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While Assad may be a little-loved ally, Moscow considers the forces opposing him to be led by extremists who, if victorious, would quickly suppress any moderate remaining forces.
While Assad may be a little-loved ally, Moscow considers the forces opposing him to be led by extremists who, if victorious, would quickly suppress any moderate remaining forces.
The Rohingya crisis has sparked a change of tone from Guterres, who has been criticized for failing to shine a light on human rights abuses and atrocities.
In diving into global peacemaking efforts as a result of Belt and Road, Beijing may increasingly find itself out of its depth.
As cited in HIPPO and the 1325 review, there are a number of unarmed approaches that can directly protect civilians in violent conflict, with unarmed civilian protection (UCP) prominent among them.
In Myanmar, the current aid blockade on all UN agencies, and the ban on international staff that humanitarian organizations have been facing since mid-August, is being justified by the government as necessary for…
The appointment of a head and a deputy head of the AU's newly formed Institutional Reforms Unit this month is an important step forward in increasing the organization's effectiveness.
United Nations Special Representative on International Migration Louise Arbour discusses the human mobility challenges now facing policymakers and politicians.
The creation of a first-ever UN Office of Counter-Terrorism and the appointment of the first full-time, under-secretary-general-level UN counterterrorism official—Russia's Vladimir Ivanovich…
While the huge numbers showed the frustrations with the ruling Union for the Republic, it is uncertain whether further demonstrations can cause meaningful change.
It is futile to blame the crisis for the shortcomings of multilateral instruments; at the end of the day, were these mechanisms not designed precisely to solve complex crises?
What is somewhat worrying is the fact that there still is an ongoing debate over what is meant by "sustainable peace."
The fact that Greece and Turkey were directly involved in the process through their foreign ministers allowed them to at least partially subsume the Cyprus peace process within the broader frame of Greco-Turkish relations.
Despite the goodwill, or general belief that debt relief is critical for Somalia's development, key international partners still need to fully embrace the process.
The interim authorities will need to be made operational—with competent staff and adequate financial means—so that they can start providing services to northern populations ahead of the…
Beijing is eager to show the new American administration its centrality in dealing with North Korea, while pointing out the negative consequences of what it considers as undue military pressure…
With more than 60 deaths in the last two months of protests, the risk for Venezuela to fall into a spiral of violence is high.
In Syria, the UN is confronted with an uncooperative head of state, bolstered by the support of veto-wielding members of the Security Council.
So far, ECOMIG's deployment appears to be a successful case of coercion engineered through the coordinated activities of ECOWAS, the AU, and the UN Security Council.
One of the common arguments against negotiating with the Taliban is that the group is not sincere in its efforts.
Political transitions are typically a period of heightened risk of instability at the best of times, and the current downsizing to around 1,000 personnel could make it harder to ensure safety during the…
Iraq and the international community will need not only to think about the "day after ISIS," but also consider six months, one year, and one decade beyond.
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Dr. Dov Joseph. Minister for Development, rushed off to Heletz, site of Israel's first oil well, today, reportedly to investigate the discovery of a major oil find in a still lower stratum of rock than the one in which the first well was found.
Reports reaching here from the Negev drilling site say that technicians and oil geologists on the site are "mad with joy". Some reports state that the quantity of oil at the Heletz formation is now believed to be four times as great as originally thought when the first well was brought in late last month.
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Now all we need is a parallel breakthrough in electricity storage devices.
Now all we need is a parallel breakthrough in electricity storage devices.
let me just say, we have been talking about the solar power here and i complained, as usual. LOL
now our solar panel is fixed and working i can shower in HOT HOT HOT water, wash dishes in hot water, bathe in hot water, wash the cat in hot water (HE is NOT appreciative, maybe should stop stepping in his own poo).
i had my doubts but now i can see it is working! and working fine too.
i cannot talk about costs of our solar panel as we live in a condo. panels were installed and fixed by them and the water is included in a maintenance fee.
however minovio's mum has put the solar panel for the water heater in her new house and despite the cost of the panel+installation she is happy with it.
i guess it is hard to fork out the money for that but it seems to be working fine. may be a problem if it had to serve more people but for the small household is perfect.
the plans for our future house in POP include solar panels too, i support environmentally friendly energy sources. and sun is free in DR!
That would be great. I just hope it's real, and not another "cold fusion breakthrough".
I'll believe it when I see it, and I'll remain hopeful. $1 a watt would certainly change how the world does things. Might even make electric cars practical. I can just see young "tuners" drag racing their solar cars, their bodywork adorned with efficient solar energy producing film, pit stops being where the best sun is, doing 11 second 1/4 miles...silently
Note the developer asks for government just to get out of the way. A sound idea, one I'll endorse.
(A note to Mr. Chavez, and President Bob of Iran: you DO realize your regimes are screwed if this stuff is for real, don't you? )
gee, i know. minovio runs bloody air con all night long and when i get up in the morning i have to wear full pyjamas plus socks plus warmest sweater. they tell me i should be used to the cold since i am from poland but i say "yes, poland is cold but only in the winter and OUT-bloody-SIDE!".
as to drying clothes outside. we have a big balcony but in truly dominican architectural style the building is situated in such way we never get any sun there except for the small spot occupied by the cat. and of course some giant trees are planted outside. i swear - it's colder inside our flat in DR than in my flat in poland during the coldest winter.
alternative power sources: i have read about this polish inventor who worked out the process of turning rubbish (mainly plastic bottles and such) into oil and oil products.
i would not worry, cobraboy, it's gonna be years before the reliable alternative power sources will be developed and widely available. then it will take a major shift in the people's minds to start using them. so chavez and all the sheiks can sleep soundly...
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As an ulcerative colitis caregiver you can play an important role in helping your loved one recover from ulcerative colitis surgery by being available to that person both emotionally and physically. How much support they may need and what kind will be all depends on the type of surgery they undergo. Before your loved one has surgery, educate yourself about what lies ahead for your loved one so that you know what they'll need from you.
Ulcerative Colitis: Planning Before Surgery
Join your loved one at their presurgery doctor appointments. The doctor will be able to give you a good sense of what to expect after surgery and can educate you on any complications that could occur during the recovery period as well as what to do should they occur. It's a good idea to take notes during these appointments. Keep these notes, along with the doctor's phone number, by the phone or in a readily accessible place should you need them.
Call your loved one's doctor immediately, if they experience any of the following complications following surgery:
- Cramps
- Abdominal pain
- Vomiting
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- Cuts or ulcers around the stoma (the opening created by the surgeon)
- Blood in the stool
Ulcerative Colitis: Types of Surgery
In the preoperative visit, the doctor can also explain what your loved one's ulcerative colitis surgery will involve, so that you better understand what he or she will be facing. Different procedures have different recovery periods and different long-term consequences. Here is a brief explanation on the types of ulcerative colitis surgeries:
- Proctocolectomy with ileostomy: In this procedure, the colon and rectum are removed and the end of the small intestine is connected to a hole in the abdominal wall. A pouch, or ostomy bag, is worn over the opening to collect waste.
- Restorative proctocolectomy: This is now the most common type of ulcerative colitis surgery. In this procedure, after removing the diseased portion of the colon, an internal pouch is created from the small intestine, and connected to the anus, allowing the person to pass waste in the traditional way. This usually requires a two to three month healing period before stool can be passed through the pouch and out the rectum, so a temporary ileostomy (an opening through the abdominal wall that functions as an anus) is usually placed at the time of initial surgery, and later closed.
Ulcerative Colitis: Physical Support After Surgery
Your loved one will need physical support after ulcerative colitis surgery. People recovering from any abdominal surgery will not be allowed to lift or push heavy objects for up to six weeks while they recover. Help your loved one stick to this recommendation by taking over some of these tasks:
- Child care: Even lifting young babies is enough to cause strain.
- Pet care: Dogs that tend to pull at the leash may be too much for your loved one immediately after surgery.
- Grocery shopping and cooking: Your loved one can't lift heavy grocery bags or full pots, but probably doesn't want to order pizza every night, either. You can help out by cooking dinner or bringing over leftovers that can be easily reheated.
