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Markets for agricultural products: Bananas16 December 2009
by Ina Dimireva -- last modified 16 December 2009
The European Union's common organisation of the market in bananas allows the EU market to receive satisfactory supplies of quality bananas at fair prices for producers and consumers and ensure a balance between the various sources of supply.
This market organisation had already been amended to take account of the switch to a tariff-only system from 1 January 2006,. At the end of 2006, the Council adopted a thorough-going reform of the CMO aimed primarily at allowing measures to reflect differing regional circumstances.
Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13 February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in bananas.
The products concerned are fresh and dried bananas (excluding plantains), frozen, provisionally preserved and prepared bananas, banana juice and banana flour, meal and powder.
The marketing year runs from 1 January to 31 December.
Common quality and marketing standards
The Commission lays down quality standards for bananas that are to be sold fresh to the consumer. The adoption of standards for products processed from bananas is optional. The Member States, through control bodies, must ensure that these rules are observed.
Producer organisations and the consultation mechanism
The existing provisions on producer organisations were repealed as part of the December 2006 reform.
Previously, support to encourage the setting-up of producer organisations recognised by the Member States had been granted for a period of five years.
Producer associations or organisations (which could also include processors and traders) could carry out measures of common interest, including applied research or training, and participate in the preparation of operational programmes. The rules adopted by these associations could be extended to non-members on condition that the rules of competition contained in the Treaty were observed.
As from 1 January 2007, the aid arrangements for the setting-up and administrative operation of producer organisation have been dropped. As compensatory aid no longer exists, having been incorporated into the single payment scheme under Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, one of the reasons for supporting producer organisations has ceased to apply.
Nevertheless, aid will continue to be paid to recently-recognised producer organisations that had already started to receive the support.
The December 2006 reform wound up the compensatory aid scheme that had applied until then. Production had been supported through operational programmes drawn up under the Community support frameworks and implemented by the competent authorities in the Member States in association with the Commission and producer organisations, associations and groups of operators. At least two of the following objectives had to be achieved:
- improvements in the preparation of the marketing of products;
- greater competitiveness;
- utilisation of resources which is mindful of the environment.
In order to offset any drop in income, associations of producers and individual producers unable to participate in a producer group on account of their geographical remoteness could receive compensation. The guaranteed Community quantity for which compensation could be claimed was 854 000 tonnes, allocated among the producer regions (Canary Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Madeira, Azores, Crete, Algarve and Lakonia). A guaranteed quantity of 13 500 tonnes had been granted to Cyprus in the accession negotiations. The Commission would determine the amount of the compensation each year in the spring.
As from 1 January 2007, there has been a switch from supporting production to supporting producers. This has involved dropping the compensatory aid arrangements and incorporating the associated funds into the single payment scheme established under Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.
An additional envelope of EUR 278.8 million will be added to the budget for the POSEI programme (programme d'options spécifiques à l'éloignement et à l'insularité) for the outermost regions.
Banana-producing areas other than the outermost regions (and thus not covered by the POSEI programme) will receive an additional EUR 4.5 million and come under the single (decoupled) payment scheme. The overall financial envelope will be based on average aid granted over an historical reference period of a number of years. It will be allocated according to relative shares in the year 2000.
Trade with non-EU countries (fresh bananas)
The customs tariff rate for imports of fresh bananas, as established under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, entered into force on 1 January 2006.
Switch to the single system (or tariff-only system)
On 1 January 2006, the market organisation for bananas switched to a tariff-only system with a single tariff of EUR 176 per tonne and a zero-duty tariff quota of 775 000 tonnes for bananas from the ACP countries.
The CMO reform adopted in December 2006 also involved repealing a number of provisions under Regulation (EC) No 404/93 that had become obsolete; these related to trade with non-EU countries prior to the entry into force of the tariff-only import system.
General measures
The common customs tariff rates for all products apply.
Charges having an effect equivalent to customs duties and the application of quantitative restrictions on imports or measures having equivalent effect are as a rule prohibited in trade with third countries.
Other provisions
Save where the Regulation contains provisions to the contrary, the Treaty rules on State aid apply to the banana sector.
The Member States and the Commission notify one another of the information necessary for implementing the Regulation.
The old Management Committee for Bananas, made up of representatives of the Member States and chaired by a Commission representative, was wound up under the December 2006 reform. The Commission will now be assisted by the Management Committee for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables.
In 2009, the Commission will present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the POSEI programmes. This will enable an in-depth analysis to be conducted as to the effectiveness of the reform and will cover the banana sector, as far as the main areas of production are concerned.
In view of the fact that the coverage of the CMO was extended to ten new Member States in 2004 and given the previous arrangements agreed with Ecuador and the United States in 2001, the Commission decided in 2005 that it would the following year propose a reform of the internal aspects of the CMO. In the reform, it places particular emphasis on the rules concerning the granting of aid to European producers.
The aim is also to undertake a thorough overhaul of the banana CMO so that it can be incorporated more easily into the Commission's proposal to subsume all existing sectoral CMOs into one single CMO.
Following an impact study carried out by the Commission on the various options for reforming the banana CMO, it was decided that the POSEI option - i.e. abolishing the existing system of producer support and transferring the funds previously devoted to the compensatory aid to the POSEI programmes - would be the most effective, as it means that the support can be given in the form most suited to regional circumstances.
Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 - 26.2.1993 - OJ L 160 of 26.6.1999
Amending acts:
Regulation (EC) No 3518/93 - 29.12.1993 - OJ L 320 of 22.12.1993
Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 - 1.1.1995 - OJ L 349 of 31.12.1994
Regulation (EC) No 1637/98 - 31.7.1998 - OJ L 210 of 28.7.1998
Regulation (EC) No 1257/99 - 24.5.1999 - OJ L 160 of 26.6.1999
Regulation (EC) No 216/2001 - 5.2.2001 - OJ L 31 of 2.2.2001
Regulation (EC) No 2587/2001 - 1.1.2002 (Partial application) - OJ L 345 of 29.12.2001
Regulation (EC) No 2036/2003 - 20.11.2003 - OJ L 302 of 20.11.2003
Regulation (EC) No 414/2004 - 7.3.2004 - OJ L 068 of 6.3.2004
Acts concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the EU. - 1.2.2004 - OJ L 236 of 23.9.2003
Regulation (EC) No 2013/2006 - 1.1.2007 - OJ L 384 of 29.12.2006
Transitional and specific measures
Commission Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 of 28 April 2004 on transitional measures for imports of bananas into the Community by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia [Official Journal L 127 of 29.4.2004]. Amended by Regulation (EC) No 1260/2004 [Official Journal L 239 of 9.7.2004].
Commission Regulation (EC) No 414/2004 of 5 March 2004 adopting specific measures with a view to adapting the arrangements for administering tariff quotas on banana imports as a result of the accession of new Member States on 1 May 2004 [Official Journal L 68, 6.3.2004].
