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When it was announced that classic rock band Queen would be touring with Adam Lambert sitting in for deceased lead singer Freddie Mercury, fans greeted the news with a mix of excitement and apprehension. Lambert might have been feeling the same way back stage, but strutted into his spot under the lights at The Forum on Thursday night with confidence.
The band's lineup included original members guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, regular keyboardist Spike Edney, plus Neil Fairclough on bass and Taylor's son, Rufus Taylor, also handling percussion.
There was no opening act — just two hours of solid Queen songs beginning with "Now I'm Here." Lambert took the tune on, as he did all that followed, with vocal prowess, channeling just a tad of Mercury while still making each song very much his own.
For "Killer Queen," Lambert strode down the catwalk mid-audience to laze in a Victorian chair. He flirted and teased his way through the song, taking pause only for a long drink out of a Moet Chandon bottle. Lambert thanked the crowd and acknowledged the honor of performing with Queen for the first of many times during the night.
"Somebody To Love" followed with Lambert doing it justice and getting the audience to sing along until the big pause when everyone – including guitarist May, by the look on his face – waited to see if he would hit "the note." Lambert not only hit it, he moved the song into a pop/soul crescendo that would have made Mercury smile.
One of the most moving moments of the night was when May took the spot on the catwalk stage with his acoustic guitar for a solo rendition of "Love of My Life." The song was written by Mercury, so it was only fitting for him to take over the vocals via vintage video footage.
Drummer Roger Taylor also had his solo song time singing "These are the Days of Our Lives" accompanied by a video montage of Queen in their heyday.
Recalling Queen's arena days, Taylor and May both had instrumental solos as well. Taylor did a rousing drum duet with his son, while May's guitar went from mere space sounds and grooves to harmonic jazz notes and hard rock. The crowd, which had mostly sat down during this section, responded to May with a standing ovation.
In between the instrumental solos, Lambert continued to prove himself, almost channeling Mercury with the perfection of his notes during "Under Pressure." After this tune, May joined him on the catwalk stage.
"I have to ask, I think it's his hometown, what do you think of the new boy?" May said.
The audience went wild.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" ended the band's show with Lambert sharing the vocal work with Mercury on video. Fittingly, Mercury had the last words, "Any way the wind blows."
Queen + Lambert left the audience wanting and soon clapping the beat to "We Will Rock You." They came back on stage – Lambert, who had been changing costumes all night was now in a leopard print suit and glittering crown – and launched into the song, ending finally with "We Are the Champions."
Even in their 60s, May and Taylor still have the chops and the showmanship that made them famous. There will never be another Mercury, but Lambert paid him tribute while still successfully shining in his own way. All in all, the crowd was more than satisfied with this historic performance.
Fans seeking more of Queen + Adam Lambert can catch them at The Joint in Las Vegas on Saturday and Sunday.


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2011 Frozen Four National Semifinal Preview - North Dakota vs. Michigan
In order to recap the second national semifinal, Michigan's 2-0 win over North Dakota, all you need to do is mention one name: Shawn Hunwick. Hunwick stopped all 40 shots he faced and most of the game he was " standing on his head." For the Wolverines, Ben Winnett scored the game winning goal midway through the first period—of a rebound.
North Dakota dominated the majority of the game and it is very evident when looking at the stat sheet. The Fighting Sioux outshot the Wolverines 40-20 including 26-7 over the last two periods, but that didn't matter. Hunwick was more than equal to the task.
This is very surprising considering North Dakota was second in the nation in scoring this season and was dominating teams earlier in the NCAA tournament. Coming into the national semifinals, the Sioux had scored 12 goals while their opponents only put one past Goalie Aaron Dell. North Dakota has a loaded roster, eight players had over 25 points, including Hobey Baker finalist Matt Frattin.
Not only did the Sioux out shoot Michigan but it they had quality chance after quality chance but could never quite capitalize on their chances.
Seeing their season slip away, North Dakota decided to pull their goalie with 1:12 left and after three scoring changes Michigan got it out of their zone and ended the game.
Scooter Vaughan ended the game and the dreams of North Dakota hoisting their 8 th championship in school history with an empty netter.
Having a shutout isn't something new to Hunwick, it is his fourth clean sheet of his season.
But losing isn't something that is new to North Dakota is used to. Before falling to the Wolverines, the Sioux had not lost since January 28 th.
This game was the marquee game as two of the most storied college hockey programs were going head to head. This game lived up to the billing. Both rosters are loaded with NHL ready talent. Michigan has 13 players that have been drafted by NHL franchises while North Dakota has 16.
Losing in the Frozen Four is familiar ground for the Sioux and their fans. Since getting the head gig seven years ago coach Dave Hakstol has taken his Sioux to five Frozen Four and has yet to deliver a National Championship.
Michigan will play Minnesota-Duluth on Saturday for the chance to win its 10 th Championship and further cement their place as an elite hockey program.
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Post-GazetteUPMC plans to move headquarters to largest building Downtown
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's pending move from Oakland to the city's largest office tower Downtown is about more than the basic need for space. It also symbolizes the evolution of what was a small medical school into what is now the largest employer in Western Pennsylvania, with more than 40,000 people at its command.
UPMC Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Romoff, the person who charted that rise, will officially announce the crosstown move this morning at U.S. Steel Tower, site of UPMC's new Grant Street headquarters. Confirming the decision yesterday with a brief press advisory, the hospital conglomerate hailed the consolidation of corporate and administrative functions Downtown as a sign of "UPMC's commitment to the city and the community."
UPMC will likely take several floors -- one real estate source said yesterday that UPMC could start with 200,000 square feet and grow to as much as 400,000 square feet over a period of years -- and plant its sign somewhere on the blackish-gray tower built for U.S. Steel Corp. in 1970.
During negotiations with the landlord, UPMC was said to have discussed the placement of its logo atop the 64-story building, visible for miles around. It was not known yesterday whether the landlord had agreed to that step; the property manager and leasing agent both declined comment.
Today's announcement, though, does end plenty of speculation within the real estate and medical communities about the ultimate location of UPMC, a $5.7 billion nonprofit that made a "profit"-- excess revenue over expenses -- of $523 million in 2006 and continues to grow at a torrid pace, swallowing land and other hospitals. In the last 15 months alone, UPMC spent $13 million acquiring properties surrounding its Hillman Cancer Center in Shadyside, preparing for a possible expansion of 300,000 square feet, while supervising construction of the 900,000-square-foot, $575-million Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville.
It also is awaiting federal and state approvals of a $120 million merger with Pittsburgh Mercy Health System -- a deal that would give the largest employer in southwestern Pennsylvania access to more than half the hospital market in Allegheny County. A Federal Trade Commission spokesman confirmed yesterday that the agency recently asked UPMC and Mercy for more information -- indicating a heightened level of scrutiny.
Both the FTC and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office are looking into possible antitrust issues.
No one knows how long the reviews will take.
"It is a waiting game right now," said Mercy spokeswoman Shannon Adam. "Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. It is out of our hands."
A UPMC rival, West Penn Allegheny, continues to rail against the merger, arguing that it would drive up health-care costs in the region.
"UPMC's aggressive acquisition of Western Pennsylvania hospitals over the past 10 years constitutes nothing less than an attempt to monopolize the provision of health care services in this region," said Dan Laurent, a spokesman for West Penn Allegheny.
UPMC monopoly, he added, would "adversely impact the competitive position of businesses in the community and stunt business growth via higher health-care costs. We are gratified that the FTC is taking concerns over this proposed merger seriously and closely examining its potential implications for our region."
West Penn Allegheny's opposition puts the shoe on the other foot in a long-standing adversarial relationship that saw UPMC challenge West Penn's merger with Allegheny General nearly a decade ago.
UPMC notes that it is not unusual for the FTC to make such requests for additional information. "We remain confident that this review will culminate in a merger that benefits Mercy, its employees and the health care consumers of this region," it said in a statement.
A spokesman for the state attorney general's office could not be reached for comment.
This is good news for the downtown real estate market. I know office vacancy has been high in the golden triangle, so this would really help.


