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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Sporting Kansas City retook the lead in the crowded MLS Eastern Conference race, beating the Columbus Crew 2-1 Wednesday night on an own goal by defender Julius James.
Kei Kamara scored on a first-half penalty kick for Sporting (11-9-11), which broke a two-match winless streak. Kansas City has 44 points, two ahead of Houston and three ahead of the Crew.
Columbus (11-12-8) lost its third straight and is 0-5-1 in its last six matches.
The own goal came in the 74th minute, when James headed a Kansas City throw-in back and over keeper Will Hesmer.
Kamara put Kansas City up 1-0 in the 15th minute after Chad Marshall brought down C.J. Sapong in the penalty area.
Emilio Renteria equalized for the Crew in the 34th, scoring on an assist from Robbie Rogers.
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Messi moving on up
Roundup: Lionel Messi tied for second on the Barcelona career scoring list, getting a goal in each half Wednesday night to lead the defending champs to a 5-0?win at BATE Borisov of Belarus in the European Champions League.
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Opinion: In 2009, Carlos Tevez was hailed with a giant billboard reading: "Welcome to Manchester." Now, it could be time for a new poster: "Good Riddance."
NIH to fund development of K-12 neuroscience education programsPublic release date: 27-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: NIDA Press Team media@nida.nih.gov 301-443-6245 NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
Selected grantees will use neuroscience to engage young people in science
Eight investigators across the United States will receive funding over the next five years to develop innovative neuroscience education programs for K-12 students and their teachers. Activities described within some proposals include using touch tablet technology to teach neurobiology, and the creation of a 1,400-square-foot interactive learning center. These grants are funded by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Science Education Award and the Science Education Partnership Award Program of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health and administrator of the grants, made the announcement.
These educational programs aim to increase science literacy and understanding as well as an interest in science among K-12 students and their teachers. This is particularly important, since the most recent trends published by the U.S. Department of Education indicate that U.S. eighth graders score lower than students from nine other countries in science knowledge and skills. The project seeks to close this gap as well as fulfill the NIH mission to ensure that adequate numbers of students are entering science education tracks and eventually pursuing careers in biomedical science.
"Creative strategies are needed to ensure that the United States maintains its competiveness in the scientific field," said NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, M.D. "Since neuroscience cuts across many different disciplines and can help in understanding all kinds of behavior, it is the ideal vehicle for capturing people's interest and engaging them in scienceat any age."
Awardees are as follows:
Steve Snyder, Ph.D., The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Project: Neuroscience in Your World: A Partnership for Neuroscience Education Across the K-12 Spectrum
This collaborative effort between The Franklin Institute and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania will develop neuroscience programs at The Franklin Institute, a high school course, and a digital toolkit of neuroscience educational materials to engage K-12 students and teachers in learning about the importance of neuroscience in their world.
Louisa Stark, Ph.D., University of Utah, Salt Lake City Project: The Neuroscience of Our Senses
Dr. Stark's group plans to develop novel approaches for teaching students about the neurobiology of the five senses, using devices such as the iPad, the Motorola Xoom and interactive whiteboards.
Leslie Miller, Ph.D., William Marsh Rice University, Houston Project: Virtual Clinical Trials: Advances in Neuroscience
This project aims to develop a game-based website that will educate middle school students about the scientific process of discovery, testing, and adoption of new treatments that emerge from neuroscience research as well as engage students in interactive role play across a variety of neuroscience careers.
Dina Markowitz, Ph.D., University of Rochester, N.Y. Project: Neuroscience Activities for Hands-on Learning
The goal of this project is to develop, field test, disseminate and evaluate the use of innovative hands-on neuroscience activities that high school biology teachers can easily integrate into existing curriculums.
Susanna Cunningham, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle Project: How Do I Learn: Neurosciences Advances Inform Learning
This project will engage middle school science teachers, students and parents/community groups in an innovative program of neuroscience education focused on answering the questions, "How do I learn?" and "How do I teach students about how they learn?"
Nancy Moreno, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Project: The Learning Brain - Interactive Inquiry for Teachers and Students
Dr. Moreno's group will develop, evaluate and disseminate new science and health teaching resources for elementary school audiences nationwide, focused on emerging areas in neuroscience, with connections to reading/language arts.
Eric Chudler, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle Project: Sowing the Seeds of Neuroscience
This project will give middle school students an opportunity to study how chemicals in plants and herbs, such as Gingko biloba or the caffeine in tea leaves, affect health and behavior. These investigations aim to improve student understanding about neuroscience and encourage them to pursue careers in biomedical sciences.
Michael Kavanaugh, Ph.D., University of Montana, Missoula Project: The Big Sky Brain Project
The University of Montana will collaborate with the Exploratorium in San Francisco to create a neuroscience learning center called the Brainzone, which will feature four exhibits, a computer lab, and a working laboratory. This exhibit will also be used in a mobile program that brings hands-on science education projects to isolated, underserved, rural and tribal schools.
"These innovative NIH-funded awards enable teams of researchers and educators to engage students in the creativity and excitement of cutting-edge research in human health and disease," said NCRR Director Barbara M. Alving, M.D.
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The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is a cooperative effort among the 16 NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices that support neuroscience research. By pooling resources and expertise, the Blueprint identifies cross-cutting areas of research, and confronts challenges too large for any single Institute or Center.
