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After the 2012 course racing worlds have come to an end yesterday, the focus shifts towards the first ever ISAF Sailing World Cup including kiteboarding. With the new ISAF world ranking system, Sail Melbourne will be the highest scoring event of the 2012 season.
The new world rankings combine every riders best six events, including sailing world cups, continental and world championships. While the recent European and World Championships have been scored 100 points each, Sail Melbourne will award 200 points for the winner, surely putting him in the lead of the new world rankings.
Registration is open at http://sailmelbourne.com.au/website/competitorinfo.html
As upcoming world and continental championships will apply entry quotas, collecting points at the sailing world cups will be crucial to be able the top level class events, as entry is selected by the standing in the world rankings. The ISAF world ranking will also be the qualifying basis to take part in the 2014 Sailing World Championships in Santander, where 50% of the qualification places for the Olympic Games 2016 are decided.
Come and join the fun - Sail Melbourne is a great event to take part in !


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A Controversial 2,500-Mile Medical Odyssey
By Vibhuti Agarwal, Romit Guha and Rajesh Roy
As Indians mourn the death Saturday of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student from injuries incurred in a brutal gang rape earlier this month, a more detailed picture of what caused her death is emerging.
And as the evidence of what happened to her is pieced together, a debate is being aired between medics and officials over whether the government should have shifted the woman to Singapore on Wednesday night for treatment.
Mount Elizabeth hospital, where she died on Saturday at 4.45 a.m. local time, said the cause of death was "severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain."
It was a long and closely-watched battle for survival for the woman, whose name has not been released, after she was gang raped for around an hour on a moving chartered bus in New Delhi on Dec. 16. The woman and a male companion, who also was beaten, were stripped of their clothing and dumped on a highway on Delhi's periphery.
Six men, including the bus driver, have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and rape. Indian government officials say murder charges will soon be added to these.
When they were found, the woman and her companion were taken by police to Delhi's government-run Safdarjung hospital. The man was later released and Indian media say he's at home in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which borders the capital.
The woman's injuries were like none that doctors at the hospital had ever experienced. During the rape, the woman's intestines and genitalia were severely damaged, likely due to an iron rod the men allegedly used at one point during the rape, doctors said.
"I haven't seen such a case in my career of 30 years," said B.D. Athani, medical superintendent at Safdarjung Hospital, who was among the doctors treating her. "It was a severe form of assault and brutality."
The major risk was of sepsis, a condition in which infection is spread via the bloodstream. The woman was put on life support and underwent two abdominal surgeries during the first few days in the hospital, including having a portion of her intestines and genital organs removed.
At first, the doctors were hopeful despite the woman's severe condition. She responded well to the surgeries and remained conscious in the first three days. It was during this time she gave a statement about the rape to police, speaking a little but communicating mainly by writing notes on a pad.
On Dec. 21, doctors were confident enough to tell a news conference they had taken her off life support. But in a foreshadowing of the dangers she faced they also cautioned they were worried about infection spreading to her liver.
Two days later, on Dec. 23, the woman complained of breathing problems and was put back on life support, said Yatin Mehta, a critical care specialist who was part of the team treating her. A third abdominal surgery that day attempted to deal with internal bleeding and fluid collection in her abdomen, he said.
"Her level of consciousness was extremely low" after the third operation, he added. Dr. Athani called this surgery the "point of no return."
On Wednesday, she suffered a cardiac arrest. Her deteriorating situation led the government, on doctors' advice, to send her that evening to Mount Elizabeth, one of Asia's top hospitals.
By the time she boarded the air ambulance, infection had spread to the woman's lungs – as well as her abdomen - and she had suffered brain injury, said Dr. Mehta, who led four doctors that traveled to Singapore with the patient. "We did everything to save her," he said.
The decision to send the woman to Singapore has caused some controversy, with some Indian doctors saying that moving her put her at further risk. Some Indian media has speculated the decision was political, to get the woman out of India in a bid to reduce protests.
Last weekend, while the woman was undergoing her third surgery, protesters calling for harsher penalties for rapists clashed with police on the streets of Delhi. Some 85 people were injured, mainly protesters but also some police. A policeman who was facing off against the protesters later died.
Sushil Kumar Shinde, India's home minister, denied the decision to move the woman was political. He said it was based on the advice of doctors including Naresh Trehan, one of the country's leading cardiologists. "It's absurd to hear people saying the move was politically intended," Mr. Shinde said in an interview.
Dr. Trehan, who is chairman of Medanta Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon, near Delhi, said he only advised doctors at Safdarjung hospital, who decided to move the woman. He said he approved of the decision.
"There was no additional risk involved in shifting the patient as the air ambulance has all the (intensive-care) facilities as there was in Safdarjung Hospital," he said. He also pointed out that replacement organs are more widely available in Singapore than India, which "would have helped had the patient made it to that stage."
He added: "There will be critics of the decision to shift but it was taken with the larger cause in mind: that of helping the critically ill patient survive."
Other doctors demurred. Samiran Nundy, head of transplant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, who was not involved in treating the woman, said the risk of moving her was greater than staying put. He said he had offered to carry out an intestinal transplant in India.
"This sends a very wrong signal to the general public that healthcare in Singapore is better that in India, which is not the case," he said.
In Singapore, eight specialists were assigned to the woman. The hospital put her on maximum artificial ventilation support and pumped her with antibiotics and stimulants aimed at maximizing her ability to fight off infection, according to statements it released.
But, on Friday, Mount Elizabeth said the patient's health, already "extremely critical" on admission, had taken a turn for the worse. In the end, her body gave up fighting.
"She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome," Mount Elizabeth said in a statement.
Mr. Shinde, the home minister, said an aircraft of state-owned Air India has been sent to Singapore to bring home the woman's body.
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I like to honor the victims of Sept. 11 as best I can. So I'm reposting my story of what I witnessed that day and lighting a candle for all the survivors and deceased.
