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What has the Green Fee done for UAA? Take a look.
Green & Gold Bike Share - 4/25/14
In spring 2013, students brought a proposal for a campus bike share to the Green Fee Board. The proposal was approved, and just a year later, UAA's students have access to their own fleet of Torker Big-T bikes. Anyone with a Wolfcard and a helmet can rent a bike through the Consortium Library for one month, free of charge.
"A Fierce Green Fire" Movie and Panel - 11/21/13
In October 2013, a group of students proposed that the Green Fee fund a showing and panel discussion of "A Fierce Green Fire," a documentary on the environmental movement. Their project was approved, and in November the event went off without a hitch.
Residential Hall Recycling Competition - 1/16/13
A hard-working team of resident assistants and advisors brought a recycling competition to UAA's residential halls in fall 2013. Students received mock-up energy bills and competed to recycle more than other halls. After the competition ended, the triumphant hall got a s'mores party and shirts paid for by the Green Fee.


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Among President Barack Obama's recommendations in the State of the Union address to Congress was an increase in the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 to $9 an hour.
This is not the first time he has done so.
In 2008, then-Sen. Obama called for the minimum wage to rise to $9.50. Now, I am uncertain just what has transpired over the past five years to lead him to lower his target, so I'll just mark it up to bad memory.
Still, thinking about the economics of the matter is useful.
As the president noted, no one should doubt that raising a family while earning the minimum wage is a hard business; perhaps that is why almost nobody does it.
In fact, only about 1 percent of adult workers actually earn the minimum wage (another 1 percent or so are wait staff earning tips). Indeed, for every one minimum wage adult worker, 10 work in the shadow economy, outside the view of tax collectors.
As difficult as it may be for many folks to understand, labor markets are subject to the laws of supply and demand. The inability to find a job above the minimum wage means that the market does not value your skills at that level.
For an adult worker, this is a damning market assessment of one's labor value. Still nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into this category since Mr. Obama proposed a $9.50 minimum wage.
To be sure, labor markets are imperfect, but minimum wage laws do nothing to improve them.
Research on the matter is not clear and for very good reasons. While the federal laws treat all labor markets alike, they are not. The market wage for an unskilled worker is a lot lower in Hartford City or Cannelton than it is in Manhattan or San Francisco.
So, a minimum wage increase might have devastating employment effects in some places and go unnoticed in others.
The research I have done suggests it is primarily young workers who lose jobs when the minimum wage increases, but it is a far from settled matter.
Obama's chief economist has published some of the most interesting and controversial work in this area, including the only empirical study that suggests employment increases (in a study of the Philadelphia area). There are too many studies that conclude otherwise to review here.
Mostly the minimum wage debate is political kabuki theater. It is a way to pretend to help the poor without having to face the actual problems of failing schools and failing families, which would upset all sorts of political donors.
Perhaps we don't need to heed economists on the matter.
Instead we could simply try a policy experiment. In lieu of the $9 minimum wage Obama wants, we should require all businesses to pay $25 an hour to all employees. If the president is right, that should end poverty.
If he is not, we can focus on real issues slowing our economy and hurting the poor.
Michael J. Hicks is the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and an associate professor of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University.

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Members of the group are small retailers of condiments (onions, cabbage, groundnut paste, ...). To increase their stock supplies, the group decided to work with Soro Yiriwaso and are in their ninth group loan cycle.
Mrs. Nah (the second woman standing from left to right in the photo) has a great reputation in selling all kinds of condiments. She plans to use the loan to buy 300 kilos of shallots and cabbages. She sells for cash and credit, through home delivery to a clientele composed mostly of women.
Mrs. Nah hopes to achieve an average monthly profit of 47,000 FCFA with this loan, which will be invested in the business and ensure her home is supplied with condiments.
Like other women in the group, Ms. Nah aims to sustain her activities through this partnership with Soro Yiriwaso.
Dans le but d'augmenter leurs fonds de commerce, les membres du groupe ont décidé de collaborer avec Soro Yiriwaso et sont à leur 9ème cycle de prêt solidaire.
