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Crymes leads Spartans charge
COMMERCE - Kent Crymes shot a 3-under 68 to help Athens Academy win the Region 8-A boys golf championship at Sandy Creek Golf Course.
The Spartans and second-place finisher Commerce qualified for the Class A State Championship on May 7 at Bull Creek Golf Course in Columbus.
The Spartans shot 4 over par to card a 288. They were paced by Joseph Gaines (71), Tom McArthur (74) and Spencer Tolley (75).
Commerce was led by Taylor Gary (71), Jacob Lord (71), Hamp Gary (83) and Kasey Drinkard (84).
CLARKE CENTRAL SECOND IN 8-AAAA: At Conyers, the Gladiators shot 342 to finish second in the Region 8-AAAA championship at Cherokee Run Golf Course. Habersham Central shot a 332 for the win.
Matt Bickley shot 82 for the Gladiators' low round of the day. He was paced by J.B. Erickson (85), Ben Granger (86) and Russell Kretzschmar (89).
Clarke Central and Habersham Central advance to the Class AAAA state tournament on May 7 at Bartram Trail Golf Club in Augusta.
Girls golf
n JEFFERSON WINS 8-A CHAMPIONSHIP: At Sandy Creek Golf Course, Katy Blanton shot 89 to lead Jefferson to the Region 8-A championship.
Megan Felcher shot 93 for the Dragons, who held off second-place Commerce by 30 strokes.
Chelsey Cain (101) and Katelyn Nevil (111) paced Commerce, who will play in the Class A State Championship at Bull Creek on May 7.
Athens Academy finished in third place and was led by Amanda Kittle (128) and Ashley Power (129).
ATHENS CHRISTIAN 10, TOWNS COUNTY 1: At Athens Christian, Alan Busenitz struck out nine in six innings to improve to 4-2.
Chris Ford powered the Eagles at the plate with a 3-for-4 performance including two doubles and two RBIs.
Athens Christian (13-9, 8-7 in Region 8-A) was paced by Clint Ogle (3-for-4, two RBIs) and Kris Fields (2-for-2, one RBI).
The Eagles will play at Social Circle on Friday and will host Commerce on Monday.
COMMERCE 10, SOCIAL CIRCLE 0 (5 innings): At Commerce, Dusty Black smacked two home runs and got the win, striking out six and allowing just four hits.
The Tigers (11-9, 10-5 in Region 8-A) host Prince Avenue on Thursday.
Besides Black's homers, Josh Beauchamp added a solo home run. Jake Flint went 2-for-2 with a three-run homer. He also scored three runs.
JEFFERSON 19, TALLULAH FALLS 2 (4 innings): At Tallulah Falls, the Dragons made it look routine again, as they scored 11 runs in the first two innings and cruised.
Jefferson (22-1, 14-1 in Region 8-A) plays at Towns County at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
The Dragons received another stellar outing from Cameron Blinn. Anthony Dowker (2-for-4) drove in five runs and Tyler Hill hit a three-run homer and had a double.
Devon Mayfield went 2-for-3, and Zach Kles went 1-for-1 with a double.
ATHENS ACADEMY 10, LAKEVIEW ACADEMY 3: Evans Wellborn hit a three-run homer during a six-run fourth inning and starter Johnny Hitchcock pitched 52/3 innings of no-hit baseball as the Spartans routed the Lions.
Athens Academy (15-7, 11-3 in Region 8-A) plays at Hebron Christian on Thursday.
Hitchcock (7-1) went the distance, allowing four hits and striking out two. McKay Matthews went 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI, and Patrick Jensen went 1-for-2 with two runs. Sam Pittard was 2-for-4, and Hitchcock went 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
PRINCE AVENUE 14, HEBRON CHRISTIAN 4: At Bogart, Jake Harris notched the complete-game victory and brother Buck Harris went 3-for-3 with four RBIs and a home run.
Prince Avenue (8-11, 7-6 in Region 8-A) also received three RBIs from Todd Lee (2-for-3). Jake Harris (2-0) struck out six.
Girls tennis
DUNWOODY 3, OCONEE COUNTY 2: At Watkinsville, Mackenzie Howe was the Lady Warriors' only singles winner as the defending Class AAA state champions fell in the first round of the state tournament.
Howe, the No. 3 player, won her match 6-0, 6-2, and Marystuart Avants and Megan Settlemeyer won their No. 2 doubles match 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.
No. 1 singles Nicole Palardy lost 7-5, 6-4, No. 2 Kirstin Rodrigues lost 6-0, 6-0, and the No. 1 doubles tandem of Jennifer Ingram and Katie Rockwell lost 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.
Boys tennis
BLESSED TRINITY 3, OCONEE COUNTY 2: At Watkinsville, the Warriors fell in the first round of the Class AAA state tournament.
Kyle Forrester was the only singles winner, posting a 6-1, 6-1 victory. Matt Harder and Kevin Tan, the No. 1 doubles duo, won their match 6-2, 6-1.
No. 1 singles J.P. Graves lost 6-2, 6-3; No. 2 singles Brian Dong lost 6-2, 6-2; and Kyle Nelson and Jordan Johnson lost 6-0, 6-3 at No. 2 doubles.
Late Tuesday Girls track
ELBERT COUNTY WINS REGION: At Monroe, the Lady Blue Devils scored 132 points to win the Region 8-AAA title.
Oconee County finished second with 1211/2 and Monroe Area took third with 1001/2. The top two finishers in each event qualified for next week's state meet.
Elbert County won the 1,600-meter relay, and Lady Blue Devil Hanna Hunt won the 100 hurdles in 16.36, beating Hart County's Shaquetta Bates by half a second.
Bates and Tiesha Bates finished No. 1 and 2 in the 300 hurdles.
Monroe Area's Keisha Spikes won the 400, and Elbert County's D.D. Downer took second.
Spikes took second in the 200, and teammates Jordanne Helton took second in the 3,200 and Brittany Kirkland was second in the 100.
Oconee County's Ann Centner won the 800, and the Lady Warriors' Lindsay Taras took second. Lady Warrior Mackenzie Howe won the 3,200.
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The sellers of the childhood home of late NIRVANA mainman Kurt Cobain have received more than 50 bids for the Montesano, Washington house, the highest for more than $40 million, but eventually narrowed down the most serious offer to $210,000, which is $10,000 over the minimum set by Ed and Jennifer McKee of Oregon City, Oregon."It feels good to be a millionaire - on paper, at least," Ed McKee told the Associated Press. "It's hard for us to take these huge bids seriously because there's a lot of pranksters out there." The couple bought the 2,313-square-foot home, 70 miles southwest of Seattle, for $42,500 last month without knowing Cobain lived there from ages 11 to 15 with his father and stepmother. The seller was a bank that had foreclosed on the property. An attorney for Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and their daughter said Thursday the Cobain estate hadn't authorized the auction. "The estate will not be authorizing any commercial use of Mr. Cobain's name or likeness at the property," attorney Paul Karl Lukacs said. The McKees buy old houses to refurbish and sell, but said they've done no work on the four-bedroom, two-bathroom house, which was built in 1908 and valued at $52,660 in 2000. Much of the house — including Cobain's bedroom — hasn't changed since he lived there and the interior needs some work, McKee said.
