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A rechargeable tote back, a smartphone bracelet, snow goggles with an integrated digital camera to record your triumphs and tragedies, and more
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Next year will be challenging for Intel as it fends off accusations of monopolistic behavior while trying to establish a larger presence in the mobile and graphics segments.
HP did a good job responding to complaints by a black man that its computers "are racist" because the included PC facial recognition software did not follow his face properly.
Way, way, way too much is being made of the supposed impact Intel's new Atom N450 chip will have on the netbook and, by extension, laptop markets.
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IT managers waiting around for that special day when they get budget relief and use it to fix all their problems are setting themselves up for disappointment, according to internal IT at Intel Corp.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Chris Simon's alleged racial slur still ringing in his ears, Edmonton Oilers right wing Mike Grier sat in his hotel room yesterday and listened to the phone ring off the hook.
"It got to be too much," said Grier, 22, besieged by calls from the media in the United States and Canada. "I finally told the desk not to put the calls through."

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Grand Targhee Resort is located in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 42 miles west of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and 87 miles northeast of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Grand Targhee is an excellent base camp for a tour of the region including trips to Yellowstone National Park, approximately 90 miles to the north or Teton National Park to the east.
Both Jackson Hole, Wyoming (JAC) and Idaho Falls, Idaho (IDA) airports are approximately 90 minutes driving time from the resort. Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC) is approximately 5.5 hours driving time from the resort.
Most guests use our convenient fee based shuttle service from the closest airports in the winter, but if you want the flexibility to make day trips, a rental car is a good option. All the major car rental agencies are located at both airports.
Driggs, Idaho is just 12 miles from the resort and offers all the conveniences needed including a large grocery store. Grand Targhee Resort has a General Store right in the base area for convenience items and small sundries.
All lodging at Grand Targhee Resort is conveniently ski-in/ski-out. Our off-site vacation rental lodging is just 8-12 miles from the resort.
No. Please make arrangements prior to your arrival at the resort. There are kennels located in the Driggs, Idaho and Victor, Idaho area.
Yes, there are coin-operated facilities conveniently located in the base of Sioux Lodge.
Yes, we provide an internet kiosk at our lodging front desk, with wireless access available in all Targhee, Teewinot, and Sioux Lodge rooms plus the lobby of Teewinot Lodge.
Check-in is 4:00 PM and check-out is 11:00 AM.
Grand Targhee Resort usually opens for full summer operations the first weekend in June and closes mid-September; however, we have lodging available year-round with our off-site vacation rentals just 8-12 miles from the resort.
Yes, we do; however, it collects dust most of the year. We use it only in the early season at the bottom of two chair lifts to create enough snow to facilitate loading. The rest of the year we rely solely on snow from heaven.
No, we offer groomed trails with enough variety and characteristics to keep you smiling for your whole stay. However, our terrain, snow, and instructors make it very easy to learn how to enjoy off-piste skiing and riding.
Located in the Teton Range, Grand Targhee Resort experiences typical mountain weather with heavy snowfall in the early season continuing through the winter. With over 500" of snow a year, you can expect storm cycles to come through the area regularly with glorious sunny days filling in the rest of the time. Spring skiing conditions typically arrive in late March with spring storms always a possibility to bring more powder and then blue skies.
Yes, and in fact it is encouraged. Group lessons begin at 10:00 AM and then again at 1:00 PM. Private lessons are scheduled at your convenience.
Yes, we offer complimentary mountain tours daily at 11:00 AM meeting at the base of Dreamcatcher lift.
Yes, we extend a discounted lift ticket for active duty military personnel. With an active duty military I.D., you can enjoy a full day lift ticket at our half day rate.
Yes, it is located in the base area inside the Rendezvous Lodge as you enter Wild Bill's Grill.
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MEDIA frenzy over the launch of Amazon's magazine-sized Kindle e-book reader last week overlooked the fact that, like its predecessors and competitors, it remains resolutely monochrome. Not for long, though. A full-colour version of electronic paper, which forms the display of these devices, is to be demonstrated later this month.
E Ink Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it will be demonstrating a colour version of its e-paper at the Society for Information Display conference in San Antonio, Texas, on 31 May, and that products based on its colour e-paper will be on the market by the end of 2010.
The aim is to have a reflective display that uses very little power and is as easy on the eye as the printed word. Like E Ink's monochrome e-paper, used in Sony and Amazon readers, the colour version will be based on technology called an electrophoretic ...
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OCD FY2006: FDA Goal 3 - Improving Product Quality, Safety, and Availability through Better Manufacturing and Product Oversight
To ensure the safety and effectiveness of medical devices and radiation-emitting products, CDRH sets and enforces good manufacturing practice requirements; monitors compliance and surveillance programs for products on the market; and collects, analyzes, and acts on reports of adverse effects of products. The Center's goal is to improve the prioritization, coordination, consistency, quality, and timeliness of inspections, reporting, and enforcement actions to ensure the continued safety and effectiveness of products on the market.
Postmarket Surveillance
These accomplishments exemplify CDRH's efforts during FY 2006 to advance patient safety by improving problem detection capabilities in marketed device products.
Post-approval Studies Program
CDRH continued to make great strides in its Post-approval Studies (PAS) Program. The Center issued a draft guidance - Procedures for Handling Post-approval Studies Imposed by PMA Order - to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of studies conducted by manufacturers as a condition of device approval. The guidance presents suggested format and content for reports on these studies, mentions presentations to Advisory Panels (to enhance study transparency), and notes possible enforcement actions when there is failure to comply. In addition, CDRH conducted regular meetings with the Implementation Workgroup (providing CDRH management oversight) to assure the smooth transition of the program and develop best practices. The epidemiology staff thoroughly reviewed all submissions for new PMAs and led the identification of post-approval questions, the design of new PAS, and review of ongoing PAS.
Postmarket Surveillance
CDRH continues to monitor postmarket product performance through the Center's nationwide reporting system and by conducting applied epidemiologic research. For the last quarter of FY 2006, safety analysts identified over 100 new and ongoing medical device safety issues. They also responded to over 100 consult requests related to information in the reports database. Epidemiologists, in addition to the central role in PAS, participated in new and ongoing applied research projects, such as the accuracy of troponin assays (for myocardial infarction) and the safety and effectiveness of vertebroplasty.
Section 522 Studies
FDA may order a manufacturer to conduct postmarket surveillance of a medical device under section 522 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. In FY 2006, CDRH staff collaborated with industry sponsors to design science-based Section 522 studies that answer important postmarket questions. The Center issued a consolidated guidance document for postmarket surveillance, ordered postmarket surveillance for two devices (overnight orthokeratology lenses and a coronary vascular anastomosis device), continued postmarket surveillance of three critical products, began development of an enforcement plan for postmarket surveillance, and issued the first Warning Letter citing postmarket surveillance violations under Section 522.
The Medical Product Surveillance Network (MedSun) plays an important role in post-market surveillance efforts by connecting CDRH to device users. Hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities use this interactive Internet-based reporting program to report medical device problems. This information helps CDRH, device manufacturers, and medical facilities proactively address device safety concerns.
During the fiscal year, CDRH exceeded by 15 percent its 2006 goal of obtaining a 71 percent participation rate from the 350 participating user facilities. MedSun expanded to include interactive networks that address particular health issues, including LabNet (laboratory devices), KidNet (pediatric devices), TissueNet (human cells and tissues), and HeartNet (electrophysiology devices, such as pacemakers), and used surveys of network facilities to determine the effectiveness of recalls and the training needed to reduce adverse events.
Medical Device Reports
Medical device reporting is how FDA receives information on significant medical device adverse events from manufacturers, importers, and user facilities so that problems can be detected and corrected quickly. CDRH received 224,197 medical device reports during the fiscal year.
