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Chilean ski resorts are the largest and best-equipped in the southern hemisphere, with options for all skill levels within easy striking distance of the capital and largest city, Santiago.
It should come as no surprise that Chile, running nearly half the length of the world's longest mountain chain, should also be the southern hemisphere's premier ski destination.
Huddled at the feet of the snow-tipped Andes, Santiago is the primary launching pad for Chile's most popular ski resorts, and offers some of the best infrastructure for skiers of all skill levels. Farther south, ski the slopes of active volcanoes and relax by night in natural hot springs.
With slopes open during the Austral winter months of late June through August, Chile allows devoted snow-bunnies to hit the slopes year round.
Where to go
Four of the primary Chilean ski resorts - Farellones/El Colorado, La Parva, Valle Nevado and Portillo - are located on the barren slopes of the Andes just outside Chile's capital and transportation hub, Santiago. They can be easily reached either independently or through several companies that organize full trips to and from the resorts.
Farellones/El Colorado
Just 22 miles (36 km) from downtown Santiago, the twin resorts of Farellones and El Colorado can be reached in approximately one hour. Smaller and at slightly lower elevations than resorts like Valle Nevado and Portillo, these two resorts are ideal choices for families and beginning skiers. A full day adult ticket during the high season at El Colorado and Farellones runs CP$33,000 (about US$70).
La Parva
A short drive to the north along a turn off near Farellones brings you to La Parva, one of the region's best resorts for skiers of all levels. The mountain's diversity of slopes provides many options for advanced and expert skiers. Connected by trails both to El Colorado and to Valle Nevado, a trip that begins at La Parva can include access to three of Chile's most popular valleys. A full day adult pass for just La Parva also costs CP$33,000 (US$70), while an extra CP$16,000 (US$34) grants additional access to either Valle Nevado or El Colorado.
Valle Nevado
The highest of Chile's resorts, Valle Nevado sits 12,000 ft (3670 m) above sea level and is the most popular of the resorts near Santiago amongst advanced skiers. A full day adult lift ticket for Valle Nevado costs slightly more than elsewhere, at CP$34,000 (US$73).
Somewhat farther afield, Portillo is perhaps the most scenic of Chile's ski centers. Alongside picturesque Laguna del Inca near the Argentine border, Portillo sits 102 miles (164 km) from Santiago, roughly a two hour drive away through dramatic Andean scenery. Nearly 11,000 feet above sea level, Portillo's powdery snow and jagged landscapes are sometimes likened to those of North America's Rocky Mountains.
Full day passes here also run CP$33,000 (US$70), though given its distance from Santiago, multi-day trips are advisable. Prices for a full week stay, including all meals, lift tickets, and accommodation, range from US$850 per person in basic, hostel-like accommodations to US$5,200 per person for a suite in the main hotel.
Pucón, Antillanca and the south
Of the resorts in the south, Ski Pucón in the Lakes District offers the best infrastructure, as well as the unique opportunity to ski on one of Chile's most picturesque volcanic cones, Villarrica. Day passes here cost CL$24,000 (about US$50), with accomodation, equipment and restaurants available.
Further south, Antillanca resort, 61 miles (98 km) east of the city of Osorno, offers views over the region's incredible volcanic landscape with its towering snow-covered peaks. Located in Puyehue National Park, visitors can ski or board on the sides of Casablanca Volcano. An adult full-day pass costs CL$21,500 (about US$45).
Other centers in the region include Arenales, Las Araucarias, and Nevados de Chillán amongst others.
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From Santiago, several companies run all-inclusive single day trips to Valle Nevado, La Parva, and Farellones/El Colorado. Most of these companies will pick you up early in the morning from your accommodation in Santiago, and transfer you to a ski shop within the city to gather equipment rentals and any other ski gear you may need before continuing along the route to the resort. The price of the trip includes a lift ticket and return transit to your hotel in Santiago. Some companies that offer this type of service are Skitotal, Ski Van, and Ski Ahorro.
Alternatively, it is possible to rent a car and drive independently to the resort of your choice. Though the roads from Santiago to the resorts are all well-maintained and quite safe, it is always good to take precautions on mountain roads. It is best to make the journey in a 4x4 in case of inclement conditions, and to travel with chains for your tires.
Pucón ski resort can be reached by shuttle transfer from the town center of Pucón, itself a 10-hour bus ride from Santiago.
For independent skiers who prefer not to visit the resorts through a tour, most major ski resorts offer rental equipment on site for about US$25-50 per day for a full set of adult equipment. If you prefer to buy accessories or equipment, most resorts have their own shops, though for a broader variety of options and prices it is best to do your shopping in Santiago. Stores like Mall Sport, Nautisport, La Bolsa del Ski and Andesgear are good options in Santiago. Most of the companies that run tours to nearby ski resorts also sell basics like hats, gloves, goggles and other necessities.
