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Gallery: David Viens sentencing
Related Story: How local news coverage helped solve a gruesome murder
A Lomita chef who killed his wife and boiled her body in his restaurant's kitchen was sentenced Friday to spend 15 years to life in prison, moments after he declared "I didn't cook my wife" and that nobody misses her more than him.
David Viens, 49, convicted of second-degree murder in September for killing his 39-year-old wife, Dawn, was sentenced after he gave a rambling 45-minute presentation before a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to explain why his trial attorney poorly represented him and why he should get a another chance to testify in his own defense.
He did not take the stand during his trial based on his attorney's advice. Viens referred to that decision as "retarded. "
"I loved my wife," Viens said. "I didn't cook my wife. "
Judge Rand Rubin rejected Viens' attempt for a new trial and sentenced him to the state-mandated term for second-degree murder. Viens confessed to his daughter, his girlfriend and twice to detectives investigating the disappearance and murder of Dawn Viens, who was last seen Oct. 18, 2009. Her remains have never been found.
Viens claimed his wife died accidentally after he taped her mouth shut with duct tape because she was making too much noise as he was trying to sleep. His defense attorney, Fred McCurry, told jurors that Viens fell asleep and awakened to find his wife dead. Viens told his daughter he threw her body in the trash.
After Viens jumped from a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff on Feb. 23, 2011, when a Daily Breeze article called him a "person of interest" in his wife's disappearance and death, Viens confessed to detectives in his hospital room that he wrapped duct tape over her mouth, awakened to find her dead and cooked her body in his kitchen at the Thyme Contemporary Cafe. He said he disposed of her remains in his grease trap and stashed her skull in his mother's attic in Lomita. It was never found.
Viens said in court Friday that he did not remember his confessions, including one that occurred after he underwent 12 hours of surgery to repair broken bones suffered in his jump. He said information about his condition should have been presented to the jury during his trial but was not. He vowed to appeal his conviction.
"I'm hallucinating," he said. "I had no idea I had undergone two major surgeries. " I don't remember meeting these guys except one time in my driveway. "
Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction against Viens, saying he killed his wife because she stole $300 from their restaurant. Dawn Viens, in fact, had been hiding money she received as tips while working in the Narbonne Avenue restaurant because she feared her husband was about to leave her.
A witness testified during his trial that Viens vowed to "kill the bitch" over the theft. She was never seen again. But McCurry, Viens attorney, argued that Viens killed his wife accidentally and did not intend the duct tape over her mouth to kill her. His argument succeeded in reducing the conviction to second-degree murder.
But that didn't satisfy Viens, who Friday said his attorney should have presented more evidence about his medical condition and allowed him to testify. During the trial, Viens stood from his wheelchair and objected when his attorney rested their case.
"His telling me not to testify was retarded," Viens said. If he could have a new trial, Viens added, he would testify and take a lie detector test "to prove what really happened," not stories that Deputy District Attorney Deborah Brazil "sold" the judge and the jury.
"I think she's afraid to face me in trial," Viens said. "I would represent myself. "
Viens said Brazil painted an unfair picture of him for the jury, portraying him as a man who cooked his wife for four days.
"It never happened," he said.
Friends reported Dawn Viens missing in November 2009. Viens told them she had walked away when he demanded she go into drug rehab. A friend, Karen Patterson, said she received text messages from her phone indicating she was safe, but Dawn Viens' nickname was misspelled. Viens' daughter testified during the trial that she placed at least one of the texts.
For months, Viens - who had served prison time for drug offenses in Florida and Vermont before coming to California - refused to post a missing person flier or conduct an interview. But in April 2010, he told the Daily Breeze that "I loved my wife" and believed she would return home after ski season. By that time, Viens had already taken on a new girlfriend, who moved into his house and into Dawn Viens' hostess job at the eatery.
In August 2010, homicide detectives took over the case, saying they found blood spatter in the house Viens once shared with his wife. When that information was reported in the Daily Breeze, Viens purchased the newspaper, confessed to his girlfriend, drove to Point Vicente and jumped.
In court Friday, Viens said he "fell" from the cliff.
During her victim impact statement Friday, Dayna Papin, Dawn Viens' sister, said that she had loved her sister's husband like a father, but did not feel sympathy for him. She doubted her family can find closure.
"As I sat here the last hour listening, I learned I will not have any peace for a very long time," Papin said. "I think he's made it pretty clear to all of us he is going to continue to fight for his freedom. "
Viens, who looked at her as she talked, quickly responded: "Nobody loved Dawn Marie Viens more than I did, or misses her more. I lied to police out of fear. My life's been a mess ever since. I'm sorry Dayna. "
He then slammed his hand on the table in front of him.


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American Composers Orchestra Continues COLABORATORY: PLAYING IT UNSAFE Initiative, 3/5-4/5
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) continues its season-long initiative, coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe, the first and only professional research and development lab to support the creation of cutting-edge new American orchestral music through no-holds-barred experimentation, encouraging composers to do anything but "play it safe." Audiences will have the opportunity to see and hear the composers' works-in-progress at free lab workshops on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 10am at Flushing Town Hall (137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY), and Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 2pm at The DiMenna Center (450 W. 37th St., NYC). coLABoratory culminates on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7:30pm with a concert featuring all of the new works at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, conducted by ACO Music Director George Manahan.
The composers participating in coLABoratory this season are Du Yun, Troy Herion, Raymond J. Lustig, Judith Sainte Croix, and Dan Visconti, selected from a national search for their willingness to experiment and stretch their own musical sensibilities, and their ability to test the limits of the orchestra. coLABoratory grew out of ACO's ongoing mission to commission and perform new music that expands the range of possibilities for - and challenges conventional notions about - orchestral music.
coLABoratory is unusual in that it does away with the expectations often associated with orchestral premieres that can squelch composers' creative impulses - limited rehearsal time, restrictive instrumental possibilities, pre-conceived programmatic or thematic ideas for concerts - and most importantly, the overwhelming pressure on composers to do something "safe."
coLABoratory alters the orchestral landscape by treating the creation of a new work as an interactive and collaborative process, rather than just the delivery of a musical "product." This season, coLABoratory has included a unique incubation process of workshops, public readings, collaborative feedback, and laboratory performances of music, open to the public, taking place from November 2012 through April 2013. Each composer's work is being developed with the orchestra over the course of the season in a process that includes ACO's Music Director George Manahan, ACO's artistic leadership Robert Beaser and Derek Bermel, mentor composer Morton Subotnick, and members of the orchestra.
Participants in past installments of ACO's Playing It UNsafe created a concerto for junked car and orchestra (Sean Friar's Clunker Concerto), collaborations with lighting designers (Laura Schwendinger's Shadings), new levels of orchestral improvisation (Henry Threadgill's No Gates, No White Trenches, Butterfly Effect), hybrid orchestration of laptop computers and acoustic instruments (Dan Trueman, silicon/carbon (an anti-Concerto Grosso)), sound paintings for voice, electronics and unorthodox spatial arrangements of the orchestra (Joan La Barbara's In solitude this fear is lived), and multimedia work with live computer illustration, electronics and orchestra (Anna Clyne's TENDER HOOKS).
The new pieces developed this season continue this experimental exploration. Du Yun's Slow Portraits is an acoustic exploration of a "frozen point" of orchestral sound paired with super slow motion video (visuals by David Michalek). Troy Herion serves as both composer and filmmaker in his New York City Symphony, an audio and visual celebration of the city. In Latency Canons Raymond J. Lustig investigates the slight and often unpredictable delay in audio signal transmission through musicians playing via videoconferencing, with Dane Lam co-conducting a group of musicians in Manchester, England via Google Hangouts. Judith Sainte Croix adds non-orchestral instruments including the electric guitar (played by Oren Fader), pre-Columbian flutes (played by the Andrew Bolotowsky), and the synthesizer (played by Sainte Croix) plus visuals (photography by Claudia Miranda with design support from Marcelo Mella) to the orchestra in Vision V. Dan Visconti creates new instruments from obsolete analog technology such as Speak & Spell toys and vintage recording devices accompanied with video by filmmaker Simon Tarr in Glitchscape.