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Voluntary Reports
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Compliance and Enforcement
CDRH risk management actions aimed at preventing harm to the public from regulated products include public health notifications, warning letters, and recalls. The following actions were taken during FY 2006.
Enforcement Actions
CDRH protects the American public by ensuring that manufacturers of medical devices comply with Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) requirements and the Quality System Regulation, taking enforcement actions if warranted. During the FY 2006, CDRH developed and implemented the Real Time Regulatory Review Process to help reduce timeframes so that enforcement actions are processed in a timely manner.
CDRH improved product quality and the safety of numerous medical devices by taking at least 55 enforcement actions during FY 2006 including a corporate warning letter, 4 seizures, and 1 injunction.
Warning Letters
Warning letters are intended to alert a device manufacturer that their product is in violation of the laws that FDA enforces. In the letter, the manufacturer is advised to take appropriate and prompt corrective action to avoid administrative or regulatory action. In FY 2006, 154 of the 538 warning letters issued were related to medical devices and radiological health (29%).
Recalls are issued to remove or correct a medical device that violates FDA law. Though FDA can order a recall, manufacturers initiate most recalls voluntarily in collaboration with FDA. During FY 2006, CDRH initiated 651 recall actions involving 1,550 products. This represents approximately a 10 percent increase in recall actions from FY 2005 (571 actions involving 1598 products) and includes 143 in vitro diagnostic device recall actions.
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Expert Witnesses
The use of experts who provide testimony and certification to the compliance status of firms is very important in cases in which the Agency takes regulatory actions. In FY 2006, three cases required the services of expert witnesses. Their testimonies were critical to the success of these cases processed by the CDRH Office of Compliance.
Inspection Goal
CDRH and the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) exceeded the FY 2006 inspection goals by at least 20 percent for domestic, foreign, and bioresearch monitoring (BIMO) inspections in FY 2006:
- 122% (1,299 of 1066) for registered domestic Class II and Class III medical device manufacturers;
- 123% (207 of 168) for foreign Class II and Class III medical device manufacturers; and
- 120% (336 of 278) for BIMO inspections with an emphasis on scientific misconduct, data integrity, innovative products, and vulnerable populations.
Bioresearch Monitoring (BIMO) Audits and Enforcement Activities
In addition to compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements, industry must comply with bioresearch monitoring (BIMO) requirements. BIMO requirements include good laboratory practices (GLP) and regulations related to human subject protection and data integrity.
CDRH collaborates with the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) to conduct data audits to determine if devices should be approved. FY 2006 BIMO audit-related accomplishments include the following:
- Issued 24 BIMO Warning Letters and 13 BIMO Untitled Letters to bring non-compliant firms and researchers into compliance with the regulations;
- Entered into a consent agreement to restrict a device clinical investigator from participating in device research;
- Entered into an agreement to restrict an Institutional Review Board's ability to approve any new FDA-related research;
- Entered into formal agreements with 3 medical device companies to stop the substantive review of their research/marketing submissions until they develop and implement corrective and preventive action plans to ensure the integrity of data submitted to support their premarket submissions;
- Identified and analyzed all inspections from the past 6 years with serious violations and issued 44 follow-up inspections to confirm whether corrective and preventive actions were implemented as promised;
- Removed four firms from FDA's Application Integrity Policy list as a result of their comprehensive development and implementation of corrective and preventative actions to assure human subject protection and data reliability in submissions;
- Conducted inspections and subsequent analysis that resulted in 2 firms withdrawing their pending 510(k)s submissions due to unreliable substantial equivalence data/information, and 1 pediatric device sponsor withdrawing its Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for lack of proper oversight and subject safety issues;
- Conducted 105 data audit inspections, addressed data integrity concerns, and issued compliance actions related to 54 active PMAs or PMA supplements; and
- Received and evaluated 157 allegations of research misconduct that could compromise the safety of human research subjects or undermine the quality of research data. Evaluation of the allegations resulted in the issuance of 82 inspections or investigations.
Approximately 85% of FDA inspections of clinical research with medical devices reveal only minor problems with research conduct. To help improve the remaining device research that may be problematic, the Division of Bioresearch Monitoring has increased outreach activities with regulated industries including study sponsors, clinical investigators, study site staff, and Institutional Review Boards plus small businesses through pre-IDE meetings and the Office of Orphan Product Development. In addition, staff have published several articles in professional journals to improve awareness of proper clinical research practices. These outreach activities have resulted in improvements in non-compliance over the past few years.
Risk-Based Inspection Work-Plan
CDRH continued to refine a risk-based management program for inspection and enforcement actions to improve the regulation and monitoring of the medical device industry. In order to utilize resources efficiently, the cross-Center risk-based inspection work plan prioritization process was used to identify public health concerns and issued special emphasis inspection assignments in three areas:
- IV Administration Test Kits
- Internal Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD)
- Automatic External Defibrillators (AED)
Infusion Pump Project
This project initiated during the fiscal year will transform the way CDRH does business by making available the most up-to-date analysis of market share information on the infusion pump industry. This project should improve CDRH capability to make informed decisions that impact public health and medical necessity. This project also looked at the industry as a whole in order to determine areas that need to be addressed. As a result, numerous firms came into compliance while others were subject to regulatory action. An initiative to better educate the community is planned.
Evaluation of Inspection Violations
CDRH conducted a simple analysis of the Turbo EIR (establishment inspection report) database and identified the top five reasons violations were issued during a medical device inspection. The information will enable CDRH to develop strategies to work with industry to address inadequacies and bring firms into compliance.
Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA)
Congress enacted the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) to ensure that all women have access to quality mammography for the detection of breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages. FDA was charged with developing and implementing MQSA regulations. Examples follow of CDRH accomplishments in advancing mammography quality standards during FY 2006.
MQSA Program Inspections
CDRH conducted annual inspections at over 8,800 mammography facilities and ensured that 98 percent of those facilities met inspection standards with less than 2 percent having Level I (serious) problems. CDRH has completed over 104,000 facility inspections nationwide since the MQSA program inception.
MQSA Enforcement Actions
An Additional Mammography Review (AMR) is performed in cases where FDA or the Certifying State has reason to believe that mammography quality has been compromised and may present a serious risk to human health. CDRH has performed 80 AMRs since the MQSA program began.
Although not a regulatory action, an AMR occasionally results in a regulatory action, such as a Patient and Physician Notification (PPN). A PPN explains the problem found to patients and referring physicians and outlines actions to take to reduce related health risks.
If an accreditation body revokes a facility's accreditation, FDA may conduct an investigation to determine the reasons for the revocation and may determine that the facility's certificate shall no longer be in effect. A facility whose certificate is no longer in effect because it has lost its accreditation may not legally practice mammography.
During the FY 2006, CDRH completed several regulatory actions against mammography facilities including one Patient and Physician Notification (PPN) and one instance where FDA declared a facility's MQSA certificate no longer in effect.
Through increased collaboration with external partners, CDRH is enhancing its ability to identify, analyze, and act on postmarket information, and improve enforcement strategies and outcomes.
Software Forensics Laboratory
In consultation with other federal agencies involved with software integrity issues (e.g., Department of Defense, FBI, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NASA), the CDRH Software Forensic Laboratory leveraged the latest academic research to implement a state-of-the-art software forensic capability during 2006. This capability may be used in any phase of the product life cycle, but is particularly valuable in understanding the root causes of adverse events due to software failures. In 2006, this new capability was used to the great benefit of the Center in several high-profile compliance cases. Ultimately, such tools will increasingly be used by medical device manufacturers in their own product development phase, thereby reducing the frequency of software defects and the incidence of adverse events and product recalls.
