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The Brain Doctor
Doctor Gail Rosseau had cut a patient's head open; I was standing beside the operating table, peering into the cavity made by the neck muscles she had wrenched apart with two steel spreaders. Earlier I had watched as she drilled two holes, each the size of a dime, at the base of the young woman's skull and then pinched away at the bone with snippers, gradually enlarging the hole to expose the cerebellum in its grayish sac of dura mater. She cut the dura, folded it back and at last revealed the cerebellum itself, sheathed in luminous blood vessels, shimmering beneath the intense surgical lights. She gently lifted one lobe with a smooth, blunt tool to show me a bundle of radiant white nerves. Then she whispered, "Look. They call this the seat of the soul. It controls heartbeat and breathing. I don't touch it unless I have to."
Any damage to the thin white fibers and the patient may never wake up again. To open the skull, to touch the brain, is one of the most daring achievements that anyone can undertake. Rosseau calls it "the ultimate trust" between human beings. And she would do it a half-dozen times that week alone.
As I waited for Rosseau in her office at the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago, where she is chair of surgery, I noticed an 8-by-10-inch color photograph on top of a pile of papers. It showed a formal group of about 30 august-looking men with the words "American Board of Neurological Surgery, 2006" at the bottom. In the top row of doctors was a small female face that I recognized as Rosseau's. Just then she walked in, saw me studying the photograph and laughed. "That says it all, doesn't it?" she said.
Rosseau, 50, who teaches neurosurgery at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, is on the staff of several hospitals in the area. A specialist in pituitary brain tumors, she is now turning her attention to breast cancer. She recently announced a pioneering trial screening program aimed at spotting breast cancer that has spread to the brain — before patients show any symptoms — and treating it with a powerfully effective new scalpel-free technology. If a brain scan reveals a tumor, "you lie on a table, and you have this device put on [your head] while you're awake," she says. "You feel nothing and go home that afternoon."
This year about 170,000 people in the United States will have some type of cancer that spreads to the brain. Between 20 and 30 percent of women who have had breast cancer will be among them. But even as clinics promote full-body "peace of mind" CT scans to perfectly healthy consumers, the lifesaving potential of preemptive scanning for breast-cancer survivors is in dispute.
"Intuitively, the idea of screening makes sense," says Maria Carolina Hinestrosa, executive vice president for programs and planning at the National Breast Cancer Coalition and a survivor of the disease herself. In fact, breast cancer patients used to get all sorts of follow-up scans to see if cancer had spread, or metastasized. The only problem, Hinestrosa and others say, is that scans didn't make a difference in how long people lived. Rosseau is aware of the controversy and that the American Society of Clinical Oncology does not recommend this kind of follow-up. But she argues that, in the case of brain metastases, technology may be changing that picture. And, in any case, shouldn't patients have a chance to decide — if only to improve the quality of their final months or years?
So the questions, ultimately, for all of us, will be: How much do you really want to know, how soon do you want to know it, and will that knowledge actually be helpful?
An Uncomfortable Silence
When she was 37, my friend Jeanne Giles Hackney was diagnosed with breast cancer. She went through an aggressive course of chemotherapy that made her so sick it almost killed her. Three years later, Jeanne looks as healthy and strong as ever. But she is aware that the cancer could have slipped undetected into her liver, her bones, her lungs, her brain. Even now, a tumor of less than a centimeter, the size of a pea, could be growing. Over the years, others could pop up, increasing in size, pressing against something vital. Like most women who have had breast cancer, Jeanne came to a harsh realization when she finished her treatments. Of course, there are the usual "how am I doing?" visits to her doctor, as well as regular mammograms. But what should a woman who has had breast cancer do when her treatment is over? A period in which she felt she was taking an active role in her own recovery has suddenly ended, and she generally finds herself in a sort of limbo. Even for the many who take drugs such as tamoxifen or Herceptin, a kind of silence descends. And they wait.
"I remember sitting in my doctor's office," Jeanne says. "I asked, 'The likelihood that I'll have a local recurrence is extremely slim, correct?'"
Her doctor said yes.
"So what's the obsession with the breast? Are you going to be checking my liver?"
"Yearly scans? Anything?"
No. Nothing.
Breast cancer patients who have four or more positive lymph nodes may be at the greatest risk for having the cancer travel to the brain. But even they are offered no follow-up screening unless they have symptoms.
As part of her practice, Rosseau has removed brain tumors from many of these women. But it wasn't the surgery that brought this issue to her attention. "The scope of the problem is such that we all know someone who has had breast cancer," she says. "It seems that every week I'm hearing about someone whom I know personally — friends, family, neighbors."
When friends of a doctor fall ill, they naturally turn to him or her for advice. They want to know whether the cancer is really gone. They want to know what's next. Rosseau couldn't find an answer. "I was alarmed to find that we don't really have a standard screening protocol," she says. "We just don't know."
In fact, not screening for metastases until symptoms appear is considered the standard of care. "It's insane," Rosseau says. "If a patient has a single, nonsymptomatic brain metastasis from breast cancer, wouldn't you think she'd like to know about it before she has a headache or a seizure?"
There was a time when waiting for symptoms to appear may have made sense, because there really was no way to detect or treat those small, early metastases. Now, technologies such MRI, which can easily detect even minuscule tumors, and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), which can treat those tumors — even in the brain — without surgery, are readily available. Indeed, the medical centers that have spent big money on these screening and SRS devices need to pay for the new technology by promoting their use. And in most cases, insurance companies seem willing to cover the cost.
Rosseau recently won a $65,000 grant from the privately funded Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery andNeuroresearch Foundation to establish a trial screening program — as far as she knows, the first of its kind — for women who have had breast cancer. "I'm looking at something that I can treat," she says. "I want to know who's at risk for brain metastasis. In the era when every brain metastasis had to be treated by craniotomy — and if they were multiple, then you were looking at multiple craniotomies — it made sense to kind of close your eyes and hope for the best. But it doesn't anymore, because we have a very good technology now."
The version of SRS that Rosseau uses is called Gamma Knife, but the knife is not a knife at all. A helmetlike device is placed on the patient's head. Then 201 separate beams of high-energy cobalt radiation are emitted from different points through the helmet. Guided by computer, they all meet at the site of the tumor. They pass through healthy tissue on the way there, but because each beam represents less than a half percent of the total dose, they damage no tissue until they converge. There is no pain and no need for general anesthesia.
Rosseau's trial was announced last fall; once under way — the protocol is in the peer-review phase — it's expected to take a year to complete. She will examine and, if necessary, treat, 50 women who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and who had four positive lymph nodes and/or known nonbrain metastases.
"We want to establish how often these women will be discovered to have asymptomatic brain cancer, so that we can infer from this group what a screening protocol should look like," Rosseau says. "Exciting" is what she calls it. It's also exciting to know that a patient admitted for screening in the morning can be home for dinner, her cancer treated before a full day has passed.
