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Tom Watson has used parliamentary?privilege?to refer to a paedophile ring linked to a previous British prime minister:
?The evidence file used to convict paedophile Peter Righton, if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring. One of its members boasts of its links to a senior aide of a former Prime minister who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad.?
?The leads were not followed up but if the file still exists, I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it, and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and Number 10.?
Just when you thought nothing could blow the BBC off the front pages ?
BERLIN (AP) ? Germany is inaugurating a long-awaited memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, or Roma, who were killed under Nazi rule.
Chancellor Angela Merkel opens the memorial Wednesday. Designed by Israeli artist Dani Karavan, the monument ? a well surrounded by panels detailing the Nazis' persecution of the minority ? is located across the road from the Reichstag, Germany's Parliament building.
It's close to memorials to the Nazis' Jewish and gay victims that have been inaugurated in recent years. Romani Rose, head of Germany's Central Council of Sinti and Roma, says it makes clear that the killing of Gypsies during the Holocaust was "a genocide that had its own dimensions."
It's not clear exactly how many Gypsies were killed during the Holocaust. Estimates range from 220,000 to 500,000 or more.
Francisco Javier Solorio Jr., 39, died in the attack off the coast of Surf Beach in Lompoc, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
Solorio "had a friend who he was surfing with who saw the shark bite or hit the man," said sheriff's Sgt. Mark A. Williams. "His friend ended up swimming over and pulling him from the water where he received first aid."
The Air Force said Solorio was not affiliated with the base, which allows public access to some of its beaches. All beaches on the base's coastline will be closed for at least 72 hours, as a precaution, Col. Nina Armagno said on Tuesday evening.
The type of shark involved and other details were under investigation.
It was the latest shark attack fatality at Surf Beach, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
There were no shark warning signs posted at Surf Beach on Tuesday, said Lt. Erik Raney, adding that beaches don't typically post such notices unless the location had a recent shark sighting.
"We've had shark sightings up and down the Santa Barbara coastline pretty frequently recently," said Lt Raney, adding that the sightings are well-publicised.
Death by shark attack is rare. An average of 65 shark attacks occur each year around the world that typically result in two or three deaths, according to the Pew Environment Group.
In early trading, Facebook shares rose $4.32 to $23.82 and kept trading around that level after the first hour. They were priced at $38 in their initial public offering on May 17 and closed at $38.23 on May 18, the first day of public trading.
As well, Citi Research analyst Mark Maheny upgraded his recommendation on Facebook shares to ?buy? from ?hold? after listening to CEO Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday night explain growth for the company.
So did Jordan Rohan, analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, who was especially pleased that Facebook's revenue from mobile platforms jumped to $153 million in the third quarter, or about a quarter of overall revenue.
"We're only just getting started on mobile," said Zuckerberg on the investor call. "On mobile, we believe ads will be more like TV, hgh-quality and integrated into the experience, rather than off to the side."
Facebook reported a third-quarter net loss of $59 million as revenue rose 32 percent to $1.26 billion. The Menlo Park, Calif., company reported having 1.01 billion members, compared with 945 million in June 30.
Facebook?s performance on operations was profitable, although the $377 million operating profit was 9 percent below the prior year's $414 million. On an operating basis, there was net gain of 12 cents per share, a penny ahead of the analyst estimates carried by Thomson Reuters.
?People who use our mobile products are more engaged,? said Zuckerberg. ?And we believe we can increase involvement even further.? The company also reported cash and investments exceeding $10.5 billion.
Analyst Brian Pitz at Jefferies, which didn't participate in Facebook's IPO, maintained a "buy" recommendation on Facebook but raised his price target to $32 from $30, mainly because of growth in mobile advertising.
"We are encouraged Facebook could deliver this kind of growth without much help from new products like Offers," he said. Pitz also liked the report that user engagement with the site had risen.
