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It recognizes no borders, doesn't distinguish between races and cares not a whit about income levels. It ignores, for the most part, lifestyle and diet. Unlike most terminal diseases, it leaves you ambulatory but, in its later stages, cruelly requires fully dependent care for longer than any other disease.
It robs you of pride and dignity in its earlier stages and, in its latter phase, often takes away the cognitive ability to care about either. And since there is no known cause and no way to diagnose it, finding a cure is daunting. There is none in sight.
Alzheimer's disease is fatal but other varieties of dementia are not; they just steal your mind, bit by bit. In some ways, ironically, that can be a blessing for the stricken and for the army of selfless people entrusted with their care. Among them, women such as Reisa Manus, 60, whose 87-year-old mother Jean Manus was diagnosed as having "mid-point" dementia five or six years ago.
Reisa drives from her home in Quebec's Laurentian region once or twice a week to Montreal to spend the day with her mother. Jean is not the friend and confidante she once was. Now Reisa is her mother's mother, every moment vigilant for Jean's mood changes, anxiety levels and her shifting proximity to reality.
The woman who raised her is not there, but the woman she has become still enjoys her daughter's love and admiration.
"She's very much in the moment," Reisa says of her mother. "She enjoys the simplest things now. Even going for an ice cream makes her very happy. It can be quite delightful."
But with the gift of her mother's moments of Zen comes Reisa's realization that her own future might not be what she imagined.
"It taught me to no longer sweat the small stuff," she says.
There are three quarters of a million people with dementia and Alzheimer's in Canada, which means there are probably more than one million like Manus, entrusted with the care of dementia sufferers.
Those who make careers out of studying dementia, or advocating on behalf of patients and caregivers, use words such as "epidemic" and "catastrophe" to describe the swath the ailment will be cutting through our country in the coming decades.
Barry Greenberg, scientific adviser to the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the coordinator of a new Toronto-wide Alzheimer's research centre, watched his grandmother die from the disease, and in 1985 decided to dedicate himself to working on it. He's been at it ever since. He has spent much of his career working for big pharma in North America and Europe, looking for drugs to combat the disease.
He is not hopeful.
What the disease is expected to do in the future is dystopic.
"The global economy is at risk," says Greenberg.
"The tsunami is 25 years away. It's totally predictable. Do the numbers just in China. Twenty-five per cent of the Chinese will be in the risk area. … Their economy will fall," Greenberg says.
As boomers age, dementia in its myriad forms is expected to ravage societies. After age 65, the risk of contracting serious cognitive impairment doubles every five years.
In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the National Alzheimer's Project Act, a national plan that initiated five goals and was injected this year with $100 million US. So far Ottawa has sidestepped any national strategic plan to deal with the coming tempest.
Greenberg says the U.S. is spending peanuts considering that the cost to that country by 2040 will be about $1 trillion a year, about what the U.S. spent annually on its war in Iraq. He says the U.S. needs to invest $1 billion a year. And although Canada is ahead of the U.S. in funding per capita — moneys invested by various agencies — he says it's not enough.
He's calling for a moon-shot or Manhattan Project–scope investment to combat the fallout from the disease and perhaps find a cure or a way to control it.
Greenberg agrees society has been drenched with disease anxiety, from SARS to bird flu, AIDS to MERS, and fed a constant stream of "we're all going to die" stories by media. Some have trouble getting worked up about a disease that may or may not hit them decades down the road, he admits.
"They don't like to think about it," he says. "They're convinced we'll do the magic."
The "magic" brought the ravages of HIV/AIDS and some cancers under control but Greenberg, an inveterate cynic, says those who have survived HIV can now look forward to living long enough to get hit with dementia.
He does not see any magic coming out of test tubes in the next 10 years.
Larry Chambers, scientific adviser to the Alzheimer Society, says there are about 70 organizations across the country providing counselling, referrals or a shoulder for distraught and confused family members or caregivers.
"It's a good reflection on Canada that we're organized to deal with it," he says.
But a CBC Radio documentary that aired last year pointed to Denmark as the poster country for dementia care. Despite its struggling economy, the state pays for a humane and civilized approach to looking after the cognitively impaired.
A spokesman for the Danish Alzheimer Association said patients are "not losing it, just their reality is shifting. It's a public task to look after the older people. It's much about independence. They never get to live in that bed."
In Denmark, there are no locked facilities. The afflicted are taken on vacations, they bike, hike and dance, wash dishes, are entrusted with power tools and workshops, and, well, they live their lives.
"You can't just sit around; what you can give, you give. There is a good life with dementia. … In Canada it seems you're starting from scratch. It's the Stone Age."
By 2038 in Canada, it is expected there will be a new dementia patient every two minutes. In 2008, there was a new case diagnosed every five minutes. By 2038, 1.5 million will be afflicted and there's no national strategy on how to deal with them. Right now the provinces, the Alzheimer Society and various NGOs have stitched together a network of caregivers, and provide referrals, advice and advocacy.
The CEO of the Alzheimer Society, Mimi Lowi-Young, says that the disease "is the biggest health care challenge we face. A national strategy is critical."
The cost of dementia is expected to mushroom to $300 billion a year by 2038, yet Canada has no plan yet to even begin work on a strategy, says Greenberg.
"We've tried to engage (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper but he doesn't want to engage. He doesn't have anything to say."
The PMO bounced a request for comment to Health Canada, where officials replied in an email saying the government recognizes the serious impact the disease has on Canadians and their families and is supporting "research and surveillance" programs, listing $23.6 million it has invested.
But the Alzheimer Society is working on changing gears on its advocacy approach to emphasize the economic fallout as opposed to the human cost, hoping to sway the prime minister.
In an email statement, Lowi-Young wrote: "We need some leadership from the top and co-ordinated strategy across the provinces."
On the provincial side there is hope. At a premiers' meeting at the end of July in Niagara-on-the-Lake, they issued a release that said "premiers directed the Health Care Innovation Working Group to examine issues related to dementia, including identifying best practices for early diagnosis."
Lowi-Young says $150 million is needed desperately to provide research, diagnostics and training to build up the base of caregivers.
The human cost, of course, is impossible to quantify. How does one measure the pain, indignity and loss of pride that comes with changing a parent's or spouse's soiled linen or clothes or bathing them? Or having to place them in a home?
For Carol Holmes-Kerr, her husband Jim's care dominated her life. Jim died New Year's Day at the age of 80. He was in a home.
"He ceased to be the person I had married," she says. "He was intellectual, well-read and we used to have lots of intellectual and philosophical discussions."
Jim, a retired quality inspector with the Department of Defence in Ottawa, had an IQ of 135. But in the ensuing months, he lost his direction a few times, going north on the highway instead of south, ending up far from home with Carol suspecting the worst. Jim's mother and grandmother had died of Alzheimer's, and in 2008 Jim was diagnosed.
There were no more movies — he couldn't follow the story. No more daily newspaper reading or crossword puzzles.
"They say you can put off dementia by doing crossword puzzles, and he did them everyday, so I don't know how helpful that really is," she says.
A U.K. study in late July trumpeted a marked decline in dementia cases. A study of three regions showed 24 per cent fewer cases of dementia in 2011 than had been predicted in 1991.
