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wp7geek, over at myWindowsPhone, has gone into some detail about how he couldn't access SharePoint via the Office Hub, but could successfully connect in the IE mobile browser. Upon attempting to connect from the Office Hub, the following error message was displayed: Sharepoint doesn't support this authentication scheme. For assistance contact the person who manages this SharePoint site. You can try opening the content in your web browser instead. wp7geek moved onto explain the cause of this error, which is apparently due to WP7 not supporting NTLM authentication that is used to login on hosted SharePoint servers. While a workaround is possible until Office Hub is updated, it requires changes on the server side of the connection, which involves contacting your host. They would need to either: - Deploy a Forefront UAG server (UAG settings are built into Office hub) - Enable Forms Based Authentication on the SharePoint Site Forms Based Authentication (FBA) is basically creating your own login method. To authenticate, a SQL Server, XML, Windows Live IDs, etc can be used. Existing Windows Identities must be migrated to FBA identities to avoid multiple SharePoint identities for a single person. This makes it problematic for hosting companies who may have huge internal SharePoint deployments which reply on windows authentication. Should you not have the above authentication implemented then you should be able to access the server through Office Hub, but unfortunately if they're not present then you're stuck with IE on your phone for SharePoint. Have you experienced problems with this issue?
Cordiant equity stake in ZenithOptimedia 20 August, 2003 WPP Group plc ("WPP") confirms that it has sold its 25% shareholding in ZenithOptimedia, acquired as part of the Cordiant Communications Group plc transaction. The equity interest has been sold to Publicis Groupe SA at a price of £75 million in accordance with Publicis Groupe SA's contractual obligation. WPP, through Cordiant, currently retains equity interests in Zenith franchises in nine countries, covering Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indo-China, Argentina, Greece, Norway, India, Australia and Lebanon, and has trading relationships in another fourteen markets where Zenith has franchises. ZenithOptimedia's audited revenues and post-tax profits for 2002 were £148m and £13m respectively. Recent disposals by Cordiant in the last two months now total £160m. This compares with a pre-disposal net debt level of £235m.
The Chick-fil-A gay marriage controversy started after an interview with the fast food restaurant chain's president and COO, Dan Cathy, appeared in The Baptist Press on July 16. He weighed in with his views on family. Photographer: Getty Images/AP GraphicsBank Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The popular food chain Chick-fil-A is causing some controversy after a recent interview in which its president shared the company's views on gay marriage. Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press that the company is operated on "biblical principles“ and is "very much supportive of the family.” When asked in the interview if the company only agrees with a family led by a man and a woman, Cathy answered, "Well, guilty as charged." According to the LA Times, Cathy said, “We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives,” Cathy said. Cathy also said, "We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles." Read the full Baptist Press report here : http://bit.ly/P5Gh9Y Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Click here to see the latest mugshots in Palm Beach County Click here to see the latest mugshots in St. Lucie County. Get the latest updates, photos and video from the devastation in Moore, Okla. Also, see how to help. You may think that you've walked into the wrong store the next time you make a Target run, but your eyes are not deceiving you: Target now carries wedding dresses.
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Originally Posted by SheamusO'Shaunessy Wrestlers are not used to this luchador stuff. They don't know how to take a hit. Sin cara hasn't always botched like crazy. You should watch his pre-WWE matches. Sin Cara does a lot of difficult-to-pull-off moves, and it absolutely doesn't help that most of the frickin clones that wrestle now have no idea how the fuck to take any of his moves besides the basic huricanrana and arm drags. He's a lot heavier than Mysterio (I don't believe that he's only 5 lbs heavier like the ring announcers seem to be claiming), he looks at least 20 lbs heavier, maybe 25 or 30. So guys like Miz who aren't that buff can't exactly sustain the spinny shit that he does without leading to a botch. Sin Cara does botch a lot, but I don't think you can blame him 100% for it. He "magically" doesn't screw up with Mysterio and Hunico very often, and also doesn't screw up very much with Ziggler and other good workers. Yet it happens with shit workers like Miz. This surprises who exactly? That's why Mysterio doesn't have many nifty moves. He does like 1-2 nifty, easy to perform moves and that's it. Half the roster doesn't seem to know how to work them.
Jim Ross Returning To WWE Broadcasting This Week, David Otunga Update, JR On RAW?, Daniel Bryan Source: PWInsider- Jim Ross makes his return to the announce booth this week as he is slated to broadcast the debut episode of WWE NXT at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. It is not known whether he will broadcast the FCW Wrestling taping. Speaking of the WWE Hall of Famer, he wrote Sunday night on Twitter that he was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—the site of tonight's Raw SuperShow—with his wife. - David Otunga is expected to return to television shortly after fiancee's Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law was convicted Thursday of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Otunga and Hudson were spotted at Six Flags less than 24 hours after the verdict was announced. - Daniel Bryan will be appear on 105.7 the X Tuesday morning in Pennsylvania to promote the evening's SmackDown taping in Hershey.
General Prison Talk Discuss Heavenly Arthritis in the Prison Related forums; Heavenly Arthritis A man who smelled like a distillery flopped on a subway seat next to a priest. The man's ... A man who smelled like a distillery flopped on a subway seat next to a priest. The man's tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half-empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and began reading. After a few minutes the dishevelled guy turned to the priest and asked, "Say, Father, what causes arthritis?" "Mister, it's caused by loose living, being with cheap, wicked women, too much alcohol, and a contempt for your fellow man." "Well, I'll be damned," the drunk muttered, returning to his paper. The priest, thinking about what he had said, nudged the man and apologized. "I'm very sorry; I didn't mean to come on so strong. How long have you had arthritis?" "I don't have it, Father. I was just reading here that the Pope does." They say NOBODY is perfect so just call me NOBODY
Hello again! In June I shared a couple of colour schemes to work with, this month I want to share a page foundation. Sometimes I make a page that I love so much, that I find myself scraplifing the design and using it on other pages. Then it hit me that in fact I was using the page as a sketch and so I thought "Why not make it into one to share?" If you've been reading the blog for a while you might remember this page that I shared when I hosted Baby Week last year Awwww, this is still one of my all time favourite photos and (page)! I used this same design later in the year when Donna wrote about scraplifting yourself and I've used it a couple more times because it's a great way to do a quick page, plus showcase one photo! And now here it is in sketch form! Don't despair digi and hybrid scrappers, I thought about you too. I also made it into a layered template so everyone can play! Now if you still haven't used last month's colour scheme, maybe you can combine it with this sketch for a quick scrapping session. As always make sure to show us what you do by uploading your projects to the Flickr group. Happy Summer Scrapping!
For Yvonne Greene, that meant riding on “Sweet Summer Thyme,” her sister Jackie Flowers’ entry in the Parade of Barges at the 10th annual Barge Bash in Hancock. “I never paint my fingernails, and look at them,” Greene said Saturday after riding in the balloon-lined barge on a rewatered section of the C&O Canal. The red nail polish on her fingertips complemented the red dress and buoyant, bow-shaped hair piece that Greene donned for the parade, which is the centerpiece of the community’s heritage celebration. Dubbed “The Great National Project” by President John Quincy Adams in 1828, the C&O Canal was open for navigation near Hancock by 1839, according to the National Park Service. Declared a national historical park in 1971, the canal ceased to operate in 1924, but “barge” traffic is permitted one day each year for the celebration by the National Park Service, which sponsors the event with the Hancock Arts Council. The eight barges entered Saturday were actually small boats decorated as parade floats. The floats could not be mechanized and had to be pulled by manpower or with animals. “I think we’ve cornered the market on barge parades,” Arts Council chairman Sinclair Hamilton said of the unique event. Flowers’ float, which featured colorful balloons and a large cherry-topped cupcake in foil and other sweet goodies, was deemed by judges to be the “most colorful and most delicious” entry, Hamilton announced to the crowd, which lined the banks of the canal for the procession of floats. The “Floating Elvises” float, captained by Hancock Mayor Dan Murphy, was the People’s Choice Award winner. Murphy’s prize was an unplayable guitar that artist Mike Kligerman painted with white flowers with long green stems on the body that proclaimed it to be the “People’s Choice Award.” Other gag gift-like prizes, which Kligerman took the lead in compiling for the parade, included a wooden shoe and a wooden fish. Philip Clifford’s barge “Stink bugs” was deemed the scariest and most eco-friendly float by the judges. “You try to do something nobody’s done before,” Clifford said of his entries in the last three years. Clifford said he bought a sewing machine and used a large photograph of the brown marmorated stink bug to develop a pattern and then sewed colorful, beaded versions of the loathed insect on the yellow sails of his float. His mother, Kathy Clifford, made T-shirts commemorating Saturday’s festival that depicted the insects on the back and asked what all the stink is about. A member of the arts council, Clifford said the stink bug theme seemed to be an “obvious” choice given the recent insects’ arrival to Hancock within the last few years. Last year, Clifford said his barge theme was “flying fish.”
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Sabine Survives Round 2 Upset Bid Published January 04, 2012 04:18 Watch Brisbane & Auckland on WTA Live powered by TennisTV!Lisicki, seeded No.1 this week for the first time in her career, shook off a second set lapse and jumped out to a two-break, 3-0 third set lead in edging Barthel, 76(3) 36 63. "I improved from my last match, which I knew I had to do, but I still didn't play consistently enough to win in two sets," said Lisicki, who will play fellow German Angelique Kerber in Thursday's quarterfinals. "But then again the most important thing when you don't play your best tennis is to find a way to win. We're working on a couple of things. I'm still improving." Kerber was one of five unseeded players to take down a seed Wednesday, as she recorded a 62 63 victory over No.5 seed Julia Goerges. Also, Lucie Hradecka downed No.2 seed Peng Shuai, 64 63, Elena Vesnina eliminated No.6 seed Roberta Vinci, 63 64, Sara Errani was a 46 61 61 winner over No.7 seed and 2010 Auckland champion Yanina Wickmayer, and Zheng Jie routed No.8 seed Monica Niculescu, 60 62. The two seeds besides Lisicki to advance were third-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova and fourth-seeded Flavia Pennetta. Kuznetsova got her first win in three career tries over Christina McHale, 61 61, and has just dropped seven games through two matches this week. Next up for her is Errani. Pennetta defeated Elena Baltacha, 64 62, and will square off with Vesnina. "It was a good match. I was ready for a fight," Pennetta said. "I feel better than the first day here. It's the first tournament of the year and it's not easy to be consistent all the time, but we're all in the same situation."
By BRADLEY KLAPPER and JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) - Mideast peace, America's defining issue for decades of dealings with Israel and its Arab neighbors, was just a postscript Monday as Hillary Rodham Clinton made perhaps her final visit to the region as secretary of state. Three years after President Barack Obama declared the plight of the Palestinians "intolerable," his administration no longer sees the failing Arab-Israeli peace efforts with the same immediacy. U.S. interests are focused now on Iran and Syria, though the deep differences between Israel and the Palestinians are not ignored. "Peace among Israel, the Palestinian people and all of Israel's Arab neighbors is crucial for Israel's long-term progress and prosperity," Clinton said following discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's president, foreign minister and defense minister. Clinton also met Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, but she couldn't report any progress toward an accord that might secure an independent Palestine and an Israel at peace with its neighbors. In a departure from the usual pattern for top U.S. diplomats, she did not travel to the Palestinian Authority's West Bank seat of government in Ramallah. The Palestinians said a visit was unnecessary because Clinton had met with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, just a few days earlier in Paris. Israel has defied Obama's call to halt settlement construction in occupied lands, and the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank has refused to resume negotiations, leaving peace hopes in a tense status quo with no breakthrough in sight. Both Israelis and Palestinians are frustrated with one another and with Obama's peace efforts so far. Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said Obama's Mideast policy has been a "disaster." "The American standing and credibility have never been worse than now," she said. "A major power is being constantly humiliated by Israel, and they put up with it and they take it." Obama acknowledged frustrations in an interview Sunday, but in many ways the region's crises and Washington's priorities have moved on. Syria's civil war, Egypt's political instability and the Iranian nuclear program have all overshadowed the moribund peace process. Asked what he believed he failed at in his first term, Obama cited Arab-Israeli peace efforts in an interview with WJLA-TV, a Washington, D.C., station. "I have not been able to move the peace process forward in the Middle East the way I wanted," he said. "It's something we focused on very early. But the truth of the matter is that the parties, they've got to want it as well." Iran's nuclear program has become the most pressing problem for the U.S. and Israel, and one that is a far easier cause to take up for an American administration in an election year. Republicans have consistently criticized Obama for putting too much pressure on Israel in the peace process and being too weak on Iran. Obama rejects the criticism, and his aides point to what they call unprecedented U.S.-Israeli security cooperation. Still, his frosty relationship with Netanyahu has fueled the perception that U.S.-Israeli relations have deteriorated, a potential problem for Obama with Jewish voters in the swing state of Florida. Israel is getting more attention at the moment as the U.S. political race proceeds. Clinton's trip followed a weekend visit by Obama's national security adviser Tom Donilon. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to visit Israel soon. In a further sign of Israel's prominence in domestic U.S. politics, Republican presidential candidate Mott Romney is to visit a few days after Clinton. Her visit was seen by many here as a politically motivated attempt to pre-empt the Romney visit. Years ago, some of the biggest diplomatic gatherings around the world focused on Arab-Israeli peace efforts. These days they concern Iran and its disputed nuclear program. The U.S., Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia have held three rounds of inconclusive high-level talks with Iran since April. Israeli officials believe that Iran could have the ingredients and know-how to build a nuclear bomb in a matter of months, though they say it would be at least another year to the actual manufacture of the weapon. That has raised fears around the world that Israel could strike in the near future. Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be a mortal threat. Another major Israeli _ and American _ concern taking attention away from the Palestinians is the situation in Egypt. For three decades, Israel's security was in part defined through its peace treaty with Hosni Mubarak's Egypt. Mubarak's ouster last year opened the door to the hardline Muslim Brotherhood, which for years vacillated on the question of acceptance of the Camp David Accords and Egypt's military cooperation with Israel. Which big cat had some trouble coughing this up? (Photos) Clothes have a starring role at the Cannes Film Festival. (Photos) "Jenny from the Block" wants you to buy Verizon phones from her. A Philly bike courier takes his cat on cycling adventures. (Videos)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court is siding with environmental groups that had challenged Environmental Protection Agency regulations on soot as too weak. The three-judge panel ruled Friday that the EPA regulated soot of a certain size under weaker cleanup requirements than it should have. The environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, had challenged two rules dating back to the George W. Bush administration. The court sent the rules back to the EPA with instructions to strengthen them. Soot, or fine particulate matter, is microscopic pollution released from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources. Breathing it can cause lung and heart problems, contributing to heart attacks, strokes and asthma attacks. Two of the three judges were appointed by Republican presidents, the third by a Democrat. (Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Two brown bears rescued after 10 years in captivity. French universities could say goodbye to this language in class. "Jenny from the Block" wants you to buy Verizon phones from her. A Philly bike courier takes his cat on cycling adventures. (Videos)
Washington's International Spy Museum is opening a new exhibit commemorating 50 years of James Bond films and their villains. Please select the location that you were searching for from the list below. Please try searching again using a valid zip code or city and state. WTOP's George Wallace: RG3 has more to say Copyright © 2013 by WTOP. All rights reserved.
Alan farmer may look like any other retiree, but he's not. He put his life on the line to defend the United States in Vietnam. "When I left high school there wasn't much of an option to do anything else so I joined the Marine Corps. and part of the training that I got in the Marine Corps. allowed me to be able to perform real well in Vietnam." Farmer and his wife traveled from their home in Oklahoma to the troy university campus for a special occasion on Friday. Air force r-o-t-c cadets honored veterans, like farmer, by reading the names of 17-hundred soldiers dating from the revolutionary war through the present day who have been killed in action. "Freedom isn't free and so many across the country throughout our history have paid the supreme price with physical damage and their lives so this is an opportunity to reflect upon that fact." "We're real appreciative of it because most of us veteran that came through that Vietnam era didn't get much recognition." "A lot of times some troops get overlooked I think. So it's really important to show that we still think of them and we respect them and we're thankful for what they did for us because it's coming Veterans Day and we have Thanksgiving coming up so it's just showing our thanks for what they did and the sacrifices that they made so that we could be here standing today." Standing here today and always supporting those who support us.
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Frustrated by your little tots? Or feel as if you •1 1/2 cups flour 2. Add boiling water and oil and then mix with a wooden spoon until it sticks together. 3. When cooled and you can handle the dough mix the rest by hand blending all the color in so it is a nice even color 4. Store in an airtight container. Salt water taffy 1. Prepare a heat safe dish by lightly buttering it. If you are making more than one flavor, prep said amount of dishes. Also lightly butter a spatula for each flavor. And have each flavor and food color ready. 2. In a saucepan, sift together sugar and cornstarch. Stir in corn syrup, water, salt and margarine. Place over medium heat and stir until sugar dissolves. Cover pan and bring to a boil for 2 or 3 minutes. Uncover, place thermometer in pan and cook to 256 - 266 degrees F. The lower temperature will result in a chewier taffy, the higher a more brittle texture. Remove from heat and add food color and flavouring. Stir gently, pour into prepared dish/pan. 3. When cool enough to handle, grease hands and pull the warm candy with fingertips, pulling out to about 12 inches at first. Quickly turn candy back from fingertips of one hand to the other hand, then catch center and pull again. This will incorporate air into the candy. Continue pulling until taffy is light in color and has a satiny gloss, about twenty minutes. Pull into a long rope, cut with greased scissors and wrap in waxed paper squares, twisting ends.
BALTIMORE, Md., (WUSA) -- Maryland will ban the sale of crib bumpers starting in June of 2013. The Department of Health determined that pads provide no benefits and, in fact, that in many cases they are dangerous. It's something the 9 News consumer team first told the public about more than a year ago. Doctors say a baby can stop breathing if they turn into the pad, and cannot turn over or they get their little head trapped between the mattress and the pad. The message is babies are safest when they sleep alone, on their backs and in a crib without a bumper.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In West Virginia and most other states, an insurer can choose not to renew people's property insurance policy if a claim is filed over weather damage. A West Virginia Senate bill that would ban that practice was heavily debated on Monday as lobbyists for trial lawyers and the insurance industry made their cases before the Banking and Insurance Committee. There are strict regulations governing when an insurance company can cancel a policy. Unpaid premiums and delinquent taxes can cause homeowners to lose their insurance policy. But there are a couple of loopholes that allow insurers to, instead of canceling a policy, simply decline to renew it. Insurers can choose not to renew if they pay out two claims within a three-year period. An even broader loophole, insurers can also choose not to renew for "other valid underwriting reasons which involve a substantial increase in the risk." The proposed bill would bar insurers from denying renewals because of any claims arising from "natural causes." Jill Rice, president of the West Virginia Insurance Federation, said statistics show that people who file claims are far more likely to file future claims. She said it was unfair to ask all insurance customers to subsidize certain high-risk clients. "If I have a weather-related claim that shows statistically that I am more likely to have another weather-related claim," Rice said. Scott Blass, president of the West Virginia Association for Justice, a group of plaintiffs' lawyers, said that insurers were taking advantage of the loophole to deny renewals for people who filed legitimate claims. "They consider it a substantial underwriting risk if somebody makes a claim," Blass said. "People have been insured for 25-30 years. They have one claim, a hailstorm, a windstorm, something they have no control over. What happens to these people because they are non-renewed? When they go into the market it is virtually impossible to get replacement coverage." Some senators thought that adding more regulations to insurance companies could cause them to leave the state, leading to less competition in the market. "My concern is if we keep putting in all these limitations we'll have less companies wanting to do business here," said Sen. Brooks McCabe, D-Kanawha. "What we really want is as many companies as we can." Sen. Mike Hall, R-Putnam, co-owns an insurance agency and objected to the increased regulation.
