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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Cleveland's Ray Horton believes NFL hiring practice works
By Tom Withers | Associated Press
BEREA -- Ray Horton doesn't believe his skin color played any role in him not being hired as an NFL head coach.
It just wasn't his time.
Introduced as Cleveland's new defensive coordinator on Tuesday, Horton said while he's "disappointed" that he didn't get a head coaching job after interviewing with several teams, he's grateful to have gone through the process and feels the league's Rooney Rule to promote minorities works despite contrary statistics.
Minority candidates were shut out of 15 coaching and top front-office jobs this offseason, a troubling disparity that led to criticism of the NFL's hiring practices. There are only four minority head coaches going into the 2013 season, the fewest since 2003, when the Rooney Rule was implemented.
Horton, however, feels he wasn't bypassed because he's African-American or because wears his hair in tight braids. There's no doubt he's got the credentials.
"I believe every NFL team owner is trying to get the best coach for their team," he said. "I don't think anybody goes into it thinking, 'I'm going to hire this guy because of 'X' reason other than he's going to lead the team to victories. So from that standpoint, I respect the process. So does it (the Rooney Rule) work or not work? I think it worked because I think every NFL team this year hired a guy that they thought was going to lead them to victory. I don't think there was one owner that said, 'I'm hiring this guy because I think he's going to run my program into the ground.' So does it work? Sure it works."
Horton was one of the candidates who met with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner before they hired Rob Chudzinski, who spent the past two seasons as Carolina's offensive coordinator. Horton noted that hiring offensive-minded coaches seemed to be this year's trend.
The 52-year-old, who played in 147 career games as a defensive back for Cincinnati and Dallas, remains hopeful he'll one day get his shot at being a head coach. But until that time arrives he won't be bitter and he's protesting against what appears to be an unequal system in a league where about 70 percent of the players are minorities.
"I wasn't disappointed at all for minorities," he said. "I was disappointed for Ray Horton. ... I'm just disappointed because I have expectations. I have expectations for our team, for our defense. If you don't meet them, you're disappointed. I'm not mad. I'm not frustrated. Disappointment is the right adjective for me because you're disappointed and you move on."
Horton, who spent the past two seasons as Arizona's defensive coordinator, can't wait to get his hands on a young Cleveland defense he hopes to mold into one of the league's best units.
After recently stating in a radio interview that he intended to switch the Browns from a 4-3 front to a 3-4, Horton refused to put any numerical label on the base scheme he'll use next season.
"We're going to look like an aggressive, forward attacking defense that has big men that can run and little men that can hit," he said. "That's the most important thing to me -- what do we look like, not what we line up in. We may be a 3-4 on one snap. We may be a 4-3 on another snap. I guarantee you we'll be a 5-2 sometimes, and we'll be a 4-4 sometimes. We are a multi-front, attacking defense, and that's the most important thing, not what player lines up where, how he stands, what stance he's in. Attacking, aggressive defense."
Fine with Chudzinski, who envisions a Browns defense with "guys flying around."
"That style of defense, the multi-front, attacking defense is the defense that I looked at is the toughest to play against from an offensive perspective and the defense that we want to be here," Chudzinski said.
Under Horton, the Cardinals' defense ranked among the league leader in several statistical categories last season. Arizona was second in interceptions (22) and fourth in takeaways (33).
Horton has been breaking down game film as he evaluates Cleveland's defense and he's been impressed.
"I've got big men that can run, little men that can hit," he said, drawing laughter at the catchphrase he repeated several times. "I love this team. I love the way it's constituted right now because they give effort. From the first game against Philadelphia all the way through to the last game against Pittsburgh, I don't see a dropoff of effort.
"If you can give me that for 16 weeks like they did, you don't need anything else.
Horton said Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau, known for his blitz-at-any-time style, has been a major influence on his life on and off the field.
"He treats every single person like they're the most important person in the room," Horton said of the Hall of Famer. "It's a gift. Players love playing for coach LeBeau. That's the highest form of respect that your players love playing for you."
Horton hopes to build that type of relationship with his players in Cleveland. He has already been contacted by a few, including linebacker and captain D'Qwell Jackson. Horton views trust as an essential component, and he wants the Browns to believe in him from the start.
"I'm sure they have some apprehension about 'Who is this guy? What's he going to do? What's that mean to me?" he said. "I just keep going back to as long as you do your job well, nobody has an issue."
Source: http://www.recordpub.com/sports/2013/01/30/cleveland-s-ray-horton-believes-nfl-hiring-practice-works
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
'Scary': Up to 50 million home network devices vulnerable to hack
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Bugs in widely used networking technology expose tens of millions of personal computers, printers and storage drives to attack by hackers over the regular Internet, researchers with a security software maker said.?
The problem lies in computer routers and other networking equipment that use a commonly employed standard known as Universal Plug and Play or UPnP. UPnP makes it easy for networks to identify and communicate with equipment, reducing the amount of work it takes to set up networks.?
Security software maker Rapid7 said in a white paper to be released Tuesday that it discovered between 40 million and 50 million devices that were vulnerable to attack due to three separate sets of problems that the firm's researchers have identified with the UPnP standard.
The long list of devices includes products from manufacturers including Belkin, D-Link, Cisco's Linksys division and Netgear.?
Representatives for Belkin, D-Link, Linksys and Netgear could not be reached for comment on Monday evening.?
Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer of security software firm Veracode, said he believed that publication of Rapid7's findings would draw widespread attention to the still emerging area of UPnP security, prompting other security researchers to search for more bugs in UPnP.
"This definitely falls into the scary category," said Wysopal, who reviewed Rapid7's findings ahead of their publication. "There is going to be a lot more research on this. And the follow-on research could be a lot scarier."?
Rapid7 has privately alerted electronics makers about the problem through the CERT Coordination Center, a group at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute that helps researchers report vulnerabilities to affected companies.?
"This is the most pervasive bug I've ever seen," said HD Moore, chief technology officer for Rapid7. He discussed the research with Reuters late on Monday.
Moore, who created a widely used platform known as Metasploit that allows security experts to simulate network attacks, said that he expected CERT to release a public warning about the flaw on Tuesday. A spokesman for the CERT Coordination Center declined to comment.?
