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Butler County taxpayers now know that hell hath no fury like a court reporter scorned. When a nine-year affair between Judge Michael Sage and court reporter Jennifer Olivier ended, the strain was felt throughout the courthouse.

Olivier?s court reporting schedule was juggled so she would no longer work in Sage?s court. Olivier claims court employees soon began to treat her rudely. Collectively, these charges became part of a harassment retaliation suit she filed against the judge.

The county hired Reynoldsburg attorney Scott Warrick to investigate the charges. He determined that co-workers behaving rudely are not breaking the law and that the reassignment had been planned for years to remedy disparities in court reporters? income.

The total tab for concluding that Olivier?s charges were baseless: $44,937.44. ?

Note: It may have cost a lot, but legal fees were worth it to the Butler County Area Courts, which handled this case properly. It hired an outside investigator with no ties the county or the participants. Olivier may still file an EEOC complaint, but unless some other evidence comes to light, she will probably fare no better there.

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Jordan protesters call for "downfall of the regime"

AMMAN (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators chanted the Arab Spring slogan "the people want the downfall of the regime" in Jordan on Friday, although a day billed as the culmination of three days of protests passed off largely in peace.

Jordan has so far largely avoided the unrest that has swept across the Middle East over the past two years, but a decision this week to raise fuel prices led to the demonstrations.

The mainly urban Muslim Brotherhood announced on Friday it was joining the protests, lending the voice of the country's largest opposition movement to demonstrations which had previously been focused on rural and tribal areas.

Friday's protest near the main Husseini Mosque in downtown Amman was peaceful, with unarmed police separating the demonstrators denouncing King Abdullah from a smaller crowd chanting in support of the monarch.

"Go down Abdullah, go down," the main crowd of about 3,000 protesters chanted as police, some in riot gear, largely stayed away from crowd.

"Raising prices is like playing with fire," said one banner.

Abdullah cancelled a visit to London he had been due to make next week, Britain's Foreign Office said, without giving further details.

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton phoned the monarch and backed his efforts to accelerate political reforms in the kingdom and implement economic reforms, a palace statement said.

A friend of the West, the monarch is seen by many Jordanians as a bulwark of stability, balancing the interests of native tribes and the increasingly assertive Palestinian majority.

Instability in Jordan would come at a dangerous time for the region, when Syria's war risks spilling across borders and Israel is bombing Palestinians in Islamist-run Gaza.

Witnesses said other Friday protests also ended peacefully in the northern city of Irbid and in restive southern towns of Karak, Tafila and Maan, dispelling fears of wider civil unrest.

"The government succeeded in frightening people of chaos and many people were discouraged by what they see as the alternative, as chaos," said Lamis Andoni, a political analyst.

SLOW TO REFORM

Protests had turned violent in impoverished towns across the kingdom since Wednesday when the government imposed a rise in the price of fuel. Unemployed youths and demonstrators have attacked police stations, closed roads with burnt cars and torched government buildings. One protester was killed on Thursday as a crowed tried to storm a police station in Irbid.

Most of the civil unrest has taken place in outlying areas inhabited by tribes, Jordan's original inhabitants who now form a minority outnumbered by Jordanians of Palestinian origin.

The tribes supply the army and security forces with recruits and form the backbone of support for the ruling Hashemite dynasty. They are seen as wary of the prospect of democratic reforms that would cost them privileges and state jobs.

The Brotherhood are rivals to the tribes for power, and their decision to back protests signaled discontent spreading, although senior Brotherhood figures did not appear in person.

"King Abdullah should take note of the situation by going back on the decision to raise prices. The Jordanian people are unable to shoulder more burdens," Brotherhood leader Sheikh Hamam Said said in a statement ahead of the protests.

The slogan "the people want the downfall of the regime" has emerged as the main chant of Arab Spring demonstrations that toppled autocrats from Tunisia to Yemen, in many cases bringing to power elected Islamists allied to the Brotherhood.

In Jordan, an opposition of liberals and Islamists has generally sought reforms, rather than the overthrow of the 50-year-old king, in power since 1999.

Abdullah accepted constitutional changes in August that devolved some of his powers to parliament, paving the way for a prime minister emerging from a parliamentary majority rather than one handpicked by him. However, urban politicians say he has been constrained by the tribes and slow to adopt reforms.

The Brotherhood is planning to boycott a parliamentary election set for January, arguing that rules were designed to safeguard tribal power by giving too many seats to rural areas.

Like many Arab states, Jordan has used government subsidies to appease people with cheap food and fuel, only to court unrest when the cash runs out.

Lifting the subsidies "deprives Jordanians of the minimum requirements of a decent living," Said said. "The King should speed reforms that restore power to the people to allow it put the corrupt on trial and restore embezzled money to the people."

