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|6 years ago :: Apr 29, 2012 - 12:14AM #181
And ... Our BEST Choices are made REASONABLY rather than on Basis of a hyped-up over-wrought emotionalistic Appeal based on The Big Brown Eyes of The Cute Little Helpless Innocent Baby Seals ...
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|6 years ago :: Apr 29, 2012 - 12:38AM #182
No...the "best" choices are those which cause the least amount of harm/suffering/damage to other living things. "Emotionalism" having nothing to do with it. If you think cuddly little furry creatures deserve to die a violent death because some man can make money off its fur, even though there's a such thing as fake fur in the modern world that is indistiguishable, that's your business. More people throughout the world, including unemotional men, disagree with that -- and it will be those people who finally put an end to the slaughter of baby seals, dolphins, whales, etc for their bodies or body parts, not for their "food"
Black Lives Matter
Muslim Lives Matter
There is no such thing as "illegals"
LGBT Lives Matter
Poor Women's Lives Matter
"If we jump too quickly to the universal formulation, 'all lives matter,' then we miss the fact that black people have not yet been included in the idea of 'all lives.'"
--Professor Judith Butler
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|6 years ago :: Apr 29, 2012 - 12:47AM #183
Oh,I understand pro choicers having a rationale for holding their position.It doesn't change the irony of being pro "don't kill baby seals" while simultaneously being pro "terminate your unborn child if it suits you".
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|6 years ago :: Apr 29, 2012 - 1:11AM #184
Oh, boy, oh, boy - abortion rights somehow has made its way into the discussion.
As a firm believer in pro-choice myself, I see nothing wrong with a woman terminating a pregnancy in the early stages when the supposed 'human' is nothing more than a zygote or an embryo.
I don't see why a woman who has been raped, or a woman whose health would be in danger if she carried a fetus to term should not be able to have an abortion. The rights of a woman come before those of a zygote, embryo, or even a fetus.
It's her body, and it is up to her to decide what to do with it.
So, yeah, I'm a card-carrying atheist who believes in animal rights and women's rights, think LGBT people should be able to get married if they want (or do anything else they want - because what consenting adults do in private that doesn't hurt anybody is nobody else's business), think socialism is a good system, and always vote Labour (which would be the Democratic party to you).
And, where seals are concerned, I don't give a hoot whether they are cute and cuddly or sweet little babies or anything else. The bottom line is that nobody needs their fur, nobody needs their meat, and nobody needs a job so bad that they have to kill seals to make a living.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 29, 2012 - 1:55AM #185
Not to debate abortion rights,but merely as a juxtaposition showing the concern of a particular segment of society for the lives of animals while simultaneously having no concern for the lives of unborn humans.
As I said,a strange combination.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 29, 2012 - 9:42PM #186
Howdy Rabello
The slaughter of baby seals is not a black and white to those who oppose the murder of this poor innocent babies by brutally using nail spiked clubs and hitting them in the head is pure black.
I would imagine that though bloody it would relatively quick if not instaneous. It is my understanding that the reason for using a club to the head is to prevent damage to the seal fur.
But everybody knows that the "real" reason that the Canaidiaon gov't is sponsoring the brutal mass murder and genocide of the harp seals is to stop them from brutally murdering fish and eathing the fish that the fishermen want to brutally murder and selling for profit and riches.
Instead of brutally murdering baby seals and fish for fun and profit when they could easily get re-educated and move. They could grow soy beans make tofu and save the world.
You can't get much more whiter then growing soy beans and making some yummy tofu.
Those who oppose the right of women to brutally murder their own fetuses use some of the same tactics as those who murder baby seals. They would use bloody gruesome pictures and paint the entire abortion industry as black profit making industry.
I would think that those who oppose advocates of the humane treatment of animals would come up with a different counterargument than the tired old equivalent of "your mother wears combat boots" to express their opposition. It's ok not to care about the seals, or the dolphins, or the whales, or the moutain gorillas, or the siberian tigers, or the elephants, or the wolves, or the prairie dogs, etc, and since it's ok not to care, that's all one really needs to say: "I don't care and I don't care that you care".
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|6 years ago :: Apr 29, 2012 - 10:09PM #187
Our "Modern" Human (distinctly DYS-Functional) Relationship to the REST of Nature is rapidly becoming ever more obvious and TRAGIC ...
Trying SERIOUSLY to HEAL that broken Relaionship will require BOTH our "Hearts" AND our "Minds" to be changed and engaged, for sure ...
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|6 years ago :: Apr 30, 2012 - 10:19PM #188
Howdy Teil
And it appears that is what Solf is trying to do.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 30, 2012 - 11:48PM #189
What is missing from the dewey-eyed Emotional Appeals about "Charismatic Mega-Fauna" (especially cute lovable Brown-Eyed Baby Seals and Ultra-Intelligent Dolphins) is the HARD-Headed Understanding of what is REALLY at Stake ...
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Lastings Milledge made a great play on a well-struck ball by Freddy Sanchez with the bases loaded and two outs in the 9th to seal the win for Pirates. The Giants comeback came up short, losing 6-3 to Paul Maholm. Great night for the Pirates young stud, Andrew McCutcheon, who had four hits including two doubles and a homer.
The Giants are 29-25 after 54 games--that's one-third of the season. They are two and one-half games behind the Dodgers and Padres (tied at 32-23), and one game ahead of the Rockies (28-26). Arizona is a distant last, eleven games behind, playing .382 ball (21-34).The team's excellent pitching (3.71 FIP, 3rd in NL) is the key to 2010 so far. The offense remains a problem (.318 wOBA, 13th in NL), but Buster Posey's promotion and Freddy Sanchez' return have given the team a bit of a spark. Let's hope things continue to improve. Newcomer Aubrey Huff has been a big contributor, and both Andres Torres and Eli Whiteside are having career years. Juan Uribe is doing (.349 wOBA) about what he did last year (.351 wOBA). Pablo Sandoval is struggling, but I expect he'll find his groove again. He may not put up a .943 OPS like last season, but he will get his share of big hits. Injuries and age have bedeviled core players Edgar Renteria, Mark DeRosa, Aaron Rowand, and Bengie Molina, but the team is likely improved with them on the bench or the DL. I'd like to see Nate Schierholtz get starts instead of Pat Burrell, but this is the Boch & Sabes universe, where Grizzled >> Youthful.
The Giants are "on pace" to finish 87-75. A few more incremental upgrades to the lineup would push us to the 90+ win plateau, don't you think? The question, naturally, is where those improvements will come from. Pat Burrell got some hits in his debut tonight, but I'm not expecting much from him. Freddy Sanchez, another player I didn't expect much from, has been a nice surprise. Let's hope there are more surprises like that the rest of the way.
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We almost tied it!
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The cute and cuddly Panda is on a pace to shatter the major league record for hitting into double plays. He has done it 14 times and if he keeps it up would end up with 42. The current record is 36 by Jim Rice in '84.
The Giants record is 27, by the hated AJ Pierzynski in '04. I knew there was a good reason why we hated him.
Panda needs to take a chill pill when men are on base. Seven of his 14 DPs have come on the first pitch. None of the 14 have lasted more than 4 pitches. (thanks to A. Baggarly)
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Prospect rankings primer
The Top Ten
1. Courtney Hawkins
Position: OF
Height/Weight: 6'3'' 220 lbs.
Bats/Throws: R/R
Drafted/Acquired: 1st round, 2012 draft, Mary Carroll High School (Corpus Christi, TX)
2012 Stats: .284/.324/.480 at rookie level Bristol (38 games), Low-A Kannapolis
(16 games), High-A Winston-Salem (5 games)
The Tools: 7+ raw; 5+ hit; 6 arm
What Happened in 2012: Impressive professional debut for the back-flipping Texan, as Hawkins looked good early and finished the season at the High-A level.
Strengths: Massive raw strength/power; well above-average athlete for his size; shows very good hand-eye skills; produces bat speed; power is carrying tool; easy 7+ raw that could play at 6 or higher at developmental maturity; arm is plus; glove could be above-average.
Weaknesses: High maintenance body; potential to add bad weight and lose athleticism; aggressive approach; will chase out of the zone; swing has miss; doesn't project up the middle.
Overall Future Potential: 6; first division player
Explanation of Risk: High risk; moved quickly in first season, but bat will need to get very close to ceiling to play in a corner.
Fantasy Future: Prototypical right field profile, with big power potential and good contact ability. Approach could limit utility, but has 25-plus home run potential.