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Dave Lee Travis: 'Sex abuse claims do not involve kids'
DJ DAVE LEE TRAVIS has spoken out following his arrest on sex abuse allegations, branding the claims "evil" and protesting his innocence.
The presenter, a household name after spending 25 years hosting shows on BBC Radio 1 until the mid-1990s, was held by cops on Thursday (15Nov12) as part of an investigation into late TV star Sir Jimmy Savile.
He is the latest veteran star to be arrested as cops probe claims Savile abused more than 300 youngsters during his BBC heyday, but Lee Travis has now spoken out to insist the allegations against him do not involve children.
In a statement made outside his home on Friday morning (16Nov12), he said, "This is nothing to do with kids, all right? That's the first thing. Because that to me is the most important thing in the world and I do not wish to have my name sullied around something that bl**dy evil, to be honest.
"The second thing I want is to say, yes, there's a complete denial there, but there's nothing else I can tell you because otherwise I might be stepping on the police's feet and I don't want to do that because it might affect their investigations."
Lee Travis, who was released on bail and has since been dropped from his weekend show on a local radio station while the probe is ongoing, alleges he has been targeted as he is a celebrity, adding, "It's just too easy to make allegations. I'm an easy target. I am and always have been completely abhorred by child molestation. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?"
Since Savile, who died last year (11), was unmasked as a paedophile in September (12) a string of allegations has been made about other high-profile stars, sparking a wide-ranging police investigation.


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The DMV for Day 19 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by threads that executed. You can use this aggregated view to diagnose performance issues with SQL Server and also with specific queries and batches.
There are several very useful queries that use sys.dm_os_wait_stats, but I will only be talking about one today. This DMV works with SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2. It requires VIEW SERVER STATE permission.
-- Isolate top waits for server instance since last restart or statistics clear WITH Waits AS (SELECT wait_type, wait_time_ms / 1000. AS wait_time_s, 100. * wait_time_ms / SUM(wait_time_ms) OVER() AS pct, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY wait_time_ms DESC) AS rn FROM sys.dm_os_wait_stats WHERE wait_type NOT IN ('CLR_SEMAPHORE','LAZYWRITER_SLEEP','RESOURCE_QUEUE','SLEEP_TASK' ,'SLEEP_SYSTEMTASK','SQLTRACE_BUFFER_FLUSH','WAITFOR', 'LOGMGR_QUEUE','CHECKPOINT_QUEUE' ,'REQUEST_FOR_DEADLOCK_SEARCH','XE_TIMER_EVENT','BROKER_TO_FLUSH','BROKER_TASK_STOP','CLR_MANUAL_EVENT' ,'CLR_AUTO_EVENT','DISPATCHER_QUEUE_SEMAPHORE', 'FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT' ,'XE_DISPATCHER_WAIT', 'XE_DISPATCHER_JOIN')) SELECT W1.wait_type, CAST(W1.wait_time_s AS DECIMAL(12, 2)) AS wait_time_s, CAST(W1.pct AS DECIMAL(12, 2)) AS pct, CAST(SUM(W2.pct) AS DECIMAL(12, 2)) AS running_pct FROM Waits AS W1 INNER JOIN Waits AS W2 ON W2.rn <= W1.rn GROUP BY W1.rn, W1.wait_type, W1.wait_time_s, W1.pct HAVING SUM(W2.pct) - W1.pct < 95; -- percentage threshold
This query is used to help determine what type of resource that SQL Server is spending the most time waiting on. This can help you figure out what the biggest bottleneck is at the instance level, which will then guide your efforts to focus on a particular type of problem. For example, if the top cumulative wait types are disk I/O related, then you would want to start looking at disk related DMV queries and PerfMon counters to narrow down the issue. You should also remember that these wait stats are cumulative since SQL Server was last restarted or since the wait statistics were cleared with this command:
-- Clear Wait Stats DBCC SQLPERF('sys.dm_os_wait_stats', CLEAR);
If your SQL Server instance has been running for quite a while, and you make a significant change (such as adding an important new index), you should think about clearing the old wait stats with the DBCC SQLPERF command shown above. Otherwise, the old cumulative wait stats will mask what is currently going on since your change.


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Wind for Schools Program Impacting Nation's Renewable Energy Future
February 28, 2013
Audio with Dan McGuire, Nebraska Wind for Schools Program Consultant (MP3 4.7 MB). Download Windows Media Player. Time: 00:05:03.
The U.S. Department of Energy, Wind Powering America, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory launched the Wind for Schools Program in 2006. These groups identified six priority states for the program—and Nebraska was one of those states.
Nebraska Wind for Schools Program Consultant Dan McGuire says the program has three primary goals. First, to engage rural school teachers and students in wind energy education. Second, to equip college students with wind energy education and in wind energy applications to provide interested, equipped engineers for the growing U.S. wind industry. And third, to introduce wind energy to rural communities by initiating a discussion of wind energy benefits and challenges.
The projects were paid for in a number of ways from a number of sources. McGuire says schools were required to invest at least $1,500 dollars from their budget into the project to pay for the wind turbines. During the first few years of the program, McGuire says the Nebraska Public Power Board provided grants, funds, and equipment to help install the turbines at the schools.
"Likewise, a number of the local public power districts provided assistance to the schools by using some of their trenching and digging equipment—bucket trucks—so we have a great team in this public power state and we all try to work together. This was a perfect example of good government and private sector working together. Additional sources of funds: Schools applied for grants from a number of different sources, and that includes USDA Rural Development program funds, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that were administered through the Nebraska Energy office, the SEP Grant program—that's Supplemental Environmental Program grant funds—were provided to about a dozen of our Nebraska schools from the Nebraska Attorney General's office. They administer that. Other grant funds came from local community foundations and anonymous donors."
McGuire says local electric construction and contracting companies—along with other community-based businesses—provided in-kind donations of labor and equipment. He says the projects really have been community efforts.
Regarding the DOE funding, McGuire says it was always understood that funding would last for maybe five years and then other resources would have to be found to replace that funding.
"We prefer to see that funding continue. Well, it may not. So given that, we're looking for other possible sources of funding, especially to keep the University of Nebraska Wind Application Center going, because that Wind Application Center is the go-to place for technical expertise and to be the resource for all those K-12 partner schools that we now have, what I call our network of partner schools here in Nebraska. So that's a big deal, and we're looking for new sources of funding."
Nebraska leads the nation with 25 K-12 partner schools in this project, which McGuire says means with enrollment alone, 24,000 to 25,000 students are being reached, which represents nearly 8% of the total Nebraska K-12 students. Plus, he says there are more than 100 students involved through the University of Nebraska.
With this project, McGuire was pleased President Obama spoke in favor of more renewable energy and how job creation is an important part of renewable energy during his State of the Union address.
"One of the things that we need to remember: 20% wind energy by 2030. Now, that's a target that was set a few years ago by DOE and the American Wind Energy Association. And that report suggests that the wind industry could support roughly 500,000 jobs in the U.S. with an average of more than 150,000 workers directly employed in the industry. And there would be more than 100,000 jobs in associated industries, such as accountants, lawyers, steel workers, and electrical manufacturing, 200,000 jobs through economic expansion based on local spending, 1.5 billion by 2030 in annual increase in property tax revenues, 600 million in lease payments to rural landowners. And the Wind for Schools Program fits right into what the president was talking about in that State of the Union by helping to get the workforce ready to fill those jobs."
That's what McGuire says is one of the great things about the Wind for Schools Program. He says the future of the program is a bit uncertain, but there are many visionary wind energy advocates in the Nebraska Legislature and they view the program as a key component of the state's wind energy development potential and expansion opportunities for the future.
McGuire says the wind turbines installed in the 25 partner schools across Nebraska represent a big vision for what is possible for renewable energy's future.
"Those wind turbines stand for a lot. They stand for education. They stand for new careers. They stand for economic development, rural prosperity, energy independence for our state and for the nation. So, the Wind for Schools program stands for, and opens the doors to, all of those very positive and very real economic opportunities that Nebraska can capture for our young people, for the future, for generations to come."
That's why McGuire says rural Nebraskans—and all Americans—should care about wind turbines at schools and the potential they hold for the nation's future.
Reporting for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, I'm Seanica Otterby.


