19 May 12

Prisons mental health care under fire

The Law Society and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) have questioned whether the forensic mental healthcare facility Tattoo Machine Supplies, James Nash House, meets human rights standards.

They say it has too few beds to match growth of the prison population.

The AMA says there is an unworkable waiting list and conditions at the Adelaide facility are some of the worst it has seen.

Law Society president Ralph Bonig says 90 per cent of prisoners needing acute mental health care are being sent to the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) instead.

“There has been a commitment to mental health funding across the country, but that hasn't been reciprocated with an increase in the sort of inpatient mental health care we need in the prison system and that needs to be urgently addressed,” he said.

“Potentially these people will remain incarcerated beyond their parole period because they're not getting adequate care.

“Alternatively, if we release them without having proper treatment or their condition under control, there's a chance of reoffending.”

Dr Peter Sharley of the AMA says RAH admission is inappropriate.

“There is nothing that's going to be successful about detaining a mental health person with prison guards or a violent history in the Royal Adelaide emergency department for 24 to 48 hours,” he said.

“That is of no benefit to anyone and the only reason they go there is because there's no hospital bed.”

Locked down

The Adelaide Women's Prison was locked down for a short time after correctional officers refused to accept an inmate with severe mental health issues.

The prisoner was due to be returned from the forensic mental health unit Power Supply For Tattoo Machine, James Nash House.

The Public Service Association said the woman had assaulted nine correctional officers and engaged in extreme self harm and anti-social behaviour.

Union official Peter Christopher said the ban was suspended after an Industrial Relations Commission hearing determined the inmate would not be transferred to the women's prison.

“It was a very clear signal from officers that they were not prepared to put their own safety and the safety of other prisoners at risk by accepting somebody back into the women's prison for whom there were no suitable facilities to deal with her situation,” he said.

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17 May 12

New York, NY – Calls For Justice Resound At Ostrei

Jacob Ostreicher’s wife attempting to console her grandson at today’s rally in front of the Bolivian mission. Photo: Shimon Gifter

New York, NY – Several hundred people demonstrated outside the Bolivian mission to the United Nations in midtown Manhattan this morning, demanding the release of Jacob Ostreicher, the Brooklyn businessman who has been held in a Bolivian prison for the past eleven months.  Despite his lengthy incarceration, no charges have ever been filed against Ostreicher, as previously reported on VIN News.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind who led the chanting at the rally called upon political leaders including Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, as well as Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama, to take an active role in securing Ostreicher’s freedom.

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“This isn’t a Jewish issue,” Hikind told VIN News.  “This is an American issue and we are calling on our leaders to get involved and do something.  Is American citizenship so cheap and so meaningless that an American citizen can spend almost a year in prison without even being charged of a crime?  This is total disgrace.”

Men, women and children from all across the religious spectrum and all over the New York area came to demonstrate their support for Ostreicher.  Many in the crowd held signs in support of the cause, with signs held by some of the young Ostreicher grandchildren saying “Free My Grandpa Now.”

“We plan on keeping this issue in the limelight,” said Hikind.  “Imagine this was your husband or father or son who went on a business trip and didn’t come home.  Where is Hillary Clinton?  Where is Barack Obama?  Where is the American government doing whatever it can to protect its citizens?  And what does it say to the world if Bolivia can get away with doing something like this?”

Ostreicher’s wife, Miriam Ungar, expressed her thanks to everyone who took the time to show their solidarity for her husband.

“We were pleased to see so many supporters coming out in the middle of the day for Jacob.  It was heartwarming to hear the chants, prayers and the voice of Assemblyman Hikind.  We now need to take it to the next level and take our protest to those who can truly make a difference in Jacob’s situation.  If all of the people who came today would reach out to their Congressmen, Senators and the President of the United States Server 2003 Key, we believe that each will become truly proactive, and fight with us for Jacob’s freedom.

Singer Lipa Schmeltzer Office Stand-Alone Programs, who is related to Mrs. Ungar McAfee Product Key, urged his fans to attend today’s rally with a Facebook campaign.

“We made a tremendous Kiddush Hashem today by coming together as one and sticking up for our brother,” said Lipa.  “Yanky is one of the nicest guys I ever met and he has been suffering for almost a year.  No one should ever be in pain like this and my heart goes out to Yanky and his family.” 

Photos video credit Shimon Gifter.

