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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Rugo Stone, LLC, a Fairfax County, Va.-based stone contracting company, agreed to pay $40,000 and furnish other significant relief to settle a national origin, religion and color discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Rugo Stone has worked on a variety of high-profile buildings in Washington, D.C., including the U.S. Department of Transportation, the International Monetary Fund, the American Red Cross and the Newseum, as well as the embassies of Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.
According to the EEOC's suit, from around January 2007 through around January 2009, Shazad Buksh, an estimator and assistant project manager for Rugo Stone, was subjected to derogatory comments from his supervisors, project manager and the company's owner on the basis of his national origin (Pakistani), religion (Islam), and color (brown). The EEOC said that the comments occurred almost daily and included things like Buksh being called a "Paki-princess" and told he was the same color as human feces. The lawsuit also alleged that Buksh was told that his religion (Islam), was "f---ing backwards," and "f---ing crazy," and was asked why Muslims are such "monkeys." Finally, the lawsuit alleged that Buksh complained about the conduct and comments, but the harassment continued.
Harassment based on national origin, religion, and/or skin color violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Rugo Stone, LLC.; Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-915 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Pursuant to the three-year consent decree resolving the litigation, Rugo Stone agreed to pay $40,000 in monetary relief to Buksh. In addition, Rugo Stone must take other actions set forth in the consent decree resolving the case, including redistributing the company's anti-harassment policy to each of its current employees; posting its anti-harassment policies in all of its facilities and work sites; providing anti-harassment training to its managers, supervisors and employees; and posting a notice about the settlement. Further, Rugo Stone is enjoined from engaging in any further discrimination against any person on the basis of color, national origin, or religion and has agreed to be monitored by the EEOC for the term of the decree.
"Employers must remember that federal law prohibits harassment based on national origin, religion and color," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District Office, whose jurisdiction includes Virginia. "This case and its resolution should serve as a reminder that the EEOC will protect workers from employment discrimination, including harassment."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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To Hermes
[30] "An omen of great luck for me so soon! I do not slight it. Hail, comrade of the feast, lovely in shape, sounding at the dance! With joy I meet you! Where got you that rich gaud for covering, that spangled shell —a tortoise living in the mountains? But I will take and carry you within: you shall help me [35] and I will do you no disgrace, though first of all you must profit me. It is better to be at home: harm may come out of doors. Living, you shall be a spell against mischievous witchcraft1; but if you die, then you shall make sweetest song." Thus speaking, he took up the tortoise in both hands [40] and went back into the house carrying his charming toy. Then he cut off its limbs and scooped out the marrow of the mountain-tortoise with a scoop of grey iron. As a swift thought darts through the heart of a man when thronging cares haunt him, [45] or as bright glances flash from the eye, so glorious Hermes planned both thought and deed at once. He cut stalks of reed to measure and fixed them, fastening their ends across the back and through the shell of the tortoise, and then stretched ox hide all over it by his skill. [50] Also he put in the horns and fitted a cross-piece upon the two of them, and stretched seven strings of sheep-gut. But when he had made it he proved each string in turn with the key, as he held the lovely thing. [55] At the touch of his hand it sounded marvelously; and, as he tried it, the god sang sweet random snatches, even as youths bandy taunts at festivals. He sang of Zeus the son of Cronos and neat-shod Maia, the converse which they had before in the comradeship of love, telling all the glorious tale of his own begetting. [60] He celebrated, too, the handmaids of the nymph, and her bright home, and the tripods all about the house, and the abundant cauldrons.
1 Pliny notices the efficacy of the flesh of a tortoise against witchcraft. In Geoponica i. 14. 8 the living tortoise is prescribed as a charm to preserve vineyards from hail.
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On Monday, AJ announced that we would be at BookExpo America at the Javitz Convention Center this week.
Sherrie has been busy with the New Title Showcase, highlighting books by Lulu authors. What's better than getting your book at BEA right at the front entrance?! It's the perfect location for getting noticed by more than the 35 thousand people in attendance.
So far, we've been having a blast meeting new people and making new friends. We've seen steady traffic at our booth (#2348) and a lot of people have walked away inspired and ready to share their creations with the world at large. We've also had the wonderful pleasure of meeting authors who have already published with us. Hearing their experiences makes this crazy idea called Lulu totally worth it.
If we haven't seen you yet, please stop and say hello. We'd like to meet you.
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Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs.
|John Biggers paints House of the Turtle, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1990. Photo courtesy of John Biggers's Estate. John Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
In July 1957, Houston-based artist John Biggers traveled on a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fellowship to Ghana, Nigeria, and Dahomey (now part of Benin) to investigate multiple strands of cultural heritage on the African continent.1 Visiting both rural villages and burgeoning cities, Biggers was particularly struck by Oku Ampofo, a medical doctor and talented artist based near the Ghanaian capital of Accra. In his handwritten travel notes, now located in Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), Biggers described Ampofo as a "true intellectual" who believed "in the building of Africa, in the development of people, in that which is true and good." Biggers believed Ampofo embodied "the New Africa," linking the continent's past with its future through his artwork, which included ebony and mahogany carvings along with cement statues.2 Noting that the "strong and exuberant character, and personality of the African" endured despite "influences from other peoples," Biggers contended in a typed summary of his travels that the "original values of the old African cultures still have profound meaning today."3
|Cotton Pickers, 1947. Sketch by John Biggers, depicting his early realist style. Photo courtesy of John Biggers's Estate. John Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Throughout his long career, Biggers struggled to create works that would, like Ampofo's, both honor the legacies of the past and look hopefully toward the future. Biggers's own art engaged the experiences of African Americans in the US South. Much like West Africans who were grappling with the inheritances of colonialism, African Americans lived daily with the reality of being both African and American. Over the course of a multi-decade career, Biggers struggled to adequately express this tension.4 While his early pieces adhered to European styles of realism, Biggers's later work began to incorporate more stylized and symbolic elements drawn from African traditions, creating a hybrid style of realistic and abstract forms. Biggers also collected African sculptures, studying each piece in his home until its meaning revealed itself to him. Biggers worked (sometimes to the point of exhaustion) to meld African images with the iconography of the US South to create works that could provide African Americans with a sense of artistic identity.5
As part of his mission to illuminate African American experiences, Biggers helped found the Art Department at Houston's Texas Southern University (TSU) and served as its first head.6 Students responded enthusiastically to his direction. In March 1978, as part of a celebration of Biggers's thirtieth anniversary at TSU, a number of former students wrote to express gratitude to their teacher. "Thanks for being a guiding light for young black artists," wrote one, adding thanks for "inspiring blackness as a true meaning towards creative expression."7 A long-time colleague remembered, "the Joy of those kids who sat at your feet and learned the Beauty of their race and a measure of self-pride, myself included."8
|House of the Turtle, pre-installation, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1992. Mural by John Biggers. Photo courtesy of John Biggers's Estate. John Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Biggers's blending of different symbols and traditions came to its most mature form in a pair of murals, Tree House and House of the Turtle, begun in 1990 at Virginia's Hampton University and painted with the help of the artist's nephew James.9 Both murals include abstract and symbolic images, but House of the Turtle in particular engages Hampton's origins as a school for the children of slaves (and for the children of Native Americans). The top of the mural depicts two students of African descent holding a lamp and a flower, symbols of growth and illumination. Though stylized African forms appear throughout House of the Turtle, the triangular shape at the top of the mural evokes the "shotgun houses" of Biggers's North Carolina youth, a motif that appears throughout his works.10
Though John Biggers passed away in 2001, his first-hand account of the 1957 trip to West Africa offers researchers a perspective from which to understand Biggers's artistic motivations. In addition to diaries and accounts from the trip, the John Biggers papers in MARBL also contain correspondence, writings, photographs, and other materials illuminating Biggers's lengthy career as an artist, educator, university administrator, and community activist. Reflecting MARBL's commitment to collecting and preserving the work of important African American artists, Biggers's papers join the collections of other notable artists of his generation, including those of Benny Andrews and Mildred S. Thompson.
