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HomeAway Enables Rentals to Be Placed Online With Credit Cards
HomeAway, the publicly held company that manages vacation rentals sites, including VRBO.com, is now enabling homeowners to accept payments with a credit card. Once a traveler books accommodations, the two parties have 24 hours to work out the details. The company said online bookings will allow it to transition to a pay-per-booking model, where homeowners can list their property for free and pay a commission at the time of booking, rather than paying an upfront fee.


text: Supreme Court Corner Q3 2017 Intellectual Property and Technology News Share this 29 SEP 2017 By: Stan Panikowski Brian Biggs MATAL V. TAM TRADEMARK – Decided: June 19, 2017 HOLDING: The Lanham Act's disparagement clause violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment. Simon Shiao Tam leads a dance-rock band and sought to trademark the band's name: The Slants. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) upheld the PTO's decision not to register the mark under § 2(a), holding it disparages a substantial composite of an identifiable group of people − persons of Asian ancestry. A Federal Circuit panel affirmed, finding the PTO's decision did not abridge Tam's First Amendment right to free speech. An en banc Federal Circuit, however, held § 2(a) unconstitutional and vacated the TTAB's decision, finding, under strict scrutiny, the disparagement clause invalid as a viewpoint-based restriction on speech. The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed, holding the Lanham Act's disparagement clause violates the First Amendment. Trademarks, it said, are private speech, not government speech; and the government cannot "abridge[e] the freedom of speech." The Court split on the basis for the decision. Without deciding which level of scrutiny to apply, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by three others, found the disparagement clause unconstitutionally vague even under relaxed scrutiny. The clause is not "narrowly drawn" to protect only invidious discrimination − it more broadly prohibits marks that disparage any person, group or institution. The First Amendment would be endangered, the opinion reasons, if government could cleanse commercial speech "of any expression likely to cause offense." HOLDING: The Lanham Act's disparagement clause violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment. Justice Anthony Kennedy, also joined by three others,* concurred, but reasoned the First Amendment's test for viewpoint discrimination controls. Because an applicant can register a positive trademark but not a derogatory one, the disparagement clause impermissibly "reflects the Government's disapproval of a subset of messages it finds offensive." By striking down the disparagement clause, the Supreme Court's decision resolves the Slants dispute and may lead to reversal of the TTAB's decision to cancel the Washington Redskins trademarks, a decision upheld by the Eastern District of Virginia in Pro-Football, Inc. v. Amanda Blackhorse.** * Justice Neil Gorsuch took no part in the decision. ** For more on Pro-Football, Inc. v. Amanda Blackhorse, see www.dlapiper.com/supreme-court-corner-q3-2015. OIL STATES ENERGY SERVS., LLC V. GREENE'S ENERGY GROUP, LLC PATENT – Cert. Granted ISSUE: Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a jury trial. The America Invents Act created the inter partes review (IPR) process, whereby a third party may request review of any patent by the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). If the USPTO determines "there is a reasonable likelihood that the petitioner would prevail with respect to at least 1 of the claims challenged," review may be instituted, and a three-judge panel may issue a final written decision adjudicating validity of some or all of the claims. The IPR process, which does not permit a jury, is an alternative to challenging patent validity in federal courts. ISSUE: Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a jury trial. In 2012, Oil States filed a patent infringement suit against Greene's Energy Group in the Eastern District of Texas; a year later, Greene's Energy Group filed an IPR petition. After the IPR was instituted, Oil States moved to amend the claims. The PTAB denied that motion. Oil States appealed to the Federal Circuit on several grounds, including that the IPR process violates Article III and the Seventh Amendment. A Federal Circuit panel summarily affirmed the PTAB's decision, and Oil States' requests for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc were denied. The Supreme Court granted certiorari on the question of whether the IPR process is constitutional. Oil States argues the Seventh Amendment guarantees a patent owner the right to a jury trial for invalidity proceedings. Oil States also argues patent owners are entitled to an Article III forum for invalidity proceedings because patent invalidation is a cause of action that stems from the common law. Greene's Energy Group responds that Article III permits Congress to designate "public rights" for adjudication in non-Article III tribunals and because patents are a "quintessential" public right, Article III permits the PTAB to adjudicate validity. Greene's Energy Group further argues the Seventh Amendment does not bar IPRs because it guarantees a right to a jury trial "only where Article III compels Congress to assign adjudication of particular claims to federal courts, or where Congress chooses to do so." A decision is expected in this case by June 2018.


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We welcome Ada Limón to the set, author of Bright Dead Things: Poems. Limón was a finalist for the National Book Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limon's next book, The Carrying: Poems is due to be released this summer.
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limon comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Limon shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all."
In Bright Dead Things, Limon showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood"—"the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it's going to come in first." In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display—even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.


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When I saw the brown lip trend sweeping the internet, I really wanted to give it a go. However, I find that lipsticks often don't look anything like the swatches on me, and so I was put off spending a lot only to be disappointed. Then on a trip to Bodycare to buy bath sponges (of all things), I came across this Technic Colour Max lipstick in the shade Be My Baby which looked like a lovely reddish brown in the tube. It was only around £1, and the shade looked like just what I had been searching for, so I thought it can't hurt to give it a go.
I'm going to be honest here! This was initially going to be a negative review, I didn't like how the shade looked on me at first, and I wasn't sure on the formula. However, when I was looking for a graduation lipstick, I tried this one out again, and it just worked! The shade actually looked pretty good when I made an effort with the rest of my makeup, and yes the formula won't blow you away, but it's not bad for £1.
Technic have definitely come a long way from my teenage years when I used to pile on their shimmer shadows! They've upped their branding, and some of their new releases (that I've spotted on instagram) do look really good.
This lipstick is from the Colour Max line, there isn't much about it online but it is definitely a matte range. The shade, Be My Baby, is a very autumnal shade! When swatched it does come across a warm orange brown, however it's a little cooler when applied (more reddish), hence why I didn't think it suited me at first.
It's not as pigmented when it comes to application, so you do have to apply a few swipes. The formula is also not as smooth as I expected, so I would recommend you exfoliate your lips beforehand so it doesn't go on patchy. However, once it's on, it doesn't feel heavy or incredibly drying (compared to other matte formulas). However, because of my REALLY dry lips I do apply a liberal amount of the Nuxe lip balm underneath, which shortens the wear time to about 3 hours (as it makes it a bit slippery). Putting a lip balm underneath also means it doesn't go on as true to colour (so it applies more orangey-pink, versus the reddish brown). If you don't suffer with dry lips though you should be fine, and you could get 5-6 hours out of this. It wears very evenly, and does leave a bit of a stain behind (which I really like!).
It does have a matte finish, however it's not in your face matte (if that makes sense!) It's a really natural, muted look. This is the point where I realised that I've been going wrong, and that instead of the bright pinks I've been hoarding, I should have gone for more everyday lipsticks like this.
The packaging is is a black matte tube with a clear cap. It's safe to put in your handbag as it clicks into place. However, the lipstick isn't so stable itself, it moves around within the tube as you apply it, so it's currently scraping along the side.
