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This week with New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen, one listener wonders what to do about her son, who lied to her about his academic misadventures.

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. By the time your kids go off to college, they're pretty much adults. They don't bring home their report cards for you to sign anymore. You just have to trust that they're doing their best.

One of our listeners found out the hard way that isn't always the case, and she wrote this week's letter to New York Times ethicist Randy Cohen. The listener, Lynn, asked that we not use her last name. She's on the line with us now. Hello there, Lynn.

LYNN (Caller): Hi.

ELLIOTT: And Randy Cohen is with us from New York. Hi, Randy.

Mr. RANDY COHEN (Ethicist, New York Times): Hi, Debbie.

ELLIOTT: So, Lynn, you discovered your son was not being entirely honest with you about his grades.

LYNN: Yes, absolutely, and it was very uncharacteristic of him because as a high school student he was always, you know, right on target, a very high-achieving student, and we really had no reason not to trust him. And about two years ago, he started his, you know, college career at a small public college with a good reputation. And we attended a parent orientation, and they made it very clear that the school is not going to contact us if your child is in academic trouble, if your child is arrested, and even if your child is sick. They will encourage your child to contact you, but unfortunately, our child did not.

He basically lied about his grades and said he was passing, and he did fail two classes his first sophomore semester and two classes his second sophomore semester. And we had no idea.

ELLIOTT: You know, when the school first told you about its policy before he started college, did you have a conversation with him then? Okay, school's not going to be letting us know about your progress, but we expect you to let us know.

LYNN: Exactly, and we had that conversation. And the school said, oh, we don't want you to be a helicopter parent, and we don't want you to micromanage your son or daughter. And I fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. and I said, yes, he's an adult now, he's independent, we could trust him. We always have trusted him.

ELLIOTT: Now, are you paying for his tuition or were you?

LYNN: Yes, yes, we are.

ELLIOTT: Couldn't you just say, hey, look, I am paying for this. You're showing me your grades every semester.

LYNN: Oh, now we can, absolutely, absolutely. That's, you know, that's the policy now, and - but I just feel like these kids are left alone in college, they're treated like adults, and then when something does happen, there isn't enough intervention on the school's part to help these kids.

ELLIOTT: Randy, what is the obligation of the college at this point to intervene and try to get parents or other people around the student to help?

Mr. COHEN: The college has just that obligation, I believe. But I should also say my daughter just began her sophomore year in college this fall, and I, too, was surprised to learn last year that I can't simply demand to see her grades. The school is bound by something called FERPA. That's the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, signed into law by President Ford, by the way, in 1974. So this law's been around for a long time.

And the college indeed is acting ethically when, under the dictates of this law, it treats students like adults, that college isn't elementary school. We've had 18 years, we parents, to cultivate the habits of personal integrity with our children. And in the end, what would we do if we did know their grades? We can't go to their dorms each night and stand over them and make sure they study. We can't drag them out of bed in the morning and take them to class. They really are adults.

But the college then has, I think, as Lynn was suggesting, an ethical obligation to every student it accepts to make sure they're getting a good education and that they are getting any help if they need it, and they're getting that help promptly.

I spoke to the dean at Lynn's son college, and I found the dean to be a delightful and responsible person, and who shares our view that the school has an ethical obligation to each student in this way. And it sounds as if this student may have slipped through the cracks. But the school's policy at least is to do just what I think they should be doing as an ethical matter, and Lynn as a parent thinks they should be doing.

ELLIOTT: But how do the parents fit into that picture?

Mr. COHEN: Well, it's our job to make sure our children trust us and trust us enough to let us know what their grades are. We have no right to force them to do that. And it's interesting that you mentioned tuition, because that was my first instinct too. Hey, I'm paying for this thing. Don't I have the right for a report about how you're doing?

ELLIOTT: Exactly.

Mr. COHEN: No, you don't, and neither do I. No parent does. It's a bit of a shock to find that out freshman year. We really don't.

ELLIOTT: If I'm paying, I can say, look, I'm going to see your grades every semester. If you're not up to par, I'm not paying anymore.

Mr. COHEN: You...

ELLIOTT: I have the right to do that.

Mr. COHEN: Well, I'm not sure what you mean by right. You don't have the legal right to say that to the school. In my view you don't have the moral right to bully your kids in that way, that they're not property, we don't own them. It's not because you pay the bills that you have special moral rights. It's because you're a parent who loves you children, who cares about your children. They trust you and love you and you want to help them. But that's a reciprocal obligation that love gives us that parents and children have to one another. Money doesn't really come into it.

