Court blocks Ind. defunding of Planned Parenthood - Nation & World ...

By CHARLES WILSON | Associated Press ? Published October 23, 2012 Modified October 23, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS ? Indiana stepped between women and their physicians when it enacted a law that blocked Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago effectively upheld decisions by a district judge and a Medicaid review panel that found the 2011 law denied patients the right to choose their own health care provider.

"This is not about an abortion case. This is a case about Medicaid services - non-abortion-related services - and the attempt by the state of Indiana to punish Planned Parenthood and its clients from receiving non-abortion health services merely because Planned Parenthood, without any sort of state or federal money or any Medicaid funds, also provides abortions," Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, said at a news conference in Indianapolis following Tuesday's decision. The ACLU argued the case on behalf of Planned Parenthood.

The ruling will likely have little impact on Planned Parenthood's operations in Indiana as funding to its clinics has been largely uninterrupted since Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a law attempting to cut the organization off in May 2011. Daniels' spokeswoman did not respond to phone requests for comment Tuesday.

The 2011 law made Indiana the first state to deny Planned Parenthood the Medicaid funds for general health services including cancer screenings. The family planning organization immediately challenged the law with help from the ACLU. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt blocked the state from enforcing the law in June 2011.

The state appealed that order, arguing that federal law says Medicaid cannot be used to cover abortions in most circumstances and that the program indirectly funds the procedures by providing money to Planned Parenthood.

On Tuesday, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld the core portion of Pratt's order, saying the Indiana law effectively intrudes on a person's right to choose their doctors.

"The defunding law excludes Planned Parenthood from Medicaid for a reason unrelated to its fitness to provide medical services, violating its patients' statutory right to obtain medical care from the qualified provider of their choice," the ruling said.

Bryan Corbin, a spokesman for the Indiana attorney general's office, said the state was reviewing the appeals court opinion. The state can either ask the full court to review the panel's ruling or appeal directly to the Supreme Court.

The Indiana law affected about $1 million in Medicaid funds out of Planned Parenthood's state budget of $15 million, said Betty Cockrum, the group's state president. The appeals court said Pratt also needed to modify other sections of her order that affected about $150,000 in revenue sources other than Medicaid. Cockrum and Falk said that federal grant for sexually transmitted disease testing in 22 counties was set to expire at the end of this year.

Tuesday's ruling sends the case back to Pratt's court, where she will decide whether to make the injunction blocking the law permanent. Indiana also is awaiting a final decision on a bureaucratic appeal by the agency that regulates Medicaid. A federal panel previously found the law violated Medicaid regulations.

A federal judge in Phoenix last week blocked Arizona from applying a similar law to Planned Parenthood. A similar law in Texas also is the focus of a court fight.

Source: http://www.theolympian.com/2012/10/23/2294890/court-blocks-ind-defunding-of.html

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U.S. Department of State's American Music Abroad Program Now ...

U.S. Department of State?s American Music Abroad Program Now Accepting Applications

WASHINGTON, D.C. /Music Industry Newswire/ ? The U.S. Department of State?s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced today that the American Music Abroad program, an international exchange program that uses music as a means to engage underserved audiences worldwide, is now accepting applications for American musicians for the 2013-2014 season. Candidates may apply at www.americanvoice.org/ama.

The American Music Abroad program consists of month-long, multi-country tours for approximately 10 American musical groups. The musicians will be chosen to conduct musical exchange tours abroad to foster cross-cultural engagement and understanding. Musicians from a variety of American musical genres are encouraged to apply. American Music Abroad ensembles will be selected on the basis of artistic quality and commitment to educational and cultural engagement.

The deadline for applicants is January 18, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. PST.

Through public concerts, interactive performances with local musicians, lecture demonstrations, workshops, and jam sessions, American Music Abroad builds on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s vision of ?smart power,? which embraces the full range of diplomatic tools, including music, to bring people together and create opportunities for greater understanding.

The U.S. Department of State partners with the Association of American voices to reach international audiences with little or no access to live American musical performances, especially underserved youth, in nearly 40 countries in every region of the world.

For more information, visit http://exchanges.state.gov/cultural/ama.html .

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Christopher Simmons has been writing about music since 1984 when he sold his first feature to Polyphony (now Electronic Musician) magazine. He has composed music for two TV cable shows, is a member of ASCAP and PRSA, and is the managing editor for Music Industry Newswire(TM), as well as the CEO of Neotrope(R) Entertainment. His 80s music can be found on iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby, among others. He played in several electronica bands in the '80s, and currently tries to find time to play with his studio gear. He is also an award winning graphic designer, photographer, author of one book "Fractopia," and has created digital art for numerous national magazines. ? Christopher Laird Simmons. More at: ChristopherSimmons.com .