About the coLABoratory Composers
Du Yun: Slow Portraits
For more information about Du Yun: www.channelduyun.com
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, currently based in New York, Du Yun is an internationally-performed composer and musician. Hailed by The New York Times as "cutting-edge... to whom the term 'young composer' could hardly do justice," and "an indie pop diva with an avant-garde edge;" "re-invents herself daily... so does her music," (Time Out New York), her music exists at an artistic crossroads of chamber music, theater, pop music, opera, orchestral, cabaret, storytelling, visual arts and noise. Du Yun has received commissions include from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Weill Institution Commission, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, the Whitney Museum Live, the Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, violinist Hillary Hahn, cellist Matt Haimovitz, flutist Claire Chase and many more. An alumna of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College (BM), Harvard University (MA, PHD), she has served on the faculty of SUNY-Purchase since 2006.
Slow Portraits will investigate a fixed point in orchestral sound, a gradient palette underneath a hyper-slow movement. Du Yun's starting point will be a sound design she created for visual artist David Michalek's "Portraits in Dramatic Time." She explains, "While the music, mostly as sound design at the time, was broadcast over WiFi to the public, I was hoping I could write for an acoustic chamber orchestra to truly investigate the detailed nuance relationship between the acoustic world and the visual processing image, that both are not digitally altered a bit. For the music, I wonder what I could do to showcase a frozen phrase, elongated gestures elongated, without any digital aid. Like a glacier, things are never quite frozen."
Troy Herion: New York City Symphony
For more information about Troy Herion: www.troyherion.com
Troy Herion is a composer and filmmaker whose work unites contemporary music with visual arts through chamber and orchestral music, opera, theater, and film. He explores the concept of "visual music:" the idea that musical qualities are found in visual as well as aural experience. His visual-music film Baroque Suite was called "marvelous" by New Yorker critic Alex Ross and has been screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival, The Wassaic Project, and during ACO's SONiC festival in October 2011. His music video directing debut - The Bright Motion for pianist Michael Mizrahi on New Amsterdam Records - was released to critical acclaim on the music blogs NPR Classical and The Rest is Noise. Herion's concert works have been performed by leading ensembles including So Percussion, Nash Ensemble of London, and the Brentano Quartet. As a composer for theater, he has worked with Pig Iron Theatre, The Wilma Theater, The Arden Theatre, Azuka Theater, Swarthmore College, and Columbia University. He was nominated for three Barrymore Awards, including the prestigious F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist Award, and his sound design was featured in the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. Herion holds an MFA from Princeton University, where he is pursuing a joint PhD in Composition and Interdisciplinary Humanities.
In New York City Symphony, Herion will make visible the elements of music - phrasing, counterpoint, rhythm, and harmony. He explains, "New York City Symphony is a visual-music film and composition that unites contemporary orchestral music with images of New York's urban landscape. Inspired by synaesthesia - where one sense becomes intertwined with, even indistinguishable from, another - this composition invites the audience to see sound and hear images." Drawing inspiration from early 20th-century city-symphony films, New York City Symphony will treat the living, breathing organism of the city as its subject. Seen through the eyes of a composer/filmmaker, the metropolis is transformed into a multi-sensory musical symphony.
Raymond J. Lustig: Latency Canons
For more information about Raymond J. Lustig: www.raymondlustig.com
Raymond J. Lustig has won ASCAP's Rudolf Nissim Prize, the Aaron Copland Award from Copland House, the Juilliard Orchestra competition, the New Juilliard Ensemble competition, and several ASCAP Plus Awards. His music has been presented in venues ranging from New York City clubs and galleries to major concert halls and festivals around the world - from Le Poisson Rouge and the Stone to Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and the École Normale in Paris. His UNSTUCK for orchestra was recently released on Albany Records with Emily Freeman Brown and the Bowling Green Philharmonia. Lustig's teachers have included John Corigliano, Robert Beaser, and Samuel Adler. Also a published researcher in molecular biology, Lustig is deeply inspired by science, nature, and the mind. He lives in New York and teaches at The Juilliard School.
Latency Canons will make intentional use of the indefinite time interval and incremental canons that can arise from latency - the slight delay that occurs in signal transmissions - through a performance via videoconferencing. Lustig says, "The cycle of lateness will be ever-increasing, as each musician tries to play along with the delayed version of what their remote counterpart has played, in an unstable feedback loop. This will work with parts of the orchestra onstage while other parts are offstage on camera, possibly even in another city or country and possibly with a sister ensemble or players in a faraway place. The piece will require two or more laptops (depending on the number of 'voices' in the canons) equipped with Skype or a similar videoconferencing application, microphones, amplification, and AV projection to an overhead screen that will allow The Players and the audience members to view the voices of the canon."
Judith Sainte Croix: Vision V
For more information about Judith Sainte Croix: http://judithsaintecroix.wordpress.com
Judith Sainte Croix was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and received her early musical training from her mother, a piano teacher, her father, a tenor soloist and Marion Hutchinson and Gerald Bales who taught her organ. Her teachers and mentors include the composers John Eaton, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss and the poet Mary Ellen Solt. Sainte Croix's transformative music blends social issues and aesthetic expression, primitive sounds and new technologies, ancient structures and modern techniques to create a unique, evocative style. Her awards and commissions include the Gaudeamus Competition; a Creative Associate Fellowship in Buffalo, NY; the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation Award; Chamber Music America; The Orchestra of St. Lukes; The Long Island Composer's Alliance; The Kitchen; Meet the Composer; The American Composer's Forum; New York Foundation for the Arts; The Jerome Foundation; The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust; the National Endowment of the Arts; a Con Edison Composer Residency; and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Sainte Croix's Vision V will integrate three non-orchestral instruments into the orchestra: the populist electric guitar, ancient pre-Columbian flutes, and the non-ordinary sound palette of the synthesizer. Abstract digital imaging suggesting the auras of the musicians photographed during rehearsal, will play along with the music in the concert. Vision V is the fifth in a series of compositions by Sainte Croix, the first for full orchestra, which combines traditional classical instruments with indigenous instruments of the Americas. The Sonora Trio - Andrew Bolotowsky, indigenous flutes of the Americas; Oren Fader, electric guitar; and Judith Sainte Croix, synthesizer - will perform with the orchestra. The digital images used in the piece will be derived from photography by Claudia Miranda with design support from Marcelo Mella.
Dan Visconti: Glitchscape
For more information about Dan Visconti: www.danvisconti.com
Dan Visconti's music has been commissioned by ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, and the Berlin Philharmonic Scharoun Ensemble, at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and LA's Disney Hall. His compositions have been honored with the Berlin Prize, the Bearns Prize from Columbia University, and the Cleveland Arts Prize; awards from BMI and ASCAP, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Society of Composers, and the National Association of Composers USA; and grants from the Naumburg Foundation, the American Music Center, the Barlow Endowment, the Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bascom Little Fund, the Annenberg Foundation, and Chamber Music America. He has also been the recipient of artist fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Copland House, the Lucas Artists Program at Villa Montalvo, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Visconti studied composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Yale School of Music, primarily with Margaret Brouwer, Aaron Jay Kernis, Ezra Laderman, and Zhou Long. He is a member of BMI and currently resides in Washington, DC, where he serves as artistic director of DC's VERGE Ensemble.
Visconti's Glitchscape will be created in collaboration with experimental filmmaker Simon Tarr, and will blend instruments of the orchestra with sounds from obsolete analog technology. The piece will explore the interaction of live acoustic instruments with sounds created on modified vintage Speak & Spell and Speak & Read toys, and an old "noisebox" from the 1950s. Visconti says, "This new work will create a unique texture through reimaging familiar, nearly-forgotten sounds: an exploration of the expressive power of obsolescence."
