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Even the Upanishads state that the mystery of the universe continues to baffle. But they teach us the way to salvation and help us to reason, analyse and arrive at an understanding of the truth of the Self, pointed out Sri R. Krishnamurthy Sastrigal in a lecture.
When we see a mud pot or a well-crafted gold ornament, we are carried away by the external appearance of the pot or the intricate workmanship of the jewellery and fail to notice the main reason of their existence, the mud or the gold. Similarly, we have to probe the main reason for the existence of the universe and its variety of beings and feel the presence of the all-pervading Supreme Brahman in it.
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From what I gather from reading the posts on this forum, most on here won't even sail in the "nudge" between the 200 knots you mentioned and the 235 of the article. I read they may update the Beaufort Scale as they did the Fujita, to accommodate these larger storms.
Sorry, just to avoid confusion, the 235 in the article is MPH which is about 200kn.
One only has to look at the damage cause by this blow. The buildings are same as or worse than those caught in a Cat 5 twister and this is a tropical weather system not a tornado. This winds comes and stays a while, possibly days.
It must be unbelievably spooky.
Beaufort scale goes to 12 which is 64 knots and upwards. That doesn't even begin to describe Haiyan. Hell, I've sailed my boat in open sea through 80 knots, wouldn't choose to do it again but it is easily survivable.
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Shanghai - Actress Zhou Xun's One Night benefit concert yesterday morphed into a wedding, when she announced her marriage to actor Archie Kao in full bridal regalia, said NetEase website.
Near the end of the show in Hangzhou, which featured her friends such as actor Chen Kun, actress Gwei Lun-mei and former Super Junior singer Han Geng, she emerged in a white beaded dress and veil, holding hands with Kao.
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Gartner Announces Ranking of Top 15 European Supply Chains
This week, Gartner unveiled its annual regional listing of what the analyst firm considers to be fifteen of the best supply chains in the European region. Gartner conducts this ranking as a supplement to its Top 25 Global Supply Chain rankings that are traditionally announced in the fall. According to Gartner, the top three European supply chains, Unilever,Inditex and H&M, remain unchanged and continue to lead in supply chain excellence while Seagate Technology made its debut in the number four ranking. Three new company supply chains also made a presence in the Gartner Europe ranking.
The published ranking for Europe Top 15 supply chains were noted as:
- Unilever (ranked 4th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- Inditex (ranked 11th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- H&M (ranked 13th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- Seagate Technology (ranked 20th in 2014 Top 25 ranking)
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- Volkswagen
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Syngenta
Similar to our view of this week's Gartner's Asia-Pacific rankings, Supply Chain Matters believes that this ranking reflects how we would have voted if we were part of the external or peer voting panel. Unilever is indeed a great supply chain competing in a very challenging CPG industry group. As we noted in our commentary associated with Gartner's Top 25 ranking, Unilever has made steady progress over the past three years and deserves special recognition. Inditex has long been an icon when describing a top retail focused supply chain that is extraordinary in sensing and responding to fashion and customer demand. Seagate Technology as well, has bounced back from the near disaster of disruption and supply shortages caused by the 2011 floods in Thailand. L'Oreal has made great strides in integrating supply chain planning and execution across its supply chain business network. Nestle deserves its recognition especially in leading with industry-leading supply chain sustainability initiatives.
Three of the Gartner European Top 15 reside in the automotive industry sector which has been an industry segment not previously noted for consistent supply chain excellence. Both BMW and Volkswagen have been deploying a global based product platform strategy and have weathered the European economic crisis through a focus on international markets.
Also noteworthy is the appearance of two pharmaceutical supply chains, Glaxo and Reckitt in Gartner's Europe ranking.
We believe that a ranking of the top Europe supply chains has even more significance given the ongoing challenges related to the severe economic conditions that have impacted Europe. These are supply chains that had to demonstrate various aspects of resiliency to insure required business and product outcomes.
Supply Chain Matters again extends its congratulations and recognition to each of the named supply chain organizations for achieving such recognition. There is obviously hard work that goes into achieving such recognition and citation and it should be acknowledged.
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Announced Demonstration of Printed NFC-Enabled Smart Label
Supply Chain Matters has been following recent developments in the area of smart labeling, specifically a series of announcements from Norwegian based printed electronics technology provider Thin Film Electronics ASA. This technology provider's latest announcement is the most significant to-date, with profound long-term potential benefits for certain industry supply chains.
In an October of 2013 Supply Chain Matters posting, we called reader attention to the announcement that Thinfilm had successfully demonstrated a fully functional, stand-alone, integrated printed electronic temperature tracking Smart Sensor Label. The label was described as being built from printed and organic electronics with low power requirements with potential application to track and monitor temperature and environment for pharmaceutical products or to monitor the shelf-life and food safety of perishable products. In early April of this year, we updated readers on two other strategic partnership announcements involving Thinfilm's smart label product development plans. One included a partnership with Temptime, for potential cold-chain tracking applications for pharmaceutical products, and another with PakSense Inc., in the development of intelligent sensing specifically designed to monitor perishable goods.
