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Or, indeed, other large Canadian companies? Earlier:
The Dragon's Weltmacht/Canadian angle Predate
Plus more on Sinochem and Potash Corp. Now excerpts from an article in the New York Review of Books (full text subscriber only):
The Party: Impenetrable, All Powerful
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
by Richard McGregor
Harper, 302 pp., $27.99
…as Richard McGregor shows in his book The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, the Party is not increasingly irrelevant; rather, it is at the center of events as varied as shifts in global currency markets, New York stock market listings, and clashes over North Korea. And far from being decrepit, the Party is surprisingly vital, as McGregor convincingly demonstrates in chapters on how it influences China's economy, military, minority policy, and understanding of history. Although many of its policies are not Communist, the Party is still Leninist in structure and organization, resulting in institutions and behavior patterns that would be recognizable to the leaders of the Russian Revolution. McGregor's book is also proof that for all of its secretive tendencies, the Party and its power can be usefully analyzed.
Our failure to do so has led to spectacular misperceptions about China, a key one being that the government has been privatizing the economy. Back in the 1990s, for example, the government announced that it would "grasp the large and release the small," which was taken in Western capitals to mean privatization. In fact, the plan was simply to turn state-owned enterprises into shareholder-owned companies—with the government holding a controlling or majority stake. Many shares were sold overseas to investors eager for a piece of China's economic growth, but even today almost all Chinese companies of any size and importance remain in government hands.
…All have Party secretaries who manage them in conjunction with the CEO. In big questions, such as leadership or overseas acquisitions, Party meetings precede board meetings, which largely give routine approval to Party decisions. The Party's overarching control was driven home a few years ago when China's large telecom companies had their CEOs shuffled like a pack of cards because of a decision by the Party's Organization Department. It would have been like the US Department of Commerce ordering the heads of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to play musical chairs. For the Organization Department, which acts as the Party's personnel department, it was normal; it often shifts senior Party officials every few years to prevent empire building and corruption.
…judges translate court decisions made by Communist Party legal affairs committees into rulings. Since judges are not allowed to rule independently, Western efforts to foster rule of law by training them are thus largely pointless [a Canadian government aid effort (see 1. here)--hah!--wake up, Conservatives].
…the reach of the Party's Organization Department is so expansive that it would be like one group in Washington naming the members of the Supreme Court, all the members of the Cabinet, the editors of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the heads of all major think tanks, and the CEOs of major companies like General Electric, Exxon-Mobil, and Wal-Mart.
…The big companies that are listed abroad are indeed giants but mainly because of their sheer size; they are essentially little more than partially privatized quasi monopolies—big telecoms, banks, and insurance and oil companies. That makes them large but not particularly nimble, inventive, or influential in international markets, except when trying to buy natural resources. [emphasis added].
…Foreign policy, for all the international efforts to engage China on global issues, remains focused on two narrow concerns: territorial issues like Taiwan and Tibet [and others: "Japan feels the Dragon's fiery breath"], and resource extraction in Africa or Central Asia [see below]. And the state has become so adept at political control that no one seriously argues that civil society is becoming more robust; on the contrary, the Party's new-found confidence has allowed it to roll back gains of previous years…
More on that resource extraction:
Rescuing Afghanistan's Buddhist History
Even as once-secure parts of Afghanistan succumb to criminality and the insurgency, and the Afghan financial system hovers on the brink of failure, there are small signs of hope here. A spectacular Buddhist archaeological site is now being excavated by the Afghan government's National Institute of Archaeology, near where Al Qaeda ran a training camp in the 1990s.
Work on Mes Aynak ("Little copper well") has proceeded at a rapid pace since it began in May, because the archaeologists — 16 Afghans and two Frenchmen from DAFA (Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan) — are racing against time. Within three years, the site is slated to be destroyed by Afghanistan's largest single foreign investment, a Chinese-run copper mine not 900 yards away…
Predate: The following appeared in, gasp, the Globe and Mail (China upsuckers extraordinaire) yesterday–but not from, natch, the news staff:
Why China isn't fit to lead Asia


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Plenty of Central Texas school districts are looking for new ways to stretch their education dollars, especially with a new school year starting next week. And some are going green to save.
The Texas School for the Deaf recently got a "green" makeover after it beat out 220 others for a $130,000 grant to make environmentally friendly improvements.
With the money, they bought rainwater collection barrels to keep the school grounds green.
Other green strategies for new school year: they're using energy-efficient light bulbs and motion-activated lights to conserve energy; the grant paid for hands-free faucets and dryers in the restrooms to save water and paper waste; the students will also get lessons in recycling, with bins next to every trash can on campus.

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Quick OverviewMusic Piano Adventures 2B - Xmas
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Motivation to practice will certainly increase during the holiday season, as students experience playing well-loved Christmas carols. Optional duets are included for several pieces. Contents: Stuffing the Stockings (theory review), Deck the Halls, Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, Mary Had a Baby, Silent Night, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Up On the Housetop, What Child is This?
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Bill and Ali at Café No Sé: Tales of Knoxville, By Way of Guatemala
After a few months in charge of the best bookstore in Guatemala, Bill McGowan's back in town, and wanted to catch up. He suggested we meet at Marie's.