Overall, I really do like the shade! I know the formula won't be for everyone (or those with very dry lips - matte lips are such a struggle for us!), but if you're on a budget or you just want to try some new shades, then I would recommend giving it a go. It has encouraged me to perhaps look at some more shades on the brown scale, and maybe put in a cheeky Colourpop order. You can find it here for £2.25, or on Amazon for £1.95 (if you don't have a BodyCare by you).


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St. Patrick's Day Queen
March 13, 2009
St. Patrick's Day Queen Visit
Today we were thankful to have the 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade Queen Julie Popp and her court visit us at the bakery today. While she was here she and her court spoke to the morning tour as well as taking time out to pose for pictures with some customers and bakery associates. In addition to her visit here, she made the short walk to visit our neighbors at New Horizons to see some of the children as well as see some of the efforts that are being done in conjunction with Eli's Cheesecake Co. While she was here, representatives from Sethness Greenleaf stopped by and donated some Green River to the café for guests to sample. Thanks to everyone that made this day a success. We hope that we can have an even better turnout next year on March 12, 2010.


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Cell movement provides clues to aggressive breast cancer
Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a specific molecule that alters how breast cancer cells move. This affects the cells' ability to spread or metastasize to distant parts of the body, the hallmark of deadly, aggressive cancer.
By looking at cells in the lab, in mice and in human tissue, as well as developing a mathematical model to predict cell movement, researchers found that the p38-gamma molecule controlled how quickly and easily a cancer cell moved. When p38-gamma was inactivated, cells flattened out and changed from fast motion to an ineffective movement.
"Normal motion is commonly seen in aggressive cancers, which is why it's very important to understand what the key switches are for this motion," says lead study author Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director of the breast oncology program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Results of the study appear online in Cancer Research.
Merajver's previous work found that the cancer gene RhoC promotes aggressive metastasis. In this research, her team followed the pathway back to see what controls the cells to make them so aggressive. They identified the p38 molecule, which has several different types, and found in particular p38-gamma is highly expressed in aggressive breast cancer.
The researchers modified the cells so that they inhibited p38-gamma in cell cultures and discovered the changes in shape and motion. Collaborators in the U-M College of Engineering, Ellen M. Arruda, Krishna Garikipati and their team, then developed a mathematical model to show how these changes would impact cell motion. The model predicted exactly what the researchers observed in the cell cultures.
"This gives us a more complete understanding of how aggressive breast cancer cells move and the influence of p38-gamma in particular on modifying this motion," says Merajver, professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. "Cell movement is very difficult to observe, which is why mathematical modeling in oncology is valuable."
Merajver hopes this model, which can be applied to other cancer types, will improve understanding of how cells move, allowing researchers to plan better experiments to look at this function.
Identifying p38-gamma's role in breast cancer provides a strong target for potential new therapies, the researchers say. They believe it will be possible to develop a drug that targets only p38-gamma without affecting other pathways, which would make it more tolerable for patients.
"We do have targeted therapies in the clinic, but the total burden of disease that they ameliorate is still relatively minimal. The reasons may not necessarily be that they are not good drugs, but simply that we don't understand how they work, because we don't understand the biology in sufficient detail. That's why studies like this are so important in advancing drug development," Merajver says.
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"What a great group of people, and amazing spirit at TOC. Learned a lot, made new friends, and came away fired up about the future of publishing." — Steven Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify.net
"At its best, Tools of Change reaffirms the promise of publishing, even as it challenges us to rethink the roles that publishers play. This year, you did a great job of blending the established and the new"—Brian O'Leary, Founder and Principle, Magellan Media
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An Indian woman who has spent nearly 12 years fasting to protest against a law that gives special powers to the armed forces has been featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Irom Sharmila Chanu, 40, has been on a hunger strike since 2 November 2000 in the north-eastern state of Manipur.
She has been force-fed through a pipe in her nose since November 2000.
Ripley's site features a cartoon on the activist and describes her as "the iron lady of Manipur".
Ms Chanu has repeatedly rejected requests to call off her fast until the government withdraws the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
The act gives sweeping powers to the armed forces when they fight separatist insurgents or leftist radicals – powers which critics say are often misused.
Kshetrimayum Onil, a trustee of Just Peace Foundation, a non-governmental organisation based in the state capital, Imphal, told the BBC that he sent an e-mail to Ripley's site about Ms Chanu's struggle in mid-March.
"Lucas Stram, one of the researchers from the Ripley's team, sent me a link to the cartoon page a few days back," Mr Onil said.
Ms Chanu's years of fasting have made her into an iconic figure in Manipur.
The state has a population of about 2.5 million people and a huge force of army, paramilitary and state police. They have been fighting at least 12 insurgent groups since 1980.
The government and the army maintain that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act is necessary to restore normality in the state.
But civil society groups allege gross human rights violations by troops and policemen.
Ms Chanu's hunger strike started after soldiers of the Assam Rifles paramilitary force allegedly killed 10 young Manipuri men in November 2000.
She has been arrested many times and taken to hospital where she has been force-fed a liquid diet through her nose in a bid to keep her alive. (courtesy: BBC)
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Hello once again!
On Friday, I met with Rev. Diane Kessler who joined me for lunch at the Pastoral Center.
For many years Rev. Kessler was the head of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. She is now a representative of the World Council of Churches to the Joint Working Group. The group was created after the Second Vatican Council and designed to foster relationships between the World Council of Churches and the Catholic Church.
Rev. Kessler is a leader from the ecumenical community and an old friend. She was visiting the Pastoral Center and discussing the state of ecumenical relations between the Catholic Church and the other Christian churches. An important part of our ministry is to work for the unity among Christians that Christ wants in His Church. Diane is someone who has devoted her whole life to that quest. I was happy to be able to receive her for the first time at the Pastoral Center.
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Saturday morning we went to Arnold Hall, a retreat center in Pembroke, for a Mass and visit with the members of Opus Dei.
During my visit, I had a chance speak with Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, as well as Msgr. Thomas Bohlin, who is Vicar of Opus Dei for the U.S., and Father Peter Armenio from Chicago.
After that meeting, I celebrated Mass for a group of young men who are taking their summer courses at Arnold Hall. These are men who are numeraries of Opus Dei, laymen who have made commitments to live in a manner that will help them witness their faith to the people they meet in the course of their daily lives. Most of them are college students, graduate students and young professionals. It was very impressive to see how many vocations Opus Dei has.
In Opus Dei, most of the members do not take the private vows of poverty, chastity and obedience but the numeraries are the ones who do. The priests for Opus Dei are chosen out of the numeraries. They do not have a seminary, but all the numeraries receive the appropriate training and certain men are chosen to be ordained.
We stayed for lunch, and then we met with all of the young men. Many of them talked about their experiences and ministries. I was very taken by the apostolic zeal that was demonstrated in the stories that they told and how they are working to share their faith with their peers in the workplace, their schools, etc.
In today's world where people talk about a vocations crisis, it is very encouraging to see the wonderful response to this way of life that has been approved by the Church and confirmed in the holiness of their founder, St. Josemaría Escrivá.
I think many people heard about the Opus Dei for the first time when the movie "The Da Vinci Code" came out. Although it was a very negative portrayal, it seems to have put Opus Dei on the map, as the say, at least in the United States. In the end, it does not seem to have hurt the community but rather made them more well known.
John Allen, who writes for the National Catholic Reporter, wrote a very interesting book about Opus Dei, titled "Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church," which I recommend to people who would like to know more about this way of life.
