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I have to commend the city of Warren for the outstanding job they've done in making the Northend Park a beautiful place to see and visit.
The variety of trees planted and the well-maintained grass - which at one point was growing a little wild - but now the whole park is a place of art. And the new sign, to me, is more like a monument of the past and now present and future of this wonderful place to have fun and enjoy the beauty of it.
You have the bike trail that runs through it, the pavilion, the picnic tables, the restrooms and even drinking fountains. It's really a treasure to behold. My wife and I have been living only one street over from the park; we can see if from our backyard. For 27 years we've lived in the same area where our children grew up. Our kids played at the old Northend Park, and now our grandsons can enjoy the new Northend Park. It is truly amazing.
Thanks to the city of Warren for giving us and our neighbors a little piece of Heaven on Earth. I can't wait to see it a few years down the road when the trees start growing and sprouting their leaves. I just hope and pray that this absolutely beautiful park doesn't fall victim to hooligans messing up the place.
Warren is really starting to shape up and look like the beautiful city it was meant to be. I just can't say enough about this outstanding park. It's an eye-catcher, for sure. And that's what we need is more places like this for the city. Like the amphitheater - another piece of art - it's absolutely beautiful. It is job well done and gives our neighborhood a transformation to be cherished for generations to come.
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'Want to come to Mulberry Plantation?" I asked my 15-year-old daughter. She gave me a look that suggested she'd rather pick slugs off budding hostas.
"You'll miss seeing one of the most prestigious privately owned plantations in South Carolina."
Her expression intensified, as if to say she'd pick those slugs off with her bare fingers. So I went alone to meet Angela Livingston, the horticulture manager of Mulberry Plantation, at the front gates.
Livingston, a former Trident Technical College horticulture student, has managed 55 acres for the past nine years, along with six full-time employees and one part-time.
Mulberry Plantation has a rich place in the Southern history books. To preserve its storied history, it was purchased in 1987 by the Historic Charleston Foundation to keep it from commercial development.
It was later purchased by a private party and, to this day, Mulberry Plantation consists of 1,704 privately owned acres. At least 300 acres of the property were once rice fields.
Live oaks greet me along the entry lane, their heavy branches arching over the road. Great care has been taken to preserve these Southern treasures, including lightning protection.
Livingston says her management style has changed over the years. She used to proactively control every pest she saw, but now she's more likely to let insects feed if they aren't a threat.
In fact, she says, it's thrilling to watch nature. She once cheered when a dragonfly snatched a blackfly from mid-air. Her kids thought she was nuts. However, this management style fits wonderfully with the natural beauty of Mulberry Plantation.
Our first stop is the main house, of which much has been written. Built on a hill, the main house is one of the oldest brick manors in South Carolina. Livingston shows me the pockmarks where musket balls from previous wars had struck and, in some cases, are still imbedded. The front lawn consists of 5 acres of turf framed by Spanish moss-laden live oaks.
The kitchen garden is north of the main house and confined within fig-covered brick walls and a cast-iron gate. The formal design consists of mostly herbs and a few citrus plants that are ornamentally appealing as well as used for cooking.
Livingston's staff starts most plants by seed. At the time of my visit, the seasonal garden is filled with thyme, parsley and basil, but that is subject to change.
The east side of the house overlooks flooded rice fields, the primary crop on the plantation until the early 1900s, and beyond that, the Cooper River. Residents and guests can sit in the parterre garden, designed by Loutrel Briggs in 1930, beneath the shade of sagging live oaks and enjoy a truly Southern view.
Livingston takes me through various gardens where magnolias, oaks and cedars are prolific. What's truly exceptional is the experience of outdoor rooms, where each part of the expansive garden is screened with hedges to allow me to "discover" the landscape as we walked.
We approach the guest house but not before encountering the reflection pool. The elongated rectangular water feature was designed by Sheila Wertimer and contains black-dyed water, the still surface holding the reflection of a leaning live oak. The tranquility of this space is enhanced by the cool shade and trickling fountain.
"This is my favorite space," Livingston says. And I agree with her.
The guest house is covered with fig vine that is meticulously trimmed around the windows and doors. "The fig vine," Livingston says, "is one of the most intensive areas on the plantation to manage."
However, the textural effect is visually pleasing.
They cut back the fig on the two-story guest house three times a year.
They can reduce the maintenance to twice a year if they use a plant growth regulator, but the effect it had on nearby plants wasn't worth it. Asiatic jasmine is the only thing that competes with fig maintenance.
The crew wears snake boots when cutting it back since copperheads lurk in the thick groundcover. A raised mower had once been used but too much collateral damage to the irrigation system took them back to weed eaters and snake boots.
We circle around the guest house to the front lawn.
From this vantage point, the view back to the main house is quite stately. Beyond the front lawn is a field of broom grass enclosed by a Colonial-style split-rail fence. The broom grass and fence lend an old-world feeling to the setting. I can see the corn fields in the distance.
Livingston says that dove and quail hunting is quite popular with the owners and that they'd planted a field of sunflowers along with 5 acres of corn to provide food and habitat for fowl.
"The sunflowers are a spectacular sight, the way the flowers follow the sun," she says.
Nature seems balanced on the plantation. It's obvious that the undisturbed habitat and available food source makes it a perfect respite for rabbits, deer, turkeys, ducks, raccoons and fox squirrels
Occasionally, something will kill a chicken or they'll have to remove a large alligator, but for the most part, nature takes care of itself.
We take a ride to the south house, built in 1835, where guests often stay. The shade garden at the south house rivals the reflection pond in its tranquility, alive with diverse plantings of farfugium, fatsia and hosta.
Next to it is the glass house that serves as the greenhouse for tropical and houseplants. It was designed by Glenn Keyes and, as Livingston says, needs to be seen at night when it's lit up. It's spectacular.
We drive to the south end of the plantation that, for the most part, is left completely undisturbed.
Livingston points out countless live oaks that define the Southern landscape, many of which look at least 500 years old.
Some of the live oaks growing near the main house are protected with lightning rods that divert a potentially lethal strike outside the tree and into the ground.
"However, they can't all be protected by lightning," she says, showing me the escalating decay of one tree struck years ago.
They were treating it to prevent insect damage until nature saw an opportunity and a bee hive established in the hollow of the trunk. That was three years ago. The bees are still there and the tree is still alive.
The two-hour tour goes too quickly. On our way, we stop to let a turtle cross the road. I want to tell Livingston not to pinch herself, she's living the horticulturist's dream. But then I wouldn't need to tell her that. She already knows.
Tony Bertauski is a horticulture instructor at Trident Technical College. To give feedback, email him at email@example.com.

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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Maria Sharapova recently returned to
the practice courts ... and has done so with a new coach in tow.
