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Saturday, June 30, 2012

To Champion The Cause Of The Local Church

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Strong earthquake strikes far west China

BEIJING (AP) ? A strong earthquake has jolted China's Central Asian frontier, shaking buildings and cutting off electricity in the remote mountainous area and sending rescuers in search of casualties.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the Saturday morning quake that hit the Xinjiang region at 6.3 magnitude, while China's Earthquake Networks Center put it at 6.6.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that residents near the epicenter were shaken out of bed in pre-dawn darkness and that some households lost electricity. It reported that the quake shook buildings 200 kilometers, or 120 miles, to the west in the regional capital, Urumqi.

Xinhua said rescuers are being dispatched to the sparsely populated area to search for casualties.

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Newark TSA workers fired for sleeping on the job

Eight screeners at Newark Airport in New Jersey were fired Wednesday morning after they were caught on video sleeping on the job or failing to follow standard operating procedures for screening checked bags, authorities said.

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Google Chrome Browser Will Launch on iOS Today [Video]

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Google is launching its Chrome browser for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch today.

In February, we released Chrome for Android, which exited beta this week and is the standard browser on Nexus 7, a powerful new tablet. Starting today, Chrome is also available for your iPhone and iPad. That means you can enjoy the same speedy and simple Chrome experience across your devices. Also, by signing in to Chrome, you can easily move from your desktop, laptop, smartphone and tablet and have all of your stuff with you.

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Video: Becoming a citizen: ?It?s still very emotional?

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Frederick to be used as case study on cancer cluster investigation

A Johns Hopkins University master's student is using Frederick to show how communities respond to cancer clusters.

Beth Resnick, the principal investigator and an associate scientist in the university's Department of Health Policy and Management, said the goal is not to draw conclusions about whether a cancer cluster existed in Frederick, rather to share stories about how the investigation was done and how investigators communicated with the public.

The topic has been a source of controversy and speculation among some residents who say Fort Detrick's Area B caused various cancers, while both the county and state have said there was nothing unusual.

"Our real goal is to share their stories," Resnick said. "How a cancer cluster investigation affects a community."

The group plans to interview about 10 people from the community about their work on issues related to investigating such clusters, Resnick said.

Frederick County Health Officer Barbara Brookmyer said the Community Technical Advisory Board -- which was formed to help with the cancer cluster study -- helped provide a list of about 40 people who could offer a spectrum of perspectives.

"The situation here offers a really good opportunity to hear the community's perspective, the public perspective," Brookmyer said.

Jennifer Peppe Hahn said she has been invited to interview for the project. An unbiased view would help other communities dealing with possible cancer clusters, she said. Hahn has had breast cancer and at 13 was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease (now known as Hodgkin lymphoma).

"I would just say it's about time that somebody stepped up and said, 'where do we start?'" Peppe-Hahn said. "They're getting an aerial view of how this has been conducted."

The Army found groundwater contaminated with PCE and TCE -- chemicals often found in industrial materials such as dry-cleaning fluids and degreasers -- seeping under a landfill at Area B in 1992. Some area residents have blamed PCE and TCE, which are known carcinogens, for their cancers.

A study done by the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry found that possible exposures were unlikely to have had a detrimental effect. Another study by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Frederick County Health Department determined that there were no unusual patterns in cancer incidences around the site from 1992 until 2008.

The National Research Council, in a report issued this spring, concluded there was no way to tell if Area B's groundwater contamination harmed people but said the seepage should have been considered "an indeterminate public-health hazard." Additional studies would be unlikely to establish a link to the suspected cluster because historical data do not exist, the report said.

"They refused to take into consideration stuff that happened at Detrick that took place in the '60s or '70s," former Frederick Mayor Paul Gordon said Friday. "They went back 10 years and that's it."

Gordon said he has also been asked to participate in the project.

Lori Calvillo, a spokeswoman for Fort Detrick, said the post has not been asked to participate in the project.

Neither Randy White, a Florida pastor who founded the Kristen Renee Foundation in memory of his daughter who died of cancer after living in Frederick and who has helped lead the charge accusing the post of causing the illness, nor his representatives returned phone messages Friday. White did not respond to a request for comment over Twitter. A phone number for the foundation has been disconnected.

Resnick said the project has no funding. Brian Simpson is the master's student leading the study and the editor of Johns Hopkins Public Health, the magazine of the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health. He could not be reached Friday.

People working on the project are also seeking to interview those who work on such investigations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Resnick said.

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Today in History

Today is Sunday, June 24, the 176th day of 2012. There are 190 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On June 24, 1982, a British Airways Boeing 747 with 262 people aboard experienced the failure of all four engines at an altitude of 37,000 feet while passing through volcanic ash generated by Mount Galunggung in Indonesia. (By the time the crew was able to restart the engines, the jumbo jet had glided down to 12,000 feet before making a safe emergency landing in Jakarta.)

On this date:

In 1314, the forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.

In 1509, Henry VIII was crowned king of England; his wife, Catherine of Aragon, was crowned queen consort.

In 1793, the first republican constitution in France was adopted.

In 1807, a grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he was later acquitted).

In 1908, the 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.

In 1940, France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.

In 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the Berlin Airlift. The Republican National Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, nominated New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president.

In 1968, "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.