A source with a networking equipment maker confirmed they had been alerted that CERT would issue an advisory on Tuesday and that companies were preparing to respond.?
Taking control
The flaws could allow hackers to access confidential files, steal passwords, take full control over PCs as well as remotely access devices such as webcams, printers and security systems, according to Rapid7.?
Moore said that there were bugs in most of the devices he tested and that device manufacturers will need to release software updates to remedy the problems.?
He said that is unlikely to happen quickly.?
In the meantime, he advised computer users to quickly use a free tool released by Rapid7 to identify vulnerable gear, then disable the UPnP functionality in that equipment.?
Moore said hackers have not widely exploited the UPnP vulnerabilities to launch attacks, but both Moore and Wysopal expected they may start to do so after the findings are publicized.?
Still, Moore said he decided to disclose the flaws in a bid to pressure equipment makers to fix the bugs and generally pay more attention to security.?
People who own devices with UPnP enabled may not be aware of it because new routers, printers, media servers, Web cameras, storage drives and "smart" or Web-connected TVs are often shipped with that functionality turned on by default.?
"You can't stay silent about something like this," he said. "These devices seem to have had the same level of core security for decades. Nobody seems to really care about them."?
Veracode's Wysopal said that some hackers have likely already exploited the flaws to launch attacks, but in relatively small numbers, choosing victims one at a time.?
"If they are going after executives and government officials, then they will probably look for their home networks and exploit this vulnerability," he said.?
Rapid7 is advising businesses and consumers alike to disable UPnP in devices that they suspect may be vulnerable to attack. The firm has released a tool to help identify those devices on its website.?
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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Kate Clancy s Short Grant Rant: On Broken Promises
Here is my grant rant. It is very, very simple.
Last night I was talking to a colleague who just heard he missed the funding cutoff for his NIH grant by a single percent ? a score of 19 and under was funded, and his grant was a 20 (Edited 1/27 8pm CST to fix incorrect wording ? numbers weren?t percentiles but the actual NIH scores). He had applied to one of the many institutes that is trying to keep the R01 afloat by reducing funding to all the other funding mechanisms ? which happen to be the mechanisms used more by early career faculty because they don?t have enough preliminary data for an R01 for several years. It was a proposal to one of those non-R01 mechanisms that just lost out. It was his last resubmission. Because it takes so long to actually get NIH money, even if he submitted a successful grant in the next round ? March 2013 ? he wouldn?t get approval for the funds until December 2014, and access to that money some time in 2015. In the meantime, that means he has no money to fund the personnel in his lab, let alone the supplies to do his research.
This colleague had just had a long talk with his program officer, and shared with that person that he thought it was unfortunate that the R01 is being privileged over other mechanisms, and that the NIH seems determined to sacrifice an entire generation of young scientists. This colleague does novel work, intentionally took a nontraditional approach to his doctorate and postdoc in order to try and so something awesome with his science. He?s encouraged by his senior colleagues all over the country who also think he?s awesome ? it?s clear he is widely respected. But the few junior folks who get funded in his discipline are the ones who are doing something derivative of their postdoc or grad advisor, and they?re all out of the same three to five labs.
Here is what I had to say in that conversation (and the ensuing Twitter conversation): the NIH, and American science funding in general, is not just sacrificing a generation of scientists. They are sacrificing American science, period.
I don?t know who thinks things are going to get better, that somehow we?re just the one generation that is screwed. Funding lines are going to keep getting worse. Even in NIH grantwriting seminars, I?m getting told by people who sit on review panels that there is an increasingly high degree in subjectivity in who gets funded because once a grant is in the top 20%, how do you tell the difference between the top 10% and 20%? Poor reading, pettiness, cronyism ? this is not what I?m hearing from sour grapes junior faculty, this is what I?m hearing from R01-funded faculty who sit on NIH review panels. And then they tell me my specific aims for my mock review are due a few days later. Wow, I?m so motivated to write now, thanks!
We need to fundamentally change the way science is funded. We need to change the way politicians and the public view science. We need to quadruple the federal budget?s allocation to science (right now if you add up NASA, NIH and NSF it?s 1.8% of the budget). We need to stop making it so freaking hard for great scientists to do science, stay in science, discover science in the first place.
Unless you guys really don?t want us doing world-changing research. I don?t want to say what my colleague would have done with his grant because I want to protect his anonymity. But let me tell you what I would be able to do with federal funding:
- I would be able to understand why it is that some women have an easier time getting pregnant than others.
- I would be able to determine what factors seem to prevent breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer.
- I would start to disentangle all the psychosocial factors that seem to lead to infertility even though we haven?t been able to figure out the mechanism.
- I would be able to understand the way in which the mother and fetus negotiate with each other can sometimes contribute to miscarriage.
- I would be able to provide resources and teach resilience to a whole generation of local girls who don?t have science in their schools, while doing research that helps me, and them, understand their bodies.
- I would be able to lay the foundation for hormonal contraceptives that are safe and effective for adolescents.
- I would be able to set up the undergraduate mentoring program I?ve been trying to implement for the last year.
Science captures the imagination of children, it helps us understand our world, it saves lives and protects the planet. We need to stop deluding ourselves that doing the same thing in academic science, but just tightening our belts a bit more, is going to solve the problem. We?ve done worse than sacrificed a generation of scientists, we?ve disgusted the generation below them and reduced our chances of renewal, growth and innovation.
Let me share a tiny bit of life history theory. There is this principle of trade-offs: time and energy used for one purpose cannot be used for another. So if you somatically allocate to growth, for instance, you have less to allocate towards maintenance and reproduction. If a body is very constrained, resource allocation goes haywire: there isn?t enough to support any particular function well, and even critical processes may shut down.
This is how people starve to death.
The cool thing about many aspects of human physiology, however, is that if you flood that system with resources, it?s flexible enough that it can recover. Shutting down does not have to be inevitable. Like the girls I want to study, we are all resilient.
But only if we get resources before we go far enough along the starvation path.