I get the feeling that our Republican lawmakers in Congress don't care how bad the sequester is for America as long as it makes Democrats look bad. The really sad part is that voters will elect the same bunch of bozos again. The pawnshops only add to the drug problem. Credit cards are stolen (usually from family), gift cards are purchased and cashed at area pawn shops. No merchandise to track, and fast money for drug users. Why would any WVU fan truly want to see this team in the NCAA tourney? This year's team should be like the "old soldier" and "just fade away." Why watch sitcoms when we can read the Gazette? A man with a string of misdemeanors, driving erratically, without a license, fleeing arrest, now sues the State Police who stopped him? Nobody could make that up! This is for all the so-called Christians out there that are going to support the Susan G. Komen race day coming up and remind you that they support Planned Parenthood, which supports abortion. I hope everybody's happy. Our new attorney general, Morrisey, is bringing in a lawyer from D.C. and paying over $130,000 a year to do nothing. Way to go, West Virginia. You did it once again. The price of gas on Feb. 17 is $3.75 in Pittsburgh, $3.99 at the Weston exit and $3.65 at the Burnsville exit. What is wrong with this picture? Jeff Kessler and those politicians want to raise the taxes on gas again, huh? Here's a suggestion. Why don't all you politicians take a cut in pay? Watch "Tomorrow's World" on WGN on Sunday mornings and pray that the new pope doesn't make everything break loose. Yeah, whoever put in the Readers' Voice statement about the 81st Legislature -- "they look like a bunch of car salesmen" -- should not insult the car salesmen. If we would outlaw lobbyists and also large contributions to candidates, especially from corporations, we may have a chance at a real democracy. Wouldn't that be awesome to have actual democracy in the U.S.? Because we sure don't have it now. Boy, that Kessler's wanting to raise taxes on everything, isn't he? First it was 50 cents a pack on cigarettes and then 2 cents on a bottle of beer, and now he's wanting to raise taxes on gas. I think it's about time to get rid of him. The liberal Gazette editors need to get out of their office more. I live in Madison, and this week three times when my wife and I went to Kroger, we met people in the parking lot wanting to sell us their food stamp card for cash so they could buy cigarettes.
- Daniella Helayel to Exit Issa London - Stella McCartney's Asian Tour - Stuart Vevers, Junya Watanabe Collaborate on Capsule PARIS - John Galliano is fighting back against allegations that he uttered anti-Semitic and racist slurs during an altercation with a couple at a Paris café last Thursday. His lawyer Stephane Zerbib told WWD the designer visited police in Paris’ third arrondissement at midnight on Friday to provide three witness statements that he never made any such comments. The designer has also filed a claim of defamation and injury against the couple – identified on Le Figaro’s Web site as Géraldine Bloch, 35, and Philippe Virgiti, 41 - and is now awaiting the decision of police, Zerbib said. Zerbib also said Galliano is “shocked” that Dior – citing a zero-tolerance policy on racism and anti-Semitism - suspended him from his job functions pending the outcome of the police investigation. “He is not guilty and is not embroiled in a court case or anything. He feels it is a decision that has been made without verification of the facts and based on one side of the story and he is very shocked about that,” Zerbib told WWD. The lawyer added that Galliano’s chauffeur, who was present at the café during the incident, is a key witness and has confirmed to police that the designer’s account of events is correct. Zerbib declined to provide the chauffeur’s name. For complete coverage, see Monday’s WWD.
FABRICA TAKES A STAND: Earlier this month Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research center, made an artistic statement about the financial crisis with “Imaginaires,” and apparently some people will be buying it. In fact, Boffi, the Washington boutique, bought the entire collection for $2,700. A series of hand-blown glass objects were transformed into a variety of unexpected objects such as a glass handbag with leather handles, a glass fire extinguisher and an inanimate pet with fake rabbit ears. Set up for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and staged at the New Museum, the temporary exhibition included a table covered with a labyrinth of white vegetable-shaped ceramic pieces intertwined with black computer wires and monitors flashing vegetable-shaped numbers, which indicated the ever-changing hour, minutes and seconds. The white tablecloth with an intricate black pattern was meant to mirror the New York City skyline. Fabrica’s head of design Sam Baron, whose contribution was a hammer partially encased in glass, noted that design can bring a narrative and still be useful. “It’s a bit strange but it is always better to shake the minds of the people,” he said.
EPA has announced that it is proposing to revise the wastewater treatment exemptions for hazardous waste mixtures, an action also known as the "Headworks Rule Exemptions." Solvents formerly deemed hazardous are now declared treatable and exempt. EPA is proposing the following four revisions: (1) the addition of two solvents (benzene and 2-ethoxyethanol) to a list of solvents whose mixtures are exempted from the rules under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); (2) the addition of an option to directly measure solvent chemical levels at the headworks of the wastewater treatment system to the current requirement; (3) a clarification in the preamble that scrubber waters generated from the incineration of spent solvents listed in the headworks rule would be eligible for the exemption; (4) the addition of listed hazardous wastes as eligible for the de minimis exemption, as well as the addition of non-manufacturing facilities to those that qualify for this exemption if certain conditions are met. Many of these proposed changes are reportedly based on feedback that EPA received during the public comment period. The headworks exemptions have been revised occasionally as new wastes have been added to the lists of hazardous wastes. The reasoning behind each of these exemptions, according to EPA, is that the wastewater treatment system receives many different kinds of wastes, and the solvents, commercial chemical products, lab wastes, etc., are a "minuscule and treatable part of the mix of wastewaters." The relatively small volumes of these organic constituents should be easily and effectively handled by the wastewater treatment system, so the risk to the environment would be negligible, EPA has stated.
The knee-jerk response to Sarah Palin: You Betcha! is that the Barracuda from Wasilla has gotten a documentary she richly deserves, though it might be just as true that wanting to make a Sarah Palin documentary disqualifies you from doing so. Anyway, this petty work from Nick Broomfield—a repulsively ingratiating Brit guttersnipe slipping across Alaskan ice—feels a lot like hunting a wolf from a helicopter. With its cheap shots, recycled gaffes and old scandals, it is fitting in another way: It’s a movie for people who don’t read magazines. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Thursday, Oct. 7-13. - Best paired with: MacTarnahan’s Amber. - Also showing: The Thing (Bagdad, 11 pm Friday, Oct. 7), Friday the 13th (Laurelhurst).
The 162-year-old newspaper—once considered one of the nation’s best—is losing readers and advertisers in a state where it dominated the media landscape for decades. Soon, the newspaper may no longer be publishing every day of the week. The newspaper’s New Jersey-based owner, Advance Publications Inc., has declared it is moving to a Web-based model and publishing schedules are likely to change at many of its newspapers. Advance—controlled by heirs of press magnate S.I. Newhouse—has already announced the end of daily publishing at eight newspapers in Michigan, Alabama and Louisiana. The most stunning act of this emerging strategy came in May, when The New York Times broke the news that Advance would publish New Orleans’ storied Times-Picayune only three days a week, fire nearly half the staff and leave the remaining reporters and editors to focus on publishing news on its website. For years, editors and executives at The Oregonian denied Portland’s newspaper would ever be less than a daily. But in the newsroom, the announcement in New Orleans shattered any illusions. Staffers here say Oregonian editors now indicate the paper is likely to follow suit, although no one is saying when that will happen or how many days the newspaper will drop from its publishing schedule. “There’s just not enough advertising,” says Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst for Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. “Newhouse is acknowledging that daily print has ended its lifespan. They definitely are looking at doing it in Portland and other places, but I don’t think a decision has been made about whether or when.” In many ways, the change would allow The Oregonian to adapt into a more nimble and relevant news organization. The paper says its website, OregonLive.com, got more than 4.9 million unique visitors in June. The change would also allow the paper to get out from under the high costs of printing and its large newsroom staff. One longtime Oregonian employee says the paper’s staffers are dreading imminent cuts and layoffs—and senior editors don’t have any information to calm them. “The managers are just as blind as the rest of us,” the employee says. “We are living with the reality that any day might be the day when the people from Jersey walk in.” Jack Hart was an Oregonian editor for 26 years, serving as lead editor on two series that won Pulitzer Prizes before he retired in 2007. Now the interim director of the Turnbull Center, the University of Oregon’s Portland campus for journalism, Hart says resignations, buyouts and layoffs have already weakened the newspaper. “It’s still a big, highly skilled, powerful newsroom,” Hart says. “But I don’t think anybody at the paper would argue that there hasn’t been a loss of reporting power.” Hart says the crucial barometer is not how many print editions The Oregonian publishes in a week, but how much of the newsroom is preserved. “It’s not that my Monday morning would be ruined by not having a thin newspaper dropped on my doorstep,” Hart says. “It’s that it would suggest more serious cutbacks in the offing.” This new reality was hard to imagine in the newspaper’s Southwest Broadway offices a decade ago. Led by publisher Fred Stickel and editor Sandra Mims Rowe, The Oregonian reached its zenith in quality: five Pulitzers, and eight finalists for journalism’s top award, in the 16 years Rowe ran the newsroom. The Oregonian’s circulation numbers—like those of many large dailies—have spiraled, falling by a third since 2002. These declines, and abandonment by advertisers, have already triggered big changes. The newspaper offered buyouts, cut pay and—violating its longtime pledge to full-time employees—laid off 37 people, mostly from the newsroom, in 2010. Other layoffs throughout the company have followed. The Oregonian’s current publisher, N. Christian Anderson III, tells WW the newspaper has no plans to change its publishing schedule. Anderson says he’s talked to employees about what changes in New Orleans might mean for The Oregonian, but has told no one at the newspaper that such a change is coming here. “I have not told people that we’re changing our publishing schedule,” Anderson tells WW in an email. “Nor have I hinted at that. Any characterization to the contrary is simply incorrect.” Several sources tell WW that The Oregonian newsroom is being restructured to make its affiliated website, OregonLive.com, the first priority, with staffers evaluated primarily on their online productivity. A recent memo from editor Peter Bhatia said six new positions would be created to feed the Web—a move away “from our traditional devotion to print deadline work at night.” Some Oregonian editors have begun sending daily emails to congratulate reporters whose posts get the most traffic. But the loudest hints that change is coming in Portland come from one of Advance’s top executives. Advance’s media holdings include Condé Nast publications, The New Yorker, American City Business Journals and newspapers in 34 cities. Forbes pegged the privately held company’s revenues last year at more than $6 billion. Steve Newhouse—chairman of Advance.net, the company’s digital division—has defended the Web-first strategy after howls of protest in New Orleans about losing a daily Times-Picayune. “The rapid rise in digital adoption by consumers and advertisers is irreversible,” Newhouse wrote in an Aug. 3 editorial for the Poynter Institute, a journalism school. “We are in the midst of a digital revolution and instead of constantly being disrupted by our numerous online competitors, we decided to re-invent ourselves.” When a Poynter reporter asked him about plans for the company’s other newspapers, Newhouse replied: “We’re facing the same conditions everywhere. We’re looking at every market and trying to figure out what the right model is.” No one yet knows what a non-daily Oregonian would look like or how readers would be affected. But the picture in New Orleans is stark. The Times-Picayune won’t begin its three-day-a-week publishing schedule until October, and it’s still in the midst of a flurry of rehiring staff (often for jobs that pay less) and announcements. (It said last week it will amend its plan and publish a Monday sports tabloid to cover New Orleans Saints football games.) It’s also announced that, with a three-day-a-week publishing schedule, its monthly subscription price will drop from $18.95 to $16.95. But the transition at The Times-Picayune has been widely derided in the New Orleans area as a fiasco. New Orleans bigwigs, from the archbishop of the Catholic diocese to Democratic political consultant James Carville, have petitioned the Newhouses to reverse their position. And last week, the owner of the NFL’s Saints asked to buy the paper. Kevin Allman, who covered the firings and aftermath for Gambit Weekly, a New Orleans alternative newspaper, says one key difference between New Orleans and Portland could be in how ready the local audience is for Web-based news. “Portland’s a more wired city,” he says. “Portland’s a wealthier city. New Orleans, for better or worse, is still very bound to a print model.” Allman, who freelanced for The Oregonian and WW before moving to New Orleans, says local outrage over the Times-Picayune decision is due partly to the difficulty of navigating its website, NOLA.com. Like OregonLive.com, the site feeds all news coverage into a single front-page screen—called “the river”—which often washes breaking news down the page. “There could be a major fire downtown,” Allman says, “but if there’s three Kiwanis Club meetings, the fire gets pushed down. We’ve gotta figure out how the news is delivered on such a god-awful website.” Other journalism experts agree: They say Advance is making bold moves to remain viable, but the company’s websites—which share the same underlying design—could doom their plans. “There’s a part of me that wants to applaud them for trying something substantially different,” says Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab. “But I don’t have a lot of faith in Advance’s ability to do anything worthwhile on the Web. Their sites are among the worst in newspaper journalism. Their sites are always broken. They’re clunky. They all look like they were built in 1998.” But the uncertainty facing The Oregonian isn’t just about the ease of using its website—it’s also how much Advance will further cut staff and dilute the paper’s quality. “The Oregonian’s going to go through more massive change,” Doctor says. “There’s no doubt about that. But can they do it without cutting 40 percent of the newsroom? That is the conundrum of Chris Anderson and the Newhouse people in New Jersey. If you’re a Portlander, the best hope is that they try a different kind of strategy.” It’s certainly possible for The Oregonian to cut costs without culling its newsroom. Printing operations and delivery make up about 35 percent of an average newspaper’s costs. But Poynter Institute reporter Rick Edmonds did an analysis in June of Advance’s strategy in New Orleans. He found that cutting publishing days wasn’t enough to realize meaningful savings—it took slashing the staff, too. “Yes, you save a lot of money on the dead trees,” Edmonds says. “You don’t have to run the pressroom every night. I think part of their assumption is that print advertising isn’t about to get better. If they make cuts now, they may not have to cut back as drastically as other publishers will have to.” One analyst says newspapers have no option but to try a new approach. “They entered a world of pain,” adds Benton. “If they don’t change, if they don’t do something, we know how that movie ends. It’s not a good scene.”
Update: Accident Victim In Critical Condition One of the students injured in an accident Tuesday in the town of Brasher is in critical condition at a Vermont hospital. Nineteen year old Brittany Brothers is being treated at Fletcher Allen Medical Center. She was initially treated at Massena Memorial Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery for internal bleeding. Brothers, her 17 year old brother and their 10 year old sister were struck by a car while waiting for a school bus in their driveway on County Route 53. The two younger siblings were treated for what police called non-life-threatening injuries at Massena Memorial Hospital. Police say 18 year old Camren Campeau lost control of the car he was driving and struck the students. Campeau was not hurt. State police say he was ticketed for unsafe speed. All of the students involved are classmates at St. Lawrence Central School. Here is our original report from Tuesday: Brittany Brothers, 19, was waiting for the school bus in her driveway with her 17 year old brother and 10 year old sister when the teenage operator of a compact car apparently lost control on the slush-covered road and slammed into them. Thursday, May 23, 2013, Watertown, NY On Wall Street
The first annual New Orleans Oyster Festival will go on despite the BP oil disaster severely hampering the oyster industry. The festival features oyster shucking and eating contests, cooking demos, and plenty of live music. It will educate the country about the benefits of the Louisiana Gulf Oyster, as well as honor and celebrate the restaurateurs and oyster farmers who have solidified New Orleans' position as the Oyster Capital of America. Proceeds from the event will go to the Save Our Coast Foundation. More info is available on the festival's web site. The festival will be held in the Berger Parking Lot in the French Quarter. \|11-11:45 am\|\|Treme Brass Band\| \|4-5:30 pm\|\|Rockin Dopsie Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters\| \|6-7:30 pm\|\|Irma Thomas\| \|11 am to 11:45 am\|\|James Andrews Band\| \|3:30 pm to 4:30 pm\|\|Mustang Sally\| \|5 pm to 6:30 pm\|\|Cowboy Mouth\|
This is a weekly editorial by WXII President and GM Hank Price. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the chief spokesman for non-violent activism, civil rights and justice for all. For that reason, we celebrate his birth on the third Monday every January, one of four federal holidays to commemorate an individual person. The MLK holiday reminds us of the success America has made in the quest for equal opportunity for citizens, and the work that is yet to be done. Dr. King’s hope that one day we would all be judged by the content of our character, and not by the color of our skin, is still a major issue and one especially discussed as the nation appreciates his life. His legacy is that of a man who brought hope and healing to America. As we celebrate his remembrance, it is also a time to make personal commitments to serve humanity and achieve the beloved community of which Dr. King dreamed of more than 40 years ago.
DETROIT (WXYZ) - An employee was killed in a fatal stabbing this morning at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly plant on Conner north of Jefferson. Detectives tell 7 Action News there was fight between two men. Both were hourly workers at the facility. They believe the altercation was the result of a "love triangle." The victim has been identified as Keith Readus. The suspect, 40-year-old Jeff Hunt, left the crime scene and was later found dead in his vehicle on Belle Isle from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say the murder weapon, a knife, was recovered at the plant. Several employees witnessed the incident. Detroit Police say it was an isolated situation involving just the two men. No other employees were hurt. Readus, 43, was a former union steward for Local 7, the union which represents hourly workers at the facility. Weapons are not allowed at the plant but there are no metal detectors to prevent someone from bringing a weapon in. Second shift was canceled this afternoon, but third shift is being told to report to work tonight. Chrysler released the following statement regarding the incident: Chrysler Group is deeply saddened by events that occurred at its Jefferson North Assembly Plant this morning. Two employees were involved in an altercation inside the plant. One employee was stabbed and unfortunately pronounced dead at the scene. The Detroit Police Department is currently investigating. Production has been suspended for this morning and employees are being released. The UAW also released a statement: The UAW expresses our deepest sympathy to the families of our members involved in the tragic incident today at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant. Although many details are unknown at this time, we are deeply saddened by the loss of life. Approximately 3,000 employees work at the facility. Grief counseling is being offered at the plant today for those employees who need to speak about the incident. Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. More Detroit Headlines A sixteen-year-old boy is dead after a shooting in southwest Detroit. Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick returns to federal court today. Police are investigating after a carjacking and police chase ended with deadly crash early Thursday morning.
Woman dies, has baby, comes back to life Prices for first-class postage are set to rise again as the postal service looks for new revenues. It seems that anytime Brad Pitt speaks, the world stops to listen, and his latest interview with Esquire has been no exception. The 49-year-old star, who'll next appear in June's "World War Z," covers the magazine's June/July issue. As you've probabl...
- On Air Program Guide - A Blue View - Brain Talk - Cellar Notes - Choral Arts Classics - The Environment in Focus - Gil Sandler’s Baltimore Stories - Humanities Connection - Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast - Midday with Dan Rodricks - The Morning Economic Report - Radio Kitchen - The Signal - Take Five - Your Maryland - Public Commentary - War of 1812 Stories Construction starts on 304-unit apartment complex near Johns Hopkins Hospital The apartment boom continues in East Baltimore with construction on Jefferson Square at Washington Hill underway. Jefferson Apartment Group is planning a five-story mixed-use development with 304 apartments and 21,000 square feet of retail. A CVS Caremark store has already signed on to the project between Wolfe and Washington streets just south of Johns Hopkins Hospital. The sprawling site — now just a grass field — was once home to a troubled housing development. Residents in Washington Hill… IN FOCUS TODAY Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:50am The taxpayers of Baltimore are about to front a developer $107 million in something called tax... Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 6:35am WYPR's Fraser Smith and political consultant and columnist Laslo Boyd talk about how Baltimore... Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 4:44am For Baltimore businesses, this is "Clean Your Files" day, part of the city's campaign to...
