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In January 2013, Deloitte analysts estimated that 90% of all passwords are simple enough to be hacked in seconds. Since then, Heartbleed headlines prompted Internet users to change their passwords, yet only 38% of users did. We want to help change that. Observed every May 7th, World Password Day asks people to do one simple thing, made even simpler by using a password manager like LastPass: change your password.
Since 2013, more than 170 organizations including LastPass, Intel, Microsoft, and the National Cyber Security Alliance have participated in World Password Day. Last year, over 32,000 people pledged to upgrade their passwords to stronger ones.
This year, World Password Day has launched a new website at passwordday.org, a video game that pits the player against real leaked passwords, and simple tips and tricks for strengthening your passwords. Take the pledge to upgrade your password, get started with a password manager if you aren't already using one, and go from hackable to uncrackable today.
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- Data breaches exposed some 552 million identities from popular websites in 2013, a 62% increase from 2012 – and the trend doesn't seem to be slowing.
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NRA lobbying intensifies as it fights gun-safety bills
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- Monday is the deadline to submit reports on lobbying activity
WASHINGTON – The National Rifle Association stepped up its lobbying activity during the first three months of the year, spending $700,000 as it sought to fend off new efforts to pass gun-safety legislation, new lobbying reports show.
By comparison, the NRA spent $575,000 on lobbying during the first three months of 2012.
Among the 14 bills targeted by NRA's lobbyists: proposals to ban assault-style weapons and to expand background checks for gun purchases – measures pushed by President Obama following last December's shootings that killed 26 children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The Senate last week failed to pass a measure prohibiting assault weapons or a compromise bill to strengthen background checks, both of which the NRA opposed. Senators did approve amendments that seek to limit the public release of gun-ownership information and that encourage mental-health awareness and school-violence prevention efforts.
Monday is the deadline for interest groups, companies and others with business before the federal government to submit reports, detailing their lobbying activity during the first quarter of the year.
As of midafternoon, new lobbying reports had not been filed on behalf of the leading gun-control groups, including Americans for Responsible Solutions, a new group led by former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head while meeting with constituents in January 2011. The group recently hired two lobbying firms to advance its agenda on Capitol Hill.
In the past, gun-control advocates have failed to match the NRA's spending. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, for instance, spent $40,000 on lobbying last year – an amount dwarfed by the $2.5 million spent by the NRA in 2012.
The NRA's filing shows it employs 12 in-house lobbyists, including its highly visible executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.


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AMI Outfitters LLC has opened in the Historic Green Village at 505 Pine Ave., Anna Maria. Opened by Steve Traves, the store offers menswear and outdoor gear for kayaking, fishing and Nordic-walking.
"Our primary merchandise is kayaks, fishing gear and men's outdoor clothing, shoes and accessories from industry leaders like Columbia, Patagonia, and Ex Officio," said Traves.
"We're also focusing on sustainable clothing, like bamboo/organic cotton blends from TASC."
Examples of the green merchandise available include bamboo shirts, shorts, running wear, drink bottles and wristwatches.
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Prospect Riding Center, 34250 SR 70, Myakka City has expanded with additional land and a new phase for the therapeutic center.
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Extended family, care givers and service providers are welcome to participate. The center offers a physical, social and personal equine interaction in a safe outdoor ranch setting. 713-1736.
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Rory McIlroy recovered from a poor start to record six birdies and earn a one-shot lead after the second round of the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida on Friday.
The Holywood man, who had been one ahead overnight after opening with a flawless 63, remained mentally upbeat despite two early bogeys and his positive attitude was rewarded with a four-under-par 66 at PGA National.
"It's just another 36-hole lead," McIlroy told reporters after posting an 11-under total of 129, one ahead of Zimbabwean Brendon de Jonge (64) and three clear of American Russell Henley (68) on a day of contrasting fortunes for the big names.
Masters champion Adam Scott, who played with McIlroy for the first two rounds, made two double bogeys on the way to a 69 as he fell eight eight shots off the pace.
World number one Tiger Woods continued his recent struggles, making the cut with nothing to spare at even-par 140 after carding a 69, while Phil Mickelson will have the weekend off after shooting a 71 for a one-over total.
McIlroy, 24, has rediscovered his form in the past few months and says he is back at the comfort level he enjoyed in late 2012, when he was riding high atop the world rankings.
He changed driver and ball last autumn and sounds eminently satisfied with the results, saying he can hit a variety of shots with the new combination.
"I'm much more comfortable with everything and I think it shows in the way I'm playing," he said.
Not that it was all smooth sailing for the two-time major champion as he bogeyed his second hole (the par-four 11th) after a poor drive and then dropped another shot at the par-four 12th, where he missed the green with his approach.
"I think it's a sign of a little more maturity," McIlroy said of his ability to maintain an emotional even keel.
"I'm not trying to force the issue because I've made a couple of bogeys early. I knew had some opportunities coming up. I didn't panic. I just tried to keep playing the way I was.
"Now that I'm happy where my swing is, even if I do hit a loose shot I can get over it much easier and quicker."
McIlroy's putting has been stellar as well, just 49 putts to date, after he recently tweaked a couple of things during a refresher session with twice former PGA Championship winner Dave Stockton.
Woods, in only his ninth competitive round of the year, made several awful swings and needed a sharp short game to qualify for the weekend.
"It was a grind, no doubt about that," said the 14-times major winner, who holed out for birdie from 15 yards at the par-four 13th before parring his way home.
"I hit a couple of loose iron shots coming in. I would like to hit it better than I have been but I fought out a number, which is always a good thing."
Woods, who has not won a major since the 2008 U.S. Open, warned not to read too much into his mediocre early-season form as he gears up for the Masters in April, saying he took a "lot of positives" from his performance.
Mickelson, meanwhile, was happy with aspects of his game, but not the entire package.
"I had a hard time making birdies today," said the three-time Masters champion. "I drove the ball well. My iron play, distance control was off and I didn't putt as well as I expected."
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Todashev would "point out cars that he believed were driven by FBI agents," said his girlfriend
Julie Wilson
September 26, 2013
The Boston bombing mystery deepens as detailed accounts emerge of Ibragim Todashev's final days before he was executed by the FBI on May 22 in his Fla. apartment. The account is being given from the MMA fighter's live-in girlfriend, Tatiana Gruzdeva, an immigrant from Tiraspol, a town in the former Soviet country of Moldova.
Earlier in the month Infowars interviewed Todashev's widow, Reni Todashev, whom Todashev was separated from when he met Gruzdeva. See below for the full video interview.
While it's still unclear exactly what role Dzhokhar, Tamerlan or even Todashev played in the Boston bombing, what we do know is that they were most likely patsies, set up by the government.
Todashev was an alleged acquaintance of the Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tamerlan and his younger brother Dzhokhar, were accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing on April 16 in which three were killed and hundreds injured.
