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Mid-December and it's the time of year where many of us pop out to the mountains before the season hits full swing, to meet new people, check out some new resorts and, of course, to get in the first tracks of the season. Most of us have been to visit resorts new to us as individuals, with staff heading out to the ever popular resorts in the Tarantaise and Austria, but I was lucky enough to go somewhere new for all of us... the only problem is I don't want to tell too many people about it.
Over the weekend, along with Jay from the sales team, I went out to Val d'Anniviers, to visit the resorts of Grimentz and Zinal and to take a look at the new properties we will be featuring and to see what the ski area had to offer. The two resorts offer around 50-60km of piste each and include the nearby resorts of St. Luc & Vercorin on the lift pass, offering an additional 120km of piste and making up a decent amount of skiing for a week's holiday. But that's not what about this ski area is about, yes there is 200km of skiing, and yes the inter resort buses are typically efficient, Grimentz and Zinal is more about the quiet pistes and easy access to countless off-piste adventures.
We arrived in Geneva on Friday night and enjoyed a relaxing, though busy, transfer to resort on the train. Being Swiss, the train was waiting for us when we arrived and even got to the destination on time, with minimal fuss — well, you can't imagine the Swiss letting any pesky leaves get in the way, can you! The drive up to resort was quick, though as the sun had gone down we missed the dramatic views. The valley rises up quite dramatically before getting into resort, as we climbed over 1,000m in altitude in around half an hour.
Chalet Edelweiss was both charming and relaxing, and our hosts Eric & Penny were fantastic. Penny had prepared a fantastic meal for us, while Eric showed off their stock of Scott skis and fitted everyone out with the latest kit, apart from me, as I was apparently their first ever snowboarding guest. The chalet is extremely welcoming, and being run by a mature couple means you felt more like guests in their home.
Eric and Penny are clearly huge ski enthusiasts, and were keen to share their knowledge of the local mountains and to talk about the regular weeks they organise where the guests can ski with a mountain guide every day. Saturday morning, after a hearty breakfast, they whisked us up to the lift station, and by 9:30 we were hitting the slopes for our first runs of the winter.
The resort may have been only half open, but within minutes you could sense the endless possibilities off off-piste riding. After a few runs to warm up, we headed up to the top of the Combe de Sorebois, where a huge bowl offering great back country skiing was shown to us. We hiked along the ridge for ten minutes and dropped into the first knee deep powder of the winter. We skied the area throughout they day, never tiring of what is a relatively small area, only dreaming of coming back later in the season, armed with a transceiver, a guide and some snowshoes.
That evening, after another fantastic meal in the chalet, we went for a short hike along the river basin in the valley, heading up passed the resort into the relative wilderness, where Eric lit a small fire and Penny produced some Vin Chaud to help keep us warm. It was a full moon and the views across to the Weisshorn and the Dent Blanche were impressive. This was just one of the nice little touches that the couple offer their guests, should you chose to take it.
The following morning we took the short drive, around 15-20 minutes over to Grimentz, where our next host Will, would take over the reins. Will had collected us from the station in Sierre and had skied with us the day before, but we were now in his back garden. Grimentz had only opened for the season the day before, the cruisy blues and red runs, filled with rollers and corduroy were fantastic, though the off-piste looked pretty tracked out.
Again, after a hour of warming up and playing around in the sidecountry, we were taken on a short ten minute hike from the highest open lift. I say a short hike, for the skiers it was nice and easy, but for the token snowboarder, hiking in thigh deep snow, was hard work, but rewarding. We ended up in a huge, untracked bowl, with lovely rollers, and small trees to play with, followed by a little bit of tree skiing. The snow was knee deep throughout, and was one of the many hidden gems the region has to offer.
Throughout the morning and early afternoon we enjoyed the easily accessed off-the-beaten-track skiing with Will, Eric and Penny, and definitely got a feel for why the three of them had upped sticks and left London for a life on the slopes.
Later that afternoon we were in for another treat, when we checked into our accommodation for our final night, the gorgeous Chalet C by Chivoone, nicknamed Chalet CBC, much to the owner's dismay. The views from the balcony, all across the valley were truly stunning, as was the chalet itself. The master bedroom boasted a huge standing bath in the middle of the room, offering the same fab views. The terrace has a hot tub, and for those looking to cater for themselves, a kitchen to die for.
