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Will Gluck On Directing ANNIE Film: 'I Was Scared Going In To This'
by Movies News Desk - Nov 7, 2014
Speaking before an audience at the Billboard/ Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference yesterday, Will Gluck, director of the highly anticipated film adaptation of ANNIE revealed, 'I was very scared going in to this, if I was going to ruin a lot of kids' childhoods.' (more...)
Japan IT Week Autumn 2014: Record Breaking Visitor, Exhibitor Conference Attendee Numbers
by BWW News Desk - Nov 7, 2014
The show is the largest comprehensive IT show held in Japan in the second half of the year and was composed of 7 independent exhibitions: 5th Cloud Computing Expo Japan (CLOUD JAPAN Autumn), 4th Web & Mobile Marketing Expo (Web-Mo Autumn), 3rd Data Center Expo (DATA CENTER Autumn), 4th Information Security Expo (IST Autumn), 4th Smartphone & Mobile Expo (SMARTPHONE Autumn), 3rd Big Data Management Expo (BIG DATA Autumn) (former: Big Data & Data Management Expo) and 2nd Direct Commerce Solutions Expo (DIREX Autumn).The 7 exhibitions allowed visiting professionals to seek solutions to aid future business, exhibiting firms to launch new products, technologies, services etc. and for the two parties to negotiate and make new business relations with one another. (more...)
"Warning Signs Your Business is Overwhelmed with IT Issues" is Released by PacketDrivers IT Outsourcing as eBook Guide for Business Owners and Executives
by BWW News Desk - Nov 7, 2014
PacketDrivers IT Outsourcing, a Seattle based IT support company, recently released a comically accurate eBook highlighting the areas of failed IT support which indicate the current IT team is on a downward slope or simply overwhelmed with too much to handle. (more...)
BWW Interviews: Paris Through the Window - Rebecca Luker Breathes Life Into LITTLE DANCER
by Jamie McGonnigal - Nov 6, 2014
Currently starring in the Broadway-bound 'Little Dancer,' Rebecca Luker is playing the adult version of Degas' little dancer - a young lady whose image lives on in several differnet versions - many of which reside in Washington's National Gallery of Art. (more...)
BWW Interviews: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA's Brad Oscar
by Heidi Scheuermann - Nov 6, 2014
One of Broadway's most beloved musicals, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, opened last night at the Saenger Theater. The musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber originally opened on the Great White Way in the late 1980s, and starred the likes of Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. The story begins when the Paris Opera House is taken over by a new management team. The disfigured man who lives beneath the theatre, the phantom, lets them know who is really in charge by terrorizing them until his love, Christine, is put into the spotlight. (more...)
MEMS Industry Group Announces First Open-Source Algorithm Community
by BWW News Desk - Nov 6, 2014
SCOTTSDALE, AZ(Marketwired - Nov 6, 2014) - MEMS Executive Congress Karen Lightman, executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG), today announced the first open-source algorithm cooperative, Accelerated Innovation Community (AIC), during her opening remarks at MEMS Executive Congress US 2014. (more...)
David F. Snider Releases STARS IN THE DEEP
by BWW News Desk - Nov 5, 2014
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Sizmek Launches New Self-Serve Rich Media Toolset for Social and Mobile Ads
by BWW News Desk - Nov 5, 2014
NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Sizmek (Nasdaq:SZMK), the open ad management company for advertisers, agencies and publishers worldwide, today launched a self-serve toolset for building and distributing rich media ads across major social properties on any device. (more...)
EXASOL Heads to Dell World, Highlights Milestone and Continues to Meet and Exceed Customers' Expectations
by BWW News Desk - Nov 4, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Dell World EXASOL AG, www.exasol.com, the provider of EXASolution, the world's most powerful engine for analytics and data warehousing according to the recent TPC-H benchmark, today announcedthat more than 1,000 Dell PowerEdge servers have been sold with EXASolution. The EXASolution Appliance EXASOL software combined with Dell PowerEdge servers, services and support has lowered the cost of data warehousing by up to 90 percent and provided its customers with a full suite of support, services and capabilities. (more...)
ON.Lab Launches Revolutionary SDN Open Source Network Operating System -- ONOS -- on behalf of its Community of Service Providers and Innovator Partners
by BWW News Desk - Nov 4, 2014
MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ The Open Networking Lab, ON.Lab, today launched the revolutionary open source SDN Open Network Operating System (ONOS) on behalf of the ONOS community of partners, contributors and end-users. The open source software will be released and available for download on Dec. 5 (see event details below). ONOS is a complete open source SDN network operating system that enables agile service creation and deployment at scale on any hardware, including white boxes. This disruptive platform delivers a highly available, scalable SDN control plane featuring northbound and southbound open APIs and paradigms for a diversity of management, control, and service applications across mission critical networks. (more...)
The Pershing Square Foundation Makes $611,000 Grant To myAgro To Support Small-Scale West African Farmers
by BWW News Desk - Nov 4, 2014
NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Pershing Square Foundation has announced a grant of $611,000 to myAgro an organization that helps small-scale West African farmers save their way out of poverty through a unique mobile layaway lending program, allowing them to increase harvests by an estimated 75%.The grant will help double myAgro's operations in 2015, reaching approximately 12,000 farmers using an SMS-based platform and a network of local village vendors. The grant comes at a crucial time for farmers in the region who are facing increased challenges with the Ebola epidemic and a delayed and disappointing rainy season which extended the hunger period for smallholder farmers who are just now starting to harvest. (more...)
VAULT Festival 2015 Lineup Announced; Kicks Off January 28
by BWW News Desk - Nov 3, 2014
Following the enormous success of last year's VAULT Festival, Heritage Arts today announces the programme for VAULT's triumphant return to the Leake Street tunnels for six frenetic weeks of live entertainment. From 28 January 2015 they will present a carefully curated, high quality multi-arts programme across seven different spaces under Waterloo station. (more...)
