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Princess Leia Headband
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- Headband featuring Princess Leia's signature buns
- Lets you focus on other things, like saving the universe
- Officially-licensed Star Wars costume
If you've ever French-braided your own hair, you know that if you're not fast about it, your hands get all tingly while doing the detail work from holding your arms up so long. Carrie Fisher herself says it took two hours every day to get her into Leia's signature buns. So if you've got a costume that calls for that look we recommend one of two things: a friend who has some free time or this headband.
See, this headband has the buns already attached, so if you're a brunette all you have to do is part your hair down the middle, pin it in place over your ears or on the back of your head, and pop this baby on. Since the buns are pretty heavy, we recommend you secure the band with a few bobby pins or a hair clip. But either way you won't have to deal with the itchiness of a wig or the hassle of styling your own hair from scratch.
It's synthetic hair, which means a couple of things. 1) DO NOT HEAT STYLE IT. 2) It gets frizzy pretty quickly. Each of the buns comes protected by a hairnet. Keep them on until you have to take them off. Better yet, if you're hanging out in a club or someplace dark, which a lot of costume events are, just keep the nets on, period.
Product Specifications
- Headband featuring Princess Leia's signature buns
- Officially-licensed Star Wars costume
- Materials: synthetic hair
- Adult-sized headband - not adjustable - will not fit a child
- Ages 14+


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NBS10 (Also Known as AMR-001) Versus Placebo Post ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (PreSERVE-AMI)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01495364
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 20, 2011
Last Update Posted : April 28, 2016
Caladrius Biosciences, Inc.
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Caladrius Biosciences, Inc.
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|December 9, 2011
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|December 20, 2011
|Last Update Posted Date
|April 28, 2016
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|December 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To determine safety and efficacy of intracoronary infusion of NBS10. [ Time Frame: primary outcome measured at 6 months ]
The primary endpoint includes the occurrence of AE's, SAE's and Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) and the assessment of myocardial perfusion measured by quantitative gated SPECT MPI specifically looking at resting total severity score.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To determine safety and the effect of intracoronary infusion of AMR-001 on myocardial perfusion (RTSS), measured by gated SPECT MPI at baseline and six months in subjects post-STEMI [ Time Frame: primary outcome measured at 6 months ]
primary endpoint includes safety of bone marrow procurement (measured by adverse events) and AMR-001 cell infusion (including incidence of re-stenosis and stent thrombosis in addition to other adverse events)as well as efficacy measured by quantitative by gated SPECT MPI specifically looking at resting total severity score)
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01495364 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|NBS10 (Also Known as AMR-001) Versus Placebo Post ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Prospective Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Phase II Trial of Intra-coronary Infusion of AMR-001, a Bone Marrow Derived Autologous CD34+ Selected Cell Product, in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction.
|Brief Summary
|This study will assess the safety and efficacy of intracoronary artery administered autologous bone marrow derived stem cells in subjects post ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This will be assessed by evaluating and comparing the autologous stem cell treatment group to the control group in terms of the occurrence of AE's, SAE's and Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE), by the change in myocardial perfusion (RTSS) measured quantitatively by gated single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (gated SPECT MPI), and other secondary endpoints such as LVEF measured by cardiac MRI in addition to other endpoints.
|Detailed Description
|Efficacy endpoint is at 6 months. Clinical endpoints and safety will be measured through 36 months.
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|Study Phase
|Phase 2
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
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|Quyyumi AA, Vasquez A, Kereiakes DJ, Klapholz M, Schaer GL, Abdel-Latif A, Frohwein S, Henry TD, Schatz RA, Dib N, Toma C, Davidson CJ, Barsness GW, Shavelle DM, Cohen M, Poole J, Moss T, Hyde P, Kanakaraj AM, Druker V, Chung A, Junge C, Preti RA, Smith RL, Mazzo DJ, Pecora A, Losordo DW. PreSERVE-AMI: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of Intracoronary Administration of Autologous CD34+ Cells in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction Post STEMI. Circ Res. 2017 Jan 20;120(2):324-331. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.308165. Epub 2016 Nov 7.
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|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Actual Enrollment ICMJE
|Original Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Actual Study Completion Date
|April 2016
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
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|United States
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|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|Caladrius Biosciences, Inc.
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Caladrius Biosciences, Inc.
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|Caladrius Biosciences, Inc.
|Verification Date
|April 2016
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Cotton defoliation could be a real challenge this year for producers in Alabama's Tennessee Valley, especially considering the variability of the crop.
"Our crop across north Alabama is extremely varied. We've got cotton that is almost completing bloom or cotton that either hasn't started to bloom or is just beginning to bloom," said Charlie Burmester, Auburn University Extension cotton specialist.
Burmester gave an update on this year's crop at the recent Alabama Cotton Field Day, held at the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center in Belle Mina.
"Generally speaking, we can mature a boll or bloom by about Aug. 21 to Aug. 25, and that gives us a full three weeks. If we have a really good fall, we might can push that to four weeks. But we're getting close to running out of time," he says.
Most of the cotton in the region is one to two weeks behind due to excessive rainfall during the season, says Burmester. "You can find cotton here that's a week behind, but it's loaded with bolls. Then, you can go down the road and find a completely different story. Where the ground is low, and the cotton was drowned out, the crop is delayed.
"Depending on weather conditions, defoliation is going to be a challenge because we'll have several different stages of cotton in the field at the same time."
This may be a year, says the agronomist, when using a plant growth regulator is very helpful. "In looking at this later cotton, the squares you have now probably will be the only squares that you'll be able to mature. At this point, you shouldn't be worried about the squares that are put on later. Pix it, and try and get it to set squares and make bolls. Then, shut it down, because those later squares are just insect food.
"As long as you have enough plant now to harvest, I wouldn't be afraid to put 8 ounces of Pix on it and try to slow it down. One thing we've seen with Pix over the years is that if it controls growth, and we can get about five days of maturity out of it, we can get in five days earlier. And in a year like this one, five days could mean a lot," he says.
