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PALO ALTO ISSUESSan Jose Mercury News editorial today
Re: the defeat of Measure D The San Jose Mercury News' editorial today re: the defeat of Measure D was a sore loser, below-the-belt...Original post made by Bob on Nov. 7, 2013
Last comment by PalyDad, on Nov 8, 2013 at 6:47 am | 4 comments | 680 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSGunn's student newspaper is finalist in national contest
Coverage of social inclusion issues on campus, potential closure of Palo Alto's Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, last November's...Original post made on Nov. 8, 2013
Last comment by Elizabeth, on Nov 8, 2013 at 6:25 am | 1 comment | 1800 Views
AROUND TOWNByxbee Park plans still uncertain, but restoration goes on
The 126-acre Byxbee Park, located at the center of the Palo Alto Baylands Preserve, is perhaps the most emblematic of the...Original post made on Nov. 7, 2013
Last comment by musical, on Nov 7, 2013 at 4:34 pm | 5 comments | 12134 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTSMenlo Park police look for DUI crash witness
The Menlo Park Police Department announced Nov. 6 that it is seeking a specific witness who may have watched a grisly fatal...Original post made on Nov. 7, 2013
Last comment by Susan, on Nov 7, 2013 at 1:28 pm | 3 comments | 2807 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSTest results, new spending on tap for school board
The Palo Alto school board will hear reports on school construction spending, SAT and Advanced Placement test results and...Original post made on Nov. 5, 2013
Last comment by Fred, on Nov 7, 2013 at 1:25 pm | 23 comments | 6414 Views
AROUND TOWNMany mail-ins, little drama in Palo Alto election
The fire station on Arastradero Road in Palo Alto had all the trappings of a precinct on Election Day on Tuesday -- a table...Original post made on Nov. 6, 2013
Last comment by KP, on Nov 7, 2013 at 10:48 am | 6 comments | 2846 Views
Read the full story here http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2013/11/05/recent-home-sales posted Tuesday, November 5, 2013,...Original post made on Nov. 5, 2013
Last comment by musical, on Nov 7, 2013 at 3:45 am | 5 comments | 3004 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUESPalo Alto looks at trenches for Caltrain
Commuting by train may be on the rise in job-rich Palo Alto, but when the City Council meets on Monday to discuss the local...Original post made on Nov. 1, 2013
Last comment by musical, on Nov 6, 2013 at 11:33 pm | 37 comments | 25079 Views
AROUND TOWNDewatering after October
Anyone else notice the water is still running into the drain on the 2100 block of Bryant in front of the church? Groundwater...Original post made by Anonymous on Nov. 1, 2013
Last comment by musical, on Nov 6, 2013 at 10:45 pm | 5 comments | 751 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUESSaving the Baylands
The Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve marshlands, home to the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper...Original post made on Nov. 1, 2013
Last comment by Sally, on Nov 6, 2013 at 6:24 pm | 15 comments | 21948 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOHow can I convince my husband to vote?
His parents came from a different country and don't vote because their country was corrupt. So every election, my husband...Original post made by American on Nov. 5, 2013
Last comment by CrescentParkAnon., on Nov 6, 2013 at 12:29 pm | 12 comments | 1992 Views
SPORTSRobinson leads Gunn girls to division title in cross country
Gunn senior runner Sarah Robinson capped off her league cross-country career with her best performance ever on the rolling...Original post made on Nov. 6, 2013
Last comment by Congrats!, on Nov 6, 2013 at 3:09 am | 1 comment | 2805 Views
AROUND TOWNLetters to the editor
Evaluate the facts Read the letters here http://www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2013/11/01/letters-to-the-editor posted...Original post made on Nov. 1, 2013
Last comment by Friend, on Nov 5, 2013 at 11:08 pm | 8 comments | 4096 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUESAnyone Hear Low Flying Jet Engines at Full Power Tonight?
