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Wrigley Field is baseball's most cherished ballpark. Just try to disagree.
There may be diverse opinions on which venue is the best -- Boston's Fenway Park has claimed for itself the distinction of most beloved. But the old yard at Clark and Addison on Chicago's North Side, where baseball has been played since 1914, still stands apart.
Wrigley Field is baseball's most cherished ballpark. Just try to disagree.
There may be diverse opinions on which venue is the best -- Boston's Fenway Park has claimed for itself the distinction of most beloved. But the old yard at Clark and Addison on Chicago's North Side, where baseball has been played since 1914, still stands apart.
Just in time for the centennial season comes "A Century of Wrigley Field: The Official History of the Friendly Confines." Published by Major League Baseball and the Chicago Cubs, it's a coffee-table volume that will delight the believers and persuade those who don't get it yet.
Naturally, there are hundreds of spectacular photographs -- all pulled together by the narrative written by veteran Chicago journalist Alan Solomon. It would be hard to imagine a more fitting author. When he was eight, Solomon got his first baseball glove. It was a Hank Sauer -- the 1952 National League MVP Award winner with the Cubs -- model, which he still has. He was also a vendor at Wrigley, Comiskey Park and Soldier Field to help pay his way through college -- and covered the Cubs and White Sox for the Chicago Tribune from 1988 through 1994.
That the author found this assignment more pleasure than business is obvious. For example: There was only one choice to write the foreword and, sure enough, it was done by Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub. Solomon and Banks met at Harry Caray's restaurant to discuss the Hall of Famer's role. The session was supposed to last maybe a half-hour.
"We were talking and being polite with each other, and it just took on a whole different tone at a certain point," Solomon said. "I'm a travel writer, and he asked me if I had been to Argentina. And I said, 'Sure,' that I really liked Buenos Aires. And he broke into song, 'Don't Cry for Me, Argentina.' We sang the whole song together. Later, in a different context, we sang 'The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow' from 'Annie.' The whole song. It became a two-hour session, and when it was over there were hugs."
Solomon infuses his writing with that same joy, and the end result is remarkable. There is the history, of course, which is broken down into eras and includes such diverse events as home football games for the Chicago Bears, championship boxing matches and concerts.
This is seamlessly interspersed with sections on Wrigley Field legends, short separate stories of franchise stalwarts -- including Banks, Mark Grace, Greg Maddux, Ryne Sandberg, Billy Williams, Lee Arthur Smith, Rick Sutcliffe, Kerry Wood, Ron Santo, Sammy Sosa and Ferguson Jenkins. There are pages devoted to "My Friendly Confines," reminisces from celebrity Cubs fans like actor Jim Belushi, former Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps and singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Plus, there are also examinations of what are called "Signature Elements," such as the ivy, the scoreboard and the Wrigleyville neighborhood.
And, again, the pictures. Some of the most fascinating are when photos from the same location show how much has changed and how much hasn't over the years. Take the iconic scoreboard, for instance. It's virtually the same as it was when first constructed in 1937 -- except that a clock and flags have been added at the top. Another shows fans lined up behind the bleachers.
Change is a highly-charged word when it comes to Wrigley Field, but this book clearly demonstrates that it's not the time capsule that many believe it to be. The most wrenching change was the installation of lights in 1988. But the book demonstrates that the ballpark has always evolved over the years, including three major renovations in the 1920s and '30s.
Now, the venerable old park is about to be remade again. Modern amenities, including a large video board, are going to be added. The traditionalists fret, but Solomon is confident Wrigley will remain timeless.
"You sit in that ballpark and it's not hard to imagine great players having played there," Solomon said. "It doesn't look the way it looked when Babe Ruth hit his called shot. The bleachers weren't up until 1937, he hit that home run in [the World Series in] 1932. But the grandstands are the same. You look around and the ballpark is the same. The buildings across the street beyond the bleachers are the same.
"You look at the pictures in the book and show those buildings, and without rooftop seating, they're the same buildings they were 40 years ago, 50 years ago, 70 years ago. I think it will always have the magic. It will be different. My greatest fear, personally, is not so much the signage but the noise factor. If they start sounding like an NBA arena -- with constant blaring rock music and light shows and things -- that will take away from the ambiance.