 

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17 May 12

‘Crowd labor’ helps spur social networking revol

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The job didn’t pay much: four bucks an hour if you really hustled. But for Catherine Fraser, a recent community college grad from Mountain View looking to pick up a little extra spending cash, the work was a hoot.

“I told a friend ‘I’m now working in the porn industry’ because I had to watch little clips of adult movies for a minute or two and then give them titles,” says Fraser, 35, part of a growing global army of people making pennies in their spare time doing piecemeal — and often quirky — online micro-tasks. “We were limited to a small number of characters and encouraged to get creative.”

So Fraser would come up with, well, creative euphemisms “just to spice things up.”

She soon graduated to more savory micro-gigs– taking little surveys, transcribing insurance claims, penning product descriptions for $2 a shot– dipping her toes into a sprawling and little-known global subculture of digital grunt-workers. Largely unregulated — a spokesman for the California Labor Commissioner’s office said it was “starting to pop up on our radar”– this massive labor pool is starting to transform the traditional workplace, helping to power the tech renaissance unfolding in Silicon Valley.

“Crowdsourcing harnesses the collaborative nature of the Internet and enables us to connect, from a labor perspective, in ways we could never do before,” said analyst Martin Schneider with 451 Research. “Like manufacturing has done forever, crowd-labor lets us break down a job into tiny components, where one bit of fact-checking or writing a few sentences is now the equivalent of gluing that chip onto a computer board.”

Whether it’s rating the relevance of a search-engine’s results to help train its algorithms, or grading the sentiment of customer tweets (angry? irritated? happy?) for Fortune 500 companies, or screening dating-site photos for inappropriate content, this cadre of anonymous workers is supporting huge swaths of the social-networking empire.

“Crowd-sourced labor started off as this weird thing with people doing these funny little jobs in their spare time, but now it’s really catching on,” said Bill Quinn with Boulder, Colo.-based Trada, which hires people to help advertisers beef up online search campaigns. “I think 2013 will be the break-out year because the concept’s not so strange to companies anymore.”

The numbers back that up. A study by industry group crowdsourcing.org said crowd-labor revenues were up 75 percent in 2011 to $375 million. And the number of crowd-workers is growing even faster, climbing more than 100 percent last year, with about 40 percent of the six-million-member workforce living in developing countries.

While some workers can make six-figure annual salaries on more sophisticated tasks, one of the fastest-growing job segments, up 133 percent last year, is micro-tasks like the ones Amy Ellis of Alpine, Texas, does when her 2-year-old daughter’s at school.

“I’ve done things like 100-word product descriptions that pay $2.25 each, like why you should buy this brand of fluffy towels,” she said. She gets her work, like many of her fellow micro-taskers, from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, an online labor market that pairs businesses, or “requesters,” with “Turkers” who compete for HITS, or “human intelligence tasks,” for a specific price and time-frame. One recent job listing on Turk, for example, offered to pay two cents to “copy text from business cards.”

While Ellis’ husband works full-time, she uses her average weekly take of $70 to buy groceries. “It’s not a lot of money,” she says, “but I love the ability to log in and do a few minutes of work whenever I feel like it.”

But like others, Ellis has also discovered the sleazier side of crowd-labor, starting with “scammer workers doing product reviews who just rip off content from other sites, and scammer requesters who are looking for fake reviews of hotels, restaurants and other businesses.

“My favorite one,” she said replica watches, “was a hotel in Virginia that had all these negative ratings on Yelp — cockroaches, hookers in the neighborhood, that sort of thing– and they were paying Turkers four bucks to read about the hotel online and write a 4-star review, even though they’d never set foot in the place.”

The community, says Mechanical Turk’s vice president Sharon Chiarella replica watches, is largely self-policed. “Workers and requesters earn a reputation on Turk,” she said. “And we make it clear to requesters that if they treat workers poorly they won’t work for them anymore.”

The larger question — and one with huge global implications as crowdsourcing redefines and in some cases kills traditional jobs and long-established labor-management models– is whether the crowd-labor pool could essentially become one big worldwide digital sweatshop. While industry studies show average hourly earnings across all categories range from about $7 in India to $16 in Western Europe, the fast-growing segment of micro-taskers earn half that on average, and some make only $1.50 an hour.

Lilly Irani, a PhD candidate in informatics at the University of California at Irvine who has studied crowd-labor, says these unrepresented workers remain ripe for exploitation. After all, someone is profiting from their underpaid work.