Just now: Thought a crash was imminent! Lasted 30-45 seconds, very low and close. Lowest I have ever felt a Jet over...Original post made by Midtown Man on Sep. 6, 2013
Last comment by Jetman, on Nov 5, 2013 at 10:26 pm | 7 comments | 1838 Views
AROUND TOWN55% against vs 44% for
we win, we win, we win! power to the people!...Original post made by Yay, NO on D on Nov. 5, 2013
Last comment by Crescent Park Dad, on Nov 5, 2013 at 9:07 pm | 1 comment | 642 Views
AROUND TOWNThree masked men rob Midtown 7-Eleven
Three masked robbers, one of whom was carrying a rifle or shotgun, robbed the 7-Eleven in midtown Palo Alto early Tuesday...Original post made on Oct. 15, 2013
Last comment by HUTCH 7.62, on Nov 5, 2013 at 8:20 pm | 47 comments | 10627 Views
AROUND TOWNFormer 49er found guilty of misdemeanors in domestic violence case
After a six-day trial, jurors found former San Francisco 49er offensive tackle and Palo Alto resident Kwame Harris guilty...Original post made on Nov. 5, 2013
Last comment by Hmmm, on Nov 5, 2013 at 6:49 pm | 2 comments | 3639 Views
AROUND TOWNShop Talk: Indoor cycling, more mall openings, tutoring centers
<B><B>INDOOR CYCLING AT STANFORD ... </B>An indoor cycling studio is riding into Stanford Shopping Center, with construction...Original post made on Nov. 1, 2013
Last comment by Soul Enthusiast!, on Nov 5, 2013 at 1:58 pm | 7 comments | 7355 Views
MOVIESReview: '12 Years A Slave'
This is the story of a man: another tale of physical and emotional survival that, unlike "All is Lost" and "Gravity," derives...Original post made on Nov. 3, 2013
Last comment by CrescentParkAnon., on Nov 5, 2013 at 1:20 pm | 4 comments | 12815 Views
MOVIESReview: 'All Is Lost'
Batten down the hatches for the unusual new sailing drama "All Is Lost." The only actor on screen for 106 minutes is Robert...Original post made on Oct. 30, 2013
Last comment by CrescentParkAnon., on Nov 5, 2013 at 1:11 pm | 4 comments | 17968 Views
Calave wine bar opens in Palo Alto
By Elena Kadvany | 12 comments | 2,873 views
OK I Changed The Title
By Laura Stec | 21 comments | 1,438 views
Family Outing - Inside Out
By Cheryl Bac | 0 comments | 765 views
Relay for Life, Menlo Park, August 8
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6 Free Search Tools I'm Loving Right Now
I'm not afraid to say it: I love tools. I would get a t-shirt that said "I Love Tools" if it wouldn't get me entirely the wrong kind of tools. I don't know any search marketers who don't have an entire Batman utility belt worth of hidden tools of gadgets in their repertoire, helping them work smarter, faster and (my favorite) easier. And of course, the only thing better than a useful tool is a free useful tool.
There are some free tools, which I won't cover in depth here, that are pretty standard in the industry; things like Open Site Explorer, SEOBook tools/toolbar, Google Analytics, etc. Not to say that I'm not totally loving these tools, just that you, Smarty McPants, are probably already using them.
Here are some other free search tools that I'm so totally loving right now. Take a peek inside my personal arsenal:
Xenu's Link Sleuth
You guys probably know this one. It crawls your site (any site, really) and returns all the pages that it finds, including their server status, file extension, title tag, and many other useful tidbits. Use it to:
- Find broken links on your site
- Find images with no alt text
- Find areas of your site a crawler can't access
- Build a quick and easy site map
WPromote SEOAudit Extension for FireFox
Once you have this plugin installed, you can right click on any page to access it. It quickly pops out a list with all sorts of useful info like page rank, domain age, links to robots.txt and sitemap files if it can find them and other metrics of admittedly varying usefulness. This tool is great for an on-the-go audit or any time you just need a quick info grab on a site – you can also export to PDF (yum!).
Oh my gosh you guys, check out ClueApp; it is the best. Enter a URL and ClueApp will take a screengrab and give you a URL that links to your test. Send the link to (for example) everyone you know. They'll be shown the screengrab for 5 ½ seconds and then asked to enter the things they remembered from it. This is the best quick-and-dirty usability test tool I've found and a super easy way to make sure your home page/landing page/etc. gets its message across.
Wikimedia Commons
Everyone knows about Wikipedia, but the Wikimedia Foundation actually has an array of other free resources that you can use all day long. Wikimedia Commons is a huge repository of images, sounds, videos and other media that are free to use under the Creative Commons license. Need some images for a blog post? Head to Wikimedia Commons, find an image you love, attribute it based on the notes attached to the entry, and you are off to the races, my friend!
They say it best themselves: "TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter!" If you're monitoring social media mentions of your brand, or looking to find influencers discussing topics of interest, you can set up alerts and TweetBeep will email you with them hourly or daily. I prefer daily – hourly can get pretty overwhelming if you're monitoring topic mentions.
