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Recall our Scan type was> module MarsRoverStateMonad where
> import Control.Monad.State
... other imports and data/instance definitions as before ...
This type looks exactly like the type for the State monad, and that documentation page reveals that parsing is very well handled by the
> -- type Scan = String → (a, String)
StateT String [] a type. Let's transform our Scan type into a monad:
Since, also, everything in the Position data type derives the class Read it becomes a simple matter to constrain our polymorphic type (
> type Scan a = StateT String [] a
a) to the values we wish to obtain from our parser, like so:
This function,> next :: Read a ⇒ Scan a
> next = get >>= λ(x:xs) . put xs >> if x ≡ ' '
> then next
> else return (read [x])
next, is very simple for two reasons: first, the only separator that concerns us in this command language is the space (ASCII 32), and second, the tokens it consumes are only one character each. Both of these simplicities in this language can be easily and obviously enhanced when implementing scanner-parsers for richer languages.
With this new scanner (
next) based on the StateT monad transformer, we can now rewrite our lifting functions in the monadic style. This frees us to concentrate on the token at the current position and lets the monad handle the stream positioning.
Note that the abstraction of the type signatures of these functions did not change at all, but the implementations simplified significantly (that is, if you consider the monadic style a simplification over the previous implementation that uses let-bindings to sequence computations).> liftLoc = next >>= λx . next >>= λy . return (Loc x y)
> liftOrient = next
> liftPos = liftLoc >>= λloc .
> liftOrient >>= λdir . return (Pos loc dir)
Now to run the system, we replace in
runRovers the
let (start, _) = liftPos pos
and we're done!
let start = head $ evalStateT (liftPos) pos
I like the monadic threading much, much, better than the previous implementation that manually threaded the position of the input stream via tupling using let-bindings, but this version here also leaves something to be desired. Note the parsing functions (
liftPos and
liftLoc) both follow the the format of:
I don't like that I need to identify and bind the variables
grabA >>= λa . grabB >>= λb . return (Τ a b)
a and
b; I don't like that one bit! In my eyes, identifying these variables does nothing to make the program more declarative. I would much rather write these functions in the following manner...
...with the my weird monadic stream operators defined (obviously) as follows...> liftLoc = next >>=> next >=>> Loc
> liftPos = liftLoc >>=> liftOrient >=>> Pos
...but then I worry that this syntax is too esoteric for its own good. Thoughts?> (>>=>) :: Monad m ⇒ m a → m b → m (a, m b)
> mA >>=> mB = mA >>= λa . return (a, mB)
> (>=>>) :: Monad m ⇒ m (a, m b) → (a → b → c) → m c
> mTup >=>> τ = mTup >>= λ(a, mB) .
> mB >>= λb . return (τ a b)
Yes, a person leaving a remark pointed out that I've reinvented
liftM2. Obviously so, in retrospect. I'm on a roll! After a year of entries, I suppose I'll have reinvented most of Haskell's standard library.
Actually for binary situations (that is, for types that take two arguments from the stream to construct), I think I will use these special streaming monadic operators, but when types become more complex, then more, and more complex, operators are required (each new argument for a type doubles the complexity of each new operator). This tells me (as it has already told Uustalu and Vene) that monads are not the best way to go about scanning/parsing streams to extract an internal representation of the grammar.


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|San Diego, Calif.
|High School:
|Cathedral Catholic High School
|Opposite Hitter
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Sophomore • 2012
Started all 24 matches for Harvard in 2012 … Had a career-high 27 kills against Cal Baptist on March 13 … Tallied double digit kill totals in 14 matches … Recorded double-doubles against George Mason (13 kills, 18 digs) and Cal Baptist (27 kills, 10 digs) … His 268 kills rank eighth in single-season program history … Ended the season with 3.01 kills per set, 1.48 digs per set and 3.58 points per set.
Freshman • 2011
Slammed home 15 kills and blocked 13 attacks in wins over Newbury and Endicott ... Recorded 11 block assists in 3-1 win over MIT ... Had eight kills, two solo blocks and two block assists in victory over Rivier Feb. 9 ... Had nine block assists and six kills in 3-1 win over Springfield Feb. 14 ... Recorded 11 kills on a 45 percent attack rate against St. Francis Feb. 18 ... Recorded 11 kills on a 52.6 percent attack rate in 3-2 win over Princeton April 2 ... Played in 82 of 84 games, averaging 2.3 points per game, 1.66 kills per game and 1.06 blocks per game.
Before Harvard
Was a four-year varsity member of the volleyball and basketball teams and two-year track and field participant (high jump and shot put) at Cathedral Catholic High School (Calif.) … Captained the basketball team from 2008-10 and volleyball team in 2009 and 2010 … In basketball, second team all-league member 2007-09, and first team in 2010 … Second-team All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) member 2008-09, and first-team in 2010 … MVP of high school team in 2010 … Member of the All-CIF all-star team in 2010 … In volleyball, second-team All-CIF 2009 … First-team All-CIF and all-league in 2010 … Received the coaches' award for leadership 2006-10 … Completed almost 700 volunteer hours coaching youth flag football, basketball, baseball, participating in Build A Miricale and a variety of other activities … Received the Cathedral Cares Scholarship Award … Received the President's Outstanding Academic Excellence Award in 2010 … Enjoys playing beach volleyball, playing the guitar and playing KanJam … Father, Nils, played basketball for the University of San Diego, making the NCAA tournament twice and played professionally overseas in Germany.

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... 0.5 move(s) further - it gets better and better - i slipped offffff the cruxhold - ahhhrghhh - HARD bouldering is soooo much fun - still... ;)
|one move before the old, fat, lousy boulder-tussi dryfired off the crux-hold... ;) pic by angela wagner
f**ed up the first go. it went so well that i "forgot" some cruical micro-beta and missed the first crux. second go i repeated the "ikarus"-part, but then i slipped (dryfired) off the cruxhold as going left for the "highlander" - but once more i think i found slightly better (safer) beta for that move... AGAIN and AGAIN i am "cheating" my way through HARD moves ;)


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by Roger Friedland
University of California-Santa Barbara
For two decades Bill Bielby has had a recurring dream that his high school rock band, the Newports, would be reconstituted. That dream actually invades his sleep as nightmareŚthe band is all assembled, but always something is amiss; either the electrical current isnÆt flowing, the guitar strings transform into limp rubber bands, or something prevents Bill from actually getting there.
