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I was on I95 North, headed up to Yale to give a talk for Yale Hillel about the orphan crisis. It was a perfect day in all ways — the trees dominated the landscape and the sky was perfectly blue with smears of ultra white clouds. I enjoyed some fresh air through a cracked car window and listened to NPR and some music.

The uneaten portion of my sandwich fell onto the mat on the passenger side while I was driving, so I pulled over to clean up the mess.

While parked, I decided to quickly check my email to make sure that I wasn’t missing some crisis at work or a nice note from a friend. I read two emails and then, at the third, just stared with disbelief and confusion. My study buddy and dear friend from medical school was dead at 59. His wife, Elaine wrote me a kind and loving note informing me that Tersh (Dr. Alfred Murdoch III) had died on April 3rd of a sudden illness.

I sat and cried for a few minutes and then called Elaine. She recounted the story of his illness and I expressed my sadness and love for him. Tersh and I supported one another during a very challenging time. We were both older students — in our early 30s — in medical school, attempting the impossible. We began a four-year commitment to get through together. We cheered one another along, successfully graduated and went on to practice as we had dreamed of doing.

I drove on to New Haven and parked the car. I called a few friends to share the news and reminisce. All commented that 59 was not a fair age to die.

I entered Hillel eager to meet the Yale students to share my experience as a pediatrician and child advocate in far off places. I was so happy to be in a sunny room with Siddurs (prayer books) around me. I spoke a bit about my journey to become a doctor because there were a number of pre-medical students in the room. And then I addressed the complex issues of extreme poverty and how Worldwide Orphans Foundation addresses the needs of orphans in their communities. I emphasized that the work of life is in the community and has been since human beings first formed groups of families in clans and tribes. I made it clear that nothing has changed for human beings as far as what is needed to create good moral lives. Being Jewish is very important to me because it has taught me the value of community — I learned that from my Rabbi, Harold I. Saperstein. I have continued to be passionate about all the communities that I have joined throughout my life.

The Hillel community at Yale is a powerful community. Thirty percent of the student body (5,300 students) are Jewish, so Hillel is a hub of life and connection. Imagine it without the trappings of rugs, chairs Office Visio Key, desks Windows Anytime Upgrade, wooden paneling and high technology Wi-Fi and Hillel would be the same gathering place for Jewish students to renew friendship and learn about the world that existed thousands of years ago.

Questions were fun to answer at this gathering as you might imagine… smart young people eager to learn and optimistic about their future. When I was asked about how I felt about medicine, I became sentimental and tearful. I love medicine and feel that it has been a privilege to be a doctor. Regardless of the modern movement to remove the intimacy of medical practice, I have been able to maintain the old-fashioned elements of teamwork and partnership with the families in my practice. I think that the closeness I have felt in my medical practice is precious for me and for the families I help. Becoming a doctor and loving the community has been at the core of my work abroad, too.

And it is why Tersh Windows 7 Activation Key, my medical school friend, went into family practice. He was passionate about patients and families and his dream was to serve. That is what drew us together in 1982 when we found one another in the first year at medical school in New Jersey. We were both established adults with families and professional security who had decided to reach for our dream to become doctors. Our study together made the dream possible. We created our sense of community and it lead to our success. Friendship and connection allowed us to cross the finish line on May 21, 1986. Nothing has changed for me. All of my work is about friendship and connection and that is what drives all that I do here at home and abroad.

The work of WWO is about community, and all international development work should be based on the simplest of formulas to help needy people rally within their community to hold strong and escape poverty and conflict.

I thank Tersh for inspiration and friendship, which will forever be part of me as I work until my last breath of life on this planet earth.

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New York – Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network’s initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network’s expected asking price is too high.

The company Mark Zuckerberg created as a Harvard student eight years ago is preparing for what looks to be the biggest Internet IPO ever. Expected later this week, Facebook’s Wall Street debut could value the company at $100 billion, making it worth more than Disney, Ford and Kraft Foods.

That’s testament to the impressive numbers Facebook has posted in its relatively brief history. More than 40 percent of American adults log in to the site -to share news, personal observations, photos and more- at least once a week. In all, some 900 million people around the world are users. Facebook’s revenue grew from $777 million in 2009 to $3.7 billion last year. And in the first quarter of 2012 it was more than $1 billion.

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Just a third of those surveyed think the company’s expected value is appropriate, while 50 percent say it is too high. Those who invest in the stock market are more likely to see shares as overvalued, 58 percent said so. About 3 in 10 investors say the expected value of shares is fair. Facebook on Tuesday lifted the expected price for its shares to $34 to $38 apiece from $28 to $35 each.