ELLIOTT: So Lynn what is your policy now with your son in regard to grades? Does he just have to tell you how he's doing or do you make him show you...

LYNN: No, he has to show us his grades, absolutely. And I think he's back on track. I hope he is. And he's a good kid.

ELLIOTT: Well, thank you for your letter, Lynn, and good luck.

LYNN: Thank you.

ELLIOTT: Randy Cohen never got anything less than A's. And if you'd like him to help you out, write to us. Go to our Web site,, click on Contact Us and select WEEKEND ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Please put the word ethics in the subject line and include a phone number where we can reach you.

Randy, I expect to see a copy of your grades.

Mr. COHEN: Thanks so much for having me on.

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–The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) estimates that 30 to 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant. These are people who cannot digest lactose, the sugar found in dairy products. According to the FDA, symptoms include gas, stomach cramps, diarrhea, etc. However, many others are also allergic to dairy products, specifically the proteins found in milk and whey. Either way, poorly digested bovine antigens (substances that provoke an immune reaction) like casein become "allergens" in allergic individuals. Dairy products are the leading cause of food allergy, often revealed by diarrhea, constipation and fatigue. Many cases of asthma and sinus infections are reported to be relieved and even eliminated by cutting out dairy. The exclusion of dairy, however, must be complete to see any benefit.

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lactose intoleranceProtein digestion begins in the stomach. If the food you eat is not cooked or processed, enzymes present in the food itself will actually break down some 70% of the protein in the first hour in a process called autolytic digestion. After the first hour, pepsinogen and hydrochloric acid are introduced to the process (the hydrochloric acid converts the pepsinogen into pepsin). Pepsin further breaks down the protein into amino acids and their derivatives, a process that is completed (theoretically) by the enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin produced in the pancreas and released into the small intestine. The amino acids and related molecules derived from the dietary protein are then absorbed through the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. The absorption rate of the individual amino acids is highly dependent on the protein source. For example, after whey protein is broken down, some 90% of it is absorbed quickly -- perhaps too quickly -- whereas soy protein is absorbed much more slowly and much less completely. A rice and pea protein combination, on the other hand splits the difference -- sharing soy's longer absorption time frame, but whey's high level of ultimate absorption.

This process, however, is not equal in all people. How the food is cooked, whether or not the protein is denatured by processing and heat, the presence or absence of enzymes (natural or supplemented), and the presence of other substances such as pectin can all affect the ultimate break down of the proteins and whether or not they trigger allergies or are responsible for intolerances. Which brings us to the question at hand.

Technically speaking, food allergies and food intolerances are two different things. A food allergy, or hypersensitivity, is defined as an abnormal response to a food triggered by the immune system. Common symptoms, according to medical authorities, usually appear within minutes to a couple of hours after eating the food in question and include:

  • Tingling sensation in the mouth
  • Swelling of the tongue and throat
  • Difficulty breathing
  • Hives
  • Acne
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal cramps
  • Diarrhea
  • Drop in blood pressure
  • Loss of consciousness, and death.

A food intolerance, on the other hand, does not involve the immune system (theoretically), occurs in the digestive tract, and is characterized by symptoms such as gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, headaches, and dark circles under the eyes.

In truth, food allergies and intolerances are two sides of the same coin (the inability to break down the food in question) manifesting in different parts of the body. If the protein in question is so large that it can't pass through the walls of the intestine and the symptoms they cause manifest in the intestinal tract without involving the immune system, they are called an intolerance. On the other hand, if the protein breaks down enough to pass through the walls of the intestine and enter the bloodstream, but allows for relatively larger proteins (larger than its constituent amino acids) to enter the bloodstream and be targeted as antigens by the immune system (or affect mast cells in the intestinal wall), you have a food allergy. Two parts of the immune response are involved:

  • The antibody, immunoglobulin E (IgE), that circulates in the blood.
  • And mast cells, which can be found in all body tissues but especially in the nose, throat, lungs, skin, and gastrointestinal tract.

The most common food allergies are shrimp, lobster, crab, and other shellfish, nuts of all kinds (peanuts, walnuts, and tree nuts), wheat, corn, dairy, fish, and eggs.

The official line is that only about 1.5 percent of adults and up to 6 percent of children younger than 3 years in the United States -- about 4 million people -- have a "true" food allergy, according to researchers. But the reality is most likely quite different. Setting aside for a moment the 150 or so people who die every year from food allergies in the US, you can make a case that virtually 100% of people have a low level allergic response to foods such as wheat, corn, and dairy. By low level, we're talking about almost immeasurable systemic inflammation in the body and chronic mucous production -- either seen in the stools, or experienced as constant throat clearing, sniffling, and high susceptibility to allergy triggers such as dust and pollen.