Quality of Life
Andrew D. Seidman, MD, a breast cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, is recognized worldwide for his clinical investigations of new treatments. He is doing research for the U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program on the problem of brain metastases and believes that Herceptin may be doing such a good job of controlling the growth of any cancer that may have metastasized in the rest of the body that it allows women to live long enough to develop brain tumors. (Herceptin doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier and therefore won't work there.)
"There is no prospective study [one that follows patients into the future] that shows a survival advantage for radiologic screening of breast cancer patients before they have headaches or neurological symptoms," Seidman says. "However, saying there's no survival advantage doesn't mean that there's no advantage … I have gotten into the habit of doing brain MRI scans on women who are HER-2/neu positive [meaning they are at a higher risk for brain metastases], even in completely asymptomatic women, every six to 12 months or so."
And Seidman does find tumors — sometimes one, sometimes two; they are rarely widespread. He finds them in women who feel well and who have no headaches or other symptoms. He finds them when they would not be found during the usual "how am I doing?" visits.
"With Gamma Knife and SRS, we can reduce neurological morbidity rather than watching and waiting," Seidman says. "We may be able to prevent very disabling symptoms."
The potential trouble with not screening, Seidman says, is that by the time the brain metastases have begun causing symptoms and are discovered, there may be eight rather than the one or two he's finding. "By then, Gamma Knife is not an option. Use of whole-brain radiation is standard at that point," he says. The patients may be left with neurological symptoms from the tumors themselves — ranging from seizures and headaches to loss of balance or paralysis, depending on where the tumors are located — as well as cognitive dysfunction from the radiation. "It's not that dissimilar to patients who have strokes." In other words, it can be crippling. Survival times at that point are in the range of six to 12 months. "We see a very, very different picture when we detect one or two asymptomatic brain metastases and they are treated with localized therapies," Seidman says. "Many of these women will go on to live five and six and seven years with their metastatic disease."
With the movement to know and act preemptively gaining momentum, the number of institutions that are incorporating brain and other organ scans as part of follow-up treatment for people with known metastases is increasing. There is a spread of technology and a lot of advertising going on: "Get yourself screened; I did, and I'm lucky I found this problem." Screening in general — for everything — is a booming business.
I asked Seidman what women should do. "I would never want to create this illusion of a panacea, where every woman is going to demand that her doctor do an MRI when it hasn't been adequately studied," he says. "But certainly having a low threshold for doing it for high-risk patients who have had breast cancer is good medicine."
The Mind Reader
One day I was in the operating room with Rosseau as she performed a craniotomy on a male patient. When she began to drill into his skull, I noticed how different from the common view real brain surgery is. I had thought of it as a very delicate operation done in a pristine white world of ethereal quiet. But there was the screaming drill, the smoke rising and the wires and tubes snaking everywhere. The work was hard manual labor. The skull is amazingly thick and tough, and getting into it is like tearing up a street. Rosseau is small but powerful, and moves with a sure-footed quickness and confidence that it is difficult to imagine deflecting. She bores in and gets the job done — or gets what she wants — with the sheer force of her personality. And a large part of it is her willingness, even eagerness, to see things from your point of view and use a kind of emotional jujitsu to bring you around to hers.
Frequently the surgery has to take place under a microscope. The images are transmitted to a large monitor and recorded. But one day, the monitor was badly out of focus. Rosseau had summoned a technician, Mike, who stood studying the problem with his arms crossed and a perplexed look on his face. Rosseau never stopped working on the patient, even as she gently went to work on Mike.
"Now, Mike. Mike," she said. "What do you think? That's what I want to know. I mean, what would you do? Have you ever seen anything like this? Because it's perfectly clear in my scope. I can see it over here. But we're just not getting the kind of pictures we need. I can't teach with this. I can't show this to the patient's family. They'll think I'm operating when I can't even see."
It was obvious that Mike did not know what the problem was and was reluctant to tear into the high-tech machine, which was draped in sterile plastic and would be a real mess to take apart and put back together with surgery going on. But with gentle, insistent, empathetic pressure, Rosseau wore him down: Watching her get inside of Mike's head was like watching her bore into someone's skull
Later in her office, she asked me about my work. I told her that I had written magazine articles, books, and screenplays. Her face brightened, and she sat up straighter. "Say," she said, "can I pitch you an idea?" Within seconds, I found myself caught up in her movie. "The Black Mozart," she said emphatically, leaning across her desk to trace a marquee in the air with her hands. She went on to describe a slave prodigy from Martinique who was brought to the court of Marie Antoinette.
Doctors tend to focus narrowly, but Rosseau's range of interests is broad. A marathon runner and a voracious reader of history, she believes herself to be "the youngest member of the Chicago chapter of the Churchill Society." She has served as the national spokesperson for medical malpractice tort reform, testifying at a congressional hearing about the "unreasonable, lottery-style awards for pain and suffering that are forcing good doctors to give up the work they love." A native Chicagoan, she was an early supporter of Barack Obama. He's a friend, although the two disagree on tort reform.
It is in the nature of the brain to get used to things. The beautiful painting you hang on your wall today may well be invisible to you a year from now. And as fascinating as it is, even brain surgery could get old. One day I watched Rosseau patiently put 200 stitches into a patient, one after another, and thought that she might well want something more from life.
When I asked her about this, she described what she called the third career. The first career is school, the long years of training that made it possible for her to be where she is now — at the height of her second career. Not long ago this would have been it for a lifetime but, she says, "We live in a time when we hope to be fortunate enough to have a few extra years and a little extra cash to do something past 60 or 65, to do something meaningful and not just live on a golf course." Rosseau is married to an orthopedic surgeon; her children are 12 and 10 now, so she plans to continue with her second career for at least 10 more years. But she has already started laying the groundwork for the third act. In the mid-1980s, she began taking working vacations in developing countries on three continents, assisting in the training of brain surgeons. "I love that," she says. "That's where I'm headed."
Too Much Information?
My friend Jeanne is a professional photographer in Portland, Oregon; she recently had an exhibit called "The Circle Project: Images on Breast Cancer." It shows not the patients themselves but life-size portraits of their friends and families. I ask Jeanne, whose cancer had not spread into the lymph nodes, if she would want to have her brain scanned, or for that matter, her liver, lungs, and bones. She sighs and pauses, then says, "I keep thinking ignorance is bliss. It's strange. You'd think my response would be an automatic yes, but it's not. It's tied to my experience of doctors always wanting to do something to you. My head says, 'Yeah, that's a great idea.' Obviously you want to get the message as soon as you possibly can. But my visceral response is 'Leave me alone.'" Sounding weary from the experience of being so recently saved by the inescapable brutality of the medical arts, she says, "I don't know. I don't want to know. The anxiety is just too hard to deal with."
"There's a great big caveat in everything I've said," she adds. "And that is the knowledge of the stats in my case. There's an 85 percent chance that it will not recur, and that's a pretty large number. But if it had already recurred, you'd better believe that I'd be in there every three months getting scanned."
