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Session 1: Rational choice applications to migrations
Organizer: Antonio M. Chiesi, University of Milan, Italy, firstname.lastname@example.com
The session will consider papers contributing to develop sociological approaches to RCT applied to migrations. These are some directions of these developments:
The aim of the session is presenting and discussing papers related to these topics. Theoretical papers as well as empirical ones are welcome. Applications of formal model as well as analytical papers about empirical case studies or discursive papers about the limits of RAT will be accepted, containing proposals for integrated approaches or criticism focusing on the lack of realism in the assumption that migrants calculate the expected consequences of their options and choose the best of them.
Session 2: Mechanism of creation and return of social capital
Organizer: Kazuto Misumi, Kyushu University, Japan, firstname.lastname@example.com
The mechanism of creation and return of social capital has two respects from the viewpoint of rationality. On the one hand, it is founded on rational choice or strategic thinking of individuals. An actor will appear as a rational investor on social structure in the context of status attainment and he/she could be a manager or a broker who strategically controls intra- or inter-organizational networking. In a sense, social capital is the cumulative effect of these activities. On the other hand, social capital is often captured for kinds of structural effects and collective goods that are related with superintendence, group solidarity, and general trust. In a sense that these group conditions have their own logics, social capital is beyond, and is often contrary to rationality. Then, it still seems difficult for us to capture a whole picture of social capital. In this session, we call for papers that discuss theoretical and empirical problems and new ideas in order to synthesize the abovementioned two respects.
Session 3: Networks, hierarchy and cooperation
Organizer: Rafael Wittek, University of Groningen, The Netherlands,
This session invites contributions addressing the interrelationship between different forms of social embeddedness, hierarchical positions, and cooperation. So far, embeddedness research has generated a sizeable body of insights on how social relations and network structures can both negatively or positively affect cooperation between natural persons and/or corporate actors. Relatively little is known about the degree to which hierarchies interfere with these processes. Hierarchy broadly conceived implies the categorization and ranking of units with regard to one or more specific attributes, e.g. in terms of formal authority, informal status, reputation, access to resources etc. The session welcomes papers covering these and related questions. Ideas for potential general topics could be (but are not at all restricted to) the following:
The link between hierarchy, networks and cooperation can be investigated on the micro-, meso-, and macrolevel alike: intrapersonal mechanisms (e.g. the effects of status inconsistency in the propensity to collaborate with others); small-group and intra-organizational processes (e.g. the emergence of informal hierarchies in small groups, work teams, social movements), societal or market level processes (e.g. the role of cultural conceptions about hierarchy in affecting collaboration and patterns of social network formation; the impact of reputation differences between firms in a market on inter-organizational network formation).
Papers should make both a strong theoretical and empirical contribution to the literature. Theoretically, the papers should clearly specify the social mechanism and address the macro-micro link. Empirically, the papers can draw on a broad variety of research methods (experimental studies, survey research, ethnographic research, sociometric studies, agent-based models and simulations etc.). Substantively, contributions to any field of social research are welcome.
Session 4: Personal identity and social identity: Beyond rational choice theory?
Organizers: Fernando Aguiar, IESA-CSIC, Spain, firstname.lastname@example.com
Andrés de Francisco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,
José Antonio Noguera, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Personal identity and social identity pose one of the most important challenges to rational choice theory. However, against the opinion of some identity theorists, rational choice theorists do not hold a common position regarding identity.
On the one hand, externalist rational choice theory (that interprets individual preferences as mere binary relations and not as mental events) ignores the concept of social identity or reduces it to revealed preferences. Scholars as Russell Hardin or Christina Bicchieri think that social identity is none other than preferences and norms or rules of cooperation. On the other hand, internalist rational choice theory (that interprets preferences in terms of desires and beliefs internal to the individual, that is, as mental events) considers social identity as a key concept in explaining social action because it permits expressive motivations to be included in the models.
For its part, the influence of personal identity (understood as the stability of self through time) in social action has been almost completely neglected by rational choice models, with the exception of some strategic models of multiple self.
Some topics for discussion, then, could be summarized in the following questions:
Formal or not formal papers (analytic narrative style), either empirical or theoretical, will be welcomed. However, mere baroque formal exercises will be discouraged.
Abstracts should be sent to Fernando Aguiar, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Session 5: Rational choice and behavioral game theory: The experimental approach
Organizers: Andreas Diekmann, ETH Zürich, Switzerland,
firstname.lastname@example.com, and Wojtek Przepiorka, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, email@example.com
Behavioral game theory (BGT) is an extension of formal game theory. BGT incorporates psychological motives such as fairness, envy, status orientation or other driving forces of individual actions in strategic situations. The aim of BGT is to enhance the explanatory and predictive power of game theory. BGT has a strong emphasis on experimental research, lab experiments as well as field experiments, to test predictions of BGT in various settings. Many applications of BGT are of great interest for sociologists. Examples are prosocial behavior, social cooperation or "the problem of social order", social norms and sanctions, trust, reciprocity, and social exchange.
Presentations should deal with one of the following topics:
Session 6: Rational foundations of macro sociology: Bringing Coleman's boat back in
Organizer: Yoshimichi Sato, Tohoku University, Japan, firstname.lastname@example.com
About twenty years have passed since the publication of James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory. Although Coleman took full advantage of general equilibrium analysis by adding the concepts of power and right to it, new analytical tools such as game theory, evolutionary game theory, and agent-based model have been developed since Foundations of Social Theory, and sociological analyses with them have become prevalent. However, they do not seem to have answered a question on macro sociology posed by Coleman.
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With this theoretical background, this session calls for papers that intend to answer the question. The emergence of an institution, that of social structure, that of culture from accumulated interactions among actors are thought-provoking topics. Both of formal and non-formal papers are welcome. Theoretical papers as well as empirical papers are also welcome.
