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Ukiah Daily Journal
Members of the California Conservation Corps center in Ukiah are some of the more than 400 young men and women working 16-hour shifts supporting firefighters throughout California, according to the CCC Foundation.
At the request of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the U.S. Fire Service, 35 crews currently are assigned to eight different fires between Humboldt and Tuolumne counties, including the Rim Fire near Yosemite.
The Ukiah Center is located on the site of an old dairy farm on Old River Road and is home to 60 corps members. The crews located there work in Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma counties on projects such as trail construction and salmon habitat restoration.
The center also supports a "Type II (initial attack) wildland firefighting crew in conjunction with the USFS.
Spokeswoman Kerri Warner said members of the CCC are aged 18 to 25 and can earn a high school diploma as well as develop job skills.
"Cal Fire hires us to come and work for them in emergencies," Warner said.
Fire crews are usually made up of 10 to 15 corps members who work 14 consecutive days without a break, according to the foundation.
Most of the CCC crews are battling the fire behind the front lines of attack, working to make sure needed supplies arrive on time and maintaining the fire camps and equipment.
"We are extremely proud of these dedicated and hard-working men and women," said Tom Riley, president of the CCC Foundation. "Many come to the Corps to plant trees, restore fish habitats and build mountain trails. Others respond to natural emergencies. All are paid minimum wage, put in long hours and often live in pretty rugged conditions."
Crews from Fresno, Monterey Bay and Ukiah are working the huge Rim Fire in Tuolumne County at the edge of Yosemite.
In July, corps members provided 40,000 hours of fire response work from one end of California to the other, including work on major fires in Riverside and San Diego counties. At the request of Cal Fire and USFS, CCC crews currently are at the Corral Complex Fire (Humboldt County), Butler Fire (Humboldt/Siskiyou counties), Forks Complex Fire (Humboldt/Siskiyou counties), Hough Complex Fire (Plumas County), Deer Fire (Tehama County), American Fire (Placer County), Fish Fire (Tulare County), and Rim Fire (Tuolumne County).
On Oct. 19, hundreds of corps members will join community and corporate volunteers for Volunteer Day, an annual California environmental project sponsored by the CCC Foundation.
The foundation is a non-profit public benefit organization that supplements funding of CCC programs. Priorities include workforce development, education, leadership training, conservation, veterans and emergency response.


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There is also the Money Bin where you can dive and swim in the Money Bin.
"they" are bringing back Castle of Illusion, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-rfsYYLmgsIt looks pretty darn good. I don't really remember much about Duck Tales. The show, yes, but not the game. I just hope all these remakes are being adjusted to make them a bit more playable. What I tolerated back then, would probably drive me crazy now.

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Celebrating the wine harvest festival in Logroño
Logroño is the perfect place for learning all about the famous Spanish wine, Rioja. Within a radius of 8 kilometres of this city, you can visit as many as nine wineries to discover the secrets of how this wine is produced. The best bit comes after you have toured the vineyards and production facilities: savouring the final result in the process by tasting a few wines or eating in the restaurant. And if you want to learn even more, you can sign up for a wine-tasting course. Another excellent option is the "Catarsis" programme, which offers classical music concerts or live jazz every Saturday night at one of the wineries. The event includes a tour of the winery, wine-tasting and a cocktail dinner. Finally, why not indulge in a relaxing wine therapy session at one of the spas in the city?
As you might imagine, wine is the focal point of many of the local festivities. On 11 June, more or less coinciding with the feast day of St Bernabé, jugs of wine, bread and fish are given out. Meanwhile, the traditional treading of grapes is celebrated in September, during the wine harvest.
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After the deadly collapse of a garment factory building in Bangladesh, more people are asking questions about overseas-made products, including apparel often linked to sweatshops and unsafe working conditions.
Despite the growing appetite for domestically-made goods, finding "Made in USA" products can take some effort. Sarah Wagner is passionate about American-made products, and she turned her interest into a successful website, USA Love List. Launched in November 2011, the site is devoted to sourcing and showcasing where to buy domestically-made items, ranging from pet products to apparel. She regularly scans the aisles of big retailers, such as Costco and Target for American-made goods.
"I do think people are highly motivated by concerns of product safety and contamination," Wagner said.
While it's unrealistic to live only on "Made in USA" goods, a bit of effort can yield a variety of domestically-made choices. "There's clearly a hunger for this sort of information," said Wagner, based in Philadelphia. "Companies have no idea how much Americans want to support American businesses manufacturing at home," she said.
Click ahead to see a list of 10 nifty products—from dog food to dinnerware—curated by Wagner and the USA Love List team. And of course, all the goods are American-made.
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Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by Allyn Gibson, Jan 13, 2013.
It's Benedict Cumberbatch.
Moriarty should be Red John. Then CBS can have a big crossover.
And only The Machine knows his true identity.
It would be beyond awesome if they actually had the balls to pull that off!!!
I have to admit, this show's really been growing on me. Although in the latest episode it was a little TOO obvious that the big assassin guy was not the real Moriarty-- and it should have been to Sherlock as well.
How would it have been obvious to him? He didn't yet know that there was a Moriarty, so he had nothing to compare the guy to. He hadn't even heard the name Moriarty until Moran told it to him -- he just thought he was going after a serial killer called "M."
I guess what's unusual here is that we're used to seeing the character of Moriarty introduced at a point when Holmes is already aware of him and has been tracking him for some time -- but here we're coming in on the ground floor, seeing the moment when Holmes first became aware of a shadowy criminal mastermind.
Exactly. At this point, pretty much everything Holmes knows about Moriarity is a name on an index card, surrounded by a lot of empty space. As represented by that final scene.
Moriarity (whomever he or she is) has obviously been aware of Holmes for some time, but Holmes only just now became aware of Moriarity's existence.
^Yup, and that's what's interesting about it. We'll finally get to actually see the process by which Holmes investigates Moriarty and pieces together the web of evidence.
I wonder how long it'll be before we meet Moriarty in person. And I wonder how long it'll be before this Holmes has his own version of Reichenbach Falls.
It would be cool if they did have the actor playing Moriarty in the background of some of the episodes this season. Would give nice incentive to re-watch them and try to spot him/her. As long as he doesn't turn out to be an established cast member.