Please check out the storify that Scicurious wrote, and also follow the scientists who were participating, because the conversation continued overnight, into the morning, and is still happening now. And check out Michael Eisen?s blog, as he has some very specific ideas that he will be putting into a post shortly about how to force the NIH into a place that creates opportunities for science, rather than contributing to the broken promises of a generation of eager, innovative, smart people.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
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Linda Pugach, blinded in infamous NYC crime, dies
NEW YORK (AP) ? Linda Pugach, who was blinded in 1959 when her lover hired hit men to throw lye in her face ? and became a media sensation after later marrying him ? has died, her husband said Thursday. She was 75.
The infamous New York City crime was detailed in the 2007 documentary "Crazy Love."
Pugach, who hid behind dark glasses for the rest of her life, died Tuesday at the Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens. The cause was heart failure, said her husband, Burton Pugach, who spent 14 years in prison for hiring the thugs to attack his then-girlfriend Linda Riss after she spurned him. He was married at the time, and the heinous attack became an instant tabloid sensation.
After his release, Pugach divorced his first wife and convinced Riss to marry him in 1974. He proposed to her on live television.
"This was a very fairy tale romance," a sobbing Pugach told The Associated Press on Thursday.
After the release of "Crazy Love," Pugach praised filmmaker Dan Klores for revealing a story that for the first time "has colors ? it was no longer black and white."
Two decades after his release from prison, Pugach was accused in another case with chilling similarities but acquitted of the charges in 1997. He had been accused of threatening and harassing another lover after she tried to end their five-year affair. That woman testified that he threatened to make it "1959 all over again."
He told the AP in an interview at the time: "Haven't you ever threatened to kill your husband? Did you mean it? Of course not. ... This has been blown out of proportion like I've never seen."
Linda Pugach testified at that trial, describing her husband as a good man. Under cross-examination by Pugach, a disbarred lawyer who defended himself, she said couldn't have sex with him after undergoing heart surgery in 1990.
"He was a naughty little boy and he was caught," she said as she left the courtroom on his arm. She said he was an adulterer, not a criminal.
Pugach said his wife went into the hospital on Dec. 26, 2012, two days before they had scheduled a trip to Florida to buy a property in Boca Raton.
"I don't know how I'm going to go on without her," he said.
On Thursday he again denied that he was ever involved in the attack.
"If I had told anyone to throw lye at her, would she have married me? A monster does that," he said.
Linda Pugach was being laid to rest in a crypt in Paramus, N.J. on Thursday.
"There's a place for me there. We'll be together," he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/linda-pugach-blinded-infamous-nyc-crime-dies-124535479.html
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
STS finalists bound for Washington
Forty vie for top awards in 2013 Intel Science Talent Search
By Matt Crenson
Web edition: January 24, 2013
Young researchers from 21 states have made it to the final stage of the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, earning the chance to compete for a total of $630,000 in awards.
The finalists will visit Washington, D.C., March 7?13 to see the White House and other national landmarks, present their research in a poster session at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society and attend a black-tie awards gala at the National Building Museum.
?We commend the 40 Intel Talent Search finalists on their successes so far and look forward to watching them progress not only during the finals in Washington, but also in their future careers,? says Elizabeth Marincola, publisher of Science News and president of Society for Science & the Public, which has operated the competition since 1942. Intel has sponsored the program for 15 years.
Many past Science Talent Search finalists have gone on to distinguished research careers. Alumni have won a total of seven Nobel Prizes, two Fields Medals, five National Medals of Science and 11 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships.
The finalists were chosen from more than 1,700 entries.
?This year?s ... finalists are presenting a wide range of research, from optimizing algae oil for biofuel to developing a new treatment for blood cancer,? says Wendy Hawkins, executive director of the Intel Foundation. ?It?s exciting for the future of innovation because the U.S. needs these 40 high school seniors, and others like them, to question, explore and help solve some of the world?s greatest challenges.?
Last year?s top award went to Nithin Tumma of Fort Gratiot, Mich., who did research on a protein that helps cancer evade the body?s immune system. Also honored were Andrey Sushko of Richland, Wash., who created a tiny motor just 7 millimeters across that draws its power from the surface tension of water, and Mimi Yen of New York City, who studied genetic influences on mating behavior in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
2013 Intel STS Finalists?(listed by state, name, city and high school)
ARIZONA -?Annie Dai, Phoenix, Desert Vista High School
CALIFORNIA - Pavan Mehrotra, Simi Valley, Sierra Canyon School; Kevin Chen, Fremont, Mission San Jose High School; Kelly Zhang, Orinda, The College Preparatory School; Sahana Vasudevan, Palo Alto, Gnyanam Academy; Jack Takahashi, Saratoga, Lynbrook High School; Paulomi Bhattacharya, Cupertino, The Harker School
COLORADO - Sara Volz, Colorado Springs, Cheyenne Mountain High School
CONNECTICUT - Stephen Le Breton, Greenwich, Greenwich High School
FLORIDA - Brittany Wenger, Sarasota, Out-of-Door Academy
GEORGIA - Lillian Chin, Decatur, The Westminster Schools; Raja Selvakumar, Alpharetta, Milton High School
ILLINOIS - Lane Gunderman, Chicago, The University of Chicago Laboratory High School
INDIANA - Peter Kraft, Munster, Munster High School
KENTUCKY - Naethan Mundkur, Louisville, duPont Manual High School
MASSACHUSETTS - Jacob Johnson, Boxborough, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School; Surya Bhupatiraju, Lexington, Lexington High School
MARYLAND - Samuel Zbarsky, Rockville, Montgomery Blair High School
MICHIGAN - Lilia Popova, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Huron High School
NEW JERSEY - Jennifer Chan, Upper Saddle River, Academy for Medical Science Technology; Catherine Wong, Morristown, Morristown High School
NEW MEXICO -?Katherine Cordwell, Albuquerque, Manzano High School
NEW YORK - Samantha Scibelli, Burnt Hills, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School; Jiayi Peng, Chappaqua, Horace Greeley High School; Chris Traver, Croton-on-Hudson, Croton-Harmon High School; Mayuri Sridhar, Kings Park, Kings Park High School; Jamie Solimano, New York, Stuyvesant High School; Daniel McQuaid, Ossining, Ossining High School; Michael Zhang, Saint James, Smithtown High School East
OREGON - Hannah Larson, Eugene, South Eugene High School; Naomi Shah, Portland, Sunset High School; Raghav Tripathi, Portland, Westview High School
PENNSYLVANIA - Joy Wang, Orefield, Parkland High School; Jonah Kallenbach, Ambler, Germantown Academy; Meghan Shea, West Chester; Unionville High School
TENNESSEE - Akshay Padmanabha, Collierville, Houston High School; Adam Bowman, Brentwood, Montgomery Bell Academy
TEXAS - Kensen Shi, College Station, A&M Consolidated High School
VIRGINIA - Alexa Dantzler, Manassas, Bishop O?Connell High School
WEST VIRGINIA - Vincent O?Leary, Wheeling, Wheeling Central Catholic High School
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347733/title/STS_finalists_bound_for_Washington
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Biden to promote gun control in pro-gun Virginia
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Vice President Joe Biden is launching a White House campaign of road trips to promote gun control with a visit to Virginia, a state that has experienced its own school shooting tragedy yet maintains an avidly pro-gun tradition.