About the Author
Michael Camp is a graduate processing assistant in MARBL and a PhD student in the department of History at Emory University. He received his BA in History from the University of Tennessee and his MA in social sciences from the University of Chicago.
- 1. Biggers published a book after his trip titled Ananse: the Web of Life in Africa, three copies of which are available in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, including two that were Biggers's personal copies and one that belonged to African American composer William Levi Dawson.
- 2. John Biggers, typescript draft of travel diary, July 4, 1957, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University.
- 3. John Biggers, typescript draft of travel diary, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University.
- 4. W.E.B, Du Bois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), wrote passionately about this "double consciousness" of African American identity. MARBL and Woodruff Library contain extensive holdings of The Crisis, the NAACP's official journal.
- 5. Olive Jensen Theisen, Walls that Speak: The Murals of John Biggers (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2010), 70-73.
- 6. TSU, a historically black university (HBCU), was established in 1927 as the private Houston Colored Junior College. It was converted into a public institution and renamed Texas State University for Negroes in 1947, and in 1951 was renamed again as Texas Southern University.
- 7. Curtis Watson, Jr. to John Biggers, March 1978, and Al Blair to John Biggers, March 1978, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University.
- 8. Al Blair, letter to John Biggers, March 1978, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University.
- 9. Hampton Institute, also an HBCU, was founded in 1868 by members the American Missionary Association to provide education to former slaves. It established a program for teaching Native Americans in 1878, a project that lasted until 1923. With the addition of several academic programs, the Institute became Hampton University in 1984.
- 10. Theisen, Walls that Speak, 100-03.


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Friday, May 27, 2011
Zalesie? No, Zalesie
I could go on like this for a while. There are no less than 78 towns/villages in Poland named Zalesie, which means "place beyond the woods". I don't know why this sounds so odd...here in the US we have approximately 30 states with a city/town named Greenville. The difference here is that it initially created some confusion in my research and now I have the problem that the village of Zalesie where my ancestors lived was so small I can't find any information about it. This is the first time in my research that I've had to deal with this situation.
Zalesie was too small to have its own town officials so registration of births, marriages, deaths, and other government business had to be done in the nearest town that did have officials, in this case Lukow. Thanks to JRI-Poland I now have family records.
I have the 1837 birth record for my 3rd great-grandfather Szymon Wolf LAST, son of Jankiel and Liba Malka LAST (maiden name not known at this time). I also have the birth records for his brothers Leybus (1848) and Boruch Josef (1851). All of these births were recorded in Lukow and the records show that the family living in Zalesie with Jankiel's occupation listed as shoemaker on two records and day-laborer on the third. In 1858, Szymon Wolf LAST, still residing in Zalesie, married Sura GRYNBERG, daughter of Ajzyk Lejb GRYNBERG and Leja AJZENBERG and a resident of Miedzyrzec Podlaski (see map...this town is located 18 ENE of Lukow). The marriage took place, and was registered, in Lukow. By the time two of their daughters were born, Mirjem Szprynca (1863, my 2nd great-grandmother) and Nojma (1867), the family was living in Miedzyrzec. I'm working on records for the GRYNBERG family in Miedzyrzec and whatever LAST records I can find. Lots more to order from the Family History Library and Polish State Archives.
That's it...the extent of my knowledge of the village of Zalesie.
It's interesting looking back at the map above. The family seemed to be following a general eastward migration along that road #2. Marjem Szprynca (known only as Szprynca) LAST married Moshe-Hersz TOKAR sometime in the early 1880s and their first child Szymon, named for Szprynca's father which means the elder Szymon was deceased, was born in 1885. The family was either living in Terespol or Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus) by that time (see east side of map). I don't have Szyprynca and Moshe-Hersz's marriage record yet but I'm feeling more hopeful that the TOKAR family lived in Poland vs Belarus (makes a huge difference in my ability to learn about the family). Szprynca died in the early 1920s and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Brest (now covered by a sports stadium). Moshe-Hersz and most of their children and their families were murdered in the Holocaust (five out of nine...one child died much earlier, two emigrated to America and Israel before the war, and that last child's name has been lost to time).
The hunt continues. I taught myself to extract data from the 19th century Polish records so I don't have to pay a translator anymore. By the late 19th century, records in this part of Poland were written in Russian and I need to see if I can learn to extract data from those too. As I come forward in time I may find family members who emigrated from Poland and whose descendants may be located....maybe. The LAST name is difficult to research because search results include "no last name" records and the GRYNBERG name is very common. The hunt is part of the thrill...good thing I don't need a gun for this type of hunting :-D
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- Susan (Nolichucky Roots) said...
I think you've done amazingly well!
Regarding the records in Russian - I've dealt with this, too. One thing I've done which has helped is literally stick post-its on the computer with the surnames and villages I am interested in written in Cyrillic script. Silly, but it works for me!
- May 29, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Sharon said...
Thanks Susan. My version of your post-its for the Polish records is copy/past snippits from original Polish records into an Excel spreadsheet. I think I just needed to get to the point where I had enough Polish records professionally translated to start this little "database". I'll try it with the Cyrillic too if I can get past the fact that it has no basis in the Latin alphabet.
- May 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM
I was searching for the Tucker/Toker/Tokar family when i saw your blog. There is also a Morris Tucker in my family, or Moshe, who immigrated from Europe to New York. I was just looking for relatives of mine or more information about my family history. Hopefully you could help! Please email me at email@example.com
- February 21, 2012 at 2:35 PM
- Unknown said...
I am experiencing the same frustration with "Zalesie." The Hamburg passenger list says "Salesche Russland" ... the Ellis Island Manifest says "Salesie Russia." After endless searches, I am left empty-handed with Salesie and think it is Zalesie. However, I'm not sure if it is in fact Russia or Poland, which parts were under the Russian Empire during 1910. Any help as to how to start sorting out? I know very little else about him prior to his arrival in the US.