After settling in we visited the many high-end chalets on offer, before checking out the charming, and superbly named, Chalet la Legende. This chalet sits in the centre of the old town, filled with typical Swiss charm. After our tour of the accommodation, we left the chalet, expecting a short walk to the restaurant booked for the evening, only to be taken into the little cave, underneath the property, where we were treated to a glass of wine, in charming surroundings — for guests staying here Will can arrange for Raclette and wine to be served here, though unfortunately you don't get to indulge in the owner's wine collection.
We ended the evening with a trip to Le Mélèze, one of the many quaint restaurants offering typical mountain cuisine, where we were in for another treat. Our table essentially had a barbeque built into it, with hot coals and a grill over the top, and after a starter of salad, we where given a bowl of meat to cook for ourselves. We were treated to veal, veal sausage, merguez, beef and bacon — what else do you need after a day of deep powder and good wine!
This trip took me to an undiscovered corner of Switzerland, the valley offers views of the nearby Crans Montana, and is across a ridge from Zermatt along with bieng a short drive from Verbier, but has been left alone for years. The people we met moved there as it offers great skiing, incredible backcountry and no crowds. The only problem now, is I want people to go there and enjoy it for themselves, just not too many...
Though chalet holidays are the bread and butter of British skiing, not everyone likes to go for the full catered holiday experience. Though many of us love to try the local cuisine, and count down the days until our week of cheese, meat and wine in France, or sausage, potato and Jägermeister in Austria, some people still pine for the food of home on their travels.
Surely the ultimate British dish on a ski holiday has to be the Sunday roast, it's warming, filling and is stacked with carbs, protein and veg — perfect for your body and mind. So where exactly are the best Sunday roasts in the Alps? Well I took to Twitter this week and bugged our expert sales team to find out where best to recommend for rosbif and Yorkshire pud.
My personal favourite for a Sunday roast in the Skilodge in La Tania. They only do a roast out of peak season (so not during the New Year holidays and Feb), but they combine a great British atmosphere, good portions and the all important lunch-time kick-off of Premiership football or Six Nations rugby. They also do a cracking Christmas Day roast, if you can get a table!
Another restaurant to get a few mentions in the Courchevel Valley is La Marmotte Rouge in Bozel. The venue was opened last winter by a British couple and is already developing a great reputation for their roast dinners with the locals, so much so, people will happily get the bus ride from Courchevel!
Evolution in Meribel, just across from the Chaudanne has also been getting a few tweets for their Sunday fare. The great thing about Evo, apart from the friendly staff and Jez's dog, is the food and location. Having not eaten in Evo for a couple years now, it's great to hear they are still getting rave reviews for their food and being just across from the slopes it makes for a great lunchtime or evening stop to indulge in a good old Sunday roast.
Another Courchevel restaurant that the Twittersphere recommended is l'Oeil de Boeuf, in Courchevel 1550 — I see a Three Valleys theme developing here! The restaurant is quite quaint, with a sun terrace at the bottom of the Tovets piste. The name says it all really, this is where a serving of rosbif will surely be at it's best.
Finally it is time to leave the Three Valleys and head to Tignes and the Clin d'Oeil. Rumour has it this place would have a Michelin star, but for not being open enough days of the year, and having eaten here, the food is exquisite. The restaurant is near to the Aeroski lift and the Tourist office and only has about 8 tables, offering an intimate experience to go with the fabulous food and attentive service.
Moving over to Les Arcs' village of Peisey Vallandry and the Bar Mont Blanc gets a shout from Crispin, one of our new ski experts. The roast usually consist of a choice of chicken or beef and if they don't take your fancy, they also do a mean burger. The ski in/out location and the great views across the valley all add to this stunning spot for a mountainside Sunday lunch.
Our last spot for France is Les Deux Alpes' renowned Tex-Mex bar, Smokey Joes. Robin, another of our ski tea, recommends this place due to its location, at the base of the Jandari Express and White Egg lifts, as well as the awesome food. I wonder if they do a roast dinner burrito?