Biden will travel to Richmond on Friday along with other Obama administration officials and Democratic Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, the White House announced Wednesday. And on Thursday, Biden will take questions on ways to reduce gun violence during a Google Hangout, an interactive video chat that will stream live on the White House website and on the Google Plus social network.
President Barack Obama said last week that he wants Congress to require background checks for all gun sales and ban both military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. The president conceded passage will be difficult, with support for gun ownership rights strong among lawmakers.
Biden headed the president's task force to study gun violence in the wake of last month's massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. White House aides say Obama also plans to travel to push the issue, although his destinations have not yet been announced.
Virginia lawmakers have been debating a bill to require that private sellers conduct criminal background checks on buyers at gun shows. The current law only requires dealers to conduct the checks. Some of the survivors and families of victims of the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 have been leading the push for tighter gun control measures.
Gun shows are a frequent event around the Richmond area, and the Virginia General Assembly has been overwhelmingly supportive of gun ownership rights under both Democratic and Republican leadership.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Climate change alters ecosystems from Walden Pond to 'The Shack'
Using historical data collected by famous naturalists and authors Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have linked early flower blooms to warm springs. This is the first time researchers have analyzed patterns in these two sets of data together. ?
Walden Pond has seen warmer temperatures and earlier spring flowerings since Henry David Thoreau first stayed there in 1852.
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The findings, published online today (Jan. 16) in the journal PLoS ONE, show just how much climate change has altered ecosystems throughout the temperate areas of the United States. The study used 161-year-old data on flowering times from Henry David Thoreau's notebooks, as well as nearly 80-year-old data from the famous naturalist Aldo Leopold.
Scientists had previously described the Thoreau records but they hadn't combined the two naturalists' findings until now.
"Record warm temperatures (in 2010 and 2012) have resulted in record early flowering times," said study researcher Elizabeth Ellwood of Boston University. [8 Ways Global Warming Is Already Changing the World]
Famous naturalists
Henry David Thoreau was one of the most iconic figures of the 19th century. The famous naturalist and poet wrote the book "Walden" about his years living at idyllic Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. Starting in 1852 and at different points throughout his life, he also created the first "spreadsheets of flowering dates" for many well-known?flowers, including the wild columbine, the pink-lady slipper orchid and the marsh marigold, Ellwood said.
Similarly, the naturalist Leopold took detailed records of first flowering times at a site called "The Shack" in?wilderness near the Wisconsin River, starting in 1935.
"It's the iconic equivalent to Walden Pond for Wisconsinites," Ellwood told LiveScience.
While scholars knew of these flowering observations, many were scattered in different libraries and archives, and no one had systematically analyzed their patterns, she said.
Hotter springs, earlier blooms
To do so, Ellwood and her colleagues gathered all of?Thoreau's flowering records?from several archives. They then compared flowering dates with spring temperatures for 32 different flowering plants.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Lenovo, Linux, and the Coming of the Chromebooks
However great the strides made by user-friendly distros such as Ubuntu and Mint in recent years, it seems fair to say that Linux has not yet enjoyed any sweeping successes on the desktop the way it has on the mobile side with Android. That, however, may be changing. Thanks once again to none other than Google, Linux is now appearing with increasing frequency in the PC lineups of hardware makers.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
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If it is done right, a remodeling project can add tremendous value to your home. Completing these projects takes time, patience, and money. In this article we will share with you some of the best time and money-saving tips for completing your next home improvement project.
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If you do not know how to do anything involved with your home improvement project, take some time and go to the local home improvement store and ask. You may feel like driving down to the home improvement store is a waste of time, but the time you save from not having to re-do a bad job is well worth it.
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If you are planning on painting a room as part of a home improvement project, you can save money by accurately estimating the amount of paint you will need. One gallon of paint will cover about 350 square feet of wall space, unless you are painting drywall, which absorbs more paint. An accurate estimate can prevent you from overbuying paint, which once mixed in a specific color generally can?t be returned. Browse Why Not Try THIS Out for current suggestions.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Indianapolis Colts Seek Competitive Edge in 2013 NFL Offseason
Andrew Luck, coach Chuck Pagano, GM Ryan Grigson and the rest of the Indianapolis Colts have bad news for the rest of the NFL?they will be even better in 2013.?
Their season ended on January 6 with a 24-9 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the Wild Card Round of the NFL playoffs. They finished the regular season at 11-5, a?nine-game improvement from the previous season's 2-14 disaster.
Phil Richards of the Indianapolis Star says Indy's rookies have taken it upon themselves to take giant strides next season.?
Said Richards of the Colts' rookies:
Perhaps one has a chance to impact that character more profoundly than the Colts' precocious rookie class. They have been immersed. They understand what it is and what it takes and Pagano said the coaching staff will identify and recommend two or three specific things for each player to focus on.?
In the same report, running back Vick Ballard will focus more on his blocking and run reads as areas of improvement. Tight end Dwayne Allen will make conditioning a priority since he felt preparing for Clemson's pro day and the NFL Combine hampered it a bit last year.?