Madame Nah (2ème femme debout de la gauche vers la droite sur la photo) a une grande réputation dans la vente des condiments de toutes sortes. Elle compte utiliser son prêt pour acheter 300kg d'échalote et des choux pommés. La revente se fait au comptant et à crédit à domicile à une clientèle composée majoritairement de femmes. Madame Nah espère réaliser un bénéfice mensuel moyen de 47000 FCFA avec ce prêt, qui sera investi dans l'activité et assurer le ravitaillement du foyer en condiments. Tout comme les autres femmes du groupe, Madame Nah a pour objectif de pérenniser leurs activités dans ce partenariat avec Soro Yiriwaso.
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Important InformationSoro Yiriwaso is a microfinance institution that works primarily in rural and semi-urban areas of Mali to provide underprivileged communities with access to financial services.The organization facilitates access for disadvantaged clients, particularly women, to new resources and services, fostering solidarity and cooperation among its clients. Kiva lenders' funds will enable Soro Yiriwaso to expand its outreach and target even more underserved Malians involved in business and agriculture.
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Justice in compensation: a defense
Version of Record online: 12 DEC 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8608.2011.01641.x
© 2011 The Author. Business Ethics: A European Review © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Business Ethics: A European Review
Volume 21, Issue 1, pages 64–76, January 2012
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- Version of Record online: 12 DEC 2011
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Business ethicists have written much about ethical issues in employment. Except for a handful of articles on the very high pay of chief executive officers and the very low pay of workers in overseas sweatshops, however, little has been written about the ethics of compensation. This is prima facie strange. Workers care about their pay, and they think about it in normative terms. This article's purpose is to consider whether business ethicists' neglect of the normative aspects of compensation is justified. I examine several possible justifications for neglecting compensation and show that they fail. What remains is a case for thinking that it is worthy of normative analysis.


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Greensboro, North Carolina, is the first Southern city to give citizens direct control over a slice of public spending, and hopefully it won't be the last.
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It was June 1994, and it was time to drive the "fur kids," our dogs, to our new home in Fisher's Landing.
I was leaving behind the blood, sweat and tears in the orange grove where I lived and worked since I was 6 years old. That was the small, agricultural town of Strathmore, in the middle of California, but a job offer pulled my husband back to the Northwest, where he was born. It wasn't easy leaving my elderly father, and my sister and her family behind, but I was ready for a change.
In May, I had already loaded the rental truck. I drove the 800 miles. My husband's new sales job had sent him on a 10-state journey. Everyone asked how was I going to unload the truck by myself. My plan was to unload what I could, and go ask the construction workers who were building all of the new houses if I needed help. With the ramp on the truck, I was able to slide the heavier objects into the garage. I then flew to Salt Lake City to meet my husband for a visit and a trip to Yellowstone National Park before flying back north.It was a typical June day in the Central Valley. It was 103 degrees. I was getting a late start, and after packing the car and saying my goodbyes, it was time to get the "fur kids": two older retrievers, Tara and Jabba, who get car sick, in the back seat; two cats, Laars and Hayward, in the larger carrier in the front seat, with Ruthless, another cat, on top. I had the seat belt around the carriers.
I got sedatives for the cats, but maybe I should have taken them; they howled nearly the whole way. With the air conditioning blasting to keep the dogs cool, I had plans to stop every two hours. But after doing that once, I found that was too time consuming, and it was too hot to leave any of the pets in the car.
It was about 1 a.m., and I couldn't drive over the Siskiyou Mountains while I was tired, so I pulled off in Weed, Calif., to find a hotel. I walked the dogs, fed everyone, got out the litter box and climbed into bed. Now, two cats weren't used to the dogs, and Ruthless hated the other two cats, but I figured after howling for the past 10 hours, everyone would go to sleep.
The cats were growling and fighting, and the dogs were chasing the cats. They would run over me in the bed, howling and climbing the curtains. No one was sleeping, so after three hours and a good tip for the maid, we were back on the road.
I could only drive two more hours. I pulled off at the Rogue River rest stop in Oregon and fell asleep.
Later, a knock at the window made the dogs bark. It was someone telling me my lights were on.
After a quiet two hours of sleep, we were ready for the final leg of the trip.