Last, but by no means least is another Planetski recommendation, with the Clin d'Oeil being the first, the Chez Vrony in Zermatt. According to the friendly ski news specialist, the sun terrace has great views of the Matterhorn, as well as a decent Sunday roast.
So, here a few recommendations from Iglu and our Twitter followers, but I'm sure there are plenty of goose fat roast potatoes, perfect cooked pieces or meat and ample servings of veggies and gravy that we've yet to discover, so feel free to fill us in with anywhere we've missed at @igluski.
According to Wikipedia: "La Niña is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the counterpart of El Niño as part of the broader El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern. During a period of La Niña, the sea surface temperature across the equatorial Eastern Central Pacific Ocean will be lower than normal by 3–5 °C. In the United States, an episode of La Niña is defined as a period of at least 5 months of La Niña conditions."
This translates in huge amounts of snow in North America, which last year saw many west coast Canadian and US resorts break records in terms of snowfall and powder days. So if La Niña is coming, where am I going to ski this year?
Whistler — It's Got It All
When it comes to riding powder Whistler has it all, from tree-lined skiing and deep powder-filled bowls, to a resort that offers everything you need and want on a holiday. The resort has been synonymous with powder riding and is generally considered one of the top, if not the number one, ski resort and when your locals include the likes of Devun Walsh, you can see why.
Last year was Whistler's third snowiest season ever and if the early winter signs are the same, then it will be another amazing year to enjoy British Columbia's world famous resort. If you do head out there is a local guide, only available in the resort's shops, that will let you in on the locals' secret powder stashes, and don't worry, they are usually in-bounds.
For many Whistler is the ultimate resort, it takes Val d'Isere, adds more powder, deeper bowls, more tree-lined skiing and replaces the French skiers with Americans, well, nowhere's perfect...
Revelstoke — Scare Your Pants Off
Revelstoke is one of the youngest resorts you will come across, though due to its unique set-up, it is becoming increasingly popular. Another British Columbian gem, Revelstoke's claim is that it is the only resort that offers piste skiing, cat-skiing and heli-skiing under one umbrella.
This is the kind of resort where you wake up in the morning and decide what to do, from hitting the resort's slopes to spending a day cat-skiing, as long as you get to the guides before everyone else! The resort oozes the charm of an old gold rush town, and until recently it remained a small resort filled with locals and wild-life. Don't expect über luxury five star hotels, though do expect cold beer, spicy chicken wings and stories of fresh tracks days after the last snowfall.
Beaver Creek — Luxury
Now this is where you will find five star luxury and powder skiing, perfectly placed together. Beaver Creek is known for its perfect corduroy pistes, luxury accommodation and elegant surroundings. On top of that, the Epic Pass (the resort's multi-resort lift pass) gives you access to the nearby resorts of Vail and Breckenridge, so you can follow the snow throughout your stay.
With La Niña hopefully dumping metres of fluffy, white, Colorado powder, Beaver Creek is the resort for the luxury option. The hotels, guides, ski instructors and even ski shops are renowned for offering the best you'll find in Colorado (just don't tell Vail I said that). Beaver is where wealthy Americans, movie stars and those looking for state-side luxury head year-after-year, so with metres of snow on offer, where better to enjoy a spa treatment or glass of fizz after being chest deep in the white stuff.
Breckenridge — Family
Breckenridge is another of Colorado's Epic resorts, though the mountain here is immense and offers more than enough to keep you going for a week. With ten peaks, creatively named peak 1 to peak 10, the huge snowparks, its back bowls and its welcoming atmosphere, Breckenridge is a cracking all round resort to enjoy Mother Nature's finest snow.
Breck, as it's known in the US, offers a great variety in accommodation, from budget through to five star and with the mountain offering such diverse skiing, it is a fantastic resort for a family powder adventure. The resort has a laid back feel, probably due to its close ties to freestyle and freeriding locals, has great facilities and is the highest in the US. So if you need a resort where you can hike the back bowls, send the kids to the snowparks, or enjoy a romantic lunch with the Misses, all in the same holiday, Breckenridge is where to head.
Heavenly — Sun-Filled Powder Days
California and snow are not two words you tend to associate with one another, but the Lake Tahoe area has some of the finest powder and most stunning resorts you can find. Heavenly is the king of the lake, with a huge ski area and a resort that crosses the state lines into Nevada — perfect if you fancy a flutter in the casino.