A skinny guy in a tweed Irish cap and a stubbly white beard, McGowan is originally from Chicago, and says Marie's Olde Towne Tavern reminds him of the warm neighborhood bars of his youth. It's the working-man's bar on Magnolia, near the Greyhound station. Most nights, the ladies who staff the bar constitute most of the women in the room. Some downtown bars are trendier, with more expensive beer, but Marie's has cleaner bathrooms than most, and more attentive staffers. No bar has more framed pictures of Elvis, and the fresh popcorn, served in no-tip plastic bowls, is free.
A retired Social Security manager, Bill lives in a lovely old Victorian in Old North. "I've always lived places where I knew lots of people," he says, adding he didn't find that in Knoxville until, downtown finalizing his divorce, he had a seat in the brewpub on Gay Street. After several years lonesome in the Knoxville-Morristown area, suddenly he knew everybody. "To fall into that crowd downtown, I cannot tell you what a godsend that was for me," he says. He's made many friends since. One of them launched his unlikely second career.
Bill spends months of the year selling used books in Antiqua, a small town nestled amongst volcanoes in southwestern Guatemala.
Just lately, McGowan has taken up a third career, writing for publication. He writes vignettes about the people he meets in the bookstore, and about his own memories. Last month, he was invited to read some of them at the adjacent bar. The ones he read were about Ali Akbar, the nonconformist artist well known in Fort Sanders and the more complicated parts of Bearden until his sudden death just over three years ago.
Bill's new careers came about by accident. Our friend Charlie Thomas, sometime Knoxville lawyer, got into the habit of selling books down there almost a decade ago. An enterprising American named John Rexer had started a mezcal bar in Antigua, a fascinating and popular place called Café No Sé—that is, Café I Don't Know—a candlelit bar with intuitive art on the walls and bars of old planks that look like scavenged sailing-ship decking. An old-fashioned refrigerator door leads into the inner sanctum, the mezcal bar.
With extra space he didn't know what to do with, Rexer opened a bookstore and called it Dyslexia Libros. "I think he wants his customers to be readers," Bill says. Rexer befriended Charlie, who'd been vagabonding and working on some philanthropic projects in Guatemala, and later Bill. "It's small, like this," he says, gesturing around Marie's, "but more intimate because it's narrower." They get to know their customers quickly. "Where can you walk into a bookstore where someone will talk to you about the books?" Rexer started a sort of literary magazine for distribution in the bookstore, called La Cuadra, or "the block." Bill says Rexer puts out the magazine just because it's hard to find much to read in English in Guatemala.
Now a successful mezcal exporter, Rexer doesn't spend as much time around the place as he used to. So it's up to Knoxvillians Charlie and Bill run the best English-language bookstore in Guatemala.
Most of their customers are on the move. Offbeat tourists and longer-term ex-pats, most of them are Americans, but many are Europeans of various nationalities. If pirates read books, they'd go to Dyslexia Libros. About 80 percent of the books they sell are in English. Right now they have a surplus of German books.
Now that he's retired and his son is grown, McGowan is fond of traveling, and about two years ago, was down there visiting Charlie. "Charlie's always scrambling to see who he can get to work there while he's gone," Bill recalls. He'd never sold books before, but was happy to give it a try.
"By the way, something has come up," Charlie told Bill. Back in Knoxville for a holiday visit, Charlie found himself appointed to fill a vacancy on Knoxville City Council. Bill, the mild-mannered retired bureaucrat, found himself in charge of a bookstore on the edge of the jungle. For eight months that year, he was the acting manager of Dyslexia Libros. It got into his blood like a tropical parasite. Now he's loath to give it up.
A few weeks ago, Bill was happy to sell a Dutch copy of Catcher in the Rye to a Dutch woman who'd never read it. "Books are characters," Bill says. "Not characters in the book, I mean the book itself is a character. It interacts with me, it interacts with you."
Peter Kilbryde, an eccentric Irishman who sometimes helps out in the bookstore, was getting his first book of poetry published, and gave a reading at the café. He invited Bill to join, and Bill told Ali stories, most of them set in Knoxville. Ali, who called Bill "Chicago," loved to tell stories, many about his frequent confrontations with local authorities. Bill had the time and inclination to listen, and remembers them well. Once, a cop stopped Ali on Sutherland Avenue, interrogating him as a suspect who'd caused a disturbance at the nearby Goodwill. Ali, offended, responded, "If I were Donald Trump walking down the street, would you ask me if I frequented Goodwill?" Then, having thrown the officer off his trail, Ali walked to Goodwill, where he was a regular.
Bill and some of Ali's old friends, like R.B. Morris and Eric Sublett, are trying to put together an exhibit of Ali's art.
"It was a wary friendship," Bill admits. "But I wished I could be like him. That guy was so f--kin' free. I've never met anybody that was so at ease in his own skin. He was who he was."
Expatriates in Guatemala crowd the bar to hear Bill's stories about Ali Akbar. They don't encounter anyone just like him. Ali didn't travel much in life, but he travels well now.


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The design of RNA sequences folding into predefined secondary structures is a
milestone for many synthetic biology and gene therapy studies. Most of the current
software uses similar local search strategies (i.e. a random seed is progressively
adapted to acquire the desired folding properties) and more importantly do not
allow the user to control explicitly the nucleotide distribution such as the
GC-content in their sequences. However, the latter is an important criterion for
large-scale applications as it could presumably be used to design sequences with
better transcription rates and/or structural plasticity.