Monthly active users rose 26 percent from a year ago, nearly 60 percent of members logged in daily, and overall ad revenue rose 36 percent to $1.06 billion, more than the predicted $1.06 billion, Pitz said.
GIS Reference Book Reissued by Esri, AAG, and UCGIS
Redlands, California?With support from Esri and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), the Association of American Geographers (AAG) has reprinted 2,000 copies of Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge (BoK).
"The BoK is a very important reference book about the geospatial field and is immensely useful to educators," says Michael Goodchild, professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "I'm excited that the AAG, Esri, and UCGIS have come together to make it widely available and easily accessible."
Originally published in 2006, the BoK is the first comprehensive attempt to inventory the knowledge and abilities that comprise the field of geospatial technology. Building on the efforts of Duane Marble, Professor Emeritus of Geography at The Ohio State University, and colleagues to develop a model curriculum for geographic information science and technology education, the UCGIS Education Committee (with support from Esri and AAG) organized contributions from more than 70 GIS scholars and practitioners to produce the book.
AAG will distribute these new copies at no charge to attendees at its national events in 2013. Esri is also providing a free downloadable version of the book at esri.com/gist-bok.
"Esri is pleased to support the reprinting and open access distribution of the BoK," says David DiBiase, Esri director of education and lead editor. "We look forward to broad community participation in the development of a second edition."
UCGIS researchers are currently working on National Science Foundation-funded research to develop an interactive version of the second edition of the book.
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Though analysts usually know nothing more than regular ol' John Apple Fan at home, they do sometimes get access to tech factories and shredded supply chain documents hinting at upcoming products. One analyst, Topeka Capital's Brian White, claims to have actually held an iPad Mini prototype and even put it in his pocket. More »
Women have suffered from self-esteem issues since the dawn of time. Now thanks to social media, self-loathing is just a few clicks away.
Thinspo?short for thinspiration?is a term used to describe images and ideas posted on social media sites that are supposed to inspire women to lose weight, but all too often fuel eating disordered-behavior and the pursuit of skeletal thinness.
To their credit, large social sites like tumblr and pinterest have recently banned thinspo-tagged content or any content that idealizes the skin-and-bones body type.
Bravo.
But what of fitspo, thinspo?s toned and chiseled counterpart?
This meme depicts women pumping iron, sprinting up staircases, and boot-camping their way to ripped shoulder muscles, shredded quads, and six pack abs. Many consider images of fitspo models and the push-yourself sayings that usually accompany them, an improvement over depictions of starvation and emaciation?and a real motivation to get fit.
Are they really an improvement? Deb Serani, a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York doesn?t think so.
She says that while fitspo may motivate some people to pick up the weights or run that extra mile, it is fraught with mixed messages.
?Fitspo photos and shared beliefs do in fact negatively impede girls and women when it comes to self-esteem, body image and perceptions of health,? she says. ?With every line that?s drawn, there will always be another to see how far a new one can be pushed.?
Serani points out that the desire for a seriously fit-looking body is just a variation on the desire for thinness. It may be disguised as the ?new healthy,? but it?s always dangerous to value a single body type above all others, especially when that body type is virtually impossible for most women to achieve.
?It?s just another way to body shame girls and women who don?t fit this unrealistic mold,? Serani says.
Serani suspects that some fitspo enthusiasts may be suffering from a new kind of eating disorder known as orthorexia nervosa. This is when a woman is so determined to?drive?her body towards athletic perfection, she becomes preoccupied with workouts and healthy foods and her body image becomes so distorted, she is never satisfied with the way she looks.
For a woman like that, fitspo is not a harmless motivational tool?it can fuel a dangerous obsession.
Even for women who don?t have an eating disorder, body shaming of any kind can be demeaning, defeating and deflating. Isn?t it time we stop beating ourselves up for being unable to achieve the impossible and start celebrating our successes?
Good health should be the goal, no matter what shape and size the package it comes in.
A Rothschild scion is disappointed to learn that his Indonesian partners have treated him much like politically connected Indonesian businessmen have treated foreign partners for decades.