Other allergies

Ultimately, allergies are not restricted to proteins. Almost anything can trigger an allergic response in a susceptible individual -- for example sunlight (solar urticaria) and water (aquagenic urticaria) can trigger responses in a small number of people. But dig deep enough, and a protein may still play a prominent role -- as can be seen in solar urticaria.

However, our focus is on dietary proteins and protein allergies. With that in mind, the primary culprits are:

  • Dairy and whey
  • Eggs
  • Soy
  • Shell fish
  • And wheat gluten meat substitutes for vegetarians

But concerns about protein consumption do not end with food allergies and intolerances. There are a couple of other conditions that need to be mentioned:

  • Aminoacidemia
  • Intestinal toxemia

Whey Contributes To Aminoacidemia

Aminoacidemia may sound like a disease, but it's not. It is a condition in which excessive amounts of amino acids are present in the blood. If there is nothing in the diet, for example, to account for it, it could be indicative of missing or defective enzymes in the liver, which are essential for the breakdown of nitrogen containing amino acids in the body. If your body can't sufficiently break down amino acids, it can lead to generalized hyper-aminoacidemia, and ultimately to neurotoxicity and early death.

For years bodybuilders have claimed that excess amino acids dumped quickly into the bloodstream is a helpful condition for building muscle. Unfortunately, new studies now indicate that not only is this not necessarily true, but that aminoacidemia may be a contributing factor in the onset of diabetes. Specifically, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has confirmed that whey’s high Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score actually ensures a rate of amino acid delivery that is too rapid to sustain the anabolic requirement during the postprandial period (the period right after a meal).

Again, we're talking about intentionally induced aminoacidemia through diet. For years bodybuilders have claimed this is a helpful condition for building muscle, and for several years now, this has been one of the main selling features of whey protein in the bodybuilding community. The rational is that muscle growth is about staying in a positive nitrogen state. Exercise damages muscle, stresses it, and throws your body into a negative nitrogen catabolic (breakdown) state. And the best way to take yourself out of a catabolic state and into a positive nitrogen anabolic (building) state is to consume the fastest absorbing protein you can get your hands on -- whey. And there is no question that whey protein induces a short term dramatic increase in blood levels of amino acids -- i.e. aminoacidemia. Unfortunately, new studies now indicate that this rational, taken as a whole, may not necessarily be true.

Specifically, studies have confirmed the "paradox" of the highly soluble proteins found in whey and whey isolate, which, despite their high Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score, ensure a rate of amino acid delivery that is too rapid to sustain the body's anabolic requirement during the minutes and hours after consuming it -- thus being counterproductive for the development of muscle. Or in simple terms, aminoacidemia may not provide the benefit many bodybuilders think it does.

But even worse, aminoacidemia may actually have long term health consequences. One example is diabetes. Interestingly enough, short term aminoacidemia can actually lower blood sugar levels since it stimulates higher beta-cell secretion and a concomitant increase in insulin levels (by as much as 40%). This, of course, significantly lowers blood sugar levels. However, over time, this constant stimulation may overstress and degrade the ability of beta-cells to produce sufficient insulin when called for and may ultimately, over time, contribute to pre-diabetic and diabetic conditions in the body.

In addition, excess amino acids are converted into carbon dioxide, water, and ammonia. Ammonia is toxic to the body and is a primary cause of premature fatigue. Normally, the body handles excess ammonia by converting it to urea then filtering it through the kidneys. But if the ammonia level is too high, it overburdens the kidneys. This is why doctors will insist on lower levels of protein intake in cases of kidney disease. And finally, although you can find studies all over the map on the question of high amino acid levels in the blood (i.e., high protein consumption) and bone loss, by far, the most convincing studies indicate that there is a problem.

For bodybuilders, the paradox of aminoacidemia says that the main virtue of whey, its high Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score, probably produces a rate of amino acid delivery that is too rapid to sustain the anabolic requirement during the immediate hours after consuming it – thus making it counterproductive for the development of muscle.

Whey and Intestinal Toxemia

Intestinal toxemia is not a medical condition. It is more of a catchall phrase used in the alternative health community to describe a set of conditions that can arise in the intestinal tract as the result of improper dietary choices. It has three primary manifestations:

  • Putrefaction, which is caused by bacterial action on undigested proteins. Guanidine, histamine, mercaptans, indol, phenyl, skato, and other organic toxins may be formed as a result.
  • Rancidity refers specifically to the spoilage of fats. This can actually occur in the digestive tract itself -- not just from the consumption of rancid fats in the diet. The primary concern is that rancid fats promote the production of peroxide free radicals in the body.
  • Fermentation is caused by the action of bacteria and yeasts on carbohydrates. Excessive gas, increased blood alcohol levels (that's why excess sugar can give you a hangover), and Candida hyper-growth are just three problems associated with intestinal fermentation.