The graphics cards are listed in the diagrams in the order of descending retail price: - Radeon HD 7950 – starting at $449; - GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB/3 GB – starting at $389/starting at $529; - Radeon HD 7870 – starting at $359; - Radeon HD 6970 – starting at $349; - GeForce GTX 570 – starting at $289; - Radeon HD 7850 – starting at $249. The standings from the cheapest Radeon HD 7850 to the most expensive Radeon HD 7950 match the recommended prices of the cards. And while the HD 7850 doesn’t show anything exceptional, the HD 7870 beats the Radeon HD 6970. When overclocked, it even has the highest score among all the cards, including the GTX 580 and HD 7950. That’s very good for a $349 product! The new cards from AMD look even better in the heavier tests of 3DMark 2011. Unigine Heaven Demo AMD’s new products are especially impressive in this test. As you remember, AMD has promised a fourfold increase in their tessellation performance! S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat The Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and Radeon HD 7850 perform brilliantly in our first gaming test. They beat the Radeon HD 6970 as well as the GeForce GTX 580 and GTX 570. The overclocked Radeon HD 7870 even outperforms the Radeon HD 7950! Left 4 Dead 2 The new cards are impressively fast in this game, too. Metro 2033: The Last Refuge The Metro 2033 game engine calls for a faster graphics subsystem, so you can play comfortably only at 1920x1080 unless you lower your visual quality settings. There’s no point in comparing the cards as they differ by a mere 2 or 3 frames per second.
by Anton Shilov 03/10/2011 \| 04:52 PM Chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard said that the company’s plan is to be able to install its webOS operating system that the company got with the acquisition of Palm onto all HP-branded personal computers next year. Speaking at a press conference in India, Leo Apotheker, the head of HP, said that Starting next year, every one of the PCs shipped by HP will include the ability to run WebOS in addition to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The company believes that webOS will provide better user experience in many cases than the industry-standard Windows. However, in order to achieve that the firm needs more developers to design a wide range of software applications for webOS. At present webOS lags behind Apple iOS and Google Android. There are 350 thousand apps for the iOS and 250 thousand apps for Android. Meanwhile, there are only 6 thousand for webOS at present. “Their Achilles’ heel is software,” said Brian Marshall, an analyst at Gleacher & Co. Hewlett-Packard gets 70% of sales from computers, storage, networking and printers, 27% from providing information-technology services, and 2.2% from software. The success or failure of HP’s webOS will show whether a hardware company can create a successful operating system that will be able to compete against Google Android or Microsoft Windows. The outcome will also show whether end-users truly need a proprietary operating system on a large amount of devices from HP.
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Okay, You’ve Declared E-Mail Bankruptcy. Now What? There’s lots going on in Xconomy-land, so this week’s column will be shorter than usual. Which is probably fine with you, since everyone seems pressed for time these days. Microsoft is notorious for its lame ad campaigns, but lately the software giant has been putting its finger on the overcommitment problem, through an amusing series of ads for Hotmail under the theme “The New Busy.” As Microsoft implies in its ads, everyone in a knowledge-worker role spends more time than they would like managing stuff like incoming e-mail. I can’t quite see how Hotmail solves that problem—but there’s no doubt it’s a real one. So, on this subject of being too busy, I want to come back to a 2009 column I wrote about the “e-mail bankruptcy” method for getting over your inbox management blues. I’ve noticed more and more people turning to this technique. Just this week, for example, David Cancel, CEO of Amesbury, MA-based Web analytics startup Performable, tweeted that he was getting ready to do the deed. Declaring e-mail bankruptcy is simple, and not nearly as painful as its financial namesake. All you have to do is admit to yourself that you’re never going to have time to deal with the huge backlog of unanswered e-mails clogging your inbox, and archive or delete them en masse. (It’s polite to let your frequent correspondents know that you’re doing this, so they can re-message you if they were waiting to hear back about some urgent inquiry.) But clearing out your inbox is only the first half of the solution to chronic e-mail overload, and it’s the second half that I want to touch on today. The trick is to prevent another backlog from building up by completely emptying your inbox at least once every work day. Emptying your inbox the first time is easy. But keeping it empty requires vigilance and dedication, as I learned after I deleted some 15,000 unanswered e-mails back in January 2009. I kept to my zero-inbox routine for a couple of months, but then I fell off the wagon, allowing one day’s accumulation of e-mail to build up to a week’s and then a month’s. Pretty soon my unread message count was back up to 3,000. That mountain of e-mail is pretty easy to build up in a hurry if you get 150 to 250 e-mails a day, as I do. I knew I’d have to go through another bankruptcy eventually, but first I wanted to find some techniques that might help me adhere to the zero-inbox habit. My main challenge—and the big reason I’d given up on my routine—was that it was just taking too long. I’d put in a regular 8, 10, or 12-hour work day, and then I’d have to spend another hour or two getting through all of the stuff in my inbox. Faced with a choice between keeping my inbox empty and having a semblance of a life outside work, I had chosen life.
Taking Open Biology to the Next Level: Notes from the Sage Congress Last week, attendees of Sage Bionetworks’ 3rd Annual Congress came to San Francisco with the bold charge to speed up drug discovery and ready to stand on the shoulders of the previous two Congresses to take the nascent open source biology movement from a thinking to a doing stage. Pitched as “Building Better Models of Disease Together,” a packed house of more than 250 forward thinking attendees and a global online community of 500 watched the live webcast (available here). Those who gathered were fully aware of the failures with the current siloed approach to biomedical research and were expecting to hear about Sage Bionetworks’ progress to build new infrastructure so that researchers, funders and the public can for the first time develop, fund and complete research that puts the patient at the center of the equation. A special buzz filled the air as the 80 percent of returnees were complemented by an irreverent, energized group of 16 Young Investigators selected for their effort and commitment to open research. I opened the Congress, prompting all to call each other out on the culture of open collaboration they had come to create: “If you are lucky at some point in your life, you realize that the task needed is bigger than you. Realize that you should not be building something for you to use but for others to use. When you use the word “We,” mean it.” Opening keynote speakers George Church and David Haussler, both heroes from the front lines of genomic technology and Big Data analysis, continued to impress all with the rapid advances of affordable molecular technology and its ability now to generate more bytes of data—rapidly approaching the zettabyte scale—than words that human beings have collectively ever spoken. To make the most of Big Data, both exhorted all to stop participating in the current siloed culture and instead invest in approaches that turn the machines loose on ALL the data that ALL can then see. As Congress returnees have come to expect, Sage Bionetworks’ scientists, software engineers and collaborators led solid sessions, this time providing open science tools for all to now take up. These included datasharing platforms (Synapse), a portable legal consent (pending IRB approval) to create openly available, user-contributed health and genomic data, exciting examples of pre-competitive drug discovery models and the launch of BRIDGE, an online “town square” to democratize the identification of the effective therapies that matter most to patients. But no one expected the jawdropping talks of three keynote speakers that stretched things even beyond the comfort zone of the most disruptive thinkers at the Congress. Although attendees arrived at the Congress heady about the progress already made, these keynote speakers pointed to the huge effort and out of the box thinking still needed to truly democratize medicine. Keynote speaker Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor, compared our current closed “medical industrial complex” to the hopeless picture of today’s U.S. government and the toxic effect that money and privilege have had on its core democratic principles. Most biting was Lessig’s reminder that “We are the They” that are distracted and do nothing to change the status quo. Similar to the parent of a child with terminal cancer, Lessig exhorted all of us … Next Page »
Inbox: Etienne Jaumet - Words: Lulu McAllister - Photo: Hannah Brown XLR8R’s Inbox touches base with jovial French tech-house producer Etienne Jaumet, who has just come back from sharing the deck with Dirty Soundsystem on a Cosmic Cruise around an artificial lake in Paris. Jaumet gushes about Carl Craig, compares himself to crayon colors, eats too fast, and sets his sights on the next gubernatorial race in California. Jaumet’s Night Music is out now on Domino. XLR8R: What's the weirdest story you have ever heard about yourself? Etienne Jaumet: People always imagine that I need to take drugs all day long to make my music... hahahaha! Does the mood you’re in effect the music you choose to play, or does the music you hear effect the mood you’re in? I don’t control myself very well, and don’t think too much. I don’t have an analytic approach to music; I just love to lose myself in the sensations and the emotions given by the music. The music feeds me. What was your favorite song when you were 15? "10:15 Saturday Night" by The Cure. What has been your most disastrous live show experience? One time we played last in a festival in Spain with my band Zombie Zombie. We could only play one song because they had a lot of late [acts] in the [lineup] and only 10 minutes left before the curfew—so frustrating for everybody! If you could spend an hour in any city right now, which would you choose? Favorite studio toy? Easy: my (tape echo delay)! Which of the following Crayola crayon colors best suits you: “Atomic Tangerine,” “Desert Sand,” “Inchworm,” “Laser Lemon,” “Macaroni and Cheese,” “Mauvelous,” or “Raw Umber”? “Raw Umber” (because it reminds me [of] The Stooges album). How would you describe your sense of style? Old-fashioned modernist! Or post-traditionalist, if you prefer. What was it like working with Carl Craig? He don’t need anybody! He only does what he wants to. He knew so well the music and the sound! He’s a master! What did you always get in trouble for when you were little? Eating too fast. It’s still the same. Which other artist would you like to work with next? What's the last book you read? The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. Complete this sentence: In the future... I will be the governor of California. ;-) Describe your current surroundings in one sentence. “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is Best!"—Frank Zappa. What's next on your agenda? XLR8R Downloads Player
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, known as the “Cinderella of the Pacific,” is Mexico’s second most visited port for cruise lines and pleasure boats, and offers an array of cultural and recreational attractions. It is situated 60 nautical miles from San Diego and is the American gateway to the great Sea of Cortez. Its’ warm Mediterranean-like climate and friendly atmosphere have made it a tourist favorite for years. Yachts can stop at one of Ensenada’s five marinas that have a total of approximately 600 slips. Ensenada’s beaches north and south of town are excellent for swimming, sunning and surfing. Both the waterfront and the downtown’s main street are great for shopping – with lots of silver jewelry and handicrafts. Along the main street of the waterfront is an indoor-outdoor market with row after row of shrimp, tuna, snapper and other fish caught off Baja’s coast. Ensenada is famous for its’ fish taco, and these savory treats are sold in dining stalls next to the fish market and from wagons at intersections throughout the city. Ensenada is also home to one of Baja’s oldest wineries, which gives tours and operates a café, shop and gallery. A great town that is host to many international events, such as the Baja 100 Off Road Race, yet it’s still a city for those who wish to experience a more traditional Mexico.
23. Crab Cakes 151 Main St., Plenty of fresh rock crabmeat is generously mixed with herbs, bread crumbs, and a bit of egg to form a sandwich-filling cake that stuns the palate with its layers of flavors. Maine’s crab cakes are a different animal (literally) from Maryland’s, and Riverside’s are a prime example.
One of the things I have learned to do these past few months is to really stand up for something I believe in. I have learned to not just go with the trend but to go with what is right. It is true, however, that at times, what is right is what is going on with everyone else as well. The whole boycott SM thing is one of those things. Over the past few days, the issue of SM’s cutting down of 182 trees to make way for a parking lot at Baguio has once again found it’s way to the limelight. I do understand that at times, we make sacrifices for the sake of progress and modernization, however, in this case, I do believe SM is taking it WAY to far. Haven’t we learned our lessons from all the typhoons and floods? Haven’t we learned that Mother Nature is angry with the way we are treating her? Enough with the corporate greed. For me, as a sign of my support for the environment and my condemnation for the cutting of those trees for a parking lot, I will say goodbye to the Sunshine Store, aka Forever 21. I know it is a small thing for such a big company, but I know my little step can make a difference.
Found November 08, 2012 on There are some moments in a man’s life that are cherished. Believe it or not, however, some might say that playing the Houston Texans in Week 10 of the NFL schedule is not one of those moments, at least not compared to say, seeing the birth of a child. With that obviously in mind, Bears cornerback Charles Tillman has already said that if his wife goes into labor this weekend, Tillman — one of the NFL’s best defensive players this season — will opt to be with his family (his real one) instead of with the Bears. The baby — Tillman’s fourth — is due Monday, but he told a radio station Wednesday that if his wife goes into labor Sunday, he’ll be there. “The wife is due any day, so hopefully this baby can stay in until after the game on Sunday,” Tillman said Wednesday on WSCR-AM 670. “I hope she stays in — I’m having another girl. Monday, for sure, but if she comes Sunday, I think I’m going to have to be at the hospital Sunday. So, I hope she stays in until after Sunday.” BEST OF MAXIM AROUND THE WEB Chicago Bears star cornerback Charles Tillman says on Twitter that he will play Sunday against the Houston Texans, after all. Tillman's status had been up in the air after he told Chicago radio station WSCR-AM that he might not be available because his wife, Jackie, is due to give birth. But in a message to ESPN Radio's ''Mike & Mike In The Morning''... It looks like Charles Tillman won’t be skipping this Sunday’s game for the Chicago Bears after all. Tillman was rumored to be skipping this Sunday’s game versus the Houston Texans with a child on the way, but however, it’s been said now that the veteran’s wife will have the baby delivered on Monday, which allows him to play. Tillman broke the news to Mike & Mike... Charles Tillman was asleep when President Obama gave him a big shout out on ESPN. It's one of the few times he wasn't locked in. The star cornerback has been turning heads everywhere with his play, even in the White House, and so have his teammates on the Chicago Bears' defense. A group that came into the season with some question marks is supplying plenty of answers... The wife of Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman is expecting another girl on Monday, allowing Tillman to play Sunday night against the Houston Texans. Tillman tweeted this news Thursday to the account of ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike In The Morning": "god, family, football... Baby is coming Monday don't worry I'll be there Sunday." He created... Chicago Bears star cornerback Charles Tillman might miss Sunday's game against the Houston Texans because of the pending birth of his daughter. Tillman told Chicago radio station WSCR-AM that he might not be available because his wife, Jackie, is due to give birth to a girl - the couple's fourth child. Their daughter, Tiana, needed a heart transplant a few months after she... It was reported earlier in the week that Bears CB Charles Tillman could sit out of Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans because he and his wife are expecting a new addition to their family. “Hopefully this baby can stay in until after the game on Sunday,” said Tillman, via CBS Chicago. “I hope she stays in — I’m having another girl. Monday, for sure, but if she... Bears CB Charles Tillman tweeted Thursday morning that his daughter is due Monday, and he will be available for Sunday nights game against the Texans. Tillman tweeted at the account of ESPN Radios Mike & Mike In the Morning, god, family, football Baby is coming Monday dont worry Ill be there Sunday. On Tuesday, Tillman said on WSCR-AM in Chicago that his... Charles Tillman said that if his wife goes into labor Sunday, he won't play in the Chicago Bears game against Houston. You know what that makes him? Good. Very, very good. I'd give the idea one Facebook-like right now. Thumbs up. Mike Florio, of NBC and Pro Football Talk wouldn't. He said that football players should plan their "nine-month family expansion activities... Reports say that Chicago Bears CB Charles Tillman may miss this weeks potential Super Bowl preview with the Houston Texas this Sunday due to the pending birth of he and his wife’s 4th child. For some reason this is a source of controversy but here are some quotes from Tillman himself: “The wife is due The post Charles Tillman May Miss Texans Game Sunday appeared first on No Coast Bias. Even with his daughter due any day now, Bears cornerback Charles Tillman is expected to play this weekend, meaning Chicago's defense will be at full strength against the Houston Texans. Cornerback Charles "Peanut" Tillman told WSCR-AM in Chicago he won't play in Sunday night's game against the 7-1 Houston Texans if his wife goes into labor. "The wife is due any day, so hopefully this baby can stay in until after the game on Sunday," Tillman said. "I hope she stays in -- I'm having another girl. Monday, for sure, but if she... Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman has quietly been a star since he came into the NFL in 2003. He finally got his recognition last season when he was voted to the Pro Bowl. He racked up a career high 99 tackles, while adding three interceptions and four forced fumbles in 2011. The guy can just flat out play football and the Bears new that when they selected him in the second... Two of the top NFL Defensive Players of the Year candidates collide at Soldier Field Sunday night when the Chicago Bears (7-1) play host to the Houston Texans (7-1). The Bears’ Charles Tillman and the Texans’ J.J. Watt are each enjoying standout seasons. Through eight games, Tillman has spearheaded an aggressive Chicago attack unit that not shuts down opponents, but [...] Quite an impressive RGIII cake, courtesy Rachel Thebault, the author of “Sweet Chic”. Not sure why someone went to a New York-based confectioner for an RGIII cake, but you can’t argue with the results. It’s a tad bit better than the one somebody made of him during his college days. In other BobGriff developments, NFL Network had to make a recreation of what they think...
The Oakland Athletics are 1/2 game out in the wild-card race. They lead the American League in ERA. Yet their best pitcher, in terms of sheer performance, is at Triple A. Doesn't quite make sense. So, don’t be surprised if the Athletics try to figure out a way to squeeze right-hander Daniel Straily into their rotation soon. Straily, 23, is a combined 6-6 with a 2.64 ERA at Double A and Triple A. Those numbers, however, don’t begin to tell the story. For the season, Straily has allowed only 87 hits in 126 1/3 innings while striking out 162 and walking only 36. His WHIP — walks and hits per innings pitched — is below 1.00. Oh, but this gets better. Straily actually is dominating more at Triple A than he did at Double A. Since moving to the hitter-friendly Pacific League, he has allowed only 17 hits in 41 innings while striking out 54 and walking just 13. The obvious question for the A’s is, “What the heck is this kid still doing in the minors?” But the problem is that the team’s rotation is about to get even more crowded with the pending returns of right-hander Brandon McCarthy and lefties Brett Anderson and Dallas Braden. One short-term way to clear a spot for Straily would be for the A’s to move one of their present starters to the bullpen. Right-hander Bartolo Colon has the highest ERA of the group — 3.88. Rookies Jarrod Parker, Tommy Milone and A.J. Griffin all are performing extremely well. Colon still could be traded — the Orioles are among the teams that have shown interest, sources say — but the A’s likely would want major-league value for a pitcher earning only $2 million, especially now that they are in contention. Amazing, isn’t it? All teams should have Oakland’s problems. — Ken Rosenthal
Found November 08, 2012 on The Crazy Crabbers: Gary Brown is one of the Giants top prospects, and is the potential center fielder of the future. After destroying pitching in High A San Jose, he ran into a bit of a wall in AA Richmond. This morning Baseball Prospectus has him as their prospect profile (for free!). It's a nice little glimpse into what has been going on with him if you haven't been following his goings on very closely. Here is the introduction: Fifteen months ago Gary Brown was viewed by many as an elite prospect, destined to lose Gold Gloves to inferior defenders and lead the Giants to the Promised Land. People were amazed that 23 players were selected before Brown in the 2010 draft. When teams would inquire on Brown, the Giants would show reluctance to part with him to shore up their club in the short term. Many expected him to make it to the majors quickly and become the team’s center fielder of both the present and future. #Mets had asked #SFGiants for RHP Wheeler or OF Brown. Not ge... BEST OF MAXIM AROUND THE WEB Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com says San Francisco Giants GM Brian Sabean can guarantee that Hunter Pence will be with the Giants in 2013. However, Sabean can’t make the same guarantee for Brian Wilson. “Pence is going to be coming back,” said Sabean. “We think there are some things he can do to fix what went wrong this year. We like the player. We made a big trade to get him... Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com says (via Twitter) the San Francisco Giants have been receiving calls from teams inquiring about Brandon Belt. They don’t seem inclined to trade Belt, and say their goals are to re-sign Angel Pagan, Marco Scutaro and try to retain Jeremy Affeldt. Bob Nightengale of USA Today says (via Twitter) the Giants are confident they will be able to resign... With the World Series win still fresh on most fans minds. It’s now time for the San Francisco Giants front office to start focusing on 2013. It’s going to be a big decision for them to decide if Brian Wilson should be offered arbitration or non-tender him. Wilson made $8.5 million in 2012. The Giants could be considering a deal that doesn’t guarantee as much for 2013 but... San Francisco Giants fans got rowdy following their team’s World Series win over the Detroit Tigers, and at least one fan has lost his life in the aftermath. CBS San Francisco reports that 37-year-old Sean Moffitt has passed away, due to injuries he suffered during Giants fans’ celebration of last week’s world championship. Giants fans took to the streets following the decisive... The 2012 Giants were a farm-grown team, loaded with talent drafted and cultivated by the organization, and poised to be perennial playoff contenders. I’m a firm believer that a championship team cannot be purchased through free agency or assembled through mega-deal trades. Baseball is unique in that it is equally an individual performance sport as well as it’s a team sport. Chemistry... Congratulations to Giants’ catcher Buster Posey for earning a 2012 Silver Slugger Award. His .336 batting average landed him the National League batting title, as well. This Silver Slugger award is, presumed by many, just a prelude to winning the 2012 National League Most Valuable Player award; which is expected to be announced next week. Posey’s accomplishments this year are... Although the World Series is behind us, that doesn't mean there is a shortage of musical tributes done by San Francisco Giants fans. In case you forgot, singer Ashkon became a viral sensation in 2010 for his remaking of "Don't Stop Believing" for the Giants World Series run against the Texas Rangers. Now, here is his 2012 version using "We Are the Champions... It’s the small moves that make a season and a team. I admit, when the Giants picked up Ryan Vogelsong, I thought it was to sell tickets in Fresno. I was wrong. When the Giants found Pat Burrell on the scrap heap, I expected it to be a non-factor in anything. Nope. Cody Ross? It seemed like sacrificing a roster spot to stop a rival. Well, not just. Marco Scutaro? A fine... Do you see random sh$% while driving to work and think it needs to be seen by the masses? Does the guy who sits next to you at work look like a tool on a daily basis? Does your dog lick his balls in an odd fashion? Is your neighbor working on some sort of outer space vehicle behind his shed? We want your WTF photos. Email us: email@example.com Filed under: Daily WTF I don't think I've seen an episode of Survivor since the days Elizabeth Hasselbeck wasn't a Hasselbeck. That's been about 63 seasons ago and somehow the show is still around. Evidently, former San Francisco Giants second basemen Jeff Kent was booted off the island last night and was none too pleased. While you can watch the entire tribal council thingy here... While one Cabrera was leading his team into the World Series, another was sitting on the sidelines, left off the playoff roster after a suspension for testing positive for testosterone. Everyone knows of Miguel Cabrera‘s exploits in winning the first Triple Crown in 45 year, and likewise everyone knows that potent bat was absent in a World Series loss to the San Francisco Giants...
