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After announcing a multimillion-dollar renovation of Two Shell Plaza, Hines said 357,000 square feet occupied by Houston-based Shell Oil Co. will be up for lease in 2015. Shell would not comment on a pending move.
Starting in early April, Hines will oversee the expansion and renovation of Two Shell Plaza in the epicenter of downtown Houston. The property, which is located on the block bounded by Louisiana, Milam, Rusk and Walker streets, will move its main entrance from Walker Street to Louisiana Street and will be renamed 811 Louisiana.
The tower will be relaunched with a new look, a new entrance, lobby and updated aesthetics that will differentiate it from its taller counterpart, One Shell Plaza. Construction is slated for completion in April 2015.
Although Houston-based Hines declined to say exactly how much the renovation will cost, it said it will be a "multimillion-dollar" project.
Designed by Houston architecture firm Page, plans for the project include an expansion and renovation of the building's lobby as well as the first four floors of the building's façade, starting at the street level. The building's lower façade will be re-clad in Virginia mist granite, and slot windows will be added, along with a recessed glass wall at ground level to call attention to the renovated lobby. The expanded lobby will include a lounge area for informal tenant meetings.
Dallas-based Balfour Beatty Construction LLC is the general contractor, and leasing for the building is being handled by Chip Colvill and Paula Bruns of Colvill Office Properties in Houston.
As part of the building's LEED certification, 70 percent of the materials from the renovation will be recycled.
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"This system creates a definite risk to the electronic security of many countries, and Azerbaijan is not an exception," Communications and Information Technology Minister Ali Abbasov asserted on May 3. (Blackberries, however, get the all-clear.)
Taking e-security matters in hand, Azerbaijan plans to update its criminal code with some thoughts on "cyber crimes." The amendments are "expected to be adopted in the near future," according to one security official.
What exactly those crimes will entail is not clear, but, already, steps are being taken to address the needs of the most frequent of Facebook and Skype users -- youth.
A selection of student activists and young Azerbaijanis "who succeeded in different fields" gathered "the most pleasant impressions" from an April 21 meeting with President Ilham Aliyev, News.az tells us.
(Not among their number was opposition youth activist Jabbar Savalan, who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on May 4 for alleged possession of narcotics, Contact.az reports. )
The chitchat focused on a youth program that plans to bolster employment, make home mortgages affordable, encourage physical activity, and, now, for good measure, "amend" Azerbaijan's history textbooks.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy may not be able to have it both ways when it comes to balancing between the Armenians and the Turks. Faced with pressure from Armenian Diaspora groups, Sarkozy pledged not to give his 25-centimes' worth when France's Senate on May 4 votes on a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the massacre ethnic Armenians suffered in 1915 at the hands of Ottoman Turks is a genocide.
France's National Assembly adopted the bill in 2006. But alleged US diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks suggest that Sarkozy has played a diplomatic double game about the bill ever since.
Sarkozy vowed to France's significant ethnic Armenian electorate to pull the bill through the parliament, but, according to Wikileaks, he also promised Ankara that the Senate would kill the measure.
The revelations sparked an outpouring of Armenian anger in France. Crooner Charles Aznavour, one of the most prominent Armenian Diaspora members in France, threatened to rally the Armenian vote against Sarkozy in next year's presidential elections.
Sarkozy may now have promised Armenian Diaspora members not to interfere with the genocide denial vote in the Senate, but will he say the same when Ankara calls?
The security forces of Kyrgyzstan bear some blame for the violence last year between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, according to the comprehensive international report on the events, just released. But for the most part, the report paints the picture of passive, rather than active, military involvement in the violence.
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The role of the security forces in the events was significant. The military personnel under the command of the Provisional Government numbered 2,000. The KIC is of the opinion that had those troops been properly instructed and deployed, it would have been possible to prevent or stop the violence and to block the access to Osh city by the attackers who moved from rural areas. The failure of members of the security forces to protect their equipment raises questions of complicity in the events, either directly or indirectly. Further, some members of the military were involved in some of the attacks on the mahallas.