But experts are wary. Some say it's an indicator that better heart health from increased knowledge of the importance of exercise and proper nutrition helps stave off dementia associated with cardiovascular problems, like stroke.
It is thought that about five per cent of dementia results from cardiovascular illness. Others say it points to the possibility that better eating habits and more exercise perhaps benefit the brain in ways not yet understood.
Still others say the methodology was flawed and the results prove little if anything. Greenberg was more pointed in his assessment.
In an email, he wrote that the study "triggered a vision of Neville Chamberlain reassuring Britain that Hitler represented no significant concern, just about one year before the Nazis drove their tanks into Poland."
In followup messages, he indicated that a healthy body might indeed have an effect on some kinds of dementia. He added that one good study seemed to indicate that bilingualism seemed to slow the onset of dementia in a control group by five years, something no drug can do.
He wonders if perhaps they'll find that playing music might do the same, keeping certain parts of the brain active to delay dementia for reasons they don't understand.
Says the Alzheimer Society's Chambers, "The more I read, the more humble I get about the complexities of the human brain."
For Carol Holmes-Kerr it's too late, of course. Her husband soon stopped walking the dog because he would get lost.
"It was lucky the dog knew the way home," she says.
Once her husband could no longer carry on the conversations that nourished her, he soon needed help getting dressed.
"He'd come downstairs wearing three shirts," she says, so she started to lay out his clothing. Then she had to shower with him. A former nurse, she says it was a job to be done, one of many as her husband's care became all-consuming.
Soon she had to put him in a day care to take an occasional breather. She was usually with him 23 hours a day. He resisted but their love for each other was strong enough that he did what she asked, she says.
"I would just say, 'Do it for me' and he would," she says. "I was the love of his life and he was the love of mine."
Eventually she placed him in full-time care. She couldn't look after him alone any more.
"It was the most difficult thing I ever had to do," she says. "He thought I was trying to get rid of him."


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Gigabyte Technology has announced its new FM2+ motherboards including the newest addition to its G1-Killer range of gaming motherboards, the G1.Sniper A88X, which features Gigabyte USB DAC-UP, which is optimized for users employing a digital-to-analog converter, and Gain Boost, which provides high gain output for advanced headphones and speakers.
The AMP-UP Audio combines a range of unique features and technologies that are designed to give audio enthusiasts and PC gamers more control over their motherboard audio.
Featuring a gold plated USB 2.0 port, the USB DAC-UP provides clean, noise-free power delivery to users' digital-to-analog converter, the vendor said. DACs can be sensitive to fluctuations in power from the other USB ports and the USB DAC-UP can take advantage of an isolated power source to help minimize potential fluctuations and ensures the audio experience.
The USB DAC-UP also allows the port to be configured in BIOS for enthusiast system configurations which do not require USB power to the DAC.
Gigabyte motherboards also debut Gain Boost, which provides onboard switches to select between 2.5x and 6x amplification modes depending on output device. Most OP-Amps are capable of providing a high-gain audio output that is ideal for high-end headphones and speakers that have higher impedance headroom. Gain Boost allows users to switch between 6x and x2.5 amplification modes depending on the speakers or headphones being used.
To help protect and insulate the Realtek ALC898 audio processor and onboard amplifiers from electrostatic interference (ESD), the Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X motherboard features an audio noise guard that separates the board's sensitive analog audio components from potential ESD pollution at the PCB level. LED trace path lighting illuminates to show the separation of the PCB layers.
The Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X motherboard uses the Nichicon MUSE ES series audio capacitors at each channel layout. The Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X motherboard uses gold plated hardware for improved connectivity and long lasting durability for the USB DAC-UP port and audio connectors, the vendor said. Gold has superb signal conductivity and will not tarnish over extended periods of use. The Realtek ALC898 audio processor is also shielded by a gold-plated cover which eliminates electrostatic interference.
The Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X motherboard features the new FM2+ APU socket, and is also designed for forthcoming Kaveri AMD APUs, while preserving compatibility for current AMD FM2 Trinity and Richland APUs.
FM2+ AMD APUs offer native support for 8 GT/s PCI Express gen 3.0 as well as DirectX 11.1 support, integrating the high performance Steamroller core. AMD socket FM2+ APUs also offer native support for ultra HD resolution displays on HDMI and DisplayPort.
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Larb Ubol's Pad Ped Moo Krob is a Standout on 9th Avenue
Larb Ubol is a brand-new Thai spot on 9th Avenue, though to astute Thai food lovers, it may seem oddly familiar.
That's because, as Eating in Translation reports, the chef is an old hand in New York: Ratchanee Sumpatboon, most recently of the East Village's Zabb Elee, and she's brought her fiery brand of Isan Thai food with her.
A recent visit yielded an array of great chopped meat salads and fierce som tum, but even better was this Pad Ped Moo Krob ($11), too often a sweet throwaway stir fry with uninteresting pork and bland Thai eggplant.
But not here, where the pork is meaty portions of belly, cooked in fat until plenty crisp but not chewy—with plenty of crackly skin on for good measure. There's that bland, crunchy eggplant, but it's sliced thin and enveloped by sauce. And there's the curry paste itself, bursting with fresh ginger and herbs, lashed with chili and green peppercorn heat, with a gentle sweetness that hits you in layers.
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28 CFR Appendix E to Part 61 - United States Marshals Service Procedures Relating to the Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act
These procedures are issued pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq., regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), 40 CFR part 1500, et seq., regulations of the Department of Justice (DOJ), 28 CFR part 61, et seq., the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4371, et seq., Section 309 of the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7609, and Executive Order 11514, "Protection and Enhancement of Environmental Quality," March 5, 1970, as amended by Executive Order 11991, May 24, 1977.
These provisions supplement existing DOJ and CEQ regulations and outline internal USMS procedures to ensure compliance with NEPA. Through these provisions, the USMS shall promote the environment by minimizing the use of natural resources, and by improving planning and decision-making processes to avoid excess pollution and environmental degradation.
The USMS' Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) shall be as concise as possible and EISs should be limited to approximately 150 pages in normal circumstances or 300 pages for proposals of unusual scope or complexity. The USMS shall, whenever possible, jointly prepare documents with State and local governments and, when appropriate, avoid duplicative work by adopting, or incorporating by reference, existing USMS and other agencies' analyses and documentation.
In developing an EA or EIS, the USMS shall comply with CEQ regulations, observing that EAs and EISs should (1) Be analytic, rather than encyclopedic, (2) be written in plain language, (3) follow a clear, standard format in accordance with CEQ regulations, (4) follow a scoping process to distinguish the significant issues from the insignificant issues, (5) include a brief summary, (6) emphasize the more useful sections of the document, such as the discussions of alternatives and their environmental consequences, while minimizing the discussion of less useful background information, (7) scrutinize existing NEPA documentation for relevant analyses of programs, policies, or other proposals that guide future action to eliminate repetition, (8) where appropriate, incorporate material by reference, with citations and brief descriptions, to avoid excessive length, and (9) integrate NEPA requirements with other environmental review and consultation requirements mandated by law, Executive Order, Department of Justice policy, or USMS policy. When preparing an EA or EIS, the USMS shall request comments to be as specific as possible.
