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G.O.P. Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Farms Agenda ? Pro President Obama Blog
U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Industry is one the is very labor intensive. Simply shutting American?s door to immigrant farm workers is not the solution.
Reduction in the supply of workers that could make agricultural labor more expensive for the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry may impact industry competitiveness but the effects would vary by commodity that would lead to the extintion of American farms, American jobs and ?heavy importing of fruits , vegetables and other food items.
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Farmers Oppose G.O.P. Bill on Immigration
7/30/11 By JESSE McKINLEY and JULIA PRESTON
Farmers across the country are rallying to fight a Republican-sponsored bill, Legal Workforce Act H.R. 2164?(E-Verify), that would force them and all other employers to verify the legal?immigration?status of their workers, a move some say could imperil not only future harvests but also the agricultural community?s traditional support for conservative candidates.
The bill was proposed by Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. It would require farmers ? who have long relied on a labor force of immigrants, a majority here without legal documents ? to check all new hires through E-Verify, a federal database run by the Department of Homeland Security devised to ferret out illegal immigrants.
For the entire?article:?http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/us/politics/31verify.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Texas Democrats attack GOP Rep. Lamar Smith over HALT Act
July 22, 2011 Julian Aguilar ? Texas Tribune
AUSTIN ? Republican U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith?s attempt to strip President Barack Obama?s administration of its immigration enforcement powers has drawn a harsh rebuke from Texas Democrats in the U.S. House, who say the proposal ?is an attack on (the president?s) integrity that should not pass unnoticed or unopposed.?
Smith, R-San Antonio, this month introduced the Hinder the Administration?s Legalization Temptation ?(HALT) Act, which would prevent the administration from, among other things, canceling the removal of illegal immigrants, granting protective status to any immigrant and granting parole or issuing deferred action ?except in narrow circumstances. It is co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La.
For the entire article: http://www.themonitor.com/articles/democrats-53082-texas-gop.html
Source: http://propresobama.org/2011/07/31/g-o-p-anti-immigrant-anti-farms-agenda/
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Top back-to-school notebooks to fit your budget
While tablets are all the rage, students looking for a physical keyboard, gobs of storage and enough processing muscle for serious multitasking should still make a laptop their primary computing device. But which is the right notebook for your budget?
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30892505/vp/43965001#43965001
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Summer programs for kids and teens at UW-Milwaukee | Milwaukee ...
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Computer students in a pre-college class. (Photo is by Alan Magayne-Roshak).
Many universities are quiet places in the summer, but not the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
Hundreds of elementary, junior high and high school students come to campus during the summer months to take part in the university?s extensive array of pre-college programs and camps.
The goal of the programs is to provide students with academic support services and hands-on experiences that give them ?wonderful, unique experiences that enhance their vision of their future,? says April Holland, executive director of UWM?s TRIO and Pre-College programs. The office offers pre-college programs year-round, but summertime gives younger students a chance to spend several weeks at a time on campus.
The programs include a variety of summer camps and enrichment programs especially focused on students who might not have seen college as part of their future, says Holland.
Dance students in the Urban Teacher World program, learning about dance education with Dani Kuepper of the UWM dance faculty. (Photo is by Kyle Stevens).
It?s an opportunity to let youngsters, particularly in the African American, Hispanic, Hmong and American Indian communities, see what college is all about, explore majors and careers, and learn the skills they need to succeed, she adds.
The Upward Bound Math and Science program for students in grades 9-12, for example, helps students realize their potential to excel in mathematics and science. It also gives them opportunities to explore majors and future careers in the STEM fields ? Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Another program, Future Success, helps students prepare for high school success and college admission. The students do work in mathematics, science and English, and work to improve test-taking and mathematics skills. Students get a chance to work with faculty members in areas like physics, biology, engineering, nursing and other areas to learn more about careers in these areas.
The summer exploration camps offer junior high students a chance to do handson science experiments, investigate mathematics and work in teams to research, write and construct their own talk show.
In addition to the educational opportunities that are part of the TRIO and Pre- College program, individual schools and departments offer specific programs for future students. The School of Education, for example, offers a two-week Urban Teacher World program that gives ninth and tenth graders a chance to build their skills and learn more about careers in education. The School of Architecture and Urban Planning offers a weeklong architecture summer camp for high school students who think they may be interested in a career in architecture.
And, the TRIO and Pre-College program works closely with UWM?s College for Kids and College for Teens programs, says Holland. College for Kids, now in its 31st year, offers youngsters an opportunity to try everything from designing computer games to helping out at an archaeology field school.
