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In May, the European Commission (EC) adopted a legislative package aimed at strengthening and streamlining health and safety standards in the European agri-food chain, a €750 billion industry that is the second-largest economic sector in the EU. As the EC has put it, the measures introduce smarter rules for safer food, from farm to fork.
Lawmakers were already discussing plans to revamp the laws governing the agri-food chain when the horse meat scandal hit Europe earlier this year. It was in January that Irish food inspectors first revealed they had found the presence of horse DNA in frozen beef hamburger patties being sold in Ireland and Britain. Further investigations found that horse meat had made its way across Europe; one French supplier was alleged to have sold horse meat labeled as beef to 28 companies in 13 countries. The findings led to widespread meat testing by EU countries, which ultimately found the presence of horse DNA in 4.66 percent of the samples. In a few cases, what was almost 100 percent horse meat was being passed off as other more expensive proteins.
The scandal led to a crisis of consumer confidence in the food industry and highlighted weaknesses in oversight of the EU food chain. The EC conceded that the incident had demonstrated the importance of proper controls and dissuasive sanctions and had eroded public trust in the government.
While the horse meat episode chiefly introduced concerns over fraudulent labeling, not food safety, it made the EC's May proposal particularly relevant.
"Europe has the highest food safety standards in the world. However, the recent horse meat scandal has shown that there is room for improvement, even if no health risk emerged," Health and Consumer Commissioner Tonio Borg said in a statement announcing the new legislative proposal. "Today's package of reforms comes at an opportune moment as it shows that the system can respond to challenges; it also takes on board some of the lessons learned."
Major Reorganization
Comprising hundreds of pages of proposed measures, the package is a major reinvention of agri-food safety governance in the EU. It streamlines nearly 70 pieces of legislation into five. All five are regulations, which means their provisions will be enforceable across the EU. They replace numerous directives, which require member states to adapt their own laws to achieve the EU's stated goals.
The main criticism of the current system is that it incorporates different approaches toward the controls of food, feed animals and plants. For companies in the agri-food sector, implementing the rules was complex, says Raymond O'Rourke, a food regulatory expert in Dublin and a member of the European Food Safety Authority's management board.
"The General Food Law [in 2002] and the Official Food and Feed Controls Regulation [in 2005] have brought about some overall coherence; this has, however, only been achieved by adding an additional layer of legislation," O'Rourke says. "So this package aims to streamline things."
Huge and Small
The new regulations have been significantly simplified and will now be constant across the EU, which the Commission says will reduce administrative burden, protect consumers and benefit businesses.
Three of the regulations apply to specific sectors along the food chain. They introduce enhanced risk-based standards and more efficiency and flexibility in the areas of animal health, plant health and plant reproductive material, including seeds. The other two address official controls and funding priorities in enforcing the new legislation
It is a thorough reorganization, but Brussels-based lawyer Jean Savigny says that the changes are simultaneously huge and small.
"They're trying to streamline in these five areas, but there is not much change in the substance of the food laws except probably in the area of official controls," says Savigny, a partner at Keller and Heckman.
Controversial Controls
The official controls regulation would introduce stronger and more transparent enforcement measures such as unannounced inspections and testing directed at combating food fraud. It also allows for the results of such inspections to be made public, strengthens cooperation between member states and creates a common framework for border import controls—measures clearly relevant to the horse meat scandal. The regulation would impose "sufficiently dissuasive" financial penalties and the application of criminal and/or administrative penalties on operators that fail to comply.
Most controversially, it requires operators to pay mandatory fees to fund enforcement measures.
What's more, the mandatory fee provision comes in the form of a "delegated act," a new form of law created under the Lisbon Treaty, which took effect in late 2009. Delegated acts allow the European Council and European Parliament to delegate authority to the Commission over the details of the legislation.
"What has to be decided through the delegated act is precisely how all of this would work. … And we don't yet have the experience [with delegated acts] to know how this will work in practice, which adds to the concerns," Savigny says.
There are dozens more such delegated acts in the official controls portion of the legislation.
Stakeholder Input
Since introducing the agri-food package, the EC has been taking comments on it, and many stakeholders—at this point, mostly trade and consumer groups—have raised concerns about uncertainty and the potential lack of transparency as the Commission drafts and implements the delegated acts.
Critics have asked for more clarity and new definitions so they can understand how the legislation will work in practice. Others have requested stronger controls over imported products, another area that lawmakers will surely debate going forward.
The legislation is still in the early stages, notes Izabela Blaszkiewicz, an associate at Hogan Lovells in Brussels. Blaszkiewicz has been tracking the process. "For now, the whole industry is generally monitoring the situation," she says, because amendments to the proposal are inevitable.


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Clarkson University Named Top-50 Game Design Program by Princeton Review and GamePro
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Clarkson University is one of the 50 best undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada to study game design, according to the Princeton Review, one of America's most widely known education services and test preparation companies.
The Princeton Review developed its "Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs" list -- the first project of its kind -- in partnership with GamePro, one of the most respected brands in the video game industry, reaching over 3 million gamers a month.
"This honor reflects the quality of our students, who have extensive creative and scientific portfolios, awards and recognitions by outside organizations, and placement with a variety of distinguished digital art and design industries and graduate schools across the country," says Assistant Professor Dave Beck, director of Clarkson's Digital Arts & Sciences program.
"It is fitting that our program achieved this honor, as it was originally designed to replicate the cross-disciplinary state of the video game industry. Our goal is to continue as one of the only programs in the country offering this perfect balance between the left and right side of the brain."
To achieve this, Clarkson's program implements a foundation in the digital arts (including areas like 3D modeling and animation, interactive design, graphic and web design, and video) as well as a foundation in the computer science and mathematics areas (such as programming for video games, virtual reality, and imaging-based math courses).
"In addition to a one-of-a-kind curriculum, we also have the benefit of industry-standard technical facilities," says Beck, "which include virtual reality gear, motion-capture equipment, and a dedicated digital arts lab with 30 cutting-edge computer stations."
The Top 50 list is reported in GamePro's April 2010 issue and on the Web sites of The Princeton Review http://www.princetonreview.com and GamePro http://www.gamepro.com .
Of the roughly 500 programs at which students can study game design in the U.S. and Canada, The Princeton Review selected these 50 programs based on a survey it conducted in 2009-2010 of administrators at institutions offering game design coursework and/or degrees.
The comprehensive survey numbered more than 50 questions and covered areas from academics and faculty credentials to graduates' employment and career achievements. Criteria included the quality of the curriculum, faculty, facilities and infrastructure. The Princeton Review also looked at data on scholarships, financial aid and career opportunities.
"We salute Clarkson University and the other outstanding institutions on our list for their exemplary work in game design education," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review SVP/publisher. "It has long been our mission at the Princeton Review to help students research and get in to the education programs best for them. We are also committed to helping them carry that training to rewarding careers in fields they are passionate about. For the burgeoning numbers of students aspiring to careers in the rapidly growing field of game design and the companies that will need their creative talents, we hope our list will inspire many wonderful candidates to apply to these programs."
Franek acknowledged the assistance the Princeton Review received on this project from the ten-member national advisory board it formed to help design the survey instrument and methodology. Board members included administrators and faculty from respected game design programs, and professionals from some of the top gaming companies.
For more information about Digital Arts & Sciences, visit http://www.clarkson.edu/digitalarts .
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Alana K. Searleman, a 2008 digital arts & sciences graduate.

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Communications and Technology Subcommittee to Begin Multi-Year Review Leading to a #CommActUpdate
WASHINGTON, DC – House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced plans for the committee to examine and update the Communications Act. Upton and Walden made the announcement via Google Hangout, where the committee leaders were joined by former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell as they outlined the need to update the law to better fit the communications marketplace of today.
"Today we are launching a multi-year effort to examine our nation's communications laws and update them for the Internet era," explained Upton. "The United States has been the global leader in innovation and growth of the Internet, but unfortunately, our communications laws have failed to keep pace. Throughout the recent economic downturn and recovery, the communications and technology sectors have remained stalwarts of our national economy – providing services that consumers demand while investing, innovating, and producing the high-quality jobs that all Americans strive for. We must ensure that our laws make sense for today but are also ready for the innovations of tomorrow."