- April 4, 2014 at 8:10 PM
- Sharon said...
The reference to "Russia" in 1910 could mean Poland or any of the countries that were part of the Russian Empire. Don't assume that you will always see "Poland" if the town was located within the borders of Poland. To find out which Zalesie you're looking for, you'll need a reference to another town or gubernia. I had reference to Lukow so I knew it was that Zalesie that the other records were referencing. If it turns out that you're ancestors are from the same Zalesie, let me know. It was a townlet, not even big enough to be called a town.
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This follow-up to Duncan Wong's first DVD uses the same high quality production and artistic filming to create a beautiful and stunning experience. Source Power is definitely an intermediate to advanced practice with its challenging, fast paced and complex sequences. Fortunately the most complex and intricate movements are repeated several times making them easier to follow and learn. The overall class format is very similar to Awakening Level, but this DVD goes much deeper through the almost doubling of its practice length (100 minutes) as well as its inclusion of more advanced and diverse yoga and martial arts moves. Even if this practice is a bit beyond your skill level, it can still serve as a motivation to further your practice as well as an inspiration for incorporating creative posture variations and unique transitions between poses.
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This Is What Happens When Jay-Z Rides the Subway [VIDEO]
En route to his eighth sold-out show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Saturday, rap superstar Jay-Z decided to forego the cushy limos and travel like his fans do — on the subway. But lest you think he just paid his fare and blended into the crowd, no. No he did not.
Before boarding the R Train To Brooklyn, Hova was surrounded by enough security to put the Secret Service to shame, and even though he was safely pressed against a tile wall, he looked a bit overwhelmed (and more than a little scared) by the crush of fellow commuters. And looking at the mayhem, it's hard to blame him.
Once he was on the train, he endured the shrieks of on-lookers and took probably the safest seat he could: Right next to a little old white lady who likely had no idea what all the fuss was about.
Eight stops later, he disembarked at the Atlantic St./Barclays Center station and walked to the arena for the last of more than a week's worth of packed concerts, during which the missus joined him on stage and put on quite a show. (Aw. It's nice that he's helping her get her career off the ground like that.)


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South Dakota State University Extension Wants Precipitation Report Help
BROOKINGS - SDSU Extension is looking for South Dakotans to join a national network of volunteer precipitation observers to track rain, hail and snow across the state.
State Climatologist Dennis Todey says the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network is looking for people who enjoy measuring precipitation and are willing to report it on the Internet.
Todey says that even with all of the weather technology available, climatologists need on-the-ground measurements from across the state to tell them what is really happening.
SDSU Extension Climate Field Specialist Laura Edwards says if people can say how many days they've gone without rainfall, it helps officials document drought conditions.
Volunteers must be willing to take morning precipitation readings using a standard 4-inch diameter rain gauge and report the events.
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When Floyd Walker, now 62, was diagnosed with prostate cancer five years ago, his treatment choices were limited, both by his health history and available therapies in the area. After checking out local options, he took matters into his own hands and self-referred to Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia.
On Friday, he'll return there to participate in "Celebrate Life," an annual event honoring 5-year cancer survivors. "As far as I know now, I'm cancer-free," Walker says.
It all happened quickly in June 2007, when a VA doctor told him his PSA reading was high. Walker then went to a primary care doctor followed by a urologist, whose tests confirmed the diagnosis. Initially, his doctor encouraged the Hampton resident to go to Norfolk for surgery where doctors were using the DaVinci robot. But Walker's hernia surgery a decade earlier, which involved having mesh inserted, made the operation inadvisable.
The alternative was to have radioactive seed therapy. "They stay there for life," says Walker, about the implanted seeds. "I didn't like that." And proton therapy, now offered at The Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute, was still years away from operation locally — "I might would have tried it," he says.
Back then, the Vietnam veteran and retired Army reservist was working as a nuclear pipe welder at the shipyard in Newport News — he retired last fall after 43 years service. One night after work, he flipped on the TV and saw an ad for Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a group of four regional hospitals that specialize in integrative cancer care for advanced and complex cases. (A fifth hospital is slated to open in Atlanta, Ga., in August 2012.) He called out the toll-free number to his wife, Leslie, to write down. They called and talked to a representative who encouraged Walker to make a 3-day visit to Philadelphia to get a second opinion.
CTCA sent him the plane tickets. The centers' rep picked him up at the airport. It provided an inexpensive 2-bedroom apartment for him and his wife to stay. The Walkers also ate free at the hospital's cafeteria. Its standard services include verifying insurance, gathering medical records, booking travel and scheduling evaluations, anything effectively to reduce stress.
"It's different from other cancer hospitals. It's patient-empowered care. You have a whole team that stays with you," says spokeswoman Mamie Cargile. "It's very stressful for patients to have to bounce around. You stay in your room and people come to you."
Kane Dawson, an administrator in Philadelphia before becoming CEO, CTCA at Southeastern, expands on the patient empowerment theme. "Even the physical design helps patients to feel comfortable and less overwhelmed," he says. "Two-thirds of the patients are traveling great distances. It helps to have everything under one roof." Its employee-providers include oncologists, radiologists, hospitalists, nurses, massage therapists, naturopaths, dietitians and more.
A team ran a series of tests on Walker and decided on the use of HDR brachytherapy (pronounced "breaky-therapy"). Walker explains that it involves high dosage radiation delivered internally through six-inch needles, or catheters, inserted through the scrotum into the prostate. The actual sessions take minutes but are conducted over two days. After the treatment he returned home and went back to work.
Two weeks later, he headed back to the 58-bed Philadelphia hospital to receive a course of TomoTherapy external radiation daily for five weeks. "I did naturopathic medicine and herbal medicine too — fish oil, green tea extract. I'm still taking it. I can put in an order and it's delivered to my door by FedEx the next day," he says. Between his insurance and the CTCA helping out, Walker's out-of-pocket costs have been manageable.
Until last year, Walker checked back in with the treatment center three times a year. "I really enjoyed them. They do a lot of things that others don't do. They flew me and my wife back and forth a few times. … The staff is excellent, the nicest I've been around. They tell you straight up."
Walker has had a knee replacement since his retirement and suffers from hypertension. And, about 10 years ago he developed diabetes. "the diabetes is probably my biggest health thing now," he says.
'Celebrate Life'
Hampton resident Floyd Walker will participate in "Celebrate Life," an annual ceremony honoring 5-year cancer survivors, at the Eastern Regional Medical Center of Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia on Friday, May 18. Walker and 54 other cancer survivors will participate in several events marking the milestone.
To learn more about CTCA's four regional hospitals — a fifth is slated to open in Atlanta in August 2012 — go to http://www.cancercenter.com or call 1-800-487-3526.
When Floyd Walker, now 62, was diagnosed with prostate cancer five years ago, his treatment choices were limited, both by his health history and available therapies in the area. After checking out local options, he took matters into his own hands and self-referred to Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia.