BusinessHut Excel Tool*
This tool gets an asterisk since it's only sort of free. If you have an SEOMoz Pro account with access to their API (that's the part you have to pay for – but I recommend it wholeheartedly), you can use this handy-dandy tool to pull Open Site Explorer data for a large quantity of URLs at once. I wouldn't go too crazy – try running 1000 or less at a time – but it's a clean, easy tool to get that data in a readable format. Without having to learn to develop a tool on your own. Can I get a FTW?
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Wondering did you try SEO Doctor ?
It's a Firefox extension for SEO giving a wealth of on-page and off-page information, and it is simple, non-intrusive and intuitive to use.
Thanks for including my tool on your list. (immature giggle)
Anyway, I'd like to clarify that you can also use the SEOmoz/BusinessHut excel tool, even with the free SEOmoz account.
I actually have a free account, and I created the thing.
Good post as well. I wasn't aware of most of these tools. Thanks.
Hey Ruth,
It is always great to get free stuff. I have been steadily learning a ton about SEO over the past 2 years or so. Mainly I have been doing it for my own site, but recently I had a few companies ask me to do it for them, so I have had a more focused effort on searching out tools that let me do things quicker.
I am an SEOMoz pro user and I also use Raven Tools. Raven is awesome for keeping track of multiple domains.
Awesome tip about the Wikimedia commons, I hadn't heard of that one before. I am also going to check out the firefox plugin, but my guess is between SEOMoz and Raven, my bases should be covered there. Of course those tools aren't free, but I am very dependent on both of their toolbars and that alone for me has been worth the membership to them.
Thanks for sharing the tips.


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This course focuses on the theories behind web fonts: what makes a good font, why different fonts look the way they do, and how fonts affect the look of a web page. Author Laura Franz covers common tasks, including downloading a font from an online source such as Typekit or Font Squirrel, implementing the font in HTML and CSS, and changing the size and line-height to improve the readability of text. The course also covers different periods of type design and explores the history behind handwritten fonts, text fonts (used for large amounts of text), and display fonts (used for headlines).
Our Art Deco version of the Library Book Sale page is almost done. But before we move on, we need to check the fallback fonts. We need to make sure the page looks good even if the fonts don't load. We're still working with the file from the last lesson. If you didn't save yours that is okay, I've provided a new starting point for this lesson. Just make sure you put your embed code in the document so your Typekit fonts will work on your system. Let's open the HTML document, mine is already open in TextWrangler.
And in the CSS portion of the document, let's add an X for our font family so that they'll break. Now looking at our font stacks here, the Nimbus Sans is using Georgia and Serif. Let's change that to Arial and Sans Serif. This will work better because Arial and Nimbus Sans have a very similar structure. I save that and let's look at the h1. Right now we're using Georgia, I'm not sure if that's going to work but let's test it, it could be a nice contrast to the Arial.
So we're going to upload this on our server, I'm going to go to the right file here and let's reload it. And it's not bad, but the headline is a little bit smaller here, so the Georgia just feels a little bit smaller and softer than I'd like it to, especially with the Arial and with the lines going across the top. So let's go ahead and change our font stack, back into the text editor and let's change it to Arial Black and then Arial, and then we'll do a Sans Serif here, go ahead and save that re-upload it to your server, and view it in our browser.
This looks much better. I think the Arial Black has much more presence than Georgia did on the page. So I think we can go with this. This is a really good solution. Now let's just go back and get our fonts. So if they're working again on our servers, we don't want to leave them up there broken. We'll go ahead and take out our Xs and save this file, upload it to our server one last time and reload it again. Excellent, that's what we're looking for. Now Arial Black is very different from Limelight.
While they're both Sans Serif, Limelight has extreme contrast between thick and thins and it's also quite geometric. Arial Black is neither of these things. But when picking a Fallback font, it's more about creating a feeling than exactly matching the font. And Arial Black will give us the impact we need in our h1. And now that we have our fonts stack set, our Art Deco version is done.
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women in church leadership
We all know that women are as capable and intelligent as men, and that some of them have excellent leadership skills. While men are more naturally inclined as leaders because of the way God designed them, some women are better leaders than many men. Women serve very admirably in business and politics, as judges and police officers. So it's no wonder that some people get angry and argumentative when discussing the issue of women in church leadership. Compared to our world's modern, liberated understanding of the role of women, the biblical commands regarding women can seem archaic.
Why then, did God include commands in the Bible that seem to limit women's leadership roles? These are not vague references, but clear and concise:
The women should keep quiet in the churches, for they are not authorized to speak, but should take a secondary and subordinate place, just as the Law also says.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
If they have any questions to ask, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in church meetings.
Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively.