In 1975, 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger ? carrying America's first woman in space, Sally K. Ride ? coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

In 1987, comedian-actor Jackie Gleason died at his home in Lauderhill, Fla., at age 71.

In 1992, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, strengthened its 30-year ban on officially sponsored worship in public schools, prohibiting prayer as a part of graduation ceremonies.

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush urged the Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat with leaders "not compromised by terror" and adopt democratic reforms that could produce an independent state within three years. The Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must decide whether a convicted killer lives or dies. A train crash in central Tanzania (tan-zuh-NEE'-uh) killed at least 288 people.

Five years ago: Ali Hassan al-Majid (ah-LEE' hah-SAHN' ahl mah-ZHEED'), Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali," and two other ex-officials were sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children two decades earlier. Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first of two American flags over Iwo Jima during World War II, died in Edina, Minn., at age 86.

One year ago: A defiant U.S. House voted overwhelmingly to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wage war against Libya, but Republicans fell short in an effort to actually cut off funds for the operation. New York State legalized same-sex marriage. A truck-tractor hauling two side-dump trailers ran into a 12-car Amtrak passenger train at a crossing in the Nevada desert, killing six people, including the truck driver.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Al Molinaro is 93. Comedian Jack Carter is 89. Actress Michele Lee is 70. Actor-director Georg Stanford Brown is 69. Rock musician Jeff Beck is 68. Singer Arthur Brown is 68. Rock singer Colin Blunstone (The Zombies) is 67. Musician Mick Fleetwood is 65. Actor Peter Weller is 65. Rock musician John Illsley (Dire Straits) is 63. Actress Nancy Allen is 62. Reggae singer Derrick Simpson (Black Uhuru) is 62. Actor Joe Penny is 56. Reggae singer Astro (UB40) is 55. Singer-musician Andy McCluskey (Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark) is 53. Rock singer Curt Smith is 51. Actress Danielle Spencer is 47. Actress Sherry Stringfield is 45. Singer Glenn Medeiros is 42. Actress-producer Mindy Kaling is 33. Actress Minka Kelly is 32. Actress Kaitlin Cullum is 26. Singer Solange Knowles is 26.

Thought for Today: "If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it." ? Jackie Gleason (1916-1987).

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12 Awesome Real Estate Negotiation Tips for Home Buyers

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Negotiation can turn a bad deal into a good deal, turn an undesirable house into the perfect new home, and save you plenty of money. The final agreement between buyer and seller is key, providing a counterbalance to judge the entire value of your new home. Your buying agent will be skilled in negotiation, but there are some important things that you, as a buyer, can do on your own to make sure you get the best deal. Here are 12 tips:

1. Do your research
Research is 90% of the negotiation process. Before you begin communicating with any agents or sellers, you should gather information on your own. Knowledge is power, and the more you can learn about the local pricing information and value of features (such as fireplace, views, utilities, location) the more leverage you will have during negotiation. Before you step out the door, buckle down and take some notes. You never know what information will come in handy during negotiation.

2. Set your boundaries in advance
Sit down alone, without an agent, and run through your personal finances to determine your "absolute" spending limit. Check and double check your calculations, and have confidence in your boundaries. Your spending limit must be based on your finances, not the negotiation process. Once you have a clear figure in mind, set it as your firm limit, and don't budge.

3. Declare your comfortable spending limit
Once you have your absolute limit, take off about 5-10% and call this your "comfortable" spending limit. This is the limit you should communicate to your agent so they can help you negotiate. Your agent is your friend, and they are motivated to get you the best deal, but they are also business people. Their main goal is to make a sale, and sometimes an agent has more incentive to sell quickly rather than hold out for the best price. Only let them know your comfortable limit, adding that you might be willing to spend more for an exceptional home at an unbeatable deal.

4. Get pre-approved
Before you begin your search, get pre-approved for a home loan. If you're "ready to buy" you can get the attention of sellers itching to sell quickly. You'll move up on their priority list and this could help you gain leverage when negotiations begin. You'll come off as a no-nonsense buyer who's ready for action-if the deal is good enough.

5. Don't be emotional
When looking at a new house, or talking with an agent, try not to appear overly emotional. Showing emotions can send subtle (or not so subtle) signals that you wouldn't necessarily want to convey. If you're seeing a new home and you're excited because it's just what you're looking for, appear "interested" rather than excited. Excitement, or any display of a lack of calm rationality, can be a sign that your spending limit might be as flexible as your feelings. Along the same lines, if you're unimpressed with a home, try to avoid criticizing it. Appearing too negative will send the message that you could be a pain to work with, or it could offend the seller.

6. Ask questions about every house you visit
So you've found a house that you're interested in and you need to ask more questions, but you want to avoid coming off as "too" interested. How do you get the information you need while remaining aloof? The best way to not be obvious about your enthusiasm is to make sure you ask the same important questions at each house you visit. Make sure you come off as an inquisitive, diligent, and methodical buyer every time you view a house. When you find a house that excites you, you can gather all the information you need without tipping off the seller.

7. Learn about the seller
The more information you have, the more power you have in negotiations. If you can learn specifics about the seller, you can gain insight into their needs and potentially gain precious leverage. Why are they selling? Are they desperate to sell fast, because their life has taken an unexpected turn? Are they in a good position to wait patiently for the best deal? What kind of a deal are they looking for, and how can you give them what they need while still getting what you need? The more you understand about their circumstances, the more you'll be able to spot where your expectations overlap with theirs. The best deals are found within the center of the Venn diagram.