Due to its closer proximity to the West Coast and the huge lake, that is Lake Tahoe, Heavenly boasts superb snow records and with a La Niña coming, it will no doubt offer some of the best skiing and riding you will find this winter. Add in some Californian sunshine (between snow storms, of course), the stunning back-drop of the lake and the chance to ski the local resorts of Northstar-at-Tahoe, Squaw Valley and Kirkwood, and you've got more variety in terrain then you can manage in one trip.
Hopefully this year's La Niña will share the love with Europe, but if it doesn't it will be worth saving up the extra to ski in North America this winter. From intermediate skiers, to park rats and powder hounds, you'll be glad of the 8+hr flight home, just to put your feet up. Take your friends, your wife or the family, it doesn't matter who you ski with, there is a resort out there perfect for you and hopefully just waiting for you to make some first tracks in its fresh snow...
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From the banks of Baltimore's Inner Harbor this week, Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) was able to speak with state police officers in Cecil County, at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and on the Eastern Shore.
It was a sunny, clear day, but had it been an emergency, the governor and police agencies could have started mobilizing across Maryland to respond.
The ceremonial first call showed what a $349 million statewide interoperable police radio system, called Maryland FiRST, will be able to accomplish when the project is complete in 2016.
O'Malley said later that the call was "clear as a bell," despite the distance.
"We had a lot of catching up to do after 9/11," O'Malley said during the state Board of Public Works meeting Wednesday, when funding for the second phase of implementation was approved. "This is a real accomplishment."
After radio communication problems between New York City police, fire and other agencies were highlighted during the terrorist attack, the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Homeland Security began urging all public safety agencies to move to 700 MHz and 800 MHz coordinated frequencies, said Ray Lehr, director of Maryland's Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee.
"The current system that Maryland State Police and most state law enforcement agencies have are pretty old and outdated and limited in their range," Lehr said.
The new system not only will allow government agencies from police to public works to communicate during large-scale emergencies like terrorist attacks and natural disasters, but also will help in situations like long-distance police chases, when officers might previously have lost radio contact, Lehr said.
The Maryland Transportation Authority, Maryland State Police and Kent County are connected to Maryland FiRST now. The entire first phase, which will provide coverage in central Maryland and the Interstate 95 corridor, an area that covers one-third of the state's population and two-thirds of the state's critical infrastructure, will be fully operational by the end of 2012.
The second phase will add Eastern Shore agencies, said Clarence Jewell, a member of the Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee.
"To be able to talk to everyone from Oakland to Ocean City is going to be tremendous," said Jewell, who also is Frederick County's director of emergency communications and a volunteer firefighter.
Such a system would have helped during the recent G-8 summit at Camp David. Officials from several different agencies were able to communicate during the summit, but the county had to take the time to create patches to get the systems working together, Jewell said.
In the future, such communication could be seamless, Lehr said. Maryland currently is working on communications plans with the District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, Lehr said.
In a separate but related move, the Maryland State Police stopped using 10-codes in their radio transmissions on Feb. 1. Before then, Maryland State troopers would use the code "10-46" to refer to a disabled vehicle, whereas now the officer will simply say "disabled vehicle." It's all part of the growing trend to ease communication with other departments, Lehr said.
"In an emergency, if your '10-35' is different than another agency's '10-35,' that's a problem," Lehr said.


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HIFA Voices launches today!
We are delighted to announce the launch today of HIFA Voices: Harnessing the knowledge of HIFA members to improve the availability and use of healthcare information. We invite you to visit the HIFA Voices website and give us your feedback.
HIFA Voices is an evolving database that aims to bring together the experiential knowledge of HIFA members: more than 12,000 professionals from over 2500 organisations in 170 countries, ranging from senior executives at the World Health Organization in Geneva to community health workers in rural Gambia, interacting on five global discussion forums.
HIFA Voices contains the following specialised content:
1. HIFA Quotations are selected verbatim extracts from HIFA Global Forum discussions. HIFA Quotations comprise about 90% of the total content on HIFA Voices.