The instructions are there in black and white. What we do with them becomes the issue in our modern culture, creating conflict in and outside the church. Were these simply temporary rules for a time long past? Or is something deeper meant to be conveyed -- something that transcends cultural changes? Let's take some time to explore the verses and the reasons why they are included in the Bible.
Foundational Truths
Before we begin this study, it's important to establish several foundational truths from the Bible.
The first truth is that the Bible is God-breathed. Scripture is not some accident of writing. It isn't the work of men who just happen to write about things of God. God inspired every book, every word of the Bible. It is written as He wanted it written.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
Every word of God is flawless...
God knows everything. He cannot be surprised by anything. There is no situation in which God can suddenly learn some new truth that He was unaware of in the past. Some passages may seem at first glance to suggest that a human argument shed light on something God hadn't thought of, like the discussion with Moses in Exodus 32 (more on this here). Yet a closer examination reveals that appearances can be deceiving if we don't look more closely.
Scripture is meant to be understood. A common approach to dealing with difficult passages in our complex, fast-paced world is to quickly throw up our hands and say, "if it's not comfortable, let's just ignore it!" This isn't an option. God did not design the Bible to be hard to understand, but to be so simple even a child can grasp it. God calls us noble if we dig into Scripture for clarification (see Acts 17:11). If we have trouble grasping the relevance of any Scripture passage, our next step is to see what else the same writer has said on the subject. Then we look at other parts of Scripture to clarify our understanding. In the end, things become quite clear, especially when it comes to instructions for the church.
Now that we understand these foundational truths, let's begin the study.
Four empires, two cultures
The prophet Daniel was given a vision back in the sixth century BC in which he was shown four unique empires. These four empires -- the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans -- covered the period from the time of Daniel to the long-anticipated "Day of the Lord" that we are still looking forward to. Through the four empires emerged two distinctly different cultural attitudes. The patriarchal system of the Babylonians and Persians began to give way under the Greeks to more freedom and power for women. This continued into the Roman empire, where women gained even more freedom and held roles as lawyers, politicians and business tycoons. They didn't enjoy the variety of options they have today, but women actually had more freedoms in early Rome than they had in North America just a couple of centuries ago.
In the eyes of God, we are still living in the "fourth" empire created by the Romans. Of course, we no longer wear togas or crowns of olive leaves except at certain college parties. But the system of democratic government we live under, the legal structure, modern military strategy, many of our cultural practices and even the Christian church were all established under the Romans and have changed very little during the past 2,000 years. While women certainly do have greater freedoms today, women's rights have not changed all that much either, because they had more rights under the Roman empire than they did during many of the intervening generations.
In the Roman empire, women held roles as lawyers and in some cases were business leaders with considerable clout, their influence matching that of Martha Stewart and Oprah today. Roman matrons held a great deal of power and were highly respected, just as women leaders are today. 49 different women were featured on Roman coins. Appian records a speech by Hortensia before the triumvirs in the Senate, circa 49BC, protesting unfair taxation. Though politically they usually ruled through their husbands, there were a number of high profile women of great power, such as Messalina, Livia, Octavia, Antonia, Agrippina and others. Education was limited, but even men had no formal educational opportunities like we have today. Training came in the form of apprenticeship. Only a handful of universities even existed.
While the Roman empire as we know it is long gone, God sees today's western civilization as being included in that "final" fourth empire before the return of Jesus Christ. So, in His eyes, we are still living in the Roman empire even if we tend to refer to it only historically -- the architecture and clothing -- rather than as a cultural foundation for how we live.
Why is this important? Because when we read the apostle Paul's instructions, we often think of his audience as a primitive culture radically different from our own. In actual fact, his audience thought more like ours than we are willing to admit. Some of Paul's letters were directly aimed at Gnostic teaching, which was prevalent in the first-century Roman culture. Gnostics wanted to do away with all created distinctions and saw androgyny as the spiritual goal. The knowledge they aimed for was a direct personal enlightenment devoid of reason, and they welcomed the subjective emotional experiences of women as marks of enlightened spirituality. Very similar to some of the arguments made today.
Equal yet different
God created men and women to be equal in their value as persons and capacity to fellowship with Him. Yet He created them to be very different from one another. There are both physical and physiological differences.
Women have four times as many neurons connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This enables women to process many things simultaneously that involve both the left (logical) side of the brain and the right (creative) side. The result is a very real capacity to deal with the complex problems of relationships.