Reviewing insect pressure
Cotton producers in the Tennessee Valley have had an "average" thrips year, says Barry Freeman, Extension entomologist. "Farmers had a tough time with cotton in the seedling stage, but it was more weather related than thrips problems. Thrips have a couple of stages in the soil surface, and the rainfall this past spring just wasn't good for them," says Freeman.
North Alabama growers had a few aphid problems in late May and again in late June, but it wasn't out of the ordinary, he says. "We anticipated a bad plant bug year. The way it played out, plant bugs started to move to cotton in mid- to late-June, like always. It wasn't a heavy migration, but they never let up until the end of July," he says.
Plant bugs haven't ravaged cotton, he adds, but they've been a steady pest for a long time. "Farmers who haven't been in their fields controlling plant bugs probably have some now that could stand cleaning up."
For the third or fourth consecutive year, growers also have had serious problems with the two-spotted spider mite, he says, and control has been difficult.
Needs controlling
"This is a pest that does need controlling because it will defoliate cotton," notes Freeman. "New growth has been covering up some of the mite damage. As the plant quits growing vegetatively, that damage starts to show. We don't need to let that pest go too far. It's expensive to control, and it requires specific products."
The entomologist says he is also concerned this year about corn earworms. "Starting in late July, we began flushing a lot of moths. Usually, if I scout a field of cotton and flush four or five moths, they get my attention. We're flushing large numbers and the egg counts are increasing. We're also starting to find a few caterpillars."
Bt cotton should provide 60 to 65 percent control of the corn earworm, says Freeman. "Some can break through, but pyrethroids still control that pest."
In central Alabama, at the Prattville experiment field, corn earworms have been laying eggs since July 17, says Ron Smith, Extension entomologist.
"They've spread over the entire farm — we're talking about numbers we haven't seen since 1995. We're seeing egg lays of an egg or more per plant. Some plants in untreated conventional cotton had five worms," says Smith.
It's important, he adds, that growers pay attention to the number of corn earworm or bollworm moths. "They shouldn't be difficult to kill, and pyrethroids do a good job," he says.
Stinkbugs also continue to be a concern for Alabama cotton producers, says Smith. A higher percent of the stinkbug population throughout the growing season has been the brown stinkbug, he says.
"The brown stinkbug may be more winter-hardy than the green stinkbug," says Smith. "But the green stinkbug also is coming into the system, so we have a mixture of both species."
A distinction is made between the brown and green stinkbug, he says, because chemical controls are not the same for both pests. "In general, pyrethroids do a good job on the green stinkbug. Other than Capture, they don't do a good job on the brown stinkbug."
Consultants in southwest Georgia have reported that the new pyrethroid Mustang Max has worked well on brown stinkbugs, says Smith. "Our work shows that Mustang Max falls in line with other pyrethroids, with about 35 to 40 percent control. Capture will give you about 60 percent, and phosphates like Bidrin will take you up to about 100 percent."
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judicial oversight board wants a Montana judge disciplined for saying a 14-year-old rape victim was "older than her chronological age" and sentencing her rapist to just one month in prison.
The Montana Judicial Standards Commission filed a formal complaint Monday with the state Supreme Court against District Judge G. Todd Baugh (baw) in Billings. The complaint was released Tuesday.
It says the 72-year-old Baugh eroded public confidence in the courts with his statements and the "overly lenient" prison sentence given to rapist and former teacher Stacey Rambold.
The complaint doesn't specify what disciplinary action should be taken. A commission attorney says that's expected at a later date.
Baugh has apologized for his handling of the case and says he'll retire at the end of the year.


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The November 2010 mid-term congressional elections came and went without many people noticing that Election Day this year was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's election to the presidency in November 1960.
It is hard today for younger Americans, including younger Catholics, to appreciate just how close 1960 still was to the days when anti-Catholic bigotry and even violence was everywhere one turned in American society. "Anti-Papist" prejudice was intertwined with anti-immigrant, ethnic and class prejudices. But by the mid-20th century, most anti-Catholic sentiment in Anglo-Protestant America centered squarely on religion.
In 1960, open attacks on the "Americanism" and patriotism of Roman Catholics were no longer standard fare. Instead, the attacks were a bit more subtle, even subliminal. During the Democratic primary in West Virginia in 1960, supporters of Kennedy's main rival, Hubert H. Humphrey, a Congregationalist, took to playing or singing "Give Me That Old-Time Religion."
In the century leading up to Kennedy's victory, successive generations of Catholic clergy and lay leaders used words, deeds and symbols to neutralize nativist nonsense and Know-Nothing canards about Catholics as citizens. The shield of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, for instance, founded in 1851, sported 32 stars, one for each state, plus that all-American Latin phrase, E Pluribus Unum.
Most Catholics today know nothing about the Know-Nothings. Rather, post-1960 Catholics have moved so far into the American mainstream politically and culturally that they are now, as a religious bloc, what political scientists call "median voters."
On nearly every public policy issue on which there is good national polling data—from immigration to environmental protection, the death penalty to welfare spending and myriad other issues—Catholics as a group come as close as any religious denomination does to mirroring what most Americans believe.
A plurality of Catholics, like a plurality of Americans generally, call themselves moderates, while about a third call themselves conservatives, and about one fifth consider themselves liberals.
In the run-up to the 2008 elections, Republican or Republican-leaning citizens constituted about 35 percent of the voting-age population and 33 percent of the Catholic electorate, while Democratic or Democratic-leaning citizens made up about 47 percent of the voting-age population and 48 percent of the Catholic electorate.
In 2008 the national popular vote was about 53 percent to 47 percent for Obama over McCain, while the Catholic vote was about 54 percent to 45 percent for Obama over McCain. In 2010 Catholics led the country in swinging back to the Republicans: about 54 percent of all Americans, including about 54 percent of all Catholics, who went to the polls and voted in a House race voted for a Republican.
