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EconoMeter: Economy will be slightly better a year from now
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- Kelly Cunningham, senior fellow and chief economist at National University System Institute for Policy Research
- Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego
- James Hamilton, economist University of California San Diego
- Gary London, President of London Group Realty Advisers
- Norm Miller, economist University of San Diego
- Lynn Reaser, economist Point Loma Nazarene University
- Dan Seiver, economist San Diego State University
The Union-Tribune's weekly EconoMeter panelists gathered last week for a U-T Talk about the economy at the University of San Diego. Here are a few excerpts from the conversation titled "An Economic Reality Check."
Q: Will we be better off a year from today than we are now?
Dan Seiver, economist, San Diego State University: It's not going to be where we want it to be and it's certainly not going to be where Barack Obama wants it to be, but it's conceivable, that with a little bit of GDP growth, the unemployment rate could come down a bit. But we are still going to be struggling.
Lynn Reaser, economist, Point Loma Nazarene University: Yes, slightly. We'll have some more job growth, the unemployment rate might be slightly lower than it is today, wages will probably rise faster than prices.
Norm Miller, economist, University of San Diego: Absent all the qualifications and concerns over the super committee, I see us having slow private sector job growth so yes, we will be slightly better off.
Gary London, president, London Group Realty Advisors: We are going though, in a very relatively brief time, great structural change in our economy. It's going to take some time to turn this great big economic ship around. So we are not going to be in substantially better condition next year but we will be in incrementally better condition.
James Hamilton, economist, University of California San Diego: I'm going to go with a maybe. It depends on how things unfold in Europe. We could see some major financial problems in Europe (and) if that happens I think it would be hard for the U.S. to escape those. If Europe muddles through, then I think the U.S. will as well. It won't be gangbuster growth, it might not be enough to bring the unemployment rate down, but we'll see more people working a year from now if we are able to avoid a major financial problem over the next few months.
Alan Gin, economist, University of San Diego: The economy is going to be better a year from now. I think the unemployment rate, right now about 9.1 percent, will probably fall into the high 8s by the end of this year and then somewhere in the 8 to 8.5 percent range a year from now. The problem though, is it's better than where we are but it still sucks.
Kelly Cunningham, economist, National University System Institute for Policy Research: I would say that it will be better just because it can't get much worse.
Q: Will there be reform in entitlements and taxes?
Seiver: I'd be greatly in favor of simplifying the tax system in order to generate more revenue because we can't do it all on the spending side. On the expenditures, if you don't deal with the three horsemen of the apocalypse — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — then you are just wasting your time cutting around the edges. We can't keep using the system we have.


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Nuzman Wins Reelection; Zambia Enjoys Royal Visit; Figure Skating Champion, 84
Nuzman Wins Reelection
Carlos Nuzman will serve a fifth consecutive four-year term as president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee.
Carlos Nuzman at London 2012. (ATR/Panasonic Lumix)
The honorary IOC member and Rio 2016 chief stood unopposed Friday, winning 30 of 31 votes from Brazil's national governing bodies.
Eric Maleson of the Brazilian Ice Sports Federation is believed to be responsible for the lone dissenting ballot. Brazil's first bobsled Olympian, he announced his intention to challenge Nuzman back in April, but the COB rejected his application, requiring that a candidate be backed by at least 10 NGBs.
"We are on the eve of an unprecedented Olympic cycle in the history of Brazil, which will mark the opportunity for our athletes to participate in the Olympic Games at home for the first time," Nuzman said Friday in his inaugural address.
"With the increased financial support to Brazil's Olympic sports after we won the right to host the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, we are confident that it is possible to give a leap of quality and quantity in medal winning in the next editions of the Games."
At the 2012 Olympics in London, Brazil won 17 medals, the largest number ever, 14th in the overall standings. The goal for Rio 2016 is to place Brazil among the top 10.
Nuzman's renewed mandate comes amidst questions from Brazil's federal government about whether he can handle both his OCOG and COB roles in the run-up to Rio 2016.
Also unclear is whether he still has the confidence of President Dilma Rousseff.
Recent calls to remove Nuzman, 70, marked the first real public scrutiny of his long tenure within the Olympic Movement.
Royal Visit for Zambia
The Princess Royal is the latest VIP to visit the Olympic Youth Development Center in Lusaka, Zambia.
Princess Anne (middle) tours the Olympic Youth Development Center. (IOC)
Princess Anne, also an equestrian Olympian and former federation president, was welcomed by IOC colleague Patrick Chamunda and OYDC director Clement Chileshe, who led her on a tour of the 14-sport site.
"Her coming here is not by accident because throughout the period of construction she has taken a keen interest in the project," said Chamunda. "She did indicate that she was impressed in our meeting and is very supportive of the programs here."
Chileshe added: "She definitely shared our passion and love for young people."
The facility, inaugurated in May 2010, is the flagship project of the IOC's Sport for Hope Program. Established in collaboration with six international federations and the local government, it's already been visited by thousands of athletes as well as IOC President Jacques Rogge and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon back in February.
Plans for a second Olympic Youth Development Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti are already underway, according to the IOC.
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Barbara Ann Scott alongside men's gold medalist Dick Button of the U.S. at St. Moritz 1948. (Getty Images)
Olympic and world champion figure skater Barbara Ann Scott is being remembered as "Canada's Sweetheart".
Scott, 84, died Sunday at her home on Amelia Island, Florida.
As a 19-year-old, she won ladies singles gold at the 1948 Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland and remains the only Canadian to do so.
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Nicole Scherzinger looked absolutely, ridiculously fab performing alongside James Arthur at his homecoming gig in Middlesbrough.
We hope they look this good on Saturday! Copyright: [PA]
Yep, in between threatening to 'f*ck up' Frankie Boyle and rehearsing for this weekend's final, James managed to fit in a little performance with Nicole Scherzinger.
We reckon we are supposed to be looking at James, and to be honest normally we would be gawping at his beautiful face.
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However, we just keep getting distracted by Nicole's general gorgeousness.