(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Tim Castle in London; Editing by Peter Graff and Myra MacDonald)

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Wedding bells are near so let's hope our winter bride doesn't get cold feet

My daughter and her affianced (you don?t get too many chances to write that phrase, so I?m snatching mine) announced their engagement in early June on an unexpectedly sunny and twinkly day. I said cheerfully that December 8 was an age away. She said ?Ya think?? and he said, ?Most people are saying, 'Don?t you need a year???

Ooh, no, I didn?t think so. Not for a little country wedding in Hampshire, the sort of nuptials Jane Austen's papa could have presided over at Steventon. We?ll be walking 250 yards to the church where the bride was christened, then 250 yards back to the house where she was born (in the dining-room, during an ambulance strike: that was a hell of a morning). Then we?ll walk up to the village hall where she went to playschool for the reception (100 yards).

I see now that even though the distances are so short, they would have worried Miss Austen as much as they worry me. In June a bride could skip to our church in white satin heels. In December, when no late-18th-century young woman could put foot to the ground out of doors, I have a growing feeling that the ushers may have to cross arms and carry her on a human sedan chair.

I?ve been worrying about how cold the London girls will be in church in their en f?te wedding clothes (bare legs, sleeveless). Also, whether I need to issue them with torches. At 4pm it was a darkling sky when I took the dogs out on Thursday, but in December it?ll be blacker earlier.

I walked back deliberately via the village hall so as to a) cast my vote for a police commissioner and b) to see how cold it is in there. Just as I was tying them up, a big, dark-coloured estate car drew level with us and reversed into the little track beside the war memorial. I thought it was turning, but it switched its lights off and stayed put. Down an unmade track.

To my thrilled delight, I discovered the hall was stifling. (NB: the girls may need fans as well as torches.) Two desperately bored but very warm people said they?d been there since 6am for 30 voters so far. I took ballot paper to booth and ? for the first time since I was 21 ? stood puzzling over what to do with it.

Who were these people? Whose mad idea was this? Why should I give any one of them a swanning-around job with a compensation package I have to pay? The only one I?d heard of was Michael Mates. I stood there for five minutes getting crosser and crosser. Michael Mates! Honestly, really ? he must be 80. (Wrong: he won?t be 80 until 2014. And what a splendid time he?ll have swanning around during the 100-year Remembrance Day ceremonies.) I spoilt my paper with a short essay on the senseless waste of money, poked it into the slot and felt triumphantly self-satisfied and ridiculous by turns as I left.

As I untied the dogs, I was expecting pitch-black darkness but found the welkin bright with blue flashing police-lights and car headlamps moving at walking pace past the turning to the hall. In the sky above were two low-flying helicopters making a massive din. The cars were crawling behind a police dog-handler (on foot) with a massive German shepherd dog, who suddenly spotted my two. The handler yelled: ?Are you holding those dogs?? Yes. ?Well, keep holding them.? Right. ?Have you come from that way?? he said, pointing south to the pub. No, I said, pointing north to the church. Are you looking for something, officer? He said he was just doing his job, madam. I opened my mouth to tell him about the car down the track, but he marched past in a glow of professionalism.

?Why didn?t you tell him about the car down the track?? my husband said when he came home. Because I didn?t think he?d take me seriously. He said: ?Probably wouldn?t have. Maybe that?s why you should have voted for a police commissioner.?

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You Are a Good Parent | Attachment Matters

There are many ways of raising children. Of course.

Some parents breastfeed, some don?t, and for the most part, kids turn out fine. Some parents stay at home with their kids, some parents put their kids in daycare, and for the most part, kids turn out fine. Some parents enroll their children in public school, others homeschool, and for the most part, kids turn out fine. There certainly are parenting styles that are in need of improvement, to say it lightly, such as those that tend to be so strict that they could be labeled as abusive or those that are permissive enough to border on neglectful. But there is no one right way to parent, if your goal is to raise children who are functioning members of society.

That said, there are certain parenting goals ? and therefore, strategies ? than can give a child an edge as a functioning member of society, and secure parent-child attachment is one of them. Secure attachment, or the bond between a parent and a child that is wholesome and, well, secure, offers an advantage to a person by helping them handle stress, from everyday garden variety to major adversity, easier. Essentially, secure attachment lends a good self-esteem. Couple this with problem-solving skills and a general knowledge of healthy versus unhealthy coping skills, and you?ve got an excellent set of stress management skills. Good stress management is helpful not only for mental health but also physical health, and just plain overall well-being.

