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Additional Talent and Events Announced for TBS PRESENTS A "VERY FUNNY" FESTIVAL: JUST FOR LAUGHS
Comedians Jim Breuer, Bob Odenkirk & David Cross, Danny Bhoy, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter And Internet Sensation Jon Lajoie Join Line-Up of Alternative Comedy at Lakeshore Theater
Tribute to Chicago-Born Filmmaker/Actor Harold Ramis And Special Screening of Ramis' Year One to Kick Off Chicago Event
Two of the biggest names in comedy � TBS and Just For Laughs � today announced additional talent and events to be part of the premiere edition of TBS PRESENTS A "VERY FUNNY" FESTIVAL: JUST FOR LAUGHS in Chicago, which will run Wednesday, June 17 � Sunday, June 21, with such previously announced top-name comedians as Ellen DeGeneres, George Lopez and Jimmy Fallon. New to the festival lineup are Jim Breuer, Danny Bhoy, David Cross, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and Internet sensation Jon Lajoie. They join Jim Jefferies, Bob Odenkirk, Patrice O'Neal and Andy Dick in the alternative comedy line-up at the Lakeshore Theater.
Serving as a special kickoff event on Tuesday, June 16, at the Music Box Theatre, Just For Laughs will honor the Chicago-born filmmaker/actor Harold Ramis with a Lifetime Achievement Award, followed by a special screening of Ramis's eagerly anticipated comedy Year One, starring Jack Black (School of Rock) and Michael Cera (Juno). Year One will be released by Columbia Pictures in theaters nationwide June 19, 2009.
As a major component of the Festival, TBS and Just For Laughs will feature local Chicago talent in a grassroots showcase at iO Theater, Lincoln Lodge, Annoyance Theatre and Playground Theater. Highlights include Best of Sketchfest, featuring the six top sketch groups picked from Chicago's January Sketch Festival, and Chicagoland, an all-star show with comedy veterans coming together for a special night of improv.
TBS PRESENTS A "VERY FUNNY" FESTIVAL: JUST FOR LAUGHS and the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are collaborating on four nights of the best independent comedic shorts and feature films scouted by or submitted to Just For Laughs and the Gene Siskel Film Center, plus exclusive screenings of the winning films from the Christopher Wetzel Award for Independent Film Comedy. This event will take place within the Indie Comedy � The Christopher Wetzel Award for Independent Film Comedy showcase, which was created at the Gene Siskel Film Center to support independent filmmakers. Screenings will take place Wednesday, June 17, through Saturday, June 20. Additional details are available at genesiskel.org.
Columbia Pictures' Year One stars Jack Black and Michael Cera as a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers whose banishment from their primitive village sends them on an epic journey through the ancient world. Harold Ramis directed the comedy, which has a screenplay by Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (The Office) from a story by Ramis. The film is produced by Ramis, Judd Apatow and Clayton Townsend.
As part of the Year One event, Just For Laughs will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Harold Ramis in recognition and celebration of his more than three decades of producing, writing, acting and directing. The Just For Laughs Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to artists who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of comedy. Ticket information for the Year One screening and Ramis tribute will be announced soon.
Columbia Pictures will also honor Ramis with a one-day retrospective with three of his films to be held Monday, June 15, at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Admission is free, with tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Gene Siskel Film Center box office beginning Monday, June 8.
"I can't think of anyone more appropriate to honor with the first Lifetime Achievement Award at our premiere Chicago festival than Harold Ramis," said Bruce Hills, chief operating officer of Just For Laughs. "A Chicago native and Second City veteran, he has spent more than 30 years involved with some of the funniest films ever made, including Animal House, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Vacation and Analyze This. We are proud to honor Mr. Ramis."
Excitement for the Festival has kicked into high gear, with Ellen's Bigger Longer and Wider Show, presented by Ellen DeGeneres, already sold out; a performance by Jimmy Fallon sold out; and three performances of George Lopez: Tall, Dark and Chicano sold out. Other top-name comedians slated to perform during the Festival are Lisa Lampanelli, Bill Engvall, David Alan Grier, Russell Peters and Louis CK.
Tickets for the Lakeshore Theater performances and the Gene Siskel Film Center presentations will go on sale Friday, April 24, at noon (CT). Tickets for the Lakeshore Theater performances will be available at lakeshoretheater.com or by phone at 773/472-3492. Tickets for the Gene Siskel Film Center presentations will be available at all Ticketmaster locations, online at www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800/745-3000. Tickets also will be available at respective venue box offices. Tickets for performances at The Chicago Theatre, The Vic Theatre, and the Rosemont Theatre are on sale now and also available through Ticketmaster. Additional Festival information is available at www.justforlaughschicago.com.
This event marks the first Just For Laughs comedy festival in the United States. TBS and Just For Laughs are also collaborating with the largest independent promoter in the United States, Chicago-based Jam Productions, LTD and Outback Concerts.
About Just For Laughs
Just For Laughs is active in many areas of entertainment production including festivals, television, theater and touring. Its inaugural festival 27 years ago is now the world's largest and most prestigious comedy event welcoming over 2 million people each summer. During its 27 years, the Montreal Festival has featured some of the top comics in the world, including Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Ray Romano, Dane Cook, John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Tim Allen. Each year, more than 1,000 industry executives are drawn to Montreal for what is considered the hottest breeding ground for new talent. In spring 2006, the company's French division launched the Festival Juste pour rire Nantes Atlantique in France and, in 2007, Just For Laughs launched the Just For Laughs Toronto Festival, both to great success. The newest city added to the list is Chicago with TBS Presents a "Very Funny" Festival: Just For Laughs, set to debut this summer. The company also successfully tours across the globe bringing some of the festivals' best talent to Canada, the United States, Bermuda and Asia and has personal management offices in Los Angeles, Paris, London and Montreal. Just For Laughs television shows are seen in over 139 countries and on more than 97 airlines around the world and in the past have been seen on MTV, Showtime, HBO, CMT, BBC America, ABC and Fox. Just For Laughs: Montreal is premiering on Comedy Central this May. Just For Laughs is currently seen in Canada on CBC, as well as The Comedy Network.
About TBS
TBS, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., is television's top-rated comedy network. It serves as home to such original comedy series as My Boys, The Bill Engvall Show, 10 Items or Less, Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Meet the Browns; an eagerly anticipated late-night series starring George Lopez; hot contemporary comedies like The Office, My Name is Earl, Sex and the City, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, King of Queens, Seinfeld and Friends; specials like Funniest Commercials of the Year; special events, such as TBS Presents a "Very Funny" Festival: Just For Laughs in Chicago in June; blockbuster movies; and hosted movie showcases.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.


