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BRADENTON, Fla. -- Bradenton Police do a good job of keeping an eye on their city but they can't be every where at all times so now police have a new tool to help them keep watch even when they aren't present.
"This is going to help us keep several viewpoints of the Riverwalk area, skate park, splash pad, every where that tourist come down to visit the city," said Lt. James Racky.
26 security cameras are being installed along the Riverwalk. 12 of the 26 cameras are up and running and being monitored by the front desk officer at the Bradenton Police Department. "That way we can find out if somebody is being hassled, somebody is being a victim of a crime, something is happening that we need to take action on, we will see it as long as it in one of our camera views."
The camera system will also run on a digital recording loop with each day's video being kept for 45 days.
The Downtown Development Authority provided the funds for the $60,000 security camera system. "We don't have an issue right now, we just always wanted to remain proactive," says David Gustafson, Executive Director of the Downtown Development Authority.
The cameras are a preventive measure to continue keeping residents and guests safe while visiting downtown. "We did a lot of polling of the community prior to the installation of these cameras, and well over 90% of everybody that we spoke to were very much in favor of them."
Rossi Park visitors we spoke with are happy about the cameras.
"The first thing I said to them was did you see the new cameras they put up in here. I've got no problem with cameras," said Anita Glasgow. She thinks the cameras will help deter any possible criminal activity in the popular downtown park.
Daniela Bordea agrees. "Having the camera, I think why not. It makes us feel more safe."
The installation of all 26 cameras should be complete in two weeks. Once the installation is complete the Bradenton Police will provide training for their officers and show them how they will be able to access the live video and recorded video right from a smart phone or tablet.
The Downtown Development Authority also plans to install cameras in the city hall parking lot and on Main Street.


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Ronoh Runner-up; Tigers Finish Third
The Tiger men's cross country team came away with a third place finish at the Hastings College Invite. Donae posted 64 points and a team time of 2:23:38. Hastings won the meet on their home course.
Edwin Ronoh and Jarid Holliday brought home Top 10 finishes. Ronoh earned runner-up honors after he ran a time of 26:59.89. Holliday placed seventh with a time of 27:50.95.
Jamil Chehade took 16th place with a time of 29:16.08. Three Tigers finished 22nd through 24th. Zach Christensen ran a time of 29:43.99, Jory Pflasterer posted a time of 29:47.28 and Steve Jerina ran a final time of 29:48.02. Jordan Pieper placed 26th with a time of 30:01.40.
Other runners for the Tigers were Zach Sims (31st, 31:14.48), Matt Rosser (33rd, 31:35.60), Omar Fernandez (34th, 31:58.18) and Andrew Ohlson (40th, 32:56.95).
Doane will take part in the NAIA Mid-States Classic on October 23 in Winfield, Kan.

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Last September, Dr. Phil kicked off his Ultimate Weight Loss Solution challenge, with six teams of two committing to his program and competing against each other to lose pounds and inches. After conquering Dr. Phil's 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, siblings Joe and Lauren, and college roommates Annette and Emilie return to Dr. Phil's stage to give an update on their remarkable progress. Don't miss their amazing transformations! See who's proud to fit back into a sexy black dress, and who is in good enough shape to be on a track and field team! Plus, another brother/sister duo says they sympathize with Joe and Lauren. Scott and Misty say their arguments often escalate to personal attacks about each other's weight, and they want help to stop the name-calling and start being partners toward a healthier lifestyle. Are they up for Dr. Phil's challenge? See the surprise he has in store for them!
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Preservation of Historic Iron and Steel in Bridges and Other Metal Structures
March 8-10, 2010, Lansing, Michigan
Historic wrought iron and steel truss bridges that were fabricated between 1850 and 1950 are rapidly being replaced today with new concrete or steel bridges, primarily due to lack of knowledge in the restoration of historic metals. Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan, presented a three-day workshop on March 8-10 to introduce restoration processes of historic metals using electric arc welding, heat straightening, and hot riveting processes. This workshop was funded in part through the PTT Grants program.
Addressing Landscape Maintenance in Cemeteries
April 8, 2010
Landscape maintenance is a critical element in historic cemetery preservation. Yet, often the landscape is neglected or improperly maintained, resulting in damaged historic features and a loss of historic landscape character. On April 8, NCPTT will present a one-hour webinar addressing landscape maintenance in historic cemeteries. The course will provide an overview of landscape maintenance issues and their impact on cemetery historic resources. Topics will include landscape documentation, replacing key features, removing invasive plants, mowing and trimming, tree care, and addressing conflicts between historic vegetation and built features.
Green Preservation: A LEED Technical Review and Exam Preparation
April 21-23, 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico
LEED has become an industry standard for demonstrating the sustainability of new construction and rehabilitation projects. While LEED is not the only rating system for buildings at this time it is the most widely used in the United States. NCPTT is offering the LEED preparation workshop to promote the joint consideration of sustainability and historic preservation in planning the built environment. The three-day course will prepare participants to take the LEED Green Associate Exam. The workshop is held in partnership with the Cultural Resources Management Program for the NPS Intermountain Regional Office.
Eddy Current Analysis of Cultural Heritage
May 11, 2010, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The use of "eddy currents"—induced currents in metals produced by a coil—has been a valuable tool in the study of defects in metals for over 50 years. NCPTT has focused its research efforts on developing an affordable, low cost eddy current analyzer to study metal cultural objects. The workshop will focus on the use of eddy currents for identification of metals (ferrous and non-ferrous), measuring the thickness of corrosion, and the recovery of serial numbers and/or images beneath corrosion. Attendees will learn the theory of eddy current analysis. NCPTT, in partnership with the American Institute for Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works (AIC), will hold a half-day workshop in conjunction with the 38th Annual meeting of the AIC in Milwaukee, Wis.
Cemetery Monument Basics
June 4, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana
This half-day workshop is being hosted by the Crowne Hill Cemetery and presented by NCPTT staff. The workshop is limited to 40 participants and will cover lectures on cemetery documentation, condition assessments, and cleaning techniques. This will be followed by hands-on cleaning demonstrations in the cemetery.
Masonry Conservation and Lime Mortar
Aug. 2-6, 2010, Nantucket, Massachusetts
In partnership with the University of Florida Preservation Institute: Nantucket, NCPTT will offer a one-week workshop on masonry conservation and traditional lime mortars. Participants will work with skilled and experienced masons to undertake the repair of an early-nineteenth-century structure associated with Nantucket's famed whaling industry. The hands-on workshop will include assessment of existing conditions, site preparation, removal of inappropriate mortar, cleaning of joints, filling joints neatly, and final dressing of joints.
Preservation of Wood in Historic Structures
Summer 2010, Spring Green, Wisconsin
Working with APT and Taliesin Preservation Inc., NCPTT is supporting development of a workshop on the preservation of wood in historic structures that will be held at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin near Spring Green, Wis. Participants will gain a better understanding of how the various professions can interact from conception through completion to have a successful preservation project that has wood as a central component.
Energy Audit Tools for Historic Buildings
October 2010, Denver, Colorado
NCPTT is partnering with the Association for Preservation Technology to offer a workshop on innovative tools for energy audits of historic buildings at APT's annual conference in Denver, Colo., Oct. 6-9, 2010.
Nondestructive Workshop
Summer 2010, California
NCPTT will host a Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Workshop in California in late summer 2010. Based on past NDE workshops, this workshop will provide guidance in the evaluation and rehabilitation of historic structures.
Managing Historic Trees
Fall 2010, location TBD
Historic trees are a significant part of the landscape, because of their aesthetic, cultural, and ecological value. An understanding of traditional tree care practices and preservation basics is necessary to effectively manage these trees. The workshop will include both lecture and field sessions. Topics will include tree assessment (biological/structural), inventory and replacement, new technologies, preservation techniques, etc.


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Arlington (Va.) Yorktown athlete Marvin Stewart has already done a good job of making the rounds and visiting the schools that have offered him. Next week he plans to be on the road even more.
Starting on March 25, Stewart will embark on a five or six-day tour of colleges that will send him to, in order, North Carolina, Duke, Virginia Tech, Virginia and then either Maryland or NC State.
Each of these schools, except North Carolina and NC State, have offered the 6-foot-0, 184 pound athlete, and Stewart has visited each of the schools except for Virginia Tech. It may come as somewhat of a surprise that Stewart has not made it out to Blacksburg given his status as one of Virginia's top prospects.
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"Honestly they've been recruiting me since December or January. They've been recruiting me hard," Stewart said. "Coach [Shane] Beamer came up to my school a few times so they've been recruiting me pretty hard."
Each of his upcoming trips corresponds to a spring practice, so not only will Stewart be able to meet with coaches and players, but he will be able to watch players work and interact with those coaches first-hand.
Is it possible that Stewart could be ready to narrow his list once he's done with this next round of visits?
"Probably not," he replied. "I don't know when I'm going to do that or make a decision yet. It's too early to say."
In addition to the schools he is visiting next week, Stewart has offers from Duke, Northwestern, Old Dominion and Wake Forest. He recently attended a spring practice at Duke and has been to Durham multiple times. He has also been to Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia on several occasions.


