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dLOC: A Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library
Invitation for partner institutions to join dLOC.
In 2019 the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. From nine founding partners, dLOC has grown to over sixty partners in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, Central and South America, and Europe. Please read about dLOC and its mission below, visit the dLOC StoryMap highlighting our partners.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC comprises collections that speak to the similarities and differences in histories, cultures, languages and governmental systems. Types of collections include but are not limited to: newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean's (dLOC) diverse partners serve an international community of scholars, students, and peoples by working together to preserve and to provide enhanced electronic access to cultural, historical, legal, governmental, and research materials in a common web space with a multilingual interface. dLOC's partners collaborate with scholars and teachers for promoting and performing educational outreach on Caribbean Studies, developing new works of digital scholarship, and pursuing other research and teaching initiatives.
The amount of open access content available through dLOC surpasses many commercial Caribbean collections and includes newspapers, official documents, ecological and economic data, maps, histories, travel accounts, literature, poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts. dLOC now provides access to 2.6 million pages of content related to the Caribbean and has registered a cumulative total of 96 million page views.
The founding partners - Archives Nationale d'Haïti; Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM); National Library of Jamaica; La Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE); Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela; University of the Virgin Islands; Florida International University; University of Central Florida; University of Florida - officially established the Digital Library of the Caribbean on 17 July 2004 at a Planning Committee at a meeting held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Development and planning leading to up to the meeting included many prior cooperative projects for preservation and access. The Planning Committee for dLOC sought to leverage new technologies in service to those ongoing needs, yet with an expanded vision of what preservation and access could mean. dLOC partners applied for and were awarded a TICFIA grant for 2005-2009 (grant proposal online). With this grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education, along with cost share from the partner institutions, dLOC developed the technical infrastructure, training materials and network of active partners that have collaboratively built this resource. With continued institutional support and outside funding through grants and donations, the Digital Library of the Caribbean continues to support its goals of ensuring digital preservation of Caribbean materials and providing increased access.
Administered by Florida International University (FIU) in partnership with the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) and the University of Florida (UF), dLOC's technical infrastructure is provided by the University of Florida (UF).
dLOC's multi-institutional collaborative model is bolstered by a democratic governance structure which allows for all partner institutions to contribute to dLOC's evolution and success.
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dLOC is comprised of educational, research, governmental and non-governmental institutions aligned for the purpose of facilitating efficient access to electronic collections about the Caribbean. As such, membership in dLOC is open to archives, libraries, and museums; associations, organizations, and research centers; and publishers.
Current partners are on the Partners Page, all of whom are currently digitizing content to be hosted in dLOC.
Institutions are eligible to join the organization based on the following criteria:
- Willingness to contribute collections and to make these freely available to the project.
- Availability of appropriate collections with Caribbean content.
- Willingness to comply with common standards.
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Partners in the project may :
- Contribute digital content to dLOC's centralized repository via FTP or another form of web transmission.
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dLOC, however, does not make any claim to ownership of the materials it hosts and serves in its collection. All project partners are responsible for copyright control of their own submitted content. For more information on eligibility requirements for partnership and conditions of membership in dLOC, please see our Invitation for partner institutions to join dLOC (in .pdf format).
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I Like Barcelona and it´s people .
|If you are the type of person that likes to sunbathe on a sandy beach in the middle of cold winter during a 2 hour lunchbreak with a nice paella in your stomach and a glass if wine in your hand, then come and stay in Barcelona and melt in our sand.If you are the type of person who likes to shop and shop and shop and discover all those little things you can never find anywhere else, then spend an afternoon in the Raval or el Barri Gotic.If you are the type of person who likes to see thousands of others looking at you, checking you out then come and enjoy Barcelona.If you are the type of person whom does not mind screaming for a coffee in Barcelona to get the waiters warm attention then come to Barcelona.Let summarise what we can do for now: shop until 10pm have dinner, go dancing until 3 am wake up at 9 am look at all the cement buildings, relax on the beach, go to the opera, watch 1100 tourists and end up on a merry go round.Sounds good What else?Walk the streets of the old city and breathe 3000 years of history, imagine, how Columbus once felt when met by the kings of Spain, at Plaza del Rei.If you think that fun is getting scorches to death by dragons, devils and children throwing monstrous fire crackers and escorted by 1200 thousand people with neighbours hosing you down to keep you cool then come on over to Barcelona.
Yes people also work and a lot and we have businesses and are very very serious about life

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text: 49 Episode - 21st July 2014 July 21, 2014 Apart from offering frequent updates on culture, technology and the economy of Japan, the program also airs Nepal-Japan related weekly news analysis as well as a special segment featuring interviews. It also includes e-mails, letters and phone calls from listeners all around the country. While responding to listeners' questions, it presents various aspects of Japanese society, people's lives and pop and folk music. Download The Episode as MP3 Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Labels Radio Kantipur Radio Program Labels: Radio Kantipur Radio Program Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Comments Post a Comment