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All About Aroma(therapy)
Aromatherapy… Perhaps you have heard about it before? No? I then have a useful item of information regarding aromatherapy. If you have fallen prey to your skin infection or mental disorder, you can take complete advantage of this treatment. If you are suffering from insomnia(from those pesky squirrels keeping you up all night, you shouldve called Austin Squirrel Control), you feel depressed and idle all day long just because you couldn't get a good night's sleep. Then here is good news for you in the form of aromatherapy.
What is aromatherapy? It's a technique by which you can cure your mental stress, depression and insomnia along with skin ailments with the help of natural essential oils of herbs and shrubs that are devoid of chemicals and other impurities. These essential oils such as jojoba oil, lavender oil, jojoba oil, sandalwood oil, tea tree oil, chamomile oil, ylang-ylang oil, rose oil, eucalyptus oil etc may supply you soothing experience.
You may try a massage of essential oils and then employ it on your body before you try to sleep. A thorough expert massage of your body with a mixture of essential oils can make you fall asleep, forgetting all of the worries in your life. Moreover, you can take a refreshing bath before sleeping with adding a small number of essential oils to your bath water. You will feel even better when you go to bed after such a relaxing bath. Warm water soothes your body, so it's highly recommended by medical experts that you relax your entire body by taking a lukewarm bath before sleeping.
You may think that this therapy is much too straightforward. However, you cannot use the techniques of this therapy free of preparation. It isn't that easy, particularly when you are suffering from acute ailments such as heart disease and lung disease. You have to have the assistance of an expert who can guide you in the right direction. Likewise massage without the instruction of an expert can cause muscle cramps. The functioning of your muscles is very complicated by nature and so you need to be mindful whilst massaging your entire body.
In addition, if you suffer from an allergy to certain scents, you need to keep it mind it is quite possible that the odor of certain oils can disturb your perceptions even more or irritate you. So it's necessary to use these oils which soothe rather than irritate you.

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Like other family law cases, child custody battles often become complex and heated. It's easy to miss details along the way, but such oversights can have a high cost.
Too often, mistakes, errors, or lapses in judgment have significant and lasting consequences. With that in mind, here are a few common, easily avoidable missteps that can hurt child custody cases.
1. Moving Out
Moving out of a shared home may seem like the best choice when ending a marriage. After all, who wants to live with a person you're about to divorce? By this point in the process, it's common for spouses to live apart. However, this can hurt child custody cases.
You may want nothing to do with your spouse, but moving out and leaving children may reflect poorly on you as a guardian. It may look like you're not a dedicated parent or that you're abandoning your kids. Whether or not that's true, it often appears that way. And if your case is heated, the other side may try to paint you with that brush.
2. Not Seeing The Kids
If you pursue custody, it's difficult to make a case that you're the best parenting option if you rarely spend time with your kids. Again, whether or not it's true, it can appear you're not interested in being a parent and that may hurt child custody cases. Make sure to take advantage of the opportunities you have to see your kids.
Don't skip scheduled visitation. Not only is that detrimental to your children, it can weaken your legal position.
Also, keep a detailed record of the time you do spend with the kids. Then, if your ex claims you don't see them enough, you have proof to the contrary.
3. Violating Temporary Orders
Temporary orders commonly occur when parents dispute child custody. They make sure that children are looked after and properly cared for during the process.
Temporary orders lay out where kids stay, visitation schedules, and who maintains decision-making power in the short term. One thing that can hurt child custody cases is ignoring these decrees.
They may only be temporary, but they're still official court orders.
Disobeying them has serious consequences. Stick to the visitation schedule and clear any deviations from the program.
Don't just decide you're keeping the kids an extra night or taking them out of town to visit the grandparents. That negatively impacts your case and can lead to fines, contempt charges, and even jail time.
4. Refusing To Cooperate
Courts generally recognize having both parents present as the best-case scenario for children. And as a child's best interests are paramount in custody cases, unless there are extreme circumstances, you'll most likely have a shared custody arrangement.
One thing that may hurt child custody cases is when people refuse to cooperate. This means that you have to maintain at least some level of communication and collaboration with your ex.
You may not like or want to see your ex ever again, but when you have kids, that's rarely an option. It's important to put your differences aside and focus on your children. They need your time and attention, not your ex, so give it to them.
5. Failing To Pay Child Support
Just as courts issue temporary child custody orders, they may also award temporary child support. Like obeying custody orders and generally cooperating, it's important to make these payments.
Again, they're actual court orders and ignoring them has serious repercussions. And in the end, they only exist to benefit your children.
When you make these child support payments, it's also important to leave a paper trail. Use methods that you can track, like checks or bank transfers. That way, if your ex claims you didn't pay, you can show otherwise.
Also, don't say you can't afford the payments then show up to court in a new sports car or post expensive vacation photos all over social media.
Child custody cases have a significant impact not just for you but for your children. It's important to approach with a plan and strategy. Many parents hurt child custody cases with mistakes they could easily avoid. These are just a few to watch out for.
In the end, the child's best interests are the primary concern, and that usually shows through your actions.
Related Reading: Finding The Best Custody Attorney
Related Reading: 4 Types Of Child Custody in California
Related Reading: Physical Custody Versus Legal Custody


text: Zesty and fruity, with a brilliant smoky, herbal twist, this delicious Sauvignon Blanc has characteristic lime and gooseberry flavours. Made by Brent Marris in a modern winery on the banks of the Waihopai River, The Ned is named after a rugged peak nearby. Excellent with fresh and smoked salmon, oysters or prawns. 2013 Decanter Silver Medal Winner. Alc Vol: 13.00% Please note that while we take every care to make sure the product information displayed on our website is correct, product recipes are regularly changed. This may affect nutrition and allergen information therefore you should always check product labels and not rely solely on the information presented here. If you require specific advice on any Waitrose branded product, please contact our Customer Care Team. For all other products, please contact the manufacturer. This information is supplied for personal use only. It may not be reproduced in any way whatsoever without the prior consent of Waitrose Limited nor without due acknowledgement.


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This was too good to pass up.
I watched the documentary Before the Music Dies one more time and was struck again by the smart words for musicians from Branford Marsalis, the commentary on the music industry by Dave Matthews and just the general survey of the land the movie offered.
However, the highlight the second time was the interview with Erykah Badu. In a word: amazing. She had one of the best quotes I think in the movie, on what it takes to a successful musician these days.
In her mind you need to be, "...buck naked with glitter and a beeper."
That's probably about right.
Where do I get a beeper?
(Coming up: filming video on how to begin playing out. Stay tuned...)