8. Don't rush
Many people fear that the house they want will get sold to another buyer before they have a chance to negotiate, so they feel that it's best to make an offer early. Many real estate experts agree that this worry is often unfounded. If you're interested in a house, the seller will know, and even if they have other offers, they will still have incentive to give each potential buyer proper consideration. Waiting to make an offer will always make the offer more valuable. Always wait a few days before making your initial offer. When you finally come around with your offer, the buyer will be relieved, and you'll find yourself in a stronger position.

9. Have a strong initial offer
Many people underestimate the importance of an initial offer. Even though the final price will be determined through negotiation, the initial offer plays a huge role in informing the price. A good rule of thumb is to offer 20-30% lower than your comfortable spending limit. Keep in mind that if your offer is too low it can offend the seller, and if your offer is too high it will end up dramatically increasing the final price. When you make a low initial offer, always give the seller a good reason, such as the local market, your budget, or other factors in the home's value. This will show that you're basing your offer upon logic, and you're inviting further conversation.

10. Be reluctant to increase your offer
Make sure the agent "convinces" you to increase your offer. Always be reluctant to increase, and only agree when a strong argument has been made. It never hurts to wait. Avoid accepting offers to meet halfway. The final sale price isn't decided by the splitting your offer with the seller's asking price. Both offers should be treated as stepping-stones on your path to the final sale price. Make sure to crawl your offer up slowly and carefully.

11. Keep a bargaining chip
You'll be negotiating more than just a sale price. The terms of the agreement will determine things like move-in date, closing costs, inspections, included furniture and features, as well as other incentives. Early on in the negotiation, hold on to one aspect of the agreement that you don't necessarily need. Don't let on that the issue isn't important to you, but hold onto it as if it's necessary. Near the end of the negotiation, you can concede on the issue as a final bargaining chip. This will help give you one final push toward closing the deal.

12. Be confident, positive, and respectful
Start off your search by reminding yourself that you're on the path to your perfect home. Have confidence in yourself and your ability to work within any situation, stay positive, and get what you need, no matter what unforeseen challenges come your way. Remembering that you're dealing with people, with families, and you're all about to make one of the most important decisions of your lives. A "good deal" isn't good unless everybody gets what they need. You're not just searching for a new home; you're searching for the perfect circumstance, the perfect deal. At the end of your path lies your new life. You'll help plenty of people along the way, and many people will help you. Make the best of your situation, and enjoy your new home!

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ACS Union Members Reject Contract

On Saturday?a majority of American Crystal Sugar union workers voted and rejected for a third time the same contract offer American Crystal offered nearly a year ago.?Eighty-two percent of union members voted, and 63 percent voted to again reject Crystal's demands.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Entire News Release from BCTGM Union

Union leaders issued the following statement:

The non-negotiable demands of Crystal Sugar executives would dismantle union workers' health coverage. They also would:

compromise safety and product quality by exempting outside contractors and supervisors from random drug testing;
disregard the value of skills and experience, and open the door to favoritism and nepotism in job promotions;
drastically diminish workers' protection from unjust disciplinary measures; and
suppress workers' voice on the job.

Crystal sugar executives apparently can't stand prosperity, and would rather waste millions trying to starve workers into submission than engage in constructive negotiations. We know that real give-and-take negotiations are the only way to get this cooperative back on track to productivity and profitability. Crystal Sugar was built by cooperation among farmers, factory workers and managers. That cooperation has produced record profits in recent years, and, only through cooperating, will we be successful again.

We remain deeply grateful to relatives, friends, neighbors and union sisters and brothers, near and far, who have supported us through these dark days. Your strong support will continue to be needed as we strive to reach a fair resolution. We also thank the growers and shareholders who publicly and privately oppose the imprudence and injustice of the lockout. And we thank God for the bishops, clergy and other people of faith who are praying daily for an end to the lockout and successful negotiations.

Most Crystal Sugar union workers are people of the Red River Valley. We've survived devastating floods and we'll endure this too.

To our farmer partners we say, in the words of Ben Franklin: "Gentlemen, if we do not hang together, we shall most assuredly hang separately." End this lockout and let us get back to work making good, saleable sugar from the bumper crop of beets you are now growing.

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ORIGINAL STORY:

The polls are closed and the results are being tallied. Union workers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa voted on the?American Crystal Sugars?final contract offer today. The union?overwhelmingly rejected the contract twice before, citing concerns over seniority and job security. But the company wouldn't budge on compromises, saying its a good contract with pay increases and other benefits. Valley News Live finds out if union members are bringing the lockout to an end.

Over a hundred locked out workers came to the Howard Johnson Hotel in Fargo?Saturday to cast their vote of whether to accept American Crystal Sugars final contract offer or not. Lester Bergh is just one of 1300 locked out workers who have the chance to cast a vote, "I'm only voting on the contract. I'm not voting for the union or against the company. I'm voting on the contract only."

Talking with some of the locked out workers it was hard to gauge where these folks really stand. Most told Valley News Live they had problems with the contract but there where many others who just wanted to get back to work. Bergh has heard folks on both side of the argument, "well I've heard it both ways. I've heard some people who are getting a little tired of being locked out and I've heard other people that have said well it's still a bad contract. So their gonna vote for it. It hasn't changed."