The 26-year-old superstar announced last week that she's now employing the
extremely reputable Sven Groeneveld as her new mentor, as the tall Russian
looks forward to returning next season after missing basically the last three
months of the 2013 WTA campaign while being shelved with shoulder bursitis and
a hip injury.
Following a stunning second-round loss against 131st-ranked 20-year-old
swashbuckling Portuguese Michelle Larcher de Brito at Wimbledon in late-June,
Maria played in only one event in the second half of the year -- the Western &
Southern Open in Cincinnati in mid-August -- where she also suffered a second-
round loss, this time at the hands of promising American Sloane Stephens.
After titling in Stuttgart for a second straight year back in April, the 6-
foot-2 Sharapova would appear in only five more tournaments the rest of the
year, including a 1-3 record over her final four matches of the season. She
lost to current world No. 1 obstacle Serena Williams in a pair of marquee
finals, in Madrid in May and at the French Open in June. Maria had been the
reigning French Open champ and won her previous 13 matches at the lone
clay court major.
Part of the reason that Sharapova hired Groeneveld is that she wants the
Dutchman to help her in her recent futile efforts against the mighty Williams,
who has won their last 13 matchups, dating all the way back to 2004.
Yes, she hasn't beaten Serena in nine years (and you can make it 10 when 2014
gets underway).
In Groeneveld, the 13-year-pro Sharapova is getting one of the most
experienced coaches in the game, as he's previously worked with such WTA stars
as former No. 1s Monica Seles, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Ana Ivanovic, and
Caroline Wozniacki, as well as former top-five performers Mary Pierce and Mary
Joe Fernandez. He's also worked with a bevy of ATP studs, including the great
Roger Federer and former top-five German racquet men Michael Stich, Nicolas
Kiefer and Tommy Haas.
"It has been a very seamless transition and I have had a lot of fun with the
hard work we have put in so far," Sharapova said of her brief stint with
Groeneveld. "Looking forward to the year ahead."
The career Grand Slam winner had a fabulous first half in 2013, going 36-5,
including titles in Indian Wells and Stuttgart and reaching four straight
finals at one point. The former world No. 1 opened the year at No. 2, with
Thomas Hogstedt as her coach, but then finished at No. 4, thanks in part to
the late inactivity.
Maria canned Hogstedt during the year, and then hired the legendary Jimmy
Connors. But her blink-of-an-eye partnership with Connors ended after only one
month and one match (the aforementioned loss in Cincy).
The tall, wealthy Russian (who is the highest-paid female athlete on the
planet) will open her 2014 season at an Australian Open tune-up late next
month in Brisbane, where Serena and fellow former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka are
also expected to be on hand.
The Florida resident Maria will actually return to action next week, however,
to play an exhibition match against her fellow former world No. 1 Ivanovic in
Bogota, Colombia.
So it looks like 'all systems go' right now.
Here's hoping to a return of good form.
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Centrose is developing advanced types of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) called extracellular drug conjugates (EDCs). Like ADCs, EDCs use monoclonal antibodies to target a drug to a particular type of cell, such as those found in tumors. But unlike ADCs, the antibody and drug component of the EDC are not internalized. Instead, they work synergistically on proteins on the cell surface.
This feature overcomes several technical limitations that have plagued ADCs in the past, according to the firm. With ADCs, if the antibody's target is also present on normal cells, toxicity becomes a problem. In addition, after the ADC antibody binds to a cell, the entire ADC must be internalized and the drug enzymatically released from the antibody to become activated inside the cell. This internalization process is somewhat inefficient and requires the use of highly toxic drugs to insure activity. Consequently, ADCs often cause off-target side effects.
In the Centrose EDC system, the drug acts to kill the cell only in specific disease stages and when the antibody and drug targets are present in close proximity. Both the drug and antibody act together on selected cell surface targets to generate signals that are transmitted into the cell, leading to apoptosis and/or necrosis. This specificity prevents toxic side effects, the firm says. The EDC platform allows for the construction of drugs that can target not only cancerous cells, but also other disease conditions.
James Prudent, Ph.D., CEO and president, started Centrose along with two professors in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Jon Thorson, Ph.D., and the late C. Richard Hutchinson, Ph.D. They developed CarboConnect®, the company's carbohydrate linkage technology that binds the antibody to the drug.
"We synthetically make sugars with tags on them, typically amines. These amino sugars can be synthesized on a variety of small molecule drugs, which are screened for activity," says Dr. Prudent. Subtle changes in the sugar linkages can greatly alter EDC potency. The company's name reflects the importance of sugars as linkers in the technology platform.
Centrose researchers are screening for new leads to use in the EDC platform. The company's first EDCs are built around approved steroidal drugs that show anticancer activity, but are too toxic to combat cancer. Centrose's EDC technology allows these drugs to bind their targets only when involved in a disease-related complex. The drug then acts specifically on diseased cells with few or no side effects, the firm claims.
Identified drug leads so far show a 50% rate of success when combined with Centrose's monoclonal antibodies and linker system. By increasing the number and types of antibody and drug combinations, Dr. Prudent hopes to uncover many more EDCs for preclinical testing.
Currently, Centrose has seven EDC drug candidates and 32 additional prescreened leads in its pipeline. The first class of EDCs targets the sodium/potassium ATPase, which is usually considered an ion channel and is highly expressed in multiple cancers. However, research at Centrose and elsewhere suggests that this cell surface protein functions as more than an ion pump.
"It's a membrane spanning protein that complexes with proteins inside and is involved in cell proliferation and death. We don't fully understand all of its implications, but the target appears to be a central player in multiple disease states," says Dr. Prudent.
A main target of the sodium/potassium ATPase is Src kinase. When an EDC binds and changes the conformation of the ATPase, Src kinase is activated, which, in turn, phosphorylates proteins that trigger cell death. Other proteins are likely involved, such as IP3 (inositol triphosphate) and PI3Ks, a family of intracellular signal transducers involved in cancer.
Centrose's lead candidate, EDC1, is effective against non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), one of the most aggressive tumor types known, the firm notes. NSCLC accounts for 85% of lung cancer, and more than half of cases present at an advanced stage with little hope for survival.
EDC1 complexes to FXYD5 (also known as dysadherin), a recognized subunit of the sodium/potassium ATPase. Late-stage metastatic cancer cells express high levels of FXYD5, and it is considered a sole prognostic indicator for poor cancer outcomes.
The second program, EDC2, complexes with CD147, a protein highly expressed on the cell surface of carcinoma cells. EDC2 shows strong efficacy against several cancer types. Other EDCs found to date are selective for a variety of specific disease complexes. "We typically use antibodies with some disease significance, mainly oncology," says Dr. Prudent.
Centrose is building a portfolio of EDCs to license to pharmaceutical companies for further testing. The revenue raised will be used to develop, test, and move to market other EDCs in house.
"We're in negotiations with several pharmaceutical companies for access to our lead programs and core technology," says Dr. Prudent. The EDC system could be a way to resurrect drugs that were shelved because they lack specificity or efficacy.