But at the 2002 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Bill broke the nightmare cycle on stage, as he joined some Newports members to play at the Departmental Alumni Night. Playing tunes from the æ60s, the band, Thin Vitae, had the assistance of sufficient electrical current, one of its original guitarists, a few musicians from BillÆs University of Wisconsin band, a woman from BillÆs old neighborhood who had been a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator, and some UCSB grad students and faculty.
Bill donned a black tee shirt, emblazoned with the label ōHagstrom,ö a cheap guitar brand and a humorous play on the name of the Wisconsin sociologist from whom Bill had taken sociological theory. For the occasion, Bill rented top-of-the line equipment that he could have only dreamed of using in his youth in 1964. The band really rocked.
Social Origins, Destinations
Bill was schooled in origins and destinations. During the depression, his irreligious father ran a grocery in Riverdale, Chicago. BillÆs non-observant Jewish mother worked in a shoe store at the Palmer House and then with her husband in the store. With World War II, the Mafia put the heat on to carry black market meat. Rather than comply, his father shut down the store, getting a job in a drop forge making crankshafts for tanks. When Bill was born, his father was driving trucks for an armature coil factory in which he eventually became a salesman that serviced the steel mills.
High School With Ashtrays
BillÆs racially mixed high school, Thornton Township, in the working-class town of Harvey, Illinois, was three blocks from the Buda factory that eventually became part of Allis-Chalmers, the same factory where Michael Burawoy would do his celebrated ethnography.
Short and non-athletic, Bill never had a drink in high school. If it hadnÆt been for rock-and-roll, he might have been a total geek. Bill was, as he puts it, ōterminally shy.ö Other challenges included the anti-intellectual attitude of his formative environment, and his fatherÆs persistence that Bill pursue engineering in college. To Bill, being in the band was infinitely more important than preparing for a career. But he trooped off to engineering school at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where the presence of 14 other guys from his high school made the college experience a lot like ōhigh school with ashtrays.ö
Energy X Context = Politics
Bill found himself over his head, nearly flunking physics. From then, it was a big, relatively unimportant, coast. But the perturbations began almost immediately. In BillÆs freshman year, while on a panty raid in the girlsÆ dormitory, Jim Vail, a student from rural IllinoisŚa serious kid who believed that he was actually going to get to talk about the existence of God when he got to the universityŚturned to Bill and pointed out, ōIf we were in Latin America, none of this would be happening. All this energy would be going into politics.ö Bill never forgot that moment.
Race politics impinged first, with one of the first riots, ōthe gin bottle riot,ö taking place nearby in Dixmoor, in 1965. ōRacism was second natureö in his all-white neighborhood, according to Bill. By the time the cities were on fire in 1967, he had read a number of black writers and was hanging out with friends who were among the first wave of Students for a Democratic Society. By junior year, he was active in Citizens for Racial Justice, lobbying the university to reexamine its admissions and employment policies. With the Tet Offensive, Bill became involved in the anti-war movement. With an approaching dorm discussion of the draft, his friend Jim told Bill that he had a responsibility to talk about their responsibility as intellectuals. It was the first time he realized he could be something other than an engineer.
Earning straight AÆs, engineering had become easy, increasingly boring, and BillÆs mind was elsewhere. Engineering felt more like a draft deferment. So, Bill found himself attending classes (e.g., in political science and history, not sociology) that held promise for explicating the world exploding around him. Tom Krueger in U.S. social history, Fred Jaher in labor history, Phil Meranto in politics, and Michael Parenti, the politics of imperialism were particularly influential. Bill and his confreres goaded their professors to take their ideas into the streets. Bill remembers trying to shame a young assistant professor, Anthony Orum, into attending the anti-war demonstrations.
Hormones and politics moved together. Denise Del Vento lived in the adjoining dormitory tower, a straight, good-looking girl from Park Ridge, Illinois, Hillary ClintonÆs hometown. The two had met as an arranged match between dorm floors in 1967. Denise was the first girl he had not met through his guitar playing. The two knew immediately that they would marry, and in 1969 they did.
Sociology, Enter Stage Left
With his math background, Bill decided to start the economics program at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he started taking his first sociology courses. He found Bernard KarshÆs sociology of work particularly intriguing. By 1971, Bill had decided to start the sociology doctoral program. Joan Huber, a young sociologist of science, mentored the ōrag-tag group of hippiesö that gathered around her, correcting their deficiencies in the history or philosophy of science through readings of Merton, Popper, Kuhn, and others. She and husband Bill Form advised Bill that to succeed in sociology, Bill had to make his way to the University of Wisconsin, which he did.
Bill Sewell, the early pioneer of status attainment, was there, as was the newly arrived hot shot, Robert Hauser, SewellÆs eventual heir. Bill planned to join Eugene HavensÆ Sociology of Economic Change group, but Gerald Marwell, the coordinator of the methods training program into which Bill had been admitted, advised him to defer that choice.
En route to Wisconsin, Bill was worrying that he was taking too careerist a route. Jim Vail, he thought, would keep him honest. Jim had gone underground in the Bay Area after refusing induction and made his way to Vancouver. In March 1973, Bill learned that Jim had died from asphyxiation in a down-and-out rooming house in Vancouver. The circumstances were mysterious. Around the same time, the FBI was asking BillÆs friends questions about Vail. To this day, Bill wonders whether it wasnÆt accidental, or whether, just perhaps, Vail is still out there, that it wasnÆt him. Jim Vail was an Eagle Scout; he knew not to light up a Coleman stove in a closed space.
BillÆs Madison cohort was intimidating. They knew sociology; Bill knew nothing. They talked; he didnÆt. Wisconsin was a mecca of methodological training (e.g., econometrician Art Goldberger and social statistician Bill Walster), and Bill found himself in the force field between the technical methodologists and students more theoretically inclined and clustered around Bob AlfordÆs and Michael AikenÆs Social Organization program, whose seminars would provide the life-long problems to which Bill would apply his prodigious technical skills.
Bill had wanted to study structure and status attainment, but Hauser, whom Bill credits with teaching him to write and think clearly, convinced Bill to write his doctoral dissertation on measurement error and status attainment models. Bill had the requisite skills to tackle it and it had appeal as a delimited, intellectually challenging topic with a bearing on the central Bowles and Gintis debate on the effect of social class on adult successŚthe argument that conventional measures of family background were inadequate and that status attainment models underestimated its impact.
