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These developers and influencers don't buy smartphones from operators, let alone enter into operator contracts. They buy unlocked iPhones for $649 and up directly from Apple ( AAPL) and Nexus devices for $299 and up directly from Google ( GOOG). They don't want to be tied to any one carrier as they frequently swap SIM cards. These people will not buy a carrier-branded smartphone, and they certainly won't do so if it means entering into a two-year contract. As it stands, this will keep them from buying a BlackBerry 10 device until BlackBerry starts offering these devices directly, free from carrier influence, SIM locking and without any contract. Yes, T-Mobile USA is now taking a positive step in this direction, but it's not the same as BlackBerry itself offering BB 10 devices for cash, unlocked and carrier-neutral in every way. Why doesn't BlackBerry sell to these developers and influencers directly from its Web site, or even from Amazon ( AMZN), eBay ( EBAY) or Best Buy ( BBY)? Certainly the carriers should not feel threatened by this because these people will be using their network services anyway, just on a pre-paid SIM card basis.
The fact that BlackBerry does not sell unlocked carrier-neutral smartphones directly to developers and influencers is likely to cost it dearly in the market. It basically disqualifies it in places such as Silicon Valley. Very bad -- and totally unnecessary -- move. BlackBerry is trying to bypass the influencers and go straight for the masses. For a product like this, it has tended to be a failed strategy. So what will happen to BlackBerry? In brief, it will most likely be acquired. The mobile computing game is too big for the even bigger companies to allow BlackBerry to remain independent. BlackBerry has many strong assets that several parties could exploit and integrate into their operations. For starters: 1. 75 million user base, including the valuable large enterprise users. Peanuts for Apple and Google, but material for Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia ( NOK), HP ( HPQ) and Samsung. 2. Patents and other intellectual property across several hardware and software technologies. 3. Server software that is proven, secure and cross-platform. 4. A leading automobile infotainment platform with QNX. 5. A strong operating system with what most people agree has a great user interface (BB 10).
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Otter, survivor of oil spill, passes away at Shedd Aquarium
An Alaskan sea otter that survived the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989 has passed away at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, officials said Wednesday.
Shedd Aquarium executive vice president of animal care and training Ken Ramirez said the otter, Kenai, was 23-years old—long past the median life expectancy age of 15 to 18. He said she was euthanized after caretakers determined her recent pain could not be permanently cured.
Ramirez said he cared for the animal as a pup after the oil spill and, in a phone interview Wednesday, he recalled a gentle creature and a "true survivor."
"I've never known another animal that has come back from so many hardships and so many serious challenges in her life," he said, adding that he had "made a special place" in his heart for the animal.
"What I loved most was how much she enjoyed being carried. And she would take her little paws and put them behind your neck and pull your face toward yours because she liked the smell of your shampoo or your mouthwash or your deodorant that you were wearing."
In a statement, Shedd officials said Kenai suffered from arthritis and cataracts. The otter also needed dental work on a cracked tooth in 2010, the statement said.
Kenai had also experienced "a massive and quite serious stroke" which, Ramirez said, had her caregivers greatly worried for her health.
But Ramirez said Kenai's aging process also possibly contributed to furthering knowledge of sea otters.
"There's been so few sea otters that have lived to this age, it's hard to some times know if what we are seeing and the many things that we have learned are unique to her or will they become a trend," Ramirez said.
He said science will need to examine more otters with these life spans in order to understand more about them.
Shedd Aquarium officials said one other surviving otter from the 1989 oil spill is in Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash.
According to the official aquarium statement, the disaster in Point William Sound in Alaska "immediately" claimed the lives of 2,000 sea otters.


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St. Petersburg taxpayers have spent at least $20 million over the years to help build and support BayWalk, the entertainment complex that helped trigger downtown's renaissance when it opened in 2000. But BayWalk has fallen on hard times, with empty storefronts and a movie theater whose future is in doubt. Taxpayers have an interest in protecting their investment in the struggling development, and Mayor Rick Baker has developed a reasonable plan to help the complex's new owner revitalize it.
The plan is comprehensive in its approach to enhance security, improve public spaces and create well-marked pedestrian links between BayWalk, Beach Drive and other downtown areas. There will be better lighting in the city-owned parking garage that serves BayWalk, and police officers will be patrolling on horseback. The public cost for the improvements is reasonable at less than $700,000, and the entire package should help BayWalk's new owners recruit tenants and help ensure the complex and the surrounding area remain safe and attractive.
As always, there is a catch. The city's plan includes vacating the public sidewalk in front of BayWalk on Second Avenue N and giving it to BayWalk's new owners so they can control what takes place there. When the complex was a vibrant destination, it drew crowds of teen-agers and regular protesters on the weekends, leaving the area congested and raising concerns about security. Metal barricades were used for a time to create an opening to enter the development. The crowds and protesters are gone now, along with most of the stores and patrons. BayWalk officials say the complex will not attract tenants until they can be assured their customers will be able to get to their stores safely and without interference. And a shuttered BayWalk is in no one's best interest.
This is not a new controversy, and there remain serious issues about free speech and the right to protest. In the past, this editorial page criticized a proposal to close Second Avenue N entirely and another that would have created "no-protest zones'' on the public sidewalk. Beyond preventing interference with moving traffic, the government has no business limiting free speech and people's movements on public streets and sidewalks.
Baker's proposal is more narrowly drawn, and it is not without precedent. Streets and sidewalks have been vacated for other private developments. There still would be an opportunity to protest on public sidewalks on the south side of Second Avenue. On that side, BayWalk would be granted a permit to control a short path between the privately controlled walk that leads from the garage to the street. That annual permit would be in effect primarily on weekends, and the city could revoke it if the situation proved unworkable.
Before the City Council votes next month on vacating the sidewalk and the city makes major improvements, though, the public deserves more from BayWalk's operators than vague assurances. The city needs a commitment from the owner — CW Capital of Rockville, Md. — that it will spend the $6 million or so it has talked about for improvements to the complex. More specifics on new tenants also would be in order. And it is time for Muvico, which operates the separately controlled theaters, to firm up its plans instead of demanding public loans and threatening lawsuits. Its theaters may be the only ones in the city, but they no longer rank with the nicest in the area.