Session 7: Collective decision making and group processes
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Session 8: Rationalizing irrationalities
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Methodological individualism is tied to the conception of rationality: The assumption that rational actors pursue their goals gives a sound foundation for Coleman's bathtub. But what if actors do not behave rationally? Experimental game theory provided rationality critiques with empirical foundations, and rational choice theory has been definitely more 'en vogue' in times before it did so. But a wider understanding of rationality should be able to incorporate those "irrationalities" in a general framework in which the pursued goals and occupied technologies are appropriately modeled: Important examples for this kind of incorporation are the cases of rational addiction or framing theories. The session intends to take stock of the recent state of research: Where are the major challenges for rationalism today, and how are they met?
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1. wtmp purge:
Currently I output wtmp, tail off a certain number of lines, and
update wtmp.
Problem with that is it isn't time based, but rather a guesstimate of
when to chop the file.
I'd like to accurately keep the last 120 days and archive anything
2. Deactivate users that haven't logged in over 90 days:
I'm hacking this one as well by running through the usernames with the
last command.
If the month on the time listed doesn't match the last 3 months
possible, then we log it and deactivate it.
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Christian Brando, the troubled eldest son of the late actor Marlon Brando, has died. He was 49.
Brando, who died from pneumonia Saturday morning at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, had been hospitalized since Jan. 11.
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Why is it blank on certain judges score?, is it the system randomly dropping a judges score. i don't remember seeing this in other protocols .
Why is it blank on certain judges score?, is it the system randomly dropping a judges score. i don't remember seeing this in other protocols .
It looks like they were missing one judge, so there are fewer scores than expected. There are usually 9 judges and there ae only 8 sets of scores here at Skate America.
However, there is something else interesting going on:
The missing column moves between skaters so it looks like they might be randomizing the order of listing judges. The reason for doing that would be so that you can't look down the column and say, Judge 1 might be from Cheatostan, because he marks the Cheatostani skaters high and everyone else low.
Judge 1 for skater 1 is now Cheatostan, but the Cheatostani judge is Judge 4 for the second skater, and so forth
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Or unless wicked brain of Ottavio Cinquanta has come up with another ploy to further confuse and delude us fans.
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So happy for Sawyer and for Bradly. Both are very entertaining skaters. Both also usually have problems so it's nice to see a good result for them. I still do not get Evan's PCS. I mean what the heck are the judges seeing in him? No question he was first but...well anyway it'll be interesting to see if all skaters skate clean at the Oys (do I expect that? no. would I like it? oh yeah) what his scores are. And between skaters such as Brezina and Amodio and Rippon and Dennis Ten (I like him a lot but hope he can deal with his nerves) the future of men's skating is looking good.
Ok...I don't feel like reading this whole threat...but here is my take from seeing this live -
There wasn't one program that was clean..including Evan's although he made one little mistake!
Ryan so deserved the bronze. The program was great and really plays to the audience. He is the crowd favorite and I can see why.
Evan's long is amazing minus the one little mistake. If he can skate like that at the Olympics...well I see victory. It's amazing in person. He scored 238 points...not sure if that's the highest this season and I really don't feel like trying to check that out.
As for the missing judge is was judge number 7 and who knows where that judge was!
If everyone or at least some people skate well in Vancouver, Evan Lysacek shouldn't even be on the podium, let alone at the top of it. Seriously, other than his fabulous sit spin he is behind most of the top guys technically, and he has been skating the same program for years. I'm sure he's exciting to watch and is great fun as a show skater, but in competition? There are at least six or seven guys who are more talented, only some are less consistent. But in comparison to the SA field this year, I'm not surprised he looked wonderful.
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Here is a little secret for you - Plushy has been skating the same program much longer than Evan has, and so has Joubert. Or haven't you noticed
And for that matter, Weir doesn't even seem to change his music
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Unable to control his emotions, Carroll arranged to have this judge kidnapped and he is now probably "sleeping with the fishes" beneath the frigid waters of Lake Placid.
Now that is what I call "protecting your skater"
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Congrats to Evan, Shawn and Ryan. The men gave the teenagers a lesson in the art of competition last night and I hoped they paid attention. Evan is on the right track to Vancouver and has just as much a shot at medaling as the other frontrunners.
Other than Plush, is Ryan the only guy to land two quads in the LP this year? Plus a not too good 3A?
Kunstrijdster, Just out of curiosity, why do you have Hello Vancouver written in Greek on your siggie picture (not why Vancouver, why Greek?)
Never mind, I get it. Tomas is skating his SP to Zorba!
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I havent had a chance to watch, but I am just sad that Tomas doesnt seem to have been at his best.
I got it just before you posted (I am a little slow sometimes) It looks really nice!
It amuses me that the V's in Vancouver transliterate to B(eta)s in Greek because beta is pronounced like V. So modern Greek has no letter for what I pronounce as B. They needed the V but had lost the the digamma which had the v/w sound sometime between Homer and the Golden Age of Athens. So apparently they needed a V sound more than a B sound.
This makes it very interesting sometimes, because what to do with a real B? The Greek language Brooklyn newspaper used to represent the B in Brooklyn as M(u)P(i) as far as I remember.
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Short of getting recruited or mugged, you won't find a more up-close look at the NYPD than this gritty memoir. Harvard graduate and veteran cop Edward Conlon keeps the reader at his elbow from the time he takes his first steps in uniform to the day he earns his detective's shield.
We hear the scratch and cackle of the police radio as it calls out such horrors as "Be advised, that domestic dispute is now coming over as a severed limb." We climb with him down reeking housing-project stairways, stepping over syringes and shell casings. The book is not for the faint-hearted. A child dies eating crack from the table where it was being packaged, and a grandmother is found barely alive in a filthy bed, food for rats and maggots. Conlon's account of the processing of a cop's corpse at a Ground Zero morgue is among the most graphic, heartbreaking images yet excavated from the 9/11 tragedy. These atrocities come at such a relentless clip it sometimes seems Conlon is purging his notebook at the reader's expense.