Amended by:
Regulation (EC) No 689/2004 [Official Journal L 106 of 15.4.2004].
Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93 - Official Journal L 170 of 13.7.1993
Commission Regulation of 9 July 1993 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the aid scheme to compensate for loss of income from marketing in the banana sector. This Regulation was last amended by the following Regulation:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 908/2003 of 23 May 2003 [Official Journal L 128 of 24.5.2003].
Regulation (EC) No 471/2001 - Official Journal L 67 of 9.3.2001
Commission Regulation of 8 March 2001 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the aid scheme to compensate for loss of income from marketing in the banana sector.
Producer organisations
Regulation (EC) No 919/94 - Official Journal L 106 of 27.4.1994
Commission Regulation of 26 April 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards banana producers' organizations. This Regulation was last amended by the following Regulation:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1042/2002 of 14 June 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 919/94 [Official Journal L 157 of 15.6.2002].
Communication from the Commission on the modification of the European Community's import regime for bananas [COM(2004) 399 - Not published in the Official Journal].
The Community intends to negotiate, under the WTO, trade compensations for the increase in import duties for bananas resulting from the application of the EU 15 tariff to the new Member States. The Commission has asked the Council to adopt negotiating guidelines with a view to amending the obligations applicable to bananas in the Community tariff schedule for agricultural products. The Commission will notify the WTO subsequently. The Communication states that the Commission intends to defend the interests of banana growers in the EU and the ACP countries during the negotiations on the move to a tariff-only regime.
Regulation (EC) No 856/1999 - Official Journal L 108 of 27.4.1999
Council Regulation of 22 April 1999 establishing a special framework of assistance for traditional ACP suppliers of bananas.
Regulation (EC) No 1609/1999 - Official Journal L 290 of 23.7.1999
Commission Regulation of 22 July 1999 laying down the detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 856/1999 establishing a special framework of assistance to traditional ACP suppliers of bananas.
Protective measures
Regulation (EEC) No 1662/93 - Official Journal L 158 of 30.6.1993
Commission Regulation of 29 June 1993 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the conditions for the application of protective measures in the banana sector.
Report from the Commission on the operation of the common organisation of the market in bananas [COM(2005) 50, Official Journal C 125 of 24.5.2005]
This report provides an overview of the functioning of the common market organisation since 1999. It takes stock of the use of import licences. Between January 1999 and June 2001, virtually all the licences applicable to dollar bananas (from Latin America) were used. As for bananas from the ACP countries, the number of new countries on the market increased during the second half of 2001 and all the licences for the three quotas were used in 2001 (unlike in previous years). In January 2004, the European Community notified the WTO of the withdrawal of its schedule and those of the ten new Member States and the temporary application of the schedule covering the EU 25. In July 2004, the Commission notified the WTO of its intention to modify the bindings on bananas in the Community GATT tariff. The negotiations were launched in November 2004. Under the Special Framework of Assistance for traditional ACP banana suppliers, EUR 216.18 million were assigned to its beneficiaries between 1999 and 2003 (51% of this amount to the Windward Isles). The report analyses trends in the supply of the Community market. Total EU production increased overall by 3.5%, to 754 000 tonnes in 2003. The consumption of bananas within the Community market increased by 5% between 1999 and 2003. The evolution of imports from ACP countries has differed by country of supply. Between 1999 and 2003, imports from the Caribbean decreased, whereas imports from the Dominican Republic and Africa increased. Among the new Member States, Poland is the largest importer. CIF prices (cost, insurance, freight - at the border of the importing country) of green bananas increased by 8% between 1999 and 2003 (EUR 598 per tonne in 2003). The wholesale prices of yellow bananas on the EU market reached an average of EUR 808 per tonne over the same period.


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If you make movies that have anything to do with science, please note: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, pays attention.
Tyson pays so much attention, in fact, that he got James Cameron to fix the stars in the sky in Titanic for the recent 3-D rerelease. On Friday's Morning Edition, he talks to David Greene about this summer's big movies and how they stack up, science-wise. You should note that there is some talk in this conversation about what goes on in Prometheus, Men In Black 3 and The Avengers, so if you're desperately hoping to be surprised, you might tread cautiously.
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Men In Black III has an error in it, too — kind of like those stars over Titanic, they biffed it when it comes to the phase of the moon on the night before Apollo 11 launched. It's full in the film, and in reality it was — as he scientifically describes it — "a skinny, itty-bitty crescent."
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If you've been to the movies this summer, you might find yourself wondering who else is out there.
GREENE: "Men in Black 3," "Prometheus," even the "Avengers" all seem to feature themes of space travel, and, of course, aliens. Well, we couldn't think of a better person to talk to about these movies than astrophysicist Neal DeGrasse Tyson. He's director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Dr. Tyson, thanks so much for talking to us about the movies.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Thanks for having me.
GREENE: So can we start with "Prometheus"?
TYSON: Sure.
GREENE: You've seen it.
TYSON: I was there at 12:01.
GREENE: You were eager.
TYSON: 12:01 the morning it premiered, I was there.
GREENE: Well, first scene, and I really don't want us to give too much away to our listeners in case they haven't seen the movies we're going to talk about, but the first scene in "Prometheus," I mean, it seems to show this alien maybe planting the seeds of life on Earth, and I wonder if there's any realistic part of that whatsoever.
TYSON: Well, the unrealistic part of it is that's it's a humanoid alien planting DNA seeds to seed all of life on Earth, and most life on earth is not humanoid. In fact, most life on Earth is plant and bacterial. So if they were represent that accurately, it would be some kind of bacterium dropping its DNA into the oceans of Earth. But there is a notion called panspermia. It's the notion that life might have begun on another planet and this microbial life would then become a stowaway on rocks that would be cast back into space by asteroid impacts.
GREENE: What is your general reaction to space movies as an astrophysicist?
TYSON: I love them. The bigger the budget, the better.
TYSON: In the case of "Prometheus," it had a name-brand director, Ridley Scott, and there was some attempt to show what a future would be like, but there was a gaffe, I must tell you.
GREENE: Okay.
TYSON: Charlize Theron...
GREENE: The actress.
TYSON: ...in an attempt to assert how far away the ship is from Earth, says, we're a half billion miles from earth. And half billion, that's gets you like to Jupiter. You know, that's far from Earth by our modern standards, but by the standards of 2089, no. In fact, on a screen they showed how far away the ship was. It was 3.27 times 10 to the 14th kilometers, and so you convert that to light years and you get 35 light years. That is way farther away than from here to Jupiter. Sorry.
GREENE: Yeah. I was just writing all that down. That's the number I came up with too. Well, let's move to "Men in Black 3," and I know I'm not going to be spoiling anything if I say there are a lot of aliens, and also green slime. And, I mean, green slime and aliens, it goes back to my, you know, one of my favorite movies, "Ghostbusters" - you know, I've been slimed. But is there any reason to think that aliens would be slimy?