"Wrigley Field will always be Wrigley Field as long as they don't do something horrible like take down the vines or add a second deck in the outfield, that sort of thing -- which is not going to happen. Even the video board, that's not that horrible. And people will have their own history then. The kids today, that will be the Wrigley Field they grew up with. And hopefully they'll have it for another 30 or 40 years."
Paul Hagen is a reporter for MLB.com.


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UConn and state police investigating the stabbing death of Jasper Howard are looking for all photos and video taken inside or outside the student union on the night he died.
People have been coming forward with footage from the night Jasper Howard, 20, a junior and starting corner back from Miami was stabbed outside the Student Union at around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, according to UConn police. But they are looking for more.
"This can include images that you took, or that someone else has given to you. Remember that no image is insignificant," UConn police said in a message sent to members of the UConn community.
It was during a fight between two groups after a dance sponsored by the school's West Indian Awareness Organization was evacuated because someone pulled a fire alarm, police said. The medical examiner said on Monday that Howard's death was a homicide and he died of a stab wound to the abdomen.
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RGBA, like all CSS3 features, makes our lives so much easier when setting transparencies. But, as you rightly mentioned on the article, it may not be practical for more commercial websites, with a big percentage of IE users, to use them because of the necessity of providing fallback colours.
Still, I wish it was more widely adopted and experimented with.
Personally, I've been using it more and more, in all kinds of scenarios: I'll just grab the approximate colour for naughty browsers with the help of my dear xScope and save lots of development time with that.
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I am lost. My son turns 6 on January 2, 2008. I wanted to start homeschool on that date and do school year round (not August through May). Our plans were to start school in January and do the eval in December. Can I do this? Or does his start date have to be August since he turns 6 beofore Feb. 1? We were going to do 1st grade since K is not required. Now I am all messed up. Can someone please help me?????
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You can start homeschooling right now, that isn't a problem. As for when to send in the notification, I'll need to see what the wording on the law is, which means I'll need your state so I can look up the law.
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OOPS, see, I am so lost that I forgot to include the state. LOL. We are in Florida. I was hoping to delay the letter of intent until January and do my eval 1 year later. I appreciate your help!!!!
For the basic home education law, you need to send the Letter of Intent within 30 days of starting to homeschool, or, I assume, within 30 days of your child turning 6, whichever is later. Send your notice return-receipt requested to prove it reached its destination. You can start to homeschool whenever you want.
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Chris Elsberry: Paoletta looks back at his sporting life
BRIDGEPORT -- Before he became mayor, before he founded the St. Patrick's Day parade and before he vowed that actor Paul Newman "would eat crow" for once calling his town "The Armpit of New England," he was known as Leonard.
Before he became a respected lawyer, before he started lighting it up on the basketball court for Harding and, later, Fairfield University and before he worked, as so many kids did, for Perry Pilotti at the Artic Sports Shop, he was known as Len.
And before he was the Boy of the Year at the Orcutt Boys Club, he was known as Black Bart, a kid who loved to play sports and loved his town even more.
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"We used to take the nickel bus, the Gray line, down to Seaside Park and stay there all day," Paoletta said. "I used to get a great tan, darker than most, so my buddies started called me `Black Bart.'"
Paoletta, 78, was born on the East Side in 1934 and lived in Bridgeport his whole life until moving to Easton 15 years ago. On Wednesday, service awards in Paoletta's name will be given to four honorees at the Boys and Girls Club dinner at the Circolo Sportivo Italian American Club on Park Avenue. On May 13, the Greater Bridgeport Athletic Association (Old Timers) will present him with the Lou Bogash Jr. Past Presidents Award at its annual dinner at Testo's on Madison Avenue.
"I'm flattered that they're honoring me," Paoletta said of the Old Timers. "Guys like Al Clinkscales, Lou Saccone, so many great guys that I grew up with. I'm in with a great crowd."
Paoletta first started walking the four blocks from his house on the East Side to the Orcutt Club when he was 8 years old, playing everything from basketball to pool to Ping-Pong to indoor softball. For kids in the1930s to the early '70s, places such ass the Boys Club were like homes away from home.