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Why not?
Let's face it. Brunner was expected to be good with good linemates, such as Z and Dats. Everyone, including myself, thought that Z and Brunner would be a good match, since they've done so well in the Swiss league during the lockout.
Now, we've seen that:
a) Brunner can score
b) Brunner + Z can work in the NHL well, but sometimes they don't. They're still very good, but not great.
c) Brunner + Dats usually don't work too well (except in the PP probably).
I didn't think Brunner would be any good in a 3rd line. But I think this is the time to try it. Let Brunner play with Tatar & Tootoo! Give them some ice time, and let's see how they do! Tatar and Tootoo have both been working very hard all the time, and I think that they could probably be a good fit for Brunner's sniper abilities. Brunner needs guys who work hard along his side. Tootoo and Tatar do. And of course, the two can score as well!
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It stood as an ornate symbol of steel industry might and job opportunity.
But as the Bethlehem Steel Administration Building languished for decades – empty and without purpose – it became a different symbol altogether for Lackawanna.
A sad shell of its glory days, with trees sprouting from a tattered roof, the timeworn facade reflected just how far Lackawanna had fallen since Bethlehem stopped making steel in the city that steel made.
Crews began tearing down the 1901 building in March and have scooped up nearly all of its pulverized remains.
"When it closed, it just sat there and rotted," said Mayor Geoffrey M. Szymanski, who pushed for its demolition in the face of preservationists' strong opposition.
So now the questions linger: Did razing the deteriorated structure come from a new playbook for doing things better while embracing reform after 30 years of decline following Bethlehem's departure? Or was it another chapter of inept leadership and lack of foresight in Lackawanna?
Szymanski, just a boy in 1983 when Bethlehem stopped making steel in Lackawanna, calls it a turning point.
For years, Bethlehem pumped plumes of smoke into the sky and bundles of tax money into the city budget. The ultimate company town, Lackawanna at one time received more than two-thirds of all its revenue from the steel plant.
But Szymanski never witnessed the boom times.
Instead, he remembers friends sitting next to him in class one day and gone the next. Fathers who lost jobs at the plant moved away with their families to find work.
Doomsayers predicted that residents would flee en masse and that basic city services such as policing and firefighting would be eliminated, with municipal bankruptcy all but inevitable.
None of these scenarios happened, of course. The city stared down a couple of fiscal crises, raised taxes, laid off dozens of workers and survived with aid from Erie County. But Lackawanna has not fully recovered.
Thirty years after losing steelmaking, the city still shows severe signs of rust.
It is older, poorer and smaller, with a crumbling infrastructure and stagnant tax base. Making improvements has been compromised by decades of political shenanigans, patronage hiring and stifling legacy costs.
In 1982, the Bethlehem site brought about $6 million in property taxes to the city.
Today, the figure is well south of $1 million, and the assessed value of the 1,400 acres is constantly being challenged.
"We're stuck on a treadmill," said City Council President Henry R. Pirowski, "and we're not moving forward."
Catch-up list long, growing
Pirowski was just a baby when Bethlehem began shutting down. Like Szymanski, he ran in 2011 on a campaign to pull Lackawanna out its post-Bethlehem funk and into the 21st century.
They have their work cut out for them. In many ways, the city remains frozen in 1983.
Take something as simple as a 911 call for a fire emergency.
Most communities use central dispatching systems for police and fire, but in Lackawanna, a 911 call for an ambulance or fire is routed to police. The police then contact the fire station's "alarm room," where a firefighter dispatcher relays the emergency call to fire personnel.
The clunky system not only wastes valuable time, it requires the Fire Department to keep a trained firefighter at the station house to field calls.
"We don't want firemen answering telephones and I don't want policemen answering telephones. They belong in cars and on the trucks," said Dana J. Britton, a former police officer who now is the city's director of public safety. "It's kind of common sense."
Britton said the city's contracts with the police and fire unions stipulate the current setup, which leads to higher personnel costs, because an assigned officer and firefighter take calls. "I don't know how [the unions] got it," he said. "They think the steel plant's still around, and it's not."
The catch-up list is long and is growing:
• Much of Lackawanna's playground equipment "was old when I was a kid," the mayor acknowledges, and he hopes to replace at least some of the play sets this summer.
• The city ranked dead last among the state's 62 cities in revenue growth between 1980 and 2010.
• Contracts with four unions of city employees have expired, some as long as five years ago.
• City Hall, often ridiculed as Lackawanna's ugliest building, needs numerous repairs.
• The school system's student scores on state tests ranked second from the bottom – above only Buffalo – among school districts in Western New York, according to a Business First of Buffalo analysis.
• The city is one of four in New York in danger of maxing out the total amount of property taxes that it can raise under state law.
• Traffic studies show that dozens of stop signs and traffic lights, installed when as many as 20,000 cars entered and left the steel plant daily, are no longer necessary.
The city has a two-tiered property tax structure, taxing businesses at more than double the rate of homeowners.
Few homeowners complain of high taxes, but many small businesses have folded since Bethlehem left.
"You could walk down Center Street and go to four different grocery stores. Now, there's not a store on Center Street," said Michael J. Sobaszek, president of the Lackawanna Chamber of Commerce. "We've got more industrial, buildable, usable land than anybody, and it's sitting there. Why? Because who's going to pay $70 per $1,000 in taxes by the time you add in the city, county and school district?"
Daunting legacy costs
The city currently has just 800 properties taxed at the nonhomestead rate – including homes with four units or more – to go with 5,382 parcels that are considered homestead.
"It's more like a retirement and bedroom community," said longtime resident and retired firefighter James P. Drozdowski. "There's no kids anymore. All we've got are senior citizens and some small families."
To attract new small businesses, the mayor and City Council shifted more of the tax burden onto homeowners. But city officials walk a tightrope with any tax shift, because many homeowners are senior citizens on fixed incomes.
Both Szymanski and Pirowski talk about making the city more business-friendly.
Lackawanna's reputation in that regard has not been strong. Even Bethlehem Steel battled for years with the city, blaming high property taxes for its woes in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But city officials refused to take less and tighten spending.
"It was the golden goose, and they milked it dry," Pirowski said.
And the city still pays.
Lackawanna has more retired police officers, firefighters and other municipal employees earning pensions – 199 in all – than people currently working for the city.
"Our budget," said Szymanski, "is retirees and union positions."
Critics say the patronage continues unabashedly in Lackawanna. It can be found just about everywhere where public money is spent: City Hall, the school district and the Lackawanna Municipal Housing Authority.
"It's mind-boggling," said Dennis M. Mulqueen Jr., one of the few Republicans in the city. "Nepotism here has got to be the worst. And I think the main thing holding the city back is nepotism."