From Sept., 2006
It sneaks up on us each year, but it's here again: September 11th. And as all these people are on TV and the radio sharing their experiences of that day, I can't help but reflect and remember. It's our generation's JFK-shooting--we will all remember where we were when we heard the news. It's the event that when I think about still makes my heart race and brings tears to my eyes, even five years later. I don't know if this is true of all Americans, or just for New Yorkers or only for people who witnessed it or knew people whose lives were lost. Anyway, here's my Sept. 11th story, which I will never forget, and I know I've written about longhand somewhere, but god knows where that notebook went. And not that my story is special, it's not, but it's a valid memory, because, if nothing else, it's history. I had been in the city for about a year, but I'd been visiting New York yearly since about the age of 10, and was always a New Yorker at heart; was living in midtown; attending NYU grad school in journalism in the Village; dating an Israeli who lived in Haifa; had returned from visiting him in Israel about a month and a half prior to the attacks. In general, life was pretty good. I was "in love," had a big apt., was with Wally, was going to NYU, which I'd always dreamed of, and was living in the place that I loved better than anywhere in the world. My mom and two of her girlfriends were staying with me for their annual "girl's shopping trip." I had my only early class that morning, and, ironically, it was a "journalism ethics" class, taught by 'renowned' ethicist Todd Gitlin. Everyone talks about the weather that day and it seems silly, but it's true that on days like that, you remember every detail, salient or not. So as I left my apt. a little before 9 a.m., I remember looking up at the sky and thinking what a nice day it was, no clouds, no awful August humidity. I hopped in a cab, just as I noticed that Second Ave. was rife with fire trucks and ambulances. No big deal, a common sight. As we proceeded downtown, the ambulances and fire trucks grew in number, and the cabbie and I began to wonder, so we turned on the radio. At that point, the world was still in shock, and was talking about the 'commuter plane' that had most likely hit the Trade Center. Details were still sketchy at that point, but we proceeded downtown, both of us, similar to the entire city and nation, in a state of shock. By the time we reached the Village, the second plane had hit, and we were just confused, I mean, terrorism just didn't happen in our country, what were any of us supposed to think until we saw? Until we saw. Because while most people saw it on TV, for me it didn't sink in until I got out of the cab near Washington Square Park and saw both towers aflame. Then, and only then, it sunk in. From that point on, I was plunged into that same surreal, dreamlike, post-traumatic haze that most New Yorkers found themselves in for several days, if not weeks or months. I walked to the corner where clusters of people just stood staring up at the towers. Some were openly crying or looked horrified; most just stood there staring, mouths agape. It really was like a scene out of an Independence Day -type movie. Everything else stood still. I think I must have tried to call my mom and the girls, but cells were probably down. I knew I would never make it back uptown, and was in shock, so I moved robotically into the school's building and went into class. And though it was an "ethics" class, and though many of the students in it lived near Wall Street and hadn't shown up yet, and though we were journalists who should be out literally witnessing history and trying to get the story, our professor kept us in class the whole two hours without TVs, radios, phones, and forced us to debate the 'ethical' elements of jumping to the conclusion that this was indeed a terrorist attack being perpetrated by Arabs/Muslims/Islamic extremists. Perhaps he was in shock to and the mantra, "just carry on normally" was propelling him. I had just returned from Israel, so I remember the shock finally wearing off and my rage beginning to kick in, and getting into a heated argument with an Egyptian student, wherein I blamed this on the Arabs and she defended them saying it could be anyone doing this. We finally got out of class and emerged from our time-warp bubble, and learned that both towers had gone down. In those two hours, the sky had fallen. No, it couldn't be, I thought. There's just no way, my brain rationalized, those towers? It had looked like two small fires when I'd gone into class, relative to the largesse of those buildings. But sure enough, I walked out to the corner where I'd watched them on fire earlier and the skyline was flat. Gone. Now, New York City was a quiet ghost town except there were hordes of people walking slowly, stoically. Just walking like zombies, standing in line for payphones, eerily calm. No traffic, just on foot. No transportation anywhere, save for emergency vehicles, but I don't remember hearing any sirens, any noise at all save for radios with news. Nobody yelling, no street noise, the most disturbing thing in New York City--a lack of noise. I walked all the way from the Village to my apartment; walked amid a crowd stunned silent for probably the first time in their lives. I tried to call mom repeatedly, but eventually gave up. I lived near the UN, and kept thinking that that would be the terrorists' next target, so I kept popping into shops and asking if anything else had been hit, because the fire trucks never stopped going downtown. I wondered where my mom and her friends had gone, but knew that they probably hadn't left the house before the news was out, so I wasn't worried. The horrifying thing is that they had been at the store Century 21, which was leveled by the attack, the morning before. I got home and they weren't there, so then I started to panic, no communication, an empty apartment, with a Wally who just knew something was up. I think I just fell on to the couch and sat there, mesmerized by the footage on TV. It was as if I were in a drug-induced haze, which you really can't describe accurately, but if you've ever witnessed a horrible accident or crime, you can most likely relate to. Mom and friends eventually returned home, having walked over to 57th street to see what it was like outside. Like I said, when in shock, you just go by rote, do what you know. Head into class, teach class, go to work, go shopping. Eventually, maybe two days later, mom and co. rented a car and drove home to Florida. Damned if they were getting on a plane. Damned if I was, not for a year or so I think. And though I didn't lose anyone that day and wasn't connected to anyone in those buildings, the event itself had such an impact if you were living in New York, whether you were able to admit it or not. For me, it meant that each time I saw a plane outside the window of my new 15th floor apartment heading past the Con Ed towers in Queens, each and every time for a couple years after, my first, instinctual thought was, that plane is going to hit that tower; it meant that I didn't take the subway for a couple of years; it meant that I looked at cab drivers appraisingly and unconsciously eavesdropped on their foreign conversations; it meant that I didn't feel safe in my own apt., my own city, for many, many years. It meant living in fear for a great while, thinking how easy it had been for them to do it once, surely they would strike again. And still, I'm kind of amazed that nothing else has happened in our country because, really, we're no safer now, are we? Soon, surely, the sky will fall again.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Has It Really Been 7 Years?
I like to honor the victims of Sept. 11 as best I can. So I'm reposting my story of what I witnessed that day and lighting a candle for all the survivors and deceased.
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Zenescope Entertainment, one of the top comic book and graphic novel publishing companies in the world, has announced plans to release Wake the F#ck Up, an all-new comic book that is scheduled for an October release date. Wake the F#ck Up is written by former Marvel Comics President Creator Bill Jemas.
In 2011, Go the F*ck to Sleep, hit #1 on Amazon's best seller list – speaking to sleepy parents desperate to put their toddlers to bed. In 2012, Wake the F#ck Up, bangs the funny bones of parents dying to get their teens out of bed and out the door.
Wake the F#ck Up starts as a storybook parody of best-seller Go the Fuck to Sleep. In lyrical tones, parents encourage their kids to get out of bed and out the door, to put down their games and pick up their books. But after years of blank, sleepy stares and passive aggressive sloth, the parents explode into expletives and kick their 20-somethings out the door. Then, Wake the F#ck Up transforms into a comic book in which the next generation takes over, as we see the same story from their point of view.
"When the comics were in a deep hole, Bill helped restart the industry by focusing Marvel Comics on the teen audience. I'm personally a huge fan of the work he did at Marvel," said Zenescope President Joe Brusha. "Wake the Fu#k up is like nothing I've seen in comics before, in a very good way. We expect it to be a ground breaking book and think it will be a big hit not only with comic book readers but with an even wider audience."
Bill Jemas was the architect Ultimate Spider-Man and Origin of Wolverine, two of the bestselling graphic novels in history.
This story is beautifully-illustrated by Dzialowski and Cyril Saint-blancat, a talented team of up-and-coming French artists handpicked by Jemas. Printed with high-gloss covers on high quality stock, this prestige comic collectible is a great gift for parents of teens, for teens of parents, and for every comic fan.
Wake the F#ck Up hits shelves in October and is available for order in this month's Diamond Previews. Visit Zenescope's blog at blog.zenescope.com and Facebook page www.facebook.com/Zenescope for more information.
Check out the promo video to get a sense of the book's vulgar, yet definitive voice:
About Zenescope Entertainment
Zenescope Entertainment was founded by Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco in 2005 and has quickly grown into one of the top comic book and graphic novel publishing companies in the world. Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales and subsequent spinoff series such as Escape From Wonderland, Neverland and The Piper, which put a dark twist on classic fables, are some of the best-selling and longest running original independent comic books on shelves today. Zenescope's licensed titles include the on-going, critically acclaimed Charmed series, based off of the long-running popular television series, as well as Se7en and Final Destination, based off of New Line Cinema's successful film franchises.


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Ha Noi, 25 November 2013 – "Amending the Law on Marriage and Family from a Human Rights-Based Perspective" topped the agenda of the 2nd Legal Policy Dialogue in 2013 held today by the Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Part of "Strengthening Access to Justice and Protection of Rights in Viet Nam" project
Deputy Minister of Justice Dr. Hoang The Lien and UNDP Country Director in Viet Nam Ms. Louise Chamberlain co-chaired the Dialogue, part of the "Strengthening Access to Justice and Protection of Rights in Viet Nam" project, in the company of Ms. Nguyen Thuy Anh, Deputy Chairwoman of the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs.
Human rights-based perspective
At the Dialogue, the Ministry of Justice provided an overall assessment of draft amendments to the Law on Marriage and Family 2000 from a human rights-based perspective, with the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs spotlighting gender mainstreaming and gender equality components to the amendments, while the Institute for Social Development Studies examined the proposed law changes from a non-governmental organization perspective.
The United Nations, together with Vietnamese legal experts, also outlined key recommendations for amendments to the Law on Marriage and Family from a human rights-based perspective.
At the Dialogue, Ms. Louise Chamberlain tabled several issues from a human rights-based perspective for debate: "Because of the prevailing gendered division of labour in the home - with women traditionally sharing a significantly larger burden of unpaid household work, caring for children and the elderly than male members of the family - they are in a more vulnerable positions, especially upon separation and divorce because their unpaid work is not accounted for." she said. "Other non-traditional family concerns such as sexual orientation and gender identity also need to be addressed as part of this law, same sex couples, transgender and intersex people are also forming families and have children. Many times fighting stigma and discrimination and societal norms here, the law can help protect and recognize their human right, like everybody else's, and take a clear stance against the prejudice and discrimination that many face in everyday life and a positive position on their equal rights."