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Hey guys, I've been a long time lurker on these forums and the art which i've found here (Raporbane/Ichibi) inspired me to start drawing.
It's not something i've done before and after enjoying your art i thought you might like to laugh at and criticise mine. I'm currently using pencil/paper and an Iphone for photo's (fail i know) but i'm hoping to grab a wacom bamboo tablet soon and "realise the dream"
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People participating in cancer drug trials aren't always given the most straightforward explanation of possible risks and benefits from invasive procedures that may be involved, according to a new study.
Biopsies of tumor tissue can help researchers figure out how well a test drug is working - but the invasive, sometimes painful procedures are typically of little benefit to study participants themselves.
The new findings show more than five percent of biopsies in such trials may result in complications, but that informed consent documents spend less time explaining those risks than they do for simple blood draws, which are much less invasive.
"Most of these procedures don't have any therapeutic value for patients, they are burdensome, they're painful and they carry risk," said Jonathan Kimmelman, from the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
"Before you do a procedure like that on patients, you really want to have their adequate informed consent," Kimmelman, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
"The only reason (patients) should submit to them is to contribute to science in some way," and not with the hope the biopsies will help them get better, he said.
For the new study, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston reviewed 57 cancer trials by their institution that involved tumor biopsies for study subjects and were conducted in 2005 through 2010.
In 38 of those trials, a biopsy was mandatory for all participants, often as a way for researchers to tell if the drug in question had worked as intended. In some other cases, biopsies were used as pre-study checks to see if patients had the right type of tumor for a certain targeted drug.
Lead author Dr. Michael Overman and his colleagues found almost all informed consent documents didn't specifically address the research alternatives to biopsies or the lack of likely benefits for patients themselves. The average document had just 39 words addressing the potential risks from study biopsies, compared to 48 words for blood draws.
In those trials, 576 patients had a total of 745 tumor biopsies - including lung, liver and head and neck biopsies. Thirty-nine of those resulted in complications, such as lung air leaks and bleeding, and six in major complications requiring patients to be hospitalized or to get further surgery, according to findings published Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Overman said one of the problems has been that until now, there hasn't been enough available data for study investigators to give patients a reliable estimate of their chance of a biopsy-related complication.
"The informed consent documents that are used are not always as clear as they could be," Kimmelman said.
He added that not all cancer studies requiring biopsies are of the highest quality. And some don't make it into the published scientific literature, where they could potentially help determine if a drug is approved or could guide treatment decisions for future patients.
"I think a lot of patients understandably think that when they're volunteering for these studies they're giving tissue for what is cutting-edge science, and sometimes that's true, but not always," Kimmelman said.
Both researchers agreed that as more targeted drugs are designed for patients with very specific types of cancer, research biopsies will become increasingly necessary to determine how well those drugs are working on the tumor itself.
"I think giving biopsies is a good thing. I think you learn from it, but you need to do it in an honest fashion," Overman told Reuters Health.
Especially in early drug studies, the patients involved typically have few established treatment options.
"This is where we should say (to patients), 'This is an experimental therapy, an experimental biopsy, and you don't have to do it,'" Overman said.
SOURCE: bitly.com/U9NXK1 Journal of Clinical Oncology, online November 5, 2012.


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Military, Regulatory, Services, Training
By Staff Writer | September 17, 2013
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A MRH90 full flight and mission simulator (FFMS) from CAE is now operational at the Australian Army's Aviation Training Center Oakey in Queensland. The Australian Defence Force has approved the trainer to Level D under Australian Civil Aviation Airworthiness (CASA) and Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) standards. The FFMS becomes the first NH90 simulator to achieve Level D certification.
CAE is under contract to supply two simulators, engineering and support, as well as training facilities in cooperation with Eurocopter, RDE and Thales. The second FFMS is headed for the Royal Australian Air Force base at Townsville following Level D approval in early 2014.
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What Is the Emerging Leaders Program?
Emerging Leaders began in 2007 as one of ALA Immediate Past President Leslie Burger's six initiatives. The Emerging Leaders program enables newer librarians from across the country to participate in problem-solving workgroups; network with peers; gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It puts them on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership.
Connie Paul, Executive Director, Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative and Maureen Sullivan, organizational consultant (Annapolis, Maryland), are spearheading the project.
For more information, contact Beatrice Calvin, Program Officer, ALA Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment.
[edit]How Are Emerging Leaders Chosen? The selection committees seek diversity based on geography, gender, ethnicity and type of library. They pay particular attention to, and value candidates' statements as well as those of their references.
Group E: IRRT (International Relations Round Table)
Hi Group E!
Katherine Artzner, Kodjo Atiso, Paloma Celis-Carbajal, LaVerne Gray, Robin Kear, Laura Park
'Project Description:
'Help Develop and Identify Free Web-Based tutorials and Professional Development Opportunities that Librarians in other countries could access.
NOTE: The first ALA Emerging Leaders conference took place on 11 January 2008 in Philadelphia


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Electronics Projects: How to Write a PBASIC Program
You can use a BASIC Stamp microcontroller to create some special effects in your digital electronics projects. But first you have to learn how to write programs to control the controller. If you've never done any form of computer programming before, you're in for a fun and fascinating adventure, during which you learn how computers really work.
In a nutshell, a computer program is a set of written instructions that a computer knows how to read, interpret, and carry out. The instructions are written in a language that both humans and computers can read. The instructions aren't quite English, but they resemble English enough that English-speaking people can understand what they mean.
Computer programs are stored in text files that consist of one or more lines of written instructions. In most cases, each line of the computer program contains one instruction. Each instruction tells the computer to do something specific, such as add two numbers together or make one of the output pins go HIGH.
The trick of computer programming is to put the right instructions together in the right sequence to get the program to do exactly what you want it to do. Of course, to do that, you need to have a solid understanding of what you want the program to do, and you need to have a solid knowledge of the variety of instructions that are available to you.
The PBASIC programming language consists of about 70 different types of instructions. But don't be discouraged; you can write useful programs using only a handful of these commands.
In just about every book on programming languages, the first program presented is called Hello World. This simple program displays the string "Hello, World!" as a way of demonstrating what the simplest possible program looks like.
In PBASIC (the official name of the BASIC language that's used on BASIC Stamps), the Hello World program consists of three lines:
' {$STAMP BS2} ' {$PBASIC 2.5} DEBUG "Hello, World!"
The first two lines are called directives. They don't tell the BASIC Stamp to actually do anything; instead, they provide information that the Stamp Editor needs to know to prepare your program so that it can be downloaded to the Stamp.
The first line indicates that the microcontroller you'll run the program on is a BASIC Stamp 2 (BS2). The second line indicates that this program uses version 2.5 of PBASIC for this program. (That's the current version.)