"When the Communications Act was updated almost 18 years ago, no one could have dreamed of the many innovations and advancements that make the Internet what it is today. Written during the Great Depression and last updated when 56 kilobits per second via dial-up modem was state of the art, the Communications Act is now painfully out of date," said Walden. "We plan to look at the Communications Act and all of the changes that have been made piecemeal over the last 89 years and ask the simple question: 'Is this working for today's communications marketplace?' Our goal is to make sure this critical sector of our economy thrives because of the laws around it, not in spite of them."
The Communications and Technology Subcommittee will begin a multi-year effort to examine and update the Communications Act. This process will involve a series of white papers asking questions about what can be done to improve the laws surrounding the communications marketplace as well as a robust conversation utilizing all platforms of digital media.
Keep up with the committee's efforts on Twitter using the hashtag #CommActUpdate.
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The raunchy comedy "Eastbound and Down" will be back in the Wilmington area to film this spring.
So there's no telling how long it will be before "Eastbound & Down's" fourth season will air on HBO, but since we live in Hollywood East, we'll get to see Kenny Powers behave badly on the streets of New Hanover County long before everyone else.
At least that's what HBO spokesman Diego Aldana said this week.
The raunchy comedy will return to the area to film this spring, although he couldn't precisely say when filming was slated to begin.
The Wilmington Regional Film Commission's website lists an untitled HBO series in pre-production in the region, but the commission's director, Johnny Griffin, said he can't confirm whether they're the same show. The post asks film crew professionals who are interested in applying to send resumes by email to email@example.com.
"Eastbound" began filming in Southeast North Carolina in 2008. Seasons two and three were filmed in Puerto Rico, Wilmington and Myrtle Beach.
Season three kicked off with a return to the relationship between Powers (Danny McBride) and April (Katy Mixon), who have a 1-year-old son named Toby.
Powers wasn't adjusting to fatherhood or the return to life as a baseball player in the minor leagues. Instead, he ends up sleeping with younger women and doing enormous amounts of cocaine.
HBO programming president Michael Lombardo has been tight-lipped about what's in store for Powers next season.
What would you like to see Powers do next? Share your thoughts at the Wilm on Film blog.


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African Agency in International Politics
Jonathan Fisher
International Relations theory has tended to overlook the role of Africa and Africans in the international system. Traditionally, the discipline's most influential theorists have focused instead on relationships between and perspectives of "major powers." A growing body of work, however, has challenged these more limited efforts to conceptualize African agency in international politics. This scholarship has emphasized the significant space available to, and carved-out by, African states in molding the agendas of international institutions, and the role of African governments and advocacy networks in influencing the trajectory of major international debates around issues such as aid, development, trade, climate change, and migration. The study of African agency in international politics continues to wrestle with two key debates: the meanings of "agency" and "African." Much of the literature focuses primarily on the role and influence of African states rather than that of African citizens and communities. This focus provides, at best, only a partial and qualified view of the ways in which African agency is secured and exercised at the global level, particularly given the significant structural constraints imposed on Africa by global economic and political inequalities. The extent to which contemporary analysis captures the breadth of African engagement with the international system is also compromised by current state-centric approaches. It is thus necessary to examine a range of approaches adopted by scholars to deepen and nuance the study of African agency in international politics, including work on agenda-setting, mesolevel dynamics and microlevel dynamics.
Capitalist Peace Theory: A Critical Appraisal
Gerald Schneider
Capitalist peace theory (CPT) has gained considerable attention in international relations theory and the conflict literature. Its proponents maintain that a capitalist organization of an economy pacifies states internally and externally. They portray CPT either as a complement or as a substitute to other liberal explanations such as the democratic peace thesis. They, however, disagree about the facet of capitalism that is supposed to reduce the risk of political violence. Key contributions have identified three main drivers of the capitalist peace phenomenon: the fiscal constraints that a laissez-faire regimen puts on potentially aggressive governments, the mollifying norms that a capitalist organization creates; and the increased ability of capitalist governments to signal their intentions effectively in a confrontation with an adversary. Defining capitalism narrowly through the freedom entrepreneurs enjoy domestically, this article evaluates the key causal mechanisms and empirical evidence that have been advanced in support of these competing claims. The article argues that CPT needs to be based on a narrow definition of capitalism and that it should scrutinize motives and constraints of the main actors more deeply. Future contributions to the CPT literature should also pay close attention to classic theories of capitalism, which all considered individual risk taking and the dramatic changes between booms and busts to be key constitutive features of this form of economic governance. Finally, empirical tests of the proposed causal mechanism should rely on data sets in which capitalists appear as actors and not as "structures." If the literature takes these objections seriously, CPT could establish itself as central theory of peace and war in two respects. First, it could serve as an antidote to the theory of imperialism and other "critical" approaches that see in capitalism a source of conflict rather than of peace. Second, it could become an important complement to commercial liberalism that stresses the external openness rather than the internal freedoms as an economic cause of peace and that particularly sees trade and foreign direct investment as pacifying forces.
The Politics of Fires and Haze in Southeast Asia
Helena Varkkey
Transboundary haze pollution affects about half of the countries in Southeast Asia with varied intensities on an almost annual basis. Haze not only affects visibility, but also causes widespread health problems, transportation disruptions, and other socioeconomic issues. This haze, and the fires that cause it, has been a key topic for environmental politics research in the region since the late 1990s. This has largely been driven by one overarching objective: how to prevent haze from returning in the following years. However, conditions on the ground (mostly in Indonesia and in the larger Southeast Asian region) have been changing and evolving drastically. This has resulted in a very dynamic research agenda that has to keep up with these changes.
Within the context of environmental politics, fires and haze can be viewed through the broad lens of national interest. There is a strong link between the severity of haze and the burgeoning agribusiness sector in the region: that of oil palm in particular. Oil palm is a very important crop in the region, with Indonesia and Malaysia making up almost 90% of total global palm oil output. Hence, national and business interest theories have often been used as a framework for research in this area, with commercial oil palm plantations often being the unit of analysis. This includes research by this author, using the patronage politics framework. However, this has been called to question lately as these plantations face increasing market pressure to act more sustainably. A new group of actors that have since been highlighted are smallholders, either independent or in contract with larger plantations. There is potentially much to be uncovered with regard to the relationships between smallholders and commercial plantations, and how this affects patterns of fire use and global sustainability issues.
Related to this is the ever-evolving collection of local, regional, and national policies (and related enforcement issues) over land and fire use in Indonesia. One key area of contention is the use of peatlands. Fires on peat produce the thick, sooty smoke that travels across national boundaries, and are notoriously hard to put out. Political research in this area is heavily framed by a tough debate between the scientific community and socioeconomic concerns. While peatlands play an important role in the global climate change balance, at the same time, these peat areas face immense pressure for development fueled by the scarcity of land.
The regional context has also been an important theme for haze research. Haze primarily affects the Southern Southeast Asian subregion. And the major players of the palm oil sector also come from this region. The Indonesian palm oil sector is a vibrant combination of Malaysian, Singaporean, and local companies. And ASEAN has been the hub of cooperation and mitigation activities over haze. Hence, many scholars have searched for answers at the regional level. However, new national developments like Singapore's Transboundary Haze Pollution Act suggest that countries may be losing confidence with regional efforts, which may be an indicator for future directions for solutions as well.
Taking China Seriously: Relationality, Tianxia, and the "Chinese School" of International Relations
Salvatore Babones
China's economic rise has been accompanied by the maturation and increasing professionalization of academic disciplines in China, including the discipline of international relations. The emergence of an indigenous international relations discipline in China has led to an intense debate about the development of a distinctive "Chinese School" that draws on China's intellectual traditions and historical record to inspire the development of new international relations theories. While the debate continues, the outlines of a Chinese School are becoming clear. The Chinese School of international relations theory draws on Confucian concepts of relationality and hierarchy to theorize the character of the relations between countries rather than focus on the attributes of countries themselves. It also highlights the historical existence of interstate systems organized in a hub-and-spoke pattern around a single, central state.
The premodern East Asian world-system in which China was embedded and classical Chinese scholars developed their ideas was a central state system. Premodern China was always by far the dominant state in East Asia, with the result that international relations in the East Asian world-system exhibited a hub-and-spoke pattern centered on China, as in the tributary system of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Moreover the Confucian worldview that ultimately came to be China's state ideology served in effect as the governing moral code of the system as a whole. The combination of a central state structure with a universal moral code created what in Chinese is called a tianxia ("all under heaven"), a world-embracing system of governance centered on a particular state, in this case China.