Lester Bergh had worked at American Crystal for 15 years before the lock out began. He moved from a floor sweeper to a process technician in that time, and he says this new contract has the potential to change how folks like him move up the chain as they pay their dues. "Basically they can bring people in right off the street who've never been in the factory before and put them into a better paying job over people who've been there for years. Those are some of the issues I have," explains Bergh.

So as the votes are tallied up, one things certain. Bergh says there are no winners in this lockout, "even if it gets voted to accept it,?we've lost a lot of skilled people because of this lock out. There's a good chance it will take years to recover. I mean all they'll ever do is get back to where they would have been had they left us alone in the first place.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Open position: Inside Sales Manager ? International Business ...

That?s you

You simply love to communicate and sell. You excel in connecting with prospects and sales leads and engage them in a meaningful conversation that leaves a lasting positive impression whether they turn into clients or not. You are excellent on the phone but also in employing social media and marketing automation tools to get your story out. Your ease at creating relationships helps you to cast a wide network throughout our target industries (Pharma / Life Science, High Tech, Finance). Your strong track record proves your knack at sales.

We want you

For our growing team we seek to engage, you, a top notch inside sales and business development manager. You will be responsible for the inside sales effort of Squirro on an international scale. Your key experiences and capabilities are:

Strong track record in inside sales and business development roles.
Several years of professional experience in enterprise software (marketing & sales), ideally in any of the above mentioned target industries a good network in the market
A strong analytical capacity and understanding of our activity; a high level of creativity; a great communicator and team worker; strong project management skills

Your key tasks include:

You shine when selling Squirro: You are able to propel the sales efforts of Squirro to the next level.
Together with the CEO you formulate an adequate inside sales strategy and excel in executing the derived tasks.
You are able to establish yourself as a trusted source of advice helping them to craft an optimal strategy of employing Squirro in their specific settings.

All in all: An exciting job.

That?s the product

Squirro is the personal digital research app. Broader than feeds and more specific than search, Squirro filters out the noise to give you the content that matters most. Squirro scans multiple sources from Internet channels and social media, private databases and even company internal to find the most relevant information on your topic of interest, then updates it continuously and automatically. The result is a living collection of curated content you can save, synthesize and share.

That?s us

Squirro is developed by passionate internet geeks and entrepreneurs with high ambitions: To simplify the everyday need to find, remember, organize and share important information. We created Squirro following Memonic, the award-winning, online note-taking app and the Swiss search engine local.ch.

The deal

Become part of a sound, fervent, and vibrant team. Take over the inside sales responsibility of Squirro on an international scale and help market a sexy and award winning Internet application. In return you?ll be working in a startup setting and will receive a share of the future success of the platform you help building. This being possibly one of the stronger founding teams around town, this is your chance for a lift to the next level.

Contact

Dorian Selz, Co-Founder & CEO
Tel: +41 44 586 98 98,
E-Mail: dorian at memonic.com,
Web:?http://memonic.com

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Romney ends bus tour same way it began: Shredding Obama's record

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Video: On the Romney campaign trail

Germy hot spots in hotels? Remote, light switch

Next time you enter a new hotel room, you might think twice before touching the light switch or reaching for the remote. Those are two of the top surfaces most likely to be contaminated with bacteria, according to a study aimed at boosting hotel cleaning practices.

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Humongous asteroid to hurtle past Earth Thursday (+video)

Some?1,650 feet wide,?asteroid 2012 LZ1 is expected to pass within 14 lunar distances of our planet, close enough to be caught on camera.?

By Mike Wall,?SPACE.com / June 14, 2012

A look at where near-Earth asteroid 2012 LZ1 will appear in the sky on Thursday evening.

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An asteroid the size of a city block is set to fly by Earth Thursday (June 14), and you may be able to watch it happen live.

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The?near-Earth asteroid?2012 LZ1, which astronomers think is about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide, will come within 14 lunar distances of Earth Thursday evening. While there's no danger of an impact on this pass, the huge space rock may come close enough to be caught on camera.

That's what the team running the Slooh Space Camera thinks, anyway. The online skywatching service will train a telescope on the Canary Islands on 2012 LZ1 and stream the footage live, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT Thursday (0000 GMT Friday) ? the time of closest approach.

You can watch the?asteroid?flyby on Slooh's website, found here:?http://events.slooh.com/

2012 LZ1 just popped onto astronomers' radar this week. It was discovered on the night of June 10-11 by Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who were peering through the Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.

Researchers estimate that the space rock is between 1,000 and 2,300 feet wide (300-700 m). On Thursday evening, it will come within about 3.35 million miles (5.4 million kilometers) of our planet, or roughly 14 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

Because of its size and proximity to Earth, 2012 LZ1 qualifies as a potentially hazardous asteroid. Near-Earth asteroids generally have to be at least 500 feet (150 m) wide and come within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) of our planet to be classified as potentially hazardous.

2012 LZ1 is roughly the same size as?asteroid 2005 YU55, which made a much-anticipated flyby of Earth last November. But 2005 YU55 gave our planet a much closer shave, coming within 202,000 miles (325,000 km) of us on the evening of Nov. 8. A space rock as big as 2005 YU55 hadn't come so close to Earth since 1976, researchers said.