Thigh high boots and a teeny tiny skirt? Brilliant work upstaging your own act, Nic!
Nicole trying out some moves with James. Copyright: [PA]
Still, we are sure that James didn't mind and if anything, now fancies his mentor more than ever before.
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Meanwhile, James has admitted that he just can't believe where he is right now.
As in metaphorically and all that, obvs.
James says that he can't believe that this time last year he was struggling with depression and now he could quite possibly win the X Factor this weekend.
James told The Sun: "Back then I was suffering severe depression. I had just given up on a lot of things, I gave up on myself."
"I didn't want to leave the house, I couldn't get out of bed,"
"It's surreal. This time last year I was looking out at the sea from the pier and thinking I'd never fulfil my purpose in life and now I'm here with Nicole Scherzinger at my homecoming."
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During the Babylonian exile in the sixth century BC Jews began gathering to pray and study the scriptures in the synagogue A quorum of ten men was necessary to form a synagogue. Women sat in a separate section, and were not expected to take part.
Numerous synagogues were set up in Jerusalem, including one for freedmen, or ex-slaves. There were no less than 480 synagogues in Jerusalem during Jesus' time. The well preserved synagogue at Capernaum dates from the first or second century AD and is almost certainly the site of the building where Jesus spoke. About the only synagogue visible today which for certain, dates to the first century AD, is the building excavated at Masada.
Wherever the apostle Paul traveled he made first for the local synagogue to preach the Christian message to the Jews. As a qualified rabbi he would be invited to expound the weekly readings from the Torah and the Prophets. At Philippi he went to 'a place of prayer'. This was a common description for a synagogue and may have been a synagogue rather than just a riverside place of prayer, as is traditionally accepted.
Some synagogues were huge. Excavators have discovered an enormous synagogue at Sardis, in western Turkey, which was in use from 200-600 AD. The main hall is 65 yards long, with a forecourt and porch projecting an additional 43 yards. The great Diploston synagogue in Alexandria was so enormous that a man was stationed in the middle of the building so he could signal with a flag the correct moment for the Amen to people at the back of the building.
- The first synagogues may have been built by Jews held captive far from the temple during the Babylonian Exile in the sixth century B.C., but synagogues were important religious and social institutions in the time of Jesus.
- The original Greek word synagogue means merely "a place of meeting."
- In the Jewish world synagogues were second only to the temple in Jerusalem itself as religious institutions. They also served as schools of religious instruction and communal halls for civic functions under the direction of a council of elders.
- Typically, a synagogue was a small structure built on a rise above the neighboring houses. Opposite the entrance, a portable ark contained the scrolls of the Law and the Prophets. In front of it, facing worshipers, were the "chief seats" for religious leaders.
- Men and women perhaps sat apart from each other in the congregation as they did in later times.
- For public worship, which was conducted on the Sabbath, a minimum of 10 adult males had to be in attendance.
- The five-part service included prayers, psalm-singing, blessings, readings from the Scriptures, and commentaries on the sacred passages, but there were no sacrifices and no standard liturgy.
- Although a rabbi might be recognized as the leader because of his distinguished teaching, there was no official clergy. In fact, any Jew who felt himself qualified could ask for permission to teach the Scriptures-as Jesus did at Nazareth.
In the very beginning, believers in Jesus did not separate themselves from their fellow Jews. Like Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and lesser-known groups, they seemed to form a new sect of Judaism-sometimes called "the Way"; and the first Christians preached in synagogues whose members shared many of the same beliefs and were already familiar with the Scriptures.
Later, as missionaries carried the Gospel out into the Greco-Roman world, services that included gentiles were initially held in synagogues; but soon there were churches specifically for gentile converts.
Soon, the gentile Christianity that grew out of the early churches began to predominate over the Jewish Christianity that was centered in synagogues. In fact, as the faith spread in the West, it failed in Palestine, partly because it did not give encouragement to the Zealots, who wanted to rise up against Rome, and partly because its essential ideas and beliefs struck many traditional Jews as too revolutionary.Perhaps as early as AD 50, Jews and Christianized Jews split, even rioting against each other in Rome, and soon the gulf between synagogue and church had widened beyond the point of reconciliation.
The Synagogue
The synagogue played a large part in the growth and persistence of Judaism, as previously noted.
The Jews of the Dispersion founded synagogues in every city of the empire where there were enough Jews to maintain one, and foreign synagogues flourished in Jerusalem.
Galilee, which in the days of the Maccabees was largely Gentile (I Macc. 5:21-23), was filled with synagogues in the time of Christ.
The synagogue was the social center where the Jewish inhabitants of a city gathered weekly to meet each other.
It was the educational medium for keeping the law before the people and for providing instruction for their children in the ancestral faith.It was the substitute for temple worship, which was precluded by distance or by poverty.
In the synagogue the study of the law took the place of ritual sacrifice, the rabbi supplanted the priest, and the communal faith was applied to individual life.
Each synagogue had as its leader the "head of synagogue" (Mark 5:22), who was probably selected from among the elders by vote. The leader presided over the services in the synagogue, acted as instructor in case of any dispute (Luke 13:14), and introduced visitors to the assembly (Acts 13:15).
The synagogue attendant, or hazzan, acted as custodian of the property and had the responsibility of caring for the building and its contents. His duties included warning the village people of the beginning of the Sabbath on Friday afternoon and notifying them also of its close. Probably he was the official mentioned in Luke 4:20 who brought forth the roll of Scripture from which Jesus preached in the synagogue at Nazareth and who replaced the roll in its proper niche when He had finished reading from it. On occasion the hazzan served as the master of the local synagogue school.
The synagogue buildings were usually substantial structures of stone, sometimes richly furnished if the congregation or sponsor were wealthy. Every synagogue had a chest in which the roll of the law was kept, a platform with a reading desk from which the Scripture of the day was read, lamps for lighting the building, and benches or seats for the congregation.
Most of the equipment in use in the ancient synagogues still appears in their modern counterpart.