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As the Fed Pulls Back, Can Housing Stand Alone?By
For months, investors' favorite parlor game has been betting on the timing—and the impact—of the Federal Reserve's decision to raise its benchmark interest rate from its current near-zero level. But there's a key sector of the economy where a Fed return to normalcy is set to play out much sooner: housing.
Sales of both existing and new homes fell in February for the third and fourth straight months, respectively. Yet at the end of March the central bank will withdraw a big support under the housing market when it ends its $1.4 trillion program to purchase mortgage-backed securities and housing-agency debt. A month later the federal home-buyer tax credit expires. Some housing watchers fret that one-two punch could send the sector back to the mat.
A growing number of economists, however, believe that a pickup in employment this spring, cheap credit, and a glut of affordable homes will allow housing not only to withstand the removal of government help in 2010 but also to contribute to U.S. annual economic growth for the first time since 2006.
Employment is key to this outlook. Morgan Stanley (MS) economist David Greenlaw forecasts as many as 300,000 new U.S. jobs in March, the biggest monthly increase in four years, because of milder weather, government hiring of temporary workers for the U.S. Census, and a growing economy.
Credit conditions also may be improving. A net 13.2% of banks surveyed by the Fed in January reported that they tightened lending standards on prime mortgages in the fourth quarter. That's the smallest percentage in three years.
Meanwhile, falling prices and low mortgage rates have made homes more affordable. The median price of a U.S. home was $165,100 in February, the second-lowest reading since May 2002. And the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 4.96% in mid-March, not far above December's record-low 4.71%.
The result of that potent mix of less-expensive homes and cheap credit: The average U.S. household had 177.8% of the income needed to purchase a property in January, the highest since last April's 184%, the record.
That's behind some forecasters' optimism. David Crowe, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), says sales of new homes will likely total 459,000 in 2010, up from 372,000 last year. And Barclays Capital (BCS) economist Dean Maki, who figures overall home sales will rise about 6% this year, says housing will account for 0.25 percentage points of the 3.6% growth he foresees for the U.S. economy.
The first test of that scenario comes later this month when the Fed ends its program to purchase $1.25 trillion of mortgage-backed securities and about $175 billion of housing-agency debt.
Credit Suisse (CS) mortgage strategist Mahesh Swaminathan says private demand for mortgage debt is now strong enough to replace that of the central bank. And Barclays Capital Managing Director Ajay Rajadhyaksha says the spread between the yields on mortgage-backed securities and Treasury notes should widen only slightly this quarter, signaling that the risk premium on mortgage debt won't spike after the Fed withdrawal.
Likewise, the impact of the expiration of the home-buyer credit should be minimal. The original credit for first-time buyers helped boost existing-home sales by 4.9%, to 5.16 million, in 2009, the first rise since 2005. The credit, slated to end last Nov. 30, was expanded to include some trade-up buyers and extended through April. But the extension hasn't helped much: The credit of up to $8,000 will result in only 180,000 extra sales from December to April, says the NAHB's Crowe.
Another challenge in 2010: the supply of properties for sale could rise even further. Foreclosures may increase to 2.2 million this year from 2009's record 1.7 million, predicts Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's (MCO) Economy.com. But Thomas Lawler, a former Fannie Mae (FNM) economist, says an improving job market would spur household formation and help absorb the excess supply. While that doesn't portend a robust rebound, it suggests the worst may be over for housing.


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An appeal signed by 51 of the leading intellectuals in this country was sent to the authorities of the Soviet Union today, urging sharply that the USSR stop its discrimination against Russian Jewry who are denied full rights in the educational, cultural and religious fields.
The appeal was adopted at a meeting here last night, at which data about anti-Jewish persecutions were documented by Costa Rican writers and educators. The meeting took note of the fact that the recent Latin American congress of members of Parliaments had adopted a similar resolution, calling for an end to anti-Jewish discrimination in the USSR.


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I have been drawn to the power of satire and parody throughout my life and career, and learned early on that humor can make points more forcefully than other kinds of expression. As a child, I studied how the Jewish comics in New York used humor to emerge from poverty, and later followed black and Hispanic performers who carried on those traditions to triumph over prejudice and injustice.
As a student, I took every opportunity to turn writing assignments into satire, and as a teacher, taught my own students to value those forms of cultural and political commentary. Favorite television classics of the era included the double-seated "love toilet" and "Super Bass O-Matic" from Saturday Night Live, and Eddie Murphy's hilarious parody of Buckwheat from Our Gang comedies, singing his incomprehensible "greatest hits" with subtitles ("O-tay!"). And now, thanks to online resources, we have immediate access to biting humor at sites such as Colbert Nation and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The best satire is hip, smart, timely, and news driven, and nothing is off limits, including teachers, administrators, and schools.
Schoolhouse Rock
Some readers know that I was a collaborator on the Emmy-award-winning Schoolhouse Rock on ABC-TV, and still do presentations with the executive producer George Newall and music director Bob Dorough, who wrote the famous "Conjunction Junction." Our next keynote is the Hot Springs Technology Institute (HSTI) in Arkansas this June, and we hope to see many area readers there (hsti.hssd.net).
But we were thrilled when our films were satirized a few years ago as "Public Schoolhouse Rock" by MadTV, which you can see online at youtube.com. While some of the content is "PG-13," if you are familiar with Schoolhouse Rock, you will love Substoot Teecher; Fatty, Fatty, Fatty; Disfunction Junction and others.
I also wrote a lot of education satire over the years, and when I joined DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, I decided that among all the serious, timely, and breaking professional topics we cover each month—such as pensions, second-language learning, and digital devices in this issue—we should include an occasional change of pace that also made statements in lighthearted ways. I therefore poked fun at education trends and issues by taking them to absurd extremes, and publishing them in various publications, including DA.
I was therefore shocked when I recently found that a major online educational guide listed some of my fictitious programs along with legitimate resources, without indicating in any way that mine were satirical! These included my promotion for "Backtrackle," a book on turning real-world products into simple materials, such as making bird-feeders into bleach bottles and flower vases into coffee cans; the "Bare-naked Basics" curriculum in which all references to "society" are removed from schools; and "Aural Punctuation" where young people avoid painful pauses in language by inserting "spoken commas" such as "y'know?" and "right?" I guess the bottom line is that anything anyone sells to schools can find a buyer, and it is crucial to stay informed.


