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Luz's Place is the gritty kind of diner where cigarette smoke-scented men drink beer early in the morning and stare vacantly at Fox News on the TV behind the counter. When they stand up, they're apt to stumble: Back toward the kitchen, there's a handwritten sign on the women's bathroom door warning "Women only! No men! If Luz see you, $10 fine."
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Mostly, though, Luz Monroy isn't policing down-on-their-luck patrons. She's too busy hand-rolling lumpia and frying eggs.
"My wife asked for a restaurant, so I bought her a building," explains Cecilio Monroy, Luz's husband of 47 years. "When you have a wife, whatever she wants, she gets. She does everything: Cooking, cleaning up, waitressing, purchasing food."
The Monroys in 1978 immigrated from the Philippines, then under Ferdinand Marcos' absolute rule. "We came here for stability of government, and for my children to have education," says Monroy, who worked as a chemist. After retiring, he agreed to support his wife's restaurant ownership ambitions: Luz's Place opened in 1999.
Because Monroy didn't want to take any chances on financial success, Luz's also sells lottery tickets, cashes checks and houses an ATM. "I believe in American businesses diversifying," he says. "My approach is safety, then quality."
Luz Monroy learned to cook in her native Pampanga, considered the Philippines' culinary capital, but rounded out her repertoire in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn. She also worked at The Oriental Cuisine locally.
Most visitors to Luz's Place bypass Monroy's pancit, milkfish and impressively sour sinigang for grilled cheese, burgers and omelets. "It's about 90 percent American," Monroy estimates.
Asked which of his wife's dishes he likes best, Cecilio Monroy sides with his customers.
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In their award-winning cookbook "Memories of a Philippine Kitchen," Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan write that they've learned the correct answer - no - to the frequent customer question of "Is your adobo as good as my mother's adobo?"
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Celebrate The Wizard of Oz 70th AnniversaryThe Technicolor masterpiece that is the film "The Wizard of Oz" was released in 1939. The grand Hollywood musical-fantasy film was based on the 1900 children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, and has continued to make an impression. If you need proof, just see the musical film "The Wiz", the movie "Australia" or the musical "Wicked!" and you'll understand.
According to Wikipedia, on September 23, 2009, the film will be re-released in select theaters for a one-night only event in honor of the film's 70th Anniversary. And a 70th Anniversary Edition of the film on DVD will be released on September 29th.
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Canadian Opera Company Closes Season With SEMELE, Now thru May 26
The Canadian Opera Company's 2011/2012 season closes with the company premiere of George Frideric Handel's Semele in a production directed by famed Chinese visual and performance artist Zhang Huan. Joining Mr. Zhang to present Handel's sparkling and seductive opera about the pitfalls of love affairs between gods and mortals is Italian Baroque opera specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini, who leads the COC Orchestra and Chorus. Sung in English with English SURTITLES™, Semele runs for eight performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts tonight, May 9 and May 11, 13, 16, 19, 22, 24 and 26, 2012.
The COC's presentation of Semele is the first opportunity for audiences to experience Zhang's production of Semele outside Brussels, Belgium, where it premiered in 2009, and Beijing in 2010, where it was China's first major staging of a Baroque opera. Zhang made his directorial debut with Semele, conceiving a work that blends a Baroque aesthetic with the splendour of China.
Zhang's Semele takes the world of classical music and presents it through the lens of a contemporary Chinese artist, drawing on parallels between Greco-Roman mythology and Chinese legends, as well as Buddhist concepts of karma and reincarnation, to create a true interaction of Eastern and Western cultures. He weaves together many elements of Chinese culture, incorporating dazzling and innovative visual effects involving mirrors, puppetry, a Chinese dragon and artists who sing while moving suspended through air. Zhang also incorporates traditions reflective of Japanese and Tibetan cultures through the inclusion of sumo wrestlers and a traditional Tibetan singer. The production's centerpiece is a 450-year-old Ming Dynasty ancestral temple salvaged by Zhang from a small town in China. The temple's own history, with an adulterous story that eerily parallels Semele's plot, makes its way into the production in the form of a black-and-white documentary projected during the overture (see attached backgrounder).