For more information about the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, go to http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIDA supports most of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. The Institute carries out a large variety of programs to inform policy and improve practice. Fact sheets on the health effects of drugs of abuse and information on NIDA research and other activities can be found on the NIDA home page at www.drugabuse.gov. To order publications in English or Spanish, call NIDA's DrugPubs research dissemination center at 1-877-NIDA-NIH or 240-645-0228 (TDD) or fax or email requests to 240-645-0227 or drugpubs@nida.nih.gov. Online ordering is available at http://drugpubs.drugabuse.gov. NIDA's media guide can be found at http://drugabuse.gov/mediaguide/.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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NIH to fund development of K-12 neuroscience education programsPublic release date: 27-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: NIDA Press Team media@nida.nih.gov 301-443-6245 NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
Selected grantees will use neuroscience to engage young people in science
Eight investigators across the United States will receive funding over the next five years to develop innovative neuroscience education programs for K-12 students and their teachers. Activities described within some proposals include using touch tablet technology to teach neurobiology, and the creation of a 1,400-square-foot interactive learning center. These grants are funded by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Science Education Award and the Science Education Partnership Award Program of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health and administrator of the grants, made the announcement.
These educational programs aim to increase science literacy and understanding as well as an interest in science among K-12 students and their teachers. This is particularly important, since the most recent trends published by the U.S. Department of Education indicate that U.S. eighth graders score lower than students from nine other countries in science knowledge and skills. The project seeks to close this gap as well as fulfill the NIH mission to ensure that adequate numbers of students are entering science education tracks and eventually pursuing careers in biomedical science.
"Creative strategies are needed to ensure that the United States maintains its competiveness in the scientific field," said NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, M.D. "Since neuroscience cuts across many different disciplines and can help in understanding all kinds of behavior, it is the ideal vehicle for capturing people's interest and engaging them in scienceat any age."
Awardees are as follows:
Steve Snyder, Ph.D., The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Project: Neuroscience in Your World: A Partnership for Neuroscience Education Across the K-12 Spectrum
This collaborative effort between The Franklin Institute and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania will develop neuroscience programs at The Franklin Institute, a high school course, and a digital toolkit of neuroscience educational materials to engage K-12 students and teachers in learning about the importance of neuroscience in their world.
Louisa Stark, Ph.D., University of Utah, Salt Lake City Project: The Neuroscience of Our Senses
Dr. Stark's group plans to develop novel approaches for teaching students about the neurobiology of the five senses, using devices such as the iPad, the Motorola Xoom and interactive whiteboards.
Leslie Miller, Ph.D., William Marsh Rice University, Houston Project: Virtual Clinical Trials: Advances in Neuroscience
This project aims to develop a game-based website that will educate middle school students about the scientific process of discovery, testing, and adoption of new treatments that emerge from neuroscience research as well as engage students in interactive role play across a variety of neuroscience careers.
Dina Markowitz, Ph.D., University of Rochester, N.Y. Project: Neuroscience Activities for Hands-on Learning
The goal of this project is to develop, field test, disseminate and evaluate the use of innovative hands-on neuroscience activities that high school biology teachers can easily integrate into existing curriculums.
Susanna Cunningham, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle Project: How Do I Learn: Neurosciences Advances Inform Learning
This project will engage middle school science teachers, students and parents/community groups in an innovative program of neuroscience education focused on answering the questions, "How do I learn?" and "How do I teach students about how they learn?"
Nancy Moreno, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Project: The Learning Brain - Interactive Inquiry for Teachers and Students
Dr. Moreno's group will develop, evaluate and disseminate new science and health teaching resources for elementary school audiences nationwide, focused on emerging areas in neuroscience, with connections to reading/language arts.
Eric Chudler, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle Project: Sowing the Seeds of Neuroscience
This project will give middle school students an opportunity to study how chemicals in plants and herbs, such as Gingko biloba or the caffeine in tea leaves, affect health and behavior. These investigations aim to improve student understanding about neuroscience and encourage them to pursue careers in biomedical sciences.
Michael Kavanaugh, Ph.D., University of Montana, Missoula Project: The Big Sky Brain Project
The University of Montana will collaborate with the Exploratorium in San Francisco to create a neuroscience learning center called the Brainzone, which will feature four exhibits, a computer lab, and a working laboratory. This exhibit will also be used in a mobile program that brings hands-on science education projects to isolated, underserved, rural and tribal schools.
"These innovative NIH-funded awards enable teams of researchers and educators to engage students in the creativity and excitement of cutting-edge research in human health and disease," said NCRR Director Barbara M. Alving, M.D.
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The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is a cooperative effort among the 16 NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices that support neuroscience research. By pooling resources and expertise, the Blueprint identifies cross-cutting areas of research, and confronts challenges too large for any single Institute or Center.
For more information about the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, go to http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIDA supports most of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. The Institute carries out a large variety of programs to inform policy and improve practice. Fact sheets on the health effects of drugs of abuse and information on NIDA research and other activities can be found on the NIDA home page at www.drugabuse.gov. To order publications in English or Spanish, call NIDA's DrugPubs research dissemination center at 1-877-NIDA-NIH or 240-645-0228 (TDD) or fax or email requests to 240-645-0227 or drugpubs@nida.nih.gov. Online ordering is available at http://drugpubs.drugabuse.gov. NIDA's media guide can be found at http://drugabuse.gov/mediaguide/.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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EUGENE, Ore. ? Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found pot on a passenger.
The discovery was not surprising in a marijuana-friendly state like Oregon, but the 72-year-old woman?s defense? She insisted the weed was legal and given to her by none other than the federal government.