Now in its 36th season, American Composers Orchestra is the only orchestra in the world dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation, and promulgation of music by American composers. ACO makes the creation of new opportunities for American composers and new American orchestral music its central purpose. Through concerts at Carnegie Hall and other venues, recordings, internet and radio broadcasts, educational programs, New Music Readings, and commissions, ACO identifies today's brightest emerging composers, champions prominent established composers as well as those lesser-known, and increases regional, national, and international awareness of the infinite variety of American orchestral music, reflecting geographic, stylistic, and temporal diversity. ACO also serves as an incubator of ideas, research, and talent, as a catalyst for growth and change among orchestras, and as an advocate for American composers and their music.
To date, ACO has performed music by more than 600 American composers, including 200 world premieres and newly commissioned works. Among the orchestra's innovative programs have been SONiC: Sounds of a New Century, a nine-day citywide festival in New York of music by more than 100 composers age 40 and under; Sonidos de las Américas, six annual festivals devoted to Latin American composers and their music; Coming to America, a program immersing audiences in the ongoing evolution of American music through the work of immigrant composers; Orchestra Tech, a long-term initiative to integrate new digital technologies in the symphony orchestra; Improvise!, a festival devoted to the exploration of improvisation and the orchestra; Playing It UNsafe, a new laboratory for the research and development of experimental new works for orchestra; and Orchestra Underground, ACO's entrepreneurial cutting-edge orchestral ensemble that embraces new technology, eclectic instruments, influences, and spatial orientation of the orchestra, new experiments in the concert format, and multimedia and multi-disciplinary collaborations.
Composer development has been at the core of ACO's mission since its founding. In addition to its annual Underwood New Music Readings and Commission, ACO also provides a range of additional educational and professional development activities, including composer residencies and fellowships. In 2008, ACO launched EarShot, a multi-institutional network that assists orchestras around the country in mounting new music readings. Recent EarShot programs have included the Nashville and Memphis Symphonies, Colorado Symphony, New York Youth Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and San Diego Symphony. For more information visit www.EarShotnetwork.org.
Among the honors ACO has received are special awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and from BMI recognizing the orchestra's outstanding contribution to American music. ASCAP has awarded its annual prize for adventurous programming to ACO 35 times, singling out ACO as "the orchestra that has done the most for American music in the United States." ACO received the inaugural MetLife Award for Excellence in Community Engagement, and a proclamation from the New York City Council. ACO recordings are available on ARGO, CRI, ECM, Point, Phoenix USA, MusicMasters, Nonesuch, Tzadik, New World Records, InstantEncore.com, Amazon.com and iTunes. ACO's digital albums include Playing It UNsafe (March 2011), Emerging Composers Series: Vol. 1 (February 2012), and the orchestra's latest release, Orchestra Underground: X10D (June 2012), an album featuring unusual and extended solo instruments with the orchestra. More information about American Composers Orchestra is available online at www.americancomposers.org.
2012-13 Season Highlights
Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, at 7:30pm. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th St. & 7th Ave., NYC)
Orchestra Underground: Dreams & Dances
Jose Serebrier, Guest Conductor; Sharon Bezaly, flute; Milica Paranosic, gusle; Lori Cotler, vocals; David Chambers, libretto;
Carmen Kordas, videos; Beowulf Sheehan, photos
JOSÉ SEREBRIER: Flute Concerto with Tango (US Premiere)
NARONG PRANGCHAROEN: The Migration of Lost Souls (World Premiere ACO/Underwood Commission)
CHARLES IVES: Symphony No. 3 ("Camp Meeting")
MILICA PARANOSIC: The Tiger's Wife: Prologue for Orchestra, Voice, Electronics and Visuals (Based on the novel The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht) (World Premiere, ACO/LVMH Commission)
Friday, January 18, 2013, at 7:30pm. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th St. & 7th Ave., NYC)
Orchestra Underground: A Time & Place
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor; Kate Soper, soprano; Jennifer Zetlan, soprano; Jorie Graham, poetry
Lukas Foss: Time Cycle
KYLE BLAHA: Sinfonietta (World Premiere, ACO/Jerome Foundation Commission)
ZHOU LONG: Bell Drum Tower (US Premiere)
Kate Soper: "now is forever" he whispered: Orpheus and Eurydice for Voice & Orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Friday, April 5, 2013, at 7:30pm. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th St.& 7th Ave., NYC).
Orchestra Underground: coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
ACO's next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. New pieces selected through a nationwide search and born from a unique incubation process of workshops, public readings and collaborative feedback.
RAYMOND J. LUSTIG: Latency Canons
DAN VISCONTI: Glitchscape
DU YUN: Slow Portraits
JUDITH SAINTE CROIX: Vision V
TROY HERION: New York City Symphony
Laboratory Workshops:
November 13 & December 11, 2012 at 2pm. Mannes College The New School of Music (150 West 85th St., NYC).
January 22 & March 5, 2013 at 10am. Flushing Town Hall (137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY).
April 2, 2013 at 2pm. The DiMenna Center (450 W 37th St., NYC).
Monday & Tuesday, April 8 & 9, 2013. The DiMenna Center (450 W 37th St., NYC).
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO's annual roundup of the country's brightest young and emerging composers.
Monday & Tuesday, June 3 & 4, 2013. Columbia University's Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway, NYC).
Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings
New works by jazz composers selected from the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. Gil Rose, Conductor
JENNIFER BELLOR: Crystal Skies
JOSE BEVIA: Noit-Alimissa
COURTNEY BRYAN: Shedding Skin
INGRID LAUBROCK: Vogelfrei
ANDY MILNE: Element of Surprise
RICHARD SUSSMAN: Explorations For Orchestra
SUMI TONOOKA: Full Circle
Pictured: Du Yun: Slow Portraits

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AFI Fest
What: The American Film Institute's annual celebration of international cinema from modern masters and emerging filmmakers.
When: Nov. 7-14
Where: TCL Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Blvd.; Chinese 6 Theatres, 6801 Hollywood Blvd.; Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.; The Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
Information: www.afifest.afi.com
They've been singing the praises of AFI Fest's closing night gala, "Inside Llewyn Davis," since the Cannes Film Festival last spring. The Coen brothers are often at their best when music figures prominently in their films ("The Big Lebowski," "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") so this tragicomic tale of a failed '60s folksinger should end the festival on a high note.
The film stars Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and Oscar Isaac as Llewyn.
For movie reviews and highlights from this year's AFI Fest click here.


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Solution Spotlight: Environmentally Considerate Lubricants
Kathy | October 1, 2008
Increased awareness of the environment and tighter legislation have led to increased use of environmentally considerate lubricants. When operating in environmentally sensitive areas such as mines, forests, lakes, rivers, harbors and ski-slopes, equipment may require lubricants that help reduce environmental risks. Environmentally considerate lubricants should combine a number of important properties, including high biodegradability, which means it is rapidly removed from the environment by natural processes in the event of a leak or spill (fate) and low ecotoxicity (effects). Furthermore, such lubricants should provide effective lubrication with performance meeting the needs of operators (function).
Biodegradability: Lubricants and other organic materials are broken down in the environment by micro-organisms in a process called 'biodegradation'—biodegradability is the ease with which this can occur. There are a number of ways in which biodegradability can be measured. To meet the internationally recognized requirement for 'ready biodegradability,' lubricants must be at least 60% CO2 evolved after 28 days when tested according to OECD guideline 301B. Ecotoxicity: The effect that a material may have on the environment usually is assessed by measuring its toxicity toward plants and animals that represent different levels of the food-chain ('ecotoxicity'). For example, in the aquatic food chain there is determination for toxicity towards algae, water fleas (Daphnia) and rainbow trout. Lubricants must meet the limits for 'not harmful' when tested by independent laboratories using OECD 201, 202 & 203 Test Guidelines for ecotoxicity.
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LES MISERABLES Hit Status Leading To WICKED Movie At Universal?
The worldwide $380+ gross of the feature film adaptation of the international stage hit LES MISERABLES at the box office has put a movie musical take on the hit Oz-themed WICKED closer to becoming a reality.
In a recent interview, Universal chairman Adam Fogelson stated that the success of one has influenced the expediancy by which they will make the next major Universal movie musical.
The question remains: will it be WICKED?
Fogelson says that WICKED has been an unqualified smash success for Universal thus far in its stage iteration - "WICKED has been an enormous win for this company, " he says - but, the entire studio needs to stand behind the decision to proceed on a film version.