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The Dead Sea is famous for thousands of years for its high concentration of minerals and therapeutic benefits. Dead Sea Mud & minerals has proved beneficial for skin related issues, to improve blood circulation, to relieve tensions of mind, muscle pain and arthritic conditions.
Massaging mud onto the body provides cleansing and de-toxin of the skin.
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Iran Oil Contractors Want Work Guarantees From Foreign Investors
Iran's association of oil-industry contractors and suppliers is seeking assurances it won't lose business should foreign energy companies return to Iran.
"We're not concerned about the presence of foreign companies here, we are concerned about how they will operate here," Hasan Kazemi, a member of the board of the Society of Iranian Petroleum Industries Equipment Manufacturers said in a phone interview on Feb. 17.
The association will attend a seminar on changes to the country's oil-investment contracts to be held on Feb. 22-23 in Tehran. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh will discuss with local and foreign industry executives rules that would govern oil and natural gas production should Western curbs on Iranian energy exports be lifted, allowing international companies back in the country.
Christophe de Margerie, chief executive officer of Total SA (FP), said Jan. 22 that he sees potential for the French oil producer to return to work in Iran after halting development of the South Pars gas field in 2009. Eni SpA (ENI) Chairman Giuseppe Recchi said the same day he's interested in seeing Iran open up.
"Before you present contracts to firms such as Eni or Total, you have to give a presentation showcasing the country's domestic capabilities and showing what Iran's domestic firms are capable of," said Kazemi, who manages Part-Sazi Mashhad, a producer of nuts and bolts for the energy and auto industries. "If Total and Eni don't go and buy unbranded nuts and bolts from China, then we won't be in competition with China."
Gas Deposits
Iran holds the world's largest natural gas reserves and fourth-biggest oil reserves, afterVenezuela, Saudi Arabia and Canada, according BP Plc. (BP/) Its daily crude production dropped from 4 million barrels in 2008 to 2.5 million barrels last year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Iran reached an agreement in November that eased sanctions imposed by Western powers over its nuclear program.
Iran, a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, will offer better terms than fellow OPEC member and neighbor Iraq to attract investments needed to revive its energy industry, Mehdi Hosseini, who leads the oil ministry's committee on contracts with foreign companies, said on Feb. 9 in Tehran.


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Exhaustion occurs in most equestrian sports, but it is more frequent in events that require sustained endurance work such as endurance racing, three-day eventing, trial riding, and hunting. Exhaustion is also more likely when an unfit, unacclimatized, or unsound horse is exercised. Mechanisms that contribute to exhaustion include heat retention, fluid and electrolyte loss, acid-base imbalance, and intramuscular glycogen depletion. Clinical signs include elevated temperature, pulse, and respiratory rate; depression; anorexia; unwillingness to continue to exercise; dehydration; weakness; stiffness; hypovolemic shock; exertional myopathy; synchronous diaphragmatic flutter; atrial fibrillation; diarrhea; colic; and laminitis. Treatment includes stopping exercise; rapid cooling; rapid large volume intravenous or oral fluid administration; and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug administration.
Horses that are inadequately trained or have other systemic or musculoskeletal problems or those that are competing in hot conditions may develop a variety of metabolic problems. It is hoped that knowledge of the fluid and electrolyte losses may help in treating horses with metabolic problems and, more importantly, in improving management of horses in training and competition to prevent any loss of performance.
It happens often at endurance races and is, therefore, commonly viewed as a problem of the endurance horse. But heat exhaustion happens in polo ponies, steeplechasers, eventers, trail riders - any horse exerting himself for more than just a quick sprint, and particularly when it's hot and humid outside. At endurance races, the scenario is common to the point of being a stereotype: one of the horses has been pulled from the race for failing to recover adequately during a vet check, and now his condition is worsening despite several minutes of rest, and suddenly the reality hits his worried owner like a freight train: his horse might not make it. The event's on-site veterinarian is summoned, and the drama unfolds.
But what if your horse is stricken and you're at an unsanctioned event, where there's no veterinarian available? Or you're on a training run, rather than at an official event? Or it wasn't intentional exercise at all - your show horse somehow got out of his stall and has been running, terrified, with snarling dogs at his heels, for the past hour as the outside thermometer creeps up to 95°F and the relative humidity is close behind? What do you do?
The hallmark of advanced heat exhaustion is lack of interest in eating or drinking after a workout, despite the absolute certainty, after the rigors of his exercise, the horse desperately needs the liquids and electrolytes that water and food would provide. The full list of signs includes:
The goal in dealing with this dangerous condition is catching it in its earliest stages, before the diagnosis is obvious and before the horse's cardiovascular system breaks down.
This is much more than just a bad case of fatigue. It's a dangerous buildup of heat in the horse's body which, if unresolved, can lead to cardiovascular instability, collapse and death.
It is caused by electrolyte deficits in the exhausted horse that can be astounding, and since the sensation of thirst is linked to the detection of excess salt in the system, the salt deficient horse feels no desire to drink. This means that, if left to his own devices, he would be unlikely to recover because despite his dehydration he has no natural urge to replace the liquids he so desperately needs.
To naturally replace electrolytes, the horse must eat. However, of his mineral deficiency is severe enough to cause his gut motility to slow down, he's got a belly ache - it might be very mild and subtle, or it might appear as full-blown colic - but even the mildest colic pain can squelch his desire to eat. He must eat, but he won't.
Meanwhile, he continues to pant in an attempt to blow off the heat that is killing him from the inside. But with each breath he can become more dehydrated, and the muscular activity involved in panting can actually stoke the fire, creating more heat.
As his cardiovascular system collapse, blood vessels to the muscles and skin begin to constrict. This keeps his too-hot blood close to his core, away from the body's surface where it had the best chance of dissipating the extra heat. It also sets the horse up for myositis, because those muscles, which are sorely in need of nourishment after their workout, are suddenly being cut off.
Early in the course of heat exhasution, the horse might appear bright and normal, but he needs to be pushed to keep up the pace, and if you checked his rectal temperature it might be as high as 104° F. Horses that are stricken with heat exhaustion while performing some short-term, high-intensity exercise such as 3-day eventing or polo are likely to have less critical need for fluids and are simply in need of help of lowering their core temperature. For these horses, repeated cool (not cold) water baths and slow, relaxed walking in a light breeze is likely to do the trick. Getting the horse to eat and drink is rarely a challenge, so he'll probably replenish his fluids and electrolytes on his own.
The endurance horse is a different case - his fluid and electrolyte debts are likely to be heavy and possibly life-threatening, and without the option of administering intravenous fluids and electrolytes, you're severely limited. However, even though you're in serious trouble in this situation and should move heaven and earth to get a competent equine veterinarian to come to your aid, you should still be able to help the horse if you're prepared.
Prevention. Heat stroke can be prevented by limiting the horse's exposure to predisposing situations and by insuring that hard-working and endurance horses drink frequently during prolonged exercise.
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I have two machines, one laptop with nvidia+intel video card, one desktop with nvidia (Ti560 OC).
On the laptop, I choose Plasma + Wayland, it seems to work, except Rigo (so far), it has no title bar, it opens sticked to the top margin of the screen, and I can't do anything to move it, I can close it from the KDE Plasma bar.
On the desktop, I choose Plasma + Wayland, I only get a black screen. No input. No way to switch to a console. The log at ~/.local/share/sddm/ is as follows:
I get 'Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1' on the laptop too, so it might be other issue, actually.
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startplasmacompositor: Starting up...
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-update-activation-environment: warning: error sending to systemd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution
If I run it like this, under Xorg, it works fine, I can successfully send a window to it:
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export $(dbus-launch)
kwin_wayland --xwayland
kwrite --platform wayland
Any ideas?