A series of phone calls from a dubious trooper and his supervisor to federal authorities determined the glaucoma patient was not joking ? the U.S. government does grow and provide pot to a select few people across the United States.
For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing patients with some of the highest-grade marijuana around as part of a little-known program that grew out of a 1976 court settlement and created the country?s first legal pot smoker. The program once provided 14 people government pot. Now, there are four left.
Advocates for legalizing marijuana or treating it as a medicine say the program is a glaring contradiction in the nation?s 40-year war on drugs ? maintaining the federal ban on pot while at the same time supplying it.
Government officials say there is no contradiction. The program is no longer accepting new patients and public health authorities have concluded that there was no scientific value to it, Steven Gust of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse told The Associated Press. The government has only continued to supply the marijuana ?for compassionate reasons,? Gust said.
One of the recipients is Elvy Musikka, the chatty Oregon woman. A vocal marijuana advocate, Musikka relies on the pot to keep her glaucoma under control. She entered the program in 1988 and said that her experience with marijuana is proof that it works as a medicine.
They ?won?t acknowledge the fact that I do not have even one aspirin in this house,? she said, leaning back on her couch, glass bong cradled in her hand. ?I have no pain.?
Marijuana is getting a look from states around the country considering calls to repeal decades-old marijuana prohibition laws. There are 16 states that have medical marijuana programs. In the three West Coast states, advocates are readying tax-and-sell or other legalization programs.
Marijuana was legal for much of U.S. history and was recognized as a medicine in 1850. Opposition to it began to gather and, by 1936, 48 states had passed laws regulating pot, fearing it could lead to addiction.
Anti-marijuana literature and films such as the infamous ?Reefer Madness? helped fan those fears. Eventually, pot was classified among the most harmful of drugs, meaning it had no usefulness and a high potential for addiction.
In 1976, a federal judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must provide Robert Randall of Washington, D.C., with marijuana because of his glaucoma ? no other drug could effectively combat his condition. Randall became the nation?s first legal pot smoker since the drug?s prohibition.
Eventually, the government created its program as part of a compromise over Randall?s care in 1978, long before a single state passed a medical marijuana law. What followed were a series of petitions from people such as Musikka to join the program.
President George H.W. Bush?s administration, getting tough on crime and drugs, stopped accepting new patients in 1992. Many of the patients who had qualified had AIDS, and they were dying.
The AP asked the agency that administers the program, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, for documents showing how much marijuana has been sent to patients since the first patient in 1976.
The agency supplied full data for 2005-2011, which showed that during that period the federal government distributed more than 100 pounds of high-grade marijuana to patients.
Agency officials said records related to the program before 2005 had been destroyed, but were able to provide scattered records for a couple of years in the early 2000s.
The four patients remaining in the program estimate they have received a total of 584 pounds from the federal government over the years. On the street, that would be worth more than $500,000.
All of the marijuana comes from the University of Mississippi, where it is grown, harvested and stored.
Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly, who directs the operation, said the marijuana was a small part of the crop the university has been growing since 1968 for all cannabis research in the U.S. Among the studies are the pharmaceutical uses for synthetic versions of pot?s psychoactive ingredient, THC.
ElSohly said the four patients are getting pot with about 3 percent THC. He said 3 percent is about the range patients have preferred in blind tests.
The marijuana is then sent from Mississippi to a tightly controlled North Carolina lab, where they are rolled into cigarettes. And every month, steel tins with white labels are sent to Florida and Iowa. Packed inside each is a half-pound of marijuana rolled into 300 perfectly-wrapped joints.
With Musikka living in Oregon, she is entitled to more legal pot than anyone in the nation because she?s also enrolled in the state?s medical marijuana program. Neither Iowa nor Florida has approved marijuana as a medicine, so the federal pot is the only legal access to the drug for the other three patients.
The three other people in the program range in ages and doses of marijuana provided to them, but all consider themselves an endangered species that, once extinct, can be brushed aside by a federal government that pretends they don?t exist.
All four have become crusaders for the marijuana-legalization movement. They?re rock stars at pro-marijuana conferences, sought-after speakers and recognizable celebrities in the movement.
Irv Rosenfeld, a financial adviser in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has been in the program since November 1982. His condition produces painful bone tumors, but he said marijuana has replaced prescription painkillers.
Rosenfeld likes to tell this story: In the mid-1980s, the federal government asked his doctor for an update on how Rosenfeld was doing. It was an update the doctor didn?t believe the government was truly interested in. He had earlier tried to get a copy of the previous update and was told the government couldn?t find it, Rosenfeld said.
So instead of filling out the form, the doctor responded with a simple sentence written in large, red letters: ?It?s working.?
September 26, 2011 By Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor
Investor interest in the Seattle apartment market continues to grow and MG Properties Group is among the latest to snap up a property. The company purchased the 146-unit Park at Northgate from Triad Villa Roma L.L.C. for $22.3 million.
With the assistance of George Elkins Mortgage Banking Co., MGPG secured a loan of approximately $17.4 million from Guggenheim Commercial Real Estate and Pillar Multifamily L.L.C for the acquisition. ?We were able to overcome some complex challenges in structuring the financing for the purchase and locked in long-term, fixed-rate financing at an attractive interest rate,? Mark Gleiberman, president of MGPG, said. The multifamily housing owner and operator relied on its Private Capital Group, a cluster of high net worth investors, to complete the financing. Northgate last traded hands in 1998, when Triad Villa Roma picked up the property for nearly $9.5 million.