The Year Ahead: Hawkins stormed through the lower minors in 2012, but the big Texan could use a full-season of A-ball before making the big professional jump to the Double-A level. Because of his impressive strength and excellent hand-eye coordination, Hawkins should be able to hit low-level pitching, but the real test will come when he face arms that can hit spots and spin quality off-speed pitches. It remains to be seen if Hawkins has the type of bat that will play with his approach, or if the raw power is merely a product of mature strength against inferior stuff. Sources appear mixed on his future, so a full season of professional at-bats should help clarify the developmental path Hawkins is on.
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Are you there? Share your story with CNN iReport, but please stay safe. Read more at CNNArabic.Gaza City (CNN) -- Explosions rumbled through Gaza City all night into Friday, and shortly after sunup, two detonations landed just 500 to 600 yards away from CNN's team sending it running for cover inside the hotel.
A litany of bombardments provided for a sleepless night of hearing and feel incoming ordinance exploding and watching rockets leaving Gaza for Israel.
Falling bombs made doors clatter and sometimes even one's bones. Clouds of smoke sprouted into the sky paralleling the repetition of thunderous booms.
New destruction will await Egypt's new Prime Minister Hesham Kandil, when he arrives Friday morning in Gaza to meet with Palestinian officials.
Israel reported three people were killed, and Palestinians reported 19 deaths, including at least three killed late Thursday. Hamas gave conflicting information as to how many of them were Hamas militants.
At least 422 rockets from Gaza have been fired into Israel since "Operation Pillar of Defense" began Wednesday, the Israeli military said. Israel's Iron Dome defense system has intercepted 130, the Israel Defense Forces said. The al-Qassam Brigade, Hamas' military arm, said on its Twitter feed that it had shot 527 projectiles at Israel in that time.
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One rocket struck an open area near Rishon LeZion, an Israeli city with more than 200,000 residents just south of Tel Aviv, the IDF said.
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Also, air sirens went off inside and outside the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. The building was evacuated briefly, and employees were allowed back in when the sirens stopped. An explosion was heard far off in the distance.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the building at the time of the evacuation, ministry officials said.
Israel has targeted more than 300 "terror sites" in Gaza, the IDF said. The military said it targeted scores of "medium and long range rocket launch and infrastructure sites across the Gaza Strip." The Israeli navy has taken aim at targets along Gaza's shoreline, the IDF said.
Airstrikes continued overnight, with planes striking sites in Gaza City.
Sources with Hamas, which controls the government in Gaza, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad said that more than 140 strikes had hit Gaza.
The al-Qassam Brigade said its operatives downed a military drone east of Gaza. An Israeli military spokeswoman told CNN that no IDF aircraft was shot down.
At least three Israelis were killed and four were wounded when a rocket struck an apartment building in the town of Kiryat Malakhi on Thursday, an Israeli police spokesman said.
Israeli military spokeswoman Avital Leibovich tweeted a photo that she said was a baby wounded from a rocket attack in Israel. The baby's face is blurred, but the child appears to be spattered with blood.
The al-Qassam Brigade tweeted a screen shot from Hamas-run al Aqsa TV, showing the mangled body of a child. "Israel's military kills Palestinian children in cold blood in #Gaza," the tweet said.
Al-Aqsa TV quoted the health ministry as saying 19 people had been killed, among them six children and two "elderly."
The channel said more than 180 people have been wounded since the Israeli strikes began this week in Gaza. Israel has reported several people wounded, including another three soldiers injured Thursday morning by rockets from Gaza.
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Hamdan insisted that Israel "started the war."
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'Raining bombs' on Gaza Strip
"We are defending ourselves," he said, arguing that Netanyahu was looking to cement support in advance of an election in two months.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak denied that any politics are involved in the decision.
Speaking to CNN, Barak said Israel has destroyed most of the "heavy long-range rockets" used by militants in Gaza and is working to "systematically destroy" installations in which other rockets are produced.
"It will take some time," he said.
Israeli forces are going after Hamas weapons, storage bunkers, weapons labs and workshops, an Israeli official told CNN. The official has direct knowledge of Israeli plans but declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information.
The Israeli army moved nearly a division's worth of troops -- perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 -- to the border, the official said.
While multiple militant groups are behind the rocket attacks, Israel holds Hamas responsible ever since it took control of Gaza, Barak said.
Hamas' military wing has claimed responsibility for numerous operations in the past. The U.S. government and the European Union consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
Netanyahu issued a statement Thursday saying, "In recent days and weeks, Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza have made normal life impossible for over 1 million Israelis. No government would tolerate a situation where nearly a fifth of its people live under a constant barrage of rockets and missile fire."
He added, "The terrorists are committing a double war crime. They fire at Israeli civilians, and they hide behind Palestinian civilians. And by contrast, Israel takes every measure to avoid civilian casualties."
Ghazi Hamad, Hamas' deputy foreign minister, told CNN that Hamas was sending rockets toward Israel's population because Israel thinks "that it is easy to kill people in Gaza," enter the area and "do everything" it wants in Gaza. "We send a message to them that Gaza is not an easy bone. ... You can't eat Gaza in one minute. If you do something, we will react."
Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti said the Israeli government has "proven that it is a government of war and not peace."
Israel is "the oppressor," not the victim, he said.
Concern over possibility of a ground assault
The sudden increase in violence has raised fears of a widening conflict that could lead to an Israeli ground assault.
Tony Blair, envoy for the Middle East Quartet, which is working to bring about a peace agreement, said on Thursday: "I don't think we should be of any doubt at all that if this situation continues and it escalates, it's going to be really serious and tragic -- not just for Israelis and Palestinians, but actually it will cause a huge amount of upheaval right across the region, and this is a region, as you know, that doesn't require more upheaval right now."
British Foreign Secretary William Hague issued a statement saying he is "gravely concerned" and calling on all sides to avoid civilian casualties.
"Hamas bears principal responsibility for the current crisis. I utterly condemn rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas and other armed groups. This creates an intolerable situation for Israeli civilians in southern Israel, who have the right to live without fear of attack from Gaza. The rocket attacks also risk worsening the plight of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, which is already precarious."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the Palestinian Fatah movement based in the West Bank, is cutting short a visit to Europe to follow developments of "the Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip," PLO Executive Committee member Saeb Erakat said.
Israel says it has called thousands of residents in Gaza to warn them of strikes and dropped leaflets in Gaza warning Palestinian civilians to "avoid being present in the vicinity of Hamas operatives," the IDF said.
It also uses "roof knocking" -- targeting a building "with a loud but nonlethal bomb that warns civilians that they are in the vicinity of a weapons cache or other target. This method is used to allow all residents to leave the area before the IDF targets the site with live ammunition."
Roar of planes followed by 'kaboom'
At one point Thursday morning, 13 rockets were fired in quick succession from Gaza into Israel. A CNN crew could see trails of smoke as they reported from the Israeli side of the Erez Crossing on Gaza's northern border.
The crew was forced to take cover after rockets struck near the border crossing.
Later, reporting from Gaza City, the crew witnessed airstrikes and plumes of black smoke in many parts of the city.
Egypt watches with interest
The escalating violence is likely to further erode Israel's fragile relationship with Egypt, which recalled its ambassador to Israel on Wednesday in protest over the ongoing strikes. It also delivered a formal protest to the Israeli government.
On Thursday, when asked by CNN's Hala Gorani if treaties between Egypt and Israel are in danger, the chief of the Egyptian presidential cabinet said no.
"Not at all. Because we have declared several times, repeatedly, that we abide by our international commitments," Mohamed Refa'a al-Tahtawi said. "But respecting a peace treaty does not mean to stay idle or indifferent to what is going on along our borders.
A spokesman for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy said the Arab League will meet Saturday in emergency session to discuss the violence.
"Egypt is taking all diplomatic measures with all parties involved to reach some sort of immediate truce or cease fire," Yaser Ali added.
A senior official in U.S. President Obama's administration told CNN that the White House is asking Egypt and Turkey -- two nations that have influence with Hamas -- to urge the group to de-escalate the rocket attacks.
But a Hamas deputy foreign minister told CNN: "I am in touch with the Egyptians they are very angry and very upset because they feel that Israel put a knife in their back" by attacking sites in Gaza.
Egypt's Prime Minister Hesham Kandil will travel on Friday morning to Gaza with a team of presidential advisers and ministers to meet with Palestinian officials.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon also will go to Egypt and Israel next week, because of the rising tensions between Israel and Hamas, a Western diplomat told CNN. The diplomat said the Secretary General has canceled a trip to Mozambique, Botswana, Seychelles and Mauritius to go to the Middle East.
CNN's Sara Sidner and Talal Abu-Rahma reported from southern Israel and Gaza City; CNN's Josh Levs and Chelsea Carter reported from Atlanta; CNN's Jessica Yellin, Saad Abedine and Joe Vaccarello as well as journalists Per Nyberg and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report.


