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Owen Kiernan (1839-?)
Hi. I am looking for help in tracing my family history. I have the following information:
Owen Kiernan, born in 1839 in Ireland (probably Cavan Co., Ireland) married Harriet Beecraft (1836-1927) in 1863 in St Pauls Minnesota. They had 11 children: William (1865-1866), Charles (1866-1916), Harriet (1867-1868), Francis (1869-1888), Mary (1870-1870), Julie (1871-1872), Rose (1873-1942) [she married Thomas Wise in 1893], Mary (1875-1875), Oliver (1876-1937), George Edward (1884-1960) [see below], and Lillian (1886-1887).
As the story goes, Owen changed the spelling of Kiernan to Kernan at some point. Also, by the birth of George Edward Kernan, they had moved to Marysville, Missouri.
George Edward Kernan (1884-1960) married Maudine Elizabeth ("Lizzy") Stearns (1885-1936) [daughter of Theodore Stearns and Annie Backer] on 1 June 1903 in Portland, Oregon. They had 12 children: Curtis (1905-1915), Ernest (1907-1926) [died in the US Navy], Delmar Clair (1908-1979) [See below], Owen (1911-1979) [married Helen Potter in 1929], Florence (1913-1915), Walter (1915-1931) [family records list him as having drowned], Vernon (1916-1962) [was married to a woman named Mildred], Francis (1919-1987) [married to a Bernice Bellow or Bell from 1938-1950], Earl (1920-1979) [married Mary Jo Wilson in 1952], Lloyd (1922-1970) [married Peggy Hereford in 1943], [a baby boy who died the same day he was born in 1923], and Gloria (1925-1995) [married three different times].
George and Lizzy are both buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery, in Portland, Oregon.
Delmar Clair Kernan (1908-1979) married Maxine Davis (1912-1990s) in about 1933. Maxine was adopted by William and Mary (Williams) Davis in 1912. Her biological parents were George Benton Beeney, a Native American (Cherokee, as family history goes), and Gladys (maiden name unknown). These two divorced and Maxine was put up for adoption. We know nothing about George and little about Gladys, other than she remarried a man of the surname Foust(?).
Delmar and Maxine had two children before they divorced: William George Kernan (1934-), and Deldalyn (1935?-). I am told Maxine remarried, but I am unsure to whom. Delmar was remarried, to a woman named Pauline, who I am told was married before and had at least a son.
William George Kernan married Margaret Lapham (1936-2004), daughter of Theodore Lapham (1910-1955) and Alice Wellin (1916-1985). They had five children: Patrick (1953-1992) [he married Colleen Drachuk in 1974 and had a son named Jason in 1975; Pat and Colleen divorced soon after.], Vickie (1954) [married Keith Staneart in 1972? and had three children: Nicole, Daniel, and Lori; Vickie and Keith divorced soon after. Vickie remarried, in 2003, Horace ("Butch") Bradford], Richard (1955-1999) [was married to a Linda Hankins, but was divorced by the time of his death; he died with out issue], William Clare (1956-) [See below], and Terry (1957-) [married Kathy Harry in 1977; they had a son named Darin in the same year, and divorced soon after. Terry remarried, in 1995, a woman named Emma.
After their children were born, they moved to California.
William Clare Kernan (1956-) married Carolyn Sue Hamilton (1955-), daughter of Henry ("Lee") and Alberta (Sebok) Hamilton, in 1975. They have three children: Laura, and the twins Jerry and William.
So this is what I have. What I am looking for is any information as to Owen Kiernan's ancestory. I am also interested in knowing anything about George Benton Beeney.
Thank you,
William Kernan


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Egyptian Contemporary Film Series: "This is Chaos"
SFS Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
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San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
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CCAS is proud to present
Egyptian Contemporary Film Series
This is Chaos
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241
"This is Chaos" (2007) is the last film of the late veteran Egyptian director Youssef Chahine. The film is a passionate condemnation of corruption, state violence, and police abuse in the critical years before the 2011 revolution. Hatem, the central character of the film, is a Mafioso-style cop that rules a neighborhood with an iron fist. Chahine's untimely death before the film was finished drove his protégée Khaled Youssef to complete it.
The "Egyptian Contemporary Film Series" is a weekly film series taking place during the Spring 2014 semester at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). The series will showcase some of the landmark and controversial productions from Egypt since 2000. During this period, Egyptian cinema, the most established and productive film industry in the Arab world, underwent a significant transformation due to factors including privatization, the rise of a new generation of filmmakers, and a burgeoning independent film collective, all of which contributed to an increasingly dynamic cinema.
Each film will be followed by a brief discussion moderated by Dr. Adel Iskandar.
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Intercultural Center 241, CCAS Boardroom
Georgetown University
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
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We are officially at the quarter mark to the 2008 baseball season. Sure, it has been a relatively small sample size, and we are not even in June yet. But there have many surprises in baseball this year, from the Florida Marlins' success to Cliff Lee's dominance on the mound for the Cleveland Indians.
And, while it is still only May, it is perhaps the perfect time to look at the ongoing race for the Rookie of the Year Award in the American League. Headed into the season, I came up with a list of seven up-and-coming prospects who had a legitimate chance of taking home the hardware for the league's top rookie. Let us look at how they have performed to this point.
Daric Barton--The Oakland Athletics have been a surprise team this season, and are hovering around the top of the standings in the AL West. (With Billy Beane at the reins, though, how can one ever be truly surprised?) Barton, however, has not played a major factor in the team's success, posting a line of .221/.335/.331 in 46 games. Which means that, yes, his slugging percentage sits lower than his OBP.
Following the 2004 season, Barton was acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals as one of the cornerstones in the trade that ended Mark Mulder's days in Oakland. Regarded as a top hitting prospect in the Cardinals' farm system, he caught the eye of Billy Beane for his eye--at the plate, that is; he has compiled 333 walks in five minor league seasons. He has consistently posted strong OBPs in the minors, so expect that stat to rise for him as the season progresses. His time in the majors represents too small of a sample size to truly judge his effectiveness as an offensive player at this level, though the A's need for him to start producing--he has hit only two home runs--if they wish to remain the in the division race in the long run.
Clay Buchholz--Before being placed on the disabled list on May 14, Buchholz had struggled in his first full season in Boston, compiling a 2-3 record and 5.53 ERA in eight games started. However, his 43-to-20 K/BB ratio says he is pitching better than his record indicates. In fact, minus three ineffective outings--in which he allowed seven runs on eight hits in 3.2 innings in a rough start against the New York Yankees in April, and his two turns in the rotation prior to injury--he has allowed only seven earned runs, combined.
Buchholz's brief time on the DL perhaps will end up as a blessing in disguise for the Red Sox. Unintentionally, the stint will limit the 23-year-old right-hander's innings by default, potentially saving his arm for when the Red Sox need it the most--the postseason. And for a pitcher who has yet to throw more than 150 innings in one year, the unexpected rest in the middle of the season might pay off in the long run. In his absence, Bartolo Colon and Justin Masterson are vying for spots in a depleted starting rotation. Buchholz, who threw a no-hitter last September, is a question mark heading into the second-half, though he should be in the thick of the AL ROY race if Boston is to walk away with an AL East title. The favorite entering spring training, he still has a strong chance of keeping the hardware in Boston (Dustin Pedroia took home ROY honors in '07), despite his early-season struggles.
