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Lobstermen who want to form a union to lobby for them in Augusta and to negotiate prices for their catch are meeting for the first time.
Fishermen who are forming the Maine Lobstering Union are gathering Sunday at the Portland Regency. Opening remarks will be open to the public, then the meeting will be closed to begin the process of nominating officers.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has been recruiting fishermen fed up with low prices for their catch and growing expenses.
The Maine Lobstermen's Association, a trade group with about 1,200 members, has questioned whether negotiating lobster prices would run afoul of federal antitrust laws.


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20 home assignments and six variations of ground juggling skills and moves players can practice by themselves or with the help of parents or team mates. They include ground juggling exercises along with COERVER COACHING PYRAMID OF MOVES', Changes of Direction, Stops & Starts and Feints.
11 Group Skill Assignments and their 12 Variations incorporating Stops and
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The overweight epidemic in developed countries that's affecting even among young children.
The beginnings of hardening of arteries that's affecting children as young as 15
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The value of organic fruits and vegetables and the role phytochemicals play.
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The link between reduction of weight, diabetes and the way to fitness, good health and well
BONUS: Included with each order: Coaching Super Skills. Coerver Coaching Super Skills DVD is a 20 minute dvd designed to inspire young players to get outside and try some new juggling and dribbling tricks.
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Daniel Holland, 45, passed away from a tragic motorcycle accident on Kingsbury Grade on July 30, 2014.
He enjoyed spending time with his family, working in his yard, the snow, and fixing things for his grandchildren. He also enjoyed the outdoors and relaxing motorcycles rides on his Harley.
The loving husband, father, grandfather, son, uncle and true friend is survived by his loving wife of 23 years, Sharyn Holland, sons Daniel Lipscombe, Kyle Lipscombe, daughter Kristy (David) Larsen, grandchildren Kaylin and Callie, sisters Winifred Holland, Barbara Nelson, father Robert (LaDawn) Holland, half brother Bobby Holland, many nieces and nephews, and his dogs Sam, Harley, and Dakota.
He was preceded in death by mother and stepfather Catherine and Robert Vandermark.
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SANTA CRUZ -- A kitten took a wild ride across the Golden Gate Bridge to Santa Cruz on Wednesday after it got stuck in a van's engine compartment.
The kitten made the 85-mile trip unharmed, according to Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter spokesman Todd Stosuy. Now, authorities are looking for its owner.
"She's a really sweet cat. Hopefully someone in Marin can come get her," Stosuy said. "It was a long ride."
A Michigan man in his late 20s was on a road trip when he slept in his white van outside a McDonald's restaurant in Mill Valley on Tuesday night.
Wednesday morning, he got up and drove south to Santa Cruz. When he stopped at an Ocean Street gas station about 11:30 a.m., he heard the distinct sound of a cat's meow.
He popped the hood and found a kitten -- probably more startled than he was.
The female kitten appeared about 8 months old and had a blue, studded collar with a blue bell. The driver said he had not stopped driving since he left Mill Valley.
He asked a gas station attendant to call authorities.
The kitten had no identification tag and no microchip.
Stosuy said Animal Shelter workers called the Marin Humane Society on Wednesday about the feline stowaway. Stosuy said it was likely the cat was looking for a warm place to sleep when it curled up in the parked van.
"That's a lot of time for a cat to get in there," he said.
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BERKELEY -- After a 49-27 loss at Utah, coach Jeff Tedford kept his postgame remarks to a minimum and encouraged players to have their say in the locker room.
Senior defensive end Kendrick Payne said there was clear consensus: "Nobody's giving up."
At 3-6 and coming off back-to-back blowout defeats, the Bears need to win the final three games on their schedule to become bowl eligible, starting Friday night at home against Washington.
It's a long shot, with games to follow against No. 2 Oregon and at No. 13 Oregon State. More likely than a bowl bid is the Bears' worst season of the 11-year Jeff Tedford coaching era. And possibly the last.
But Payne said players agreed that dialogue isn't what's needed at this point.
"We're all still dedicated to each other until the last second ticks off that clock," he said. "That's all that needs to be said. No more talking after that -- let's just get back to work."
Defensive end Todd Barr said the team isn't merely playing out the schedule.
"We're really re-evaluating ourselves, looking at ourselves in the mirror and seeing what is it we're doing wrong as a whole team and trying to fix it before it gets out of hand and we're not bowl eligible," he said.
This is new territory for Tedford, who is Cal's all-time winningest coach and suffered just one losing season in his first 10.
He said he's never questioned his players' effort or dedication. Their ability to deliver consistency is another matter.
"There are different things each week. It's definitely frustrating," said Tedford, whose squad gave Utah 35 points Saturday on three touchdowns following turnovers and two more on 100-yard kickoff returns.
Practice Tuesday was "very lively ... very energetic," Tedford said. "Guys had great attitudes."
"I don't think that's a true indication necessarily of who they are on the road," Tedford said, "but a result of who they played on the road."
Cal will provide free shuttle service from the Rockridge and Downtown Berkeley BART stations and the Berkeley Amtrak station. ESP season-ticket holders are guaranteed free parking spots at Golden Gate Fields, also with a shuttle bus to and from Memorial Stadium.
For complete details on Friday's parking options, go to www.calbears.com.
For more on Cal sports, see the Bear Talk blog at ibabuzz.com/beartalk. Follow Jeff Faraudo on Twitter at twitter.com/CalBearsBANG.
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Why wait for election returns when economists can forecast the next president right now?
Justin Wolfers has been diligently monitoring political futures markets like Intrade and BetFair for WSJ.com this year. (He'll be posting his observations on late futures-market movements and other topics in this blog tonight.) Wolfers, a professor at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, also knows a lot about econometric models for forecasting elections. I asked him to help us read the tea leaves of two such models.
Q: So tell us a bit about Ray Fair and his model. He made something of a splash outside the academic world for projecting a Bush win in the summer of 2004. How did he get it right then?