BILLY SHERWOOD's Mix Of Queensrÿche's Frequency Unknown Finally Available
by BWW News Desk - Nov 3, 2014
Frequency Unknown, the 13th album by metal legends Queensrÿche arrived in April of 2013 amidst a swarm of controversy. The band had just split in 2 with founding vocalist/frontman Geoff Tate leading an all-new group of musicians while the remaining original members of the band carried on with a new vocalist. Dubbed The Heaviest Rÿche Ever, Geoff Tate's version of the band included longtime QR guitarist Kelly Gray plus Ozzy Osbourne bassist Rudy Sarzo and legendary AC/DC / Dio drummer Simon Wright. (more...)
Scoop: UTOPIA on FOX - Friday, November 7, 2014
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Get all the scoop on UTOPIA, airing on FOX on Friday, November 7, 2014! (more...)
Enjoy the View: OtterBox Alpha Glass Screen Protectors for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus Now Available in Clear & Privacy
by BWW News Desk - Nov 25, 2014
FORT COLLINS, Colo., Nov. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ To complement the bigger, sharper displays on the latest Apple devices, OtterBox , the No. 1 most-trusted brand in smartphone protection, introduces Alpha Glass screen protectors to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.* The fortified glass screen protectors are available now for both devices in Clear and Privacy. (more...)
Altair HyperXtrude' 2015 Brings Extrusion Simulation to the Shop Floor
by BWW News Desk - Nov 25, 2014
TROY, Mich.,, Nov. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Altair today announced the launch of HyperXtrude 2015, a new version of the popular simulation tool for extrusion processes. For the first time, engineers on the shop floor may validate die designs using computer-aided engineering (CAE) techniques directly from computer-aided design (CAD) models. This change represents a significant workflow improvement. (more...)
Food Network Announces January 2015 Highlights
by TV News Desk - Nov 25, 2014
Guy Fieri celebrates the New Year with the premiere of Guy's Grocery Games: Family Style on Sunday, January 4th at 8pm, when families storm the grocery store aisles confronting new challenges and obstacles for the chance to take home up to $20,000. (more...)
The Fifty/50 to Host New Year's Eve Party
by BWW News Desk - Nov 25, 2014
Wicker Park upscale sports bar The Fifty/50 (2047 W Division St) will throw an all-inclusive, private New Year's Eve party starting at 8pm on Wednesday, December 31 featuring a five-hour premium New Year's Eve package, a food buffet, champagne toast, party favors, music, and more. (more...)
Avery Launches Design & Print App for Google Drive
by BWW News Desk - Nov 25, 2014
The new Avery Design & Print App provides more extensive features and even more Avery product support than the Avery Label Merge add-on for Google Docs that launched earlier this year. Users have access to all the robust editing features of Avery Design & Print Online, including adding images, creating circular text, QR code creation, sequential numbering and more. Plus, the new app provides templates for all the printable Avery products. (more...)
Magma Adds the ExpressBox 3400 to its High Performance Computing Expansion Product Line
by BWW News Desk - Nov 25, 2014
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 25, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) via PRWEB - Magma, a manufacturer of expansion computing solutions, today announced the addition of the ExpressBox 3400 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) expansion system to its growing line of Gen 3 PCI Express expansion chassis. The EB3400, targeted for High Performance Computing (HPC) and industrial computing applications, features PCIe Gen 3 connectivity and is equipped with 7-PCIe X8 electrical slots in a uniquely small 4U half width chassis. This unique size for housing full-length full-height PCIe cards optimizes rack space and increases configuration flexibility. (more...)
David Guetta Releases Most Anticipated Album 'Listen' Today
by BWW News Desk - Nov 25, 2014
'Listen,' David Guetta's incredible sixth studio album, is out today. It unites three years of production work with David's desire to produce records that strike a chord with his huge army of fans. (more...)
BWW Interview: Danielle Wade Talks Trading Her Ruby Slippers for Glass Shoes in Ross Petty's CINDERELLA
by Alan Henry - Nov 24, 2014
For Danielle Wade playing iconic, female characters on stage is a dream come true. Fresh off the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Wizard of OZ - which played Toronto during an extended sit down, Wade is trading her ruby slipper for ones made of glass in Ross Petty's annual pantomime production. This year's whimsical tale is Cinderella: The Gags to Riches Family Musical! (more...)
Mamie Parris, Preston Truman Boyd & More Join Cast of Roundabout's ON THE 20TH CENTURY; Full Company Announced!
by BWW News Desk - Nov 24, 2014
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced additional casting for the new Broadway production of the classic musical On the Twentieth Century starring Tony & Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, Golden Globe & SAG Award winner & Tony nominee Peter Gallagher, Tony nominee Andy Karl, Mark Linn-Baker, Tony winner Michael McGrath and Tony winner Mary Louise Wilson. On the Twentieth Century will be choreographed by Tony winner Warren Carlyle and directed by six-time Tony nominee Scott Ellis, and features music by Cy Coleman and book & lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. On the Twentieth Century is based on plays by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur & Bruce Millholland. The original Broadway production was directed by Harold Prince. (more...)
NRB Announces the Ground-Breaking of their New Office and Plant in New Holland, PA
by BWW News Desk - Nov 20, 2014
NRB (USA), an Ephrata, PA based leader in off-site modular construction serving the North East, Mid Atlantic and Midwest regions of the US since 2003, is pleased to announce the November 14, 2014 ground breaking of their new office and manufacturing plant to be built at 191 Quality Circle, New Holland PA. With the interest level in off-site modular construction at an all time high, this is both an endorsement of a stronger US economy and a clear commitment to growing our US operation to meet the greater demands and needs of the commercial construction market, says Bob McNeil, President of NRB (USA). (more...)
