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Prairie Lights and the Iowa City Public Library will co-sponsor Kathryn Stockett reading from her novel The Help from 2-3 p.m. Sunday, May 2 in Room A at ICPL. Doors open at 1 p.m. Space is limited.

Find out more about Stockett, and her first novel, The Help, at her Web site, http://www.kathrynstockett.com.

Stockett will be signing her book after the reading and copies will be available to purchase through on-site sales from Prairie Lights Bookstore. Signing time will be limited due to Kathryn Stockett’s schedule. Priority will be given to books purchased for the event.

Half the profits from books sold at the event will go towards funding for The Iowa City Book Festival, July 16-18th. For more information about The Book Festival, visit www.iowacitybookfestival.org.

For more information about this event, contact the Iowa City Public Library Fiction Desk at 356-5200, option 4; or e-mail [email protected]. Contact Prairie Lights Bookstore (Jan Weissmiller) at 319-337-2681.

The paper reviewed here is ‘Learning from Experience’ by Jerry Tew, Colin Gell and Simon Foster and freely available here. This is a 66-page document which outlines material useful for course instructors in higher education mental health courses to enable the involvement of service users and carers in service development. The intended audience is somewhat wider however and this is explained more fully in ‘The Purpose of the Guide’. The authors then discuss how students typically learn about mental health subject matter in courses such as medicine and psychology. Forming a partnership with service users and carers is then contextualised in ‘Setting the scene’ where it is identified as one of the ten essential shared capabilities by the National Institute for Mental Health in England. They go on to write that

‘Service users and carers have a unique contribution to make to training in core professional skills, such as listening, communication, empathy, advocacy and offering counselling or advice‘

They further write about the experience of involving service users in the teaching thus

‘Also it requires a humility that allows teaching staff to give up any vestiges of a superior ‘expert’ status based on ‘knowing best……..Teaching staff may learn new knowledge, skills and ideas from the service users and carers with whom they are working, and benefit from ongoing and constructive challenges to their value base‘

Potential benefits for service users are also discussed including the contribution that this can make to recovery.  The authors include a useful section ‘Pointers to good practice’. In the third section, the authors present the multiple ways in which service user contribution has been realised. These approaches range from inclusion in training through to e-modules, drama and experience sharing. There is also a discussion of how service users can contribute to course planning with examples as well as for student selection, student assessment and course participation. The authors then discuss some of the practical aspects of implementing these suggestions identifying possible barriers as well as presenting a template. They look at issues such as capacity, infrastructure and employment or contracting. The authors then include a section on evaluation with some useful feedback forms included. The document finished with the conclusions and appendix.

This is a useful document for organisers/trainers of mental health courses. Some of the suggestions here would be suitable for application in service development also.

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AutoExpress has put the 478-horsepower Nissan GT-R Spec-V through a round of semester exams, and it looks like this carbon fiber kid has the guts to make it in the real world. It motored to 60 miles per hour in 3.2 seconds, ran the slalom at 74.7 mph – beating everything from Europe and tying the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 – and soaked up 1.12 G on the skidpad – beating everything including the ZR-1. It’s all right to admit… you want a Spec-V. Don’t you? Follow the jump for the video.

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The world premiere of Iron Man 2 took place on Monday in Los Angeles and all the actors in the movie showed up in style (some in an Audi A8 and the Audi R8) at the El Capitan Theatre where the Audi R8 Spyder used in the movie awaited their arrival.

“The R8 Spyder is practically custom-made for the superhero, a technological genius who needs to drive the car without his high-tech suit, but doesn’t want to miss out on innovative technology,” Audi said. “Robert Downey Jr. and his R8 Spyder put Audi’s philosophy of Vorsprung durch Technik to good use: Iron Man’s visual capabilities are optimized by the helmet, for example, and the R8’s high efficiency LED headlights likewise provide for good vision.”

Click here for prices on the 2010 Audi R8.