“We need to make sure that workers are part of the conversation about how these systems are designed,” said Irani. “And we must never forget that these are real people out there doing real work, sometimes making an extra $120 a week that literally helps them keep a roof over their heads.”

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MICROJOBS

Here are a few of the so-called “microjobs” done by contributors to CrowdFlower, one of the largest crowd-sourced labor firms:

Categorization: Contributors match products, URLs, images or other items/information to their appropriate categories. For example, e-commerce sites with long lists of product names also need product attributes, so customers know exactly what a product is.

Search Relevance: Contributors rate the relevance of search results on a website in order to help “train” a website’s search algorithms and essentially make company’s websites more searchable.

Content Generation: Contributors are asked to write short pieces (length varies according to individual client needs) to quickly improve a company’s search-results ranking

Listing Verification and Enrichment: Contributors verify and/or correct existing business listings by searching business websites for contact information and checking websites to add supplemental information like hours of operation or menu data.

Image Moderation: Contributors tag images with descriptive terms or flag ones with unwanted content.

Sentiment Analysis: Contributors rate the sentiment or emotion of tweets, blog comments and other content so that the client company can gauge consumer feelings about its brand.

Transcription: Contributors take images of handwritten text or audio content and convert it into digital forms cheap replica watches, creating versions that are easier to store and process.

Source: CrowdFlower

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17 May 12

City of Bath wins national award for historic pres

Photo courtesy of Linda GlissenResidents and officials from the City of Bath pose for a photo on Monday Tattoo Ink Supplies, April 2, 2012, after winning the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2012 Great American Main Street award.

BATH, Maine — The city of Bath added to its laurels as one of the nation’s premier destinations Monday when it was named a 2012 Great American Main Street Award winner by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Every year, the National Trust recognizes excellence in revitalizing the nation’s historic Main Streets. Main Street Bath, a downtown organization that runs under the umbrella of the Trust’s Main Street program, was one of five U.S. cities honored with the award Monday during the National Main Streets Conference in Baltimore.

Under the four-point Main Street approach, which was implemented by the trust 30 years ago and is used in 2,000 communities in the United States, Main Street Bath has helped the city’s downtown use its shipbuilding heritage to stay relevant in the face of competition from area big-box stores and to overcome the disadvantage of a Route 1 highway overpass that diverts traffic away from the commercial district, according to a press release.

The four-point approach includes organization, which includes the creation of programs such as Main Street Bath; promotion of a positive economic image; careful design and capitalization on the positive aspects of a downtown’s environment; and economic restructuring.

“Bath is an example of how, through partnerships and perseverance, a community can overcome seemingly overwhelming obstacles — in this case, the Route 1 viaduct and competition from ‘big boxes’ — to create a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly downtown,” Doug Loescher, director of the National Trust Main Street Center, said in a press release. “Main Street Bath has given residents and tourists alike a host of reasons to exit the highway and explore its diverse businesses, wealth of historic architecture and authentic maritime heritage.”

Jennifer Geiger, director of Main Street Bath, said the win by the City of Ships marks only the fifth time that a New England community has been selected and the first for a municipality in Maine. The other New England winners were Burlington, Vt., in 1997; Milford, N.H., in 2002; Littleton, N.H., in 2003; and Boston, Mass., in 2005.

“This award is a testament not just to the good work of Main Street Bath on behalf of Bath’s downtown, but represents a win for all Maine downtowns, which are quintessential New England and share so many assets in common with Bath,” said Geiger. “This award is a testament not just to the good work of Main Street Bath on behalf of Bath’s downtown, but represents a win for all Maine downtowns, which are quintessential New England and share so many assets in common with Bath.”

In the past, Bath has been named a National Historic Trust Distinctive Destination in 2004 and the city’s Front Street was designated one of America’s “Great Streets” in 2009 by the American Planning Association. Bath, which is in Sagadahoc County on the shore of the Kennebec River, is also a recognized Preserve American Community and a Tree City USA.

The other four 2012 winners are Culpeper Intenze Tattoo Ink, Va.; Jacksonville, Ill.; Valley Junction-West Des Moines, Iowa; and Washington, Mo. Winners were selected by a national jury composed of former award-winners, community development professionals and government agency representatives who are engaged in economic development and historic preservation projects.

Bath City Manager William Giroux said the accolades Bath has received over the years don’t go unnoticed either inside or outside city limits. In addition to creating hometown pride, he said national recognitions over time bring in tourists and that the city has some of its most active members to thank for that.