To ensure compliance with NEPA, the USMS shall make efforts to prevent and reduce delay. The USMS will follow the procedures outlined in the CEQ regulations including, (1) Integrating the NEPA process in the early stages of planning to ensure that decisions reflect environmental values, and to head off potential conflicts and/or delays, (2) emphasizing inter-agency cooperation before the environmental analysis and documentation is prepared, (3) ensuring the swift and fair resolution of any dispute over the designation of the lead agency, (4) employing the scoping process to distinguish the significant issues requiring consideration in the NEPA analysis, (5) setting deadlines for the NEPA process as appropriate for individual proposed actions, (6) initiating the NEPA analysis as early as possible to coincide with the agency's consideration of a proposal by another party, and (7) using accelerated procedures, as described in the CEQ regulations, for legislative proposals.
The USMS is a Federal law enforcement agency. The agency performs numerous law enforcement activities, including judicial security, warrant investigations, witness protection, custody of individuals arrested by Federal agencies, prisoner transportation, management of seized assets, and other law enforcement missions.
(a) The general types of proposed actions and projects that the USMS undertakes are as follows:
(1) Operational concepts and programs, including logistics procurement, personnel assignment, real property and facility management, and environmental programs,
(2) Transfers or disposal of equipment or property,
(3) Leases or entitlement for use, including donation or exchange,
(4) Federal contracts, actions, or agreements for detentions services. A detention facility may be a facility (A) owned and/or operated by a contractor, or (B) owned and/or operated by a State or local government, and
(5) General law enforcement activities that are exempt from NEPA analysis under CEQ regulation 40 CFR 1508.18 that involve bringing judicial, administrative, civil, or criminal enforcement actions.
(b) Scope of Analysis.
(1) Some USMS projects, contracts, and agreements may propose a USMS action that is one component of a larger project involving a private action or an action by a local or State government. The USMS' NEPA analysis and document (e.g., the EA or EIS) should address the impact of the specific USMS activity and those portions of the entire project over which the USMS has sufficient control and responsibility to warrant Federal review.
(2) The USMS has control and responsibility for portions of a project beyond the limits of USMS jurisdiction where the environmental consequences of the larger project are essentially products of USMS specific action. This control turns an otherwise non-federal project into a Federal action.
(3) Sufficient control and responsibility for a facility is a site-specific determination based on the extent to which an entire project will be within the agency's jurisdiction and on other factors that determine the extent of Federal control and responsibility. For example, for construction of a facility, other factors would include, but not be limited to, the length of the contract for construction or use of the facility, the extent of government control and funding in the construction or use of the facility, whether the facility is being built solely for Federal requirements, the extent to which the costs of construction or use will be paid with Federal funds, the extent to which the facility will be used for non-Federal purposes, and whether the project should proceed without USMS action.
(4) Some USMS projects, contracts, and agreements may propose a USMS action that is one component of a larger project involving actions by other Federal agencies. Federal control and responsibility determines whether the total Federal involvement of the USMS and other Federal agencies is sufficient to grant legal control over additional portions of the project. NEPA review would be extended to an entire project when the environmental consequences of the additional portions of the project are essentially products of Federal financing, assistance, direction, regulation, or approval. The USMS shall contact the other Federal agencies involved in the action to determine their respective roles (i.e., whether to be a lead or cooperating agency).
(5) Once the scope of analysis has been defined, the NEPA analysis for an action should include direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of all Federal proposals within the purview of NEPA. Whenever practicable, the USMS can incorporate by reference, and rely upon, the environmental analyses and reviews of other Federal, tribal, State, and local agencies.
(a) An EIS is a document required of Federal agencies for proposals significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. EIS describes the positive and negative effects of the proposed action and any reasonable alternatives. A Notice of Intent (NOI) will be published in the Federal Register as soon a practicable after a decision to prepare an EIS is made and before the scoping process is initiated. An EIS shall describe how alternatives considered in it, and the decisions based on it, will or will not achieve the goals of NEPA to prevent damage to the environment and promote human health. Additionally, an EIS shall describe how the USMS will comply with relevant environmental laws and policies. The format and content of an EIS are set out at 40 CFR part 1502. The USMS may prepare an EIS without prior preparation of an EA.
(b) A Record of Decision (ROD) will be prepared at the time a decision is made regarding a proposal that is analyzed and documented in an EIS. The ROD will state the decision, discuss the alternatives considered, and state whether all alternative practicable means to avoid or minimize environmental harms have been adopted, or if not, why they were not adopted. Where applicable, the ROD will also describe and adopt a monitoring and enforcement program for any mitigation.
(c) Actions that normally require preparing an EIS include:
(1) USMS actions that are likely to have a significant environmental impact on the human environment, or
(2) Construction of a major facility on a previously undisturbed site.
(a) An EA is a concise public document that is prepared for actions that do not normally require preparation of an EIS, but do not meet the requirements of a Categorical Exclusion (CE). An EA serves to briefly provide sufficient evidence and analysis for determining whether to prepare an EIS or a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), aid in complying with NEPA when an EIS is not necessary, and facilitate preparation of an EIS when one is required. The EA results in either a determination that a proposed action may have a significant impact on the human environment, and therefore, requires further study in an EIS, or the issuance of a FONSI. The contents of an EA are described at 40 CFR 1508.9.
(b) A FONSI will include the EA or a summary of the EA. The FONSI will be prepared and made available to the public through means described in paragraph 9 of this Appendix, including publication in local newspapers and in the Federal Register for matters of national concern. The FONSI will be available for review and comment for 30 days prior to signature and the initiation of the action, unless special circumstances warrant reducing the public comment period to 15 days. Implementing the action can proceed after consideration of public comments and the decision-maker signs the FONSI.
(c) Actions that normally require preparation of an EA include:
(1) Proposals to conduct an expansion of an existing facility,
(2) Awarding a contract or entering into an agreement for new construction at a previously developed site, or an expansion of an existing facility, or
(3) Projects or other proposed actions that are activities described in categorical exclusions, but do not qualify for a categorical exclusion because they involve extraordinary circumstances.
(a) CEs are certain categories of activities determined not to have individual or cumulative significant effects on the human environment, and absent extraordinary circumstances, are excluded from preparation of an EA, or EIS, under NEPA. Using CEs for such activities reduces unnecessary paperwork and delay. Such activities are not excluded from compliance with other applicable local, State, or Federal environmental laws.
(b) Extraordinary circumstances must be considered before relying upon a CE to determine whether the proposed action may have a significant environmental effect. Any of the following circumstances preclude the use of a CE:
(1) The project may have effects on the quality of the environment that are likely to be highly controversial;
(2) The scope or size of the project is greater than normally experienced for a particular action described in subsection (c) below;
(3) There is potential for degradation, even if slight, of already-existing poor environmental conditions;
(4) A degrading influence, activity, or effect is initiated in an area not already significantly modified from its natural condition;
(5) There is a potential for adverse effects on areas of critical environmental concern or other protected resources including, but not limited to, threatened or endangered species or their habitats, significant archaeological materials, prime or unique agricultural lands, wetlands, coastal zones, sole source aquifers, 100-year-old flood plains, places listed, proposed, or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, natural landmarks listed, proposed, or eligible for listing on the National Registry of Natural Landmarks, Wilderness Areas or wilderness study areas, or Wild and Scenic River areas; or
(6) Possible significant direct, indirect, or cumulative environmental impacts exist.
