US troop deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? KABUL, Afghanistan ? The U.S. military is confirming the death of an American service member in eastern Afghanistan, bringing the number of American troops dead in Afghanistan in the long-running conflict to 2,000.

The international coalition in Afghanistan said earlier Sunday that one of its service members was killed in a suspected insider attack by Afghan forces on Saturday. A U.S. official said that the dead service member was American. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the nationality of the dead had not yet been formally announced.

The number of American dead reflects an Associated Press count of those members of the armed services killed inside Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion on Oct. 7, 2001.

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PBT: Union boss got big raise during NBA lockout

USA Today discovered a department of labor filing with regards to Billy Hunter?s salary with the NBPA last year, much of which was spent during the lockout of the NBPA by the owners in the labor dispute. Mr. Hunter did quite well for himself.

National Basketball Players Association executive director Billy Hunter was paid $3 million from July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012, a $600,000 ? or 25% ? raise over the previous year, according to NBPA documents filed Friday with the United States Department of Labor.

via?NBPA filing with labor department details Hunter?s salary, payments to family members.

Just to review this, the NBPA paid Hunter $600,000 more last year so that they could lose 5.8 percentage points in BRI just in the first year, with more in subsequent years, and lose 16 games worth of pay. That?s clearly money well spent.

USA Today also outlines all the exorbitant legal fees paid to various consulting law firms during the lockout, including those who hired Hunter?s children. The union doled out some serious cash in a losing effort. Hunter has been under scrutiny, particularly from ousted NBPA president Derek Fisher over where the money went over the last several years, with an investigation still pending.

This certainly doesn?t make Hunter look good, but there?s no telling how much Hunter donated during the lockout, and it?s hard to gauge whether Hunter did ?a good job during the lockout or not. The players lost a ton of money, but the owners also had massive leverage. There were reasons for the loss, and Hunter deserves to make a living like anyone.

But $3 million dollars? During the exact period where the union got squashed, the very thing Hunter?s paid to prevent? Not a good look.

Source: http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/29/billy-hunter-made-3-million-last-year-landed-a-25-percent-raise-during-lockout/related

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Budget Bytes: baked spaghetti with sausage$9.20 recipe / $1.15 ...

baked spaghetti with sausage

$9.20 recipe / $1.15 serving

I never really understood the point of baking spaghetti... it just seemed like an extra step that stood between me and eating it. But, there's something about a hot, cheesy casserole straight out of the oven that is extra comforting.

Now that I've baked my spaghetti, I totally get it. Baking it in the oven not only lets the cheese get all gooey, but it lets the spaghetti soak up some flavor from the sauce and get all deeeelicious. It's worth the extra 30 minutes.

I made a quick meat sauce using Italian sausage, which is heavily seasoned and provided all of the herbs and spices that were needed to flavor the sauce. If you want to make a vegetarian version of this (with say, mushrooms and green peppers) be sure to add a good tablespoon or so of Italian seasoning blend to make up for the missing spices in the sausage.

This recipe is perfect for freezing, so pack up half of it and save it for a rainy day when you want something warm and comforting!

Total Recipe cost: $9.20
Servings Per Recipe: 8
Cost per serving: $1.15
Prep time: 5 min. Cook time: 50 min. Total: 55 min.

INGREDIENTS		COST
1 Tbsp	olive oil	$0.12
1 small	yellow onion	$0.63
2 cloves	garlic	$0.16
1/2 lb.	Italian Sausage	$2.75
1 (6 oz.) can	tomato paste	$0.53
1 (28 oz.) can	diced or crushed tomatoes	$1.75
1/2 tsp	salt	$0.02
1 Tbsp	sugar	$0.05
12 oz.	spaghetti	$0.97
2 oz.	feta cheese	$0.87
1/4 cup	grated parmesan	$0.42
1 cup	shredded mozzarella	$0.93
TOTAL		$9.20

STEP 1: Dice the onion and mince the garlic. Cook both in a large pot with one tablespoon of olive oil over medium-low heat until soft and transparent (about 5 minutes).

STEP 2: Add the Italian sausage to the pot and cook through (breaking it up into pieces as you cook). Add the tomato paste, stir and cook for about 2-3 minutes more or until the tomato paste takes on a slightly darker color. Add the diced or crushed tomatoes, salt, and sugar. Stir and heat through.

STEP 3: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Bring a large pot of water to a boil (this can be done while you're preparing the sauce in step 2). Cook the pasta according to the package directions (boil for 7-10 minutes). Drain the cooked past and then stir into the meat sauce.

STEP 4: Prepare an 8x8 inch casserole dish by coating with non-stick spray. Add half of the spaghetti mixture to the dish. Sprinkle withe feta cheese. Add the rest of the spaghetti, sprinkle with parmesan cheese, and then top with mozzarella.

STEP 5: Bake the spaghetti for 30 minutes in the 350 degree oven. Let rest for about 10 minutes before cutting into eight pieces and serving.

I garnished with fresh chopped parsley to add color.

Step By Step Photos

Begin the sauce by dicing the onion and mincing the garlic. Cook both of them over medium-low heat in a large pot with olive oil. Cook until soft and transparent - about 5 minutes.