Parents who are passionate enough about a certain approach to parenting to try to spread the message, either through advocacy or through parent education, tend to come from two schools of thought: They may be those who found a certain approach to parenting to work well for them and their family, and want to share the good news, so to speak; or they may be those who believe that their approach to parenting, which obviously worked well for them and their family, is the one right way for all parents and children, and who then pass judgment on families who are different than they are. Most parents, though, I believe, I hope, understand that all families are different and that every parent is just doing what works best for them with what knowledge they have at the time and that sometimes we are all just trying to keep our heads above water and that, other times, we have wonderful moments of clarity and childrearing ease.

It is true that I practice Attachment Parenting, but do not see that any formula to parenting ? even the particular parenting choices I use ? to be ?the? way to parent. I breastfeed, but I do not think that if a child was not breastfed, that that child was neglected. I use positive discipline, but I do not think that if a child is spanked, that that child is abused necessarily. I use daycare sparingly, but I do not think that parents who use daycare regularly are shirking their responsibility as parents. I see us as all on the same side: We?re all trying to do the best we can with what we got. And every family is different. Certainly, I cannot judge anyone unless I have literally walked in their shoes.

Yet, my views of inclusive parenting certainly don?t mean anyone shares this idea. I have encountered both friends and family as well as strangers trying to persuade me that my parenting approach is wrong with arguments that, during the conversation, increasingly ?reach the realm of the ridiculous,? as I like to call it. One woman, in trying to convince me that I was holding my baby too much, told me that most infant injuries come when the caregiver holding the baby falls down. Somehow, I doubt this to be true. Could be the lack of statistics or reference.

In another example, when I revealed that my dates with my husband happen after the kids go to bed, my banker told me that having a date outside the house was a requirement for a healthy marriage. When I said that we don?t go anywhere anyway, because we try to be frugal plus I have so many food allergies that there is literally nowhere I can eat, and that our nightly date in-home during which we eat dessert or have a glass of wine, watch a movie, play a game, take walks, or just talk, seems to be working better for us than trying to plan a weekly date to do the same, she suggested that we bring the kids to her house so we can, as she phrased it, ?go back home and you two can just sit there looking at each other,? because apparently having a date is only a date, even if at home, if the kids are elsewhere. And, no, she wasn?t kidding or sarcastic ? she seemed genuinely interested in arranging this for me.

These comments usually leave me chuckling, though sometimes a bit annoyed if I?ve had one of those days where things just didn?t seem to be working in my favor. But I do try to take some time to consider the other person?s point of view. And it always comes down to a completely different family situation, and a corresponding philosophy. The ?don?t hold your baby too much? lady ? she is of an older generation where cry-it-out sleep training and scheduled infant feedings were the norm, and so was the old misguided adage that holding a baby too much would spoil it. That?s how she parented; that?s how everyone probably parented in her generation. And now, decades later, even as times have changed and parenting trends have changed and more research reveals what parenting strategies work or don?t work, her experience is in those parenting practices that she used.

The ?date nights? woman ? she works full time at the bank and puts her kids in daycare, and her husband works full time and then goes to school part time in the evenings, and they just don?t plain see each other as much as my husband and I do. So, planning a weekly date night is really important for her and her husband, because there is so much competing for both of their attentions, including their children. Both examples are completely opposite of how I work and how my family works. My parenting ideas wouldn?t necessarily work for them, and theirs don?t work for me.

It?d be wonderful to finally put the ?Mommy wars? to rest, but it is human nature that we feel so vulnerable in this area of our lives ? as parents ? and therefore, so easily judged and able to so easily judge others, as we try to rectify in our minds that we are, indeed, doing this whole childrearing thing the right way. You probably are doing it the right way, for you and your child, but so is the mother down the street who is doing everything opposite of you. We have to remember to expand our minds, to understand that judging is a part of who we are naturally, but that we can overcome it by being consciously tolerant of differences.

Rita Brhel is a Breastfeeding Peer Counselor for the Mid-Nebraska WIC Nutrition Program in Hastings, Nebraska, USA. She is also the Publications Director for Attachment Parenting International and Managing Editor for Attached Family magazine. Rita, her husband, and their three children live on a small farm, Firefly Meadows. In her free time, Rita enjoys reading, watching documentaries, and spending time with her family and pets. Contact her at rita@attachmentparenting.org.

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Injectable sponge delivers drugs, cells, and structure

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Bioengineers at Harvard have developed a gel-based sponge that can be molded to any shape, loaded with drugs or stem cells, compressed to a fraction of its size, and delivered via injection. Once inside the body, it pops back to its original shape and gradually releases its cargo, before safely degrading.

The biocompatible technology, revealed this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, amounts to a prefabricated healing kit for a range of minimally invasive therapeutic applications, including regenerative medicine.

"What we've created is a three-dimensional structure that you could use to influence the cells in the tissue surrounding it and perhaps promote tissue formation," explains principal investigator David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.