You might think that men have a disadvantage because they lack all these cross-brain neurons, but in fact it simply gives them an equal but different strength. Men have a greater ability to focus on a single problem. This "tunnel vision" capability makes men naturally adept at mechanical skills, mathematics or focused processes such as driving race cars or flying high-speed aircraft where even an instant of distraction can mean disaster. In these roles, women's constant cross-brain communication actually makes it more difficult to excel, because they can become easily distracted. This design difference is also one of the reasons men are natural leaders. Because there is far less cross-brain communication, men find it much easier to keep emotions out of decision making, an important factor in stressful situations or times of danger.
Each physiological design is ideal for the purpose God intended it to be used for. Neither capability is better. They are just different. Men and women have different roles in God's design, intended to be combined for maximum impact. Even the Bible talks about how men and women are not independent of each other:
But in relationships among the Lord's people, women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women. For although the first woman came from man, all men have been born from women ever since, and everything comes from God.
Men and women approach problem solving in very different ways, evident even in young children. You can see these differences at work while observing them attempt to find their way out of a maze. Boys generally establish a hierarchy or chain of command with a leader who emerges on his own or through demonstrations of ability and power. Boys explore the maze using scouts while remaining apart. Girls tend to explore the maze together as a group without establishing a clear or dominant leader. Girls seek discussion and employ "collective intelligence" to the task of discovering a way out. Girls tend to work their way through the maze as a group. Boys tend to search and explore using structured links and a chain of command.
In the early days of personal computers, I wrote a computer program that allowed children to select a pattern from a "palette" of inks and click on part of a clown to fill it with the pattern. Demonstrating this to groups of 5 and 6 year old children in schools, I discovered an interesting consistency. Boys always asked "how does it work?" while girls always asked "what else can I do with it?" They approached the technology with vastly different interests. Boys wanted to dominate the machine by understanding its inner workings, giving them authority over it. Girls found the machine meaningful only if it could contribute in useful ways to the needs of society. These differences were not the result of social engineering; they were part of God's different designs for men and women.
God designed men and women differently. While He made men naturally inclined to be leaders, He created us with an equal capacity to relate to Him. If men and women are equal in status before God, then why would He limit women in leadership roles within the church?
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley concluded his Iowa Works tour at a Cedar River bridge that he said was replaced, in part, as a result of his legislative efforts to create a funding stream to replace bridges destroyed by the floods of 2008.
At the time, the bridge, which crosses the Cedar River between Eighth and Twelfth avenues, was carrying 20,000 railroad carloads of corn each year, according to Jeff Woods of the Crandic railway. The loss of the bridge affected all local grain processors, he said.
Braley, a four-term U.S. House member, said he has distinct memories of the bridge going down because two days earlier he had watched on television in the U.S. House cloak room as a downtown Waterloo Iowa Northern bridge collapsed.
"That was the beginning of a long and very challenging period for the people in the 1st District and down here in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City," Braley said.
The 1st District Democrat worked with the American Short Rail Association and other Iowa congressmen to get his "Back on Track" bill introduced to provide funding to rebuild the Cedar Rapids and Waterloo bridges. A year after the flood, $7 million was approved to rebuild the Cedar Rapids bridge.
Since then the volume of corn that crosses the bridge has increased, he said.
During the Iowa Works campaign tour, Braley has highlighted Iowans' hard work, the need for policies that strengthen the middle class and create good-paying Iowa jobs, and discussed his own working background, which includes four summers working on bridge crews.
However, it shouldn't take a flood or other natural disaster for Congress to address the "huge backlog" of infrastructure needs, such as a number of Mississippi River bridges that are either functionally deficient or structurally obsolete, he said.
"We need to continue to invest in and rebuild our infrastructure because, as you heard today, a lot of businesses depend on the free-flow of their product in order to get things to their customers," he said.
"Whenever there is a breakdown in that transportation system it costs time and costs money."
He's called for an infrastructure databank that helps Congress prioritize infrastructure needs and work with private businesses to find the necessary funding.
"You don't have to travel far from here to see the importance of that," Braley said. At the Quad Cities, "the I-74 bridge is shut down in one direction. Think about the time and delay and impact on that economy, and multiply that by all the bridge we have to replace in this country."
A lot of people would be put back to work if Congress could find the funding to begin replacing those bridges, he added.
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Replying to: I'm planning to join AT&T!! by davidg4781
Re: I'm planning to join AT&T!!
davidg4781 said:
I'm pretty excited about this. I live in an area that has a huge white hole for Sprint service. I've put up with it for the past 3 years since I have a 4 line family plan and the others live a few hours away but I've finally had enough.