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Skilled, all-round web programmer/coding expert required.
Don't we all wish we were in that room and part of the magic when the idea for facebook, google or myspace was conceived?
How many times have you seen others take a punt and make it big and thought – why can't I do that?
Do you have great ideas, but lack some elements/ skills which prevents you making a successful business and would thrive in a small team of people who can bring the other skills required to succeed?
This role will be perfect for those who don't fit the 9-5 norm, those who want to own a company, be part of a visionary team and create something special. Anyone who is a dreamer, a bit of a gambler, those who believe in the power of "anything is possible".
We are putting together an entrepreneurial team – a small collection of highly creative individuals who don't fit the "normal" mould. A team of super-geeks in their field who can come together and create something special.
We currently have the ideas man, a successful entrepreneur who has created and grown businesses in the past, and a Chartered Accountant who is responsible for the financial eletments of the business venture and now we are looking for the Technical Element to complete this team:
Technical Skills required:
All-round Web Programming/coding
Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP programming language, algorithms etc. etc. etc. able to build complex websites whilst taking into account the need for rapid and complex saleability.
Front-end construction and design flair
Back-end construction.
Full understanding of how complex websites & online services like rightmove, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Myspace work – and ideas/projects as grand as these don't phase you.
Up-to-date knowledge of the most recent technological advances.
Personal Attributes:
A brave, entrepreneurial, creative visionary – not afraid to share ideas in the right environment and someone who is constructive – doesn't just say no because something wasn't their idea.
We need a person who can feed off of others, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, driven and motivated – someone who can work under their won steam and most importantly a trustworthy individual who conducts themselves with integrity.
The team will be like a small family, ideally we don't want this to feel like work or a job, but more of a focus on loving what you do and the people you do it with. We want to create a feeling of "best friends" working on a project they all adore.
The role:
The role will give you the chance to share your ideas, be part of the development and growth of a new venture, something special. In a creative forum the team will share ideas, and each role will have specific tasks/strengths, which will be used to drive the creation and growth of the new venture.
A company will be established with all of the successful applicants as shareholders in the new business (legal documents to be drawn up and discussed with successful applicants) There is no salary as all stakeholders in the project will be receiving a shareholding in the company and its future value which will be realised at a later date (targeted for 3years from inception).
However, dependant on growth of the venture the salary status may change rapidly and will be reviewed on a regular basis, but priority has been given to the development of the business with a medium-term view on future potential.
The idea is that the entrepreneurial team will be focused and dedicated to the growth/development of the business until it is at a stage where venture capital/investor funding is gained (targeted for 12months) at which point a lump sum will be realised for each shareholding, with a retained shareholding in the business going forward as it enters the next stage of super- growth backed by investment capital.
This is the chance to get involved in a project which could be the start of the next big thing.
Each Team member in the same position and dedicated to the success of the project, motivated by the knowledge that owning a stake in a business which could become a multi-million pound entity in a few short years more than makes up for no initial salary.
This role will suit a visionary, prepared to invest thier time which could then provide a lifetime of wealth that is unachievable when working in the "normal" manner.
Applicants who currently have a job are welcome to apply and can stay in their current role, but will be expected to commit a large portion of their spare time to the project, and should be able to juggle the two roles.
We understand that genius comes in all different shapes and sizes – if you have never had commercial experience, failed school, or are currently unemployed you will not be penalised in the application process – as long as you can demonstrate you have the creativity, flair and skills we need then we want to hear from you!
We are looking for the right person for this role, if you are currently unemployed but want to dedicate your time to this role – all we ask is that you think carefully about how you will support yourself financially until the point at which the company takes off.
Application process will be in Four parts:
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3) Telephone Conversation – a chat to get to know you as a person
4) Finally the Face to face meeting to gauge creative spark – as the team has to fit and work together well.
Please send a covering letter/video/carrier pigeon to say why you think you are right for the role, and give us some examples of your work to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Thanks for your time and look forward to hearing from you.
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National Gallery of Canada shows off the best of its British drawings
Ottawa, Canada - July 12, 2005
The National Gallery of Canada is shining a spotlight on three centuries of superb draughtsmanship with British Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, on display in the Prints, Drawings and Photographs Galleries from 15 July until 20 November. The exhibition features 114 works by the likes of William Hogarth, Benjamin West, Thomas Gainsborough, J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer and Henry Moore.
Covering the period from the early 18th century to the mid 20th century, the National Gallery's collection of British drawings includes more than 800 works, including a number of outstanding watercolours from the Golden Age (1750-1850), as well as masterpieces of Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism and Modernism. British Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada celebrates the best of these.
The exhibition includes gifts and promised gifts from Saskatoon art collector Dr. Dennis T. Lanigan, including an initial donation of three fine sheets by artists not previously represented in the collection: Albert Moore, G.F. Watts and Simeon Solomon. Dr. Lanigan has promised his entire collection of more than 150 Victorian drawings to the Gallery.
"We are very grateful to Dr. Lanigan for his extraordinary generosity," says Pierre Théberge, Director of the National Gallery. "The works from the Lanigan Collection are a wonderful addition to this exhibition, and his promised gift will transform the Gallery's collection of 19th-century British drawings into one of the best of its kind in North America."
British Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada is supported by Sotheby's and guest curated by Douglas Schoenherr, former Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery. This is the latest in a series of exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection that began with Italian Drawings in 2001, followed by Dutch and Flemish Drawings in 2003 and last summer's French Drawings. The Gallery plans to present German Drawings in 2007.
After its presentation in Ottawa, a touring version of British Drawings will travel to the Kamloops Art Gallery in British Columbia (14 January – 25 March 2006), the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon (9 June – 27 August 2006), and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton (20 November 2006 – 8 January 2007).
Douglas Schoenherr presents a lecture titled British Drawings: Past and Future, on Sunday 17 July at 2 p.m. On Thursday 8 September at 12:15 p.m., Kim Sloan of the British Museum lectures on Talismans of Transport: William Beckford and Landscapes by British Artists at Home and Abroad.
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Sirius is an Eclipse project which allows you to easily create your own graphical modelling workbench by leveraging the Eclipse Modeling technologies. It provides a generic workbench for model-based architecture engineering that could be easily tailored to fit specific needs. It enables the specification of a modeling workbench in terms of graphical, table, or tree editors with validation rules and actions using declarative descriptions. All shape characteristics and behaviors can be easily configured. No code generation is involved. Once completed, the modeling workbench can be deployed as a standard Eclipse plugin.
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No. 4 Ohio State beats Washington 77-66
- Article by: PAT EATON-ROBB
- Associated Press
- November 18, 2012 - 6:07 PM
UNCASVILLE, Conn. - Deshaun Thomas tied a career high with 31 points and led No. 4 Ohio State to a 77-66 win over Washington and the championship of the Hall of Fame Tip Off tournament on Sunday.
The 6-foot-7 junior, who also had eight rebounds, had 21 in the first half as the Buckeyes (3-0) built at 10-point lead and cruised through the second half.
Aaron Craft added 18 points for the Buckeyes, who beat Rhode Island on Saturday.
C.J. Wilcox led Washington (2-2) with 18 points and Abdul Gaddy had 15. The Huskies earned the right to play Ohio State with an overtime win Saturday night over Seton Hall.
This is the same tournament that Kentucky won last season in an early test for that young team, which won the national title.
Ohio State led by double digits much of the way and by as many as 17 in the second half. Washington made one run, cutting the lead to 57-50 on a layup by Gaddy midway through the second half, before the Buckeyes stretched it back out.
Thomas scored 11 of his team's first 13 points, showing off his versatility by hitting a 3-pointer, two jumpers, a layup and a hook shot. He hit his first nine shots.
This was his 14th game with 20 or more points at Ohio State. He also scored 31 last season against Loyola (Maryland).
The 6-foot-7 junior was 3 of 7 from 3-point range, and came into the game having made seven of his 15 3-point shots. He had 25 points and 10 rebounds in the Buckeyes' win Saturday over Rhode Island.
Washington stayed in the game in the first half by shooting 52 percent from the floor, led by Scott Suggs who had eight of his 11 at intermission. But the Huskies were outrebounded 34-28 and had 13 turnovers.
These were Ohio State's first games away from home, and first on a neutral court.
The Buckeyes had been scheduled to play on Nov. 9 in the Carrier Classic on the USS Yorktown in South Carolina, but that game had to be cancelled because of condensation on the court.
So the Buckeyes had played just once, a 22-point home win in the opening game of this tournament over Albany before beating Rhode Island by 11 on Saturday.
The Huskies lost by a point to that same Albany team. Washington led by as many as 18 against Seton Hall on Saturday, but were forced to overtime before winning.