But price worries won’t necessarily stop would-be investors. Half the people surveyed say they think Facebook is a good bet, while 31 percent do not. The rest aren’t sure. Americans who invest in stocks roughly agree, although investors who are more “active” – those who have changed their holdings in the past month -are more negative. Nearly 40 percent say Facebook would not be a good investment.

Young adults, a majority of whom log on to Facebook daily, are more willing to dance to their hoodie-wearing piper, 28-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Among Zuckerberg’s peers, adults under age 35, 59 percent say Facebook is a good bet. Compare that to the views of senior citizens: Only 39 percent age 65 and over say Facebook shares are a good investment. Nearly half of Gen X’ers (ages 35-44) say the company is a good bet, as do 55 percent of middle-aged people.

Those under 35 are the generation most interested in Facebook’s IPO because they’ve grown up immersed in the social network. They were the first users, logging in from their college dorm rooms. Later, Facebook expanded to allow high school-age and even younger students to sign up. It’s become an integral part of their lives, giving them a launching pad to spread the news of life’s major developments through posts and pictures.

Conversely, it’s the rare senior citizen on Facebook: Just 21 percent have an account. Half of baby boomers – the generation born in the years after World War II – have one. But most of the 56 percent of the country that’s on Facebook is young – two-thirds of Gen X’ers and a staggering 81 percent of people 18-35 use the social networking site.

Young people aren’t just connected. They are constantly tethered to smartphones, tablets and notebook computers. Even with the rise of alternative social networks like Twitter and Google Plus, 55 percent of Zuckerberg’s peers go on Facebook every day. A third log on several times a day. Despite the intensity of their use, a narrow majority of young adults predict Facebook’s appeal will fade down the road (51 percent) replica watches, fewer think it will stick around as a service (44 percent).

The public overall is similarly divided on the company’s future. Just under half of adults (46 percent) predict a short timeline for Facebook, while 43 percent say it has staying power.

Young people are more aware of Zuckerberg and have more positive views of the CEO, who celebrated his 28th birthday on Monday. Overall replica watches, one in five Americans say they’ve never heard of him, 30 percent don’t have an opinion and 14 percent plain don’t like him. Only about a third have a good impression of the CEO, who has alienated some with Facebook’s ever-changing approach to user privacy.

But 46 percent of people under 35 like him. And a scant 4 percent of those younger adults say they’ve never heard of him.

The privacy issue is a stinger. Three of every five Facebook users say they have little or no faith that the company will protect their personal information. Only 13 percent trust Facebook to guard their data, and only 12 percent would feel safe making purchases through the site. Even Facebook’s most dedicated users are wary – half of those who use the site daily say they wouldn’t feel safe buying things on the network.

As for how Facebook makes most of its money -selling ads- 57 percent of users say they never click on them or on Facebook’s sponsored content. About another quarter say they rarely do.

Despite user discontent about privacy, Facebook and Zuckerberg have connected with many Americans. The survey suggests that his reputation and youth seem more like assets than liabilities. For those who have heard of the CEO, two-thirds are at least somewhat confident in his ability to run a large public company. Twenty-two percent doubt he can handle the leadership role. As for the social network he created, 51 percent of Americans clicked “Like.”

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SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Public employees in San Jose, California’s third-largest city, are gearing up for a marathon court battle if local voters approve a measure in June to overhaul the city’s pension system.

“It’s just a straight-up war with us,” said Jim Unland, board president of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association Professional Tattoo Machines, the union representing the city’s police force. ” Once the thing passes, we’ll be in court for years.”

San Jose is part of a broader legal and political struggle shaping up across the United States as cash-strapped state and local governments, Republican- and Democratic-led, try to rein in rising pension costs that are gobbling up big chunks of their budgets.

The stakes are high. Local and state officials have to make tough choices between using their shrinking or flat revenues for local services such as police, firefighters and schools, or making up for falling financial returns on pension investments.

The ballot measure being decided by San Jose’s voters would require city employees to pay more toward their pensions or accept a reduced retirement plan.

“There is a strong case for reform in many places,” said Keith Brainard, research director of the National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA), many of whose members are struggling to get public pension funds in balance.

“Since 2009, more than 40 states have made reforms to their pension plans and … in the few remaining others they are working on them,” Brainard added.

State and local governments administer pension benefits for retired public employees. The cost of providing for those guaranteed benefits has been escalating at a time of shrinking government budgets amid a weak economy. Many people receiving or due to get pension benefits are members of public sector unions.

Most states have announced some sort of public pension reforms since 2008 – from Wisconsin, scene of mass protests in 2011 against changes in public workers’ compensation packages Tattoo Machine For Sale, to Rhode Island, where the city of Central Falls last year filed for bankruptcy because of an $80 million unfunded pension and retiree health benefit liability.