Anyway, I'm planning on going with the 10GB/month (I think, maybe it was 6 or 8?). And I'm going to tie it to my home U-verse account.
Are there any benefits to getting an AT&T number versus porting over my Sprint number? Other than the obvious everyone still has my number.
How about any other sites/forums for AT&T users? I used to go to sprintusers.com but it seems to have closed down or something. I can't post there anymore and hardly anyone posts on it.
This should all be happening in a few months. Pretty excited!
Firstly, I work for ATT so (early) welcome to ATT. Now with the mobile share plans, we do not have an 8gb plan, but we do indeed have the 6 and the 10gb. You will not be able to combine your UV and cell phone bill together because as of 10/30/12 ATT no longer offers combined billing unless you are a business account. As far as the porting goes, there is no advantage of getting an ATT number, so you should probably just port your number over so that everyone still knows your number. I don't know about the ATT forums, I'm sure there are some if you poke around on Google. I'll answer any questions you may have if you want to reply with any.
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Enrique Chagoya, an assistant professor of art at Stanford University and one of the featured artists in the "Pressure Points" exhibit now at Hallie Ford Museum, will present a slide lecture on his work Thursday, Nov. 29, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall on the second floor of the Museum. The lecture is free and open to the public. The museum is located at the corner of State and Cottage streets in Salem on the campus of Willamette University.


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Out of left field a little, but I'm in the middle of doing a computer swap right now. Some things have been a total pain in the ass in terms of data backup and getting it all put together in the new system.
The forum is pretty split between mac and pc users, so I thought asking everyone how they deal with their data seems like it'll give me a ton of ideas I haven't thought about.
I had used Carbonite to keep my client files backed up along with my photos. The only headache I have with Carbonite is that it's SO freaking slow, and a restore took literally 36 hours for like 15gb of stuff. Plus, if I move to another computer, it deletes all of the backed up files on their server after restoring your data from your old computer to the new one and then has to re-upload everything. You're looking at like several weeks at the rate this sucker uploads.
I've done the storage drive thing but there's two problems with that. The first one is that I don't want it on all the time, so I'll plug it in, back it up, then put it away. Which leads to the second problem – it's not truly secure. A fire or theft would render it worthless.
So I'm kind of back to some kind of cloud solution. I'm thinking of doing Dropbox and just opting for $10 a month and tossing all my client folders and photos on that thing. If I change computers I just install the software and it's all available. That might be the most viable but I was curious what other people are doing in case I'm totally overlooking something, or if someone's tried the dropbox thing and it didn't work out.
At some point I'm seriously considering moving over to a mac, but it'll probably hinge on either this or the next iteration of the mac mini or if I end up going with a macbook pro and pair it with my existing setup. So there's that additional cross platform issue :)
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Ipswich boss Paul Jewell has confirmed his interest in signing Aston Villa defender Habib Beye.
Jewell has been keen to bring a new right-back to the club since he replaced Roy Keane at the helm and missed out on a target recently when Pascal Chimbonda joined Championship leaders QPR.
Jewell has now turned his attention to Beye, who has made just seven league starts for Villa since joining from Newcastle in 2009.
He said: "We are trying to bring a couple of players into the squad, as I have been since I've been here.
"Habib Beye has been mentioned and I've spoken to Aston Villa and that's something I've been trying to do to improve the squad. But there's been nothing yet.
"He was in France [on Wednesday]. I hope he comes but I have not heard anything since Wednesday."
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Veterans used to travelling to downtown Miami for specialty care may now have another option for VA healthcare. By using technology like video-teleconferencing and secure email messaging, more than 23,000 Veterans in South Florida are getting care closer to home.
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Berkman named Astros MVP at baseball dinner
Berkman's comedy biggest hit at event
First baseman earns 5th Astros MVP Award
BRIAN McTAGGART, Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle | January 15, 2009
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleAstros first baseman Lance Berkman smiles during the Houston Baseball Dinner on Thursday. Berkman was awarded the 2008 team MVP trophy during the dinner.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleLynne Hohlfeld, widow of longtime Chronicle baseball writer Neil Hohfeld, smiles after she accepted the Fred Hartman Long and Meritorious Service Award for her late husband during the Houston Baseball Dinner on Thursday.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleLynne Hohlfeld, widow of longtime Chronicle baseball writer Neil Hohfeld, smiles after she accepted the Fred Hartman Long and Meritorious Service Award for her late husband during the Houston Baseball Dinner. Former Astros trainer Dave Labossiere, who introduced Hohfeld, stands in the background.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleAstros manager Cecil Cooper, left, and team owner Drayton McLane, Jr., talk to each other before the Houston Baseball Dinner.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleAstros pitcher Wesley Wright listens to speeches during the Houston Baseball Dinner. Wright was awarded the 2008 Astros Rookie of the Year award during the dinner.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleLos Angeles Dodgers first baseman James Loney holds his trophy after being awarded the Houston Area Major League Player of the Year during the Houston Baseball Dinner.
