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text: Baselworld, the annual trade show held in the Swiss watch-making mecca, brings out the biggest names showing off their best new timepieces. This year's show brought new styles and updates on the classics. Here our friends at GQ.com share a look at 2012's best and biggest trends. Aviator Nation These watches, taking inspiration from vintage pilots' timepieces, are a cool evolution on the military styles that have taken over in recent years. Taking the ruggedness of the pilot style, with its signature heft and complex dials, but producing it in sleek style grounded in a black color scheme, elevates the standard piece. (Top, left to right): Hamilton Pioneer $1,095; Victorinox Swiss Army Chrono Classic $625. (Bottom, left to right): Nautica BFD 102 Date Watch $115; Movado Datron $1,695.Blue State Last season's big color statement is still in play with new takes on the tint once again presented this year. New propositions have the color shifting from the background of your favorite timepieces to the front, being used as an accent on dials and hands as well as bezels. (Left to right): Omega Speedmaster Racing Co-Axial $4,000; Hublot Vendome 2012 Classic Fusion All Black Blue Chronograph $13,000; Rado D-Star 200 $1,795.Flying High Another crop of pilot-inspired watches turned up, but what separates these timepieces from their dark counterparts is the contrast-stitched bands rendered in vegetable-tanned leather that will wear in like your favorite baseball mitt. (Left to right): Omega Moonwatch "First Omega in Space" $4,400; Victorinox Swiss Army Infantry Mechanical $650; Zenith Pilot Big Date Special $7,200.Gentlemen's Club These timepieces dial down the bells and whistles, but amp up the style with clean lines and luxe finishes. The absence of numbers, replaced with slick markers, help create a refinement that would be as appropriate at your black-tie wedding as sitting courtside at a game. (Top row, left to right): Hamilton Intramatic $845; Rolex Date Just II - Price upon request; Patek Philippe Calatrava $26,800. (Bottom row, left to right): Nixon The Automatic Chrono $4,750; Hermès Dressage $10,600; Citizen Signature Grand Classic $995.Gray Matters This is one time where monotony is a good thing. The biggest trend at Basel was gray, in every shade and fabrication, brought together in a single timepiece. It's a cool, contemporary update available at any price point. (Top row, left to right): Bell & Ross WW1-Argentium $5,900; Gucci G-Timeless Automatic Chronograph $1,950; Oris Big Crown Date $1,750. (Bottom row, left to right): Timex Modern Originals Easy Reader $65; Hermès Cape Cod $5,100; Victorinox Swiss Army Original Chronograph $450.The Midas Touch The marriage of gold bezels and batons with rich brown watch faces is what makes these an exciting spin on the classic gold timepiece. It's a subtle change from traditional hues, but one that brings these gilded watches into modern territory. (Left to right): Omega Aqua Terra 150M GMT $18,050; Zenith Captain Central Second $14,300; Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sky-Dweller - Price upon request.Red State A little color goes a long way on a watch face and the subtle red works on these because it distracts from the rest of the timepiece. Set against black and white combo watch faces, these accents lend a sporty vibe to the everyday watch. (Top row, left to right): Tag Heuer Carrera Calibre 17 Chronograph $4,900; Seiko Ananta Limited Edition 'Kumadori' Chronograph $5,000; Dior Timepieces Chiffre Rouge $2,700. (Bottom row, left to right): Louis Vuitton Tambour Diving II Chronograph - Price upon request; Raymond Weil Freelancer Urban Black $3250; Chanel J12 Black Matte $7,150.Read more at GQ.com:GQ's Sexiest Women of the YearThe GQ 100: Everything a Man Needs to Know About StyleThe 10 Best New Restaurants in AmericaThe 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America25 Items Every Man Should Have in His Closet


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Three of seven New London city councilors this week flatly rejected Mayor Daryl Finizio's alarmist plea to borrow another million dollars, on top of the $4.4 million the council agreed to borrow earlier this month, to stabilize city finances.
After listening for an hour Monday evening to City Finance Director Jeff Smith duck hard budget questions from skeptical councilors, I can understand why they remained unconvinced of the need for additional borrowing.
Pinning Smith down on pertinent budget questions looks like it might be harder than trapping a greased pig.
"You do a nice two-step in not answering the question," Councilor Martin T. Olsen complained to Smith during a Finance Committee portion of the night's budget talks.
Councilor Michael Passero grew almost hostile with Smith, as the finance director bobbed and weaved in his evasive answers, on topics ranging from the estimated costs of the new borrowing to how an electric car in the administration's proposed budget would be paid for.
Smith himself appeared hostile when, after persistent questions from Passero about the city's lack of a basic cash flow budget, a planning analysis of how money comes in and out, he told the councilor that of course he knows what a cash flow budget is.
But then he couldn't say whether the city has one and if not, why not.
Indeed, whether you agree with the mayor's assessment that the financial sky has fallen in New London, it seems clear that city finances have been woefully mismanaged.
How else could there be an emergency meeting called to say the city can't meet next week's payroll?
Imagine your spouse announcing out of the blue at breakfast one morning that there is no money to pay the rent that is due by the end of the week.
It seems Passero is right that managing cash flow should be basic planning, municipal accounting 101. Passero went on to complain about being "muscled" into borrowing another $1 million.
Finizio has been mayor more than two years, and he can no longer blame cash flow problems and the lack of planning for them on old administrations. He owns it.
The other important objection Passero raised Monday is that the emergency meeting called to consider the additional $1 million in borrowing was originally called as a closed-door executive session.
Plans for the closed session were scrapped on Monday. A former mayor took me downstairs in City Hall Monday to look on the bulletin board at the Monday afternoon time stamp for the revised emergency meeting notice, as he offered his opinion that proper advance notice was not given for the evening session.
The mayor's Monday session to discuss how he claims the sky has fallen was a reminder of another inappropriate call for an executive session, back in 2012, when the excuse for secrecy was said to be real estate transactions.
The mayor relented then on having an executive session, after being told it would be illegal, and called a press conference instead to say the sky was about to fall.
All the intelligent discussion I heard Monday evening about the borrowing plan came from the opposing councilors. The other councilors who voted for the Finizio plan might have just as well baahed like good sheep.
Councilor Erica Richardson made one of the most inane comments I've ever heard from a public official at a municipal meeting, and I've covered a lot of them over the years.
Richardson, expressing exasperation about city finances and things like deferred maintenance of buildings, as she looked up at the peeling paint on the ceiling, said someone needs to find a new source of a lot of revenue, and it can't be tax dollars.
Earth to Councilor Richardson: Municipal finances are about balancing spending with tax revenues, with some state grant money and borrowing for capital improvements thrown in.
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I'm the first to admit that veggie lo mein, in the traditional take-out sense, doesn't exactly equate to good health. It's one of those greasy foods you order-in the day after you stay up too late, and pinch at with chopsticks curled up on the couch watching bad TV. But there was potential to make it more virtuous.
Start off with a ton of vegetables: carrots, shitake mushrooms, Napa cabbage, snow peas, and green onions. You can add, subtract, or substitute all you want. And I devoted a few minutes to cutting them to their advantage: carrots shaved into paper thin planks, snow peas into matchsticks, along with shredded mushrooms, cabbage, and green onions. If you're not good with a knife, you really don't have to do this, but I find it makes the vegetables really tender, and allows them to get happily tangled up in the noodles. Plus, I happen to enjoy ten minutes of chopping after work.
Toss the veggies into a big nonstick skillet with a bit of oil (you could use any vegetable oil you have on hand) and some grated garlic and ginger, and lo mein noodles, which you can buy already cooked at some supermarkets. Add some soy sauce, sesame seeds and cilantro (you can leave out the last two if you want to keep it simple--they mostly just gild the lily). I keep the vegetable-to-noodle ratio extremely high, to maximize this meal's virtue score. In ten minutes you have a perfect heap of light, but extremely flavorful veggies and noodles.
In the spirit of full disclosure, we did eat it curled on the couch, with chopsticks, watching bad TV. But we were virtuous on the inside.
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The tax service ends up using its own operating budget for work it does for other departments, TIGTA finds.
The Internal Revenue Service is not being reimbursed for work it provides to other government agencies, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
In the report, TIGTA said it has not been repaid nearly $28 million of the $90 million in work the IRS was commissioned to undertake with other government entities.