By Dan Murphy,?Staff writer / October 22, 2012
I spent a decade covering Indonesia and a large chunk of that covering finance and investment there, most interestingly the "Asian tiger" bubble and the painfully deep hangover called the 1998 "Asian financial crisis" that triggered the end of the durable dictator and ally of the West, Soeharto.?
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Though it's been a long time since I've been there, I keep an eye on the place.
The country has made great strides since the chaos of the immediate post-Soeharto years. Economic growth has resumed, living standards have improved, and the small religious wars and separatist conflicts that tore at the country in the early years of the past decade have gone off the boil. East Timor is now an independent nation, the Free Aceh Movement in north Sumatra has laid down its guns, and the jihadi Jemaah Islamiyah, which carried out bombings across the country, has been beaten back by an effective policing and intelligence effort.
The international banks that lost billions in the Indonesian crash, after various Indonesian conglomerates had spent years skimming off the top of loans for themselves rather than putting them to productive uses, have resumed lending heavily to the country and its businesses.
But it's still not an investment climate for the faint of heart, particularly if the complaints of Nathaniel Rothschild are to be believed. The scion of the Rothschild banking dynasty, which has funded governments, speculators, and kings for centuries, has seen a $3 billion tie-up with the politically connected Aburizal Bakrie family hit the rocks.
Judging from an article in The New York Times, Mr. Rothschild was extremely ignorant of the modern history of corporate Indonesia. In 2010, he led an investment group that spent $3 billion in cash and stock-buying stakes in two coal mining companies owned by family of Aburizal Bakrie, a scion of a business dynasty in his own right.
The complex transaction amounted to a reverse takeover of Vallar PLC in the UK, with Rothschild's Vallar taking stakes in two of Indonesia's largest coal producers (controlled by the Bakrie family), and Bakrie-controlled companies in Indonesia ending up with 43 percent of Vallar. Indra Bakrie, Aburizal's brother, took the chairmanship of Vallar, which was quickly renamed Bumi Resources ("Bumi" is Indonesian for "earth") and trades on the London Stock Exchange. The Bakrie family stake has since been reduced by a sale of some of its shares to another Indonesian tycoon.
People listen to the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)
People listen to the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)
Defendants Claudio Eva, center, and Bernardo De Bernardinis, third from right, a former official of the national Civil Protection agency, listen to the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)
Judge Marco Billi, right, reads the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)
L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) ? Defying assertions that earthquakes cannot be predicted, an Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter Monday for failing to adequately warn residents before a temblor struck central Italy in 2009 and killed more than 300 people.
The court in L'Aquila also sentenced the defendants to six years each in prison. All are members of the national Great Risks Commission, and several are prominent scientists or geological and disaster experts.
Scientists had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no reliable way of predicting earthquakes. So news of the verdict shook the tightknit community of earthquake experts worldwide.
"It's a sad day for science," said seismologist Susan Hough, of the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, Calif. "It's unsettling." That fellow seismic experts in Italy were singled out in the case "hits you in the gut," Hough added.
In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately.
Other Italian public officials and experts have been put on trial for earthquake-triggered damage, such as the case in southern Italy for the collapse of a school in a 2002 quake in which 27 children and a teacher were killed. But that case centered on allegations of shoddy construction of buildings in quake-prone areas.
State TV noted that this was the first time prosecutors had brought a case based on the failure to predict an earthquake.
Among those convicted Monday were some of Italy's most well-known and internationally respected seismologists and geological experts, including Enzo Boschi, former head of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
"I am dejected, desperate," Boschi said after the verdict. "I thought I would have been acquitted. I still don't understand what I was convicted of."
The trial began in September 2011 in this Apennine town, whose devastated historic center is still largely deserted.
The defendants were accused in the indictment of giving "inexact, incomplete and contradictory information" about whether small tremors felt by L'Aquila residents in the weeks and months before the April 6, 2009, quake should have constituted grounds for a quake warning.