THE SYNAGOGUE SERVICE consisted of recitation of the Jewish Shema, "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might" (Deut. 6:4, 5),
This was accompanied by sentences of praise to God called Berakot because they began with the word "Blessed."
Following the Shema was a ritual prayer, concludingwith an opportunity for individual silent prayer on the part of the members of the congregation.
The reading of the Scriptures, which came next, began with special sections of the law which were assigned to holy days; but as time went on the entire Pentateuch was divided into sections which gave a fixed cycle of one hundred fifty-four lessons to be read in a definite period of time. The Palestinian Jews read through the Pentateuch every three years, whereas the Babylonian Jews completed the reading in one year. The Prophets were also used, as Jesus' reading in the synagogue shows (Luke 4:16-.). Probably on that occasion Jesus Himself selected the reading.
A sermon followed the reading of the Scripture, explaining the portion which had been read. The sermon in the synagogue at Nazareth was in full keeping with the regular procedure of the day. The sermon was closed with a blessing, pronounced by some priestly member of the congregation. If no person with priestly qualifications was present, a prayer was substituted for the blessing.
Jesus Himself attended regularly the service of the synagogue and took part in it.
His disciples also had been accustomed to its ritual.
Paul in his travels visited the synagogues first whenever he entered strange cities, and he preached and debated with the Jews and proselytes who gathered to hear him.
The Church followed to some degree the procedure of the Synagogue. As a matter of fact, some early Christian worship may have been carried on within the synagogue; for the Epistle of James implies that the Christian community to whom it was written was still worshipping there (Jas. 2:1, 2).
Because of the summary and persistent rejection of the gospel of Christ by the Jewish people, the church and the synagogue parted company as it is today.© 1995-1996 The Bible Knowledge Accelerator ( Registered )


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CHONGQING, China Determined to learn their way out of the Great Recession - or eager to rise above the deprivation of developing lands - unprecedented millions of people have enrolled in colleges and universities around the world in the past five years.
What they're finding is an educational landscape turning upside down.
In the United States - where top schools have long championed a liberal style of learning and broad education before specialization - higher education's focus is shifting to getting students that first job in a still-shaky economy. Tuition is so high and the lingering economic distress so great that an education not directly tied to an occupation is increasingly seen as a luxury.
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Advocates hear employers demanding the "soft skills" - communication, critical thinking, and working with diverse groups - that broad-based learning more effectively instills. They want to graduate job-creators, not just job-fillers. They think the biggest innovations come from graduates who are well-rounded - from empathetic engineers, say, or tech-savvy anthropologists.
In Europe, where for centuries students have jumped straight into specialized fields and studied little else, recent changes have pushed back specialization, making more room for general education. In Africa and the Middle East, experiments are moving away from a relentlessly narrow education tradition. And on a much bigger scale, China is breaking down the rigid disciplinary walls that have long characterized its higher education system.
All of this is happening in the shadow of the Great Recession, which began in late 2007 with the near-collapse of the global financial system, depressing economies and employment worldwide. Today, some countries are recovering, but all are coming to grips with a world altered by hard times.
Higher education is widely seen - both by nations and individuals - as the way to prosperity.
Over roughly the last half-decade, according to UNESCO, enrollment in colleges and universities rose one-third in China and almost two-thirds in Saudi Arabia, nearly doubled in Pakistan, tripled in Uganda, and surged by 3 million - 18 percent - in the United States. In 2001, global enrollment first passed 100 million; a decade later, the estimated figure was 182 million.
But what kind of education will best drive economic growth?
When foreign delegations visit American campuses these days, they increasingly skip the usual research universities to scope out liberal arts colleges such as Amherst and Williams, says Patti McGill Peterson of the American Council on Education.
They're seeking the "magic" that helped launch companies like Apple and Google. China, in particular, is recruiting disheartened American academics and putting them to work.
There's "a weird symmetry" at work in the educational world, says Columbia University professor Andrew Delbanco, author of "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be."
As people in the United States "talk less and less about the value of liberal education," he says, "our so-called economic competitors talk about it more and more."
On the outskirts of Chongqing, a sprawling megalopolis of 29 million in southwest China, stand a pair of college campuses - one representing education's past in the world's most populous country, and the other, perhaps, its future.


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Fatigue To Blame For Great Barrier Reef Grounding
A tired chief mate was responsible for a Chinese registered coal carrier ship that ran aground on the Douglas Shoal off the Queensland Coast, states the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) in its investigation.
The incident on April 3, 2010, left a hole in the reef about 1.8 miles long and took nine days for the ship to refloat, reports BBC News.
The damage could take 20 years for the reef and its turtle breeding grounds to recover, environmental officials say. Conservationists believe that the this incident highlights the environmental impact of Australia's booming resource exports to Asia, reports AFP.
According to the ATSB report, the chief mate only had 2.5 hours of sleep during the previous 38.5 hours.
"The chief mate was affected by fatigue and this resulted in a decreased level of performance while he was monitoring Shen Neng 1′s position," the bureau's final report on the incident concluded.
Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan says that the ATSB "urges ship operators to comply with international requirements that ensure operators properly manage the hours of work and rest of watchkeepers."
"Fatigue is one of the key safety risks facing seafarers, and watchkeepers in particular," says Dolan. "Failure to manage fatigue can lead to loss of life, damage to property and damage to the environment."
In addition, the ATSB found several other safety concerns that related to the accident.
"There was a sequence of things going wrong that led to a major failure which is quite often what we find in the course of our investigations," Dolan says.
One of the concerns is in the ship's safety management system. It did not contain procedures or guidance for the proper use of passage plans, which should include route plans.
Another is that there were no visual cues to warn either the chief mate or the seaman on lookout duty about the underwater navigation hazards directly ahead of the ship, reports AFP.
The report also states that at the time of grounding, "protections afforded by compulsory pilotage and active monitoring of ships by the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait Vessel Traffic Service were not in place."
The final ATSB report advised that ship operators need to ensure they have an appropriate process in place to handle the fatigue level of its crew mates.
