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Set for release next week, it feels as though the high-definition (HD) makeover of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, simply known as Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD, has been a long time coming. The promise of a return to the world of Oddworld, the teasing of the Stranger's HD visuals, the 'will it, won't it' of the Xbox 360 version, all of this has finally culminated in a PlayStation Network launch that has attracted much attention, and with good reason. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath was an under appreciated release as an exclusive title on the original Xbox, and now Just Add Water are giving it the opportunity to shine once more.
While the videogame is set to arrive in just a matter of days, the build Electronic Theatre got hands-on with most recently is some months old. There were a number of issues with the presentation, most noticeably enemies disappearing through walls and floors, but the representative of Just Add Water on hand promised that these glitches would be ironed out prior to release. And Electronic Theatre has no reason not to believe him, as elsewhere Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD sparkled with the kind of attention to detail that any HD remake should enjoy, but so very few do.
The area in which Electronic Theatre was allowed free run was reportedly a few hours into the videogame: all of the training had been surpassed, but the challenges weren't yet at the point where any significant skill was demanded. A short run down a liner path introduced our first bout of combat against some rather easily fooled enemies. The player is given several options as to how to take down their foes, largely revolving around the available ammo types. At this point, the simplest option was to attract the attention of the small group, then retreat into some long grass, taking down the enemies one-by-one while remaining hidden. Once this section had been passed and a small amount of platform gameplay had been entertained, new ammo types were made available dramatically increasing the options at our disposal. From wrapping the enemy in spider webs and slowing their movement to limited stun ammo, the opportunities for improvisation are never less than impressive.
That aforementioned platform gameplay isn't quite as daunting as you might be expecting. First-person shooters (FPS) have a chequered past when it comes to platform gameplay: for every Duke Nukem 3D, there's a Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Of course, the difference with Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD is that of the switch between first-person and third-person cameras. In Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD, the player is afforded the feedback of animation cycles for their on-screen avatar that FPS videogames traditionally lack, and therein lays the opportunity to present platform challenges without frustrating: death is a result of the player's negligence, not due to a lack of visual information.
Due for release as a digitally distributed title via PlayStation Network, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD is given the opportunity to attract the audience it deserved the first time around. While there's no denying that the innovation and intelligent design of the Xbox original retains it's attractiveness here in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD, only time will tell if the videogame can achieve the commercial success that the 2005 original was inelegantly denied. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD launches on PlayStation Network next week, and Electronic Theatre will keep you updated with all the latest details on the Oddworld videogame franchise.


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Arabelle DiCrescenzo's son Julian planned to be a Transformer for Halloween.
While the 5-year-old may not appreciate the irony, his mother does.
As the rest of America celebrates Halloween, DiCrescenzo and her family are stuck in a shelter in Madison because Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to their home. The year before, the surprise October snowstorm ruined trick-or-treating for them, too.
"If Transformers existed, they would come here and they would save us," she says. "In a 5-year-old's mind, it's very strange that we're not able to fix this problem."
Gov. Chris Christie — New Jersey's answer to Optimus Prime — is trying to salvage the holiday by signing an executive order rescheduling festivities to Monday.
"I've taken this action to minimize additional risks to lives and the public safety as we begin the process of rebuilding and recovering from Hurricane Sandy," Christie says in a statement. "In too many communities in our state, the damage and losses from this storm are still being sorted out, and dangerous conditions abound even as our emergency management and response officials continue their work."
Mayor Robert D. Parisi is telling residents that door-to-door candy calls are postponed until further notice, and there's a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew in effect. "As of right now, we're not even giving a date," his administrative assistant ShariAnn Quirk says. "The roads, some of them are impassible. Ninety percent of the town is without power. I don't know if the mayor is even looking at the 5th."
Despite downed trees, pervasive power outages and, in some cases, all-too-real houses of horror, some New Jersey families tried to create some semblance of Halloween normalcy — abnormalcy? — yesterday.
In Cranford, Becky Bobrowski and some neighbors let their children dress up and joined forces for an impromptu party.
"We decided to just get together at someone's house, and do some Halloween crafts and do some Halloween treats, and make some fun out of this," she says, peeling an eyeball sticker for her 2-year-old daughter Sophia Robinson, who dressed up as an owl.
Beth Walsh's Scotch Plains street is blocked by downed trees and has no power, so she and a half-dozen of her neighbors pooled their candy and set up shop in the middle of the block.
"We're kind of making it a free-for-all," she says. "This is a little better than them being inside. We are letting them run off some energy and have a good time."
Her 8-year-old daughter Emily had picked out her can-can girl costume weeks ago and was upset when she thought trick-or-treating was out of the question.
"She's a little chilly, no shoulders, no sleeves, but she's wearing the costume," Walsh says. "I don't know if it's as much about the candy or the costume, I'm not sure, but they all seem to be happy right now."
As for DiCrescenzo in the Madison shelter, she suspects Julian and 2-year-old Nicholas won't mind waiting a few days. "My kids are small. If you tell them it's Halloween on Saturday, they'll be happy with that. We can wear the costume all week, right?"
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Ex-trooper to serve up to six years in Route 6 fatal DUI
Daryl Nunemaker Jr. and his wife, Alicia, met at 16 and married three years later, because, Alicia Nunemaker told a judge Thursday, they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
For Daryl Nunemaker, the rest of his life meant eight months.
The 21-year-old newlywed was killed while driving home from his job as night manager at Tops Friendly Markets on Feb. 8, 2012, when a pickup truck driven by a drunken off-duty state trooper, Jeffrey d'Alessandro, crossed the centerline and collided with Nunemaker's sport utility vehicle on Route 6 outside of Union City.
In an emotional hearing Thursday in Erie County Court, those on both sides of the case gathered to witness the legal fallout of D'Alessandro's crime and the pain it caused.
D'Alessandro, tearful and apologetic to the Nunemaker family, his own family and fellow state troopers, was ordered to serve the mandatory minimum sentence of three to six years in state prison on the charge of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol and a charge of DUI.
"I made a horrible mistake and because of my selfishness, I took D.J. from you. I take full responsibility for that," the 36-year-old former Canonsburg-based trooper said
Erie County President Judge Ernest J. DiSantis Jr. ordered the sentence as D'Alessandro's punishment. The judge devoted more time to a solemn, lengthy address in which he urged both sides to find relief not in the court's actions, but in how they live their lives in the wake of Nunemaker's death.
The court can't roll back time and restore Nunemaker's life, he said.
"Some of us live to be 21," DiSantis said. "Some of us live to be 90. The question is, when we die, have we made a difference? That has very little to do with the amount of time we spend on this Earth."
The Nunemakers, he said, can take comfort in the knowledge that Daryl Nunemaker, a good husband, son and worker, "meant something while he was on this Earth."
D'Alessandro, the judge said, owes it to Nunemaker to piece back together his life. He said D'Alessandro's chief offense was his failure to seek help for a drinking problem before the crash occurred.
"You must live your life for two people, you and Mr. Nunemaker," he said.
"In time, you can regain your own self-respect."