Carrying the address of 10735 Roosevelt Way NE, the apartment community sits near downtown Seattle and about five miles from the University of Washington. Originally constructed in 1967, it consists of six three-story buildings on 5.5 acres. MGPG plans to invest roughly $2 million to complete a renovation program that had gotten underway prior to the purchase. Approximately 90 percent of the presently available residences are occupied. The company anticipates that the upgrades will help lure renters on the hunt for high-quality accommodations at a middle-market price.
With the acquisition of Northgate, MGPG now has three Seattle properties in its portfolio, which spans the states of Arizona, California and Washington. The company isn?t the only one eager to get a piece of the city?s apartment market, where the fundamentals are highly desirable. ?A lot of what?s driving today?s investment sales market is a lack of interest in buying homes, record low interest rates, the rent growth that is taking place and a low level of construction,? Philip Assouad, a vice president of brokerage services with commercial real estate services firm Kidder Mathews, told Commercial Property Executive. ?In 2010, new supply was at a 40-year low. And with the housing market being so distressed, apartment owners are starting to see rents pick up.?
Increasing demand for rentals in metropolitan Seattle is predominantly the result of the city?s recovering jobs market. ?Our major employers are Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation just opened its new headquarters so that will be a big shot in the arm,? Assouad added.
As more and more investors avail themselves of opportunities in the greater Seattle market?for an aggregate $161.6 million, Essex Property Trust Inc. just bought the 63-unit Bernard in Seattle and the 882-unit Redmond Hill, the largest apartment complex in the State of Washington?price tags are going higher and higher. ?It?s fair to say that we?re back to 2005 or 2006 pricing,? Giovanni Napoli, a vice president with Kidder Mathews, said, speaking to CPE. ?There?s been a 20 to 25 percent growth in value over the last year, 30 percent if you?re talking core downtown locations in Bellevue or Seattle.?
However, investors are not so keen on putting dollars on the table for new projects. ?People are more comfortable acquiring existing assets because of the perceived safety as opposed to new developments, which have a higher risk.? Napoli noted.
On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables hemorrhaged out onto the Internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department career by State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) and told I was under investigation for allegedly disclosing classified information. The evidence of my crime? A posting on my blog from the previous month that included a link to a WikiLeaks document already available elsewhere on the Web.
As we sat in a small, gray, windowless room, resplendent with a two-way mirror, multiple ceiling-mounted cameras, and iron rungs on the table to which handcuffs could be attached, the two DS agents stated that the inclusion of that link amounted to disclosing classified material. In other words, a link to a document posted by who-knows-who on a public website available at this moment to anyone in the world was the legal equivalent of me stealing a Top Secret report, hiding it under my coat, and passing it to a Chinese spy in a dark alley.
The agents demanded to know who might be helping me with my blog ("Name names!"), if I had donated any money from my upcoming book on my wacky year-long State Department assignment to a forward military base in Iraq, and if so to which charities, the details of my contract with my publisher, how much money (if any) I had been paid, and -- by the way -- whether I had otherwise "transferred" classified information.
Had I, they asked, looked at the WikiLeaks site at home on my own time on my own computer? Every blog post, every Facebook post, and every Tweet by every State Department employee, they told me, must be pre-cleared by the Department prior to "publication." Then they called me back for a second 90-minute interview, stating that my refusal to answer questions would lead to my being fired, never mind the Fifth (or the First) Amendments.
Why me? It's not like the Bureau of Diplomatic Security has the staff or the interest to monitor the hundreds of blogs, thousands of posts, and millions of tweets by Foreign Service personnel. The answer undoubtedly is my new book, "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People."? Its unvarnished portrait of State's efforts and the U.S. at work in Iraq has clearly angered someone, even though one part of State signed off on the book under internal clearance procedures some 13 months ago. I spent a year in Iraq leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and sadly know exactly what I am talking about. DS monitoring my blog is like a small-town cop pulling over every African-American driver: vindictive, selective prosecution. "Ya'll be careful in these parts, 'hear, 'cause we're gonna set an example for your kind of people."
Silly as it seems, such accusations carry a lot of weight if you work for the government. DS can unilaterally, and without any right of appeal or oversight, suspend your security clearance and for all intents and purposes end your career. The agents questioning me reminded me of just that, as well as of the potential for criminal prosecution -- and all because of a link to a website, nothing more.
It was implied as well that even writing about the interrogation I underwent, as I am doing now, might morph into charges of "interfering with a Government investigation." They labeled routine documents in use in my interrogation as "Law Enforcement Sensitive" to penalize me should I post them online. Who knew such small things actually threatened the security of the United States? Are these words so dangerous, or is our nation so fragile that legitimate criticism becomes a firing offense?
Let's think through this disclosure of classified info thing, even if State won't. Every website on the Internet includes links to other websites. It's how the web works. If you include a link to say, a CNN article about Libya, you are not "disclosing" that information -- it's already there. You're just saying: "Have a look at this."? It's like pointing out a newspaper article of interest to a guy next to you on the bus.? (Careful, though, if it's an article from the New York Times or the Washington Post.? It might quote stuff from Wikileaks and then you could be endangering national security.)