Wang Jichang, the ship's master was charged with liability and faces a fine up to $51,000. Additionally, the crewmate Wang Xuegang was accused of being in charge of the ship when it crashed. For Wang Xuegang it would mean a three-year jail sentence and a possible maximum fine of a little over $220,000.
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Zech T, Calaminus SDJ, Caswell PT, Spence HJ, Carnell MJ, Insall RH, Norman JC, Machesky LM. The Arp2/3 activator WASH regulates alpha-5 beta-1 integrin mediated invasive migration. J Cell Sci 124(Pt 22): 3753-9, 2011
Li A, Dawson JC, Forero-Vargas M, Spence HJ, Yu X, Konig I, Anderson K, Machesky LM. The actin-bundling protein fascin stabilizes actin in invadopodia and potentiates protrusive invasion. Curr Biol 20: 339-45, 2010
May RC, Caron E, Hall A, Machesky LM. Involvement of the Arp2/3 complex in FcgR and CR3 mediated phagocytosis. Nature Cell Biol 2: 246-8, 2000
Machesky LM, Mullins RD, Higgs HN, Kaiser DA, Blanchoin L, May RC, Hall ME, Pollard TD. Wasp-related protein Scar activates dendritic nucleation of actin filaments by Arp2/3 complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96: 3739-44, 1999
Machesky LM, Insall RH. Scar and the related Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, WASP, regulate the actin cytoskeleton through the Arp2/3 complex. Curr Biol 8: 1347-56, 1998
Education and qualifications
1993: PhD, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Supervisor Thomas D. Pollard
1987: BSc, Chemistry and Biology (GPA 3.98/4.00), Alma College, USA
2007-present: Professor of Cell Biology, CRUK Beatson Institute
2007-2010: MRC Senior Research Fellow, CRUK Beatson Institute
1999-2007: MRC Career Development Fellow, MRC Senior Research Fellow & Professor of Cell Biology, School of Biosciences University of Birmingham
1997-1998: MRC Career Development Fellow with Alan Hall, MRC-LMCB, London
1995-1997: Damon Runyon Walter Winchell Cancer Research Posdoctoral Fellow with Alan Hall, MRC-LMCB, London
1993-1995: Damon Runyon Walter Winchell Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellow with Rob Kay, MRC-LMB, Cambridge
Committee membership
American Society for Cell Biology Council, 2012
Board of Directors, Company of Biologists
2010-present: CR-UK Biological Sciences Committee
2008-present: Wellcome Trust Basic Science Interview Committee
2007-present: AICR Scientific Advisory Committee
Honours and awards
Elected a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, 2012
Keith R. Porter Fellowship, 2011
American Society for Cell Biology, Women in Cell Biology Junior Award, 2001
Recent Publications
Garcia E, Machesky LM, Jones GE, Anton IM. WIP is necessary for matrix invasion by breast cancer cells. Eur J Cell Biol 2014. Epub 2014/08/30.
Li A, Morton JP, Ma Y, Karim SA, Zhou Y, Faller WJ, Woodham EF, Morris HT, Stevenson RP, Juin A, Jamieson NB, MacKay CJ, Carter CR, Leung HY, Yamashiro S, Blyth K, Sansom OJ, Machesky LM. Fascin is regulated by slug, promotes progression of pancreatic cancer in mice, and is associated with patient outcomes. Gastroenterology 146: 1386-96 e1-17, 2014
Lindsay CR, Li A, Faller W, Ozanne B, Welch H, Machesky LM, Sansom OJ. A Rac1-Independent Role for P-Rex1 in Melanoblasts. J Invest Dermatol 2014. Epub 2014/07/31.
Ma Y, Machesky LM. Fascin1 in carcinomas: Its regulation and prognostic value. Int J Cancer 2014. Epub 2014/10/11.
Muinonen-Martin AJ, Susanto O, Zhang Q, Smethurst E, Faller WJ, Veltman DM, Kalna G, Lindsay C, Bennett DC, Sansom OJ, Herd R, Jones R, Machesky LM, Wakelam MJ, Knecht DA, Insall RH. Melanoma Cells Break Down LPA to Establish Local Gradients That Drive Chemotactic Dispersal. PLoS Biol 12: e1001966, 2014
Tyrrell BJ, Neilson M, Insall RH, Machesky LM. Predicting cell shapes in melanomas. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 27: 5-6, 2014
Woodham EF, Machesky LM. Polarised cell migration: intrinsic and extrinsic drivers. Curr Opin Cell Biol 30C: 25-32, 2014
Li A, Machesky LM. Rac1 cycling fast in melanoma with P29S. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res, in press 2013
Ma Y, Li A, Faller WJ, Libertini S, Fiorito F, Gillespie DA, Sansom OJ, Yamashiro S, Machesky LM. Fascin 1 is transiently expressed in mouse melanoblasts during development and promotes migration and proliferation. Development 140: 2203-11, 2013
Ma Y, Reynolds LE, Li A, Stevenson RP, Hodivala-Dilke KM, Yamashiro S, Machesky LM. Fascin 1 is dispensable for developmental and tumour angiogenesis. Biol Open 2: 1187-91, 2013
Schachtner H, Calaminus SD, Sinclair A, Monypenny J, Blundell MP, Leon C, Holyoake TL, Thrasher AJ, Michie AM, Vukovic M, Gachet C, Jones GE, Thomas SG, Watson SP, Machesky LM. Megakaryocytes assemble podosomes that degrade matrix and protrude through basement membrane. Blood 121: 2542-52, 2013
Schachtner H, Calaminus SD, Thomas SG, Machesky LM. Podosomes in adhesion, migration, mechanosensing and matrix remodeling. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 70: 572-89, 2013
Tang H, Li A, Bi J, Veltman DM, Zech T, Spence HJ, Yu X, Timpson P, Insall RH, Frame MC, Machesky LM. Loss of Scar/WAVE complex promotes N-WASP and FAK-dependent invasion. Curr Biol 23(2): 107-17, 2013