"When the IRS is reimbursed less than the cost of performing reimbursable work, it must fund this work using its own operating budget," the report stated.
In fiscal 2011, the IRS had undertaken 89 separate work agreements with federal agencies and state and foreign governments. The report found that the IRS was not using a consistent method to calculate the overhead costs of the reimbursable services. This meant the total amount to be repaid to the IRS may have been understated.
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How hard is it to be a contestant on American Idol? It's hard enough that one of the show's judges, Keith Urban , admits he doesn't think he could do it. "The very first thing you are going to do on this show is walk into a room, see the four of us and have to sing with no band, no microphone, no nothing," Urban told People magazine. "No other show does that. That has got to be tough. I don't know that I could do it." He added that the Top 10's mentor Jimmy Iovine might be a little tougher (OK, a lot tougher) on the contestants because they are just coming from different places. "We're artists talking to a young artist on camera in front of millions of people, trying to give constructive criticism in a way that doesn't humiliate them. I don't ever want to humiliate somebody," Urban said, maybe alluding to the fact that the place Iovine is coming from is the cutthroat real world of the music business. And it sounds like Urban keeps his eye on every contestant before he dishes out any devastating news. "Sometimes they are in a particularly fragile state," he said. "You can just see it. They are not ready for [criticism] to be delivered to them, and I am going to defer in that situation."


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Playhouse on Park adds mature play series
A series of bold, adult plays that was launched with Adam Rapp's "Red Light Winter" earlier this season is continuing at Playhouse on Park with Naomi Wallace's "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek," which opens a four-day run on Thursday, May 15.
The coming-of-age tale, set during the Great Depression, will close out the venue's "On the Edge" series, which director Dawn Loveland said last week has been so successful that it will be expanded next season.
"We wanted to do newer, edgier work that we didn't have to include as part of our main season -- plays we are really passionate about," Loveland said of the West Hartford playhouse's new initiative.
"When we were thinking of titles, my mind immediately jumped to Naomi Wallace's play. I was introduced to it when I was at Middlebury College in the 1990s," she said.
"Trestle" follows two young people who plan to race across a railroad bridge against an oncoming locomotive. The plan triggers what the playhouse calls "dangerous passions ... (in) a world where people struggle to change lives that bear down upon them."
"We've been having a great time with the play," Loveland said of her rehearsal work with the actors. "You don't need a huge dramatic set, so it fits perfectly in our intimate space. It's a story about people."
The playhouse is suggesting that the play be attended by those 16 and older. "There's not a lot of what I would call overt mature material, but the style and the themes are mature," the director said.
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Although the play might not be widely known in a commercial sense, Loveland said the Wallace script is very popular on campuses around the country.
"College theater departments love this play because the (young) characters and the story are so strong," she said. "I feel really lucky to be doing it because I suggested it right away and they said, `yes.' "
The regular productions at the playhouse generally get three-and-a-half weeks of rehearsal, but the "On the Edge" shows have been budgeted for a shorter preparation time.
"We've been working fast and furious, but the actors came in knowing their lines because they were already familiar with the material," she said.
Loveland and the other members of the artistic staff at Playhouse on Park are grateful that their new program has been so well supported right from the start.
"We were thrilled with the ticket sales for `Red Light Winter' and the great response we had from the audiences at the performances. People appreciated the fact that we were trying to do something a little different," she said.
The "On the Edge" shows will be expanded to two weekends next season, and Loveland said she is already looking forward to directing David Mamet's provocative sexual harassment drama "Oleanna" as part of the series.
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GENEVA - Following is the statement that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered this morning at the opening of the Durban Review Conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva:
"It is an honour to be with you today and to open the Durban Review Conference.
There comes a time in the affairs of humankind when we must stand firm on the fundamental principles that bind us. There comes a time to re-affirm our faith in fundamental human rights and the dignity and worth of us all. A time to give the virtues of tolerance and respect for diversity their fullest due and look beyond a past that divides us toward a future that unites us. That time is now, ladies and gentlemen. That time is now.
I looked forward to arriving here in Geneva as the promise of a new day, a move in a new direction, all nations together as one. I looked forward to thanking the many delegations, including Russia, the chair of the PrepCom and the Facilitator of the Inter-sessional Working Group, High Commissioner for Human Rights Madame Pillay and other senior UN officials, for working so tirelessly to bring us to this point. And indeed, I am profoundly grateful to all of you. Yet …I am also profoundly disappointed. We face immense challenges in these difficult times, on many fronts. Among the most pressing is the issue before us today: the fight against racism and all forms of racial discrimination.
Despite decades of advocacy, despite the efforts of many groups and many nations, despite ample evidence of racism's terrible toll — racism still persists. No society is immune — large or small, rich or poor. That is why the eyes of the world — especially the eyes of victims — are upon us today. And what are they to conclude? We dream of moving in a new direction, yet too many of us cling to the past. We speak of finding a new unity, as the times demand. Yet we remain weak and divided and stuck in old ways.
We speak of tolerance and mutual respect, but we point fingers and deliver many of the same accusations today that we did years if not decades ago. Some nations, who by rights should be helping to forge a path for a better future, are not here. Outside these halls, interest groups of many political and ideological stripes shout against one another in acrimony. They too should be with us, talking together. All of us gathered here today welcome the dawning era of a new multilateralism — less confrontation and more dialogue, less ideology and more common understanding.
If ever there were such a moment, it is now. If ever there were a cause in which we can all believe, this is it — a truly great and noble cause that binds as human beings. The Durban Declaration, and the program of action before us, commits the international community to work together to combat racism in all its manifestations. Racism is a denial of human rights, pure and simple. It may be institutionalized, as the Holocaust will always remind us. Alternately, it may express itself less formally as the hatred of a particular people or a class — as anti-Semitism, for example, or the newer "Islamophobia."
We see such intolerance in national histories that deny the identities of others, or that reject rightful grievances of minorities who might not share a so-called "official history." We see it emerging in new forms such as human trafficking, whose victims tend to be women and children of low socio-economic status. Refugees, asylum-seekers, migrant workers and undocumented immigrants are increasingly being stigmatized if not persecuted. A new politics of xenophobia is on the rise. New technologies proliferate hate-speech. Discrimination does not go away by itself. It must be challenged. Otherwise it can become a cause of social unrest and violence. We must be especially vigilant during this time of economic trouble.
I fear that today's economic crisis, if not handled properly, could evolve into a full-scale political crisis marked by social unrest, weakened governments and angry publics who have lost faith in their leaders and their own future. In such circumstances, the consequences for communities already victimized by prejudice or exclusion could be frightening indeed. That is why I have mobilized the United Nations on the range of crises confronting us.
I have appealed to Member States to do more to combat poverty and advance the Millennium Development Goals. The linkages between poverty, underdevelopment and discrimination are very clear. This Review Conference is an opportunity to strengthen our resolve and refocus our common efforts. I am encouraged that the Preparatory Committee reached agreement, and I commend the flexibility and effort of all delegations to find common ground despite considerable difficulties.
The document before us is carefully balanced. It addresses key issues. It sets the stage for concrete action in a global campaign for justice for victims of racism worldwide. I deeply regret that some have chosen to stand aside. I hope they will not do so for long.
Like Theodore Roosevelt, among others, my allegiance and sympathies have always been with the men and women in the arena, struggling with courage and determination to win the day. It may be easier to criticize those efforts from afar, but it does not advance the universal cause. We need you.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights holds all human beings to be created equal, born free and endowed with inalienable human rights. All here are signatories and are duty-bound to do their utmost to defend its principles, and mark my words: they are very much at stake in this hall today. Yes, we have come a long way in our efforts to produce a consensual text of common meaning and common commitment for all nations. Yes, it is regrettable that, for some, we have come up short. Yet we can overcome these lingering differences.
I therefore appeal to all countries to see this as the beginning of a process rather than an end. Unless they participate, their views cannot be heard or accounted for. Humanity's long march in our campaign against racism has never been easy. How could we think it would be easier going forward? We need to build on the progress we have made and grow beyond the divisions that prevent us from moving ahead.