“To me it’s a tribute to all the volunteers who have worked over the years to build the Main Street Bath program up Best Tattoo Machines,” said Giroux. “That’s what it’s always been about in Bath. This thing is a machine that just keeps on rolling.”

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17 May 12

WWII shipwrecks declared historic sites

Three US warships sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II have been declared protected historic sites.

The ships took part in the battle in the South Pacific between the Japanese navy and Allied forces from the US and Australia in May 1942.

It was the first major defeat for Japanese forces and lay the groundwork for the eventual victory and end to World War II.

It was also the first joint military action between Australia and US forces.

Heritage Minister Tony Burke said on Monday the three ships – USS Lexington, USS Sims and USS Neosho – served as a reminder of the close ties between the United States and Australia.

“It's easy to take our friend for granted,” Mr Burke said in Canberra at the Australian War Memorial.

“May they be forever a reminder of the passion, the spirit and sense of pride that caused so many people to be willing to give up so much for generations not yet born.”

The US ambassador to Australia, Jeffery Bleich, said it was hard for Australians to imagine the fear and tension of the “darkest days of World War II” when the battle occurred.

“The threat of an attack upon the nation's capital was not only real – it was expected Tattoo Guns For Sale,” he said in Canberra.

“The security of Australia never looked so bleak.”

Harry Frey Good Tattoo Ink, who was 19 when he was aboard the USS Lexington, thanked the Australian government for declaring the site of the sunken ships as protected historic sites.

Mr Frey, now 89, recalled filling his GI helmet full of pineapple sorbet and sharing it with his mates Homemade Tattoo Guns, while he waited to board a rescue vessel.

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16 May 12

Can You Grow Up During Midlife Here Are Five Wa

Not long ago conventional thinking about midlife held that it’s a time for holding on as best you can in the face of steady decline and loss. But if you’re a baby boomer, you know that’s shifted as fellow boomers show more attention to health and want continued vitality — even new growth – emotionally, sexually and creatively.

Nevertheless, many remain fearful of “going forth” or finding their “true self,” partly because they know that illness, tragedy, unpredictable events and death can and do occur. I’ve written about these themes in some of my previous posts. For example, about depression during midlife. But overall, I find that learning to embrace both the “positive” and “negative” experiences of midlife is the path to growing up into full adulthood. That’s especially relevant to the Post 50 years. So — here are five suggested steps:

Elevate and Expand Yourself
Build the core emotional and mental strengths of empathy and compassion. Much research shows that this realm of your inner life is the foundation for well-being as well as for positive engagement and harmony, with people and events. Meditation helps “grow” those capacities. Research also shows that meditation leads to greater creative thinking. Another part of this step is “elevating” your perspectives about people and life situations. A broadened, more tolerant vista is especially crucial at midlife because seeing things from a “1,000 foot view” is the foundation for wisdom.

Embrace Death And impermanence
True, our culture avoids acknowledging death and change. But embracing them can lead to more intense connection with what really matters to you — what to go after, while there’s still time; and what to let pass by. Research conducted by the University of Missouri and the University of Leipsig confirms this, finding that awareness of death spurs re-thinking about your goals and values. It can also lead to greater physical health, through increasing your focus on healthy practices.

I wrote about change and impermanence in a previous post, and now, during midlife, dealing with them is more critical than ever. This step means accepting constant change with the awareness that you can’t hold on to anything — ever. Children grow and go forth in their own lives. People you know die. Physical and emotional shifts occur without your intent. Embracing them allows you to manage them; to maintain health and vitality within those changes. That is, to accept them as new experiences to learn from; rather than deny or resist them.

For example Replica Herve Leger gown, studies show that your sexual desires and interests will shift and evolve in directions different from what you felt or wanted earlier in life. One study found that women’s interest in their partner can shift after the appearance of grandchildren — toward them, and away from their partner. Facing the range of changing realities and feelings, sexually, enables you to see what choices you truly have, now, less encumbered or restricted by old social norms or proscriptions.

Identify Your Purpose
Create and define what your life purpose is, at this point. You’ll be healthier and more fulfilled. Research finds that midlifers who have a sense of purpose are more likely to have slower rates of mental decline as they age. One study, reported in Archives of General Psychiatry, found that engaging in meaningful and purposeful activities of any kind promotes cognitive health in later years. Other studies find that a sense of life purpose and identity during midlife is linked with, respectively, positive health and longevity; and overall well-being.