KURT COBAIN's Childhood Home To Be Sold For $210,000
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Source: Siemens
Effective February 1, 2012, Adil Toubia (53) will become CEO of the Oil & Gas Division of Siemens Energy. He succeeds Tom Blades, who has been appointed as a member of the Managing Board of Linde AG. Adil Toubia brings three decades of experience in this branch of industry and was most recently a partner in Energy Capital Group, a private equity investment firm in the oil and gas industry. Prior to that, he held executive positions at GCC Energy Fund and Schlumberger. "We're pleased to have secured a recognized leader with international experience in the oil and gas industry as CEO of our Oil & Gas Division," said Michael Suess, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of the Energy Sector.
Adil Toubia studied at Columbia University in New York and gained a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1981. He then began his professional career at Schlumberger, where he worked for 22 years and held various executive positions. Toubia is married and has two children. He speaks fluent Arabic and English, as well as German, French and Norwegian. He is a Norwegian national.
The Oil & Gas Division offers products and solutions for the extraction, processing and transport of oil and gas. The portfolio includes industrial gas turbines, compressors and products for deep-sea power supply. In fiscal 2011, the Division had revenues of EUR4.7 billion and posted a profit of EUR467 million.
Adil Toubia appointed CEO of the Siemens Oil & Gas Division
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Clemson Student Uses Artificial Intelligence to Gain 10x Speedup on Altera Cyclone FPGA
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High Level synthesis (HLS)
High Level synthesis tools convert applications written in a high-level language like C to Hardware Description Languages like Verilog and VHDL. Some of the advantages of using high level synthesis are as follows:
- It is easier to modify high-level code than HDL code; the application can thus be easily optimized
- Functional behavior can be verified through software simulation
- Applications developed in a high-level language can be easily ported to FPGAs
- A hardware testbench can be generated directly from the software testbench
- Development time is greatly reduced
This Blokus example used Impulse C to construct parallel computational blocks called processes which communicate using various interfaces. These communication interfaces, provided as library components with the tool, include streams, shared memory, semaphores, and messages.
The compiler also provides features, in the form of compiler pragmas, for fine-grained optimization of the design. This enables the developer to concentrate entirely on coarse grained optimization like load balancing amongst the various processes. Some of the fine grained optimization features used in this project are as follows:
- PIPELINE: This is used to pipeline loops where each iteration takes more than one clock cycle to complete
- UNROLL: This is used to compute each iteration of a loop in parallel
- FLATTEN: This is used to execute a large block of nested "if-else" statements in a single clock cycle
- There are other compiler constructs that utilize the benefits of dual ported RAM through multiple read write operations wherever possible
Various utilities provided with the development toolkit enable the designer to gauge the efficiency of the generated hardware from the high-level code. One such utility is the "Stage Master Explorer," which provides information regarding:
- Partitioning of code into combinational and sequential blocks
- Tentative delays of the combinational blocks (which affects the clock speed)
- Latency and throughput of compiler generated pipelines; any conflicts therein
As an illustration, consider the following code snippet:
The corresponding output is as illustrated below:
Performance analysis
The performance of the current implementation was compared against a software solution executing the same algorithm. Following are the implementation details, performance results, and analysis:
- Algorithm: Minimax-based game tree search with alpha-beta pruning
- Software solution: Executes on single core of a 2.00GHz Intel Xeon processor
- FPGA implementation: Executes on a 50MHz Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE115F29C7 FPGA
When the game tree is searched to a depth of 2, the speedup achieved is around 11X. The speedup varies during the course of the game as the load pattern changes. The speedup mentioned above is one among the higher values achieved when there are maximum moves to search.
When the game tree is searched to a depth of 3, the speedup achieved is around 4X. The decrease in speedup can be attributed to the following reason. Pruning of the game tree search occurs best when the latest values of alpha and beta are used, which happens in case of the sequential software solution. However, due the distributed architecture of the FPGA implementation, each process communicates only with its parent process. This results in various processes using older values of alpha and beta, thus leading to inefficient pruning and redundant search overhead.
The code for this example is available for qualified researchers (please contact the author as discussed below).
Future work
Further acceleration is possible through algorithmic improvements to the minimax algorithm, including techniques like aspiration search, iterative deepening, and distributed tree search. Architectural improvements involve exploring communication and computation trade-offs.
About the author
Nilim Sarma is a Masters Candidate in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. He is a part of Dr. Melissa Smith's "Future Computing Technologies" research group. He is currently working on optimizing algorithms for hardware accelerators like FPGA and GPGPU. He has three years of industry experience in embedded systems programming. He can be reached via email@example.com.
Related posts:
- Xilinx UltraScale FPGA Offers 50 Million Equivalent ASIC Gates
- Why There's No Need to Fear JESD204B
- The History of Programmable Logic Technology
- A Few Good Bits
- Want to Join Me in the EDA Playground?
- DCD's DSMART ASIC/FPGA IP Core for Smart Card Reader Apps
- JESD204B Surging Ahead: News From Altera & TI


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Patient-Focused Advocacy Partnerships
The Celgene Patient Advocacy program collaborates with independent patient organizations that support and advocate on behalf of patients and their families. The work with these groups aims to strengthen the support for patients, from diagnosis to chronic treatment and end-of-life care. These collaborations are critical to achieving our common mission of improving the lives of the people we serve around the world.
Celgene's Patients' Partners is an outreach program launched at the end of 2011 and has been continuing since then. Through this program, Celgene's senior management meets with experts on emerging issues and provides a forum for sharing ideas and discussions on how Celgene and advocates can work together to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
The Patients' Partners program works to meet the needs of patients and their families by working toward the following goals:
- Advancing an ongoing discussion and exchange of information about issues important to patients through a series of online and in-person meetings.
- Accessing the knowledge and experiences of patient advocates to ensure that patients get access to critical life-saving therapies.
- Acting through sharing of information, encouraging collaborations and highlighting advocate programs and initiatives that address unmet patient needs.
Patients' Partners works through various activities aimed at education and support of both patients and patient groups, and includes:
- The Pay It Forward Program, where funding is provided for internal capacity building and provides an avenue of shared knowledge and learning for necessary stakeholders.
- The Advocacy Council that supports the Patient Advocacy team and is represented and staffed by members of the community.
- E-newsletters and webinars that provide for education and knowledge for patients and advocacy stakeholders.
The Patient Advocacy Program will consider requests for sponsorships and donations for activities and initiatives from independent patient and professional organizations. Requests must be consistent with Celgene's mission and focus areas.
To view information about eligibility, submission guidelines, requirements, deadlines and the application process, click here to view Application FAQ. Applications must be submitted 30 days prior to the start date of your program/event. Applications submitted less than that time-frame will not be considered for review.
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Jimmy Fallon and Gwyneth Paltrow Give the Broadway Treatment to Hip Hop Jams
Of course, the real joke of 'Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon's adoration for translating current rap and hip hop songs into Broadway versions is simple, it's in the text. It's current songs made into Broadway versions. Easy! But the difference between an okay "Broadway covers" sketch and a great one is how much Fallon and his chosen guest sell it.
