Thursday, July 11, 2013

Plymouth GOP to nominate candidates for local offices


PLYMOUTH -- The Republican Town Committee will hold a caucus to nominate candidates for the offices of mayor, town council, town clerk, tax collector, treasurer, library trustees, Board of Finance, Board of Education, constables and Board of Assessment Appeals, in the Community Room of the Town Hall at 7 p.m. July 23.

All registered Republicans are invited to attend.

For information call Barbara K. Rockwell at 860-582-1194.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Use PR to promote your organisation as an employer of choice ...

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Business group2Attracting the best talent to your business can be difficult especially if potential employees have never heard of your brand before.

Often potential employees will be attracted to a business with a good reputation in HR, available career opportunities, training initiatives and a culture that suits them.?

You can use PR strategies to inform potential employees about:

  1. What makes you different
    What can you offer potential employees your competitors don?t. This could be flexible work hours, a bonus scheme, training programs and more. PR can help you to promote this aspect of your business to inform potential employees why they should choose your business over others.
  2. Career opportunities
    Many potential employees are attracted to a business because they can see a potential career path within the organisation. It?s then a great idea to use PR to promote the training initiatives your business offers such as career development programs, support networks and more. Potential employees will then see how the business supports their career goals.
  3. Your company culture
    Attracting the right employees who fit into your company culture can be difficult. One way to make this process easier is to promote your company culture to attract the right employees.

PR can do these things by raising the profile of your business, improving your reputation and positioning you as an employer of choice. Tactics to achieve this include:

Media pitching
A media pitch is the technique of contacting a specific journalist to offer them an original story or an interview with someone in your business. A pitch is sent via email or over the phone and must explain why the story idea is suitable for the journalist?s publication and audience.

You can find story ideas within your business by thinking about what sets your business apart from your competitors and why employees would want to work with you. You should also think about the business? area of expertise and the topics you can discuss. You can then pitch these stories ideas to a relevant journalist and offer the appropriate spokesperson, like a HR Director to interview. By sharing the spokesperson?s expert knowledge and gaining media coverage you can build your brand awareness and position the business as a leader in its industry.

Case studies
Case studies are a great way to showcase your achievements, build your credibility and promote your business. A great example of a case study would be to document the success story of how one of your employees used your training initiative to develop their skills and progress into a higher position within the organisation.

You can publish the case study on your website, social media profiles, in relevant media publications, speaking opportunities and even use a link in job advertisements. A case study is a great way to build the business? brand and also show potential employees the opportunities you offer.

Enter HR awards
Your business can enter HR awards in categories such as best employer, best corporate culture, best employee training initiatives and more. If you are nominated or win you can promote your achievement to build your brand. You can do this by sending out a media release to relevant media, publishing it on social media, using the award logo on your marketing material and pitching your spokesperson as an expert to the media.?

If you don?t win it?s still a great exercise to reflect on the benefits you offer employees and to get a better understanding of your culture

Speaking opportunities
Your spokesperson or HR Director can speak at events or conferences your potential employees may attend. This helps to build the business? brand awareness as well as places the business in front of a large audience who may consider becoming employees or customers in the future.

The topics they can present on could be what makes a good workplace or strategies your business uses to train and develop employees.

If you would like the market to see your business as an employer of choice and attract the best talent, speak to a PR professional about how you can use PR to achieve this.

For a great example of how to use PR to raise the profile of an organisation as an employer of choice read our case study, ?The corporate side of Hilton Hotels?.

Source: http://publicrelationssydney.com.au/index.php/use-pr-to-promote-your-organisation-as-an-employer-of-choice/

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

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Guy stealing from security cam installer caught by security cam (and Facebook)

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There are some people in this world from whom you just shouldn't steal. One thief learned this lesson the hard way when he nicked ladders from a man who installs closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems for a living. Unsurprisingly, there was damning CCTV footage of the crime ... and it made its way online.

"DOES ANY ONE RECOGNISE THIS MAN?" British IT guy Barrie Smith asked his Facebook friends in his post of CCTV footage showing a man removing what Smith described as "expensive work ladders" from outside his home in Weston Super Mare, Somerset, England. "I knew that the guy had to live locally as he carried the ladders off on foot and did not drive them away," Smith told NBC News.

It took about a week before the thief was identified. "When the police went to his house, he came to the door wearing the same [sweater] that he was wearing in the CCTV footage," Smith says. The sweater had a large, identifiable logo. The thief was let off with a caution, a formal warning, and Smith got his ladders back.

"I'm a bit disappointed that more was not done ? community service or something ? it seems to me he got off lightly," Smith says. "Granted I should not of left the ladders in the front garden but all the same it is not right that someone comes on to my property to steal them!" Still, Smith points out that he was quite lucky ? he'd only installed his own CCTV system about a week prior to the theft.

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Joe Strupp: Major GOP Donor Gaining Monopoly Control Over Crucial Media Market

The conservative?Columbus?Dispatch?has long been a force in local and state politics?in Ohio. But in recent years, the newspaper's parent company has become a virtual media monopoly in Ohio's largest city and state capital, controlling not only the daily newspaper, but two radio stations, a television outlet and a long list of other weekly, monthly,?and regional news sources.

"It's a one-newspaper town," said Dominick Cappa, editor of?Columbus Business First,?one of the few local publications not owned by the?Dispatch.?"They have the TV station, a radio station. Are they powerful? Hell yeah they're powerful because they have those outlets."