Defibrillator Working Group
CDRH established the Defibrillator Working Group to coordinate pre- and post-market FDA activities for implantable and external defibrillators. The working group addressed specific processes related to the regulation of defibrillators and collaborated with the Heart Rhythm Society and AdvaMed to assure a full perspective on the issues. The working group piloted a model for effective communication across the entire device life cycle.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
CDRH continued several collaborations with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) which administers several datasets of interest, including the Healthcare Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) of hospital discharge claims and the State Inpatient Databases (SID) of hospital discharge claims. Although similar studies have been done with smaller patient groups, this is the first to use a national dataset to make national estimates of the short-term outcomes of hip prosthesis surgery.
Interagency Registry for Mechanically-assisted Circulatory Supports (Intermacs)
This effort aims to capture detailed clinical data on all patients receiving ventricular-assist devices for destination therapy. The effort is funded by NIH, requires facilities to meet Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) standards to receive reimbursement, and accommodates FDA needs for active surveillance and post-approval studies of these devices.
e-Bay and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
CDRH continued grass root and collaborative efforts with e-Bay and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ensure that unapproved products were removed and not offered for sale on the e-Bay website.
Global Harmonization
The market place for medical devices is global - 40 percent of approved device firms have manufacturing facilities abroad while 6,000 overseas establishments export devices to the United States. CDRH plays an important role supporting global harmonization activities including assisting foreign manufacturers to comply with U.S. medical device regulations. As part of the effort to minimize burden to industry, CDRH participates in the development of international as well as national product standards.
Health Canada
In September 2006, CDRH and Health Canada announced a pilot multi-purpose audit program (PMAP). The purpose of the pilot, slated to begin in 2007, is to evaluate the effectiveness of performing a single third party inspection/audit of medical device manufacturers' quality systems that would meet the needs and regulatory requirements of both countries.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the world's largest developer of standards. ISO standards are designed for implementation worldwide and include requirements for medical devices.
During FY 2006, CDRH participated in the ISO Technical Committee 94, Workgroup 4 (WG4), meeting in Chicago, Illinois to discuss and revise the draft standard for Clinical Investigation of Medical Devices for Human Subjects. The Workgroup voted to advance the standard for further review within the ISO. CDRH collated the comments of FDA representatives and other U.S. participants for the WG4 Editing Committee in an 11-page document to ensure that the comments were included in the final work product.
Global Medical Device Nomenclature
The Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) is an international standard for naming, defining, and coding medical device groups to ease identification of products worldwide and reduce confusion when investigating device-related problems. CDRH has contributed considerably to administration and technical maintenance of the standard such as promoting improved nomenclature practices for better data management and efficient communication of data with international regulatory partners.
Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF)
The Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) is an international member organization dedicated to fostering convergence of medical device regulatory practices worldwide while ensuring the quality, safety, and effectiveness of medical devices. GHTF members also work to promote technological innovation and facilitate international trade. In FY 2006, CDRH actively participated in the work of 5 GHTF Study Groups:
- Study Group 1 – Regulatory and Premarket Requirements
- Study Group 2 – Postmarket Vigilance
- Study Group 3 – Quality Systems
- Study Group 4 – Regulatory Auditing of Quality Systems
- Study Group 5 – Clinical Evidence


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Mayo doctor says new migraine treatments appear promising
PHOENIX -- Two treatments are showing some promise in helping those who suffer from migraine headaches.
For the last 20 years, doctors have known of a protein that plays an important role in the formation of migraines, but now, there may be some good news.
"A couple of antibodies have been developed against that particular protein," said Dr. David Dodick, neurology professor at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale. "These antibodies are delivered, one intravenously and one subcutaneously, like an insulin injection."
A three-month study showed that migraine sufferers receiving the treatments saw as much as a 62 percent drop in the number of migraine headache days per month.
Dodick was excited about what this means for present and future patients.
"For the first time, actually, we're entering a new era where we're having migraine drugs that can actually prevent the attacks, and they're designed specifically to treat the migraine," said Dodick.
Right now, migraines are treated with drugs that are designed to help patients with epilepsy and other disorders.
Dodick said more testing is needed, but the new migraine treatments could be available to the public in about two years. The findings of two studies on the treatments will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, which is set for April 26 through May 3 in Philadelphia.


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New CD Released January 2013:
Alvord, MK, Zucker, B., Alvord, B. (2013). Relaxation and Wellness Techniques: Mastering the Mind Body Connection published by Research Press(compact disc and digital). Available through Research Press and MP3's on Amazon , and on i-Tunes.
New CD Released August 2011:
Alvord, MK, Zucker, B., Alvord, B. (2011). Relaxation and Self-Regulation Techniques for Children and Teens: Mastering the Mind-BodyConnection (compact disc and digital). Available through Research Press, Amazon, and Itunes.
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Alvord, M.K., Zucker, B. & Grados, J.J., (2011). Resilience Builder Program for Children and Adolescents: Enhancing Social Competence and Self-Regulation — A Cognitive-Behavioral Group Approach. Champaign, IL: Research Press. For more information, please visit Research Press and/or www.amazon.com.


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Companydance will perform "Swing a Club: facing cancer," a powerful multimedia dance work, Saturday, March 18, at 8 p.m. in the Kresge Theatre at Willamette University. There is a $5 suggested donation, with proceeds benefiting the American Cancer Society. Call the theatre box office at 503-370-6221 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve tickets.
Through the use of dance, visual art, text and music, Swing a Club explores themes of life and death, hope and grief, support and letting go. The integration of several forms of expression creates multiple points of entry that make the work accessible to everyone. This event is the inaugural program of a series featuring speakers and performers who use new technologies in the creation and presentation of art works in a variety of media. The work was conceived and directed by Anthony Roberts, artist in residence at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. Roberts also performs with the troupe.
"This is an opportunity for us to say 'this is what matters to me' and to honor that," Roberts said in describing his work. "It's about getting closer to your family and what you love and asking yourself how you are going to pass on that love to others."
The program is sponsored by the Keck Initiative in the Arts and Technology in cooperation with Willamette University Integrated Technology Services.


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Rebuild Moore
Architecture for Humanity is working with local and regional construction professionals to begin assessments and support rebuilding work after an F-4 tornado ripped through the heart of Moore, OK and surrounding communities.
Architecture for Humanity focuses on helping communities beyond the relief phase of disaster. The agency is currently working on rebuilding efforts post Superstorm Sandy and rebuilt in communities affected by Hurricane Katrina. Architecture for Humanity is mobilizing to assist in long term-reconstruction to help rebuild Moore and the surrounding communities. The agency works to incorporate resiliency and disaster mitigation strategies, leaving communities safer and stronger than before.
"After the Haiti earthquake students from Moore West Junior High raised funds for the organization to help rebuild schools for displaced students. Our thoughts are with the entire community of Moore, OK and those affected," said Cameron Sinclair, Co-founder, Architecture for Humanity.
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Three struck by car as Occupy DC protesters surround convention center
Occupy DC protesters surrounded the convention center Friday night as a conservative dinner took place inside. Three protesters were injured when struck by a car.
At least one person was injured by a car at 7th and K Streets.
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Some buildings used to hold circuit court in Nunavut communities still do not meet basic standards.
That's despite a directive last year from the senior judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice.
Outside of Iqaluit, Nunavut's capital city, communities do not have courtrooms and court is often held in community halls, hotels and school gymnasiums.
Last June, Justice Robert Kilpatrick issued a directive to have all locations inspected where circuit court is held. He said they need to make sure there's running water, a phone jack, working toilets, heat and a functioning fire alarm.
Kilpatrick also asked for the latest public health and fire and safety inspections records.
Court Services did an audit and the results weren't good.
"How is it that we expect the court to operate in those sub-standard conditions?" Kilpatrick says.