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Small and Good – This small, intimate restaurant is locally owned and operated. If you want to experience "cookie cutter" food and service, then go to a chain. I love the sandwiches, soups and salads. Quaint building and fun place to eat. There is no 10-minute lunch so don't expect it. Love the place and go often.
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It has been a few hours since I had a few bites of this sandwich and I still feel ill. I didn't see anything there that is worth trying a second time.
3 Year Old Menu Prices Online?? – I placed a telephone take-out order for 8 lunches based on the printable menu found on Side Street's web-site. I calculated what I thought would be the total due from each co-worker and headed to the restaurant with just enough to cover the bill. After being rung up by a clerk who looked uninterested I discovered I was $6 short. I was then told by another employee that if I used the online menu that the prices were wrong and that "they" have not been able to update the menu for the past 3 years. We then went back and forward over who was at fault them or me. How can you advertise out dated prices online but then put 100% of the blame on me a first time customer? The owner/manager came out and accepted the money I had but she too kept saying that I should not have gone by what was online. I won't be going back to Side Street any time soon.
Cash only! – A recent visit to Side Street has made me not want to return; at check out the group in front of my did not realize they only accept cash or checks and when I got to check out with a $50 bill they didn't have change. How can you not have change if you only take cash?
Sandwiches are great, but lunch service is slow...do not expect to get back to work within an hour time frame.
For a $12 lunch I want to use my debit card please!
Great sandwiches but... – We have been here many times and the food has been good each time, but recently we experienced numerous fruit flies/nats at the table throughout the meal. It was very unpleasant. Not sure I want to risk going here again.
Great sandwiches, spotty service during peak hours – Love the sandwiches here - from traditional to off the wall but yummy inventions (my favorite is a peanut butter conconction with marshmallow fluff!). Good vegetarian options, as well. Service is either great or cranky and harried, depending upon the number of customers. I suggest not going at peak (12-1) times if service is very important to you. Lovely bright atmosphere in an historic building, great lunch spot for downtown when you don't want to spend a fortune. Don't think they take credit cards, although I think they may take local (Wake County) checks.
Surprised at negative reviews – I've been to Side Street Cafe on several occassions and have enjoyed each time I've gone. They have a wide variety of unique and interesting sandwiches, but it is the desserts that are the true reason for going. Save some room at the end of your meal for some key lime pie, you won't be dissapointed. As for the few negative reviews, I can't explain it as I have always found the staff to be very friendly and the environment pleasant.
horrible customer service – Every single time I go here, they are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. They always seem stressed and behind because of the number of customers there. HIRE MORE STAFF! If you're so busy and doing so well, surely you could hire another waitress and another cook. The first time I went, they seemed to forget about our table (which had 6-8 people) and it took over an hour to get sandwiches. In subsequent times, it has not been any better. This includes take-out and sit-down. I am not the kind of person who usually complains about customer service, and am very forgiving of wait staff. But it's really bad here. They need to hire an appropriate number of people to handle all their customers.
Unwelcome – I wanted to try a new sandwich restaurant so I stoped by Side Street instead of my usual Sunflowers. I have been curious about them for awhile. I followed the signs to the restaurant door not the "take-out door". I walked in the restatuant to face a large sign that stated "please wait to be seated". So I stood there while a hurried women passed me by, she did not acknowledge my presence. When she came back into the room she asked me if was there for take out. I said no. She told me to sit anywhere and she would bring me a menu. I sat there for about five minutes before someone yelled out to my back "one or two" I yelled back "one". Then she yelled "what you'll you have to drink", since I had never been there before, I did not know what they had nor do I have a menu yet to see. I responded "I don't know". After five more minutes without a menu, I realized I was obviously interrupting them so I promply left. I will never return. Meanwhile, they had no other customers to wait on.
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A small, intimate place, located in a turn of the century building in Historic Oakwood. Side Street offers specialty sandwiches and homemade soups. Also beer and wine on premesis. There is no smoking and reservations are not taken. Available for corporate and private catering.
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From the vantage of Norris and Gettler's laboratory in the infamous Bellevue Hospital it becomes clear that killers aren't the only toxic threat to New Yorkers. Modern life has created a kind of poison playground, and danger lurks around every corner. Automobiles choke the city streets with carbon monoxide; potent compounds, such as morphine, can be found on store shelves in products ranging from pesticides to cosmetics. Prohibition incites a chemist's war between bootleggers and government chemists while in Gotham's crowded speakeasies each round of cocktails becomes a game of Russian roulette. Norris and Gettler triumph over seemingly unbeatable odds to become the pioneers of forensic chemistry and the gatekeepers of justice during a remarkably deadly time. A beguiling concoction that is equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten New York.