I used hot Italian sausage, but you could certainly use sweet or mild Italian sausage if you prefer it. I used half of this package, which is just slightly more than half a pound and then froze the rest. If you want the spaghetti extra meaty and you can afford it, use the whole package. Italian sausage can also be purchased without casings (in a package like ground beef), which is even easier.

Squeeze the sausage out of the casing and into the pot. Cook the sausage (breaking it up into pieces as you go) until cooked through.

Once the sausage is cooked through, add the tomato paste. Stir and cook the tomato paste for about 2-3 minutes or until the tomato paste takes on a slightly darker hue. The color change is due to the tomato paste caramelizing, which deepens the flavor.

Lastly, add the diced (or crushed) tomatoes, salt, and sugar. Stir to combine and heat through. If you want a smoother sauce, use crushed tomatoes instead of diced. Taste the sauce and add more salt, sugar, or spices if desired.

While you're making the sauce, you can bring a large pot of water to a boil for the pasta. Once it reaches a full boil, add the pasta and cook until tender (7-10 minutes). I also began preheating the oven at this point.

Once the spaghetti is cooked, drain it briefly, and then stir it into the sauce.

Prepare a casserole dish with non-stick spray. Add half of the spaghetti mixture and then top with the feta. My dish is oblong and maybe one inch longer than an 8x8 inch, but an 8x8 should work fine. If you want to use a 9x13 inch pan, you can do it all in one layer with all three cheeses on top.

Add the rest of the spaghetti and then top with the parmesan cheese.

Lastly, add the mozzarella cheese over top. Place in th 350 degree oven and bake for 30 minutes.

Allow the spaghetti to sit for about 10 minutes before slicing and serving.

Ohhhhh yum.

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Spare The Rod Spoil The Child...But Not In North Texas

When I first read this story I thought about the theme song for Welcome Back Kotter "Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out". ?

School administrators will be allowed to paddle students of the opposite sex under a rule approved unanimously Monday night (9-25-12) by the school board in the North Texas community of Springtown.

Superintendent Michael Kelley said Tuesday the new policy would ensure both male and female students are treated equally since there are not enough administrators of both genders in some schools in Springtown, which has a population of about 2,600.

Under the previous policy, corporal punishment could only be carried out by an administrator who was of the same gender as the student. The new policy says that a school official of the same gender as the student must be in the room where the paddling takes place and that parents must provide written permission for their child to be paddled.The punishment involves striking students on their clothed rear with a wooden paddle. ?

And now step back and watch as the machine known as the ACLU gears up for a major assault on this school board and Superintendent....watch and see!

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Can Public Schools Really Change?

Has New Haven, Conn., actually figured out how to reform public schools?

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As the recent Chicago teacher strike demonstrated, public school systems are phenomenally difficult institutions to change. The array of competing forces?unions, politicians, parents, principals, charter schools, state and national bureaucrats?gums up many reform efforts and frustrates all but the most persistent reformers. But what?s happening in the historically troubled New Haven, Conn., public school system suggests there may be ways around this, ways that all sides can support.

?In 2009, New Haven?s school district and teachers? union signed a groundbreaking contract for the 21,000-student system. The four-year deal included a small annual pay hike?and allowed the district to give merit bonuses, close failing schools, and evaluate teachers based in part on student performance. The contract?s reform-minded provisions brought praise to a struggling urban district, from admirers including Obama?s Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, and New York Times columnists David Brooks and Nicholas Kristof. Three years later, there are signs that cultural change is coming, too, in fits and starts. It?s especially evident in the district?s unusual effort to groom future leaders by handing them over to a local charter network that it used to view as an upstart threat.

A little history so you can see how big a change this represents: In 1998, a group led by two Yale Law students, Dacia Toll, who?d previously worked as a student teacher in New Haven, and Stefan Pryor, who?d been a policy adviser for the city?s mayor, John DeStefano, opened Amistad Academy, a charter school. (Pryor is now the state commissioner of education for Connecticut.) Amistad soon posted test scores for its students that far outstripped New Haven?s. Charters like this one are often accused of creaming students off the top, but the Amistad kids were chosen by lottery and resembled New Haven?s student population demographically: heavily low income and almost entirely African-American and Hispanic.

DeStefano has been in office for nearly 20 years, along with school superintendent Reginald Mayo, and for much of that time, the New Haven schools has suffered from nepotism and low achievement and graduation rates. In 2003, Toll formed an umbrella organization, Achievement First, and opened a second school in New Haven. A couple of years later, DeStefano and Mayo felt attacked by a friend of Toll?s, former Rhodes Scholar Alex Johnston, who?d launched a pro-reform group called Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, or ConnCAN, with a board that included heavy hitters like Yale President Richard Levin. The mayor and superintendent accused ConnCAN of denigrating the New Haven schools. Toll expanded her charter efforts elsewhere, in Brooklyn, Hartford, and Bridgeport. Achievement First now runs 22 schools with 7,000 students; only five are in New Haven.