"It is high time for the government to take into consideration the needs of its court when it designs facilities, and ensure we have what we need to do a proper job."
The senior judge says he's still waiting for the Department of Justice to come up with some solutions.
In a statement to CBC News, officials in the department say they're working with another government department, Community and Government Services, to address the issue.
They're also discussing the possibility of finding alternate places to hold court in some communities.
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Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II - Xbox36018 July 2006
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X is constantly having conflicts with his own artificial conscience. Built to rid the world of evil forces, he carries on his duties as faithfully as possible. Unfortunately, he despises war and the concept of it, and wonders what will become of him in the future. Unlike his friend, Zero, who has his thoughts sorted through, X may appear with several different character sets, due to the heavy responsibility placed upon his shoulders.
In the end, X fears that his instability of mind and the pressure of his occupation may cause him to become a Maverick.
It is interesting to note that, while responsible for awakening and assisting X, his invention of Reploids was the direct cause of all the major wars throughout the X, Zero, and ZX games, resulting in rapid, dramatic changes of society that are often for the worst. In this spirit, it is also interesting to note that his original background was in archaeology. Some speculated that his seeming unfamiliarity with robotics at the outset of the X series could have accounted for at least some of the problems that arose after his creation of Reploid-kind, but the discovery that the Maverick condition was caused by a computer virus laid many of these ideas to rest.
Iris was developed by Repliforce scientists as half of the perfect fighting Reploid. Colonel, her brother, was the other half. Her half was of the peaceful arbitrator, and Colonel's was of the strong-willed fighter. Repliforce scientists had struggled to make these two factors into one Reploid, but the differences were irreconcilable, so they split them into brother and sister Reploids.
Iris trained with the Maverick Hunters, and during this time she developed feelings for Zero. Later, Zero saved her during the Sky Lagoon incident, and she acted as a navigator at the Maverick Hunter Headquearters, instructing Zero on where to go for his missions. Despite her willingness to instruct Zero, she constantly urged him to withhold his fighting, especially from her brother. When they faced off, she stopped the fight before anyone could get hurt. But to her dismay, Zero was only spurred on further to stop the Repliforce.
When her brother was later destroyed at the hands of Zero, the pain drove Iris mad and she made a trip to the Final Weapon. She waited for Zero in a laboratory ready to avenge her brother, where she used Colonel's fighting will to gain a powerful body armor. Like the Repliforce scientists had discovered, her system wouldn't accept the fighting spirit and frequently rejected it as she fought, causing her horrible pain. Zero defeated her, but rushed to her side instantly after; it was too late at this point, as Iris was already dying. It was at this point that she admitted point-blank that she had feelings for Zero, admitting that the utopia was a myth, but claiming she wanted to be there with Zero.
Iris makes a small cameo in Mega Man X5, when using Zero to destroy Sigma's latest incarnation. Zero remembers her while reflecting on his life as he himself perishes due to most of his body being destroyed. She also appeared as X's and Zero's guide in Mega Man Xtreme 2 for the Game Boy Color, which does follow the X series characters. This game takes place before the events of Mega Man X4.
An alternate universe version of her appears in the last installment of the Battle Network series, Mega Man Battle Network 6, and plays a significant role in the storyline.
Alia began her career as a simple researcher in Reploid engineering. She and her colleague Gate were ahead of their time in their research on Reploids, though she contends that Gate was always a better programmer than she was. However, Gate's inability to follow the rules made him a social outcast, and his creations were systematically destroyed, sometimes even with the assistance of Alia herself. She soon mastered all programming languages and was chosen on these merits to be a spotter for the Hunters. In Mega Man X5, Alia then served as the Hunters' spotter (navigator) during the Sigma Virus outbreak, while simultaneously lending her technical talents to the cause by uploading and letting X utilize his two new armors, the Falcon and Gaea armor. She supported the Hunters throughout the ordeal until it was resolved.
In Mega Man X6, she spotted X and Zero as they dealt with the Nightmares, and her past with Gate came back to haunt her. Though feeling guilty throughout the happenings, she assisted the Hunters in bringing Gate to justice. When Gate was defeated, though, X brought his remains to Alia, and she said she would do her best to repair him, although it's unknown if she ever succeeded or not. As the Earth Recovery proceeded, Alia continued to act as a Hunter navigator. Her skills were brought to good use when Axl escaped from the Red Alert Syndicate, a new hunter organization that had risen to power, in the Mega Man X7 installment. With X having retired from the Hunters, he assisted Alia with her work at the base. During the crisis, Alia continued to guide Zero and Axl - and X, once he decided that he needed to help out - on their missions, eventually helping them locate Red Alert's base.
In Mega Man X8, Alia continued her spotter position, assisted by two new navigators (Layer and Palette). Working in tandem, she assists in the discovery of the new generation chips and Sigma's plot. Alia is also a secret unlockable character in the game and is similar to X in terms of controls.
Axl is introduced in Mega Man X7, having just left the mercenary Red Alert Syndicate and seeking asylum and membership in the Maverick Hunters. The Red Alert Syndicate, which hunts Mavericks and also takes on less savory assassination jobs, has been infiltrated by Sigma, and confronts the Maverick Hunters. X, Zero, and Axl work together to defeat Red Alert, but in so doing, destroy both Red, the leader of Red Alert, and Sigma, the only ones Axl knows of who know about his origins. He has a very special ability called Copy Shot, which allows him to disguise himself as certain non-boss enemies with A-Trans, the enfusing of the enemy's DNA data. In Mega Man X: Command Mission, Redips, initially the leader of the maverick hunters, also has the ability to transform. In MMX:CM, Axl's Action Trigger allows him to turn into defeated bosses such as Wild Jango, Silver Horn, Mad Nautilus, Mach Jentra, Incentas, Depth Dragoon, Rafflesian and Ninetails. His Hyper Mode, Stealth Mode, allows him to avoid enemy attacks, similar to that of Spiders Hyper Mode, Trickstar.
Mega Man X8 reveals that Axl is a prototype for a next-generation reploid. These next-generation reploids all have the ability to copy other reploids, as well as a chip that prevents them from going Maverick. These next-generation reploids are pawns in two different plots:
X, Zero, and Axl defeat them both, but when Lumine is defeated, he lashes out in his death throes, cracking the crystal on Axl's head.
Although the Biometal Model A appearing in Mega Man ZX Advent is heavily implied to be based on Axl, using twin pistols and carrying the A Trans ability, it is instead based on Master Albert, which creates some speculation about Master Albert's origins. Model A is voiced by Yu Kobayashi.
After this, he reappears in a handful of later games, having been reactivated in the latest plot. In Mega Man X3, Vile is rebuilt by the rogue Dr. Doppler, and in Mega Man Xtreme, Vile is revived in digital form by Techno. Both times, he is defeated by X. He has a somewhat larger role in Mega Man X8, where he attacks the protagonists multiple times on behalf of Sigma and Lumine.
Vile is a playable character in Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, and in his version of the single-player story he is recast as a loose cannon who is freed from imprisonment by Sigma to wreak havoc (his change of allegiance is reflected in his appearance; unlike in the original Mega Man X, the symbol on his forehead is a V instead of Sigma's stylized Σ). He turns against Sigma's Mavericks, but in his final battle, instead of fighting Sigma, he confronts both X and Zero, though he ends up being destroyed in the end.