Until the early nineteenth century few tools existed to detect a toxic substance in a corpse. Sometimes investigators deduced poison from the violent sickness that preceded death, or built a case by feeding animals a victim's last meal, but more often than not poisoners walked free. As a result murder by poison flourished. It became so common in eliminating perceived difficulties, such as a wealthy parent who stayed alive too long, that the French nicknamed the metallic element arsenic poudre de succession, the inheritance powder.
The chemical revolution of the 1800s changed the relative ease of such killings. Scientists learned to isolate and identify the basic elements and the chemical compounds that define life on Earth, gradually building a catalog, The Periodic Table of the Elements. In 1804, the elements palladium, cerium, iridium, osmium, and rhodium were discovered; potassium and sodium were isolated in 1807; barium, calcium, magnesium, and strontium in 1808; chlorine in 1810. Once researchers understood individual elements they went on to study them in combination, examining how elements bonded to create exotic compounds and familiar substances, such as the sodiumchlorine combination that creates basic table salt (NaCl).
The pioneering scientists who worked in elemental chemistry weren't thinking about poisons in particular. But others were. In 1814, in the midst of this blaze of discovery, the Spanish chemist Mathieu Orfila published a treatise on poisons and their detection, the first book of its kind. Orfila suspected that metallic poisons like arsenic might be the easiest to detect in the body's tissues and pushed his research in that direction. By the late 1830s the first test for isolating arsenic had been developed. Within a decade more reliable tests had been devised and were being used successfully in criminal prosecutions.
But the very science that made it possible to identify the old poisons, like arsenic, also made available a lethal array of new ones. Morphine was isolated in 1804, the same year that palladium was discovered. In 1819 strychnine was extracted from the seeds of the Asian vomit button tree (Strychnos nux vomica). The lethal compound coniine was isolated from hemlock the same year. Chemists neatly extracted nicotine from tobacco leaves in 1828. Aconitine— described by one toxicologist as "in its pure state, perhaps the most potent poison known"— was found in the beautifully flowering monkshood plant in 1832.
And although researchers had learned to isolate these alkaloids— organic (carbon-based) compounds with some nitrogen mixed in— they had no idea how to find such poisons in human tissue. Orfila himself, conducting one failed attempt after another, worried that it was an impossible task. One exasperated French prosecutor, during a mid-nineteenth-century trial involving a morphine murder, exclaimed: "Henceforth let us tell would be poisoners; do not use metallic poisons for they leave traces. Use plant poisons… Fear nothing; your crime will go unpunished. There is no corpus delecti [physical evidence] for it cannot be found."
So began a deadly cat and mouse game—scientists and poisoners as intellectual adversaries. A gun may be fired in a flash of anger, a rock carelessly hurled, a shovel swung in sudden fury, but a homicidal poisoning requires a calculating intelligence. Unsurprisingly, then, when metallic poisons, such as arsenic, became detectable in bodies, informed killers turned away from them. A survey of poison prosecutions in Britain found that, by the mid- nineteenth century, arsenic killings were decreasing. The trickier plant alkaloids were by then more popular among murderers.
In response, scientists increased their efforts to capture alkaloids in human tissue. Finally, in 1860, a reclusive and single-minded French chemist, Jean Servais Stas, figured out how to isolate nicotine, an alkaloid of the tobacco plant, from a corpse. Other plant poisons soon became more accessible and chemists were able to offer new assistance to criminal investigations. The field of toxicology was becoming something to be reckoned with, especially in Europe.
The knowledge, and the scientific determination, spread across the Atlantic to the United States. The 1896 book Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, cowritten by a New York research chemist and a law professor, documented the still-fierce competition between scientists and killers. In one remarkable case in New York, a physician had killed his wife with morphine and then put belladonna drops into her eyes to counter the telltale contraction of her pupils. He was convicted only after Columbia University chemist Rudolph Witthaus, one of the authors of the 1896 text, demonstrated the process to the jury by killing a cat in the courtroom using the same gruesome technique. There was as much showmanship as science, Witthaus admitted; toxicology remained a primitive field of research filled with "questions still unanswerable."