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Linkage 9/17: Sick Residents, Reptiles, & A Bridge to China
Many people take pride in never missing a day of work, and fighting through what they perceive as a minor illness to put in a full shift at the office. But what if your office is a hospital ward? Doctors who show up for work sick run the risk of spreading their illness to patients, further complicating their health issues. But with the tight schedules and long hours of the hospital, there's even more pressure to get out of bed and fight through your sniffles (or worse).
Medical residents, physicians in their first few years out of medical school, have the tightest schedules and longest hours of all, and a study by University of Chicago and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers found that population to be especially guilty of "presenteeism." In the wake of last year's H1N1 flu epidemic, concerns about this bad habit have grown, and Vineet Arora, Anupam Jena and colleagues surveyed residents from 12 medical centers. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they found that 60 percent of residents surveyed showed up to work sick at least once in the academic year 2008-09.
"Hospitals need to build systems and create a workplace culture that enables all caregivers, not just residents, to feel comfortable calling in sick," Arora said of the results. "Their colleagues and their patients will thank them."
See coverage at CNN, Scientific American, and AP.
How many species bear your name? If your name is Robert F. Inger, the answer is more than 50, ranging from Calamalaria ingeri to Ingerna charlesdarwini. That's the kind of list you rack up when you've spent seven decades studying amphibians and reptiles in Borneo, Thailand, Malaysia, India, and China. Last week, Inger – a graduate of the University of Chicago and curator emeritus at the Field Museum in Chicago – celebrated his 90th birthday, and his colleagues put together a website to celebrate the occasion.
The official opening of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing was celebrated this week, a space designed to foster collaboration between our faculty and Chinese researchers and experts. As this feature describes, many such partnerships are already underway, including the AIDS education efforts of professor of medicine Renslow Sherer and fossil-hunting projects by paleontologist Paul Sereno. By a stroke of luck, ScienceLife will write about another Sino-UofC research collaboration next week – stay tuned!
Our contribution to President Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, physician/bioethicist/friar Daniel Sulmasy, was profiled in the Chicago Tribune.
Another genetic sequencing race, this time between…Mars and Hershey's? The Snickers maker struck the first blow with Wednesday's online public domain publication of the Cacao Genome Database, while a group funded by Hershey's hopes to publish their sequence in a journal soon. The competition is both delicious and beneficial, experts said, and may someday yield more efficient cocoa famring as well as chocolate that is both healthier and better-tasting. Yes, please.


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(CBS News) CAIRO - It's the election result heard round the world. Mohammed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, was declared the winner of Egypt's presidential election on Sunday.
The White House quickly congratulated the president-elect and pledged to work with him "on the basis of mutual respect."
It took a moment for word of the victory to sink in, then the crowd roared. They weren't all supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, or its candidate, Mohammed Morsi.
They came to Tahrir Square to protest against military rule and they came hoping to celebrate a turning point in Egypt's history: The country's first truly democratically elected president.
One man in Tahrir Square who claimed he had been there from the beginning said he "cried like hell," when the results were read, and added "we still have a long road ahead."
It was close. Election officials said Mohammed Morsi beat his rival, former military general Ahmed Shafik with only 51.7 percent of the vote.
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It was the news crowds in Tahrir Square waited days to hear, and people here see this victory as justice for fellow Egyptians who gave their lives fighting for freedom on this very square.
Sixteen months ago, Tahrir Square became frontline in the revolution to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak, and the scene of deadly clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and forces loyal to the regime. More than 900 people were killed.
In his victory speech, Mohammed Morsi said their deaths would not be in vain. The U.S.-trained engineer said that he would be a president for all Egyptians.
Across town, supporters of a Ahmed Shafik appeared to be in a state of shock to hear the news of their candidate's defeat. They accused Egypt's generals of lacking the courage to stand up to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The power struggle between the ruling generals and the Muslim Brotherhood is far from over. On Monday, the square will go back to being a protest camp as the Muslim Brotherhood resumes its campaign to get Egypt's parliament back in session and to restore some presidential powers.