Of course, the writings of St. Josemaría are also very important, the most important being El Camino, which is a very easy read. It is almost like a book of sayings by the saint, organized according to themes.
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First thing on Sunday morning, I traveled to St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Lawrence where a youth group was returning from a service trip to the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic. They talked about the missions they visited down there and they sang a song that they had written about it. I asked the parish to send some of the photos of the work they did on the mission trip, and I want share them with you:
A chapel they are helping to build
They made donations of numerous supplies to a local nursing home there including hospital beds and these tables and chairs
Just to give you some sense of the area, this the town where the nursing home is located
All the pilgrims with the bishop of the diocese, Bishop Grullon
At the Mass, I addressed the people, thanking them for their deep faith and congratulating them on being the parish that regularly sends the most catechumens to the Rite of Election every year. I believe that demonstrates their great spirit and wonderful involvement of the laity in the life of the parish, particularly in the area of evangelization.
After the Mass, pastor Father Jorge Reyes, OSA invited me to meet the many different ministerial groups at the parish.
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From there, we went to Corpus Christi Parish at Holy Rosary Church in Lawrence, for Santo Cristo Feast Mass. This is my second Santo Cristo feast this year because we went to St. Anthony Parish in Cambridge earlier in the year. At Holy Rosary, they have a wonderful choir.
With the parents of Father Patrick Armano, Elia and Salvatore Armano, and my priest secretary, Father Jonathan Gaspar
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On Wednesday, I attended the 5th anniversary of the Vianney Priests Gathering. Every year the numbers have increased. This year, the turnout was wonderful. Father George Evans gave a conference on the Cure d' Ars, which was followed by vespers at which I preached.
Then, we had a cookout and, luckily, the weather cooperated. It was overcast and cool, but very pleasant.
This is the Year for Priests and events like this give us an opportunity to reflect on the importance of our priestly fraternity, renewing our commitment to serve God's people and being members of his presbyterate. We must also deepen our interior life.
There will be many activities during the course of the year in order to promote priestly identity and spirituality including an international retreat for priests in Ars, France and a seminar here at the seminary on the meaning and importance of celibacy for the Church.
I am very grateful to Father William Kelly for his work on ongoing formation for priests.
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Yesterday I went to Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville and there presided over the reception of the body of Eunice Kennedy Shriver in an intimate ceremony with the pastor, Father Mark Hession, and the members of the Kennedy and Shriver families.
The parking lot was crowded with media trucks and people. The afternoon viewing afforded the opportunity for thousands of people to file through the church and pay their respects to this great Catholic woman. I was happy to be able to be a part of this simple prayer service in which her family placed the pall and crucifix on her coffin, prayed and reflected on the Scripture.
I was very pleased to be able to see Sargent Shriver after so many years. With his Alzheimer's, it was difficult to know exactly how much he understood of the day's events and I did not know if he would recognize me. It had been many years since I had last seen him, but I was very moved when he immediately kissed my ring.
I was touched by how solicitous the family was for him, especially Gov. Schwarzenegger, who is obviously a very devoted son-in-law.
Some of the Shriver children remembered the time I celebrated Mass for the Shrivers, Cesar Chavez and about 100 farm workers in their patio back in the 70s. The Shrivers were living in Maryland at the time and I was at the Centro Católico in Washington. I joked with them, "I think we destroyed your garden!"
That work with the farm workers was just one more indication of the profound commitment of Eunice and Sargent Shriver to the social doctrine of the Church. She was preeminently prolife, against abortion and there to protect and underscore the dignity of every person. This, of course, manifested itself in her love for children with disabilities.
In that regard, she reminds me very much of Jean Vanier who founded the L'Arche movement in Canada. That movement was born out of the Church's teachings on the dignity of every human person as a treasure made in the image and likeness of God and of our obligation to care for each other and to recognize the gift in each person.
Certainly, what Eunice Shriver did made a positive impact in so many ways and was a very strong witness of her Catholic faith.
Her sister, Rosemary, who was mentally retarded, opened up a whole reality that led Eunice to be such a pioneer and allowed her to make such a mark on history with the Special Olympics. It has been my experience that when a family has a child with a mental disability or Down Syndrome, the siblings often learn more about compassion and understanding than they would have if they did have that exceptional child.
Rosemary was undoubtedly a great blessing in Eunice's life who allowed her to discover, in faith and in love, the beauty of her sister. It was that relationship with Rosemary that was later extrapolated to all the children who experience similar types of challenges.
While Eunice's works were remarkable, I don't want to lose sight of the fact that her Catholic faith and education was a very important part of what motivated her and helped her to interpret reality, particularly the reality of disability and retardation. I think this article by her son, Timothy Shriver, speaks volumes about the importance of her faith in her life. It was certainly the soil out of which grew her passion and dedication to the less fortunate and those who are challenged by disabilities and mental retardation.
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Next week I will be heading off to Cuba with a delegation from the U.S. bishops to see how the Church in Cuba is recovering in the wake of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike last year.
I look forward to sharing my experiences with you when I return.
Until then, pray for me and know I will be praying for you.
– Cardinal Seán


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Federal and Local Officials Celebrate New Beginning
Many of the federal and local officials were not even born when the Crenshaw community had its last rail transportation, but all celebrated in the historical ground breaking ceremony to launch the Metro Crenshaw-LAX line that is scheduled for completion in 2019.
"We have reached a milestone in this project that has been a long time coming," said County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who has championed the line since his days as a Los Angeles City councilman in the 1990s. "This has been a 30-year dream in the making, and I look forward to boarding this train in 2019 along with all the other Angelenos who have helped make this a reality."
The new light rail line will be the first to serve Crenshaw and Inglewood in the last 59 years since the Los Angeles Rail Line (Yellow Cars) served the community up until 1955.
It was a sizeable and historical undertaking that began long before many of the current elected officials thought about office.
Ridley-Thomas did not forget them when he made a special point to acknowledge the efforts that started with late former Mayor Tom Bradley, Congressman Julian Dixon and former Congresswoman Diane E. Watson. Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was at the modern day forefront of championing the rail line.
On Tuesday Jan. 21, on a damp cool day, local and federal officials joined with United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx for the historical groundbreaking of the $2.1 billion Crenshaw-LAX line on Exposition and Crenshaw Blvd. that will serve as a bright ray of sunshine for years to come.
The 30-year journey for the project will not begin construction for 8.5 miles of light rail that will run from Metro Expo and Green lines, serving the Crenshaw Corridor, Westchester and the area around Los Angeles International Airport.
Funded by the $2.1-billion measure R, voters approved a half-cent sales tax in 2008, officials hailed the light rail as a victory for the local economy while also easing the consistent traffic congestion.
"We're not only bringing transportation to the folks, and it takes a little while to get here, but we're also putting people in jobs – not just jobs but careers," said Diane DuBois, Metro's chairwoman.
"If we can achieve 50 percent local hiring on the building of the Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, we can do it on the Crenshaw Line," emphatically stated Ridley-Thomas. The Supervisor emphasized the importance of people from the community seeing themselves on this project and reminded everyone it all starts at the grass roots level.
"Working together with all facets of government and the local community got us to this moment," said Ridley-Thomas
"I've never seen a rail line where there were people who didn't have a different point of view. But we're some-$2 billion later, and the vast majority of this line is underground as it should be, because it is safe."