Every program you write must include these two lines. Fortunately, you don't have to type them yourself. Instead, you can use menu commands or toolbar buttons to insert the directives automatically:
Directive→Stamp→BS2: Inserts the $STAMP BS2 directive to indicate that you're using BASIC Stamp 2.
Directive→PBASIC→Version 2.5: Inserts the $PBASIC 2.5 directive to indicate that you're using version 2.5 of PBASIC.
The third line of the Hello World program is the only line that actually tells the BASIC Stamp to do something. This command, called DEBUG, tells the BASIC Stamp to send a bit of text to the computer connected via the USB port (The DEBUG command always consists of two parts: The word DEBUG followed by some text that must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example:
DEBUG "Hello, World!"
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Early in the year, many economists predicted an end to our country's recession by midyear. But as we step into the third quarter, the business climate remains bleak, with little hope for a turnaround anytime soon. Corporate America's accounting scandals and a weakening dollar continue to cripple the financial markets. Both the Nasdaq composite and S&P 500 index continue to hover around their post-Sept. 11 levels. Lackluster corporate earnings and a soft economy are holding down stock prices. And consumer confidence is at its lowest level since February. All of these factors combined force building owners to hold back on capital investment, which translates into a flat construction market. A closer look at the latest electrical marketplace figures explains why few of you have reason to smile.
Although electrical manufacturers' shipments rose 1.8% in April from March, the current level of $2.7 billion is 7.1% below the April 2001 level, according to data from the U.S. Commerce Dept.
Employment in the electrical equipment and supplies manufacturing sector (i.e. production workers) stood at 245,300 in May, down 11.9% from a year ago, according to the U.S. Labor Dept.'s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
April U.S. machine tool consumption totaled an estimated $171.4 million, down 8% from March, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology and the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association. The year-to-date total of $689 million is down 30.8% compared to the same period in 2001.
Total 2001 sales for the 250 largest electrical distributors decreased by 8.4% to an estimated $36.9 billion, according to "The Top 250" report recently published by Electrical Wholesaling magazine. However, this decrease seems small when compared to the year-to-year sales declines reported by distributors in the first half of this year.
The number of employees in "The Top 250" decreased to 76,781. The average percentage decline among the 194 distributors that supplied employee counts for the study was 3.8%.
Although nonresidential construction contract awards in May were up 6.7% as compared to April, they were down 8.5% from May 2001, according to McGraw-Hill, Inc. The reports are even worse when we take a look at new construction. According to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, the value of new offices put in place in April was $42.9 billion, down 27.1% from a year ago. The numbers get even worse in the industrial sector — new construction in April was $19.6 billion, down 43.4% from a year ago.
The residential market offers one of the few bright spots — construction was at $23 billion in May, up 2.4% from the previous month and up 6.6% from last year, according to McGraw-Hill, Inc. In addition, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce reported that housing starts in April totaled 1.733 million units, up 11.6% from the previous month and up 8% from April 2001. The National Association of Home Builders projects the total number of new housing starts will be up this year by about 2% over last year.
According to the U.S. Labor Dept.'s Bureau of Labor Statistics, electrical contractor employment for April stood at 632,100. This is down 0.2% from March and 6.6% from a year ago.
These statistics offer a grim reminder of just how bad business is right now. Although I'd love to say, "Don't worry, good times are just around the corner," there's not much data available to support that line of thinking. So the way I see it, you don't have much choice. You must continue to carefully manage your expenses, inspire efficiency at all levels of your organization, and remain competitive on those bids. I can only hope we're all smiling again early next year.


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Nano-RK is a fully preemptive reservation-based real-time operating system (RTOS) from [http://www.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University] with multi-hop networking support for use in wireless sensor networks. Nano-RK currently runs on the FireFly Sensor Networking Platform as well as the [wiki:MicaZ] motes. It includes a light-weight embedded resource kernel (RK) with rich functionality and timing support using less than 2KB of RAM and 18KB of ROM. Nano-RK supports fixed-priority preemptive multitasking for ensuring that task deadlines are met, along with support for CPU, network, as well as, sensor and actuator reservations. Tasks can specify their resource demands and the operating system provides
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Qualifying horses will go first and gate training to follow. Five horses on the gate. Stalls are available on a first-come basis (NO STRAW PLEASE). Gate training colts will be classified by age, speed, and gait for schooling.
The Fowlerville Horsemen committee will offer hotdogs and brats for a picnic. Please bring a dish to pass if you can. Everyone will be welcome for lunch.
Please note the following rules: 1) Only licensed drivers and trainers on the track; 2) Race bikes only for schooling horses; 3) Drivers must be in colors; 4) Eligibility papers and Coggins required for qualifying horses.
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The Panama Canal expansion is due to be completed in early 2016 after overcoming various setbacks.
Once opened, carriers coming to the US from China have the option to bypass the US West Coast, which has suffered from ongoing congestion, and head straight to the East, which could see ports in the region benefiting dramatically.
A number of transhipment hubs in the Central American and Caribbean regions are also set to see big growth due to the larger ships traversing the canal.
The cost of expanding the canal is now well over US$5 billion and promises to redefine the global logistics landscape.
However, the century-old Panama Canal faces competition from old rival the Suez Canal, which is also undergoing a �two-lane� expansion that will see ships able to pass each other along the canal as opposed to having to wait for their turn to pass in single file thus doubling speeds, which is due to open before the Panama expansion.
Furthermore, Panama also faces new competition from the incredibly ambitious Nicaragua Canal project.
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Led by oudist Tarik Banzi, the Al-Andalus Ensemble is internationally known for a creative fusion which etches a fine line between the exquisite and raw, the passionate and powerful while treating the listener to a confluence of the best of the East and West. These sophisticated artists with extraordinary breadth and creativity soulfully merge classical, jazz and contemporary music with musical traditions from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Thus embodying the new vision of America as a modern society that embraces its cosmopolitan cultural heritage.
Charting new terrain with Grammy Award winning violinist, Charlie Bisharat, and Emily Miles (vocals) this contemporary World-chamber ensemble of oud, violin, voice and guitar moves with grace between the classical and the modern, subtly weaving tradition with sophisticated innovation into an energetic musical tapestry performed with a freshness and originality that has earned the Al-Andalus Ensemble a devoted international audience. For festival settings, the Al-Andalus Ensemble expands with additions of modern Andalusian dance as well as trumpet, vocals, piano, bass and drums for a vital, energetic and absolutely beautiful experience.
"Al-Andalus" refers to Spain from 711-1492 AD. During these eight centuries, Andalusian Spain witnessed a cultural melding between Africa, the East and the West, as well as among Jews, Christians & Muslims. "Andalusian music" is the courtly music of Medieval Islamic Spain (Andalusia). Preserved and developed by the descendants of Muslim and Jewish refugees after the Reconquest, it is considered one of the longest continuous traditions of art music in the world.