Luck agrees there is still plenty of room for improvement.?He may have established a rookie record for passing yards with 4,374 in 2012, but if what he said in the report is any indication, he should be back with a vengeance in 2013.
Richards quoted the quarterback as saying "I think just improving accuracy, footwork and making the different throws. I think I have a feel for how fast things occur, how different guys get out of breaks, depths of routes, things of that nature. Just building up more rapport with the receivers, the tight ends and the running backs."?
As for player movement, the Anderson Herald Bulletin reports a number of free agents may eventually test the market, including outside linebacker Dwight Freeney, punter Pat McAfee, cornerback Jerraud Powers, wide receiver Donnie Avery and right tackle Winston Justice.
In a separate report written by George Bremer of the same newspaper, Bremer says both McAfee and Powers have indicated a desire to remain with Indianapolis.?
As of January 15, the Colts have around 58 players under contract for the 2013 season. Salary cap space is expected to hover around the $40 million range.?
Indianapolis GM Ryan Grigson promised to be aggressive in making the roster more competitive than ever. Bremer reiterates the goal of putting together a deep roster and allowing players to battle it out for slots in training camp. This kind of competition is what both Grigson and coach Chuck Pagano thrive on.?
In spite of offensive coordinator Bruce Arians' hiring as Arizona Cardinals head coach on January 17, look for the front office to lock up a solid replacement to keep the team competitive in this area. Indy finished 10th overall in the 2012 regular season in terms of total offense after racking up a net total of 5,799 yards.
Even prior to Arians' impending departure, Grigson said he is always prepared for such a situation.
In an interview with Mike Chappell of the?Indianapolis Star, Grigson said "With success comes these types of obstacles to overcome. That's my job. Much like player acquisition, I have to go through names with Chuck and hash things out and come to a capable successor to him."
Colts fans can be assured that the team will be in the upper echelon of the NFL for quite some time. As per Pagano in Bremer's article, "The foundation has been laid. It's a solid foundation, and it's one that we can build on. I'm really looking forward to the future. I feel like we have a bright, bright future ahead of us for many years to come."
Nothing can be more satisfying than that.?
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Amazon MP3 store gets optimized for iPhone, iPod touch
Amazon announced today that their Amazon MP3 store, the section of their website where you can buy digital music downloads similar to what iTunes offers, has now been optimized to look and work better in Apple's Safari browser on the iPhone and iPod touch screen. According to Steve Boom, Vice President of Amazon Music:
Since the launch of the Amazon Cloud Player app for iPhone and iPod touch, a top request from customers has been the ability to buy music from Amazon right from their devices. For the first time ever, iOS users have a way do that ? now they can access Amazon?s huge catalog of music, features like personalized recommendations, deals like albums for $5, songs for $0.69, and they can buy their music once and use it everywhere
Features of the Amazon MP3 store on the mobile web browser include:
- The Amazon MP3 mobile website for iPhone and iPod touches is built on HTML5, which means customers can make purchases >- directly from the Amazon MP3 mobile website at www.amazon.com/mp3 on their iPhones and iPod touches
- Selection of over 22 million songs and over two million albums at everyday low prices
- Access to everyday deals like $5 albums, $0.69 songs, and free songs from artists on the rise
- Individualized recommendations based on purchase history
- Immediate availability and seamless playback of purchases in the Amazon Cloud Player app
- Free storage of all Amazon MP3 purchases in Amazon Cloud Player
The iPhone and mobile Safari launched in June 2007. Amazon MP3 launched in beta in September 2007. That it took Amazon until January 2013 to make the latter work with the former is interesting. Of course, Amazon MP3 is still only available in 7 of countries, including the U.S., U.K, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, and Italy. iTunes music, by contrast, is available in 118 countries.
Mobile has been the biggest trend of the last few years, and music has been the spearhead of the digital media revolution. It's great that Amazon is taking these steps, but they're taking them far, far too slowly.
That aside, the implementation looks good and works well, mixing a vertical page stack with horizontally scrolling sections. There's currently a focus on $5 albums, along with best sellers, new releases, genres, editor's picks, and top new albums. If you're logged in, you can buy just like you would on the regular web site, and thanks to Amazon Cloud, whatever you buy, where ever you buy it, is available to listen to in the player app.
If you live in a place that offers Amazon MP3, and you use the service, fire it up in Safari on your iPhone and iPod touch and let me know how it works for you.
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How Comfortable Are You (in your home)?
- Are your energy bills higher than your neighbors?
- Is your home just not comfortable? ?Cool in the winter? ?Warm in the summer?
- Is your indoor air quality less than you would like it to be?
- Could it be that there is nothing wrong with your heating and AC system?
- Do you know that a heating and air conditioning system replacement is imminent?
In the past, air leaks have been ignored unless they were significant enough to feel or see. ?Building scientists have had the tools for assessing air leaks for years, but how many building scientists do you know? ?I predict that since our building codes are getting tighter and the cost of energy will continue to increase, the tools for accessing air leakage will become more prevalent. ?I obtained the tools because I think I can significantly improve the service that we offer. ?I think consumers are unaware of how much they could benefit if someone utilized the tools to identify and quantify the amount of air leakage that is occurring in their homes.
The benefits that you should expect from air leakage testing implementation of improvement measures are:
1. ?KNOWING where the opportunities ?exist for improvement and which ones to attack first.
2. ?Significantly (and possibly, surprisingly) REDUCED ENERGY COST
3. ?Greatly improved COMFORT
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5. ?Minimization of SOUND LEVELS inside your home.?
The quantified results of performance testing remove the mystery of discomfort and high energy bills from an evaluation. ?A benefit assessment of the recommended measures helps you rank the order in which measures should be pursued. ?If you were to receive a strategic plan that provides the peace of mind of ranking the measures that provide the most benefit to you, wouldn?t that be valuable? ?Because I am a heating and air conditioning contractor with many years of experience in energy conservation issues from previous employment with an electric utility, I feel that I am qualified to provide this service. ?And yes, my primary interest is in issues that impact indoor air quality and heating and air conditioning systems.
We can perform a test on your duct system to measure how much duct leakage is occurring.? Did you note that we didn?t say ?IF your duct system is leaking??