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Five Colorectal Cancer Survivors To Attend 2014 Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium
"Having a patient voice at meetings like the GI Cancer Symposium helps to bridge the gap between the physician, the researcher and the patient," said Kim Ryan, Director of Patient Information Services at Fight Colorectal Cancer. "Patients are interested in not only their own care, but how research in the field of colorectal cancer is advancing for all GI cancer patients. This meeting will provide our research advocates with keen insight into the drug development process, the research process and how important therapies are discovered to help treat all GI cancers."
The advocates will attend the symposium thanks to a scholarship program funded by Genentech and Genomic Health. Their attendance at the symposium is the culmination of a course offered to members of Fight Colorectal Cancer's Research Advocacy Training and Support (RATS) group.
The scholarship recipients include:
• Elaine Newcomb
• Elizabeth Dennis
• Florence Kurttila
• Kristin Keesen
• Wanda Addy
All five of the attendees were chosen for the course based on their interest in influencing the research system and desire to serve their patient community by disseminating research results that will influence patient care.
"Myself, my dad, my grandma and uncle all had colorectal cancer; my grandma passed away from cancer and this year my dad lost his 33-year battle," said Liz Dennis, an advocate from Arizona. "I have become even more passionate about finding out jest more about research, newer drugs and treatments of all stages. I am on the cancer advisory board at my hospital and I run the support group. I want to be able to take back what I learn to help others and translate the new research for them!"
The GI Cancer Symposium is the culmination of a course involving eLearning classes for self study, background assignments, and participation in a series of web lectures. While in San Francisco, advocates will tour labs and manufacturing facilities, network with experts and attend lectures regarding the treatment of colorectal cancer.
"At first I was completely intimidated and afraid of being involved with scientists but I have found they need survivors as much as we need them," said Kristin Keesen, an advocate from Colorado. "We give scientists information they cannot find in the lab. They count on us just as much as we count on them."
To learn more about the RATS program at Fight Colorectal Cancer, visit http://fightcolorectalcancer.org/
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2016 Toyota Prius details leak in staff manual, returns 40 km/L – Report
Aravind Jayachandran, It goes without saying that I'm a huge petrolhead and can apparently convert all my driving emotions into words you can read.
Available with an e-four AWD system.
When Toyota unveiled the next generation 2016 Toyota Prius ahead of its public premiere at the 2015 IAA in Frankfurt, the company didn't reveal too many technical details of the new hybrid. However, thanks to leaked shots of the staff manual, here are some exclusive details not divulged before.
Under the hood, it packs a 1.8-liter 2ZR-FXE Atkinson cycle engine, which is paired to an electric motor. Although power figures have not been revealed, it states that the Prius can return a maximum fuel mileage of 40 km/L (JC08 cycle). An E-Four AWD mode is available in higher variants, which drops the fuel consumption to 35 km/L.
The fourth generation Toyota Prius is designed around what the company calls ICONIC Human-tech, which adds flowing curves with aggressive angular lines, resulting in "ground-breaking advances" and "aerodynamic innovations" for cutting through the air more efficiently.
Compared to the outgoing Prius, the new model is 60 mm longer, 15 mm wider and 20 mm lower. It now measures 4540 mm long, 1,760 mm wide, 1470 mm tall and has a wheelbase 2,700 mm. Thanks to the lower center of gravity and sturdier TNGA modular platform, the new Prius exhibits less roll, according to the manual.
Inside, it features a simple dashboard design with a 3-spoke multifunction steering wheel, and a large touchscreen infotainment system in the center. The stubby gear selector is located on the center console, while the digital instrument cluster is mounted on center of the dashboard. It houses 4.2 inch TFT Multi-information displays for feeding vital information to the driver.
The new Prius also offers Toyota's Safety Sense P package, which includes features like Pre-collision System with pedestrian detection function, Lane Departure Alert (or LDA) and Radar Cruise Control.
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Despite my own reflection that the Obama administration will likely move forward with whatever nanotech bill Congress puts before it, there may be some reasons for the administration to take a second look.
While the House overwhelmingly passed the bill last fall, it never made it through the Senate. And even if it had made it through the Senate, it was unclear whether Bush would have signed it into law as his administration was forcing a number of changes that are described here by Robert Service.
Among one of the more controversial Bush administration provisions was the removal of the requirement that a specific percentage of NNI funds be spent on Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) research. And, frankly, that was the real change from all the other NNI bills.
It would seem that whatever form the bill finally takes will be satisfactory to certain factions within the nanotechnology community. But it seems the Obama administration is really taking science quite seriously, and may decide that they're not going to accept just any bill, but a good one.


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SANTA CRUZ -- It is not often that a Washington, D.C., policy wonk is treated like a celebrity, but that was the welcome UC Santa Cruz alumna Julia Sweig, an expert on Latin America for the Council on Foreign Relations, received on campus Friday.
After a talk she gave in the College 9 Namaste Lounge titled "North-South Power Shift? The U.S. and Latin America in a Global Context," students lined up to pepper her with questions and ask for her autograph in their ringed notebooks. One student even brought a head of Siberian garlic as a gift for her.
"I had no idea I would get such a reception," Sweig said after the lecture. "It was great to see the fire, the interest of the students. The Latin American Studies program here has really grown into one of the premier programs in the country."
Sweig, who graduated with a bachelor of arts in Latin American Studies in 1986, was drawn back into banana slug land by the alumni association, which chose her for the 2011 alumni achievement award.
"[The alumni association] made a very wise decision when they chose Julia for the award," said College 10 Provost Helen Shapiro, who praised Sweig's ability to endure in Washington, D.C., as a policy expert during a period when it was relatively uncommon for women to be included in such circles.
"We've tried for years to get Julia to come back here for a talk, and maybe in the future we can get her to return to her alma mater to teach."
Sweig received the honor Friday evening at the annual UCSC Founders Celebration at the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom.
In addition to Sweig, this year's honorees are J. Michael Bishop and Arthur D. Levinson, who will receive the Foundation Medal for their work in biomedical research, Hal Hyde, who will receive the Fiat Lux Award for his work as one of the founders of the campus, and Steven Vogt, who will receive the Faculty Research Lecturer Award for his work in discovering habitable planets outside our solar system.
Friday was the first time Sweig, who has particular expertise on Cuba and Brazil, has spoken on campus.
"I didn't want to just come for the award ceremony, I wanted to come and connect with the flesh and blood of the student body," she said.
Her lecture covered the change in U.S. policy toward Latin America from the 1980s to today, and noted several ways in which United States influence in the region has waned in the past decade. After the Cold War ended policy toward Latin America shifted away from halting the spread of socialist governments aligned with the Soviet Union and emphasized free trade agreements, combatting the drug trade and promoting democracies.
Sweig now focuses her attention on Brazil, which is seen as an emerging power.
"Brazil's greatness is increasingly apparent," she said, noting strong trade ties with China, a growing economy and a population of 200 million, of which 30 million have emerged out of poverty in the past decade, fueling a new consumer class.
Sweig was born in Chicago, but moved to San Francisco at age 14. Turned off by the college application process, and sure of her first choice, she only applied to UCSC.
"When I came here there were no graduate students and the undergraduates had access to an enormous amount of resources," Sweig said. "And, it's a beautiful place. I was attracted to the small, off-the-beaten-track, intimate experience."


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SANTA MONICA, Calif (Jul. 24)
Moses T. Marcus, 75, honorary professor in Talmud at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, died Wednesday, apparently from heart disease, while touring California with his daughter.
In 1931 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for study in Palestine. He is survived by his daughter, Evelyn, who was with him, and by a son, Ralph, professor of Hebrew language and Bible at the institute.