(c) Actions that normally qualify for a CE include:
(1) Minor renovations or repairs within an existing facility, unless the project would adversely affect a structure listed in the National Register of Historic Places or is eligible for listing in the register,
(2) Facility expansion, or construction of a limited addition to an existing structure, or facility, and new construction or reconstruction of a small facility on a previously developed site. The exclusion applies only if:
(i) The structure and proposed use comply with local planning and zoning and any applicable State or Federal requirements; and
(ii) The site and the scale of construction are consistent with those of existing adjacent or nearby buildings.
(3) Security upgrades of existing facility grounds and perimeter fences, not including such upgrades as adding lethal fences or major increases in height or lighting of a perimeter fence in a residential area or other area sensitive to the visual impacts resulting from height or lighting changes,
(4) Federal contracts or agreements for detentions services, including actions such as procuring guards for detention services or leasing bed space (which may include operational costs) from an existing facility operated by a State or a local government or a private correctional corporation,
(5) General administrative activities that involve a limited commitment of resources, such as personnel actions or policy related to personnel issues, organizational changes, procurement of office supplies and systems, and commitment or reallocation of funds for previously reviewed and approved programs or activities,
(6) Change in contractor or Federal operators at an existing contractor-operated correctional or detention facility,
(7) Transferring, leasing, maintaining, acquiring, or disposing of interests in land where there is no change in the current scope and intensity of land use, including management and disposal of seized assets pursuant to Federal laws,
(8) Transferring, leasing, maintaining, acquiring, or disposing of equipment, personal property, or vessels that do not increase the current scope and intensity of USMS activities, including management and disposal of seized assets pursuant to Federal forfeiture laws,
(9) Routine procurement of goods and services to support operations and infrastructure that are conducted in accordance with Department of Justice energy efficiency policies and applicable Executive Orders, such as E.O. 13148,
(10) Routine transportation of prisoners or detainees between facilities and flying activities in compliance with Federal Aviation Administration Regulations, only applicable where the activity is in accordance with normal flight patterns and elevations for the facility and where the flight patterns/elevations have been addressed in an installation master plan or other planning document that has been the subject of a NEPA review, and
(11) Lease extensions, renewals, or succeeding leases where there is no change in the intensity of the facility's use.
(a) The Director of the USMS, in conjunction with the Senior Environmental Advisor, possesses authority over the USMS NEPA compliance.
(b) The Senior Environmental Advisor's duties include:
(1) Advising the Director or other USMS decisionmakers on USMS NEPA procedures and compliance,
(2) Supervising the Environmental Coordinator,
(3) Acting as NEPA liaison to CEQ for the Director and other USMS decisionmakers on important decisions outside the authority of the Environmental Coordinator,
(4) Consulting with CEQ regarding alternative NEPA procedures requiring the preparation of an EIS in emergency situations, and
(5) Consulting with CEQ and officials of other Federal agencies to settle agency disputes over the NEPA process, including designating lead and cooperating agencies.
(c) The USMS Environmental Coordinator will act as the agency's NEPA contact, and will be responsible for:
(1) Ensuring that adequate EAs and EISs are prepared at the earliest possible time, ensuring that decisions are made in accordance with the general policies and purposes of NEPA, verifying information provided by applicants, evaluating environmental effects; assuring that, when appropriate, EAs and EISs contain documentation from independent parties with expertise in particular environmental matters, taking responsibility for the scope and content of EAs prepared by applicants, and returning EAs and EISs that are found to be inadequate,
(2) Ensuring that the USMS conducts an independent evaluation, and where appropriate, prepares a FONSI, a NOI, and/or a ROD,
(3) Coordinating the efforts for preparation of an EIS consistent with the requirements of the CEQ regulations at 40 CFR part 1500-1508,
(4) Cooperating and coordinating planning efforts with other Federal agencies, and
(5) Providing for agency training on environmental matters.
(d) The agency shall ensure compliance with NEPA for cases where actions are planned by private applicants or other non-Federal entities before Federal involvement. The USMS, through the Environmental Coordinator shall:
(1) Identify types of actions initiated by private parties, State and local agencies and other non-Federal entities for which agency involvement is reasonably foreseeable,
(2) Provide (A) full public notice that agency advice on such matters is available, (B) detailed written publications containing that advice, and (C) early consultation in cases where agency involvement is reasonably foreseeable, and
(3) Consult early with appropriate Indian tribes, State and local agencies, and interested private persons and organizations on those projects in which the USMS involvement is reasonably foreseeable.
(e) To assist in ensuring that all Federal agencies' decisions are made in accordance with the general policies and purposes of NEPA, the USMS, through the Environmental Coordinator shall:
(1) Comment within the specified time period on other Federal agencies' EISs, where the USMS has jurisdiction by law regarding a project, and make such comments as specific as possible with regard to adequacy of the document, the merits of the alternatives, or both,
(2) Where the USMS is the lead agency on a project, coordinate with other Federal agencies and supervise the development of and retain responsibility for the EIS,
(3) Where the USMS is a cooperating agency on a project, cooperate with any other Federal agency acting as lead agency through information sharing and staff support,
(4) Independently evaluate, provide guidance on, and take responsibility for scope and contents of NEPA analyses performed by contractors or applicants used by USMS. When the USMS is the lead agency, USMS will choose the contractor to prepare an EIS, require the contractor to execute a disclosure statement stating that the contractor has no financial or other interest in the outcome of the project, and participate in the preparation of the EIS by providing guidance and an independent evaluation prior to approval,
(5) Consider alternatives to a proposed action where it involves unresolved conflicts concerning available resources. The USMS shall make available to the public, prior to a final decision, any NEPA documents and additional decision documents, or parts thereof, addressing alternatives,
(6) Conduct appropriate NEPA procedures for the proposed action as early as possible for consideration by the appropriate decision-maker, and ensure that all relevant environmental documents, comments, and responses accompany the proposal through the agency review process for the final decision,
(7) Include, as part of the administrative record, relevant environmental documents, comments, and responses in formal rulemaking or adjudicatory proceedings, and
(8) Where emergency circumstances require taking action that will result in a significant environmental impact, contact CEQ via the USMS Senior Environmental Advisor for consultation on alternative arrangements, which will be limited to those necessary to control the immediate impacts of the emergency.
(a) In accordance with NEPA and CEQ regulations and to ensure public involvement in decision-making regarding environmental impact on local communities, the USMS shall also engage in the following procedures during its NEPA process:
(1) When preparing an EA, EIS, or FONSI, USMS personnel in charge of preparing the document will invite comment from affected Federal, tribal, State, local agencies, and other interested persons, as early as the scoping process;
(2) The USMS will disseminate information to potentially interested or affected parties, such as local communities and Indian tribes, through such means as news releases to various local media, announcements to local citizens groups, public hearings, and posted signs near the affected area;
(3) The USMS will mail notice to those individuals or groups who have requested one on a specific action or similar actions;
(4) For matters of national concern, the USMS will publish notification in the Federal Register, and will send notification by mail to national organizations reasonably expected to be interested;
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Also during the Sony days, Marcelo had a great idea, let's do a comic book together, one page at a time, one continues where the other one left the story! It was Marcelo, Armand and myself, we had lots of fun for quite a while with this pirates story called 'El Pacifico'.