This week, yet another rather noteworthy announcement has been made, namely that Thinfilm has successfully demonstrated an integrated system product that combines printed electronics technology, real-time sensing and near-field communication (NFC) functionality. The significance of this announcement concerns technology that enables high‐performance transistors to support the high frequency RF circuitry required for NFC communications in Thin film's labels with the potential to support a potentially wider range of sensing needs. A video depicting the proof-of-concept is included in the announcement on Thinfilm's web site.
Last week, this author had the opportunity to speak with Thinfilm's Executive Vice President and head of North America practice, Jennifer Ernst. in anticipation of this week's announcement. Jennifer explained that the addition of NFC opened opportunities for the sensing label to be paired with a mobile device such as a smartphone, where GPS focused or other mobile and RF related functionality can be incorporated into item-level sensing. As an example, the receipt of a truckload shipment of perishable products can be monitored and tracked along its journey. The notion of item-level tracking from farm to fork becomes closer with such capabilities. The fact that an infrastructure of mobile broadband and cellular networks already exists in many geographic regions, potentially removes the infrastructure cost burden that hampered previous efforts of RFID enabled item-level tracking. The smart labels will further support protocols to communicate with hand-held readers. We specifically asked the very obvious question: What about the individual cost of a label? The response we received was that Thinfilm's goal is to target a cost that is significantly below that of current RF-based temperature monitors. Of course, the industry will have to await the real result, but we did get a sense that Thinfilm is driving toward a compelling cost-benefit proposition.
According to this latest announcement, Thinfilm anticipates delivering commercial samples of smart labels to key partners in 2015.
We continue to bring reader attention to specific smart label enabled developments because they represent, from our view, the dawning of a new era of item-level tracking, one that can harness the potential of the "Internet of Things", namely a sensing label, with predictive analytics capabilities. Consider the possibilities that near real-time information concerning the environmental or shelf-life condition of the physical product can be integrated with supply planning, inventory management and customer fulfillment needs. Consider the possibilities in anti-counterfeiting, drug and food safety as well as avoidance of waste, spoilage and obsolescence.
This is exciting stuff. It provides evidence as to how convergence of technologies are now leading to the achievement of the goal for integrating physical and digital supply chain information and more predictive decision-making capabilities.
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Bayer Announces its Intention to Become the Number Two OTC Medicines Provider
Last week, we featured a Supply Chain Matters commentary, Major Supply Chain Disruption On-Tap for Pharmaceutical and Drug Focused Supply Chains. The commentary outlined our concern that the current new wave of large-scale merger and acquisition activity involving billions of dollars that is currently surrounding the pharmaceutical and drug sector provides added risks to derail and add incredible distraction and disruption to ongoing supply chain improvement efforts.
Today, there is yet another development that adds to the potential for disruption. German based Bayer AG has announced its intention to acquire the consumer care business of U.S. pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. for an approximate purchase price of $14.2 billion. This transaction is subject to approval from various antitrust agencies with a closing expected in the second-half of 2014.
The acquisition is characterized by Bayer as the path for providing global leadership in over-the-counter (OTC) and non-prescription medicines. The announcement comes after Merck conducted an auction-like process seeking a high bidder for its OTC business.
According to the announcement, the acquisition will place Bayer in the number two market position in OTC products. Merck's OTC categories include cold, allergy, sinus, dermatology, foot health and gastrointestinal medicines. Principle Merck brands included are Claritin©, Coppertone©, Dr. Scholl's© and MiraLAX© which each have a strong presence in North America markets. Merck's consumer care business is reported as generating 70 percent of revenues in the U.S. market.
Bayer indicates in its announcement that it expects" "… the integration of the businesses to generate significant cost synergies, for example in marketing spend and cost of goods, in the region of USD 200 million by 2017. " Paying upwards of a premium of 6.5 times 2013 revenues and 21 times earnings, Bayer has no choice but to drive cost synergies.
From our supply chain and B2B lens, implies the potential for disruption over the next few years since this types of estimates turn out to be overly aggressive. Bayer inherits more diverse North America distribution and retail channels where cost and healthcare delivery are under intense scrutiny. Both Bayer and Merck manage their businesses with an SAP focused enterprise information backbone.
A published report by Reuters points out that OTC drugs units carry far lower margins than prescription drugs businesses but some drug makers regard them as attractive due to the stable stream of cash that these products can generate. Further, they often require less spending on research and development and can be less exposed to the loss of patent protection where consumers remain loyal to a brand. The combined OTC revenues among the combination of Bayer and Merck are expected to exceed $7 billion in annual revenues.
Thus, the wheels of business change and the potential for multi-year distraction becomes prevalent for two different global corporations with different cultures and business process practices.
Who knows what other major industry announcements are in-store for the remainder of May, as well as 2014.
