Video: Building new generation of math, science teachers

>>> and with such fierce competition for jobs these days, there are a couple of sectors hiring and even growing. science and technology , that as we've seen in our education nation series this week, american students are far behind their global competition in science and math. there is a push to reverse the trend and it starts by training future math and science teachers. our report from our education correspondent, rehema ellis.

>> reporter: sherry lamb is studying science and learning how to teach it.

>> chemistry and teaching is what i really, really enjoy.

>> reporter: this college junior is part of "you teach" a program that helps the next generation be a group of math and science teachers. you have always been interested? they're offering free courses, and do field work at public schools as early as the next semester. after four years, they graduate with a bachelor's degree and teaching certificate. it is no coincidence that the focus is on math and science .

>> years ago, if you had a strong back you could get a job. that doesn't exist anymore.

>> reporter: the united states will need an estimated 230,000 math and science teachers by 2015 to be competitive in years ahead.

>> if you ask where the jobs are, it is in science and math. if you ask where they go to get that? it is great teachers.

>> reporter: the teaching begins here at university of texas at austin , 15 years ago, and copied across the country. the math and science initiative helped to establish the program in 34 universities across 16 states. this graduate now teaches high school math.

>> if teachers are not passionate about what they're teaching, then the students see that.

>> when they get on the table, i just know that something funny is going to happen. makes me want to come to school.

>> reporter: back on campus, that is just what these teachers in training hope to hear from their future students.

>> i want to you know, show these kids that math is really important and maybe one kid will you know, take that to heart. and then you know, he will be the next albert einstein or newton.

>> reporter: helping the students become the best science and math teachers. rehema ellis, nbc news, austin, texas.

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U.S. Grants License for Uranium Laser Enrichment

The license allows for construction of a plant that uses a process that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear-proliferation risk

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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week granted a licence to allow construction of a plant that uses a controversial uranium enrichment process ? one that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear-proliferation risk. The plant, which would be built through a partnership between General Electric (GE) and Hitachi in Wilmington, North Carolina, could be used to enrich uranium to make fuel for nuclear reactors quickly and cheaply using a process that involves a laser.

The laser process has long held the promise of cheaper uranium enrichment, but mastering it efficiently has so far proved elusive. Now, many think that GE Hitachi, which uses a proprietary enrichment technique known as separation of isotopes by laser excitation, or SILEX, may have finally found a way to make the method more efficient than processes involving gaseous diffusion or centrifuges (See Risky Business).

Although the exact details of the SILEX process are highly classified, it involves using a laser tuned to a specific frequency to siphon away the desired isotope uranium-235 from the gaseous form of uranium. This can then be used in nuclear fuels.

Proliferation worry

The concern is that building a fully operational plant could prompt other countries to follow suit, making it easier for them to develop bombs, even though the process is classified. The original application for the GE Hitachi plant in 2009 set off a protracted debate over whether the NRC, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sufficiently weighs proliferation risks when licensing new types of enrichment technology (See 'Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel'). That prompted the American Physical Society (APS) in College Park, Maryland, to file a formal petition with the NRC asking that such licences be subject to a formal review of proliferation risks.

Calling the new technology a ?game changer?, the APS argued that a laser enrichment plant would, in theory, be smaller than one that uses gas centrifuges, and thus if the technology were to spread, it would be more difficult to spot would-be proliferators. The full petition will be sent to the NRC in November, and the commission will then vote on it ? although it will be too late to affect the GE Hitachi licence.

Yet concerns over proliferation could be seen as premature, because having the licence in hand does not mean that the plant will actually be built. The NRC would have to hold a public meeting in Wilmington before construction could get under way, for instance. And David McIntyre, a spokesman for the NRC, notes that GE Hitachi is not expected to decide until the end of next year whether or not it will proceed with that step.

?We expect a commercialization decision to occur over the next several months,? the company said in a statement. ?This will take into account many factors, including the need for enriched uranium in both the short and long term, cost and efficiency models of the technology on a commercial scale and other considerations.?

There is also still uncertainty about whether GE Hitachi really has the ability to make laser enrichment economical. ?I think anybody who doesn?t have access to GE [Hitachi] proprietary information doesn?t have the answer,? says James Acton, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.

Acton, a physicist by training, points out that GE Hitachi has so far only built a "test loop" to see whether laser enrichment can be made economical. ?That?s all that?s known publicly, anything beyond that is pure speculation,? he adds.

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RIM posts big loss but not as bad as expected

TORONTO (AP) ? BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion posted another large quarterly loss on Thursday, but the hemorrhaging was not as bad expected.

The Canadian company is still losing market share in North America, where it struggles to compete with Apple's iPhone and phones that run Google's Android software. But it has stepped up sales in developing markets and actually increased its subscriber base and cash position.

RIM's stock surged more than 20 percent in after-market trading on the news.

The company reported Thursday that it lost $235 million, or 45 cents a share, in its fiscal second quarter, which ended Sept 1. That compares with a profit of $419 million, or 80 cents per share, a year ago.