At 3 p.m., 24 hours after leaving the old California farmhouse, we pulled into the driveway of our new home in Fisher's Landing, with my husband greeting all of us with a big smile. He had emptied the garage and had everything arranged in the house. It was the first time I lived in a neighborhood. I enjoyed meeting the neighbors.
After 10 years of "city" living, we found a place in the country eight years ago. It's our dream acreage in Ridgefield, where we planted our own orchard and one day will build a new home. I now co-own the California orange grove with my sister, and family friends take care of it. It is fun to visit, but this is home — with two rescued golden retrievers and a cat. You just can't take the girl out of the country.
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A student of European culture might conclude that the international G-spot debate of 2010 could be condensed to: Ooh la la versus Close your eyes and think of England.
A student of European culture might conclude that the international G-spot debate of 2010 could be condensed to: Ooh la la versus Close your eyes and think of England.
Namely: This month, British researchers decided the spot was either completely fictitious or completely subjective.
Last week, some 1,000 French gynecologists at a conference about the G-spot decided the English needed to keep looking.
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"I don't want to stigmatize at all," French gynecologist and researcher Odile Buisson told a British newspaper, "but I think the Protestant, liberal, Anglo-Saxon character means you are very pragmatic. There has to be a cause for everything, a gene for everything."
Buisson was referring to the premise of a King's College study of more than 900 sets of twins, the largest survey ever completed on the G-spot. Researchers assumed that if the G-spot physically existed, both twins would say either they had one or didn't.
Instead, researchers discovered very little correlation between genetics and the sensations typically equated with the G-spot.
Reached by telephone, Buisson was concerned that her remarks had set off a culture war. "I very much love England," she said fervently. "I love the Windsors; I love Shakespeare." She insisted that the French concerns were scientific and that she believed the study's approach was flawed.
"I was astonished the way that they don't trust women," Buisson said. "When women say they have something, it seems a little disrespectful not to consider that." If a woman says something feels good right there, she said, scientists should give there more attention, not less.
The trouble is that the study of female sexuality is notoriously underdeveloped and notoriously complex, especially compared with the instantly gratifying little-blue-pill industry dedicated to helping men tick. History is littered with examples of women being labeled nymphomaniacs for enjoying sex or frigid for not.
"My goal in naming (the G-spot) was to help validate women who had experienced pleasure in this area," said Beverley Whipple, the U.S. sexologist who coined the term G-spot in the late-1970s. "If you enjoy it, enjoy it. If you don't, don't." She sides with the French.
Thirty years and about 200 Amazon.com how-to guides later, the G-spot remains an elusive Snuffleupagus of sex studies: utterly real to some women, a baffling shame-inducing fantasy to others.
Every few years, another study comes out saying that it's been found or it hasn't, and either way some portion of the female population is left feeling, somehow, wrong. (Question: Why is every news article about these studies accompanied by a photo of Meg Ryan's fauxgasm scene in "When Harry Met Sally"?)
In 2008, Italy offered its own entry into the debate when researchers at the University of L'Aquila performed ultrasounds on a small sample of women and concluded the spot did exist.
"It's unusual that there's any part of the body where there's no consensus over whether it's actually even there or not," said Tim Spector, a researcher on the King's College study. "The last debates like this were several hundred years ago, looking for something like the human soul."
Spector said his team of researchers has received a wide variety of responses regarding the study.
Many scientists supported the findings, but there was also "lots of backlash from European continental sexologists. … The farther south in Europe, the more surprised and anti- they were."
Anything else?
"We also got lots of e-mails from men claiming that they were very skilled," Spector said, "and that they could easily find a G-spot in any woman."


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In life one, he works at an office. In the other, he is a prolific and popular Windows Phone developer. (Contrary to comic book belief, he does not change in a phone booth or shed his glasses when moving between lives.)
In his spare time, Huyn has developed more than a dozen apps for Windows Phone, apps that together command more than 1.1 million users. He created the uber-popular Wikipedia app, a Vine app called 6Sec, TVShow, and he has just launched the highly anticipated 6Tag, an Instagram-like (and apparently Instagram-blessed) app. Oh, and it's free.
This (non-caped) crusader of Windows Phone, who lives in Rennes, France, won Nokia's competition The Next App Star competition in January. Despite his accolades and ever-growing group of users, the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is humble.