When the Department of Sociology, chaired by Dick Flacks, came calling in 1977, both Bill and Denise, who had done her doctorate in human development, decided to take jobs there. ōIt was a place where I wouldnÆt just be another number cruncher. It was clear that there would be space to expand intellectually,ö said Bill. It was a place where he would, at last, no longer be told to wait to assess the impact of social structure on human aspiration and achievement. They wanted him to do it.
A wry graduate student from Wisconsin, Jim Baron, joined Bill so that he might follow this same path. ōWe decided,ö Bill recounts, ōto open the black box.ö To do so, they linked work and attainment in the social organization of work, as delineated in their American Sociological Review article, ōBringing the Firms Back in,ö which they forged from their National Science Foundation grant proposal. Together they launched a productive research agenda. Barbara Reskin, then heading a National Academy of Sciences panel on gender segregation, realized that Bielby and Baron had access to firm- and job-level data on gender segregation and requested that their work begin with that. Bielby and Baron went on to publish in the mid 1980s ōA WomanÆs Place Is With Other Women: Sex Segregation Within Organizationsö and ōMen and Women at Work: Sex Segregation and Statistical Discriminationö in the American Journal of Sociology. Baron then secured a job at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Social Justice
Bill had always wanted to find a way to change the world using social science. But how to wield the powers of efficient estimation for justice? Conjoining organizational theory and stratification, he was showing how peopleÆs trajectories in social space were shaped by the ways in which employers reacted to their gender, race, and age. Unions and employee associations hired him as an expert in major court cases. One of the biggest was a 1998 class action case against Home Depot stores, challenging the way job assignment, promotion, and pay policies discriminated against women and channeled them out of management. BillÆs testimony was decisive. The corporation settled out of court, making substantial changes in promotion and pay policies. More recently, he has been involved in cases of large Wall Street securities firms, successfully attacking the barriers women face as retail brokers.
Moving the Movie Industry
Bill and Denise have always been movie freaks. And Denise has always been into the soaps, not only as analyst but also as a fan. In 1986, the WomenÆs Committee of the WriterÆs Guild, the union that represents film and television writers, wanted a statistical study to see whether there was data to support their claims of bias in the entertainment industry. Linda Waite, then a sociologist at RAND, had recommended them. Generating a series of reports, the Bielbys detailed the barriers facing female, minority, and older writers, which led to another line of research on how the social organization of the industry shapes the careers of creative workers. Their most important writing from this work was a 1999 American Sociological Review article, ōOrganizational Mediation of Project-Based Careers: Talent Agencies and the Careers of Screenwriters.ö
Together with Denise, BillÆs work on the culture industries has begun to take an interpretive turn, with their ongoing research on critics and aesthetics in popular culture. Where once Bill flourished in the tension between structure and the statistical modeling of individual action, now he operates in the space defined by the polarity of organizational structure and symbolic meaning. ōWhereas some departments have been torn apart by the new culture wars, UCSB is uniquely hospitable to this area of scholarship,ö he explained.
Back to the Future
BillÆs major project for the next few years is studying the emergence of homegrown rock and roll bands in the post-Elvis era and the meaning of that experience in the adult lives of their members. He also plans to compare the white bands in the area where he grew up with nearby black bands. Bill is making rock and roll into a total social fact, a cipher for everything about which he cares most. He is still dreamingŚwide awake. And heÆll be playing at a convention near you. Come hear Thin VitaeÆs tribute to blues and rock traditions (with a Southern twist) at ASAÆs Annual Meeting at the Atlanta Hilton on August 16, 2003.


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Cato's Amicus Brief Helps School Choice Get to the Court; Congrats, IJ!
As Andrew Coulson noted, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, the education tax credit case whose cert petition Cato supported with an amicus brief. So we didn't get the summary reversal we optimistically hoped for but I'm confident that this means only that the Ninth Circuit's reversal will have to wait 8 – 10 months. Congratulations to Tim Keller, Dick Komer, and our friends at the Institute for Justice, which successfully litigated the Zelman v. Simmons‐Harris case that is the pro‐school choice precedent the Ninth Circuit so blithely ignored here.
I should note that ours was one of only three amicus briefs filed in this case, and studies have shown that the first few such briefs increase chances of Supreme Court review significantly (having more than about three seems to be redundant). Which isn't to say that we take credit for the successful strategy that IJ and its co‐counsel are pursuing — indeed, as is good appellate practice, we coordinated with IJ so our brief would offer the Court some arguments and nuance for which the parties' briefs didn't have space — but it is gratifying to see the Court impliedly see the validity of our position. We will of course be filing again at the merits stage, which briefs won't be due for a few months. The Court will likely hear the case in late fall, so we should expect a final decision in winter 2011.
For all the filings in the case, see its SCOTUSwiki page or its Supreme Court docket page. I blogged about the case here and here and George Will wrote about it last week. Andrew also blogged the original Ninth Circuit decision here.


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Nov. 24, 2001
Dartmouth Head Coach Erica Walsh
"Going into the game, we were really focused on the first 15 minutes and getting through those first 15 just to recognize that we can play with this team, obviously, Santa Clara is a big-name team and I think our team in general, once we start to settle down, we recognize we can play with anybody. That was the goal going in. We took a little more of a defensive approach going into the game and then started opening it up a little bit, putting pressure on top. We put another striker in and tried to create some offense as the game settled down a little bit.
"Santa Clara is extremely dangerous on set pieces, we knew that coming into the game. We tried to neutralize some of their bigger players with some of our taller players, and I thought we did a pretty good job of doing that. You look at Santa Clara's corner kicks - 13 - and they did put one in the back of the net, but overall, I thought we did a great job neutralizing those players."
On the rainy conditions and wet field
"To be honest, I thought there was one patch on the field where the ball would sit a little bit, but for the most part... they're so dangerous, they were able to stick to their game plan I believe. I didn't feel like it was a huge factor. Having the wind in the second half being down a goal certainly gave us more confidence, but you look at the two goals, neither one of those came from the weather."
On what it would have taken to win the game
"I think for the most part, throughout the course of the season, we have been pretty dangerous on set pieces, and certainly that was something we were trying to create today. SCU is a fit team and they move the ball well, it was requiring a tremendous amount of effort out of our back and center-mids. I think defensively, I thought we did a pretty good job neutralizing them. I think we needed to choose our timing a little bit better and if we could go forward a little bit more."