He made a one-episode appearance in the 1994 Mega Man cartoon by Ruby-Spears alongside X and Spark Mandrill. In this appearance, he was surprisingly similar to his game's counterpart in terms of appearance, when compared to many of the other characters. The addition of a neck and a taller, slightly more detailed head are the main differences, although it should also be noted that whenever he is about to attack, he grabs his shoulder cannon and aims manually, unlike the games (with the exception of his Maverick Hunter X ending, which came out years after the cartoon was made). Mega Man didn't stand a chance against Vile because the shots from his arm cannon were just deflected off of Vile's ride armor. His personality is vastly different; in the games he is relatively crazy, possibly psychotic, but in the cartoon he is a collected character and has a deep, calm voice. He's very arrogant, often calling Mega Man "puny", and when he hears Dr. Wily come up with what he views a good plan, Vile says "not bad, for a puny human". His actual objective was to steal the lightanium rods developed by Dr. Light, which according to X were worth billions in the future, and which Sigma planned to use them to fund his war against the humans. Vile is also heavily implied to have a grudge against X.
Over time, the Maverick Virus has apparently fused with his mind, making the virus and Sigma the same entity. This is how Sigma keeps surviving his defeats at the end of each game. Sigma has a habit of fighting first in his normal body, which the player must destroy, and then switching over to a much more powerful body that is hidden in the background. As such, the term "pulling a Sigma" is sometimes used as video game jargon to describe someone who is defeated and then comes back a moment later fully healed and more powerful than they were before through unknown means.
The ending of Mega Man X8 seems to indicate that Sigma has finally been defeated for good and will not return, due to the fact that his viral form was released on the Moon, where it has very little chance of corrupting anyone else. According to the Mega Man Zero storyline, it is possible that the Sigma Virus just lingered on the moon for a period of time before finally being deleted by the Mother Elf (this may prove to be true, as Sigma's viral form can survive in space, as shown in the fact that even though he was killed on Repliforce's Final Weapon in Mega Man X4 in the middle of space, he fully returns for the events of X5).
Dynamo was hired by Sigma to help his execution of the plan to spread the Maverick virus all over Earth. Once Sigma had executed the plan, Dynamo's job was to slow down the progress of X and Zero as they gathered parts for the Enigma cannon and the Shuttle, both of which were intended to stop the colony's crash, which was an integral part of Sigma's plan. Despite his arrogant claims, he escaped in a fit of cowardice when X and Zero defeated him, bringing him to the realization that he could die. This showed that he was still intelligent and hasn't turned Maverick, as most Mavericks would refuse to back down and fight till their destruction. With Sigma no longer around to protect him during Mega Man X6, he attempted gathering Nightmare Souls to enhance his power. However, he still failed miserably at fighting X and Zero, and escaped from them again. For unknown reasons, he has made no subsequent appearances after X6.
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NARS @ Creatures of the Wind NYFW Fall 2012
NARS @ Creatures of the Wind NYFW Fall 2012
NARS was backstage creating the look at Creatures of the Wind this past week. "We were inspired by a book from the 17th century called, The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns and Faires," said designer Chris Peters. "The clothes all have an element of parallel existences – the real world versus the fairy world – manifesting itself in the combinations of fabrics and the idea of transformation and transition."
"The look is about ethereal, forest-wet skin," said James Boehmer, NARS Director of Global Artistry. "You can't use enough moisturizer – it's dewy and really radiant. The eye should be defined in its shape but worn-in with its effect. As if you can see the eyelid through it, which we get from the gloss."
Products Used
- Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer SPF30/PA+++
- Cayenne Single Eyeshadow
- Mambo Eyeliner Pencil
- Bengali Single Eyeshadow
- Coconut Grove Single Eyeshadow
- Kuala Lumpur Duo Eyeshadow
- Rouge Tribal Larger Than Life Lip Gloss (new for Spring 2012)
- Triple X Lip Gloss
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- Prep damp hair with Kérastase Mousse Substantive for texture, Kérastase Lotion Densitive for added thickness and rough dry with fingers
- Spray sections of hair with Kérastase Double Force Control Ultime, create curls with fingers and pin
- Once sections have set, take out the pins and gather hair, keeping the front right section loose
- At the back of the head, take random sections, creating three small braids and loosening them with fingers
- Twist and pin the remaining back section haphazardly, then wind the braids over the twists and pin into place
- Lightly tease the remaining front section, and begin loosely pinning and twisting the hair starting at the ear, wrapping the ends and securing underneath the style
- For added shimmer, spray hair with a gold glitter spray and finish the look with Kérastase Double Force Hairspray
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Earlier this month, we asked you to call your member of Congress about a dangerous bill that would severely cut funding for public broadcasting to be voted on by the House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Subcommittee. And we thank you for speaking up for public broadcasting. Unfortunately, this bill passed out of subcommittee on Tuesday, July 18, by an 8-6 vote.
This is a serious blow to public radio and television stations across the country and the 170 million Americans who rely on us every month.
But this is just the beginning.
We faced this fight last year, and thanks to you, we restored funding for public broadcasting. We can do it again this year, but we will need your help.
What's Next?
The bill now heads to the full House Appropriations Committee, which could meet as early as next week. In the lead up to the vote, we will need your help again, in asking your members of Congress to support local public television and radio stations across this country.
What can you do today?
Please ask your friends, family and neighbors to join the campaign to save federal funding for public broadcasting. They can sign up at 170MillionAmericans.org and 'like' us on Facebook. This is going to be a fight that lasts all year long and we will need as many supporters as possible to prevail in the end.
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US Airways has revealed 11 new destinations from Washington National airport as a result of concluding a transaction with Delta Air Lines to obtain 42 slot pairs at the airport.
The two carriers in late 2011 concluded a transaction they first attempted to forge in 2009 in which US Airways obtains the slot pairs from Delta at National and agreed to hand over 132 pairs to Delta at New York's LaGuardia airport. With the close of the transaction Delta recently unveiled two waves of service from LaGuardia to debut in March and July.
US Airways stated eight of the 11 new flights it plans to launch from National in March currently have no service from the airport. Those destinations are Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach and Tallahassee, Florida; Jacksonville and Fayetteville, NC; Little Rock, Arkansas, Islip, New York; and Birmingham, Alabama.
Current schedules in the Innovata database show Delta offers both mainline and regional nonstop flights from National to Memphis, Tennessee, one of the three routes US Airways is launching that are operated by other airlines. Delta also offers flights on planned US Airways service to Omaha, Nebraska along with Frontier Express flights operated by Republic Airlines.
Other service changes US Airways plans at National include converting weekend service to Bangor, Maine and Savannah, Georgia to daily flights and the addition of a single frequency to Hartford, Connecticut.
Once the changes are completed US Airways will offer 230 daily flights from National as part of its goal to house 99% of its flying at its three hubs - Charlotte, Philadelphia and Phoenix - and its shuttle flights in the US northeast. The carrier stated that is a 16 percentage point increase compared with 2006, when 83% of its capacity touched those markets.
The carrier has previously said it could earn roughly $75 million in revenue annually from the transaction.
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Roof collapse causes gas leak scare in Allentown
Published: Feb 18 2014 07:18:53 PM EST Updated On: Feb 18 2014 07:58:19 PM EST
A roof collapse in the 300 block of E. Walnut Street in Allentown forced Allentown firefighters to turn of the gas there Tuesday.
According to UGI, a porch roof fell on Walnut Street and hit a gas meter, causing damage to the meter and the regulator.
The fire department secured the meter and shut off the gas when they arrived on scene, according to Captain Christopher of the Allentown Fire Department. They then notified UGI.
UGI says there were no injuries or evacuations.
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That name again is Mr. Plow!
Man, my life is real boring right now.
There hasn't been anything to blog about: no auditions (nothing for months, really. Maybe I really am finished.), nothing majorly exciting on the homefront besides the new dog (who is currently known as "Riley." It's stuck around for three days, longer than any other name, though I am still holding out for "Mr. Plow.")
Oh, and though I took two very bad beats when we played poker (effing Cal rivered quad Kings TWICE against my straight, and again against my set of aces), I walked with about 104 bucks on a 40 dollar buy.