The hearing came after d'Alessandro pleaded no contest to the charges in March. He did not contest the evidence that he was driving with a blood-alcohol content of 0.13 percent. The legal BAC limit for driving in Pennsylvania is 0.08 percent.
D'Alessandro, who had been a trooper for nine years at the time of his arrest, resigned from his job after he entered his plea, his lawyer, Leonard Ambrose, said. Before the crime occurred, d'Alessandro had an outstanding record as a citizen, Ambrose said.
"This is a tragic case," Ambrose said.
D'Alessandro was visiting Erie County to fish for steelhead trout when the crash occurred.
His nephew, Adam Sullivan, a graduate student from Tennessee, told DiSantis that d'Alessandro was a supportive role model who helped him graduate from college. He said he had introduced his uncle to steelhead fishing when he was a student at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
D'Alessandro's pastor, the Rev. Michael Gestrich, of the Hilltop Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, said d'Alessandro has stopped drinking and regularly attends counseling and church.
Nunemaker's friends and family crowded the courtroom. Among them were state police Sgt. Mark Zaleski and Lt. James B. Basinger, acting commander of Troop E, who said they came to the hearing to show the Nunemaker family the support of Troop E.
Assistant District Attorney Brandon Bingle recalled in his address to DiSantis that d'Alessandro as a trooper, knew the "inherent risks involved when you consume alcohol and operate a motor vehicle" yet decided to drive anyway.
Nunemaker's family expressed some anger, but mostly their grief to DiSantis.
"D.J. was the strength who held our family together," his mother, Pamela Nunemaker, said.
Nunemaker's father, Daryl Nunemaker Sr., said he tried to raise his son to be responsible and never went hunting or fishing without him.
Amid his tearful remarks, the elder Nunemaker also expressed compassion for d'Alessandro and his two young sons.
"I know this has been hard on Mr. D'Alessandro's family. The last thing in the world I would want to see is your two boys growing up without a father because the last thing the world needs is more kids growing up without a parent."
Alicia Nunemaker said her husband was working to pay her way through a nursing program at Edinboro University.
She said she knew something was wrong when he did not come home from work on time the night of the crash. She went out looking for him and drove up on the accident scene, she said.
"I can't tell you how it feels when somebody who is part of you is gone," she said.
LISA THOMPSON can be reached at 870-1802 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNthompson.


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Field Hockey Drops 2-1 Game to Ohio State
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State field hockey team dropped a 2-1 decision to the Ohio State Buckeyes Wednesday afternoon. Freshman Lexi Kavanaugh notched her seventh goal of the seaon.
Both teams battled to a 0-0 tie after the first half. The Buckeyes had nine shots while the Cardinals had six in the first 35 minutes of action.
Ohio State got on the board first in the 55th minute when Maria Swartz fed Emma Royce. Kavanaugh would answer in the 60th minute when she was fed a ball from sophomore Bethany Han for a clear shot to the goal. Both teams would mount an offensive furry with Ohio State coming out successful with a shot in the 65th minute when Mona Frommhold turned in a rebound.
Sophomore Shelby Henley made 12 saves on the day while red-shirt sophomore Bianca Velez was credited with a defensive save.
Six Cardinals tallied shots on the day, led by sophomore Allie White who notched six shots, four of which were on goal.
Ball State will host MAC foe Ohio on Saturday, Oct. 26 for a 1 p.m. game. The match will mark the last home game for the Cardinals in 2013.


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In the last Drupal Gardens survey of site builders, the #1 requested item was image galleries. We wanted Drupal Gardens' galleries to be built on Drupal 7's new files and fields architecture, and developed using the powerful media and styles modules. After working on these modules to support galleries, we turned our efforts to finishing an easy to use Drupal 7 lightbox and media-based gallery module leveraging the fantastic ColorBox jQuery plug-in. After finalizing the bulk-upload process via a Drupal 7 port of the Plupload integration module, and performing a ton of testing and polish, Drupal Gardens' image galleries were ready for prime time. We hope you enjoy them -- and even more so we hope you'll contribute on drupal.org to extend these projects even further. Continue reading below for more information on Drupal Gardens' image galleries as well as other features new in this release.
All Galleries summary page
Re-arranging images within a Gallery
This Drupal Gardens release has the following new features:
- Updated all of DrupalGardens.com with a light, fresh design grounded in excellent typography.
- Added a new image gallery feature so every Drupal Gardens site can easily upload, manage and display professional-looking collections of images. The image gallery feature supports lightbox display of images, keyboard support to move between images, and auto-advancing slide shows. Bulk-upload multiple images at once from your computer by selecting groups of files or drag and drop. Or optionally select multiple images from your site's media library to add them at once to a gallery. Show thumbnails of multiple galleries on the 'All galleries' page with options to show total number of images and other info. Bulk edit all of the titles, tags, descriptions and license details for every image in your gallery at once by selecting 'Edit images.' And easily configure your individual galleries' look and feel, including:
- Set the number of images to show per row (image thumbnails will scale appropriately to fill the size of the region) or rows per page.
- Determine if visitors should be allowed to view/download the original size image. Also set an optional creative commons license for images.
- Determine if clicking a gallery image displays the image in a lightbox or on a page.
- Re-arrange your gallery images via drag and drop. Set which gallery image is the one used for the 'cover image' on the Galleries page by dragging it to be the 1st image in the gallery.
- Determine how titles, descriptions and license information appear in the lightbox or image page.
- Get complete control over the design of your gallery pages with the ThemeBuilder.
- When creating a new site, just turn on the Gallery feature to get started. More information on galleries can be found in the documentation.
- Choosing Structure > Blocks > Demonstrate block region now properly shows your theme's regions, providing an easy way to see where blocks can be placed.
- Updated all sites to Drupal 7 Alpha 6 including all Drupal 7 core changes through August 4th. For a complete list of what is new, see the raw CVS commit messages from July 12 to August 4.
- Fixed a bunch of bugs reported by our users. Thank you!
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Today I am featuring a guest post by Lisa Delay. She is the author of the recently published Soul Care for Creators and Communicators.
In Catholic tradition, St. Jude is an advocate for hopeless cases. Pleading for help and petitioning his assistance are meted out in the prayer to St. Jude. Evangelicals have prayer chains, prayer circles, prayer meetings and prayer warriors. These field those types of requests, and when things are extra desperate fasting is involved. When wanting privacy the proverbial "unspoken request" is utilized. This spoken yet unspoken request likely ignites curiosity like no other prayer requests can.
How much do we believe God cares for us? Is his superintendence and succor established on the circumstances surrounding our need or by simply being his children?
As we encounter desperate times, let us never lose sight of the place that is ours, the apple of the eye of the Good, Sovereign, and Caring Creator and Savior, the Lord of Hosts. As we bring him our requests may we be fortified by the truth that his care and love is ongoing. We needn't attract him to our cause by extravagant displays or extraordinary means and pleas, but rather may we accept his grace. To get us started, I have written a "Prayer for Desperate Situations":
Oh, God,
May I receive the consolations and succor of You above all else.
First, let me realize your nature is Good and Caring of me and my needs.
Nothing can truly harm me, for your are my Protector.
Second, let me rely fully on you to meet me and my needs as your loving provision allows so well.
