Newswise — A diagnostic system developed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology enables rapid and accurate customization of the antibiotic to the patient. The system makes for faster diagnostics, earlier and more effective treatment of infectious bacteria, and improved patient recovery times. The findings were published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Antibiotics are one of the most effective ways to treat bacterial infections. However, the widespread use of antibiotics accelerates the development of bacterial strains that are resistant to specific antibiotics. In 2014, infections with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) claimed the lives of more than 700,000 people worldwide, in addition to a cumulative expenditure of $35 billion a year in the US alone.
For patients with threatening infections, urgent treatment is required for their health. According to established estimates, for every hour that effective antibiotic treatment is delayed, survival rates drop by ~7.6% for patients with septic shock. Therefore, in order not to leave the patient without adequate protection while awaiting the results, many doctors will prescribe an antibiotic with a broad spectrum of activity in large doses. This phenomenon facilitates the emergence of AMR and also affects the microbiota - the population of “good bacteria” found in the human body that protects it.
In this context, the importance of technologies that can predetermine the resistance of a specific bacteria to specific antibiotics is obvious. The innovative system developed at the Technion, called the SNDA-AST, quickly analyzes bacteria isolated from patients with infections and assesses their level of resistance to specific antibiotics. This enables the healthcare team to choose the most effective antibiotic a day earlier compared to when using traditional methods. In addition, the researchers demonstrated the ability to test bacteria directly from raw patient urine samples, thereby skipping the isolation step, and potentially saving two days for patients with urinary tract infections.
The study was led by Prof. Shulamit Levenberg, Dean of the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, and was carried out by three researchers in her lab: doctoral student Jonathan Avesar, postdoctoral student Dekel Rosenfeld and doctoral student Tom Ben-Arye. The study was carried out in cooperation with Assistant Professor Moran Bercovici of the Technion Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and doctoral student Marianna Truman-Rosentsvit, in cooperation with Dr. Yuval Geffen, head of the Microbiology Laboratory at Rambam Health Care Campus. It was funded by a KAMIN grant from the Innovation Authority and the Israeli Centers of Research Excellence (I-CORE).


After months of intense neighborhood opposition, the developer of a proposed project for 50 single-family homes now plans to sell the roughly five-acre site in Burbank's Rancho area to a private school for an undisclosed price.
The property, a former General Motors training facility on Riverside Drive now owned by New Urban West, is in escrow for a sale to Lycee International de Los Angeles, a college-preparatory school with a European curriculum, according to Tom Zanic, senior vice president of the development company.
The school approached Zanic in December about buying the facility.
“They thought the site and the building were perfect for their use,” Zanic said.
Its attractions include large classrooms, an auditorium and a full-service cafeteria, said Iain Whyte, a trustee and finance chair for the school.
“It's ready to move in, and that's a big deal,” Whyte said.
Lycee already has campuses in Pasadena, Los Feliz, Tarzana and Santa Ana.
Sixth through 12th grades will move from the Los Feliz campus to the school in Burbank, Whyte said, adding that about 220 students are expected to attend the new school initially, with plans to increase to 350 students within the next 10 years.
The vast majority of Rancho residents — who have succeeded in defeating other development proposals — are pleased to have a school like Lycee coming to their neighborhood, according to Jay Geisenheimer, a member of the Rancho Review Board.
The school doesn't have a sports program, so there won't be activities in the evenings or on weekends — a major plus for equestrian-friendly Rancho residents who like to ride their horses in the neighborhood during those times, Geisenheimer said.
And traffic isn't expected to be an issue, she added.
About 100 cars and four buses will be used to transport students, Whyte said. That amount, which includes staff members' vehicles, is reasonable, Geisenheimer said, particularly because there is a large circular driveway in front of the building.
She would prefer to see residential homes zoned for horses built on the site, but Geisenheimer acknowledged that people are not constructing those kinds of houses.
“We are lucky this school came along and can afford that land,” she said.
If the escrow doesn't go through or the school decides not to buy the property, Santa Monica-based New Urban West will continue with its plans to build the 50 two-story, single-family homes and resume the entitlement process, Zanic said.
Because the land is zoned for office use, a zoning change would be required to build the homes.
A school would require only an administrative-use permit, which would be handled at the city-staff level, said Michael Forbes, assistant community development director for the city.
However, a traffic study will likely be required, Forbes said, which would mean the request would go before the Planning Board.
Zanic said New Urban West, which recently scaled back its original plans for 120 two- and three-story town homes, would not reduce the number of residential units further.
“Absolutely not,” he said, adding that the new plans address many of the concerns raised by Rancho residents including density, traffic and excessive height.


The annual Microbrew Festival on the Pecos will return, from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturday at the Pecos River Village Conference Center.
The microbrew industry began to ferment in Carlsbad in fall 2016 with the opening of Milton’s Brewing on Mermod Street.
Then, in January the city’s microbrew options grew to two with Guadalupe Mountain Brewing Company opening on National Parks Highway.
But Carlsbad’s brew IQ began to distill five years ago with the city’s first-ever microbrew festival.
And this weekend, the annual Microbrew Festival on the Pecos will return, from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturday at the Pecos River Village Conference Center.
Hosted by the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, the festival offers samples from 10 New Mexican brewers, including the two locals.
Chamber CEO Robert Defer said the event to diversified the weekend activities available to Carlsbad residents and visitors.
He said about 1,000 people will likely show up to sample the offerings, and dine on five local food vendors.
Local musician Robin Scott will provide live entertainment for the event, steeped in his unique blend of blues, rock and funk.
That growth, Defer said, can be credited to the nicer weather as late-spring temperatures heat up in Carlsbad, and attendees can enjoy more time outdoors.
Jameson Lucas, Milton's director of branding, marketing and events said the local microbrew scene is built on collaboration, and has grown consistently in Carlsbad and southern New Mexico over the past four years.
"We've seen it come a long way," he said. "In the southern part of the state, we've seen several pop up."
Local, independent breweries can bolster local entertainment scenes, Lucas said, while offering residents a taste of something new.
"It helps expand the cultural pallet of the community," he said. "It helps introduce people to beer they might not have tried. It helps build the culture of the community."
Microbreweries are defined by the volume they are licensed to produce, typically restricted to brewing about 15,000 barrels per year and required to sell most of it off premises.
The term is often confused with craft beer, which is often produced at microbreweries.
"Craft beer" defines the style of the libation itself: usually including the independent nature of the beer’s production, and non-traditional or innovative brewing methods.
Most craft beer is made in microbreweries, but not all microbreweries brew craft beer.
Regardless of what it is called, Defer said he expects Carlsbad’s independent beer scene to continue growing along with the city.
Advanced tickets for the Microbrew Festival on the Pecos are $20 online or in person at the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, 302 S. Canal St.
At the door, tickets are $25.
VIP tickets are still available for $50. They come with a T-shirt, commemorative pint glass, and access to the festival an hour early at 3 p.m.
Only 100 VIP tickets will be sold, ensuring purchasers avoid long waits in line to try whatever intriguing ale, lager or stout that titillates their taste buds.
Desert Sky Barrel Racing is hosting its third race of the 2018 season, Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Eddy County Sheriff's Posse.
Lubbock singer/songwriter Jerry Serrano is performing at 7 p.m., Saturday at the Lucky Brew.
The First Baptist Church of Otis is hosting a "free family fun day", featuring a bouncy house and other activities starting at 5 p.m., Saturday at the church.
A free concert and bike show is planned for 4 p.m., May 19 at Carlsbad Ford Lincoln.
Endangered species day will be celebrated with two days of free educational activities, nature walks and crafts, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., May 18 at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.


