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A REVAMPED holistic therapy centre in Malvern was officially opened last week.
The Centre for Wellbeing has been operating from Worcester Road since 2003 but recently moved to a new, larger headquarters in St Andrew's Road, where mayor Cllr Julian Roskams cut the ribbon to officially open the new building on Saturday, April 5.
Therapists Allison Prebble and Lindsay Holder, who worked at the previous location, have taken over management and ownership of the new centre from founder Fran Doidge, who is continuing to work as a member of the team.
A range of new therapy techniques are on offer at the new centre including beauty treatments, yoga and meditation alongside the previously-offered acupuncture, aromatherapy and others.
Allison said: " We are delighted with our new premises because we can now offer clients much more space – four treatment rooms instead of three – and much better accessibility, since we now have our own car park and no steep steps, which is much better for patients needing remedial treatments.
"And we've got lovely views of the Malverns too."
To mark its new home the centre is offering a 10 per cent discount to clients trying new treatments.

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I was thinking about different server-side languages and this question immediately cropped up in my mind. What was the first server-side programming language using which websites were being created? Was it java or some other language?
Note: I think some languages became prime server-side because they provided or rather aimed to provide better tools and libraries for easy development. I agree Java was not primarly server-side but it provided better tools and hence was and is used a lot.


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Epcot's 2008 International Food & Wine Festival General Overview
The Food and "Whine" Festival
Debra Martin Koma
AllEars® Senior Editor
This article first appeared in the
October 14, 2008, issue #473, of ALL EARS® (ISSN: 1533-0753)
Let me start by saying that I love Epcot's Food and Wine Festival. Love it. Anyone who knows me knows that it's my favorite annual event at Walt Disney World.
This is probably why I feel a little bit let down by this year's festival, the 13th annual event, which bears the theme "Cities in Wonderland." Far from being the usual culinary "wonderland" that I and many other Disney regulars have come to expect, this year's festival seems a little dull and uninteresting, not to mention seriously curtailed. In fact, we've had several comments from our readers about our lack of coverage of this year's event… I would argue that our lack of coverage is in direct proportion to Disney's lack of creativity in this year's programming.
Take for example the first weekend of the festival, with the highly touted Bocuse D'Or competition. It may have been a coup for Disney to have the opportunity to host this prestigious culinary competition, but to the average Food and Wine Festival attendee it wasn't such a fabulous deal. Yes, you could see some of the competition if you were in Epcot that Friday and Saturday — the chefs were preparing their dishes in plain view of park visitors. But sadly, I did not have $450 stowed somewhere in the house to pay for admission to the high-profile gala dinner that concluded the competition, as much as I would have liked to attend. I did not even have $325, which was what the admission price was eventually dropped to for those already holding theme park admission tickets. (Disney does not comp AllEars® for any of these Food & Wine events, by the way — we pay our own way, and $325 was just a tad out of our price range, especially given the cost of other events we wanted to attend.)
Because of the Bocuse D'Or gala dinner, the first Saturday of this year's festival featured no Party for the Senses, the premier tasting event held in the spacious World Showplace. Also that kick-off weekend there were no Vertical Wine Tastings, no French Regional Lunches, no Wine Schools, no Signature Dining Experiences. Nor was there a Friday evening City Taste, one of the only new offerings on this year's list of events. The only other events that opening weekend were programs I'd already attended in past years, like the Sweet Sundays and Food and Wine Pairings, and I know from experience that the format of these programs does not vary much from year to year. And while I understand that not everyone attends the festival every year as I'm lucky enough to do, the truth is that for a veteran there was not really anything new and exciting enough to entice me to drop everything to be there on opening day.
For that reason, I didn't fly down to Florida until the festival's second weekend.
Now don't get me wrong — I'm not saying the Festival was lousy this year. It wasn't, and, as always, I managed to find a lot to enjoy. I almost feel a little guilty whining about something that I still think is basically a great event. But please indulge me if I am a little critical of my beloved Food and Wine Fest — in my opinion, it has so much unfulfilled potential.
I start this, my seventh annual Food and Wine Festival review, at what has become the hub of the event's festivities — the Festival Center (the former Wonders of Life Pavilion in Future World). Far from being IN the center, or a true "hub," the Festival Center is quite a hike from World Showcase and other Food and Wine Festival events. If you don't want to spend a lot of time schlepping back and forth from this location, really study the festival program and carefully plan which events you want to see daily. Otherwise you might find yourself running from the food booths in World Showcase, back down to the Festival Center, then over to the other side of Future World to Soarin' then back to the Center, then… well, you get the idea.