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These Tiny Flash Drives Are Your Feeling-Pretty-Mini Deal of the Day

Let's not beat around the bush: if you're on Gizmodo today, you're interested in iPads. Mini iPads. Apple delivered the Mini you were looking for—plus an updated Mac Mini too. But the starter model of the iPad Mini only comes with 16GB of space. That's more space than some rumors indicated, but it's still a minuscule amount, especially since apps and media keep taking up more space. It's not like storage space is expensive—see this very "mini" flash drive, that features 16GB of space (the same amount as the iPad), for only $10 from Amazon today. It's incredibly small and light, so it can go everywhere with you, and it's an insanely good deal with Prime shipping and the lowest price on the internet. More »

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Photos: Bomb explodes during Beirut rush hour

Lebanese rescue workers and civilians carry an injured girl from the scene of an explosion in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday Oct. 19, 2012. Lebanon's state news agency says a car bomb in east Beirut has killed at least six people and wounded scores in the worst blast the city has seen in years, coming at a time when Lebanon has seen a rise in tension and eruptions of clashes stemming from the civil war in... more?Lebanese rescue workers and civilians carry an injured girl from the scene of an explosion in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday Oct. 19, 2012. Lebanon's state news agency says a car bomb in east Beirut has killed at least six people and wounded scores in the worst blast the city has seen in years, coming at a time when Lebanon has seen a rise in tension and eruptions of clashes stemming from the civil war in neighboring Syria.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) less?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/deadly-beirut-bomb-blast-slideshow/

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Did You Know Certain Foods Can Help Improve Your Mood ...

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We all have days when for some unexplained reason we?re just in a bad mood.? I woke up this morning with a chip on my shoulder and I?m not exactly sure why.? It got me thinking about an episode of the ?Doctors? and a segment they did about how certain foods/beverages can boost your mood.? So I did a little research to see what I can eat or drink to feel happier today.

Drinking Tea can alter your mood for the better, caffeinated green or black tea an amino acid present in these teas that may work to improve attention and focus. It?s suggested that drinking 5 to 6 (8-ounce) cups of tea a day will do the trick.

Here?s one of always heard about but really can?t get behind because I?m not a big fan of dark chocolate, but it?s been said that dark chocolate is high in magnesium and minerals that ease muscles and help with anxiety.? It also contains tryptophan which helps with depression.? Ok, I may have to force myself to like dark chocolate.

Here?s a good one, Salmon is packed with omega-3 which helps balance your mood and is good for memory and focus.? I need to eat more salmon, and good thing here is I like it.

As Popeye always said, eats me spinach.? I actually like spinach and would prefer ordering a spinach salad over any other.? Spinach has lots of vitamin B that helps with mood and the antioxidants protect brain cells and balance low energy mood swings.? More spinach it is.

Chicken is also good on helping improve mood.? White meat especially contains B12, a vitamin helping boost energy.

See more foods that help boost mood.

Source: http://wyrk.com/did-you-know-certain-foods-can-help-improve-your-mood/

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Ice sheet retreat controlled by the landscape

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists.

A UK team led by Durham University has found that the geometry of channels beneath the ice can be a strong control on ice behaviour, temporarily hiding the signals of retreat.

The findings, which provide the first simulation of past ice-sheet retreat and collapse over a ten thousand year period in Antarctica, shed new light on what makes ice stable or unstable and will help refine predictions of future ice extent and global sea-level rise, the researchers say.

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that one of the main challenges in predicting future sea-level rise is to quantify and model the interactions between evolving ice sheets, oceans, sea level and climate. Significant efforts have been made over the last decade to develop computer models and collect data in order to reduce uncertainties and understand the potential impacts under scenarios of future climate change.

The results of the new research from Durham University, the University of Sheffield, the University of Cambridge, and the British Antarctic Survey are published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Lead author Dr Stewart Jamieson, a glaciologist at the Department of Geography, Durham University, said: "Our research shows that the physical shape of the channels is a more important factor in controlling ice stability than was previously realised. Channel width can have a major effect on ice flow, and determines how fast retreat, and therefore sea-level rise, can happen.

Although climatic and oceanic changes are crucial drivers of ice loss, the research shows that the landscape below the ice strongly controls the speed of any retreat.

Dr Jamieson said: "Our results suggest that during an overall phase of retreat an ice stream can appear almost stable when in fact, in the longer-term, the opposite may be the case.

"Getting a clearer picture of the landscape beneath the ice is crucial if future predictions of change in the ice-sheets and sea level are to be improved."

Marine-based ice streams are the fast flowing arteries of ice sheets, draining approximately 90 per cent of the ice that reaches the sea. They flow through large channels where the ice can move thousands of metres in a year. According to the scientists, the unpredictable nature of ice streams makes forecasting ice-sheet retreat extremely difficult. If ice streams speed up they can cause sea level to rise.

Durham University co-author Dr Chris Stokes said: "Ice streams are like taps filling a bath, but the problem here is that we do not know if something is suddenly going to turn them up or even turn them down."