It better not be Watson.
Funny. Especially since Patrick Jane is so much like Sherlock's Holmes (well, except that Jane's sociopathic tendencies are reformed, for good reason) it would be the next best thing to having Cumberbatch guest.
Five seasons, they hope. Truthfully, I hope they bring back Adam Kimper as one who keeps getting away. Kimper wouldn't be a Napoleon of Crime of course. But that's one's getting a little hard to believably put on screen.
True. But, I wonder if Doherty has read the late, great Michael Dibdin's The Last Sherlock Holmes Story?
(Yes, I know I'm evil.)
I don't think the actor who pretended to be Sherlock's father was actually Moriarty, because it doesn't make sense that Moriarty could count on Sherlock never re-accessing his genuine friend/accents tutor.
Moriarty is plainly supposed to be in the UK which asks the question of how and why they would keep falling afoul, except that the villain keeps trying to kill the designated hero, just because. Like in the comic books.
I'm guessing that moriarty shows up in person in the season finale or a few episodes before that.
That's what we thought about Red John.
Doherty is more straightforward with Elementary than Heller is with The Mentalist though. And since Moriarty is a well known character there's no reason to stretch it out as long as the Red John thing.
Elementary is my favorite new show this year. Not being the biggest Sherlock Holmes enthusiast, I can live with this interpretation. I really like the characters and the actors playing them in this. I think Jonny Lee Miller is fantastic as Holmes, however Lucy Liu is even better as Watson. I like how she under plays it to how Miller is with Holmes. She has a real vulnerability in this and its refreshing. My only major issue with the show is how they write Aidan Quinn's character of Captain Gregson. He is suppose to know how brilliant Holmes is, working with him in London. However he regularly doesn't heed the advice of Holmes or plainly fights back against it. Makes his character apear stupid, which is sad.
Well Sherlock did say he had been assisting Scotland Yard for quite awhile in tracking down M, so I assumed he would have pieced together at least a little more by now (even with all the rampant drug use).
Hell, just the fact he was able to elude Sherlock for this long should have made it clear that this was no normal, everyday killer.
What, and just because of the way he looked and his working-class accent, Holmes should've immediately dismissed him as incapable of being unusually intelligent? I'm sure there are plenty of Brits who would embrace such stereotypical assumptions, but Holmes would surely know better.
Of course dear chap, being a master criminal is a gentleman's game.
Yeah, but the "M" he was tracking was Moran, not Moriarity. Holmes had never heard of "Moriarity" until last episode.
An excellent book, and one I should reread.
^^^Wouldn't a similar approach make a truly remarkable version of Moriarty? (Don't want to spoil the novel.)
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Sue Harper is the product manager for Oracle SQL developer. She is also the author of a book, Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 .
A bunch of Oracle blogger received a free online version of the book with the task to write a review.
I have read a few chapters and here are my general comments.
+ The picture on the book is very nice, not related to SQL Developer, but shot by Sue 🙂 .
– There is no chapter on unit testing, which is one of the newest feature of SQL Developer. It is not very mature yet, but it is a good addition and free.
+ The book is not a marketing joke, the positioning against tool like TOAD is quite the way I see it.
page 1: The skeptics mentioned are ever concerned that Oracle is not really interested in the product,
backing up this concern with the fact that SQL Developer is free.
+ Even as a sqlplus/sh fanatic I did not feel ignored
page 6: We're aware that you'll never fully move from the command-line
– If you are a bit of a gray hair security admin you will be shocked by statements like page 21: create a connection for SYSTEM and page 22: Select the Save Password checkbox. This makes life easy. Hmm, do you give SYSTEM access to your developers and do your security policies recommend/allow them to save the password locally?
+ Still SQL Developer is good tool and it is driven by community. Save password is no longer the default (an old thread). You can post your own suggestions like Use Wallet for Logins to the SQL Developer Exchange.
+ There are plenty of good features in this tool and the book covers them. I like reports for instance.
= The book is still a book about click-click-click. Most of my readers here know how to drag and drop and resize windows.
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Roads and other transportation infrastructure are vital to visitors and conservation managers at national wildlife refuges. They also can fragment habitat and compromise wildlife and driver safety.
Recognizing this, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Transportation Program has been working with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and state/local agencies to improve habitat connectivity and safety, especially in working to build wildlife culverts and fish passages under new/improved roads near refuges.
At Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas, acting manager Leo Gustafson says data show that on average endangered ocelots cross refuge visitor roads about 45 times per month and a local state highway about four times a month. Gustafson points out that the estimated dozen ocelots at the refuge are one of only two remaining breeding populations known to occur in the United States. The other population of three dozen is on private land north of the refuge. South Texas zone biologist Mitch Sternberg says at least 20 ocelots have died in road accidents in recent decades. Conserving and connecting habitat for ocelots is critical to minimizing mortality risk and improving the species ability to flourish. In 2016, the Service and the FHWA are planning to build five ocelot crossings, two on the refuge and three on a bordering county road.
Southwest Region refuge transportation coordinator Robert OBrien hopes the crossings will demonstrate to local
and state DOTs that we are being proactive on our side of the fence, and the crossings on the refuge can serve as an example design for wildlife crossings outside the refuge on state and county roads.
At Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, supervisory biologist John Morton says that in 2009 more than 1.4 million vehicles traveled the 22 miles of the Sterling Highway bisecting the refuge. From 2000 to 2007, Morton says, there were 174 vehicle collisions with wildlife on this road section, including 24 black bear, three brown bear, five caribou and 142 moose.
As a result, agencies are cooperating to identify the crossing hotspots. The refuge is working with Alaska DOT to develop wildlifemitigation structures as part of the states plans to improve that section of the highway as soon as funding is available.
At Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuges Nulhegan Basin Division, staff members are working with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and Trout Unlimited to inventory/prioritize culverts to improve fish habitat connectivity. A major rehabilitation of Lewis Pond Overlook Road this summer included three fishbearing culverts where barriers to fish passage existed previously.
At Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina DOT, the Services Southeast Region and refuge staff are for the first time discussing black bear and red wolf crossing issues along state routes that run through the refuge. They seek to minimize wildlife mortality.
At Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the VirginiaNorth Carolina border, in 2005 a multiagency partnership resulted in two large crossing underpasses, as well as several small structures, to accommodate the passage of black bears, deer and bobcats under U.S. Route 17, which skirts the refuge. This is especially important because the refuge is at biological carrying capacity for bears, and juveniles are likely to establish territory beyond the refuges boundary. With a fourlane, divided highway that receives a lot of traffic, it is essential to have safe crossings for the bears to move east from the swamp, says refuge manager Chris Lowie.
Steve Suder, the Services national transportation program manager, says the key is federalstatelocal cooperation from the start:
As we look forward at mitigating the impact of wildlifevehicle collisions in the vicinity of national wildlife refuges, we must be proactive and collaborate with our partner agencies to achieve the many mutual benefits that result.
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There's been some excitement (in many senses of that word) since news broke last Sunday on The Podcacher Geocaching Podcast and other channels about "I Heart Geocaching" and yesterday (Monday, Feb 3) was the official release of those Geocaching Adventures lab caches for premium members to try out.
Hucka... Geocaching!
In an attempt to help folks understand what this is all about, we've put together a short, information laden video on our vlog and are adding this blog entry to supplement that.
As a starting point, official content from Geocaching.com (the good people formerly known as Groundspeak) has moved from forum chatter to an official and helpful FAQ. That's probably the best place to go, although many of my fellow bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters are all trying to make sure you have the pertinent info at your finger tips!
In that commitment to be helpful, we've created this short video to explain to you in three minutes what lab caches are, how Geocaching Adventures caches work, and what are the "rules" for "I Heart Geocaching" lab caches.
So in short:
- You must be premium member to participate.
- You get to create 1 "I Heart Geocaching" Geocaching Adventures lab cache
- That cache can only be found once, by one person
- The Geocaching Adventure is best played in the field on a smart phone
- The 161 metre rule does NOT apply (these don't show up on the maps)
Thirsty for More Geocaching Adventures?It's really important to Geocaching.com that they get your feedback if you do try this out. There's a few ways to get your constructive feedback to them. They seem to be soliciting this information via replies to this blog posting which first announced the I Heart Geocaching experiment for February. Of course, you can always use the forums also, but I'm in the process of reaching out to the good folks at Geocaching.com to find out how they want to hear your feedback, and share some of the stories they are hearing from you.
Our goal is to record the experience of creating and the subsequent finding of our lab cache (we're going to try it out on a muggle who is curious about geocaching) in an upcoming episode of LMGA, and try to round that out with some feedback from Geocaching.com themselves on how the field beta-test of Geocaching Adventures went.
But most importantly, we want to hear from YOU - are you interested in trying this out? Have you tried creating/finding an "I Heart Geocaching" adventure? What did you think? Would you do it again? Do you have any ideas on how to use these potential new cache types? Write to us via our email, Facebook page (like us! like us!), via Google+, or post comments on our videos. We love hearing from you guys and will be sure to include your feedback as we continue to review "I Heart Geocaching" and other geocaching topics.
Lab Caches Messed With My Stats!The one criticism we hear most frequently about lab caches is that thy don't count in your stats like any other regular cache type. In fact, between lab caches and US benchmarks, we've found that things can get a bit hairy if you like tracking your stats. And although we're not *just about the numbers* cachers, we do like our stats to be accurate, and that is helpful if you want to tackle challenge caches.
So, the question remains, "if I create/find an "I Heart Geocaching" cache, does it count in my stats?
Well, here's the best answers we could find:
- You will earn a "smilie" for finding any lab cache (you'll get "lab cache" icon seen above)
- Lab cache finds do not yet affect your statistics page on Geoccaching.com
- Lab cache creation will not yet result in an increase in your "caches placed" statistics
- Geocaching.com is promising to address these concerns in the future
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|This book originally published by the Abbott Magic Company in Colon, Michigan is a wealth of information for the performer who enjoys rope. The book presents knots, penetrations, cut and restored techniques, the Hindu rope Trick, and other miscellaneous rope tricks; over 137 rope trick in all! This softbound book is over an inch thick and contains over 400 pages of information. A wonderful book. Learn one trick and you've got the price of the book!
|This too is a great general introduction to the art of magic. Written by one of magic's greatest coin manipulators T. Nelson Downs, Downs presents an array of miracles with cards, coins, balls, manipulations, sleight-of-hand, and the like. An indispensable book for magicians as it contains many methods and sleights not found in other standard books. 68 illustrations. Softbound.
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"50 Amazing Illusions" is thoroughly illustrated and clearly written, making learning easy. Its pages include self-working miracles, and others that require some practice. All the tricks described are easy to do. 32 pages, saddle stitched.
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Additionally, Charles delves into the psychology involved in performing with a marked deck. From strategies for misdirection to key cards, stacked decks, and mnemonics, Charles explores every angle of the tips and tactics that can enhance tricks with any marked deck.
For the beginning card conjurer, an entire chapter of easy-to-do miracle material has been included. These tricks require little if any sleight of hand, yet pack a wallop when performed. Even amateurs, armed with a marked deck and these "Instant Miracles" will be amazing spectators in no time!
Best of all, Hidden in Plain Sight details the workings of the finest marked cards on the market, the Boris Wild Marked Deck. A lengthy chapter, written by Boris Wild himself, details the nuts and bolts of his stellar system, and includes two blockbuster tricks that will fool not only laymen but magicians as well!
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Royal Ballet Principal Tamara Rojo recently visited China to create a new piece of work with choreographer Fei Bo. Tamara is one of a series of artists from different disciplines to appear in the CNN series Fusion Journeys. Other artists featured include opera singer Thomas Hampson, photographer Roger Moukarzel and fashion designer Trelise Cooper.
The piece created by Tamara and Fei Bo infused traditional ballet with kung fu and Chinese opera. Episode 1 was shown last night and you can watch clips from it now:
Of working with Fei Bo, Tamara commented:
The first thing I noticed about the Chinese ballet is that it is much more influenced by philosophy than physicality - there was a lot more emphasis on meaning.
These ideas are typically expressed with little gestures of the hand or head. Such movements might not be the most beautiful to my eye, but because they have a shared cultural meaning - a meaning that is understood by onlookers because it is part of their tradition - it's beautiful to them.