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Jacob Rosenbloom approached Brazil's labor market as an investor. He saw, he said last week in a media conference at SAP's SapphireNow conference, a labor market of 102 million people, of whom only about 15 million have any education beyond high school. How could a company build a labor market to serve a laborer who doesn't know what a resumé is and has never used a personal computer? According to Rosenbloom, CEO and co-founder of Emprego Ligado, the largest blue-collar employment site in Brazil, his firm did it by building a company that was mobile from the ground up.
SAP, which announced general availability of the SAP Mobile Platform 3.0 on May 22, provides the backend application that allows Emprego Ligado to take information from cellphones and turn it into records that potential employers can use. The process is complicated by the fact that the workers in Emprego Ligado's target labor pool tend not to have smartphones, so an app isn't a good option. The company turns, instead, to standard SMS messaging to build a profile of each worker and communicate with them concerning job opportunities.
The lack of an app doesn't mean that Emprego Ligado has the luxury of ignoring user interface design. "Customers are so used to being spoiled by beautiful UX that we need to understand the wants and needs of everyone who's going to touch our app. The way the customer interacts with our system is through SMS -- they think they're talking to their mother or a friend. We had to look carefully at the language we use to maintain the relationship," said Rosenbloom.
[Learn more about SAP. See SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner: Exclusive Q&A.]
Careful use of the SMS interface coupled with backend analytics allows Emprego Ligado to match job seekers to jobs based on one of the most important indicators of a successful match: physical proximity to work. "We found that the defining factor in someone's success in interviewing was how close they are to where they'll be working," Rosenbloom said. He explained that this is an issue for both the workers and the companies that are Emprego Ligado's customers. "When turnover is too high, it's a problem for everyone."
Rick Costanzo, executive VP and general manager of global mobility solutions at SAP, pointed out at the media conference that mobile is the most prevalent technology in emerging markets. Rosenbloom agreed, saying, "We looked at the tools available to consumers in the emerging markets: They don't pay to have a professional network profile created, and they don't use mobile professional tools, but they do have mobile devices in their hands."
Rosenbloom's observations are in line with the results of the Pew Research Global Attitudes Project survey on mobile device use. According to the survey, 80% of Brazilians own a cellphone, with only 15% of those qualifying as smartphones. The cellphone ownership numbers compare with 49% of Brazilians who say that they either own a smartphone or occasionally use the Internet in another way. Since smartphone ownership and Internet use are each highly correlated with education, it's obvious that simple cellphone text messaging is the dominant technology for reaching blue-collar workers -- and is likely to remain so for some time to come.
Costanzo says that, while he has no question about the power and impact of the SAP Mobile Platform, there is one aspect of the product line that has a less rosy future: the product description. "Mobility is an archaic term because everything is mobile now," he said.
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Successful votes against austerity from Greece to France have pushed officials to consider other ways to cope with the debt crisis in the euro zone, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) signaling an increase in flexibility even as investors get jumpy over the outcome.
One area of concern, according to a Reuters report Tuesday, was Greece's failure to create a governing coalition out of the disparate parties who won seats in the weekend election.
While Antonis Samaras, leader of the conservative New Democracy party, had three days to put together an alliance among the other parties, he bowed to defeat within only hours and handed back the job to the government. Although New Democracy had won the largest number of seats, angry voters had boosted representation by both the far left and the far right, and those parties were in no mood for compromise.
"I tried to form a coalition government with two goals: that the country remain in the euro and bailout policies change to include growth measures," Samaras said in a statement. "I did what I could to get a result but it was not possible. As such, I have informed the president of the republic and handed back the mandate."
Now the task of forming a coalition falls to Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Syriza party, which gained the second-largest number of seats. Tsipras, who was to meet with President Karolos Papoulias on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg, has said he will drive a bid to renegotiate the terms of Greece's aid package.
Not only did the two main governing parties experience voter displeasure, but one of the groups that won representation has advocated sowing land mines on the Greek-Turkish border and another wants to force Germany to pay World War II reparations. Two other parties refused outright to meet with Samaras to discuss compromise. Tsipras will have three days to see if he can do better; if not, the task will pass to the Pasok party. Failure there will pass the task back to Greece's president.
According to Citigroup, the Greek election results have boosted the risk of Greece leaving the euro by the end of 2013 to as high as 75%.
Markets reacted unhappily to the election results, both in Greece and in France, where the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande, ousted President Nicolas Sarkozy. Hollande too rode to victory on a platform of opposition to tough austerity measures and a promise to promote growth. That position was echoed by Italy, which after the election sent out its own call for growth. "Europe has to give concrete signs that it believes in growth," Industry Minister Corrado Passera of Italy said in the report, adding that there needed to be larger E.U. investments in infrastructure and technology. While Passera also said that Hollande's victory should bring about "concrete facts" on a pro-growth policy for Europe, he added that he did not advocate abandonment of tough fiscal policy.
However, Stefano Fassina, who is responsible for the economic policy line of the center-left PD party, one of the two main parties supporting Prime Minister Mario Monti's government, called for a relaxation of austerity and a delay on accepting new E.U. rules.
He may have some support. When Monti called Hollande to congratulate him on his victory, he said in a statement, "Responsible public finance policy is a necessary but certainly not sufficient condition for the key objective: a sustainable growth which can create jobs and produce social equity. For this reason, it is fundamental that Europe urgently adopts concrete policies for growth."
The move away from austerity resulted in a signal from IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde that more flexibility might be forthcoming from that body. In a Zurich speech she said, "The most important element is to lay out a credible medium-term plan to lower debt. Without such a plan, countries will be forced to make an even bigger adjustment soon."
However, even as she advocated for a means of reducing debt, she said that pitting austerity against growth was a "false debate," and added that countries could come up with ways to achieve both. "We know that fiscal austerity holds back growth and the effects are worse in downturns. So the right pace is essential—and the right pace will be country specific. The right mix between cutting spending and raising revenue is also critical."
She added, "As next year looms on the horizon, countries need to keep a steady hand on the wheel. If growth is worse than expected, they should stick to announced fiscal measures, rather than announced fiscal targets. In other words, they should not fight any fall in tax revenues or rise in spending caused solely because the economy weakens."


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Conn. apple farmers expecting good crop this season
NEW LONDON >> Though some parts of the state and the rest of New England are expecting an increase in this year's apple crop, it appears to be business as usual at some of the area's most popular pick-your-own orchards.
The New England Apple Association reports that a significantly larger estimated harvest in the region can thank widespread frost and hail from last year, when the region harvested only 75 percent of what it normally does.
This year, according to the group's website, New England should be almost back to normal with 3.5 million 42-pound boxes, and Connecticut is expected to see an 18 percent increase.
But the owners of both Scott's Yankee Farmer in East Lyme and Holmberg Orchards in Gales Ferry said they eluded the weather that plagued farmers elsewhere, leaving them with two solid apple seasons in a row.
"We were fortunate last year and didn't have any of that problem, so we had a good crop anyway," said Karen Scott, who owns Scott's Yankee Farmer with husband Tom.
Pick-your-own began at both orchards Labor Day weekend, starting the season off with Macintoshes and Cortlands. In the next couple of months, as many as 15 other varieties will be available — grocery-store staples like Red Delicious and Granny Smith along with wine saps, Ida Reds and Mutsus - with the harvest wrapping up by Halloween.
At Holmberg Orchards on a recent Sunday, a few dozen cars were packed into the parking lot adjacent to 25 acres of apple trees. A tractor loaded up with customers for a jaunt farther out into the orchard, back where the last of the summer peaches and nectarines awaited.
Wandering between neat rows of Cortlands, Jan Vondeck and daughter Abbey, 16, and friend Amanda Gooch, also 16, of Groton, grasped white plastic grocery bags sagging under the weight of their loot — 11 pounds in all when Diane Holmberg rang them up at the cashier's table.
"We had to stop ourselves," Vondeck said.
They've been coming to Holmberg every year for the past five years - an outing quicker and more satisfying than a trip to the grocery store.
"There's no comparison in taste," she said.
A couple of rows over, Joe Aquitante was giving 9-year-old son Dominic a boost up into a tree while wife Melisa snapped a quick iPhone photo and encouraged her 6-year-old apple connoisseur daughter, Gabriella, to be less choosy.
The Oakdale family has tried other pick-your-own spots, but they said nothing quite compares to the family-oriented Holmberg Orchards. It's more organized here, Aquitante said - and, of course, they have big apples.
"We came right back here," he said.
Russell Holmberg said a hot July sized up the crop and a spate of cool nights has egged on the fruit's rich, appealing coloring and brought out its sweetness.
Holmberg said sometimes apple crops grow in cycles: If there's a big yield one year, chances are the next year's crop will shrink.
Not so this year, he said. They expect to hit 12,000 bushels — a bushel containing about 100 apples — or surpass it, putting them "on the plus side of average."
"It's a great year," he said.