2. HIFA Citations are conventional bibliographic records of formal and informal literature on the availability and use of health information in low and middle-income countries. They include a growing collection of health information and libraries literature related to Kenya, compiled by Nasra Gathoni, President of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa. We aim to introduce other countries in 2015.
HIFA Quotations and HIFA Citations are selected according to their relevance to three critical questions:
1. What are the healthcare information and learning needs of different groups of healthcare providers in different settings?
2. What are the barriers and drivers to meeting those needs?
3. What must be done – and how – to improve the availability and use of relevant, reliable and actionable healthcare information?
(Please note that HIFA Voices is not a database of health information resources – such databases are provided by other organisations, many of whom are represented among the HIFA members.)
You can choose to browse or search HIFA Quotations, HIFA Citations (Formal), or HIFA Citations (Informal). You can search on title, body and/or author, and/or select from a range of values under five different filters [1. users of healthcare information (eg community health workers); 2. healthcare issue (e.g. malaria); 3. knowledge cycle (eg producing reference and educational resources; 4. WHO regions and countries (e.g. Nigeria); and 5. Health systems and HRH (eg task shifting).
The content of the database is currently limited, but will grow substantially over the coming months. The current content includes HIFA Quotations from our main forum, HIFA, from 1st January 2014 to the present day, and this will be kept up-to-date as we progress through the year and beyond. The current content also includes some HIFA Quotations from previous work that we did with the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services as a contribution to the WHO Recommendations on Optimising Health Workers' Roles for Maternal and Newborn Health (2012).
We are grateful to our Lead Sponsors – The Lancet, Elsevier, mPowering Frontline Health Workers and Intel Corporation; Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji and Ian Roberts at WHO Geneva; the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA); and expert advisers Pascal Mouhouelo (Head Librarian, WHO Africa Regional Office) and John Eyers (Emeritus Librarian, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Special thanks to our lead database developer Arjun Thandi of Evucan web solutions.
We look forward to continue working with you to realise the HIFA vision: a world where every person and every health worker will have access to the healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of those for whom they are responsible.


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- "It increasingly appears to us that there are substantial conflicts of interests, extensive governance issues and perhaps plans to take Coca-Cola private."
— David Winters, 6/17/2014, letter to Coca-Cola Board of Directors
"Good corporate governance also helps to remind the company's directors that they work for the company's shareholders, not for themselves, and certainly not for management."
— Luis A. Aguilar, SEC Commissioner, 4/21/14, Emory University School of Law
"Instituting good corporate governance is difficult, if not impossible, at a company that ignores its shareholders."
—David Winters, 5/7/2014, letter to Coca-Cola Board of Directors
- "As investment adviser with a fiduciary duty to our longtime shareholders, we are deeply concerned that Coca-Cola is becoming known not for great products but for excessive management compensation, the trampling of shareholders' interests and a willful disregard for the valid concerns of its largest shareholder."
— David Winters, 5/1/2014, letter to Coca-Cola Board of Directors
"Although Coca-Cola claims that its corporate governance is 'Best in Class,' there has been no progress to withdraw the 2014 Equity Plan which in our opinion reflects a failure of corporate governance and which could massively dilute shareholders while rewarding the top 5% of management for mediocre performance."
—David Winters, 7/22/14, comments following Coca-Cola's second quarter earnings
- "Coca-Cola and Berkshire shareholders, and in reality all of America, are counting on you to demand that shareholders be treated as partners instead of piggy banks."
— David Winters, 4/16/2014, letter to Warren Buffett
"Some major institutional investors that supported the plan might have reconsidered had they known other pension funds opposed it and known Warren Buffet thought the plan was 'quite excessive.'"
— Pensions & Investments , 5/12/14, "Winning Over Proxy Voters"
"We didn't agree with the plan. We thought it was excessive. And—I love Coke. I love the management, I love the directors. But— so I didn't want to vote no. It's kind of un-American to vote no at a Coke meeting ."
— Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, 4/23/14, CNBC
"I told him (Muhtar Kent) ahead‐of‐time what we were going to do, sure. He knew if I abstained that I obviously wasn't for the plan."
— Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, 4/23/14, Bloomberg TV
- "Events over the past few months, leading up to and after the annual meeting of Coca-Cola shareholders, have given rise to grave concerns at Wintergreen Advisers regarding potential conflicts of interests at Coca-Cola."