“Just like the first movie, Iron Man 2 is the perfect environment for the Audi R8. Like us, the technologically ingenious Super Hero Tony Stark represents Vorsprung durch Technik. And just as the R8 Spyder was developed from the Audi R8, the Super Hero Tony Stark surprises us with new innovations,” said Lothar Korn, Head of Marketing Communications at Audi. Robert Downey Jr., alias Tony Stark, also drove the Audi R8 in the first Iron Man movie, which was released in May 2008.

Check out Audi’s ad for Iron Man 2 here.

Refresher: Power for the Audi R8 Sypder 5.2 FSI quattro comes from a 5.2L FSI direct-injected V10 making 525-hp and a maximum torque of 391 lb-ft. Mated a 6-speed manual (with an available 6-speed R tronic automatic), 0 to 62 mph in 4.1 seconds with a top speed of 194 mph. Fuel-economy comes in at an estimated 16 mpg when mated to manual transmission and 17 mpg when mated to an automatic.

Iron Man 2 World Premiere:

2010 Audi R8 Spyder:

– By: Omar Rana

by Jeff Goodell

Dear Sen. Harry Reid,

By derailing or delaying—or whatever it is you’re doing to—the introduction of a climate bill in the U.S. Senate, you have once again raised the question about whether the richest, most technologically sophisticated nation that has ever lived is capable of taking swift action to save itself from almost certain environmental and economic calamity. In other words, despite millions of years of evolution, when it comes to thinking about the future, we’re still as dumb as bugs.

As I’m sure you know, I just published a new book about geoengineering called How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate. Geoengineering, a term that scientists define as the deliberate,
intentional modification of the earth’s climate system to reduce the risks of
global warming, is a dangerous and controversial idea. It involves things like spraying sulfur particles into the stratosphere and brightening clouds to reflect away sunlight and cool the earth.

These and other geoengineering ideas (there are lots more) are likely to have serious unintended consequences—and they do nothing to fix other serious problems associated with rising CO2
levels, such as ocean acidification.

But if we aren’t up to the task of solving global warming in the rational way, by cutting greenhouse-gas pollution, it is increasingly likely that we will turn to geoengineering as a quick fix.

I must say I am conflicted about this possibility. Geoengineering may turn out to be necessary in order to reduce the risks associated with ever-rising greenhouse-gas pollution, but it is fraught with risk.

On the other hand, a focus on geoengineering would be great for my book!  Indeed, your recent actions make my book look prescient.  And for that, I thank you.

It’s just that it doesn’t have to be this way. The
world has been waiting a long time for America to pull its head out of the
sand and deal forthrightly with the climate crisis. The political moment is ripe for a big bold move—put a price on carbon, jumpstart the cleantech revolution, show the
world that America gets it.

So why not take the plunge?

Yeah, the tea partiers ranted about “cap and tax.”  And yes, I know, this criticism should really be addressed to President Obama, who—let’s be frank—has still not given any sign that he understands that this little problem with cooking the planet is more than just another political issue. Where is the big climate speech? Where is the political muscle? I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who noticed that the president flew to West Virginia to attend services for the 29 miners killed in the recent mining tragedy, but sent only brief videotaped remarks to the tens of thousands of climate activists who rallied on the
National Mall last weekend. So hey, if the president isn’t going to show any spine on this, why should you?

I want to be honest with you, Harry. I’ve been out on a book tour for
the past few weeks and I’ve run into a lot of people who are really freaked out
about what the hell is going on in America. They are starting to think our failure to do anything meaningful to address global warming is symbolic of a larger failure of democracy. And I have to say, they have a point. What exactly is the role of government in our society if not to protect us from our own short-term stupidity and greed?

Anyway, if you help to ensure that America does nothing to address rising greenhouse-gas
pollution in the near future, you have done a lot to make geoengineering a more
plausible scenario.