States are short by $660 billion for future pension payments, a Pew Center on the States report last year showed. Some expect the Pew Center’s next report, due this month, to show a bigger gap because the improvement in the stock market in recent months will take years to show up in actuarial values.

In the 2001 fiscal year, large public pension plans had enough assets to cover more than 100 percent of their liabilities. By 2010 Machine Gun Tattoo, the ratio had fallen to 75.5 percent or lower in some cases, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress.

A study published on Tuesday by Boston College predicts that the asset-to-liability ratio probably will have fallen a bit further to 75 percent in 2011 and 2012.

The study says the ratio may pick up to around 82 percent in 2015, but depending on how the stock market performs, for 126 state or locally run plans it could range as low as 74 percent.

Some voters are not happy about losing services to preserve public pension benefits for retired government employees that are, in some cases, much more generous than their own recession-battered retirement funds. Public employees argue that they have worked for lower salaries than in the private sector in exchange for a secure retirement.

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Any quick fixes would be hard to carry out. Each state has its own constitution, courts, case law and retirement systems that affect how they can try to rein in pension costs.

Moira Kearney-Marks, a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said authorities trying to rewrite the rules have a big challenge on their hands.

“The law is bound by considerations that are completely different from those reformers might have in mind,” she wrote in a blog post in April. “If you want to help public pension plans close their funding gaps by reducing benefits, the law will probably work against you.”

There are at least eight lawsuits nationwide contesting attempted pension fixes, such as one in Florida that is aimed at saving $1 billion a year by reforming public pensions. These lawsuits generally are brought by public sector unions.

“I think they will only grow,” said Amy Monahan, a University of Minnesota Law School associate professor looking at the wide range of legal challenges that states face.

Even as legal battles unfold, local and state officials are pushing ahead with pension savings, creating another potential blow to their finances in the future if the unions win and past benefits have to be made good, said Steve Baker, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association, a teachers’ union.

While legal fees pile up, the financial health of pension funds is worsening. In April, the Northern Mariana Islands, way out in the Pacific Ocean, became the first U.S. public pension fund to file for bankruptcy protection.

States have tended to avoid trying to change pensions for existing retirees and have tried instead to raise retirement ages and lower benefits for new hires. While that strategy may help them avoid lawsuits, it also makes only a small dent in the financial problem.

A case in point is Illinois, where pensions are among the most poorly funded in the country. Nearly two years ago, the state government tried to cut retirement packages for new hires but its unfunded pension liability remains at $83 billion.

In fiscal 2013, starting July 1, state payments into the pension system will hit $5.2 billion, or 15 percent of general revenue spending. It was 6 percent in 2008.

In April, Democratic Governor Pat Quinn went further, making existing employees contribute more or take fewer benefits. That choice was unfair and a violation of the state constitutional, said Michael Carrigan, speaking for public worker coalitions.

A more common approach has been to cut cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, for benefits, with 18 states either reducing or eliminating the annual increases, the GAO said.

Two recent court rulings in Colorado and Minnesota upheld the states’ rights to change COLAs after challenges by unions.

Florida is appealing a court ruling that its elimination of COLA increases and its requirement of higher worker contributions violate the state constitution.

“It is not clear what level of legal protection is provided in a lot of states. It is an area of laws that is unfolding in front of us,” NASRA’s Brainard said.

While state courts are reluctant to back big changes to pension contracts, states can alter a contract if “it’s reasonable and necessary to provide a public service” and changes are done “in the least drastic way,” said the University of Minnesota’s Monahan.

The problem: defining what is drastic. “There’s not a nice little rule book,” she said.

(Writing by Tiziana Barghini, Editing by William Schomberg and Will Dunham)

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Last Monday night a Tattoo Gun, Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, discussed a ’scandal’ that has been plaguing her husband’s campaign: During road trips with his family of seven in the 1980s, her husband used to habitually strap their Irish Setter Tattoo Ink Sets, Seamus, to the car roof in a crate.

“He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was, to me, a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks,” she says. Sawyer brings up the fact that, during one twelve-hour sojourn with the family in 1983, Seamus got diarrhea and his poop dripped down the rear window, much to the delight of his five young sons.

One of them repeated the story to a reporter in 2007, and that’s when the subject of dog poop made its way into politics in the most serious way since the hubbub surrounding New York City’s 1970s Pooper Scooper law. I don’t think the son, Tagg, was trying to skewer his father by recounting this family anecdote. It’s just that more than twenty years later, it was still funny.

In the ABC interview, Ms. Romney points out that the diarrhea incident only happened one time out of the many, many times that Seamus took the upper deck. And it was only because he’d just previously stolen a turkey off the kitchen counter. Said the possible future First Lady: “He had the runs.”