"Blum illuminates these tales of Norris and Gettler and their era with a dedication and exuberance that reflect the men themselves. Not only is The Poisoner's Handbook as thrilling as any CSI episode, but it also offers something even better: an education in how forensics really works." —The Washington Post
"Blum, a longtime newspaper writer and now a professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin, skillfully explains the chemistry behind Gettler's experiments. Her book is sure to appeal to mystery lovers, science nerds and history buffs. . . ."—Associated Press
"Fast-paced and suspenseful, The Poisoner's Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties."—Financial Times
"All the nitty-gritty about death by arsenic, by thallium, by wood alcohol, is here in precise, gruesome detail. It makes for a stomach-turning read. . . . .Ms. Blum's combination of chemistry and crime fiction creates a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie."—New York Observer
"In this bubbling beaker of a book, [Blum] mixes up a heady potion of forensic toxicology, history and true crime. . . . The Poisoner's Handbook will get into your head. You'll find yourself questioning the chemicals in our everyday lives. What's really in our food, cosmetics, pesticides, cleaning supplies, children's toys and pet dinners? This isn't just a good read. It's a summons to study labels, research, think and act."—Dallas Morning News
"The Poisoner's Handbook succeeds as science, as history, as entertainment and as an argument for the power and purpose of popular science writing."—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"One thinks of Erik Larson's Devil in the White City . . . a book that gave splendiferously disgusting descriptions of horrible murders and did it so dexterously and intelligently that even readers who wouldn't normally read a true crime book were happily sucked in. Deborah Blum's The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York is that kind of book." —New Haven Advocate
"Blum has cooked up a delicious, addictive brew: murder, forensic toxicology, New York City in the 20s, the biochemistry of poison. I loved this book. I knocked it back in one go and now I want more!"—Mary Roach, author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"The Poisoner's Handbook opens one riveting murder case after another in this chronicle of Jazz Age chemical crimes where the real-life twists and turns are as startling as anything in fiction. Deborah Blum turns us all into forensic detectives by the end of this expertly written, dramatic page-turner that will transform the way you think about the power of science to threaten and save our lives."—Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens and The Dante Club
"The Poisoner's Handbook is a wonderfully compelling hybrid of history and science built around eccentric characters. One scene reads like Patricia Cornwell and the next like Oliver Sacks. From movie stars and aristocrats to homicidal grandmothers and entrepreneurial gangsters, from the government's poisoning of alcohol during Prohibition to the dangers of radiation and automobile pollution, Blum follows an amazing array of poignant tragedies through the laboratory of these crusading public servants.—Michael Sims, author of Apollo's Fire and Adam's Navel
"With the pacing and rich characterization of a first-rate suspense novelist, Blum makes science accessible and fascinating." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Caviar for true-crime fans and science buffs alike." —Kirkus Reviews
"Formative figures in forensics, Norris and Gettler become fascinating crusaders in Blum's fine depiction of their work in the law-flouting atmosphere of Prohibition-era New York."—Booklist


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If marijuana becomes legal for the average consumer, today's small growers may have more to learn from Starbucks' lifestyle branding than from the mass production of Kraft's Maxwell House.
In other words, producers may have to focus on "artisanal" handling and distribution to attract experienced consumers, instead of mass production for a huge new market.
"The coffee analogy is dead-on, or maybe the Napa Valley wine model," says Dale Clare, executive chancellor of Oaksterdam University, an institution that trains entrepreneurs in legal marijuana distribution. Others say the micro-brewery model comes to mind.
"I think it's partly just a ritual thing, just like with lots of other substances, like coffee," says Harvard economics professor Jeffrey Miron, who has researched the marijuana industry extensively. "You don't want to just pop a pill, you like the whole idea of walking across the street…and ordering an espresso and going through the whole ritual."
While Oaksterdam's Clare calls it "the largest cash crop in California," numbers are hard to nail down. But in agricultural Mendocino County—one of three counties in California's "Emerald Triangle" of marijuana cultivation—local estimates put the crop at $1.5 billion of the county's total economic output of $2.3 billion in 2005. (See CNBC's market analysisand watchMarijuana Inc.to find out more about the marijuana business there.)
Legal commercial production in the U.S. is currently handled by a patchwork of small farmers. While there have been rumors for years of big agricultural firms buying up land ahead of legalization, it would still take time to develop a mass production product, and even more time to build a Maxwell House-like brand that would come to dominate that market.
But Miron adds eventually the market will grow.
"I think most of the market would be [artisanal], but you would certainly see these other things, as we do with existing legal products," he says.
Unlike coffee, a fragmented regulatory environment will also drive the distribution model. As with alcohol today, a pastiche of local, state and federal laws and regulation could mean any new distributor would have to adapt a mass-market product to micro-jurisdictions.
California's Plainview Systems LLC is using technology to bridge that gap, providing an online platform for the existing medical marijuana market to connect consumers with the producers.
Collectives And Cooperatives
"We connect growers to the patients and allow them to conduct business legally," says Plainview CEO John Lee, who bristles at the comparisons of his firm to being the "eBay of pot."
"[Concern for] patient anonymity is very high and transparency of the transaction is, as well," he says. "The reason these [dot-com] comparisons don't make sense is all of the regulation," he says, adding that he sees himself as a "mixture of a social network and a B2B solution."
Plainview currently has more than 30 marijuana collectives that use the online platform to meet and form. Lee's working on signing up existing dispensaries looking to expand beyond their brick-and-mortar operations. Dispensaries pay around $700 a year and $5 a patient on his platform; patients pay nothing for the service.
He argues it makes for a good economic model for "mom and pop" growers and distributors, given the significant startup costs of a typically run dispensary.
But if legalization down the road makes these dispensaries the equivalent of the local high-end coffee shop, they'll need to differentiate themselves.