TYSON: Yeah. Every time they shot an alien, it blew up into a green mess, and none of them had red slime and I'm intrigued by that, because there's another way to carry oxygen through your body. You don't just need the iron, which accounts for your red blood. You can use copper. In fact, shellfish use copper, and so does Spock on "Star Trek."
GREENE: Hmm.
TYSON: And that's why they have green blood.
GREENE: Well, in "Men in Black 3" they go back in time to the launch of Apollo 11, of course a very notable event in space history. Did the filmmakers depict it accurately?
TYSON: I got to tell you. I was so moved by how they portrayed 1969. It wasn't just there's a launch, they went into the streets and you saw the newspaper headlines leading up to the launch, and you saw the interviews, and you saw the small black and white television, and you realized that was a time when people were dreaming about tomorrow.
GREENE: Hmm.
TYSON: Now, they did get something wrong, I got to tell you. So the night before the launch of Apollo 11, they show the moon in the sky and it's a full moon. The moon was so not full the night before the launch. It was a skinny itty-bitty crescent the night before they launched to the moon.
GREENE: I want to bring up a little more tape from one of the movies that we wanted to cover with you, and that's "The Avengers."
GREENE: You love to tweet, and you tweeted quite a bit about the movies, and one thing that kind of struck me was that you said there actually is a realistic explanation for the power of this hammer that Thor was carrying around.
TYSON: Oh, you know, that's awesome that he's the only would who could lift it, and they say where that hammer came from. It's forged from the core of a dying star, and a dying star, if it's of a certain variety, it could be made of neutron matter, and if it is, it is really dense and really heavy. Nobody's picking that thing up. You need the power of Thor to wield it.
GREENE: Well, let's get ourselves some Thor hammers if we have time.
TYSON: And we'll do a little - do a Thor hammer dance.
GREENE: Dr. Tyson, thanks so much for talking movies and aliens with us.
TYSON: Thank you. Happy to be on.
GREENE: Neil DeGrasse Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. His most recent book is "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Northern ReflectionsBetween November 13 - December 31st, Calgarians will have the unique opportunity to
participate in and engage with an immersive art experience unlike any other. Buds of
Buds Collective will be hosting their second annual Northern Reflections urban art
gallery through a series of painted windows that uses Augmented Reality (AR)
technology to animate each window through smartphone devices. The series will be
created by a variety of local artists and will stretch throughout Calgarys downtown core,
showcasing many participating local businesses and transforming the city streets into a
grand urban art-walk.
Augmented Reality (AR) adds graphics, sounds, touch and feedback into what we
already see in front of us, through a device like an app on your phone. AR uses an
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Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a story authored by Jeff Crider for Woodall's Campground Management examining the demand for Wi-Fi service by modern-day campers. To read the entire article click here.
Just over a decade ago, when private parks first began to invest in Wi-Fi systems, wireless Internet service was widely considered to be more of a luxury than a necessity.
After all, there weren't that many RVers traveling with laptop computers, and if parks offered Wi-Fi service in the campground office or an open computer with a dialup modem that guests could use, that was sufficient for most campers.
Of course, that state of affairs didn't last long.
While in the old days it was hard to imagine a single laptop computer inside every RV, today's RVing couples and families are not only likely to have a laptop for every family member, but an assortment of iPhones, blackberries and other handheld electronic devices as well.
All of these devices have dramatically increased the need for park operators to offer Wi-Fi service, and have made Wi-Fi service one of the most critical amenities parks can provide.
"It's absolutely an expected amenity," said Jim Ganley, co-owner of CheckBox Systems LLC in Gray, Maine. "For some folks, it ranks higher (in importance) than a swimming pool or restrooms."
In fact, people have become so accustomed to using Wi-Fi at home that they expect to have the same kind of Wi-Fi experience when they travel. And they increasingly want to be able to use their electronic devices in the comfort of their RV. It's no longer acceptable or convenient to go to the front office to use a computer.
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When you are living with or after cancer, becoming more active can be a positive change to make in your life. Evidence shows that physical activity can benefit people affected by cancer in several different ways. Research suggests that being physically active, along with eating a healthy diet, can help reduce the risk of recurrence for some cancer types and increase survival. It also helps reduce the risk of developing other health problems, such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Being active before, during and after treatment can:
- reduce tiredness (fatigue)
- improve your quality of life
- help look after your heart
- reduce anxiety and depression
- help you maintain a healthy weight
- strengthen your muscles, joints and bones
- improve your flexibility and help keep you supple
- increase your confidence.
At first, you might be nervous about starting and building up your activity, especially if you haven't been active for a while. You may worry that you are too tired, don't know how to start or don't know what is best for you to do. You may also be concerned about injuring yourself. But even a little physical activity is better than none at all. It can help you feel less stressed and lift your spirits if you're feeling low. It will also help you feel more in control, because you are doing something positive for yourself.


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Collector4 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
This logo must depict an online collector car company thats sells and buys vintage classic collector cars that range from Ferrari, Aston Martin, Jaquar, and Corvette to Pontiac GTO's, Chevelle's, etc.
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A winner was selected from 38 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Web 2.0 logo for a news and research company that provides original analysis on up and coming internet companies.
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This service will spot trends in data. If you can have something that visually represents that, it would be very cool.
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Read booklets about the emotional, physical and practical impacts of cancer and its treatment. Knowing what to expect can help you cope with cancer and life after treatment.
You'll meet lots of people who will work together to help you make the right treatment decisions. Find out about their roles and how they'll be able to help you.
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Polygon: "In 2010, Capcom tapped the talent behind Metroid Prime to bring Mega Man into the modern age — only to have the game suffer the fate of similar recent attempts to find a new audience for the 8-bit hero.
Codenamed Maverick Hunter, the first-person shooter had the blessing of Mega Man's creator and a talented team tasked with attracting a new generation of fans. But the departure of Keiji Inafune likely killed the most interesting take on the 25-year-old character to date."
Oh Capcom, is there nothing promising towards the Blue Bomber that you didn't cancel...
That feel when jokes from the internet actually turn out to be true.
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Cunningham's wants to be a restaurant for all moods and occasions, for anniversary dinners and impromptu weeknight meals. That's no easy trick. The atmosphere has to feel special but not overwhelming, and the food has to be captivating enough for serious diners but not intimidating to casual ones.
Cunningham's — the latest from the Bagby Restaurant Group, whose other restaurants include Ten Ten American Bistro and Fleet Street Kitchen — gets this right in so many ways.
The setting is the newly and impressively renovated Towson City Center located on the Towson roundabout. Cunningham's is set on the building's plaza level, and most diners will arrive at its entrance through the adjacent garage, where there's complimentary valet parking. But do yourself a favor and step out on the plaza, just to admire the glass-walled cube that houses Cunningham's snazzy bar.