Resolve, Reconcile And Reframe Life Experiences
This includes choosing to resolve old emotional and family issues or grievances. At midlife, they tend to resurface with a vengeance, anyway. Most people need to consult a good psychotherapist to help resolve disturbing experiences. But regardless of how significant your psychological issues are, most everyone has the challenge of letting go of past grievances, slights, and hurts – whether from family members, friends, employers…or “the world.”

So often, people harbor lifelong anger, rivalries or other negative emotions. But dwelling in them wastes vital emotional and mental energy. They sap your spirit, when the latter could lead to loving more fully, becoming more creative, or simply enjoying being alive — while you can.

It’s doable: Recent research shows you can change how you deal with negative memories, and move away from dwelling on them (unlike depressed people). You can reframe their meaning, learn from them and put them in a larger perspective and life context. Those who did that reappraisal and reframing — rather than remaining frozen within negative emotions — had a more cheerful, healthy outlook on life. Other research confirms that you can learn to change your personality over time, with awareness and effort. And new research with hallucinogens also shows that they can produce major transformation within yourself, as a recent Johns Hopkins study demonstrated.

Look in Front of You, Not Behind
Recognize that the one impact you can have on your life is how you conduct yourself in the aftermath of all your previous life experiences. Right now. In the present. Research confirms that this is more than a philosophical principle. One study found that how engaged you are with life during your middle years — socially, mentally and physically — is much more important for maintaining a sharper mind than what you did earlier in life. What matters is what you’re doing now, each day. Other studies concur. Chris Boyce, the lead researcher in a University of Manchester study, found that a positive, present-focus orientation contributes greatly to changes in your wellbeing. “Our research suggests that by focusing on who we are and how we relate to the world around us has the potential to unlock vast improvements in our wellbeing.”

Other research confirms that looking in front and not behind allows positive emotions to blossom. That helps you become more open and able to build resources for rebounding from adversity and stress; for becoming more open and flexible. And, especially, to be appreciative of whatever good you find in your daily circumstances.

These five steps towards “growing up” at midlife help you develop an orientation that’s engaged, accepting of life’s unpredictability and proactive in the face of whatever lies ahead. They help you focus more about what kind of “footprint” you want your own life — a very brief moment in the scheme of things — to leave behind.

Douglas LaBier, Ph.D., a business psychologist and psychotherapist, is director of the Center for Progressive Development in Washington, D.C. You may contact him at dlabier@CenterProgressive.org. To learn more about him Hale Bob Dresses sale, click here.

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15 May 12

First Drive2010 Kia Forte a compelling new compact

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If there’s one thing we can say about Kia Tattoo Supplies, it’s that it keeps making progress. In the 15 years the brand has been selling cars in the United States, South Korea’s second largest auto manufacturer has increased its market share every single year. The future looks bright as well, with new vehicles like the Soul receiving rave reviews and a new billion dollar production facility set to open this year. Hoping to build on that success, Kia has launched its new 2010 Forte, replacing the Spectra that failed to stand out among cars like the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Mazda3. With a new name, a new face Tattoo Supplies, upgraded powertrains and aspirations to exceed consumer expectations about the brand, can the Forte help Kia finally make its mark in the compact sedan segment? Read on to find out.

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14 May 12

Clipping the Right Wing

New York Times Magazine Christian Audigier Clothing sale, March 31 The cover story traces the erosion of the Republican Party following the disastrous 2006 midterm elections. GOP elders “worry that the social conservatism that helped seal Rove’s majorities might create for them a deficit that lasts a generation, that the party’s position on social issues like gay marriage may permanently alienate younger DKNY Clothing sale, more moderate voters.” The National Republican Congressional Committee reports that “on at least one occasion,” a disgruntled conservative activist returned a fundraising request in an “envelope stuffed with feces.”… An article explores a Darfur advocacy group’s “nuanced” efforts to pressure the Chinese government to drop its arms and oil dealings with Sudan as Beijing Olympics approach. … A trend piece about “abstinence clubs” on Ivy League campuses explains that many formed in reaction to what they viewed as “institutional encouragement of promiscuity” through college-sponsored safe-sex education programs.