In a tianxia system international relations tend to be hierarchical because of the clear power differentials between the central state and other states. They can be either expressive (showing social solidarity) or purely instrumental, depending on the stance taken by the central state. Chinese School international relations theorists tend to assume that the "best" (most stable, most peaceful, most prosperous, etc.) world-system configuration would be a tianxia system dominated by expressive rationality and centered on China, but this is no more self-evident than the widely held Western preference for a liberal, rules-based order. What Chinese School international relations theory really offers the discipline is a new set of concepts that can be applied to the theorization and empirical analysis of today's millennial world-system. This postmodern interstate system appears to be a central state system with a universal moral code, an American tianxia based on individualism. The historical Confucian Chinese tianxia may be the best precedent for modeling this system.


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The Portland Trail Blazers assigned rookie forward Josh McRoberts to the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League, it was announced Monday by Trail Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard.
"Sending Josh back to Idaho will give him the best chance to develop as the season winds down," said Pritchard. "Getting the opportunity to play extended minutes is an important step in his rookie season, and we saw good results from his last trip there."
The D-League assignment marks the second of the season for McRoberts, who posted averages of 7.8 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 26.5 minutes in eight games with the Stampede from Jan. 9-Feb. 3.
McRoberts, 21, is averaging 2.0 points, 0.8 rebounds and 4.4 minutes in five games with the Trail Blazers this season after being selected by Portland with the 37th overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.
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SOURCE: GoodData
January 30, 2013 11:12 ET
8,000 Businesses Adopted GoodData to Monetize Big Data
8,000 Businesses Adopted GoodData to Monetize Big Data
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 30, 2013) - Today, GoodData® announced that in 2012 it increased revenue fivefold and customers three times over the same period a year ago. The accelerated growth was a reflection of GoodData's ability to enable 8,000 global organizations such as NewRelic, Pandora, Time Warner Cable and Zendesk to monetize their data. The company also closed $25 million in funding in 2012 to fuel its sales and marketing operations and more than doubled its employee count, bringing the total number of employees to 230.
"Last year was a breakthrough year, with massive adoption from customers eager to chart their way to success using our cloud and big data technology," said Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder of GoodData. "With our industry-leading platform and apps, GoodData is poised to disrupt the big enterprise incumbents. Customers now have a completely new, flexible and innovative approach to making great business decisions and monetizing big data."
Rapid Growth
In 2012, GoodData increased revenue fivefold from the year before and the company closed more than 40 six-figure deals throughout the year.
During the third quarter of 2012, GoodData raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Tenaya Capital and Next World Capital, bringing the total raised to date to $53.5 million. GoodData is investing the new funding in technology innovation as well as in building sales and marketing programs to accelerate adoption of its disruptive big data monetization strategy and solutions.
Accelerated Adoption
During 2012, GoodData's apps and technology enabled 8,000 customers, up from 2,700 at the end of 2011, to discern meaning from massive amounts of data and find new ways to boost sales and profit. Notable new and expanded customers during the year included Coverity, Fleetmatics, Gallagher Benefits Services, General Electric, NewRelic, Redbubble, Stand for Children, Thrillist, Time Warner Cable, O1 Works, and Voalte.
From managing sales efficiency within a 4,000-person sales organization, to ensuring the helpdesk responsiveness inside a newly public technology company, GoodData has served as the go-to platform for transforming big data into insight that can be acted on. Customers continue to use GoodData to achieve their business goals such as growing media distribution, increasing social outreach, helping customers gain a deeper understanding of their customers, improving online education, and enabling small businesses to grow faster.
"Powered By GoodData" Partner Program Adoption
In 2012, GoodData grew "Powered by GoodData" partner program revenue by nearly 500 percent and more than doubled the number of partners. Throughout the year, partners were signed and launched across diverse use cases ranging from social commerce, studio management, brand measurement, to subscription billing management.
Select partnerships include Advantix Solution Group, Allocadia, Get Satisfaction, iPipeline, Marketron, Mindbody, Mindflash Technologies, RevStream, ServiceSource, Think Passenger, Zendesk and Zuora.
Big Data Market Outlook
The big data market is expected to grow more than 32 percent year over year, to reach $23.8 billion in 2016, according to market research from IDC. IDC also predicts that the market to analyze that data will be $51 billion the same year (1). GoodData is poised to capitalize on that opportunity, with industry-leading technology, best-in-class team and accelerated market momentum.
"We expect 2013 to be a big year for GoodData," said Stanek. "Businesses have been seeking ways to convert data into meaning and meaning into insight with a clear business impact. With GoodData's services, customers have an easy, flexible way to chart a clear course to the future. We are excited to continue to lead the way in this new year."
(1) Source: IDC Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012-2016 Forecast, Doc#238746, January 2012, by Dan Vesset et. all.
About GoodData
GoodData provides a cloud-based platform and apps that enable more than 8,000 global businesses to monetize big data. GoodData is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners, Next World Capital, Tenaya Capital and Windcrest Partners. For more information, read our blog, visit our website and follow @gooddata on Twitter.
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Donetsk, Ukraine (CNN) -- In the city of Donetsk, the devastation wrought by weeks of fighting between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces is all too apparent.
And as the civilians caught in the crossfire sweep up the debris of their homes and livelihoods, they are hardened against a president they say is killing his own people.
Alexander Omelyavenko, a Donetsk resident, told CNN, "We are Ukrainian but they kill us, so we probably need our own country. Because these people in Kiev, they are not brothers for us."
Another resident, Victoria Khrushova, wiped away tears as she told how her family had been forced to hide from the shelling in cellars.
"We live underground. It was so hard for two weeks -- especially 27th, 28th, 29th -- but only today is quiet," she said.
The husband of a 34-year-old woman killed outside a block of flats last Wednesday wouldn't talk to CNN, saying he was in shock. He made it down to the cellar with their small child but she simply didn't have time. A 50-year-old woman was killed with his wife.
It's a story which repeats itself over and over in dozens of apartment blocks, with civilians being killed by the constant shelling around Donetsk. Windows are shattered, holes blasted in walls and blackened rafters which once supported the roofs of homes stand in bleak outline against the sky.
The victims are the human face of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding even as diplomatic efforts to curb the fighting plow on.
The United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, said Tuesday that the number of people displaced in Ukraine by the fighting, particularly around Donetsk and Luhansk, had more than doubled in less than a month.
While an estimated 117,000 had fled their homes as of August 5, the agency puts the number displaced as of September 1 at 260,000.
UNHCR believes the actual number displaced is higher, as many are staying with families and friends and choose not to register with the authorities. Nearly 95% of those forced from their homes are from eastern Ukraine and most remain in the region, its report said.
'Be human... Stop this war'
Donetsk, once-thriving, is now half-empty, shop fronts shattered and its railway station bombed.
Its trauma hospital is filled with the civilian wounded who were unable to reach safety in time as the shells rained down.
Medical teams treat market traders with shrapnel embedded in their legs or the broken limbs of pensioners too old or sick to run.
"There was one war and this is the second war. I was born in 1940 in World War II and I will probably die before this war is over," said elderly resident Valentina Sergeyevna.
Valentina Popova, in the ward next door, has lost her leg and her arm to indiscriminate artillery shells.
Switching to the Ukrainian language, she made a heartrending plea to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
"We used to dance, sing, do everything in Ukrainian. Poroshenko, Mr. Poroshenko -- please listen to us. Why don't you understand your people? Be a man. Be human. Please stop your aggression. Stop this war."
Russia accuses the Ukrainian government of precipitating the humanitarian crisis by pursuing its campaign to regain territory seized by the rebels.
Meanwhile, Poroshenko and some Western allies have said thousands of Russian troops are in his nation's east, helping the separatists.
NATO members meeting this week in Wales are expected to create "a very high-readiness force" to deal with Russian aggression in Ukraine and other international conflicts, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday.
European Union leaders are expected to decide on further sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine by Friday, Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini said Tuesday.
Lavrov: 'Let us sit down and talk'
Though Russia has denied sending its troops to Ukraine, it has defended the rebels' action in the east.