If you’re going to force us in this direction, maybe it’s time to announce your support for a federally funded research program to study the risks of
geoengineering. The program wouldn’t cost much—$100 million a year would be a good start. It should include funding for more sophisticated computer modeling of potential geoengineering technologies, more funding for observational studies, maybe even some money for sub-scale field tests of planet-cooling technology and new observational satellites. Get NOAA involved, and NASA, and DOE. Fund studies on the potential human impacts of geoengineering, and offer up some cash for political scientists to think
long and hard about governance structures.

If you’re going to send us down this road, Sen. Reid, there really is a lot to
think about.

I know this is a big ask. But whether you want to admit it or not, this is exactly where your leadership is taking us. Who knows—history might well remember you
as the man who made the world safe for geoengineering.

Sincerely,

Jeff Goodell

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of posts from Jeff Goodell, author of How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate. See all of Goodell’s posts here.  And check out our recent interview with Goodell about his new book.

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Apple’s acquisition of Siri is sure to ruffle some feathers over at Google headquarters. Siri is the developer of a Virtual Personal Assistant application for the iPhone platform that aims to give you a real assistant experience. Without beating around the bush, they offer voice search with the implementation of a few other services to bring everything into one application for ease of use. That sure sounds like Apple is trying to compete with Google on another level to me.

The deal was approved by the Federal Trade Commission as a deal granted early termination under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. The company is still fairly new and has raised $24 million in their short, two-year run. Based on that, Business Insider estimated Siri sold for somewhere between $100 million and $200 million, but there was no official disclosure on how much Apple paid out for them. 

Siri’s site claims that they planned to expand to other mobile platforms, so it will be interesting to see what Apple plans to do with them in the coming months.  Check out the video below for a demonstration of the product, and hit the comments with your thoughts!

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Via Business Insider

On a day when further down the Atlantic coast lawmakers actually ponder setting fire to an uncontained deep-sea oil spill, the Obama administration just approved the first off-shore wind farm ever for the USA. After nine years of delays and legal battles using part of the $1 billion pricetag to build it, the Cape Wind project off the coast of Nantucket has been given the go-ahead.

The potential of Atlantic Coast off-shore wind energy is staggering: a colossal 330 Gigawatts, or  almost 200% of the total amount (185 Gigawatts) needed to supply nine states from Massachusetts to North Carolina.

Off-shore wind power off even just the (polled) No-NIMBY states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia could take one third of the US population off the fossil grid. Today we break ground on the beginning of US off-shore wind power.

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Would not want Meade to pull me over

Editor, The Times:

Does anyone else feel nervous by Troy Meade’s statement, “I’m going back to work”? [“Everett cop acquitted,” page one, April 27.]

I imagined being pulled over by this officer for speeding or some other infraction. Upon seeing the name “Meade” next to his badge, I would immediately be stricken with debilitating fear. It is not that I do not believe or trust the jury that decided he is not guilty of murder or manslaughter; I fully realize that not being there that night, I cannot possibly know what happened.

For all it’s worth, cops sometimes have a thankless job, showing up at God-knows-what situation with God-knows-what kind of people and being expected to resolve any situation. But there was another officer there that night. He questioned the use of such force and wondered what had happened, “that he missed” to bring the situation to require such an “extreme level of force.” Meade’s tactics were rightfully questioned during the trial —about why he could not take two simple steps back to safety from the car that might or might not have hit him.

Meade does not have the judgment required to be an effective police officer, to remain in service on the streets. He may have resolved the situation that night, but it was only clearly with use of such force —the most force possible —while other options were still available. If he was in such fear for his life that he fired no fewer than seven bullets at the subject’s head, then if he is not guilty of manslaughter or murder; he is guilty of very poor judgment and emotional instability in a crisis situation.

If he is to remain an officer, Meade should be placed behind a desk in perpetuity.

— Paul Synowiec, Seattle

‘Bad cops deserve the same justice as bad civilians’

I am absolutely sickened by Troy Meade’s acquittal; those jury members have a lifetime of burden on their shoulders.