Secure my heart and my mind for your good and perfect will;
And let me enter this time of trail aware of and thankful for your Presence.
Your Grace has been and will be now all sufficient for me.
Even most thoroughly through your saving son, Jesus Christ.


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The F.I.I. Training Floats are our most popular proshop item! Used by freediving professionals worldwide, these high-end freedive training floats have been specially designed for freedive teaching rigs and depth training set-ups. Don't forget, the inner tube needs to be purchased separately.
The F.I.I custom made, freediving float covers are made of a sturdy rubberized nylon and have a convenient crescent-zip design offering plenty of inner storage room for lines and water bottles. The underside features a reinforced webbing strap securing a solid stainless steel D-Ring for line attachment and a conveniently placed narrow nylon webbing strap circumnavigates the diameter of the float with small loops. The loops around the outside are used by freedivers to hold onto during their "breath ups", and to attach additional accessories. The inner tubes need to be purchased separately either from the FII Pro Shop, or at your local tire store. Measuement is approx 12" / 13".
What else do I need for my depth training set-up?
* Weight - For most training set-ups, we recommend attaching a 25lb weight. This can be formed using dive weights, kettle bell, etc.
* Line - We recommend using a minimum 3/8th inch line that is double braded with a nylon interior. The line should also be what is called a static line. What this means is if you add weight to it the line wont stretch. Docking line is our prefered recommendation.
* Dive Flag - Check your local regulations!
* Carabiner - To attach the line and float.
Care and Maintenance: Rinse your float in fresh water after each use and preferably store deflated and out of direct sunlight. While the float outer is extremely durable, we do not recommend dragging it over rocks, along the road, etc.


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Helen Mirren
Born Jul 26, 1945
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.
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Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Helen Mirren.
1945 Birth Born on July 26, 1945.
1965 19 Years Old She also appeared in four productions, directed by Braham Murray for Century Theatre at the University Theatre in Manchester, between 1965 and 1967.
1970 24 Years Old In 1970, the director/producer John Goldschmidt made a documentary film, Doing Her Own Thing, about Mirren during her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company. … Read More
1972 26 Years Old In 1972 and 1973, Mirren worked with Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatre Research, and joined the group's tour in North Africa and the US, during which they created The Conference of the Birds.
1974 28 Years Old She then rejoined the RSC, playing Lady Macbeth at Stratford in 1974 and at the Aldwych Theatre in 1975. … Read More
1975 29 Years Old 1 More Event
At the Royal Court Theatre in September 1975, she played the role of a rock star named Maggie in Teeth 'n' Smiles, a musical play by David Hare; she reprised the role the following year in a revival of the play at Wyndham's Theatre in May 1976. … Read More
1977 31 Years Old At the RSC in Stratford in 1977, and at the Aldwych the following year, she played a steely Queen Margaret in Terry Hands' production of the three parts of Henry VI, while 1979 saw her 'bursting with grace', and winning acclaim for her performance as Isabella in Peter Gill's production of Measure for Measure at Riverside Studios.
1981 35 Years Old In 1981, she returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of Brian Friel's Faith Healer. … Read More
1983 37 Years Old In her performance as Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl—at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in January 1983, and at the Barbican Theatre in April 1983—she was described as having "swaggered through the action with radiant singularity of purpose, filling in areas of light and shade that even Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker omitted." – Michael Coveney, Financial Times, April 1983.
1989 43 Years Old After a relatively barren sojourn in the Hollywood Hills, she returned to England at the beginning of 1989 to co-star with Bob Peck at the Young Vic in the London premiere of the Arthur Miller double-bill, Two Way Mirror, performances which prompted Miller to remark: "What is so good about English actors is that they are not afraid of the open expression of large emotions" (interview by Sheridan Morley: The Times 11 January 1989). … Read More
1994 48 Years Old A further stage breakthrough came in 1994, in an Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production bound for the West End, when Bill Bryden cast her as Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country. … Read More
1995 49 Years Old Mirren was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Play): in 1995 for her Broadway debut in A Month in the Country, now directed by Scott Ellis ("Miss Mirren's performance is bigger and more animated than the one she gave last year in an entirely different London production", Vincent Canby in the NY Times, 26 April 1995). Then again in 2002 for August Strindberg's Dance of Death, co-starring with Sir Ian McKellen, their fraught rehearsal period coinciding with the terrorist attacks on New York on 11 September 2001 (as recorded in her In the Frame autobiography, September 2007).
1998 52 Years Old Mirren had an unhappy experience at the National Theatre in 1998 when she played Cleopatra to Alan Rickman's Antony.
2000 54 Years Old In 2000 Nicholas Hytner, who had worked with Mirren on the film version of The Madness of King George, cast her as Lady Torrance in his revival of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending at the Donmar Warehouse in London. … Read More
2003 57 Years Old At the National Theatre in November 2003 she again won praise playing Christine Mannon ("defiantly cool, camp and skittish", Evening Standard; "glows with mature sexual allure", Daily Telegraph) in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra directed by Howard Davies. … Read More
2005 59 Years Old … She also played Elizabeth I in 2005, in the television serial Elizabeth I, for Channel 4 and HBO, for which she received an Emmy Award.
2007 61 Years Old 1 More Event
Mirren won another Emmy Award on 16 September 2007 for her role in Prime Suspect: The Final Act on PBS in the same category as in 2006. … Read More
2008 62 Years Old In a GQ interview in 2008, Mirren stated she had been date raped as a student and had often taken cocaine at parties in her 20s, and until the 1980s. … Read More
2010 64 Years Old On 11 May 2010, Mirren attended the unveiling of her waxwork at Madame Tussauds London. … Read More
2013 67 Years Old 3 More Events
… In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014, BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship. … Read More
2014 68 Years Old In 2014, she appeared opposite Indian actor Om Puri in the comedy-drama The Hundred-Foot Journey.
2015 69 Years Old 1 More Event
… In 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, after two previous nominations, for her performance in The Audience, in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II.
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Welcome to Framed, a column at Cinematical that celebrates the artistry of cinema -- one frame at a time.
When I first heard news about Darren Aronofsky's latest project, 'Black Swan,' I was skeptical as to its success, but an atmospheric and ominous trailer won me over immediately. You can watch it below. Early reviews have been mainly positive and although I'm dying to take a peek, for now I'll happily indulge in a bit of blind faith as I share some thoughts on the film's trailer, which drips with symbolism and dark intrigue.
For those of you who haven't been seduced by 'Black Swan's' premise yet -- the film revolves around Nina (Natalie Portman), rival dancer Lily (Mila Kunis), past prima ballerina Beth (Winona Ryder), their stage director Thomas (Vincent Cassel), and Nina's overbearing, veteran ballerina mother (Barbara Hershey). As the dancers approach an important performance, the friction between Nina and Lily grows. Soon, the psychologically fragile ballerina becomes more reckless as her relationship with Lily transforms her and she becomes overwhelmed with erotic tension, supernatural mystery, and a Hitchcockian foreboding.