There was no doubt in the minds of anyone that covers the Ontario Hockey League that the Kingston Frontenacs would be near the cellar in the standings this season. With that distinction in Canadian Major Junior Hockey typically comes the task of selling off your assets in order to bring in prospects and draft picks to help in the rebuilding. It’s a process most CHL teams go through every few years. Boston Bruins’ prospect Ryan Spooner is Kingston’s prized asset. Almost everyone believed prior to the season that it wasn’t a question of if Spooner got traded but when. The London Knights are the team most rumoured to be interested in Spooner’s services. That’s a deal that many would love - Spooner would join his friend and fellow Bruins’ prospect Jared Knight on a team that sits atop the OHL standings and is the top ranked team in the Canadian Hockey League. But Spooner's hometown Ottawa 67’s are said to also have interest. Rumours are rampant that the 67’s have a solid offer on the table or are about to make one for Spooner’s services. It’s believed that the 67’s have offered a prospect plus an assortment of draft picks. The Knights however, can’t match the picks that the 67’s have since they’ve already sent their 2 second round picks in 2012 to Kingston in the Max Domi trade. A team that could be an underdog is the Kitchener Rangers. They have a lot of young talent and GM/Coach Steve Spott isn’t one to sit pat. But Spott would have to believe he has a chance of going deep into the playoffs with Spooner before he pulls the trigger, but it’s not likely to happen. For Bruins fans that are salivating at the thought of their two prized assets playing together, what will it take? Again, just rumours, but it’s said that the Frontenacs would want Knights prospect Bo Horvat and picks in return. But it’s hard to imagine that the Knights would part with Horvat for less than a season of Spooner. It’s possible that one of the Rupert twins could be part of the deal. But the lack of high end draft picks for the Knights would mean that they would have to include a player that is already OHL established and the Frontenacs could get two more seasons from. And that could be Seth Griffith who is lighting it up this year for the Knights. As for Spooner, he’s biding his time in Kingston. While his statistics have taken a dive, his work ethic and defensive play has been better than ever. So much so that the brass putting together the OHL squad for the 2012 Subway Super Series versus the Russians, have named Spooner to the squad, one of only 13 players to play in both games against the Russians. Fans shouldn’t be disappointed in his production to date. He is playing on an inexperienced squad while at the same time learning other aspects of the game and becoming a leader and a teacher for the younger kids. For Spooner, the points will come once he plays with more experienced players. There is just too much talent there for it not to happen.
County considers creating dog rules By JASON PATTERSON Editor & Publisher County officials are being asked to consider a dog ordinance after a child was viciously attacked on Racetrack Road. Tommy Irvine, chief investigator for the Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department, told the Board of Supervisors Monday that local law enforcement cannot take adequate action when there is a dog that proves to be a problem. Irvine described the recent incident in which the dog attacked the child. -------for the rest of the story see The Yazoo Herald printed edition or subscribe to the Digital Edition.----------
Emergency responders were able to remove the victim from the vehicle. Woolen Mill Road is still closed between Draco and Grove Road, as crews work to pull the vehicle from the embankment, according to 911. A vehicle crash has been reported on Woolen Mill Road near Grove Road in Fawn Township around 6:37 a.m. this morning, according to York County 911. The vehicle crash was originally called in to 911 as entrapment, but according to 911, it wasn't. The car went over an embankment that's about 40 feet, according to 911. Serious injuries are possible. Woolen Mill Road is now closed between Draco and Grove Road, according to 911.
Gaudreau L, et al. (1998) Activation of transcription in vitro by recruitment of the yeast RNA polymerase II holoenzyme. Mol Cell 1(6):913-6 Abstract: It has been argued that many transcriptional activators work by "recruitment," that is, by helping the transcriptional machinery bind stably to DNA. We demonstrate here a realization of a strong prediction of this idea in an in vitro transcription reaction performed with purified yeast RNA polymerase II holoenzyme and a classical transcriptional activator. We show that the level of transcription reached by the activator working on low concentrations of holoenzyme can also be reached in the absence of activator by raising the holoenzyme concentration, and that under that condition the activator has no further stimulatory effect. We also show, in agreement with another prediction of the recruitment model, that in a reaction using a holoenzyme purified from cells bearing the "P" mutation, transcription is stimulated by a DNA-tethered peptide that binds the mutant holoenzyme component Gal11P but that lacks a classical activating region. \|Status: Published\|\|Type: Journal Article\|\|PubMed ID: 9660974\| Topics addressed in this paper - To find other papers on a gene and topic, click on the colored ball in the appropriate box. - displays other papers with information about that topic for that gene. - displays other papers in SGD that are associated with that topic. The topic is addressed in these papers but does not describe a specific gene or chromosomal feature. - To go to the Locus page for a gene, click on the gene name. \|Topics\|\|Genes linked to topics\|
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An elderly Hanover man was hurt Tuesday night when his car crashed into a tractor-trailer on Baltimore Pike in West Manheim Township, police said. According to township police, Carroll Rohrbaugh Jr., 81, was southbound in the 2100 block about 9:30 p.m. when his Nissan sedan struck a Freightliner tractor-trailer that had pulled out from a parking lot onto the road. The Nissan hit the rig in the middle of its trailer, on the driver's side, police said. An ambulance took Rohrbaugh to York Hospital. He was in satisfactory condition Wednesday morning, a hospital spokesman said. The tractor-trailer driver, Sabourin Yves, 31, of Quebec, Canada, wasn't hurt. He was delivering ATVs to a local business, police said.
If at first you don't succeed, try a banana split. Not the traditional saying, but, it worked for Julie Hein of York, who took first place in the PEQAP Angel Food Cake at the York Fair with her Banana Split Angel food cake. She also placed second in the PA Preferred Classic Chocolate Cake contest at the fair. Both contests afford the winner the opportunity to enter at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in January. Hein had her eye on the trip but came up short, until an angel helped her ... an angel cake that is. Hein did well during the week of the fair earning a blue ribbon in the Rutter's Scrumptious Corn contest, placing second in PA Preferred Chocolate Cake and in Best Red Sauce and taking third in the Challenge of Champions, Appetizers. Of course, based on her smile, no one would know. Many might have thought this was her first win, but it was really just the win that counted most. Hein has used a variation of banana split flavors in cream puffs, but was unsure of whether it would command a win with angel food. The use of chocolate chips is the first time she had put something in cake. It was a choice that paid off. Elizabeth Pokrivka took second place with a maraschino cherry topped Spumoni Angel Food Cake. Third place went to Linda Hemman of Red Lion for her Double Chocolate Chip Angel Food with Chocolate Mint Frosting. Ellen Bolton, a family and consumer science teacher for Dover School District, Shari Steager, a family and consumer science teacher for North Eastern High School and Joan Kennedy from the York Fair office served as judges. The contest required scores for flavor (smell, taste, flavoring), inside characteristics (texture and lightness), overall appearance (surface, size and color), creativity, topping (icing or decoration). Steager, who teaches a unit specifically on angel food cake to her students, knew just what she was looking for and Julie Hein had it. Winners received cash prizes of $25 for first place, $15 for second and $10 for third. A first place win at the Farm Show, though, comes with a much bigger purse of $500. It's not hard to see why Hein would want to make the trip. The Angel Food Cake Contest was sponsored by Pennsylvania Egg Farmers and the Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs. Banana Split Angel Food Cake 12 egg whites 1 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar 1 cup cake flour 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup superfine sugar 1 cup miniature chocolate chips 2 (3.5oz) boxes of instant banana pudding 1 1/2 cups of milk 1 (16oz) frozen whipped topping 1 cup crushed pineapple, well drained 1/2 cup chopped maraschino cherries, drained 1/3 cup walnuts chopped For Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Let egg whites stand at room temperature for 20-30 minutes in large glass bowl. Meanwhile, sift together confectioner's sugar and flour three times and set aside. Beat egg whites, cream of tartar and vanilla extract on high with an electric mixer. Gradually add sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form and mixture is glossy. Fold in flour mixture and chocolate chips, making sure batter is thoroughly combined. Carefully spoon into ungreased angel food cake pan and cut through batter with a knife to remove any air pockets. Bake for 35-40 minutes. Invert pan on long neck bottle to cool. Cool completely before removing cake. For filling/topping: Whisk together pudding mixes and milk in large bowl. Let stand for two minutes and then fold in whipped topping. Place two cups of this mixture in a medium bowl and place the remaining mixture in the refrigerator to use as frosting. Gently fold in pineapple, cherries and walnuts into the remaining two cups to make the filling mixture. To assemble: Slice cake into three equal layers with a sharp, serrated knife. Place one layer on plate and top with half the filling mixture. Repeat with another layer and the rest of the filling. Top with remaining layer and then frost the top and sides with refrigerated frosting. Decorate as desired.
Sunrise Health Region launched an online Well Wishes program on Wed., May 23. Well Wishes is designed to provide family members and friends convenient access to send “get well” messages to patients in the Yorkton Regional Health Centre by using an online website form. Well Wishes messages are hand delivered to patients each weekday through a partnership with Sunrise Health Region Switchboard employees and volunteer services. Upon receipt of messages via the Sunrise Health Region website, staff members print the messages and volunteers deliver the messages to the patient’s room. Messages received on weekends or statutory holidays will be delivered the following business day; messages are confidential and are printed and then folded for delivery. “Volunteer Resources is very excited to be a part of the Well Wishes program,” said Suzette Szumutku, Director of Volunteer Resources with Sunrise Health Region. “We have an excellent group of volunteers in our region and the ability to involve them in delivering positive healing messages to patients is a great initiative.” The Well Wishes program is currently available for patients in the Yorkton Regional Health Centre with plans to expand to other facilities throughout the region in the future. Well Wishes form can be accessed on the right side of home page on the Sunrise Health Region website, www.sunrisehealthregion.sk.ca.
The Yorkton PeeWee AA Terriers are headed to Prince Albert on Saturday for the championship game of their provincial final. In best-of-two total-point series, the Terriers are up 1-0 after beating Prince Albert 10-4 in the Gallagher Centre on March 16. Students from Yorkton Regional High School and Sacred Heart High School are taking part in the 27th annual Student-Teacher Benefit Hockey Game on March 27 at 7:30 in the Farrell Agencies Arena. Tickets can be purchased at the door for only $2. The beneficiaries of the game are Brendan Campbell McFadden, who has been diagnosed with rapidly progressing muscular dystrophy, and Tiffany McLennan, who was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Cathy Inglis along with her rink Pat Kuspira, Donna Liebrecht and Bev Fuches will represent Saskatchewan at the Canadian Senior Championship in Summerside, PEI, on March 16-24. They advanced to the event after capturing their first Provincial Senior Women's Championship on Feb. 24 in Martensville. Yorkton Regional High School is hosting their first ever chess tournament on March 30 at 9 a.m. Students through kindergarten to grade 12 can sign up for the tournament by Friday, March 29. For more information contact Narom Sing at naromlor...@hotmail.com or 306-782-4338 in the evening.
A 5K race, a Bikram yoga class or a workout at the gym may not seem like a romantic outing, but a growing group of experts agree that couples who exercise together can not only stave off the extra pounds that are often linked to marriage, but they can strengthen their relationship and their sex life, and possibly live happily ever after. “When a couple works out together, the actual exercise itself can physically and emotionally have a positive impact,” explained Dr. Jane Greer, a marriage and relationship psychotherapist in New York City and author of What About Me? Stop Selfishness From Ruining Your Relationship. “Both partners come away with feelings of synchronicity, cooperative spirit and shared passion. Then you throw in some spicy endorphins and it can be a real power trip for the relationship.” Greer says sweating it out together is a good way to reduce stress in a relationship while also building better communication and common goals. It’s also a great way to enhance what goes on in the bedroom. “This will definitely impact your sex life because exercising helps people feel better,” she said. “It alleviates stress and gives you more energy; you feel better about yourself and your self-esteem increases. If you’re feeling all of that when you’re with your partner, the logical thing is to share that desirability and sexual companionship.” And research backs that up. One study by the University of Arkansas found that exercise improves sex. Exercise frequency was attributed to enhanced feelings of attractiveness and increased energy levels—both of which can increase sexual desirability and performance. Another study reported that women were more sexually responsive following 20 minutes of vigorous exercise (think: hot, sweaty yoga class with hip-opening poses). Men also reap similar sexual rewards. Short intense exercise is linked with increased testosterone levels, which help stimulate sexual desire and behavior. And this increased friskiness doesn’t just apply to young couples either. In a Harvard University study of 160 male and female swimmers in their 40s and 60s, regular physical activity was associated with more frequency and enjoyment of sex. Interestingly enough, swimmers in their 60s actually reported sex lives comparable to those in their 40s. As if a better sex life isn’t enough of a reason to hit the gym together, couples who do so are more motivated and more committed to staying fit and healthy. A study in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness found that couples who exercise together are more likely to stick with an exercise program. After 12 months, only 6.3 percent of married couples dropped out of their workout routine, while a whopping 43 percent of married singles did. Who says marriage means you’re doomed to become a couch potato? The other bonus for couples who exercise together? It can be a good way to work through any conflicts, says Greer. “When you come away from a class with a renewed sense of strength and control, and you see your partner doing the same thing, it’s easier to look at a problem and say, let’s work this through.” Ready to get your sweat on with your sweetie? Here are five tips for doing so: The bottom line? Exercise together for healthier bodies and a healthier relationship! Maybe... if you use a whole bottle of foundation at once. Here's what you need to know. Get some inspiration from these ladies and learn to appreciate your behind. Say "goodbye" to winter dryness and get your skin ready for the sunny days ahead! From cave paintings to Kim Kardashian, a review of the bright side and the dark side of the backside. Return to the Mobile Site
Youghal’s Tourism Industry received a welcome boost over the weekend (16th – 18th August 2012) as over 400 Gold wing motorbikes from over 23 countries including the UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Bulgaria for the 28th International Goldwing Treffen (Gathering). Goldwing motorcycles are considered to be the ultimate in touring motorcycle. Capitalising on the influx of visitors the event would inevitably bring to the town, local man Paddy Crowley; himself a Gold wing owner along with representatives of Youghal Chamber of Tourism & Development organised a series of events to celebrate the bikers’ inaugural visit to the town. Speaking about the weekend, Youghal Chamber Director Seamus Curran stated: “It was a great honour that the Goldwing Owners Club of Ireland selected Youghal as their location for the 28th International Treffen. This was mainly due to the hard work of local man Paddy Crowley. The ‘Treffen’ – as it has become known locally, was a timely boost to Youghal’s Tourism industry. All of the accommodation in the area completely booked out. Restaurants, shops and bars also benefited greatly having such a large number of visitors here. We are looking forward already to welcoming them all back again in the future.” After a couple of wet and windy days the rain finally cleared on Friday night with large crowds lining the streets to watch the motorcycles take to the streets of Youghal for a ‘Parade of Lights’. Spectators saw various styles of luxurious ‘Gold wings’ light up the town with a most amazing display of lights on show. Saturday brought an action-packed day, with the sun shining from early morning, and hundreds of people sampling the culinary delights that were on offer at the ‘Food of Nations’ and craft market. However, the major event of Saturday was the ‘Parade of Flags of Nations’ where spectators were able to catch a glimpse of the amazing sight of over 400 Gold wing motorbikes each flying their own nations flags. The bikes then parked up for a couple of hours in Nealon’s Quay Car Park where biking enthusiasts had the opportunity to get a close up look at these amazing bikes. Other events included a sandcastle and crab catching competition, street music with local band Jaded and Bobby Lee & friends, face painting and rodeo bull, bouncy castles, with even Mickey and Minnie Mouse making it a real family day out and joining in the fun. The bikers and spectators were treated to some great entertainment themselves for the afternoon with some street music from the ‘Red Bull Dodge Truck’, a joint air sea rescue display with the Irish Coast Guard Helicopter and the Youghal lifeboat. A number of the bikers then put their skills to the test and took part in a ‘Puc Fada’ to sea, with some of the bikers seen taking a ‘hurley holding’ lesson before the contest! Events concluded with a formal gala dinner and presentations in Youghal GAA Club on Saturday evening, 18th August. The venue played host to many of the motorcyclists over the weekend.
Verizon Misfit Toys - New Verizon Ad bashing AT&T's network You've probably heard that AT&T is suing Verizon for their earlier TV ads on how AT&T's 3G coverage sucks compare to Verizon Wireless 3G coverage. AT&T's conditions are as follow * Wants to stop use of "misleading" maps in Verizon ads * Says ads are causing "incalculable" market share loss * AT&T asks for temporary restraining order * Verizon Wireless says suit without merit (Adds Verizon Wireless comment, detail from suit, background) That was couple of days ago, but today, we found another Verizon Wireless's ad bashing AT&T's network, see below video, don't forget to leave the comment below.
We’re back to share how we painted our $39 Marshall’s mirror so it’s a bit less upscale-formal (in black) and a smidge more playful and nursery-ready (thanks to a few coats of deep asparagus green paint). It was a super straightforward process, although I’m not gonna lie- all those curvy openings definitely took me a bit longer to work around than a basic mirror frame would have. But it was totally worth it in the end. As in, I’d do it again ten times without a second thought. We just love it! We were inspired by the deeper green tones in the leaves from our curtain fabric so the color that we decided on for the mirror was a nice deep-ish green tone called Behr’s Scotland Isle (we got it color matched to an inexpensive quart of Olympic’s No-VOC Premium Paint in a semi-gloss finish). We passed on using any primer since our mirror was already painted (not stained) so we didn’t worry about anything bleeding through (and we wanted to avoid the primer fumes if at all possible). But we did rough it up with a bit of high-grit (350) sandpaper before picking up a paint brush. Note: if you’re not prego and not making over a mirror for a nursery, you could easily use a spray primer like Kilz followed by a few thin and even coats of spray paint in your color of choice for a perfectly polished finished product- just be sure to spray in a well ventilated area because those fumes aren’t great for anyone- pregnant or not. So as I mentioned, I passed on the spray paint approach and resolved to do the work with a small craft brush instead. I left my usual 2″ angled paint brush in our tool drawer and reached for a tiny less-than-one-inch brush from Michael’s from my craft drawer instead- just to get into all those nooks and crannies. Two coats, and about two hours later, I was looking at a gorgeously green mirror that appeared as if it had always been that color. Not an ounce of black paint bled through the paint or peered around the cut outs thanks to my tiny brush. Oh and I painted the mirror on a flat piece of cardboard to catch any drips and make it easy to spin around so I could access it from all sides (which was crucial to ensure that I didn’t miss any of the many edges that needed green paint to cover the black). Then I sat back and let everything fully dry (I didn’t even attempt to hang it for 24 hours, just to be sure it was fully cured) and used a simple straight edged razor to scrape the small amount of paint that had dripped from the frame onto the round face of the mirror in the middle. Then we used two heavy duty anchors to securely fasten it to the wall in the nursery. We intentionally hung it across from the only window in the modestly-sized room to reflect lots of light and make the space feel more open and airy. We love how the color works with the tones in our curtains. And of course we adore all the fun little shapes that it makes on the wall (that we’re sure the beanette will love to stare at). We especially enjoy the four little hearts around the mirror’s perimeter that we never even noticed back before we painted it green. See how smooth our paint job came out just from applying two thin and even coats of latex paint with a small craft brush? Painting a frame or a mirror is really one of the most simple and rewarding projects that you can take on (how about painting a bunch of them in a bold punchy color and hanging them in a grid above your sofa?). Easy peasy. Especially if they’re less ornate than this guy. So there you have our latest little nursery project that we completed with just one cheap-o brush and a quart of colorful semi-gloss paint. Oh and we should mention that we do realize that when the beanette gets bigger and eventually can stand up in her crib (even though we’ll be lowering the mattress at that point) hanging the mirror even more securely on the wall will be in her best interest. At that time we plan to screw right through the frame and into the wall (we can countersink, putty and paint the heads of the screws to hide ‘em) so the mirror can’t even be yanked off the wall by a hulking adult. Stay tuned for all those little childproofing adventures that we’ll take on as Baby P grows and becomes more mobile towards the end of 2010… And before we forget, did you notice that we snagged an awesome aqua colored 100% organic crib sheet? We actually ordered two of them (we’ve heard that it’s easier to always have a spare on hand) and also grabbed two 100% organic changing pad covers in the same color. We love the pop of happy hue that it adds without being too busy (we considered some patterned options but realized that with the scrolly mirror and the printed curtains it might be a bit too much). Best of all? After sleuthing out about twenty organic crib sheet and changing pad cover options, these were the cheapest and the color happened to be perfect- plus they even offered free shipping so we couldn’t have been happier. Not bad for $18 and $15 a pop respectively. Of course we did that thing where you cross your fingers that the color n the monitor is close to the real color, but as soon as they arrived we breathed a sigh of relief. Now we just have to pick up about a million other things (waterproof mattress cover, changing pad, dresser, side table, lamp, art, cloth diapers, toy baskets, etc). Not to worry, we’ll get ‘er done.
Young Kia is proud to serve our customers from the greater Salt Lake City area. Follow these directions to arrive at our new and used Kia car dealership in Kaysville quickly and hassle free. From Salt Lake City head north on S Main St toward E Broadway. Turn right onto E Broadway. Then take your first right onto S State St. Take your second right onto E University Blvd. You will see signs for I-15 S. In 1.3 miles take a slight right to merge onto I-15 N. Continue for 16.2 miles, then make sure you take a slight left to continue on I-15 N. In 4.3 miles take exit 328 toward Kaysville/UT-273. In .4 miles turn left onto W 200 N. Take your first right onto N 650 W and you will have arrived at Young Kia. Upon your arrival one of our devoted brand ambassadors will be waiting to answer all of your questions about new Kia cars and SUVs. We will help you compare models, discuss specs and even arrange a few test drives. Once you find the Kia car that suits your lifestyle, a member of our auto finance team will help you obtain a low interest car loan or a great Kia lease deal that fits your budget. Already own a Kia, but looking for a trustworthy Kia car dealership to repair and service your vehicle? Our skilled auto technicians will repair your Kia quickly and efficiently with genuine Kia car parts. Young Kia in Kaysville looks forward to serving our friends from Salt Lake City with all of their Kia auto needs.
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Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect may encourage young gamers to move around rather than just sit in front of the couch but still they can’t replace actual outdoor exercise. This is where EyeClick has the potential to narrow the gap even further between gaming and physical activities. The EyePlay is a projected display with a bunch of interactive games that encourage kids to move around without making a big deal of the fact that they’re getting exercise. The EyePlay system comes with games that let players kick around a soccer ball, pop bubbles, play a piano, defend birds’ eggs, stomp naughty mice and a bunch of other fun activities. Almost 15 participants can play games like soccer and hockey on this virtual playground space. - Monolith – A Battery Pack, iPhone Case Plus Projection Device - 20 Best and Highly Addictive Games On Facebook - 7 Websites To Make Your Brain Strong using Fun Games & Puzzles The only equipment needed is the EyePlay projector, which turns any open floor space into a game area. Check out a live demo in the video below: There are some educational games too, like the one installed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center visitor center. The system has already been installed in public places like hospitals, airports and department stores all over the world.
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Today, 198 years ago, American lawyer Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner, while held captive by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore. It was during what became known as the War of 1812, fought between Britain and the United States, over various issues including trade and territorial disagreements (including attempts by the U.S. to annex Canadian territory). In August of 1814, the British captured and burned Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Virginia. They moved on to attack Baltimore, Maryland. Over a two-day battle, 13-14 September 1814, they would be repulsed by Maryland and national forces. On the morning of the 14th, Key saw the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry, and was inspired to write his poem The Defense of Fort McHenry. His poem would soon be set to a tune of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century London club of amateur musicians, and become known as The Star Spangled Banner. On 3 March 1931, Congress would officially declare The Star Spangled Banner to be the official anthem of the United States of America. - I took this photo on 11 September 2012, in Arlington, Virginia. It's a large United States flag draped on the County Building, in honor of the more than 3,000 Americans who lost their lives on 11 September 2001, when terrorists attacked in New York City, Arlington, Virginia, and Shankesville, Pennsylvania ... and, as of Wednesday, in honor of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other personnel, who were murdered during a terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya. - Caveat lector: My source for much of the history above was Wikipedia. Even so, its information seemed well-annotated.
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It looks just like one I have sitting in my back yard ready for restoring. Mine is an IH and I don't know the model number. The IH logo is on the square knob on the hubcaps and also on the top of each of the two spindle housings. My standards are identical to yours and mine also has a bolster only on the front axle. The original paint scheme, according to the McCormick Deering Paint Committee notes of 1929, is Harvester Red on the frame, Harvester Cream on the wheels, and Harvester Blue on the hubcaps. Your spokes, like mine, have been cut off and welded onto steel rims. I replaced rims on another spoke wheel gear by cutting the spokes off the old rims and welding them on new blank rims. It worked. A little expensive but it worked. Here are a couple of photos of mine so you can compare. Same-Day Shipping! Most of our stocked parts ship the same day you order (M-F). Expedited shipping available, just call! Most prices for parts and manuals are below our competitors. Compare our super low shipping rates! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor. We are a Company you can trust and have generous return policies! Shop Online Today or call our friendly sales staff toll free (800) 853-2651. [ More Info ] TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V. About this site - Yesterday's Tractors is your one-stop source for antique tractors. If you are interested in older tractors you've come to the right place! Join more than 275,000 other classic tractor enthusiasts from all over the globe. We have many resources for antique tractor enthusiasts available including photos, classified ads, more than 24 tractor discussion forums, a show guide, values, specs and much more. Bookmark this site and come back often. Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to use our feedback form to send us your comments, suggestions and ideas.
Square 8vo, pp. (72). Publisher's cloth with mounted photograph. Illustrated. Twenty-eight mounted coloured nude photographs of black models (1 one front cover), taken in 1981-82 in California and Maine by the famous French photographer Lucien Clergue (born 1934), undoubtedly shot during workshops organised at Carmel and Rockport by a.o. Ansel Adams. Work by Clerque has been exhibited in a.o. Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zürich and Shadaï Gallery, Tokyo, whereas his work is present at the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, the Royal Library at Copenhague and the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York. Accompanying text in French and Italian.Very good copy. Sublime photographic art.
This page is temporarily not available. Please check later as it should be available shortly. If you have any questions, please email customer support at firstname.lastname@example.org or call 800-767-3771 ext. 9339. United Therapeutics Corporation ([url=http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/uthr]UTHR[/url]) recently received approval in the EU for the intravenous (IV) use of its pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treatment, Remodulin (treprostinil). Approval was granted by the French regulatory agency Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire des Produits de Sante (AFSSAPS). Remodulin is already approved in several European countries, as a subcutaneous (SC) infusion treatment, for idiopathic or heritable PAH in patients classified as New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class III. Remodulin sales totaled $403.6 million in 2010, up 21.7%. EU approval for the intravenous formulation should drive sales further. The company is looking to launch Remodulin in new territories including Japan and China. The Japanese market, where approval is expected by late 2013, could bring in incremental sales of about $100 million. Oral Treprostinil Filed in the US Meanwhile, United Therapeutics applied for US approval of oral treprostinil for the treatment of PAH. Remodulin, United Therapeutics’ lead product, is currently approved for both subcutaneous (SC) and intravenous (IV) use in the US. Assuming the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepts the filing for the oral formulation, a final response should be out in the second half of 2012. Data on oral treprostinil has been mixed. In August 2011, United Therapeutics had reported that oral treprostinil failed to meet its primary endpoint in a late stage study (FREEDOM-C2). FREEDOM-C2 was a combination therapy study, which was examining oral treprostinil in combination with PDE-5 inhibitors or endothelin receptor agonists. However, earlier in June 2011, United Therapeutics had presented positive data from another late stage study (FREEDOM-M) which evaluated oral treprostinil as a monotherapy for PAH. Management hopes to get oral treprostinil approved on the basis of data from the FREEDOM-M trial. Other players in the PAH market include Pfizer's ( PFE - Analyst Report ) Revatio and Gilead's ( GILD - Analyst Report ) Letairis. Outperform on United Therapeutics We currently have an Outperform recommendation on United Therapeutics, which carries a Zacks #1 Rank (short-term Strong Buy rating). We believe the company is well-positioned to gain share in the PAH market. Lead product, Remodulin, continues to look very strong in both the IV and SC form. With the approval of Adcirca and Tyvaso, the company now has a varied range of therapies available for the treatment of PAH. We believe the company’s PAH product portfolio will drive strong top-and bottom-line growth. Please login to Zacks.com or register to post a comment.
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Kevin Brown and Grizz Chapman You know them as: Dotcom (Brown, left) and Grizz (Chapman, right), Tracy Jordan's (Tracy Morgan) entourage. Why we like them: Because of the unexpected notes of sanity they bring to the chaos of "30 Rock." Brown, the more experienced actor, has excellent timing and delivers a deadpan line really well. Chapman is usually silent, but his facial expressions and the way he carries his considerable frame get laughs too. Where else you've seen them: Brown has appeared in "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and MTV's "Human Giant." This is Chapman's first screen credit.
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Volume , Number 0 There are no articles.Commentary There are no articles.Culture There are no articles.Features Lee Siu hin Gay & Lesbian Community Notes There are no articles. NOTE: Z Magazine subscribers and sustainers have access to all Z Magazine articles here and in the archive. The latest Z Magazine articles available to everyone are listed in the Free Articles box at the top of the table of contents, and are starred in the list below. Questions? e-mail Z Magazine Online. Colombia’s Black Eagles S andra Gutierrez Torres has a risky job. She helps run a grassroots human rights organization in Colombia’s oil capital of Barrancabermeja. In February, it seems, Sandra’s work may have cost the life of her 20-year-old sister, Katherine Gonzales Torres—another possible victim in what is being called a “rising tide of organized violence” throughout Colombia. Sandra’s sister Katherine left her home at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, February 13, heading for her job as a shop assistant. But she didn’t arrive and nobody has seen or heard from her since. Katherine’s disappearance has her family fearing the worst in the context of a threat e-mailed the previous week to social justice organizations, trade unions, human rights lawyers, and leftist politicians nationwide: “We will finish with you by means of your families; your children and your loved ones will give their lives…your families will pay dearly.” The threat was signed: “Armed Political Branch of the ex-AUC, the New Generation Black Eagles.” The right-wing, anti-guerrilla AUC militia, the self-proclaimed United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, began as civilian military auxiliaries in the late 1960s, became private armies of wealthy landowners and drug barons in the 1980s, and supposedly demobilized in a controversial “peace process” with the current government in 2003. Now, according to opposition politicians and human rights groups, around 5,000 ex-paramilitaries are taking up arms again and new militias are emerging, to fight for control of Colombia’s lucrative drug trade and as hired guns of business and political interests. It seems a number of these groups are using the name Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) to forge a political and paramilitary identity in much the same way as the notoriously violent AUC did in the 1990s. B arrancabermeja is in the Magdalena Medio region, an administrative area in central Colombia based on the country’s main river, the Magdalena. Within the region lie the nation’s largest gold reserves and also significant copper, uranium, and other resources, as well as the largest oil refinery. Claims in the region that the Black Eagles are doing the bidding of powerful interests, in the same way as the AUC did, have often focused on organized violence against artisan gold mining communities. Some 300,000 artisan miners and peasant farmers live in the south of the Bolivar department, which falls within the Magdalena Medio region. Many of them have lived for generations by extracting gold by hand from the rich deposits in the Santo Domingo and San Lucas Ranges. But the area is now in the sights of the multinational mining firm Anglo Gold Ashanti, which operates in Colombia as Kedahda SA. This rugged, remote area is also a guerrilla stronghold, making it a battleground involving all three organized armed groups—paramilitaries, guerrillas, and the army—in which civilians are often caught in the crossfire. The vice-president of the Federation of Artisan Miners and Farmers of the South of Bolivar (Fedeagromisbol), Gabriel Henao, told me the Black Eagles were actively sowing terror in the region to try and drive the people off the land and free it up for multinational exploitation. “Former paramilitaries from the BCB [Central Bolivar Bloc] have been seen guiding the military, pointing out civilians and telling the troops they are guerrilla, and threatening to kill farmers and miners if they don’t leave. They are calling themselves the Black Eagles. One of them came up to me in front of the troops and boasted: ‘I’m in charge around here.’” The tension came to a head last September 19 when a local leader of Fedeagromisbol, artisan miner Alejandro Uribe Chacón, was killed by the army. Uribe Chacón, 28, was president of the Communal Action Committee. The military said Uribe Chacón was a guerrilla killed in combat, but this was emphatically denied by his wife, community members, co-workers, the local Catholic diocese, the staff of a European Union development program active in the region, the representative of the government’s Defender of the People human rights office in the region, human rights workers, and others who knew him. They maintain that Uribe Chacón was not a guerrilla, but that the army planted an AK47 rifle on him and dressed him in camouflage gear, after assassinating him, to make it appear as if he was. The following week, Colombian Senator Gustavo Petro said that he had evidence that troops had assassinated at least 100 civilians since 1998, passing them off as guerrillas in order to produce “positive results” in the country’s civil war. Gabriel Henao said the murder of his friend Uribe Chacón came in a very specific context: deliberate terror sowed by both regular and irregular troops, from the army to the Black Eagles, with the aim of displacing the mining and farming community. B arrancabermeja is the nearest big city to the beleaguered southern part of the Bolivar department and its 200,000 inhabitants include thousands of refugees from there and elsewhere in the surrounding countryside. Sandra Gutierrez Torres works for Barrancabermeja’s Popular Women’s Organization (OFP), which for 34 years has supported women and youth from poor neighborhoods, displaced people, and victims of violence. Other OFP workers have also lost family members in what are believed to be acts of retaliation for the organization’s repeated denunciations of paramilitary involvement in the region’s economy and society. The morning after Katherine Torres disappeared, the OFP organized a caravan of vehicles to mount a search. A long line of bulletproof vehicles belonging to human rights defenders and trade unionists—under court protection because of death threats earned through their activism—snaked through the city. The lead vehicle carried large speakers and leaders of social justice groups took turns demanding that those responsible for Katherine’s disappearance return her unharmed. A regular refrain was: “They took her alive and we want her back alive.” Demonstrators then blocked one of the city’s main roads at rush hour to continue denouncing the disappearance to a captive audience of waiting traffic. Speakers alleged Katherine’s disappearance came within a context of official inactivity, and even complicity, in human rights abuses in the region by organized criminals, including the Black Eagles. A Barrancabermeja police spokesperson said Katherine’s disappearance was under investigation while a spokesperson for the city government said that the city’s peace process would take time. “He told us change doesn’t happen overnight,” Jackeline Rojas said. “Fine, but while we wait, why do we have to keep suffering the loss of our loved ones?” Human rights adviser to the national police, Doris Parra, said from Bogotá that the current situation in Barrancabermeja was “very worrying…. We will review our systems of protection for human rights workers in the wake of this incident, especially in relation to their family members.” She added that the Black Eagles were a concern for the police in various parts of the country. In February demobilized paramilitary chiefs Salvatore Mancuso and Carlos Mario Jimenez, the latter of whom was a feared commander in the Magdalena Medio, confirmed publicly that groups such as the Black Eagles were re-arming throughout Colombia. They added they could not understand the government’s silence. A current paramilitary warlord also spoke out on the issue, saying he feared this “new generation” was looking to assassinate him. At the Barrancabermeja demonstration, Sandra struggled to stay calm as speakers, including a local priest and nun, called for city authorities to protect human rights activists and their families and cited a “rising tide of organized violence” in the region, particularly at the hands of the Black Eagles. A long queue of buses, cars, and motorbikes waited in sweltering heat, with the general absence of car horns or audible complaints seeming to indicate a respect for the demonstration and a sharing in the grief and pain that was behind it. The police also appeared to respect the general sense of shock over the disappearance of a relative of an OFP worker, which has a high profile in the city. They stood by for more than 30 minutes, allowing the demonstrators to stay in the road and light candles for a brief vigil amid a sea of halted traffic. A week later, nothing had been seen of Katherine and city authorities sent a letter to the OFP threatening legal action against them for blocking the intersection. OFP coordinator Yolanda Bercerra commented: “They do nothing about murders and disappearances of the citizens of this city, but they threaten us with consequences when we try to draw attention to what’s going on. What are we supposed to do?” Tens of thousands of Colombian families have suffered the pain of a loved one “disappearing” during Colombia’s civil war. The majority are victims of paramilitaries, who deliberately dispose of the bodies of their victims away from their homes so that the crime will be harder to trace and as extra emotional torture for victims’ families. In 2006 alone the national Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences registered 4,367 disappearances in Colombia. In February 2007 the MAPP-OEA (Organization of American States Mission to Support the Peace Process) in Colombia reported that 22 new illegal paramilitary groups were active in 10 different departments across the country. The organization said many of the violent groups were expanding, despite the fact it had highlighted their existence to the government in previous reports. T he growth of the Black Eagles and the general climate of fear in cities like Barrancabermeja comes while the country is transfixed by an unprecedented scandal engulfing President Uribe’s government. Known as “parapolitics,” the scandal has seen eight pro-Uribe senators jailed for links with paramilitary death squads. In late February Foreign Secretary Maria Consuelo Araujo resigned after her brother, a senator, was jailed for his involvement with paramilitaries and her father, also a pro-Uribe politician, was similarly accused, as was her cousin, a pro-Uribe governor. In February an opposition senator and ex-militant of the M19 guerrilla movement, Gustavo Petro, claimed he had evidence that Uribe allowed brutal paramilitaries to develop in the department of Antioquia while he was governor in the 1990s. He accused Uribe’s brother of direct paramilitary involvement, including murders. The president responded by labeling Petro and other left-wing politicians “terrorists in business suits” in a familiar echo of para-military rhetoric. Paramilitary public announcements and threats, like the one received recently by social justice organizations nationwide, habitually identify with Uribe’s policies and label human rights NGOs, trade unions, and leftist politicians as “disguised terrorists.” The latest Black Eagles’ communiqué, which contained the threat against families of human rights workers, said: “The North American people, headed by their current government, know very well that you [social justice organizations] will not be the future of our country; we count on their military and technical support that will guarantee us a resounding victory over the guerrillas and their submissive servants. “All of you should know that following each of you who claim to be defenders of human rights, social leaders, two-bit lawyers, camouflaged journalists, and all ex-guerrillas who believe they’re untouchable, right behind each of you will be one of our commandos, following you day and night…. We will judge you according to your actions, massacring you in public plazas so that the people know the social justice that the traitors of the homeland deserve…. When lawyers, NGOs, and ex-guerrillas of the Polo [Democratic Alternative Pole, the main opposition party] say they are going to judge the president, we warn you that it will cost you blood….” Despite the frequent linking of Colombia’s military and political establishment with paramilitary atrocities, Washington seems set to continue giving around half a billion dollars in aid to Colombia annually—the great majority of which is spent on the military. Meanwhile, the world watches a crisis on a potentially government-toppling scale envelope the country’s political class, the conclusion of which might seem to be that Colombia’s great stain of institutionalized para-mil itarism will at last, perhaps, be cleansed. While Uribe’s cronies fall to the Supreme Court “para-politics” investigation, groups like the Black Eagles are still involved in the same dirty war, the same careful use of terror as a political tool, and the same links to the nation’s elites—and 20-year-old Katherine Gonzales Torres is still missing. Caleb Harris is a New Zealand-born freelance journalist currently based in Colombia. He has lived and worked there since 2005 and has written for newspapers, magazines, and radio in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Z Magazine Archive AnnouncementsLABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker’s Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights. FARM CONFERENCE - The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability will be held May 24-26 in Summertown, TN, in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. Tour green homes, see sustainable food production, learn about solar installations, alternative education, midwifery, and more. Contact: Douglas@thefarmcommunity.com; http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/. PALESTINE - The Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North American will be held June 3-5 in Vancouver. The conference will examine the future of the Palestinian liberation movement. Contact: email@example.com; http://www.palestinianconference.org/. LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association’s 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year’s theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway. 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The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute. Contact: http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/; http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/. NATO 5 - An International Week of Solidarity with the NATO 5 has been called for May 16-21. Supports call on supporters to raise awareness of the NATO 5 and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.org; https://nato5support.wordpress.com. MOUNTAINTOP - The 2013 Mountain Justice Summer Activist Training Camp will be held May 19-27 in Damascus, VA. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project. FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 37 is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI. Contact: WisCon, ? SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; email@example.com; http://www.wiscon.info/. ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20). Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/. LABOR - The International Labor Rights Forum will present: Down the Supply Chain, Driving Corporate Accountability, on May 22 in Washington, DC. The Labor Rights Awards Ceremony and Reception will honor pioneers in supply chain worker organizing, working solidarity and international labor rights policy. MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans. Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; firstname.lastname@example.org; www.ncore.ou.edu. 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The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S. SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions. Contact: email@example.com; http://www.socialismconference.org. LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media. Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/. IWW - The North American Work People’s College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union. PEACESTOCK - On July 13th, the 11th Annual Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace, will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace. Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; firstname.lastname@example.org; http://www.peacestockvfp.org. CHILDREN’S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry. Contact: email@example.com; http://www.childrensdefense.org. ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.org; http://yeacamp.org/. LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions. Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org. LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28. Contact: email@example.com; http://east.usworker.coop/. WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127. Contact: 747 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415-864-1278; RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com; http://lynnestewart.org/; http://www.radicalwomen.org/. HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti’s government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti. Contact: 121 West 27th Street, #301, New York, NY 10001; 212-627-0444; firstname.lastname@example.org; http://www.madre.org. SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria. FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY. 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Hope Has Left the Building If one case encapsulates the disaster that is the Obama administration, it may be the dustup over the A.I.G. bonuses last March. Recall that extreme gambling by A.I.G. Financial Products nearly crashed the world in 2008, necessitating a taxpayer bailout of $182.3 billion (and counting). Following this, A.I.G., now 80 percent government owned, rained more than $400 million in bonuses on Financial Products employees for their performance in 2008. The Obama administration, which knew of the bonuses for months, played defense for A.I.G. by unspooling a bloated Larry Summers to argue, “The government cannot just abrogate contracts.” The problem was the feds had just demanded that auto workers abrogate their hard-won contracts before Detroit got a bailout. United Auto Workers leaders complied, sacrificing “job security provisions and financing for retiree health care,” plus agreeing to cuts in base pay, overtime pay, break time, raises, skilled worker positions and chopping wages for many new hires in half to $14 an hour. Far from failures or mistakes, these episodes illustrate how Team Obama, which surfed a tsunami of corporate money and savvy branding to victory, is doing exactly what it was elected to do: redistribute money upwards. It’s hard to think of a decision by this White House that would have not elicited cackling glee from the Bush administration. The number of horrendous policies enacted by the Obama administration in barely a year boggles the imagination. What follows is by no means an exhaustive list, just a few dozen of the worst. Even Time magazine has concluded that “Obama’s Latin American Policy Looks Like Bush’s.” While many hoped Obama would lift the 48-year-old embargo against Cuba, Obama loosened a few restrictions only for Cuban Americans. Last April, Obama declared the United States a “full partner” in Mexico’s calamitous drug war. Months later, the White House slapped Bolivia with economic penalties, allegedly for not being an enthusiastic drug warrior, but more likely for pursuing an independent agenda. And there is the Honduran coup, which Obama endorsed by recognizing the rigged election in November. Most ominously, his administration inked a deal in October for seven military bases in Colombia, convenient for launching new wars against socialist governments in the region. GREEN JOB LOSSES Before Van Jones was thrown under the bus, Obama promised to create five million green jobs in plug-in hybrids, weatherization, renewable energy, biofuels and clean coal. Biofuels and clean coal? Okay, maybe it’s a good thing this promise was snuffed. But as Naomi Klein points out, between the stimulus, the auto bailout and the Wall Street rescue, Obama had the leverage and political capital to fund mass transit and a smart electrical grid, restructure government-owned automakers to focus on green technology and force bailed out banks to fund industrial restructuring and green infrastructure. Instead, we get a White House vegetable garden the size of a New York apartment. TOO BIG TO FAIL, TOO BIG TO JAIL While the original Troubled Assets Relief Program was “only” $700 billion, the program’s watchdog estimates taxpayer money at risk is a phenomenal $23.7 trillion. The Obama administration has been more interested in defending obscene executive pay, blessing more of Wall Street’s highrisk trading, stonewalling on how the TARP funds were used and abused, and resisting real regulation, rather than prosecuting Goldman Sachs and other banks that peddled risky mortgage- backed securities while secretly betting they would plummet in value — a textbook case of securities fraud. But what do you expect from a candidate who raked in the most dough from Wall Street, real estate, commercial banks and hedge funds? A DREAM FORECLOSED In comparison to the bank bailout, relief for homeowners is limited to a miserly $75 billion under Obama’s Making Home Affordable program. As of December, only 31,000 homeowners have received permanent mortgage modifications. The real winners are loan servicers. Of the top 25 participants, 21 were “heavily involved in the subprime lending industry.” The parent companies of the lenders, which have vacuumed up more than $21 billion from the program, include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. Homeowners in the program who don’t get permanent help are left with wrecked credit scores while they continue to pay for homes they can’t afford, which may be lengthening the crisis. Meanwhile, the number of homeowners with mortgage debt greater than the value of their homes was 23 percent as of September and could peak at 48 percent in 2011. Even modest measures, such as allowing bankruptcy judges to lower mortgages, were abandoned by the Obama administration. HEALTH CARE DEFORM There is a method to Obama’s madness. First, his economic philosophy is to subsidize private entities to provide public goods. Second, his main tactic is to appeal to bipartisanship. (Never mind that there was plenty of bipartisanship during the Bush era when Democrats surrendered to virtually every heinous decision.) In the case of healthcare, a much simpler and more effective single-payer system was rejected because Republican support was supposedly needed. The bipartisan tactic allowed the Obama administration to replace single payer with a fake public option that was then dropped. As for the healthcare bill, it will skim $500 billion from publicly funded Medicare and Medicaid and use it to subsidize individuals who will be forced to buy for-profit insurance or pay a fine. The bill does nothing to control costs, ensure quality coverage or prevent workers from losing job-related insurance. It allows for wildly different rates based on age and region, and will deliver millions of new “customers” to insurance and drug companies and for-profit hospitals. WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE While President-elect, Obama was largely silent about the Israeli slaughter of 1,400 civilians in Gaza. Three days after being inaugurated, Obama ordered Predator drone strikes inside Pakistan, expanding the illegal U.S. war. Over the last year, Obama has committed another 64,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, effectively launching a new year. There are still 115,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. The use of private military contractors is surging, with 121,000 (and growing) in Afghanistan alone. Obama has continued to threaten Iran over its uranium-enrichment program. And many believe the White House is “initiating a low-level war in Yemen.” Author and Ret. U.S. Army Col. Andrew Bacevich writes that Obama has effectively signed on to “perpetual war.” Despite reportedly pouring $450 million into Obama’s campaign and providing thousands of volunteers, organized labor has been unable to advance its main cause: a bill called the Employee Free Choice Act that would make it easier for employees in a workplace to unionize. The Obama administration says it is committed to passing the bill, but it has not put any muscle behind it. That may be because wealthy Obama backers, including three Chicago billionaires who own hotels, vehemently oppose the bill. A founding editor of The Indypendent, Arun Gupta writes about energy, the economy, the media, U.S. foreign policy, the politics of food and other subjects for The Indypendent, Z Magazine, Left Turn and Alternet. Gupta is a regular commentator on Democracy Now! and GritTV with Laura Flanders. He’s writing a book on the decline of American Empire to be published by Haymarket Books. From 1989 to 1992 he was an international news editor at the Guardian Newsweekly.
No Justifications For War- No Link to September 11th No Justifications For War- No Link to September 11th The United States is now set on war with Iraq. What justification is there for such a war? Occasionally it has been suggested that Iraq was somehow linked to the 11 September attacks. The strongest alleged link has been the supposed meeting of Mohammed Atta, the 11 September ringleader, and an Iraqi diplomat expelled from the Czech Republic for spying. The two are meant to have met in Prague in 2001, a 'fact' confirmed by Czech interior minister Stanislav Gross in Oct. 2001. When the Czech police completed their inquiry in Dec. 2001, however, 'Jiri Kolar, the police chief, said there were no documents showing that Atta visited Prague at any time this year , although he had visited twice in 2000'. Another man by the name of Mohammed Atta did visit Prague in 2001, but according to a Czech intelligence source, 'He didn't have the same identity card number, there was a great difference in their ages, their nationalities didn't match, basically nothing. It was someone else.' (Daily Telegraph, 18 Dec. 2001, p. 10) Despite the disintegration of this fable, it continues to circulate and to be repeated as fact. Useful lies can live for a long time. As for any links between Baghdad and al-Qaeda, an anonymous former CIA officer has remarked that, 'The reality is that Osama bin Laden doesn't like Saddam Hussein. Saddam is a secularist who has killed more Islamic clergy than he has Americans. They have almost nothing in common except a hatred of the US. Saddam is the ultimate control freak, and for him terrorists are the ultimate loose cannon.' (Daily Telegraph, 20 Sept. 2001, p. 10) No Justification for War - Weapons of Mass Destruction 'Initially, Washington included Iraq on its list of countries with links to al-Qaeda, but when European governments insisted that there was no intelligence evidence connecting Baghdad to Osama bin Laden's organisation, the US changed tack. "Now the emphasis is on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme and the danger that Saddam might send out his own agents armed with chemical or biological devices", one [British] official said.' (Times, 16 Feb. 2002, p. 19) The latest CIA report on the topic (Jan. 2002) says, that without 'an inspection-monitoring program' 'it is more difficult to determine the current status' of Iraq's biological and chemical weapons programmes. No smoking gun, then. Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has written, 'Given the comprehensive nature of the monitoring regime put in place by UNSCOM [UN Special Commission weapons inspectors], which included a strict export-import control regime, it was possible as early as 1997 to determine that, from a qualitative standpoint, Iraq had been disarmed. Iraq no longer possessed any meaningful quantities of chemical or biological agent, if it possessed any at all, and the industrial means to produce these agents had either been eliminated or were subject to stringent monitoring. The same was true of Iraq's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.' (Arms Control Today, June 2000) According to Ritter, a former US Marine, 'manufacturing CW [chemical weapons] would require the assembling of production equipment into a single integrated facility, creating an infrastructure readily detectable by the strategic intelligence capabilities of the United States. The CIA has clearly stated on several occasions since the termination of inspections in December 1998 that no such activity has been detected.' As for biological weapons, 'The Iraqis do have enough equipment to carry out laboratory-scale production of BW agent. However, without an infusion of money and technology, expanding such a capability into a viable weapons program is a virtual impossibility. Contrary to popular belief, BW cannot simply be cooked up in the basement; it requires a large and sophisticated infrastructure, especially if the agent is to be filled into munitions. As with CW, the CIA has not detected any such activity concerning BW since UNSCOM inspectors left Iraq.' US 'Won't Take Yes For An Answer' No conclusions can be drawn regarding Iraqi weapons programmes without in-country monitoring, but the best way to secure that monitoring is to move to a less confrontational inspection programme, and show willingness to lift, and not merely suspend, sanctions, according to Ritter. US policy is heading in the other direction. The likely trigger for a new US military campaign will be the demand for UN weapons inspectors to return to Iraq, a demand phrased in order to elicit an Iraqi refusal. 'Key figures in the White House believe that demands on Saddam to re-admit United Nations weapons inspectors should be set so high that he would fail to meet them unless he provided officials with total freedom.' (Times, 16 Feb. 2002, p. 19) A US intelligence official said the White House 'will not take yes for an answer'. (Guardian, 14 Feb. 2002, p. 1) Estimates as to when the US intends to launch the war vary wildly. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been reported as being 'sympathetic for a campaign starting as early as this spring'.(Sunday Times, 3 Feb. 2002, p. 23) Other reports say that 'Military action aimed at ousting Saddam Hussein from control of Iraq, while seen as urgent, would not begin until the end of this year at the earliest.' (Sunday Telegraph, 10 Feb. 2002, p. 28) 'Washington appears ready to wait until after the United Nations security council debates a new sanctions regime in May, when further demands will be made for UN weapons inspectors to have access to Iraq.' 'Having cried wolf so loudly this time, [Mr Bush] will scarcely be able to return to Capitol Hill next year with nothing to show for it.' (Independent on Sunday, 17 Feb. 2002, p. 23) 'President Bush has vowed to topple Saddam Hussein within a year... says a leading diplomatic source.' (Daily Telegraph, 16 Feb. 2002, p. 12) 'The long preparations required for a 200,000-strong invasion force... could also delay an invasion until the autumn.' (Sunday Times, 17 Feb. 2002, p. 29) The period between June and Nov. 2002 seems the most likely period for the initiation of hostilities. The 'Afghan Test' A fundamental problem is that military planners have yet to come up with a convincing plan: 'so far, officials have yet to come up with a plan that meets "the Afghan test": a low-cost, speedy assault that has a high probability of toppling President Saddam Hussein.' (FT, 1 Feb. 2002, supplement p. III) Washington must decide whether to try the Afghan route, relying on local opposition forces supported by US airpower; or to opt for 'a comparatively compact assault on Baghdad by three divisions comprising 50,000 troops who could be deployed in weeks'; or to adopt 'a long-standing invasion plan that calls for a force of 200,000 troops to be assembled over a period of up to three months.' (Sunday Times, 17 Feb. 2002, p. 28) The smaller force could be assembled on US aircraft carriers and in Kuwait, without having to force unwilling allies in the region to provide bases. It could also be built up faster, lessening the opportunities for international opposition to develop. 'A force of three American divisions - one airborne, one mechanised and one marine - could strike swiftly at Baghdad, possibly provoking an immediate coup'. (Sunday Times, 17 Feb. 2002, p. 28) 'Leadership Change' Not 'Regime Change' US leaders, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, speak of their desire to see 'regime change' in Iraq. However, ever since 1991 US administrations have shied away from provoking fundamental change in Iraq, and have sought instead 'an iron-fisted Iraqi junta without Saddam Hussein', according to Thomas Friedman, Diplomatic Correspondent of the New York Times, writing on 7 July 1991: sanctions were there to provoke a coup to create 'the best of all worlds', a return to the days when Saddam's 'iron fist... held Iraq together, much to the satisfaction of the American allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia.' In March 1991 this prospect was described by Ahmed Chalabi (now leader of the Iraqi opposition group the Iraqi National Congress) as 'the worst of all possible worlds' for the Iraqi people. (Quoted in Noam Chomsky, World Orders, Old and New, 1994, p. 9) The US commitment 'leadership change' rather than 'regime change' was demonstrated when Kurds and Shias rose against the regime in March 1991: the US granted permission to Baghdad to use helicopter gunships against the rebels, refused to release captured arms dumps to rebel forces, and refused to intervene to defend the rebellions. Richard Haass, director for Near East affairs for the US National Security Council, explained in March 1991, 'Our policy is to get rid of Saddam, not his regime.' (Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, HarperCollins 1999, p. 37) 'Washington's calculation is that a break-up of Iraq would fundamentally alter the balance of power in the Middle East, especially if it led to the creation of an independent Kurdistan. Turkey, a steadfast US ally with a large Kurd minority, would be destabilised. Iran could exploit the vacuum.' (FT, 1 Feb. 2002, supplement p. III) Sparing the Republican Guard An officer involved in US planning says, 'Our question was, "What about the day after?" For example, do you take the Republican Guard [the military unit most loyal to Saddam] and disarm it? Or is it preferable to turn it from having a capability to protect Saddam to a capability to protect Iraq?' (New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2001, p. 63) Protect Iraq from fragmentation, that is. In Feb. 1991, large elements of the Republican Guard, including the Hammurabi Heavy Division, the most powerful single force in the Republican Guard, were boxed in near Basra, almost certainly about to be destroyed, when President Bush Sr. called a ceasefire, preserving this central pillar of the regime. It appears that under President Bush Jr. military planning is governed by the same desire to preserve the military regime in Iraq - the Republican Guard is noticeably absent from the targeting plans being floated in the media. The Illegality of the US War 'The US does not, to date, have a legal mandate for serious military intervention.' (Economist, 26 Jan. 2002, p. 59) Lord Healey, former Defence Secretary and leading right-winger within the Labour Party, said during Operation Desert Fox in Dec. 1998 there was 'no question' that the US bombing was unlawful: 'It is illegal to attack with bombs targets in a sovereign country without direct authorisation from the Security Council.' (Daily Telegraph, 21 Dec. 1998) No such authorisation has been given, or is being sought, for the new US war on Iraq.
