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Having just gotten back from a trip abroad where the news was dominated by the story of a politician facing severe consequences (and the end of his political career) for his sexual misconduct, I opened up the pages of the American news to find… well, pretty much the same thing.
While France digests the criminal trial of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, back home in America John Edwards is also slouching towards a courtroom, in a desperate bid to retain his legal license by beating the rap on campaign finance charges — and that was the minor political sexual misconduct story of the past week or so.
The major political sexual scandal was a full-blown weenie roast. Or, to be more accurate, a Weiner roast. This is technically not exactly the same thing as a wiener roast, but it certainly is close enough for the late-night comedian in all of us, right? The word “wiener” is an American bastardization of wienerwurst, German for Vienna

This week a bit of controversy erupted in Washington when it was announced that the performance of Malek Jandali, a Syrian musician, had been dropped from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s (ADC) annual convention. It appears that Jandali had insisted on including “Watani Ana”, a song about freedom, in his repertoire–and that some leaders at ADC had been equally insistent that the song be dropped. With no meeting of the minds, Jandali was dropped from the program.
Bloggers, especially those looking for a way to draw blood from an Arab American organization, had a field day with the

Diabetics today are very familiar with a modern form of blood-letting, which involves stabbing themselves in a finger to draw blood. By smearing blood on a glucose test strip and inserting it into a machine, you can find out how much sugar is in your blood. Some people repeat the procedure up to eight or 10 times a day.
But what if most of that bleeding and checking is a waste of time, does almost nothing to control your disease, makes you anxious or depressed and threatens the sustainability of the public health-care system?
This seems to be the case, at least according to some of the best independent health information around, which advises that frequent checking of blood glucose, by people who don’t use insulin, is not a good idea. It leads to anxiety and depression, while the test strips, at about a dollar each, lead to unnecessary spending of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Blood-sugar testing is an essential activity for insulin-dependent diabetics, those people who are born with diabetes or develop it as a child.
However, more than 80 per cent of the people with diabetes are Type-2 diabetics who typically develop it in adulthood and need to control their blood sugar by exercising and modifying their diet.
Some drugs might help to prevent the complications of diabetes, but frequent testing of their blood sugar? Not wise, according to the Canadian Agency for Drugs in Technology and Health, which issued a report last year saying that too-frequent checking of blood sugar is unnecessary and potentially

Sarah Palin recently announced that she would be heading to Sudan soon. The purpose of her trip wasn’t divulged but it likely has something to do with south Sudan’s independence as the world’s newest nation on July 9. American administrations have been involved with the south’s struggle for nationhood to a greater or lesser degree for the last two decades. As someone who visits Sudan frequently, here’s some advice for the aspiring politician.
A region rooted in complexity — During the past presidential election campaign, you became an object of some derision for stating that Africa was one of your favourite

One of the defining images of Canada’s new Parliament to date is a Globe and Mail cartoon of Jack Layton in the House of Commons surrounded by a group of kids, barely tall enough to see over their desks. One holds an NDP balloon, another squirms while Layton takes a Kleenex the new MP’s runny nose.
Much has been made by the election of a historically unprecedented group of young people to Canada’s 41st Parliament. Many commentators have used the occasion to question the capacity of these ‘accidental MPs’ to perform their duties, but if this CBC interview is any indication, it appears the kids are all right.
In fact, for those who believe in the power of representative democracy — where our government’s legitimacy stems, in part, from Parliament’s ability to represent the collective of Canada to a greater whole — there is much to celebrate in the new Parliament.
While the election of these young people has little impact on the overall age of the House (on average, MPs taking office today are 51, where in the last Parliament they were 52), we know MPs tend to be older, whiter, more male, better educated and more ‘white collar’ than the average

There is a difference between “girls’ night out” and “guys’ night out.”
I went on my first planned girls’ night out last week for the first time ever. The two girlfriends I went out with are fairly new friends, who I have become super-close with over the past year. They had never met each other. One girlfriend, the founder of a beauty company, which she sold for gazillions of dollars, is a gorgeous blonde who makes me laugh

The following is excerpted from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s new book, ‘God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations’.
Archbishop Tutu dissents from the official policies of most of the world’s Anglican churches, which hold that gays and lesbians should be celibate; and in the years since his retirement as archbishop of Cape Town he has become one of the world’s most prominent figures pleading for a change in the attitudes of religious institutions toward human sexuality.
Tutu’s position is reflected in excerpts from a newspaper article and a sermon preached in Southwark Cathedral, London, in 2004.
A student once asked me, If I could have one wish granted to reverse an injustice, what would it be? I had to ask for two. One is for world leaders to forgive the debts of developing nations which hold them in such thrall. The other is for the world to end the persecution of people because of their sexual orientation, which is every bit as unjust as that crime against humanity, apartheid.
This is a matter of ordinary justice. We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about — our very