This year, nearly all of the festival's complimentary food and wine demonstrations take place in the Center, as do the majority of the ticketed programs. I suppose if you don't plan to spend any time seeing other parts of Epcot you could spend your entire day right there. In talking with other annual festival-goers, I understand that the relocation to this pavilion is largely due to complaints in previous years from people who objected to waiting outside of the Odyssey, which formerly hosted most of the festival's events, in the Florida heat and humidity. To be honest, I wasn't thrilled with waiting outside either, but I found the presentations in the Odyssey to be very well done, with an intimate, rather special ambience. Not so in the Festival Center. Because you are separated from other presentations taking place by simple partitions, or simply a row of tall plants, you can hear everything else going on in the cavernous pavilion — the rumble of a cart of dishes being wheeled to a back room, the murmur of the crowds milling about waiting for the next event, the voice of the speaker in the presentation going on next door. Very distracting, especially if you're seated in the back of the area, trying to concentrate on what your presenter is saying. In addition, the configuration of some of the spaces used for the presentations lead to very cramped situations, with the majority of the tables quite a distance from the presenters, making it rather difficult to see. While this might not make a difference to you if you're attending a free session, it's a little more problematic when you've paid $75 and up for the experience.
That said, the presenters and the presentations themselves do seem to be first-rate for the most part. I attended a Kitchen Conversations featuring Chef Tory McPhail, executive chef for the famed New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace, that was both informative and entertaining — plus the duck entree we were served was outstanding. (See http://allears.net/tp/ep/fw08/fw08_kc.htm) I also was able to attend a well-run complimentary wine tasting presented by Clint Wilsey of Silverado Vineyards, which gave attendees the opportunity to sample four different wines (two chardonnay, two cabernet sauvignon) and hear the director of sales share his views on his Napa Valley winery's products. I wasn't even able to get close to a complimentary cooking demonstration given by Rock Harper, a participant in the reality television series "Hell's Kitchen," but it seemed to be a crowd-pleaser, and the presentation by Australian chef Nickey Riemer also seemed to satisfy those who attended.
What this means, though, is that these complimentary presentations are more popular than ever. Hopefuls line up an hour, and more, beforehand. I thought 45 minutes was plenty early for the Silverado wine demo, but as it turns out I got one of the last three tickets! Just made it. So, if there's someone or something you simply MUST see, plan accordingly. And remember, the earlier you get in line, the better seat you will have — and that seems to also apply for the paid events. The festival program lists all the offerings, but you'll have to wander around the pavilion to find exactly which location your presentation will be held at — the relevant events are posted on a column near the location's entrance. You'll probably want to scope that out early in the day or even the day before, just so you don't waste precious time (and stamina!) wandering aimlessly.
Besides the cooking demonstrations and wine tastings, other activities in the Center this year include bottle and book signings. There's also a wine bar, and, of course, shops selling merchandise with the Food & Wine Festival logo (t-shirts, aprons, tote bags, etc.), as well as books by many of the chefs featured during the festival. There's also the Mad Hatter's Wine Cellar, which has a fantastic variety of wines from around the world, including many produced by wineries spotlighted throughout the festival.
Moving out of the Festival Center, you'll not want to miss one of the main highlights of the Festival — the International Marketplaces positioned around World Showcase. These food booths — 27 this year — offer up cuisines and beverages from regions all over the world, both near (like Louisiana, this year's featured state) and far (New Zealand and India, for example).
After taking several laps around World Showcase's one-plus mile circumference, and sampling more than a healthy share of the foodstuffs, I have to say that it seemed like the overall food quality was slightly improved this year. Additionally, prices hadn't increased much, and portion size seemed to have stayed fairly consistent — I didn't feel cheated at all. I just wish, though, that the booths would take a little risk and offer up some more exotic foods. (I think I've made this complaint before?) At the Italian booth, for example, we might expect to find pizza — but couldn't the second food choice be something a little less predictable? Instead of baked ziti (yawn), could we maybe have something like polenta or risotto? In Greece, what about something other than the Spanakopita again. Moussaka? Pastitsio? Just a thought.
Having said that, though, the Lousiana booth does offer up a nice change of pace. Over the course of the festival, you'll have the chance to explore seven different regions of the state, a different region each week. In addition to complimentary culinary demos, there's live entertainment at this spot daily — from Zydeco music to Cajun street dancing. There's a definite Mardi Gras feel to the whole section. At the cooking demo I attended given by Chef Louie Finnan, he prepared shrimp creole while talking without missing a beat, not only of his own background, but of Lousiana's colorful culinary history. Unfortunately, though the tempting aroma of the dish he prepared was divine, he was unable to pass samples around — something about a fear of allergies. Well, I probably didn't need the extra calories anyway, but the waste of perfectly good shrimp bothered me.
A good way to journey around the International Marketplaces without overeating is to go with a friend, so you can share the tastes, and not fill up too fast. Unfortunately, the friend I went with had already made the rounds — so I was on my own. Never mind, I managed! Samples that stood out for me this year: Louisiana's crawfish etouffee (don't forget to pick up one of the cute tiny bottles of Tabasco!) and praline bread pudding with bourbon sauce; Munich, Germany's Spaetzel with Creamy Mushroom Ragout; and the Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese in San Francisco. Misses? Yep, there were a few: the Beef and Corn Pie in Buenos Aires was dried out and flavorless, the Guava Roll in Mexico was simply a very cold and dry jelly roll, while Vienna's Beef Goulash with a Bacon Dumpling was missing one very important thing — beef! Nary a shred to be found in my portion.