The restaurant's main dining room, an enormous open rectangle, has been broken up into three smaller sections with a cunning use of platforms and dividers. Keeping the room big was a good idea, though; it gives the space energy. There are dramatic design elements — billowing light fixtures, a triumphant oversized banquette and mammoth white orchids — that make you feel like your hosts are ready for company.
The menu, in its own effort to be welcoming, overdoes it a bit.
There are separate sections for Table (shareable things) and Appetizers, which feels arbitrary, and separate listings for Entrees and Wood Grill, which feels unhelpful.
There are additional groupings of raw and chilled seafood, homemade pasta and gnocchi, and wood-oven flatbreads, but not much guidance about how those things should fit into a meal.
On one hand, this frees you up to improvise a meal, say, out of a few flatbreads and salad. But on a first visit, it can be intimidating. You also might miss something.
But don't overlook the plate of poached shrimp, served chilled with slices of avocado, grapefruit and a nest of pickled fennel, a great way to wake up your taste buds. And try the butternut squash toast, thick toasted bread slathered with a mixture of squash, creamy ricotta and maple syrup, which a dose of cider vinegar keeps from being cloying.
There is enthusiasm in every appetizer, and you can start to assemble a picture of the chef, Chris Allen, an experienced chef with roots in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Allen puts crunchy pretzel-encrusted oysters in a creamy, luxurious sauerkraut chowder and glams it up with candied mustard fruits, a touch of haute cuisine. He elevates homespun gnudi, a type of gnocchi made with ricotta cheese, with elegant chanterelle mushrooms, fragrant rosemary toasted pumpkin seeds and a warm butter sauce.
Dinner got even better as it went along. Anyone can come up with gimmicky, crowd-pleasing appetizers, but it takes skill and commitment to produce four close-to-perfect entrees like the ones we had.
An 18-ounce T-bone steak, a model of effective simplicity, was dressed only with a bone-marrow gremolata and a home-made steak sauce. Every bite was full of robust, rich, wood-fired flavor.
The elusive flavors of Arctic char, which restaurants have been offering as a sustainable alternative to salmon, were fully discovered in Cunningham's preparation, which used mild Asian flavors and a surprisingly subtle pumpkin-flavored broth. A rockfish entree showed off the skills of a well-run kitchen, from the finely diced autumn vegetable succotash to the adroit searing of the fish itself, which arrived moist and tender.
It was the chicken entree we wanted to dress with blue ribbons. Served with an ingenious baked-bean puree, cider-braised collards and a velvety gratin of potatoes and black trumpet mushrooms, there were both broad strips of juicy-as-can-be pan-roasted chicken breast and a flavor-dense thigh, which had been fried and formed, somehow, into a compact square.
From start to finish, there are amenities, including a high-flying cocktail program, a deep wine list with affordable choices, a basket of excellent baked-on-premises bread and a not-to-be missed dessert list that includes homemade ice cream, in flavors like mascarpone fig, cinnamon pecan and Vietnamese coffee sherbet. There are also seasonal creations like a cast-iron baked almond tart with cranberry-apple compote.
The service we had, which was uniformly polite and knowledgeable, needs only some time to grow more comfortable working in such a big, bold space.
Cunningham's showed up knowing exactly what it wanted to be and how to do it. For Towson, it's the great big 21st-century restaurant it had been needing so much.
Rating: 4 stars
Where: 1 Olympic Place, Towson
Contact: 410-339-7730, cunninghamstowson.com
Open: Dinner daily. (A separate operation, Cunningham's Bakery & Cafe, will serve lunch when it opens next spring in the same building.)
Prices: Appetizers: $9-$13; entrees (which are meant to be shared): $24-$29
Food: Seasonal American fare featuring pastas, flatbreads and wood-fired steaks and seafood
Service: Attentive and well-informed but sometimes hesitant.
Parking/accessibility: Complimentary valet parking in an adjacent garage.
Children: There is no children's menu but special requests, like plain burgers and plain cheese pizzas, are accommodated.
Special diets: Special requests for vegan/vegetarian and gluten-free dishes can be accommodated by the kitchen.
Noise level/televisions: Normal conversation is fine in the main dining rooms. There are two silent televisions in the adjacent bar, but their volume can be turned on for major sporting events.
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The primary reason that I became involved in this endeavor has nothing to do with how the owners of ATS treated me. Rather, it has to do with the impact ATS has on world wide media, in general. People who have never heard of ATS are affected by their content. If it were simply a matter of ATS members alone, as much as I care for them and their safety - honestly? To 'ell with 'em. They go there willingly; they know what they are doing; it's their choice.
In the Beginning...
My first real suspicion that the owners of ATS were less than ethical happened after my banning. Indeed, it was that final banning, and subsequent cold shoulder, that caused me to start thinking along those lines.
The events shortly before, during, and directly after my final banning, led to the formulation of the following scenario - a scenario which I personally find quite frightening.
I joined ATS shortly before SERPO hit the scene. Some of you lived through that, while for others it's just ancient history. Something that may not be readily apparent now is that the SERPO saga was a nice shot in the arm for ATS. They received a lot of new members, and some incredible site traffic, during that 'story'. Something that may not be remembered, or readily known, is that there was an increase of google ads on ATS during the unfolding of that story.
I believe that this was probably the first time, since ATS began, that the owners of that site started to see anything that could resemble "real money" from their website.
It was shortly after SERPO that the LLP came into being, and ATS was overhauled - including new servers, more 'bells and whistles', extra features for the membership, etc.
Time passed; life went on.
Money Talks
Unbeknownst to the membership, there were some 'private investors' looking to invest money into ATS. We still don't know who they are, but I've been led to believe (by the owners of ATS) that these private investors were 'friends' with the owners. This leads me to believe that the investment was not an out-of-the-blue surprise to the owners. Rather, owners and 'friends' chit-chatted, probably quite often, prior to the signing of the check.
In more recent times, the owners of ATS implied that the investors did not fork over money as a tax write-off. Rather, the investors were (and are) seeking to make a Profit from their investment.
I feel that prior to the signing of the check, during the chit chat phase between owners and investors, the investors made that point crystal clear to the owners: We'll give you the money, but we want to see a return. How can you guarantee us a return?
How do you go about 'guaranteeing' a specific number of targeted pageviews during an allotted amount of time? The most recent example of incredible page views in a short period of time, on ATS, was SERPO. Gig is, SERPO was a hoax! On top of that it was a 100%, internet generated, internet contained, hoax.
Fabricating a hoax themselves runs the risk of getting caught, and losing everything (or worse). Hiring someone to generate and perpetuate a hoax for you runs the same risks. Something else was needed.
In steps the Chicago O'Hare UFO story.
O'Hare - The Golden Egg
This was a real life event. SOMETHING happened in the real world, and non-internet documentation by real agencies was generated. No one could cry 100% hoax over it.
The problem (or perhaps blessing) with that story was that Nobody Cared. The story had been around for a while and nobody had really picked it up. Bill Irvine tried a few times, both in open forum, and in the private Fair Skeptics forum, to spark interest in the story, to no avail.