My neighbour, who doesn't have a VM email address, is receiving regular "delay" bounce-backs when she emails anyone with a virginmedia or ntlworld email address. In one case, an email from this good lady to myself never arrived at all.
I could bore you with the rest of the incomprehensibility, but that would be pointless.
Is Virgin Media bouncing honest emails? And if so, why?
Yes I've read your thread.
But my neighbour is in her eighties. She is computer literate but the bounce-back messages she receives are incomprehensible.
I have spent over 40 years working in software engineering, but I too can't understand (from VM's numpty techies) what their problem is.
How about a rule, enforceable by law, that computer messages should be written in PLAIN ENGLISH. I still can't understand why my neighbour's emails are bouncing back. It only affects recipients who have VM or NTW email addresses.
Most people are incredibly tolerant, but I really understand my neighbour's frustration that she cannot rely on emails to VM's customers being delivered.
It isn't my thread. It is along running thread that other users have been involved explaining that VM is greylisting mail being sent to its servers at the moment in order to deal with a spate of spamming affecting its users. Please bear in mind that the responders on this community forum are largely VM users and not VM staff.
The message is a pretty standard one generated by servers that are trying to deliver mail to ISPs like VM. It simply means that sending the mail is being temporarily delayed.
The message is NOT generated by VM. VM are not responsible for all the ills in the world. The message is being generated by your friends own ISP and their servers. Look there for an answer.
I'd share that frustration but while greylisting is in operation this is where things are. It will be for VM staff here to comment finally when they reach this thread in a few days time.
Fair enough. You've fully told me off.
But VM has a history of poor email control. I have lost business orders in the past when VM binned emails to me, without the courtesy even to tell me the emails had even existed. That was down to a ridiculous spam-detection system they implemented which, bizarrely, decided genuine emails were spam. Once I knew about it, I went back into options and turned off VM's spam filter.
My neighbour, in her eighties, is an experienced computer user but had no idea why she was suddenly getting so many bounce-backs. Knowing VM's chequered (unreliable) history, it was me who asked her whether all the bounce-backs were coming from virginmedia or ntlworld email addresses. Surprise, surprise, they were.
During my career in software development, we always went to great pains to "trap" techie error messages and translate them into proper English for the end user. Why can't VM do that? People are generally tolerant if they know what's going on.
Also, if anyone from VM is reading this, why not email all your customers when there is a technical issue? After all, by definition, you are in possession of all our email addresses.
I had no intention of telling you off. I was simply explaining the situation in the most precise way I could.
That is true but has nothing to do with the current spam attack on VM users.
I'm not surprised but such is the way of the internet.
During my career in software development, we always went to great pains to "trap" techie error messages and translate them into proper English for the end user.
Then I never saw any software that you developed. I've been used to relatively incomprehensible error messages for my whole time using computers and their software. And that includes Supercalc, MS, Lotus, SMART, Wordperfect, and operating under CP/M, PC/MS DOS and Windows in all its versions.
Why can't VM do that? People are generally tolerant if they know what's going on.
At the risk of repeating myself what do you NOT understand about " the messages were not generated by VM's servers. They are generated by the sending server - which is the responsibility of your friend's ISP?
And what good would that do precisely, except to clog up the net with messages that most people would simply ignore? And how would it help your friend and people like them. Are you suggesting that VM should ask every ISP and ESP in the world to broadcast this kind of message.
She needs to go back to her mail provider and ask them to investigate what's happening.
Virgin Media will work with mail providers to deal with deliverability issues where appropriate. But they also have to deal with the requests of users to stop spam from reaching their mailboxes, and it is a difficult juggling match.
That threads into 19 pages and still going. So yes they have introduced some changes recently. But those changes should not impact a properly configured mail service.
As for your comments with regard to readability of the message. I've not worked in software engineering or tech support. (In fact I have no formal IT qualifications) - That message is perfectly readable to me.
I've been trying to deliver this message for one day now. I'm going to keep trying until the third day, at which point I'll give up.
Is that basic enough for you?
It's actually not pointless as it contains the error message received from Virgin Media's server (which includes a link to a page explaining Greylisting) as well as a string of seemingly random letters that actually identifies the specific mail conversation on Virgin Media's servers.
BTW while the error messages do contain information that the average user doesn't need to see, they are still couched in reasonable enough English.
Most of the message is for the email administrators. Of course as a software engineer, I'm sure you'd know the importance of not losing vital information by dumbing down an error message too much.
I appreciate that this is fully comprehensible to techies - but I've just gone back to the first email my neighbour (in her eighties) sent me. The two of us have exchanged emails on a pretty-well daily basis for years now, so if this is a "greylisting" issue (a term I'd not heard of previously), this cannot be right.
My neighbour forwarded one of her bounce-backs. She was very concerned, and wrote, "I'm forwarding this to you. I'm getting so many of these.".
I appreciate that everyone does their best on discussion forums (even those who reply in red ink). But why cannot VM simply issue a statement when there is an issue? Perhaps my neighbour's ISP is indeed incomprehensible but if I understand this correctly, the issue stems from VM needing to delay emails.
My guess is that they're "greylisting" to sort out the sysprem stuff which has been plaguing VM for the last few weeks now. As far as I can gather, the spam server trail has been identified and relevant persons have been informed, so hopefully they'll do something about it. Since it involves servers in both Europe and the USA, timezones are difficult to bridge. There have been a couple of notable sophisticated spam incidents and it seems that VM users end up being collateral damage, however, it is difficult to co-ordinate an effective strategy when said spam is being bounced off servers around the world not to mention contacting relevant persons. abuse@isp.com doesn't always work.
I used to volunteer to show how the internet and email worked to senior citizens a few years back. Some used to ask really awkward questions that were beyond the scope and the capabilities of the people and the (charity based) project, therefore material had to be altered as we couldn't provide technical support; that was the apparent impression we gave. There are quite a few tales I could tell... but won't.


Alene MacDonald, 82 went to be with the Lord on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at the Bridge of Lake Pointe Landing.
Alene was born in Newark, NJ and grew up in East Orange, NJ. She spent many years of her married life in Colts Neck, NJ and has been a resident of Hendersonville since 1986. She was a member of First Alliance Church for many years and loved her church family very much.
In her younger years she was a sports car competitor and won many trophies. She also raised Cocker Spaniels and had two of them when she moved to Hendersonville. When her health declined she had a much loved cat. Her other interests were books and she was involved in church libraries and was an avid reader. She liked to play bridge and many other games. Alene had many friends and loved to entertain—she was a great listener and always showed compassion and was an encourager.
She was known for her quick wit and was fun to be with. She loved her friends at Heritage Hills and appreciated the care given her at the Bridge by her Hospice nurses.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 54 years, John MacDonald; as well as two brothers Austin and David Barry.
Surviving are two sisters-in-law Connie and Joyce Barry and ten nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at the First Alliance Church on at 11:00am on Monday, May 21. The Revs. Ron Glass and Donald Chapman will officiate. There will be a reception following the service at the church.
Memorials may be made to the First Alliance Great Compassion Fund, in care of First Alliance church, 1821 Windsor Drive, Hendersonville, NC 28791 or Four Seasons Compassion for Life, 571 South Allen Road, Flat Rock, NC 28731.
To sign the online register book, please visit www.shulerfuneralhome.com. Shuler Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.


Anne Hegerty becomes Ginger Spice.
We only ever see her in a grey suit with her hair slicked back, but for a special celebrity Christmas episode of the Chase, we saw a whole new side to The Governess.
Anne Hegerty (Aka The Governess) left fans shocked after she debuted a dramatic makeover which transformed her into Ginger Spice.
She wore Ginger's iconic blue Union Jack dress, with a matching red lippy and smokey eye as well as a voluminous, ginger wig.
And her surprising new look - which was revealed in a teaser trailer - even appeared to leave host Bradley Walsh speechless ... well, for about two seconds until he quickly joked about her costume.
"Never mind Ginger Spice you look like a Ginger Nut," he can be heard saying in the clip.
Previously, Anne has revealed that she is not a fan of her uniform on The Chase.
"You can't imagine how much I dislike the suit," the 59-year-old said. "That is not what I would have chosen to wear."
She also confessed that she wasn't supposed to be called The Governess: "I was going to be called The Headmistress but then Bradley [Walsh] kept calling me The Governess.
We don't have any confirmation as to when the Christmas special is going to air in New Zealand, but we hope it is soon!
This article was originally published on The Hits and is republished here with permission.