RIM reported revenue of $2.9 billion.

Analysts polled by FactSet expected a loss of 47 cents on revenue of $2.49 billion.

RIM said it shipped 7.4 million BlackBerry smartphones in the quarter, down from 10.6 million in the same period last year. Some analysts predicted RIM would ship only 6.4 million devices as the company prepares to launch much-delayed new BlackBerrys that have been deemed critical to its survival.

RIM pioneered the smartphone in 1999 but North American consumers have been abandoning BlackBerrys for flashier, touchscreen phones in recent years. RIM is banking its future on its much-delayed BlackBerry 10 platform, which is meant to offer the multimedia, Internet browsing and apps experience that users now demand.

Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said on a conference call with analysts that BlackBerry 10 is still on track to be released in the first quarter of 2013 ? several months after the release of Apple's iPhone 5, which came out earlier this month. Heins said competitors have released strong products recently but vowed BlackBerry 10 "will advance the operating system environment to a whole new level."

Heins replaced co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis in January after the company lost tens of billions in market value. He surprised many this week when he said at a conference for mobile applications developers that RIM has 80 million subscribers, up from 78 million in early June. Many analysts had expected RIM to start losing subscribers in the second quarter.

The results show that RIM is making progress as it transitions to its next generation of BlackBerry smartphones and completes its cost reduction plan, Heins said.

Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said RIM did a great job in the quarter, considering the challenges it faced. He noted, however, that doesn't account for much because its new smartphones are not out yet.

"They are driving sales in emerging markets and we think they will continue to lose subscribers in developed markets," Misek said. "It doesn't tell you anything about the long-term success of the platform or the company."

RIM's sales outside the United States, United Kingdom and Canada were about 58 percent of total revenue, said Brian Bidulka, the company's chief financial officer. He noted sales were strong in Indonesia, South Africa and Venezuela, but declined in the U.S.

Sales in the U.S. represented 22 percent of revenue, down from 25 percent in the first quarter and 27 percent in the second quarter last year. Bidulka said RIM's business will continue to be challenged until the new BlackBerrys are launched.

Research firm IDC says BlackBerry's U.S. market share has plummeted from 45.8 percent in 2008 to 2.7 percent in 2012.

RIM has been laying off thousands of workers to offset the losses.

Heins noted RIM's cash position stood at $2.3 billion at Sept. 1, up from $2.2 billion at the end of the previous quarter. The company is very focused on maintaining a strong financial position as it transitions to the new platform, he said.

Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Financial, said RIM's ability to grow the subscriber base while not hurting its cash position is encouraging.

"It does give them more time. The talk of bankruptcy has probably dissipated right now," Gillis said. "These are all the right moves, but does it change that their position is still bleak?"

RIM's stock rose $1.46 cents to $8.60 in extended U.S. trading Thursday. It had ended the regular trading session up 14 cents at $7.14. RIM's struggles have wiped out some $80 billion in shareholder wealth since 2008, a drop of over 90 percent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rim-posts-big-loss-not-bad-expected-204253199--finance.html

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Register to Vote for Internet Freedom

Would the fight for Internet freedom get you to vote? That's the hope of a new voter registration drive labeled "Internet Votes."

[More from Mashable: Watch Dan Rather Report the (Twitter) News]

Launched today, the initiative has been organized by the Center For Rights and Fight For The Future. The two non-partisan advocacy groups organized some of the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) as well as the Internet Defense League.

With this new initiative they hope to make Internet freedom a more prominent issue in this year's presidential election. Through InternetVotes.org you can quickly register to vote and the website also provides code to include a widget on your website to get more people to register. The website also encourages netizens to use the hashtag #internetvotes.

[More from Mashable: The Digital Smackdown: Obama 2008 vs. Obama 2012]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights advocacy group, featured the initiative in a Monday night blog post titled "Stop the Next SOPA and CISPA: Register to Vote for Internet Freedom." In a phone interview with Mashable, the author of the blog post, Trevor Timm, said that people showed how much they care at the beginning of the year with the massive protests against SOPA. Also, according to him, if either party really came out with a strong stance on consumer rights regarding personal data protection, "they could really get somewhere with voters."

In the post Timm suggests that by voting and supporting Internet freedom netizens could get to help pass key legislation. The EFF activists highlighted three key issues.

First, patent reform. Rep. DeFazio proposed a bill that "would fix much of the broken patent system that is engulfing giant tech companies in billion dollar patent suits and paralyzing up-and-coming companies with legal costs," wrote Timm.

The second issue is email privacy. As it stands right now, emails don't enjoy 4th Amendment protections like regular mail. That means that law-enforcement agencies don't need a warrant to access your electronic conversations. Currently both the House and the Senate are discussing bills to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. In the Senate the fix was proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy and is attached to the reform of the old Video Privacy Protection Act. If approved, it would require law-enforcement agencies to obtain a search warrant to obtain data stored in the cloud, including emails. This change would be in accordance with a federal appeals court that ruled in 2010 that emails should indeed be protected.