"When I go to conferences, it's a very strange feeling to meet people that know and follow me," Huyn said. "But I'm not Jessica Alba, I'm only a developer that loves Windows Phone."
Huyn finds motivation from his users, with whom he interacts daily. He also finds energy from fellow developers – he founded a community of French Windows Phone developers that has grown to more than 700.
"I think it's the real difference between our platform and others, Windows Phone developers like to share tips and libraries, create together, etc… I really enjoy participate to hackathon or organize windows phone events for that.
We caught up with Huyn while he was rushing to finish 6Tag and asked him about his apps, his future, and how coding is better with episodes of Dr. Who in the background.
Fire Hose: Where did you learn to code?
Huyn: Like a lot of people of my generation, my first coding program was at 10 years old with QBasic. I created little games like tic-tac-toe and puzzles. After that, I read many books about programming. After a master's degree, I started to work – since 2010 it's been on Microsoft technology and especially on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox 360. Working on the Microsoft platform is my day job but also my hobby.
Fire Hose: Do you remember the first time you laid eyes on a Windows Phone? Was it love at first sight?
Huyn: In 2010, I was working on mobile apps for other devices, and out of curiosity I watched Steve Ballmer's live keynote address at Mobile World Congress (MWC). This was the first time that Windows Phone 7 was presented, and I was very enthusiastic about it.
Fire Hose: What made you want to develop for Windows Phone?
Huyn: Some months after the MWC, the beta software development kit was launched and I started to create an app. My first app was Fuse, a newsreader for users to blend and browse all of their favorite feeds. After that, I fell in love with Windows Phone and it's still the case today.
Fire Hose: What is your coding process? Do French developers drink Mountain Dew and eat Doritos and stay up half the night?
Huyn: Because of my day job, I'm only able to work on my apps at night between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. The app 6Tag, for example, represents 18 nights in a period of three and a half weeks (I want to thank my girlfriend who support me a lot). I work on my Fatboy bean bag or on my couch with music or a TV show on (I don't like silence). For example, during the 6tagram development, I think I watched all episodes of Doctor Who.
Fire Hose: It's tough to play favorites, but what is the favorite app you've created?
Huyn: It's hard to decide! My previous favorite app was TVShow because I created it during a weekend while being followed by two French websites. But now, it's clearly 6Tag, my Instagram client app. It's been a very good challenge in reverse engineering and user experience trying to make it the most beautiful Instagram app of all platforms.
Fire Hose: What made you decide to try to bring an Instagram app to Windows Phone?
Huyn: Vine and Instagram are two very similar apps, even more so since Instagram started managing video. It wasn't on my initial to do list, but after 6Sec (my Vine application), I received a lot of tweets and emails asking me to do a full client for Instagram with videos, tilt shift, and more. With 6Sec, I already had the back-end to encode and join videos, so I took a weekend to analyze the Instagram private API and security, and two days later, the first 6Tag prototype was ready. Moreover, Nokia has released Imaging SDK, a very cool code library for manipulating images, so with this library plus my 6Sec app, I had all the necessary components to make a good Instagram app.
The beta of 6Tag proved to me that Windows Phone users are the best mobile community. Just four days before the release, I posted a tweet asking for help to localizing the app. More than 100 users helped me to localize it, and I'm very proud to be releasing the app in 30 languages, more than a majority of official apps.
Fire Hose: Where do you hope this whole ride will take you?
Huyn: With my private life and my current applications to maintain, it's becoming increasingly hard for me to find times to create new application. The main problem is that I have a thousand new app ideas, thus I may be creating my own company in the near future. I like Microsoft, so of course I would also like to work for Microsoft.


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The First Annual VT Artists Retreat was held at the Takoja Retreat Center near Questa, NM, on 1-4 Sep 06. There were seven charter attendees (see above). Not only were the workshops excellent, the location was wonderful. It had been an unusually wet August, so even the wildflowers were special.
"Tah-Ho-sha" is a structure of two half domes with a connecting building. It was affectionately called the whispering gallery. You could hear any appreciable sound anywhere. This does not "sound" good at first but it actually brings people closer together. One immediately becomes conscious of how one affects others. There were a kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor, as well as areas for sitting, dining and sleeping. In addition, each dome had a sleeping loft with a bathroom. See the accommodation tip below for more pictures.