In most cases, the report carefully accuses the military of sins of omission, rather than commission, for not doing anything to stop the violence, the requisitioning of military equipment by the mobs or to subsequently recover the weapons that were seized in those days. Then defense minister and current MP Ismail Isakov comes in for particular censure:
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Uyghur activists in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have been forbidden from traveling to the U.S. for a conference, and they say it's as a result of pressure from China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
One of the activists in Kazakhstan, Kahriman Ghojamberdi, told Radio Free Asia's Uyghur service that customs officials at the airport in Almaty surreptitiously ripped out pages in his passport, and then told him that his passport was invalid for travel:
"Obviously, it is a slander to block me from the conference by orders from China. The Central Asian countries are acting as one of the provinces of China since the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established," Ghojamberdi said.
Four activists from Kyrgyzstan apparently had the same thing happen, and Ghojamberdi said several other Uyghurs in Kazakhstan were harassed by police and intimidated into not going to the conference:
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The SCO, recall, is the regional security organization consisting of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Just a month ago, the U.S. mooted the idea of cooperating with the group, while a human rights group put out a report explaining the risks of these sorts of anti-Uyghur crackdowns in Central Asia under the auspices of the SCO.
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In a small bioengineering laboratory at Rice University, an associate professor and his team are taking part in a project that will provide prosthetic hands to children around the world for a fraction of the cost.
Jordan Miller, an associate professor at Rice University, joined a global team working on the project about a year ago. He is currently working with fellows in the Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, or AMRI, that he started at Rice, to build and test 3-D printed prosthetic fingers and hands in a program called e-NABLE.
"The whole point of AMRI — this fellowship program — is to apply engineering principles to solve some key question," Miller told me.
E-NABLE is a worldwide movement based in the open source community. It provides the blueprints for anyone who wants to try and develop the prosthetic parts. And at Rice University, one of the top schools in the country when it comes to bioengineering, they're doing just that. The fellowship started mid-June and will run into August.
The hands attach similarly to how traditional prosthetic parts have been attached in the past – through straps or velcro. What makes these products different from the traditional prosthetics in today's market is the cost. These 3-D printed hands can cost as low as $50, Miller said. Most prosthetics can go upwards of $10,000.
"3-D printing is actually the best technology for that because it allows customizing a certain hand design for that kid, at their age, at their size," he said. "And then it's so cheap to make it when they grow, or if they break it or anything like that. They can replace it at almost no cost."
The lab is looking at other ways to apply 3-D printing to health care as well. And while it's a long way off, it's still significant in the potential price reduction for patients. One day, Miller hopes to be able to use the same system to create human organs, but that idea is potentially 30 years down the road.
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Survivors include her son, John "Jack" Barnes; daughters Geneva Schultz, Jonell Rolley, Shirley Wenmoth, and Ella Mercer; brother Gene Harris; sister Dimple Pryor; twelve grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 11:00AM at Tucker Funeral Home in Central City. Burial in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday after 5:00PM at the funeral home. Online condolences may be made at www.tuckerfuneralhomes.com.
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Starting a new job worth $175 million based on the assumption that you're the pitcher to have on a roster is even more pressure. The New York Yankees' free agent acquisition Masahiro Tanaka led the team with 26 strikeouts this spring, though, notching a 2.14 ERA. So when he faced his first batter, Melky Cabrera of the Toronto Blue Jays, on Friday night, it actually went pretty—
Oh. Was that a home run? Yeah, yeah it was.
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Title: Are gourds poisonous, edible?
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QUESTION:Are all the Gourds edible? How can I know which one is which? If it is not edible, is it poisonous? If not, what is stopping us from eating them?