The Law on Marriage and Family 2000 will be revised or supplemented with the following substantive inputs:
- Basic principles of what constitutes marital status and family in Viet Nam
- Customary in marriage and family
- Marriage (permitted age for marriage, living as husband and wife without marriage registration,same sex couples living together as husband and wife, etc.)
- Respective personal rights of a husband and wife, representative for each other between husband and wife,defintions of common and private assets of a husband and wife
- Rights and obligations between parents and children and between other family members
- Identification of birth parents and children,surrogacy for humantarian purposes
- Divorce and separation
- Marital and familial relationships between Vietnamese people and other nationalities.
More information?
- Read the press release "Second Legal Policy Dialogue in 2013: "Amending the Law on Marriage and Family from a Human Rights-Based Perspective"
- Read the speech by UNDP Country Director, Ms. Louise Chamberlain
- Download the Joint UN key recommendations on the draft ammended Law on Marriage and Family
- Download the draft Law on Marriage and Family (as of 20 October)
More news
- UN & Donors Continue Support to Viet Nam in Responding to HIV
- "Better talks" lead to "better work"
- UN attends new platform for high level policy dialogue
- UNAIDS launches #zerodiscrimination campaign on World AIDS Day
- "Because love, not violence, is the key to solving problems"
- Campaign 16 days of activism to end violence against women officially opened


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The Floacist Presents FLO Spoken Word Vortex
Thursday, 6th Dec 2018
Doors 7pm, Show 8.00pm
Seven time Grammy nominee, The Floacist, hosts one of the capital's finest spoken word events. Now celebrating its third acclaimed year, and always attracting the finest poets, spoken word artists, MCs, writers, rappers and articulators of words, make sure you experience the FLO at London's favourite Jazz Club!
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The Future is Here- Transform Now
Published: 2014
A compilation of speeches, articles and blogs reprinted from New Straits Times, The Star, Limkokwing publications and websites.
"There is an urgent need for Malaysia to embrace change. There is an urgent need for change to be seen at all levels. In education, we must bear in mind that the youth who come to us are born into a world that is so different from what we knew. They can't imagine how we could live at a time when there were no handphones. It is practically the dark ages for them!"


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Legendary investors are made by their ability to anticipate the trends that will shape markets well before those trends are widely seen or priced into the market. Super-investor Warren Buffett closed out much of his derivatives exposure from subsidiary General Re by 2005, well before derivatives hit the wall from 2007 to 2009, which helped him avoid the meltdown.
Now a growing chorus, including the voices of the Obama administration and prominent economists such as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, is calling for a change that will cause a massive shift in international trade. This means agile investors have an opportunity to play this change before it's fully reflected in share prices.
Excellent exchange
This massive shift concerns China's exchange rate, which many analysts view as simply too low and as destabilizing for global trade. Since 1995, China has kept its rate effectively pegged to the dollar, at a low level that makes its exports ultracompetitive in world markets.
Now experts such as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman still see the renminbi as underpriced. Goldman Sachs is predicting a rise, and Wells Fargo expects that the renminbi could gain as much as 15% by the end of next year. Those would be massive tailwinds to well-positioned Chinese stocks.
Here's why the renminbi is likely to rise soon.
To maintain a fixed exchange rate, China has had to buys tens of billions of dollars every month in order to resist the pressure toward currency appreciation caused by the inundation of foreign capital into its too-cheap markets.
As if that weren't enough, China's exchange rate policy is throwing a spanner into the work of policymakers to get developed economies humming along again. As the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates to jump-start America, the dollar depreciated relative to other currencies. Since the renminbi was tied to the dollar, U.S. exports gained little to no advantage against China, while Europe suffered further. China effectively "piggybacked" American efforts.
As Krugman explains, "In the current environment, with high unemployment around the world and policy interest rates as low as they can go, this is a predatory, beggar-thy-neighbor policy."
Throughout this saga, China complains bitterly about high inflation, and laments its extensive holdings in dollars. As both Bernanke and a group of Citigroup analysts noted, currency appreciation would help tame China's inflation, helping it buy the natural resources it so desperately needs.
How now, Mao?
As I hinted above, one solution to this situation is for China to allow the renminbi to appreciate relative to the dollar. That's the line taken by the Obama administration, which recently informed China that currency policy will occupy a prominent place in their economic talks.
If China were to allow its currency to appreciate, the immediate effect would be to hurt its export-reliant industries such as manufacturing. That increase in costs would slap major importers from China such as Wal-Mart
However, the currency move would help American companies that are quickly expanding Chinese operations. Starbucks
But rather than haphazardly buying Chinese stocks and hoping that American and Chinese politicians can come to an agreement, a better strategy is to find absolutely solid Chinese companies that are thriving now and will continue to thrive if and when the renminbi appreciates. Then currency gains can become the tailwind to a great investment.
Stocks such as these would be likely winners from currency appreciation:
Trailing Return on Equity
Trailing P/E
China Mobile
China Green Agriculture
RINO International
Environmental Services
Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's.
By buying an efficient and reasonably priced company such as China Mobile, you have the opportunity to profit from an undervalued company as well as the appreciation of the renminbi. Better still, your investment gains in dollar terms even if the stock's relative valuation remains the same. That is, because currency appreciation is driving the stock up and not investors willing to pay a higher P/E, a cheap company is still cheap and you've captured a currency gain for free. Tack on the power of multiple expansion, and you can quickly see blockbuster returns.
An interesting proposition
There is plenty of noise in policy circles about China's cheap currency, but of course China is not the only place where you can use exchange rates to juice your returns. At Motley Fool Global Gains, advisors Tim Hanson and Nathan Parmelee have recommended rock-solid companies across the globe whose stocks are poised to gain from excellent fundamentals and a falling dollar. You can read all about them by clicking here to join Global Gains free for 30 days.
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Cities and counties can't stop U.S. immigration officials from sifting through local police records to root out illegal immigrants, even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement has characterized the program as voluntary since it started up two years ago, federal documents show.
When a local law authority arrests someone, it submits his or her fingerprints to the FBI to confirm identity and check for a previous criminal record. That's been a standard part of the booking process in every police agency in America for decades.
Under the disputed program, called Secure Communities, the FBI automatically shares those fingerprints with ICE, which checks to see whether the person is in its database for any reason. If not, ICE steps out of the picture. But if so, ICE then looks more closely to determine whether the person is "eligible for deportation" — either by being in the country illegally or by holding a green card that's been invalidated by a previous conviction.
If that's the case, ICE can begin proceedings to take the person into federal custody for possible deportation. While the Secure Communities standard operating procedures (PDF) say ICE "normally" won't remove a "criminal alien" until the local case is resolved, they specify that the agency can begin the process to do so "at the time of booking" so it can move quickly once the case is concluded.
What is Secure Communities?
When Secure Communities began in October 2008, it outlined four major goals:
• Identify and process all criminal aliens subject to removal while in federal, state and local custody.
• Enhance ICE detention strategies to ensure no removable alien is released into the community because of a lack of detention space or an appropriate alternative to detention.
• Implement removal initiatives that reduce the time aliens remain in ICE custody before removal.
• Maximize cost effectiveness and long-term success through reduced recidivism.
The program has been implemented in phases since it was created late in the administration of President George W. Bush, and ICE now reviews all arrests in more than 650 cities and counties in 33 states. The Obama administration, which has strongly backed the program it inherited in January 2009, said it hopes to implement Secure Communities nationwide by 2013.
Some local elected officials in nearly every state have objected to Secure Communities, news reports show, citing concerns that immigrants will stop cooperating with police as witnesses for fear of running afoul of ICE.
Some immigration activists also allege that it's being used as a dragnet to round up illegal immigrants indiscriminately. ICE vigorously disputes that, but its own statistics (PDF) reveal that 78 percent of the 56,358 people deported through the program through August, the last date for which full figures were available, hadn't been convicted of a violent crime. Twenty-six percent had no criminal convictions at all.
Concerns like those have led at least four communities — San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; Arlington County, Va.; and Santa Clara County, Calif. — to formally request to opt out of Secure Communities.