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VoLTE shows up in Dallas? [Update: NYC too]
It's not long ago T-Mobile announced VoLTE was going live in Seattle. Along with that announcement came a few software updates for the Galaxy Note 3, G Flex and Galaxy Light. But Seattle isn't the only city to get the network update. Just today we were sent an image showing the service being live and kicking in Dallas. At the moment, when you make a call in a 4G LTE area in any … [read full article]


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SAN DIEGO —If ever there was a time for retail pharmacists to assert their role and ride to the rescue of a broken healthcare system, that time is now.
That, in essence, was the dominant theme of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores' 2010 Pharmacy and Technology Conference here. NACDS leaders urged the hundreds of pharmacy retailers, suppliers and guests who attended the 53rd annual pharmacy event to press their case, both locally and nationally, for a larger stake in the healthcare system and fair reimbursement for a steadily growing list of health-and-wellness services by pharmacists.
"We must define the value for pharmacy in a reformed healthcare delivery system," said NACDS chairman and CVS Caremark president and COO Larry Merlo at the conference's opening business session Aug. 29. "We've identified several areas where pharmacy is in the best position to effectively and positively contribute to all three pillars of that healthcare equation: access, quality and cost. But most important of all, we must ensure that the value of the pharmacy industry, and its pharmacists, [is] recognized by payer reimbursement policies—not just for the products we sell, but for the services we provide."
The healthcare system, said industry leaders at the four-day event, is in a state of crisis and will demand the kinds of cost-effective, patient-focused solutions that retail pharmacies can provide. Indeed, said NACDS president and CEO Steve Anderson, retail pharmacy is going through a "historic paradigm change" as pharmacists and pharmacy leaders expand their patient care and clinical capabilities, and provide new solutions to a "broken" healthcare system undergoing rapid change. That change, he told attendees, would usher in a "renaissance" in how pharmacy is practiced and how pharmacists collaborate with other healthcare professions. "We need to build a case for a modern and viable reimbursement system" that takes into account pharmacy's contributions to health and cost-effectiveness, Anderson asserted.
On the show floor
To that end, Anderson announced the launch of a new component of the bipartisan grassroots lobbying campaign, dubbed RxIMPACT Votes! "This is what political professionals refer to as a get-out-the-vote campaign," he explained. "It encourages NACDS member company staff to register to vote, encourages them to volunteer for political campaigns of their choosing and then inspires them to vote on Election Day."
The pharmacy gathering, which concluded Aug. 31, provided a packed schedule of information-sharing sessions and educational seminars, and showcased a host of new products and solutions for pharmacy retailers.


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The smart ways the 4iE finds to heat your home more efficiently could save you up to £200 on the average UK energy bill.
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Employees at Catholic Healthcare have been threatened with disciplinary action if they cannot prove they have the right to work in Australia.
The letter also threatens to report workers to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship if they cannot prove they are Australian or have the right to work here. It also says Catholic Healthcare will withhold pay if staff cannot provide appropriate documentation within the allowed time.
The general manager of human resources at Catholic Healthcare, Sam Galluccio, confirmed he sent the letter to employees last month. He defended the actions and said the letter was part of an organisation-wide audit to ensure staff met the immigration requirements.
Secretary of the NSW and ACT branches of the Australian Services Union Sally McManus has attacked the church-run health service.
''This is a sign of the new Australia under Scott Morrison - if we have employers willing to be his immigration police, it sets the tone throughout the whole community,'' she said. ''You will have to prove you are an Aussie - that will cause division in the workplace.''
Mary Crock, professor at the University of Sydney and an expert in immigration law, described the letter as a reflection of the tougher attitude of the new federal government.
She said: ''I'm not aware of organisations being asked to do this in the past … this creates a really awkward atmosphere for agencies who are working with irregular migrants and doing outreach work in the community.'' Professor Crock also said that by next year, Australia was likely to have more than 30,000 people who could be regarded as irregular migrants. ''[They] will be living in the community with no right to work and in that context [this] is quite a threatening gesture,'' she said.
Mr Galluccio said Catholic Healthcare was providing some leeway for those who could not provide documentation straight away. He also said that reporting to the department would not occur ''unilaterally'' but ''it's one of the requirements''.
The ASU has written to Mr Galluccio claiming threats to withhold pay are in breach of the Fair Work Act. The office of the Minister for Immigration did not return calls.


