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Nov 06, 2012 | 11:09 AM | Suzy Waite
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NEW YORK Aluminum billet shipments from Alcoa Inc.s Ferndale, Wash., smelter were delayed late last week due to furnace problems. A mechanical breakdown on one of the homogenizing furnaces, which stabilize billet chemistry, forced the Pittsburgh-based producer to temporarily shut down the furnace for a few days, a source....
NEW YORK Aluminum billet shipments from Alcoa Inc.s Ferndale, Wash., smelter were delayed late last week due to furnace problems.
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President Obama hosted the 2012 G8 Summit at Camp David from May 18-19.
22 May 2012 - Combating Counterfeit and Falsified Medical Products
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21 May 2012 - Group of Eight Declaration on Nonproliferation and Disarmament for 2012
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19 May 2012 - Camp David Accountability Report
19 May 2012 - Camp David Declaration
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19 May 2012 - Fact Sheet: G-8 Action on the Deauville Partnership with Arab Countries in Transition
19 May 2012 - Statement by the G8 on Global Oil Markets
19 May 2012 - Statement by G8 Leaders on the Global Economy
18 May 2012 - Fact Sheet: G-8 Action on Food Security and Nutrition
12 April 2012 - G8 Foreign Ministers' Statement to Media on North Korean Missile Launch
12 April 2012 - G8 Foreign Ministers' Meeting Statement and Annex
The Group of Eight (G8) is a forum for the leaders of eight of the world's most industrialized nations, aimed at finding common ground on key topics and solutions to global issues. The G8 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. While the leaders of these countries are in regular contact, they meet in summit format as the G8 once a year.
The G8's origin stems from meetings held in the 1970s between France's Valéry Giscard D'Estaing and Germany's Helmut Schmidt when they were finance ministers. Each subsequently assumed the leadership of their respective countries, just as the mid-1970s oil crisis was buffeting the world's largest economies. French President Giscard D'Estaing urged the leaders of Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States to meet in 1975 to discuss how to respond to the oil crisis.
Canada joined the group in 1976 at the Puerto Rico Summit hosted by the United States. The European Community, now the European Union, was given observer status the following year at the London Summit. Russia became a full-fledged member of the G8 in 1998.
Canada has hosted five summits since 1976: Ottawa-Montebello 1981, Toronto 1988, Halifax 1995, Kananaskis 2002 and Muskoka 2010.

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The Annual Report for 2010/11 presents the Institute's current projects and publications dealing with seven issues. Under the banner of "Research for a Sustainable Economy", the IÖW develops scientifically sound studies and concepts that are intended for practical application, and supports their implementation at the corporate and political level as well as in NGOs.
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Selected projects, like "Naturally Sustainable? Changing Industry with Bionics" or "What to Buy? Assessing Potentials and Impacts of Product Labels", publications and events provide an overview of the activities of the IÖW. The IÖW researches a wide array of issues ranging from "Sustainable Corporate Management" and "Water and Land Management" to "Climate and Energy" and "Products and Consumption".
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[Game Announce] - Evolution War
Started by m3xican, Jul 01 2009 11:54 PM
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Posted 01 July 2009 - 11:54 PM
Evolution War is a turn based strategy game with strong RPG overtones. The game is set in a virtual universe in which AI bots have evolved to become independent beings in cyberspace. The bots fight for dominance in their environment to conquer their own cyber arenas and struggle to survive.
You can create your own bots, make them grow and evolve by adding new components and by upgrading and enhancing existing traits allowing for deep customization in true RPG style. Once your bot is strong enough it is ready to take on the universe in a campaign to conquer every planet in cyberspace!
The main feature of Evolution War is the evolution of the AI bots controlled by the CPU. They are procedurally generated and constantly changing, improving and evolving to continuously provide a new and exciting challenge for players as the game progresses.
The evolution of the bots will be controlled by genetic programming and other advanced AI techniques to provide a unique and individual gaming experience for each player.