Time, April 7 The cover story addresses deficiencies of the much-touted alternative fuel ethanol. An alarming, and paradoxical, consequence of the biofuel craze is the depletion of the Amazon rainforest. The demand for allegedly eco-friendly energy has driven crop prices through the roof, and farmers in Brazil want a piece of the profits. So, ethanol is “doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended.” In addition to ethanol’s negative impact on the environment, its production is also causing food prices to rise—which could spark a global hunger emergency. … A piece questions the future of Fox News Discount Herve leger strapless, which “will need to remodel itself again” after Bush’s presidency comes to an end. Though the network has been unfocused lately, its viewers likely won’t go away: “It just has to figure out what’s going to make them mad starting in 2009.”

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Economist, March 29 The editorial leading the cover package on American foreign policy cautions it will be difficult for a new presidential administration (be it McCain, Clinton, or Obama) to repair the United States’ shredded global reputation. “The mere fact of not being Bush will bring a dividend of goodwill,” but Europeans want “America to stop playing world sheriff and submit to the same rules as everyone else under the United Nations.”… A piece surveying Bush’s foreign-policy legacy notes that his approach to world affairs has made him “one of the most polarizing presidents in American history.”… However, another article concludes that the source of many Europeans’ anti-Americanism is that they are “furious with the Bush administration precisely because of its refusal to live up to the American ideals that had served the country so well during the second world war” and that with “a little wooing, they might be willing to fall back in love with America.”

Harper’s Cheap Herve leger strapless, April 2008 A piece considers the alarming possibility of transmittable cancer. Contagious forms of the disease persist among certain animal populations: Tasmanian devils suffer from parasitical facial tumors that they pass to each other during fights and mating skirmishes; a sexually transmitted cancer exists among dogs. There are documented cases of humans “catching” cancer Replica Marc Jacobs Dresses, too. Most were doctors or laboratory workers who accidentally came into contact with cancerous cells, either by a cut or needle prick. … An article explains how a flood of Iraqi refugees has destabilized Syria, which has now closed its borders to displaced Iraqis. The neighboring country, which once enjoyed sectarian peace, now copes with the antagonism of the primarily Sunni refugees toward its Shiite inhabitants, while the added economic strain cripples its infrastructure. One Syrian man says, “Iraq is an atomic explosion. It is a chain reaction that has not come to an end.”

GQ, April 2008 An article investigates the flagging mail-order-bride trade in the former Soviet Union. As Moscow prospers, the “vaunted ‘Russian bride’ may soon be a thing of the past.” Men after “their very own superhot June Cleaver” now look to places like Colombia, Thailand Buy DKNY Dresses, and Brazil, where women are less selective and still believe in the “myth of the well-heeled American swooping in to save the day.”… A profile visits Joe Francis in jail as he waits for a trial date for charges on tax evasion. (Francis has since been released.) During the interview, the Girls Gone Wild founder says in front of a female guard, “Look at that rack.” “Can you take me home?” he asks her. “Don’t I get conjugal visits? It’s been eight months.”

Must Read
New York’s cover package on the Bear Stearns buyout provides a glimpse into the boardroom dealings between JPMorgan, the Fed, and Bear—as well as a from-the-ground report on how the investment firm’s employees reacted when they heard they’d been bought out for $2 a share.

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Time interviews Hillary Clinton but doesn’t succeed in cracking the senator’s boilerplate responses—her paragraphs-long replies sound as if they’re fresh off the campaign press.

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Forget the swirling debate over the Democratic primaries. Newsweek asks the question on everyone’s mind: Why don’t female politicians have more sex scandals?

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Harper’s profiles the farmers of the “raw milk underground,” who believe it’s their mission to bring consumers unpasteurized milk, and the government’s attempts to shut them down.

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A piece in the New Republic reveals that after an economist proposed etching a black fly near the drain of toilet bowls in a men’s restroom at an Amsterdam airport, “spillage” was reduced by 80 percent—”It turns out that, if you give men a target, they can’t help but aim at it.”

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14 May 12

Creep the Faith

Rick Lazio

Two months ago Cheap Herve Leger gown, Rick Lazio, the leading Republican candidate for governor of New York, challenged his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, to investigate a proposed Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero. When Cuomo replied that the issue was religious freedom, Lazio insisted that his concerns were strictly about who would fund the project and what its imam had said about 9/11. “It’s outrageous, honestly, that Andrew Cuomo is raising [the] issue of religion here,” Lazio told a TV interviewer. “This is about security.”