Chris Hemsworth Gets Soaking Wet on 'The Tonight Show' Water Wars
It's Water War! Jimmy Fallon's most bizarre and icy cold game yet! A game of chance, and um, hydration, Water War pits the 'Tonight Show' host against an especially down-for-whatever guest (after all, what sort of person would be okay with having water poured all over them on national television? a cool one, that's who!) in a battle to see who can get more soaking, sopping wet. That's the aim of the game, right? No? Then 'Blackhat' star Chris Hemsworth lost? What kind of world is this?!
Lena Dunham and J.K. Simmons Battle in a Fierce Game of Pictionary
Pictionary! It's one of the few games that Jimmy Fallon makes his 'Tonight Show' guests play that hasn't been totally twisted from its original form. It's a classic. But it's also an interesting way to gain keen insight into the way various people operate, even away from the game-playing stage of Fallon's late show.
'Portlandia' Stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Reveal the Feminist Bookstore Backstory
Flashback! No, just flashing lights. Wait, wait, no, it's both! 'Portlandia' stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein hit 'The Tonight Show' last night to talk a little bit about their show's newest season (which starts tonight), which will apparently be heavy on the flashbacks and backstory. How did all of your favorite 'Portlandia' characters meet? This season just might pack a very special punch for you.
Watch Jimmy Fallon Realize That He Blew a Chance to Date Nicole Kidman
Kidman and Fallon have previously met—all celebrities know each other, obviously—but while Fallon remembered their years-ago hang as a sort of weirdly casual thing, Kidman recalls it a bit differently. For Kidman, it was a romantic prospect, and the look on Fallon's face when he realizes what might have been is genuinely priceless. You really blew this one, Fallon.
Watch Bradley Cooper Show Off His Oddly Impressive Air Guitar Chops
Like many of us, 'Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon appears to believe that Hollywood superstar Bradley Cooper can do anything -- and, based on his impressive resume of stage and screen roles and accolades, the guy can't be too off the mark. But there is one that Cooper isn't so great at: music. It's sort of surprising, really, and even the overly solicitous Fallon was a little dumbstruck when Cooper admitted that his musical talents are minimal on last night's show.
Watch Jimmy Fallon and Oprah Winfrey Relive Their Soap Opera Days Together
No, you have not gone crazy--Oprah Winfrey and Jimmy Fallon never starred in a soap opera, certainly not one together--but let's not let that small factoid get in the way of a good (if wholly imaginary and also extremely weird) sketch.
Watch Chris Rock Reminisce About His Rap Deal That Never Worked Out
Comedian/actor/writer/director Chris Rock has already proven that he can do just about everything -- and do it pretty well, if his upcoming feature 'Top Five' is any indication -- but the funny man almost had another major career move bulleted on his resume. Before Rock made it big as an actor, he dabbled in the disc jockey arts, deeming his own skills to be "nice!" After the DJing came a deal for a rap record, which was made, but never released, a weird bit of trivia that Rock shared with Jimmy Fallon on 'The Tonight Show' last night.
President Barack Obama Took Over 'The Colbert Report' Last Night
"Stephen, you've been taking a lot of shots at my job, I decided I'm going to go ahead and take a shot at yours."
'The Colbert Report' host Stephen Colbert has been teasing his biggest show ever for awhile now, including a stopover in Washington, D.C. and a long-form chat with President Barack Obama, but even he can't possibly have foreseen how that event would turn out. Essentially, it resulted in the talk show host losing his job...to President Obama, who swept on to stage and hijacked the show from an aghast -- but totally willing -- Colbert, only to put his own spin on what it means to host a political chat show. Does Colbert have something to worry about? We vote yes.
Joaquin Phoenix Announced His Engagement on 'The Late Show'
Often, particularly colorful characters take to the various late shows to flex the full range of their unique spirit, just for funsies. Joaquin Phoenix looked to be going down that precise path on last night's 'Late Show,' actively imitating himself learning yoga, calling his more personal bits "Julio Igelasias," and just generally having a good time. Host David Letterman looked nervous, but Phoenix looked relaxed, and that might be why Phoenix's good-time appearance took a serious turn when the 'Inherent Vice' star announced his engagement on air.


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August 14, 2008: – – Costa Mesa — 7 days, 4 icons, 2 World Champions, 1 bus, 1 coast: The Rip Curl Right Coast Raid is locked and loaded to bring the world's best surfers to the East Coast for one week of domination, August 18-24.
From New York to Florida, Mick Fanning, Tom Curren, Taylor Knox, and Pancho Sullivan will be making appearances at select surf accounts, select surf locations, and select nighttime venues to throw movie premieres, autograph signings, and account "Surf Exhibition Missions" to the East Coast's finest.
"I'm psyched," released the reigning ASP World Champ, Mick Fanning. "It'll be wicked to cut loose for a week, and check out different parts of the East Coast." Teammate and current ASP World Tour top 45, Taylor Knox, is equally excited for next week. "Are you kidding me? I have been growing out my handlebar mustache for 2 weeks for this thing!"
The boys will be navigating the right coast compliments of a luxury 43′ Dutchstarr coach. To stay up to date on all appearance locations, times, photos, news, etc. check out ripcurl.com/rightcoastraid
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Brave New World: Point Pleasant- 12-1 p.m.
Heritage Surf Shop: 3-4 p.m.
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Outerbanks Boarding Company- 7:30-9:30 p.m.
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Maui Nix- 5-9 p.m.
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Attaching a debugger to the silverlight client of a deployed LightSwitch app
I recently encountered a problem which only pops up in the deployed application (in production so to speak) and which is not reproducable when running the LightSwitch application in debug. Furthermore, the problem happened client side (in the silverlight code). As a result, activating tracing server side on the IIS server didn't have any sense.
I tried without any result, to attach the debugger to the browser connected to the LightSwitch application . I always got "The breakpoint will not currently be hit":
The magic solution
The magic solution is to install the silverlight debug helper which installs as a Visual Studio Extension and runs in the background until a Silverlight debug session is started. It can be downloaded here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b5f1634e-1608-4376-8f00-caf93f5f58c8
How to attach a debugger to the browser?
Just for completeness: select from the menu in visual studio:
Secondly, make sure to select the correct browser instance.
You will see now that the breakpoint red bullets are now nicely solid, and they will be hit:


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Kendra Stitt Robins
Project Night Night
San Francisco, California
Simply put, Kendra Stitt Robins helps homeless children have sweeter dreams. A former corporate attorney, Kendra got bitten by the giving bug while helping clients form nonprofit organizations. When she and her husband took an extensive trip with their then-18-month-old son, Cole, she noticed that he could fall asleep peacefully anywhere and wake up to a great day if he had consistent reminders of home: blanket, book, and stuffed animal.
On their return home, Kendra took spare comfort items for children out of her own household to a homeless shelter. She was promptly asked if she could provide more. Soon her neighbors pitched in, and Kendra realized, Victims of domestic violence are lucky to be able to escape with their children, let alone their childrens favorite teddy bears. Adults need a roof over their heads and food on the table to feel safe; children need to know theres nothing scary under the bed. A book, a blanket, and a stuffed animal make them feel secure.
Founded in 2005, Project Night Night has provided those items, tucked in a canvas tote, to 125,000 children through the efforts of some 10,000 volunteers a year in every state.
Among the ways to get involved are by donating items or money, by hosting events, or by sponsoring a night-night package. Donors may ask that shelters in their own communities be served. Children, especially Girl Scouts, are among the organizations most zealous volunteers, making no-sew blankets and fund-raising. One troop even made Project Night Night badges for their uniforms!
