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Excuse me? The master bedroom in Mike and Michelle Eaton's new house has no ensuite or walk-in closet? No claw-foot, or soaker tub in the bathroom? No granite counters in the kitchen? Hey, where's the dining room?
Gasp - the house is just 1,100 square feet! OMG, how do they survive?
Michelle smiles at the questions. Each and every design decision, she says, was a conscious one - thoroughly discussed and planned with the help of local architect Anneliese Fris of Shelterbelt Architecture.
To begin with, this was an infill project on a modest block in Old Strathcona. The Eatons didn't want to park a Hummer on a street of Smart Cars, so to speak.
Nor did they feel a need for a walk-in closet, thank you very much.
"We are not big clothes people," says Michelle. "It's just not a priority."
Nor are bathtubs. The Eatons prefer to shower, though they designed the showers to be large enough to allow a retrofit for the next owner.
But no ensuite? No dining room?
Michelle says they thought long and hard about such things. Their daughter, Katherine, is in university. Soon enough it will only be the two of them.
There's a full bathroom just outside the bedroom. Another with a full shower downstairs.
More to the point, they realized each additional square foot in the design was another bang to the budget. How much space do two people need?
So they put their money into high-quality components, such as triple-glazed windows and a manufactured, modular building envelope made of premium components, with high insulation values.
Michelle says the flat-roof, minimalist, almost industrial look to the place was her priority. She's a fibre artist, therefore esthetically gifted in the yin and yang of shape and line.
The main floor is small and open - pretty much all kitchen and living room - with floors of cork and gobs of natural light from the large front window.
The kitchen is mostly Ikea stuff - functional, lovely and fitting with the contemporary, almost condo-like design context.
The brilliant walnut-and-steel kitchen table, however, was built by local craftsman Landon Schedler of creative collective Oliver Apt.
Down a short hall are the aforementioned bathroom and the master bedroom.
Like the rest of the house, the main bedroom is spare and uncluttered, with tons of window.
From the outside, it appears as if the bedroom is doorless. Inside, you see the 200-kilogram sliding barn door that offers privacy and soundproofing.
Downstairs is Katherine's bedroom - with another big window - which will eventually be a music room for Mike, a guitar hobbyist. Next to it is the TV room. A storage/furnace room is at the back of the basement.
The home's second floor houses a fishbowl room that Michelle uses as her art studio. The flat-roof home also offers the potential for rooftop decks off either the front or rear of this room, if the Eatons so choose.
Ascending or descending to and from the second floor is done on a snazzy set of steel steps. Even when you're in sock feet, the stairs give off a faint, Caribbean steel-drum sound.
The outside of the house is clad in corrugated, galvanized steel; some of it painted a deep blue. Not only does it look fabulous, it's maintenance free.
The flat roof is guaranteed for 50 years. The home is made of sturdy stuff. Michelle says she and Mike have already filled their lifetime quota of renovation projects. They wanted low maintenance.
Still, they plan to landscape the backyard. Add a garage. Maybe a rooftop deck, or green roof.
Michelle adores the house for numerous reasons: the simplicity; the industrial concept; the luxury of her own studio space.
Life is calmer in the compact, elegantly spare home, she says. Uncluttered home, uncluttered mind.
The couple lived in St. Albert for years, but Michelle always wanted to relocate near the university, where the two first met. She walked the streets of Old Strathcona until she found this spot.
They now walk to the Mill Creek Pool. They walk to the Princess Theatre and they walk to restaurants along Whyte Avenue. At home, they see walkers and even motorists stop in front of their house to gawk.
"It's not for everybody," says Michelle Eaton. "But it is for us."
Scott can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com for comments or suggestions for future features on unique or beautiful homes in the Edmonton region.


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As part of its Fashion Week Internationale series, Vice has made a documentary that explores the various tensions that currently surround race, gender and body type in Rio de Janeiro's burgeoning fashion industry. As the city sits poised like an extremely fashionable ocelot to become the fifth of the preeminent fashion metropolises, pressure to conform to a more global ideal of beauty could threaten transgender women such as model Leah T who've carved out a pretty large space for themselves in the industry.
According to the documentary's host Charlet Duboc, tolerance for transgender women in Brazil is particularly remarkable in the fashion industry, where Leah T achieved prominence last year by kissing Kate Moss on the cover of LOVE. However, with the Olympics looming and more international attention being drawn to Rio as a fashion hotspot, Duboc supposes that, in an effort to fall more in line with the rest of the world, Brazil may abandon its inclusion of transgender models.
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Banking giant Barclays is facing more boardroom upheaval after announcing that its finance director since 2007 is to leave the group.
Chris Lucas will remain in the post until the lender finds a replacement, a process which could take a "considerable time" to complete.
News of his departure and that of Mark Harding, general counsel, comes just days before new chief executive Antony Jenkins bids to repair the bank's battered reputation with a presentation on the company's new strategy.
Barclays shares opened 1 per cent lower today.
Mr Lucas is one of several past and present Barclays staff being investigated over whether the bank broke the rules when it took big cash infusions from Qatar's sovereign wealth fund in 2008.
Barclays has also seen several top executives, including chief executive Bob Diamond, leave since a rate-fixing scandal erupted last year.
The bank was hit with a 453m US dollars (£289m) fine after it emerged that executives had been involved in a campaign to rig a key interest Libor rate.
Mr Jenkins said that with the bank's change programme set take place over the next five to 10 years, both directors felt that it was right time for them pass on their roles to executives who can commit to seeing that programme to completion.
He added: "Chris and Mark both expressed to me late last year that they were considering stepping down from their roles at Barclays.
"The rationale which each shared with me was consistent and, typically, grounded in wanting to do what is best for the bank.
"Their decision to retire was theirs alone.
Mr Lucas said: "It has been my great pleasure and privilege to serve as group finance director of Barclays for nearly six years now.
"While it has undoubtedly been the most eventful period during which anyone could have occupied a role such as mine, I have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge."


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Cameroon secures ticket to Men's World Championship
Yaoundé, Cameroon, February 17, 2014 – Cameroon booked a ticket to the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship 2014 Poland by winning Pool T of the African qualification tournament held at Palais des Sports in Yaoundé, Cameroon on Monday.
Cameroon hammered Gabon 3-0 (25-11, 25-14, 25-17) in a match dominated by the winners. Sem Dolengombai was Cameroon's top scorer with 13 points, while Dan J' Mateya led Gabon with eight.
Cameroon finished the five-nation round robin tournament with a win-loss ratio of 3-1 – to gain nine points and equal Algeria and Rwanda with the same win-loss ratio and total points – but then overwhelmed the set quotient 10-4 ahead of Algeria, who came second with 9-4 quotient and Rwanda who came third with 9-6.
This is the third qualification ticket for the west African country after 1990 and 2010, with their best result in the last edition when they finished 13th after getting through the first round.
Algeria clinched their last win against Nigeria in a thriller 3-1 (25-17, 25-14, 21-25, 25-15). As usual, Algeria's opposite spiker Toufik Mahjoubi led his team and match scorers with 23 points, while Mathew E'ejeh scored 17 as Nigeria's best scorer.
Cameroon joins Egypt as the African countries now qualified for the premier FIVB men's volleyball event. One more ticket is still on the line for Pool Y countries – Tunisia, Seychelles, Congo, Senegal and Nigeria – who will begin their qualifiers March 2 to March 8.
The men's and women's FIVB Volleyball World Championships are staged every four years and are the most prestigious event in international volleyball. The FIVB's Men's World Championships Poland 2014 will take place from August 30 to September 21.