"Washington and Brussels need to ask Kiev authorities to stop shelling the houses, schools, hospitals and so on because you leave militia with no choice but to stand up to protect their people," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"Let's not ask militia to lay down their weapons and allow themselves to be killed."
Lavrov said negotiations, not threats, would help resolve the crisis between the two neighbors.
"Let us sit down and talk instead of threatening with sanctions and stubbornly making absolutely unrealistic demands of the militia laying down arms," he said. "This is what the peace plan of Poroshenko is about."
The continued fighting means it's difficult for humanitarian workers to assess the full scope of the crisis, the UNHCR said in its report, while damage to roads and other infrastructure makes it hard to get aid in.
As of September 1, some 2.2 million people remained in conflict areas according to the Ukrainian authorities, the agency said, many with limited access to food, water, and other basic necessities.
"In Donetsk, Makiivka and Gorlovka the regional authorities estimate there are 20,000 people with disabilities and needing help," it said. "In Luhansk, residents have been without proper supplies of food and water, and dealing with electricity shortages and communications problems for a month."
The number of people using "humanitarian corridors" set up by the authorities to flee has dropped off since a number of civilians died in attacks, the UNHCR said.
Statehood question?
Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in March following the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych the previous month.
Violence broke out in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in April when separatist leaders declared independence from the government in Kiev.
Since then, the conflict between the pro-Russia rebels and the Ukrainian military has killed more than 2,500 people, according to the United Nations.
A Human Rights Watch report released Monday claimed "unlawful government and insurgent attacks" in and around Luhansk were contributing to rising civilian casualties.
It cited a Luhansk morgue doctor as saying explosive weapons have killed more than 300 civilians in the city since May. HRW researchers spoke to more than a dozen people who had witnessed artillery, mortar or rocket attacks in civilian areas.
"Many of the attacks appeared to be indiscriminate, in that they did not or could not distinguish between civilians and combatants," the rights group said. "Indiscriminate attacks violate international humanitarian law, or the laws of war."
A report last week by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights documented "a wide array of serious human rights abuses" committed primarily by the rebel fighters.
Violations have also been committed by members of the Ukrainian military as they try to recapture rebel-held territory, it said.


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It's like Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in the Glamorous Glennis. Or at least Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian sky diver who just last month went supersonic without benefit of a plane, free-falling into the record books.
California Democrats have captured two-thirds of both the Assembly and the state Senate, and it could be that even they didn't see it coming. After all, it has been just a blip in political time since they saw their governor booted from office and replaced by a politically inexperienced Republican movie star. Just half a blip since they lost their power as majority party to draw legislative district lines. Just seconds, it seems, since the Legislature they have led for decades scraped the bottom of public approval ratings. They must have taken a serious look at themselves lately, taken stock, changed their thinking, improved their game, straightened themselves out, to get the public to embrace them so completely. It couldn't possibly be that they only look good when placed side by side with Republicans. Could it?
Two thirds! If Californians had seen this coming, they wouldn't have needed that 2010 ballot measure — what was it, Proposition 25? — that eliminated the crazy constitutional requirement for a two-thirds supermajority to adopt a budget. They wouldn't have needed to agonize about the continuing two-thirds supermajority requirement to raise a tax. They wouldn't have needed those irksome conversations with Republicans who are always saying "no, no, no."


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Vegetable Boxes from The Chef's Garden
If you saw this tour of The Chef's Garden, an unusual family farm in northern Ohio that grows exotic microgreens and tiny beautiful vegetables, and if you had a yearning to try some of that delicious produce for yourself, the good news is that you can. The Chef's Garden focuses primarily on restaurants and chefs, but they do offer a very, very nice box of vegetables for home cooks.
After I visited The Chef's Garden, they sent me one of their home produce boxes so I could try it out for myself. A very big box showed up on my doorstep — bigger than I expected. I could smell it as I walked up to my porch; the fragrance of basil wafted out into the sunshine. I hefted it up onto the table and opened it up. I was shocked at how full it was.
I opened it to find a mass of vegetables, packed into separate bags. On top were mature yet extra-small heads of red speckled and bright green lettuces. There were tiny bulbs of fennel, and a packet of mixed cherry tomatoes. There were red and orange carrots, and small pattypan squash. There were string beans, baby beets, and a huge bundle of basil. It went on and on.
Everything I ate out of that box was extra-fresh and tasty, and I especially liked the lettuce. I liked how small the leaves were; you didn't have to cut or tear them up for salad. (They were extra sandy, though; even two rounds in the salad spinner didn't quite remove all the grit.)
Their website is also not terribly user-friendly; it is clear that they view these delivery boxes more like in the way of community service and outreach than as a keystone of their business. I'd love to see a little more info on what is getting shipped out in the boxes (it changes every week and every month). But I do realize this level of detail is a challenge for all CSA and farm box providers, given daily changes in what can be harvested.
Given that this produce is grown in Ohio, and I've seen where it comes from, I feel rather differently about the coming winter and the lack of fresh, local vegetables. Also, shipping is free inside Ohio, which makes one of these boxes a very good deal for me. Come the dark days of January, I will probably be ordering a box or two of fresh greens from The Chef's Garden greenhouses!
One other perk: You can include some add-ins, like exotic little popcorn shoots and
• Buying information: Home Delivery Boxes from The Chef's Garden. Boxes start at $25 for a veg-of-the-month sampler, and go up to $40 for the family box. Monthly subscriptions are also available.
• Shipping info: Shipping in Ohio is free. Shipping outside of the state has to be overnight, and is therefore expensive; I got a quote of $38 for shipping to New York City.
Related: How to Get the Most Out of Your CSA
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The Promonitor NRF560 is a monitoring unit for use with the Proservo series of tank gauges. Mounted at the tank side or up to 1,200 meters away (local HART connection). Promonitor provides indication of measured level, temperature data and operating status, and can send operating commands to the Proservo NMS5 from a convenient location.
Remote monitoring and control for Proservo tank gauge
Indication via two line illuminated display
Operation via 3 optical keys (touch control)
Programming matrix
Protection class IP 67 housing
Explosion proof for hazardous area mounting
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ELIZABETH, NJ (September 27, 2013) Hayward® Pool Products has launched a new iPhone® and iPad® app for its AquaConnect® Remote Pool Management Platform, a popular accessory for Hayward's ProLogic® and AquaPlus® automation platforms for the residential pool market. Apple® device users will now be able to more easily monitor, control and act upon more than 100 pool and spa conditions, parameters and settings remotely. The Android® App will be available in early 2014.
According to Hayward's Senior Product Manager for Automation and Backyard Synergies, Greg Fournier, AquaConnect users have always had the ability to use their mobile devices to access their pools and spas. Now, the new mobile app streamlines the process and enhances the visual display on the users' phones, allowing for easier reading of diagnostics, settings and adjustments. It also allows for quicker platform access from their iPhone or iPad.
The AquaConnect Remote Pool Management accessory app provides users of Hayward's ProLogic and AquaPlus automation platforms with the ability to control their pool and spa functions, along with any other automated features in their backyards, from anywhere in the world.
From the new AquaConnect app you can easily manage pH and sanitization; turn lights on and off; activate water features; enable, disable or set the temperature for any heater; all while conserving energy. Originally designed for the service trade and operators who travel frequently or have pools in multiple locations, AquaConnect can help them identify potential problems remotely, so diagnostics and adjustments can be made from anywhere.
"Historically, remote controls had to be used within 500 feet of the automation system," said Fournier. "Hayward's AquaConnect provides pool owners greater flexibility, and allows the service trade the ability to monitor and manage all the pools on their routes, having direct contact with hundreds of their customers' pools simultaneously. The new app quite simply makes the AquaConnect remote pool management platform easier to navigate and use."
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The company, which has built its brand on innovation, energy-efficiency, safety and reliability, includes such brands as Salt & Swim® 3C, EcoStar®, TriStar®, Super Pump®, ProLogic®, AquaConnect®, HeatPro®, ColorLogic®, AquaRite®, Navigator® Pro, PoolVac XL™, TigerShark®, among others. Hayward products are sold through a network of distributors and 3,000 Totally Hayward Dealer Partners throughout the U.S., Canada, Asia, Australia, Latin America and the Middle East. For more information, contact Hayward at (908) 351-5400.


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Well now it has been a long time hasn't it? About a week or so? Fuck knows. I'll try and recall some of the best bits for you.