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When the movie The Hunger Games came out earlier this year, approximately every single person in America who wanted to sound smart (or at least sound like they'd heard of a semi-obscure foreign film) simultaneously said "That sounds like a ripoff of Battle Royale," referring of course to the Japanese film from the year 2000 in which teens fought each other to the death in a government-sponsored contest. There were actually some pretty significant differences between the (surprisingly good in my opinion) Hunger Games movie (and its source novel by Suzanne Collins) and Battle Royale (and its source novel by Koushun Takami) aside from the general similarity of the premise, but that similarity is enough that the two properties have been linked in entertainment news stories since the Hunger Games novel came out in 2008.
The Japanese film version of Battle Royale was one of the biggest cult films of the last twelve years. As this excellent "New Cult Canon" entry on the film by Scott Tobias explains Battle Royale was never officially distributed in the United States, but instead has existed in a sort of gray market of special screenings and bootleg imported DVDs, fueling its status as a cult object. Part of the reason for this is that the Japanese rights holders to the film wanted more money up front and a wider release for it than was realistic given the film's subject matter, which includes much more graphic teen-on-teen violence than the Hunger Games movie. This in turn led to the impression that the film had been "banned" in the US, perhaps in response to the Columbine killings, though technically this wasn't the case.
There have also been talks about doing an American remake of Battle Royale since as far back as 2006, two years before the first Hunger Games novel was published. According to this exclusive Los Angeles Times report those plans were dropped as soon as the Hunger Games movie came out this spring, because "no studio would want to risk looking like copycats."
One entertainment company that's definitely not concerned about looking like copycats is the television network the CW, which has made a sort of cottage industry of taking whatever genre is popular at the moment and making a teen soap opera about it. The most successful example by far is Vampire Diaries, an open attempt to make a CW version of the Twilight saga (already a teen soap opera basically) and the network's biggest ever hit by a wide margin.
Now the CW is doubling down on the red hot "teenagers killing each other" trend. They already had a show called The Selection in development which was billed as being Hunger Games-like. Now, according to the LA Times report they are also in preliminary talks about acquiring the rights to Battle Royale and turning it into an hour long drama series.
The talks are in the preliminary stage, and the CW would have to get the approval of Takami himself, but one assumes a CW version of Battle Royale would have to look a lot different than the novel, or the film, or the manga series. For one thing, a network television show couldn't be nearly as graphic. And, the need to keep a drama series going means that there couldn't be nearly as many character deaths. But, as Sean O'Neal points out, the Gossip Girl like school uniforms are definitely in the CW's wheelhouse.
'Battle Royale' could be reborn as a TV show [Los Angeles Times]
The New Cult Canon: Battle Royale [AV Club]
The CW's quest for a Hunger Games-like TV show leads them to consider Battle Royale [AV Club]


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A 15-year-old medical office building near CaroMont Regional Medical Center recently changed hands.
A 15-year-old medical office building near CaroMont Regional Medical Center recently changed hands. The sale of Summit Crossing Place likely won�t be noticed by the average worker there, much less the average Gastonia resident. Rather than buying it to reinvent the medical office wheel, the new owners saw it as a great investment, said Donnie Hicks, executive director of the Gaston County Economic Development Commission.
�They were pretty bullish on the building,� he said.
Summit Crossing Place was built in 1998. It comprises 91,000 square feet and sits on 8.8 acres, just west of the hospital off Court Drive. The three-story complex is currently home to Carolina Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center, Summit Eye Associates, Piedmont Adult & Pediatric and other tenants. Pearson Properties in Gastonia sold the building in 2007 to a group of California investors for $18.75 million. It was in turn sold again late last month for $20.3 million to Healthcare Realty Trust Inc., a real estate investment group based in Nashville, Tenn.
Hicks said he met the new buyers a few months ago so they could look over the building and ask any other questions about it. Medical office complexes such as Summit Crossing are seen as being very lucrative for investors, he said. �It�s not uncommon for buildings like that to get bought and sold,� he said. �They�re often refinanced and flipped.�
The new buyers were well aware that Carolina Orthopedic plans to move out of the first and third floors and relocate nextdoor within a couple of years, Hicks said. The longtime tenant is building a new, 29,000-square-foot complex along the corner of North New Hope Road and Court Drive.
�They said they had a tremendous amount of interest in it,� said Hicks, citing their confidence in finding another medical provider to fill the space. �They weren�t concerned at all.�
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A south Belfast councillor whose soldier son was seriously injured in Afghanistan has praised the work of a group of local women who helped raise more than £12,000 for a charity that helps British troops wounded in battle.
The group of women presented a cheque for £12,453.20 last week to Help for Heroes after organising a sponsored walk from Belfast to Lisburn in September.
Balmoral Councillor Bob Stoker's son Michael, 22, suffered a broken pelvis and 30 percent burns after the vehicle he was in hit a mine and overturned at the end of May.
The Queen's Royal Hussars soldier had to undergo a skin graft operation at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, following the blast.
Councillor Stoker said his son is now doing very well and was delighted to have been involved in the cheque presentation. And he added: "People were very humbled by the amount raised — especially in these very difficult economic times."
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Manny Pacquiao's done, they say. The million dollar smile's still there, but the fiery desire that has defined the larruping lefty's rise has all but disintegrated into dust, and his failure to finish off his last few foes in typically emphatic fashion is indicative of his decline.
Or is it? While his detractors have been boasting such claims after two consecutive un-Pacquiao outings tarnished his demigod reputation, the Filipino superstar has dismissed the invective heading into Saturday's fourth bout with Mexican archrival Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (HBO PPV, 6 p.m. PT).
"In the last fight, I took Marquez too lightly because I was the bigger man physically," Pacquiao (54-4-2, 38 KOs) said at their initial press conference. "My focus this time is to go for the knockout."
I, too, have had my qualms about whether his recent rut is an anomaly or the beginning of the end for the 33-year-old. As someone who had Pacquiao winning their first fight in 2004 by three points (the judges had it a draw) and the second clash in 2008 by a single point (which ended up being the case), I disagreed with the official verdict of split decision for Pacquiao in their third meeting last November. Rather, I felt Marquez did enough to win by at least two points on my ringside card.
"I still think I won all three fights," Marquez (54-6-1, 39 KOs) told Ring Magazine's Lem Satterfield. "This fight will be another war. Everybody is going to watch another war because he knows me and I know him."
Then there was that debacle six months ago where almost every observer and his dog thought Pacquiao had outpointed Timothy Bradley by a wide margin—only for the judges to treat the general public the way Lucy does Charlie Brown with a football.
Rather than avenge the dubious decision, however, Pacquiao opted for another go-around with Marquez, who will make him more money but further opened speculation that dollars have seized control of a career trajectory that has already taken the "Pac-Man" to title belts in an unprecedented eight weight classes—four of them true lineal championships in this era of alphabet soup.
While Pacquiao-Bradley generated about 700,000 pay-per-view buys, Pacquiao Marquez III almost doubled that figure. According to Yahoo's Kevin Iole, Top Rank president Todd DuBoef has estimated Pacquiao's share on Saturday to be upwards of $25 million; Marquez will also rake in a lot more than his guarantee of $3 million.