All duct systems leak.? The new energy code for new homes that is now in effect (in NC) limits duct leakage to a total of 6% of total air flow.? And the only way to achieve such a low leak rate is to test the duct system immediately after construction and seal the leaks.? If you are not aware that your duct system has been tested?expect at least a 20-30% leak rate, even if you have a newly constructed duct system!?? It is highly probable that 20 ? 30% of the air you are paying to condition (heat or cool) is being wasted in ?outside spaces? ? the attic or the crawl space.? I think it?s evident that sealing duct leaks would be an opportunity for significant energy cost reduction.? We can measure the performance of your duct system (called a ?duct blaster? test) and make the corrections to improve the performance of duct systems.? And we will continue re-testing after corrections are performed so that we will achieve a satisfactory duct leakage rate is (hopefully 10% or less).? Our goal is to reduce duct leaks without?unnecessarily?replacing your existing duct system. ?And it seems to me that if you were considering the replacement of a heating and air conditioning system, having the duct system tested would be required before a replacement occurred!
A blower door provides the capability to measure how much air from outside your home is entering from undesired areas.? If the door(s) are not open and the windows are closed, outside air entering from the crawl space, garage, or attic could be the sources of concern.? These types of sources are identified as unwanted infiltration.? Don?t get me wrong, for air quality reasons houses need to breathe and some infiltration is a good thing, as long as it is not excessive and is not entering from contaminated spaces like attics, crawl spaces, or garages.? Do you suspect that you live in a house that is not constructed as tightly as it could be?? A whole house, measured, air leakage test is known as a ?blower door? test and can be very revealing when the amount of air entering you home is measured and then compared to the amount of air entering a well-constructed home.? And there are ways to determine where leaks (if they do exist) occur.? And we will show you where they exist.? I encourage you to think about how these reductions would impact your energy bills, improve indoor air quality, and make your home a quieter place to live in if those leaks were prevented.
If you have read this far, I think it?s fair to assume you ARE interested in this service. ?If you should call another heating and air conditioning contractor for heating and AC service, ask ?if air leak testing is provided and if provided, what tools are used to provide the service.
? If you do not hear ?Blower Door? or ?Duct Blaster?, they are not equipped to provide the service.
? If you hear ?Duct Blaster? only, they can only test for duct leaks.
? If you hear ?Blower Door? only, they can only provide an estimate of duct leakage. ?Only with a ?Duct Blaster? can identification of air leaks be properly identified.
I think it will be unlikely that you find a heating and air conditioning contractor that provides the service that we can. ?Of course you could call a building scientist, if you know one?Calling to receive this service after you come home for work is OK with us (DARK air can be measured too). ?Call us at 910-5749-8866. ?We pledge to present test results that would comply with Jack Webb?s (of the Dragnet TV show from years gone by) criteria ? ?Just the Facts?.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Former Yahoo CEO Levinsohn to run Guggenheim Digital Media
(Reuters) - Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo Inc's former interim chief executive, has been appointed chief executive of the newly created Guggenheim Digital Media, the digital arm of private equity firm Guggenheim Partners.
The New York-based company operates Prometheus Global Media, the publisher of trade magazines Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter and Adweek.
In his new position, Levinsohn will work closely with those titles and Guggenheim's other assets, including Dick Clark Productions.
Levinsohn has a deep background in digital media, including at News Corp where he headed up the Fox Interactive Media division. While at Yahoo, Levinsohn's strategy was to turn the challenged company into an entertainment and media powerhouse by building out its video offerings and striking syndication deals. He was recently named to the board of directors of the Tribune Company.
Guggenheim Partners President Todd Boehly said in a statement that the new digital arm is on the hunt for investments in the media, technology and entertainment spaces.
Separately, Guggenheim said it bought out the remaining stake in Prometheus Global Media from Jimmy Finkelstein's Pluribus Capital.
(Reporting By Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-yahoo-ceo-levinsohn-run-guggenheim-digital-media-163715258--sector.html
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Medicinal 'toothbrush tree' yields antibiotic to treat TB in new way
Jan. 14, 2013 ? A compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way. Tuberculosis causes more deaths worldwide than any other bacterial disease. At the same time as rates are increasing, resistance strains are emerging due, in part, to non-compliance with the treatment required. Many current drugs are nearly 50 years old and alternatives are needed to the long, demanding treatment schedules.
The compound under research, diospyrin, binds to a novel site on a well-known enzyme, called DNA gyrase, and inactivates the enzyme. DNA gyrase is essential for bacteria and plants but is not present in animals or humans. It is established as an effective and safe drug target for antibiotics.
"The way that diospyrin works helps to explain why it is effective against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis," said Professor Tony Maxwell from the John Innes Centre.
In traditional medicine the antibacterial properties of the tree are used for oral health and to treat medical complaints such bronchitis, pleurisy and venereal disease. Twigs from the tree are traditionally used as toothbrushes.
Most antibiotics originate from naturals sources, such as the soil bacteria Streptomyces. Antibiotics derived from plants are less common, but they are potentially rich sources of new medicines.
"Extracts from plants used in traditional medicine provide a source for novel compounds that may have antibacterial properties, which may then be developed as antibiotics," said Professor Maxwell.
"This highlights the value of ethnobotany and the value of maintaining biodiversity to help us address global problems."
The work on diospyrin and related naphthoquinone compounds is being continued by Professor Maxwell as part of the efforts of a consortium of European researchers, More Medicines For Tuberculosis (MM4TB). The collaboration between 25 labs across Europe is dedicated to the development of new drugs for TB.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Mohegan Applies For Western Massachusetts Casino License ...
Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority's bid for a casino in western Massachusetts will move forward on Monday, a company spokeswoman said, as the company files its application and fee a day before the state's deadline.
The application comes as the company lined up financing from New York-based hedge fund Brigade Capital Management, a firm with a history of casino and entertainment investments.
"Today, we take the next critical step in fulfilling our commitment to bringing new jobs and economic growth to the region," Bruce "Two Dogs" Bozsum, chairman of the Mohegan Tribal Council said in a written release. "It's our intent to be the first casino to open its doors in Massachusetts."