But there is also insight and humor. "The ghetto could be a world of three-dimensional, three hundred and sixty-degree insult," he writes, "where no one had enough so they ruined what they had, and then came looking for yours." For fun, he gives puzzled perps Cosmo-inspired quizzes ("If you were in the desert, would you rather take a quick shower or a long bath?"). His respect for cop life is palpable. "As theater, there is no match for it," he says, "and even the way you engage the spectacle is like something a kid would invent—you knock on a door and someone has to tell you a story."
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Better stretch those laugh muscles: They're going to get a workout courtesy of this novel's utterly charming underdog Brian Jackson, a working-class nerd itching to remake himself at a snooty British university in 1985. By page 9, you'll be won over: "I want to go to classical concerts and know when you're meant to clap. I want to be able to 'get' modern jazz without it all sounding like this terrible mistake, and I want to know who the Velvet Underground are exactly."
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This deeply felt debut novel delivers laughs as well as tears and may even become a part of you. It's the story of Sophie Stanton, widow. To get out of her funk, Sophie, 36, joins a support group that is supposed to "help me move from denial to anger to bargaining to depression to acceptance to hope to lingerie to housewares to gift wrap. But it seems the elevator is stuck. For the past three months I've been lodged in the staring-out-the-window-and-burning-toast stage of grief."
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Two brothers make a pact: The elder swears he'll be a millionaire by age 35; the younger pledges to make it by 30. And they do. But their family is beset by tragedies—fatal accidents, cancer—that leave them the only two survivors. The plot of the latest novel by The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks? No, this is his memoir, fresher and more authentically poignant than his usual weepies. (Older brother Micah, a businessman, apparently didn't write a word, though he provided the inspiration during a three-week round-the-world trip.) Nicholas intersperses memories of a nurturing mom and volatile dad with travel chat. While it's nice to visit the cathedral in Cuzco, Peru, it can't compare to the brothers' mom, who, when Micah feared kindergarten bullies, sent him to school with a dented rusty lunchbox and instructions on how to swing it.
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The Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign invites individual paper proposals for our first annual Graduate Student Colloquium on research related to and constituting the continuing evolution of Jewish Studies. Our theme is the question of how Jews have imagined themselves in, into, and inside a broadly conceived modern Europe, and the various modernities it engendered.
Our goal is to provide an engaging intellectual space in which graduate students from different institutions can gather to collaborate with and learn from one another, as well as to discuss issues surrounding the role of Jewish Studies within the academy. We are especially interested in dialogue between scholars working within Jewish Studies as a discipline and those working on projects involving Jews or Jewishness who engage with a variety of other disciplines.
The vibrant Jewish Studies community at the U of I, created by its young and diverse faculty, is known for its broad outlook and non-traditional perspectives, and yet is critically engaged in exploring the fundamental questions of modern Jewish Studies. We consider the role of faculty in our colloquium as respondents and interlocutors integral to our dialogue, and we encourage all interested faculty at other institutions to attend.
We are excited to announce that our keynote speaker this year will be Professor Naomi Seidman of the University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union and author of A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (University of California Press, 1997). Professor Seidman will be speaking on her new book project, relating to issues surrounding Yiddish and the cultural politics of translation.
We hope for responses from historians, literary theorists, social scientists, or anyone who is interested in the following questions: How have Jews imagined themselves as part of modern society? In what ways is Jewish European modernity different from either non-European or European modernities? In what ways have Jews used European ideas as a way to articulate distinctively Jewish practices of modernity? We are interested in looking at the syncretic ways that European ideologies, discourses, and practices are and have been appropriated, developed, and undertaken by modern Jewry, and vice versa.
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Ethan Hawke got a chance to briefly meet Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, when they both attended the Silk Road Transatlantic Alliance Party at the Greenwich Hotel in Manhattan Sept. 24.
"I was very curious about him," Hawke told PEOPLE. "I've been doing a tremendous amount of research about that whole region during The Coast of Utopia (a play about the Russian Revolution) last year. And I'm going to be doing the (Russian play) Cherry Orchard with Sam Mendes. We're going to travel the world with it so I was curious to come here tonight. He's very impressive."
Saakashvili spoke at the event about his country's recent invasion by Russia. "Georgia came under a huge attack. It was difficult, challenging, but we've had a lot of support from people," said Saakashvili. "They see that this country can withstand anything. The people can be resilient."
The Georgian President also expressed surprise by the reaction of Americans. "I've seen a lot of solidarity among Americans just going around the streets in New York. I am very flattered and surprised, almost shocked that people would care so much."
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An extensive, high-quality network of universities is an essential building block for any country that aspires to be an economic power house. For India, which fashions itself as a knowledge economy, such a network is even more critical. On evidence, the country is still short of a world-class universities system. One way to improve is to compete.
