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Mark Levin opened his radio show last night pushing back against the idea that Republicans should now embrace amnesty to fix the illegal immigration problem and thus convince Latinos to vote Republican. Republicans like Charles Krauthammer have said recently that they are willing to embrace amnesty, but not citizenship. But Levin argues that once we embrace amnesty the next logical step for Democrats is full citizenship and it will be argued for on the basis of amnesty being a sort of 2nd class citizenship.

Levin says the real problem with illegal immigration is welfare and that?s how we must attack the issue, not through amnesty.

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Do we have the courage to dream such an audacious, bodacious vision? Is it possible for us to make this beautiful compelling dream come true? David Cooperrider and we at the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value believe that when businesses innovate for greater well-being and prosperity, in partnership with civil society organizations and governmental bodies, every social and global issue of our day becomes an opportunity to ignite industry leading eco-innovation, social entrepreneurship and new sources of value. Guided by David's vision, the Fowler Center has launched a major research project, a global-scale search across cultures for the kinds of organizations and partnerships that might impact businesses becoming agents of world benefit. Partnering with OpenIDEO, an open innovation platform for social and environmental impact, we invited people around the world to provide input and share their stories to help us identify and celebrate businesses that innovate for world benefit. People from 100 countries have contributed insights and ideas. You can learn more by visiting:http://www.openideo.com/open/business-impact-challenge/. You may also want to see a video of David Cooperrider talking about Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Our goal is to create a Business as an Agent for World Benefit Nobel-Like prize to inspire and celebrate businesses that exemplify doing business as a force for good. The prize is inspired by the principles and guidelines of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Nobel Prizes. "For years we have been focusing on the relationship between business and society. We have been gathering stories of -- business as a force for peace in high conflict areas; business as a force to eradicate extreme poverty; business as a force for eco-innovation and business as a force for global health - with the purpose to accelerate positive change and achieve a flourishing future?"?David Cooperrider Our highest aspiration is to ignite a global movement that would pull us into a new reality - a reality where businesses thrive and prosper by putting their resources, global presence and the ingenuity of their people to work, for the health and well-being of people, and the planet. David Cooperrider, PhD, is best known as the co-creator and visionary thought leader of Appreciative Inquiry. He is the Faculty Director at the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western Reserve. The Center's mission is to advance new knowledge for transforming the world's most complex problems into business opportunities for industry-leading innovation and world-shaping benefit.?TEDx San Francisco -- 7 Billion Well: Re-Imaging Global Health.?This magnanimous, courageous vision is the theme of TEDx San Francisco's upcoming conference. On November 10 they are convening?"...the best thought leaders and emerging pioneers to bring the latest multidisciplinary ideas in addressing the most pressing health issues of our world today".?Their featured speakers will share inspirational stories of innovation, revolution, and change. David and I are thrilled and honored to join this conversation and share the Fowler Center's world-changing idea of a Business as an Agent of World Benefit Nobel-Like prize. For more information about the this historic event please go to?http://tedxsf.org David Cooperrider's journey to create Business as an Agent for World Benefit began 25 years ago. I decided to share his story because some of the greatest thought leaders and world-changing events of our time have influenced the development of his vision. It was 1987, when David had an epiphany while having a conversation with Willis Harman, the renowned Futurist who studied global systems. Harman was sharing his scenarios on the trajectory of the world's future and the only scenario that was optimistic was one where businesses emerged as a powerful creative force for good. David vividly remembers that defining moment --?"My Meeting Willis Harman in his office was like opening the doors in the mind." The seeds of Business as an Agent of World Benefit were firmly planted in David's mind and heart that day. The next defining moment on David's journey was 9/11. This horrific event propelled David forward. He developed a sense of urgency to grow the idea that had emerged in his meeting with Willis Harman fourteen years earlier. Peter Drucker, the management "Guru" and self-described "social ecologist," influenced David's vision. In a meeting about Business as an Agent of World Benefit, Drucker told David?"... every social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise... just waiting for the pragmatism of good business, its capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, and its management for results."? The 1999 gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos set the stage for the next phase of David's vision. At this historic event Secretary-General Kofi Annan invited leaders and executives from business, labor, and civil society to collaborate to solve the most intractable problems in our world. Kofi Annan said:?"Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the strength of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations." Then in 2004 Secretary-General Kofi Annan invited David to design and facilitate a summit on global corporate citizenship. At this historic, unprecedented summit, Kofi Annan and 500 business leaders met to?"unite the strengths of the markets with the authority of universal ideals to make globalization work for everyone". As a result of this summit, Case Western Reserve University, in cooperation with the Academy of Management and the UN Global Compact, created the Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. At their 2006 Forum these strategic sponsors developed the platform for an ongoing tri-annual event. At their 2009 Forum, the delegates came to the shared conclusion that -- business has the opportunity to be one of the most creative forces on the planet.?"The 21st century can become an unprecedented century of sustainable innovation where businesses can excel, people can thrive, and nature can flourish". See examples cases athttp://worldinquiry.case.edu/default.com Business as an Agent for World Benefit is not merely a dream. There are thriving companies that are living this vision today. One powerful example is GOJO Industries."Saving lives and making life better through well-being solutions"?is the GOJO Purpose. They invent and manufacture hand hygiene and skin care products for away-from-home and consumer markets. GOJO is in the business of doing well by doing good. Social sustainability is at the heart of this Akron, Ohio-based company's success. They are the inventors of PURELL Instant Hand Sanitizer, one of the most recognized brands in the world."Sustainability is a purpose-driven commitment for GOJO", says Joe Kanfer, Chairman and CEO.?"We embrace sustainability as a business priority, building upon the value passed on to us by our company founders, and we continue to develop products to solve public health problems". In 1946 Goldie and Jerry Lippman founded GOJO with the singular purpose of providing workers with a better way to clean their hands -- a safer, gentler alternative to the harsh, carcinogenic chemicals commonly used in the 1940s by automotive technicians. They pioneered the first one-step heavy duty waterless hand cleaner. It was developed to make it economical for auto service businesses to provide a safe way for workers to clean up. Customer acceptance of their innovations demonstrated an important lesson: A business can achieve economic success by delivering a human benefit. Beyond North America, GOJO is advancing community-based social sustainability outcomes through its initiative focused to improve the health of children in economically disadvantaged communities in water-restricted regions of Latin America. The initiative was inspired by the results of a nine-month study conducted by Dr. Juan Correa, a University of Colombia professor, in 42 daycare centers in towns with limited access to running water. The children were given PURELL Instant Hand Sanitizer combined with hand hygiene education. The results: a 36 percent reduction in diarrhea cases and an 18 percent decrease in respiratory illnesses.