Takoja is located on the east side of NM-522 about 5 miles north of Questa, NM (which is ~20 miles north of Taos), at the Latir Road turnoff. The Sangre de Christo mountains are immediately to the east. For now, I shall include tips and pictures here from the road trips to and from Albuquerque to Takoja, even though some are really not that close to Questa. The road trip to Questa included a stop at Gabriel's Restaurant and a stop in Dixon to visit La Chiripada Winery and a local artist's studio.
On the way back to Taos, I stopped at the Kagyu Mila Guru Stupa and Red River State Trout Hatchery before taking a side trip to the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. From Taos, I went the "back way," i.e., using the historical High Road (NM-518 to NM-75 to NM-76) to get to Espanola. Along the way I traveled through the forests of the Sangre de Christo Mountains, stopped at a small cemetery in the village of Rio Lucio near Penasco, enjoyed a sculpture garden in Chamisal, visited the historical church in Las Trampas, and toured the famous Santuario de Chimayo.
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Since we are considering NM sites for our fall event, I had to wander over this way to find the name of the Stupa by Takoja! LOL ... you never disappoint. Thorough you are! Hugs
What a great town! I envy that vacation/retreat. don't know how I missed it when I was out there. Fascinated w/ the wood figure in chapel at Chimayo.
that looks so fun! :)
Well presented Ray. A weekend now gone but in present memory.
Ms. Kymba is the best! What a fantastic retreat! Next year, Ray....
It was all such a beautiful event, and you've captured it perfectly Ray! Still sad that I could not be there, but at least I can see it through your eyes....W
A wonderful overview of the whole area and fantastic account of the magic weekend retreat....It was marvelous to feel the energy of the area through your photography and words. Thank you. Carole.
Argh! I've now learned that you must put on makeup when you are around the VT groups. Too many pictures go online. Ouch.
a lovely place for a retreat and to see the sights.
Wow, Ray, you are a talented photographer! Very well done!!! Beee
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I doubt whether stopping down to f9.5 or f11 as you mention would have given you any significant DOF increase at 500 mm.
Well, stopping down to f/11 would have given me an extra 1.4x DOF... which in real world terms would be an extra 2 inches or so. (Half a stop at f/9.5 would be just under an inch, which probably wouldn't have done much either way).
It definitely wouldn't have done anything for #8, for instance, but it could have gotten a bit more of the single birds in focus. The lens is also slightly sharper at f/11 vs. f/8, although given that I was ISO limited in this case the net result probably would have been worse with a stop higher ISO.
Anyway, thanks for the comments, and for looking!
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SANTA ROSA -- Part of federal legislation for water projects nationwide heading to the president's desk is long-sought authorization for restoration projects to benefit protected fish in Dry Creek, allowing water to flow from Lake Sonoma to pumps in the Russian River that supply more than 600,000 people in Sonoma and northern Marin counties without an estimated $300 million bypass pipeline, North Coast congressmen announced Monday.
"The passage of this legislation is a huge win for Sonoma County on two fronts," said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, was also present for the Santa Rosa press conference on the legislation.
A provision in Section 1028 of H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, allows the U.S. Corps of Engineers to enter into cost-sharing for fish habitat projects downstream of its operations. That will allow the Corps to improve habitat along six miles of Dry Creek, which is supplied from the Corp's Warm Springs Dam on Lake Sonoma.
Those upgrades are required under the September 2008 Russian River biological opinion by National Marine Fisheries Service for the Corps and Sonoma County Water Agency in order to allow the 110- to 175-cubic-feet-a-second summer flow rates in the creek. Without the new authorization, the water agency would have had to build a pipeline from the dam to the river to avoid increasing the flow of water in the creek.
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Another part of H.R. 3080, Section 1039, requires the Government Accountability Office to study the impact of invasive species in the water. Lake Sonoma is rated at the highest possible risk level for invasion by the quagga, or zebra, mussel.