Evolution War is a free game and initially will be released for Linux and Windows. If interest is shown from other OS communities then other porting options may be taken into consideration.
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 07:24 AM
An announcement with no screenshots? Harsh!
Either way, it sounds like it could be a very fun game. Good luck.
Either way, it sounds like it could be a very fun game. Good luck.
Posted 17 July 2009 - 05:30 PM
I know, it sounds a bit unusual, but the current graphics is pretty coarse, mostly because we are concentrating our efforts on the AI/logic, so, for now, we decided to not publish any screenshot.
Anyway I hope we'll be able to show something soon.
Anyway I hope we'll be able to show something soon.
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Lake George Club chef captures art with ice carvings at Skidmore College (WITH VIDEO)
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Tony Destratis knows there's a big difference between seahorses and the four-legged horses that helped make the Spa City famous.
Among those differences: seahorses are easier to work with, at least when carving one out of ice.
That's what the Lake George Club chef did for an admiring audience on Thursday during the American Culinary Federation's second annual Culinary Conference & Competition at Skidmore College.
"It's amazing," said Robin Hozley, Skidmore's dining hall baker, as she watched Destratis go to work. "It's an art form you don't see that often."
In no time flat — using an electric chainsaw, a grinding device and a shaving tool — Destratis transformed a plain 400-pound block of ice into a beautiful 200-pound marine creature.
He learned the skill 30 years ago as a student at Johnson and Wales University's College of Culinary Arts in Providence, R.I.
As a chef, Destratis spends most of his time laboring over a hot stove.
"This is just as hot," he said. "It's physical, it really is. The chainsaw weighs 15 to 20 pounds and you're bent over the whole time."
Part way through his demonstration, Destratis stopped to address a group of children from Skidmore's daycare center. Continued...
"What does it look like?" he asked them.
"SpongeBob!" a little boy yelled out.
Sticking to his job, Destratis skillfully carved various features as the seahorse took shape.
Ice carvings such as this are frequently used for special occasions such as weddings.
Several years ago, when employed by a Marriott Hotel in Boston, he made a huge sculpture of New England Patriots and New York Giants football players squaring off prior to the Super Bowl.
"Those are my favorites, ones with multiple pieces," he said. "You've got be able to visualize what you're creating, right out of your head."
The two-day Culinary Conference concludes today, highlighted by a juried competition involving teams of chefs from nearly a dozen Northeast colleges such as Cornell, Williams and Tufts.
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Learning from the Pros - From digital photography to websites to printing presses, students participating in the Tech Prep program at the Ocean County Vocational Technical School in Brick learn about design and visual communications. The intensive program emphasizes preparation for employment and continuing education at a post high school institution, while offering Tech Prep agreements for possible college credit upon examination or portfolio review. Local businesses share their expertise with students to help prepare them for careers in the field. OCVTS students traditionally attend a two and a half-hour session per day while the remainder of their day is spent completing academic requirements at their sending school. Squan-a-Thon – At Manasquan High School, nearly 300 students take part in the "Squan-a-Thon". The event aims to raise more than $40,000 to assist children afflicted with cancer. On the surface, the event functions as a dance marathon requiring that each student stay up all night without caffeine. On a deeper level, this challenge intends to foster a sense of empathy and concern for the hardships of others among the student body. We the People - Developed by the California-based Center for Civic Education, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution is the largest civic education program in the country. It is focused on the history and principles of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. About 280 students from John P. Stevens High School in Edison, Bayonne High School, East-Steinert High School in Hamilton Township, Hopewell Valley Central High School, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, East Brunswick High School, Marlboro High School, and Montclair High School participated in the culminating event at Rutgers University's Busch Campus Center in Piscataway. NJ Poetry Festival - The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America, returns to Newark for the 14th biennial event. Bill O-Neal and his students from Trenton Central High West Campus attend the High School Student Day. The budding poets participate in readings, attend performances, and join in the conversations with world-renowned poets.