The New York State Wine Adventure was a good concept, an offshoot of last year's American Wine Adventure, I suppose. But this year's version wasn't very adventurous, if you ask me. The booth offers only four different New York State wines — three of them white. The Pearville Fair makes a return appearance this year — situated over by the American Adventure pavilion, this special exhibit offers a Kitchen, in which cooking demonstrations are presented several times a day, as well as crafts and several hands-on activities for the kids. Other returning festival features include the popular Australian "Wine Walkabout," which allows you to sample four wines for $8 (up from $7 last year), and the History of Beer in America, with daily seminars on the "art and science of brewing." What? No Twining's Tea Tastings? Too bad — maybe they'll be back next year. Also returning for limited runs are the Taste of Puglia, Italy, (October 23-November 2) and the Greek Island Wine Bar (October 16-26).
Whereas last year I felt that the Festival had really spread beyond Epcot's borders, this year it's definitely been reined back in. Aside from a few special "Signature Dinners" at Victoria and Albert's and bluezoo, all the events take place in Epcot, with most, as I said before, in the Festival Center. Nothing at all is being held in the Odyssey, the former counter service spot that sits between Mexico and Future World. And in my opinion that's a shame. As I said earlier, there was a specialness to the events held in this out of the way location — an almost elegant, exclusive feeling that was well-deserved, considering the high price tag some of the paid dining experiences carry.
The rest of the festival is basically the same as it's been the last few years. There are Food and Wine Pairings offered at a few restaurants — but only Marrakesh, Tutto Italia and Tokyo Dining. There are no pairings at Le Cellier or Coral Reef this year, but the pairing at Bistro de Paris has been expanded into a full Regional Lunch, a marked improvement. (Look for my review coming in the next few days on AllEars.Net.) As always, there are daily Eat to the Beat concerts in the America Gardens Theater, with old musical favorites. In coming weeks, you'll see Expose, Kool and the Gang, and, one I'm very excited about — David Cassidy! And, after taking the first festival weekend off, the weekly Party for the Senses tastings have resumed on Saturdays in the World Showplace. This year I hear they are not featuring performers from "La Nouba," though, but rather from a troupe called "Metropolis" — I won't see that first-hand until I return for my next Food and Wine Festival visit in a few weeks.
Yes, I'm going again, with my family. Because in spite of all this "whining" I do still very much enjoy "Food and Wining" at Epcot. If you go, I hope you will enjoy yourselves, too. Let me know what you think!
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Cities in Wonderland, Epcot's 13th Annual International Food and Wine Festival, runs daily through November 9, 2008. Entrance to the Festival is included with your park admission, but there are several special events that are an additional (and often hefty) charge. Many events are sold out, but some openings remain, particularly for the Party for the Senses. To make reservations, contact 407-WDW-FEST. And if you're thinking ahead to next year, the dates have already been announced: September 25 – November 8, 2009. Remember that reservations for many of the ticketed events go fast — be sure to watch AllEars.net and the AllEars® newsletter for an announcement, probably sometime in July, concerning reservations for the 2009 Festival.
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Food and Wine General Info: http://allears.net/tp/ep/foodwine.htm
Photo Gallery: http://allears.net/tp/ep/fw08/fw08_photo.htm
Other articles by Debra Martin Koma: http://allears.net/btp/dkoma.htm
Editor's Note: This story/information was accurate when it was published. Please be sure to confirm all current rates, information and other details before planning your trip.


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Today our classroom was teeming with madness, meanness, and mischief; and no it was not a Monday. The weather between gusts of howling wind, flashes of lightning, an occasion crackle of thunder, and a burst of radiant light – somehow found its way into the classroom. The kid's behavior seemed to be a direct reflection of the inclement weather. And two teachers were caught in a storm of madness, restlessness, and impulsiveness that sends even radical thinking teachers scratching at the blackboard for calmer seas.
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Web-based applications and cloud computing have presented new challenges for software developers. Most software makers are by no means tone-deaf to user concerns about security and usability issues, but even those software writers who are receptive to these worries must contend with hard-to-plug holes that can open up in cross-platform programs such as Web browsers.
For Web app developers, the problems occur on two fronts. Not only do they have to harden the application itself, but they also have to keep up with the occasional new browser release -- updates to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, for instance, as well as frequent version upgrades for Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and others.
With more applications built for the Web, cross-browser testing is crucial to application performance. Numerous automated helpers are available from a variety of commercial and community-based software testing tools. For example, over 2 million users have turned to the Selenium Project's open source, cross-browser testing platform to solve the various security and functionality flaws that crop up in software code. Selenium is currently in use at companies such as Google, Yahoo, eBay and Salesforce.com.
However, several problems remain in cross-platform testing procedures, even with proven tools. Users often require commercial support for Selenium. Others need enhanced features and speed. Other enterprises simply lack the infrastructure for doing their own sophisticated product testing.
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The big problem in developing Selenium was that features would work in one browser, like IE but not in Firefox. Huggins would fix one, and then it would break in the other.