Let us recognize the difference between honest disagreement and mere divisiveness — or worse, sheer obstructionism. Let us lead by example, knowing that our own reputations are at stake. If tolerance and respect for diversity is our goal, are we not best served by practicing those very qualities, here and now, as we work toward that goal? We can, and must, rise to this supreme occasion. In that spirit, I wish you a successful Review Conference".
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Following a peaceful gathering with songs and candles at Vance Monument earlier in the evening, a group decided to take to the streets to protest the passage of Amendment One.
A group of 75 to 100 people staged an impromptu march against Amendment One downtown early Wednesday morning. Starting spontaneously just hours after the people of North Carolina voted to amend the state's constitution to ensure that marriage between one man and one woman will be the state's only legal domestic union, the march at times bordered on becoming a riot. Protesters chanted obscene slogans and threw firecrackers, encouraging bar patrons to join them as they marched through the streets, ending up at the Vance Monument, where the march began. Despite its rowdiness, the march remained peaceful.
After blocking the streets for much of their progress, the protesters quickly dispersed to the sidewalks when several Asheville Police Department cars arrived after about 20 minutes. A few demonstrators waited for the close approach of police, apparently to see what the reaction would be. The only officer who came to speak to the group was very polite and professional. He asked if there was something they needed from the police, and what their further plans were. The protesters were also polite and told him, no, we have already done it.
After that the group crossed to the Vance Monument. Several brief speeches were given and protesters vowed to turn their anger into action to overturn Amendment One.
Xpress reporter Caitlin Byrd captured this video of the march on her cell phone:
This email was recieved from one of the apparent leaders of the march, Samuel Soper a short time ago…
My partner and I had a domestic partnership yesterday. We no longer do today and this hurts me primarily because my partner and my community are my family. I come from an unsupportive, unstable, queerphobic backround. I don't think I ever felt the love that I longed for from anyone before tonight as we banned together in solidarity. Tonight I felt a sense of community that I have not felt ever before amongst the queer and ally demographic of Asheville, NC. We marched at midnight this evening and literally took to the streets of downtown Asheville. Nearly fifty of us came together through phone calls, text messages, and Facebook in under an hour.
We didn't come together for the same reasons many groups do. We didn't come together proclaiming that we deserve recognition of our love to another person. We came together with the love and passion that we all have for one another as well as radical change. We came together saying, We are lower class oppressed individuals and this amendment was a power trip. This amendment was an extreme act of privlege and unecessary. We came together saying, We are here and we are important. Many of us are not the mainstream faces seen in the LGBTQ fight. Many of us are transgender, genderqueer, plain old queer, lesbian,ally, bisexual, gay and without label. Many of us work service jobs. Many of us are in school. Many of us do not fit the cookie cutter image that America demands in order to deem queerness as "normal" or "acceptable".
Many of us are apart of local LGBTQ organizations that do other work not as glamorous as marriage rights. We reacted tonight because we were all hurt that the state could create so much fragmentation and use marriage the way that it does. We were mourning and we needed to let as many people as possible know.
I don't feel like this was the end. We will continue to fight and create as much awareness and visibility possible.
I run an organization called "Just Us For All". I know many people in the community have come to our events. We are having our "We're Not Bashful" rally on May 18th and the queer community here uses Stonewall as an excuse to come together once a year. Stonewall will occur on June 30th. I imagine we will use these events as ways to maintain our solidarity and continue to gain recognition and visibility in hopes of a repeal one day but primarily to keep our community together,strong, and educated.
A few people that need to be recognized for their efforts in this community besides myself are: E.B. Clayton, Caroline Wilson, and Otto M.
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A variety of activities have been scheduled on Monday through Friday, Feb. 25-29, to commemorate Asian Awareness Week at Hope College.
The week is coordinated by Hope's Asian Perspective Association (HAPA), a student organization working in conjunction with the college's Office of Multicultural Education.
The public is invited to all of the five events. Admission is free.
The week will begin with a Tae Kwon Do demonstration by the college's Martial Arts Club on Monday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. in room 1116 of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center.
The 1999 Japanese film "Kikujiro" will be shown on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 8 p.m. in room 111, the multicultural lounge, of the MarthaMillerCenter for Global Communication. Nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the drama/comedy features an unlikely duo in a series of adventures as one of the pair travels to see the mother he has never met. The event will include an Asian appetizer and tea.
Visitors will have an opportunity to learn basic phrases in Chinese, Japanese and Korean and also to learn origami at "learning stations" on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 5:30 p.m. in the Phelps Hall multicultural lounge.
The forthcoming presidential election will be the focus of the discussion-oriented "The Asian American Vote - Election 2008" on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m. in the Phelps Hall multicultural lounge.
The week will conclude with the presentation "Dancing Around the World" on Friday, Feb. 29, at 7p.m. in Snow Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music. The event will feature various dances from around the world.
The Martha Miller Center for Global Communication is located at 257 Columbia Ave., at the corner of Columbia Avenue and 10th Street. Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus on the former 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues. Phelps Hall is located at 154 E. 10th St., on Columbia Avenue at 10th Street. The A. Paul Schaap Science Center is located at 35 E. 12th Street, at 12th Street and College Avenue.


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The Journal of Nursing Research Receives Impact Factor Ranking
The Journal of Nursing Research has achieved an initial Impact Factor of 0.688 and a ranking of 73 out of 97 journals in the Nursing Science Category, and 70 out of 95 journals in the Social Science Category
The Taiwan Nurses Association announced today that its official publication, The Journal of Nursing Research, is now recognized by the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) and is the first Taiwan nursing journal to receive an Impact Factor ranking . The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer Health business.
The Journal of Nursing Research has achieved an initial Impact Factor of 0.688 and a ranking of 73 out of 97 journals in the Nursing Science Category, and 70 out of 95 journals in the Social Science Category. Impact Factor rankings reflect the frequency of citations in the research literature.
First Taiwan Nursing Journal to Achieve Impact Factor
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We need a great new logo for MechMedia, Inc. for use as the basis of our website redesign and for business cards, letterhead, etc.
We're re-branding the corporate logo and website for MechMedia, Inc. and need a new logo designed.
MechMedia is a website publisher and marketing firm, with a focus on niche-specific community websites using Web 2.0 concepts and technologies to bring people together around specific topic areas (like costume ideas, shoes, moms, technology). Each of those websites have their own name and branding. MechMedia is the parent technology company that needs it's own branding, generic to any of those specific niches.
The origin of the MechMedia name is based on the word "Mechanical" or "Mechanized", derived from the engineering-focused approach that we took to our publishing and marketing activities early in the company's history.
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The stylish center who spent his entire 20-year NHL career with the Quebec Nordiques-Colorado Avalanche franchise parlayed that passion into a berth in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Joe Sakic was four years old when his father took him to his first hockey game.
And his life-long love affair with the sport began.
The stylish center who spent his entire 20-year NHL career with the Quebec Nordiques-Colorado Avalanche franchise parlayed that passion into a berth in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Sakic was voted into the Hall by the 18-member selection committee Tuesday along with three other star forwards who terrorized goaltenders over the last three decades – Adam Oates, Mats Sundin and Pavel Bure.
The players will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame on Nov. 12 in Toronto.
"I remember. My dad took me to a Vancouver Canucks game against the Atlanta Flames," Sakic recalled on a conference call. "I fell in love with hockey and I wanted to play.
"It was all I wanted to do, on the ice or on the street."
Oates' honor came only hours after he was named coach of the Washington Capitals.
"Obviously, it's been an absolutely fantastic day," Oates said. "I'm excited about the coaching job and to be called to the Hall of Fame ... it's just a special day for me."
Sakic and Sundin, who began their careers as teammates in Quebec City, were selected in their first year of eligibility, while Oates and Bure made it after waits of five and six years, respectively.
They were the only inductees as no builders or women made it this year. Among those overlooked were power forward Brendan Shanahan, now the NHL's disciplinarian who was in his first year of eligibility, and former coaches Pat Burns and Fred Shero.
Between them, the four new members had 1,967 regular-season goals and 3,786 assists.
Sakic was one of the smartest players of his era. Despite a slight frame, he could make plays in heavy traffic or snap home a goal.
Sundin was a big, rangy center who dominated the area around the net. He made his name mostly as captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Oates was the premier passer of his time. He formed legendary one-two punch combinations with finishers like Brett Hull in St. Louis and Cam Neely in Boston.