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This week Bill talks about JPMorgan's role in the current banking crisis as well as Morgan's role in the banking panic of 1907. Bill is thankfully attempting to shift the focus on the root of our problems, I hope everyone understands that. What is happening in gold and the dollar are simply SYMPTOMS of the real problem. The real problem is that private banks control a debt based fractional reserve dollar system.
Bill put in a lot of work to bring us this report, thank you Bill, you are a great American, one who is willing to stand up and tell the truth. We all need to get behind the truth tellers and tell the central bankers to pound sand. Yes, they are going to attack us and our efforts, but WE are BIGGER than they are and we DO control our own destiny, they do NOT control ours!
"It's not WHAT backs the money, it's WHO controls it's QUANTITY!"
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SEOUL – BEIJING'S CCTV WILL DROP its normal 30-second broadcast delay on channels covering the Olympic games, according to the official Xinhua News Agency, allowing viewers to see the events in real-time (via Reuters):
China Central Television (CCTV) has always built a 30-second delay into the transmission of live programs to ensure they aired "smoothly and safely," the report said.
The time lag also gives the government-controlled broadcaster a brief window to stop images of protests or content critical of officials from reaching ordinary viewers.
Broadcasters in the U.S. have occasionally delayed footage in a similar way — especially after the Janet Jackson incident at the superbowl in 2004 — although it could be argued that the practice is largely employed Stateside to protect media from litigation-happy viewers. CCTV's use of of the delay is more insidious on a couple levels, as it functions mainly to keep citizens in the dark by (sometimes literally) blacking out events and because the broadcaster controls a total of 17 channels.
Despite promising press freedom during the games, Beijing is keeping a close watch over foreign journalists, especially if they don't procure the proper visa. From a recent NYT blog post:
Less clear is the fate of thousands of freelancers and reporters for local papers, smaller news outlets and niche publications. One freelancer in the U.S. told [the Committee to Protect Journalists] that, having heard of the problems getting a journalist's visa, she tried to enter the country as a tourist, only to be told that she would have to sign a pledge promising not to write a magazine article about her experiences. Apparently, Chinese immigration agents have learned the power of Google.
This raises questions about the rights of foreign bloggers in the country as well, as there is little doubt that the local government will be keeping a close eye on the Internet; dozens of postings on riots in southwest China last month were apparently blocked by local censors.


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Costly error hurts Nationals in loss to Phillies
One more run makes all the difference for the Washington Nationals.
Cole Hamels threw eight sharp innings, Michael Young hit a two-run double and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Nationals 4-2 on Tuesday night for their third straight win.
"This is a good-hitting ballpark, but we just couldn't get anything going," Johnson said. "We just got stuck on two runs."
The Nationals are 5-34 when scoring fewer than three runs, 31-10 when they get more.
For the second straight night, they fell one short.
Making his third career start, Taylor Jordan (0-2) gave up four runs - three earned - and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings. The hard-throwing righty was 9-1 with a 1.00 ERA between Class A and Double-A when the Nats called him up.
"I felt pretty good tonight," Jordan said. "I had a much better fastball than my previous start."
Helped by shaky defense, the Phillies scored three runs to take a 4-1 lead in the sixth. Ben Revere and Jimmy Rollins hit consecutive singles to start the inning. Chase Utley followed with a grounder to first, but Adam LaRoche's throw to second hit Rollins in the arm and bounced away for an error. Revere scored to give the Phillies a lead and Rollins went to third.
After Domonic Brown popped out, Young lined a 1-2 pitch to deep right-center, scoring Rollins and Utley.
"I had a window (to throw), but he kind of veered out," LaRoche said of Rollins.
Hamels (4-11) allowed one run and six hits to win his second consecutive start for the first time this season. The three-time All-Star lefty has struggled in his first full year after signing a $144 million contract extension last July.
Hamels worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the eighth. After a conference with the entire infield and manager Charlie Manuel, Hamels struck out Ryan Zimmerman and retired Jayson Werth on a deep fly to center.
"I said: `I'm not here to take you out. I just want to look at you,'" Manuel said. "I said: `You got him.' He grinned and said: `I got him.'"
An enthusiastic crowd of 33,502 - much smaller than the sellouts that used to be common at Citizens Bank Park - gave Hamels a standing ovation as he walked off the field.
Werth hit a solo homer for Washington. The defending NL East champs have lost two straight and are only 1 1/2 games ahead of third-place Philadelphia.
The Phillies have won six of their past eight games, including consecutive series victories over first-place Pittsburgh and Atlanta, to move within one game of .500 at 45-46.
Antonio Bastardo allowed an RBI double to Wilson Ramos with two outs in the ninth, but retired Scott Hairston on a shallow pop to get his second save in five tries. Closer Jonathan Papelbon wasn't available after pitching the previous two games and four of five.
"You've got to give Hamels credit," Johnson said. "When we had him in a jam, we didn't get a hit."
Werth put the Nationals up 1-0 in the second when he drove one out to left-center. Boos, as usual, greeted Werth as he rounded the bases. Werth has been an unpopular player in Philadelphia since leaving to take a $126 million contract from the Nationals before the 2011 season.
Utley ripped a two-out double in the fourth and Brown followed with an RBI single to right.
Hoping to add some punch to their lineup, Johnson started Hairston in place of Denard Span a day after the Nationals acquired the veteran outfielder from the Cubs. Hairston came in 12 for 30 with five doubles and five homers off Hamels and went 2 for 5 with a pair of singles.
NOTES: Werth's homer gave the Nationals at least one in 86 consecutive series. The last time Washington played a homerless series was a four-game set at the New York Mets on Sept. 12-15, 2011. ... All-Star Cliff Lee (10-2, 2.73) faces Gio Gonzalez (6-3, 3.14) on Wednesday night.


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Services scheduled for slain family
A candlelight vigil is planned Wednesday and funeral services are scheduled Friday for the family of five slain in southwest Albuquerque over the weekend.
Officials with the Calvary Albuquerque church say members are organizing a candlelight vigil for the Griego family at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The vigil was organized by the church, not the the victims' family.
A "Life Celebration Service" for the family is scheduled at the church at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Griego Family Memorial Fund at New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union, 1801 University Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
Greg Griego, a former pastor at the church, his wife, Sarah, and three of their young children were found shot to death in their home Saturday.
The couple's 15-year-old son, Nehemiah Griego, has been charged in the case. Bernalillo County sheriff's officials say the teen told them he killed his family because he was angry with his mother. They say he also planned to shoot people randomly at a Wal-Mart and contemplated killing his 12-year-old girlfriend's parents.