We introduce a novel algorithm to design RNA sequences folding into target
secondary structures with a predefined nucleotide distribution. It uses a global
sampling approach and weighted sampling techniques. We show that our approach is
fast (i.e. running time comparable or better than local search methods), seed-less
(we remove the bias of the seed in local search heuristics), and successfully
generates high-quality sequences (i.e. thermodynamically stable) for any GC-
content. To complete this study, we develop an hybrid method combining our global
sampling approach with local search strategies. Remarkably, our glocal methodology
overcomes both local and global approaches for sampling sequences with a specific GC
content and target structure.
For those of us who have an empirical component in our research, there are ample of
opportunities to present experimental results in one graphical form or another. In this
tutorial, I will present some examples of graphs I have produced for a paper. Bring
your laptop and you can produce some graphs too.
I will be in MC103 at 11h30 to assist anyone who wants to set up R in their laptop.
The SOCS machines also have R installed if you want to VNC in.
If you know R already, please contact me if you can help. It'd be great if we have a few
people at 11h30 to help others with the installation and during the tutorial.
Over the past few years, Twitter has emerged as an increasingly influential platform
for real-time information distribution and discovery. However, it has been taking a
bit of dark turn into adult content, which could significantly hinder the further
popularity of Twitter and/or
cause serious legal issues. Existing techniques for adult content detection are
ill-suited for detecting adult accounts in Twitter.
To tackle this problem, we propose iterative social based classification (ISC)}, an
effective solution for adult account detection for online social networks. ISC
consisting of three key components: (1) collective interest, a novel social link
based feature for effective discrimination of adult accounts; (2) a tag based
label propagation algorithm which explores the tagged content embedded in tweets to
further boost the detection accuracy; and (3) a social based linear classifier that
integrates social consistency based on the collective interest feature and maximal
tag scores computed from tag based label propagation. Evaluations using large-scale
real-world Twitter data demonstrate that our ISC solution significantly outperforms
existing methods in detecting adult accounts. It is able to identify adult accounts
accurately among $1.07$ million accounts using only $100$ labeled adult accounts.
The dominant role of social networking in the web is turning human
relations into conduits of information flow. This means that the way information
spreads on the web is determined to a large extent by human decisions. Consequently,
information security, confidentiality and integrity of shared data, lies on the
quality of the collective decisions made by the users. Recently, many access control
schemes have been proposed to control unauthorized propagation and modification of
information in online systems; however, there is still a need for mechanisms to
evaluate the risk of information leakage and unauthorized modifications within
online systems. First, the thesis focuses on the confidentiality of information in
online social networks. A novel community-centric confidentiality control mechanism
for information flow management on the social web is presented. A Monte Carlo based
algorithm is developed to determine the potential spread of a shared data object and
to inform the user of the risk of information leakage associated with different
sharing decisions she can make in a social network. The scheme also provides a
facility to reduce information flowing to a specific user (i.e., black listing a
specific user). Second the thesis focuses on the integrity of artifacts in
crowdsourcing systems. A new approach for managing the integrity of contents created
in crowdsourcing repositories named Social Integrity Management (SIM) is presented.
SIM integrates two conflicting approaches to manage integrity in crowdsourcing
systems: owner-centric and owner-free schemes. The ownership bottleneck is relaxed
by including co-ownerships and having multiple versions. Finally, the thesis
presents a thorough analysis of the Stack Exchange sites as an example of widely
used crowdsourcing question answering systems. The dump datasets are used to analyze
various user behaviors in crowdsourcing question answering systems by considering
the effect of tagging, user reputation and user feedback. Observed characteristics
from the studies are used in the modeling and evaluation of social integrity
The heart is composed of elongated muscle cells that are grouped together to form
cardiac muscle fibers, known as myofibers. In healthy hearts, they are arranged in
an efficient manner to allow the pumping of blood to the whole body. Characterizing
the geometry and variability of myofibers is central to our understanding of normal
heart function. Originating with pioneering work by Streeter more than 40 years ago,
research has mostly focused on large-scale descriptions of their arrangement. Recent
advances in medical imaging, with the development of diffusion magnetic resonance
imaging (dMRI), have allowed to study myofibers non-invasively, in three-dimensions,
and at a high resolution. This contrasts with the traditional histological methods
that require tedious heart dissections and damage the cardiac issue. dMRI has also
revealed important local features of myofibers across many species, which are
difficult to explain using global models of cardiac fiber architecture.
Consequently, research has been increasingly shifting away from the shortcomings and
inconsistencies found in global models, moving instead to local models of myofiber
geometry. During this talk I will show how we can gain valuable insight into how
myofibers are arranged, by analyzing how they bundle and curve together using a
mathematical framework derived from differential geometry.
Transcriptional regulatory networks, the biochemical systems controlling the
transcription of genes into RNA in response to activating or repressing inputs from
transcription factor molecules, are able to robustly retain their functionality
against a wide array of environmental perturbations and evolutionary mutations.
However, what injects such robustness in these systems remains largely unexplained.
Previous studies have principally focused on identifying topological features of
these networks that are unlikely to occur in random networks and then determining
the impact of these features on robustness and other dynamical aspects of the
system. While this approach has yielded significant insights into the design
principles of robust biological systems, a comprehensive analysis of how these
topological features act in conjunction with the parameters of the system has not
been conducted yet. In this ongoing project, we first analyze how the activating and
repressing connections are distributed within the E Coli transcriptional network to
identify some features which deviate from the expected behaviour under random
connectivity and then, through generation of random ensembles of networks and
simulating their dynamics using a standard discrete time boolean network dynamics
model, determine the robustness induction effect of these features. Our result thus
far indicates that both the first and second order aspects of this connectivity
pattern exert impacts on the robustness of the network, suggesting a synergy between
the topological features and parametric features defining the system towards
attaining robustness.