Testing Grounds
The Selenium Project interacts with a Web site the way a user would. The software goes to the site, clicks on an image, enters some text, clicks on a button -- all the things typical users do. That's what was built into Selenium, according to Huggins.
Selenium is a testing environment for developers. It's a robotic platform for which developers can write scripts. They can remotely control the browser to have it do certain functions and then compare the results with a pass-fail value and make a judgment based on that, he explained.
The software is open source. What Sauce Labs does is apply the factors for its use with the clouds.
"All of those so-called air traffic control factors are what Sauce Labs adds to Selenium," Dunham said.
Sauce Labs provides peer support and value-added packages. That's the open source business model that can lead to a steady flow of money as a commercial operation.
So far, Selenium has had over 2.6 million downloads by QA testes and developers. What Sauce Labs is doing is positioning itself as the Red Hat for Selenium, Dunham said.
His reference to commercial enterprise Red Hat hinted at what Dunham's goal is for Sauce Labs. Red Hat Linux is a commercial distribution of the free community-based Linux operating system the Red Hat company develops as the Fedora Project.
Merger Afoot
"As long as people keep putting out new versions and new browsers, like now we have the new Chrome browser, there is always catching up to do. Selenium will have to make sure that it keeps working," Huggins said.
The community version still uses the five-year-old code line of version 1.0. However, Sauce Labs, Selenium community members and a few engineers at Google are readying version 2.0.
With the release of the new code base in Selenium 2.0, Sauce Labs is merging the Selenium Project with the WebDriver project, sponsored by Google. This will bring a better engine under the hood of Selenium, according to Huggins.
A good analogy to the benefits of the software merger is when Ruby on Rails merged with Merv. Merv was a better and faster engine under the hood, but Rails had better recognition as the brand, Higgins noted. <
Cross-Browser Benefit
WebDriver automates testing Web applications and verifies that they work as expected. It's not tied to any particular test framework. This makes it suitable for use with other test beds.
Merging WebDriver with Selenium 2.0 demonstrates a rare example of open source projects collaborating rather than competing with one another. More importantly, it is an example of being able to take the best of both worlds, Higgins said.
"The result is that Selenium 2.0 is going to be a much more robust and feature-rich offering to users that will provide compelling advantages compared to some of the proprietary offerings in this space," he added.
A Marriage Made
Selenium as it is solves about 80 percent of the existing cross-platform problems that software developers face. WebDriver adds Web browser testing in a different way in terms of its underlying technology.
It calls more to the operating system or lower system level. Selenium actually implements calls on a higher level. Because of this, Selenium has more limitations in what it can do, explained Huggins.
For example, with Selenium if a test generated a warning dialog about a Web site's certificate, Selenium would not have a dialog box to respond. WebDriver does. It's kind of like the technology to solve that last mile, the last 20 percent, he added.
Special Sauce
On Feb. 12 the company released Sauce RC (Remote Control) 1.0. This is a commercially supported free Selenium distribution that installs easily and runs on all the latest browser releases. Access to expert support directly from the people who built Selenium is also available.
Selenium RC is a developer-focused tool that is part of the Selenium functional testing framework for Web applications. Configuration of Sauce RC is done via a Web interface that allows for remote administration of test servers.


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Though there are processes put in in place to give Facebook users their privacy, including legacy contacts, but a court deemed access for some grieving parents.
The court, in Germany, agreed that Facebook Profiles should be made accessible to people's heirs after they have died, according to CNET.
The case in question, was the page that was run by a 15-year-old girl who had died after being hit by a train in 2012, and the parents lobbied to have the Facebook Page accessible to themselves, but to also push forward for other cases in which people wanted to access their children's Facebook accounts after death.
Typically, when someone has died, Facebook turns the page to a memorial account, where people can contribute testimonials to the deceased user. Facebook also allows a legacy contact that you can appoint who can access your Facebook Page in the event of your death. They are able to log in, but not access any personal messages or data.
According to the report from CNET, Germany has ruled that Personal Facebook Data should be considered the same as personal letters and diaries passed on to the heirs of the deceased, which is pretty awkward since many people live a decent amount of their lives on Facebook. Now, the fact she was only 15, she may not have been involved in anything that would disappoint her parents, but I know anywhere between 16-21, there are probably a lot of things you do online that you wouldn't want your parents to see.
A Facebook spokesperson is quoted saying "These questions -- how to weigh the wishes of the relatives and protect the privacy of third parties -- are some of the toughest we've confronted... We empathize with the family. At the same time, Facebook accounts are used for a personal exchange between individuals, which we have a duty to protect."
The reason the family wanted access so badly, enough to take it to court, was to determine if she was suicidal or not, as well as find out if the driver was entitled to compensation.
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The NEED for ZINC (in Sunscreen)!
I was very discouraged when I recently discovered that my must-have sunscreen, Neutrogena's Ultra Sheer Sunblock with Helioplex, does NOT contain ZINC!!! It still does contain other vital ingredients that do protect against UVA and UVB sun exposure.