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Located in the heart of midtown, Winn Park is one of several unique neighborhoods comprising this very lively district of Sacramento. The juxtaposition of stylish craftsman homes, bungalows and Victorians, with funky boutiques, coffee shops, galleries and restaurants, create a lively combination of small town charm and urban energy.
Winn Park is bordered by J, R, 28th, and 29th Streets. J Street, in particular, is a bevy of activity, and is home to the popular midtown farmers market every Saturday morning. The neighborhood has been recognized as one of the most walk-able nooks in Sacramento, as well as being a bikers' paradise (even the farmers market has free bike valet).
Sacramento is known for its proliferation of parks, and the bustling area of midtown is no different. The eponymous Winn Park gives this pocket of homes its moniker. The small, three-acre neighborhood park is an oasis of shade with benches, walkways, picnic areas and a fenced playground area for tots.
The area was named after Major General Albert Maver Winn, president of Sacramento's first city council. Today the area is a bustling borough of empty nesters, hipsters, affluent professionals, artists, and families thriving off the many cultural and recreational offerings midtown is known for.
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On Feb. 9, 1862, the Rev. Kensey Johns Stewart was arrested by Union officers after failing to offer a prayer for the President during the height of the Civil War. A melee occurred in the sanctuary as the congregation attempted to defend its minister. On that same day, a warning was issued to "females and others," threatening arrest for offensive remarks and demonstrations—prompted, no doubt, by the actions of several St. Paul's ladies, including one who is said to have dropped her Prayer Book down from the gallery onto the head of an offending officer.
On June 28, 1862, St. Paul's was seized and used as a hospital for Federal forces until the spring of 1865. It was at the Appomatox Courthouse, home of a St. Paul's parishioner, Wilmer McLean, that Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865.


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So long, winter. Spring has sprung.
At 11:14 p.m., the center of the sun passed over the equator, making it officially springtime in the Northern Hemisphere. The vernal equinox also means that day and night are almost 12 hours equally, which gives the equinox its name. Equinox is Latin for "equal night." Vernal means spring.
Note the almost — today in Denver was 12 hours and 7 minutes long, compared to 9 hours and 24 minutes on Jan. 1. On July 20, the day will be 14 hours and 34 minutes long as the sun continues its relentless march across the globe.
Enjoy the planetary balancing act while you can, because as the seconds ticked past 11:14, the globe steadily if ever so slightly tilted on its axis, bringing more light to the warming Northern Hemisphere and less to the cooling Southern.
You see, the seasons aren't determined by warmth, but sunlight.
Warmth, however, has defined the end of winter in Denver this year. March is normally the city's snowiest month with a 30-year average of 11.5 inches. The first two-thirds of the month, however, has brought only a trace of snow, on March 7. and there's no big chance to catch up in the immediate forecast. Statewide, snowpack is at a worrisome 72 percent of its 30-year-average this year.
The average daily highs in Denver this month have been 62.4 degrees, a whopping 7.7 degrees warmer than average.
Enjoy the warming days ahead and fleeting balance of the globe while you can. But don't bother trying to balance an egg on it's end. That's an urban myth.


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Music from Film helps you identify music from movies and TV shows by explaining what was on screen when the songs were playing.
There are plenty of websites on the internet listing the songs that feature in TV shows and movies. But if there's a choice of many you still won't know which is the one you want.
You could try asking on message boards, searching the lyrics on Google, listening to loads of songs on iTunes, etc, but that's time consuming and often unsuccessful.
We present the songs alongside the scene information so that you can quickly identify the track you're looking for.
Contribute - If you've heard a great song in a movie or TV show why not add it to the site? Maybe someone loves it but can't figure out what it is. Become one of our top contributors.
Comment - Tell us your thoughts on the soundtracks; which songs did you like, which did you hate? If a song you're looking for isn't listed leave a comment and someone may be able to help.
|January 2011
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|November 2010
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|October 2010
|Soundtracks added include Kick-Ass, The Box, The Book of Eli, Envy, L.I.E., Bitch Slap, The Runaways, Cop Out, The Terminator, Date Night, and more.
|September 2010
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|August 2010
|Soundtracks added include Cemetery Junction, Miss March, She's Out of My League, From Paris with Love, Extract, Monsters vs Aliens, I Love You Phillip Morris, The Crazies, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and more.
|July 2010
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|June 2010
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For any teens ages 14-19 — all are welcome! Absolutely no experience required, we're all beginners here.
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Keep Calm is led by Peace in Schools mindfulness teachers Caverly Morgan, Janice Ownbey, Michael Bode, Barnaby Willett, and Michael Steen.
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First and third Mondays each month from 6:30-8:30pm at The Little Church, a secular event space. 5138 NE 23rd Ave in Portland. (Google Map)
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Quebec Superior Court judge facing possible removal from the bench over allegations he bought cocaine during his days as a lawyer has gone to court in an attempt to halt a disciplinary procedure before hearings are even held. In an application for judicial review filed with Federal Court, Justice Michel Girouard is challenging the Canadian Judicial Council's powers to investigate complaints against judges. Among other arguments, Judge Girouard is saying the council has no business examining his behaviour when he was practising law before his 2010 appointment to the bench. "Only the provincial authority has the jurisdiction to investigate and draw conclusions on the conduct of a lawyer," his lawyers write in the application. The Council, whose members include Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and all superior court chief and associate chief justices, announced in February that it would hold a public inquiry into Judge Girouard's conduct.
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Now that Conan O'Brien is back on the air and winning the late night wars again the San Francisco Sketchfest shouldn't have to worry about its biggest draw cancelling on them.
Last year Team CoCo was scheduled to appear at the San Francisco comedy festival but he was forced to back out because he was caught in the midst of his ouster from NBC.
This year the Sketchfest returns for three weeks of hilarity and a cast of characters whose families' bellies have not been filled based on television appearances in years.
The festival returns Thursday night and runs through Feb. 5 at venues across the City with comedians and actors such as Dan Aykroyd, Garry Shandling, Neil Patrick Harris and more.
Opening night takes places at the Marines' Memorial Theatre with appearances by the Upright Citizens Brigade, Tim Meadows and Andrew Daly.
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A Big Victory For Fair Use Via South Park, What What (In The Butt), Numa Numa, Afro Ninja, Et Al.
from the what-what?-fair-use deptA couple years ago, we wrote about the bizarre case filed by Brownmark Films, who produced the "viral" video "What, What (In The Butt)," against South Park for doing a parody of the video.
Brownmark appealed the ruling, and the 7th Circuit has wasted very little time in affirming the lower court ruling, which it calls "well-reasoned and delightful." The appeals court did differ slightly on the reasons a court can dump a case pre-trial when there's clearly fair use, but its quibble is really procedural, concerning which specific process should be used to claim fair use and get a bad case rejected. Either way, the key point stands: you can make your fair use claims upfront, and in truly egregious cases, courts don't have to go through a costly trial. In fact, the court notes that this makes sense, specifically to avoid copyright trolling behavior where defendants feel the need to settle rather than deal with the costs of fighting a bogus lawsuit. This is good news.