One of the main challenges I experienced out there was trying to understand this complicated and subtle language. While I could always admire Chinese and Asian dance from a distance, I felt that I could never really understand the depth of meaning - and everything that comes with it - until immersing myself in the culture first hand.
Read more of Tamara's thoughts on the experience on the CNN website
Tamara Rojo and Fei Bo in front of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing © CNN International/Fusion Journeys 2011
Tamara Rojo and Fei Bo have dinner in a restaurant in Beijing © CNN International/Fusion Journeys 2011
The two remaining films, which follow Tamara on her 'Fusion Journey', will air on Wednesday 11 April and Friday 13 April at 9pm BST on CNN International (available on Sky 506, Virgin Media 607, Freesat 207 & Tiscali 506).


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November 01, 2004
The International Codes Council (ICC) recently approved sweeping changes to the residential chapters of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), the national model code that is the basis for many state energy codes.The revised residential energy code replaces chapters 3–6 of the previous code. It shrinks the IECC code book by more than half, resulting in a code that will be easier to read, understand, use, and enforce. The changes will become the 2004 Supplement to the 2003 IECC and the corresponding energy chapter of the International Residential Code. Here are some highlights of the revisions: • Redefined climate zones (see above). The new code defines climate zones geographically, reducing their number to 8. (The previous code had 19 climate zones, defined by degree-day ranges.) Compliance and enforcement will be simpler because the new climate zones honor political boundaries, such as state and county lines, and attempt to keep metropolitan areas together.The redefined climate zones also do a better job of integrating cooling considerations into the code—a key improvement, given that air conditioning is a rapidly growing residential load. &...
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PARIS (Reuters) - STMicroelectronics plans to quit its loss-making mobile chip joint venture with Ericsson in a drive to cut costs and catch-up with larger, more profitable U.S. rivals.
However, some analysts said on Monday it would not be easy or cheap for the Franco-Italian group to back out of a venture which lost $841 million last year and which its Swedish partner was unlikely to want to take over on its own.
Europe's semiconductor firms are struggling to compete with bigger U.S. and Asian rivals, which have largely outsourced chip manufacturing to cope with volatility in demand and prices.
STMicro still makes its own chips, has been losing market share, and earns lower margins than larger rivals like Texas Instruments and Qualcomm despite leadership in so-called analog motion-sensing chips that go in cars or video game consoles.
Its mobile chip joint venture, ST-Ericsson, has had a particularly tough few years as its once-biggest customer Nokia has been trounced in the lucrative smartphone market by the likes of Apple and Google.
Analysts said ST-Ericsson, which has around 5,000 employees, could be shut down entirely, or parts could be sold to competitors such as Intel, Broadcom or Samsung, with Ericsson taking some others and the rest closed.
"I think it is going to be a complex deal including some reallocation of employees to Ericsson, and the sale of the wireless modem business to a competitor, and some layoffs," said Jerome Ramel, semiconductor industry analyst at Exane BNP Paribas in London.
However, he added that leaving the business would be good news for STMicro, even if it can't get any cash.
Ericsson declined to comment on its intentions, other than saying it would work with STMicro to find a "suitable strategic solution" for ST-Ericsson and the details would be ironed out in coming negotiations.
At 9:10 a.m. EDT, STMicro shares were up 3.5 percent at 5.175 euros, the biggest rise by a European blue-chip stock. Ericsson shares were 1.4 percent higher at 65.7 Swedish crowns.
STMicro said its new strategy would focus the group on two main areas: its more profitable analog business which makes chips for motion sensors, power management and the automotive sector, as well as its digital business which makes "embedded processing solutions" for consumer electronics.
"Our portfolio of products will be much narrower," Chief Executive Carlo Bozotti said on a conference call. "We want to be less vulnerable to the cycles of the market."
The moves will allow the group to reduce quarterly net operating expenses to around $600-650 million per quarter by early 2014, while operating margins would increase "rapidly" to reach 10 percent, it said.
Operating costs per quarter are roughly $900 million today, and it's not clear how much of that is due to ST-Ericsson. The group's operating margin was 2.4 percent in 2011.
STMicro provided little detail on how it would reduce operating costs and declined to say whether job cuts were being studied among its 50,000 strong workforce. With the French and Italian governments owning a combined 27.5 percent in the company, job cuts could prove politically touchy.
STMicro said in October it planned to cut costs by $150 million a year by the end of 2013, in a move that could affect as many as 500 positions. Analysts say it workforce needs to be more productive for the firm to get close to the profit margins of U.S. rivals like Texas Instruments and Analog Devices.
For every dollar of sales generated by an employee of STMicro in 2011, a Texas Instruments employee generated $2.01 and an Analog Devices employee generated $1.65, according to analysts at Morningstar.
ST-Ericsson has been unprofitable since it was formed in 2009 and successive cost-cutting plans have failed to staunch its losses, including an April announcement of 1,700 job cuts and the transfer some product development to STMicro.
Santander investment bank analysts said STMicro's exit could prove "difficult and costly," predicting that Ericsson would not want to take full control.
"We believe that the current partners could take some assets from the JV but they will have to close down the rest of the company," they wrote.
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This little boy's Easter tie is quick but very well made and will brighten any Easter outfit. The tie is sewn almost entirely by hand, so if you don't have a machine its easy to finish without one.
- 3/4-yard Liberty of London Tana Lawn in Blue Cars
- 1/4-yard Moda Muslin in White
- 1/4-yard Sew in Stabilizer
- 1 spool of 100% cotton thread in a color that compliments your fabric
- Hand sewing needle
- Print, cut and tape together Little Boy's Tie Templates, available here
Cut Front and Back Tie
Cut the 27-inch x 54-inch piece of Tana Lawn in half length-wise to create two 27-inch squares.
Take one of these squares and fold it in half diagonally as shown above and press it. This diagonal line is the bias fold.
Place your Front Tie template piece along the diagonal fold where indicated on the template and pin. Make sure that the fabric print is oriented in the correct way, it is hard to tell from this picture but the cars are right side up.
Cut out the Front Tie piece.
Cut Front Tie Lining and Back Tie Lining
Using the second 27-inch Tana Lawn square cut out the Back Tie in the same manner as above, along the bias fold.
Cut a 9-inch square of Muslin, fold it in half diagonally and press it. Place both the Front Tie Lining and the Back Tie Lining templates on the muslin, being sure to place the correct edge of the template along the fold as indicated on the template.