During the summer, they'd arrive as the sun was coming up and leave long after the sun went down. They played basketball for hours on end, calling their own fouls, settling their own arguments -- sometimes with boxing gloves and a referee -- before shaking hands and getting back to the game.
At Orcutt, at Middle Street, at North End, all over the city, this scene constantly repeated itself.
"That (the boys clubs) was the place to be," said Sandy Sulzycki, longtime reporter at the Bridgeport Post-Telegram and now the Connecticut Post. "That was all we had."
Sulzycki should know. He played in the local Biddy Leagues at Orcutt in the mid- to late-1950s, and later worked at the Park Street facility as a physical education director when Paoletta would bring "his crew" down on Friday nights to play some hoops.
"That's how I got to know him," Sulzycki said. "He'd come down with his crew and play. On Friday nights we'd keep the gym open later for adults. And they would come in and play basketball for hours."
In 1948 or '49, Paoletta isn't quite sure when, he was named the Most Valuable Player in the City Open Tournament as Orcutt captured the championship. He went on to play for coach Steve Miska at Harding from 1950-53 and then for coach Jim Hanrahan at Fairfield University from 1953-56, once scoring 21 points for the Stags in an 82-72 upset win over New Britain State College.
"That was special for me because I wasn't a scorer. I was a playmaker," Paoletta said. "But they played a zone against us and I had a pretty good two-handed set shot. I made the first three and just kept going."
When he wasn't playing, he was working. Shoveling snow for 25 cents a driveway or setting pins at the bowling alley under the old WNAB building at the corner of Noble and East Washington avenues.
"It (the alley) used to be where the Sons of Italy was. On the lower level they had two or three bowling alleys and when I was 12, I'd set up pins," he said. "I might make $6 a night doing that. I also drove a truck for Coca-Cola when I was at Fairfield. I worked at the J. Foster's Clothing Store on East Main Street and I worked for Perry at Artic. On Friday's I'd drive into New York City to drop off and pick up his uniforms and trophies and I was always the fastest of all his drivers."
From 1981-85, Paoletta was the mayor of Bridgeport, a rare Republican to hold the office. Working to bring "soul to the city," he pushed such events as a Christmas tree lighting, a St. Patrick's Day parade and music concerts on the green behind the courthouse.
"People always thought that we could never make anything good happen here," Paoletta said. "But we did all kinds of things to bring life to it, especially to downtown. We encouraged people to do their shopping downtown. And it was tremendous. Bridgeport was my city."
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If you're like me, most Christmas music makes you want to stab yourself in the eyeball with a sharpened candy cane. Luckily, since everyone and their mother has attempted a holiday album (I mean, most of them are X-mas-centric), there are some gems in the mix.
The Beach Boys' Christmas Album/Christmas With the Beach Boys
The Beach Boys and Christmas music go together like Christmas and getting drunk. It's an obvious choice, sure, but this album also wins because of the originals, which they put just as much effort into as their regular classics. "The Man With All the Toys" kicks enough ass to be listened to all year round.
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
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The Centre of Culture Průhon in Prague 6 is returning to this year's 40th International Festival Ekofilm 2014. Between 23rd and 25th October the centre will organise Echoes of Ekofilm. "The festival offers a wide range of interesting films. The main theme is in particular responsible consumption. Viewers will learn tips how to live being more considerate towards the environment. The Ekofilm programme will be suitably complemented with fun and educational activities which can be joined by visitors of any age," invite event organisers, adding that the admission fee to the Echoes of Ekofilm is voluntary.
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Continuing work on standardization of units.
Made a lot of changes to the general structure.
Applied object-orienting techniques to the code, cleaning it up considerably. Major design changes are as follows:
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Added the ROS stack with the libscout, motors, and sonar packages to the reposititory, and associated files. There are probably still things missing. Libscout won't run properly, but it and motors will compile. Sonar is probably broken, but nothing depends on it yet, so this shouldn't be an issue.
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May 28, 2012 is our liturgy and design issue, and in our culture section Michael E. DeSanctis of Gannon Unversity looks at the trend toward bulding new Catholic churches using elements of traditional design. You can read Professor DeSanctis's article here.