- Household chores and yard work: Help by taking out the trash, shoveling the sidewalk, mowing the lawn, doing the laundry, and vacuuming.
Ulcerative Colitis: Emotional Support After Surgery
The person who has had ulcerative colitis surgery may have a hard time adjusting emotionally to the ostomy system. Even if it's only temporary, this fundamental change in how the body works can come as a shock and may represent a loss of "normal" functioning that needs to be mourned by some patients. The ostomy bag can also cause self-esteem to suffer.
You can help your loved one cope with these emotional challenges by being there to talk when they need you. Offer a sympathetic ear so that your loved one knows they have someone to vent their frustrations to, but also try to encourage them to stay positive.
There are also ulcerative colitis support groups available specifically for those who have had surgery for the condition as well as their caregivers. If you have not already joined an ulcerative colitis support group, consider connecting with one in your area through the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. Other people with ulcerative colitis and their family members can be a great source of support, and can help teach you how to best aid your loved one through colitis treatment.


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About Charles Darwin
- Didn't Karl Marx offer to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin?
- Did my ancestor know Charles Darwin?
- Is Charles Darwin's house open to the public?
Hoary Old Chestnuts frequently asked by creationists and other charlatans
- Isn't Darwin's Theory of Evolution totally at odds with the account of creation given in the Book of Genesis?
- Isn't Evolution Only a Theory?
- Didn't Darwin recant of his Theory of Evolution on his deathbed and embrace Christianity?
- Didn't Darwin admit that the eye was too complex to have evolved?
- Doesn't Evolution break the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
- If humans evolved from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys?
- Wasn't Darwin a believer in homeopathy?


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In California, the city of Covina is nearing completion of a citywide improvement program to upgrade and update the city's underground sewer infrastructure.
"Our plan was to 'fix' the system under one comprehensive plan," said Kalieh Honish, Covina director of public works. "The project was designed in 2011, the contract awarded in February 2012, and the upgraded system basically is complete and in service."
One recently completed 6.2-mile segment replaced old vitrified clay pipe with HDPE pipe of several sizes. The project originally was planned to be mostly open-cut, but ended up with new pipe being installed primarily by pipe bursting.
Honish said the start of construction was delayed due to issues encountered during the initial bidding process. The first round of bidding allowed bidders to price the work either as open-cut or trenchless pipe bursting with a small portion specified for pipe bursting primarily because of surface conditions.
Because of various issues, the city chose to rebid the project, this time specifying that a higher percentage of the project be done by pipe bursting.
"When the prices came in on the second round of bidding, pipe bursting provided significantly lowered costs," Honish continued. "Considering pipe bursting is a proven technology, it is less invasive, there is less disruption of traffic and less debris to clean up and remove, all with a substantial costs savings, the question was, 'Why do open-cut?' Simple math made pipe bursting the obvious choice."
Engineering for the project was done by Willdan Engineering, Anaheim, CA; Vasilj Inc., Irwindale, CA, was prime contractor; and Mocon Trenchless Corp., Indio, CA, did the pipe bursting on this segment of the project.
"Our contract called for 28,541 feet of pipe bursting," said Rob Morrow, Mocon president. "This was most of that section. There was a limited amount of open-cut work. As the job progressed change orders added more bursting footage, and we ended up doing 33,112 feet of bursting to install HDPE pipe in 8-, 10- and 12-inch diameters with some 16- and 20-inch pipe."
Diverse route
The bursting route went through residential neighborhoods, commercial developments and some industrial areas.
"Much of the path ran under asphalt and concrete paved streets including the city's main street, other heavily traveled streets and secondary roads," said Morrow.
For the full length of the segment, Morrow said Mocon made 97 bursts. The average reach was 310 feet with some as short as 50 feet. The longest was 460 feet.
"Existing manholes remained intact and were rehabilitated at the same time as the pipe," he continued. "Prime contractor Vasilj excavated pits and completed open-cut work. There were a lot of schools in the area. We did all reaches in front of schools during the summer so normal activities would not be disrupted. We also passed a hospital where it was important to limit interruption of everyday activities."
As on most major projects, there were unexpected challenges. "We went through a mobile home park where a trailer was sitting halfway across a manhole," said Morrow.
Morrow said one difficult reach required installing new pipe from a cul-de-sac, under a block wall and into a trailer park.
"Of course, trailers were parked on top of the line that was being replaced," he said. "But even worse, one was parked halfway across the manhole opening. To solve this dilemma, we ran a double capstan winch from the next downstream manhole and ran the cable upstream and around a pulley – there also was an angle point at that particular manhole – and then up the insertion pit at the next street. Installation was achieved by using a reversible tool which allowed us to burst into the trailer park manhole without needing a receiving pit."
The process then was duplicated on the next reach heading back upstream and received in the same trailer park manhole.
"In another area," Morrow continued, "we went through a park with a baseball field and bursting allowed us to pass through the minimal excavation so only a small area in the park had to be shut down."
Equipping the job
All the bursts were completed with one crew using TT Technologies Grundocrack pneumatic hammers with 10- and 20-ton variable-speed Grundowinch winches.
To eliminate receiving pit excavations at difficult areas such as intersections, trailer parks, near telephone poles, and similar conditions, a reversible Hercules Grundocrack pneumatic hammer with front expander and the 10-ton winch was used for installing 10- and 12-inch pipe for single upsize runs.
A rear expander Hercules 8.5-inch diameter pneumatic hammer and the 10-ton Grundowinch was used to install 10-inch pipe on longer runs to provide more power and better maintain grade.
To provide more power on longer run lengths for single and double upsizes of 12-inch pipe, a rear expander Gigant 10.5-inch diameter Grundocrack pneumatic hammer was used and depending upon conditions, either the 10- or 20-ton winch would be used.
For maximum power on long runs of 16- and 20-inch pipe for making single, double and triple upsizes, the rear expander 14-inch Koloss pneumatic hammer was employed.
Morrow said work went smoothly throughout the project.
"We didn't make the task too complicated," he said. "We had one crew putting pipe in the ground every day. Most of the time a dozen crew members were working at bursting, pipe fusion and digging. Mocon personnel also were responsible for pipe fusion. The only times two crews were working was when Vasilj was doing open-cut the same day."
The 33,000-plus feet of bursting was completed in approximately nine months.
The cost of the sewer capital improvement program initially was estimated to be $12 million. It was completed on schedule with the final cost estimated to be $4.4 million.
In the second and final round of bidding, cost differences between pipe bursting and open-cut construction were dramatic, ranging from $71 to $200 per foot for pipe bursting and $95 to $383 per foot for open-cut, based on a summary of all bids.
"Everything went very smoothly," Morrow concluded. "The project design was good and anticipated potential problems so there were no unexpected construction issues. We installed more the 30,000 feet of pipe with just a hand full of small problems."
Morrow said a significant aspect of the project was the continuity of replacing the whole system's arteries – from the smaller pipes thought the larger diameter pipes – without skipping any reaches in between. It also is one of the larger pipe bursting projects to be undertaken in Southern California, he added.
Reflecting on the completed project, Honish said the design concept was fairly straight forward. However, one of the most difficult aspects of planning the project was obtaining the approval of various county agencies to proceed with construction. Another challenge was obtaining accurate, reliable underground data and records to ensure that the trenchless work would not interfere or disrupt any other existing subsurface utilities or improvements. In addition, detailed soil analysis was required to ensure that the bursting wouldn't "heave" the street or disrupt other utilities.
"There is no one construction method to maintain and upgrade sanitary sewer systems," she concluded. "I would say trenchless technologies should be given serious consideration when that application meets a project need. Trenchless often can be a major headache saver by not having an open trench through intersections with the resultant traffic congestion and safety issues, and by not closing commercial driveways, access points reduced surface damage, restoration costs, et cetera.
"When the opportunity to use trenchless construction presents itself, it is essential to work with qualified consultants and contractors to achieve the desired results."