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Weekend planner: Church benefits this weekend
This weekend offers a variety of events to help support your favorite benefit, plus one campfire program at St. Croix Bluffs Regional Park. At least seven area churches are hosting pig roast benefits, several are having rummage sales and two walks are scheduled -- one for the no-kill animal shelter and one for Gulf coast support.
A two-day free rummage giveaway is taking place at Christ the Lord Lutheran Church in Cottage Grove on Friday and Saturday.
To help support church missions, New Life Evangelical Free Church, just south of Cottage Grove on Highway 61, is holding a rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
A five-church pig roast to benefit the Friends in Need Food Shelf is planned from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
At St. Mary's-Basswood Grove Episcopal Church in Denmark Township, the congregation is offering roast corn and pork plus a live auction that's large enough to have a catalog of items, from 4 to 8 p.m. on Saturday.
Live music, an open stage plus roast pork will be available at Newport Lutheran Church from 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Proceeds will benefit the Leukemia Society of Minnesota.
A Gulf shore relief carnival is scheduled from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday at Globe University, 8089 Globe Drive in Woodbury.
At St. Croix Bluffs Regional Park in Denmark Township, naturalists will demonstrate bird banding beginning at 7:15 p.m.
Animal Ark, the no-kill animal shelter, is holding its annual fundraiser walk beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
The Experimental Airplane Association is hosting an Aviation Day fly-in pancake breakfast at the Lake Elmo Airport from 7 a.m. to noon on Sunday.


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No specific reference was made to Jews in the press summary of the new law for the sterilization of undesirables which went into effect under a government decree promulgated throughout Germany today.
The cabinet accepted the law yesterday. It provides for a purifying race process to be carried out through an operation that "is not dangerous."


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Pakistani support of negotiations with the Taliban will be "crucial" to the success of any peace talks, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday as he repeated a call for the neighboring country to facilitate meetings.
Pakistan is considered a key player in any peace talks with the Taliban because Islamabad has a history of involvement with the insurgent group and because most of the top Taliban figures, including leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, are believed to be based there.
The Pakistani government however has always denied that its territory is a safe haven for Taliban leaders and said it has no ties to the group _ a stance that may explain why Karzai's attempts to enlist Islamabad has so far been rebuffed.
The Afghan president's new appeal comes after an acrimonious visit to Pakistan last week during which he asked the Pakistani government to help bring Taliban leaders to the negotiating table. Pakistani officials called it "preposterous" to suggest that they would be able to do so.
Since that visit, Karzai has discussed the issue in phone calls with both U.S. President Barack Obama and Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, according to issued statements.
Gilani's office said that he assured Karzai in their call Tuesday that Pakistan "would wholeheartedly support a peace process in Afghanistan which is Afghan-owned and Afghan-led."
But Karzai's statement suggested that he was still pushing for a more concrete commitment from Pakistan to help get negotiations going. He once again invited the Taliban to take part in direct talks with the Afghan government and stressed the need for Pakistan to "support and facilitate our direct negotiation."
"Pakistan's support to the peace process will be crucial to its success, as well as a significant contribution to the security and stability of Afghanistan and the entire region," Karzai said in the statement.
Though Karzai did not give details on what sort of facilitation he was expecting, Afghan officials have previously asked for Islamabad to promise safe passage for Taliban representatives going to meeting sites outside of Pakistan. They also want access to certain Taliban prisoners in Pakistani prisons.


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UPLAND >> It was a referee's call in a game in which neither coach was completely happy.
But it was Bloomington High's boys soccer team that came out to the situation unscathed and the Bruins went on to rout Upland 5-1 in a CIF-SS Division 2 second-round game on Tuesday afternoon at Upland High School.
Bloomington (15-3-4) advances to Thursday's quarterfinals, where the Bruins will host Simi Valley Royal at 3 p.m. Upland finishes 8-8-5.
"If you would've told me before the game, with all of our injuries, we'd win 5-1, I wouldn't have believed you," said Bruins coach Marc Howard.
Although it was a blowout in the end, the game was still very much in the balance midway through the first half.
Bloomington led 1-0 off a Jose Valadez free kick in the third minute. But Upland had been stymied several times by Bruins goalie Juan Botello and the Highlanders had a scoring chance near the edge of the penalty area in the 29th minute.
The whistle blew for a foul, but the Highlanders' Jake Johnson scored to seemingly tie the score at 1-1.
The teams went to line up for the kickoff, two of the officials huddled, and it was determined that the foul came before the goal was scored. Instead, a penalty kick was awarded.
"I think they should have stayed with the original call," Upland coach Dave Condino said.
"I turned away because I heard the whistle for the foul and then the goal was scored. But I don't think it was a penalty kick. It (foul) was clearly outside the penalty area," Howard said.
Bryan Morrison took the ensuing penalty kick, beat Botello, but hit the inside of the left post and the ball bounced away as the Bruins maintained the lead.
"We've had a lot of balls this year go off the post or off the bar," Condino said. "Sometimes that just happens."
The momentum clearly went to the Bruins and they soon capitalized. About seven minutes later, Calvin Mejia found Rigoberto Barraza, who beat goalie Jordan Dyer to make it 2-0. In the 38th minute, it was Eduardo Sanchez on a break who beat Dyer to make it 3-0.
"I think they had a tough time with our speed," Howard said.
"They have three strikers who are very fast. If they had one, we could contain him," Condino said.
Eric Barajas scored off a corner kick in the 48th minute to make it 4-0 and the game was essentially over when Upland's Gregory Lewis got a red card in the 64th minute, even though Upland's Alex Samarzich scored about two minutes later.
The Bruins' senior tri-captain Juan Ramirez scored the final goal in the 72nd minute.
"We came out and worked hard and we really wanted this," Ramirez said. "It was nice to score, because I'm not much of a goal-scorer."
It was a disappointing end to a satisfying season, Condino said.
"They definitely met expectations and exceeded them," he said. "I'm really proud of them."


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International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Apparently today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day; it was invented by a couple of guys playing racquetball on June, 6 1995 after one of them was injured and yell out "Arrr!". The men that started the holiday were John Baur and Mark Summers who decided to use September 19th because it was Summers' Ex wife's birthday. Apparently, he is one of those guys that actually remembers his wife's birthday, which kind of makes you wonder why they got divorced.
It seems that anyone can make up a holiday; the key it seems is getting the media to talk about it since their holiday took off after Dave Barry wrote about the holiday in a national syndicated Newspaper column. Is all I can think about is all those parrot heads out their who would probably love this holiday. As I remember Jimmy Buffett seemed very keen of pirates. As you would imagine a guy living in South Florida with a yacht would be.
Here are a few pirate words to get you started:
Ahoy! – "Hello!"
Avast! – Stop and give attention. It can be used in a sense of surprise, "Whoa! Get a load of that!" which today makes it more of a "Check it out" or "No way!" or "Get off!"
Aye! – "Why yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or did."
Aye aye! – "I'll get right on that sir, as soon as my break is over."
Arrr! – This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. "Arrr!" can mean, variously, "yes," "I agree," "I'm happy,"…"My team is going to win it all,"…and "That was a clever remark you or I just made." And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr
There is all kind of other pirate info on the official talk like a pirate day website: http://talklikeapirate.com/
Maybe we can brain storm some weird holiday of our own. Do you have an idea for a weird holiday, if so would you leave a comment? Nothing too weird though, and please nothing lewd or too obtuse.