Nobody really Cared.
And then The Picture appeared. Magically, mysteriously, the much-needed Picture appeared on ATS, and only ATS, from a mysterious stranger, who didn't take the picture themself, but rather got it from someone else who "claims they shot this at the airport".
The person who created The Picture has never come forward.
The mysterious person who posted the picture on ATS (and only ATS) has never come forward.
The Picture itself was product branded with an "abovetopsecret.com" watermark within four hours of being posted on ATS. The practice of product branding fuzzy pictures of UFOs by ATS was unheard of then. And, from what I can see, now as well.
The "Fair Skeptic" Discussions
According to Bill Irvine, posted in private Fair Skeptics forum (Feb. 7, 2007, 6:27 PM (post id: 2935963):
"I labeled images that were sent directly to ATS that I deemed headed toward massive online attention... and they were, and now the source is preserved."
I find it interesting that within four hours of seeing yet another fuzzy picture of a UFO, that Bill Irvine 'knew' that THAT picture would be headed toward MASSIVE online attention.
On Jan. 21, 2007 4:54 PM (post id: 2893993)
Jeff Ritzmann made the following statement in the private Fair Skeptics forum:
"Turning over to Cheepnis
If it's ok with him. For the next 6 months I'm going to be heavily involved in co-authoring a book, and having to do a fair amount of traveling. This was a completely unexpected turn for me, and sadly I'm not going to have alot of online time to track down or get info on cases.
I still think this is a worthy endeavor, but I wont be able to participate like I had previously thought. I'll still check in, and if anyone needs help I'm just an email away firstname.lastname@example.com
My apologies for bowing out, it's truly unavoidable, and unexpected."
The Picture appeared in open forum on Jan. 23, 2007, 7:29 PM. (post id: 2898150)
Less than twelve hours later, the same Jeff Ritzmann who was going to be heavily involved in co-authoring a book, and doing a fair amount of traveling, began an in depth analysis of The Picture in open forum, starting on Jan 24, 2007 (post id: 2899674) and continuing for quite sometime thereafter.
The Photo "Analysis"
Jeff Ritzmann, as talented and skilled as he is, isn't much of a 'name' though. However, he has a personal friend who IS a name in the industry, David Biedny.
Jeff and David quickly became the "be all and end all" of photo analysis, when it came to The Picture.
Any contrary opinions of the validity of The Picture were played down by the management of ATS, no matter how talented, skilled or well known the individual making the contrary opinion was. Jeff and David were IT.
ALL Jeff and David had to do to 'keep the story going' was to repeatedly state: 'we can't prove that The Picture is a fake'
That's an incredibly SAFE statement to make, even if the picture is 100% falsified. ("Oh, it IS fake? Well, what do you know, learn something knew everyday. At least we tried")
During the two weeks following the arrival of The Picture, Bill and Mark played down the opinions of other photoshop users (and at least one specialist, ATS member "photochopz"), and also came down hard on any ATS member who made comparisons between the O'Hare story and SERPO. At the same time, Jeff and David continued saying things like "we can't prove that it is a fake, here are reasons why we think it Might be genuine". While all of this was going on, the O'Hare thread on ATS grew by 68 pages, and only Bill and Mark know how many page views they received.
Shortly after this, The Above Network receives funding from private investors and becomes an LLC.
A Real Hoax - Is it an Oxymoron?
The O'Hare thread was left to die out on it's own.
Of course not. It was a real event.
Utilization of a real event to target specific page views, over a specific time frame, by manipulating the natural flow of the thread?
You tell me.
Prior to ATS involvement with the O'Hare UFO story, nobody cared about it. It was a non-event, not worth the internet or the media's time.
After ATS involvement with the O'Hare UFO story, it was a major event - discussed widely across the internet and covered by all branches of media across the globe.
Why does this disturb me?
It's a little thing I call the William Randolph Hearst scenario.
I feel that the WRH event is happening again, right before our eyes - and we're letting it.
Prior to common access to the internet, the WRH thing happened within other media outlets... the Time/Warner/HBO/ etc. conglomerate being a good example. However, in those days it happened without us really knowing, and without us having an inexpensive and effective means for communicating our concerns about it...
But not now, not today.
User-Generated Content
Bill and Mark have stated repeatedly, here at RU, that it is the ATS Membership which determines what's a story and what's not; what's worth talking about, promoting, and being aware of, and what's not.
I want assurances of that.
I want the ATS membership to have complete and total control over what they wish to discuss, and what they wish to ignore. I do not want to see statements like this from ATS CEO Bill Irvine, posted in private Fair Skeptic forum on 14-1-2007 at 03:40 PM (post id: 2878313)
"Not to influence you guys or anything but...
Someone just jumped into the O'Hare UFO thread who claims to be an eye witness.
(hint hint nudge nudge)"
Owners and Moderators of ATS should not be attempting to steer, or influence, the content generated by their membership. Especially if the purpose of such guidence is to generate revenue for themselves, with little or no concern for global consequences.
YES. Maybe raising public awareness about UFOs (or any other topic) is a 'good' thing. Maybe it isn't. The choice should be Yours.
In closing, I am NOT the only person on the face of this planet who suspects something fishy about the O'Hare story, and how it unfolded on ATS. One person who publicly expressed a great deal of concern over that story, as it was unfolding, can still be found on ATS today, in a respected position of power and authority.
So before some of you ATS folks go ripping me a new one, or start stalking my kid or something, perhaps you should chat with that person, and see what they think about all of this today.
Good night, good luck, and have a pleasant tomorrow.


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There was some good news last week. While Washington was busy holding the global markets hostage and placing billions in badly needed R&D funding on the chopping block, a new report from REN21 (the Renewable Energy Network for the 21st Century) showed that global investments in renewable energy jumped 32 percent to a record $211 billion, this despite a downturn in the economy and massive R&D cuts in clean energy.
It's a little reassuring that progress marches forward, despite our nation's best efforts to stop it. Solar in particular appears to be growing in leaps and bounds due in large part to a 60 percent drop in price per kW (kilowatt) production in just the past three years. In many regions solar power is getting competitive with coal power, and its price will continue to drop with the onset of a many new advancements in solar technology.
I've been keeping abreast of the latest solar developments happening at MIT, and over the past few months scientists appear to be having one breakthrough after another. Below I've listed five of the most impressive — taken together, these could mean nearly infinite solar energy, stored easily and safely at a fraction of the cost of burning coal:
1. Nano-templated molecules that store energy
MIT associate professor Jeffrey Grossman and others successfully created a new molecule called azobenzene using carbon nanotubes to structure the molecules so that they "lock in" stored solar thermal energy indefinitely. These molecules have the remarkable ability to convert solar energy and store it at an energy density comparable to lithium ion batteries. As Grossman says, "You've got a material that both converts and stores energy. It's robust, it doesn't degrade, and it's cheap."