It's no mere coincidence that the female cast of 'Black Swan' resemble each other -- as Aronofsky propels the dichotomy of the White and Black Swan to twisted psychological effect. Nina seems to be a character fractured by her own anxiety, fear and sexual stuntedness. She appears to become a vessel for the people in her life – absorbing their neuroses and complications, which creates a kind of hive mind – a collective psyche torn and bursting at the seams.
Everything about Nina's world that we gather from the few minute trailer reinforces this. We see the strained interactions between Nina and her suffocating mother, who as a former dancer seems to put an immense amount of pressure on her daughter to not only be the best, but to never grow up. Nina is referred to as "girl" by her mother, her bedroom is decorated for that of an adolescent, and the nature of ballet itself is rampant with social physique anxiety – the pressure to maintain a lithe (young girl-like) figure.
(Ballet itself is ripe with doppelgängers)
Lily incites feelings of self-doubt as she becomes the barometer to judge Nina's sultriness and ability to perform as the darker half of her dance persona – the Black Swan. Nina on her own seems innocent and reserved, but next to Lily she's practically frigid.
Thomas, of course, stirs the pot of insecurity – acting as a kind of sexual Svengali. When we see the stage director murmur to and stroke Nina during a dance demonstration, she looks absolutely bewildered – no doubt in part that she is now being faced with the notion of finding her own sensuality and setting it on display for others to see. She's even too ashamed to explore her own body freely in the privacy of her own bedroom (she masturbates face down – hiding).
We don't see much of former 'Swan' starlet Beth in the film's trailer, but various synopses I've read indicate that she becomes distraught when forced to retire from the stage. I think it's safe to conclude that there is no love lost between these two, and that Nina probably feels horrified by Beth's fate, simply for the fact that she too will be put to pasture one day.
All the doppelgängers of Nina's wounded subconscious definitely recall films like Polanski's 'Repulsion' and 'The Tenant,' but Aronofsky's use of what appears to be a series of self-portrait drawings in Nina's bedroom reminds me of Oscar Wilde's 'Picture of Dorian Gray' and his use of mirrors recalls Primo Levi's story, 'The Mirror Maker.' Timoteo was born in a family of mirror makers, but had a vision of putting his own twist on the looking glass. His "Metamir" was a flexible mirror, that when applied to the forehead would reflect the looker's perceptions rather than reality. On his mother, Timoteo was reflected as the perfect angel. On his girlfriend, he saw a broken and weak man. On another woman, Timoteo was reflected as the ideal man. The illusions and invented narratives of Nina's life eventually overtake her, and it's as though she becomes a Metamir herself – reaching to preserve and insist upon her very existence by creating these doubles. That these dramas are played out through 'Black Swan's' rich and gorgeous theatrics is intoxicating.
As Antonin Artuad describes in his manifesto, 'The Theater and Its Double,' " ... If we address ourselves theatrically to the unconscious, it is merely to take from it what it has been able to collect (or conceal) of accessible everyday experience." Clearly Nina's experiences have taken their toll. Whether or not she is able to embrace or overcome the dream-myth personae without them destroying her in the process remains to be seen.
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New CD/DVD now available!
"Better Late Than Never" by the AndersonPonty Band, featuring music icons Jon Anderson and Jean Luc Ponty, has been released! Learn more
Jean Luc is pleased to announce this new acoustic trio work to his fans, entitled "D-Stringz", with Stanley Clarke (double bass) and Bireli Lagrene (acoustic guitar), which has been released by Verve/Universal in North America, and by Impulse/Universal in Europe. This new recording features a blend of jazz standards and original compositions from all three of these musicians.
Los Angeles - One of the most eagerly awaited releases of 2015 by the AndersonPonty Band, featuring music icons Jon Anderson and Jean Luc Ponty, has been released in September 2015 ! "Better Late Than Never" is the new album taken from a live performance, and enhanced with innovative production. The package includes a bonus DVD featuring outstanding performances by the band captured in September 2014 at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado.
Over the next months the Jean Luc Ponty website will be undergoing some improvements. We have started by replacing the message board with a Disqus commenting system. This switch was done to make things a little easier on the technical front via better spam control and moderation tools, as well as to encourage interaction among fans by providing a "reply" feature and threaded conversation format.
In response to several questions about recordings, here is some basic information on music copyright issues. More detailed questions about any use of Jean-Luc's music should be submitted to this website.


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Snow Pioneers
Valley locals make their mark
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Mike Hattrup and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing
Ketchum resident Mike Hattrup is a shy guy, in a mellow town, with an extreme problem.
A pioneer in the sport of extreme skiing in the '80s, Hattrup, now 48 years old, is happy to watch his two children, Axel and Isabella, excel at Hemingway Elementary School and to play the dutiful spouse to his Munich-born wife of nine years, Claudia.
Hattrup clearly enjoys the Wood River Valley and the freedom to travel the world as the director of K2 Adventure. But this also begs the question: Why is a founder of the global community of hard-core skiing pioneers hanging his hat in Ketchum?
"You need to put it all into perspective. Yeah, I would prefer to have Rendezvous Peak at Jackson Hole right there," as he points toward Bald Mountain from a table at Java on Fourth. "But when you combine the town and mountain, it's a very nice mix. The town is not ostentatious, it still feels warm, and the mountain is still remarkable. It's a nice balance."
"Let me say this," Hattrup continues, "I have skied a lot of places. And there are not many places you can go with a pure 3,100-foot vertical fall line. I like to make a lot of turns and I want my legs to quit before the run does. Baldy does that."
Hattrup's ride to the extreme skiing scene was a bit of a bumpy one. Born in Seattle, he made the U.S. Moguls Ski Team in the mid-'80s before an ACL injury took him out. But his big break came in '88, when he co-starred in Greg Stump's landmark ski flick, "The Blizzard of Aahhhs." To this day, the film is still considered a cult classic.
"Stump was a DJ by trade," explains Hattrup. "So while there were other filmmakers before him, like (Warren) Miller and (Dick) Barrymore, his music was really good and his editing was a lot edgier and quicker."
makes it a very different sport…Today, they are straight-lining the stuff
we were just barely able to get down."
After nearly 30 years, extreme skiing continues to push physical and technical limits, as young skiers jump off even larger cliffs and ski even steeper faces. Advances in equipment from ski companies such as K2 have also opened up the winter backcountry to diehards and weekend warriors in equal numbers.
"What we did 20 years ago, and what they do today in extreme skiing, makes it a very different sport," Hattrup points out. "The difference is in the equipment that allows skiers to push the envelope. But it's crazy right now, with the speed and the consequences. Today, they are straight-lining the stuff we were just barely able to get down."
Hattrup recalls the early days in the backcountry scene with a favorite quote from a fellow extreme skier, the late Allan Bard: "'Bardini,' as he was called, had just completed this awesome descent down a face on skinny skis, three-pin bindings, and leather boots. When he gets to the bottom, he turns to fellow skier, Tim Carter, and says, 'I can't believe we just skied what we just skied—on what we just skied!'"
Hattrup moved to Ketchum full-time in '97, but he was no stranger to Baldy and the Wood River Valley. He took a year off from college in '82 and lived in Ketchum. He recalls riding the chairlift that winter with skiers, "like me (now). They were in their late forties, they came for a winter and never left."