Drinking and driving is a serious issue and surely Niles Merservey did not respond or act properly. He was drunk. That being said, is that cause to pump him full of bullets?

Merservey’s car was boxed between a fence, a retaining wall and a police car when Meade used his Taser. Acquitting this man was a horrible verdict. Could you imagine getting pulled over by this man?

I would not stop for him. He is a hothead with inadequate resolve for such a position. In an area that has seen police officers getting ambushed and killed by lunatics, verdicts such as these unfortunately fuel the fire. Bad cops deserve the same justice as bad civilians. Some people I guess are above the law, which is crying shame. If I were Officer Steven Klocker, the honest cop, I would find an honest police force somewhere outside of lovely Everett.

— David Gates, Issaquah

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The Illinois Senate today sent Gov. Pat Quinn a bill backed by Mayor Richard Daley that would increase penalties for certain crimes involving guns.

The proposed change in state law would mandate a sentence of at least one year in prison for a person convicted of unlawful use of a weapon if the gun is loaded and the offender doesn’t have a valid firearm owner’s identification card. Currently in such cases, the offender could receive a lesser sentence of probation.

“This bill protects the rights of law abiding citizens, but also gives us another tool to combat violence in our neighborhoods and protect our children,” Daley said in a news release. “I encourage the governor to sign it.”

The legislation is similar to one Quinn signed in December that applied to gang members.

The measure was one of several gun control proposals Daley pushed last month as part of an annual effort at the statehouse. Most of the proposals, including an assault weapons ban, are unlikely to become law.

The Senate action came just hours after Daley, in a Chicago, made a final pitch for his legislative agenda before lawmakers are scheduled to leave Springfield.

 Property tax relief and a proposal to make banks responsible for maintaining their foreclosed properties in Chicago are other top Daley priorities.

 

"I understand the General Assembly has a lot on its agenda — starting with dealing with the budget issues," Daley said at a news conference on the Southeast Side. "But also you have to act on key legislation that we believe is important to the people of our city."

 

Daley wants the General Assembly to bring back a property tax exemption designed to limit the annual increase in a home’s value for tax purposes in Cook County. The law is set to expire before tax bills hit the mail this fall. But an extension of the tax break seems unlikely, as Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan has not been on board.

A new macroeconomics analysis shows that if you want to create jobs and boost the economy, one of the best things you can do at the moment is enact strong, smart climate change and clean energy policy.

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HP’s buying Palm, in case you haven’t heard, for $1.2 billion. While we doubt many of you were waiting up nights for the Compaq Airlife 100, HP’s Android-powered netbook that we took a look at back at Mobile World Congress, it remains to be seen if HP will be willing (or able, for that matter) to continue any Android development, especially given that a webOS tablet is now a strong possibility. HP did give us the following statement, however:

"We offer choices of OS today, and expect to continue doing so. We’re focused on serving our customers, from individual consumers to small businesses to large enterprise customers by delivering the most appropriate solutions."

Alrighty then. For more on the deal, hit up PreCentral.net.

(And note that I’ll be on the emergency PalmCast Broadcast tonight at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT, asking these same questions.)

Remember the soapboxes?

I disagree with the argument for making petition signatures secret in “Support signature privacy” [Bruce Ramsey column, Opinion, April 28]. Far more citizens would be affected by any referendum than sign it. The people affected deserve better than the equivalent of a stink bomb being lobbed into a public square from an undisclosed location, which is what appears to be happening more frequently.

Anonymity destroys public discourse, by definition. Look no further than the comments posted anonymously —or virtually so —on Seattle Times stories or columns. When people stood on soapboxes, there was a real person literally standing up for his or her point of view, not hiding behind an invisible cloak with an electronically disguised voice.

Laws have real impacts on real people. When changes to them are proposed, we deserve no less than a public discussion of them, starting with who wants them and why.

A common-sense definition of privacy is that you have a right to do what you want so long as it does not bother anyone else. Proposing to change laws that would affect other people is a public act, not a private one. It is as simple as that.

