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Apparently beating the Dolphins on Thursday night didn't do much to raise hopes that the Bills could turn their season around. Because the talk in Buffalo is all about the future, and drafting a franchise quarterback.
We noted earlier this month that Bills G.M. Buddy Nix says he wants to take a quarterback in the 2013 NFL draft, and today the main Bills story in the Buffalo News is about the quarterbacks the Bills might choose.
Unfortunately for the Bills, at the moment 2013 doesn't look like a strong quarterback class. USC's Matt Barkley has been widely regarded as the top quarterback prospect since the day he decided to return to school for his senior season, but his draft stock seems to be slipping. West Virginia's Geno Smith and Tyler Wilson of Arkansas are probably the next-best senior quarterbacks, but neither of them looks like an elite prospect either. There definitely isn't an Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III in this year's draft. If the Bills are set on a first-round quarterback, they may have to settle for a Ryan Tannehill.
But the best-case scenario for the Bills may be that there's another Russell Wilson in next year's draft, a quarterback who doesn't look like an elite prospect but turns out to have talent that the scouts are overlooking. If they're going to find their franchise quarterback in a draft without a Luck, the Bills will need some luck.


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In an intriguing new study published last week in PLoS Pathogens, researchers discovered the first solid proof that HIV can replicate itself in cell types other than CD4 cells. The finding potentially opens an important window on our understanding of HIV-related dementia.
The study's senior author, Ronald Swanstrom, Ph.D., and his coauthors examined the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of people diagnosed with HIV-associated dementia. In some of the patients, they found two genetically distinct types of HIV, which they believe could contribute to HIV-associated neurological problems.
One of the two HIV variants found in CSF reproduces in CD4 cells, as does the virus growing in the blood. But the other type does not. It infects and replicates in macrophages, another white immune cell that engulfs and digests foreign material, including bacteria.
"This is the first time that anyone has demonstrated active replication of HIV virus in a cell type other than [CD4] cells," Swanstrom said in the press release.
Researchers have known for many years that macrophages trap HIV -- macrophage means "big eaters"; their role is to engulf harmful pathogens and diseased cells in tissues of the body. Once a macrophage encases a pathogen like HIV, the macrophage displays pieces of the virus on its membranes and produces chemicals, known as cytokines, to alert other cells of the immune system to the presence of the pathogen in bodily tissues.
CD4s are among the immune system cells to respond to the macrophage's plea for help. For years, researchers believed that the only way HIV can escape the macrophages is by being passed on to the CD4 cells, where the virus can begin replicating. The new research by Swanstrom's group suggests that HIV can reproduce in macrophages without any help from CD4 cells.
They also compared the rates at which HIV disappeared from blood versus CSF after starting antiretroviral treatment. The time it takes for something to decrease by half, or half-life, for HIV in the blood is short, generally one to two days. But interestingly, for half of the study participants, HIV in the CSF disappeared much more slowly, having a half-life of several weeks to a month, suggesting the virus was hiding in a different type of cell that lived longer.
This new information helps us further understand how HIV affects the central nervous system, and it may influence decisions when it comes to starting meds -- not only when to start, but also what to start with, since some HIV medications get into the CSF more easily than others. The researchers will continue their work on a new study that will look for biomarkers in CSF that help predict cognitive progression for HIV-positive individuals on treatment.
But this latest study reveals yet another one of HIV's tricks. Sooner or later, we'll find them all.
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In the former Soviet republic of Georgia, thousands of inmates have launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions, bad food and widespread TB, justice officials said Saturday. Negotiations with the prisoners have begun, said Justice Ministry spokesperson Vika Kavzharadze, who acknowledged that the nation's 8,000 inmates live in conditions that are, in general, "far from civilized European standards." She added that hundreds of inmates have TB, and that many of them have stopped taking their medications as part of the strike. About 4,600 inmates have joined the strike, according to a Justice Ministry official who requested anonymity.Adapted from:
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Health care was the hot topic Thursday, Sept. 19, as nearly 150 people gathered in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art auditorium to discuss the current landscape and impending changes in that field.
Dr. Reginald Coopwood, president and CEO of The Regional Medical Center at Memphis, presents the keynote at The Daily News' Health Care: State of the Industry seminar on Sept. 19. Coopwood provided an overview of the business of health care in Memphis.
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Health Care: The State of the Industry – one of six seminars in The Daily News' 2013 Seminar Series – attracted a variety of professionals, most of them from outside the medical realm. They included lawyers, architects, administrative professionals, Realtors, assisted-living specialists and bankers, among others, and most of them were eager to learn more about the Affordable Care Act and how it would affect them. Others came to be inspired.
"Primarily we came here to hear what Dr. Coopwood had to say. He's an interesting person," said Senior Care Management Solutions Director Jason Gibert of keynote speaker Dr. Reginald Coopwood, president and CEO of The Regional Medical Center at Memphis. "Also, this seminar addressed a lot of issues that are key to us regarding end-of-life care."
Coopwood, who was hired in March 2010, is credited with overseeing The MED's financial turnaround, and with directing improvements that include an $800,000 renovation of the facility's emergency department, enhancements to the women's services department, new technology and plans for expansion.
His speech provided an overview of the business of health care in Memphis, including the flurry of preparations for Oct. 1.
"Any health care organization had better be preparing for the enactment and rollout of this law, as imperfect as it may be," Coopwood said of the Affordable Care Act. "It is changing health care in that we're moving forward in a way that really has not been seen in many, many years."
A variety of professionals, many from outside the medical sector, attend The Daily News' Health Care: State of the Industry seminar Sept. 19.
The U.S. spends about $2.6 trillion annually on health care, with an average spend of $8,233 per person. Tennessee spends about $6,411 per person annually. The country's high standards for health care and the expectations of having those needs met immediately are partially responsible for driving those costs, he said, along with rampant expenses. A new stretcher for the emergency room recently cost his hospital $3,200, while a simple hospital bed costs up to $8,000.
Other cost drivers are waste, such as over-testing, and poor health care coordination. Chronic conditions are another concern.
"The burden of diabetes in this country is overwhelming," Coopwood said. "It's a tsunami that's going to hit us all. The amount of juvenile diabetes right now far exceeds that of my generation and the generation that preceded us. We as a society are not the healthiest of individuals, and we are also obese as a society. Those things tend to put us at a higher risk for developing diabetes and chronic disease."
He called for more personal accountability and responsibility in adopting healthier lifestyles.
As to the future of America's health care system, Coopwood predicted more consolidations, physician practice acquisitions, hospital closures and non-traditional care settings – such as Walgreens' Healthcare Clinic – and painted a picture of a country that desperately needs change.
"We can't stay on this course," he said. "The country can't support spending 18 percent of its GDP on one industry. It is too risky. It is too burdensome. This is not sustainable. Whether you agree with the ACA or not, the reality is the intention was to try to drive some of the costs out of the system, and that is yet to be seen."