SEE ALSO: Iran Blocks Google in Preparation for Domestic Internet

Recently, senators decided to delay discussion on the proposal after the National Sheriff's Association asked to reconsider "until a more comprehensive review of its impact on law enforcement investigations is conducted."

Lastly, Timm referred to the GPS Act, which would force police to obtain a warrant to get cellphone location data. Noting that authorities demanded cellphone users' information more than 1.3 million times last year, Timm thinks that your smartphone is "one of the most privacy invasive tools out there," and accessing your geo-location data should be protected by the 4th amendment.

Personal Democracy Media announced its collaboration in the initiative on Sept. 19, with a blog post penned by Micah Sifry on TechPresident. Referring to a new study that shows Facebook can increase voter turnout, Sifry underlined the power of social media and the importance of voting. "If you're an Internet user," he wrote, "you're already pretty familiar with the need to register to use your favorite websites. And you're also probably voting pretty often on those sites, by rating things or upvoting links. So why not make sure you're registered to vote on the most important site of all ? your polling place on Election Day?"

After the January 18 protests against the two controversial bills that made Wikipedia blackout and Google put a black banner on its logo, Internet freedom has never been as popular as it is now. Both Democrats and Republicans have included calls for freedom online in their platforms.

It's unclear what this commitment to Internet freedom will actually mean and what particular policies the two parties support. "I think the wording it's vague for a reason," Timm told Mashable. For him, both parties wanted to capitalize on citizen's concerns, but "they are not specific enough for voters."

With the Internet Votes initiative, online freedom advocates hope to change that.

Do you think Internet freedom is an important issue in the presidential election? Are you going to vote with that in mind? Tell us in the comments.

This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/register-vote-internet-freedom-234325918.html

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Romney, Obama zero in on Ohio, a GOP must-win

VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) ? Ohio has emerged as the presidential race's undisputed focus. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are making multiple stops this week alone in a state that's trending toward the president, endangering Romney's White House hopes.

The popularity of Obama's auto industry bailout and a better-than-average local economy are undermining Romney's call for Ohioans to return to their GOP-leaning ways, which were crucial to George W. Bush's two elections. Ohio has 18 electoral votes, seventh most in the nation, and no Republican has won the White House without carrying it.

Romney is scrambling to reverse the polls that show Obama ahead. On Tuesday, he made the first of his four planned Ohio stops this week, joining his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, for a rally near Dayton. On Wednesday, Obama will visit the college towns of Kent and Bowling Green, and Romney's bus tour will stop in the Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo areas.

"If this president persists on the road of making it harder and harder for small businesses to grow and thrive, he's going to slowly but surely weaken our economy and turn us into Greece," Romney told supporters Tuesday in Vandalia. He said the Obama administration has put government between patients and their doctors, and is picking winners and losers in private business.

"That is not the America that built Ohio!" Romney declared.

His tone was urgent, but the points were standard campaign language from Romney. His allies hope they will start resonating in this crucial state.

Not even Florida has seen as many presidential TV campaign ads as Ohio, and neither nominee goes very long without visiting or talking about the state. When Obama touted his "decision to save the auto industry" on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday, he mentioned not the major car-making state of Michigan but Ohio, which focuses more on car parts. "One in eight jobs in Ohio is dependent on the auto industry," Obama said.

Four new polls underscore Romney's serious problems in Ohio. Surveys by NBC and Fox News found Obama ahead by 7 percentage points. A poll by a group of Ohio newspapers showed him leading by 5. And a Washington Post poll released Tuesday found the president leading Romney by 8 points. All of Obama's leads were outside the polls' margins of error.

One problem for Romney is that Ohio's 7.2 percent unemployment rate is below the national average, as the Republican governor, John Kasich, often reminds residents.

"We are up 122,000 jobs," Kasich told a panel during the Republican convention last month. "The auto industry job growth is 1,200," he said, perhaps trying to play down that sector's role.

Kasich says he supports Romney and Ohio would do even better if Obama were replaced. But the governor's understandable pride in the state's job growth runs counter to Romney's message that Obama is an economic failure.

House Speaker John Boehner, from the Cincinnati area, told reporters last week in Washington: "One of the things that probably works against Romney in Ohio is the fact that Gov. Kasich has done such a good job of fixing government regulations in the state, attracting new businesses to the state."

"People are still concerned about jobs in Ohio," Boehner said, "but it certainly isn't like you see in some other states."

Still, the Fox News poll suggests there's room for Romney to advance. Nearly one in three Ohio voters said they are "not at all satisfied" with the way things are going in the country, and an additional 26 percent are "not very satisfied." Only 7 percent are "very satisfied," and 34 percent are "somewhat satisfied."