Han Feng, sought-after for her fashion as well as costume and exhibition designs, plays with Zhang's concept to create a fusion of Chinese theatre and European Baroque in the costumes enhanced by the magical lighting design originally conceived by Wolfgang Göbbel.
Rinaldo Alessandrini, founder and conductor of the Italian early music ensemble Concerto Italiano, makes his COC debut conducting Semele, the first Handel opera performed at the Four Seasons Centre. He leads the COC Orchestra and Chorus through a score that showcases Handel at his most expressive and inventive with sparkling music that evokes both a sensual tone and vividly dramatic sound.
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In an announcement, it has been informed that now all the luxury hotels of the capital will be under observation. Abu Dhabi has announced that all the hotels in the city will now go under certain guidelines as well. Abu Dhabi will start piloting its hotels so that they can obey all the green norms. As per the announcement, the hotels won't be rated as per their luxury and offered facilities only.
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Based on Sony's reputation, I reckoned this would be a great product, and I bought 2 of these. Both the same: it is unusable due to the amount of static/noise, even at very short distances.
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We just got word that Apple has released a beta version of iPhone OS 2.1 to developers. Along with the 2.1 firmware, a new version of the iPhone SDK has been seeded as well, but the new SDK can't be used for submitting applications to the App Store at the moment.
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"Summer Infant of Woonsocket is voluntarily recalling nearly two million of its baby monitors after two infants were strangled to death." (WPRI)
It's always sad to report on death--but even more so when it's an infant. Pennsylvania's ABC-affiliate WHTM says......the recall is "...linked to the death of a 10-month-old Washington, D.C. girl last March and a six-month-old South Carolina boy in November.
In both cases, the monitors had been placed on or near the cribs."
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling two different Summer Infant monitor products-- some due to the attached electrical cord and others for the rechargeable batteries.
CPSC reports: "...the cords can present a strangulation hazard to infants and toddlers if placed too close to a crib. Because of this serious strangulation risk, parents and caregivers should never place these and other corded cameras within three feet of a crib."
...and CNN reports: "...the rechargeable batteries sold with some of these monitors can overheat and burst, thus potentially burning people."
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I still don't quite understand how things are going to work out at network level. We have MBNL (Three & EE) & Cornerstone (o2 & Vodaphone) running/constructing/maintaining cell sites.
It would make sense to combine MBNL & Cornerstone and create a telephony equivilent of the National Grid. This could potentially be a way for the Gov to get its way with regards to National Roaming without any actual roaming taking place. CapEx expenditure on a single network would surely bring economies of scale too.
I suppose I'm proposing one core network with at least a 99% landmass coverage obligation with BT/EE, Vodafone & Three/o2 acting almost as if they were MVNO's. With that kind of obligation then getting rid of TETRA and moving onto a later spec LTE for the Emergency Services would then make sense too.
Ofcom's role would be to police the networks to ensure that customers arn't ripped off (Ofgem is a good idea but has nowhere near enough clout to protect consumers but even with that issue nobody can claim the UK national grid doesn't work incredibly well compared to most other countries).
Unfortunately it's probably too good an idea to ever happen :(


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A Novel Small Molecule Inhibitor Of Deubiquitylating Enzyme USP14 and UCHL5 Induces Apoptosis In Myeloma Cells and Overcomes Bortezomib Resistance
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|652. Myeloma: Pathophysiology and Pre-Clinical Studies, excluding Therapy: Poster I
|Saturday, December 7, 2013, 5:30 PM-7:30 PM
|Hall G (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Ze Tian, Ph.D1, Padraig D'Arcy, Ph.D2, Xin Wang, Ph.D3, Arghya Ray4, Yu-Tzu Tai, PhD5, Yiguo Hu, PhD6, Ruben Carrasco, MD, PhD7, Deepika Das, Ph.D4, Paul Richardson, MD8, Stig Linder, MD, PhD9, Dharminder Chauhan, PhD10 and Kenneth C. Anderson, MD7
Affiliations: 1Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 22Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 4Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, 5LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 6Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 7Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 8Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 9Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 10LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and Jerome Lipper Center for Multiple Myeloma Research, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
IntroductionProteasome inhibitors have demonstrated that targeting ubiquitin proteasome pathway (UPS) is an effective therapy in multiple myeloma (MM). More recent studies have focused on targeting enzymes modulating protein ubiquitin conjugation/deconjugation upstream of the proteasome rather than the proteasome itself, with the goal of producing more specific, potent, and less toxic therapies targeting UPS. Ubiquitylation is a dynamic reversible process coordinated by many enzymes: ubiquitin ligases attach ubiquitin to proteins allowing for their degradation, whereas deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs) deconjugate ubiquitin from target proteins, thereby preventing their proteasome-mediated degradation. Importantly, many human diseases are linked to dysfunction of ubiquitin ligases and/or DUBs, suggesting that inhibitors of ubiquitylating or DUBs represent a potential therapeutic strategy.In mammalian cells, three DUBs are associated with the proteasome: USP14, UCHL5/Uch37, and Rpn11. In the present study, we examined the expression of USP14 and UCHL5 in MM by western blot and Immunohistochemistry (IHC).