Unlike firms, whose performance can be assessed by looking at quantitative variables like revenue and profit, measuring relative success of educational institutions is much harder. The India Today-Nielsen ranking of India's top universities, now in its second edition, is an attempt to assess the relative standards of post-graduate educational institutions. As in all such rankings, there is an element of subjectivity involved, which will leave some happier than others. The top five universities from 2010 continue to be the top five in 2011, with one change: Delhi University, number 3 last year, moves into the top slot, exchanging ranks with Banaras Hindu University. Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Calcutta and University of Madras remain number 2, 4 and 5 respectively. The next five positions from 5 to 10 have witnessed change largely because University of Mumbai, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Jadavpur University, ranked 6, 8 and 9 respectively last year did not participate in the survey this year because of constraints which prevented them from submitting factual data requirements in time for the publication deadline. We hope to have them participating next year. The University of Hyderabad and Osmania University, ranked 7 and 10 last year, move up to numbers 6 and 7. What is worrying for India from a global perspective is how poorly even the best in India rank in comparison to their peers elsewhere. The London-based Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings-the gold standard for international university rankings-rated 27 Asian universities in the world's top 200 in 2010. Not one of those was from India. Six are from China which beats its more industrialised competitors Japan and Korea (with 5 and 4 respectively). Another prestigious international ranking done by global education network QS puts India Today's top-ranked university, Delhi University, at number 371 in the world in 2010-11. The University of Mumbai is bunched in the 451-500 rankings while Calcutta University is in the 500-551 bunch. Other than five IITs, no Indian university features in QS's top 50 in Asia. In Asia, Delhi University ranks 77, Calcutta University is at 116, Pune University is at 142 and Mumbai University is at 145. India simply hasn't created enough quality institutions outside the IITs that can compete even with the best of Asian universities. India has a total of 538 universities recognised by the Union Government's Universities Grants Commission (UGC). The problem is how sharply the quality drops when one begins to look outside the top 45 at the remaining 493. Even within the top 45, there is a marked difference in quality between the top 15 and the rest. It is easy to be complacent about India's rise as the next knowledge superpower. It is often assumed in India that while China will continue to be the workshop of the world, manufacturing everything from safety pins to microchips, India will provide the brain power. But given that Chinese universities outrank their Indian counterparts in global rankings regularly, it may be premature to draw a conclusion about India's knowledge advantage over China. It is for the very same reason that it may be premature to write off the US as a declining global power which will eventually cede its place to China. On most rankings, US universities occupy almost all of the top 20 slots with only a few universities from the UK, such as Oxford and Cambridge, breaking their monopoly. If China and India want to eventually run past the US, they need to build universities that will draw the best academic talent away from the US just like the US had drawn the best talent away from the UK in the course of the 20th century. What is the main obstacle in the rise of quality Indian universities? The Government. It is a fact that the top ranked universities are government-run. But that is because the Government kept the private sector out of universities for very long. And when it did eventually allow private universities in, it did not always ensure that standards were adhered to. Critical legislation to change this is held up as the UPA focuses its energies on battling scams rather than running government. Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal who has to pilot reformist legislation related to the education sector through Parliament is too busy focusing on managing the fallout of the 2G scam in his twin role as telecom minister. A bill on a new unified independent regulator for higher education-the National Commission for Higher Education and Research-which would supercede inefficient and corrupt regulators like UGC and All India Council for Technical Education is facing opposition from within the Government-the Union health ministry does not want to give up control of medical education and the law ministry doesn't want to give up control of legal education. A bill to open up the sector to foreign providers, which could increase supply and improve quality through competition, is still pending. The Government needs to act quickly. The private sector has shown that it can rise to the task if given the chance. BITS Pilani, set up by industrialist G.D. Birla in the 1960s in collaboration with MIT, is a top class science and engineering institution. It ranks 14 on our list. SRM University, Tamil Nadu, which was granted, deemed university status in 2002, makes an entry to our list at 39. Much like our higher education system, these rankings are a work in progress. In 2012, we will extend the coverage of our survey beyond just post-graduate studies in arts, commerce and science to include other streams in multi-discipline universities. That will make the rankings more extensive and give even more reason for India's best universities to compete with one another and eventually, the best in the world.
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This academic and literary seminar/workshop brings together writers, students, and scholars to consider Punjabi literature as a North American and world literature. The event features academic papers in English on modern Punjabi literature (with a special but not exclusive focus on Diaspora literature, April 26-27), held in conjunction with a series of readings in Punjabi and discussion by local poets and students (April 27).
Sadhu Binning has taught Punjabi at UBC for two decades. He is also a well-known author in Punjabi and promoter of Punjabi language and literature in Canada. He retires from UBC this year.
May be subject to change; for up-to-date schedule and information, see http://www.asia.ubc.ca and look under "events."
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Saturday April 26
"Punjabi Belongings: National and Disciplinary Affiliations"
Sabina Sawhney, Hofstra University
"Punjabi Literature in Canada"
Sadhu Binning, University of British Columbia
"'From Today to the Beginning': The Generational Challenges of Progressivism in the Poetry of Gurcharan Rampuri and Sadhu Binning"
Amritjit Singh, Ohio State University
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"Narratives of Dispersal: Stories of Raghbir Dhand"
Rana Nayar, Punjab University
"The Uncomfortable Residue of Dis-location: Fragment, Hybridity, and Panjabi Literature(s) in Canada"
Harjeet Grewal, University of Michigan
"Poetry of Gurumel Sidhu: Patterns and Perspectives"
Atamjit Singh, University of California
Sunday April 27
"The Novel as a Site of Cultural Memory: Gurdial Singh's PARSA"
Rana Nayar, Punjab University
"The Cultural Politics of Crossing Boundaries"
Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
Lunch break
"Secular Sikh Writers."
Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University
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Students of Punjabi at UBC discuss their experiences with Punjabi literature and the value they believe it holds.
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Speakers: Sukhwant Hundal, Ajmer Rode, Darshan Gill, Baljinder Dhillon
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Host Seth McFarlane probably won't utter your name during the Academy Awards ceremony Feb. 24, but you can share a bit of the spotlight with the nominees and winners.
The Erie Times-News and GoErie.com will award $150 to the winner and $75 to the runner-up in the annual Showcase Pick the Oscars Contest. The ballot and rules are available at www.GoErie.com/oscarcontest; registration and voting started Wednesday.
Get your picks in by Feb. 24 at 6:59 p.m., then turn on the TV one minute later to watch the broadcast on ABC.
The contestant who predicts the most winners correctly will collect the $150. In the event of a tie, a random drawing will determine the champion.
Tung Ton, of San Diego, won first prize a year ago with 22 correct picks in the 24 categories. Mike Hubert, of Fairview Township, won in 2011.
I'm certain there are moviegoers whose knowledge of filmmaking, like Ton's, will make evident the clear favorites for the awards.
Those are not so clear to me this year, even though I've watched a number of the movies and performances up for awards.
"Argo" was my favorite among best film nominees, but as a historical slice of life it feels inferior to the grand scope of "Lincoln." "Skyfall" never was a contender for best movie, but it had greater texture than any Bond film, and even as an action piece had more depth than most films.
Then there's the chasm between the number of quality films and those that are inferior from conception. The year that brought us "Lincoln" also delivered "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." "Argo" and "Here Comes the Boom" were released on the same day, as were "Life of Pi" and "Red Dawn."