The project is expected to be completed by 2019.
"Bringing light rail to this community will spur local economic development and make it easier than ever for residents to access downtown Los Angeles and beyond," U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx said during the ceremony at the Expo/Crenshaw light rail station.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board of directors last June approved a nearly $1.3 billion contract for construction of the 8.5-mile Crenshaw/LAX rail line. The board also approved a $160 million contingency fund for the project, for a total budget of nearly $2.06 billion, according to Metro.
The U.S. Transportation Department's Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program made also $545.9 million loan toward the project.
"Over the years, I have fought for the inclusion of light rail stations in Leimert Park and at Florence & Hindry on the Crenshaw/LAX line. I visited Metro and met with Metro leadership to discuss the importance of these stations, and I urged Metro to seek federal funding for their construction," stated Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
Waters introduced legislation to increase federal funding for the TIGER program, which provides grants for transportation infrastructure projects like the Crenshaw/LAX Corridor.
She also circulated a letter to the House Appropriations Committee, signed by 113 of her colleagues, requesting $500 million for this program in 2014, and urged the Department of Transportation to provide TIGER grants to Metro to finance such stations.
"The Obama Administration is committed to investing in good transportation projects like the Crenshaw/LAX line to create ladders of opportunity for millions of Americans, and we are proud to help make this project possible with a $545 million loan" Foxx added.
"This has been a decades-long, monumental effort by an array of elected officials, community advocates and Metro staff," Ridley-Thomas said when the board approved the project last year. "We did this together and now we are poised to begin construction on a dream that will help millions."
The line will also include sites such as Hollywood Park, the Forum, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza and Leimert Park.
United States Senator Barbara Boxer, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congresswoman Karen Bass were joined by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at the event.
"The Crenshaw Line will provide a crucial transportation link, create over 18,000 jobs, help connect communities, reduce air pollution, and provide economic development and economic opportunities," said Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
This new light rail line will be the first to serve Crenshaw and Inglewood in the last 59 years since the Los Angeles Rail Line (Yellow Cars) served the community up until 1955.
The new Metro Rail extension will offer an alternative transportation option to congested roadways and provide significant environmental benefits, economic development and employment opportunities throughout Los Angeles County. Riders will be able to make easy connections within the entire Metro Rail system, municipal bus lines and other regional transportation services.
Officials who attended the event were:
Diane DuBois, Metro's chairwoman
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
U.S. Congress member Karen Bass
U.S. Congress member Maxine Waters
City of Lakewood Councilmember and Metro Board Chair Diane Dubois
City of Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board member Eric Garcetti
LA County Supervisor and Metro Board member Mark Ridley-Thomas
LA County Supervisor and Metro Board member Don Knabe
City of Santa Monica Mayor and Metro Board member Pam O'Connor
City of LA Councilmember and Metro Board member Mike Bonin
Metro Board member Jackie Dupont-Walker
City of Inglewood Mayor James Butts
Metro CEO Art Leahy
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The 'Four S's of Rahm's attack on public education -- Sabotage = Substitute shortage + Security shortage + Special Ed mismanagement...Memo to principals shows CPS administrators trying to sabotage the CTU contract, while incompetence at the top undermines already poor special ed services
If the real objective of the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel is to give away as many of the assets of the public schools as quickly as possible during his term in office, does it matter if in the process both morality and law are being violated on a daily basis across the nation's third largest school system. As the second year of the Emanuel administration draws to a close, the evidence piles up that privatization, not public education, is on the agenda of the former White House Chief of Staff, and that any claim that the Emanuel administration is capable of actually managing a major city has been disproven by the facts.
The latest "Chief Executive Officer" (the fourth in three years) to head Chicago's public schools is Barbara Byrd Bennett, who came to Chicago from Detroit and was appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to the job in October 2012 after Emanuel dumped his original pick, Jean-Claude Brizard. Brizard, who came to Chicago from Rochester, was hailed by Emanuel at the time as the best man for the job, and paid an unprecedented $250,000 per year salary, plus a "relocation expense" of $35,000 because he came from out of town. In March 2012, following the abrupt resignation of Rahm's first "Chief Education Officer", Noemi Donoso (who was imported from Colorado), the seven member Chicago Board of Education hired Byrd Bennett as "Interim Chief Education Officer." By the time of the Chicago Teachers Strike of 2012 in September 2012, Emanuel had ordered Brizard to be quiet, and Byrd Bennett was placed at the bargaining table. After Emanuel forced Brizard out (with a golden parachute unprecedented in Chicago schools history), Byrd Bennett became the current CEO. Above, Byrd Bennett is talking to principals who received "merit pay" bonuses at Lowell Elementary School on October 28. 2012. Merit pay is being pushed by Emanuel despite all of the research that shows that it fails in education and is one of the reasons why the financial people who undermined the world economy in 2007 and 2008 were "incented" to become so corrupt. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.A memo issued to all principals on Friday, January 25, 2013, continues to show the reveal how the inside operations of CPS are being redesigned since the election of Mayor Rahm Emanuel to sabotage the city's remaining real public schools in order to replace them with privatization as quickly as possible. After a setback by the Chicago Teachers Strike of 2012, CPS officials have regrouped following Emanuel's purge of Jean-Claude Brizard and are now moving against both the contract and the public schools.
The school system's top officials, more than half of whom are now from outside teaching (and many of those from outside Chicago, at great expense) are trying to prod principals (usually, via the Network chieftains) to push violations of the union contract (and possibly of state and federal law) on teachers and others. In addition to the sabotage of substitute service and security, both under the guise of "austerity" (now disproven by the FY 2012 CAFR's revelations), CPS lawyers have committed to supporting every ploy to undermine teachers — even when federal special education laws are governing.
The January 25 memo, which was provided to Substance by an anonymous friend of education and confirmed, deals with a couple of the places where CPS is trying to be on the offensive against teachers and the union.
Along with other directives to principals — some of which are put in writing and others of which are passed along by word of mouth from Network "Chiefs of Schools" and their staffs — the latest memo seems to demonstrate that what CPS lost in the face of the Chicago Teachers Strike of 2012 they are now trying to "win" back by undermining the contract relentlessly at the local school level.
From security to substitutes, behind the smokescreen of a "financial crisis" (which has been proved a lie with the release of the latest CAFR), CPS is sabotaging the city's real public schools. At the same time, CPS is preparing to launch another round of privatized and anti-union charter schools — despite citywide opposition to their continued spread. Instead of freezing charter expansion as the examples of charter corruption multiply and the need for massive audits and reviews grow, the seven members of the Chicago Board of Education are preparing to do more charters before the end of the 2012 – 2013 school year.
Perhaps as seriously, because it could jeopardize millions of dollars in federal funds contingent on CPS providing special education services, it the refusal of CPS to provide schools with enough special education teachers, PSRPs, and clinicians to provide the services required by federal law. Meanwhile, the privatized and outsources special education services, when investigated, are showing to be examples of the kinds of abuse of children with special needs that haven't been seen in supposedly civilized societies since the novels of Charles Dickens 160 years ago shocked the middle class.