2. Print solar cells on anything
An MIT team led by professor Karen Gleason has discovered a way to print a solar cell on just about anything, using low temperatures and vapor as opposed to liquid solutions that are expensive, require high temperatures and degrade the substrate materials. The resulting printed paper cell is also extremely durable and can be folded and unfolded more than 1,000 times with no loss in performance.
Photo by Patrick Gillooly, Courtesy of MIT
3. Solar thermal power in a flat panel
Professor Gang Chen has been working on a revolutionary new way to make solar power — micro solar thermal — which could theoretically produce electricity at 8 times the efficiency of the word's best solar panel. Solar thermal usually requires huge arrays of mirrors that heat up an element to run a steam turbine. Chen's system, which is about the size and shape of a typical solar PV panel, uses nanostructured thermoelectric generators that capture the heat differential created by the sun's light striking the top of the panel. Because it is a thermal process, the panels can heat up from ambient light even on an overcast day, and these panels can be made from very inexpensive materials.
4. A virus to improve nano-solar cell efficiency
MIT graduate students recently engineered a virus called M13 (which normally attacks bacteria) that works to precisely space apart carbon nanotubes so they can be used to effectively convert solar energy. The virus acts, in a sense, as a tiny machining tool to pattern the nanotubes properly creating a jump from about 8 percent efficiency to 10.6 percent efficiency — a jump of nearly one-third.
5. Transparent solar cell could turn windows into power plants
The world's cities are packed with miles and miles of glass. What if all that glass could be used to harness the sun's rays while maintaining their transparency? This idea has been out there for a while, but current attempts have resulted in terrible efficiencies (less than 1 percent) and tend to block too much light, rendering the window useless. Electrical engineering professor Vladimir Bulovic has made a breakthrough that could eliminate two-thirds of the costs of installing thin-film technology by incorporating a layer of new transparent organic PV cells into the window glazing. The MIT team believes it can reach a whopping 12 percent efficiency at hugely reduced costs over thin film solar cells.
This is the stuff that Star Trek is made of, and it's a shame that our elected leaders see little value in spurring the next generation of energy tecnology rather than preserving tax cuts for oil and coal companies who are currently making record profits while spending millions on Capitol Hill to fight the very incentives that would unlock a 21st century energy revolution.


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Claymate is an optional helper script that wraps common tasks related specifically to Gumby Framework for ease of use.
Everyone and their cat these days seem to be putting out a command line tool to help with the process of building websites. We have yeoman, grunt, uglify, guard, compass, and many more. Claymate's purpose is not to replace these tools or even to accomplish much more beyond them, but is rather meant to simplify their use where particulars of Gumby come into play.
For example, we think you'll agree that typing this:
$ claymate install
... is better than typing this:
$ bower install gumby && \
mkdir css && \
mkdir js && \
mkdir img && \
mkdir -p sass/var && \
mkdir fonts && \
cp bower_components/gumby/sass/gumby.scss sass/ && \
cp bower_components/gumby/sass/_settings.scss sass/_settings.scss && \
cp bower_components/gumby/sass/_fonts.scss sass/_font.scss && \
cp bower_components/gumby/sass/_custom.scss sass/_custom.scss && \
cp bower_components/gumby/config.rb . && \
cp -r bower_components/gumby/fonts/icons fonts/ && \
compass compile && \
echo '{ "build": { "gumbyPath": "bower_components/gumby", "outPath": "js" } }' > gumby.json
And that still leaves manual steps for you to complete afterwards which Claymate would do for us.
Right now Claymate allows us to do two things: scaffold a new project and concatenate/minify the javascript. Both are tedious tasks to do by hand. Each task is a "subcommand" of Claymate, and each in turn accept their own configuration to customize how they act to your use case.
As time goes on, we will add more subcommands to accomplish tasks we notice are repetitive. Before we get into the nitty gritty of each command, let's take a look at how we can install and configure Claymate for our environment.
Claymate exists as an npm module, so we can easily use that to install it. We reccomend you install Claymate globally (using the
-g flag) to save the trouble of specifying the path to Claymate every time you invoke it.
$ npm install -g claymate
Sudo is only required in cases where the shared node_modules directory for your system is owned by root. You'll notice when it throws a whole bunch of gobbledy-gook at you with stuff like ENOACCESS and complaints about permissions. A better approach to solving the problem than sudo'ing everything would be to set your npm prefix to a directory you own in $HOME, then adding that to your $PATH.
Configuration for Claymate is handled with either command line flags or in a JSON file.
Flags are always preceded by
-- and come after the subcommand. Additionally a short option, preceded by
- is defined for each that allows for less typing when using one-off configuration. For example, the following are equivalent:
$ claymate build --gumbyPath bower_components/gumby
$ claymate build -g bower_components/gumby
$ claymate build -g "bower_components/gumby"
As shown above, many flags take an argument which is just a value for the flag. Most of the time, these will be paths, and are simply strings.
Some flags take more than one value. In this case, we use a comma to separate each value, with no spaces inbetween commas and the values.
$ claymate build --modules retina,toggleswitch,validation
Still other flags are merely on/off switches. In this case they take no arguments at all. You can also negate them by prepending them with
$ claymate build --buildSourceMap
$ claymate build --no-buildSourceMap
Note: You can always invoke the claymate command without any subcommands or flags in order to list the possible flags.
To make things easier you can specify a gumby.json file in the folder in which you will be running claymate. It's structure closely mirrors that of the command line options. Here is what the examples for the flags shown above would be converted to:
"build": {
"gumbyPath": bower_components/gumby",
"modules": ["retina", "toggleswitch", "validation"],
"buildSourceMap": true
Each subcommand has it's own list of key-value pairs corresponding to command line flags. All keys are identically named to the long form of the corresponding option, minus the
--. Prefixing a switch option with
no- will have no effect, instead use
false as its value. Also note that a comma separated list becomes a JSON array.
Remember: Wherever you run claymate from, that directory is where it will look for gumby.json. Uppercasing or relocating the gumby.json file to a different directory will make claymate use the default values.
It is increasingly common practice to use some sort of front-end dependency manager in the vein of npm to manage a project's components. We favor bower for this task. However, one of the strengths of the gumby framework is the ability to change a few settings and completely change the look of the framework. Since the process of extracting the customizable components of the framework while using bower to maintain isolation from our app is a little complex, we decided to write a subcommand to handle the process for us.
The end result of running this subcommand is a directory structure like the following:
├── bower_components/
│ └── gumby/
├── css/
│ └── gumby.css
├── fonts/
│ └── icons/
│ ├── entypo.eot
│ ├── entypo.ttf
│ └── entypo.woff
├── img/
├── js/
├── sass/
│ ├── var/
│ │ └── _settings.scss
│ ├── _custom.scss
│ ├── _fonts.scss
│ └── gumby.scss
├── config.rb
├── gumby.json
├── index.html
└── ui.html
You should always run this subcommand from an empty directory, as it will overwrite files if they exist already. Claymate will detect if the folder is non-empty and warn you of this.