Intestinal toxemia occurs when large particles of undigested food enter the small intestine and colon. Since these parts of the digestive tract were not designed to handle excessive amounts of undigested food, the partially digested food mass becomes a fertile breeding ground for bacteria and yeast fermentation. Each nutrient degrades in its own unique way. Proteins putrefy, carbohydrates ferment, and fats become rancid due to the workings of intestinal bacteria. These bacteria then produce harmful by-products that damage the intestines, reduce nutrient assimilation, create excess gas and bloating, and lead to persistent diarrhea. On top of that, mild to intense stomach pains (the result of muscle cramping and excessive gas) accompany this process. Prolonged intestinal toxemia may be a major contributing factor in the onset of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Crohn's Disease.

For a number of reasons, whey protein can be a major factor in promoting intestinal toxemia. Whey contains no fiber, which is necessary to keep things moving consistently through the intestinal tract. Because it is highly processed, whey protein contains no live enzymes to break down the large whey proteins. The human body actually has a hard time breaking down the three primary proteins in whey. Taken together, these problems provide an optimum environment for non-beneficial intestinal bacteria to thrive in. In addition, whey is very acid forming, which lowers the pH of the normally alkaline environment of the intestinal tract, thus favoring the growth of unfriendly bacteria over beneficial bacteria.


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Assad foes grab guns, tanks after base falls

Posted: November 21, 2012 at 5:30 a.m.

Syrian rebels celebrate Monday after their weekend takeover of a government base outside Aleppo.

After a nearly two-month siege, Syrian rebels overwhelmed a large military base in the north of the country and made off with tanks, armored vehicles and truckloads of munitions that rebel leaders say will give them a boost in the fight against President Bashar Assad’s army.

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Proposed EPA Regulations on Formaldehyde

The NWFA recently submitted commentary to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its proposed regulations of formaldehyde in composite wood products. Specifically, the NWFA responded to concerns regarding new or expanded regulation covering producers of lumber core, veneer core, and bamboo flooring, as well as regulation of third-party certifiers.

An industry-wide task force of wood flooring industry leaders representing both domestic and international businesses was assembled through the NWFA’s Government Relations committee to prepare a balanced perspective representative of the membership’s diversity.

NWFA voiced concern over proposed regulations in four areas:

  1. The significant deviation from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Reform Bill
  2. A short timeframe to become a certified company
  3. The lack of protection of confidential business information
  4. The inclusion of downstream fabricators who would absorb a double certification burden

Industry professionals are encouraged to contact their senators and representatives as well.

Click on the below links for additional resources.

EPA Formaldehyde Emissions form Composite Wood Products Proposed Rules

Federal Wood Industries Coalition (FWIC) Letter to the EPA Regarding EPA Formaldehyde Emissions

Hardwood Floors magazine ongoing Green blog coverage of the issue

NWFA Primary Comments to the EPA's Proposed Rules on Formaldehyde Emissions (PDF)

NWFA Secondary Comments Regarding Bamboo Flooring on Formaldehyde Emissions (PDF)

NWFA Secondary Comments Regarding Lumber Core on Formaldehyde Emissions (PDF)

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Gumby and an assortment of characters are floating on Colden Pond today as the result of an art project by students in Steven Banks' 3D design class. One of the students built a love machine, shown in the picture at right. (Photos by Darren Whitley/University Advancement)

Nov. 29, 2010

Students create floating art projects for Colden Pond

Steven Banks

Steven Banks

MARYVILLE, Mo. - Students and staff passing by Northwest Missouri State University's Colden Pond today are seeing a little more color in the pond's reflection, thanks to students in Steven Banks' 3D design class.

At 8 a.m. the students launched an array of colorful paper mache heads onto the campus pond for their " Floating Head Regatta."

The heads, which stand about 4 to 5 feet tall, mostly resemble video game characters and animals. There's a crocodile, a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater, and Gumby. There's even a love machine.

Banks, an instructor in Northwest's Department of Art, said the idea for the project blossomed several weeks ago while the class was trying to think of ideas for a public art project. Because the project involved Colden Pond, Lezlee Johnson, Northwest's associate director of landscape services approved it, and the students began working on the heads about two weeks ago.