"The way it works, we should be in agreement together on when the right time to do this is," Fogelman adds.
He concludes that WICKED onscreen is something he would prefer happening in the near future. "But I will tell you I believe that we are collectively moving toward WICKED coming to the screen sooner rather than later."
Break out your broomsticks!
Furthermore, Universal could potentially have a hand in the rumored feature film adaptation of Cameron Mackintosh's other classic collaboration with Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boulil, MISS SAIGON, should Mackintosh proceed to film that property in the coming year or so, as proposed months ago before LES MISERABLES opened, should it pass the $500 million mark. While it might fall slightly short of that lofty goal, it will be coming awfully close at this rate, all things considered - lest we forget, the DVD/Blu-ray hits in less than a month and the soundtrack is already an unqualified success, reaching #1 on iTunes (and a deluxe, 2-disc edition is on the way, as well), neither figure which is even accounted for in the total box office tally.
So, which movie musical would you rather see follows up LES MISERABLES at Universal?


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A partnership minyan at Penn, called Shira Chadasha, is affiliated with Orthodox Judaism and allows for the maximum participation of both men and women within the Orthodox Jewish legal framework.
On a recent Friday night, the library on the second floor of the Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania was overflowing with 120 men and women from more than 15 colleges and universities across the United States. They had come together to welcome in the Sabbath with the traditional Kabbalat Shabbat prayers. But there was something untraditional about this gathering: It was the first organized opportunity for students involved in the Partnership Minyan movement to meet one another, pray together, and discuss the values and ideologies that brought them to this point.
Affiliated with Orthodox Judaism, the Partnership Minyan movement is only about 10 years old. Born out of the desire to create prayer spaces that allow for the maximum participation of both men and women within the Orthodox Jewish legal framework, Partnership Minyan services permit women to participate in ways that are forbidden in traditional Orthodox communities, such as leading certain prayers and reading from the Torah. At Penn, our group, Shira Chadasha, is named for the first of these communities, founded in Jerusalem.
Because the movement is young, its future may be shaped by those currently running such communities on college campuses. As leaders of this prayer group at Penn, we organized the Intercollegiate Partnership Minyanim Shabbaton earlier this month, hoping to establish a network for these students to share resources, ideas and experiences.
It was soon apparent that despite our common emphasis on female participation in the prayer space, our communities vary quite a bit from campus to campus. In some, members of the Partnership Minyan are primarily from the Orthodox community while, in others, the communities include more students from liberal streams of Judaism.
At some schools, the Partnership Minyan creates an environment where students from different Jewish streams — or with no denominational affiliation at all — come together to pray.
At Penn, the Shira Chadasha community defines itself not only by its commitment to female participation, but also by a commitment to creating a spiritually uplifting prayer experience and to building an inclusive community.
One of our panels, on the "nuts and bolts" of running a Partnership Minyan and featuring community leaders from four different universities, shed light on the different challenges faced by these communities. Some groups struggle to attract enough males. Some have trouble finding women who have or would like to learn the skills needed to participate. Many of the communities expressed challenges in their relationships with other religious communities on campus, particularly with the Orthodox community.
College may be a temporary place to build community, and a four-year experience that encourages experimentation is, in many ways, antithetical to building a sustainable movement. But the college students leading Partnership Minyanim on American college campuses today have a vision that goes beyond the fleeting nature of the college experience.
That vision is to create a community that recognizes that traditional Jewish life and gender equality are not, in fact, in conflict with one another. By uniting our values when entering the prayer space rather than compromising them, we can, through Partnership Minyanim, create meaningful and empowering prayer and communal experiences.
Until this recent weekend gathering, Partnership Minyanim have been developing separately, serving the specific needs of their communities. We hope that the recent Shabbaton may be the start of a more concerted effort to unify the movement and look to the future. l
Tamar Friedman is a junior from Huntingdon Valley. Eliana Machefsky is a senior from St. Louis. They both are studying political science at Penn.


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Learning How to Stand-Up Paddleboard in San Diego
The sparkling waters of Mission Beach and Mission Bay that surround Paradise Point are the ideal aquatic playground for an array of watersports including surfing, bodyboarding, wakeboarding, skimboarding and other activities. With calm, flat waters, it's also the perfect place to learn how to stand-up paddleboard.
Stand-up paddleboarding is one of the most newly popular San Diego watersports, and is a great option for those looking to take in the scenery from another perspective, stay fit, or simply a slower-paced, tranquil activity on the water. Most marinas or other stand-up paddleboard rentals in San Diego will give you an introductory 10-minute lesson, but learning how to stand-up paddleboard is relatively easy. With a little equipment and some focus and balance, you can learn how to stand-up paddleboard on your own with these tips.
- SUP board – Usually 9-13 feet long, these boards look very similar to a surfboard but are slightly wider and longer to provide more stability. Longer boards are better for less experienced paddlers.
- Paddle - Ideally, your paddle should be 6-8 inches taller than you.
- Swimsuit – You may or may not get wet, but a swimsuit is always a good idea, even if you wear shorts and a t-shirt over it. Stand-up paddleboarding is relatively easy, but expect to take the occasional fall as you're learning.
- Personal Flotation Devices – While not required, they are strongly recommended, especially when paddling in deeper waters.
When learning how to stand-up paddleboard, it's easier to start by kneeling on the board. Here are some stand-up paddleboarding tips for getting into position:
- Start by kneeling right behind the center point of the board. Take some time finding the balance point of the board where the nose doesn't stick up and the tail doesn't dig in.
- Place your hands on either side of the board to stabilize it. Once you're ready, stand up on the board one foot at a time, placing your feet where your knees were.
- Once standing, your feet should be parallel, hip-width distance apart. Keep your knees bent and your back straight. Try to stare ahead instead of down at your feet.
- You should always hold the paddle with one hand low on the shaft (the hand on the side you're paddling on) and the other on the top grip.
- Paddle by placing the paddle blade completely underwater, pulling it back to your ankle, then out of the water and back to the point where you started.
- To go in a straight line, alternate paddling 4 or 5 strokes on each side of the board.
- To turn your stand-up paddleboard, paddle on one side until the nose turns in the direction you want to go. To turn left, paddle on the right. To turn right, paddle on the left. You can also turn by dragging the paddle or paddling backwards on either side of the board.
For a look at how to stand-up paddleboard, as well as other San Diego watersports available on Mission Bay, watch this video. (Skip to 1:30 for stand-up paddleboard instruction.)


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Lunch roundup - Ciano
Why do salad at the desk? These three make midday a treat.
I�m mostly a salad-at-my-desk creature. I know the economy needs me to go out to lunch. But I figure my friend Bob does his share and mine as well. Lately, he�s been trolling for deals. Here are three standouts he�s persuaded me to try.
Ciano: Bob and I are seated in front of the glass-wrapped hearth, flames leaping, light streaming from the skylight above. A captain slices warm bread and focaccia, bringing it to our table in a napkin, with a ramekin of truffle-scented butter. My crespelle�shimmering crepes filled and rolled with ricotta, spinach, zucchini and Swiss chard�are surprisingly savory, yet as delicate as Bob�s Tuscan bean casserole is hearty and filling: a toss of turnips, smoked fennel sausage and herbed garlic breadcrumbs, with only a small trail of excess oil marring the rustic perfection.
My secondi�fusilli scantily dressed with ragu of braised veal and smoked pecorino�is good enough, restrained and simple, compared with Chef Shea Gallante�s typical pasta opera. But the roasted eggplant �Amatriciana��layered with a smart tomato sauce including pig jowl and pepperoncini, and crowned with broccoli�is a masterwork. Bosc pear sorbetto with biscotti and Tahitian vanilla panna cotta with blueberry compote are more suitable finales than Valrhona hot chocolate with �malted marshmallow.� I�d prefer that for breakfast myself. $35 per person with tip.