Security at State: Hamburgers and Mud
Security and the State Department go together like hamburgers and mud. Over the years, State has leaked like an old boot. One of its most hilarious security breaches took place when an unknown person walked into the Secretary of State's outer office and grabbed a pile of classified documents. From the vast trove of missing classified laptops to bugging devices found in its secure conference rooms, from high ranking officials trading secrets in Vienna to top diplomats dallying with spies in Taiwan, even the publicly available list is long and ugly.
Of course, nothing compares to what history will no doubt record as the most significant outpouring of classified material ever, the dump of hundreds of thousands of cables that are now on display on WikiLeaks and its mushroom-like mirror sites. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (an oxymoron if there ever was one) is supposed to protect our American diplomats by securing State's secrets, and over time they just haven't done very well at that.
The State Department and its Bureau of Diplomatic Security never took responsibility for their part in the loss of all those cables, never acknowledged their own mistakes or porous security measures. No one will ever be fired at State because of WikiLeaks -- except, at some point, possibly me. Instead, State joined in the Federal mugging of Army Private Bradley Manning, the person alleged to have copied the cables onto a Lady Gaga CD while sitting in the Iraqi desert.
That all those cables were available electronically to everyone from the Secretary of State to a lowly Army private was the result of a clumsy post-9/11 decision at the highest levels of the State Department to quickly make up for information-sharing shortcomings. Trying to please an angry Bush White House, State went from sharing almost nothing to sharing almost everything overnight. They flung their whole library onto the government's classified intranet, SIPRnet, making it available to hundreds of thousands of Federal employees worldwide. It is usually not a good idea to make classified information that broadly available when you cannot control who gets access to it outside your own organization. The intelligence agencies and the military certainly did no such thing on SIPRnet, before or after 9/11.
State did not restrict access. If you were in, you could see it all. There was no safeguard to ask why someone in the Army in Iraq in 2010 needed to see reporting from 1980s Iceland. Even inside their own organization, State requires its employees to "subscribe" to classified cables by topic, creating a record of what you see and limiting access by justifiable need. A guy who works on trade issues for Morocco might need to explain why he asked for political-military reports from Chile.
Most for-pay porn sites limit the amount of data that can be downloaded. Not State. Once those cables were available on SIPRnet, no alarms or restrictions were implemented so that low-level users couldn't just download terabytes of classified data. If any activity logs were kept, it does not look like anyone checked them.
A few classified State Department cables will include sourcing, details on from whom or how information was collected. This source data allows an informed reader to judge the veracity of the information; was the source on a country's nuclear plans a street vendor or a high military officer? Despite the sometimes life-or-death nature of protecting sources (though some argue this is overstated), State simply dumped its hundreds of thousands of cables online unredacted, leaving source names there, all pink and naked in the sun.
Then again, history shows that technical security is just not State's game, which means the Wikileaks uproar is less of a surprise in context. For example,in 2006, news reports indicated that State's computer systems were massively hacked by Chinese computer geeks.? In 2008, State data disclosures led to an identity theft scheme only uncovered through a fluke arrest by the Washington D.C. cops.? Before it was closed down in 2009, snooping on private passport records was a popular intramural activity at the State Department, widely known and casually accepted. ?In 2011, contractors using fake identities appear to have downloaded 250,000 internal medical records of State Department employees, including mine.??
Wishing Isn't a Strategy, Hope Isn't a Plan
Despite their own shortcomings, State and its Bureau of Diplomatic Security take this position: if we shut our eyes tightly enough, there is no Wikileaks. (The morning news summary at State includes this message: "Due to the security classification of many documents, the Daily Addendum will not include news clips that are generated by leaked cables by the website WikiLeaks.")
The corollary to such a position evidently goes something like this: since we won't punish our own technical security people or the big shots who approved the whole flawed scheme in the first place, and the damned First Amendment doesn't allow us to punish the New York Times, let's just punish one of our own employees for looking at, creating links to, and discussing stuff on the web -- and while he was at it, writing an accurate, first-hand, and critical account of the disastrous, if often farcical, American project in Iraq.
That's what frustrated bullies do -- they pick on the ones they think they can get away with beating up. The advantage of all this?? It gets rid of a "troublemaker," and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security people can claim that they are "doing something" about the WikiLeaks drip that continues even while they fiddle.? Of course, it also chills free speech, sending a message to other employees about the price of speaking plainly.
Now does that make sense? Only inside the world of Diplomatic Security, and historically it always has.
For example, Diplomatic Security famously took into custody the color slides reproduced in the Foreign Service Journal showing an open copy of one of the Government's most sensitive intelligence documents, albeit only after the photos were published and distributed in the thousands. Similarly DS made it a crime to take photos of the giant U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, but only after the architecture firm building it posted sketches of the Embassy online; a Google search will still reveal many of those images; others who served in Iraq have posted them on their unsecured Facebook pages.
Imagine this: State's employees are still blocked by a firewall from looking at websites that carry or simply write about and refer to WikiLeaks documents, including TomDispatch.com, which is publishing this piece.? (That, in turn, means my colleagues at State won't be able to read this -- except on the sly.)
In the Belly of the Beast
Back in that windowless room for a second time, I faced the two DS agents clumsily trying to play semi-bad and altogether-bad cop. ?They once again reminded me of my obligation to protect classified information, and studiously ignored my response -- that I indeed do take that obligation seriously, enough in fact to distinguish between actual disclosure and a witch-hunt.
As they raised their voices and made uncomfortable eye contact just like it says to do in any Interrogation 101 manual, you could almost imagine the hundreds of thousands of unredacted cables physically spinning through the air around us, heading -- splat, splot, splat -- for the web. Despite the Hollywood-style theatrics and the grim surroundings, the interrogation-style was less police state or 1984-style nightmare than a Brazil-like dark comedy.