"I worry about this," writes longtime breast cancer activist Susan Love, MD, in response to an e-mail describing Rosseau's trial. "It is possible that some women have asymptomatic brain metastasis and that the surgery will not change anything. Anyone who has brain metastases from breast cancer has metastases elsewhere in her body and is not curable. The best you can do is reduce symptoms. Therefore you want to only diagnose women with symptoms. Screening for brain metastases will not do this."
"I hope she's right," says Maria Carolina Hinestrosa of Rosseau's attempt to isolate and treat the women most at risk. "Brain metastasis is one of the most terrifying aspects of the progression of breast cancer. But I'm skeptical. Would this be a wise use of resources, to screen people repeatedly for something that hasn't shown symptoms?" This was tried, she notes, and by the mid-1990s, shown to be ineffective. "So having a whole population of people screened [just] increases healthcare costs and anxiety."
Whether or not her technological one-two punch ultimately increases lifespan, Rosseau believes it's important to give women the option to assess their situation. "Certainly your long-term survival numbers are going to be affected by the fact that you've had a breast cancer metastasis to the brain," she says. "But your quality of life is going to be much better if it's detected at a one-centimeter size rather than if it becomes five centimeters and you can't walk." She hopes that by doing this small pilot program, she'll generate enough interest for a manufacturer of diagnostic equipment to pay for a study that will look at much larger group of women.
"As a neurosurgeon, I have a skewed view," Rosseau admits. "I see the patients who weren't screened. They were doing well, then they were doing terribly. Oncologists for breast cancer are starting to say they want more data on this. Breast cancer happens so commonly, we can't afford to do MRIs on everyone. So the people who have four or more positive nodes — are they the ones with larger tumors? Who are the ones we should be screening early on? Our lack of screening every patient may not be causing excessive death. But it makes sense to find out who the at-risk individuals are.
"We're trying to move into the next phase of prevention."
Laurence Gonzales is the author of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
Originally published in MORE magazine, March 2007

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A master dies, and everyone musters to analyse his contribution to children's literature. Probably, it can be summed up by the way in which he tapped into childhood memories, dreams, dramas – awake and asleep; this ability makes Sendak's work so influential. I don't recall his most famous book, Where The Wild Things Are (1963) nearly so much as I remember the imprint of the much criticized In The Night Kitchen (1970) on my childhood recollections of reading.
Max, the hero of Wild Things, was just a naughty boy. I did not relate to him in the way that I found the intimidating and surreal landscape of Mickey's adventures in the Night Kitchen more impactful. So, what that says about me I'm not sure! (Paging Dr. Freud!)


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NEW ORLEANS – Kobe Bryant made NBA history — and made peace with Dwight Howard after an argument between the star teammates early in the game Wednesday night.
In the latest twist in the Lakers' weird, wild season, the team forged unity after a Kobe-Dwight confrontation and rolled to a much-needed 103-87 victory over the lowly New Orleans Hornets.
Bryant, 34, became the youngest player in league history to score 30,000 points — doing it in the second quarter after he and Howard argued during the first quarter about Bryant not rotating to help Howard on defense.
In a subsequent timeout, Bryant reached out a conciliatory hand toward Howard — and also delivered a 17-point first half that included a pretty shot from the lane to eclipse 30,000. The only players to have scored more than Bryant are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain.
NBA commissioner David Stern, attending the game, said about Bryant: "He is up there on the pedestal with Michael Jordan."
Even better for the Lakers than Bryant's personal feats, they got on the same page with Bryant in the second half to make it a truly feel-good night. Asked the key to the second-half surge, Howard focused on what was learned from the disagreement: "The third quarter, we did a better job on the defensive end, rotating in and forcing them to take tough shots."
Howard also said: "If you don't feel comfortable enough saying something, then it's not good. But when you can say whatever you have to say and the other person doesn't take it as a personal attack and understands that whatever is being said is for the benefit of the team, that's where we stand. There's no need for a big discussion about it. It happened, and at the end of the day, it got us a win."
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- Date submitted: 28 Oct 2011
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Full SubmissionSince 1992, when chapter 13 on mountains as fragile ecosystems was introduced in Agenda 21, the demand for goods and services from mountains has grown considerably. Moreover, the ability of mountain systems to provide essential goods and services for all of people and ecosystems is increasingly under threat from climate change, globalization, ongoing land degradation, a chronic lack of sustainable investment and unsustainable pattern of resource use. The CEEweb for Biodiversity, a network of more than 60 NGOs in Central and East Europe, and Mountain Partnership members recognize that despite the progress that has been made in promoting sustainable development of mountain regions, national and international development agendas still treat mountains as marginal environments. As a result, e.g. poverty rates and depopulation are higher than in non-mountain areas. In particular, mountains are increasingly threatened by unsustainable investments, e.g. in tourism infrastructure. After 20 years of declarations, there are only single but no concerted actions in place driven by the United Nations System or Governments responsible for mountain ecosystems. In the context of a Green Economy, new opportunities for investments by the private sector are emerging in mountain regions, especially in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem goods and services. However, innovative institutional arrangements are urgently required to trigger governance models and decision support systems aiming at both the integration of the social, ecological and economic capital at all scales in mountain regions, as well as the actual mainstreaming of mountains into overall national and regional development and conservation processes, such as in the Carpathians and the Alps with a number of legally binding protocols (e.g. on tourism, biodiversity). Enhancing the global political commitment that translates into increased sustainable investments tailored to mountain regions will directly benefit poor mountain communities and indirectly humanity as a whole. Hence, sustainable mountain development, notably through integrated and socially inclusive policies, as well as low carbon technologies, should have a prominent place in the Rio 2012 agenda and in particular in its final declaration. To achieve these ends strong and united advocacy for mountain issues with tangible results in future UNCSD negotiations is essential. In the past 20 years the global sustainable development process has become a unique policy making platform under the umbrella of the United Nations. Notwithstanding all the efforts made in its framework, there are several symptoms today, which warn us that we need more significant changes in the way we tackle socio-economic and environmental issues on global levels. We see worsening trends both in social and environmental fields. Since the world?s carrying capacity was exceeded1, we have been accumulating ecological debt with many- decade-long payback period. This has led to the degradation of 60% of ecosystem services globally2, which, however, underpin wellbeing for all. Population boom, expected to result in a population of 9 billion people within four decades further lowers the chance of stepping to the path of sustainability within the current framework and poses far bigger challenges to tackle. These phenomena prove that we manage our common goods (natural resources and land) in an unsustainable way and we cannot share the benefits arising from these resources equitably at national, as well as global levels. This has serious consequences not only for the global ecosystems, but also for poverty eradication, international relations, security or long term economic viability. Even though these problems have been apparent for many decades, our responses failed to tackle the problems within the current socio-economic framework. As the recent report of the International Resource Panel3 points out, in order to tackle to resource overuse on global level and not to put further pressure on ecosystems, an absolute and radical reduction is needed. This requires new paradigms and holistic approach, since one cannot solve the problems with the same kind of thinking one used when creating them. CEEweb?s recommendations for the Rio+20 Conference outcome 1. The urgency of the global environmental and social problems shall result in a global deal on development, which can ensure that economic activities stay within the global carrying capacity, the access to resources and land is ensured to all, and the generated benefits are shared equitably. Such a global deal shall be translated into concrete actions underpinned by strong political will, and regularly monitored with an active involvement of the civil society. A green economy roadmap shall provide a framework for these actions. 