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The Tympanum of the Cathédrale Ste-Foy, Conques
Link to Cathédrale Church of Ste-Foy
Link to Maps of the Pilgrimage Roads of France
Back to from Aubrac to the River Lot and Conques
The famous tympanum of the Cathédrale Ste-Foy dates from the early 1100s. It portrays the Last Judgement and contains 124 figures. As is usual in Last Judgements "Hell" is on the right, and the saved occupy (less interestingly) the left. Beneath the figure of Christ, Saint Michael weighs souls to determine their destination, with the Devil trying to tip the balance in his favour. The reliefs were originally brightly painted, and traces of this can still be seen, particularly in the upper (and more sheltered) part of the work.
Procession of the chosen - from the right - Mary, Peter (with the keys to Rome or heaven and a broken crosier) and the original Conques' Hermit Dadon, followed by the abbot Bégon (with crosier) leading the Emperor Charlemagne by hand. Contrast the more sceptical queue for hell in the north portal at Reims which includes a king, bishop and abbot!
This is the same photo as the one above, with the evening sun effect removed to show the old colours better.
The lower level of goodies are seated to either side of Abraham (with his right arm around Ste-Foy) in comfortable chambers lit by overhead oil lamps. Above them is Ste-Foy wedged in prayer opposite a helping hand and the resurrecting dead. Goodies of course are never quite as interesting as baddies ......
In the central panel of the bottom part of the tympanum to the left of the divider are the saved, to the right the devil's people. Souls are weighed and assessed by the Archangel Michael - the arm of the scales in the Archangel's left hand has to be imagined (see detail below) as it has fallen off, but the scale bowls are still there, and the devil is using his finger to tip the scales down in his favour (this being a common representation in this sort of scene). Behind the devil someone has managed to stick his head through the floor. Below, another candidate waits to follow head first the feet disappearing into the jaws of hell.
The Archangel Michael - weigher of souls sans balance
another candidate waits to follow head first the feet disappearing into the jaws of hell
Armed angels hold back the damned. In the top centre a condemned abbot (plus three monks) prostrates himself, clutching his grounded crosier, in front of a grotesque hunch-backed devil figure who also has three monks in his net. Next there is another devil figure standing on a figure clutching a heretical book, whose head is being eaten by a demon underneath (who has also stabbed him in the back). Finally a false money changer is given a drink of molten metal.
A naked king has his crown removed "by mouth" by another of those pennant hemmed devil figures, whilst giving a futile "it wasn't me it was him" finger gesture. Two other authority figures are abused, though in the right hand case the devil figure seems to be asking for help with his hoof or showing that he can bend his knee backwards (this is probably a parody of the English Lord who was said to have dislocated his knee whilst trying to kick in the abbey's cellar door).
Fine cloth is stripped from the wealthily dressed, whilst on the far right a glutton is strung up and emptied. These figures are in a more shady area of the tympanum, which may be why they have kept their old colours better.
Below them (in the bottom right of the tympanum) - Lucifer and his court oversee a good roast of miscellaneous sinners .....
A singer of bawdy ballads has his harp confiscated and his tongue torn out
On the lower left (details below) - a knight who persecuted local Christians is pitchforked (literally) head down off his horse to get his come-uppance; illicit lovers, necks roped together, await their fate; a miser is hung by the weight of his money.
Note the toad observer - nothing has been missed !
This section includes a toad and 5 serpents, one acting as what Australians would call Satan's trouser snake, set against a background of red flames.
Here's another of those pennant hemmed devil figures
The tongue of a scandalmonger is pulled; a dominating woman sits astride the shoulders of a man, but they're done for - he's got a rope around his neck, she holds a presumably hungry serpent and they're both being pushed down into the flames; and on the far right we can only see the belly of another glutton whose head is already in the cauldron over the fire.
and above them a rabbit headed devil helps spit roast a poacher, whilst another serpent gnaws his foot.
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Urine Adiponectin Concentration in Prediction of Contrast Induced Nephropathy
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified November 2011 by Xijing Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Xijing Hospital
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Xijing Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 10, 2011
Last updated: November 21, 2011
Last verified: November 2011
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|June 10, 2011
|Last Updated Date
|November 21, 2011
|Start Date ICMJE
|April 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|April 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|increase in SCr 0.5 mg/dL(44.2 mol/L) from baseline [ Time Frame: 3 days ]
samples will be collected at 24, 48 and 72 hours after PCI
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01372891 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|a 25% increase in SCr from baseline [ Time Frame: 3 days ]
samples will be collected at 24, 48 and 72 hours after PCI.
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Urine Adiponectin Concentration in Prediction of Contrast Induced Nephropathy
|Official Title ICMJE
|Urine Total Adiponectin and Its Isoforms Concentration in Prediction of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Contrast Induced Nephropathy
|Brief Summary
|The present study is to determine the ability of urinary total adiponectin and its isoforms excretion in the prediction of contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) in the patients undergoing PCI.
|Detailed Description
|Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is a severe complication after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). CIN is responsible for approximately genic renal insufficiency and is the third cause of hospital-acquired renal failure and the injury of endothelial of renal tubule is responsible for the CIN. However markers reliably identifying CIN in the patients undergoing PCI are rare. Adiponectin is a 30-kDa adipocyte-derived vasoactive peptide closely linked to components of the metabolic syndrome. Recent study demonstrates that the quantification of urinary adiponectin excretion appears to be an independent indicator of vascular damage potentially identifying an increased risk for vascular events. Therefore, the investigators presume that the adiponectin excretion may predict the incidence of the CIN. The present study is to determine the ability of urinary total adiponectin and its isoforms excretion in the prediction of CIN in the patients undergoing PCI.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Design ICMJE
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
|Not Provided
|Retention: Samples Without DNA
|Sampling Method
|Probability Sample
|Study Population
|This study enrolls a group of patients> 18 who have ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary PCI.
|Condition ICMJE
|Myocardial Ischemia
|Intervention ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Study Groups/Cohorts
|Patients underging PCI
|Publications *
|Not Provided
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Unknown status
|Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Completion Date
|December 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|April 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Xijing Hospital
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Xijing Hospital
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|PRS Account
|Xijing Hospital
|Verification Date
|November 2011
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Her first film, Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978), nearly murdered her career, and Sunburn (1979) further scorched it. No wonder Farrah Fawcett, 33, onetime star of television's Charlie's Angels, is returning to the medium that made her name. In Murder in Texas, a four-hour NBC miniseries, Farrah portrays Joan Robinson Hill, the Houston socialite for whose mysterious death in 1969 her physician husband was tried but not convicted. The role forced Fawcett to make a few changes: learning to ride English-style instead of Western and, more important, combing her famous windswept hair style...
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Football 2011: 6. Marshall Rams
Updated 11:50 pm, Saturday, August 20, 2011
Keith Kaiser was thrown into the head-coaching job just weeks before the start of last season. Now with a full offseason under his belt and the interim tag removed from his title, he's ready for a playoff run.
The Rams should be better offensively this year with RBs Preston Kobbah and Robert Cevallos returning. Plus, they'll have experience at QB as Conner Kalisky and Sam Kemp both saw playing time.
Kaiser also estimates that six players will play both ways.
"We don't want to see our best players standing on the sidelines during a critical part of the game," he said.
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Enrollment: 2,554
Head coach: Keith Kaiser, 3-7 career, one season at Marshall
2010 records: 3-7 overall, 3-5 in 27-5A (seventh)
Last playoff appearance: 2006, 5A Division II second round
Returning lettermen/starters (o/d): 16/9 (6/3)
Key returnees
Robert Cevallos: RB, 5-9, 190, sr. — 647 yards and three TDs.
Marcos Dominguez: OL, 6-6, 275, sr. — Three-year starter.
Conner Kalisky: QB, sr. — 16 of 45 passes for 204 yards and one TD with seven interceptions.
Preston Kobbah: RB, 5-8, 170, sr. — 157 carries for 1,026 yards and six TDs.
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Blue Cheese Potatoes Recipe
People either love blue veined cheeses of hate them. If you love them, you probably consider them to be the king of all cheeses. Salty, creamy, pungent, complex, and crumbly, they are made by innoculating with penecillium, a fungus.