Results Our results show that DUBs USP14 and UCHL5 are more highly expressed in primary MM patient tumor cells and MM cell lines than in normal plasma cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Additionally, USP14 and UCHL5 siRNA knockdown significantly decrease MM cell viability (p < 0.001) in a CellTiter Glo assay. A novel 19S regulatory particle inhibitor b-AP15 selectively blocks deubiquitylating activity of USP14 and UCHL5 without inhibiting activity of other DUBs, proteases and proteasome; Importantly, b-AP15 decreases cell viability in MM cell lines as well as patient MM cells, without markedly affecting PBMCs from normal healthy donors. Moreover, b-AP15 inhibits proliferation of MM cells even in the presence of bone marrow stroma cells and overcomes bortezomib-resistance. Mechanistic studies show that b-AP15 triggers MM cell arrest via downregulation of CDC25C, CDC2 and cyclinB1, followed by caspase-dependent apoptosis through activation of intrinsic and extrinsic apoptotic pathways. b-AP15, like bortezomib, induces ER stress evidenced by the upregulation of ER stress-related proteins p-IRE-alpha, and p-eIF2. In vivostudies using subcutaneous and disseminated human MM xenograft models show that b-AP15 is well tolerated, inhibits tumor growth, and prolongs survival (p < 0.001). In concert with our in vitro study, IHC analysis of tumor tissues showed inhibition of proliferation, induction of apoptosis, and accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins, assessed by staining with ki67, caspase-3, and UB-k48 antibodies, respectively. Finally, combining b-AP15 with SAHA, lenalidomide, or dexamethasone induces synergistic anti-MM activity.
Conclusion Our preclinical data showing efficacy of b-AP15 in MM disease models validates targeting DUBs upstream of the proteasome in the ubiquitin proteasomal cascade to overcome proteasome inhibitor resistance, and provides the framework for clinical evaluation of USP14/UCHL5 inhibitors to improve patient outcome in MM.


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Learning how to use Adobe Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best way to get the most out of your pixels and create stunning imagery. Master the fundamentals of this program with Julieanne Kost, and discover how to achieve the results you want with Photoshop and its companion programs, Bridge and Camera Raw. This comprehensive course covers nondestructive editing techniques using layers, masking, adjustment layers, blend modes, and Smart Objects. Find out how to perform common editing tasks, including lens correction, cropping and straightening, color and tonal adjustments, noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, sharpening, and retouching. Julieanne also shows how to achieve more creative effects with filters, layer effects, illustrative type, and the Photomerge command for creating panoramas and composites.
Another common problem that we often want to correct or fix, would be any blown out highlights or really bright areas in your photograph that don't have detail. And the problem is is that as we walk around the world and we look at different things, our eyes can adjust to areas that are lighter or darker. So say for example when you walk into a dark room. Our eyes would adjust so that we could see into those darker areas. Likewise, when we walk outdoors on a sunny day, our eyes can quickly adjust for that brighter light. Now, the difference between the brightest values and the darkest values in an image.