Le Cirque: For months, the discount lunch zealot has been calling with raves for the $28 two-course Cafe menu in the bar at Le Cirque, beseeching me to join him. I was suddenly feeling a lot like Christmas right after Thanksgiving, so I untangled myself from the computer. �You�ve got to have the butternut squash soup,� Bob says. �And the Caesar.�
We get the complete royal soup service: a captain pouring really hot, exquisitely seasoned pur�e atop huckleberry chutney and a quite unnecessary pouf of sage-infused whipped cream. Chef Craig Hopson�s Caesar, a rectangle of slivered romaine with a trio of white anchovies on top and a fried egg on toast alongside, is thrilling. Sage chantilly is not.
I order the Mangalitsa pork-and-bacon burger. This Hungarian-born breed is known for double the marbling of everyday porkers. I could say my eyes fill with tears. I could say my head hits the ceiling. I know I am swooning over the rich-as-Warren-Buffett-ness of it. $49 per person with dessert, tea and tip. One Beacon Court, 151 E. 58th St., 212-644-0202.
Rouge Tomate: My congenitally cranky mindset already disliked Rouge Tomate when it opened in 2008 as soon as I got wind of the premise. Healthy? Raw food? Locally sourced? What else is new? Even though I found the food reasonably edible, I had never been drawn back. Now, with the arrival of Peter Esmond from Per Se as director, the menu has evolved.
I invite my friend Naomi to try the $29 three-course Business Lunch. As is often the case these days, the bread, served with eggplant spread and herb-infused butter, is too good. Carrots are tricky. They require a balance of oomph to avoid a carroty sludge. Here it�s curry, coconut milk and Greek yogurt that enliven today�s soup. I smell black truffle oil, too, but happily, I can�t taste it.
Naomi�s Greenmarket Broccoli Salad is a pleasant toss of Satsuma mandarins, sesame seeds and red watercress. The peanuts don�t need to be candied, and I would gladly lose the loose plop of peanut mousse. But we�re both pleased with her Alaskan spot prawn agnolotti in kohlrabi with watermelon radish and teensy honshimeji mushrooms in a ginger-lemongrass consomm��. Long Island duck � la plancha tastes like real food, meaty and rare, alongside baby bok choy and grapefruit-apple compote with a sweet-and-sour ginger gastrique dribbled on the plate.
Given a finale of chocolate-glazed gingerbread with soy chocolate gelato, and an undisciplined but delicious hodgepodge of honey-roasted pear with chestnut cake crumbs and buttermilk ice cream, it�s definitely a deal on my penny-pincher scale. $48 per person with tip. 10 E. Sixth St., (646) 237-8977.
Copyright � 2012 by Gael Greene.
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Tejada scratched due to left hamstring issue
JUPITER, Fla. -- Aware of the need to demonstrate his readiness for a return to regular duty at shortstop, Ruben Tejada essentially excused himself from participating in the Mets' third Spring Training game Sunday. Tejada felt a tug in his left hamstring while taking ground balls and alerted the trainers. Manager Terry Collins removed the shortstop from the starting lineup.
Tejada said he never had experienced a comparable feeling in his left leg.
"I don't want to miss two or three weeks," he said, "so I told someone something [rather than risk greater injury]."
Tejada told Collins he could play, but, as Collins said, "It's March 2. You don't want little things becoming big things." So Anthony Seratelli played shortstop. Wilfredo Tovar, a young shortstop, hadn't made the trip here because of a right hamstring strain.
Tejada, 24, acknowledged when he arrived at camp that his job was on the line, though no suitable replacement was evident. The club became quite disillusioned with him last season. He was considered out of shape as he had been in spring 2012 after he essentially had been given the shortstop assignment in the aftermath of the departure of Jose Reyes.
Tejada spent most of last year at the Triple-A level even though he was physically able to play after recovering from a strained right quad.
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The National Jewish Book Awards for 2012 were announced earlier this week.
The National Jewish Book Awards for 2012 were announced earlier this week.
Novelist Francesca Segal is the recipient in fiction for The Innocents, published by Hyperion. The novel, which takes its inspiration from Edith Wharton's classic Age of Innocence, examines the behaviors and beliefs of an Orthodox Jewish community in London.
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz is the winner of the nonfiction award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience for Koren Talmud Bavli, a groundbreaking new edition of the Talmud.
Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist Professor Eric R. Kandel is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of such books as In Search of Memory and The Age of Insight. Kandel's early memories of being young and Jewish in Austria at the start of World War II served as the catalyst for In Search of Memory, his award-winning exploration of the life of the mind.
Two winners with past ties to Philadelphia are Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, who with Joel Segel, won for Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer. In the Illustrated Children's Book category, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, who got her rabbinic degree from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, along with Joani Keller Rothenberg, illustrator, won for Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other.
The winners will be honored on March 14, 2013 at a gala awards ceremony at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. The ceremony, which begins at 8:00 pm, is free and open to the public. Kandel will be the keynote speaker at the awards event.
A complete listing of winners and finalists follows below:
Lifetime Achievement Award
Eric R. Kandel is the author of In Search of Memory and a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.
Jewish Book of the Year Award
Everett Family Foundation
City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York
With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden
Howard B. Rock, Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer, Jeffrey S. Gurock Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
New York University Press
American Jewish Studies
Celebrate 350 Award Winner:
Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life
Laura Arnold Leibman
Vallentine Mitchell Publishers
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Jonathan D. Sarna
Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
Tobias Brinkmann
University of Chicago Press
Anthologies and Collections
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds.
Twelve Books
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Gad Freudenthal, ed.
Cambridge University Press
I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
Jonathan Goldstein
Penguin Canada
Jewish Theology and World Religions
Alon Goshen-Gottstein and Eugene Korn, eds.
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg
Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane
Gerald Sorin
Indiana University Press
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders
Joy Ladin
University of Wisconsin Press
Menachem Begin: A Life
Avi Shilon; Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett, trans.
Yale University Press
Children's and Young Adult Literature
Meet at the Ark at Eight
Ulrich Hub; Jörg Mühle, illus.
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Rescuing the Children
Deborah Hodge
Tundra Books
When the Hurricane Came
Nechama Liss-Levinson
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award
Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer
Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with Joel Segel; Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, fwd.
Jewish Lights Publishing
Paths of Torah: An Anthology of Torah Commentary
Members of Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley, Calif.
Congregation Netivot Shalom
Education and Jewish Identity
Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools
Jeffrey S. Kress
Academic Studies Press
Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples
Susan Handelman
University of Washington Press
Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning
Goldie Milgram and Ellen Frankel, eds.
Reclaiming Judaism Press
Esau's Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Special Needs
Ora Horn Prouser
Ben Yehuda Press
JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
The Innocents
Francesca Segal
The World Without You
Joshua Henkin
Pantheon Books
The Lawgiver: A Novel
Herman Wouk
Simon & Schuster
Rav Hisda's Daughter
Maggie Anton
Plume Books/Penguin
Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
Israel: A History
Anita Shapira
Hadassah Brandeis Institute, University Press of New England
The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
Daniel B. Schwartz Princeton University Press
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
Bernard Wasserstein
Simon & Schuster
Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
Steven Gimbel
Johns Hopkins University Press
Collect and Record!: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe
Laura Jockusch
Oxford University Press
At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944
David Koker; Robert Jan von Pelt, ed.; Michiel Horn and John Irons, trans.
Northwestern University Press
Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Matthew Brzezinski
Random House
Illustrated Children's Book
Louis Posner Memorial Award
The Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Joani Keller Rothenberg, illus.
Jewish Lights Publishing
The Schmutzy Family
Madelyn Rosenberg; Paul Meisel, illus.
Holiday House
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
Koren Talmud Bavli
Rabbi Adin-Eden Steinsaltz
Koren Publishers Jerusalem
The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Rereading Israel: The Spirit of the Matter
Bonna Devora Haberman
Urim Publications
There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream
Ben Sidran
Nardis Books/Unlimited Media
Outstanding Debut Fiction
Foundation for Jewish Culture's Goldberg Prize
The Sensualist: A Novella
Daniel Torday
All That I Am
Anna Funder
Adam Wilson
Harper Perennial/HarperCollins
Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492
Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
Princeton University Press
A Mahzor from Worms: Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community
Katrin Kogman-Appel
Harvard University Press
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Response
David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
Stanford University Press
The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib's Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus
Marjorie Lehman
Wayne State University Press
Sephardic Culture
Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy
Poverty and Welfare Among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds.; Isaac Jerusalmi, trans.