Joba Chamberlain--Hank Steinbrenner stirred up a frenzy this April with his comments regarding Chamberlain's role with the Yankees. "I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now. There is no question about it, you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that," Steinbrenner told the New York Times. The Yankees' baseball operations staff did not agree with the new Boss' outlook on the matter, however, insisting on keeping the rookie phenom in the bullpen until it was the absolute right time to make the switch.
Weeks later, the right-hander from Nebraska remains in the setup role, offering a valuable link to New York closer Mariano Rivera. He was dominant in his debut at the end of last season, shutting down hitters with ease to push the Yankees into the postseason. There was talk that he would transform into a starter during spring training all winter, but general manager Brian Cashman instead plans to let Chamberlain work his way into a starting role as the season progresses. Although there is no time table for his debut as a starter just yet, it may come soon.
Phil Hughes has been ineffective. To say the least. Ian Kennedy has been a major disappointment as well, causing many baseball people--from scouts to executives in other organizations--to wonder if he ever had as much promise as the Yankees let on. Thus, the Yankees find themselves in the last place in the AL East. Which is why the urge to place Chamberlain in the rotation is perhaps stronger than ever.
Yet Chamberlain remains in the 'pen for the time being. Too add to the drama, he has faced adversity for the first time of his young career, struggling at times earlier this season. He has still been invaluable to New York, however, posting a 2.66 ERA in 18 appearances to consistently help the Yankee hold onto leads late in games.
Update: Following the Yankees' 8-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday, New York manager Joe Girardi announced that the organization will begin grooming Chamberlain as a starter. A move to the rotation will undoubtedly give the hard-throwing youngster a chance to make more of an impact for the Yankees down the stretch, increasing the odds for Chamberlain to take home Rookie of the Year honors in 2008.
Jacoby Ellsbury--Ellsbury made one of the best catches of the season on Monday night, helping teammate and cancer survivor Jon Lester preserve his no-hitter in Boston's 7-0 win over the Kansas City Royals. Excluding that one highlight-reel play, he has "added a new dimension" to the Red Sox lineup--speed. He successfully swiped 25 bags to start his career before being gunned down by Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jason Kendall over the weekend, setting a club record.
The fleet-footed center fielder is producing to the tune of .290/.390/.428, consistently getting on base to set the table for one of the game's most potent offenses. While it is true he has several great hitters batting behind him, it is hard to ignore that he is second in the AL with 38 runs scored--a direct result of his stellar on-base percentage, .390, currently seventh in the league. He is also second in the AL, trailing only Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners, with 19 stolen bases. The first Native American of Navajo descent to play in the majors, he collected three hits, including his fourth home run, and scored three runs to lead the Red Sox to a 6-3 victory over the Royals on Wednesday night, providing all the offensive support needed for his new teammate, Colon, who collected his first win in a Boston uniform.
Ian Kennedy--As mentioned above, Kennedy's ineffectiveness this spring has been a real cause for concern for Cashman and the Yankees. He was a polished pitcher coming out of the University of Southern California in 2006, meaning his upside was never really all that great to begin with. In fact, some scouts wonder how much he will improve, if at all. In the minors, he has posted impressive numbers, relying more on control and command than pure stuff.
A finesse pitcher, Kennedy needs to consistently hit his spots to have a chance of succeeding at the highest level, relying on excellent control to remain effective. Even when his command is on, though, he still profiles as more of a back-of-the-rotation starter--certainly not an ace.
Yet the control has not been there for Kennedy, yet, and six weeks into the season he is 0-3 with an 8.48 ERA in seven games started, has walked more than he has struck out (19-to-21 K/BB), and has already been sent down once to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Evan Longoria--Longoria recently inked a long-term deal with the Tampa Bay Rays, who are off to their best start in franchise history, owning the fourth-best record (27-20) in the majors. And while he has had his fair share of struggles at the plate as he adjusts to big-league pitching--..246/ .329/.437--he is a big reason why. A major upgrade defensively at third base for one the majors' most-improved infield defenses, he currently sits in the top five of Baseball Prospectus' range factor and zone ratings at his position, and with only two errors in 102 total chances, his .980 fielding percentage ranks second among American League third baseman.
Longoria has also delivered in several clutch situations at the plate for Tampa Bay, including his two-run, walk-off home run in the Rays' win over the Los Angeles Angels on May 9. Look for him to stay in the thick of the AL ROY race all summer, perhaps helping the Rays remain in postseason contention throughout.
My Prediction--Longoria: Look for him to make the necessary adjustments offensively to make an impact for the Rays this summer.
Radio Appearance May 31: On Saturday, May 31, Rays Digest writer Tyler Hissey will make an appearance on Sarasota Sunny 1220 talk radio to discuss the Tampa Bay Rays' hot start. Hissey will go into more detail on the AL Rookie of the Year race while offering his take on all of the latest news surrounding the first-place Rays on Sports Café with Sean Duade, beginning at 3:40. Click here to listen live.
To contact Tyler Hissey, send an email to Tyler firstname.lastname@example.com.


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EDITORIALS>>Cooking with gas
So there he was last week promising to lead an effort to require big energy companies to pay a modest severance tax on the gas they siphon from the Arkansas earth and pipe to the industrial centers to the east. When he took office in January he said that was not on his agenda. Weeks ago he said a severance tax actually was a moral imperative but that he was unwilling to lead the suicide effort to combat the political power of the energy companies. It takes a three-fourths vote in each house of the legislature to pass severance taxes and most other business taxes.
Last week, Beebe let it be known that he was talking to the gas executives and telling them they must settle on a severance tax that was comparable to those in other states and help him pass it in the legislature in 2009. If not, he said, he would lead a petition drive to put it on the 2010 ballot as an initiated act. Backroom consensus building was Beebes forte in two decades in the state Senate and his leverage is even better in the governors office. We have no doubt he can do it.
But 2010? Why wait three-and-a-half years when it could be done easily next year? Find a settlement and offer it to the legislature at a special session whenever one is called or put it on the 2008 ballot.
The settlement should be simple to reach. Severance taxes on natural resources run generally from 5 to 7.5 percent of the fair market value of gas at the wellhead.
Five percent of wellhead value should be a rock-bottom rate. Our current rate (a fixed three-tenths of a penny on each 1,000 cubic feet) is an almost infinitesimal fraction of the lowest rate in other states. If we are competing with other states, our biggest competitor is Texas, from which comes much of the gas that we consume. If the producers there pass on the tax to consumers, we are paying the 7.5 percent tax in our monthly gas bill. Why shouldnt factories in the Ohio River Valley contribute something to our public schools and colleges when they burn our shale gas?
They should, of course, just as we support the schools of Wyoming when we pay our monthly electricity bills.
Wyoming charges a whopping severance tax on its coal, which is shipped to Arkansas and used to generate much of our electricity. Arkansas alone sends its vanishing natural resources abroad virtually free, apropos a colony rather than a state. There is another consideration. The gas severance tax would enable Beebe to take the other 3 percent of state sales tax off groceries. Generations would rise up and call him blessed.