I call that the dynamic range of the image. And we're going to take a look at this image here of the church. And we can see that well, actually it has two problems. It's a little bit over exposed, and the dynamic range is pretty great between these really bright cloud areas, and the shadow areas here, in the church. So, let's go ahead and open that up, I'm going to use Cmd+R on the Mac, or Ctrl+R on Windows, in order to bring that up in Camera Raw. And let's take a look over here at our histogram.
You can see that because the image is overexposed, there really are very few dark values in the image. And if I tap the o key, or if I click on this triangle in the upper right, it's going to turn on the Highlight clipping warning. And we can see that there are some areas of our image that are actually clipped to pure white. That's how overexposed this image is. So the first thing that I'll do to try to correct this is, I will click on the Auto button. And as soon as I select that, you can see that there's been slight changes made here to the sliders, and if we take a look at the histogram, you can see that we now are making use of the entire dynamic range.
So there are a few more values down here in our black area. But if we just look at the image, we can see that it is still far too over exposed. So, I am going to pull the Exposure slider to the left, until I think visually the image just looks good. And you can see, as I do that, those warnings for the highlights that have been clipped, automatically go away. Now I don't want to pull the exposure too far to the left because I want to bear in mind not only what the darker values look like, but I also want to take a look at my histogram.
So I'm going to pull my exposure back, just a little bit, maybe to right about there so that the overall exposure of the image looks good. But we can see now that I'm not making use of the very bright values in my image. And the problem with the sky is that we have a lot of values that are very close together on the histogram, and we can see that, those are these areas right in here. And my goal here is to try to extend those a little bit to expand them, to create more contrast between all of these values here.
So that we'll be able to see differences in value in our image area. So the way I would do this is I would first pull my White slider over to the right a little bit. That's setting my white point, and I want to make sure that we're using the entire dynamic range of the histogram here. And then I'm going to pull my Highlight slider to the left to try to separate out some of those values. Now, as I do that, we'll notice that I then need to kind of define the whites a little bit more. But what that's doing is by pulling these values, say right around here, and these values over here by pulling them apart, we are adding contrast.
By adding contrast we are going to see the difference in values in the Highlight area. Now if I wanted to see a before and after, I could tap the p key. The p key will show us a preview of before and after. Of course, I could also see a preview side by side by clicking on the y right down here, so that we can see the before and after. So the one thing that I am noticing in this histogram, when I've made these other changes we can see right here that I've actually clipped some of my dark values to pure black.
So I'm going to move the Black slider over to the right a little bit, so that we're not clipping. I also want to add a little bit more contrast between these shadow areas here, to add contrast between the black painted area of the church and the white. So to do that I'm going to grab my Shadow slider, and I'm actually going to move that down. Now as a result of making such a large change to these sliders, we're also noticing that there's this blue tint in the clouds. So to correct that I'm going to use my Temperature slider.
Just move that over to the right a bit. That's going to warm up the image, and it's going to get rid of that blue cast for me. Alright, let's go ahead and turn off the Highlight clipping warnings. I'll do that by tapping the o key. But again, you could always toggle them off by just clicking on this triangle up here in the upper right of the histogram. We'll go ahead and click Done. It'll return us back to Bridge, and we can see the adjustments that we've made to that image. So of course I want to point out that you can only fix those blown out highlights to a certain extent.
If the dynamic range of your image was so great that the camera was unable to capture any detail in those highlight areas like the cloud areas. Well then it's going to be very difficult if not impossible for Camera Raw to be able to pull back information. So you want to make sure when you're actually photographing the scene that you do capture information in your highlights, and then you can use Camera Raw in order to refine those and bring out additional detail.