Major Supply Chain Disruption On-Tap for Pharmaceutical and Drug Focused Supply Chains
In the pharmaceutical and drug sector, business headlines continue to reverberate a slew of current or planned merger and acquisition activity as the major industry players are apparently jockeying for strategic advantage in product pipelines and cost structuring.
We previously noted on Supply Chain Matters the acquisition of India based generics drug producer Ranbaxy Laboratories by Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries in a $3.2 billion deal that attempts to address a very troubled generics drug maker. That pales with industry announcements made just in the past three weeks. Guest contributor and book author Rich Sherman addressed pending shifts and re-focus required across healthcare delivery supply chains.
Eli Lily announced a $5.4 billion deal to acquire the animal health business of Novartis with the goal of making its existing unit the second largest animal health company behind Zoetis. Lily had previously acquired similar business units from Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer. Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of transactions valued at $20 billion that reportedly will re-shape each of these drug makers in key strategic areas. Novartis aims to concentrate on pharmaceuticals, eye care and generic drugs, Glaxo in vaccines and consumer healthcare. Valeant Pharmaceutical is attempting to broaden its eye and skin care drug lines by offering $46 billion to acquire its rival, Allergan. And then there are continuing reports that Pfizer is pursuing a massive $100 billion deal to acquire its rival AstraZeneca.
Obviously, the picture unfolding is one of massive consolidation and movement involving upwards in $200 billion in deal activity at this point.
As we and other analysts have often noted, pharmaceutical and drug supply chains are already struggling with many supply chain and B2B focused initiatives directed at improving dysfunctional efforts for consistent quality and market responsiveness while improving end-to-end supply chain visibility, planning and coordinated execution. There is also the ongoing effort for remediation of constant incidents of counterfeit or bogus drugs appearing in various global healthcare supply chains.
We have to conclude that this current wave of wide-ranging industry M&A activity provides added risks to derail and add incredible distraction and disruption to these ongoing improvement efforts. Regarding the potential for huge industry disruption, AstraZeneca's CEO recently told the Wall Street Journal: "I think we're better off focusing ourselves on what we do well and partnering where it makes sense." It seems as though at least one industry executive understands what disruption can bring not only internally but to various specific supply chains as well. The industry should share ample supplies of Mylanta if all of these deals come to fruition.
Deals of this magnitude generally lead to disruptions and required changes in business processes and supporting information systems, especially when external manufacturing and services partners are involved. Supply contracts need to be re-visited or re-negotiated as supplier contracts shift while information linkages among product development, the supply chain and directly to production processes are subject to changes and/or modifications. Many of these deals imply the potential for added overhead and direct labor cutbacks which are not going to help as well.
On the broader scale, potentially caught in the middle of these massive changes are the drug distributors and healthcare service delivery entities that continue to undergo a fundamental transformation from delivering patient treatments to delivering patient outcomes which alone was another source of required attention. Healthcare delivery supply chains may now have to deal with pharmaceutical and drug providers that are literally changing chairs for the menu of preferred suppliers. It would seem that if any of the industry brand owners were to allocate just $1 billion, a cost to pay all of the lawyers, to just item-level tracking and counterfeit drug remediation it would add more to long-term revenue, profitability and overall industry supply chain responsiveness to patient needs than what's on-tap currently.
We do not want to appear in any way as alarmists, but it seems from our vantage point that industry executives need to perhaps consider the effect of these massive changes on their current and proposed supply chain delivery capabilities and needed improvement initiatives. Rather than a primary focus on past performance metrics, the implications for managing through distraction and change are already occurring, and industry supply chain leaders will be hard pressed in change management vs. positive transformation change.
We certainly encourage readers residing in healthcare industry supply chains to weigh-in on the Comments section attached to this posting regarding what the heck is going on and how these wide-scale industry changes will impact industry supply chains.
Bob Ferrari
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India Based Ranbaxy Laboratories Acquired- Quality Conformance Remains an Issue
Supply Chain Matters has featured multiple commentaries citing India based generic drug producer Ranbaxy Laboratories. Our latest commentaries were in a specific posting in late January and in an India based industry regulatory commentary published in February.
Thus, we were not at all surprised with this week's announcement that Japan based Daiichi Sanko Co. the parent of Ranbaxy, has agreed to sell the generic drug manufacturer to India based Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in a deal reported to be valued at $3.2 billion in a mostly stock-based deal. This transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The U.S. market accounts for a significant amount of Ranbaxy's current revenues, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently bars imports from four out of five Ranbaxy production facilities in India due to inspectional findings. According to a report published by the Wall Street Journal, after a five year effort, Daiichi Sanko retreated from the expensive efforts to attempt to fix Ranbaxy's drug-producing processes. Daiichi acquired Ranbaxy in 2008 for $4.6 billion. FDA warnings and citing's continued throughout this entire period. The CEO of Daiichi indicated to the WSJ: "The deal will help accelerate a solution to the series of problems at Ranbaxy."