Banks said students were assigned to build the floating heads at least as tall as themselves. To make them float, students fashioned rafts out of pieces of foam, cardboard, plastic bottles and swim noodles.

"First of all they had to design a head and then deal with the physics of making it float and not fall over," Banks said. "I'm impressed with their ingenuity."

Banks added that several students worked on the project over the Thanksgiving break. For some of those students that meant the added pressure of packing their projects into vehicles and assembling them on campus Monday morning.

Barring strong winds, rain and other natural elements, Banks said the heads will be stationed at Colden Pond until 5 p.m. today.

For more information, please contact:

Mark Hornickel, Communication Manager | 660.562.1704 | Fax: 660.562.1900

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The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline in The United States America

Have you always felt something was “Off” living in America? The degeneration of moral standards and the total zombie state of America has been drawn out based on a plan by the elite people that have studied and applied science to destroy us.

From Edward Bernays the nephew of Sigmund Freud to Walter Lippmann, to Lord Northcliffe and the Wellington House; you will learn how the British elite still pissed at a United States has waged war via propaganda and controlled media. Through The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline in The United States America; you will learn how the ruling elite use the media and well designed strategies to make even the most intelligent person fall under their brainwashing techniques and polling.

READThe Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline in The United States America

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The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats

Make sure you check out Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness 1, 1975. G. William Domhoff, who goes by “Bill,” is a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Born into an apolitical middle-American family in what he and his friends thought of as the Midwest (Ohio), he received his B.A. at Duke University, his M.A. at Kent State University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1965.

The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats

The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats Review

The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness_, published in 1974 by psychologist and sociologist G. William Domhoff, is a fascinating study of several important retreats frequented by elite businessmen, politicians, scientists, artists, and other members of the upper-class elite. These retreats and in particular the Bohemian Grove retreat are infamous for the bizarre rituals which take place during the time spent there and for the often scandalous behavior of otherwise “conservative” businessmen that allegedly takes place there. It has been further maintained by some that during these retreats important policy decisions are embarked upon and indeed it is this fact that makes such retreats so notorious given the fact that what goes on there is not covered by the press. While the Bohemian Grove has for a motto “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here” and includes a bizarre ritual called the “Cremation of Care” in which a body symbolizing the cares of the world is cremated thus serving to remind the businessmen that they are not to engage in politicking while on the retreat, it has nevertheless been maintained that such retreats offer a socially cementing process whereby the elite become unified as a class. Such cohesiveness may ultimately serve to underpin policy decisions which have effects on the United States (and indeed the rest of the world) that serve the interests of the upper-class elite. Domhoff presents the essential thesis that such retreats (while frivolous affairs on the face of it) actually serve a deeper purpose in unifying the upper-class elite which in turn is reflected in the policy decisions of important political figures.

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nwo Archived Show = nWo’s Impending Revelation Radio “The Masonic Bible”

Tonight I will be speaking on the Masonic Bible. All the hidden knowledge of Solomon’s temple being constructed, The symbolism in it, and more. The plan is to tackle as many issues as possible in the time allotted. I hope you will join us right here on NWO Truth Radio. And bring all your friends, Stay vigilant, stay informed, and remember that we are the New World Order!

Big Murf DELETES Facebook To Not Contribute To One World Government Agenda

Yesterday Big Murf aka Ian Murphy decided to quit using facebook.  He had a vision of the future and realized he was helping the one world government more than fighting it.  Facebook is very good at hiding the fact that it is possible to delete your account and not just disable your account.  Before leaving Ian downloaded all his “friends” email addresses.  That is one reason people stay on facebook is they do not want to lose contacts.  Big Murf found an easy solution to that.  Out of 793 people he downloaded 748 of those email addresses.  If you were friends with him then expect a mass promotional email from him promoting his new website coming soon.  Big Murf said that his next step is to un-google himself and then un-android himself.  Good luck Big Murf.


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UW Huskies vs. Boise St. Broncos prediction & MAACO Bowl preview

NWSB Insider and Washington Huskies blogger Clinton Bell gives us his analysis, preview, predictions, and breakdown for the upcoming MAACO Las Vegas Bowl matchup between the Huskies and the Boise St. Broncos this Saturday. Things aren’t looking too good for the Huskies in Clinton’s opinion. The Broncos are just too good, and they have better weapons both offensively and defensively. This game could get ugly early, but let’s hope not.

College Football Bowl Preview: Washington Huskies vs. Boise St. matchup

NWSB Insider Bryant Knox brings us his preview for the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl between the Washington Huskies and Boise State Broncos. These two teams have only faced off one other time—a Huskies victory in 2007—but this matchup is the first of three matchups over the next three seasons. Coming into this contest, Keith Price and Bishop Sankey will need help from the offensive line.