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It will be interesting to see how 85 year old priests climb the steps without hand railings to get to the altars in these churches.
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One thing I notice in the slide show is how disability unfriendly all the sanctuaries and seating in these churches are. Have the architectural provisions of the Americans with Disabilies Act been totally erased from these architects' mental databanks? As well as the parish committees who brainstormed these designs? Do the architects, planners and parishioners totally forget their compatriots with physical, movement or other disabilities? As well as baby boomers and other seniors? Or the regular people for whom traditional 20th century and earlier architecture and interior furnishings just doesn't work? What about clergy, lay ministers, musicians and worship leaders' access?


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You've made your movie. You've even applied to some great film festivals, and maybe they've been encouraging. Now people are calling you, asking to see it, and offering to license it on your behalf. How do you determine whom to collaborate with? What questions need to be asked BEFORE you make a deal? The best thing you can ever do is talk to other filmmakers who have worked with the rep -- and not just the ones that the rep recommends. Make those calls. The second best thing you can do is to have a face to face meeting with the proposed rep. The personal approach matters. Look them in the eye. Connect. Have a beer or a cup of coffee. Ask yourself if you'd like to have dinner with them a year for now.
Now start to ask some questions, ask for some help, and gain a better understanding of both the process and the individual or company you are considering.
- A good Producers' Rep will help you understand the process better. Have them walk you through how they think the deal will go down. Beware of the seduction but listen to what they reveal about your film and their thoughts on the industry.
- Hopefully they will give you insight into difficult situations. Where might there be conflict? How will they protect your investors? What to do if a deal is better for the investors but seems worse for the film or filmmaker? What are examples of these scenarios?
- Can they give your film the attention it needs? How many other films will they be handling during this market period? Do these other films enhance or detract buyers' interest in your film?
- Good films sell themselves, they say, but can they be helped? What do the reps suggest the filmmakers do to further enhance the potential of the film to connect with audiences & Buyers (i.e not with the film, but with other promotional aspects)?
- What can They do to further enhance the potential of the film to connect with festival programmers, critics, and buyers?
- Are there any deal aspects beyond advances and fees they suggest we pay close attention to? Why? There are a boatload of issues to consider and how the Rep portrays these will reveal a great deal.
- What other festivals do they think the filmmakers should consider? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the various film festivals? Even if they are only repping US, how do they think the filmmakers should use the international festivals.
- Are there press agents domestically & abroad they recommend the consider and why? Can they help get a better deal?
- How would they position this film with buyers? Why?
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- What are their thoughts for a strategy for the film in North America and world wide?
- Is this the right size of film for the Rep? Some are better with big movies, others with small? Why are they the right fit?
- How do they feel about a hybrid approach for distribution, aiming for separate deals for different forms of distribution? Does it make sense for your film?
- Do they have any potential conflicts of interest? For instance, of the Rep does foreign sales in some territories, how do they make that work for films that they sell? If they also manage some clients and not others, how do they make that work?
This list is by no means exhaustive. It is just some thoughts to get the ball rolling. Please give us more suggestions.


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The San Francisco Public Library, in conjunction with Jeepney Projects Worldwide, is pleased to present Endangered Birds of the Philippines, with mixed media works on paper by David Tomb, beginning October, 2013 and running through March, 2014.
The exhibition will feature artwork celebrating the iconic and critically-endangered Great Philippine Eagle and other endangered birds of the Philippines, including the Rufous Hornbill. Tomb's latest artworks are luminous and colorful paper assemblages with subtle low-relief elements that help convey spatial depth, as well as the ambiguous and mysterious jungle terrain of the Philippine island of Mindanao. Through this project, Tomb and Jeepney Projects Worldwide bring attention to the challenges and tensions these grand birds face in order to survive and share a sustainable future with an ever-growing Filipino population.
David Tomb is a co-founder of Jeepney Projects Worldwide: Art for Conservation, an organization that partners with regional conservation groups to inspire, support, and help restore lost habitat of critically endangered birds. In January of 2011, Tomb and the Jeepney team visited Mt. Kitanglad on Mindanao to see wild nesting Great Philippine Eagles and other endemic birds. Jeepney has since partnered with the Philippine Eagle Foundation, creating limited edition fine art prints to raise funding for research and public outreach/education concerning the Great Philippine Eagle.