"Back in the '70s and '80s, we skied bumps every day and Baldy was one of, if not the, best bump mountains in the world. Bump skiing was the culture in that era," he adds.
Aside from his role with K2, Hattrup is still a prominent ski mountaineer and certified guide. He works for Marin Volken's Seattle-based guiding service and spends a portion of each winter in the Alps.
"Being a guide at 48 years old, it's much different than what I thought at 28 years old. If you can survive all the stupid stuff, then you can develop some pretty good judgment," says Hattrup. "As the saying goes, good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
Over the years, Hattrup has also lived in other mountain towns, but Ketchum still resonates with him.
"I lived in Vail for a year and a half. But after three months in Ketchum, I knew more people here than I knew in Vail. It's very comfortable," says Hattrup. "I had friends visiting recently. They kept remarking how quiet and peaceful it is here. I thought that's pretty crazy, but it's also very true."
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Ed Bradley's recent journey to Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa for a 60 Minutes II special on AIDS in Africa, airing June 27 on CBS, "was as tough a trip as I've had in 20 years," he says. "It was so draining emotionally. I interviewed one woman who got HIV, and her husband and his family totally condemned her, when in fact she-got it from him. When he got sick and was dying, I said, 'Didn't you get angry at him because he gave this to you?' And she said, 'He didn't need anger, he needed love.' I was stunned."
As hard as the 10-day trip was, "seeing people who didn't give up kept us going," he says. "We fed off their energy." The newsman needed a boost. 60 Minutes "takes a lot out of you," he says. "By June, you're ready to go on vacation. But it was so reinvigorating to do this hour." Bradley, 59, who lives in New York City with longtime girlfriend Patricia Blanchet, 35, program manager for NYU's Institute of African-American Affairs, starts his 20th year on 60 Minutes this fall. As for that much-needed vacation: "I'll take a month off," he says.
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Brandon Mollett is an Inside Lacrosse Correspondent
"He [Dave Cottle] told me after the game, 'We tried to out Princeton, Princeton.'" Tiger head coach Bill Tierney says.
The fastest game on two feet was as fast as Loyola wanted it to be. They accomplished this primarily through the invert offense set.
This game was a glaring example of the advantages, disadvantages, and issues surrounding the invert offense. Loyola lost but played itself into a position to win against a team with more talent and a lot more depth. The Hounds used this same offensive game plan to upset Syracuse earlier in the regular season.
In any case it brought the invert offense to the forefront of the Inside Lacrosse staff's mind. The quarterfinal game alone raised more than enough attention to warrant a full discussion on the topic of invert offenses.
|The basics
In the invert offense a team moves the players matched up with shortstick defenders behind the goal. Usually this will be a midfielder. This is where the term invert is derived. The middies who normally play above the goal are now inverted and play from behind the goal.
The advantages are obvious. The offensive team initially has a more favorable matchup because the offensive player is driving on a shortstick defender as opposed to a defenseman. When dodging from behind the goal, all the other offensive players are facing the goal. This means they are all in a position to score directly from a feed. The defensive players will have their backs to the ball. (see diagram) Despite the fact that defenses now work ad nauseam to train shortsticks to play defense from behind the goal they will always be less effective than longsticks. Without the six feet of titanium for leverage and reach, they cannot possibly put as much pressure on the offensive player as a longstick can.
This lack of pressure enables the offensive player to keep his hands more free, making him a far more dangerous player as both a feeder and scorer. A longstick defender, because of that six-foot reach, is always a threat to land a check that may dislodge the ball. A shorter stick minimizes this threat, giving the offensive player more time and room.
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The longer stick also allows more room for error, particularly when holding a player on the goal line extended. Logically it makes sense that it is harder to drive through or roll around a player with a six-foot reach as opposed to a 40-inch. Holding a strong offensive player on the pipes is a difficult task even for the most skilled defensive shortsticks.
"The invert doesn't work unless you can beat the shortstick off the drive," Cottle says. "When he beats his man it opens up the field."
With the defensive player more vulnerable the slides must come more quickly which can open up offense away from the ball.
The most important aspect of the invert is the fact that it develops from behind the goal. An offensive player in front of the goal has all the aforementioned advantages over the shortstick defender. But when driving from up top his options are limited. There are two reasons for this.
One, it is easier for the defensive players to see their man and the ball when looking out away from the goal toward the ball. This makes the slides easier. Two, and more importantly, a player driving from up top is passing to a player with his back to the goal. A player facing away from the goal is not an immediate threat to shoot. He is forced to move before being able to shoot.
It is far more effective to drive from behind and distribute from there. Defensively it is harder to keep track of the ball when it is coming from directly behind. Offensively all of the off-ball players are facing the goal and can shoot immediately after receiving the pass from behind. (see diagram)
GET YOUR FREE INSIDE LACROSSE SAMPLE ISSUE!The nitty gritty offense
What this has created for the offense is an interesting new type of player. In this offense a midfielder's role has expanded. He is forced to become more like an attackman in mindset. Driving to score with an eye open to feed.
"Eighty percent of the Division I game of lacrosse is finding the shortstick and beating him," says Princeton head coach Bill Tierney. "Teams are well prepared and slide early to the shortstick. This means the player whois dodging isn't necessarily going to be the guy who scores. Which means middies have to become distributors as well as scorers."
Says Cottle: "You have to teach attack skills to midfielders."
Most teams have handled this in a fairly logical way, convert former attackmen into midfielders. Sticking guys behind who are used to playing from behind makes sense.
"A couple of years ago we started recruiting offensive players and defensive players, not just attackmen and middies," Tierney says. "We want to put the best offensive players on the field when on offense."
This is a simple strategy that requires a lot from players because they are forced to adapt to positions they are not naturally used to playing. In any case, in the invert offense a team must have a player who is comfortable working from behind the goal.
The field looks a lot different from behind the goal. The slides come from a different area. The driving player tends to be much closer to the crease, which increases the amount of traffic and confusion. It takes a heady player to manage the ball in this situation.
The good news is that in this confusion there are a lot of options because teams slide quickly. This opens up the field behind the slide. Now the offense has the defense on the move and all of their players in a position for a shot. Advantage offense.
GET YOUR FREE INSIDE LACROSSE SAMPLE ISSUE!The defensive nitty gritty
The defense is not as defenseless as it would appear. It has a few distinct advantages in the invert. Defensemen are sliding quickly which makes them aggressive and makes the offense beat them by moving the ball rather than sitting back and letting one man beat them. Offenses will make mistakes when pressured and forced to move the ball more quickly than they would like. Sound farfetched? Well it works. Just ask Princeton. The Tigers have won six National Championships playing their slide, rotate, recover style of defense.
The defense also has the advantage of opting not to play shortsticks behind. Ever hear of a zone? They just let the shortsticks play up top and the longsticks play behind. This means that a middie or converted attackman no longer has the benefit of driving against a shortstick. This negates the effects of the invert. However, the disadvantage is that a more skilled player like an attackman is now matched up with a shortstick up top.