WSO2 Technology Executives to Present London Workshops on Optimizing Application Development and Building an Apache Stratos-based PaaS
by BWW News Desk - Nov 20, 2014
Increasingly, the cloud is a cornerstone of enterprise IT. Many organizations are building their own platform as a service (PaaS) environments to take advantage of cloud architecture and cloud service benefits. Others are changing the business-IT dynamic by transforming software delivery into an agile, on-demand application environment. To support this effort, WSO2 will present two workshops in London on adopting cloud-enabled DevOps practices and building a flexible private or hybrid PaaS. (more...)
Tellabs' Optical LAN Selected by SK Food Group for Its New Manufacturing Facility
by BWW News Desk - Nov 19, 2014
NAPERVILLE, IL - Tellabs, a leading provider of passive optical network (PON) solutions, today announced its Optical LAN solution was selected by SK Food Group, a leader in the manufacturing and wholesale food sales industry, for its new manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio. As part of the deployment with fiber optic communications integrator STAT Communications, Optical LAN improves SK Food Group's network performance while reducing equipment needs and supporting evolving network demands for years to come. (more...)
TDF Theatre Dictionary to Collaborate with Off-Off-Broadway Theatre Companies
by BWW News Desk - Nov 19, 2014
In celebration of the beginning of the third year of TDF's fun and informative online Theatre Dictionary (www.theatredictionary.org), the not-for-profit service organization has commissioned four off-Off Broadway theatre companies (Clubbed Thumb, New York Neo-Futurists, the PIT, and F*It Club) to collaborate with TDF to create a series of humorous and inventive Theatre Dictionary videos. Three of these new videos are being premiered today, with three additional videos to be released each month over the next several months. (more...)
New Painter Essentials 5 Brings World's Most Realistic Digital Painting Tools to New Artists and Photo Enthusiasts
by BWW News Desk - Nov 18, 2014
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Welcome to the Party! Vainglory Now Live on the App Store
by BWW News Desk - Nov 18, 2014
Vainglory was featured during Apple's keynote in September, and it has already been praised as Epic by Cult of Mac and the MOBA lover's dream by MMORPG. Vainglory is an unapologetically core MOBA that immerses players in a vivid world where they become powerful heroes with unique abilities. Built with Apple's most advanced technology and the company's proprietary E.V.I.L. engine, Vainglory brings a new class of ultra-high fidelity graphics and control responsiveness to touch devices. (more...)
Wisegate Collections is the "Pinterest of IT"
by BWW News Desk - Nov 18, 2014
We live in a socially networked world today, with actionable knowledge all around us, said Dan Dinhoble, co-founder and VP of product strategy for Wisegate. We use social sharing tools like Yelp, YouTube, and Twitter to share experiences and knowledge, and it helps us learn and make better decisions in many areas of our life. Except in IT where we're stuck in the past with old IT advisory models and inefficient peer sharing that still dominate how IT leaders get information. (more...)
Obsidian and Intel Showcase Crossbow InfiniBand Routers, Outperforming Lustre LNET Routers for Fast and Flexible Storage
by BWW News Desk - Nov 18, 2014
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ (Supercomputing14, Booth #548) With the influx of data coming into the enterprise, data center and service provider environments, organizations from around the world are re-evaluating network architecture and traditional storage systems. As the need for more scalable I/O performance increases, Obsidian Strategics will demonstrate a key application of its Crossbow R400-6 native InfiniBandrouter fast and flexible storage, essentially cracking the commercial market for Lustre and InfiniBand. (more...)
New ComplianceWire User Interface Launched with November Platform Release
by BWW News Desk - Nov 17, 2014
We started from Scratch with this UI, stated Brian Bettinger, Sr. Director, Product Management at UL EduNeering. Our clients expect us to deliver the latest advances in mobile-friendly environments so they can develop, train and qualify their global workforces. It was incumbent upon us to better understand their needs and deliver an improved and enhanced learner experience. Brian continued, With the recent release of our ComplianceWire Mobile App, our users now have a powerful combination of learning mobility and flexibility that allows them to take their training on the go anytime, anywhere. (more...)
Texas Roadhouse Partners with PeopleMatter to Streamline Employee Hiring and Onboarding
by BWW News Desk - Nov 17, 2014
Texas Roadhouse, which is known for legendary food and legendary service, has partnered with PeopleMatter to manage hiring and onboarding for its 45,000 employees - known as "Roadies" - at the chain's more than 435 locations nationwide. PeopleMatter's user-friendly, all-in-one hiring and onboarding technology will save managers time, ensure compliance and immerse candidates in Texas Roadhouse's renowned employee-first culture. Named one of America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies by Forbes Magazine, Texas Roadhouse's dedication to its employees is one of its key secrets to success. (more...)
NTI Announces Winners of Backup Now EZ Sweepstakes
by BWW News Desk - Nov 15, 2014
MotoCMS 3.0 to Be Launched by MotoCMS
by BWW News Desk - Nov 15, 2014
The founder of MotoCMS, a company that is devoted to helping people create their own websites through easy-to-use website builders, is proud to announce that he is about to launch the public beta version of his company's latest CMS versionMotoCMS 3.0 Beta. Anybody who would like to try the new MotoCMS 3.0 version is welcome to sign up for free prelaunch access. (more...)
BWW Previews: Think Tank Theatre Debuts With A TON OF BRICKS
by Todd Zeigler - Nov 15, 2014
Sometimes within an ending are the seeds of a new beginning. (more...)