Justin Wolfers: Ray Fair is an eclectic and always interesting researcher who is particularly relevant today because he was the first economist to draw the link between the performance of the national economy and the re-election prospects of the incumbent.
Basically the model finds that incumbency effects, war, GDP growth and inflation all affect a candidate's likely vote share. All the complicated econometrics does is give appropriate weight to each of these factors.
The 2004 equation predicted a Bush victory, and so might be considered a success for the Fair equation. But actually, it predicted an enormous Bush victory, suggesting that he would win 57.7% of the two-party vote. Given how far that is from truth, I'm not sure that we would want to call that a success.
Q: What does the Fair Model have to say about today's outcome?
Wolfers: Fair's prediction is for the Republicans to win 48% of the vote and the Dems 52%. This largely reflects the fact that economic conditions are terrible, and the "political" variables (like an incumbent running for re-election) aren't really operative this time.
Q: An updated version of Fair's formula can he seen here. Can you tell us how "GOODNEWS" makes sense as a legitimate quantifiable variable?
Wolfers: "GOODNEWS" is the number of quarters of the first 15 quarters in which the per capita annualized GDP growth rate is greater than 3.2%. I'm not sure that I would take this particular variable particularly seriously, but instead, would emphasize the broader lesson — robust GDP growth helps get incumbents re-elected.
Indeed, as it has become clearer over recent weeks that current economic conditions are pretty terrible, people have become increasingly likely to bet that the Republicans will lose the '08 race.
Q: I know you're a fan of Swedish economist David Stromberg's econometric model. (You've even co-written a column for WSJ.com with him.) How does his forecasting model differ from the Fair model? And what does Stromberg see in our electoral future tonight?
Wolfers: The Stromberg model largely reflects the increasing sophistication of econometrics, and so it can deal more realistically with the world we live in. Rather than trying to forecast the aggregate vote share — which, as Al Gore can tell you, isn't always so valuable — it tries to predict the outcomes state-by-state. For each state, outcomes are projected based on local economic conditions, ideological shifts in the character of the electorate, and both local and national polling data. This model is really more about predicting election outcomes than it is making the simpler point that Fair emphasized — that economic factors are important.
In many respects, Stromberg's model is the forerunner to the extremely compelling poll aggregation being done by Nate Silver over at FiveThirtyEight.com. Stromberg uses fewer polls than FiveThirtyEight, but he takes account of more factors.
The key to both the Stromberg and FiveThirtyEight-style analyses is to focus on the likelihood that any particular state will be the pivotal state (like Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004). This turns out to be particularly powerful.
For instance, many people may be watching to see whether Barack Obama can cheekily pick up Arizona from right under John McCain's nose. Now while this is an interesting narrative, it is pretty much beside the point: It is almost impossible to see Arizona as the state that determines the election. If Obama wins Arizona, it will be part of a much larger sweep. As such, the polling in Arizona just isn't that informative for the overall result, and this insight is critical to these "pivotal voter" approaches.
Right now, Stromberg gives Obama an 87% chance to win, while FiveThirtyEight is giving him a 96% chance. I would highlight these as complementary, rather than competing approaches.
Q: Do any of these models — or any others in the academic world — have a particularly sterling track record? Have real world election practitioners (i.e. candidates and the campaign operatives who advise them) made use of the insights these models offer?
Unfortunately, we only get a new datapoint every four years. Even the Fair model, which has been around since the late 1970s, has only been tested seven times. While it has performed pretty well, it is hard to figure out good luck from good judgment. The newer models — like the Stromberg model, or FiveThirtyEight — have never really been tested. But they sure make a lot of sense and are built from sensible fundamentals, which is why I think they are worth paying attention to.
The important thing about the newer models is that they actually provide directly relevant advice to campaigns. Remember, political campaigns aren't trying to maximize their expected vote share, but rather they are trying to maximize the chances that they win. And this means identifying precisely which state or states they need to win and funneling all of their resources there, while ignoring the rest of the country.
In fact, you can take these sorts of predictions, and use them to project how the campaigns should plan their visits to different states. The forecasts — that they should spend a lot of time in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania — look about right. Interestingly, the model suggests that McCain is right to be focusing on Pennsylvania, but that he was wrong to pull out of Michigan so early.
Now this doesn't tell us that the campaigns are directly using the Stromberg model, but it does tell us that the logic they are using to figure out how to spend campaign resources uses a very similar logic. In fact, we can see this directly, by reading "The Race to 270," a very interesting campaign narrative by Darren Shaw, who was one of the number-crunchers working on the last two Bush campaigns.


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With that in mind I thought I'd highlight a few decent sources for finding TV news on the Internet so you can watch news online. All of these sites feature the latest headlines, as well as access to in-depth feature stories. And, like everything featured here at MakeUseOf, access to all these sites is completely free.
This is as good a place to start as any for resources to watch news online, even if I wasn't organizing everything alphabetically. 1Cast is a video service that, with permission from broadcasters, pulls the top stories of the day from a number of different sources. It tends to be heavy on business news, and currently only works in the United States of America, but it's a decent model for the future of video news on the Internet.
Read more about 1Cast in my article 1Cast Easy Access to World News Headlines, which also mentions that the service can be accessed via a Boxee app.
Al Jazeera English
If you're looking for English news from a non-Western perspective it doesn't get better than Al Jazeera. Know in America primarily as "that terrorist network," Al Jazeera is arguably the strongest democratic force in the Middle East. It's also surprisingly generous with its video content online. Not only will you find some decent podcasts, but their straight-forward, clean video page is a great way to watch news online and catch up with happenings around the world.
Heck, you can even watch Al-Jazerra's broadcast live online. No other major network is offering that legally, so far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), so this is certainly a nice perk.
BBC World News
It's hard to match the global reach of the BBC, so it's only natural that their content be easy to find on the global Internet. And it is. the BBC News video page provides a quick way to catch the latest global headlines and the opportunity to find out more about recent stories. There are also more podcasts than you can shake a stick at.