Ampe C, Machesky LM, Nyitrai M. Biophysical approaches for investigation of the cytoskeleton. A special issue stemming from research presented at the 2012 ECF meeting: A FEBS/EMBO workshop lecture course in Pecs, Hungary. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 70: 539, 2013
Futo K, Bodis E, Machesky LM, Nyitrai M, Visegrady B. Membrane binding properties of IRSp53-missing in metastasis domain (IMD) protein. Biochim Biophys Acta 1831: 1651-5, 2013
Park L, Thomason PA, Zech T, King JS, Veltman DM, Carnell M, Ura S, Machesky LM, Insall RH. Cyclical action of the WASH complex: FAM21 and capping protein drive WASH recycling, not initial recruitment. Dev Cell 24: 169-81, 2013
Sonego M, Gajendra S, Parsons M, Ma Y, Hobbs C, Zentar MP, Williams G, Machesky LM, Doherty P, Lalli G. Fascin regulates the migration of subventricular zone-derived neuroblasts in the postnatal brain. J Neurosci 33: 12171-85, 2013
Zanivan S, Meves A, Behrendt K, Schoof EM, Neilson LJ, Cox J, Tang HR, Kalna G, van Ree JH, van Deursen JM, Trempus CS, Machesky LM, Linding R, Wickstrom SA, Fassler R, Mann M. In vivo SILAC-based proteomics reveals phosphoproteome changes during mouse skin carcinogenesis. Cell Rep 3: 552-66, 2013
Calaminus SDJ, Guitart A, Sinclair A, Schachtner H, Watson SP, Holyoake TL, Kranc KR, Machesky LM. Lineage tracing of PF4-Cre marks hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny. PLoS One 7(12): e51361, 2012
Dawson JC, Bruche S, Spence HJ, Braga VM, Machesky LM. Mtss1 promotes cell-cell junction assembly and stability through the small GTPase Rac1. PLoS One 7: e31141, 2012
Dawson JC, Timpson P, Kalna G., Machesky L.M. Mtss1 regulates epidermal growth factor signalling in head and neck squamous carcinoma cells. Oncogene 31(14): 1781-93, 2012
Li A, Ma Y, Jin M, Mason S, Mort RL, Blyth K, Larue L, Sansom OJ, Machesky LM. Activated Mutant NRas(Q61K) Drives Aberrant Melanocyte Signaling, Survival, and Invasiveness via a Rac1-Dependent Mechanism. J Invest Dermatol 132(11): 2610-21, 2012
Schachtner H, Li A, Stevenson D, Calaminus SD, Thomas SG, Watson SP, Sixt M, Wedlich-Soldner R, Strathdee D, Machesky LM. Tissue inducible Lifeact expression allows visualization of actin dynamics in vivo and ex vivo. Eur J Cell Biol 91(11-12): 923-9, 2012
Spence HJ, Timpson P, Tang HR, Insall RH, Machesky LM. Scar/WAVE3 contributes to motility and plasticity of lamellipodial dynamics but not invasion in 3D. Biochem J 448(1): 35-42, 2012
Yu X, Zech T, McDonald L, Garcia Gonzalez E, Li A, Macpherson I, Schwarz JP, Spence H, Futo K, Timpson P, Nixon C, Ma Y, Anton IM, Visegrady B, Insall RH, Oien K, Blyth K, Norman JC, Machesky LM. N-WASP coordinates the delivery and F-actin mediated capture of MT1-MMP at invasive pseudopods. J Cell Biol 199(3): 527-44, 2012
Yu X, Machesky LM. Cells assemble invadopodia-like structures and invade into matrigel in a matrix metalloprotease dependent manner in the circular invasion assay. PLoS One 7: e30605, 2012
Li A, Machesky LM. Melanoblasts on the move: Rac1 sets the pace. Small GTPases 3: 115-9, 2012
Machesky LM, Sansom OJ. Rac1 in the driver's seat for melanoma. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 25: 762-4, 2012
Stevenson RP, Veltman D, Machesky LM. Actin-bundling proteins in cancer progression at a glance. J Cell Sci 125: 1073-9, 2012
Zech T, Calaminus SD, Machesky LM. Actin on trafficking: Could actin guide directed receptor transport? Cell Adh Migr 6: 476-81, 2012
Garcia E, Jones GE, Machesky LM, Anton IM. WIP: WASP-interacting proteins at invadopodia and podosomes. Eur J Cell Biol 91: 869-77, 2012
Maritzen T, Zech T, Schmidt MR, Krause E, Machesky LM, Haucke V. Gadkin negatively regulates cell spreading and motility via sequestration of the actin-nucleating ARP2/3 complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109: 10382-7, 2012
Ura S, Pollitt AY, Veltman DM, Morrice NA, Machesky LM, Insall RH. Pseudopod growth and evolution during cell movement is controlled through SCAR/WAVE dephosphorylation. Curr Biol 22: 553-61, 2012
Veltmann DM, King JS, Machesky LM, Insall RH. SCAR knockouts in Dictyostelium: WASP assumes SCAR's position and upstream regulators in pseudopods. J Cell Biol 198(4): 501-8, 2012
Zanivan S, Meves A, Beherendt K, Schoof EM, Neilson LJ, Cox J, Tang HR, Kalna G, van Ree JH, Van Deursen JM, Trempus CS, Machesky LM, Linding R, Wickstrom SA, Fassler R, Mann M. In vivo SILAC-based proteomics reveals phosphoproteome changes during mouse skin carcinogenesis. Cell Rep 3(2): 552-66, 2012
Li A, Ma Y, Yu X, Mort RL, Lindsay CR, Stevenson D, Strathdee D, Insall RH, Chernoff J, Snapper SB, Jackson IJ, Larue L, Sansom OJ, Machesky LM. Rac1 Drives Melanoblast Organization during Mouse Development by Orchestrating Pseudopod- Driven Motility and Cell-Cycle Progression. Dev Cell 2011; 21: 722- 34
Zech T, Calaminus SDJ, Caswell PT, Spence HJ, Carnell MJ, Insall RH, Norman JC, Machesky LM. The Arp2/3 activator WASH regulates alpha-5 beta-1 integrin mediated invasive migration. J Cell Sci doi: 10.1242/ jcs.080986, published online 23 Nov 2011
Carnell M, Zech T, Calaminus SD, Ura S, Hagedorn M, Johnston SA, May RC, Soldati T, Machesky LM, Insall RH (2011). Actin polymerization driven by WASH causes V-ATPase retrieval and vesicle neutralization before exocytosis. J Cell Biol. 193, 831-9.