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Start Cinco de Mayo off right with a delicious Breakfast Casserole with a Mexican flair! Just about every B&B has some version of this crust-less Mexican quiche and it's easy to see why. It's easy to make, easy to adapt to more or fewer guests, and it's sure to please everyone. It starts out mild but you can spice it up to taste or add a spicy salsa on the side. I serve mine with a spicy apple salsa that combines sweet and spicy flavors for an unusual twist.
Serves 8
- 10 eggs
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cups cottage cheese
- 4 cups shredded Mexican cheese blend
- 2 small cans of chopped green chiles
- 1 diced jalapeno (optional)
- 8 Tbs melted butter
Spicy Salsa:
- 3 Granny Smith Apples
- 1 red apple
- 1 diced jalapeno
- 1/4 cup diced onion
- juice from 1/2 lime
- 1 Tbs jalapeno jelly or to taste
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Combine the first 9 ingredients, eggs through butter, in a large bowl.
- Pour into a greased 9"x12" glass baking dish and sprinkle with paprika.
- Bake 40 minutes. Let sit for 5 minutes and cut into 8 pieces.
- Combine salsa ingredients and serve alongside the eggs


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"Climate deniers," just go and fetch yourself a coffee and ignore this story. For the rest of us, the news is dire: according to a study by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, wild Arabica could be on the climate change hit list.
OK, deep breaths: the cultivated stuff will still be out there. Maybe: according to the study, the domestic crops have very limited genetic diversity, which makes them vulnerable to any new pest or infection that comes along.
Hence the importance of wild Arabica, which provides the stock for hybridisation.
Running Arabica's chances against three emission scenarios, over three timescales (2020, 2050 and 2080), and with a geographical resolution of 1 Km for the plant's Ethiopian homeland, the models "showed a profoundly negative influence on the number and extent of wild Arabica populations", Kew says.
While the most favourable scenario leaves coffee survivable – 62 percent of the areas now able to support it would survive – the worst-case model suggested that 97 percent of its range would no longer support the crop.
"Of the two analyses undertaken, the locality analysis is regarded by the authors as the most pragmatic and informative. The predicted reduction in the number of Arabica localities, between 65 percent and 99.7 percent, can be taken as a general assessment of the species' survival as a whole", the research states.
The researchers add that the impacts won't be confined to Ethiopia: world-wide, it will become harder to find places suitable for coffee production. "Optimum cultivation conditions are likely to become increasingly difficult to achieve in many pre-existing coffee growing areas, leading to a reduction in productivity, increased and intensified management (such as the use of irrigation) and crop failure (some areas becoming unsuitable for Arabica cultivation)," Kew states.
And of course, without coffee, we could kiss goodbye to software development as well. ®


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A most beautiful gift of an 'umeke ki'i 'aumakua skillfully carved by a beautiful friend, Likeke Howell. So much Mana to be shared with the beautiful 'opio of the World. Mahalo piha ia 'oe e Likeke. I am truly humbled...
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The carver is super talented...and it ended up much bigger than I imagined... I was in awe when I took it out of the box he sent it in... I know the school children will love it... Love you my brother... : )
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Rochester, NY – The Toronto Rock (4-1) picked up their third road win of the season by defeating the Rochester Knighthawks (0-3) by a score of 11-7 on Saturday night at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, NY. The Rock now sit in top spot in the NLL's Eastern Divison.
The Knighthawks jumped out of the gate in a hurry scoring twice including one on the powerplay. Once the Rock offence got rolling, they couldn't be stopped in the opening 15 minutes producing five goals from five different goal scorers to lead 5-2.
Toronto's five-goal run was broken up by a Rochester three-goal run that tied the score 5-5. Two of those three goals came shorthanded. Toronto and Rochester traded goals back and forth and were again deadlocked 6-6 going into the break at the half.
Both Nick Rose in the Toronto net and Matt Vinc at the other end for Rochester silenced the offensive production for the better part of the third. Kasey Beirnes connected for the only goal of the quarter giving Toronto a 7-6 lead after three quarters on play.
The Rock increased their lead to 8-6 early on when Garrett Billings connected for a powerplay goal. Rochester answered to draw back to within one but Josh Sanderson scored a pair of goals just 25 seconds apart to put the Rock up 10-7. Cam Woods sunk an uncontested shot into the Rochester empty net to round out the scoring.
Billings again carried the load offensively for Toronto with 2 goals and 4 assists for a 6-point evening. Beirnes and Sanderson each finished with 2 goals and 2 assists. Nick Rose made 41 saves to win his fourth game of the season.
The Rock will play the second of three consecutive road games next Saturday night when the team travels to Buffalo to face the Bandits for the first time this season. Toronto will travel to Minnesota on Friday, February 8th prior to returning home on Friday, February 15th to face the Calgary Roughnecks at Air Canada Centre. That night, the first 5,000 fans in attendance will receive a Colin Doyle bobblehead courtesy of Bachly Construction. For the best ticket in town, please call 416-596-3075 or visit www.torontorock.com.


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Tonya Garner: Freedom Newspapers
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Frank Buckley was running errands with his sister Tuesday when he noticed the black, leather-bound book on the side of the road on Prince Street.
"I immediately knew it was a Bible," Buckley said. "I asked my sister to turn around."
Buckley said his sister was hesitant to execute a U-turn but relented.
"My sister thought I was nuts, but she understood," Buckley said. "I couldn't just leave it there."
Examining it closely, Buckley saw what looked to be tire marks along the edges of the pages.
"It had obviously been run over by a couple of cars," Buckley said. "I thought it was remarkable that it was in such great shape after all it had been through." An inspection of the pages revealed multiple marked passages and notations in the margins. "I have my own family Bible, so I knew this was special to someone."
At about the same time, the Bible's owner, Walter R. Wissman realized one of his most cherished possessions was missing.
Wissman, 88, arranged a ride to Bible study with longtime friend Jim Van Sickel. According to Wissman, Van Sickel laid the Bible and study book on the roof of the car before assisting him into the vehicle. The two men headed to church, forgetting the books.
"I was shocked to learn the two books had fallen off," said Wissman, who spent 30 years as a traveling minister for the Jehovah's Witnesses. "I had lost my prized personal Bible and it had a lot of good notes."
Meanwhile, Buckley had discovered Wissman's name on the front page of the 15-year-old Bible.
"We happened to have a phone book and cell phone in the car," Buckley said. "I found his name and started trying to call immediately."
Van Sickel said he followed the same route on the journey home that evening but found only the study book.
"It was about a block and a half away from the house," Van Sickel said. "We didn't see the Bible."
Wissman said he entered his home dejectedly, expecting to spend a sleepless night worrying about the whereabouts of his beloved Bible.
"The phone rang shortly after I arrived home," Wissman said. "My joy knew no bounds when Frank told me he had found my Bible."
After thanking Buckley profusely, Wissman graciously offered a monetary reward for the return of his prized possession. Wissman said Buckley's reply was "beautiful in its simplicity."
"No way!" Buckley said in response. "This is for God."
When Buckley learned of Wissman's age and arthritic condition — he depends heavily on a walker and the kindness of friends for transportation — Buckley offered to deliver the Bible the following day.
Buckley, 51, who has a life-threatening heart condition, said he believes in God but does not consider himself a religious man. He said he's not sure if two years ago he would have stopped to retrieve the Bible.
"I have aortic dissection," Buckley said. "I probably don't have long to live. I guess when you are living on borrowed time, you see things a little differently."
Wissman said the experience reinforced his belief in the goodness of Clovis people.