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The OneCare Collaborative is a group of hospitals, primary care physicians, nurses and other care professionals in the Tri-state region who are committed to improving the health of our community through high-quality, coordinated care.
If your physician suggests a procedure called spinal cord stimulation as a means of treating your pain, some commonly asked questions are listed and answered below.
Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) is used for management of chronic pain and is commonly known as the pacemaker for pain. Using similar technology to a heart pacemaker, SCS works by modifying the pain signals traveling to the brain, replacing them with a slight tingling or buzzing sensation that many patients say is pleasant or unnoticeable. Patients that may qualify for SCS have often unsuccessfully tried other forms of pain management, such as:
Most chronic pain that is neuropathic (involving nerve damage). SCS is ideal for pain from the following:
Patients selected for this procedure have usually had a disability for more than 12 months, and have pain in the lower back and leg. Patients must have failed more conservative measures of pain control. Medical and psychological screening is used to determine which patients are appropriate for spinal cord stimulation trials.
When SCS is recommended, a trial placement of the device is first performed — the leads will be inserted through a needle under x-ray guidance into the spinal canal. The patient is then able to take a "test drive" of the device, which will let them determine if SCS can help their pain.
If the trial is successful, a second procedure (permanent placement) will then be performed. This is when either the needle placement of the leads is repeated, or a "mini-laminectomy" to insert a different lead (paddle stimulator) is implanted. In either procedure, the leads are tunneled beneath the skin to a generator (battery).
In spinal cord stimulation, an electrode is implanted through the skin into the epidural space of the spinal canal under x-ray guidance. Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord causes the pain sensation to be blocked and replaced by a benign vibratory sensation.
Spinal stimulation uses small electrical leads (say – "LEEDS") that block pain signals from being perceived by the patient. The leads are selectively placed across the area of the spinal cord where the pain is generated. An appropriate program is used to interfere with the pain signal. This therapy offers relief to patients suffering with significant chronic back and extremity pain that has not responded well to traditional treatment options. If a trial of this modality proves to be effective, an internalized system can be surgically implanted. This can allow for long-term pain relief.
On the day of the procedure, the patient will arrive at the outpatient facility at least one hour prior to their scheduled surgery time. The patient should not have anything to eat or drink at least 6 hours prior to their surgery.
The procedure is usually done under mild sedation. A small intravenous (IV) catheter is placed in the arm through which the patient is given sedating medication. This will make the patient somewhat drowsy and less vulnerable to painful sensations, however, the patient will remain awake for the procedure.
Once in the operating room, the patient will be asked to lie on their stomach. The patient's back is prepared with an antiseptic solution and surgical drapes will be applied. The skin will be anesthetized, or numbed, with a local anesthetic using a very thing needle.
A special x-ray device (fluoroscopy) will then be used to assist the placement of another needle into the epidural space. The epidural space is an area that is around (epi) the covering over the spinal fluid and spinal nerves (dura). This space typically contains just fat and blood vessels.
Once the needle is located in the epidural space, a thin wire electrode or "lead" containing anywhere from 2 to 8 electrode contacts will be placed under fluoroscopy vision into the epidural space near the area of the spinal cord where the patient's pain can then, hopefully, be blocked. With the "lead" or electrode in place, a small electric current will be placed through it and the patient will be asked to relate where he or she feels the stimulation. It is typically felt as a gentle buzzing or tingling. In some cases, a second lead is used to allow coverage of more areas of the back or of the middle back region.
During a trial, attempts are made to "overlap" this feeling of stimulation to the area(s) that the patient typically feels their pain. When and if this can be done, the needle is removed and the "lead" (electrode) is then taped to the skin of the patient's back. The patient is then instructed in the use of the trial generator.
The patient is then discharged and over the next 7 – 10 days, attempts to live as "normally" as possible. However, we do request that patients restrict themselves from bending and twisting so as not to displace the stimulator electrode wires. After one week, the patient is seen and the temporary stimulator is removed. (This typically is not at all painful and the removal of the tape holding the electrode on the skin is usually the most uncomfortable thing felt with the electrode removal.)
If the trial of spinal cord stimulation is successful, then the next step is to consider permanent spinal cord stimulation placement.
For most people, the pain relief is permanent. Patients may require periodic consultations with their pain doctor and the device representative for reprogramming. Continually fine-tuning the device to meet the specific needs of the patient improves the long-term success of this technology.
If you are interested in the spinal cord stimulator or would like more information contact the Deaconess Comprehensive Pain Center at 812-450-PAIN.
The risks to having spinal cord stimulation can include: nerve injury, contusions, neuritis, infection, paralysis, seroma and a lumbar puncture headache.


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South African authorities say convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius was let out of prison for four hours last week to attend his grandmother's funeral.
The correctional services department said Tuesday that an elite security unit took the former track star to the funeral Friday morning under a compassionate leave policy for prisoners.
Department spokesman Manelisi Wolela says Pistorius, who fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, asked to attend the funeral and was allowed to do so because he is classified as a "low risk" offender.
The double-amputee Olympian is serving a six-year prison term for murdering Steenkamp and is being held at the Kgosi...
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius takes off from the starting blocks in the first round of the men's 400-meter race at the London Olympics. Pistorius became the first double-leg amputee to ever compete in the Olympics.


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LOS ANGELES (Sep. 13)
Funeral services have been held for Samuel Aaron Fryer, biochemist and philanthropist, who aided Jewish education in the United States and higher education and research in Israel. He died in Santa Monica Sept. 9 at the age of 83.
Mr. Fryer's contributions to Israel educational institutions included an aeronautical engineering building at the Haifa Technion, a research laboratory at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and grants to the Jewish National Fund for establishment of a research program in organic farming.
Here, he made it possible for the University of Judaism in Hollywood to acquire a 10-story building and contributed $300,000 for the Yavneh Hebrew Academy here. He was to have been guest of honor at a testimonial dinner on Oct. 1.


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Have an odd issue going on. My wife and I just upgraded from the first gen Kobo to the Kobo Wifi last night and today. All went well with setting them up and everything. We've had our old Kobos for over 2 years so we know what we're doing at this point.
After setting my wife's up last night I noticed something weird. After syncing with the desktop app, there is not only the 100 free ebooks that come included and the books we've already purchased but also books we haven't purchased. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and all three Girl With The Dragon Tattoo books are a few examples. These additional books won't open if I try to. My first thought was the Kobo had been returned after someone had loaded books on it.
However, while setting my new reader up this afternoon I purposely checked my reader BEFORE I synced it with the desktop app. All normal with just the 100 free ebooks showing up. So I synced it and of course it loaded all our previously purchased books. Surprise, surprise! There's all the extra books we didn't buy AGAIN!
Checking either Kobo on the computer reveals nothing extra. Kobo desktop can't see them and neither can Calibre and Adobe Digital Editions. The two Kobos weren't even synced on the same computer. Does anybody have any idea why Kobo would sync books we haven't purchased?
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has likened the importance of her carbon pricing scheme to the floating of the Australian dollar.
"Pricing carbon is this government's biggest reform yet," she told the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday.