Now Anyone Can Bake!; Drop Debuts Connected Kitchen Scale and Recipe App in Time for the Holidays
by BWW News Desk - Nov 14, 2014
Drop does an amazing job of bringing technology to the kitchen and updating the baking experience to make anyone an expert, said Brit Morin, founder and CEO, Brit + Co. I'm so impressed with the entire experience: from real-time adjustments to recipes available in the app and tips from Drop's baking experts. It really is a must-have in the kitchen. (more...)
Pioneer XDJ-1000 Multiplayer Powered by Touch
by BWW News Desk - Nov 13, 2014
We're continuing to improve the DJ experience utilizing the latest technology, including touch screen controls and an advanced user interface, said David Arevalo, director, Professional Sound and Visual Division of Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. The XDJ-1000's large touch screen provides quicker access to commonly used features and music details. (more...)
PetSmart Unwraps its Biggest Black Friday Deals
by BWW News Desk - Nov 12, 2014
Black Friday brings more items to eat, drink and make merry memories with pets! PetSmart (NASDAQ:PETM) has aisle after aisle of favorites for dogs, cats and specialty pets this Black Friday with over 3,600 items on sale for at least 50 percent off - more than ever before! (more...)
Octa Announces Spider Monkey'' and Lynx'', New Tablet Accessories in Time for the Holidays
by BWW News Desk - Nov 12, 2014
DENVER, Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Octa, a Denver-based startup that creates mobile mounting solutions, today announced the availability of the Spider Monkey and Lynx in time for the holiday shopping season. The Spider Monkey and Lynx allow users to enjoy their tablets in previously impossible ways, offering comfortable solutions for unexpected environments. From streaming popular TV shows in bed to taking time-lapse photography in the wilderness, Octa's accessories accommodate your most unique and personalized need. (more...)
Logentries Launches Shareable, Community-Driven Log Analytics
by BWW News Desk - Nov 12, 2014
BOSTON, Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Logentries,the leading log management and analytics service built for the cloud, today unveiled a new online forum for its global IT Operations and Development Community to access and share Logentries Community Packs. Community Packs relieve the burden of traditional log analytics and reporting and are free for registered Logentries users. (more...)
Catavolt Announces Manufacturing Mobile App Platform for Driving Operational Excellence
by BWW News Desk - Nov 12, 2014
ALPHARETTA, GA - Catavolt, Inc. today announced the release of the world's first codeless mobile app development platform built specifically for manufacturing organizations. With Catavolt's manufacturing mobile app platform, business analysts can quickly configure pre-built apps or easily create custom apps from Scratch without any coding. (more...)
BWW Previews: REPaloud's WOMEN ON TOP Stars Exceptional Cast of Nashville Actresses
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nov 12, 2014
It's the stuff of theatrical legend. Or perhaps it's the perfect recipe for a theatrical endeavor of legendary proportions. You must simply bring together eight of Nashville's finest actresses under the direction of a man who is helping to change the face of local theater with his inventive, imaginative original works. Then give them two noteworthy scripts from the late 20th century and place them in a rehearsal hall to prepare for public consumption (more...)
Former Vidyo SVP of Sales and Support Joins Panopto to Lead Global Sales Expansion
by BWW News Desk - Nov 12, 2014
SEATTLE, Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Panopto, a leading video platform provider for the enterprise and education markets, today announced that Rob Hughes has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. Hughes will oversee the expansion of Panopto's sales team to support growing market demand for the company's industry-leading video platform. (more...)
Webydo's Designer Community Disrupts Responsive Web Design
by BWW News Desk - Nov 11, 2014
In a radically democratic process, Webydo's roadmap is determined by its designer community who requested and voted for the development of the Pixel-Perfect Responsive Editor. This revolutionary editor lets designers create advanced responsive sites for their clients with total creative freedom, without writing code and offers: (more...)
Jean Gilbertson Releases DANCING ON THE WHISPER OF GOD
by BWW News Desk - Nov 11, 2014
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New No-Cost App "WordBubbles!" from Apprope is Perfect Blend of Brainteaser, Word Search Game & Puzzle
by BWW News Desk - Nov 10, 2014
People of all ages who believe that life should never be boring especially when they have their iPhone handy can now head to the App Store or Google Play and download the new no-cost app WordBubbles!, which is the perfect blend of brainteaser, word search game and puzzle. (more...)
VTech' Record & Learn KidiStudio'' Honored With Scholastic Parent & Child' Magazine Gold Star Toy Award
by BWW News Desk - Nov 10, 2014
CHICAGO, Nov. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ VTech (www.vtechkids.com), a world leader in age-appropriate and developmental stage-based electronic learning products for children, today announced its Record & Learn KidiStudio, a standout from its infant and preschool collection, earned a Gold Star Toy Award from Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine. Geared for ages three to six, the Record & Learn KidiStudio goes beyond a simple musical keyboard, letting kids alter their voices with different melodies and indulge their inner DJ with sound effects and tempo-changing features. The top 24 winning kids' products are featured in the November issue of the magazine and online at www.scholastic.com/goldstarwinners. (more...)
Japan IT Week Autumn 2014: Besucher-, Aussteller- und Konferenzteilnehmerrekord
by BWW News Desk - Nov 10, 2014
Die Messe ist die größte und umfangreichste IT-Ausstellung in Japan in der zweiten Jahreshälfte und bestand aus 7 unabhängigen Ausstellungen: 5th Cloud Computing Expo Japan (CLOUD JAPAN Autumn), 4th Web & Mobile Marketing Expo (Web-Mo Autumn), 3rd Data Center Expo (DATA CENTER Autumn), 4th Information Security Expo (IST Autumn), 4th Smartphone & Mobile Expo (SMARTPHONE Autumn), 3rd Big Data Management Expo (BIG DATA Autumn) (früher: Big Data & Data Management Expo) und 2nd Direct Commerce Solutions Expo (DIREX Autumn).Die 7 Ausstellungen haben es den Fachbesuchern ermöglicht, Lösungen für die Zukunft der Branche zu suchen, den ausstellenden Firmen, neue Produkte, Technologien, Dienstleistungen und so weiter einzuführen, und diesen beiden Parteien, miteinander zu verhandeln und neue Geschäftsbeziehungen zu knüpfen. (more...)