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May 31, 2012 – Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge, located in Jefferson Parish, will be closed to the general public Sunday, June 3 through Tuesday, June 5. Regular hours of operation will resume on Wednesday, June 6 at 6 a.m.
Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge, owned and maintained by the state of Louisiana, is a 230-acre tract of barrier beachfront located on the southwestern tip of Jefferson Parish. It is located directly across Caminada Pass from Grand Isle, LA.
For more information on the island, including hours of operation and rules and regulations, please visit http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/refuge/elmers-island [4].


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Over three hundred tortoises rescued following major poaching incident in Madagascar
Posted on 08 October 2012
Over 300 tortoises have been rescued from poachers and released back into the wild in two separate incidents in Madagascar.Antananarivo, Madagascar – Over 300 tortoises have been rescued from poachers and released back into the wild in two separate incidents in Madagascar.
Local police found 271 radiated and one baby spider tortoise on board a bush taxi in Ampanihy, while another 43 tortoises were discovered abandoned on a road further south in Tsihombe, six people have been arrested in relation to the two incidents.
"WWF applauds the firm clampdown on poachers in the South-western region", says Tiana Ramahaleo, WWF's Species Programme Coordinator in Madagascar. "According to what we know, at least 1000 tortoises are removed from the Plateau Mahafaly every week – at least they have been, up to now."
"The population decline of these flagship species is alarming. In 2001 there was still a population of 12 million; in 2011 we were down to 6.3 million. If we don't manage to halt tortoise poaching and habitat destruction in the South, we might lose them in the wild in less than twenty years".
The local court issued and official order allowing WWF to take the tortoises back to the community managed sacred forest of Ambovo, WWF staff and partners from the Madagascar based Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) freed all 315 tortoises the next night.
Radiated tortoises are protected, but they are under threat from consumption and the pet trade. Tortoise meat is considered a delicacy among certain tribes in Madagascar with demand strongest before holidays such as Christmas, Easter and Independence Day. Large illegal smoke sites are regularly found during these seasons.
Baby tortoises also leave the country via a handful of international airports to be sold on Asian pet markets with prices ranging from $273 in Thailand to $4636 in the US.
"WWF established an information network in the South to help the police make sure tortoise trafficking does not go unpunished," says Ramahaleo. "We welcome the recent decision by the ministry of justice to take a strong stance on tortoise poaching and are very happy that we were able to take these tortoises back to their habitat in a fast and unbureaucratic manner."
"While we are trying to convince people in Madagascar not to eat tortoises any more, we are asking every single person on this planet not to buy endangered Malagasy tortoises as pets. If the demand for endemic tortoises on international markets is diminishing, it'll buy time to save them once and for all."
WWF Madagascar is involved in numerous projects to save endemic tortoises including habitat conservation, creating new protected areas and working with partners to expand resources for releasing seized tortoises back into safer areas of their natural range.


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The doors, comprised of two 7 ft by 2 ft (2.1m by 0.6m) panels that slide away from each other to allow passengers to get on and off the train, posed a challenge in that each one had to be cut to meet precise dimensions, before bonding to an aluminum exterior panel.
GFMI, says Corbett, chose as its raw material standard 5-mm/0.2-inch thick G10 glass fiber/epoxy panels provided by Interstate Plastics (Sacramento, Calif.) that measure 4 ft by 8 ft (1.2m by 2.4m). From each panel GFMI would cut two door halves, or one complete door. The question was how to cut it.
GFMI opted for waterjet cutting, and for the job has relied on its OMAX Corp. (Kent, Wash.) 60120 55,000 psi waterjet machine. The company stacks four sheets into its OMAX and cuts all simultaneously, starting with interior features first — 15-inch by 30-inch (381 mm by 762 mm) window and cutouts for door handles — before cutting perimeter features.
Corbett says the waterjet process provides door panels with clean edges at the cuts, with none of the dust associated with traditional composites machining. It takes GFMI about 3.5 hours to machine four sheets, after which GFMI makes and installs glass into the windows, bonds the composite to the aluminum and delivers finished product to the customer for final assembly.
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TWIA scare, UT Valley and Aggie regents
An item on the meeting agenda for the board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) raised more than a few eyebrows in Austin this week and was seen as cause for potential concern for coastal residents. The agenda filed with the Secretary of State for the March 25 TWIA board meeting listed as the first item for consideration and action to "review options for addressing the current financial condition of the Association and alternatives including supervision, conservation and rehabilitation in receivership."
It was that last reference to "rehabilitation in receivership" that introduced an element of uncertainty into the equation. Coastal residents depend on TWIA as the state's windstorm insurer of last resort, and there is little sympathy from many inland legislators to their plight. The impact of any move into receivership is unknown but if the agency essentially declared bankruptcy, it could affect property owners all along the Gulf Coast. One thing this agenda posting will do is guarantee that what might otherwise be a routine session of an agency board meeting will be carefully scrutinized by the interested parties.
On the higher education front, the House voted overwhelmingly this week to approve HB 1000, which would create a massive new University of Texas institution in the Rio Grande Valley. The new university would consolidate UT-Pan American in Edinburg, UT-Brownsville and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio's regional campus in South Texas, which would evolve into a medical school.
Rep. René Oliveira, D-Brownsville, the bill's lead author, said, "It's an overused phrase, but this bill is a game changer."
Significantly the new university would be supported by the Permanent University Fund (PUF), which supplies money generated by oil revenues on public lands to the UT System and the Texas A&M System. The PUF does not provide any funding to other public universities in the state of Texas.
Gov. Rick Perry in his State of the State address in late January signaled his approval for PUF funding for the new school. In a statement released after the 149-0 vote in the House, he said "Expanding higher education opportunities in South Texas is a critical next step in one of the fastest growing regions of our state."
Sources said the new university eventually could enroll 29,000 students and feature one of the largest concentration of Hispanic students of any school in the country.
In other higher education news, last month the Office of the Governor announced the appointment of Cliff Thomas Jr., Judy Morgan and Elaine Mendoza to the Texas A&M board of regents. They were confirmed by the Senate Nominations committee a week later.
It was again suggested with these nominations that Perry tended to favor lavish donors for appointments. As the Texas Tribune noted in 2012, "Over the past decade, the men and women chosen by Gov. Rick Perry to govern state universities have given his campaigns at least $5.8 million. … About half of the governor's appointed regents gave to his campaign; of those who gave, the average total given was about $64,000."
A spokeswoman for Perry denied any connection between the donations and the appointments. "The governor appoints people to boards and agencies based on their qualifications and nothing more," said Catherine Frazier. "It's their right to contribute to his campaign based on what they think of his leadership."
Last month, The Texas Independent reported that new Regent Cliff Thomas Jr. and his wife have donated $326,000 to Perry since 2000, including $100,000 in 2009 and 2010. Thomas' donations make him the biggest Perry campaign contributor on the A&M Board of Regents, who together have given Perry more than $1 million.
Thomas of Victoria is owner and CEO of Thomas Petroleum, Speedy Stop Food Stores and C.L. Thomas Inc. — which together comprise a fuel lubricant and chemical distributorship and chain of convenience stores.
Texarkana's Morgan is owner and president of Jack B. Kelley Enterprises Inc., a commercial transportation company based in Amarillo. Morgan's husband, Jim, has contributed more than $18,300 to Perry's campaign, including expenses for campaign events in 2002, 2006 and 2009.
Mendoza is a former vice chair of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and president/CEO of Conceptual MindWorks Inc., a company focused on electronic medical records. Mendoza has made no contributions to Perry.
James Shannon can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 249, or by e-mail at james [at] beaumontbusinessjournal [dot] com.