ANSWER:Since our expertise is with plants native to North America I can tell you about our native gourds. Cucurbita foetidissima (buffalo gourd) is the species I am most familiar with since it occurs locally. There are four native species of Cucurbita that are called gourds: Cucurbita foetidissima (buffalo gourd), Cucurbita digitata (fingerleaf gourd), C. palmata (coyote gourd) and the endangered C. okeechobeensis (Okeechobee gourd). None of my favorite toxic plant databases (Poisonous Plants of North Carolina, Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System, Cornell University Plants Poisonous to Livestock or other Animals or Texas Toxic Plant Database lists any species of Cucurbita. Delena Tull (Edible and Useful Plants of Texas and the Southwest) says about the buffalo gourd (C. foetidissima): "Though related to the edible squashes, the fetid odor and the extremely bitter taste of the buffalo gourd make the fruit inedible." However, archeological investigations show that native Americans used the seeds as food. They also used the green fruit and roots as a detergent and the dried fruits as a rattle. Although javelinas dig up and eat the bitter root and coyotes, porcupines and humans eat the seeds, apparently no one eats the fruits.
There are two other native North American plants that have a fruit called a gourd—Ibervillea lindheimeri (balsam gourd) and Melothria pendula (speckled gourd)—but these fruits are very small and probably don't look like what you think of as a gourd. Poisonous Plants of North Carolina lists M. pendula as causing "only low toxicity if eaten"—its berries act as a strong laxative. None of the toxic plant databases above lists I. lindheimeri.
You can read about the gourds of other places (Africa, South America) and their many uses on Wikipedia. This article says that very few gourds are used for food, but there are some Asian species that are consumed.
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After ordering the recon mission Picard also tells Worf to get an away team ready to be deployed if the recon mission goes well. That's at the end of Chapter 8 then at the beginning of Chapter 9 the away team mission is getting ready to go so the implication is that the recon mission went well which is confirmed by Worf while they are getting ready.
Thanks! Must've just missed the Away Team bit. I stopped reading when I ran into what looked to be a discontinuity. Didn't want to be spoiled if it was part of the book further down the line.
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The folks at The Write Life developed this infographic as a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide to choosing your best publishing options.
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The folks at The Write Life developed this infographic as a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide to choosing your best publishing options.
What are you thoughts?
Regular readers of this blog are probably aware that early next year, Lucas and I will be releasing a sci-fi anthology, along with a number of other terrific writers with some truly great stories to tell. I've reviewed each of his works and dug them all, and I think you'll like them, too.
Lucas has a new release out today called DEFIANCE. This is the second book in his Beyond The Wall series, and I got to read an ARC of it last week. It's killer stuff, and well worth picking up. As an added incentive to buy, it's only 99 cents today!
But, Lucas isn't stopping there. If you haven't read the first book in his series, THE HERETIC, that one is currently free. Also free, his recently-released short story WHAT IT MEANS TO SURVIVE.
So, you can grab all three of his titles for just under a dollar. Not too shabby.
Check out his Amazon Author profile for the links to his titles and enjoy: http://www.amazon.com/Lucas-Bale/e/B00LGVGUMO
I feel like I've just hit a bit of a milestone. As of today, 100 people have added Convergence to their To-Read lists, and more than 160 people have entered the giveaway to win one of five signed copies of the print edition. Not too shabby, I don't think!
If you haven't entered yet, don't worry – there's still plenty of time. The contest is running until Nov. 29. You can enter to win over here (US only)! And be sure to add it your Want To Read list, too.
I'm hoping to see lots more entries over the rest of November, and hopefully the word of mouth and the positive reviews my book has received can help get Convergence into the hands of new readers.
Of course, if you don't like the odds of winning and want to guarantee yourself a copy, check out the purchase links for the eBook and physical copies here.
In Convergence (and it's forthcoming sequel, Emergence), I write about the sharing of memories via digital files and cybernetic implants. It's based on real research, and a lot of stuff that DARPA is working on made its way into the book. While my novel is definitely high on the "fiction" end of science-fiction, we seem to be getting closer every day to making some of these topics that I and other author's write about. One of the elements in Convergence is a communications system that allows for brain-to-brain transmissions, and is basically like having a cell phone or web-cam implanted in your head.