BWW Interviews: Ana Gasteyer on SNL, WICKED, Sondheim, and Her Upcoming Show with Seth Rudetsky
by Jeff Davis - Nov 10, 2014
Some of Broadway's most acclaimed musical theater actresses will be in San Antonio over the coming months in the Broadway @ Woodlawn Theatre Celebrity Series with host Seth Rudetsky. Starring as host, interviewer and pianist, Rudetsky is a Broadway accompanist, Sirius XM radio host, comedian, and musical theatre expert. In each show, Seth Rudetsky mixes songs with a live interview of a guest Broadway star's life and career. Insider stories are also revealed from the friendship of Seth and each Broadway star. (more...)
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Think about this trade. Richards agreed to waive his NTC. The Lightning are much better off now. And Richards will not return anyday soon to them.
Imagine what the Leafs could have gotten for Sundin, and maybe even had him back next year… opportunity definitely missed!
So far only Belak traded…. something else HAS to be coming.. Stajan and Wellwood maybe?]]>


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LAWRENCE, Carman - Peacefully at Victoria Village Manor on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Carman of Barrie in his 86th year. Devoted husband of Rita for 53 years. Loving father of Mary Lou LeFeuvre of Barrie. Cherished grandfather to Cindy Hunter (Derek) of Innisfil, Bobby Oliver, David Oliver, Frankie LeFeuvre, all of Barrie. Great- grandfather to Taylor and Falyn. Predeceased by brothers Jack (Teresa) and Donald Lawrence. Survived by sister-in-law Margaret Lawrence. Will be missed by many friends and family. Friends may pay their respects at Scott Funeral Home, 264 Burton Ave., Barrie, on Saturday, January 22, 2011, from 12 noon until time of funeral service in the chapel at 1 p.m. Memorial donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation appreciated.
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Mammary and Prostate Cancer Chemoprevention and Mechanisms of Action of Resveratrol and Genistein in Rodent Models
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1. Almost 200,000 men and women in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate and breast cancers, respectively, this year alone. It has become increasingly clear that environmental exposures, including diet, influence the risk of both breast and prostate cancers.
2. Two natural polyphenols that have received much interest in the field of cancer prevention are genistein, an isoflavone component of soy, and resveratrol, a phytoalexin found in red grapes and red wine. Epidemiological and in vitro laboratory data suggest that these polyphenols may protect against breast and prostate cancers.
3. Using in vivo rodent models of breast and prostate cancers, our lab and others have shown that genistein and resveratrol, administered alone or in combination, can suppress both breast and prostate carcinogenesis.
4. Genistein, at concentrations resulting in serum levels comparable to humans on a high soy diet, suppressed mammary tumor multiplicity through enhanced mammary gland maturation and a reduction in the targets of mammary carcinogens. Genistein also reduced the incidence of aggressive prostate tumors in a transgenic mouse model of prostate cancer.
5. Resveratrol, administered in the diet, suppressed mammary tumor multiplicity and increased tumor latency. Reductions in mammary epithelial cell proliferation and increased apoptosis help to explain these mammary protective effects. Resveratrol was also able to reduce the incidence of poorly differentiated prostate tumors through modulation of cell proliferation and critical growth factor pathways in the rodent prostate.
6. Chemoprevention of both breast and prostate cancers with combinational genistein and resveratrol treatments was also demonstrated. Both resveratrol and genistein, alone and in combination, were effective at suppressing breast and prostate carcinogenesis using in vivo models.
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- Title
- Mammary and Prostate Cancer Chemoprevention and Mechanisms of Action of Resveratrol and Genistein in Rodent Models
- Book Title
- Bioactive Compounds and Cancer
- Pages
- pp 589-611
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- 2010
- 10.1007/978-1-60761-627-6_25
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- 978-1-60761-626-9
- Online ISBN
- 978-1-60761-627-6
- Series Title
- Nutrition and Health
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- Humana Press
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- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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- Chemoprevention
- genistein
- resveratrol
- breast cancer
- prostate cancer
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- John A. Milner (ID1)
- Donato F. Romagnolo (ID2)
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- ID1. Nutritional Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Institutes of Health
- ID2. Nutritional and Cancer Biology, BIO5 Institute and Center for Toxicology, The University of Arizona
- Authors
- Timothy G. Whitsett Jr PHD (1)
- Leah M. Cook MS (1)
- Brijesh B. Patel MS (1)
- Curt E. Harper PHD (1)
- Jun Wang MD (1)
- Coral A. Lamartiniere PHD (1) (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
- 2. UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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Is David Beckham little more than an Arabian figurehead?
As David Beckham strides on to the Paris stage a hero, is he actually part of a perilous game being played by the rulers of Qatar to position their country at the heart of world affairs?
John Lichfield
John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and Washington.
Sunday 17 February 2013
Waiting for David in the concrete bowels of the Parc des Princes is a sweaty affair. More than 400 journalists have packed into a press room which can comfortably take 200 and usually attracts 20.
The boy David – at 37, there is something still irresistibly boyish about Beckham – has been undergoing a medical at the hospital where Diana, Princess of Wales, died in August 1997. He is late because his limousine has been stuck in the evening traffic on the Boulevard Périphérique.