Bure, a right winger known as the Russian Rocket, could pull fans from their seats with his spectacular high-speed rushes up the ice for the Canucks, Rangers and Panthers. He led Vancouver to the 1994 Stanley Cup finals.
Sundin is the second Swede in the Hall after another Toronto great, defenseman Borje Salming. Bure joins fellows Russians Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Igor Larionov and Valeri Kharlamov.
Sundin said his eyes were opened to the skill level in the NHL by Sakic when he joined the Nordiques after being picked first overall in 1989.
"When you're in Sweden, you're not used to seeing a player like that who can play at both ends of the ice," the 41-year-old said. "It was not only scoring points that impressed me, it was his overall game. He had no weaknesses."
Sakic was captain of his team for 16 years, the second-longest tenure in NHL history. He scored 50 goals twice and had six 100-point seasons. He won Stanley Cups in 1996, when he was playoff MVP, and in 2001.
The Vancouver native won the Hart Trophy and Lester Pearson (now Lindsay) awards in 2001 and was MVP of Canada's gold medal team at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He also won world championship gold in 1994 and is a member of the Triple Gold Club of players who have won the worlds, the Olympics and a Stanley Cup.
Sakic had 625 goals and 1,016 assists in 1,378 NHL games.
Sundin never won a Stanley Cup, but was captain of Sweden's 2006 Olympic gold medal squad. He was also the first Swedish player to earn 1,000 NHL points.
The native of Bromma, Sweden, was traded to Toronto in 1997 and went on to play 13 seasons in the Maple Leafs' pressure cooker, the last 11 as captain. He holds Leafs records for most 20-goal seasons (13), most 30-goal campaigns (10), most game-winning goals (79) and most regular-season overtime goals (14).
"When you're retired, you reflect on your career and you see how fortunate you were to have your passion as your profession," said Sundin, who had 564 goals and 785 assists in 1,346 career games.
He retired after the brief stint with the Canucks in 2008-09.
Oates, a Toronto native, was never drafted, but signed as a free agent with the Detroit Red Wings in 1985 after three years at RPI. He developed into an uncanny playmaker who had 341 goals and 1,079 assists, which was sixth all-time, in 19 seasons.
He said he was brought up to emphasize setting up goals rather than scoring them himself.
"My father was British and a soccer player and he idolized Stanley Matthews," Oates said of the English soccer great known as "The Magician" who played at the top level for more than three decades. "He always said that if you're unselfish, the other players will like you."
Oates had four 100-point seasons, including 1992-93 with Boston when he had a career-high 45 goals and 142 points. He played 19 seasons with Detroit, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Anaheim and Edmonton.
Bure defected from the former Soviet Union to join the Canucks in 1991 and won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year. He became one of the most exciting goal-scorers of his time with 437 goals and 342 assists over 11 seasons.
He had back-to-back 60-goal seasons in the early 1990s and had five seasons of 50-plus goals.
"It's a huge honor," he said, before handing part of the credit to Pat Quinn, the co-chairman of the Hall of Fame selection committee who was his first NHL coach with the Canucks.
"I watched Pavel go from a 20-year-old," Quinn said, "to become one of the greatest stars of the game."
Quinn also coached Sundin in Toronto and Sakic with the 2002 Olympic squad.


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Featured in MDNEWS Lower Hudson & Bronx Edition, October 2012 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 25.7 million persons in the United States (one in twelve adults and one in eleven children) had asthma in 2010. Women, children, black people, Latinos, people of mixed race, and those living in poverty are at particular risk.
In the Bronx, nearly six percent of the population suffers from asthma—2.3% over the rate among New York City residents overall.
The Montefiore Asthma Center opened in June 2011 to deliver comprehensive, consistent, targeted patient care for patients with the most complex cases of severe and refractory asthma. The Asthma Center's mission—to improve asthma control, patient symptoms, and prevent Emergency Department visits and hospital admissions through proactive outpatient management—is accomplished by bringing together pediatric and adult pulmonologists and allergists, as well as a physician assistant who serves as an asthma patient educator, into a single office location.
Patients may be referred to the Asthma Center by a specialist or primary care physician, or may be selected based on their medical utilization history.
Upon arrival at the Asthma Center, each patient meets with a specially trained nurse, who conducts an in-depth evaluation of how the patient's disease developed, previous diagnostic tests and interventions, and successful therapies and/or exacerbating factors (including home, school, and work environments).
Over the course of the first two visits, each patient is seen by an allergist, pulmonologist, and asthma-specialist patient educator.
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There is a huge demand for both technologies and many players consider these technologies as a foundation for their future products.
MySQL Sharding was a major issue for large scale installations and it is the same for mongoDB large installations.
Back to Basics
mongo is pretty similar to a regular database, but it has two main advantages: 1) Software engineers love it as it can easily be used for object persist-ency and 2) it support unstructured objects (documents) that can easily store different objects based on the same virtual class.
mongoDB terms
- Database: database
- Collections: very similar to tables.
- Documents: very similar to rows. Yet, a document can be as flexible as a JSON document can be. For example, it may include 1 to many fields in the document itself.
- mongod: a mongoDB instance or shard.
- Chunk: a 64MB storage unit that stores documents.
- Config database: Chunks to mongos mapping directory.
Why use sharding?
- Support large dataset using commodity servers.
- Support high IO requirements using commodity disks.
What are mongoDB sharding features?
- Range-based Data Partitioning: a very similar method to MySQL partitioning. You should choose one or more fields (shard key) that sharding will be based on. You should choose a shard key according to the business logic, like splitting according to account id in a SaaS application.
- Automatic Data Volume Distribution: mongoDB will take care of the shards balancing by itself according to the chosen shard key.
- Transparent Query Routing: mongoDB takes care of queries map reduce to multiple shared by itself when a query does not match the shard key (very much like Hadoop).
Key Recommendations for mongoDB Sharding
- Sufficient Carnality: choose a shard key that can be split later to more shards if a database size is getting too large (exceeds chunk size).
- Uniform Distribution: choose a sharding key that will spread a in uniform distribution to avoid unbalanced design.
- Distribute Write Operations: if you have a billing system, prefer to shard according to account id rather than shard according to billing month. Otherwise, in a given day, probably only a single shard will be used.
- Query according to the shard key: if any of your queries will include the shard key, each of your queries will result in a single shard query. Otherwise, it will generate N queries (one per shard).
Technical Aspects for mongoDB Sharding
- Every sharded collection must have an index that its first fields are the shard key (use shardCollection for that).
- Chunk size default limit is 64MB
- When a chunk reaches this limit, mongoDB will split it to two.
- If chunks are not distributed uniformly, mongoDB will start migrating chunks between different mongos.
- Cluster Balancer is taking care of this process.
- Balancing can cause performance issues and therefore can be restricted to off peak hours (nights and weekends for example) using balancing windows.
- The shards mapping to mongos is saved at the config database.
- Replication should be considered as well a complementary method.
Bottom Line
mongoDB brings to the table an out of the box sharding solution that can scale your operations. Now, you only need to analyze your needs and select the right solution for them.
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Researchers At the Indian Institute of Science and Education and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics may have shed light on an enduring mystery from the past decade. In an article due to be published today in Nature, Dibyendu Nandi and co-author Andre Munoz-Jaramillo have come up with convincing evidence as to why the past solar minimum of 2008-09 was such a persistent one. During this minimum, over 600 spotless days occurred, the most since the great minimum of 1913. As a result, the outer magnetic sheath of the sun that we reside in shrunk, the Earths upper atmosphere cooled due to lower ultraviolet levels and contracted, and an increase of cosmic ray activity was seen in the inner solar system. This subsequently affected the usual drag that is induced on satellites, slowing down the rate of orbital decay and causing a buildup of space junk just whats up with our nearest star?