This is where things get confusing.
'Yes or no?'
Since Secure Communities began rolling out in October 2008, ICE has indicated that local participation is voluntary. As recently as August, it outlined a process for local officials to object and to negotiate a resolution that "may include ... removing the jurisdiction from the deployment plan."
At the same time, ICE's internal documents make it clear that the agency has always considered Secure Communities to be a federal-only program in which local officials have no say. Just last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she didn't "view this as an opt-in/opt-out program."
So which is it? Can cities and counties opt out?
Targets of Secure Communities
ICE proclaims that Secure Communities is intended to target "dangerous criminals," with a priority on the most dangerous "criminal aliens" in local or federal custody based on a sliding scale:
• Level 1 – Individuals who have been convicted of major drug offenses and violent offenses, such as murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery and kidnapping.
• Level 2 – Individuals who have been convicted of minor drug offenses and property offenses, such as burglary, larceny, fraud and money laundering.
• Level 3 – Individuals who have been convicted of other offenses.
Its own deportation statistics could be interpreted to tell a different story. Of the 56,358 people deported under Secure Communties since its inception in October 2008 through Aug. 31, 2010:
• About 22 percent were found to have committed Level 1 crimes.
• About 41 percent were found to have committed Level 2 crimes.
• About 12 percent were found to have committed Level 3 crimes.
• About 26 percent were never convicted of any crime.
Sources: ICE procedural records; Secure Communties monthly statistics report (September 2010)
ICE officials have repeatedly refused to clarify whether local jurisdictions can prevent ICE from using their police records to identify deportable illegal aliens. Asked to explain conflicting language in ICE documents that appears to characterize Secure Communities as both mandatory and optional, spokesmen for the agency said they couldn't comment.
That frustrates local officials in jurisdictions that are seeking to opt out of the program.
"Is there an opt-out — yes or no?" asked J. Walter Tejada, a member of the Arlington County Board in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, which recently voted to opt out, only to learn it couldn't. "We have had a number of conflicting statements on the part of ICE."
Some activists in the debate over illegal immigration accuse the Obama administration of deliberately leaving the issue in doubt until after the 2012 election, out of fear that confirming it's mandatory could weaken support for Democratic candidates in jurisdictions with large immigrant populations.
"The word I would use is 'duplicitous,'" said Jessica Vaughan, policy director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports tighter controls on immigration, including the Secure Communities program. "They are telling people what they want to hear, not what they mean."
ICE tries to set the record straight
It's understandable that local governments would think they could opt out: ICE has indicated in numerous documents distributed to local officials that Secure Communities cannot "activate" or "deploy" in a jurisdiction without their explicit consent.
That begins with the program's 11-page document outlining standard operating procedures, which state that it's subject to "adoption by participating county and local law enforcement agencies" and which "requests" the cooperation of local law enforcement authorities — instead of telling them what to do.
Official response from ICE
Following is the response from Brian P. Hale, director of public affairs for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to written questions from msnbc.com about Secure Communities:
Secure Communities does not require state and local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law. Instead, the program rests on the sharing of information between federal partners, and ICE independently enforces the immigration law as appropriate if a person in criminal custody is subject to removal proceedings.
Secure Communities agreements are generally reached at the State level and activated locally on a set schedule. ICE seeks to work with local law enforcement agencies to address any concerns and determine next appropriate steps. If a jurisdiction does not wish to activate on its scheduled date in the Secure Communities deployment plan, it must formally notify both its state identification bureau and ICE.
ICE officials did not respond to requests to clarify the statement and declined multiple requests for direct interviews.
Then, in January 2009 — as the new Democratic administration of Barack Obama was taking office — David J. Venturella, executive director of Secure Communities, said in a letter (PDF) to the FBI accompanying a memorandum of understanding with California officials that participation in the program "requires a signed statement of intent" at the county and local level.
By this summer, as the program expanded to encompass hundreds of jurisdictions along the Mexican border — including most of Texas, California and Arizona — immigration activists began raising more questions about Secure Communities. In August, ICE responded with a talking-points memo titled Setting the Record Straight (PDF).
One "false claim" addressed in the memo, dated Aug. 17, is that there was "widespread confusion about how jurisdictions can choose not to participate."
The truth, the memo said, is that local officials can request a meeting where both sides can "discuss any issues" and "come to a resolution, which may include ... removing the jurisdiction from the deployment plan."
But local officials who object to Secure Communities said ICE has never honored those promises.
In August, Miguel Márquez, legal counsel for Santa Clara County, Calif., sent ICE a request for clarification (PDF) highlighting the requirement for adoption by local agencies in the standard operating procedures, which he said "appear to describe Secure Communities as a program that is voluntary for counties."
But "nothing in the standard operating procedures explains ... what the mechanism for 'adoption' is, or whether they can opt out instead if they so choose," Márquez wrote.
As to the local "statement of intent" in Venturella's January 2009 letter, Márquez reported that he had been "unable to find any further information" and that "no department in Santa Clara County has been asked to sign one."
That scenario sounded familiar to Eileen Hirst, chief of staff for San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey, who has also sought to opt out of Secure Communities because it appears to conflict with San Francisco's 20-year status as a "sanctuary city" for immigrants.
Hirst said her department has never been asked to sign anything approving Secure Communities. In fact, at a meeting with state and federal officials in April, ICE representatives said there were no documents to sign at all, Hirst said.
And Tejada, of Arlington County, Va., said his board waited until after ICE issued its August memo to take a vote on opting out. It was still turned down.
"'Setting the Record Straight,'" he said, laughing. "What a name!"
What are 'next appropriate steps'?
Other local government and police leaders said they, too, have tried to decline to participate in the program but have been rebuffed. They said they were told that ICE is happy to discuss their concerns and that it could consider delaying the date their jurisdiction is "activated."
But, they said, ICE's responses never address their actual request: Can we opt out of the program itself?
Documents quoted in this story
Following are copies of documents quoted in this report (.pdf). These and all other documents referred to in reporting this story were obtained by msnbc.com or by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit activist group that opposes the Secure Communities program, and available on its Web site.
• Secure Communities Standard Operating Procedures
• Secure Communities deportation statistics
• Letter from Secure Communities executive director to the FBI
• ICE "Setting the Record Straight" memo on Secure Communities
• San Mateo, Calif., letter to ICE requesting clarification of Secure Communities
• DHS reply to request for information from Rep. Zoe Lofgren
• May 2010 ICE report to Congress on Secure Communities
• Secure Communities field training manual
When an msnbc.com reporter asked numerous ICE officials that question, they wouldn't answer. And they said they couldn't discuss why they couldn't comment.
In a two-paragraph statement this week in response to detailed written questions, Brian P. Hale, ICE's director of public affairs, wrote that "ICE independently enforces the immigration law as appropriate" and "seeks to work with local law enforcement agencies to address any concerns and determine next appropriate steps."
He did not say what those steps might include, and ICE said it couldn't elaborate.
That's essentially the same answer Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration and border security, got when she fired off a letter in July asking for "a clear explanation of how local law enforcement agencies may opt out of Secure Communities by having the fingerprints they collect and submit ... checked against criminal, but not immigration, databases."
Napolitano's reply (PDF) six weeks later didn't answer Lofgren's question. Instead, it repeated ICE's mantra that local authorities should notify ICE if they don't want to "participate in the Secure Communities deployment plan," without saying whether they could actually be allowed to opt out.
Top priority: 'Identify and process all criminal aliens'
It seems, in fact, that ICE never meant for local authorities to have a say.
Dozens of Secure Communities technical documents and other ICE communications make it clear that the program is intended to eventually review the immigration status of every person arrested in the United States.
In its original organizing documents and in quarterly reports to congressional committees, ICE declares that the first priority for Secure Communities is to "identify and process all criminal aliens subject to removal while in federal, state and local custody."
In its field training manual, ICE tells agents that "Secure Communities is committed to improving public safety by identifying, detaining and removing all criminal aliens held in custody and at large."
And: "Secure Communities will expand the capability to screen for criminal aliens to all local jails and booking stations electronically as individuals are brought into custody."