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The Avalanches are an Australian electronic group who have grown largely popular since their debut album Since I Left You which was released in 2000, a wonderful gift to the world if I do say so myself. The album is a psychedelic compilation of samples from around 3,500 records, the album will make you want to put on patterned pants and smoke a j in your '68 Camaro. The Avalanches are experts at stitching together vinyl samples to create dreamy tunes that have a nostalgic vibe to them. Believe it or not, the group members got the bulk of their musical supplies (recording gear, vinyls, etc.) at thrift shops, now that my friends is brilliant (take note musicians, this is so the way to go.) The anticipation for new releases has been high since the uproar following the Since I Left You album, the people got a taste of the cake and they want another slice! The Avalanches have slowly dropped mixtapes through out the years, each one clearly showcasing the ridiculous talent these guys have for patching samples together.
Check out their YouTube channel to listen to their mixtapes/singles/wildly creative videos
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British envoy for Sudan Alan Goulty arrived in Khartoum Monday for a two-day visit for talks on Sudan's peace process, aimed at ending the African country's civil war. Goulty met separately with Justice Minister Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin and International Cooperation Minister Karam Eddin Abdel Moula.
"We have had a good discussion on the need to plan for implementation of the peace agreement which will be coming soon," Goulty told journalists following his talks with Abdel Moula. Goulty said he was "very optimistic" that the peace talks, which resumed on Monday in Kenya between the government and the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), would have "a positive outcome." He pledged his country's support to a peace deal.
"I believe, when a peace agreement is reached, the United Kingdom will be ready to play a full role in operations for rehabilitation and development" of Sudan, he said, according to AFP. The British official is expected to meet with other government officials in addition to figures from the opposition. (Albawaba.com)
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Deconstructing The World Trade Center
"The result is "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center," a comprehensive look at the inner workings of the World Trade Center cleanup effortand the longest piece of original reporting The Atlantic has ever published. In contrast to many journalists' depictions of the cleanup as essentially a mournful and tragic task, in Langewiesche's telling it also represents a shining moment for Americaan example of American ingenuity at work, as engineers, city workers, construction workers, doctors, firefighters, police, and others threw themselves into the chaotic but productive effort of helping their country recover from a serious blow."
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We have recently downgraded our recommendation on GOL Linhas (GOL - Free Report) from Neutral to Underperform.
During the third quarter, Gol's operating costs and expenses increased 19.8% year over year. Higher expenses such as salaries, wages and benefits, landing fees among others raised cost significantly. Added to its woes is the airport infrastructural crisis that has raised costs while lowering flight efficiency from Brazilian airports. Moreover, rising fuel prices continue to aggravate concern for the stock.
Over time, the company has witnessed, frequent government intervention in the Brazilian economy which has impacted air travel demand and fares, significantly. Moreover, government approvals, in order to expand capacity, have also been adding uncertainty to the company's longer-term earnings projections. In addition, availability of capital, we doubt, may cause volatility in GOL's earnings stream in the coming quarter.
Mention may be made of the huge amount of Gol's costs pertaining to fuel. However, all revenue has been derived in Brazilian real. Hence, risks related to appreciation of the U.S. dollar, in relation to the real, raises concern. This, we believe, may negatively impact Gol's profitability. The negative net income, recently recorded in the third quarter, was also primarily the outcome of the depreciation of the Brazilian currency against the US dollar, which generated a huge net expense.
Furthermore, the competitive airline industry causes volatility in GOL's earnings stream. Adding to this, the declining customer demand for GOL's flights across domestic/ international route network seem to affect revenues and earnings adversely in the coming quarters.GOL Linhas has been overtly dependent on a few big suppliers like Boeing for its 737-700/800 Next Generation aircraft and CFM 56-7B engines. An unwanted shift in loyalty among suppliers can negatively affect the company's operations, up next.
Gol Linhas however, has shown a few positive indications which may combat the above risks, in time. GOL displayed an efficient use of its fleet, both in terms of higher productivity and occupancy rate, despite a fiercely competitive air traffic market. The airline recorded a domestic demand increase of 2.8% year over year with a load factor of 65.5% for the month of December. Moreover, the company has adopted a prudent approach toward adding capacity in the domestic market expecting to fetch attractive market fares across its popular route network.
GOL continues to reinforce its long-term business strategy, focusing on high demand routes that may continually be used and expanded. The company has been able to achieve successful expansion programs thus far, without compromising on its commitment to safety and quality of service. GOL's low-cost differentiated approach alongside consultancy services for saving fuel and reducing gas emissions have been creating significant operational synergies, since long.
The company has been offering ancillary services on the lines of insurance, car rentals and ticket sales from kiosks which are anticipated to increase sales in the coming quarters. All this certainly creates new opportunities for sales and ancillary revenue for the company, boosting investor confidence. Moreover, the company's domestic demand growth forecast of 12% to 18% RPK (Revenue Passenger Kilometer) and the operating fleet plan of 131 aircrafts, by 2015, appear impressive.
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Who are their personal Idols, and what will they sing to represent them? And, please contestants, show some LIFE tonight!
The threads will re-open after the west coast airing of the show.
Who are their personal Idols, and what will they sing to represent them? And, please contestants, show some LIFE tonight!
The threads will re-open after the west coast airing of the show.
Wait, was there just a guy with a bedazzled neck brace shown in the audience? Ewwww...hate the high/low dress craze. Wish Jessica hadn't worn it. I'm hoping we get to see more ignoring of the mentors, that was awesome last week.
Hahahahaha - Ryan: May the odds be ever in your favor.
Way to stay current. :laugh
Stevie Nicks mentoring.
The contestants are singing songs of their idols, Stevie Nicks is the mentor with Jimmy, and they will also be singing in trios.
There, now we are all up to date and you can just watch the highlights later lol. By the way, I love....love...love Stevie and they just showed Jimmy jamming with Stevie. Starting out with Colton. Hmmm....is he the worst then? Sometimes they start out with a bang and sometimes they try to bury the worst at the very beginning. Stevie tells him to never cut his hair. Colton is singing Lifehouse (missed the title of the song). I think this is a good fit for him on paper but he chose the most boring song imaginable....oh wait, it kicks up and gets a bit better. His voice sounds weak and pitchy, I've heard him sound better.
What song did Colton sing? I didn't catch the name.
He sounds really good!
*sighs* Colton is about to lose me. Seriously, dude? Seriously? I see the crying at the end of singing as nothing more than manipulative BS. Boooo! He is better than that, he didn't have to go there (Gah, I'm such a cynic lol).
The judges love him, of course they do. He connected so hard with the song that he cried! Don't you feel the connection? The emotion? Evidently I must be cold inside because I did not feel it.
I love me some Miranda Lambert! I hope Skylar choses the song "Kerosene", she could rock out and dance like a spazz while performing that one :).
Oh, Lord. Randy can't count. He says there ate 9 more singers to go (after Colton). Um, that would be 8 more. It's the top 9 tonight. I liked Colton, even though I didn't know that song. He's really believable singing Christian rock, 'cause that's who he is.
Beautiful song and performance. I believe the crying was real and it shows his passion. Whether you agree with his beliefs or not he has a passion and in this day in age, I find that very positive.


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One by one, the days go by for Craig Ramsay, the head coach in limbo.
Hell sit by his swimming pool in Atlanta. Hell get odd jobs done around the house he was painting a chair one day we exchanged e-mails and hell wait.
Wait for the phone call thatll either derail his future or have him hopping a plane to Winnipeg.
Ramsay is the head coach of the NHLs Atlanta Thrashers. Check that. He was the coach of the Thrashers.
Now hes the coach of, well, nothing, really.
The franchise has been sold to a group in Winnipeg. That was 12 days ago.
And he still doesnt know if they want him.
Id like to do it, Ramsay told me, Friday. I never leave a job undone.
Ramsay has seen and experienced a lot in his nearly 40 years in the hockey biz, but nothing quite like this.
Its awkward and its uncomfortable, he said. Its difficult to deal with, day after day, waiting for the phone to ring.
On Day 10, it did ring, and he and newly-hired Winnipeg GM Kevin Cheveldayoff had a brief conversation. It was Cheveldayoffs second full day on the job.
He called right away, Ramsay said. Hes done everything he should have done.
Except tell Ramsay, who has another year on his contract, that hes going to at least get an interview.
Isnt that the very least the guy deserves, given his tenure in the league?
Before his one season with Atlanta, Ramsay spent three in Boston, six in Tampa Bay (where he won a Stanley Cup), two in Philadelphia (where he went 16-8-1 and reached the Eastern Conference Final as the head coach while Roger Neilson was being treated for cancer), two in Ottawa, two more in Florida (where in 1993 a ruptured ulcer nearly killed him) and seven in Buffalo, where hed spent his entire 14-year playing career as one of the NHLs top defensive forwards.
To me, thats worthy of more than a token interview.
To Thrashers captain Andrew Ladd, too.
Rammer was a great coach, Ladd said during his one-day visit, Thursday. Hopefully he gets the chance to resume here and finish off what he started.
Everybody seems to think Manitoba Moose coach Claude Noel is the front-runner because hes the True North incumbent.
What about the Atlanta incumbent, who already has a relationship with our players and wouldnt be starting from scratch?
Cheveldayoff told us he wanted someone who communicates, has passion for the game and someone whos going to have some personality for the fans that they can relate to.
Maybe he believes Ramsay isnt dynamic enough.
I wouldnt mistake that for a lack of personality.
Asked for his gut feeling about the job, Ramsay offered up a real gem.
They took my stomach out in 93, he said. I dont have a gut feeling.
I do.
He deserves a shot, even if hes too humble to say it.
And if hes not going to get one, he and his assistants, Mike Stothers and John Torchetti, deserve to know, immediately.
STAFF CANNED: Unlike when the Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix, there are few, if any, opportunities for Thrashers staff to accompany the team here.
Equipment managers, trainers and strength coaches, all have been told theyre out of work.
That hasnt stopped one, strength and conditioning coach Barry Brennan, from continuing to prepare players for next season.
They have to be prepared to play in Winnipeg, Brennan told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after training sessions with forwards Eric Boulton and Chris Thorburn, Friday. And Im happy to help them for as long as Im here.
Classy move.
PARTING SHOT: Could it be the frenzied sellout of NHL season tickets has somehow propelled sports fans towards the Winnipeg Blue Bombers?
Not sure how else to explain the Big Blue approaching 20,000 season subscribers themselves.
Dont tell me thats a record, though.
Ill bet you my Dieter Brock Los Angeles Rams card there were more than 20,000 in the early or mid-1980s.
Too bad the teams records from back then were either flooded out, burned or eaten by Chris Walby.