Cut Front Tie Interfacing and Back Tie Interfacing
From the Sew in Stabilizer interfacing, cut the Front Tie Interface and the Back Tie Interface pieces. Because the stabilizer is not woven you don't need to worry about cutting it on the bias.
Prepare to Sew Tie
Open up your pieces, you will have:
- 1 Front Tie Piece
- 1 Back Tie Piece
- 1 Front Tie Lining
- 1 Back Tie Lining
- 1 Front Tie Interfacing
- 1 Back Tie Interfacing
Do not iron these pieces flat. You will need their middle markings for reference later.
Front and Back Lining
From the Front Tie Lining, fold the bottom tip up 1/4-inch and press it.
Fold the bottom sides of the lining in 1/4-inch each and press them into place. This will form a neat point at the bottom angle of the lining.
Repeat this step for the Back Lining.
Fold the bottom edges of the Front tie in 1/4 and press them into place.
Fold the tip up 1/4-inch press it, and then fold in the sides to a neat point and press it again, as you did above with the lining pieces.
Repeat this step for the Back Tie.
Place the Front Lining on top of the Front Tie end, wrong sides together. Make sure that the lining is contained within the borders of the end of the tie as shown above. It should be a little bit smaller than the tie end.
Pin the Lining in place
Sew the folded edges of the lining onto the tie end with a slip stitch. Sew only through the folded layer of the Tana Lawn- Do not sew though to the front of the tie. This is very similar to sewing on the binding of a quilt.
Please click here if you need a more in depth explanation of slip stitch.
It's not necessary to sew the top of the lining, it will get enclosed within in the shaping of the tie.
Repeat the same steps to sew on the Back Lining.
Sew the Halves Together
Place the square end of the Back Tie piece on top of and perpendicular to the square end of the Front Tie piece, right sides together, to form a right angle as shown above. Do the same for the interfacing pieces. Draw a diagonal line from right to left across this intersection, as pictured above in yellow. This will be your seam line.
Sew the fronts and backs together along the seam line.
Trim off the excess fabric to 1/4-inch.
Press the seam open. It will be practically invisible on the right side since the print has so much going on!
Shaping the Tie
Fold in edges of the long sides 1/4-inch and press into place.
Fold again 1/4-inch and press.
Fold both edges in so they meet at the crease in the center of the tie and press.
Open up the sides and slip your interfacing in as pictured above. It should fit snugly inside the tie.
Now it's time to close up the tie. Refold the edges, press them again and pin into place.
Sew Tie
The inside seam of your tie will be sewn by hand.
Please Note: I used red thread for the following steps, but only so the technique would be more visible. At home you should use thread that matches your fabric.
Tack the point where the two edges meet a few times before you start your seam.
The tie is sewn up with a different type of slip stitch than was used for sewing the lining:
- Start from the tack run your needle through the fold on the left side and come out about 1/2-inch above.
- Insert your needle directly across from where you came out into the right side and slide it up though the fold for a 1/2-inch.
- Then enter the left side directly across from where you exited the right side.
- Repeat
Once you do this a few times you will have a little ladder of stitches as shown above.
- Pull the stitches taut and they will almost disappear.
- When you get to the end of your length of thread take a couple of tacking stitches but this time sew though the interfacing as well, while making sure not to sew though to the front of the tie, which will hold the interfacing in place.
Sew the entire inside seam of the tie in this way.
Once you're done, press the tie thoroughly to get rid of the middle seam and you'll be finished! Enjoy! –Molly


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Welcome to the July Carnival of Natural Parenting: You Are What You Eat
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about their struggles and successes with healthy eating. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
I've never felt so good in my life, from the time Luke has been eating solids until now. When he first started eating solids we wanted to make sure he was eating mostly organic and fresh foods. We decided on baby led weaning, so we've been just feeding him whatever we eat in manageable pieces. This meant we too would be eating mostly organic and fresh foods. I can honestly say, I feel like this is the best I've felt, ever.
To take it up another notch, my husband found a blog called Mark's Daily Apple. Then we bought his book and read it. The guy talks about eating a 'primal' diet of mostly meats, veggies, fruit, nuts, eggs and not as many carbs... you know hunter-gatherer type meals. We've been doing that for a couple weeks now. I couldn't tell any difference until I went to visit my parents this past weekend. We had pizza, cereal, bread, all the types of carbs I've avoided for the last few weeks. Don't get me wrong, the food was really good. My body just wasn't used to it. I had gas every night, all night long. Then, I didn't really even want anything to eat because I knew it was going to upset my stomach. I even said no to cake at my grandma's birthday party, something I never do. But my stomach just couldn't handle the sugar and extra carbs. I just couldn't wait to have a salad with chicken or eggs with veggies.
This is probably the biggest struggle. How do you eat when you are away from home? There's all this wonderful good food but it's bad for you. It's greasy delicious pizza. It's the fantastic cake at Grandma's birthday party. It's all the food you missed when you were 'eating good'. We're not total fanatics, we just try and do 80% good, 20% bad. But if you get used to eating a certain way, then don't for a few days, it hurts.
But even harder, what do you feed your baby when you aren't at home? Usually I have an array of snacks for Luke all the time... cheese, yogurt, fresh fruits, dried fruits, etc. But when we're out of town or somewhere else it makes it harder. Luke's getting used to having more than just breastmilk all day. So when he doesn't get those snack times, he gets hungry, like real-food hungry. With baby led weaning, you give them what you eat, but what if I'm eating food that's not really that healthy? Needless to say, Luke didn't eat too much healthy food this weekend. He really didn't eat too much at all (thank goodness he's still nursing).
Maybe I need to get used to making sure I have snacks ready. Or when we're out of town, make sure to stop to pick up some things for him. This changes everything. It was way easier when I could just nurse and not worry about food. I love food, but it's become so hard in so many different ways.
Visit Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama to find out how you can participate in the next Carnival of Natural Parenting!
Please take time to read the submissions by the other carnival participants:
(This list will be updated July 13 with all the carnival links.)
- Welcome to Two — All About Food — In case you hadn't heard, there is a conspiracy afoot from the two-year-olds of the world. Shana at Tales of Minor Interest stumbled onto their newsletter!