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5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Also, Elta MD UV 45 is a great zinc sunscreen :)
- Anonymous said...
blue lizard is a great drugstore brand - best used on body since its cheap.
Another well known one is shiseido
- Beauty Banter said...
thanks guys.... these are great alternatives as well!
Is the blue lizard 100% zinc?
Beauty Banter
- Anonymous said...
Blue Lizard Sensitive is zinc (10%) & titanium oxide (5%) based. I agree with the body comment. It's a little greasy for the face.
Nature's Gate mineral kid's block is great for the face. It's not greasy, unscented, and paraben-free.
- Mikaela said...
Oh my god - I am a zinc freak too. Well, physical blockers in general. I mix Olay's sensitive 30 (6% zinc) with a couple of Benve's pure titanium drops spf 30 for extra deflecting power. Love that someone else is as into it as I am...


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Ecuador's U.S. Ambassador Speaks Out on Chevron Case
By LAWRENCE HURLEY of Greenwire
Published: March 10, 2011
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The Ecuadorean ambassador to Washington has launched a defense of his country's judicial system following a U.S. federal judge's decision Tuesday that would prevent indigenous plaintiffs from enforcing an $8.6 billion judgment against oil giant Chevron Corp.
In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York was highly critical of the Ecuadorean court system and raised questions about interference from leftist President Rafael Correa's government ( Greenwire, March 8).
The long-running case focuses on alleged oil pollution in the Lago Agrio area of Ecuador caused by Texaco Petroleum Corp., which was acquired by Chevron in 2001.
In a statement released last night, Ambassador Luis Gallegos took issue with Kaplan's conclusions and expressed "consternation that a U.S. court has elected to pass judgment on Ecuador's courts."
Kaplan granted Chevron a preliminary injunction that, in theory, prevents the Ecuadorean plaintiffs from seeking to enforce the ruling outside of Ecuador.
Chevron has no assets in Ecuador, so the plaintiffs, who question whether Kaplan's ruling binds anyone other than their U.S.-based lawyers, are reliant on overseas courts if they want to collect any damages.
Chevron persuaded Kaplan that the legal system in Ecuador and the way in which the judgment was reached were questionable. "There is abundant evidence before the court that Ecuador has not provided impartial tribunals or procedures compatible with due process of law," Kaplan wrote.
The Ecuadorean government "continues to threaten and pressure judges at all levels, particularly those hearing suits that implicate government interests," he added.
Although the legal system in Ecuador has been corrupt for years, "the situation has worsened" since Correa took office in 2007, Kaplan said.
In his statement, Gallegos pointed out that the case was heard in Ecuador only because Texaco had requested it be moved there from the Southern District of New York.
Kaplan's lengthy opinion "does not accurately reflect upon or credit the independence of the Ecuadorian judiciary," Gallegos said.
The statement, which stressed that the Ecuadorean government was not commenting on the merits of the Lago Agrio case, included examples of what the embassy called the judiciary's "history of independent judgments."
Several of the cases mentioned featured Chevron or Texaco as a party.
One was a win for Texaco in 2000 in an income tax case. Another was a 2002 case in which Chevron won motions to dismiss against the Ecuadorean government in what the statement described as three "civil cases." Chevron also won $1.5 million in a case against the government, the statement said.
Chevron spokesman Kent Robertson said the cases could not be compared with the Lago Agrio litigation because none of them involved hot-button political issues.
"Ecuador's courts are not independent when the cases have political implications," Robertson said.
Expert report questioned
In its court filings in New York, Chevron relied in part on an expert report written by Vladimiro Alvarez Grau, a lawyer, politician and newspaper columnist in Ecuador. Kaplan made numerous references to that report in his opinion, describing Alvarez as "impressively credentialed."
Alvarez, who is known in Ecuador as a vocal critic of Correa, wrote that since 2004, "the government has continually violated the rule of law" and that, since Correa took office, "the country is experiencing a severe institutional crisis."
His report contains various references to statements made by Ecuadorean legal commentators, including former members of the country's Supreme Court, that are critical of government interference.
When a new Ecuadorean constitution went into effect in 2008, the Supreme Court was renamed the National Court of Justice and, for the first time, its rulings made subject to review by a "constitutional court" that the government exerts control over, Alvarez added.
Chevron also points to the fact that a World Bank ranking of countries based on rule of law puts Ecuador in the lowest 10 percentile.
The Lago Agrio plaintiffs responded to Alvarez's report with a declaration from Ecuadorean attorney Juan Pablo Saenz, who claimed that the reason Texaco, before being acquired by Chevron, wanted to move the case to Ecuador was because it believed the judiciary "was too weak to handle these claims" at that time.
"Chevron believed it could manipulate any perceived tendency toward corruption to its benefit," Saenz wrote.
Karen Hinton, a spokeswoman for the plaintiffs, today said Kaplan's "derogatory and dismissive comments" were made "with only Chevron's word as evidence."
The embassy's statement conceded that there have been "aggressive" judicial reforms in Ecuador but said the changes were overwhelmingly positive.