A major confrontation is looming. CPS offers one version of how special education work should be done, while at the same time CPS now has the least qualified administration of special education services in the history of the nation's third largest school system. The danger to children with special needs -- and the challenges to teachers who may have to risk much as whistle blowers -- grows because during the second year of Rahm Emanuel's reign over the schools, the CPS special education offices have been gutted. The top posts are now held, for the most part, by people with no knowledge or experience in Chicago. But since the agenda is privatization and cronyism, the beat goes on.
The following memo went to principals on January 25, 2013, one week before the confrontations that seem to be developing for February 1 (the half day for children).
MEMO TO PRINCIPALS JANUARY 25, 2013… [Editor's note. The insertion of 'sic' in the memo is from Substance, indicating misspellings and other typographical errors in the original memo. Following the purge of the central office in 2011 – 2012 on orders from the mayor, CPS has lacked many of the clerical and middle-management people to do these jobs, and the result has been everything from recommending that parents visit a porn site to the memo below].
SPECIAL DAILY NEWS ALERT, Friday, January 25, 2013. FROM THE LABOR RELATIONS OFFICE:
February 1st is a full work day for all school based [sic] employees. Principals and payroll clerks should note that all employees in the following classifications are scheduled to work on the February 1st full-day professional development day for teachers and PSRPs: All teacher [sic], PSRPs, lunchroom employees, CWAs, bus aides, SECAs, custodial emploeyes and all security personnel.
Teacher/PSRP PD on February 1st should be half principal-directed and half teacher-directed. IEPs and Teacher self-directed time. It has come to our attention that CTU Field Representatives are telling teachers that IEP meetings should not be scheduled during teachers' self-directede [sic] preparation periods. This is false. Attendance at IEP meetings is something that is appropriately done on a teachers self-directed preparation. That has always been the case and no change in that practice was negotiated.
Elementary Teachers 64-minute preparations. Questions continue to percolate regarding the 64-minute preparation period. 60 minutes of that is non-supervisiory [sic], teacher directed preparation and 4 minutes are for supervision. However, elementary principals should work with their PPCs collaboratively and in good to find opportunties [sic] for other self-directed time for teachers (on PD days at other times when the opportunity presents itself). That was the agreement struck with CTU and that is how principals should implement the agreement.
If you have questions regarding these topics, please call Joe Moriarty at 3-1641, Lara Shayne at 3-1727 or Lorena Montenegro at 3-1717.
By: Marc Sims
Disruptive students, charters
Can you make a good argument why a parent should not the their children to a charter school?
By: George N. Schmidt
Most charters are frauds, some bigger than others
Yes, Marc, since it is possible to visit your blog. After more than 15 years of unregulated and overprivileged existence in Chicago, the vast majority of Chicago charter schools are frauds, pure and simple. The exploit young and inexperienced teachers (often but not always women) working them incredible hours and then dumping them. They promote fraudulent versions of reality (viz., all you need to succeed in the real world of urban schools is a belief that "ALL CHILDREN CAN LEARN"; gee, why didn't they tell me that during my 28 years of inner city high schools and upper grade centers !!!?). They have become Ponzi schemes borrowing money against the future largess of CPS in providing them students forever (UNO is biggest at this)...
And they undermine public education, public institutions, and public schools with lies, half truths, etc.
By: Bob Busch
Charter schools' dumpings begin
It started about two weeks ago like a broken faucet,the steady drip of students being kicked
out of charter schools has begun. Many show up alone and usually take a week off before showing up at our door. The charter operators have milked every last cent out of their hides
and now -- six weeks before the big test -- they dump them.
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Mistake on exam time...
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It is hardly news that viruses change to evade our immune systems; we know this all too well from HIV and influenza. It turns out that bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—can do the same thing. Bacteria have many innate immune strategies to protect themselves against phage, but we only know of one that can adapt to attack different viruses. Turns out that some phages "know" about it too—and can change to avoid it, thus destroying the bacteria and ensuring the production of more phage.
The only documented bacterial adaptive immune system is the CRISPR/Cas system (That stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-associated proteins). These are regions of DNA consisting of a short sequence repeated a number of times, with the repeats separated by a spacer region of DNA. The spacers contain copies of fragments of DNA from phage that have attacked the bacteria in the past.
This is what is supposed to happen is that when phages invade: the repeat elements are made into RNA that matches the phage's nucleic acids, signaling the bacteria to the presence of the foreign genetic material and inducing the destruction of the phage "through an unknown mechanism." But some phage have found away around that.
Vibrio cholera bacteria has a phage called ICP1 that was isolated from the diarrhea of cholera patients in Bangladesh. ICP1 uses its own CRISPR/Cas system to destroy the bacteria's version. And when researchers mutated either the phage's or the bacteria's CRISPR/Cas sequences so the length of the spacers didn't match, succeeding generations of phage mutated to incorporate an appropriate spacer so they could successfully knock out the bacteria's protections and infect it.
CRISPR-like arrays aren't limited to cholera-causing bacteria. Clostidium difficile, a strain of bacteria that causes severe diarrhea, also has one. If we could find a bacteriophage to fight C. difficile, it might provide a more palatable therapy than fecal transplants.
Nature, 2013. doi: 10.1038/nature11927 (About DOIs).


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DISCLAIMER: Kids have a test and teachers have to get them ready for it. My day job (ever so occasionally) pulls slightly more weight than the wine blog that doesn't pay any money whatsoever, hence I am posting this weeks after the fact. To err is human, to forgive is divine. I'm getting back to it now, I promise. Thanks for waiting it out!
14 Hands Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Columbia Valley, Washington State
After checking my bank account–as we (twenty-somethings) so often find ourselves doing while working our first job out of college that pays too much to qualify for food stamps but at the same time not enough to actually not desperately need them–I realized that this week's wine was going to have to come from Kroger (appalling, I know). Gasp aloud, foodies–I won't hate you for it.
Kroger is a southern-born grocery store–for all of you people who are taking a brief intermission from the fantasy world painted by your newest copy of Decanter to read this post. To make sure that we are all on the same page, I created a brief outline of what you might expect when shopping for wine at aforementioned establishment.
Again, Kroger is a store for groceries. Kroger is NOT:
- Equipped with wine-Yodas.
- A place that is even remotely similar to Whole Foods.
- Home to locally-grown organic arugula, a wide selection of in-house granola, or acute health-conscience group hatred against preservatives.
That being said, you must also appreciate the Amazonian mindset required to travel through the wine section of this store with little discerning knowledge of what a solid bottle of wine could even remotely resemble. However–always resourceful–I remembered a suggestion made by the wine serf that all Washington cabs are a good bet.
Honesty prevails here, people: the ability to find a Washington Cabernet Sauvignon in a bottomless sea of Napa Valley is quite similar to locating the back of an earring after it fell to the ground–in the dark. The stuff is just really difficult to find (at least, at a Kroger supermarket).
However, yet to be defeated by a bottle of wine, I alas discovered the newly labeled 14 Hands Columbian Valley cab. Hello, diamond in the rough. After a quick google search of Wine Spectator's approving 86 points (yes, I broke the rules and relied on points in a brief moment of panic–don't be judge-y), I snatched that baby up and marched my $10.99 find right up to self check-out. Done deal.
A native to Washington State, 14 Hands Cabernet Sauvignon gets its name from the horses who roam the Columbian Valley. And for a girl who hates animals, I really enjoyed this wine.