Gruzdeva, 19, gave a tearful account of the events leading up to Todashev's death in an interview with the Boston Magazine last week. She explained that she met Todashev through a mutual acquaintance, and while they were just friends at first, he soon asked her to move in, telling her he had a big apartment with two floors.
She agreed to move in and soon after they became a couple, even adopting a cat named Masia. "It was like a small family, me and him and the cat, he was like a little baby for us," she said.
Gruzdeva said Todashev was sad after the Boston bombing but wouldn't tell her why. He later admitted it was because his friend was dead, but he didn't elaborate any further or identify who the friend was. In fact, Gruzdeva had no idea who Tamerlan Tsarnaev was until the FBI showed up at their door.
While she was washing dishes on May 16, she heard men outside the window shouting, "Move down! Move down!" She saw her boyfriend outside on the ground surrounded by agents in plain clothes. Panicked and unable to identify the men, she ran upstairs and hid in the second floor bathroom. When she came out she saw her boyfriend in handcuffs.
"They put a chair in the middle of the room, she said, and made Todashev sit in it," reported the magazine.
Todashev was complaining of pain in his knee, telling the agents he had just had surgery. They agents said they didn't care and they knew he was an MMA fighter and that he "could do something."
"I will not do anything because I'm just off surgery, I'm not stupid," said Todashev.
Gruzdeva said the agents began aggressively interrogating him about the Boston bombing, demanding to know what he knew of the attack.
Gruzdeva spoke up, defending him, insisting he did nothing because he was with her in the house and he didn't do anything wrong, but the agents persisted asking the same questions again and again.
The agents wanted to know if Todashev knew Tsarnaev. He admitted they had "trained together in martial arts and gone clubbing together before Tsarnaev had become more devout." This was the first time Gruzdeva had heard Todashev speak of Tsarnaev.
She said the agents left with Todashev and took all of his electronics, including his cell phone. Six hours later he returned, assuring her that everything was going to be OK. The next day the agents returned the equipment they had confiscated.
Gruzdeva says the agents continued to harass them, calling them regularly, visiting their home and demanding they come into the office for further questioning.
The Boston Magazine reports that the agents questioned Todashev about a phone call he received from Tsarnaev after his surgery and demanded to know why he deleted the call from his phone log.
Gruzdeva remembers her boyfriend telling the agents he deleted it because he was scared. The agents then began questioning the MMA fighter about his alleged involvement in a grisly unsolved triple homicide that occurred on Sept. 11, 2011, in which three men's throats were cut ear to ear, nearly decapitating them. $5,000 and seven pounds of marijuana was found at the scene, strewn across the dead bodies, and no suspects were ever named.
The 19-year old told the Boston Magazine that they both "believed they were being followed by the FBI on their way to work or to visit friends," and Todashev would "point out cars that he believed were driven by FBI agents."
Even after all of the alleged harassment by the FBI, the couple agreed to conduct another interview, this time in the FBI's office. Gruzdeva said she was waiting in the lobby while officials questioned Todashev again, when an agent she recognized from a previous house visit approached her.
The agent asked her to come with him and questioned her for three hours, asking her things like 'Can you tell us when he will do something?' She replied, 'No! I can't! Because he wasn't doing anything, and I didn't know anything.'
'Oh really?' said the agents. 'So why don't we call immigration?'
Gruzdeva was in the country on a student visa which had expired. She said the agents knew this the first time they visited their home, but were unconcerned. However, now, were using it against her for answers that she didn't have.
They then called immigration and had her locked up for 3 months, including five days in solitary confinement. She said she spoke with Todashev nearly every day over the phone while she was incarcerated, and they spoke of how they would be together once she was released.
During a phone conversation from jail, she said Todashev told her about the day he found her missing from the lobby, and said agents mocked him when he tried to find out where his girlfriend was.
"Where's your girlfriend," they asked. Todashev, frustrated said, 'I want to hit them because I was so mad, why they lie to me? They stole you.'
On the day she was placed into solitary confinement, she wasn't given any answers as to why, but the next morning was told that Todashev had been fatally shot by the FBI.
She didn't believe it at first, but was granted a phone call and confirmed his death with their friend Husain, the one who had introduced them.
"And everything is flush in my heart, my heart was broken, because me and Ibragim we had a plan, we had a plan to be together, we had a plan to have a family. Yes we were different, we had a different culture, different religion, but it was ok, he tell me, everything will be ok, we'll all figure it out. But he want to be with me and I want to be with him, we had a plan to have children and everything. And now, he's not here and we're not going to be together anymore."
She was reportedly kept in solitary confinement for four more days before being released. She was picked up by Todashev's father and friend Ashurmamad Miraliev (who was arrested last Wednesday for allegedly threatening a victim of a crime) and driven to the home where she and Todashev lived.
The FBI and state authorities have refused to launch an investigation or release any reports (including the autopsy report), on the shooting death of Todashev. The FBI's story has changed innumerable times.
"Some said Todashev was armed with a blade. Another said he was unarmed when the agent shot him. Still another said Todashev attacked the FBI agent with a metal pole or perhaps a broomstick, prompting the injured agent to shoot and kill him," reported Boston.com.
Below is a video of Todashev and Gruzdeva together.
Infowars interview with Todashev's widow.
Follow Julie Wilson @ https://twitter.com/JulieJay2904
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An index of farmland investments held by large pension funds posted its strongest first quarter gain on record. The index, founded by the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF), rose 5.44%. That gain was comprised of 4.42% appreciation and 1.02% income return. This is the highest first quarter return since the index began in 1991, NECREIF states in a press release. The next closest first quarter return was 4.02% in 2006.
The 5.44% return is significantly higher than the 3.78% total return in the first quarter 2012 and the 2.38% total return from first quarter 2011. The difference in performance is all attributable to appreciation; income returns differed by one or two basis points.
The alternating trend of better performance between permanent cropland and annual cropland continued again this quarter, NECREIF states. Annual cropland had a 6.82% total return compared to permanent cropland's 2.78% return. This marked the seventh consecutive quarter that the property subtypes alternated in outperforming each other. Annual cropland has outperformed permanent cropland in the first quarter the last six years. 2007 was the last time permanent cropland performed better in the first quarter.
The Mountain region was the best performing area in the first quarter, according to NECREIF. The 14.58% total return exceeded every other region by at least 500 basis points. Most of the return was driven by appreciation, 13.37%. The Pacific Northwest was the second best performing region with a total return of 8.05%. It was also the best performing region over the past four quarters with a 24.30% total return.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Corn Belt and Southeast regions were the lowest performers in the first quarter with a total return of 3.07% and 3.95% respectively. The Corn Belt was the highest performer last quarter, so a pause isn't surprising. The Southeast along with the Southern Plains have been struggling over the past year. They were the two worst performing regions over the past four quarters.