Non-player characters that act as companions for players are a common
feature of modern games. Designing a companion that reacts
appropriately to the player's experience, however, is not a trivial
task, and even current, triple-A titles tend to provide companions
that are either static in behaviour or evince only superficial
connection to player activity. To address this issue I am going to
present an adaptive companion that analyses the player's in-game
experience and behaves accordingly. We evaluate our adaptive companion
in different, non-trivial scenarios, as well as compare our proposed
model to a straightforward approach to adaptivity based on Dynamic
Difficulty Adjustment. The data collected demonstrates that the
adaptive companion has more influence over the player's experience and
that there exists an orthogonality between our companion adaptivity
and the more traditional combat/health scaling approaches to
difficulty adjustment. Using adaptive companions is a step forward in
offering meaningful and engaging games to players.
MATLAB is the most popular language among scientists for solving numerically intensive
problems but it does not allow scientists to take full advantage of today's supercomputers which
they have access to. We try to solve this problem by developing a MATLAB to X10 translator.
X10 is a programming language being developed by IBM research to provide
a programming model that provides scalability and productivity for new generation
supercomputing architectures. X10 is based on four basic principles of asynchrony, locality,
atomicity, and order developed on a type-safe, class-based, object-oriented foundation.
MiX10 is a part of the McLab project at SABLE lab that provides a static backend with
X10 as the target language for our MATLAB compiler. Two major challenges in translating
MATLAB to X10 are 1) Mapping programming constructs of a matrix-based, dynamic and "wild"
language to those of a statically typed, object-oriented, parallel programming language and 2)
Providing support for a huge number of MATLAB builtin methods that are a major reason behind
its success as a scientific programming language. MiX10 builds upon McLab's Tamer analysis
framework and aims for performance and readability of generated X10 code.


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ALW117 - Professional Writing for Work
Unit details
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Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin
This unit focuses on developing professional communication and flexible skills for employability in a twenty first century work environment. Students will explore ways of professionally representing themselves, organisations and community causes or social issues within the context of their own discipline-specific work requirements. They will use online techniques and tools and imaginative virtual world workplace scenarios to prepare themselves for academic, organisational and web writing for specific purposes in workplace contexts.
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Rosy starling
|Rosy starling
|Summer plumages:
Adult male (center). female (below), and juvenile (behind)
|Scientific classification
Temminck, 1815
|P. roseus
|Binomial name
|Pastor roseus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Sturnus roseus
The rosy starling (Pastor roseus) is a passerine bird in the starling family Sturnidae, also known as the rose-coloured starling or rose-coloured pastor.[2] The species was recently placed in its own monotypic genus, Pastor, and split from Sturnus. This split is supported by recent studies, though its closest living relatives are still not certainly known.[3]
The adult of this species is highly distinctive, with its pink body, pale orange legs and bill, and glossy black head, wings and tail. Males in the breeding season have elongated head feathers which form a wispy crest that is fluffed and more prominent when the bird gets excited; the crest is shorter in winter and the black areas have paler feather edges, which get worn away as well as the black becoming more glossy in the breeding season. Winter plumage in males is rather dull. Females have a short crest and are duller overall, especially without the sharp separation between pink and black. The juvenile can be distinguished from common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) by its obviously paler plumage and short yellow bill. Young birds molt into a subdued version of the adult plumage, lacking the crest, in autumn and acquire the adult plumage when they are nearly one year old in females, and nearly two years in males. The latter in their second year wear a plumage similar to adult females but with longer crests and noticeably pale feather edges.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
The breeding range of this bird is from easternmost Europe across temperate southern Asia.[1] It is a strong migrant, and winters in India and tropical Asia. In India in winter, it often appears to outnumber the local starlings and mynas. The rosy starling is a bird of steppe and open agricultural land. In years when grasshoppers and other insects are abundant, it will erupt well beyond its core range, with significant numbers reaching France and the United Kingdom.
Behaviour and ecology[edit]
The rosy starling is a colonial breeder, and like other starlings, is highly gregarious, forming large winter flocks. It also shares other species' omnivorous diet, although it prefers insects.
The song is a typical starling mixture of squeaks and rattles, given with much wing trembling.
In Xinjiang, China, farmers used to use insecticide to eliminate locust, which is costly and polluting. In the 1980s, experts found that rosy starlings which fly to Xinjiang farms and feed on locusts could be used for control instead. The experts begin to build artificial nests to attract rosy starlings, an effort reported to be so successful that the number of locusts was insufficient to feed the birds, causing many juveniles die for hunger. By the 2000s many Xinjiang farms greatly decreased the usage of insecticide.[4]
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2004). Sturnus roseus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- ^ "Pastor". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
- ^ Jønsson, Knud A. & Fjeldså, Jon (2006): A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri). Zool. Scripta 35(2): 149–186. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00221.x (HTML abstract)
- Snow, David W.; Perrins, Christopher M.; Doherty, Paul & Cramp, Stanley (1998): The complete birds of the western Palaearctic on CD-ROM. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-268579-1
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sturnus roseus.


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Required Reading For My Literature by Women Course
Submitted by poppiezoe on Mon, 09/16/2002 - 01:37
that is the only four authors your teacher is giving voice to? I wil say that Sula and The Awakening are both very good.