"As the global leader in hand hygiene, it is our privilege to collaborate with scientists, public health officials, educators and our business partners in different communities to learn how to positively impact health outcomes."?says GOJO Vice Chair Marcella Kanfer Rolnick.?"Findings like those of Dr. Correa's inspire us to further advance our commitment to human and societal well-being and challenge ourselves to develop new solutions to meet the emerging health and hygiene needs of children, their families, workers and communities." At GOJO, social sustainability begins at home. They convened its first Sustainability Summit in 2009. This was a powerful call-to-action engaging hundreds of team members (employees), suppliers, thought leaders and other stakeholders through Appreciative Inquiry. As a result, team members are now dedicated to the pursuit of sustainable value in both the products the company develops and the processes to produce them. The company published aggressive five-year target goals in three key areas relative to the baseline year of 2010. Within just one year, GOJO had made significant progress on each goal: Reduce water usage by 30%?-- In saving 3.8 million gallons of water--roughly the equivalent of the content of 30.8 million water bottles--they achieved a first-year reduction in water usage of 13%. Reduce solid waste by 25%?-- In the first year, they achieved a 15% decrease in solid waste. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5%?-- GOJO exceeded its 2015 goal by cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% in just one year! In addition to delivering both social and environmental benefits, GOJO efforts are contributing to its economic success via greater efficiencies, reduced costs, product innovation and sustained growth, as illustrated by the company's annual double-digit growth over the last several years -- all proof that integrating sustainability into a company's business strategy can deliver bottom-line benefits. Here's one more impressive number:?"Bring well-being to one billion people every day."?This is GOJO's sustainability BHAG -- in the GOJO culture, that's an acronym for a "big, hairy, audacious goal," The company leadership knows that the most challenging goals are often those most worth pursuing. GOJO is one more example of a company achieving prosperity through a heartfelt commitment to advancing sustainability for the well-being of the world. I believe, to realize?A Flourishing World and?"7 Billion Well", the business community must find the courage to redefine success. Business as an Agent of World Benefit Noble-Like prize can serve as a catalyst to inspire companies to transform the business model from profit as a single aim, to "Sustainable Value" -- Doing Well by Doing Good. David Cooperrider asserts:?"The shift from shareholder value to "Sustainable Value" is the natural outcome of a new external environment characterized by declining natural resources, radical transparency and rising expectations... It's about today's companies and their partners unleashing disruptive innovations that address humankind's greatest transitional opportunities, on the pathway from non-sustainability to sustainability - to a world-wide state of flourishing." These hopeful visions of our future are not impossible dreams -- they are insights into the capacity of human potential. If we look around at the amazing things we have created, they were all considered impossible by the status quo at some time in their development. Like the seeds planted in David Cooperrider's heart and mind at his meeting with Willis Harman, I believe the seeds that hold a vision for better world lie within each of us -- waiting for the right time and conditions to germinate and grow. I believe this our time! We now have the knowledge, technology and the will to create a better world. Business can be profitable by being a powerful force for good, resulting in a world where people and the planet will flourish. May all your beautiful hopes and dreams come true in 2012 Leadership Development and Organizational Transformation Skype address: michelemariehunt