GET YOUR FREE INSIDE LACROSSE SAMPLE ISSUE!Affecting the game
Watching that Loyola-Princeton game was like watching snails race over a salt block. Loyola played a slow methodical game, inverting and waiting, waiting then inverting.
To most this was a boring game that saw the refs call stalling more than they called goals. It was especially sluggish after the up-and-down track meet Hofstra and Syracuse displayed in the previous game. The invert has slowed the game down. Coaches manipulate personnel forcing favorable situations. This means coaches must substitute a great deal more, moving offensive players in to score and exchanging them out to prevent the other team from scoring.
The invert also greatly affects the fast break. Teams are left with a two-headed hydra on fast breaks. Offensively your middies are the ones trapped behind the play. So in order to get into the hole they have to run past their own attackmen. Either a team can make its attackmen play defense or yield the fast break. On the other hand, the defense has its offensive players behind as well because the shortsticks are playing defense. This means they must generate their fast breaks through longsticks out front.
But in any case the game is slowed as teams substitute, even the field by getting defensemen back and shift into a new offensive set.
Invert sticking around
Like it or not, the invert is here to stay. It creates far too many good opportunities offensively for it to fade away.
It may put a lot in the hands of coaches as they move personnel in and out, but it still comes down to one player making a play.
It comes down to one thing. The invert works.
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UTHSC Regional Biocontainment Lab (RBL) Frequently Asked Questions
1. Why is a biosafety laboratory necessary?
2. What's in it for the local community?
3. How many people will work in the facility?
4. What diseases will be studied?
5. How dangerous are these diseases?
6. Will this facility pose any threat to the local community?
7. Has there ever been an incident in similar facilities that exposed the community to the infectious agents?
8. Has there ever been an incident at a similar facility that caused release of micro-organisms into the environment?
9. Have there ever been incidents in similar facilities that exposed workers to the infectious agents?
10. What precautions are in place for transporting infectious materials to and from the lab?
11. Can the UTHSC RBL be converted to a BSL-4 level facility?
12. Would this facility make Memphis or the UTHSC RBL a target for terrorism?
13. What regulatory and certification processes are in place?
14. What internal oversight systems will be in place?
15. Why can't the research be carried out in existing research facilities already operating at UTHSC?
16. How can the public be sure that the UTHSC RBL won't be making biological weapons?
17. Will the research be secret?
18. What are biosafety levels?
Q1: Why is a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory necessary?
A: First, this BSL-3 laboratory will allow our scientists to build upon the work they have been doing in the safest possible environment while expanding the available space to do so. The increase in numbers of key infectious diseases, the emergence of new infectious disease agents, and the threat of new bioterrorism events make our study of these diseases more important than ever before. The new lab will allow us to accelerate the search for effective vaccines and treatments for these diseases.
Second, our researchers have a responsibility to contribute to the advancement of public health in our community, our nation and the world. Because of the kind of research they will be able to do in this new state-of-the-art biosafety laboratory; they will be able to make a greater contribution to protect the public against emerging infectious diseases.
Q2: What's in it for the local community?
A: The work done in this facility will help attract additional top researchers and research grants to University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and new business to the UT Baptist Research Park. One of the objectives of this facility and related research is the development of new diagnostic tools, drugs and vaccines for important infectious disease agents. These new products hold great promise for technology transfer, which could lead to new, locally based technology companies being established to develop and market these products, leading to more jobs for community members. In addition, these new products, when brought to market, have significant potential to improve the health and well-being of citizens.
Q3: How many people will work in the facility?
A: An estimated 80 personnel will have access to the RBL. This will include: The lab director and facility manager, the biosafety officer, principal investigators and their research personnel, veterinarians, animal care personnel, research technicians, safety personnel, facilities personnel (engineers), occupational health personnel, UTHSC police officers, IT personnel.
Q4: What diseases will be studied?
A: At the UTHSC RBL, we will initially be studying tuberculosis and tularemia. Tuberculosis is caused by an organism called Mycobacterium tuberculosis and tularemia is caused by Francisella tularensis. Other organisms may be added as research expands and new faculty is recruited to UTHSC.
Q5: How dangerous are these diseases?
A: All of the diseases studied in the RBL will be diseases that are currently found naturally in the environment or in human and animal populations. All will be classified as Biosafety Level-3 organisms. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
Biosafety Level 3 is applicable to clinical, diagnostic, teaching, research, or production facilities where work is performed with indigenous or exotic agents that may cause serious or potentially lethal disease through inhalation route exposure.
M. tuberculosis is the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Persons infected with M. tuberculosis can develop active disease within months of infection or can remain latently infected and potentially develop disease later in life. The primary focus of infection is the lungs, but most other organs can be involved. HIV infection is a serious risk factor for development of active disease. Tuberculosis is spread by infectious aerosols produced by coughing.
Francisella tularensis is carried in numerous animal species, especially rabbits, and is the bacteria that causes tularemia (Rabbit fever, Deer fly fever, Ohara disease, or Francis disease) in humans. Person-to-person transmission of tularemia has not been documented. Tick bites, handling or ingesting infectious animal tissues or fluids, ingestion of contaminated water or food and inhalation of infective aerosols are the primary transmission modes in nature. Occasionally infections have occurred from bites or scratches by carnivores with contaminated mouth parts or claws.
Q6: Will this facility pose any threat to the local community?
A: A properly constructed and properly operated BSL-3 facility poses no threat to the local community. There are no recorded incidents in the United States involving community exposure or illness resulting from research activities carried out in any of the existing BSL-3 facilities.
Q7: Has there ever been an incident in similar facilities that exposed the community
to the infectious agents?
A. No. Hundreds of BSL-3 facilities currently operate safely in the United States. BSL-3 laboratories have been in operation for over 30 years. Rarely accidents, such as needlesticks, may cause exposure of laboratory staff to infectious agents. However, protocols for immediate treatment of any person exposed while working in the laboratory avoid any danger of spread to other workers or to the community.
Q8: Has there ever been an incident at a similar facility that caused release of micro-organisms
into the environment?
A. Not in the United States. The design of a BSL-3 laboratory is intended to not only protect the workers in the facility, but also to prevent any accidental release of infectious agents from the laboratory environment to the external community. See Biosafety and Security section for more detail.
Q9: Have there ever been incidents in similar facilities that exposed workers to the
infectious agents?
A: There have been a small number of reported incidents in the United States in which laboratory workers have been exposed to potentially dangerous infectious agents while working in BSL-3 laboratories. In no case has an infectious agent handled in a BSL-3 laboratory in the United States exposed a member of the community to an illness or resulted in illness within the community. Exposure of laboratory personnel to infectious agents is generally the result of equipment failure or an accident in the laboratory (such as a needle stick or leaking vial). While there are several levels of procedures that strive to prevent such failures or accidents, they cannot be prevented 100% of the time. That is the purpose of working with these materials in a BSL3 laboratory. If primary procedures for containment fail, then the facility itself acts as a secondary containment barrier, so that infectious agents are not released into the environment. All personnel wear Personal Protective Equipment, which in the event of an accident gives the worker time to exit the facility safely. Personnel are then treated by medical personnel according to established protocols and the incident is documented. If required, a report is sent to the appropriate federal agencies.