Real boring . . . until today.


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HISTORY is honored that First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Bradley Cooper, and athlete Johnny Damon have joined us in thanking veterans through public service announcements. HISTORY is also proud to be working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to reach communities nationwide through Thank a Veteran at Work.
HISTORY has developed a list of simple ways employers and employees can say thank you to veterans in their companies and organizations. View our "How To" guide for ideas about how you can organize an event to honor veterans on or around Veterans Day, celebrated each year on November 11th. Whether it is "thank you" email to all veterans or a company-wide celebration, Thank a Veteran at Work offers a great way to learn more about the contributions veterans have made through their service. HISTORY has created colorful "Thank You Veterans" stickers and posters for distribution to veterans and all employees. Interested in getting your business or organization involved in this program? Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com with your address and information and we'll send you 100 stickers to distribute and a poster to display in your workplace.
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Peter Soul, 68, from Lakeside in Earley, took on the charity challenge last month, raising £2,900 for the Robbie The Robot Appeal after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009 and operated on using the Da vinci robot six months later.
He said: "I have achieved so much more than I thought I would, both in the amount that has been raised and how I managed to play the music.
"The good thing about being an amateur is that any mistakes don't really matter and I just kept going.
"I actually really enjoyed it."
Mr Soul performed at South Hill Park in Bracknell across several afternoons and completed the challenge on Thursday last week, raising cash to fund Robbie The Robot, which performs keyhole surgery at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
He added: "I must thank the staff at South Hill Park for allowing me free use of the recital room and its wonderful Steinway piano.
"Seven afternoons, 21 hours, 32 sonatas, and an estimated half a million notes - I admit that I did some preparation before each afternoon, looking at the more difficult passages, though it was hardly the equivalent of training for the London Marathon or similar.
"But the end result for me was that I came to know all the sonatas better than I did before, and I got through the Hammerklavier sonata - about which even hardened musicans said to me 'surely you're not going to attempt that?', in what I felt was a triumph of sight-reading."
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NEWTON, Mass. - The University of New Hampshire men's soccer team fell to Boston College 3-0 in an exhibition match Saturday afternoon at Newton Campus Soccer Field. The match was BC's third exhibition in the preseason, while the game served as the 'Cats first and only tuneup prior to the regular season.
The Eagles got on the board in the 14th minute when Ramon Smith scored after being fed at the right post. Boston College would then add goals at 44:45 and 79:51.
The match gave UNH head coach Rob Thompson his first look at several newcomers in game action, including freshmen Tyler Jackson (Amherst, N.H.), Logan Lee (Racine, Wis.) and David Barrett (Chicago, Ill.).
UNH opens the regular season next weekend with the 12th annual Nike Fall Soccer Classic. The 'Cats will take on Oneonta State on Sunday (9/2) and Hartwick Monday (9/3). Both games start at 3 p.m. at Lewis Field.


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meet the new bud, same as the old bud?
It being the day before California Handsfree Day, I was moved to run out of the office down to get a new ear bud to replace my busted three-year-old model. I drove to my friendly neighborhood T-Mobile store, only because that was the only place in the vicinity I could be sure would sell such things.
I don't really like any cell phone stores. Walking in the front door runs the gamut from salespeople with their backs turned trying to get other people to sign away two years of their lives to a shark tank. They must work on commission, because even when I was looking at measly ear buds priced at $14.99, I was accosted by an extremely helpful sales associate.
"What kind of phone do you have?" she asked.
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One of the other English teachers in my high school invited me to go a teaching ESL conference this week in a different city, Thursday and Friday, with a bunch of other English teachers in Colombia. I agreed immediately, because it sounded like a great experience, a opportunity to network, and something different than the increasingly monotonous life here in Bogotá.
However, I also agreed to prepare "something" for the conference before I had any idea what that something was going to be. So now I'm sitting here, with nothing really prepared, trying to figure out what I'm going to say for an hour in just a few days (but let me say, when I agreed to this I thought it was a 30 minute talk...).
I wanted to share with you some of my concluding ideas in quick blog format (below). Warning, I'm kind of short on time right now, so the thoughts may not be completely connected. I originally wrote them as talking points. Wish me luck and I'll update you all about the experience after I get back :)
teaching and learning at the same time
When I originally signed up to teach English, I didn't like it, and I didn't feel that I was good it. I'm an idealist, and I didn't think teaching ESL was something I liked nor that I had a talent for. Now I'm not so sure about the truth of either of those initial sentiments.
I think being a good teacher means being a good student. If you cannot learn from your environment, your experiences, or even your own mistakes, than you have no hope of being an effective teacher. In order to be effective you must know how to adapt - because no learning environment is ever perfect. This truth, specifically, has been deeply internalized due to my teaching experiences thus far in Ciudad Bolivar. I have read articles on teaching English to classes of twenty students, where all the students have notebooks, textbooks, where there is a TV, a projector, internet access in every classroom, and where the students come from homes in which their parents sit down with them to work on homework every night. But in Ciudad Bolivar, I have a white-board, dry erase markers, and 40 hungry students. If I wasn't able to adapt - if wasn't able to look back at my own teaching and the environment I help create - I would never actually have time to teach.
But being a good student also means admitting that you don't know everything.
It means not only admitting that all the pedagogy and methodology you have studied may be situation-specific, and thus will need to be modified when the world around you is not perfect. And as we've already discussed, nothing in the world is perfect. But what is encouraging is that being a good teacher and student also means admitting you don't really know the life-long impact that you will have on a student or on a group of students. As individual teachers, we can never know the ultimate effect of our teaching on students in the long run. It really is about the limitations that exist in regards to what we can know about the future. Even though our students might not show it, they may be developing and cultivating a spirit of inquiry that will later persuade them to learn that which we are teaching with more focus and more vigor.
But we can know that if we come in with heart, and if we try every day, the results of our efforts will eventually be made manifest - though we may be unable to see it. It's like sowing seeds. You plant and plant, and, depending on the weather and conditions, the flowers may not bloom until you are gone. So, part of the humility that we have to keep is that, even when we work our hardest, every day, yet still fail to see the success that we've been dreaming of, it doesn't mean that we have transmitted nothing, that we've transformed no one, nor that we've not taught anything. Love and caring and dedication to the well-being of students work in ways that are immeasurable. For those who are teaching to make lives better, take heart in this fact.
Still, we can learn to be reflexive teachers, evaluating our actions and ideas, reconciling our theories with the reality of putting them into practice. Then, we can use those elements of the reality of our situation to revise our our preconceived theories and our methods so that we become more effective teachers.
We can even learn to become reflexive people... However, this is something that, from experience, I recommend only once in a while. As humans, there are times in life when living in the moment is necessary, when riding the flow and feeling the next move is the best that we can do. It's part of being present. As humans, I think we should be reflexive only in moderation - it's also something that should be practiced...
Really, it's the same with teaching. Some people have a gift that begins to shine the moment they set foot in a classroom, while others, well, don't. Some people are naturally talented educators, and they have the presence that allows them to simply feel what it means to engage and motivate students. Others struggle everyday to get students to respect them and to give a damn about what's being taught. They are who can use the tools of reflexivity to become better teachers.
And, lastly, if we really want to make an enduring change in education, if we really want to help students, we must also work towards making the institutions in which we find ourselves reflexive. Institutions are collective human creations that act as agents in society, that themselves create change: like schools, universities, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, businesses, churches, etc. Since people help create institutions, part of our task is to teach them to be reflexive agents. The beauty of this task is that it's subject-neutral. In social studies, art, philosophy, or even ESL - we can help empower students step back and reflect on their own learning processes, on themselves as people, and even on the cultural and societal trends in which they are currently immersed. We can teach them that being reflexive means that you take time to think, that it does not hinder - but rather increases - effectiveness, and that it can actually make life richer. And if, by way of example as well as instruction, we teach them to think reflexively, we will be teaching them to be responsible social agents who, in the future, will take part in the transformation of our institutions. In this way, even teaching something like ESL can be an act of social change.