But a funny thing happened on the way to explaining away Achievement First?s success. Mayor DeStefano forced his way onto AF?s board (via a Connecticut law to requiring the charter to appoint a city official), and then as he sat through meetings, he found himself thinking that he had something to learn. ?He sat and listened for a year, and then he and the superintendent started asking, ?What do we need to do differently?? ? assistant superintendent Garth Harries says. DeStefano began declaring that school reform would be his legacy. He and Mayo called in David Cicarella, the president of the New Haven teachers? union. ?Pre-reform, I?d almost never talked to the mayor,? Cicarella says. ?Now he was saying, ?What?s your input? What do you think?? ?

The union and the district together hammered out a method for evaluating teachers based in part on state test scores and in part on factors like classroom management, use of data, and parent outreach. The goal was to help as many teachers as possible improve?and to drum out the ones who wouldn?t. Over the next two years, 70 teachers failed to lift themselves out of the bottom of the pack, and the union went along with removing them. The terminations were only about 4 percent of the total workforce of about 1,700 but far more than in previous years, and they sent an unmistakable signal. ?The people who were let go had been fairly evaluated by a system we helped to create and shown no improvement,? Cicarella says. ?I don?t see how we can defend that. Frankly, we shouldn?t.?

Connecticut students in the fourth through eighth grades take a state test every year, and in New Haven, their scores rose a bit in 2011. So did the graduation rate and the number of ninth through 11^th graders who are on track to graduate. Other news is mixed: Yale University and a local foundation started awarding scholarships to in-state public schools for New Haven high-school graduates with a B average and good attendance. Among the first group of 115 freshmen, only 62 percent made it to sophomore year. This fall, the principal of one of the city?s high schools is embroiled in a cheating scandal.

DeStefano and Mayo get credit, though, for some adventurous hires. They brought in Harries, a former McKinsey consultant who came to New Haven in 2009 from New York, where he worked on special education reform for former schools chancellor Joel Klein. The district also tapped Gemma Joseph Lumpkin for the new position of executive manager of leadership development: She grew up in New Haven, had consulted for the district on using data collection to strengthen student performance, and had worked on a National Science Foundation initiative for urban schools. And DeStefano mended fences with Alex Johnston, appointing him to the school board.

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Josmar Trujillo: We're Fighting For the Same Thing: Better Schools

I found myself unusually cheerful as I monitored reports coming
out of the Chicago teachers? strike. A powerful show of force in the
streets, I mused, was long overdue on the issue of the American
education system.
A friend of mine, however, pointed out that I recently had fought tooth and nail to keep open a charter school, my son?s former school, while the Chicago strikers see the charter movement as an attack on public education.
Faced with this contradiction, I wondered about the battle lines drawn in so many fights about education today. For example, when charter schools offer choices to families but also are seen as a threat to district schools or when union leaders choose to shut down a school system to fight for its members? rights. In these fights I now see more common ground than people may like to admit, or at least more than I realized.
I felt a connection with the striking Chicago teachers as they fought with City Hall and pointed to two issues that were important to me: class size and an over-emphasis on standardized testing. It reminded me of my battle for education in the Rockaways, where I live, which was not about ideology alone but involved more practical demands.
The bottom line is all of us were fighting for the same thing: high-quality public schools in our neighborhoods.
Earlier this year I wrote to SchoolBook about the fight that I and other
parents of students at Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School had waged to stop its closure. Despite protests, petitions and even a meeting with Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, the Department of Education would not heed the voices of the parents. The closure was proceeding until Advocates for Justice, a social justice law firm, and school lawyers were able to secure a restraining order to keep the school open, at least for the short term.
During those hectic months last school year, parents scrambled to make contingency plans, the school administration
balanced a legal fight with all the business of running a school, and our children took grueling year-end tests. Some of the consequences of being left in legal limbo (our charter was not renewed but technically we were still open) were that many students and teachers left the uncertainty of PPA. We also lost our lease on a wonderful facility we had secured two years prior.
Also, as we mobilized we felt the stigma that comes with the label of ?charter.? No union-leaning groups or elected officials felt comfortable helping us even as the absurdity of closing one of the Rockaways? strongest-performing schools was apparent. A casual observer might make the mistake of assuming PPA parents were loyal charter advocates. Some may have been, some not. We
were, more accurately, advocates of Peninsula Prep and its amazing principal, Ericka Wala.
I imagined that the Chicago teachers also felt the political stigma that comes with taking sides in a public demonstration.
Peninsula Prep is now open and currently teaching the Rockaways? youngest citizens important values that supersede the general
curriculum. One of these is determination, which we will continue to need. The possibility that the school will be closed mid-year still exists.
My son Jadyn is now enrolled in third grade at a district school because PPA?s new location doesn?t allow me time to get him there and deliver my other son to his pre-kindergarten. But my experience at PPA allowed me a chance to experience education in a unique way and lent me some new perspectives on charters, to which I had previously been hostile. A close partnership with the principal and solidarity with parents, forced in a battle for the school, convinced me to continue to advocate for the school.
At a time when some parents needed a restraining order to have their children taught at their school of choice, I believe we have to set the best example possible for our children and continue to fight for education.
Just like the teachers did in Chicago.