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Of the $11 billion total estimated cost of the 2010 Census, the Census Bureau planned (as of 2007) to spend about $3 billion on automation and information technology in order to improve census coverage, accuracy, and efficiency. Among other things, the Bureau is planning to automate many of its planned field data collection activities as a way to reduce costs and improve data quality and operational efficiency. Known as Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA), this initiative is acquiring handheld mobile computing devices that, along with other technology, are undergoing operational testing during a Census "Dress Rehearsal" that is taking place from February 2006 to June 2009. The $600 million FDCA program is a crucial component of the reengineered processes envisioned for the 2010 Census. In March 2006, GAO reported on the management capabilities of the FDCA program, and in October 2007, it reported on FDCA's status and plans. As requested, this testimony summarizes key findings from these two reports, as well as subsequent Bureau actions.
In March 2006, GAO reported that the FDCA project office had not implemented the full set of acquisition management capabilities (such as project and acquisition planning and requirements development and management) that were needed to effectively manage the program. For example, although the project office had developed baseline functional requirements for the acquisition, the Bureau had not yet validated and approved them. Valid baseline requirements are crucial for success, because they are the basis for the detailed operational requirements that determine system development. Without well-defined requirements, system acquisitions are at risk of cost increases, schedule delays, or performance shortfalls. Accordingly, GAO recommended that the Bureau validate and approve baseline requirements for FDCA. In October 2007, GAO reported that changes to requirements had been a contributing factor to both cost increases and schedule delays experienced by the FDCA program. Increases in the number of requirements led to the need for additional work and staffing. In addition, an initial underestimate of the contract costs caused both cost and schedule revisions. In response to the cost and schedule changes, the Bureau decided to delay certain system functionality, which increased the likelihood that the systems testing at the Dress Rehearsal would not be as comprehensive as planned. In addition, despite reports from Census field staff during spring Dress Rehearsal operations that data transmissions from handheld mobile computing devices were slow and inconsistent, the project team did not adequately identify performance issues with these devices as a risk. The magnitude of the performance difficulties was not clear, and the Bureau had not fully specified how it planned to measure the devices' performance, as GAO had recommended. Without effective management of these and other key risks, the FDCA program faced an increased probability that the system would not be delivered on schedule and within budget or perform as expected. Accordingly, GAO recommended that the FDCA project team strengthen its risk management activities, including risk identification and oversight. The Bureau has recently made efforts to further define the requirements for the FDCA program, and it has estimated that the revised requirements will result in significant cost increases. Rough estimates shared with the Congress and the Administration range from $600 million to $2 billion; however, specific programs and operations affected have not been identified, nor has the Bureau decided on a clear approach to address these issues. In view of the time frames for the 2010 Census, it is essential that the Bureau act rapidly to make decisions and to implement GAO's recommendations.
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In our previous GamePolitics story we described how the Federal Trade Commission went to U.S. District Court in an attempt to force Grand Theft Auto IV publisher Take-Two Interactive to cooperate in an anti-trust investigation related to Electronic Arts' potential takeover of T2.
So, why would Take-Two thumb its nose in the government's face, even to the point of reneging on previously agreed-upon conditions?
We asked financial analyst Michael Pachter (left), who covers the video game sector for Wedbush-Morgan:
I think that the reasons range from A) being incredibly savvy and holding off the FTC as a tactic to slow the process to Z) being incredibly arrogant.
It's hard to know where Take-Two fits on the scale from A to Z. Their general counsel is pretty experienced, and it surprised me that he would allow the company to deal with a subpoena this way. The FTC's action of seeking a court order is pretty severe, and shows how seriously the FTC takes this slight.
I'm not sure what Take-Two hopes to gain from this, other than the obvious delay to the process. However, the process won't be delayed if Take-Two's failure to comply with the subpoena results in the FTC granting approval without looking at these documents. There is NOT a presumption of anti-competitiveness, and if EA demonstrates that the combination would not be anti-competitive, Take-Two would be better served to provide evidence to the contrary if it wishes to remain independent.
It seems to me that they would be best served by cooperating fully with the FTC, and by pointing to records that show how competitive their business is with EA's business. Apparently, they have reached a different conclusion.
UPDATE: So, what's to be gained by delaying? We put that question to Pachter as well:
I think it's always in their best interest to buy more time. Management has an incremental 720,000 shares of restricted stock that vest if the takeover happens after March 31, 2009. More time buys them a greater ability to prove the impact that they've had on the company, and they appear sincere in their belief that they have turned Take-Two around. More time allows Activision to close its Vivendi deal and give Take-Two a look. Ubisoft might be interested…


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Marcia Simpson Brose, MD PhD
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Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 1986.