Romney is trying to tap that discontent. But he's having mixed success with his chief target: white, working-class voters who are socially conservative and often have union backgrounds. A generation ago they were called "Reagan Democrats."

In 2009, Obama's administration used billions of taxpayer dollars to keep General Motors and Chrysler afloat while they reorganized through bankruptcy. Romney said the companies should have been allowed to enter bankruptcy without government help. But an array of officials at the time said the automakers would have gone under without it.

GM still owes the government about $25 billion. But many workers in Ohio and elsewhere consider the auto bailout a success.

It affected thousands of businesses, some of them fairly small, that make products that go into vehicles, new and used. Jeff Gase, a UAW union member who introduced Obama at a Columbus rally last week, credited the president with saving the paint company where he works. "Mom and pop body shops" buy the paint, Gase said, and now his plant is running "full steam ahead."

Romney notes that many Ohio car dealerships went out of business during the industry reorganization.

But he is having trouble connecting with middle-class Ohioans, said Tony Tenorio, who hears political conversations in his job as an Applebee's restaurant manager. In June, when he worked in Elyria, Tenorio said many Ohio residents seemed ready to bail on Obama. Now, working at an Applebee's in the more affluent town of West Lake, Tenorio says those same people seem unmoved by Romney.

The Washington Post poll showed that 36 percent of all Ohio voters said they had been contacted by the Obama campaign, and 29 percent said they had heard from Romney's camp.

Romney campaign political director Rich Beeson told reporters Tuesday that Romney's campaign has 40 offices in Ohio to Obama's 100, but he said Republicans are keeping pace.

"We have an equal number of contacts on the ground," Beeson said. He urged reporters and others to "take into account the quality of the contacts, the number of contacts, not just the staff and offices."

Beeson said Romney has one pitch for all of Ohio's voters: America can't afford four more years of Obama. "We don't have to go in and package a message to different groups," Beeson said.

Pro-Romney TV ads, however, target voters in the coal-rich eastern part of the state with spots criticizing Obama's environmental regulations affecting coal-fired power plants. And other Ohio working-class voters are courted in GOP ads saying Obama hasn't been tough enough on China's protection of its exporters.

Obama is airing ads disputing both claims.

___

Babington reported from Washington.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-obama-zero-ohio-gop-must-win-205923156--election.html

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"Iron Will' loses courageous battle with brain cancer | Cancer Kick

WINIGAN, MO. ? A northeast Missouri boy has lost his courageous, 13-month battle with brain cancer.

Will Jacobs, 13, died early Saturday morning at his home outside Winigan.

?Iron Will,? as he came to be called, attended school at Green City

R-1 Schools.

His positive attitude, strength, humor and courage won the hearts of the community.

Public visitation will be from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, September 27, 2012, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on East Normal Street in Kirksville.

Will?s funeral is set for 1 p.m. Friday, September 28, 2012, at the church.

Will is survived by his parents, Allen and Trena Jacobs, as well as his five brothers and two sisters.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to the ?Will Jacobs Memorial Fund.?

Those donations may be left either at the church, at the Farmers Bank of Green City or at Travis-Noe Funeral Home in Kirksville.

Click?HERE?for a link to Will Jacobs? obituary.

Here are a couple of previous stories KTVO aired on this topic:

Boy with brain cancer wants to meet Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby calls Heartland teen at home

Article source: http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=805439

Source: http://cancerkick.com/2012/09/25/iron-will-loses-courageous-battle-with-brain-cancer/

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Anti-union Gov. Scott Walker tweets support of unionized NFL refs

(AP)

Like most Green Bay Packers fans, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker woke up Tuesday morning still stinging from a controversial call?made by the NFL's replacement referees?that cost the team a victory over the Seattle Seahawks on "Monday Night Football."

"After catching a few hours of sleep, the #Packers game is still just as painful," Walker tweeted. "#Returntherealrefs."

The Seahawks' 14-12 victory ended on a Hail Mary pass that was intercepted by Packers safety M.D. Jennings but ruled a touchdown by the replacement refs. The play sparked a firestorm of criticism on Twitter, with players, coaches and fans like Walker all weighing in on the debacle.

But the Republican governor's call for the league to end its dispute with the unionized officials is surprising, considering Walker backed anti-union legislation in the state.

[Related: Seahawks win the strangest game in their history on the call that will define replacement refs]

"His tweet has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with a blown call," Cullen Werwie, Walker's press secretary, wrote in an email to Yahoo News.

Some Twitter users disagreed.

"So you PRO-union now?" one wrote in response to Walker's tweet. "Here's what hiring low-wage scabs gets you."

"Really!?! You hypocritical FOOL," wrote another. "Your attack on unions gives businesses the ability to hire unqualified employees."

[Also read: The worst call in NFL history?]

The NFL and the officials union are reportedly battling over about $3 million annually in pension commitments, according to Yahoo Sports.

"The replacement ref experiment is a disaster," Yahoo's Dan Wetzel wrote in a column calling on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to issue a public apology. "It has overwhelmed the league. It's overshadowed strong play. It's turned Goodell's vaunted shield into a joke."