Dartmouth Goalkeeper Julia Shields
On facing Aly Wagner on the PK
"It was a pretty good shot. I had my work cut out for me."
Dartmouth Forward Annie Gibson
On her broken hand
"I had surgery last week and am not supposed to play for two-and-a-half to three weeks. It's a little difficult. The cast puts me off balance a little bit."
Santa Clara Head Coach Jerry Smith
"We're obviously very happy to be advancing in the tournament, to the quarterfinals. I want to commend Dartmouth on a great effort today. They were a very well-organized, very well-coached, and a good defensive team. It was two dead balls that allowed us to score: Veronica (Zepeda) made a great dribble and the defender had to take her down. I told Veronica before the game, that although she couldn't play very long due to her shin splints, she was going to be a tough player for them to stop, because she's very quick and light on her feet. On a wet surface, that's an advantage. The defender had to take her down and Aly (Wagner) converted the penalty kick. The next goal was a corner kick goal. So two dead-balls goals for us. That's something we've been working on, so I feel really good about that. I feel good about the number of shots we limited their team to. Obviously, conditions were tough to play for both teams, and made for a choppy game, but we talked about having no excuses before the game and under the circumstances, we played well."
On Jessica Ballweg's goal
"It was kind-of strange timing, Jessica has not been in that position all year, until today. Just on corner kicks, we made a switch in the second half and switched Jess out for Lana Bowen and Jess took advantage of it in her first game in that position. Jess is one of the best defenders in the country, but she's always a great player going to goal and has scored some key goals for us all year. For a defender, she has an unbelieveable nose for the goal. She's downplaying the importance of the goal, but it took a lot of pressure off our team, that's for sure. In these kind of conditions, a 1-0 game is pretty nerve-wracking, at least for the coaches."
On how the weather changed the team's strategy
"In the first half, we tried to employ tactics as if we were down a goal in the game, which means take risks going forward, and of course, that allowed us to get a lot of shots off. I thought we could have converted a few more shots in the first half, you have to give credit to their goalkeeper for making some great saves. At halftime, we decided to go back to normal tactics."
On the team's seventh straight quarterfinal appearance
"Each year is different. Each team is different. Every time you play a game that might be your last game, it's not routine to do that. You don't play very many games in your life that might be the end of your season. Some players never even get to that point. When you have those games, where your season might end, that's something you're very alive about, very anxious, nervous, excited about all at the same time, and I think those are kind of emotions that it's hard to feel routine about."
On the team's next opponent
"We're excited to play the winner of the Virginia-Cincinnati game. We're looking forward to playing either one of those teams. Notre Dame was a team that knocked us out of the tournament the last two years and both games we thought we were the better team, but the bottom line is we didn't win those games. You always look forward to a rematch with the team that ended your season, there's no question about that. We looked forward to our September 14th match against them, but that was canceled. So we were disappointed. But we saw them in our bracket and thought that if we both win enough games, we'll play each other. We would have certainly been highly motivated to play that mach, but no more highly motivated than we are to play Cincinnati or Virginia."
Santa Clara Defender Jessica Ballweg
On her goal (4th of the season)
"Danielle (Slaton) just hit a great ball and Devvyn (Hawkins) got her head on it and I was at the right place at the right time. It came right to my foot."
Santa Clara Midfielder Aly Wagner
On the team's seventh straight quarterfinal appearance
"These are all pressure games, there's nothing routine about making it this far. We're fortunate to be here, where we are right now."


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Press builder Stamtec, Inc., Manchester, TN, announced that its presses now will include the Link Systems' Omnilink 5100-MPC press control as standard equipment. The control features a color touchscreen and displays all system information in English or Spanish.
Its enhanced diagnostics capabilities include 64 control inputs, programmable limit switch outputs, and output relays configurable for several functions. Stamtec also can retrofit its existing presses with the Omnilink control.
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Sonny Rone, the owner of Sonny's RV in Evansville, Wyo., was the second round winner of the Systems 2000 Blackjack Tournament held Dec. 2 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Louisville, Ky. The annual tournament was held during the National RV Trade Show.
As Carl Sconnely, president of Systems 2000, awarded the prize of $1,000 cash, Rone made the decision to donate the money directly to the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) Education Foundation to help the RV industry.
"I have known Sonny and done business with him for almost a decade; he has always been a great businessman and a class act," said Sconnely.
The tournament was co-sponsored by American Guardian Warranty Services and hosted more than 100 RV dealers. The first round $1,000 cash winner was Chasity Hamond of TC's RV's St Albans, Vt., who during the tournament had the opportunity to split five hands of aces and win all five of those hands with perfect 21s!
There were also $500 in American Express gift cards and cash given out as door prizes in a raffle held throughout the night.


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The convenient radio control with many clever features and functions. Configurable 3.5″ color TFT for the indication of machine data. Also available with HBC linear levers.
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- Enhanced safety functions
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Operating elements & control functions
Battery technology
Protection from unauthorized use
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. >> Jurors will hear Monday about Kerry Kennedy's morning routine and daily medications as they consider whether she's guilty of drugged driving.
The case against Kennedy, daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy and ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, goes to trial Monday morning in suburban White Plains.
In 2012, Kennedy was arrested after her car hit a tractor-trailer on an interstate highway near her home outside New York City. She drove to the next exit, where she failed a sobriety test, police said. Blood tests revealed a small amount of the sleeping drug zolpidem. Kennedy claims she accidentally took a sleeping pill instead of her daily thyroid medication.
Prosecutors said it's up to the jury to decide whether the drug was taken accidentally. And even if it was, they said, Kennedy broke the law if she kept driving after feeling the drug's effects.
It's rare for such a minor charge to be heard in state Supreme Court, but Kennedy's lawyers successfully argued that the Town Court in Armonk, which had jurisdiction, was too small and poorly equipped for a high-profile trial.
A town judge and a state judge both refused defense efforts to get the charge dismissed, despite warm letters from family and friends extolling Kennedy's work in human rights around the world.
Kennedy, 54, of Bedford, won permission from Justice Robert Neary to miss last week's jury selection because she was on a human rights trip to Western Sahara.
Because the alleged offense is a misdemeanor, there are just six jurors. The trial is expected to last about a week.
Kennedy's brother, Douglas Kennedy, took another minor criminal case to trial in 2012. He was acquitted in a non-jury case of child endangerment and harassment charges stemming from a scuffle in a hospital maternity ward in Mount Kisco.