Local officials can disapprove all they want. The idea, ICE said in a report to Congress (PDF) in May, is to create "a virtual ICE presence at jails and booking locations in jurisdictions across the country."
That hasn't stopped communities from trying to break free anyway.
In California, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously late last month to send formal notice asking ICE to stop using fingerprints collected in the county, even if it turns out the request has no official effect.
Board member George Shirakawa acknowledged that the vote was "merely symbolic." But he said it was still important because it "sends a message."
"We are not going to create an atmosphere of fear in our communities," he declared.
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Brand theories
A few weeks ago a colleague of mine inquired about the newest thinking of how to build brands in today's world, either for the relaunch of old brands or for the introduction of complete new brands. This very simple but important question puzzled me a bit and I realized quickly that I did not have a fast and good answer.
Over the last weeks I explored the latest trends, books, and thinking to provide a more comprehensive and powerful answer. I am not done yet but in this quest I learned a few things that seemed relevant:
- Any recent brand literature and concepts focus stronger than ever in the past on the design element of the brand building equation. It's not just the success of a design oriented brand like Apple but as well the need to reinvent and differentiate new brands in a very commoditized environment (e.g. Method and their uniquely designed bottles)
- Some of the more popular recently published brand books link the definition of new or relaunched brands to classical defined archetypes (relying on Jung's thinking about archetypes). A brand can only be successful if it is clearly identified and linked to one of the many archetypes that human beings relating to. Brands are more than ever devices that tell stories, both about themselves and the consumer buying and using the brand.
- A lot of trade marketing articles talk about the power of consumers to launch brands but most of these articles forget that there is still always an original brand inventor who came up with the brand concept. It seems that the power of consumers are more relevant in designing the right communication architecture that any brand needs to be successfully launched, nurtured, and set up for long-term growth than in the conceptual launch phase of a brand.
- There is a recent trend to bring in more scientific ways of understanding the impact and purpose of brands for the unconscious part of consumer's minds. Behavioral economics and Neuro-Science have brought a fresh wave of methodologies and experiments to increase the success of newly and relaunched brands. We can expect more from these academically driven disciplines.
Today's "practice" of brand launch and building seems to follow less two or three predefined proven concepts than a broad array of barely tested methods. This practice has entered an almost playful test ground for many different ways without one best approach. This is probably good news for all of us. I predict the discipline and practice of brand launches to oscillate stronger and stronger between heavily scientific and thoroughly tested ways (in which behavioral economics and neuro-science might play a growing role) and the power of a simple huge brand concept that was born and developed in the lonely brain of a smart person.


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Game #158: Jays at O's pregame
Toronto (80-77) at Baltimore (67-90)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Camden Yards
Today's lineups:
Reed Johnson, RF
Matt Stairs, 1B
Alex Rios, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
Adam Lind, LF
Russ Adams, 3B
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay (15-7, 3.71 ERA)
Brian Roberts, 2B
Melvin Mora, DH
Nick Markakis, RF
Miguel Tejada, SS
Kevin Millar, 1B
Ramon Hernandez, C
Scott Moore, 3B
Jay Payton, LF
Tike Redman, CF
PITCHING: RHP Victor Zambrano (0-2, 6.41 ERA)
NOTES: Hitting coach Mickey Brantley discussed his upcoming departure from the Jays today. He was informed during the club's last homestand that he would not be returning as the Jays hitting coach in '08. Manager John Gibbons and GM J.P. Ricciardi declined comment, which sort of says it all, doesn't it? … I also talked to Johnson about the club's noncommittal stance on his future with the team. Check the Jays notebook online later for that. … McDonald is set to undergo surgery to correct his sports hernia on Tuesday in Philadelphia.
BREAKING EVEN…Toronto needs to post a 2-3 record over its final five games to finish the season above .500.
entering Wednesday
1. Boston 93-64 (–)
2. New York 90-67 (3)
entering Wednesday
1. New York 90-67 (–)
2. Detroit 86-72 (4.5)
entering Wednesday
1. Cleveland 93-63 (–)
2. Boston 93-64 (0.5)
2. Los Angeles 92-66 (2)
4. New York 90-67 (3.5)
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A sports hernia for McDonald. What else would it be called, a sportswriters hernia?
heh, a sports hernia is different than a normal hernia.
I have heard that before, never had one before.
Donovan McNabb had a sports hernia back in 2005.
I think it is funny when they call it a sports hernia.
I really think the upper management of this club should have a session with Ted Rogers about how to deal with the press, because clearly they don't know how. Godfrey has never known, of course Godfrey has never known a lot about anything so that's not a surprise.
Continually, they keep messing up. They have The National Post release a story that Mickey isn't being resigned-how stupid is that-I mean who in **** ever reads The Post and why are they the guys releasing the story.
How does that make Mickey and any other coach or employee feel about working for us feel?
Is that a valid question?
This isn't the first issue. Remember Ryan having a back problem and then JP tells the press-of course I lied, but I knew the truth.
Do they not understand they live and die by the press.
Ted Rogers, You'd better set these idiots on the right track and do it soon before they hurt a great franchise.
These guys are a joke.
Since you are the guy who convinced Abner to start Banks tommorrow, I think it's only fair that you manage the team for the game.
8 runs in the first inning….Mickey Brantley must be enjoying this….
against a pitcher that JP signed!!!!!
So, I'm at work today and about 12:30 decide to go for lunch.
I wasn't that hungry so I decided to just grap a hot-dog and coke from the street vendor on the corner.
So I take the elevator downstairs and walk up Jarvis along the side of the campus (the Rogers Inc Campus) and who do I see standing beside an expensive car talking on his cellphone?
. . .
Uncle Ted!!
But, I didn't have the heart to stop and tell the old guy that his team *****.
Oh well, maybe next time.
Just so you aren't misled about the media's role, we aren't typically handpicked by the Blue Jays to "release" news. John Lott of the National Post got the story because he asked Brantley, who was more than willing to open up about the news. The team has yet to announce anything on the matter. It's sort of like the Vernon Wells injury in August. I didn't report that because the team wanted me to. I reported it because I obtained the information from Wells and Brantley. There are some occasions when the team might play favorites with a certain publication or writer, but this Brantley situation wasn't one of them. You have to give credit to the writer for breaking the news.
Believe me, I have had enough dealings with the press to understand exactly how they work. The issue here is clearly, the Jays do not understand. I give full marks to John Lott from The Post-he's obviously a good reporter.
The point is, once the Jays talked to Mickey, they should have realized the story would break, and they should have been the ones breaking the story. That is the professional way of doing things.
Instead they sat on their hands, said nothing and waited for a good reporter to dig up the news and make them look like the idiots they are.
That is my point.
Maybe the Jyas hould hire you to deal with press relations-because who ever has that job isnt doing it well or properly.
Nice first inning though
Wow are the Orioles bad. They in the times of Cal Ripken they were amazing to watch, and now their like the Pirates of the american league. Hope they can spin Tejada into some decent pitching.
It's to bad to see Mickey go, if he had anything to do with making Aaron Hill a better hitter, which i think he did, i think he's done a very admirable job. It's too bad they felt like someone had to take the fall for this season.
Mickey Brantley should go what has he done for Toronto,
The team only hit 284 last year.
This year Hill became a great hitter.
How about matt stairs great year for him.
Over half the players on the DL this year.
Brantley is a great hitting coach who did a great job in Toronto.
I hope he finds a team who can see and understand his value.
Good luck Mickey.
JP you are a jack **** the man who should be leaving is your best and only friend Gibbons.
It's to bad rogers can't see beond the gate money or you would be gone too.
It's Abner not Gibby. lol
JP is again showing us why he shouldn,t be a GM.You can't fault Brantley for the offensive drop this year when the big hitters were hurt most of the season.He done a great job with those who were healthy.With Glaus,Wells,Johnson,Zaun and Overbay either out or hurting the whole offensive approach should have been changed.Playing small-ball and scratching out runs was in order.That should have been the manager's job.Brantley is the scape goat for management's impotence!
Johnson Comments
I like how Reed Johnson has responded to the Jays lack of confirming him as a regular for next year. A lot of guys would whine, say trade me and pout.
Reed has taken it as a challenge and promises to work harder in the off season to prove he belongs in the "elite lead-off hitter" group.