Tomb has exhibited in galleries, universities, and museums extensively across the United States and has been published widely including the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Harpers. Tomb's work is in many public collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Huntington Library, and the Consulate General of the United States in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.
On Oct.19th, 1:45pm-2:45pm, Endangered Birds of the Philippines presentation will be one of the featured events in the 2nd Filipino American International Book Festival running from Oct. 18th through Oct. 20th at the Main branch. Presenters include David Tomb, artist and member of Jeepney Projects.
To learn more about David Tomb and Jeepney Projects Worldwide, please visit http://www.jeepneyprojects.org
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Mayor has chilly relationship with University of Bridgeport
He lost his job and fought its takeover. Today, Mayor Bill Finch has turned his back on a major institution in his city.
BRIDGEPORT -- The purple, blue and white University of Bridgeport banners flapping in the breeze along lower Park Avenue at the seaside campus read: "A World of Opportunities."
But for Democratic Mayor Bill Finch, UB's 56 acres, 4,877 students and 900 employees might as well be a world away, not in Bridgeport's South End, despite contributing millions to his city's troubled economy.
Finch fancies himself a forward thinker when it comes to running Connecticut's largest municipality, but his adversarial relationship with one of Bridgeport's most prominent institutions is intractably mired two decades in the past.
The feud dates to the early 1990s, when then-city councilman Finch strove mightily and unsuccessfully to stop the Professors World Peace Academy, an arm of the controversial Unification Church, from coming to the bankrupt UB's rescue with a $50 million bailout in exchange for 60 percent of the seats on the board of trustees.
Finch, who'd earlier lost his job as the university's assistant director of alumni relations during a bitter faculty strike, shared critics' views that the church and its members -- derided as "Moonies" -- were a dangerous, brainwashing cult that wanted UB as a recruiting machine. He then fought -- again unsuccessfully -- to try to have the state strip UB's accreditation.
"These guys came in and were pretty vicious," recalled Michael Stratton, the attorney who worked with Finch and others to fight the bailout in court.
"They held no prisoners and wanted that institution ... (And) these banks getting paid off were very powerful people who wanted these loans paid off and made damn sure we weren't able to establish our case," said Stratton, who still harbors suspicions about the PWPA, which was founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1973.
But since the late 1990s the school has been able to stand on its own financially, and a state investigation following the takeover found no evidence that UB was luring unsuspecting students into the reputed cult.
City and state movers and shakers, from Connecticut's congressional delegation on down to local public school officials and business leaders, have long-since embraced UB as a partner.
"What it is today ... is an incredible turnaround story," said Paul Timpanelli, CEO of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council.
But while the school has progressed, offering career-oriented programs to students from around the world, Finch spent the last 20 years stubbornly nurturing his contempt.
Imagine, some say, what UB could be if the mayor embraced the school as a partner to boost economic development and improve education.
"It's just sad. It's personal and counterproductive for the good of Bridgeport," said Christopher Shays, a resident and former Republican congressman who delivered UB's 1997 commencement address. "It's making the job of the university more difficult, to the detriment of the city."
Finch avoids the campus and leaves unavoidable official interactions with the UB community to subordinates.
In April, for example, UB hosted a national gymnastics championship attended by Democrats U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Gov. Dannel Malloy.
But Finch, according to school officials, sent City Council President Thomas McCarthy, and didn't even respond to an invitation to the event.
"We have made it very clear to the mayor and various members of his administration he is welcome any time," said Mary-Jane Foster, UB's vice president of university relations for the past few years. Co-founder of the Bridgeport Bluefish, Foster is a Finch ally turned political opponent.
Still, some consider Finch's current behavior an improvement.
At least, they say, he is no longer publicly bad-mouthing the school, like in 2009 when he lamented to Hearst Newspapers that the city deserved a strong university, not one run by "a criminal organization."
"When Finch first came in (to the mayor's office in 2007), this was a big topic of conversation and he said some things, they said some things," recalled Joseph McGee of the Business Council of Fairfield County, who helps advise the city on economic matters.
