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The highly anticipated Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie's France episode premieres this week! Find your local listing here. And watch the preview here.
"France: The New Guarde" features Sada at his salon de thé and laboratoire in the 5th arrondissement of Paris with Clotilde; Inaki Aizpitarte at Le Chateaubriand with Sébastien Demorand; Gilles Choukroun and Omnivore founder Luc Dubanchet at Le Mini Palais with yours truly; Armand Arnal at La Chassagnette in the wild countryside of Arles with me again; and Zanne Stewart in the top secret, inner sanctum Gourmet test kitchen working with Silpat.
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Baby beat the odds, family celebrates in March for Babies
In September 2011, my husband and I found out we were expecting our first child. We were ecstatic! We always wanted to have children and we had been married for more than three years and decided it was the right time. We started going to see my doctor on a regular monthly basis. When we went for our 19-week ultrasound, we decided not to find out the sex of the baby. Being surprised seemed like a fun idea and nowadays, there aren't that many surprises in life.
At 23 weeks, I started to have severe back pain that was radiating to my belly. I told my husband something didn't feel right and we need to go the hospital. At the time, I was working at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital and figured I might as well go to that hospital.
Upon arriving to the hospital, I was rushed to the Labor and Delivery Department. They called the doctor on-call. Since we were in the process of getting a new physician, I hadn't seen one out of that hospital yet. He examined me and did an ultrasound. I knew in my heart something just wasn't right. My husband and I waited until the doctor was done and we heard words no parent ever wants to hear: "You ruptured your water and most likely will have your baby today."
At 23 weeks, we were told the chances of survival were very small. That is something no parent or family should ever have to hear. We spoke with a neonatologist, who gave us a lot of information and statistics regarding the health of our baby and what would happen if our baby was born at 23 weeks. We were devastated.
We were told that if they could stop my contractions and if they could prevent me from getting any infections, I would stay in the hospital until I was ready to deliver. I was on strict bed rest in the hospital and would be until I delivered. And when I say strict, I mean I was able to get up only to go to the bathroom, otherwise I was laying flat on a bed. My husband never left my side. He slept on the chair those three-and-a-half weeks I was there. I was given two rounds of steroid injections to help our baby's lungs develop as well another medicine to help prevent brain bleeds.
By the grace of God, my new doctor along with the help of the maternal fetal medicine physicians, were able to prolong my pregnancy for three and a half weeks. At 26 weeks and six days, our son, Henry, was born at 2 pounds, 3 ounces, and 13 inches long. The doctors were so surprised he was only 26 weeks when he was born. He was looking around, trying to cry and breathing on his own. Most babies born at 26 weeks do not act this way. I was able to see our son briefly before he was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Henry was on a ventilator for only the first 12 hours of his life, which is amazing for a baby born at that gestation, we were told. After that, he had a nasal cannula to assist his breathing. Henry was in the NICU for 15 weeks. There, he was in an incubator to help regulate his temperature for the first two months and also was given a number of tests to make sure there weren't any complications that often come with being born that early. Henry had none of the complications they were looking for. We were blessed with such wonderful nurses and doctors at that hospital and they all helped Henry have a successful NICU stay. Henry went home on June 15, 2012, just 12 days after his original due date.
Throughout Henry's stay, we were given so much information and research that the March of Dimes has done to help us understand everything that happens in the NICU. We were able to understand certain tests Henry needed and why he needed them. We were able to understand why he was given certain medications and what purpose they served.
I also benefited a lot from the support groups the March of Dimes website has to offer. It was unnatural to me to have to leave my son at the hospital every night. I struggled with that every day as well as some of the experiences that happen in the NICU, which are hard to explain to people who haven't gone through that before. I felt like I wasn't alone when I spoke with and emailed parents who had gone through similar experiences.
We are proud to say that Henry is a happy, healthy 13-month-old. He enjoys playing with his toys, reading, playing with his dogs Daisy and Lily, and also loves Mickey Mouse. He is developmentally on track and doing exceptionally well. We are so blessed to have Henry in our lives and thank God every day.
We are so happy to be chosen as the Ambassador Family for the DuPage March for Babies! We are so excited to walk for our son, Henry, as well as all the babies around the United States who are born prematurely.
We truly believe that without the research and discoveries the March of Dimes has made and continues to make, Henry might not be here today. That is why we support the March of Dimes and believe everybody should. Every baby deserves a chance to be born healthy, and March of Dimes is working to see that dream become a reality.


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Hedge funds raised bullish gold wagers to the highest in eight weeks as signs of stronger Chinese demand drove prices to the longest rally since August. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says the gains will be short-lived.
The net-long position in gold (COMEX:GCG14) climbed 7.6% to 43,277 futures and options in the week ended Jan. 14, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Long wagers rose 4.7%, outpacing the 2.9% gain in short bets. Net- bullish holdings across 18 U.S.-traded commodities advanced 2.6%, led by cattle, silver and soybeans.
Gold climbed for four straight weeks, rebounding 4.4% this month after a 28% plunge in 2013 that was the biggest since 1981 as some investors lost faith in the metal as a store of value. Lower prices are attracting buyers in Asia, with deliveries by the Shanghai Gold Exchange almost doubling in 2013. The bear market is unlikely to reverse, and bullion will "grind lower" over 2014 as the U.S. economy gains momentum, Goldman analysts said in a report Jan. 12.
"There's a tremendous divide in the gold market," said Jeff Sica, who helps oversee more than $1 billion of assets as president of Sica Wealth Management in Morristown, New Jersey. "Demand for jewelry in China is still relatively strong, and I think it will remain strong. The bears ignore physical demand and think that gold is not relevant when there's no economic crisis."
Gold Rally
Futures in New York rose 0.4% last week to $1,251.90 an ounce, as the Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials climbed 0.9%. The MSCI All-Country World index of equities gained 0.1%. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, a gauge against 10 major trading partners, advanced 0.8%. The Bloomberg Treasury Bond Index added 0.2%. Gold for February delivery increased 0.3% to $1,255.40 on the Comex by 9:23 a.m.
The Shanghai Gold Exchange, China's largest bullion bourse, delivered 2,197 metric tons to customers in 2013, compared with 1,139 tons in 2012, it said Jan. 15. The Asian country topped India as the world's top buyer last year as demand probably reached a record, the World Gold Council estimates.
The U.S. Mint sold 83,500 ounces of American Eagle gold coins so far in January, heading for the biggest monthly total since April. Holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust, the biggest exchange-traded product backed by the metal, jumped 0.9% on Jan. 17, the biggest gain since November 2011. A day earlier, the assets were at the lowest level since January 2009.
Prices will probably rise to $1,400 by the end of the year as the trend of investor selling in ETFs reverses and demand in Asia gains, Commerzbank AG analysts led by Eugen Weinberg in Frankfurt said in a report Jan. 17.
Goldman View
Goldman expects bullion to fall to $1,050 in the next 12 months as the Federal Reserve reduces monetary stimulus, analysts led by Jeffrey Currie, the bank's head of commodities research, said in the report last week. Precious metals are Morgan Stanley's "least preferred" commodities, and physical demand from China and India won't be enough to support prices, analysts Adam Longson, Bennett Meier and Peter Richardson said in a Jan. 17 report.
The Fed, which said in December it would trim its monthly asset purchases to $75 billion from $85 billion, will probably keep cutting bond buying by $10 billion at each policy meeting, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists on Jan. 10. The central bank next meets Jan. 28-29. Gold rose 70% from December 2008 to June 2011 as the Fed pumped more than $2 trillion into the financial system. Futures have plunged 35% from a record $1,923.70 in September 2011.
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Happy Birthday America Ferrera! Today, April 19, You're 28 Years Old!
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We will never forget your character Betty Suarez as you lit up our screens with joy. We hope you and your fiancé get married soon!
A star since she appeared in the indie hit Real Women Have Curves, America Ferrera flaunts the Aries–Taurus cusp's undeniable combination of sensuality and strength. Indeed, both off- and on-screen, the Ugly Betty star exudes a grounded appeal that has broken through all kinds of glass ceilings. Those born this week boast a wonderful sense of pacing, so since her sitcom came to a close, the Emmy winner has focused on cultivating her personal life; she and director, Ryan Piers Williams, got engaged last June!
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An HIV positive Colombian truck driver has allegedly raped and infected more than 50 women across the country.
The Dailymail is reporting 57-year-old Libardo Rojas Duenas may have ignored state-issued medical advice after being diagnosed with the deadly virus on 2006. Police are stating Duenas raped a 16-year-old in the city of Cúcuta the following year and soon discovered she had contracted the sexually transmitted disease.
The news site is also stating he used his job to travel throughout the country, avoiding being capture by police. This could have given him more opportunity to attack other victims. While Duenas had consensual sex with other women, he reportedly did not use protection, putting them at risk.
Police are stating the trucker put more than 50 women at risk due to his "uncontrollable rampage." Duenas is being charged with rape and "knowingly contaminating another person with HIV." Purposely infecting other people could condemn him to prison for up to 12 years.
According to Colombian statistics provided by UNAIDS, there were an estimated 160,000 people living with HIV in 2009 and 50,000 of them were women ages 15 and up. That same year, there were 14,000 deaths due to AIDS.
AIDS.gov describes HIV as human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system, causing flu-like symptoms. HIV, they state, can hide for long periods of time in the body while attacking cells that fight infection. HIV can lead to AIDS, the final stage of the infection.
Radio Santa Fe reported Duenas was detained in Gorgonzola, an area located in the Colombian capital of Bogota. An investigation is ongoing.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis Rams got help for quarterback Sam Bradford, trading up eight spots with Buffalo and taking West Virginia wide receiver Tavon Austin with the eighth overall selection in the NFL draft.
The Rams have been active on both draft days under coach Jeff Fisher and general manager Les Snead. Last year, they traded the second overall pick to the Redskins for a batch of premium picks, including the 22nd overall pick Thursday night.
The Bills also got the Rams' second- and seventh-round picks in the deal.
The 5-8, 172-pound Austin was considered the best overall wide receiver in the draft.