Washington's last win against a top-10 team came in the 2010 NCAA tournament, when the Huskies beat No. 8 New Mexico.
Ohio State improved to 4-8 all-time against Washington, a team it hadn't played since 1972.
The Huskies came into the weekend having lost six games in a row to nonconference opponents on the road. The Huskies were 0-5 on the road against nonleague teams last season.
The game was played at a half-empty Mohegan Sun arena, which is on the grounds of a resort casino and home to the WNBA's Connecticut Sun.
Washington will be back in Connecticut next month, taking on No. 23 UConn in Hartford on Dec. 29.
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Cornerback Aqib Talib stabilized the Patriots secondary since his acquisition in November, but New England had to play most of Sunday's AFC Championship against the Ravens without him.
Talib suffered a thigh injury with 5:15 left in the first quarter while breaking up a pass from Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco to wide receiver Anquan Boldin. Talib kind of hopped off the field and went to the locker room for evaluation by the Patriots medical staff.
He was missed in the 28-13 loss.
Kyle Arrington, who began the year as a starting corner, took Talib's spot. Marquice Cole was used as the nickel back.
Talib missed the regular-season finale because of a hip injury, but returned for the AFC divisional round game, his first career playoff game, against the Texans and had the task of shadowing Houston star receiver Andre Johnson. Talib finished with 10 tackles.
Additionally, Patriots defensive tackle Kyle Love left the game late in the first quarter with a knee injury.
"We adjust and we move on," Patriots safety Devin McCourty said when asked about the loss of Talib. "We know what we had to do to go on. We were prepared. We are always prepared for a guy that goes down, but injuries always stink when they happen in the middle of the game like that."
Flacco, who killed the Patriots in the teams' regular-season meeting with eight passes of 20-plus yards, and destroyed the Broncos with the deep ball last week, was 21-36 for 240 yards and three touchdowns. He had four completions of 20 or more yards.
Also knocked out of the game was running back Stevan Ridley, who suffered a concussion early in the fourth quarter while colliding with Ravens safety Bernard Pollard.
Justin Francis started in place of rookie Chandler Jones at one of the defensive end spots. Jones suffered an ankle injury against the Texans. Jones saw his first limited action of the game early in second quarter as part of the Patriots goal-line defense.
In six regular-season games for the Patriots, Talib totaled 19 tackles, an interception and two passes defensed. His contract is up at the end of the season, so he'll be a player to keep an eye on for the Patriots' plans for 2013.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's career will continue after this season. That of Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis will not, but these two, as well as Broncos QB Peyton Manning will always be intertwined.
All three will go down in history among the best to ever play their positions.
"There are certain eras that you always come around through," Lewis said, "and Tom and Peyton will always be known for their offensive eras, and I'll be known for the defensive era of my time.
I just think there is a certain level of respect that I will always have for these guys because of the way they play the game. You have to respect them, because they've been up there with the highest of highs, and when their name goes down, the Hall of Fame will definitely be calling both of their names very quickly. They play the game at such a high level."
Brady threw for 320 yards and surpassed Brett Favre as the NFL's all-time leader in postseason passing yards with 5,949.
Lewis, playing in his 20th career playoff game, made a game-high 14 tackles.
Former Patriots running back Kevin Faulk and former left tackle Matt Light served as honorary captains.
Faulk and Light, who both retired last year, were members of the Patriots' three Super Bowl championship teams and were on six teams that played in the AFC Championship.
Light said his favorite AFC Championship memory was from 2004, when the Patriots beat the Steelers, 41-27, in Pittsburgh to get to the Super Bowl for the second straight year.
"Being in Pittsburgh, celebrating seeing all those ("Terrible") towels hit the floor," Light said, "I got one. I framed it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Corey (Dillon) have one awesome run down the right side of the field? I mean, it was a heck of a run, he went (25 yards) and scored. I don't savor a lot of those moments with those images in my brain, but for whatever reason, I can still see that."
Wide receiver Kamar Aiken, safety Derrick Martin, cornerback Malcolm Williams, offensive linemen Nick McDonald and Marcus Zusevics, and defensive linemen Jake Bequette and Marcus Forston were the Patriots' inactive players. … Since 2000, the Ravens have played an NFL-high 14 road playoff games and have wins in nine of them, also a league-high. … The Ravens are among the Patriots' 10 opponents for the 2013 schedule. The Patriots will play at Baltimore at a date to be announced.


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When it comes to the Barbecue Festival 5K Hawg Run, timing, apparently, is everything. Jamestown's Stevven Anderson defended his men's open division title. Julie Manuel captured the women's open division.
When it comes to the Barbecue Festival 5K Hawg Run, timing, apparently, is everything.
Jamestown's Stevven Anderson, the men's open division defending champion, suffered collapsed lungs in a Jet-Ski accident on July 4.
But on this particular damp Saturday morning, in his fourth race since the mishap, he was hardly challenged at all while crossing the finish line in 17:01, just a handful of seconds off his winning time of 16:47 a year ago.
Meanwhile, Lexington's Julie Manuel's time had finally come. After finishing in second place in four previous years in the women's open division, she finally broke through to capture her first Hawg Run championship with a time of 20:33.
Anderson, 28, said he paced himself over the entire 3.1-mile course.
"I came out here to get a little speed work in and to see where I'm at," said Anderson, who now has three Hawg Run titles to his credit. He also won the race in 2009. "But I definitely had a lot more in the tank. I could have picked it up if I had to.
"I really love this race, though," said Anderson. "It's a lot of fun. I'll try to keep coming back until somebody beats me. There's a lot of (high school) kids out here and you never know when one of them is going to put some training in and they'll drop a fast time."
Anderson said the overcast conditions were not really a factor for him.
"I didn't mind the weather," said Anderson, who ran collegiately at Appalachian State. "The cool weather really helps with my breathing, especially since I'm coming off collapsed lungs. I really didn't feel any pressure or anything today."
Determination, meanwhile, paid off for Manuel.
"This is my fifth Hawg Run," said Manuel. "The past four years I've gotten second place overall.
"Of course, my goal every year is to win," said Manuel, 29. "I felt excellent today, even though the weather was not great. But I felt good. This was my best time for the Hawg Run."
Like Anderson, Manuel wasn't seriously challenged in her race.
"When somebody's right behind you, it pushes you," noted Manuel, who basically left her competition behind her way before the finish line.
And the weather was no hindrance to her performance.
"Pouring rain isn't fun," said Manuel. "But rain like this (a gentle intermittent drizzle) is actually nice. It's cooling. The only thing I was a little nervous about were some slick spots, and when you've got some speed up, it could be dangerous.
"I plan to do this again next year," beamed Manuel. "If I don't run, it's not a good day."
According to Barbecue Festival director Stephanie Saintsing Naset, approximately 200 runners came out for the event despite the inclement weather.
"Aww, we don't need sunshine to have a good time," smiled Naset. "Actually, it could have been worse this morning, so we were pleased with the turnout. I consider it a success.
"I certainly want to thank all of our volunteers, the Childress Angels, the United Way," said Naset.


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And this latest winter storm and those freezing temperatures are putting a strain on already low supplies of propane in the Northeast and Midwest. Millions of Americans use the liquefied gas to heat their homes. And as NPR's Tovia Smith reports, they're paying more and getting less this winter season, which started early, thanks to the extreme cold of the polar vortex.
TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: As temperatures plummeted this winter, so did supply of propane. But the problem was more than just that winter storm. It was more of a perfect storm that left inventories depleted.
ROY WILLIS: Well, they had a double whammy.
SMITH: Roy Willis, head of the Propane Education and Research Council, says suppliers started out this season already in a pinch, after farmers - who use propane to dry crops - had an especially wet harvest and used five times their usual amount.
WILLIS: The increase in consumption represented about 15, 20 percent in total when you look at crop drying and the current winter heating demand over what we've experienced over the last decades.
SMITH: And complicating the picture even more, the same brutal weather that's got demand for propane extremely high is also making delivering propane extremely tough.
SMITH: In South Central Indiana, where wind chills were below zero yesterday, Dennis Clark was navigating messy rural roads to deliver the relatively little bit of propane he had.
DENNIS CLARK: Around 8,000 gallons right now. Usually I keep, you know, around 25,000.
SMITH: Clark has owned his propane business more than 30 years, and can't remember things ever being so tight.
CLARK: This propane shortage is just like it was in the gas and fuel shortages back in the '70s, you know.
SMITH: Prices have almost doubled from $1.79 a gallon last year to 2.99 today. And Clark says some of his customers are looking at other ways to heat their homes.
CLARK: Some of them get mad. I've even had a couple that quit. That's it.
SMITH: Many states have declared states of emergency, which allows propane delivery truck drivers to work longer hours.
They're also calls for emergency federal assistance for the millions of low income residents - especially those in rural areas beyond the reach of utilities, who depend on propane.
Jeff Peetrash, with the National Propane Gas Association, says meantime, some foreign suppliers are jumping into the mix.
For the first time in four or five years, tanker ships have been coming in to New England bringing in foreign propane to try to meet the demand there.
But Peetrash says that's not likely to bring consumers any price relief, since the imported propane is more expensive. And he says, demand will likely continue to outpace supply.
I think the situation will be challenging for the industry for the balance of this winter to meet consumer needs.
How challenging, he says, depends on the weather.
Tovia Smith, NPR News.
In the western United States, it's unseasonably hot and dry. Monday August program, we learned that California is experiencing its worst drought in recorded history. The extreme conditions are affecting farms, they affect water reservoirs, they increase the threat of wildfires. And then, there's the air quality.
NPR's Nathan Rott reports.
Standing up here at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City, California, you can usually see most of Los Angeles. You can see downtown LA, the Hollywood Hills, even the ocean, all the way to the west. Today though - and for the last couple of days - they've all been shrouded in a haze of gray.
Telvin McMillin just hiked up to the top of the hill and he's looking over towards the ocean.
You can actually see the line of the smog and it's really disgusting.
California's weird winter weather is having a big effect on air quality here. San Francisco has been socked in smog. Parts of the Central Valley have been on high alert, with fine particle counts that are more than three times the federal standard. And it's not just noticeable in the air.
Their throat is irritating them, and their chest is irritating them and patients who have never had asthma are complaining of cough and shortness of breath.
Dr. Alan Khadavi is an allergist in LA. He says he's been seeing far more patients than he normally does this time of year. The reason? California's long running drought. 2013 was the driest year on record in California and 2014 hasn't been any better.
Anthony Wexler is the director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC, Davis. He says that drought can affect air quality in a lot of ways.
One, of course, is just dust.
It gets blown into the air off of the parched landscape.
Yet another one are wildfires.
Which Angelinos experienced just last week, when a fire engulfed nearly 2,000 acres like it was late August. It filled the air with smoke.
Another way is that when weather fronts come through, they kind of blow all of the air pollution out and we get a fresh start.
And that's the key. Without a significant weather event - rain or wind - air just sits stagnant, collecting more and more pollution - which is bad news for West Coasters. Forecasters aren't predicting any rainstorms or significant weather events through the end of the month.
Nathan Rott, NPR News.
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And while Californians worry about air quality, West Virginians worry about water quality, again.
Two weeks ago, a chemical spill into the Elk River left 300,000 residents with contaminated water supply. The water was tainted with and MCMH, a chemical used to wash coal.
That pollutant was cleared from the river and tap water declared safe to drink. But these reports of clean water may be exaggerated.
A different chemical called PPH also leaked from the tank. Officials are just now learning about the PPH and so they never tested for its presence in the local water supply.
The water company is now testing for PPH. Although, authorities contend the chemical has low toxicity.
You're listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
NPR's business news begins with a Chicago farewell.
Sears announced its closing its flagship store in downtown Chicago as part of an ongoing effort to cut expenses. It was once the largest retailer in Chicago. In fact, it was the namesake for the Sears Tower, the country's second tallest building.
One executive said that ever since it moved from the Sears Tower - which is now the Willis Tower - the downtown Chicago Sears has lost millions of dollars.
Sears joins other retailers announcing closures - J.C. Penney said, last week, it's closing 33 stores, Macy's is closing five.
Now despite the news of brick-and-mortar retail closures, the International Monetary Fund says U.S. and global economies are strengthening. In an update of its World Economic Outlook, the IMF boosted its forecast for global growth slightly for the first time in a couple of years.
NPR's John Ydstie reports.
The IMF says the world recovery is strengthening and that economic activity is likely to expand 3.7 percent in 2014. Advanced economies are leading the way. The IMF says it now expects the U.S. economy to grow 2.8 percent this year.
Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's top economist, says even Europe is healing.
Even there things are better. We'll predicting positive growth in all the Eurozone members.
It's been years since that's happened. But the IMF says there are still dangers in Europe, including a 10 to 20 percent chance of damaging deflation which could curb consumer demand and increase debt burdens.
Japan, which has struggled against deflation in the past couple decades, is growing again, helped by big government stimulus. The IMF boosted its estimate for growth in Japan's by nearly half a percent to 1.7 percent. The IMF says the world's second largest economy, China, will grow seven-and-a-half percent in 2014, faster than it had predicted in its original estimate. But it says China faces a difficult balancing act containing risks in its financial sector.
While advanced economies are expected to expand faster, major emerging markets like Russia and Brazil had their growth forecasts downgraded.
John Ydstie, NPR News, Washington.
Over the past week or so, most of the country's banks have reported their profits for the last quarter of 2013. The numbers, mostly, have better than most analysts expected. After a rough few years, most big financial institutions are faring pretty well. But there's some debate about how sustainable the numbers really are.
NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.
The American banking sector may have survived the subprime mortgage crisis and the long slow recovery that followed it. But banking consultant Bert Ely says the economic environment is still a challenging one for many banks.
While we are experiencing economic recovery, it is not a robust recovery and so loan growth in many areas is not as strong as many would like.
The major banks have managed to survive and even prosper in part by diversifying their revenue streams. They may have taken a big hit during the financial crisis but big banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America were able to make a lot of money more recently by trading bonds and other assets. Now, with the passage of new regulations like the Volcker rule, and the rise in interest rates, a lot of banks are cutting back on trading.
Daniel Marchon is an analyst at Raymond James and Associates.
they saw that this was coming down, you know, at that point years to come, but they knew get out now, and that then when it's time for the final rules to be written, it won't be as much of a shock for our country and our businesses.
In recent years, a lot of banks have been able to increase their profits by raising customer fees and closing branches. Bert Ely says banks also beefed up their profits in another way. They had set aside a lot of money to cover bad subprime loans, but Ely says as the economy improved, they've able to take that money out and add it to their balance sheets.
Problem with that is it's not sustainable. It doesn't last forever. Eventually, the piggy bank is empty.
Ely says banks have been making profits through one-time-only measures that can't be repeated forever. The question now is how much more toothpaste can be squeezed out of the tube.
Bank analyst Richard Bove is pretty optimistic. Bove believes the last quarter of 2013 was a sort of turning point for the banks. He says the economy has finally improved enough that banks are beginning to make real money again.
When we get to 2014, there's every evidence that we will be switching from, you know, we'll say this questionable source of earnings to a more solid source of earnings.
Bove says rising interest rates have dealt a big blow to the home refinancing business, which was a big source of profits for banks. But other categories of lending, including autos and mortgages and commercial loans, are showing signs of life again.
The lending outlook looks really good for 2014, and it's basically because we're seeing an improvement in the economy which carries through to banking.
Still, the U.S. economy remains far from robust and the banking sector continues to face headwinds. New regulations like the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul have, at least for now, reined in the ways that big banks do business.
The last round of earnings reports shows that banks have managed to keep earning money, but they sometimes had to resort to unconventional measures to do so.
Jim Zarroli, NPR News.
And our last word in business is: Beating the odds.
Quicken Loans says it will pay $1 billion if you do.
The Detroit-based finance wants your attention if you're one of the people who filled out an NCAA Tournament bracket. You can now get a $1 billion prize if you correctly pick every single game.
The company has offered all sorts of details about how it will pay this price, and it says Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is backing the offer.
Well, let's just think about that for a minute. Warren Buffett is not known for blowing billion-dollar bets.
Turned out the odds of correctly picking every single NCAA Tournament game are more than nine quintillion to one. Odds are pretty good that Quicken Loans will get all the attention for its promotion for free.
In unrelated news, MORNING EDITION is offering $1 trillion to the first person who danced Gangnam Style on Jupiter.
We may also give a price to the first person who is able who counts to nine quintillion.
That's the business news on MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
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What's a girl to do? Elle Woods (Sydney Duncheon) has just been dumped. By Warner Huntington III (Dale Thompson), no less. Blonde, perky, sorority presidents don't get dumped.
Extreme circumstances call for extreme action, and Elle heads for Harvard Law School — where her ex will also begin his studies — to show her old beau she's no dumb blonde.
"Legally Blonde — The Musical" comes to the Pacific Repertory Theatre's Golden Bough this weekend complete with a live rock band headed up by guitarist Don Dally. Direction is by PacRep's Stephen Moorer; choreography is by Lara Wheelers Devlin.