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So far, Election Morning has produced three new national polls. And, perhaps as a measure of how close the race between President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney have been all along, the three polls even out to a near tie.?

Romney leads by a point in Rasmussen's daily tracking poll. The two candidates are tied in Politico and George Washington University's final Battleground poll. And Obama holds a 1.6-point lead over Romney in the Investor's Business Daily/TIPP poll.?

Of course, this is a difference from state polling, which gives Obama an edge in the Electoral College.

Some key points from the polls:

  • In both Rasmussen and Politico's polling, Romney has clear advantages on handling the economy and job creation. He beats Obama by 6 points in the Politico poll on this measure and by 3 points in Rasmussen.
  • The IBD/TIPP poll found that for the first time, Obama garnered 40 percent of the white vote. That seems a bit optimistic for the president, however.
  • In two of the three polls (Rasmussen's info is not available), Romney leads with Independents ? by 6 in IBD/TIPP and by 15 in Politico.
  • In the Politico poll, both candidates are ranked evenly favorable at 50 percent. Obama is rated slightly more unfavorable ? his split is 50-48, vs. Romney's 50-46.

Onto the key battleground state averages on the final day:

  • OHIO: Obama +2.9 (Real Clear Politics), 90.9% chance of winning (Nate Silver)
  • FLORIDA: Romney +1.5 (RCP), Obama with 50.3% chance of winning (Silver)
  • VIRGINIA: Obama + 0.3 (RCP), 79.4% chance of winning (Silver)
  • IOWA: Obama +2.4 (RCP), 84.3% chance of winning (Silver)
  • NEVADA: Obama +2.8 (RCP), 93.4% chance of winning (Silver)
  • COLORADO: Obama +1.5 (RCP), 79.7% chance of winning (Silver)
  • PENNSYLVANIA: Obama +3.8 (RCP), 98.6% chance of winning (Silver)

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-vs-romney-polls-final-election-day-2012-11

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Patients with heart block see strong benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy

ScienceDaily (Nov. 6, 2012) ? Heart failure patients with a condition called "heart block" derive significant benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), according to the results of the Block HF clinical trial, presented November 6 at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2012 meeting in Los Angeles.

Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and principal investigator of Block HF, presented results of the eight-year-long, national, multicenter, randomized clinical trial sponsored by Medtronic, Inc., which enrolled more than 900 patients.

"These findings confirm what some clinicians and researchers have hypothesized for some time -- that heart failure patients with heart block do better when both sides of the heart are resynchronized, called biventricular pacing, using a cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device," she says. "The results of Block HF may lead to a reassessment of treatment guidelines for heart failure patients with heart block."

In the trial, 349 patients underwent biventricular pacing with a CRT device and 342 patients underwent the conventional right ventricular pacing. Patients who underwent biventricular pacing had a 26 percent reduction in the combined endpoint of mortality, heart-failure related urgent care and deterioration in heart function detected by echocardiography.

There also was a 27 percent relative risk reduction in the composite endpoint of heart failure urgent care and all-cause mortality.

The Block HF trial was designed to address the best way to treat atrioventricular block (AV block), a partial or complete block in the main "trunk" of the heart's electrical conduction system.