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What are the salsa dance styles?
For your information, this is a compilations (from Wikipedia) of the styles in salsa dancing. The styles include:
- Cuban Style
- Colombia (Cali) Style
- Los Angeles Style
- New York (Eddie Torres) Style
- Power 2 (RazzM'Tazz) Style
- On Clave
- Puerto Rican Style
- Rueda de Casino
Cuban style
Cuban-style salsa can be danced either "on one" or "a contratiempo" ---the latter is often referred to as "on two". An essential element is the "cuba step" (also known as Guapea), where the leader does a backward basic on 1-2-3 and a forward basic on 5-6-7. The follower does the same, thereby mirroring the leader's movement. Another characteristic of this style is that in many patterns the leader and follower circle around each other.
The cross body lead is an essential step in this style too and is referred to as Dile que no. This move becomes essential in the more complex derivative of Cuban Casino leading to the many moves of Rueda, or wheel dance. Here multiple couples exchange partners and carry out moves syncronised by a caller.
Colombian style
This style is common in Latin-American countries. The leader and follower do most of the movements while standing in place. It stems from the Cuban style. As such in many patterns the leader and follower turn around each other, although not as much as in the Cuban style; in fact, in several parts of Colombia, salsa is danced with very limited or no turns at all.
Los Angeles style
This is a style of salsa much influenced by Hollywood and by the swing & mambo dances, thus being the most flashy style, which is considered "more show than dance" by many. The two essential elements of this dance are the forward/backward basic as described above, and the cross-body lead. In this pattern, the leader steps forward on 1, steps to the right on 2-3 while turning 90 degrees counter-clockwise (facing to the left). The follower then steps forward on 5-6, and turns on 7-8, while the leader makes another 90 degrees counter-clockwise. After these 8 counts, the leader and follower have exchanged their positions.
New York style or Eddie Torres style
The "NY Style" is a combination of the "On 1" and "On 2" systems. The timing of the steps are on the 1-2-3,5-6-7 as in "On 1" but the breaks (where the body changes direction) occur on the 2 and 6 as in "On 2". NY instructor Eddie Torres developed this step pattern around the late '70s and the '80s, and its definition is quite clear as he is still alive and his followers are keen to keep the style intact. This is their description of the step: Description of "On Two" on salsanewyork.com There are many "socials" in NYC or nightclubs that dedicate on playing only mambo or salsa.
Power 2 / Palladium 2 / RazzM'Tazz
This style is similar to Los-Angeles style, but it is danced "On Two". The basic step timing is 2-3-4,6-7-8 with the breaks on 2 and 6.
It is important to note that although this style is also known as dancing "En Clave", the name is not implying that the step timing should follow the rhythm of the Clave as in 2-3 or 3-2. It only means that you take the first step (and break) on the second beat of the measure.
On Clave
This does indeed follow the 2-3 or 3-2 pattern of the clave, e.g. for the 2-3 clave the leader steps forward with the left on 2 and with the right on 3, then does the other 4 steps of the basic on 5-8 (syncronizing with the clave on 5 and 8 ). It's a traditional form and it's less known/used outside some Latin countries.
Puerto Rican style
This style can be danced as "On One" or "On Two". If danced as "On Two", it is always danced on count 2, and not on count 6 as in Ladies-style NY.
Casino Rueda style
In the 1950s Salsa Rueda (Rueda de Casino) was developed in Havana, Cuba. Pairs of dancers form a circle (Rueda in Spanish), with dance moves called out by one person. Many of the moves involve rapidly swapping partners.


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Last week I wrote a piece on the mishmashed mess that was Metro-style apps running on Windows 8. I wasn't alone - there were plenty of others who found it similarly flawed.
Towards the end of the article I was at pains to separate how I felt about the bastardisation of Windows and Metro-style from how I felt about Metro-style on a tablet device. On a tablet, Windows 8 and the full-screen Metro-style apps work very well. But do they work well enough to that you can class the tablet as a fully-fledged post-PC device? That depends on how "human" it is.
Emotional high
I bought my first iPad when it first came out. I had no idea why I would want one when I bought it - it's my job to understand these things, hence the expenditure. At the time I wasn't particularly into Apple stuff. I had an iPhone 3GS, but the only pieces of Apple kit I'd bought before that was an iPod in 2004 and an "Ive Special" iMac back in 1999.
One of the things that I'm passionately interested in is how technology can be used to positively enhance human relationships. (I'm not particularly interested in technology for technology's sake. Even the most ardent among us would probably admit it's all a little dull. Really? That new processor can get us an extra 30 minutes of battery life? Yawn.) Most of the technology that's had a disruptive effect on society has worked because it's had a disruptive effect on people. When Orange was launched in the UK it was the first entirely digital mobile phone network. A feature of the new handsets was text messaging capability. (Other than that they handsets were pretty crappy compared to units like the awesome NEC P4 - warning: early-90s phone porn.) When Orange was launched, the company didn't even charge for texting. You can bet if Orange had known how popular it was going to be they would have charged from it for the get-go.
Importantly, no one in Orange's marketing department was contriving different ways to upsell customers into sending text messages. It was a tool given to people that made sense, so people used it, then the network's monetized it. But people don't use text messaging because of what is is. What it is is inordinately dull - it's a way of encoding strings in the network's control data stream. What it does is let you be down the pub with your mates being bored hearing the same story for the n-hundredth time and receive a text from that special person you want to be your beau or belle. It's the emotional hit that comes from the human connection enabled by the technology that's important - not how SMS works.
Facebook works in the same way. Facebook is the most boring site in the world from a technical perspective - just a socking great database of triviality. (OK, some of the "how" is fun if you need to build a socking great real-time-ish database. Do you need to?) What you're doing when you use Facebook is buzzing off of the emotional highs and lows you get when dealing with people in your life.
iPhone - not impressed
The iPhone that I owned when I first took delivery of my iPad didn't impress me much. Yes, it was nice - nicer than my BlackBerry Pearl with the two missing keys and the tiny screen - but apart from the novelty of Angry Birds, it wasn't doing much for me.
The first time I took the iPad along to a client's office, I was showing it around, and someone in the office held it up to his ear and yelled, predictably, "HELLO! I'M ON AN IPAD!" It actually made me quite cross - not because of the predictability of his Dom Joly-esque comedy stylings, but because he didn't get what the iPad did, and even though I'd only owned it for a day I'd already developed an emotional attachment to it.
Hang on - an "emotional attachment"? Odd, right?
The iPad did to the personal computer what text messaging did to telephony. Text messaging turned a box that could make phone calls into something that you could use to - for example - surreptitiously flirt with someone exciting while having a really dull day at work. It reduced the distance between you and those who provide you an emotional high. The iPad does the same thing. Email, Twitter, Facebook, anything you're into, is a factor closer to you, a factor more accessible than before. It also brings the information you need a step closer too. If I want to watch Top Gear in bed, or read a book on Kindle, it's a breeze on an iPad. Do I want to prop up a laptop in bed and deal with all the faff? No. Just make what I need available there. Don't make me have to go over there. Hence why I was cross with the office wag - he was lightly mocking me for an object that had quickly become important in my psychic landscape because it was already a gateway to experiences and people that embedded in my life and lifestyle as important.
For me, it's a shame that the term "personal computer" was snaffled by IBM back in the 80s. Really, the iPad is the "personal computer". What we call a PC really isn't that "personal" at all. Ask yourself whether it is, next time you're pounding away at your work desktop bought at the cheapest possible price and built from the same system image as your nearest "n" colleagues, unable to mount a USB drive, or get to sites you want through the firewall. Nope - not "personal". In comparison the iPad is a deeply personal and - here's the key word - human device.
WOA there
Thing is, there's nothing magical about the iPad. Apple are fabulous at marketing. The iPad is a really, really good device. It's staggeringly cheap. If iPad had a good competitor we'd be talking about killer sales for "tablets", not for "iPads". (But there isn't, so we talk about "iPad" sales by default.)
By rights, Android tablets should sell. They're as arguably human as the iPad. They do the same thing - they bring the people you interact with online closer. But they don't sell in anything resembling the same quantities (in the west. Millions of cheap Android tablets are sold in Asia, but the research companies can't get a handle on them, so they mostly ignore them.)
My best theory on this is that Android doesn't have a brand. Google changing Android Market to Google Play highlights this point. That's a dumb move. Somehow Google has managed to create a smartphone platform so popular over half the phones sold are Android, yet most people who own an Android phone don't know what Android is! Best to entrench that position and rename a key property involved in the Android ecosystem away from the Android brand … Sheesh.
But I digress.
Perhaps a deeper problem is in how these companies think. In Charles Arthur's book Digital Wars there's a part about Dell trying to build a competitor to the iPod. In early 2001, Toshiba had shown Apple's hardware chief Jon Rubenstein a nifty - and tiny - 5GB 2.5" disk drive. He reasoned that this would work in the music player Apple wanted to build, and tied up an exclusive contract. A year or two later, Dell wanted to compete – but decided its supply chain needed two drive suppliers. Trouble is, the suppliers put the connector in different locations. The result: Dell had to design the device with two voids so that either hard disk unit could be accommodated on assembly. Result: the player has air in it. It's physically bigger.
Dell, at that historical point in the game at least, was probably better at running a supply chain and manufacturing than Apple. But by taking the focus away from the humans who would use the devices, and instead into the process that builds the devices, they stripped away some of the humanity of their iPod clone. Apple would never do this, and it's not because Jonathan Ive is being fussy or fastidious. It's because designing a device primarily around a supply chain is un-human.
Apple's success comes from removing the "un-human" part of business. It's not in the size or quality of their App Store, it's not in that they're first to market, it's not in that they have the biggest database of credit cards, it's that they're focused on the human experience.
Oh, the humanity!
In order for Windows on ARM (WOA) tablets to succeed, Microsoft has to create a distinctly "human" tablet to compete with the demonstrably "human" iPad. Understanding how people interact with others through their post-PC devices to enrich their lives is where success in WOA lives.
(You can see Microsoft is mucking some of this up already. "WOA" - honestly, is that a good name for a "human" device? Hardly. Metro-style? What is that? How do I explain that to a relative who has a passing interest in technology?)
If you run Windows 8 on a tablet, you can see that it has the potential to work. The way the tablet works is very human - the touch capability works nicely; it's quick and responsive; Metro-apps ebb and flow in a less clunky way that the iPad's equivalent. Like the iPad, it's able to punt the OS the hell out of the way and allow the user to drive a quick path to the who or the what that the user needs to connect with to get their emotional hit.
Metro-style on the desktop doesn't do this - this is why it needs to be killed, preferably with fire. Metro-style is the equivalent Dell having to put voids in its case to support its supply chain choices. It's the wrong way up, guys!
So remember, Microsoft, when you're building an OS, it's all about my life and my world and much, mess less about your suppliers and your shareholders.
Matthew Baxter-Reynolds is the keynote speaker at the first Windows 8 Conflab being held in London on 18 April.