And the?Dispatch's owners?have?used?that?media muscle to promote?conservative causes and candidates, in particular the state's Republican governor,?John Kasich. Publisher John F. Wolfe, CEO of parent company?Dispatch Printing,?and his wife, Ann,?have spent more than $100,000 seeking to elect Republicans in state and out, with three dollars out of every ten going to Kasich's coffers.

The?Dispatch's news reporting is the pride of Ohio; in recent years the paper has repeatedly been named the best newspaper of its size by the Associated Press Society, and its reporters typically clean up at that organization's annual awards presentation. In 2012, John Wolfe himself was given a special recognition award for "exemplary service to print journalism."

But critics say that the recent expansion of Dispatch Printing has created a near-monopoly in central Ohio, and point to the way the paper's editorial board has shielded Kasich to sound a note of alarm.?

The increasing influence of the Wolfes comes during a period in which several right-wing moguls have been seeking to use mainstream media outlets to influence the political debate.

In December?Media Matters?profiled?financier Douglas Manchester, a major Republican Party contributor who purchased the?San Diego Union-Tribune?and used it to cheerlead for right-wing politics and his own business interests. More recently, David and Charles Koch, major funders of the conservative movement, have reportedly considered?buying the Tribune Company's eight regional newspapers -- which include the?Los Angeles Times?and?Chicago Tribune?-- as part of their plan to shift the country to the right by investing in the media. Manchester has?also considered buying?the Tribune Company.

The Kochs also?financially support?the?Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a non-profit organization whose?websites and affiliates?provide free statehouse reporting from a conservative perspective to local newspapers?and other media?across the country.

The Wolfes' stranglehold on central Ohio's?media grew substantially last September when the Dispatch Printing Company?took over?Columbus Media Enterprises from American Community Newspapers. That purchase added 12 specialty magazines to its arsenal, including?Columbus Monthly?and?Columbus CEO, and?Columbus Bride; Suburban News Publications, a string of 22 community weeklies?that were subsequently merged?with the company's 22-paper ThisWeek Community News group of weeklies; and The Other Paper, a feisty alternative weekly that had been known as a?Dispatch?watchdog.

Dispatch Printing?already owned a variety of?specialty publications?including?Columbus Alive,?Columbus Crave,?Columbus Parent, and?Capital Style, along with two radio stations, the local CBS television affiliate (WBNS-TV),?Ohio News Network Radio,?which provides regular newscasts and sportscasts to 73 radio stations statewide, and Consumer News Services, a marketing company that distributes insert fliers via direct delivery bags.

Columbus has three other?network television affiliates:?WCMH, the NBC affiliate owned by Media General; WSYX, the ABC affiliate, and WTTE, the Fox affiliate, both owned by Sinclair Broadcasting.

But critics say that those outlets amount to little more than window dressing.?"There is no competition," said Gerald Kosicki, a 26-year professor of communications at nearby Ohio State University.?"You do only now have one voice. That is a concern to people."

The concern in Columbus increased earlier this year when Dispatch Printing?closed?The Other Paper,?silencing?perhaps?its biggest critic.

"That is important in that?The Other Paper?was a real alternative voice in the community, many of us are sorry to see it go,"?said Kosicki. "The Other Paper?had a reputation for dealing with stories about the?Dispatch?... kind of watching the watchdog kind of role ... we certainly won't have that in Columbus anymore, it is really a loss to the community."

"The sad thing is that we cannot in a city this size sustain alternate outlets," said Ann Fisher, a talk show host at WOSU Public Radio in Columbus and a former 10-year?Dispatch?staffer, who also wrote a column for the paper.?"The monopoly is unfortunate. They basically control everything."

But Dispatch Printing Chief Marketing Officer Phil Pikelny, a company executive since 2004, claims the monopoly is not as bad as people assume.

"Because of all of the other TV stations, the Internet, people can easily vote with their money," he said, noting there are other outlets. "And we are still one of the largest subscription newspapers."

Dispatch?editor Ben Marrison also defended the paper's work, stating in an email, "I am confident that our reporting and editing is as professional as you will find." He later added, "[I]t's worth noting that the?Dispatch?has won more journalism awards in this state than any other metro in the past five years, including multiple awards for being the state's best newspaper. Clearly, our peers wouldn't recognize our work with these awards if we were a biased news organization."

But those who monitor national media issues say such local monopolies can be problematic.

"Quietly, we're seeing a new wave of consolidation in news," said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and a co-founder of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. "A lot of it less visible or less obvious than a generation ago."

Jean-Philippe?Tremblay, a filmmaker and producer of the 2012 documentary,?Shadows of Liberty, about?the dangers of media consolidation and control, said such local news control is among the most dangerous.

"It is very sad," he said in an interview. "That is where information begins and where people can begin to become informed through local news, localism. That is where we really make decisions about our lives and run our lives, schools, our community is where it begins."

The Wolfe?family,?currently?headed by Publisher John F. Wolfe, has owned the?Dispatch?-- which opened in 1871 - since 1905.?Wolfe and his wife Ann?have?contributed at least?$112,750?since 1997 to numerous?Republican political campaigns and candidates as the newspaper editorializes and reports on the same public officials, according to a?Media Matters?search of the Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in State Politics databases.