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"And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner." Luke 18:13
Suggested Further Reading: 1 John 1:5-2:2
The Greek explains more to us than the English does; and the original word here might be translated—"God be propitiated to me a sinner." There is in the Greek word a distinct reference to the doctrine of atonement. It is not the Unitarian's prayer—"God be merciful to me;" it is more than that—it is the Christian's prayer, "God be propitiated towards me, a sinner." There is, I repeat it, a distinct appeal to the atonement and the mercy-seat in this short prayer. Friends, if we would come before God with our confessions we must take care that we plead the blood of Christ. There is no hope for a poor sinner apart from the cross of Jesus. We may cry, "God be merciful to me," but the prayer can never be answered apart from the victim offered, the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. When thou hast thine eye upon the mercy-seat, take care to have thine eye upon the cross too. Remember that the cross is, after all, the mercy-seat; that mercy never was enthroned, until she hung upon the cross crowned with thorns. If thou wouldst find pardon, go to dark Gethsemane, and see thy Redeemer sweating blood in deep anguish. If thou wouldst have peace of conscience, go to Gabbatha, the pavement, and see thy Saviour's back flooded with a stream of blood. If thou wouldst have the last best rest to thy conscience, go to Golgotha; see the murdered victim as he hangs upon the cross, with hands and feet and side all pierced, as every wound is gaping wide with misery extreme. There can be no hope for mercy apart from the victim offered—even Jesus Christ the Son of God. Oh, come; let us one and all approach the mercy-seat, and plead the blood.
For meditation: Confession of sins is a totally useless practice unless we go straight to God, the only one who can forgive us, pleading Christ crucified, the only valid reason for us to be forgiven. But when we come in God's way, we can come to him confidently (Hebrews 10:19-22).
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A visitor checks little lemon trees from Portugal on Tuesday at one of the IPM horticultural trade fair in Essen, Germany. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver Broncos' Peyton Manning answers questions during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game Tuesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Indian Hindu priests rotate traditional oil lamps as they perform evening rituals Tuesday at the Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers, during the annual traditional fair Magh Mela in Allahabad, India. Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus are expected to take holy dips at the confluence of the rivers during the astronomically auspicious 45-day period. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Indian gay rights activists light candles during a protest Tuesday against a recent Supreme Court verdict that upheld section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes homosexuality in New Delhi, India. The Supreme Court ruled that only lawmakers could change the colonial-era law that punishes those guilty of same-sex relations with up to a decade in prison. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A couple takes pictures in front of Chinese plum blossom trees Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Lunar New Year begins on Jan. 31 and marks the start of the Year of the Horse, according to the Chinese zodiac. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Thai riot police officers, foreground, face antigovernment protesters staging a rally during the national cabinet meeting at the Army Club in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra met Tuesday with the polling body to discuss postponing a general election set for this weekend, even as protesters tried to disrupt the talks and a shooting took place nearby. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Chemical reaction caused fatal fireworks blast
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., say a chemical reaction between fireworks and mixing compounds being transported in a car caused an explosion that fatally injured a California man.
Lake Havasu City Fire Marshal Chip Shilosky says the explosion occurred as 59-year-old Randy Feldman of Menlo Park and another man were driving on State Route 95 in Lake Havasu City on Feb. 12.
Feldman was severely burned by a secondary explosion of fireworks in the car's trunk, and he died Feb. 27 at a hospital in Las Vegas.
According to the Today's News-Herald (http://bit.ly/1lyLStK), Feldman was in Lake Havasu City for a Western Pyrotechnics Association event.
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Danielle Panabaker: 'Nearlyweds' Premieres January 12th!
Danielle Panabaker is a blushing bride in this new still from Nearlyweds.
In the upcoming Hallmark Channel movie, when Erin (Panabaker), Casey (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and Stella (Britt Irvin) discover that a paperwork error has annulled all their marriages, they reassess their relationships with their new nearly- husbands.
Erin finds herself competing with mother-in-law Renee (Naomi Judd) for the loyalty of David (Ryan Kennedy), Casey questions Nick's (Travis Milne) commitment, and Stella deals with balancing her desire for a career with Mark's (Steve Bacic) expectation for a stay at home wife.
With the pressures of marriage all around, all three couples must again decide whether to make the long walk down the aisle…or to walk out the door and start over. The three friends navigate the highs and lows of their new marriages together, but ultimately must make their own decisions about the futures of these relationships.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King University women's volleyball team continued their roll on Saturday at their home tournament, pushing their winning streak to five matches. The Tornado started the day with a 3-0 sweep of UVa-Wise, and followed it with another sweep, this time defeating Concord University 3-0 in the tournament finale.
Trailing 7-5 in the first set against UVa-Wise (1-4), Mariah Herington sparked a Tornado run with her first of three kills in the match. Maribeth Kern forced a Cavalier timeout with a kill that put King up 12-7 before Herington extended the run to 8-0 on the other side of the break. The Tornado held that lead, and Olivia Underwood gave King the 25-17 set win with one of her three kills in the match.
The King offense stayed hot in the second set, opening up a 10-4 lead following back-to-back kills by Lauren Willoughby and Ashton Beckner. King extended their lead to 19-9 following a service ace by Olivia Underwood, a kill by Grace Underwood, and another Beckner kill. After UVa-Wise fought off a pair of set points, Jordan Baty gave King the 25-16 win to go up 2-0.
The Tornado offense didn't show any signs of slowing down as they quickly gained a 4-0 following a Tiffany Baines service ace in the third set. The advantage grew to as many as eight points before the Tornado took the set 25-21 to take the 3-0 victory.
Willoughby and Summer Kremer led a balanced offensive attack with seven kills apiece while Olivia Underwood dished out 27 assists. Payton Tipton anchored the defense with 24 kills, and Baty registered five block assists.
It was more of the same in the night cap as King quickly gained a 7-3 lead over Concord (3-4) following a Grace Underwood kill in the first set. After a Mountain Lion point, Kremer ignited a 6-0 Tornado run with one of her 10 kills in the match. Grace Underwood followed with a kill, and Brooke Calhoun registered a service ace on the spurt. King then went on an 8-0 run, capped by back-to-back kills by Kern to give King a 21-6 lead. However, Concord started coming back and got within 22-18 before Kremer drilled home a kill. Tipton followed with consecutive service aces to give King the 25-18 first set win.
The Tornado (6-3) offense sputtered a bit to start the second set as Concord opened up an 11-7 lead before Sarah Collins sparked the King offense her only kill of the match. Baty eventually evened the set at 13 with a kill and Casey Williams later gave King their first lead of the set with a service ace to make the score 21-20. The Tornado eventually took the set 25-22 to take the 2-0 lead.
King came from behind again in the third set as a Kremer kill sparked a 7-0 run with the Tornado trailing 7-5, and Calhoun gave the Tornado an 8-7 lead with an ace. The Tornado held a slim 20-19 lead before Kern gave them some breathing room, starting a 5-0 run with a kill. Kelsey Griffitts gave the Tornado a chance at set point, and Kern end the match with her 13th kill of the match giving King the 25-20 win.
Kern led King with 13 kills while Kremer was the only other Tornado to reach double figures with 10 kills. Olivia Underwood dished out 23 assists while Williams registered a double-double with 12 assists and 11 digs. Tipton led the Tornado with 12 digs.
King will be in action again on Wednesday night when they travel to take on UVa-Wise at 6:30 p.m.