2. The actions shall bridge implementation gaps through adopting a new paradigm. For this aim the Conference shall provide an assessment why previous efforts have failed to deliver global targets on sustainable development. While it is a common objective of countries to ensure and increase human wellbeing for all on the principle of equitability, we cannot solve this aim as long as we deal with economic, social and environmental issues separately, which was a main reason of past failures. The Conference shall reveal the complex interrelations among the only seemingly independent sectoral challenges. For this aim all aspects of the DPSIR4 framework (drivers, pressures, state, impacts and responses) have to be considered within the context of these environmental and socio-economic problems. These challenges, such as growing social inequalities and the associated hunger and poverty, the financial and economic crisis and the fragility of the financial system and the economy, the environmental crisis including climate change and biodiversity loss, international disputes over trade, resource use and benefit sharing are all interrelated on the level of the cultural, institutional and structural levels of the drivers. Addressing them requires finding the most effective intervention points of the drivers, such as the regulatory framework of land and resource use, which can greatly contribute to tackling environmental, economic and social problems. 3. The assessment of the complex interrelations among environmental, social and economic issues helps redefining the concept of development globally. Societies, including economies, need to adapt to the environmental conditions and changing circumstances, which shall orient development pathways. Within a green economy current economic growth models need to be changed urgently. 4. The Rio principles and spirit, including the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and the precautionary principle should be the basis for the international community to strengthen cooperation and move forward on sustainable development. Actions shall be firmly based on sound science and ethics to fully take into account both environmental and social considerations. 5. Transition to a green economy requires that total environmental pressures (originating from resource use, land use and from pollution and alien genotypes) are absolutely limited and reduced to stay within the carrying capacity of the Earth. If this is not achieved, environmental degradation continues. For this aim changing the boundary conditions of the economy and more specifically reducing the resource use globally is inevitable in line with the recommendations of the International Resource Panel. This shall be realised together with ensuring equal access to resources and equitable sharing of benefits for all. 6. Reducing resource use addresses the drivers on institutional level, while radically changes production and consumption patterns and the values of people. It also balances human and machine labour and thus increases employment. It results in a structural change in the global economy, and, if properly realised, can reduce social inequalities nationally and globally. 7. Actions to address production and consumption patterns shall include an energy quota scheme. This introduces an incentive system, which can ensure the access to resources, reduce the differences in resource use and help realising resource efficiency investments for all. It can also boost research, innovation and employment in sectors that contribute to the efficient and sustainable use of resources. The four pillars an energy use quota system5 shall cover all non-renewable energy sources, and they should be applied on national and global levels: - Resource use quota system introduced for countries on international level and for each individual, public and private consumer on national level. The quota system ensures the yearly reduction of all non-renewable energy resources on global level. Those, who save part of their allocated annual quotas, can sell their remaining quotas through the quota managing organization to those who have consumed more than their allocated quotas. The quota managing organization sells the quota in the national currencies, and buys the remaining quota for quota money. - The market for environmental goods and services is an open market operating according to environmental and ethical rules including aspects of sustainability and market considerations. The quota money received from selling energy quotas could be exchanged to products in this ?eco-labelled? secondary market. - The Revolving Fund provides the opportunity for everyone, both energy producers and consumers, to be able to achieve savings through energy efficiency and renewable energy investments. The Revolving Fund provides interest free loan in quota money with a payback period adjusted to the energy savings or income generation realised through the investment. - The Support Service aims to provide advice on lifestyle, planning, social and environmental issues, as well as information on the functioning of the scheme to consumers. 8. The global quota scheme enables the necessary radical change in developed countries, as well as leapfrogging in developing countries. Applying the quota scheme at international level can generate funds for innovations, technology transfer and capacity building in developing countries from the trade of energy quotas. 9. Sustainable land management shall be another cornerstone of green economy as a basis of Food security and agriculture, sound water management and improved resilience and disaster prevention among others. This shall also specifically consider the significant role of ecosystems (e.g. water related ecosystems (such as peatlands, lakes and marine habitats) and all forests) in climate change adaptation and mitigation due to their enormous capacity in carbon storage, and the need to make them part of national and international climate change policies. Actions to realise a green economy shall include effective measures to integrate green infrastructure in development planning. 10. Existing international governance arrangements are not up to the task in their current framework and thus cannot deliver implementation, integration and coherence among the various parts of the system. Within an improved structure increased coherence is needed among Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), intergovernmental bodies and international organizations to address sustainable resource and land use as the basis of green economy. 11. Current global governance and institutions for sustainable development need to be reformed and improved, including the upgrading of UNEP and the International Resource Panel to support its work and strengthening the Commission on Sustainable Development. 12. Regional cooperation needs to be strengthened for common policy responses, experience exchange, common projects and other means in order to realise international commitments. 13. Arrangements to improve participatory democratic governance at national and sub-national levels are essential to make global commitments work. New arrangements shall ensure that the voice of all stakeholders, including the civil society, NGOs and the private sector are heard. This also requires the active engagement and empowerment of underrepresented groups of the society such as women, youth, the unemployed and vulnerable.


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You can add a personal touch to your computer by changing the computer's colors, sounds, desktop background, screen saver, font size, user account picture, and theme. You can also decide which gadgets you want to appear on Windows Sidebar.
Windows Aero is the premium visual experience of this version of Windows. It features a transparent glass design with subtle window animations and new Start menu, taskbar, and window colors. For more information on Windows Aero, see What is Windows Aero?
Here are some examples of the new colors available with Aero:
To learn how to change colors in Windows, see Change the colors on your computer.
You can change the sound your computer makes when you receive e‑mail, start Windows, or shut down your computer. For more information, see Change computer sounds.
The desktop background, also called wallpaper, is a picture or design on the desktop. It provides a backdrop to your open windows. For more information, see Change your desktop background (wallpaper).
A screen saver is a picture or animation that appears on the screen when you haven't used the mouse or keyboard for a set period of time. Windows includes a variety of screen savers to choose from. For more information, see Change screen saver.
You can create a personalized screen saver by displaying selected pictures and videos as a slide show.
افتح "إعدادات شاشة التوقف" بالنقر فوق الزر ابدأ, وبالنقر فوق لوحة التحكم, وبالنقر فوق المظهر والتخصيص, وبالنقر فوق إضفاء طابع شخصي, ثم بالنقر فوق شاشة التوقف.
Click the Screen saver list, and then click Photos.