Here are some character sketches I did for the story, plus the first panels of my contribution to it.
(Dinga-Man character © Marcelo Vignali 2010)
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
When at Sony we spent many many lunchbreaks with Marcelo and the sketchclub guys drawing people, ...some were passers by, some were in line to order lunch, some were already seated and storing enough energies to face the rest of the day properly. Here are a few that fell into this last category.
The second image is a little fragment of one of the pieces I have in 'Moonshine'.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
So it is out there! Moonshine is the book that Dreamworks Animation has helped put together after a fantastic initiative by production designers Pierre Olivier Vincent and Cristophe Lautrette (Angela Lepito being the link with production) to gather the personal works of a bunch (47!) of us at the Studio's visual development department. The publisher is again Design Studio Press, and the presentation is, also again, up to the great standards of their art books. My admiration as well to everyone involved in the original concept and materialization of the project, it is a tremendous job to combine the efforts of so many people for a common purpose such as this, and to come up with such a brilliant final product!
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Academy of Art University lecture (San Francisco)
It was great to be there last Friday 15th from 4:00 pm on (...we went all the way up to 8:00!).
A few weeks ago I got a nice invitation from teachers Daniel Cooney and Chuck Pyle to give a 'Framed Ink' lecture on composition for the pupils of the Center. I had heard of the Academy so many times but never actually been there, so I was certainly not going to miss on the opportunity. Great turnout on such a great theatre on a Friday night. Thank you guys again.
(In the pictures: Daniel, the wild group of pupils that actually stayed until the last minute, and the location).
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Just don't ask me what these two are doing!... any ideas? :)
(Btw, it was like back to summer today here in L.A. Nice...)
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
New book reviews
I very recently got two new reviews on "Framed Ink", from 'Parka' and Charley (Lines and colors). Thank you guys!
Also posting today, two new shots from our last visit to CA 92328 this last summer. We almost did melt...
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Monday, October 04, 2010
The Box
And the box seems to be hers forever now... let's see.
The page with the faces started off as ..."I'll draw a face here". All of a sudden there were dozens of them. I did get carried away!
Great week ahead to everyone
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So now, having watched a team led by a 27-year-old superstar beat a team led by a pair of 23-year-old superstars in the NBA Finals, the Lakers have produced their own blueprint for returning to championship form: pairing a 38-year-old former MVP point guard with their 34-year-old former MVP shooting guard. And now Steve Nash is reportedly lobbying Grant Hill—who is fresh off platelet treatment on his bum knee and who turns 40 this year—to join him and Kobe Bryant.
But is the Lakers' Geezer Initiative really that hopeless, compared to the moves we've seen this offseason? We'd rank it no worse than fifth, in the Sadness Rankings:
1. Wizards trade Rashard Lewis to the Hornets for Emeka Okafor and Trevor Ariza.
2. Raptors sign Landry Fields to a $20 million offer sheet.
3. Whatever the Knicks end up doing.
4. Clippers pick up Lamar Odom and enter a bidding war for Ray Allen's age-38 season.
5. Nash to the Lakers.
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Senior Hezbollah commander killed in Beirut
BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) — The attackers waited in an olive grove around midnight. As the Hezbollah commander pulled into the garage of his nearby apartment building, they went in after him. Five bullets were pumped into his head and neck from a silencer-equipped pistol — an assassination that reverberated across the Middle East.
The killing early Wednesday of Hassan al-Laqis, described as a member of the inner circle of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, was the latest in a series of recent attacks against the Iranian-backed group.
Hezbollah blamed Israel, which denied involvement. However, the Shiite militant group's open support of Syrian President Bashar Assad has enraged Sunnis and left it with no shortage of enemies eager to strike at its strongholds and leadership. Dozens of people have been killed in deadly car bombings claimed by radical Sunni groups.
The group's participation in the civil war in Syria is highly divisive and unpopular in Lebanon, where many feel it has deviated from its raison d'etre of fighting Israel and exposed the Shiite community to retaliation.
Most recently, two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, killing 23. An al-Qaida-affiliated group claimed responsibility, saying it was payback for Hezbollah's support of Assad.
Al-Laqis' killing came shortly after Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the embassy bombings in a sharp escalation in rhetoric against the Sunni regional powerhouse. In a three-hour interview with a local TV station, he indirectly suggested an alliance between Israel and Saudi Arabia was trying to destabilize his group.
The Saudi monarchy is engaged in a proxy war with Iran over influence in the region, and in that, Riyadh has increasingly found common ground with the Jewish state.
"The assassination is another notch in tensions between Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia," said Kamel Wazne, founder of the Center for American Strategic Studies in Beirut.
"There will be repercussions. It's going to be more like an open battle," he said.
Two previously unknown Sunni groups claimed responsibility on Twitter for al-Laqis' assassination, but the claims could not be verified.
Al-Laqis, 53, was killed as he returned home from work, Hezbollah said.
"The brother martyr Hassan al-Laqis spent his youth and dedicated all his life in this honorable resistance since its inception up until the last moments of his life," a statement from the group said.
An official close to the highly secretive group said al-Laqis held some of Hezbollah's most sensitive portfolios and was very close to Nasrallah and his inner circle, often acting as a link with officials in Tehran.
"He was one of the brains behind much of the group's operations," the official said.
Hezbollah distributed a photo of al-Laqis and said Israel had tried to kill him several times. The image showed a man wearing beige-and-khaki military clothes, with neatly cut black hair and a graying close-cropped beard.
There were conflicting reports on whether he was involved in the Syria war, where the group's fighters have helped Assad's troops gain the upper hand in key areas near the border with Lebanon.
Marie Harf, deputy spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said the U.S. has seen reports of the killing and was looking to all parties "to cooperate with a full investigation."
"We've been very concerned by recurring instances of sectarian and political violence in Lebanon, and we have talked about the negative impact that Syria has had in Lebanon and Iraq," she said.
Al-Laqis was shot with a pistol equipped with a silencer at close range after he parked in his apartment building in the Hadath neighborhood southwest of Beirut, according to a Lebanese security official and the official close to Hezbollah. Several assailants appear to have been involved, they said.
Muddy footprints led from the olive grove to the parking garage. Yellow police tape blocked off the area, and Hezbollah investigators were at the scene.
He was struck by five bullets in the head and neck, the Lebanese official said. The gunmen fled, and al-Laqis was taken to a nearby hospital but died of his wounds, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
"I was trying to sleep, and I heard ... a bullet being fired and a dog barking," said Abdullah, a resident who asked to be identified only by his first name for security reasons.
"I did not bother myself, but later I heard people screaming. ... Then our neighbors told us that one of the neighbors was assassinated," Abdullah said.
Another resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of his safety, said none of the neighbors were aware that al-Laqis was a security man and that he went about his business like everyone else.
Al-Laqis did not have bodyguards with him, suggesting he did not want to draw attention to himself.
The assassination marked a rare breach of the Shiite militant group's security — the fourth successful penetration of a Hezbollah enclave in recent months.
It also underscored how the militia has found itself engaged on multiple fronts: Shoring up Assad's rule in Syria while also keeping up the fight against Israel.
Some of Hezbollah's most loyal supporters in the Shiite community have been reluctant to embrace its fight in Syria.