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Nothing on the forum was compromised!
For the past week or so we have been bombarded with spam postings/Private Messages containing porn and other illicit materials. In an attempt to shut the spam down and stop the postings I have upgraded and modified the code. During this modification a piece was broken and I was unable to fix it immediately.
The forum should be spam free, porn free (Trust me you didn't want to see this), and up and running.
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California Department of Transportation
Date: August 11, 2011
District: District 5 - San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: Colin Jones
Phone: 805-549-3189
$2.2 Billion in New Funding Allocated to Transportation Projects to help drive State's Economic Growth
DISTRICT 5 CENTRAL COAST– Continuing the push to rebuild California's infra-structure and spur job growth, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) has allocated $2.2 billion in new funding to 146 highway, transit and rail projects statewide.
The funding included $863 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved state transportation bond. To date, the state has allocated more than $9 billion in Prop. 1B funds.
"We are putting transportation dollars to work creating jobs and making transportation improvements that will benefit Californians now and for decades to come," said Acting Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Highlights of the funding allocations include:
Highway 101/41 Landscaping in Atascadero -- $586,000 was approved by the CTC for revegetation and planting at the busy inter-change, which serves as the gateway into Atascadero and recently received a major upgrade by Caltrans. This important mitigation project will include thousands of mostly native shrubs and trees with a few ornamental species on four acres of both state and city property at the interchange. A new irrigation system for optimal water management will also be installed. The landscaping project is expected to begin this fall with a 3-year plant establishment period.
For information about all projects that received allocations please see: http://www.dot.ca.gov/docs/ctcprojectallocationsaugust2011.pdf
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At today's Unpacked event, Samsung announced its new S Pen-powered Galaxy Note 3, a bigger version of the large smartphone, with much improved internals. Aiming to end the talk of people complaining about the cheap plastic feel of Samsung devices, the company has given the Note 3 a faux-leather backing. You get a 5.7-inch 1080p display (up from 5.5 on the Note 2,) and the device will support the new LTE Category 4 as well as the new Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch. You get a 13 megapixel camera on back, with a 2 megapixel version up front, and the rear camera can record in up to 4K resolution at 30fps, a first for a smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will start shipping on September 25th rocking Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, available in black, white, and pink.
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Android Jelly Bean 4.3 coming to Galaxy S 4, S III in October
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If you're rocking a Samsung Galaxy S III or Galaxy S 4 and are wondering when you'll be able to get in on the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update, today's Unpacked event made it clear that the software is coming to your handheld sometime during the month of October, around the same time as the update that will enable Galaxy Gear functionality. No word on when Android 4.4 KitKat will be made available.
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Google announces Android 4.4 KitKat
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cell Phones, Google, Software,
Google Android (and Chrome) head Sundar Pichai has announced the next version of Android: KitKat. Yep - Android 4.4 will be known as KitKat, a name Google got the rights to use in partnership with Nestle, and continues the tradition of Android versions being named after sweet confections. While Google had been using the name "Key Lime Pie" internally for Android 4.4, "very few people actually know the taste of key lime pie," according to Android director of partnerships John Lagerling. Not sure why that matters, but obviously KitKat is a bigger marketing play.
No new features of KitKat have been announced just yet, but at least we know the name, and have a new Android icon with integrated chocolatey KitKat goodness integrated in.
Google is currently running a promotion that lets buyers of specially-marked KitKat packs to have a chance to win a free Nexus 7 or some Google Play credit.
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Google slashes price of Nexus 4, now $199 with no contract required
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With Apple expected to release the lower-cost iPhone 5C next month, Google has just cut the price of the Nexus 4, dropping it to $199 for the 8GB model without contract—that's $100 less than it cost just a day ago. If you prefer the 16GB version, you can get that one for $249. These prices are a steal for the Nexus 4, which is widely seen as the best current Android smartphone, even thought it lacks LTE. This is a much more inexpensive way to get the pure Google experience in a smartphone than it would be to buy the Google Play editions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S 4. The price cut is now live in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Korea, the United States, and the UK.
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AT&T HTC One Mini available August 23rd for $99
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The HTC One Mini has finally been given a release date, and you can get your hands on the 4.3-inch version of what we deemed the best current-generation Android smartphone in just four days on August 23rd. The HTC One Mini boasts a 720p display, 1.4GHz dual-core SnapDragon 400 processor, 1GB RAM, 4-megapixel UltraPixel camera, 1,800mAh battery, and runs Android 4.2 out of the box. You'll have to be an AT&T customer for the priviledge, and you'll need to be willing to drop $99 and sign a two-year contract to make it all happen.
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Google Chromecast media streaming dongle goes on sale for $35, Netflix promo yanked
Posted by Jason Diaz Categories: Accessories, Google, HDTV, Videos,
Well, the rumors were correct on the mysterious device that momentarily showed up on Google's support page. The Chromecast is a media dongle that allows you to sling web content the web and cloud-stored content, using a smartphone or Chrome browser as a remote control. It's a bummer that it still doesn't have the ability to stream or mirror content stored on the device like Apple's AirPlay, but hey, for $35, we can't complain.
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Mysterious Chromecast device shows upon Google support page
Posted by Jason Diaz Categories: Google, Rumors,
A few eagle-eyed Google support page visitors spotted a mysteriously unknown device dubbed Chromecast. It has since been removed from the site, as if it never existed. Luckily, someone took a screenshot for posterity. There are no concrete details of what it actually is. However, there is some speculation of it being an HDMI dongle streaming device for TVs, while websites like Droid Life say it might be a Apple AirPlay-like feature to sling content from a Cromebook to the TV. Hopefully, the mystery will be solved at today's Google event. In the meantime, let the speculation continue.
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A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Facebook Home [Video]
Posted by Jason Diaz Categories: Cell Phones, Google, Software, Videos,
Take a gander behind the curtain of how Facebook designers created the Facebook Home launcher for Android. The forty-five minute video essay shows the evolutionary process of cover feed, chat heads, and the premise of mimicking the real world experience with a software operating system not based on apps, but focused rather on people.
On May 8th, the designers behind Facebook Home (Justin Stahl, Francis Luu, Joey Flynn and Mac Tyler) presented a behind-the-scenes look at their work at the Bluxome Street Winery for a small crowd. In this four-part talk, they discuss how they combined their high-level goals with an iterative process and interactive design tools such as Quartz Composer to bring the first version of Home to launch.
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Google's Motorola Moto X event set for August 1 in NYC
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Motorola fans, mark your calendars for August 1st, as that's the date set for the Moto X event in New York city. Some details of the device have leaked, such as the "always listening" mode for Google Now, snapping the phone to activate the camera, and giving customers customization options of the design of the smartphone like colors on the sides and rear. There is some speculation that the device will be budget-friendly, costing around $199 off-contract and available on all major US carriers. Perhaps the idea is to take on the highly-rumored technicolored low cost iPhone. Motorola is looking for a winner this time around, as previously the subsidiary of Google has posted a quarterly loss $342 million on the top of massive $12.5 billion acquisition. Curiosity here at Gear Live if the Moto X will run Google's latest and greatest Android software as they are hosting thier OS Android and Chrome event on the 24th of July.
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FireFly Online iOS and Android Coming in 2014
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FireFly, the popular television series with a cult following, is now set to debut as an online RPG social role-playing game for iOS and Android in 2014. It may come with a desktop version, and possibly even appear on game consoles as well. Here's a sneak peek trailer of the game, after the break, along with details:
In Firefly Online, players assume the role of a ship captain as they hire a crew and seek out adventures, all the while trading with and competing against the millions of other players to try to survive in the Verse: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.
FFO provides a variety of gameplay activities and systems so that players can fully experience life in the Verse.
- Assume the role of a ship captain - create a crew and customize a ship
- Aim to misbehave in space and planet-side adventures
- Cross-platform player experience across devices (pick-up and play from anywhere)
- Unique social features connecting Firefly fans
- Create a shiny ship and explore the Verse
If you want more info on the game, sign up at the source URL below!
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How to Find the Best Diet App for You
As we enter 2014, there are more nutrition apps than ever before, and the newest ones do far more than just count calories. The most high-tech apps measure exercise, allow you to compete with friends, sync with your bathroom scale, and help you set custom goals based on how much weight you want to lose and your desired timeline (very helpful for weddings and vacations!). Of course, almost all come with expansive calorie libraries and are also able to scan barcodes to read the nutrition information of everything from a box of Oreos to your Trader Joes broccoli. We've listed our favourites—and why we like them—above.
Why we like it: It's easy to use, incredibly comprehensive, and breaks down calories between carbs, fats, and sugars. Also, Lose It! launched its own Bluetooth Scale ($50) late last year that measures both weight and BMI, wirelessly communicating it to your phone.
Why we like it: Not sure how you put on those extra five pounds in the first place? This app will help you gain perspective on your habits, telling you what you'd weigh by your allotted deadline if you repeated that particular day's intake.
Why we like it: Tap & Track has the largest offline food database, with over 500,000 foods, and allows you to compete against other users.
Why we like it: All of these fitness apps are doing what Weight Watchers has been doing for years—counting calories and rewarding exercise. If you're already familiar with Weight Watcher's point system, this will be comfortable—and your best bet.
Why we like it: Perfect if you're considering shelling out hundreds of dollars for a fitness tracker but want to make sure it's worth it. The app counts steps, maps your runs, tracks your sleep, and logs your weight on a sleek honeycomb display.
Why we like it: Want to earn a few bucks? This app allows you to set personal exercise and nutrition goals, then compete with others. Those who meet their goals are paid by those who don't, up to $5 a week.