Now, researchers have built a model of the solar interior that fits a description of what has actually occurred; and the trouble started back at the peak of cycle #23 with a speeding up of the Great Conveyor Belt of plasma in the suns interior. This magnetic dynamo sub-ducts sunspot activity towards the poles, only to have them well up as these conveyors turn in opposite directions in both hemispheres. Paradoxically, a slowing down leads to a relaxing and expansion of the belt, allowing magnetic activity to surface; speeding up meant the activity never had a chance to surface. Sunspot activity usually begins at high latitudes at the beginning of a cycle, a hallmark that the new cycle is indeed underway. As the sunspot cycle progresses, sunspot activity tends to progress to lower latitudes. The model suggested by Nandi and Munoz is built on the buoyant evolution of sunspots versus the interplay of the magnetic dynamo and the meridional flows in the solar interior. This theory may also explain two other lingering mysteries; why are sunspots never seen at polar solar latitudes? Does the sun have longer cycles juxtaposed over the known 11 year one, such as the 70 year cycle that occurred in the 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum?
Researchers will soon have a chance to put all of these models to the test. NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory is on solar vigil, and the twin STEREO spacecraft have reached a vantage point giving scientists 360° coverage of the Sun. Solar cycle #24 will see the sun scrutinized as never before. Even today, two new sunspot groups have emerged, and a large prominence looking like an acacia tree can be seen on the limb of the sun from Astroguyz HQ via our trusty PST the approaching 2013-14 solar maximum may prove to mark a renaissance in solar science.


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The final opening for the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre will be at Baker Lofts on July 23rd at 8:30 p.m. called Dog Park: the Musical by Jahnna Beecham, Malcom Hillgartner, and Michael J. Hume. Songs are also by Malcom Hillgartner.
Take a brand new look at our cabaret stage through the eyes of man's best friend. Meet the quartet of dogs, Daisy, Champ, Bogie, and Itchy, at the hippest, hottest place in town, the dog park, in this new musical from the creators of Chaps!
When Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner were invited by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre to create a new piece for their 2008/09 season, they sat down with their neighbor and writing partner Michael Hume, and came up with the idea for Dog Park: the Musical through their love of their own four-legged friends, their close proximity to the neighborhood dog park and a recent article in their local newspaper talking about a new trend of singles groups meeting up at dog parks with their best friends. Beecham wrote a lot of the show while she was in Holland acting as Betty Meeks in The Foreigner in the 2008 HSRT summer season and Dog Park: the Musical opened in Milwaukee in January to great success.
Jahnna Beecham is returning for her 8th season, the first five were as a director and playwright, directing The Nerd, Educating Rita, The Reluctant Dragon and two productions of Chaps! which she co-wrote with her husband, Malcolm Hillgartner. In 2006, she appeared as Maggie in Memory House. Jahnna has directed at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, and International Theatre of Vienna.
Music Director, Malcolm Hillgartner, returns for his fourth summer at HSRT. In 1992 he played the title role in Macbeth and Dickinson in 1776, and returned in 1995 and 1996 as musical director and performer in Chaps! A professional actor since 1978, Malcolm has performed with theatres across the US and Europe, including six seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, three seasons with the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, A Contemporary Theatre, and the Hartman, to name a few. He has narrated over 30 audiobooks, recently receiving an AudioFile Earphones award for his narration of Cheever: A Life.
Under the pen name Jahnna N. Malcolm, he and Jahnna have written and sold 8.5 million books for children and young adults. They turned one of those books, The Ruby Princess Runs Away, into a movie, which won Best Feature at the 2001 Burbank International Children's Film Festival. They have also written scripts for CD-ROM games, and the content for the Parents and Teachers Choice Award winning programs Hooked on Phonics - Master Reader and Hooked on School Success. They were featured humor columnists for Sesame Street Parents Magazine and their collected columns on the lighter side of parenting became the award-winning book I'm Counting to 10...
The small cast features two returning company members as well as two new ones. Michael Hanson, who can also been seen in this season's Room Service as Harry Binion and The Cmplt Wrks of Wm Shkspr....Abrdgd, is returning for his third summer. Previous HSRT credits include The Foreigner, Forever Plaid, and Kiss Me Kate. Teddy Yudain is also returning for his third summer and this season he can be seen as Leo Davis in Room Service and in The Cmplt Wrks of Wm Shkspr....Abrdgd. He was previously seen in The Foreigner, Kiss Me Kate, The Hypochondriac, She Loves Me, and as Judas in Godspell.
New company member, Anne Sheehan, can also been seen as Cindy, the Wash-O-Rama attendant, in Suds. She is a recent graduate of BradleyUniversity where she appeared in Urinetown (Hope Cladwell), Pirates of Penzance (Ruth), Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Philia), 42nd Street (Phyllis) and Tommy (Mrs. Simpson/Ensemble). Also joining for his first summer is Jordan Nuckels also playing Hogarth in Room Service. Jordan recently earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from the University of Evansville where favorite performances include: Into the Woods (Jack), Company (Paul), Grand Hotel (Bolero), and A Little Night Music (Mr. Erlanson). He studied ballet with Hugh Nini from the age of four, and performed fourteen years with the Festival Ballet Company of North Texas.
Performances continue throughout the summer on July 24, 28, 31, August 4, 6, and 12.
Tickets are on sale through the DeVos Fieldhouse ticket office. Prices range from $8-$26 for musicals, and $8-$18 for plays. Season tickets, ranging from $45-$85, are also available.
The ticket office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and is open on Saturday's at noon. On performance dates, the DeWitt Ticket Office will be open through intermission. The ticket office is located in DeWitt Cultural Center at 12th Street and Columbia Avenue. For tickets call the ticket office at 616-395-7890. For more information visit the HSRT website at www.hope.edu/hsrt.
The DeWitt Theatre is located at 141 East 12th Street. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located in Holland's downtown on 8th St. and Baker Lofts is located at 171 East 24th Street.
And while at the ticket office, make sure to check out HSRT's other productions such as Room Service, Suds: The Rocking 60's Soap Opera Musical, in the Knickerbocker Theatre, The Cmplt Wrks of Wm Shkspr...Abrdgd, and Little Women (the musical). The Children's Performance Troupe is also presenting Click, Clack, Moo and Charlotte's Web.


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The U.S. economy continues to slowly move ahead as we start the new year. The estimated growth in GDP in the fourth quarter was about 2%, down from the 3% of the 3rd quarter, and actually came in at a negative 0.1%.
Much of the higher 3rd quarter growth was due to a jump in business inventories as well as a large increase in military spending due to the end of the federal government's fiscal year. My view is that these are not likely to continue. This was confirmed by the negative initial reading on fourth quarter GDP. In my opinion, this will be revised several times, so don't panic.
The cause was a drop in government spending that occurred prior to the election and a draw down in business inventories. Although the fiscal cliff has come and gone with only a compromise on tax rates agreed to, the lack of spending cuts continues to be very unsettling for both businesses and consumers.
The compromise that was reached does buy time, but it did not provide any framework for the reduction of spending or fixing of our long-term debt problem. Sequestration was only postponed for several months without any indication of what the eventual outcome will be with regards to the projected spending cuts.
Europe also bought time but did nothing to resolve their long term underlying problem. These reasons lead me to believe U.S. GDP will only be in the 1% to 1 ½% range for the first half of the year.
However, there appear to be signs of growth in the emerging markets around the world. China's slowdown was a major concern in 2012. However China is showing growth again. In December, the latest HSBC Chinese purchasing managers index rose to a 19-month high.
China also announced a large ($157 billion) infrastructure spending plan. Indonesia, Mexico and several other developing countries are expanding as fast as or faster than the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China). I believe this has contributed to the rise in copper prices lately, which are now about $3.75/lb.
Amidst all of the world's economic travails, including the recent bad GDP report, the U.S. economy has several areas of potential growth. The U.S. housing market appears to be showing signs of improvement.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, which is a measurement of building activity, rose to its highest level in January since April of 2006. It appears that this is beginning to show up in corporate results as certain companies that provide power tools, air-conditioning, flooring, furniture and concrete are showing increases in sales.
There are predictions by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies that home improvement spending may increase as much as 7% this year. If the demand for durable goods continues to rise, this could point to gains in industrial and manufacturing companies. Employment activity continues to expand, but at a level that will only slowly bring down unemployment in my opinion.
In addition, I expect the developing world's need for materials, energy and technology to increase. This could keep Brent Crude price in the $110 to $120 per barrel range. Saudi Arabia has cut production about 1,000,000 barrels per day to support Brent at the $110.00 per barrel price.