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Thursday, 22 April 2010
Andy Burnham with David Williams
Video courtesy of Jules Hornbrook at Crewe Blog
David Williams, the Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Crewe and Nantwich, and Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health, visited the Eagle Bridge Health and Wellbeing Centre in Dunwoody Way, Crewe yesterday afternoon.
They toured the centre visiting the multitude of facilities and departments, speaking to staff and patients.
David commented, "Eagle Bridge brought together three GP practices under one roof together with a whole host of facilities such as Dentistry, Blood Testing, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, and even a cafe run by 'Wishing Well' – a local community group. I was proud to be able to show the Secretary of State a fine example of how Labour's investment in the NHS has resulted in a first class facility, and this is only one of three such centres in Crewe and Nantwich."
The Secretary of State said, "The Eagle Bridge Health and Well Being Centre is a great example of Labour investment in the NHS. It is a wonderful state-of-the-art facility for the people of Crewe and Nantwich."
Following the visit to Eagle Bridge, the Secretary of State went to David's Campaign Office at Chantry Court to meet and speak with Labour Party members.
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EDL/WDL spokesman on the state of the nation
Richard Bartholomew has uncovered a gem of a YouTube channel, which is the domain of 'Arrylad', a spokesman for the English and Welsh Defence Leagues. Each video starts off with a bit of jaunty music, followed by a man in a balaclava going on a long rant about anti-fascists (the 'antifa' of the title). The comic effect is heightened by the surroundings. As Richard puts it:
Nothing says "patriotism†like using the St George's Flag for a tablecloth and plonking a can of cheap lager on it, right?
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
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By Patrick Mooney
The white board at the front of the Cubs clubhouse on Saturday morning listed all the details, from game time (12:05) to when pitchers stretch (10:45) and position players hit in the cage (11).
It also had a little Zen philosophy written on the right side, which almost seemed out of place in a room where Jay-Zs rap music was bumping from the speakers.
You cant see the rising sun if your eyes are fixed on the setting one. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, thats why it is called present. Conquer the now!
This was less than 24 hours after an Opening Day loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Carlos Pena did not want to take credit or responsibility for those words. Technically, a clubhouse attendant wrote it in black erasable marker.
But it sums up Penas worldview. Hes been traded twice, released twice and is now working for his seventh team.
Im talking about every cell in your body, Pena said, detaching yourself from the past and detaching yourself from the future and focus on the now. I know that there is extreme power in that.
Sometimes when we try to take too much on, maybe carry some baggage from the past, (or) start thinking too far ahead into the future, then all of a sudden (were) absent from the present moment. If all of us take (the) attitude where were here today 100 percent this second, (then) we can handle that.
A few Cubs walked by the board with confused or curious looks. You wouldve guessed Pena was behind the message, and you probably couldve eliminated 90 percent of the roster without a second thought.
Manager Mike Quade has read Phil Jacksons book and actually liked it, but hadnt seen the words of inspiration by the time he met with the media in his office.
Oh, wow, the yin and the yang? Quade said. Just go play, man. I talk way too much, but Im not that philosophical. Im just like: Figure out a way to beat the Pirates. Thats all I would put on the board.
Pena is a deep thinker, an engineering student from Northeastern University, but those who know him well say its not an act. Over-analyzing the game and allowing outside forces to seep in slowed his development as a first-round pick. It probably didnt help last year in Tampa Bay when he hit .196.
Pena, who will turn 33 next month, was immediately viewed as a one-and-done player at the winter meetings when agent Scott Boras and general manager Jim Hendry announced their pillow contract.
But Pena has impressed the Cubs with his willingness to lead. He doesnt come across as a mercenary. You saw the first baseman go to the mound more than once on Saturday trying to calm down Carlos Zambrano.
Maybe living in the Wrigley Field fishbowl will get old, but right now Pena finds the cramped clubhouse to be cozy way better than people make it out to be.
Driving to work Pena sees Lake Michigan to his right and imagines what it will look like once the trees blossom and summer rolls in. He looked at Wrigley Fields architecture and absorbed the entire scene.
Its just a beautiful place (with) great energy, Pena said. (Im) like a kid, and I dont even want to lose that. I dont care (that) Im a Major League Baseball player. Ok, Im too cool for that? No, Im not.
As a young boy in the Dominican Republic, Pena would run underneath the stands at Quisqueya, and be blown away when he got out of the darkness and saw the entire stadium lit up. Some 25 years later, he had the same experience at Clark and Addison.
I walk up the ramp and you see that light at the end of the tunnel, Pena said. You come up and its like the gates of heaven have opened when you see Wrigley Field at the end. This is really a special place in every sense of the word and Im not going to hide it. Im really excited to be here.
How can Pena keep this enthusiasm up for 160 more games across the next six months? Will he hit above .200? What does he want out of his next contract?
Those are questions for tomorrow. Penas just trying to focus on today.
PatrickMooney is CSNChicago.com's Cubs beat writer. FollowPatrick on Twitter @CSNMooneyfor up-to-the-minute Cubs news and views.