A panel discussion led by Daily News publisher Eric Barnes followed Coopwood's speech. Denise Burke, member of the Healthcare Regulatory and Transactions Group at Butler, Snow, O'Mara Stevens & Cannada PLLC; Tim Finnell, president and founder of Group Benefits LLC; Daniel Shumate, CEO of Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics; and Coopwood answered audience questions about topics such as the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and the Small Business Health Option Program.
A networking session followed the seminar, which was sponsored by Butler Snow, Campbell Clinic, Group Benefits LLC and the Southern College of Optometry.
Attendee Elizabeth Dorton of Wright Medical Group found the seminar helpful, both on a personal and a professional level.
"It's always interesting to hear what the government has planned," she said.
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This is a day of breaking news in the world of liberal talk radio. First the announcement that Stephanie Miller will guest-host her daily radio show next week on MSNBC. Now a big announcement from Air America Radio about changes in their ad sales and affiliate relations representation and program line-up.
AAR confirmed today that they have ended their ad sales arrangement with Jones Media Group and started one with an even bigger company --Westwood One. According to the anouncement, released just minutes ago, beginning June 1, WW1 will oversee all network ad sales for the liberal talk network in addition to affiliate ad sales. WW1 will also work with AAR's affiliate relations group to secure and maintain new radio stations coverage.
Serving more than 5,000 radio stations, WW1 is the nation's leading provider of audio content. It distributes more than 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features and live events and, through its Metro Networks division, provides local content to the radio and TV industries including news, sports, weather, traffic, video news services and other information. WW1 is managed by CBS Radio.
"Because Westwood One is such a renowned network ad and affiliate sales firm," said Air America Chief Operating Officer Scott Elberg. "It's obviously exciting that Westwood One will be a vital part of AAR 2.0. We appreciated Jones Media's past work and now look forward to a new effort behind the new Air America."
"We're pleased that the new ownership and management of Air America is looking to us to expand their audience and secure their success of being informative, entertaining talk programming," said Roby Wiener EVP, Chief Marketing Officer for WW1.
AAR also announced the addition of three new shows on weekdays and five on weekends (see new line-up below).
In addition to the previously announced Lionel Show, which will be carried from 9-12 AM ET, veteran early morning talker Mark Reily will launch a new show called The Air Americans from 8-12m ET and San Diego based host, Jon Elliott will be given a permanent slot in the line-up from 12m-3am ET.
"Our line-up combines the best of proven radio stars like Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow and The Young Turks along with new programming that broadens and deepens Air America's reach," said AAR's President Mark Green. "When people ask what Air America 2.0 means, they'll hear the answer on May 21."
The biggest surprise in today's announcement was the expanded role Riley. His new show will include contributors Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Mike Papantonio of Ring of Fire, David Bender of Politically Direct, and Laura Flanders of RadioNation. The show will consist of various segments discussing not so much the War on Terror abroad as the War Against Democracy at home as well as talk about culture and music.
It appears that two shows have been dropped from AAR's weekday line-up -- Politically Direct, hosted by David Bender and Ecotalk, hosted by Betsy Rosenberg. Bender, a friend of AAR president Mark Green, will have a continuing role on Mark Riley's new show. However, it appears that Rosenberg will not be a part of AAR 2.0. Also, Laura Flander's Show (Radio Nation), has been significantly cut back. Currently, Radio Nation is heard three hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays. Next month, Flanders is scheduled for only one hour on Sunday afternoons.
The weekend line-up will receive a dose of fresh voices with five new programs:
*Your Money with Marc Sussman 9-10am ET on Saturday mornings, will be a unique show for ethical, personal planning, and socially responsible investing.
*This Week in America, 6-7pm ET Saturday, will be the network's first weekend news-of-the-week-in-review -- from a decidedly beyond-the-beltway perspective -- with "immoderator" Mark Green and panelists Arianna Huffington and Bob Kerrey.
*Clout with Richard Greene on Saturday 8-10pm ET, will explore how corporate and political muscle is exercised in the corridors of power.
*Sam Seder's new show, Seder on Sunday, airing Sundays, 4-7pm ET, will recap and review the Sunday morning political talkfests largely from the view of bloggers and the blogosphere -- hence the program will be the first of its kind to look at the networks from the netroots.
*A new RadioNation with Laura Flanders will be an hour program at 1pm on Sunday and will focus on the articles featured that week in The Nation Magazine, the country's oldest and most read liberal magazine.
Here's the new AAR schedule which debuts on May 21. (All Time shown are ET):
6A-9A "The Young Turks"
9A-12N "The Lionel Show"
12N-3P "The Thom Hartmann Program"
3P-6P "The Randi Rhodes Show"
6P-8P "The Rachel Maddow Show"
8P-12M "The Air Americans" hosted by Mark Riley with David Bender, Laura Flanders. Robert Kennedy Jr., and Mike Papantonio
12M-3A "This Is America, with Jon Elliott"
3A-6A (rebroadcast) "The Randi Rhodes Show"
6A-9A "The Young Turks"
9A-12N "The Lionel Show"
12N-3P "The Thom Hartmann Program"
3P-6P "The Randi Rhodes Show"
6P-8P "The Rachel Maddow Show"
8P-12M "The Air Americans" hosted by Mark Riley with David Bender, Laura Flanders. Robert Kennedy Jr., and Mike Papantonio
12M-3A "This Is America, with Jon Elliott"
3A-5A Best-of "The Young Turks"
5A-7A Best-of "The Thom Hartmann Program"
7A-9A Best-"The Air Americans" hosted by Mark Riley with David Bender, Laura Flanders. Robert Kennedy Jr., and Mike Papantonio
9A-10A "Your Money, with Marc Sussman"
10A-11A "State of Belief" with Reverend Welton Gaddy
11A-1P Best-of "The Lionel Show"
1P–3P Best-of "The Randi Rhodes Show"
3P-6P "Ring of Fire" with Robert Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio, & David Bender
6P-7P "This Week in America" with Mark Green, Arianna Huffington, & Bob Kerrey
7P-8P "The Time Is Now" with the Reverend Dr. James Forbes
8P-10P "Clout" with Richard Greene
10P-12M Best-of "The Young Turks"
12M-1A Best-of "The Young Turks"
1A-4A Best-of "The Air Americans"
4A-7A Best-of "The Lionel Show"
7A-9A Best-of "The Young Turks"
9A-10A (rebroadcast) "This Week in America" with Mark Green, Arianna Huffington, & Bob Kerrey
10A-1P Best-of "The Thom Hartmann Program"
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2P-4P (rebroadcast) "Clout" with Richard Greene
4P-7P "Seder on Sunday" with Sam Seder
7P-8P (rebroadcast) "State of Belief" with Reverend Welton Gaddy
8P-10P (rebroadcast) "Ring of Fire" with Robert Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio, & David Bender
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Marxist Shining Path rebels have burned three helicopters that were being used by an international gas pipeline consortium at a jungle airstrip in Peru on Saturday, the country's military announced.