Mocon Trenchless is a pipeline rehabilitation contractor serving the western United States and specializing in rehabilitation of wastewater, stormwater and potable water pipelines. In addition to pipe bursting, Mocon is experienced in pipe ramming and pilot tube microtunneling.
Covina is approximately 20 miles east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley and has a population of about 49,000. The city's sanitary sewer system includes approximately 121 miles of piping infrastructure and one lift station. The system services 12,000 parcels of land accommodating residences, businesses and institutions.
TT Technologies, (800) 533-2078, www.tttechnologies.com
Willdan Engineering, (714) 940-6300, www.willdan.com
Mocon Trenchless Corp., (760) 564-2536, http://mocontrenchless.com


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HOUSTON - Big crowds are expected Saturday morning as Nike releases its latest Air Jordan tennis shoes.
At the same time, a Houston mother will mark the somber anniversary of her son's death. Joshua Woods, 22, died on December 21, 2012, after robbers demanded his newly purchased Air Jordan sneakers.
Three teenagers have been charged with capital murder and are awaiting trial in connection to his death.
Since his death, Woods' mother has started the organization, Life Over Fashion, in an effort to convince Nike to change the way it handles its distribution practices of limited edition shoes. Dazie Williams was joined by community activist Derrick Muhammad Friday evening in advance of Saturday's release.
Williams said retailers have already given out tickets to those wanting to purchase the shoes.
"There's going to be a lot of kids that want those shoes that didn't get a ticket. And already on social media, they're saying they've got to get the shoes; they've got to have those shoes. So I'm encouraging parents, go with your children," said Williams.
In addition, Williams and her supporters are asking people not to purchase the shoes at all if possible.
She and her supporters will be out at a Houston mall Saturday to educate people about the organization and gather signatures.
A spokesperson for Nike sent a statement to Local 2, stating, "Consumer safety is of paramount importance to us. We continue to work with our retail partners to share best practices and refine our launch process to improve the buying experience for our consumers. We encourage people wishing to purchase our products to do so in a respectful manner."
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Yes indeedy, it's currently sweater weather bur L-R-G is staring off into the future towards the days of boughs of holly and mistletoe with their campaign towards the upcoming holiday. Like Curren$y was to autumn, Outasight braves the winter wonderland in Utah alongside a few of the top boarders à la X-Games in Kelly Hart and Chris Grenier. It looked cold enough to make an Eskismo cop a Snuggie but fashion knows no frostbite.
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September 19, 2013
Steamboat Springs — A dog and its owner were not injured after being involved in a crash Thursday morning in South Routt County.
Yampa Fire Protection District Capt. Ralph Bracegirdle said emergency responders were called to the crash at about 8:30 a.m. on Colorado Highway 131 just south of Phippsburg.
Firefighters found a pickup that had gone off the road and was resting on its side in an irrigation ditch. The woman driving the truck got out on her own, but a dog was stuck and laying on the passenger side window.
Firefighters Scott Delto and Rob Anderson climbed a ladder to reach the truck and climbed over to the door. Once the dog calmed down, Delto was able to reach into the truck to rescue the dog.
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Berkman Buzz: March 28, 2014
The Berkman Buzz is selected weekly from the posts of Berkman Center people and projects.
The Berkman Center is seeking a Communications Manager to help increase the visibility, accessibility, understanding, and reach of our work and activities. More information and application directions are here!
Mike Ananny publishes new research on networked press freedom and social media
From Mike Ananny's paper, "Networked Press Freedom and Social Media: Tracing Historical and Contemporary Forces in Press-Public Relations"
Bruce Schneier explains why true online security is impossible
From Bruce Schneier's post in The Atlantic, "Don't Listen to Google and Facebook: The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership Is Still Going Strong"
Oliver Goodenough explores "new law" and innovation
From Oliver Goodenough's post for Above the Law: "The Message From Harvard: "New Law" Is Replacing "Biglaw" How Will The Profession Respond?"
Christian Sandvig uses show and tell to demonstrate algorithmic culture
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Global Access in Action submits comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative regarding PITAC
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Australians Joust over Knights and Dames Revival
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BIO Applauds Statue Dedication to Norman Borlaug.
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Apr 03, 2014 - BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood issued statement celebrating "life and legacy" of American geneticist and plant pathologist Dr. Norman E. Borlaug – honored with statue and dedication ceremony in U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Borlaug led global agricultural evolution through research and advocacy for modern farming practices. He also helped reduce starvation via development of high-yield, disease-resistant crop varieties and modern agricultural systems.
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BIO Applauds Dedication of Norman Borlaug Statue
Press release date: Mar 25, 2014
WASHINGTON--On what would have been his 100th birthday, Norman E. Borlaug, American geneticist and plant pathologist from Cresco, IA, was honored with a statue and dedication ceremony in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall.
"On behalf of BIO and its members, we join millions around the world in celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, and we applaud the State of Iowa for commissioning the 7-ft. bronze statue to be displayed in the National Statuary Hall Collection."
Borlaug, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, led a global agricultural evolution through his research and advocacy for modern farming practices. Known as the Father of the "Green Revolution," Borlaug is credited with saving more than a billion people from starvation with the development of high-yield, disease-resistant crop varieties and modern agricultural systems.
Jim Greenwood, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) issued the following statement in tribute to Dr. Borlaug:
"On behalf of BIO and its members, we join millions around the world in celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, and we applaud the State of Iowa for commissioning the 7-ft. bronze statue to be displayed in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
"Through scientific innovation, compassion for the poor, and expert knowledge of agricultural practices, Borlaug introduced groundbreaking technologies that will forever change the practices of farmers and the prospects for hungry people around the globe.
"As we confront the challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050, we need to follow Dr. Borlaug's vision for using technology in agriculture. We need to be more forward-thinking and embrace science and innovation to solve the world's problems.
"We need to fight agriculture's real challenges: plant diseases, diminishing natural resources, climate change and global food poverty. Biotechnology is a key tool in this fight, and it's time for science to move forward.
"Norman Borlaug said: 'The majority of agricultural scientists, including myself, anticipate great benefits from biotechnology in the coming decades to help meet our future needs for food and fiber...we must speak unequivocally and convincingly to policy makers that global food insecurity will not disappear without new technology.'
"He proved to the world that large-scale progress is attainable. We know we can increase the world's food supply. We can help alleviate hunger, raise farmers' incomes, improve health and nutrition, expand opportunities and strengthen regional economies. This mission is not just scientific, it's humanitarian."
*More information on Norman Borlaug and the dedication ceremony is posted online at http://iowaborlaugstatue.org.
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It's a weird world we live in where a person has to explicitly say they're not commenting on a rival's device before they're able to comment on a rival's device.
Nonetheless, SCEE's senior studio director Mick Hocking did exactly that when asked about the early struggles of the 3DS.
"So I wouldn't comment directly on 3DS," he told GameSpot before continuing to do so. "But I think what we've seen over the last 12 months is a strong correlation between good-quality 3D content and great response from our fan base.
"The opposite is also true. When people see 3D that doesn't work very well, or content that isn't very compelling, I think quite naturally they're not as interested in it."
Indeed, Hocking argues that 3D and portable gaming simply aren't good bedfellows – hence the decision not to include the tech in PlayStation Vita.
"At the time we were looking at Vita, there were several issues. One was the quality of the glasses-free 3D screens," he added. "It can work very well on small screens, but to get the best effect, you need to keep your head very, very still.
"Now with a handheld gaming device and Vita having Sixaxis motion control in it, there may be gameplay where you're moving the Vita around. And if you're doing that and having glasses-free 3D, the two things don't sit very well together. We wanted to offer a really, really high-resolution OLED screen, and the best way to do that was in 2D. At least for the first one."


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J-Mac: I think Yahoo paid them money and so they included the search bar, whether or not it makes sense for the user. I have seen this pattern at my former workplace several times.