I for one, believe he will come back and be very effective. Will he hit .319 and have an obp of .390 in 2008-probably not. But I do think he can hit .300 with an OBP of .340-.350.
Reed can bunt, has reasonable speed, is prepared to hang in there and get hit, can hit to all fields and plays exeptional defense.
Reed is driven to perform in 2008-I hope all of our hitters come back with the same drive and passion.
No one else has performed in that lead off role all year-why I dunno. But Reed relishes the role and I for one hope we don't trade him in the off season.
If Reed Johnson is healthy, the Jays are nuts to get rid of him. I love players like him. I wish he was in a Boston uniform. Not afraid to take one for the team and plays the game hard and all out. You will never see Johnson take a play off, that is not his style. I'm sure he is one of the more respected guys in that clubhouse. A fan favorite in Toronto for sure. He plays the game the right way and you have to respect a guy for that. As we all know some athletes loaf and take games off. Johnson is a total hustle guy.
How about Johnson for Drew and Lugo and 12 mill in cash per year?
I'm a Lugo guy.
Drew has been hitting well lately, driving the ball more. His contract though is just terrible. 14 million per year and he isn't even a run producer. Guys that make that kind of money should be changing games and carry the team on his back for a week or so.


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Synopsis of the Cutting Edge Course Design Approach
Developed by Barbara J. Tewksbury (Hamilton College) and R. Heather Macdonald (College of William and Mary)
This web page provides a short synopsis of the key elements in our course design process. We hope that you are intrigued enough to explore and use our approach.
Overall philosophy
We believe that a course should do more than provide students with a strong background of knowledge in a field.
- We believe that a course should enable students to use their strong backgrounds to solve problems.
- A truly valuable course should focus beyond the final exam to add to students' future lives, abilities and skill sets and prepare students to think for themselves in the discipline after the course is over.
- Designing such a course is a challenge and involves providing not only opportunities for students to master content but also opportunities for students to practice thinking for themselves in the discipline so that they will be prepared to do so after the course is over.
Our Tutorial provides a process to help faculty design just such a course.
The design process
Course context. Teaching a course involves making choices about what an instructor will ask students to do and why. External factors such as course size, context, student demography, and support structure are significant and should influence the choices that need to be made during course design. We begin the design process by having faculty articulate who their students are, what they need during the course, and what they might need in the future.
Setting overarching goals. The heart of our course design approach involves having faculty set student-focused goals that enable students, at an appropriate level, to think for themselves in the discipline, not just expose them to what professionals know. Faculty set goals that focus the course on developing students' abilities to think for themselves and solve problems in the discipline while still addressing mastery of content.
- analyze the modern geologic processes in an unfamiliar area and assess potential hazards to humans (which is different from recalling those covered in class).
- analyze how a culture's ideas about music determine/influence the musical activities, repertoires, and material objects (instruments, documents, media) of a music-culture and to interpret their own music-culture in light of knowledge about music-cultures from other "worlds".
- evaluate the historical context of an unfamiliar event.
- formulate the definition of a hero based upon examination of heroes from pre-1500 C.E. literature and history ad to apply and test that definition to representations of heroes from various cultures and societies.
- analyze aspects of the Information Age from a sociological perspective and apply sociological theory within the context of the Information Age.
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- develop and test age-appropriate lesson plans.
- analyze pupil characteristics, classroom performance, and learning environments and be able to design, implement, and assess lesson plans that would enhance spoken language learning in hearing-impaired children.
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- predict the outcome of ____
- synthesize past and present events in deaf heritage to formulate a personal understanding of their experiences as deaf or hard of hearing individuals; analyze a current event in Deaf Heritage that may generate ethical or personal issues for the future.
- research and evaluate news reports of a natural disaster and communicate analyses to someone else
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Setting ancillary skills goals. Before proceeding to content and course plan, faculty will set one or two ancillary skills goals for their students (e.g., improving writing, teamwork, oral presentation).
Choosing content to achieve overarching goals. Every field is awash in more than a semester's worth of content, and every one of us faces decisions about what content to include and what content to omit. We ask faculty to make decisions about content by considering what general content topics could be used to achieve the overarching goals they have set for their students, rather than by making a laundry list of content that students should be exposed to.
Developing a course plan. A course plan includes not only the goals and the content topics, but also the order of content and concepts in each broad content topic, and how students will receive goal-related practice with increasing independence as they encounter content and concepts. We ask faculty to choose appropriate classroom, assignment, and assessment strategies that both help students learn effectively and allow the instructor to evaluate whether students have met the goals.
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In these free, privileged United States, the phrase "Sex in the City" conjures up a premium-cable experience of hot nights, cool fashion, heavy appetizers and relationship angst so light it might fly away on the West Village breeze. But whither real sex in the city of Minsk in the totalitarian state of Belarus, an ignominious anachronism of Europe just north of Ukraine and southeast of Lithuania? If a brutal dictator controls the narrative, can a city and its feared citizens still be sexual, if to be sexual means, at its core, to be free?
In Minsk, we're told, people get nervous if you hold their gaze for more than three seconds. To do so is to invite trouble. How can one love in that arena?
"Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker," the latest production from the remarkable, exiled artists known as the Belarus Free Theatre, spends 90 minutes, a 90 minutes at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater one won't soon forget, trying to answer such very complicated questions about survival in a harsh land. On the one hand, the answer seems to be very much in the negative. "To be sexy in Minsk," observes one of the company's actors, who all hail from Belarus, a land to which they cannot presently return, "does not mean that you want sex."
That might sound paradoxical, but the point being made is that, in a totalitarian nation, the sexualized individual, and we are all sexualized individuals to some extent, inevitably comes to see sexual expression as a solo act, an expression of power, a means of getting ahead. People become, this piece notes, "sadomasochistic sophisticates" who brutalize themselves by night and in secret. As bizarre as some of his theories may have been, Wilhelm Reich understood this well: To control another human you must control their sexual expression or send it so far underground, it can never see the light of day. The denial of human dignity results in sexlessness. Dictators have known this as long as there have been dictators.
There is, as this show reveals in one astonishingly visceral vignette after another, a very short line from the John in the erotic bar to the secret police. History teaches us that interrogators love nothing so much as to revel in their sexual power.
And yet.
Remarkably, "Minsk, 2011" (conceived and directed by Vladimir Shcherban and on a U.S. tour including New York, Los Angles and Chicago) actually is also a love letter to the city of Minsk. As brutal as this intensely personal piece can be, it also celebrates the human capacity for finding sensual and collective expression in the cold, flat and the prosaic. If you have only fallen in love once, in only one city, does that not inherently make that a sexy city? Sure it does. "I've got nothing in Minsk," one of the performers says at one point, "but I can't imagine my life anywhere else."
Listen to that line, and listen to it you should, on a cold January night in Chicago, a city many of us love with a strange passion we don't even understand, and you can't help but think of Nelson Algren and his famous line about how "once you've become a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another" and how you may find "lovelier lovelies but never a lovely so real."
That is the way, I think, the members of the Belarus Free Theatre feel about their poor, sleeping, atrophied Minsk, with its population of close to 2 million souls, as they Skype home from their quarters in London. Perhaps it helps explain why our city has so embraced this theater company, which performed its astounding "Being Harold Pinter" here in 2011, after Chicago artists and institutions stepped up to help them get here. Artistic people, and their financial and moral supporters, were out in force Wednesday night on Navy Pier.
Really, one can almost cry for Minsk. One section deals with the city's relatively new subway — initially a place of pride, affection, community and, yes, lovers' assignations on the bridge that connects the two lines. Then there is an explosion and dead bodies and, well, that's one more sensual escape denied the local citizenry. A city's artery is ripped away, even after it has been repaired.
The crucially harsh themes notwithstanding, it is the beautiful, hopeful sections of this show that lodge themselves most determinedly in one's head. At one point in the piece — written and performed by Pavel Radak-Haradnitski, Dzianis Tarasenka, Siarhei Kvachonak, Yana Rusakevich, Maryna Yurevich, Viktoryia Biran, Aleh Sidorchyk, Yuliya Shauchuk and Kiryl Kanstantsinau — the flunkies of President Alexander Lukashenko, the nemesis of the Belarus Free Theatre, force the city's oppressed streetwalkers to come out in the day and clear a snowstorm.