In the end, though, it's no joke. I've been a blogger since April, but my meeting with the DS agents somehow took place only a week before the publication date of my book. Days after my second interrogation, the Principal Deputy Secretary of State wrote my publisher demanding small redactions in my book -- already shipped to the bookstores -- to avoid "harm to U.S. security." One demand: to cut a vignette based on a scene from the movie version of Black Hawk Down.
The link to Wikileaks is still on my blog. ?The Bureau of Diplomatic Security declined my written offer to remove it, certainly an indication that however much my punishment mattered to them, the actual link mattered little. I may lose my job in State's attempt to turn us all into mini-Bradley Mannings and so make America safe.
These are not people steeped in, or particularly appreciative of, the finer points of irony.? Still, would anyone claim that there isn't irony in the way the State Department regularly crusades for the rights of bloggers abroad in the face of all kinds of government oppression, crediting their voices for the Arab Spring, while going after one of its own bloggers at home for saying nothing that wasn't truthful?
Here's the best advice my friends in Diplomatic Security have to offer, as far as I can tell: slam the door after the cow has left the barn, then beat your wife as punishment. She didn't do anything wrong, but she deserved it, and don't you feel better now?
Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog,We Meant Well. His new book, "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People," was just published.
[Note: The views expressed here are solely those of the author in his private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the Department of State, the Department of Defense, or any other entity of the U.S. Government. It should be quite obvious that the Department of State has not approved, endorsed, or authorized this post.]
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A preview from Fox's "Terra Nova" touches upon the TV show's themes ... and the dinosaurs.
By Alan Boyle
When viewers tune in to Fox's "Terra Nova" time-travel TV series, premiering tonight on Fox, they'll see an 85 million-year-old world that's pretty much "terra incognita" for dinosaur experts. And that's?just fine with?world-famous paleontologist Jack Horner.
"I suggested 85 million, because it's a time that we know the least about, and it's kind of in the middle of the Cretaceous period, which means we could bring some older dinosaurs forward and take some younger dinosaurs back without getting in too much trouble," Horner told me.
So even though the long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur known as Brachiosaurus died out long before Tyrannosaurus rex came onto the scene, their cousins can mix it up in the computer-generated landscape created for "Terra Nova."
"We just cannot use a T. rex, but there are tyrannosaurs, so we can certainly create an animal that looks very similar to T. rex," Horner said.
Tonight's premiere sets the stage for a series some critics have characterized as a cross between "The Lost World" and "Lost," with a flashy "Stargate" time portal and a dash of "Swiss Family Robinson" thrown in.?There are family dramas, shadowy conspiracies and seemingly undecipherable markings to stir the pot, but the success of the mega-expensive series arguably depends on?the dinosaurs ? just as it did for the "Jurassic Park" movie series.
Horner is familiar with the terrain ? not only because of his roles as curator of paleontology at Montana's Museum of the Rockies, professor at Montana State University and one of the world's foremost fossil-hunters, but also because he was a consultant for "Jurassic Park" and a model for the movie's alpha-scientist character.
Steven Spielberg, co-executive producer for "Terra Nova," was the one who brought in Horner as a consultant for the "Jurassic Park" movies. "I guess he liked what I did there, so [the TV show's producers] called and asked if I could do it" for "Terra Nova" as well, Horner recalled.
Horner works with the artists and the writers on the dino concepts. "My job really is to make sure the dinosaurs are as accurate as they can be, even if we invent them," he said. "If they're going to be raptorlike dinosaurs, they have to have the characteristics of a raptorial dinosaur ... but when it comes to headgear, we can do a lot of things."
Slasher movie That last comment relates to the first dinosaur invented for the series: a nasty critter?referred to as?the "Acceraptor" and nicknamed the "Slasher."
"He's got some?characteristics that are new, but still within the realm of possibility," Horner said. "The only detail I can tell you is, it's going to be a scary dinosaur. Let's put it this way: I wouldn't want to be in the forest with a Slasher, especially at night."
Further details have?seeped out through the dinosaur blogs:?The Slasher sports some gaudy headgear that Brian Switek, who blogs about paleontology for Smithsonian magazine and Wired, has criticized as a "horribly lame" look (see below for more).?It has some?fearsome-looking claws, but its deadliest weapons are the sharp barbs that whip around at the end of its?yards-long tail. "As far as I know, that's totally made up," Bob Strauss, who manages About.com's guide to dinosaurs, told me.
Horner said he's willing to give the writers and artists wide latitude when it comes to dreaming up dinosaurs. "If we know something for sure, then we'll keep it within the bounds of science," but if there are?blank spaces in the scientific picture, a little (or a lot of) imagination is allowed. This is Hollywood, after all.
"Just like the people in the movie, the dinosaurs are actors. They will go faster than we think dinosaurs can go," Horner admitted.
Food for thought for dino fans That was the case for "Jurassic Park," and Horner is hoping that "Terra Nova" will offer even?greater dramatic possibilities, for the dinosaurs as well as for the human actors.
"It's one thing to make a movie. Movies are two hours of a single story," Horner said. "The really cool thing about 'Terra Nova' is that it is a series, so we have the capability of building and building and building on it, each time seeing new animal and plant characters and still being able to follow the family that the story is about. In many ways, it's a lot better than a movie, just on a smaller screen."