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Matthew Wood and David Acord brought the sounds in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" to life. The two Academy Award-nominated sound effects editors had the job of making sure every bit of sound was in its proper place, as well as creating new soundscapes to make audiences feel immersed in the film.
The duo modulated Adam Driver's voice to create the sound of Kylo Ren and oversaw the dialogue of the Stormtroopers, amid dozens of other duties. But one of their most difficult tasks may have been giving the rolling ball-droid BB-8 a voice.
Wood walked us through the process over the phone, and it was unlike any that most movies would go through for this level of detail.
"BB-8 was obviously one of those early things that was going to be something very unique to the movies, so it was going to have a high level of interest to make sure it was going to be something really cool," Wood says. "We need to differentiate this droid from R2-D2, because there's going to be a conversation between them later in the film, and we wanted them to sound very distinct."
Attention to detail was so high that Wood and Acord were sent to Pinewood Studios in London in late 2013 and 2014 to have director J.J. Abrams explain the film to them so that they could get a feel for their work in context of the story. They were also introduced to the puppeteers behind BB-8.
"We tried to give them some samples early on," Wood explains, "so J.J. himself could trigger BB-8 from the set, using a little tactile interface, actually playing the sound live instead of just having somebody saying beep-beep-beep on the set. That developed into something where [Abrams] liked the idea that he could use his fingers to trigger timbre and pitch on the interface. We used a little of that then and then he hired in actors."
The actor Ben Schwartz, best known for his role on "Parks and Recreation," came onto the set and performed lines written by Abrams as BB-8 so that the other actors would have something to play off of. "We used that as a guide," Wood says. "We built more sound effects there [on set] and then J.J. kept enjoying that tactile interface."
But then things took an unexpected turn. Wood explains: "At a certain point, we took the sound that was coming from the interface and played it through another actor's mouth, through a talk box, which is what Dave Acord came up with — playing the sounds out of the interface through a tube that goes into the mouth of the actor Bill Hader [of "Saturday Night Live" fame] ... [Hader] would then move his jaw and mouth —movements and openings of his mouth — to change the quality of the sound to give it more of a rounded feel."
Wood and Acord explain that this is not typical of Hollywood productions, and they would know. Wood was previously nominated for an Oscar in the same category for "There Will be Blood" and "Wall-E." And it's the inspiration of George Lucas and his lasting effect on Lucasfilm that brought the sound department, typically a post-production department, into the pre-production process.
"It was totally inspiring and gets you thinking about the movie really early on, and you can build on that," Wood says. "I'm really grateful for that because I think it really shows, when you get to the end of the movie, you feel like you've definitely done your best and you've had a long time to get to where you need to be to make the movie sound the way does."
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An unmanned aircraft fired at least two missiles at a vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing five people. The suspected U.S. attack took place about 25 kilometers east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.
That area near the Afghan border is used by militants as a staging ground for attacks in Afghanistan, and many Taliban and al-Qaida leaders are believed to be living there.
On Sunday a missile attack killed at least six people, believed to militants, near where Monday's attack took place.
U.S. officials rarely comment on missile strikes in Pakistani territory, which are deeply unpopular with the Pakistani public and are opposed by the government in Islamabad.
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It used to be that you had to plan your week around certain specialty shows just to hear rap music on the radio in the Twin Cities. Now you have to plan your week around certain specialty shows just to hear rap music on the radio from the Twin Cities. B96 FM (96.3 FM) and KDWB (101.3 FM) play all the hits around the clock. But to hear anything local, freeform, unsigned, or mixed live in the studio, you really need the left of the dial. Thankfully, more than 20 hours of commercial-free rap pumps through KMOJ (89.9 FM), KFAI (90.3 FM/106.7 FM), Radio K (770 AM/100.7 and 106.5 FM), and the Current (89.3 FM) every Friday and Saturday. The freest four hours among these come squarely in the middle: KFAI's The Session, hosted late Friday night/early Saturday morning by Chicago native Special Dark, is a pre-dawn stretch of playground for a local street scene often ignored by other programs. Giving much of the show over to conversation, Dark balances hometown hardcore (Trama, Moochy C) with New York old-school, brand new crunk, classic R&B, and unsigned hypes of all kinds. Give him time (he has a lot), and this DJ will blur the social lines between neighborhoods, classes, era, and cliques: Everybody is "local famous" here. "A lot of people get too comfortable, man, scared to step outside the square," said R&B singer Rico Novotion on a recent program. The Session gives them a push.


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The USD/CAD pair broke higher during the course of the session on Tuesday, as we broke above the top of the hammer on Monday. By doing so, this is considered to be a buy signal, and that the market should continue to reach towards the 1.35 handle. That's an area that had been supportive, and will now be resistive. However, if we can break above there, the market should continue to go much higher perhaps even as high as the 1.39 handle.
With that being the case, you have to pay attention to the oil markets, which look like they are pulling back to bed. The WTI Crude Oil market fell from the $38 level, as it looks as if the longer-term downtrend could continue to affect the market. On top of that, we get the Crude Oil Inventories number coming out during the day today, and that of course can have a massive effect on what happens in the oil markets. If the oil markets go higher, the Canadian dollar tends to gain strength. However, if the crude oil markets fall, the Canadian dollar loses value as we sold during the Tuesday session.
Ultimately, this is a market that has been in a fairly strong downtrend recently, but when you look at the last couple of years, we are still very positive overall. Granted, this has been a very strong pullback, but ultimately this is a market that broke above the 1.30 level recently, and that of course was a massive resistance barrier. The fact that we got above there is a very strong sign, and of course with the situation in the oil markets being such as they are, it's only a matter time before shale oil producers get involved in start plowing supply and in the marketplace. In fact, the only is Cushing Oklahoma full of petroleum, but so as Rotterdam, which of course is where the Europeans store massive amounts of crude oil. In other words, there is simply far too much in the way of supply for demand. With that fact, the Canadian dollar will fall over the longer term, meaning that this market should rise eventually.