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VANCOUVER — I've been listening to Johnny Weir talk about his Olympic journey for more than a month and he continually hammers at the point that the purpose of his popular skating is his performance and not his placement. I'm wondering if that's why teammate Evan Lysacek is in second place going into Thursday's long program and Weir is in sixth. There isn't that much difference in talent but there is in attitude.
Lysacek has a hockey player's mentality to win; Weir has a ballerina's mentality to perform.
After Tuesday night's brilliant but conservative short program, Weir talked about a medal being out of reach. That's OK, he said. He hopes the audience enjoyed his performance as much as he did and that they enjoy Thursday's long program as well. Weir trails Japan's third-place Daisuke Takahashi by only 8.15 points. If Takahashi blows his quad and Weir skates another clean program, he's in medal contention.
Weir's problem is what Aspen's Jeremy Abbott once had. Weir's a better athlete than he thinks. Wipe away the mascara (yes, he wears it) and you have one of the most gifted athletes in figure skating. His skating skills, jumping ability and artistry are first rate. Yet he seems more focused on providing a show than grabbing glory.
I talked to him about it after today's practice and he backed off a bit, saying, "Well, I never rule myself out of a medal because I feel like if I did that, I shouldn't even show up. I should let Ryan Bradley come compete. I'm here to compete and contend for a medal. I was merely stating that a lot of people were counting me out of that top group of men."
Some observers say it's Weir's way of dealing with pressure. His focus on a medal in Turin had him tailspin during his long program from second to fifth. Hey, maybe it works. After three years of inconsistency, Weir has put together one of his most solid seasons in an Olympic year.
"I can say four years ago I was skating more for a medal than I was for the actual performance," he said. "But now I've been around long enough and can see the way things have gone throughout my career with all the ups and downs, the different dramas throughout my career, I'm here to perform and to compete as well as I can."
He practiced and landed numerous quads today and may use it tomorrow. He hasn't tried one since the 2008 Worlds. Maybe behind the scenes he's done the math and figures landing a quad and Takahashi blowing his, they might swap places. Of course, defending silver medalist Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland is fourth.
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The new movie Zero Dark Thirty, which tells the story of the tracking and eventual killing of Osama Bin Laden, has received several Oscar nominations (including Best Picture), but it's attracting another kind of attention as well: several writers, including Jane Meyer at The New Yorker and Peter Maass at The Atlantic, have accused it of condoning or even glorifying the use of torture by US intelligence agencies.
Since at least the days of Birth of a Nation (1915), Hollywood has turned to history for material. A quick survey of this year's Academy Award nominations shows that this is as true now as ever, with five out of the nine nominees for Best Picture – Argo, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty and odds-on favourite Lincoln – based in history in some way. Their approaches vary, of course, with the history-as-backdrop approach of Les Miserables, the revenge fantasy of Django Unchained, the academic character study of Lincoln, the docudrama of Zero Dark Thirty and the history-as-thriller of Argo.
The Boston Marathon tragedy has raised questions about the role the Internet plays in radicalizing youth and, more generally, how it may be used to perpetuate hatred. In Canada, similar questions are being asked about the radicalization of four London Ontario students in the wake of last January's attack on an Algerian gas plant.
Ever since Cronus the Titan tried to swallow his son Zeus, parents have feared being supplanted by their children. (It didn't take.) But it's only in the last few generations, as the rate of technological progress has accelerated, that children have grown up in a world significantly different from the one their parents knew, and it's only very recently that parents have seen their surpass them while they were still in the single digits. Thanks to digital media, the world is changing so rapidly today – consider that five years ago there was no Twitter, ten years ago no Facebook and fifteen years ago no Google – that even those of us who spent our childhoods programming our parents' VCRs can feel left behind.
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Media educator John Pungente's series Beyond the Screen, airing on Bravo!, now has its own Web site, where teachers can find resources and tips on integrating the series into their classrooms. Father John Pungente, a longtime media educator and founding Board member of MNet, planned the series as a follow-up to his acclaimed Scanning the Movies. Like its predecessor, Beyond the Screen is intended as a way of teaching viewers to "read" movies. In Beyond the Screen Pungente uses clips from current movies and interviews with cast and crew to shed light on filmmaking techniques, genre, and theme. The Web site offers showtimes and previews of upcoming episodes and links to teachers' guides. (So far the only guide that's been posted is for Speed Racer, but the guide for The Dark Night should be up shortly; upcoming episodes on Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince should be popular as well.)
Halloween is perhaps the most contradictory of the major holidays. Though born in Ireland and other Celtic regions, today it is almost exclusively observed in the form that developed in North America; though closely associated with the imagination, it has been thoroughly commercialized, becoming an opportunity for children to buy costumes and then acquire candy (today it is the second largest commercial holiday in the US, after Christmas); and finally, though it is the holiday most closely associated with children, it is also one that has, traditionally, been all about fear.
On November 5, 2009, MNet Media Education Specialist Matthew Johnson participated in the Association of Canadian Studies' conference Knowing Ourselves: The Challenge of Teaching History of Canadian Official Minority Language Communities, speaking on the topic Media, Diversity and Our History. What follows is an expanded version of his remarks.
The most anticipated movie of the year, at least in some circles, is opening on March 6th: Watchmen, the adaptation of the 1986 comic book of the same name. The original, which won a Hugo Award for science fiction and was named one of Time's top 100 novels of the twentieth century, tells the story of a group of retired superheroes investigating the death of one of their colleagues; the mystery leads the reader through the alternate world their existence has created, in which heroes with cosmic superpowers overawed the Soviet Union and in which Richard Nixon is still president in 1985. Though time will tell how successful the film will turn out to be, the buzz around its launch gives an opportunity to look at comics and how they're adapted into other media.


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Back Pain Causes
The source of your backache shouldn't be hard to find. If you're a woman under 50, you can probably blame one of these common culprits.
Muscle Strain It's easy to pull the large muscles in your upper or lower back: Reaching for something or carrying your kids' lacrosse gear to the car can do it. The injured muscle will feel stiff and sore, especially the next morning. In some cases the muscle will "knot up" in painful spasms within a few hours of being hurt.
Misaligned Facet Joint Poor posture and prolonged sitting can send the small structures that link the vertebrae of the spine out of whack. This can cause a slightly one-sided pain that gets worse when you arch your back.