A reflection on the broader picture, however, remains on the issue of production conditions across India based pharmaceutical facilities. A report published by Reuters points out that India's drug inspectors are hard pressed to oversee current drug production facilities. An India based drug official indicates to the Reuters reporters that there are 1500 inspectors responsible for more than 15,000 drug manufacturing facilities. Inspectors lack vehicles to travel to sites with reports that some inspectional practices are ignored. A study carried out two years ago concluded that one in every twenty-two locally made samples was of sub-standard quality. According to the Reuters report, about 40 percent of generic and over-the-counter medicines sold in the United States originate at over 500 India based production facilities. While facilities are barred by the FDA from shipping to the U.S., they typically ship to other global locations.
A follow-up report published by the Wall Street Journal (paid subscription) quotes workers and former employees of Ranbaxy as indicating "they received little training and were instructed to keep production going, even if that meant cutting corners." One former maintenance technician at Ranbaxy's Toansa plant indicated that he often signed blank documents which were filled in with information later to appear that equipment has been inspected. However, the WSJ cites former and current FDA officials as indicating that Mumbai based Sun Pharmaceutical has a better reputation for quality. However, in March, the FDA barred imports from a Sun API plant in Gujarat.
On her visit to India in February of this year, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg was diplomatic, indicating that a few India based drug manufacturers have been overshadowed by recent lapses in quality at a handful of pharmaceutical firms. The Reuters report seems to dispute that statement. Dr. Hamburg further indicated that officials at India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare share this goal and both agencies plan to work together to improve lines of communication and diligently work to ensure drug products exported from India are safe and of high quality.
With the proposed combination of Sun Pharmaceutical and Ranbaxy, the two India based generic drug producers when combined providing even more global scale, it would seem that the urgency among broader industry and India government regulators should be raised to aggressively address systemic production process issues and support strict adherence to published global Good Manufacturing Practices. Both domestic India drug consumers as well as global drug consumers expect such practices, and the reputation and brand value of India's drug makers is clearly at stake. The Indian government is not the sole answer, rather India's collective drug producers as a whole need to step-up their priorities.
General Hospital Has Been Cancelled! – A Need for Renewed Emphasis on Healthcare Supply Chain Management
A Supply Chain Matters Guest Contribution from Rich Sherman
So you think that Obamacare is changing the healthcare industry in the United States? Think again.
It's just the tip of the iceberg. The healthcare industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation from delivering patient treatments to delivering patient outcomes. And, it's turning the industry upside down. The television series General Hospital may have celebrated its 50th anniversary last year; but, in real life General Hospital is about to be cancelled.
With the transformation to patient outcomes, healthcare providers simply can't afford to treat anything generally. Specialty patient outcome centers (SPOC) are emerging throughout the healthcare industry. With nurse practitioners having expanded diagnostic and treatment licensing, general health clinics are appearing in every corner drugstore, 24/7. Emergency treatment and diagnostic centers are emerging in every strip mall. SPOCs, such as oncological, cardiac, ophthalmic, orthopedic, cosmetic, etc. for every ailment are emerging in every city. Quite simply, patient care centers are appearing and proliferating across the country increasing the cost and complexity of healthcare supply chain management as well as operations management in general.
Consider that it is not unusual for supply chain costs to consume 35% or more of the operating budget of a healthcare facility.
Supply chain management is a new term to most hospital and healthcare administrators. Haven't they got enough on their plate with compliance, reimbursement, Electronic Medical and Healthcare Records (EMR/EHR)? Yet, with the transformation in the industry, administrators have to be more focused on revenue and cost. Effective supply chain management addresses both and healthcare providers have to consider bringing on a new breed of supply chain professionals to their leadership team even to the extent of hiring a Chief Supply Chain Officer. Most other industries are recognizing the significant contribution supply chain excellence makes to the financial health of the organization.
Transforming from materials and procurement management to supply chain management requires a more holistic view of the organization's operations. Beginning with demand generation, acquiring patients to generate revenue, through demand fulfilment, delivering a successful patient outcome, supply chain management is the support system that enables cost effective, high quality delivery. And, it's not optional. With the proliferation of patient delivery locations, competition for revenue is heating up. We're finding more and more of our clients are seeking help in attracting patients just to maintain occupancy and revenue. But, that's just treating the symptom.
The cure is to be found through providing a successful outcome for operations excellence. Operations excellence requires professional operations management. Medical professionals have to focus on patient outcomes not operational outcomes. This will create a transformation in the leadership structure of many healthcare providers from medical leadership to management leadership. The days of doctor controlled operations are waning. Healthcare providers that are restructuring their organizations for effective supply chain management will lead the way as the industry transformation continues.
General Hospital may be cancelled; but, the requirement for delivering successful patient outcomes will never end.
About the Author: Rich Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher and author on trends and issues across supply chain management. He currently serves as a Principal Essentialist at Trissential LLC in their supply chain consulting practice. His book Supply Chain Transformation: Practical Roadmap for Best Practice Results (Wiley, 2012) has received praise by practitioners, academics, and non-supply chain executives as a great read on business transformation. Rich has been a previous guest contributor to Supply Chain Matters.