Berlin! Never really got to see much of that place down the years and if I did it was under cover of darkness. I had a much better look around this time though. Very beautiful indeed - the sunny weather might have had something to do with it, but to say it was virtually destroyed during that Second World War, it still has some magnificent sights.
The gig itself was great I think. I do remember the soundcheck being the the worst I've ever, ever done, truly appalling. The gig was mega though... oh yeah... and there was some bird down the front with a placard that read something like... "PLEASE COME TO THE LEBANON! WE LOVE YOUR HIGH FLYING BIRDS!"
The Lebanon eh? Might give that a miss...
Now... Munich? Not much going on there as I remember. Cold, wet and windy. The end.
Rome on the other hand was magnificent. Rome is magnificent, I fucking LOVE that place! One of the greatest places on earth, no question. Pity I was working though. The sun was out, the streets were full, the only thing missing was my good lady wife, she'd have been in her element!
The gig was equally as magnificent. Those kids break all kinds of records for the loudest, most passionate, most intense, most... most mostest fans in the world! Crazy kids. They are mithering fuckers though... "one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign, one picture, please sign..." And that was just the hotel staff!!
Outside the gig they have A LOT of bootleg t-shirt stalls. I had to drive through them to get to the backstage area bit upon where I saw many, many T-shirts bearing my name and face etc.
Right in the middle of one particular stall though was a T-shirt that simply said... "SEXY BITCH!"
Now it remains unclear as to who or what this particular item was referring to. I'd like to think it may have had a little picture of me on the back... or my drummer!
Took the train to Milan the day after that for a little one of those acoustic gigs I do from time to time. Not the best I have to say, I just wasn't in the mood somehow.
Caught another train to Zurich the next day. What a ride! Up and over the Alps, magnificent scenery. T'was all too beautiful (as Steve Marriott once sang). Unfortunately the gig was a shocker. Without doubt the worse I've ever done, just piss poor. The crowd loved it though which somehow made it even worse. An unsatisfactory end to a great little tour.
You currently find me in the most depressing hotel in all of Europe. Flying home today... 10 days off!
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The strength of the American dollar represents a "permanent handicap" in exporting American commodities; therefore, the only new market left to develop for buying what America produces is the domestic one.
That was the consensus of California producers testifying before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management in Fresno, Calif., recently.
How to expand domestic markets elicited several suggestions, including one from prominent Five Points, Calif., producer John Diener, who farms processing tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, almonds, grapes cotton and wheat on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.
Loan rates and acreage limitation programs have failed to bring supplies and demand into balance, he noted.
U.S. commodity loan rates, he said, have proven to be price thresholds at which competing countries often add production to their base, making it more difficult for U.S. commodity prices to rise above loan rates.
Alternative fuel sources Diener said could be a reliable mechanism to reduce oversupplies of corn, wheat and soybeans in the U.S. He recommends selling surplus commodities to the government, converting them to alternative fuels to be sold on the open market.
Alternatives make sense
Diener recommended investing more research into making alternative fuels even more cost effective.
Even though he suggests more research is needed, "current alternative fuels make sense and can be competitive against conventional energy sources."
Burning corn instead of natural gas at 50 cents per therm translates into $2.50 per bushel corn. Ethanol needs a subsidy only as long as crude oil prices are above $22 per barrel.
One of the biggest obstacles is increasing production of ethanol or other alternative fuels.
Diener said many potential alternative fuel manufacturing sites exist in rural America in the form of abandoned sugar mills. These sites, he contends, often have 50 percent of the capital costs of an alternative fuel producing facility in place. Federal rural developing funds could be used to convert these plants.
Diener suggests that the CCC purchase five to 10 percent of surplus commodity stocks per month when prices are below loan rates and convert these surpluses into alternative fuels sold monthly on a bid basis to refiners needing it to blend into gasoline to meet federal clear air emission standards.
Diener said American agriculture is at its "breaking point." One way to survive is to invest in the research to develop economically competitive alternative fuels that consume excess agricultural commodities and convert that surplus into much-needed energy.
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We're Not Done Yet
Tom Smith, a 20-year-old member of the United Kingdom Youth Climate Coalition, went to the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen with high hopes. He was ultimately frustrated by being shut out of the proceedings and by the summit's failure to produce a fair, ambitious, and binding treaty.
But on the final day, after hours of protesting in the cold outside the talks, something that a Bolivian delegate said struck a chord with Smith: "It's not been a success on the inside of the Bella Center. But it has been a massive success on the outside."
In this video, Smith recounts what it was like to be a part of that success, learning from the experiences of youth from around the world. Smith's experiences capture the passion and hope of the youth climate movement and their resolve to continue mobilizing to stop climate change: "Copenhagen," he says, "was never going to be the end."


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@Rick Aubrey – the dance studio was in the building two doors away from Bethel Cinemas. It has also been a restaurant and rental hall. In between is a KFC.
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Bethel Cinemas opened Dec. 17, 1971, with "Evel Knievel" on one screen and a blockbuster combination of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Patton" on the second screen.
The second week it has "T.R. Baskin" on one screen and "They Call Me Trinity" on the other.
Ed Jones, a great gentleman, brought back Mel Brooks' "The Twelve Chairs" in an exclusive engagement after Brooks had had great success with "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein." "The Twelve Chairs" played for many weeks.
The theater also got several weeks out of a solo re-release of "A Boy and His Dog."
The suburban Pittsburgh theater was on Paxton Drive just off Route 88/Library Road, about a block from the entrance of South Park.
These twin theaters were opened around the end of 1971 or beginning of 1972 by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones, who were residents of Upper St. Clair. The first film i saw there was the reissue of "My Fair Lady" in February or March of 1972, although after that I saw almost everything that played there. I worked there for them as an usher, janitor and marquee changer during the fall of 1972 through May of 1973. Mr. Jones was quite a colorful character. At one point, he sued the entire 20th Century Fox board of directors because he was not getting access to first run films…this included Princess Grace of Monaco who was on the board at the time. He later gave up running them himself and hired Dolly Miller, who had worked for the Stern Brothers Associated Theatres as his manager. He later sold them to Mike Cardone, who had left Cinemette to operate his own chain of neighborhood houses, including he Bethel Cinemas, the South Hills in Dormont, the Whitehall, and the Plaza in Bloomfield.
Today the building contains a heating and air conditioning company on one side and a women's beauty salon on the other.


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I have to wonder if we will see any "special" insights from Quinn on his Florida players that will lead to a couple of draft picks from Florida? I would expect Floyd & Reed and maybe Jenkins or Sturgis would be potential picks, not sure about most of the rest of them. There are also should be significant knowledge available on other State of Florida prospects as well as the whole SEC conference full of decent prospects. That knowledge has got to help some in the coming draft. Doesn't it?
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#31 - (RD-1)---DT-Sharrif Floyd
#43 - (RD-2)---SS-Matt Elam
#80 - (RD-3)---TE-Jordan Reed
#92 - (RD-3)---OLB-Jelani Jenkins
#96 - (RD-4)---ILB-Jon Bostic
#119 - (RD-4)---OT-Xavier Nixon
#138 - (RD-5)---RB-Mike Gillislee
#159 - (RD-5)---OLB-Lerentee McCray
#170 - (RD-6)---FS-Josh Evans
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Earthquakes 40th Anniversary Party
Who: Earthquakes players and staff, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, The Old Firm Casuals and The Forgotten
What: Unveiling of the club's new logo and jersey and live music
Where: San Pedro Square Market in Downtown San Jose – 87 N San Pedro St. in San Jose, CA 95110
When: Thursday, Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. PT
Training Schedule
Jan. 26-Feb. 2 – San Jose, Calif.
Feb. 3-9 – Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 10-20 – San Jose, Calif.
Feb. 21-March 1 – Portland, Ore.
March 2 – San Jose, Calif.
Game Schedule
Feb. 5 – #Seattle Sounders FC
Feb. 8 – #Houston Dynamo
Feb. 15 – LA Galaxy at Chukchansi Park in Fresno, Calif.
Feb. 23 – %Portland Timbers
Feb. 26 – %Vancouver Whitecaps FC
March 1 – %Portmore United FC (Jamaica)
# Desert Diamond Friendlies at Kino Sports Complex in Tucson, Ariz.
% Rose City Invitational at JELD-WEN Field in Portland, Ore.