"The carbon price is our dollar float."
Floating of the currency in the early 1980s was the paradigm example, Ms Gillard said.
"The big enabling decision, the big change which sets the ball rolling for all the others.
"The big call for the future which demands courage at the time ... and which when we look back, no one would seek to undo."
Ms Gillard said she saw a great clean energy future for Australia.
"Within a few years, we'll be seeing big changes on the energy supply side, big changes in industrial production, changes among consumers and households as well," she said.
She cited examples from her carbon price sales tour around the country this week including a geothermal power at work in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne.
"A source of energy which we usually associate with hot rocks in the central desert is at work in a city we hardly think of as hot in July."
Ms Gillard said she had met some interesting people in recent days and heard "some interesting things".
"When you give Australians a chance, they give it to you pretty straight," she said.
"I love that about our country. I enjoy the scepticism and respect the scrutiny."
Ms Gillard reflected on the Rudd government's effort to address climate change and the difficulties around the long, drawn out debate.
"In the final weeks of 2009, the last parliament had its Maxwell Smart moment," she said.
"We missed it by that much."
No government, no political party or leader could claim to have got everything right, Ms Gillard said.
"The parliament, the people elected in 2010 have found the path to the clean energy future our country so badly needs."


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| Remove from label for propofol (Diprivan) the warning that propofol should be administered only by trained persons
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|Ms. Valerie McKinley
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|12/07/2005 01:12:32
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|Ms. Valerie McKinley
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| I am a CRNA who is asked to administer propofol anesthesia to patients for endoscopy procedures. Often the patients are ones who would not tolerate these procedures with minimal sedation or patients with significant health problems such as obstructive sleep apnea, asthma, heart failure, or COPD. These pateints present a challenge to even the most experienced anesthesia practitioner. Propofol is an anesthetic agent and the administration results in deep IV sedation or general anesthesia not conscious sedation. Often times giving a very 'light dose' or 'conscious sedation dose' of propofol results in a patient who is disorientated and uncooperative. What happens next is the GI physician asks the nurse to give additional propofol until the patient is cooperative, otherwise known as deep sedation or general anesthesia without a protective airway. The patient can easily obstruct their airway and require intervention. Who do you think would have the best chances of performing airway rescue for a 400 pound male with an obstructed difficult airway in a darkened room? It would be foolhardy to think that non-anesthesia RN administered propofol is safe care when an airway is not in place. The GI physicians are busy concentrating their attention to the scope procedure, not the airway of the patient. In addition there is a trend to have only one nurse in a GI room with the GI physician. That nurse would have duties other than continuosly caring for the patient. I believe it would be a danger to the american public to change the labeling on propofol. Thank you for your time.


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Jazz Dance World Festival comes to Pittsburgh
A lot of Downtown will move differently this week as the Jazz Dance World Festival comes to town.
Giordano Dance Chicago, formerly Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, is kicking off its 50th anniversary season in Pittsburgh by presenting the festival in association with Point Park University.
"It will be a gathering of energy and of collaborations, as well as training for young dancers who can come in and be touched by many different styles, not pigeon-holed," says Nan Giordano, artistic director of the company. "At night, we have shows, open to the public, featuring five or six companies a night from all over the world. There is definitely something in there for everyone as we showcase the depth and diversity of what we feel jazz dance is."
The Jazz Dance World Festival will present 10 dance companies in four programs Wednesday through Saturday at the Byham Theater, Downtown.
Performing ensembles include Cuerpo Etereo Danza Contemporanea, Mexico; Masashi Action Machine, Japan; Odyssey Dance Theatre, Salt Lake City; Philadanco! and Koresh Dance Company, Philadelphia; Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, and Giordano Dance Chicago and the Conservatory Dance Company of Point Park University.
The festival is having an International Choreography Competition at the Byham Theater at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. Ticket holders to the evening performance are welcome to attend the competition. The winner will receive $2,500 and the opportunity to perform beside professional ensembles at Saturday evening's concert.
Educational activities will take place Wednesday through Sunday at Point Park University, with some spillover to the August Wilson Center.
"Jazz is not new to Point Park. We have had a strong jazz program for many, many years and have several graduates who are members of Giordano Dance Company," says Susan Stowe, chair of dance at Point Park. "Nan has always admired our dancers and program, so it was natural to collaborate with them. Our new facilities can host hundreds of participants."
Point Park opened its dedicated dance facility along the Boulevard of the Allies in 2008.
The Giordano company grew out of a request from Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet while on tour in Chicago to see some jazz dance. Gus Giordano, already a distinguished teacher of jazz dance, was asked to put together a show for the Russian dancers.
"The Giordano technique is a distinct technique that my father established and wrote a book about," says Giordano, who took over as artistic director of the company in 1993. "Two-thirds of the tutorial positions in his 'Anthology of Jazz Dance' he came up with. He also came up with his own dance notation and established that. I still teach his formula for dance technique – exercises, positions, warm-up combinations — to this day."
Gus Giordano believed jazz came from rhythmic soulfulness of African roots and devoted his professional life to recognition of jazz dance as an art form.
His technique "comes from the soul and moves out," his daughter says. "It is not merely positions of the body in isolation. It has a feeling of athleticism and strength. You don't have to know one thing about dance to leave our show saying, wow, I felt that."
The August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble will present two works at the festival: "A New Second Line" by Camille Brown on Wednesday, and "Function" by Kyle Abraham on Friday.
"My company is a repertory company," artistic director Greer Reed says. "We get choreographers of all skins of aesthetics, including jazz."
Reed says it was a no-brainer to accept the invitation to the festival, because a lot of the company's works reflect a jazz-modern background.
"Jazz dance is one of those techniques that has stood the test of time," she says. "Giordano technique is still valid and used a lot, even though dance now is a mix of everything — modern, ballet, jazz, tap."
Reed says there are many styles of jazz dance, as there are many styles of jazz music. "But the jazz dance I know hasn't been as earthy as modern. Jazz is more up. It's where the fingers go, how your torso moves. It's hard to describe but you feel it when you dance it."
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's contribution to the festival will be parts of Dwight Rhoden's "Chromatic" on Friday evening.
"Dwight Rhoden is so much in the contemporary pulse of the jazz dance idiom," Giordano says, "which he here sets on a ballet company."
Terrence Orr, the ballet's artistic director, did some jazz dance a dozen years ago and also earlier in his career at San Francisco Ballet.
"It was a learning experience. I think it's fascinating," he says. "It's a very different world doing real jazz with dance, but they are very conducive to being with each other, because both are expressive of feeling in motion. They commingle very well."
"For Point Park, (the festival) is a great recruitment tool," Stowe says. "There'll be hundreds of high school-age dancers on campus seeing our program and learning about it, meeting our faculty and seeing our students perform.
"It's also high visibility for the city of Pittsburgh. People from all over the country will be walking around Downtown, enjoying the Cultural District and restaurants. It's going to be an exciting four days," she says.
Mark Kanny is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7877 or email@example.com.


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Princeton Pantry received extra holiday cheer this season through donations, but if there was ever a time for that need, it appears to be now.