The primary recipient of that largesse is?Ohio's Republican governor, John Kasich,?a former Columbus area congressman who won the governor's race in 2010 and faces re-election next year.?The Wolfes have donated at least $33,750 to support?Kasich's campaigns and political action committee.?

That support dates back to the late 1990s, when the then-chairman of the House Budget Committee was exploring a run for the presidency. Discussing Kasich's presidential hopes in a 1998 article, the famed?New York Times?reporter R.W. Apple cited as a strength his "base among the rich and powerful of Columbus" - a base which included Wolfe. Indeed, in 1997 and 1998, the Wolfes would give $22,750 to Kasich's campaign and political action committee. Ann also?served?as "a leading central?Ohio?fund-raiser for?Kasich's?Pioneer PAC," according to a?Dispatch?story.

Kasich's presidential campaign floundered and he dropped out of the race in July 1999. With Kasich taking roles in the private sector and on Fox News over the next decade, the Wolfes' support necessarily flagged. But when Kasich sought the governor's office in 2010, he had their support; they combined for $6,000 for his 2010 run and another $5,000 so far for his reelection.

Other current and former?Ohio?members of Congress, including John Boehner, Deborah Price, Ralph Regula, Steve Stivers, Patrick Tiberi, have also received checks from the Wolfes, as has former Sen. Mike Dewine. In the 2012 election cycle, the Wolfes combined for $25,000 in donations to Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee.

Michael Curtin, a former?Dispatch?editor who won a seat in the?Ohio?State House of Representatives last year, is the sole Democrat to receive the Wolfes' support, bringing in $2,500 from the publisher in 2012.

A request for comment from Wolfe's office was referred to Pikelny, who said of the political contributions: "There is no daily, monthly, weekly meeting that we have to discuss what the initiatives of the publisher are, that's just the way he is as an individual."

Asked if such political dealings may?hurt the paper's credibility,?Pikelny added, "We're privately owned and part of being privately owned, the person who owns it, how they operate is their concern because they are privately owned."

In 2010, the "person who owns it" wanted Kasich elected.?And the?Dispatch?editorial board did too, offering up an?endorsement?that?praised Kasich as a "leader who can inspire hope and not simply cope" with "the personality, the drive?and the backbone" to rebuild the state's economy, and criticized then-Gov. Ted Strickland for having "run a campaign largely based on character attacks against Kasich instead of offering?Ohio?a vision for the future."

Since the Republican's 2010 victory, some pro-Kasich editorials have come under fire.?"It's clear that the editorial page is pretty, pretty right-wing," Kosicki said. "They do really take the Tea Party or are often really on the GOP line."

In May 2011, Rep. Armond Budish, the?Ohio?House minority leader and a Democrat,?wrote in to?the paper to take issue with an?editorial?that had lauded Kasich for the "remarkable achievement" of his budget. The?Dispatch?editorial board had praised Kasich for putting?Ohio?on a "sounder fiscal footing" while castigating Budish for having tried to stand in the Republican's way.

"Blind partisan affection can impair one's vision of reality," wrote Budish in his response. "That?can be the only explanation for the?Sunday?Dispatch?editorial 'Well done,' which gushed with affection for Gov. John Kasich's budget while turning a blind eye to several key realities."

Meanwhile, several other?Ohio?newspapers, including?The Cincinnati Inquirer,?The Blade?of Toledo, and the?Akron Beacon-Journal, offered considerably more skepticism of the plan at the time,?pointing out that Kasich's plan largely shifted the burden to local governments, maintained unbalanced tax cuts, and slashed?spending to the bone. "They've always been a conservative paper, that is not a crime in America," said Dale Butland, spokesman for the progressive Innovation?Ohio?and a one-time aide to former Sen. John Glenn.?"But it wasn't gonzo, completely in the tank for one party. There has been a sort of a shift."

He pointed to the?Dispatch's treatment of JobsOhio, a controversial program created in 2012 under the?Ohio?Department of Economic Development as a private corporation. Created by Gov. John Kasich's office, it receives funding from the sale of state bonds through liquor profits, but has been exempt from open records laws.

Butland said such secrecy drew concerns from most newspapers statewide, including a number of them who editorialized as part of?Sunshine Week?in March against the?exemption. But the?Dispatch?did not.

"Every paper in the state except the?Dispatch?used their Sunshine Week editorial to point to JobsOhio as a great example of why we need Sunshine laws, even though it was their own reporter who broke the story," Butland said. "This editorial page has become an absolute shill for the Republican Party."

Media Matters?has documented?numerous?other editorial page?misrepresentations, hypocritical claims and outright?misinformation.

But Pikelny claims the editorial page only reflects the ownership's views, as it should.

"We really have in the family who owns the newspaper, an editorial point of view in the newspaper and it is definite and specific," he said. "But that really hasn't crept into the reporting."

Still, some staffers contend the far-right editorial page is hurtful to the paper's image.

"It is no secret that the paper, editorially, is a big Republican paper," said one?Dispatch?staffer who requested anonymity fearing reprisals from the paper. "It doesn't surprise me that they give added significance to Kasich stories."

Adds another?Dispatch?scribe, "There are a lot of people who can't distinguish between the editorial page and the news page."

Photo by?Gabe Taviano?used under a Creative Commons license.