That involvement has raised tensions in Lebanon's Sunni and Shiite communities as each side lines up in support of their brethren in the Syrian civil war. That has fueled predictions that Lebanon, still recovering from its 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, is on the brink of descending into full-blown sectarian violence.
In Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city, there have been bloody street battles between rival sides nearly every day, with at least 12 people killed last week.
Al-Laqis was buried later Wednesday in his hometown of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. A few thousand people took part in pouring rain, and women wept as Hezbollah pallbearers carried the coffin, wrapped in the group's yellow flag, through the streets. Hezbollah fighters fired in the air in mourning.
"The Israeli enemy is naturally directly to blame," the Hezbollah statement said. "This enemy must shoulder complete responsibility and repercussions for this heinous crime and its repeated targeting of leaders and cadres of the resistance."
Israeli officials categorically denied involvement. Still, Israel could view the fallout from Hezbollah's armed intervention in Syria — and the long list of enemies it has created — as cover to move against one of the group's senior figures and settle old scores with Hezbollah and Iran.
Hezbollah has fought several wars against Israel. Al-Laqis' son, Ali, died fighting Israel in the monthlong 2006 war. Israel's Mossad intelligence service has been suspected of assassinating Hezbollah commanders for more than two decades.
In 1992, Israeli helicopter gunships ambushed the motorcade of Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas Musawi, killing him, his wife and 5-year-old son, and four bodyguards. Eight years earlier, Hezbollah leader Sheik Ragheb Harb was shot and killed in south Lebanon.
One of the biggest blows for the group came in 2008 when top military commander Imad Mughniyeh was killed by a bomb that ripped through his car in Damascus. Hezbollah and its primary patron, Iran, blamed Israel's Mossad for the killing.
Associated Press writer Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem and Diaa Hadid in Beirut contributed to this report.


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Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson insists their bid for European football is far from over despite defeat at Southampton.
The Reds' three-match winning run in the league, which had raised slim hopes of sneaking into the Champions League, was brought to a shuddering halt with the 3-1 loss at St Mary's. However, while the top four - now nine points away - is realistically out of reach, Henderson believes seventh-placed Liverpool can still secure a place in European competition next season.
He said: "It was a big disappointment against Southampton but Europe's not gone yet. We've still got eight games to play and that's a lot of points to play for."
He added: "We've still got to play some of the teams above us so we have to keep going.
"We have to pick ourselves up from this and ensure we respond positively against Aston Villa after the international break."
Henderson has played just 56 minutes in the league since his last start on February 11.
He accepts it has been difficult to break into a winning side but is hoping for an opportunity with Joe Allen set to have an operation on a shoulder injury seemingly sooner rather than later after pulling out of Wales' squad on Sunday.
"I've just got to keep working hard," he told the Liverpool Echo. "Before Saturday the team had been playing brilliantly so I can't complain.
"You can't really change a winning team so I've understood why I've not played.
"I just have to make sure that when the manager needs me I'm ready to take my chance."


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As if we needed any more evidence that mobile gaming is a serious force in the gaming business, 2K Games and Firaxis announced today that the long-requested sequel to Civilization Revolution will be coming to iOS devices next Wednesday, July 2.
There aren't many details about the sequel as of yet, but promo shots provided by 2K show leaders like Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln staring up from out of your iOS device. The publisher says the new game will "stay true to the series" by allowing players to "wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known in a race for ultimate supremacy," so don't expect any huge deviations from form. No price has been announced, but 2K noted that the game is "launching as a premium title," so it seems there's no need to worry about free-to-play monetization shenanigans here.
The original Civilization Revolution was built specifically as a console-friendly version of the popular PC simulation series, first pitched as an "accessible, visually immersive, and action-packed world specifically designed for the console and handheld gamer." Some have derided the game for dumbing down the complexities of the core Civilization experience, but the spin-off has gained a following that appreciates the more streamlined approach to civilization management.
Civilization Revolution launched first on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Nintendo DS in 2008 before coming to iOS over a year later in a visually scaled-down edition (and an iPad-tuned "HD" version came in 2010). In the six years since, apparently, the gaming world has changed enough that 2K doesn't feel the need to even mention consoles in today's announcement of the sequel (though an Android version is "coming soon").
The move to a mobile focus for the sequel isn't entirely unexpected. Last year, Firaxis producer Dennis Shirk said in an interview with Gamerzines that the touch-based interface of mobile devices "makes more sense to us" than console controls, even with the camera-and-touchpad equipped PS4. "XCOM was announced for the iPad and that kind of stuff is perfect, as even Civ V has that singular face point-and-click [interface]," he said. "When we converted that to Windows 8 touch, that was perfect and a more natural fit [compared to consoles]."
Regardless of control issues, though, 2K seems to just be going where the market is for the sequel. The console version of the first Civilization Revolution game barely cracked the NPD's US top 10, with 150,000 sales in its first month on the Xbox 360 before dropping off the sales listing entirely. Meanwhile, the iOS version was the ninth best-selling game of the iPhone for all of 2009, coming in just behind million-sellers like Flight Control. The iPad version has frequently reappeared on the iTunes top paid app list even years after it release, usually during 2K's periodic app sales.


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I first mentioned this a while back, but their plans have now moved on and things are happening.
A group of Edinburgh students are running a Vintage Village Fete in February. It'll be an artsy craftsy vintagey market thing with music and dance events running alongside. They're raising funds for three community arts charities: Craigmillar Community Arts Centre, Cardboard Citizens, and us!
They're on top of the organisational and financial aspects of it, but are looking for people to get involved in a few different ways:
- Any local musicians who'd like to take part in the music.
- Any graphic designers who can help them design publicity
- Anyone who has a artsy-crafty business who'd like to have a stall
- Would we like to run a stall? We can sell all our merch, maybe make new things or run crafty things like at the Voluntary Arts Day
- Would Sip and Snip and/or The Massage Corner like to run a stall?
- Is there anyone who'd like to help by being hands on deck on the day?
They were also wondering if they could help with furniture. Where I left this was, probably, but not definitely, if they can organise the transport and lifting, and assuming we're not using it in any open venue.
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Moore, Zobrist relishing All-Star experience
Young lefty, super utility man humbled by opportunity to represent AL
NEW YORK -- Two years ago, Matt Moore was pitching in the Southern League All-Star Game, and the Rays were talking about how Ben Zobrist was the most underrated player in baseball.
Two years later, Moore is preparing for an entirely different All-Star Game, this time in New York City, as opposed to Jackson, Tenn. And he came to New York alongside Zobrist, who's added a second All-Star selection to a year that's already seen him take part in the World Baseball Classic.
Suffice it to say things have changed quickly for the 24-year-old left-hander and the 32-year-old super utility man, both set to take the field for the American League in Tuesday night's Midsummer Classic.
"It's something that has absolutely taken me by surprise," said Moore, seated at a table next to Zobrist as the AL All-Stars met with the media. "It's been a great experience so far.
"The name plates that are surrounding me definitely make me feel extremely, extremely humbled to be in consideration to play with these guys. ... Not in my wildest dreams would I expect this to happen, so it's kind of something that's catching me by surprise."
Moore's selection was hardly a surprise for anyone in the Rays' organization, however. He was an eighth-round Draft pick out of Moriarty High School in New Mexico, arriving without much fanfare compared to the likes of David Price or Jeremy Hellickson. But he always had All-Star stuff, according to Rays director of Minor League operations Mitch Lukevics, even if he lacked Major League-ready control.