Ticket Information for Preseason Games
Each of San Jose's preseason games is open to the public. Tickets are being sold by the host organization for each event. That list includes:
Desert Diamond Friendlies – www.fctucson.com
LA Galaxy Friendly - Chukchansi Park Box Office, www.ticketreturn.com or call 1-559-320-TIXS. VIP Field Tickets, groups of 25 or more or those interested in luxury suites can order directly by calling 1-559-320-4487.
Rose City Invitational – www.portlandtimbers.com
Earthquakes to Unveil New Logo, Jersey on Jan. 30 at San Pedro Market
The Earthquakes will unveil the club's new logo and jersey at their 40th Anniversary Party on Thursday, Jan. 30 at San Pedro Square Market in Downtown San Jose. The free event is open to the public and will also include a live concert by The Old Firm Casuals, featuring long-time Quakes fans Lars Frederiksen, as well as The Forgotten. The party begins at 5:30 p.m. PT. Fans can RSVP by visiting www.sjearthquakes.com. Each person who RSVPs to the event will be entered to win a free Earthquakes jersey.
40th Anniversary Event Details / Amenities
The party will begin at 5:30 p.m. PT with Earthquakes players available for autographs and photographs, along with a Q&A session featuring current and former Quakes. Fans in attendance will have the chance to remember the club's roots with historical displays featuring items provided by History of San Jose, including numerous old Quakes jerseys. The club's new stadium mobile preview center will also be on site to allow fans to sit in stadium seats and view a 3D seat map. Additionally, San Pedro Square Market's vendors will offer discounts and specials to fans looking for food and drinks throughout the night. The logo and new uniforms will be unveiled in dramatic fashion at the event during a special presentation that will include Kaval and current and past players, along with San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. Immediately, following the presentation, the new jerseys and additional merchandise with the new logo will be available for purchase. The night will conclude with live performances from The Old Firm Casuals and The Forgotten.
SuperDraft: Quakes Take Stanford's Koval at No. 9 Overall
The Earthquakes selected Stanford midfielder JJ Koval with the ninth overall selection in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft on Thursday at the Philadelphia Convention Center. In the second round, San Jose picked defender Joe Sofia from UCLA to complete the team's draft day. Koval, 21, was a standout midfielder during his four seasons with the Cardinal, earning a starting role as a freshman and appearing in 74 games during his career. He earned All-Pac 12 honors as both a junior and a senior with the Cardinal, including a spot on the All-Pac-12 First Team in 2013. A central midfielder, he scored six goals and posted four assists during his collegiate career. As a senior, he helped Stanford reach the third round of the NCAA Tournament, defeating Loyola Marymount and Cal State Northridge along the way. Sofia, 22, completed a strong four-year career with the Bruins in 2013, starting 19 matches at center back and earning All-Pac-12 honors while helping UCLA to the third round of the NCAA Tournament. For his career, the Southern California native scored five goals and recorded eight assists in 82 games.
Earthquakes Win Schuler Lottery
The Earthquakes acquired former NCAA All-American forward Billy Schuler through a weighted lottery on Jan. 14. Schuler, 23, helped lead North Carolina to a national championship in 2011. He scored 16 goals and had five assists during the campaign and was named an NSCAA First Team All-American. Schuler tallied twice during the Tar Heels' title run, a game winner against Indiana in the third round and an 85th-minute equalizer against UCLA in the College Cup Semifinals. He totaled 71 appearances, 29 goals and 15 assists during his three seasons with North Carolina and earned third-team NSCAA All-American honors in 2009 as well as NSCAA Freshman All-American recognition in 2008. Following his collegiate career, Schuler signed with Hammarby IF of Sweden under current Columbus Crew head coach Gregg Berhalter. He scored two goals in 26 appearances during his two seasons abroad and also spent time on loan with Nacka FF, Hammarby's developmental team.
Earthquakes Sign French Midfielder Pierazzi
The Earthquakes made their first signing of the offseason on Jan. 7 when they announced the arrival of French midfielder Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi. The 28-year-old veteran has been with AC Ajaccio (France) since 2006. A native Corsican, Pierazzi helped L'ours earn promotion to Ligue 1 after a second-place finish in the second division in 2010-11. He has made 67 appearances over the last two-and-a-half seasons as a center midfielder for AC Ajaccio.
San Jose Acquires Midfielder Harris from Colorado
The Earthquakes acquired Colorado midfielder Atiba Harris in exchange for Marvin Chavez on Jan. 7. Harris, 28, has 22 goals and 20 assists during his eight-year MLS career. Most recently, he scored five goals and had one assist in 29 appearances while helping the Colorado Rapids reach the 2013 MLS Cup Playoffs. He has spent his entire career in the Western Conference with stops at Real Salt Lake, Chivas USA, FC Dallas, Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Colorado.
CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal Schedule Announced
The Earthquakes will host Deportivo Toluca FC on Tuesday, March 11 in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal. Kickoff is 7 p.m. PT at Buck Shaw Stadium with television information to be announced at a later date. San Jose will travel to Mexico the following week for the second leg on Wednesday, March 19 at Nemesio Diez Stadium. Kickoff will be 5 p.m. PT with television information to follow at a later date. Earthquakes season ticket holders should use Bonus Game "A" for the match. Individual tickets are available by visiting www.sjearthquakes.com or calling 1-800-225-2277.
Wondolowski, Goodson Called to USMNT Duty
Clarence Goodson and Chris Wondolowski were called to United States Men's National Team duty by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann on Friday for the Americans' first 2014 FIFA World Cup preparation camp of the year. The duo reported to Carson, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 6 and will remain with the U.S. through their friendly against South Korea on Saturday, Feb. 1 at the StubHub Center (2 p.m. PT / ESPN2, UniMas). The Americans will train in Southern California from Jan. 7-12 before departing for Brazil for two weeks in Sao Paolo. They will return stateside on Jan. 26 ahead of their friendly against South Korea.
10 Nationally Televised Games for Earthquakes in 2014
The Earthquakes announced their 2014 slate on Monday, a schedule that includes 10 nationally televised games and home dates at Stanford Stadium and Levi's® Stadium. For a full look, visit www.sjearthquakes.com/schedule. Individual tickets for all games except matches at Stanford Stadium and Levi's® Stadium will be available through a special Visa Pre-Sale starting on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, Dec. 18 at 10 a.m. PT and will be available by visiting the club's website or by calling 1-800-225-2277. Groups of 10 or more should call the Front Office at 408-556-7700 to inquire about group rates.
Stanford Stadium On-Sale Date
The Earthquakes will play at Stanford Stadium for a fourth-consecutive year on Saturday, June 28 against the LA Galaxy. The previous two editions drew sellout crowds of over 50,000. In addition to the soccer match, fans will be treated to a Salute to the Armed Forces halftime show and post-game fireworks extravaganza. Tickets will go on sale beginning Wednesday, Jan. 29 with a special Visa Pre-Sale. General public availability will follow two days later starting at 10 a.m. PT.
Earthquakes to Open Levi's® Stadium on Aug. 2, 2014
The Santa Clara Stadium Authority and the San Jose Earthquakes announced that they have partnered to present the first event at Levi's® Stadium. The Earthquakes will play host to Seattle Sounders FC in one of Major League Soccer's most heated rivalries on August 2, 2014. Earthquakes season ticket holders and Levi's® Stadium SBL holders will have priority access to tickets for this event. Tickets for the general public go on sale at a later date. In order to ensure great seats at the match, fans should call the Earthquakes Front Office at 408-556-7700 to purchase season tickets today.
Club Announces Creation of PDL Affiliate
The Earthquakes became the fourth MLS club to establish a Premier Development League squad last week. They will begin competing in 2014 with a home location and coaching staff still to be decided. The PDL has over 60 teams from the United States and Canada split amongst four conferences. The rosters are comprised of amateur players in the U-23 age group. The Earthquakes' squad will feature players who have competed for the club's Academy and other locally-based talent. Other MLS teams to field teams directly in the PDL include the Chicago Fire, Vancouver Whitecaps FC and the Portland Timbers, while Seattle Sounders FC, the New England Revolution and the Philadelphia Union also hold affiliations with the PDL's Sounders FC U-23, Real Boston Rams and Reading United AC, respectively. For more information about the club's Academy system, please visit www.sjearthquakes.com/academy.