Things to watch for in the UW vs. Boise St. Maaco Bowl matchup

NWSB Insider and Washington Huskies blogger Clinton Bell gives us five things that he is watching for in the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl this Saturday against the Boise St. Broncos. First off, what ever happened in the 4th quarter of the Apple Cup needs to be addressed, fixed, and never allowed to happen ever again. If the Huskies can take the Broncos out of their game, and put the ball into Bishop Sankey’s, this game could be ours to win.

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Elder Abuse and Crime Victims Services
The Department for the Aging directly, and through a network of community-based agencies, sponsors elder abuse prevention activities for older New Yorkers and provides counseling and supportive services to elderly victims of elder abuse in New York City.
Health Care Services for Victims of Domestic Violence
All hospitals provide care for domestic violence injuries, including sexual assault, even if the victim does not have medical coverage. In addition, several hospitals and health care facilities have Domestic Violence Coordinators to provide short-term counseling, crisis intervention, and safety planning.
Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
In New York City, where 36% of the population is foreign born, and over 120 different languages and dialects are spoken, immigrant women may be less likely to report abuse than non-immigrant women due to language barriers, cultural differences, and a fear of deportation if they are not legally documented to live in the US.
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Find out about City services available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender victims of domestic violence.
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New York City uses all available avenues to hold batterers accountable. Whether the offender is being held in jail or is on parole or probation, the City has methods of protecting victims and keeping them informed.
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Personnel from the New York Police Department (NYPD) respond to calls for help, make arrests, provide referrals, and follow up visits to victims. Find out more from the Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence.
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Minutes WG Meeting 3/1/2012

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Minutes Working Group Meeting
March 1, 2012, 6pm
Location: 60 Wall Street

Present: Corey, Hillel, Carol, Carrie, Lauren

Minutes: Hillel

Role of minutes taker in meetings (both SC and GA):
Carrie: In the past, minutes takers have participated in meetings by getting on stack, participating in straw polls, spoking at SC. Just because we are taking minutes does not mean we should be disenfranchised and not have a voice in meetings.
Lauren: There has been some concern about whether minutes takers can be unbiased if they are participating in the meetings. If minutes takers are biased, that bias is going to be present whether or not they participate in meetings.
Carol: How about asking for someone to stand in for the minutes taker if they want to participate?
Lauren: That’s fine. We also have the audio recorder for that purpose.
Carrie: We need to pass along this information to Facilitation so they know what our role is.

RESULT: Consensus that minutes takers can participate in both GA and SC meetings. Carrie will report this in a Facilitation WG meeting.

Metro Cards:
Lauren: Procedure for distributing Metro Cards has changed recently. Each WG can now distribute up to 5 cards to its members. We need to put in our minutes who is getting cards.

Corey, Carrie and Carol need Metro Cards

Point People:
Lauren and Hillel have been acting as point people. Carrie and Carol will take over as point people for Accounting and Housing (metro cards).

Lauren: Jeff and Dave have stepped back, so we are shorthanded (again). We need to start making announcements at GAs and SCs to get more volunteers.
Corey: Can we make a template?
Hillel: Will bottomline doing that.
Carrie: Will make announcement at GA tonight.

Hillel: Tech has moved a few things around on website. “Minutes” link now goes directly to Quicklinks page. This puts more onus on us to update this page regularly. Hillel will bottomline doing that for the immediate future.

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Tenneco Automotive consolidated its worldwide advertising budget of $48 million at J. Walter Thompson of Detroit. The account was formerly handled by the New York and Toronto offices of SSC&B:Lintas.

Thompson's Detroit office already does the advertising for Tenneco's Walker Manufacturing, a producer of exhaust systems, and Monroe equipment, which makes shock absorbers and Brake-Pro Systems. It is also the agency for the company's German subsidiary, Pit Stop, and has worked on several overseas assignments for Monroe in Australia and Europe.

As part of the new assignment, Thompson will handle Tenneco's retail division in North America, which includes Speedy Muffler King and Car-X service systems.

While creative, media and marketing planning will be chiefly done by Thompson, Enterprise Advertising Associates of Toronto will act as the liaison in Canada.


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Each December, The New York Times Magazine looks back at the year through an unusual lens: ideas. We send out a team of researchers and reporters to investigate the latest thinking in every subject imaginable -- not just war, medicine and politics but also cosmetics, literary theory and Wiffle-ball technology -- and to bring back the most innovative, intriguing, mystifying and promising ideas they can find. Then we boil that vast intellectual stew down to the issue you hold in your hands: an alphabetical encyclopedia of the 67 inventions, breakthroughs and theories (big and small, nice and nasty) that made a difference in 2003.

Although the predictable big thinkers are represented here -- Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the editors of US Weekly -- an unusual proportion of this year's crop of ideas comes from lone-wolf thinkers of one stripe or another: basement tinkerers, armchair philosophers, mad scientists.

Take Michael Kennedy, a professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, whose big idea this year ( G.I. Bill for College Athletes ) had absolutely nothing to do with geography but might offer a solution to the conundrum of big-money college athletics. Or consider Frank Polifka, a Kansas wheat farmer, who invented an industrial garbage disposal that works like a contained cyclone ( Tornado in a Can ). It functions brilliantly, pulverizing waste of all kinds into a fine dust -- but no one (Polifka included) can figure out why. And then there is David Stevenson, a professor at Caltech, who in May came up with a real-life plan to accomplish a longtime dream of science fiction writers and 10-year-olds everywhere: drilling straight down to the center of the earth ( The Jules Verne Project ).

This issue, then, is not just a compilation of the year's most significant and thought-provoking ideas. It's also a salute to the schemers, oddballs and other unorthodox geniuses toiling away in their labs and libraries, bent on changing the world armed with nothing but a brand-new big idea.


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Cohabitation Is a Symptom, Not a Cause

Sharon Sassler

Sharon Sassler is an associate professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University

August 30, 2011

Numerous studies have found that children on average do less well on a range of outcomes when raised by cohabiting parents rather than in married couples. Cohabiting families are far less stable than married couple families.

But a growing body of evidence suggests that any advantages from marriage are more a result of selection than causation. In other words, the most educated and economically established adults are the most likely to wed, and overwhelmingly defer childbearing until after marriage. The benefits redound to their children. Young adults who have not yet attained the economic or other subjective prerequisites for marriage often cohabit, and may become parents. Different trajectories into marriage and parenthood have reinforced the diverging destinies of children. American children are doing poorly on so many fronts; those concerned with their well-being should focus on the barriers parents face to establishing economically and emotionally stable unions – whether marital or not.

Far more can be done to ensure that children’s welfare does not depend so much on whether Mom is married or not.

Cohabitors often describe their living arrangements as a rational response to economic conditions. Yet college educated cohabitors are much more likely to marry than their less educated counterparts. Last year, the Pew Research Center noted the reversal of the college marriage gap, trumpeting that college-educated young adults are now more likely than those lacking a bachelor’s degree to have married by age 30. Most disadvantaged populations, including single and cohabiting mothers, also aspire to marriage. But many defer, believing they should first attain what is often unattainable — a stable job, some savings, and residential autonomy. In my interviews with cohabiting couples, most of them know that a long-lasting and satisfying marriage takes more than just love. Marriage is an economic arrangement. For many young couples, a firm financial grounding has been made more difficult by today’s bad economy.

Increasing access to contraceptive services without additional cost – as was recently approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and soon will be required of all new private health plans – should reduce disparities between married and cohabiting couples in pregnancy planning. Young cohabiting women have much higher contraceptive failure rates than do married women. Economically disadvantaged cohabiting women are also less likely to use the most effective (hormonal) forms of birth control. It is not surprising, then, that rates of unintended pregnancy and childbearing are particularly high among younger, less educated cohabiting women. Such factors portend dramatic difference between children born into married couple families – who are often planned and born to older mothers – and those born to cohabiting couples, where they are often mistimed.

As childbearing within cohabiting unions becomes more prevalent, the negative consequences for children may diminish. But hoping for the best is not enough. The share of all U.S. births to unmarried women is now at its highest level ever – over 40 percent in 2009. Data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth reveal that 58 percent of non-marital births were to cohabiting women. More than one out of every five recently born babies had cohabiting parents. Reasonable people may suggest that it is important to delay childbearing until after marriage. But that train has already left the station.

Far more can be done to ensure that children’s welfare does not depend so much on whether Mom is married or not. That is the case in many European countries, where substantial proportions of births occur to women outside of marital unions, yet children suffer far fewer adverse economic consequences.

Cohabitation is an incomplete institution. Its role has changed dramatically over the past few decades and demographic momentum alone may ensure that cohabitation becomes an increasingly common family arrangement. To ensure children’s well-being, we as a society will have to figure out how to address poverty and to support strong families and children from varying family forms.

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A new recruit is patrolling borders

A dog breed renowned for its friendliness and love of food will be used to sniff out biosecurity risks when cruise ship passengers step ashore at the Port of Tauranga later this year.

Labradors' uncanny ability to sniff food has seen the loveable breed used for the first time as detector dogs.

Five newly graduated labradors will focus on detecting biosecurity risks at the country's main international airports but the Ministry for Primary Industries said the dogs would also be used on cruise ship passengers.

And with 100 cruise ships scheduled for Tauranga's 2012-13 season, there will be plenty of risks to detect whenever an Auckland-based handler and their dog were deployed to the port. At stake was the Bay's vulnerable horticultural industry which was already reeling from the debilitating kiwifruit vine disease, Psa.

Ministry communications spokesperson Miriam Meister said each deployment to Tauranga would be based on an assessment of the risk posed by a ship and its passengers.

"A vessel that arrives in Tauranga as a first port of arrival into New Zealand represents a different risk to one that has previously been cleared at another port."

Primary Industries Minister David Carter said labradors had the advantage of being able to work with both passengers and on mail, although the ministry would continue to breed beagles.

A total of 11 labradors would have graduated from the ministry's national training centre by the end of this year, giving the ability to cover the majority of flights arriving at main airports and to cover smaller airports when needed.

At the port, they would replace the current practice of hand searching passengers disembarking for day trips. Ms Meister said the most common seizures in Tauranga related to fresh fruit. "Dogs are particularly good at detecting fruit and covering a number of passengers quickly when they just have hand baggage."

She said labradors and beagles had excellent natures and most people considered them to be non-threatening. Both breeds loved food and were very driven in their quest to find biosecurity risks because whenever they found something, their handler rewarded them with food.

Ministry for Primary Industries' dogs were trained to detect a very wide range of distinct odours associated with biosecurity risks whereas the New Zealand Customs Service was responsible for drug detection.

- Bay of Plenty Times

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Soccer: Vicelich hopeful of Nelsen availability

Auckland City skipper Ivan Vicelich is hopeful All Whites legend Ryan Nelsen can remain available for New Zealand despite taking up the reigns of MLS outfit Toronto FC.

Vicelich, 36, was taken aback by the announcement that could spell the end of Nelsen's playing days after 49 'A' internationals with the All Whites.

"It is a little bit of a shock - a shock to everyone in the country. But I mean the guy is a great player, the best player in New Zealand.

"For the All Whites there's going to be a hole in there if he retires from the international scene," Vicelich said.

Speculation about how much longer Nelsen will play for Queen's Park Rangers in England's Premier League before the MLS kicks off in March is rife.

Vicelich says regardless of Nelsen's final decision, sports fans in New Zealand owe the 35-year-old All Whites skipper a debt of gratitude.

"We really need to celebrate his career. He's had a great career, so good on him," Vicelich said, "We have to respect his decision and wish him good luck. He'll do well in his new role, just as he did well in his football career."

There is also the small matter of two Oceania World Cup qualifiers still to play in March with the All Whites needing one more win over New Caledonia or the Solomon Islands to book an intercontinental playoff spot with the fourth placed team from CONCACAF in a home and away series in November.

Vicelich said Nelsen's influence was difficult to lose with the important matches looming and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil just 18 months away.

"I hope he can still play, the country will hope he can still play. We'll just have to wait and see how the days roll out now and see the decision that comes from him.

"It's a big move but Ryan is the type of guy who can do well - everyone at Auckland City FC will wish him luck in that move," Vicelich said.

Vicelich also eased fans fears that he may join Nelsen on the side-lines should the former Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur defender make All Whites retirement official.

He should know - Vicelich retired once previously before being hauled back for the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa four years ago.

"I've retired once already so it will definitely happen again. But right now it's just a game by game situation for me and I'm still enjoying it.

"Ryan has obviously put a lot of time and thought into the decision he's going to make by moving to Toronto FC, so when the time is right for me, that decision can be made then," he said.

Vicelich is in action with Auckland City on Sunday when the navy blues play Canterbury United in Christchurch, Nelsen's home town and the player known as 'The Godfather' cherishes one moment above all others.

"I've played alongside Ryan for a long time. My top memory was the final whistle in Bahrain. We were the first two to hug each other in that chaos. That bit of magic was something special.

"Ryan Nelsen has helped create sporting memories in New Zealand that will last forever. Hopefully he can do that in his coaching career as well," Vicelich said.

And after leading Auckland City to a 4-1 win over Waikato FC on Wednesday, Vicelich is still hungry for success.

"I'm just enjoying the start of 2013. Hopefully Auckland City and the All Whites can have some good results and we've got some big games coming up."

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