Spring Branch Family Development Center, a family service center at 8575 Pitner, will receive one of two donated playgrounds to be built in the Houston area.
The 24 Hour Fitness chain and KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit dedicated to bringing play back into the lives of children, teamed up to build new playgrounds in Houston communities impacted by Hurricane Ike.
Throughout October, 24 Hour Fitness donated $1 from the monthly dues of Houston-area members to KaBOOM! to help build the playgrounds.
24 Hour Fitness employees will join members and community volunteers to build the playground on Feb. 7, 2009.
“We are honored to have been selected as the playground site,” said Ricardo Barnes, MA, LPC, executive director of Spring Branch Family Development Center. “We serve 500 children every day, and they will love having a new play area.
“The excitement will begin in early December when we recruit 20 to 30 children and an equal number of adults to take part in Design Day. They will actually have a hand in selecting the elements of the play space.” The playground will be built by 200 volunteers on a single day in February, 2009.
Each day, children are on the center’s campus taking part in pre-kindergarten education and after-school programs.
24 Hour Fitness CEO Carl Liebert said the company understands not only the importance of physical exercise, but having fun.
“As part of the Houston community, 24 Hour Fitness wants to ensure that kids in these neighborhoods have a place where they can just be kids again,” Liebert said.
Since 2001 Spring Branch Family Development Center, a 501(c)(3) organization, has provided education, recreation, health and social services, in one location, to residents in the Spring Branch community. Every partner that joins SBFDC is expected to collaborate with all other partners, and in doing so become stronger than if it worked alone. All services are available in English and Spanish. Currently services include: Panda Path, pre-kindergarten education provided by Spring Branch Independent School District; after-school programs, Boys & Girls Club of Houston; nutritional services for mothers and children through WIC; family and individual counseling, Family Services of Greater Houston; recovery programs, Houston Council on Alcohol and Drugs; and English as a second language classes provided by Harris County Department of Education. Visit www.sbfdc.org.
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since 1995, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and community interests to construct more than 1,500 new playgrounds, skateparks, sports fields and ice rinks across North America. KaBOOM! also offers a variety of resources, including an online community, regional and national trainings, grants, publications and the KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play, which includes Playful City USA and the Playmaker Network – a national network of individual advocates for play. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago, Ill. and San Mateo, Calif. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.
Headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., 24 Hour Fitness, an innovative leader in the health and fitness industry, serves more than three million members in more than 425 clubs worldwide. Founded in 1983 as a one-club operation, 24 Hour Fitness pioneered the concept of making fitness accessible, affordable and a way of life for everyone. The company demonstrates its leadership through sponsorships like that of the U.S. Olympic Team and a commitment to the community through various charitable and in-kind donations. In addition, 24 Hour Fitness enjoys strategic partnerships with major consumer brands like Coca-Cola and Nike, and for six seasons has partnered with NBC’s popular reality TV show, The Biggest Loser. Please call 1-800-224-0240 or visit www.24HourFitness.com for more information.


U.S. stock-index futures climbed higher on Tuesday as traders parsed through a deluge of important economic reports.
As of 9:13 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 36 points to 15423, S&P 500 futures gained 3.5 points to 1691 and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 6 points to 3131.
After a quiet start to the week on Monday, traders had no lack of information to parse through on the day.
The Commerce Department said retail sales ticked higher by 0.2% in July from June, narrowly missing estimates of a 0.3% gain. Excluding the automobile component, sales climbed 0.5%, topping estimates of a 0.4% increase. There have been worries that stagnant wage growth and higher payroll taxes could weigh on consumers.
Meanwhile, The Labor Department reported import prices edged higher by 0.2% in July from June, shy of estimates of a 0.6% increase. Export prices dipped 0.1%, compared to forecasts of a 0.2% rise.
The Zew survey of German investor sentiment leapt higher to 42 in August from 36.3 the month prior, easily beating estimates of 39.9. The data suggest Europe's powerhouse economy is picking up steam as the eurozone debt crisis subsides and the continent's economic engine revs up.
Elsewhere, activist investor Bill Ackman resigned from J.C. Penney's (NYSE:JCP) board of directors. The struggling retailer said Ronald Tysoe will join the board as it seeks one additional candidate.
Oil prices climbed by 46 cents, or 0.49%, to $106.60 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline jumped 0.91% to $2.93 a gallon. In metals, gold slumped $7.20, or 0.56%, to $1,326 a troy ounce.
The Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.27% to 2835, the English FTSE 100 ticked up 0.47% to 6605 and the German DAX jumped 0.69% to 8417.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 surged 2.6% to 13867 and the Chinese Hang Seng rallied 1.2% to 22451.


Cell Therapeutics isn’t going down without a fight. The Seattle-based biotech company (NASDAQ: CTIC) said today that data from a clinical trial of Zevalin, its drug for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, along with an editorial by a leading lymphoma doc who urged his peers to “encourage wider appreciation and use” of drugs in its class.
This data, first presented at the American Society of Hematology meeting in Atlanta in December, clearly made an impression with peer reviewers. The study, sponsored by Bayer before Cell Therapeutics bought the drug in December, enrolled 414 patients getting first-line treatment for their slow-growing lymphoma. They hoped to see a benefit from Zevalin, which works by taking an antibody drug that seeks out cancer cells and attaching a small dose of radiation to give it extra tumor-killing punch. Patients on the drug were able to keep their cancer from spreading for a median time of 36.5 months, compared with 13.3 months in a control group. About 77 percent of patients who had partial tumor shrinkage on prior treatments entering the study had their tumors completely wiped out after getting a single shot of Zevalin, researchers said.
The results “confirm and extend prior data demonstrating the tremendous potential of radio-immunotherapies in the treatment of B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” said Oliver Press, a lymphoma expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, in an editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that was quoted by the company. “It is hoped that studies such as those in this issue would encourage wider appreciation and use,” of the two marketed radiation-antibody drugs—Zevalin and GlaxoSmithKline’s Bexxar.
The problem is that both drugs have been commercial flops. Zevalin, first introduced by Biogen Idec in 2002, never exceeded $20 million a year in annual sales. Cancer doctors have complained about the logistics of handing off patients to radiation specialists to give the drug, and what they consider inadequate reimbursement from Medicare.
Cell Therapeutics bought it in December for $10 million upfront and $20 million in more milestone payments, but its plan to capitalize on the drug hinges on persuading the FDA to expand approval from relapsed patients to this first-line treatment group. Cell Therapeutics has turned in that application, but it also has been running seriously low on cash, and its stock has collapsed to 40 cents a share. If Cell Therapeutics doesn’t survive the current economic crunch, I’m guessing somebody will find a promising drug on the clearance rack.
My husband was diagnosed with B-Cell Non-Hodgekins lymphoma 6 years ago. After going through the first line treatment, he relapsed in a year. In your article it stated that “cancer doctors have complained about the logistics of handing off patients to radiation specialists to give the drug, and what they consider inadequate reimbursement from Medicare.” Thank god our doctor, Dr. Abu Ahmed, of Huntington, NY was more concerned with my husband’s life than with being reimbursed or logistics. My husband just had another CAT Scan and it was even better than before. Zevalin needs the attention it deserves!


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Michael J. Dean is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Graduate School of Education. He is the concentration lead for the Learning Analytics program within the Master of Education program, both designing and delivering the curriculum. His research interests are quantitative methods in education in general, and more specifically in cognitive diagnostic assessment models and the measurement of nontraditional academic outcomes in education.
Previously, Dr. Dean served as a technical research advisor at the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization, and as the head of research at the International Baccalaureate, a nonprofit educational foundation offering international education programs to more than one million students worldwide. He has 20 plus years of experience as a teacher at the middle school, high school, and graduate levels in the U.S. and Cameroon.


Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows. The debates are fierce. What should the requirements of citizenship be? How can multi-ethnic states forge a collective identity around a common set of values, beliefs and practices? What are appropriate criteria for admission and rights and duties of citizens? This book includes nine case studies that investigate immigration and citizenship in Australia, the Baltic States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States. This complete collection of essays scrutinizes the concrete rules and policies by which states administer citizenship, and highlights similarities and differences in their policies. From Migrants to Citizens, the only comprehensive guide to citizenship policies in these liberal-democratic and emerging states, will be an invaluable reference for scholars in law, political science, and citizenship theory. Policymakers and government officials involved in managing citizenship policy in the United States and abroad will find this an excellent, accessible overview of the critical dilemmas that multi-ethnic societies face as a result of migration and global interdependencies at the end of the twentieth century.
Douglas Klusmeyer is a visiting scholar with the Migration Policicy Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society at American University.