Earthquakes U-16s
The Earthquakes U-16s defeated the De Anza Force 1-0 in their first game of the New Year. Pablo Gervacio scored in the 14th minute for his second goal of the season. Meanwhile, Remi Prieur picked up the clean sheet as San Jose improved to 9-4-0, tied for first in the Northwest Division. The U-16s return to action on Saturday, Jan. 25 against the Santa Cruz Breakers. Kickoff is 2:30 p.m. PT at the club's training facility on Coleman Ave.
Earthquakes U-18s
The Earthquakes U-18s knocked off the De Anza Force 1-0 in their first game of the New Year. Macario Hing-Glover tallied in the 83rd minute to give San Jose a dramatic win. Luke Dennison earned the shutout in goal as San Jose improved to 5-4-4 in Northwest Division play. The U-18s return to action on Saturday, Jan. 25 against the Santa Cruz Breakers. Kickoff is 12 p.m. PT at the club's training facility on Coleman Ave.


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Hang on to your hat. Massachusetts theme parks are perfect for a day out with the family, whether you want a high-speed ride or a low-speed family farm experience. Six Flags New England has over 100 rides, shows, attractions and is home to New England's best water park, Hurricane Harbor. At Salem Willows, you'll find a seaside promenade and amusement park with arcade games, children's rides and a harbor cruise. For a chance to pick your own fruit and experience barnyard animals, check out Connors Farm in Danvers. Last but not least, you'll never run out of mini golf options in Massachusetts. We'd list them all, but we'd rather be mini golfing.
Watch a video featuring the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags New England.
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Topsfield Fair, Topsfield
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Rock, Pop and Doo Wop (My Music) Rock and pop legends Ronnie Spector (the Ronettes) and Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (Sha Na Na) team up to host this May 2010 concert event featuring 1950s and early 1960s favorites. New performances feature Spector, La La Brooks (the Crystalls), Jay Black, Len Barry and the Orlons. Footage from archives around the world return classic performances to the spotlight; they include "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes and "Book of Love" by the Monotones.G
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Make Me "Live Forever" Michael Mosley seeks out people working toward the logical conclusion of modern medicine - triumph over death. At Cambridge, academic Aubrey de Grey offers prize money for the scientist who can most effectively rejuvenate aging mice. He goes to witness the application of stem cell work that is restoring vision, constructing new organs, and offers the chance of replacing body parts. Then using the latest research, some of Michael's cells are made immortal.G
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NOVA "Japan's Killer Quake" In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a rising death toll in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear reactor meltdowns. The facts and figures are astonishing. The March, 2011 earthquake was the world's fourth-largest since recordkeeping began in 1900 and the worst ever to shake Japan.G
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Thousand Invisible Cords: Connecting Genes to Ecosystems Can an entire landscape be changed by changing one gene in one plant or animal? Thirty years of interdisciplinary research says yes, and this film follows the scientific journey that came to that conclusion. "A Thousand Invisible Cords: Connecting Genes to Ecosystems" is an eco-documentary that can truly change how we view the world. No longer will we see species as isolated members of ecosystems but as genetically connected members of a rich interacting community. D
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Battle for the Elephants This National Geographic special goes undercover to expose the criminal network behind ivory's supply and demand that is driving the value of the elephant's tusks to levels once reserved for gold. It also demonstrates how the elephant, with its highly evolved society, keen intelligence, ability to communicate across vast distances and to love, remember and even mourn, is far more complex than previously imagined.G


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- Series hub | Game 2: Box score | Notebook
MIAMI — There was some talk after Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals about the Indiana Pacers being more of a team than the Miami Heat, because they have five guys who contribute and can come up with a big game on any given night, while the champs have three stars who carry the bulk of the load.
Now, that's mostly a bunch of nonsense. All five Indiana starters have scored at least 25 points in a game in this postseason, but Miami didn't win a title last year without significant contributions from multiple players beyond LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
The problem is that the Heat aren't getting those contributions right now, and they aren't getting back to The Finals if they don't get production out of their role players against the Pacers.
We've seen this before, and it wasn't that long ago. The New York Knicks' role players all seemed to disappear in the conference semifinals. Carmelo Anthony got his 28.5 points per game, but nobody else could really get open and the league's third-best offense was held to barely a point per possession over six games.
The Miami offense, which ranked No. 1 in the regular season and through the first two rounds of the playoffs, hasn't been nearly that bad, but the Pacers are basically doing the same thing. James is getting his, but the offense isn't running at full capacity, because other guys aren't getting open.
This is what the Pacers do. They let Paul George guard the opponent's best player by himself, they defend pick-and-rolls with just the two guys involved, they don't over-help, and they stay at home on shooters. They had quite a few pick-and-roll breakdowns in Game 1, but didn't make any real adjustments in Game 2. They stayed true to their defensive system, did what they do better, and continued to keep Miami's 3-point shooting in check.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra wants his shooters hunting down shots, and James said after Game 2 that it's on him, Wade and Bosh to get the shooters involved.
"We have to figure out how to get them some shots early in the game," James said, "where they feel like they're part of the offense. That has to come from me, come from D-Wade, come from CB. We're the three guys that have the ball in our hands a lot."
But that's a lot easier said than done against this opponent. Indiana ranked No. 1 in 3-point defense in the regular season and they've held the Heat to 12-for-40 (30 percent) from beyond the arc through the first two games of this series.
Seven of those 12 threes have come from James (five) and Bosh (two). The Heat's role players are a combined 5-for-21 (24 percent) from 3-point range. With Wade far from 100 percent, the shooting problems are all the more painful.
Spoelstra also said that he cares more about how many threes Shane Battier and Ray Allen take than how many they make. But with both shooting poorly, he called on Mike Miller in the second quarter of Game 2. Miller drained a three at the halftime buzzer, but didn't see the floor after that.
Maybe we'll see more of Miller as the series moves to Indiana. Battier's and Allen's struggles go beyond this series. Battier has shot 12-for-52 (23 percent) from 3-point range in the playoffs, while Allen is 5-for-23 (22 percent) since the start of the conference semifinals.
Rewind to last year though. Through the first three games of the conference semifinals against the Pacers, Miami was shooting a brutal 5-for-42 (12 percent) from 3-point range. They recovered, shot 21-for-48 (44 percent) the rest of the series, and then Battier went off (15-for-26) in The Finals.
A similar turnaround in this series would give the Heat a chance to play for their second straight championship. But this Indiana defense is much better than last year's. George is improved, Roy Hibbert is more of a presence inside, and their pick-and-roll defense is different. They ranked just 16th in 3-point defense last season.
While this series has been physical and points in the paint are always critical, it may be the points from outside that determine the winner.


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Another Trip Down Memory Lane... Life in Christian County, Kentucky... More About Trees and Plants...
The iris are blooming gloriously right now. I have several colors of them, thanks to various people who gave me a start one time or another. These came from Aunt Becky in Illinois.
Iris always remind me of Memorial Day because that's when they bloom in Nebraska. When I was a child, Grandma Barb's iris were always in bloom at Memorial Day. I remember going to the garden with her to cut many stems of iris to take to the cemetery to decorate graves.
Dennis remembers peonies like I remember iris. His mom had a long row of peonie bushes along the driveway, and they bloomed at Memorial Day. He remembers loading the car trunk with peonie blooms and going to the cemetery with his mom to decorate.
Back then, Memorial Day always fell on May 31 and people often called it "Decoration Day."