Watch the play here:

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/scott-walker-replacement-refs-unions-160220474--election.html

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Human finger in Idaho trout belongs to wakeboarder

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) ? A human finger found inside a fish at Idaho's Priest Lake has been traced to a wakeboarder who lost four fingers in an accident more than two months earlier.

Fisherman Nolan Calvin found the finger while he was cleaning the trout he caught Sept. 11. He put it on ice and called the Bonner County, Idaho, sheriff's office, the Spokesman-Review newspaper reported.

Detectives were able to get a fingerprint off the severed digit. They matched it to a fingerprint card for Haans Galassi, 31, of Colbert, Wash., and called him Tuesday morning.

Investigators learned that Galassi lost four fingers from his left hand in a June 21 accident on the same lake where the fish was caught.

"The sheriff called me and told me he had a strange story to tell me," Galassi said Tuesday. "He said that a fisherman was out on Priest Lake, and I pretty much knew exactly what he was going to say at that point.

"I was like: Let me guess, they found my fingers in a fish."

The fish was caught about eight miles from where Galassi had lost his fingers, the sheriff's office said.

Galassi had been on a camping trip at the scenic lake when he decided to go wakeboarding. He told the newspaper his hand got caught in a loop in the towline, and he couldn't pull it out before the line tightened behind the boat that was going to pull him.

When he finally broke free, he didn't feel much pain. But then he looked at his hand.

"I pulled my hand out of the water and it had pretty much lopped off all four fingers," he said. "It was a lot of flesh and bone, not a lot of blood."

He was taken by helicopter to a Spokane hospital.

Galassi has been undergoing therapy twice a week for his injured hand. He still has half of his index and pointer fingers on that hand.

"I can still grip things and grab and hold the steering wheel with it," Galassi said.

The sheriff's office offered to return the finger, but Galassi declined.

"I'm like, 'uhhh, I'm good,'" he said.

Detective Sgt. Gary Johnston of the sheriff's office said the agency will keep the digit for a few weeks in case Galassi changes his mind.

"There's still three more, too," Johnston said. "It's hard to say where those are going to end up."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/human-finger-idaho-trout-belongs-wakeboarder-213629550.html

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First-Year Students Introduced to the Chicago Legal Community ...

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Sixty-six floors up in the Willis Tower, overlooking Downtown Chicago and the vast expanse of Lake Michigan, the Class of 2015 began to get to know one another.

Snippets of their conversations revealed excitement, nerves, and backstories:

?I?m from New Hampshire/North Carolina/California/Ohio/Russia.?

?This is where we approach people awkwardly and try to make conversation.? (giggle)

?I worked in Chicago two years before Law School.?

?I?ve never really spent any time in Chicago, but here I am!?

The soon-to-be 1Ls at the Law School spent their first day of Orientation sampling some of Downtown Chicago?s important legal and business sites for a taste of what kind of work they might do when they graduate. The Sept. 17 excursion was optional, but most of the first-years chose to go. The ones who did were rewarded with a broad view of the many things they could do with a career in the law.

?It?s nice to be out in places I could potentially work after law school,? said Catalina Santos, ?15, who just graduated from Harvard University with a degree in political science.

Throughout the day, the students were hosted and welcomed by dozens of alumni, and escorted on their visits by 14 2L and 3L students. They started the day with breakfast at Schiff Hardin ? that was the impressive Willis Tower view ? where they heard from Robert Riley, ?78, Firm Chairman and Practice Group Leader, Product Liability Group.

He said that anyone could agree that the Law School is the ?most rigorous? in the country.

?No one will do a better job of teaching you to have a brilliant mind,? he said.

From there, the class split up into groups to participate in two of three activities: Observing oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, observing a trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and touring the Chicago Board of Trade.

At the Seventh Circuit, they saw Judges Frank H. Easterbrook, Diane P. Wood, and William J. Bauer. The students likely will get to know Easterbrook and Wood even better in the years to come, as both are Senior Lecturers in Law at the Law School.

One group in District Court observed a Medicare fraud trial which featured video recorded by wire as evidence and a young lawyer leading the prosecution. And at the Board of Trade, students toured the agricultural and financial floors. They saw the chaos of the pits, full of traders with tablets strung around their necks, gesturing wildly at each other in their special sign language.

Soon after, at the One South Dearborn office of Sidley Austin, the group listened to a panel of judges discuss what they wish they knew when they started law school. Each judge had his or her own advice. They cautioned especially against tunnel vision on one career path this early in the students? careers.

?Be flexible,? U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said. ?Keep your options open. You never know where they will take you.?

Judge Donald R. Cassling, ?76, of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, reminded the students to treat each other well and stay in touch, because they will be working in the same legal community someday, and those personal relationships are invaluable.