There were the usual reflections on the Astros' 2008 season and more than a few glimpses into what 2009 might hold in speeches by Astros owner Drayton McLane and manager Cecil Cooper.
But the 24th annual Houston Baseball Dinner on Thursday night at the Hilton Americas Convention Center Hotel was ruled by comedy. One-liners during the program were as common as line drives during a game at Minute Maid Park.
At the center of the fun was, not surprisingly, slugger Lance Berkman, who capped the night by being award the Astros' Most Valuable Player Award. But not before getting a few laughs from the crowd of more than 1,100.
"I want to thank (Cincinnati Reds pitcher) Bronson Arroyo for breaking Carlos Lee's finger because he would have been up here instead of me," said Berkman, who won his fifth team MVP award.
Berkman, who lauded Rice coach Wayne Graham, also poked some fun at the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
"All you have to do is mention Aggies to hear grown men whoop," Berkman said. "And if you want to make them cry, take them to an A&M football game."
As Berkman was receiving his award, James Loney of the Los Angeles Dodgers approached the podium and jokingly got his autograph. Loney, who played at Elkins, was the Houston Area Player of the Year only a few years after being honored at the dinner as a standout high school player.
"I have a teammate named Manny Ramirez, and no, I don't know when he's going to sign," Loney said.
Lefthander Wesley Wright, whom Berkman claimed his wife mistakenly thought was a batboy when their paths crossed on a team road trip, walked away with the Astros' Rookie of the Year at his first baseball dinner.
The night wasn't without its heartfelt moments as Lynne Hohlfeld, the wife of late Chronicle sports writer Neil Hohlfeld, accepted the Fred Hartman Long and Meritorious Service Award. The award was presented by long-time Astros athletic trainer Dave Labossiere, a close friend of Hohlfeld who retired following last season.
McLane, of course, spoke of his optimism about the upcoming season before leaving the dinner early for another engagement. That made Cooper a little uneasy.
"I said I wanted to talk about 2010 and 2011 as far as an extension (of his contract), and he said he had to go," said Cooper, who's entering the final year of his contract.
Meanwhile, Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton, who was the program emcee, announced he planned to work through 2012 and not retire after the 2010 season as he originally had planned.


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San Jose Super-Con 2007: Jim Lee
By Great White Snark | June 3, 2007
One of my few regrets in life is having sold on Ebay my collection of Uncanny X-Men comics penciled by Jim Lee. When I was a comic-collecting teen in the 1990s, celebrities in the comic book industry didn't get any bigger than Jim Lee. He's just crammed full of artistic talent that almost everyone seems to enjoy. Much like actor Will Smith… but more Asian. And not at all black. Or an actor.
Anyway, here's what Jim had to say:
He loved drawing and comic books as a kid. His dad wanted him to be a doctor, and Jim even got as far as going pre-med in college, but he ultimately decided to follow his passion. The end. (And we all lived happily ever after.) His early influences included a lot of mainstream artists like George Perez, John Byrne, and Frank Millar.
The lead designer of Cryptic Studios–developer of Marvel Comics' massively-multiplayer online game–was on hand to good-naturedly coax insider info out of Jim about his work on DC Comics' MMO. Jim and his company, Wildstorm (which was purchased by DC in 1998), are producing the concept art for the in-game characters (and environments?). Sounds like some of the settings in the game will definitely include Metropolis and Gotham.
There's no doubt Jim is the right man for this task… he's got the user-insights of a comic book creator and of a hard-core gamer. He plays first-person shooters to blow off steam and also had this to say:
I had the first Epic Sword on my [Everquest] server. Woohoo!
Responding to a question about what projects he'd like to work on, Jim indicated that he might work on a short story for Legion of Super-Heroes. He's also spoken with Brad Metzer about doing something for Justice League.
In answer to a question about his favorite fringe comic book characters, he named Matter-Eater Lad (power: to eat and digest matter in all of its forms) of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Good call. He also mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Bullet Head (i.e., the characters that had big, bullet-shaped domes on their heads) and Eunice the Untouchable(?).
UPDATE: Blog@Newsarama points out that it's Bulletman and Bulletgirl (duhr) and Unus the Untouchable .