Heath RJ, Leong JM, Visegrady B, Machesky LM, Xavier RJ (2011). Bacterial and Host Determinants of MAL Activation upon EPEC Infection: The Roles of Tir, ABRA, and FLRT3. PLoS Pathog. 7, e1001332.
Lindsay CR, Lawn S, Campbell AD, Faller WJ, Rambow F, Mort RL, Timpson P, Li A, Cammareri P, Ridgway RA, Morton JP, Doyle B, Hegarty S, Rafferty M, Murphy IG, McDermott EW, Sheahan K, Pedone K, Finn AJ, Groben PA, Thomas NE, Hao H, Carson C, Norman JC, Machesky LM, Gallagher WM, Jackson IJ, Van Kempen L, Beermann F, Der C, Larue L, Welch HC, Ozanne BW, Sansom OJ. P-Rex1 is required for efficient melanoblast migration and melanoma metastasis. Nat Commun doi: 10.1038/ncomms1560, published online 22 Nov 2011
Ramsay AK, McCracken SRC, Soofi M, Morland R, Fleming J, Yu AX, Machesky L, Nixon C, Edwards DE, Nuttall RK, Seywright M, Keller E, Leung HY (2011). ERK5 signalling in prostate cancer promotes an invasive phenotype. Br J Cancer 104, 664-72.
Thomas SG, Calaminus SD, Machesky LM, Alberts AS, Watson SP (2011). G-protein coupled and ITAM receptor regulation of the formin FHOD1 through Rho Kinase in platelets. J Thromb Haemost. 2011 May 23. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2011.04357.x. [Epub ahead of print].
Veltman DM, Auciello G, Spence HJ, Machesky LM, Rappoport JZ, Insall RH (2011). Functional analysis of Dictyostelium IBARa reveals a conserved role of the I-BAR domain in endocytosis. Biochem J. 436, 45-52.
Li A, Dawson JC, Forero-Vargas M, Spence HJ, Yu X, Konig I, Anderson K, Machesky LM (2010). The actin-bundling protein fascin stabilizes actin in invadopodia and potentiates protrusive invasion. Curr Biol. 20, 339-45.
Visegrady B, Machesky LM (2010). Myopathy-causing actin mutations promote defects in serum-response factor signalling. Biochem J. 427, 41-8.
Scott RW, Hooper S, Crighton D, Li A, Konig I, Munro J, Trivier E, Wickman G, Morin P, Croft DR, Dawson J, Machesky L, Anderson KI, Sahai EA, Olson MF (2010). LIM kinases are required for invasive path generation by tumor and tumor-associated stromal cells. J Cell Biol. 191, 169-85.
Brooks SP, Coccia M, Tang HR, Kanuga N, Machesky LM, Bailly M, Cheetham ME, Hardcastle AJ (2010). The Nance-Horan syndrome protein encodes a functional WAVE homology domain (WHD) and is important for co-ordinating actin remodelling and maintaining cell morphology. Hum Mol Genet. 19, 2421-32.
Serrels B, Sandilands E, Serrels A, Baillie G, Houslay MD, Brunton VG, Canel M, Machesky LM, Anderson KI, Frame MC (2010). A complex between FAK, RACK1, and PDE4D5 controls spreading initiation and cancer cell polarity. Curr Biol. 20, 1086-92.
Stein T, Cosimo E, Yu X, Smith PR, Simon R, Cottrell L, Pringle MA, Bell AK, Lattanzio L, Sauter G, Lo Nigro C, Crook T, Machesky LM, Gusterson BA (2010). Loss of reelin expression in breast cancer is epigenetically controlled and associated with poor prognosis. Am J Pathol. 177, 2323-33.
Mardakheh FK,Yekezare M, Machesky LM, Heath JK (2009). Spred2 interaction with the late endosomal protein NBR1 down-regulates fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling. J Cell Biol. 187, 265-77.
Vandamme D, Lambert E,Waterschoot D,Tondeleir D,Vandekerckhove J, Machesky LM, Constantin B, Rommelaere H,Ampe C (2009). Phenotypes induced by NM causing alpha-skeletal muscle actin mutants in fibroblasts, Sol 8 myoblasts and myotubes. BMC Res Notes 2, 40.
Insall RH, Machesky LM (2009). Actin dynamics at the leading edge: from simple machinery to complex networks. Dev Cell 17, 310-22.
Machesky LM, Tang HR (2009). Actin-based protrusions: promoters or inhibitors of cancer invasion? Cancer Cell 16, 5-7.
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Whether it's a bursting water balloon or the flapping wings of a bird, super slow-motion video can reveal the incredible nature of seemingly mundane events. But this footage doesn't come cheap. With typical set-ups costing in excess of US$30,000, its use is often limited to those with mega-budgets. The Edgertronic high speed video camera aims to to change that, by offering pro specs with a (relatively) affordable price-tag. Read More
GoPro's drive to make its Hero actioncams smaller and lighter continues with the release of the new Hero3+ line. With the Black edition, adventurous videographers can capture the fun at up to 4K resolution, while the Silver model offers 1080p HD video recording at up to 60 fps. Read More
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Given that we're living in the Age of YouTube, it's becoming pretty much standard practice for up-and-coming musicians to post videos of their jam sessions or live performances online. And while the affordability of HD video cameras/phones may mean that the visuals in those videos look nice, music is first and foremost an auditory art-form. That's why Sony is introducing a new musical-performance-specific camcorder, known appropriately enough as the HDR-MV1 Music Video Recorder. Read More
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The ability to shoot Ultra HD 4K video is no longer limited just to cinema- or broadcast-specific video cameras – or to the GoPro HERO3 Black edition, for that matter. Today at IFA 2013, Sony unveiled the FDR-AX1E, which is the first of the company's 4K-capable Handycams. Read More
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Rahul Gandhi who was accompanied by his sister and mother to Amethi, filed his nomination papers on Saturday.