The 6.3-magnitude temblor killed 308 people in and around the medieval town and forced survivors to live in tent camps for months.
Many much smaller earth tremors had rattled the area in the months before the quake, causing frightened people to wonder if they should evacuate.
"I consider myself innocent before God and men," said another convicted defendant, Bernardo De Bernardinis, a former official of the national Civil Protection agency.
Prosecutors had sought convictions and four-year sentences during the trial. They argued in court that the L'Aquila disaster was tantamount to "monumental negligence," and cited the devastation wrought in the southern United States in 2005 when levees failed to protect the city of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Relatives of some who perished in the 2009 quake said justice has been done. Ilaria Carosi, sister of one of the victims, told Italian state TV that public officials must be held responsible "for taking their job lightly."
The world's largest multi-disciplinary science society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, condemned the charges, verdict and sentencing as a complete misunderstanding about the science behind earthquake probabilities.
There are swarms of seismic activity regularly in Italy and most do not end up causing dangerous earthquakes, said AAAS geologist Brooks Hanson, deputy editor of the organization's Science magazine. He said that if seismologists had to warn of a quake with every swarm there would be too many false alarms and panic.
"With earthquakes we just don't know," Hanson said Monday. "We just don't know how a swarm will proceed."
Comments on Twitter about the verdict abounded with references to Galileo, the Italian scientist who was tried as a heretic in 1633 for his contention that the Earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa as Catholic church teaching then held. In 1992, then-Pope John Paul II declared that the church had erred in its ruling against the astronomer.
Defense lawyer Filippo Dinacci predicted that the L'Aquila court's verdict would have a chilling effect on officials tasked with protecting Italians in natural disasters. Public officials would be afraid to "do anything," Dinacci told reporters.
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Frances D'Emilio contributed from Rome. AP science writers Alicia Chang and Seth Borenstein contributed from the United States.
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A homeowner has showed that a Chapter 7 home improvement contractor?s lies about a building permit led to a loss that might reasonably have been expected to result from the homeowner?s reliance.
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With Windows 8's radical user interface many familiar windows elements are not present or must be accessed differently. If you're missing the shutdown button and don't want to use the new charms bar you can add back your shutdown button the start menu manually.
Educational weblog WonderHowTo shares that, to make a shutdown button for your start screen, you must first create a desktop shortcut (right-click, new shortcut) and enter this line of code in the location field:
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Name the desktop shortcut Shutdown and click Finish. Finally, right-click on that shortcut and choose Properties then Change Icon and from the menu that pops up you will pin the shortcut to your start menu. The video above shows you how to complete each step.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? While the NHL and the players' association are keeping the lines of communication open, they don't seem to be moving any closer to getting back to the bargaining table.
For the second straight day, representatives on both sides of the lockout had telephone conversations on Sunday. None of those talks have yet led to concrete negotiations that could lead to an elusive collective bargaining agreement and get the delayed hockey season going.
"We had a conference call today to answer some of their questions," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press in an email Sunday. "No bargaining. And no bargaining meetings scheduled."
Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr also had discussions on Saturday. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union executive director Donald Fehr didn't take part in Sunday's conference call, Daly said.
The lockout entered its 36th day on Sunday.
On Friday, the NHL canceled all games through Nov. 1. The league said in its most recent proposal to the players that a deal must be reached by Thursday in order for the season to start on Nov. 2 and for each team to play a complete 82-game season.
A total of 135 games have been called off and are in danger of being canceled for good if an agreement isn't reached during the upcoming week.
More games could also be in danger soon, including the annual New Year's Day Winter Classic, that is slated to pit the host Detroit Red Wings against the Toronto Maple Leafs at outdoor Michigan Stadium.
Negotiations broke off quickly on Thursday in Toronto after the NHLPA made three counterproposals that were rejected by the NHL. That came two days after the league's latest offer to the union.
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DeKALB ? Scott Morrow thinks South Fourth Street could use some help.