"He learned how to pitch a little bit more with his good stuff," Lukevics said. "Then you knew that someday [this] was going to happen."
Moore said he had his "Welcome to the All-Star Game" moment when he walked into the AL clubhouse Monday afternoon, with his locker between Zobrist and Twins closer Glen Perkins, and Mike Trout beside Robinson Cano.
"I feel more than lucky to be here, to be honest with you," Moore said. "It really is something that, as soon as we start to suit up and get closer to game time and get on the field, it'll hit me even more as far as what's actually going on around me. I try to be aware of my surroundings. This is definitely one of the coolest surroundings I've ever had."
Moore, 13-3 with a 3.44 ERA through 19 starts this season, said he received some words of wisdom from Rays lefty David Price. He got the usual advice -- don't let the fanfare overwhelm you, soak it all in and so on -- and at least one unusual tip, like Price's suggestion to not to wear a suit to Monday's media availability.
Moore came to New York with his mother, father, brother, sister-in-law and girlfriend, and he was focused Monday on trying to get his entire traveling party in the All-Star parade. He doesn't know when he'll pitch Tuesday night, if he does at all, but AL manager Jim Leyland said he wanted to get Moore into the game at some point.
"I'm ready for whatever, to be honest. If they need me, I'm here. If not, I'm sure whatever happens is going to be fun," Moore said. "I'm really just happy to be here. If I can be a part of it and chip in in the game, I'm all for it. If not, hopefully we can win and this could mean something a little later down the road."
If home-field advantage in the World Series winds up meaning anything to the Rays come October, it'll be in part because of Moore's efforts leading the pitching staff amid an injury-riddled first half for Price and an inconsistent opening by right-hander Jeremy Hellickson.
But Moore is the first one to admit he hasn't been perfect. He's tied for the Major League lead in wins partially because the Rays' offense has given him big leads to work with, and he went through a rough three-start stretch in June, when he allowed 19 earned runs in 12 1/3 innings and picked up his only three losses of the season.
"It's always just one inning, and then he's Cy Young. His confidence is good. You can see his composure," Price said. "Last year, he was kind of looking all over the place. This year, he's 100 percent focused on every pitch, and that's why he's been able to put up the numbers he has been. That's why he's an All-Star."
Zobrist, meanwhile, is an All-Star because he provides the kind of versatility few others possess.
While his ability to play anywhere on the diamond -- Zobrist said Monday he'd pitch Tuesday if Leyland asks -- and hit from both sides of the plate made him a valuable asset, it's been a down year by Zobrist's standards. He's still playing his usual brand of impressive defense at second base and right field -- and occasionally shortstop -- but he's hit just .260/.347/.383.
That's why Zobrist went ahead and made plans for the All-Star break. He was going to head home to Nashville and relax for four days. He said he didn't even know when the All-Star teams were going to be announced, and he had no idea what Rays manager Joe Maddon wanted when he called Zobrist into his office and slid an envelope with the news across the desk.
"It's been really nice for me to see. I have had a lot of people say, 'Well, you know people aren't noticing what you are able to do.' Our fans have always recognized that, my teammates have always recognized that. Everyone there has been so good to me, I never felt like people haven't recognized that. It's just been now, in the last year, that people are starting to recognize it, I think, maybe across Major League Baseball -- that versatility is important to the game to any team."
Indeed, quite a bit has changed in two years for Moore and Zobrist.
"To be sitting in one of these chairs is just way, way out of this world for me," Zobrist said. "It's a dream come true, for sure."
The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.


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Eva Longoria Graduates From California State University
The Graduate: Eva Longoria Gets Her Master's!
The Graduate: Eva Longoria Gets Her Master's!
Eva Longoria donned a cap and gown to accept her diploma for her master's degree in Chicano studies at California State University, Northridge yesterday. She had the support of her parents, Enrique Longoria Jr. and Ella Eva Mireles, as well as other family members at the ceremony. Eva also shared a picture of her posing with "her boys" Ernesto Arguello and Ben Patton, both stars from her NBC series, Ready For Love. She relayed her excitement over her achievement on her Twitter account, sharing, "Very excited to graduate for my master's degree in Chicano Studies! You're never too old or too busy to continue your education!" Eva and her family headed to her restaurant, Beso, in Hollywood to continue the celebrations after the commencement ceremony.
Eva is back in California after spending the past few days at the Cannes Film Festival. She took the stage at The Global Gift Gala, a charity event benefitting her foundation, last weekend, and she also hit the red carpet for plenty of premieres. Eva donned an Atelier Versace gown to join Jennifer Lawrence at the Palais for the star-studded premiere of Jimmy P. on Saturday.


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The date was June 20, 1980. I was 14 years old and heavy into sports. I remember the buzz at the time was the Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Duran fight. My dad was a big fan of boxing and that fight was heavily promoted everywhere.
Roberto Duran grew up in Panama without the finer things in life, and resented this good clean cut all American Golden Child from the U.S. Leonard wasn't considered built but he was lightning fast. Roberto was a fierce boxer that nobody could go toe to toe with. He was focused on one thing, and that was to humiliate Leonard in the ring and Roberto let Leonard know it. People would say that when you looked into Roberto Duran's eyes, it was like looking into the eyes of the devil.
The human mind is the greatest computer on the planet. We program that computer every day with belief or doubt. As we find motivation, we develop what Vince Poscente (Author of "The Ant and the Elephant") calls "finding the elephant buzz". We fill ourselves with belief and it gives us the fuel to win. On the other hand if we focus on our fears it fills us with doubt and we lose. We should make fears our friend and not our master as Vince Poscente states, but that doesn't always work the way we hope.
That fight rocked Leonard to the core. He let Duran get into his head and fear became his master. Duran's intimidation and focus was effective and Leonard was off his game. Sugar Ray Leonard was known to be a dancer in the ring. He would duck, weave, and play with his apponants, but not this time. He went toe to toe with Duran that day and it was a a slug match. It was like watching a fast paced ping pong game, and by decision Duran had won. The Golden Child of the U.S. was devastated, Leonard went into depression and considered retiring. On the other hand Duran became the most popular guy in Panama. Security couldn't stop the mob from crowding his plane when he landed at the airport in Panama. He had beaten the best, just as he said he would do, and now the world knew.
It didn't take long before everyone was shouting for a rematch. Everyone but Sugar Ray Leonard. He had lost his confidence and contemplated retirement. The more he thought about it the more he knew he didn't want to go out like that. He noticed, in photos, Duran was getting fat and comfortable as a celebrity in Panama and Leonard was starting to get his "elephant buzz" back. The rematch was on! This time Leonard stayed focused on his game and his confidence grew. Duran had lost his "elephant buzz" and was starting to get nervous. The two fighters would fight their rematch at the Superdome in New Orleans that November 25th but this time the roles looked like they were reversed.