He also declared his financial worth at Rs 9.40 crore. He claimed to have movable assets worth Rs 8.07 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 1.33 crore.
After filing his nominations he briefly spoke to the press and clarified that his comments on Narendra Modi were not meant to be personal and he was simply stating facts that Modi had hidden details about it earlier. He said, "I did not get personal against Narendra Modi; only pointed out a fact that he had not mentioned wife's name in affidavit."
He made no mention or comment about the latest allegations made about his mother and UPA party chief Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru in his latest book.
He also said Congress had been written off by the opinion polls in 2004 as well as 2009 but those did not prove to be correct. "They (opinion polls) kept saying Congress will lose but you know what happened," he said, referring to his party's unexpected victories in last two Lok Sabha elections.
Asked about polarising statements made by leaders of various political parties, he said attempts to polarise elections take place every time and Congress will take everybody along.
Rahul said he had focussed on three things for development of Amethi -- working with women bodies, connecting the area with national highways and railways and developing food park. He will focus on these issues in the future also to generate more employment for youths, he said.
Rahul along with Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka and her husband Robert Vadra, reached Amethi after conducting a roadshow through adjoining Sultanpur where his cousin Varun Gandhi is contesting on a BJP ticket. The roadshow was conducted on a 42-km stretch between Amhart in Sultanpur and Gauriganj in Amethi.
Amethi is going to polls on May 7 and Rahul is contesting for the third consecutive time to retain the seat. The event evoked curiosity as this is for the first time Rahul is organising such a political campaign from Sultanpur constituency where another Gandhi family member if fighting against a Congress candidate.


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Paying for Peace
Can we just buy security in Afghanistan?
- By Charles Kenny<p> Charles Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, and author, most recently, of Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More. "The Optimist," his column for Foreign Policy, runs weekly. </p>
In Afghanistan, as in Iraq, both the U.S. Defense Department and Agency for International Development (USAID) are struggling to find ways to use aid resources to promote the goals of development and security. The effort involves a considerable amount of money: If Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province were a country, it alone would have been the fifth-largest recipient of USAID funding in 2008. Meanwhile, aid organizations and NGOs complain that military programs such as the $1 billion Commander's Emergency Response Program build infrastructure that will not be maintained and will provide little long-term development impact. The military, for its part, complains that civilian development efforts are too focused on secure areas at the expense of winning hearts and minds in other places where it would actually make a difference to reduce violence.
Both sides are probably at least half-right: Despite many successes in improving Afghan citizens' quality of life, it seems quite likely that aid flows are failing to deliver economic development or security. A recent review of reconstruction in Helmand province by Stuart Gordon of the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) concluded that aid "may have as many negative, unintended effects as positive ones and, at the very least, is not a panacea." Gordon's interviews with people in Helmand suggested a widespread feeling that aid was only entrenching local tribal and criminal elites while doing little to improve the lives of ordinary people. But perhaps there is a way to meet both security and development goals at once. Just giving money to poor people turns out to be a powerful tool to improve lives and foster opportunity. And making that money conditional on security could provide a big incentive for local communities to turn against the Taliban.
The latest rage in the development industry is paying people to develop: to go to school, to get kids vaccinated, and so on. Conditional cash transfers hand over money to families if — and only if — they ensure junior is in school or has his shots. Mexico's conditional cash program, Oportunidades, reaches more than 25 million people; Brazil's Bolsa Familia reaches 12 million households. The programs work and have dramatic impacts. Not only have they considerably increased vaccination and enrollment rates — Mexico's program increases the chance that children will complete grade nine by 23 percent — but the money also has a number of other positive effects in areas like nutrition and income generation.
Growing evidence suggests that even unconditional cash transfers to poor people — just giving them money, no strings attached — can have a big development payoff as well. A pilot of a universal grant program in the Otjivero-Omitara area of Namibia found that within a year of program launch, child malnutrition fell from 42 to 10 percent, the proportion of adults involved in income-generating activities increased from 44 to 55 percent, school attendance rose considerably, savings expanded, and crime rates fell.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, we are struggling to spend considerable resources in a manner that achieves peace and development. Why not use cash transfers to promote stability? Here's one way it might work: In districts that are free from violence against Afghan forces or NATO's International Security Assistance Force, every adult is paid $20 every other month, with no conditions at all. If violence resumes, payments drop by a widely advertised amount. Too much violence, no cash transfer. If the Taliban or related groups keep fighting or attempt to extort payments, then a whole district population has a strong personal incentive to snitch. And to incentivize the security of those involved in the payments system, deaths of payment agents would also lead to a reduction or curtailment of payments at the district level.
Even a large cash-for-peace program would be cheap compared with the resources the United States alone is already throwing at Afghanistan. A grant that gave $120 over 12 months to each Afghan above age 15 would cost $1.5 billion a year. In 2010, USAID and the State Department spent $5.7 billion in Afghanistan, while the Defense Department spent nearly $88 billion. If a cash-transfer program significantly reduced violence, it would be a bargain.
What about the practical issues involved in making payments to so many people? Afghanistan has already seen projects including the National Emergency Employment Program providing cash for labor on road rehabilitation, drainage projects, and irrigation construction. These involved the delivery of significant sums of money around the country, some using money-transfer companies. Expanding access would mean creating a registry of recipients and ensuring that people only collected payments once. The voter registration process has done a considerable part of the heavy lifting in setting up a list of the country's adult population, and Afghanistan plans to roll out a national ID card over the next few years. To increase the security of the system, registered adults could be biometrically identified using fingerprinting or iris scanning, as some people were for the last election. Iris scanning has already been used to ensure that 200,000 returning Afghan refugees only received one repatriation payment. When it comes to making those payments, Afghanistan already has a cell-phone-based cash-transfer system called M-Paisa, and the mobile signal already covers more than 80 percent of the population. Perhaps payment trucks could be used to reach the rest of the country, as they have been in similar initiatives in a comparably fragile country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A cash-transfer program would undoubtedly have a significant development impact. Afghanistan has a GDP per capita of $609, meaning that a $20 payment every eight weeks would be equal to about one-fifth of the average income — and, of course, a good deal more in poor, rural areas. Given a reasonable consensus in the aid-effectiveness literature that poorly governed fragile states receiving considerable aid flows are unlikely to be places where traditional aid has the largest impact, and that unconditional cash transfers can have a considerable impact on poverty, any pilot scheme is likely to be at least a partial success in terms of improving overall aid effectiveness.