If you want to specify a location for the pictures you want to use in your screen saver, modify the slide show speed, or configure any other screen saver settings, click Settings. After you make your changes, click Save.
Click OK.
You can make the text, icons, and other items on your screen easier to see by increasing the dots per inch (DPI) scale to make them larger. You can also decrease the DPI scale to make text and other items on your screen smaller, so that more information fits on the screen.
For more information, see Make the text on your screen larger or smaller.
A user account picture helps identify your account on a computer. The picture is displayed on the Welcome screen and on the Start menu.
You can change your user account picture to one of the pictures included with Windows, or you can use your own picture.
For more information, see Choose a picture for your user account and Start menu.
A theme is a collection of visual elements that can affect the style of windows, icons, fonts, colors, and sometime sounds. You can search for themes online, or you can buy them in theme packs at stores that sell software that is compatible with Windows. For more information, see Change desktop theme.
Windows Sidebar provides a way to organize the information, games, and tasks that you want to access quickly without cluttering your workspace. It's made up of gadgets, which are customizable mini-programs that can display continuously updated headlines, a picture slide show, contacts, and more, without having to open a new window.
For more information, see Windows Sidebar: frequently asked questions
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We need to be ready to confront Hinduism. And here's why: India is on track to become a significant world power within thirty years, and Hindu nationalism is on the rise there, not in decline. There are even well-funded efforts now to spread Hinduism into other countries. Hindu nationalism, Hindu supremacism, Hindu fundamentalism, Hindu terrorism, and Hindu evangelism are terms once thought to be oxymoronic but now are a reality. It's not an urgent threat in America, to be sure (Hinduism's numbers and influence are microscopic compared to the more pressing problems created by conservative and mainstream Christianity; and, among external threats, Islam), but the power and influence of India, economically and politically, is of growing significance, and its policies are increasingly influenced by Hinduism. We'd do well to keep our eye on it.
There is another reason to pay attention. The secularization thesis is in trouble lately. It turns out, the idea that modernization inevitably increases secularization (and a corresponding decline of religion) is false. It has been based on the rather exceptional examples of Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia (and now, only very recently, the U.S., which for the first time is showing the start of similar demographic trends). The rest of the world is going the other direction, with increasing (albeit changing) religiosity, hand-in-hand with increased modernization and industrialization. This is the danger of focusing only on the first world as if it were normative. When we look at India, for example, we see many very important parallels with the path of religion in the U.S. (up until now), but also many important differences. Any theory of secularization (how inevitable it is, or how to advance it) must be based on the evidence available from other religious and cultural contexts. India is an ideal example of that.
I would not have said or thought any of the above had I not been lucky enough to be asked to read and blurb the American edition of Meera Nanda's book The God Market: How Globalization Is Making India More Hindu (2011, revised edition with a new introduction; originally published in India in 2009). Meera Nanda is a noted philosopher of science in India who (ironically, given that she's an atheist) was a recipient of a John Templeton Foundation Fellowship to research and write on secularization in India (or more precisely, on the reception of scientific thinking in India, what Indians call "scientific temper," set forth as a national goal in India's constitution). Her main project (which will be published as Tryst with Destiny: Scientific Temper and Secularization in India) is near completion. But she realized she could not develop that without first publishing her preliminary findings on the state of secularism in India, as her findings were overturning the apple cart of traditional secularization theories, and as a patriotic Indian and champion of science and reason she is greatly concerned about this.
I provided the publisher with this official reaction to her book, which you will now find gracing its back cover: [Read more…]


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I need to cut a few bits of 6" plastic duct, is there an easy way to do this?
(Trying to get the ends squared using a freehand hacksaw does not look easy.)
If you're going to use a hand saw, you need a mitre box really. It's way too hard to cut square by hand, because if you start at even a bit of an angle, the saw is going to want to follow that cut.
I used a rubber band that I put round the duct; once I had the band in place I draw a line round the duct using the band as a guild. Then I used a hacksaw.
The fittings give an overlap of about 3cm, so the cut does not have to be spot on.
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NX100 Basic Programming with Material Handling
Course Details
This course runs 4.0 days, Mon-Thurs 8:30am - 4:30pm (26 hours). NOTE: For the week of Nov 27th, this class will run Tues - Fri 8:30am - 4:30pm (26 hours).
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This course is an introduction to programming the NX100 controller. The course pertains to programming of press tending, case packing, machine tending, and palletizing cells. No prior knowledge of robot programming or the NX100 controller is required.
Primary topics include:
- Working safely in and around the robot cell
- Powering up/down
- Jogging the robot using all coordinate systems
- Modifying points, motion type and speed
- Adding position levels
- Checking specified point
- Recovering from alarms and errors
- Cutting and pasting instructions
- Programming I/O and control instructions
- Monitoring and using Arithmetic variables
- Creating and working in user frames
- Defining and using Position Variables
- Programming SFTON and SFTOF Instructions
- Multiple Tool Selection
- Monitoring Specific Outputs for Interference Zones
Course Overview
This course consists of classroom lectures, demonstrations, discussions and hands-on practice exercises. Covered topics are related to real-world examples and applications. To create an interactive and enhanced learning environment, class size is limited to 12. To perform the hands-on practice exercises, students are typically assigned 2 to a pendant at MTEC and no more than 3 to a pendant On-Site.
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Drafted by the Denver Broncos in the 1st round (11th overall) of the 1970 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 20 (4825th overall since 1950)
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Specifically designed to withstand the high heat of reptile incandescent lamps, this portable lamp has an insulated power cord and ceramic socket. Double-wall reflector dome directs heat down to your reptile, while long, flexible gooseneck allows for greater control of both heat and light. Features convenient on/off switch on cord, safety guard on dome, and heavy-duty clamp. Comes fully assembled. UL-Listed. Includes one-year manufacturer's warranty.
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Gaze upon the hypnotically tranquil, sapphire-blue waters of the ocular-shaped Lake Jiaming—also known as Angels' Tears—in this free Taiwan theme for Windows by photographer Yang Ming-Huang.
A theme is a combination of desktop background pictures, window colors, and sounds. All of the images will be downloaded when you click Download theme.
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Rashi on Devorim 11 (14), "I will give the rain of your land in its season" says this will be on Shabbos nights when everyone will be found in their houses. How does this fit with the institution of the "Sholom Zochor"?
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A shalom zachor is certainly the exception rather than the rule. And even given that, if I were the one instituting the practice (pardon my convenient historical abstraction) I think I would have no problem doing so on a night on which people's only other preoccupation is staying dry. Better to walk in the rain and be able to eat the rest of the week than stay dry and starve. That is what makes it a b'racha!
The main problem with rain is not when one has to travel from house to house, but from city to city, where one has to travel long distance and through mud, etc.


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Week three of the Pro Day Meat Market has commenced and there are a ton of schools over the next six days who will be hosting NFL Scouts and Staff to their home campus to give their guys a look and maybe a shot at being grabbed by a team in April.