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ere, in classic 1930's solids, is a delightful riff on the complex Tree of Life. This impressive version includes a continuing trunk with little on-point diamonds and the base of the trunk pieced of triangles as if it were festively ribbon-wound. The diagonally listing trees balance on large wedges of more pieced triangles beneath their bases. And each full crown is a huge mass of sparkling green and pink triangles, all hand-pieced and little more than an inch wide. The piece is beautifully set off with a grand sawtooth sort of pieced border treatment and the sashing construction is notable too, with lots of challenging mitered seams. A delightful and unusual find!
The hand-quilting is excellent, with 7-8 little stitches to the inch, counting on the top side of the quilt only. Many of the details are inset outlined by the piece and the rows of triangles are quilted toget in long lines.
The complex pattern is hand-pieced.
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The backing is a vibrant solid yellow in strong shape.
The straight-grain machine-applied binding is unusual with make-it-work tucks to ease aroung the angled corners and a width that veers between just over 1/4-inch all the way up more like 1-inch most of the way around. It shows edge wear along the top and bottom edges.
The batting is thin and relatively even with just some minor thinned spots.
The quilt's condition is strong, supple and clean. I just note some areas of minor thinning and splitting in the white near the top edges. I also note a couple tiny round surface spots.


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Meijer to Open along Woodward Corridor in Detroit
News Briefs - Original 05-21-2013 Hits:169 Roz Edward, National Content Director
Melvin London works on striping the new parking lot spaces at Meijer in the Gateway Marketplace, at Eight Mile and Woodward in Detroit. (Clarence Tabb Jr. /The Detroit News) Developers at Detroit's Gateway Marketplace have something to brag about. Construction for a Meijer Superstore, the development's anchor store and the corner stone of the Woodward revitalization project is ahead of schedule. Leasing on the $72 million project also is moving forward, and the center will be 95 percent leased or better this fall, said Bruce Babiarz, a spokesman for the developer, Southfield-based Redico "There's a resurgence in Detroit. It's not only downtown, but it's happening here at Eight Mile and Woodward. We're building a brand-new shopping center from the ground up. It's the largest in terms of size in the city in decades," Babiarz said. The Meijer Siperstore which is slated to open in July of this year and the Gateway project are expected to spur development in the surrounding area along Woodward, particularly the former Michigan State Fairgrounds, Babiarz added. "It's got real potential, and the success of this project may be the catalyst for that property." Meijer Inc. is starting its hiring push to bring about 400 of the estimated 700 jobs to the Gateway project. Other retailers slated to open this year include discount retailer Marshalls, apparel retailer Dots, PNC Bank and a McDonald's. In all, the project has more than 325,000 square feet of retail.
Read moreGM Hires Detroit-area High Schoolers to Serve, Learn, Lead
News Briefs - Original 05-20-2013 Hits:231 Cathy Nedd
As GM Student Corps members, they'll help improve neighborhoods, learn valuable life skills A group of 110 Detroit-area high school students are about to begin paid summer internships as members of the brand-new GM Student Corps, a program introduced today by General Motors North America President Mark Reuss that combines service, education and mentoring. The students representing 11 United Way Network of Excellence Schools will work in teams of 10 to develop and implement service projects in Detroit-area neighborhoods. Helping to train and mentor them are 60 GM retirees and 12 GM student interns from the University of Detroit Mercy, where many students major in service-based programs. Employee volunteers from TeamGMCares also will assist throughout the summer. The teams are currently planning their projects. Work is scheduled to begin in mid-June and conclude in August. "Improving the quality of life in our communities means more than writing a check," said Reuss. "It also requires investing in our young people, teaching them how good it feels to see their hard work help others, and providing them with the skills they need to lead and succeed as professionals and as citizens. Once you serve, you're hooked for life." A unique aspect of the GM Student Corps is that it unites people from a range of age groups and walks of life to work toward a common goal – improving local neighborhoods – while helping students develop career skills. Schools participating in the GM Student Corps are: Central Collegiate Academy, Detroit Public Schools Cody Campus, East Detroit High School, Hamtramck High School, Harper Woods High School, Henry Ford High School, Madison High School, Melvindale High School, Detroit Public Schools Osborn Campus, River Rouge High School and Van Dyke Lincoln High School. In addition to managing every aspect of their projects, from budgeting to planning to implementation,...