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Taxi Drivers
Taxi Drivers use motorised vehicles, often taxis, minibuses, or vans, to move people from one place to another for a fare. The fare is set by the area in which the taxi driver provides the service. Taxi drivers, also called cab drivers, must hold a valid license to both drive and operate a taxi service. Many taxi drivers work for larger companies such as Yellow Cab or Alliance Cab.
Quick summary
- Starting salary: $26,000 P/A Senior salary: $53,000 P/A Average salary: $42,000 P/A Wages will vary according to your level of skill, experience and employer Employment level: 36,600 as of November 2012 (Projected employment levels in 2017 of 39,200)
Average weekly hours: Average weekly hours worked for a full time Taxi Driver is 45.6 hours
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Employment for Taxi Drivers has risen by a rate of 3.5% over the past 5 years and is expected to grow moderately through 2017.
Employment growth
Total employment growth over the past 5 years for male and female, employed part-time and full-time is 800
Gender (including full time and part time)
The percentage of males and females working full time and part time are:
- Male Full Time: 72.8%
- Male Part Time: 23.3%
- Female Full Time: 2.1%
- Female Part Time: 1.8%
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- Lifting luggage or other materials for passengers
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- Operating wheelchair lifts or other specialized equipment as needed
- Transporting passengers safely from one place to another in a motorized vehicle
- Ability to count money and make change
- Ability to interact with people in a positive manner
- Ability to lift the weight of heavy luggage
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- Basic car repair and maintenance
- Drive with a license following the laws of the area
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Taxi Drivers work outdoors, but often in the confines of a vehicle. Typical work hours can vary from day to night, sometimes seven days a week and holidays. Hours may be long and the number of passengers can vary day to day. Taxi drivers may work in urban areas, but are most often found in busy city areas.
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Having worked on numerous high-profile genetic investigations, including one focused on the famed Iceman of the Italian Alps, Bryan Sykes has become a premier authority on human genetics. In DNA USA, Sykes examines the unique fabric of the population of the United States - one of the world's most genetically variegated countries. His fascinating discoveries offer new insights into the biological profile of the great melting pot.
©2012 Bryan Sykes (P)2012 Recorded Books
"Gotta love DNA"
I read his Seven Daughters of Eve when it came out in print and had a wonderful time with it. So when I heard about this book, I got it. It is, for me, fascinating information and a nice stroll down geek alley. The narrator does a good job of keeping the book at a conversational pace rather than a lecturer's measure. While the book is too technical for me to drive to, it isn't so abstruse as to require a technical dictionary or a degree in BioChem to 'get it'. (I did get rather a jolt from his implication that mitochondrial DNA was co-opted as slave labor rather than the symbiotic relationship I had always heard it was; but that is part of the fun of reading this stuff.)
Anyway, if you've any interest and want some science in your life, this might be the book for you. Part One of the book is a rehash of Clovis points and stuff you've probably already seen on The History Channel or PBS, and it is said as though it were fact instead of supposition (number of warriors in the chase and women relegated to watching the children play in the water, you know--same old same old) but it paints some worthy word pictures, which was fun.
Perhaps it would have been better (to my mind) if it had broadened the sweep of information and been less specific as to groups, but I found it a worthwhile book and well worth the time and credit spent.
"For me, the narrator ruined this (good!) audiobook"
The book, yes. The audiobook as performed, no. The content is good but I'd recommend the Kindle version or at least WhisperSync due to the jarring performance caused by the narrator's audible gasping, long pauses, loud mouth-sounds, and poor breath control.
The lineage of names (last names, I mean) and how literal the relation/ancestry can be. That last names (and acceptable variants) really do indicate true & DNA-provable famillial connections. That may sound obvious but I always thought names were recorded like... this apocryphal tale...
A clerk at Ellis Island asks someone (who just walked off a ship from some faraway land) their first name, and are told "Esteban". The clerk says: hmm ok, "Steve" then. "Steve" how about your last name - what is it? "My last name is Přiskkeņblürndĕnfuķinænēlhœl!" Clerk: ummmhhhh.... What line of work are you in, "Steve". Steve: I make barrels. Oh! Ok. Steve Cooper - Welcome to America, go over there to get your gold bars.
I just mean that I thought names were less useful than Bryan Sykes seemed to be saying.
Possibly, but not if it is performed the way he read for this project.
In terms of content, I trust Bryan Sykes as this is not the first book I've read from him, but I enjoyed '7 Daughters...' more. This book's power is significantly diminished due to the narrator's strange performance. He does this... thing... as I type this I can't believe he was actually allowed to do it in the first place because it is so jarring and distracting. But he continually pauses at the end of passages, and then stops for 1... 2... 3... seconds and then simultaneously gasps+inhales+lipsmacks loudly as he starts the next passage. It's the audiobook version of driving down a quiet road and then having your passenger suddenly yell, "HEY! LOOK OUT!!!". It is so incredibly jarring and it happens all the time (maybe 1-2 times per minute. But a few times an hour he does it so loudly and does so after a pause long enough thay you'll check to see the book is still playing. Some may read this and think I am being petty. No, I really try to post honest and positive reviews much more than anything critical. A bad performance on the part of the narrator can really pull me out of the experience. This is 14 hours pretty deep science - of course the performance of the narrators are important. Otherwise why spend the money? Audible has top notch narrators and as they should, or we would all be listening to Librivox stuff all day. This is not a nitpick - at least not to me.
Maybe the worst part of this, is that the narrator actually has a great voice. It's a flat, somewhat nasally English accent and his pronunciation is to my liking. His ability to channel the author's personality in a very positive manner. I can't believe he was allowed to do his read of DNA USA this way though.
So, actually, is it the fault of the producer then? I don't know. But I'll need to do some research on that. This book goes down in history for me as a great book by a great author narrated by a man with a great voice but the result is a complete dud of a performance that I will just BARELY make it through. I hope to never encounter anything like this again - where a cool thing is ruined over something so dumb.
"Fantastic book!"
DNA USA is one of the most enjoyable audible books that I've ever listened to. The author not only both captures and maintains your interest in the very complicated subject of DNA testing results, but does so by adding important historical information and background data. His sense of humor interspersed throughout the book only makes it the more enjoyable. The icing on the cake is the excellent narration done by John Curless.
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TOWN OF LAWRENCE – A 23-year-old Milwaukee man is charged with supplying the heroin that killed a De Pere man.
Arthur Graham faces one felony count of first-degree reckless homicide.
According to the criminal complaint, Graham sold the heroin that caused Jeremy Schleis to overdose.
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Sneak Peek: Chrissy & Mr. Jones: A Reality Love Show [VIDEO]
Expect Chrissy & Mr. Jones to be one of the most entertaining madhouses to hit the reality show circuit, as Chrissy Lampkin–who became a star in her own right following the success of the original Love & Hip-Hop–and her man Jim Jones have gotten their own Truman Show. Set to air on VH1 this fall, the new series will tag along the engaged couple's life together in New Jersey, and based upon the trailer, it will focus more on their domestic issues rather than being a part of the hip-hop glam scene of NYC.
Chrissy suddenly struggles with the idea of marriage and Capo is yearning for a mini-me to join them in their mansion. Most likely, after a few episodes, we will be quoting even more hilarious sound bites from these two firestarters!
Featuring a cameo from her homie Emily B (also from L&HH), a 30-second sneak peek has hit the web just in time to get us hyped about staying in on Monday nights again (as if we needed another reason). Check it out below! It airs September 24 at 9:30 p.m.–Carmen Shardae Jobson