Josmar Trujillo is the former co-president of the Peninsula Preparatory Charter School in Rockaway, Queens.

Source: http://normsnotes2.blogspot.com/2012/09/josmar-trujillo-were-fighting-for-same.html

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No mystery guests at this Ryder Cup

USA's Matt Kuchar, right, watches as Phil Mickelson is introduced during the opening ceremony at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

USA's Matt Kuchar, right, watches as Phil Mickelson is introduced during the opening ceremony at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

European team captain Jose Maria Olazabal, right, and USA's captain Davis Love III announce their pairings during the opening ceremony at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

USA's Bubba Watson, right, watches as Tiger Woods is introduced during the opening ceremony at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Europe's Martin Kaymer, left, talks to Sergio Garcia during a practice round at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Europe's Rory McIlroy signs autographs at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) ? The question used to come up every other year when the Americans began looking ahead to the Ryder Cup.

"Who's their Peter Baker?"

Europe always had at least one player the Americans didn't know anything about until losing to him. Baker played in only one Ryder Cup, going 3-1 in 1993 and winning a singles match against Corey Pavin, one of the toughest guys to beat in match play.

Those days are gone. As golf has expanded its borders, the Ryder Cup no longer has any mystery guests.

Eight of the Europeans have joint membership on the PGA Tour, and all eight have homes in Florida. Luke Donald of England, who has the best winning percentage of anyone at Medinah, lives about 45 minutes away on the north side of Chicago. The only Ryder Cup rookie for Europe is Nicolas Colsaerts, the big hitter from Belgium. With the majors and World Golf Championships, he already has played eight times in America this year, and has been invited to play in a PGA Tour event in two weeks in California.

There are no surprises in this Ryder Cup, only stars.

"Both teams are pretty much even and it's going to be a close match," European captain Jose Maria Olazabal said. "I don't see any favorites."

When the matches get under way Friday at Medinah, they will feature the two strongest teams in the 85-year history of the Ryder Cup. The entire 12-man team for the United States was part of the 30-man field at the Tour Championship last week in Atlanta, joined by five of the seven Europeans who were eligible.

For the first time, the 24 players from both sides are among the top 35 in the world ranking.

Europe has four major champions and four players who have been No. 1 in the world. Three of the four rookies for the U.S. team have won majors in the last 13 months ? Keegan Bradley, Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson. The Americans have experience at the top ? Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk collectively have played in 21 Ryder Cups and 90 matches. The Europeans have experience where it matters ? winning.

It all starts to unfold Friday morning before a raucous crowd in the Chicago suburbs with a Ryder Cup that has all the trappings of a heavyweight prize fight.

Olazabal fought back tears at the mention of his mentor, the late Seve Ballesteros, during the opening ceremony. And while he won't be the same kind of captain as Ballesteros in 1997 at Valderrama, he seems to be following the same principles.

"Just play hard, play with passion and win the damn points," Olazabal said.

He sent out two of his best teams for the opening session of foursomes ? Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell (Furyk and Brandt Snedeker), followed by Donald and Sergio Garcia, a tandem that has never been beaten in four alternate-shot matches. They will face Mickelson and Bradley.

So strong are the teams that among the four players U.S. captain Davis Love III sat Friday morning were two of the four major champions this year ? Watson and Simpson.

"We had a tough decision, and it wasn't who to send out. It was who to sit down," Love said.

About the only thing missing has been fodder for the tabloids. Familiarity in this event is breeding civility, not contempt.

"This is not a war. It's a golf watch," Love said. "It's a friendly golf match."

During the opening ceremony, after host Justin Timberlake was finished reading a poem, both captains made a point of emphasizing friendship.

"These matches are not life and death," Love said. "Golf has to be played with a certain spirit of graciousness or it's not golf at all."

It wasn't always that way, especially when Europe began to win and then the Americans started to care. Ballesteros was the spiritual leader of those European teams, using the Ryder Cup as a chance for them to prove they were not second-class citizens to the PGA Tour. And it didn't help when the marketing slogans promoted a contentious week, whether it was the "War on the Shore" or the "Battle at Brookline."

By the sound of so many players, they might as well be cuddling in Chicago.

"Love Ian Poulter to death," Watson said Wednesday.

Most evident about this shift in the Ryder Cup was Monday afternoon at an airport some 45 minutes away. Olazabal flew over from London with the gold Ryder Cup trophy. Only three players from his team traveled with him, because the rest already were in America.

Paul Lawrie, back after a 13-year absence in the Ryder Cup, remembers 11 players on the plane when they traveled to Boston in 1999. The exception was Jesper Parnevik, who had moved to Florida years earlier.

"I think there's definitely less of a 'them-and-us' type of thing now from everybody's point of view," Lee Westwood said. "The players play with each other a lot more regularly since the start of the World Golf Championships, and the fact that the top world-ranked players get pulled together a lot more regularly. There's a feeling that the crowd knows the European players a lot better."

Has it become too friendly?