The attack came as U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was visiting Peru, though there was no immediate indication it was related.
The military Joint Command spokesman, Col. Alejandro Lujan, said no one was injured or kidnapped in the attack well before dawn in the town of Kiteni in south-Central Peru. He said troops had been sent to the airstrip, which is normally guarded by private security.
The helicopters were owned by local companies and had been contracted by the consortium known as Transportadora de Gas del Peru, made up of Argentine, U.S. Algerian, Korean, French and Belgian companies.
Kiteni Mayor Hugo Chavez said the airport "is almost a kilometer (about half a mile) away from the center of the town and there has never before been an attack of that type in the area."
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Signatories to the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy commit to adopting an integrated approach to tackling mitigation and adaptation to climate change and to promoting access to sustainable, secure and affordable energy to their citizens.
Adopting an integrated approach to climate change mitigation and adaptation ensures consistency of actions, creates synergies and co-benefits, increases cost-efficiency, and helps avoid maladaptation. For more information on how to create a truly integrated approach and address the inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation, check out this short article and this explanation on Climate-ADAPT.
Mayors Adapt now fully integrated into the Covenant of Mayors
Mayors Adapt – the Covenant of Mayors Initiative on Climate Change Adaptation – was set up by the European Commission to engage cities in taking action to adapt to climate change. It was launched in 2014 as a parallel adaptation initiative to the Covenant of Mayors, which focused on mitigation. In 2015, the European Commission merged the two initiatives in an effort to promote an integrated approach to climate and energy action. From 2017 onwards, adaptation and therefore the Mayors Adapt initiative, will be entirely integrated into the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
What does adaptation mean for cities?
In parallel to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change, cities also need to strengthen their resilience to the inevitable adverse impacts of climate change.
The impacts of climate change will affect all cities across Europe but with regional and local differences. European cities are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events, typically severe floods, heat waves or exceptional storms. Many of them have already experienced other consequences of climate change, namely effects on health, damage to homes, power and water supply failures, disruption of transport, and increased energy use for heating or cooling, which exacerbates climate change and increases energy bills. According to the EEA report on "Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe 2016", the 2002 flooding in Dresden inflicted damages to the community services that amounted to EUR 80 million. Damages to buildings amounted to EUR 100 million as a consequence of the 2014 flash floods in Genoa. As major centres of population and infrastructure, cities therefore play a central role in enhancing the EU's resilience through adaptation.
Adaptation creates new opportunities
Adapting to climate change is necessary to strengthen the resilience of our social and economic systems to the negative impacts of a changing climate. Adapting to climate change is a way of making your city a safer, healthier, greener, and more liveable place for its citizens and visitors. An integrated approach to mitigation and adaptation creates numerous opportunities. Effective adaptation action also often reduces CO2 emissions, while in the first place limiting overall damage costs, preserving natural and human assets, and stimulating economic growth.
Definition of Adaptation according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
The EU Adaptation Strategy sets out the framework for strengthening Europe's resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Integrating adaption into mitigation and planning policies can provide new opportunities for EU mayors and political leaders to make cities more liveable. Breaking the mould in urban development stimulates investment and innovative concepts for things like housing or public green spaces. Strengthening stakeholder participation lays the foundation for fruitful cooperation among citizens and public administration, which may benefit further policy areas as well. By investing in climate preparedness, cities become more attractive, healthier and safer.
What adaptation-specific information does the Covenant of Mayors offer?
- The Covenant of Mayors Monitoring and Reporting framework now includes a section on adaptation to climate change:
- The template for Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAP) contains an adaptation scoreboard where cities can conduct a self-assessment of their adaptation status; a template to realize a risk and vulnerabilities assessment, and a template to draw an integrated action plan, addressing the impacts of climate change on all sectors.
- Case studies and good practice examples:
- The Covenant of Mayors collects case studies to inspire cities and facilitate peer-to-peer learning.
- The Covenant of Mayors Office organises a number of adaptation-related city twinnings. The reports from these visits provide insights into learning and exchange and are available here.
- Funding for integrated climate projects in cities:
- The Funding instruments page gives an overview of information on funding on the CoM website.
- The Quick Reference Guide, also linked on the above mentioned funding instruments page, provides an overview of funding opportunities for cities.
- An e-learning module on adaptation for cities is available for signatories to the Covenant of Mayors exclusively. The module features practical information, case studies and links to further useful resources.
In addition, the European Commission and the European Environment Agency collect technical knowledge specifically on adaptation to climate change on the EU adaptation information platform Climate-ADAPT offering a multitude of information and tools also for city practitioners such as a database of over 2,000 reference materials, adaptation city profile factsheets, and the Urban Adaptation Support Tool, which serves as a step-by-step guide for cities that was developed specifically for the integrated Covenant initiative. The tool guides practitioners through the integrated adaptation policy making process.
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To meet the EU's needs in terms of adaptation, the EU has earmarked approximately 25% of its budget for the 2014-2020 period for activities that promote climate change mitigation and adaptation through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). A considerable share of these investments will happen in urban areas.
The five ESIF include the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Social Fund (ESF), Cohesion Fund (CF), European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), and the European Fisheries and Maritime Fund (EMFF). Three of the funds (ERDF, ESF, and CF) are the main funding sources for urban adaptation with a EUR 8 billion budget dedicated to risk prevention and management activities. Click here to explore the distribution of available funds and planned activities, and here to learn more about the types of adaptation actions they support.
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This year's hit hardware at GDC – the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset – will change gaming for the better.
Thousands of programmers, artists and designers flock to the Game Developer's Conference every year to discuss the state of the games industry. A significant part of that discussion revolves around gaming technology, and the GDC show floor is filled with companies showcasing their latest game-changing hardware.
Any one of these companies could change the future of games in a big way if their hardware is successful. Nintendo did it with the Wii back in 2006, an example that's cited over and over again by every tech company on the GDC show floor. So far we've seen a ton of interesting new technology with the potential to change how video games are made – from Nvidia's GRID game streaming service to the screencasting tech built into the Playstation 4 – but one piece of gaming tech stands out: the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.
This isn't the first time we've seen the Oculus Rift – Palmer Luckey and the rest of the Oculus VR team brought a prototype model of the VR headset to CES in January. But now they're shipping developer kits to backers who contributed $275+ to the Oculus Rift Kickstarter, and Oculus VR is here at GDC to court new game developers. They're operating a booth on the show floor where attendees can wait – often for over an hour – to try the headset on and run riot though a virtual battlefield in the first-person mech game Hawken.
Oculus VR is also pushing developers to change how games are made in order to accommodate the unique strengths--and weaknesses--of virtual reality. During GDC I sat in on an Oculus Rift developer presentation that ran through some of the surprising weaknesses of contemporary game design, problems that only become apparent when you actually immerse yourself in the game. If VR headsets become commonplace enough to warrant developer's time and attention in making VR games--and I'm betting they will--these are just a few of the ways that games will have to change to accommodate our glorious virtual reality future.
No more clunky menus or loading screens
Strapping a decent VR headset to your face makes you feel like you're inhabiting a different world, and nothing takes you out of that world faster than a complicated inventory menu or a long loading screen. If VR gaming takes off, we're going to see more games that eliminate unnecessary user interface elements and even third-person cameras entirely, because VR works best when the cameras are placed squarely behind a virtual characters' eyes, simulating what it feels like to play as someone else.
Of course, even if the consumer version of the Oculus Rift proves popular enough to warrant big-budget publishers like Electronic Arts and Activision devoting significant resources to making VR-ready games--and that's a big if--there's no reason to expect that all future games will be developed with VR in mind. The folks at Oculus VR might disagree, but non-immersive games – city simulators, real-time strategy games and the like – aren't going anywhere.
Everything will be bigger
Wearing the Oculus Rift makes you feel like you're living in another world. Problem is, that world is rarely built to actual scale. It's an unfortunate side effect of first-person games that play fast and loose with realistic perspective, casting the player as a disembodied camera with a gun that floats roughly four feet off the ground. Play those games with a VR headset on and your natural sense of scale kicks in, telling you that you're only about four feet tall and thus the rest of the world – which has been built to fit your size – looks like a disconcerting virtual dollhouse.
In the future, games are going to have to adapt to VR headsets by taking real-world measurements into account, creating taller player characters with realistically-modeled bodies and increasing the size of the worlds they inhabit.
Games are going to become more realistic
The neat thing about current game controllers is that you can make amazing things happen by just tapping a button. That's part of the appeal, but it's going to cause problems in virtual reality games because superhuman abilities don't mesh well with a camera that moves like your head does naturally. Leaping tall buildings in a single button press while being able to look around the virtual world in a realistic way is amazing, but it's also a great recipe for acute motion sickness.
When I tested the Oculus Rift protoype this problem was alleviated by tying camera control to the right stick of my gamepad in addition to the headset, so that I could look around by either moving my head or using the controller. Problem is, in that demo I couldn't jump or interact with objects, both physical actions that will need to be carefully adapted to more limited physical controllers for future VR games.


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if by haircut you mean greatest stache of all time!Topper wrote:we can tell from your hair cutharold shnepts wrote:but im the real harold shnepts
Im a die hard fan (wake up at 6am in asia to watch the games on terrible choppy streams and usually have to settle for shorty on the team when the internet here is brutal) and hopelessly believe they can eventually win it during my tenure on earth. I have a feeling the offers for schneider could be greater than luongo, and while keeping schneider for the future is better you gotta try to win while you can. luongo can win it, but they gotta support him better, stop wasting all the effort on pre-season (not playoffs). they need more of a 98 game strategy than 82.


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Saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón joined the NEC jazz faculty in Fall 2009.
In April 2008, Zenón received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to work on a project focusing on plena music, a style of folk music popular in Puerto Rico. His recording Esta Plena was nominated for a Latin Grammy award in the Jazz category in September 2010.
Video courtesy Mariah Wilkins Artist Management LLC at YouTube.
Zenón was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2008, prompting the Foundation to proclaim that "Zenón demonstrates an astonishing mastery of old and new jazz idioms, from Afro-Caribbean and Latin American rhythmical concepts, to free and avant-garde jazz. This young musician and composer is at once reestablishing the artistic, cultural, and social tradition of jazz, while creating an entirely new jazz language for the 21st century."
Zenón has also received similiar acclaim from DownBeat and Jazz Times as a solo artist, and was one of the initial signings to launch Branford Marsalis's label, Marsalis Music, in 2002, with five recordings as a leader. His debut CD, Looking Forward, was selected by The New York Times as the number one independent jazz record of 2002. It was followed by the critically acclaimed Ceremonial (2004) and Jibaro (2005), a tribute to la música jíbara—string-based folkloric music popular in the Puerto Rican countryside. Jibaro appeared on many top ten lists including The New York Times, Latin Beat, El Nuevo Día, and The Chicago Tribune. Awake was released in 2008, and Esta Plena, from 2009, received a Latin Grammy nomination as noted above.
Zenón has performed and/or recorded with a diverse array of artists including David Sanchez, Charlie Haden, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Bobby Hutcherson, Bob Moses and Mozamba, Either/Orchestra, Guillermo Klein y Los Gauchos, the Mingus Big Band, Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band, Ray Barretto, and Steve Coleman.
In 2004, Zenón was asked to become one of the founding members of the SF Jazz Collective, an octet whose past and present members include Joshua Redman, Bobby Hutcherson, Nicholas Payton, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, and Brian Blade. The SF Jazz Collective has toured worldwide and, to date, has released five acclaimed live recordings, garnering the group a spot in the DownBeat year-end critic's poll several times.
Zenón has also made teaching a priority in his professional career. In 2003, as part of the Kennedy Center's Jazz Ambassadors Program, Zenón's quartet was selected to teach and perform throughout West Africa.
B.A., Berklee College of Music. M.A., Manhattan School of Music. Studies with Angel Marrero, Leslie Lopez, Rafael Martinez, Danilo Pérez, Dick Oatts, Dave Liebman, George Garzone and Bill Pierce. Private saxophone instruction, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Recordings on Marsalis Music.


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Top 25 Cities for Firefighters
Tania Khadder, Anna Hennings, Adam Starr, Alice Handley | FireLink
May 13, 2011
#2. San Antonio, TX:
Population: 1,328,984
Average Salary: $34,610
Firefighter Salary: $43,000
Cost of Living Rank (in a 1-100 list): 29
Average Commute Time: 22.5 minutes
Job Growth Rank (in a list of 372 Highest Growth Cities): 20
Unemployment Rate: 6.0
The second largest city in Texas (and on our list!), San Antonio has one of the most solid salary to cost of living ratios in the country and has seen the lowest change in unemployment rate since the onset of the recession. Its projected job growth is extremely promising and consistently high-performing, with plenty of opportunity in the education, health care, manufacturing, government and service sectors. Famous for its River Walk, the Alamo and Tejano culture, San Antonio's tourism also continues to thrive despite a down economy. San Antonio is a solid place to make good money and build your fire & rescue career in a great Texan community.


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In order to assist our members to become familiar with the new 2014-15 modifications to USPAP effective January 1, 2014 ASA's Ethics Committee has prepared a brief summary outlining the modifications.
The Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) 2014-15 modifications to USPAP become effective January 1, 2014. These modifications include:
Administrative edits were also made to USPAP and all guidance material, including the USPAP AdvisoryOpinions and USPAP Frequently Asked Questions, for conformity and consistency. The details of the changes to the 2014-15 edition of USPAP can be read on The Appraisal Foundation's website, www.appraisalfoundation.org in a document entitled 2013 Summary of Actions Related to Proposed USPAP Changes.
Note: The Appraisal foundation issued the following press release and link to a video discussing the changes made to the USPAP for the 2014-15 edition.
The Appraisal Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a free video on its web site entitled, 2014-15 USPAP Summary of Actions. The video, shot on location at the Foundation's Headquarters, is a 21 minute interview with the 2013 Chair and Vice Chair of the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB), Barry Shea and J.Carl Schultz, Jr., respectively. A PowerPoint presentation is available for simultaneous viewing as well. Please visit the following link to access video on the Foundation's eLibrary:
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ENN's editors summarize the most compelling environmental and sustainable economy themes of the week.
Top Ten Stories of the Week
Sustainable Economy News Roundup
EarthNews Radio Review
ENN Commentary: New Nukes? No, Thanks.
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The Week's Top Ten, by Carrie Schluter
From an EPA leadership confirmation to a pond full of exploding toads, it was an environmental news week to remember. Here's a list of the ten stories that, for one reason or another, stood out as particularly significant this week.
1. As the day dawned on Friday, news that with a 61-37 vote in the Senate, Stephen Johnson will be the next EPA chief. Johnson's nomination had been stalled by Sen. Thomas Carper's (D-Del.) protest of the administration's air pollution reduction proposals.
>> Senate Confirms New EPA Chief
2. In a turn of events compared to "finding Elvis" by an Audubon Society ornithologist, the "extinct" ivory billed woodpecker has been documented alive in Arkansas. One of six bird species of North America assumed to have gone extinct since 1880, the woodpecker has a chance to rebound, with good management of its habitat.
>> Ivory Billed Woodpecker, Feared Extinct, Isn't
3. Space is at a premium on the tiny island of Taiwan, and its landfills are reaching capacity. To address the logistical challenges of dealing with waste, leaders are aiming for a "zero-waste policy" in the form of a controversial forced recycling plan.
>> Taiwan Gets Tough on Trash as Space Runs Out
4. How's this for an ingenious alternative-energy scheme: Harness the power of the sun to generate electricity for a human outpost on the moon. Researchers believe that they can, indeed, turn science fiction into reality, and overcome what has been considered one of the biggest obstacles to establishing a human presence in space.
>> Power for Moon Base Could Come from Sun
5. With the recent removal of protections for mustangs comes a development unforeseen by the Bureau of Land Management. A total of 41 wild horses have been slaughtered since December, with 35 of them killed on Monday. Mustang carmaker Ford Motor Co. stepped in this week with financial support to care for the remaining mustangs at risk.
>> 35 More Wild Horses Killed in the West
6. In a story with broad, nationwide implications, a California suburb is reeling from the news that close to half its drinking water is tainted by rocket fuel. Development has brought homes ever closer to the once-remote source of the perchlorate contamination, and mitigating the health threat is a costly and challenging problem.
>> California Town's Water Tainted by Perchlorate; 36 States Face Contamination
7. On Wednesday, President Bush outlined his energy plan while acknowledging his inability to curb gas prices in the short term. The president's initiatives include promoting energy-efficient vehicles and accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants.
>> Bush Lays Out Energy Plan As Prices Soar
8. In case you had any doubt, there's new evidence that our planet is, indeed, getting warmer. Data derived from the ocean depths and from the outer reaches of space indicates that the Earth currently absorbs significantly more heat than it emits, leading to the conclusion that there's an Earth-warming energy imbalance in effect.
>> Experts Say New Data Show Global Warming
9. In other warming news, Greenpeace will be sponsoring a trek across the Arctic Ocean to illustrate the impact of global warming on the northern ice cap. Two men from Minnesota will embark on the four-month, 1,250-mile endeavor by kayak on May 12, prepared to confront extreme conditions in their quest to prompt action that will curb global warming.
>> Greenpeace Plans Arctic Trek to Highlight Warming
10. Squeamish? Read no further. Claiming the last spot on this week's top ten list is the horrifying explosive toads story. First, ENN brought you the news that thousands of toads were inexplicably puffing up and then blowing up in a German pond. Then later in the week, a plausible explanation for the gruesome phenomenon:
>> Exploding Toads May Have Been Pecked by Birds for Their Livers, Veterinarian Says
Sustainable Economy News Roundup, by Paul Geary
Though Earth Day is behind us, people, communities, and companies continue to work toward a sustainable economy. This week we brought you a number of different themes, but alternative energy was the recurring, if not dominant one. And within these two sectors, the increasing marketability of the products continues to be of paramount importance.
In order for alternative energy to become mainstream energy, people have to want to buy the products that use it. In Japan, Toyota is getting three times the orders that it anticipated for hybrid SUVs. Read it here: Toyota Gets Triple the Orders it Expected for Hybrid SUVs.
Hybrids are gaining traction, but natural gas vehicles are still relegated mostly to public utility vehicles like buses. But with natural-gas-powered vehicles, there's the potential for refueling right at home. Read about that here: Home Vehicle Refueling Becomes a Convenient Alternative.
Consumers use the most energy in their homes, so even if everyone drove a hybrid or natural gas car, there would still be the potential for cutting individual use of energy. Of course the power companies decide how electricity gets generated. One choice those firms have is increasingly wind power. Read here about the prospects for that industry: Wind Energy Industry Sets Sails for Good Year during 2005.
Across the Pacific, the same focus is on water power as well. You can read that here: China Eyes Turbines at Sea to Boost Wind Power
The debate over "the nuclear option" -- the one outside of the us Senate that is -- continues. Is nuclear power a viable alternative energy? Is it safe enough? Safety of Nuclear Power Plants Remains Emotional Issue in Energy Debate.
In other sustainable economy news:
On the recycling front, two office supply stores, one large and one small, touted the sale of environmentally friendly office products:
Office Depot Garners Outstanding Recycling Retailer Award
Office Products from Recycled Material
And as usual, we told you about innovations. One food wholesaler wants to change the way big supermarket chains market natural foods. Read that here: Coleman Natural Foods Announces Natural Product Line for Conventional Grocery Retailers. A new lead-free paint, combined with "nano-painting" technology plied by artisans in Japan has led to the development of an environmentally-friendly electrode:New Environment-Friendly Technology Developed
Be sure to check ENN's Sustainable Economy section regularly for the latest news about business and the economy.