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If you are a BMW enthusiast, even in the slightest, you will appreciate a quality build like this. DCR's E30 M3 is simply one of the cleanest and best built custom turbo examples we have ever seen. The compression of the 2.5 liter motor was dropped to 8.1:1 and at just 9 psi it put down 265 whp. Impressive? Oh yes, and just take a look at that engine bay. Click read more to see the mod list and make sure you scroll down for the entire build history! ...Published on 12-14-2010 12:35 PM
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Dinan is the first US tuner to release a tune specifically for the Alpina B7. This is great to see as the B7 uses larger turbos than the standard 750's. Dinan raises boost 4 psi, to 18psi total. The torque gain is about 100 lb-ft raising the total to 644. The price for this tune is $3,499. That is a bit steep for what we see as doing the exact same as their standard N63 tune, raising boost on the N63, which already retails for a steep $2,999. The $500 premium is likely due to it being an Alpina. Still, great to see a tune option for the B7 owners! ...Published on 12-11-2010 07:47 AM
After several months of extensive testing and reviews, I'm pleased to announce the official release of "SSP Pro-Gold". SSP Pro Gold is a high-tech transmission fluid developed from the latest base oil and additive technology. Created expecially for the newer DCT transmissions, Pro Gold exceeds clutch friction and wear protection requirements for all DCT transmissions. Pro Gold fluid is a extreme performance synthetic fluid suitable for use in all DCT set ups, and is specially formulated to protect your transmission in daily driving to full Race applications. ...Published on 12-11-2010 03:12 AM
We recently came across another meth kit being installed on an ESS supercharged M3. It is great to see more M3 owners embracing meth due to the added cooling and safety on the motor. Here you will see an install of an aquamist meth kit done by RS WORX. Supercharged M3 owners outside of Gintani have been some of the last in the BMW community to embrace meth due to being scared off by comments such as this by Roman@ESS: "Once you add a system like water / meth to the kit you increase not only the complexity and maintenance but you also increase your risk of having issues." We look forward to seeing more ESS customers adding meth to their high compression, supercharged applications. ...Published on 12-09-2010 07:29 PM
Here we finally have it. No more teaser videos, no more showing a fender here or there, no more hype, this is the real deal. BMW gives us the final product and by no accident chose to show it with the E30 M3. Putting the 1M Coupe which has accomplished nothing up on the lofty pedestal of comparisons with the E30 M3, arguably the greatest BMW M ever made, is not showing the E30 M3 the proper respect. It is not a spiritual successor to the E30 M3. However, that is a debate for another time and let's focus on the specs and photos. ...Published on 12-09-2010 03:59 PM
Dinan has released their new oil cooler which will fit all N55 equipped 335's which do not run the M-Tech bumper. This is also only for the E92. The cooler has twice the capacity of the stock unit while still mounting the factory location. You can check it out here on the Dinan Website. ...Published on 12-09-2010 02:58 AM
G-power has released their supercharger for M54 motors in the E46 330i and the E85 Z4 3.0i. It takes the cars up to 306 hp which at this point in the life cycle of the motor is rather underwhelming. Active Autowerke and ESS have this significantly beat no doubt for far less money. Technique Tuning can be thrown into the mix as well although that is a turbo. Then again, this is typically the case with anything G-power releases, better alternatives especially in the United States. Still, nice to see another option materialize. ...Published on 12-08-2010 03:42 PM
Well BMW's game of showing a fender every month seems to be coming to a close. Here is what is likely the last teaser vid (thankfully) and hopefully now we can get an official set of specifications. ...Published on 12-08-2010 05:54 AM
This is the 17th year for the Ward's 10 best engines awards. The competition annually awards the 10 best engines available in the U.S. market. The engine must be available in a vehicle for sale in the U.S.A no later than the first quarter of the year. The engine must also be available in a car costing less than $54,000 which cuts out all the good stuff and makes this competition far less prestigious or competitive as the International Engine of the Year Awards. It is great to see the N55 take over for the N54 which made the list in in 2009, 2008, and 2007. ...Published on 12-07-2010 10:57 PM
Well, the holiday cheer just keeps rolling in. If it were not enough that we were giving away a JB4 we thought it would be extra special to pair a meth kit with it. I mean hey, we go all out for our users. So to celebrate our first holiday season we will be giving away a meth kit along with the JB4 and users can enter and win both contests! ...Published on 12-07-2010 10:49 PM
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Hard to believe it was just two years ago that Johns Hopkins beat Duke for the national title.
That was before Duke had its season shut down while Johns Hopkins had some lose faith in its program last year. That was before the Blue Devils started over, in a way, with a new coach and a new attitude. That was before the Blue Jays, in a way, learned losing can sometimes lead to winning.
And that was before both the Blue Devils and Blue Jays learned to lean on each other to succeed.