Hollywood does its best to dictate what is a "good" movie. Ramp up enough pre-release chatter and some level of anticipation will build for all but the obvious dogs. That buzz can, at least for a time, confuse the conversation. It's little wonder, then, that some of the best films each year are released around the holidays, and that their substance is fresh on our minds heading into Oscar season.
If you want to work out any indecision over your contest picks, or just immerse yourself in movie news, try these websites:
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You'll find me there trying to make up my mind on most categories. If I were a betting person, I'd wager on "Lincoln" for three major awards: best movie, Daniel Day-Lewis for best actor and Tommy Lee Jones for best supporting actor.
But I don't bet -- not with anything beyond the cost of a movie ticket.
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Oosthuizen pulls away to dominating Open title
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Louis Oosthuizen crossed the Swilcan Bridge toward a victory that was never in doubt Sunday at St. Andrews, another big moment in sports for South Africa.
No change at the top: The 139th British Open Leaderboard
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - The last test for Louis Oosthuizen was his second shot to the 17th green at St. Andrews, where the pin was planted perilously behind the Road Hole bunker.
Kane, Redfern out front
Amarillo's Luke Kane, for the second straight day, missed a 3-foot par putt at the tough par 3 17th hole Saturday at Amarillo Country Club.
5 from area to play in THSCA all-star games
Five area athletes will participate in the Texas High School Coaches Association all-star basketball and football games this week in San Antonio.
Dillas rally for 8-5 win over WhiteWings
The Amarillo Dillas came back to record an 8-5 United League Baseball victory against the Rio Grande Valley Whitewings on Sunday in Harlingen.
Dillas prevail, gain ground
Alberto Cruz hit his team-leading ninth home run of the season to help lift the Amarillo Dillas to a 7-3 United League Baseball victory against the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings on Saturday in Harlingen.
Bank's lawsuit threatens the sale of Texas Rangers
FORT WORTH - The country's second-largest bank flexed its muscles in the Texas Rangers bankruptcy by threatening not to release its rights over the crucial lease on Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, which could stymie the Aug. 4 auction.
Pirates 12, Astros 6
At Pittsburgh, Neil Walker had three hits, drove in two runs and scored three times, and the Pirates snapped a seven-game losing streak.
Youkilis, Red Sox top Rangers in 11
Kevin Youkilis doubled in the tying run in the ninth inning against Cliff Lee, then drove in the winner with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 11th as the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers, 3-2, on Saturday night at Boston.
Wilson stars for Rangers
Texas starter C.J. Wilson threw the ball a lot better than Boston's fielders did.
Rodeo: Lowe wins at Calgary for third straight year
CALGARY, Alberta - When the bareback bronc riding title is at stake at the Calgary Stampede, Will Lowe has all of the right spurring strokes.
Summer Shootout a hit with Oklahoma squad
Though Kids, Inc. is an Amarillo nonprofit, it's not unusual for teams to cross state lines to compete in the organization's annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament.
Rockets acquire Brad Miller
Free-agent center Brad Miller has agreed to a three-year, $15 million contract with the Houston Rockets.
Sign draws death threats
HOUSTON - Sajid Master wants the phone calls and angry letters to stop. He wants people to quit coming into Perfume Planet in west Houston to yell at his workers. He'd especially like folks to stop castigating his landlord.
Thomas talks bawdy fans, Barry and dancing
Earning a place in the NFL Hall of Fame is the greatest honor a player can receive. What are your thoughts on your chances to be a Hall of Famer?
Panhandle native Zach Thomas: Time to turn the page
Zach Thomas has stared in the eyes of quarterbacks with names like Aikman, Brady, Favre and Manning staring right back during 14 seasons playing linebacker in the NFL.
Cash race bountiful for Price
AUSTIN - In the Texas House District 87 race, Amarillo attorney Walter "Four" Price IV is way ahead of his two opponents in the critical money race.
White admits to oil profit
DALLAS - Democratic candidate for governor Bill White, in his first public acknowledgment, has confirmed that he has made a profit from his investment in an oil exploration company he founded that ran into financial trouble after a central Asian republic demanded more of the revenue from its field.
Eye on Austin: Tis' season of finger-pointing
Gov. Rick Perry is trying to tie his Democratic opponent Bill White to Washington, the same strategy that helped him bury U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary.
A state canvass has found 355 companies that appear to be producing and selling food products without required state licenses.
Doctor faces discipline after nurses' complaint
LUBBOCK - Nurses nationwide were outraged when two of their own were fired and threatened with prison time for complaining anonymously about a West Texas doctor they believed was unethical and risking patients' health.
Lone Star Lineman's Rodeo: Linemen show off skills
With his feet pressed against the wood, Oscar Osornio pulled himself to the top of the pole while carrying a basket containing a raw egg.
Henry Skinner's last chance: Steady in his convictions
LIVINGSTON - Tall fences and thick strands of barbed wire surround the concrete buildings that house death row.
Food Establishment Inspection Report
The Food Establishment Inspection Report is a weekly report that appears Sundays.
Column - Jon Mark Beilue: Friends rally around coach
Drucy Cockrell was one of many who got the e-mail in September from Janeal Hand. The network of friends was large. After all, her husband, Jim, one of the top football line coaches in the area, has coached for 32 years at seven high schools in the area.
Court ruling could be far-reaching
Less than an hour from death, a convicted murderer vaulted Gray County, a small county of about 22,000 people, into the spotlight when the nation's highest court jumped into the fray.
It's All Trew: New photo, many thanks
One of the unforeseen and enjoyable by-products of writing It's All Trew is I receive requests to present programs and speeches to a variety of groups.
Rancher bypassing traditions
BEAUMONT - Across the pastures of James Gentz Jr.'s family ranch north of Winnie, longhorn cattle lie around, chew their cud and fatten up.
21-year-old injured in one-vehicle rollover
A 21-year-old Miami driver was hospitalized following a single-vehicle rollover accident in north Gray County early Sunday afternoon, the Department of Public Safety said.
4-year-old's death investigated
MINERAL WELLS - Police want to question a 23-year-old man in the kidnapping and death of a 4-year-old.