I don't have a copy of the email any more...wish I did...Back when my daughter was in middle school, I signed up for a service run by a major news radio station where they would contact you by email if the schools in your town were closed or delayed because of snow. I figured this would be a lot faster and easier than tuning in to the station and waiting for them to announce it.One warm sunny Sunday in late spring, my daughter and I decided to go to the park for a picnic. I was checking my email before we left and received a school closing notification from this mailing list, announcing that my daughter's school would be closed that day because of snow.Yeah, right...snow on this beautiful warm sunny day.And the school was closed because of that and not the fact that school is always closed on Sundays?
Wow! Was it an accidental sending? Or a "stuck" Outbox? Outlook used to do that back a ways.
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If you believe that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, then you'll have no problem explaining the steady play of Jim Furyk and Adam Scott in a second round of the Masters when scoring conditions weren't as kind as they were on Thursday.
Rain did come to Augusta, but not with the intensity originally expected, and the wind kicked up and swirled on a day that saw the lead stay steady from Thursday at six-under, where Jason Day sits, one shot ahead of Fred Couples and Marc Leishman.
Furyk is two shots off the lead after a one-under 71 and Scott was even-par 72 and sits at three-under for the tournament, both with realistic shots to not only shrug on a green jacket on Sunday, but also take care of unfinished business.
Furyk appeared in control of last year's U.S. Open until he snap hooked his tee shot into the trees on the 16th hole at the Olympic Club to hand the title to Webb Simpson, then in the next major, Scott outdid Furyk by bogeying the final four holes of the British Open to hand it to Ernie Els.
When you've got Tiger Woods ticked off about the way he finished Friday and a 53-year-old about to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in contention on a stellar leaderboard, quiet guys such as Furyk and Scott can be easily overlooked.
But hiding in the azaleas ready to jump is a good place to be going into the weekend.
Back in 2004, on the occasion of his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, 19-time PGA Tour winner Tom Kite was discussing the fact he waited until he was 42 before winning his one and only major at the 1992 U.S. Open.
From outside the ropes, it's easy to hang that "best player never to win a major" tag on somebody, especially these days with 14-year-olds playing in the Masters and Rory McIlroy winning his second major at 23.
For years, Kite was the best player never to win one, but he felt it was ridiculous at the time that Sergio Garcia was getting the same tag hung on him at 24.
Kite was correct then and now. For such a young man to win a major is outstanding, but to expect it isn't reasonable. However, Garcia is now 33 and still without a major, more renowned for petulance than success at the big ones.
At the 2002 U.S. Open, he allegedly flipped the bird at hecklers at Bethpage Black who were on him for his painfully long waggle at the time.
A year ago, the frustration broke loose at Augusta and Garcia said he wasn't good enough to win a major.
He's definitely good enough if we're talking physical skills on the golf course, which is why he was tied for the overall lead after the first round after firing a 66. It's his flammability that's a liability.
"It's obviously not my favourite, my most favourite place, but you know, we try to enjoy it as much as we can each time we come here. Sometimes, it comes out better than others, but today it was one of those good days and, you know, let's enjoy it while it lasts," said Garcia on Thursday.
It didn't last. He shot a four-over 76 on Friday and, at the midway point of the Masters, his fuse could be lit or he could snuff it calmly after his second-round collapse.
Just as it was overly optimistic to hail his first-round performance, it's too negative to write him off after his Friday collapse. He's still tied for 14th, just four shots off the lead, and if he somehow defies his own tradition, he may yet prove he's good enough.
Fred Couples, 53, has had three consecutive top-15 finishes at Augusta since turning 50, including a sixth in 2010. He has been susceptible to a big number on one of his rounds, including a third-round 75 last year when he tied for 12th. The year before, when he tied for 15th, he finished 72-73 after a second-round 68. In 2010, when he was sixth, Couples had a second round 75 after opening with a 66. He later rebounded to finish 68-70 ... Couples is among four 50-somethings to make the cut, including Bernhard Langer (-2), Sandy Lyle (+1) and Vijay Singh (+2) ... Phil Mickelson, who had five bogeys and a double against just three birdies on his way to a 76 yesterday, hasn't had a sub-70 round in a major since last year's Masters when he went 74-68-66 in the first three rounds before taking himself out of contention in the final round with a triple bogey on the fourth hole, finishing with a 72 to tie for third. Mickelson also shot 76-71-71-78 for a T65 at the 2012 U.S. Open, 73-78 to miss the cut at the British Open and 73-71-73-74 for a T36 at the PGA Championship ... Bubba Watson barely made it to the weekend, leaving Mike Weir the last defending champ to miss the cut, that coming in 2004. Weir missed the cut again yesterday.
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Tomas Garcia Fuste is not running for office, and he's no pop star. Still, when he goes to lunch at Victor's Cafe, it takes him about twenty minutes to make the journey from valet parking to his table. So many people, so much homage.
Fuste, ¨c centsmo andas? Oye, Fuste, te escucho todos los dias.
The guy who parks his Lexus knows him, the doorman calls him by name, and once inside this power-lunching hot spot it looks like a who's who of Cuban Miami has turned out just to say hello. On this Wednesday Caserita Enterprises, the food company, is hosting a 25th anniversary party, and when Fuste walks into the banquet room, the center of attention shifts from the croquetas and papas rellenas to him. Old friend Luis Sabines, president of the Latin Chamber of Commerce, is there, and television personality Orlando Naranjo from the old days in Havana, and so many others, all hailing him and putting a hand on his shoulder that, frankly, he can't respond quickly enough or begin to recall their names.
"Ay, que bueno verte," says Fuste as people call out his name. "How good to see you."
By the time he quits the Caserita crowd and heads for the faux-courtyard dining area, the maitre d' and some of the family of restaurant owner Victor del Corral are waiting, and as Fuste is escorted to a far table where he can talk there are more people to stop and see, including Dade County Manager Joaquin Avi*o and his guests, WLTV-TV (Channel 23) general manager Carlos Barba, even a long table of birthday party celebrants, all of whom seem to know him well.
Dignified, smiling benignly in his dark suit, the 63-year-old Fuste stops, talks, abrazos here, besos there, and even when it seems that he has no idea who these people are, exactly, it is also clear that he loves the recognition, the attention, and the confirmation of his place in the city's Cuban-American firmament. He's up there.
Fuste is his mother's surname, but in Spanish, the name Garcia is as common as Smith, and Fuste is not only exotic but it carries a patrician French-Catalan cachet that sounds distinctively honorific. People like to say the name, they like the sound of it, and so after 44 years of sending his distinctive voice into the ether over Cuba, New York, and chiefly Miami, that's how he is known A by his late mother's apellido: Fuste.
"Oye, Fuste," people call out, "you should run for office, maybe for Congress. Or better yet, for president of Cuba as soon as we haul the dictator Fidel to the pared centsn."
"No," he replies in the familiar baritone that is heard for more than four hours each weekday over WCMQ-AM (1210), "I don't have any interest in that. I'm not a politician; I'm a newsman.
"And anyway," he might add, "the next president of Cuba is already in Cuba."
Talk radio is enjoying something of a boom in the U.S. right now, with some 900 regularly scheduled programs on the air each day attracting 42 million listeners. Snide drive-time duos are hot on local rock music stations, and nationally the offerings range from serious public forums such as National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation to so-called shock jocks who have clawed out mean-spirited little careers for themselves by making jokes that play off racism, gay-bashing, women-hating, and nasty sex. It's entertainment for people of low self-esteem and high resentment, and there are those who think such cheap notoriety via the medium of radio can be spun into orange juice sales in Florida and votes for governor in New York.
Spanish-language AM radio is different. Oh, it can be entertaining and mean-spirited, too, even vicious and life-threatening. A 1992 Americas Watch report, Dangerous Dialogue, said Spanish-language radio stations in Miami "unquestionably contribute to a more repressive climate for freedom of expression. Denunciation over the airwaves as a 'traitor,' a 'communist,' or a 'Castro agent' is often followed by a telephoned threat, an act of vandalism, or a physical assault."