Now, Duke and Johns Hopkins meet once again for the NCAA lacrosse national championship on Monday (ESPN, 1 p.m. EDT). The past is not forgotten. It can't and won't be anytime soon. But both teams have somehow become better because of it.
"You like to say [the past] doesn't matter, but it does. But it's not the off-the-field stuff that made this possible. It's the fact we stayed together like a team," said Duke junior Zack Greer, who scored four goals in Duke's 12-11 semifinal win over Cornell. "It's the 6 a.m. fall workouts. It's going out on the field with a new coach, new offensive schemes, a new defense. All the players went through it and we bonded.
"We're 41 brothers on the field."
Still, it was a family under fire for well over a year. There were constant stories, speculation and suspicion. Despite the Blue Devils' success on the field -- they went 17-2 fueled by a pair of the country's best players in Greer and Matt Danowski and play an aggressive style that managed to turn casual fans here into Blue Devils backers -- they are better known for what happened off the field.
But coach John Danowski says the success on the field coincides with what happened off the field.
"Can't do one without the other," he said. "The [past] is always there on a daily basis. Maybe it's in the paper one day or on TV the other, but it's always something. And we dealt with it and it's not an excuse one way or the other. We made slogans like 'Adjust, Adapt, Overcome' and 'Don't sweat the little stuff.' You try to deal with it as best you can.
"But we're not going to win because we went through something, no matter how horrific. We have to get up at 6 a.m. and work out, and we have to run end lines if we scoop with one hand. You have to do the work. It doesn't matter if we went through a heinous and difficult time, it's not going to make us a good lacrosse team."
So just how good is Duke? Good enough to send Johns Hopkins on the verge of a nervous breakdown. That was where the Blue Jays were in late March, fresh off two straight losses and a closed-door, self-help session. No coaches were invited and no suggestion was ignored.
"We talked about what to do, how to stop the bleeding and how to save the season. Then we lost to Duke by two," said senior Stephen Peyser, who scored three goals in JHU's 8-3 semifinal win over Delaware. "We played better, but … "
So they closed the door and opened up -- again. It was part counseling, part scared straight session.
One year after becoming the first Johns Hopkins team since 2002 to fail to reach the Final Four and the first team to lose a home game since 2001, the Blue Jays were suddenly looking like they would be the first Hopkins team to not reach the playoffs since 1972. Why, the three-game losing streak the Blue Jays were on was the first since 1990. Maybe they talked behind closed doors because no one else wanted to talk to them.


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Thomas Wayne Miller, age 66 of Sweetwater, passed away on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 at his residence.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The president of Fiji's National Olympic Committee says New Zealand might be in breach of the Olympic charter if it bans Fijian players from the Rugby World Cup on political grounds.
Vidya Lakhan said he had written to the International Rugby Board urging it to "put its foot down" over the New Zealand government's plan to impose travel bans against Fiji players with military links.
Lakhan said rugby had now been accepted as an Olympic sport -- rugby sevens will be part of the games from 2016 -- and was subject to the Olympic charter that rejects political interference in sport.
New Zealand has imposed travel sanctions against members of the Fiji military and their relatives since a military-led coup in 2006.


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Teamsters' victory seen as watershedEconomists say union win puts other workers in a better bargaining position
By Charles Stein, Globe Staff, 08/20/97
on't expect a raise tomorrow. But labor's victory in the strike against United Parcel Service of America Inc. suggests American workers are now in a better bargaining position -- whether they belong to a union or not.
''The pendulum is shifting toward labor, which is probably good, because workers haven't participated in the country's prosperity,'' said Allen Sinai, chief economist at Primark Decision Economics, a forecasting firm based in Waltham.
Striking Teamsters got virtually everything they asked for: higher wages, more full-time jobs, and control over their pension plan. Equally important, say analysts, was the victory the strikers won in the court of public and political opinion.
Polls showed a majority of Americans sided with the strikers, even though the UPS drivers already earned better pay and had better benefits than many workers. ''The issues in this strike resonated with people,'' said Nicholas Perna, chief economist at Fleet Financial Group.
On the political front, the Clinton administration officially took a neutral position. Yet in her comments yesterday about the outcome of the strike, Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman made it clear where her sympathies were. ''I think this agreement becomes a model for other companies today, as we look at the question not only of good wages but also health benefits and retirement security for workers,'' she said.