Not long after the Presidents Cup began in 1994, the International team complained that they should have a home game instead of always playing in America. Fred Couples suggested moving the matches to Lake Nona in Florida, where most of the international players lived. Now, there are five Europeans at Lake Nona ? Poulter, Graeme McDowell, Justin Rose and Peter Hanson are permanent residents, and Sergio Garcia also has a home there.

The mere suggestion that the Ryder Cup turns soft was enough to make Poulter shudder.

"It means too much," Poulter said. "It means too much to Europe. It means too much to us for it to ever lose that edge."

Olazabal made that clear during the opening ceremony when he turned to Love and said, "I know how much you and your team want to win this love gold trophy back," Olazabal said. "But I have to tell you, we have every intention of taking it back with us."

Not even Medinah figures to produce much of an advantage to the Americans. About half the members on each team played in the PGA Championship on this tree-lined course in 2006, and so many of them play an American brand of golf these days, anyway. They are used to fast greens. Love has ordered the rough to be cut down to help his power hitters, but Europe has its share of power.

The difference figures to be the home crowd. Thousands of fans dressed in red, white or blue have crammed into Medinah over the last few days, yelling chants of "U.S.A! U.S.A!" when they see the Americans walk to the first tee or onto the driving range.

As the matches drew closer to starting, there was chirpiness to the chatter. The Americans felt as though Europe had some of its official party in the grandstand behind every hole, watching to see how the Americans practice and even counting off the steps by a caddie to figure out potential hole locations.

Poulter caused a brief stir when he said that he had many friends in America, "but, boy, do you want to kill them in Ryder Cup."

Mickelson has been involved in the Ryder Cup longer than any player on either team. He made his debut in 1995, playing alongside five players who would go on to become U.S. captains. The next seven captains for Europe played in that Ryder Cup.

The way Mickelson sees it, only the competition remains intense.

"I think over the last 20 or 30 years, a lot of the animosity that might be there because they don't know each other is gone, because we do spend so much time with each now, especially the best players on the team," Mickelson said. "I think a lot of strong relationships are formed. And I don't see one week affecting that."

Associated Press

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N. Korea 'Hotel of Doom' nearly done 30 years late

The pyramid-shaped 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, appears to be almost complete in this picture on Sept. 23.

By Ian Johnston, NBC News

With more than 3,000 rooms, North Korea's enormous pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel was designed to be a confident declaration of the isolationist communist state's status in the world.

More than three decades after it was supposed to open, the so-called "Hotel of Doom"?in the capital Pyongyang has recently shown signs that it is finally close to being finished, according to reports.

Visitors tour the top floor of the Ryugyong Hotel on Sept. 23. Some three decades after construction began, there is still some work to do.

But photographs released this week reveal that there is still some way to go.

When it's complete, Ryugyong will be one of the tallest hotels in the world, boasting not just one but five revolving restaurants, the?Business Insider website?noted.

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Despite not being open, the hotel has already gathered a number of reviews on its Google+ entry.

"This resort is a jewel ... It's unreal how trendy this place is with its neoclassical industrial decor, exotic cuisine, and world class casino that rivals anything in Vegas. The shopping is fabulous, especially if you are in to [sic] antiques. Apparently, antiques are trendy for decades...even the dust is trendy! Definitely one for the bucket list," said one tongue-in-cheek reviewer, who set the tone for the others.

Read more stories about North Korea here

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Why are journals so expensive?

Bonnie J. M. Swoger is a Science and Technology Librarian at a small public undergraduate institution in upstate New York, SUNY Geneseo. She teaches students about the science literature, helps faculty and students with library research questions and leads library assessment efforts. Bonnie started her professional life as a geologist, but realized that she was much more interested in how scientists communicate their research to one another. As a librarian, she gets to teach others about the topic. She has a BS in Geology from St. Lawrence University, an MS in Geology from Kent State University and an MLS from the University at Buffalo. She lives in upstate New York with her husband, two young daughters and two old cats. She would love to have some free time in which to indulge in hobbies. She also blogs at the Undergraduate Science Librarian and can be found on twitter @bonnieswoger.

Hadas Shema is an Information Science graduate student at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She studies the characteristics of online scientific discourse and is a member of the European Union?s Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) project. Hadas tweets at @Hadas_Shema.

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This morning, at minute 48 of a 50 minute information literacy session for an introductory biology class, a student asked me one of those seemingly innocuous questions,

?Why are journals so expensive??

We had spend the past 45 minutes talking about the scientific literature: what is peer review, what is a primary research article, and what happens after an article is published. I took two minutes to discuss finding journal articles and I gave my standard spiel about why students should use inter-library loan instead of paying for journal articles we don?t have: hundreds of thousands of your tuition dollars already pay databases and journal subscriptions. If we don?t already have a copy of the article you need in another database, we can borrow it from another library more cheaply than you can buy it online ? free to you, low cost to us. Besides, the journal publishers don?t need more of your money. Journal subscriptions are much more expensive than magazine subscriptions ? hundreds or thousands of dollars a year for just one journal.

The students? eyes went wide at the last statement about the cost of journal subscriptions. You can get a year of People for just $100, or a year of Scientific American for only $25. So why does a library subscription to the Journal of Co-ordination Chemistry (24 issues per year) cost $11,367 per year?