That is because of the higher than normal number of families coming to the food shelf for help, according to Princeton Pantry coordinator Joyce Neumann. But first, the holiday cheer.
Neumann reported this week that the food shelf received an anonymous donation of $100 with a note signed by Santa on Nov. 14. She didn't know if it had been placed there through the mail slot or dropped off, or what, but it was "awesome," she said.
Then there was the gentleman a few weeks ago, Neumann said on Monday, who asked if money goes farther than just giving food. When he learned that it does, he wrote a check for $500.
There was also the recent donation from someone who works for Connexus Energy, Neumann said. The man wrote a personal check for $750 and explained that Connexus would then match that with $750.
The Princeton School District also had food donation drives this fall. The high school had a big food drive that brought in more than 1,000 food items and the school district office building recently collected about 365 caps, mittens and scarves. Most of these winter clothing items went to Princeton Pantry, but some were also delivered to Christ Our Light Church, to the His Givers group, and to places in Milaca and Elk River, according to the superintendent's secretary Angel Oswald.
Businesses have also been donating, as have churches. Coborn's has been turning over soon-to-expire food to Princeton since February, that has amounted to thousands of pounds, and at least one local gardener has donated produce.
The shelves at Princeton Pantry looked well filled on Monday as volunteers stocked them with recently-donated food, such as from the high school.
The record demand
But while this holiday season and the March food drive result in the biggest annual donation spikes that keep Princeton Pantry going during the year, the food also goes out about as fast, Neumann said.
Thirty-one families came into Princeton Pantry on Nov. 14 this year, setting a record for the most families there in one day. But five days later on Nov. 19, 32 families walked in, setting a new record. Nov. 16 wasn't much different, with 30 families there. That's 93 families in just three days, and when you feed just 31 families "it is unbelievable how many pounds of food that is," Neumann said.
"We expect November to be much higher (than other Novembers)," Neumann continued. "I don't know why."
But Neumann did say that this is the time when people have to purchase heating fuel and parents are spending what they can on gifts for their children, so money becomes more scarce.
So, despite the large amount of people giving of late, Princeton "always needs donations," Neumann said.
She told of one family who recently moved into the Princeton area (she didn't know if it was into the city or rural part) who had to put down a $300-400 electrical deposit. This is also the flu season and one trip to the doctor with a prescription to fill can cost at least $100, Neumann added.
But while Neumann and the Princeton Pantry board of directors always welcome food or monetary donations, she also brought up one more need. The building that Princeton Pantry is in behind the K-Bob Cafe, is too small, she said.
Because of that, Neumann explained, the pantry board is seeking another location and hopes it could either get a suitable building donated or offered at a good price. It needs to be in the city and have a parking lot, Neumann said.


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Hi guys
My daughter wants a microphone with stand so she can sing in her room. However i have no idea what to plug the mic into. Hoping someone could point me in the right direction on what to buy (hopefully on a budget lol).
Hi guys
My daughter wants a microphone with stand so she can sing in her room. However i have no idea what to plug the mic into. Hoping someone could point me in the right direction on what to buy (hopefully on a budget lol).
Well, what does your daughter has in line of loudspeakers in her room? and maybe a computer? (a comp would make things way more easy!)
Usually you need some sort of pre-amp (micro-amp) for a micro.
But: there is something very nasty called feedback which happens when the micro "hears" the loudspeakers it "talks/sings" to.
This can be circumvented if the artist in question (=your daughter) uses headphones and additionally using headphones makes the setup way more inexpensive and easy... ;)
Cheap microphones are usually low price, very sensitive, need only cheap pre-amps but are extremely prone to feedbacks: no fun for amateurs.
Good microphones are expensive (100 quid+), quite feedback-resistant but need a professional (and expensive=200 quid+) pre-amp...
So you need to find out and describe more detailed what your daughter really wants!
The obvious answer is an amplifier and speakers but you may be thinking about plugging it into a computer to record and edit it (use the orange socket on the back) or something.
Your best bet would be to pop into your local branch of Maplin where you'll be able to see and try most options and they are reasonably priced. Their web site isn't much help but I'm sure they'll have something more suitable in the shop or will at least be able to advise you and tell you where to look.
...just a small correction: the "orange" mic-in is really "pink"! ;)
thanks for the replies
I hadnt thought about doing it through a pc, so might look into that.
I have an technics amp and 2 massive speakers in the loft that i had completely forgot about so will try them first.
On the mic side of things if the amp and speakers work i can spend more on a better mic for her.
THE professional standard singers micro is the "Shure SM58".
Of course it has a professional XLR-connector so you need a micro amp (ideally a small mixing desk) to hook that and the music to the amp.
Either you buy such things of ebay or visit one of your local AV or PA rental services (which I recommend as they can explain more...), they usually sell such things used and for good prices.
Addendum: the SM58 is a "cardioid" micro which means it only records from the front but not from the back (where the "grip" is).
That is very good to reduce feedback but you have to have the speakers either facing you from the front or facing away from you but neither from the sides nor from the back!
Of course sound is reflected off hard surfaces (like walls) so you should "cushion" the walls (that is why there is foam-padding in professional studios).
In small settings (like your daughters room) the feedback is the biggest problem to overcome, that's why I recommend earphones under such circumstances...
Sorry, I should have said that it is supposed to be pink by the present computer-standard...
If you're looking at plugging in a mic through an amp you need to make sure that the speakers are designed to handle "voice" Your standard HIFI speakers are not suitable as they wont handle the output and could end up damaged. You need a pa system that will handle this...... or a karaoke system ....................
Let your fingers do the walking get online do some research and take it from there .................I have a home Karaoke system put out by Sound Choice here in Australia will handle guitars too...............not too expensive for my use at around $750.00 plays karaoke discs, Cd discs & DVD can hook up to HIFI or better ...........2 mic jacks on the front 2on the back and most importantly records the music played or sung.
Some good advice above for you thingy, mostly stick with AngieBockel's equipment reco, start at a lower stage of gear and see how it goes. PC will be much easier and she can get her toes wet in sound recording as well as singing.
Here's a nice overview of mic types and which ones are best suited for different needs:
- Get an affordable dynamic mic (no need to plug into a pre-amp when going into PC) - Shure SM58 is an excellent starter and really good for entry level, big reasons why it's an industry standard.This Content Is Available To Members Only. Please Register Here
- Plug mic into "mic in" on PC (may need an XLR to 3.5mm adaptor, easily found at Radio Shack/Best Buy etc.)
- Use headphones or get feedback
- Record through any audio editor choosing "mic in" as source
Once your daughter plays around, you'll start getting an idea of whether you/her will want to invest in a proper sound card, condenser mic, audio baffling, etc. to do real home recording.
If you're not using PC and you want to try the old amp and speakers, highly recommend you jot down the specs and take them to your local muso equipment store and speak to them as SimonP recommended.
While thepossum is correct as far as rule-of-thumb goes, there are exceptions in some "prosumer" set ups and the muso store staff should be able to assist you there too (do you need a pre-amp, if so what kind, is impedance on HiFi actually OK, etc).