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Some Republicans see Karl Rove as a political genius, masterminding winning campaigns at every level on the ballot, including the White House. Others call him a "fake conservative" and a symbol of what's wrong with the party.
A Rove-affiliated super PAC's efforts to push what it believes will be more electable congressional candidates -- and the backlash it has created -- is symbolic of the battle for the soul of the GOP.
The uproar is in response to American Crossroads forming a new super PAC called the Conservative Victory Project, which says its aim is to improve the GOP's record in congressional races.
The group wants to institutionalize the rule of the late conservative activist William F. Buckley and to nominate "the most conservative candidate in the primary who can win the general election," according to Victory Project spokesman Jonathan Collegio.
"Our party has lost at least six Senate races in the last two election cycles not because of conservative ideas but because of undisciplined candidates and subpar campaigns," Collegio told CNN.
"We want to elect conservative candidates to the House and Senate," he added. "But we have to win general elections."
As he does with other Crossroads groups, former George W. Bush strategist Rove will advise this new organization, which will be led by Steven Law, the president of both American Crossroads and its advocacy sister Crossroads GPS.
But some in the tea party wing of the party say the group's aim is to elect more moderate Republicans. One tea party group declared in an email solicitation: "Karl Rove has declared war" on the movement..."Our response. BRING IT!"
Some conservative activists think the Conservative Victory Project organizers really aim to elect more establishment candidates who are not conservative enough -- a charge the group's leaders vehemently deny.
On Tuesday conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham criticized the Victory Project's Law, who was a guest on her show, for specifically highlighting losses by tea party candidates last year.
Law said his groups have backed tea party candidates as well as establishment ones and that the Victory Project's aim is not to go after one group but to field the most competitive candidates possible.
There was widespread dismay from some within the party after losses in the general election by such Senate candidates as Sharron Angle in Nevada in 2010 and Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana last year.
All three were initially favored and strongly supported by tea party activists. They won primaries against candidates who experts thought had a better chance of capturing the general election. Their losses were at least partly blamed on comments they made that seemed out of the mainstream.
While Law told Ingraham "we are interested in improving the process," conservative activists believe the organizers will harm the party instead.
"These fake conservatives need to go away before they do more damage," is how ForAmerica Chairman Brent Bozell put it.
Another activist derided the group as ensuring defeat for the party.
"The Conservative Defeat Project is yet another example of the Republican establishment's hostility towards its conservative base," Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund group, said in a statement on Sunday. "Rather than listening to the grassroots and working to advance their principles, the establishment has chosen to declare war on its party's most loyal supporters."
SCF, which works to push conservative candidates, backed Ted Cruz, Deb Fischer and Jeff Flake in their successful Senate races last year.
Besides its aversion to the Victory Project's intent, Rove's involvement is also an issue.
"TPPatriots want to save USA. Karl Rove wants to line pockets-Don't Tread on Us! Tea Party bites back-never gives up!" Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin tweeted over the weekend.
The Crossroads groups themselves didn't fare a lot better than the tea party groups in 2012, as most of their favored Senate candidates ended up losing -- and Rove got some of the blame.
Some conservatives point out that along with Akin and Mourdock, many mainstream candidates lost, too, like Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana, Rep. Rick Berg of North Dakota and former Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico.
Victory Project organizers have started reaching out to their financial backers, some of whom were uneasy about getting in the middle of an intra-party fights. That's why they formed separately.
"Some donors are concerned about primaries where many are concerned exclusively about the general election," Collegio said.
The group will make its decisions on whom to back based on research about candidates' positions, their fundraising power and their ability to organize and run an effective campaign.
It will not recruit candidates nor coordinate with party leaders. It will disclose its donors.
One race it could get involved is in West Virginia, where Rep. Shelley Moore Capito had already announced her decision to run for the Senate even before incumbent Sen. Jay Rockefeller announced that he was going to retire.
Capito, who is in her seventh term, is viewed as a formidable candidate with a strong fundraising base.
However, several conservative groups, including the Senate Conservatives Fund, already have come out against her, calling her record "liberal" and saying she supported too much government spending.