The NCREIF Farmland Index consists of 549 investment-grade farm properties; comprised of 405 annual cropland properties and 144 permanent farmland properties. The index includes 183 properties in the Corn Belt, 122 in the Pacific West, 64 in the Delta States, 53 in the Pacific Northwest, 45 in the Mountain States, 33 in the Lake States, 25 in the Southern Plains and 23 in the Southeast. This data enhances the ability of institutional investors to price the risk of farmland investments across the United States.
The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) is an association of professionals with significant involvement and interest in pension fund real estate investments.
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The Supreme Court has made a ruling in the bitter battle over the will of late oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall that has been going on since Marshall's death in 1994.
Shortly after Marshall's death, it was revealed that he left his estate - worth an estimated $1.6 billion - to his son, E. Pierce Marshall but gave nothing to his wife of less than a year, model and actress Anna Nicole Smith.
Two years later, following a public battle during which Smith and Marshall's estranged son James Howard (who was also left nothing in the will) fought for a share of the estate, a California bankruptcy court awarded Smith $475 million.
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Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the bankruptcy court had no authority to award Smith the money. Smith, who passed away in 2007, left behind an infant daughter with boyfriend Larry Birkhead. Her son, Daniel, died of a drug overdose in 2006 at age 20.
Smith's estate will now have no claim over any of Marshall's fortune.
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On December 6, 1989, a misogynist murderer called Marc Lépine walked into École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada and shot 28 women, killing 14 of them. He hated women. He separated the men from the women and before opening fire on the classroom of female engineering students he screamed, "I hate feminists."
Status of Women Canada is a federal government organization that promotes equality for women and their full participation in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada. It says:
December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. Established in 1991 by the Parliament of Canada, this day marks the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. They died because they were women.
As well as commemorating the 14 young women whose lives ended in an act of gender-based violence that shocked the nation, December 6 represents an opportunity for Canadians to reflect on the phenomenon of violence against women in our society. It is also an opportunity to consider the women and girls for whom violence is a daily reality, and to remember those who have died as a result of gender-based violence. And finally, it is a day on which communities can consider concrete actions to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.
Twenty three years ago a woman-hater killed 14 women and injured 10 other women in Canada.
And in many parts of the world a large number of woman-haters still harass , exploit, torture, rape and kill hundreds of women everyday. Women get abused physically, mentally, emotionally everyday. Misogyny is the reality we still face everyday. Today's Marc Lépines do not kill themselves after killing women. They are not afraid of anything. They organize themselves to spread lies against women. They are Men's Rights Activists, religionists, traditionalists. Today's women-haters get sympathy, solidarity and support from society. Today's Marc Lépines do not shoot women like 89's Marc Lépine, but they indoctrinate men and women to make women-hating patriarchal system much stronger than before. Today's Marc Lépines are much bigger haters, they are more influential, more powerful and more dangerous than Canada's lone Marc Lépine.
Every day should be the day to eliminate all forms of violence against women. Violence against women will never end if we all do not want to end it.


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Total foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Africa declined in 2011 for the third successive year, UNCTAD's World Investment Report 20121 notes. But the drop – to a total of $42.7 billion – was largely caused by a fall in FDI channeled to North Africa. The report says that inflows to Egypt and Libya, which had been major recipients of FDI, came to a halt as result of protracted political and social instability in those countries.
In contrast, inflows to sub-Saharan Africa jumped from $29.5 billion in 2010 to $36.9 billion in 2011, a level comparable to the peak of $37.3 billion achieved in 2008. A rebound in FDI to South Africa accentuated that recovery.
The World Investment Report 2012, subtitled "Towards a New Generation of Investment Policies," was released today.
Continuing rises in commodity prices and a relatively positive economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa were among the factors contributing to the turnaround, the annual survey says. The top five African recipients of FDI in 2011 were dominated by oil-producing countries led by Nigeria (see figure 1). Major investment continued to flow into another significant African oil producer, Angola, but divestment and repatriated profits by transnational corporations rendered net inflows negative.
While African transnational corporations are growing in influence and activity, outward FDI from Africa was still limited in 2011, especially as outflows from two traditional outward investors, Egypt and Libya, were significantly reduced.
The region's FDI prospects for 2012 are promising, as strong economic growth, ongoing economic reforms and high commodity prices have improved investor perceptions of the continent, the report says. One such indication is that in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, net sales related to mergers and acquisitions – the purchase of African firms by foreign transnational corporations – over the first five months of 2012 more than doubled from the same period the previous year.
Full Report - http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2012_embargoed_en.pdfOverview - http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2012overview_en.pdf
Figure 1 - Africa: top five recipients and sources of FDI inflows, 2010 and 2011(Billions of dollars)
a) Inflows
b) Outflows
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2012
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Today Microsoft announced the new Power BI features including the new Power BI Designer tool that provides a separate downloadable standalone application that can be used for Power BI features such as Power Query and Power View! This is completely separate from Excel – now users can connect to data, relate data, create reports, and also import them to Power BI dashboards to share!
So in this example I was able to connect to an existing Excel file I had with some preloaded data (Customer and Geography tables), relate the data (queries) together, create a report (as you can see there are new visualizations available such as treemap, gauge, filled map, funnel, combo chart, etc.), and save the file locally (pibx file extension).
Now that I have a Power BI file with a report I can go to the Power BI Dashboard site and upload this file to share the content.
Once you get the report loaded you can then continue your design experience, pin items to a dashboard, and share (within your own organization for now)! All of this is done in HTML5, so no worries about Silverlight.
Quite a few of the new visualizations are not supported to be pinned yet, but at some point they will, so hold on.
Very cool, a whole new user and sharing experience!
There is also a ton of great help and support documentation, videos, and walkthroughs available as well
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Name: Janet Heath
Restaurant: Michael's Bistro & Taphouse
Position: Manager
Age: 29
Favorite childhood TV show? Fantasy Island with Tattoo
Pool or pond? Dry sandy beach
Imported or domestic beer? Margarita
Albums or CDs? CDs
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It's graduation season, and most of us are up to our eyeballs in motivational and/or inspirational advice, quotes and (cough) bullshit at this point. Do me the honor of listening to one more such tidbit, these linking quotations by the beloved Kurt Vonnegut:
"To be is to do." -Socrates
"To do is to be." -Sartre
"Do be do be do." -Sinatra
The message is clear, you see? This weekend y'all need to step away from the bright future unfolding before you ("Dare to dream!" "Road not taken!") to hear some do-be-do-be-doing as well as wailing saxes, drum solos, hands clapping and toes tapping at the Five Points Jazz Festival.
The free event runs 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday along Welton Street in Denver's Five Points neighborhood, which was apparently once known as the Harlem of the West. Seven stages will feature a total of 23 bands playing classic and modern jazz, swing, funk, salsa and more. The only things that cost cash money are the art and food vendors.
So relax, hep cat, and enjoy the music. Dare I say it? There might even be some "Doobie? Doobie. Do!" in the crowd. Wouldn't papa Vonnegut be so proud?
More info and tickets at artsandvenuesdenver.com/events-programs/five-points-jazz-festival.