Herniated Disc Normal wear and tear can cause the cushions between your vertebrae to rupture or bulge. The injured disc may press on nerve roots along the spine, causing pain. If the disc pushes on a main leg nerve, it's known as sciatica—sharp, shooting pain through the buttock and back of one leg.
Relief for Sudden Back Pain
Simple do-it-yourself remedies help most back pain sufferers start to feel better within a month's time, according to Timothy S. Carey, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But there are some caveats. For instance, you should call your doctor or head to an emergency room right away if you lose sensation or movement in your legs, you no longer have control of your bladder or bowels, or your pain is absolutely unmanageable. Otherwise, follow these self-treatment tips to find relief fast:
Keep active. When Finnish researchers looked at nearly 200 back pain sufferers three weeks after they were injured, they found that those who went about their ordinary tasks as much as possible missed fewer days of work and experienced less pain than those who climbed into bed. As little as two days of bed rest slowed recovery.
Ice it. During the first two days of discomfort, as often as once an hour, put ice cubes or a package of frozen peas in a resealable bag, wrap in a towel, then place on your back for 15 minutes. Cold applied to strained muscles combats swelling and inflammation, which reduces pain and speeds tissue repair.
Take NSAIDs. Over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicines, such as ibuprofen, aspirin, or naproxen, make the pain more manageable and reduce inflammation too. Follow the bottle's dosing schedule for three to seven days.
What Won't Help Sudden Back Pain
Avoid the following pain management methods; they won't be effective in relieving your back pain:
Overdoing exercise. Wait until you're healed to start any new back strengthening and stretching routine. According to the Finnish study, adults who did back-specific exercises in the first weeks of being injured had six more days of pain than those who simply stuck to their normal movement patterns.
Using heat at first. Wearable heat wraps and heating pads increase blood flow to the area, which can amp up inflammation and soreness in the first two days. But in subsequent days, when swelling subsides, heat may soothe tense muscles, reduce pain and increase your range of motion.
Relying on pain-relieving creams. The warmth they generate may feel good to you, but there's no evidence they actually help healing, says Jack Stern, M.D., a New York City neurosurgeon who specializes in treating back pain.
Treatments for Back Pain That Lasts Several Weeks
Be patient with the healing process—but not too patient. "You don't want the problem to become a long-term one," says Todd Sinett, a NYC chiropractor and coauthor of The Truth About Back Pain (Perigee). After consulting with your primary care doctor, try one of these "hands-on" treatments:
Physical TherapyBest for: Most types of back pain.What to expect: You may get "passive" treatments, like ice or heat therapy, and "active" ones, such as medically proven workouts using weights, stationary bikes, and other exercise equipment. The emphasis is often on correcting the underlying body mechanics problem, such as bad posture or weak abs.For how long: It's standard to work one-on-one with a therapist twice a week for at least six weeks.
Spinal ManipulationBest for: Pain in one area.What to expect: Chiropractors, osteopaths, and some physical therapists use their hands to apply sudden force to specific joints. The aim is to relieve pressure on the spine's structures and restore range of motion. You may hear a pop or crack as your vertebrae shift.For how long: You'll generally need eight sessions, but you should start to feel better after the first or second "adjustment." If you don't, consider switching practitioners or trying a different therapy.
MassageBest for: Upper back stiffness or low back pain, especially if due to muscle strain or prolonged sitting.What to expect: A masseuse uses hand pressure to knead knotted-up muscles. You might feel minor discomfort during or shortly after the massage. But tell your therapist if a touch triggers intense pain.For how long: In a recent analysis, back pain sufferers who received 6 to 10 sessions of massage over 3 weeks or more felt and functioned better for at least 1 year.
AcupunctureBest for: Dull achiness in your upper back, or lower back pain that covers a wide area.What to expect: Hair-thin needles are inserted at various points into your skin, which may interrupt pain pathways and boost your body's natural painkillers.For how long: Go at least weekly. If you don't feel noticeable improvement within three weeks of your first treatment, talk to your primary care physician about trying something else.
Treatment for Chronic Back Pain
To tackle a chronic backache, your best bet is to enlist the help of a spine specialist—an orthopedic surgeon or neurosurgeon who has received advanced training in diagnosing and treating back problems. These physicians may recommend treatments other than surgery. Visit spine.org and click on "Spine Care Provider Search." Then consider your next steps.
Intensive Rehabilitation Therapy Before going under the knife, experts recommend a program of supervised exercise and cognitive/behavioral therapy, in which you have several sessions a week, often around 100 hours of treatment. In a study of 300 people with chronic low back pain that lasted a year or more, those who participated in intensive rehab reached the same level of relief after two years as those who had surgery.
Medication Chronic back pain sufferers may benefit from a small daily dose of a tricyclic antidepressant or an antiepileptic medication. Studies have shown "off-label" use of these meds can ease discomfort and help with sleep difficulties.
Injections A steroid injection can provide short-term relief (six to eight weeks) if you have back pain that radiates down your leg (sciatica). In general, you can get three shots a year—there's concern that more frequent dosing increases the risk of potentially serious side effects, such as muscle weakness or bone thinning. If the first shot doesn't offer any relief, don't get more, as it's unlikely additional injections will help.
Surgery If you have sciatica that doesn't resolve in a few months, minimally invasive surgery to trim the pinched portion of the disc helps in 85% to 95% of cases, says Richard D. Guyer, M.D., an orthopedic spine surgeon at the Texas Back Institute in Plano. For back pain due to other causes, surgery may also help. In a Swedish study of almost 300 patients, 63% of those who had surgery rated themselves as "much better" or "better" after two years compared with 29% of those who didn't have surgery. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor beforehand.
What Medical Tests Are Necessary?
Although one in three back pain sufferers get X-rays, CT scans or MRIs, imaging studies don't necessarily reveal why you're in pain, says Jeffrey M. Spivak, M.D., director of the New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases Spine Center in New York City. "Even if an abnormality is seen, it may not be new or the source of your problem."
In fact, back pain sufferers who have an imaging study don't recover any more quickly than those who don't, yet they deal with more unnecessary worry about their pain. A good rule of thumb: Before you agree to a test, ask your doctor what it's going to look for—and how it might affect your treatment.
How to Prevent Back Pain
Once you've injured your back, there's a 40% chance you'll do it again within six months. Buck the odds with these healthy steps.
Move more. Studies indicate that walking, yoga, and workout programs designed to increase core muscle strength are helpful in preventing back pain. Aim to exercise every other day.