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A Center for the Environment is underway at Wellesley College!
Women, ethnic minorities, and people living in poverty are disproportionately affected by environmental issues, globally and locally. This same majority of people are underrepresented at decision-making tables – corporate, government, academic. Wellesley College aims to fix that, with need-blind admissions for a great diversity of women who aspire to make a difference in the world.
Wellesley's Center for the Environment integrates across academic disciplines, bringing the full strength of the liberal arts to bear on environmental challenges. Partnering with Babson College and Olin College brings business and engineering to make a potent platform for innovation.
Project Handprint integrates across generations of Wellesley women to build the Center community, vastly increasing our capacity to take on complex challenges from a range of perspectives.
Collaboration across disciplines and across generations makes Wellesley an innovative and powerful force for positive environmental change.
What's the idea?
Project Handprint is creating a powerful learning community focused on environmental issues. While there is a trend to try to minimize one's ecological footprint, so as to have the least negative impact on Earth's systems, Wellesley women generally aspire to maximize their impact on the world, in a good way – hence the "handprint" as a metaphor for positive environmental impact. Beyond improving the efficiency of existing practices, the handprint idea promotes innovation and reimagining of the relationships between humans and the rest of nature.
Project Handprint extends Wellesley's liberal arts model to bring alumnae and Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens into a collaborative exploration of environmental issues, beginning with food and agriculture. Wellesley faculty and students are doing exciting work, including on urban agriculture in Boston and in the "edible ecosystem" in the WCBG. Around the world Wellesley's alumnae are running farms that are both ecologically and economically sound, working towards agricultural sustainability in non-profit and government sectors, and doing cutting-edge research.
Project Handprint brings all of this together, starting with an inaugural symposium, with participants sharing the roles they play and the paths they took to those roles, and introducing current projects and opportunities to participate. Intended to inspire participants near and far, the discussion will continue online as we build a web-based network of interested affiliates. The site will be a clearinghouse for ideas and opportunities, and for the latest member updates on the many topical projects. The network connects alumnae and Friends with faculty and students from such disparate disciplines as Geosciences, American Studies, Biology, Economics, Art History, and Engineering, multiplying the learning opportunities for all involved. We expect this "cooperative extension" of the liberal arts model to yield conceptual breakthroughs, and certainly to promote a strong understanding of how to make progress on complex environmental issues.
Please join us! To become a member of the Handprinter Community (and receive access to our password protected "Handprinter Resources" page), email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Pulpit RockLunes, 1 Febrero 2010
Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit Rock, and by the old local name Hyvlatonnå, is a massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet) above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25 metres (82 by 82 feet) square and almost flat, and is a famous tourist attraction in Norway.
During the four summer months of 2006, approximately 95,000 people took the 3.8 km (2.4 mi.) hike to Preikestolen, making it one of the most visited natural tourist attractions in Norway.There is a trail from the Pulpit Rock lodge through different mountain landscapes. The walk to Preikestolen is very steep in places. The path starts at the Preikestolhytta Youth Hostel at an elevation of approximately 270 metres (886 feet) above sea level, and climbs to 604 metres (1982 feet). The hike takes 1-3 hours depending on the experience of the hikers. Even though the elevation difference is only 334 metres (1096 feet) and the walk is not particularly long (3.8 km each way), the total elevation gain and loss over the course of the hike is more than one might initially expect, as the path climbs and descends various ridges.
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Yes, she did it! Belinda Bencic went all the way in Toronto, adding a victory over Simona Halep in wild Sunday's final to the long list of brightest WTA stars eliminated en route to the title match — Eugenie Bouchard, Caroline Wozniacki, Sabine Lisicki, Ana Ivanovic, Serena Williams. True, the final ended disappointingly, with Halep's retirement, but the moment the Romanian finally gave up came after a grueling fight that lasted two and a half hours.
The world No.20 Bencic won the first set in a tiebreak and served for the second set at 5-3, but despite feeling like a wounded warrior, Halep kept pushing through long rallies and forced the deciding set in the second-set tiebreak. With absolutely no more fuel left in her tank, Halep retired in the third set, while being two breaks down at 0-3. Final score: 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 3-0.
This has been an incredible week for the 18-year-old Bencic, as not only has she won a WTA Premier 5 tournament, ensuring $456,000 in prize money and a rise to No.12 in the rankings, but she's done it in huge style, by taking out four out of Top 6 players, including the unbeatable No.1 Serena Williams, and on top of that all her victims boast Grand Slam finals in their bios.
As you know, our photographer Jimmie48 was taking photos at the 2015 Rogers Cup all day and night until the quarterfinals. Check out his work:
- Thursday: The day we got the last 8 women standing
- Wednesday: Azarenka vs. Kvitova blockbuster encounter
- Tuesday: Bouchard's first-round exit
- Monday: Rain shortens the day, but still we have a bunch of nice pics of Serena Williams, Ana Ivanovic, Simona Halep, etc.
- Sunday: WTA stars test their hockey skills in Toronto


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Season 4 'Amazing Race' winner Reichen Lehmkuhl can't stand his last name because it's too hard to pronounce ... which raises the question -- why can he stand his first name?
Reichen, who once dated Lance Bass, filed a name change petition with the L.A. County Superior Court ... asking to chop his last name in half ... from Lehmkuhl to Kuhl.
Reichen explained in his legal docs, "I don't like my last name. It is too hard for people to spell or pronounce."
It begs the question ... why not get a 2 for 1 special and mess with his first name? Reichen is pronounced rye-hen ... kinda like the German version of Ryan.
No matter what, it's easier to pronounce than the L.A. County Coroner.
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Nick James has been designing and developing gardens
and commercial landscapes for the past 20 years.
Turn a small & unwelcoming outdoor space into a low maintenance outdoor room for our family... Nick delivered on this brief very well, our whole family is delighted.
Your ideas were exactly what I wanted & the special leaf collector trap door has been a particular masterpiece!
... job well done, with a fabulous end result ... It has been an absolute pleasure dealing with you ...