The touch, the feel of polyester…
Tonight, though, boogie down like they did back in time at Roll's Polyester Roller Disco Party at the EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th St. It's a skate party like those of your childhood, except this time with alcoholic beverages in sippy cups. Bask in the brilliance of this idea.
Expect classic tunes like "YMCA" as well as live music from DJ PopAlot, all accompanied by a disco ball, lights and — let's face it — probably a few wipe outs. They'll even call couples and reverse skate. Doors open at 9 p.m. and you'll get in free until 10 p.m., after which admission is just $5. Skate rental is $5 additional either way unless you can still snag advance tickets on the website: rolldenver.com.
Dub Royalty at Red Rocks
I'm going to assume that Krewella and the other acts headlining the Global Dub Festival at Red Rocks tonight are the royalty of modern dub music, because Krewella at least is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry about the genre. (Yes, I had to look up dubstep on the Interwebs, because the only thing I know about such music is that their artists are fond of band names with Ks, Xs and double-letter combinations.)
Other than Krewella, the festival includes Datsik, Crizzly, DotEXE and Basscrooks. (See what I mean?) Doors at 6 p.m. and show at 7:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $55, though you'll pay $70 if you wait to buy onsite. Tickets and more info at globaldubfestival.com.
One word: Morrissey
You love him. You hate him. Or maybe you think you've never heard him? You have, even if "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" makes you miserable. Whatever your stance, it's pretty damn cool that the solo artist and former front man of the Smiths will be playing for one night only at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 950 13th St., Denver. Tickets to see Morrissey — and we're assured he'll be playing old hits as well as new songs — are $42-$210 before fees and charges. Info and tickets at denver-theater.com.
"once" once made me cry
True story. The 2006 movie "once," upon which the stage version playing this weekend is based, caused me to tear up, then sniffle, then heave the big ugly sobs of bittersweet romance. It's the story of a cute guitarist with a sexy Irish accent and a helpful musician/Czech immigrant who meet and fall in love, all accompanied by some truly amazing original music.
The Tony Award-winning show plays at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Saturday and Sunday, as well as at 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday at the Buell Theatre, 950 13th St. Tickets before fees are $35-$105, and more info and tickets are at denver-theater.com.
Last Sunday's Cinema double feature
Starting at noon on Sunday inside the McNichols Civic Center Building (144 West Colfax), which was recently revamped into an events center, watch two uber-violent, cowboy-behatted films back to back: "True Grit" and "Django Unchained."
This is great first-date material if I've ever seen it. One, see if you share the same tastes in Western revenge movies, which eHarmony says is super important for compatibility. Two, running until about 4 p.m., you can catch a bite if it's going well, or catch a ride home if not. Lastly, it's cheap at $7/adult or $15/family for both movies. (Seriously? Do NOT bring your children to Tarantino.) Beers sold inside are also only $3.
Even cheaper: Bring three cans of food for Food Bank of the Rockies and get in absolutely free Info at facebook.com/lastsundayscinema.
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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."
(CNN) -- "Every day and every night I want to see you and be with you. Yet I have no feeling of selfish ownership or jealousy.
"In fact I should always want you to live just as you wanted -- because if you didn't you would change and wouldn't be you. Let's go for a long ride Sundays; let's go to the mountains weekends; let's read books in front of fires; most of all, let's really grow together and find the happiness we know is ours."
The dewy-eyed romantic writing those words?
Richard Nixon.
On Friday the first in a series of handwritten love letters between a young Richard Nixon and a young Pat Ryan went on display at the Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. The letters began in 1938 -- when they met while auditioning for a community play -- and extended almost up until their wedding day two years later.
Former President Nixon died in 1994, the year after Pat Nixon's death. She would have been 100 this month. The exhibit at the Nixon Library featuring the love letters will almost certainly reignite the debate about the most controversial and enigmatic U.S. political figure of the last hundred years. Who -- not only in the end, but at the beginning -- was Nixon? For all his fame, did anyone truly know him?
Most American adults long ago made up their minds about what they think of Nixon, pro or con. But, with the new focus this month on the Nixon Library and Museum, I hope that at least some of you will someday make the trip to Yorba Linda, will leave your political passions at the door for a bit, and will take in something that is absolutely haunting in its quiet power.
I have done reporting and research at four presidential libraries, and the part of the Nixon Library I'd like to recommend to you is by far the most memorable aspect of any of them. Maybe because it is so unexpected.
It's not inside the library itself; it's on a side lawn
It is a small house. The house where Nixon was born.
It is not a replica. It has not been reconstructed or moved from somewhere else. It is the house where Nixon lived for the first nine years of his life. The Nixon Library and Museum was built on the site of the former lemon grove where his father, Frank, tried and failed to make a decent living.
Frank Nixon built the house by hand, from a kit. The wood, nails and fittings, ordered from a catalog, arrived at the train station and Richard Nixon's dad, before the boy was born, put it together.
It is so cramped and claustrophobic. That's what strikes you when you enter the front door. You can't just wander through by yourself; volunteer docents at the library accompany you. Six people lived in the house: Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, Richard and three of his brothers. Two of them would die from illnesses contracted in childhood; a fifth boy would be born after the Nixons moved away from Yorba Linda.
You stand in that structure -- you look at the bedroom, to the left of the front door, and at the bed upon which Hannah Nixon in 1913 gave birth to the child who would end up a president -- and you think of the long and tumultuous life that Nixon would go on, from here, to lead.
Most of all -- and this is the inescapable thought as you stand within those four close walls -- you ponder a United States before there was commercial airline travel, before there was television, and you picture the White House, a continent and a universe away.
It would seem: You can't get there from here.
And yet. ...
The nature of raw ambition, and the rejection of impossibility, and the need to escape from what is to find out what will be. You stand in that nailed-together-from-a-kit house, and you try to imagine being a boy living there who has not yet learned what it is like to have strangers love you and strangers hate you, or even to have strangers know who you are. In the history of the United States, of all the hundreds of millions of people who have lived and died, fewer than 50 have become president. Where does it start?
"The living room was the center of our life in this house," Nixon once wrote. "Before the days of television and radio, reading and conversation were our major indoor recreation. My first taste of politics came at the dinner table, which was in a corner of the living room. At dinner my father would engage us boys in lively conversations about the events of the day. I owe my early interests in debating to those dinners. Even though I was young, my father believed that no one was too young to have an opinion and to learn how to express himself."
The family's upright piano is in that living room -- Nixon learned to play not only that, but the violin, the clarinet, the saxophone and the accordion. Near the tiny kitchen with its cast-iron stove is a narrow flight of stairs. The house was not large enough to have a second story; instead it had kind of a half-attic where all four boys, including the two who would die, Arthur and Harold, slept in a single room.
We're all thinking about the presidency this year, as the country moves toward another Election Day. Whatever your notions of Nixon, however much you may feel that everything that can be said about him has been said, I think you will be fascinated and perhaps moved by your time in that mail-order house, should you ever have the opportunity to go. Just to think, in the silence, about how things turn out the way they do. The American story can occasionally be utterly life-sized.