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In this globalised world, it is becoming increasingly important to learn new languages in order to communicate with people from other countries and this may be the reason why parents decide to put their children in immersion programs so that they can learn a second or thrid language. However, not many parents know all the benefits that learning a new language can have.
In this post, we would like to comment on the health benefits that learning new languages brings. María Cristina Cuervo, professor at the University of Toronto, states that "if you speak two or more languages it trains your brain more" and that makes a learner "more of an athlete". This happens when the learner thinks of word and structures in two different languages, finding themselves in a situation where they need to suppress one of the languages. By doing this, these people strengthen the part of the brain that helps them process information and focus.
In this respect, different studies have corroborated that bilinguals are better decision makers and can experience a later onset of different types of dementia, including Alzheimer. For this reason, many specialists in linguistics often encourage people to begin to learn new languages, even if they are not interested in mastering it. In this way, not only would they be healthier, but they would also gain cultural and social benefits.


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I promised in my last post that I would do one final entry on the Prosperity Blog before I leave the PSRC. And, since today is my last day, there's no time like the present to make that happen. I also promised that this last post would be entirely self-indulgent and nostalgic, and I can think of no post that fits the bill more than the annual Prosperity Blog Year In Ideas feature – the yearly tradition in which I point out to you all how good my thoughts on economic development are, in Top Ten format.
Since it's only halfway through the year (June 30 is less than two weeks away!), I'll cut that Top Ten down to Top Five. And so, without further ado…and with no more ado ever again by me on this blog…here are the best practical proposals for improving our region's business climate and competitiveness (and the most impractical, sky's-the-limit ideas) I've had so far in 2011.


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What is genomics?
What is genomics?
Genomics is the omics study of genes of individual organisms, populations, and species.
It is also a paradigm of performing biological science that deviates from investigating single genes, their functions, and roles.
The main reason of an independent biological discipline is that it deals with very large sets of genetic information to automatically analyze information using interaction and network concepts. Genomics inevitably employs high performance computing and bioinformatics technologies.
History of the field
Genomics was practically founded by Fred Sanger group in 1970s when they developed a gene sequencing technique and completed the first genomes; namely bacteriophage Φ-X174; (5,368 bp), the human mitochondrial genome, and lamda virus.
In 1972, Walter Fiers and his team at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the University of Ghent (Ghent, Belgium) were the first to determine the sequence of a gene: the gene for Bacteriophage MS2 coat protein.[1] In 1976, the team determined the complete nucleotide-sequence of bacteriophage MS2-RNA.[2] The first DNA-based genome to be sequenced in its entirety was that of bacteriophage Φ-X174; (5,368 bp), sequenced by Frederick Sanger in 1977[3]. The first free-living organism to be sequenced was that of Haemophilus influenzae (1.8 Mb) in 1995, and since then genomes are being sequenced at a rapid pace. A rough draft of the human genome was completed by Sanger centre and the Human Genome Project in early 2001.
As of September 2007, the complete sequence was known of about 1879 viruses [4], 577 bacterial species and roughly 23 eukaryote organisms, of which about half are fungi. [5] Most of the bacteria whose genomes have been completely sequenced are problematic disease-causing agents, such as Haemophilus influenzae. Of the other sequenced species, most were chosen because they were well-studied model organisms or promised to become good models. Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) has long been an important model organism for the eukaryotic cell, while the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been a very important tool (notably in early pre-molecular genetics). The worm Caenorhabditis elegans is an often used simple model for multicellular organisms. The zebrafish Brachydanio rerio is used for many developmental studies on the molecular level and the flower Arabidopsis thaliana is a model organism for flowering plants. The Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes) and the spotted green pufferfish (Tetraodon nigroviridis) are interesting because of their small and compact genomes, containing very little non-coding DNA compared to most species. [6] [7] The mammals dog (Canis familiaris), [8] brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), mouse (Mus musculus), and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) are all important model animals in medical research.
Bacteriophage Genomics
Bacteriophages have played and continue to play a key role in bacterial genetics and molecular biology. Historically, they were used to define gene structure and gene regulation. Also the first genome to be sequenced was a bacteriophage. However, bacteriophage research did not lead the genomics revolution, which is clearly dominated by bacterial genomics. Only very recently has the study of bacteriophage genomes become prominent, thereby enabling researchers to understand the mechanisms underlying phage evolution. Bacteriophage genome sequences can be obtained through direct sequencing of isolated bacteriophages, but can also be derived as part of microbial genomes. Analysis of bacterial genomes has shown that a substantial amount of microbial DNA consists of prophage sequences and prophage-like elements. A detailed database mining of these sequences offers insights into the role of prophages in shaping the bacterial genome.[9]
Cyanobacteria Genomics
At present there are 24 cyanobacteria for which a total genome sequence is available. 15 of these cyanobacteria come from the marine environment. These are six ProchlorococcusSynechococcus strains, Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101 and Crocosphaera watsonii [[WH8501. Several studies have demonstrated how these sequences could be used very successfully to infer important ecological and physiological characteristics of marine cyanobacteria. However, there are many more genome projects currently in progress, amongst those there are further Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus isolates, Acaryochloris and Prochloron, the N2-fixing filamentous cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena, Lyngbya aestuarii and Lyngbya majuscula, as well as bacteriophages infecting marine cyanobaceria. Thus, the growing body of genome information can also be tapped in a more general way to address global problems by applying a comparative approach. Some new and exciting examples of progress in this field are the identification of genes for regulatory RNAs, insights into the evolutionary origin of photosynthesis, or estimation of the contribution of horizontal gene transfer to the genomes that have been analyzed.[10]
Genome sequencing and genomics
See also
- Pangenomics and Pangenome
- Personal Genome Project
- Omics
- Proteomics
- Interactomics
- Functional genomics
- Computational genomics
- Nitrogenomics
- Pathogenomics
- ^ Min Jou W, Haegeman G, Ysebaert M, Fiers W., Nucleotide sequence of the gene coding for the bacteriophage MS2 coat protein, Nature. 1972 May 12;237(5350):82-8
- ^ Fiers W et al., Complete nucleotide-sequence of bacteriophage MS2-RNA - primary and secondary structure of replicase gene, Nature, 260, 500-507, 1976
- ^ Sanger F, Air GM, Barrell BG, Brown NL, Coulson AR, Fiddes CA, Hutchison CA, Slocombe PM, Smith M., Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage phi X174 DNA, Nature. 1977 Feb 24;265(5596):687-95
- ^ The Viral Genomes Resource, NCBI Friday, 14 September, 2007
- ^ Genome Project Statistic, NCBI Friday, 14 September, 2007
- ^ BBC article Human gene number slashed from Wednesday, 20 October, 2004
- ^ CBSE News, Thursday October 16, 2003
- ^ NHGRI, pressrelease of the publishing of the dog genome
- ^ Mc Grath S and van Sinderen D (editors). (2007). Bacteriophage: Genetics and Molecular Biology, 1st ed., Caister Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-904455-14-1 .
- ^ Herrero A and Flores E (editor). (2008). The Cyanobacteria: Molecular Biology, Genomics and Evolution, 1st ed., Caister Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-904455-15-8 .
Web links
Wikipedia Genomics link