- Four Seasons of Eating Locally — Jenn at Monkey Butt Junction has pointers for what fresh produce can be found year-round. (@MBJunction)
- Happy Families Can Have More Than One Diet — Deb Chitwood at Living Montessori Now has figured out a way for her family to live happily as vegans and vegetarians with relatives who eat meat. (@DebChitwood)
- My Own Omnivore's Dilemma — Seonaid at The Practical Dilettante prioritizes responsible consumer choices for her family.
- No Gluten — No Cry — Joni Rae at Tales of a Kitchen Witch Momma learned to cook balanced meals when her son's food sensitivities prompted a diet overhaul. (@kitchenwitch)
- Try, Try Again — Stefanie at very very fine has become an enthusiastic consumer of locally grown food.
- CSA — Week 1 — Casey at What Love Is wants her children to know where their food comes from, so she joined a friendly CSA. (@CBerbs)
- Food: Parenting or Homemaking? — Michelle at The Parent Vortex sees food as part of a parent's nurturing role. (@TheParentVortex)
- 5 Tips to Help Kids Develop Healthy Eating Habits — If you struggle with healthy eating, helping your child develop healthy habits might be a challenge. Dionna at Code Name: Mama shares five easy tips that will help your kids learn to make good food choices. (@CodeNameMama)
- Family Food: Seeking Balance Between Healthy, Sustainable & Affordable — Kristin at Intrepid Murmurings has a whole list of ideas for how she can improve her family's eating, both now and into the future. (@sunfrog)
- Whole Foods in, Wholesome Feelings Out — Jessica at This is Worthwhile has turned her back on the processed, preservative-ridden food of her childhood. (@tisworthwhile)
- When to Splurge on Organic (and When It Is Okay to Skip It) — Becoming Mamas tell you what foods to prioritize when buying pricier organic food, and where you can find it cheaper. (@becomingmamas)
- A Locavore's Family Meal — Acacia at Be Present Mama tells a story in pictures of her family taking a trip to the local organic farmers market and then preparing a summer meal together with their bounty.
- Eat Your Food, or Else — Why should we not bribe a child to eat? TwinToddlersDad from Littlestomaks (Science Driven Real Life Toddler Nutrition) explains. (@TwinToddlersDad)
- Food, Glorious Food! — Luschka at Diary of a First Child describes three easy ways her family has started eating healthier. (@diaryfirstchild)
- Celebrating Food — Mrs Green at Little Green Blog believes in food as medicine and thinks it's worth paying more to keep healthy. (@myzerowaste)
- Oil and Yogurt — What have you been motivated to do with the current oil spill crisis? midnightfeedings has started making her own yogurt. (@midnightfeeding)
- Growth-Spurt Soup (AKA "Beannut Stew") — BeanMa has a special stew to help her baby through growth spurts that keep her up all night. (@thebeanma)
- Why I Love The Real Food Community — Much like many people who follow AP/NP values, Melodie at Breastfeeding Moms Unite! takes the parts of the "real food" philosophy that work for her family and leaves the rest. (@bfmom)
- Feeding a Family of Six — Mandy at Living Peacefully with Children gives helpful tips for feeding a family of six.
- Starting Solids at 6 Months — Did your doctor recommend that you give your baby cereal? Sheryl at Little Snowflakes discusses how whole foods are so much healthier (and more delicious) than traditional cereal. (@sheryljesin)
- Am I What I Eat? — Andrea!!! at Ella-Bean & Co. has figured out a way to avoid grocery stores nearly altogether.
- Are We Setting Our Kids Up To Fail? — Megan at Purple Dancing Dahlias found that cutting out the junk also transformed her sons' behavior problems.
- Changing your family's way of eating — Lauren at Hobo Mama has techniques you can try to move your family gradually toward a healthier diet. (@Hobo_Mama)
- Real Food — What kinds of fake foods do you eat? And why?! Lisa C. at My World Edenwild talks about why she chooses real food.
- A Snackaholic's Food Battle — Julie at Simple Life wants to stop snacking and get into the old ways of cooking from scratch and raising her own food. (@homemakerjulie)
- Food, Not Fight — Summer at Finding Summer doesn't want her kids to grow up like her husband: hating everything green. (@summerm)
- How Do You Eat When You Are out of Town? — Cassie at There's a Pickle In My Life wants some tips on how to eat healthy when you are out of town.
- Carnival of Natural Parenting: Food! — Sybil at Musings of a Milk Maker hopes that by serving her children healthy, balanced meals, they will become accustomed to making good food choices. (@sybilryan)
- There's No Food Like Home's — NavelgazingBajan at Navelgazing revels in the Bajan food of her upbringing. (@BlkWmnDoBF)
- This Mom's Food Journey — Kat at Loving {Almost} Every Moment made a journey from not paying attention to food to growing her own.
- Who Knew Eating Was So Hard? — The challenges involved in changing to healthier eating habits take on a whole new dimension when you have a child who has difficulties eating. kadiera at Our Little Acorn shares her own experiences. (@kadiera)
- Loving Food — Starr at Earth Mama truly believes food is her family's medicine and is willing to spend days preparing it the traditional way.
- Food Mindfulness — Danielle at born.in.japan details how her family spends money on each category of food. (@borninjp)
- Food for Little People — Zoey at Good Goog wants to bless her daughter with happy traditions built around good food. (@zoeyspeak)
- Eat Like a Baby — Have you been told that you should not equate food with love? Kate Wicker at Momopoly shows us why that's not necessarily true. (@Momopoly)
- Food — Deb at Science@Home tries to teach her children three rules to help them eat a healthy diet. (@ScienceMum)
- Healthy Eating Lactose-Free — MamanADroit gives us tips on how to eat healthy if you are lactose intolerant (or just don't want cow milk). (@MamanADroit)


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IOC inspectors are making their first visit to Rio de Janeiro since telling 2016 Olympic organizers that time is ticking and preparations need to be speeded up.
The IOC's co-ordination commission began its fourth visit to Rio on Monday to meet with local organizers and monitor the progress made at venues and infrastructure sites for the first Olympics in South America.
The International Olympic Committee said in December that "time is ticking" and organizers must attack the project "with all vigour."