As a female science fiction writer, feminist and a member of this year's judging panel for the Clarke Awards, I find myself in the interesting position of defending our choice of an all-male list. I'll start by saying that this was an outstanding year for submissions – 82 books in total, with some exceptional writing from authors of both genders from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
Much of this was quite some way into the "fantasy" bracket, but of the more SF-facing work, we found ourselves looking at a field dominated by big ideas, near – and far – future explorations of the solar system, and some very sharp takes on government intrusion into social affairs. I think the shortlist reflects the best of these three "themes" for 2012, demonstrating a return to both the "sensawunda" and to the critical thought that so many complain is lacking from contemporary SF.
As a feminist, I am opposed to including women writers in shortlists just because they are female: the work has got to hold its own in its field: we can discuss whether that field is a level one or not, but when you're judging a work, you're obliged to deal with what you've got, and to me, that means regardless of any ideological criteria.
This leads us into the wider conversation as to why, despite having a significantly enlarged entry this year (a 36 per cent increase on the 60 books submitted in 2012) we received disproportionately fewer from women, of which many were technically fantasy. We do not have to go far to look for the answer: over the last few years, the publishing industry in both Britain and the US (but particularly in the former) has been commissioning fewer and fewer SF novels by women. The running gag for some years now has been that the industry has had a Highlander approach to women who write SF: there can be only one, at least on contract.
Is this because women don't write SF? Patently not. Genre workshops are full of women writing all forms of the genre. As a freelance editor and writing mentor, I have seen what I regard as exceptional science fiction produced by women. But this doesn't seem to make it into pro publishing, and when it does, it tends to be reviewed in more negative terms than SF produced by men.
I am not, however, of the view that the industry is rife with sexism – at least not on an individual basis (the wider cultural context might be another issue). When I started writing, I was asked by at least two male editors to publish under my full name, not my initials (which I'd hoped to do due to having such a boring name), purely because of the issue of the visibility of women in SF. Throughout my career, I have had significant support from editors of both sexes, and from my peers. So this issue of publication and visibility is not a personal gripe: it's an observation about a disconnect between the work that women are doing, and its reflection in the wider arena of the industry. After all, women have been involved in the genre from its early days, ever since Margaret Cavendish published The Blazing World in 1666, through Clare Winger Harris and Gertrude Barrows Bennett in the 1920s and onwards (and if you've never heard of these writers, ask yourself why not, and you'll start appreciating the core of the problem).
This has been a catch-22 for female genre writers for a long time: as my fellow judge Juliet E McKenna points out, the lack of visibility and discoverability of female writers "perpetuates the misconception that women can't write SF – for people who don't understand that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". As Juliet also says, changes in bookselling are a factor too: new releases have a very short commercial shelf life. The average chain bookseller puts them on the shelves for a handful of weeks: if they don't sell, they're returned – but bookshop browsing in retail outlets for new releases is now skewed to front-of-house promotions. These are biased towards "safe bets which then become self-fulfilling prophecies: such as 'female SF doesn't sell, so we won't include that' – which guarantees it doesn't sell." This may even go on to affect submissions to publishers … Are women writers, in fact, caught up in an enormous feedback loop of diminished expectation?
This, in turn, feeds us into the much wider, and much-discussed, issue of the changing nature of publishing itself. There's a general view that the mainstream publishers are increasingly concentrating on big names – but that's not to decry the quality of those names. I would argue that the work of quite a lot of white male writers is outstanding, and I believe that to be reflected in the Clarke shortlist this year.


The new Gear 360 is much smaller than the original. It can now record at "real 4K" resolution and live-stream to YouTube, Facebook and Samsung VR at full HD.
The Gear 360 2017 is expected to ship in late April or May. Pricing wasn't available, but Samsung says it will be less expensive than its predecessor.


Oct. 8, 2018 1:31 PM PT2:31 PM MT3:31 PM CT4:31 PM ET20:31 GMT4:31 1:31 PM MST2:31 PM CST3:31 PM EST3:31 PM CT0:31 UAE (+1)16:31 ETNaN:� - Ajayi is done for the season due to a torn ACL.
Analysis: Ajayi, who was sidelined in Week 3 with a back injury, played nearly all of the Eagles' Weeek 5 loss to Minnesota. The Eagles have a quick turnaround with a game Thursday against the Giants, so it seems likely Wendell Smallwood will shoulder much of the running back responsibilities.
Oct. 7, 2018 3:43 PM PT4:43 PM MT5:43 PM CT6:43 PM ET22:43 GMT6:43 3:43 PM MST4:43 PM CST5:43 PM EST5:43 PM CT2:43 UAE (+1)18:43 ETNaN:� - Jay Ajayi ran for 29 yards on eight carries Sunday in the Philadelphia Eagles' 23-21 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. He added one reception for five yards and fumbled once.
Sep. 30, 2018 1:11 PM PT2:11 PM MT3:11 PM CT4:11 PM ET20:11 GMT4:11 1:11 PM MST2:11 PM CST3:11 PM EST3:11 PM CT0:11 UAE (+1)16:11 ETNaN:� - Jay Ajayi ran for 70 yards on 15 carries Sunday in the Philadelphia Eagles' 26-23 loss to the Tennessee Titans. He added three receptions for 11 yards.
Sep. 18, 2018 11:06 AM PT12:06 PM MT1:06 PM CT2:06 PM ET18:06 GMT2:06 11:06 AM MST12:06 PM CST1:06 PM EST1:06 PM CT22:06 UAE14:06 ETNaN:� - Ajayi, who sat out last week's game with a back injury, returned to practice Thursday. Coach Doug Pederson said Friday he's "good to go" for Week 4.
Analysis: Still, it's tough to project how much Ajayi will be able to carry the load against the Titans.
Sep. 16, 2018 1:24 PM PT2:24 PM MT3:24 PM CT4:24 PM ET20:24 GMT4:24 1:24 PM MST2:24 PM CST3:24 PM EST3:24 PM CT0:24 UAE (+1)16:24 ETNaN:� - Jay Ajayi ran for 23 yards and one touchdown on seven carries Sunday in the Philadelphia Eagles' 27-21 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He added one reception for four yards.
Sep. 6, 2018 8:43 PM PT9:43 PM MT10:43 PM CT11:43 PM ET3:43 GMT11:43 8:43 PM MST9:43 PM CST10:43 PM EST10:43 PM CT7:43 UAE (+1)23:43 ETNaN:� - Jay Ajayi ran for 62 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries Thursday in the Philadelphia Eagles' 18-12 win over the Atlanta Falcons.
Sep. 4, 2018 8:12 AM PT9:12 AM MT10:12 AM CT11:12 AM ET15:12 GMT23:12 8:12 AM MST9:12 AM CST10:12 AM EST10:12 AM CT19:12 UAE11:12 ETNaN:� - Ajayi (foot) is practicing and hopeful to play in Thursday's season opener against the Falcons.
Analysis: Ajayi is No. 1 on the depth chart at running back for the Eagles, and averaged 5.8 yards per carry in seven games with Philadelphia last season. Fantasy owners are hopeful he can find the end zone a bit more this season after scoring two total TDs a year ago.
Feb. 4, 2018 6:58 PM PT7:58 PM MT8:58 PM CT9:58 PM ET2:58 GMT10:58 7:58 PM MST8:58 PM CST9:58 PM EST8:58 PM CT6:58 UAE (+1)21:58 ETNaN:� - Jay Ajayi ran for 57 yards on nine carries Sunday in the Philadelphia Eagles' 41-33 win over the New England Patriots.


A convicted criminal has moved in with a married couple against their wishes after giving their address in court as his home.
Shane Sims, 19, has spent the last few days living with Brenda and Robert Cole after he was sentenced to a week's curfew for breaching a supervision order.
But the couple claim the first they knew about it was when Sims, a friend of their daughter, moved in on Thursday - followed by security contractors who put a box in a bedroom to monitor his movements with an ankle tag.
Sims' tag keeps him indoors between 7pm and 7am much to the horror of the Coles, who both have learning difficulties.
Mrs Cole, 47, said: "It's turned our lives upside down.
"He's taken over the whole place. He sprawls across the sofa and he's always in the bathroom when you need it.
"It's an absolute disgrace. They've let a criminal come into our home and there is nothing we can do about it.
"How can he get away with giving false details? Can crooks pick anywhere they like and just move in? Who needs to break into a house when the courts will do it all for you?
"When the men turned up and installed the tag box, I thought it was some kind of a joke. I told them there had been a mistake but they just said it wasn't their problem."
Sims appeared before magistrates last Thursday where he admitted breaching a two-year supervision order imposed for assault.
He gave the Coles' Bristol address as his bail address but the Probation Service did not verify it.
Sims claims he was told he could stay by the Coles' 16-year-old daughter Tanya after he fell out with his father.
He allegedly told Mrs Cole: "I'm staying here until the tag's off. There's f**k all you can do about it. The courts have told me to."
The court said it was looking into the situation but police said they could not act without a court warrant.
Sims said: "I said 'I'll be gone before Christmas' and I will be. I can't see what the problem is. They keep changing their minds. I don't even want to be here."
A spokeswoman for South Gloucestershire Council, whose social workers care for Mr and Mrs Cole, said: "We are seeking legal advice and doing all we can to resolve the situation."