Wear supportive shoes. Well-cushioned shoes with arch support keep your center of gravity stable, so your back muscles aren't overworked.
Gently stretch. Every hour get up and stretch. Bend forward at the hips with your arms hanging and then tilt your head to the left and the right.
Sit properly. Keep your cheekbones directly over your collarbones.
Monitor your mood. A Canadian study of nearly 800 adults found that people who suffer from depression are four times more likely to develop troublesome neck and low back pain. Feeling unhappy may contribute to back troubles by changing brain chemistry that increases pain perception. Talk to your doctor if you think you're at risk.
Back Pain Story: "I was horsing around with my kids."
Karen Auster, a 43-year-old event planner from Brooklyn, New York, threw her back out for the first time six years ago. She was showing her kids (now 15 and 12) how to climb a tree. "As I pulled myself up, I felt a severe pain in my lower back," she recalls. A chiropractor got her back on her feet, but since then she often re-tweaks her back doing ordinary tasks. To keep new injuries to a minimum, Karen now regularly practices Pilates, which helps prevent strains by strengthening the supporting abdominal and lower back muscles.
Back Pain Story: "Stress triggers my back pain."
Karin Burgess, a public relations executive from Stonington, Connecticut, knows exactly why she gets occasional backaches. "When I'm loaded up at work I sit hunched over my desk for long hours, which causes the muscles in my shoulders and back to knot up. It was once so bad I could barely stand for days," says this mother of three girls, ages 15, 14, and 9. Like many back pain sufferers, Karin had to shop around before finding a therapy that worked for her. "A few sessions of deep massage finally loosened the tight muscles and turned me around." Now Karin occasionally has "tune-up" massages, to keep future problems at bay—and she attempts to remember to get up often from her desk and stretch.
Back Pain Story: "Surgery was my last option."
Forty-four-year-old Darla Leonard consulted with four different doctors and tried muscle relaxants and epidural steroid injections before choosing major surgery to fix her painful back in 2001. "When I couldn't sleep most nights or even bend over to pick up the laundry, I knew it was time," says this Sherwood, Arkansas, restaurateur and mother of an 11-year-old daughter. Working through an incision in her abdomen, doctors removed a degenerated disc between the vertebrae and replaced it with an artificial one. "My back felt better almost immediately—it was amazing," says Darla, who admits the recovery process required patience—21 days at home and six months of physical therapy. Still, she says, it was well worth it. "I now have a life again—pain-free, full, and energetic."
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On Monday morning, it was a strange scene at the Legislative Yuan. More than 300 rockers in black t-shirts, skinny jeans, tattoos and odd hairstyles filled one of the legislature's ground floor meeting rooms to protest the closing of Underworld (地下社會), an 80-person capacity Taipei rock club. The venue has been a launching pad for indie bands over the last 16 years and is widely considered to be Taiwan's CBGBs.
The motley crew of young people assembled to hear legislator Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君), Underworld shareholder Ho Tung-hung (何東洪) and a slew of well known musicians and actors who came out in support of Taiwan's indie rock scene. The media was also there in force.
At the press conference, Ho, Cheng and others called upon the central government's Ministry of Culture to give a legal status to live music performance venues. Then they led the throng of rockers into the legislature's central courtyard, where they swirled around TV cameras in a kind of mosh pit while holding placards and chanting the bar's name, "Di Xia She Hui [Underground]!"
"We feel that the government should give [Underworld] more room to exist," said Masa (瑪莎), bass player in Mayday (五月天), Taiwan's all-time top-selling band. "We played there 13 or 14 years ago" — long before the group was selling out stadium shows of 40,000 or more in Taiwan, China and Singapore. "It was just a place where you could go and find out about music," he explained, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the event. (The band had come unofficially to offer support as fans of the venue.)
"If this problem isn't solved, this won't be the last live house in Taiwan to close," said Vincent Jeng (鄭峰昇), of the rock band Backquarter (四分衛), speaking from the stage at the press conference.
"As far as the government is concerned, a live house is in the same category as a prostitute bar on Linsen North Road," said Ho, referring to Taipei's notorious red light district.
"The government has recently spent huge amounts of money supporting music as a cultural industry," Ho said later. "But what they don't realize is where culture comes from before you can make an industry out of it."
Monday's rock-n-roll invasion of the legislature means that Underworld's problem has now been raised at the national level, and a cabinet minister will likely have to address it. Obstacles to be overcome include heaps of bureaucracy at local and national levels of government, as well as the potential hypocrisy of a national culture policy that is spending billions of NT dollars to promote cultural industries but won't allow live houses the legal right to exist in Taiwan.
And, as if that weren't enough, Underworld's most immediate problem revolves around a snowballing fight between residents and business owners in Shida, the bustling Taipei neighborhood where the club is located. Pressure from a group of area residents, the Shidahood Self Help Association (師大三里里民自救會) likely prompted the city to issue a notification on July 29, saying that the venue's fire exit weren't wide enough and that — after 16 years of doing exactly the same thing, hosting bands three nights a week and selling drinks to a few dozen patrons — its business license was suddenly deemed improper.
Before getting into legal hair-splitting and squirrelly politics of this neighborhood battle, it's probably important to understand why an 80-person capacity and incredibly smoky rock club can and should be considered a national issue.


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Former CSIS watchdog now a wanted man in Quebec
MONTREAL -- Once entrusted with keeping an eye on the country's spy agency, Arthur Porter is now a wanted man.
The former head of the CSIS watchdog agency was among five people named in arrest warrants issued Wednesday by Quebec's anti-corruption squad for allegations of fraud in one of the country's most expensive infrastructure projects.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government now finds itself facing uncomfortable questions over its decision to appoint Porter -- a medical doctor and cancer specialist -- to a board that reviews some of the most sensitive files held by Canada's spy service.
The warrants say the men are wanted on numerous charges -- including fraud, breach of trust and document forgery -- in relation to the $1.3-billion construction of a Montreal mega-hospital.
The others being sought are: former SNC-Lavalin senior executives Pierre Duhaime and Riadh Ben Aissa; former high-ranking hospital executive Yanai Elbaz; and Jeremy Morris, the administrator of a Bahamas-based investment company linked to the fraud allegations.
Porter and Elbaz are suspected of having accepted bribes from some of the others, the warrants say.
Elbaz, once a top McGill University Hospital Centre (MUHC) executive, was arrested Wednesday. He is scheduled to appear in a Quebec court Thursday.