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PUNXSUTAWNEY — April 19, eight members representing the Punxsutawney High School Class of 1951 visited the North Findley Street campus to make a monetary — and a symbolic and heartfelt — contribution.
"On behalf of the Boles Foundation, we are grateful to the Class of 1951 for their generosity and thoughtfulness," PAHS Principal and Boles Foundation Board President David London said. "In the spirit of Margaret Boles, her students from the Class of 1951 are continuing her work and assisting PAHS students to further their education."
The Class of 1951 — holding its 60th reunion in September at Camp Little Leo, with more than 80 members attending the two-day event — dedicated its reunion to Margaret C. Boles, a PAHS English teacher who passed away during the class' junior year.Â
But this dedication was only the beginning of the class' tribute to Boles, as funds gathered over the course of the weekend totalled more than $2,000, which the class decided to donate to the Margaret C. Boles Foundation.
"The fundamental decision was made by the whole class," reunion co-chair Robert Bish said. "We were going to deplete our treasury, which we have kept since our first reunion in 1956. We tried to decide who would best use the funds. We wanted to choose a charitable organization that gives the most to Punxsutawney Area High School, and we decided we would like to give to the Boles Foundation."
The class decided to make its donation in the amount of the number of loans the Boles Foundation has made.
"When the class voted to make the donation, it was unanimous," reunion co-chair Mel Mitchell said.Â
After Boles passed away in 1949, the teachers' association and local civic leaders created the Margaret C. Boles Memorial Scholarship Foundation to provide loans to worthy students pursuing post-secondary training.
The year that its members graduated, the Class of 1951 staged the first-ever Variety Show and began the long-standing tradition of donating a portion of the proceeds from the show to the Boles Foundation.
That first donation in 1951 was in the amount of $473.55.
Since its inception, the Boles Foundation has provided 2,516 loans, totalling more than a million dollars, a fact that members of the Class of 1951 learned while attending the 61st annual Variety Show, "Hold Onto the Memories," in late March, presented by the PAHS Class of 2012.
Thus, the Class of 1951 decided to further the cause in a special way: By matching its donation — $2,156 — to the total number of loans given — 2,156 — by the foundation.
After the combination of the treasury and reunion funds, the class was short of its goal by around $300. But according to Mitchell, members of the class provided the additional amount outright and without hesitation.Â
"It's great to see that the Class of 1951 would look back to their roots and decide to give back so generously to the foundation," said senior class president, Alex Fedigan, who, via his office, also serves as a committee member on the Boles Foundation. "Their donation will go towards helping us to be able to give more money to students in the future."
Boles' legacy is one of generosity and friendship, and her kindness is echoed through the actions of her students of the Class of 1951.Â
"Through our visit with the Class of 1951 members, we learned that graduating from Punxsutawney High School is a powerful bond of friendship and family, and that the lessons of kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity were taught and learned in the 1940s and early 1950s," London said.
 By contributing to this cause, the Class of 1951, The Margaret C. Boles Memorial Scholarship Foundation and all who support it — as well as the Class of 2012 — do more than simply "Hold Onto the Memories," as they keep alive a spirit of giving that will continue to benefit the community and its graduates for generations to come.


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The demonstrators were joined by about 20 children and teenagers from the neighborhood, as well as Tom Airey, a social studies teacher at Capistrano Valley High School who said some of the students marching were once his students. Airey said some of his former undocumented students have graduated college but are unable to begin their careers.
"It's really a sad thing," Airey said. "So I wanted to come down and support them. I am really proud of them."
Francisco Bravo, 28, marched in a graduation cap and gown like many of the protesters. Bravo will graduate from Cal State Long Beach on Saturday with a master's degree in education. He supports himself now by fixing computers, but he said that he and other recent undocumented college graduates need the government to come up with a permanent solution.
"What do we do now? There's no solution. We need to resolve this issue," Bravo said.
Jorge Gutierrez, an undocumented student with a bachelor's degree in English from Cal State Fullerton, was among those took part in this morning's banner drop in Santa Ana.
Gutierrez, of Santa Ana, said he took to the streets today in order to pique the interests of passersby, some of whom responded with waves and honks.
"By making our presence visible throughout the country we're hoping to gain support, so that we can pressure the administration to give us some administrative relief," said Gutierrez, 28.
In addition to assisting with local banner drops, some Orange County Dream Team members also attended the launch of the "Right to Dream" campaign in Los Angeles today.
Wil Prada of Pasadena helped organize those events, which included a press conference, a rally and banner drop outside a U.S. Immigration Court building.
Prada, 25, is a member of the Los Angeles Dream Team and holds a bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA. He's also undocumented.
Prada, who came to the United States from Peru at age 7 to reunite with his father, said he's taking to the streets today to raise public awareness about the Dream Act and about the challenges facing students like him.
"We don't want any handouts or anything like that," he said. "We just want to be able to work, exercise our degrees and contribute to this country and to this economy."