I mentioned many schools to look for in this week's Pro Day Rewind as well as my impromtu Pro Day episode of All Access Football show, but honestly there is no way to cover every school and even the players who aren't having their expos are news in some cases.
Here are some of the big pieces today and my thoughts on them:
DE Michael Johnson ran an official 40 time of 4.59 at the Georgia Tech Pro Day on Monday, although the Lions had him at 4.49. Which is odd and totally opposite my personal experiences at USC and UCLA's Pro Days last year. Sometimes a school will put an athlete's time much faster than the Scouts do but I don't think I've seen a discrepancy flipped like this. And .10 of a second in a 40 time is an eternity. How does that happen? My thoughts on Johnson really are simple. He measures up really well, but gets pushed around and lacks consistent effort from play to play. However, Johnson is looking to be a late second, early third pick right now and could still move up depending upon what times other teams got today.
Beat writers and mockers have the Jets grabbing the best available wide receiver at #17. All sorts of guys – Darrius Heyward-Bey and Jeremy Maclin most often – get mentioned so far and the only thing that really might not be accounted for could be that Rex Ryan is a defense guy. So given how good I think the defensive class is (article forthcoming), it wouldn't shock me, even with the cash they've spent over two years, if Ryan went with a great defensive player.
Georgia QB Matt Stafford (sorry, Matthew) apparently kicked some serious tail in personal interviews at the Scouting Combine. While it comes as a shock to nobody that he's still in the conversation to be Detroit's pick, it's something interesting to hear. This is not a fantastic quarterback class. Stafford testing well may bump up it's overall grade. Now we'll see what we hear of Sanchez as well. He's a guy I am very interested to see when I head to USC's Pro Day on April 1st.
Mike Mayock was on the NFL Network and is talking up University of Connecticut running back Donald Brown pretty hard. He was already looking at him as his second best back in the draft, an opinion I didn't particularly share. I've been watching tape I can get ahold of and have been gradually getting on board. I haven't gotten to the point where I have him as high as Mayock but he's starting to get there.
I was supposed to interview Utah QB Brian Johnson, but he had to postpone (hence the impromptu Pro Day show on all Access) and so was paying close attention to Utah's Pro Day this afternoon. Johnson was very productive in an offense that led a team on an undefeated run last season – so you kind of need to look and see what's there. Some injury issues and an offense which worked largely out of the spread are question marks. He moved all right in the 40 (4.88/4.89) and the three-cone in 4.41. Johnson is a long shot, but is just intriguing enough to maybe catch on as a Rookie Street Free agent.


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Judge Rules for Photog In Copyright Suit Over RUN DMC Photo
French artist Theirry Guetta is guilty of infringing on photographer Glen E. Friedman's copyright, a federal judge has ruled.
Guetta was accused of using a well-know Friedman image of hip-hop pioneers RUN DMC as the basis for several artworks, including "posters, lithographs, paintings and other art," according to the complaint filed by Freidman and his lawyers in a California district court.
"To permit one artist the right to use without consequence the original creative and copyrighted work of another artist simply because that artist wished to create an alternative work would eviscerate any protection by the copyright act," said Judge Harry Pregerson in his ruling. Pregerson serves on the US Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.
A separate hearing will determine the damages owed to Friedman.
Related: Photog Glen E. Friedman Suing Artist For Infringement of RUN DMC Image
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1. Primer(s)
To head off a meltdown, you can use primers on your skin, eyelids and even lips to help makeup stay put. Additionally, "choose formulas, including a primer, that moisturize," says Matin Maulawizada, makeup artist and brand ambassador for Laura Mercier. A few options: Dior Skinflash Primer in Sheer Glow in No. 001 ($42; sephora .com), Benefit Stay Don't Stray Primer ($26; benefitcosmetics.com) or Laura Geller Lip Spackle ($24; laurageller.com).
2. Moisturizing Foundation
Unless you're genetically blessed—or you've sprung for laser treatments to even out your skin tone—you, like most women in their fifties, need some foundation to look your best. Heed Maulawizada's advice and opt for formulas that boost hydration. One that is literally spiked with moisturizer: CoverGirl & Olay Simply Ageless Foundation; $14; drugstores).
3. Concealer
It may seem counterintuitive, but a sheerer concealer is more flattering as your skin ages, says makeup artist Kimara Ahnert. Heavier cover-ups may be opaque, but they're also apt to sink into lines around the eyes. A better bet: a concealer-highlighter hybrid. The luminescence softens flaws without the -layers of -caking-prone cover-up. The gold standard is YSL Touche Eclat Radiant Touch; $40; yslbeautyus.com). This month YSL is expanding its eight-shade range with four new hues that are variants of existing colors (2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5).
4. Eyelash Curler
Lashes don't just thin as you age, says makeup magnate Sonia Kashuk; they also straighten out. So if you haven't been using an eyelash curler to date, now's the time to start. Pump only once at the roots and again halfway down the lashes. Applying waterproof mascara (as recommended under Waterproof Eye Makeup, below) will also hold the curl better than traditional formulas, says Mally Roncal. Try Sephora 18K Gold Eyelash Curler ($16; sephora.com).
5. Waterproof Eye Makeup
"Women start to complain in their fifties that their eye makeup just doesn't last," says Wende Zomnir, founder of Urban Decay Cosmetics. Hot flashes (and the cosmetic slip-'n'-slide that results) are one reason. Upping the ante on eye cream (a necessary evil, since the skin is so dry) is another; the oils in the cream can literally absorb your eye makeup, as well as remove mascara when you blink. Using an eyeshadow primer will help. But so will applying waterproof mascara and eyeliner, Zomnir points out. A pair she personally uses and swears by: Urban Decay Cannonball Ultra Waterproof Mascara ($20) and 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil ($18; urbandecay.com). Another option: gel eyeliners (which come in a pot and are applied with a narrow brush); they aren't strictly waterproof, but they're pretty darn close—and they glide easily across aging eyelids. Try Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner ($22; bobbibrown.com). Finally, don't neglect your brows; use something there that's water resistant, too. We like: Per-fékt Brow Perfection Gel ($22; sephora.com), which comes in clear and three hair-matching hues.
6. Matte Eyeshadow
Most makeup pros we spoke with agreed that shadows with a matte finish are most flattering on fifty-something eyes. (If you just cannot let go of your shimmer, Zomnir suggests you tap it in the inner corners of your eyes to subtly brighten.) Ahnert suggests applying one matte light color (ivory, sand, camel, soft pink) over the whole lid, then swiping on a slightly deeper shade in just the crease. Even if your eyelid is in a daily struggle against gravity, this will add some lift. One palette that offers an abundance of neutral shade options, all utterly wearable: Sonia Kashuk Eye on Neutral Palette in 02 ($20; target.com).
7. Bright Cream Blush
Following your mantra to moisturize, choose a cream blush. It's less likely to streak on dry skin, and the formulas are typically pretty sheer, so you needn't worry about looking overdone. The pros say keep your shades peppy: pink or peach. And tap the color on the tops of the apples of your cheeks, about a half inch below your eye. Try Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush ($8; drugstores).