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I, too, dug the passionate and simply irreplaceable Andre Coleman's column in today's Pasadena Weekly, as Todd Ruiz blogs at Under the Dome. It hit the spot with a historical perspective on the most serious subject we face. But I'll also point to the brilliant return of the funniest guy who ever wrote a newspaper column in the 125 years of Pasadena newspaper columns: Mr. Jim Laris! I knew I'd been missing my dose of Cigar Smoke; until I read today's Weekly, I just didn't know how much. Jimmy, we hardly knew ye: now that you're back in print , would you please stay? Except, did you forget how to type the real F word, or what? Sincerely, a fan.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Taking it all off for peace
The local chapter of MoveOn.Org is calling for protesters to get naked — or is it nude? — at this evening's anti-war rally at Orange Grove Boulevard and Hill Avenue. 6 p.m. Be there, looking your best.
I suppose there are some MoveOn-associated people one wouldn't mind seeing sans culottes.
Actress Janeane Garofalo comes to mind.
Director Michael Moore doesn't.
It doesn't strike me as the best location. What's wrong with, say, the highly peopled Fair Oaks and Colorado? Peace vigilers could use those crazy diagonal crosswalks.
But I'll drive by the more boring intersection and honk for peace — avec as many culottes as I can muster.
Brookside, the choppers and the Las Flores fire
Last week, I wrote an editorial for our papers praising the county for leasing a big Sky Crane helicopter to help during this year's tinder-dry fire season.
Sunday about 2 p.m., from the western edge of the Arroyo Seco right outside my house, I watched that chopper's pilot at work as it dipped its long hose into the pond on Brookside paralleling the sixth fairway on the No. 1 course and filled up its tank for big dousings of the Las Flores Canyon fire that raged right above my old house on Alpine Villa Drive near the Cobb Estate, where Lake Avenue dead-ends into Loma Alta Drive in Altadena. The big orange guy was joined by three smaller copters and they did an unbelievable job in quickly dousing a fire that could have devastated the foothills once again. A large crowd gathered along Parkview Avenue to watch the show. Golfers were determined to finish their rounds even with the commotion and downdraft, but after a bit the PPD sent a cruiser out onto the links and the officer called out over his loudspeaker: "The golf course is closed!" and everyone had to hit the clubhouse for a beer. Did they get refunds for those expensive weekend rounds? The course remained closed all afternoon though the fire was effectively out by 5 p.m. Hard to believe that it was just 12 acres in size. It had started to come over the canyon's ridge toward west Altadena before the chopper pilots did their work.
Our wayward press
Verbatim from a front-page story in the Aug. 23 San Marino Tribune by its editor, Mitch Lehman, quoting his boss, Publisher Clifton Smith, giving an address to the San Marino Rotary Club: "Smith told the crowd — which included his wife, Candace, and two of their three children — that the production of a newspaper which required a thousand me working seven days a week now can be accomplished with 'two people spending six hours in front of a Mac.' "
Verbatim add from the same story, same fellow quoted: " 'This is the first time in history that technology has not been on the side on the side of the newspapers.' "
No typos in this last quote — just thunder: "'For the life of me, I cannot understand the notion of having political advocacy groups in your reporting staff, but that's now the norm,' Smith thundered."
Should Web sites — or blogs — ever remove content?
That's the question posed by the Online Journalism Review at USC Annenberg, edited by
Robert Niles of Altadena, in a story by a University of La Verne professor, with plenty of references to just such a removal at the Pasadena Weekly …
The Arroyo Seco as landscape architecture …
Tim Brick sent out this link last week, properly houseproud
Marquee moon
It was a bad week for the big screen in the West San Gabriel Valley.
First, the Rialto in South Pas goes dark for more or less good. Yes, there is still a hope that it will someday reopen as a movie theater when (historically sensitive) redevelopment of its Fair Oaks Avenue block occurs. But the Rialto's various owners had threatened to close before, and never actually did. Then what medium-timers still call the Hastings in East Pas will also close: that huge screen, perfect for spy-pic blockbusters; that crazy layout, with no center aisle, but plenty of room between the rows for popcorn-holding walking.
Thank God for the very small-screen Academy on Colorado, what? In the age of video on demand, it's the last vestige of a second-run, cheap-seats cinema around. So what if those seats are sometimes at an odd angle to their screen? And management has humor: Read top to bottom, the marquee announces "Lady Chatterley Knocked Up."
Cheap lunch with the mayor, No. 2
West Covina Mayor Mike Touhey, batting No. 2 in my luncheon lineup, couldn't cut a more different figure from lead-off hitter Mayor Owen Newcomer of Whittier.
He's of a different generation — 45 rather than 59. He's a truly big guy, shaved head, goatee — to continue this West Co-appropriate if otherwise rather ridiculous baseball metaphor, the kind you want batting cleanup. He dropped out of high school to be with his dad when the latter was fatally ill with lung cancer rather than go on to get Newcomer's 'SC Ph.D in poli sci. He's a life member of the NRA and a moderate to conservative GOPer to the Whit mayor's moderate to liberal Democratic leanings.
He's also an incredibly savvy investor in residential real estate. After we met at Villa Tepeyac — with my boss, SGVN Executive Editor Steve O'Sullivan, along for the tostadas — Touhey told us how he began working at 15 at a drive-through dairy he later bought and operated. At just 17, going in with his brother, he had the $4,000 down
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Plenty of room for all in the Arroyo Seco
As a regular Arroyo Seco recreator who would never be able to ride a bicycle fast enough to keep up with the whooshing racing-bike peloton — and there's your spelling, folks; I've seen it a half-dozen ways — I don't have a dog in this fight. But I like the fact of world-class athletes finding Pasadena the best place to be in Southern California. And with the Tour de California coming here, and the commitment to being a bike-friendly city, I'm for not sending the wrong message, which is what an anti-peloton law would do. I've lived on the edge of the Arroyo most of the last 37 years, am down on its floor every day on foot, on a bike, in a car, am often around the riders, and simply don't have a problem with them. There's plenty of room for them and for the rest of us. If anything doesn't belong there, it's the cars. I'll gladly take an alternate route. And now it looks as if there aren't very many Rose Bowl-area peloton collisions after all
Straight outta Vroman's
Most anyone from the San Gabriel Valley who has shopped in Vroman's, our saving-grace bookstore, over the years will have felt the influence of the wonderful Linda Urban, its former marketing director. Linda, now decamped to Vermont with her family, organized all the nightly readings, the weekend writing workshops, the more-than-a-retailer atmosphere that continues to infuse the store with fun and learning.
Linda writes about those workshops: "Secretly, I took notes."
And now she's published her own first novel, "A Crooked Kind of Perfect," aimed at the kids' or YA segment but as I leaf through my copy quite clearly joyfully readable for adults as well.
It's about a young keyboard-prodigy wannabe who wants a piano but ends up through her father's oddness with a cheesy Perfectone D-60 organ instead. Zoe still has her dreams, and this is one, about a contest:
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The arrival of Sculpture Season at the Grant Museum sees its zoological collection take an increased turn for the bizarre, the marvellous and the macabre.
Thirteen UCL Slade School of Fine Arts students were invited to re-curate the space produce sculptures and installations in response to and inspired by the museum. Their creations are now on display, mingled amongst the 68,000+ specimens on show.