Over at WAQI-Radio Mambi, current ratings king Armando Perez Roura is not shy about peppering his daily Mesa Redonda discussions with the names of those he considers traitors to the Cuban cause, nor is he reluctant to urge a few hundred people into the street to demonstrate against the Colombian government's plan to sell oil to Cuba, for example. At the other end of the dial, on Radio Progreso (on Uni centsn Radio [WOCN-AM 1450] ), Francisco Aruca rails at the troglodytes of the Cuban right who cannot see the wisdom of holding a dialogue with the Castro government or ending the trade embargo.
But in between the virulent excesses, most Spanish-language radio in Miami still sounds like a rowdy town-hall meeting too volatile to be confined to one room or one day. The talk in Spanish bubbles on and on like molten lava spilling from the airwaves to the street, driven by politics and polemics. And although Lorena Bobbitt and allegations of corruption in Hialeah get some airtime, Topic A remains Cuba and Fidel Castro.
For several days last month Topic A was hotter than ever. On a Tuesday afternoon Fuste got word that both Dade County and Miami city officials had received an advisory from the U.S. State Department to get ready: Fidel was either dead or growing colder in a hurry.
Rumors about Castro's health circulate continuously through Cuban Miami. After all, the deathwatch has been going on for more than 30 years, and the fact that el tirano looks as healthy at 67 as he did at 35 has done nothing to dampen the hopes of el exilio. Some think deliverance will come as a result of a heart attack, others say a stroke, while more than a few subscribe to the magic-bullet theory: one assassin, one shot to the temple, and suddenly it's 1956.
Over the years Fuste has heard a lot of rumors and followed up on many, but these seemed different. After confirming with local officials that they had indeed received a legitimate "get ready" bulletin from Washington, Fuste began to add up the other signs: Fidel's brother Raul Castro was in Guantanamo, where he was reportedly warning Cubans against using the U.S. Naval Base as a route to leave the island, while assuring the Americans they would be safe in the event of trouble; the fact that Fidel himself had not been seen for several days; reports of extra security at a leading Havana hospital where government officials and important visitors are often treated; and the presence in Cuba of two of Spain's leading doctors. It all seemed too much for coincidence, too strong to dismiss.
So at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 19 A 45 minutes past his normal bedtime and hours ahead of any other reporter in Miami A Fuste went live on WCMQ with a special report: "Unconfirmed information, received from Cuba and coming from impeccable sources, speculate about the possibility that Castro may have been the target of an attempt on his life." Fuste went on to say that as a result of the incident, Castro may have suffered a stroke or a heart attack.
The news swept through Cuban Miami like a wind-driven contagion. At last, so many wondered, had the prayer been answered? Not only was Castro reported to be dead or dying, but the source of the report was Tomas Garcia Fuste, the community's best-known, most-trusted, least hysterical source of Cuban news. After holding its breath for more than three decades, Miami was about to exhale.
Less than 24 hours later Fuste wasn't just giving the news, he was part of it. He led WSCV-TV (Channel 51)'s 6:00 p.m. Wednesday broadcast, shown in his office and at his studio microphone talking about Castro's likely condition. At WLTV-TV (Channel 23), the Castro rumors were not quite the top story, but by 6:05 there was Fuste on videotape, some of it taken at his home after the station called late Tuesday and woke him up. Although they made less of the story, Miami's English-language television stations eventually got onboard also, and A what else? A they sent crews to Fuste's Coral Gables office at WCMQ, too. Ironically Cubans on the island also heard the rumors of Castro's poor health from Fuste, albeit indirectly. Marcos Castell centsn, a reporter with Miami's Radio Progreso, mentioned Fuste's reports and the subsequent frenzy of anticipation in Miami during his live hookup over Havana's Radio Rebelde, one of three such broadcasts he does every week. Soon after he began his comments about the rumors, however, the telephone line suddenly went dead. Castell centsn says the satellite links, made through Canada or Italy, break often and that the timing was coincidence. (Hearing that explanation later, Fuste just laughed.)
By Thursday morning, April 21, Cuban government officials were denying that Castro was dead or in ill health, and Fidel's sister, long-time Miami resident Juanita Castro, had been on the air with Fuste also to say that there was nothing to the story but wishful thinking. Still, Fuste continued to insist that "something happened; he may not be in grave condition, but I think something happened."
Midway through Thursday's Buenos Dias, Miami program, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen called from Washington to say that she was tracking the rumors through the State Department. There was a lot of talk going around, she said, but nothing had been confirmed.
Then, with several news crews from Miami's English-language television stations crowded into his studio, Fuste asked Ros-Lehtinen to do something that is almost never done on Spanish-language radio in Miami: He asked her to repeat her comments in English. With that, Fuste was not only throwing a sound bite to his English-language colleagues, but also was confirming the cross-cultural importance of the news. At the same time, he was acknowledging his own stature as news reporter-newsmaker, too, by reminding all segments of the community that to keep abreast of this story, stay tuned to Fuste.
Of course, on this story Fuste turned out to be wrong. On Sunday evening Fidel showed up to bestow blessings on Miami attorney Magda Montiel Davis and others attending the farewell session of the controversial "The Nation and Emigration" conference, and those who met with the Cuban president in the Palace of the Revolution said el caballo indeed looked as strong as a horse.
In the aftermath of the Fidel-is-dead flareup, some reporters might have feared damage to their reputation or credibility. Not Fuste. "Well, maybe, maybe it hurts my credibility a little bit," he admits. "But you see, we are dealing with the news from a communist country, where nobody knows what is happening. Nobody even knows where Castro lives.
"We had all these indications -- with Raul, and Fidel not being seen. And then the reports that he is in the hospital. I called the hospital myself five times, and I couldn't get through. Then I called my reporter in Spain, and he called, and he asked if Castro is there. And you know what they tell him? They don't know because they don't have a patient list!"
On this story, could Fuste's journalistic compass have been scrambled by his own deep desire to see Castro gone? He doesn't think so. He hopes not. No, he says. Then Fuste adds: "Did you see the tape? Castro doesn't look healthy to me. He is only four years older than I, and I look more healthy than that. No, he had some trouble. I got information from the hospital that he was there."
It was a year ago this month that Fuste surprised much of Cuban Miami by suddenly bolting WQBA-La Cubanisima, where he had held forth for the previous twelve years, and moving to WCMQ, a station with half WQBA's 50,000 watts of power and a fraction of the listening audience. Fuste's association with WQBA had profited both. WQBA's claim to be the "most Cuban" of more than a half-dozen Spanish-language AM stations gained credibility when general manager Herb Levin brought the best-known Cuban broadcaster back to Miami from New York in 1981. And after five years at New York's WBNX Fuste seemed to thrive back in Miami as well. "These are my people," he likes to say, meaning all of Miami's Cubans. "I listen, I take on their troubles for a while, identify with them. I see myself offering a service through the radio."
The parting of Fuste from WQBA last May was not amicable. Levin asserts that Fuste left simply because of money, and it is clear that he is bitter. "I respect him for his talent, but I have less respect for his judgment," Levin says. "He ended up making a dumb personal move." He adds: "I would think that loyalty would mean something."
Fuste took his fans with him. The Arbitron numbers last summer showed Fuste "cost us about 35 percent of our listenership," Levin admits. The latest numbers show that WQBA is still being hurt. According to Arbitron, from December 1993 through February 1994 Fuste had an average listening audience of 14,700 each weekday morning, up 35 percent over the previous three-month period. During the same time WQBA pulled an average of 11,900 listeners, a drop of 21 percent. Only WAQI-Radio Mambi did better, with an estimated audience of 42,600. But its gain over the previous ratings period was only three percent.
Levin of WQBA admits that "this station lost him, and it was a loss. I wish I had him back." Still, he adds, "Maybe at this station he felt he was the top star. Well, I have other stars here."
In addition to money, ego was a factor. "This is a business, and what I merchandise is myself," says Fuste, now WCMQ's news director and vice president for programming. Neither Fuste nor Levin will say exactly what WQBA's final offer was, but the numbers here are not hard to figure. Along with a car and a generous expense account, Fuste's salary at WCMQ is about $200,000 a year, which he says is $70,000 more than he was making at WQBA.