The best are English Stilton from cows, Italian Gorgonzola also from cows, and French Roquefort from sheep, and they are most often used to dress salads. But they melt easily and make great sauces for pasta and even potatoes. The recipe here calls for Stilton, but it is expensive and hard to find, so feel free to substitute another type blue cheese.
So simple. So quick. So tasty. Why haven't you done this before?
Yield: Makes 2 servings
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
1 pound (2 baseball size) waxy potatoes
2 teaspoons butter or margarine
1 tablespoon of English Stilton or other blue cheese
2 teaspoons chopped chives
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
About the cheese. There are many kinds of blue cheese in this world, and almost every country has its own signature variation on the theme. They are made by innoculating the curds with spores of cultures of the mold Penecillium. When the mold grows you get a cheese with blue or blue-green flecks or veins. In England, the signature blue is Stilton, made from cows milk. In Italy it is Gorgonzola, is also made from cows milk. In France it is Roquefort, made from sheep's milk. In the US, the most famous is Maytag from Iowa.
1) Bring the butter and the blue cheese to room temp. In a large bowl, smush them together with a fork until blended.
2) Peel the potatoes (or not), and cut them into bite-size chunks. Boil the chunks until they are soft, but not mushy, about 10 minutes. Drain. Toss them in with the cheesy butter.
3) Take the chives and bundle them like pencils. With a scissors cut them into 1/8" bits and add toss into the potatoes.
4) Salt and pepper to taste.
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Pediatric clinical research offers unique monitoring challenges when compared to adult clinical trials. The diversity of developmental cognitive and physiological states throughout childhood, the impact of parents/guardians, and the unique regulatory restrictions placed on vulnerable populations all have consequences regarding how to approach the designing, recruiting, and monitoring of these trials. Studies that do not take these differences into consideration are potentially doomed to slow study start-ups, unmet timelines, and potential subject injury. Fortunately, there are ways to ensure your trials secure the right pediatric populations while establishing safety and compliance.
Historical, scientific and regulatory information will be reviewed as part of this presentation along with case scenarios to help build a better understanding of the special considerations encountered with clinical research involving children. The presentation is divided into four parts:
By the end of this presentation participants should be able to:
This course will be of benefit to anyone involved in designing, conducting, recruiting, or monitoring pediatric clinical trials with a particular emphasis on pharmaceuticals.
Charles "Chuck" Sather, CCRA has been a clinical research consultant for approximately 13 years specializing in the risk-based monitoring of pediatric and adult pharmaceutical, biologic and medical device clinical trials, in compliance and data management auditing and in training and education. In 2002 he co-founded Clinical Pathways (CP), LLC with Sandra "SAM" Sather. More than 1/3 of his experience in clinical research has been as a monitor/consultant on a variety of pediatric and neonatal clinical trials. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA with a BSN and has an additional 15 years of experience predominantly in pediatric and neonatal nursing.
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Wine Windows half Black
I recently upgraded my screens to a pair of LG IPS231P-BN 23" IPS monitors, run by my NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS. Everything is great except that I can't run Wine apps anymore in Arch. I tried in OpenBox and in Xfce and in either I get this:
That's an image of what I get when I launch sqlyog--the "OK/Cancel" area of the initial dialog is black--not to mention most of the app itself. My desktop background is black, so that may be why it chose that color. One other app that I want to run does the same thing. I don't know why they're black.
Below is my X log and conf file. Might anyone have any ideas?
$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
I take it when you're not in wine the video works, right?
So I'd suspect a wine problem, not an X problem.
There are some useful Wine Debug Channels Here
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Hey, thanks for the tip. First line of the log was:
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet
Then I changed the graphics settings to emulate a desktop and voila--we're in business!
Now I don't really care if it emulates a desktop or not--it works now. :)
Thank you very much sir.
Glad I landed on something with what was a wild guess.
WINEDEBUG=+ntdll,+msg wine <the rest unchanged> and you'll probably have more ammunition for your bug report.
You may be able to get around this by specifying native dlls, or by some other trick. Have you got the winetricks script? If not get it. Go to http://appdb.winehq.org and search for your program. You might find workarounds
Bro I think you have to install windows again rather wasting time on asking that will gona take less time :)
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As Microsoft continues to reboot a stodgy hardware industry around Windows 8, Surface Tablet and Windows RT portable tablet/netbook designs have been the first two rounds of thought-provoking different. Everything so far has been portable and interactive and touchscreen and that's all good, but there are another couple of pieces waiting in the wings. A reinvention of the traditional desktop and a local storage server are the next two cards Microsoft will likely put on the table in the weeks to come.
I expect a rebooted desktop PC using Windows 8 will be slimmer and smaller than the traditional 5.25-inch-ish wide tower designs that have been a standard form factor for the past decade. The actual box holding CPU and storage may end up being mistaken for a DVR or large hard drive, depending on how manufacturers package it.
Complementing the new desktop/side boxes will be a range of LCD touchscreens and next-gen keyboards incorporating touchpads. Unlike Apple, you won't be forced into abandoning the mouse for a touch interface. Instead, users will have multiple choices so they can mix and match touch with keyboards and mice. Also look for Retina-display-like resolution supported -- if you can afford the price premium.
You'll see more all-in-one monsters too, but they haven't been that successful due to a higher price tag and this bizarre desire to thrust a very expensive piece of hardware into the kitchen or living room. Look for more affordable Windows RT tablets to get a foothold into the family living spaces for quick reference/quick work applications.
All of Windows 8 RT portability, be it tablet, hybrid tablet/netbook and more traditional notebook designs, needs to tie into bigger storage for backup and archival purposes, for things like photos and movies. The final piece to the new Windows 8 hardware puzzle is a server with multiple gigabytes of storage and fast I/O. Expect something with GigE, all the latest and greatest wireless standards from 2.4 GHz through 5 GHz and maybe even some 60 GHz sneaking, multiple TB-size drives, and USB 3.0 support. RAID is also likely to be a standard feature.
Expect the software to come with the home server to do a much more elegant job of mirroring/backing up to Microsoft-based storage solutions (i.e. SkyDrive), with the ability to keep incremental "Time Capsule" style backups on file in "the cloud." Home users will want both all access/sharable cloud storage of things like photos and documents along with doomsday protection of their data against loss of server due to anything from simple hardware failure to a disaster that destroys the hard drive.
People have gone from storing family photos in (print) albums and shoeboxes to hard drives, but you could never back up your shoeboxes.
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Musical Theatre Factory to Send Two Shows to TheatreWorks Palo Alto New Works Festival, 8/9-17
Musical Theatre Factory will send its first two productions, THE DISAPPERING MAN and ONE WOMAN SHOW, to TheatreWorks Palo Alto's New Works Festival, August 9-17. The Festival has launched many new works onto TheatreWorks' stages and on to productions nationally, including Broadway's MEMPHIS and off-Broadway's STRIKING 12, EQUIVOCATION, and THE NORTH POOL.
THE DISAPPEARING MAN (book, music, and lyrics by Jahn Sood) takes place backstage at a small-time travelling circus in 1936. When the headliner is offered another job, the motley troupe must decide whether to adapt to the change or fight to keep the family together. A showcase production was presented by Musical Theatre Factory at Cloud City in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in January of this year, directed by Shakina Nayfack and music directed by Brian Cavanagh-Strong. The same team will continue working on the show at TheatreWorks this summer.
ONE WOMAN SHOW, an autobiographical punk rock cabaret written by Nayfack, will also be presented at the festival. A story of surviving the 90s and creating a new life in a new millennium, ONE WOMAN SHOW recounts the exploits and misadventures that led to Shakina's gender transition. The show features original songs by emerging composers Joe Iconis (THE BLACK SUITS, BLOODSONG OF LOVE, NBC's SMASH), Julianne Wick Davis (SOUTHERN COMFORT), Sam Salmond, Joel Waggoner, Joey Contreras, and Nikko Benson. Developed through the Musical Theatre Factory, the piece has played at Joe's Pub, 54 Below, and had an extended run at Sophie's earlier this year. Future engagements include Barrington Stage Company in August.
THE DISAPPEARING MAN will be presented in three phases of developmental staged readings on August 10 at 8pm, August 14 at 8pm, and August 17 at12pm. ONE WOMAN SHOW will play Friday, August 15 at 10:30pm. For tickets and more information visit http://www.theatreworks.org/new-works/festival or call 650-463-1960.
Still in its first year, the Musical Theatre Factory is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to helping musical theatre artists develop and present new work in a collaborative atmosphere free from the pressures of critical or financial success. More information can be found at www.MusicalTheatreFactory.org