"The simplest application is when you want bulking," Mooney explains. "If you want to introduce some material into the body to replace tissue that's been lost or that is deficient, this would be ideal. In other situations, you could use it to transplant stem cells if you're trying to promote tissue regeneration, or you might want to transplant immune cells, if you're looking at immunotherapy."

Consisting primarily of alginate, a seaweed-based jelly, the injectable sponge contains networks of large pores, which allow liquids and large molecules to easily flow through it. Mooney and his research team demonstrated that live cells can be attached to the walls of this network and delivered intact along with the sponge, through a small-bore needle. Mooney's team also demonstrated that the sponge can hold large and small proteins and drugs within the alginate jelly itself, which are gradually released as the biocompatible matrix starts to break down inside the body.

Normally, a scaffold like this would have to be implanted surgically. Gels can also be injected, but until now those gels would not have carried any inherent structure; they would simply flow to fill whatever space was available.

"Our scaffolds can be designed in any size and shape, and injected in situ as a safe, preformed, fully characterized, sterile, and controlled delivery device for cells and drugs," says lead author Sidi Bencherif, a postdoctoral research associate in Mooney's lab at SEAS and at the Wyss Institute.

Bencherif and his colleagues pushed pink squares, hearts, and stars through a syringe to demonstrate the versatility and robustness of their gel.

The spongelike gel is formed through a freezing process called cryogelation. As the water in the alginate solution starts to freeze, pure ice crystals form, which makes the surrounding gel more concentrated as it sets. Later on, the ice crystals melt, leaving behind a network of pores. By carefully calibrating this mixture and the timing of the freezing process, Mooney, Bencherif, and their colleagues found that they could produce a gel that is extremely strong and compressible, unlike most alginate gels, which are brittle.

The resulting "cryogel" fills a gap that has previously been unmet in biomedical engineering.

"These injectable cryogels will be especially useful for a number of clinical applications including cell therapy, tissue engineering, dermal filler in cosmetics, drug delivery, and scaffold-based immunotherapy," says Bencherif. "Furthermore, the ability of these materials to reassume specific, pre-defined shapes after injection is likely to be useful in applications such as tissue patches where one desires a patch of a specific size and shape, and when one desires to fill a large defect site with multiple smaller objects. These could pack in such a manner to leave voids that enhance diffusional transport to and from the objects and the host, and promote vascularization around each object."

The next step in the team's research is to perfect the degradation rate of the scaffold so that it breaks down at the same rate at which newly grown tissue replaces it. Harvard's Office of Technology Development has filed patent applications on the invention and is actively pursuing licensing and commercialization opportunities.

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New Union Founding Convention Slated for Toronto, Labour Day Weekend 2013

November 12, 2012, 1:55 PM EST


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CAW-CEP Proposal Committee has decided that the founding convention for the new union will take place the weekend leading into Labour Day 2013 -starting on Friday, August 30 and concluding on September 1. The decision was made during a meeting of the committee in Toronto.

The timing will allow new union convention delegates to participate behind their new union banner in Labour Day events in their own communities.

The founding convention will be tasked with approving the constitution of the new union, the new name and logo, and elect its first leaders (including three national officers, three regional directors; and the first members of the inaugural National Executive Board).

"Launching the new union on Labour Day weekend is fitting and symbolic," said CAW Secretary Treasurer and committee co-chair Peter Kennedy.? "Marching behind our new banner will be an electrifying beginning for an organization that will inject new energy and hope into the labour movement."

"The first three national gatherings of the new union will occur in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. This is a vivid demonstration of the inclusive, nationwide character of our new organization," said CEP Secretary Treasurer and committee co-chair Ga?tan M?nard. "Our new union will have unprecedented scope and power, in every region of Canada, and virtually every major industry."

The Proposal Committee also suggested locations for the first meetings of the new union's Canadian Council (the body which will gather together delegates from across the union in years when there is no full convention).?

The first meetings of the Canadian Council would occur in Vancouver in 2014, and in Montreal in 2015.?

The Proposal Committee also began the process of establishing the six working groups to include the following areas Communications; Constitution; Implementation; Organizing; Staff Relations; and Convention Planning.?

The crucial issue of the new union's name and logo will be determined on the basis of a thorough process overseen by the Communications working group, including consultation with media and design experts; professional testing; and with members of the two unions.?

The Proposal Committee consists of eight senior leaders from each union, and is co-chaired by the Secretary-Treasurers of the two unions: Ga?tan M?nard for the CEP, and Peter Kennedy for the CAW.?

The first phase of the New Union project culminated in the approval of the idea by the CAW and CEP conventions. The Proposal Committee will meet again in March to review the progress of the working groups.

Full reports on the New Union project, including the complete report of the Proposal Committee ("Towards a New Union") can be found at: www.newunionproject.ca.

Source: http://www.caw.ca/en/11698.htm

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