For Raul Alarc centsn, president and board chairman of Spanish Broadcasting System, which owns WCMQ as well as stations in New York, Los Angeles, and Key West, signing Fuste was a coup. This is a transitional time for Spanish-language radio, when advertisers are discovering the market potential, and the medium itself is becoming more professional and more diverse in programming. Alarc centsn says he is positioning WCMQ to challenge WQBA and WAQI for market supremacy. The Federal Communications Commission has approved WCMQ's application to double its power to 50,000 watts, and the station already has the rights to carry the Spanish-language broadcasts of Florida Marlins and Panthers games. With Fuste, Alarc centsn says, "We have the strongest, most-respected personality in Miami radio, and a community leader. Besides, over there he had people telling him what to do. Here he has plenty of freedom to operate."
Freedom to operate. That, says Fuste, was the major reason for switching stations. At WQBA Levin did not dictate the topics Fuste would discuss or the guests he would bring to his "micr centsfono abierto" (open microphone) each morning, but he sent him little notes that annoyed. Says Levin: "I would counsel him. Fuste has kind of a one-song repertoire. He's very into dealing with the issue of rafters. It's a good subject. But is it worth 75 percent of his time? There's a little boredom there."
Over time Fuste has gained a reputation as a conservative voice of reason in a medium which is often shrill and overheated to the point of being unlistenable. A member of the first wave of voluntary exiles from the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Fuste arrived in Miami in 1960 with a modest renown and a vast ambition, and 34 years later he rides the Spanish-language airwaves as the most enduringly popular personality in radio.
Avuncular and opinionated, Fuste represents his generation socially and politically, a generation defined by exile. His Weltanschauung begins with an unswerving opposition to Castro and rarely deviates from the hard-line, "over my dead body" philosophy of his friend Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the Cuban-American National Foundation. He is an effective and frequent fundraiser for disaster victims, for foundations, for causes. In 1986 he organized and touted a blood drive for the American Red Cross that collected 1441 pints in twelve hours, a national record. He has been presented the keys to several cities locally and abroad, and in 1988 a college scholarship fund in his name was created at Miami-Dade Community College.
Yet Fuste has also put in the time and traveled far to establish his credentials as a journalist, too, while serving as el exilio's witness to history. In 1967 when Che Guevara was captured and executed in Bolivia, Fuste went to report on the guerrillero's end. In 1972 when Nicaragua was convulsed by an earthquake, he delivered both relief supplies and news. He made reporting trips to Angola, where Cuban troops for years were bogged down in a civil war, and had his picture taken with rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. He went to Grenada in 1983, to the Gulf War, to volcano eruptions and earthquakes all over Latin America, and in 1987 took part in the negotiations that freed hostages from rioting Mariel prisoners in Louisiana's Oakdale Detention Center.
Recently Fuste has expanded his role from reporter, discussion moderator, editorialist, news reader, and comentarista to that of ombudsman or even social worker for Miami's Cuban community. Not content just to report on problems, he wants to solve them. Thus, when balseros are overdue at sea, and anxious relatives in Miami know it, Fuste will see what he can find out. When they arrive, he helps with housing or jobs. He is on the board of the Transit House for Cuban Rafters in Key West, and its director Arturo Cobo is a close friend and frequent airwaves guest.
Fuste also deals with visa problems for Cubans stranded in third countries, such as the Dominican Republic, where he has been critical of the policies of his personal friend, 87-year-old president Joaquin Balaguer. Locally Fuste has fought against the county gas tax, a tow-truck law, and casinos.
At the same time, some people sense that in recent years Fuste has mellowed. "He does deserve credit for taking more moderate positions now," says Castell centsn of liberal Radio Progreso. "Fuste has wide influence in the Cuban community, and this is a good sign of increasing tolerance. Maybe everyone is growing up a little bit."
Levin says Fuste began to moderate his political views only when he left WQBA, and he suspects the change is calculated to win ratings points. "It's surprised me," says Levin. "When he was at this station, I felt he was following a very conservative pattern in his editorials, opinions, and guests. He has moved from a very hard line to a surprisingly softer line. Alarc centsn has allowed it. Maybe he's been influenced by more liberal people at the station, or maybe he feels that controversy would bring him and the station ratings."
In Cuban Miami there remains only one true litmus test of one's place on the political spectrum: dialogue with the Castro government and lifting the 33-year-old economic embargo. On those issues Fuste has moved not one iota. The answer is no.
For years it was considered suicidal to voice opinions that deviated at all from the de facto official line. In 1975 writer Luciano Nieves was gunned down in a hospital parking lot for even thinking out loud about dialogue with the Castro government. The following year veteran broadcaster Emilio Milian lost his legs to a car bomb in the WQBA parking lot. In recent years the climate has cooled somewhat. But it still gets hot in the studios of Spanish-language radio. Just last August Fuste had to jump between studio guest Napole centsn Vilaboa, a controversial and mysterious man who helped broker the Mariel exodus in 1980, and an outraged listener who stopped by and wanted to punch his lights out. Fuste yelled for the police on the air and hundreds of listeners dialed 911.
These days Fuste is more willing to give airtime to those with whom he does not agree, including even those who may speak in support of Castro. He has extended open invitations to both Francisco Aruca and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo to appear on Buenos Dias, Miami or his afternoon show, Confrontaci centsn.
Gutierrez Menoyo, for 22 years a political prisoner in Cuba and now head of Cambio Cubano, which favors lifting the embargo, repeatedly has turned down Fuste.
Aruca, owner of Marazul Charters and a frequent traveler to Cuba, favors dialogue, a position he talks about often on his own daily program on Radio Progreso. For months Aruca also said no to Fuste, claiming his ideological opposite only wanted to engage him "in a program of shouting, a cheap way to get an audience." Finally last month Aruca did come on. Fuste said he suspected Aruca's radio program is subsidized by the Cuban government, and he asked him about that on the air. Aruca denies any backing from the Cuban government; he pays for airtime with profits from his charter business, he says.
Fuste admits that fifteen years ago he would not have opened his microphone to Aruca. He explains, "I understand better what America is now. This is a station where everybody can come to talk. Castro is a dictator, but people have a right to speak in favor of him. Before, we thought that since Castro pushed us out, and showed no respect for our rights, then we should not show respect for the rights of those who support him.
"Maybe I am learning the way of life here. We learn many things from the Americans. I support the right of the people to discuss. If you want democracy in Cuba, you have to respect democracy here."
On the air Fuste conducts what he likes to think of as a barbershop conversation in which he cannot be out-talked. Cubans generally rank high on the volubility index, of course, but Fuste is not only Cuban, he is a professional. It is very Cuban and not unusual for a guest invited to join Fuste in the studio to show up with a retinue of supporters or family members, and Fuste never balks: he brings more chairs into the glass-walled, walk-in-closet-sized room, and he opens more microphones. The hotter the topic the better; in his domain, Fuste can't be intimidated.
If a discussion among two or more guests is going smoothly, courteously, Fuste can be silent for several minutes at a time. As a moderator he does not feel compelled to dominate. But when the emotion and fervor of an exchange rise, or the collective blood pressure heads for the roof, Fuste goes with it, jumping in with his own opinions while taking command of the melee with a firm, resonant voice that always seems more rational and closer to the microphone than any other. "Ay, chico," he might say to someone he thinks has been overwhelmed by the sound of his own rhetoric, "No seas tan bobo."
More often these days Fuste also shows a light touch, even when dealing with topics -- Fidel Castro, for example -- that he personally finds most explosive. In a discussion last month with Miami attorney Eddie Levy, who had just returned from the exile conference in Havana, Fuste listened patiently to comments about the revolution's progress in health care and education before stepping in. "Momento, chico," said Fuste, sounding bemused. "We have to stop for a commercial here. We are capitalists, you know, and if we didn't sell some things we might be like the government-run stations in Cuba...."
Fuste receives some 80 to 100 telephone calls a day, both from people who want airtime and those who want a personal favor. His longevity and popularity give him immense power A to sway public opinion, to color an issue, to bring people into the street. He says he is wary of that power.