On the one hand, nobody, save perhaps closet anti-Catholic bigots, pines for the pre-1960 days, when Catholics were ridiculed and caricatured as un-American or worse.
On the other hand, Catholics' post-1960 march into the all-American political and cultural mainstream has come at a price.
The country's Catholic bishops face a flock that includes large numbers of people who hold positions at odds with church teaching (on abortion, the death penalty, programs to assist the poor and many other issues).
Among young Catholics who attend college, over four-fifths now go to non-Catholic institutions, many with majority or plurality non-Catholic student bodies—and blend right in.
And beneath all the data on "Catholics" are divisions between church-going conservative Catholics and "less religious," more liberal or lapsed ones, and between Democratic-leaning urban Latino Catholics and Republican-leaning suburban white Catholics.
Have American Catholics been folded so completely into the nation's political and cultural mainstream that they can no longer be its political salt and cultural light, or so divided among themselves that they can never speak truth to power in one faith-filled voice? I pray not, but I fear so.
Davila: You are exactly right that when it comes to the political arena, it seems the only issue that matters to Catholics is abortion. And our inability to articulate a constructive way forward on that issue (all we do is state the same "all or nothing" position over and over again) doesn't enhance our credibility. Itt's too bad that many Catholics don't understand our social teaching that respects all life from conception to natural death.
And that leads to my ultimate point, which is that it is impossible to be salt and light to the world if we do not understand what we believe and why we believe it. Although I disagree with many of the positions they take, both theologically and politically, there is no doubt that Christian fundamentalists have been able to affect public discourse profoundly in recent years - so much so that the public automatically associates their views with anyone who calls himself a Christian. Most fundamentalists I know take a lot of time to read and meditate on the Bible and to engage actively in studying what they believe. The fact is that by comparison, most of us Catholics lack intellectual curiosity about our faith. Sure we are all busy; there are many things to distract us. But access to information about our Catholic faith is more available to us than it ever has been. How can we hope to affect public opinion as Catholics if we don't understand what Catholicism teaches about our role as citizens? And why should our children want to affect our world as Catholics when we, as Catholic parents, cannot explain what our faith has to offer in a world in which secular humanism also seems to have the power to do "good?"
Reference the author's final question and conclusion.
"Have American Catholics been folded so completely into the nation's political and cultural mainstream that they can no longer be its political salt and cultural light, or so divided among themselves that they can never speak truth to power in one faith-filled voice? I pray not, but I fear so."
The author does not demonstrate, but merely assumes to be true, that if Catholics are folded into the political and cultural mainstream that they can never speak truth to power in one faith-filled voice. I question whether the presence of different opinions on practical and prudential matters of specific proposed legislation, for example, or expressed doubts about the efficacy of specific policies in the attainment of claimed practical outcomes, can be counted as evidence of inability to speak truth to power on matters of faith in a fairly unified way. As for the attainment of absolute, exceptionless unity, even on matters of faith, that has been out of reach for Catholics for millenia. And for most of those millenia, Catholics did not have political choices at all, so, presumably, would have been counted in the mainstream had they been professionally surveyed.
I can think of several reasons why American Catholics may have lost their unified, faith-filled voice. First, scandal in our house tends to make us a little less likely to participate, and comment by priests and bishops on any subject is shouted down by those bringing up the scandal. Second, while it's good that Catholics are members of both parties, they're generally not found among the extremists, and the extremists seem to rule the public debate these days. (Look at what happened in the health care debate and the election to the anti-abortion Democrats.) Third, with the exception of America, the Catholic press is in contraction, especially when it comes to social and political issues. For example, diocesan newspapers which once reported national events from a Catholic perspective have been replaced by magazines which are more devotional or inner-directed. While these periodicals are good, they tend to avoid the kind of reporting and analysis which inform opinion.There's lots of good writing in America and elsewhere, but mainstream Catholics don't get much traction in these polarized times.
Too often "Catholic Truth" no longer informs conscience, largely a residual effect of the moral mishmash of the post Vatican II catechetical free-fall. The "new evangelization" of JP II is badly needed by those of us already evangelized, so that we'll know once again what it means to be Catholic. We also need attentive ears to what PB XVI is teaching, trying to undo the mess caused by some teachers with "itching ears" who have led many astray (often unintentionally) validating the words of Jesus, "If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit!"
I also believe Post #6 by Deacon Mike makes sense. If Bishops would enflesh Gospel mandates of service by physically "dirtying their hands" in Corporal Works of Mercy, being the "Caretakers" they are called to be, like St. Paul who unashamedly worked with his hands mending fishing nets, some of that "salt and light" would certainly rub off and invigorate the Catholic faithfull. They long to see authentic Christianity made tangible by Leadership. Some Bishop do this, but I fear too many afraid of the smell of the poor, hang out istead in well polished and sweet smelling places, allowing others to do the "dirty work." Something is missing there! "WWJD?"
After reading the comments, I thought that I had misread the article, and that it had something to do with the way Catholic leaders lead, Catholic preachers preach, etc. So I reread the article and it seems that it is about what I originally thought it was about.
Regarding the author's nostalgia, there never was one, unified Catholic voice. Not in the history of Catholicism in the U.S., and not in the Catholicism of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Byzantium, Rome, England, Germany, North Africa, etc. Think of some obvious moral scourge, and try to find one, unified, Catholic faith-filled voice speaking truth to power. How about slavery? Name one, any one.
In regard to the purported causal relationship between the way that Catholics sin and the way that Catholics vote, this implies that the issues presented to U.S. Catholics in elections admit of no differences of opinion with regard to practical matters of governance, but that one opinion only, influenced solely by the candidate's party affiliation, is admissable. The premise is absurd.