The Jobs for Food Program The Jobs for Food Program This piece originally appeared in Samar 17: Summer, 2004 In US congressional offices during the final months of 2003, election-year strategies were being developed and platforms laid out. For the Democrats, eager to wrest control of the White House from Republican hands, a major source of hope in winning the presidential election and restoring public faith in the party lay in an all-important four-letter word: Jobs. Month after month, US economic data had confounded politicians and their out of work constituents. US gross domestic product was strong, productivity was too. And then there was the matter of jobs. Over 2.7 million jobs net had been lost in the first two and a half years of George W. Bush's presidency. Only since March 2004, over two years into the recovery that began in November 2001, had monthly job growth showed minimal strength. It was a trademark of the US economic recovery: as some of the millions of unemployed and underemployed workers in the US regained their jobs in early 2004, many others stopped searching all together. Over 700,000 discouraged workers left the labor force in the beginning months of 2004, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The economic anomaly of a jobless recovery rocketed to the forefront of electoral politics in late 2003. Politicans searched for an answer or a scapegoat to win the hearts and minds of the unemployed and underemployed US electorate. Led by Democratic presidential candidates and followed by many Republicans, the call went out: India â€” the outsourcing haven â€” was largely responsible for the jobless recovery. Buoyed by a Forrester Research report that predicted at least 3.3 million white-collar jobs and $136 billion in wages would shift from the United States to low-cost countries by 2015, a flurry of union protests and anti-outsourcing legislation swept through the country. Legislators floated, in over 25 states, more than 80 anti-outsourcing bills, and across the country, unions began chanting the slogan "American Jobs for Americans First." Proponents of outsourcing have questioned the efficacy of bills such as Senator Tom Daschle's proposal to have call center workers identify which country they are speaking from or legislation passed in January in the US Senate prohibiting government contractors from shifting work overseas. Opponents of the bills were quick to point out that neither proposal would stem the flow of service jobs overseas as long as lower costs and higher profits remain the primary focus of corporate America. Indeed, the Senate bill would only affect 2% of outsourced work, according to congressional estimates. But for the millions of unemployed and underemployed workers in the US, the fear of joblessness remains real. What may not be real and recognizable to the many workers caught in an increasingly partisan debate, is the apparent source of the unemployment situation in the US. A March 2004 Wall Street Journal Online survey of 50 economists estimated that the total number of US jobs lost by movement of operations overseas since 2001 has been 188,000 in the services sector and 502,000 in manufacturing. That's a small fraction of the 58.6 million overall layoffs that companies undertook between 2001 and 2003, the survey found. Conflicting, hugely disparate data like Forrester's and the Wall Street Journal's have been presented from all sides of the outsourcing debate. However, what remains clear amidst the flurry of numbers is that in an electoral minute, India has become a scapegoat for America's new economic paradigm: strong productivity growth, solid corporate profit-making without strong job creation. Opportunity Amid Tumult In the last months of 2003 in the US, another type of strategy was being conceived â€” this time in the halls of the White House. The administration had stayed decidedly silent on pending protectionist jobs legislation and offered little to clear the public's confusion over the outsourcing tumult. There were special interests to protect. For corporate America, the race to the bottom-line has proved quickest via India and other developing nations. The use of cheap Indian labor has been a boon to top outsourcing companies like Fidelity Investments, which has given Bush $164,908 in campaign donations and American Express, which has given Bush $39,000. Although these individual donor amounts are trivial, dozens of such service-sector companies together have been a major source of the total $130 million Bush raised in 2003 to fund his campaign. Seeing opportunity in public fear and confusion, the Bush administration decided to ride the anti-outsourcing wave (a position it does not support) to levy India towards trade concessions. Bush's government had won a bargaining chip, and any potential furor directed at the administration has for the time being, been deflected. In the beginning months of 2004, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick began a whirlwind tour of the developing world to revive the Doha "development" round of World Trade Organization talks that collapsed at the Cancun Ministerial Conference in September 2003. In Cancun, India, along with China and Brazil, spearheaded a campaign that has temporarily halted the US and European Union from imposing new demands on developing nations to liberalize their markets while simultaneously heavily subsidizing their own. Zoellick very notably stopped in India to speak with Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley in January 2004. His message was clear: open up or else. During a press conference on Feb. 16, he said: "We need to make (trade) a two-way street. And that includes services, goods and agriculture." In the words of Bush's chief economic advisor, Gregory Mankiw, "outsourcing is just another way of doing international trade." So by extension, if America is providing India with jobs, Zoellick contended, India would have to provide America's agribusiness sector with a market to exploit. The groundwork was laid. The onslaught would follow. The first three months of this year saw a barrage of US rhetoric about India's "trade-distorting tariffs," in the agricultural sector. After returning from India, Zoellick headed next to testify before the US Senate Finance Committee, where he called India "one of the most closed economies in the world." The US's new ambassador to India, David Mulford soon chimed in, not deviating from the script: "There must be new market openings from developed and developing countries, especially those like India," he said in March. The US is determined to "further open international markets and to mitigate trade distortions, particularly in agriculture," he added. Secretary of State Colin Powell in a mid-March visit to India offered much of the same rhetoric about the need for India to be more receptive to US investment and agricultural products. He hedged some of the administration's bullishness, however, saying there was no "quid pro quo" when it came to jobs for market-access. Zoellick's statements have proven otherwise. In his campaign of pressure, Zoellick repeatedly said that India's tariffs on farm goods are as high as 112%, or more than 10 times the level in the US. The trade representative has used this figure to back up his claim that India is one of the "most closed economies in the world." Food policy analyst Devinder Sharma has been quick to point out, however, that since the inception of the WTO â€” when trade was made "free" â€” agricultural commodity imports to India have increased 400%. And as Jaitley, India's commerce minister, told Zoellick in January: "Our agriculture is fragile as it is not subsidized, like in the US." A dramatic decrease in tariffs would shock the agricultural sector, which feeds the country's billion-plus people. Moreover, India's 650 million farmers would face unprecedented economic hardships in the wake of more uneven Western competition. The US heavily subsidizes its own farming industry even as it pressures India to reduce its "trade-distorting" practices. The 2002 US Farm Bill provides the country's 2 million farmers with up to $180 billion in subsidies for the next 10 years, with more than a third coming in the first three years. The great "distortion" comes in that 47% of these payments go to large farms with average household incomes of $135,000 or more, according to Food First. It is not the small US farmer who stands to benefit from this extra government help. Rather, it is the large agribusiness firm that finds incentives to overproduce, distort international commodity prices and then flood developing markets. India doesn't subsidize its farmers in the same manner, but does offer indirect aid on a much smaller scale. In addition to receiving discounted materials for production, such as fertilizer and seeds, the government has in the past bought farmers' crops at pre-determined prices (called procurement prices) which are higher than depressed market prices. According to India's Economic Survey, these forms of indirect aid to India's 650 million farmers total $1 billion a year. In comparison, the richest 24 countries in the world, led by the US, give $1 billion a day in direct and indirect agricultural subsidies to their farmers. The Plight Of The Farmer As the middle and upper classes in India and the US fight over keeping small numbers of high-paying jobs in their respective countries, 650 million farmers in India teeter on the edge of deeper poverty and hunger. So far, India has fought back against the US and WTO when it comes to the matter of subsidies and tariffs. What remains to be seen is how long India's skepticism towards "free trade" will last, especially as the media-and-money-attracting outsourced jobs come under increasing pressure. Major government decisions show that the official pro-agriculture stance may be far from the unofficial reality. Since 1991, India has been on a steady liberalization process. In the past year, it has accelerated the rate of privatization greatly to meet a March 31 deadline to raise $3 billion to reduce its budget deficit â€” a move seen as essential to luring in more foreign investment. To this end, India raised about $2.2 billion recently by putting up for sale a 10% stake in the state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp, the country's largest company. It has similarly privatized parts of five other national companies, attracting millions of US dollars and investment interest. With deficit-reduction and foreign investment on the collective mind of the Indian government, it has begun decreasing state aid for farm credits and other indirect subsidies. According to India's Economic Survey for 2001 to 2002, the latest data available, total investment in agriculture as a share of GDP fell from an already miniscule 1.6% in 1993â€“1994 to 1.3% in 2001â€“2002. Moreover, imports of agricultural goods increased as exports decreased from 2000 to 2002. Even as more imported goods flood in, the Indian government has eliminated qualitative restrictions on certain imported products as part of the WTO's "free" trade program. As a result, particularly vulnerable agricultural products have even less protection in the face of competition from cheap imports, which are usually harvested and modified with better technology. What has greatly worried farmers, food policy analysts and activists in recent years has been the decentralization of the main government body responsible for holding, buying and redistributing the country's food stocks, which are stored in over 2,000 "godowns," or factories. The Food Corporation of India (FCI), which provides price support and farm credits as well as redistributes grains to the hundreds of millions of hungry people in India, is at the beginning of its end, many say. The FCI, set up in the 1960s to buy grain from India's farmers, has mismanaged the 60 million tons of food and grain it holds in its factories, causing an estimated 320 million people in dire need of food to continue to go hungry, according to Devinder Sharma. Selling these stocks at low prices to hungry families would require transportation and other coordination services â€” which cost money â€” so the Indian government hasn't been addressing the issue, he said. When the government does sell its stocks, even the discount prices are unaffordable for India's poor. In many instances this "excess" food is thrown out because it rots, or it gets sold to private companies who then resell the food at higher prices or export it. As of January, even as the Indian government defended its agricultural policies to the US's bullying, it allowed the private sector direct access to the farm market. Private traders have now been permitted to go into the grain market without using the FCI, which has traditionally been an intermediary for India's farmers. The pitting of traders, whose primary interest in the agricultural market is profit-making, against the farmer, whose major interest in the market is her life, has proven disastrous. Any protective buffers from over-supply or poor demand and other "market forces" have been wiped out. As a result, farmers have had to look for other ways to manage their small plots and eke out a living for their families as the FCI continues to be dismantled. With the decrease in aid, small and peasant farmers have increasingly begun borrowing money from private lenders, who charge high interest rates decided upon their own discretion. Thousands of farmers, distressed from increasing levels of debt, competition from western imports and at the whim of the monsoon season, have been committing suicide in India â€” hoping that in their deaths, the government will wipe out some of their outstanding debt and refocus on their plight. Estimates of farmer suicides vary between 16,000 to 20,000 in the last decade, as India's farmers fall deeper into poverty and hunger. The situation has gotten so bad, that the southern state of Tamil Nadu began a program in January of feeding its small farmers and their families (along with agricultural workers) one meal a day for free. Other states in India may have to follow Tamil Nadu's example as the trade concession-outsourcing fight gains speed. "Nearly 600 million Indian farmers will now have to pay the price to keep 1.6 lakh jobs in the service sector afloat. This is the price that the poor and marginalized must shell out to keep the minuscule face of urban elite shining," Sharma wrote in a recent essay. April 17 marked the International Farmers' Day of Struggle, organized by the global movement Via Campesina, to which many Indian farmers belong. As their fight for food sovereignty moves forward, the words "outsourcing," "foreign investment" and "bargaining chip" will have to be added to the dialogue of the struggle. Whether the ideas of food sovereignty and food security â€” the right of a people to have food and decide their agricultural and food policy without any "dumping" by other countries â€” can become part of the exchange between the Indian and US governments, remains to be seen. C.P. Pandya is a freelance journalist based in the United States.
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After a break-up with Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor has been linked with various celeb beauties like Vidya Balan and Sania Mirza but the actor has always denied having an affair with anyone. Recently the actor was seen at a coffee shop in Mumbai along with glam-doll Priyanka Chopra. Being with Priyanka for a coffee is a different thing but booking the whole floor for sharing a cup of coffee is what sniffs suspicion about the couple. Is Priyanka the girl who would be taking Bebo’s place in Shahid’s heart? Well, only time could answer this question. We tried to get in touch with Shahid and Priyanka on the same but neither of them answered our call. It would be interesting to see whether Shahid would again be denying having a love affair and naming the relationship to be mere friendship
Mugdha Godse recent role in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion brought her to the limelight with great performance. However, the story didn’t begin with the movie “Fashion“. Mugdha was Miss India 2004 semi-finalist and before that 1st Runner Up at the Gladrags Mega Model Contest and winner of the Miss Body Beautiful contest. She even she won the Miss Perfect 10 at Femina Miss Indian 2004. She made her debut in Bollywood with Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion. She has been seen in many Music Video including “Jab Chaye Mera Jadoo” with Irfan Pathan and “Le Kar Hum Deewana Dil“. She has been on many prominent TV Commercial including “Zoom Promo”, “MTV non-stop hits promo”, “Star Screen Awards 2005 promo”, “Harry’s Collection” and many more. Watch some of her sizzling photos of Mugdha Godse:
After “Dill Mill Gayye”, small screen heartthrob Karan Singh Grover is set to host reality show “Perfect Couple”. The Channel V show, which goes on air May 22, will see eight couples going on an adventurous voyage from Khajuraho to Kathmandu, testing their compatibility as they perform tasks, undergo odd jobs across small villages and crack clues. “As a channel we have always kept our promise of constantly reinventing ourselves to provide viewers with the best content. This show provokes deep corners of relationships and is sure to connect with our audience,” Prem Kamath, executive vice president and general manager of the channel, said in a statement. The winning couple will get the coveted title of Perfect Couple and a world tour package that will take them to romantic destinations.
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Mobile Community Services Office We Are Coming to You! The Mobile Community Services Office is hitting the open road to reach new clients and improve our customer service. Rural households who find the trip to their local CSO too far to travel may soon see a new kind of CSO roll into their hometown. The Department of Social and Health Services has created two 40-foot trucks that transform into functioning offices. Each Mobile CSO unit is staffed by experienced financial workers who are able to complete cash, food, and medical interviews, issue EBT cards, and receive documents. Mobile CSO Goals: - Improve participation in the Basic Food Program by providing services at locations where DSHS representatives do not usually have a presence, including services at senior centers, job fairs, health fairs, migrant worker camps, and community events which will provide broader community outreach. - Strengthen Community Partnerships by expanding on existing community partnerships with social services organizations; state, local, and county agencies; and interested parties in the business community to create access points where people can apply for Basic Food, Cash and Medical benefits. - Operate as a response vehicle for disaster events where the Disaster Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program is activated. The Mobile CSOs will be used as a facility to accept applications in more severely impacted areas where power has not yet been restored. The Mobile CSOs may also be used as a support office to facilitate back-room processing of applications by staff working outside disaster areas. Schedule an Event! Contact the Mobile CSO project to schedule a mobile office for an event in your community. Priority will be given to community partners who agree to help publicize the event to connect as many people as possible to DSHS services. Examples include: Housing authorities, libraries, job fairs, public health clinics, temporary labor centers, senior centers, county fairs, community events, areas with under-served populations, etc. Mobile CSO events are not limited to normal DSHS business hours. NEW! See our schedule and like us on Facebook. Contact us at: Mobile CSO Project, PO Box 45440, Olympia, WA 98504-5440 or by phone at (360) 725-4881 or by email:
Development of Integrated Biorefineries The development of the integrated biorefinery was identified as crucial part of achieving alternative fuel production goals. Throughout its stages of development, the integrated biorefinery will utilize input from all of the other platforms as well as the existing biofuels industry. The research and development of feedstocks and the biochemical and thermochemical conversion platforms will allow the integrated biorefinery to continually increase its diversity and complexity further increasing effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. The process of developing an integrated biorefinery is unique because of the new technologies involved as well as the integration and bundling of these technologies. A detailed and realistic project scope and expectations is critical to the successful deployment of an integrated biorefinery. Obtaining the proper permits can be a complicated matter. Each integrated biorefinery is unique and in most cases do not necessarily conform to an existing industrial footprint. This, coupled with local and regional concerns, will dictate the permitting required and the process to be followed. Ample time must be dedicated to these important issues. Further, DOE cannot take or support any actions that could be characterized as an irreversible and/or irretrievable commitment in advance of completing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review process. Consequently, some additional requirements are imposed on projects supported by the Office. While severing America's dependence on oil imports is the ultimate long-term goal, the short-term performance goal for the Bioenergy Technologies Office is to focus on developing advanced technologies for integrated biorefinery concepts. This will be achieved through a focus on the demonstration and validation of efficient processes for producing biofuels from corn fiber, agricultural residues, and forest products residues as well as various other energy crop feedstocks being researched. There are several significant barriers to the realization of a self-sufficient biorefinery industry. The technological challenges are being addressed in the core R&D elements of the Office, then validated and demonstrated with cost-share partners (industry, universities, etc.). Other challenges that the integrated biorefinery industry faces include: political and market resistance, a lack of supporting infrastructure (including feedstock, biofuels, and vehicle infrastructure), and market development and penetration issues. Overcoming these barriers will require efficiency improvements throughout the supply chain along with supporting analysis and cost-shared demonstration projects.
\|You are here: Main / Customer Services / Public Communications Division / 2010 / City Prevails In Lawsuit Regarding Waimanalo Gulch Landfill\| CITY PREVAILS IN LAWSUIT REGARDING WAIMANALO GULCH LANDFILL (Tues., March 30, 2010)—Mayor Mufi Hannemann today expressed his appreciation for the March 16, 2010, ruling by Circuit Court Judge Rom Trader, who granted the City's Motion for Summary Judgment (MSJ) in the lawsuit filed by Senator Colleen Hanabusa that challenged the sufficiency of the 2008 Final EIS (FEIS) prepared for the proposed expansion of the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill. “I’m pleased the Court determined that the FEIS was compiled in good faith, meets all legal requirements, and provided decision-makers with all information necessary to decide that the landfill should be expanded,” said Hannemann. “The City takes its obligations to comply with environmental disclosure laws such as HEPA and NEPA very seriously, and so it is gratifying to know that the Court has confirmed as a matter of law that this FEIS was properly prepared and accepted.” Hanabusa filed her lawsuit in December 2008, claiming that the FEIS had inadequately addressed various matters related to the landfill’s expansion. She filed her own Motion for Summary Judgment, which Judge Trader denied while granting the City’s motion. Following acceptance of the FEIS on October 13, 2008, the City applied for land use approvals to expand the landfill. During the proceedings at the The decision ends one challenge to the continued use of Media contact: Bill Brennan, Mayor’s Office, 768-6928
Posted: Nov 4, 2012 9:14 AM by Eugene Daniels Colorado Springs Police are investigating a robbery at the Diamond Shamrock on Palmer Park Boulevard. One man, in dark clothing, a ski mask and gloves entered the convenience store armed with a knife and a hammer demanding money, early Sunday morning. No injuries have been reported. The suspect is described as a 6 foot white male in his early 20's and remains at large. The investigation is ongoing.
Posted: Jan 11, 2013 7:37 AM by Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Health officials say flu is more widespread across the nation, but the number of hard-hit states has declined. Flu season started early this winter, and includes a strain that tends to make people sicker. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said flu was widespread in 47 states last week, up from 41 the week before. But many cases may be mild. The only states without widespread flu are California, Mississippi and Hawaii. The hardest hit states dropped to 24 from 29. So far, 20 children have died from the flu. There is no running tally of adult deaths, but the CDC estimates that the flu kills about 24,000 people in an average year. Experts say it's too early to say if this is a bad year. PLEASE HELP US MODERATE COMMENTS Offensive or inappropriate comments are subject to removal. To report a comment, please e-mail us at email@example.com, and include the name of the story and information on the comment. Thank you! KSBY.com Get deals up to 80% off here! Find the lowest gas prices in your area Submit your photos to KSBY Check out our calendar of events Watch Daybreak Web Videos in full Save with Hot Deals across our counties! Events across the Central Coast Follow The CW5 on Facebook. The KSBY online public file. What do you think? Leave us your feedback. KSBY is your official CA Lottery station for San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
Trio of top prizes up for grabs after the international break By Joe Mirtaheri. Last Updated: September 7, 2012 3:04pm Eden Hazard: Could be the man to bolster your side Sky Sports Fantasy Football managers can earn themselves a dream trip to Los Angeles with our 'Late Riser' league. We're giving you the opportunity to win three great prizes and all you have to do is enter a new team (or two) before the next Premier League game on September 15, 2012 to be entered into the Late Riser League. The prizes are: 1st Place - Trip for two to LA (flights, seven nights hotel in Beverly Hills/Hollywood, car hire, spending money), and tickets to see LA Galaxy play 2nd Place - Two VIP tickets to see a Premier League game of the winner's choice 3rd Place - Apple 16gb wifi iPad and £100 iTunes credit Now it's up to you to take control of your team(s) and steer your side to a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in order to win one of the prizes. - 9 - the number of goals QPR have conceded this season - 8 - the yellow cards Stoke have picked up - 23 - the corners Manchester United have taken - 24 - the shots on target Fulham have had - 41 - the goalscoring chances Everton have created - 1600 - the successful passes Manchester City have completed - 7 - the number of players who have picked up bonus points in every game they have played For some inspiration, why not have a look at the statistics so far and decide which players will make your second team? Blues on top Chelsea top the Fantasy Premier League Points table after three matches with a massive 219 points bagged by their team and it is looking like Eden Hazard could be the key signing for Roberto Di Matteo. He has won 46 points for the Champions League winners - Hazard has contributed an amazing six assists and picked up, on average, 15.6 points per game - which makes him the most valuable player so far this season and his relatively affordable price of £7.7m has led to 36.15% of managers picking him. So far this this season's surprise packages have been Swansea City - they have racked up a total of 203 points - boasting the third best pointes per game ratio of 70.6 and a total goals tally of nine. Fantasy managers will be wondering when top scorer Michu will run out of steam. After four in three games so far, matches against Aston Villa, Everton and Stoke could further enhance his scoring record.. Liverpool's poor start has seen them languishing near the bottom of both the Fantasy Football table and the Premier League table. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers - and 9.4% of managers - will be looking to Luis Suarez (£9.6m) to live up to his Fantasy price tag that saw him priced as the fourth most expensive striker. Fantasy bosses will also be looking to the Liverpool defence to drastically improve as they have the third worst defence conceding a total of seven goals.
Susan Smith has worked as an editor and writer in the technology industry for over 16 years. As an editor she has been responsible for the launch of a number of technology trade publications, both in print and online. Currently, Susan is the Editor of GISCafe and AECCafe, as well as those sites’ … More » Maptitude 6.0’s unlimited geocoding and more for one-stop geospatial shoppers November 14th, 2011 by Susan Smith Most organizations are not necessarily geospatially adept, yet they understand the need for some geographic information to either make their businesses run better or to add interactive web mapping to their web sites. In city and county agencies, there is also the need for tools for creating and analyzing redistricting data for districts, and for elections and precincts, there is the necessity to manage the vast amount of data that is collected and aggregated during elections. The new version of Maptitude, Maptitude 6.0, is a data visualization and geographic analysis tool that helps organizations understand the impact of geography on their organizations. The newest version includes extensive geographic and demographic data so that you can get started as soon as you open the box. Data are provided in a compact geographic data format that reduces data storage requirements and reduces network traffic. According to Stewart Berry, mapping software product manager, the new version of Maptitude is a “complete refresh” in terms of maps and graphics, routing, database and performance. Maptitude has specialized versions for those who need to add various capabilities to their sites. Maptitude for the Web allows you to add interactive mapping to your web site. Maptitude for Redistricting includes tools for creating, analyzing, and mapping congressional, state legislative, city council, county commission, school, water, or any other type of districts. Maptitude for Precinct and Election Management combines sophisticated mapping software, an easy-to-use interface, and a wide array of customized data to create a complete precinct and election management solution. GISCafe Voice: What current enabling technologies is the new release 6.0 relying on or maximizing in order to offer specific functionality? Stewart Berry: The latest Maptitude is a complete refresh in terms of maps and graphics, database handling, routing functionality, data, and performance. The graphics improvements include a new automatic map labeling engine as well as better style display and output options such as transparency. The underlying relational database has been expanded to allow one-to-many non-aggregate joins, which are critical in analyses such as querying the employees at a site(s). Support for additional formats, such as Microsoft SQL Server Spatial, reinforces the robustness of the Maptitude database engine in distributed environments. Accessing and visualizing image layers is a core aspect of the new capabilities provided in 6.0, with new features such as interpolation and smoothing. Maptitude now supports several open and international standards including OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) imagery. GISCafe Voice: What would you say is the single most important new feature of the release? Berry: The single most important new feature of the release is unlimited geocoding (address locating) and drive-time zones based on high quality and accurate street data. Address geocoding is fundamental to decisions based on geographic data. Maptitude provides tools to assess and review match success rates based on updatable and reliable street data, while providing alternative levels of accuracy and modifiable geocoding rules. GISCafe Voice: Does 6.0 work on mobile devices such as iPads, etc.? Berry: Maptitude runs on Windows, and Maptitude for the Web applications are accessible via browser-based interfaces on other devices. GISCafe Voice: How is the new addition of U.S. Census Data used by your customers? Berry: Users are able to explore the most up-to-date U.S. demographics and how these relate to their areas of interest. They can quickly visualize Census information using a suite of wizard-driven tools. Maptitude also provides a map library that contains pre-designed maps listed by Census category. These include thematic maps of demographic, social, economic, and housing data by ZIP Code, Tract, County, and State. The Map Librarian lets users open one or more of these maps, allowing them to quickly analyze U.S. Census data for their chosen location. GISCafe Voice: Does the product still offer a lot of free data? Berry: Unlike many other mapping and GIS software packages that require separate data purchases, Maptitude includes extensive geographic and demographic information so that users can get started as soon as they open the box. New U.S. data sets provide access to up-to-date geographic information. Maptitude now includes a NAVTEQ street layer, allowing accurate address locating and street visualization, plus robust data on which to calculate best routes and drive-time zones. Other new U.S. layers include urban building footprints, highways, railroads, landmarks, and the latest quarter of nationwide ZIP Codes. The points of interest layer contains over 2 million named locations that range from public facilities to commercial buildings including shops, restaurants, and retail stores. All of the 2010 U.S. Census boundaries that are included with Maptitude, plus 3- and 5-digit ZIP Code areas, contain several demographic and economic variables based on the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey. These include race, gender, age, ethnicity, household, and income fields. GISCafe Voice: Who are most of your customers? Berry: Our customers are as diverse as spreadsheet users, with organizations of all sizes and types realizing benefits when exploring their data with Maptitude. GISCafe Voice: What is the cost of the new release? Berry: A new single user license of Maptitude costs US$695, while an upgrade costs US$395. Tags: address, demographic, elections, Geocoding, geospatial, GIS, imagery, interactive, iPads, Maptitude, Maptitude 6.0, Microsoft SQL Server Spatial, mobile devices, Navteq, OpenGIS Web Map Service, precincts, redistricting, relational database, street data, U.S. Census 2010, web mapping, WMS 2 Responses to “Maptitude 6.0’s unlimited geocoding and more for one-stop geospatial shoppers”
A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n ``SEC. 10975. HIGHER EDUCATION GRANTS. - ``(a) Grants.--The Secretary is authorized to make grants to institutions of higher education, consortia of such institutions, or partnerships between institutions of higher education and local educational agencies to assist rural schools and rural eligible local educational agencies in undertaking local school improvement activities. - ``(b) Authorized Activities.--Grant funds under this section may be used to-- - ``(1) assist rural schools in meeting National Education Goals; - ``(2) assist in the recruitment and training of teachers in rural schools; - ``(3) assist rural schools in the development of appropriate innovative school improvement initiatives; - ``(4) provide inservice training opportunities for teachers in rural schools; and - ``(5) provide technical assistance in the use and installation of innovative telecommunications technology. - ``(c) Applications.--Each eligible entity desiring a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require. SEC. 10974. USES OF FUNDS. Subpart 3--White House Conferences
The Grove City College Observatory is located near Edinboro, PA on the highest hill in the county and far away from bright city lights. The observatory was originally operated by Edinboro University; Grove City College acquired it in 2008. The main building houses a 0.5-m telescope, which was refurbished by Optical Mechanics, Inc. (OMI) in 2008-09; work on the dome and computer control continued through 2010. Students conduct research on variable star photometry, including transiting exoplanets, and astrometry of nearby stars. See our gallery of images acquired with the telescope in 2010.
The reaction to our two pieces on iconic Les Paul players here and here was so overwhelming that it’s only right to bestow the same treatment on another of Gibson’s signature axes, the SG. While the players on this list are a matter of taste, it’s difficult to argue the influence that this double cutaway axe has had on the rock world. AC/DC’s Young is the architect of some of rock’s greatest riffs such as “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Highway To Hell,” but he’s equally as well-known for his schoolboy outfits and Gibson SG. The guitar has been integral to the stripped-down, dirty sound of the band’s most recognizable licks and is also light enough for Young — who is about to turn 54 — to be able to duckwalk across the stage with ease. In fact, Young’s playing seems to just get better with age, which is confirmed by the fact that the band’s latest album Black Ice debuted at No. 1 on charts all over the world. (Learn how to get Angus Young’s tone.) If you had to name one guitarist who was single-handedly responsible for the heavy metal genre, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more qualified than Iommi. As a founding member of Black Sabbath, Iommi’s sinister riffs would go on to influence everyone from Motörhead to Metallica, despite the fact that he lost the tips of his middle and ring fingers in an industrial accident when he was a teenager. We’d list some of the riffs that Iommi pioneered with his SG tone but it’d probably take up this entire column, so just trust us when we say that Iommi is more metal than any of us will ever be. (Tony Iommi on early Black Sabbath.) If you’ve ever played air guitar alongside songs like “Light My Fire” and “Love Me Two Times,” you’ve already paid homage to Krieger whether you know it or not. Krieger’s unique fingerpicking style proved to be the perfect accompaniment for singer Jim Morrison’s larger-than-life vocals and the group would go on to sell over 32 million albums in the United States alone. In fact Krieger’s SG-fueled playing was so powerful that the band didn’t even need a bass player—and the Doors’ music can still be heard in endless rotation on every classic rock radio station in the country. Now that’s what we call a musical legacy. (Learn how to get Robby Krieger’s tone.) Live albums are historically hit-or-miss, but it’s widely accepted that the Grateful Dead’s psychedelic rock masterpiece Live/Dead is a nearly flawless example of a band at the top of their game — and it’s no small coincidence that the band’s frontman Garcia reportedly favored an SG on the album. While Garcia utilized a varied arsenal of axes throughout his 30-year tenure, many of the guitarist’s finest moments of improvisation were facilitated by his SG, which proved how truly versatile the guitar can be when its tone isn’t obscured by walls of distortion. Zappa is a member of an elite group of musicians who literally defy categorization when it comes to his music. Over the course of more than 60 albums (most of which Zappa also produced) either under his own name or with his band Mothers Of Invention, Zappa constructed an impressive body of work that was avant-garde and creative but also accessible and impressive enough for listeners to appreciate on a purely musical level. Often seen with an SG draped around his neck, Zappa didn’t just break the rules for how a rock band should sound, he completely reinvented them — and we’re all the better for it. Trucks may still be in his twenties, but when your uncle is the Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks then you get your start early. In fact, Trucks’ first album with the Derek Trucks band came out 12 years ago, and he was made an official member of the Allman Brothers Band two years later. Tone-wise Trucks largely eschews effects, preferring to plug his Gibson SG directly into his amp, which creates the perfect tone for his slide-fueled Southern style. Just try not to think too hard about the fact that Trucks has probably accomplished more musically before he’s 30 than most of us will over the course of our entire lives. (New exclusive interview with Derek.) If you’re not familiar with Marino and his work with Mahogany Rush, we can’t fault you. The band never had the mainstream U.S. popularity of some of their peers and former tourmates like Heart and Aerosmith, but this ’70s hard-rock act has maintained a healthy fanbase over the years. Marino favored SGs and his proto-metal playing style evoked the heaviness of Tony Iommi tempered with a prog-rock sensibility. If you’re looking for an introduction to this Canadian rock act, we recommend the band’s breakthrough single “Strange Dreams” — just don’t check out the music video unless you enjoy having nightmares. Sister Rosetta Tharpe The history of female blues guitar pioneers isn’t exactly voluminous. Indeed, it doesn’t extend much beyond Sister Rosetta Tharpe and her own influential forebear, Memphis Minnie. Forging a musical bridge between gospel and the blues, the Arkansas-born Tharpe influenced a disparate array of later music icons, from pioneering rockers like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to R&B stalwarts Aretha Franklin and Isaac Hayes. Yet Tharpe’s blues muse was almost impossible to separate from her original calling as a gospel singer. Born Rosetta Nubin in 1915, she began singing and playing guitar at four. During the ’60s blues boom, Tharpe’s career had a brief upswing, resulting in this rare television appearance where she sings the gospel standard “Down By the Riverside,” accompanying herself on a then-new, fully tricked-out Les Paul/SG Custom with its distinctive row of humbuckers. (The untold story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.) We know that we included Clapton on our list of iconic Les Paul players, but Clapton’s work with the pioneering classic rock act Cream was largely defined by his SG — and we couldn’t write a column about the axe without including him. In fact Cream was deemed “the first supergroup” with good reason and Clapton’s soloing on tracks like “White Room” and “Sunshine Of Your Love” are a picture perfect demonstration of the way an SG tone can break up into a sweet overdrive without obscuring the sound of individual notes. It’s no wonder many diehard Clapton fans still believe that Cream was the legendary guitarist’s finest hour. (The saga of Clapton’s famous Fool SG.) As the guitarist in System Of A Down, Malakian redefined heavy music for a whole new generation of listeners via albums like the band’s self-titled debut and Toxicity. While his playing was unabashedly distortion-drenched and groove heavy, there was also a cerebral element to Malakian’s playing that endeared him to us — and the fact that he was often seen jumping around strange with a Gibson SG didn’t hurt, either. These days Malakian is busy fronting his new band Scars On Broadway alongside SOAD’s drummer John Dolmayan. From early British-beat classics, to rock-opera grandiosity, to “loudest band in the world” status (as listed officially in the Guinness Book of World Records for more than a decade), the Who have made an off-the-charts contribution to rock music. Alongside a larger-than-life drummer and bombastic bassist — the late Keith Moon and John Entwistle respectively — guitarist and chief songwriter Townshend made an enormous sonic impact with simple tools and a very basic — if undeniably inspired and energetic—technique. Townshend has used a variety of guitar and amp combinations throughout his career, and has embodied rock drive and power with each of them, but when I think “classic Who,” I go back time and again to the band’s late-’60s sound, and the guitarist’s set-up during the Live at Leeds era. Townshend plus Gibson SG Special plus Hiwatt amp stack equals colossal tone. Hendrix used a ton of different styles and brands of guitars throughout his career, but we’ll always have a soft spot for the SG he used to make songs like “Red House” stand out. Hendrix’s unique playing style has already been described so many times that it’s pointless for us to try to summarize it in a few sentences, but we will say that watching him play his SG left-handed in this next clip still gives us goose bumps. These are the blues the way they were meant to be played — and we’re just happy that we could provide the conduit for the world’s most legendary guitarist to express himself. (Get the Jimi Hendrix tone.) As the lead guitarist for the Cars, Easton’s SG can be heard on classic tracks like “Just What I Needed” and “Good Times Roll.” While his style wasn’t overly flashy, Easton has an amazing set of ears and was able to play just what, uh, each song needed in order to make many of these songs the classic tracks that they are today. Since the Cars broke up in ’88, Easton has collaborated with everyone from the Stray Cats’ Lee Rocker to his former bandmate Ric Ocasek and at one point even joined Creedence Clearwater Revisited (the touring incarnation of the Creedence Clearwater Revival). You can currently catch him in the new Cars alongside Todd Rundgren. You may not recognize Box’s name, but we’re sure that you’d recognize the music he made in the ’70s as a member of Uriah Heep. Although the band was never as big in the U.S. as they were back in Europe, they did manage to score a few hit singles such as “Sweet Lorraine” and “Easy Livin’” and develop a cult-ish fanbase that still allows them to pack arenas in many parts of the world. Check out video below to see Box rock out on his tremolo-toting SG — just remember that despite the fact he used one of our guitars, Gibson refuses to take any responsibility for the band members’ fashion choices. You’d be hard-pressed to argue that Radiohead frontman Yorke isn’t one of the most respected songwriters of our generation — and the axe he usually uses to express himself is a Gibson SG. Sure, Yorke may not have the charismatic energy of Angus Young or the genre-defining influence of Tony Iommi, but he belongs on this list because he’s helped introduce the SG to a whole new generation of listeners. Oh, and the fact that he’s the leader of one of the most successful rock acts of the past decade doesn’t hurt either. Check out Yorke getting cozy with his SG in this killer rendition of “Bodysnatchers” from the band’s latest album In Rainbows. (10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Radiohead.)
KU students competing in civil engineering contests LAWRENCE — University of Kansas School of Engineering students are competing this weekend in events for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Mid-Continent Conference, which is April 19-21 in Lincoln, Neb. The canoe team, led by Capt. Andrew Petz, a senior in civil engineering, created a watercraft constructed primarily of concrete. The Jayhawk team created a mold of a canoe from polystyrene foam and Masonite board, then mixed, poured and applied a layer of concrete to the mold. The concrete must set for four to six weeks to ensure the material properly forms and strengthens, before the mold is removed. Team members use this time to work on other aspects of the competition, including an oral presentation and design paper that will be submitted to a panel of judges. In addition to the right design and a strong presentation, Petz said a key element to the team’s prospect of success is how well the crew can navigate a canoe in open water. Two weeks before the competition, the team went to Clinton Lake to practice with a canoe from a previous year. “We keep hearing that the most important thing is the skill of the paddlers and being able to navigate the canoe. So our goal is to build something that meets the requirements of the competition, that won’t break and will float,” Petz said. The 10 members of the KU team who will make the trip to regionals are vying for a spot at the ASCE’s national Concrete Canoe Competition, June 14-16 in Reno, Nev. In another conference event, five Jayhawks comprising KU's steel bridge team will construct a small-scale bridge over an area of the competition floor designated as a river. Points are awarded based on how much weight the bridge can support, how sturdy it is when pushed or pulled, and how quickly it is assembled. “We are really going to work on being fast. We’ve built the bridge for speed and lightness this year,” said Daniel Nagati, a graduate student in civil engineering and steel bridge team captain. Nagati estimates the KU bridge would cost between $4 million and $5 million in "real-world: dollars, will take 10 minutes to construct and will support – or in civil engineering terms, deflect – up to 2,000 pounds. “We’re building our bridge in two layers, more of a truss this year, so it should give us really good deflection,” Nagati said, who was part of the Jayhawk team that finished in the top three at last year’s regional and advanced to the 2011 national competition. The team is vying for a return to nationals, which will be May 25-26 at Clemson University.
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