MakeUseOf staff writer Saikat's childhood in India left him with a deep love for the BBC. Read more about the BBC's online offerings in his article .
CBC News
I grew up in Canada, meaning my nostalgia lies with the CBC instead of the BBC. There's a lot of good video to be found at the CBC's website, but expect a heavily Canadian perspective. Notable highlights include nightly news broadcast The National and the extensive CBC video page. If you live in Canada you can even catch hockey games live under the right circumstances (something I, living in Colorado, wish extended worldwide).
CBS: 60 Minutes
Forgot this show existed? You're not alone. That doesn't mean it's not great, though, and with the web you can watch it on your own time.
60 Minutes was once the American news broadcast, broadcast on Sunday nights and typically made up of four 15 minute segments that covered a wide variety of topics. Today you catch 60 Minutes online whenever you want, and you'll even find it on Boxee. This show's worth watching, even if you forgot about it.
Fox News
If you're an American and you find all this talk of international sources of news…unpatriotic…then I guess what you're looking for is Fox News. They do have a few podcasts, though they tend to be less generous than other sites highlighted here. They've also got a video page that highlights current news (with copious advertisements).
Viewers from outside America will find the content skewed at best. Expect to see the words "Fair and Balanced" in front of an American flag with no trace of irony.
Fox News' liberal twin, MSNBC, is also in on the web video game. They have a generous collection of podcasts, most of which give you access to a complete show. Highlights here include Meet The Press, a famous Sunday interview show. You'll also find a top stories video page, a great place to start finding out.
Again, international viewers be warned: similar to Fox, MSNBC exists in a world where America is at the centre. Different ideology, but mostly the same.
There you have it: 7 websites for watching the news online. I'm sure there are a number of good sites that I missed, but I just wanted to skim the surface to start.
If you would prefer a desktop solution for watching the news, check out Mark's two articles on Livestation here and here.
Can you think of any great sites for watching news online? Please share them below; you just might be mentioned in a follow-up article to this one. Also please feel free to discuss the vices and virtues of the sources mentioned, but avoid calling me a liberal/conservative/communist/libertarian because I'll just ignore it.


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From I-295, take exit 45b (Woodman Road South), at the light turn right onto Mountain Road. Walkerton is about a mile down the road on the right. Park in the Glen Allen Arts Center parking lot. The driveway for the parking lot is before you get to Walkerton.
Permission was granted by the site director to place the letterbox here. Please be aware that there may be weddings or other events that may prohibit you from getting to this letterbox. The building is open Tues.-Sat., 8-4:30. Come in and take a look around. It's a neat place and it's free. You can get to the letterbox anytime during daylight hours.
From the big parking lot, walk through the pergola.
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"Did you know that Eva was buried in Jeddah?"
This is my host, Sami Nawar. Sami is the director of Al Balad, Jeddah's famous historic district. He's a compact, friendly, indefatigable man with a 1,001 plans, schemes, projects, ideas. "This is the only city on Earth with this claim," Sami says. "Jeddah can be pronounced 'jaddah.' In Arabic this means grandmother. This is the city of humanity's grandmother."
I tell Sami I know. Earlier, I had gone looking for Eve's grave.
According to the Koran, Eve alighted on a mountaintop near Jeddah after Allah exiled her from Paradise for eating the forbidden fruit. (Adam was exiled to another peak, nearer Mecca, where he spent 40 days and nights weeping in remorse.)
In 1853 the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton visited Eve's purported tomb disguised as a Muslim pilgrim. The prickly Englishman measured the length of the sepulcher with his footsteps. It was laid out in the shape of a vast reclining body: a minor marvel of the medieval world dating back at least since the 10th century. "Our first parent measured a hundred and twenty paces from head to waist, and eighty from waist to heel," Burton wrote, adding dismissively that, given such anatomy, "she must have presented the appearance of a duck."
But at the modern "Tomb of Eve Cemetery" in Old Jeddah, I found no mausoleum, no shrine, only a sterile burial ground with simple concrete headstones. The Yemeni gravedigger was fed up with strangers asking for Eve's grave. "Eve's grave, Eve's grave, Eves' grave!" he said. He shook his head wearily. He doubted that such a tomb ever existed. He gave me a cold bottle of water in consolation.
Accounts differ as to the forgotten monument's fate. A 1928 article in TIME magazine suggests that that Eve's grave was demolished by religious authorities who feared it would lead Muslim faithful astray—into shirq, idolatry. Other sources report that the landmark vanished beneath urban development projects in the 1940s.
Sami Nawar holds up his hands. He doesn't know. Nor does he care. He cannot worry about what is gone. He has spent too many years of his life cajoling, pleading, arguing—safeguarding what yet remains of Old Jeddah, a candidate UN World Heritage site. A remnant world of coral-block mosques. Of old merchants' houses that lean akimbo over wriggling alleyways, casting watery blue shadows. Of souks that still teem with cart men hawking pyramids of golden dates from Qassim province, oranges from Egypt, bark from the incense trees of Yemen. Modern-day Saudi Arabia has lost so much of its memory beneath sleek highways, parking lots, subdivisions, hotels, malls. When I ask Sami how he's accomplished this miracle—preserving a square kilometer of remembering—he just laughs.
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When he was a young boy—perhaps 12—he played soccer in the mazy lanes of his childhood home, Old Jeddah. He and his playmates often kicked the ball under the high windows of Maha, the pretty daughter of a rich Lebanese merchant. "I was small and ugly and poor," says Sami. "I had nothing to impress her with." Until, one day—that is—when he encountered a pamphleteer. His sole ware: How to Learn English in One Week. Here was Sami's chance. Many Lebanese knew English. He pored through the booklet's meager pages. He studied and practiced the strange letters. And with a charcoal stick, he scratched out a gigantic message on the street below the forbidding high windows:
"The only thing it did was make her father very angry," Sami says laughing.