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#StoryFriday is a fun, collaborative process that takes place every Friday on Twitter and is hosted by Writer's Digest's Online Editor Brian A. Klems (@BrianKlems).
How it works:
We write the first line on Twitter, then someone adds next line on Twitter and so on. When you contribute a line to the story, place #storyfriday at the end of your tweet (i.e., He was leaving on a jet plane and never coming back. #storyfriday) so everyone can read it and follow along. To read past stories, visit the #StoryFriday Archive below.
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Around 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, Brian will post a new prompt through @WriterDigest with the #storyfriday hashtag.
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The Three-Day March for
Educational Justice
in Chicago
Sunday, May 19
Monday, May 20
Monday Morning
South Side: 9:00 a.m. at Mayo Elementary, 249 E. 37th
West Side: 10:00 a.m. at Peabody Elementary, 1444 W. Augusta
Monday Afternoon
Marches Converge: 4:00 p.m. at Daley Plaza, Washington & Dearborn
Keep up with all the events from across the city on our Facebook, Twitter and Ustream.
Look out for Tweets (with hashtag #cpsclosings) and FB updates for times the Ustream will go live.
Click here for photos from Sunday's South Side march.
The mayor and Board of Education want to destroy 54 school communities. This will be the largest destruction of schools in U.S. history. We need our neighborhood schools and we should all fight together to save them. Join parents, teachers, students, public school workers, clergy, activists and others in the threeday citywide march across the city. They want to divide us. But this is our city, our schools, and together, we'll use our voice to tell the mayor and the world that we intend to fight back.
Click the appropriate box below to sign up for either the West Side march or the South Side march.


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Welcome to my blog!
I love people more than photography, the connections and friendships we build are the cornerstones to real emotional photography, regardless of the the subject matter.
I have been taking photos since I was 16, that's since 1987 I like most photographers my age first started printing black and whites in a darkroom before Photoshop I think that's the part I enjoyed the most and would spend hours in the dark room. About 7 years ago I started specializing in weddings; definitely the most challenging aspect of professional photography.
Today when I'm not behind the camera I'm talking with people; chatting about their lives, their weddings their future plans and just about the world in general. I really believe my clients are not buying photographs, they're looking for a photographer, a real relationship and a friendship, after all when their memories fade they will be refreshed not by just a picture but the context of how that picture was made.
I want to be friends first, and a photographer second, I strive to make my clients comfortable when we work together to capture real moments situated in the most flattering of environments.
I am a member of the Professional Photographers of Canada - PPOC and I am nationally accredited in Wedding Story I'm also a member of Wedding & Portrait Photographers International. I have studied with and collaborated with incredible local and international photographers. I love weddings and wedding photography so much that I have dedicated myself to educating other photographers and continuing my learning process as a wedding photography instructor at Sheridan College in Oakville Ontario.
My approach to wedding photography is quite simple - emotion beats perfection every time period; and if you (brides) didn't want to look glamorous on your wedding day then why spend all of that dough on the goregous dress, hair and make up -- I want to make your bridal portraits look like you should be in a magazine! I really believe that when you're having a great time you'll look amazing and genuine in your photos.
I want to use this blog as a diary of my photographic adventures to showcase the real magic behind my work; my clients! I want you to see my most recent work to share thoughts on Photography and life in general regardless if you are a client of mine or not, and to show my style and work.
I hope you enjoy!
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The shiatsu masseuse only comes to the Pixar offices once a week.
The dedicated massage room is hard to find in the studio's Gastown offices but if you take a left at the lighting department and bypass the multi-purpose room holding a yoga class through lunch, you're at the door to relaxation.
Top talent, it seems, is hard to please.
The digital media industry's 22,000 workers in B.C. take up a quarter of all tech jobs in the province. In Vancouver alone, roughly 1,000 jobs have been created and a dozen studios have moved to the city in just the past four years, said Vancouver Economic Commission CEO Lee Malleau.
And as many as 700 more jobs are expected in the next year, shifting the focus of Vancouver's post-production houses from proving themselves to competing for top talent.
At Pixar, a 3,500-square-foot kitchen was home to a catered lunch for staff on Wednesday during a behind the scenes tour of three distinct studios in the city led by Malleau and Mayor Gregor Robertson.
Pixar parachuted into a perfect storm three years ago, self-admittedly armed with a credit card, in an attempt to skim the top talent.
"(Vancouver's) getting a really good rep, it's building very fast," said Amir Nasrabadi, vice president and general manager of Pixar Canada. "The main thing is that there's a cluster of really high quality studios that are opening up here and I think that will help take the industry to the next level."
It's exactly what Malleau asked for, what she called an ecosystem filled with studios and production houses, situated on the coast and close to Los Angeles.
It's not an industry built solely on Pixar, but rather studios taking a chance on Vancouver, a city that had yet to prove it could produce top quality graphics, animations and post production.
And then there was District 9.
With four Academy Award nominations in 2010, homegrown studio Image Design made one of the major breakthroughs for itself, and the city.
The graphics-heavy film was nominated for best visual effects, eventually losing to James Cameron's 3D blockbuster, Avatar.
But projects like District 9 expanded the local talent pool, explained partner and visual effects executive producer Shawn Walsh.
"It's basically like a magnet. This was something that previously would only exist in Los Angels or San Francisco," Walsh said. "Vancouver didn't have those types of projects up until very recently."
Walsh was a self-described "digital gypsy" — moving from project to project, regardless of the city.
Large projects, like District 9, would draw in the masses. And with a number of major studios gathering in the city, those digital gypsies can make a home in Vancouver and move from project to project within the same city.
Or, as Scott Eabe did, they could come home.
"There wasn't a lot here beforehand," said Eabe, a Richmond native and current head of layout at Moving-Picture Company (MPC). "A lot of people actually had to go away to get their chops."
Eabe left for greener pastures in New Zealand, but eventually returned, telling the story while he peeled back layers of a scene from previous work on Fast & Furious.
Michelle Grady, head of film at MPC, said their small outfit, which is a branch of the London-based company and expects to add 100 staff to their 200 so far by the fall, was given a chance with the stylized movie Watchmen from Warner Brothers.
"We're really eliminating that question of whether Vancouver can do the quality or not, that's been our No. 1 goal," Grady said.
Now they split work with the London office, and field requests from staff that would rather live in Vancouver than grind in London.
"The interest in Vancouver is through the roof from artists," Grady said.


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Family and friends of Mark W. Farrell will be hosting a benefit to help out with his growing medical expenses on Sunday, March 3, from 2 to 6 p.m. at St. Vincent De Paul (St. Leo site), 2748 Military Road, Niagara Falls.
Mark was born and raised in Niagara Falls. The son of Jerry and Catherine Farrell, his father was a well-known local DJ for WGR, WJJL and WKBW radio until his death from a heart attack in 1977.
Mark owned two city bars: Little Willies, on the corner of 16th Street and Pine Avenue, and Night Owl's, which was in the City Market in the 1980s and eventually moved to Main Street until its closing. He also worked for STV Cable and Niagara County Community College. He and his wife, Carol, have lived in Lewiston for the past 20 years.
Mark was diagnosed with tonsil cancer in October 2011. In January 2012, he began radiation treatments at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, five days a week, continuing for seven weeks.
In July, it was discovered that the cancer had returned and the only option was "salvage" surgery. On Aug. 1, Mark underwent a 13-hour surgery to remove the cancer, which unfortunately included the removal of his larynx (voice box) to complete the necessary reconstruction. He was hospitalized for one month after surgery and since then has had five subsequent hospitalizations.
Currently, his only form of nutrition is received through a feeding tube. He is presently home, but requires 24-hour care, specially compounded medications that are given via a feeding tube, and several forms of therapy.
Recently, Mark fell, suffered bleeding to his brain, and is now recovering from this latest setback. His medical expenses continue to mount.
Tickets to the benefit are $20 and include a spaghetti dinner, entertainment by the Mombrea Brothers Band, and one sheet of auction tickets. The benefit will feature a basket auction, raffles, gift certificates and baked goods for sale.
Organizers note one special raffle will be for a small kitchen renovation, including 12 new kitchen cabinets, counter tops, kitchen sink and faucet. Labor includes removal of old cabinets and installation of new.
The donation is provided courtesy of Valery Contracting, president Remi Gonzalez, and various sub-contractors, along with Kitchen World and specialist Tom Cheff. A $5,500 value, raffle tickets will be on sale for $1 for a chance to win.
Additionally, organizers will be raffling off a 47-inch TV, plus holding $1 raffles for a Nexus 7 Blu-ray player, other items and the basket auction.
Raffle items, basket donations for basket auction, gift certificates, baked goods and all other donations are greatly appreciated. Pickup/drop-off arrangements can be made by calling Remi Gonzalez, 716-622-5354; Joe Mombrea, 716-210-8696; Mike Hall, 716-285-3725; Rich Backlas, 716-285-8037; Linda Edwards, 716-471-9211; or Rita Farrell, 716-628-4320
Please join Mark, his wife Carol, and family and friends in supporting him through this most difficult time. For those unable to attend, checks can be made payable to "Mark W. Farrell Benefit."
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I need a basic .NET application to communicate with a Lenze PositionServo Drive over Modbus TCP. User interface will provide the option to connect and disconnect over a set IP address. Buttons will allow the user to select between 1 of 5 positions. Clicking each position button will write an integer to the register (1-5). It needs to read integers from the register and assign 1-3 to some form of visual indicator. 1=In Position, 2=Drive Ready, 3=Drive Faulted
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It was much a boo about nothing.
It wasn't even a good boo hoo. And it was water off a Ducks' back.
"It wasn't too bad. Obviously I expected worse,'' said Chris Pronger after his night in the barrel, returning to the Edmonton Oilers for the first time after asking to be traded only hours after Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.
"It was respectful, I think.''
Mike Comrie had it much worse in his first game back than Chris Pronger here last night. Heck, Tom Poti and Jason Arnott were booed worse here when they were Edmonton Oilers.
For a real good boo they needed referee Mick McGeough in a double feature.
Oh, there were some moments.
"It was nice to get it over with and win it, too,'' he said.
There were fewer than 1,000 fans sitting in their seats and only a brief boo was heard when Pronger hit the ice for warm-up. The full house wasn't waiting to pour venom on him, as many expected. But three of the better signs were already up with the fans who were in the stands.
Sign of the times
"Down With Pronger For Undisclosed Personal Reasons!'' was the first he likely saw.
"The Gap In Your Story Is Bigger Than The Gap In Your Teeth!'' was one at the other end of the rink.
"Chris, 1985 Phoned - They Want Their Hair Back!'' was another.
Pronger said he only saw one sign.
"There was a real nice one in the corner. It said 'Thank you, Chris.' It was the only one I saw.''
Oilers management confiscated several signs deemed to be in poor taste as fans entered the building. But the organization had a sense of humor about it, too, showing one female fan on the video board looking through a peep hole in a cardboard box on her head where the words "Pronger's No. 1 Fan'' were written.
After the national anthems the crowd got creative by alternating, "Let's Go Oilers! Pronger Sucks! Let's Go Oilers! Pronger Sucks!''
If booing and chanting "Pronger Sucks!'' can be considered classy, it was.
Before the opening faceoff, somebody threw a Pronger No. 44 Oilers jersey on the ice.
The first real boo for Pronger came at the 1:39 mark of the first period.
When Joffrey Lupul hit Pronger with a body check 11 minutes into the period, there was a huge cheer. And there was a huge boo, too, when Pronger set up Teemu Selanne for a second period goal which started the comeback.
Every time Pronger touched the puck there were boos, but as we found out here last year, the six-foot-six $6.25 million dollar man doesn't keep the puck on his stick very long.
"It's hard for people to constantly boo and watch the hockey game, too,'' said Ducks coach Randy Carlyle.
As the game progressed Edmonton had a much more immediate villain on the scene when Sean O'Donnell sent Ales Hemsky out with a shoulder injury. Brad Winchester went out to pound some flesh in a second period fight. Hemsky left the rink with his arm in a sling.
Pause for applause
The crowd also took a time out to applaud Edmonton native Scott Niedermayer, playing his 1,000th game here last night.
"I think our team wanted to win it for two guys, one Niedermayer and the other Pronger," said Carlyle.
As it turned out, the crowd of 16,839 fans - Edmonton's 45th consecutive regular season sellout - was as interested in the Oilers stretching their league-leading winning streak to six straight and extending the league's longest streak between two teams in the same building to 13 games, dating back to Feb. 24, 1999. Both streaks were stopped.
The Oilers lost, but Edmonton fans won.
"These are hockey fans and knowledgeable fans and I'm sure they didn't want to see a few people ruin the night,'' said Carlyle.
The bottom line was that Edmonton has seen better players than Chris Pronger come and go and clearly are ready to move on.
Listen to 'Terry Jones At Large' weekdays at 8:07 a.m. on 790 CFCW.


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White House orders agencies to start shutting downReuters
October 01. 2013 12:04AM
WASHINGTON - The White House ordered government agencies to begin shutting down late on Monday after Congress failed to find a compromise on a government spending bill before a midnight deadline.
"We urge Congress to act quickly to pass a continuing resolution to provide a short-term bridge that ensures sufficient time to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year, and to restore the operation of critical public services and programs that will be impacted by a lapse in appropriations," said Sylvia Burwell, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, in a statement.


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M's manager Wedge spending 2nd night in hospital
SEATTLE (AP) — Eric Wedge will spend a second night in a Seattle area hospital Tuesday as doctors try and determine the cause of dizziness that sent the Mariners manager to the hospital a day earlier.
Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik provided an update on his manager before Tuesday night's game against Cleveland. Zduriencik spent time with Wedge earlier in the day, but doctors wanted to continue running tests to determine why Wedge suddenly fell ill.
"He's doing well. He's in good spirits. But it's a little premature to say yet exactly what the prognosis is going to be," Zduriencik said. "But more than anything else, just a precaution, they want to keep him another evening as they get the results from the tests that are ongoing."
Seattle bench coach Robby Thompson, who will serve as the fill-in manager for a second straight game, said he spoke with Wedge's wife Kate during the day. Thompson said Wedge was still having dizziness on Tuesday but it was less than what he experienced a day earlier.
"He is resting peacefully. He's been up and down a little bit. The dizziness is not as bad and we're hoping that continues to get better each hour," Thompson said. "Hopefully we'll know a little bit more today or later this evening."
Wedge was helped off the field about halfway through the Mariners' hitting session Monday and into the Seattle clubhouse. Wedge was examined by team physicians Dr. Mitch Storey and Dr. Edward Khalfayan, and the team training staff. Wedge was feeling better after being checked out in the clubhouse, but the team still decided to have him examined at a hospital.
Seattle's players said it was odd and concerning to see Wedge being helped off the field and not immediately knowing what happened.
"It was kind of scary during BP. You kind of saw him walking off the field and he couldn't really walk that well. It's good to hear that he's doing all right now," Seattle center fielder Dustin Ackley said. "It was during our group of hitting and I saw him behind the cage and I saw (trainer) Rick (Griffin) there with him. ... Once you saw him walking off you knew something was wrong."
The 45-year-old Wedge is in his third season as Seattle's manager. He's the second Mariners coach to have a health issue this season. Third-base coach Jeff Datz missed time earlier in the season undergoing treatment for skin cancer.
"We're probably all lunatics for wanting to do this job. Sometimes it wears you down. It's just part of it," Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. "I know when the season is over I collapse. Then regroup and do it again."


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November 4, 1919 - April 3, 2013
Warwick, NY
Irene Cahill, passed away April 3, 2013 at St. Anthony's Hospital in Warwick, NY.
She was born November 4, 1919 in Prices Switch, Vernon, NJ, a daughter of Russell and Rethie Masker Decker. Irene married Kenneth "Carpy" Cahill on November 10, 1935 in Glenwood, NJ. They enjoyed many years of hunting, fishing, camping and spending time with family and friends. Irene owned the former Launderette on Forester Ave. in Warwick, NY and thought a great deal of her customers. Retired at 59, she moved to Earlville, NY with her husband, where they enjoyed their retirement together, until he passed away in 1994. Irene returned to Warwick in April 2009. Her family and friends were the center of her life.
Besides her beloved husband, Kenneth, she was predeceased by her daughter, Carole and son-in-law, Freeman Masker; half-brother, Robert Decker; her parents; a grandson, Darren Masker; step-mom and dad, Lena Decker and Fred Babcock.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Donna and Robert Ibbetson of Warwick; sister, Doris Bertholf of Georgia; half-sister, Shirley Wedeking of Jacksonville, FL; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 7th, from the Burgess & Tedesco Funeral Home, 3 Preston St., Earlville, NY. Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday from Noon to 1 p.m. Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Warwick Valley Humane Society, PO Box 61, Warwick, NY 10990.
For additional information go to http://www.burgessandtedescofuneralhomes.com


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|A new type of drug: IgE inhibitor
A new class of medications called Immunoglobulin E (IgE) inhibitors is available to treat allergy-related asthma. Omalizumab (Xolair) was the first approved therapy to target the IgE molecule.
It is normal for your airways to tighten and become inflamed if you inhale a dangerous substance. This reaction is an attempt by your body to prevent the threat from traveling too far into your lungs. The airways open up again when the threat has passed.
If you have allergy-induced asthma, however, your airways are overly responsive to mild substances called allergens. Your body's response to these triggers leads to blocked airways and the symptoms of asthma.
Most asthma drugs relieve symptoms by simply "blunting" the response to an asthma trigger. In contrast, IgE blockers actually prevent the response from occurring in the first place.
To understand this more fully, it helps to know what makes something an asthma trigger. If you have an allergy to a substance like pollen, mold, or dust mites (all called allergens), your body makes too many IgE antibodies to that substance. These antibodies recognize and fight against the individual allergens. But, having too many of the IgE antibodies can make the body too responsive to these allergens, and lead to an allergic reaction like asthma.
Omalizumab binds to excess IgE antibodies in your bloodstream. This stops the IgE antibodies from recognizing the asthma-provoking allergens. In other words, omalizumab stops the body from overreacting to asthma triggers by making the IgE antibodies ineffective. This interrupts the excessive inflammatory response even before it starts. Omalizumab is given by injection every 2 - 4 weeks to prevent asthma flare-ups.
Omalizumab was approved by the FDA in 2003 for patients ages 12 and older with moderate-or severe persistent asthma. It is usually recommended only for patients who have moderate-to-severe asthma related to allergies. Such patients usually have tried full dosage of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta agonists but still do not have their asthma completely under control.
This medicine is given by injection in a doctor's office every 2 - 4 weeks. The most common side effect is an injection-site rash. However, the medicine may cause a severe and life-threatening allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). Patients may develop anaphylaxis after any dose of omalizumab, even if they had no reaction to the initial shot. Health care providers need to observe patients carefully for 2 hours after they receive an omalizumab injection. However, because an allergic reaction can occur up to 24 hours after the injection, patients need to know the signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis and how to self-administer emergency treatment. Symptoms may include:
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Leeds Rhinos sign Lauiti?iti
Leeds Rhinos today confirmed the signing of New Zealand rugby league star Ali Lauiti?iti, 24, on a two and half year contract with the giant Kiwi likely to make his debut in the Rhinos next home game against Salford City Reds on Friday 28th May.
Lauiti?iti, who earned the catchphrase as ?the Michael Jordan of Rugby League? for his outrageous ball handling skills, had been released from his contract with the New Zealand Warriors sparking a world wide chase for his signature. However, the Rhinos have beaten competition from 14 other club?s in Australia and England to secure the second row. Commenting on the signing Chief Executive Gary Hetherington said, ?We are bringing one of the world?s most dynamic and exciting rugby players to Headingley, which is good news for Leeds Rhinos and the Tetley?s Super League competition.
When we signed Iestyn Harris in 1997 we likened it to the signing of Lewis Jones and similarly the capture of Ali could be as significant as when the legendary Arthur Clues joined the club in 1947. Arthur arrived from Australia having become an international at a young age, he was blessed with great ball handling skills, speed and elusive footwork, all characteristics that Ali shares. We are planning to bring Ali over in the next 10 days with the aim for him to make his debut at our next home game on the 28th May.?
Head Coach Tony Smith added, ?I am very excited about Ali coming to Headingley. He is an extremely talented, young player but unusually for someone of his age he also has so much experience having played over 100 NRL games and 11 Test matches. He will fit in well with our group of players and his abilities will complement the type of game we try and play.? Factfile
Ali Lauiti?iti earned the catchphrase as the ?The Michael Jordan of Rugby League? since making his senior debut back in April 1998 for the New Zealand Warriors. Just two years later he was named the NRL second row of the year ahead of the likes of Great Britain?s Adrian Morley and host of Australian test locks. He is a monster of a man but his speed, footwork and offloading ability set him apart from other forwards, thus earning him is nickname.
Lauiti?iti joined New Zealand Warriors from Mangere East club in 1996 and shone as a junior in their U19 side in 1997 scoring 17 tries in 19 games. He went onto gain international honours with the Junior Kiwis that year and in 1998. He was selected for the New Zealand test squad for the 2000 Anzac test but missed out on final selection for the match instead making a try scoring debut against the Cook Islands at Reading in the World Cup. He also scored against Wales in the next game at the Millennium Stadium. He has now played 11 times for New Zealand and was part of the Kiwi?s side that toured Great Britain in 2002, featuring in seven out of the eight games on the tour including all three Tests against the Lions, plus games against St Helens, England A, Wales and France. He also scored in the third Test against Great Britain. He was an integral part of the Warriors squad which reached the Grand Final in 2002, the first time in the club?s history, where they lost out to Sydney Roosters. He has appeared in 115 games for the Warriors and scored 33 tries.


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Categories: Legal Writing Law Practice Skills
Instructor(s) Weigold, Ursula
Students will write the types of documents that are typical in representing clients in a case: engagement letters, demand letters, pleadings, discovery requests and responses, communications with opposing counsel, mediation statements, motions, affidavits, and trial-level briefs. They will learn how to adapt their tone, format, and substance to a variety of practice settings and audiences. They will refine their research and writing skills through in-class exercises, peer critique, and extensive instructor feedback. Instructor: Ursula Weigold


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Oil giant BP says it has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a wide-ranging settlement with the U.S. government over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The London-based multinational company said in a statement Thursday it agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges including 11 felony counts of misconduct related to the deaths of 11 men in the rig explosion that triggered the oil spill.
It also agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of obstruction of Congress. The settlement total of $4.5 billion over five years includes nearly $1.3 billion in criminal fines - the largest such penalty ever - along with payments to several government agencies.
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If you've visited the Butterfly Center in the past year, you'll see we have updated the upstairs and downstairs exhibit space outside the butterfly flight area. One of the new sections is on bees, beekeeping, and honey, and we also installed an "observation bee hive" inside the butterfly flight area itself.