We feel this will give an advantage to American companies who have a broad exposure to the products needed in emerging markets. With the technological developments in the oil & gas industry, American companies that use energy as a fuel or as raw materials have the opportunity to be more competitive against companies in high cost countries.
Natural gas prices rebounded somewhat from the lows of below $2 per million BTUs in early February, but are still at insufficient levels to encourage more drilling for dry gas. Currently dry gas prices are in the $3.60 per million BTU range.
This price range is great for utilities, chemical companies, fertilizer manufacturers and manufacturing in general which use natural gas as a fuel or feedstock. In fact, chemical companies are continuing to move production back to the U. S. from overseas which is causing plants in the Gulf Coast to expand capacity.
The American Chemistry Council stated that as long as natural gas liquids are pouring out of wells, we will continue to have a decisive competitive advantage. The chemical industry has responded by announcing $40 billion in plant expansion.
The lower prices appear to be helping any industry that uses natural gas or natural gas liquids to be more competitive. On October 16, LyondellBasell (LYB) and Westlake Chemicals (WLK), the largest producers of ethylene in the U.S., reported strong quarterly profits.
As I reported before, Westlake Chemicals is constructing an expansion of its ethylene unit in Lake Charles, La. This is expected to be completed in conjunction with a planned maintenance turnaround and would add approximately 235 million pounds of capacity per year.
As with every gain, there is a potential problem. Because of the compelling economics, the use of ethane as a building block for ethylene instead of naphtha has ended up causing a reduced supply of propylene.
However, as with all innovation, a problem can also turn into an opportunity. Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) announced the construction of a de-hydrogenization facility that will produce propylene. Several other companies have also announced plans for the same thing.
BSG&L has a long term investment horizon. We still believe industrials, including manufacturing and chemicals stocks are the place to be. However we are not adding to our positions until we see the market resolve some of its problems. Until we see the outcome of the spending side of the fiscal cliff, it will be difficult to predict the economy, as well as the markets in 2013.
However, having said that, we like chemical companies, fertilizer manufacturers, small to mid cap energy and production (E&P) companies that are increasing reserves and production year over year and manufacturing companies.
Two E&P companies we like are Continental Resources (CLR) and EOG Resources (EOG). In the master limited partnership (MLP) space, we like Enterprise Products (EPD) and Kinder Morgan Partners (KMP). They are less sensitive to commodity prices, since they transport, store, and process oil and natural gas without taking ownership, in our opinion.
Until the impasse in Washington is resolved, cash is king. We believe these two MLP companies have nice dividends and have shown an ability to increase quarterly distributions. In the chemical industry, we like LyondellBasell (LBY), Huntsman Corporation (HUN) and Westlake Chemicals (WLK). In our view, their profit margins have shown a greater increase due to cheaper natural gas prices than some of the bigger chemical companies.
We believe that heavy equipment manufacturers like Caterpillar (CAT) and Deere & Company (DE) will be good investments over the next few years.
In our opinion, as the world economy begins to expand again, material producers like Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF), Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold (FCX) and the larger coal companies will once again move up in the investment placement arena.
Just to restate, I believe that the lack of an agreement on spending cuts at year end and the myriad of new regulations will be a damper on 2013 economic activity and therefore investment returns.
That is why we are emphasizing investments in companies with good cash flow, good cash distributions and companies that operate in areas where they have an advantage due to much lower energy costs and raw material input costs.
I believe copper and oil will be the inflation hedges going forward. Due to the increases in demand, copper has been on the rise as of the last month or so. We prefer commodity companies that generate good after tax profit returns. With interest rates at historic lows, even as dividend taxes go up, the after tax profit returns are higher than most investment grade debt.
In our opinion, central banks around the world have injected so much liquidity into their markets that, when it is finally put to work, commodities will move up dramatically in price. BSG&L is a long term investor. We believe if you are patient, build cash and buy good companies on pull backs, your portfolio will have good growth over the long term.
The investments discussed are held in client accounts as of January 31, 2013. These investments may or may not be currently held in client accounts. The reader should not assume that any investments identified were or will be profitable or that any investment recommendations or investment decisions we make in the future will be profitable.


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Advocacy: A good Word Gone Bad
Advocacy is at the heart of conflict-related humanitarianism. Yet, nowadays when referred to this field, it seems to have lost its value-neutral denotation and its original and positive meaning. This paper claims that especially in its public form advocacy has become a 'good word gone bad'. The discussion seeks to evidence that today advocacy has assumed a negative connotation due to its widespread political interpretation, denouncing strategy, aggressive approach and visibility goals. The analysis attempts to highlight the main reasons behind this deviation, to explain and interpret it through conceptual and theoretical frameworks and to outline the challenges, limits and dilemmas that it has engendered. The examination of two examples tries to shows the feasibility of advocacy initiatives framed within its original and positive meaning. Together with the study of other examples the paper concludes with few potential stimuli to the future reflections on the contours of this core humanitarian function.
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•WHERE: 1053 Cochrane Rd Suite 180 Morgan Hill, CA 95037
•WHEN: Saturday, August 15th @ 3pm
Please join us in celebrating our FY Geneva Grand Opening at 1053 Cochrane Rd Suite 180 Morgan Hill, CA! We will be offering the first 50 people in line The Forever Black Card, which earns them FREE YOGURT FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR*! The second 50 people in line will get BOGO froyo or bubble tea 1 time per week! The third 50 people in line will get free froyo or boba for the day up to $5.
EVERYONE ELSE in line that day gets 10% off their entire purchase up to $5 on grand opening day
Forever Black Card
• 1 frozen yogurt cup or bubble tea per week (for a total of 52 credits)
• Up to $5 per visit
• Only applies at the FY 1053 Cochrane Rd Suite 180 Morgan Hill, CA location
• Some exclusions may apply. Please click here for details!
• By accepting this card, you adhere to all of the rules & restrictions applicable to the giveaway • Any unused credits will be lost
50/50 Giveaway
Prize: • First 50 people in line at the Grand Opening will receive a Black Card • The Black Card is good for 52 credits of Forever Yogurt valued at $5.00 per credit!
• $5.00 to redeem weekly, at your discretion, at a specific Forever Yogurt location
• The second 50 people in line will receive BOGO for froyo or boba for a year, up to $5.
• The third 50 people in line will receive a $5.00 credit towards froyo or boba for the day of the grand opening.
Please read below for Rules and Restrictions:
Forever Yogurt FC, LLC 50/50 Giveaway
1. Eligibility: First 50 individuals in line are eligible to participate. The next 50 individuals (#51 – #100) thereafter are eligible to receive one free cup of frozen yogurt for the day. Forever Yogurt FC, LLC employees are not eligible to participate in the Giveaway.
2. Odds: Odds of being selected as a Participant or Alternate depend on the number of eligible entrants who enter the Giveaway.
1. Participants must remain at the Sponsor-designated area at the Restaurant during the entire Giveaway Period to receive a Prize. Exceptions are made for short bathroom breaks and/or to comply with any applicable legal requirement, or otherwise in the sole discretion of Sponsor. Each Participant will be given a wristband prior to store opening with his or her number written on it. The wristband must be worn at all times during the Giveaway Period. During the Giveaway Period, if any Participant is disqualified or leaves the Restaurant, for any reason, an Alternate will take the former Participant's place and become a Participant, starting with Alternate Number 1 and continuing as needed to Alternate Number 10.
2. No illegal drugs or alcohol are permitted at the Restaurant at any time. Anyone under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs will be disqualified from the Giveaway and be required to leave the Restaurant immediately. The purpose of this promotion is to camp out overnight at the Restaurant and to participate in pre-Grand Opening events. Accordingly, Sponsor shall have no obligation to provide shelter, clothing, food, drink or any other item to any Participant, Alternate or Guest. If a Participant is found to have violated any Official Rules, including without limitation, leaving the designated area at the Restaurant, Participant may, in Sponsor's sole discretion, be disqualified from receiving a Prize. Participant agree to abide by all safety and decorum conditions established by Sponsor and may be immediately removed from the Restaurant at the Sponsor's sole discretion, for failure to comply with said conditions, or for any reason in Sponsor's sole discretion.
3. Prizes: Subject to complying with these Official Rules, all Participants will win a Prize.
* Up to 50 Grand Prizes will be awarded depending on the number of Participants remaining at the end of the Giveaway Period!