The submission of Mohegan's application and non-refundable $400,000 fee also widens the competitive field to four developers ? MGM Resorts, Penn National Gaming, Hard Rock International, and, now, Mohegan ? all vying for the state's single western Massachusetts casino license.
Mohegan plans to develop a $600 million resort-style casino on 152 acres in Palmer, Mass., that will include a hotel, casino, restaurants, retail section and space for meetings and entertainment.
Its plans have set on the table while other developers announced shiny, more expensive projects, promising to transform and reinvigorate Springfield in the process.
Mitchell Etess, chief executive of the tribal gaming authority, said that Mohegan's Palmer project has unique advantages in terms of location, access and infrastructure, making it "ideal for creating the type of gaming facility that New England patrons are familiar with and have made successful over the past two decades."
The project's rural nature, Etess said, is more in line with the existing New England gaming scene ? with Mohegan Sun in Uncasville and Foxwoods Resort in Mashantucket both far from the hustle of southern Connecticut's cities.
"Moreover, our host community of Palmer has been welcoming, motivated and supportive. The community is excited about the jobs and economic development that Mohegan Sun will bring to the entire region," he said.
Mohegan first established a presence in Palmer in 2009, and its project has since been endorsed by many community and labor groups.
Penn National Gaming and MGM Resorts are vying for downtown Springfield, both putting forward plans over $800 million. Hard Rock International last week announced plans to build a casino at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield.
Managing in total over $12 billion, Brigade Capital will invest an undisclosed amount into a separate corporate entity that Mohegan is creating for the Palmer project. The firm has invested in many casinos operators across the country, including Ameristar Casinos, MTR Gaming Group and Caesars Entertainment.
Talking about Brigade Capital's investment, managing member Don Morgan said that Mohegan's well-known brand and previous success make the project an attractive venture.
"This project will be built at the best location for a casino in Massachusetts, by a team with combined experience in multiple licensing jurisdictions, and managed by one of the premier gaming operators in the U.S," he said.
The deadline for casino developers to apply to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is Tuesday. The commission plans to approve three licenses for resort-style casinos and one slots parlor.
Source: http://www.courant.com/business/hc-mohegan-palmer-financing-20130114,0,2238665.story
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
Cricket-Former Sri Lanka keeper Guy de Alwis passes away
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ready to see even more Howie Mandel on the small screen? Yeah, we didn't think so, but it's coming your way, thanks to TBS. The cable network said Friday that it has greenlit a new series, tentatively titled "Deal With It," which will be executive-produced by Mandel. The network doesn't say whether Mandel will appear on camera; if so, it will follow on the heels of three other Mandel-hosted series, "Deal or No Deal," "Take It All" and "Mobbed." (Not to mention "America's Got Talent. ...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Electric Motorcycles And Scooters To Outsell Plug-In Cars? Not Likely!
I may be new to the automotive world but this latest headline story has me a little confused. According to two new Pike Research reports, electric scooters and motorcycle sales are going to eclipse that of plug-in vehicles by the end of this decade.
Not bloody likely!
Electric Bikes and Scooters to Outsell Cars?
Saietta electric motorcycle. Image Credit: The Charging Point (some rights reserved)
Sales of Electric Scooters and Motorcycles Skyrocket
First off, we have the report from Pike Research which looks at electric motorcycles and scooters. The main statistic that has been drawing so much attention is the prediction that ?annual sales of e-motorcycles and e-scooters will reach 18.6 million by 2018.?
Pike Research point primarily to industries such as delivery companies, police and security forces, and even taxi services in some locations as the prime mover for the increase in sales of electric motorcycles and scooters.
Currently, China is the biggest market for the sale of these electric vehicles, accounting for 81% of the global electric motorcycle and scooter market. Not surprising in a country which has only recently started manufacturing cars and where the average wage doesn?t really cut it for those wanting to own their own four-wheeled vehicle.
Sales of Electric Vehicles
Another Pike Research report released earlier this year predicted that annual worldwide sales of electric vehicles will reach 3.8 million by 2020. This includes plug-in electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles selling in the Asia Pacific, North America, and Western Europe.
?Sales of EVs have not lived up to automakers? expectations and politicians? proclamations, but the market is expanding steadily as fuel prices remain high and consumers increasingly seek alternatives to internal combustion engines,? says senior research analyst Dave Hurst. ?Indeed, sales of plug-in EVs will grow at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 40 percent over the remainder of the decade, while the overall auto market will expand by only two percent a year.?
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Chinese alumina imports surge
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Coach Kristy Curry won her 300th career game during the Lady Raiders' 59-50 game...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
South Dakota Rape Cover-Up Case of Lakota Foster Children Ignored
I never realized what assimilation was or is. I never gave a thought about genocide or Manifest Destiny and I thought the holocaust only pertained to what Hitler did to the Jewish people. And it didn?t matter to me, because I never gave a thought about it. I was busy living life as I knew how, a Lakota woman. I was raised in our traditional ways but never taught all those things until I was older. I just thought life was about being traditional, with our ceremonies, songs, traditions, and ways. Sure, I went to a Christian church with my friends, went to Vacation Bible School for a popsicle, and I tested out other religions as if dipping my toes in cold lake water, but I never felt right about it. I didn?t feel wrong about it, I just felt as if it wasn?t my thing. And I made my way back to who I was and who I knew myself and my people to be. Lakota. That is where I belonged and where I feel centered.
The first time I realized that a child raised without their culture and forced into another way of life develops a huge hole in their soul was in college. I read an essay by a Vietnamese American student. She was adopted as a baby, from Vietnam, by white parents here in America. She was given a good life, she was raised with little blonde brothers and sisters and she had a suburban sounding name like Caitlyn or something. She did everything right and everything she was supposed to do in life, plus she won a scholarship to a college away from her family. It was her first time on her own and she discovered herself questioning who she was. She was drawn to other Asians and began hanging out with them. She learned of their likes, dislikes, cultures, foods, and she felt ?at home and at peace.? Many of them were also adoptees, taken from their families and countries and grew up American. They were drawn to each other to fill a need in their souls. Yet she felt this with a great deal of guilt towards her American family. She loved her adopted family but felt at home, finally, with her friends, who in turn felt the same.