?Lawyers have it in their power to do a tremendous amount of good,? Judge Wood reminded the students. That doesn?t just mean doing pro bono work, she said, but rather ?it?s the way you conduct yourself in your day job.?

U.S. District Court Judge Robert M. Dow drove that point home: ?There is no correlation I have seen between success in litigation and being a jerk,? he said. ?Don?t be the lawyer the jokes are talking about.?

The rest of the day was spent at various sites, including general counsel offices, boutique firm Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott, the Federal Defender Program, and the Legal Assistance Foundation. At the Legal Assistance Foundation, public interest-minded students got a tour of the offices and a run-down of what daily life is like for a lawyer serving the poor. After that, the day ended at Jenner & Block, where again the students were treated to breathtaking views of the city and a panel of attorneys from different walks of life explaining how they excel in the law while still finding time for themselves and their families. Finally, Tasneem K. Goodman, ?02, a Partner at Akina Corporation, gave a lively presentation on the dos-and-don?ts of networking. (An example: Goodman?s 300-yard rule dictates that you cannot say anything about someone you met at an event, negative or positive, until you are at least as far away from the event as three football fields.)

In their downtime between sessions, several students talked about coming to Chicago Law as the culmination of longtime dreams.

Min Shen, ?15, is from southeastern China but moved to Columbus, Ohio, to complete his MBA at Ohio State University in 2010. Law school was always his final plan, but he wanted to perfect his English first, he said.

?I always heard the U.S. has the best legal system in the world,? said Shen, who chose Chicago Law because of ?its reputation, its ranking, and the city dynamics.?

For Shen, the uncertainty of starting Law School is part of the excitement.

?I look forward to whatever is ahead of me,? he said. ?I?m just open to anything, any possibilities.??

In post-event surveys, 100 percent of respondents said they?d recommend participation in the optional day to another 1L. The next day, Sept. 18, they visited museums and other landmarks around Hyde Park to acquaint them with the community surrounding the university.

Source: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/first-year-students-introduced-chicago-legal-community

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As we noted on several occasions in the past ten days, as a result of QE3 and its imminent transformation to QE4, which will merely be the current monetization configuration but without the sterilization of new long-term bond purchases, the Fed's balance sheet is expected to grow by over $2 trillion in the next two years. This also means that the matched liability on the Fed's balance sheet, reserves and deposits, will grow by a like amount. So far so good. However, as Bank of America points out today, there may be a small glitch: as a reminder on December 31, 2012 expires the FDIC's unlimited insurance on noninterest-bearing transaction accounts at which point it will revert back to $250,000. Currently there is about $1.6 trillion in deposits that fall under this umbrella, or essentially the entire amount in new deposit liabilities that will have to be created as a result of QEternity. The question is what those account holders will do, and how will the exit of deposits, once those holding them realize they no longer are government credit risk and instead are unsecured bank credit risk, impact the need to ramp up deposit building. One very possible consequence: negative bill rates as far as the eye can see.

The chart below shows that notional of deposits backed by FDIC unlimited insurance:

Bank of America opines below, by first presenting the balance sheet dynamics of QE, which by now should be familiar to everyone:

QE leads to growth in bank deposits?

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The expansion of the Fed?s balance sheet has important knock-on effects on the size and composition of private balance sheets. When the Fed buys securities, it credits the account of the clearing bank used by the primary dealer from whom the security is purchased with newly minted electronic money (reserves). The dealer?s balance sheet thus sees a decrease in securities holdings and an increase in deposits at its clearing bank; the clearing bank sees an increase in deposit liabilities and an increase in reserves held at the Fed; and the Fed sees an increase in reserve liabilities and an increase in securities holdings.

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Who ultimately holds these bank deposits ? and which banks hold the excess reserves ? is determined by many subsequent transactions. But for the banking system as a whole, the Fed?s purchases force an increase in deposit liabilities (or in some cases liabilities such as repo, fed funds, CDs, etc) as well as holdings of excess reserves, all else being equal. This pattern holds true as long as the seller of securities is not a bank, in which case the bank simply swaps securities holdings for reserves without any effect on its deposit liabilities. Excess reserves stand at roughly US$1.5tn as a result of the Fed?s prior asset purchases, while banking system deposits have increased by an even larger amount since late 2008.

However, the natural growth of deposits may be impacted due to the FDIC cliff at the end of the year:

Depositors whose balances have grown as a result of QE1 and QE2 have had access to noninterest-bearing accounts with unlimited FDIC insurance, which was introduced in October 2008 to improve the funding position of FDIC insured banks (for details see US Rates Viewpoint: Beware the $1.6tn deposit insurance cliff). The availability of unlimited FDIC insurance coverage of noninterest-bearing transaction accounts has represented an elastic supply of risk-free assets that have grown to US$1.6tn over the past four years. The Dodd-Frank Act extended this coverage through end-2012.