Ph.D. (Genetics and Developmental Biology)
Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 1994.
M.D. (Medicine)
Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, 1995.
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Intern in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996.
Resident in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1996-1997.
Fellow in Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1997-2001.
Fellow/Trainee, University of Pennsylvania, Patient Oriented Research Training Program , 1998-1999.
Post-doctoral Research in Cancer Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, Laborartory of Barbara Weber MD, 2001-2004.
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Description of Research ExpertiseDr Brose is the director of the Thyroid Cancer Therapuetics Program and is a global leader in the development of the new field of thyroid cancer oncology. Her Phase II clinical trial of sorafenib in patients with advanced thyroid cancer lead to the successful completion of the first Phase III study, in this disease group (RAI refractory thyroid cancer). She was also one of the top accuers and lead site for the Phase III trial of cabozantinib for advance medullary thyroid cancer, which lead to FDA approval of this agent in November of 2012. Requested to speak and teach worldwide on her experience in the the use of novel agents to treat patients with all types of advanced thyroid cancer (Differentiate, Medullary, and Anaplastic), she is a global leader and educator to physicians and patients alike.
Dr. Brose also runs a lab in the field of translational studies in cancer genetics and genomics. Dr. Brose's basic science research interest involves the identification of genetic abnormalities in the tumors of patients undergoing targeted therapies. Most of her research centers on translational projects directly related to samples obtained in the course of her clinical trial program. However, occasionally, science leads to leads in other tumor types. She currently has projects underway in thyroid cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and esophageal cancer. Once identified, she is interested in understanding if these changes may identify tumors that may have or lack resistance to certain compounds. She has experience in the use of mice, drosophila, human tissue culture and clincal tissue samples. Her analytic tools include all types of PCR, RT-PCR, as well as the use of array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) and transcription profiling, taqman analysis, Q-RT-PCR and DNA sequencing on a regular basis, and whole and targeted genome sequencing. She also uses high resolution expression and SNP genotyping tetchnologies (Affymetrix and Illumina) to study the genetic basis of cancer. Dr. Brose provides the key correlative science for ongoing phaseI/II/III clinical trials at the University and internationally.
Description of Clinical ExpertiseTreatment of Thyroid Cancer, PhaseI/II/III clinical trials, novel drug target discovery, and use of genetic testing in diagnosis, prognostication and prediction of resopnse to the treatment of cancer. Treatment of Rare Cancers of the Head and Neck.
Description of Other ExpertiseDr. Brose regularly instructs and mentors medical students,Internal Medicine and Head and Neck Surgerical residents, fellows (Hematology/Oncology, and Head and Neck Surgery) and post-doctoral PhD fellows who rotate through her lab in Hematology/Oncology and Cell genetics
Selected PublicationsMark Yarchoan, M., Ma,C, Troxel, A.B., Stopenski, S.J., Tang, W., Cohen, A.B. Pappas-Paxinos, M., Johnson, B.A., Chen, E.Y., Feldman, M.D., Brose, M.S. : pAKT Expression and Response to Sorafenib in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Hormones and Cancer. Hormones and Cancer In Press 2016.
Yarchoan M, LiVolsi VA, Brose MS.: Reply to C. Bal et al and M. Xing. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Aug 1;33(22):2483. 33(22): 2483, August 2015 Notes: Epub 2015 Jun 29.
Masters GA, Krilov L, Bailey HH, Brose MS, Burstein H, Diller LR, Dizon DS, Fine HA, Kalemkerian GP, Moasser M, Neuss MN, O'Day SJ, Odenike O, Ryan CJ, Schilsky RL, Schwartz GK, Venook AP, Wong SL, Patel JD.: Clinical cancer advances 2015: Annual report on progress against cancer from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. J Clin Oncol 33(7): 786-809, March 2015.