Hopefully you will also touch on
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Blank Page
the poetry of Dorothy Parker
I just dashed off this quick list as one of my first post. My textbook is The Norton Anthology of Literature By Women, and we are reading Mary Wollstonecraft, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Cavendish, and many others. I loved The Yellow Wallpaper, and The Blank Page. Thanks for your interest!


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Remember to do your Christmas shopping locally
Here it is December already! Wow, time does fly when you're having fun, doesn't it? Have you gotten all your shopping done yet? Remember, shop locally — keep our beautiful little town alive with your business.
A lovely shop in Blakeney, called "Wild By Nature" is selling a beautiful, special Holiday ornament for $10, with sales benefitting Turning Point Domestic Violence Shelter. Turning Point serves Union County residents.
Before we know it, the 2012 -2013 concert reading series, by the Storefront Theatre will be back in the swing of things beginning January 19 at 7:30 p.m. and the 20th, at 2:30 p.m. God's Man in Texas by David Rambo, tells of a legendary Baptist preacher and his ambitious young successor face off for control of a Houston megachurch, faith and egos collide. This play explores the conflict between the worldly temptations of money, ambition, and success with the inner motivations of faith and character. Tickets are $10.
The Cuthbertson Middle School PTSO and school staff are hosting a "Talent Show" this coming Friday evening, December 7th at 7 p.m. This sounds good, because you know with a pupil population the size of CMS, there's got to be lots of talent. From what I hear, the admission is $5 per person. It sounds good to me!]
The entire Waxhaw community will certainly be busy this month, with so many holiday oriented events happening. This coming week is not only First Friday celebrations, but the Waxhaw Woman's Club Holiday Tour of Homes on Friday and Saturday, the Museum of the Waxhaws' Tea on Saturday at 2 p.m., and the Christmas Parade on Sunday, December 9th! The Dickens Christmas should be fabulous - cannot wait to see that. Have you seen the Reading Room's windows? They are wonderful. The whole town is aglow with holiday decor. How great. One cannot help but be in the holiday spirit. Hope to see you over the weekend in beautiful, historic Waxhaw.
Tomorrow evening is the Democratic Women of Union County's Annual Holiday Party & Installation of Officers at the wonderful and historic Monroe Country Club. When? Doors open at 6 p.m.
St. Gabriel Church Women's Club Holiday Meeting Luncheon will be Monday, December 10th, at 11 a.m. in the Ministry Center. Prior to lunch, the Charlotte Catholic High School Choir will perform. $10 admission.
Have you heard about the North Carolina Master Gardener Program? It is a volunteer program designed to train volunteers to help other people in their communities with horticulture. This program is divided into two parts: instruction and service. In the classroom, participants receive over 40 hours of practical horticultural training and receive a comprehensive textbook. The practical training is designed to increase confidence in your gardening knowledge and horticultural skills, as well as enable one to assist the public with questions and problems involved with gardening. Once enrolled in the program, the Master Garden intern donates at least 40 hours of service to the citizens of Union County. This multiplies the capabilities of the Union County Extension Agent. If you have the desire, commitment and time to learn and want to put your knowledge and skills to work through volunteer service, then apply for admission to the Master Gardener program. Contact Jeff Rieves at 740-283-3741, or visit http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/masgar/
Do you know about Katie Greene, daughter of Liz and Dean Greene? Katie founded "Katie's Kidz," an organization that collects donations to enable Katie to present gifts at the holidays to children who are in the hospital with serious illnesses. Last year, Katie raised $22,350, and delivered 7,000 gifts to eleven hospitals in North and South Carolina, including eight major children's hospitals. This year, Katie lost her grandfather, whom she called "Paw Paw," and she is dedicating her 2012 campaign to him. "Paw Paw" always gave Katie the support only a grandfather can give in such an endeavor as this. Because "Paw Paw" was sickly for a few weeks, and it put Katie behind her normal schedule she finds herself a bit behind in the funding. Katie needs donations more than ever this year. If you are interested in donating, send it to: Katie's Kidz, P.O. Box 436, Waxhaw, NC 28173.
Stewart's Village Gallery, on McDonald Street in Waxhaw, is hosting their annual Holiday Open House beginning this weekend, and each weekend thereafter until December 23rd. The Stewarts sell only art and gifts created by American artists. You are treated to a magnificent array of artwork at this particular gallery. You will be happy you did.
Have a good week, take time to smell the roses, schedule your mammo, remember how much "fina" it is to wake up in Carolina.


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Friday, July 26, 2013
Mr. and Mrs. James Robert Marsh of North Augusta are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Valerie Louise Marsh, to Stevens Samuel Shuler, son of Dr. and Mrs. Conrad Shuler II of Clemson.
Valerie is a 2010 Clemson graduate with a degree in early childhood education and a 2012 Clemson graduate with a master's degree in literacy education. She has been teaching kindergarten in Beaufort County.
Stevens is a 2011 Clemson graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering. Presently he is preparing for dental school.
An August 2013 wedding is being planned at Fairview Presbyterian Church, North Augusta.
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Cecelia Tripp
Head Coach
Cecelia Tripp became the Head Coach of the YMCA of the North Shore in September 2014. Cecelia will work with the Senior and Junior Groups at Beverly but will oversee the development of all 6 locations of the YNS Sharks. She spent the previous 3 years at Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta, Georgia. Dynamo is a Gold Medal Club with two locations and over 850 swimmers and has won four USA Junior National Team Titles in the last 6 seasons. In her time at Dynamo, Cecelia coached elite senior level athletes as well as various levels within their age group program. In her first year, she helped the Senior 1 group to qualify 12 swimmers for 2012 Olympic trials, including a finalist in two events. In the last 3 years, Cecelia has coached multiple National and Junior National finalists, numerous Georgia Age Group, and Senior State Champions and USA top 10 performances.