"Some try to differentiate on price," says Lee. "But they do a lot of things to differentiate now, like offering holistic services or wellness advice."
Some test for molds and chemical composition to assure quality, a hallmark of the artisanal food movement.
But as dispensaries face their own challenges—local government crackdowns, ongoing security needs and intervention by federal authorities—Lee says they're still marking up their product by 100 percent or more to compensate for their own risks. That means less for growers.
He says farmers have seen prices drop from $5,000 per pound to $1,600 per pound in recent years.
"It's called compassionate care," Lee says of the medical marijuana dispensary model currently in effect in California. "But I don't see much compassion in the prices."
Like with other agricultural products, smaller marijuana farmers may have to band together and form cooperatives to get better deals for distributors and provide effective marketing, says Shermain Hardesty, director of the small farm program at University of California at Davis.
"Cooperatives are often mainly used as a risk management, stretching out sales over a whole year rather than relying on a single client," she says, providing them with safety afforded to larger producers with a bigger balance sheet.
Plainview's Lee says he already heard talk of growers banding together in California's Humboldt county, also in the so-called Emerald Triangle. "You could see a growers' union," he says.
Agribusiness In The Wings?
Most large agribusiness producers and distributors wouldn't comment on any marijuana cultivation plans while it's still largely illegal.
Seed and agri-chemical maker Monsanto isn't focused on it, says spokesman Darren Wallis, adding that even if that changed tomorrow, development of a mass-scale crop takes time.
"We focus on major crops for food, feed and biofuels—corn, soybeans, cotton, canola, wheat, sugarcane and vegetables," he says. "It takes eight to ten years of investment to bring a biotech product to market."
Other big food and agricultural firms would not comment, saying the proposition was too hypothetical or inappropriate given the largely illegal current status of the drug.
While the distribution and production model that wins out in a post-prohibition world remains to be seen, the existing market will need to be served right away—and consumers right now appear willing to place a premium on quality over quantity.
"I think there is room for large and small entrepreneurs," says Harvard's Miron. "There is certainly plenty of room for product differentiation in the same way that you see for, say, beer, because it can have different scents, it can have different THC content. There is plenty of room for the entrepreneur to try to market oneself as being in some way superior and capture a good market share," he says.
In the end, says Oaksterdam's Clare, smaller can survive.
"The fast food giants didn't put full- service restaurants out of business," she says.


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UCLA seniors present history and current hot political issues of the European Union to 160 Pacific Palisades High School students.
Four UCLA seniors, all European Studies majors and Junior Teaching Fellows, conducted a two hour briefing April 14 for some 160 local high school students taking Advanced Placement European History classes. The special outreach program was sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and funded by the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States, through a grant awarded jointly to the European Union Center of Southern California at Scripps College and UCLA. It was organized by Ann-Christina Knudsen, Chair of UCLA's interdepartmental undergraduate major in European Studies. The students were all 10th graders from four classes at Pacific Palisades High School. They came by bus to the Westwood campus, accompanied by their teacher, Ron Cummings.
The overall title of the talks was "European Integration and Disintegration since World War II." The undergraduate lecturers made very creditable presentations, worthy of any graduate student or junior faculty member. Shain Alexander gave a short history of the formation of the European Union. Mary Martin spoke on the EU's first round of enlargement and the reservations in accepting member states with markedly different cultures than the north European mainstream. Julie Labin examined the issue of immigration and the challenge it poses to advocates of ethnic homogeneity within the EU. And Jimmy Rollins took up the tensions between rising nationalism and the efforts to increase the authority of the pan-national European Union. The event was held in the Korn Auditorium of the Anderson Graduate School of Management. All of the presenters had studied in Europe during their undergraduate careers at UCLA.
The designation Junior Teaching Fellow comes from an outreach program sponsored by the European Commission's delegation to Washington. The participating UCLA undergraduates receive both academic credit and a scholarship. Ann-Christina Knudsen says, "They were selected for the fellowship on a competitive basis, among quite a good pool of applicants." Knudsen noted that "today's presentation was probably the cap-stone experience of the fellowship, but they have been giving several other presentations to L.A. high schools on the European Union, its history and place in twentieth century Europe -- which were equally received very well. I've been the faculty director of the project, but the Junior Teaching Fellows decided on the content and structure of the presentations themselves, integrating knowledge from other courses that they had at UCLA, and their experiences from studying abroad."
Shain Alexander traced the desire for a pan-European entity from the failures of the post-World War I system with the polarization of the continent between fascist and communist states and parties in the 1930s through the physical division of Europe into East and West zones after World War II. He pointed to the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 by France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg as the first step on the road to the European Union. This was transformed into the European Common Market by the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
Great Britain, he pointed out, refused to join until 1973. The Common Market slowly expanded, and transformed itself in turn into the European Union in 1992, confirmed with the signing of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993. "Next month several of the former Soviet states will join," Alexander said. At each stage there has been controversy and difficulty in passing on to the supranational entity functions that have a long history of rootedness in the nation-state. For example, Alexander said, "only 12 of 15 states use the Euro currency."