Finch had said he might revisit his stance on UB once Moon, the Korean minister who founded the church, died.
But Moon passed in September and the mayor's relationship remains nonexistent.
Asked last week if his administration's icy relationship with UB has since thawed, Finch smiled and said, "Happy Thanksgiving."
He offered the same non-reply, "Happy Thanksgiving," several more times to other questions about the college.
"That's it. That's all I'm going to say," Finch responded when further pressed on whether UB is a resource for building the city's economy.
Lennie Grimaldi, a longtime friend of the mayor who ran his successful 2000 race for state Senate, said Finch is a stubborn man.
"It can be a blessing because he's extremely dogged in wanting to get things done for the city," said Grimaldi. "But he can be also so stubborn that sometimes he doesn't always see the larger picture."
Appeals to Finch's office for a more substantive explanation of his views resulted in a statement from spokesman Elaine Ficarra that emphasized the city and university have "a strong, collaborative relationship." She cited pavement and sidewalk repairs and other streetscape improvements; a joint project to repair a softball diamond within adjacent Seaside Park for use by both high school and UB girls' teams; and educational collaborations with Bridgeport's public schools, including offering seniors free college-level courses.
Foster and George Estrada, UB's associate vice president for facilities and safety, acknowledged UB works well with city agencies and, if not Finch, staff in his office. And Finch tapped Estrada, Bridgeport's former director of facilities, to sit on the mayor's Charter Revision Commission.
"I get nothing but cooperation from the city when we deal with them on everything from public safety issues to construction projects," Estrada said. "To me, if the mayor really was to object there was a relationship, there wouldn't be one at all."
But Foster said regardless of the support UB enjoys from other city entities, the mayor does damage by withholding his endorsement.
"We'd be in an even better place than we are," she said. "We can do it without him. But having the mayor as your advocate is by far better."
Shays agreed, arguing Finch has the power and influence to "make things happen" for the mutual benefit of UB and the city.
"Reverend Moon passed away. He doesn't have to wrap his arms around the church. He just has to wrap his arms around the university," he said.
Phil Kuchma, the local developer who is partnering with the city to revitalize the downtown, said the city must do more to link that neighborhood with the UB community, which is within walking distance.
"I understand all of us in life may have something that's a strong belief of our own. I can respect the mayor's belief, but there has to be a way he can put that in perspective to what the big picture might be," Kuchma said.
Grimaldi said he has witnessed other Finch relationships sour, then improve, and believes there is still a chance the mayor can embrace UB.
"I'd like to see the business community weigh in more and try to figure something out," Grimaldi said.
McGee and Timpanelli said they have tried -- repeatedly.
"Everybody from the mayor's staff to me to his wife have tried to talk to him about making that relationship better, and failed," Timpanelli said.
McGee said it did not help when Foster challenged Finch in the 2011 mayoral primary.
"If the university wanted to embrace him, would you run one of your senior people against him?" McGee said.
Judith Greiman, longtime head of the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, declined to comment specifically on the Finch/UB feud.
"Sometimes there are little spats about construction, sometimes about noisy students. But I'd say generally communities embrace the colleges in them," she said. "And it's helpful to have a close working relationship with the chief elected official in any college town."
Greiman said such symbiotic alliances help attract major tax-paying employers and aid universities in their efforts to grow and improve.
"Colleges bring people into the municipality. People are visiting campus, spending dollars," Greiman said.
According to a UB economic impact study, alumni, faculty, students and visitors contribute $47 million to Bridgeport's $3 billion economy.
And Foster is optimistic about Finch's recent decision to hire David Kooris as head of planning and economic development and what that means for redeveloping the South End and collaborating with UB.
"He's smart, talented, highly educated, not a political animal. He's a, `what's the highest, best use and how do we get it done' guy," she said.
But Stratton still believes the fight to stop the Unification Church's bailout of UB, which followed the crippling faculty strike that remains the longest in U.S. history, was worthwhile, even though the school would likely have shut down had they prevailed.
"I can't quantify it, but the ability of the church to go to these small, Third World countries and say `Join and you can put up with our nonsense and go to America some day and beautiful Bridgeport on the water' was a carrot to cause a lot of human misery," he alleged, while offering no evidence or examples.