Pacquiao has insisted that this fight is more than a money grab, stating, "If I chose Bradley, it would be another one-sided fight. I don't think the fans wanted to see me fight Bradley again."
Throw in the extracurricular distractions of trading his late nights gambling for Bible study in hopes of resuscitating his marital life, his political ambitions as a congressman in the Philippines, as well as the fact that reported to his Hollywood training camp two weeks late, and one can reasonably come to the conclusions espoused in the initial paragraph—right or wrong.
"I want to erase the last fights and any doubt in [fight] number four," Pacquiao said. "I will focus this time…I will fight and train like the old Manny—the 25-year-old Manny."
Of course, keeping slim hopes alive for a Fight to Trump All Fights with Floyd Mayweather would constitute beating Marquez once and for all. It was only three years ago that Mayweather—albeit enjoying a size advantage—dismantled the Mexican great with ease, and it has served as a transitive argument in the American juggernaut's case for his superiority to Pacquiao. (The counterpoint is that styles make fights, but that's another article in itself.)
Thus, a decisive defeat on Saturday would further impair the already waning intrigue surrounding Pacquiao-Mayweather. Then again, a resounding knockout from the "Pac-Man" of old would rejuvenate the buzz for a bout that has been estimated to generate $160-180 million in pay-per-view gross revenue alone.
So while the burden of proof is on Pacquiao to demonstrate that he still belongs in the discussion of world's pound-for-pound king, Marquez is out to show that he has been criminally deprived of a seat at the royal table for years.
"It seems that Manny has only one opponent every time we fight—me—while I have four—Manny and the three judges," Marquez said in his HBO training blog.
Though Marquez's illustrious ledger is filled with several memorable triumphs, his inability to harpoon his pugilistic Moby Dick in three tries has defined him in the public eye. In reality, the four-division titleholder's career has been littered with instances of hard luck, with some of it self-inflicted.
Marquez's pro debut 19 years ago was a disaster, falling to Javier Duran by first-round disqualification. As he rebounded from that setback and started winning championship bouts in the lower weight classes, he found himself overshadowed by former stablemate Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales for the distinction of Mexico's heir apparent to Julio Cesar Chavez.
Moreover, after furiously rallying from three first-round knockdowns to earn a draw with Pacquiao, he rejected what he considered a lowball offer of $750,000 for a 2006 rematch—only to end up controversially losing his title belt to Chris John in an Indonesian parking lot for $30,000. (I can't make up that last part if I tried.)
He would eventually secure two more bouts with Pacquiao, but would be punished by the judges for a calculated, counterpunching approach that at varying points of their three encounters was too negative in contrast to his foe's constant aggression. But don't tell that to the aggrieved party.
"I still get very angry when I think about those scored being read," Marquez said. "After two fights I felt I had won at least 19 of the 24 rounds."
In the first fight, Marquez was overwhelmed early by Pacquiao's speed and power, and had to dig himself out of a cavernous deficit. Then in the rematch, both judges who scored it for Pacquiao gave the Filipino rounds 3, 4, 6, 9, and 10. Almost on cue, the 12th and final frame in their third battle was Marquez's Waterloo.
Judges Robert Hoyle (114-114 even) and Dave Moretti (115-113 for Pacquiao) rewarded the Filipino's initiative to throw punches. On the other hand, Marquez erred by conservatively backpedaling upon heeding his cornerman Nacho Beristain's advice that the bout was already won.
But it wasn't, and in preparation for the fourth contest, Marquez has unveiled an impossibly sculpted physique, vowing that he won't be taking a second off this time around. The development has raised questions about the integrity of the 39-year-old's training methods.
Marquez's strength coach, Angel Hernandez, has a sordid past. In 2000, as Angel Heredia, he admitted to supplying disgraced track stars Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery with performance enhancing drugs. Hernandez stated earlier this week that he's a changed man and has been working with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for the past six years.
"If [Marquez's body] is natural, I will kiss his ass," said Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach.
At this week's press conference, Marquez shot down the insinuations, even going as far to refer to Mayweather's allegations last year that Pacquiao has been using illegal substances. (Pacquiao filed a defamation suit against Mayweather before settling out of court in September.)
"Before the last fight in November [2011], there had been accusations about [Pacquiao]," Marquez told USA Today's Jonny Saraceno. "People were saying things about him, and we didn't care. We never brought it up, and we did not know anything and we didn't think that it was something. So we didn't bring it up."
Pacquiao, who according to his fitness guru Alex Ariza is focusing strictly on boxing and not strength and conditioning for this camp, refrained from touching the subject of Marquez's new chiseled features in depth.
"I want to put that out of my mind and give him credit for working hard, and, and if you work hard, it's not about the size," Pacquiao said. "This is not about the size. I've been fighting the bigger guys, guys bigger than me, so it's about how you punch in the ring."
Of course, neither fighter's calling card during his rivalry has been the gift of gab, but rather the uncanny ability to bring out the best (and worst) out of his rival inside the squared circle. Will Pacquiao and Marquez treat Saturday like Round 37 and give us the same ebb and flow that has marked this trilogy, or will we see drastically different gameplans—and at long last, a clear victor?
"There's no way we're going to win a decision this time," Roach said. "When we were sitting at the press conference, Manny scratched it into the tablecloth that we need a knockout to win, and he's never done that before. I told him that I'm going to hold him to that."
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The global economy requires a new way of thinking about how
Technology, R&D, human resources, and management need to combine
Globalization may notbe new, but it has reached an unprecedented scale
over the past few years. Info-tech services companies, in particular,
are finding it advantageous to further globalize their workforce for a
number of reasons beyond simply lower labor costs: high concentrations
of unique skills, huge emerging economies that offer fertile ground
for innovation, and world-class centers of education that can serve as
a lightening rod for talent.
But globalizing a services workforce introduces new and unique
complexities, especially since the efficient management of people's
time and skills can mean the difference between profit and loss for a
services provider. That's why R&D for a services organization
needs to include a focus on the creation of services
"assets," as well as on new methods for improving efficiency
by optimizing the company's business model and its resources.
Services "assets" can include
software, such as a program that automates specific business
processes. Or it can be a combination of an application, business
methods, and services, such as "price-per-seat"
desktop-management services for small and midsize
businesses. Understanding the role of these assets in a services
business helps dispel a concern I hear from some graduate students in
computer science and other technical fields that a services-driven
economy is leading to erosion in fundamental technology research. In
truth, an asset-based approach to services actually creates a new
channel to the market for an R&D organization's technologies.
Services customers are often early adopters of new ideas and
technologies, making it fertile ground for development. Security and
privacy technologies, for example, have been used by insurance
companies to help investigators and auditors identify providers that
may be submitting fraudulent or abusive claims. By working with the
insurance industry, an R&D organization can develop and refine
cutting-edge security, which can, in turn, be shared with other
When it comes to
the best use of services resources -- primarily people -- R&D has
to grapple with the question of how a services company identifies
needed skills and makes them available where, when, and as long as
needed. Clearly, we're not talking a standard supply-chain scenario
here. People aren't machine parts that you can just as easily source
from worldwide suppliers.
Some of the same basic management
and distribution principles should still be applied, as people
represent a far more valuable and significant investment for a company
than parts. But these principles have to be augmented to take into
consideration decidedly human factors. This introduces a host of
variables that add enormously to the task's complexity.