Mulqueen believes the city's one-party dominance has a lot to do with it. The last Republican mayor of Lackawanna was in 1972, he said. A Republican has not sat on the Council in 22 years. It all leads to backdoor deals and no public input, Mulqueen said. Take a look at most Council meetings.
"It's pretty much rubber-stamped before you get there," he said. "They don't have much of a discussion in front of people. Without checks and balances, can a city really ever change?"
For Mulqueen, Bethlehem's demise is also a red herring for today's elected officials.
"It's a lame excuse, the steel plant closed. No kidding. Move on," Mulqueen said. "You still hear them use that excuse to this day. It's pathetic. That was 30 years ago."
The current mayor and Council members say they understand that, even if their predecessors did not. "The equation changed in 1983. As far as I'm concerned, the politicians didn't adjust to it. Now we're doing that," Szymanski said.
Joseph L. Jerge, the Council's newest member, said governance is improving. "I think accountability was a problem in the past," said Jerge, owner of Mulberry Italian Ristorante. "You can go back in the minutes to laws that were passed and things that were done and never followed-through on. That's what's been missing for the last 30 years."
The mayor and Pirowski say they agree on many ideas they believe could help move the city forward. Both view redeveloping the 1,400-acre former Bethlehem site as the key to Lackawanna's resurgence.
Old habits die hard in the steel city, though. The mayor and the Council have battled in court since last year over whether a Szymanski appointee should remain as the city's public works commissioner. And residents who fought to save the Bethlehem Steel Administration Building felt little had changed in City Hall.
A forward-thinking city administration would have done more to preserve the building and find a viable reuse, said Danielle L. Huber of the Lackawanna Industrial Heritage Group.
Huber points to Bethlehem, Pa., where much of its former steel plant campus has been converted into an arts and entertainment district, with a Sands casino and resort and other amenities.
"They experienced the same type of situation, the same kind of loss," Huber said. "The purpose of us trying to save that building was more than just the history and the architecture."
Still, some longtime observers of Lackawanna's political scene see reason for optimism.
"You have a younger generation at the reins of Lackawanna government," said the Rev. Mark Blue, pastor of Second Baptist Church. "I'm hoping that it's not the same old, same old Lackawanna government."
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With few exceptions, Ive never considered myself an especially good gift-giver. I do a lot of thinking and a lot of looking and quite often am not a lot satisfied with my final choice. Sometimes though, fate begets inspiration. For instance, our son-in-law Todd makes an incredible tamponade. After hearing how he spent hours chopping the various ingredients, I showed him my mini-processor and he said hed have to get one. I promptly went out and bought one for his birthday then still months away and presented it immediately. I just knew he would buy one for himself and I wanted to give him just the right thing.
On the other end of the scale is our son David, who when I said to him I just didnt know what to get for his last birthday, informed me that he had told me numerous times over the last several months that he could use a couple of new crab traps. Couldnt I take a hint? Or several of them? Apparently not! (Alas, I just never thought of a crab trap as a gift.)
My predicament is made even worse because my family always seems to choose just right. For instance, the picture they gave us for our recent wedding anniversary. Its a beautiful, highly detailed photograph of a pelican in flight. Synergy was the secret here. Pelicans are one of my favorite birds. The photo was taken by a very special person, Brant Barrett, our nephew and the ring-bearer in our wedding 55 years ago this month. Brant has now retired and gone into photography, specializing in Lowcountry scenes and species. We had glimpsed his prize-winning photo and raved about it. Result: the kids ordered one for us. Then David and his son Riley made a special trip to Myrtle Beach and back to pick it up in time for the anniversary celebration. I think of each and every one of these things whenever I look at this photograph perched atop our mantle. I just wish I could do this kind of thing for those who are special to me.
I finally discovered a (kind of) way something I had rejected for ages. When my mom got up in years, she turned to giving cash or gift certificates. She said it was easier on her and then everybody could get what they wanted. I turned up my nose. Just you wait, she told me, youll change your mind when you get a few more years on you! She proved it by presenting me with a gift certificate on my next birthday. Turns out I was delighted and spent ages perusing choices and got something I really fancied.
The light dawned. Its gleam was helped by the aging and changing of our six-pack of grands. Their likes, wants and needs seem to vary weekly as do their got-to-have styles and trends. Ive discovered that from about middle school upward, they really like to get what mom used to call the where with all. As she predicted, Ive expanded this method to adults in the family too.
And as much as Ive chewed this over mentally, verbally and on paper, I can say with some authority that its truly the thought that counts!
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All the shows so far have been ATROCIOUS. I'm so glad I switched to PC gaming a few years back. RIDICULOUS they can actually sell this rehashed GARBAGE and people eat it up over and over. I predict a Wii U flop. What do you guys think?
Personally, I don't really care about the Wii U, but I am stoked for both AC3 games. Looks like I'll be paying a small fortune to import the Freedom Edition though.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
Among the big three's presentation, i'm only moderately impress by microsoft's. Their xbox 360 eco system is becoming quite impressive and complicated and the coming window 8 is just opening too much possibility...much more than the Wii U imo.
This is mmorpg.com. What don't we consider a miserable failure?
I think the Wii U "should" flop but enough chumps will buy it only to find the same lack of good games that the Wii had. So far the only games I'm looking forward to are AC3, Watch Dogs, and The Last of Us.
Watch Dogs was probably the only game that has peaked my interest so far. And the demo was shown on either a a PS3 or Xbox360, if we believe the reports -> http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=66217
Originally posted by SuperXero89
This is mmorpg.com. What don't we consider a miserable failure?
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
I take it you didn't buy this year's hypE3?
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This is mmorpg.com. What don't we consider a miserable failure?
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but but but they will have nintendoland..................
"All expectation leads to suffering" Buhhda
Just posting to say I like this thread's title.
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but but but they will have nintendoland.................. /groan
LMMFAO. so ridiculous right?
Well i dont really see any mutch garbage at this E3, there few really great new game projects for E.G from Ubisoft(check for your self) then there really great sequels.
Originally posted by SuperXero89
This is mmorpg.com. What don't we consider a miserable failure?
lol so true +1
People think Nintendo will fail everytime and they are proven wrong every time, as long as it is cheaper then all other consoles and focusing and games for younger people parents will snatch it up first before any other consoles.
that said i felt the nintendo conference was better then all the other, even though it was pretty much blah E3
"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
- Lewis Thomas
Wow..was it really that bad :O (didn't see it)
Maybe we will finally get some decent improvements if a lil bit more fail is introduced!
"Isn't a raid plundering villages in WoW or something like that?" - Robert Desable
It was a terrible E3 this year. If any company could be said to have "won" E3, it'd have to be Ubisoft since they have a great line-up of games, but otherwise...
Microsoft introduced SmartGlass and Internet Explorer for Xbox360!!! /facepalm
EA talked about DLC, DLC, DLC, DLC,DLC,DLC,DLC,DLC,DLC,DLC,DLC, PLEASE COME BACK TO SWTOR, DLC,DLC,DLC.