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|0.1" connector custom cable.
These wires with pre-crimped terminals are equivalent to Pololu's premium jumper wires without the 1×1 crimp connector housings on the ends. By combining these wires with Pololu's crimp connector housings, you can quickly and easily create custom cables with 0.1" (2.54mm) connectors that mate with various 0.1"-spaced connectors, including male and female headers and solderless breadboards. Just pick the housing for the correct number of pins, pick the colors and genders for your wires, and snap them into the housings (note: it's not easy to get the wires back out, so plan carefully!). No soldering is required!
You can easily make cable harnesses or assemblies that branch from one connector on one side to multiple connectors on the other (an example of this is shown in the picture to the right); you can also cut off one pre-crimped end and solder the wires directly to components to make swapping connections easy, as shown in the motor picture below.
The wires are available in six lengths—3" (7.5 cm), 6" (15 cm), 12" (30 cm), 24" (60 cm), 36" (90 cm), and 60" (150 cm)—and in ten colors:
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- black
- brown
- red
- orange
- yellow
- green
- blue
- purple
- gray
- white
These are the same colors as those used on resistor color codes and rainbow ribbon cable. The wire packs of different lengths include different quantities of wires. The table below shows the quantity included for a particular length-color combination:
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|50 (5 of each color)
|50 (5 of each color)
|20 (2 of each color)
|10 (1 of each color)
These wires can be purchased with male terminals on both ends, female terminals on both ends, or one male and one female terminals. These crimped terminals are designed for use with 0.1" (2.54 mm) male headers and female headers, solderless breadboards, and prototyping PCBs. Note that Pololu also sell the crimp pins by themselves if you want to crimp your own wires.
The following video talks about some of Pololu's various wire and cable options and includes a short demonstration of how to use these pre-crimped wires with Pololu's crimp connector housings:
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|Male crimp pin for 0.1" housings crimped onto a wire.
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One of Pololu's customers has made a very nice video that talks about how to make custom cables with these pre-crimped wires and with self-crimped wires made with Pololu's crimping tool. The section on using pre-crimped wires and crimp connector housings starts at around 2:00.
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Noodles are commonly served at Chinese New Year dinner, after all, Chinese live on rice and noodles. If not steamed rice, there is always a noodle dish to go with all the fabulous dishes prepared for Chinese New Year.
In Malaysia, whenever my family celebrates Chinese festivities, we would always make a big serving of noodle dish—either egg noodles or fried vermicelli—as one of the prayer offerings to our ancestors.
Other noodle dishes which are popular at restaurants are lobster yee mein and chow mein.
For the upcoming Chinese/Lunar New Year, I thought I would share a new recipe—crab noodles made of cellophane noodles (also known as mung bean threads, bean threads, glass noodles, or 冬粉 /tanghoon) and crab meat, with bean sprouts, sliced onions, eggs, and chopped scallions. The great thing about this crab noodles recipe is that you can serve it for Chinese New Year or Vietnamese Tet.
It's always good to try out something new for a change. I love the taste and presentation, and it's sure to impress your family and guests.
I got some frozen crab meat, which is very convenient but the downside is that the crab meat lacks the natural sweet taste. If you have time, you should get fresh crab and pick the flesh yourself.
If you have a great seafood market, by all means get lump crab meat. Trust me, it's worth it to splurge on this recipe.
My crab noodles photos were shot with my new Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
As you can see, I am experimenting different food photography styles (mostly because I am practicing for my cookbook). I am really loving the rustic aged wood background—which is the preferred background for many gorgeous food blogs.
I even got myself some reclaimed wood boards with different colors and background, I am very excited as I will be using them for my cookbook food photography.
Enjoy and don't forget to check out my other Chinese New Year recipes: ginger and scallion fish, soy sauce chicken, pineapple tarts, and pineapple rolls.
Please stay tuned as I continue to share more Chinese New Year recipes!
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Last week, MSNBC steadfastly refused to dip into a speech by newly-minted Republican and former Rep. Artur Davis (Ala.), who just four years ago was not only a Democrat but an Obama campaign co-chair.
But on Tuesday night, MSNBC showed in full the speech of Maria Ciano, whom anchor Rachel Maddow tagged a "former Republican talking about her conversion to Democratic politics, particularly on the issue of choice." Ciano launched into a misleading, error-laden diatribe, which of course was NOT fact-checked by MSNBC panelists afterward. Also left unmentioned was that Ciano has been a Democrat since at least two years prior to Obama's election to the presidency. From the conservative Power Line blog [emphasis mine]
Her name is Maria Ciano, and BuzzFeed finds that she has been a registered Democrat in Colorado at least since 2006. Here she is in the Obama ad. She is easy to spot in the ad because she wears braces
Her Facebook page is here; some of her friends congratulate her on appearing in the Obama ad. In addition to the fact that she is a registered Democrat, check out her Facebook "likes." They make it obvious that Ms. Ciano is a devoted Democrat and a left-wing activist. Here are some of her "likes," beginning with the earliest in time:
* Democracy For America
* Tar Sands Action
* Amy Goodman
* Barack Obama
* Costoftaxcuts.com
* Being Liberal
* MoveOn.org
* Bernie Sanders Tells You A Secret the GOP Would Rather You Didn't Know
* Miss Piggy Delivers the Best Takedown of Fox News We've Seen All Month
* Think Progress
* The Best Quote From Barack Obama We've Seen This Week
* Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America's Heartland
* Climate Reality
* Grist.org
* The Amazing Victory Scored With Obama That More People Should Be Talking About
* The Sierra Club
* The Buffett Rule
* Obama For America–Colorado
* UniteWomen.org
* Denver Young Democrats
* Obamacare
* Latinos For Obama
* Michelle Obama
* Veterans For Obama
* I Love It When I Wake Up In the Morning and Obama Is President
* Obama Truth Team
* Democratic Party
To be fair, "liking" a group on Facebook is sometimes done when you dislike the group but wish to be able to follow them for the purposes of commenting on their wall and picking fights in the comment threads. But if that were the case with Ciano, she'd also likely "like" conservative groups on Facebook too, which, it appears she doesn't. She does like Chick-fil-A, but having a jones for tasty "hate chicken" doesn't count.