Source: http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/ayfv3FAVb4E/194753

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10 Healthy Tips for Fitness Success - Top Personal Trainer in London

10 Healthy Tips for Fitness SuccessConsistency is the most important factor in any exercise program, and most of the people lose their interest in fitness within the first three months. However, those who stick to their exercise program and make it their habits are rewarded with a perfectly shaped stunning body after four months. It takes about four months to get results from your fitness exercise, and once you get the expected results you will certainly stick with your exercise program.

The 10 simple tips are described below to keep you motivated and interested in your exercise program, leading to fitness success:

  1. Get Moving: You should make up your mind to remain active by regularly doing various physical activities and achieve the required flexibility, strength and cardiovascular capacity.
  2. Prime the Pump: You should have strong determination to take part in physical activities that involve a large number of muscle groups of the body.
  3. Let the Muscles Respond:? You should be determined to challenge your muscles and force them to respond by regular resistance exercise or weight lifting.
  4. Loosen Up: You should remain determined to stretch regularly, whether before, after or during the exercise. You should regularly use the full range of motions to give a complete stretch to your muscles.
  5. Win the Losing Game: You should be strongly determined to maintain the appropriate body weight.? As the general rule, you should eat less and exercise more to burn the extra fat for losing weight. However, weight is not something that you can lose instantly, and therefore, you should act moderately when it comes to eating less and exercising more so that you don?t harm yourself.
  6. Watch What You Eat: You should have strong determination to eat healthy food. ?Good health comes from good nutrition, and good nutrition means the food you are eating contains sufficient ?nutrients to support your body.
  7. Chill Out: You should have strong determination to accept things in your life in right perspective. You should properly understand the things in life you can control and should never stress yourself regarding the factors which are beyond your control.? You must learn to accept the change as an opportunity rather than perceiving as a threat.
  8. Get Plenty of Rest: You must resolve to sleep well.? You must get at least that much sleep which allows you to remain alert, feel refreshed and have good spirits the next day.? Good Sleep is extremely important as it allows the body to rest and restore both physical and mental health.
  9. Focus on the Task at Hand:? You should make a strong determination to stick to your fitness schedule and exercise regularly. Your consistency will bring good results. You should focus on the muscles being exercised at the moment rather than concentrating the motions.
  10. Understand that there can be no such thing as a Free Lunch: You must make a strong determination to maintain rational lifestyle practices. For example, you should maintain appropriate body fat and avoid smoking, magic potion, latest fitness and diet fads and other gadgets, which claim miraculous properties. ?These are just scams, and you need to consider them as such.

Source: http://www.slimmerfitterstronger.com/blog/10-healthy-tips-for-fitness-success/

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Monday, July 8, 2013

Attorney General Ferguson maintains pressure on Google to increase privacy

Attorney General Bob Ferguson, joined by 22 other state attorneys general, announced progress in their effort to work with Google to improve how it protects consumer privacy, and called on the company to offer greater transparency and more meaningful privacy controls.

?With every click, consumers leave a trail of personal information that is used by companies for commercial purposes,? said Attorney General Bob Ferguson. ?I will continue to focus on increasing consumer protection online.?

Last year, 36 state attorneys general wrote to CEO Larry Page expressing serious concerns with the way Google handles consumers? privacy. This occurred after Google implemented a new unified privacy policy without giving consumers a meaningful opportunity to opt out. The attorneys general asked to meet with the company to address them.

In that letter and the subsequent dialogue, the attorneys general pressed Google to make improvements in multiple areas. This included:

?? consumer education about how information gets combined across Google platforms;

?? notice to consumers about their existing privacy controls and how to access them; and

?? transparency to consumers about what information Google is collecting about its users.

Ferguson is encouraged that Google has now made changes in each of these areas, though more needs to be done.? In a new letter sent to Page this week, the attorneys general state that they will continue to closely monitor Google?s activities related to consumer privacy, ?We trust that the company will do its part to ensure that the information consumers share with Google is appropriately protected and to keep consumers informed and in control of how and when that information is used and shared ? in the aggregate or otherwise ? with others.?

The letter continues, ?Online technology is constantly evolving, and innovation is welcomed, but innovation should not come at the expense of consumer protection. Changes to how Google treats consumer?s information should not be treated like automatic software updates; they should be treated like new decision points for consumers, requiring consumer consent.?

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Sunday, July 7, 2013

'White History Month' Float Stirs Controversy At July 4th Parade

A small North Carolina town's Fourth of July parade was mired in controversy after a float touting "White History Month" drew a number of complaints from parade attendees.

The Fayetteville Observer reported Saturday that Hope Mills, N.C. parade included a float attached to a John Deere tractor, driven by local farmer Donnie Spell. The float included a large wagon filled with watermelons, and featured a sign that read "White History Month. Hug WTE PPL." A Confederate flag was also attached to the tractor.

"This should be over, all that stuff should be over," Hope Mills resident Suzanne Singletary told ABC11. "I don't understand why people are still living like this."

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ABC11 reports that Spell applied for and received a permit to participate in the parade. However, according to town officials, Spell said the sign on his wagon would read "Watermelons for sale."

Hope Mills Mayor Jackie Warner told the Fayetteville Observer she had received a number of complaints about the float, and that the parade's board would review the float application process to prevent similar incidents in the future.

"I believe we've got to make sure we're sensitive to all people's feelings," she said.

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American mom, daughter, 6, stuck in Brazil in child custody battle

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This 2013 photo provided by Lindsey DeFilipi shows Ava Machado, left, with her mother, Shauna Hadden, of Agawam, Mass.