Satellite imagery from the last 20 years has led to advances in our knowledge of ice sheet stability and has shown that many ice streams are getting thinner and retreating because the ocean and climate are warming. The new research shows that ice behaviour over thousands of years can successfully be simulated in places where ice streams meet the sea.

The researchers looked at the landscape of the seafloor in Marguerite Bay, in the Antarctic Peninsula, and saw that during a rapid phase of recession 13,000 years ago, retreat paused many times. Using a computer model designed to work in situations of rapid change, they found they could reproduce the same pattern in a series of simulations. These showed that ice dragged on the sides of the channel more where it was narrow, causing retreat to slow and in places temporarily stop for decades to centuries before retreat continued.

Many ice streams are found in channels with beds that are below sea level and that deepen inland. Current theory suggests that ice loss can increase rapidly in deeper water, but the new findings show that channel width plays a crucial role and that narrow bottlenecks in the landscape beneath the ice can cause retreat to slow down.

Dr Andreas Vieli, Department of Geography, Durham University, said: "We can see from our simulations and from new maps of the ocean floor that these bottlenecks occur in the same place as pauses or slowdowns in past ice retreat. This means we should look more closely at the shape of the bed underneath Greenland and Antarctica to better understand how ice might retreat in the future."

The researchers say that understanding ice-stream behaviour and the rate of mass loss from ice sheets and glaciers is essential.

Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, from the British Antarctic Survey, said: "Knowledge of the factors influencing stability and retreat of ice streams is of particular concern because significant portions of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are currently losing mass that contributes significantly to sea-level rise. Our model results help to explain the apparently time-transgressive retreat of ice streams around Antarctica following the last ice age."

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Durham University: http://www.dur.ac.uk

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ON SHELF WITH JUSTIN POULSEN | Mars' Hill Online

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Book review of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

1. Regardless of your major, you need to read this book.

2. It?s only 50 pages?a faster read than most Chinese take-out menus.

3. You REALLY need to read this book.

Letters to a Young Poet holds a col?lection of letters written by Rainer Maria Rilke, a 27 year-old writer, to Franz Xaver Kappus, a 19 year-old aspiring poet. While some of his advice is specific to creative writ?ing, most of it pertains to his phi?losophy on the life of a student: the benefits of solitude, the foolishness of young love, and the virtue of dif?ficult things. And it?s beautiful.

His comments on the stress of choosing a career path are whole?hearted, encouraging us to allow our passions and skills to dictate our future. We are intentionally created by God; therefore, we cannot fully trust God unless we trust ourselves, and the work that occurs through us. As Rilke commands, ?Take whatever comes, with great trust, and as long as it comes out of your will, out of some need of your innermost self, then take it upon yourself, and don?t hate anything.?

While he epitomizes the tortured artist, Rilke manages to make one feel as if sadness were a cozy sweater, a warm breeze, even a close friend. ?Bear your sadness with greater trust than your joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered you, something unknown?. We must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.? Why are ?you so quick to shut out your pain when you have no idea what beauty it may be creating within you?

To be honest, his belief that one should ?be able to walk alone inside oneself and see no one for hours? fundamentally challenges my love of this campus? 24/7 community of hangouts. But the more I read of Rilke the more I found myself taking that walk and, even more strange, enjoying it.

Of course this review would not be complete (or not nearly as inter?esting) without including Rilke?s thoughts on love. He does not criti?cize the ignorance of young lovers so much as impress upon the reader its true nature?love is not the merging of two worlds, but one per?son?s decision to become the other?s world.

?Young people, who are begin?ners in everything, are not yet capa?ble of love,? not because they?re immature, but because ?it is something they must learn. But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and therefore loving, for a long time ahead and far into life, is?: soli?tude, a heightened and deepened kind of loneliness for the person ?who loves.?

Indeed, much of his writing reminds one of a closing exhorta?tion in one of the Apostle Paul?s letters: ?Be patient and without bit?terness, and realize that the least we can do is to make [our] coming into existence no more difficult for Him than the earth does for spring when it wants to come.?

Above all else, Rilke fills his readers with a sense of anticipation, transforming the simplest walk to class into an epic journey of infinite possibilities.

He preaches the mystery of the Gospel and thus a gospel of mys?tery when he writes, ?This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.? If we believe that Christ was raised from the dead, why should we not expect to be pre?sented with something as equally breathtaking on our way to class?

I fervently proclaim Letters to a Young Poet as the Trinity Western University Student Handbook. The foreword reflects my own thoughts, having ?never heard a voice speak ?out of such deep understanding, with such authority.? Rilke lived an entire century ago, but at the time of these letters he was the same age as us. And you can feel it; ?I felt, as many readers have felt, that the let?ters were written for me.? It is my hope that you go find this book in the library and feel it too, because maybe they were.

Source: http://www.marshillonline.com/academy/on-shelf-with-justin-poulsen/

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