It is intended as an indignity for the sexually deviant, but it ends up being a sensual, cleansing experience, as a clean sheet of white, in which one can twirl one's body, covers up so much of the gray.
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When: Through Sunday
Where: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier, 800 E. Grand Ave.
Running time: 90 minutes
Tickets: $20 at 312-595-5600 and chicagoshakes.com


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No Bing bang for Microsoft's Yahoo! marriage
Google's Android gets shot of MS
Bing's marriage with Yahoo! will be a phased affair not a big bang, Microsoft has revealed.
Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft's online services division, said Tuesday that Yahoo!'s switch to using Bing's search algorithms and its ad serving platform will happen in two steps in September and October.
The search algorithms will go first, followed by a switch from Yahoo!'s Panama ads platform to Bing's adCenter, Nadella told members of the press during a gathering in San Francisco, California.
"When it come to Panama migration, that's where we want to make sure quality is great - they [algorithmic and ads serving switch] will be staggered," Nadella said. "Our day jobs are to mange the complexity and physics underling this between September and October."
Until now, Microsoft has simply talked in terms of Yahoo!'s switch over to the underlying Bing infrastructure being a single event set for this autumn. The company has been saying it's on target to complete the switch ahead of the retail-friendly Holiday shopping season.
The staggered approach seems designed to ensure there's no drop off in either traffic or money from advertisers. Ad revenue is a lynch pin of the deal.
Microsoft will pay Yahoo! 88 per cent of revenue it makes from search from Yahoo! sites during the first five years of the companies' deal. Bing will drive search for Yahoo! properties such as its home page, mail, personals, and shopping.
Nadella noted "the premise" of Microsoft's deal with Yahoo! is to combine the marketplaces, so having a drop off in traffic and money would be, ahem, "problematic."
Microsoft also revealed that it's developing a version of Bing for handsets powered by Android, the OS from its number-one search rival, Google.
Bing engineers demonstrated Microsoft's search engine running on a Samsung device at the San-Francisco event, although it would not reveal the carrier.
Nadella would not give a date for delivery if Bing on Android, but Microsoft typically updates Bing on a weekly basis and likes to brief press and analysts on Bing's progress every six months – recapping recent changes and upcoming updates. It's therefore reasonable to assume Bing will land on Android sometime before January 2011.
Microsoft has already struck a deal with handset provider Motorola to put Bing on its Android phones, starting with devices in China in the first quarter. Bing was due to become available as a widget either via pre-load or over-the-air download.
Mobile is an important part of Microsoft's growth strategy for Bing. A Bing widget was made available for Apple's iPhone six months ago and updated to version 1.2 last week. Microsoft claimed 4.3 million Bing-for-iPhone download to-date in the US.
As a whole, Bing mobile has 23 million users with 160 per-cent year-on-year growth in queries – from a base of zero – and people switching from using WAP on Bing to HTML to search maps and pictures. Images are one of Bing mobile's most popular search categories. ®
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Today's banks are facing a blizzard of regulatory change and profound choices about their future. Changing regulations, including The Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Basel Committee's BCBS 239, all affect how banks deliver data to their customers. To both comply and remain competitive, banks need to take a unified approach to the new regulations, which is not easy when the implications of the new rules are not always clear and may continue to evolve.
The implementation of PSD2 in January 2018 will be a seismic shift. Among other things, PSD2 will regulate new types of payment institutions and make banks open their systems through APIs. Although there will be a time lag between the PSD2 compliance deadline and the final Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), banks should not delay their development of solutions that blend a frictionless customer experience with strong security.


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New albumBuy now
New Record Seeds Available Now
TV On The Radio have released their new album Seeds, their first full-length in three years via Harvest Records.
Seeds is available in digital, LP and CD formats. Get yours now!
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VINYL (featuring 2 bonus songs):
TVOTR Official Store (special limited bundles)
Urban Outfitters (special edition)
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Newbury Comics (with signed booklet)
TV On The Radio… on the radio!
Check out our interview and performance on NPR's World Cafe on Monday, December 1st at 5PM EST.
Nine Types of Light
- 1 Second Song
- 2 Keep Your Heart
- 3 You
- 4 No Future Shock
- 5 Killer Crane
- 6 Will Do
- 7 New Cannonball Blues
- 8 Repetition
- 9 Forgotten
- 10 Caffeinated Consciousness
Dear Science
- 1 Halfway Home
- 2 Crying
- 3 Dancing Choose
- 4 Stork & Owl
- 5 Golden Age
- 6 Family Tree
- 7 Red Dress
- 8 Love Dog
- 9 Shout Me Out
- 11 Lover's Day
Return to Cookie Mountain
- 1 I Was A Lover
- 2 Hours
- 3 Province
- 4 Playhouses
- 5 Wolf Like Me
- 6 A Method
- 7 Let The Devil In
- 8 Dirty Whirl
- 9 Blues From Down Here
- 10 Tonight
- 11 Wash The Day Away
- 12 [ambient audio]
- 13 Snakes and Martyrs
- 14 Hours (El-P Remix)
- 15 Things You Can Do
New Health Rock EP
- 1 New Health Rock
- 2 The Wrong Way
- 3 Modern Romance
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
- 1 The Wrong Way
- 2 Staring At The Sun
- 3 Dreams
- 4 King Eternal
- 5 Ambulance
- 6 Poppy
- 7 Don't Love You
- 8 Bomb Yourself
- 9 Wear You Out
- Happy Idiot (Official Music Video)
- Happy Idiot (Official Lyric Video)
- Careful You (Official Lyric Video)
- Seeds (Album Teaser)
- Happy Idiot
- Second Song
- Caffeinated Consciousness
- You
- Nine Types Of Light
- Will Do
- Golden Age
- Dancing Choose
- Shout Me Out
- Make Love All Night Long
- Stork & Owl
- Wolf Like Me
- Blues From Down Here
- Province
TV on the Radio gets to do anything. Like a small platoon whose pleasing impenetrability is their core, the band consistently confounds expectations while managing to balance respect from critics and peers alike. The result is TV on the Radio gets to do anything they want. This freedom is their engine.
"It's about doing what feels right," says singer Tunde Adebimpe. "I really feel like this band is something that is expansive and always changing and growing. If we wear our influences on our sleeve, it's a pretty crowded sleeve."
It's no different with Seeds, the new and fifth proper studio album that Adebimpe has made along with Jaleel Bunton, Kyp Malone, and David Andrew Sitek (who also produced it). Having long outlasted that early 2000s fascination with all things Brooklyn to which the hip willfully succumbed, they continue to conquer music on their own terms. This album serves as another step in continuing to heed their reputation as "the most vital, current band in America" (Associated Press).
This go-round the songs are immediate and triumphant, textured with storytelling hooks and possibly the most honest music this band has ever composed. They've hit a point where they're OK being straight-up beautiful without having to manipulate prettiness into whatever unforeseen shape.
Slate says Seeds has "TV on the Radio's best songs in years. They are sounding sharper than ever." And the band knows it. Adebimpe has already said this is the band's best record. Not a boast, just an observation.
"I feel like I knew it before we were done," he says immediately. "I was so excited by the songs while we were making them, I wanted to get more and more and more into it. The general feeling going into it was, 'We're still here. Our friendship with each other is so strong. Being in a band, at its best times, is like being... well, let's say whenever things are going really well, we're like 'cool, Voltron's back together.'"
The TV on the Radio guys are the type of people who go on hiatus and focus on music. They may take time between albums for their other endeavors, but they know when it's right to come together – especially when the music comes as easily and passionately as it did with case Seeds. The band found themselves collected in David Sitek's Los Angeles studio last year and recorded a couple of songs – "Mercy" and "Million Miles" and didn't want to stop.
"Those were just songs that we wrote because we hadn't written songs together in a while," says Sitek. "They came out really fast and inspired us to do it again – and then 'again' turned into the record."