I believe this graph of journal costs over the years is mandatory for any blog post, presentation or article that discusses journal prices. Here it is. The yellow dotted line is the consumer price index. The top red line is journal costs. From ARL.

Since I had about 90 seconds to provide some kind of answer to this question, my mind quickly raced through the details of the ?serials crisis,? distinctions between journal prices for STM and humanities journals, the rise of the for-profit publisher after World War II, open access mandates and everything else.

In the end, I told the student there were two main reasons why publishers charge so much for journal subscriptions:

1. The subscription isn?t just for one person, it is so that everyone at the university could (theoretically) read that content
2. Because they can.

Journals have content (articles, reviews) that scholars and students want. Due to the nature of academic publishing, that exact same content (the results from a particular study or experiment) can?t be found in another journal. These mini-monopolies put power in the hands of publishers as scientists and scholars need access to particular content.

It?s kind of like the way that HBO can control its subscription price. If you want to watch Game of Thrones, you have to subscribe to HBO. You may get it via Time Warner or Direct TV, but HBO can still set the price. The major difference here is that unlike TV shows for entertainment purposes, some scholarly content can be considered vital to the educational and research mission of a college, making it difficult to say NO to.

This may be changing. There have been several high profile cases of libraries saying NO to high priced journal content (more on that next time), and researchers are more aware than ever of the repercussions of publishing in expensive journals. Hopefully this will lead to a greater balance of power between scholarly publishers and the institutions that purchase their content.

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A Ray of Hope

Every day until the election,?Slate?will offer up one reason to be optimistic for your candidate.

Today?s Good News for Romney: Don?t talk too loudly about it, but the campaign to kill ACORN?and by extension, lots of voter registration drives?has neutralized one of the Democratic Party?s long-time advantages. As Molly Ball reports in The Atlantic, the great ACORN panic of 2009 resulted in the collapse of the organization and a crop of new Republican legislators who tightened voter registration laws. In the cause of preventing bureaucrats from dealing with a few junk petitions, states have effectively slashed the sort of independent efforts that a young Barack Obama managed in 1992, at Illinois?s Project Vote. For example: In 2008, Nevada had 100,000 more registered Democrats than registered Republicans, and the Obama-Biden ticket carried the state by more than 120,000 votes. In 2012, the Democratic advantage is down to 55,000.

See Mitt Romney?s good news from Day 43.

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LA man cleared of shooting, freed after 19 years

By NBCLosAngeles.com and wire reports

A Los Angeles man imprisoned for 19 years for a murder he didn't commit was exonerated and set free from prison on Monday.

Cheers erupted in the courtroom as the judge exonerated John Edward Smith of a drive-by shooting in 1993, NBC's Los Angeles?affiliate NBC4?reported. Late Monday, Smith left Los Angeles Men's Central Jail.

"I'm just thankful the same system that made the error was able to find the same avenue to get me out," Smith said to a throng of reporters who met him outside the jail Monday night.

"I'm not bitter at all. That ain't gonna get me nowhere, you know. I gotta move forward," he said, according to NBC4.

When asked what he was going to do next, Smith replied: "I'm gonna go home and hug my grandmother."

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Smith, who The Associated Press described as a former gang member, was convicted of killing a man during a 1993 drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. Another man survived and was the single witness to the alleged crime. Two years ago, he recanted the testimony that led to Smith's 1994 conviction for first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Smith was 18 when he went to prison. He told authorities he was at his grandmother's house with family when the shooting took place in a gang-infested area.

He said he knew nothing about the crime until his mother called to tell him about it.?

The 37-year-old was scheduled to be released on Friday, but the judge was out due to illness. But Smith was all smiles on Monday as?Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg released him after nearly two decades behind bars: "Mr. Smith, you are now free."

The ruling evoked mixed emotions from Smith's family.

"I'm happy. I'm sad. But the part of me that was in there with him, I'm free now, too," said Laura Neal, Smith's grandmother and primary caretaker.

"I was hoping and praying that before I die he will be with me again," she said.

Smith's sister, Tiana Goodman, 25, said he would be meeting nieces and nephews who were born while he was in prison. "This is a big day for our family," she said, tears running down her cheeks.?

"I'm just so happy to have my brother back. My grandma's been sick and she's been holding on so she can see my brother, so this is a really big day for our family and we're just so happy."

'Broken system'
Smith's case spurred the creation of Innocence Matters, a non-profit organization whose pro-bono legal team has been at the helm of his exoneration for three years.

"We actually became a non-profit in a hurry so that we could have him be our first client," founder and Smith's lawyer Deirdre O'Connor told NBC4 on Friday.

The only eyewitness, Landu Mvuemba -- a victim who was shot and survived -- met with Innocence Matters representatives in 2010 and immediately blurted out that he had lied at the trial, O'Connor said.

Mvuemba said police pressured him to identify Smith as the shooter. Prosecutors told the judge they now believe he lied, and Schnegg found the conviction was based on perjured testimony.?

"Within the first two minutes of the interview, Mvuemba recanted," O'Connor said. Mvuemba was 16 at the time of the shooting.