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Today: A tech renaissance on Wall Street pushes the Standard & Poor's 500 to more record levels and several Silicon Valley companies to 52-week highs. Also: Personal computer sales dip the most in nearly two decades.
New 52-week highs across valley help push indexes to new records
While the Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's 500 have sprung to records in 2013, technology companies have not been as successful on Wall Street, with Apple's (AAPL) fall keeping the SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech firms in negative territory for the year and the Nasdaq trailing the gains of its brethren indexes by a wide margin. The last two days have changed that dynamic, however, with valley stocks such as Yahoo (YHOO), eBay (EBAY) and Gilead pushing to new 52-week highs and helping, instead of hindering, index records.
In Wednesday trading, the S&P 500 finally broke through its record intraday high set in 2007, which had been a barrier despite the index's record closing numbers of the past two weeks, a record broken again Wednesday with a 1.2 percent increase. The Dow Jones industrial average also established new intraday and closing highs as it gained 0.9 percent.
The Dow and S&P daily increases paled in comparison to the Nasdaq, however, as the tech-heavy index drove 1.8 percent higher, the same percentage gain as the S&P's tech components, which led that index's 10 sectors. The SV150 soared even higher, adding 2 percent on the day as several valley companies reached 52-week highs.
Yahoo was one of those companies, again reaching prices not experienced since 2008. In fact, MarketWatch pointed out that Yahoo reached the same price at which it sat on the day Microsoft walked away from merger talks with the Sunnyvale Internet company nearly 5 years ago.
"Yahoo was written off for dead, destined to trade in the teens forever. It's a remarkable turnaround," Yahoo investor and Ironside Capitol founder Eric Jackson told MarketWatch.
CEO Marissa Mayer has led the resurgence by focusing on small mobile acquisitions meant to build the company's talent base, with most of those efforts led by Jacqueline Reses, who received the new title of chief development officer this week, according to a Bloomberg News profile. The stock advanced 1.6 percent to $24.20 Wednesday and moved as high as $24.32 after reports that Yahoo was meeting with Apple on a partnership that would place more of its mobile apps on the Cupertino company's popular devices.
EBay, which had a very strong 2012, reached a new 52-week high as well on Wednesday after an executive for the San Jose e-commerce giant announced at a conference that it was getting into targeted ads, challenging rival Amazon at a game it helped start. Shares moved as high as $57.58 before closing at $57.30, a daily increase of 2.2 percent.
Gilead, which has been on a tear since announcing Monday that it would put its hepatitis C drug up for FDA approval, also established a new high; the Foster City biotech company sold for as much as $49.85 and closed with a 3 percent advance at $49.73. San Jose software giant Adobe (ADBE) also established a new 52-week high Wednesday, reaching as high as $45.40 before closing with a 1.2 percent gain at $44.70. Two companies that debuted in 2012 reached record highs Wednesday, with SolarCity moving 1.6 percent higher to $20.46 and San Francisco big-data outfit Splunk advancing 1.8 percent to $41.16.
San Jose networking giant Cisco (CSCO) came close to its 52-week high of $21.98 before closing with a 2.4 percent gain at $21.47, but Sunnyvale rival Juniper Networks had a better day with a 4.7 percent gain to $18.84. Facebook overcame so-so reviews of its new Home app for Android devices and advanced 3.7 percent to $27.57, and other social-networking stocks followed suit: LinkedIn gained 3.1 percent to $177.31, Yelp advanced 4.6 percent to $25.75, and Zynga increased 1.8 percent to $3.45.
Even Apple managed a solid gain Wednesday, gaining 2 percent to $435.69, its highest closing price of April. With its market capitalization back up to $409.1 billion, the Cupertino tech titan is again the most valuable company in the United States.
PC sales suffer massive dip in first quarter
Thursday's trading may not be as strong for technology companies, however, especially those that specialize in personal computers. After trading ended Wednesday, two analysis firms that track PC sales announced that they declined by the most in recent memory despite the debut of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
IDC reported that sales in the first quarter of 2013 declined 13.9 percent from the same quarter in 2012, nearly double the drop it expected and the worst the company has seen in nearly two decades of tracking the industry. Gartner reported a slightly smaller but just as devastating drop of 11.2 percent.
The results are especially tough for Palo Alto's Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), the No. 1 personal-computer manufacturer in the world. IDC recorded a year-over-year drop of more than 23 percent in global shipments for the company, which mirrored Gartner's report of a 23.6 percent drop from the first quarter of 2012. HP barely maintained its lead as the top PC manufacturer according to Gartner's numbers, with 14.8 percent of the market to Lenovo's 14.7 percent.
IDC specifically pointed a finger at Microsoft for the numbers, blaming its Windows 8 operating system not just for failing to help the PC market, but for actually harming it.
"At this point, unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market," IDC's Bob O'Donnell said in Wednesday's announcement, later adding, "Microsoft will have to make some very tough decisions moving forward if it wants to help reinvigorate the PC market."
Microsoft gained 2.3 percent to $30.28 in regular trading Wednesday, but fell more than 1.6 percent in late trading; HP advanced 0.5 percent to $22.32 in the main trading session, but fell more than 2.4 percent in after-hours action.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Up: Ruckus, Juniper, Yelp, Applied Materials, Facebook, Tesla, Palo Alto Networks, LinkedIn, Gilead, Cisco, Intel (INTC), eBay, Oracle (ORCL), Apple, Electronic Arts (ERTS), Zynga, Splunk, Google (GOOG), Intuit (INTU), VMware, SolarCitry, Nvidia, Yahoo, Adobe
Down: SunPower (SPWRA), Netflix (NFLX), NetApp, Advanced Micro Devices
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 59.39, or 1.83 percent, to 3,297.25
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 128.78, or 0.88 percent, to 14,802.24
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 19.12, or 1.22 percent, to 1,587.73
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/mercbizbreak.


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While it seems fairly obvious that corporations would use social media to communicate to the public, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has formally decided it's OK, according to a new filing today that involves Netflix's charismatic chief executive, Reed Hastings.
Back in December, SEC staff recommended that Hastings and Netflix be formally charged with failing to use proper disclosure procedure when he shared news on Facebook in June. Hastings was sharing news that Netflix's subscribers had reached 1 billion hours of video watched on the streaming service for the month, which coincided with a boost to the company's stock.
The SEC's new decision allows CEOs to tweet, update Facebook, and other social networks, just so long as the information follows other disclosure policy. That means Hastings isn't going to get in trouble for the Facebook incident he invoked last year. (Now, all other CEO of major companies need to do is just find the time to update their accounts more often.)
Here's the SEC's official statement about its decision on social media:
The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a report that makes clear that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD) so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate such information.
The SEC's report of investigation confirms that Regulation FD applies to social media and other emerging means of communication used by public companies the same way it applies to company websites. The SEC issued guidance in 2008 clarifying that websites can serve as an effective means for disseminating information to investors if they've been made aware that's where to look for it. Today's report clarifies that company communications made through social media channels could constitute selective disclosures and, therefore, require careful Regulation FD analysis.
"One set of shareholders should not be able to get a jump on other shareholders just because the company is selectively disclosing important information," said George Canellos, Acting Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "Most social media are perfectly suitable methods for communicating with investors, but not if the access is restricted or if investors don't know that's where they need to turn to get the latest news."


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Greenville, S.C. Kemet Corp. has introduced a multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) line in a 1210 case size with the same capacitance and voltage extensions as its newly expanded EIA 1812 package. The HiCV capacitors offer capacitance values of 4.7 uF and 6.8 uF in a 25-volt rated part and 10 uF in a 50-volt rated device.
The surface-mount capacitors, offered in a X7R dielectric, feature an operating temperature range of -55°C to 125°C, with zero bias capacitance shift limited to ±15% over that range. Capacitance tolerances include both K (±10%) and M (±20%). They meet all requirements of the Automotive Electronic Council's AEC-Q200-Rev C. The capacitors feature 100% pure matte tin-plated terminations. Tin/lead terminations are available for military and high-reliability customers.
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Here is a recap of Day 20 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Switzerland pushed Argentina to the brink, but an Angel Di Maria goal just two minutes before the end of extra time saw the Albiceleste through to the quarterfinals. Throughout the match, Argentina dominated the run of play, but the Swiss nearly took the lead in the 38th minute when Josip Drmic saw an attempt saved by goalkeeper Sergio Romero. With both sides unable to break the deadlock, the game went to extra time where the Argentines rose to the occasion. In the 117th minute, Di Maria gave Argentina the win as he slotted a shot past Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio to seal the victory.
U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard made 16 saves, the most by any goalkeeper at a World Cup since 1966, but it wasn't enough as Belgium scored two goals in extra time to defeat the United States 2-1. Howard's brilliance kept the Americans in the match until Chris Wondolowski missed from close range in second half stoppage time to send the game into extra time. Three minutes into extra time, the Red Devils took the lead as Kevin De Bruyne found the back of the net. Just 12 minutes later, Romelu Lukaku doubled their lead by dribbling past Sporting Kansas City defender Matt Besler before beating Howard at his near post. The Americans cut the lead in half in the 107th minute after a goal by U.S. wunderkind Julian Green, but it was not enough as Belgium earned the victory.
World Cup action continues on July 4 when France face Germany at 9:00 a.m. PT before hosts Brazil take on tournament darlings Colombia at 1:00 p.m. PT.
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PADRES (40-44) at RED SOX (51-34)
Time: 4:10 p.m. Game 2 of 3
TV: Fox Sports San Diego
Radio: 1090-AM, 860-AM (Spanish)
Wednesday's matchup
Padres RHP Edinson Volquez (6-5, 5.50 ERA)
Volquez, who turns 30 today, will be making his 18th start of the season and his 10th start on the road. He is 3-2 on the road this season with a 6.23 ERA. The Padres are 4-5 in Volquez's road starts (with two straight wins and four in his last six road outings) and 7-10 overall in his outings. Volquez is 0-0 with a 2.57 ERA in one previous start against the Red Sox. Volquez is 2-1 with a 3.04 ERA in his last four starts since posting career worsts of nine runs and 11 hits allowed in 2 1/3 innings on June 7 in Colorado. Volquez has averaged 9.97 strikeouts per nine innings over his last nine starts.
Red Sox LHP John Lester (8-4, 4.61 ERA)
Lester, 29, was Boston's second-round pick in the 2002 draft. He came out of his most recent start after falling on the mound while delivering a pitch. He was uninjured, although the incident threw a scare into the Red Sox. He has a career 93-52 record with a 3.83 ERA in 205 games (204 starts). He finished fourth in the 2010 American League Cy Young Award voting after going 19-9 with a 3.25 ERA. Lester has made at least 30 starts in five straight seasons. This will be his first career appearance against the Padres. He is 42-25 lifetime at Fenway Park with a 3.85 ERA in 97 games (96 starts). He is 3-0 this season at Fenway Park with a 3.24 ERA in six starts.
Looking Ahead
Thursday: Padres LHP Eric Stults (6-6, 3.51 ERA) at Red Sox RHP Allen Webster (0-2, 9.50 ERA), 10:35 a.m.