Ubisoft showed some pretty decent footage of Assassin's Creed 3 (more footage was shown at SONY's conference), Rayman Legends looked alright, Watch Dog seemed like an interesting title to look forward to. The Host (Aisha Tyler) and Co-Host (Tobby Turner) were terrible however...or at least their script was.
SONY didn't do anything amazing or terribly bad. Still pushing the VITA and now cross-platform. Upgraded their Playstation Plus service and introduced Playstation Mobile. A decent line-up of games (The Last Of Us, Assassin's Creed 3, Beyond) but besides that, nothing that really makes them stand out.
Nintendo was a mess. It started out really nice and professional, some interesting titles (Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion, New Super Mario Bros.) and then it went downhill...and fast. They're pushing their focus even more on "Family" (if you thought it wasn't possible, guess again) and then went ahead and introduced those fitness games and horrible "NintendoLand" which is some sort of ...I don't know what it is actually...it's a mess.
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Originally posted by SuperXero89
This is mmorpg.com. What don't we consider a miserable failure?
I think 5-10G(iga) sales and keeping increasing player base for 100 years or so is borderline success... Also, game does need to have good and exact fluid, particle and gas simulations at mininum.
Hmm, gaming isn't at innovative state currently also these old gen consoles are holding things back, good thing I got my Steam backlog...
Watch Dogs was a really big surprize and according to some of my associates who are there, 'the game that saved E3'.
The last of us looks awesome / GOTY material but everyone knew it is good. I have it on pre-order and thus have no interest in looking at more media about it.
Yeah, the press conferences wasn't that great but we are on the 'end year of the current console generation' and considering that it wasn't 'too bad'. IMO
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Originally posted by Ekaros Hmm, gaming isn't at innovative state currently also these old gen consoles are holding things back.
Not even close.
A new generation always introduces crap titles to ride along with the launch and pad the stables and one or two already successful titles now on the new box to gather sales.
Innovation in gameplay doesn't need technology, unless the technology itself is innovative. The next gen's upgraded but MOTS tech and authoritarian views on rented games is NOT going to pave the way for the next generation game ideas.
'Sandbox MMO' is a PTSD trigger word for anyone who has the experience to know that anonymous players invariably use a 'sandbox' in the same manner a housecat does.
When your head is stuck in the sand, your ass becomes the only recognizable part of you.
No game is more fun than the one you can't play, and no game is more boring than one which you've become familiar.
How to become a millionaire:
Start with a billion dollars and make an MMO.
I'm sure it will do well...most of their stuff does. It caters to a larger audience than say....PC players and the older gamers who prefer Xbox and PS3. I would really love it if they busted out some high tech console to have great older games in HD quality....games that we loved Nintendo for.
One thing I've noticed, and I noticed it last year....is that the E3 show just seems very "desperate" in general. I feel they are trying way to hard to be "cool" and "with it" The presentations are so freaking cheesy and just some of the speakers seem to be dying on stage....like a bad comic. So much that the show is uncomfortable to watch at times......maybe its just me, not digging it.
While this E3 wasn't the best, it is the end of this console generation and with that in mind there is some really cool stuff coming out especially those Sony exclusives and soem really good third party games like tomb raiders, splinter cell and crysis.
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Originally posted by Ekaros Hmm, gaming isn't at innovative state currently also these old gen consoles are holding things back.
Velo, just ignore that I quoted you. I scanned back the first two pages and couldn't find this post. And kind of in a hurry.
Gaming is in a very innovative state right now.
DayZ being the current big one, and no I don't care if it is a mod or not.
Guild Wars 2 (an actually dynamic MMO? With a day/night system? No grinding for raid items? No grinding for PvP items? Count me in)
X3 (though it isn't really new...a new X3 game is coming out with a new game however, so it kind of counts)
Planetside 2 later this year (don't know when, granted there was already a Planetside 1...but very few actually huge open world persistant fps games)
and many others. Most of them are indie games, yeah. But some big companies (like with GW2) are coming out with innovative games. Whether (some) people like them or not, doesn't really matter if the game has good, innovative features.
Most innovation definitely comes from the indie guys though. That is where the future lies, for the most part.
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WoW already does WoW good.
PvPers that gank newbies, are carebears. They don't want a challenge (like a carebear), they just want easy mode (like a carebear) and a no challenge combat (like a carebear).


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Joe Hazinsky had the unique distinction of playing with the two greatest post-Maurice Stokes era players St. Francis ever had.
Hazinsky arrived as a freshman in 1968 - just in time to spend a season with senior Norm Van Lier before becoming Kevin Porter's chief beneficiary and backcourt mate from 1969-72.
"Norm Van Lier was my idol," Hazinsky, one of five players set to be honored at St. Francis' Men's Basketball Golden Era Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 29, recalled the other day. "He was truly a big brother to us. And Kevin Porter made me the player I was."
Hazinsky scored 1,187 points, a 15.4 per-game average for three years, and upon graduation was the 10th-leading scorer in school history.
He was a product of the Philadelphia Catholic League, then a fertile recruiting territory for St. Francis, and combined with Porter to form the school's most dynamic backcourt.
"Kevin was a special player," Hazinsky said. "He was so fast, and he knew where I was all the time. We scored a lot of points together because he was a great passer. I knew how to move without the ball, and if I was open, I got the ball. Kevin made it easy for us."
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When: Saturday, June 29. Cocktail hour at 5 p.m., dinner at 6, induction ceremony at 7:30.
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Former St. Francis men's basketball coach Dave Magarity, now coaching the Army women's program, was an underclassman at the time. He said, "That was a great backcourt. Hazinsky was tremendous, one of the greatest shooters. On any other team, he probably would have been the main guy, but Porter was just so good."
Just as he received mentorship from Van Lier, Hazinsky took Rick Hockenos under his wing when Hockenos came to St. Francis from Niagara County Community College in 1972.
"He was my hero because he was playing beside Kevin Porter, and they were one of the best tandems I had ever seen," Hockenos, who remained in the Altoona area after his St. Francis career, said. "Kevin made it all happen, but Zing [Hazinsky's nickname] was automatic. He was really, really a great player."
St. Francis played at the Jaffa Mosque (now called the Jaffa Shrine Center) through Hazinsky's freshman year - the Frankie freshmen averaged 115 points per game, Magarity said - and then moved to the Cambria County War Memorial after a complaint about the Mosque's smaller dimensions.
"I loved the Mosque," Hazinsky said. "You couldn't compare the War Memorial to the Mosque. The Mosque was special place - and the people were right on top of you."
As much as he loved his basketball experience at St. Francis, Hazinsky, who now runs his own liquor courier business in Philly called, "Zing," felt he benefitted as much in cultural growth and personal relationships.