Morrow, the owner of Flippin? Eggs, 831 S. Fourth St., has seen other businesses come and go. Morrow said there aren?t any anchor businesses to attract a large number of customers in the area.
?You don?t have anything down here that?s a destination,? Morrow said. ?Just places to drive by.?
City officials agree with Morrow that the South Fourth Street area needs to be redeveloped, which is why they are researching the prospects of making it a tax increment finance district.
In these districts, local taxing bodies can only collect on a property?s base value for a maximum 23 years. Property taxes are not capped though.
The money collected above the base value ? referred to as the increment ? goes into a special fund to pay for improvements within the district.
City Manager Mark Biernacki has identified three possible locations for a new district. Those locations are along South Fourth Street, past Taylor Street toward Huntley Middle School; the apartments in and around Greek Row; and parts of Sycamore Road near Hopkins Park.
The city already has two TIF districts: the Central Area TIF District (located along Lincoln Highway and Sycamore Road) and TIF 2 (located south of Lincoln Highway and north of Taylor Street).
Tim Lehan, pharmacist and owner of Lehan Drugs, 1407 S 4th St., also likes the idea of using tax increment financing in the area around South Fourth.
?[South Fourth] is one of the main entryways into DeKalb, and for the most part, it doesn?t look like it,? Lehan said.
But a third such district, and the accompanying freeze in property tax payments to governments, could place a strain on DeKalb School District 428, district Superintendent Jim Briscoe said. The district?s budget for this school year includes a $2.3 million operating deficit, and school officials have said the district?s financial situation is unsustainable.
The district receives about two-thirds of its revenue from property taxes.
?In the same breath, in this economy, communities all over the country are put in a position to develop an area that is blighted,? Briscoe said. ?I think it?s important to find an incentive to bring in businesses to areas that need it.?
Huntley Middle School, and the Fairview fields that the school board is considering swapping with a local developer in exchange for land adjacent to DeKalb High School, could potentially fall into a South Fourth tax increment financing district. Briscoe agreed that redevelopment along South Fourth Street is ?very much needed.?
?I see some TIFs being beneficial to the overall community,? Briscoe said.
Briscoe said the DeKalb City Council has previously allocated tax-increment funds to help with renovations in certain schools. He said that any proposal for a new district would have to be studied by the school board.
State law allows the city to unilaterally create a TIF district, Biernacki said, but he added that it has been city practice to get the consent of all eight taxing bodies that would be affected.
Biernacki said city officials still are researching the idea, with a report likely to be presented to the council sometime in November or December. It would not be until the summer when the City Council would vote on it, he said.
For his part, Lehan said he thought the trade-off for local governments such as the DeKalb Park District and District 428 is worth it.
?It?s really the only avenue you have for development, or changing the area,? Lehan said.