Star Wars movies have become part of our pop-culture DNA over the past 40 years, being loved by everyone — even really famous people.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of George Lucas' original Star Wars, we asked a few movie luminaries about their first recollections of that famous galaxy far, far away.
"My first memories of it were probably getting some small toys. There was this Chewbacca toy — he has some belt thing he wears around his shoulder with small compartments on it, and in each of the compartments was a small Star Wars toy. My mom found one at a garage sale and bought it for me."
"Interviewing for the parts of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. It's on tape, it exists — anyone out there can go to YouTube and see it. I didn't have any idea what I was talking about, something about a Death Star and a Millennium Falcon. I was actually in the final running, but I needed to give an answer to ABC to do a Western show. I asked George, 'Do you think you're going to use me?' He said, 'I don't know if I'm going to put you with him, or him with those two guys.' I gotta go to work, so I did the Western. I clearly made the right choice (laughs)."
"I’m 48, so that means the first one I saw (Star Wars), I was 8 years old. It’s funny, I remember myself being younger than that ... and being blown away. Like, 'Wow. What is that?' I saw it in Spanish — Darth Vader was speaking Spanish and all that. Then at school, I didn't play as Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker, I played spaceships. I was a spaceship. That’s what I wanted to be. I don’t know why. It’s crazy, huh?"
"I was depressed for a month when I saw Star Wars (in 1977). When I'm thinking of doing Tristan and Isolde, this guy (Lucas) has just done this film and I need to have my head examined. It threw me completely because I had just done The Duellists, which I thought was pretty good — we won a prize at Cannes (Film Festival) but they didn't know how to release it, God bless them. My friend and producer David Putnam said, 'Let's go and see this film that's playing at the Chinese. I feel it may be quite interesting. It's by a guy called George Lucas.' ... We went in and the theater was absolutely shuddering with expectation and I thought, 'This is what film ought to be.' "
"I was very young and fell asleep in the theater during Empire Strikes Back. In my defense, everything was sold out, my dad took me to a late show, it was the first movie I ever saw in the theater and slept through half of it. The fact that I can tell you that with a sense of regret in my voice, I think you understand exactly how much I enjoy Star Wars."


Australian police will create a national photo database using existing identification records held by state authorities to identify terror suspects, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, fanning privacy concerns among rights groups.
Turnbull said the database was intended to accelerate the process of identifying potential terror suspects, replacing a time-consuming system that could take up to a week when national authorities requested information from their state counterparts.
‘It shouldn't take seven days to be able to verify someone's identity or seek to match the photo of someone who is a person of interest,’ Turnbull told reporters in Canberra.
‘It should be done seamlessly and in real time,’ he said.
The biometric database stops short of enabling real-time detection of suspects by scanning large crowds and alerting authorities when people on a security watch list are identified, similar to a system in place in China.
China leads the world in the use of facial detection, even allowing education authorities to use the system to catch students cheating on exams, but Australia will limit the new database to police and intelligence agencies only.
Turnbull said the system would not be connected to Australia's existing network of closed-circuit televisions, easing fears that authorities were seeking to create an automated system of detection.
Australia, a staunch US ally, is on heightened alert after a series of ‘lone wolf’ attacks in recent years, and has sent troops to fight alongside the United States and other allies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It is also on alert for dozens of home-grown radicals returning after fighting for Islamic State and other extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.
Turnbull said police were hampered by the current outdated, state-based system but Fergus Hanson, head of international cyber policy centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said the new biometric system raised concerns about potential abuses of power.
‘I think most Australians would agree that using facial recognition to track down terrorists is a good idea,’ he said.
‘People might say using it for tracking down murderers is a good idea, but what about people who haven't paid their parking fine?’ Hanson said.
The new database was unveiled as Turnbull met state leaders and announced Australia would now double the length of time terror suspects could be held by police to two weeks after their arrest.
Australia's detention laws came into focus earlier this year with the arrest of four men on suspicion of planning an ‘IS inspired’ plot to bring down a passenger plane.


The Business Roundtable has urged the Internal Revenue Service to reduce the paperwork companies will need to file to show Affordable Care Act compliance, saying planned reporting requirements are burdensome.
At the close of a comment period Friday on ACA employer reporting, the Business Roundtable—an association of more than 200 chief executive officers from major U.S. companies—told the IRS in a letter that businesses can show they provide health insurance that meets minimum value standards at a reasonable price to their employees without extensive documentation. Under the ACA provision known as the "employer mandate," companies with at least 50 full-time employees are required to offer affordable health insurance to their workers or risk fines after January 2015.
The letter--authored by Caesars Entertainment Corp. CEO Gary Loveman, the chairman of Business Roundtable's health and retirement committee--notes that the group's members understand the value of providing their employees with high-quality health insurance and already "have taken many complicated steps" to ensure their workers continue to have this coverage.


A sample of Novichok, the nerve agent allegedly used to poison the Skripals, was obtained by German intelligence back in the 1990s, local media report. The substance has since been studied and produced by NATO countries.
Western countries, including the US and the UK, have long been aware of the chemical makeup of the nerve agent known as Novichok, a group of German media outlets reported following a joint investigation. The inquiry, based on anonymous sources, gives new insights into the issue of the nerve agent said to have been used in the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, UK, in March.
Western governments were able to lay their hands on the formula of what is described as “one of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed” after the German foreign intelligence service, the BND, obtained a sample of the nerve agent from a Russian defector in the early 1990s.
A Russian scientist provided German intelligence with information on the development of Novichok for some time following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the German NDR and WDR broadcasters, as well as Die Zeit and Suedeutsche Zeitung dailies, report, citing unnamed sources within the BND. At some point, the man offered to bring the Germans a sample of the chemical agent in exchange for asylum for him and his family.
A sample was eventually smuggled by the wife of the scientist and sent by the Germans to a Swedish chemical lab, according to the reports. Following the sample analysis, the Swedish experts established the formula of the substance, which they then handed over to Germany.
By the order of the then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the BND then shared the formula with Berlin’s “closest allies,” including the intelligence services of the US and the UK. Later, the UK, the US and Germany reportedly created a special “working group” tasked with studying the substance, which also included representatives from France, Canada and the Netherlands.
“Some NATO countries were secretly producing the chemical agent in small quantities,” the four media outlets reported, adding that it was allegedly done to develop the necessary countermeasures. However, it remains unclear which particular states were involved in the Novichok production.
The sample of the nerve agent was particularly thoroughly studied by British specialists in the Porton Down laboratory. That is why they allegedly were so quick to determine the formula of the substance used to poison the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia back in March, the report says.
The British government accuses Russia of poisoning the Skripals in Salisbury using the nerve agent A230, which has since become known as Novichok. Part of the argument put forward by Prime Minister Theresa May for Moscow’s complicity is that Russia is the only country able to produce it. That narrative has remained largely unquestioned within the Western mainstream media.
However, Czech President Milos Zeman has recently admitted that his country did synthesize and test a nerve agent of the so-called Novichok family. Earlier, Russian officials named the Czech Republic – along with Slovakia, Sweden, the US and the UK itself – among the countries which have enough technical capabilities to produce the nerve agent.
The international chemical weapons watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), has repeatedly claimed it cannot identify the source of the agent that was allegedly used to poison the Skripals.


Disclaimer: The message that follows may cause many readers to roll their eyes, gag, or even renounce The Daily as a publication out of pure disgust. Nonetheless, the plight I hope to convey is one near and dear to my heart, and I hope you will hear me out.
With five seconds left on the clock in Super Bowl LIII, Los Angeles Rams kicker Greg “the Leg” Zuerlein lined up for a field goal that would cut the lead to a touchdown, leaving time for a potential onside kick recovery and Hail Mary attempt. My eyes glazed over the screen as I processed the result of the game. This kick didn’t really matter. The game was over; the Patriots had won their sixth Super Bowl championship in the eighteen years since my birth.
I knew we had won. I knew the Patriots had tied the record for Super Bowl championships by a franchise. I knew what this meant for the legacy of two men – Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. and Bill Belichick – whom I loved more than any other without the surname Tan. But I didn’t feel very excited. Sure I jumped up, handed out a few high-fives to my friends who couldn’t care less and did a lap around my house, but this reaction was quite subdued compared to my previous celebrations of Super Bowls XLIV and LI – thank you Malcolm Butler and Atlanta Falcons chokejob – and my mournings of Super Bowls XLII and XLVI – those darn New York Giants!
Maybe it was because the game was a snoozefest. After all, the game was 3-0 at halftime, and fans across America were searching for some semblance of action or excitement, which the halftime show unfortunately only exacerbated (yikes, that might have been the worst one yet). That couldn’t be it though; all I really cared about was that the Patriots won. So then why did I feel so indifferent? Indifferent probably isn’t the best way to describe it, but I felt satisfied and little more. What I would ultimately offer up as the answer to this perplexing emotional crisis is this: the city of Boston has won too much. Titletown has to stop.
In my lifetime, professional Boston sports teams have combined for a total of twelve championships – six for the Patriots, four for the Red Sox, one for the Celtics, and one for the Bruins (sure, I’ll throw them in there, even though hockey is really a Canadian sport). During the 21st century, Beantown has been the most successful urban area by far when it comes to bringing home hardware. At this point, Boston fans are just used to this.
Sure, there’s always a drive for more. That’s how greed works: the more successful you are, the more you come to expect it. But this mentality makes championships the norm, and the losses that much more crippling. If the Patriots had lost the most recent Super Bowl, I’m sure I would be devastated. Instead, as the GOAT raised his sixth Lombardi in Atlanta, I thought to myself: Yeah, this is pretty much how it goes.
Now I know I’m being completely unbearable right now and should just be thankful about what my sports teams have given me – after all, some fans only get a single championship in their whole life (look at our Sports Managing Editor Bobby Pragada, for example, a known Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia 76ers homer). However, step into my shoes – my Red Sox Vans – just for a moment.
Think of how boring it would get to win year after year with seemingly no competition. It’s no longer fun. Winning this much in this small of a window diminishes the value of any single championship. The experience of twelve titles in 18 years is akin to walking into a hotel with four different sets of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash; you think to yourself: what am I supposed to do with all of these? Truly, I don’t know. And although I will wear my Super Bowl LIII championship proudly, I think Boston needs another drought. 98 days just isn’t long enough.


(THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Among mouthwatering sweets, the jelly candies industry is thriving.
The surging popularity has led to diverse forms of the chewy sweets, delighting South Korean consumers not only with their taste but also their low calories.
Soft and chewy jelly products that were once perceived as treats for young children have now become one of the most favoured types of sweets among adults.
The popularity of gummies can also be spotted on social media platforms.
On Instagram, more than 382,000 posts had the hashtag #Jelly in Korean, while the Facebook page “Group of Jellychungs” - jelly lovers - had more than 28,000 followers. As for ever-evolving “meokbang” clips or eating videos on YouTube, those featuring gummies are also favourites among viewers.
“Candies are too hard and their sweetness can get cloying. Chocolates are sticky and too sweet for me. As for jellies, you just cannot stop chewing them,” Hwangbo said.
“That moment when your teeth slides into a gummy bear and how the sweet flavour floods your mouth - the tension you were feeling in your head and around your shoulders just goes away,” said Lee, 29.
The experiment was conducted by analysing the brainwaves of 36 adults, who had to chew gum for an hour every day for four weeks.
The favoured chewy texture has also led to the rise of konjac jellies among people who wish to have desserts but are concerned about high calories or their health.
“I love the soft and chewy texture. Konjac jelly products have become my favourite desserts because they carry almost no calories at all,” said Do Eun-young, 32.
The popularity of jelly products began to grow in South Korea when stores that specialise in imported snacks and candies started to pop up in 2014.
For entrepreneurs, it was an “affordable” business model that required a small space. As for South Korean consumers, the shops provided easier access to new and different products of the world.
As gummy sweets were not the mainstay of Korean confectionery companies at the time, the products from Haribo, a world-famous German confectionery company, and the like fascinated South Korean consumers with their jelly candies.
The jelly candies industry has seen tremendous growth in the past four years. According to Nielsen Korea, the domestic value of the gummy sweets market reached 184 billion won (S$224 million) as of last year, almost triple its size of 69 billion won in 2014.
To meet soaring demand, South Korean confectionery manufacturers are scrambling to introduce new gummy products.
What appears to be trending for Korean products are jelly candies that feature the flavours of other steady-seller snacks.
Lotte Confectionary’s Yoghurt Jelly, inspired by the familiar taste of the probiotic dairy product Yakult, has been a hit since it first came out in 2016. More than a million packs of the Yoghurt Jelly were sold within 50 days after its release.
The company also rolled out Kokkalcorn Jelly, which is inspired by salty corn chips, and gummies - Jaws Bar Jelly, Watermelon Jelly and Screwbar Jelly - that taste like its ice-cream products.
Orion Confectionery has been a front runner in the gummy industry here. Although less attention was paid to jelly candies in the 1990s, the company released Migummi, purple grape-flavoured gummies, in 1992. The product is still a steady-seller.
As Migummi was a hit when it was first introduced, the company made two other flavours, orange and apple, which were available for a limited period in the 1990s.
Amid recent demand for gummies, the company has released more flavours. In November, it introduced a peach version. Orange and green grape flavours followed in March and April, respectively.


Earnhardt’s parents gave him free reign to explore nature during his boyhood in the 1950s spent in Thomasville and the family cabin in Hickory Nut Gorge near Asheville.
Earnhardt’s father, who taught him how to fly fish, presented him with a fly tieing kit on his ninth birthday. When the fishing was slow, his dad, a textiles salesman, pointed out the bounties of nature. His mother supplied the books corresponding to his interests. Thus, the fire was ignited that has turned Earnhardt into one of the most respected and knowledgeable lovers of North Carolina’s natural world.
He is the writer, host and co-producer of public TV’s “Exploring North Carolina,” an Emmy-nominated series that has been on the air for 11 years. Earnhardt also has written two other books – “Fly Fishing the Tidewater” and “Boats for Fishermen.” A new book with the working title of “Native Intelligence” is expected in the next year or so.
Two men, the late William Friday, president of the UNC system, and the late Grier Martin, president of Davidson College, have had a profound influence on Earnhardt.
“I am amazed at how they could talk through any problem with civility,” he said.
Earnhardt wishes that today’s leaders possessed the same statesman qualities as Friday and Martin.
Does Earnhardt desire to enter politics? He has considered it and will not rule out the possibility.
In the meantime, he will continue to serve on numerous conservation and environmental boards. He also will be found fly fishing at the coast and in the mountains. And come winter, he will be duck hunting Down East with his buddies.