Canadian authorities are now trying to extradite Porter and Morris from the Bahamas. Porter runs a private medical clinic in Nassau, where he is being treated for cancer.
Quebec's provincial police anti-corruption squad has made numerous arrests over the last year in relation to continuing scandals in the construction industry.
All the events in these latest arrest warrants allegedly took place between Oct. 16, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2011. Porter was director general of the MUHC when the alleged fraud occurred.
He was also head of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, or SIRC, which he joined in 2008 before becoming its chairman in 2010.
Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae, himself once a member of SIRC, told The Canadian Press that Porter would have been privy to highly sensitive information during his tenure on the board.
"All the members of SIRC have top security clearance," he said. "They would routinely receive any and all information from CSIS that is asked for.
"They would be aware of the overall policy direction of CSIS, particularly concerns of CSIS with respect to threats to the security of the country."
Rae questioned the Harper government's decision to appoint Porter to SIRC.
Porter resigned under unclear circumstances in 2011 and left the country. The federal government has since tightened the screening process for nominees to the intelligence committee.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews fended off questions about Porter's appointment in the House of Commons.
"Arthur Porter submitted his resignation and it was accepted almost two years ago," he said.
"However, the leaders of the NDP and the Liberal party were consulted prior to his appointment and they consented to the appointment. The allegations that Mr. Porter is facing do not have anything to do with his former responsibilities."
Duhaime, the former chief executive officer of engineering powerhouse SNC-Lavalin, had already been charged earlier this month with fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and issuing false documents.
Duhaime and another former top executive, Ben Aissa, were charged in connection with a contract involving the building of the mega-hospital.
But police said the charges related to the Wednesday arrest warrant are separate from the ones Duhaime and Ben Aissa already face.
Duhaime is due back in court May 23 and is not allowed to leave Canada. Meanwhile, Ben Aissa has been detained in Switzerland since April 2012 and is awaiting trial there on charges related to alleged corruption, fraud and money-laundering in North African countries, including Libya.
In a statement Wednesday, SNC-Lavalin said it had only just learned of the additional charges against Duhaime and Aissa.
"As we have stated repeatedly, SNC-Lavalin has and will continue to co-operate fully with all authorities who request our assistance," the company said.
"We have voluntarily turned over information that we have to local and other authorities for them to take any actions that they may consider appropriate."
The head of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, which manages Quebec's public pension plan, said the allegations against the former SNC-Lavalin executives should not tarnish the entire company.
"We don't have a lot of established companies with global potential in Quebec and Canada so our perspective is to continue investing in SNC-Lavalin because we are convinced that the company is in a position to respond to the challenges which are incredibly important," Caisse CEO Michael Sabia told a news conference.
"We don't think it's the right time for the Caisse to close the file on SNC-Lavalin. We have a company with a lot of potential, an important company for Quebec and Canada, and our goal is to work with the company, the management and board to encourage them to do the necessary things to clean house, which is absolutely necessary, and also to encourage the development of its potential."
Elbaz worked at the McGill University Hospital Centre from 2002 to 2011. He served as director of technical services from 2002 to 2005. He then was director, redevelopment, planning and real estate management until being terminated in October 2011.
His name has come up during Quebec's corruption inquiry, on a list of names of people who met with a controversial construction magnate at an exclusive Montreal club.
McGill University Hospital Centre chair Claudio Bussandri called for the prosecution of anyone involved in criminal acts.
"The alleged actions of Dr. Porter and Mr. Elbaz are clearly contrary to our values and our code of ethics," he said in a statement. "Please rest assured that we will continue to monitor the situation and assess our options, including legal action.
"We wish to reiterate that the authorities have made it clear that no current employee or the institution itself are under investigation."
The arrest warrants "bring clarity to the situation," Bussandri said.
"I speak on behalf of the board of directors and the entire MUHC community in expressing our anger and sadness with the alleged behaviour of Dr. Porter and Mr. Elbaz," he said.
The other person named in the warrants, Morris, is linked to a company called Sierra Asset Management, which police say served as an intermediary between SNC-Lavalin and McGill University Hospital Centre officials.
Both Porter and Morris are listed on the warrants as living in the Bahamas.
Porter has kept a low profile since leaving Montreal in 2011, when questions were raised about his business dealings.
He recently told CBC News he has cancer.
In a rare interview at his health clinic in the Bahamas, Porter said he had done nothing wrong. He characterized the allegations against him as "spurious" and the result of a "witch hunt."
"I mean it just seemed that there were attacks from all angles," Porter told the CBC.
"I mean if you looked at each piece maybe you would say, 'OK, maybe that's an issue, that's an issue.' But it just seemed to be that I was responsible for the snowfall in Montreal."
-- With files from Canadian Press reporters Steve Rennie in Ottawa and Ross Marowits in Montreal


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The communication minister Stephen Conroy says severe communication outages highlight the need for a National Broadband Network (NBN). He says the Warrnambool Telstra exchange fire caused one of the rarest telecommunications events in history.
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It's been nine days since thousands of customers across south-west Victoria lost access to internet, landline and mobile services.
The response from the Federal Government has been slow but welcomed by the community.
Senator Conroy said this was one of the rarest events for the telecommunications sector in more than 30 years.
"Its impact has been quite devastating on the regional communities; the whole infrastructure of a modern society is based around this telecommunications network," he said.
"It's appropriate that we conduct an inquiry, we want to get to the bottom of what's happened, we want to understand what we need to do to ensure that we can protect the network."
While the minister concedes the State Government is not responsible for the matter, he took the opportunity to have a go at Premier Ted Baillieu.
"Ted Baillieu is missing in action on most things, but on this one I would say to you, that this is a Telstra issue. They're working hard to fix it."
The fire at the Warrnambool Telephone Exchange on Thursday last week has put further pressure on the Federal Government to ramp up its delivery of the NBN, but the senator said it's more important to get the south-west reconnected with existing infrastructure.
He said the NBN is designed with emergency redundancies to have the capacity to handle similar events if they occur in the future.
"The NBN is being built on the basis it's got to be able to have redundancies to handle emergency situations, and that is a core part of a National Broadband Network's build."
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy will visit Warrnambool and other affected areas in the next two weeks to gauge the needs and concerns of communities.
The final report can be expected by early 2013.
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy spoke with Prue Bentley on ABC Ballarat and South West Victoria Mornings program.