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Lumina's outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an equitable, accessible, responsive and accountable higher education system while fostering a national sense of urgency for action to achieve the goal of 60 percent of Americans with a college degree, workforce certificate, or other high-quality credential beyond high school by 2025. Our current funding is directed to advance the following strategies:
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the haunted, hard-living Texas ex-con of "Joe," David Gordon Green was looking for a modern-day Robert Mitchum, someone with an old-fashioned kind of rugged masculinity with an underlying innocence. He thought of Nicolas Cage.
Green wrote Cage a letter, sending along the screenplay, not knowing if or when he'd hear back. Three days later, Cage called. He had read not just the script, but the novel. Twice. The next day he took a plane to Austin, Texas, to meet with Green.
"When I read 'Joe,' I understood him," Cage said in a recent interview by phone. "I thought, 'Yeah, I don't think I'm going to have to act so much in this part. I don't think I'm going to have to try experimenting with performance style. I think I can really just be and feel these lines and resonate with these lines from my memories."
"Joe," which opens in theaters Friday, makes a fitting pairing of Cage and Green. Both have made a habit of confounding moviegoers by shifting unpredictably between art house and popcorn fare, leaving some fans scratching their heads by pursuing such frightful things as action movies and comedy.
After his Oscar-winning performance in "Leaving Las Vegas," Cage turned to blockbusters like "The Rock" and "Con Air." More recently, he's been increasingly theatrical (and parodied for it) in movies like "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" and "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance." Cage says he was trying to be "break the mold of naturalistic film performance" with what he calls "Western kabuki."
"When people say things like over-the-top, I say to them, 'Well, you show me where the top is and I'll tell you whether or not I'm over it,'" says Cage. "I don't think anyone can answer where the top is."
In Green, Cage found a director who also can stretch from intimate to broad. Green's naturalistic acclaimed debut "George Washington" endeared him to the indie faithful, an association he later upended with a string of studio comedies: "Pineapple Express," ''Your Highness" (a box-office flop that Green gleefully notes is a comedy without a single joke) and "The Sitter."
"One of the things that's difficult about being a movie star, or a director for that matter, is that it's hard to be a character actor," says Green. "It's hard to not brand yourself because your name is at a pretty powerful point in the presentation of a film. So sometimes it can be difficult to disappear and challenge people's perceptions."
Larry Brown's novel "Joe," about a violent man trying to stay out of trouble and help a teenage kid in need (played by Tye Sheridan), had long had a pull on Green. His first filmmaking experience was working as a production assistant (along with "Mud" director Jeff Nichols) on a documentary about Brown, who, Green says, "wrote about characters I could touch, in worlds that I could recognize."
After Green moved to Austin, he was exploring the ramshackle towns outside the city, where he also set his last film, the road workmen drama "Prince Avalanche." Green, who was raised in Texas, shifted the Mississippi story there to make it a contemporary Western, one about a man with his own moral code and little patience for the law.
"If you just would swap out his GMC (truck) for a black horse, you'd have this man searching for redemption, this samurai looking for the perfect death," says Green.
Green, too, has chafed at the supposed rules. His first job in Los Angeles was working for a movie marketing firm that conducted test screenings for films like "American Pie" and "Ed TV." He watched the idiosyncrasies of movies get stripped away, and resolved to make films that embraced their quirks and rough edges. "Joe" features several non-professional actors.
"Sometimes I just think: Let me go make something that nobody is making," says Green. "Let me go dig up something from my guts and not concern myself with a lot of the more commercial attributes."
"Joe" became something personal for Cage, too. Though he declines to go into detail about the memories he drew from for the part, Cage had a notable run-in with some of the film's subjects — alcoholism, domestic violence — in 2011. Cage, whose wife is Alice Kim, was arrested in New Orleans for suspicion of domestic abuse battery, disturbing the peace and public intoxication. Charges were later dropped.
"Joe" has already earned both Cage and Green their best reviews in years. It's been labeled a return-to-form for both, though neither accepts a default "form."
"If anything, I think 'Joe' might remind them," says Cage of his critics. "I'm the same actor in 'Joe' as the actor in 'Spirit of Vengeance.'"
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In light of growing concerns over threats to the industrial control systems that run power and water plants, factories and food processing plants, security company Kaspersky Labs has announced plans to build an operating system specifically for those systems.
In a blog post, company Founder Eugene Kasperky noted that most systems that control critical infrastructure, such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), currently run on top of Windows or Linux OSes, which can leave them vulnerable to the same types of exploits regular computer systems are exposed to.
Kaspersky proposes a pared down, secure OS designed to handle only the tasks industrial control systems are designed for. He writes that a such an OS would be better than the alternative of rewriting all industrial control software, instead creating an OS "onto which ICS can be installed, and which could be built into the existing infrastructure – controlling 'healthy' existing systems and guaranteeing the receipt of reliable data reports on the systems' operation."
The idea is to protect against the likes of Stuxnet, which disrupted Iranian nuclear processing in 2010 and raised fears that similar malware could attack systems in power plants, water treatment plants, manufacturing facilities and even prisons.
The possible hitch in Kaspersky's plans is that his company is based in Russia, which could give manufacturers of programmable logic controllers and other ICS devices pause about using the OS. One security expert told Wired that the Kasperky OS might succeed in Russia, but that security worries about the supply chain would likely prevent its widespread use elsewhere.
Although a Kaspersky spokesman told Wired the company received no funding from the Russian government, the article noted Congress's recent concerns about backdoors being installed in equipment made in China. In some recent cases, backdoors weren't installed during manufacturing but added somewhere along the supply chain.
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There are, conservatively, hundreds of millions of inadequately secured digital ICS devices. A practical solution would be one that could be engineered and added to existing ICS with minimal disruption; one project at a time at a facility or location and the solution must be economically attractive.
Integrating a collection of "point" solutions, offered by multiple manufacturers, is a less-than-practical option. Interoperability between point solutions provided by competing manufacturers cannot be assured. Integrating disparate point solutions into a cohesive ICS and business network solution would be an extraordinarily complex undertaking
A common, vendor-neutral security architecture is the practical requirement. Ensuratec's (US Company) SCADA Warrior solution stands alone and is independent of the ICS system. Its purpose is to analyze and thwart malicious attacks from ever reaching a SCADA system.
Without MS, we would not be where we are now as far as OS and software.
Amen! A properly secured Linux environment custom tailored to these systems with appropriate security safeguards will work fine.
It takes a Russian company to do this because in the USA Micro$oft has control -- thanks to a Federal government that is bought an paid for by MS.
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San Antonio on path to strong economic growth
San Antonio's shoppers are growing more confident as the city's economic base expands, factors that are harbingers of an improving metro economy and of higher wages in a city that's long been known as a low-wage town, a local economist said Thursday.
The city's sales tax revenues jumped 12.2 percent in the six months from April through September compared to the same period in 2011, a pace of growth that was the highest since 2006, when the metro area showed robust expansion, according to a report released Thursday.
"When people are buying a lot, that means they feel good about their prospects," said Travis Tullos, an economist at Austin-based Texas Perspectives Inc. who headed the team that produced the report for the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. "A lot of money is moving through this economy."
The percentage bump in sales tax revenues in San Antonio was greater than in Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth in the same six-month period, Tullos said.
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And the good news didn't stop there. Tullos predicted that 2013 census data will show San Antonio incomes are rising.
With new jobs in fields such as medical technology, "personal income prospects go up, and that attracts different and better possibilities for retail activity and a whole range of services," he said.
"We are continuing to diversify our economy," Tullos said, by creating jobs not only in medical technology, but also professional services and mining, which includes oil field services jobs related to activity in the Eagle Ford Shale.
"We couldn't spell mining before," he said.
Tullos also noted the 2014 opening of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts "will bring talent to this city that hasn't been brought here before. San Antonio is a far different town than it was five years ago and profoundly different than what it was 20 years ago."
By another measure, a one-month index that compared San Antonio and Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth, showed that San Antonio ranked second only to Houston in September based on key growth factors including jobs, production of goods and in new-home prices, single-family residential permits and residential valuations.
"Houston is going like a house afire, but for San Antonio, with an unlike economy, there's evidence that our pie is getting bigger as we expand the economic base."
San Antonio also logged healthy job gains in construction and tourism during the last six months, he said.
If present growth trends for new jobs continue, the city would add about 20,000 positions by late spring, Tullos said, even accounting for losses in city, county and state government positions. That would take the area closer to the 31,000 jobs created during the boom year of 2006.
Tullos' report shows the regional office, industrial and retail properties posted an expansion of 2.3 percent in square footage. The city is generating "lots of activity in retail space," he said.
The city's industrial properties showed strong growth in rental revenue of 6.8 percent in the six-month period, largely as a result of the Eagle Ford Shale, the report noted. However, office space rentals were "anemic," the report said.
Tullos said the tourism sector also has been a strong performer.
The report's economic index for the city's tourism industry that combined room demand and rental revenues showed a growth rate of 7.3 percent in the April-September period. Although still healthy, it was slower than the 9.2 percent for the same period in 2011.
Yet when San Antonio is compared to the world's largest metropolitan areas, it ranks in the middle.
A study being released today shows that San Antonio finished 144th in a ranking of economic growth in the world's 300 largest metropolitan areas and 30th out of 76 U.S. metro areas. The study was done by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
Houston was the top-performing city in the United States, coming in 40th, while Austin, at 61st and Dallas at 91st also beat San Antonio in the metropolitan growth report, called the Global MetroMonitor.
While only an average finish, the showing was better than last year. And the ranking wasn't viewed as a sign of trouble by economists, who said it even could be misleading because a steady economy such as San Antonio's isn't prone to big growth swings coming out of recessions like many other economies.
"We didn't decline very much so we didn't have far to bounce back," said Keith Phillips, senior economic policy adviser for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in San Antonio.
San Antonio also has recouped all the jobs it lost during the recession and added more, something that many other big cities still are struggling to achieve, he said.
Emilia Istrate, an associate fellow at Brookings and lead author of the Global MetroMonitor, also said the San Antonio economy has been growing, with sectors such as oil and gas production expanding at a hefty pace.
Istrate said Brookings expects the San Antonio area's job count to increase by 2 percent in 2012 when the average increase for North American cities is expected to be 1.4 percent.
But it has not been growing fast enough to keep up with the growth of its population, "so the slice of the economic pie for each person is declining," she said.
That slice is referred to in the study as the per-capita Gross Domestic Product, one of two key factors measured by researchers.
In the San Antonio area, it's expected to decline by 0.2 percent this year. On average, per-capita GDP should grow by 0.7 percent in the biggest metro areas in 2012.
That's an improvement over last year, when jobs grew by 0.9 percent and its per-capita output declined by 0.3 percent, leaving it ranked 227th worldwide.