The 1960s were a turbulant time - the players had heard about how St. Francis, with its diverse roster, couldn't stay in some southern hotels earlier in the decade - and Hazinsky felt basketball allowed people to appreciate each other.
He fondly recalls Van Lier lending him his car for a return trip to Philly.
"There was a lot of racial tension in that era," Hazinsky said. "I played against a lot of black athletes in high school, but I never really knew that many and to be able to meet people like Kevin Porter and [teammates] Sam Sloan and Alan Spencer from all different parts of the country We were just basketball players, and we got to know each other, even though we were from a different race, and we respected each other as players and people."
One of the most interesting life experiences for Hazinsky came when he took his teammates to a family picnic at his grandmother's house in Swoyersville, a small town outside Wilkes-Barre.
"They [his family] couldn't believe I had teammates that were African-American," Hazinsky said, citing awkward moments. "Forty-eight hours later, we're all laughing and eating kolbasi and perogies and having a good old time."
Hazinsky, 63, will be reunited with many of his former teammates at the Golden Era dinner organized by Bob Moore, former St. Francis publicist and now the team historian with the Kansas City Chiefs. Other inductees include Gene DeBerardinis, Ed Dugan, Len Murray and Ed Winters.
"It's hard to describe," Hazinsky said of his reaction. "It's certainly special, and it tells me that my peers have respect for me. I never really dreamed of it or expected it or anticipated anything like this, but I will accept this graciously."
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Heavy rainfall over the Cypress Creek watershed has produced flooding near Grant Road, and the creek is forecast to rise above flood stage this afternoon.
The National Weather Service has also issued a flash flood warning for areas to the southeast of Houston, including Pearland, League City and Friendswood. The warning is in effect until 2 p.m.
According to the Harris County Flood Control District, bayous and creeks that are near top of banks in the greater Houston area include:
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Owner of California private equity company pleads guilty in more than $40 million Ponzi scheme involving Texas investors
The owner of a California private equity firm pleaded guilty to securities fraud stemming from a Ponzi scheme whose investors included Texans, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced today.
Jeffrey J. Sykes, 54, of San Bernadino County, faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution each for two counts of securities fraud, U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana said. The charges were related to Sykes falsifying account statements to deceive investors about returns.
Sykes, who owned Gemstar Capital Group in Redlands, Calif., told investors that the company was buying and selling U.S. Treasury Bills. In fact, authorities said none of the money was invested in a T-bill trading program.
Sykes had secured $22.5 million from investors.
Moreover, Sykes entered into an agreement with a Westlake, Texas resident, who solicited additional investors in exchange for fees. Some of the investors lived in North Texas.
Authorities said the Westlake partner secured 37 investors who committed about $24.6 million.
The two men used some of the money for personal expenses, federal authorities said.
Documents in the U.S Attorney's case against Sykes identified the Westlake partner as "M.K."
In 2009, The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Michael Kiselak, a former Dallas Cowboys player, and his Westlake-based financial firm Kiselak Capital Group for misleading investors regarding a program trading treasury bills. The SEC complaint said Kiselak's firm invested the money with Gemstar and Sykes, who was also named as a defendant in the suit
A judge ordered Sykes and Kiselak to pay a disgorgement of $19 million, according to court documents.
Because Sykes held most of the funds in money market accounts, investors recovered some of their money. But, all told, investors lost about $12.9 million.
The investments occurred between 2007 and 2009, according to court documents.


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New Camera at the Olympics
I received two reports from the London Olympics that a 40mp+ camera was being tested by a couple of select photographers. The cameras housing was that of the EOS-1D X. It was also mentioned the camera had a significant framerate for a resolution that high, one mentioned it at 8fps in RAW. There were other unspecified "new features and technology" in the camera body.
A seperate source has said it is possible that Canon will announce a big megapixel camera in 2012 for release sometime in 2013, however that has yet to be decided within Canon.
Just for the fun of it
Below is an image received by Northlight Images showing the Canon EOS lineup, Keith put some markers on it showing some interesting spaces and flow of the chart. Use it for entertainment purposes only.
Image from Northlight Images | http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/cameras/Canon_rumours.html
Sounds like an $8,500 camera to me
Slide translation:Title: "Further expansion of EOS system"Tier 1: "Pro"Tier 2: "Middle"Tier 3: "Entry"


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It is no surprise that the David Petraeus scandal is getting deeper as time goes by. That is how these things work, after all. The latest info is being called a bombshell or partisan hype, depending on who you're listening to.
The general's alleged lover, Paula Broadwell, speaking in Denver on Oct. 26, is drawing some frenzied responses in the media and is adding a few more notches to the Benghazi conspiracy theory as well.
While answering a reporter's question on whether she had any thoughts on the Sept. 11 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Broadwell seemed to have quite a handle on the situation. In fact, she gave unvetted information, saying the CIA was holding prisoners whom the attackers of the consulate were trying to free. This is now being heavily denied by the CIA. She appeared to have more info than the president or the secretary of state.
How could that be? Either she is extremely astute on foreign policy and has an informant in Libya feeding her delicate information, or she had access to what the general knew. Don't get me wrong, Broadwell is no lightweight and has an impressive academic record as well as military experience. She is a graduate of Harvard and West Point and has Intel experience under her belt, but her knowledge on Benghazi appeared beyond mere observation.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was seen on CNN Monday saying that classified information was also found on Broadwell's computer, which is, in her words "troubling"-- but said she didn't yet know how it got there.
Her answers are throwing a huge spotlight on just what those pillow talks with the general sounded like. What exactly does she know about top-level, classified intelligence?
The 60-year-old Petraeus, a four-star general, resigned hastily as director of the CIA last Friday after admitting to an extramarital affair with Broadwell, his 40-year-old biographer. The affair reportedly ended four months ago, but threatening emails to another woman, Jill Kelley, a friend of Petraeus, blew this scandal wide open and got the FBI involved.
Broadwell, who spent a year with Petraeus in Afghanistan in 2006 as research for her biography "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," reportedly sent these emails anonymously to Kelley, warning her to stay away from her "guy."
The title of the book is making late-night comedians everywhere very happy. The fact that Mrs. Broadwell, a married mother of two who had never written a biography before but was picked to be "embedded" with the general in war-torn Afghanistan for a year, is also a source of leery giggles. Yet some very serious consequences resulted from this affair.
The general's stellar career came to an abrupt, scandalous stop, and this in turn has overshadowed President Obama's recent re-election victory over Mitt Romney.
Now, questions of who, what, when, why, where and how he knew of this scandal are being thrown around. And the Benghazi hearings scheduled for Friday are looking more intriguing by the day.
Stay tuned, it can only get more interesting before it fizzles.
