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At the risk of adding yet another comment on the endless, ridiculous commentary on Barack Obama's remark about John McCains economic policies (that his policies, no matter how he tried to recast them, amounted to putting lipstick on a pig; the policies were still a pig), I feel compelled to say this:

In a Washington Post editorial we read: Mr. Obama's supposedly offending remark was not only not offensive -- it also was not directed at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Indeed, Obamas comment was not offensive to Governor Palin, but it was hear me out offensive to pigs, even though pigs are not capable of taking offense to human language.

The expression putting lipstick on a pig, like so many expressions (s a cow, What a dog, s chicken, s a weasel, among countless other pig expressions), subtly perpetuates our perception and treatment of animals. These expressions subconsciously influence how we view other species: as lazy, stupid, worthless, cowardly, untrustworthy, fat, ugly, etc. They lead us to believe that these animals are not worthy of consideration, protection, or kindness. They are ours to use and exploit because they are, after all, just animals.

This is not a criticism of Obama we all use these expressions; they are embedded in our language and culture. But its worth asking, in all the hoopla that has surrounded Obamas remark, whether, although it was utterly innocuous in relation to Sarah Palin, it was really harmless after all. Given that hundreds of millions of pigs are tortured, and I use that word intentionally, in our modern agricultural systems, perhaps we might want to find new ways of saying what we mean without perpetuating the oppression of other sentient species.

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Mens Health Network is made up of physicians, researchers, individuals, public health workers and other health professionals. These people work together to promote Mens Health Month (June) along with National Mens Health Week, which are part of educational campaigns to promote public and media awareness of mens health issues and to disseminate vital information on how to prevent disease, violence and addiction. Mens Health Network puts a lot of work into generating awareness, because mens health issues dont seem to get as much attention as womens health issues. Maybe its because men just arent generally as health conscious as women are. Regardless, even though most of you readers - male and female - are young and likely healthy, knowing about what types of health issues men face and how to deal with them is especially important as you make the move to the real world and enter adulthood. Prevention is our strongest weapon against many mens health issues, and although Adam Freys cancer could not have been prevented and probably couldnt have been detected too much earlier, promoting awareness is still the key to prevention.
Mens Health Network is looking for someone to help them with Internet and Web Communications. This person should be able to maintain the organizations websites, update its blogs, edit its podcasts, and generally be a web communications expert. In fact, Adam would be perfect for the job (hes doing a lot of the same work with his blog), but hes a bit preoccupied right now with beating the crap out of cancer. If youre passionate about improving the health of men, send a cover letter and resume to morg to see if youd be a good addition to their team in Washington, DC.

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Since I am a pediatric safety advocate that has been supporting the safe surgery check list and the Hopkins-Michigan study, I must comment here. I wrote to the OHRP and my circle of friends for support when there was talk of discontinuing wonderful providers efforts to move this simple practice forward and make it a reality. Ive seen what can happen when a simple checklist is NOT used. Children die.
I created a patient/family anesthesia check list with a prominent anesthesiologist that would bring the pre-op discussion and conversation between the providers and the family into the picture, as well. Perhaps, this will make the effort more scientific for the check list to become more accepted and mandated globally. Endorse the WHO Patient Safety Surgery Check List. Let the world know that your facility is using it to save lives. Perhaps link it to the HHS website.
CMS must also embrace such tools as check lists that solve the problems that create the never events in the first place. Where is the other side of the never event chart that states best practices for each condition that wont be compensated so hospitals know exactly how to improve and get paid? The focus should be on the lives saved and not the money lost.
Changing focus and behavior is difficult. Simple common sense answers are often the easiest but the most difficult for some to accept. Ive learned this through my advocacy for an apology or a conversation. Its so simple yet some will still not comply.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The following is a
statement by Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids:
For the second time in a month, Philip Morris International has had to
withdraw sponsorship and promotion of a concert in a developing country
after coming under international criticism for engaging in cigarette
marketing that appeals to children.
This time, Philip Morris International has been forced to withdraw from
an August 30 reunion concert in the Philippines by the popular Filipino
band Eraserheads, which has been called the Beatles of the Philippines.
The concert is moving forward with a non-tobacco sponsor. In July, Philip
Morris International withdrew its sponsorship of singer Alicia Keys
concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, after it faced public criticism and Ms. Keys
called for Philip Morris withdrawal.
In the Philippines, Philip Morris International withdrew after health
advocates protested the companys involvement and the Philippines
Department of Health warned the company that its sponsorship and related
marketing violated the countrys tobacco regulation law. The law prohibits
all forms of tobacco advertising in mass media including the Internet,
places strict restrictions on other tobacco promotional activities, and
bans tobacco company sponsorship of concerts and other events.
We applaud the Philippines Department of Health for setting an
international example by taking aggressive action to enforce the countrys
tobacco control law and protect Filipino children from this blatant effort
to market cigarettes to them. With this action, the Philippines government
is taking seriously its obligations under the World Health Organizations
international tobacco control treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control, which among other things calls on ratifying nations to ban all
tobacco advertising, promotions and sponsorships.
Nations should act quickly to implement this and other provisions of
the treaty and protect their children from being exposed to the tobacco
industrys insidious marketing tactics. We also call on Philip Morris
International and all tobacco companies to immediately stop all tobacco
sponsorships and promotions, not just when they are caught red-handed as in
the Philippines and Indonesia.
In the United States, Philip Morris USA and other major tobacco
companies are prohibited from engaging in brand name sponsorships of
concerts under a 1998 legal settlement with the states. However, in
developing countries, tobacco companies continue to sponsor concerts by
famous musicians, which health advocates have condemned as an effective
means to market cigarettes to children and to circumvent restrictions on
more traditional tobacco advertising.
In the Philippines, those seeking tickets to the Eraserheads concert
had been directed to http://www.marlboro.ph, a web site run by Philip
Morris Internationals Philippine subsidiary. To receive tickets and
information, visitors to the web site had to provide personal contact
information that would allow Philip Morris International to send them
promotional materials for cigarettes. Additionally, the reunion concert had
generated enormous Internet buzz that often mentioned the Marlboro web site
and brand name, providing enormous publicity for Philip Morris
Internationals best-selling cigarette brand.
Based in Washington, DC, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leader
in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its devastating consequences in the
United States and around the world. As part of the Bloomberg Initiative to
Reduce Tobacco Use, the Campaign works with governments and
non-governmental organizations in promoting and implementing public
policies to reduce tobacco use. Visit http://www.tobaccofreecenter.org.

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[Ballot boxes are being brought under Police protection to one of the polling stations-pic:courtesy of DailyMirror.lk]
Full text of the statement by National Peace Council:
Political agenda of the centre or the Democratic requirement of power sharing ?
The provincial council elections for the Sabaragamuwa and North Central provinces scheduled for August 23 have implications that go beyond ordinary politics and the contest for political dominance. The Provincial Council system was established in 1987 to provide the basis of a solution to the ethnic conflict based on the devolution of power. This has been reiterated by the present government which had pledged to fully implement the system to include the Northern and Eastern provinces.
The National Peace Council regrets that the conduct with regard to the two Provincial Councils for the Sabaragamuwa and North Central provinces indicates that the political agenda of the centre, and power politics, rather than the democratic requirements of the provinces have been uppermost. Both of these Provincial Councils were prematurely dissolved by the government, and the election campaign was undermined by violence in which politicians from the centre have been implicated.
There was a high level of violence and intimidation that took place in the course of the election campaign, especially in the final days of the campaign. As the criteria for a free and fair election includes the pre-election period this means a flawed election is about to take place on Saturday. Due to the upsurge in violence, and inability on the part of the Police alone to address the situation, the Election Commissioner has called on the army to be deployed the two provinces to ensure that normalcy is restored during the elections.
We trust that the government and the security forces will act with integrity to ensure that the basic foundation of our democracy, which is the people’s right to vote without fear and intimidation, is protected. We also appeal to the opposition parties not to take the law into their own hands on the grounds that the government parties have been engaging in violence with impunity, which would mean the law of the jungle. We call upon the Elections Commissioner to do his statutory duty and implement his promise to annul polling booths where there has been violence, intimidation or spiriting away of ballot boxes or stuffing them. As a longer term measure to ensure good governance in the country, we demand the implementation of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution by the government, which among others establish independent Elections and Police Commissions.
Governing Council
National Peace Council of Sri Lanka
The National Peace Council is an independent and non partisan organisation that works towards a negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. It has a vision of a peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka in which the freedom, human rights and democratic rights of all the communities are respected. The policy of the National Peace Council is determined by its Governing Council of 20 members who are drawn from diverse walks of life and belong to all the main ethnic and religious communities in the country.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued guidelines aimed at reducing complications and deaths from the rising numbers of operations now being performed. Several studies have shown that in industrial countries major complications occur in 3 percent to 16 percent of inpatient surgical procedures, and permanent disability or death rates are about 0.4 percent to 0.8 percent.
The guidelines are a list of simple safety checks that WHO says could reduce the rate of surgical complications by 50 percent. The list offers simple checks to improve anesthetic safety practices, avoid infections and improve communication among members of surgical teams.
AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, M.D., spoke at a WHO meeting on June 25 to discuss the history of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP)—the first national, validated, outcome-based, risk-adjusted, and peer-controlled program for the measurement and enhancement of the quality of surgical care. In her speech, Dr. Clancy explained that NSQIP served as the basis for Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), an initiative of Federal government agencies, hospitals, physicians, nurses, and private groups dedicated to improving the safety of surgical care by reducing postoperative complications.
SCIP has set a goal of reducing surgical complications nationwide by 25 percent by 2010. Read WHO’s press release and view the checklist.

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A divided Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former Colleyville church Friday, saying church members who were involved in a traumatic exorcism that ultimately injured a young woman are protected by the First Amendment.
In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God staffs efforts to cast out demons from Laura Schubert presents an ecclesiastical dispute over religious conduct that would unconstitutionally entangle the court in church doctrine.
Schubert described a wild night in 1996 that involved casting out demons from the church and two attempts to exorcise demons from her. The incident left Schubert physically bruised and so emotionally scarred she later tried to commit suicide. She was 17 at the time.
Justice David Medina, writing for the majority, said that while Schuberts argument regarding physical injuries might be tried without mentioning religion, her case was mostly about her emotional or psychological injuries from a religious activity that was sanctioned by the church.
For the court to impose any legal liability for engaging in a religious activity "to which the church members adhere would have an unconstitutional 'chilling effect by compelling the church to abandon core principles of its religious beliefs," Medina wrote.
"Religious practices that might offend the rights or sensibilities of a non-believer outside the church are entitled to greater latitude when applied to an adherent within the church," Medina wrote.
He went on to say that when claims involve "only intangible, emotional damages allegedly caused by sincerely held religious belief, courts must carefully scrutinize the circumstances so as not to become entangled in a religious dispute."
Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson, in a stinging dissenting opinion, wrote that the majority opinion is at times "imprecise and overbroad" and imposes an "erroneous standard" that would allow a church to simply claim a "religious motive" to avoid being sued.
He wrote that this "sweeping immunity" is inconsistent with U.S. Supreme Court precedent and that the First Amendment "guards religious liberty; it does not sanction intentional abuse in religions name."
"This overly broad holding not only conflicts with well-settled legal and constitutional principles, it will also prove to be dangerous in practice," Jefferson wrote.
"Texas courts have been and will continue to be confronted with cases in which a congregant suffers physical or psychological injury as a result of violent or unlawful, but religiously sanctioned, acts," he wrote.
Since the incident, Pleasant Glade has merged with another Colleyville church.
The Schuberts moved to Georgia and were not available for comment Friday. William Wuester, their attorney, also was unavailable for comment.
David Pruessner, the attorney for the church, said he was delighted to win a case that has been a part of his life for more than a decade.
While he may not agree with what the church did, that doesnt mean it can be sued, he said.
"I personally dont agree and would not let one of my daughters face that kind of emotional pressure," Pruessner said. "But you cant sue a church because you find things they do emotionally disturbing."
Laying on hands
Schuberts account of what happened over several days at the Pleasant Glade church in June 1996 is harrowing.
Schubert and her brother were involved with church activities while their parents were out of town.
On Friday evening, during preparations for a youth group garage sale, the atmosphere became "spiritually charged" when another youth said he saw a demon.
Under direction of the youth minister, the youth frantically anointed everything in the church with holy oil until, at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, the minister told the exhausted youth that they had finally been successful.
At the Sunday evening worship services, Schubert collapsed. Church members "laid hands" on her and forcibly held her arms crossed over her chest, despite her demands to be set free.
She reportedly cried, yelled, kicked, sweated and hallucinated while also making guttural noises.
She was released after she calmed down and replied with requests to say the name Jesus.
The following Wednesday, during a weekly youth service, Schubert reportedly began to act in the same manner. She curled into a fetal position and asked to be left alone. Church members thought she was in distress and held her down in a "spread eagle" position with youth members holding down her arms and legs.
During the incident, she suffered carpet burns, a scrape on her back and bruises on her wrists.
Her father, Tom Schubert, himself an Assembly of God pastor and missionary, questioned what happened at the church.
His daughter experienced angry outbursts, weight loss and self-mutilation and eventually dropped out of high school her senior year. She was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
'Freedom to believe
The family eventually sued the church, saying that their daughter had been abused and falsely imprisoned, but the 2002 trial never touched on the religious aspects of the case. The churchs attorneys told a Tarrant County jury that Schuberts psychological problems were caused by traumatic events she witnessed while her parents were serving as missionaries in Africa.
A jury found the church and its members liable and awarded Schubert $300,000 for mental anguish, but the 2nd Court of Appeals in Fort Worth cut $122,000 from the verdict for loss of future income.
In the churchs appeal to the state Supreme Court, it raised the question of whether the Fort Worth appeals court erred when it said Pleasant Glades First Amendment rights regarding freedom of religion do not prevent the church from being held liable for mental distress triggered by a "hyper spiritualistic environment."
Justice Medina said that the court does not mean to imply that "under the cloak of religion, persons may, with impunity," commit intentional wrong, such as sexual assault or a minister having an affair with someone in marriage counseling, and get away with it.
"Freedom to believe may be absolute, but freedom of conduct is not, and 'conduct even under a religious guise remains subject to regulation for public safety," Medina wrote.
Pruessner, the churchs attorney, agreed, saying that church members were simply trying to help Schubert and that there wasnt any evil intent.
"This was clearly a religious controversy, and I dont see how anyone can argue that they were seizing on religion as a get-out-of-jail-free card," Pruessner said. "I disagree vehemently with the spiritual beliefs of the church and how they handled it; it doesnt mean they are legally liable.

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The most significant copyright development of the twenty first century has not arisen through any law enacted by Congress or opinion rendered by the Supreme Court. Instead, it has come from the unorganized, informal practices of various, unrelated users of copyrighted works, many of whom probably know next to nothing about copyright law. In order to comprehend this paradox, one must look at what is popularly known as Web 2.0, and the growth of user-generated content in blogs, wikis, podcasts, videos, and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Although users often create new works of their own, sometimes the works are with copyrighted content of others.
The growth of user-generated content challenges the conventional understandings of copyright law under which copyrights are understood largely as static and fixed from the top down. Under this view, copyright holders are at the center of the copyright universe and exercise considerable control over their exclusive rights. Obtaining prior authorization from the copyright holder is typically assumed to be necessary for others legally to re-use the copyrighted work, apart from a fair or other permitted use (which often is not easy to determine in advance).
This Article challenges the conventional account of copyright law, particularly as applied to Web 2.0. The formalist understanding of copyright law ignores reality. The Copyright Act is riddled with gray areas and gaps, many of which persist over time because so few copyright cases are ever filed and the majority of those filed are not resolved through a judgment. My core thesis is that informal copyright practices - i.e., practices that are not authorized by formal copyright licenses, but whose legality falls within a gray area of copyright law - effectively serve as important gap-fillers in our copyright system.
The informal practices related to user-generated content provide a compelling example of this phenomenon. These practices make manifest three significant features of our copyright system that have escaped the attention of legal scholars: (i) our copyright system could not function without informal copyright practices; (ii) collectively, users wield far more power in influencing the shape of copyright law than is commonly perceived; and (iii) uncertainty in formal copyright law can lead to the phenomenon of in which - unlike chilling - users are emboldened to make unauthorized uses of copyrighted works based on seeing what appears to be an increasingly accepted practice. In the Web 2.0 world, warming may serve as a powerful counterforce to the chilling of speech.

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My office is across the street from the local high school and next to a pediatric clinic, so inevitably I get a lot of children as patients. I find the health and the trend of where health is going unbelievable. We are living in the first generation where our children are expected to live shorter life expectancies than their parents. As a result, the average life expectancy is expected to drop by 5 years. I find this unacceptable considering the overwhelming amount of knowledge available to make sound health decisions. We have everything available to live incredible lifestyles, which would prevent the majority of diseases plaguing this country. Ive come to the conclusion that its not the lack of knowledge, but perhaps a lack of will power. And this lack of will power is taking years off the back end of our childrens lives, not to mention the quality right now. One of my patients is a teacher who is active in the schools health and wellness programs. I put together a survey and with his assistance we administered the survey to 116 students between 14 and 18 year olds. The survey was an attempt to evaluate what children think of health and what their views and perceptions of health is. I asked in the survey if its normal for people who are 30, 40, 50 or 60 years of age to be heavy, in which 69% said its not normal for people in that age group to be heavy. However, 32% said it was normal to be heavy in that age group. Then next question was if it was normal to have a disease in that age group, in which 71% said it was not normal to have a disease.  I found it interesting that 27% said it was normal. They were then asked if its normal to be over weight when one gets older, in which 24% said yes. I also asked if its normal to get a disease when one get older, in which 34% said it was. The question I found most remarkable was if the children themselves expected to have one or more of the following; heavy, have at lest one disease, dont have fun, feel tired sleepy, have digestive problems, or expect none of the above. Only 53% said they didnt expect to have any of the problems listed. What I found disturbing was 67% expected to have at least one of the problems listed above. If we could only go back in time, say 25 years ago. It would be interesting so do a similar survey and compare the answers.  Since I was finishing high school at that time, I can say in the most part that health wasnt an issue nor were we plagued with the diseases as we are today in that age group. Diseases that are household names today, were not even on our radar screens. I think you could have asked the average 18-year-old 25 years ago what diabetes, asthma, allergies, ADHD/ADD was, most would tell you they have no idea. Today everyone not only knows what these terms mean, but they have friends and classmates with these very diseases, if not inflicted with the diseases themselves. The reality is that most of these diseases are preventable. When are parents going to take a real look at their childrens lifestyle? When is our education system going to put a reality check on the consequences of poor lifestyle choices?  Do most kids (and even adults) even know the answers on how to maintain health, which prevents disease.

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Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle. I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after. Even when I’m not working, I’m as likely as not to be foraging in the Web’s info-thickets—reading and writing e-mails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos and listening to podcasts, or just tripping from link to link to link. (Unlike footnotes, to which they’re sometimes likened, hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.)
For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded. “The perfect recall of silicon memory,” Wired’s Clive Thompson has written, “can be an enormous boon to thinking.” But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

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WASHINGTON, June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a
transcript of an interview of President Bush by Gianni Riotta, Rai TV, Italy:

Q Mr. President, the world has known tremendous change during your
tenure, and three areas of concern remain: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan. What's
your assessment of those three theaters? And looking back in perspective,
would you do anything different?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's an interesting question on doing anything
different. Of course, history is going to be the judge of that. But the
decision, for example, on Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein was the right
decision then and it's the right decision now.

The progress in Iraq has been substantial. For a period of time,
democracy was in doubt, primarily because sectarian violence was really
unacceptable. I decided to put more troops in, rather than pull back, and
now the violence is the lowest it's been since March of 2004. And politics
is beginning to happen. So I'm encouraged about Iraq.

Afghanistan is also difficult because of a new democracy emerging from
the shadows of a brutal regime. Last year, of course, the Taliban announced
they were going to go on the offense; in fact, our coalition went on the
offense and, from a security perspective, made some progress against the
Taliban. The best progress, though, is the advance of better-trained police
forces -- and I thank the Italian government for helping -- as well as a
better Afghan army, which over time needs to provide the security for the
country. Iraq will probably -- progresses quicker because it's got wealth.
Afghanistan is broke.

Iran -- the free world must continue to send a clear message to the
Iranians that their ability to enrich which could be transferred to a
program to develop a nuclear weapon is unacceptable. And so I will continue
to work on this trip to talk about the dangers of a nuclear Iran -- not
civilian nuclear power, but a program that would be aimed at blackmail or
destruction -- and that we've got to work to stop them from learning how to
enrich. And there's other ways to approach it.

Q Should Iran resist the international pressure, military option
remains open?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, it does.

Q Italy wants to join the five-plus-one group of contacts negotiating
with Iran. Germany is skeptical, they don't want us. What do you say?

THE PRESIDENT: I say that whatever is effective in terms of sending a
clear message to Iran. I will be spending time talking to this with the
Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. I talked to Condi about this issue, and
I said, look, whatever works. Let's make sure we're effective. Italy can be
an effective voice in sending a message to the Iranians, and that you don't
have to choose isolation. There's a better way forward. Verifiably suspend
your enrichment program, and there's a better way forward for you and your
people.

And Italy can be a critical part of that. And so we'll work -- I
haven't really taken the temperature that much, but my judgment is Italy
can be a very important contributor.

Q The relationship between the United States and Europe has been
strained sometimes in the recent past. During your trip, what do you
suggest we can do together vis-a-vis the oil crisis, the food crisis, and
the recession coming?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, you know -- first of all, let me talk about
strained relations. Look, I've had great relations with many of the
leaders. America and Italy remain incredibly close. Do we agree on every
issue? No. But do we agree on common values? Absolutely. We believe in
human rights and human dignity, and free press and free religion. And so
what unites us is a heck of a lot stronger than those moments where we
don't necessarily agree on every single issue. And so I will remind people
of that. I'll remind people that we've got a lot of work to do.

In terms of the current energy issue, we're too dependent on
hydrocarbons. World demand is such, relative to supply, that the price of
energy is high. And therefore, we need to be spending monies on new
technologies to enable us to become less dependent on oil. And I'm a big
nuclear power guy. I believe the United States must be much more aggressive
expanding nuclear power -- for two reasons: one, less dependency on
hydrocarbons; and two, it will make us better stewards of the environment.
I mean, if you're concerned about global warming, one thing you ought to be
concerned about then is making sure that we've got power generated from a
clean source of energy -- a renewable source of energy, which is nuclear
power.

The food prices concern me, obviously. But the truth of the matter is,
one reason why food price is so high is because energy prices are high. I
mean, when you think about it, farming is a pretty energy-intensive
business -- fertilizer is an energy; driving a tractor is an energy; crops
to markets require energy. And so the crux of a lot of the problem is the
energy prices.

Q Looking to Prime Minister Berlusconi, what areas will you encourage
Italy to work with the United States, especially?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, Iran, of course, which I happen to see as a major
threat. Look, we got a lot of common areas: Afghanistan -- and I will thank
the Italian people for their sacrifices to help this young democracy.
Silvio Berlusconi and I worked a lot of big issues together in the past; I
know him well, I trust him, I like him. I find him to be one of the really
interesting world leaders. And I'm really looking forward to seeing him
again in his capacity, once again, as the Prime Minister.

We ought to work on trade matters; we ought to work on diseases like
HIV/AIDS and malaria on the continent of Africa, for example. I mean,
there's a lot we can do together.

Q You met the Pope while in the United States, and how do you see his
role in trying to reopen the dialogue between different civilizations and
religions?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I think it's -- look, the Holy Father is a
significant world figure. And we had a fabulous visit here, and it was such
an honor to welcome him here to the South Lawn of the White House. I wish
you could have seen it. Maybe you did see it. I wish your viewers could
have seen the reception he was given here. I think it was one of the
largest crowds ever on the South Lawn, like 13,000 people. And my own
personal visit with him was so uplifting.

And we did talk about interfaith dialogue, that I think is really
important for people to find common ground through religion to deal with
the violence that is used by some in the name of religion, to perpetuate an
ideology -- and to remind people that peace -- religion is peace. And
there's no better person to carry that message than His Holy Father.

I talked to the King of Saudi Arabia about his visit with the Holy
Father, and those are two very important figures when it comes to,
obviously, Christianity and Islam. And I think it's great that he's
reaching out.

Q I know you don't want to comment on the presidential elections, but
the world is watching and is very excited because --

THE PRESIDENT: Yes.

Q There is a former war hero, there is an African American candidate,
there's been Italian Americans, there's been a lady running for President.
How do you see vitality of the American democracy, looking at this?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, I'm for McCain, and everybody knows that. On
the other hand, I thought it was a really good statement, powerful moment
when a major political party nominates a African American man to be their
standard bearer. And it's good for our democracy that that happened. And we
also had a major contender being a woman. Obviously Hillary Clinton was a
major contender. So I think it's a good sign for American democracy.

Now the debate begins as to who could be the best President. And I'm in
an interesting position -- I ran hard for presidency twice; I campaigned
hard in the off years, and now I'll be passing the mantle on to Senator
McCain, particularly at the convention when he becomes the official nominee
of our party. Obviously he's going to be the nominee, but there's a moment
at the convention where it's -- "here he is." And I'll do my part to help
him win, but it's going to be up to him. He'll be the man sitting in the
Oval Office making the tough decisions for peace and security.

Q You mentioned history at the beginning of this interview. And you
know, you're aware that history will ask you about Iraq. What do you think,
now when you look back to Iraq, especially after the report yesterday, are
you still happy with all these positions?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, I want to remind people, the report
yesterday was one of many reports that -- everybody thought Saddam Hussein
had weapons of mass destruction. I will remind people -- and one of the
things important about history is to remember the true history. And so the
Security Council resolution was 15 to nothing on Saddam Hussein: disclose,
disarm or face serious consequences. European nations -- France, Great
Britain -- supported that -- 1441 -- because everybody thought he had
weapons of mass destruction, including many of the people who -- of the
Democratic Party here in the United States. You should listen to their
words, and listen to their quotes.

And so, absolutely, getting rid of Saddam Hussein was the right thing.
And it was -- we're all disappointed the intelligence wasn't what it was.
But now the challenge is to help this young democracy survive. And a
democracy in the heart of the Middle East is going to be, in my judgment, a
powerful part of change. And we've got to work to free people in the Middle
East from tyranny, because that is the place from which the terrorists have
launched their attacks.

Q In the few seconds that are left, what will you do next?

THE PRESIDENT: You know, good question. I haven't had much time to
think about it, because I've got a lot to do. But I will probably write a
book, talking about the decisions I had to make, precisely to make sure
that history understands the conditions and the environment during which I
had to make decisions. Start a freedom institute at what's called Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, to talk about the universal values of
freedom abroad and at home. And other than that, I'm open for suggestions.

Q Thank you, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, sir. Thanks. Looking forward to going. Looking
forward to going back to Rome. It's a fabulous city, one of the great
cities of the world.

Q Especially after you leave the White House, come and I will take you
around. (Laughter.) Without the constraint of official --

THE PRESIDENT: I'd love to.

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New Schools Equal New Hires
Las Vegas Schools have ten new schools opening for the 2006-2007 school year. Nine are brand new schools, while one is a replacement of Rancho High School. This is part of a long term plan to meet student population demands and create modern facilities. The schools opening in August are six elementary schools, two middle schools and two high schools. The new elementary schools are Hayden Elementary, Schorr Elementary, Steele Elementary, Thompson Elementary, Ward Elementary and Wright Elementary. The middle schools are Johnston and Tarkanian and the high schools are the new Legacy High School and the replacement Rancho High School. All these new schools create the need for more teacher and support staff. With this in mind Las Vegas Schools is engaging in a very active recruitment process including holding a recruitment fair this summer to be held at the Desert Rose Adult High School. In the area of academic staff Las Vegas Schools are hiring over one thousand new staff and teachers. But academic staff are not the only ones needed to keep a school running. These new member schools of Las Vegas Schools are also in need of bus drivers, transportation aides, vehicle mechanics and substitute food service workers.
The New Rancho High School
The newest edition to Las Vegas Schools is the placement of the old Rancho High School. The new design may seem surprisingly familiar to the students. The new Rancho High School is based on the same design used in most suburban shopping malls. The new 330,000 square foot school was built on the site of the former schools athletic field. The old school will be torn down later in the school year. The new Rancho High School follows a two story mall design and the total building cost was around $75 million. The money came from the Las Vegas Schools $3.5 billion capital improvement plan approved by voters in 1998. The new design did cause a little concern but it actually creates a very functional and friendly space which can add to the success of a school. The Rancho High School principal plans to divide the school into four distinct sections each with its own assistant principal and student services. These sections will possibly be divided based on grade level or program type. Rancho High School is well known for its magnet programs that aim towards the medical and aviation fields. These magnet programs will have new offices and special facilities on the new Ranch High School campus. The ROTC will also have a new area. The Rancho High School ROTC is one of the largest in the U.S. and the facility will be able to accommodate over five hundred students. The Ranch High School replacement is part of a long term replacement plan by Las Vegas schools. The plan was to replace five existing schools Sunrise Acres Elementary, Wendell Williams Elementary and Rancho High School are the first three with Booker Elementary and Virgin Valley Elementary to follow.
Rancho High School is Second to Have Mall Design
Rancho High School is the second Las Vegas School to have the mall design. The first was at Buffalo and Grand Teton. The mall design creates a new and unique space that provides natural light and fresh air to the classrooms while creating a more secure environment than a conventional school design. Both the current principal and the president of the construction company building the new school are former Rancho High School graduates, who are extremely pleased with the modern replacement.
Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, Which provides free, in-depth reports on all U.S. public and private K-12 schools. Patricia has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues.

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lead user.  One of the fieldworkers who worked on a national Guinea worm eradication campaign created her/his own life straw with reed and some mesh for local use.
(2) Social marketing and social design ethnography. The reason I went to this workshop was to establish a better understanding of how my work relates to social marketing.  My work uses applied ethnography for the purposes of design in global health, not just products, but also services and systems.  While there is considerable overlap, the idea of creating new products felt like an awkward fit within the framework of social marketing.  I expect it was there because it has no other home (e.g. social product design).  The danger in placing it in the context of social marketing is that it may ignore the considerable knowledge we have developed and are developing in the field of human-centered design.  There is also a difference in the methods.  Ethnographic research seems play a minor role in social marketing, and as in many fields, the label ethnographic seems to be used fairly loosely.
(3) Know your audience.  The majority of examples (not all) in the workshop were drawn from the US context (e.g. commercial advertisements, surveys, anecdotes), and further werent well-contextualized.  Not what I expected at a global health conference, with a very international group, where the focus of the workshop was know your audience.
(4) Adapt, dont adopt. One of global healths strengths is that it borrows from so many diverse fields.  The dangers with this are in simply adopting the idea rather than adapting it to the contexts of global health. In the case of social marketing the ideas that have been borrowed are framework (effect behavior change), process (how to understand your consumer), and theory (behavior change models).  The typical dangers of doing this are: (a) what is borrowed can be viewed as gospel (e.g. if Madison Ave. does it this way, it must be right) or (b) the ideas dont progress as they do in the original field (e.g. is social marketing making use of advances in commercial marketing?  is it evolving on its own?).  I still dont know enough about social marketing to argue this, but Ive seen this pattern with other ideas that have been borrowed across fields.
(5) ve already been doing this. One of the audience members brought up the fact that people have been doing this for a long time in many places and that it simply hasnt had the social marketing label.  Agreed, but in my opinion - and that of the facilitators - the value is in the framework.  By creating a formal way of thinking, we can improve the social marketing work that people have been doing by other names, and bring it to people who havent been thinking in these terms.
Ben was there for part of the workshop and may have more thoughts.

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risk factors to population-level issues such as inequality, poverty, and education. Modern public health is often concerned with addressing determinants of health across a population, rather than advocating for individual behaviour change. There is a recognition that our health is affected by many factors including where we live, genetics, our income, our educational status and our social relationships - these are known as social determinants of health. A social gradient in health runs through society, with those that are poorest generally suffering the worst health. However even those in the middle classes will generally have worse health outcomes than those of a higher social stratum (WHO, 2003). The new public health seeks to address these health inequalities by advocating for population-based policies that improve the health of the whole population in an equitable fashion.
The burden of treating conditions caused by unemployment, poverty, unfit housing and environmental pollution have been calculated to account for between 16-22% of the clinical budget of the British National Health Service.

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