If you wish to install Gumby as a bower module without the extra processing, all you have to do is
$ bower install gumby.
If you do not want to see any output from claymate, pass this option.
Default: Off.
At some point in your project's lifetime you may wish to optimize your javascript files (minification) and combine them all together into one file with something like UglifyJS . You will find that the order of concatenation of the Gumby scripts matters, and that pointing to all of the involved directories is a little annoying.
This subcommand will do all the work for us. It will concatenate and minify the javascript in the following order:
js/libs/ui/*.js (the core modules)
It can also optionally output a source map file.
In order to find Gumby's javascript files, Claymate needs to know where the root of the gumby folder is. For example, if we are in
~/Sites/new-site-project/ and have gumby installed at
~/Sites/new-site-project/public_html/bower_components/gumby, we can specify that by passing the relative path like so:
$ claymate build --gumbyPath public_html/bower_components/gumby
Default: The current directory will be used (such as if you downloaded a copy of gumby to your project). If you scaffolded your project with
claymate install, then a
gumby.json file will have been written for you that points to
This allows us to dictate where to output the final minified, concatenated file and its sourcemap. The rules for the path are the same as that for the gumbyPath argument.
Default: The files will be written to the current directory if you do not specify. If you scaffolded your project with
claymate install, then a
gumby.json file will have been written for you that points to
This is a comma separated list of the names of the core gumby UI modules you wish to be included. Names of modules should be specified without the
.js ending, and can be written without their
gumby. or
jquery. prefixes. For example, to include
js/libs/ui/jquery.validation.js and
js/libs/ui/retina.js, one would write the following:
$ claymate build --modules retina,validation
Default: By default, all modules located in
$gumbyPath/js/libs/ui/ are included.
This allows us to specify additional add-ons written specifically to work with Gumby. An example of that is the Parallax module, which is published as a separate bower package. Assuming we install it with bower, one need only do the following:
$ claymate build --addons bower_components/gumby-parallax/gumby.parallax.js
Default: Empty.
This is a comma separated list of additional javascript files. An example could be the
js/plugins.js and
js/main.js or any other javascript specific to your project. Rules for the arguments are the same as for
Default: Empty.
No argument needs to be passed to this flag. Its presence enables the creation of source maps along with the minified, concatenated file. To enable source maps therefore, one writes:
$ claymate build --buildSourceMap
Default: Don't build a source map.
Sometimes we need to use an option just once. Passing this flag will supress the helpful hint about the gumby.json file.
Default: Off.


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Soumya Bhattacharya's first book, You Must Like Cricket? Memoirs of an Indian Cricket Fan, was published by Yellow Jersey in 2006. It was one of the Books of the Year for the Observer Sport Monthly. Bhattacharya's writing has been published in the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian, the Observer and the Independent. He lives with his wife and daughter in Mumbai, where he is an editor with the Hindustan Times. 'If I Could Tell You' is an excerpt from a novel in progress.


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A winner was selected from 118 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
Pad Media is web design agency looking for a clean, crisp and easily recognisable logo. Think fresh corporate with a twist of web 2.0
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Checking in on… the WCCPosted by rtmsf on January 1st, 2010
Michael Vernetti is the RTC correspondent for the West Coast Conference.
Standings (through games of 12/30/09)
- Saint Mary's 13-2
- Gonzaga 9-3
- Portland 7-5
- Loyola Marymount 8-7
- Santa Clara 7-8
- San Diego 6-8
- San Francisco 4-10
- Pepperdine 4-11
Although several WCC teams have games remaining before conference play begins next Friday (Jan. 8), a few general observations appear to be safe. First, Gonzaga and Saint Mary's (or Saint Mary's and Gonzaga if you prefer) have erased any doubts about their continued stranglehold on the top two positions. Gonzaga could finish its pre-conference schedule at 11-3 or 10-4 depending on its game on the road against Illinois on Jan. 2, but the Zags have made it perfectly clear they are up to the challenge of competing for a 10th straight WCC Championship. Winning the prestigious Maui Invitational with a scintillating 61-59 overtime win over Cincinnati in November, taking Michigan State to the wire before falling 75-71 in East Lansing and adding wins against Wisconsin and Washington State answered any questions about how Gonzaga would respond to a large-scale roster turnover. The Zags are back.
Saint Mary's used the pre-conference period to make quite a statement as well: these are not your old, Patty Mills-led Gaels, but a whole 'nother animal – one with very sharp teeth. The Gaels are putting up eye-popping offensive numbers (82.7 ppg) and playing much more efficiently with Mickey McConnell running the offense in place of Mills. Mills was a spectacular offensive force, but the dynamism of his game would sometimes leave the other four Gael players standing around watching along with everyone else. Everyone is involved this year, as witnessed by the three Gaels averaging double figures – Omar Samhan (20.8), Matthew Dellavedova (13.4) and McConnell (12.8) – and the other two starters close behind: Ben Allen (9.3) and Clint Steindl (7.9). Wayne Hunter was averaging 11 ppg before he went down with a season-ending ACL tear. Heading into conference play next weekend with away games against San Francisco on Jan. 8 and Santa Clara on the 10th, the Gaels are shooting just under 50% from the floor and just over 40% from three-point range. Their efficiency is emphasized by a team assist/turnover ratio of 1.5, headlined by McConnell's almost three-to-one pace of 96 assists to 37 turnovers.
Observation no. 2. Portland has not stepped up its game following last year's 19-13 record and third place conference finish. This columnist picked Portland to wrest the WCC crown from Gonzaga based on its senior-laden roster and steady leadership from Coach Eric Reveno, but that prediction was predicated on the Pilots' seizing the moment. For the moment, they have been seized by an inability to win on the road and a penchant for being blown out by strong opposition: 84-66 by West Virginia and 89-54 by Washington. Last week's 78-69 loss to Nevada in Reno didn't lessen fears that the Pilots will be undone on the road in the WCC, although they get an early opportunity to regain their swagger with a conference-opening home battle against Gonzaga on Saturday (Jan. 9).
Observation no. 3. Loyola Marymount is for real, with peril to San Diego and Santa Clara in the battle for fourth place in the conference and an opening-game bye in the conference tournament in Las Vegas in March. The Lions won their fifth in a row on Dec. 30, a 104-89 victory over the troublesome Seattle Redhawks in Gersten Pavilion, and topped 100 points for the first time since 1998. Coach Max Good has succeeded in grafting high-caliber transfers (Drew Viney, Larry Davis), holdover stars (Vernon Teel, Kevin Young and Jarred DuBois) and newcomers (Alex Osborne, Given Kalipinde) into a compelling force. LMU has only a rematch against Cal State-Bakersfield, which it beat 84-71 on Dec. 19, before entering conference play Jan. 9 at Pepperdine. It then hosts USF on the 14th and Santa Clara on the 16th, giving it a chance to open conference play at 3-0.