Q10: What precautions are in place for transporting infectious materials to and from
the lab?
A: There are specific and strict government regulations for transportation of infectious materials. Infectious materials are safely transported worldwide on a daily basis under these regulations (See http://bmbl.od.nih.gov/appendc.htm). UTHSC follows all international, federal, state and local regulations for the transport of infectious materials and all personnel responsible for the shipping and handling of infectious materials must be trained and certified to ship these materials. The UTHSC Safety Department provides training for the Shipping of Hazardous Materials / Dangerous Goods in accordance with the Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations (49 Code of Federal Regulation) and the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods Regulations. Each session contains the required elements of General Awareness, Security and Safety; and function-specific training determined by the materials to be shipped by the trainee. All trainees are required to pass a written exam at the end of the training session.
Q11: Can the UTHSC RBL be converted to a BSL-4 level facility?
A: No. BSL-4 laboratories require a very different structural design than BSL-3 laboratories. Therefore, it is not possible to convert a BSL-3 into a BSL-4 laboratory. For this reason, BSL-4 organisms can not and will not be studied in this facility
Q12: Would this facility make Memphis or the UTHSC RBL a target for terrorism?
A: The RBL has been designed according to a detailed Threat and Risk assessment to incorporate design features that protect the RBL from potential attacks, unauthorized access and overall make it a more difficult target. Typically, terrorists have chosen "soft" targets such as night clubs, office buildings, hotels and public transit rather than guarded, restricted access facilities. It is also important to note that researchers work with small quantities of infectious agents in forms that are not easily dispersed and therefore not suitable for bioterrorism purposes. Therefore, bioterrorists seeking dangerous microorganisms are more likely to find a more easily acquired source elsewhere.
Q13: What regulatory and certification processes are in place?
A: The National Institutes of Health requires stringent review of the design, construction, commissioning and certification of the RBL. An independent team of engineers, architects, security, and biosafety professionals was selected by NIH. This team has performed a detailed analysis of the design of the RBL at the 15, 35, 75, 95 and 100% design level before construction was started. Members of this team visit Memphis monthly to participate in meetings with UTHSC personnel and construction contractors, and perform site inspections for quality assurance. Members of this team will also review operational standard operating procedures for the RBL.
During the design phase, Tetratech Inc. performed a Threat and Risk assessment to ensure the design incorporated features to protect the RBL from being compromised by both deliberate means or from natural disaster. They also performed an Environmental Assessment to evaluate potential impacts of the facility on the area including: air quality, human health, environmental justice, waste management, traffic and transportation.
International Commissioning Engineers (ICE) was hired to review the design of the RBL, inspect the construction of the RBL on a monthly basis and perform a final inspection and test of all the systems in the RBL to ensure they have been installed properly and function together properly as a system.
An independent Certification company that specializes in certification of BSL3 facilities will perform a final inspection of the RBL and certify it is properly constructed and ready for operation.
Finally, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will inspect the RBL facility itself as well as our Facility Security Plan, Biosecurity Plan, Standard Operating Procedures, Emergency and Incident Response Plan, Cybersecurity Plan, Occupational Health Plan, BSL3 Training Program and our record keeping system to ensure all meet Federal Requirements and Standards according to The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) published final rules for the possession, use, and transfer of select agents and toxins (42 C.F.R. Part 73, 7 C.F.R. Part 331, and 9 C.F.R. Part 121).
Q14: What internal oversight systems will be in place?
A. To ensure all research conducted in the RBL occurs safely and in accordance with federal regulations, all procedures and research plans will be reviewed by the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and the Biosafety Level 3 committee before work is initiated. When required, research proposals and standard operating procedures will be reviewed by the Animal Care and Use Committee and the Institutional Review Board. Inspections are performed regularly to ensure work is being performed according to approved procedures and records are properly kept. Additionally, members from these committees review documentation annually to ensure all laboratory procedures, biosecurity plans, emergency response plans and records are up to date and accurate.
Q15: Why can't the research be carried out in existing research facilities already
operating at UTHSC?
A: The use of BSL-3 is required for research on certain agents and for certain experiments, such as the testing of vaccines or antibiotics against infectious microbial agents that are classified at BSL-3. Many of the programs at UTHSC are currently developing therapies for diseases using related organisms that are less pathogenic than the human pathogen. In order to further their work so that these therapies may progress into actual clinical trials, the researchers must test their therapies on the organism that actually causes the disease in humans. The current BSL-3 facility at UTHSC is not large enough to support these activities. The RBL significantly expands the capability of the UTHSC researchers to conduct research on these highly infectious agents which will allow researchers to produce a higher quality of research and result in development of new technologies for detection of infectious agents, new therapeutics for use in prophylaxis and treatment of infectious agents, and ultimately in the development of vaccines to protect the public against emerging infectious agents.
Q16: How can the public be sure that the UTHSC RBL won't be making biological weapons?
A. The UTHSC RBL will not make any biological weapons or stockpile any infectious disease agents in large quantities. Indeed, under the terms of the Biological Weapons Convention signed by the United States in 1975, the signatory parties agreed not to develop, produce, stockpile or acquire biological agents or toxins "of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective and other peaceful purposes," as well as weapons and means of delivery.
Q17: Will the research be secret?
A: The ultimate goal of this research program is to make new discoveries and to translate these discoveries into new diagnostics, treatments and vaccines that will combat agents of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases. Although safety and security concerns will restrict access to the facility, it is anticipated that all research carried out in the facility will be published and communicated in the same manner as other research conducted using federal (i.e. NIH) funding.
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UNION COUNTY — A 37-year-old man who fled the United States shortly before he was charged with sexually assaulting three Union County children has been extradited back to New Jersey, authorities said today.
Anyelo Martinez has been indicted on charges of first-degree aggravated sexual assault and multiple counts of second-degree sexual assault, Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said today. Martinez is accused in attacks on two girls and one infant boy, said Romankow, who did not provide ages of the victims or say where they live.
Detective Sofia Santos from the Union County Child Advocacy Center began investigating the assaults in January 2011 and had come to suspect Martinez, then a Rahway resident. But on Feb. 8 of that year, he fled the to Bogota, Columbia – leaving with his wife and children – a day before he was scheduled to speak with Santos, Romankow said.
By March of 2011, authorities had charged Martinez and a grand jury indicted him a week later. After that, the prosecutor's office worked with the U.S. Department of Justice to seek his extradition back to the United States.
"Detective Santos working with the FBI, and the U.S. embassy in Colombia continued to pursue Martinez," Romakow said. "On August 1, 2011, Martinez was arrested by the Colombian government in Bogota."
Martinez arrived back in the United States last week — on June 7 — and is awaiting arraignment.


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Employee expenses for the quarter came down to Rs 7,470 crore, compared to Rs 9,466 crore in the same quarter a year ago, which included additional provision of about Rs 2,300 crore. The world's largest coal miner had made a steep provision on account of wage increases during the same quarter last year, pushing up costs. However, the wage bill has been spread uniformly in the current fiscal year. The consolidated net sales for the quarter went up 2.5 per cent to Rs 19,904 crore from Rs 19,418 in the corresponding period last year. Income from operations rose to Rs 68,302 crore for the year ended March 31, 2013 from Rs 62,415 crore in the year ago-period. The miner produced 452.2 million tonnes (MT) of coal in FY'13 against 435.8 MT in FY'12. The company's offtake also went up to 465 MT in the year ended March 31, 2013 against 433 MT in the year-ago period.