And if dinosaur fans want to argue over the finer points of the dinosaur depictions, that's just fine with Horner, too.
"If people are watching and paying attention like that, that would be great," he told me.
So here are some of the reviews from experts who are paying attention just like that:
? University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas Holtz, who wrote the official "Jurassic Park" dinosaur guide and has consulted an many dinosaur documentaries, including the Discovery Channel's?recent "Dinosaur Revolution":
The main reason why the "Terra Nova" colonists go through a rupture in space-time is because the world has become an environmental wasteland by the year 2147. People have to wear "re-breathers" on their faces to cope with the polluted air. But Holtz noted that the world of 85 million B.C. wasn't exactly a breath of fresh air, either.
"If you're trying to escape climate change by going back to the past, you wouldn't want to go back to 85 million years ago, where CO2 is almost 1,000 parts per million, as opposed to 392 at present," he observed.
As for the dinosaurs, Holtz had a couple of pieces of advice for the writers. First, don't get too specific about the dinosaur names. Instead of referring to Brachiosaurus (the long-necked plant-eater that makes an early appearance on tonight's show) or Carnotaurus (the toothy, horned dinosaur that almost runs down Terra Nova's patriarch in the episode), use more generic names (brachiosaurs or abelisaurs, respectively).
Also, as the series goes on, Holtz hopes the writers get the locale right. For example, no Carnotaurus fossils have been found in North America, so if the series claims that the "Terra Nova" colonists are settling in Cretaceous Chicago, coming upon Carnotaurus' older cousins there would be "as unlikely as encountering a koala in Montana," Holtz said.
Most of the TV audience?might not care all that much about the terminology, it's better to have the dino-geeks for you than against you. "They get mad enough with the dinosaur documentaries," said Holtz, speaking from experience.
? Science writer Brian Switek, author of Smithsonian's Dinosaur Tracking blog and the book "Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record and Our Place in Nature." Here's Switek's pithy email critique of the "Terra Nova" dinos:
"All I have seen of the 'slasher' is the promotional artwork, but, yes, I'm sorry to say that the creature design for the dinosaur is horribly lame. The poor creature looks as if the special effects artists took one of the Jurassic Park raptors, stuck a crest from an oviraptorid dinosaur on its head, and then gave it a bad toupee. So many fantastic and terrifying dinosaurs have been found?? dromaeosaurs with double sickle-claws (Balaur), Allosaurus-cousins with sail backs (Concavenator), crocodile-snouted hunters (Baryonyx), and others?? that the I think the show's creators would have done better to draw inspiration from actual dinosaurs rather than trying to dress up a Deinonychus.
"Then there's the scientific issue. Thanks to multiple discoveries of feathered dinosaurs during the past 15 years, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that many coelurosaurs ? the group to which raptors, tyrannosaurs, oviraptorids and others belong ? were at least partly covered in feathers. Even Velociraptor arm bones have been found with quill knobs for the attachment of feathers! (The significance of this is that we can now detect the presence of feathers on some dinosaurs even if the feathers themselves are not preserved.) Therefore, the 'slasher' should be a feathery beast and look less like a dinosaur with a comb-over. Every year more feathered coelurosaurs are found, and it's time that television shows and movies featuring these dinosaurs restore the animals with their full plumage. ...
"It is true that our knowledge of dinosaur life around 85 million years ago (the beginning of the Santonian age) is relatively limited. Compared to what we know about the later Campanian (83 million to 70 million years ago) and Maastrichtian (70 million to 65 million years ago) ages, the world of dinosaurs during the Santonian is still fuzzy and waiting to be fleshed out by new discoveries. That said, I don't have a problem with a show creating new dinosaurs or even bringing in dinosaurs from slightly older or younger time periods. (If I recall correctly, Carnotaurus ? a Campanian dinosaur from prehistoric Argentina ? is in the show.) Sometimes scientific accuracy needs to be bent a little to make compelling television. That's just the way it goes when you want to tell a story.
"Nevertheless, I don't think any imaginary dinosaur can really compare to the real animals we're finding. Spielberg and the show's co-creators can dream up as many dinosaurs as they want, but, to me, speculative creatures like the slasher are always going to pale in comparison to the bizarre array of wonderful dinosaurs paleontologists have uncovered."
Science writer Bob Strauss, dinosaur guide for?About.com, who?saw an advance screening of "Terra Nova" and discusses it in a review:
Strauss said "Jurassic Park"?stirred up a lot of controversy on the subject of dinosaur verisimilitude. For example,?real Velociraptors were nowhere near smart?enough or agile enough to?turn a doorknob, and?pterosaurs weren't strong enough to carry off a?kid.
"Terra Nova" could well do the same, and not just because of slasher's barb-whipping?tail.?Did brachiosaurs really eat small lizards, or were they strictly herbivores? Shouldn't?the TV series' Carnotaurus have arms as wimpy as the real thing? Where's the slasher's hind-foot claw?
But?judging by the first show, Strauss thinks dino-geeks will stick with the series, if for no other reason than to get their weekly Cretaceous fix. "They're just so happy to have dinosaurs on TV," he told me.