From this spot to the White House, to China, to Moscow, to more than 56 countries, through all the political storms that still, even in death, rage around him. He and Mrs. Nixon are buried behind the house. A journey through life, a journey like no other, and in the end this is where they rest.
You can't get there from here.
But, of course, you can.
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Now that I have been on a bit of a roll creating the Activity Bags for the kids, I had to make some Easter themed ones. You can see some of my other activity Bag posts here and here.
There is an abundance of Easter themed crafting items about at the moment so it was really easy to create these activities. Take a look….
Easter Egg Word Creation. A 3 letter word and picture clue.
Easter Egg Colour Match. Match the top and bottom part of the egg to the picture.
Easter Egg Number Match. Place the correct number and colour of pom poms into the numbered egg.
Easter Egg Colour Match. Place the correct coloured egg yolk into the egg.
Easter Symbol Sequencing. Match the sequence on the cards using the correct symbols.
These fun activities live in an Easter gift bag by the garage so we can grab it when we are heading out.
With Easter holidays starting at the end of this week, I can see these will get a good workout before Easter arrives.
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Doctor Dala is a pre-War scientist operating The Think Tank in the Big MT in 2281.
Doctor Dala was the first head chief researcher of mineralogy who became a think tank to continue her work at the Big MT, such as studying Saturnite. When the Courier meets her, she's the expert on humanology and Lobotomite behavior, and has 211 doctorates from mineralogy and humanology to medicine and holodisk eidetic. Possessing a degree in Curiosity and Advanced Curiosity, Dala also has a fascination with the human body. This fascination also leads her to become very curious around the Courier and at times, excitable.
Shortly after the war, all of the think tanks, along with Dala, went insane. Doctor Mobius replaced her and her colleagues' pre-War memories and names with that of their new eccentric counterparts, trapping them forever. This explains her extreme obsession with the human body and supposed 211 doctorates in sciences which do not exist. Mobius then fled to the Forbidden Zone where he likewise went insane.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
|This character starts quests.
|This character is involved in quests.
- Welcome to the Big Empty: The player has to talk to Dala as with the rest of the think tanks to complete the quest.
- Picking Your Brains: After completing Welcome to the Big Empty, the player needs to talk to Dala and the rest of the think tanks to complete this quest.
- Coming Out of Her Shell: Dala would like to monitor your "biorhythms" and observe you as an organism.
- He Came... And Went: Dala can start this quest by picking the right speech choices in conversation.
- Old World Blues: If Klein can't be convinced otherwise, Dala, along with 2 other members of the Think Tank, are needed to convince Klein to give up trying to escape the Big MT.
Effects of player's actionsEdit
As long as the player completes "Coming Out of Her Shell" before confronting the Think Tank at the end of Old World Blues, she will side with the Courier if the option to have Klein consult with his colleagues is taken.
Other interactionsEdit
- Speech options can imply that she shows more emotion than the other doctors, especially if the Courier has the Lady Killer or Cherchez La Femme perk.
- After completing Coming Out of Her Shell, you can return to Dala once a day for a "breather" (literally letting her watch you breathe) for some ammunition (depleted energy cells) in return.
- If the Courier has an actual teddy bear in their inventory, a new dialogue will be available.
|Other items
|On death
|Brain beam
Brain mesmetron
|Electron charge packs, over charge
Energy cells
Fission battery
Microfusion cells, over charge
Scrap electronics
Scrap metal
Sensor module
teddy bear
- Dala appears to have an obsession with teddy bears: she admits to this and it is reinforced by evidence in Higgs Village, in House #104.
- Apart from Doctor 8 she is the only one carrying a distinctive item.
- Other members of The Think Tank refer to Dala's collection of formography, explained as an obsession with the human body as if it were a hoard of fetish material.
- When Doctor Mobius comments on the things the scientists have forgotten, masturbation is probably aimed at Dala, due to her fascination with the human body and tendency to make noises of ecstasy. She also almost says "vibrator" instead of "vivisector" at one point.
- If the Courier brings Dala a teddy bear, she will decline and explain that lobotomites are her teddy bears. Despite this, her home in Higgs Village and her room in The Think Tank are both filled with teddy bears.
- Dala's teddy bear, but it was cut. There were plans for her to have a favorite teddy bear, named
Notable quotesEdit
- "I did so enjoy breathing once. Long ago..."
- "Why my little bear of teddiness. I am Doctor Dala."
- "I love to hear you breathe."
- "There is no standing on the green pipes. If you are standing on the green pipes, please get off them at once."
- "Shh, little organs. Go to sleep in your tanks. Dala loves you."
- "Why would you want to do such a thing? You might surrender to your hormones and commit primal aggression on me...on us again and again! Then I would have to return the favor, activating my vivisectors and gently lobotomizing you from behind. Not something I would relish doing."
- "You are an unusual specimen, to so boldly... walk into the mighty expanse of the Think Tank. Fearless and proud as a teddy bear."
- "Doctor O, you rewind that comment!"
Dala appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Behind the scenesEdit
- You have the option of telling her "The Quick Scribe jumped over the Lazy Paladin" which is a line Christine says in Dead Money. This is a reference to a pangram, but not a true pangram itself because it is missing several letters of the English alphabet.
- Dala is a shortened form of Mandala, which means 'circle' in Sanskrit, another looping and infinite figure which follows the naming convention of the other members of the Think Tank.
- Dala's statement regarding no standing on the green pipes is a reference to the movie Airplane! and the announcements in the terminal about the white zone and red zone.
PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 It is possible that you won't be able to initiate another "Breathing Session" with Dala after you have already done so once before. [verified]


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NE @ NYG (+14.5) – Huge spread here. I can see Coughlin doing something stupid like playing his starters most of the game, having 2 or 3 of them get hurt and still getting crushed. Then Eli will make that loser face again and nobody will be sure if he is elated or suicidal.
BUFF @ PHILLY (-7.5) – Buff has been my go-to pick all year because I just like Buffalo. (And I'm not sure why really. Sure, I like Lee Evans and Tim Russert, who's a huge Buffalo fan, but I'm still not sure. Maybe it's because they are a small market, cold-weather team. Maybe it's because I like eating buffalo meat). I do think Philly right now is the best non-playoff team in the league. Philly rolls in this one.
CINCY @ MIA (+2.5) – I have grown tired of Parcells and his ways. He will have an awfully difficult time NOT involving himself in GM/coaching roles. Has anyone ever noticed that he is just not fun to look at? He has a Mike Shermanesque body and he almost always has a scowl on his face (because he's just been defensive about something).
SF @ CLEVE (-9.5) – Cleve needs this game and while they choked last week when they needed that game, I think they'll get some revenge here on the poor SF. Now, this is assuming the quarterback with the highest winning percentage in NFL history is still having back problems and unable to play: the 2-0 Sean Hill.