- Cindy Carcamo contributed to this report
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1188 Mission at Trinity Place Welcomes Sister Complex at 1190 Mission, Both Offering Stunning SOMA Apartments for Rent in San Francisco
1188 Mission at Trinity Place offers luxury apartments for rent in the SOMA (South of Market) neighborhood of San Francisco. Now joined by a sister complex, 1188 Mission at Trinity Place expects ever expanding vitality to the SOMA neighborhood.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2013
1188 Mission at Trinity Place, a San Francisco's apartment complex with luxury apartments for rent in the SOMA neighborhood, is proud to welcome its sister complex, which opened July 1st, 2013. Both apartment complexes cater to San Franciscans seeking an urban living experience near to shops, restaurants, and the lively SOMA neighborhood.
"SOMA apartments for rent in San Francisco can be scarce to come by," explained William Harlow, marketing manager at Trinity Management Services. "Having two buildings in SOMA creates a degree of synergy amongst our properties, helping the SOMA neighborhood build on its signature lifestyle for San Francisco apartment dwellers and apartment renters of all types."
To learn more about 1188 Mission at Trinity Place, please visit http://www.1188missionapts.com/ where potential apartment seekers can browse inventory of available studio, and one-bedroom apartments for rent in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood.
SOMA (South of Market): One of San Francisco's Hottest Neighborhoods
SOMA has become one of the most exciting areas for apartment rentals and apartment living in San Francisco. Known for its tech crowd, the SOMA neighborhood has attracted residents working in the "new" Silicon Valley of the Bay Area, San Francisco, home to businesses such as Yelp, LinkedIn, and Twitter as well as commuters to the "old" Silicon Valley farther south for businesses like Google and other stalwarts of technology in the San Francisco Bay. SOMA brings together an urban flair for living with cafes, restaurants, and other urban attractions plus convenient transportation options such as close access to the 101 freeway, Interstate 80 corridor, and BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). Apartment dwellers can enjoy urban living and yet easily commute (or escape) to the larger attractions of the San Francisco Bay Area.
About 1188 Mission at Trinity Place
One's dream apartment awaits apartment seekers. Rising with stunning views of downtown San Francisco South of Market, the all-new Trinity Place is as architecturally stunning as it is comfort-filled and convenient. These luxury apartments located in the SOMA District of San Francisco are more than just a building and an address. They are a community, with a fitness center, a resident's lounge with Wi-Fi, children's play area, front desk associates and 24-hour Courtesy Patrol.
These luxury apartments are a central starting point for getting anywhere in San Francisco with ease. The furnished studio and 1 bedroom apartments are near the Orpheum Theater, Moscone Center, the new Twitter Headquarters and AT&T Park home of the San Francisco Giants. Convenient to Muni or BART, head to work or a night on the town in San Francisco. At Trinity Place, apartment seekers can rent or lease one of the gorgeous studio or one bedroom apartments which include spacious tall ceilings and large windows for spectacular city views. The resident will enjoy preparing gourmet meals in apartment seekers modern kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances and black granite counters. Wood-style and ceramic tile flooring add to the beauty of apartment seekers apartment, where apartment seekers can be proud to entertain guests. Furnished apartments are also available to rent or lease. San Francisco corporate suites also available.
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LOS ANGELES – They were teammates on the winning Western Conference side in Sunday's 60th NBA all-star game but now it's back to business for Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin.
The second half of the 2010-11 NBA season begins with Durant's Oklahoma City Thunder taking on Griffin's Los Angeles Lakers as one of nine NBA games on Tuesday.
Durant said he is taking not only good memories from the all-star weekend but also a renewed sense of purpose in trying to help the Thunder win the Northwest Division.
"My shots felt good. So hopefully during the next couple of days, they will feel good, as well," said Durant who had 34 points in the West's 148-143 win over the East at Staples Center arena.
"This was a great experience for me. I can't take anything for granted."
Carmelo Anthony expects this to be his last all-star appearance as a Denver Nugget.
Anthony, who had eight points and seven rebounds Sunday as a starting West forward, hopes to get an answer this week on where he will be playing in the future. The NBA trading deadline is Thursday at 12pm Los Angeles time (2000 GMT).
"Time is ticking, man, and time is money," Anthony said during Friday's media day at the all-star game.
"There's a lot of teams that I'm pretty sure that's going to call. I don't really know how much interest the Lakers have or Dallas or anything at this point.
"The end is near. All this stuff will be over with."
Los Angeles Clippers rookie Blake Griffin soared over a car Saturday to win the slam-dunk contest. Griffin, who will turn 21 next month, was the busiest all-star, competing in the rookie game, dunk contest and making his main all-star game debut.
"Oh man. I can barely move right now," Griffin said following Sunday's game. "The last time I was this tired was probably at training camp."
Since Griffin's arrival, the Clippers have been playing in front of sold-out houses and even taking some of the limelight in Los Angeles from storied Lakers franchise.
"I am excited about that," Griffin said. "But the big reason is not just for me but for how we have been playing as a team. We have not accomplished anything yet. We are still learning. I am glad to be part of it."