Holland, who recently returned to UWM after 10 years, says she enjoys meeting up with graduates of the pre-college programs who are now in college themselves or in successful careers.
?I run into them in Starbucks or on campus all the time,? she says. Recently, for example, she had lunch with Audia Dobson Young, who was in a 1999 pre-college program, went to Marquette majoring in computer technology and now works at GE Medical.
All of the TRIO and Pre- College programs offer financial aid to students who need it, as do most of the other UWM programs and camps. Students and parents who are interested in next summer?s courses or in upcoming fall classes can contact Holland?s office at precoll@uwm.edu. For a listing of fall classes, go to www.triopc.uwm.edu.
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Source: http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2011/07/28/summer-programs-for-kids-and-teens-at-uw-milwaukee/
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Senate plan to end FAA shutdown falls apart
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, talks to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt during a news conference to discuss the interruption of federal funding for airport construction projects and contractors at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Monday, August 1, 2011.The FAA's operating authority expired at midnight Friday, forcing a partial shutdown of the agency. Dozens of airport construction projects across the country have been put on hold and thousands of federal employees were out of work. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, talks to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt during a news conference to discuss the interruption of federal funding for airport construction projects and contractors at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Monday, August 1, 2011.The FAA's operating authority expired at midnight Friday, forcing a partial shutdown of the agency. Dozens of airport construction projects across the country have been put on hold and thousands of federal employees were out of work. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood discusses the interruption of federal funding for airport construction projects and contractors at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Monday, August 1, 2011. The FAA's operating authority expired at midnight Friday, forcing a partial shutdown of the agency. Dozens of airport construction projects across the country have been put on hold and thousands of federal employees were out of work. In the background is an old air traffic control tower whose demolition has been interrupted because of the funding interruption. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, center, poses with tradesmen after a news conference to discuss the interruption of federal funding for airport construction projects and contractors at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Monday, August 1, 2011. The FAA's operating authority expired at midnight Friday, forcing a partial shutdown of the agency. Dozens of airport construction projects across the country have been put on hold and thousands of federal employees were out of work. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, talks to American Airlines pilot Jesse J. Perkins after a news conference at which LaHood spoke of the interruption of federal funding for airport construction projects and contractors, at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Monday, August 1, 2011. The FAA's operating authority expired at midnight Friday, forcing a partial shutdown of the agency. Dozens of airport construction projects across the country have been put on hold and thousands of federal employees were out of work. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood discusses the interruption of federal funding for airport construction projects and contractors at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Monday, August 1, 2011. The FAA's operating authority expired at midnight Friday, forcing a partial shutdown of the agency. Dozens of airport construction projects across the country have been put on hold and thousands of federal employees were out of work. In the background is an old air traffic control tower whose demolition has been interrupted because of the funding interruption. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A bipartisan Senate plan to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration has fallen apart as the cost to the government and to workers mounts.
Senators said the collapse of the plan late Monday means Congress could leave town for its August recess without resolving the shutdown, now in its second week.
That would leave the issue hanging until Congress returns in September. Senators said the government will lose about $1.2 billion in uncollected airline ticket taxes.
The Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House are at odds of over proposals to cut rural air service subsidies and change federal labor law to make it more difficult for airline workers to unionize.
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Monday, August 1, 2011
Discovery of a new magnetic order
ScienceDaily (July 31, 2011) ? Physicists at Forschungszentrum J?lich and the universities of Kiel and Hamburg are the first to discover a regular lattice of stable magnetic skyrmions -- radial spiral structures made up of atomic-scale spins -- on a surface instead of in bulk materials. Such tiny formations could one day form the basis of a new generation of smaller and more efficient data storage units in the field of information technology. The scientists discovered the magnetic spirals, each made up of just 15 atoms, in a one-atomic-layer of iron on iridium.
They present their results in the current issue of the scientific journal Nature Physics.
The existence of magnetic skyrmions was already predicted over 20 years ago, but was first proven experimentally in 2009; a group of research scientists from the Technische Universit?t M?nchen (TUM) had identified lattices of magnetic vortices in manganese silicon in a weak magnetic field. Unlike these structures, the ones now discovered by physicists at J?lich, Kiel and Hamburg exist without an external magnetic field and are located on the surface of the materials examined, instead of inside them. Their diameter amounts to just a few atoms, making them at least one order of magnitude smaller than the skyrmions which have been identified to date.