Mary Martin studied in Italy for three months and then in Spain. Her talk used Turkey as an example of the wariness of the principal countries of Europe in broadening the Union into culturally distinct regions. Turkey has tried for decades to gain admission to the EU and its predecessors. "It was finally accepted as a Candidate Country in 1999 at the Helsinki Summit," Martin said. Opposition to Turkey joining has been raised citing its Kurdish problem and its dispute with Greece over Cyprus. Also that the Turkish economy is weak. Martin suggested that all of these considerations had a direct analog in the discussion over admitting Spain in 1986. In her opinion the real reason for opposition is the fact that Turkey is an Islamic country, although with a secular government. She noted that Catholic Spain and Poland have actually proposed to make a reference to Christianity in the European Union treaty.
Martin's conclusion was that Europe is already too diverse with too many minority nationalities for an argument against Turkey based on the claim that there is a coherent European identity to be convincing.
Julie Labin has studied in Spain. One of the requirements of a European Studies major, she told the high school students, is to study abroad for at least a semester.
The first big wave of immigrants into Europe came in the post-World War II period, she said. This was "to help in reconstruction." Other immigrants came from the colonies, many of which did not gain their independence until the 1960s. Finally, there have been several waves of Communist refugees, such as after the crushing of the Hungarian revolution in 1956.
"Europe has not yet dealt with its changing homogeneous identity," Labin said. "There is still the notion of a homogeneous nation-state where people look the same and speak the same language," although this more and more diverges from reality.
Immigration between states became an issue in the 1980s, she said, "when Southern European states including Spain, Portugal, and Greece jointed the EU. The existing states feared an influx from these countries into the north. Instead many already in the north returned to their homelands." The EU is scheduled to accept 10 new states for membership on May 1, 2004, mainly East European countries of the former Soviet Union. "There are 380 million in the existing EU," Labin said. "They will gain 75 million more with new adherents next week." The new members are to be Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. Labin commented, "Their citizens will have the right to move. Germany and Austria are specially concerned because of common borders with some of these states."
A third category is non-European immigrants. "France and Germany are strengthening their national character," Labin said. "The average European sees themself as French or German, not European, but they do know how to refer to non-Europeans." Between low birth rates of the existing populations and large-scale immigration from developing countries, Labin said, it is projected that by 2090 Western Europe will have a nonwhite majority. She pointed out that already today Muhammad is the 13th most popular name in Britain.
Jimmy Rollins took up some of the more divisive issues surfacing in today's Europe. The drive to create a European super state has evoked a nationalist reaction that has propelled to prominence neo-Nazi and other ultranationalist right wing political currents. Rollins reported a poll in which only 55% of Europeans would say that membership in the European Union is a good thing. "85% agreed that they were proud of their nationality but only 61% said they were proud to be a European," he said. Rollins spent the whole of last year in France.
Despite the virulence that often accompanies the discussion of immigration and foreigners, Rollins reported that the number-one concern of Europeans as shown in recent polls is unemployment. The jobless rates in Europe are generally considerably higher than in the United States. "Immigration is only the number-five concern," Rollins added, although immigrants are often blamed for taking the jobs of native citizens.
He asked the audience if they agreed with the recent ban on religious symbols and clothing in French classrooms, mainly aimed at the head scarves worn by Muslim women. A large majority of the Los Angeles high school students raised hands to signify they disagreed with the French ban on religious symbols in class.
Rolliins showed slides of some of the newly emergent political leaders of the nationalist European extreme right: Jean Marie Le Pen in France, who opposes the Maastricht treaty. Joerg Haider, leader of the Freedom Party in Austria who won inclusion in a coalition government in 2000, and gives talks to groups of former Nazis. Umberto Bossi, leader of the Northern League, from Lombardy, who calls for an independent country in northern Italy.
"The common position of the far right," Rollins told the students, "is against immigration and multiculturalism. They oppose the European Union in defense of national culture."
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Fudge-Filled Holiday Peanut Butter Bars
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 28 min
- Ready Time: 120 min
- Yield: 48 bars
- 1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 (12 oz.) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons cold butter, cut up
- 1 (17.5 oz.) package Pillsbury® Sugar Cookie Mix
- 1/3 cup Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- Holiday decorator sprinkles (optional)
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 350°F. Microwave sweetened condensed milk and chocolate chips in medium microwave-safe bowl on HIGH 2 minutes or until melted and smooth when stirred. Stir in cold butter until completely melted. Cool while preparing dough, about 15 minutes.