Baseball complex: Canyon to add $600K facility
Canyon will soon add a diamond-shaped facility to the Southeast Park Baseball Complex, pending approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its flood plain officials.
Truck hits, kills cycling leader
A leader of the local cycling community was killed Saturday morning in an accident south of Canyon.
Police cite speeding in wreck that killed man
Police say speed was a factor in an auto accident that killed a 25-year-old Mexican national in North Amarillo early Sunday morning.
17 arrested on drug charges
Law enforcement officials in Gray County have arrested more than a dozen Pampa residents on felony drug charges.
Dallas' preseason slate, travel generate concern
No one within the organization is going to say anything because the decision came from the top, but there has to be some concern about the Dallas Cowboys' intense travel schedule during training camp and the preseason.
NFL star Taylor still loves game
NFL defensive end Jason Taylor was in Amarillo on Saturday supporting his brother-in-law, ex-NFL linebacker and Pampa graduate Zach Thomas. They were promoting the renovation of Zach's Club 54, a workout facility partly owned by Thomas, and celebrating Zach's parents' 40th wedding anniversary.
CEO of Amarillo foundations to retire
Bell considering Amarillo for cockpit conversions
Dr. Jeff R. Moore
FREDERICKSBURG - Jeff R. Moore, M.D., 81, formerly of Amarillo, died Saturday, July 17, 2010.
Laverle Edwin Miner
QUITAQUE - Laverle Edwin Miner, 86, died Wednesday, July 14, 2010, in Lockney.
John Roy McBride
LITTLE ELM - John Roy McBride, 74, died Thursday, July 15, 2010.
Nelda Jo Hickman Moody
Nelda Jo Hickman Moody, 58, of Amarillo died Friday, July 16, 2010.
Monsignor Clifton Corcoran
Monsignor Clifton Corcoran, the oldest priest in the Diocese of Amarillo who served parishes in the Texas Panhandle/South Plains for 34 years, passed away July 14th after a lengthy illness. He was 93 years old. Rosary will be recited tonight, Sunday at 6 p.m. at Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. Mass will be celebrated Monday, July 19th at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, Celebrant will be Monsignor Joseph Tash, with priests from the Diocese of Amarillo concelebrating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Richard Carl Weigle
Richard Carl Weigle, 78, of Amarillo died Saturday, July 10, 2010, in Elk Grove, Calif.
David Jerome Gann
David Jerome Gann, 63, of Amarillo died Monday, July 12, 2010.
Janet Ann "Jan" Ward
Janet Ann "Jan" Ward, 63, of Amarillo died Friday, July 16, 2010.
Faye Williams
HARTLEY - Faye Williams, 86, died Thursday, July 15, 2010.
Daniel Sexton
Daniel Sexton, 84, of Amarillo died Friday, July 16, 2010.
Danny Edward Bowman
FRITCH - Danny Edward Bowman, 58, died Wednesday, July 14, 2010.
Mona Clayton
Mona Clayton, 78, of Amarillo died Saturday, July 17, 2010.
James "Sarge" Smalley
James "Sarge" Smalley, 75, of Amarillo died Thursday, July 15, 2010.
William August "Bill" Vaughn
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - William August "Bill" Vaughn, 51, died Monday, July 5, 2010.
Frances O'Gorman Wilson Thompson
AUSTIN - Frances O'Gorman Wilson Thompson, 68, died Thursday, July 15, 2010.
Patsy B. Norris O'Brien
Patsy B. Norris O'Brien, 79, of Amarillo died Sunday, July 18, 2010.
Bruce Wayne Blevins
LAVERNE, Okla. - Bruce Wayne Blevins, 42, died Sunday, July 11, 2010, in Woodward.
Cipriano Serna
Cipriano Serna, 83, of Amarillo died Sunday, July 18, 2010.
Patricia D. Schuette
PLAINVIEW - Patricia D. Schuette, 77, formerly of Dodge City, Kan., died Thursday, July 15, 2010.
John Mark Allen
CLARENDON - John Mark Allen, 93, died Saturday, July 17, 2010.
Billie Cecil East
BORGER - Billie Cecil East, 56, died Friday, July 16, 2010.
Mary W. Hart
PANHANDLE - Mary W. Hart, 76, died Sunday, July 18, 2010, in Amarillo.
Phillip Peter Petrakos
Phillip Peter Petrakos, 54, of Canyon died Thursday, July 15, 2010, in Friona.
Willie Ann Jones
Willie Ann Jones, 86, of Amarillo died Friday, July 16, 2010.
David Brian Tice
PAMPA - David Brian Tice, 53, died Saturday, July 17, 2010.
Frances Milner
CLOVIS, N.M. - Frances Milner, 87, formerly of Friona, Texas, died Saturday, July 17, 2010.
Roberta Simmons
SPEARMAN - Roberta Simmons, 91, died Sunday, July 18, 2010.
Robert H. Arthur
Robert H. Arthur, 84, of Amarillo died Thursday, July 15, 2010.
Joyce Sandefur Thornton
MIDLAND - Joyce Sandefur Thornton, 68, died Thursday, July 15, 2010, in Odessa.
Column - Rodney Hinds: Keep government, religion separate
Any person familiar with polling knows you can manipulate the answers you receive by the way the questions are worded. This tactic is used by wordsmiths, data miners and silver tongued devils and is more popular than ever.
Your Turn
Let your opinions be read right here
Column - Anette Carlisle: Are we asking right questions?
Have you noticed how children play?
Editorial: Courthouse no longer
It seems that virtually no one is saying it out loud, so here it comes: Randall County no longer has a single courthouse building that is the center of county government.
Letter: 'Free trade' proves costly
The government, at the insistence of its masters - corporations that own Congress and the president - passed "free trade agreements" into law.
Column - John Kanelis: Presidential prerogative trumps Senate
It's been said that elections have consequences.
Editorial: Cornyn acts on conscience
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn made probably the least-surprising announcement in recent days when he said he would oppose the nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the next Supreme Court associate justice.