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Introduction: Why is bicycling good for the economy?
Each year several new studies come out that help make the case that investments in safe and attractive bicycling pay economic dividends. We've added dozens of sources (and about 10 pages) to this report since it was originally released in 2009.
The research can get technical, but the principles are simple:
- People who ride bikes buy bikes. This puts people to work in bicycle shops and apparel stores.
- People who ride bikes buy other things, too. Bike-accessible business districts benefit by catering to these customers.
- People on bikes are also more likely to make repeat trips to their local stores.
- People who ride bikes on vacation buy food, have travel costs, and pay for lodging. Bicycling tourists bring millions of dollars to cities and towns across the country that wouldn't otherwise end up there.
All that spending means jobs — and tax revenue — for communities. But people who ride bikes also save money.
- With the money saved from lower travel costs, people who ride bikes have more of their money to spend on local businesses.
- People who ride bikes can save their companies money on health insurance costs.
- Developers, cities, and individuals can save money on parking costs by providing space-efficient, low-cost bike parking instead of expensive car parking.
The best way to attract people who ride bikes and accrue all of these benefits is by building infrastructure that makes it more attractive for people to ride. Building that infrastructure creates jobs, and it does so extremely cost-effectively. In fact, there's no better job-creating bang for your transportation buck.
- Road projects are materials-intensive. Much of a road project budget goes to materials. By contrast, bicycling and walking projects are labor-intensive. Bicycling and walking project create more jobs per dollar than road projects.
- A built-up city can add capacity for new bicyclists much less expensively than new capacity for drivers.
National Economic Impact Studies
Regions that have invested in bicycling have seen tangible economic impacts. Studies show that the bicycle industry, bicycle tourism, and the health benefits from bicycling create jobs, economic activity, and cost savings.
Today bicycling manufacturing is a $6 billion national industry.iii But the economic benefits associated with riding extend far beyond that number. The nation's 60 million annual recreational bicyclists spend $46.9 billion on meals, transportation, lodging, gifts and entertainment. One study estimates that the spill-over effects of all bicycling-related activities could be as large as $133 billion, supporting 1.1 million jobs and generating $17.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes.
Read full Report (PDF) here: Bicycling Means Business
About League of American Bicyclists
"The League began as the League of American Wheelmen (LAW) in 1880, and was responsible for defending the rights of cyclists from its start. The League of American Wheelmen is credited with getting paved roads in this country before the reign of the automobile."


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"This is the game i've been wanting to play since Star Flight!" - Steven Conran
"I can't wait for this one! It will be an instant classic." - Kyle Markous
"Let me know when you all get this game on greenlight, you have my vote already." - Tom Holland
"Thumbs up! This reminds me of a 2D version of the X games." - Rick Volaski
"I freaking love the looks of it!" - Jack Oysiluh
"Many thanks for making. I can't wait for this game." - Vinh Nguyen