Yet it's being done. Advances in mathematical research have taken our
ability to model such a situation way beyond the basic
"traveling-salesman analogy" -- a well-known mathematical
problem established long ago, where one needs to determine the optimal
order in which a salesman should visit a variety of cities around the
country in order to minimize his travel time and expense.
The complexity of the problem increases with the size of the
organization, as well as the variety of the skills involved. In a
typical services organization with global operations, we're dealing
with a huge number of "traveling salesmen," each with a
variety of changing skills, bouncing between scores of customer
projects, each with different needs and schedules, spread across the
entire world.
Imagine trying to manage all this just by looking at columns of data
on a page. Here, advances in visualization research are coming into
play. Rather than sifting through and interpreting pages of numbers,
visualization technology can provide easy-to-grasp maps. As Doppler
radar images are used to understand the impact of weather patterns on
certain areas, visualization can be used to identify skill gaps in
certain places at certain times over certain project targets.
For the longer term, some of these techniques can also be used to
predict and deal with changes in the overall workforce, such as the
bubble of expected baby boomer retirements, which could mean a loss of
critical experience and skills -- the stock in trade of any services
This is all part of a science of services -- it's not just about the
development of technologies, methodologies, and other assets for use
in the performance of services but the management and engineering of
services operations themselves. And it takes a unique combination of
technical and business-related skills and resources. These incredibly
complex mathematical models, for example, require very sophisticated
and powerful computer systems -- that is, if you expect the
calculations to complete in your lifetime. Fortunately, computing --
and now, supercomputing -- technology has been advancing in parallel,
making these calculations possible.
This is a new and rich field for scientists and engineers. And it
represents an even greater new era of opportunity for businesses. Just
as the optimization of parts supply chains helped drive down the cost
of PCs so every consumer could afford one, so too is the optimization
of intellectual-capital supply chains making the use of outside
resources through services more viable for business, government, and
other organizations. This means they can concentrate on core functions
and offload others where it makes sense.
Access to a more widely dispersed services resource can mean much more
than just closer geographic proximity to an enterprise's worldwide
operations. If properly managed, today's R&D advances can turn
those resources into an efficient, virtual talent pool.
So the traveling salesman may not be earning as many frequent-flier
miles, but his suitcase full of sellable goods will be a lot larger.


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The Toronto Raptors met with Chris Bosh at his home in Dallas in the wee hours of Thursday morning, but they got their man last night.
The Raptors aren't likely to sign Bosh, but they did reach an agreement with Amir Johnson, a bouncy power forward who was a fan favourite at the Air Canada Centre in 2009-10, and the possessor of a unique blend of youth and experience as a 23-year-old getting ready for his sixth NBA season.
Terms of the deal can't be confirmed until the NBA's salary cap for 2010-11 is finalized after July 8, but Johnson is expected to sign a five-year deal for $33-million (US) - or nearly double what he earned last season.
"There were a lot of teams that expressed interest but [Raptors president/general manager]Bryan Colangelo stepped up right away and made very clear that Amir was a priority," Johnson's agent, Bill Duffy, said.
What priority the Raptors are for Bosh, however, wasn't clear.
Thursday's meeting with Colangelo, just hours after Bosh became an unrestricted free agent, was the first among several the 26-year-old five-time NBA all-star has scheduled, as it appears he's intent on leaving the only franchise he's known.
With such a departure imminent, signing Johnson become even more important.
Meanwhile, the Raptors were also trying to smooth the waters with other members of their roster and took a solid step forward with Hedo Turkoglu, who appeared on Turkish television saying a visit by new assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo has helped him warm up to the idea of returning to Toronto after a difficult first season.
Johnson's statistical production was relatively modest: Averaging 6.2 points and 4.8 rebounds a game while shooting 62.3 per cent from the floor in 2009-10. But he was a genial dressing room presence and consistent, hustling contributor off the bench who showed signs of better things to come (17.8 points and 6.0 rebounds a game, while shooting 69.6 per cent from the floor in five chances as a starter late in the season).
He earned $3.6-million last season, and got his raise in a heated free-agent market where as many as eight teams have $16-million of room under the salary cap.
Johnson's deal is comparable to one agreed to by Drew Gooden, who will reportedly earn $32-million over the next five years with the Milwaukee Bucks after averaging 10.9 points and 7.7 rebounds last season, split between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Dallas Mavericks. When adjusted for minutes played there are similarities: Johnson averaged 12.8 points and 9.8 rebounds per 36 minutes, while Gooden averaged 15.7 points and 11.1 rebounds per 36 minutes.
Mix in Johnson's youth and some competition for his services, and it demonstrates why the Raptors had to make a strong bid early.
"He's a young big with length who can run the floor, there is interest in him in the market," one source said. "And don't forget his age."
Elsewhere, the money taps were wide open as it was reported Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies, taken No. 8 in the 2006 draft (the same year Andrea Bargnani was taken first overall by the Raptors) had agreed to a five-year extension worth about $80-million. (Bargnani signed a five-year, $50-million extension last summer.)
And Joe Johnson became the first of the top-tier free agents to take himself of the market as he reportedly agreed to a six-year, $120-million contract to stay with the Atlanta Hawks.
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You may put a lot of money into your home, but how about building a home out of money? According to IrishTimes.com, an artist in Dublin, Ireland, has done it, using 1.4 billion in decommissioned euros to create a three-room apartment in the lobby of his studio.
Frank Buckley obtained two trailer loads' worth of euros from a local mint, for nothing but his signature on a ream of paperwork. The decommissioned, shredded euros come in brick form—perfect for building what turns out to be a well-insulated, statement-making dwelling. Buckley estimates that each brick contains about 50,000 former euros, adding up to a grand total of 1.4 billion ($1.8 billion) once the living room, bedroom and bath were completed. His most major project cost so far has been about 35 euros ($46) for wallpaper.
Buckley's installation hasn't just been his actual home since December—it's also a personal statement on the European credit crisis. The swift rise and fall of the construction business has played a central role in Ireland's economic troubles, and Buckley wanted to address the value of currency itself through a home truly made of money.


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Schertler left legacy of service
A Wadena native with a long and colorful career in the U.S. government passed away at home in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 22, 2011.
Leon Schertler was born April 10, 1923, and grew up in Wadena on Howard Street. World War II took Schertler from Wadena, as he left to fight in the South Pacific front. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy from 1942 to 1946 and was awarded the World War II Victory Ribbon, American Theater Campaign Ribbon, and Philippine Liberation Asiatic Pacific Campaign with one star.
His brother was killed around the time of the Battle of the Bulge.
Schertler did not return to live in Wadena when the war was over. He earned his bachelor of science degree in social studies, education and political science from the University of Minnesota in 1947, and also went to the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C.
"His career path took him into the government," son Tony Schertler said. "Traveled around the world first, and then lived in Washington, D.C."
According to an obituary written by daughter Helen Bridge of Rhode Island, from 1947 to 1951, he worked in Greece, Morocco and Germany for the U.S. Department of State, then spent most of the 1950s in the U.S. Department of the Navy.
Leon Schertler was assistant to the president of the People to People Foundation sponsor of Project Hope from 1959 to 1961.