DET @ GB (-3.5) – The Packers will win this one because McCarthy is pissed off about the Bears loss. Anyone else ticked off at the emphasis so many announcers (especially Aikman) put on the "Green" in Green Bay? Drives me nuts.
CAR @ TB (+2.5) – Tough game here. I can see Gruden coaching hard for a win for momentum sake, but Carolina has been a quality road team this year. TB is a pride-team though, so I have a hard time seeing Carolina winning here.
JAX @ HOU (-6.5) – Jax will go to the bench quickly in this one and no back-up corner can hang with Andre Johnson (even with the spice-man throwing to him).
SEA @ ATL (-2.5) – I would love to see Seattle lose by 30 so that their momentum for the playoffs might be in question. But that won't happen, they'll probably eke out a win and then crush whoever they face in the first round b/c of home-field advantage.
NO @ CHI (+2.5) – I want New Orleans because it may help wipe away the cocky, celebrating faces of the Bears players which I have come to resent.
STL @ ARI (-5.5) – Bulger apparently called Warner for advice on how to deal with his concussions and Warner told him to wait until he is ready to come back. There was seriously an article about this advice he gave this past week. Seriously. St. Louis here because that is lame/non advice. Warner is lame.
MIN @ DEN (+1.5) – Great quotes from Champ Bailey after Phillip Rivers trash-talked Jay Cutler. Read them here. Big game for MN, though a Wash loss at this point is unlikely.
SD @ OAK (+6.5) – Sapp is a moron. I'll take Oakland here though as I think J-Marc may play so well that everyone begins to question why Oakland chose to waste a season NOT developing him.
PITT @ BALT (+5.5) – tough game – crack pick warning. McGahee is apparently out leaving Balt with officially zero offense. However, Roth will sit this one out and right now, several Ravens players apparently hate several Steelers. Taking Balt.
KC @ NYJ (-5.5) – blowout alert. Though there is the small side story of Edwards going back to NY for the first time, this game won't be close. It will be Pennington's last a Jet and he'll go nuts. Great quarterbacks do that. By the way, why wouldn't Chicago make a hard play for Pennington in the offseason?
DAL @ WASH (-7.5) – Sizeable spread here. I think Wash will win assuming Gibbs doesn't break another rule costing 15 yards and eventually, the game. I will be rooting, however, for Wash to blowout Dal to leave Dal questioning a little bit how they have attained a rather lofty reputation despite some clear weaknesses.
TENN @ INDY (+6.5) – I know Indy will try hard to win this game. But Tenn has to win and I think Vince will have a huge game against a second-string defense. What happened to Jeff Fisher's mullet? I miss that.


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In the United States, the FDA approves drugs.
The U.S. and Canadian systems of new drug approvals are perhaps the most rigorous in the world. On average, it costs a company $359 million to get one new medicine from the laboratory to the pharmacist's shelf, according to a February 1993 report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. It takes 12 years on average for an experimental drug to travel from lab to medicine chest. Only five in 5,000 compounds that enter preclinical testing make it to human testing. Only one in five of these tested in people is approved[citation needed].
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As it becomes increasingly clear that many medications, often prescribed to treat physical conditions, have extensive side effects affecting various aspects of cognitive functioning, including executive functioning, memory loss etc. it is important that the testing protocols for all drugs prior to approval monitors these areas of performance.
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Recommendation concerning the University Affiliated Research Center
Statement of University of Hawaii System Interim President David McClain to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, February 16, 2006University of Hawaiʻi
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External Affairs & University Relations
Fifteen months ago, responding to a recommendation from UH Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert, which I forwarded to the Board of Regents, the board gave its provisional approval to a U.S. Navy University Affiliated Research Center, the Applied Research Laboratory at UH Manoa, subject to the completion of consultation and the negotiation of a contract.
Such a center would involve the sole source provision—via "task orders"—of UH scientists' expertise in astronomy, oceanography, advanced electro-optical systems and communications systems. Task order sponsors could be the U.S. Navy or any other federal agency, including agencies whose primary focus is not defense related matters, such as the National Science Foundation. The center would be funded for three years, with an option for renewal for an additional two years, for a total of five years. It was estimated that a maximum of $10 million per year in task orders would be funded.
Eight months ago, I advised the board that I would not recommend the renewal of Chancellor Englert's contract.
Seven months ago, I recommended to the board that Dr. Denise Konan be appointed interim chancellor of UH Manoa. Upon the board's approval, she assumed her duties on August 1, 2005.
Three months ago, in the wake of a thorough process of consultation on her campus, Chancellor Konan recommended against proceeding with the UARC on the Manoa campus. During these consultations, the Manoa Faculty Senate, the undergraduate student association ASUH and the Kualiʻi Council all recommended against proceeding with the UARC. The Graduate Student Organization took no position.
The Manoa Faculty Senate ad hoc committee report, compiled with the assistance of outside counsel provided by the Manoa administration, offers a thorough review of the issues surrounding the UARC. It noted that several concerns that were generally felt (e.g., dealing with the complexity of administration required, with publication restrictions, with classified research) were often not matters of concern to researchers likely to participate in the UARC.
Chancellor Konan's summary statement read in part, "…the proposed UARC with the U.S. Navy is not supported by our campus. The contract remains problematic, and it would be difficult to implement an integrated UARC on our campus. The proposed UARC would involved very few of our researchers. Due to the potential for research to be classified and to the significant research space constraints on the UH Manoa campus, UARC-related research would more appropriately be located off-campus."
Her summary statement also read, "I am firmly committed to the ability of individual faculty members to pursue defense related research and funding" and "Faculty will continue to engage in naval research at our university." She noted that the debate in the Manoa Faculty Senate focused at its core on "an examination of Manoa's mission and how to promote our future as a research university."
One month ago, the Board of Regents in an informational meeting took six hours of testimony on the proposed UARC. Chancellor Konan began the meeting with a summary of her decision process and salient aspects of the UARC and took questions from the regents. During the course of these remarks the board learned that the overwhelming majority of the 100 most productive researchers on the Manoa campus supported the UARC; a poll conducted by the UH Association of Research Investigatorsreflected a similar preference.
Today I am giving the board my recommendation on how to proceed
In coming to this recommendation, I have met, inter alia, with the Pukoa Council, many of the members of which are also members of the Kuali'i Council. Pukoa is against proceeding with the UARC. So, also, is the Student Caucus, composed of student representatives from each of the campuses in the UH System. I have no recommendation from the systemwide All Campus Council of Faculty Senate Chairs, but the Faculty Senate of Hawaiʻi Community College recommends against proceeding with the UARC, as does the Faculty Senate of the College of Arts and Sciences at UH Hilo. This latter body does not represent all the UH Hilo faculty, but it represents most of them.
I have also consulted with the Council of Chancellors, with several members of the Native Hawaiian community not employed at UH and with numerous others.