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The popularity of inducing meditative states and altered states of consciousness using rhythmical auditory stimulation has been growing exponentially. Binaural beats are a form of mind altering brainwave entrainment technology. Binaurals are created playing two sounds close in frequency one into each ear, the brain synthesizes these frequencies to create a third, lower frequency equal to the difference between the two. For example, to create a binaural beat of 10 hz we play two different sound frequencies of 240 and 250 hertz (hz). This low frequency tone plays in a rhythmic pattern due to a wavering effect, or oscillation, within the central nervous system
Among the most powerful applications of binaural beats is in acoustic brainwave entrainment: the ability to tune into specific brainwaves ? beta, alpha, theta, delta or gamma, for example ? to control brainwave activity: the electromagnetic wave forms produced by the electrical activity of the brain cells, by matching the brain wave pulses to those of exterior sound pulses. In brainwave entrainment, binaural beats truly have so many applications, including:
Reach a deeper state of relaxation during meditation?- When neurotransmitters in the brain pick up brainwave activity, they begin to make changes in brainwave activity following the lead of an external sound pulse set to a certain speed. You can use binaural beats with unique frequencies to achieve the desired?meditation?result. For instance, deep relaxation can be achieved in the Alpha range (7-11 Hz), your brain will try to match this pulse, inducing a state of Alpha brainwave relaxation. For a deeper meditation, try Theta (4-6 Hz) waves. Lucid dreaming can be achieved in the Delta (<4 Hz) range.
Altered consciousness?- Meditation is the act of altering consciousness. The experience may range from achieving a deeper state of relaxation ? more alpha waves ? to experiencing more extreme changes in consciousness, such as one that can induce an out-of-body experience (OBE). Binaural beats activate the brain?s reticular activating system which, in turn, stimulates the thalamus and cortex, altering the elements of consciousness. Mental states that can be affected by expanding consciousness include arousal states, attentional focus and level of awareness. They are among several techniques used in a guided induction process to alter consciousness. A brainwave entrainment CD is a good place to start.
Reduce symptoms of ADD/ADHD?- one of the autism spectrum disorders; include social, behavioural and language deficits. Although the exact causes of?ADD/ADHD?are still being investigated, these deficits relate to underactive areas of the brain caused by abnormal brainwave frequencies that affect beta brainwaves. Binaural beats with suitable frequencies can perfectly normalize brainwave activity in a person with ADD/ADHD.
Binaural beats can be used and applied in so many other areas, including sleep induction, pain management, stress reduction and as a depression treatment without medication.
Brainwave entrainment is a powerful and easily accessible tool for inducing a new state of mind. If the shamanic drummers could use binaural beats to harmonize the earth?s frequencies, consider the life-enhancing benefits of actively using them in your life.
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Electricians also need tools specifically designed to work with 600V AC electrical current / DC con-flight tester, a volt-ampere meter, neon circuit tester, testers, power tools and testers and VDV.
Although all these tools are needed for each job, an electrician usually requires a wide range of tools to ensure that they have the right tool for the job. Many of these tools are actually with the electricians electrician for the belt, and as such, tend to opt for a lighter and smaller tools as possible, not only to make them more portable, but because these are often the safest choice of work. In addition, the selection of lightweight tools, electricians should always choose a tool ergonomically designed as possible to reduce the risk of repetitive stress at work.
Electrician Tools Required: Safety and Precautions
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Cancer of the prostate is typically a slow progressing cancer and symptoms often do not arise for many years. If the cancer is caught at an early stage, there might be no noticeable symptoms. Some men, however, will experience symptoms that could indicate the presence of prostate cancer. These might include:
• A need for frequent urination, particularly at night • Difficulty starting urination • Weak or interrupted urine flow • Pain or a burning sensation during urination • Difficulty in obtaining an erection • Pain during ejaculation • Blood in the urine or in semen • Recurring pain or stiffness in the lower back, hips, or upper thighs
Sometimes the first symptoms will be lower back, hip or pelvic pain caused by cancer which has already spread.
It is important to be aware that the symptoms of both benign enlargement of the prostate gland (i.e. non-cancerous) and malignant tumours (cancer) are similar and might include any of the following symptoms:
• Difficulty starting urination • Frequent urination, particularly at night • Pain during urination • Blood in the urine
Also, men over 50 years of age often have an enlarged prostate gland due to the non-cancerous condition of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or hypertrophy.
Therefore if you notice any of the above symptoms it is important that you see your doctor and have them investigated. But note that most enlargements of the prostate are not due to cancer and can regularly be dealt with quite effectively.
EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATE CANCER
Prostate cancer can often be discovered at an early stage by testing the amount of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the blood. Prostate cancer can also be detected early by your doctor performing a digital rectal examination (DRE). Since the prostate gland is situated close to the rectum, a doctor can physically detect if there are any cancerous signs in your prostate.
Unfortunately the PSA and DRE tests are not totally accurate and conclusive. This can lead to anxiety and confusion, or even to a false sense of security. So important things to consider are your age, your general health and your lifestyle. If you are young and develop prostate cancer, if not caught early enough, it could shorten your life. If however you are older or in poor health, then prostate cancer might never become a serious problem due to its slow-growing nature.
The American Cancer Society recommends that men commence having the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test and digital rectal examination (DRE) annually from the age of 50. Those at higher risk, such as African Americans and those with close relatives who developed prostate cancer at an early age are recommended to commence testing at 45.
The prognosis for prostate cancer sufferers has improved dramatically in recent years. In the past twenty years the overall survival rate for all stages of prostate cancer has increased from 67% to 97%. Thus more men are living significantly longer after diagnosis. In all likelihood this is due to early detection programs, increased public awareness, particularly of prostate cancer symptoms, and the adoption of healthier lifestyles.
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