Moorer and Devlin's jobs will include guiding more than 40 Monterey County performing arts high school and college students and a cast of familiar favorites, such as Stephen Poletti as hard-nosed Professor Callahan, Kenny Neely as the sympathetic teaching assistant Emmet Forrest, Gracie Poletti as beautician Paulette and Kristin Carder as Brooke Wyndam, the exercise guru Elle must try to defend on murder charges.
Begun as a book by Amanda Brown that first morphed into a 2001 film, the stage production of a musical "Legally Blonde" opened on Broadway in 2007, collecting multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations.
It also opened on the West End in 2010, where it took home a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
The musical numbers span a rather broad range of topics — singing about the perfect outfit ("Omigod You Guys"), makeovers ("Take it Like a Man"), vicious professors ("Blood in the Water") and murder scenes ("Scene of the Crime").
Duncheon, who has performed in several PacRep productions, most recently as Penny Pingleton in last year's "Hairspray," says her favorite song in the show is "What You Want."
It is a number that arrives relatively early in Act I and serves as Elle Woods' substitute for a personal essay in her Harvard Law School application.
For Duncheon, the appeal of this particular song comes because it begins to hint for the first time at a personal focus her character possesses.
"It is when you start to see that Elle can think on her own," she said.
"While she might initially appear to be a ditzy blonde," the actor wrote over email, "Elle is very accomplished as the president of her sorority with a 4.0-grade average. Throughout the show we continue to watch her grow and prove that there is more to her than meets the eye."
If people expect you to succeed, your fate can be a mixed bag — the expectation sometimes a blessing that pushes you forward, at other times a weight that drowns you in the pressure. If people expect you to fail, it is easy to fulfill their expectations.
The real power of human nature is a third scenario: when they expect you to fail and something clicks inside to make you succeed despite them.
It is the feel-good triumph audience members get to cheer and, in part, where the appeal of "Legally Blonde" stems from.
"I have chosen to play Elle Woods as genuinely as I possibly can, because she is a complex character who does not fit into any stereotype," Duncheon said.
The actor, who is a natural blonde herself, has had her run-ins with stereotyping — at times in ways that have helped and other times when it has caused her trouble.
"Unfortunately (stereotypes) exist in our society," she said. "And the best you can do is try to break out of that box and just be yourself."
Of course, beyond whatever else we might take away from the show, one big reason it's there is to make you laugh.
According to the leading lady, it isn't necessarily the old stereotypes that are the sources of the jokes.
"The humor in 'Legally Blonde' comes from honesty. Elle has a huge personality, but she is able to laugh at herself and make the best of any situation," said Duncheon.
But her feeling for the depth of the show goes even further: "I hope that people, especially women and young girls, walk away from this show reminded that self worth is not merely based on the way you look and that there is always room for self-discovery."
Kathryn Petruccelli can be reached at montereybound@yahoo. GO!
What: Pacific Repertory Theatre presents Laurence O'Keefe, Nell Benjamin and Heather Hach's "Legally Blonde: The Musical"
Where: Golden Bough Theatre, Monte Verde Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, Carmel
When: Discounted previews 7:30p.m Thursday, Jan. 31, and Friday, Feb. 1, opening Saturday, Feb .2, and continuing at 7:30p.m Thu-Sat and 2p.m. Sunday through March 3
Tickets: $7.50-$28, available at pacrep.org, at the box office Tue-Sat 11a.m.-4p.m. or 622-0100. Two-for-one general admission tickets available for Thursday performances.
Information: pacrep.org.


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The market size for solar water heaters (SWHs) in the U.S. is about 1% of the total residential and commercial water heating market. The size of the SWH market has been growing, and the compound annual growth rate between 1992 and 2008 was 6%. Recently, due to incentives in states like California, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, the installation of commercial SWH systems has been increasing. The market is expected to continue to grow at least through 2016, when the 30% federal tax credit is set to expire.
The main residential applications are domestic hot water and pool heating. Pool heating makes up about 85% of the market (by collector area), and the remaining market is made up of domestic hot water systems. By number of systems, domestic hot water makes up about 55% of installed systems, and pool heating makes up ~45%. The most typical domestic hot water system is a pumped, indirect system that uses glycol. A typical residential system is about 4.6 m2 and has a 300l tank.
The main market driver is incentives. In the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. saw a significant national market for SWHs, partly in response to the energy crises and partly because of a 40% federal income tax credit coupled with individual state incentives. Sales peaked at about 180,000 SWH systems in 1984, just before the end of federal tax credits, representing almost 2% of the total number of WHs installed that year. In 2006, a federal investment tax credit was passed, and sales have recently increased again. The key barriers in the U.S. are the cost of an installed system, the relatively low price of natural gas, and lack of consumer awareness.
There is a domestic manufacturing base, but the number of imports has increased over the past few years. Imports make up ~25% of SWH shipments and exports make up about 10%. Most systems are marketed using a three-tiered structure: to wholesalers, who sell to installers, who sell to consumers.
In 2010, the National Solar Jobs Census found that the solar industry supported 100,000 jobs in the U.S. This includes the solar heating/cooling section, but also includes the PV sector.
The cost of installing a domestic SWH ranges from $5,000 to $10,000, depending on system type and size.
The aesthetics of the collector is a key issue in the U.S. Roof mounted collectors are expected to blend well with the roof and look aesthetically pleasing. Freeze and overheat protection are also key issues. Almost all of the continental U.S. has a high likelihood of experiencing freeze conditions at some point during the system lifetime, and since system reliability is a requirement for SWH systems in the U.S., freeze protection is important. Overheat caused by stagnation conditions can also impact system reliability. Therefore, overheat protection is another key issue in system design.
Energy efficiency is a focus for buildings in the U.S., which is evident in popular home rating certifications such as LEED and ENERGY STAR homes. Solar is a piece of the energy-efficiency puzzle, but is not usually the main component. Passive homes do exist, but in a niche market. Daylighting is recognized as important in the commercial sector, but is less of a focus on the residential side. Photovoltaics are the focus of major cost cutting efforts and are expected to become a competitive solution in the near future.
The market for new homes is on target to be 373,000 for 2012. This is up from 2011, which was the worst year on record with 307,000 new homes built. New home sales are expected to rise in the coming years as the U.S. economy continues to recover. The new home sales in a healthy economy are ~700,000.
The main driver for energy-efficient homes is reduced operational cost. Although energy prices are reasonable right now, it is generally believed that fuel prices will rise in the near future. Buying a home that uses less energy to operate is therefore an appealing idea to homebuyers. Low awareness is an issue, but energy efficiency in homes is becoming more wide-spread and is generally looked upon favourably by homebuyers.
All solar related jobs are rolled into the 100,000 jobs number previously mentioned.
Passive solar homes are estimated to cost between 6% -12% more than a conventional home.
The U.S. has introduced various flat-plate, ICS, and pool heater designs. Current innovations are focused on low-cost SWHs made of polymer thin-films, storage in the form of liquid desiccants, and combining solar with heat pump water heater technologies.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has goals and strategies that are directly related to energy, renewables, energy efficiency, and climate change and are relevant to solar thermal. Specifically, energy savings from solar thermal technologies will directly contribute to DOE's strategic goal to "catalyze the timely, material, and efficient transformation of the nation's energy system and secure U.S. leadership in clean energy technologies." SWHs will also help DOE reach their target to "reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by 17% by 2020 and 83% by 2050, from a 2005 baseline" (taken from DOE's strategic plan, released in May 2011).
The main agency is the U.S. Department of Energy.
The U.S. has both federal and local incentives for solar thermal technologies. The federal tax credit for solar thermal is 30% and is set to expire at the end of 2016. Local incentives vary by state, but include state run loan and rebate programs, utility run loan and rebate programs, financing options, and other incentive programs.
Currently, there is no regulation that requires the use of solar in new buildings.
American Solar Energy Society (ASES) - http://ases.org/
Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) - http://www.solarelectricpower.org/sepa.aspx
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) - http://www.seia.org/
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) - http://ashrae.org/
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) - https://new.usgbc.org/
National Association of Home Builders (NAHC) - http://www.nahb.org/
Utility Solar Water Heating Initiative (USH2O) - http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ush2o/index.html
Solar Thermal Advantage -- http://shc.eneref.org/


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Berbatov best summer buy - Pulis
Stoke boss Tony Pulis feels Fulham's Dimitar Berbatov has been one of the stand-out stars of the Barclays Premier League season so far.
Berbatov, having fallen out of favour at Manchester United, joined the Cottagers on transfer deadline day in August, becoming manager Martin Jol's most high-profile recruit of the summer.
A day later the 31-year-old Bulgarian striker made his debut as a substitute, since when he has scored five goals in seven starts, and Pulis - whose side host Fulham at the Britannia Stadium - has no doubt Jol has made a very shrewd move.