Adebimpe and Sitek live in Los Angeles, Bunton and Malone reside in New York, but make no mistake: TV on the Radio is a quartet. To attempt to parse out exactly what each member does in the group would be to dismantle the fundamental essence of what makes TV on the Radio the monolithic anomaly they have been careful to cultivate and protect for more than a decade. They permeate beyond a wall of sound, and instead create a planetarium of music with every song. They embody many voices. Most of them can play just about anything. And sing too. They are equal partners in the creation of a type of noise that appeared seemingly out of nowhere over 10 years ago.
Throughout the years, TV on the Radio has been consistent in the standard they set for themselves. Earlier records, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babesand Return To Cookie Mountain stole the hearts of fans and critics alike just the same, winning the Shortlist Music Prize and Spin's Album of the Year respectively. Their breakout release Dear Science was named best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin Magazine, The New York Times, The Onion AV Club, MTV, even Entertainment Weekly. An embarrassment of riches, really. Their last album, 2011's Nine Types of Light, was deemed "pure heaven" by the cherubs at Rolling Stone, and earned the band a Grammy® nomination. The band has also graced the stages of Saturday Night Live and The Colbert Report.
"The band is it's own 'self.' It has to be that way," Adebimpe says. "That's been the goal for a long time. Nobody really wants to be the focal point for the band; the band should be the focal point. Not even the band: the music. We can show up and take credit for it, but ultimately it's something that maybe we helped shape and facilitate coming into the world. But that's all."
They happily recruit likeminded associates to help prop up this invention of theirs in the studio and on stage. (Kelis, for instance, appears on "Lazerray"). The band has recorded and performed with other artists who've conquered the music world on their own terms just as much as they have. Fellow mavericks like Trent Reznor, Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs fame, Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy, Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead, Martin Perna of Antibalas, Katrina Ford of Celebration, and David chuffing Bowie have all romped in the sandbox with TV on the Radio.
"If you share a material thing, it dissipates," Adebimpe says, recalling a fragment of philosophy he once heard, or might be improvising on the spot. "If you share a spiritual thing, it just increases. It becomes more and more and more. I'm already thinking about the next record."
Seeds is an expression of everything this band has been through in the last three years and more. They're influential, in their prime, they're TV on the Radio, and they've proven themselves to be one of the most important bands of this generation. It clicks, as it always does, and TV on the Radio is brand new again,again.
"No matter what you go through individually and collectively, when you step away from each other, you're kind of like, "I know that if we get together we can fire this thing," says Adebimpe. "It's definitely in the spirit of the punk rock we all grew up with. If you win, you're still a punk. If you lose, you're still a punk, and honestly, it's not about anybody else."
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- bookingDoug Singer
- labelJacqueline Rossi
- managementSara Newkirk Simon


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Cellphone reception to become clear in Clear Creek Canyon
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Drivers may now be able to get cellphone service in a previously dead part of Clear Creek Canyon, thanks to a deal allowing the Colorado Department of Transportation to tap into a private-sector fiber optic network.
The agreement will provide cell and radio service on Highway 6 from Golden to Interstate 70 and along Highway 119 near Black Hawk.
"Providing cellphone coverage into this area enhances safety by eliminating a historic blind spot for CDOT, the Colorado State Patrol and other emergency service providers who didn't, until now, even have radio coverage," CDOT regional director Tony DeVito stated in a release from the transportation agency. "In addition, this partnership is saving the state about $7 million, since that's how much it would have cost CDOT to build a similar system along both corridors, obtain power for the equipment and maintain the system."
The system has the capacity to provide service for all cellphone providers, but coverage may not be available through all wireless carriers in the area due to existing lease agreements, according to the statement.
CDOT will also be able to install additional services using the fiber optic line, including electronic message signs, which provide real-time traffic updates to drivers, a digital radio system allowing for two-way radio communication for emergency services and a road and weather information gathering system supplying maintenance teams with information about road surfaces during poor weather.
The agreement grants ownership of the fiber to CDOT, as well as power for the equipment and shared space on 32 poles along the line to install infrastructure.
In return, CDOT is providing the private owner, a company called Crown Castle International Corporation, access to right-of-way for the placement of a shared fiber optic line. Crown Castle agreed to maintain the fiber line for 20 years, an aspect of the deal that is renewable, according to the statement.
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Compact set of three nesting tables by Giotto Stoppino for Kartell. Playful design made of ink black injection-molded ABS plastic. Age-appropriate wear to the surface with no cracks. All tables are stamped on the underside. Italy, 1970s.
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About Blue Waters
Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. It can complete more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second on a sustained basis and more than 13 times that at peak speed. The peak speed is almost 3 million times faster than the average laptop. Blue Waters is also the fastest supercomputer at a university anywhere in the world.
It is not a powerhouse only in terms of speed, though. The machine architecture balances processing speed with data storage, memory and communication within itself and to the outside world in order to cater to a wide variety of scientific endeavors. A project may simulate the evolution of the cosmos, delve into fine-scale processes in molecular dynamics, or anything in between. Many of the projects require a large portion of the thousands of processors that constitute Blue Waters and would be difficult or impossible to run elsewhere.
Blue Waters is supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois; the National Center for Supercomputing Applications manages the Blue Waters project and provides expertise to help scientists and engineers take full advantage of the system for their research. The system opened up to the science community at large on March 28, 2013.
Cray Inc. supplied the hardware: 22,640 Cray XE6 nodes and 4,228 Cray XK7 nodes that include NVIDIA graphics processor acceleration. The XE6 nodes boast 64 GB of memory per node and the XK7s have 32 GB of memory. Blue Waters' dedicated storage system includes 26 petabytes of useable online storage for quick access while jobs are running and 380 petabytes of usable nearline tape storage for longer term data storage. For complete system details, see the System Summary.
Compare this to a typical laptop, which has one processor—1/16 of an XE node or 1/8 of a XK node—with 4 GB of memory and half a terabyte of storage.
Speaking of storage, the Blue Waters 3 file systems (home, projects, and scratch) provide room for over 24 PB of data with a combined 1 TB/s read/write rate. The 3 filesystems are assembled around Cray's Sonexion Lustre appliances. The scratch file system is one of the largest and fastest file systems Cray has ever provided.
To backup or store data from the file systems for longer periods a nearline tape environment was built using Spectra Logic T-Finity tape libraries, a DDN disk cache and IBM's HPSS. This system provides over 300 PB of tape storage and a 1.2 PB disk cache.
The supercomputer lives in a 20,000-square-foot machine room at the National Petascale Computing Facility (NPCF) on the western edge of the University of Illinois campus in Champaign, Illinois. NPCF earned a gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for its sustainable design.
Researchers interested in using Blue Waters can apply for an allocation through the NSF PRAC program. Members of the University of Illinois and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing (GLCPC) may apply through their organizations, too. There are also pathways for educational and industry projects.
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A Science and Engineering Team Advisory Committee (SETAC) brings together a diverse group of Blue Waters users to provide guidance on the project's growth and development. Representatives will make annual recommendations for positive change and improvement within the Blue Waters project.
Read the history of the Blue Waters project, from the awarding of the grant in 2007 to the system's launch into full operations.
If you would like to visit Blue Waters and learn more about NCSA, request a tour. Tours are scheduled based on staff availability Monday through Friday during standard working hours. It is best to contact us at least a week in advance to schedule your tour.
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BANNER ELK, N.C. - Lees-McRae College put up a four-goal second half en route to a 5-0 shutout victory over Pfeiffer University in Conference Carolinas women's soccer action on Saturday afternoon. A late tally in the first half started the scoring as the Bobcats improve to 7-3-1 overall, 6-1 in league play while the Lady Falcons drop to 5-6, 4-2.
Erica Allen scored the first of her two goals on the day with 1:52 to play in the first half. After the break, LeeAnn Sullivan found the back of the net just 39 seconds into the second stanza. Later in the 69th minute, Mary Beth Sullivan found the corner of the net before Allen and Sarah Mahar rounded out scoring over the final 12 minutes.
Lees-McRae took 16 shots on the day, 12 on frame while the Lady Falcons took four and three. Pfeiffer did have four corner kick opportunity being unable to cash in on the set pieces.
The Lady Falcons will now head to North Greenville for a matchup with the Crusaders at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday.