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Suite prices will range from $9,000 to $20,000 based on size and suite location.
Suite rental will include the use of the suite, 12-44 tickets and at least 4 parking passes for both the NHL® All-Star Skills Competition™ on January 28th and the NHL® All-Star Game on January 29th.
Suite catering will be available at an additional cost with specific menu options to be determined.
The NHL will transform the Los Angeles Convention Center West Hall into 250,000 square feet of interactive hockey fun during NHL Fan Fair™, January 26-28, 2017.
As the official fan festival of the 2017 NHL All-Star Weekend, NHL Fan Fair™ will offer hockey fans of all ages three days of family friendly hockey interactive games and attractions, special appearances, trophy and memorabilia displays, live music, live TV and radio broadcasts and dozens of other dynamic activities. All attractions will be included with the price of admission.
General Admission tickets for NHL Fan Fair are $20. Discounted tickets are available for youth, students, military, and LA Kings Season Ticket Members for $15. A 3-day pass is available for $45 and Group Tickets are available for $15 for groups of 15 or more to one session. Children 2 years of age and younger are free.
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John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson star alongside Parkey Posey and Rory Culkin in Kogonada's quietly masterful feature debut.
A man who doesn’t seem to care about his comatose father, an esteemed professor, starts hanging out with a young woman who cares perhaps too much about her mother, a former addict. This one-sentence plot summary could have easily made for a solid if probably quite conventional character drama or melodrama. The feature debut from mono-monikered writer-director Kogonada, Columbus, also fits this plot description, but he’s got a secret third ingredient that frequently takes this story into unexpected directions: architecture.
A soft-spoken and perceptive film set in the Modernist small-town marvel that is Columbus, Indiana, this is a specialized art house treat that announces the arrival of a new director who combines small-scale, Ozu-like humanism with an impressive command of the formalist possibilities of film.
Book translator Jin (John Cho, more solemn than usual), perhaps in his late thirties, has arrived in Columbus from Korea after his professor father has suddenly fallen into a coma when visiting the town for a planned lecture on the local architecture. One of the people planning to attend the event was twentysomething Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), who works in a local library where she hangs out with a brainy friend (Rory Culkin) who keeps teasing her about the fact he has a PhD but she still hasn’t really started studying. Kogonada, who also wrote the screenplay and edited the film, initially follows both of them separately before they finally converge and then meet again and again for a series of encounters that often involves the local girl taking the visitor to see an architectural landmark in the city.
Though his father is famous in the field of architecture, Jin confesses he’s neither an expert nor all that interested in the discipline. But he’s interested in what Casey finds “moving” about her favorite buildings and places, turning the conversation from something purely theoretical or anecdotal — “please stop the tour-guide talk,” he says early on — into something more personal. This slow shift from looking at constructions as entities separate or independent from our experience to seeing them as a defining part of them is not only carefully modulated in terms of the overall narrative thrust and finely chiseled dialogues but also in terms of the film’s own structure and its visuals.
For example, Kogonada — a nom d’artiste inspired, not coincidentally, by Ozu’s screenwriter, Kogo Noda — and cinematographer Elisha Christian initially showcase Columbus’ buildings in rigid, academic-feeling and otherwise empty tableaux. But as the story progresses and the characters get to know each other, the buildings where they meet slowly transform from carefully designed constructions into lived-in spaces in which the often-striking structures need to share the screen with the characters. The underlying idea is clear: Buildings as such don’t have any interest if they are robbed of their primary function, which is to house human activity. Kogonada, who has made a name for himself in the field of film criticism with his rigorously edited video essays, also applies this slow transformation to the underlying foundations of the film, with the structure and editing becoming less rigid and more “human” as the story unfolds.
However, the impressive range and carefully planned progression of Kogonada’s formal ideas would be quite useless if they weren’t in function of a story worth telling. Thankfully, Jin and Casey are pleasant and intriguing characters to hang out with as they talk about increasingly personal matters in a style that’s reminiscent of a slightly more earnest take on early Linklater. That said, there’s some humor present, such as when Casey suggests that “Meth and modernism are really big here,” a statement that says something about the town as much as her own complex relationship with her mother, which is in many ways a negative mirror image of Jin’s strained rapport with his father. Adding texture and balance in perhaps just a little too symmetrical a fashion, Casey has a male friend who functions as a sounding board while Jin has his father’s partner (Parker Posey, good but underused) to talk to.
One of the film’s chief pleasures is how it keeps the conversation between the various characters flowing while gently avoiding falling into any of the possible romantic-entanglement traps that viewers used to more conventional romantic works might be expecting. The fact it is accessible for people without any prior knowledge of either Modernism or architecture in general is another plus, though the film’s clearly too thoughtful and quietly masterful to ever qualify as a real crowd-pleaser.
These vintage James Bond posters are gorgeous.
Unlike Kevin Rose, this white-bearded, overalled man turned on some Aretha and, well.
You don't even need the Aretha.
A healthcare worker is being questioned on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill a further six, in the first police investigation into child deaths in hospitals in nearly 30 years.
Cheshire police said the woman was arrested on Tuesday morning and taken into custody. Officers searched a semi-detached house about a mile from the hospital, north-west of the city. It is understood that the address is the home of Lucy Letby, a 28-year-old nurse.
Police launched an investigation in May last year into the deaths of 15 babies and six non-fatal collapses at the women and children’s unit of the Countess of Chester hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. The force said on Tuesday the inquiry had widened to cover the deaths of 17 babies and 15 non-fatal collapses between March 2015 and July 2016.
It is thought to be the most significant police investigation into child deaths in hospitals since the nurse Beverley Allitt, nicknamed the “Angel of Death”, was jailed for 30 years for murdering four children with lethal injections and attempting to murder three more in the early 1990s.
DI Paul Hughes, who is leading the investigation, said: “Whilst this is a significant step forward in our inquiries it is important to remember that the investigation is very much active and ongoing at this stage.
Police said the parents of all the babies involved were being updated and supported by specialist officers.
Ian Harvey, the hospital’s medical director, said staff were supporting the police.
Neil Fearn, the chief executive of Pryers Solicitors, the firm representing the families of two babies who died at the hospital, said: “We are hopeful that the investigation can provide answers for the families of these children.
On a quiet residential street in the Blacon area of Chester, neighbours said they were awoken at around 6am on Tuesday morning when officers surrounded a three-bedroom semi-detached property.
A silver car thought to belong to the healthcare worker was moved to the driveway of an empty house next door. Both homes were cordoned off by police tape and four Cheshire police vehicles were parked at the scene.
On Tuesday afternoon a blue tent stood on the small front garden of the house and officers wearing blue forensic gloves were seen leaving the house with a large brown envelope.
Michael Coupe, a former ambulance technician who has lived on the estate for the past 12 years, said everyone was shocked when they heard that an arrest had been made.
Other neighbours said the woman who lived at the address had not been there long and kept herself to herself.
Plain-clothed police officers were seen searching the house of her parents, Susan, 58 and John, 73, in Herefordshire following her arrest.
Another neighbour who wanted to remain anonymous said: “Lucy was just a quiet girl. Nothing strange about her – she was just a normal, lovely girl. The family must be in bits over this.
Two babies died in the unit in 2013 and three in 2014. There were eight deaths in 2015 and five in 2016.
Last July the hospital stopped providing care for babies born earlier than 32 weeks after the review made 24 recommendations for improvements.
An academic study published in June 2017 found that the death rate among babies at the hospital was at least 10% higher than would be expected at similar types of maternity units elsewhere.
The authors of study – Mothers and Babies: reducing risk through audits and confidential enquires across the UK – looked at stillbirth and neonatal deaths occurring at 165 maternity units around the country in 2015.
They found that the Countess of Chester hospital had the highest neonatal mortality rate of 43 similar-sized hospitals in Britain, with 1.91 deaths per 1,000 births, compared with an average of 1.27 at the other hospitals.
The hospital’s “crude” neonatal death rate – the number of deaths compared with the amount of births – was 2.96 per 1,000 births in that time, according to the study, meaning it was higher than that of all other similar-sized hospitals as well as the national average of 2.5 deaths per 1,000 births.
A report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in May said staffing at the hospital’s neonatal unit, which reported a “higher than usual” number of baby deaths, was inadequate.
The review found no definitive explanation for an increase in mortality rates, but identified significant gaps in medical and nursing rotas, poor decision-making and insufficient senior cover.
It also found that deaths in the baby unit had not always been properly investigated within the hospital. All baby deaths should be considered serious incidents and reviewed promptly by a team of experts – a paediatrician, the risk midwife, neonatal nurse and obstetrician. Not all of the babies who died had a postmortem.
The consultants on the unit had not at first noticed any links between the “episodes of collapse” of the babies who died, said the report, “but subsequently they began to notice similarities”, such as mottling on the limbs that appeared after a few minutes of resuscitation. They could find no definite explanation, but this led to downgrading the unit while the experts from the college investigated further.
HP, Lenovo, and Dell dominate the corporate PC market. But Velocity Micro, a boutique PC vendor that focuses on high-end performance and customized design, is targeting the enterprise with its new ProMagix HD150 desktop workstation. Introduced on April 30, this desktop runs on AMD’s Epyc line of processors and comes with a variety of graphics processor options. Customers who want the highest performance can configure the PC with up to 256GB of onboard RAM. Those components, coupled with Velocity Micro’s policy of shipping its computers without a lot of software and utility add-ons, also known and bloatware, means buyers are getting computers that can be configured to suit their needs. This slide show will discuss the features in the ProMagix HD150 that might convince some buyers to pay a bit more for a business PC.
Velocity Micro has opted for the AMD Epyc line of processors for its ProMagix HD150. The base model features AMD’s Epyc 7251 with eight cores and 16 threads, but the computer can be configured with the Epyc 7601, which has 32 cores and 64 threads. Other Epyc chips are also available for ProMagix buyers.
Velocity Micro offers a multitude of graphics options for the ProMagix HD150. The base model runs on AMD’s Radeon Pro WX2100, but users can opt for Nvidia Quadro, Nvidia GeForce, and a variety of other AMD Radeon graphics cards. The most expensive choice, dual AMD Radeon Pro SSG Vega 10 video cards, will add nearly $11,000 to the bottom line.
One of the hallmarks of Velocity Micro’s PC design is that it allows buyers to customize components that other mainstream vendors typically do not. Whether folks want RAID arrays, liquid cooling, or thermal paste, among many other features, Velocity Micro offers it. The ProMagix HD150 is no different.
Velocity Micro’s ProMagix HD150 comes with 32GB of memory to start. However, those who think they need more can add up to 256GB of memory. however, that 256GB of memory will up the computer’s price by $3,300.
The ProMagix HD150 comes with two hard drive bays. Each of them can be configured with solid-state drives or hard disk drives and up to 16TB of storage. Companies that prefer RAID arrays can specify RAID 0, RAID 1 Mirror, or RAID 5 out of the box.
Although the ProMagix HD150 is a tower desktop, Velocity Micro designed it to be as wireless-friendly as possible. The computer has two communications ports. The first automatically comes with a Gigabit Ethernet port. The other can be used for WiFi connectivity. Customers have the option of choosing 802.11ac or 802.11n for that second port.
Although the ProMagix HD150 comes standard with Windows 10 Pro, buyers don’t have to be into Windows. Instead, Trend Micro gives companies the option of installing Ubuntu on the computer. But buyers must choose just one OS, so dual-booting won’t be readily available out of the box.
Velocity Micro has some of the best computer support of any PC vendor in the market. The company builds its computers by hand in the U.S. and tests their performance before shipping them. Buyers get a one year standard parts and labor warranty and regular business hour support for the lifetime of the machine. On-site repair is also available for a slight charge.
Instead of forcing companies to buy new computers when its machines become obsolete, Velocity Micro offers a lifetime upgrade plan. With that option, companies can send in used machines that are slowing down for a tune-up. Customers can also have Trend Micro upgrade components inside the computer, including the motherboard, CPU, power supply, and more. Charges for the upgrade plan start at $99 for each shipment.
Velocity Micro’s ProMagix HD150 is available now for customization. The base model, which costs $3,299, will start shipping to customers on May 21. But the prices jump considerably as buyers add more powerful components and other features. Customizations could also push back the ship date, depending on what customers add to the PC.
In time for the Dell Technologies World show in Las Vegas April 30-May 3, the company has introduced an array of desktops and notebooks with features, performance and pricing for Enterprise buyers.
OTTAWA–Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has promised to improve Ottawa's relations with the premiers, is headed for a bruising federal-provincial confrontation over the hotly disputed question of how to divvy up tax revenues.
Harper said during the last election campaign that, unlike the former federal Liberals, he would resolve the longstanding conflict with the provinces on cash-sharing arrangements.
But the likelihood of the federal Conservatives avoiding a blow-up with the provinces appears slim.
The Conservatives are prepared to overhaul revenue-sharing arrangements in the 2007 federal budget – which may come as early as March 20. But if the plans to be revealed by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty don't measure up, Ontario, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan are threatening to mount political campaigns against the Harper government intended to exact a high electoral price in the upcoming federal election. And Alberta has also warned Ottawa of a possible adverse reaction.
The 40 federal Tory MPs elected in Ontario have let their constituents down by not pressuring Harper for a better deal for the province's taxpayers, who are being short-changed under current federal-provincial arrangements, asserts Marie Bountrogianni, Ontario's intergovernmental affairs minister.
The provincial Liberals will try to ensure the federal Conservatives are held accountable by voters if Flaherty's revamp of fiscal federalism doesn't heed Premier Dalton McGuinty's arguments that Ontario residents need to be treated more fairly, she said yesterday.
"We'll certainly highlight this to the people of the province, and then it's up to the people to decide whether they make them (the Conservative candidates) suffer the consequences of not doing their job."
And the Saskatchewan government is already railing at Harper over a new fiscal package it fears will amount to a federal grab of western resource wealth reminiscent of the hated National Energy Program brought in under Pierre Trudeau.
Saskatchewan, which is riding a recent economic upsurge from its oil and gas wealth, is worried that it will be penalized when Flaherty presents a new formula for determining how much provinces receive under the equalization plan. That's the program that distributes federal tax revenues to so-called have-not provinces to help them provide adequate social services.
If resource wealth is included in the equalization formula, Saskatchewan is concerned that it will lose up to $800 million a year in federal transfer payments and see its oil-and-gas revenues indirectly rerouted by Ottawa to other provinces. In the last election campaign, Harper pledged he would guard against this by making sure all resource revenues were exempted from the equalization calculations.
But now it appears Ottawa will instead go along with the recommendations of a blue-ribbon panel that said the best approach would be to include 50 per cent of a province's resource revenues in the formula.
Saskatchewan Finance Minister Andrew Thomson said voters in his province are already outraged at the prospect that Harper might renege on his election promise.
"They feel betrayed" by the 12 Conservative MPs in Saskatchewan, he told the Toronto Star. "People are not very happy about the idea that their resource wealth is going to be confiscated from them and shipped off to enrich Quebec.
"It is bad politics, it is bad public policy and I think it is a very dangerous game in terms of national unity that they are playing. We went through this with Trudeau on the National Energy Program," said Thomson. Harper has his work cut out as it tries to meet the provinces' demands.
"There is no proposal that makes everyone completely happy," said Paul Boothe, a University of Alberta expert on fiscal matters.
The debate over equalization is part of a wider review of federal-provincial revenue-sharing arrangements that determine how much Canadians receive in the way of social, education and health services from Ottawa in exchange for the federal taxes they pay.
Most provinces, with the exception of Ontario (whose residents supply the lion's share of the federal revenues that Ottawa redistributes under the wealth-sharing plan), want to see equalization enriched.
But the premiers have been unable to overcome their differences to present a unified set of requests to Flaherty. They will have one more chance when they meet in Toronto Feb. 7.
A massive fire engulfed and destroyed a large condo complex building in Rhode Island Wednesday morning.
Warwick fire officials say the blaze was at Westgate Condos' Building C at 754 Quaker Lane. Smoke was still billowing from the remains of the condo building hours after the fire was knocked down.
"It happened fast. It was a quick fire, and it's just devastating to all of us. I've lost everything. Everything is gone," resident Rhonda Wright said with tears in her eyes.
Residents say the fire started around 10 a.m., quickly spreading through the building, which reportedly had just under 40 units.
She told necn she heard the fire alarm and got out of the burning building with her dogs, her purse and the clothes on her back.
"It's kind of devastating, you know? I hope we can do in and maybe see what we can salvage," she said.
"We'll replace everything, but it's just initially, it's devastating to know you lost everything," Wright added.
It's unclear how many local fire departments assisted with mutual aid. A section of Route 2 had to be shut down as crews assisted with water supply issues and tanker trucks had to brought in from a number of surrounding communities.
There's no word on injuries. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Over the past 30 years, both the incarcerated population and the limitations placed on those with criminal records have dramatically expanded. The consequences of a criminal conviction can last long beyond any imposed sentence, but current efforts to reduce the punitiveness of the criminal justice system tend to focus on sentencing reform rather than consequences for those who have already served prison terms.
Anne Morrison Piehl offers three principles for reform efforts aimed at reducing criminal justice punitiveness. First, negative consequences of prior criminal convictions should be targeted to enhance public safety. Second, processes for time-limiting information about convictions should be implemented. Finally, decreases in the severity of criminal punishment should generally be automatically and retroactively applied. Reform efforts that follow these principles can better target society’s resources toward people with the highest risk of offending.
What the stores would like to sell, or suggestions from a teacher, carry no weight beyond the wish.
To be sure, if a third-grader wants a special, spangly pink binder or scented felt pens, that falls to the parents to purchase. But paper, pencils, basic art materials “and other necessary supplies for the use of the schools,” has to be provided, according to court readings of the California Constitution.
According to advisories put out by the state Department of Education, this means schools cannot charge to participate in courses or extracurricular activities, even if the event is an elective, even if it is not for credit.
Students cannot be required to give a security deposit or any other payment for a lock, locker, book, class apparatus (this includes computers), musical instrument, uniform or other materials or equipment they need.
Kids do not have to pay for cloth to complete mandatory projects in sewing class or required safety gear in shop class. But if students intend to keep the pants sewed, the shop project completed or have nicer safety goggles, then they have to buy their own.
Gym clothes for physical education class are also on the list. The school legally has to provide whatever workout wear they require, but traditionally families buy those items and take ownership.
The same goes for extracurricular sports uniforms, which can get very pricey. I only had to buy swimsuits, goggles and swim parkas for my two youngest. But when my wheelchair rider rolled out with pom-poms in hand to yell for Ustach Middle School teams, I found out the appalling price of cheer gear and it is much higher now – hundreds, people, hundreds.
The bottom line is the school cannot make kids pay to participate – even in sports. But did I want my daughter rolling out there without a Kodiak on her chest like the other girls? Of course not.
There sits the dilemma. Low-income parents do not want their kids to look out of step or out of fashion, either. In fact, not looking like the odd-man-out may well be something that matters far more to them than to folks who can afford to pay, and therefore can afford not to worry about it.
It’s what keeps me chipping in for cookie dough and wrapping paper, pitching in for class supplies. I hope it helps a teacher or a team not to have to ask parents for more.
I'm not necessarily against his proposed moon base or his program to send men to Mars. However, I fear the haphazard budgeting and planning that is going into this initiative will end up actually setting us back in the quest for scientific knowledge of space. When the president outlined the goal of having men on Mars, he provided only a vague timetable and a very small amount of money to start up the program, even though the project will eventually be extremely expensive. Now in order to get enough funds to get the project under way, NASA apparently feels it is forced to abandon maintenance of the most successful and scientifically productive program it has, the Hubble telescope. As NASA itself says on its own Web site, "Not since Galileo turned his telescope toward the heavens in 1610 has any event changed our understanding of the universe as the deployment of the Hubble space telescope." Without maintenance, this treasure will be gone in a few years. To abandon this scientifically vital program to start a new expensive mission with unknown scientific value shows a complete lack of vision. We need to encourage members of Congress to support U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski in her effort to overturn this decision to stop Hubble maintenance. If the administration wants to propose a goal of Mars exploration, then we must demand it is done in such a way that the proven accomplishments of NASA are not sacrificed. Do not throw out good science in favor of an expensive program whose benefits are unknown.
For almost a decade Yann Blanchard has been known as Calgary’s king of macarons. With the opening of Berlingo, a new confectionary shop located next door to his iconic Yann Haute Patisserie in Mission, he’s hoping to rebrand himself as Calgary’s very own Willy Wonka.
Or, perhaps more accurately, a French-trained version of Willy Wonka who specializes in luxurious confectionary concoctions ranging from creatively flavoured chocolate bars to richly flavoured soft serve ice cream. While Blanchard has been happy with the success of his patisserie, he wanted to offer something a little less intimidating than the classic French pastries he’s built his business on.
News of plans to open Berlingo as an ice cream shop surfaced earlier this year, but various delays meant the building (an old home much like the two-storey yellow house that the patisserie sits in) wasn’t ready until summer was nearly over. As a result, Blanchard has had to spread the word that Berlingo is about more than just ice cream. Still, the ice cream is a centrepiece and it’s very good: Blanchard chose to exclusively do soft serve because it’s served at a warmer temperature than regular ice cream, creating a better flavour. Berlingo makes its own soft-serve mix, a relative rarity in the world of ice cream, using organic locally sourced milk.
At $6.25 a cup it is certainly pricier than what you’ll find on a midway or even most hip soft serve shops, but the taste is more intense and the texture is creamier than your typical soft serve, with flavours like Madagascar vanilla bean gelato and raspberry cherry sorbet. For a more extravagant treat, Berlingo offers “chef designed” soft serve cups ($8.55) dressed with carefully chosen toppings like house-made marshmallows, cheesecake bits and hazelnut crunch.
While we hardy Calgarians have no problem eating ice cream any time of the year, over the next few months Blanchard should have even more luck selling his gourmet hot chocolate, with monthly flavours designed by Berlingo’s in-house chocolatier Martin Boutry. Boutry is also responsible for Berlingo’s wall of chocolate, featuring large bars and small treats, packed with the same intense flavour that makes the ice cream so special.