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Health officials push for more people to get flu shot
- About 85M doses of vaccine have been distributed
- Several kinds of shots are available
- Flu vaccines for everyone over age 6 months urged
WASHINGTON -- There are plenty of flu shots available this year, and health officials urged Americans on Thursday to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated -- if not for their own sakes, then for the health of their communities.
About 85 million doses of flu vaccine have been distributed, part of a total of 135 million doses for this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Influenza is predictably unpredictable," said Howard Koh, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke at a news conference in Washington organized by the National Foundation for Infectious Disease.
"In 2009-2010, we had a pandemic with thousands hospitalized and many deaths," Koh said. "Last year, we set a record for the lowest number of hospitalizations and the shortest influenza season."
In spite of the "mild" flu season last year -- brought about partly because the flu strains in circulation were similar to those the year before -- 34 children died of the disease, Koh says. The CDC recommends flu vaccines for everyone over age 6 months.
"Even mild seasons can lead to suffering and death," said Koh, who was vaccinated at the news conference. "People cannot become complacent this season. When it comes to the flu, we cannot look to the past to predict what will happen this season."
Yet most Americans choose to skip the flu shot. Forty-two percent of Americans got a flu shot last year, about the same rate as the year before, according to the CDC.
Vaccination coverage fell sharply with increasing age, peaking at a high of 75% of babies ages 6 to 23 months but falling to 39% of adults and 34% of teens ages 13 to 17. Forty-seven percent of pregnant women were vaccinated against the flu last year, according to the CDC. That's about the same as last year, but far below the CDC's goal of vaccinating 80% of pregnant women.
Flu shots are safe at any stage of pregnancy and are especially important for expectant mothers and their babies, said Laura Riley, director of obstetrics and gynecology infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. That's because pregnant women are five times as likely as other people to become severely ill if they get the flu, a condition that can cause miscarriage or preterm delivery, Riley says.
By getting a flu shot during pregnancy, women develop antibodies that go through the placenta to their fetuses, protecting babies after birth for their first six months of life, before they are old enough to get their own shots.
Each year, 5% to 20% of Americans get the flu, causing up to 200,000 hospitalizations, 20,000 of which are in children, Koh said. Even health care workers aren't getting recommended vaccines. Sixty-seven percent of all health care providers get flu shots, although doctors who work in hospitals did slightly better: 87% got vaccinated against influenza, according to the CDC. That's an improvement from 2002, when 32% of health care workers were vaccinated.
Some hospitals require all employees to get flu shots, says William Schaffner, past president of the infectious disease foundation. Those include members of the Hospital Corp. of America, Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he says. Schaffner said even some health workers believe flu shots can cause the flu, which is untrue.
"This is an ethical and professional responsibility" for physicians, who should get vaccinated to set an example to patients, Schaffner said. "It's a patient safety issue, so we do not transmit our influenza infection to patients. It's also so that when influenza strikes, we are vertical and not horizontal."
Schaffner predicts more hospital workers will become vaccinated once the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires those vaccination rates to be published.
The flu shot, as usual, protects against three types of flu viruses. Next year, flu shots will be available that protect against four viral strains, Schaffner said. That's a big improvement, given that it can be difficult for scientists to predict in the spring which viruses will be circulating the following winter.
Though flu shots aren't perfect, they reduce the risk of becoming sick by 50% to 60% when there is a good match between the vaccine strains and those circulating in the community, Schaffner said.
Several kinds of flu shots are available: the traditional shot in the arm, a nasal mist for those ages 2 to 49, a high-dose flu shot for senior citizens and a new intradermal shot for adults over 18 that is supposed to be less painful.


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Gifted & LD
Learning disabilities affect people of all ability levels. Sometimes, learning disabilities are experienced by extremely gifted people who have above average abilities in academic areas. These people are often referred to as twice exceptional, because giftedness can pose additional challenges beyond LD. In this section, we address how teachers of gifted children with LD can implement the interventions necessary for the learning disability while still providing opportunities for enrichment.
There are 17 articles in this section.
Jill Lauren's That's Like Me! is a book about 15 students with disabilities who face challenges in school but express their creativity and talents through hobbies. In the foreword, excerpted here, children's book illustrator Jerry Pinkney describes growing up with two personas: Jerry the gifted artist and Jerry the struggling reader.
Counseling Needs of Academically Talented Students with Learning Disabilities
Recent research on academically talented students with learning disabilities indicates that they have specific counseling needs that often are not addressed in elementary and secondary school. This article looks at what kinds of support students with this profile need, and how school counselors can provide it.
Gifted Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
In the ongoing dialogue about ADHD in gifted children, three questions often arise. Are gifted children over-diagnosed with the disorder? In what ways are gifted ADHD children different from gifted children without the disorder and from other ADHD children? Does the emerging research suggest any differences in intervention or support?
Gifted Learners and the Middle School: Problem or Promise?
The Identification of Students Who are Gifted
This digest discusses the identification of students who are gifted, the difficulties in the identification process, appropriate identification practices, and procedures that can help with identification.
Jim Delisle, Ph.D. - Mentor Teacher
Jim Delisle, Ph.D., is a Professor of Special Education at Kent State University, where he directs the undergraduate and graduate programs in gifted child education. Jim is a former classroom teacher, special education teacher, and teacher of the gifted and talented. In 1992, Jim took a sabbatical from university teaching to return to full time teaching. He taught a regular fourth grade class.
Attention Deficit Disorders and Gifted Students: What Do We Really Know?
"Gifted" and "ADHD" used to be consider mutually exclusive, but researchers have realized the two can coexist. And when they do, misdiagnosis often occurs; typically a gifted student is mistakenly identified as ADHD. But the other misdiagnosis occurs as well; the ADHD of a gifted child is ignored. But once identified as LD and gifted, what happens? Learn more about the situation as well as possible actions.
The Abilities of Those with Reading Disabilities: Focusing on the Talents of People with Dyslexia
Thomas West builds a case for the scientific study of gifts and talents thought to be associated with dyslexia. Such research would supplement the current research on correcting deficits, by discovering ways to maximize talents to overcome these deficits.
Gifted students with disabling conditions remain a major group of underserved and understimulated youth (Cline, 1999). In order for these children to reach their potential, it is imperative that their intellectual strengths be recognized and nurtured, at the same time as their disability is accommodated appropriately.
Learning Disabled and Gifted: A Homeschool Perspective
When I was ten, my family moved to California, where I had to attend a school with a new experimental program. All students were grouped by I.Q. for academic classes. After my I.Q. test placed me in the highest class of the grade above mine, I lived in fear that someone would finally find out what I had struggled all these years to hide.
Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues
Many people have difficulty comprehending that a child can be gifted and also have learning disabilities. As a result, children with special needs that result from both their high abilities and their learning problems are rarely identified and are often poorly served.
Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues
Giftedness and Learning Disabilities
Gifted but Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox
How can a child learn and not learn at the same time? Why do some students apply little or no effort to school tasks while they commit considerable time and effort to demanding, creative activities outside of school? These behaviors are typical of some students who are simultaneously gifted and learning disabled.


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Depending on your perspective, rain either has energized the Pusan festival or has put a real damper on things over the past few days.
From screenings to parties to cab lines, storms have played with people's spirits but also have helped to create a cozy atmosphere with folks not venturing far from the festivities and, now, the market.
In what must rank as the soggiest world preem since Howard Hughes unveiled "Underwater!" to aqualung-wearing guests in a swimming pool in 1955, Korean helmer Lee Young-hae's "The Friends" unspooled before a large crowd at the fest's outdoor theater on Sunday night. Despite steady, heavy rain falling by 7:30 p.m., organizers were determined to proceed with the venue's full evening program.
What that meant for ticket-holders wearing plastic raincoats provided at the door was a full 90 minutes of live music prior to the film's screening, all of it greeted enthusiastically by a PIFF public renowned for its dedication.
Venue's audio system was put to the test as auds struggled to hear introductions by Lee and cast members over by-now-torrential rain. In one of those coincidences that just seem to happen on a night like that, an early scene in "The Friends" showed one of its lead characters having a bucket of water tipped over his head.
With taxis scarce, at least one departing attendee was seen skipping away merrily, a la Gene Kelly, through deep puddles.
The heart of it all — the PIFF Pavilion — was closed relatively early on Sunday night, thus forcing Malaysia to find another venue for its party (it eventually went off at Club Monaco) and give way to hired hands who shoveled water off the roof into Monday morning.
As for other parties, Sunday night turned into an adventure. Guests were late to arrive for Germany's and Japan's fetes at the Paradise, then had their patience tested waiting for cabs to drive everyone home.
Later in the evening at the 11:30 p.m. Udine event, getting to Oh Happy Day was indeed a memorable chore, as the trek up the hill hindered but didn't prevent partiers from reveling deep into the night.


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I begin this week with wonderful news.
On Thursday, we announced that the Catholic Appeal raised $15.1 million for the 2008 campaign. Contributions to the Catholic Appeal serve as the primary source of financial support for the Archdiocese's Central Operating Fund and its many central ministries.
Services provided by the Archdiocese from the Central Operating Fund include training and faith formation for both clergy and laity, curriculum development for the religious education of children and young adults, various training, operational and financial services to parishes, schools and agencies, and ministry to over 30 culturally and ethnically unique Catholic populations throughout the Archdiocese.
The success of this year's Appeal demonstrates the generosity, faith and commitment of the people of this Archdiocese to sustain our ministries during these challenging economic times. I am inspired by our Catholic community's long-standing history of selfless sharing, coming together to care for each other and those around them.
To all who have given of themselves so generously — thank you. Your support is essential to all we do as a faith community throughout the 144 cities and towns of our Archdiocese.
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Last Saturday, we had a very joyful celebration at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross for the diocese's ordination of five transitional deacons: Deacons Frank Camp and David Gunter from Blessed John XXIII Seminary; Deacons Sean Maher and Huy Nguyên from St. John's Seminary, and Deacon Israel Rodriguez from Redemptoris Mater Missionary House of Formation. Their classmate, Deacon Shawn Carey, who studied at St. Patrick's program for deaf seminarians in Menlo Park, Calif., was there for the celebration and will be ordained to the priesthood with them in the spring.
Deacon Frank Camp
Deacon David Gunter
Deacon Huy Nguyên
Deacon Sean Maher
Deacon Israel Rodriguez
It was very nice to see the cathedral filled with their friends and families.
It was our first ordination of a candidate from the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and Father Tony Medeiros was very pleased to join the rectors of St. John's and Blessed John, Father Kennedy and Father Uglietto, in the celebration.
Fathers Kennedy, Uglietto and Medeiros
As we prepare for our vocation retreats this weekend and celebrate the ordination of deacons, I ask all the Catholics of the archdiocese to continue praying and working for vocations. I invite them to consider if God is calling them to this special ministry in the Church.
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This week, I was very happy to be invited to Magdalene College in Warner, New Hampshire, to celebrate their 35th anniversary and the launch of their efforts to gain accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The small, Catholic, liberal arts college is dedicated to giving young people an excellent Catholic formation and academic preparation for their professional lives.
With Jeff Karls, Magdalen College's President
Fathers Paul and John Sullivan, both priests in the archdiocese of Boston and graduates of Magdalene College, accompanied me to the Mass, along with Bishop John McCormack who is the local ordinary in Manchester.
Fathers Paul and John Sullivan
Bishop McCormack
We were very impressed by the beauty of the liturgy, the devotion of the students and the magnificent choral arrangements that they had for the Mass and the banquet afterwards. Virtually every student at the College participates in the music program and it was very, very inspiring.
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On Sunday, two of our priests celebrated the 50th anniversary of their ordination.
I spoke at the beginning of Father Larry Borges' Mass at St. Albert the Great in Weymouth, and at the end of Msgr. Francis Strahan's Mass at St. Bridget's in Framingham.
Father Borges had been a good friend of mine since the early 70's when we were both involved in Hispanic ministry and participated in various commissions together. We have always maintained contact, so he was one of the Boston priests involved in Hispanic ministry, along with Father Wendell Verrill, who I knew best.
I was very grateful for the wonderful job Father Borges did at St. Stephen's in Framingham and for his generosity in becoming the pastor at St. Albert the Great, where there had been great tensions over the reconfiguration. I know his pastoral wisdom and unfailing kindness to all brought great healing to that community.
Now that he is retiring, he will continue his pastoral ministry as parochial vicar at St. Gregory's in Dorchester. I am very grateful for his willingness to continue his ministry and grateful that God has blessed him with the good health to be able to continue serving God's people in the way that he has.
I also had the opportunity to speak at Msgr. Strahan's Mass at St. Bridget's in Framingham and thank him in the name of the archdiocese.
He is a renaissance man who has so many different talents and such great energy.
At the Mass, he received three citations — two from the state legislature and one from the town. I told them it is a good thing that he wasn't running for office because he would certainly be elected!
At the end of his Mass, he gave a very moving talk about his ministry. He spoke about the influence his parents and his Catholic family had on his formation, his many years at the seminary, his involvement with music ministry and his tenure at St. Bridget's, which has been so life-giving for him.
The response of his parishioners to him is so enthusiastic because he has done such an outstanding job at St. Bridget's.
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I spent much of the remainder of my week at a conference in Dallas organized by the National Catholic Bioethics Center and funded by the Knights of Columbus. Every two years, the center invites the bishops of Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America to attend various seminars and workshops. This year, there were about 150 bishops in total.
The conference is one of the few opportunities that we can all come together and interact with the bishops of our neighboring countries. This year, I was very happy to be with one of my classmates, Bishop Pablo Schmitz, who is the Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Bluefields, Nicaragua. He brought me a lovely gift — a statue of the Good Shepherd.
He and his auxiliary Bishop David Zywiec Sidor, who was also with him, are part of a long tradition of Catholics and missionaries working in one of the poorest and most war-torn dioceses in the Northern Hemisphere. He has been there for many decades and is doing a great job.
Also, at the conference were the bishops from the Caribbean who were part of the part of the Antilles bishops' conference with me. Among them were Archbishop Donald Reece, Archbishop Larry Burke, Bishop Charles Dufour, Archbishop Kelvin Felix and many other bishops from that part of the world who were my colleagues when I was bishop in the West Indies. It was like a great reunion to be with these brother bishops again.
The workshop had as its topic "Christ or Caesar? When compliance violates conscience." One of the great challenges that we face in the United States is the erosion of religious freedom. At a time when more and more forces are trying to force the Church to become involved in abortion, contraception, embryonic stem-cell research, gay marriage, and other issues that infringe upon religious freedom in many different ways, I felt that it was a very timely topic and one that Catholics are going to have to struggle with in the future if we are to maintain our integrity as a religion and be able to practice our faith and have a voice in the public square.
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I was saddened by the news of a fire at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral. Like our own Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, it was built by Patrick Keeley.
We are glad that no one was injured but I am very saddened to see the damage to the historical cathedral and hope that they will be able to fully restore it.
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I welcome the news that The Holy Father has gone live on YouTube with his videos and news from the Vatican. I think it is important for us to be present in these different means of communication that reach many people, particularly our young Catholics.
I applaud our Holy Father's efforts to reach out to new generations of Catholics and to use every means available of communicating with them.
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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Spain captain Alex Corretja has defended his decision to pick Nicolas Almagro for the Davis Cup final after the holders were beaten 3-2 by Czech Republic when Almagro lost the decisive singles rubber to Radek Stepanek on Sunday.
-PHOTOS: Czechs lift Davis Cup with victory over Spain
Corretja, in his first year in charge, had to field questions about why he didn't select Feliciano Lopez, whose big-serving style is seen as better suited to the zippy indoor court in Prague's O2 arena than that of clay specialist Almagro.
-Czech Republic beat holders Spain to win Davis Cup
Lopez himself was quoted as saying the day before the tie that he was surprised not to be picked along with David Ferrer but Corretja said he had no doubt he had made the right choice and would choose Almagro over Lopez again.
Almagro, the World No. 11, lost in five sets to Czech number one Tomas Berdych on Friday, while fifth-ranked Ferrer won both his singles and Berdych and Stepanek beat Marc Lopez and Marcel Granollers in Saturday's doubles.
"I don't think I made a mistake and I don't think we lost the tie because Nico Almagro played," Corretja, unable to call on the injured Rafa Nadal, told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser by telephone late on Sunday.
"Having seen the way Nico Almagro played on Friday I still believe that he was the right person to play the final rubber," Corretja added.
"Who knows if a different player would have been any better? Nobody."
"I am a fan of Feliciano Lopez in the sense that he has given a huge amount to the Davis Cup team."
"He's an excellent team mate and an excellent friend and an excellent Davis Cup player and an excellent player on those courts but I have a huge number of reasons why I think Almagro had to play."
Almagro turned in an error-strewn performance against Stepanek and although he briefly mounted a comeback to win the third set the Czech 33-year-old, ranked 31, had too much guile and experience for the younger Spaniard.
"Alex is there to take these kinds of decisions, they are not easy and you have to respect them," 40th-ranked Lopez was quoted as saying in Spanish media on Thursday after the draw for the final.
"But on a technical level I don't understand it," he added. "I thought I was going to play because this surface suits me very well."
Corretja was unrepentant.
"As captain I try to cope with the situation as best I can and in the end we fought as hard as we could to win a final that eluded us by a tiny, tiny margin," he told Cadena Ser.
"If we played Czech Republic again tomorrow I would choose the same four players."
The failure of Spain's bid for a fourth title in five years left a bitter taste for Corretja and his players and the absence of the injured Nadal, who has only lost once in 21 Davis Cup singles rubbers, proved decisive.
Corretja said he expected to be able to count on all of the nation's top players for next year's edition, including Nadal, Ferrer, Lopez, Almagro, Fernando Verdasco and the doubles pair of Marc Lopez and Granollers.
With a fit Nadal in the side, they will again be firm favourites, especially playing at home on their favoured clay.
"Obviously when Rafa recovers from his (knee) injury and he's available I'll be delighted," Corretja said.
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