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By Kwasi Kpodo and Richard Valdmanis
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana extended voting in its presidential election into a second day, officials said on Friday, after a rash of technical problems prevented thousands of people in the West African state from casting their ballots on time.
The decision was broadly accepted by political parties and voters, who hoped the poll would entrench Ghana's reputation as a bulwark of democracy and progress in a region better known for civil wars, coups and corruption.
"People who lined up to vote today but were unable to do so will be able to cast their ballot tomorrow," said Election Commissioner Kwadwo Afari-Gyan. Polling stations would reopen at 7:00 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT), he said.
Many newly introduced electronic fingerprint readers, used to verify people's identities, malfunctioned on Friday, slowing voting and creating long lines at polling stations nationwide that could not be cleared.
A spokesman for the main opposition party said the glitches had affected hundreds of thousands of people, though the electoral commission declined to give an estimate.
A Reuters correspondent found several polling stations in Accra where fingerprint readers were not working, though other stations completed voting and were tallying ballots.
"We have been standing here for five hours. Our line is not moving," said Alice Hayford, a 44-year-old market trader on the western outskirts of the capital Accra, shortly before polls were due to close.
The election pits President John Dramani Mahama, who replaced the late John Atta Mills after his death in July, against Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who has vowed to provide free education and root out corruption.
Opinion polls point to a tight race, raising the prospect of a repeat of the near-deadlock of the 2008 elections, in which Mills defeated Akufo-Addo in a run-off with a margin of less than 1 percent.
Results are expected within two days of polls closing, with a second round possible at the end of December if no one wins an outright majority.
President Mahama, voting in his home town of Bole in northern Ghana, said that, despite the delays, the election was on course to solidify the country's democratic advances.
"This election is going to consolidate Ghana's democratic credentials once and for all. After we go through this, I believe there will be no doubt, no questions, about the fact that Ghana is a leading democracy in Africa."
Ghana's 2008 election was close enough to spark fears of conflict, but its ability to return from the brink led U.S. President Barack Obama at the time to dub Ghana a "model democracy" in Africa.
After casting his ballot in his native Kyebi, in Ghana's east, Akufo-Addo said the outcome of the vote was "in the hands of the Ghanaian people", and said he had seen no signs of fraud. His NPP party issued a statement late on Friday saying "the election is capable of passing of fairly and freely" if voters are allowed to cast their ballots.
Ghanaians are also electing a parliament, where Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC) has enjoyed a slim majority.
Ghana has had five peaceful and constitutional transfers of power since its last coup in 1981, in stark contrast to the turmoil that surrounds it in the region.
Neighboring Ivory Coast tipped into civil war last year after a disputed 2010 poll, and regional neighbors Mali and Guinea-Bissau have both suffered coups this year.
While economic woes grip Europe and the United States, Ghana, also a major cocoa and gold producer, is expected to post economic growth of about 8 percent next year and is increasingly praised by investment bankers and fund managers.
"These elections are important not just to Ghana, but for the growing number of states and actors seeking to benefit from increasing confidence in Africa," said Alex Vines, Africa Research Director at Chatham House.
Across the capital Accra, evidence of the resource wealth abounds: brightly lit multi-storey buildings, cranes looming over new construction sites, well-paved roads, and billboards advertising banks, cars and mobile phones.
But many Ghanaians have been left out. An influx of people from rural parts of the country, hoping for jobs in the capital, has created a sprawl of outlying shanty towns and swelled the ranks of the homeless on the city's streets.
Akufo-Addo, a trained lawyer and son of a former Ghanaian president, has criticized the ruling party for the slow pace of job creation and the fight against poverty, and says he would use oil money to pay for free primary and secondary education.
Mahama, meanwhile, says he aims to boost Ghana's per capita annual income to $2,300 by 2017 - double that in 2009.
But in a country where campaign messages rarely influence voting choices, many believe most of the 14 million voters will cast their ballots based on ethnic, social or regional ties.
(Additional reporting by Christian Akorlie; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by David Lewis and Louise Ireland)