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Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development
More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study of urban recycling. They compare four types of programs in the Chicago metropolitan area: a community-based drop-off center, a municipal curbside program, a recycling industrial park, and a linkage program. Their conclusion, admirably elaborated, is that recycling can realize sustainable community development, but that current programs achieve few benefits for the communities in which they are located.
The authors discover that the history of recycling mirrors many other urban reforms. What began in the 1960s as a sustainable community enterprise has become a commodity-based, profit-driven industry. Large private firms, using public dollars, have chased out smaller nonprofit and family-owned efforts. Perhaps most troubling is that this process was not born of economic necessity. Rather, as the authors show, socially oriented programs are actually more viable than profit-focused systems. This finding raises unsettling questions about the prospects for any sort of sustainable local development in the globalizing economy.
Based on a decade of research, this is the first book to fully explore the range of impacts that recycling generates in our communities. It presents recycling as a tantalizing case study of the promises and pitfalls of community development. It also serves as a rich account of how the state and private interests linked to the global economy alter the terrain of local neighborhoods.
"[This] important book ostensibly concerns urban recycling, but it actually treats the paradox of sustainable community development in the age of global capitalism . . . [It] has important implications for social, community, and environmental advocates, and for students of contemporary urban life."--Choice
"Urban Recycling makes a refreshing change from the usual waste-management books with their worthy but often dull descriptions of the waste hierarchy and bottle banks. . . . This text, an analysis of United States community recycling programmes, has a different approach, with emphasis on community rather than recycling."--Jane Powell, Times Higher Education Supplement
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The new online training courses are designed for individuals looking to switch career paths, obtain advanced training and certifications, or for first-time job seekers who need specialized training. The courses are all open enrollment and self-paced, and students are paired with a personal instructor. Online training courses take an average of 90 days to complete and provide training for entry-level positions.
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Charleston Restaurants: Finz Bar and Grill
After a walk on the beach we were craving sea food, and wanted to try out a new place. Finz Bar and Grill fit both criteria. It's rather small inside (about 6 booths, plus a bar area and a few tables outside where people can still smoke), but it wasn't crowded when we got there around 6pm. Tony ordered the grilled seafood platter, with shrimp, scallops and flounder. All the food was fresh, perfectly cooked, and simply seasoned with a bit of pepper; the shrimp were tender, the flounder was flaky and the scallops cut like butter. The grit cake was an edible but underwhelming little fried triangle. The smashed potatoes, however, are home-made, skin on, mashed red potatoes and are fabulous. Louisa tried the seafood burrito, it had shrimp and scallops, sauteed red onions, and a very nice and creamy Gruyere cheese sauce. The burrito was good, and so were the home made potato chips we got as a side, but Louisa probably would go for the plain sea food next time. Tony said he'd get the burrito, though, so either dish is a good choice! This is one of the best sea food places we've been to, and the fact they have great (fresh, perfectly done) grilled sea food is an added bonus!