— Christian Saether, Seattle

Privacy protects people from harassment and intimidation

On one hand, state Attorney General Rob McKenna presents a compelling case for openness in government and points out that there is no current law protecting the petition signers’ identities. But as I see it, the current debate is not really about transparency in government — that is a side issue. The central nugget here is safety from harassment. That is why there was enough energy to get the U.S. Supreme Court to consider it.

The Bopp legal team, on behalf of Protect Marriage Washington, makes a compelling case for keeping petition signers signatures confidential. As we see in the current controversy, activists for gays and lesbians seek to advance their political agenda by the threat of harassment and intimidation.

If the Supreme Court decides that name and address information cannot be protected, the unfortunate response would be a public reluctance to sign any petition. My concern is that in the future, worthy issues, such as voter-approved R-71, might never come before the voters for consideration.

I believe petition signatures ought to fall under the same protection as voter ballot data and be sealed. The Legislature can and should exempt petition and initiative signatures from the public record.

— Paul Heins, Redmond

Steve Largent: No reason to reverse existing regulatory model

The op-ed on April 28 [“Reclassify broadband to keep the Internet a democratic medium,” Opinion] completely ignored the facts of today’s wireless industry.

Quite simply, there are no reasons why the Federal Communications Commission should consider reversing the light regulatory model started by the Clinton administration and continued by President Obama. The classification of broadband as an “information service” and not in the same category as the plain monopolistic telephone industry was a good and sensible policy.

I have repeatedly asked: What is the problem that we need to address with potentially dangerous regulation? This light touch has been —and continues to be —a tremendous success. It has resulted in the United States leading the world in wireless technology. Americans are using their devices more and paying less than almost anyone else.

• We have more third-generation (3G) subscribers than any other nation.
• All of the state-of-the-art handsets are launched first in the United States.
• Consumers could choose from almost 250,000 apps, up from fewer than a 100 a few years ago.

The U.S. wireless industry has invested more money last year in its networks than Germany, France the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain combined.

As Former President Bill Clinton’s FCC Chairman William Kennard said in a 2006 op-ed, “Policymakers should rise above the Net-neutrality debate and focus on what America truly requires from the Internet: getting affordable broadband access to those who need it.” CTIA and the wireless industry could not agree more.

— Steve Largent, president and CEO, CTIA-The Wireless Association, Washington, D.C.

Time to cut expenses and listen to parks visitors

With the resignation of parks supervisor Tim Gallagher [“Seattle parks chief to resign May 10,” NWTuesday, April 27], I hope we get a new chief who would take the parks department’s shaky budget into account and do his or her best to reign in these extravagant and often unnecessary expenses.

In defending the vast amounts of money spent on his trips, Gallagher said “learning from other cities is key to keeping a parks department vital and relevant.” I disagree; learning from the people who pay for all this and the people who care about the parks is more important — and it is hard to learn if you will not listen.

— Nancy Pennington, co-founder of Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants, Seattle

Don’t take the road less taken; apply for citizenship

This is a response to “Arizona’s unhelpful law invites racial profiling” [Opinion, April 27].

It is my belief that if you were born here or followed due process to enter this country, then you are entitled to certain rights as a citizen with appropriate documentation.

All Arizona officials are is saying is “no”NO to being responsible for people entering illegally. That “no”NO includes having to provide benefits, medical and otherwise, to people who did not follow the law. Nothing more.

I spent 12 years of my life defending this country’s rights — . Ffreedom of speech, the right to bear arms and, the right to vote. It galls me as a veteran to see that what I worked hard for just given away to people who can not follow a simple law.

If you really REALLY want to be here, go through the same process anyone else from another country has to go through. Paying someone $$$$$ just to cross a border to have your baby or to find a way to put moneydollars into the family’s pocket (regardless of what country….I dont care if it is Iran, to be honest) is not the way to do things.