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Arin Rungjang is one of Thailand's leading contemporary artists; he represented his country at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Rungjang sees art as a way to build connections and break down political, social, and ideological barriers. He is interested in bridging the divide between different people and cultures, historical periods and the present day, and disparate geographical locations. To accomplish this goal, he produces sculptures, site-specific installations, and videos to foster various social interactions that are characterized by inclusiveness and openheartedness, including cooking lessons and communal meals, taking up residence and hosting guests in galleries, and working with marginalized populations on his projects. "What is important for me is not to create the work in the studio and put it in one art space or in some gallery, but to work through the real context that surrounds the art space," he has said.
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Overkill at Letterman
Did you watch Cashmere Mafia? It's been destroyed by critics but viewer votes are still trickling in.
In support of her new show, Lucy Liu appeared on Letterman last night in total fashion overkill. The dress, as you can see, is all kinds of amazing. Amazing. Amazing McQueen, I think?
But then came the coat and the bag and the too much mismatchy and Ai Ya! Suddenly Lucy is a bag lady…though a very young one at that.
Bitch is turning 40 this year and sweet Xenu, look at that skin! Prime example of Asian skin. We don't age until we're 60. But life is all about balance. We have great skin but we also don't have eyelashes. You will note, Lucy has none on the bottom and probably fakies on the top.
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CalvART Country Fairs show gets you ready for county fairs
At world fairs, you could see it all. At state fairs, you could see most everything under the sun. At county fairs, you could see quite a bit.
Still can.
The Maryland State Fair has just ended, ushering in the county fair season: Anne Arundel's County Fair runs September 14 thru 18, followed by Calvert County's Fair September 28 thru October 2.
To get psyched for both fairs, all this month you can see country fairs reflected in art at CalvART Gallery's Country Fair show, running thru October 2, and meet the artists to talk about their images September 10.
Fairs are beloved of Beverly Jackson, a fiber artist and photographer who splits her time between St. Mary's County and Washington, D.C.
Jackson grew up with fairs: 4-H Club fairs, county fairs and the Illinois State Fair. "I even represented my county in a cooking competition with my Fabulous Brownies, complete with a demo on a stage in front of an audience, when I was about 14," Jackson says.
Artists are in the business of expression. Taking in the essence of what they love isn't enough; they've got to bring it to life.
Jackson's done that in spades. To her own photographic odes to fairs, she's convinced the couple dozen members of the CalvART collective to add their appreciations to the show Country Fairs. For the September show, painters, potters, wood workers, glass artists, jewelers and other photographers all show their takes on fairs.
Jackson promises photos of "carnival/midway scenes, animal judging, 4-H Club food and clothing, tractor pulls and much more." Plus, at September 10's reception, her Fabulous Brownies.
"It was a little difficult at first," says Mimi Little, who calls herself a "little bit of an abstract painter." But "the animal part of it," always comes to mind, which led to a rooster, painted from a photo of a real rooster, combined with symbols — eggs, chicken, pens — to create a visual story of chickens at a fair.
Watercolorist Mary Blumberg, on the other hand, found the objects of fairs — farmers in overalls or golden peaches in white bags — illuminated her abiding interest in light, which, she says, "hits an object, defining it and giving you color beyond what you expect."
Sights beyond what you expect are what fairs — and art based on them — are all about.
See the art of Country Fairs thru Oct. 2, 11am-5pm W-Su. Meet the artists in a Sept. 10 reception (5-8pm) at CalvART Gallery, Prince Frederick: 410-535-9252; www.calvartgallery.org/.
Visit the Anne Arundel County Fair Sept. 14 thru 18 (4-11pm W&F; 10am-11pm Th; 9am-11pm Sa; 9am-8pm Su) at the fairgrounds on Generals Hwy., Crownsville. $5 w/age discounts and special: www.aacountyfair.org.
Visit the Calvert County Fair Sept. 28 thru Oct. 2 (4-9pm W; 9am-10pm Th-Sa; 10am-6pm Su) at the fairgrounds on Rt. 235, Barstow: 410-535-0026; www.calvertcountyfair.com.


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All of the above studies considered various forms of emissions trading for
Annex I economies. It was universally found that most non-Annex I economies
that suffered welfare losses under uniform independent abatement also suffer
smaller welfare losses under emissions trading. This is also the case in all
of the studies for which results on movements in the terms of trade are published
(Coppel and Lee 1995; Harrison and Rutherford, 1999).
Why are overall welfare losses to non-Annex I regions reduced by emissions
trading? A key point is that because the marginal and average cost of abatement
for the aggregate Annex I is lower under emissions trading than under uniform
abatement, a higher GDP is achieved for a given reduction in emissions. This
means that the reduction in emissions is achieved through a heavier reliance
on substitution relative to output reduction (substitution involves the substitution
of less emission-intensive for more emission-intensive Annex I produced inputs).
The heavier reliance on substitution means that there is a less severe decline
in fossil fuel prices and a lower increase in the price of manufactured goods
that are fossil-fuel intensive. There is also less increase in non-Annex I exports
of fossil-fuel intensive manufactured goods to Annex I regions under emissions
trading than independent abatement. However, these increased exports divert
resources from activities in which the original non-Annex I comparative advantage
was higher and the overall result is less beneficial to most non-Annex I economies.
Some non-Annex I economies that experience welfare gains under independent
abatement also experience smaller gains under emissions trading; however, the
aggregate effect of emissions trading is found to be positive for non-Annex
I economies: those that suffer welfare losses under independent abatement suffer
smaller losses under emissions trading.
To summarize, despite a number of identifiable numerical discrepancies, there
is agreement that the mixed pattern of gains and losses under the Kyoto targets
results in a more positive aggregate outcome than under the assumed and more
stringent pre-Kyoto targets. Similarities in the regions that are identified
as gainers and losers are also quite marked. Oil-importing economies that rely
on energy-intensive exports are gainers (and more so if the exports carbon
intensity is low), economies that rely on oil exports experience losses, and
the results are more unstable for economies between these two extremes.
As discussed above, a reduction in Annex I emissions tends to increase non-Annex
I emissions, reducing the environmental effectiveness of Annex I abatement.
Emissions leakage is measured as the increase in non-Annex I emissions divided
by the reduction in Annex I emissions.
A number of multiregional models have been used to estimate carbon leakage
rates (Martin et al. 1992; Pezzey 1992; Oliveira-Martins et al.
1992; Manne and Oliveira-Martins, 1994; Edmonds et al., 1995; Golombek
et al., 1995; Jacoby et al. 1997; Brown et al. 1999). In
SAR (IPCC, 1996, p. 425) a high variance in estimates of emission leakage rates
was noted; they ranged from close to zero (Martin et al. (1992) using
the GREEN model) to 70% (Pezzey (1992) using the WhalleyWigle model).
In subsequent years, some reduction in this variance has occurred, in the range
5%20%. This may in part arise from the development of a number of new
models based on reasonably similar assumptions and data sources, and does not
necessarily reflect more widespread agreement about appropriate behavioural
assumptions. However, because emission leakage is an increasing function of
the stringency of the abatement strategy, this may also be because carbon leakage
is a less serious problem under the Kyoto targets than under the targets considered
Technically, there is a clear correlation between the sign and magnitude of
spillover effects analyzed above and the magnitude of carbon leakage. It is
important, however, to recognize those parameters that have a critical influence
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PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — A man who saw a plane flown by an Indiana teen who was killed during an around-the-world flight attempt says the aircraft was flying low but didn't show any obvious signs of distress before diving into the ocean off American Samoa.
Bert Thompson of Matuu, American Samoa, told The Associated Press on Thursday he saw no fire, explosions or emergency lighting on the plane carrying 17-year-old Haris Suleman and his father, 58-year-old Babar Suleman.
"It just went down — dived into the ocean," said Thompson, who saw the plane while sitting at a bus stop in his shoreline village.
Haris Suleman's body was recovered shortly after Tuesday's crash. Crews are still searching for his father.
Thompson said he thought the plane would gain altitude, but it dived downward. He ran home and called police, and patrol boats arrived about an hour later, he said.
Thompson said he didn't see the plane hit the water, or see the Sulemans. It was too far offshore and too dark with no moon in the sky, he said.
Anguished family members and friends pleaded for more resources Thursday in hopes of finding Babar Suleman.
"Time is of the essence," family friend Azher Khan said at a news conference outside the suburban Indianapolis home of Haris and Babar Suleman. "Babar is a fighter and I know that he's over there clinging to hope, hoping that someone will come for rescue."
The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it had found wreckage from the plane, which crashed Tuesday night shortly after taking off from Pago Pago, American Samoa.
A C-130 pilot spotted sections of the plane's fuselage and other aircraft components Wednesday night in a remote section of the ocean, spokesman Gene Maestas in Honolulu said, and ships later recovered some of that debris.
Divers searching for Babar Suleman went to the last known location of the plane's distress signal but found the 300-foot water too deep, said American Samoa Homeland Security Department Director Iuniasolua Savusa.
"It's beyond their capabilities at this point," Savusa said. "So right now, we are doing all we can to deploy methods we have on island."
That includes casting a net to the bottom of the ocean and dragging it to see if it captures any wreckage.
Haris Suleman had hoped to set the record for the fastest circumnavigation around the world in a single-engine airplane with the youngest pilot in command. His journey was also a fundraiser to help build schools in his father's native Pakistan.
The Sulemans left Indiana on June 19 and were expected to arrive back in the U.S. on Saturday.
Maestas said a Coast Guard plane was working with two ships to search for debris. He said the search area was originally about a mile off the coast of American Samoa but has since expanded.
"The debris is scattering because of wind and currents so the search area is widening a little bit," he said. "There's a number of small islands, very small islands, in this area, but it's very remote."
As plans for welcome-home celebrations shifted to mourning, family and friends defended the father-son team and their mission, saying they had known the dangers when they set out and had trained for them.
Babar Suleman had long dreamed of flying around the world. He and his son decided to make the adventure a fundraiser for the Citizens Foundation, which has built 1,000 schools in Pakistan.
Khan said Haris Suleman's brother was scheduled to arrive Friday in American Samoa. He said 29-year-old Cyrus Suleman will visit a hospital in the capital city of Pago Pago where his brother's body was taken following Tuesday's crash.
Khan said the family was not giving up hope that Babar Suleman would be found alive.
"We believe in miracles. We believe in prayers. We believe in hope," he said.