"AV block prevents electrical impulses from reaching the bottom chambers of the heart, which then beat very slowly or not at all," explains Curtis.

To treat AV block, many patients are implanted with a standard pacemaker with leads or pacing wires in the top chamber (right atrium) and the bottom chamber (right ventricle) of the heart. "But that fix can lead to other problems," Curtis says, "such as creating less synchrony between the left and right ventricles of the heart, making their heart failure symptoms even worse."

Researchers and clinicians have hypothesized that better outcomes might result from pacing both the left and right ventricles of the heart, called biventricular pacing, which involves implanting a cardiac resynchronization therapy device.

"Implanting these devices is more complicated than putting in a standard pacemaker, something clinicians don't want to put patients through without clear evidence of a benefit," says Curtis. "Today, we are announcing that Block HF does show that benefit."

Heart failure affects approximately 6 million people in the U.S. at a cost of somewhere between $20 and 56 billion/year. Of those, AV block affects more than 800,000 Americans and more than a million people worldwide.

Curtis, a UB faculty member since 2010, is one of the world's leading clinical cardiac electrophysiologists and an expert in cardiac arrhythmias. Her clinical research has significantly advanced knowledge of human cardiac electrophysiology and heart rhythm abnormalities.

Her research interests include clinical trials in implantable device therapy for prevention of sudden cardiac death and management of heart failure, as well as clinical trials in atrial fibrillation. She has been principal investigator, co-investigator, sponsor or steering committee member on 85 research studies and clinical trials and she has written more than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, reviews and editorials. She also is author of a book on cardiac pacing.

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Obama, Tearful, Finishes Campaign In Iowa, Where It Started

WASHINGTON -- As sentimentality goes, President Barack Obama hosting the last campaign event of his political career in Des Moines, Iowa, is hard to top. The Hawkeye State launched the then-junior senator from Illinois to national prominence. And there is a movie script-like quality to having such a historic political trajectory emerge out of the frosty cornfields.

Speaking just steps from his 2008 caucus headquarters on Monday evening, it seemed at times as if the magic hadn't faded.

"I came back to ask you to help us finish what we started because this is where our movement for change began," Obama declared. "To all of you who?ve lived and breathed the hard work of change: I want to thank you. You took this campaign and made it your own ... starting a movement that spread across the country.

"When the cynics said we couldn't, you said yes we can. You said yes we can and we did. Against all odds, we did," he said.

Wiping the occasional tear from his eye, and looking over a crowd of 20,000, Obama concluded with the same story that he told on the last day of his '08 campaign: about the origins of his signature "fired-up-ready-to-go" chant. The arc of his first term in office was seemingly complete.

But if anything, the late night rally in Des Moines underscored how different Obama's first and second White House runs have been. For all its poignant undertones, Monday night marked the end of a campaign that had little of the emotional appeal of four years ago. There was no sweeping "hope" narrative, no history-making proposition, no shadows of the Bush years to escape. Instead there was a business-like approach to a daunting task: how to re-elect a president with a slate of accomplishments, but with reduced popularity, a poor economy and no novelty.

"The biggest difference between 2008 and 2012 is that the sense of the mission changed," said one Obama campaign adviser who, like nearly everyone, would discuss the campaign's inner workings only on condition of anonymity. "In 2008, there was the sense of optimism and hope around the mission -? of changing the world. In 2012, the mission is as much the clear-eyed recognition of how important stopping the other side is. It is a grimmer, more realistic sense of mission."

How Obama's aides traversed this path is a story that will be told in greater detail in the election post-mortems. But months of conversations. And it shows a team that, while lacking the heartstrings of 2008, stayed true to other guiding principles: data-driven decision-making and solid execution.

"There has always been a laser-like focus on the part of the campaign on how to get where they need to be," explained Hari Sevugan, who served as a spokesman for the 2008 campaign. "It was about delegates in 2008 and pathways to 270 [Electoral College votes] in 2012. "The formula, then and now, was always inspiration and energy at 30,000 feet and a no-nonsense attitude toward numbers and mechanics on the ground."

It started in the spring of 2011, when top advisers to the president conducted a series of focus groups to get a clear sense of what was in store. What they found was sobering. Voters were gloomy about their current situation. Worse, they assumed their kids would inherit poorer lots than their own. They didn't all blame the president. In fact, they still liked him. But they had to be convinced of two things: That their lives could get better and that Obama was the person who could affect that.