The 'geeks' on NHS Hack Day were given 24 hours to design a useful NHS app. The winner related to patient handover, a critical area.
Earlier this year I asked: Where have all the IT champions gone? My grumble was that, on one side, geeks in NHS IT departments are not pushy enough and, on the other, clinicians and NHS bureaucrats who had in their youth been techie-minded, had lost the fire in their bellies. The result is that nobody in authority in the NHS pushes the self-evident benefits of digital healthcare. This is bad for patients.
To my delight, I find I was wrong. There are hundreds of potential champions lurking around out of sight: 120 of them came out of the woodwork two weekends ago for the NHS Hack Day. They were inspired by Dr Carl Reynolds, a clinical fellow at the Department of Health, who is "frustrated by the software I use at work".
I know what he means. The clinical-hostile software was probably written by some programming clone, working for what Frank Dobson once called "the intergalactic rip-off merchants". These are people who rule the world of IT, but do not understand how to write a doctor-friendly, nurse-friendly or patient-friendly man-machine interface.
Carl's idea of NHS Hack Day was to assemble as many "geeks who love the NHS" as possible. They would include doctors, designers, developers and researchers. They were given the task of designing a useful app in 24 hours, and presenting it to the panel of judges. If successful, it could smash to bits the traditional ways of designing and procuring systems in the NHS, and make many of the large expensive private sector software houses bankrupt.
Sadly, I couldn't attend the hackday myself, but I read from various sources that the formula worked. The important thing, I gather, was that the doctors and geeks worked seamlessly together, chucking ideas and expertise back and forth in real time. This is a change from the traditional method of writing hospital software, where the design is filtered down like Chinese whispers to the programmers, who know nothing about what happens on a ward.
The hackday method is revolutionary for the NHS, only matched in the 1980s, when a lot of geeky GPs got fed up with clinical practice and wrote the first versions of the GP-friendly software we know and love today.
The whole point of the weekend was to be disruptive. The rules for the competition included a section called policy bombs. "Submissions that severely damage a government policy, or a well-funded project, simply by existing, should get an honourable mention (and their presentation sent to the appropriate bit of No 10)." I don't believe any submissions in fact earned this honourable mention, which was disappointing.
This may have been because the judges were establishment figures such as Sir Liam Donaldson, the former chief medical officer for England, and Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of GPs. The only non-establishment figure on the panel was Ben Goldacre, writer of the Guardian's Bad Science column, who suggested in a tweet that the NPfIT's £12bn should have been given to this lot. Clare Gerada was also impressed; she hit a nail on the head when said that this kind of event could "show where the gaps are". She was hoping to see solutions where "the usable meets a need". The weekend told the establishment figures something they did not know before: the way to write clinician-friendly software. For them, it was a road-to-Damascus moment.
The winner was called Patient List, a check list for doctors on handover in a ward. This is addressing a "key critical aspect" of the space where clinical mistakes are made, and patients are most at risk. It was timely for judges to select this app in a week when it was revealed that more inpatients die in the first week of August when doctors begin their new rotations, and clearly have difficulty with the handover process. But I remember seeing something like this checklist, when I went round the Cerner demonstration rooms a year or so ago. It is not really innovative.
I understand that the geeks on the hackday would have preferred the judges to have chosen a mobile app which scrapped the Drug Formulary for doctors to check their drug prescriptions. Yes, that would have been great, but an American friend told me a year ago that such apps were common in the United States. I want to see British innovation.
Daniel Curto Millet, one commentator on the event, regretted that nurses were not present, despite being some of the heaviest users of hospital IT. The apps were designed mostly for doctors. I agree, and would add to this that patients were not there either. I am ashamed that I was not there myself. Patients are the end users, particularly in the modern age when they are supposed to get control over their own health, and they also have mobiles to help them. The patient-friendly interface is something that the developers have yet to learn.
But I mustn't carp about my personal grumbles. The NHS Hack Day was a eureka moment in the history of IT in the NHS. I am delighted that follow-up hack days will happen in Liverpool and Oxford. I am delighted that the establishment types on the judging panel have seen the light. They will ensure that the hack day will not just become another NHS pilot, which will fade away and be forgotten. Above all, I am delighted that at last the self-evident truth that clinicians should drive NHS IT, aided and abetted by developers and geeks in real time, looks likely to sink in.
Beware, however, there are powerful vested interests: multinational corporations, Department of Health bureaucrats and hospital chief information officers, who will try to kill the hack day spirit at birth. You, the new NHS IT champions, have a fight on your hands.
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East Lansing City Council voted Monday to bring an income tax, combined with a property tax cut, to the Aug. 7 ballot.
EAST LANSING — City Council will go back to voters for approval of an income tax proposal in August after another version of the tax failed last year.
Council voted 5-0 Monday night to place a 12-year income tax proposal on the Aug. 7 ballot. The tax rate would be 1% for residents and 0.5% of non-residents who work in the city.
Approval of the income tax will trigger a 5-mill reduction in property taxes for city residents. The city anticipates the income tax, combined with a property tax reduction, will net $5 million annually.
Last November, 53% of city voters rejected that same income tax rate. That failed proposal, which was paired with a 5-mill property tax cut, did not include a time limit nor did it specify that revenue be dedicated to specific purposes.
Council members say the tax is necessary to offset a "financial crisis," fueled by factors including state funding cuts to local governments and nearly $200 million in looming pension and retiree healthcare costs.
The ballot language approved by council Monday stipulates that 60% of that revenue would go to supplemental payments for city pension liabilities. Twenty percent of the revenue would go toward police and fire and the remaining 20% would go to streets and sidewalks, water and sewer systems and parks and recreation.
That includes about $1.3 million to be cut from the general fund over the 2019 fiscal year, which begins July 1. Council is expected to adopt the city's 2019 budget on May 22.
Council members also discussed asking voters to approve property tax increases before deciding to instead put forth an income tax proposal.
MSU is, by far, East Lansing's largest employer at roughly 11,100 employees.
Last year, then-MSU President Lou Anna Simon haggled with city representatives in an attempt to block the income tax.
East Lansing indicated it would agree to pull the proposal from the ballot in exchange for Simon's offer of a $20 million payment in lieu of taxes from the university over eight years. MSU trustees ultimately rejected that deal, however.
Former Republican Gov. John Engler became the university's interim president in January following Simon's resignation. It's unclear whether Engler would offer incentives in exchange for the proposal's withdrawal.
The university does not have a position on an East Lansing income tax at this time, MSU spokeswoman Emily Guerrant said.
"Interim President Engler has not had any specific conversations with the city about the proposal," Guerrant wrote in an email Monday.
Council members said they formulated the latest version of the tax proposal, based on public input, including results from a city-commissioned survey.
The city paid $19,000 to Lansing-based firm Epic MRA for the poll, according to East Lansing City Manager George Lahanas.
Pollsters conducted telephone interviews last month with 300 registered East Lansing voters who said they planned to vote in the August election.
After hearing "limited information" about an income tax proposal, a slight majority (51%) of respondents said they would vote "yes," 33% said they would vote "no" and 8% were undecided. The poll's margin of error is 5.7%.
After hearing a "more detailed statement" about the proposal, more respondents (58%) said they would vote "yes."
Support increased for the income tax if voters were told that revenue would go to infrastructure, including roads and sidewalks, or if they were told that the tax would be in effect for no more than 12 years.
Among opponents of the income tax, the top reason cited was financial mismanagement by city government (29% of those planning to vote "no").
About 12% of prospective "no" voters said their taxes were already too high.
Twenty-two Michigan cities, including Lansing, impose an income tax, according to 2017 data from the state's Department of Treasury. Lansing's income tax is 1% for residents and 0.5% for non-residents working in the city.


Yesterday, the NY Times discussed Senator Obama’s penchant for using a quirk of the Illinois Statehouse to sidestep contentious issues that might jeopardize his reelection chances. Or, it’s simply a device that allows legislators there to voice legitimate concerns with a bill without voting either for or against it. You decide. It’s called voting “present,” as opposed to yea or nay, and it’s pretty confusing to figure out. Is it a dirty trick or a proof that he’s a smart cookie who simply knows how to be an effective politician?
In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted “present,” effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator.
Obama got a pass when going after her on Kyl-Lieberman, even though he voted for similar legislation earlier in the year, but more importantly, skipped the vote that would have put him on the record. He also has the exact same votes as Clinton on Iraq, and when Senators Kerry and Feingold offered legislation on the floor to redeploy, Mr. Obama made a speech against it. Not to mention that he never held a hearing on his own foreign relations subcommittee. He also skipped the MoveOn.org vote too. How convenient it is just not to show up and be counted. It’s a lot easier. But it’s not more principled, no matter your excuse. It’s triangulating. It is also quite calculating. Because what better way to hit your opponent than to duck a tough vote where she was counted, and you’d been counted months earlier, then rail against her because no one is paying attention to the facts.
So far, the issue hasn’t got much traction (though Senator Clinton’s team has bought attack sites with names like votingpresent.com) but these are slow news days. Come January, I’ll bet the Obama folks will have spent their holidays coming up with plausible justifications for why he voted “present” rather than “no” on trying black kids as young as 15 as adults. A tough spot for any politician but this is a major part of his whole appeal – the earnest, young straight-talker versus the jaded old school Dems. Bravo for admitting to your drug use and wastrel days, now tell us why you voted “present” if you’re going to keep talking about how your opponent voted for the Iraq war. I’m willing to believe he had his reasons – and that maybe they’re reasons he regrets now – just tell me what they are.


When the court-ordered desegregation of the Boston Public School system led to controversial practice of busing in the 1970s, the local and national media covered it prolifically. Pictures of protests and school buses flanked by police officers made for eye-catching footage. But as Phase II of Busing approached in September of 1975, some residents felt they were being unfairly represented. Citizens of Charlestown complained that “the national media is always throwing up that we’re a violent people” as Newsweek reporters camped out to see “the second act of Boston’s national spectacle.” To some extent, the Boston Phoenix, did the same. However, very few pictures of anti-busing protests appear in the paper. Those that do create an impact; one chilling example however shows a group of young white men standing around a burning effigy captioned with a racial slur published on September 16th.


WAYNE ROONEY could be the latest character on Angry Birds - after the mobile app was unveiled as the club's sleeve sponsor.
The Premier League began allowing sleeve sponsors this season and the Merseyside club struck a deal with the creators of the vastly-popular app over the summer.
And Rovio, the game's developers, have reportedly decided to make former Manchester United striker Rooney a character in their game.
According to the Press Association, Everton could feature in a new version of Angry Birds in the future.
Ville Heijari, Rovio Entertainment's chief marketing officer said: “We have a history of doing Angry Bird homages of real-life characters so obviously now we are in collaboration (with Everton) we can work together to bring interesting characters and profiles into the games.
“Potentially Wayne Rooney would be involved.
Everton's partnership with the Finnish company may have brought howls of derision from certain sections of the fanbase due to the game's main character being a red bird - the colour of cross-city rivals Liverpool - but Premier League boardrooms up and down the country the club have been privately congratulated for securing such an innovative deal.
Everton's head of commercial Alan McTavish added: “For us this is a real plus in that we have been able to secure a brand of the level of Rovio with the level of brand awareness they have and the undoubted market-leading following they have.
Five versions of the Angry Birds game - which has had 3.7billion downloads since 2009, three billion YouTube views and has 25million Facebook followers - are in the top 100-grossing games on the Apple platform in the United States.
Everton hope a similar sort of exposure can do wonders for them with Rovio's history of global collaborations including Apple, Sony, Fox, NASA and McDonald's.
The deal is the latest in a string - from the training ground to a new shirt sponsor - which has brought in between £80million to £90m to the Toffees over the last two years, which is significant even in an era of huge television contracts and the arrival of billionaire owner Farhad Moshiri.
Rooney was furious over the weekend after being elbowed by Bournemouth defender Simon Francis.
He then had blood streaming from his left eye as a result and was taken off after 55 minutes.