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Opinion: Taxing the Internet
Editorial board member James Freeman on a Senate proposal to force online retailers to collect sales tax in all states. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... a sigh as a plan to tax ... the Internet ... editorial board member in the system editor James Freeman is here to talk about the stands ... I feel lot of tax is ... the F ... one target the internet of all things what's what's the plan yet in question and others could be ... actually coming to the Senate floor very quickly ... as for the budget recently passed though they have basically express their point of view that ... they are to give state government city governments pounds the power to reach outside their borders in force ... sellers online to collect their taxes for themselves urea ... a small on merchant operating in the New Hampshire of this would allow any government across the country to force you to collect taxes where the euro ... customers are looking okay so I guess the two sides breakout and the states that ... I don't have sales tax and states that they do ... a lot so the states with out a sales tax ... Delaware and ... Montana Oregon and ... Alaska ... on the EU is in the States just not ... not be enough for non import enough to push back ... on this ... I think it's a big game ... there will be some pushback but the idea of the problem here where you know of of ... of liberals who avoids like the idea of giving tax collectors more authority ... and of their kind of in the coalition someone with of ... some Republicans who feel like a ... good on the viscerally think the federal government has the money to shovel more favors back home so in a way to do a favor for your Governor your state representatives ... is to say with any more authority to get money from other people ... and that he also haven't and of legitimate the point of view ... expressed by art Laffer our pages to the Santa say that's taking a free public yes very pro this tax in the interface is the lead he didn't say that the states of a simplify the tax systems firms which they haven't done but his basic point is look it's more fish and economically ... to tax consumption sales than the tax and to um so ... why not let them aam ... what state government city governments have more power due ... to tax sales in that way maybe we endeavor to the Interfax that ... the problem is that that's not part of the deal if this bill passes in all these state and local governments have more power cord taxes ... none of them has agreed to in turn get rid of their income taxes or lower them or or do anything it's just a new authority and I think that ... history shows that the governments to use that authority and thunder increased and scientists the cost I see that consumers can pay the taxes also the cost of implementing ... this taxes states now have it ... how easy would it be for states to ... say ... hey James Freeman I saw you buy a pair of Nikes often sat close you have to pay this tax won't ... even isn't even possible to be clear I if I buy something online from another state Eichler that taxable and tax ID actually do but my Halo can buy ins you heard that most people don't well it's it's the industry chairman of New Jersey voters in the wrong ... but Dom what most people don't pay them not and it would be popular among most people for the state government ... to force them to collect so ... so what the State Government's what is for the federal government to allow them to go after the merchant devastate ... and force them to collect it on ... the day in and questioned how easy it would be that the reason this issue is never dined weren't all the sudden it's moving ... is that that there's the sense that software now makes it easy for any business ... to figure out what the tax is in not ... the city or that stayed an animal automatically imply an inside hassle for the small business the problem is ... what happens ... once you give ... five thousand ten thousand twenty thousand taxing jurisdictions ... the power to all of that that small business ... I don't think that's ever been answered how ... how the small business person in New Hampshire is didn't ... manage if the Tennessee Department of Revenue decides that they owe more tax and wants to bury them and in pain for more taxes just really wanted to hear let's hope


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Going Public has long been an advocate of using 30-day passes to pay for unlimited CTA rides instead of paying per ride because the unlimited passes were such a great deal. Apparently the deal was too good.
The CTA proposed Tuesday to hike the cost of one-, three-, seven- and 30-day unlimited passes including Chicago Cards that are used as 30-day passes.
Chicago Card users who pay per ride and those who pay with cash would not see an increase, which will take effect Jan. 14 if the CTA board approves the plan.
About half of CTA's riders use some type of unlimited pass, CTA president Forrest Claypool said. With the cost of the 30-day pass now at $100, instead of $86, it's time for all CTA riders to re-evaluate how often they use the CTA and how they should pay for the rides.
If a rider takes the train to and from work every weekday in January, it would cost $103.50 to pay per ride ($4.50 round trip times 23 weekdays). The 30-day unlimited pass would cost $3.50 less and the rider could use it on weekends too.
But if a rider takes the bus round trip each weekday (at $4 per round trip using a transit card and not cash), it may be better to pay per ride at $92 per month as opposed to the $100 unlimited card.
Riders also need to take into consideration that if they don't have an unlimited pass, they will have to pay $5 every time they ride the Blue Line from O'Hare.
Riders, take some time to evaluate what CTA pass is the best deal for you.


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Preventing American Indian Children From Becoming Overweight
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00245180
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 27, 2005
Last Update Posted : March 12, 2014
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|Condition or disease
|Cardiovascular Diseases Heart Diseases Obesity
|Behavioral: Diet Behavioral: Exercise
|Not Applicable
AI/AN children have overweight rates that are 18 to 30 percent higher than the general American population of children. Adult obesity has early antecedents, and data show that eating and physical activity behaviors are formed and set as early as 3 years of age, through primary socialization within families. Yet there are few, if any, obesity prevention programs that target children younger than 3 years of age.
This is a community-partnered randomized study to prevent early childhood overweight in AI/AN children. A birth cohort of about 780 children from six Indian communities born over a period 18 months will be randomized by community to either a control (3 communities) or intervention condition (3 communities). The intervention comprises a community-wide intervention coupled with individualized family counseling to improve nutrition and physical activity in infants and toddlers. Nutrition goals are to increase breastfeeding initiation and sustainability, limit sugared beverages for infants and toddlers, and make healthful choices during weaning and solid food introduction. Physical activity goals include promoting motor development, limiting video/TV viewing, and creating play opportunities for infants and toddlers. Intervention approaches and methods used in the pilot study on which this project is based will be combined with new formative data collected at the beginning of the project to enhance the intervention's feeding and physical activity components. Each component in the community-wide interventions will be collaboratively designed with the tribes, and tailored to each community's needs. Trained peer counselors will deliver the family interventions, during a series of 12 cluster visits, each covering a different developmental stage of the infant/toddler.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|577 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Primordial Prevention of Overweight in American Indian Children
|Study Start Date :
|May 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2012
No Intervention: control
Primary and secondary data collected as in intervention arm. Dental screenings will be done once a year as a service.
Behavioral: Diet
Behavioral: Exercise
- BMI [ Time Frame: birth, 6,12,18, and 24 months ]
- feeding [ Time Frame: 0-24 months ]Breastfeeding, (initiation and maintenance), introduction of solids.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|15 Years to 40 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Women who have had uncomplicated pregnancies
- Women who agree to have their child enrolled in the study and followed for 30 months
- Women who are not planning to leave their area within 2 years of study start
Exclusion Criteria:
- Women whose children have a serious illness known to affect normal growth
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00245180
|Principal Investigator:
|Njeri Karanja
|Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
|Responsible Party:
|Kaiser Permanente
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00245180 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U01HL081624 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|October 27, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 12, 2014
|Last Verified:
|April 2006
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cardiovascular Diseases
Heart Diseases
Body Weight
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The admins have picked out their favorite captions, and now it's your turn to vote! You only have five days, so make sure to get your vote in quickly!
This is also the place where you can comment on the existing captions if you'd like.
So here are the finalists in no particular order:
Lord_Of_The_LEGO with
Red Dragon: Dude, I am so sick of losing this game! Where are all the megabloks ACES??!?
Black Dragon: heh heh heh...
Joel Hart with
Black Dragon to himself: It's good to be evil. It makes it sooo much easier to cheat. Mental note, get rid of the extra Ace of Hearts! Now to sucker these dragons in.
To the table: I see your 10 peasants and raise you another 5!
SirCumferance with
Red Dragon: Come on guys, can't we just eat our winnings and get back to the shelves?
Blue Dragon: Shut up! Quiet! We don't wan't to wake Anothony and give away the sercret!
Green Dragon: I don't know what I would do without my poker night! Trying to defend myself against hordes of dragon slayers constantly isn't easy, you know! This is the only break I get!
Blue Dragon: Shut up! SHUT UP!
Black Dragon: Oh, megablocks! It's Anthony! Run!
kaloo with
Tel Karak (Black Dragon): "Last thing I thought I'd have two of were hearts."
brian with
" Stupid Formeathean, After I win this hand I'll be sitting in the big chair, then we'll see who's Anthony's favorite!"
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Since it's not a bug and this post is about items, I guess it's safe to make this thread in this section of the forums.
First of all, do you add source to crafted items? If you do, both Cord of the White Dawn and Sash of Ancient Power are missing their source (Tailoring). Same is true for boots (Spellslinger's Slippers and Savior's Slippers). Guess all crafted items have no source.
Also some hard mode items such as Amice of Inconceivable Horror (Yogg-Saron + 1 keeper 10 Man) and Icecore Staff (Hodir Hard Mode 10 Man) don't have any source at WoW Heroes.
Other items with missing source that I have noticed so far:
Spark of Hope (Kologarn 10 Man)
Sif's Remembrance (Thorim Hard Mode 10 Man)
Boots of the Servant (Freya 25 Man)
Band of the Invoker (EoT vendors)
T9 seems to be missing it's source too, as well as Darkmoon Card: Greatness trinkets. Also ToC (5 man Instance) seems to be missing from your source tables.