Well, leave it up to researchers at the University of Washington to pull it off. Granted, these are minor steps forward, but it shows that there's certainly a potential for such things to occur in the future, and that the technology already exists, even if only small and limited ways, to make it happen.
From UW Today:
University of Washington researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a scientific study following the team's initial demonstration a year ago. In the newly published study, which involved six people, researchers were able to transmit the signals from one person's brain over the Internet and use these signals to control the hand motions of another person within a split second of sending that signal.
The research team combined two kinds of noninvasive instruments and fine-tuned software to connect two human brains in real time. The process is fairly straightforward. One participant is hooked to an electroencephalography machine that reads brain activity and sends electrical pulses via the Web to the second participant, who is wearing a swim cap with a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil placed near the part of the brain that controls hand movements.
Using this setup, one person can send a command to move the hand of the other by simply thinking about that hand movement.
Now, with a new $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the UW research team is taking the work a step further in an attempt to decode and transmit more complex brain processes.
With the new funding, the research team will expand the types of information that can be transferred from brain to brain, including more complex visual and psychological phenomena such as concepts, thoughts and rules.
There's more to be had at the UW Today link above, so go give it a read.
Today, I finished up the second draft of REVOLVER, my contribution to a short-story science fiction anthology that will be releasing in 2015. No word on an exact release date yet, but keep checking back for more info!
This one clocked in a bit shy of 11,000 words, or close to 20 pages. Every page had revisions, some of them pretty significant (remember: writing is rewriting!), with more than 300 changes made to this 796 line manuscript. There were a lot of deletions, some insertions, and plenty of sentences that were altered and put under the knife. I've now sent it off to the editor and our other contributors and am awaiting their feedback, while keeping my fingers crossed.
Here's the quick-and-dirty blurb, which may change as things progress but should give you a good idea of what to expect:
In a near-future America, poverty has run rampant and political apathy has allowed special interests to gain control of the country. A crowd-funding platform, Revolver, has been established by the nation's moneyed elite to combat the increasing blight. Their latest participant is Cara Stone, a depressed woman with no hope for her future and nothing left to lose. There's never been a Revolver entrant quite like her before. The corporate states of America are hungry for blood, and Cara promises to deliver.
REVOLVER is a bit of a dark work, and definitely the most political my fiction has gotten to date. I understand that may turn some folks off, but that's simply what the story is. It's dark, it's angry, and it contains a few issues that I needed to get off my chest.
And for the moment, it's now out of my hands. I've sent it up the chain, so to speak, and we'll see what happens next. Stay tuned!
I came across this Kickstarter project on Twitter today, thanks to this post from Chuck Wendig:
And that led me to John August's page, and this tweet in particular:
So, now being pretty darn curious as to what the heck this all is, I hit up August's Kickstarter page and pledged some support. Here's the link:
Writer Emergency Pack – helping writers get unstuck by John August — Kickstarter.
And here's what August says about the impetus behind his Writer Emergency Pack project:
Writing is hard. You're constantly trying to figure out what word comes next.
Creative writing is even harder. When you're working on a story, you're not just trying to decide what word comes next, but what idea comes next.
It's easy to get stuck.
I know what that's like because I'm a screenwriter. I'm lucky to have had ten movies produced, from GO to BIG FISH to FRANKENWEENIE. I also host a popular podcast about film and television called Scriptnotes.
Over the years, I've had conversations with hundreds of writers, both on the podcast and around the lunch table. No matter what genre or medium, all writers face story problems. Plots that plod. Characters that don't connect.
Every writer has her own techniques for pushing past these problems — little nudges and prompts to help get the story clicking.
Writer Emergency Pack is a curated collection of some of the most useful suggestions I've encountered. It's by writers, for writers.
I'm really looking forward to getting this deck of cards and checking out the Dark Mode booster pack when it becomes available next year. I think this is going to be pretty darn entertaining, and who knows what kind of crazy stories this could lead to!