The defending champion Lakers head into the second half with a 38-19 record and a commanding nine and a half game lead over second place Phoenix in the Pacific Division.
All-star game MVP Kobe Bryant said the Lakers were in contact with each other during the all-star break and are ready to get back at it.
"We are looking forward to it," Bryant said of the second half of the season.
"We are up for the challenge. Pau (Gasol) and I have been talking this whole time. We have been in communication with the rest of the fellas, and we all can't wait to get started."
Anthony hopes to get his short term future sorted out by the end of the week but nobody knows what is going to happen with the long-term future.
The players union and the owners are in limbo over negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement and if the two sides can't agree on a deal by midnight on June 30 there could be a lockout.
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"At the end of the day, if I was to sit here and say I'm not thinking about that, I would be lying to you guys. I don't want to go into no lockout. I don't think none of the players want to go into a lockout."
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No, I am not a troll. I was just pointing out that calling statistics useless lies, pretending they don't exist or rationalizing that they don't apply to oneself is rather callow.
I never stated that riders cannot manage (I don't think control is a good word here) the risks associated with motorcycling and behave in ways that lessen them. In fact, I state quite the opposite. "I am happy to have [statistical information], because it allows me to assess the risks
and act in ways to eliminate or minimize them.
" Also, in my first post I actually enumerate several risk reduction strategies.
It seems as if you did not even read my post completely before replying to it.
Again, I never indicated that it was mere superstition that motos attract thrill seekers. OTH, to imply that only the foolish end up in serious accidents and thus become part of accident statistics is simply naive. Any review of face plant, motorcycle accident reporting or making a serious investigation into the stats will reveal that it is quite common for experienced, well trained motorcyclists to be seriously injured of killed in accidents that involve no fault of their own.
While it's good to hear that you ride carefully, your anecdotal story has nothing to do with what is plainly evident in the statistics and your insinuation that because you ride carefully, only others risk serious accident is pretending to be oblivious of the facts.
This is very true, although I hope you are not implying that I am not the one who stated that I bought a convertible to reduce my exposure to the risks of motorcycling, I am not. That said, any review of accident injury stats will reveal that the likelihood of serious injury or death in and accident is much lower for seat belted drivers in modern cars than it is for motorbikers.
And 'how do you know this?', probably because you read it in an article quoting a
I engage in many "risky" activities (whitewater kayaking, backcountry skiing, mountaineering, motorbiking in developing countries...etc.), but I certainly don't ignore the risks of such activities or pretend that the risks/statistics don't apply to me. To do so would be simply ignorant.
To be purposely nescient does nothing to improve the quality of one's life.
Actually you are a troll, and nobody wants to read your entire posts. You should take a course in efficient writing and learn how to curb your arrogance...
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Human rights group cites 'atrocities' in Myanmar
SITTWE, Myanmar A human rights group said Myanmar government forces opened fire on crowds of ethnic Rohingya in a targeted campaign of violence during recent sectarian strife, as a U.N. envoy visited the area Wednesday to investigate the unrest.
New York-based Human Rights Watch called for a strong international response to "atrocities" committed during fighting in June between Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya. The violence in western Myanmar that left at least 78 people dead has subsided but many tens of thousands remain homeless - mostly Rohingya in need of food, shelter and medical care.
The official spokesman for Rakhine state rejected the group's criticism of the government's response to the violence. Win Myaing told The Associated Press that allegations that government forces stood and watched as violence wracked the area were "absolutely untrue."
"Security conditions obviously improved day by day when government forces were deployed to control the situation," Win Myaing said.
On Monday, Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin told reporters that the government "strongly rejects the accusations by some quarters that abuses and excessive use of force were made by the authorities in dealing with the situation."
The release of the Human Rights Watch report coincided with a visit by U.N. human rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana to Rakhine state. His evaluation of the conflict is likely to be regarded as a yardstick for measuring the reforms undertaken by elected President Thein Sein after Myanmar ended decades of repressive military rule.
Much remains unknown about what transpired in Rakhine state during nearly two weeks of sectarian fighting, rioting and arson attacks because the area was virtually sealed off to the outside world. Quintana has made clear that investigating the conflict is a priority of his weeklong visit to Myanmar. He toured key sites of the June violence on Tuesday and Wednesday, declining to answer journalists' questions about his findings.
Tensions between the Rakhine and the Rohingya are longstanding, in part because many in Myanmar consider the Rohingya to be illegal settlers from neighboring Bangladesh.
"The government claims it is committed to ending ethnic strife and abuse, but recent events in (Rakhine) state demonstrate that state-sponsored persecution and discrimination persist," Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch's Asia director, said in a statement. He urged the international community not to be "blinded by a romantic narrative of sweeping change" in the country.
The violence was triggered by reports that a Rakhine Buddhist woman was raped and killed in late May by three Muslim men.
In retaliation, an angry mob of Rakhine villagers attacked a bus on June 3 and killed 10 Muslims, leading to waves of rioting and arson attacks by both groups against the other.