— David Winters, 6/17/2014, letter to Coca-Cola Board of Directors
- "If there is significant opposition to the proposed equity plan, we believe the Coca-Cola board should consider whether it has a sufficient mandate from shareholders to fully implement the plan."
— David Winters, 4/22/2014, letter to Coca-Cola Shareholders
"This plan actually is very much in line with the plans that we have put forward to shareowners in the past, and that have had shareowner approval."
— Gloria Bowden, Associate General Counsel and Secretary of The Coca-Cola Company, 4/4/14, CNBC
"The plan—compared to past plans was a significant change."
— Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, 4/23/14, CNBC
Recent Developments
- Reuters Breakingviews, "Coke Challenge Goes Beyond Revising Pay Plan," by Kevin Allison
- David Winters discusses Coca-Cola's compensation plan changes with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business
- David Winters appeared on CNBC to discuss why more changes are needed at Coca-Cola
- New York Times, "Support in Coca-Cola Vote Depends on How the Math Is Done" by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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LSA 2015 Annual Meeting
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The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place January 8-11, 2015, at the:
Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
921 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204
The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and The Association for Linguistic Evidence will meet concurrently with the LSA.
The Annual Meeting will feature plenary talks by Bruce Hayes (University of California, Los Angeles), David Poeppel (New York University), Carmen Silva-Corvalán (University of Southern California) and Alicia Wassink (University of Washington), as well as a Presidential Address by Joan Maling (Brandeis University).
Hundreds of presentations across all areas of linguistics have been scheduled in over 60 sessions, along with social events, film showings, minicourses, a Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon', and panels on professional development and public outreach. A full schedule is available online.
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More information on local transportation and dining options, sign language interpretation, child care and other topics will be made available during the coming months. Submission proposals for abstracts and organized sessions are now closed.
Hotel Accommodations
The Hilton Portland & Executive Tower has reserved a block of rooms for those attending the 2015 Annual Meeting.
Why attendees should book with the LSA Room Block for the 2015 Annual Meeting.
Hotel reservations at the LSA Annual Meeting rate are available online and by telephone, and must be made by Saturday, December 6 at the latest. Early reservations are encouraged.
The special LSA room rates for the 2015 Annual Meeting are:
Single/Double/Triple/Quad: $119/night
Reserve your hotel room online here. To reserve a room or rooms by telephone, call 1-800-HILTONS (1-800-445-8667) and mention the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) room rate.
Meeting Registration
Everyone attending the meeting is expected to register. Compliance is important for keeping our fees affordable. Only those who register will be allowed to present papers, use the Job Placement Service, or attend presentations and other functions. Registrants should wear their meeting badges at all times when at LSA Annual Meeting functions.
To preregister for the Meeting, click on the red "Register for Meeting" button at the top of this page. A printable registration form is available here.
Preregistration for the 2015 Annual Meeting will be available from October 1 through December 19, 2014.
Preregistrants may claim their conference tote bags, badges, and handbooks at the registration desk in the Plaza Foyer beginning at 12:00 p.m. on 8 January. Registration will be open from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on 8 January, from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on 9 and 10 January, and from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on 11 January.
Preregistration rates are as follows:
- Regular/Emeritus/Life Members: $190
- Student Members: $70
- Under/Unemployed Members: $75
- Nonmember - Regular: $290
- Nonmember - Student: $115
Onsite Registration
Any attendees who have not preregistered for the Meeting by the December 19 deadline will need to register onsite during the hours listed immediately above. Onsite registration fees are:
- Regular/Emeritus/Life Members: $260
- Student Members: $95
- Under/Unemployed Members: $100
- Nonmember - Regular: $360
- Nonmember - Student: $140
- Special 1-day Rate: $75
Three minicourses providing an introduction to Praat scripting, Python, and "Thriving as an Early Career Faculty Member" will be offered on Thursday, January 8, the first day of the conference. Registration in these minicourses is separate from general Annual Meeting registration, and space in all three minicourses is limited.