EarthNews Radio Review, by Paul Geary
EarthNews Radio continued its look at PBS's April television programming, which is loaded with fascinating science, nature, and environment programs. Jerry Kay spoke with the producers of "Deep Jungle" and "Strange Days on Planet Earth":
EarthNews Radio also brought you two interesting interviews about wildlife -- cheetahs and frogs:
Jerry Kay also introduced you to two institutions dedicated to the environment, science, and learning:
Listen to EarthNews Radio regularly to hear Jerry Kay's interviews with many compelling scientists, activists, and environmentalists. And be sure to visit EarthNews Radio's home here at ENN; you can find it at www.enn.com/enn_radio_main.html.
New Nukes? No Thanks. -- An ENN Commentary
by Chris Clarke, Earth Island Institute
James Lovelock, the British scientist best known for his co-authorship of the Gaia hypothesis, has turned heads recently with searing essays exhorting environmentalists to drop their opposition to nuclear power. An odd opinion for an environmental icon? Not from Lovelock's perspective. An atmospheric chemist by trade, Lovelock is scared to death at the prospect of global climate change caused by the combustion of carbon fuels. Nuclear power plants release no carbon into the atmosphere and so, says Lovelock, they are the only answer to the looming climate threat.
Lovelock is right to be worried. Our society's carbon addiction will seriously alter life on Earth, and soon, and not in a good way. It's not unlikely that sea levels will rise by seven meters within a couple centuries, forcing abandonment of coastal cities; rising temperatures will consign whole biomes to extinction. No more Amazon rainforest; no more boreal forest.
But Lovelock's call for a nuclear renaissance is based on mushy, ill-informed thinking.
For one thing, nuclear power is not climate-neutral. Uranium fuel reprocessing plants are responsible for a large fraction of atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), chemicals best known as ozone-depleters but which are also powerful greenhouse gases.
But the biggest problem with Lovelock's nuclear boosterism is that it is based on the worst sort of industry propaganda. In an article published by the UK paper The Independent in May 2004, Lovelock writes:
"Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. These fears are unjustified, and nuclear energy from its start in 1952 has proved to be the safest of all energy sources. "
Coal power is horribly dangerous to the environment, as is oil. But point out a coal-fired power plant that has rendered an area the size of Ukraine essentially uninhabitable, as did Chernobyl.
Even the so-called "safe" Generation Four nuclear reactors now in development buy their allegedly greater margin of reactor safety at the cost of hugely increased amounts of nuclear waste. In the US, desert preservation activists have fought pitched battles to prevent the opening of one radioactive waste dump after another, from Ward Valley to Yucca Mountain to the proposed surface dump on the Goshute Indian reservation. What Lovelock advocates is, essentially, killing specific ecosystems with radioactive waste in order to save unspecified ones.
And the worst part of it is that even if nuclear were safe, new plants would be unlikely to produce energy for another ten or fifteen years - unless Lovelock also advocates gutting environmental and worker safety regulations. The earth cannot handle ten or fifteen years of continued carbon emissions without serious resulting damage.
Oddly enough, there are technical fixes readily available that could replace TODAY the same amount of energy that would be produced ten years from now if industrial societies went all out to build nuclear power plants. Here's just one: the compact fluorescent light bulb. Switching two thirds of the incandescent bulbs used in the US alone - which could be done in less than a year, given the social will - would reduce energy consumption by seven gigawatts. That's fourteen big coal-fired plants. Incentives to replace wasteful appliances, weatherize homes, use mass transit and find other ways to reduce our profligate energy use could provide immediate benefits, unlike Lovelock's radioactive pie in the sky.
Environmental writer Chris Clarke is Publications Director at Earth Island Institute. He has written extensively on politics and the natural world. His most recent writings are available at his website (http://www.faultline.org/place/pinolecreek). He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.


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New Tricks "Lottery Curse" A tabloid editor asks UCOS to help him prove that a celebrity murdered her drunken husband 40 years ago. The stakes are high, as the suspect is about to be made a Dame of the British Empire. Will the detectives find evidence of a murder - or only of jealous accusations?G
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Royal Memories: Prince Charles' Tribute to the Queen Prince Charles shares memories and recalls events from Queen Elizabeth's public and private life, adding his own commentary and insights in this tribute for the Diamond Jubilee celebration of her 60-year reign. The memories are illustrated by family photographs and home movies, many of them shot by the queen and previously unavailable to the public.G
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Land Girls With evidence of an unidentified sympathizer in the village, sadistic Sgt. Tucker tries to find the culprit. When he gets Esther to screen the girls' mail, he discovers Nancy's secret. When Annie realizes that Bea is pregnant, she sets out to convince the American soldier to do the right thing.G


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Quantifying the entire library universe
These statistics include data, if available, for the total number of libraries, librarians, volumes, expenditures, and users for every country and territory in the world broken down into the major library types: academic, public, school, special and national. It is important to remember that these figures do not represent OCLC membership. The statistics also include available data for languages used, and the number of library schools, publishers, and museums.
The three regions represent those used by the OCLC Global and Regional Councils: the Americas (North and South America), EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India), and Asia Pacific (Asia, Australia and Oceania).
About the data
The staff of the OCLC Library extracted data from respected third-party sources, both electronic and print, that in their judgment are the most current and accurate sources to which they have access. For many countries, data were either unavailable (indicated in the charts as NA) or sporadic. Also, for a lot of the world, the data were not as current as the compilers would have liked. Many of the printed sources were several years old and many websites were suspect. It was felt, however, that a fairly recent figure was better than none at all, with a cut-off date of around 1980. The OCLC Library staff had to determine which of the sometimes several possible sources was the most reliable in terms of accuracy and currency. Seldom did the data from two or more different sources coincide for the same year.
The decision about whether to record data under the independent country or under a dependency was determined by how the data were reported in the data sources. For example, Tasmania is represented under Australia, but Puerto Rico is separate from the United States.
For the sake of uniformity, the total number of libraries represents administrative units and not service points, since not all sources report service points consistently. Some of the country entries did not specify which unit they were reporting, in which case it was assumed that it was administrative units.
Monetary units for expenditures have been converted to US$ as of the last day of the year of the data of the source. The difficulty of obtaining expenditures figures was exacerbated considerably by the fact that they are reported in so few sources. In many countries, expenditures for libraries fall into the public domain, and thus their budgets are subsumed under those for other ministries or agencies, such as education or culture.
In some countries, the distinction between categories was unclear; for example, school libraries in some countries means primary and secondary compulsory education, whereas in other countries it includes universities or technical and vocational institutions. Ecclesiastical libraries and those in large research institutes were included under special libraries.
In those few instances when the date of the source data was unclear or unknown, the date of compilation or of publication was used.
Because of these issues, it is possible that the figures significantly underestimate worldwide totals in all categories; other more current and accurate sources may exist that the compilers are unaware of. If you know of, or can recommend additional sources, please contact us.