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Just a few days after writer Raymond Carver?s death, his wife, poet Tess Gallagher, called Bob Stewart at home. He was expecting to hear from her, expecting her to cancel. Her scheduled appearance at the Midwest Poets Series, which Stewart directs, was only two weeks away, and when he heard the news about Carver, he just knew what she?d say. ?This is her way of saying she?s not going to make it,? he thought as soon as he heard her voice on the other end of the line.But Gallagher surprised him. ?She said, ?No, I absolutely want to assure you I?m going to come,??? Stewart said. ?Because she wanted to celebrate Ray Carver?s life.?Two weeks later, Gallagher arrived at Rockhurst University and held the stage for more than an hour and a half. She read not just her own work but also brought out poems by Carver no one had seen before.?We had one of the most extraordinary evenings in memory,? Stewart said. That?s saying a lot for a program that in its first 29 years has brought to Kansas City 14 Pulitzer Prize winners, 10 U.S. poets laureate, two Missouri poets laureate and one winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. The series, which Stewart founded in 1983, will kick off its 30th anniversary year on Thursday with a 15th Pulitzer winner, Tracy K. Smith, who won the 2012 prize last spring. The reading is just one highlight of a season that once again celebrates the global range and influence of the written word.The Midwest Poets Series has become a cultural institution in the community and made a name for Kansas City on the national and international poetry scene.?It?s the kind of place where poets would like to read because we have nothing if not authenticity,? said Michelle Boisseau, a Kansas City poet and creative writing colleague of Stewart?s at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Boisseau read at the series last year. ?When I got up on stage I felt so much desire to hear me read. It?s incredibly energizing to read to that audience.?Stewart says this year?s poets can be seen as a microcosm of the series as a whole. Rounding out the schedule are Valzhyna Mort on Nov. 29, Mark Doty on Jan. 31 and Australia?s Les Murray on March 21. ?Bob took special care in choosing the slate of poets,? said Cynthia Cartwright, director of the Center for Arts and Letters at Rockhurst. ?He is very careful about constructing a season where there are both male and female poets, all sorts of ethnic backgrounds, national reputations and international reputations.?Smith is African-American, and Mort, ?a true international voice,? grew up in Belarus before she moved to the U.S. Stewart called Doty ?one of the premier figures in contemporary American poetry.? Murray, who lives in New South Wales, Australia, is renowned worldwide.Murray has published 12 books of poetry, translated into 10 languages. Doty, with eight books of poems and four books of prose, is only the second poet to make a repeat appearance. Mort and Smith are making names for themselves early in their careers; Smith has three books, and Mort recently published her second American book. ?The whole series represents what we?ve been trying to do all these years,? Stewart said.Doty and Smith also reflect Stewart?s method of choosing poets, which involves a little acute observation, a little intuition and a little luck.?Every time I turn around lately, I?m discovering a poem by Mark Doty, or my students are telling me things they?re reading by Mark Doty that they?re enthusiastic about,? he said. ?There?s just too many intersections of interest that I can?t ignore.?Similarly, Kansas City writer Whitney Terrell mentioned Smith?s name to Stewart a couple of years ago, and when she won the Pulitzer earlier this year, Stewart knew the time was right to invite her.?So often it happens, where I?m kind of already interested in (a poet), and there will be little things that come up, sort of like the universe is telling me that now is the time to bring this person to Kansas City,? Stewart said. ?I look for where the energy is.? Attracting poets of Murray?s international stature sets the Midwest Poets Series apart from other cultural institutions in the country, Boisseau said. Someone like Murray, who often reads in major cities like New York, would never have a chance to visit Kansas City otherwise, she said.And when major poets do come to read, they find it a rewarding experience. People are there to see the poet and are not likely to approach him or her with manuscript in tow, just trying to further their own careers.Stewart said many of the poets he keeps in touch with have fond memories of the series and even ask if they can come back. The Midwest Poets Series puts Kansas City on the map for people who otherwise may never see or think about it. ?In literary terms, on a national scale, I don?t think it can be doubted that a lot of major writers in the country identify with Kansas City now, and they wouldn?t have without this here,? Stewart said.When she arrived at Rockhurst more than 20 years ago, Cartwright was initially surprised by the poetry series? popularity.?Where are these readings held, in a phone booth?? she wondered. ?Who comes out to them??She estimated that the series as a whole now draws 900 people a year, many of them frequent attendees. For the last 10 to 15 years, the series has been in Rockhurst?s Mabee Theater, which seats 300.?It?s not uncommon to have standing room only,? said Cartwright, who applauded the shared experience of hearing poetry in public. Former poets laureate Billy Collins and W.S. Merwin both drew crowds of almost 1,000 for their readings, which were in the campus gymnasium. Merwin?s reading was especially memorable for Stewart. He remembers Boisseau sitting in the front row, listening with rapt attention. ?Merwin got done reading; everybody applauded, and Michelle just sat there,? he said. ?Finally she stood up and she says, ?I feel like somebody has just been throwing flowers on me for an hour.????I remember feeling as if all the cows were surrounding the manger,? Boisseau said. ?He was glowing like some kind of emanation.?But even a sparsely attended reading can have a big impact.In 1989, Stewart brought Joseph Langland, a poet who?d grown up in Iowa in a community of Norwegian immigrants. He recalls maybe 15 people in the audience. ?I remember sitting in the front row and thinking, ?I don?t care who?s here, I?m here,??? Stewart said. ?I was completely thrilled to sit there and listen to Joe Langland read his poems.?Because, in the end, poetry is a personal experience. Stewart says it ultimately doesn?t matter how many people come to a reading. If a reading changes one person?s life, he said, it?s extraordinary.?People get uplifted, they?re entertained in a way that?s a little deeper, more powerful than we?re used to with mass media entertainment,? he said. ?I think it changes people?s thinking about who poets are and what they?re about.?Being present at the Midwest Poets Series is inspirational, Boisseau said.?When you?re in the salt spray of language,? she said, ?then you say, ?I want to go on my own voyage, I want to build my own ship.? And that?s why we bring people to town.?