8. Creamy Lip Color Plus a Pencil
Like the rest of your face, your lips need to be treated with products that are extra emollient. However, glosses and slick lipsticks are apt to bleed into the little lines around your mouth. To derail that, trace your mouth with a nude or rose lip liner, color in your lips, then top them off with a sheer, bright and creamy lip color. One dynamic duo: Chanel Le Crayon Lèvres in Beige No. 36 ($29; chanel.com) topped with Bobbi Brown Treatment Lip Shine SPF 15 ($23; bobbibrown.com), which comes in an array of candy colors.
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"Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche had a particular genius in presenting the Dharma to Western audiences. . . . These volumes display the far-reaching goodness that can be created in the world when compassion and devotion come together."—H.H. the Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
"The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma is truly a precious resource for all Buddhist practitioners and for those willing to explore and learn the complete teachings of the Buddha. This is Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's banquet for lovers of the spiritual path in this twenty-first century—and a great gift to the development of Western Buddhism."—Buddhadharma
"The compassionate heart of my teacher, the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, shines through in this, his articulation of the entire Buddhist path. He never lost sight of the fact that every aspect of the teaching is about nothing else than the freedom of awakening—and his great gift is that he never lets any of us lose sight of that either."—Pema Chödrön
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Ladies and Gentlemen.
We have heard today from the Permanent Representatives of Senegal, Peru, Palau, and Sweden and from Remi Parmentier of the Global Ocean Commission. For many of you, what they have told you today is not news. Those of you who have been immersed in these matters for a while, know the health of our oceans and seas is imperilled.
The Governments of Fiji and Grenada formalized diplomatic relations at a ceremony at the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations in New York on 23 June 2015. Grenada's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Denis Antoine, and his Fijian counterpart, Ambassador Peter Thomson, signed a joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Your Excellency the Prime Minister of Thailand;
Your Excellency the President of Kiribati;
Your Excellency the President of the Marshall Islands;
Your Excellency the Prime Minister of Tuvalu;
Your Excellency the President of the Republic of Nauru;
Your Excellency the Prime Minister of Cook Islands;
Your Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister of Solomon Islands;
Your Excellency Mr Ly Tuch of Cambodia, Outgoing Chair of the 70th Commission;
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Man dont ever stop. You are the master of the art. my seeds, seeds,seeds will love and respect your work. because it is real
When ever i listen to your music I know I'm getting someting out of it, your'e HIP-HOP, other artists like Soulja Boy, nahh thats just a different genre tryin to make a quick buck. I feel you are one the most over looked artist EVER, you speak the truth and i love it. you dont speak about shaking a@#! , drugs or alcohol. keep doing what your doing! i appreciate it so much.
Lupe, THIS IS TRUTH. I have had favorite artists before but none who touch the soul and speak truth regardless of what "they" all do... I was a huge Pac and Wayne fan forever, and still am. I used to spin their shit and every gig but after finding you, the dude who cleared my view, they seem like shadows of a desirable past, or failed attempt like good conscience that just came and went. "THIS IS THE ARTIST I HAVE WAITED FOR MY WHOLE LIFE" Is what i said. The one who is gonna change the way people think and bring back feeling and love to making ALL KINDS OF music. Build the future with the gift you have, and keep given all of us the ONE VOICE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AS TRUTH... The ONE artist that has the ducks lined up no matter what they try and cover up.. you are the best, Never stop, US FANS WILL BE YOUR VEST. thats whats up Sincerely, ME.. US -Lupe, never change what you came here to do.. your an inspiration to a lot of people and thats the truth, now get back to the booth and let loose
This is worth paying for. When Hip Hop is real you know that it's gonna sell. Keep that real shit coming!!!
Man please come to cleveland your music is good and truthful and even my dad appreciates! Cleveland would love you please perform here! ~Kendall~ A.K.A. No Flow
March 8th can't come soon enough, can't wait to get it. Keep doing your thing Lupe, you're easily one of the best out there right now..keep it going.
I am a hardcore metal-head and I love most all music but there are very few hip hop/ Rap songs I listen to, and Lupe is really the only artist I continue to be loyal too. Lupe you are the only true rapper left don't ever change that, everyone who was worth my time died or stopped making music. When Lupe spits rhymes he speaks about life and real ideals, not "yo i'm a thug check me out" Ex. in "Words I never said" he speaks about politics. Keep it up and I will continue to buy your albums. LASERS sounds amazing wonder if it will beat The Cool?
Most talented man in on the hip hop / rap scene bar none. His secret?, I believe it's 50% talent and 50% heart for the world around him. Too many people focusing on what they can get, Lupe approaches music with a "what can I give" attitude. It's evident in his music, his style, and the behind the scenes life that he lives. Don't get me wrong - he lives the high life, and he should. But the high life isn't what makes him wake up in the morning.
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Most reviews get headlined by a starring actor, but when it comes to Michael Bay movies, Michael Bay is the star. The subtext of every Michael Bay movie is that if he wasn't a director he would undoubtedly be the kind of black ops badass all his movies are about. (Except for Pain & Gain, which is not about black ops badasses and is also his worst movie Full Story
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Chris Wood of Traffic is born in Birmingham, England.
Jim Capaldi of Traffic is born in Worcester, England.
Dave Mason, solo artist and member of Traffic, is born in Worcester, England.
Steve Winwood - of Traffic, the Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and solo fame - is born in Birmingham, England.
Traffic's first single, "Paper Sun," enters the U.K. charts, where it will peak at #5.
Traffic's biggest British hit, "Hole in My Shoe," peaks at #2.
Traffic's debut album, Mr. Fantasy, is released.
Traffic's landmark second album, Traffic, is released. This same month, Steve Winwood and Chris Wood play on sessions for Electric Ladyland, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Traffic breaks up for the first time, as Steve Winwood departs to join the short-lived supergroup Blind Faith.
Blind Faith - comprising Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech - debuts at a free concert at London's Hyde Park for a crowd of 100,000.
A year after breaking up, a reunited Traffic releases John Barleycorn Must Die. It becomes the highest-charting album of their career, reaching #5.
The highly regarded debut album by Traffic's Dave Mason, Alone Together, peaks at #22.
An expanded lineup of Traffic performs six British shows, resulting in the release of the popular Live at the Canteen that fall.
Traffic releases its biggest-selling album, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, whose lengthy title track becomes a favorite of album-oriented radio.
Traffic releases Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, which contains the title track and the confessional "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired."
Traffic gives its farewell performance at Britain's annual Reading Festival.
Traffic releases When the Eagle Flies, disbanding shortly thereafter.
Chris Wood of Traffic dies of liver failure.
A two-disc Traffic compilation, Smiling Phases, is released.
Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi revive Traffic, releasing Far From Home and touring for the first time in 20 years.
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Make a date with one or all five of these glamorous local salon/boutiques next time you want the touch-up without the price tag.