By Bridget Murphy, The Associated Press

BOSTON --?Police in Brazil have seized passports belonging to a woman and her 6-year-old daughter, stranding them in South America for about a month amid an international custody dispute with the child's father.

Thirty-three-year-old Shauna Hadden and her daughter, Ava Machado, have been in Brazil since late May, when they began a trip Hadden said was intended to connect the girl with the father she hadn't seen in more than three years.

Hadden's mother, Linda, said Friday the pair had already arrived in Rio de Janeiro on her way to visit Ava's father, 32-year-old Donizete Machado, when her daughter received a phone call from a mutual friend warning her that Machado planned to keep the girl.

Instead of taking a flight to southern Brazil to meet Machado, Shauna Hadden and her daughter flew north to stay with friends in the northeastern city of Fortaleza, Linda Hadden said.


Then federal police seized Shauna Hadden's passport along with her daughter's in early June.

On Friday, a lawyer for Machado confirmed the passports were confiscated following a request by the girl's father but denied he wants custody of the girl, whom Hadden has had full custody of since the couple split in 2009.

Attorney Isabel Feijo said Machado sought seizure of their passports because Hadden skipped his scheduled meeting with Ava.

"He wants her to visit him and his family, and if the mother agrees to that, the request to seize the passport will immediately be withdrawn, we'll drop the case," Feijo said Friday.

Feijo said Hadden ? using tickets purchased by her ex-husband ? arrived in Rio de Janeiro on May 21 and was supposed to meet Machado in the city of Florianopolis before traveling together to the town of Criciuma, about 125 miles to the southeast.

When Hadden and her daughter failed to show, Feijo filed court papers on May 27 asking for their passports to be seized.

In court filings, Feijo alleged Hadden never intended to allow her daughter to see Machado and instead used the tickets to meet an online boyfriend.

Hadden's family called that claim ridiculous, but in an exchange of Facebook messages from April 16 ? five weeks before her trip ? Hadden voices an intention to visit the man named in the passport seizure request, a resident of the town where she's now staying.

Hadden's mother said she believes her daughter intended to visit her ex-husband because they had purchased gifts for his nieces and nephews that Shauna Hadden took with her. Linda Hadden said it's possible her daughter is dating the other man but he wasn't the sole reason for her trip.

Machado, who works as a house painter, had been expelled from the U.S. because he entered the country illegally through Mexico, his attorney confirmed.

Rafaela Santos Martins da Rosa, the federal judge overseeing the case, said she couldn't provide details because the case involves a minor and falls under secrecy laws. Brazil's federal police declined to comment. The U.S. Embassy in Brasilia would confirm only that Hadden is in Fortaleza and is receiving consular services.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Richard Neal, both of Massachusetts, say they've been trying to intervene in an effort to get mother and daughter back to the United States.

It's common in Brazil for officials to confiscate the passports of parents if a judge feels there is a chance that a mother or father may try to take a child out of the country without the other parent's permission.

This is not the first time that parents from Brazil and the United States have become embroiled in a custody dispute attracting international attention.

In 2009, a five-year custody battle involving a boy with family in New Jersey and Brazil ended with the 9-year-old Sean Goldman's return to the United States with his father David Goldman.

The case had pitted David Goldman against his son's Brazilian stepfather, who had cared for the boy after his mother died in childbirth. The boy's mother had brought him to her native Brazil for what was supposed to be a vacation, but she stayed before divorcing her son's father and remarrying. The boy's stepfather had temporary custody of him, before the conclusion of a case that strained relations between Brazil and the United States.

When the boy's handover was blocked shortly before the custody dispute ended, the U.S. Senate put a hold on a trade deal worth about $2.75 billion a year to Brazil. The dispute prompted high-level discussions involving President Barack Obama and his then-counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Shauna Hadden has a Facebook page called "Trapped in Brazil" that she is updating as she waits for the case to be resolved.

In an email to The Associated Press on Friday, she said she and her daughter are stressed and want to come home.

"Ava is tired and having a hard time," she said.

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

The Daily Caller presents: The first annual High School Stupidity Awards

The dog days of summer are upon us. High school students across the country are enjoying their time off, which means that The Daily Caller can offer far fewer stories about stupid and otherwise outrageous occurrences on campus.

The time is right, then, to celebrate the academic year that was. Here are the stupidest, most outrageous and most cringe-worthy high school moments of 2012-13.

Overland High School (Aurora, Colo.): World?s greatest math teacher ever

Carly McKinney (aka Carly Crunk Bear) is the 23-year-old high school math teacher from Aurora, Colorado who took to Twitter in January with half-nude photos of herself, chatter about getting heroically stoned and an admission that she was tweeting instead of working during school hours. She also tweeted to the world that she had marijuana in her car. The Crunk Bear did not face charges for her boasting. Sadly, however, she was ultimately fired for her hijinks. (RELATED: Revealed: The hot Twitter pics and posts from the world?s greatest high school math teacher)

Chapin High School (Chapin, S.C.): Most bizarre flag-stomping to make some baffling point about symbolism

South Carolina honors English teacher Scott Compton was fired because he threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students during three different class periods. ?He proceeds to take down the American flag, and said, ?This is a symbol, but it?s only a piece of cloth. It doesn?t mean anything,? and then he throws it down on the floor and then stomps on it, repeatedly,? said the father of a student at Chapin High. Compton ultimately received a whopping $85,000 in a settlement with the Lexington-Richland 5 school district. (RELATED: South Carolina teacher on leave for stomping on American flag in front of class)