Nurses are lifelong learners – and you, being the ambitious professional you are, have decided to take your career to the next level.
Every successful journey starts with a plan.
Whether you have set your sights on research or advanced practice, being both prepared and informed will help you more successfully navigate the graduate nursing admissions process. As the director of graduate student services at UB School of Nursing, I would like to offer a few tips about applying to a graduate nursing program.
Explore the different types of graduate nursing degrees and choose the path that is right for you and what you hope to accomplish.
Research the various fields of expertise and pursue your passion.
Find a mentor in your desired position or field of expertise and ask them for advice on effectively working toward that position.
Research schools to determine the best fit for you, personally and professionally. Factors to consider include program length, course offerings, cost, location, clinical placement sites, faculty engagement and research opportunities.
2. Build a relationship with the schools you are considering.
Ask about the qualities they seek in a candidate.
Ask specific, targeted questions that show that you have done your homework.
Ask to set up a time to meet the faculty, students or an admissions representative. Not only are they interested in meeting you, you should be interested in meeting them to determine if the program is the best fit for you.
3. Follow instructions and advice.
When you are ready to apply, be sure to follow each school’s specific application instructions.
Pay special attention to deadlines for both the application and the supplemental materials. Don’t wait until the last minute to submit!
Carefully review and include the required supplemental application materials. Pay attention to details such as specific requirements for personal statements, letters of intent, letters of recommendation, resume/vita and transcripts. Be sure to proofread your written statements.
If a standardized test is required, determine the best time to take the exam. Most schools ask that you submit your test results prior to the application deadline, so plan accordingly – many exams take at least 10 to 15 business days to score.
The application process, from your initial inquiry to application submission, can be lengthy. And, waiting for the decision can be stressful. Stay positive!
Many nursing programs are competitive and can only accommodate a small, select group of students each year. With careful planning and research, though, you can make your application stand out among the rest and find the best program for your career path!
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David Stevens – the former commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration and president of the Mortgage Bankers Association – has joined the board of directors at Dynex Capital.
Dynex is a real estate investment trust that invests in mortgage-backed securities on a leveraged basis. Stevens will also sit on its investment committee, Dynex said.
Stevens served as MBA president for seven years before stepping down in September, citing the need to spend time with family and tend to his health after entering cancer remission.
He also served as FHA commissioner under the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and worked previously as Long & Foster Companies, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and Freddie Mac.
“It is with great pleasure that we welcome David to the Board. He brings an important skill set to our Board with his broad and unique career experiences, combining significant knowledge of real estate finance, mortgage banking and public policy related to the U.S. housing finance system accrued over more than 35 years,” said Michael Hughes, Chairman of the Board.
Dynex President and CEO Byron Boston said Stevens' experience will be beneficial if the government reduces its GSE footprint and the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, as anticipated.


On the Cordoba front during the Spanish Civil War, a Loyalist fighter is killed in action in September 1936.
It's a rare picture that encompasses an era; even the most justly famous photographs seldom manage the feat. Eisenstaedt's "V-J Day in Times Square," for instance, perfectly illustrated the rapturous mood of a nation — and much of the world — at the end of the Second World War, but no one would argue that the image somehow captured the five-year war itself. Bill Eppridge's haunting picture of Robert Kennedy's assassination in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen in June 1968 distilled the darkest, most murderous currents of the Age of Aquarius, but no one says of that one photograph: "That was the Sixties."
So, yes, it's phenomenally rare for a single photo to evoke both a discrete moment, and an epoch. But that is exactly what Robert Capa's now-iconic "Falling Soldier" manages to do; there, in one frame, in a picture made at the very moment a Loyalist fighter in Spain is shot and killed, one encounters a distillation of the Fascist violence — and the brutally extinguished Republican sense of hope for a new, free, egalitarian society — that ultimately came to define the Spanish Civil War.
Before Capa's falling soldier became Capa's "Falling Soldier," however — that is, before his picture acquired the patina of reverence, controversy (many people, after all, still believe the scene was staged) and downright myth that have accrued through the years — the photograph was, in fact, just that: a photograph in a magazine. Period.
Here, seven decades after the end of the Spanish Civil War, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Nationalists conquered Madrid after a three-year siege, LIFE.com commemorates Capa's photograph — not as an iconic visual document, but as a single picture, published three-quarters of a century ago on page 19 of a weekly magazine that, at the time, had not yet celebrated its first year in print.
After Capa's photo appeared in LIFE, Franco went on to rule Spain for four decades — a dictator who overthrew a legitimate, elected government and not only survived, but thrived in the face of international complacency. Capa covered four more wars after Spain and died, killed by a landmine, camera in hand, in Southeast Asia in 1954.
Today, "Falling Soldier" is regarded as one of the 20th century's indispensable photographs.


In this file image from Friday, March 1, 2019, photo signs for employment opportunities are posted at an exit ramp off of Interstate 79 in Zelienople, Pa.
Job creation posted a solid rebound in March, with nonfarm payrolls expanding by 196,000 and the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.8%, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday.
That was better than the 175,000 Dow Jones estimate and comes after a dismal February that had economists wondering whether the decade-old economic expansion was nearing an end. The unemployment rate met expectations.
Wage gains fell off the recent strong pace, increasing just 0.14 percent for the month and 3.2 percent year over year, below expectations of the 3.4 percent pace from last month. The average work week increased by 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours.
A broader gauge of unemployment that also counts discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons also was unchanged at 7.3%. The measure, known as the “real unemployment rate” is down from 7.9% a year ago.
Job gains were fairly broad based.
Health care led with 49,000 new workers, professional and technical services added 34,000 and food and drinking establishments contributed 27,000. Construction rose by 16,000 but manufacturing saw 6,000 jobs lost.
Watch five experts break down the March jobs report from CNBC.
The numbers came a month after February’s jaw-dropping gain of just 20,000, which was revised up to 33,000 in the March report. January’s big increase of 311,000 also got pushed up a nudge to 312,000, bringing the average gain over the past three months to 180,000. That’s still solid though below the 233,000 average monthly gain for all of 2018.
Household survey data showed there were 201,000 fewer people counted as employed, but that came with a contraction of the labor force by 224,000. Those counted as not in the labor force increased by 369,000 to 95.6 million.The labor force participation rate declined to 63%, down 0.2 percentage points to its lowest level since November.
The total employment level nudged down to 156.7 million, while those counted as unemployed also edged lower to just over 6.2 million.
Broadly speaking, the report is likely to restore some confidence in a labor market that had looked shaky and an economy whose prospects were equally uncertain. Wednesday’s private payrolls reading from ADP and Moody’s Analytics was well below market expectations, indicating that more bad news could be on the horizon. Early-year data on retail sales and housing looked bad from a consumer standpoint, though some of those numbers have improved lately.
Economic conditions now look more favorable than they did at the start of the year. First-quarter GDP is projected to rise 2.1%, according to the Atlanta Fed, which had been tracking gains of just 0.2% only a few weeks ago. Fourth-quarter GDP increased by 2.2%, bringing the 2018 calendar year increase to 2.9%.
Federal Reserve officials continue to watch the jobs numbers closely as well. The central bank recently has indicated that it is on extended pause for more rate hikes as it evaluates the data coming through.
Market pricing currently sees about 50-50 chance the Fed cuts its benchmark interest rate before the end of the year. But that, too, has been in flux. By the Chicago Fed’s measure, financial conditions are at the easiest in 25 years, indicating little need for the central bank to provide more accommodation.


[prMac.com] Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Soluble Apps is thrilled to announce that "MailShot Pro", their unique group emailing solution, is the only app to enable sending emails to large groups with Siri, just as easily as to a single contact.
Siri is amazing. You can use it to create and send emails to the contacts in your address book, just by asking. But this only works with the built-in apps that Apple provide, so if you wanted to use it to send email with a conventional group email app, for example, you'd be out of luck.
The unique way in which MailShot integrates with the apps on your device to provide group email everywhere, enables you to use Siri to send email to groups of friends or colleagues as easily as you would to a single contact. Just say "send email to groupname" and it creates an email to everyone in "groupname". Its as easy as that!
MailShot creates a special contact in your address book for each group- send an email to that contact and it gets sent to the whole group. This means it also works directly from apps like Photos and Maps, as well as from the Mail app itself. And because it integrates with Mail, it is also the only easy way to forward received emails on to your groups, with all attachments intact.
Since its original release in February 2011, MailShot has been continually updated to add additional features based on requests from its tens of thousands of users, such as turning your address book groups into MailShot groups, and fast contact import from the addressbook.
MailShot is available on the App Store in two versions. MailShot Pro 1.50 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category. A try-before-you-buy free version of MailShot is also available in the App Store, which can be upgraded to full capabilities through an in-app purchase.
Soluble Applications is a development studio targeting mobile devices. The studio was founded in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 2010 by Peter Johnson, a seasoned veteran with over 25 years' experience in the videogames industry as programmer, producer and studio head working on console titles for world-leading games publishers including 2K Games, Atari and Ubisoft. Copyright (C) 2011 Soluble Applications. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.