M.
Nominations will be judged on their contribution to translating basic research findings into clinical applications and by the manner in which their clinical practice connects to their research. All clinician-scientists, regardless of country, are eligible, excluding U-M researchers.
The winner will be chosen each year by a national panel of distinguished scientists.
Self-nomination is permitted. Application guidelines and forms are online at http://www.taubmaninstitute.org; the deadline for all nominations is April 1, 2012.
About the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute: In 2007 Michigan businessman and philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman provided the initial funds to establish the institute bearing his name at the University of Michigan Medical School. Its mission is to provide the university’s finest medical scientists the freedom, resources and collaborative environment they need to push the boundaries of medical discovery, to produce breakthroughs in cures to speed the development of effective treatment for some of the most devastating illnesses. Currently, 16 Taubman Scholars are advancing their research with the assistance of grants from the institute, which also established the Consortium for Stem Cell Therapies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the first embryonic stem cell facility in the state.
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Kelsea Ballerini posted photos from the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday evening (February 4), wearing a sheer black gown with bold cutouts and floral accents. Her boyfriend, Outer Banks star Chase Stokes, was unable to attend the awards show in L.A., but reacted to Ballerini’s Grammys post on Instagram.
“Yeaaaaah. I’m..so not okay,” Stokes, who is currently filming, wrote in a comment on Ballerini’s Instagram post on Sunday night. He shared the same photo on his Instagram story, writing that he’s “unwell,” and wrote “the record of the year. …I love YOU” on the next slide of his story. That one included the first photo he ever shared with Ballerini, when rumors of their budding romance began to swirl. Ballerini confirmed the relationship the following month, and they’ve since celebrated their one-year anniversary together.
Ballerini, who didn’t walk the Grammys red carpet because of weather and traffic, was nominated for Rolling Up The Welcome Mat, her deeply personal EP and accompanying short film that she released to share her story of heartbreak and healing after divorce. She told iHeartRadio’s Amy Brown during an exclusive iHeartRadio LIVE show over the summer that writing the EP was “definitely therapeutic,” and “necessary for me personally and my journey for making sense of my life at that time. And now, in this season, I’m learning that it was necessary for me to open up more as an artist and as a songwriter and learn that the more zoomed in I can get, the better it is all around. It’s been a huge learning experience and necessary.”

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Abortion and breast cancer, Abortion proponents protest too much, methinks
Joel BrindWhen the US state of Texas published an informational booklet for women considering abortion, in accordance with its informed consent statute, it was apparently far beyond the pale for its "The Woman's Right to Know" booklet to even suggest that "If you give birth to your baby, you are less likely to develop breast cancer in the future. Research indicates that having an abortion will not provide you this increased protection against breast cancer". To the Washington Post "Factchecker" Michelle Ye Hee Lee, (14 Dec. 2016) anything short of robust denial of the reality of the abortionbreast cancer link (ABC-link) is deserving of at least 3 Pinocchios out of 4.
But apparently, that wasn't enough to wipe out any credibility for the ABC link, so Snopes.com - the self-appointed arbiter of what is real and what is fake in the news, put out a very lengthy treatise on 3 Feb this year, calling the ABC link decidedly "false", although it weasel-worded the headline by overstating the link it labeled "false". It called "false" the statement: "Studies have proved that having an abortion increases a woman's risk of developing breast cancer." So since when does the burden of proof fall upon those calling out the hazard? The precautionary principle never seems to apply when it comes to abortion.
But I digress. The real question here is why there is so much effort directed to squash any credence given the dangers of abortion. Actually, this likely sounds rather familiar to Australian audiences, given the convulsive denials emanating from the Australian body politic and body medic, if you will, following on the heels of Dr. Angela Lanfranchi's visit to Australia back in 2014. Most prominent at the time was a socalled "study" on Australian women which appeared hastily in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia (MJA). It was actually published in the MJA merely as a letter, revealing no data on induced abortion at all! Never mind the 1988 Adelaide study which showed a 160% increased risk of breast cancer among South Australian women. And in fact, the Adelaide data was buried for 7 years before it was published, even though induced abortion was the strongest risk factor observed!
But back to the central question, and its obvious answer: The ABC link is real. Prominent medical journals, medical societies, popular journals, cancer charities, politicians and health ministries around the world have been trying to squash the knowledge of it for at least 35 years, that I can document. All the while, even as breast cancer continues as a great scourge in the West, it has become a burgeoning epidemic in Asia, with evidence of the ABC link exploding just within the past decade.