Yet this is no story of frustration—it is tale of endurance. A parable of how we rescue home, la querencia, the lost places we love. With empty tombs. With historic districts. With stories over tea. Eventually, Sami learned his English. He drove a taxi in Jeddah, hunting Western fares to practice the language. This led, many years later, to a civil engineering degree in Sacramento, California.
"Will you share this story of Maha?" Sami says anxiously. "My wife will complain."
He is serving us a goodbye breakfast. We sit on a rug in the famed Nasseem House, a museum. I walk north today into the Levant: at least 700 miles along desert trails into the land of Nabataea.
"You were just a little boy," I say. "It was a long time ago."
"Time," Sami reminds me, "is relative." He smiles. It is a smile that says: We float in a river of time, yet time pools also within us. That each of us inhabits an Old Town. It is the smile of one who knows.


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By Stephanie Ciccarelli
August 28, 2006
ISDN... At one point, it was celebrated as the height of recording and file delivery technology, but what is it to you now? Has ISDN gone the way of the dinosaur, or is it still alive and well?
I received an email from a voice actor asking me to explore ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network). He wanted to know if ISDN was relevant today, or if it is just like a Sony Beta videotape player (remember those?), discontinued, outdated and obsolete.
I searched around the web and found an ISDN tutorial at ralphb.net that thoroughly explains nearly everything you need to know about ISDN and how it is used.
From what I understand, operating an ISDN line is very expensive and ISDN is not requested as often as it used to be.
In your experience, is ISDN outdated or is an ISDN line your bread and butter?
Looking forward to this conversation...
Let the comments begin!
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Yes, ISDN is still alive and well. While I realize there are plug-ins available that act much in the same way, the computer on each end (talent/client) must have the same plug-in for it to work. So that brings us back to ISDN. If you have a BIG client in another city, there is no way they'll just hand the job over to you without being able to direct. As a matter of fact, I'm here in NYC and just did an ISDN line recording yesterday with a client in Philly. I wish I could say the ISDN was in my home studio, but I had to go to a better-equipped one nearby. Since the client was wiling to pay for it, why not? And by the way, it's not the first job I've ISDN'd.Posted by:
I wonder whether ISDN has been eclipsed by ADSL... I live in a rural town in SE Australia where ISDN just passed in the night.
We were late in hooking up to ADSL compared to cities, but if you need phone and Internet access simultaneously, then ADSL works for me...
Does ISDN offer any advantages otherwise, or are they essentially parallel technologies these days?
If a client "wants ISDN" for directing, then either format would surely do the business ?
Has anyone tried both to let us know the comparatives??Posted by:
It's a hard decision. Based on your area, monthly fees can run anywhere between 40 and 100 dollars a month. Last time I checked it would be $85 a month in my area.
Then there's the install fee which can vary greatly depending on how far you are from the phone company's... node... I think they call it. Plus I'm starting to hear that some phone companies really don't want to do ISDN installs anymore as they consider it outdated technology.
And then you either need a unit like Telos or Comrex makes or something like the AudioTX software for your computer. They recommend running the software on a separate computer from your DAW. So that's an additional $800 to $5000 or more depending on what you choose.
IP based alternatives are starting to roll out now which I suspect will end up replacing ISDN eventually. But how long will that take? Studios that have already invested in ISDN aren't going to change to something else until they have to.
I know some people have experimented with services like Skype for "ISDN style" delivery but not having tried it myself I can't comment on the quality.
I've researched this issue a good deal and I'd love to have ISDN because I'm a "tech-a-holic" but in the end I've decided to hold off.
The bottom line: Not having ISDN isn't costing me any work yet and there's no reason to invest in it until it is.Posted by:
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From what I've heard and noticed, opportunities can come at a moments notice, and sometimes it's not just a matter of if you're talented enough. It can also be, are you equipped for quick and easy access?
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I had my copper t pulled out on thursday 30th of april, i started my period which was due that day a few hours later. My partner and i had sex over my most fertile week. I have missed my period 5 days late i have never been late before, i need to pass urine a lot more, i feel dizzy quite often, tired, and slight cramping, i think i am pregnant according to your due date calculator i am 5 weeks shock. I have to wait until friday to get a pregnancy test as i live in mozambique on a farm, and no access to doctors or pregnancy tests, and we are next going to civilization on Friday, the wait seems forever!!
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Looking at daily volume from end of December through January 15th we had above average volume. Was some of this shorts covering.... price also went up about $3 per share during this time frame. End of December there were approximately 19.5 million shorts..... My prediction 18.3 shorts now....at least that is my crystal ball pick... Who knows it might even be under 18 million!
I really can't see it increasing based on above observations... if it has increased....I would think that would not be good...
Other thoughts????
Sentiment: Strong Buy
yes, you are the most stupid person there is
oh swami of the incyte board, wrong again , so tell me what it means again that short interest is going to do for the trading of incyte
Settlement Date Short Interest Avg Daily Share Volume Days To Cover
1/15/2013 18,768,893 2,018,670 9.297653
12/31/2012 19,571,180 1,030,176 18.997899
12/14/2012 19,059,260 1,657,227 11.500694
Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/incy/short-interest#ixzz2J2QlX3u9
Off to lose money at casino....that's ok since I make it back next week...I can smell $20.35... TJ write it down, baby!!!!
do you really think if it 17, 18 or 20 million, that it really will change how the stock has been trading???????? incyte made 2 attempts at the 200 dma and so far has failed miserably, short interest what ever it is will not change that
I have tried not to respond to your idiotic comments, but this one beats them all. Are you saying that the ability of shorts to control stock price is not reflective on the percent of shorts? If so, you really can't believe that!
What conclusions do you draw if short interest drops as maddi suggests and then the price drops as well as it has from 19 to sub 18. Boy, that's going to confuse maddi's tiny brain. Maybe u can convince her that joe-the-plumber may not give a rats-ass about incy and that it all comes down to supply and demand and there just isn't any demand for INCY


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A number of models walked carrying Ms. Lepore's new line of handbags, many with fringe, that was inspired by bags in her own closet.