Astronomers have identified nearly 9,000 near-Earth asteroids, but they think many more are out there, waiting to be discovered.

Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter?@michaeldwall?or SPACE.com?@Spacedotcom. We're also onFacebook?and?Google+.

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Fungus-fibre cup plan wins international business contest | Otago ...

University of Otago Business School student Helena Langer says things were "hectic" when pulling together an international online team for the competition she entered and won. Photo by Peter McIntosh.

A University of Otago student's idea to replace 25 billion styrofoam cups with a biodegradable product grown from Oyster mushroom fungus filaments has won an international contest.

Business School student Helena Langer (21) of Dunedin, who is studying management for her bachelor of commerce degree, this week won the Global Leader Award at the ninth annual Global Enterprise Experience competition.

This targets development of future global leaders across cultures, time zones and differing levels of wealth.

Ms Langer became leader of "team 73" and was one of two New Zealanders, grouped with two students from Hong Kong and others from Columbia, Nigeria, Finland and Uganda, who put together a business proposal over three weeks, before judging in New Zealand.

While being "really excited" to participate in part of an international team for the first time, that was dulled on receiving the "dreadful email" announcing her as team leader.

"[However] I ventured out to start the journey as an international leader. I knew it was not going to be easy, but I didn't think it was going to be as hard as it was," she said in a work journal.

The New Zealand-initiated competition, with entries created and judged online, pitted students from 40 countries against one another, as they worked in 90 international teams of up to eight people each.

Each team had three weeks to meet online, choose a project, then research, design and write a business concept proposal for a profitable product or service to link developed and developing countries for mutual benefit.

Ms Langer's team's concept was to replace styrene-based styrofoam fast-food industry cups in the US with a biodegradable material.

It combined Oyster mushroom fungus grown in Colombia with sawdust and palm kernel pulp to produce and harvest mycelium (vegetative fungus filaments), which was moulded to produce the cups.

Ms Langer said the final week of the three was "really hectic", with long hours communicating with the team members around the world, getting consensus on issues and making final decisions.

"The experience taught me to be persistent through the hard times and keep on trying," she said.

Ms Langer understood winners of the business contest would at some point get the opportunity to pitch their ideas further.

The competition's sponsors were Victoria University, the University of Otago, the ANZ Bank and Unesco.

Overall, the university's Business School featured prominently in the awards, with University of Otago diploma for graduates (management) student Charlotte Baddeley also highly commended in the Global Leader Award.

Two other students were nominated for the Global Leader Award, fourth-year physical education and management student Matthew Johnson, and first-year management student Jennifer Bailey.

Otago also had three students, all in the International Student Exchange Programme, Nathalie Fahrni, of Switzerland, and Helene Matti and Sanna Magnusson, both of Sweden, in teams that received an ANZ highly commended team report award for producing one of the six best business reports.

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Rodney King, whose beating led to LA riots, dies

FILE - This April 13, 2012 file photo shows Rodney King posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died, his publicist said Sunday, June 17, 2012. He was 47. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

FILE - This March 31, 1991 image made from video shot by George Holliday shows police officers beating a man, later identified as Rodney King. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died, his publicist said Sunday, June 17, 2012. He was 47. (AP Photo/Courtesy of KTLA Los Angeles, George Holliday)

FILE - This file photo of Rodney King was taken three days after his videotaped beating in Los Angeles on March 6, 1991. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died, his publicist said Sunday, June 17, 2012. He was 47. (AP Photo/Pool, File)

FILE - This July 20, 1993 file photo shows Rodney King speaking during an appearance on KFI-AM radio's "Bill Handel and Mark Whitlock" show in Los Angeles. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died, his publicist said Sunday, June 17, 2012. He was 47. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, file)

FILE - This July 16, 1992 file photo shows Rodney King being escorted from jail in Santa Ana, Calif. after he was arrested for investigation of drunken driving. King, whose videotaped beating by police in 1991 led to LA race riots, has died at 47. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? His beating stunned the nation, left Los Angeles smoldering and helped reshape race relations and police tactics. And in a quavering voice on national television, Rodney King pleaded for peace while the city burned.

But peace never quite came for King ? not after the fires died down, after two of the officers who broke his skull multiple times were punished, after Los Angeles and its flawed police department moved forward. His life, which ended Sunday at age 47 after he was pulled from the bottom of his swimming pool, was a continual struggle even as the city he helped change moved on.

The images ? preserved on an infamous grainy video ? of the black driver curled up on the ground while four white officers clubbed him more than 50 times with batons ? became a national symbol of police brutality in 1991. More than a year later, when the officers' acquittals touched off one of the most destructive race riots in history, his scarred face and softspoken question ? "Can we all get along?" ? spurred the nation to confront its difficult racial history.

But while Los Angeles race relations and the city's police department made strides forward, King kept coming before police and courts, struggling with alcohol addiction and arrests, periodically re-appearing publicly for a stint on "Celebrity Rehab" or a celebrity boxing match. He spent the last months of his life promoting a memoir he titled "The Riot Within: From Rebellion to Redemption."

King was declared dead at a hospital after his fianc?e called 911 at 5:25 a.m. to say she found him submerged in the pool at his home in Rialto, about an hour's drive from Los Angeles. Officers found King in the deep end of the pool, pulled him out and tried unsuccessfully to revive him with CPR.