Stratton now likens UB to a casino -- saying it has benefits for the local economy but a dark side.
"Looking from a pragmatic point of view, it's part of a texture of Bridgeport which is not in any way ideal, but we're trying to cobble together a functional city, so you have to put up with some less-than-ideal things," Stratton said.
And Stratton is willing to take a lonely stance and defend Finch for stubbornly sticking to his principles over the past 20 years.
"He's not going to allow politics or pragmatic thinking to dominate his behavior," said Stratton, claiming that UB might somehow be up to no good if Finch weren't keeping an eye on the school.
"If Bill wasn't doing this, what would they try to get away with down there? Now we have sort of our `top cop' as mayor of Bridgeport and it keeps us all safe. It gives a check and balance," he said.
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Videos on view as part of Collecting Art of Asia Ketcham Gallery on the third floor of the Museum features a selection of video works by Asian artists. The Museum began to collect video and new media art in recent years, and its holdings are small but growing. The first video-based work acquired by SCMA was Internet Dweller: btjm.twelve.jhgd. (1997) by the internationally renowned Korean artist Nam June Paik, who was a pioneer of the medium. (This sculptural assemblage is on view on the lower level gallery as part of Collecting Art of Asia.)
Videos screened during the exhibition include works by Cao Fei and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook. The Birth of RMB City, by the young Chinese artist Cao Fei, is an animated video that shows the construction of a virtual city on the interactive internet platform Second Life. It is the first purchase of the Museum's recently established Contemporary Associates group, whose membership dues are used annually to acquire a work of contemporary art for the collection in new media and photography. In Village and Elsewhere Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook documents a Buddhist priest leading a discussion with village school children of very different works of Western art by Jeff Koons and Artemisia Gentileschi.
Videos will be shown in rotation.
Image: Cao Fei. Born China, 1978 (with Vitamin Creative Space). The Birth of RMB City, 2009. Single-channel color video with sound, duration: 10.5 minutes. Edition 4/10. Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Associates.


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Now, the laboratory of Lewis A. Chodosh, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, reports in Genes & Development that activation of the PI3K-Akt oncogenic signaling pathway in the mammary glands of mice rapidly induces cells in the breast itself to produce prolactin. This, in turn, triggers Stat5 activation, mammary epithelial differentiation and milk production in virgin mice within a matter of hours.
"Remarkably, these changes occur in the absence of any of the complex hormonal changes or developmental programs that normally accompany pregnancy" explains Chodosh.
Consistent with a physiological role for prolactin outside of the brain, the Penn team found that mice bearing mutant Akt genes fail to activate Stat5 or initiate lactation when they give birth due to an inability to synthesize and secrete prolactin in the mammary gland, despite normal levels of circulating prolactin in the blood.
These findings provide the first demonstration that the synthesis and secretion of mammary gland prolactin is regulated by PI3K-Akt signaling and identify a physiological function for extra-pituitary prolactin during a critical developmental stage that is essential for the survival of mammalian offspring.
What's more, prolactin has long been thought to play a role in human breast cancer, however this has typically been assumed to be due to circulating prolactin produced by the pituitary. Since the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway is commonly activated in human cancers, this new finding suggests the important possibility that prolactin produced by the breast itself may play a role in breast cancer. In fact, mammary prolactin has been detected in some human breast cancers. As such, investigators have proposed that prolactin produced by the mammary gland – rather than by the pituitary – may play a direct role in the development of breast cancer, for example by providing pro-growth or pro-survival signals to cancer cells in the breast. Accordingly, anti-cancer drugs aimed at blocking the effects of prolactin are currently under development.
"Since the PI3K-Akt pathway is one of the most commonly activated oncogenic pathways in human cancer, its identification as an upstream regulator of prolactin production in the mammary gland has intriguing potential implications for understanding the pathology of human breast cancer and improving its treatment," notes Chodosh.
Co-authors are Chien-Chung Chen, Douglas B. Stairs, Robert B. Boxer, George K. Belka, and James V. Alvarez, all from Penn and Nelson D. Horseman, from the University of Cincinnati. This research was supported in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute U01 CA105490 and R01 CA098371, the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital — the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.


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