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Clark government secrecy is terrible
Yes, there is a grave problem in Christy Clark's B.C. government and particularly in her own office of the premier.
Clark says one thing but does the opposite. She promised open and transparent government and instead she is running a government that is more secretive than Stephen Harper's.
Your editorial says, "the current 'Ethnogate' scandal has also revealed that senior government officials used private emails to keep secret the work they conduct for taxpayers." This is incorrect.
The that these senior government officials worked on in Clark's own office had nothing to do with "work for taxpayers." Ethnogate was work performed by highly placed government staff for the Liberal Party of B.C. while they were being paid by taxpayers. That's an important distinction.
Phil Guy, Victoria
With all those bureaucrats, why no documents?
No paper trails? "Communicate verbally?" These scenarios just don't cut it.
The B.C. Liberals have made a mockery out of their so called transparent government. With 24 deputy ministers making something more than $5.3 million there had better be a massive pile of documents available and it had better be accessible to the public.
Good luck to Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham and John Dyble, deputy minister to the premier ; the chance of finding to whole truth and nothing but the truth is pretty slim.
James Rollins, Richmond
ED. NOTE: An earlier version of Mr. Rollins' letter mentioned Auditor-General John Doyle, which occurred as the result of an editing error.
'Stealth' candidate Dix doesn't impress
So far, NDP leader Adrian Dix has defined himself by his opposition to whatever Christy Clark does.
Apparently, for the players in the political-industrial complex, winning an election and changing a seat from Liberal to NDP is more important than putting someone in office who wants to represent a progressive voice for the people of the province.
Running Dix as a "stealth" candidate is not smart politics for the NDP as it will alienate many voters. It's cold cynicism and extremely poor judgment.
Lisa Perry, Victoria
Pure class
In a predominantly American sports/entertainment-controlled world, it is so nice to see some absolute class in pro sports via Cristiano Ronaldo.
The man deserves kudos for his modest, " I'm sorry, I had to" celebration after his goal knocked Manchester United, his former team of six years, out of the Champions League tournament.
The NFL, Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks and P.K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens should have a good hard look at how a role model acts. There's millions of kids watching . . . .
Grant Husdon, Lac la Hache
Chavez was the people's champion
That Prime Minister Stephen Harper should wish the people of Venezuela a brighter future based on "principles of democracy" smacks of irony and hypocrisy.
Perhaps it is simply impossible for a man like Harper to conceive of a world leader redistributing land to the poor, putting the interests of his people ahead of those of wealthy individuals and corporations, or collecting fair taxes on national resources in order to aid disadvantaged citizens throughout the world.
Or perhaps it is simply that Hugo Chavez, in leading a true democracy, in forgiving his enemies, in promoting peace and in achieving economic independence from the exploitive IMF, has set a standard so high that Harper feels shamed by comparison.
In any case, Chavez will be remembered as a great hero because he truly cared about the poor, and that is something that oil-soaked politicians north of the equator should take to heart.
Mike Ward, Duncan
It was the CIA
How long before the conspiracy theorists blame the U.S. for the death of Hugo Chavez?
Harry Shardlow, Chilliwack
Aid cuts will lose police fight
Polio, one of the world's oldest scourges, is on the verge of being eradicated. It isn't very often that we see a disease completely wiped out but we are almost there. It's an exciting milestone in history.
But if our federal government follows through with its plan to slash its 2013 international development aid budget by $319 million there is no doubt that this crippling disease will surge back, causing the paralysis and death of children once again. With budget cuts, hard-fought gains against polio and other diseases will be lost.
Bill Gates' foundation has highlighted polio in its recent funding priorities, so why not the Canadian government? Reverse the cuts or recklessly risk endangering children's lives.
Anita Mark, Saanichton
No longer idle?
I am very curious as to what has happened to the Idle No More movement.
One can only assume you all have found jobs now. Good for you! Keep up the good work.
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Boeing has signed the first firm contract with Chinese suppliers to build parts for the new 787 Dreamliner. Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president and general manager of airplane production Carolyn Corvi represented Boeing in Beijing to finalize contracts for the 787 composite rudder, the 737 forward entry door and the 737 automatic over-wing exit door with Chengdu Aircraft, a China Aviation Industry Corp. I (AVIC I) affiliated company. The company also completed contracts for the 787 wing-to-body fairing panels with Hafei Aviation Industry, an AVIC II company.
Other recent deals included a memorandum of understanding with Shenyang Aircraft Corp. for the leading edge assembly for the 787's vertical fin. BHA Aero Composite Parts signed agreements to build the interior panels for the 777 control cabin, as well as the wing-to-body fairing panels and tail cone for the 737. BHA is an equity-share joint venture between Boeing, Hexcel Corp. and AVIC I.
Boeing has also decided to substantially increase component production rates at Shanghai Aviation, Xi'an Aircraft and Shenyang Aircraft for the manufacture of 737 empennages, including the vertical fin and horizontal stabilizer.
Boeing now holds $1.6 billion worth of contracts with China's aviation industry. More than 3,500 Boeing airplanes–one-third of Boeing's world fleet–contain major parts and assemblies built in China.
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The Last Stand
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:16:11 GMT — After a stint as Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has returned in his first lead role as an actor. With his life full of scandal and his ability to win back an audience in question, Arnold certainly reminds me of why he was such a successful movie star in the first place. He may (I take that back). He will never win an Oscar in his life, although I think Schwarzeneggerâ??s future as an actor is well in tact for one simple reason. He is oozing with charisma.I was reminded of this after watching the charisma-challenged Colin Farrell step into his shoes in "Total Recall" earlier this year. Regardless of what you think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he shines on screen when it comes to bringing you, the audience, into his films and making you care about him and the others around him. Apparently Hollywood thinks the same because including "The Last Stand" he has eight movies in the works through 2014."Last Stand" takes place in a small, nothing ever happens here, Arizona border town with probably too many police officers; four. Schwarzenegger plays Ray Owens, a former Los Angeles police officer who came to Arizona to get away from the relentless chaos and trials of big city police work. His fellow officers are just the opposite. They are either not prepared for such police work or eager for such police work. So when a ruthless Mexican drug kingpin escapes from FBI custody and begins hurtling their way in a specially outfitted car that is capable of going 200 MPH, they are about to get more trouble then they bargained for."Last Stand", along with Schwarzenegger, reminds me of how long it has been since a great action movie has been made. Weâ??ve had action movies, but very few are worthy of repeat viewing or five-years from now weâ??ll still be watching it. "The Last Stand" may just be one of those movies. The humor is plentiful and the personality is rich. The story is quality enough and the action never exceeds a level of reality or even comes close to a level of absurdity that we normally see in action movies these days. The movie is well filmed and has a level of coolness that puts it over the top.The only thing I would criticize about "The Last Stand" would be a fairly uncreative collision of bad guy and good guy in the middle of town. Where most of the movie was creative and had numerous moments that led the audience to believe that the officers of this tiny town were pretty much doomed. The cartel finally just show up in town, line up across the street (I think there were 9) and declare everybody dead. The movie, as creative as it was, could have done better.This one criticism is a pretty small detail in a movie that otherwise was a smashing success of entertainment, action and comedy. "The Last Stand" is a throwback to when action movies were good. There was a time when action movies didnâ??t rely on absurd stunts that cross into fantasyland or had herky-jerky MTV editing that disguised how poorly the scenes are choreographed or assumed that the audience was only interested in 100-minutes of bullets zipping. Hopefully "The Last Stand" is a return to that notion.