The day of the fight the two boxers climbed into the ring and it was written on their faces. One had his "elephant buzz" back and the other one was going though the motions. This time Leonard would dance all over that ring and every time Duran tried to get him in a corner, Leonard wouldn't stay there. He would hit and roll out. It didn't take Leonard long before he was back to his intimidation techniques and was teasing Duran. Duran was feeling beat up and humiliated and his fear became his master. He was physically and emotionally drained and wanted the pain to stop, and before the end of the eighth round Roberto Duran said those famous words that would rock the boxing world forever, "NO MAS". It means NO MORE. Everyone thought "did I hear that correctly?" He didn't win, he didn't lose, and he didn't even take a dive, HE JUST QUIT! Some wondered if they should give Leonard credit for a win, but there was no question that Leonard beat him physically and mentally.
Duran had to go into hiding for a while and it took the Panamanian people about three years to forgive him. Duran had embarrassed the people of Panama after they had built him up as the best in the world.
You have trained hard, you have your "elephant buzz", you are on your game. You have people in your corner rooting for you. Your dream is worth the fight. Even if your knees get weak, your nose gets bloody, keep your hands up and fight one more round. Because the guy who fights one more round is never whipped.


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The sixth in the well-selling series of compilation albums based on the television show The OC is out on December 4. In a neat twist to previous emo-filled editions, this album sees a variety of actually-very-good acts covering songs by other very-decent bands. Jeepers.
Acts featured include Lady Sovereign (pictured), Pinback, Mates Of State and Band Of Horses; songs are penned by the likes of Black Flag, The Sex Pistols, Modest Mouse and The New Year. Tracklisting below (songwriters in brackets)...
Goldspot - 'Float On' (Modest Mouse)
Rock Kills Kid - 'Turn My Camera On' (Spoon)
Lady Sovereign - 'Pretty Vacant' (The Sex Pistols)
Mates of State - 'California' (Phantom Planet)
Pinback - 'Wasted' (Black Flag)
John Paul White - 'Can't Get It Out Of My Head' (ELO)
Rogue Wave - 'Debaser' (The Pixies)
Syd Matters - 'Hello Sunshine' (Super Furry Animals)
Tally Hall - 'Smile Like You Mean It' (The Killers)
The M's - 'Come Into My Room' (Clinic)
Band of Horses - 'End's Not Near' (The New Year)
Chris Holmes - 'Into Dust' (Mazzy Star)
Lady Sovereign's 'Pretty Vacant', or at least a snippet of it, can be heard at her MySpace.


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Victorino's thumb surgery was successful, and he should be good to go for Spring Training. Andrew Miller's looking forward to starting the season without a hitch as well. We traded Franklin Morales and farm pitcher Chris Martin to the Rockies for infielder Jonathan Herrera. And we signed Shunsuke Watanabe, a veteran submariner from Japan.
In other news, the B's shut out the Flames and lost to the Sabres this week.
I'll be taking a break of about two weeks. I think we're all looking forward to seeing the team take shape.


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Roberts looking forward to more playing time
TAMPA, Fla. -- Second baseman Brian Roberts has yet to turn his first double play in a Yankees uniform, but he won't need much time to get acquainted with his partner up the middle, as Derek Jeter has already made a lasting impact on his career.
Roberts has gotten to know Jeter a little bit from going head-to-head in the American League East and as teammates in the World Baseball Classic, but they also shared an on-field conversation early in Roberts' career that had some staying power.
"I think it was maybe 2004. I was on second, and he just said, 'You can hit .300 in this league,'" Roberts said on Monday. "To hear it from someone like that, it just kind of opens your eyes. I don't think it's just me; I think he does it to everybody.
"But for some reason, when he tells it to you, you think you're the most important person in the world. He's just kind of got that personality, and he's so good with people."
Roberts said that after going up against Jeter and the Yankees for so many years as a member of the Orioles, he is looking forward to having a front-row seat to Jeter's final season. Roberts expects something akin to Cal Ripken Jr.'s farewell tour in 2001.
"That was an amazing experience, to walk those last few months with Cal," Roberts said. "I remember him hitting a home run in the eighth or something in Atlanta, and he got a curtain call. When does that ever happen? And I could see the same thing here happening.
"There's such a select few guys that have meant what they've meant to the game, and it's going to be an incredible experience to play with him this year."
The Yankees are counting on the fact that Roberts will be on the field as their starting second baseman. After missing 445 games over the past four seasons because of abdominal, hip, concussion and hamstring issues, he is optimistic about seeing more action.
"I try to take it one day at a time," Roberts, 36, said. "[Manager] Joe [Girardi] and I talked a little bit, and we have some expectations, but we haven't put too much on it right now. ... My goal is to come in every day and be prepared to play. Whatever he wants to do, if my name is in the lineup, I'll be ready to go."
Girardi expects Roberts to be his starter, but he is not ready to put a target number on how many games he will play. Girardi said that Kelly Johnson, Brendan Ryan and Eduardo Nunez could be the backup options behind Roberts.
"I still think that he can play and he can hit," Girardi said. "We saw it when he played against us. He's still a guy who can play at a high level, it was just he had a hard time staying healthy.
"He had some big years in Baltimore. I don't know if he's going to be that, probably because he won't play 160 games in the season, but I still think that this guy can be productive."
At one time Roberts envisioned playing his entire career in Baltimore, but he did not have any substantial conversations with the Orioles about a contract for this season.
He heard from the Yankees early in the winter, even before Robinson Cano signed his 10-year, $240 million pact with the Mariners.
"I never really thought about it, because I never thought [Cano] was going anywhere, to tell you the truth," Roberts said.
Roberts said that the comparisons with Cano will be inevitable, but he will try to block them out.
"I'm sure there are going to be people that are going to want to look out there and say, 'He's not Robbie,'" he said. "I'm not going to be Robbie, and I'm not going to try to be. I'm going to be Brian Roberts. Hopefully, that's good enough most days."


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NCDA Mission Statement
The National Career Development Association (NCDA) provides professional development, publications, standards, and advocacy to practitioners and educators who inspire and empower individuals to achieve their career and life goals.
NCDA Vision Statement
NCDA's vision is for all people to attain fulfilling career and life goals.
Non-discrimination Statement
NCDA opposes discrimination against any individual based on age, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, creed, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital/partnership status, language preference, socioeconomic status, or any other personal characteristic not specifically relevant to job performance. (Approved by the NCDA Board – October 2016)
Diversity Statement
The National Career Development Association (NCDA) acknowledges the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of everyone by honoring diversity and promoting social justice. NCDA views diversity from an intersectional perspective, acknowledging the ways in which identities operate within systems of power, privilege, and oppression. NCDA strives to be a diverse organization in its membership and leadership. (Approved by the NCDA Board - March 21, 2017)
NCDA Long Term Plan
In April 2015, the NCDA Board announced an updated Long Term Plan. Click here to read the seven areas the Board has decided to focus on and the steps being taken.
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ESA is developing five families of SENTINEL missions specifically for Copernicus. The SENTINELS will provide a unique set of observations for Copernicus, starting with the all-weather, day and night radar images from SENTINEL-1 to be used for land and ocean services.
SENTINEL-2 will deliver high-resolution optical images for land services and SENTINEL-3 will provide data for services relevant to the ocean and land. SENTINEL-4 and SENTINEL-5 will provide data for atmospheric composition monitoring from geostationary and polar orbits, respectively.
The applications fall into six main categories: services for land management, services for the marine environment, services relating to the atmosphere, services to aid emergency response, services associated with security and services relating to climate change.
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