Prior to her time with Dynamo, Cecelia was the Head Age Group Coach and Assistant National Team Coach at YMCA of the North Shore. During her four years, the team experienced some of the most successful years in team history. With each year, the team steadily progressed within the YMCA National standings, culminating in at 4th place finish at 2011 LCM national Championships. That season also concluded with multiple Junior National Qualifiers and a 2012 Olympic Trial qualifier.
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Younsoo Bae, Ph.D. The overall goal of our research is to develop an effective and safe customized therapy to detect, diagnose, image, and treat human diseases by combining nanotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences. We are developing nanoscale polymer nanoassemblies for controlled delivery of various therapeutic agents, such as small molecule drugs, proteins, plasmid DNA, and siRNA. The nanoassemblies, comprising either self-assembled or cross-linked functional block copolymers, are designed to release their payloads at a targeted disease site (e.g. cancerous tumor) in a tunable manner in response to time or external stimuli (e.g. pH, heat, light, and enzymatic activity), and thus maximizing therapeutic efficacy while reducing undesirable side effects to the body. The nanoassemblies capable of targeting tumor can be used for non-invasive cancer imaging, based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), fluorescence probing and bioluminescence techniques.
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Dr. Dwoskin's major research focus is drug discovery in neuropharmacology, such as the development of novel therapeutic candidates for the treatment of psychostimulant abuse, specifically for nicotine and methamphetamine abuse. She also is founder and vice president of pharmacology for Yaupon Therapeutics Inc., a drug discovery company. Creating New Treatments for Nicotine and Methamphetamine Abuse


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Daddy Love
Each boy has gone through phases of preferring mommy or daddy at different times in their young little lives.
Colin has hung in the mommy camp longer than most, but now he is firmly in the all-daddy-all-the-time camp.
Daddy helps make me feel better about my recent abandonment by letting me dress them alike (on a rare occasion).
Makes the decision to spend the summer out here all together feel even sweeter.
I love all my boys, big and little.
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After some time off, everyone who walked out decided to get together, drink a few beers and decide what to do. We threw around a few names of the gyms around in the area. The final decision was to just train out of someone's garage, which I pretty much was expecting to happen.
I guess I should explain why we choose the garage over an established gym. We've been training together for years and we basically molded the gym we used to train at into the one we wanted. I hate calling the gym a "practical self defense" gym because of the cliche that title has become in McDojos. We try to slant the drills and training methods into what we think could best simulate self defense. So basically we just want to continue doing what we were already doing just at a new location. We are still open to going to a diff gym but for now I think we are going to just stick together.
There is 17 of us, 17 people who consistently have three nights a week already reserved to train and saturday mornings. A lot of the drills, training methods, and exercises were developed or introduced by one of us. The bulk of us have backgrounds and lot of experience in other styles that carried over. Not to mention the wrestling and judo coaches are in the group.
At this point, after doing the math we figured out that all of us together, we all have a collection of our own person training gear we could set up in a garage. Our normal monthly fees to the school that we aren't paying anymore we could used to pay for some wrestling mats and whatever equipment we decided to add.
So I think we have a good group. Most of us have been training at the WC school for over three years, not to mention a few seniors that have been around since the early 80's. We have a wrestling coach and a Judo coach. A personal trainer, and a strength and power lifting coach that trains wrestlers football players at a local high school. We also have a guy who has a ridiculous garage.
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Description: Hand-colored print of the spires of the city skyline in the background, steamboats and sailboats on the harbor in the middle ground, and land with smaller buildings in the foreground.
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Since 1987, Holiday Cab has provided an alternative for residents looking for a safe ride home. Last year, the program provided 376 rides. The very first year of the program, they gave fewer than 75 rides home. Some years they have provided as many as 600 rides.
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By K.L. VantranAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2003 Michele Heidenberger enjoyed tennis. The lead flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 77 and 183 others lost their lives when the hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001.
In honor of her sister-in-law's memory and others who perished that fateful day, tennis pro Betsy Heidenberger donated the proceeds of a tennis tournament/silent auction to the Pentagon Memorial Fund here today.
Heidenberger said she was unaware of the Pentagon Memorial Fund and efforts to raise funds for it until she read an article in the local paper. From that point, she said she knew what she had to do -- she was on a mission. "I always wanted to do something for Michele," she said.
The tennis instructor began her project in July by visiting local businesses and asking for donations for the silent auction. She collected more than 100 items -- everything from $5 ice cream coupons to airline tickets. "The response was unbelievable," she said. "I hardly ever got turned down."
The Oct. 26 event at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va., netted $35,000. "It was not work at all for me," she said. "It was a fantastic event. The response was awesome. Everybody had a blast and we know Michele was there swinging away with us."
The Pentagon Memorial Fund also received donations - totaling nearly $15,000 -- from Tom O'Rourke, vice president and director of operations, Fort America; Jullian Irving Grante, artist; and Janelle Hogan of the Sine Irish Pub and Restaurant.
The Fort America Foundation takes certain projects and donates proceeds to worthwhile endeavors, said O'Rourke. "We felt our first project would absolutely be the Pentagon Memorial," he added.