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Alexandre Burrows was talking about the last time he wore the red maple leaf on his chest representing Canada internationally.
"The crest was almost the same, except it had a ball on it," he said holding out the stylized Hockey Canada logo on the front of his bright yellow don't-hit-me-I'm-coming-back-from-a-concussion jersey as he returned to the ice Tuesday.
It was the 2003 world ball hockey championships in Switzerland, he pointed out.
Asked to describe the difference between the world ball hockey championship and the world ice hockey championship, Burrows deadpanned what may be the line of the tournament.
"There were more fans in the stands."
At ball hockey. In Switzerland.
"In Switzerland, at ball hockey, it was packed. There were a lot of fans."
Burrows sat in the stands with the crowd of only 2,314 Monday watching Canada's 7-2 win over France. And his line of the tournament is fast becoming the story of the tournament.
When Canada plays Switzerland here Wednesday, in world championship ice hockey, it's likely there will be fewer fans here for the game that counts than packed the buildings in Fribourg and Kloten for two pre-tournament games between the two countries. And the environment in the Swiss rinks, particularly in Fribourg, was wonderful.
Here the environment is a heavy blast of public address and dialed up music to cover up the lack of energy. And there's no hiding the sea of empty seats other than the Skoda cars in the stands in the corners.
The first world hockey championships being shared by two nations has had some exceptionally small crowds as fans in Stockholm and Helsinki have refused to pay NHL prices to watch games involving the so called "minnows" even if there's a line-up full of NHL players on the other side of the ice — in Canada's case, a lineup featuring players who made $74,636,962 this past season.
The 130 Euro prices are about 100 Euros more than what it costs for the same seat for a Elitserien (Swedish Elite League) or a SM-liiga game here in Finland. The average Joe can't afford to come and the television coverage on Canal+ and MTV3 is so massive it is almost 24-7.
The average crowd to watch Italy in Stockholm so far has been 1,955. When you consider Edmonton and Calgary just finished filling two NHL rinks for every game for the world juniors, regardless of the nations involved, offers quite the contrast.
Despite having their most star-studded team at the world championship for a non-lockout year, Canada has averaged only 5,552 for their three games so far against Slovakia, United States and France.
Imagine. Canada. The ninth best draw of the tournament.
They'll pay it to go watch defending world champion Finland here. The Finns have averaged 12,604 in the 13,349-seat Hartwall Arena including the ones you can't see watching the games from behind the darkened windows from a seat in the sauna.
But they'll wait and watch the rest of the counties involved when they play Finland.
Sweden, however, has only averaged 8,655 in the 13,850-seat Globen Arena. The Russians rank as the 12th best draw at 4,828. At least that's closer to a KHL attendance figure.
The tournament average going into games Tuesday was 6,202.
"The people in charge of pricing completely missed the market," said Team Canada G.M. Kevin Lowe.
"I don't believe it affects the player's performance at all.
"Possibly in a lesser opponent situation it might affect them a little. But I really don't think it would change their mindset for preparedness between a lesser hockey nation and the countries we need to beat.
"I haven't heard our players even speak about it."
On one hand you have hockey banners and murals all over town, a very visible celebration of the 200th anniversary of Helsinki becoming the capital of Finland as you walk around town. And the event is massive in the media as players being involved in a minor bar incident becoming big news would suggest.
And then you go to the rink and it's almost empty in the only country other than Canada where hockey is the No. 1 sport. It just seems such a contrast and such a contradiction.
"The Finns won the gold last year and they are a favourite again this year. Clearly they have the hockey on the ice figured out but have failed miserably in identifying something just as important, and that's the fans," said Lowe.


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WPAs Opened to Hunting
North Dakota's waterfowl production areas will be open to hunting on the pheasant opener after all. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday afternoon rescinded its closure of WPAs to public access, including hunting and fishing, effective immediately. That means the WPAs in North Dakota will be available to hunters for the state's pheasant opener on Saturday, Oct. 12.
"The waterfowl production areas are important public lands for hunters," said North Dakota Game and Fish Department Director Terry Steinwand. "We have been working hard all week toward the goal of having these areas back open by the pheasant opener, and we appreciate Service Director Dan Ashe's reconsideration of their closure action." The WPAs and national wildlife refuges in North Dakota and other states were closed to public access on Oct. 1 as a result of the federal government shutdown. National wildlife refuges in North Dakota remain closed, however, as today's action by the Fish and Wildlife Service only affects WPAs.
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The lights dim . . . the buzz of the audience becomes a suspense-filled, rustling murmur . . . multicolored lights form magical patterns on rich folds of velvet ... slowly the curtain rises on the excitement of seeing the events of another time, another place . . . and the play begins!
This always captivating, forever mysterious ritual repeats itself all over the globe: in New York, London, Sao Paulo, Paris, Moscow . . . and in Boundary County, Idaho.
It seems no matter where you live, the thrill of watching or participating in a drama is the same. Our rural theater group's opening nights are as hectic, the stage fright as real, the curtain calls as heady, and the successes as satisfying as in any big-time production. In fact, our whole theatrical experience may be even more intense . . . since such a "cultural" outlet is sometimes the missing spice that can add a whole lot of zest to country living.
Lost in the Forest
Fantastic endeavors often grow out of boredom and frustration, and that's exactly what happened in our lives.
When we first moved from urban Vancouver, British Columbia to the forests of Idaho, we were in seventh heaven . . . and actually building our own house in the beautiful north woods made us even more euphoric! But the high didn't last. One day, with our home complete, we sat and asked each other the old familiar question: "Now what?"
Longtime residents of the area had churches to attend and clubs in which to participate. Those organizations weren't off limits to us, of course, but such events as potluck suppers and grange meetings just didn't satisfy the vague craving that we felt.
Cabin Fever Strikes!
Time wore on, and we became desperately bored. It was a great relief to gradually discover that we weren't alone. In fact, we found that the woods were crawling with ex-urbanites who genuinely loved their natural environment, but felt somewhat alien to its social structures. We had become a tribe out of touch with its culture—even out of contact with each other—and we all suffered from the same disease: cabin fever.
Eventually, a handful of us malcontents met one night over wine and cheese, and pooled our ideas in search of a cure. It turned out that two of the group had belonged to little theaters, one located in California and the other in New Jersey.
"That's it!" cried someone. "Let's form a community theater!"
A Cure Catches On
The idea was, we all agreed, a good one ... but was it possible? Such a project would surely tax all the talent and energy that might lie dormant in our backwoods area. But with the help of some free publicity in the local newspaper, we called a meeting . . . and to our amazement, 28 people showed up. Now let me explain that ours is a small county, and that number was a passel of people in this community! In fact, we suddenly had more than enough "staff" to get our first play on the boards!