Developments include improving access to justice for "marginalized sectors of society, including women and indigenous communities," the statement said.
The budget for the judiciary has also been increased and, along with other reforms, "the judiciary is more independent and better qualified than it had been" at the time Chevron wanted to move the case to Ecuador, the statement concluded.
The plaintiffs plan to appeal Kaplan's ruling. In the meantime, the Lago Agrio case is also on appeal in Ecuador.
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As executive director of the CodePlex Foundation, Paula Hunter has a lot of irons in the fire. She recently took some time to chat with Jonathan Erickson.
Dr. Dobb's: Paula, can you give us a brief overview of the CodePlex Foundation?
Hunter: The CodePlex Foundation is a new, independent open source foundation that enables corporations to innovate with more agility by collaborating with open source communities. Our core mission is to provide governance and legal mechanisms necessary to ensure clarity and certainty for corporations that want to participate in open source. We also develop and promote best practices, processes and legal structures that meet the needs of open source developers.
We're platform, technology and license agnostic -- which is how we differ from other foundations. We made a conscious effort to differentiate ourselves in this way. This allows us to provide unique support and services that complement the important work of other foundations.
We formed to encourage greater use of OSS by corporations and developers by providing support and services to achieve the following objectives:
- Make it easy to participate in open source
- Provide a standard, but flexible contribution agreement
- Create a legal entity/framework that enables code to be shared easily with reduced risk
- Lower legal risk and costs of bringing open source projects into the commercial world
- Reduce the time, legal complexity and expense of contributing projects to the open source community
Dr. Dobb's: To date, has the Foundation enjoyed any "big wins?"
Hunter: We launched in September 2009, and I think our biggest win is what we've accomplished in such a short time. One of those first early milestones was the publication of our Project Acceptance and Operations Guidelines where we mapped out our mission and guidelines for submitting a project to the Foundation. We introduced a "Project Gallery" model as an organizational structure for managing Foundation projects. The museum metaphor provides a way to group projects within a taxonomy, similar to how art collections are organized and presented in a museum exhibition. For example, sponsors can host entire galleries of projects with related applications and technologies. Introducing these guidelines has helped us attract interesting projects and project sponsors, and we're picking up momentum.
So far, we have the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery that has four active projects. The Web Forms MVP project is the most recent addition to this gallery. We also have the Systems Infrastructure and Integration Gallery, consisting of two active projects with more on the way.
We'll continue growing these galleries and adding new ones along the way. That's the beauty of it. The community can have a strong influence on the types of projects and applications we support simply by submitting to sponsor a gallery.
Dr. Dobb's: What will the Foundation be like two years from now?
Hunter:More projects, more galleries, more sponsors, more community, more impact, more independence. I've set a goal for 2010 of adding at least two sponsors, at least two more galleries, and at least one additional board member. In two years I plan to have more sponsors -- which will prove our independence for those who are still skeptics -- and a tiered sponsorship model. I'm working to attain 501.6c status as a non-profit organization, and looking at different models under which we can accept members at different levels of participation and contribution. The goal is to diversify the organization, increasing our footprint, influence and credibility in the OSS community, and demonstrating our value to commercial software companies, non-software companies that use OSS, and enterprise IT.
Dr. Dobb's: Looking beyond the Foundation, what do you see as opportunities for developers in the next year or so?
Hunter: Open source developers have become mainstream. The big opportunity for them is to take advantage of the status they deserve as major influencers in the software development world. Open source dominates in cloud and mobile and is a large part of the virtualization market. As the focus moves from operating systems to cloud-based, virtualized environments delivered to end users on mobile devices, the opportunity for open source developers just grows. It's a very exciting time to be part of the community.
Dr. Dobb's: As executive director of a not-for-profit entity, what's the toughest part of your job?
Hunter: Managing expectations is the toughest job. I have to answer to the Board, take advice from the Board of Advisors, honor the intent of our founding sponsor Microsoft, and provide an operational and technical environment in which our galleries and projects flourish. It's a balancing act I've done before at non profits and open source foundations -- I expected it, but it's always a challenge.
Dr. Dobb's: Your biggest surprise?
Hunter: I have been pleasantly surprised at the level of support and readiness to discuss our mission within the open source community. Skeptics often have the loudest voice, and I heard and read their complaints before I accepted this position, but the people that I have worked with over the last decade, who represent some of the best and brightest open source developers and business professionals in the industry, have been encouraging and supportive. That's not to say that they don't have some criticism, but thus far it has been very constructive.


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A certain sordidness is inevitable given the seedy ambience of the celebrated Graham Greene novel (on which the movie is based) about the rise and fall of a British boy gangster prone to the worst kind of ruthless behavior. But history tells us this film's air of sluggish, heavy going could have been avoided.
Originally published in 1938, "Brighton Rock" has been filmed once before, in 1947. That version became an instant sensation because of the galvanizing, all-sinister-all-the-time performance of Richard Attenborough (the future director of "Gandhi," of all things) as a psychotic gang leader with the improbable name of Pinkie Brown.