The first program found the Pentagon concession selling signed, limited-edition prints of Rick Herter's "First Pass, Defenders Over Washington." The painting is part of the Air Force art collection. It portrays Maj. Dean Eckmann from the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Fighter Wing, flying his F-16 over the burning Pentagon. Herter planned to return to Fort America Nov. 24 to sign more copies of his prints. Proceeds will go the Pentagon Memorial.
O'Rourke said Fort America's executive vice president, Natalie Gustafson, lost friends and loved ones that fateful day. "She finds it an honor to have the opportunity to help with the Pentagon Memorial," he said.
An Air Force veteran who served two tours in Vietnam, artist Grante said he was in a hospital bed recuperating from 11 months of chemotherapy as he watched the tragic events of Sept. 11 unfold. He said he started to write something that day but didn't get back to it until earlier this year. To date, he's sold 10,000 copies of his limited edition print "The Day Our Towers Fell." The former Pentagon employee said he decided to donate 25 percent of proceeds from each print sold to the Pentagon Memorial Fund.
"I hope this tribute will help the memorial fund and be an encouragement to the family members," he added. "But most importantly, I wrote this so we'll never forget the sacrifices that were made on that day."
His voice quivered as he read the first stanza, "America will never forget that bright September day. When pain, death and suffering came, as terrorism had its way. All across the nation our flag flew brave and high. Symbolizing liberty against the early morning sky."
The Pentagon Memorial will feature184 lighted benches, one dedicated to each victim. It will be built on nearly two acres near the spot where the attack occurred on the Pentagon.
The benches will be made of "cast, clear anodized aluminum polyester," according to a DoD news release. They will be positioned according to the victims' ages, from 3 to 71. Each will have a glowing light pool set underneath. The memorial will also feature trees to provide shading and a more intimate atmosphere.
Construction will be funded by private donations. It will be completed about 20 months after enough funding is available to begin the first phase. The amount needed to begin work is $1.5 million. Money raised to date is $500,000.
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So we know who won the Oscars. But what about the rest of the night?
Backstage, Melissa Leo talked about her F-bomb drop. Colin Firth explained the matter that rushed him away from the mike. Natalie Portman declared the name she almost certainly will not give her baby.
Meanwhile, online, viewers made it known what they thought of the show. Some wondered if Anne Hathaway, who at 28-years-old is the youngest host in Oscar history, acted too perky. James Franco, critics ruled, seemed distant and dazed.
Others picked at the many musical numbers and montages. (Gwyneth Paltrow and Celine Dion?) A majority, as always, lamented the length of the show (more than 180 minutes, per usual).
Comedian Bill Maher poked fun at 94-year-old actor Kirk Douglas, who lingered on stage for a few extra minutes while presenting the best supporting actress award. "Oscars just announced, Kirk Douglas hosting show next year," Maher wrote on Twitter, adding later, "Everyone seems to be talking so slow. I know Kirk's excuse, what's everybody elses?"
Still, the juiciest comments of the night were made not on blogs or Facebook or Twitter (which experienced a huge spike in traffic throughout Oscar night, with more than 400,000 tweets dedicated to the awards) but in the press room behind the big show. Check out the 10 best quotes from backstage, below:
Melissa Leo (winner: best supporting actress, "The Fighter") on accidentally cursing during her acceptance speech: "I had no idea. Those words, I apologize to anyone that they offend. There's a great deal of the English language that's in my vernacular. I really don't mean to offend and it was probably a very inappropriate place to use that particular word in particular."
Natalie Portman (winner: best actress, "Black Swan") on whether or not she'll name her first child "Oscar:" "I think that's probably definitely out of the question."
Portman on how motherhood might change her career: "I really can't say what's going to happen. I have no idea what to expect. It's just accepting that I have no idea."
Colin Firth (winner: best actor, "The King's Speech") on what he'll do now that awards season is over: "I think I'm going to cook a lot. I'm not particularly good at it ... but it's a good way to decompress. I'll probably be the only one eating it."
Firth on the "impulse" that rushed him offstage after he accepted his Oscar: "I don't think that this is the appropriate forum to display that sort of thing and anyone who's seen 'Mamma Mia' will know what I'm talking about."
Firth on shouting expletives in "The King's Speech:" "I don't take this stuff lightly, but in the context of this film, it could not be more edifying, more appropriate. It's not vicious, it's not to do with insult. ... It's a bad man trying to free himself through the use of forbidden words."
Christian Bale (winner: best supporting actor, "The Fighter") on almost missing the Oscars because he went drinking before the show and arrived late: "They wouldn't let me in. I was literally banging on the door with Dickey [Ecklund, on whom 'The Fighter' is based] saying, 'Let us in!' ... Now I know in case I ever make it back here."


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Report: Mark Messier Interviewed for Oilers' Head Coaching Job
Jonathan Willis
August 16 2009 10:24AM
The Post has learned that coach Tom Renney approached Messier last season about the possibility of working with the coaching staff this season. It also has been learned that Messier interviewed this summer for the vacant coaching position in Edmonton that ultimately went to Pat Quinn (with Renney as his associate).
- Larry Brooks, New York Post
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The centre-ice position was not a strength for the Oilers last season. Despite being blessed with an abundance of natural centres, the vast majority of them were either young, inept in the faceoff circle, or both. In a recent interview with Dan Tencer, Oilers G.M. Steve Tambellini talked about what his team's options were for the coming season.