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This week is Spring Break here in the Chicago suburbs. The kids and I have just been hanging out at home, playing outside during the few glorious days of sunshine. I've only spent a few stolen moments here and there at the sewing machine, starting work on teacher quilts. (I need to make TWO this year!)
Last weekend my parents came to visit and we went to Quilt Festival in Chicago. I have been really out of the loop I guess, because I had no idea it moved from the Summer to Spring! Luckily my mom was on top of it and planned her visit accordingly. The quilts you see in the top photo of this post are of the Ruby Jubilee exhibit. If you are a regular reader here, you've heard me say I love, love, love red and white quilts. So this exhibit was a treat for me. Inspired by the Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts exhibit in New York City, these quilts are a collection of old and new, modern and traditional. All stunning.
My mom also brought her latest quilt finish to visit. (Hi Mom!) We took it over to my favorite local barn for photos. Isn't it cool? This quilt was created using Denyse Schmidt's Cog + Wheel pattern, obviously with some big modifications. She changed where the pattern has negative space and prints, created her own paper piecing template (sorry, I can't share that as Cog + Wheel is for sale), made some half blocks, rearranged the layout, added a border…
The prints are mostly from Lotta Jansdotter's new collection, Follie. You can prints from this collection at following shops:
Harts Fabric
Sew Modern
Fat Quarter Shop
Fabric Spark
She also mixed in some large scale Japanese prints (those letters in the background).
My mom quilted this on her new BERNINA 750QE (yep, we are now machine twins!) using a wavy stitch. You can read more about creating that stitch here.
I love the quilt mom!


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Andy Geanacopoulos publisher of Wine in Glasses has blogged about a Margarita made with Essensia. The recipe is found in Quady Cock-Tails, a drink book available from the winery with our wines as ingredients. We got it from the head bartenders at a popular Mexican restaurant, Barrio, in Seattle Washington after Barrio's Margarita was voted "Best Margarita in Seattle". It was originally published it in the December 2010 edition of our newsletter: Dessert Wine Digest. Several years of our newsletters can be found archived on the Quady Winery web site. Using Essensia, which is made from the Orange Muscat grape variety (in place of triple sec) instills a new level of sophistication to this classic cocktail. Although Petron tequila (shown in the photo) can be used, the recipe called for El Jimador.
From Barrio Restaurant, Seattle where Essensia is used in place of the typical Triple Sec or Orange Liqueur.
Essensia Margarita
1/2 oz Essensia by Quady
1 1/2 oz Tequila (recipe suggests: El Jimador Resposado)
1/2 oz Agave nectar
1 1/2 oz Fresh lime juice to taste


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Saturday Night Live Recap: Louie Does Lincoln
Louis C.K. provided some much-needed, genuinely comic relief.
Between the ongoing nightmare of Hurricane Sandy cleanup and Louis C.K. willingness to stare into the abyss in the name of comedy, there was a chance that Saturday Night Live could have gone decidedly somber last night. But two weeks after crafting a talent show around Bruno Mars's few workable skills, it must have been a relief for the SNL writers and cast to be able to explore the comedic space with a talented writer/performer like Louis, and the enthusiasm showed.
No-Show of the Night
Not that the man doesn't have a billion more important things to do at the moment, but you still might have expected NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg to make a cameo during the cold open addressing the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Still, despite no stamp of approval from his antecedent, Fred Armisen did quite a good job covering the greatest hits of Bloomberg's persona: the low-key authoritarianism, the ban on large-size sodas, and (my personal favorite) the flat affect when he speaks Spanish. It's too bad Bloomberg's idiosyncrasies never became nationally known; Armisen gets him way better than he ever got Obama. Meanwhile, the enthusiastic interpreter gag had probably been played out by this point in the week, though Cecily Strong did a good job with her, and the punchline was nailed by Nasim Pedrad showing up as Chris Christie's big-haired Jersey interpreter (Pedrad's only sketch this week — what is HAPPENING with her?). Interesting, too, how Sandy has affected the way we make fun of Chris Christie. Specifically, that we don't. Bobby Moynihan's impersonation of a tough-talking, Obama-loving Christie was positively affectionate.
No-Brainer of the Night
It must be nice on the weeks when your host is a brilliant stand-up comedian and you can just let him do his thing for the monologue. One less idea to have to think up. As anyone could have predicted, Louis slayed with an extended bit about meeting an old lady at the airport. Also? Kind of adorable that he requested a hand-held mic, presumably to feel more comfortable up there. If that was the case, it worked.
Portmanteau of the Night
Kind of a standard Fox & Friends sketch, where those three dumb-dumbs let their ill-informed opinions loose on matters of Hurricane Sandy. Louis did a solid job as a bemused FEMA representative, but Jason Sudeikis's Donald Trump faced an uphill climb. Darrell Hammond's take on the guy is still pretty definitive. Still, the sketch was worth it if only for Brian Kilmeade's fears of piranhas with AIDS — or as he calls them, "parades."
Sketch of the Night
Not really a sketch, I guess, but easily the best of whatever we're calling digital shorts post-Samberg. I have no idea whether Louie has gone mainstream enough for this to have been meaningful for a wide audience, but having him go through the show's beats as Abraham Lincoln — beleaguered, sad-sacky, trudging dutifully up those subway steps at West 4th Street in his stovepipe hat — was a flash of brilliance.
Stark Realization of the Night
I laughed at lot at the "Australian Screen Legends" sketch — anything with Bill Hader and Kate McKinnon together is going to be a hit these days, really — but it brought home a sobering truth about the state of American humor: we STILL don't have a consistent framework for making fun of Australians. From Crocodile Dundee to Bart Simpson's prank calls to "maybe the dingo ate your baby," we're all over the map on this issue. In the case of this sketch, we're saying Australians are ... kind of goobery? Flatly unsexy is I guess the point here, which: fair (though it ignores the white-hot sensuality of Noah Taylor, but that's an argument for another time).
Wager-Bait of the Night
Jason Sudeikis's appearance on Weekend Update as Mitt Romney slipped in the most needle-sharp criticism of Romney I've seen to date, on this or any show, when Seth Meyers offhandedly asked Romney why exactly he really, really wants to be President, and Romney had no earthly idea. Bingo. But it brings up another point I've been dancing around these last few weeks: Should Romney lose on Tuesday, how long do you think before Sudeikis announces he's exiting the show? I'm talking in weeks. Does he make it through December? Even if Romney wins, I can see Sudeikis riding out the rest of the season but no more. Much as we need his Joe Biden, he seems ready to move on, and his stuff this season has been heavily weighted to election sketches. So: how many more episodes does Jason Sudeikis have in him if Romney loses on Tuesday? I'll start the betting at "one."
Best Attempt at Sorkin-ese
Super happy for Aidy Bryant that she got her first real crack at a reprisable character, but I'd be bummed, frankly, if social-media expert Kourtney Barnes came back to the Update desk a second time. You'd think a show as young and urban in sensibility as SNL would not still be hung up — in 2012! — on cretinous anonymous commenters on the internet. Some of the breathless outrage at the idea that the subliterate hordes would be given equal credence to David Brooks on matters like the election — DAVID BROOKS, my God, think of the CHILDREN! — sounded like cutting room material from The Newsroom. Or Studio 60. There are so many good, intelligent ways to make fun of the internet. This show ought to find them.
Brightest Spot on Update
I was delighted to see Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With return (kinda seriously on the Cecily Strong bandwagon in this early part of the season), though that gleam of recognition was tempered by my quick realization that, as is the case with so many repeat characters, it's just the same bit with different words. That said, "Can I sing a Negro spiritual real quick?" pretty much murdered me, so it was all worth it.
[Jokey Headline About Running Out of Gas Redacted, As Gas Shortages Still a Real Problem in NYC]
But seriously, there was an audible sound of engines sputtering during both the Horn-Blower and Hotel Check-Out sketches. It's the nature of the beast, of course, and I'm pretty forgiving of whatever happens after 12:30, but putting two of them back-to-back like this made the void stand out more. Horn-Blower was your classic "Come On, Man!" sketch, where someone does something obnoxious, repeatedly, and the whole joke is that everybody else is exasperated by his behavior. Hotel Check-Out wasn't so much a dud as just a decidedly low-key observational sketch. It actually plays much better as a next-day solo clip, without the night-of fatigue making you antsy for the big laugh.
Kate McKinnon Takeover Status
VERY promising rebound this week from a frustrating near-no-show in the Bruno Mars episode. Between the Aussie Screen Legends sketch and this, a screamingly uncomfortable last-call seduction with Louis C.K., the theme of the night could be summed up as: "Awkwardly Forthright Sexuality with Kate McKinnon." Really smart decision to just let Louis and Kate riff away at each other, creating a "Can You Top This?" stack of red-flags ("No way, 'cause I'm a Wiccan!"). The cherry on top is a heart-stopping kiss that I'm pretty sure will turn you to stone if you look directly at it. I love when the final sketch of the night is a reward for sticking it through the whole episode, and this one absolutely was.