IOC President Jacques Rogge said last week he doesn't think he will need to show Rio organizers a yellow card to publicly warn them about delays, but Brazil is under pressure to show that preparations are on track.
The visit comes amid leadership changes and uncertainty about the budget and location of some sports venues.
It also comes less than a week after a surprising decision by the IOC executive board to drop wrestling from the list of 25 sports guaranteed a berth in the 2020 Games, and just days after the arrest of double-amputee Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius on murder charges.
It's the first time the IOC panel visits Brazil since it became public that the ousted presidents of the local badminton and ice sports federation asked the IOC to probe court interference and accused the Brazilian Olympic Committee of not complying with the Olympic Charter.
With three years to go until the Olympics, there's been some concern with the pace of progress in Rio's preparations. The Rio committee has a newly appointed CEO and just made changes in the position of chief financial officer, and there's still no official budget for the games.
The city also hasn't overcome uncertainty over the venues for rugby, field hockey and golf. Rio announced last year the rugby venue won't be built where it was originally planned, while a location for the field hockey arena was still being negotiated with the sport's international federation and the land where the golf course will be constructed remains the source of a legal dispute.
Rio committee president Carlos Nuzman recently downplayed the notion of delays or any major problems related to the city's preparations. IOC spokesman Mark Adams said in December that "there is time, but time is ticking, and they (organizers) need to carry on attacking this one with all vigour."
The IOC was in Rio in November for the official debriefing of the 2012 Games, when London organizers shared their knowledge of hosting the Olympics.
The commission's three-day trip will focus on Rio's preparations, though, and it will be led by commission president Nawal El Moutawakel and IOC Executive Director Gilbert Felli. Nearly 20 people are part of the commission, which is aimed at giving support to local organizers and monitoring the overall development of the games' project.
Since the commission's last visit in June, the 2016 Rio committee said it "has made progress in important areas of the project," including the Olympic Park, the sports venues at the Deodoro Park, the renovation of the port area and hotel infrastructure.
Although IOC delegations have been to Rio many times in the past months, it will be the commission's first visit since the end of the London Games.
"The commission will hear updates on issues as varied as athletes, venues, sport, transport, media services, workforce, technology, and the Paralympic Games, to name but a few of the subjects to be discussed this week," the IOC said in a statement.
The commission will make two annual official visits to Rio until the games begin in August 2016. It made the trips once a year since winning the big in 2009 until 2012.


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How to create a scroll frame in a few easy steps.
Hey all.
I've been working hard on building a Scroll Frame which (a) looks quite good and (b) doesn't require too much work to create. I have eventually completed it, and I thought I'd post it here to save the time of other people who are new to Scroll Frames. I've omitted fluff that isn't directly relevant to save space.
The following list details what frames are required to build the Scroll Frame (in short, 3 standard frames, and 1 frame which inherits a template):
(a) First create a standard frame and make it the size you wish your 'window' to be. This frame serves to do nothing other than hold all of the other elements in place and will be the 'master parent' of all of the frames related to this scroll frame.
(b) Create another frame, this time arg1 is "ScrollFrame" and arg 4 is "UIPanelScrollFrameTemplate" in the CreateFrame func. Parent it to the frame above.
(c) Create another frame, standard frame. Don't do anything with it yet, and don't parent it to anything yet. This will be the scrollchild (see code below).
(d) Create one more standard frame once the Scroll Frame is complete (this is the frame which will hold your option widgets etc).
The code:
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Some things I've discovered:
(a) I've seen them created in other ways and without templates, but doing it this way ensures that functions are already written for the appropriate handlers. Decent functionality is achieved without the requirement to write any functions for the ScrollFrame.
If this has had anyone thinking "this bloke is trying to teach me how to suck eggs", I'm sorry. At the same time though, why are you still reading this lol?
In seriousness though, I hope this helps someone, as the post itself took half an hour!
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ADDF and W. Garfield Weston Foundation Collaborate to Fund Clinical Trial in Alzheimer's
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation of Canada (ADDF-Canada) and The W. Garfield Weston Foundation today announced a new funding collaboration to support a clinical trial investigating the potential for hypertension drugs to slow Alzheimer's disease progression. The trial will be led by Dr. Sandra Black and the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance at the University of Toronto.
"Hypertension has been suggested to be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease for almost 30 years, yet we have not adequately translated this knowledge into the clinic for the benefit of patients. Dr. Black's study will begin to address this important issue in a novel study design, investigating the possibility that some anti-hypertensive agents may also be neuroprotective," said Howard Fillit, MD, executive director and chief science officer of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. "We are grateful to The W. Garfield Weston Foundation for their collaboration in funding this important work."
Different classes of anti-hypertensive drugs may have different effects on the brain beyond just blood pressure control. In this study, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), will be compared for the treatment of hypertension in patients with Alzheimer's disease. ARBs, but not ACEIs, have been shown to both improve cognition in animal studies and interfere with disease processes involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Clinical trials designed to directly compare these two anti-hypertensive drug classes in patients with Alzheimer's disease have not yet been performed.
"Our exploratory clinical study will compare ARBs versus ACEIs in a "face-off" to slow brain degeneration in people with Alzheimer's disease who are already taking medications to control blood pressure," said Dr. Sandra Black, the executive director of the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance and research program director at Sunnybrook Research Institute at the University of Toronto. "We will use brain imaging, and measure cognition and quality of life over a one year period to compare the rate of brain shrinkage in the people on ACEIs vs. ARBs."
If positive, this study would lead to practice-changing implications, especially for hypertension control in Alzheimer's patients. Funding for this trial, which will cost $992,388USD, was made possible through a generous grant by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation to ADDF-Canada.
"With a new mandate to accelerate the development of safe and effective breakthrough treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation is pleased to support Dr. Black's compelling research through ADDF-Canada," said W. Galen Weston, chairman and president of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation.
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Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research enterprise of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Scientists at SRI strive to understand and prevent disease, and to develop treatments that enhance and extend life. Our vision is to invent the future of health care. The 270 scientists working at SRI are renowned for excellence in the biological, physical and evaluative clinical sciences. Areas of expertise are diseases of the brain and heart; cancer; musculoskeletal conditions; rehabilitation; trauma, emergency and critical care; women and babies, and veterans and community. Each year, SRI conducts over $120 million in research across 450,000 square feet, including in the world's first Centre for Research in Image-Guided Therapeutics. For more information, visit sunnybrook.ca/research.