* Prizes have no cash value and may not be sold, offered for sale, assigned, transferred, offered for transfer, photocopied, duplicated, or redeemed or exchanged for cash, except by Sponsor, in its sole and absolute discretion, which reserves the right to substitute Prizes with a prize of comparable or greater value if underlying food products become unavailable for any reason. Each Participant and Alternate is solely responsible for any applicable taxes and unspecified expenses associated with a Prize. In the event that the Giveaway is cancelled or preempted for any reason, including weather, Sponsor reserves the right to, in its sole and absolute discretion, not award a Prize to any Participant or Alternate. Sponsor is not responsible for any Prizes that are lost, stolen or misplaced.
4. How to Claim Prize: Subject to complying with these Official Rules, all Participants will receive a Prize from Sponsor at or about the end of the Giveaway Period. Each Participant will receive 1 Grand Prize.
1. Publicity: Except where and as may be prohibited by law, participation in the Giveaway and acceptance of a Number or a Prize constitutes express permission by Participating Parties for Sponsor, and those acting pursuant to the authority of Sponsor, to use such Participating Parties' name, photograph, image, likeness, voice, opinions, hometown, and/or state for advertising, trade, promotion, and publicity purposes in all forms of media now known or hereafter discovered or devised, worldwide in perpetuity, without further notice, review or approval, or compensation. If you do not agree to these terms, you should not participate in the Giveaway.
2. General Conditions: All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. Neither Sponsor nor any other Released Party is responsible for lost, late, incomplete, stolen, misdirected, illegible, or incomplete entries, or for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Participating Parties, tampering, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Giveaway, and neither Sponsor nor any Released Party assumes responsibility for any error, omission, defect, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to the materials related to the Giveaway. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Participating Party found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Giveaway, to be acting in violation of these Official Rules, or to be acting illegally or in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person. In such event(s), Sponsor reserves the right (in addition to disqualification of such Participating Party) to seek damages from any such Participating Party to the fullest extent permitted by law. If, for any reason, the Giveaway is not capable of running as planned by reason of, but not limited to, tampering, unauthorized intervention, actions by persons, weather, acts of God, fraud, or any other causes which, Sponsor, in its sole opinion, deems could corrupt or affect the administration, safety, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Giveaway, or the Giveaway is otherwise not capable of running as planned, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Giveaway. If such situation, malfunction, error, disruption, or damage occurs, and it impairs the administration, safety, security, fairness, integrity, or proper play of the Giveaway, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, suspend or terminate the Giveaway, or any portion thereof. If the Giveaway or any portion of the Giveaway is terminated before the end of the Giveaway Period, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, elect to cancel the Giveaway or award Prizes to all Participants and Alternates. In the event that a Prize cannot be awarded for any reason, or if a Participant or Alternate is not capable of redeeming the Prize for any reason, Sponsor shall not be obligated to award any such Prize, and Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, whether or not to substitute a Prize (or portion of Prize) with a prize of comparable or greater value or cash value. If, for any reason, more than the stated number of Prizes are available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to award more than the stated number of Prizes. An Individual is not a Winner, Participant or Alternate until he or she has fully complied with these Official Rules. No transfer, assignment, cash redemption, or substitution of a Prize is permitted. A Prize is not exchangeable for cash, merchandise, or services except as stated on the Coupon. No groups, clubs, newsletters, or organizations may reproduce or distribute any portion of these Official Rules to their members, and anyone who participates in the Giveaway through means not permitted by these Official Rules is subject to disqualification.
3. Release: By participating in this Giveaway, the Participating Parties agree to release, indemnify, and hold harmless the Released Parties from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, harm, damage, cost, or expense of any kind to any person(s), including, without limitation, property damage, personal injury, and/or death, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use, and/or misuse of a Prize, participation in this Giveaway or any Giveaway-related activity, being present at the Restaurant for the Giveaway, and for any claims based on publicity rights, defamation, or invasion of privacy.
4. Limitation of Liability: Except where prohibited, the Participating Parties agree that: (1) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Giveaway, or any Prize awarded, or the determination of a Winner, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (2) any and all claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) under no circumstances will the Participating Parties be permitted to obtain awards for, and the Participating Parties hereby waive any and all rights to claim punitive, incidental, consequential, and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and Participating Parties hereby waive any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.
5. Agreement to Official Rules: By participating in the Giveaway, each Participating Party fully and unconditionally agrees to and accepts these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor (including but not limited to Sponsor's employee(s) handling Prize awards), which are final and binding in all matters relating to the Giveaway. By participating in the Giveaway, each Participating Party waives any right to claim ambiguity in these Official Rules. The failure or delay by Sponsor in enforcing any particular clause, provision, or aspect of these Official Rules shall not impact the validity, enforceability, or effect of such clause, provision or aspect, or any other clause, provision, or aspect of these Official Rules.
6. Choice of Law: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the Participating Parties and/or Sponsor in connection with the Giveaway, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Illinois without regard to conflicts of law/choice of law doctrine of Illinois or any other jurisdiction, and all proceedings shall exclusively take place in the United States District Court.


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Faculty who include newspaper readership as part of their required coursework can receive a daily subscription of that paper at no cost, as well as access to online classroom resources, case studies and additional teaching support materials made available by The New York Times and USA Today.
Faculty interested in receiving the free newspapers for use in their classrooms should email the Penn State Student Newspaper Readership Program at firstname.lastname@example.com and provide their contact information, office address and a copy of the course syllabus requiring student newspaper readership as an email attachment. The New York Times and USA Today are available at most Penn State campuses. The Centre Daily Times is available as a local paper at University Park. Not all local papers at other campuses offer faculty subscriptions; a list of participating newspapers is available at http://www.newspapers.psu.edu/participating_newspapers/ online.
As part of newspapers' partnership with the Student Newspaper Readership Program, The New York Times' Knowledge Network and USA Today's Collegiate Readership Program also offer online resources to support classroom discussions of current events and news links relevant to college students and faculty. Learn more at http://www.newspapers.psu.edu/faculty/ online. Faculty who require students to read the print edition of The New York Times also are eligible for complimentary "All Digital Access" to NYTimes.com for the duration of the course. All Digital Access offers unlimited access to NYTimes.com for any device and unlimited access to the NYTimes app for Android, BlackBerry, iPad and iPhone users, as well as the unlimited access to the Chrome Web Store and Times Reader 2.0.
In addition, students enrolled at all Penn State locations are reminded that by using their Penn State ID cards at newspaper distribution machines (which will not be charged when swiped), they can get copies of The New York Times, USA Today and a variety of local and regional newspapers through the Penn State Student Newspaper Readership Program. University Park students can access the newspapers at distribution machines located on campus in residence halls, dining commons and a number of high-traffic buildings; a list of University Park locations is at http://www.newspapers.psu.edu/locations/ online.
Through the College Readership Digital Subscription program, all Penn State students, faculty and staff are eligible for a 50 percent discount on a digital subscription to NYTimes.com, which provides unlimited access to the site on any device, plus the NYTimes smartphone app.
The Student Newspaper Readership Program, which began in 1997 at Penn State, has served as a model for hundreds of other institutions nationwide that have set up similar programs for their students.
Results of a February 2008 Penn State Pulse survey, the latest conducted by the Division of Student Affairs' Research and Assessment and Educational Benchmarking Inc. on the topic of the Student Newspaper Readership Program, noted that "data overwhelmingly support the relationship between newspaper readership and developing cognitive skills; increasing one's awareness, understanding and the ability to articulate views on current issues; and developing civic-mindedness." For more results, download the PDF found at http://www.newspapers.psu.edu/effectiveness/.
For more information about the Newspaper Readership Program, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.newspapers.psu.edu online.


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Surgical Weight Loss
The goal of bariatric surgery is to help you lose weight and keep it off. The three most common procedures are:
- Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
- Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band
- Sleeve Gastrectomy
To understand how these operations work, it is helpful to understand how food normally moves through your body.
The Digestive Process
After you chew and swallow, food moves down the esophagus into your stomach. The stomach stores what you've eaten until it can be broken down, or "digested." Those particles of food get pushed into the small intestine, where the food is broken down so you can absorb vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates and fats. What is left over is waste, which moves through your large intestine and then out.
Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery changes the way your body's normal digestive process works by:
- Restricting the amount of food that can pass through your stomach,
- Limiting the amount of food that can be absorbed by the body ("malabsorption"), or
- A combination of the two.
Bariatric surgery generally results in you feeling fuller sooner, making you less likely to overeat.
Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
In the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) procedure, the surgeon creates a small pouch by dividing the upper portion of the stomach. This restricts food intake.
Next, a section of the small intestine is attached to the pouch to allow ingested food to bypass a portion of the small intestine, and mix with digestive enzymes farther down.
The procedure employs both restriction from the smaller stomach pouch, and a degree of malabsorption from the bypassed small intestine.
The hospital stay for a gastric bypass done at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is typically 2 days.
"Laparoscopic" Versus "Open" Technique
"Laparoscopic" gastric bypass surgery involves several small incisions. Small cameras and other surgical instruments are inserted through the small incisions so the surgeon can see what he or she is doing, without having to make a large incision.
"Open" gastric bypass surgery typically involves one long incision, from near the breastbone down close to the navel.
The laparoscopic, or "minimally-invasive" approach, generally results in a shorter hospital stay, a quicker recovery, less post-operative pain and less risk of complications (such as infections or hernias) than the open gastric bypass.1
The surgeons at the Cedars-Sinai Weight Loss Center perform gastric bypass surgery laparoscopically almost exclusively. We will attempt to do your surgery laparoscopically unless your health prevents it. Your safety is our primary concern.
Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band (LAGB)
During adjustable gastric banding surgery, the surgeon inserts an inflatable silicone band around the esohpagus, tubing and an access port that sits just under your skin.
The band creates a new, smaller pouch that restricts the amount of food consumed and slows the emptying process into the stomach and intestines, allowing you to feel fuller sooner. The band is adjustable, and can be modified by inflating or deflating the band with saline solution to control the amount of restriction. In the first year after surgery, monthly adjustments are necessary to achieve optimal results. The hospital stay for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery at Cedars-Sinai is typically 1 day.
Sleeve Gastrectomy
In the sleeve gastrectomy procedure, the surgeon removes a large portion of the stomach, creating a vertical "sleeve" stomach about the size of a banana. This new smaller stomach restricts the amount of food you can eat, and makes you feel fuller sooner. The hospital stay for a sleeve gastrectomy done at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is typically 2 days.
1 Nguyen, N, et. al., "Laparoscopic Versus OPen Gastric bypass: A Randomized Study of Outcomes, Quality of Life, and Costs", Annals of Surgery, Vol. 234, No. 3, 279-291


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DeKALB – Northern Illinois University students brimmed with excitement as they waited to board buses bound for Miami.
In the words of many of the 1,300 students that filed through the Convocation Center on Sunday, seeing the Huskies play at the Orange Bowl for an affordable rate is too tough to pass up.
"I am graduating in May," said Julie Rodriguez, a family and child studies major. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for NIU. I want to come and cheer and support the Huskies."
Rodriguez described the trip as being "one last hurrah" before she starts her full-time job in May as an assistant manager at a Kohl's store.
University officials organized a fan bus package for students days after it was announced NIU will face off against the Florida State Seminoles at the Orange Bowl on Tuesday. The fan bus package includes travel to and from Miami, two nights in a hotel, travel between the hotel and game and some meals.
On the first day NIU made the $150 travel package available, the first 500 seats sold out in nine minutes.
For students such as Tom Helms, a senior computer science major, the circumstances added up. As he waited in line to check in with his friends, Helms said he was pumped for the trip.
"One-hundred fifty dollars to go to Miami for New Year's Eve and watch the Huskies win a BCS bowl?" Helms said. "You can't beat it."
With Jordan Lynch – whom he described as the "best quarterback in the nation" – and a great offensive line, Helms confidently predicted a Huskie victory.
For Morgan Ellena, a freshman prelaw major, going to Miami is a little more personal. She said she's friends with a number of the players on the football team, and she wanted to show her support.
"You got to go support," Ellena said. "And it's Miami for New Year's."
Ellena said she knows the team's practices have gone well, and the players are excited for the game.
The students are not traveling alone; 50 NIU staff members, plus more in the Miami area, are accompanying them. As the assistant director of NIU's Student Involvement and Leadership Development office, Dain Gotto said he is one of the lead trip advisers.
Gotto said 26 buses in four different waves will travel to seven hotels in Miami. He and other staffers did their best to pair students with the people they wanted as roommates.
"It's a lot to manage," Gotto said. "We only had four weeks to plan this entire trip so we had to scramble to find the hotel rooms, scramble to find buses. But the university came together and said we wanted to offer this opportunity to as many students as possible."
Once they are in Miami, students are left to their own devices. Gotto said the staffers will help students in any way they can.
But the trip advisers also can't escape the excitement.
"This is one of the most exciting trips I've ever been apart of," Gotto said.
In anticipation of warm weather, a number of students brought shorts and swimsuits. Rodriguez said she is not bringing a winter jacket, adding that she hopes to get a tan.
"I looked it up. Eighty, 75, 70 – you can't be too depressed about that," Helms said.
Gotto said NIU reached out to other universities to see how they planned for similar trips. To his surprise, other universities do not organize trips as large as what NIU has planned, he said.
"No other institution does something like this for their students," said Gotto, adding that other schools allow students to travel with their alumni association. "That's not what NIU is about, and I think that's what makes this university special."


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The praise being directed at Gov. Jerry Brown's budget shows how we're now grading budgets on a curve, as Mark Paul explains here. It also reminds me of an annoying habit of mine.
When I'm driving home, my wife is often very good about calling me to remind me to pick something up at the store.
And about half the time, I get lost in my thoughts, or in talking with a child in the backseat, and I forget. By not stopping, I'm home on time. My wife is happy to see me, but she also wishes that I'd brought the milk.
U.S. & World
This budget is like that.
It was passed on time -- before the July 1 beginning of the fiscal year -- but it's missing some things. Things more important than milk.
Fortunately, I've never rushed home having left the kids' college funds by the side of the road.
This budget cuts the state's two university systems by $650 million each -- with more cuts possible under a trigger mechanism.
That hasn't stopped Gov. Jerry Brown from touting his budget as "honest" and balanced." And Brown is an honest man.
Or so the press tells me. I don't see the honesty or balance in a plan that is built on rosy assumptions about revenues and what the state may do in the courts.
You may think differently, depending on how you think about this situation.
You're selling a company and a guy comes to you and says he wants to buy it with $4 billion he doesn't have, but is expecting to receive as the economy recovers.
If you're the seller in that situation and think the buyer is honest and sell him the company, then, yes, you think this California budget is honest.
The truth is: an honest budget isn't possible in California. Even if the state remembered to stop at the store, its system doesn't leave it with the capacity to pay for the groceries and get them safely home.


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Wednesday March 6, 2013 3:36 pm
Roku 3 arrives with new Interface, faster processor, remote control with audio output
Posted by Jason Diaz Categories: Accessories, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Media streaming enthusiasts have a new toy to play with! The new Roku 3 has launched and is ready to wage war for its place in the living room against other streaming alternatives like the Apple TV. The Roku 3 has improved internals, new glossy hockey puck hardware look and a much needed revamped user interface to navigate those 700 channels. However, it still doesn't have YouTube!
As far as internal hardware specs go, the Roku 3 is now housing a dual-band Wi-Fi, assuming it now runs in the 5 Ghz frequency. Inside, it has a new faster processor which is said to be much faster than its other variant predecessors, like the Roku 2 XS. Additionally, it has a USB port, ethernet, HDMI, SD card slot, and digital in.
One of the most ingenues benefits of the new Roku is its new remote, which includes a built-in headphone jack for private listing. According to Roku, "it's perfect for the late-night action movie without waking up the spouse. Or kid. Or Dog." The new remote has a nifty added bonus which operates with Wi-Fi Direct, so there's no need for the remote to be physically directed at the Roku 3 as you mash out commands.
The Roku 3 is available at Roku's online store, as well as on Amazon, for $99 and will soon be available in big box stores in April. For those of you that have the past versions of Roku, the same UI update is headed your way in April. Check out a video demo above.
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