Job Interview Service
For a nominal fee, the LSA provides private space at the Annual Meeting for organizations wishing to interview job candidates. If desired, we will also collect CVs from meeting attendees. Read more about the Job Interview Service here. NOTE: The Job Interview Service is completely subscribed for the 2015 Annual Meeting; only Tier I (CV Collection/Job Listing) is currently available.
Child Care
Members who notify the Secretariat that they plan to bring children to the meeting will receive the names and e-mail addresses of other members who expect to bring their children to Portland, so that they may arrange for mutual babysitting services if convenient. In addition, members may arrange for babysitting services by contacting the Hilton's concierge directly.
Attendees who are presenting at the LSA meeting are eligible for a maximum $100 stipend to offset child care costs. Those wishing to avail themselves of this service must notify the Secretariat no later than 1 December, 2014.
Sign Language Interpretation
Attendees at the Portland meeting who need ASL/English interpretation must notify the LSA Secretariat and register for the meeting by 14 November 2014. Presenters who plan to present in ASL must also notify the Secretariat at by October 1 to ensure that interpretation is provided. All requests should be sent to David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings, with the words "2015 Meeting ASL Interpreting Request" in the subject line. Please include a list of LSA sessions and/or papers you expect to attend, including plenary addresses, the business meeting, and the Presidential Address. All requests will be forwarded to the interpreter coordinator for the Portland meeting, who will identify qualified local interpreters, assist with scheduling, and handle day-to-day logistics concerning interpreting.


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The National Restaurant Association will host its inaugural Restaurant Finance Summit during NRA Show 2014 at Chicago's McCormick Place. The event will bring together restaurant financial executives and operators, Wall Street analysts, investment groups and lenders, and expert tax and accounting professionals to discuss issues related to the financial health of the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry, a news release said.
"Financing and finance related issues continue to be a critical focus for restaurateurs looking to expand existing concepts or launch new ones," said NRA's Dave Koenig, VP of Tax and Profitability. "Our goal is to bring these restaurant executives together with potential lenders and investment groups to discuss opportunities in an environment — NRA Show — that embodies the scope and vitality of this industry."
A keynote presentation will be given by Jonathan Tisch, chairman of Loews Hotels & Resorts, followed by a range of industry-specific sessions, which along with networking breaks and a post-Summit reception, will provide an opportunity for financiers and restaurant industry financial professionals and operators to discuss the overall state of the industry and develop mutually beneficial investment relationships, the release said.
Registration for the Restaurant Finance Summit is $299 for operators and includes full access to all four days of NRA Show exhibit floor and programming, to be held from May 17-20. Participation in the Restaurant Finance Summit is limited and certain qualifications apply. See Restaurant.org/Show for qualification details.
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The Northwestern team is the first to show that sRNAs in Yersinia affect virulence, a finding that suggests the evolution of pathogens may also occur at the level of changes in RNA and in the way protein-coding genes are regulated.
Lathem used advanced DNA sequencing technology called high-throughput sequencing to identify the complete set of sRNAs produced by Y. pseudotuberculosis. The technology enabled his team to study the diseases for the first time at a deeper genetic level.
"This technique enables us to really pick apart how pathogens evolve and how different species of bacteria are able to cause different types of disease," Lathem said. "It goes beyond looking at what proteins are produced by the bacteria. It's an additional layer of evolutionary analysis."
This detective work is important because if researchers can identify unique characteristics among deadly species such as Y. pestis, they may be able to generate new therapeutics or adapt current ones.
Unlike traditional "messenger" RNA, which is copied from DNA to create proteins and is well understood by scientists, these non-coding sRNA molecules are never translated into proteins. Hundreds of noncoding RNA molecules exist inside bacterial cells, but, until recently, scientists had not determined the function of many.
"Once we identified the complete set of sRNAs for Y. pseudotuberculosis, further analysis unlocked a number of surprising discoveries about their function," Lathem said.
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All but three members of Congress from Minnesota are less wealthy than most of their counterparts on Capitol Hill.
The Washington Post put together an analysis of congressional wealth, calculating each member's estimated wealth by finding the difference between his or her reported assets and liabilities in 2010.
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With an estimated wealth of $8.7 million, Sen. Al Franken is the richest of the state delegation. Most of the Democrat's money has come from real estate investments, according to the Post's analysis.
Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann and Chip Cravaack also came in above the median with about $1.8 million and $1.4 million in estimated wealth, respectively.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., reported a small, $18,000 portfolio of mutual funds in 2010. That was outweighed by an estimated $32,500 in liabilities, making his estimated wealth a negative $15,000 – the lowest in Minnesota's delegation.
Looking at all members of Congress in 2010, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is the richest at $448.1 million, and Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., is the least wealthy at negative $4.7 million.
The Post also looked at each lawmaker's investments to determine whether he or she was financially aggressive. Half of Minnesota's delegation (including Bachmann and Ellison) was considered financially aggressive in 2010.
All told, the 535 members of Congress reported about $31 million in outside income in 2010. That's up from $11.7 million in 2004.
Republicans median net worth dwarfed Democrat's in 2004 — $932,000 compared to $646,000. In 2010, the two parties were almost dead even.
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The Pope said the priest "does not preach a Christianity a la carte, according to his own tastes, preaching a Gospel according to his own preferred ideas, according to his own theological ideas.He does not exempt himself from proclaiming the whole will of God, also the uncomfortable will, also topics that personally do not please him so much."
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Keywords: Priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Priest, vocation, Holy Mass, celibacy
VATICAN CITY, (Zenit.org) - The priesthood is not a profession, to be engaged in part-time, but a full-time and perpetual vocation, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope affirmed this on Thursday in a traditional meeting with priests of the Diocese of Rome held annually at the beginning of Lent, Vatican Radio reported.
"One is not a priest for part of the time; we are so with our whole soul, with our whole heart," he said.
The Pontiff added that "this being with Christ and being an ambassador of Christ, this being for others is a mission that penetrates our being and must penetrate ever more the totality of our being."
The Holy Father gave an in-depth lectio divina inspired by chapter 20 of the Acts of the Apostles, in which St. Paul speaks to the elders of Ephesus.
The Pope concentrated on the meaning of service and on the fidelity that must animate the presbyter.
Service, he pointed out, requires a humility that is not an exhibition of "false modesty," but rather love for the will of God, for proclaiming without "creating the idea that Christianity is an immense package of things to learn."
The priest, in fact, "does not preach a Christianity a la carte, according to his own tastes, preaching a Gospel according to his own preferred ideas, according to his own theological ideas," the Pontiff said.
He continued, "He does not exempt himself from proclaiming the whole will of God, also the uncomfortable will, also topics that personally do not please him so much."
The Holy Father underlined the theme of conversion, especially in regards to the season of Lent, understood above all as a change of thought and heart, with a focus not on things of the world and how they are presented, but on the presence of God in the world itself.
"Let us not lose the zeal, the joy of being called by the Lord," he exhorted.
"Let us renew our spiritual youth," Benedict XVI said, encouraging the priests to keep "the joy of being able to go with Christ to the end, of 'staying the course to the end' always with the enthusiasm of being called by Christ for this great service."
In the same way, he exhorted them to be "attentive also to our spiritual life, to our being with Christ."
The Pope affirmed, "To pray and to meditate on the Word of God is not time wasted" or taken away from the care of souls, but rather "it is a condition so that we can really be in contact with the Lord and thus speak firsthand of the Lord to others."
Despite the difficulties the Church is facing, there must be no loss of hope, he said.
The Pontiff stated, "Truth is stronger than lies; love is stronger than hatred, God is stronger than all the adverse forces."
"And with this joy," he added, "with this interior certainty let us start out [...] in the consolations of God and in the persecutions of the world."
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In his greeting to the Holy Father, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, vicar general for the Diocese of Rome, mentioned the 60th anniversary of the Pontiff's priesthood, which will be celebrated on June 29.
The cardinal underlined the clergy's most appreciated priestly qualities of Benedict XVI: "humble and joyful fidelity, without cracks, to the Lord Jesus; total willingness to serve the Church where Providence has called him, to the formidable weight of the Supreme Pontificate; love of the Word of God and of the liturgy and the joy of living time according to the rhythm of the liturgical year; the exercise of intelligence and the passion to propose and defend the search of truth without compromises; gentleness of manner and the magnanimity of heart; serenity of a soul wholly given to Christ."
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