He told representatives of Innocence Matters, "The police told me they knew who did it," a defense motion stated.

O'Connor said Smith wept when she called him with the news about Mvuemba. "He said, 'Why did he do it? Why did he lie?'" O'Connor recalled.

Mvuemba said police pointed to Smith, whom he had known in elementary school, and told him other witnesses had identified Smith as the shooter. Mvuemba said he also was shown a photo of his friend DeAnthony Williams, who died in the shooting.

"I felt a lot of pressure to go along with it," Mvuemba said.

The two victims had been on the street examining the scene of another shooting the night before when a car pulled up and someone opened fire.

Mvuemba said he tried three times to tell authorities that he didn't see enough to testify, but his pleas were ignored.

"Mvuemba knew it was wrong to identify Mr. Smith as the man who shot him," according to the defense motion. "But when he saw his deceased friend's crying mother in the courtroom, he felt as if he had no other choice."

Mvuemba is currently imprisoned on a rape conviction.

Schnegg said she held many meetings with the defense and prosecution in the year since the recanting was disclosed. The judge said they lacked sufficient information to declare Smith factually innocent, but she vacated his convictions for murder and attempted murder, and ordered him released.

O'Connor said Smith's trial was undermined by ineffective assistance of attorneys who failed to investigate the case properly at trial and on appeal.

"We have a bit of a broken system and the fact that we can come in and make some systemic changes like this and help prevent it from happening to somebody else, it means the world," said Jessica Farris with Innocence Matters.

Smith, meanwhile, said the first items on his agenda now that he's free is to get a license and find a job.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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?2013 will be the year of the SEO?: an interview with Nathan Safran ...

Posted on 25. Sep, 2012 by Laura in Blog, case studies, Small Business Internet Marketing, Small Business Marketing, Tips and techniques

Today we are excited and honored to feature this interview with Nathan Safran, the Director of Research at Conductor, Inc.

Here, Nathan shares the results of Conductor?s latest research, predicting that ?2013 will be the year of the SEO? (conducted in concert with Search Engine Watch?s Jonathan Allen), as well as his take on the SEO/search scene as a whole?

So in conjunction with Search Engine Watch?s Jonathan Allen, your research via Conductor indicates that 2013 will be the year of the SEO.

What would you say are the most significant findings of your study supporting that prediction?

The way we approached the study is to draw an analog from how economists measure the economy.

It?s a large and complicated entity and economists use a variety of ?economic indicators? such as housing starts, interest rates, money supply and more, which, taken together, give them a holistic view of the state of the entity.? These indicators should, in theory, give us a view of both the current state of the economy, and at least directionally, an idea of where we can expect to see it head going forward.

The SEO industry can itself be a large and complicated entity with many factors impacting our success or failure in the SERPs.

We applied similar thinking to measuring the state of SEO by identifying a variety of ?economic indicators? that, taken together, could give us a holistic measure of the state of SEO, today, and directionally, going forward.

Our ?economic indicators? included things like the headcount organizations are allocating to SEO, SEO budget allocation, where in the organization search marketers are positioned, how familiar executives now are with search metrics, and more.

We surveyed 616 Marketers on Search Engine Watch in August 2012, and our sample ended up being a good mix of larger and smaller companies, and we heard from a mix of in-house SEO professionals, agency practitioners and consultants.

Overall, the research findings showed that across every ?economic indicator? we looked at, SEO is maturing in the organization.? That is, marketers are allocating increased budget, and headcount to SEO, they are utilizing advanced technology more, and natural search metrics have permeated the organization and are influencing business strategy more than ever before.

One of the most interesting findings to come out of the research was that the second most common place in the organization for Search is now in its own department.

As SEO has matured as a discipline and as organizations are recognizing the significance of search as a sales and marketing channel they are increasingly placing search in its own department.? Arguably, this is one of the most significant ?economic indicators? in the maturation of search in the organization.

Here are some key findings from the study:

? The second most common place (16%) for search in the organization is now in its own department

? 6 out of 10 organizations expect to increase SEO headcount in the coming year

? 63% of executive teams are more familiar with SEO metrics than 12 months ago

? 65% of respondents say natural search is influencing revenue strategy more than 12 months ago

Although there are certainly still challenges for SEO professionals, taken together we think the research spells out a very exciting time for SEO in the coming year!

Jonathan Allen, the director of Search Engine Watch and my partner in this study, also wrote up a post about the key findings via SEOs Expect ROI, Headcounts & Influence to Increase in 2013 at Conductor #C3NY (at SEW).

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As Director of Research for Conductor, you have first-hand knowledge of ? and insight into ? the SEO/search industry. What would you say are the most influential factors defining the industry now?

I?d summarize it as ?the industry is growing up?.

The industry is coming from a place where the search marketer was the tech guy/gal in the basement tweaking meta tags, and now we see search in its own department in the organization, with increased budget and headcount.

From our perspective in enterprise SEO at Conductor, we see this in a number of ways where, now, companies are sending us RFP?s for an enterprise SEO platform, the conversations with marketers are changing where executives are now well-versed with the opportunities in natural search and search metrics are increasingly being utilized across the organization.