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By: Robert Justice, M.D., M.S.
The growth in drug development has begun to bear fruit, particularly for the treatment of breast cancer. As Commissioner Hamburg pointed out in her blog earlier this month, 40 percent of all drug development is in cancer research, and a significant part of that work is focused on breast cancer. And we've learned a lot about breast cancer in the last decade, including that one therapy does not treat all. Despite many advances in treatment, the need for new and effective therapies remains.
Accelerating development of effective new drugs for breast cancer patients has been a top FDA priority for some time. In recent months, FDA has been examining the use of novel anti-cancer therapies prior to surgery. This is known as neoadjuvant therapy, which we believe has the potential to advance drug therapy for breast cancer even further, including the possibility of converting an inoperable breast cancer tumor into an operable one. Preoperative therapy could also make it possible to identify—early in treatment—tumors that are resistant to chemotherapy, enabling doctors to discontinue ineffective therapy and better assess the likely course and outcome of the disease.
We've come a long way… but there is still a ways to go
To continue to develop these new preoperative therapies, we need new and innovative ways to test their effectiveness and safety. To evaluate this innovative approach, a new endpoint is needed — an outcome from a clinical trial that FDA will accept as evidence that the drug will be effective. This means some new ways of thinking about what kind of information from clinical studies constitutes enough evidence to consider a drug both safe and effective.
FDA has shared its thoughts and views with the pharmaceutical industry on this subject via a document called a draft guidance, which discusses endpoints for clinical trials that may be considered when studying new drugs intended for neoadjuvant therapy.
In the years ahead, patients may have access to entirely new classes of drugs specifically designed to treat their breast cancer while sparing them some of the often harsh side effects of traditional anti-cancer therapies. For our part, we are continuing to learn all we can about the newest therapies being developed. We are also working with both academic researchers and drug makers on innovative clinical trial designs so that safe and effective drugs can reach the public as soon as possible.
Robert Justice, M.D., M.S., is the director of the Division of Oncology Products 1 in the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television says Iran has started a joint naval drill with the Pakistani navy east of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which one fifth of the world's oil supply passes.
Tuesday's report did not say how the exercise in the Oman Sea would last.
Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday that the Pakistani vessels include a warship, a submarine and logistics vessels. It said the Pakistani fleet will leave after four days.
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In the past, regional countries have had a presence at similar Iranian maneuvers as observers.


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What do we take away from Carolina's final exhibition?
The second-team offense played well. Most of the first team offense rested.
Derek Anderson was 10 of 15 for 220 yards and two touchdowns. He scrambled once for nine yards. He was never sacked.
So the offensive line gave Anderson time to pass and Tauren Poole room to move. Poole rushed for 27 yards on six carries. He averaged 4.5 yards. For this preseason, that's very good work.
Anderson's receivers got open and made Pittsburgh pay for it. Ted Ginn Jr. caught five passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns. The first touchdown, on Carolina's first drive, was 35 yards, the second touchdown 87.
Anderson threw the ball so far on the second touchdown pass it looked as if he might hit a fan. But Ginn ran it down beautifully. You think he's fast. He's faster. The last time a Panther ran like that was Steve Smith.
Josh Norman intercepted yet another pass, his fourth of the preseason, returning it 70 yards. Safety Colin Jones intercepted two.
The Panthers won 25-10 and for the first time in franchise history finish the preseason 3-1. The record is their best since 2006, when they went 4-0 (and finished the real season 8-8).
There's only one message here, and it's a great one.
The next time Carolina plays at Bank of America Stadium, the game will count.


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Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach: 'The Gods Do the Can-Can'
Classical mythology is turned upside down. Orpheus, the greatest of all musicians, takes the red eye to Hades to rescue his beloved Eurydice. But he becomes bored with her, and his violin playing drives her crazy! Only the gods and goddesses can save the day, by dancing the can-can. Once unleashed upon the world, the can-can becomes popular with performers of - ahem - a more worldly nature.
"Opera for the People" is a lecture series run by Larry Oppenheim. Larry is currently President of the Kensington Symphony Orchestra in the East Bay, where he is co-principal oboe and solo English horn. He also writes the program notes. Larry's goal is to make classical music more enjoyable and accessible to "all the people".
Each opera in this lecture series is being performed by local companies (Pocket Opera or San Francisco Opera), close to the times of the lectures. Check out the opera with your newfound knowledge!
Próximos Eventos
- Musical Outdoor Storytime
- Martes 25 de Septiembre de 2018, 10:30 am
- Music and Movement with Mimi Greisman
- Miércoles 26 de Septiembre de 2018, 1:00 pmIngleside, Ingleside: Sala de Reuniones
- SF Kala Kendra Dances
- Sábado 29 de Septiembre de 2018, 2:00 pmMerced, Merced: Área Principal


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A Clinton native has been selected to fill the vacancy on the Clinton Board of Education until November.
At a special meeting Monday, Kelly Schmidt was selected on a unanimous vote to take the position vacated by Don Hinman, who resigned earlier this month after serving five years on the board.
Schmidt was one of three candidates interviewed at a special meeting Monday. The other two were Terry Strand and Ted Burton. After the interviews, board members said they were impressed with the three and hoped that the two people not selected would stay active in Clinton schools.
After the three were interviewed, the board went into a closed session to discuss the position. When the trustees emerged, Wanda Heinz moved that the board appoint Schmidt, and the trustees approved the motion on a unanimous 6-0 voice vote.
Superintendent Sean McNatt said the vacant seat will require an election in November to have an elected trustee complete the final two years left on Hinman's term.
Schmidt and her husband, David, are both Clinton natives and graduates from Clinton High School. They have two daughters: one in elementary school, the other in middle school. Schmidt works at Mitech Solutions in Westland.
Hinman had been a trustee since 2008. He had retired that year after 19 years as a counselor for the Clinton schools.