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Israel Agrees to Five Hour Ceasefire; Terrorist Attack Twarted (Video)
JERUSALEM (Worthy News)-- Israel accepted a five-hour unilateral UN ceasefire proposal to allow humanitarian relief to enter Gaza. Meanwhile, the IDF thwarted at least 13 terrorists who tried to infiltrate Israel through a tunnel near Kibbutz Sufa, south of the Gaza Strip.
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Gaza terror tunnel attack thwarted - Ynet News
IDF forces identified some 13 Gaza terrorists who attempted to penetrate into Israel through a tunnel from Gaza Strip Thursday morning.
Ground incursion in Gaza said 'very likely' - Times of Israel
The IDF is very likely to put boots on the ground and send ground forces into the Gaza Strip, a high ranking Israeli security official reportedly said Wednesday, adding that such an incursion would not pose a serious challenge for the military
Israel agrees to UN request for five-hour cease-fire in Gaza - Jerusalem Post
Israel on Wednesday accepted a UN proposal for a five-hour unilateral humanitarian pause in the fighting to allow for relief aid into Gaza, less than two days after it accepted a more comprehensive cease-fire proposal that was answered by continuous rocket attacks from Gaza.
Rockets hit Israel hours before 'humanitarian' lull expected to begin - Ynet News
Rockets continued to fall on Israel Thursday, hours before an agreed five-hour UN brokered "humanitarian" pause in fighting was set to begin at 10 am.
Egyptians increasingly critical of Hamas - Washington Times
The Palestinian militant group Hamas is losing support among Egyptians, who increasingly are criticizing its role in the violence plaguing the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Source: IDF units operating in Gaza since op began - Ynet News
For the past nine days – the entire duration of Operation Protective Edge – the IDF's special units have been operating on the ground in Gaza. Part of that activity was revealed when Shayetet 13 soldiers were injured last week, but most of the operations remain under the fog of war.
Hamas Warns of "New Weapons" if Israeli Air strikes Continue - Media Line
On the sixth day of the current round of fighting between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement, there is no sign that either side is interested in a cease-fire. Hamas stepped up its rhetoric, warning of "new weapons" if Israel does not stop its attacks. Israel ordered residents of the northern Gaza Strip to leave their homes in advance of heavy Israeli bombardment.
Tel Aviv hosts test of new tunnel detection system - Ynet News
Recently, the defense establishment registered progress in its attempt to find a solution to locating one of Hamas' disturbing threats: the terror tunnels. Soldiers of IDF Talpiot program, who have been working on developing an innovative system, have held a successful experiment in Tel Aviv underground tunnels.


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Through no fault of a Daily Courier reporter, I did not express myself correctly when commenting on the cat problem in Scottdale Borough regarding my son at a Sept. 9 meeting.
I believe the article was in the Sept. 11 edition. My son did not pick up the feces and bring that into the home. He slipped and fell in his yard, and his hand went into it.
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I love the first. It's a little bit 'Lady Gaga'ReplyDelete
Absolutly great!
Beautiful!! I love these images as well!!ReplyDelete
gorgeous pics!ReplyDelete
I so want that last dress! Wow! Hmmm now what shoes? hee heeReplyDelete
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these are really great!! haha she looks way better with a middle part than i wouldReplyDelete
the structured material is amazing. simple but so so stunning.ReplyDelete
As am I. That dress in the first photo is understated, yet present. Love it!ReplyDelete
Love the colors! Especially the pale blue and bronzey looks.ReplyDelete
Killer! The fabrics are amazing.ReplyDelete
j'adore, et les photos sont superbesReplyDelete
Love these images! Happy Tuesday xxReplyDelete
She's gorgeous! Love this spread!ReplyDelete
shes beautiful..i want that first dressReplyDelete
Gorgeous looks...very chic! My fav is the last photo.ReplyDelete
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such gorgeous silky dresses in vibrant colors, loving that sky blue dress in the top!ReplyDelete
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Breakfast menu and the staff there, front desk staff Very helpful and responsive; we were initially in a ground floor room. The slider door could not be locked. The front desk staff were very quick to address that problem. See above: the slider door in our first room could not be locked. We were given a new room, but that should not have happened in the first place. That said, we would still go back there. It is a very comfortable hotel.
The hotel is esthetically pleasing and very clean since it is new. It is also centrally located so there are lots of shops and restaurants within walking distance of the hotel. The staff was wonderful! I found that there was not enough lighting in the hotel. Even the elevators seemed very dark. On more than one occassion, I had to help an elderly person with the correct way to swipe their card in the hotel since they could not see very well due to the poor lighting. I found the rooms to be dark as well.
Trendy design...if you like that sort of thing. music in lobby and hallways
Food at breakfast To dark in the rooms and elevetotrs. No coffee machine with coffeee in the rooms. Closet to small, Shower no pressure and was leaking at two connections. No towel for the swiming pool. No info book, pens, paper in the room by the phone. Hotel is using styrofoam plate for breakfast, this is supose to be a 4 start hotel, not acceptable.
The Unique design of this Hotel was spectacular! The beautiful landscaping, and patio, with its great view overlooking the river in Sherbrooke was spectacular. At night the entire Hotel is Lite up as well as the river and the "River Walk" with the Gazebo.It was ideally located in Sherbrooke at the centre of the Main Village.
The staff were all very friendly and helpful with all our questions and the rooms were very clean and neatly laid out. The rooms don't have coffee makers and there isn't an ice machine on each floor.
We visited during the summer festival that had a fireworks contest. The view from the hotel's patio was fantastic! We liked everything about the hotel
Five stars for all aspects of the hotel says it all and I am a global traveller!
nice stay
Proximity of restaurants Cooridors on floors need renovating
Friendly, renovated rooms... new TVs, furniture, etc hallways looked a little rough - ceiling tiles falling down, marks on walls etc.
comfy beds, quiet, able to sleep well. outside parking and pool closes to early to my liking. (8H45) I go thr the gym at 7h30 til 8h30 and that gives me only 15 min of pool time.
The stay was amazing and joyful, will do it again..
Hotel is located close to highway,easy access.Located close to restaurants.We had a king room that was well apportioned,very comfortable and clean. Staff at front desk very nice.\ and helpful. If breakfast was better I would give this hotel a higher rating. Breakfast was included with booking and is something that should be skipped.
Close to highway
We liked EVERYTHING. None
Nice lobby, included balcony, breakfast buffet was good. Rooms could use a refresh, paintings in hall sometimes repeat, one of the luggage carrier had air tires lacking pressure. Bed too soft.
the view was very nice the carpet were full of dust the sheets were stain the outside pool was dirty full of sand in the bottom and algae's on the side lifeguard saw and didn't do nothing the spa area the cold water bath was yellow at 2 am clients were screaming in the hallway


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find() will compare the pointer. And I bet that you pass temporary pointer like this
t->Load(sstm.str().c_str());. That will certainly lead to a crash
std :: string is always better
rootDirectory? Is it correctly initialized? Better change it to
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std::string but the program crash again. I change
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For everyone that is already calling Blaine Gabbert a bust, calm down. Not only is it way too early in his career to make that call, He has only started 6 games in his career so far. This bye week is a time for him and the rest of the team to sit back, evaluate their play, and make an attempt to improve on their various weakness, especially on offense.