- COMBINE sugar cookie mix, flour and salt in large bowl, stirring until blended. Add peanut butter, melted butter, eggs, vanilla and almond extract. Mix well. Reserve 3/4 cup dough for topping. Press remaining dough evenly in bottom of ungreased 15 x 10 x 1-inch baking pan.
- SPREAD chocolate mixture evenly over crust. Crumble reserved dough into very small crumbs. Sprinkle evenly over chocolate mixture. Sprinkle evenly with decorator sprinkles, if desired.
- BAKE 23 to 28 minutes or until set in center and edges are golden brown. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Calories 0 (Calories from Fat 0), Total Fat 0g (Saturated Fat 0g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 0mg, Total Carbohydrate 0g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 0g), Protein 0g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 0%, Iron 0%.
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In short, you will reap the rewards from a high quality ski or snowboard instructor training programme. You will also get to meet a diverse range of people and probably make friends for life. Whatever your motivations may be for choosing an International Academy course, you're sure to benefit from a memorable, rewarding and potentially life-changing experience!
I just want to thank you for an amazing time, I have had the time of my life out in Banff, and its horrible being home! Luckily I have got myself a job instructing down in Italy for the next 2 weeks until their season ends. I got my CASI 1, 2 & my park, and I've got my visa for next winter and hope to be instructing in Lake Louise providing there are jobs available and the instructors are going to give me some good references. I can definitely say I made the right choice in choosing IA. Everything was made so easy for us out there, great communication, restaurants to eat in, accommodation and the people. Even speaking to people on other courses out there, they wish that they had booked with IA.
Callum Snape, age 18 Lake Louise 2010
In one word, immense! I had the best three months of my life doing what I love every day in one of the world's most prestigious resorts. Everyone's skiing improved in all aspects of the sport; on piste, in powder, steeps, moguls or in the park.
James Hopkins, age 19, 2011
I would advise anyone who is thinking about doing this type of course to go for it! You will love it! General tuition and improving my own skiing ability has been fantastic.
Toby Read, age 19 Whistler Blackcomb 2007
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If you're interested in one of our courses or want to book a course, contact us or call us on 02380 206 977 during office hours - we'd love to talk to you.
If you've always dreamed of spending your days skiing, this is the perfect opportunity to combine your passion and your career.
Refer a friend on to an International Academy instructor course and get £200
Snow-Camp Charity Alpine Challenge in Morzine 2015 is launched at an evening in London


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Your Caregivers
Our Physicians
Our doctors are all Board Certified Oncologists and/or Hematologists, recognizeing that they have achieved and maintain the highest standards in their specialty. They also participate in research studies to offer our patients the newest, most effective treatments available. Our physicians work closely with referring physicians to ensure continuity of patient care during all phases of diagnosis, treatment and follow up.
Our Nurses
Our Nurses, many of them certified in Oncology Nursing, play an important role. They coordinate patient care with the physician and other members of your healthcare team. Nurses provide information about treatment, possible side effects, research protocols, self care and support services.
Clinical Support Staff
- Nurse Practitioners: Nurse Practitioners are advance practice nurses who work together with your physician to develop and implement a treatment plan specific to your needs. They assist the physicians by initial examination and collection of pertinent information. Then, in collaboration with the medical team, a treatment plan is developed specific to your needs. They work with your physician throughout your treatment to assure continuity of care for you.
- Medical Office Assistants: Medical Office Assistants provide a vast array of duties at the Regional Oncology Center. They assist nurses and doctors with simple procedures; they obtain authorizations with insurance companies in order to provide coverage for necessary treatments and/or medications; they also record important measurements including your pain level, blood pressure and temperature, as well as complete a comprehensive medication list in order to provide a safe environment.
- Lab Technicians: The Regional Oncology Center is fortunate to have a dedicated team of Laboratory professionals on staff. They allow us to draw and process blood specimens in a timely manner, which decreases patient visit times. Doctors also have important test results in a much shorter time.
- Pharmacist: A pharmacist is on staff at the Regional Oncology Center in order to provide medications safely and quickly. Orders are written by the MD's and are carefully double checked by the Pharmacist before the Pharmacy technician mixes the medication. The pharmacist is also available should questions or concerns arise while getting treatment.


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Current Exhibit
Opens March 8...
Art League of RI "Associate Members Exhibit 2014"
Visit the main gallery to see the latest works by Associate Members of this renowned artists group. Original works in a wide array of mediums will be showcased -- include paintings, sculpture, fine art photography, mixed media, and 3D installations.
Special events hosted by the ALRI Associate Members are free and open to the public:
Opening Reception - Wednesday, March 19 from 6:00-8:00 pm Enjoy wine and light refreshments, meet the artists and ask them about their creative vision, see the exhibit and buy original works -- tax free!
