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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Vacaville High School's Papadopoulos named state coach of the year
His football team didn't get a chance to play for a state title, but he was still honored as the best coach in California for 2011.
Vacaville High School's Mike Papadopoulos was named the large school ESPNHS Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year on Wednesday night. Cal-Hi editor Mark Tennis said there were several reasons why Papadopoulos stood out.
"The way they beat Folsom after losing 75-6 the year before," Tennis said, "plus it was his second title and not just his first. The way they beat Granite Bay. We also like the connection he has with his father-in-law (Tom Zunino) and the respect he has at the school."
Papadopoulos led the Bulldogs to their second Sac-Joaquin Section title in six years. Vacaville beat Folsom 39-35 on Dec. 3 at Sacramento State for this year's Division II championship. The Bulldogs won a Division I title in 2006 by beating Merced.
"I'm pretty speechless," Papadopoulos said. "It is really humbling and amazing. The things we do were started a long time ago and we've just tried to keep it going. We have such a neat family atmosphere at Vacaville High School that just doesn't happen a lot of places."
Vacaville posted a stellar 13-1 record this year against a strong schedule, and ended the season with a 12-game winning streak. The Bulldogs were in the discussion to represent Northern California in the state Division II title game, but section Division III champion Del Oro was chosen by section commissioners to represent the North.
Del Oro lost to Helix of La Mesa 35-24 in the state final at Carson.The last state coach of the year from Solano County was Vallejo's Bob Patterson in 1949. Patterson later coached Zunino at Vallejo on the famed 1954 team. Colon Kilby of Vallejo won the award in 1945.
The section title also gave Papadopoulos his 70th victory in seven seasons, and an overall record of 70-15. Vacaville has won at least 10 games in five of the last six years.
The Bulldogs also have an 11-4 postseason record under Papadopoulos.
Recently he was honored by the section as one of its six model coaches for the 2011-12 school year.
Rick Prinz of Paradise and Jon Ellinghouse of Sierra Canyon-Chatsworth were the state coaches of the year for medium and small schools, respectively.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
60Beat, a Proper Game Controller for iOS
The iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad have turned out to be great for games. I play more these days than I have anytime since I was a stoner in college, hooked up to a SNES all day long. But sometimes you just really need a proper controller. Enter the 60Beat GamePad, a Playstation-style joypad for [...]
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Iranian exiles in Iraq agree to move camps (AP)
BAGHDAD ? The head of an Iranian exile group holed up at a camp in Iraq said Wednesday that the first of the camp's residents are ready to move to a new location picked by the Iraqi government, solving a potential crisis.
The announcement Wednesday by Maryam Rajavi, the Paris-based leader of the group, averted what could have been a bloody showdown with Iraqi authorities if the residents had refused to move.
"After receiving assurances ... and as a sign of goodwill, 400 Ashraf residents are ready to go to Camp Liberty with their moveable property and vehicles at first opportunity," read the statement. Camp Liberty is the former American military base in Baghdad that has been chosen as the group's new home.
The agreement comes as militants this week twice tried to target the camp with rockets. No one was injured.
The Iraqi government vowed to close Camp Ashraf, home to about 3,400 Iranian exiles, by the end of this year. The exiles, members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, one-time allies of Saddam Hussein in a common fight against Iran, favor the overthrow of the Iranian government.
But since the ouster of Saddam they have become an irritant to an Iraqi government that is trying to establish good ties with Iran and sees the group as an affront to Iraqi sovereignty. At least 34 people were killed in April during an Iraqi government raid on the camp.
The United Nations on Sunday announced an agreement to move the residents of Camp Ashraf to a temporary location, but until Wednesday, the exiles had not said whether they would go.
Rajavi said 400 residents are ready to move first as a sign of goodwill. The statement made no mention of when the other residents would go, but the group's residents are believed to want to stay together. If the first move is successful and safe, it's likely the rest would be relocated soon.
"The transfer of the first group of residents is a test of the Iraqi Government's attitude in respecting obligations as professed to the U.N. and U.S.," Rajavi said.
At Camp Liberty, the U.N.'s refugee agency will interview the residents to determine their eligibility for refugee status, before they can eventually be resettled in third countries. Returning to Iran is ruled out because of their opposition to the regime.
Rajavi's statement also gave rare insight into a camp that was built during the 1980s and has largely been closed off to the outside world. The group's residents have not left the camp for years, and the little contact they have with outsiders is through the Iraqi military, visiting diplomats and aid agencies. They do have extensive communications equipment that allows them to communicate with the outside world.
The group's leader said residents had taken a piece of land in the desert and transformed it into a "modern city with their labor and extensive cost."
"It has a university, library, museum, hospital, power station, cemetery, mosque, parks, lake, sports and recreation facilities, and underground bomb shelters," she said.
The group carried out a series of bombings and assassinations against Iran's clerical regime in the 1980s and fought alongside Saddam's forces in the Iran-Iraq war. The group says it renounced violence in 2001. U.S. soldiers disarmed them during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Under the agreement outlined by the U.N., the international organization will monitor the relocation process, and then a team from the U.N.'s refugee agency will be deployed at the new location to process the refugee claims. The U.S. has said that its embassy personnel will also frequently check on the camp's residents.
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Pop artist James Rizzi dies at 61
Pop artist James Rizzi dies at 61
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FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file picture US Pop Art artist James Rizzi stands in front of his work "In the Spirit of Peace", painted on a fragment of the Berlin Wall, during the opening of his exhibition "Rizzi's World - 60 Years of James Rizzi" in Bremen, northern Germany. James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61. Rizzi's managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York's SoHo district on Monday Dec. 26, 2011. They gave no cause of death. (AP Photo/dapd/Focke Strangmann,File)
FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file picture US Pop Art artist James Rizzi stands in front of his work "In the Spirit of Peace", painted on a fragment of the Berlin Wall, during the opening of his exhibition "Rizzi's World - 60 Years of James Rizzi" in Bremen, northern Germany. James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61. Rizzi's managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York's SoHo district on Monday Dec. 26, 2011. They gave no cause of death. (AP Photo/dapd/Focke Strangmann,File)
FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file picture US artist James Rizzi poses at an exhibition in Bremen, Germany. James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61. Rizzi's managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York's SoHo district on Monday Dec. 26, 2011. They gave no cause of death. (AP Photo/dapd/ David Hecker,File)
FILE - In this May 15, 2008 file picture US artist James Rizzi poses in Mainz, Germany, in front of a bus he has colourful painted. James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61. Rizzi's managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York's SoHo district on Monday Dec. 26, 2011. They gave no cause of death. (AP Photo/dapd/ Thomas Lohnes,File)
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2001 file picture children pass the Rizzi-House, designed by U.S. pop artist James Rizzi, in Braunschweig, northern Germany.James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61. Rizzi's managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York's SoHo district on Monday Dec. 26, 2011. They gave no cause of death. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer,File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61.
Rizzi's managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York's SoHo district on Monday. They gave no cause of death.
Rizzi was born in Brooklyn and studied art at the University of Florida. He returned to New York in 1974 and first made his name as a street artist.
He became known for his bright, cartoon-like drawings and 3-D constructions. In 1996 Lufthansa commissioned him to decorate a jet with pastel stars, birds and travelers.
Rizzi developed a large international following, especially in Germany. Last year a school in Duisburg was named for him.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
A Christian on Hitchens' Atheism and Lowe's Muslim Problem (Time.com)
David Caton owes me one. I interviewed the head of the Florida Family Association last week during his bigoted but successful crusade to get companies like Lowe's to pull ads from All-American Muslim, the Learning Channel reality show about a community of Muslim Americans. Before Caton hung up on me -- he gets angry when you question his complaint that the show presents Muslims in too positive a light and not as crazed radicals plotting to impose Islamic shari'a law from Maine to Monterey -- I corrected his pronunciation of imam, a Muslim cleric, from Eye-mam to the proper Ee-mawm. Later that day, I heard him say it properly on CNN.
But that's all he got right. I concern myself with Caton -- who also likes to hire small planes to haul banners over Orlando warning people that homosexuals visit Disney World -- only for two reasons. One is that a major corporation like Lowe's actually caved to the Evangelical's ugly Islamophobia. The other is that he got his 15 minutes of fame at about the same time that Christopher Hitchens died, on Dec. 15. Hitchens was best known as one of the "angry atheists" for his 2007 best seller God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and narrow-minded fundamentalists like Caton made his work a lot easier. So of course did extremist Muslims, as well as extremist Roman Catholics, Jews, Hindus and all the fanatics who ruin religion the way drunks ruin driving. Which is why Hitchens' attacks on faith, while brilliantly written, could also feel gratuitous. (See "Christopher Hitchens, RIP.")
So it's fitting, at least for the silent majority of Christians who aren't hatemongering zealots but who derive hope and humane inspiration from our beliefs, that Caton and Hitchens should both be in the news during the Christmas season. The holiday's anticommercialization critics are right to argue that Christians spend too much time on outdoor lights at the expense of the inner light kindled by the story of God's incarnation in a manger. I'm as guilty as anyone in that regard. But Caton and Hitchens at least give us Christians a convenient place to start. They prod us on the one hand to assess what isn't Christian -- like demonizing gays and Muslims -- and on the other hand to reaffirm why Christianity and religion itself are a positive and not always poisonous influence in the world.
The crux of the Florida Family Association's campaign is Caton's preposterous claim, as he told me, that "every Eye-mam in this country wants to put the U.S. under shari'a law." Every imam I know here in Miami rejects the idea. "Muslims are only 6 million out of 300 million in this country," one reminds me. "We rely on U.S. law to protect our rights as a minority." They're also a minority who wish Christians well at Christmas: the Koran reverently mentions Jesus and the Virgin Mary almost 60 times. (See "Do Shari'a Courts Have a Role in British Life?")
One way, then, that Christians can practice Jesus' teachings of love, tolerance and charity this yuletide is by resolving to reassure folks like Muslims that we're not like the Florida Family Association. That we're committed to the code of Christmas -- "Peace on earth to people of goodwill" -- trumpeted by the same angels we place atop the trees in our living rooms.
That's also one of the best ways to answer Hitchens as well as other angry atheists like Richard Dawkins and quite a few members of my own hypersecular profession. It's a fairly widely accepted maxim that atheist fundamentalists, as I call them, can be just as intolerant as religious fundamentalists. And the problem they share is that both take religion way too literally. Just as Christian fundamentalists insist on a literal reading of the Bible, angry atheists tend to insist that belief in God qualifies you as a raving creationist. (See "Why Christopher Hitchens Is Wrong About Billy Graham.")
Here's what they refuse to get: Yes, Christians believe that Jesus' nativity was a virgin birth and that he rose from the dead on Easter. But if you were to show most Christians incontrovertible scientific proof that those miracles didn't occur, they would shrug -- because their faith means more to them than that. Because in the end, what they have faith in is the redemptive power of the story. In Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, an agnostic says to his Catholic friend, "You can't seriously believe it all ... I mean about Christmas and the star and the three kings and the ox and the ass."
"Oh yes, I believe that. It's a lovely idea."
"But you can't believe things simply because they're a lovely idea."
"But I do. That's how I believe."
I'm willing to bet it's how most believers believe. Before Hitchens died at 62 from esophageal cancer, he made a point of declaring he was certain no heaven awaited him. But that swipe at the faithful always misses the point. Most of us don't believe in God because we think it's a ticket to heaven. Rather, our belief in God -- our belief in the living ideal of ourselves, which is something even atheists ponder -- instills in us a faith that in the end, light always defeats darkness (which is how people get through the wars and natural disasters I cover). That does make us open to the possibility of the hereafter -- but more important, it gives us purposeful inspiration to make the here and now better.
With all due respect to the memory of Christopher Hitchens, making the here and now better would be difficult without religion. But it's also hard enough without the un-Christian antics of people like David Caton. As Christmas ought to remind us.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Rasmussen College to offer CPR classes
Rasmussen College recently announced their partnership with In-Pulse CPR to offer CPR classes for the public at the college?s five Florida campus locations.
In-Pulse CPR is an American Heart Association-authorized provider of CPR and ECC courses. The one-day, 4-hour classes will held throughout the next four months at Rasmussen?s Florida college campus locations in Ft. Myers, New Port Richey, Land O? Lakes, Ocala, and Tampa/Brandon.
The first CPR Classes will start this January and are open to both Rasmussen College Students and the general public.
Recommended as an invaluable skill for any adult, CPR training is required in many jobs such as early childhood education professionals, nursing home workers, and dental or medical office staff. In-Pulse CPR?s classes qualify students for the American Heart Association Heartsaver / BLS Healthcare CPR certification, good for two years.
In-Pulse CPR classes use the latest equipment including Laerdal and Prestan mannequins and a large selection of AED trainer models. All instructors are either EMT workers or nurses, and all are certified by the American Heart Association.
Course cost is $45, and no prior first aid knowledge is needed.
For course times and directions to the nearest Rasmussen campus go to www.inpulsecpr.com/florida.
For more information on Rasmussen College Florida campus locations, visit: http://www.rasmussen.edu/locations/florida/.
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Republicans want Volcker rule delay (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Republicans in the House of Representatives are pressuring regulators to delay implementation of the controversial Volcker rule, which bans banks from trading with their own funds.
On Thursday Texas Republican Randy Neugebauer released a letter signed by 121 lawmakers, including four Democrats, that seeks the delay and requests that regulators ask for more public comment before issuing a final rule.
Under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, enacted in response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis, the Volcker rule is supposed to go into effect in July 2012. The letter does not specify how far beyond this date regulators should delay implementing the trading crackdown.
"Initial reports from asset managers, mutual funds, pension plans and other stakeholders suggest that the rule, as drafted, would result in higher borrowing costs for American businesses, thereby impacting economic growth and job creation," the lawmakers wrote in a December 20 letter addressed to the heads of the Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
These agencies, with the exception of the CFTC, in October released a proposed framework for implementing the Volcker rule and are seeking public comment through January 13.
The lawmakers asked that this comment period be extended and that before a final rule is issued regulators release a second proposal for comment.
PRESSURING REGULATORS
The Volcker rule was one of the most intensely lobbied parts of Dodd-Frank as it moved through Congress and those efforts have now shifted to the regulators who are responsible for putting it into practice.
The Volcker rule would prevent banks that receive government backstops like deposit insurance from making risky trades with their own funds in securities, derivatives and other financial products. It was named for former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, who championed the measure.
The rule would also prohibit banks from investing in or sponsoring, beyond a small amount, hedge funds or private equity funds.
It would have the most impact on large banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Neugebauer heads the House Financial Services Committee's oversight subcommittee. Earlier this month the full committee's chairman, Spencer Bachus, asked regulators to provide more time for feedback and to appear at a January 18 hearing on the rule.
Banks, through their lobbying groups, are also pressuring regulators to extend the period for comments.
Republicans and banks have both seized on the CFTC's failure so far to release a proposal as a reason for delaying implementation of the rule.
The agency is expected to unveil its proposal next month and CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler has said it will be similar to what the group of other regulators released in October.
Republicans and the banks have argued the delays are needed because the Volcker rule is complex and could wreak havoc on markets and the economy if enacted in a haphazard way.
Supporters of the rule have dismissed this argument as an attempt by banks to weaken the rule before it goes into effect.
"Industry's claims that the Volcker Rule will 'reduce market liquidity, capital formation and credit availability, and thereby hamper economic growth and job creation' disregard the fact that the financial crisis did more damage to those concerns than any rule or reform possibly could," Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, wrote in a December 9 letter to regulators.
His group is a nonprofit organization that supports the Volcker rule.
(Reporting By Dave Clarke, editing by Matthew Lewis)
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Vote now for Jailbreak app of the year [TiPb Awards]
TiPb Awards: Jailbreak app of the yearWhile Apple did their best to Sherlock a ton of Jailbreak functionality with iOS 5, the community took it as an opportunity to raise the bar and make even better apps and tweaks in 2011. Some of the updates, like for
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Award-winning Japanese director Morita dies at 61 (omg!)
TOKYO (AP) ? Director Yoshimitsu Morita, whose films including the award-winning "Family Game," depicted the absurdity and vulnerability of conformist Japan's everyday life, has died. He was 61.
Morita, who won international acclaim over a prolific 30-year career, died Tuesday of acute liver failure at a Tokyo hospital, said Yoko Ota, spokeswoman at Toei Co., which is behind his latest work set for release next year.
Funeral arrangements were still undecided. He is survived by his wife Misao.
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Jeff Schweitzer: Secular Guidelines to Moral Living: A Tribute to Christopher Hitchens (Huffington post)
Thursday, December 22, 2011
'American Horror Story' Finale: The Murder House Leaves Us With More Questions Than Answers
Well, that was some end to the first season of "American Horror Story." If I didn't know better, I would have thought it was a series finale.
Luckily, the Ryan Murphy series was picked up for a second season in October. But I'm afraid that "American Horror Story" fans will have to wait a while for some of the most pressing questions to be answered... like how does the Murder House have all of this power?
[Note: If you did not see "American Horror Story's" first season finale on FX on Wed., Dec. 21, there are spoilers ahead.]
After a season full of shocking deaths and gruesome surprises, here's what we did learn in the Harmons' final hour:
Ben did die, and the Harmons definitely got their macabre happy ending.
Tim Burton couldn't have written a more beautifully morbid Season 1 ending for the Harmon family. Sure, Hayden (Kate Mara) did manage to hang Ben (Dylan McDermott) from a chandelier and kill him, but in the end, he was reunited with his wife Vivien (Connie Britton), teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) and a permanent ghost baby. Remember that stillborn Vivien delivered? Yeah, it's a ghost baby. It was touching to see mother and baby reunited in the afterlife. Plus, with the help of ghostly housemaid Moira (Frances Conroy), the finally peaceful, happy-looking Harmons were able to celebrate Christmas together. And that's the last image we have of them.
Of course, that's not to say that they won't be back for Season 2. After all, the Murder House is still there, and some unknowing family will have to move in ... right? Or has Ryan Murphy closed the book on the Harmons?
The Murder House is a total ghost world.
We already knew that the mysterious Murder House trapped spirits, but I have to admit, at some point, seeing all of the ghastly spirits pop out of nowhere was a bit comical. After Hayden killed Ben, a new family moved into the Murder House. Vivien, Ben and Violet knew what they had to do: save this family from their own fate. So the Harmons decided to scare off the new family. It was pretty apparent that Vivien and Ben took a few notes from "Beetlejuice" because they had a little too much fun killing each other off in front of the terrified new owners.
The Harmons successfully chased away the new mortal Murder House inhabitants, and then they realized that's essentially their new job for all eternity. As long as Ben, Vivien and Violet are all on the same page, they should be able to keep the not-so-nice ghosts from killing off any new home owners.
Violet said goodbye to Tate... but for how long?
To prove his love to Violet, Tate (Evan Peters) tried to kill the new teenage boy that moved into the Murder House. Luckily, Violet talked him out of his sociopathic spell, and the two shared a simple, yet heart-breaking goodbye kiss. But it was goodbye for long. We later saw him outside the house with Hayden, watching the Harmons decorate their Christmas tree. He said he'd wait forever for Violet, and judging by his expression, he meant it. While the possibility of Tate and Violet is still there, it definitely seemed like Tate and Hayden were on the outside looking in for a reason.
Constance (Jessica Lange) is raising the demon baby, and he's a little killer.
Constance ended up rescuing the demon baby from Hayden and telling the cops that Violet stole him and ran away. Then, the show flashed forward three years. Sure enough, the now demon toddler murdered his nanny and viewers discovered that he indeed turned out to be a little sociopathic killer like his father Nate. Like father, like son certainly applied here.
In the very last scene of the finale, Constance asked demon toddler Michael, "Now what am I going to do with you?" Perhaps, that's the most pressing question "American Horror Story" viewers are left with at the end of Season 1. What is Constance going to do with the demon toddler? And why does she call him a child of great importance? Since the Harmons got their happy ending, is Season 2 going to revolve around antichrist Michael?
Constance definitely knows something that we don't, and it looks like we're just going to have to wait for the rest of our questions to be answered until the second season.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET with special guest Ian Hardy!
Mobcast? Yes, yes it is. As usual, we have tons to go over this week in the Mobile Kingdom as it continues its quest for global dominance. And we'll have another special guest to add some fresh perspective; this week's honorary podcast crew member is Ian Hardy from MobileSyrup, who will join Myriam Joire, Brad Molen and Joseph Volpe at 5PM ET. And speaking of guests, please be our guests and listen in, won't you?
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Video: Some dogs of war heading home injured
>>> and while we reported extensively on the u.s. troops serving in iraq and afghanistan , we haven't heard as much about some vital assistants accompanying them on those dangerous missions. we're talk about hundreds of dogs that have faithfully served and witnessed the horrors of war just like the troops. we get their story tonight from nbc's kerry sanders .
>> reporter: they're the dogs of war come home. like doc, a 4-year-old chocolate lab , who spent his deployments in afghanistan sniffing for roadside bombs and survived.
>> there is no real technology out there that can do what a dog can do.
>> now we'll take him into radiology.
>> reporter: and if they're wounded, they're medevaced to the walter reed of canine hospitals at lackland air force base in texas. like the troops they're assigned to patrol with, the dogs get top notch medical care when they're wounded like little scarlet here. but increasingly, doctors say they're finding dogs returning from war have something else. ptsd. post-traumatic stress disorder.
>> this is strictly a problem that we're associated with combat environments right now and prolonged deployments.
>> reporter: dr. walter berghart routinely gets videos from handlers in iraq and afghanistan who want to know why their dogs are no longer performing as trained. in one video the dog cowers when he sees uniformed iraqi soldiers . in another a dog trained to sit after sniffing a bomb instead tucks his tale between his legs and runs away.
>> if the dog misses one of these explosives, that could have really bad consequences not only for the dog but for the individuals the dog's working with.
>> reporter: which brings us back to buck. u.s. marine corps retired.
>> see he's backing up there.
>> exactly.
>> is that from something that happened in afghanistan ?
>> i suspect that something happened to him in terms of bombs.
>> reporter: larry and lynette sergeant adopted buck when doctors could not treat his canine ptsd.
>> you can't help but love him when you look at him.
>> he's just afraid.
>> reporter: the family says unlike most labs, buck doesn't like to be around people. the best medicine, just like that for humans. understanding, love, patience, and sometimes these dogs are even prescribed puppy prozac.
>> five months ago he barely would let me lead him on a leash.
>> and so the idea that five months later we're sitting here this close, there's a foreign object , this camera so close to him.
>> it's incredible.
>> reporter: the dogs of war . just like some returning troops, now home with wounds that are hard to see. kerry sanders , nbc news, san antonio .
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An empress' humble start on Martinique
LES TROIS-ILETS, Martinique?? Even now, Paris feels a world away from this tropical paradise.
How much farther the immense capital must have seemed to Marie-Josephe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, a teenager on a remote sugar plantation with an improbable future. "You will be queen," a fortune-teller told her, according to the local legend.
Indeed, she would leave this southeast Caribbean island and rise through French society through the last days of its monarchy, the French Revolution and Reign of Terror to marry Napoleon Bonaparte, who would crown her Empress Josephine.
If she returned to Martinique today, she would find a sophisticated French-influenced culture enhanced by the flavors and rhythms of the non-Europeans who have lived here for centuries. They make up most of the population of this chic yet laidback island, which dips into the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Caribbean Sea on the other.
Josephine's humble beginnings on Martinique are explored here in a museum, the Domaine de la Pagerie, just outside the resort village of Les Trois-Ilets, named for three little islands just off shore.
When Josephine lived here in the mid-18th century, Martinique was a French colony. Her family owned more than 200 slaves on their plantation south of the capital, now called Fort-de-France, and the songs sung by these slaves and their descendants in Martinique's sugar cane fields are now performed by professional musicians and dancers wearing bright Madras plaids in luxury hotels.
Just the foundation of their "great house" remains, a modest stone square set in a green field of grass under the gaze of a white stone bust of Josephine.
The original house, set atop a small hill with a view of its fields in the valley below, was blown down in a hurricane when Josephine was not much more than a toddler. Financial problems kept her parents from rebuilding, so the family moved into the upper quarters of the property's sugar factory. The foundation that remains supported a wooden house built after Josephine left for France in 1779.
The stone factory walls remain standing in the shade of leafy palms. Another circular building has been restored as an open-air pavilion, where a handful of massive rusted cylinders and gears rest, long past use as parts in the sugar-grinding machines.
The kitchen, also a separate building, has been restored as a small museum containing Josephine's tiny, canopied bed, portraits, porcelain gifts bearing Napoleon's and her faces when they were the toast of Europe, and a copy of her letter of marriage to Napoleon, along with other historical documents.
There are also rusted chains that once shackled slaves, resting at the bottom of a glass case.
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The legacy of slavery still tarnishes Josephine's reputation in Martinique. Many still blame her for Napoleon's reinstitution of slavery when France regained control of its colonies from the British, even though it's unclear whether Josephine influenced that decision. It certainly would have benefited her family, members of the island's wealthy elite who have considerable land holdings to this day.
Perhaps this is why Josephine's face and name are absent from most of the island's narrow streets, colorful buildings and even the Pagerie's gift shop, which mostly features postcards of island scenes. And there's nothing subtle about the condition of the statue of Josephine in the main square in Fort-de-France, where the intimidating stone fort still looms over cruise ships and ferries in the harbor. The white stone figure is regal in a flowing, low-cut gown, but it was vandalized years ago ? beheaded, red paint splattered down the white dress and Josephine's name struck from the pedestal.
The most prominent faces instead in Fort-de-France are two late intellectuals, Aime Cesaire and Edouard Glissant, whose writings explore black identity in a French-speaking country.
Banners celebrating their works hang in the sleek, modern airport named for Cesaire in 2009. Cesaire's book-filled office has been preserved in the capital's main theater, a landmark building that also bears his name.
Martinique is a department of France. French is the official language and the euro is the official currency. Locals drive Renaults and Citroens on twisty mountain roads and shop for the latest European fashions in boutiques.
But its cuisine ? French staples spiced with curry, fresh seafood, tropical fruits ? is flavored by what's grown locally along with the mix of African and Indian dishes brought to the island over the centuries. The covered market in the heart of Fort-de-France has packs of spices and vials of vanilla for sale and Madras plaid tablecloths for those who want to try the cuisine at home.
A meal is complete with a tumbler of ti punch, a sweet cocktail made with white rum, sugarcane syrup and lime. Tours at any of the island's rum distilleries will explain and let you taste the subtle differences between the white rums and the golden "vieux" or aged rums.
Even as empress, Josephine longed for her childhood Caribbean home. She tried recreating Martinique's tropical splendor at her home near Paris, Malmaison, a refuge famous for its gardens and greenhouse.
Visitors to Martinique can experience a similar retreat at the Jardin de Balata, a botanical garden perched in the hills above Fort-de-France. A paved walkway winds its way through bromeliads, orchids, palms, flowering trees and a cluster of the Balisier flower, the flower of Martinique, a red blossom that looks something like a Bird of Paradise. A rope suspension bridge offers a more daring view of the lush tropical foliage.
Farther north along Martinique's Caribbean side are the black sand beaches around the small town of Saint-Pierre, built around the ruins left by a volcano that smoked through Josephine's lifetime and finally erupted in 1902.
Off the island's Atlantic coast are the "baths of Josephine," shallow turquoise waters where the young, would-be empress swam, according to local legend. It's hard not to feel a bit decadent when the catamaran crew tosses a cooler containing a bottle of rum into the water with you.
If you go ...
MARTINIQUE: http://www.martinique.org
GETTING THERE: Air France flies to Fort-de-France from Miami. American Airlines flies to Fort-de-France through San Juan, Puerto Rico. Flights can be pricier to Martinique than to some of the other islands frequented by Americans.
TRAVEL TIPS: Think of Martinique as Tropical France: You'll be spending euros, and speaking French is widely expected on an island still off most Americans' radar. Nightlife varies from Miami Beach-style restaurants and bars to the local hang-outs where Martinique's smooth, golden beer, La Lorraine, is cold and relatively cheap. A car is helpful for journeys to rum distilleries or other attractions, unless you arrange a tour; boat tours are another way to see both coastlines. There is a Club Med, but all-inclusive resorts don't divide the beachfronts as they do in other Caribbean locations; in fact, all beaches in Martinique are public.
LES TROIS-ILETS: The village is about a half-hour ferry ride (6 euros) from the capital, Fort-de-France. You can also drive into the village along the Bay of Fort-de-France coastline.
DOMAINE DE LA PAGERIE: http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/museums/files/Domaine_Pagerie.asp . A roughly 15-minute drive from the center of Les Trois-Ilets. Open Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.; weekends, 9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Source: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45686678/ns/travel-destination_travel/
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
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AP source: SC governor to endorse Mitt Romney (AP)
SIOUX CITY, Iowa ? South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley plans to endorse Mitt Romney's presidential bid.
A Republican with knowledge of the endorsement disclosed the plan ahead of the official announcement on condition of anonymity.
Haley is a rising star within the GOP and her endorsement in the first-in-the South primary state has been sought by many other presidential contenders.
Romney plans to fly to South Carolina on Friday afternoon.
Politico first reported the Haley endorsement.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
UK crime reporter arrested in corruption inquiry (AP)
LONDON ? The former crime editor for the News of the World tabloid was arrested Thursday in Britain's phone hacking scandal, and authorities announced that CNN journalist Piers Morgan would appear before the U.K.'s media ethics inquiry.
Police investigating wrongdoing at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid did not release crime editor Lucy Panton's name, saying only that a 37-year-old female was arrested before dawn. But British media reported that Panton was the person arrested, a fact confirmed by a former News of the World employee to The Associated Press. She was later released on bail.
More than a dozen former journalists working for News of the World have been arrested in the phone hacking scandal that prompted Murdoch to shut down the tabloid in July and forced several senior Murdoch lieutenants to resign. There have also been about half a dozen other arrests in relation to corrupt payments made to police officers for news tips.
Prime Minister David Cameron set up the inquiry into British media ethics in the wake of the scandal.
Morgan, the former tabloid editor-turned-celebrity interviewer, replaced Larry King at CNN. He also edited the News of the World between 1994 and 1995 before moving over to the Daily Mirror. He can expect to be quizzed on allegations that he condoned phone hacking while working at the Mirror and that he personally listened in on illegally intercepted messages.
Morgan has denied ever knowingly running a story off of illegally intercepted phone messages. He is expected to testify next week, according to his publicist.
Panton, who is married to a Scotland Yard detective, had high-level contact with the London police force, meeting with then-Assistant Commissioner John Yates and her former boss, News of the World editor Colin Myler, for dinner in November 2009.
That was only a few months after Yates had decided not to reopen the police investigation into allegations of systematic phone hacking at the tabloid. Yates was one of two top Scotland Yard officers to quit over his failure to tackle the scandal years earlier.
Myler, whose career as editor also was cut short by the scandal, appeared Thursday before the judge-led inquiry. He was the first News of the World editor to testify before the inquiry, which has so far heard from celebrities, journalists and phone hacking victims.
Myler told the inquiry he had no reason to believe that phone hacking went beyond a single rogue when he took over at the paper in 2007. But he said by 2008, he had changed his mind.
Inquiry lawyer Robert Jay asked Myler why then he still suggested to Press Complaints Committee in 2009 that only one rogue reporter was to blame
"It might be said that you didn't give them quite a full and frank answer," Jay said.
Myler dodged the question, saying he had "no reason not to give them a full and frank answer." He was not pressed on the inconsistency.
He also wasn't quizzed about one of the most notorious incidents of his career, in which, as editor of the Sunday Mirror in 1993, he published hidden camera pictures of Princess Diana working out at a private gym.
The inquiry is charged with clearing the rot from Britain's scandal-tarred media industry, but its relaxed cross-examination is facing criticism.
"It's a bit like being slapped around with a wet fish," said Mark Stephens, a media lawyer who has worked for the AP in the past.
The media inquiry also heard from private investigator Derek Webb, who testified that he'd been hired by the News of the World to conduct surveillance on dozens of public figures ? mostly politicians and celebrities.
In a possible indication that the paper hoped to pass him off as a reporter, Webb said it had asked him to register as a journalist, not as a private investigator.
Webb acknowledged carrying out surveillance on lawyers for phone hacking victims on behalf of the News of the World ? one of his most controversial assignments. But he said he wasn't told about the details behind the mission and claimed he couldn't confirm allegations that he had followed the teenage daughter of a phone hacking victim's lawyer.
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Associated Press writer Paisley Dodds contributed to this report.
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Republicans push $915 billion spending bill (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Republicans introduced a $915 billion spending bill in the House of Representatives early on Thursday in an attempt to force Democrats to finalize legislation that would keep the U.S. government operating beyond the weekend.
Only two days are left until a temporary funding measure expires and the government is forced to shut down major services run by the departments of defense, education, health and labor.
But Republican and Democratic lawmakers are fighting over how to extend an expiring payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, and each side is trying to use the spending bill as a bargaining chip.
The bill, which would provide funds for crucial government functions such as patrolling the U.S. borders, has little chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate unless Democrats agree that the bill is complete. Republicans control the House.
Lawmakers in charge of government spending had reached a tentative agreement on the spending bill on Monday. But at the White House's request, Senate Democrats have held back in order to force Republicans to stay in town ahead of New Year holidays to reach an agreement on the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Healthy piglets? Not with sulfonamides!
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University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna
One of the most common types of neonatal illness in piglets is coccidiosis, a parasitic disease of the intestinal tract caused by the unicellular organism Isospora suis. There are many reasons for attempting to control the disease, ranging from animal welfare considerations to pure financial concerns. Unfortunately, however, the literature contains no clear guidelines on how this should be done. Sulfonamides are frequently suggested as suitable preventative agents and so Joachim investigated the level of protection they afforded to suckling pigs under standardized conditions of infection. Together with Hans-Christian Mundt of Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany, she was able to show that sulfonamides can indeed be used to control piglet coccidiosis. However, the use of these agents is associated with a considerable amount of work and therefore and because of the short half-life of sulfonamides in pigs and the difficulty of predicting the appropriate time for treatment they do not seem really suitable for use under conditions on farms.
So what hope is there for farmers and for pigs? Fortunately there is another drug available to treat coccidiosis: toltrazuril. Joachim and Mundt showed that a single application of this drug was able to control the disease under their standard conditions of infection. And their work has been extended by Tanja Kreiner and colleagues in Joachim's group at the Vetmeduni Vienna, who investigated the use of toltrazuril on pig farms in Austria. The findings confirmed that pigs treated with toltrazuril are significantly healthier and suffer significantly less from diarrhoea than pigs that are not treated. Interestingly, pigs kept under poor conditions of hygiene have an increased risk of becoming unhealthy or developing diarrhoea, even when given toltrazuril. It is thus clear that applying the drug is not sufficient to prevent pigs from developing diseases caused by other agents: good hygiene also has an important part to play.
Despite this caveat, Joachim is optimistic. "Our findings show that sulfonamides are not really suitable for use on farms but toltrazuril appears to work very well for the control of coccidiosis. The cost of treating animals is considerably lower than the financial losses due to the disease, so we would recommend all farms where coccidiosis is diagnosed to treat their pigs with this drug."
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The paper, 'Efficacy of sulfonamides and Baycox against Isospora suis in experimental infections of suckling piglets' by Anja Joachim and Hans-Christian Mundt was published in the journal Parasitology Research (2011, 109:1653-1659). The second paper, 'Influence of toltrazuril treatment on parasitological parameters and health performance of piglets in the field - An Austrian experience,' by Tanja Kreiner, Hanna Lucia Worliczek, Alexander Tichy and Anja Joachim is published in the journal Veterinary Parasitology (2011, 183:14-20). The work was performed together with Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany (Joachim & Mundt) and with the Vetmeduni's Institute of Population Genetics (Kreiner et al.).
About the Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna is the only academic and research institution in Austria that focuses on the veterinary sciences. About 1000 employees and 2300 students work on the campus in the north of Vienna, which also houses the animal hospital and various spin-off-companies.
http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at
Scientific contact:
Prof Anja Joachim, E Anja.Joachim@vetmeduni.ac.at, T 43-1-25077-2200
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Public release date: 5-Dec-2011[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Prof Anja Joachim
43-125-077-2200
University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna
One of the most common types of neonatal illness in piglets is coccidiosis, a parasitic disease of the intestinal tract caused by the unicellular organism Isospora suis. There are many reasons for attempting to control the disease, ranging from animal welfare considerations to pure financial concerns. Unfortunately, however, the literature contains no clear guidelines on how this should be done. Sulfonamides are frequently suggested as suitable preventative agents and so Joachim investigated the level of protection they afforded to suckling pigs under standardized conditions of infection. Together with Hans-Christian Mundt of Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany, she was able to show that sulfonamides can indeed be used to control piglet coccidiosis. However, the use of these agents is associated with a considerable amount of work and therefore and because of the short half-life of sulfonamides in pigs and the difficulty of predicting the appropriate time for treatment they do not seem really suitable for use under conditions on farms.
So what hope is there for farmers and for pigs? Fortunately there is another drug available to treat coccidiosis: toltrazuril. Joachim and Mundt showed that a single application of this drug was able to control the disease under their standard conditions of infection. And their work has been extended by Tanja Kreiner and colleagues in Joachim's group at the Vetmeduni Vienna, who investigated the use of toltrazuril on pig farms in Austria. The findings confirmed that pigs treated with toltrazuril are significantly healthier and suffer significantly less from diarrhoea than pigs that are not treated. Interestingly, pigs kept under poor conditions of hygiene have an increased risk of becoming unhealthy or developing diarrhoea, even when given toltrazuril. It is thus clear that applying the drug is not sufficient to prevent pigs from developing diseases caused by other agents: good hygiene also has an important part to play.
Despite this caveat, Joachim is optimistic. "Our findings show that sulfonamides are not really suitable for use on farms but toltrazuril appears to work very well for the control of coccidiosis. The cost of treating animals is considerably lower than the financial losses due to the disease, so we would recommend all farms where coccidiosis is diagnosed to treat their pigs with this drug."
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The paper, 'Efficacy of sulfonamides and Baycox against Isospora suis in experimental infections of suckling piglets' by Anja Joachim and Hans-Christian Mundt was published in the journal Parasitology Research (2011, 109:1653-1659). The second paper, 'Influence of toltrazuril treatment on parasitological parameters and health performance of piglets in the field - An Austrian experience,' by Tanja Kreiner, Hanna Lucia Worliczek, Alexander Tichy and Anja Joachim is published in the journal Veterinary Parasitology (2011, 183:14-20). The work was performed together with Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany (Joachim & Mundt) and with the Vetmeduni's Institute of Population Genetics (Kreiner et al.).
About the Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna is the only academic and research institution in Austria that focuses on the veterinary sciences. About 1000 employees and 2300 students work on the campus in the north of Vienna, which also houses the animal hospital and various spin-off-companies.
http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at
Scientific contact:
Prof Anja Joachim, E Anja.Joachim@vetmeduni.ac.at, T 43-1-25077-2200
Released by:
Klaus Wassermann, E Klaus.Wassermann@vetmeduni.ac.at, T 43-1-25077-1153
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
HP Acquires German Web-To-Print Software Solutions Company HIFLEX
Hewlett-Packard has acquired a German company called HIFLEX, based in Aachen, which develops software that helps companies in the print and media industries automate their business and technical processes. HIFLEX products include HIFLEX MIS (Management Information System), HIFLEX Print Support and an open web-to-print system dubbed HIFLEX Webshop. Read more at TechCrunch Europe.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tikgQYhMI0w/
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