P.S. 211 (New York, N.Y.): Most embarrassingly stupid sacking of a teacher

A junior-high school Spanish teacher, Petrona Smith, filed a lawsuit alleging that she was fired from P.S. 211 in the Bronx in March 2012 because of a misunderstanding over the word ?negro.? The 65-year-old,?non-tenured teacher maintains that she was instructing her class about how to say the various basic colors in Spanish. The word ?negro? naturally came up because ?negro? is the Spanish word for ?black.? A seventh-grade student in the class took offense at the term, however, believing the word to be a racial slur. But wait ? it gets better. Smith, a native of the West Indies, is herself black. (RELATED: Black Spanish teacher claims she was fired for using the word ?negro? in class)

St. Pius X High School (Lincoln, Neb.): Hottest on-campus porn photo shoot

Teen porn star Valerie Dodds, who goes by the apparently erotic stage name Val Midwest, was charged with trespassing and public nudity after taking naked photos of herself at the Catholic high school she once attended. Sex toys and a crucifix were involved as well as inserted. Dodds, 19, said she chose St. Pius X High for the nighttime photo shoot as a response to students who had criticized her recent career choice. ?I decided to go there and show them that I am here to stay,? she said triumphantly. After she was ticketed, Dodds returned to the school and did another photo shoot in broad daylight, this time wearing only panties and pasties over her nipples. (RELATED: Teen porn star got naked, pleasured herself with crucifix on school grounds)

Moanalua High School (Honolulu, Hawaii): Most annoying, spiteful atheist who ruined Christmas

The Hawaii Department of Education canceled a beloved annual Christmas concert by the Moanalua High School orchestra only four days before the event, following legal complaints by Mitch Kahle, founder of the Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State and Church, because of New Hope Church?s involvement in the concert. New Hope had managed ticket sales and sold tickets to the concert at its services, sending all proceeds to charitable causes. In recent years, the church has raised more than $200,000 through ticket sales for a charity that treats poor people in Africa. (RELATED: Threat of legal action by activist organization leads state to cancel school Christmas concert)

Martin County High School (Stuart, Fla.): Sexiest English teacher

English teacher Olivia Sprauer was fired after Alfred Fabrizio, Martin County High?s principal, learned that she also worked as a professional model under the far sexier name Victoria V. James. Her?modeling website?and?Facebook page?feature numerous photos of her wearing bikinis and occasional see-through lingerie. It was too much skin for school officials. After Sprauer confirmed to Fabrizio that the images were indeed of her, she the principal fired her and she was escorted out of the school. (RELATED: Florida teacher too sexy to teach)

Sebastian River High School (Sebastian, Fla.): Biggest to-do over a lesbian relationship between two high school students

Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, rejected a deal which would have required her to plead guilty to engaging in sex with her underage girlfriend. Last November, Hunt began a romantic relationship with a 14-year-old female student. Both attended and played on the basketball team at Sebastian River High. Since the age of consent in Florida is 16 years of age, Hunt was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious battery on a child. The age difference between the two girls is three and a half years. Under the rejected deal, Hunt would not be incarcerated or listed as a sex offender. Her trial is still ongoing this summer. (RELATED: New details emerge in teen lesbian?s arrest for underage sex)

Tucson Unified School District (Tucson, Ariz.): Best judicial opinion criticizing a bunch of Chicano racists

In March, federal judge A. Wallace Tashima upheld most of a 2010 Arizona state law that prohibited school districts from offering coursework that endorses the overthrow of the United States government or stokes resentment toward a race or class of people. The ruling stems from the Tucson school district?s intervention to forcibly alter coursework in a controversial Mexican-American studies program. The highly race-conscious program taught history, civics and literature from a pointedly Mexican-American vantage point. The judge agreed with a prior evidentiary finding by an administrative law judge that the program promoted ?racial resentment against ?whites.?? (RELATED: Federal judge: Arizona can ban classes promoting ?racial resentment against ?whites?)

Eastern University Academy Charter School (Philadelphia, Pa.): Most unseemly book purchased by a teacher for a student

In May, The Daily Caller located the one man in America who claimed to be blissfully unaware that the novel ?Fifty Shades of Grey? is the tour de porn. That man is a high school math teacher at Philadelphia?s Eastern University Academy Charter School. He requested that students give him a list of books they wanted to read during an independent reading period. Naturally, a ninth-grade boy asked for ?Fifty Shades of Grey.? The teacher then ordered it online, with his own money. The student?s mother was very upset when she discovered the smutty romance tale in her son?s book bag, though. School officials called the incident an unfortunate mistake. (RELATED: Teacher bought ?Fifty Shades of Grey? for ninth grader; mom mad)

Delavan-Darien High School (Delavan, Wisc.): Most radical leftist indoctrination at a podunk high school

At Delavan-Darien High School in Wisconsin, the curriculum on ?American Diversity? allegedly teaches students that white skin confers a set of unfair privileges. The ideas presented in the course come from a broader academic movement called critical race theory. ?There is not space here to list all the ways in which white privilege plays out in our lives,? reads one paper assigned to students. Another assignment asked students to visit the toy aisle at the local Wal-Mart and count the number of white dolls. (RELATED: Public high school in Wisconsin indoctrinates students in ?white privilege?)