In fact, as Paul Levy notes, this may be the first time that an appeals court has specifically used the term "copyright troll," lending additional credence to that phrase:
We noted during oral arguments that such a broad discovery request, surely entailing expensive e-discovery of emails or other internal communications, gives Brownmark the appearance of a "copyright troll."Similarly, it highlights why such copyright trolling is so problematic:
...infringement suits are often baseless shakedowns. Ruinous discovery heightens the incentive to settle rather than defend these frivolous suits.This seems like a very useful precedent to cite in other such cases.
The court also goes through the fair use determination and says that not only was it proper to drop the case pre-discovery, but the fair use reasoning was perfectly sound. And here, we learn that the 7th Circuit Justices enjoy themselves some viral videos:
Moreover, the episode places Butters' WWITB video alongside other YouTube hits including, among others, the Numa Numa Guy, the Sneezing Panda and the Afro Ninja.There's a sentence I never thought I'd see in a judicial ruling. There's also a lengthy footnote that, believe it or not, discusses historical South Park episodes that demonstrates that the character Butters "has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of understanding of sex," and goes on to name the specific episodes, including "Cartman Sucks" and "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset."
No matter what, this ruling is a strong victory for fair use... and just in time for our 1pm Q&A discussion about the book "Reclaiming Fair Use." Perhaps the court was just looking to provide some discussion material for us.
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Photograph, Lecompton, Kansas, 1861.
Author: No authors specified.
Date: 1861
An exterior view of the U. S. Land Office building, Lecompton, Kansas, 1861.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: FK2.D4 LE.78 *1
Item Number: 100077 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Douglas County, Kansas Territory; Lecompton buildings; Lecompton, Kansas Territory; Photographs and Illustrations; United States. General Land Office
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Fornebu S
Unique shopping centre received two BREEAM Awards
Fornebu S outside of Oslo is the world's first shopping centre with a BREEAM "Outstanding" classification, which is the highest classification on its scale. At the annual BREEAM Awards 2015 Fornebu S also received two awards in the category Retail New Construction and the Your BREEAM award. And in March 2015 the building received another honourable price, the building of the year 2014 at the annual Norwegian Building gala.
Fornebu S is a unique shopping centre with smart environmentally proofed solutions. BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is the world's first leading design and assessment method for sustainable buildings. And Fornebu S is the world's first shopping centre to receive its "Outstanding" classification.
Due to their high score and "Outstanding" classification, Fornebu S was nominated at the BREEAM Awards 2015. Over 50 projects with the highest scoring building during the year were shortlisted from all over Europe.
A panel of independent judges selected the winners based on the specific circumstances, challenges and achievements of each development and also on how many scores the building achieved on the scale.
Fornebu S won two prestigious prizes: the Retail New Construction and the popular, Your BREEAM Award. The later were an award where the readers of the magazine readers of Building4Change could vote on their favourite project.
Building of the year
In March 2015 Fornebu S also received the price The Building of the year at the annual Norwegian Building gala. The motivation was that the building is a result of an ambitious contractor and good cooperation through the planning and building process. The project is a model of sustainable construction and future local city development.
Considering the whole process
BREEAM offers a standard scheme that is tailored for the use, such as creating a sustainable retail environment. Controlled throughout the whole building process, BREEAM covers the most important environmental areas such as, disposal, water, cooling, heating, health and environment, project management, energy, minerals, material, transport, CO2 emissions, technical solutions and lighting.
Making a sustainable building
The standard at Fornebu S were set after the best use of sustainable design and environmental functions. Which means a shopping centre focused on being as sustainable as possible and future proofing their building, which is very special because no other shopping centre has reached the "Outstanding" goal.
Already from the start KLP Eiendom reached for the goal to get the new 24 500 sqm shopping centre to be classified as "Outstanding". But they did not stop there. Norway is one of the first countries implementing a passive house standard (NS 3701), to reach this standard were also one of the goals, as well as reaching class A in energy class. The apartments on top of the shopping centre are built after TEK10 and energy class C.
One of the most important environmental initiatives on this project is implementing sun panels on the roof, actually one of the largest sun panel filled area in Norway. These will produce at least 100 000 kWh per year.
Upcoming city centre
Fornebu is an upcoming city centre at the west part of Oslo. In the near coming future Fornebu will be a new area connecting the Fornebu, Snarøya and Lysaker with 25 000 new homes and 30 000 workplaces. The building of the centre started in September 2012 and by September 2014 the centre was finished. The centre also contains offices and apartments.
Efficient lighting by Fagerhult
Several of the shops and the general areas at Fornebu S is illuminated by Fagerhult, including the 36 000 sqm large garage and the outdoor area. Fagerhult illuminated amongst other the shops: Godt Brød, Sunkost, Modern Design, Tilbords, Annen etage, Apotek 1, Princess, Vinmonopolet, Rått & Flott, Jonathan Sushi, Klinikk for alle, Cubus, Dressmann, Volt and Bik Bok.
Full focus was on energy efficient lighting solutions. The communication areas between the shops are illuminated only with LED, with round recessed Pozzo luminaires.
Fagerhult lowered the light levels in the main passage to 150 lux, where it is mostly common with 400 to 500 lux. This enabled the shops in the centre to lower their light levels too, without creating any contrast to the passageways.
The open spaces at the communication areas are illuminated with LED luminaire Tibi decoratively floating in the open space.
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Full focus on efficient LED solutions
Throughout the project there has been a great focus on choosing efficient LED solutions. The communication area is illuminated with about 98 % LED, the shops are illuminated with 99 % LED and it is 100 % LED solutions outdoors and in the apartments above the centre. This became a real success in using energy efficient LED-luminaires and each shops have energy consumption lower than 15 W/m². Two of Fagerhult most popular LED spotlights Zone Evo and Marathon were used in several of the shops.
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The outdoor area is illuminated by Fagerhult's Triton bollards and post top luminaires Vialume and Azur. Focus floodlights from our lighting partner Simes are mounted on four 9 m posts at the main entrance, illuminating the area in an effective and eye catching way.
The area also has several stylish wall and ceiling mounted luminaires, such as Rondo that really enhance the architecture, illuminating it in a pleasant way.
Brighter colours on wall and ceiling were used in the parking garage so that the lighting of the functional Kaptur luminaire could be dimmed to lower light levels and still produce a good lighting atmosphere. The area is also controlled with DALI and presence detectors. This became a good way to save energy at the large area and KLP and Skanska were very pleased with the result.


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[NOTE: In an effort to be more efficient/lazy, I may have written this post last week. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to tell, though, so forget I even mentioned it.]
My dear wreckies, the end is officially nigh. In fact, I think it's safe to say that the end has never been MORE nigh than it is at this very moment. It is a moment FULL OF END NIGH-NESS.