Stanford University Press
Stella's Sephardic Table: Jewish Family Recipes from the Island of Rhodes
Stella Cohen; Marc Hoberman, photographer
The Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection
Women's Studies
Barbara Dobkin Award
The Men's Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World
Elana Maryles Sztokman
The Hadassah Brandeis Institute, University Press of New England
Hadassah: American Women Zionists and the Rebirth of Israel
Mira Katzburg-Youngman
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Writing Based on Archival Material
The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award
The History of the Holocaust in Romania
Jean Ancel; Yaffah Murciano, trans.; Leon Volovici, ed.
University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem
Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Migration 1840–1920 Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer
New York University Press


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We love this floor and are very happy with the choice we made. We were looking for wood flooring that would hold up to high traffic and our two dogs. Not only did the Heritage Hickory live up to the good reviews, it exceeded our expectations. It's beautiful, durable and according to my brother in law easy to install. Great Product!!!
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This flooring goes down incredibly easy with very little waste. Cut offs can very easily be used as starters for the subsequent rows of flooring. I would like to see more variation in the sizes of the pieces. 90% of what you get is 1 of 3 sizes. There are 2 additional sized pieces, but you get almost none of them in the boxes. I have installed Virginia Mill Works 3/4" solid hardwood and it has many more sized pieces...but the easy-click flooring has a lot more long pieces...which is definitely a positive.
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I couldn't be more pleased with the Heritage Hickory flooring. We put down about 600 sf in the kitchen, dining room, and living room. It really changes the whole feel of the house. The variation in grain in the boards really provides character. The installation is super easy and the floors have a great feel to them when you walk on them. Highly recommend this product.
Love these floors! The only thing you might want to know is that I glued the ends. The groove was not secure enough (my opinion) and I didn't want the boards separating over time. May not have ever happened since the side to side grooves were good but I had this problem with the laminate I was replacing and just didn't want to chance it. Very easy installation!
So far it is great. We have a toddler and two medium to large sized dogs who slide all over it and it bears it all well.
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We are really happy with the way our floors came out. We really like the look and feel of these floors -- lots of pattern/color variation, nice and smooth surface. We installed these ourselves (along with some family help) throughout the whole house, it was relatively easy to install. We love our floors and have received plenty of compliments on them. We would definitely recommend these floors.
The only con I can think of is that each box has a lot of smaller pieces vs the full boards.
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The Price was definitely right and it looks like it cost more. The Distressed/Handscraped look does more than hide potential problems-it adds so much to the look! The Color Variations are interesting and add so much to the overall look. The color variation lends itself to be easily matched to your other wood products/furniture in your decor. I again hope that the beauty lasts and the durablility is proven over time.
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UPDATED: This is our continuously updated list of the best sat navs and top five sat nav apps.
The car sat nav (GPS or navigation for Americans) is an essential form of technology that we all take for granted. These days, with GPS-supporting smartphones and apps from the likes of TomTom, Garmin and the rest, you don't necessarily need a hardware sat nav, but they are still coming out from a few stalwart brands. Specifically: TomTom and Garmin.
Long story short: hardware sat navs have better GPS receivers, which is particularly important in urban areas, and only really do one thing (although Garmin is always keen to bolt on fancy extras).
Smartphone sat nav apps have better interfaces and screens, and are cheap (if you ignore the cost of your phone). Some are even free.
Another peculiarity of sat navs is that because the core functionality has barely changed in a decade, they tend to remain on sale for years, at ever-reducing prices.
Anyway, if you want a sat nav that won't let you down, you've come to the right place. The top five hardware devices are on page 2, the top five apps on page 3, a couple of oddities – a HUD and a motorbike specialist – on page 4. You have now reached your destination, says "English Jane".


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George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes
Eminent jurists, professional legal organizations, and human rights monitors in this country and around the world have declared that President George W. Bush may be prosecuted as a war criminal when he leaves office for his overt and systematic violations of such international law as the Geneva and Hague Conventions and such US law as the War Crimes Act, the Anti-Torture Act, and federal assault laws. George W. Bush, War Criminal? identifies and documents 269 specific war crimes under US and international law for which President Bush, senior officials and staff in his administration, and military officers under his command are liable to be prosecuted. Haas divides the 269 war crimes of the Bush administration into four classes: 6 war crimes
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The Paradise Center for Tolerance and Nonviolence is expanding its bullying prevention program by presenting a community forum for parents, "Bullying Prevention: Helping and Advocating for Your Child." The forum will be held on Dec. 5 at 6:30 p.m. at the Paradise Ridge Family Resource Center.
"It turns out that we have gotten it together now in the latter part of the semester, but it is something we have been wanting to do," PCTN Board Member Sue Bordelon said. "Bullying prevention is something that is not new to us, we have bullying prevention programs for children that we do in the schools and after-school programs."
At the forum, parents will view two children's bullying stories from the documentary "Bully," that played in theaters for a short time in 2011.
"We want to show the stories that point out the difficulty of communicating with a child, recognizing the signs that they have been bullied - because children have difficulty communicating it to their parents - and for parents to be aware," Bordelon said.
The parents will also be asked to participate in an open discussion at the end of the film to discuss their experiences and ideas on childhood bullying.
"What we want to focus on in the forum is to help parents recognize the warning signs that their children are being bullied and give them suggestions on how to go about talking to their child," she said.
There are several signs that parents may recognize in their children to determine if they are being bullied.
"I don't think you can say there is a number-one sign, there are many signs," she said. "A child being reluctant to go to school, changing their behavior and wanting to be more solitary, their grades falling, coming home and being hungry or having to go to the bathroom, because a lot of bullying takes place in areas of the school where there is not always an adult present."
To continue with their bullying prevention efforts in the future, PCTN is looking to continue with workshops for parents that will include guest speakers. They also hope to create similar workshops for children that they are unable to reach in their after-school programs, Bordelon said.
"We have two youth programs (at the moment), one concentrates on values, on building up a child's sense of empathy, respect for others, appreciation for their city, because all of those elements go into helping a child recognize that bullying is not something that they want to engage in," Bordelon said. "That is because they can empathize, they can see the other child's point of view and understand the hurt that it causes."
That program is called STARS, Safety Tolerance and Respect Superstars. The second program, which was started in 2010, is called You Have the Power.
"It has evolved and been improved upon," she said. "We have done that in all of the charter schools, we have done it with the after-school program at the Boys and Girls Club, but we have not done it at the public schools. The public schools have not invited us to do it, because they feel that they have their own programs."
Bordelon said the community forum will offer childcare for parents who would like to attend but have young children. She added that the program starts at 6:30 p.m. and is about 45 minutes long, but will remain open until the end of the discussion period.
The event is open to the public, and no RSVP is necessary. It will be held at the Paradise Ridge Family Resource Center, located at 6249 Skyway. For further information, or questions, call PCTN at 877-1856.
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Six adult friends dealing with love and relationships while navigating their own professional and personal lives. It might sound a lot like Friends, but it's actually ABC's new series, Happy Endings, which examines what happens to friendships when a couple splits. Though the subject matter can be touchy, the fashion looks totally fun! In this behind-the-scenes video, the show's costume designer, Keri Smith, talks about dressing the female stars for their roles in looks inspired by Banana Republic. "It's always exciting to get the script," she says. "I love reading it and seeing what the kids are up to." Those 'kids' include 24's Elisha Cuthbert, who plays free-spirit Alex. "I love Alex's character, and I love dressing Alex," shares Smith, who says the look she created for the role is a mix of urban and bohemian. "[She] loves to wear a lot of ruffly florals and organic jewelry. She's a little less blingy." Jane, played by Eliza Coupe, is "more professional," Smith says, and dresses in a sophisticated style. Then there's Penny, SNL's Casey Wilson, who's "more the casual weekend gal," Smith says. "Penny's great because I think everybody relates to Penny." We'll find out! Happy Endings premieres tonight on ABC.