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« In Which We Read The Remarks Of Housewives »
by RACHEL SYKES
This time last year, I was recovering from a stay in the hospital by reading The Feminine Mystique. I had found an old copy among several novels on the floor of my grandma's spare room; it was mine, I guessed, dropped sometime in between shifting old texts to book sales. That winter, I had taken leave from work and was reading anarchically, giving my attention to books I'd never had time for and to others I did not even think I should read. Friedan was one of the former, and I read the remarks of housewives, quietly and oddly, as my grandma fussed and tidied her kitchen:
But what can I do, alone in the house… It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
The noise in the kitchen was always accompanied by a choir on the radio, a relic of a machine held together by tape, which had survived the 1950s with my grandma. Removed from where I lived my life as I chose, it proved difficult to sit amongst books I had never opened, reading things I might never have read. And though I questioned Friedan's idea of completeness, I thought about the slope to living vicariously, as I tried not to think about the lives my friends continued without me. Vicariousness appeared to be a sense of wonder, formed in the gap between expectation and reality, something which might be mistaken for self-helplessness. Friedan saw it as a fear of possibility. As she rattled her pots and pans, as she was happy I was home no matter what the circumstances, I wondered if my grandma had ever lived vicariously herself.
That winter, if I felt sad about where I was or what had brought me there, I read the bits of poetry I had copied into notebooks as a teenager. My grandma didn't approve, telling me that poetry only led to dark thoughts. She offered me ginger wine and documentaries about pregnant teenagers in its place. But after taking the wine, and leaving it by the side of my bed, I would read lines from Frank O'Hara, the ones which seemed like a tonic to the vicarious, though they read equally like a mantra or the blurb of a tumblr:
Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible.
I knew that "Grace," standing alone on the line, referred to O'Hara's friend, the artist, Grace Hartigan. That line is suspended between descriptions of Hartigan's paintings and, for all its quotability, makes an uneasy link between the dynamics of their friendship and O'Hara's poetic effect. Teetering over the sentiment of the phrase that follows, "Grace" is universal, a symbol of all relationships. Both singular and infinite, it is not just O'Hara's desire, but hers, theirs and ours, which lives to experience as variously as we are allowed.
If friendship is a vow of constancy, then the relationship between O'Hara and Hartigan is harder to grasp alongside the wish to live in variety. But if this is a complicated way of talking about relationships, it isn't a mournful one. For O'Hara, part of his identity is formed in his companionships; identity is reciprocal, dynamic, and creative.
I am writing, then, about friendship, but also about a word.
This past November, five of my closest friends casually mentioned a wish to live, vicariously, through me. In text and in letter form, then in person or on the phone, these friends reiterated their love of living and experiencing my day to days, vicariously. These five friends, all of them in long term relationships, engaged, or already married, had begun to tell me how they loved to experience my second-handed drama. But they didn't just say it once; they said it over and again.
I am writing, here, under a series of disclaimers which would stress that my life is neither particularly interesting nor that my friends show an abnormal level of interest in it. Friendships, I know, do not occur simply to keep us close to those who mirror our behaviour, or even to show us that the most personal of anxieties are not ever solely our own. There must be some extent to which we are all living vicariously through the people we know, getting thrills from the problems that aren't quite ours, but which we can hear fully expressed and close-up, making mental notes to never have the misfortune of enduring similar.
But to be born and live as vicariously as possible. Once it had been said out loud, it began to litter the responses to my stories, the word passed between friends like a note dropped in class.
This morning, from between two books, a letter fell out, written by a friend living overseas. "Any new drama?" she asked, in bright green ink, "You know I just LOVE to live vicariously through you."
And, there again, written last January, a friend was living vicariously. An old friend, we had met at the after show party for a Mount Holyoke production of The Vagina Monologues, where we'd spoken about Macbeth over genitalia shaped chocolates. My friend, who we had Skype-counselled through a disastrous spell on Craigslist, where time and again she had met "the worst guy in the world," and where, time and again, she had returned to his insults and a second date. She, now settled and suburban, who was animatedly, hopelessly, in love, three years into her relationship, was nostalgic for a time when all she had wanted was what she now had.
The vicarious seemed to shift my friends between what they wanted and what they had, before pausing on what they had once wanted. There was no malice in the sentiment, but the casual frequency with which they said it seemed striking. The word was sort of beautiful: half vicodin, half effusion. If you look at it too long, which I, in bright green, found myself doing as I dried my hair, it appears like a cross between vicar and riot: an impulse both puritanical and anarchistic.
But its connotations seem knotted. Whenever someone now says it, I see the funnel between my lifestyle and theirs expanding with each syllable, our friendship a kaleidoscope which is hypnotic from only their end. To live vicariously is to experience an emotion at a distance from the subject. It is, perhaps, empathetic, if always delegated or surrogated. It implies shock and comfort in as equal measure as gratification. Vicarious means to substitute, to have a rare, out of body experience, endured or suffered by one person so that another won't have to. The authority is with the observer, not the subject, of course, so while they mean, I am sure, to convey how they are experiencing, imaginatively, the feelings or events of another life, the observer comes into the possession of knowledge for which the penance is reckoned by the subject alone.
In law, it means the responsibility of a superior for the subordinate.
As a power dynamic, it's pretty dire.
A fairer preface, and one not given here, might have outlined my larger habit of storytelling. I offer information, on myself, at a rapidly increasing rate. In writing this now, in fact, I am inviting vicariousness, yet the compulsion to make stories out of the present only increases. I apologise, to friends about this, not knowing when I am abusing an ear too often.
"But that's OK," they say back, "You know we LOVE to live vicariously through you."
I remember one winter my mum had had a particularly bad break-up. Her cassette tape of Jagged Little Pill never left our car. We drove round and round the countryside, listening to that album, until the following summer when she became embarrassed by the obvious wear on the tape and threw it away. My favourite song, I remember, seemed to me to be the happiest. Alanis sarcastically lists all the ways in which she doesn't want to fix her lover, stating the impossibility of helping someone who refused to analyse themselves: "I don't want to be lived through, a vicarious occasion, please." I remember the word sticking out like a barb, half vicodin, half vicar, half riot. Far too long, and far too jagged, because, I suppose, it is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Rachel Sykes is the senior contributor to This Recording. You can find an archive of her writing on This Recording here. She tumbls here and twitters here. She last wrote in these pages about her fear of flying.
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A South Korean captain, standing in handcuffs before reporters, defended his order to delay the evacuation of his sinking ferry, CNN affiliate YTN reported early Saturday.
The news of Lee Joon Seok's arrest in connection with the sinking that left 29 people dead and more than 270 missing came as divers worked through the night to try to reach the hundreds still believed to be inside the wreckage in the frigid waters 20 kilometers (roughly 12 miles) off the coast of South Korea's southern peninsula.
Lee has been charged with abandoning his boat, negligence, causing bodily injury, not seeking rescue from other ships, and violating "seamen's law," state media reported, citing prosecutors and police
The charges against Lee appear to shed some light on what authorities have focused on in their efforts to find out what happened to the ferry making its way Wednesday from Incheon to the resort island of Jeju.
"Mr. Lee is charged with causing the Sewol ship to sink by failing to slow down while sailing the narrow route and making (a) turn excessively," prosecutor Lee Bong-chang told the semi-official Yonhap news agency.
"Lee is also charged with failing to do the right thing to guide the passengers to escape and thereby leading to their death or injury."
If convicted, Lee faces from five years to life in prison.
A South Korean prosecutor said Lee wasn't at the helm of the Sewol when it started to sink; a third mate was at the helm.
"It is not clear where he was when the accident occurred, although it is clear that he was not in the steering room before the actual accident happened," state prosecutor Jae-Eok Park said.
A crew member, described as the third mate, appeared with Lee and, like the captain, the third mate was in handcuffs. The man was identified only as Park.
It was unclear if he was one of two other crew members who authorities have said also faced arrest in connection with the sinking.
A spokesman for the joint prosecutor and police investigators declined to provide further details.
As the captain left a court hearing early Saturday, police led him to reporters, where he answered questions.
"The tidal current was strong and water temperature was cold, and there was no rescue boat," Lee told reporters, according to CNN affiliate YTN. "So I had everyone stand by and wait for the rescue boat to arrive."
Lee acknowledged that he plotted the ship's course, and then went to his cabin briefly "to tend to something."
It was then, he said, the accident happened.
The third mate, who was at the helm of the ship when Lee left, said he did not make a sharp turn. Rather, he said, "the steering turned much more than usual."
The captain was one of at least 174 people rescued soon after the Sewol began to sink, violating an "age-old rule and internationally recognized rule that a captain must stay on the vessel," maritime law attorney Jack Hickey said.
"Pretty much every law, rule, regulation and standard throughout the world says that yes, the captain must stay with the ship until all personnel are safely off of the ship, certainly passengers."
Hopes of finding the missing alive dimmed further when the entire boat became submerged Friday. Until then, part of the ship's blue-and-white hull was still poking out of the frigid waters of the Yellow Sea.
The coast guard said workers continued to pump air into the hull of the submerged ship but could not stop its descent.
Still, divers breached the hull of the sunken ferry, and two managed to enter the second deck — the cargo deck, the South Korean coast guard said. But rough waters forced them out. They didn't find any bodies in their brief search.
Compounding the tragedy of the ship sinking, one of those rescued, a high school vice principal who was on board the ferry along with more than 300 students, was found hanging from a tree, police said.
Kang Min Kyu, 52, vice principal of Ansan Danwon High School, was among the first survivors to be rescued.
Police said he apparently hanged himself with a belt from a tree near a gymnasium in Jindo, where distraught relatives of missing passengers have been camping.
Relatives of passengers expressed increasing disgust and anger about the lack of explanation from the captain and the pace of the rescue effort.
Some have waited for days in the cold rain at a harbor in Jindo.
Others camped at a nearby gymnasium and auditorium, desperate to hear any news of their loved ones. Relatives overcome with emotion howled and screamed, but to no avail.
"Hurry up, find it faster!" one woman wailed.
Any hope for survival largely hinges on whether passengers may be in air pockets within the ship, which isn't unheard of in such cases.
In May 2013, a tugboat capsized off West Africa. Rescuers pulled out a man from 100 feet below the surface who survived 2½ days inside a 4-square-foot air pocket.
That's one reason family members aren't ready to give up hope.
Part of the frustration stems from the conflicting information reported by officials.
In the hours after the sinking, some analysts speculated the ferry may have veered off course and struck an object. But the South Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Thursday that it had approved the boat's intended route, and the actual course did not deviate significantly.
But Kim Soo Hyeon, chief of South Korea'sYellow Sea Maritime Police Agency,later said the ship apparently deviated from its planned route but did not appear to have hit a rock.
'Ship is tilted'
The Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries released a transcript of the conversation between the ferry and center that monitors vessel traffic.
After alerting the center that the ferry was rolling, the Sewol stated that "the body of the ship is tilted to the left. Containers fell over, too."
The control center then asked if people were hurt. Impossible to confirm because it was impossible to move, the ferry responded.
The center told the ferry crew to get people ready for evacuation, and the ferry once again described how hard it was for people to move.
Adding to the pain for families, police said texts and social media messages claiming to be from missing passengers turned out to be fake.
Media outlets, including CNN, shared the texts with a wide audience.
"We will investigate people sending out these messages," said Lee Sung Yoon, head of the combined police and prosecution team.
He said authorities will go after those behind the hoaxes and will "punish them severely."


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Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless connectivity technology that allows short-range radio communication between devices. Included in a small chip inside the device, NFC allows for mobile money transactions, data exchange, location tagging, and wireless connections between two devices in very close proximity to one other, usually just a couple of centimeters apart.
Owing to the short-range nature of NFC, transfers are often completed by "tapping" devices either to another NFC-enabled device or a payment system.
Though the technology has been around for about seven years, NFC only seems to now be coming into its own, with a veritable explosion of NFC-powered devices and applications emerging over the course of the last couple of years alone. Indeed, according to a recent Juniper research report, by 2014, one in five smartphones will have NFC in them.
NFC services are set to proliferate rapidly over the next three years, with Juniper predicting almost 300 million NFC capable smartphones by the end of next year, more than half of which will be in North America, with Western Europe following closely behind.
The sudden growth spurt in the technology has much to do with its acceptance and adoption by many global mobile network operators, as well as giants like Google, RIM, Nokia, Samsung, and more.
With more and more handset vendors integrating NFC chipsets, NFC payments, mobile coupons, and smart posters are also slowly becoming more common amongst smartphone users in Western Europe, North America, and other developed regions.