Some Minor Complications
Unfortunately, we had no "boards" on which to stage our productions. On top of that . . . we had no money.
The first difficulty was solved rather readily. It was our good fortune that the town had recently built a new high school and abandoned the old building. Furthermore, the discarded structure had a marvelous stage and a big, beautiful auditorium . . . going unused.
We approached our superintendent of schools with the idea that we would utilize this empty school for the good of the community. When we agreed (right quick!) to admit students free of charge to all productions, we were granted unlimited use of the building and school auditorium at no cost to us.
The money question was a little harder to conquer . . . but not much! For a start, each member-family contributed $5.00, but the total collected wasn't nearly enough. The only answers we could come up with were [1] to search for patrons (at $5.00 a head) for an organization that existed in name only, and [2] to sell advertising space (at $10, $15, and $25 per ad) in a playbill for a play that hadn't even been chosen yet.
Despite the "iffy" nature of our undertaking, the business community responded to our plea with generosity. In a matter of days, we had the capital to finance the scripts, production costs, and royalties for our first play: Blithe Spirit.
The Play's the Thing
When it's time to pick a play, you'll have a wide range of farces, mysteries, comedies, tragedies, classics, musicals, etc. to choose from. In fact, there are dramas available to satisfy the taste of any community. We've found it best just to write to Samuel French, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service, Inc. for their free catalogs, which cover almost all the plays known in the English language.
The lists contain brief descriptions of each drama, indicate the number of characters, the sets required, and the royalties that must be paid. Naturally, the newer and more famous the vehicle, the higher the royalty is likely to be. But once a play is old enough to become a part of the "public domain" (Shakespeare's Othello, for instance), no fees are required.
There is a catch to putting on such "free" classics, however, because while there may be no fee on (for example) the original Ibsen version of The Master Builder, there are royalties to pay on the "revised and rewritten" editions sold by play services. The trick, therefore, is to get paperback copies of the original "classics" and then do any necessary rewriting yourself.
The average royalty will range from $25 to $50 a night, paid in advance. Unfortunately, the fees have no relationship to the amount of money taken in at the box office. Suppose the royalty is $25, and you clear $200 . . . that's fine! But if you make only $10, the fee will still be $25. And so it will remain . . . even if you charge no admission at all! (Well, the stage has always been a risky business at best . . . and little theaters are no different in this respect from the big Broadway houses.)
The Production Crew
An axiom in the theater says that "everyone wants to act," and it's only too true! For that reason, people who are willing to work on production—doing lights, sound, set construction, prop collection, costumes, and makeup—are worth their weight in spotlights. But in the country, nearly every member of the cast will know enough carpentry to help build sets ... and fingers that quilt and mend jeans can whip out some dynamite costumes!
A production crew should consist of at least one light person, one sound person, a half-dozen people for set construction, at least two to handle properties (all those items—from a toothpick to a sofa—that are required for the play), and two or three for costumes and makeup. (Of course, some positions can be doubled up.) It also helps tremendously to have a stage manager to "orchestrate" all such tasks .. . and take that big workload off the director.
Director By Default
In a country production the role of the director usually goes to whoever's had any experience whatsoever in the theater . . . and his or her first job will be to hold auditions. Then—once a play is cast—rehearsals begin, and continue (ideally) for six weeks. If you allow less time, the performance won't be polished properly . . . but a longer rehearsal period often results in tired actors who are bored with their roles. A six-week schedule seems to exert just the right amount of pressure.
Never Again!
Usually, rehearsals last four hours a night . . . and are scheduled two nights a week for the first four weeks, twice as often during the fifth week, and whatever it takes in the sixth week.
By the time that final down-to-the-wire stretch is reached, most of the cast will be heard exclaiming loudly and frequently, "I'll never be in another play as long as I liver"
But wait two weeks after the final production, hold tryouts for the next performance . . . and everyone will be right there, ready to go again!
"It's like a drug," moaned one actor. "Once you get hooked on it, you can't get off."
Why Bother?
A few people may become involved in a theater group for years and never appear before the footlights ... they love the backstage life. Others, however, frankly admit that they're in it for the glory.
"I love to act," said one "star." "It's the only time I feel truly alive. I guess you could say I'm a country ham in the process of being cured."
But there are other forces that drive people to devote so much loving energy to this "land of pretend." Listen to some of the members of our group:
"I work at a job that's completely unimaginative. In a play, I can actually create something!"
Another: "I'm a born exhibitionist. If it weren't for the community theater, I'd probably be arrested for streaking."
Another: "It seems my whole life has been wrapped up in my husband, my children, and my house. I need something more than that. Everybody does!"
Another: "I heard the community theater had an unsavory reputation ... so I joined it!"
Another: "I was a drama major in college, but I had to forget all that when I got married. The little theater makes me feel I haven't sacrificed all my ambition and talent."
And finally: "I do it for only one reason," said our telephone-line-repairman-turned actor. "The cast parties. The community theater has the best parties in the county!"
A Summary of Success
I guess the age-old excitement that occurs when a group of people get together to produce a play can best be summed up in the words of our northern Idaho director:
"Everyone admires the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into the butterfly. That's what we try to do here . . . take the caterpillar of a raw play and raw actors, and turn it into something beautiful that can soar on its own wings.
"Or perhaps it would be a better analogy to say that we fill the role of Dr. Frankenstein. We take a lot of diverse parts . . . assemble them into a meaningful pattern ... attempt to breathe some life into the monster. . . and hope it doesn't run amok."
Epilogue: Two years after our Boundary County Community Theater was established by a handful of amateurs, it was granted financial backing from the State of Idaho.


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Unlike the old museum, the new one, opening today, devotes considerable attention to Franklin's personal life. It shows his very expansive view of family, his rich social network and his evolving attitudes about slavery. In some respects, Franklin seems quite contemporary–his career as a political revolutionary gained steam after a British court chastised him for leaking some letters.
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So I walked around this gorgeous 330I outside work today and noticed the 4 slotted rotors it had that were VERY large looking....based on mine which are 10.31" I was guessing these were in the 11.5-12" range - front AND rear!
Of course seeing those monsters made me start wondering what was potentially under the hood! As luck would have it, the owner (and his g/f) walked out and were just leaving so I asked him real quick how big the rotors were and he replied with a dis-interested "I don't know. They're stock." in a tone that suggested "Uhmm, don't ask about my car. I'm trying to keep it on the DL" kinda thing so I tried googling it real quick once I got home but came up empty handed and I was simply wondering if anyone knows what size the real factory rotors are onthe BMW 330I's? This was a 2-door coupe, no idea what year but I'd guess 2003 or newer (heck it could've been an 07 for all i know; I don't follow BMW's that closely...). I highly doubt those rotors were stock but I figured I'd check into it....
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