I would also note that the contract in its current form may be somewhat improved (from a UH perspective) from the contract as reviewed by Chancellor Konan, in part as a result of the recommendations of the outside counsel provided for the Manoa Faculty Senate ad hoc committee and in part as a result of the work of outside counsel retained to assist the university's attorneys in the Office of General Counsel. I also note that, by law, only the University of Hawaiʻi, and not the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, may enter into contractual relationships of this kind.
Before announcing my recommendation, let me review briefly each of Chancellor Konan's reasons for not proceeding.
- The proposed UARC is not supported by the UH Manoa campus. Certainly the three Manoa-based advisory bodies who took votes all voted against supporting the UARC. Testimony received at the Board of Regents meeting last month was on both sides of the issue; for example, most in the law school are opposed, and most in the engineering school are in support. Overall, a majority of those who testified orally and in writing at the BOR's informational meeting were in opposition.
- The contract remains problematic. The chancellor's statement references—but does not mention further—a "detailed legal analysis of the particular conditions of the proposed contract" done by independent attorneys for the Manoa Faculty Senate's ad-hoc committee charged with reviewing the proposed contract. I return to these legal issues later in these remarks.
- It would be difficult to implement an integrated UARC on our campus. Chancellor Konan's statement mentioned the integration of the UARC "into existing facilities and the permitted dual use of UARC funded personnel and equipment"—in contrast to "Navy UARCs at other universities, which are located in self-contained laboratories with independent facilities and staff." She also noted that "were a UARC to be established, a complex management structure would need to be put in place to assure the necessary safeguards for national security interests within the context of an open campus environment."
I agree with the chancellor's assessment that the "embedded" nature of the UARC complicates the administrative challenges substantially, particularly to the extent that classified research is performed.
- The proposed UARC would involve very few of our researchers. Privately, the chancellor has given me an estimate of one dozen; other estimates I've received suggest the number would be higher, but not by a multiple of more than two or three.
- The potential for research to become classified and the significant research space constraints on the UH-Manoa campus. Both of these considerations are given as a reason that "UARC-related research would more appropriately be located off-campus." I address more fully classified research later in these remarks.
This summary list of reasons why not to proceed does not address the financial terms of the UARC. As testimony received by the regents from one Manoa faculty member (Walker Chair and Professor of Accounting Shirley Daniel in the UH Manoa College of Business) suggested, and as the business plan provided indicates, the university's proceeds from a contract vehicle like the UARC are about 25 percent higher than under normal research contracts. One reason is that some direct costs (including personnel costs) are reimbursed; in the typical contract vehicle only indirect costs can be recovered. The UARC contract also permits UH to charge a fee for its services, unlike in normal research contracts.
Whether these superior returns are justified by the start-up costs of a UARC (some of which would later be reimbursable), by the additional administrative burden and expense and by the risks involved (discussed further below, along with the legal issues) is a matter of judgment.
What are the risks and the legal issues?
Some opponents of the UARC believe that the process by which UH received its UARC designation from the Navy in July, 2004 was inappropriate or illegal. Both outside and inside counsel have opined that the UARC proposed is legal.
Outside counsel provided to the Manoa Faculty Senate identified seven areas of concern, and focused in depth on the first two. The seven areas were (1) limitations on the disclosure of research information; (2) the authority to reject task orders found objectionable (the "unilateral" provision of the contract); (3) "virtual offices" and the use of property on non-UARC research; (4) intellectual property rights; (5) drug free work force and other personnel issues; (6) the impact of security classification procedures on research staff; and (7) "organizational conflicts of interest" and restrictions on faculty conduct of non-UARC research.
With regard to (1), let me observe that current grants and contracts received by UH from a number of federal, State of Hawaiʻi and industry sources do contain some form of publications restriction, voluntarily accepted by the researchers in question. Such restrictions, of course, also characterize most classified contracts. That said, whether or not a task order is classified, in the contract as it current exists the Navy does retain the final authority, after a request to disclose has been made, to determine the meaning of "sensitive and inappropriate" information that may not be disclosed. If researchers involved in the UARC voluntarily accept such a restriction, that practice would be similar to what already occurs with a number of other research relationships at UH.
With regard to (2) the contract as it currently exists does contain a unilateral provision. Research by inside counsel has concluded that, in more than 3,000 task orders given the other Navy UARCs since 1997 involving some $3 billion of research work, there is not one example of the Navy exercising this unilateral option. Other language elsewhere in the contract, which suggests that task orders are arrived at in a more collaborative fashion, seems to be operative in other UARCs. I therefore conclude that the risk of a unilateral imposition of a task order is quite small.
With regard to (7), inside counsel advises that only those who work on UARC projects will be affected by the organizational conflicts of interest issue; other researchers will not. With regard to (3), (4) and (5), inside and outside counsel advise that the UARC doesn't raise any issues that haven't already surfaced in the current UH research portfolio.
This leaves us with (6), the matter of classified research. By one estimate, 15 percent of the volume of research funded by the UARC would be classified in nature; over the five-year life of the contract, that means that perhaps $7—$8 million in classified research would be conducted.
Let me now summarize for the board the situation as I see it. This proposed contract is clearly the most visible contract to come before the board in many years. It is neither as flawed as its opponents assert, nor is it as promising as its supporters claim.
The way ahead involves a question of balance between the rights of individual researchers to pursue topics that interest them and the concerns of some on the campus—perhaps even a majority—that all must engage in activities congruent with the majority's particular perception of the university's mission, values and strategic plan. Because of the inherent diversity and need for freedom of inquiry that, in my view, does and should characterize the academy, I tend to be biased in favor of measures to support the individual scholar no matter how popular—or even more importantly, how unpopular—his or her research interests.
The way ahead also involves a question of the capability of our institution to respond to the additional administrative responsibility that would come with the establishment of such a facility, a responsibility that would be all the greater if classified research were to be included in the task orders. We've shown that we can do this in the case of the Maui High Performance Computing Center, so we have a track record. Still, a UARC is a new kind of organization for us.
The way ahead also involves the question of the nature of the university's responsibility to the State of Hawaiʻi. This is a matter of importance of particular interest to the University of Hawaiʻi System, which has the responsibility for leading the effort to set the agenda for public higher education in our state and for responding to state needs for an educated citizenry, a well-trained workforce and a robust and diversified economy.
Finally, as I have listened to and read testimony and read other expressions of concern about the UARC, I've concluded that the way ahead must involve more directly the question of classified research. Board of Regents' policy characterizes UH's primary mission as "…to provide environments (italics mine) in which faculty and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of the present and future generations with improvement in the quality of life."
Classified research, by its very nature, impedes the creation of the environments described above. While this is also true of the restrictions involving publication and in other matters currently accepted by researchers receiving a variety of non-classified contracts, many in the public perceive classified work as more sinister, since defense issues are often involved. Should a research project become classified in mid-stream, it is current UH practice to move the project to an off-campus location, thus "restoring" the campus environment. As noted above, this is one of two reasons—the other being limited space—that Chancellor Konan gives for her recommendation that UARC-related activity occur off campus.