For corporate America, the strike's outcome is more sobering. After years of holding the upper hand, business will have to share the wealth with employees. That could mean either lower profits or higher prices. Either choice could make life difficult for the stock market, which has risen to record heights on the strength of soaring profits and low inflation.
''This is a watershed event,'' said David Jones, chief economist at the Wall Street firm of Aubrey G. Lanston.
Wall Street clearly was not worried about the UPS strike yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 114.74 to close at 7918.10. Investors apparently were heartened by the Federal Reserve's decision yesterday not to hike interest rates.
If the pendulum is shifting, it comes after a long period in which it swung in management's direction. Over the past 15 years, American workers have had to contend with a long list of hostile forces. Foreign competition, new technology, deregulation of key industries, and corporate downsizing have all made it more difficult for workers to win a bigger share of the economic pie.
The new competitive forces kept wages and benefits in check. At the same time, they created a greater sense of economic insecurity. Common sense dictates that when workers fear for their jobs, they are not going to be demanding big raises or enhanced benefits.
On the corporate side, the 1990s have been years of unparalleled success. Corporate profits have been rising at a double-digit clip. As a share of national income, profits have climbed from just over 8 percent to nearly 12 percent since 1991, according to Regional Financial Associates, a Pennsylvania forecasting company.
Symbolically, the incredible wealth accumulated by chief executives has delivered the same message: The rewards of the economic expansion have not been equally shared.
While no one expects that to change dramatically, the UPS strike may signal a subtle tilt in the other direction. ''It is one straw in the wind,'' said Frederick Breimyer, chief economist at State Street Bank.
Breimyer and others attribute the change, in part, to a better economy. In July the nation's jobless rate dipped to 4.8 percent, a 24-year low. In some places, including Massachusetts, employers have had trouble filling jobs. Nationally, the number of workers who are voluntarily leaving their jobs has risen, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
''Workers have now been given the green light to demand more,'' says Jones of Lanston.
That may be overstating the case. The forces that have held paychecks down are not going away any time soon. Over the past year, wages and benefits rose only 2.8 percent, according to a recent government report.
The UPS strike won't make those numbers leap, say economists. But it may signal a change in direction. Said Sinai, the Primark economist: ''The balance of power is shifting toward labor and away from corporations.''
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Congressional Candidate Steven Vasquez (R-21) defeated James Buhrmaster Wednesday, July 30, in Court. Buhrmaster had sued to knock Vasquez off the congressional ballot. The result of this win is that both candidates will face off in a September primary, according to a press release from Vasquez.
\We went up against one of the best election lawyers in New York. Our campaign volunteers did such a good job in the petition process that it wasn't even close, Vasquez said in a written statment.
The two sides appeared in Albany County Supreme Court Wednesday, July 30, for a hearing.
"Three Vasquez volunteers testified first about signatures they had gathered. Buhrmaster's attorney, Tom Marcelle, then proceeded to go through the Buhrmaster objections one by one through a witness," the statment reads.
At 6:15 p.m. there were 55 withdrawals. Vasquez needed to win 62 of the total 452 objections.
Marcelle then asked Judge Roger McDonough to rule on a group of nine outstanding objections and the Judge ruled in favor of Vasquez. This brought the total 64, keeping Vasques on the ballot.
Warren Redlich, Vasquez's campaign manager, said Buhrmaster's camp said they will not appeal.
"He's supposed to be a Republican. But he filed a frivolous lawsuit, wasting both taxpayer money and his own campaign money, all in an effort to keep Republican voters from having a choice. Buhrmaster owes the voters an
apology," Redlich said. "I think he has a lot to answer for."
Burhmaster's camp sees it differently.
"It wasn't a frivolous lawsuit," countered Josh Hills, a spokesman for Burhmaster. "Even by Mr. Redlich's count about 350 [signatures] were knocked off. They only had a cushion of 50 signatures. We knew it would be close."
He said, thought, after a grueling ten hours of litigation, they were forced to concede.
Hills responded to the allegations that Buhrmaster's case was not the "Republican" thing to do.
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