With President [insert winner's name here] in office, our country will soon be nothing but a moldering pile of Taco Bell wrappers and Apple dongles. The seas will boil over. The sun will burn. The stars will do crazy loop deloops, but, like, in a really bad way.
Frogs will rise up from ponds everywhere and hippity-hop all over our lawns.
And then they'll eat our daisies.
All birthdays will be cancelled, and replaced with "buttdays."
Our new national flag will be a giant flip-flop...STOMPING ON AN AMERICAN HEART.
And perhaps most terrifying of all: a legion of lop-sided zombie Barbie cakes will slide menacingly onward, the better to consume our very souls:
Yes, my friends, with the inevitable campaign of doom and destruction heralded by President [insert winner's name here], our only hope can now be in hunkering down with enormous cases of peanut butter while we await the apocalyptic....uh...hang on...
Did someone seriously make a WEDDING CAKE out of WHOOPIE PIES??
Best. Idea. EVER.
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Aaron Hernandez investigation: Search warrants executed
Investigators on Friday began using three search warrants in their investigation into New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's connection to the slaying of a man near the player's suburban Boston home.
Earlier, a Boston radio station reported an arrest warrant was issued for Hernandez, but that was later disputed by other media sources quoting government officials.
At this time, Hernandez, 23, remains free and his whereabouts uncertain. Hernandez is expected to be charged with obstruction of justice, according to the New York Daily News. That charge was expected to be tied to the destruction of evidence in the case, believed to be a home security and a cell phone, according to ABC News.
Citing a law enforcement source, WBZ-AM 1030 said the charges could be upgraded.
As has been the pattern in the Hernandez story, there were also denials. "We have nothing issued from this court right now," a court official told CBSSports.com. The Boston Globe and NFL.com echoed the CBS report.
"If it was issued anywhere in the state it would show up," Attleboro court clerk Nancy E. Clarke told the Boston Herald. "There's only three clerks here, we all talk to each other. No warrant has been issued."
SI.com: Hernandez saga is Patriots' latest dark cloud
Boston Globe: Hernandez scouting report ominous
Boston Herald: Three warrants issued in probe near Hernandez home
The Reuters news agency reported it had confirmed via an anonymous police officer an arrest warrant has been issued, with the charge obstruction of justice.
Also Friday, Yahoo! Sports noted Hernandez's difficulties extend beyond the criminal case swirling around him. Citing recent examples of Chris Henry and Adam "Pacman" Jones, the site suggested NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had grounds to suspend Hernandez for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy. It's likely only a quick exoneration could prevent Goodell from taking punitive action.
A Boston TV station reported video evidence showed Hernandez entering his home early Monday. The images fit a timeline that had Lloyd slain between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. ET, and a report of shots fired near Hernandez's home between 3 and 3:30 ET.
WFXT-Channel 25 also reported the video showed two men in hooded sweatshirts accompanying Hernandez. Reports indicated Hernandez was with Lloyd and two unidentified men at a bar hours earlier, and that Hernandez was seen at Lloyd's residence before the report of shots being fired.
While Hernandez has yet to comment, his attorney issued a statement earlier this week.
"It has been widely reported in the media that the state police have searched the home of our client, Aaron Hernandez, as part of an ongoing investigation," Michael Fee said. "Out of respect for that process, neither we nor Aaron will have any comment about the substance of that investigation until it has come to a conclusion."
Hernandez's agent has declined comment.
— Who is Aaron Hernandez? | Victim's family seeks answers | Player bio | Patriots news
Police entered Hernandez's home about noon ET Friday armed with a search warrant, according to NFL.com's Ian Rapoport. They didn't stay long, according to Kevin Armstrong of the New York Daily News.
Massachusetts state police likely would be responsible for arresting Hernandez, the report said. Investigators visited Hernandez's North Attleboro home each of the past three days.
Odin Lloyd, 27, of Dorchester, Mass, is the apparent shooting victim. His body was found in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez's home.
Numerous reports indicated that Hernandez had not cooperated with investigators.
It also was possible an arrest warrant had been prepared but not issued.
In addition to Hernandez's home, forensics teams scoured the industrial site and dug through a pile of construction debris.
Also on Friday, Hernandez lost an endorsement deal because of the Lloyd case.
"In light of the investigation involving Aaron Hernandez, CytoSport is terminating its endorsement contract with Mr. Hernandez, effective immediately," the company announced.
Cytosport is a California-based nutritional supplement company. Hernandez was seen wearing a cap with a company product logo when he left his home Thursday.
Why has Hernandez not been arrested, or will he be? Time.com compiled information on the case.
On Thursday, ABC News reported that Hernandez intentionally destroyed his home security system this week, that the personal cell phone he turned over to police had been shattered, and that he had hired a maid service to clean his home on Monday, the day Lloyd's body was discovered.
Meanwhile, the Patriots barred Hernandez from working out Thursday at Gillette Stadium, according to the Boston Herald.
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe as part of its coverage noted NFL teams were aware of character concerns surrounding Hernandez before the 2010 Draft. Rated a first-round prospect in that draft, Hernandez fell to the fourth round.
According to the Globe: "The marijuana use, the short fuse, the shadowy friends from his Connecticut hometown who made visits to Gainesville, Fla. — where they were well known. It was also known that Hernandez was generally regarded as a hard worker on the field, and his talent and versatility were evident. Like nearly all potential draft picks, Hernandez was a risk/reward prospect, though the risk seemed bigger with him."
The Globe's Shalise Manza Young, who covers the Patriots for Sporting News, reported in Friday's story a 2010 incident in which Hernandez threaten wide receiver Wes Welker. According to the story, Hernandez was having problem with a piece of equipment and asked for Welker's help. Welker said: "Rookie, you can figure it out."
Young gave Hernandez's angry response: "f--- you Wes, I'll f--- you up!"
Multiple reports said Lloyd had been shot in the head; the Globe said he had been shot multiple times.
The Globe also said police have surveillance video showing Hernandez and Lloyd together. Reports indicated they had been at a Boston-area bar and left in a car with two other men.
Several hours later a jogger found Lloyd's body in a landfill site in an industrial area near Hernandez's home.
There were also conflicting reports as to Hernandez's whereabouts. He was last seen entering a building where his attorney's office was located.
Learn more
— Victim's family wants answers
— Earlier developments in the Hernandez investigation
— Suit alleges Hernandez shot man in Florida
— Images from Hernandez investigation
—NFL training camp preview: Patriots are AFC East favorite ... for now
— Contributing: David Steele, Ray Slover


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Hi friends,
David 3.5 works very fine but this moment I have the following problem:
I was scanning with SL on a turntable (Y-axis 22.5 degree) and tried some possibilities to align. But some of the scans don´t fit. Trying to align with 22.5 degrees y-axis or aligning free etc. - nothing could give me fitting results. The first 3 scans fit but the next don´t.
The scans are on my internet-cloud: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B_y1b ... 1WeGs/edit in the folder "David 35".
Please can you help me and tell me what I am doing wrong?
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