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THURSDAY, Nov. 29, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- The war against HIV/AIDS is far from over, U.S. health officials said on Thursday, with gay and bisexual men in urban centers accounting for most new infections in the United States.
Nearly 29,000 new cases of HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, were attributed to gay and bisexual males in 2010, and 82 percent of those cases occurred in large cities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
"The HIV epidemic in the United States highlights inequities," said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. "One is that gay and bisexual men are over 40 times more likely to have HIV than heterosexuals, and urban areas of the United States have higher HIV prevalence than rural areas."
Another expert said the findings have real value in the fight against the virus.
"These findings allow us to focus prevention efforts," noted Dr. Bruce Hirsch, an attending physician in infectious diseases at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., who had no part in the study.
However, this is a challenging group to reach with education and prevention strategies, he said.
"There is a problem when you are young and healthy and have a lot of sexual desire -- you feel indestructible," Hirsch said.
In 2010, gay and bisexual males represented 62 percent of new HIV infections in large cities, 56 percent in smaller cities and 54 percent in non-urban areas, according to the study, published in the Nov. 30 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
And nearly half of the new HIV infections reported among gay and bisexual men occurred in these seven cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Houston.
In addition, four of the areas with the highest number of HIV infections among gay and bisexual men were in California: Los Angeles, Fresno, Modesto and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura.
The U.S. National HIV Strategy has a goal of reducing HIV infections by 25 percent, the CDC's Mermin said. "That is a challenging but achievable goal. We won't reach it if we don't decrease HIV infections among young and old gay and bisexual men."
Disparities in HIV also exist in racial/ethnic groups, Mermin said. "We see marked racial disparities, 60 percent of youth with HIV infections were African American, 20 percent were Latino and 20 percent were white," he said. "And black gay and bisexual men made up 54 percent of new HIV infections," he added.
He said that what is needed is more education -- especially education that targets groups such as blacks and Hispanics. Making testing more accessible and commonplace will also help, Mermin said, as would better access to treatment, especially for the poor.
Hirsch attributed some of this increase in HIV cases among gay and bisexual men to a reduced awareness of HIV. "It's a time when the HIV epidemic is portrayed completely differently in the media compared to different eras," he said. "There is a downplaying of the impact of the disease. I think HIV is being more understood as a chronic disease that is easily controlled."
Although that's largely true, prevention is vital, Hirsch said. "When the long-term risks of HIV are downplayed and when many people in the community are living long healthy lives with HIV, there is an underestimation of what it feels like to be HIV-positive," he said.
People who are HIV-positive carry a psychological weight, in addition to the medical and financial burdens, Hirsch said. "In addition, taking medications on a day-in, day-out basis and having constant medical monitoring kind of reorganizes one's life," he said.
A positive health message about being HIV-free and healthy and active is essential to stem the problem, Hirsch said.
Hirsch advises young gay and bisexual men to take precautions to avoid HIV infection. "You're too young and healthy to start a life confronting the real limitations and vulnerabilities of HIV," he said. "Take care of yourself and have a safe and active love life."
The study authors said programs that could reduce the number of HIV infections in cities include HIV testing, better care and treatment of those already infected, and risk counseling.
More information
For more information on HIV/AIDS, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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'21 and Over' review: 'Disgusting fun'
21 and Over: Comedy. Starring Miles Teller, Skylar Astin and Justin Chon. Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. (R. 93 minutes.)
If you've signed a petition in the past seven days expressing outrage at the Oscar night political incorrectness of Seth MacFarlane, stay far, far away from "21 and Over."
It might be best to avoid multiplexes altogether for the next two to four weeks, on the chance that you mix up theaters after a bathroom break, and walk in when our heroes trick two pledges at an all-Latina sorority into making out with each other.
Whether that sounds like good fun or a sign of the apocalypse will influence your ability to embrace this college party comedy, which treads heavily through "Harold and Kumar" territory with some new ground covered as well.
The movie was directed by the writers of "The Hangover," most likely conceived when they were younger and dumber but also more fearless.
Combine that with a nothing-to-lose small budget filled mostly with little-known actors, and the result is uncompromising comedy.
"21 and Over" sets the crude tone early, opening with our heroes Miller and Casey (Miles Teller and Skylar Astin) looking defeated, walking across a college quad wearing nothing but athletic socks covering their genitals. Flash back one day, when the pair surprises high school friend Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) on his 21st birthday.
Chang has a strict father and a medical school interview the next morning, but he goes out anyway. Most of the movie follows Miller and Casey on a quest to get their unresponsive/hallucinating friend back to his apartment before his father shows up.
Young parents in the audience may be wondering why no one dials 911 - in real life Jeff would have died tragically four or five times. Just as those parents' parents probably thought the panty raid in "Revenge of the Nerds" should have resulted in felony arrests. "21 and Over" requires a suspension of both disbelief and the moral high ground.
But once you accomplish those tasks, there are many rewards. Writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore find a nice balance between the over-the-top high jinks and an emotional core, which unexpectedly crystallizes relatively late in the movie.
When the 18-year-olds who love this movie grow up, it might still mean something to them.
What looks like a simple journey is given "Odyssey"-like significance by the writers. A quest to find a residential adviser at a party has allusions to Dante's nine circles of hell and "Apocalypse Now." Chang's scene telling off the college town's various bouncers is an excellent use of montage. Throw-away jokes about smart cars, "Rocky IV" and oversized music festivals ring true.
Teller, who excelled in a smaller role in the underrated 2011 "Footloose" remake, is the standout. He possesses most of the better qualities of Jonah Hill and Ryan Reynolds, although too jumpy at times. (Future directors should monitor caffeine intake.)
The weakest link is Casey's love interest Nicole (Sarah Wright), who speaks and acts like a shallow man's ideal of a girlfriend - speaking in sexy repartee while rarely resembling a real human being.
Much of this movie's dilemma could be quickly solved with a smartphone - was the script written before that technology? And if you are bothered by 32-year-old actors playing 21, know that there appears to be more than one 11th-year senior in this movie.
If there's a weighty question in "21 and Over," it's "are Miller and Casey the best friends ever or the worst friends ever?" Somewhere between the scene with slow-motion puking and naked ritual branding, you'll forget you even asked.
Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicle's pop culture critic. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @PeterHartlaub


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As I found a popular word "picks and pans", which is commonly seen in online magazines or reviews, but I couldn't find the definition in any dictionary (either the real one or the virtual one online).
Would you please kindly show me the meanings/definitions of the "picks and pans", together with 2 or 3 examples of usages for me?
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As far as I can "IMAGINE" (sorry, English is NOT my mother tongue), the "picks and pans" might be suggesting something like "good and bad", "likes and dislikes", in which the "PICKS" is referred to something positive, while the "PANS" is referred to something negative! Is it right???????????


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For service contractors and utility workers who fix power lines and service drops damaged by hurricanes, the danger starts when the wind and rain stop. For nearly six weeks after Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne — two of four storms that punished Florida over a 44-day stretch last August and September — left millions without electricity, electricians from Port St. Lucie, Fla.-based Elite Electric worked overtime to return power to ravaged neighborhoods. And although storm recovery was a cash cow for the company, president John Pankraz was most concerned for his staff's safety. As the 2005 hurricane season reaches its midpoint, he told us how he kept his employees safe while they faced the fallout from Mother Nature's onslaught.
Staff first — Pankraz's techs have homes, too, so he put their problems at the top of his to-do list — and not just because he wanted to take care of their families. "We needed to make sure they were comfortable," he says. "If they're thinking about what they need to do at home, they're not going to be safe in the field."
Coordination is key — As Elite's electricians repaired risers, the utility lifted lines, creating a dangerous situation if the two sides didn't communicate. While working on services in areas without power, Pankraz's crew had to keep an eye out for FPL trucks. "When they hooked up a grid, we could be working on it," he says. "So you had to know when to get back."
Assume it's hot, even if it's not — It's the cardinal rule of electrical work, but because homeowners can inadvertently back feed the utility line by plugging generators into dryer outlets and leaving their main breaker on, Pankraz made sure his techs always checked for power before starting work. "You just never know what you're going to find," he says.