In the course of doing background research on honeybees I met a Houston beekeeper (Donald Burger, who is featured in our video about backyard beekeeping) and also read many books on keeping bees. The more I learned about these insects, the more fascinating I found them. As a result, and with Donald's encouragement, I decided to set up a hive myself! As of mid-April 2008, I am the proud caretaker of a hive of "Allstar" honeybees.
My next few blogs will be about my experience setting up the hive and what I have learned and continue to learn about bees in general. I'll also include insights gained from our observation hive at the Cockrell Butterfly Center.
The museum's hive
But back to setting up my own honeybee hive: Last fall I started ordering equipment, which is available from several beekeeping supply companies around the country. The ones I used were Dadant, Brushy Mountain, and Rossman Apiaries. They all have pretty much the same equipment at comparable prices.
Basic startup needs include the hive itself, which consists of a box filled with frames called the hive body. The hive body sits on a stand and has an inner and outer cover. Here's a link that shows you all the parts of a hive. All these components are made of wood and must be assembled and painted – so you need to order these things this well in advance. You also need a bee suit, a smoker, a hive tool, a Boardman feeder, and a couple of entrance reducers (strips of wood used to control the size of the bees' entrance to the hive). It took me quite a while to get all the components and put them together. However, this helped to increase my sense of anticipation…
We mark the queen bee
I ordered my bees from a local supplier back in the fall (you need to order bees in advance, as suppliers sometimes run out). A starter colony consists of 3 pounds of bees (about 10,000 bees, I'm told) and a queen. The bees come in a wooden box with screened sides – not that big a box, either (maybe about 12″ long by 6″ wide and deep). The queen is in a much smaller box inside the main box. In our area starter colonies are available for pickup in early April. We got our bees from B. Weaver Apiaries in Navasota, one of the main local suppliers of honeybees. Unfortunately I was out of town on the weekend they were distributed, but my neighbors, who also decided to keep bees this year, picked mine up along with theirs. Here are a few pictures of the bee breeder's operation.
As the colony grows I will need to add another hive body and on top of that, the "honey supers" where the bees will store honey that beekeepers periodically "rob." A healthy colony makes more than enough honey for itself and a beekeeper – in fact Donald tells me that the main problem with keeping bees is what to do with all the honey they produce!
Next time I'll tell you about how my five-year old friend Benton and I installed the bees! In the meantime, there are tons of websites with information about beekeeping. Here are just two of them: a beekeeping website with general info; and one on backyard beekeeping


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Volleyball Defeats Panthers but Falls to Centenary
Game One: Centenary - 3, Farmingdale State - 1 (25-20, 17-25, 24-26, 21-25)
Game Two: Farmingdale State - 3, Old Westbury - 2 (25-21, 26-24, 20-25, 16-25, 15-12)
Old Westbury, N.Y. - The Rams women's volleyball team (2-2) defeated Old Westbury in a five-set match today, but fell to Centenary College in day two of the Old Westbury Panthers Invitational. Senior libero Theresa Rokee (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) was named to the All-Tournament team after tallying 63 digs (3.71 per game) for Farmingdale State over the weekends four games.
The Rams faced Centenary College in the first game of the day and took a 1-0 lead after the first set, winning 25-20, but fell in three straight 17-25, 24-26 and 21-25, for a 3-1 loss. Farmingdale senior right side Cathryn McLean (Freeport, N.Y./Northport) had 16 kills and 15 digs, while freshman outside Alyssa Siegel (Carle Place, N.Y./Carle Place) had nine kills and a team-high four service aces.
In the second game of the day, the Rams faced conference foe Old Westbury. Farmingdale went up 2-0 after winning the first two sets, 25-21 and 26-24, before Old Westbury rallied 25-20 and 25-16 in the third and fourth set, which forces a fifth and deciding 15-point set. The Rams went ahead with a 15-12 win for the 3-2 victory. McLean had 12 kills, seven service aces and nine digs, while Rokee had 16 digs. Siegel finished with seven kills and five service aces.
Farmingdale State will now host a scrimmage with Nassau Community College this Wednesday, September 10th at 7:00 p.m.


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Earliest Sunset
You may not have noticed it, but the Sun is setting a little later right now than it did a few days or weeks ago. Yet the days are continuing to get shorter, and will until after the winter solstice on Friday.
The difference is caused by the fact that there are two ways to figure the length of a day.
The one we use defines a day as exactly 24 hours. But the other way follows the motion of the Sun from one solar noon to the next — the moment the Sun is highest in the sky. Under this system, the length of a day can vary by about a half-minute from one day to the next.
There are a couple of reasons for that variation. One is Earth's tilt on its axis, which causes the Sun to rise at different angles and at different locations along the horizon on different days. The other is Earth's lopsided orbit, which causes the Sun to return to the same point in the sky a little earlier or later in the day depending on whether we're close to the Sun or far away.
When you add these factors together, you find that the earliest sunsets for places like Honolulu and Miami came around the end of November. For higher latitudes, like Philadelphia, they came about a week ago. And for cities that are even farther north, like Anchorage, earliest sunset is happening about now.
And to balance things out, the date of latest sunrise comes after the solstice, working from north to south — a few more minutes of darkness before the dawn of another day.
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PARIS (AP) — Ivory Coast's president is leaving open the possibility that his country won't hand over the wife of ex-leader Laurent Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court, which has indicted her on charges including murder, rape and persecution.
Alassane Ouattara, visiting France, told reporters Tuesday that Ivory Coast may try Simone Gbagbo itself.
Her husband is already held in The Hague facing similar charges stemming from his fight to retain power after losing a 2010 presidential election to Ouattara. Violence by supporters of both men killed 3,000.
Last month, the ICC unsealed its indictment against Simone Gbagbo — its first charges against a woman. She's seen as an "indirect co-perpetrator."
But Ouattara said Ivory Coast would reply "in the weeks or months ahead," adding that "she could be judged in Ivory Coast."


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