Column - Linda P. Campbell: Food fight over the Commerce Clause
FORT WORTH - U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma wanted to know whether Congress could pass a law requiring Americans to eat three fruits and veggies every day.
Cameras continue to do their job for motorists
(Re: Jon Mark Beilue's column, July 14.)
Column - Bill Betzen: Crazy lines prove to be national bane
(Re: John Kanelis' column, July 11.)
Letter: Cameras unfair to car owner
I was reading John Mark Beilue's column (about red-light cameras) in the July 14 paper.
Texas fishing report
AUSTIN - Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Rare dark jellyfish found
SAN DIEGO - Scientists say a rare species of dark purple jellyfish is showing up in San Diego Bay and washing ashore on beaches.
Skeet shooting results
Hellfire and High Houses NSSA skeet shoot
Fishing rigs
The term "fishing rigs" normally refers to a type of gear used by anglers in an attempt to hook into some line-stripping, rod-bending action.
Fishing tourney results
Amarillo Bass Cub results
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2011 was quite the year for the Philadelphia-based indie rock band, The War on Drugs. Accolades from Paste, Pitchfork and American Songwriter were well-deserved for Slave Ambient, an album that echoes legends such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty while maintaining its own freshly innovative edge. The War on Drugs brings its dynamic live performance (which viewers caught a glimpse of on the January 10th episode of Jimmy Fallon) to Bottletree Cafe on Monday, March 12
. The band will be playing with White Rabbits. Doors for this 18-and-up show open at 8 p.m. Tickets can purchased on Bottletree's website or at the door; $12 in advance, $14 day of the show.
Chris K. Davidson for Birmingham Box Set: First thing I want to address is there's something about your music that's almost instantly familiar, yet very modern at the same time. Not really retro, but it does have a Bruce Springsteen/Tom Petty feel to it. Was that intentional when you were making the record or did that just happen naturally out of the lineup you put together?
Adam Granduciel: I guess that's just the way that our stuff sounds. I think sonically in terms of working on the production, each song had a certain vision that I was aiming for, but I wasn't trying to reference anything really. I guess I just knew how I wanted everything to sound, how I wanted things to fit into the mix. And I love all of that stuff that people like to compare us to; it's not the only stuff. The most important thing to me is the way that the song sounds. It's not about anything other than that. To me, it's about working on the songs and making sure they sound a certain way and to make sure that they sound in a way that makes you feel something when you listen to them. I think it's probably a little bit of both. There's definitely similarities, but I don't think that every song is a classic rock inspired song, but there's a few on there where I could people are coming from when they said that.
BBS: Is there a significance behind the name, The War on Drugs?
AG: I just thought years ago that it would be a good band name because it sounded good and people always to the war on drugs. A great band always a "the" part of it. It's just kind of one of those things. Even when we started playing eight or nine years, some people liked it and some people hated it. I never really over-thought it. I just liked it as a band name and that was it really. I just thought it could sound like anything. Music associated with bands doesn't have to be anything particular. Over time, we developed certain answers to that question, but the reality is I didn't think too hard about it. It didn't have a political thing or whatever.
BBS: What are some of the biggest lyrical themes that you find yourself coming back to?
AG: A lot of people say moving. I don't really think that's it. I think it's more about being really sure of yourself and finding what it is about your life and your world that you try to contribute to. Doing what you love doing despite the hardships that might come to you while you're pursuing those things. I think over the course of the last couple of years, it's been a feeling of loneliness or pressure. I think those are things that have shaped me as a person, so naturally I think they came out in the music. I feel like I'm closely embedded in the band.
BBS: What made you decide to pursue music full-time?
AG: Just one of those things that I loved doing and I didn't really think about it any other way. For a long time, I would do it full-time, but it wasn't where I was making my money, so I had to work, come home and work on music all night and you had work the next day and repeat. But I just knew that that was what I was doing and so now it's different than it was five years ago. Even up until last year I had to work everyday between making the record. It's just been one of those things. I've played music as a kid. I just worked really hard at guitar playing and recording and writing. There wasn't really anything else that I was as passionate about as making music.
BBS: How has living in Philadelphia shaped you as an artist as far as like the community up there?
AG: I've met most of the people that have contributed to the music that I've released. I think certain things fall together in a way that have dictated the way things have worked out. In terms of the neighborhood I've lived in and the house I've lived in for eight or nine years, it's a really affordable part of town, but it's been my studio or rehearsal space for seven or eight years, so because I've lived so close in creation to the music, that's definitely been a music house. It's not so much right now because I'm with my girlfriend and practice somewhere else now, but for so many years, it was where we practiced, rehearsed and recorded stuff. That's had a huge impact on the stuff that I've been recording. In terms of other things, there's a lot of people and a lot of people making music and a lot of friends in other bands. It's not overly competitive or anything. I try to remain fairly insular over the years. There's been a lot of great things that have happened in the music scene. A lot of great people have made a name out there and playing all the time.
BBS: Sounds like Birmingham. Very collaborative and not very competitive.
AG: I feel like Philadelphia's the same way. A lot of us have are own bands and our own music and a lot of us play on each other's records, tour with each other when we can. Definitely it's been that way over the last couple of years because everyone's been so busy. The people who don't play have been fans for a long time and have been part of the scene and the crew. It's a small city. There's only a handful of places to see bands. You meet those people fairly quickly when you start going to shows and playing.
BBS: Your new album, Slave Ambient, really launched you guys because you got all of those accolades from Pitchfork; American Songwriter and Paste both listed the album in the top 50 of 2011. What has that success meant to you guys?
AG: We spent four years essentially working on the album and it was just something like the first record and the EP. I just worked really hard on it and wanted to make sure it was something that I was really proud of at the end of the day. When I turned in Slave Ambient, I was really proud of it, but it expect as many people to hear it that have. It's afforded us the ability to play a lot and tour a lot and get better.