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documentary Channel Accelerator
Accelerate your career with real-world skill development and opportunities within the documentary film, television and digital media industries.
Participants will take part in an intensive Festival-based curriculum and a paid mentorship job training opportunity.
The goal of the program is to foster a diverse new generation of Canadian documentary filmmakers by providing real-world skills development and economic opportunities within the documentary film, television and digital media industries.
2017 Participants
|Andrea Cessna
(Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
|Joshua Eisen
(Toronto, Ontario)
|Kathleen Jayme
(Vancouver, British Columbia)
|Naomi Mark
(Whitehorse, Yukon)
- Hot Docs All-Access Pass ($800 value), with access to the Hot Docs Forum, screenings, social events, and conference sessions
- Private intensive professional development, career planning, and skill development sessions
- Specialized workshops on fundamentals, including storytelling, funding and producing, the art of pitching, and promotion and distribution
- A customized Hot Docs conference itinerary
- Access to the Hot Docs Online Community for one year
- One Hot Docs Program Guide, Industry Guide and delegate bag
- Free travel to and accommodation while in Toronto
- Mentorship and work training opportunities
Festival and Lab
On April 29 and 30, fellows will participate in a two day private lab during the 2017 Hot Docs Festival. During this lab, fellows will hear from a variety of industry experts and will engage in hands-on workshops and activities such as creating short documentaries. Fellows will then participate in the 2017 Hot Docs conference week attending the Hot Docs Forum, industry panels and sessions, networking events and screenings.
Mentorship and Training Opportunity
Following the Festival, all participants will be paired with a successful Canadian documentary production company located within their geographic region. The participant will shadow their mentor's day-to-day work, with significant focus placed on reaching the participant's personal goals and outcomes for the experience. The work schedule will be determined by each individual placement and production schedule, placements will be approximately 200 hours in length. All participants will receive an honorarium.
Alumni Benefits
- 50% discount for Hot Docs Festival accreditation for a 10-year period
- A playlist in The Doc Shop with the option for program alumni to submit up to 10 titles for inclusion over a 10-year period
- A listing of past participants in the Hot Docs Program Guide and on the Hot Docs website
For a list of past participants, mentors and juries, please visit our archives.
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The term "racism" barely used until 1960s
Labels: nationalism, race, racialism, racism
The truth is unpleasant and therefore unpopular:
Humans have invented a social "reality" that denies reality itself.
A recent news item from the land of insanity and perfect tea caught my eye:
A court heard how after two girls called Walker Harry Potter, he snapped, stabbing one of them in the face so hard that the blade of his vegetable knife broke.
Walker then pushed the other girl's head into a nearby fence and shouted: 'Die, die'.
He claimed he launched the ferocious attacks in Southampton, Hampshire, after being goaded repeatedly by the girls who called him Potter.
As far as anyone who is sane is concerned, this guy did nothing wrong. They bullied him and the school and authorities did nothing, thus he fixed the situation by injuring the injurers.
The authorities then swooped in and seized him and punished him, but this makes no sense. He was not acting on his own here; they began the assault with social mockery. This is damaging to individuals. He stopped the damage.
Even more, we should look at this on a social scale. All of our anti-bullying programs have failed. Not just a little, but utterly failed to achieve anything. We are incentivizing bullying by protecting bullies and persecuting those who defend themselves against them.
"Sticks and stones..." -- no. Social mockery is destructive and causes extreme emotional trauma. If we are serious about stopping bullying, legalize retribution. Bullies will know they are no longer protected and will think more carefully, and we won't need to call the Nanny State SWAT teams to punish the bullied in the name of equality.
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The problem with false elites -- those created by ideology not ability -- is that in addition to being wrong, they are quite literally insane. All that they do comprises internal signals designed to advance the individual in the system and has nothing to do with reality.
Witness leading moron Tom Frieden in action, as reported by Red Flag News:
Barring all incoming flights from Ebola-hit countries in West Africa might seem like the best way to prevent an outbreak of the virus in the United States, but doing so would actually hurt efforts to curb the outbreak in the long run, Tom Frieden, M.D., MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said today (Oct. 2).
"If we take actions that seem like they may work, they may be the kind of solution to a complex problem that is quick, simple and wrong," said Frieden in a press conference. "The approach of isolating a country is that it's going to make it harder to get help into that country."
The man obviously has mental problems. When asked how to protect people in country A, he starts talking about fear of discrimination against country B. He's not even on topic. But he is sending the correct signals, namely, he is acting as if his country is so wealthy and powerful that it does not need to concern itself with self-preservation.
That signal appeases the voters, who like to hear how everything's going just fine!, and also appeases his liberal ideological comrades, who love the idea of equality and know that this can only happen through wealth transfer, thus will always discriminate against the powerful -- the whiter, maler, smarter, wealthier, healthier -- in order to advance the less capable.
If you wonder how civilizations exterminate themselves... wonder no more. They turn their focus from outward to inward, and start flattering each other and in doing so, drift farther from reality so that when collapse comes, it's a great shock and "no one" has anticipated it.
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Lionsgate's "The Lost City," New Line Cinema's "Take the Lead" and Miramax's "The Adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl in 3-D" are the three finalists in the best picture category for the 21st annual Imagen Awards, announced Thursday.
Andy Garcia also earned noms in the best director and film actor for his work on "Lost City." Robert Rodriguez picked up two bids in the director category for "Sharkboy" and "Sin City." Antonio Banderas has two bids in the lead actor category, for "Lead" and "The Legend of Zorro." John Leguizamo rounds out the category for "Sueno."
Lead actress noms went to America Ferrera for "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," Jessica Alba for "Fantastic Four," Cameron Diaz for "In Her Shoes" and Ines Sastre for "Lost City."
In television, top program noms went to NBC's "The West Wing," ABC's "George Lopez," NBC's "ER" and HBO's "Epitafios" and telefilm "Walkout."
"West Wing's" Jimmy Smits and sitcom star George Lopez earned mentions in the lead TV actor category alongside "Walkout's" Michael Pena, Danny Pino of CBS' "Cold Case" and Edward James Olmos of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica." On the distaff side, noms went to Alexa Vega of "Walkout," Constance Marie of "George Lopez," Rosa Blasi of Lifetime's "Strong Medicine," Lisa Vidal of Lifetime's "Odd Girl Out" and Vanessa Hudgens of Disney Channel's "High School Musical."
Founded in 1985, the Imagen Awards are designed to recognize positive portrayals of Latinos in entertainment. Winners in these and nine other categories will be handed out Aug. 18 at the Beverly Hilton. The eligibility period for this year's awards is April 1, 2005-April 30.
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Friday, September 21, 2012, 7:21pm
Buccaneers WR Sammie Stroughter (foot) was removed from the injury report Friday. He was placed on injured reserve, ending his season.
Friday, September 21, 2012, 1:32pm
The Buccaneers placed WR Sammie Stroughter (broken right foot) on injured reserve, ending his season.
The team recently cut Preston Parker, so Tiquan Underwood and Arrelious Benn are locked in to the WR3/WR4 spots at the moment. Neither player has seen a target in 2012.
Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:11pm
Buccaneers WR Sammie Stroughter (foot) missed practice again Thursday.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 7:08pm
Buccaneers WR Sammie Stroughter (foot) did not practice Wednesday.
Sunday, January 1, 2012, 3:10pm
Bucs Inactives
Arrelious Benn WR
Rudy Carpenter QB
Anthony Gaitor DB
Derek Hardman OT
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Daniel Te'o-Nesheim DE
Jeremy Trueblood T
Week 15: Tampa Bay InactivesSaturday, December 17, 2011, 7:12pm
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T Derek Hardman
T James Lee
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WR Sammie Stroughter
LeGarrette Blount inactive for Bucs as expectedSunday, October 16, 2011, 3:14pm
Bucs Inactives
LeGarrette Blount RB
Zac Diles LB
Derek Hardman OT
James Lee T
Gerald McCoy DT
Luke Stocker TE
Sammie Stroughter WR
LeGarrette Blount is inactive for the Bucs as expected. Earnest Graham should receive the bulk of the work.
Sunday, October 9, 2011, 2:45pm
Bucs Inactives
Quincy Black OLB
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Derek Hardman OT
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Luke Stocker TE
Sammie Stroughter WR
Kellen Winslow active for BucsSunday, September 25, 2011, 3:12pm
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Allen Bradford RB
Anthony Gaitor DB
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Sammie Stroughter WR
Monday, September 12, 2011, 12:37pm
Bucs OC Greg Olson expects Preston Parker to step into the slot WR with Sammie Stroughter out.
Monday, September 12, 2011, 12:25pm
Tampa Bay WR Sammie Stroughter will have foot surgery tomorrow. Out a few weeks.
Monday, December 27, 2010, 11:09am
Bucs rookie WR Arrelious Benn injured a knee in the second quarter, the severity of which wasn't clear. Benn, after catching his only pass, turned up the field for a 16-yard gain but was upended by two defenders, one of which appeared to hit the side of Benn's knee with a helmet.
"Right now I have to figure out what's wrong and then go to the next thing," Benn said.
Asked what happened on the play, he said, "I have no idea. I don't even want to know."
Benn will be evaluated further today. On a day the Bucs were already shorthanded at receiver with Sammie Stroughter out with a hamstring injury, Benn was replaced by Maurice Stovall. Preston Parker and Dezmon Briscoe appeared, each catching at least one pass.
Sunday, December 26, 2010, 3:14pm
Bucs Inactives
Rudy Carpenter QB
Dominique Harris DB
George Johnson DE
DJ Johnson CB
James Lee T
Kregg Lumpkin RB
Nathan Overbay TE
Sammie Stroughter WR
Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6:04pm
Buccaneers WR Sammie Stroughter (foot) took full practice reps Thursday.
Friday, November 12, 2010, 6:16pm
Buccaneers WR Sammie Stroughter (foot Questionable) did not practice Friday and is Questionable for week 10.
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Asian stock markets were mostly lower Friday ahead of a highly awaited U.S. jobs report that is considered a key gauge for determining how robust the world's No. 1 economy is.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.3 percent to 8,854.26. South Korea's Kospi dropped 0.4 percent to 1,976.35 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index lost 0.2 percent to 20,707.30.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.2 percent at 4,257.90. Benchmarks in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines also fell. Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand rose.
Later Friday, the U.S. government releases its report on January job creation and the unemployment rate. In December, the country added 200,000 jobs, and the rate was 8.5 percent.
Some analysts said they were not expecting to see strength, based on a report Wednesday from private payroll agency ADP. The report said private-sector employment rose by 170,000 in January from the previous month - fewer jobs than expected.
"The two series continue to track fairly closely and both show what everyone has rightfully fretted about for the past 18 months: there hasnt been any trend improvement in job growth since mid-2010," said analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore.
Stocks were largely unchanged on Wall Street on Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down less than 0.1 percent at 12,705.41. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.1 percent to 1,325.54. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.4 percent to 2,859.68.
Benchmark oil for March delivery rose 8 cents to $96.44 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell by $1.25 to end at $96.36 per barrel in New York on Thursday.
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I'ma Hell Raiser, one of Louisiana's top stallions following his arrival from Kentucky, was euthanized June 28 at Don Stemmans' Traders Rest Farm near Carencro, La.
I'ma Hell Raiser, one of Louisiana's top stallions following his arrival from Kentucky, was euthanized June 28 at Don Stemmans' Traders Rest Farm near Carencro, La.
Kentucky has altered it regulations concerning vesicular stomatitis in the wake of new cases in Colorado. The Kentucky Department of Agriculture issued a release July 6 that said animals at three properties in Las Animas County and one property in Douglas County have been diagnosed with VS.
The British Jockey Club announced Tuesday a first-ever bloodstock industry code of practice that spells out the right way to buy and sell horses. It means those who are found to have broken any of the eight guidelines, which take effect Aug. 1, could be punished.
Pam Berg, who single-handedly runs a ranch in Northern California that is home to 28 retired racehorses and also works full-time as a racing steward, has been awarded the 2004 Dogwood Dominion Award, Dogwood Stable president W. Cothran "Cot" Campbell announced July 6.
Graded stakes winners Kitten's Joy, Artie Schiller, and Prince Arch headline a field of 10 3-year-olds for the seventh running of the $500,000 Virginia Derby (gr. IIIT) at Colonial Downs on Saturday.
Duke of Roxburghe's 3-year-old Attraction, who had gained star status as she rolled to victories in her first eight career starts, was handed her first career loss Tuesday when 4-year-old Soviet Song posted a 2 1/2-length triumph in the UAE Equestrian and Racing Federation Falmouth Stakes (Eng-I) at England's Newmarket racecourse.
The 2000 Richmond Stakes (Eng-II) winner Endless Summer was technically a 3-year-old when he won the race, according to published reports confirmed by the British Jockey Club.
Leading breeders and farms have formed the New York Breeders Sales Co., which will hold its first auction Sept. 28 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The sale will fill the slot vacated by the Saratoga autumn mixed Thoroughbred sale, though organizers of that sale are part of the new sale company.
Millionaires Golden Missile and Classic Cat as well as grade I winner Vicar were represented by their first winners the beginning of July.
Inclemenet weather and ongoing construction at Churchill Downs contributed to declines in attendance and overall wagering during the 53-day spring meet, which ended Monday.
Souvenir Gift rallied in the stretch under Mike Smith to remain undefeated with a 1 1/4-length triumph in the $106,800 Landaluce Stakes (gr. III) at Hollywood Park.