He was the deputy director of training for the fledgeling Peace Corps in 1961 to 1963, then went on to be the assistant director of Food for Peace in 1963 to 1966, then the director of Central American Regional Office of the Ford Foundation in 1966 to 1968 in Costa Rica.
From 1968 to 1975 and again in 1976 to 1979, he was chief of plans and evaluation division in the Job Corps.
In 1976, the United States Bicentennial, he took leave to serve as the Tall Ships National Coordinator for Operation Sail. In the event, nearly 300 large ships from more than 50 countries paraded 19 miles up the Hudson River in New York City.
Leon Schertler retired from the federal government in 1979, but continued his love of watercraft through being in the leadership of Potomac Riverfest in 1985 and Operation Sail 1986.
Leon had a 62-year marriage with his surviving wife Jean (Broker) Schertler, and they had six daughters and sons who are spread all over the country. Tony lives and works in St. Paul as the senior vice president of Springstead Incorporated. He said Wadena is one of their clients for economic development work.
Leon Schertler's mother, Mabel (Thill) Schertler, continued to live in Wadena and passed away in 1989.
"We used to go out and visit her all the time," Tony Schertler recalled.
He said that he and his father would also visit Wadena to see Leon's lifelong friend Bob Zosel, who also recently passed away. A visit to Bob and Jean Zosel two years ago was the last time Leon set foot in Wadena.
Leon's father, Ted Schertler, was the Wadena fire chief during the 1940s.


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legendary director Mani Ratnam's movie Kaatru Veliyidai starring Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari first look poster launched.
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NEW YORK, Sept 13 (Reuters) - New York City passed the first U.S. ban of oversized sugary drinks on Thursday in its latest controversial step to reduce obesity and its deadly complications in a nation that is fatter than ever.
By a vote of eight members in favor, with one abstaining, the mayoral-appointed city health board outlawed sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces nearly everywhere they are sold, except groceries and convenience stores. Violators of the ban, which does not include diet sodas, face a $200 fine.
Opponents, who cast the issue as an infringement on personal freedom and called Mayor Michael Bloomberg an overbearing nanny, vowed to continue their fight, possibly by going to court in the hopes of blocking or overturning the measure before it takes effect in March.
"It's sad that the board wants to limit our choices. We are smart enough to make our own decisions about what to eat and drink," Liz Berman, a business owner and chairwoman of New Yorkers for Beverage Choices, said in a statement.
Health Commissioner Thomas Farley heralded the measure's passage as a major step toward making New Yorkers healthier and said it was likely to be copied elsewhere in the nation - and even the world - as were the city's bans on trans fats and smoking.
"This is a historic step to address a major health problem of our time," Farley said at the meeting immediately after the vote.
Farley recently said that if the law results in "shrinking only one sugary drink per person every two weeks from 20 ounces to 16 ounces, New Yorkers could collectively prevent 2.3 million pounds gained per year. This would slow the obesity epidemic and prevent much needless illness."
About one-third of Americans are obese, and about 10 percent of the nation's healthcare bill is tied to obesity-related diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and hypertension, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The OECD projects more than two out of three people will be overweight or obese in some developed countries by 2020.


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PBSC Tax Advocacy Project with Dentons Canada LLPPrint
It's difficult to imagine how justice can be served when a self-represented litigant finds herself up against a trained and experienced lawyer. This is particularly true in the context of tax law, a highly complex and specialized area of the justice system.
In an attempt to level this playing field, PBSC and Dentons Canada LLP partnered in 2011 to pilot the innovative Tax Advocacy Project (TAP). The only pro bono project of its kind in Canada, TAP enables law students, with the assistance of a team of highly regarded tax litigators from Dentons Canada LLP, to gain practical experience representing low-income taxpayers before the Court.
The Tax Advocacy Project was initiated at the suggestion of the Chief Justice of Tax Court, The Honourable Gerald J. Rip, who was concerned about the large number of unrepresented litigants appearing in the Tax Court – a staggering 5,000 between 2008 and 2012. Even more distressing was the fact that many of these taxpayers actually had a strong basis to appeal assessments of tax, interest or penalties issued by the Canada Revenue Agency, but had neither the information nor the skill set necessary to be successful in court.
The PBSC-TAP currently operates in several Canadian law faculties, including McGill, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, as well as the University of Toronto where the program originated. All of the projects are run in partnership with Dentons, which has developed and delivers a rigorous training program for the students, and provides supervision to the students on all aspects of the files. Most recently, PBSC-Dalhousie teamed up with the Atlantic law firm McInnis Cooper LLP, and a Halifax TAP will launch this Fall.
Working in pairs, TAP students are involved in all stages of the litigation process. Even before their files are assigned they spend a morning observing a trial in the Tax Court and they meet with the presiding judge in chambers after the hearing. They also benefit from an introductory session with the former Chief Justice of the Tax Court, Don Bowman, who is counsel at Dentons. They meet as a group to review their files and then interview their clients, obtain relevant information and documents, assemble a list of witnesses, prepare legal submissions and, finally, conduct the hearing. After the conclusion of the trials, they attend a debrief session where everyone provides their thoughts on how the process can be improved for the following year. At all stages of the process they are assisted by a Dentons lawyer, who even attends the hearing to answer any questions the student advocates may have during recesses and adjournments.
The TAP project has quickly become one of the most highly sought-after pro bono opportunities on campus, with students selected through a competitive application process. Barbara Grossman, Chair of the Ontario Pro Bono Committee and a partner at Dentons, sees the PBSC TAP volunteers as the potential "next generation" of lawyers at Bay Street firms like Dentons, with a significant tax and litigation practice and a strong pro bono culture. She notes that applicants with actual courtroom and settlement negotiation experience that is gained in the TAP program will have an advantage in the hiring process for positions at many firms and will also be better able to determine their own areas of career interest. Some students who have participated in the PBSC TAP program now have reported decisions from the TCC to their credit including judicial compliments about the assistance they provided to their client and to the Court.
The TAP provides students with an opportunity to gain experience that simply cannot be earned in the classroom. Students benefit from having some of the best lawyers in the field available to answer questions and provide assistance, not just on the substantive areas of tax law but also on procedural matters that are applicable to any litigation process. Evelyn Dormer, a University of Toronto Faculty of Law graduate and former volunteer with the TAP, remarked that the opportunity to apply what she had learned in her tax class to real-life court struggles was "invaluable." David Spiro, counsel at Dentons and the lead lawyer on the project, indicated that he has been extremely impressed with the quality of the student work on this project. He says he was "not at all surprised" to learn that Dormer was subsequently offered a prestigious clerkship with the Tax Court of Canada in Ottawa. Spiro also says that "the students who participate in this project are way ahead of their classmates – it doesn't matter if they want to pursue a career in tax planning, tax litigation or any kind of litigation at all – the experience of being on their feet in the courtroom is simply invaluable!"
While practical legal experiences and strong résumé building are important, students consistently remark that the real value of the project for them is the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on vulnerable members of the community. Evelyn Dormer proudly shares an excerpt from an email she received from one of her tax clients, who wrote: "Thank you for all your hard work. You have been awesome and again, and I'm blessed to know that God does send good people like you my way. I'm forever grateful!"
The TAP project has received attention and accolades from across the country, including a 2011 Lexpert Zenith Award for PBSC and Dentons for the contribution the project makes to legal education in Canada. PBSC and Dentons hope to expand the project to additional cities and law schools in Canada in the coming years.