Enough so that I wanted to find out a bit more about its origins–which lead me to my second weekly wine induced epiphany (the first being that grocery stores really should have wine gods on staff for the novices hung up on Malbec like me). Did you know, by the way, that emailing people and asking questions is the hands-down Beyonce and Jay-Z power couple of acquiring any information about anything? Ever?
Sometimes, friends, knowledge is simply a matter of type, click, and send. Thank four-leafed-clovers (and Tim Bernes Lee) for the world wide web and people who respond to one another through its invisible cast lines across the universe–what a beautiful thing.
On a dream and a prayer, I shot a few questions to 14 Hands wine maker, Keith Kenison, and actually (shocker of my life) got a response! Thanks Keith–you rock even more. I was curious as to how Keith fell in love with wine and even more curious about what sort of wine he was drinking in his early twenty days. I hastily (and wrongfully) assumed that he would a) be too cool to respond to a lowly freshman-blogger and b) have some complicated overly awesome past that I couldn't possibly understand . Luckily, Keith is as humble about his wine god status as he is kind enough to share his experience with mortals like Winebbler.
To begin, Keith wrote that he, "grew up with a keen interest in science and became fascinated with the whole fermentation process as far back as junior high school." Didn't we all love fermentation back in the seventh grade? Almost as much as lip smackers and NSYNC. I think we would have been friends.
Keith went on to say, "I began drinking wine in college (me too, Keith!) and a couple years after graduation [I] found myself working as a temporary harvest intern at Ste. Michelle Wine Estates. The winemaker-and now long time friend–Gordy Hill gave me ever increasing responsibilities, challenging me to learn more." Eventually, Keith began 14 Hands only after a slew of amazing teachers and big footsteps to follow.
Instead of keeping a wine blog for amateurs like some people (ahem), Keith got right down to business when it came to learning more about wine. He said, "Most of what I've learned has been through hands-on experience under the guidance of some great winemaking talents. My early days were spent crushing grapes, shoveling tanks, and pumping wine. After five years of cellar experience, I got to learn about wine from a technical perspective. I spent a lot of time following up on the bottling line, analyzing wines and tasting. Most of what I know came from observing and mimicking the efforts of those who led the way for me."
Even the master artists were copies of their forefathers at some point, the same must be true for winemakers. Picasso said that, " good artist copy, but great artists steal." How true those words are for this 14 Hands vintner. Ultimately, Keith branched out to do his own thing with a little "trial and error."
He went on to say, "Just in the past few years have I started teaching myself a few things…I've taken a few courses and…attended a few seminars on winemaking but learning by doing suits me best."
If twisted mimicry yields the magic produced by 14 Hands, then thieve away mad grape scientists!
Keith–also known for his love of NHL (and for his "beautiful, understanding" wife Evelyn…oh hey, shout out!)–said that he used to throw back some pretty sweet wines in his college years. I wonder if this included any Arbor Mist…poor soul.
Keith recounts his drinking past: "In my early twenties, during the college years, I was drinking wines that were white or pink – the very fruity wines that had a considerable amount of sugar in it. Through my mid twenties, I was working in a winery that made nothing but red. The best part of my twenties was my stint in quality assurance. I was able to taste almost every wine in the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates portfolio and had access to the best."
Ultimately, Keith turned out alright–reaching into the upper echelon of highly coveted memberships of the top-secret wine societies (I honestly just made that up) called "the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, the Washington Wine Technical Group and the Washington Association of Wine Grape growers." So, there you have it–there is hope for us twenty-something shitty-wine drinkers. As for Keith's wine, well, it turns out to be pretty spectacular, too.
Look: Initial thought (even though my roommate's verdict is that there is no connection) is this… A lovely royal shade of purple from center to edges.
Smell: Apparently, there is black cherry in there. I was not totally sure about this, but after a pass around the table there is conclusively cherry something going on in there.
Taste: A smooth start with a bit of spice and a warm, lasting finish (how sexy).
The verdict: All in all, I picked up the bottle again to finish this post and am currently on my second glass. Never been much of a cab-head, but 14 Hands may just make a fan out of me. At far below $20 a bottle, it really couldn't stay off my list.


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The collection of ancient art in the Allen Memorial Art Museum includes choice works, including many coins, from the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean – predominantly Greece, Egypt and Rome – as well as objects from Hittite, Sumerian, Persian, Etruscan, Phoenician and Cypriot cultures. Additionally, the collection includes a number of objects from the Ancient Americas, predominantly Mexican and Peruvian in origin.
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BOSTON, May 24 (UPI) -- U.S. teens underestimate the calories of their fast-food meals by about one-third but parents also underestimate fast-food meal calories, researchers say.
Lead researcher Dr. Jason Block of the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute colleagues surveyed nearly 3,400 adults, teens and school-age children in 2010 and 2011 at 89 fast-food restaurants in four New England cities.
"Teens underestimate the number of calories in their meals by as much as 34 percent, parents of school-age children by as much as 23 percent, and adults by as much as 20 percent," Block said in a statement.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found adults ordered meals containing 836 calories on average but typically underestimated the calorie content of those meals by 175 calories.
However, teens had the largest gap. They underestimated the number of calories in their average order, which contained 756 calories, by 259 calories, the study said.
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My artwork is a psychological exploration of monsters. A journey past our glazed outer shell into the yolk of subjectivity. An allusion to psychology and interpretation. The grunge and darkness that lurks in our minds, if analysed, reveals a hidden beauty that defines reason. Fear, then, is an essential element of our existence. My work refers to the fact that fear and evil are integral aspects of our existence and that our embrace and acceptance of them can lead to self-development, happiness and, ultimately, reason. It is thus that the sleep of monsters will produce reason.


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My not so far distant cousin went to Bristol and she found out a lot about the Lagacés. You always want to know more about your ancestors.
The more you know, the more you want to find out. I knew when Stanislas Lagacé was born. I had his birth certificate.
I knew everything except when he died.
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In the era when families are spread through the U.S., I suppose my family was quite an anomaly. So much so that in later years my grandmother would often remark, "I must have done something wrong – I just can't rid of you kids!" Of course, all of us "kids," now well into adulthood with families of our own, knew she was fiercely proud of her loyal brood of children and grandchildren. Her life had been spent raising her three daughters, and then, spending her mid-life and senior years doting on her six grandkids.
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Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for sending me a copy of The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont. The Starboard Sea is available on February 28th!
The Starboard Sea sets you up for heartbreak. It really does. It makes you fall in love with a boy named Jason Prosper, a rich kid who has been kicked out of his fancy prep school for cheating on a calculus test. Yeah, I know, calculus broke my heart too. It makes you fall in love with the sport of sailing and the setting of the beautiful, yet dangerous ocean. And then, Dermont takes it all away. With a string of words, Dermont will "destroy everything beautiful" for the reader in this world.
Jason's self-involved family barely seems to notice that this act of cheating is a desperate call for help after Jason finds his best friend has committed suicide. Instead, he is enrolled in Bellinghem, the prep school of second chances. Everyone at Bellinghem has screwed up elsewhere and not surprisingly, the school is lax on the rules. It's here that Jason has to grow up fast and it's here that things ultimately get harder for him too.