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However, December 31, 2012 will see the expiration of unlimited FDIC insurance on noninterest-bearing transaction accounts unless Congress takes action to extend it, which appears unlikely. If the provision expires as scheduled, the FDIC coverage for these deposits will revert to the standard US$250,000 limit. Upon expiration, depositors will be forced to choose between moving their cash elsewhere and accepting that their deposits will be converted from government credit risk to unsecured bank credit risk.

And since when it comes to the decision of counterparty risk and cash holdings, nobody will pick a bank, which may or may not be insolvent, book value metrics aside, over Uncle Sam, it is quite likely that most will opt for short-term bonds which are rolled month after month even though they collect no interest. This means a substantial reduction in the outstandinf total deposit base of nearly $9 trillion.

Putting it all together:

QE3 and the deposit insurance cliff

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Because many depositors are highly risk averse, we expect that a portion of the US$1.6tn in fully insured deposits in accounts with more than US$250,000 in balances will leave banks for the relative safety of money market funds and direct holdings of Treasury and agency securities. This could result in negative bill yields and wider 2y swap spreads, in our view. However, deposits of the banking system as a whole will likely not decline when this provision expires, though there may be dislocations for individual banks.

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Instead, the US$2tn in Fed QE purchases that we expect over the next two years will increase the overall supply of bank deposit liabilities over time. But, unlike QE1 and QE2, the deposits created by QE3 will only be FDIC insured up to US$250,000 per account. As a result, risk-averse investors will likely bid up the price of short-dated Treasuries until the market is indifferent between holding uninsured deposits and holding Treasury bills at much lower yields. This effect will likely become more pronounced as excess liquidity in the system increases, as well as during episodes of risk aversion, when bank CDS spreads tend to widen.

In other words, prepare for negative bill yields coming soon to an indefinite future near you as unintended consequence #1293834.5 of the Fed's takeover of every market slowly materializes. At least the Treasury will soon be able to issue bonds at negative yields in the primary market as had been discussed previously. Indeed, that TBAC committee led by the new head of JPM's CIO Matt Zames, truly knows what is going on months ahead of the market (recall "Supercommittee That Runs America" Urges End To The "Zero Bound", Demands Issuance Of Negative Yield Bonds") . As to what other unexpected consequences materialize once $1.6 trillion in cash moves from point A to point X, we will all just have to wait and see.

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Historic Performances Celebrate Rich Tradition of Fine Arts at Mills College

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Oakland, CA?September 18, 2012 The legacy of fine arts at Mills College will be showcased in two historic evenings combining music, dance, and visual art on October 5 and 6. The 160-year-old campus, highly regarded for its academic and artistic accomplishments, honors two of its most groundbreaking figures: legendary composer and former Professor of Music John Cage and Darius Milhaud Professor of Composition Pauline Oliveros.

John Cage (1912?92), one of the most influential musical innovators in American history, set the seeds for his breakthroughs in experimental music as an instructor at Mills in the 1930s. Oliveros, an accordionist and composer whose career spans 50 years, continues that tradition today. Her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual has had a profound influence on American music since the 1960s. She was recently awarded the 2012 John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

The event, marking Cage?s 100th birthday and Oliveros? 80th, pays tribute to this pioneering duo in an exciting evening of artistic collaboration. The evening features performances by notable talent from the Music and Dance Departments, both internationally renowned for their innovation in the arts. Mills has played a seminal role in experimental music since 1894, and was one of the nation?s first liberal arts colleges to grant a modern dance degree in 1941.

The tribute features Event with Canfield by Merce Cunningham, considered one of the most important choreographers of our time. The piece has been especially configured from segments of Cunningham?s original choreography by visiting artist Holley Farmer and will be performed by the award-winning Mills Repertory Dance Company. Visiting artist and sculptor Ethan Worden will recreate the lighting d?cor originally designed by Robert Morris for the premiere of Canfield in 1969. Experimental musicians from the Music Department will work with Oliveros to recreate the original score through her prescribed chance method of composition, created by capturing the resonant frequencies of the Haas Pavilion building. Members of the Mills Performing Group and guest artists will perform additional compositional pieces by Cage.

?We are inspired and honored to present the work of these influential artists and grateful that Mills fosters this kind of artistic collaboration,? said Associate Professor of Dance Molissa Fenley ?75.

In addition, the campus will hold two related intensive programs for students: one that examines the role of dreams in the creative process and another that explores Deep Listening, a practice developed by Oliveros that distinguishes between the involuntary nature of hearing and selective listening. At 80, Oliveros continues to make cutting-edge discoveries in the world of sound, embodying the spirit of music exploration at Mills. Oliveros herself will lead the Deep Listening intensive on October 3.

Performances begin at 8:00 pm on both nights and take place at Jeannik M?quet Littlefield Concert Hall and Haas Pavilion on the beautiful Mills grounds.