Recent Dentons Publications
"Pro Bono Representation: Legal Aid and the Self- Represented Litigant in the Tax Court of Canada" by former Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada Donald Bowman for The International Association of Tax Judges Newsletter
"The Settlement of Tax Dispute in Canada", by former Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada Donald Bowman for The International Association of Tax Judges Newsletter


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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank is likely to rely more on public communications as a policy tool as it seeks to provide clarity about the likely future path of interest rates.
"The FOMC continues to explore ways to further increase transparency about its forecasts and policy plans," Bernanke said today in a speech in Boston. "Forward guidance and other forms of communication about policy can be valuable even when the zero lower bound is not relevant, and I expect to see increasing use of such tools in the future."
Bernanke and his colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee have approved untested policy tools at their last two meetings to spur a recovery that has left the unemployment rate stuck near 9 percent or higher for 30 consecutive months. The central bank in August pledged to hold interest rates near zero until mid-2013, and in September the Fed announced it will swap $400 billion of short-term debt for longer-term securities in a bid to lower interest rates.
Unable to lower interest rates below zero, the central bank has relied on forward guidance about its intentions and manipulation of the size and composition of its assets to provide stimulus to the economy, Bernanke said.
Policy makers are weighing how to offer more information about the Fed's goals, and how such targets influence its decisions. Most FOMC members favor providing more information than the economic forecasts the Fed publishes quarterly, according to minutes of the Sept. 20-21 session. The FOMC has established a working group to study transparency initiatives.
'Normal Times'
"In more normal times, when short-term policy rates are not constrained, I expect that balance-sheet policies will be rarely used," Bernanke said in a speech at the Boston Fed's annual economic conference.
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, Narayana Kocherlakota of Minneapolis and Charles Plosser of Philadelphia dissented from the decisions at the Fed's last two meetings. Fisher, who has dubbed the Fed's Operation Twist "jujitsu with the yield curve," said in a Sept. 27 speech that the central bank's recent moves "are likely to prove ineffective and might well work against job creation."
Kocherlakota said in a speech last week that "the committee's actions at the last two meetings are inconsistent with a systematic pursuit of its communicated objectives," noting that unemployment of 9.1 percent in September was down from the 9.8 percent reported in November while most measures of inflation have risen.
Long-Run Estimates
Currently, the FOMC publishes its range of long-run estimates for gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation, a proxy for policy goals. The range for inflation in June, for example, was 1.7 percent to 2 percent as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index. The range for unemployment was 5.2 percent to 5.6 percent.
The Fed has drawn criticism from top Republican lawmakers, who sent Bernanke a letter before the last meeting asking him not to do "further harm" to the economy and to better explain the Fed's actions.
Lawmakers, including House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, urged Bernanke to refrain from further monetary stimulus, "particularly without a clear articulation of the goals of such a policy" and "ample data proving a case for economic action." Americans, they said, "have reason to be skeptical" of his plans.
Flexible Targeting
While the Fed lacks a "formal, numerical inflation target," its policies have "many of the elements of flexible inflation targeting," Bernanke said. "Like flexible inflation targeters, the Federal Open Market Committee is committed to stabilizing inflation over the medium run while retaining the flexibility to help offset cyclical fluctuations in economic activity and employment."
Policy makers' long-run inflation projections are "analogous" to targets even though they aren't a "formal inflation goal of the Committee as a whole," Bernanke said.
Flexible inflation-targeting has helped the Fed in manage expectations about prices, Bernanke said.
"The commitment to a policy framework that is transparent about objectives and forecasts was helpful, in many instances, in managing those expectations and thus in making monetary policy both more predictable and more effective during the past few years than it might otherwise have been."
Bernanke also said that monetary policy may be "too blunt a tool" to control asset-price bubbles. Instead, he said, measures such as ensuring adequate bank capital and liquidity "should be used to address developing risks to financial stability, such as excessive credit growth."
10-Year Yields
The yield on 10-year Treasuries fell to a record close of 1.72 percent the day after the Fed announced its program to lengthen maturities of the bonds in its portfolio, known as Operation Twist. The yield has since risen to 2.18 percent as of 4:51 p.m. in New York. Lower yields may help reduce borrowing costs across the economy, boosting industries including autos and housing.
Investors have raised their bets for price gains in recent weeks, as measured by the difference between inflation-adjusted and nominal Treasury securities over the next 10 years. Those expectations rose to 1.99 percent inflation today. That's up from 1.71 percent, their lowest level of 2011, on Sept. 22, the day after the Fed announced Operation Twist.
"Low interest rates for the entire industry is one of the reasons that we think that despite some economic volatility, the auto industry in general continues to be a bright spot in the economy, and we expect that to continue," Robert Carter, U.S. sales vice president for Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest carmaker, said during an Oct. 3 conference call.
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BEIJING, May 16 (UPI) -- Foreign direct investments in China grew 0.4 percent year-on-year in April, much slower than in the previous two months, the Commerce Ministry said Thursday.
FDI inflows in April totaled $8.44 billion. They had risen 5.65 percent year-on-year in March to $12.4 billion and 6.32 percent in February to $8.21 billion. Those increases came after declining for eight consecutive months.
The ministry gave no explanation for the slower FDI growth in April.
"We expect FDI to grow steadily this year," spokesman Shen Danyang said, China's official Xinhua News reported.
In the first four months of this year, FDI inflows were up 1.21 percent year on year to $38.34 billion, the ministry said.
The ministry said services saw a steady increase of FDI inflows in the first four months, up 6.87 percent, accounting for 49.36 percent of the total FDI inflow during the four-month period.
FDIs in the manufacturing sector were down 3.83 percent during the same period, accounting for 42.7 percent of the total inflow.
For all of last year, FDIs totaled $111.72 billion, down 3.7 percent from 2011.


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Pakistan Court Delays Mumbai Attacks Hearing
Last years coordinatied attacks targeted several sites in the Indian city, including Chabad house, killing 6 Jews.
The Pakistani court adjourned until October 3 the hearing for seven Islamist militants suspected of involvement in last year's attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, a lawyer said on Saturday.
During the November attacks last year six people - most Israelis, some dual citizens but all of them Jewish - were killed a the Chabad House in Mumbai, one of ten targets hit by terrorists in a series of coordinated attacks across the city.
The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan are due to meet in New York on Sunday, but India has said formal peace process talks will only be resumed after Pakistan takes decisive action against perpetrators of the assault on its financial capital.
Pakistan has acknowledged that the coordinated attacks were plotted and partly launched from its soil and is prosecuting seven suspects in a hearing behind closed doors.
"The judge was on leave and now the hearing will be held on October 3," Shahbaz Rajput, the lawyer of one of the suspects told Reuters.
India also wants Pakistan to prosecute Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, who India says masterminded the Mumbai assault.
Pakistan and India have held three bilateral meetings on the sidelines of international gatherings since June but New Delhi insists that Pakistan take forceful action against Saeed and other suspects before it resumes formal talks under the peace process launched in 2004.
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AASHE is an association of colleges and universities that are working to create a sustainable future. Its mission is to empower higher education to lead the sustainability transformation. The organization provides resources, professional development opportunities, and a network of support to enable institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in everything they do, from governance and operations to education and research.
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