To the With so many people whothat are citizens here and that are out of work, grow up and grab those jobs that are being given to the illegal immigrants. You have the ability to work your way up — just do it…..JUST DO IT.

For the illegal immigrants: Y, you entered our country without the proper documentation. Do not expect me to subsidize your life with my tax dollars. I promise you, I will not be voting for ANY incumbents.

— Barb Hoerr, Everett

Racial profiling begone, check everyone’s citizenship

Since Tthe Seattle Times claimsto be so fearful of “racial profiling” in Arizona, I propose a simple solution to racial profiling in Arizona. Have any and all government officials dealing with the public — (from the police to educators the educational system and everyone , and all in between — ) ascertain the citizenship of every member of the public they have official dealings with. Check 100 percent % of people the police have dealings with and the r. Racial profiling problem will be gone.

— Philip Peterson, Puyallup

Feeding ‘big government’ to grow border protection

You canno’t have it both ways. First, I read that “big government” is bad for this country. Then I read that a key rationale for the new Arizona iImmigration lLaw is “because the federal government failed to do its part in protecting our borders.”

How “big” would the federal government need to be in order to continually patrol almost 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico? Very, very big.

— Toni Parson, Woodinville

Map of countries and territories by fertility rate.

The Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior (MAHB, pronounced “mob”) is a new initiative started by a group of social and natural scientists and scholars in the Humanities with the aim of “changing human behavior to avoid a collapse of global civilization.”

Writing in an essay published today on the Public Library of Science – Biology website (The MAHB, the Culture Gap, and Some Really Inconvenient Truths), the multiple award-winning author of The Population Bomb (1968) and Stanford University professor Paul R. Ehrlich details the numerous threats facing the human race and which, collectively, threaten to collapse human civilization this century.

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Google just made a fairly major tweak to its mobile image search. As you can see above, a web-based image search now looks and feels almost like it’s being done natively, on your Android phone. Thumbnails have been optimized for speed, you can flick your way through photos and the black background makes you forget you’re in a web browser. OK, so you You don’t get the zooming effects like you will in an on-device gallery, but it greatly cleans up the mobile interface. And it’s pretty darn cool, if you ask us. Go ahead and give it a shot. [Google]

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard announced today that it will acquire smartphone maker Palm for $1.2 billion in cash. The reason for the acquisition is clear: HP wants to be a bigger player in the lucrative smartphone market. Currently, it has a rather poor showing with its iPaq model. Yet, Palm also has a pretty weak market share. It’s a little hard to see how this acquisition will be a boon for HP.

First, Palm’s operating system accounts for just 0.7% of the market, according to IT research firm Gartner. Bloomberg says that HP’s is even smaller. So HP will instantly go from virtually no presence in smartphones to a very, very tiny presence in the market. That’s not exactly a major foothold.

To make matters worse, Palm has been a disastrous company for some time. Bloomberg also notes:

While Palm has a bigger presence in the phone market than Hewlett-Packard, it too has struggled to match the appeal of Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry and phones using Google Inc.’s Android software. The company’s Pre and Pixi phones, released last year in a comeback bid, didn’t sell as well as expected. The company has reported 11 straight quarterly losses.

This is hardly an acquisition where HP can sit back and let the synergies work their magic. HP will have to invest heavily in Palm to make it a major player. Chiseling away at the market share of the smartphone titans listed in the block quote above won’t be easy. It will take some major innovation to attract new customers to an HP/Palm device. Unfortunately, HP has not been one of the foremost names in technological innovation for some time, with Apple, Google, Samsung and others leading the way.

And yet, HP will purchase Palm for a 23% premium over its share price. That’s sort of like if a home buyer purchased a house for that needed a lot of work for more than its market value. The premium shows the clear winner in this transaction: the Palm shareholder. It’s hard to complain about a 23% premium on a stock that has scored 11 straight quarterly losses. Whether HP shareholders will be better off with this acquisition, however, will take some years to determine. HP must see some potential for Palm to perform significantly better under its watch.