As I look around the press room, a thought occurs to me. Beckham has become a global star, a celeb, or in French journalese, "un people". Yet, of all the journalists impatiently waiting, the person who first heard the name Beckham is almost certainly me.
As a fan of Manchester United, I have followed the career of the Boy David since he really was a boy, playing in the Old Trafford youth teams. And here he is, two decades later, an international icon, about to sign a fat contract to play for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), the richest club in the world.
Of course, Beckham, when he finally arrives, takes us all by surprise. He is signing a contract with PSG but will claim no salary. His wages will instead be given to a children's charity in the Paris area.
Before Beckham speaks – confidently, charmingly, amusingly – he is introduced by Nasser al-Khelaifi, the president of PSG. Khelaifi says that Beckham will "add great value" to PSG and will be a "valuable asset". He does not even bother to suggest that he means an "asset" on the field.
Once a professional tennis player, ranked 995th in the world, Khelaifi has many roles. One is president of PSG's proprietor, Qatar Sports Investments, an arm of the Qatari government.
This is what makes the Beckham-to-PSG saga so intriguing – and potentially so hazardous for the Boy David. Beckham may appear in the red and blue of PSG for the first time this weekend, but he will not only be playing for PSG. He will be playing, too, for Qatar.
Chelsea FC have become the willing plaything of a super-rich Russian oligarch. Manchester City FC are the plaything of a super-rich Gulf family. Since 2011, PSG, the only professional football club in Paris, have been the tool – not the plaything – of a hyper-rich micro-state with tentacular ambitions. And the boy from the Manchester United youth teams, is, whether he knows it or not, part of a pharaonic project to turn a tiny country into an unchallengable global centre for sports and entertainment, culture and diplomacy. But especially of sport. And especially of football.
In the not-so-distant future, football fans could be cheering or cursing players discovered in third-world slums by Qatar, employed by a Qatari-owned club, wearing kit made by a Qatari sportswear company, playing on a Qatari-owned sports channel.
And British fans could be permanently watching British professional football in June and July – ending a winter tradition going back more than a century – because of the knock-on effects of world-football governing body Fifa's dubious decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar (average summer temperature: 40C).
Though sport is only part of it. Qatar is now also the single largest global customer for modern art. Last year it broke the art- auction record and paid $250m for one of the four canvasses in Paul Cézanne's "Card Players" series.
Qatar is also trying to buy into the world luxury-goods industry. And it has invested, massively, in real estate in both Paris and London, including taking ownership of the Shard building.
Qatar recently hosted the global conference on global warming, even though its carbon emissions are among the highest in the world and its extraordinary wealth is based entirely on oil and gas.
Qatar has played a pivotal – and increasingly disputed – role in the changes sweeping the Arab world: the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera TV station began lambasting the corrupt, secular autocracies in Tunisia and Egypt long before the Arab Spring in 2011. Qatar also funded the Libyan rebels against Muammar Gaddafi. It even took part in the Franco-British airstrikes in Libya. And it is now sponsoring the rebels in Syria, despite having previously cosied up to Bashar al-Assad and Syria's chief ally, Iran.
Yet, closer to home, Qatar takes a dimmer view of revolution or even democracy. An absolute monarchy, with no elected parliament, it discouraged the Arab Spring from spreading to neighbouring Bahrain. A Qatari poet who complained of enlightenment abroad and oppression at home was jailed last year.
None – or not much of this – is a secret or a surprise. It forms part of a 20-year plan published in 2008, called Qatar National Vision 2030. The document outlines a strategy for converting the emirate's vast but ephemeral oil and gas wealth into a permanent and safe place among the most influential nations of the world.
And how does a 37-year-old footballer from Leytonstone, via Manchester, Madrid, Milan and Los Angeles, come to be a key piece of this masterplan? Qatar, before it discovered oil and the largest gas reserves on the planet, made its living from pearl-fishing in the Gulf. And it still fishes for pearls after its own fashion.
The roll call of great footballers, past and present, who are now on Qatar's payroll in some way would make up a powerful squad. They include Zinedine Zidane, Pep Guardiola, Gabriel Batistuta and Roger Milla (hired as ambassadors for Qatar's World Cup bid), Raul (playing in the Qatari league) and Zlatan Ibrahamovic and now David Beckham playing for PSG.
And why should PSG, who aspire to supplant Barcelona as the most successful team in the world, want a 37-year-old who has not played football at the highest professional level for three years? "He was the dream player for PSG and the Qataris because he links up so many things, from football to fashion," says Nabil Ennasri, a French expert on Qatar, who will publish a book on the emirate next month (L'Enigme du Qatar). "PSG is Qatar's sporting shop window. It is part of Qatar's drive to acquire credibility as a football nation before the World Cup in 2022. Beckham takes the PSG project to a new level of notoriety and credibility, especially in Asia.
"And you have to remember that sport, and especially football, is the single most important lever in Qatar's drive to reinvent itself as a global centre of 'soft power'. Sport reaches millions of people and represents positive values. In Qatari terms, it is a relatively cheap way for a small, vulnerable country to put itself on the map."
Positive values? Maybe. But just as Qatar's political activism is beginning to create a backlash in the Arab world, so its relentless sports activism is starting to generate a negative reaction in the sports world and beyond.
Two days before Beckham had signed for PSG, the magazine France Football published an 18-page dossier headlined "Qatargate". It detailed the many ways in which Qatar's money legally – and, allegedly, illegally – influenced Fifa's decision to award the 2022 World Cup to a country of 200,000 people (plus 1.7 million immigrant workers), which ranks 106th in the world of football.
The impossibly high summer temperatures in the Gulf mean that there is now a campaign – led by, among others, Michel Platini, president of the European football-association Uefa – for the 2022 World Cup to be shifted to November or December, which would mess up the traditional August-to-May pattern of the professional football season in Europe. "So what?" some influential voices (including Platini) are saying. Qatar 2022 provides the perfect opportunity to create a permanent, fine-weather season for European club football, starting in February and ending in October or November.