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Tyrann Mathieu, a former Heisman Trophy finalist at LSU before being kicked out of school for a positive drug test, said after being arrested, going to jail, not playing football and letting down his teammates, family and friends, he is prepared to turn around his life.
"Sitting in that jail cell, it clicked," Mathieu told ESPN's Joe Schad. "Looking at those people, just staring at me. 'You don't belong in here.' They wanted to come through the jail cell and get me. I'm scared now. Because it's reality now. I don't ever want to feel like this again. I'm not going to feel like this again."
Known as the Honey Badger for his playmaking abilities at cornerback and punt returner, Mathieu was dismissed from the team in August. He told ESPN.com that he didn't enroll in a smaller division school where he could play immediately and, instead, enrolled again at LSU and paid his own way.
"I had to regain everything that I lost at LSU," he said.
In October, Mathieu was arrested for marijuana possession along with other former teammates.
"I fell back into the same trap that got me suspended," Mathieu said. "The entire September even into October, I'd go up the football dorms, to encourage those guys, and I'd go back to my room. Didn't go out. Didn't do anything. But then you just get comfortable. People just talking good about you. 'Oh, Tyrann, he's doing good. He's not missing classes.' And then you start to confuse yourself again. Everything is not good. I'm paying for school. They're not checking my classes, even though I take classes with football players. They're not looking at Tyrann anymore. When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time."
As a sophomore in 2011, Mathieu went to New York as a Heisman finalist for his do-it-all season on the field. He had 71 tackles, forced five fumbles and returned two for touchdowns. He also had two interceptions and returned two punts for scores and was MVP in the SEC Championship Game.
Now, Mathieu is preparing himself for the 2013 NFL Draft in April. He knows his history is a red flag.
"But I want people to trust me," he told ESPN.com. "When I get back on that field, I don't want to get off. I don't ever want to leave this game again."


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There are many things I love about the summer season. Beach vacations. Open-toed shoes. And the HBA Global Expo. Every year that I attend the HBA conferences, I see leaders of the industry, meet beauty entrepreneurs, and learn something—actually, usually many things. While this typically happens over the course of three days, it also happens simultaneously during a 75-minute session that I have the privilege to moderate. At the 2013 HBA, I was once again given the opportunity to lead the session on "The Changing Face of Beauty Distribution," and for the fourth year in a row, I got to pick the brains of amazing retailers and brand builders, this year with the theme of mass distribution.
According to The NPD Group, the U.S. prestige market beauty segment (defined as department stores) grew faster in 2012 (versus 2011) than mass market beauty (defined as food, drug and mass, excluding Walmart); specifically, 7% versus 3%. [Globally, according to Euromonitor International in its June 2013 State of the Industry report, mass cosmetics were at the heart of the growth story in 2012, fueling more than $16 billion of growth in absolute terms.] And however numbers and data is parsed, exciting news is coming from mass—exciting launches, and celebrity launches in particular; shifts in teams (Ulta's CEO change, for example); and incredibly innovative retail concepts, including the Look Boutique, Target's The Shops at Target, and more. There is definitely a wealth of things happening in beauty at mass.
But really, what is mass? It used to be that mass was defined by price point, but today, beauty brands such as L'Oréal offer products at mass priced well above $20, the usual cut-off point for prestige/premium/luxury. Mass also used to be defined by the service offered by advisers at department store beauty counters. But today, Target has launched its Beauty Concierge services in stores in Illinois, California, Minnesota, Washington, D.C. and beyond.
Further, mass, in terms of products and brands, used to be defined by channel. But today, the Look Boutique, located in Duane Reade and Walgreens locations, would not define itself as mass. Finally, mass used to be defined by the lack of design. But today, mass borrows from the prestige channel with exclusive design partnerships.
So, back to our question—what is mass beauty today?
This is the first thing I asked the session's panelists: Marcia Gaynor, general merchandise manager, beauty, Duane Reade/Walgreens; Christina Hennington, vice president, merchandising, beauty and personal care, Target; and Ido Leffler, co-founder, Yes to Inc.
To paraphrase Hennington, asking this question is really talking to ourselves. As she pointed out, "Channel words are industry terms, not consumer-facing terms. Who cares what the label is?" Because, indeed, the consumer will buy where she wants to buy, which is usually where it's convenient to buy.
Gaynor picked up the thought, making a clear differentiation between Duane Reade, which represents true mass, and the Look Boutiques, which offer personalized beauty services. Perhaps, in the end, the level of service is what defines the experience. The traditional "prestige" expectations involve education, samples, makeover events—all experiences that happen at the Look Boutique. Hence the consumer will find brands there that she would not expect to find in a traditional mass outlet, Gaynor explained.
The next question for the panel was about which category is driving growth. Having just come from the WWD Beauty Summit and heard Marla Malcolm Beck, the owner of Bluemercury, implore her vendors "No more skin care," it definitely seemed like topic ripe for opinions and discussion. Hennington and Gaynor agreed that skin care is still the focus of beauty at mass, with Hennington calling it "pivotal." The bottom line is, skin care is the segment that drives the most loyalty in the long term.
However, skin care, at mass, is not where most of the growth is happening, nor where the most innovation is coming from. Growth is coming from the nail care segment—likely driven by the reigning economic conditions. Indeed, nails are an easy way for consumers to do something for themselves, to feel happy without spending a lot of dollars.
An infusion of innovation is also coming from hair care. The hair care category is becoming increasingly segmented, and it is, in some ways, becoming more like skin care (anti-aging conditioners, anyone?). This reminds me of another comment made by Malcolm Beck at the WWD Beauty Summit, a statement to the effect that hair care needed to become even more segmented. Forget about shampoo for colored hair—we need shampoo for dry colored hair, shampoo for oily colored hair, and so on.
Touching on an always-hot topic, Hennington brought up the naturals segment, which is "working really well for Target." For her customer, Hennington said, this segment is not a trend but represents, instead, a lifestyle choice.
Leffler was happy to hear her say this, and of course agrees. A distinct representative of the naturals segment, Yes to Inc. is now one of largest natural beauty brands in the mass segment. Yes to Inc. represents 55+ products in 25,000 stores, in 29+ countries, giving rise to audience questions, including how did you do it? Why were you successful? And why did you decide to specifically launch in the mass channel?
To that last question, Leffler deadpanned, "We were amazingly smart." But also, the mass channel is where they had an "in"—an individual who vouched for the brand and made an introduction, to Walgreens buyers. So, Walgreens is where Yes To went.
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Today marks the first trading day of the last trading month of the year. We are all wondering whether the politicians will be able to avert the "fiscal cliff" so we can quit hearing about it 100 times a day and be able to make investing plans for 2013. Politics aside, I am beginning the process of reviewing all the positions in my portfolio. This has been a December tradition for me for as long as I have run my own portfolio. To me, it is the equivalent of "spring cleaning," a time to look at everything I have in my garage and determine what to keep and what to throw out.
One of the first positions I have reviewed is my stake in Staples (SPLS). The company came to my attention over the weekend when it announced they will be offering three-dimensional (3-D) printing services in its stores. A customer will be able to upload a 3-D printing file from home and then pick up the printed object in the store or have it shipped. I believe 3-D printing will be one of the top 10 technologies that change the world over the next two decades. I don't know if this will have more than incremental impact on sales, but it puts the "cool factor" in Staples' corner for the first time in recent memory....286 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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AMERICAN CANYON -- After rejecting apartments for a large piece of open space adjacent to the high school, the City Council has given preliminary support for high-end executive homes or estates on the property.
The city will next ask residents what they think about the idea.
Following a presentation from Loewke Planning Associates, council members said a cluster of large estate-style homes might be the way to go for the 38-acre parcel east of Vintage Ranch.
Last May, the council rejected a 302-condominium "village," but Tuesday said the concept of luxury estates would be a good transition between the city and open space east of Highway 29.
"I think you are on the right track and I think you've taken what we said and tried to bring something forward on what we were looking for," Councilwoman Joan Bennett said.