The next record will be more of a full band approach rather than a home recording experiment. It's great. The music gets out there and I don't think there's any one thing that draws people in, so I don't think we'll ever be pigeonholed. I don't think people will be let down if the next record is less atmospheric or less layered. At the end of the day, there are songs that people are enjoying and that approach to them is very interesting. It's been great and having the songs get out there like they have is pretty nice.
BBS: Obviously, the music business has changed in the last decade or so. What have been some of the benefits and challenges of this world of social media and music services such as Spotify?
AG: I think the main benefit is that music gets passed around. Someone is not going to go see a band based on a Youtube clip. When they see a YouTube clip for a song they love and the band comes to town, they're not going to not come to the show just because they saw it on YouTube. I think all of this just promotes the band in a different way. Maybe people used to sit around and listen on the radio to get their music. Now it's a different way. People learn about music from Facebook or people emailing stuff and surfing the web and listening to Bandcamp stuff. So it's been a blessing in a sense that music can get circulated really quickly.
The drawback is the way the industry works now. You're not selling 750,000 records. In an older world, I don't know if we'd be able to have the same kind of success on a smaller scale. If you work hard now, you can still make a living on it in some capacity. I think it's just a different way of people learning about music and the way they purchase it. People still want to spend their hard-earned money on the things they like. People don't want to just work a job and spend money on their bills. People still want to treat themselves to a $100 spree at a record shop or a steak dinner. I think people still buy, but the numbers are different. Good music is still getting circulated and music you've never heard of is getting circulated too.


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So I saw in the news that in Japan, a broker who intended to sell 1 share of a new telecoms company J Com for 600,000 yen (approx. $4,976.49) but instead sold 600,000 shares at 1 yen (approx. $0.0082) a piece with the potential total damage to be around 60 billion yen (nearly $500M) for the brokerage firm, Mizuho Securities. Investors saw the order and realized a brokerage firm messed up and was going in the tank but since they didn't know who put in the order, a massive selling of all brokerage firm stocks occurred and the Nikkei 225 fell 2%. Mizuho also cancelled its holiday party. (At the end of the article, there's an interesting list of other similar type of screwups in the stock market)
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Teaching the River
On the banks of one of China's most polluted rivers, a city park demonstrates alternative methods of water purification.
By Mary Padua, ASLA
The meteoric growth of China's economy in the past two decades has taken a heavy toll on the environment. Rapid expansion of manufacturing
has brought sharp increases in coal-fired power generation and a flood of industrial chemicals into the water and airand growth
continues to accelerate.
According to the World Resources Institute, by the late 1990s, China was home to seven of the ten most polluted cities on earth,
and over 100 of its cities faced severe shortages of clean water. A popular saying about contemporary life in China captures the people's
new consciousness about environmental issues: "The house is new, the money is enough, but the water is foul and life is short" (see
"China's Health and Environment," World Resources Institute, 2001).
With increasing education and openness in the media, the Chinese public has become more aware of hazards posed by environmental degradation
and more active in seeking environmental policies. The government of China is attempting to respond to these concerns, and the environment
has become a top policy priority for Beijing, but civic action at the local level and environmental education will inevitably play
a role in future efforts to stem environmental degradation.
The award-winning Living Water Garden, covering six acres along the banks of the Fu-Nan River near the center of the city of Chengdu
in western China, is an elegant example of environmental education. The garden, an appealing urban park that grew out of a larger project
to improve the water quality of the Fu-Nan River, is built around a water-cleaning system that draws 200 cubic meters of water from
the Fu-Nan each day, removes bacterial pollutants and heavy metals, and returns the water to the river. People go to the Living Water
Garden for the relief it offers from an intense urban setting, and the park seduces them into learning important lessons about the
environment through its demonstration of natural processes of water purification.
The water-treatment system that forms the heart of the park is not meant to have an appreciable impact on the river's water quality.
Major improvements in a body of water the size of the Fu-Nan can be achieved only by reducing emissions of pollutants. Instead, the
impact of the Living Water Garden lies in its effects on the thinking of the people of Chengdu: their increased awareness of environmental
issues and pride in the progress the city has made toward improvement of the river.
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An article in The Wall Street Journal reports that Makerbot, a 3-D printing company focused on consumers and very popular with hobbyists, is in acquisition talks. The company has a key asset, its massive Thingiverse design library, which gives consumers access to nearly eight times the number of designs that 3D Systems' (NYSE: DDD ) cubify.com library contains. Should 3D Systems investors be worried? In the video below, Motley Fool industrials analyst Blake Bos discusses how 3D Systems' business differs from Makerbot's, and ponders just how big of a threat this company might be.
3D Systems is at the leading edge of a disruptive technological revolution, with the broadest portfolio of 3-D printers in the industry. However, despite years of earnings growth, 3D Systems' share price has risen even faster, and today the company sports a dizzying valuation. To help investors decide whether the future of additive manufacturing is bright enough to justify the lofty price tag on the company's shares, The Motley Fool has compiled a premium research report on whether 3D Systems is a buy right now. In our report, we take a close look at 3D Systems' opportunities, risks, and critical factors for growth. You'll also find reasons to buy or sell the stock today. To start reading, simply click here now for instant access.


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Trash Found in 'Suspicious Package'
San Luis Obispo County Bomb Task Force deployed a robot to inspect a suspicious package left at the Paso Robles Walmart.
Officials said they found trash inside the bag that did not pose a threat to the public. The package was reported to Paso Robles police around 11 a.m. Thursday.
Police found a brown paper bag sealed with black tape left unattended in a shopping cart.
Police said the paper bag was located on the east side of the store next to the garden center and some propane tanks.
Sections of parking lot were blocked off, as well as portions of South River Road.
All closures have been lifted since 2 p.m.
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WALL — schools will reopen this morning, according to a report on APP.com.
Schools in the 4,000-student district were closed Monday because of "remaining snow conditions." Officials blamed excessive snow drifts that damaged the roof at the high school and said walkways and driveways near the school hadn't been fully cleared. School buses also would have been difficult to operate in housing developments, the report said.
Howell and Brick schools opened 90 minutes late Monday.
Previous coverage:
• Wall schools closed because of 'remaining snow conditions'