The name itself is just a hint to how you'll feel when leaving. The stylists at the 'beau-tique' and salon are a mixture of edgy and refined with a desire to make their clients feel and look their best. Each of the stylists has a different specialty, offering all sorts of do's and dye's; Shannon is rumored to be one of the best colorists in the city. You'll leave the salon educated on how to do your do, which products are essential and knowing the exact use of that strangely shaped brush( yes, the one with the dangerously sharp bristles).
400 South 625 East, (with 2 other locations in Lehi and Draper) 801-355-8488
This tiny salon is a hidden gem in Murray, featuring top-notch pedicures and manicures. Char, the do-it-all owner/technician is a mani/pedi guru with 20+ years of experience under her perfectly polished fingers.
Manicures include more than just the basics, pampering patrons with almond sugar scrubs and hot wax dips. Pedicures are even more indulgent, featuring all the scrubs and rubs without the added charge.
Out 2 Nail Ya is also one of the few salons in SLC offering Shellac nails, a resin polish that doesn't chip or smudge. All the perks of acrylic nails without the price/commitment.
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Yes, yes they do. Got Beauty, an eclectic boutique and full-service salon in Sugarhouse is the place to go for accessories, trinkets and touch-ups. Make sure you've got at least an hour to browse before stopping by though; you'll find yourself caught up in the plethora of quirky gifts and specialized beauty toys (think bedazzled flat irons and leopard print nail files). Stop in the next time you need a birthday gift or an appropriately inappropriate bachelorette gag.
Got Beauty is also your go-to for high-end beauty brands that you read about in InStyle but can't locate beyond a Beverly Hills Salon.
900 East 2100 South 801-474-2090
4. Shauna at Institute of Facial & Cosmetic Surgery
Even though it's billed as an institute for cosmetic surgery they offer much more. While the facials don't require you to go under the knife or inject any botox in brows, the results produce a similar, if not more radiant, effect. The one-hour facials from esthetician, Shauna, are personalized based on your skin type and blemish battles.
Try Shauna's micro-derm facial for a quick skin clean-up to refresh your face after a long, dry summer.
Bonus: The treatments are unbelievably affordable and the institute is always offering specials and deals.
5929 Fashion Boulevard 801-261-3637
In a world full of Sephora, Ulta and the like, Splendor is a refreshingly local take on big-name beauty. The itty, bitty boutique located in Foothill Village is a try-it-before-you-buy it girly mecca. Test the glitz and gloss before you buy to avoid those "looked good in the package but makes me look like a clown" sort of moments. The ladies of the salon are happy to help you chose a pretty palate and gives you tips on how to match your makeup just right.
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The palm grease that helped make it happen wasn't as extensive as what had come from Nagano—or any different than what had come from bidding cities going back for decades. Take Detroit's bid to host the 1968 Summer Games: It was reportedly so excessive that it incited a backlash among the more scrupled voting members of the IOC, which chose Mexico City over Detroit by a vote of 30 to 14.
"The whole affair," one member complained, according to press accounts in the fall of 1963, "had deteriorated to the level of a circus."
Standing right under the big top was Mitt's father Michigan Gov. George Romney, a crucial member of the team of civic leaders who fought to bring the Games to the Motor City. The elder Romney denied that Detroit had done anything untoward. He couldn't explain, however, why Michigan needed to send 55 delegates to Germany to woo the 58 IOC members who were meeting there to choose a host city. According to minutes from the meeting, Norwegian IOC member Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen complained after the vote that rules should be in place to prevent bidding cities from "organizing cocktail parties" and "giving all kinds of presents." Ditlev-Simonsen's motion was sidelined to committee consideration. And the practices he railed against never seemed to stop.
That is, not until 1998. That's when KTVX-TV reporter Chris Vanocur obtained a memo showing that the Salt Lake Organizing Committee was paying for the daughter of a Cameroonian IOC member to attend college at American University in Washington, D.C. The cards fell quickly after that. The IOC opened an investigation into the actions of its members. Ten were ultimately expelled from the organization. Welch had already left the Salt Lake Organizing Committee in 1997, and Johnson would resign soon after the IOC investigation was announced. And Romney—who recently had lost his bid to unseat Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts—was soon called into service by friends and business associates in Utah to act as the ultimate authority over all operations, marketing and fundraising for the Salt Lake Games.
Welch and Johnson would later be indicted in U.S. District Court on charges that they illegally bribed IOC members for their votes. The problem was, they hadn't done anything illegal at all. Not according to Judge David Sam who scolded prosecutors for a case he felt was entirely lacking "in criminal intent or evil purpose." From the bench, Sam did everything but issue a formal letter of apology, noting that while Utahns partied with the world, Welch and Johnson had been deprived "of fully enjoying the fruits of your tireless efforts to bring the Olympics [to Utah]."
"My hope," Sam told the defendants, "is that you will now be appropriately recognized and honored for your efforts."
That never happened.
Fans of tend to think of the Olympics as pure athletic achievement in all its glory. Despite Sam's pardon and apology, it was unpalatable to many Americans that the Games could, in fact, be something to be bought. But the Olympics have long been a commercial and money-making machine, and Welch and Johnson played the field as it needed to be played to make Salt Lake's bid a success.
Still, Romney argued at a 2001 press conference that including the men on the Olympic Legacy Plaza's Wall of Honor "would send the wrong message to the citizens of the world about the ethical standards of our community." And in order to establish and bolster his political image as the man with the right stuff to "turn around" the Olympics, Romney would have to continue to send that very same message.
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The increasing demand to build mixed case pallets is one of the key drivers for stationary robotic materials handling.
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Back at ProMat 2007, small crowds gathered around the booths of Kiva Systems, Seegrid and RMT Robotics even though all three had relatively inconspicuous booths. The crowds gathered because each supplier was demonstrating something new: small mobile units that ran around the limited floor space.
Although Kiva displayed an integrated picking solution that included portable storage units, most people didn't quite know what to do with these gizmos.
What they did have was pizzazz. The technology they previewed has since become known as mobile robotics: autonomous vehicles that can shuttle materials around a factory or distribution center. Of course, the materials handling industry is replete with cool technologies that never made it from the exhibition hall to the distribution center floor. Since then, however, the Kiva (781-221-4640) goods-to-person picking solution has found a home in a number of high-profile warehouses, including the Office Depot facility on this month's cover (see page 20). In addition, Seegrid's (877-733-4743) riderless vehicles are being used by a leading grocer to deliver pallets to the shipping dock so that pickers can remain in the aisle doing more valuable tasks. And, RMT's (905-643-9700) technology is being used to deliver small quantities of parts to the line in lean, just-in-time manufacturing environments.
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Bob Trebilcock, executive editor, has covered materials handling, technology and supply chain topics for Modern Materials Handling since 1984. More recently, Trebilcock became editorial director of Supply Chain Management Review. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, Trebilcock lives in Keene, NH. He can be reached at 603-357-0484.


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