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The investigational drug axitinib produced tumor regression or stable disease in almost three-out-of-four patients with advanced thyroid cancer, a research team reported at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology in Chicago.
In this exploratory phase-2 trial, 18 out of 60 patients (30%) had their tumors shrink by 31 to 83 percent. Another 25 patients (42%) had stable disease, with no tumor progression or slight reduction in size, when measured at four months. Many of those patients still have stable disease.
"This is exciting," said study presenter Ezra Cohen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "Until now we really didn't have anything to offer thyroid cancer patients with advanced disease that was refractory to standard measures."
Although this drug did not produce complete responses, it appears to have caused "significant tumor reduction in most subjects," he added, "Axitinib has prevented the disease from progressing in most patients, and in a lasting way."
In this trial, which began nearly three years ago, "the median duration of stable disease has not been reached," Cohen said. "Twenty-four patients are still in treatment."
Axitinib is a small molecule designed to prevent tumors from acquiring the blood supply they need to grow. It blocks all three known receptors for a substance called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a biologic factor tumors release in order to grow new blood vessels in the tumor, a process called angiogenesis.
The study confirmed that the drug worked as predicted. Treatment significantly reduced the presence of soluble VEGF receptors, VEGFR2 and VEGFR3, in blood. Levels of VEGF in the blood increased, suggesting that this growth factor was compensating for angiogenesis inhibition by axitinib.
More importantly, it prevented tumor growth. In only 10 out of 60 patients (17%) did the tumors continue to grow. Another 18 patients left the trial for other reasons, including toxicity. Five of them withdrew because of treatment-related adverse events.
The most common side effect was fatigue, affecting 50 percent of patients, but only 5 percent had severe fatigue and only one patient left the trial for this reason. Axitinib also caused hypertension in about 28 percent of patients and a range of digestive disorders, including, diarrhea (47%), nausea (32%), consequent weight loss (23%) and vomiting (13%). Several patients complained of headaches or rash.
This study enrolled patients with several different types of thyroid cancer and it "had an effect of all sub-types," Cohen said.
All patients in this trial had advanced thyroid cancer. Many had already been given standard therapy-such as surgery or treatment with radioactive iodine. Others, because of their advanced disease, were not candidates for standard treatments.
"It's a relief to have a real option for these patients," Cohen said. "The standard chemotherapy for refractory thyroid cancer is not very effective and can have multiple significant side effects. It appears, in this early study, to keep the cancer from growing for a significant period for the majority of patients without doing any real damage to their quality of life."
The American Cancer Society predicts there will be 33,500 new thyroid cancer cases in the United States in 2007 and 1,530 deaths.
A follow-up trial testing axitinib in patients who have not responded to standard chemotherapy is ongoing.Pfizer, the maker of axitinib, funded this trial. Additional authors of the study include Everett Vokes of the University of Chicago; Lee Rosen of Premiere Oncology in Santa Monica, Calif.; Arlene Forastiere of Johns Hopkins University; Merrill Kies of MD Anderson Cancer Center; Francis Worden of the University of Michigan; Madeleine Kane of the University of Colorado, Roger Cohen of Fox Chase Cancer Center; and Katherine Liau and David Shalinsky of Pfizer.


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Marvin Hamlisch, who died Monday in Los Angeles at 68, was one of the most honored composers in the theater world, and one of the hardest working.
From his songs for "A Chorus Line," which opened in 1975 and ran on Broadway for close to 15 years, to his most recent score for "The Nutty Professor," which debuted in Nashville in July, Hamlisch never seemed to put his pen down. He moved with impressive alacrity between composing jobs and conducting appearances with pops orchestras around the country.
Carole Bayer Sager worked with Hamlisch on several projects, including the musical "They're Playing Our Song," which was based on their personal and professional relationship.
"His mind went a thousand and fifty miles an hour and so did his fingers," she said in an interview Tuesday. "He could transpose music in one second. And he could pick up a melody he'd never heard if you just sang it for him."
Sager dated Hamlisch for a few years in the late '70s, and their sometimes stormy life together inspired Neil Simon to write the book for "They're Playing Our Song," which opened on Broadway in 1979. But "our relationship was nothing like what Neil wrote -- ours was much more Jewishly neurotic," Sager said.
Kay Cole, who was in the original cast of "A Chorus Line," said in an interview that Hamlisch "could make the toughest environments enjoyable. He always had a joke and he could see the bright side of life."
She recalled that when she rehearsed the song "At the Ballet" from "A Chorus Line," Hamlisch kept asking her to sing her part higher and higher. "I enjoyed hitting those high notes.
"I think because he had such brilliance at a young age, he was able to make everyone feel very comfortable," she said.
Hamlisch won a Tony Award for his work on "A Chorus Line" and shared the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The musical, which originated at the Public Theater in New York, ran for more than 6,100 performances on Broadway. The musical was revived on Broadway in 2006.
John Lithgow won a Tony Award in 2002 for his role in "Sweet Smell of Success," for which Hamlisch wrote the score.
"It was my first Broadway musical and I was terrified," Lithgow wrote via email. "But his exuberance, humor and support swept me along and caught me up with everybody else. I'd never worked with anyone with less self-doubt and more musical facility."
"Marvin loved using music to make people laugh," the actor added. "At the drop of a hat, he would sit at the piano and brilliantly improvise the last sentence he had heard, switching briskly between the styles of Sondheim, Gershwin and Andrew Lloyd Webber -- rhymes and all."
Hamlisch's other Broadway scores include "Smile" and Simon's "The Goodbye Girl."
Hamlisch's most recent stage work was the musical adaptation of "The Nutty Professor," directed by Jerry Lewis, that debuted in July in Nashville.
Hamlisch recently appeared with the Pasadena Pops in July at the L.A. Arboretum, alongside Michael Feinstein. The Pasadena Pops had scheduled two September appearances with Hamlisch, including a gala performance.
Hamlisch is survived by his wife, Terre.