Imagine this: You're 21 years old. You're drafted high in the first round in the draft, with all of the hopes of that franchise firmly placed on your back. The next day, you're given a playbook with new terminology and plays and you're asked to learn it (And by the way, see you a few months…) 3 months later, you tried to to memorize the playbook and you're finally made it to training camp. You impress the fans and everyone is clamoring for you to start, even though all of this info is being crammed into your head like crazy. Fast forward to November. You're thrust into the starting lineup and your first games are in a monsoon and then you're pitted against a gauntlet of tough defenses while you're behind an offensive line that plays musical chairs with linemen and receivers that are running into defenders on routes and their gloves seem to have been coated with Crisco. Gabbert is learning about life in the NFL the hard way and the bye week is a time for the rookie to catch his breath.
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Let's start with the problem statement: > Modify draw-polygon so that it adds the first item of a-poly to its > end. This requires a different auxiliary function: add-at-end. > This suggests the following draw-at-end uses as body (connect-dots (add-at-end (first a-poly) a- poly)) WISH LIST: ;; add-at-end : Number Polygon -> Polygon ;; add x to the end of p (define (add-at-end x p) p) If you solved this auxiliary problem with an example/test like the one you proposed below, you're done. Think through this and figure out why. If you didn't solve this problem, shows us how far you got with the design recipe. >> I have also posted this to the Study-HTDP group, but that group >> doesn't seem to be very active) I had no clue this existed :-) On Apr 24, 2009, at 7:35 PM, S Brown wrote: > I'm not sure how to do this exercise correctly. > > My thoughts are as follows: > > add-at-end needs to take a list, and return a new list, with the first > element of the list appended to the end of the new list. (IE - list > going in is 10 5 1, list coming out should be 10 5 1 10). My initial > solution was to require add-at-end to receive two arguments, an item > and a list, and have the specified item added to the end of the > specified list. So, in practice it ended up being used like this: > > (add-at-end (first a-poly) a-poly) > > This works, but I think I'm missing something here. I have tried going > through the design process, but I'm getting stuck because I haven't > been able to figure out another way of "retaining" that first value so > that it can be appended to the end. The only other solution I have > been able to come up with is something such as: > > (define (add-at-end a-poly) > (add-at-end2 (first a-poly) a-poly)) > > where add-at-end2 is the same definition as the original add-at-end. > > So, is there a better, or rather a more correct way of solving this > exercise, or is this solution acceptable? > > Thanks. > > (I have also posted this to the Study-HTDP group, but that group > doesn't seem to be very active) > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
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Sixteen years after the NFL left Los Angeles, the City Council approved a preliminary agreement Tuesday for a $1.2 billion downtown stadium that developers hope will attract a professional football team.
Tim Leiweke, president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group, said the council's 12-0 vote approving the framework for the project's funding and timeline sends a strong message to the NFL that the city is behind the proposal for a 75,000-seat stadium.
Under the memorandum of understanding, the city would issue $280 million in tax-exempt bonds to relocate the West Hall of the Convention Center to accommodate the stadium. The deal requires AEG to guarantee that no public money be used for the project.
"The deal we made is there to protect the taxpayers," said Council President Eric Garcetti. "This will give us a public face of Los Angeles worthy of the 21st century ... It's time for us to take the next brave step forward to bring football back to Los Angeles."
Leiweke said AEG and its owner, billionaire Philip Anschutz, hope to acquire an NFL team and host the first season at the Farmers Field stadium in 2016.
"It does not make sense for us to be only the landlord," Leiweke said. "We are looking at a model like Staples, where Mr. Anschutz has an interest in the teams."
To meet that deadline, Leiweke said, the company must begin construction by June 1, 2012. Anschutz is willing to spend up to $50 million on the environmental review and designs.
"He has agreed to allow us to go to design drawings," Leiweke said. "But we will not invest the $1 billion-plus for a stadium without a team.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league is following the discussions in Los Angeles and "will continue to closely monitor all stadium developments."
City Councilwoman Jan Perry said the plan to replace the Convention Center hall with an expanded exhibition space will help Los Angeles become competitive with cities like San Diego and Anaheim.
"This allows us to leverage private investments to expand our municipal facilities," said Perry, who represents the downtown area and chairs the Ad Hoc Committee on the stadium project.
"Most importantly, this is about jobs. We will have 6,000 permanent jobs and 13,000 construction jobs."
Carol Schatz, president of the Civic Center Association, said 11 hotel operators have contacted her organization since the plans for the upgraded Convention Center were announced in February.
"We know there is interest in developing this area with hotels, nightclubs, restaurants," Schatz said. "All we need to do is get this project moving."
According to the AEG plan, the new hall would be built on Pico Boulevard before the West Hall is demolished to make way for the stadium. The developer also has agreed to build two parking structures that would serve the area.
Garcetti said the city is developing a new model for the NFL, with a stadium financed by investors who have no direct interest in a team.
"I think we have shown the NFL that they need Los Angeles more than Los Angeles needs the NFL," Garcetti said.
Officials have considered several previous proposals for returning football to Los Angeles over the years, including plans to upgrade the Memorial Coliseum. There also have been preliminary proposals for stadiums in Carson, Hollywood Park and the South Park area.
However, the most serious contender to AEG's plan is a proposal by Majestic Realty to build a stadium in the City of Industry.
Majestic Senior Vice President John Semcken argued their proposal is more financially sound than AEG's.
"Our stadium proposal will generate more money, jobs and long-term success for the region and the NFL," Semcken said. "We are more active than ever and are currently working with the league, owners and teams to bring a franchise back to Los Angeles."
Leiweke said he believes the downtown stadium is the best location, and that AEG would abort its plan if Majestic wins a team.
With the AEG agreement, Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry Miller, who headed the city's negotiation team, said all aspects of the deal remain open, including the expected rate of return.
"We have a certain assumption, but the developer will try to increase their rate of return," Miller said. "That's what developers do."
Another issue that will receive close attention is the design of the stadium and the improvements needed in the surrounding area.
"I am very concerned with what we will be doing to accommodate 65,000 to 75,000 people on a weekend," Perry said.
Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who had raised the most questions about the proposal, said he believed the MOU allows the city to be more aggressive in its relationship with AEG.
"I look forward as the process goes on and, with the idea, when we bring these teams in, the city can get something back from the television revenue," Rosendahl said. "The most important, critical part of this is the jobs. That part is the no-brainer. The more jobs we create the better."
Councilman Bernard Parks asked that the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum be considered as a temporary home for any team that relocates to Los Angeles until Farmers Field opens in 2016.
Leiweke said they are looking at whether the Coliseum or the Rose Bowl could accommodate an NFL team.
He said that AEG will perform a full environmental impact report - with no exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act - although it is seeking state legislation to protect it from frivolous lawsuits challenging the study.
Among the NFL teams who are known to be considering a move are the San Diego Chargers, Minnesota Vikings, Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars. No announcement is expected until after this season.
The MOU is non-binding but provides a framework for the future discussions, which includes construction of the West Hall replacement first, a coordinated booking schedule and the requirement that a professional football team sign a long-term lease.
AEG wanted the MOU as a way to demonstrate to the NFL and team owners that there is political support for the project as it provides a rough outline of future agreements.