A 2013 meta-analysis of 36 studies from mainland China reported a 44% overall increased risk, similar to what we had reported in our 1996 meta-analysis of worldwide studies. But an even more compelling picture is emerging from South Asia. That's because, unlike in the West, where there are many risk factors for breast cancer present, in South Asia, there are few. On the Indian subcontinent, the traditional woman is married as a teenager and starts having children right away, has several of them and breastfeeds all of them. Moreover, she doesn't smoke or drink alcohol. In short, there are very few risk factors for breast cancer, save for abortion and contraceptive steroids ("the pill"). Consequently, breast cancer has been relatively rare until very recently (closer to 1% lifetime risk v. over 10% lifetime risk in the West). So when epidemiological studies are performed in South Asia, the risk increases seen for women with any abortion average not 30-50%, but more like 150%! Two studies in Bengali women even reported risk increases exceeding 1,000%! And the number of South Asian studies reporting risk increases with abortion is prodigious: Our count stands at 17 in the peer-reviewed literature, just within the past 10 years! My colleagues at the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute and I are in the process of compiling a systematic review and metaanalysis of the South Asian ABC literature, and expect to publish it later this year.
And when we consider the fact that there are so many women in Asia, the effects of the ABC link begin to resemble a real holocaust. Consider that there are over a billion women in India and China alone. If half of them end up having one or more abortions (a statistic fast approaching), and their lifetime risk is raised merely from 2% to 4% thereby, we have 2% of 50% of a billion, i.e., 10 million women likely to get breast cancer because they had an abortion! Moreover, the mortality rate is not a mere 20% as in the West, but more like 50%. So it's quite conservative to estimate that over the next several decades, 5 million Asian women will die of breast cancer because they had an abortion. The politically correct purveyors of public health information can't cover this up much longer, can they?

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Progress in the surgical weight loss medical field has led to all sorts of various treatment options which have each had their own set of successes and failures. As medical technology expands and time reveals the success rates associated with certain treatments, medical professionals can decide which treatments are best and when. Certain treatments may be altered or abandoned to keep the health of patients in tact.
One popular weight loss treatment was stomach stapling to restrict its size, in effect limiting the amount of food that would enter the stomach and be digested. Though success was seen overall with this procedure, certain complications arose with stapling the stomach in certain ways, particularly horizontal stapling. This method alone did not achieve the kind of weight loss that patients were looking for. Modern technology is this area has expanded this treatment option to include a restrictive procedure like stapling yet in addition to a band that is wrapped around the pouch created by the stapled area. This procedure was generally abandoned in the US after success rates were not high enough to warrant its use. Patients were regaining weight after losing it which resulted in the decision to look to other options to halt weight gain.
All in all, stomach stapling lost its appeal due to the ease with which the body could over time develop greater abilities to hold and digest more foods. It is important to keep in mind that all weight loss procedures have risks and less than flawless results. More often than not, what causes much of the less than stellar long term results is the overall indecision on behalf of patients to adopt a more healthful lifestyle. Weight loss treatments can help the body to lose weight sure, but not to keep it off necessarily. Especially over the long term, it only makes sense to adopt a healthier way to treat the body, a healthier way to eat, move, and live. Since most weight loss surgeries are not necessarily cheap and not covered by major health insurance providers, it is important to value your investment. By keeping track of your health, diet, and exercise routine, you can really keep your weight within a healthy limit. Furthermore, doing so is empowering and helps with self control and balance in all things.
Like stomach stapling, all surgeries that assist with weight loss and gain, either by restricting intake or absorption, have benefits and risks. After spending the time and money to have a surgeon help you get on a healthier path, it is important to protect that investment and do what you can to keep that surgery working for you and not against you. As modern medicine advances onward, there may be new surgeries that develop, similar to stomach stapling, that offer some consolation to those who find keeping a healthy weight to be a challenge. As time goes on, these sorts of advances will obviously make surgical care even more effective. But at the end of the day, and the surgery, each patient is responsible for their own health and once you leave that clinic post-operation, your health and weight are in your hands.

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Two new games are being given away as part of NVIDIA’s Battle GeForce GTX Bundle giving users the option of either Ubisoft’s For Honor or Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands completely for FREE with the purchase of a new GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 graphics card. This offer also extends to mobile gamers who purchased an NVIDIA 10-series GPU equipped laptop. What better way to test your newly purchased GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 graphics card than to play new titles?
For Honor is a hack-and-slash video game in a medieval fantasy setting, giving users the chance to choose between samurai, knight and viking factions with four classes in each. It boasts an innovative new melee fighting system dubbed by Ubisoft as “the Art of Battle” and uses the AnvilNext graphics engine. It is currently in beta but will be released on February 14, 2017 for the PC.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, also from Ubisoft, is the 10th installment in the Ghost Recon franchise. It is an open world tactical shooter game set in Bolivia giving users the task of dismantling a drug cartel that has gripped the country as a clandestinely deployed US Army SpecOp “ghost”. It also uses the AnvilNext engine and will be launched a month later than For Honor on March 7, 2017.
In addition to the Battle GeForce GTX Bundle, NVIDIA is also introducing a much easier way to redeem free game codes from right within GeForce Experience similar to the way Steam handles it. Since both Ghost Recon Wildlands and For Honor are Ubisoft titles, they require Uplay but this time, users can input the redeem codes via GeForce Experience and have it automatically show up on their Uplay account.


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Suicide prevention research fund
Not only is the loss of any life a tragedy, in the case of suicide it can also destroy the fabric of families and, in some cases, entire communities.
Suicide is a serious public health problem for New Zealanders of all ages.
Te Pou has commissioned research to help fill knowledge gaps about suicide and suicide prevention, and to help the government implement the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016.
To this end, Te Pou has managed some of the suicide prevention research fund on behalf of the Ministry of Health. The suicide prevention research fund research contributes to improving evidence-based knowledge:
- about the causes, correlates and nature of suicidal behaviours
- about the implementation of effective and safe suicide prevention interventions
- that will facilitate initiatives to reduce inequalities in suicidal behaviours.
Please note: The suicide prevention fund is closed and no further funding is available. All funded research reports are now either complete or due for completion in 2012.
Suicide prevention research reports
- Reporting of Suicide in New Zealand Media: Content and Case Study Analysis
- Youth ‘07: The Health and Wellbeing of Secondary School Students in New Zealand
- Evaluation of the NZGG Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention Collaborative
- Feasibility of Evaluating DBT for Self-Harming Adolescents: A Small Randomised Controlled Trial
- Understanding Families and Suicide Risk
- Media Influences on Suicidal Behaviour
- Geospatial Mapping of Suicide Clusters
- Mental health promotion and prevention services to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex populations in New Zealand: Needs assessment report.
- Review and update of suicide prevention guidelines for schools (to be released late 2012).
New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016
In June 2006, the New Zealand government launched the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016. The strategy outlines a high-level framework to:
- reduce the rate of suicide and suicidal behaviour
- reduce the harmful effect and impact associated with suicide and suicidal behaviour on families/whanau, friends and the wider community
- reduce inequalities in suicide and suicidal behaviour.
Did you know?
- There are around 500 suicides each year in New Zealand.
- A third involve young people under the age of 24 years.
- More men commit suicide than women.
- In addition, each year around 2,500 people deliberately hurt themselves to the extent that they require hospital treatment for more than three days.
- Mental illness can be a major risk factor for suicide.
- People (families and friends) bereaved by suicide are themselves at greater risk of suicide or self-harm.


Demonstrators have been camping outside St. Paul's Cathedral since October (11) to campaign against corporate greed. They have since also moved into the city's Finsbury Square and an abandoned bank building in Hackney, east London.
Yorke teamed up with duo Massive Attack to stage a secret concert at the Hackney venue on Tuesday (06Dec11) to show their solidarity with activists and, in a joint interview online, the two acts have lashed out at big banks and their greedy executives.
Massive Attack's Robert '3D' Del Naja angrily says, "It's organised crime on a global scale. In any other situation it would not be protected by the law, but the laws for banks and politicians are the same."
And Yorke is urging Cameron to pay attention to the Occupy activists and their demands or face having to deal with an even bigger problem of social unrest - because disgruntled protesters have no other way to get their message across to authorities.
He adds, "If I was Prime Minister of this country, I would be wondering how I was going to keep this anger at bay, because the anger's going to get worse. They're siding with the wrong people. You cannot keep going with the current system.
"How else are you going to register your protest in 2011? Are you going to go and talk to your MP (Member of Parliament)?"


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Food Processing offers the latest trends about the food and beverage industry for the food and beverage industry. Search our news and articles below to find new product trends; nutrition trends; ingredient trends; flavor trends and more.
Where people shop has changed dramatically; have your retail strategies kept up?
Like Lilliputians lashing down Gulliver, small food companies are chipping away at the market share of Big Food. The question is, will the end game change?
Along with the usual knock-offs, novel and innovative store brand products were demonstrated at the recent Private Label Trade Show.
Meat got a black eye in 2015, from animal rights issues to efforts to remove it from the Dietary Guidelines to the World Health Organization cancer report. Are there ways to clean up processed meats labels and maintain their flavor and food safety?


iTel has announced the availability of its latest smartphone in the A series – the A70 4G which succeeds the A60 that was launched early this year. The A70 brings neat upgrades and design changes that make it better than the A60.
iTel keeps the same screen size and resolution as the A60 – you get a 6.6-inch 720p screen with the standard 60Hz refresh rate included.
The Itel A70 ships in four beautiful colours including Stylish Black, Brilliant Gold, Field Green and Azure Blue. The black version has a sort of shimmer and all units have the Awesome logo at the lower back.
This time round itel switched the ports as the A70 sports a Type-C charging port instead of the microUSB charging port. It also comes with a side-mounted fingerprint reader for biometrics which the A60 didn’t have.
The processor, RAM and storage configurations get upgraded as well. Itel A70 gets a relatively faster Unisco T603 chipset paired either 3GB or 4GB of onboard RAM expandable up to 8GB with additional virtual RAM thanks to itel0S 13. It has either 128GB and 256GB of onboard storage with the option to exp[and via external MicroSD card.
Instead of the Android 12(Go Edition), itel A70 ships with the full-fledged Android 13 operating system.
Cameras get upgraded as well. Itel A70 comes with a 13MP dual main cameras and an 8MP selfie camera. This is a better setup than the A60’s 8MP dual main and 5MP selfie camera. Both cameras record 1080p video.
Itel keeps the same battery capacity as its predecessor at 5000mAh and adds support for Type-C charging capped at 10W.
Inside the box, you get the phone, earphones, sim ejector tool, charger and cable plus a black matte back case.
Itel A70 goes for Ksh 13,000 at itel retail stores countrywide, partner stores and online on Jumia and Kilimall.
Itel has partnered with Safaricom and Easybuy to offer device financing plans like the former’s Lipa Mdogo Mdogo plan. These plans are available at Safaricom’s official shops and select partner retail stores.
Itel also announced a rebrand to celebrate its 16 years of operation with a focus on the youth and unveiled a new logo with a new tagline – Enjoy Better Life. They also unified their ecosystem from children’s electronics to personal care and power accessories under KeeKid, Sundaze and Power Master.
The new logo will be featured on the company’s consumer tech items.
Itel plans to launch an experience store for its tech items as it expands its market to three more countries – it currently operates in 17 countries.


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The Boxer/Pitbull breed is a dog that comes from a combination of two, the American Pitbull and the Boxer. Both are a strong breed of dog, and together, they are a unique combination of strength, energy and intelligence. The Pitbull is often referred to as the “bully” dog, due to its build, while the Boxer is equally as strong and is highly intelligent, and is often used as a working dog, because of all of its positive characteristics. The Boxer is known to be one of the first German police force dogs, and it is still found in these types of positions today. The Boxer/Pitbull breed is known as a Bullboxer and they are growing in popularity, as more and more people who want a dog with a lot of character, strength, and intelligence, begin to realize that this is a breed that can give them everything in one package. You may have heard of the breed, but here are seven things you didn’t know about the Boxer/Pitbull mix.
1. Generally friendly
This breed hails from two friendly breeds. Both the Boxer and the pitbull are known to be friendly dogs, by nature. Many people believe a Pitbull is naturally an aggressive, or mean dog, however, this is not true. Most often, if a dog, of any breed, is aggressive, it is due to the way the dog was raised and treated. If your Boxerbull was not mistreated or mishandled prior to you adopting it, chances are that it will be a friendly dog and should be a good pet. Of course, it’s always recommended that you find out its entire history before adopting a pup, to find out if there was any reason that the dog might have some psychological scarring that could be a red flag.
2. May not be the best of friends with other pets
Both breeds that make up the Boxer/Pitbull are generally friendly breeds, you can expect that the for the most part, this is a friendly breed that makes a great family pet, including with children. This is especially true if the dog is socialized early on and is trained well. Both breeds are known to do well with children, however, due to the potential for aggression with the Pitbulls, this breed is not necessarily the ideal breed to have with other pets, especially small pets or dogs of the same sex.
3. Not great guard dogs
If you plan to get a Bullboxer for a guard dog, you should know that this is probably not the best breed of dog to do much guarding. This is a breed of dog that is friendly, even to strangers, so to expect that he may come into your home and be a great protector, is a bit too much to expect. They will bark when a stranger approaches your home, like most breeds do, strictly because they do not recognize the person, but that is about as much guarding as they will do, an alert to let you know there is someone approaching. There are other breeds that are better known for their instinct to guard their home and family besides the Bullboxer.
4. Easy grooming habits
This is a breed that does not need a lot of grooming, so if you are not into having to spend a lot of time or money grooming a dog, this is a breed you will like. The typical grooming tasks for the Bullboxer include, brushing him out a couple times a week, to help control the shedding of loose fur from his coat. His ears should be thoroughly cleaned approximately once a week, and tone nails can be trimmed on an, as-needed basis. Teeth brushing should be done on a regular basis and check his eyes for any collection of drainage, on a regular basis.
5. Health issues
Your Bullboxer will have the potential to develop health issues, though they are generally a healthy breed of dog. Though it is considered rare, this breed can develop heart disease. They also have the potential to develop hip dysplasia, due to the Bulldog heritage in them, however, unlike the full bred Bulldog, this breed should not develop breathing issues seen in breeds with smushed-in snouts. That being said, if your dog develops more of the bulldog’s characteristics of the smushed snout, you will want to pay attention to any signs of breathing difficulties; snorting, wheezing, heavy breathing that doesn’t resolve.
6. High energy
This dog comes from two high energy breeds and they require a good amount of exercise. If you are an owner who cannot devote enough time to see to it that your dog gets enough exercise due to your lifestyle and work, this isn’t the breed for you. Your Bullboxer needs a couple of hours of time to run and play outside. This breed will become bored and depressed if they are kept indoors all the time, without quality outside and playtime.
7. Great athletes
They love to hike, walk, bike, go to the beach and play ball or Frisbee. This breed can be easily taught to play all kinds of games, and they love a challenge. They are very quick, agile, and acrobatic with their high jumping. If you are a dog owner who loves to get out with your dog and go places, the Bullboxer can be your best outdoors companion. He will be as excited about your next adventure as you are.

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Guthrie is an unincorporated community in King County in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of King County. It lies at the junction of U.S. Routes 82 and 83 ninety-six miles east of Lubbock, and serves as the principal headquarters of the 6666 Ranch. The zipcode of the community is 79236.
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Bangladesh Nobel laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus was sued on allegation of fraud charges on Tuesday.
Bahaudl Islam, owner of contracting organization Taj Enterprises, has filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Subrata Ghosh Shuvo.
Accepting the case, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Subrata Ghosh Shuvo has ordered the Pallabi Police Station officer-in-charge in the capital to submit the probe report after completion of the investigation in the case.
Yunus set up Grameen Bank in 1983 to make collateral-free micro loans to rural entrepreneurs.
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Trans self-making is fraught with cis people’s associations of deception and the desire they project onto us: our transexual prime directive to leave the past behind and enter an unrippled state of always-having been, by any means necessary.
But we each have at least one self, and of course we shape them. Cat Fitzpatrick’s funny, cutting, and minutely-crafted debut Glamourpuss sets out to examine how.
The title poem is an exploration of how explicitly we make ourselves through glamour (longed for, stolen, and, by increments, becoming our own). No matter how deep we get into ourselves, the outside world—and how we internalize it—is always intervening. The poem details the pressures of getting older, becoming political, and being a dyke in a queer culture that hangs its hallmarks on masculinity, which make some feel they have to abandon the feminine and glamorous in order to authenticate themselves. The end of “Glamourpuss, Repent” goes back and needles at that rejection of intentional femininity by framing all our “charms” as acts of self-making. All of them are “lies,” not just the glamorous parts, so the question becomes not whether we are real, but what we’d like to do with ourselves.
Throughout the book, Fitzpatrick studies this concern, examining different methods of distancing from and reconciling with the self. In some places, like the series “Six Women I’m Not” (subtitled “meditations on having sex with straight men whilst pretending to be a literary character”), the speaker Catherine obfuscates herself so thoroughly with her own allusions that there’s very little of her left, unless you count her reading list. At the end of these poems, she concedes that “none of these stories do us any good.” I wanted to know what made the efforts of pretending to be these figures transparent: in the moment, getting a hickey by the water, getting self-conscious head, extricating herself from a sleeping embrace to go home in the middle of the night, how did this pretending fall apart? Who was peering out from behind it?
Very often, though, the collection’s push and pull of self-distance is more revelatory. The poems have a strength of perspective: the characters of Catherine at different points in her life are distinct and specific in their thoughts, values, and fears, and Fitzpatrick is kind of really hard on them, but the portrayal also feels loving, like they’re difficult little sisters.
When I first transitioned I didn’t know any trans women
I didn’t even know anyone else who knew any trans women
I swear it’s the truth not one I walked around the medieval towers
And secret lawns and felt just like the biggest freak on earth
So grateful for every bit of condescension I could get
And crying out do you believe that I’m a real girl
Like all the trans girls say
The emotional, though not always chronological, arc of the book moves from isolation, making-the-self alone, to connection, making it with others. It is a disavowal of the self-love tenet that first you must learn to stand yourself; only then will others love you. Fitzpatrick looks for the self everywhere, at the club and in nature, in scraps of community and desirability, and finds it by looking backwards through more than a decade of poems (and Lynn Conway’s now-archived website TS Successes) about how the relationships we form with others make it possible for us to imagine ourselves.
Still, the self is never easy. From her compulsive analysis of the ratio of girls:boys in her contacts list (“Which reassures me. Girls are friends with girls”), to the traitorous workings of her subconscious, Fitzpatrick’s speaker Catherine shows how shame winds its way back into all things small and large, undermining all the good work she’s done of trying just to be.
My dick still turns up in my dreams. I know
That worried me. I think I had to try
Too hard. I had to treat a choice as proof.
One hazard of self-making is, who will believe you? Here, money buys belief, in this case from the surgeon who at first told her she was too young to decide.
And now at last it’s time for me to talk
About the fact my mother paid to chop
It off. Yes, I’m a lucky one. The food
Was good, the view was beautiful. It was
Looking up from the page, Fitzpatrick asks us to consider what it’s time for poetry to talk about. White trans people have become practiced at identifying our positionalities. A next question for Fitzpatrick, and for me: where is the movement forward from self-awareness of wealth, whiteness? Standing at the intersections where our selves are predicated on power and determining where we are is not enough. What will we, our poems, do about it?
In a series of roadtrip poems about a carful of trans women learning to live with each other, rather than trying to escape the places they’re from, there is another unresolved question of our responsibility to others.
I’ve never felt like this, so strong, so good,
So clear. I look from face to face, and smile
I never want to turn away again,
Although of course I have somewhere to turn.
This makes a frame with the end of the earlier “How to Be Stealth” series, where a younger Catherine is hiding from her cis coworkers in a replica barrel, having just about given up on making it work in telemarketed wine sales.
Inside the tun, against the cheap oak planks,
Peering through the gaps, ready to turn and run.
Now, we see her again, years later, faced with a different kind of departure: one where she gets to go back home to the life she’s made instead of just ditching everything and everyone, doing whatever she must to get out. The struggle to relate to other trans women without using them as a warped mirror designed to reflect back her own flaws and graces is a constant tension of the book. At the end of the journey, before she leaves the space their days together have created, she seems for the first time to be really seeing the women she’s come to know, not least of all herself.
Glamourpuss, by Cat Fitzpatrick. Topside Press, September 2016. 106 pages. $9.95, paper.
Charles Theonia is a poet and teacher from Brooklyn, where they are working to externalize their interior femme landscape. They are the author of Which One Is the Bridge and a co-editor of Femmescapes. They keep a most-poetry blog at qu-arles.tumblr.com.


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If two major newspapers in, say, Russia published major articles openly advocating the unprovoked bombing of a country, say, Israel, the U.S. government and news media would be aflame with denunciations about "aggression," "criminality," "madness," and "behavior not fitting the Twenty-first Century."
But when the newspapers are American -- the New York Times and the Washington Post -- and the target country is Iran, no one in the U.S. government and media bats an eye. These inflammatory articles -- these incitements to murder and violation of international law -- are considered just normal discussion in the Land of Exceptionalism.
The Times' article by John Bolton, a neocon scholar from the American Enterprise Institute, was entitled "To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran." It followed the Post's op-ed by Joshua Muravchik, formerly at AEI and now a fellow at the neocon-dominated School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins. [For more on that piece, see Consortiumnews.com's "Neocon Admits Plan to Bomb Iran."]
Both articles called on the United States to mount a sustained bombing campaign against Iran to destroy its nuclear facilities and to promote "regime change" in Tehran. Ironically, these "scholars" rationalized their calls for unprovoked aggression against Iran under the theory that Iran is an aggressive state, although Iran has not invaded another country for centuries.
Bolton, who served as President George W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, based his call for war on the possibility that if Iran did develop a nuclear bomb -- which Iran denies seeking and which the U.S. intelligence community agrees Iran is not building -- such a hypothetical event could touch off an arms race in the Middle East.
Curiously, Bolton acknowledged that Israel already has developed an undeclared nuclear weapons arsenal outside international controls, but he didn't call for bombing Israel. He wrote blithely that "Ironically perhaps, Israel's nuclear weapons have not triggered an arms race. Other states in the region understood -- even if they couldn't admit it publicly -- that Israel's nukes were intended as a deterrent, not as an offensive measure."
How Bolton manages to read the minds of Israel's neighbors who have been at the receiving end of Israeli invasions and other cross-border attacks is not explained. Nor does he address the possibility that Israel's possession of some 200 nuclear bombs might be at the back of the minds of Iran's leaders if they do press ahead for a nuclear weapon.
Nor does Bolton explain his assumption that if Iran were to build one or two bombs that it would use them aggressively, rather than hold them as a deterrent. He simply asserts: "Iran is a different story. Extensive progress in uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing reveal its ambitions."
Pulling Back on Refinement
But is that correct? In its refinement of uranium, Iran has not progressed toward the level required for a nuclear weapon since its 2013 interim agreement with the global powers known as "the p-5 plus one" -- for the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany. Instead, Iran has dialed back the level of refinement to below 5 percent (what's needed for generating electricity) from its earlier level of 20 percent (needed for medical research) -- compared with the 90-plus percent purity to build a nuclear weapon.
In other words, rather than challenging the "red line" of uranium refinement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew during a United Nations speech in 2012, the Iranians have gone in the opposite direction -- and they have agreed to continue those constraints if a permanent agreement is reached with the p-5-plus-1.
However, instead of supporting such an agreement, American neocons -- echoing Israeli hardliners -- are demanding war, followed by U.S. subversion of Iran's government through the financing of an internal opposition for a coup or a "colored revolution."
Bolton wrote: "An attack need not destroy all of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, but by breaking key links in the nuclear-fuel cycle, it could set back its program by three to five years. The United States could do a thorough job of destruction, but Israel alone can do what's necessary. Such action should be combined with vigorous American support for Iran's opposition, aimed at regime change in Tehran."
But one should remember that neocon schemes -- drawn up at their think tanks and laid out on op-ed pages -- don't always unfold as planned. Since the 1990s, the neocons have maintained a list of countries considered troublesome for Israel and thus targeted for "regime change," including Iraq, Syria and Iran. In 2003, the neocons got their chance to invade Iraq, but the easy victory that they predicted didn't exactly pan out.
Still, the neocons never revise their hit list. They just keep coming up with more plans that, in total, have thrown much of the Middle East, northern Africa and now Ukraine into bloodshed and chaos. In effect, the neocons have joined Israel in its de facto alliance with Saudi Arabia for a Sunni sectarian conflict against the Shiites and their allies. Much like the Saudis, Israeli officials rant against the so-called "Shiite crescent" from Tehran through Baghdad and Damascus to Beirut. [See Consortiumnews.com's "Congress Cheers Netanyahu's Hatred of Iran."]


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Over the past decade, Cass McCombs has established himself as one of our premier songwriters. It’s a career that has twisted and turned, from style to subject, both between records and within them. Diverse, cryptic, vital and refreshingly rebellious — just when you think you have him pinned down, you find you’re on the wrong track.
However, Mangy Love, his Anti Records debut, is McCombs at his most blunt: tackling sociopolitical issues through his uniquely cracked lens of lyrical wit and singular insight.
McCombs uses himself as a mirror to misguided and confounding realities, confronting them head-on: “Rancid Girl” reads like a ZZ Top study in Kardashian politics, “Run Sister Run” a mantra for a misogynistic justice system, “Bum Bum Bum” displays a racist, elitist government through the allegory of sadistic dog breeding; the album is sewn together by a common thread of ‘opposition,’ most directly articulated in “Opposite House”, with allusions to mental illness. ‘Laughter Is The Best Medicine’ provides a possible recipe for healing, with the help of an authentic medicine man, the legendary Rev. Goat Carson. The severity of his lyrics is contrasted by the music, which ventures into groovy realms of Philly soul, Norcal psychedelia and New York paranoia punk, articulating the spontaneity and joy of his live show better than ever before.
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Mostly written during a bitter New York City winter and while travelling in Ireland, Mangy Love is Cass at the top of his game, reaching new sonic heights, creatively evolving lyrically, and resulting in his most provocative and complete record yet.
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Yes, the latest ridiculously-titled monster movie with a Z-list cast you wouldn’t be at all shocked to see on the SyFy channel has arrived and the big surprise is… it’s actually, un-ironically, pretty good.
Director Mike Mendez (whom most of you will know from the film Bimbo Movie Bash, right? No?) has, with this tongue-in-cheek tale of a small-time pest exterminator fighting to take down a massive alien arachnid, struck B-movie gold. Featuring the debut of a great double act in the form of Heroes actor Greg Grunberg as our protagonist and perennial bit-player Lombardo Boyar as his mall cop sidekick, Big Ass Spider also has surprisingly high production values, glossily cut by Mendez, a seasoned editor as well as director.
Obviously influenced by the similarly silly (though much bigger-budgeted) spider pics Arachnophobia and Eight Legged Freaks, Big Ass Spider has the laughs, pithy one-liners and warm emotional core of the best comedy horrors.
Sticking with the resolutely underground productions, next up we get what can only be described as “Dolph Lundgren leads robots against zombies” in the enjoyable sci-fi horror Battle of the Damned.
Former Universal Soldier Lundgren doesn’t exactly stretch himself as an emotionless gun-for-hire sent into a city ravaged by the undead to rescue the daughter of a mysterious businessman. Likewise this mish-mash plot, somewhere between Escape From New York and the Resident Evil films, with a dollop of Robocop for good measure, feels quite familiar.
Still, none of this really matters when we get down to what Battle of the Damned is all about – rampaging hordes of zombies picking off a rag-tag group of survivors and robots in a post-apocalyptic city – and director Christopher Hatton, who has form with previous project Robotropolis, delivers a relatively satisfying slice of undemanding action.
Maintaining the Ridiculousness Quotient (rule: the level of fun should be directly proportionate to the volume of stupidity in a film), South Korean Byun Seung-wook’s The Cat offers all the now massively clichéd ‘dead girl staring at the camera in supposedly creepy fashion’ hijinks alongside many cute kitties turned feline thugs.
Park Min-young plays a worker at a pet-grooming parlour who ends up taking the particularly adorable cat Silky home after his owners mysteriously drop dead. Weird, eh? Needless to say, there’s some kind of curse involving ghosts, an unsolved murder or two and bodies found with their faces contorted into increasingly irked expressions, as is the way with films like this.
Entirely contrived and not in the slightest bit scary, The Cat perhaps would work for the odd pet-obsessed viewer that hasn’t seen Ringu, Ju-on or those films’ many imitators. Sadly, for most standard horror fans, this is clearly a case of been there, done that, got the blood-soaked t-shirt and long, black wig.
Finishing up this round of releases, we have last year’s glorious slasher flick You’re Next, from the team behind V/H/S (writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard) and starring such luminaries as The House Of The Devil creator Ti West and Re-Animator’s Barbara Crampton alongside Aussie rising star Sharni Vinson (Bait).
Introducing a trio of animal-masked killers, an affluent American family is victimised in gruesome style at their big reunion in the middle of nowhere as Erin (Vinson), the girlfriend of one of the sons, leads the fight for survival.
Another entry in the current renaissance of young horror film-makers producing old-fashioned, often brutally direct and subtly knowing movies with the feel of classics from the seventies and eighties, You’re Next is an unrelentingly thrilling blend of that art-house staple of the bitchy family gathering and the original, genuinely great home invasion releases.
With Vinson an increasingly charismatic lead and some brilliantly old-school death scenes, Wingard and Barrett pile up the bodies effortlessly and with an air of well-honed elegance. A lean, taut thriller, this has all the quality you could ask for to help while away those skint January evenings.
What’s the best horror movie you’ve seen recently? Let us know below…


Contrary to the impression conveyed in many media reports, I have been arguing that I have seen no clear sign that either Obama or McCain has run the more effective campaign, strategically speaking. Instead, media claims that Obama’s campaign is better organized is partly predicated on his massive advantage in money to spend. One way in which that advantage ought to manifest itself most heavily is in the get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts. We would expect. Obama’s campaign to be more effective than McCain’s at getting people to the polls. This was a topic raised by Adam Lovell much earlier in the year, and we are now in a position to try to answer his question: which organization has the better GOTV?
Some 30 states have early voting, so we can use turnout in these states as an early indicator of the relative effectiveness of the GOTV for both candidates. Of course, states cannot report actual vote totals as yet, but several pollsters have been surveying the early voters, so we can draw some conclusions. CBS reports that about 25% of registered voters have already voted, and they report that early voters back Obama 56%-41%. Pew has 32% of likely voters already casting their ballots with Obama up 52%-39%.
However, how do we know that the Obama advantage in early voting is due to their GOTV superiority? Maybe it simply reflects the broader support for Obama more generally, as well as the greater level of enthusiasm shown by Obama supporters? One way to address the marginal impact of GOTV is to ask voters if they have been contacted by either the McCain or Obama campaign. Several pollsters have asked that question.
The Wall St. Journal/NBC polls find almost no difference in the likelihood of voters getting contacted by either campaign: 24% of voters were contacted by both candidates’ organizations, 10% by the Republican only, and 12% by the Democrats only. (Btw, this proportion almost exactly mirrors the contact data from 2004, but the number of contacts has almost doubled). So, in total, 36% of voters have been contacted by Obama, and 34% by McCain.
Gallup paints a somewhat similar picture; they find that 39% of registered voters have been contacted by the Obama campaign, but only 33% by the McCain campaign. . Interestingly, however, blacks report a much higher rate of contact – almost 4 times more – from Obama than from McCain.
Of course, not all contacts are the same: We know from previous studies that personal contact is the most effective way to get out the vote. Which organization is doing better at that? Fortunately, Pew breaks the contacts down by category: mailings, telephone calls (personal or automated) or personal visits. About 14% of registered voters have been personally contacted by someone from a campaign. Here we find that 18% of Obama supporters have received a personal visit, but only 10% of McCain supporters. McCain has tended to rely more heavily than Obama on direct mailings.
Not surprisingly, then, based on data through Nov. 1, it appears that the disparity in funding has provided an edge to Obama in terms of GOTV, particularly in his campaign’s ability to target potential supporters through personal contacts. (Truth in Advertising: I should acknowledge here that my oldest son did door-to-door canvassing for the Obama campaign this summer. You should NOT take that as an expression of my partisan leanings or support for either candidate, however.) Of course, we will know just how much of an edge tomorrow. But this could prove crucial in the 5 battleground states on which hinge McCain’s very slight chance to pull out an Electoral College victory.


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Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome - and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. Meanwhile, Apollo - stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does - has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. He knows his true identity, and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime, he is prone to all the troubles of being human. Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives - the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself - to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.--Provided by publisher.
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