Poston Butte High School (Tan Valley, Ariz.): Worst suspension for the crime of having a picture of a gun

Freshman Daniel McClaine, Jr., made the mistake of setting a picture of an AK-47 lying on a flag as the desktop background on his Poston Butte High-issued computer. He found it on the Internet and liked it, partly because he is interested in serving in the military after graduation. A teacher ratted McClaine out after noticing the Soviet-era rifle on the computer. The boy received a three-day suspension. After his father contacted the local press, though, school district officials suddenly decided that the younger McClaine could return to school. (RELATED: High school freshman suspended for having a picture of a gun)

Middleborough High School (Middleborough, Mass.): Most stunning transgender prom queen

Wearing a silver tiara and a purple sash, and clasping a bouquet of pink flowers, Middleborough High student Cody Tubman became the first transgender prom queen in the whole history of Middleborough, Mass., the cranberry capital of the world. The senior has been dressing as a woman since sophomore year. School officials have happily facilitated the cross-dressing, permitting Tubman to use female bathrooms and locker rooms freely. (RELATED: Mass. high school crowns its very first transgender prom queen)

Grosse Pointe North High School (Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan): Best example of a teachers union imposing dumb rules

Science teacher Gary Abud, the 2013-14 Michigan Teacher of the Year is ?a teacher amongst teachers,? according to his school district?s superintendent, and is an outstanding professional, according to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Thanks to the anti-meritocratic compensation rules governing teachers unions in Michigan, though, Abud took home about $20,000 less than the average teacher in his district. (RELATED: ?Teacher of the Year? earns $20,000 less than average, thanks to union rules)

Ambridge Area School District (Ambridge, Pa.): Best rendition of the ?Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? song that resulted in a school lockdown

A receptionist for a local eye doctor misinterpreted high school student Travis Clawson?s voicemail greeting, triggering a lockdown of several schools in a series of events that led to his arrest. The prerecorded greeting was Clawson?s imitation of part of the rap theme song from the ?The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,? a 1990s sitcom starring a young Will Smith. At one point, the receptionist thought she heard Clawson say, ?shooting people outside of the school.? The actual words to the song are: ?And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school.? (RELATED: School locked down after receptionist misinterprets ?Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? song as threat)

Camden LEAP Academy University Charter School (Camden, N.J.): Best sloppy joe, hopefully

Michael Pastorello, the executive chef at the Camden LEAP Academy was in the news this year either for his inflated salary or perhaps because he prepares the world?s most delectable sloppy joe ? certainly off the bone, perhaps with a cream basil sauce. Pastorello was pulling $95,000 a year to serve meals to approximately 1,000 students. That?s more than twice the average take-home pay of people in the area who do the same basic job. Coincidentally, he was also the live-in boyfriend of the school?s founder. (RELATED: ?Executive chef? at Camden, New Jersey charter school makes $95,000 a year)

Mariemont City School District (Mariemont, Ohio): Most ridiculous lawsuit filed by a teacher

High school French and Spanish teacher Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against her suburban Cincinnati school district, claiming a phobia of young children. Problems arose when the district reassigned her from high school to junior high. The suit also claims the district wanted her to resign because of her age. The alleged disability is pedophobia, an irrational fear or dislike of children. ?It?s a tough phobia,? observed local professor Caleb Adler. (RELATED: Ohio teacher sues school district over child-phobia ?disability?)

Linden High School (Linden, Calif.): Best detective work by a high school sophomore

After students kept noticing items disappearing from their bags all year during gym class, crime stopper Justine Betti decided to do some investigating. She wedged herself inside a school locker and waited patiently for the perpetrator to strike. Betti was surprised to find out that a popular gym teacher with some three decades of experience was the backpack bandit. Fearing that no one would believe her, she did what any good gumshoe would do: She returned to the scene of the crime, hid again, and set up a video surveillance operation. (RELATED: High school sophomore goes undercover to catch teacher looting backpacks)

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    "After long scrutiny of the data, there it was, a slow but steady wind, releasing about 1 kg of plasma every second into the outer magnetosphere: this corresponds to almost 90 tonnes every day. It was definitely one of the nicest surprises I've ever had!" said Dandouras of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.

    The plasmasphere is a region filled with charged particles that takes up the inner part of the Earth's magnetosphere, which is dominated by the planet's magnetic field.

    To detect the wind, Dandouras analysed the properties of these charged particles, using information collected in the plasmasphere by ESA's Cluster spacecraft. Further, he developed a filtering technique to eliminate noise sources and to look for plasma motion along the radial direction, either directed at the Earth or outer space.

    As detailed in the new Annales Geophysicae study, the data showed a steady and persistent wind carrying about a kilo of the plasmasphere's material outwards each second at a speed of over 5,000 km/h. This plasma motion was present at all times, even when the Earth's magnetic field was not being disturbed by energetic particles coming from the Sun.

    Researchers predicted a space wind with these properties over 20 years ago: it is the result of an imbalance between the various forces that govern plasma motion. But direct detection eluded observation until now.

    "The plasmaspheric wind is a weak phenomenon, requiring for its detection sensitive instrumentation and detailed measurements of the particles in the plasmasphere and the way they move," explains Dandouras, who is also the vice-president of the EGU Planetary and Solar System Sciences Division.