With these considerations and questions in mind, I have the following recommendation for the Board of Regents:
- Accept Chancellor Konan's recommendation.
- In its place, and in the tradition of our EPSCoR and P-20 grants and contracts and the Maui High Performance Computing Center itself, approve the establishment of the UARC as an administrative unit attached to the UH System.
- Provide that the UARC will perform no classified task orders during its first three years of operation. This simplifies the administration of the UARC during its initial years, and addresses the "environments" issue profiled above.
- Provide that the UARC will retain the option to terminate a task order should the research involved become classified after the task order begins. This approach mimics Stanford University's approach to research that it finds is classified in mid-stream and gives UH additional flexibility, over and above current practice of moving projects off campus, in this area.
- Provide that UH will evaluate the UARC during its third year in terms of the financial and research returns received, and the costs and risks incurred, including the administrative burden associated with managing the UARC. If the UARC receives a favorable evaluation within UH, the university would invite the U.S. Navy to exercise its option for renewal of the contract for an additional two years. If the UARC did not pass the UH evaluation, or if it did and the U.S. Navy elected not to exercise its option, UH would discontinue the UARC.
With this "unclassified UARC" approach, faculty can continue to pursue defense-related research and funding and can continue to perform naval research, activities that the chancellor supports and that help to diversify our economy. UARC contracts would be much like other grants and contracts, with the exception that they would be sole-sourced, and our costs would be more generously reimbursed.
Thank you for your attention. I would be happy to take any questions you may have.


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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Whether one party moves out in the immediate, assuming the details will be hashed out over time, or both parties stay put and a battle ensues, dealing with who keeps the marital residence can be stressful, time consuming and expensive.
Whether married or co-habitating, a couple who lives together for more than 30 days, regardless of whether the lease, deed and/or mortgage is in one or both parties' names, both have an interest in the property and cannot simply be ousted.
By law, a person cannot be removed without proper notice and possibly even a formal eviction procedure. This means a party cannot simply change the locks and throw his or her former significant other's belongings on the front lawn.
This is what the law refers to as "self-help," and not only is it illegal, but it is also frowned upon by the court and usually triggers a judge to award the injured party with moving costs or other monetary relief.
If both parties happen to be on the lease other issues may arise. For instance, as most New York residents know the criteria for lease approval is often to show that the parties earn some 40 times the monthly rent. Many times one party is unable to do this alone. One party may be willing to move out, but wants to be taken off of the lease to avoid future liability for the rents, where the managing agent may not allow this.
Similarly, where parties own property together, it is often difficult to get the bank to change the loan documents to one party's name. After all, it is in their best interest to have as many people "on the hook" as possible, in the event of a default.
Often times parties will take drastic measures in insuring their right to the marital residence. One unfortunate technique I've seen in practice is where one party files an Order of Protection, claiming his or her spouse as a potential threat, which limits how and why the parties can contact each other and the distance that they must stay while the court works out the details.
In that interim period, it is often the "victim" who maintains possession, while it is up to the "assailant" to find a place to go.
Once a party is out of the residence it becomes very difficult to get back in. This is why I often advise my clients to stay put, but sometimes that is easier said than done.
One of my more recent clients attempted to co-habitate with his wife until he confirmed that she had been cheating on him. Sharing the space with her became mentally exhausting and unhealthy for him.
In that instance, rather than advising him to leave the residence, I advised that we work with his wife (and wife's counsel) in reaching a settlement that would get her out of the house as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Encouraging the parties to settle will reflect the best interest of the client. In the event that the parties indeed want to "duke it out" in the courtroom, in comes the real estate brokers, appraisers, forced sales and a flurry of other activity that will only be frustrating and costly.


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This year the Chestnut Hill Community Association is honoring its own, naming two current members of the association's community and a longstanding resident of the Chestnut Hill community as award recipients.
Each year the association picks three outstanding examples of service to the community, honoring them with the Chestnut Hill Award, the Meritorious Service Award and the Distinguished Service Award.
Patricia Cove, a member of the nomination committee, said the recipients stood out this year for their significant contributions.
Larry McEwen, 58, a 20-year resident of Chestnut Hill, is this year's recipient of the Chestnut Hill Award. He is being honored for more than 17 years of service as a volunteer on the Land Use Planning and Zoning committee and the Development Review Committee, which he currently co-chairs. McEwen was chosen this year to highlight the long hours and dedication he brought to the negotiations with Chestnut Hill College.
McEwen headed the committee of association members, neighbors and college representatives, working together to create a master plan for the college's two campuses that met everyone's needs. "Larry is always fair," Cove said. "He encourages communication. He's been an excellent leader."
McEwen was recruited to the LUPZ in 1993 after attending a meeting at the behest of some of his new neighbors. He moved into his house on W. Evergreen Ave. in 1990 and as an architect was sought out for his opinion on neighborhood issues. The day after he attended that very first meeting, LUPZ member Bill Washburn asked him to join.
McEwen, who also teaches urban design at Drexel University, said he loves Chestnut Hill and has enjoyed serving on the committees.
"Chestnut Hill is a great place to be. It's pedestrian and yet has a rich mix of uses," he said.
Last year the Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment thought it had to close its doors forever.
The group had spent decades providing classes and events for seniors. It was a place to go, to gather and to be with friends. It was Marilyn Paucker, president of the board, who at what was to be the final meeting, announced that there would be funding to continue.
"She worked to ensure it continued to serve the community," Cove said. And for that she is this year's recipient of the Meritorious Service Award.
"I'm a little embarrassed by it all," Paucker said. "I'm surprised." Paucker, 64, who has also served as secretary for the CHCA board for the past three years, said she feels humbled by the recognition.
This year's Distinguished Service Award winner, James Black, 82, is being honored for the number of years he has spent walking the neighborhood, making it a more beautiful place, block-by-block.
Black has lived in Chestnut Hill since 1973. He calls himself a "woodsy" man because he likes trees. When he retired from his job as a budget manager for Conrail in 1990, he focused his attention on the green spaces throughout Chestnut Hill, ensuring that they remain safe and well-kept.
Black has devoted countless hours to pruning, caring for and cleaning green areas. He has made hundreds of phone calls, lobbying city offices to do their job and take care of their property. And when that failed, he simply did it himself.
Among his accomplishments are clearing the trees behind the library of "killer" vines, staving off a thistle attack in the library garden, tending to the Highland Avenue parking lot's trees and shrubbery, splitting wood from dried out trees and giving it out to neighbors, saving the last cherry tree on Highland Avenue and tending the small traffic islands near his residence at the Hill House.
"I'm the neighborhood improvement guy," he said. "I walk through figuring out how to fix things, calling people. Others observe but don't follow through."
The awards will be presented at the CHCA's annual meeting on April 20. For more information or to purchase tickets to the events, call 215-248-8810.


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