What about an impact on security? Critics would likely argue that at least some of the cash handed out to Afghan civilians would undoubtedly end up in Taliban hands. But cash transfers to reintegrate former combatants into a peacetime economy appear to work if well designed. And even though the general link between reduced poverty and lower violence is not as strong as often supposed, there is some evidence pointing toward a relationship. Research from New York University's Oeindrila Dube suggests conflict is less likely in Colombia when coffee prices are higher — and so the financial costs of fighting rather than growing and selling coffee are larger. (Dube also finds that U.S. financial support to Colombia's military had the opposite impact, increasing levels of violence.)
Again, we know that schemes that reward collective responsibility work in other settings. Not least, it's the basis of the microfinance movement, where new loans are only available to groups in which all members keep up on repayments. In Zimbabwe, passing on some of the income from hunting licenses and tourism to communities was associated with dramatic declines in poaching because local communities were given the incentive to keep animal stocks alive for legal use — and so keep poachers out. Thus group financial incentives to reduce violence look to be a plausible approach.
None of these cases are exact parallels. In Colombia, the link between increased incomes and reduced violence had nothing to do with a government transfer. And the Zimbabwe case doesn't involve conditional payments to individuals to buy their opposition to a group dedicated to the overthrow of the government. Indeed, the model suggested here hasn't been tried anywhere before. And this lack of direct evidence of a security impact of conditional payments might be a reason to pilot the approach in a particular province or range of districts. Regardless, we've tried with limited success to buy hearts and minds by building roads and schools to foster peace and development. Maybe it is time to try a more straightforward approach — and just buy the peace.
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Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, July 18, 2012
July 18, 2012 edition of the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
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"And I told the young man, 'Do not use your fake ID.'" Volunteers with the Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse (VARSA) say it's not too common for minors to obtain alco- hol from stores or restaurants on Vashon — more often they get it from an older person. But in order to tackle teen alcohol use from every angle, they say, the nonprofit is asking Vashon retail- ers to partner with them to prevent teens from getting their hands on alcohol. Vashon Market is one of the first retailers to join the effort. "I think it's something we need to watch out for as a community," said Cox, who has given tips to the volunteers. "Everybody needs to work on all sides to help the kids to understand you don't need to drink, not until you're of age." Armed with a survey and a list of suggestions, VARSA volunteers will spend the summer asking busi- ness owners with a liquor license to take steps such as moving beer fur- ther from soda and candy, limiting the alcohol signs on display and retraining employees responsible for checking IDs. In addition to recommend- ing changes at stores and By LESLIE BROWN Staff Writer Vashon's water taxi continues o see an uptick in the number of assengers, resulting in more at- apacity sailings and presumably ore riders left behind on the ock, according to the director of ing County's marine division. In the first six months of this ear, the pedestrian-only boat which takes passengers into owntown Seattle — had 96 at- apacity sailings, meaning all of ts 150 seats were full, said Scott avis, the division's director. hat's nearly double the number rom the first six months a year go, when the route experienced 7 full boats. All told, it had 130 full boats in 011 and 78 in 2010. Because of the route's grow- ng demand, King County offi- ials are working to increase apacity on the Melissa Ann, the 7-foot catamaran that serves the ashon-Seattle route. Capacity is imited to 150 passengers, even hough it has room for more, due o U.S. Coast Guard safety regula- ions that require larger crews and ther measures when a boat goes beyond that number. Officials had hoped to have met all the requirements to increase the capacity to 172 passengers at the beginning of this year. But the marine division's staff is small, Davis said, and, in part because of post-9/11 security rules, the process is "fairly detailed." Davis said he expects the marine division, a part of the county's Department of Transportation, will be able to increase capacity by the end of August. "It's taken us longer than we had hoped," he added. "There's no single reason for that. … I would not blame the regulator (the Coast Guard) at all. We're a fairly small staff doing a lot of dif- ferent things." Ridership on the boat, which zips to Seattle in about 22 minutes, has increased steadily since King County took over the pedestrian- only route from Washington State Ferries in September 2009. The route carried just under 111,000 passengers in 2009, Davis said. Ridership grew to 153,600 in 2010; last year, it climbed to 167,600. So far this year, Davis said, ridership has been higher every month over the same period a year ago, with Fields project, dogged by delays, is stalled after funds dry By LESLIE BROWN Staff Writer The Vashon Park District has suspended nearly all work at its fields' complex north of town until it garners more money for the project from both user fees and fundraising efforts. "We're holding off on spending anything more until we can raise the money to keep going," said Jan Milligan, the park district's execu- tive director. The district has scheduled a fundraiser for Aug. 23 in an effort to reignite community inter- est in the $1.7 million project. Supporters also believe that once the partially completed complex is open to the public, possibly this fall, Islanders will step forward with a greater level of support. "We're hoping that when we open up the facility in the fall and people are out there, there will be more community attention on the need to complete this thing," said David Hackett, a park district commissioner and one of the proj- ect's leading champions. But a partial fall opening is not guaranteed, in part because of the Stores asked to help curb teen drinking As more use water taxi, some are left behind County works to meet a growing demand on the boat SEE WATER TAXI, 19 Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo On most days, the Melissa Ann is full of commuters. King County now hopes to increase its capacity by August. SEE FIELDS, 15 SEE ALCOHOL, 18 Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo A VARSA sticker is added under a warning to minors at Vashon Market.


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