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Call me maybe, but not via the Internet in Ethiopia.
As if it's not enough that we've bid our goodbyes to Skype, here's another reason to begin boycotting the service. Under a new legislation passed by Ethiopian laws, a 30-second Skype call made in the African country can land you in 15 years of jailtime, reports Al Jazeera. Citing issues of national security, the Ethiopian government states that any Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services, including Google Voice, will now be considered criminal offense.
The drastic new law, recently passed at the end of May, was claimed necessary in order to protect the country from security threats. However, experts are calling other factors, such as VOIP services hurting state-owned telecommunications carrier Ethio Teleco and limiting freedom of expression, the true reasons.
"Internet cafes may be allowing people to make calls for far less than the cost of Ethiopia telecom, the state's telecommunications provider that has the monopoly and charges very high prices — and doesn't want to have its service undermined," former BBC Ethiopia correspondent Elizabeth Blunt told BBC.
When citizens use VOIP services to make affordable calls, they also block authorities from monitoring these online activities. "Skype can't be listened to so easily and can't be controlled," Blunt said.
Furthermore, the law continues to prohibit much of online communication, including video chatting, social media, and even e-mail (the above photo was taken in 2005). If citizens are found making calls over the Internet, they could face up to eight years of prison plus fines. Illegal phone services like Skype and Google Voice carry heavier punishments of up to 15 years in jail and larger fines.
Ethiopia is currently the second lowest Internet-penetrated country in sub-Saharan Africa, the first being Sierra Leone. Approximately 700,000 of Ethiopia's 85 million citizens had Internet access in 2010, reports Internet filtering and censorship watchdog OpenNet Initiative. As of 2006, those who accessed the Web via Internet cafes were also required to register their name and address so the government can track down online illegal activities. Even though e-mail service websites, major search engines, and VOIP service homepages are not currently blocked in Ethiopia, a draconian punishment is likely to keep citizens clear of online forms of communication.
However, there may still be hope for such technology in the future, claims the blog Transforming Ethiopia. "Having a television satellite dish was a criminal act in Ethiopia 15 years before," the post states. "Ironically, even low-cost houses built by the government, dubbed condominiums, are now swarmed by the devices."
The blog also noted that credit cards were also considered illegal for some time. "Both examples show the distrust that the Ethiopian state has always had towards technological advancement."
If so, we could only wonder how the first jailed citizens of VOIP users would feel when they get out of prison 15 years from now to find Skype possibly legal.
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Gaming—or video gaming, to be more precise—has come a long, long way in the last few decades. It used to be that there was something shady about the whole endeavor, akin to cigarette smoking or hot rods, and it mostly took place in pizza parlors and darkened arcades. When I was a kid, my mother barred me from the Space Age Arcade, our local video palace. When I managed to sneak in, I was horrified to discover that she had been right all along: it turned out that the school bully had a job there, handing out quarters.
But then a strange thing happened-he and I started talking about games, and before I knew it he had taken out a set of keys and was loading up credits on the machines so we could play for free. He and I never became great friends, but after that day we were never enemies.
Today, gaming has largely left the arcades. People who play seriously most often play at home—either on their computers, or on consoles like the PlayStation and Xbox models that cause those Black Friday stampedes. The casual gamer has migrated to the simpler games available for smartphones and other mobile devices; the wildly popular Candy Crush Saga has been downloaded over half a billion times, and although the game itself is free, it reportedly brings in over half a million dollars a day via in-app purchases, those 99-cent packages which allow players extra turns or the opportunity to use something called a Lollipop Hammer.
Yet, for all the social aspects of these newer game experiences—the hardcore gamer with his or her headset, playing online with players from all over the world; the endless Facebook updates of the Words with Friends and Candy Crush crews—few of them are able to replicate the almost unspoken connection that I experienced that day decades ago. For that, you need a physical place for gamers to come together. And soon, the gamers of the Valley will have a place of their own.
That's thanks to George Myers and Greg Stutsman, co-owners of The Quarters, a video arcade/bar/restaurant soon to open on Railroad Street in Hadley, right on the Norwottuck Rail Trail. With 20 or so vintage cabinet-style video games, a full bar, and an innovative, diverse, menu (bánh mì hot dog, anyone?), its owners hope it will become a home for gamers of all stripes who long for a new sort of gathering place.
It's been a long gestation; originally, it seemed that a spring 2013 opening might be possible. In a progress update posted last month on the venue's website, Myers (who also manages Amherst Cinema) notes that "we have had a bit more trouble than we would have liked getting to the point where we're going to be able to open the doors and let people in, but we have been progressing steadily."
A lot of that had to do with overcoming perceptions of neighboring residents about how the business might change the neighborhood, but Myers and Stutsman (a realtor, he also sits on the Amherst Planning Board) have also been caught up in the day-to-day chores any new business faces: scheduling construction, getting permits approved and so on. "So much of it," says Myers, "was Greg and I, working at night, painting stuff, moving things."
With the end—or the beginning—in sight, the pair recently hosted an open house for people who had supported the venture via the online fundraising site Indiegogo. After working so many long hours in isolation, it was, Myers said, "really pretty gratifying … to see people enjoying the space, and excited about it." The Valley Advocate caught up with him as he wrapped up his first day as a host.
Valley Advocate : So tell me a bit about how this all got underway.
George Myers: Well, Greg and I had been working on something like this for a really long time now. We had a couple of locations in Northampton [that didn't work out]. Those were about a year apart, and after the last one we kind of pulled back a bit. Then, actually through the tattoo studio here—I knew the guy, Tim Brewer, who owns Blueprint [a gallery and tattoo shop], and he said, you know, the barn in this building, the landlord is talking about developing it for commercial space and it might really work for you. And it wasn't really what we were looking for, but he showed us the other spaces in here [that weren't available at the time] and we kind of moved on. And then a few weeks later he said that if we were still interested, we could come and look at the space some more. So we did, and we were interested. And that was… October of last year?
So it's been a serious pregnancy.
Big time. Yeah. So then we started these many processes you have to go through. We engaged with the town, and there were a lot of things we didn't know at the time, and we had to learn those lessons the hard way. And each lesson was a little more time.
And Indiegogo—has that been a good source of ongoing funding?
To be honest, in the big picture the project is a lot more expensive than that. It was definitely important. When we went to the bank, we were able to say that we had 140 people give us money because they wanted this thing to exist. It really demonstrated a desire.
At this point, though, you're almost open? A few more weeks?
Yeah, exactly. We just had an invitation thing for people who had given to our Indiegogo campaign, and we have all the games set up, so it was fun to get to show them that and see the excitement. It was a pretty good morale boost. And actually a cool thing that's happening is that parents …people who are 40 or a little older and have kids that are eight, nine, 10, a lot of parents came in with their kids, and were really excited. And we immediately started getting requests for birthday parties for eight- to 10-year-olds, but also for this conference or this web development group. It's interesting.
And you guys have a cafe and a bar in there, too?
We have a full liquor license and a full kitchen—half the space is the kitchen. We have a menu that's food cart-inspired, kind of… hot dogs and French fries, chicken and waffles. We have these mini-hot dogs from Pittsfield, they're like three inches, so you get three of them at a time. And we're going to have a variety-you can get a Chicago-style, or a kimchi one, or a Bánh mì one, or whatever. And we'll have ice cream and popsicles for the bike trail.
So tell me about the games—it sounds like you've got classic arcade games.
Yeah, primarily the range is '79 to, let's see, early 2000s. Primarily early to mid-'80s. We have Dig Dug, Millipede, three pinball machines. We have NBA Jam. We initially thought that finding games was going to be a real challenge, but then, immediately, it was really pretty easy. It was surprisingly easy. We were able to try to be particular about the games that we chose. We wanted them to represent a pretty wide range of interests, so that they're not all really hard games, not all fighting games, not all puzzle games.
That's kind of a cool thing—there are people who got into playing Ms. Pac-Man, or Galaga, and there's kind of a nostalgia thing, because they spent a lot of time with it, but then they come back to play it, and—it's not like it's quaint to go back and play them, it's still challenging and fun. That competitive thing still emerges.
You know, there are certain elements that you look back on and you just enjoy them, but you enjoy them with old eyes, or sentimental eyes. And you have that, but then you go to play it, and it's like, "Damn, this is still really hard!" And you get kind of fired up. And parents with their kids, they get really into it. You can see that excitement and that enthusiasm emerge really quickly.
When I was a kid, the arcade was a social hub. It feels like this is bringing back the face-to-face social aspect of the video gaming community.
Yeah, that's a very real consideration on our part. You know, in all the things we're doing here, we really want to make this feel like a place where people can come to hang out and maybe play a game, and it's a well-curated space in all regards. In almost all the things I do, that's one of the most rewarding things, is that people who will otherwise think that they're different, they can find a commonality.
You must see that all the time in your DJ work. (Myers co-hosts a popular music night in Northampton.)
Exactly. That's exactly why I like those things so much. You're getting people together to share an experience and engage, and I just think that's the most important thing. It just broadens your horizons in so many ways—you make new friends, build new community. And at the very least, it just reinforces the sense that this is a good place to live—that there are people who care about the things that I care about. You don't even have to talk to them, it's just—I don't feel like I'm alienated from everybody anymore.
So you're not stepping back from DJing, or the theater?
No, the DJing stuff could slow down, I imagine, out of all of them. There's only so much time for the nighttime stuff. But the theater I'll be doing—and I mean, this project has been going on, actively, for over a year now. I was just joking with a friend who was here earlier—if I wasn't doing that, I'd just fill my time up with something else, so you may as well do things that you love doing. I think my more personal "night" stuff, I'll funnel a lot of that into the new space. There's a lot of opportunity to do kind of cool stuff.
What do you play there? Any favorite games?
Ooh, that's a good question. Joust has been one of my favorites. And I didn't really play Millipede much, or Centipede, before we got it here, but that game I really, really like playing. And then we have a Tapper, a sit-down one. And Tapper I always had a really funny relationship with—I always thought it was kind of a knock-off, kind of a crappy, fake game. He was actually in Wreck-It-Ralph. But we actually had this game in our house while we were building the place up, so I would just come home and sit down and play it for half an hour.
That's like every kid's dream—no quarters.
Yeah! I'm still not that good at it, that's one of the funny things. The only game I'm actually any good at is NBA Jam.
Will you be rotating games in and out, or doing guest game nights?
Yeah, there are a few that have given us trouble that I'm kind of eyeballing to move out. We have a little bit of flexibility. I think we could technically get one or two more cabinets in here. We'll see how it goes. We'll also do a vintage board game night, and there's already been a bunch of people who play card games like Magic, different ones, and they'd like to do a night. And there are a bunch of people emerging who …just want to be in the space and do their own kind of nerdy thing. So that's kind of what I was saying earlier—we're really excited about this idea that a lot of different people will come in here for different reasons, and it will all mesh together. I'm really excited about it.•


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By: Agha Haider Raza
2011 has been a rather tumultuous year for Pakistan. There have been too many incidents to highlight and ponder over. With the assassination of Salmaan Taseer in January to the deaths of Pakistani soldiers in November, the land of the pure has taken a lot of bruising. Despite suffering at the hands of homegrown and natural disasters, Pakistan continues to point fingers at the United States and other foreign intelligence agencies. Now don't get me wrong, the US has done its fair share to ruffle things up in the region, but I have to ask– how long can the country blame foreign powers for our own misery? Pakistan has failed to create a cohesive narrative at a time when it is most necessary.