At the same time he also relishes being a player, and does not hesitate to become involved in ways that many journalists believe might compromise their objectivity. In Washington this March for a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus concerning the Cuban embargo, for example, Fuste spotted adversaries Jorge Mas Canosa and Jesse Jackson sitting head-to-head, deep in discussion. A Miami Herald photographer standing nearby did not notice, so Fuste called it to his attention. The picture made page one the next day, in English and Spanish. "I play a little bit," he acknowledges. "We are not supposed to be passive, you know, seeing everything and just giving information. We want to participate, because we have power, real power, and we have to use the power for good.
"With visa problems, for example, if I see that no one is doing anything, I will. People ask me, 'Do you want us to picket? Tell us and we will.' No, I am a newsman; picketing, that's your decision. But I will use my power to talk to the people, gather information. But all the action has to be yours."
All this responsibility, all this shepherding of the flock, makes for a long day. Indeed, Fuste gets out of bed at 3:00 a.m. and is in the office an hour later to prepare for his first newscast at 5:00. At 8:00 a.m., in shirt and tie and with his jacket on, he is in the studio, fresh and eager, as the voiceover intones, "Y ahora, Tomas Garcia Fuste y su famoso micr centsfono abierto" A and he is off, presiding over a three-hour, free-ranging talkfest with studio guests and scores of hopeful callers who have been tying up all seven lines since dawn. Fuste does one more newscast at noon before taking a break for a leisurely lunch, usually with a newsmaker or prospective guest, at one of several favorite Little Havana restaurants. After lunch he's back at his desk to write editorials, deal with listeners' visa problems, return phone calls, or catnap. Much of his schedule is determined by Lina Byron and Carmen Horstmann, his assistants-cum-producers who book the guests, remind Fuste of his appointments, straighten his tie, and brush his suit coat like mothers sending a beloved but slightly absent-minded boy off to school.
From 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Fuste is on the air once more with Confrontaci centsn, in which he tries to referee a fight between antagonists whose dispute may be over family visits to Cuba or the height of a backyard fence.
It is usually after 6:00 p.m. before Fuste leaves his Ponce de Leon office for his home in Westchester, where he lives with his wife of 40 years, Amelia, and the two youngest of their five children. He eats something light, maybe takes a walk around the block, and is in bed by 7:30. A schedule like that does not leave much time for a life outside the radio station. "He has no other life," says Lina Bryon. "His life is here."
Fuste always wanted to be a broadcaster. As a child in prerevolutionary Havana he spent hours each day with his ear to the radio, mimicking the announcers, developing a rhetorical style. When his parents or his two younger siblings teased him about his obsession, or suggested his dreams of radio-wave glory were unrealistic, he set out to prove them wrong. On a wire recorder he created a mock broadcast in which the music was suddenly interrupted by an urgent announcement: A huge, killer hurricane had been spotted just off the Cuban coast and was heading this way. Propping the wire recorder up on the window ledge of his house, which faced a grocery store hangout, Fuste pushed the button one tranquil summer day and watched the neighborhood panic as word of the approaching storm spread down the street. Even then Fuste could be very convincing on the air.
By the time he was a teenager Fuste had obtained Certificado de Aptitude No. 669 from the Cuban broadcasting ministry and had found work announcing grocery store specials and furniture outlet sales over loudspeakers mounted on trucks that would cruise around Havana. In 1952 he moved to Santiago de Cuba, where he found part-time work as a radio announcer while also selling ads for the sides of buses. In Oriente he also met the woman he would marry.
By 1955, when Fuste was 25 years old, he returned to Havana and the capital city's lively, competitive radio and television market, where he got his big break, not as a newsman but as a pitchman, chiefly for Trinidad y Hermanos, the makers of Especiales cigarettes. In the days before videotape Fuste would spend his time going from station to station doing live commercials. His renown grew quickly. With a resonant voice, pencil-thin mustache, and smooth good looks, he became a familiar figure, popping up in the midst of news about the bearded rebels in the mountains to urge viewers to relax and enjoy a smoke.
By the time Fidel Castro arrived in Havana on January 1, 1959, Fuste was a Cuban celebrity. In a country where the average income was less than $100 per month, Fuste was making $1300 monthly and living high. And though he had aided Castro's guerrilla movement by sending medical supplies to the mountains, he soon concluded that for his star, Cuba was no longer heaven.
"Fidel would come to radio station CMQ [in Havana] every day after the revolution, and I would talk to the people with him," recalls Fuste. "I heard from him and others what they planned. It was socialism from the start. I told my wife, 'Get visas for us and the two kids. We have to get out of here.'"
Although Cuba's middle class was leaving for Miami in droves by 1960, Fuste's father (a mechanic), his mother, brother, and sister were shocked to hear that he would joining the exodus. They tried to persuade him to stay. "They told me, 'You are a broadcaster. You don't speak English. You can't make a living over there.' But I said I'm going anyway."
Fuste's intention was to settle ultimately in Mexico or Venezuela, Spanish-speaking countries where he could resume his career. But unions and visa problems scuttled those plans, and he looked for work in English-speaking Miami. He got a job restocking cigarette vending machines in Overtown for $50 a week, and soon added a part-time gig reading the news in Spanish late at night over WMIE, which later became WQBA.
In 1962 Fuste began hosting a call-in show on Miami's WFAB-La Fabulosa and began to build his reputation as a staunch anti-Communist who saw his radio role as a voice of the people. He tried a bit of television in the mid-1970s, and in 1976 went to WBNX in New York, where he spent five years before returning to Miami on WQBA.
In 1989 Jorge Mas Canosa asked if Fuste would be interested in directing Radio Marti, which Fuste had helped create, but he said no. "I don't want to work for the government and have to follow their rules," he says. "I have my own rules."
Still, whether working for Radio Marti or not, being heard in Cuba is always on the minds of Miami broadcasters, including Fuste. During his twelve years at powerful WQBA-La Cubanisima, Fuste's two-hour morning show made him well known in his homeland, and when WCMQ's power is boosted later this year, he'll be heard there again. (Although no ratings services measure listenership in Cuba, broadcasts from Radio Marti, WQBA, and the shortwave La Voz de la Fundaci centsn (operated by the Cuban American National Foundation) reach a vast audience on the island. In a survey of 100 Cubans who arrived in South Florida in early 1992, Florida International University journalism professor Hernando Gonzalez found that 95 percent said they learned about the U.S. by listening to foreign radio stations, and 77 percent said over those stations they learned about how to leave Cuba A either through normal immigration channels or by raft. The station cited as most listened to was Radio Marti.)
Fuste is an American citizen. He knows he will not live in his homeland again, but like almost every Cuban American in Miami he longs to visit Cuba, to see where he once lived, to walk the streets, to taste the country that grows sweeter in memory even as it slips further into the past.
Of course, Fuste will not set foot on Cuban soil until after Fidel Castro. He could never live in a country ruled by a man he calls "that son of a bitch." But in a way, Fuste, like so many of his exile compatriots, lives with Fidel Castro every day. "I have been here in Miami for 34 years, and for those 34 years, every day I do something against the Cuban government, the Castro government," he declares. "Every day. I talk about it; I work against it. The worst thing that can happen to a human being is to live in a communist country. That is the worst thing that can happen, because it is the society taking precedence over you.
"After Fidel dies, the first thing that will happen here in Miami is that people will buy up all the Bacardi and all the Johnny Walker and there will be a big celebration," he continues. "Of course, I won't be here. I'll be in Cuba. I am planning to go to Havana as soon as I can. And then find an open microphone. If I die before Castro, then I feel sorry for myself. But I don't fear that; I am sure I will see the liberation of Cuba. When I left Cuba, I knew that I would be many years waiting. I will see it.
"Fidel is four years older than I am. Maybe he lives another twenty years, if he dies a natural death. But I think he has more people who want to kill him than want to kill me. That is the most likely way. He doesn't give the people a chance. No elections. He wants to handle everything in the country: the economy, the law, the politics. And what's the only way that it can stop? If somebody kills him.