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What Is Authentic Yunnan Food? A Quick Guide from Los Angeles
The province of Yunnan is one of the most beautiful regions of China. It's where Shangri-La, a fictional heaven on earth, is often attributed to and where tourists flock to for the idyllic scenery and sprawling mountain ranges. Located in the southwest region of China bordering Tibet, Vietnam, and Burma—the province is known for its ethnic diversity and food similar to Sichuan, its well-known neighbor.
Like Sichuan, Yunnan also has food embedded with tongue-numbing peppercorns and a generous helping of spice. But Yunnan cuisine focuses on produce, like beautiful wild mushrooms foraged from the mountains and unique varieties of plants plucked from the countryside. Did you know that Yunnan has the largest diversity of plant life in China?
Los Angeles has the most Yunnan restaurants in the entire United States: an impressive four of just a little bit under a dozen. Three of the four in Los Angeles are under the same management and sport similar menus.
"That place makes me so homesick!" my friend from Yunnan exclaimed when I told her I had checked out Yunkun Garden in Monterey Park. "The food there tastes exactly how I remember it in Yunnan."
I asked her which two dishes resonated with her the most.
"I love the cured pork. It's kind of like jerky and one of my favorite foods from back home," she said. "And the 'Crossing Over Bridge Noodles' is always good. You can never go wrong with those."
Here are some photos of delicious dishes from Yunkun Garden in Monterey Park and its sister restaurant, Yunnan Garden in San Gabriel. Both restaurants are managed and owned by a immigrant from Yunnan.
See all the dishes in the slideshow >>
Yunnan Garden 545 W Las Tunas Dr, San Gabriel, CA 91776 626-308-1896
Yunkun (Yun Chuan) Garden 301 N Garfield Ave Ste D, Monterey Park, CA 91754 626-571-8387
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TEACHING: Jimmy is constantly being approached to teach what he knows and loves to aspiring jazz musicians all over the world. Jimmy travels every year for the last 9 years to Stanford University to teach Master Classes for the Universities Jazz Workshop. He has taught for Parsons: The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music, for the Florida State University, at the University of Greensboro in North Carolina, the International Center for the arts at San Francisco and numerous educational institutions throughout the globe.
Jimmy remains active in New York City, where he leads Jimmy Cobb's Mob and The Jimmy Cobbs Reminiscence Band. On the international circuit he leads his Jimmy Cobb So What Band Celebrating 50 years of Kind of Blue and the Music of Miles Davis.


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With the Nikoli puzzle series, you can enjoy high-quality "Sudoku" puzzles, created by Nikoli, who gave the world-famous puzzle its name. The Nintendo 3DS allows for the realization of simple and easy to play operability. "Hitori by Nikoli" contains 50 sudoku puzzles. "Hitori" is a puzzle in which you fill in any unnecessary numbers, making sure that the same number doesn't appear twice in the same line. Once you get the hang of it, you can feel the joy of figuring out the many various gimmicks thought up by the creator. This is a puzzle for real connoisseurs. To ensure your long-term enjoyment, we're prepared both a "Stage Clear" mode and a "Random" mode. In "Stage Clear" mode, you progress by clearing puzzles one by one, and in "Random" mode puzzles are generated at random. Please enjoy this high-quality "Hitori" game.
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From Country Living to Home and Garden to your very own traditions that began when your Grandmother was just a baby, there are things you can do for Easter that your friends, family and especially the children will never forget. You can even start new traditions that your own beautiful grandchild can carry on with their own kids one day.


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Wishing you were a fly on the wall, or the person in the picture? Or maybe it is a mirror...
This image is an exaggeration of the madonna/whore complex many, many people struggle with. Actually, I am quite sure some of them actually enjoy it, whether consciously or not, because none of us continue any behavior that does not give a pay off, so let's call it the madonna/whore people many of us "experience".
A nun is the most sacred icon of femininity in many cultures, and the premise is they are married to Christ, so they take no earthly husband, and have no carnal knowledge. Of course, nothing is saying this is not a picture of Himself, and this is how she communes with Him.
I know I have many readers who are not in America, but as an American I have noticed a strange juxtaposition in which our media is filled with violence, but our people are offended by the sight of a breast feeding mother. We are fascinated by sex, but it must be kept very secret. Our young women show their bra straps, let their thongs peek out, all suggestive, but the idea of a nun flashing her lover, even if her only lover is herself, mirrored and delighted with her secret, is probably shocking to most of us.
The High Priestess asks us to examine how sexuality and sanctity are entwined in our lives, and if we have any shame feelings around sex, she can, gently, help us figure out where they lie and how they can be addressed, if we want to. There is a undeniable thrill to feeling a little bit ashamed, at least for some of us, but when feelings of shame keep us from experiencing any amount of joy, and the pleasure our bodies are designed to enjoy, there is an issue and something needs to be done.
As for our naughty nun, she clearly has no shame, and is taking absolute delight in exposing her most secret self, assured of her beauty and sensuality. I like to imagine this is a mirror, and she simply delights in herself, as we should all be free to do, or it is a high tech device in which she is free to communicate with her lover. The notion that sex is dirty or ugly needs to be eradicated from our collective conscious, and that happens one free nun at a time.
Let the High Priestess whisper her secrets to you, and notice the frisson of excitement, but don't let anyone or thing make you feel shame at your beauty and your sacred sexuality.
In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;
What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?
Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?
Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat?
Yet, yet I love! — From Abelard it came,
And Eloisa yet must kiss the name.
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;
What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?
Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?
Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat?
Yet, yet I love! — From Abelard it came,
And Eloisa yet must kiss the name.
From the epic "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope (1688–1744).
You don't need a lover to experience passion, sensuality, and delight in your body, nor, unfortunately, to feel shame in the same. Ask The High Priestess how to be freed from the bonds that hold you, and how to tighten the ones that thrill you.