"RI Art Archive Project" Film - Wednesday, April 2 from 6:00-8:00 pm Socialize with other guests before a special screening of this art documentary produced by ALRI member Holly Gaboriault. Included in this fascinating film are RI artists Deborah Baronas, Howard BenTre, Gretchen Dow-Simpson, Nancy Gaucher-Thomas, Peter Geisser, Saberah Malik, Salvatore Mancini, Morris Nathanson, Leo Narducci, Ilse Nesbitt, Howard Newman, and Kenn Speiser.
Gallery Talk with Saberah Malik - Wednesday, April 9 from 6:00-8:00 pm Meet the renowned fiber artist and hear about her creative vision, how she works with gossamer fabrics, and how her work has evolved over the years. Anyone who's admired Malik's mysteriously beautiful 3D creations will want to ask questions during the Q&A afterwards!
No sales tax is charged on artwork in our gallery -- so buy original works at WMOA!
Double Your Donation!
A generous arts supporter has offered to match all donations to replace the wheelchair lift up to $1,000 -- which means all donations will be matched. So a $5 contribution becomes $10, and a $50 donation becomes $100. Now's the perfect time to make a donation!
Three ways to make a donation to replace the wheelchair lift...
* Send a check in any amount to the Warwick Museum of Art (include "wheelchair lift" on memo line),
* Call the office and make a contribution by phone with your MasterCard or Visa card,
* Stop by the office with cash, get a receipt for your donation, and it will be added to "Arts for All!" Box.
All contributions are tax-deductible: if you send a check or make a phone donation a thank you letter will be sent for your tax records; donors who drop by with cash or check will receive a written receipt on the spot, and a thank you letter will be mailed to them later.
Education & Camps
Throughout the year, the Warwick Museum of Art offers a number of classes and camps for all ages. CLICK HERE to learn more!


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Recent News and Press Releases
Reunion Celebrates 30 Years of Graduate Business Education
Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business celebrated the 30th anniversary of graduate education at the school during its Graduate Business Reunion, October 4-6, 2013. MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Master's in Leadership alumni joined the MBA Class of 1983 to celebrate this milestone.
Georgetown Hosts Honest Tea Founder
Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business will host Seth Goldman, co-founder and TeaEO of Honest Tea, the nation's top-selling organic bottled tea company. The event is part of the school's Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series, which regularly brings business leaders to campus to interact with students.
Goldman will share personal insights and business lessons, as well as talk about his new business book in comic form, Mission in a Bottle, which examines the journey of creating a mission-driven world business in a profit-driven world.
MBA Student Blogs About Choosing Georgetown
Ashley Clausnitzer, a Georgetown McDonough first-year MBA student and Forté Foundation Fellow, is writing a blog for the Forté Foundation's website about her experience choosing to attend the McDonough School of Business. The blog offers advice to prospective graduate students on choosing the right fit for graduate education.
Global Embassy Series Hosts OAS Ambassador
Ambassador Jorge Hevia, Permanent Observer of Spain to the Organization of American States (OAS), spoke to undergraduate and graduate business students about the role of Latin America in the global economy on October 16. The ambassador's visit was part of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Global Embassy Series where challenges and opportunities in Latin America are discussed.
Executive MBA Programs Rise in Financial Times Rankings
The Financial Times has listed two Georgetown University McDonough School of Business programs among the world's best Executive MBA Programs.
McDonough Ranks No. 8 for Social Media
MBA50.com has ranked Georgetown McDonough No. 8 for its social media presence among other MBA programs. As of press time, Georgetown McDonough has over 42,500 Twitter followers and more than 4,800 Facebook "Likes". Join the conversation by following @msbgu on Twitter and liking the school's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetownMcDonough
Sunita Sah's Research Published in Ethics Journal
Sunita Sah, an assistant professor of business ethics at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, recently had a paper published in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Sah is the author of "Physicians under the Influence: Social Psychology and Industry Marketing Strategies," part of a symposium on institutional corruption and pharmaceutical policy. The journal also includes 16 articles on the sources of institutional corruption, how it occurs, and what is corrupted. The symposium was published in conjunction with the Edmund J.
Christopher Long Receives Best Paper Award at Management Theory Conference
Christopher Long, assistant professor of management at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, was honored with the "Best Paper" award at the Management Theory Conference held in San Francisco on September 28. The paper is titled "Authority and Action through the Eyes of the Manager: The Roles of Control, Trust, and Fairness."
Georgetown McDonough's Global Business Initiative Presents Back in Business
The Global Business Initiative at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business presents Back in Business: How Competitiveness Re-emerges in the United States as it Moves from Manufacturing to Brainfacturing.
Undergraduate Students Visit the Ronald Reagan Building
Undergraduate marketing research students at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business visited and toured the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center with Adjunct Professor David Ashley on September 20.
The students heard from Doug Barry, senior trade specialist, U.S. Commercial Service for the U.S. Department of Commerce who was their guest speaker. They also met with Tony Overton, who represents the General Services Administration as director of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.