text: Page ContentRonald R. SimonsDedicated CPP AdministratorCal Poly PomonaAmong the purposes of honorary doctorates is "to honor meritorious and outstanding service to the California State University, collectively, or to its campuses, individually; to the State of California; to the United States; or to humanity at large." With that in mind, it is hard to imagine anyone with a greater legacy of service and achievement at Cal Poly Pomona than Ronald R. Simons.Simply put, Mr. Simons has been dedicated to Cal Poly Pomona from the day he walked onto campus in the fall of 1959. He received two bachelor's degrees from the College of Agriculture (1964 and 1969), leading to a career of university service that has spanned six decades. Along the way, he studied or worked under every president in campus history.The Cal Poly (Pomona and San Luis Obispo) partnership with the Tournament of Roses has advanced due to his ongoing commitment and support. For students at both campuses, he has been the ideal adviser, providing close mentorship while also giving students the leeway they need to assume full responsibility. In fact, a strong case can be made that the Cal Poly Rose Float program would not exist today without his tireless stewardship.In 1996, Mr. Simons was given a unique recognition by the Cal Poly Pomona Alumni Association. Looking to create a one-of-a-kind accolade, this organization honored him with the Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award. It is the only time that this award has ever or will ever be given—an honor to reflect his overall contribution in building the organization from the ground up.Mr. Simons was among the inaugural campus leaders in the development of the university's fundraising arm. His later work led to the funding of new venues for the campus, including the Aratani Japanese Garden and Voorhis Park. On his watch, the Founders' Celebration events raised in excess of $1.5 million in scholarships. Throughout his career, he has come to personally know almost every faculty and staff member. His nickname might best describe his impact and contributions to his alma mater: "Mr. Cal Poly Pomona."In recognition of these and many other achievements, the California State University Board of Trustees and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona are proud to confer upon Ronald R. Simons the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.


text: Three local high school golfers will participate this Memorial Day Weekend in the 2012 Hudiburg Auto Group Oklahoma's Best High School Classic, which will take place Sunday and Monday at Midwest City's John Conrad Golf Course.Poteau's Hannah Ward and Addie Guthrie, along with Cameron's Kody Whitehead, will represent LeFlore County in the event.To qualify for the event, golfers have to place in the top 15 in their respective state tournaments. Ward won the Class 4A State Tournament May 3 at Oklahoma City's Lake Hefner South Golf Course, while Guthrie was eighth — and made All-State being the second-highest senior placer in the state tournament. Guthrie, who currently will walk on at Rogers State College, will participate in the 2012 Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State Golf Tournament the last week of July in the Tulsa metropolitan area.Whitehead tied for 14th at the Class 2A State Tournament on May 8 at Hinton's Sugar Creek Canyon Golf Course.A fourth local golfer also qualified for the event, Poteau's Cathleen Manlove, who was 15th at the Class 4A State Tournament, but is not going to participate in the event as of press time.


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October 17, 2012Celebrities
Gap's Fall Collection
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Allen Lessels' On Baseball: No doubt about it, Fisher Cats still confidentBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 15. 2014 11:55PM
MANCHESTER -- The New Hampshire Fisher Cats went looking for a second straight win at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium on Sunday.
The quest didn't go all that well. Aaron Sanchez, Toronto's top pitching prospect, got knocked around a bit in his first appearance in Manchester and the home team eventually lost, 6-0, to Binghamton.
Not to worry, said Fisher Cats manager Bobby Meacham. He liked what he saw from Sanchez that day and likes the way his team is coming along in the early going of a long season.
The Fisher Cats and New Britain Rick Cats were rained out on Tuesday night and close out their three-game set this morning at 10:35 in a "Manchester goes to a Game" event that will, weather permitting, play to a crowd of thousands of school kids.
The game closes out the first homestand of the season for Meacham's group and, yes, the Fisher Cats are scuffling a bit and at the moment share last place in the Eastern Division with the Rock Cats with a 4-7 record.
The manager thinks things are looking up.
Meacham had been getting a little concerned about how his guys were approaching the game as New Hampshire's losing streak stretched to six games with a pair of losses to Binghamton — 9-1 on Thursday night and 7-0 on Friday.
The Fisher Cats, he feared, were not being aggressive enough and he addressed the subject with the pitchers in particular before Saturday's Game 3 of the homestand.
"I wanted to go out there and make sure they understood what I'm seeing," Meacham said. "What gives a hitter an edge is when you're doubting yourself and they can see you're doubting yourself. What doesn't give them an edge is when you're struggling and you're not backing off. I just wanted them to know that because they're not hitters."
The Fisher Cats went out that day and jumped on Binghamton early, thanks to a three-run, first-inning home run by Nashua's Kevin Nolan. They finished with a season high in hits (15) and runs in a satisfying and streak-busting 9-4 win.
Starter Casey Lawrence allowed just five hits and a run while striking out four and walking none in his six innings.
Then came Sunday and a chance for two straight.
Sanchez allowed four hits and three runs and walked four and did not make it out of the fourth inning.
Meacham commended the pitcher as he took him out of the game, and again when he met with him on Monday.
"I told him that's exactly what I was talking about," the manager said. "I told him, 'I'm proud of you because that's the way it's supposed to look.'" Righty Deck McGuire went out on Monday night and got the Fisher Cats their second win in three games and now owns two of the team's four wins. On Monday, he went six innings and allowed three hits, struck out three and walked no one.
Sanchez's approach helps the next guy up, Meacham said.
"Maybe he's like, I didn't throw my best game, but I'm not backing off,'" Meacham said. "And it kind of snowballs into everything we do.
We didn't win that game but the next guy goes out there and he's aggressive and he's not afraid of what the results are going to be."
Same with the hitters.
"We didn't overwhelm them Monday night with runs scored and all that," Meacham said. "But you could see guys coming back to the dugout a couple of days ago shaking their heads. But now it's like, 'I'm going to get them next time.' I just think things like that develop over the course of a season, when you can learn from 11 tough games, so to speak, and realize it's a long season."


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Dear All,
I would like to add a lcd to my Raspberry Pi as described in this tutorial http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16x2 ... spberry-pi.
Unfortunately my distributor had only this model http://adafruit.com/products/715 (with http://www.adafruit.com/products/399) which I bought... will the same library reported in the tutorial for raspberry is going to work? Are also switches going to work?
Thank you for your kind support,


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - [crit] Anime wizzard, need help with effects Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "[crit] Anime wizzard, need help with effects" Scythejunior memberMember #Joined: 14 Nov 2000Posts: 32Location: Netherlands Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 9:52 am I decided to redo a old sketch of mine. This is the result so far. I got one problem, how can i add good effects to the hair and cloths? Have tried some stuff with dodge/burn and the airbrush but the result was crappy. Plz help. Other crits are also welcome. ------------------ :: The Scythe of the 60082nd Order firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top edible snowmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 998 Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 4:25 pm the dodge and burn tools dont work very well at all, at least in my experience. Try picking colors and then painting them directly on where you think they should go. Or if you want a more anime look, make a selection and then fill it with the appropriate color. I can't really give you any tipes on exactly how to choose what colors go where, because I'm not so great at it myself. Back to top Scythejunior memberMember #Joined: 14 Nov 2000Posts: 32Location: Netherlands Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 4:44 pm Tnx m8! ------------------ :: The Scythe of the 60082nd Order firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top Giant HamstermemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1782 Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 8:15 pm just me but: always put everything on its own layer, and if you forgot to, or didnt for some reason, go back and cut them out and then paste them on a new layer. then turn all the layers on "preserve Transparency". too keep the anime look i would say use the normal 3 color method...base color, highlight, and shadow. cause it really does look best on anime characters... heh, i forgot what the post was about...umm, ohwell, ill hit submit anyways.. *samauri Click!* ------------------ -JameZ the Giant Hamster- The Hamster Alliance AIM: Gianthmstr Multimedia Producer/designer/all of the above.,overall guru :)...and music music music! weee!! Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group