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Let D be the unit disk {z : |z| < 1} in the complex plane. A function f, meromorphic in D, is normal, denoted by f Î N, if supz Î D (1-|z|2) f#(z) < ¥, where f#(z) = |f¢(z)| / ( 1+|f(z)|2 ). For a > 1, a meromorphic function f is called a-normal if supz Î D (1-|z|2)a f#(z) < ¥. H. Allen and C. Belna [1] have proved that there is an analytic function f1, defined in D, such that
We prove existence of longtime smooth solutions to mean curvature flow of entire Lipschitz Lagrangian graphs. As an application of the estimates for the solution, we establish a Bernstein type result for translating solitons.
The results are from joint work with Albert Chau and Weiyong He.
We discuss the membership of (big) Hankel operators Hf on weighted Bergman spaces in the Dixmier class. For the unit disc and f holomorphic, H[`(f)] is in this class if and only if f¢ belongs to the Hardy one-space H1. On the unit ball in Cn, n ³ 2, there is an analogous result for any f smooth on the closed ball (not necessarily conjugate-holomorphic), which is reminiscent of the trace formula of Helton and Howe. The last result extends also to arbitrary smoothly bounded strictly pseudoconvex domains in Cn, where the formula for the Dixmier trace turns out to involve the Levi form, thus exhibiting an interesting link with the geometry of the domain. The proofs involve analysis of pseudodifferential operators on the boundary of the domains.
The case of the disc is joint work with Richard Rochberg, while the case of the ball and of pseudoconvex domains are joint with Kunyu Guo and Genkai Zhang.
A dual capacity Brunn-Minkowski inequality is established for the (n-1)-capacity of radial sums of star bodies in Rn. This inequality is a counterpart for the p-capacity of Minkowski sums of convex bodies in Rn for 1 £ p < n, proved by Borell, Colesanti and Salani. When n ³ 3, the dual inequality follows from an inequality of Bandle and Marcus, but our new proof allows us to establish an equality condition. In the n=2 case, we use different techniques to establish the inequality and a different equality condition. These results show that in a sense (n-1)-capacity has the same status of volume in that it plays the role of its own dual set function in the Brunn-Minkowski and dual Brunn-Minkowski theories.
This is joint work with Richard Gardner.
Let L = -DHn + V be a Schrödinger operator on the Heisenberg group Hn, where DHn is the sub-Laplacian and the nonnegative potential V belongs to the reverse Hölder class B[(Q)/2] and Q is the homogeneous dimension of Hn. The Riesz transforms associated with the Schrödinger operator L are bounded from L1(Hn) to L1,¥ (Hn). The L1 integrability of the Riesz transforms associated with L characterizes a certain Hardy type space denoted by H1L(Hn) which is larger than the usual Hardy space H1(Hn). We define H1L(Hn) in terms of the maximal function with respect to the semigroup {e-s L : s > 0}, and give the atomic decomposition of H1L(Hn). As an application of the atomic decomposition theorem, we prove that H1L(Hn) can be characterized by the Riesz transforms associated with L.
I will present some results of a recent joint paper with A. Cianchi. The purpose is to embed the famous Serrin's symmetry result (Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 1971) in a general symmetry principle for solutions to overdetermined elliptic problems, where the relevant symmetry is not necessarily of spherical type. The underlying idea of our contribution is that a symmetry result holds for any overdetermined problem involving an elliptic operator (with quadratic growth) from a suitable class, provided that the additional boundary condition imposed on the gradient of the solution matches the structure of the differential operator. The resulting symmetry of the domain (and of the corresponding solution u) reflects, in turn, the symmetry of the operator, that is: a solution exists if and only if the domain W is a ball in an appropriate Finsler metric associated with the operator (moreover the level sets of u are homothetic to W).
The 2D surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation can be seen as a 2D model equation for the 3D incompressible Euler equations. In this talk we will discuss necessary and sufficient conditions, characterized by Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin type spaces, for the conservation of various conserved quantities of the 2D SQG equation. These conditions can help in the searching of rigorous mathematical framework modeling turbulent flows.
In contrast to the classical situation, it is known that many Laplacian operators on fractals have gaps in their spectra. This surprising fact means there can be no limit in the Weyl counting formula and it is a key ingredient in proving that the convergence of Fourier series on fractals can be better than in the classical setting. Recently, it was observed that the Laplacian on the Sierpinski gasket has the stronger property that there exist intervals which contain no ratios of eigenvalues. In this talk, we give general criteria for this phenomenon and show that Laplacians on many interesting classes of fractals satisfy our criteria.
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December 03, 2012
UCLA Anderson Gets $1 Million Charitable Boost from Joel ('86) and Deanne Fried
New gift to match donor contributions
LOS ANGELES (Dec. 3, 2012) -- UCLA Anderson School of Management graduate Joel Fried ('86) and his wife, Deanne Fried, have generously pledged $1 million as a matching challenge to encourage UCLA Anderson support from alumni and friends. The Deanne and Joel Fried Anderson Fund Challenge will match each new and upgraded Dean's Society donation.
The Dean's Society recognizes donors who make annual contributions to the Anderson Fund of $2,500 or more as well as students and new alumni who donate at least $1,000. Dean's Society donors provide the foundation of critical support for UCLA Anderson helping to sustain top-notch programs and provide support for many of the school's endeavors that range from student fellowships and alumni programs to faculty recruitment and retention.
"We are very grateful for the Frieds' continuing generosity, which encourages our donors to become engaged with UCLA Anderson," said UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian. "The Frieds' matching program enhances the impact of gifts from alumni and friends, and provides even added reasons to support UCLA Anderson."
The Fried challenge is designed to match new Dean's Society donations dollar for dollar. Student contributions to the Dean's Society will be matched 2:1. In addition, any increases made by Dean's Society members to their current gifts will also be matched.
"DeeDee and I believe strongly in the mission of UCLA Anderson," said Joel Fried. "We want to ensure that future Anderson students have the same opportunities to learn, grow, and excel that I enjoyed during my time at the school."
Joel Fried is president and director of PRIMECAP Management Company and co-executive officer and trustee of the PRIMECAP Odyssey Funds. Fried, along with two of his colleagues, was awarded the Domestic Equity Fund Manager of the Year Award by Morningstar.
Fried received his bachelor of science degree in economic systems/science from UCLA, and his MBA degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management. He currently serves on the board of the UCLA Anderson Fink Center for Finance & Investments.
For more information on the Anderson Fund Challenge or the Dean's Society visit www.anderson.ucla.edu/challenge or contact Dana DuBose at 310-206-0639.
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UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides a distinctive approach to management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in its MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs. Combining selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 37,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UCLAAnderson, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uclaanderson.
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The 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship gets underway at Harbour Station, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada on Saturday 15 March.
Twelve of the top women's teams in the world will take part with play continuing through to Sunday 23 March, when the medals will be decided.
The twelve teams who have qualified for this event are: hosts Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Korea, Latvia, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, Sweden and the USA.
While there are many familiar names among the competitors, there are also several new names and team line ups.
In three cases, teams that were in action at the recent Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, will again be representing their nations. These are the Olympic and world silver medallists from Sweden, skipped by Margaretha Sigfridsson; the Korean team that finished eighth in Sochi, skipped by Jisun Kim; and the Russian team that finished ninth, skipped by Anna Sidorova.
Other nations have separated their Olympic and world championship representation. These include Scotland, whose team skipped by Eve Muirhead, won last year's world title in Riga, Latvia and then went on to win bronze (for Great Britain) at the Olympic Winter Games. Instead, Scotland is represented in Saint John by a new team at this level, skipped by Kerry Barr.
China are also introducing a new team at this level, skipped by Sijia Liu; as are Latvia who are skipped by Evita Regza.
In other cases, familiar teams have been re-cast for this event. For example, Germany are represented by the team that has been led for many years by past world champion Andrea Schoepp - this year they are skipped by Imogen Oona Lehmann. Denmark's Madeleine Dupont returns to World Championship level skipping a new team, as does Binia Feltscher, for Switzerland. Anna Kubeskova makes a second World Championship appearance after Denmark in 2011 as Skip of the Czech team.
The USA will be led by the experienced Allison Pottinger, who topped the USA ranking system to gain selection. Fresh from her second successive victory in the Canadian national women's championship, Ontario's Rachel Homan will lead Canada for the second time at this level, hoping to improve on the bronze medal she won last year in Latvia.
Following the opening ceremony on Saturday 15 March, the teams meet in seventeen sessions of round-robin play, until the evening of Thursday 20 March. After this, tie-breakers will be played, if needed, to determine the top four ranked teams.
Then, as in all World Curling Federation (WCF) Championship events, curling's Page Play-off system will be used, in which the top two ranked teams from the round-robin face each other, with the winner of that game going direct to the final, and the loser being given a second chance by playing a semi-final against the winner of the Play-off between the teams ranked third and fourth. The winner of that sole semi-final goes onto the final to play for gold or silver, and the loser faces the Page 3/4 loser for bronze. These gold and bronze medal finals take place on Sunday 23 March.
In addition, the 2014 World Curling Championships mark the start of a new qualification period for the next Olympic Winter Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
All WCF Member Associations competing in Saint John and at the World Men's Curling Championship 2014 in Beijing China later this month (29 March to 6 April) will be eligible to enter the next WCF Olympic Qualification Event which is scheduled to take place in December 2017 should they not make it to the 2018 Olympics on direct qualification.
World Curling TV (WCTV), the television arm of the World Curling Federation, will provide extensive live and video-on-demand coverage to broadcasters around the world from Saint John. WCF Broadcast Partners for the event include TV4 in Sweden, Russia 2 in Russia, CCTV in China, Universal Sports Network in the USA, SporTV in Brazil, TSN in Canada (RDS in Quebec).
In addition, Curling fans around the world will be able to follow selected live coverage of the 2014 World Championship events via the World Curling Federation's YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/WorldCurlingTV
More information about the event can be found on the event website www.curling.ca/2014worldwomen-en/ and on the WCF website: www.worldcurling.org
Event Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/WorldWomensCurlingChampionship
Event Twitter Hashtags: #wwcc2014 #curling
It is the second time that Saint John is hosting a World Curling Championships. At the last event in 1999, the men's and women's competitions were played together. The men's event was won by Scotland's Hammy McMillan and women's by Sweden's Elisabet Gustafson.
The World Women's Curling Championship 2015 will take place in Sapporo, Japan, from 14-22 March in the Tsukisamu Gymnasium.