The idea is popular in Germany, where there is no dominant summer sport, such as cricket. Yet it would be greeted with nothing less than outrage in Britain.
There is some evidence that the PSG-Beckham deal, which initially fell through 12 months ago, was revived rapidly when Qatar got wind of the coming France Football investigation. Qatar needed an "equaliser" in a hurry, to promote the positive values it wishes to be associated with through sport.
The Beckham-plays-for-charity idea was dreamt up by the Qataris, according to someone familiar with the inner workings of PSG. A year ago, there was an outcry in France at Beckham's putative €800,000-a-month wages. But while "buying" Beckham for a vast salary might have been counter-productive, Beckham playing for a kids' charity – whatever the unrevealed small print – would offer a double helping of worldwide publicity and "positive values".
This was a great coup for Qatar but not necessarily in the long term for Beckham. At the press conference in the Parc des Princes, Beckham made it clear that he planned to remain on the PSG-Qatari payroll beyond the end of this season. He may become the figurehead, it is reported, for a Qatari move to buy a professional sports club in the United States. He will almost certainly become a Qatari ambassador for the 2022 World Cup. But will this include annoying British fans by speaking out in favour of summer club soccer? Is the Boy David in danger of straying offside? Should we all be scared of Qatar?
atar is a flat thumb 100 miles long and 50 miles wide jutting northwards into the Persian Gulf between the island of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Until 1971 it was a British protectorate. Its annual GDP is estimated at $180bn. If that were divided equally between the 200,000 Qataris (which of course it isn't), they would have an average income of $900,000 a year for every man, woman and child. However, the actual population of Qatar, as alluded to earlier, is 1,900,000, about 90 per cent of whom are immigrants – mostly lowly paid construction and domestic workers from the Indian subcontinent and east Asia.
In other words, Qatar is a small, absurdly rich country in the middle of the most unstable, explosive region of the world. For the Qatari royal family, long-term security has become an obsession: the preservation of Qatari independence; the preservation of Qatar's moderate- conservative tradition of society and Islam; and, of course, the preservation of the Qatari royal family.
Two dates and two events are crucial in understanding Qatar, according to Nabil Ennasri. In August 1990, Kuwait was invaded by a "brother" nation, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, provoking the first Gulf War. And in 1995, the present Qatari Emir, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, deposed his father in a bloodless coup.
"Kuwait was the Qatar of the 1970s and 1980s," Ennasri explains. "It invested hugely in Europe and the United States. But that didn't stop Kuwait from being invaded by Iraq. Then, when the Emir deposed his father in 1995, the Saudis and some people in the Emirates tried to reverse the coup. Both these lessons were learnt by the Emir. He decided that, to survive, Qatar must use its wealth not simply to invest abroad, but to reinvent itself, through soft power, as a leading player in the world, one whose interests would become intertwined with the interests of those countries – the US, Britain, France – which have traditional economic and military and cultural strength.
"So, if I am asked, 'Should we be scared of Qatar?,' I say no. They are like any other country. They are trying to defend and protect their own interests, through soft power – sporting, cultural, diplomatic – not through hard power."
To this should be added intense competition for regional and global influence – bordering on hatred – between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. There is also a nouveaux riche competition between Qatar and the leading Emirates – Dubai, Abu Dhabi – amounting to a parable of the talents: who can best employ the fantastic, but finite, wealth in the ground of the Arabian peninsula to ensure not just long-term prosperity and survival but lasting power?
One has to admire – even marvel at – the sweep and complexity of the vision of the Emir of Qatar (and it is said to be largely his own vision). His country, which has no sporting tradition, is to become the nerve centre of world sport. It will have art collections to rival those of European capitals. It will promote education, literacy and action against climate change.
Importantly, Qatar will also become a junction box of a global "knowledge economy". It already has an Education City and a Science and Technology Park, while Al-Jazeera television, now planning to create a US-based news channel, gives Qatar a stake and a voice in the new global media village.
Al-Jazeera offers a Qatari take on world and regional events, which is radically different in its English and Arabic language versions: moderate and reformist in English; Islamist-conservative and anti-Israeli in Arabic.
The role of sport – and especially football – is to give Qatar visibility and credibility from the suburbs of Manchester to the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Qatar has already hosted the Asian Games. It has been given the 2022 World Cup. It bid unsuccessfully for the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. It is bidding again for 2024. The Tour of Qatar cycle race attracted k some of the biggest names in the sport, including the British rider Mark Cavendish, earlier this month.
Al-Jazeera, meanwhile, is also moving into sport, launching a subsidiary in France that has bought the rights to all French and some Champions League games.
Qatar further hopes to build up its Burrda sports brand to rival Nike. It owns PSG. It sponsors Barcelona FC through the nonprofit Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. And since 2005, the Aspire sports academy in Doha, with its 14 well-equipped subsidiaries around the world, has "detected" 500,000 sports stars of the future.
The best boys (though very few girls) are brought from third-world slums to Qatar, where they train alongside members of the professional clubs that hire the extraordinary Aspire facilities at cheap rates. Recent visitors have included Manchester United and Bayern Munich. Qatar has been accused of trying to persuade some of these "stars of the future" to become Qataris to give the emirate a respectable squad for the 2022 World Cup. Though Fifa has clamped down on that dodge, other sports are said to be more flexible.
More than €150bn is being spent on new stadia and other facilities before 2022, and immense armies of low-paid immigrant labourers have been imported to carry out the work. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is desperately worried by the working conditions, and understandably so: there were 73 deaths last year alone, according to the Nepali government, and Sharan Burrow, the ITUC leader, has warned that more people may die building the stadia than will play in them in 2022.