Rowan Joffe, in his first feature as both writer and director, has done several interesting things with the Greene material, including updating the story to 1964, a time when Britain's competing Mod and Rocker youth cultures violently took their differences to the streets.
Strikingly shot by cinematographer John Mathieson, a frequent Ridley Scott collaborator, "Brighton Rock" is rich in film noir atmosphere and visual flair. With Brighton unavailable, the production was fortunate to find the perfect period pier at nearby Eastbourne, but the setting turns out to have more intrinsic interest than the story.
For neither Joffe's direction nor Sam Riley's tepid performance as Pinkie has been able to give this version what Attenborough's dynamism gave the original: an infusion of energy that was no less compelling for being completely evil.
Riley, who played Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis in "Control," is a cold-eyed actor in the Robert Pattinson mold: Being removed is his default position, and having him as a protagonist makes an unfortunate lugubriousness inevitable.
The film doesn't help matters by introducing Pinkie as a timid underling in his Brighton gang, a weaker, ambivalent character who comes off as more dithering and doomed than the dynamic lord of crime he eventually schemes to be.
Pinkie gets his chance at unexpected advancement when, in the scene that opens the film, his boss, Kite, is slain by a rival gang. Pinkie and his confreres, led by Spicer (Phil Davis), plot revenge against the killer, a thug named Hale (Sean Harris). Hale tries to delay his fate by conversing with an old friend, brassy cafe owner Ida Arnold (Helen Mirren), but to no avail.
Hale is so desperate he even tries to chat up a total stranger on the pier, an innocent young woman named Rose (Andrea Risenborough) who works at Ida's cafe. When circumstances make Rose a potentially incriminating witness, Pinkie gets the job of romancing her to keep her quiet.
Despite this haphazard start, the Pinkie-Rose relationship soon becomes the film's focus, and it is a problematic one. Nearsighted, awkward and timid as only someone who lives with an ogre of a father can be, Rose does come to display a will of her own, but she and Pinkie are such unlikely, tormented folks, both individually and as a couple, that it is difficult to spend time in their presence.
The one thing these two have in common is their religion; they are both Catholics, or as Pinkie puts it, "Romans." Catholicism was a major preoccupation for Greene, but Pinkie is hardly your garden-variety churchgoer. He believes passionately not in heaven but in the flames and torments of eternal damnation, and he loves to mock Rose's initially conventional beliefs.
Filled with unsavory people and melancholy events, "Brighton Rock" chooses to play out its tale in a deliberate way. It has some strong actors, including a skillful Mirren, the always interesting John Hurt as her pal, and a rare non-CGI performance by Andy Serkis as a rival mobster, but it is too lifeless too often for its own good. It won't make you forget the 1947 film, and if you haven't seen that classic, you'll never understand how this kind of a story could have the reputation it does.
"Brighton Rock" is beautiful and visually accomplished yet numbingly bleak and ultimately unpleasant and unexciting.


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|Lindqvist-kreuze, Hannele - International Potato Center
|Cho, K - International Potato Center
|Portal, Leticia - International Potato Center
|Rodriguez, Flor - Inia Carillanca
|Simon, Reinhard - International Potato Center
|Mueller, Lukas - Boyce Thompson Institute
|Spooner, David
|Bonierbale, Meredith - International Potato Center
Submitted to: BioMed Central (BMC) Genetics
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/5/2013
Publication Date: 6/8/2013
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/56793
Citation: Lindqvist-Kreuze, H., Cho, K., Portal, L., Rodriguez, F., Simon, R., Mueller, L., Spooner, D.M., Bonierbale, M. 2013. Linking the potato genome to the Conserved Ortholog Set (COS) markers. BioMed Central (BMC) Genetics. Available: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/14/51/abstract.
Interpretive Summary: The use of DNA markers has greatly aided all phases of plant research from helping to investigate relationships of plants (taxonomy) to helping to determine the relative location of genes on chromosomes (genetic maps). One class of markers, technically termed conserved ortholog set (COS) markers refer to DNA fragments that are present in only one copy in the plant across a wide range of related plant species. A comprehensive list of these markers is available at Sol Genomics Network website (http://www.sgn.cornell.edu). Many of these COS markers have been placed in the genetic maps of species in the tomato and potato family. Because of their value in biological studies, there has been much research into the discovery of COS markers across wide groups of related plants. This paper investigates 300 of these COS markers in the tomato and potato family to see if they are truly single-copy DNA fragments in six wild and cultivated potato species. We found that most of these COS markers are present as a single copy as expected, and occur in their expected position on chromosomes as determined by prior research. However, we did find some COS markers that are present in multiple copies and found these occur in unexpected chromosome locations. This research is helpful in the identification of those COS markers that may not be useful for the taxonomy and genetic map investigations, thereby saving time and money and increasing accuracy in investigations.