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J-Woww's Ex-Boyfriend Alleges She Stabbed Him During A Drunken Argument!
Tom Lippolis claims she attacked him with a kitchen knife — and he needed 37 stitches!
Jenni "J-Woww" Farley's ex-boyfriend Tom Lippolis has come forward to accuse the Jersey Shore vixen of stabbing him in the arm with a knife during a drunken fight!
Tom, 24, alleges that on March 6, 2010, J-Woww, 25, got furious at him for taking a picture with a girl, and the argument escalated quickly.
"Jenni was screaming really hateful remarks," Tom tells Star. "She told me, 'You're a jerk and you're an a**hole!' We were screaming at each other."
From there, Tom says J-Woww grabbed a "short steak knife," and she stabbed him in the arm.
"My wounds resembled something out of one of those surgery TV shows — the muscle was completely cut and it was just hanging out of my skin," he says.
He alleges that after he cleaned himself up, he ran into J-Woww once more, who went after him with another weapon!
"Jenni was holding the knife, with blood dripping off of it, in one hand and swinging a fireplace poker at me with the other. I still have a hole in my elbow from where she impaled me with the poker."
Tom says when he returned from the hospital, J-Woww didn't even apologize — and he irrationally didn't call the police on her!
"I thought she would have been up worrying," he says. "But she basically told me that I made he do it. I should have gone to the police, but I wanted to guard her for some odd reason. I didn't want to get her in trouble."
We know J-Woww's gotten in some pretty bad fights on Jersey Shore, but this sounds totally out of control!
— William Earl
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So the Boston Bruins trade goalie Tim Thomas to the New York Islanders. Somehow I get the feeling the whole deal fell through the cracks. I get the sense most people say "hey, he's a little whacko, he's taking the year off, the Bruins are playing well, Tuukka Rask is playing well, no big deal."
I feel like I need to say something about Thomas. Someone needs to say thanks for all he did in a Bruins uniform. So here is my open letter to Tim…
Dear Tim:
First and foremost, thanks for eight great years wearing the spoked-B uniform. I loved the way you flopped around the ice stopping everything you could. I'll never forget the way you competed every night.
Your 196-win total is 4 more wins than Roger Clemens and Cy Young in a Sox uniform.
Your 10,533 saves seems like a lot bumps and bruises over the years.
Two Vezina Trophies. Pretty good.
Your career 'adjusted point shares" is better than the famous Ken Dryden. (Please don't ask me to explain what "adjusted point shares" is)
Your 2.07 GAA career playoff stat is incredible.
I don't think the B's would have won the Stanley Cup in 2011 without you. Your 16-9 record, 1.98 GAA and 94 save percentage during that run might never be duplicated.
And let's face it, your quote about Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo during that series will go down as an all-time great. Remember when Luongo said he had said nice things about you, but he didn't hear you say anything good about him. "I guess I didn't realize it was my job to pump his tires. I guess I have to apologize for that." Beautiful.
It does seem a little quirky to take a year off at age 38, but hey, only you know if you really can afford to pass up $3-million-bucks.
It's really none of my business but I really do wonder what happened.
Did all this start when you didn't want to go see President Obama? Couldn't you have just made up an excuse why you couldn't go? Did you just want a little more money? Did all those seasons playing in places like Helsinki, Houston and Hamilton before someone gave you a chance in the NHL gnaw at you? Mad that Vermont was ECAC and not Hockey East when you played there? Were you just tired of Tuukka talk? Mad at coach Claude? PO'd at Peter Chiarelli? Grew tired of Rene Rancourt's anthem?
Just know that you will always be one of my favorite Bruins. I wish it all ended differently. I don't wish a trade to the New York Islanders on my worst enemy.
But maybe, Tim, you are doing this to help the Bruins one last time. The team now gets to use your contract money to bring someone in via trade. The B's are in great financial shape now.
And one more thing.
That "Peggy" guy in that Discover Card commercial – I hope you're still not trying to deal with him.
Good Luck Tim,
Dale Duff
— Tampa bay's Teddy Purcell is the top point-getter among former Black Bears in the NHL through the first dozen games, 2-8 10pts.
— Detroit's Jimmy Howard has 5 wins and a 2.86 GAA.
— What the heck is Red Sox minor league outfielder Bryce Brentz thinking? Cleaning his gun while the gun is loaded?
— Anybody else just a little tired of Curt Schilling?
— So which college hockey team leads the nation in Pairwise Points? The mighty Minnesota? BC? North Dakota? Nope. Quinnipiac. Seems weird to say that.
— My favorite week starts Friday – Tourney Time…Wall to wall coverage from Bangor Auditorium and Augusta Civic Center on 92.9TheTicket.


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Eating on the run is one of the hardest things to do when you have to follow a strict gluten-free diet. No one likes to have to depend on fast food or food on the go, but let's face it, in this day & age, it is inevitable. It isn't always possible to plan ahead & pack something safe to eat. Enter: fast food restaurants. More fast food restaurants are starting to cater to those with special dietary needs. Hardee's is a great example.
Hardee's not only has a gluten-free burger, but they have a salad & breakfast bowl option as well. Hardee's sent me the following email today:
How's this sound? Folded eggs topped with a sausage patty and Swiss cheese, piled with a loaded omelet, and finished with shredded cheddar and bacon bits. A charbroiled 100% Black Angus beef patty, cheese and all the fixings, packed in a fresh whole-leaf lettuce wrap. Oh, did I mention these were gluten-free options? Who knew you could gluten-free it at the drive through at Hardee's?
What many people don't know is that at Hardee's you can order anything on the menu any way you like it. No gluten? No problem. Visit www.hardees.com/menu/indulge for some ideas and to download a coupon to make your own flavor experiment on us.
It's really the easiest way to treat yourself to a tasty, inexpensive, fast option that satisfies your appetite while sticking to your diet.
Spread the word, indulge yourself and let us know what options you come up with. Tell us your own personal favorite menu creation. You never know – we may just name it after you!
It is so great to have another option out there. Thanks Hardee's for making things a little easier for those who need to follow a gluten-free diet.
For more info: Please visit Hardee's or Gluten-free is Life. **As always, eating out is risky and please make sure to verify that what you order is gluten-free.
Author Information: Kimberly Bouldin, Columbus OH
My Gluten-Free Blog: http://glutenfreeislife.wordpress.com/
Columbus Gluten-Free Food Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-15655-Columbus-GlutenFree-Food-Examiner
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The Steelers are taking a look at a former local collegiate player.
The club has been awarded former University of Pittsburgh cornerback Buddy Jackson on waivers from Kansas City. The addition of Jackson was noted in the NFL's official transactions Thursday.
Jackson (6-1, 180) entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with Indianapolis in 2012. He's had stints with the Colts, Redskins and Chiefs.
In a corresponding roster move Thursday, the Steelers waived rookie long-snapper Luke Ingram.
The Steelers have all 90 roster spots filled, but four players — tight ends Heath Miller and David Johnson, linebacker Sean Spence and nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu — are on the active / physically unable to perform list.