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The Association is honored to also bestow the Denison Ray Criminal Defender Award, named in memory of Denison Ray, a career legal activist who led legal services programs in New York and other states. The award is intended to recognize attorneys with institutional providers who exemplify the highest level of professionalism in providing skilled and zealous representation to indigent clients in criminal proceedings.
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GALVANI, Debora y BARROS, Denise Dias. Pedro's circuits in the city of São Paulo: religiosity and homelessness. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2010, vol.5Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1414-3283.
This is a case study based on the reconstitution of the life history of a homeless adult person in São Paulo City. Ethnographic research and life history were the strategies in a 12-month long data collecting. Analysis tried to reveal, in the process of identity construction, singularities able to re-signify and confer historicity to homeless experience. To discuss Pedro's path, religiosity analysis is a crucial element for re-assessing his homelessness history. Allied to other nets, religiosity showed different possibilities of constructing interdependence nets, thus characterizing re-signifying and sense reconstructing movements, and eluding disaffiliation processes so frequent in the case of people that experience rupture conducting to homelessness. In those processes, the socially negative identity linked to homelessness can be dislodged and widened, acquiring more elucidative delineations and dynamics. Nonetheless, there is always the need and the challenge of constructing collective alternatives to precarious homelessness experience.
Palabras clave : life history; disaffiliation; social nets; homeless adult people.


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text: It's Only Love song I get high when I see you go by, My oh my, When you sigh my, my inside just flies, Butterflies. Why am I so shy when I'm beside you? It's only love and that is all, Why should I feel the way I do? It's only love and that is all, But it's so hard loving you. Is it right that you and I should fight Ev'ry night? Just the sight of you makes nighttime bright, Very bright. Haven't I the right to make it up, girl? It's only love and that is all, Why should I feel the way I do? It's only love and that is all, But it's so hard loving you. Yes, it's so hard loving you, loving you. "It's Only Love" Song by the Beatles from the album Help! Released 6 August 1965 Recorded 15 June 1965EMI Studios, London Genre Rock Length 1:55 Label Parlophone Writer Lennon–McCartney Producer George Martin Help! track listing 14 tracks Side one "Help!" "The Night Before" "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" "I Need You" "Another Girl" "You're Going to Lose That Girl" "Ticket to Ride" Side two "Act Naturally" "It's Only Love" "You Like Me Too Much" "Tell Me What You See" "I've Just Seen a Face" "Yesterday" "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" "It's Only Love" is a song written mostly by John Lennon, and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was first released by the Beatles in 1965, on the Help! album in the United Kingdom, and on the Rubber Soul album in the United States. Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. It's Only Love (Help) It's Only Love (Anthology 2) ©1965 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.


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There's statement jewelry, and then there's STATEMENT jewelry. Sure, we love our bling bright and big — especially in the summer months when all we want to wear are the basics — but, sometimes, polished plastic just doesn't cut it. It's in those circumstances when we turn to our crystal comrades Swarovski. Working hand in hand with designers and industry creatives, Atelier Swarovski is now a seasoned side line to the mother brand, with fall '12 marking its 10th season since '07. Blossoming from the brain waves of architects, stage designers, and fashion-forward minds, the Atelier line explores new possibilities in crystal design and makes statement jewels even more, well, statement.
Fresh for fall, new collabs come from the likes of architect Greg Lynn and costume designer (and Lady Gaga's go-to) Zaldy. Greg Lynn takes his "blob architecture" to colored crystals (trust us, it looks a lot better than it sounds), and Zaldy offers the Gaga edge with his graphic, square-cut pieces.
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The controversial sodomy trial of Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was postponed Monday until Aug. 2 after his lead attorney fell ill.
The two-week delay is the latest setback in a slow-moving case that could sink the political career of Mr. Anwar, a former deputy prime minister. He has pleaded not guilty to sodomizing a male aide, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in jail in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country. Even a lighter sentence would automatically disqualify him from holding public office.
Anwar accuses Prime Minister Najib Razak of conspiring against him in a virtual rerun of his highly politicized sodomy trial in 1998 that ended in a guilty verdict. Anwar was freed in 2004 after a higher court ruled his conviction unsound.
Mr. Najib has denied any involvement. In May, Anwar's accuser, Saiful Mohamad told the court that he met privately with Najib, who was then deputy prime minister, and Malaysia's most senior policeman, before filing his complaint in June 2008.
Bitter rivalry
The trial has underscored the bitter rivalry between Anwar and Najib, who took over as prime minister last April after a near-defeat in 2008 for his ruling coalition. Anwar covets the same job, and was heir apparent to long-serving premier Mahathir Mohamed until Anwar was sacked and jailed in 1998.
Public interest in the latest trial has waned as the hearings drag on, in contrast to the rowdy scenes over a decade ago when Anwar's supporters staged mass protests in the streets.
One reason is that Malaysians have already prejudged the outcome, says Ibrahim Suffian, director of Merdeka Center, an independent polling institute in Kuala Lumpur. "Most people have made up their mind that it's all a political show trial," he says.
Anwar's missteps
After a rocky start, Najib has won praise for his handling of the economy, which has rebounded after last year's recession, and for taking on a corruption-plagued system of preferences for Malay-Muslims and other indigenous groups. A recent poll by Merdeka Center put his approval rating at 72 percent, up from 44 percent before he took power.
Distracted by the trial, Anwar has struggled with defections from his multiracial party, which is aligned with two other ethnic-oriented opposition parties. He has also courted controversy by labeling Malaysian government policies as "Zionist," a slur that has raised eyebrows among his supporters in Washington.
These missteps have played into the hands of Najib, the scion of a political dynasty who is leader of the dominant United Malays National Organization (UMNO) in parliament. He has also courted the Obama administration, which has cited Malaysia as a moderate voice in the Muslim world.
In a show of support, Malaysia last week began the deployment of military medics in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province. It has also toughened laws against the sale of dual-use nuclear technology in response to US concerns over proliferation.
But Najib must still struggle with the political dynamics of Malaysia, which has grown more skeptical of its rulers, says Wong Chin Huat, a politics lecturer at Monash University in Kuala Lumpur.
As more young people join the voter rolls, this trend could unseat UMNO, which is seen as self-serving and resistant to change. Some UMNO politicians have openly opposed Najib's plans for greater meritocracy in public institutions and the private economy, arguing that ethnic privileges are sacrosanct.
"Najib is increasingly popular. The question remains whether popularity for him will translate into votes for his party," says Mr. Wong.
When will the trial end?
It's unclear when Anwar's trial will wrap up. The judge said Monday that hearings would resume Aug. 2, with or without the lead counsel, and continue until the end of the month.
Anwar's lawyers complain that the prosecution has refused to share material evidence and kept secret its list of witnesses. Several defense motions have been rejected, to the frustration of his supporters who accuse the judiciary of bias.
Speaking after the adjournment, Anwar denied that the sodomy allegation was affecting his support base. "The people are not really interested. They don't ask me about the trial," he says.
Among Malay-Muslims, homosexuality remains a taboo topic. Malaysia's strict criminal codes against sodomy date from British rule and are found in other former British colonies, including Singapore and India. Last year, a court in New Delhi ruled that India's antisodomy law was unconstitutional after a campaign group filed a complaint. But there has been little outcry in Malaysia over the harshness of the rarely used sodomy law.


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A bikini-clad Ashlee Simpson joined newlyweds Donald Faison and CaCee Cobb for a day at the beach yesterday in Oahu, Hawaii. Ashlee's mother, Tina Simpson, and her son, Bronx, were also along for the fun. Ashlee and CaCee splashed around with Bronx in the waves, and Donald did a little bodysurfing, before the group took a break to relax on the warm sand.
CaCee and Donald got married earlier this month. Jessica Simpson served as a bridesmaid at the nuptials and also vacationed with the group in Hawaii this week, though she wasn't with them by the shore yesterday. Jessica's been tweeting family photos during the getaway, including one that seemed to confirm that she is pregnant for a second time. The picture, snapped on Christmas Day, showed her daughter Maxwell sitting in front of the words "Big Sis" written in the sand.


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Keith's father Ronald received a telegram on January 24, 1905 from a C.J. Rockwood that indicated that the construction of the dam across the Rainy River could commence. The telegram was presented in the Koochiching Press on the front page!
"Interesting Village History: Historical Review of This Issue Covers Matters of Importance from the time of original entry of the land." Copied from the International Falls Echo, January 5, 1906 and prepared by a Judge Berg for the Holler PTA in 1934.
This manuscript was found at the Koochiching County Historical Society and it makes the following statement:
"During July 1904, R.S. McDonald arrived from Grand Rapids and commenced the work of clearing 240 acres of land that now constitutes the townsite. Employment was given to many men in the work of clearing and stumping and grading streets. The sale of business lots had been opened a month before and for a time it seemed that early power development was to make good the shortage financially caused by the slump in the business. But suddenly came the news that the power promoters and the Canadian government had locked horns, and that everything was to be held up pending the results of the negotiations. A telegram in January, 1905, to Mr. McDonald brought the glad news that the contract for the construction of the dam had been let to Maguire and Penninman…."
The book: Koochiching, Pioneering Along the Rainy River Frontier, by Hiram M. Drache, Interstate Printers & Publishers, Inc., 1983 on page 93 makes this statement about R.S.
"Albert Enzman came to the area by virtue of being hired at the Duluth employment office in the fall of 1904. He and about 25 others were brought to International Falls by R.S. McDonald, superintendent of the International Lumber Company. (pg. 93)"
Google Books currently has a copy online of: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives on H.R. 15444 – Extending the time for constructing a dam across the Rainy River.
This book covers the testimony of the parties involved and goes on for many pages. Ronald does not appear in the pages but it does give background information on the events surrounding the building of the dam across the Rainy River which involved both the U.S. and Canadian governments and many business interests.
Once again the Era of Backus article at the History of Koochiching County Website has great photographs of the building of the dam before and after, and the lumber companies at that time. Here is the direct link to this article:
Try this link and then find Community and the history will be there:
This information is also found in the book: History of Koochiching County, published by the Koochiching County Historical Society in 1983, pages 11 to 13. You can find a copy in the Reading Room of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul.


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It was nearly one month ago when we told you that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was working on an official app for Windows Phone users.
Well, that day is upon us those who bank with RBS in the UK can now grab that app for their Windows Phone 7.x and 8 devices.
The app appears to be pretty solid too, meaning this isn't just a front-end web app but rather delivers some serious functionality:
- View your transaction history for most of your accounts, search for historical transactions on your current accounts and savings accounts
- Get Cash from RBS, NatWest or Tesco cash machines without a debit card
- Send money to RBS Mobile Banking customers that use this app – all you need is their mobile number
- Pay bills or people – by setting up and making your first payment in Online Banking
- Transfer funds between your accounts
- Check your balance and recent transactions
- Find your nearest cash machine or local branch
- Top up your pay as you go mobile phone and up to four others (service not available on the 3 network).
Not too bad and it's a good sign that we're seeing more and more official bank apps finally land on Windows Phone after what seems like an eternity of being sidelined.
Pick up the RBS app here in the Windows Phone Store. Thanks, Sabita M., for the tip!


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Breastfeeding has been called "nature's contraceptive," and like many birth control methods, when used properly, it is highly effective in preventing pregnancy. Along with the numerous other health benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and infant, breastfeeding can provide safe and effective contraception for up to six months after a baby is born. It is still possible, however, for a nursing mother to become pregnant during this time, but her chances are low if her physiological condition is consistent with the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) guidelines.
Evidence for the Health Claim
No reversible contraceptive method is perfect. However, studies have shown that the LAM can be up to 98% effective. According to its advocates, when a woman is "fully breastfeeding" and not getting her menstrual period, she has a less than 2% chance of becoming pregnant in the first six months after giving birth. ("Fully breastfeeding" means feeding the baby with only breastmilk—the only exception being 1 or 2 mouthfuls of supplement per day, and permitting no more than 4-6 hours to elapse between nursing). This 2% pregnancy risk compares favorably to using a condom correctly when a woman is not nursing.
Extensive research has been conducted on the LAM method. A review article published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology looked at pregnancy rates of women who followed the LAM method in two separate studies conducted in Kenya and Chili. The results showed that the rate of unplanned pregnancy was less than 1% during the first six months after giving birth.
Further research indicates that longer and more intensive breastfeeding may result in even more extended infertility—beyond the six-month period specified by LAM. However, to stay on the safe side, the LAM guidelines are intentionally conservative and encourage women to use alternative methods of contraception—barrier methods are most highly recommended—after six months (when supplemental feedings become more common).
Evidence Against the Health Claim
LAM advocates emphasize that their method is 98% effective only if the guidelines are followed correctly. Breastfeeding should not be viewed as foolproof under any circumstances. It is not hard to find a woman with closely spaced children who reports becoming pregnant while still breastfeeding. If a nursing mother does not breastfeed her child exclusively (for example, starts the infant on formula or solid food), or stops nursing at night, she may begin to ovulate and could get pregnant even if her menstrual periods haven't started yet.
Zealous breastfeeding is likely, but not guaranteed, to prevent pregnancy. The LAM method was first endorsed in 1988 at the Bellagio Consensus Meeting on "Breastfeeding as a Family Planning Method" by a group of international lactation experts. LAM is especially useful in countries where family planning and contraception are not widely available for financial or religious reasons. LAM may also be attractive to women who are hesitant to begin taking hormonal medication (birth control pills) while nursing. However, it is important to keep in mind that once a woman stops following the LAM guidelines—for example, starts feeding her infant formula and solid foods, thus decreasing the regularity of suckling—reproductive hormones begin to be released again and the likelihood of becoming pregnant rapidly increases.


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The following graph shows attacks against a PHP honeypot which are trying to exploit several distinct flaws. The vulnerabilities attacked are Mambo remote code-inclusion as discussed above, AWStats configdir command injection, PHPBB admin_styles remote code-inclusion (note that this is different to the PHPBB flaw that Santy exploited), WebCalendar includedir remote code-inclusion and Coppermine Photo Gallery remote code-inclusion, in this case the problem with theme.php and THEME_DIR. We can see that the Mambo exploit is consistently popular but the usage of the AWStats vulnerability tails off towards the end of this period. Other exploits are only tried occasionally, such as the PHPBB flaw. Some sources attempt to exploit a single issue, while others try two or more. The total numbers of attacks observed during this period were as follows: Mambo 255, AWS 251, PHPBB 54, WebCalendar 9, Coppermine 10. Appendix D has individual graphs for each vulnerability.
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Hello once again people and welcome back to another fun filled lesson. I will start my day by submitting a tutorial on "how to draw Lindsay from total Drama Action". This chic was requested by a member two days ago and I figured since I haven't drawn any characters from TDA, it would be nice to see one of the more popular cast members as a tutorial. Lindsay is popular because she is the prettiest girl on the series. She was first seen with Total Drama Island when she was on the Screaming Gophers team. Now that she is on Total Drama Action, she is on the Killer Grips team. She is described as having a girly look and she is most often called "the dumb blonde". Her interest is pretty simple, she likes looking at herself in the mirror, she likes hanging out with boys, she likes trying on different types of outfits and finally, she like looking at herself in the mirror. I know I said that Lindsay looks at herself in the mirror twice, and I said that because she really likes to do that a lot. Some may say "why on earth a girl like this would want to even compete in such a brutally challenging contest"? Especially when she has no strong form of stamina or physical endurance. Still, I think Lindsay brightens up the show because she is so perky and naive. This tutorial was really fun to do and I think that you guys will have fun with this lesson on "how to draw Lindsay from Total Drama Action step by step". I will be back with more fun stuff for you guys to do. Peace out gang and happy drawing!
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