That is the first time I realized how taking the culture away from someone can be somewhat traumatic or really traumatic. How lost it makes that person feel. As I grew older and started seeing cases of this same thing happening with my own Native people and it was shocking. I remember the first time, was when I met a lady in her twenties. I saw her at the casino we both worked at and asked her what tribe she was from. She became angry and said ?The lady that gave birth to me was from so and so reservation but I?m white. I grew up white. I was raised white, so don?t ever ask me that again.?
All I could say was ?Whoa.? I stood there shocked. I never in my life met another Indian who hated being Indian, and she had to nerve to say she was white, when she was a few shades from midnight? That?s when someone told me she was raised in a foster home, who eventually adopted her.
I began then to understand what it meant to be assimilated and colonized. I began reading of our history and how children were taken by the US government from Native families once they were put on reservations. Children were forcefully taken out of their homes at the age of 5 and put in residential schools until the age of 18. They made handcuffs so small to detain these children. They were beaten for speaking their language, hair was cut, and all for the purpose of ?Kill The Indian, Save The Man.?
This generation was our grandparents and great grandparents, who suffered physical, sexual,and emotional abuse in the residential schools. They were never given the chance to heal because these stories were never told. They were kept on the down low by the Catholic church and the government who ran the residential schools. Many of these boarding schools who are now in operation are now making monetary payments, now wanting to hear the stories of abuse and now trying to make amends. After a few were hit with class action lawsuits.
The next generations, also suffered and still suffer. By the foster care systems. Children were taken from their homes and given to white foster families to raise. The families receiving funding for every foster child, would often take on many foster children. The state holds the households they take the children from to the standards set by white society. Without ever listening to how we set family structures, how we take care of our own, or how we live with our traditions, they set everything up to fit a mold, that they live by.
Based on a 1976 study by the Association on American Indian Affairs found that 25 to 35% of all Indian children were being placed in out-of-home care. (Eighty-five percent of those children were being placed in non-Indian homes or institutions.) Congress then passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. ? 1901) in 1978 in order to keep American Indian Children with American Indian families.
However, this is not being followed in South Dakota. Why? Because South Dakota has a dirty little secret. According to a wonderful and very thorough investigation by National Public Radio that inspired me to find my brother who was lost for 21 years due to failure of the fact that DSS didn?t follow ICWA regulations and place him with family. I was 19 years old when he was taken from his mother. I was employed and had my own place and he was 8 years old. When I asked them why they didn?t ask me, all they said was sorry and also ,sorry we can?t help you find him now. That is when I began to search for him and I also began to investigate why so many of our Indian children in South Dakota are taken from their homes and placed in Non-Native homes, this is when I found their dirty little secret.
South Dakota?s Department of Social Services receives money for Native children they take custody of. They receive more money than the non-Native children they take from their homes. Native children in South Dakota make up 15% of all the children of South Dakota, yet over half the children placed in foster care are Native. And only 13% of those children are placed in Native foster homes. While Native foster home sit empty for months. South Dakota removes children from their homes at a rate 3 time higher than any other state. But according to state figures, less than 12 percent of the children in foster care in South Dakota have been actually physically or sexually abused in their own homes. That?s less than the national average.
I still didn?t get to the dirty little secret yet. South Dakota, years ago, designated all Native children as ?special needs.? Which means every Indian child in every school benefits that school with more funding and it also means that every Indian child taken from their home by DSS benefits South Dakota more than non-Native children. And although the state says they match all the money coming in from the feds dollar for dollar, the match is not exact. According
to records from 2010, the feds reimbursed the state three quarters for what it spent on the children they removed from their homes. There is also an adoption incentive program nobody hears about. The federal government gives the states $4,000 for each child who is placed into adoption from foster care. That amount is $12,000 for ?special needs? children. And of course over half the children removed from homes in South Dakota are Indian children, who, you guessed it, are designated by the state as ?special needs? just for being American Indian. The state has made almost a million dollars in the last ten years off of our most precious resource. Our children. They moved us to dry, barren lands that cannot be farmed, the took the gold and every resource from the lands they stole. And now they are after our children.
Why is this not making a splash? Why is it not news? Especially , in South Dakota? Because they will go to any length to cover up what they do to take our children away. Even as our children are being violated in the homes they are placed in. Here is one case that will blow anyone?s mind and still has yet to reach the media in South Dakota.
Former assistant state attorney Brandon Taliaferro and court appointed child advocate Shirley Schwab go to trial tomorrow, January 7, 2013 for crimes they didn?t commit. Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Schwab have been indicted by SD Attorney General Martin Jackley with witness tampering and disclosure of confidential, Department of Social Services information. They are being accused of these crimes for encouraging two teenage Lakota foster girls to tell the truth about being molested by their non-Native foster parent, who is now serving a 15 year prison sentence for rape of a child under 10.
According to the Daily Kos: Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Schwab now assert that South Dakota is engaged in a criminal conspiracy to discriminate against Lakota foster children and their mothers, fathers, grandparents and relatives. ?It is financially beneficial for the DSS to remove American Indian children from their homes and place them in [white] foster homes,? said Attorney Taliaferro to the Aberdeen News on December 19, 2011. ?[Had I followed] the orders of [my boss with respect to the Mette investigation, it] would have required [me] to violate the law, and ethical rules that govern attorney conduct.? Mr. Taliaferro asserts that in 2011 he refused to participate in ?a cover-up of misconduct? by the DSS.
The charges are believed to be a direct response to Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Scwab for criticizing the state?s payroll during the NPR investigation. According to reporter Stephanie Woodard in her article for 100 Reporters ?Rough Justice In Indian Child Welfare? where two state Department of Criminal Investigation agents are seen on a Youtube video planning the cover-up by the state against Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Schwab. They are unaware, that though they are off camera, they left their microphones on.
This is all dirty, low down, Gestapo like tactics used by the Department of Social Services . And it shows how far the state will bend, how low they will go, to keep the millions of dollars they have coming in by stealing yet again from the Indigenous people of this land. Instead they don?t take from the land, they take from the womb.
They won?t get away with this much longer. Something has to be done.
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