As an added bonus that makes donating/pre-ordering all the more worthwhile, August is taking a Get One, Give One approach to help get these cards into the sweaty palms of both writers and youngsters just starting out in local creative writing programs. I think this is a pretty exciting initiative to help bolster support for writing and show kids just how truly fun and awesome this thing we do can be.
Great deal, and some great resources too!
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CBS News announced yesterday that its chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan had been the victim of "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" while covering the celebrations in Egypt on the eve of President Mubarak's resignation. The correspondent was quickly flown back to the U.S. on Saturday morning, and hospitalized upon her return. She was released today, and is said to be "in remarkably good spirits despite her ordeal." But even as Logan recuperates, many wonder what her treatment at the hands of an Egyptian mob augurs for female reporters in the field:
The media will protect its reporters better: We can only hope this awful news will lead to a "broader push by the Fourth Estate to protect correspondents against assault," says Mac McClelland at Mother Jones. Already, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said it will add a section on sexual assault to its safety handbook. "It's about damn time," too. Already, "too many journalists have suffered similar horrors."
"What journalism might learn from the Lara Logan story"
We'll learn to better value female reporters: "Rape is a risk that comes with the job," and female journalists "face greater threats to their safety than male reporters do in similar situations," says Ann Friedman at Feministing. But women can also "gain greater access to certain sources," by dint of their gender. Would rape survivors in Haiti have opened up to male reporters, for example? It's vitally important we safeguard our women reporters, on feminist grounds — and "journalistic grounds, too."
"When rape is a risk that comes with the job"
And we'll be more open about the dangers they face: Many female reporters face sexual harassment and worse in their line of work, says Laila Lalami at The Nation. But they "rarely report it for fear of losing assignments." For Logan to come forward about her assault breaks this "powerful taboo" once and for all.
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The Declining Significance of Homophobia, By Mark McCormack. Oxford, £32.50.
Wednesday 11 July 2012
Back in 1994 the "metrosexual" was born in the pages of this newspaper, in an essay which predicted that the future of men belonged to him and his vain, "gay" ways. Now sociologists have finally noticed him, and the impact he has had on masculinity. For this book researcher Mark McCormack regularly visited three schools, and the 16-18-year-old boys he discovered there were "fashion conscious, wearing tight low-slung jeans and designer underwear… they used moisturizer and even tanning products."
"These boys hugged each other hello and goodbye, sat on each other's laps, and gave their friends back rubs. Back when I was a student in school, similar behaviours would have coded boys as gay, and they would have been bullied for it. Yet at these schools, these behaviours made them some of the most popular with students. What was going on?"
What indeed? School is often held up as a place where homophobia rules but, in encouraging contrast to the propaganda of gay-rights group Stonewall, his research found no overt homophobia in secondary schools. Instead, heterosexual students seem to be proud of their pro-gay attitudes. Homophobia not homosexuality is now frowned upon.
McCormack doesn't explain why homophobia has declined so in schools, but argues that the result is an expansion of behaviours available to young men – given that fear of being labelled gay was the main way boys' gender conformity was policed. Once that fear falls away, the floodgates of affection and affectation open.
The real value of this book isn't the way it rescues gay teens from victimhood, but in the revolution in masculinity it documents, about which many oldies are still in denial. The stereotype of young hetero men as homophobic and emotionally illiterate can't really survive hearing about straight boys who sit on each other's laps talking about skin products and calling one another, not very ironically, "lover", "babes" and "boyfriend".
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Sen. Chris Smith calls on Fla. lawmakers to revisit 'Stand Your Ground' law
Updated On: Jul 18 2013 05:53:21 PM EDT
A South Florida lawmaker who led the charge to try and get the "Stand Your Ground" law changed said he's "sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Senate Democratic leader Chris Smith announced Thursday that he's calling on lawmakers to revisit the controversial law that gained national attention after the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
Smith said he wants his fellow legislators to do their jobs "and at least discuss this issue and not just keep ignoring it and sweeping it under the rug."
The senator was part of a task force that reviewed the law after Martin was killed.
Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was acquitted, claiming self-defense.
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