To accomplish those two tasks, the president's aides made a series of decisions. The first was to chart specific maps to 270 electoral votes. The second was to figure how best to operate within the boundaries of that map. The third was to unearth ways to make their campaign cash go further than their opponent's.

In December 2011, campaign manager Jim Messina unveiled five pathways to victory during a briefing with a group of reporters. Virtually every state he identified as critical has maintained that distinction, with the exception of Arizona (which, even then, was labeled a long shot). There were some miscalculations. Messina assumed that New Hampshire and Wisconsin would both remain solidly in Obama's campaign. He also gave equal weight to paths involving North Carolina (now, a reach) as those involving Ohio (less so). But the paths have largely endured.

Meanwhile, aides plotted a comprehensive messaging shift and a media campaign to compliment it. In December 2011, the president delivered a speech in Kansas designed to break the conversation away from deficit reduction and the debt ceiling debacle and on to job creation and economic security. The campaign booked $25 million worth of ads for May 2012 alone to build off that message.

Again, not everything was pitch-perfect. The first two ads focused on clean energy, which would diminish as an issue outside of a few critical states (Iowa and Colorado). But the groundwork was laid.

"It's been a very disciplined campaign, incredibly focused," said former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, one of the campaign's top surrogates. "And they have followed their plan as far as I can tell, without any significant deviation."

The campaign began to pinch pennies. Aides booked ad purchases in bulk, instead of week by week. They gave a public okay to super PACs, despite the president's previous opposition. And they decided, like in 2008, to horde resources, rather than share with other Democratic campaign committees.

There was one place they splurged. Aides bet big on a ground game, hoping that direct "persuasion" -- person-to-person contacts -- could move the dial a few, critical, notches.

"We never set out to run the same campaign and the organizational stuff -? which the president has always strongly believed in -- was born out of a necessity of knowing that these states were going to be one- to three-point races if we were lucky," said one top Obama campaign official.

And like 2008, staff members had conviction in their strategy. In the early summer, when a lagging jobs market had top Democrats fretting that Romney could win an election focused on the economy, aides scoffed at the proposition.

"They are operating under the Woody Allen theory that 90 percent of life is just showing up," one top campaign official said at the time. "But there is such intense scrutiny in candidates for president. If people don't feel comfortable with who you are, it is very tough. In a race that is all about economics, this guy's profile is not a great profile."

The official was right. And yet, when the campaign did put a microscope to the Romney profile -- launching attacks on his private sector record -- there were howls again. Once more, the campaign didn't budge. "Predictable [for our party]," another aide said of the criticism over the Bain attacks, "but stupid and wrong."

It was easy, of course, to ignore the second-guessing when the plan was proving fruitful. But after the first debate, the campaign's internal resolve was tested. Publicly, aides projected calm. Privately, some were stoked with anxiety over the president's performance. Internal discussions took place over whether to alter the map or message. They tinkered with the latter -- "they changed their emphasis," said one top consultant to the campaign, "not giving up on the Romney-extremism but focusing more on the shifting positions." But they struck with the former.

"Same map, tighter race," is how the aforementioned Obama campaign adviser put the post-debate mindset.

The next month was a dizzying scramble that saw the president restore some of what he gave up that night in Denver. But even after Obama gave one final slap of the lectern and wave to the Iowa crowd on Monday, the final verdict is out on whether the decisions he and his staff made were correct. The campaign is projecting confidence. Part of it is common pre-election preening. A lot of it is faith in numbers. But a good deal of it is because, while it may not have the same feel as 2008, they've been here before.

"There is no doubt about it," top adviser David Axelrod told The Huffington Post, when asked whether he felt the campaign had a leg up because of experience. "The experience of having done it helps. The people who are running our operations are the people who have been with us for five years."

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/obama-tearful-finishes-iowa_n_2080862.html

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Daniel Craig Doesn't Wear Tuxes All The Time

Thanks to Daniel Craig, dark hair may no longer be a prerequisite for James Bond, but there are some things that will never change about 007. He might shill for Heineken, but he'll order a martini. There might be a Ford in his parking spot, but he prefers an Aston Martin DB5. But perhaps most [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/11/06/daniel-craig-bond-style/

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