It's hard not to compare The Starboard Sea to Catcher in the Rye. There are very similar themes and similar characters. But while Holden Caulfield is more angry and Jason Prosper is more sad, they both share a common loneliness. I especially love how Dermont uses the language around sailing and sea navigation to describe growing up. You spend most of novel slowly learning more about the best friend's suicide and in the end, only some of the questions get answered. I loved the open-endedness of the ending. If the name "Jason Prosper" is any hint, there is also much hope in this story.
I think if it weren't for some of the harder subjects in this book (suicide, homosexuality), The Starboard Sea would have fit into the young adult genre. I recommend this one to anyone loves a good tear-jerker like Catcher in the Rye or to anyone that wants to remember that growing up is a wonderful journey but it isn't all rainbows and butterflies.
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An Easy Target
This shout nearly scared Xuan Tian Hua to death. The person that had been sitting on the seat nearly fell off, as a cold sweat began to drip from his head.
This voice was… imperial concubine Yun?
"Hua'er…" While Xuan Tian Hua was thinking about it, an urgent voice spoke up once more.
He trembled and quickly stood up from his seat before taking a look down below. Very well, he resigned himself to the fact that the refined and elegant imperial concubine Yun was lying flat under the seat and looking at him with a bitter and pleading expression.
The driver outside heard what sounded like a female voice come from inside the carriage. In his confusion, he turned around and asked: "Your Highness? Is something the matter?"
Xuan Tian Hua immediately raised his voice to say: "It's fine. Just keep moving forward." He then helped imperial concubine Yun be seated before helplessly saying: "Imperial concubine mother, how did you get out of the palace?"
Imperial concubine Yun waved her hand, "Don't worry about this. Either way, I have already come out. You should also stop calling me imperial concubine mother. When we're out here, we should remain low-key."
Xuan Tian Hua smiled bitterly and shook his head, "There's really nothing I can do with you. But there is nothing that can be discussed here. Mother, son will be sending you back now. Stop."
Before he could finish saying "stop the carriage" imperial concubine Yun covered his mouth tightly. When she did this, she put in a little too much strength, and Xuan Tian Hua bumped his head against the carriage. Imperial concubine Yun felt quite bad about it. While raising a hand to rub his head, she threatened him, saying: "If you dare send me back to the palace, I will expose the matter of you liking A-Heng."
These words shocked Xuan Tian Hua, causing him to nearly bite her finger off! Imperial concubine Yun pulled her hand back and shook is a few times then sat next to Xuan Tian Hua's original location. Pulling out a pastry from her sleeve, and happily began to enjoy it.
The deity-like Xuan Tian Hua was actually rendered completely speechless by the shock caused by imperial concubine Yun. He had a dumbfounded look on his face, and the changes in his expression were many and amazing.
Roughly one stick of incense of time later, Xuan Tian Hua finally found the strength to recover. His expression became slightly more normal; however, he asked her in confusion: "Mother, Ming'er and I are both going to battlefields. Why have you chosen me?"
Imperial concubine Yun replied in a natural manner: "Because you are easier to talk to."
Xuan Tian Hua: "…" It turned out that he was just an easy target!
Imperial concubine Yun shoved the remaining half of the pastry into Xuan Tian Hua's mouth with a smile. Only then did she say: "Hua'er, it's not like you don't know your ninth brother's temper. If I chose to with him, we would have already turned back toward the capital. Say, with him being with his wife, which of them is easy to handle! Also, ever since a young age, hasn't mother doted on you the most! I have never gone to live in his Yu Palace, but I have lived in your Chun Palace. Tell me, which one am I closer to?"
Xuan Tian Hua facepalmed. This was not the way to describe things. Reaching up to pull the pastry from his mouth, he still took a bite. While eating, he asked: "With mother running out like this, how can things possibly go well with father Emperor." He could already foresee what sort of trouble would be caused once the Emperor found out that imperial concubine Yun was no longer there. Thinking about it, the palace would not enjoy many peaceful days.
Who knew that imperial concubine Yun would not mind in the slightest, "Don't worry. It's not like I haven't made any preparations at all. Also, he is completely unable to get into Winter Moon Palace. How could he know that I am not in the palace. Even if he finds out in the future, that old man would definitely think that I ran off with Ming'er. He definitely would not guess that it was you."
"That… is the real reason that you chose me, right!" Xuan Tian Hua felt that his life was too bitter.
Imperial concubine Yun laughed and nodded, not refuting it in the slightest. She then waved to him, "Come here and sit closer."
Xuan Tian Hua got up and sat at her side. Imperial concubine Yun immediately leaned against his shoulder then moved into a more comfortable angle before falling asleep, using his shoulder as a pillow. Right before falling asleep, she used a warning tone to tell him: "If you dare to send me back to the palace, I will expose the fact that you like A-Heng."
"It won't happen." Xuan Tian Hua accepted his fate, "Forget it, you can come along. After we get out there, you will listen to everything that I say."
"I know, I know. So wordy."
Just like that, the two princes in their separate carriages ended bringing along two unexpected passengers while going their separate ways from the capital.
At the same time in the Feng family's new residence, Feng Jin Yuan was laying back in soft chair with a thin blanket covering his waist. His left hand was wrapped in bandages, and his entire body was in a poor state; however, he stared seriously at Fen Dai.
Fen Dai was originally the one in this family that had been hoping to reach the position of head wife the most. She was also the child that thought of him as a father the most; however, even for her, the gaze with which she looked at Feng Jin Yuan was filled with contempt and disdain.
She had never been one that could hide things. All of her emotions were written clearly on her face. How could Feng Jin Yuan not understand them? Even if he was currently no longer a person with great status, he was still her father. Not only was he her father, he also wanted to tell this daughter that only by relying on this father could she have a better future.
Feng Jin Yuan snorted and pointed at Fen Dai, fiercely saying: "Father knows what you are thinking, but I will tell you. Your roots are with the Feng family. Even if everything falls into disorder, you cannot change the fact that your surname is Feng. Don't believe that your life will be completely worry-free just because you married into the Li Palace as the official princess. Fen Dai, father will remind you. Think carefully about what sort of person the fifth prince was in the past. He is able to cast aside all of the women in his palace in order to bring you in. Then in the future, he might chase you out of your position of official princess for another woman!"
Fen Dai furrowed her brow and subconsciously rebutted: "His Highness the fifth prince would not do it."
Feng Jin Yuan did not argue about this; however, he asked her: "Are you satisfied with just the position of official princess of the Li Palace?"
Fen Dai froze, "What does father mean?"
"Hmph." Feng Jin Yuan snorted coldly, "Fen Dai, father never believed that you to be a short-sighted child. Out of all the children in the Feng family, you are the cleverest child, and you are also the most one that father favors the most. Even when your eldest sister Chen Yu was alive, even though she had a beautiful appearance, she did not have a good life. But you are different. Presently, you are engaged to the fifth prince, and you will be marrying as the official princess. Fen Dai, for someone with aspirations like you, how could being just the official princess of a palace be enough to hold you down?"