Schedule:

Music and Dance Performance
Friday, October 5, at 8:00 pm
Sixteen Dances, Rock Piece, Event with Canfield
Jeannik M?quet Littlefield Concert Hall and Haas Pavilion

Music and Dance Performance
Saturday, October 6, at 8:00 pm
Cistern Simulation, Variations IV, Event with Canfield
Jeannik M?quet Littlefield Concert Hall and Haas Pavilion

Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Free parking is available on campus.
Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors and non-Mills students, and may be purchased at the door or online at http://www.boxofficetickets.com.

For additional details, artist biographies, high-resolution photos, and additional information visit http://musicnow.mills.edu.

About Mills College
Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California, Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering a dynamic progressive education that fosters leadership, social responsibility, and creativity in approximately 950 undergraduate women and more than 600 graduate women and men. The College ranks as one of the Best 377 Colleges in the country and one of the greenest colleges in the nation by The Princeton Review. U.S. News & World Report ranked Mills one of the top-tier regional universities in the country and lists it among the top colleges and universities in the West in the ?Great Schools, Great Prices? category. For more information, visit www.mills.edu.

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Jerusalem: Why Israelis and Palestinians, Democrats and Republicans fight over it

By leaving support for Jerusalem as Israel's capital off its platform, the Democratic party sparked the latest fierce debate on the much-disputed city. What's the back story?

By Christa Case Bryant,?Staff writer / September 5, 2012

Jerusalem has been perhaps the world?s most coveted ? and contested ? piece of real estate for 3,000 years. In the latest battle, the city?s status has become a point of contention between Democrats and Republicans, who are vying for the support of American Jews, an influential and well-heeled bloc of voters.?

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The latest furor erupted after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) released a draft copy of the party platform earlier this week that made no reference to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, which it included in its 2008 platform.?The exclusion brings the party in line with White House policy on Jerusalem, but it still generated a firestorm, as well as confusion about whether it signals a policy change.?

?The Obama Administration has followed the same policy towards Jerusalem that previous US administrations of both parties have done since 1967,? a DNC statement said, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency. ?As the White House said several months ago, the status of Jerusalem is an issue that should be resolved in final status negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians -- which we also said in the 2008 platform."

At the heart of the issue is whether the US should support Israel?s claim to the city as the ?eternal and undivided capital? of the Jewish people. If the US did support that claim, it would almost certainly base the US Embassy in Jerusalem, as Mitt Romney promised to do on his recent campaign visit there.?

But every American administration since Israel?s founding has resisted taking that step, as have a majority of other countries.

Jewish claims to the city

Jerusalem, the seat of power for the biblical King David in roughly 1,000 BC, saw a succession of Jewish rulers until the Romans conquered the city in 70 AD and destroyed the Jewish temple.

When the United Nations approved a blueprint for a modern Israeli state in 1947, it partitioned historic Palestine between Jews and Arabs, with Jerusalem envisioned as part of an international enclave administered by trustees. Zionist leaders accepted the plan and declared independence in 1948, sparking a war with Arabs, who rejected the proposal. By the time the fighting stopped a year later, Jews were in control of west Jerusalem, while Jordan held the eastern part of the city, including the walled Old City.

When Arab aggression provoked another war in 1967, Israel fought back decisively, capturing all of east Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula in six days. Israeli leaders heralded Jerusalem as the ?eternal and undivided capital? of the Jewish people. They redrew the city?s borders to include holy sites and strategic high ground but few Arabs, tripling the city?s territory and giving it a strong Jewish majority.

International opposition

In 1980, Israel formally annexed East Jerusalem with the passage of the ?Basic law.??This elicited a strong reaction from the United Nations. The UN Security Council passed Resolution 478 with only one abstention (from the US), declaring the Basic Law ?null and void? and calling on Israel to rescind it in the interest of making peace with Palestinians.

Palestinians also lay claim to Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The city is considered to be the third-holiest city in Islam, home to the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque ? located on the very site where the Jewish temple is believed to have been built ? and long ruled by the Ottoman Empire.

Israel?s annexation of East Jerusalem, its support for a growing number of Jewish neighborhoods in the predominantly Arab area, and plans for new Israeli-run archeological parks in some of the most sensitive areas of the city are all seen by the international community to be prejudicing any eventual peace agreement with the Palestinians.?

For this reason, most nations have kept their embassies in Tel Aviv, Israel?s largest and most prosperous city and far less controversial a location than Jerusalem. According to one tally, only two countries ? Greece and Italy ? have their embassies in Jerusalem proper.?

If Gov. Romney were to deliver on his campaign promise to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, that would make three.

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In this day and age, the only really effective way of marketing your business is online. Why? Well, for two reasons; first because it?s inexpensive and secondly because that?s where the people are. Without a doubt, the internet links you to the whole world ? as no other type of media can. Where the targeted audience in a community may be a few thousand people, on the internet, this could turn into millions of people. The truth is, the Internet is the first place anyone looks to find information on a service or product ? and this can be turned to a marketer?s advantage.

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North Korea turns Psy's viral sensation into propaganda video that pokes fun at South Korean presidential candidate.
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