Santa Clara and San Diego seem vulnerable to Loyola's resurgence because of erratic play. Santa Clara fell under .500 on the season with a pair of unimpressive performances in its own Cable Car Classic Dec. 29-30. The Broncos lost to Northeastern 62-50 in the opener and to the Wofford Terriers 80-72 in the consolation game, and have two more non-conference contests before opening WCC play at home Jan. 8 against San Diego. The games, against 5-5 New Hampshire and 9-3 Harvard, don't figure to be ones to get the Broncos well, as New Hampshire is coming off a 63-55 win over Colgate and Harvard boasts wins over George Washington (66-53) and Rice (85-64), a team that handled Santa Clara 70-57. Harvard is led by sensational senior guard Jeremy Lin of Palo Alto High School, who will be hoping for a strong performance before a Bay Area crowd. San Diego won its only game last week, 63-56 over lightly-regarded Savannah State before losing to Mississippi State on New Year's Eve, and has a final pre-conference game on Jan. 3 against Florida A&M, also at home. The Jan. 8 game with Santa Clara on the Broncos' court will tell a lot about how those two teams will compete for fourth-place against LMU.
Pepperdine did little to show that its Dec. 23 upset of Utah presaged a turnaround, as the Waves were sliced up by Georgia 64-47 a week later in Athens, GA. Pepperdine's final pre-conference game is against Miami in Malibu on Jan. 3, leaving the Waves to anticipate the beginning of WCC play at home on Jan. 9 against LMU. USF can take some solace from its 86-71 loss to Washington in Seattle on Dec. 27, especially in a 14-4 run that brought them within four points halfway through the second half. A three-pointer by freshman guard Michael Williams topped off the rally, and the Dons got another strong performance from junior transfer Moustapha Diarra, who totaled 14 points and 12 rebounds. Another transfer who has been mostly silent for USF in the pre-season, guard Rashad Green, also scored 14 points, giving the Dons hope for a better fate in conference play than their 4-10 pre-conference record. USF has one more tuneup, against Holy Names on Jan. 2, before taking on Saint Mary's at home in its WCC opener on Jan. 8.


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From the moment I published The Art of Immersion—what, five years ago?—I've been focused on the idea that digital means blurring boundaries. The industrial age was all about categorization, in media as elsewhere: You had newspapers, magazines, movies, radio, television, each with its own distinctive format and delivery mechanism. To see a movie you went to a movie theater; to listen to radio you turned on the radio; to watch television you turned on the TV set; to read a newspaper you had to pick it up from the driveway. But now, except for the movie theater (sometimes), that's all rapidly becoming history.
So why do digital media—books, video, video games, advertising, art, journalism—still exist for the most part in their own separate universes? Not that they'd ever be the same thing, but you might expect more crossover. That was one of the questions I had in mind when I helped launch the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab's "Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling."
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The New Bern Board of Aldermen approved a land swap deal Tuesday night between the city and the family of a former alderman and mayoral candidate.
The New Bern Board of Aldermen approved a land swap deal Tuesday night between the city and the family of a former alderman and mayoral candidate.
The board agreed 6-1 to swap 0.25 acres of city property off Middle Street behind The Chelsea Restaurant for 0.03 acres of land at the intersections of Queen, Pollock and Norwood streets owned by Rebecca Bengel.
Alderman Jeffrey Odham said he voted against the land swap because he was concerned the board might be setting a precedent.
�I�m not a big fan of exchanging land between the city and property owners,� Odham said, adding some property owners may ask why they didn�t have the same opportunity.
�I�m in favor of purchasing property, not exchanging it,� he said.
In January 2013, aldermen approved negotiating the same land swap when it was owned by then board member Sabrina Bengel and her husband. Bengel abstained from the discussion and consensus vote during that meeting.
At that time, the land exchange would be one of the first steps toward the New Bern Gateway Renaissance Plan. The city planned to rebuild a historic fountain at the intersection in the Five Points area as one of the gateways to the city.
That meeting a year ago also resulted in rezoning 15 properties on the south side of Broad Street to provide space for potential retail outlets as part of the renaissance.
Since initially offering the land to the city, the Bengels transferred the property to their daughter. They were in the process of doing that a year ago and that is why it might have taken so long for the deal to finally go through, according to the city clerk.
Tuesday night, the board ignored its rule that allows only one representative of an organized group to address the board on a specific issue. Eight people were allowed to speak on the swap, and they were all in favor of it.
Kathy Adolph of Metcalf Avenue spoke in favor of the land swap a year ago, and spoke again Tuesday night, saying she was excited about the deal and asked the board to support it.
�The exchange of property is such a gift to the city,� she said.
Adolph said the New Bern Housing Authority recently received a Housing and Urban Development grant of $400,000 for planning housing revitalization in the Five Points area and the exchange of property could benefit the city when seeking more funding by showing the federal government its interest in revitalization projects.
The proposed fountain and park at the intersection would be a �strong indicator not only to citizens but Washington and HUD,� she said.
Shelia Henderson, of Walt Bellamy Drive, said she was excited about it and all the revitalization projects throughout the city.
�It is a prideful thing to us,� she said. �It will not only be wheelchair accessible but a place to gather.�
Aldermen Victor Taylor and Bernard White were still as concerned with safety in the area where the fountain will go as they were a year ago.
Taylor said he was concerned about the traffic light at the intersection and wanted to know if it could be changed to make it easier to see.
Eddie Fitzgerald can be reached at 252-635-5675 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @staffwriter3.


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Trails Update – date posted Sep 17, 2013
Hikers are reminded to use caution when hiking on any trail in the park during or after heavy rain. Wet, muddy, and debris-scattered trail conditions can lead to greater chances of slips, trips, and falls. Before beginning a hike, always check the status of the trails and the weather forecast. Additional rainfall could result in future damage or debris on the trail. Rainfall-caused rockslides can also cause damage to the park's water pipeline that serves the corridor trails; therefore, hikers should always bring a method to treat water.
North Kaibab Trail:A small section of the North Kaibab Trail below Supai Tunnel has been damaged due to heavy rain. The North Kaibab Trail is currently open to hikers but not to stock below Supai Tunnel. Weather permitting, the Grand Canyon trail crew anticipates work will be completed on the damaged section by early October. Hikers should be prepared for temporary delays, use caution, and follow instructions given by the trail crew when present. The damaged section is very narrow, but passable. The trail crew has installed a handline to assist hikers when crossing the narrow section. The handline stretches across the length of the washout, and then some (about 15 to 16 feet). Please be aware that with continued monsoon rains, debris-scattered trail conditions should be expected and additional trail damage could occur. Hikers are reminded to use caution when hiking on any trail in the park during or after heavy rain.