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Telford Leads Iowa Sweep at Luther Open
Iowa opens season with a combined 12 individual titles
2012 All-American Bobby Telford pinned all five opponents on his way to the 285-pound title at the Luther Open.
2012 All-American Bobby Telford pinned all five opponents on his way to the 285-pound title at the Luther Open.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The University of Iowa wrestling team opened the 2013-14 season winning 12 individual titles Saturday at the Luther Open.

Iowa swept 10 weights in the Elite Division and added a pair of titles in the Freshmen Division.

Bobby Telford led the Hawkeyes with five falls, navigating the 285-pound bracket in a combined time of 7:32. It was Telford's first appearance since leaving last year's national tournament due to injury.

"I'm feeling good right now," said Telford, "I always felt good with my training, so it was just great to get out there. There was never a concern, never a doubt. I'm feeling strong and now we just keep going."

Iowa's 10 individual champions combined for 21 pins, and the entire Iowa lineup totaled 48 falls.

"I like that we won 10 weight classes and I like that we were wrestling guys in the finals," said UI head coach Tom Brands. "There are always things to work on. We need to get healthy and we need to eliminate some things, but we'll move forward and we'll continue to build. We have a lot of guys feeling good about today and that's a good thing."

Returning All-Americans Tony Ramos, Derek St. John, Mike Evans and Ethen Lofthouse were among the tournament champions. Ramos scored three falls and a major decision en route to the 133-pound title, and Evans used three pins and two technical falls to win the 174-pound bracket.

St. John and Lofthouse both wrestled teammates in their respective finals. St. John won the 157-pound title with a 9-2 win over Brandon Sorensen, and Lofthouse defeated Sammy Brooks, 3-2, in the 184-pound finals.

Two other weight classes featured all-Iowa finals. Cory Clark defeated Thomas Gilman, 4-0, at 125, and Josh Dziewa blanked Topher Carton 4-0 at 141. Clark and Gilman combined for five pins and one tech fall before meeting in the finals.

Other Hawkeye champions included Michael Kelly at 149, Walt Gillmor at 165, and Kris Klapprodt at 197.

The Hawkeyes swept the top four spots at 184. Lofthouse and Brooks placed 1-2, and Jeremy Fahler and Alex Meyer placed third and fourth, respectively.

Matt Gurule (125), Ethan Owens (141), Brody Grothus (149), Patrick Rhoads (157) and Tomas Lira (197) each won their respective consolation brackets to place third.

Phillip Laux and Broc Berge won titles in the Freshmen Division. Laux won the 125-pound bracket, and Berge won the 197-pound class.

The Hawkeyes return to the mat Friday, Nov. 22, at the Iowa City Duals. Iowa hosts Baker University, Cornell College and Iowa Central on Mediacom Mat at Carver-Hawkeye Arena beginning at 10 a.m. (CT).

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By late fall, it had become clear that our initial fiscal 2009 revenue projection was too bullish. It had also become clear that—even with skillful investment management and a rebound in the markets—it would likely be a long time before the University endowment recovered its steep losses.

HBS acted immediately to adjust to this new budget reality, imposing restraints on staff hiring, limiting the use of overtime, cutting back on the use of temporary employees and contractors, trimming catering and utility costs, and freezing salaries. At the same time, faculty and staff took the initiative to reduce spending in myriad ways across the School. The cuts at HBP were extensive, driven by aggressive expense management as well as reductions in variable costs as the publishing business contracted.

We also reduced administrative staffing levels. A combination of normal attrition, voluntary early retirements, and layoffs effective July 1, 2009, has pared the size of the School's fiscal 2010 staff by 100 full-time equivalents (FTEs) or 8 percent. Those employees facing layoff were offered enhanced severance benefits as well as extended outplacement services to help ease their transition to a new position in a difficult job market, whether within or outside Harvard.

The size of the HBS faculty increased in fiscal 2009. The School ended the year with 228 faculty full-time equivalents (FTEs), up from 219 in fiscal 2008. However, the School begins fiscal 2010 with 10 fewer faculty FTEs than in fiscal 2009: fewer new faculty were recruited than planned, and short-term appointments—as visiting faculty or senior lecturers, for example—were lower than budgeted.

In addition, reflecting the difficult job market our MBA students were facing, the School committed additional career services resources to help with coaching, networked job searches, and other placement initiatives in fiscal 2009. As a result of these efforts, 87 percent of 2009 graduates seeking employment had accepted a job offer three months after graduation. This compares with an average of 93 percent during the prior five-year period.

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As the economy recovers, many Westerners are left behind

Las Vegas is filled with symbols of how drastically the economic landscape of the West has changed over the past decade. Drive out into the city’s fringes, and you’ll see vast swaths of land for which developers — visions of master-planned tract home communities dancing in their heads — paid the Bureau of Land Management millions during the boom. Today, many of the developers have gone bankrupt, and most of the land mercifully remains open desert. Or head down to The Strip and check out the Fountainebleau, a 68-story, 3,900-room, $2.9 billion mirrored-glass-sheathed monolith. Construction on the beast was halted in 2007, and it now stands as if frozen in time, cranes still perched on its peak. It’s as likely to be leveled and scrapped as it is to be completed and opened for business.

More disturbing, though, is something you see on many a street corner, whether it’s in the old Downtown or out in the suburbs next to the Starbucks: abject poverty in the form of the homeless, quasi-homeless, panhandlers, drifters and dilapidated homes.

While this deprivation is more apparent in Vegas, juxtaposed as it is against a backdrop of decadence, it’s visible all over the West, whether in the dire housing situation on the Navajo Nation, or in the shadows of the glitzy mountain resort towns, where droves of working poor scrape by on measly wages and commute for hours to semi-affordable housing. It’s visible in Wal-Mart, where, while waiting to get a tire fixed, a man told me how he had plummeted from working on a gas rig and making a big salary — enough to put him in the top 10 percent — with a home chock full of equity in southwestern Colorado, to the bottom 10 with a slip in the mud while carrying a heavy pipe on the job. He was seriously injured, lost his job, and is now fighting to try to get his former employer to help out with his gargantuan medical bills, even as he fights to hang on to his house, which, like so many others around here, is underwater.

For the national economy, 2013 was a year of semi-recovery from the battering recession. But it was also a time when many folks and sectors of the economy continued to get left behind. Over the last five years, income inequality has risen to unprecedented levels, poverty refused to diminish, and some parts of the West remained stuck in the economic trough.

Generally, the federal government, infected with the austerity bug, not to mention sheer dysfunction, has failed to help. Not only has it refused to inject cash into areas that need it, or extend the public safety net to those who are yanked out of the middle class, but has instead, through sequestration, the shutdown, and revocation of unemployment and food stamps, exacerbated their misery — our misery, really, since the West is the region that most depends on the federal government and federal spending.

The economic landscape is revealed by statistics:

Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Most of the West is poor and getting poorer. Without exception, every state’s poverty rate has increased since 1999, and in many cases, the percentage of children in poverty is even higher than for the population in general. New Mexico vies with a couple of Southern states for poorest in the nation. When cost of living and housing is factored in, the numbers look even worse in places like California. Except for areas with strong extractive economies, poverty rates tend to be higher in rural than in urban areas. And the rate increases almost invariably when crossing into an Indian reservation. Apache County, Ariz., for example, much of which is on the Navajo Nation, has a poverty rate of 36.5 percent. The unemployment rate on the reservation as a whole has been pegged at 50 to 60 percent.

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Home ownership rates went crazy during the boom, mostly thanks to banks handing out credit like lollipops. And thanks to all those folks buying houses, home values increased dramatically, giving homeowners a lot of equity. That allowed them to use the homes like virtual ATM machines, from which they could draw to inject money back into the economy. Then the whole house of cards blew apart with the subprime mortgage crisis, and homeownership rates plummeted. Although home sales are picking up these days, homeownership rates haven’t recovered at the same rate, an indication that corporations are buying up cheap homes en masse and renting them out. It’s also an indication that regular folks have, by and large, missed the “recovery.”

Unemployment rates, while dropping, remain higher than pre-Recession levels in much of the West. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Unemployment rates remain as high or higher than the national rate in most of the West, and far higher than in the years before the bust. There are exceptions: Wyoming’s jobless numbers remain low, mostly thanks to oil and gas drilling (but still higher than before the recession, and numbers of homeless are relatively high there, too). But Nevada’s unemployment remains at 9 percent. Meanwhile, Congress just refused to extend unemployment benefits to 1.3 million folks who are out of work, which, I suppose, will force them to get off their duffs and get a job if there were any jobs.

The sequester. Austerity. Budget cuts. (Not to mention the shutdown.) Whatever you call it, and whatever you think of it, it’s hitting the West harder. We are big recipients of federal dollars, be it for public lands or military bases or federal labs. Every Western state has more federal employees per 1,000 people than the U.S. average. But the flow of federal cash in this direction is diminishing, despite the fact that it was just the opposite — very heavy federal spending — that pulled us out of the Great Depression. Austerity has hit New Mexico — whose economy was flat or worse in 2013 — especially hard. Tribes, too, rely heavily on federal spending, and are scrambling to figure out how to make up for what’s lost during this budget cutting era.

This is perhaps the most disturbing graph of the year — the last several decades, even. It maps a long and radical redistribution of the nation’s wealth, from the pockets of the poor to the vaults and yachts and mansions of the rich. The only time income inequality was nearly so pronounced was in the years leading up to the Great Depression. That was repaired with high progressive tax rates that remained in place until they were dismantled, beginning in the 1980s. While recessions also hit the wealthy hard, they have proven resilient. Corporate profits are sky high these days, as is the gap between the pay of the workers and the CEOs. Since 1993, the real income of the top 1 percent has grown by 86 percent. For the rest of us, incomes have grown only 6 percent. On the bright side, Western states such as Utah and Wyoming are among the least lopsided when it comes to wealth distribution. At the same time, other Western regions — California, New Mexico and Boulder and Pitkin counties in Colorado — are among the most lopsided. Witness this in places like Aspen and Telluride, where ranches and condos are selling for tens of millions of dollars, while just down-valley the economic slump continues.

There have been glimmers of hope. The Affordable Care Act, as big a fiasco as its roll-out has been, has thus far put about 2 million people onto the health insurance rolls, thus potentially saving them from going bankrupt because of a broken leg or a lengthy illness. It could, someday, prove to be the first step towards a more comprehensive fix of our broken health care system. Fast food and Wal-Mart workers have demanded higher pay, a movement that seems to be gaining momentum. In 2013, it seems, folks stood up and demanded that they not be left behind. Let's hope that in 2014 someone finally listens.

Jonathan Thompson is a senior editor at High Country News. He tweets @jonnypeace.

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Jan 08, 2014 04:09 PM
Nice post Jonathan. Another thing I've noticed here in Denver when my partner and I looked for housing is that all the cheaper, fixer-upper-type homes had been bought up by investment groups as "fix-and-flips." They put in a new kitchen with a tile backsplash, refinish the floors, and sell it for $50K more than they bought it for. So a home that would have been $180K becomes $230K after a fix and flip. This practice has seemed to take a lot more of the affordable homes off the market for those in the medium income range. - Stephanie


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    Between 02/13 and 05/13, the suspect fraudulently obtained 22 Visa debit cards using the personal identification information of 41 different victims. Jackson stated that he obtained the personal identification information from his mother's employer, Ace Home Care's patient database. Jackson was going through his mother's work computer to obtain the victims' information and then he would complete Visa applications and have the cards sent to his friends' homes. Deputies received information that the suspect was in possession of 22 fraudulent credit cards and found the bag of credit cards at Jackson's home. Jackson was arrested and charged with 41 counts of fraudulent use of person identification information and one count of trafficking in counterfeit credit cards.
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‘Rest Of The Country Should Take A Good Look At The Situation In Texas’

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HOUSTON – Last year, Luis Duran drove almost 200 miles to San Antonio to have a colonoscopy because he didn’t want to wait six months for an opening at a county clinic.

A few days later, the doctor in San Antonio – a friend of a friend who had performed the screening for free – called to break the news that Duran, 51, had advanced colon cancer and needed immediate surgery.

“I kind of broke down,” recalled Duran, a machine operator whose employer had terminated his health policy. “I said, ‘Doctor, I don’t have insurance, and I don’t have much money, but I won’t refuse to pay. Please help me.'”

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the problem of the uninsured is no exception. The Houston metropolitan area has one of the highest rates of uninsured people in America, and a health safety net imploding under the demands of too many people and too few resources. Almost one in three residents – more than a million people — lack health insurance, and about 400 are turned away every day from the county hospital district’s call center because they can’t be accommodated at any of its 23 community or school-based centers.

Those seeking care at the public hospital’s ER, meanwhile, arrive with blankets and coolers full of sandwiches and drinks in anticipation of waits that may go 24 hours or longer.

“If the Affordable Care Act is overturned, the rest of the country should take a good look at the situation in Texas, because this is what happens when you keep Medicaid enrollment as low as possible and don’t undertake insurance reforms,” said Elena M. Marks, a health policy scholar at Rice University’s James Baker Institute for Public Policy and a former city health official.

Opponents of the federal health care law see the problem of the uninsured very differently. They object not just to the price tag of expanding coverage to millions more people, but to the whole philosophy behind it.

Texans are individualistic and value their freedoms and responsibilities, said Lucy Nashed, spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry, who notes Medicaid spending is a big part of Texas’ budget.

“Individual responsibility is about making healthy choices and taking ownership of your lifestyle — not just about buying health insurance,” Nashed said. “And you can’t legislate a healthy lifestyle.”

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With its fiscally conservative philosophy and cash-strapped state budget, Texas does not offer Medicaid coverage to childless adults unless they are pregnant, disabled or elderly. Parents of children covered by welfare are eligible for the state-federal health program only if they make no more than $188 a month for a family of three.

At the same time, the proportion of Texas workers with employer-sponsored insurance is almost 10 percentage points lower than the national average of 61 percent, in part because of the state’s high concentration of jobs in the agricultural and service sectors, which often lack benefits.

“Seventy percent of the people we see here are employed,” said Dr. G. Bobby Kapur, associate chief of the emergency room at Ben Taub General Hospital, part of the taxpayer-supported Harris County Hospital District.

“They’re hourly wage earners, nannies, [people] working in lawn care services or dry cleaning or real estate, or people working two part-time jobs and neither will pay for health care,” he said. “Many are small business owners who are well-educated and well-dressed.”

The problem is not too few health care providers –– although there may be a shortage of primary care doctors willing to treat Medicaid patients. Houston’s hospitals are world-renowned, drawing patients from all over the globe for its highly specialized care — primarily to those who can pay.

But the hundreds of thousands who work for small businesses, tend the city’s lawns, cook its food and care for its children often lack a regular source of primary care.

Overburdened Safety Net

Add in the unemployed and undocumented immigrants, and more than a million people depend on Houston’s safety net providers for their care.

“The number of uninsured in the city is four times the 300,000 patients they serve,” Marks said. “They can’t possible meet the demand for services, no matter how efficient they are.”

The publicly supported Harris County Hospital District schedules 1.5 million outpatient visits every year, and is building primary care clinics “as fast as we can,” to alleviate the crush in emergency rooms, said President and CEO David Lopez.

But sick patients are often scheduled for appointments two months after they call. Sometimes, as in Duran’s case, they must wait much longer.

“I called, but they said the first appointment I could get was August 14,” said Humberto Vasquez, 36, who recently joined a stream of patients heading to Ben Taub General Hospital’s ER.

Vasquez said he was worried about pain in his lower abdomen and back that had lasted for two weeks, wasn’t responding to over-the-counter painkillers and seemed to be getting worse.

As he walked into the emergency room, Benjamin Vasquez (no relation) was leaving, his left arm set in a cast and $100 poorer. Benjamin, a part-time bakery chef and Bible college student, had broken his arm playing soccer Monday evening and spent 24 hours in the ER; he was still wearing his red Number 12 soccer jersey and shorts.

It was his second time there; he had his appendix removed there nine years ago, gradually paying off a reduced fee of several thousand dollars, he said.

Duran, the cancer patient, was leaving after an outpatient chemotherapy treatment that cost $8, a subsidized rate. A year ago, when he was told there would be a six-month wait for a colonoscopy, his daughter, who works in a physician’s office in San Antonio, asked her boss if he knew someone who could do the screening for free.

He found someone, and after that doctor diagnosed cancer, rallied a team of surgeons to operate. Duran paid only the anesthesiologist and a negotiated hospital fee.

“If I had waited six months for a colonoscopy, I would have been dead,” he said.

Daunting Challenges If Law Is Upheld

Even if the health law is upheld, its proponents admit it won’t be a panacea. An estimated 600,000 Houston-area residents are projected to gain insurance coverage, and many are likely to continue having trouble accessing care.

“Our guess is that the number of Medicaid providers will not increase, and there will be long waiting times to be seen,” said Lopez, the hospital district administrator.

Only a third of physicians who were accepting new patients this year were taking those with Medicaid, compared with 42 percent in 2010, according to the Texas Medical Association.

The process of determining eligibility for public coverage or federal tax credits could also be hampered by the state’s delay in setting up an online insurance exchange where individuals and small businesses are supposed to purchase policies beginning in 2014.

Undocumented immigrants will also be ineligible for any help since they are barred from purchasing health coverage through the exchanges.

But proponents say things will be far worse if the Supreme Court invalidates the law and the number of uninsured keeps growing.

The situation is so bad that Charles Begley, director of the Houston Health Services Research Collaborative, believes that change is coming to Texas regardless of the court’s ruling.

“There’s a general realization from both right and left that our health care system is in crisis,” Begley said. If none of it goes through, you’re going to see … [a] response like, ‘Okay, we dodged that bullet from the federal government. Now let’s try to do a better job ourselves.'”

The link for this article is: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/June/21/houston-texas-uninsured.aspx

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Professor Blumstein's research over the past twenty years has covered many aspects of criminal justice phenomena and policy, including crime measurement, criminal careers, sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison populations, flow through the system, demographic trends, juvenile violence and drug-enforcement policy. He was also director of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), a multi-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at the Heinz College.

Key Issues in Criminal Career Research (with Alex R. Piquero and David P. Farrington) (2007) Cambridge University Press

The Crime Drop in America (2000) (with Joel Wallman, eds.) Cambridge University Press

Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals" (1986) with J. Cohen, J. Roth, and C.A. Visher (eds.), Report of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Research on Criminal Careers; Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform (2 volumes) (1983) with Jacqueline Cohen, Susan Martin, and Michael Tonry (eds.), Report of the NAS Panel on Research on Sentencing, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.

Deterrence and Incapacitation: Estimating the Effects of Criminal Sanctions on Crime Rates, Report of the Panel of Deterrence and Incapacitation, (1978), Alfred Blumstein, Jacqueline Cohen and Daniel Nagin, eds, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

“Linking the Crime and Arrest Process to Measure Individual Crime Rates: Variations in Individual Arrest Risk per Crime (Q)” (2010) (with Jacqueline Cohen, Alex Piquero, and Christy Visher). Journal of Quantitative Criminology, vol. 26, no.4, pp.533-548

“Redemption in the Presence of Widespread Criminal Background Checks” (2009) (with Kiminori Nakamura), Criminology 47(2): 327-359

“The Roots of Punitiveness in a Democracy” (2007), J. of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, vol. 8, pp. 2-16

“An OR Missionary’s Visits to the Criminal Justice System” (2007) Operations Research, vol. 55,  pp.1-10

“Reentry as a Transient State between Liberty and Recommitment” (with Allen J. Beck) in Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America (2005) (Jeremy Travis, Christy Visher, eds.). pp 50-79. Cambridge University Press

 “The Notorious 100:1 Crack- Powder Disparity – The Data Tell Us that It is Time to Restore the Balance” (2003) Federal Sentencing Reporter, vol 16, #1, pp, 87-92.

 “Crime Modeling” (2002), Operations Research, vol. 50, #1, pp. 16-24.

 “Violence: A New Frontier for Scientific Research” (2000) Science, vol. 289, pp 545.

"Criminal Violence of NFL Players Compared to the General Population" (1999), with Jeff Benedict, Chance, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1-4

"Population Growth in U.S. Prisons. 1980-1996" (1999), with Allen J. Beck, in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, vol. 26

"U.S. Criminal Justice Conundrum: Rising Prison Populations and Stable Crime Rates" (1997) Crime & Delinquency Vol. 44, #1, pp 127-135.

"Linking Gun Availability to Youth Gun Violence" (1997) Law and Contemporary Problems with Daniel Cork Vol. 59, #1, pp 5-24.

"Relationship Between the Offending Frequency (λ) of Imprisoned and Free Offenders" (1997), with Josè A. Canela-Cacho and Jacqueline Cohen, Criminology, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp 133-175.

"Youth Violence, Guns, and the Illicit-Drug Industry" (1995) Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 10-36.

"Filtered Sampling from Populations with Heterogeneous Event Frequencies" (1993), with Josè Canela-Cacho and Jacqueline Cohen, Management Science, Vol. 39, No.7, pp. 886-899.

"Making Rationality Relevant - The American Society of Criminology Presidential Address" (1993), Criminology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-16.

"Characterizing Criminal Careers" (1987) with Jacqueline Cohen, in Science, Vol. 238 (No. 4818), pp. 985-991.

"Probabilistic Models of Youthful Criminal Careers" (1987) with Arnold Barnett and David Farrington, in Criminology Vol. 25, pp. 83-107.

"On the Racial Disproportionality of U.S. Prison Populations" (1982) Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 73, No. 3.

"Prevalence and Recidivism in Index Arrests: A Feedback Model Approach" (1982) with Elizabeth Graddy, Law and Society Review, Vol. 16, No. 2.

"Demographically Disaggregated Projections of Prison Populations" (1980) with Jacqueline Cohen and Harold Miller, Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan.- Feb., pp. 1-25.

"Estimation of Individual Crime Rates from Arrest Records" (1979) with Jacqueline Cohen, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 561-585.

Professional Experience

Before joining the Heinz School in 1969, Professor Blumstein was at the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he was Director of the Office of Urban Research and a member of the Research Council. In the mid-'60s, he was Director of the Science and Technology Task Force for the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Prof. Blumstein was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice from its founding in 1975 until 1986. He served as chairman of that committee between 1979 and 1984, and also has chaired the committee's panels on Research on Deterrent and Incapacitative Effects, Sentencing Research, and Research on Criminal Careers. He was a member of the Academy's Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education from 1994 to 2000. Prof. Blumstein also served from 1979 to 1990 as chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, the state's criminal justice planning agency, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing from 1986 to 1996.

Prof. Blumstein was president of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) in 1977-78, and received ORSA's Kimball Medal "for service to the profession and the society" in 1985 and its President's Award in 1993 "for service to society." He was president of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) in 1987-88 and in 1996 he was the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), created by the merger of ORSA and TIMS. He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society of Criminology, which awarded him its Sutherland Award for "contributions to research" in 1987. He also served as the society's president in 1991-92. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. He was awarded the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology in 1998 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998. He was awarded the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. He was appointed in 2012 as chair of the Science Advisory Board for the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Dept of Justice.

Professor Blumstein received a bachelor's degree in engineering physics and a PhD in operations research from Cornell University.


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Lemon Balm, is a hardy perennial member of the mint family (Lamiaceae). I've found it easy to propagate from seed or by dividing the clump in spring or late August; cuttings don't seem to work well. A mature plant forms an ordinary-looking rounded clump that's about 2' across. It doesn't spread as rampantly as some of it's relatives, although it can become weedy if you let it go to seed (this is a good way of getting little plants to share, though :) ).

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Someone asked about lemon balm tea: should it be used fresh or dried, etc. We are great lovers of lemon balm tea. We grow a patch of it, harvesting the leaves all summer for fresh tea. In the fall, we gather the crop and air-dry it for winter. The flavor is different depending on whether it is fresh or dried; I prefer the fresh, but dried is fine. Bruising the leaves before brewing the tea definitely intensifies the flavor.

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Put some fresh stalks in a muslin bag or similar and hang over hot tap while running a bath. Scents the bath beautifully. Nice dried and added to pot pourri.

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4 sprigs lemon balm
2 sprigs hyssop
2 sprigs basil
2 sprigs mint
2 sprigs sage
1 Tbs. chopped, crushed angelica root
2 oz. sugar
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Steep the herbs and sugar in the brandy for a fortnight, shaking occasionally. Strain and repeat with fresh herbs if the taste is not sufficiently pronounced. Strain and bottle. Take a Tbs. of this digestive before meals.

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Venice Municipal Airport and the entire length of the Intracoastal Waterway. (Courtesy photo / Venice Area Beautification Inc.)

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VENICE - After six years of not receiving federal money, the Venice Municipal Airport has unexpectedly received a $7.1 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. The money will be used to replace a crumbling runway and to move a driving range and modify seven holes on the adjoining Lake Venice Golf Club course.

The award is the largest FAA grant given to the city, said Airport Administrator Chris Rozansky. The city and the Florida Department of Transportation will contribute about $1.3 million for construction, which is set to begin on the runway next month and conclude in January. Golf course construction will begin in April and take about four months.

"This is a great project for the airport and community as a whole," Rozansky said. He added that, when it is finished, more jets will use the 4-22 runway — considered the "noise mitigation" runway because it takes aircraft over the Gulf rather than the surrounding neighborhoods.

The FAA notified the city late last week that it would receive the money — most of it "discretionary," meaning the agency had leftover money from other projects that it could direct to any airport of its choosing.

City officials said it was significant that the FAA chose Venice, after years of fighting over airport operations and being denied federal money. At one time, the city had three ongoing federal investigations over how it managed the airport and what it charged for leases, particularly Sharky's on the Pier restaurant, which straddles airport and city land.

"The discretionary grant awards always spell a very positive relationship with the funding agency," said City Manager Ed Lavallee in an email to the airport administrator. "The fact that FAA matched entitlement funds with the large discretionary award is special."

The city had been ineligible for federal funds for several years because it did not have an updated and approved airport layout plan. A plan was submitted to the FAA and approved last year.

The plan was supposed to be finished in 2006. And because it was not, the city missed out on millions in grants, including stimulus grants given to surrounding airports.

The hang-up in Venice was an airport designation that put the Gulf Shores neighborhood in an airport safety zone. A previous City Council wanted the FAA to remove the neighborhood from the safety zone. The FAA refused.

An airport designation affects the wingspan and speed of aircraft that can safely use the airport. Pilots and airport tenants argued that a lesser designation would discourage jets from using the airport and impact business.

A compromise plan, reached with the FAA last year, calls for the airport to install a crushable, concrete bumper and to shift the second runway to remove the neighborhood from the safety zone. The city has not yet applied for the estimated $11 million for that project. Rozansky said that project will likely take five to seven years.

"It's impossible to do a good job with 4-22 and manage" the other project, Rozansky said.

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Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment has been unrecognizable from the vampire leader he once was. Physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair, he has been brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel. Now, fighting once again with ruthless vengeance, he is unprepared to face a new kind of tragedy.

When Tohr begins to see his beloved in his dreams—trapped in a cold, isolated netherworld far from the peace and tranquillity of the Fade—he turns to the angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. But because Lassiter tells him he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed....

Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past and a very hot, passion-filled future…but can his heart let go and set all of them free?

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wow awesome contest! pitty its just for the US!!! T_T there are fans of the BDB all over the world!! Im from argentina and i cant do it!! :'(...very sad..indeed
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i love all the books that is posted here i hope i can win this series book
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OMG! I would love to win a signed copy of Lover Reborn. This series is by far the best vampire erotic stories I have been privileged enough to read. The BDB series is outstanding and very addicting! I truly hope that J. R. Ward continues to write for this amazing series!
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J.R.Ward was one of the first Paranormal Romance authors I got addicted to. I'm one of those unable to online shop and the closest book store is 45 miles away and our Walmart won't stock J R BDB books-don't ask me why-but they refuse or maybe it's just my local Walmart.
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Movie Podcast Part II

In Part II of our movie edition podcast, Kyle and Colin joined me once again. If you missed Part I, you can find it here. This time, we started off with a discussion of recent movie-going experiences, which led to a some talk about women in comedy, and Melissa McCarthy. This was followed by our thoughts on Les Misérables (12:24), Argo (42:53), and Zero Dark Thirty (67:39). The analysis of each movie also included wider and more general discussion of past and upcoming award shows. You can listen to the podcast on the player below, download the MP3, or subscribe via iTunes. Thanks!

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Following the “Bo Knows” Trainer 1, we now have a look at the corresponding “Mac Knows” style from Nike. Inspired by tennis bad boy turned commentator John McEnroe, the inside of the tongue features a “Mac Knows” tag, stemming from McEnroe’s appearance in the infamous “Bo Knows” commercials. The grey and black upper is accented by hits of chlorophyll, while a stitched tennis player silhouette and a tennis ball design on the insole complete the package. Available late November at House of Hoops.

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    The days of territorial wrestling and traveling the world are over for today's pro wrestlers. We are excited to bring you one of the last of pro wrestling's true road warriors. From New York to Alabama and Tulsa to Memphis, we are proud to present one of the last of a dying breed.

    DWB talks about the early territorial days of pro wrestling. What were his early days as a territorial wrestler like? What was training under Steve Keirn like? Tony talks about working in Memphis in his early years. Who did he like, who gave him trouble? Who were his favorite and least favorite opponents? How did Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett treat him? DWB breaks down the life of a Memphis wrestler in this Shoot Interview.

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Rosie the Jack Russell who was saved by Hinckley firefighters after being trapped in a rabbit hole. Picture sent in by fireman

Hinckley firefighters rescued a little Jack Russell that got trapped down a rabbit hole.

The crew was called to help release the trapped pooch, Rosie, at Fosse Meadow Country Park in Sharnford at 2.50pm on Monday.

Watch manager Steve Moore said: “A lady took her dog for a walk and she lost it at about 6am.

“She found it at 9am but it wouldn’t come out of the hole.

“We were called by the police wildlife officer who heard it barking.

“We got there and were ready to start digging but it couldn’t get out so we put a dog next to the hole - one of his friends - to calm him down and entice it out.

“When it got closer one of the firemen grabbed it - I didn’t because I’m scared of dogs. When it came out it was very happy and bouncing around.

“The park rangers did most of the work as they dug a hole. When it was out we filled it back in.”

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Fabrice Gourbilleau received a Ph.D. degree in materials physics from the University of Caen, Caen, France, in 1993. He joined the CNRS in 1994, and since then he has been working on nanomaterials at the Centre for Research on Ions, Materials and Photonics (CIMAP, UMR 6252). He is the Leader of the NIMPH team (Integrated Nanostructures for Microelectronics and Photonics) consisting of 22 persons. His research interests concern the fabrication and study of thin films based on Si nanostructure for photonics and photovoltaic and microelectronic applications. He has been involved in several European and national projects as participant or coordinator. He is the correspondent of nanoscience in Normandy and is involved in technology transfer via Normandie Incubation which he belongs to. He has authored or coauthored over 150 publications.

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