"The magnetically-stable entities that we have discovered behave like particles and arrange themselves like atoms in a two-dimensional lattice," explains Prof. Stefan Bl?gel, Director at the Peter Gr?nberg Institute and the Institute for Advanced Simulation in J?lich. "This discovery is for us a dream come true." Already in 2007, the same scientific team had discovered a new type of magnetic order in a thin manganese film on tungsten and demonstrated the critical significance of the so-called Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction for the formation of its wave-like structure. The same interaction is also necessary for the formation of the spiral-shaped skyrmions.
The scientists did not discover the skyrmion lattice at first attempt. Originally, they wanted to prepare a one-atomic layer of chromium on iridium, in order to investigate the presumed existence of a different magnetic state. As the experiments were unsuccessful, they then tried with other metals. Using spin-polarized scanning tunnelling microscopy in studies of iron on iridium at the University of Hamburg, the researchers noticed regular magnetic patterns that were not consistent with the crystalline structure of the metal surface. "We were sure straightaway that we had discovered skyrmions," says Bl?gel. Intricate calculations undertaken by the J?lich supercomputers subsequently proved him right.
The result is a model describing the formation of the spin alignment through a complex interplay of three interactions: the chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, the conventional interaction between spins plus a non-linear interaction involving four spins. The model should help, in the future, to selectively influence magnetic structures on surfaces. "We are now planning to investigate the effect of electricity on skyrmions; how do the electron spins of an electric current "ride" the spirals, how do they influence resistance and how are the spirals affected?," says Bl?gel.
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- Stefan Heinze, Kirsten von Bergmann, Matthias Menzel, Jens Brede, Andr? Kubetzka, Roland Wiesendanger, Gustav Bihlmayer, Stefan Bl?gel. Spontaneous atomic-scale magnetic skyrmion lattice in two dimensions. Nature Physics, 2011; DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2045
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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110731165937.htm
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Wilson Sporting Goods: Equipped for Marketing Success with ...
Wilson Sporting Goods: Equipped for Marketing Success with Alterian
New York (PRWEB) July 27, 2009
Alterian (LSE:ALN), the leading international integrated marketing platform provider, announced Wilson Sporting Goods Co. will use Alterian Content Management Enterprise Edition and Alterian Dynamic Messenger to manage the brand?s global websites and e-mail marketing campaign activities. Wilson, the world?s leading manufacturer of sports equipment, will implement Alterian technology into all three areas of its global business: Racquet Sports, Team Sports and Golf.
Wilson serves customers in more than 100 countries and required a comprehensive platform that would enable the company to streamline its Web content management and e-mail marketing initiatives. Following a careful evaluation of several web content management vendors, Wilson chose Alterian for its integrated approach, straightforward interface and overall ease of use.
By leveraging Alterian technology, Wilson will be able to more quickly and easily create websites, manage content and deliver targeted information to customers, prospective customers and partners.
?Just as Wilson is in constant pursuit to provide innovative technologies to enhance the performance of our customers on the playing field, we are committed to implementing the most innovative technologies to serve our customers off the playing field,? said Jermaine Mason, director of technology at Wilson. ?The implementation of Alterian technology will help us better target our customers and allow us to maintain our position as the number one sports equipment company in the world.?
?We view the integration of Web content management and e-mail marketing solutions as a strategic enabler for enhanced business performance,? said David Eldridge, chief executive officer of Alterian. ?Wilson is a brand name recognized around the globe and its selection of Alterian technology provides strong testament to the need for an integrated marketing platform to fully engage customers.?
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Alterian?s unprecedented integration of analytics, content and execution through industry leading tools, such as the Dynamic Messenger email platform and the award winning Content Management solutions, enables companies to build integrated communication strategies which create a true picture of the individual.
Alterian works with marketing services partners, system integrators and agencies who recognize the need to plan and deliver coordinated customer engagement services in partnership with their clients. For more information about Alterian, products within the Alterian Integrated Marketing Platform or Alterian?s Partner Network, visit http://www.alterian.com or the Alterian blog at http://www.this-is-marketing.com.
About Wilson
Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods Co., a division of Amer Sports, is one of the world?s leading manufacturers of sports equipment. The company designs, manufactures and distributes advanced equipment that helps players improve their performance. Wilson?s core categories include Baseball, Football, Basketball, Softball, Bats, Volleyball, Soccer, Youth Sports, Uniforms/Apparel, Golf, Footwear, and Racquet Sports (Tennis, Racquetball, Squash, Badminton and Platform Tennis).
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