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With eight sessions to choose from, each with fewer than 100 teens, participants form a community where every member can shine. Teens learn best practices in time management, public speaking and implementing fun, Jewish programming. At CLTC, participants form "mock chapters" where they plan and run programs that highlight AZA and BBG values (brotherhood, sisterhood, leadership, social action, education, Jewish heritage and more) and grow and develop as leaders and individuals. They're also inducted as members of the BBYO International Order.
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Welcome to the Office of Admission. We work with students who are applying to our traditional daytime undergraduate (freshmen, transfers, international and CAMP students), New College, and graduate programs. We also work with students who want to return to St. Edward's after an absence; students who are enrolled at another university but want to take a course at St. Edward's; and students who want to take courses for other purposes besides a degree.
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Lately, Adelaide and I have had a lot of time to lie around together and make plans.
One of our many plans is to try and hand-make all of our gifts from now on. And so together we've been spending a lot of time planning and plotting our christmas presents. What could we make for - - - ? What about - - - - ? We've been scouring children's craft books and googling for more ideas, trying to figure out just what we could make for our presents.
So far, we've yet to actually take any action on this - but the planning is quite fun! Adelaide adores this type of conversation so much. She really gets so excited about it all, and never seems to tire of the subject.
The other evening when I said we should make some lists, she ran to the art room and came back with a random sheet of cardboard, so that she could write her own list. While I was jotting down on my paper, she began her own, asking me how to spell each name that came to her. (Her printing is getting quite good, but still needs help with a some letters - such as M and R and S.)
What I found interesting is that while I wrote our a list made up of people - relatives, neighbours, and friends - Adelaide's list was composed only and entirely pets!
I love it and I think that I will keep it forever. It reads: Teddy, Thomas, Tex, Elliot, Jack, Miso, Tecal, Jasmine, Ming, Otto, Maddie.
So the next little while we will try to find ideas for and make little presents for the truly important ones - our many animal friends.


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Many of our programme offices in over 35 developing countries will be participating in events to mark this campaign. The following brief highlights a number of campaign activities:
VSO and the BalkansYouth Communication Centre (YCC) and VSO are organizing a volunteer management training workshop between December 2nd and 6th in Banja Luka, Bosnia i Hercegovina (BiH). The 25 participants are an equal number of NGOs involving local volunteers and Governmental Centres for Social Work that work with volunteers in BiH.
The training will be delivered by a group of trainers from Bosnia i Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Romania. It forms part of a three-year strategic plan of VSO's programme for national volunteering development in the Balkans region. The goal of the programme is to reduce vulnerability of socially vulnerable groups through the effective mobilization of volunteers in the social care sector in the Balkans.
Also, 5 December will see the launch of the RIVER SEE publication Partnership against Poverty and a regional seminar on IVD 2005. This event is due to take place in each of the seven countries/areas involved in the UNV-led RIVER SEE programme, following the image of a river flowing from South to North or vice-versa. The RIVER SEE programme aims to assist the reconciliation of South East Europe by organising a number of 100 intra-regional long-term volunteer placements over 2 years. The countries currently involved in this initiative are Albania, BiH, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
VSO BangladeshVSO Bangladesh is organizing a volunteer fair with other local and international volunteering organizations with the objective of raising awareness of volunteers' work and their contributions to society. The fair will raise the awareness of local and national volunteering and and will create an opportunity for various organizations to network and share existing practices and innovations of the volunteers and partner organizations.
VSO CameroonVSO Cameroon is organizing a volunteer market in the Far North provincial capital province, with exhibition booths highlighting information on VSO, the acitivities of local partners and volunteers' contributions to community development. VSO will be showcasing its work in Education, Secure Livelihoods, and HIV & AIDS. A radio programme will be aired to discuss issues surrounding volunteering and development.
VSO ChinaVSO China is working with UNV and Huizeren Social Service Centre to organize an IVD forum. The theme is volunteering and community development and will be held in Chengdu and hosted by the Sichuan Women's Federation and Heifer International. Approximately 50 volunteers and representatives of local volunteer-involving organizations will participate in the discussion around the role that volunteers play in promoting rural development, environmental protection, gender equality, HIV prevention, etc. The forum will showcase a photo-story exhibit and will also serve to launch a 3-year project aimed at building the capacity of local NGOs in volunteer management, a collaborative effort from Huizeren, VSO and UNV.
VSO Ghana VSO Ghana will be working with local NGOs to organize volunteering activities in various regions throughout IVD week, culminating in a large national volunteering forum. As part of the forum, awards will be given to people who have been nominated by volunteering organizations in the country.
December 3 has also been branded Corporate Volunteering Day and volunteers from a number of corporations will be accompanying orphans from the Teshie Orphanage on a tour of the Accra and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. Participants will also be holding a discussion on the value of volunteering.
VSO MalawiIn collaboration with Volunteer Sending Agencies in Malawi and the Ministry of Sports, VSO has invited volunteers and partner organisations to take part in a day of sports on December 10th, which coincides with International Year of Sports and Physical Recreation.
Mixed teams will compete against each other in activities such as football, netball, volleyball, table tennis and basketball. All participants will pay a small entry fee and make a donation that will then be given to an orphan care group in Lilongwe, the capital city. The day is expected to attract volunteers and partner organisations from VSO, UNV, Red Cross Malawi, WUSC, Peace Corps, and JICA.
VSO MongoliaA number of local volunteering organizations and VSO have organized a range of events to mark IVD Events include a discussion on volunteerism, social development and the Millennium Development Goals; a cultural night to celebrate volunteering; a donors' day among network member organizations; awareness raising activities on voluntarism at universities and colleges; activities to celebrate World AIDS Day and International Day of Disabled Persons; and inviting the media to participate in all activities.
VSO NepalVSO international volunteers and local partners will be participating in a rally through Kathmandu. A number of activities have also been planned by the National Development Volunteer Service, the National Planning Commission, the Returned United Nations Volunteers Association of Nepal, and Students Partnership Worldwide. Activites include a workshop on volunteering and the MDGs, food distribution for street children, a radio broadcast, and various rallies in the Kathmandu area.
VSO NigeriaVSO Nigeria, in partnership with Volunteer Corps and the Nigerian National Volunteer Service, will sponsor an IVD event entitled "Volunteer for Development: Building Our Nation Together" in Lagos. The aim is to bring together people dedicated to building a stronger Nigeria through a commitment to service. On December 3rd and 4th, VSO will facilitate a workshop on volunteer management training for volunteer managers from various volunteer-involving organizations from the region.
VSO RwandaVSO Rwanda is working alongside UNV and local volunteer organizations to host activities in Kibuye province that focus on reproductive health education for children heads of households and children living with HIV& AIDS. Visits will be made to patients at the Kibuye Hospital and there will be a tree planting ceremony, construction of public latrines, and the distribution of food and non-food items to vulnerable members of the community.
Sri LankaVSO and other volunteer-sending organizations will be celebrating IVD by hosting a one-day event planned on 3 December in Wadduwa, near Colombo.