Christine Pivovar is a graduate student in creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and an intern this semester at The Star. Reach her at cpivovar@kcstar.com.
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As a home based business owner health care is something that you only have to think about after you expand a bit. However, once you have a few employees, you need to find a way to offer health insurance. This can be a tough feat to conquer because of the high price of health insurance. However, there are ways to find the best health insurance for your home based business.
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As a small business owner you want to look for plans that are specifically geared towards your type of business. There are plenty of insurers that have plans that are tailored to small business. Also, because there is a steady competition in the health insurance market for small businesses, you will be able to find lower rates.
Home based business owners also need to take into consideration their own health insurance needs. Yes your employees need health insurance but so do you and your family. The cost of one major medical bill can wipe out your entire business is you don?t have insurance so be sure that you and your family are covered at all times.
There are so many different types of coverage plans to investigate. It is easy to get lost in all of the mumble jumble. There are fee-for-service plans and PPO and HMOs. All of these health insurance plan types have different specifics. You will have to review all of the benefits and liabilities to find out which one is going to work best for you. Pay close attention to cost and fees, of course and read the fine print. Health insurers have a great way of writing the really important information in small print. Ask as many questions as you can before choosing to go with any insurance provider.
Health Savings Accounts are a great option for small business owners. Employees are able to put money into an account, pre-tax, to help pay for health care costs. A Health Savings Account is not a health insurance product but it can be very helpful to your employees. You and your employees can save money during tax time and you will not incur any cost by offering these plans.
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Study shows overeating impairs brain insulin function, can lead to diabetes and obesityPublic release date: 17-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jeanne Bernard Jeanne.Bernard@mountsinai.org 212-241-9200 The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine sheds light on how overeating can cause a malfunction in brain insulin signaling, and lead to obesity and diabetes. Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) and his research team found that overeating impairs the ability of brain insulin to suppress the breakdown of fat in adipose tissue.
In previous research Dr. Buettner's team established that brain insulin is what suppresses lipolysis, a process during which triglycerides in fat tissue are broken down and fatty acids are released. When lipolysis is unrestrained, fatty acid levels are elevated, which can initiate and worsen obesity and type 2 diabetes. The current study is published online in The Journal of Biological Chemistry. The first study was published in the February 2, 2011 issue of Cell Metabolism.
"We are interested in understanding why people who eat too much eventually develop diabetes. Our recent studies suggest that once you overeat, your brain develops insulin resistance. Since brain insulin controls lipolysis in adipose tissue by reducing sympathetic nervous system outflow to adipose tissue, brain insulin resistance causes increased spillage of fatty acids from adipose tissue into the blood stream," said Dr. Buettner.
Increased fatty acids induce inflammation and that, in turn, can further worsen insulin resistance, which is the core defect in type 2 diabetes. Fatty acids also increase glucose production in the liver which raises blood glucose levels, Dr. Buettner explained. "It's a vicious cycle and while we knew that this can begin with overeating, this study shows that it is really the brain that is harmed first which then starts the downward spiral."