Last week, Lazio began running a new ad. It concluded with these words: “Call Andrew Cuomo and tell him a Ground Zero mosque is wrong.”

A Ground Zero mosque. Not a mosque funded by radicals. Not a mosque run by somebody who said something controversial about 9/11. Not a mosque that recruits jihadists. A mosque—any mosque—near Ground Zero is wrong.

This is the latest frontier in the expanding campaign against the mosque. The initial allegations about money and extremism have receded to the background. In their place, candidates around the country are drawing a bright, categorical line against an Islamic house of worship  near Ground Zero. It is a line based entirely on religion.

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“Ground Zero is the wrong place for a mosque,” says Rick Scott, the Republican nominee for governor of Florida, in a TV ad. “The 9/11 site is hallowed ground, and it is too painful and divisive to build a mosque there,” says Roy Barnes, the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia. “It is insensitive and disrespectful to locate a mosque/Islamic center at a site that was damaged on 9/11,” says Rep. John Shimkus, Republican of Illinois. * “The construction of a mosque near Ground Zero should not, and must not happen,” says Steve Chabot, the former Republican congressman running for his old seat in Ohio. “Building a mosque near Ground Zero is insensitive, an affront to the victims of 9/11, and it lacks respect for the general public’s feelings,” says Richard Hanna Hale Bob Dresses sale, a Republican candidate for Congress in upstate New York. Tim Walberg, a Michigan Republican running for Congress, says President Obama “is wrong to offend the memories of the September 11th fallen by voicing support for building an Islamic mosque on Ground Zero.”

The GOP’s U.S. Senate candidates are nearly unanimous. Carly Fiorina of California, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Linda McMahon of Connecticut Discount Chanel Dresses, and Len Britton of Vermont all emphasize the mosque’s location as their concern. “It is divisive and disrespectful to build a mosque next to the site where 3,000 innocent people were murdered at the hands of Islamic extremism,” says Marco Rubio, the party’s nominee in Florida. “It is disrespectful to the families who have lost loved ones on 9/11 to build a mosque on that sacred ground,” says Rob Portman, the nominee in Ohio. “It is provocative in the extreme to build a mosque in the shadow of ground zero,” says the campaign of Pat Toomey, the nominee in Pennsylvania. “It is insensitive and inappropriate to build a mosque near the ground zero site,” says Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia. “I do not support the building of a mosque at Ground Zero,” says Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says “the prospect of a mosque right near this site of reverence and respect for lost loved ones from the attack shows a serious lack of sensitivity. In fact, the majority of the country is strongly opposed to building a mosque at the site of the most tragic terrorist attack on America.”

Vitter is right about the polls. In the latest survey, released Tuesday by Quinnipiac University, a majority of New York State voters, 53 percent to 39 percent, agrees that “because of the sensitivities of 9/11 relatives, Muslims should not be allowed to build the mosque near Ground Zero.” Yes, you read that correctly: A mosque should not be allowed. So when Republicans go around saying that “the general public’s feelings” and “the majority of the country” should govern the mosque dispute, they’re talking about a majority that’s willing to mess not just with the mosque, but with the Constitution.

And they’re flirting with something much more dangerous. In New York, a man was indicted Monday for allegedly slashing a taxi driver on Aug. 25 after finding out the driver was a Muslim. In Tennessee, FBI agents are investigating a suspicious fire Discount Bandage dresses, apparently set Friday night, that damaged construction equipment at the planned site of a local Islamic center. In Seattle, a man was arrested last week for allegedly punching a convenience store clerk in the head and telling him Discount Christian Audigier Clothing, “You’re not even American, you’re al-Qaida.” And last week, a brick was thrown at the window of an Islamic center in California. Outside the building, somebody posted a warning: “No Temple for the god of terrorism at Ground Zero.”

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Ground Zero was just the beginning. The case against a mosque there has shifted from extremism to Islam. Now Republicans say their no-mosque rule extends only to Ground Zero, or three blocks from Ground Zero, or whatever exclusion zone the majority feels is appropriate. But the fire of enmity has already spread from terrorism to religion. I don’t think New York can contain it. Like Slate on Facebook. Follow us on  Twitter. William Saletan’s latest short takes on the news Replica Christian Audigier Clothes, via Twitter:

Correction, Sept. 3, 2010: This aritcle originally identified Rep. John Shimkus as a congressman from Missouri. ( Return to the corrected sentence.)

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