Miller said the next step for the city is for its working group of different agencies to develop the final agreements with AEG.


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TOKYO (Oct. 27, 2006)--Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today announced its production, sales and export figures for October.
Japan's production of the all-new Infiniti G35 (Skyline in Japan), Murano and Infiniti FX rose year-on-year. However, lower production of other models pushed overall domestic production down slightly from the previous year, with output falling 0.5% to 101,619 units.
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Opinion: Liberating Women Through Hijab
By Mohammad Azeemullah
28/06/2010 19:33:00
Are hijab and women incompatible? Are the two contradictory? Is the one enemy of the other? At least that is what is believed in the west. Isnt that?
Nothing has been as much discussed as those of women among men. So has been the argument about their dress, i.e. what they wear and how they wear?
Indeed, womens clothing has always been in debate among public. It has generated immense controversy, raised countless speculations and has attracted both modernists and traditionalists views alike.
The issue has not yet died down. Just as early as June 17, 2010, an article Dressed to Distract about why men are distracted when women dress differently was published by The New York Times. It raised pertinent questions about the magnetism and sexuality of women and the reason why men are trapped into.
Aesthetic allure is evolutionary, after all, the author, Maureen Dowd, argued. She reported: a 33-year-old single mother, filed suit against Citigroup, claiming that she was fired in August from the Citibank branch at the Chrysler Center for looking too sexy.
Plaintiff was advised that as a result of the shape of her figure, her lawsuit reads, such clothes were purportedly `too distracting for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear.
The author further investigated: Lorenzana recalled that her supervisors obsessed over what she was wearing, saying things are too tight, you cannot wear turtlenecks.
I said, You are discriminating to me, because of my body type, she said with a slight accent and a breathy voice. This is genetic. What am I supposed to do?
My life has been hard my whole entire life. People have this misconception that, Oh, you do well in your life because of your looks. No, I am harassed. (The New York Times, June 17, 2010)
What is remarkable in the reporting is that the author deliberately skips a solution to emerging challenges faced by women at offices owing to her being 'too provocative' by wearing short dresses an accepted lifestyle in American and Western culture.
Unarguably, tight and unethical outfits do generate the lewd glimpse of men toward their sexual counterparts, and the current reporting, undoubtedly, reinforces that argument.
The spontaneity of response to such unfairness meted out to women automatically turns the debate on why women wear hijab in the Arab world or why at all hijab is a necessity in Islam for women once out of their closet.
The natural pull between the opposite sexes is innate. There is considerable evidence that suggests that human sexual orientation is genetically influenced.
Women are different. They are attracted to a man based on what can best be described by Anthony Storr, a renowned psychiatrist as neurotic attachments that triggers attraction.
Jung went further, and suggested: There is feminine anima in a member of the opposite sex, and are attracted by what they recognize as the unconscious and hidden part of themselves.
Further to add, the researchers, led by Prof Mark van Vugt and Johanna van Hooff of the University of Amsterdam, and Helen Crawford of University of Kent, examined the human bias towards looks by conducting a series of tests on 40 people.
The subjects, 20 women and 20 men, were hooked up to a machine that recorded brain activity and were then given a task to perform. While they're doing the task they were shown a series of photographs of faces of the opposite sex, ranging from attractive to ugly.
Men were easily distracted when they saw a pretty face but women stuck to task, the study revealed.
He added that the findings showed that men's desire for women was part of evolution.
The Koran, Islam's holy book, took notice of this difference in sexuality between men and women long back, and thus guidelines were offered concerning clothing.
Tell the faithful women to lower their gaze and guard their private parts and not display their beauty except what is apparent of it, and to extend their scarf to cover their bosom. (Quran, 24:3)
The guidance is further revealed:
"O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies. That will be better that they should be known so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (Quran, 33:59)
What is the purpose of hijab? Is it a sign of obscurantism or liberalism? Sara Bokker, a former actress, model, fitness instructor and an activist, remarks: I AM an American woman who was born in the midst of Americas Heartland.
I grew up, just like any other girl, being fixated with the glamour of life in the big city.
Eventually, I moved to Florida and on to South Beach of Miami, a hotspot for those seeking the glamorous life.
Naturally, I did what most average Western girls do. I focused on my appearance and appeal; basing my self-worth on how much attention I got from others. I worked out religiously and became a personal trainer, acquired an upscale waterfront residence, became a regular exhibiting beach-goer and was able to attain a living-in-style kind of life.
Years went by; only to realize that my scale of self-fulfillment and happiness slid down the more I progressed in my feminine appeal. I was a slave to fashion. I was a hostage to my looks.
As the gap continued to progressively widen between my self-fulfillment and lifestyle, I sought refuge in escapes from alcohol and parties to meditation, activism, and alternative religions, only to have the little gap widen to what seemed like a valley. I eventually realized it all was merely a painkiller rather than an effective remedy.
One day I came across a book that is negatively stereotyped in the West The Noble Quran. I was first attracted by the style and approach of the Quran, and then intrigued by its outlook on existence, life, creation, and the relationship between Creator and creation. I found the Quran to be a very insightful address to heart and soul without the need for an interpreter or pastor.
I bought a beautiful long gown and head cover resembling the Muslim womans dress code and I walked down the same streets and neighborhoods where only days earlier I had walked in my shorts, bikini, or elegant Western business attire.
Although the people, the faces, and the shops were all the same, one thing was remarkably distinct I was not nor was the peace at being a woman I experienced for the very first time. I felt as if the chains had been broken and I was finally free.
I was delighted with the new looks of wonder on peoples faces in place of the looks of a hunter watching his prey I had once sought.
Suddenly a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Finally, I was free. [Currently, Sara is Director of Communications at The March For Justice, a co-founder of The Global Sisters Network, and producer of the infamous Shock & Awe Gallery.] (www.ccun.org: Cross-Cultural Understanding, Opinion Editorials, November 2008)
The word "hijab" comes from the Arabic word "hajaba" meaning to hide from view or conceal. In the present time, the context of hijab is the modest covering of body.
Whatever the controversy concerning hijab, the fact is that it prevents men from treating women like sex objects. It is, in essence, a liberating force that makes them be evaluated for intelligence and skills instead of looks and sexuality.
Hijab further acquires its new meaning and value in the fast shrinking moral life of an individual whose only survival mechanism sails through dare to bare.
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S.R.H. Hashmi
07/04/2010 09:25:52
An excellent article I would say. The reasoning and the presentation are superb and hence, it is so very convincing.
I wish the article could be circulated widely.
S.R.H. Hashmi
Karachi / Pakistan
07/04/2010 17:40:58
A well-developed article. The piece was posted on www.freerepublic.com on 30th June, 2010 in the United States of America which drew considerable attention of readers.
30/06/2010 14:15:47
Again Islamic women haters try to justify their backwards and barbaric views with blathering nonsense.
You treat women like cattle, you treat girls like furniture, and then you kill them because of "honor".
What a pitiful, backwards, sick society you have.
Aufaq Ahmad
10/10/2010 20:13:11
This article makes one fall on one's knees and say 'WOW'. A master piece . May Allah reward you .
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