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Established by the Toronto Academic Health Science Network in mid-2009, the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance (TDRA) is a coalition of the five memory/dementia clinics affiliated with the University of Toronto (Baycrest, Centre for Addictions and Mental Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and University Health Network), who have come together for the purpose of creating a new paradigm for collaborative clinical research in dementia, to quickly translate basic research discoveries into clinical trials. The TDRA's ultimate goal is to mitigate suffering from neurodegenerative disorders through understanding mechanisms and through finding better targets for disease modification and earlier means to detect and treat these diseases. The TDRA administrative core consists of: Executive Director, Dr. Sandra Black; Director of Strategy, Dr. Barry Greenberg; Program Manager, Dr. Ellie Aghdassi; and Project Coordinator, Dr. Ljubica Zotovic.
About The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation is a private Canadian family foundation, established in the 1950's by Willard Garfield Weston and his wife Reta. In 1924 Garfield inherited his father's company and during his life established baking and retail businesses throughout Canada and in many parts of the world. The founders believed that as the funds are generated through the hard work and success of his Canadian companies, grants should be given in Canada for the benefit of Canadians. For three generations, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has maintained a family tradition of supporting charitable organizations across Canada. Today the Foundation directs the majority of its funds to projects in the fields of neuroscience, land conservation, education, and scientific research in Canada's North.


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Susan M. Gasser to receive the 2012 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award
Swiss biologist recognized for her research on chromatin biology and epigenetics
Heidelberg, 15 February 2012 – The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Susan Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, as the winner of the 2012 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award. Professor Gasser has been recognized for her outstanding scientific research on genome stability and epigenetics and her commitment to mentoring women pursuing a career in science.
The FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award rewards the exceptional achievements of a female researcher in molecular biology over the previous five years. Winners of the award are role models who inspire future generations of women in science.
The Gasser laboratory studies two research topics of central importance to human health and disease: the maintenance of genome stability through DNA repair, and the role of epigenetic inheritance during tissue differentiation. Susan and her colleagues have examined how the experience of the cell and the environment affects the epigenetic code in different organisms. The Swiss scientist has authored more than 200 scientific articles and reviews over the last thirty years. The implications of her research are far-reaching for human disease, notably cancer. "Susan Gasser is not only a first-rate scientist, but is also playing an important role as one of the most dynamic and successful female scientific leaders in Europe and, indeed, anywhere," stated Gottfried Schatz, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of Basel.
"This is indeed a great honour, since being recognized as a top scientist seems harder for a woman than for a man," said the award winner upon hearing of her distinction. "My own success, in any case, reflects that of my team, which balances individual goals with those of the group as a whole. This coordination is a talent women often have."
Mentoring female scientists was a role that she assumed early on in her career. Susan Gasser supported mentoring programmes at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Career and family matters in academic institutions and industry were a frequent topic of her lectures. She has also trained many female scientists in her own laboratory with the result that many of them now run their own labs, and others are in leading positions in industry. "I am very proud of having trained a lot of very successful scientists," said the award winner.
"She clearly represents a role model for female scientists in Europe and beyond," commented Erich Nigg, Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, who has followed Susan Gasser's scientific career for the past 25 years.
The 2012 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award of 10,000 euros will be presented to Susan Gasser on 7 September at the 37th FEBS Congress in Sevilla, Spain, where she will present a plenary lecture.
Susan Gasser studied biology at the University of Chicago and completed her PhD at the University of Basel, developing an assay for the import of mitochondrial proteins with Gottfried Schatz. During her postdoctoral studies she examined questions of metaphase chromosome structure and higher-order organization of DNA in Drosophila nuclei.
Between 1986 and 2001, she led a research group at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Epalinges, Switzerland, focusing on the functional implications of chromosomal organization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In 2001, she became a professor at the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Since December 2004, she is Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) for Biomedical Research in Basel and Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Basel.
Professor Gasser has served nine years as a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation Council, she was Vice-chair and Chair (as of 2003) of the EMBO Council, and currently sits on numerous editorial boards, review committees and advisory boards. She has been awarded several prizes, including the Otto Nägeli Prize 2006, the INSERM International Prize 2011 and the Medal of Honor from the Charles University in Prague.
The award
The FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award consists of a bursary of €10,000, and a sculpture designed by Marloes Erden. More details on the artist (pdf).
Watch a video about the sculpture designer (in Dutch with English subtitles).
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Once the power center of the world, the Eternal City shines and inspires anew if you take your time with it. (Just don't order cappuccino afternoon.)
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Architecturally, Rome is best known for works from the ancient world (the Colosseum) and Renaissance (St. Peter's Basilica), punctuated by Baroque masterpieces (Bernini's fountains) and some forbidding Modernist blocks (the train station). But over the last decade the city has brought in some leading architects to spiff up the place. Renzo Piano designed Music Park with a large amphitheater and three concert halls, which vaguely resemble a trio of insects or a pod of whales, depending on your angle. Zaha Hadid contributed her prize-winning Centre for Contemporary Arts. And American Richard Meier designed both the sleek travertine and glass structure housing the Ara Pacis, a pristine 1st century altar (below), and the striking Jubilee Church, with its bright white concrete shells and glass. The boom hasn't been without controversy—Meier has come in for a drubbing—but the Eternal City is nonetheless (gradually) embracing some new architectural ideas.
Pliny the Elder may have called them "nature's monstrosities…which even the animals instinctively avoid" in A.D. 77 and infamous Baroque painter and criminal Caravaggio once got in trouble for hurling a plate of them at a waiter in a tavern on the Via Maddalena. But despite their unsightly appearance and unseemly associations, the artichoke is king in Rome, whether prepared Roman-style (pan-fried until tender) or Jewish-style (deep-fried twice until crispy). The best place to get them is in the Ghetto, but they can be found all over the city, particularly in spring, when you'll see wooden crates of them stacked up outside restaurants complemented by the tantalizing aroma of garlic wafting into the streets.
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Have you looked at this? Medieval Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Have you looked at this? Medieval Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 190721
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Two more sites for you to try. It is not clear if you are interested in language only, or in culture generally.
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