This has been no small issue. A Public Policy Polling found that 35 percent of voters said they were less likely to vote for Mr. Romney because of his dog-handling. The New York Times’ Op-Ed page has mentioned the incident more than a hundred times in the last year. In January, Obama political consultant David Axelrod tweeted a picture of the president holding his dog in a limo and wrote, “How loving owners transport their dogs.” Last month Tattoo Machines For Cheap, The New Yorker ran a cover that showed Romney driving a car with Rick Santorum strapped to its top. Dogs Against Romney super PAC on Facebook has more than 40,000 members who are hoping to dissuade potential Romney voters by posting Photoshopped photos of dogs strapped to Romney’s head and selling bumper stickers that say “I ride inside.”

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I love my dog. I’ve never put my dog on the roof of a car. But I’m not sure he’d totally mind it. Have you ever seen a dog stick his head out of the side of a car? Best thing ever.

The idea of a twelve-hour road trip without a break is inhumane, yes. And we don’t really know how well Seamus was strapped up there, or if he was scared or not. Maybe Ms. Romney was right: He really did like it and just that one time happened to get sick. People, and dogs, sometimes get sick even when they’re riding inside.

But it’s unusual that we should be so worried about the dog’s feelings. The fact is we often treat pets in ways that they probably don’t like. I’m not even talking about the four million cats and dogs who perish each year in this country’s largely ill-kept shelters. I’m referring to ones that we have already sanctified as furry family members worthy of transportation — ones that we want to transport with us because we love them. Horses don’t cheerily trot into their trailers. It might be safe, but no one has explained car mechanics or the federal highway system to the equine population.

Several dozen animals die each year in plane cargo. (PetFlight.com lists every reported incident.) And there are probably tens of thousands of tiny puppies flying overhead right this moment, taken away from their puppy-mill-resident mothers and siblings at a few weeks old and flown, alone, to pet stores in other parts of the country where they face unknown fates at pet stores. It’s sadder than Bambi! Then there is the sad fact that many dogs don’t do so well inside cars: Countless dogs die from overheating in parked vehicles. In the grand scheme of things, Seamus didn’t have it so bad.

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We live in a world of increasingly thoughtful pet ownership, and for this I’m glad. Dog owners have many great dog safety products at their disposal: There are many lines of doggie seat belts, in-car safety guards and even booster seats. There are special comforting shirts and herbal sedatives you can get for a dog who is anxious about being in a car. But this is all very new. Even seat belts for humans have only been around a few decades. Not long ago, we transported animals in ways that were, by today’s standards, very weird.

In 1932 there was the Bird Dog’s Palace, an insulated-steel cage for dogs that was locked to a car’s running board. “The barred door slides upward, permitting the dogs to be released without the driver having to leave his seat.”

A 1936 canvas getup, also designed to be hinged to the running board, seemed to offer more protection to the car than it did to the dog.

In 1955, Dewey Blanton of Columbus, Ohio, debuted his method of both exercising his dogs and traveling to his destination (at speeds up to 35 miles-per-hour.)

By 1975, things were starting to get slightly better for road tripping dogs: A Florida woman, Marie French, patented a pet trailer designed to be towed behind a car.

In comparison to these condoned dog transport methods, the possible candidate’s homemade affair seems… not so bad.

I wouldn’t vote for Romney, but not because of how he treated his dog. I’m with the missus: At least the dog was going on a trip with a family he loved. Really, she’s the one I feel bad for. Twelve hours in a car with five kids and Mitt Romney? I’d rather ride on the roof.

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WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 (Reuters) — After years of worrying what might happen if openly gay troops were allowed in the military, the Pentagon said on Thursday there had been no impact on morale, readiness or unit cohesion in the eight months since the ban on homosexuals was lifted. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 14, 2012. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

President Barack Obama, who on Wednesday became the first U.S. president to publicly support gay marriage, helped champion the end of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. He is counting the ban’s repeal last September as a fulfillment of one of his campaign promises.

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Army General Martin Dempsey, who as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the top U.S. military officer, said: “I have not found any negative effect on good order or discipline.”

Asked what many top brass had been afraid of, Dempsey said: “What were we afraid of is we didn’t know.

“And I think that the way we were given a year to make this assessment to educate ourselves to collaborate, to build the sense of trust … I think it worked out well,” he said.

Under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, more than 14 Replica DKNY Clothing,500 U.S. service members were thrown out of the military since it went into effect in 1993, according to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. (See graphic

Gay rights groups for years denounced the law and called its end a important milestone in the fight against anti-homosexual discrimination. Some have compared its demise to the integration of the U.S. armed forces.

(Reporting By Phil Stewart)

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