    The wind contributes to the loss of material from the Earth's top atmospheric layer and, at the same time, is a source of plasma for the outer magnetosphere above it. Dandouras explains: "The plasmaspheric wind is an important element in the mass budget of the plasmasphere, and has implications on how long it takes to refill this region after it is eroded following a disturbance of the planet's magnetic field. Due to the plasmaspheric wind, supplying plasma from the upper atmosphere below it to refill the plasmasphere is like pouring matter into a leaky container."

    The plasmasphere, the most important plasma reservoir inside the magnetosphere, plays a crucial role in governing the dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts. These present a radiation hazard to satellites and to astronauts travelling through them. The plasmasphere's material is also responsible for introducing a delay in the propagation of GPS signals passing through it.

    "Understanding the various source and loss mechanisms of plasmaspheric material, and their dependence on the geomagnetic activity conditions, is thus essential for understanding the dynamics of the magnetosphere, and also for understanding the underlying physical mechanisms of some space weather phenomena," says Dandouras.

    Michael Pinnock, Editor-in-Chief of Annales Geophysicae recognises the importance of the new result. "It is a very nice proof of the existence of the plasmaspheric wind. It's a significant step forward in validating the theory. Models of the plasmasphere, whether for research purposes or space weather applications (e.g. GPS signal propagation) should now take this phenomenon into account," he wrote in an email.

    Similar winds could exist around other planets, providing a way for them to lose atmospheric material into space. Atmospheric escape plays a role in shaping a planet's atmosphere and, hence, its habitability.

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    This research is presented in the paper 'Detection of a plasmaspheric wind in the Earth's magnetosphere by the Cluster spacecraft' to appear in the EGU open access journal Annales Geophysicae on 2 July 2013. Please mention the publication if reporting on this story and, if reporting online, include a link to the paper or to the journal website (http://www.annales-geophysicae.net/).


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    A new study provides the first conclusive proof of the existence of a space wind first proposed theoretically over 20 years ago. By analysing data from the European Space Agency's Cluster spacecraft, researcher Iannis Dandouras detected this plasmaspheric wind, so-called because it contributes to the loss of material from the plasmasphere, a donut-shaped region extending above the Earth's atmosphere. The results are published today in Annales Geophysicae, a journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

    "After long scrutiny of the data, there it was, a slow but steady wind, releasing about 1 kg of plasma every second into the outer magnetosphere: this corresponds to almost 90 tonnes every day. It was definitely one of the nicest surprises I've ever had!" said Dandouras of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.

    The plasmasphere is a region filled with charged particles that takes up the inner part of the Earth's magnetosphere, which is dominated by the planet's magnetic field.

    To detect the wind, Dandouras analysed the properties of these charged particles, using information collected in the plasmasphere by ESA's Cluster spacecraft. Further, he developed a filtering technique to eliminate noise sources and to look for plasma motion along the radial direction, either directed at the Earth or outer space.

    As detailed in the new Annales Geophysicae study, the data showed a steady and persistent wind carrying about a kilo of the plasmasphere's material outwards each second at a speed of over 5,000 km/h. This plasma motion was present at all times, even when the Earth's magnetic field was not being disturbed by energetic particles coming from the Sun.

    Researchers predicted a space wind with these properties over 20 years ago: it is the result of an imbalance between the various forces that govern plasma motion. But direct detection eluded observation until now.

    "The plasmaspheric wind is a weak phenomenon, requiring for its detection sensitive instrumentation and detailed measurements of the particles in the plasmasphere and the way they move," explains Dandouras, who is also the vice-president of the EGU Planetary and Solar System Sciences Division.

    The wind contributes to the loss of material from the Earth's top atmospheric layer and, at the same time, is a source of plasma for the outer magnetosphere above it. Dandouras explains: "The plasmaspheric wind is an important element in the mass budget of the plasmasphere, and has implications on how long it takes to refill this region after it is eroded following a disturbance of the planet's magnetic field. Due to the plasmaspheric wind, supplying plasma from the upper atmosphere below it to refill the plasmasphere is like pouring matter into a leaky container."

    The plasmasphere, the most important plasma reservoir inside the magnetosphere, plays a crucial role in governing the dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts. These present a radiation hazard to satellites and to astronauts travelling through them. The plasmasphere's material is also responsible for introducing a delay in the propagation of GPS signals passing through it.

    "Understanding the various source and loss mechanisms of plasmaspheric material, and their dependence on the geomagnetic activity conditions, is thus essential for understanding the dynamics of the magnetosphere, and also for understanding the underlying physical mechanisms of some space weather phenomena," says Dandouras.

    Michael Pinnock, Editor-in-Chief of Annales Geophysicae recognises the importance of the new result. "It is a very nice proof of the existence of the plasmaspheric wind. It's a significant step forward in validating the theory. Models of the plasmasphere, whether for research purposes or space weather applications (e.g. GPS signal propagation) should now take this phenomenon into account," he wrote in an email.

    Similar winds could exist around other planets, providing a way for them to lose atmospheric material into space. Atmospheric escape plays a role in shaping a planet's atmosphere and, hence, its habitability.

    ###

    This research is presented in the paper 'Detection of a plasmaspheric wind in the Earth's magnetosphere by the Cluster spacecraft' to appear in the EGU open access journal Annales Geophysicae on 2 July 2013. Please mention the publication if reporting on this story and, if reporting online, include a link to the paper or to the journal website (http://www.annales-geophysicae.net/).


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