An autopsy was expected to determine the cause of death within two days; police found no alcohol or drug paraphernalia near the pool and said foul play wasn't suspected. King's next-door neighbor, Sandra Gardea, said that around 3 a.m., she heard music and someone "really crying, like really deep emotions. ... Like tired or sad, you know?"

"I then heard someone say, 'OK, Please stop. Go inside the house.' ... We heard quiet for a few minutes Then after that we heard a splash in the back."

King's death was a grim ending to a saga that began 21 years earlier when he fled from police after he was stopped for speeding. The 25-year-old, on parole from a robbery conviction had been drinking, which he later said led him to try to evade police. He was finally stopped by four Los Angeles police officers who struck him more than 50 times with their batons, kicked him and shot him with stun guns. He was left with 11 skull fractures, a broken eye socket and facial nerve damage.

A man who had quietly stepped outside his home to observe the commotion videotaped most of it and turned a copy over to a TV station. It was played over and over for the following year, inflaming racial tensions across the country.

It seemed that the videotape would be the key evidence to a guilty verdict against the officers, whose felony assault trial was moved to the predominantly white suburb of Simi Valley, Calif. Instead, on April 29, 1992, a jury with no black members acquitted three of the officers on state charges in the beating; a mistrial was declared for a fourth.

Violence erupted immediately, starting in Los Angeles. They lasted for three days, killing 55 people, injuring more than 2,000 and setting swaths of Los Angeles aflame, causing $1 billion in damage. Police, seemingly caught off-guard, were quickly outnumbered by rioters and retreated. As the uprising spread to the city's Koreatown area, shop owners armed themselves and engaged in running gun battles with looters.

King ? who said in his memoir that FBI agents had urged him to keep a low profile if the officers were acquitted, expecting violence ? appeared at a news conference on the third day, asking for an end to the uprising. "Can we all get along?" he asked ? a question the city and nation have struggled to answer ever since.

Although the four officers who beat King ? Stacey Koon, Theodore Briseno, Timothy Wind and Laurence Powell ? were acquitted of state charges, Koon and Powell were convicted of federal civil rights charges and were sentenced to more than two years in prison. King received a $3.8 million civil judgment; one of the jurors in the case, Cynthia Kelley, is his fianc?e.

But he quickly lost the money as he invested in a record label and other failed ventures. He was arrested multiple times for drunken driving ? including last summer in Riverside, Calif.

Despite his troubles, King remained upbeat as he confronted the 20 year anniversary of the LA riots and considered his legacy.

"America's been good to me after I paid the price and stayed alive through it all," he told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this year. "This part of my life is the easy part now."

He had three daughters and was engaged to Kelley.

He returned to the spotlight earlier this year as historians and news outlets explored the impact of the riots on its 20th anniversary, including the reforms made by the Los Angeles Police Department.

"Through all that he had gone through with his beating and his personal demons he was never one to not call for reconciliation and for people to overcome and forgive," Rev. Al Sharpton said Sunday. "History will record that it was Rodney King's beating and his actions that made America deal with the excessive misconduct of law enforcement."

Attorney Harland Braun, who represented one of the police officers, Briseno, in his federal trial, said King's case never would have gained the prominence it did without the videotape of his beating.

"If there hadn't been a video there would have never been a case," Braun said. "In those days, you might have claimed excessive force but there would have been no way to prove it."

The video also sparked an examination of Los Angeles police tactics under then-Police Chief Daryl Gates.

"The Rodney King beating stands as a landmark in the recent history of law enforcement, comparable to the Scottsboro case in 1931 and the Serpico case in 1967," said a July 1991 report produced by an independent commission led by Warren Christopher, who later became Secretary of State.

The report determined that despite many good officers, there were "a significant number of officers in the LAPD who repetitively use excessive force against the public."

Despite that scrutiny, the department continued to face scandals and critics of its practices until the U.S. government intervened. The department operated under a decade-long consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department' civil rights division to implement reforms on how it uses force and handles complaints; the department also gained more civilian oversight. The decree wasn't formally lifted until 2009.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who knew King for years, said he was more of a victim than a hero, and that his death reminded the nation of how far it still needs to go.

Gardea described King as a quiet neighbor until Sunday morning. Cory Hudson, King's cousin who lives nearby, said King enjoyed swimming and was known to get into the pool at night.

"It's just sad. I feel bad for all the family members," Hudson said. "It's been rough. And he was just getting his life really together."

Braun, the attorney saw King as "a sad figure swept up into something bigger than he was.

"He wasn't a hero or a villain."

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Associated Press writers Raquel Maria Dillon in Rialto and Linda Deutsch, Chris Weber and John Antczak in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Stiff winds fuel Colo. wildfire; looting a concern

A Erickson Air Crane firefighting helicopter flys to a pond to refill its tank while fighting the High Park wildfire, west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, June 15, 2012. The wildfire started Saturday and has burned over 50,000 acres. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

A Erickson Air Crane firefighting helicopter refills its tank in a rancher's pond while fighting the High Park wildfire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, June 15, 2012. The wildfire started Saturday and has burned over 50,000 acres. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

A thunderhead builds over the High Park wildfire and Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, June 15, 2012. Rain could assist in fighting the wildfire that started Saturday and has burned over 50,000 acres. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

A sign warns motorist of the closure of Highway 14 through Poudre Canyon as columns of smoke rise in the distance from the High Park wildfire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, June 15, 2012. The wildfire started Saturday and has burned over 50,000 acres. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

DENVER (AP) ? Crews in northern Colorado are facing powerful winds as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. Meanwhile, local authorities are focusing on another concern ? looting.