As American Canyon continues to develop its industrial area and plans for a Town Center, the new residential plans could fit in well, several councilmembers said.
The proposed development would take advantage of Napa River wetlands views and is also near the Newell Open Space Reserve. Preliminary plans call for having the project connect into trails and provide good links to the nearby high school and elementary school.
Some 40 homes on half-acre lots would be built on the 38 acres. That would leave 74 acres, which are outside the city's urban limit line, as permanently protected open space, a planner told the council.
Homes would range in size from 4,000 to 6,000 square feet.
Councilman Kenneth Leary said the new project is more in line with the vision the city has for its eastern area, but the project may need more work.
Meanwhile, Mayor Lean Garcia said that while the council has given preliminary support, the community still has to weigh in.
The land would need to be annexed into the city before it could proceed.
Applicants for property owner Eddie Biggs also would need to obtain a number of permits before they could proceed, Community Development Director Brent Cooper said.
In other matters, council members also directed staff to go ahead and apply for a $1 million grant to help first-time home buyers.
The California State Department of Housing and Community Development's CalHome Program's grants can be used for first-time home buyer mortgage assistance and for owner-occupied home rehabilitation.
American Canyon's median priced home is $345,000 -- beyond the reach of a household earning up to 80 percent of the median Napa County income, and requiring a sizable down payment.
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The nude models for Jack Dorlan's Spectacular Damage show are not people one typically wishes to see naked, and that's the point. The models, all men living with HIV, carry the lumps and scars of the virus and its treatments with dignity, defiance and a quiet longing that leaps from the canvas.
Painting in a style immediately reminiscent of the late Lucian Freud, Dorlan's brutally honest brush makes no attempt to beautify the reality of his subject's lives. As a result the very real, and "spectacular," beauty of these damaged bodies shines through.
"These paintings examine the contemporary human body as it is affected by HIV treatment," explains Doran. "Due to the effects of HIV and the medications required to manage the virus, the human body has taken on new characteristics that alter the human form in a way that has never before been seen in the history of mankind. As HIV research and treatments improve, these characteristics will cease to be a common trait among those living with HIV. These bodies are temporary."
Spectacular Damage is presented by the Gulf Coast Archives and Museum at the GLBT Cultural Center (401 Branard) Sunday, January 8, from 3-5 pm. Admissions is free. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the sale of prints of the collection's paintings goes to assist the models in paying for HIV treatments and medications.


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LSU will have to create its own path as it undergoes a sweeping reorganization amid declining state aid and questions about jobs and personnel, a Baton Rouge consultant said Thursday.
The LSU Board of Supervisors previously voted to consolidate LSU's separate institutions under the main campus in Baton Rouge. Concurrently, the board is looking for a chief executive to run the revamped university as part of the reorganization effort called LSU2015.
"There is no single best approach; there is no model to follow," said Christel Slaughter, of SSA Consultants.
Slaughter met with LSU's Transition Advisory Team for six hours Thursday working under the notion that LSU needs to adapt to an era of declining state budgets, while also serving a new breed of technology-savvy students.
Louisiana's universities have weathered five straight years of state budget cuts to higher education that the state Board of Regents has tallied at more than $625 million. Schools have cut staff by more than 6 percent and raised tuition roughly $331 million to offset some of the missing revenue.
The advisory team's primary responsibility is plotting out what the university will look like going forward. Slaughter called it an opportunity to put in place a structure that other universities would study 10 years from now.
LSU board Chairman Hank Danos said he envisions a strong research-based university that national and international companies would notice.
We want them "looking at LSU as a place to recruit, whether in the humanities or the sciences," Danos said. "We have to earn a reputation that our students are well-prepared and ready to contribute."
The advisory team spent much of its morning talking by phone with former University of Illinois President Stan Ikenberry, who is now a senior fellow at Penn State University and a nationally recognized higher education consultant.
Ikenberry said that as tuition continues to rise, parents and students are going to be more selective and universities run the danger of pricing themselves out of the market. LSU's challenge, he said, will be to find ways to streamline operations, reduce administrative costs and "recycle" those savings into the academic side.
He added that the advisory team should decide on a basic structure before LSU's board decides on a new president — a decision LSU leaders said likely will be made by June.
A new president can help clarify and refine the reorganization process, but LSU "doesn't want to saddle a new president with the baggage of making those decisions," Ikenberry said. "A president needs to understand the nature of the job."
Other concerns, including adopting a common course numbering system making classes across LSU's different campuses more transferable, should be put off until a second phase of the reorganization, Ikenberry said.
During Thursday's broad discussions, the panel talked about different ways LSU could become more nimble including centralizing some of the back office functions related to personnel and human resources.
That discussion led to concerns that staff morale could suffer as people start to wonder if they will be relieved of their job duties or be laid off.
Slaughter said the challenge will be for the LSU administration to be open with employees about the process. She said natural attrition will relieve some of those pressures, while in other cases, administrators will have to "get creative" in assigning talented people new positions.
At the end of the day, interim LSU system President and Baton Rouge Chancellor William Jenkins said the meeting reaffirmed a lot of what he already knew to be true.
"There is no longer a question that we have to undertake this process. It's not just us in this situation; it's a national concern," he said. "Perhaps we should have started earlier. We have to find every way possible to become more efficient."
The Transition Advisory Team is expected to give the LSU board an update on its progress at a March 15 meeting.


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The company activities were initiated four decades ago by our group chairman Mr. V.K. Kapoor, a mechanical engineering graduate from the India Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India by operating Harvester Combines on custom hiring basis in Kundli. The company was the first to introduce Harvester Combines in our country. In 1981 the company started manufacturing the BLADES of Harvester Combines and opted to go in for the manufacturing of more components of Harvester Combines when they started supplying blades, Knife guards, grain tank, worm shafts, feeder housing, adjustable sieves, wheat and paddy threshing drum etc to M/S ESPI Industrial Corporation in the year 1983.
Since then the company has diversified it's activities into agriculture spare parts, automobiles and manufacturing spare parts for companies like M/S Maruti Suzuki Udyog Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra, M/S Carraro, M/S New Holland Tractors. The company's high level quality standards were recognized by these renowned manufacturers who have further increased their business with us.
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Date: Mar 5/13
Time: 10:00 - 20:30
Location: Keffer Chapel, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
Cost: Free will donations accepted
Spend the day at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary with Brother Emile, a Canadian who has been part of the Taizé community for many years. In the morning Brother Emile will lead a conversation that will include telling the story of Taizé and reflecting on the community's present work, in particular with the Holy Land and First Nations. Later in the day he will talk about the Taizé music as examples of the repertoire are sung, and in the evening he will participate in the meditative Taizé-style Prayer Service. All are welcome to these public events.
The Taizé Community in France is made up of over a hundred Christian brothers coming from around thirty nations. The community wants its life to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples. In particular, Taizé has a ministry to young adults who come from every continent to take part in weekly meetings.
10 - 11:30 am: Lecture and Conversation
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SANTA CLARA — Defensive tackle Justin Smith did not practice Wednesday because of an elbow injury, casting a hint of doubt that his streak of 185 consecutive starts could end Sunday when the 49ers visit Seattle.
Smith observed practice after working out in the team's weight room adjacent to the practice field. He wore no apparent arm brace for the injury that he sustained in the third quarter of Sunday's 41-34 win at New England.
Coach Jim Harbaugh said Smith's injury will take a couple more days to evaluate, adding that Smith will play "if humanly possible."
Smith's streak, the third-longest among active players, has overcome rib and finger injuries over the years. Asked in June if he dealt with any significant injury last season, Smith replied: "I had some stuff. Not significant. Significant means you're out. ... I've been lucky."
In the unlikely event Smith is out Sunday, linebacker Patrick Willis said the defense will turn to Ricky Jean Francois. "Injuries happen and that offers opportunities for other guys to step up and contribute," Willis said.
"And Ricky Jean is that guy for us right now. I have complete confidence in him. We're counting on him to come in and make strides for us, and I think he will."
Jean Francois has three career starts, including one this season in place of nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga. Jean Francois had a fourth-quarter sack Sunday night.


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