All of this may be relentless , even obsessive – but it is not illegal. Qatar's Achilles' heel, however – the point where "positive" values from sport may become negative – is the very jewel of the 2022 World Cup. The France Football investigation last month claimed that new evidence had been discovered by Fifa's ethics committee regarding the means used by tiny Qatar in December 2010 to beat the United States, among others, to the 2022 prize. One example: Qatar paid for the African football federation's annual conference and insisted that delegates from other bidding countries should be kept away.
Some say that Qatar merely employed on a larger scale the doubtful methods countries have always used to "win" World Cups. However, Mark Pieth, the Swiss lawyer who presides over the Fifa ethics commission, told France Football: "There has existed for some time a real bundle of evidence [of illegal inducements] by Qatar [before the 2022 vote]." For its part, Qatar insists it has broken no rules and no laws.
"The problem with Qatar is that it has no brakes," one former diplomat in the region tells me. "Its leaders are very intelligent and probably well-intentioned for the most part, but they suffer from the dual handicap of being inconceivably rich and largely unaccountable. They don't seem to know when to stop or to grasp that their incessant activity is beginning to damage, rather than advance their own cause."
There is already a backlash in the Middle East against Qatar's political hyper-activism and especially against the role of Al-Jazeera. Qatar has tried to be on both sides of all arguments (hosting the huge US Central Command military base but also a Taliban office). It made friends with Iran (to the fury of Riyadh). It had good relations with Hezbollah in Lebanon and gave the Syrian president Bashir Assad a presidential jet. Then, having supported the rebellions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, it dumped Assad and became the pay-master of the rebels in Syria. All to what end?
"At the core there is a kind of pragmatism," believes one Qatar-watcher in the United States. "Qatar believes that it can become a kind of balancing point, the indispensable broker for a relatively moderate, reformist but also conservative Middle East. It wants to pick the winners and be on the right side of an emerging new order. But it's in danger of overreaching. Its role and ambitions are increasingly distrusted, especially by the liberal-minded. You see Qatari flags being burnt by the pro-liberal demonstrators in Egypt."
Is the same kind of backlash about to happen in the world of sport? "It can't be ruled out," says Nabil Ennasri. "If it emerges that they went beyond the normal processes of Fifa lobbying, that could be very embarrassing, very difficult for Qatar. On the other hand, can you really imagine a decision to take the 2022 World Cup away from them if that means that €150bn in building contracts for European firms go up in smoke? Their fundamental goal has been to create a world in which Qatar's interests are inextricably entwined with international interests. We may already be there."
All the same, a stinking row about the 2022 World Cup now seems inevitable. The pressure to switch the competition to the cooler temperatures of a Gulf winter is being used by Michel Platini and others to push for a permanent redrawing of traditional football season boundaries.
The president of Bayern Munich, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who also acts as president of the association of European clubs, is in favour. "The best part of the year is the summer and that's exactly the time when we don't play," he told France Football. "I believe we're moving rapidly in [that] direction."
But it is a push that will be far from universally admired, and Qatar's bid for global influence and popularity will scarcely be helped by association with an unpopular earthquake in sports timetabling. Nor would it help the popularity of David Beckham as a Qatari sports ambassador.
The Boy David's alliance with the tiny Goliath of the Gulf may yet prove to be not quite the win-win that it appears.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday decided to uphold a controversial accord on relocating a key American military base.
And, hours after this was announced in Tokyo through a statement of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee, Mr. Hatoyama dismissed a dissenting Minister, Mizuho Fukushima, from his Cabinet.
As the leader of the Social Democratic Party, a coalition partner of the Prime Minister's Democratic Party of Japan, Ms. Fukushima refused to endorse a mandatory Cabinet decision on the issue. Mr. Hatoyama had, during his poll campaign last year, promised to try and get the unpopular base shifted out of Okinawa or even Japan altogether.
Mr. Hatoyama spoke to U.S. President Barack Obama over the telephone, expressing the "hope that we will be able to further deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance". A top Japanese official told The Hindu Mr. Obama "appreciated" the gesture and Mr. Hatoyama sought the U.S. cooperation in reducing the impact of this decision on the local community in the Okinawa prefecture.
The centrepiece of the statementwas a reaffirmation of their security roadmap of 2006 on the realignment of American forces and bases in Japan. As a supplement to that roadmap, Friday's statement outlines broad parameters for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a less-inhabited place within the Okinawa prefecture — Camp Schwab Henoko-saki area and adjacent waters.
Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kazuo Kodama told The Hindu from Tokyo that the relocation site was certainly the same as in the 2006 roadmap. However, a "careful" study of the new document would show that "the configuration and the logistics for building a replacement facility [at the originally-agreed site] will now be decided afresh by Japan and the U.S". Also, "something new" was the scope for "reducing the disproportionate impact of [this exercise] on the local people in Okinawa". For the first time, the two countries agreed to adopt "a green alliance approach" of addressing environmental and social concerns.
Asked whether Tokyo's decision to stay the course with Washington was dictated by the security situation in the Korean peninsula off Japan, Mr. Kodama said "not really". Japan reconsidered the Futenma-base issue for several months and Mr. Hatoyama kept to his timeline of May-end for a decision.
On relocating 8,000 American military personnel to Guam from Okinawa, it was noted in Friday's statement that the plan, agreed to in 2006 itself, "is dependent on tangible progress [to be] made by the Government of Japan towards completion of the replacement facility [at Henoko-saki area]." The 2006 roadmap had provided for a 2014 timeline for the implementation of decisions concerning Futenma and related issues.
Keywords: U.S., Japan, military base, Okinawa, relocation, Obama, Hatoyama