The destructiveness of the High Park Fire burning 15 miles west of Fort Collins surpassed the Fourmile Canyon wildfire, which destroyed 169 homes west of Boulder in September 2010.

More than 1,630 personnel are working on the Fort Collins-area fire, which was sparked by lightning and is 45 percent contained.

Julie Berney with the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said firefighters can expect winds of 30 mph with gusts of up to 50 mph Sunday. Some rain moved through Saturday evening, but it wasn't enough to quell the fire.

"The problem is that when you have a fire like this, even if it rains it evaporates before it hits the ground," Berney said.

On Sunday afternoon, wind-whipped flames prompted fire managers to send 96 notices to residents, ordering the immediate evacuation of the Hewlett Gulch Subdivision in the Poudre Canyon area north of the fire. It was unclear how many homes were affected.

A red flag warning has been issued for the area until 8 p.m. Sunday, and temperatures could reach 90 degrees, the hottest day since the fire was reported June 9.

But incident commander Bill Hahnenberg said he was pleased with the firefighters' progress, while also acknowledging that high winds could be a test.

"A scenario could be we'll lose some line, and then we just go after it the next day and the next day," he said. "We're going to do everything we can to protect facilities, and we're prepared to do that."

As firefighters try to get the upper hand on the blaze, which has burned large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land, local authorities have dispatched roving patrols to combat looting.

Deputies arrested 30-year-old Michael Stillman Maher of Denver on Sunday on charges including theft and impersonating a firefighter. The sheriff's department said Maher was driving through the fire zone with phony firefighter credentials and a stolen government license plate.

His truck was later spotted near a bar in Laporte, and investigators say they found a firearm and stolen property in the vehicle.

"There's a handful out there that are taking advantage of others," said Sheriff Justin Smith, adding that "if somebody's sneaking around back there, we're going to find them."

Also in Colorado, a fire near Pagosa Springs in the southwestern part of the state has grown to 11,617 acres and is 30 percent contained. Hot, dry conditions Sunday are expected to fuel the fire, which was sparked by lightning May 13.

Across the West:

?New Mexico: A wildfire in southern New Mexico has destroyed 242 homes and businesses, and firefighters are working to increase containment and keep an eye out for possible lightning.

The 59-square-mile Little Bear Fire in Ruidoso is 60 percent contained. Dan Bastion, a spokesman for crews fighting the fire, says most of the fire is in the mop-up stage, but crews need to build more containment on the fire's active west side to deprive it of fuel.

Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack planned to travel to Albuquerque on Sunday to meet with officials leading the response to wildfires in the state.

? Arizona: Firefighters are focusing on protecting electrical transmission lines near a 3,100-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest in northern Arizona. Officials say hot weather and steep slopes remain a concern, and firefighters are on the alert for thunderstorms and possible lightning strikes. The fire is 15 percent contained.

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Associated Press writer Amanda Myers in Phoenix contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Monday, June 11, 2012

Improving Self Esteem with Positive Affirmations and Relaxation Music

Positive?self-esteem?is very important for our general health and wellness as human beings. ?Having positive?self-esteem?is also important for promoting any type of healing, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. ?Poor or low?self-esteem?on the other hand can be quite detrimental to our well-being and even our very existence. ?Negative self-esteem can create anxiety, stress, loneliness, depression, problems with relationships, seriously impair academic and job performance and also can generate an increased vulnerability to drug and alcohol?abuse?and dependency. ?On the other hand, a person with positive self-esteem tends to be more motivated in taking on and creating a life that he loves, living it powerfully and in this process be authentically related to others in his community. ?Having positive self-esteem appears to be necessary for having a happy and healthy existence regardless of who we are or what profession we are taking on in life.

What is self-esteem? ?We commonly think that self-esteem is merely about how we feel about ourselves at any particular moment. ?While seemingly existing in degrees, we tend to believe that we have positive or negative self-esteem and that we make that determination simply by how we feel about ourselves. ?However, within a conversation of Holistic Counseling, our feelings or emotions do not exist alone or have an independent existence. ?We do not just simply feel. ?Rather, for every feeling or emotion that we have, either positive or negative, there is a corresponding thought that we have about ourselves that generates the experience of self-esteem. ?Whether positive or negative, self-esteem is merely how our organism experiences the thoughts that the individual has about himself or herself. ?

If a person has positive thoughts about himself he will experience positive or good self-esteem. ?On the other hand, if the individual has negative thoughts about who he thinks he is then he will experience poor or negative self-esteem. ?Therefore, to truly understand what self-esteem is all about and more importantly to be able to alter it when necessary for ones?wellness?or healing, we must first get it that self-esteem is really about our thinking, and more specifically about the thoughts that we develop or create about ourselves. ?The thoughts or beliefs that we have about ourselves are crucial in that they determine or create the structure of our experience of self-esteem and the various emotions associated with it.