Schlumberger M, Tahara M, Wirth LJ, Robinson B, Brose MS, Elisei R, Habra MA, Newbold K, Shah MH, Hoff AO, Gianoukakis AG, Kiyota N, Taylor MH, Kim SB, Krzyzanowska MK, Dutcus CE, de las Heras B, Zhu J, Sherman SI.: Lenvatinib versus placebo in radioiodine-refractory thyroid cancer. N Engl J Med 372(7): 621-630, February 2015.
Brose MS, Schlumberger M, Peña C, Kappeler C: Sorafenib for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer--authors' reply. Lancet 385(9964): 228-229, January 2015.
Yarchoan M, LiVolsi VA, Brose MS: BRAF mutation and thyroid cancer recurrence. J Clin Oncol. 33(1): 7-8, January 2015.
Cabanillas ME, Brose MS, Holland J, Ferguson KC, Sherman SI.: A phase I study of cabozantinib (XL184) in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid 24(10): 1508-1514, October 2014.
Cohen AB, Brose MS: Second-line treatment for advanced thyroid cancer: an indication in need of randomized clinical trials. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 99(6): 1995-7, June 2014.
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Thieves Nabbed After Swiping $160,000 In Apple Products From San Jose MallA group of thieves stole more than $150,000 worth of electronics from a San Jose mall, without ever stepping foot inside. It was a high-priced theft that four suspected criminals nearly got away with.
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A surprisingly varied collection of duets with acts including Outkast and Foo Fighters.
Daniel Ross 2010
A raft of dinner party albums from Norah Jones has been irreversibly with us throughout the last decade and, as much as her vocal prowess has impressed, the inevitable impression is of lightness, insubstantiality. To observers who don't have dinner parties, she is borderline tawdry, saccharine and marooned between jazz acceptance and the infested waters of easy listening. What may have escaped said observers, though, is that on occasion she has been a part of some genuinely interesting collaborations, which is where this surprisingly varied collection of duets comes in. But be warned – the quality is as variable as the cast.
At its worst, the collection feels predictable. Virginia Moon, a duet with Foo Fighters, can't go down as Jones' fault, fortunately – blame lies squarely with Dave Grohl, who leaves nothing for Jones to do, a mere backing vocalist on an under-written and sickly ballad. You can almost hear Grohl's eyebrows arching in a tasteful wince. Similarly, Willie Nelson and Jones' take on Baby It's Cold Outside is deeply unattractive, and no amount of plinking piano can save it from being a complete turn-off.
Peppered across the record are uninspiring jazzy ballads, what you might call 'stock' for Jones. However, as we've established, there are some super surprises for those who might not have gotten past Come Away with Me. Take Off Your Cool is a blissfully meandering acoustic work that brilliantly pits Jones against Andre 3000 of OutKast, a luxurious song that sounds haunting when removed from the context of the latter's The Love Below record.
Furthermore, the superb pairing of Jones with Belle and Sebastian yields the strongest result on the whole record. Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John is a proper, adult pop song that shows Jones having a ball with lines like "can I see what's underneath your bed", and "can I stay until the milkman's working". The virtue has to lie mostly with the Scottish legends, but Jones brings such depth to the recording that it seems impossible to imagine it without her.
It's fair to say that for every misstep there's an unexpectedly winning duet, but not enough of Jones' maturity is brought to the fore. There's too much inoffensive filler that doesn't do her justice, and it's indisputable that it would've been a stronger release had it been pruned of several songs.


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During Festa Italiana, the Broadway bridge (mile .79) and the Water Street bridge (mile .94) - both over the Milwaukee River - will be subjected to "Temporary Bridge Opening Restrictions."
During the festival - Friday, July 17 through Sunday, July 19, 2015 - the above mentioned bridges will not open for all recreational craft between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight each night, except at the discretion of the Milwaukee Police Department.
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Does anyone know where I can get specs on bikes/frames from a few years ago?
I am trying to find a good used steel frame/bike from the mid to late 90's that is front suspension compatible. You know, another project. I search all the normal classifieds and auction sites but often I come across a potential prospect where not enough info is provided (or known) about the bike.
Case in point. What appears to be a nice late 90's Kona Hot. I don't know if a Kona Hot is steel or alum. and it is my experience that many frames are now being made in alum. but a few years ago they were steel.
I guess I could post a question to the forums every time but I figure we may have better things to do than help me play.
Suggestions and comments are welcome and will be appreciated.