"He is a good manager and he is very well respected around the country," Pulis said of his counterpart.
"Fulham have some good players and I think Berbatov has been the outstanding buy for them.
"He is the glue that knits it all together.
"He looks as if he is really, really enjoying himself having found a home where he is the main player. Looking at him, he is just showing the class that he possesses."
Asked if there had been a better signing made by a Premier League club over the summer, Pulis said: "It doesn't look like it at the moment."
He added: "I think our supporters will see one of the best players in the Premier League on Saturday on the ball.
"He can win games by himself and has been a great signing for Martin.
"Berbatov is one of the outstanding players in the Premier League this year. It is worth the admission fee just to see him play."
Stoke could be without defender Andy Wilkinson for the match.
Wilkinson had to come off in the first half of Monday's 1-1 draw at West Ham due to a back problem and has undergone a scan.
If he is ruled out, his replacement at Upton Park, Ryan Shotton, is likely to deputise once again at full-back.
Midfielder Dean Whitehead is back available after being suspended for the game against the Hammers, but striker Michael Owen is not expected to be ready to make his return from a hamstring complaint, while midfielder Rory Delap (hernia) and defender Marc Wilson (broken leg) remain sidelined.
Meanwhile, Ashkan Dejagah believes Fulham need to forget their free-flowing football and show some fight at Stoke.
The Cottagers have been one of the most entertaining teams in the Barclays Premier League this season, scoring 25 goals in their opening 12 matches.
However, summer signing Dejagah knows they will need to show a grittier side at the Britannia Stadium if they are to get a positive result.
"The players tell me that Stoke are very direct and it's not easy to play at their ground," the winger told official website fulhamfc.com.
"They have some big players and they like to play long balls.
"We must fight in this game - it's not a match to play football. If we fight for each other we can win this game."
Mahamadou Diarra and Chris Baird return for the match and will no doubt help to shore up the midfield.
Martin Jol's side will be without a number of players, though, as captain Brede Hangeland is unavailable through suspension and Bryan Ruiz and Mickael Tavares are both injured.
Wingers Alex Kacaniklic and Kieran Richardson are also out, but Dejagah is happy to fill the void on the left if called upon.
"The right is my favourite but I've played on the left before for Wolfsburg," the Iran international said.
"The manager is the boss and he will decide who will play there on Saturday."
Dejagah will be hoping to return to the starting line-up after being named among the substitutes for last weekend's disappointing 3-1 home defeat to Sunderland.
He has been on the bench more often than not since his move from the Bundesliga, thanks in no small part to the injury that sidelined him when he first moved to west London.
Dejagah is now back to full fitness, though, and looking to build on his lone start at the Emirates Stadium, where Fulham held Arsenal to a 3-3 draw.
"It was a big game for me," he said. "It was my first match for Fulham from the beginning and it was against Arsenal at an amazing stadium.
"It was a good game. It ended 3-3 so we were very happy to score three goals at Arsenal.
"I was very happy that the manager gave me the chance to start the game. It showed he believes in me.
"I feel very good after my injury. The physios have been great and I'm very happy here. It's good to now be involved with the first team."
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BUJAGALI, Uganda—A new dam at the headwaters of the White Nile, nearly 20 years in the making, generates almost half of this East African country's electricity.
Its owner isn't a state utility or an energy giant. It is Blackstone Group LP, best known for corporate takeovers.
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A northeast Ocala home has been deemed unliveable after lightning struck the roof on Saturday.
OCALA — A northeast Ocala home has been deemed unliveable after lightning struck the roof on Saturday, leaving a gaping hole in the living room ceiling, according to an Ocala Fire Rescue and a city building official.
Brian Stoothoff, OFR assistant fire chief, said a neighbor called 911 to report seeing smoke coming from the home at 2202 NE 38th Terrace.
On scene, firefighters had to break a window in the front door to enter the home. Inside, Stoothoff said firefighters were able to contain the fire in the attic.
While inside, firefighters moved furniture out of the way, and placed a tarp on top of the roof. Inside the living room, there was a huge hole in the ceiling.
Stoothoff said the $150,000 brick home was hit by lightning, as Marion County was hit with bad weather Saturday that included high winds and heavy rains.
Capt. Eric Rawls, a watch commander for the Marion County Sheriff's Office, said dispatchers received multiple calls of downed trees and trees toppling power lines Saturday night.
Deputies responded to a tree that came down at Southwest 80th Street and 19th Avenue Road. A car, the deputy said, had hit the tree, but no one was seriously hurt in the accident, Rawls said.
Rawls also said they were power outage in the northeast and southeast section of the county.
At the lightning-damaged home on Northeast 38th Terrace, a city building inspector who was called to the scene said the roof has to be repaired. Once it's repaired, an electrical contractor has to make sure the wiring is properly repaired. Power to the home has been disconnected.
Hisham Shanawany, the homeowner, was not at home at the time when the lightning struck, as he was visiting his father. Shanawany, talking with the Star-Banner, said a neighbor called and told him about the smoke. His cat, he said, was not inside the house and instead was at a neighbor's home.
With a smile, Shanawany, who two days ago had eye surgery, described his bad luck as, "it's lottery odds, minus the lottery winnings."
Since the start of summer, Marion County has been drenched with rain and has experienced some unpredictable type weather. Some sections of Marion County have been hit hard, with homes damaged and trees downed, as well as power outages, minor flooding and, in one instance, a gust of wind that toppled a canopy used to cover gas pumps at a gas station.
The unseasonable weather is expected to continue into Sunday, according to weather forecasters.


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How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation 391
hype7 writes "The Harvard Business Review is running a very interesting piece on how money in politics is having a deleterious effect on U.S. innovation. From the article: 'Somehow, it seems that every time that [Mickey Mouse] is about to enter the public domain, Congress has passed a bill to extend the length of copyright. Congress has paid no heed to research or calls for reform; the only thing that matters to determining the appropriate length of copyright is how old Mickey is. Rather than create an incentive to innovate and develop new characters, the present system has created the perverse situation where it makes more sense for Big Content to make campaign contributions to extend protection for their old work.if you were in any doubt how deep inside the political system the system of contributions have allowed incumbents to insert their hands, take a look at what happened when the Republican Study Committee released a paper pointing out some of the problems with current copyright regime. The debate was stifled within 24 hours. And just for good measure, Rep Marsha Blackburn, whose district abuts Nashville and who received more money from the music industry than any other Republican congressional candidate, apparently had the author of the study, Derek Khanna, fired. Sure, debate around policy is important, but it's clearly not as important as raising campaign funds.'"


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FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Television personality Montel Williams is joining Army scientists at Fort Detrick in a medical research deal.
The signing ceremony Friday marks the start of an Army collaboration with Williams' company and the University of Wisconsin on a brain-stimulation device for people with balance and walking problems.
Williams has muscular sclerosis. The disease causes balance and walking problems similar to those found in some U.S. service members with traumatic brain injury.
Wisconsin researchers have been studying a mouthpiece promoted by Williams that electrically stimulates the tongues of patients doing balance and walking exercises. The electrical impulses are supposed to retrain their brains.
The Army will further evaluate the device and seek federal Food and Drug Administration approval for it.
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The Financial Times published an interesting article on May 16 about problems with Ireland's gross national product (not gross domestic product) accounting. Essentially, measured income is being inflated by foreign companies with no real activity in Ireland that, nonetheless, find ways to make profits materialize in a low-tax jurisdiction.
We sort of knew this was happening — that, for example, a lot of the apparent rise in productivity was just a shift to pharmaceutical companies that add little to the Irish economy. But a new report from the Economic and Social Research Institute suggests that the problem is bigger than realized.
This passage in the Financial Times article got me: "The E.S.R.I. research raises question marks over the strength of Ireland's recovery, which has surprised many foreign observers in light of the severe economic crisis the country experienced in 2008." Who are these surprised foreign observers? My impression is that Ireland has been proclaimed a success story again and again and again, only to have the narrative slink away in the face of disappointing experience.
And if we look at the jobs numbers, which are not subject to these accounting issues, we can see what the "strength of Ireland's recovery" looks like — check out the chart.
The Sadomonetarists of Basel Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal highlighted a speech by Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, warning about the dangers of easy money and the need to raise rates now to avert ... something or other. And his views matter, according to the Journal: "Mr. Caruana is no disgruntled outvoted hawk on a policy-setting council, trying desperately to set the record straight after being outvoted," Geoffrey T. Smith wrote online. "Rather, he's the mouthpiece for a global college of central bankers, almost all of whom find themselves under intense pressure from their national governments to keep things ticking over while they try to repair the economy. His views also matter for another reason: The B.I.S. is one of the few international financial institutions (some say the only one) to see the financial crisis coming and to issue clear warnings ahead of time."