"The first thing to know about Fidel Castro is that he is a liar," Fuste asserts. "He was the hope of the Cuban people. And if someone had told me 35 years ago that he would still be a dictator, I would not have believed it. But he closed all the doors. And his being dead is the only way for Cuba to be free."
Weekends Fuste is not on the air. But on most Saturdays he's in the office, working on individual visa problems, reading, writing editorials, thinking about potential guests for the week ahead. Around him on the walls hang awards, proclamations, letters of appreciation, along with dozens of photographs: Fuste with Ronald Reagan, with Bush, Ted Kennedy, Carter, Bill and Hillary, Somoza, Duarte, Oscar Arias, Chamorro, and dozens more Latin American leaders now long gone. There are no family pictures to be seen, no photos of his wife, his five children, or five grandchildren. This is his place of work, and he doesn't seem to mix business and familysentiment.
Once he left Cuba Fuste never again saw his mother and father. His father, Francisco, died in 1979, and his mother, Josefina, two years later. Over the past 34 years he has spoken to his sister Blanca and his brother Raul only a handful of times by telephone. She was married to a military officer, and has remained loyal to the revolution. And Raul, a laborer, had his own family and had made a quiet life for himself. Whether they or their parents ever heard their famous relative over the airwaves from Miami is not known. Fuste never asked. They were not close.
About two years ago, however, Fuste did hear from his brother, who is younger by ten years. Raul said he was divorced, alone, and in poor health. He was thinking about coming to Miami. For a man who over the last 30 years has helped thousands of Cubans settle in the U.S., and solved hundreds of personal problems by spending generously of his own energy, time, and money, the request might have seemed simple. Fuste has means, both financial and influential, and his brother, retired and ailing, is of no further use to the revolution. He would likely be free to leave the island.
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But Fuste has always opposed family visits on the same grounds that he opposes tourism or trade with Cuba: that the infusion of U.S. dollars into the economy only perpetuates Castro's reign. And getting his brother off the island would require that he send several hundred dollars to Cuba for airfare and the documents required.
Fuste agonized over his brother's request. He brooded about it. He considered his loyalties -- to his family here, to the exile community, to the cause of Cuba. He tried to imagine his brother Raul here in Miami. "I don't know what he would do here," Fuste muses. "He doesn't know anybody here; he is not going to be able to work. It seems to me he would be better off to stay in Cuba."
Eventually the brothers talked again. And for the man who is a professional talker, no words ever came harder, or lingered with an irony more sad. Fuste said no.


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OTTAWA—Korey Griffiths has had his share of brushes with the law, but the former drug dealer is now looking forward to a brush with royalty.
"I think I'm still in a dream. I don't really know how to take it in," Griffiths, 26, said on Friday when asked about his planned meeting with Prince Charles. The heir to the throne will be visiting the Yonge Street Mission on Gerrard St. E. in Toronto on May 22 as part of his four-day Canadian tour with Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
The opportunity to meet the Prince of Wales is not the only thing that feels like a dream, as nearly everything in his life has changed in a few short but challenging years.
Griffiths left his troubled single mother when he was 13 years old, moving into the shelters of downtown Toronto before making the stairwell of an office tower in the financial district his new home. He was in and out of jail for minor offences, but then four years of house arrest and the possibility of facing three years in prison — all charges against him were dropped — was enough of a wake-up call for Griffiths to end up enrolling in a program at the Yonge Street Mission aimed at getting youth out of the drug and sex trade and into the job market.
"People actually believed in me for absolutely no reason," Griffiths said of the program that will be highlighted during the royal visit as a way to encourage business leaders to get involved with charities.
Griffiths will meet Prince Charles at the Yonge Street Mission along with eight other youth and business leaders such as Janice O'Born, president of the charitable office at The Printing House Ltd.
The Toronto-based company has hired Griffiths for a six-month paid internship that begins next week after being inspired by a January gathering of business leaders organized by the Prince's Charities Canada, the charitable representative of the Prince of Wales in this country.
"We are the first to do a youth initiative program as a result of that day and I'm hoping that the other leaders that were around the table will look and say 'Oh, we can do that also,'" O'Born said.
The Prince of Wales will then hop on a TTC bus for a quick ride through one of downtown Toronto's more disadvantaged neighbourhoods before getting off at UforChange on Parliament St. to meet more youth trying to improve their lives.
The Conservative government unveiled the full itinerary of the royal visit on Friday, which begins in Saint John, N.B. when the couple arrives on May 20.
The royal couple will arrive in Toronto in the evening of May 21 and take an RCMP boat from their downtown hotel to Ashbridge's Bay, where they will watch the Victoria Day fireworks over Lake Ontario with emergency response workers, their families and about 80,000 members of the public.
The next day includes presenting Diamond Jubilee Medals to six Canadians at Queen's Park, a private reception at the Distillery District hosted by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and commemorating the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 at Fort York.
Prince Charles will be on his own as he visits the Digital Media Zone at Ryerson University, checks out the site of the Athletes' Village for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games, sits down with the youth and meets national leaders of the Assembly of First Nations.
The Duchess of Cornwall will also be on her own as she visits the Queen's Own Rifles at Moss Park Armoury, a Canadian Forces militia regiment for which she recently became the honourary colonel-in-chief.
The royal couple will wrap up their tour with a day in Regina on May 23.
They are visiting as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations commemorating 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
This will be Prince Charles' 16th visit to Canada and the second visit for the Duchess of Cornwall.
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Worms World Party
Review by Andrevan
"The latest Worms game doesn't dissapoint"
The most recent installment in the Worms series, which consists of Worms, Worms 2, and the splendid Worms Armageddon, Worms World Party is brilliant fun. WWP provides a variety of weapons, combat modes, and other cool things.
The mission mode has your Worm team carrying out various objectives. It can be difficult at times; see ''Challenge'' below for more on difficulty. Deathmatch mode puts you up against more challenging Worm teams as you go on to later levels, and there are training modes to help you out in both of the former modes. The one player deathmatch and mission modes are fun in themselves, but they're really training for the best part: multiplayer mode.
Multiplayer pits up to six Worm teams in one of the many fight terrains, or ''maps.'' You can design your own teams or accept the pre-created teams. This is where Worms World Party's many options shine; your teams can have their own flags, voices (including the ultra-hilarious 007 voice scheme), victory music, gravestones, and special weapons. You can also opt to throw in a few computer controlled teams. A new option from the previous Worms games is the ''Wormpot,'' which enables new options and configurations.
Graphics - 9/10
The cartoon-like 2D graphics are smooth. The weapons have humorous icons and the game imports .BMP files for the flags and gravestones. Nothing too special, but well executed.
Sound - 8/10
The Worms yell various battlecries in their native tongues, and your team's victory fanfare plays when you win a match. However, similar dull background music is used for almost all the levels. Sound leaves a little bit to be desired.
Control - 10/10
The control is intuitive, and there are many different weapons you can use to attack. Weapons range from your normal everyday bazookas or grenades to oddball weapons like explosive animals, grandmothers, and rolls of carpet. There are also strange superweapons, like the great Concrete Donkey or the Banana Bomb. You can use your keyboard or mouse, and various shortcut keys serve to switch to weapons.
Replay Value - 10/10
There are millions of different modes, options, and maps, so you can keep playing this game for hours on end. After you finish the missions and training, and you get a seemingly unbeatable record in deathmatch mode, the multiplayer mode is the next challenge. You can play at home with a friend or over the Internet on WormNET. Along with ready-made maps by Team 17, there are randomly-generated maps and user-created maps. Overall, plenty of Worm-packed fun.
Challenge - 9/10
The missions can be very difficult; though not much more so than the previous Worms games. Some of the objectives are fairly tedious. However, the other 1P modes are quite fun, offering a good amount of challenge, and multiplayer all depends on your opponent.
Bottom Line:
Definitely buy Worms World Party. This is one can of Worms you need to open.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 07/14/02, Updated 07/14/02
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