Read moreJudge McCree Faces Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission Today
News Briefs 05-20-2013 Hits:286 AJ Williams, Chronicle Web Editor
A Wayne County Circuit judge accused of having an affair with a complaining witness in a child support case before him, then discussing the case with her, is expected to testify during a hearing over the allegations that begins this morning in Ann Arbor. For Full Story Click Here.
Read more13 People Shot In Detroit Within 24-Hour Period
News Briefs 05-18-2013 Hits:142 News One
Detroit recently hired a new police chief. But if Chief James Craig[1] was expecting a honeymoon period, he was sadly mistaken. Fox 2 News Detroit reports[2] that 13 people were shot within a 24-hour period. Though, during a press conference this week, the department failed to mention it, according to Fox 2 News[3]. In fact, when a reporter asked about the high number of shootings during a press conferece, a police department spokesperson shut it down. For some reason, asking about crime numbers seemed to be a bit of an issue. It's something that Detroit Police Commission Chairman Rev. Jerome Warfield says he wants to change. "Part of community policing is to arm the community with as much information as you can give them in order [that] they may look out for you," Warfield said. "If these type of activities are going on, then the community can coalesce and come together and then be able to help the police in their job." The most recent shooting involved the death of 54-year-old Almeter ...
Read moreFannie Mae Snubs Detroit
News Briefs - Original 05-17-2013 Hits:529 Amber Bogins
UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada, disappointed and angered by the withdrawal of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from a Detroit hearing on foreclosures, will proceed with plans to co-host the May 20 event. "This was our chance for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to listen and learn about how destructive their policy of foreclosure and eviction is for metro Detroit," says Estrada, who anticipates spirited testimony at the People's Hearing. "They need to see and hear the evidence that their policies are hurting working families and undermining neighborhoods." Following two months of discussion and planning, the federal agencies have withdrawn from the hearing at the direction of legal counsel, claiming-- at the 11th hour-- that it would be "awkward" for officials to hear testimony from homeowners who are in litigation fighting eviction by Fannie or Freddie. Throughout the planning process, organizers of the event provided full disclosure of the anticipated agenda and details of the public hearing. Officials from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the failing mortgage investors taken over by the federal government in 2008, agreed in March to come to Detroit and hear testimony from homeowners, union members, and community leaders about the foreclosure crisis. Fannie and Freddie, which own or insure more than half of all residential mortgages in the country, have foreclosed on more than 15,000 families in Wayne County since the government takeover by the Federal Housing and Finance Agency (FHFA). Thousands more have lost their homes in Oakland and Macomb. Fannie and Freddie have declared a moratorium on foreclosures in areas stricken by Hurricane Sandy. Estrada and organizers from Detroit Eviction Defense argue that they should do the same for Metro Detroit, flattened by banking fraud, mass unemployment, and the resulting storm surge of foreclosures. They are also calling on Fannie and Freddie to reverse their current...
Read more64-Year-Old Stabbed At Gas Station As Customers Stood By And Watched
News Briefs 05-17-2013 Hits:139 News One
A 64-year-old Detroit man is recovering at a local hospital after he was viciously stabbed at a gas station. The unidentified victim spoke to Fox 2 News Detroit[1] about the attack that took place around 5 a.m. He says he was approached by a would-be-thief who demanded money. Soon after the demand, the attack began. At first, the thief began punching him. Then the punches turned to stabbing and continued until he passed out. "I didn't realize that I was bleeding until I hit the floor," he said. "All the blood started coming out and I got real weak and I couldn't move." The victim was left with stab wounds in his chest and abdomen. He is expected to recovery, but may have to undergo surgery Friday. Police said they've arrested a 27-year old Detroit man who lived near the gas station where the attack took place. He's expected to be arraigned Friday. ...
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