In this study, researchers fed rats a high-fat diet comprised of 10 percent lard for three consecutive days. This increased their daily caloric intake by up to 50 percent compared to the control rats that were fed a regular low fat diet. The researchers then infused a tiny amount of insulin into the brains of both groups of rats that they had shown in earlier studies to suppress release of glucose from the liver and fatty acids from fat tissue. They found that overeating impaired the ability of brain insulin to suppress glucose release from the liver and lipolysis in fat tissue. Similarly, short-term overeating in humans is known to produce comparable insulin resistance which could be explained by brain insulin resistance.
"When you overeat, your brain becomes unresponsive to these important clues such as insulin, which puts you on the road to diabetes. We believe that what happens in rats also happens in humans" said Dr. Buettner.
Dr. Buettner's team plans to investigate methods of improving brain insulin function that could restrain lipolysis and improve insulin resistance.
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The study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and the American Diabetes Association. First author of the study is Thomas Scherer, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Mount Sinai's Department of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Medical School is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 14th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Mount Sinai is one of 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and by U.S. News & World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.
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Study shows overeating impairs brain insulin function, can lead to diabetes and obesityPublic release date: 17-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jeanne Bernard Jeanne.Bernard@mountsinai.org 212-241-9200 The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine sheds light on how overeating can cause a malfunction in brain insulin signaling, and lead to obesity and diabetes. Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) and his research team found that overeating impairs the ability of brain insulin to suppress the breakdown of fat in adipose tissue.
In previous research Dr. Buettner's team established that brain insulin is what suppresses lipolysis, a process during which triglycerides in fat tissue are broken down and fatty acids are released. When lipolysis is unrestrained, fatty acid levels are elevated, which can initiate and worsen obesity and type 2 diabetes. The current study is published online in The Journal of Biological Chemistry. The first study was published in the February 2, 2011 issue of Cell Metabolism.
"We are interested in understanding why people who eat too much eventually develop diabetes. Our recent studies suggest that once you overeat, your brain develops insulin resistance. Since brain insulin controls lipolysis in adipose tissue by reducing sympathetic nervous system outflow to adipose tissue, brain insulin resistance causes increased spillage of fatty acids from adipose tissue into the blood stream," said Dr. Buettner.
Increased fatty acids induce inflammation and that, in turn, can further worsen insulin resistance, which is the core defect in type 2 diabetes. Fatty acids also increase glucose production in the liver which raises blood glucose levels, Dr. Buettner explained. "It's a vicious cycle and while we knew that this can begin with overeating, this study shows that it is really the brain that is harmed first which then starts the downward spiral."
In this study, researchers fed rats a high-fat diet comprised of 10 percent lard for three consecutive days. This increased their daily caloric intake by up to 50 percent compared to the control rats that were fed a regular low fat diet. The researchers then infused a tiny amount of insulin into the brains of both groups of rats that they had shown in earlier studies to suppress release of glucose from the liver and fatty acids from fat tissue. They found that overeating impaired the ability of brain insulin to suppress glucose release from the liver and lipolysis in fat tissue. Similarly, short-term overeating in humans is known to produce comparable insulin resistance which could be explained by brain insulin resistance.
"When you overeat, your brain becomes unresponsive to these important clues such as insulin, which puts you on the road to diabetes. We believe that what happens in rats also happens in humans" said Dr. Buettner.
Dr. Buettner's team plans to investigate methods of improving brain insulin function that could restrain lipolysis and improve insulin resistance.
###
The study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and the American Diabetes Association. First author of the study is Thomas Scherer, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Mount Sinai's Department of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Medical School is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 14th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Mount Sinai is one of 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and by U.S. News & World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.
For more information, visit http://www.mountsinai.org/.
Find Mount Sinai on:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mountsinainyc
Twitter @mountsinainyc
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/mountsinainy
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