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In Madagascar, the Amontana and the Aviavy , which are related to the sycamore and the fig-tree, are royal trees. They symbolize the life-force and epitomize power. Their flowers blossom and bear fruit before their leaves, which appear only when the fruit is ripe, as though to protect it from the sun. According to the elders, to reveal one's fruit and then conceal it beneath graceful foliage is the preeminent sign of royalty, which openly proclaims its designs for the good of the people, but then conceals them modestly because they are sacred.
The king's tree King Andriamanelo is thought to have been the first to plant these trees in his realm of Alasora, one of the twelve sacred hills of the Merina people. He made them a symbol of royalty and would not allow them to be planted anywhere but in the residences of kings or their representatives. He liked to say that the fruit of the aviavy left a bitter taste on the tongue, which then turned sweet. "May my kingdom," he said, "have this sweet aftertaste." (by UNESCO)


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A lasting unease between North and South Koreas
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A soldier exits a guard shack and boards the bus.
He shoulders his rifle and flips through the tourists' passports.
There's nothing to fear. Or is there? On a poster tacked to the shack, a grinning cat in green fatigues aims a rifle in the visitors' direction.
"Free Zone," the poster says. "Smile Zone. Love Zone."
This corridor, 155 miles from east to west and about 2.5 miles from north to south, is better known as the Demilitarized Zone. Since 1953, the heavily patrolled DMZ has divided South Korea, a thriving democracy, from North Korea, a struggling Stalinist dictatorship. Even before Oct. 9, when the North's nuclear test stirred protests around the world, this may have been East Asia's most dangerous neighborhood.
Every landscape tells a story, but the DMZ's tale is as twisted as the concertina wire spooling across its fences. In this Korean Wonderland, every Tweedledee is contradicted by a Tweedledum. A new train station and customs office sit in no man's land, unused but eloquent statements of South Koreans' hope for more contact with the North.
Nearby, though, there's evidence that this contact can be deadly. Tourists are shown a meadow where, in 1968, assassins from the North set out to kill the South's leader.
The commandos failed. President Park Chung Hee was assassinated 11 years later by his own director of central intelligence. The killer and his victim were old friends.
If that seems paradoxical, consider the earth here. The DMZ is a great natural preserve. Its meadows, forests and rivers swarm with plants, animals and, at last count, 3.2 million mines.
"So today you really need to watch your step when you tour the DMZ," says Ms. Kim.
Kim, our tour guide, is not joking. All day, our bus passes fence posts marked with red metal triangles inscribed with warnings in both Hangul and English: "Mines." She's not joking when she asks us not to quote her by name; she fears that her candor may endanger relatives in the North. (Kim is a pseudonym.) She's not joking when she forbids us to shoot photographs without her approval.
"Otherwise you will be hostage," she said, smiling. This time, she's joking.
At least four South Korean companies offer DMZ tours departing from major Seoul hotels and - for travelers with long layovers - Incheon International Airport. Prices are in the $55 to $70 range, lunch included. If you've ever taken a sightseeing tour, you know the drill: the bus, the guide, the disclaimers that your visit might be interrupted by the outbreak of World War III.
Or, as the printed guidelines distributed aboard the bus explain in broken English, "Should be halt or stop the tour itinerary under such circumstance beyond its control."
On the freeway out of Seoul, Kim provided a brief history lesson. Japan ruled Korea from 1910 to 1945, when the United States and the Soviet Union divided the peninsula at the 38th parallel. Five years later, war erupted between North and South.
Like civil wars everywhere, the Korean War was a national calamity. In a nine-month span, Seoul fell to North Korean forces; was re-captured; was re-lost; and was re-recaptured. Three years of combat killed 54,000 American troops. These terrible losses pale next to the 2.1 million Korean dead, most of them civilians.
Mournful Korean folk music is piped over loudspeakers at the Freedom Bridge in Imjingak, a village within the DMZ. The somber mood is understandable. In 1953, almost 13,000 released POWs marched across this span. Today, the fence at the bridge's northern end flutters with inscribed banners left by South Koreans for relatives on the far side.
But a different tune is sung by cash registers inside the adjacent gift shops, which peddle sodas, snips of "authentic" DMZ razor wire and T-shirts featuring chubby-cheeked cartoon characters dressed in the uniforms of North and South. At nearby "Peace Land," with its merry-go-round, bumper cars, "Super Viking" pirate ship and other rides, you can't hear anything over the screams of delighted children. As a destination, Imjingak offers something for everyone.
This delicate balancing act requires patience, nerve and a high tolerance for irony. Some portions of the DMZ are rice paddies, farmed by South Koreans who pass through armed checkpoints by sunrise and commute home by sunset. In territory controlled by the North, South Korean automaker Hyundai built a manufacturing plant - after clearing the mines.
How about the mines lining the road that South Koreans travel to the Hyundai complex?
"Officially," our guide notes, "we are still in the middle of the war. Until then, we are going to keep these mines."
Hostilities officially ended in 1953, but Kim is right. There is no peace treaty between North and South or, for that matter, between the North and the United States.
Here, the Cold War is still frosty. After lunch, we were bused to a theater where a brief film gave an account of the war and the DMZ's subsequent history. The narration, delivered via headphone in Korean, Chinese, Japanese or English, was cool and analytical. The images - armed North Korean hordes; a tot sobbing in an empty field - were not.
Neither was the museum, with its life-size models of pillaging Communists and its timeline of postwar outrages, including the 1976 ax murder of a U.S. GI by a North Korean border guard.
From the museum, we were led into one of four tunnels that have been found leading from North to South. Descending to the tunnel's floor, 240 feet down, you wonder: How do we know it wasn't dug from South to North?
"People don't defect to North Korea," Kim said.
Although the day provided constant glimpses of the North, we saw little. In an observatory high upon a hilltop, Sgt. Cho of the South Korean army stood by a topographic diorama and in front of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the North.
Cho spoke with a crisp English accent. Born and raised in Great Britain, he is fulfilling his two-year military obligation to retain half of his dual South Korean-Britishcitizenship.
He pointed out the North Korean VIP Observatory, on a hilltop a mile across a lush valley.
North Korean guard towers.
A rusty North Korean train on its side, victim of a wartime bombing strike.
Then he directed us to the Coke machine.
"I'm not allowed to tell you a lot of things here," he said.
The DMZ is full of mystery and revelation, unresolved tension and unexpected beauty. For Koreans - and, given North Korea's newly unveiled nuclear arsenal - for the rest of the world, this buffer zone contains hopes of lasting peace and fears of ultimate destruction.
Here, what you see is not necessarily what you believe.
"We will see a lot of nature," Kim had said at the start of our day. "That is the best part of this tour. A lot of minefields here and there."
She was right. The minefields, green and peaceful, were lovely.
Getting to Korea's Demilitarized Zone is half the fun - the trek takes you to one of Asia's hottest cities, Seoul.
Incheon International's flight has a stopover in San Francisco or Los Angeles, the journey is at least 15 hours. Airfare ranges from $645 with advance purchase to $1,300, depending on time of travel.
Our hotel, the Westin Chosun, was downtown, a two-minute walk to Seoul City Hall. On the Westin's grounds is Hwangudan, an 1897 altar where emperors offered sacrifices to heaven. Today, the only thing sacrificed is tourists' bank accounts; rates start around $210. Park Hyatt Seoul and the W Seoul Walkerhill (both from $260) are also popular. Wish to avoid Western chains but still crave the latest conveniences? The Shilla Seoul (from $300) offers 21st century Korean luxury.
Taxis are plentiful but expensive. Seoul's clean and efficient subway system, though, is a bargain. For trips outside the capital, consider South Korea's superb train system.
Downtown Seoul is a walker's paradise, with sights modern - the graceful 33-story Jongno Tower, for instance, its top floor "floating" several stories over the rest of the building - and historic. Sejong-ro, Seoul's Madison Avenue, takes you over Cheonggyecheon, a revived river that tumbles through downtown; past Korea's central government complex; and ends at Gyeongbokgung Palace, a reconstructed 1395 complex of courtyards, gardens, ponds and royal halls. The view here is a study in Korean contrasts: In one direction, there are skyscrapers, some with massive TV screens; in another, pagodas stand against rugged Bukhan Mountain, rising 2,742 feet in a steep granite wave.
Kimchi, the Korean delicacy, is inescapable and a treat for lovers of spicy foods. Seoul has plenty of Italian restaurants and at least one overpriced Irish pub - O'Kim's in the Westin Chosun, where a pint of Guinness runs $19. Our best meals had Asian accents, from Korean hot pot to Japanese tonkatsu.
If your hotel doesn't offer the tour, you can buy tickets at the KTB (Korea Travel Bureau) booth outside Gyeongbokgung Palace.
For general tourism information, go to tour2korea.com; or
call 323-634-0280.
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