We also tend to think of our self-esteem as being something that is shaped by the events that take place in our life, particularly those from our past. ?We tend to believe that who we think we are and how we feel about ourselves is merely the product, effect or caused by the experiences that we have had in the past, that we are who we are by virtue of what has happened to us as human beings. ?More specifically, we tend to think that the cause in the matter of who we think we are and our self-esteem is due to circumstance, situation or others, people, places and things. ?We do not tend to think that our self-esteem is something we actually developed or created.

Within the work of?transformation, it is not the past, circumstance, situation or others, that determines our underlying self-image and corresponding self-esteem. ?We created our thoughts and with it our emotions from the meaning that we gave to the events that took place in our life, especially at an early age. ?As meaning making machines we give meaning to everything in our life including and most importantly to ourselves. ?At an early age the meaning that we give an event tends to be made out to be all about us. ?While events do happen it is not the events that are important but rather the meaning that we give them and especially how we made it out to be about our identity.

Given the fact that our thoughts determine our feelings or emotions and equally important that we are truly responsible for their creation, to change or transform our self-esteem, how we tend to feel about ourselves, amounts to us altering how we see or conceive of ourselves in the world in the now and this work is our responsibility alone. ?It is our self-image, how we define ourselves as an individual in the world in the present, that determines our experience of self-esteem and it is this that we are truly responsible for creating and equally responsible for transforming. ?

When we alter or transform our definition of ourselves in the present we change how we feel about ourselves and with it our experience of reality and life in general. ?If we do not get it that we are responsible for what we think about ourselves and that we are the real author of our self-image and self-esteem we will continue to blame something or some body, remain powerless and stuck in life. ?The question of how to actually go about altering or improving an individual?s self-esteem is one that has been debated for many years by professionals both in the mental health and?addiction?arenas.

Self-esteem can be improved or transformed in several ways. ?To improve ones self-esteem requires that a person become present to ones self limiting belief, that which has stopped us in life and in the process create new possibilities for oneself, a new self-image from which to begin to live life into. ?Another way to improve an individual?s self-esteem is through the use of positive affirmations. Given that the basis of self-esteem is the thoughts that a person has about himself, an individual with poor or negative self-esteem is believing negative thoughts or ideas about who he thinks he is. ?The individual may think, for example, that he is worthless or not good enough and as a result will tend to experience poor or negative self-esteem.

Within the work of?transformation?and Holistic Counseling, the thought that is at the basis or core of our self-talk is defined as a person?s Self Limiting Belief, the fundamental or core belief about who we think we are. ?Unless this core thought or belief that a person has about himself is changed or transformed he will continue to experience a poor or negative self-esteem and as a result of this negative thought pattern create or generate life experiences that will match and validate what they think about themselves. ?Given such a cognitive and emotional situation life will continue to appear as it has in the past and ones future will merely be the probable almost certain future.

Utilizing positive affirmations can be a very powerful tool for transforming what a person thinks about himself and as a result improve the individual?s self-esteem. ?Consistent use of positive affirmations will transform the negative beliefs about who a person thinks he is into positive ones, will begin to alter the basis and structure of his self talk or inner voice and produce a transformation from poor self-esteem to positive self-esteem. ?While utilized in a various ways, working with positive affirmations will be more effective when delivered through or combined with therapeutic?Relaxation?Music.

What Relaxation?Music does to enhance the effect of positive affirmations is to create a very relaxed audio environment for the individual to become even more open or suggestive to the language of positive affirmations. ?When therapeutic?Relaxation?Music is combined with binaural audio tones the audio space that is created for the delivery of positive affirmations?is even more relaxing and as a result very powerful.

In addition to utilizing a unique type of Relaxation Music, the infusion of either theta or alpha binaural tones is crucial for the success of this type of intervention. When therapeutic Relaxation Music and binaural audio tones are combined in this fashion the individual will experience a very deep state of relaxation and as a result be more open to the reception and eventual acceptance of the positive?Affirmations.

The key to the effective use of positive?affirmation?in this or any other type of intervention is consistency. The self-image and the negative thoughts about who a person thinks he is that generates his experience of poor or negative self-esteem is well established in the his belief system. In many cases the development of a negative self-image took years to create and has been reinforced through repetitive behavioral validation. ?Once a person creates and then believes that a self-limiting belief is true he will continually act as if it is true. ?This seemingly fundamental belief will appear to the person as true and as a result will continually be acted upon and thereby be reinforced through ones behavior. ?Much of that person?s?behavior?will be to continually validate who he thinks he is. Ones?behavior?will always be directed at supporting, reinforcing and validating what the person believes is true about him.

While necessary for ones well-being and health, such a?transformation?of ones self-image from being basically a negative one to one that is fundamentally positive does not happen instantly. ?As with the development of an individual?s negative self-image, the development of a more adequate belief about the true nature of the individual will necessitate consistent and repetitive work by the person. ?Basic to this process is that the individual must fully embrace his sense of complete responsibility for the development of his self-image and also for its transformation. ?To do otherwise will only leave the individual feeling powerless and unable to create the life that he or she truly desires and unless there is consistency and repetition such a transformation will simply not happen.

More on this later.

Relaxation Music, Positive Affirmations, Healing Music, Sleep Music

Dr. Harry Henshaw

Enhanced Healing through Relaxation Music

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