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In his latest column, veteran writer Jim Matheson asks a question that rears its ugly head every so often around these parts:
If the Edmonton Oilers could get a do-over, would they move Matt Greene and Jarret Stoll for Lubomir Visnovsky?
I know that I'd make that trade over again in a heartbeat.
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August 14 2009 06:00AM
Yesterday, I posted an article on the point production of first-line forwards. In it, I showed that an NHL-average first liner put up 66 points last season, while a player with 51 points was still producing at a first line rate.
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Warrensburg Supervisor Kevin Geraghty was chosen as 'Citizen of the Year' this week by the Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce — not for his long-standing public service, but for his four decades of charitable and volunteer service.
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DUBUQUE PACKING COMPANY. Once one of Dubuque's largest employers, the Dubuque Packing Company began with the merger in June 1891 of the Dubuque Butchers' Association and the Dubuque Packing and Provision Company. The new corporation, named the Dubuque Packing Company, began business on July 1, 1891, with a capitalization of $50,000. The directors were Charles J. W. SAUNDERS, C. Steiber, L. Reinecke, and Christian Schmidt.
In 1931 the local meat supplier was purchased by H. W. (HARRY) WAHLERT and St. Louis interests from the Christian Schmitt family for $180,000 when it employed only sixty people. The new firm was incorporated for $400,000 with $300,000 in common stock and $100,000 in preferred. (1) Harry Wahlert was the president, B. M. Paar was vice-president and treasurer, and Fred Krey of St. Louis was another vice-president. (2) Before its reopening, the plant underwent a massive renovation including the installation of special tables with "mono-metal" tops, extra windows, extra refrigeration, and the construction of rooms where hides and other inedibles were kept from separate from the other parts of the building. (3) Growing rapidly through the Great Depression, largely through Wahlert's guidance, "the Pack" produced canned hams, the first American food product to be exported after WORLD WAR II. Dubuque also became one of the largest producers of kosher meats in the United States.
By the 1950s, Dubuque Packing Company was the second largest employer in the city. In the 1960s the company's workforce reached 3,500. Annual sales in the 1970s supported a payroll of $20 million. The end of the 1970s saw thousands of people dependent on Dubuque Pack either directly or indirectly, and wages won through negotiations were among the highest paid in the city. In 1978 the company was listed in an issue of "Dun's Review" as the fifteenth largest private company in the United States. Annual sales were estimated at $796 million.WORLD WAR II.
Canned hams produced by Dubuque Pack won the first gold medal for the best hams at the 1960 and 1961 California state fairs. During peak production, nine thousand hogs could be processed daily. A little known fact was that Dubuque Pack was one of the nation's largest producers of kosher meat. The address in 1941 for the meat market in Dubuque was 799 E. 16th.
In 1980 "the Pack" was a major force in the economy of Dubuque, one of nine cities nationwide in which the company had plants. Workers "on the line" earned an average of $25,000 in annual wages plus an additional $11,000 in fringe benefits according to company estimates. This included an average of five weeks of vacation per year.
Blaming a changing market, high wages, and inefficient equipment, the company asked for wage and benefit concessions and closed parts of the Dubuque plant promising only to "maintain a presence" in Dubuque. The hog kill was closed in 1981 with a loss of 1,400 jobs.
In April 1982, officials of Dubuque Packing Company announced they would close the Dubuque plant on October 16th. This action had the potential of creating unemployment for 1,200 workers and possibly raising Dubuque's unemployment rate to 17.3 percent.
News of the closing caught city officials by surprise. Union workers at the Pack had taken a 15.8 percent cut in pay and health insurance and given up some vacation time in October 1981 to keep the plant open. The City had given the company a 20 percent reduction in its property tax assessment on buildings in addition to a 38 percent reduction in its machinery assessment. Company officials would not discuss potential sale of the plant in the announcement.
In the fall of 1982, amid charges of union busting, the company sold the pork operation, Dubuque plant, and fleur-de-lis trademark to Robert Henry WAHLERT and the newly created FDL FOODS INC., for $30.5 million. The sale resulted in approximately five hundred employees being forced to accept lower wages or early retirement.
After the sale, Dubuque Packing Company moved its offices to the DUBUQUE BUILDING and kept a low news profile. Arguments continued with Local 150 over health insurance and pension benefits.
See: DUBUQUE HAM TV COMMERCIAL
1. "Packing Firm Incorporated for $400,000," Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, July 12, 1931, p. 4
2. Ibid.
3. "Dubuque Packing Company Plant is Scene of Great Activity," Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, November 1, 1931, p. 19
'The Pack" Changes. Quad City Times, July 20, 1980, p. 9a


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One of the World's Most Extensive and Expensive Integrated Resorts, Resorts World Sentosa Was Built in a Record Time of Under Three Years
These walkways and public spaces help establish the character that defines—and the narrative that connects—Sentosa's disparate spheres of activity. At the entrance to the resort, surrounded by shops and restaurants, Universal Plaza is a wide piazza that acts as a transition from the urban context of the main island of Singapore to the relaxed atmosphere of Resorts World Sentosa. Weaving through the central zone of the resort, are long, semi-enclosed eco-cooled passages covered by canopies and lined with an unparalleled array of retail and dining options. Gardens, fountains and waterfalls abound throughout the resort, and in addition to an enhanced beachfront and marina there's the Sentosa Marine Life Park--a large landscaped site with an open waterfront basin that will become one of the largest marine life environments in the world.
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