Since the launch of SHOWstudio.com in 2000, the website has championed film and the moving image as the ideal medium for fashion in the digital age. In this exclusive video with Crane.tv, director of SHOWstudio Shop Carrie Scott, explains how she hand-in-hand with founder Nick Knight, have utilised the internet and technology to deliver fashion and art – live and as it happens.
Nick Knight has forever been interested in live studio and showing the process of art as a way to not only focus upon the final polished product, but to show how the product came to be. The physical space in the downstairs of the studio, where artists are invited to come and create work whilst millions of people watch online, is intrinsic to SHOWstudio’s philosophy: to demystify the artistic process.
The latest exhibition “Practice to Deceive”, built around the expression, “smoke and mirrors,” continues the studio’s objective to develop universal themes that occur in both fashion and fine art.
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Yesterday I received the distressing news that the father of blogging in Iran, Hossein Derakshan (aka Hoder) — the young person who had helped create the on-ramps for hundreds if not thousands of bloggers inside Iran as well as inspiring Iranian-Americans around the world to express themselves — failed to secure an appeal of a 20-year sentence imposed on him by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This is really outrageous and sad.
But what is even more frustrating is that this great commentator was harassed in Western society too — plagued by a $2 million libel and defamation lawsuit from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Mehdi Khalaji. Khalaji filed the suit because of a Derakshian blogpost criticizing Khalaji for his service to the “enemies of his people and humanity”.
Khalaji works at a prominent think tank and, in my view, overreacted to the Derakshian post which probably was taking aim at the neoconservative slant of WINEP. I believe in civility, but the tactics Khalaji used to try and silence one of the most important voices of progressive civil society development in Iran — but doing it in Western society — veers too close to the thuggish tactics of Iran’s government in squelching dissent and vital

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By: Denise Tejada
On New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot and killed by former transit officer Johannes Mehserle on the platform of Fruitvale BART station in Oakland. Video of the shooting, recorded on cell phone by bystanders, spread virally, sparking protests in Oakland and gaining national attention. After a jury trial in Los Angeles last summer, Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and received the minimum sentence of two years in state

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By: Robyn Gee
Positive reinforcement is outweighing negative threats at the University of Missouri. Researchers Seoyeon Kim and Joonghwa Lee found that gain-framing anti-binge drinking messages is more effective with college students, than loss-framing.
“Gain framing” in health messages focuses on the benefits of a desirable health behavior or what can be gained by not engaging in a risky behavior. “Loss framing” emphasizes the costs of a risky behavior or what individuals have to lose by not engaging in a desirable health behavior, according to Kim.
Binge-drinking has traditionally been framed as a risky behavior, and students have been warned of the negative

I remember standing at the back of a crowded, sticky-hot gymnasium each June and watching my eighth-grade students graduate. The week leading up to the big day was always a blur of rehearsals and last-minute preparations, so the ceremony itself usually provided a respite — a moment to reflect on the year that just ended. Every time, familiar questions flashed through my mind: What had we learned in our ten months together? What would the kids hold on to once they’d walked out the school’s doors for the last time? What would I hold on to? What mattered?
Of course, that was over a decade ago, before NCLB had tightened its screws on teachers and students, before the corporate brand of school reform had convinced so many politicians and district-level administrators that anything that counts in education can be counted. But my sense is that even though a lot has changed for today’s teachers — the relentless pressure to toe the accountability line, the public pummeling to which they’ve been recently subjected –many still ask themselves similar questions at year’s end.
So, as this school year drew to a close, I asked some Chicago-area teachers what they would take away from their

Some say that maybe it is a bad idea to base a political party’s ideology on a belief that altruism, democracy and Christianity are “evil.” Others say that maybe it is a bad idea to base a country’s policies on fictional novels rather than science and history. Still others say is it a bad idea for national leaders to think of most of the public as “parasites” while saying people with tons of cash are “producers” who should govern. I am talking about the Republican Party’s embrace of Ayn Rand and her cruel philosophy.
Disciples of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of selfishness now dominate the thinking of the leadership of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. There is no way around

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By: Jerome Campbell
Authorities in Houston, Texas, continue to investigate a woman who claimed her psychic visions conjured the location of a mass grave. What some are calling a hoax is reminiscent of 2009′s Balloon Boy case. Will this psychic, only known as “Angel,” get jail time just like the Heenes of “Balloon Boy” fame?
Law officials spent hours early this week searching for what “Angel” claimed was a mass grave of 25-to-30 dismembered bodies, some of which she said were children, but came up with

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By: Noah J. Nelson
The show floor at E3 can be an overwhelming visual calvacade. The latest in technology used in megadoses in order to batter down the will of retailers and journalists alike into submission. Mood lighting, explosions, and more spandex and bare flesh than can be legally fit into a strip club.
At the edges of of the Los Angeles Convention Center’s West Hall an oasis of creativity and DIY innovation was found in the form of the IndieCade booth.
“We’re trying to be the Sundance for video games,” said Sam Roberts, Festival Director for IndieCade- the International festival for independent games which is held in Culver City each