Another way the industry is ?growing up? is many of the old tactics that used to work no longer do or have had their efficacy reduced as Google increasingly focuses on quality and eliminating spam.

Part of this is about them cleaning up the search results, but part of it is about deterrence as many who might have considered engaging in gray tactics may be increasingly reluctant to do so as the threat of a major penalty looms.

Finally, a third way this is happening is that the SERPs themselves are evolving as digital assets, social, and local results are increasingly found in the search results.

All told I see search as an industry that is increasingly growing up and evolving into a discipline where the tools, people and publications are increasingly evolving and becoming more sophisticated.

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Google?s updates have been rolling out for some time now and creating a lot of industry buzz with each new wave. What is your take on Google?s quest for quality w/Panda (and Penguin)?

I think there?s a lot of cynical stuff out there as to Google?s motives with the changes, and while I don?t want to imply their motives for everything they do are 100% altruistic, I do think that the moves towards quality in the search results have both been necessary and in many ways good for the industry.

There?s a sink or swim element that has emerged, where brands have been pushed toward creating quality content, following best practices in on-page optimization and taking a long-term view of their search marketing efforts that did not exist even a few short years ago.

If this leads to more relevant results in the search pages (and I think it has although there?s still definitely room for improvement) then ultimately that?s a good thing.

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We?ve seen a bunch of Conductor?s research covered in some of the major industry publications over the last 12-18 months. To what do you attribute some of the success you have had in putting SEO related content out there?

Although my handsome mug is featured on our columns on Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Land, the Conductor blog, and the studies we publish, I have a fantastic team at Conductor ?Jen Robustelli and Billy Lam?without whom none of it would be possible.? We work together on pretty much everything we do from idea development through post production to social media promotion in order to publish our content.

And, Conductor?s senior leadership deserves a great deal of credit for any success we have had.? When CEO Seth Besmertnik and VP, Marketing and Product Seth Dotterer first brought me over from Forrester Research more than three years ago, in doing so, they recognized that there was a place in the SEO industry to publish unique and quality research that everyone in the industry could benefit from.? It is to their credit and ongoing commitment that we?ve been able to achieve some success.

Although many are (justifiably) skeptical about bias from research coming from an industry player, to their credit, from day one, they created a separation between church and state that persists to this day and gave me license (and resources) to create unbiased research and thought leadership.

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About Nathan Safran

Nathan Safran is the Director of Research for Conductor, Inc., the leading enterprise SEO technology company based in New York and creators of Searchlight, the leading enterprise SEO platform.?Since joining Conductor in August of 2009, Nathan has established Conductor as a publisher of cutting edge SEO research and thought leadership.

Nathan authors insightful research on trends in the natural search industry that have been widely covered in authoritative industry publications such as Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, and MarketingProfs.? Nathan also writes a monthly column for Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch, and regularly publishes data-driven posts on the Conductor blog.

Prior to joining Conductor, Nathan was an Analyst at Forrester Research in their Consumer Product Strategy Group.

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Israel: Syrian mortars accidentally land in Golan

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's army says several mortar shells fired by Syrian government troops targeting rebels have hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The military says no one was hurt in Tuesday's shelling.

An army spokesman says the shells were not aimed at Israel but at rebels in Syrian villages close to the Golan frontier and were part of the ongoing fighting in Syria. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.

It's the second time Syrian mortars have landed on the border area since Syria's crisis erupted 18 months ago. In July, mortar shells fell about one kilometer (half a mile) from the Golan boundary.

The Israeli army says it has filed a complaint to the United Nations peacekeeping force that patrols the tense region between Israel and Syria.

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If you are purchasing a game for your child, look for one that allows several people to play together. Gaming can be a solitary activity. However, it is important to encourage your child to be social, and multiplayer games can do that. They allow siblings and friends to all sit down and laugh and compete with one another.

The best times to buy video games are during seasonal holidays. Retail stores and online platforms will generally hold sales around the winter holidays or during the middle of summer where new and used games will be sold at reduced prices. If you take advantage of these sales, you can get multiple games for the price of one new game that isn?t on sale.

If you spend a lot of time video gaming, but your girlfriend doesn?t, it could mean relationship trouble. Try different ways to help your girlfriend enjoy video gaming as much as you do. By converting your girlfriend to the world of video games, you will spend less time arguing and more time playing.

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Rent before you buy! It is not uncommon to buy a new game, take it home and then play it only to realize that it is nowhere near the fun you thought it would be. It may not appeal to you in any number of ways. Rent it first and find out if it truly offers what you want.

A great resource for buying games is your local gaming store. The people who are employed at these stores are usually some of the most knowledgeable that you will find. Certain video game stores will only hire employees who own every console gaming system available. They even could have specialists who play online games, computer games, and console games.

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Don?t be afraid to play a game on ?Easy? mode the first time around. You are supposed to enjoy the experience of playing, not suffer through it. If the game is any good, you may want to replay it later on anyway. Don?t feel bullied by games that tease you for choosing ?Easy,? either?return them!

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