John Slattery, the "Mad Men" actor sometimes called the "Silver Fox" for his gray hair, sat front and center this season, as he has in past seasons. Ms. Lepore once said his kid goes to school with her daughter, who walked the runway along with her at the end.
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Congress approved a bill mandating car makers improve fuel economy from 25 MPG to 35 MPG by 2020. Hopefully there will still be a planet left to drive on by that time. [Chicago Tribune]
Only a 10mpg increase after 13 years of research and development?
That's disgusting.
All of the major auto makers had plug in electric cars in the 90's in California. They should require them to manufacture a set number of those models for sale each year.
@bohemian: Plug in electric cars solve what problem, exactly? You're still polluting, just by drawing more power from your power plant than you engine. Also, electric cars are only useful in certain areas… around here, they're totally useless.
Shouldn't we have hover cars by then? How many MPG's did George Jetson's ride get?
I hope all the car companies just stop making cars for sale in the US then the government will get the message that they need to keep their hands out of business. Their job is to make laws not regulate everything. Im so sick of hippies getting in bed with the government to tell me what I can and cannot drive. This is supposed to be the land of freedom. Ill only be alive another 50 years at best so I guess I can buy 5 vehicles now that should last me till Im dead. Im also going to buy 10 pallets of real light bulbs too before they go away as well. I cant stand those dim yellow CFLs. They wouldnt be so bad if they created light like GE Reveal bulbs
@scampy: First of all, a good CFL produces a more natural white light than a standard bulb.
Second, the government isn't telling you what you can't and can't drive. You WANT to drive something that isn't fuel efficent. I am sure they will still have the new Dodge Chargers and Chevy Camaros, giving you the power you want…and perhaps they will reclassify HD pickups so they won't have to be 35MPG. Either way, I doubt you will be forced to drive Chevy Coblats and Hyundia Accents.
Wow, my punctionation is terrible there. I meant telling you what you "can and can't drive" and having a question mark at the end of "fuel efficent"
Its not that I dont want to be efficient, its just that all the fuel efficient vehicles suck. They have no power, they cant get you up to highway speed on short onramps, and you cant tow a boat with them. Id be happy to buy a 35MPG vehicle if they could make one affordable with at least 350HP and a 0-60 time of at least 7 seconds. Also they should be sturdy and made of steel so if I get in an accident Im not dead on scene
Also I tried CFL bulbs and found them to be VERY yellow and dim. As of now they dont put out half the quality of light that a GE Reveal bulb does.
@scampy: Perhaps those types of cars would be reclassified, or U.S. automakers would figure out a way to get customers the power they want when going up against European cars without the restrictions. Sorta like the chevy v8 that turns off 4 cyl when crusing.
Then again, you can just spend $10K or so on a '76 Trans Am with a 455, and get 12MPG. :D
at least 350HP? what the heck. Why do you need to get around in that? I have never had a car over 240HP and many of them where PLENTY speedy.
@scampy: Try looking at European or diesel trucks, or perhaps consider storing your boat somewhere so you don't have to constantly tow it, which I'm sure is drastically affecting your mileage.
@Shadowfire: 1) Power generated by power stations is generated much more efficiently, which is why the Tesla Roadster can advertise "the equivalent of 135 mpg". 2) It is much easier to capture/clean the exhaust at one power station than tens of thousands of cars. 3) Not all power generated on the grid is from polluting sources. 4) You don't have to charge an electric car from the grid. You can get solar panels or windmills and power it completely cleanly.
Electric cars don't solve the problem by themselves. They are, however, part of the solution to the problem.
I'm with scampy, the government doesn't have a right to regulate MPG standards. What they can do is tax carbon in order to correct for the negative externalities. This has the benefit of directly addressing the problem on both the level of production and consumption.
Fix the externalities but let the market figure out where it is most efficient to reduce carbon output.
I can assure you that the planet will still be around in 2020. Scaremongering is lame.
@scampy: Thats funny, I buy CFLs for some of my fixtures from ikea specifically because they are very blue in color.
There is a huge range in available colors to pick from, just like conventional light bulbs. So pick ones in a color you want.. It doesn't seem that hard for someone who has already specified GE Reveal bulbs.
Also, electric cars are only useful in certain areas… around here, they're totally useless.
WTF? You don't get electricity where you live? Then how the hell are you posting on the internets?
Everyone should be happy this bill was signed at all, considering that this president doesn't want to regulate big business. And car manufacturers can't escape every loophole…
@Shadowfire: "Plug in electric cars solve what problem, exactly? You're still polluting, just by drawing more power from your power plant than you engine."
I don't know where you get your power from, but last time I checked, the river that generates my power doesn't pollute a dam bit by running (pun intended). The worst that happens is it disrupts the fish cycle.
There are plenty of non-polluting energy sources available to us, we just need to use them. The sun, the wind and rivers provide us with free, non-polluting, infinitely-renewable energy every day.
@mrestko: By what logic can the government assess a carbon tax but not set standards for fuel efficiency?
If you don't feel like familiarizing yourself with the US Constitution you should at least read Article 1, Section 8. It will go a long way towards explaining what Congress can and can't do.
For extra credit, read up on the Commerce Clause of Section 8. You may think that the government can't regulate fuel efficiency but rules much more tenuously interpreted to be within Congress's enumerated powers have been upheld by the Supreme Court. Repeatedly. And for many years. Application of the Commerce Clause hasn't significantly changed since the 1930s.
2020?! Pathetic.
excellent so by 2050 we will meet the standards that the rest of the world are going by as of right now!
Way to go! Woo America!
No wonder most of our cars are illegal to drive in other countries. The tech is here, its here now so why can other countries figure it out but we cant?
My assertion was a philosophical one, not a legal one, but I appreciate you smarmy attitude.
Secondly, if you think "Congress shall have the power…To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes" so obviously grants the government the right to impose fuel efficiency standards that you see no room for debate, you must be incredibly arrogant.
Finally, I believe the most important part of my comment was left untouched by you. I still assert that forcing companies and individuals to internalize the negative consequences of their emissions through the implementation of a carbon tax would be a far more effective way of lowering emissions across the board than having a few bureaucrats, vulnerable to lobbying and popularity contests, decide the best ways to reduce emissions.
Okay Consumerists…
Somebody tell me how a small truck will be able to pull itself with an engine getting 35 MPG. Unless Al Gore invents wormholes…
we need a bill about about this new INTERNET thing. how about we say the internet will be used by just about everybody by 2065? and then we can have these computers that sit on people's laps to access it. sweet.
@on_wisconsin: Hybrid.
We'll have more Legislation That Should Have Passed in 1975 in a moment. Coming up… Weed: should it be legalized?
@on_wisconsin: Erm to clarify: the primary thing preventing electrics from doing the job of a penis enlarging diesel is the battery. As battery capacity is increased, I'm sure we'll be seeing more "normal-sized" vehicles switching to pure electricity. In the meantime, diesel-electric combos are popping up all over (I saw a hybrid trailer the other day). As I understand it, the diesel engine is always idling but only kicks in when the electric motor can't tough it out or is out of juice.
@parad0x360: Because there "isn't a market" for those types of vehicles over here. Americans prove again and againt that they will pay as much for gas as you want to charge us and we'll do it while driving vehicles with terrible emissions and shitty mileage.
The companies in charge of the automobile business are not interested in the economy or your pocketbook. They are interested in profits, bottom line. And as long as they continue to make profits this way, they'll go right on doing it.
@parad0x360: Why should anyone respect a "philosophical assertion" that has no sound basis in fact or history?
You said: government doesn't have a right to regulate MPG standards. That's simply not true. Regulations akin to the CAFE standards are so far within the bounds of settled case law regarding the Commerce Clause that it's really just silly to argue about it. For all practical purposes that debate is over.
As for a carbon tax, I think it's a grand idea. A couple of points though: The CAFE standards weren't cooked up by "a few bureaucrats." They are the result of Congressional legislation, a product of public debate, and approved by our elected representatives.
That aside, if we were to have a carbon tax, who would implement and administer it? Bureaucrats, right? Why would that policy be any less vulnerable to lobbying and popularity contests than any other?
@JiminyChristmas: I'll respond, since you clearly meant to reply to my post.
Well, your dedication to the current interpretation of the Commerce Clause led me to do some more reading and I am now even more horrified at that interpretation. It is beyond me how one can interpret that phrase to justify the variety of laws that it currently does, but no matter…. It seems that we differ in our beliefs somewhat. Whereas I might feel that I am able to object to a law or interpretation, you, apparently, do not. I guess that's okay, but, in my mind, it leads you down a path you probably don't want to take. You don't need to respect this view. I believe it is defensible, but this is not the place for a drawn-out debate on the philosophy of government.
The reason a carbon tax would be less susceptible to corruption is its simplicity. The more complex a system becomes, the more difficult it is to keep out special interests (witness the current tax code). Also, when I referred to a "few bureaucrats," yes, I meant to be derogatory. But I was also comparing the group of legislators with the whole of the market. I believe that my characterization holds when viewed in this context.
@scampy: The ones I got at Costco work great
Toyota meets the previously proposed tougher standards today that were to be implemented in 5 years, but Toyota fought against mileage laws? Why? Because anything that might force American auto companies to be more innovative is bad for Toyota. Nice.
@fishing-ace: Seriously? You couldn't tell that was a joke?
@on_wisconsin: Everyone keeps saying other countries' vehicles get this MPG right now. Can't American car companies do what they're doing or are light trucks not allowed in other countries due to poor MPG? (Serious question)
ABS+Teflon undies, since we can't use asbestos anymore: check.
@scampy: straw man. No one is telling you that you can't buy your silly 7 second 0-60*. They're saying there need to be enough options that are more efficient, so that the fleet average is 35 MPG. That boat-towing diesel (you're not towing with gas, are you?) that doesn't get even 25 MPG will still be there for you (you'll have an engine option that will get you less power and more MPG, to satisfy the unfair way that the fleet average value will be calculated).
* 0-60 is a penis size comparison stat, and has no relation to how well the car can get from point A to point B. Same with high horsepower. Neither has a good correlation with towing ability, either (but, most vehicles don't get advertised by foot-pounds at the wheels).
Now, for CFLs…some are actually good, but dimmer-capable ones still suck (new dimmers would be a better way to do it). They aren't dim, though. You must have gotten one brand, at one time, and not tried any others, since. Check lumens, not watt-equivalence, in the future, too (no doubt sleazy marketing will still be around as they kick incan's butt). They're getting there, in color. As long as we don't get a mandate like Canada, we'll be switching over as they are able to actually replace incans. They are cheaper, they are less harmful to the environment, and they are also…still fluorescents.
CAFE is just kind of silly. If we really want to reduce gas consumption, the answer is simple: raise gas taxes. At $6/gallon, we won't need to mandate high efficiency, people will buy it for themselves.
Also, CAFE doesn't take into account how much people drive. A Hummer driven three miles each way every day is a much smaller problem than a Prius driven 30 miles each way every day. Banning the Hummer doesn't solve the problem – getting the Prius driver to drive less does.
@Shadowfire: When you plug in cars to get power you decouple the production of the power from the consumption. That way you can vary each independently (you can gradually transition the production side to "greener" techniques without changing the consumer). The only problem is line loss, infrastructure, etc.
@parad0x360: This is the Internet, please link to proof when you use a canard like, "Our cars are illegal in other countries." Al Gore's line about American cars being banned in China is completely false.
@howie_in_az: Science isn't magic. Gasoline contains a finite amount of energy, and we're running up against a theoretical limit for the internal combustion engine paradigm.
@Shadowfire: You are probably right on that, but not necessarily. If your local energy company uses a lot of hydroelectric power, for instance, you won't be contributing to smog somewhere else. (Not that dams are without environmental consequences!)
Furthermore, it's easier to regulate and control pollution from a large publicly owned utility than it is from a tailpipe. All neighborhood have cars in them, but few have power plants….
Plug in cars are not a complete solution, but they are a (potentially huge) improvement.
@scampy: If it weren't for government regulations, I could dump massive volumes of human waste upwind of your home. Damn gubmint….
@swalve: You are right, but do you honestly believe we are anywhere close to that limit? A combustion engine–at best–transfers 10% of the energy in fuel to movement. Huge amounts are wasted as heat. That limit for all intents and purposes is theoretical.
@Rectilinear Propagation:
I disagree about the 0-60 thing. Where I live I have an onramp to a major interstate that is about 200 feet long. So I need to be able to get to highway apeeds in that 200 feet or else Ill be like the old ladies who merge at 25mph and cause accidents
True but that is offensive and dangerous to everyone around you while driving a 20MPG vehicle hurts nobody but my wallet


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A dynamic chorus with high musical standards, the Conservatory Chorale explores and performs a rich variety of musical styles, a cappella and with orchestra, from the Renaissance to the present day. The Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale, which began in its present form in September 2006, continues a more than twenty-year-old tradition of choral music at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
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Argentine-born Nelly Vuksic has conducted extensively in USA and Latin America. In New York, she has collaborated with the American Composers Orchestra, Westchester Philharmonic, New York Choral Society, American Choral Directors Association, New York Symphonic Ensemble, and many other musical organizations. She is the founder and director of the Americas Vocal Ensemble, with which she developed a unique repertory and premiered more than a hundred new works of music from the three Americas. This repertory has been presented at many prestigious venues including the Americas Society, where Mrs. Vuksic was Artist in Residence for many years; the Organization of American States in Washington, DC; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; Merkin Hall and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, as well as various concert series and educational institutions in the New York metropolitan area. Nelly Vuksic served as the long-time director of the United Nations Singers, which she led on numerous international tours through Europe, Latin America, Japan, and the West Indies. She has conducted choral workshops for the American Choral Directors Association, the Orff Schulwerk Association, Pro Musica Rosario (Argentina), and Ministerio de Cultura de Huelva (Spain), among others. Mrs. Vuksic has recorded for Opus One, Premiere, North/South Records, 4Tay and Newport Classics. She has served as a panelist for Concurso Polifonico Internacional in Colombia as well as for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, North/South Consonance, and Meet The Composers. Nelly Vuksic has also been a regular guest conductor at Summer Sings for the New York Choral Society, West Village Chorale and other similar choral organizations. The international press, including Gramophone and other publications, has described her "winning Latin American spirit" as "crisp and accurate in difficult music" (New York Times), and lauded her as an "excellent conductor with impeccable technique" (El Tiempo, Colombia). Mrs. Vuksic conducts "with care and understanding" (Bonner Generalamzeiger, Germany) and "with precision and beauty" (La Capital, Argentina). The New Music Connoisseur stated that, "under the sure hand of Nelly Vuksic, we get nothing but total enchantment."
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In a landlocked country of Western Africa called Burkina Faso, hope sprouts in the form of goodwill and charity.
Hannah Roble, 17, of Streetsboro, along with Michael Spaans, 18, of Hudson and Bethany Jablonski, 17, of Twinsburg decided to make a difference and take a trip there.
Like many of those who are eager to help people struggling all around the world, Roble and her fellow travelers needed a way to get to such a faraway land. This help came in the form of the Hope Community Church in Hudson, which Roble and the others attend, and the program they provide, Engage Burkina, that enables ambitious young people like Roble to exercise their philanthropic impulses.
According to her mother, Leesa Roble, Hannah is naturally inclined to help those who need it, and in this case, people who have less than she does in a completely disparate area of the globe.
"Hannah sees how people live in other parts of the world, and she always wants to help," said Leesa.
The Rev. Paul Hunneycu, pastor of Hope Community Church, orchestrated the trip in a fashion optimizing the small group's impact on the area they were visiting. The trip was largely funded by donors to whom Hannah penned a thoughtful thank you letter.
The threesome visited a Compassion International site, an international nonprofit that provides aid to children globally who are living in poverty. The three teenagers also visited a shelter home for women at risk for falling into prostitution and built a roof for a local church.
Hannah has an especially soft spot in her heart for those born with disabilities. While the group attended the Compassion International event, they distributed special needs bikes that are peddled with the hands rather than the feet, as polio often robs children in Burkina Faso of their ability to walk, she said.
"They don't even have a family to love them here in Africa," said Hannah, explaining children who develop polio are often abandoned because they require resources that are scarce.
"One of the young ladies that helped take care of us could not afford a surgery to remove a tumor that would save her life. It would only cost $400 in American dollars," said Jablonski. According to Jablonski, her parents were supportive of her trip to Africa, because her older sister had gone and her parents then saw the impact these trips can have.
"I want to become a nurse, and I thought it would be great to go see the medical needs in other countries," said Jablonski.
Spaans explained that he was made aware of the Envision program trip by Hunneycut. Spaans speaks highly of his experience, but advises would-be aid volunteers to be mindful when considering embarking on such a journey yourself.
"Short-term mission trips often do not accomplish much and can be categorized as 'poverty tourism,'" said Spaans.
Leesa explained that she wasn't thrilled about the idea of her daughter traveling to such a distant, and in many cases dangerous, destination.
"I was apprehensive to allow Hannah to travel to Africa," she said, but Hunneycut told her he'd been on many trips to Birkina Faso and that's it's one of the safest spots in Africa.
Hunneycut is still active in organizing mission trips and has extended his program to the Cleveland area to engage teens in that area in the philanthropic travels he provides.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A New Bedford woman driving the wrong way on two major highways caused a four-car accident on the Iway bridge late Friday night, according to state police.
Capt. James Manni said state police started receiving calls around 10:30 p.m. about a car heading south in the northbound lane on Route 95. Police then started getting calls about the same car heading east on the westbound lane of Route 195.
The car subsequently struck an oncoming vehicle on the Iway, the bridge span over the Providence River. That collision caused two other vehicles to crash.
Manni said the wrong way driver, Lindsay M. Roberts, 28, and three others were transported to Rhode Island Hospital. The victims had minor injuries and were treated and released.
Roberts suffered severe lacerations to her leg and was still in surgery as of Saturday morning.
She has been charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving and is expected to be arraigned sometime Saturday.
Manni said Roberts was one of nine drunk drivers state police arrested Friday night, including another wrong-way driver.
Two of the arrests were in the southern area of the state; the other seven were in the northern area, he said.
"I've never seen anything like it," Manni said. "It's was an unusual night."
He said Casandra Royce, 24, of Providence, was arrested heading south on the northbound lane of I-95 at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday.
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MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Demolition is under way of a 45-bed community hospital and two adjacent medical office buildings in Moore that were struck by a deadly tornado last month.
Employees and former patients of the Moore Medical Center were among a few hundred people who gathered outside the building Tuesday for a ceremony before a trackhoe started ripping the building apart.
About 200 people worked full-time at the medical center, which is part of the Norman Regional Health System. The buildings were determined by structural engineers and insurance adjusters to be a total loss.
Norman Regional officials say most of the employees at the center are being absorbed into other hospitals in Norman.
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It wasn't close to the real deal, but if Thursday's earthquake drill at the Tech Museum of Innovation proved anything, it's that preparing for the Big One is child's play. Well, maybe not that easy, but it isn't all that difficult, either.
At precisely 10:15 a.m. in downtown San Jose, 13-year-old Arturo Silva and about 800 other schoolchildren ducked under tables, counters and benches as part of the Great California Shakeout drill. An hour later and a few blocks away, at the Children's Discovery Museum, some 225 children and adults did their version of the "drop, cover and hold" exercise.
Throughout the state, 6.9 million Californians, including 148,000 in Santa Clara County, had registered for what organizers called the "world's largest earthquake drill" ever in advance of Saturday's 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Like many of his classmates from Columbia Middle School in Sunnyvale, Arturo giggled at least part-way through the exercise. It was old hat for the eighth-grade student.
"In a real one, we would be hurt and screaming," he said.
What he learned a little later was also invaluable: how to put an emergency earthquake kit together.
Cara Dodge, a museum staffer, had dumped a lot of household stuff on a table and asked Arturo to choose 10 essential survival items. Dodge nudged him along.
"You'll be stepping on a lot of broken glass," she said, "so what do you need?" Arturo pointed at a sensible sneaker.
"There won't be any electricity," Dodge said.
Arturo chose a crank-up flashlight and radio. By then, a half-dozen boys and girls had joined in the fun. In no time, they had a survival package that included a first-aid kit, gloves and a less-obvious item — a sanitary mask. Earthquakes don't just knock things down, they raise a lot of dust and even toxic materials like asbestos.
A host of high-ranking emergency officials in suits and firefighters and paramedics in uniform were on hand, anxious to get out the word that basic earthquake preparation and reaction can save more lives than all the emergency services put together.
"There are only 34 fire stations in San Jose, so we can't be everywhere for everyone," said David Salazar. The San Jose Fire Department captain was inviting children to take a look inside an ambulance parked on the sidewalk for the occasion. "Most people will be on their own after an earthquake. That's how events like this one help."
The drill at The Tech included "rides" on platforms and trucks that mimicked the movements of the Loma Prieta quake, which registered 6.9 on the Richter scale.
Giselle Rios, 13, and her mother, Jessica Rios, 29, stepped onto a simulator with a small group of students.
Before flipping the switch, museum volunteer John Nunn told the students, "You weren't born yet, but it happened anyway." The platform jolted sharply three times and then rattled violently sideways for several seconds. The kids clutched the handrails and readied themselves as if they were on a ride at the Great America amusement park.
"Stop giggling," Jessica Rios told her daughter. "This isn't funny!"
"OK, Mom!"
When the simulation ended, Nunn said, "Remember, the Loma Prieta earthquake killed 63 people."
Afterward, Jessica Rios spoke about the afternoon of Oct. 17, 1989, when her family's house in Sunnyvale shook and drove her mother out of the house in a mild panic. Nobody was hurt, but she wonders if she'd be so lucky in another earthquake because she works on the third floor of an office building.
"I'm learning a lot today," Jessica said. He daughter nodded and said, "Yes, I am too."
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Microsoft Strategy Officer Casts Doubts on Tablets
Microsoft, which famously missed the significance of the internet and was very late in having a credible smart phone operating system, has cast doubt on the longevity of the tablet.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a lunch held by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), at which Microsoft's global chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie was speaking.
Mr. Mundie said he did not know whether tablets like the iPad would "remain with us or not".
"I think there's an important distinction – and frankly one we didn't jump on at Microsoft fast enough – between mobile and portable," he said.
"Mobile is something that you want to use while you're moving, and portable is something that you move and then use.
"These are going to bump into one another a little bit and so today you can see tablets and pads and other things that are starting to live in the space in between. Personally I don't know whether that space will be a persistent one or not."
This is a surprising statement to come from Microsoft which has long been a champion of tablet computing.
Bill Gates predicted in late 2002 that "the Tablet is a PC that is virtually without limits—and within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America."
A version of Windows XP, the Tablet PC edition, was released in early 2003.
In 2005, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, displayed a Lenovo tablet at Microsofts' TechEd Conference. And in 2010 he announced that the company would be working with HP to create a tablet running Windows 7. It was released in October of that year.
Meanwhile in 2010 Apple launched the iPad. It sold nearly 15 million devices world wide that year.
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