Technical Abstract: Conserved ortholog set (COS) markers are an important functional genomics resource that has greatly improved orthology detection in Asterid species. A comprehensive list of these markers is available at Sol Genomics Network (http://www.sgn.cornell.edu) and many of these have been placed in the genetic maps of solanaceous species. We amplified over 300 COS markers from eight potato species or hybrids involving Solanum phureja, S. goniocalyx, S. paucissectum, S. chomatophilum, S. tuberosum and S. berthaultii. By BLASTn algorithm we mapped the DNA sequences of these markers into the potato genome sequence. Additionally, we mapped a subset of these markers genetically in potato and present a comparison between the physical and genetic locations of these markers in potato and in comparison with the genetic location in tomato. We found that most of the COS markers are present as a single-copy in the reference genome of potato and that the genetic location in tomato and physical location in potato sequence are mostly in agreement. However, we did find some COS markers that are present in multiple copies and those that map in unexpected locations. Sequence comparisons between species show that some of these markers may be paralogs. The sequence-based physical map becomes helpful in identification of markers for traits of interest thereby reducing the number of markers to be tested for applications like marker assisted selection.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global stock markets fell on Monday as concerns over European sovereign debt returned to the forefront after the euro zone's decision on partially funding a bailout of Cyprus by taxing bank deposits.
The declines gave U.S. equities investors the opportunity to lock in profits after last week's extended rally, and trading was volatile throughout the day. Equities cut their losses midway through the session, but returned to solidly lower territory in the final hours of U.S. trading, led by banks.
The Cyprus move hit confidence in the European banking sector, sparking concerns that authorities might go after depositors in other euro zone nations. The euro and bonds of troubled European sovereign debtors also fell.
"Will authorities be able to convince markets that this proposal is only for this unique situation, for such a small country where the banking system is more of a tax shelter? If they can't, that might cause new concerns about Europe's banking system," said Nick Sargen, chief investment officer at Fort Washington Investment Advisors in Cincinnati.
The bloc struck a deal on Saturday to give Cyprus rescue loans worth 10 billion euros ($13 billion), but defied warnings - including from the European Central Bank - and imposed a levy that would cost those with cash in the island's banks between 6.75 and 9.9 percent of their money.
Cyprus' parliament put off a vote on the measure, which has shaken depositors' confidence in banks across the continent, until Tuesday. With public anger at the deal widespread, the government said it was looking to reduce the losses for small savers.
"Investors realize Cyprus won't become a full-fledged capital problem, but they don't want to be complacent, especially in the context of how far we've come so far this year," said Sargen, who helps oversee more than $45 billion.
The deal staved off a default, which would have undermined the promise that last year's Greek debt write-down was a one-time event. But the move to hit depositors takes the euro zone crisis into unprecedented territory.
The initial response of investors was unambiguous. European shares followed Asian indexes lower and the euro fell to a three-month low, while safe-haven assets such as gold and German and U.S. government bonds jumped.
Italian and Spanish bond yields both rose sharply, reflecting fears about the weakness of the two euro zone economies and the size of their debt burdens.
European shares .FTEU3 closed 0.3 percent lower, having at one point been down as much as 1.4 percent. London's FTSE 100 .FTSE, Frankfurt's DAX .GDAXI and Paris's CAC-40 .FCHI were down 0.5 percent, 0.4 percent and 0.5 percent respectively, leaving MSCI's global share index .MIWD00000PUS down 1 percent.
In the United States, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI ended down 62.05 points, or 0.43 percent, at 14,452.06. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was down 8.59 points, or 0.55 percent, at 1,552.11. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 11.48 points, or 0.35 percent, at 3,237.59.
Financial shares were among the weakest, with the S&P financial index .SPSY down 1 percent, while euro zone bank shares .SX7E lost 2.6 percent.
Some in the markets drew support from views that safety measures put in place at the European Central Bank should contain the fallout from Cyprus. In addition, three of the world's biggest central banks are expected to signal this week that they plan to keep monetary policy loose for the foreseeable future.
"Clearly this (Cyprus deal) is a negative development for European assets, but in the terms of contagion, we think it is quite limited," said Guillermo Felices, head of euro asset allocation at Barclays in London.
Other analysts noted shares are trading at historically lofty levels and are therefore ripe for a pullback. Efforts by policymakers to revise the Cyprus plan to spare small savers from losses also supported the market.
The euro staged a slight recovery after dropping to a three-month low of $1.2882 in Asian trading. It was down 1 percent overall on the day but was flat for the European session at $1.2950.
The dollar .DXY, which investors often seek when tensions in Europe rise, gained 0.5 percent against a basket of currencies.
The euro zone's bond market has been the main lightning rod of its troubles over the last three years.
While Italian and Spanish bond yields jumped, the widespread anxiety drove up German government bonds, the traditional favorite of risk-adverse European investors, and boosted the cost of insuring against a sovereign default in the euro zone's southern rim.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was up 11/32, the yield at 1.9529 percent.
In commodity markets, U.S. crude futures rose 0.3 percent to $93.71 per barrel while Brent crude was down 0.4 percent at $109.41 per barrel.
Editing by Dan Grebler and Nick Zieminski