Over 200 international volunteers from VSO, UNV, JOCV (Japan), KOICA (Korea), AVI and AYAD (Australia), Project Trust (UK) and Uniterra (Canada) are expected to attend this event. Participants will also be given an opportunity to attend a development-focused workshop on disability and also on responses to the effects of the tsunami, one year on.
VSO Zambia VSO Zambia is part of the IVD national preparatory committee and will be participate in the march on 5 December. On 29 November, VSO Zambia was part of a panel discussion for a radio program known as "let the people talk". The programme provided an opportunity for VSO Zambia to disseminate information and create awareness about the role of volunteering and their contribution to the development process in Zambia.
On the 2 December 2005, VSO Zambia will also partner with a home-based care partner in Lusaka to conduct home visits in a community in Lusaka. The team will consists of staff, VSO volunteers and community-based volunteers from the local home-based care groups.


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AICPA News Update
A Weekly Email Newsletter on Issues & Events Surrounding the CPA Profession
October 12, 2010 - Volume 13 No. 44
The majority of members of a blue ribbon panel have agreed to recommend the Financial Accounting Foundation accept a new model of GAAP with exceptions for private companies and that those standards should be set by a new standard-setting board consisting of people with private company experience. Read this JournalofAccountancy.com article and the AICPA press release for more information.
By an overwhelming majority of votes cast, AICPA members have approved a proposal to modernize the admission requirements for membership. A total of 86,484 votes were cast with 81.39 percent voting "yes." Prior to the bylaw change, the sole requirement was possession of a valid and unrevoked CPA certificate. This provision remains, but now individuals also are eligible for membership if they at any time possessed a valid CPA certificate (as long as it was not revoked as a result of a disciplinary action), or if they have fulfilled the education, examination, and experience requirements of the Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA). Individuals who join the AICPA under the new provisions must abide by the Institute's Code of Professional Conduct and meet the same continuing professional education requirements as current members. The AICPA bylaws prohibit accounting professionals who are not licensed by their respective state board of accountancy to hold out as CPAs or identify themselves as such strictly on the basis of their AICPA membership. Applications will begin to be accepted in December. For more information, read the AICPA press release or visit aicpa.org.
The AICPA's Vice President-Taxation, Edward Karl, testified at an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hearing on Oct. 8 about proposed changes to Circular 230 that would implement parts of the IRS's plan to regulate tax return preparers. The AICPA also submitted a comment letter to the IRS on the same subject on Oct. 7. In his testimony, Karl expressed concerns with several aspects of the plan and made recommendations concerning nonsigning preparers, the plan's testing and continuing education requirements, and other issues. Read this JournalofAccountancy.com article for more information, also available are Karl's testimony and the AICPA press release.
In his final Chair's Letter, AICPA Chairman of the Board of Directors Robert R. Harris, CPA/CFF, reviews his year as chairman, highlighting the progress made in several critical areas, such as the globalization of business, financial regulatory reform, sustainability and young CPA involvement in the profession. Read his column now.
In recognition of Estate Planning Awareness Week, Financial & Estate Planning: What Should Your Clients Do Now, to be held October 18 from 1-3 p.m. ET, brings together a panel of experts from across the country who will discuss the planning considerations advisers and their clients should address now and into 2011 to ensure proper long-term planning is in place to mitigate negative outcomes as well as to take advantage of opportunities. This webinar will be beneficial for advisors and their clients. A client letter and practitioner checklist will be distributed to attendees to assist you in addressing the panel's action-oriented advice with your clients now.


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April 11, 1924 – July 2, 2013
Robert A. Niederpruem, of West Seneca, a retired engineer who was involved in the development of several local landmarks, died Tuesday in Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga. He was 89.
Born in Buffalo, Mr. Niederpruem was a sergeant in the Army during World War II, serving in the South Pacific. He graduated from Canisius College in 1948.
A professional engineer and licensed land surveyor, Mr. Niederpruem worked early in his career for a private engineering firm that was involved in the construction of the Niagara Thruway, the second South Grand Island bridge and Route 400/Aurora Expressway.
He went to work for the Erie County Department of Public Works in 1954 and was involved in the construction of numerous buildings, including the Rath County Office Building, Erie County Medical Center and what is now Ralph Wilson Stadium.
He retired in 1984 as director of building projects.
An expert in bridge design and construction, in retirement Mr. Niederpruem served as a consultant to local and national engineers on structures that included the Skyway. He maintained a private land surveying business throughout his lifetime.
Mr. Niederpruem had been the town engineer for the Town of Wales and was a longtime member of the West Seneca Planning Board, serving as its chairman for 12 years.
He was among the founding families of St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Orchard Park, where he was influential in planning and building capital projects. He was a member of St. Ann's Men's Club.
Mr. Niederpruem and his wife of 61 years, the former Mary Ellen Holland, were seasonal residents of Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Additional survivors include a daughter, Mary Sue Slopka; and two sons, Robert A. Jr. and Mark.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in St. John Vianney Church, 2950 Southwestern Blvd., Orchard Park.


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Lately I've been making up lots of patterns. I'm had them printed on recycled card stock and cut them into cards as a way to make my address files more nice and more me. (Along with these, my files are still also filled with dozens of other pretty cards, hand-cut from recycled and repurposed papers.)
Here is my first set of card patterns - my goal is to be able to have a new collection every other season or so. I also really hope to start to begin to work with some of my favourite artists and creators to produce sets of their own designed cards - I am just working on the logistics of this, whirring around in my head and on scraps of paper!
Over the years, through making my goods I have met so many amazing and wonderful people - I feel so amazingly lucky to somehow be surrounded by lovely souls. I have no idea if any of my past customers read this blog. I really hope so, because I really want to send some thank-you treats to at least some of you!
So, if you are one of my past customers and have one of my address files, please leave a comment. In a week or so I hope to be able to select some names that I can send a package of my newly designed cards to. I have three sets ready to go, but I can always make more!


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Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 Jump Start: (05a) Programming User Interaction, Part 1
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Michael Palermo and Jeremy Foster cover several topics is this fun session. After an effective discussion about Authentication and Authorization, they focus on Custom input and gestures, Tiles, and Toast notifications.
Complete course outline for Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 Jump Start:
This series of videos is a great way to help prepare for Exam 70-481: Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps using HTML5 and JavaScript.
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I'm sick and tired of this html in user interfaces hype. It stinks, everyone I know hates it. Why do you keep pushing it?? 9 out of 10 videos here are html.
@Steve: We understand that HTML isn't everyone's preference for developing desktop apps. We're busily working on putting together a Jump Start to cover app development with C#/XAML. Hopefully, we'll have something to announce by the end of the year. Stay tuned.
I've enjoyed the videos so far. I'm trying to download the 481 Videos and the file links are for the 480 course, unless they've been named incorrectly.
Can you assist as I don't want to download the 480 parts that I already have.
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