Human Rights Watch said government security forces were slow to stop the fighting and colluded with the Buddhist community as they "unleashed a campaign of violence and mass roundups against the Rohingya."
It said police and paramilitary forces fired live ammunition at Rohingya on June 12 as they tried to stop Rakhine mobs from burning their homes in the state capital, Sittwe.


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DENVER Corey Brewer isnt on a 10-day contract. The way he talks, it sure sounds as if he is.Brewer hasnt exactly had much stability the past few years. In February 2011, with Brewer due to become a free agent at the end of the season, Minnesota dealt him to New York in the three-team trade that featured Denver sending Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks.Brewer was waived the following month and then picked up by Dallas, which signed him to a three-year, 7 million contract. That sounded like stability.Nope. After finishing 2010-11 with Mavericks, which included barely playing in the postseason during their championship run, Brewer was traded before last season to Denver in a salary dump.In two Nuggets seasons, Brewer has become a key cog off the bench. So can the six-year veteran from the University of Florida finally breath easy?You never have no stability until you have a deal, said Brewer, who will be a free agent after the season. So right now Im just living in the moment.If Brewer ke...
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A few days after scoring his most spectacular victory, Marquez told Salvador Rodriguez of The Record that the 39-year-old Mexican wants Pacquiao to "accept what had happened and move on" even as calls for them to fight for the fifth time continue to snowball.
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Rodriguez furnished the Bulletin a transcript of his interview with Mexico's current toast.
Marquez, who knocked Pacquiao out cold in the sixth round over the weekend in Las Vegas, said: "Manny doesn't have to (feel) bad. That might happen to me as it happened to other fighters he faced (before)."
"We must accept joys and sorrows. In this case it is difficult to accept defeat but you have to accept it and if possible, move on."
Pacquiao was slightly ahead on all scorecards when he connected with a right hand that knocked Pacquiao out in the dying seconds of the sixth round.
Marquez added that he is not yet sure whether he will continue fighting or not, citing the request by his family for him to leave the sport, making it difficult and costly to stage a fifth showdown between the bitter rivals.
"I'm not sure. My family wants me to retire and body gets tired since we are not machines."
Marquez said he will discuss the matter with his family and team "to see what is best."
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A long-proposed solution for the UAS requirements of France, Germany and Spain, Talarion has already attracted the interest of the Turkish defence ministry and industry, and from Madrid. However, no concrete financial commitment has been made to the initiative so far from potential operators.
"Germany is about to make up its mind," Cassidian chief executive Dr Stefan Zoller said on the eve of the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEi) exhibition in London on 12 September. Its decision could be pivotal to the Talarion's future success, with procurement budgets tight and France is considering its equipment options under the terms of a defence treaty with the UK, with BAE Systems and Dassault offering the Telemos.
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The Padres are also expecting continued improvement from catcher Nick Hundley, center fielder Cameron Maybin, right fielder Will Venable and third baseman Chase Headley while hoping the middle infield combination of shortstop Jason Bartlett and second baseman Orlando Hudson bounce back from the worst seasons of their careers.
"One hitter is not going to carry us," said Black. "We need improved contributions throughout the order. We think it's there."
On paper, the Padres' cornerstone pitching took a series of hits beginning with the trade of Mike Adams to Texas last July 31. Then closer Heath Bell departed via free agency and Mat Latos went to the Reds in a 4-for-1 deal.
But the Padres depart spring training believing the pitching is going to be better than even they expected.
In the rotation, Cory Luebke could develop into one of the National League's top left-handers. Clayton Richard and Dustin Moseley look healthy. And Edinson Volquez could match the 2011 results of Latos.
In the bullpen, while Huston Street lacks the power and durability of Bell, he is a proven closer. And Andrew Cashner has the ability to hit triple digits on the radar gun.
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A part of the brain associated with making memories may also predict success in learning math
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The anatomy of your brain may be linked with how easily you learn math, a new study finds. But that doesn't mean you can get out of doing your homework by saying you don't have a head for numbers.
Deep inside each side of the brain lies a region called the hippocampus (plural hippocampi). It's shaped like a seahorse (hippo campus means "sea monster" in Greek) and helps make memories. The size of this brain region and how it's wired to others may play important roles in how children learn ...
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Oshie has said he tries to be unpredictable with his shot selections in high-pressure situations, and he leads the NHL with seven shootout goals in 10 tries this season.
While Oshie might not be a household name, hockey fans respect him as one of the best, his former coach said.
"Today he introduced himself to the world," Hakstol said. "I think his personality will really endear people to him. He's such a humble, fun-loving guy. And then when he gets on the ice he competes as hard — or harder — than anybody out there."
After Saturday's win, Oshie addressed the expectations of his fans back home.
"I'm definitely going to try to represent the town and obviously the country as best I can," Oshie said. "There's some big shoes to fill in there so I'll just try to do my part."
Associated Press writers Oskar Garcia in Sochi, Russia, Erica Hunzinger in Chicago and Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee contributed to this report.