I guess we can check the record here and see just how prescient the B.I.S. was. What I do recall, however — which the Journal apparently doesn't — is that the B.I.S. has spent years warning about the dangers of low interest rates. Except that a couple of years back it was telling a completely different story about why we needed to raise rates; you see, the big danger was imminent inflation.
According to a Bloomberg article from June 27, 2011: " 'Global inflation pressures are rising rapidly as commodity prices soar and as the global recovery runs into capacity constraints,' said the B.I.S., which acts as a central bank for the world's central banks. 'These increased upside risks to inflation call for higher policy rates.' "
In fact, inflation is running below target just about everywhere. You might therefore think that the B.I.S. would step back a bit and reconsider both its policy recommendations and the framework it uses to derive those recommendations. But no. Higher interest rates are always the solution; it's only the problem they're supposed to solve that changes.


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(31) Anonymous, November 24, 2010 11:25 AM
Relevant Even in Israel
This article rang so true for me, even in Israel, my workplace had a dinner for our department at at non-kosher place. Their reasoning was "it's a democracy, and you are in the minority - so majority rules and we decide to have the dinner at that non-kosher place". Of course, the vegetarian of the group went and was very happy with his pasta, even though he was sitting among plates full of pork. In Israel! This has happened on other occasions as well. Is this what democracy means to Israelis??
(30) Ellie, November 24, 2010 8:33 AM
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I am also 1/2 First Native---Thanksgiving has been a difficult holiday to celebrate for many of my people. The white-washed view of the holiday is nothing like the truth--as we all know, either has the Jew been listened to when it comes to the truth of Torah. Just want to add, many of us fast and my family adds prayers for the ancestors that died to keep their land belonging to G-d alone. Just as Israel is the only true home for the Neshoma, my heart is also rooted in this country to some day be free for all my people, Jew or not. So, I hope that those that thank G-d for being here in freedom (as best as it could be for some of us), there are still 1,000s of Natives living without water, homes, food & health care denied them by the same gov't that broke every treaty it made. Just read about the "Trail of Tears" and Jackson, also why we are fighting for the baseball team, Cleveland Indians to change their logo. There are many enemies out there, some just hide behind different banners.
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Shinji Kagawa's first 12 months at Old Trafford have not gone to plan.
He has been injured, played out of position and has generally been overlooked for Manchester United's key games.
For many Manchester United fans it is very disheartening to see Kagawa's lack of playing time because he was the creative attacking midfielder that the squad had been lacking, and what all fans were calling out for the last couple of years.
When Manchester United fans prayers were answered last year with the purchase of Kagawa, many felt that he would be an instant hit and would be the creative link-up genius to help regain the Premier League title from Manchester City.
Kagawa did not disappoint in his first couple of months as scored on his home debut against Fulham and set up Michael Carrick in his first Champions League match for Manchester United.
He wasn't so lucky in his second Champions League game as he twisted his knee which led to him being sidelined for two months.
Upon returning to action from his injury, many questioned whether Kagawa was cut out for life in the Premier League and if Sir Alex Ferguson would be willing to give him the chance with a squad that was underperforming at times during the season.
Even when Kagawa was able to score a hat-trick vs Norwich City, it seemed it wasn't enough to earn the trust of the former manager.
Kagawa has a very technical side to his game that Ferguson did not seem to be able to utilise, as he instead preferred the hard working wingers and midfielders who run around the pitch trying to be ball winners.
Coming into the past summer Kagawa was healthy and looking to make a fresh start under the new manager, David Moyes.
It seems as though Moyes has had plans of his own and looking to make his own stamp on the squad, he seems to have frozen out the possibility of using Kagawa in his natural position.
Moyes' preferred pairing up top is clearly Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney, with Rooney playing a slightly deeper role which is of course where Kagawa likes to play.
Even when Rooney was out early in the season, many saw that it would be the perfect chance for Kagawa to partner up with Van Persie up top but instead Moyes favoured either having Danny Welbeck or Ryan Giggs in the starting XI.
In Kagawa's mind this must have been the ultimate confidence destroyer and rightfully so given that he is really the only natural number 10 playmaker in the team.
While on international duty recently, Kagawa expressed his discontent with the amount of playing time he's receiving at Manchester United and it's currently affecting the form he's having with Japan.
As much as I want to see Kagawa succeed at Manchester United, it doesn't seem like there is a good chance of it happening as long as Moyes is the manager.
Being a World Cup year and wanting to be in peak form going into Brazil, I believe there will be serious negotiations for Kagawa to look for a team in January that will really appreciate the talented Japanese midfielder.
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As President Obama starts his second term, host Michel Martin takes a look at his foreign policy agenda. She speaks with NPR's Juan Forero about upcoming opportunities and challenges in Latin America — from drug trafficking, to changes in leadership, to the evolution of the U.S. relationship with Cuba.
Obama's Unfinished Business: Latin America
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December 3, 2010 - By Matt Heinrichs - Outdoor Columnist
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text: There are also two Cheri Cherie stores in the Phoenix area. One is at the Fiesta Mall in Mesa and the other is at the Westgate City Center in Glendale. The prices aren't as good as the various Perfumanias in town, but the selection is better. They often stock various Creeds etc. Of course they'll let you test anything, but I don't think they make samples to give out. The Perfumanias are great too. There are two in the Arizona Mills Mall and one in the Superstition Springs Mall. They mostly carry your every day designer frags, but they have good prices. Around Christmas they do buy one get one for $10 sales.


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The future of the Community Resource Center planned for the Star Avenue area in Panama City is up in the air now that the Panama City Rescue Mission says it will not move on to the property.
Original agreements for Panama City to purchase land around Highway 231 and Star Avenue for a community resource center, depended on whether or not the Rescue Mission would also move to the area.
"The city has been willing to jump on board, with facilitating the land purchase, if it would help alleviate the vagrancy problem that we have downtown," said Panama City Commissioner John Kady.
Reverend Billy Fox of the Panama City Rescue Mission says he has no plans to re-locate out of town.
"We intend to stay right where we are," said Fox.
Now Commissioner John Kady says he wants an update from the resource center's task force.
"I think we owe it to the folks in that neighborhood so that they're not just waiting on the other shoe to drop," said Kady.
Kady says without the move of the Rescue Mission, he will not vote for the city to purchase the land.
"No, I would not support the city buying the property if that were the case," said Kady.
He says, that may not stop the entire concept from happening.
"Our part, a half a million dollars in seed money is only a very small part of what it's going to take to bring this to fruition," said Kady.
If the task force can find other financial backers or enough grant money, they could potentially fund the resource center without the city's help.


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'American Idol' singer Michael Johns dead at 35
Michael Johns is pictured in Los Angeles, Calif., in this May 16, 2013 file photo. (Brian To/WENN.COM)
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Former American Idol contestant Michael Johns has died at age 35.
The series seven finalist, originally from Perth, Australia, passed away on Friday, with the administrator of his website confirming the news in a post on Twitter, writing, "It is with a heavy heart and inconsolable sadness that we confirm the passing of our friend Michael Johns. No other details will b (sic) avail (available) at this time. Please respect the privacy of Mike's family and friends as we know u (you) will. Members and admin of @mjohnsonline pass on their prayers."
His family says in a statement, "Our family is devastated by the passing of our beloved Michael, a wonderful husband, son, brother, uncle, and friend. We appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from all corners of the globe."
One of my fav pics of MJ and Puddy RT @michael_johns: Just another lazy afternoon... pic.twitter.com/uZ7927HedT
— Michael Johns Online (@mjohnsonline) August 3, 2014
Multiple sources have since reported a blood clot in Johns' leg as the cause of death, with sources telling editors at TMZ the singer had visited a doctor on Thursday complaining of pain and swelling following a twisted ankle. He was allegedly found unresponsive at a friend's apartment the next day and was already dead when paramedics arrived.
Johns finished eighth in the U.S. TV talent contest in 2008 but continued to work on music following his departure from the show and released the album Hold Back My Heart in 2009.
American Idol judge Simon Cowell paid tribute to Johns with a post on Twitter, writing, "I just heard the very sad news that Michael Johns has passed away. A truly great guy. Rest in peace Michael."
I just heard the very sad news that Michael Johns has passed away. A truly great guy. Rest in peace Michael.
— Simon Cowell (@SimonCowell) August 3, 2014
Executives behind American Idol also honoured the former contestant with a statement on the show's official Facebook page, writing, "Michael Johns was an incredible talent and we are deeply saddened by the news of his passing. He was a part of our AMERICAN IDOL family and he will be truly missed. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family and friends during this difficult time."