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Making Trade Policy Work for the Poor: Shifting From Dogma to Detail
Howard Nye
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Sanjay G. Reddy
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August 2002
We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic theory and empirical evidence. We conclude that, while there certainly are circumstances under which greater trade openness can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining anti-poverty objectives.
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FORT PIERCE, FL (September 5, 2012) – Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute's veterinarian and animal care experts, in partnership with Marine Mammal Research and Conservation Program (MMRC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service, and SeaWorld Orlando began preparations late Tuesday, September 4 for transport of the four juvenile whales being treated at FAU's HBOI Rehabilitation Center. At approximately 3 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5, the four whales were carefully moved into a transport unit and safely arrived at SeaWorld Orlando at approximately 6:30 a.m. The whales will remain at SeaWorld Orlando for long-term rehabilitation, and their prognosis remains guarded.
"This non-reoccurring event represents a unique opportunity to combine the talent and skills of a dedicated team of professionals to advance our understanding of this unique marine mammal species and our oceans on which all humankind depends," said Steve McCulloch, program manager for FAU's HBOI MMRC.
The whales were being treated at FAU's HBOI Rehabilitation Center after a mass stranding event Saturday, September 1 that included 22 short-finned pilot whales at Florida's Avalon State Park Beach in St. Lucie County. The whales received 24-hour care from experts and volunteers while at FAU's HBOI facility. Efforts continue to investigate the cause of the stranding.
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NEW YORK — Signing big bats to mega deals is nice, but the Yankees biggest concern should be adding arms, Mariano Rivera said.
"I want to see some pitching," the retired closer said. "Offense is good, but pitching is even better."
In typical Yankees fashion, the club has made arguably the offseason's two biggest splashes — getting catcher Brian McCann and center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury each to take mega deals.
The team surprised many Tuesday night, agreeing with Ellsbury, 30,on a seven-year, $153-million contract. A little more than a week before, it hooked McCann, 29, to a five-year pact worth $85 million.
The pair add thump to a New York lineup that sorely lacked it last year, especially as it battled through injuries at key positions. But more than few question marks surround the Yankees. The It has yet to solidify its rotation and could use back-end bullpen help.
Rivera, who gave out gifts on behalf of Dick's Sporting Good's Wednesday morning in the Flatiron District, said he hasn't examined the free-agent pitching market, and didn't suggest anyone the Yankees should pursue.
"Not really," he said. "I don't do scouting or other stuff. Hopefully we do what we need to do to be competitive again."
New York remains interested in bidding for Japanese star Masahiro Tanaka, a pitcher expected to make the leap to Major League Baseball soon. But, according to the a Los Angeles Times report, MLB has proposed to cap the amount teams could bid for a player.
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The Yankees also reportedly are interested in keeping free agent pitcher Hiroki Kuroda for another year. C.C. Sabathia and Ivan Nova are the team's locks to return to the starting rotation.
Righty fireballer David Robertson could still take over for Rivera as the team's closer, though coveted relievers Fernando Rodney and Grant Balfour remained unsigned.The Star-Ledger's Andy McCullough reported Tuesday that the team was to signing Kelly Johnson, who could eventually replace Robinson Cano at second base or fill in for Alex Rodriguez at third.


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It turns out Lindsay Lohan does not have the right to party.
After reportedly failing an alcohol test, Lohan was ordered Thursday to stop throwing parties at her Venice condo while under house arrest and to limit the number of visitors to one friend at a time.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner chided the actress for hosting a rooftop barbecue at her home on June 12, telling her, "You are guilty of extremely poor judgment. House arrest is akin to jail."
But the judge did not send Lohan, 24, to jail for a probation violation in a DUI case, finding that court-ordered drug and alcohol testing had ended in February.
"Don't give people a reason to hate you. Don't do stupid things," said Sautner.
When the judge asked if she was ready to get on with her life, a relieved-looking Lohan answered, "Yes, I am."
Lohan was sentenced in May to four months in jail after pleading no contest to stealing a $2,500 necklace. But she got house arrest of 35 days due to jail overcrowding and other factors.
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The tradition of award-winning performances of an important folk music genre - mariachi - continues at The University of Texas-Pan American.
UTPA's Mariachi Aztlan placed first in the University level and was also named Grand Champion, beating out professional groups, at the Mariachi Spectacular de Albuquerque competition July 10.
The Mariachi Spectacular de Albuquerque, held in Albuquerque, N.M. since 1991, is one of the highest-rated mariachi conferences in the western hemisphere. It offers workshops led by master instructors and a competition that draws top mariachi groups from across the nation.
The 16-member Mariachi Aztlan competed against 25 other university-level mariachi ensembles from New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Washington, Nevada and Texas. Another group from South Texas, Mariachi Nueva Era from Valley View High School won first place in the High School level competition.
Guerra said all groups in the competition were given seven minutes in which to showcase their talent and ability to the audience and a panel of five judges, who then rated each group based on selected criteria on a scale from 1 to 10. The group with the overall highest score at the end of the competition was the overall winner named Grand Champion.
"The UTPA Mariachi Aztlan received a beautiful trophy and the opportunity to open Saturday night's Spectacular Concert at Sandia Resort & Casino's Amphitheater, where they shared the stage with some of mariachi's greatest performers including the Mariachi Sol de Mexico," Guerra said.
The Mariachi Aztlan is led by musical director Francisco Loera and student assistant Fernando Mendoza, both well-versed in mariachi tradition, Guerra said. She said the musicians dedicated many hours to practice before a competition and praised the group's quest for musical accuracy and excellence as well as its stylistic authenticity representing music from the different regions of Mexico.
Rogelio Escobedo, who teaches music at the Pharr Oratory of Saint Philip Neri School System and is a graduate student in music at UTPA, plays trumpet in Mariachi Aztlan. The Alamo, Texas native described the win as amazing and an incredible experience.
"When I heard them announce our name, I guess I felt then that we had done our job," he said.
Escobedo said it was exciting to be selected as top group by the clinicians and judges, whom he described among the pillars or "founding fathers" of Mexican folk music who have recorded it and brought exposure to it to the rest of the world.
"These guys were talking about how Texas had really set an example to the whole nation. It used to be that California was where the main groups were coming out of. Now they are saying that Texas is the hotbed of mariachi musicians," Escobedo said.
Guerra credited the win to the group's willingness to go the extra mile and their confidence on stage.
"They love the music, they love to perform, and they are proud to represent UTPA as student ambassadors. They also love to win," Guerra said.
View a video regarding Mariachi Aztlan's most recent competition win at http://ur.utpa.edu/video/watch/1b1a69a5948fd2d5331. Read more about all three of UTPA's mariachi groups at http://www.utpa.edu/los-arcos/viewer/index.cfm?issue=5.