Feng Jin Yuan's words left Fen Dai stunned. She could vaguely understand what Feng Jin Yuan meant; however, she did not dare understand what he meant. Feng Chen Yu, the hopes that the Feng family had placed in her back then were not things that she did not know about. For her father to bring it up now, what exactly…
"Do you still not understand?" Feng Jin Yuan sighed and said with sincerity: "His Highness the fifth prince is a person that can adapt to the circumstances, and he is a smart person. Father has never believed that the throne would be taken by a prince that leads soldiers into battle. Generals remain on the outside to grow the country, and strategists remain on the inside to take care of the country. Fen Dai, if you listen to father, the position that your eldest sister could not assume, you will be able to."
With things being said so clearly, if Fen Dai was still not able to understand, she would be an idiot.
But she was not an idiot; however, she felt that Feng Jin Yuan was a madman. She cast a look of disdain once more. It was already so profound. Could this be a dream? But Feng Jin Yuan's resolute expression did not look like something that could be faked. She suddenly recalled the fuss that Zi Rui had caused when returning the previous day. He seemed to have said something about Feng Jin Yuan having hidden guards from Qian Zhou at his side. If he still had hidden guards from Qian Zhou at his side, that would mean that her father was secretly collaborating with Qian Zhou. Up to this moment, the people of Qian Zhou have not given up on him, thus it was not impossible for him to borrow some of Qian Zhou's power to do some things.
What Feng Jin Yuan had said was correct. Fen Dai was the one with the most aspirations out of all the children. There were times when they were even higher than what Feng Chen Yu had. Because of this, as long as Fen Dai could find a shred of hope of accomplishing her own goals, she would not let it go. She would do whatever she could to think of ways to grow those hopes to accomplish her goals.
The father and daughter finally reached a common understanding. When Fen Dai got up, the look in her eyes had become a fire that burned fiercely with hope. The hopes that she had forcibly suppressed surged forth once more. It was as though the glory that had once belonged to Feng Chen Yu now a belonged to her. This allowed her to seemingly transform from the daughter of a concubine and a horse feeder to the prestigious empress of Da Shun. It was just that she had forgotten how Chen Yu, who had also dreamed of becoming the empress, had a very gruesome death.
Fen Dai was moved and kneeled before Feng Jin Yuan. She did her best to control her voice, saying: "Daughter thanks father for the support. If such a day does come, I definitely will not forget the grace of the Feng family."
Feng Jin Yuan nodded in satisfaction. At the same time, he let out a sigh of relief. He trusted that with such a thing in hand, Qian Zhou would definitely do as he pleased.
Leaving Feng Jin Yuan's room, Fen Dai did not remove in the manor for a moment. She immediately had a carriage prepared and hastily went toward the Li Palace. The things that Feng Jin Yuan had said to her replayed in her mind, making it impossible for her to calm down.
Before Han shi's situation had occurred, Fen Dai knew that there was not much hope for herself. Feng Jin Yuan would no longer like the daughter of Han shi, and she would not be able to obtain any benefits from the Feng manor. But at that time, the Feng family was already at a dead end. Feng Jin Yuan could no longer speak on equal terms as in the past. With her engagement as the official princess, she did not feel that it would be anything big.
But things were different now. It turned out that her father still had such a trick. Looking at it like this, she still could not let go of the rope that was the Feng family. If she truly could push the fifth prince into the position of Emperor using Qian Zhou, she would definitely be able to ascend the position of empress if she maintained control of the fifth prince.
Fen Dai began to feel moved, as she repeatedly looked out of the carriage. She simply hoped that the carriage would go a little faster, and she could arrive at the Li Palace's entrance.
But while she was on her way to the Li Palace, she suddenly noticed a familiar figure on the side of the road that quickly turned into a small alley.
Fen Dai's heart quickened, as she rushed to shout: "Stop the carriage! Quickly stop!"
Before the carriage could stop completely she rushed out. Her personal servants Qiu Yue and Dong Ying were given a fright and also moved to follow; however, they were stopped by Fen Dai: "Wait in the carriage. You are not allowed to follow me." After saying this, she quickly turned into the small alley.
However, who knew that the two people in the alley would be a pairing that she would never have expected…


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Thursday, February 17, 2011
No, it's not really looming and it's not as dangerous and tough as some of you may have been lead to believe, but it is less than three weeks away. Put it this way, after running TNT, the Shamrock Run will go down like a piece of green cake.
The course will pit runners against some of the best trails and roads Ashland has to offer. Run through Ashland's park jewel, Lithia Park, ascend the steep Granite Street Trail steps and hill to the narrow and windy Ditch Trail. After grabbing some water at the half-way mark ascend further up Hald-Strawberry Park hill and Hitt Road. Then start your downhill run to the finish while taking in the expansive views of the Rogue Valley below.
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Luca's lasagne
Getting ready for his six-month stay on the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano from Italy had an important task yesterday – testing some of the best Italian cuisine that he will eat in Earth orbit, including the first lasagne to be sent to space.
Luca is the first of ESA's new generation of astronauts to go into space, thanks to a flight that has been provided by the Italian space agency ASI. He will spend over six months circling Earth at around 400 km altitude.
Good food is important for astronaut morale because they live far away from home with a high workload and in a new environment. Often the evening meal is the only time astronauts on the Space Station can all get together.
As every Italian knows, the best remedy for homesickness is good food from your home country but preparing food for spaceflight is no easy task.
Aside from requiring a long shelf-life and withstanding weightlessness, a chef needs to think of the particular nutritional requirements that astronauts must follow. The food must also be easy to prepare.
To prepare some special dishes for Luca, five-star chef David Scabin cooked up some classic recipes that were made spaceworthy by Turin-based company Argotec. Luca and his colleagues can feast on aubergine parmigiana, mushroom and pesto risotto and caponata, with tiramisu for dessert.
The food is dehydrated by a special process to preserve flavour before being stored in aluminium bags to withstand launch vibrations. The final meal can be kept for up to 36 months and is free of salt. It has been found that salt can be harmful to astronauts' bones while in space.
"To work around the salt problem, we used tomatoes and cheese with a bit of soy sauce," says David Scabin.
In space, Luca only needs to add hot water at 70°C to turn the ingredients once again into a tasty meal.
"It was a complex and difficult task," says David Avino from Argotech. "But we are very happy with the result."
Argotech provided the food for ESA's underground cave training programme last September and took comments from the astronauts during tasting session into account.
CAVES training 2012 food tasting session
Luca will spend the next four weeks in Houston, USA, before heading to Russia on a one-way ticket. His next destination will be the International Space Station. The specially prepared food will catch an earlier ride to the Station, arriving before Luca does.


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Microsoft Corporation says it has responded to popular demand from small businesses with the release of Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, a contact management application that extends the features of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, as a standalone product. Now offered in 28 languages, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager has already been registered by two million users in the 12 months since its introduction.
Microsoft hopes that the positive trend will continue with the standalone version, which has a $150 estimated retail price. The question is whether there are small businesses that can't afford the $450 price tag for Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 and/or only want Outlook. Takeshi Numoto, general manager of Microsoft Office 2007 at Microsoft, is certain the answer is yes:
Small business owners need effective solutions for managing their customer base. Currently, many small and home-based businesses keep their contacts in several different places—some in Rolodexes, some in spreadsheets. We understand the importance of good customer management and are providing simple and affordable solutions to help small businesses centralize their customer information so that keeping track of customers is more effective and less time-consuming.
Microsoft also released the next version of its $200 accounting software: Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008. One product wasn't enough for the software giant, so the Office Accounting lineup has been expanded to include the following:
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