The works range from the vibrant print and painted work of Joshua Way's "Buff Boy" – a diorama of muscle-bound hulk demonstrating his physical prowess "gansta-style" before a pair of stag horns, alluding to the sexual competitions among male cervids – to the disturbing and macabre, as demonstrated by "Lumbricus Rubellus Slump" by Jessica Ciantar, a silvery plastic body-bag that appears to slither and writhe out from underneath a display case, surprising visitors as they enter the museum.
Jazlyn Eng knitted internal organs for the skeletons of a rhinoceros and a gorilla. Although they are crude and cartoon-like, one has the feeling that these skeletons will somehow regain their musculature and start to move – zoological zombies reanimated. Equally likely to awaken is the taxidermy kiwi, lovingly tucked in under a duvet, as if it were asleep. This work, "Adorn My Sleep", by Shinobu Soejima, is a darkly humorous response to the collection.
James Trundle's "Mus maximus – Mus minimus, Albus, Rattus, Pinkass" is unique in featuring no animals, instead using evidence of the burrowing activities of rodents; the casts of their tunnels being the only trace of their existence. Finally, "Viewpoint", by Sarah Cameron a new trompe l'oeil mural in the foyer of the Grant Museum, fools viewers into thinking they can peer into a three-dimensional cabinet, complete with specimens.
The wonder and curiosity apparent in these works draws attention to the scientific study of the specimens themselves, a fantastic synthesis of art and science.
By Sarah Stewart
Sculpture Season at the Grant Museum of Zoology runs until 31 August. Open weekdays, 1-5pm. Entrance is free. Be sure to stop off at the newly-opened Micrarium, an amazing, back-lit library of microscope slides, while you're there.


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Getting back: Spend a week or two in Spain then make your homeward journey with a 3.15pm Monday sailing. Relax and enjoy the onboard experience, take advantage of children's entertainments, and the games room while you use free Wi-fi Internet access to catch up on what's been going on at home. See a film after dinner or get an early night in your comfortable cabin. On Tuesday you'll have a full morning to take advantage of the luxury cruise facilities before arriving back in Portsmouth at 2.15pm ready for your journey home.


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The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks held off the Amarillo Sox to clinch the 2013 American Association North Division title with a 11-7 victory Tuesday at Newman Outdoor Field.
Tim Alberts, Keith Brachold and Ronnie Bourquin each had three hits and played a role in big innings for Fargo-Moorhead (59-35).
Read the full article in today's Times-Record.
Due to street construction on the south side of Hanna Field, the drive-in gate will not be open for Valley City's first two home games against Dickinson and Grafton High Schools. VCHS regrets this inconvenience and would ask that all fans enter from the west gate of the Hanna field parking lot.
VCHS has also released a set of reminders:
1.   The Booster Club will be hosting the first brat and burger feed this Friday (Aug. 30, 6 p.m.) and will also be holding its annual fundraiser drive with a booth on the south side of the grand stands.
The North Star Athletic Association website, www.playnorthstar.com, has launched Wednesday morning.
Content will be added daily, so the NSAA encourages frequent visits.
To receive text and email alerts on all NSAA news, visit http://www.playnorthstar.com/SIDHelp/subscribeRegister.php. To follow NSAA on Facebook, log onto https://www.facebook.com/playnorthstar. To follow the NSAA on Twitter, visit https://twitter.com/playnorthstar.
If you have questions, please contact NSAA Commissioner Cory Anderson at email@example.com.
In what's viewed as a major change, North Star Athletic Association college baseball teams will now be able to play games in the fall.
The NSAA Executive Committee approved a plan Monday that allows Valley City State and the four other NSAA schools to schedule baseball games this fall that count towards their overall record for the 2014 season.Â
Read the full article in Thursday's Times-Record.
Valley City tennis looked to make progress when they hit the road for their Eastern Dakota Conference match at Grand Forks Central on Tuesday.
Central took the match 9-0, but Hi-Liner coach Matt Nielson definitely sees improvement.
Nielson noted that Valley City's No. 1 and No. 2 doubles teams both lost by a tie-breaker and a break. The No. 1, No. 3 and No. 4 singles teams fell by a break each set.
Valley City State University kicks off its 2013 cross country campaign when it hosts the first meet of the season on Friday, Aug. 30.
The VCSU Invitational will take place at the Valley City Country Club and will feature a handful of area teams.
The college women will run a 4K race beginning at 4 p.m. The college men will wrap up the meet with a 5K race starting at about 4:30 p.m. Junior varsity and varsity high school races beginning at 2 p.m.
Valley City High tennis faced Fargo South Friday in Valley for the Eastern Dakota Conference opening match, with the Bruins taking the day, 8-1.
"We are making strides as a team," Hi-Liners coach Matt Nielson said. "I would not have been able to say any match last year that everyone gave 100 percent."
A weekend of tough matches started just that way Friday for Valley City State volleyball.
The Vikings dropped a pair of three-game matches at the Northwestern College Red Raider Classic, falling to both Morningside and Dordt College on Friday.
Morningside defeated the Vikings 25-21, 25-11 and 25-16. Dordt College, an NAIA Top 25 Poll team, knocked off the Vikings 25-10, 25-18 and 25-18.
Alley Theroux and Kelsey Labodi led the Viking attack with 11 kills each between the two matches.
High regional temperatures have forced Valley City High School athletics to adjust its fall sports schedule for the safety of its student athletes, but no activities have been cancelled.
Precautions include moving practices to mornings or late evenings to avoid the observed high heat indexes of the day, changing the start time of competitions to avoid daytime highs, modifying the length of outside practices, moving junior high volleyball practices from the north and south gyms to the Hi-Liner Activity Center.
The Valley City High School cross country season was off to a hot start at the Jamestown "Orr"iginals Cross Country Meet at Centennial Forest Course, with temperatures in the high 80's and humidity to match. The young Hi-Liners performed well in the overall competition of 15 teams, especially with many appearing in their first-ever meet.


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We are hearing some folks are confused about the status of StarCrossed as it was apart of the MFG Cyclocross Series last year. That was a one year deal in 2012. This year it returns to a stand alone event sanctioned by USA Cycling (for grassroots categories) and the UCI (for Elite Men and Women). Full details on StarCrossed: A Rapha Super Cross Event are at www.starcrossedcx.com. Registration for StarCrossed is online only ending on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time. Go to BikeReg.com to sign up. No Day-Of Registration.
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If a shirtless Padre Oprah (the Rev. Alberto Cutié) was racy, I can't imagine how cable news would describe a Polish priest whose book on sex urges couples to keep it "saucy and fantasy packed."
In "Sex as you don't know it: For married couples who love God," the Rev. Ksawery Knotz writes: "Every act - a type of caress, a sexual position - with the goal of arousal is permitted and pleases God. During sexual intercourse, couples can show their love in every way, can offer one another the most sought after caresses."
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Sex in marriage, Father Knotz explains, should not be boring but "saucy, surprising and fantasy packed".
Available through one of Poland's biggest retail chains, the book, which has the backing of the Catholic Church in Poland, has become something of hit, with the publishers already contemplating a reprint. Stating his reasons for writing the book, Father Knotz said that there was a need to address issues such as sex, which in the past the Catholic Church may have considered taboo.
He added that he also wanted to get away from the staid attitude that many in the Church have towards sex.
"I compare sex to a football match," he said. "There are rules, for example you can't foul or kick the ball out. However, what goes on on the pitch may involve matches of different standards, different leagues. There can be fantastic matches as well as boring ones."
It's become a bit of a trend in evangelicals churches in recent years for pastors to give purportedly provocative talks on hot Christian sex—for husbands and wives, of course. Remember the 30-day sex challenge? But it's quite unusual for a priest to publish the Catholic Kama Sutra, especially without Church approval.
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