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Once you’ve got an interview scheduled, what do you do next? The common advice is to do your homework, but the term homework is a misnomer. In school, it means answering an assignment for which there are right answers. But in real life, particularly in an interview, you have to prepare much more extensively. No mean

“I’m not the parent I thought I’d be,” one mother told me the morning after picking up her ninth-grade son from a party in Summit, New Jersey, one of the many affluent suburbs circling New York City, where we both live. He’d called the night before and implored her to get him right away, as fellow 14-year-olds were drinking. But after arriving to pick him up, the Mom didn’t confront the parents angrily or demand to know what is going on! Instead, she exchanged pleasantries with the parent on duty, who was apparently oblivious to the vodka in the basement, and took her own kid home. “I didn’t call the next day, either,” she

I’ve been a classroom teacher for a long time now and I’m grateful to be in a school that supports and values my way of teaching. It makes me very happy to spend my days with children who are talented, creative, and eager to learn. It also makes me very happy to work with a cohort of talented and committed colleagues, veterans like me as well as those relatively new to the profession. And it is the latter I worry about when I read yet another diatribe against our profession on how we educators are failing America one way or

My kids are on holiday with their father, so I’m doing what I do when I miss them: I’m thinking of all the funny, sweet, and surprising things they’ve done and said lately. I’m smiling now, at the memory of my son snuggling up to me the other morning to say: “Mom, you’re the best.” With some suspicion of a set-up after an argument the night before, I replied: “Really? Even though I object to television and don’t want you to play video games?” He kept me in the long shadow of his mischievous smirk for a few extra beats, before responding: “Yeah, because you really rock when it comes to ‘name-that-tune’ and ‘say-that-poem’.”
It’s true, I am the undisputed champion of both games in our little family of three. Although I must admit that both my son and daughter are rapidly gaining on me, as I catch them up on decades of music they didn’t live through and centuries of poems they have yet to discover. So, while I’m probably obnoxiously strict about the avoidance of electronic entertainment, I’m incredibly liberal in exposing them to certain lyrics, contexts, and concepts that are far from age

Casting director Natalie Joos and Style.com Editor-in-Chief Dirk Standen hosted a party on Wednesday night to celebrate the relaunch and redesign of Joos’ blog, Tales of Endearment, and the upcoming collaboration between her site and his.
Held atop the James Hotel at the border of SoHo and TriBeCa, the space was intimate — half indoors, half outdoors, though for whatever reason, the crowd gathered around the glass doors that divided the two. Glasses of champagne and an array of cocktails were passed and poured as industry insiders mingled.
The party’s attire was simply stated as “vintage,” and many attendees took it to heart. Joos donned a flowing turquoise maxidress with a deep neck and delicate silver chains across her sternum, designed by Lebanese designer Jacques Cassia, provided by Resurrection Vintage. Joos exuded a Rachel Zoe-esque air, partially due to her movements, and partially due to her petite stature and thin

In an economy that has been reeling in double-digit unemployment and unending home foreclosures, the last thing you would expect is that in the 2010-2011 year we spent a collective $50 billion on our pets. Even more surprising, this figure represents an $8 billion increase in the last three years, during one of the worst U.S. economic downturns.
It is easy to imagine that this information might be a mistake, as it means that more money is now being spent on pets in the United State than the gross national product for all but 64 countries around the

A US woman whose face was torn off by a chimpanzee in 2009 has received a full face transplant.

Charla Nash lost her nose, lips, an eyelid and her hands when the animal, which was kept by a friend as a pet, attacked her. She was also left blind.

Doctors said there had been numerous complications during the 20-hour operation in Boston last month and that Ms Nash had only recently woken up.

She was also given two new hands but they later had to be removed.

The operation, involving a team of 30 medics, was the third full face transplant to be carried out at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Hands turned septic
Ms Nash, who did not appear at the hospital news conference, was given a new nose and lips as well as facial skin, nerves, muscles and teeth. She remains

With a new push for even more “crippling” Iran sanctions coming out of Congress, and renewed signs from the president that further sanctions may be in the offing, it is more important than ever for Americans, particularly Americans of Iranian descent, to evaluate the unintended impact these sanctions are having here in the U.S.
Yesterday, the civil rights organization Asian Law Caucus released its latest guide, The Impact of U.S. Sanctions Against Iran on You, which lays out some of the effects of sanctions on ordinary Iranian Americans and provides guidance for how to navigate the maze of new and existing restrictions.
Last year, when Iranian-American Mahmoud Reza Banki was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for facilitating remittances between families in the U.S. and Iran, shockwaves rippled through the Iranian-American