Random trivia: He provided the voice a Sentinel in an episode of an X-Men cartoon. His line: "Stop, Mutie." He also provided the voice of a dude who gets run over in a Wild C.A.T.S. cartoon episode. Another two-liner: "Oh no!"
He jokingly named his one regret as his choice of band to perform the theme song to his short-lived Wild C.A.T.S. cartoon.
The throng of fans waiting for an autograph.
Illustrating a piece for a lucky fanboy.
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Civilization and Empire
China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society
By Shogo Suzuki
Routledge – 2009 – 272 pages
Series: New International Relations
Routledge – 2009 – 272 pages
Series: New International Relations
This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce 'civilization' to 'barbarous' polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan.
Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on 'civilising' 'barbarous' peoples – played a central role in its historic development. Considering how these elements of International Society affected China and Japan's entry into it, Shogo Suzuki contends that such states envisaged a Janus-faced International Society, which simultaneously aimed for cooperative relations among its 'civilized' members and for the introduction of 'civilization' towards non-European polities, often by coercive means. By examining the complex process by which China and Japan engaged with this dualism, this book highlights a darker side of China and Japan's socialization into International Society which previous studies have failed to acknowledge.
Drawing on Chinese and Japanese primary sources seldom utilized in International Relations, this book makes a compelling case for revising our understandings of International Society and its expansion. This book will be of strong interest to students and researcher of international relations, international history, European studies and Asian Studies.
"A refreshing view on the subject through its detailed analysis of elite writings in China and Japan between the 1860s and 1895. Suzuki's account of Chinese and Japanese reactions to Western literature is very informative. Indeed, what makes Suzuki's book stand out is that he studies international relations in East Asia through the eurocentric concept of European International Society but uses an asiacentric perspective. For this, he deserves a great deal of credit because too many publications still present China and Japan as passive powers which only reacted to the Western powers." - Ariane Knusel, Comparativ 22 (2012), Vol. 3
"How did contemporary international society develop? Suzuki provides a compelling account of its East Asian dimension. Shifting the English-school focus from 'society' to 'socialization', he shows how Japan absorbed lessons from its encounter with European society that were different from those learned by China, and included its imperial dimension. Rather than offer a Eurocentric narrative, Suzuki weaves together a rich indigenous tapestry. The result is a landmark study." - Ian Clark FBA, ESRC Professorial Fellow and E H Carr Professor, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK
"Suzuki succeeds magnificently at three levels with this book. It is, first, a major work of scholarship, using Japanese, Chinese and English language sources to reassess China and Japan's interaction with the West in the Nineteenth Century. Secondly, it offers the most nuanced analysis of Nineteenth Century international society to appear to date. Thirdly, it is an important development of the 'English School' argument that the international society concept provides an alternative (and more sophisticated) theoretical starting point for the study of international relations than the currently dominant Realist perspectives." - Professor David Armstrong, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK
"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate collections." - J. M. Peek, CHOICE (February 2010)
Introduction 1. Socialization into International Society 2. The East Asian International Society 3. Acquiring Knowledge: Chinese and Japanese Perceptions of European International Society 4. Learning the Competence and Skill to be a 'Civilized' State: State Reconfiguration in China 5. Learning the Competence and Skill to be a 'Civilized' State: State Reinvention in Japan 6. Demonstrating 'Civilized' Identity: Dismantling the Tribute System. Conclusion.
Shogo Suzuki is lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on International Relations with reference to East Asia, Chinese and Japanese foreign policy and Sino-Japanese relations.
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You've got to start thinking that Jenson Button's so lucky there's no way he can end the season as anything other than World Drivers' Champion.
The day started out looking miserable for Button, but thanks to fate and some stunning laps when he needed them, Jenson's ended the day stretching his lead over teammate and championship rival Rubens Barrichello.
Rubens is now 15 points behind Jenson, with only three races to go.
But however much luck paid a part in Button's result today, you can't take it away from him that he managed to drive from 11th on the grid to fifth at the flag. That's an impressive stat. And with Mark Webber dropping out of the race, and Sebastian Vettel only coming in one place ahead of Button, the Red Bull's charge is diminishing.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was domineering at the front, pretty much for the entire race, leading from pole to take the win. When you think how off the pace the MP4-24 was at the beginning of the season, it's quite some feat for the Woking team.
Toyota got a great result with second for Timo Glock, who didn't put a foot wrong all day, and Renault finally had some good news with a third for Fernando Alonso.
I can't help but wonder how someone's going to work out that Renault teammate Romain Grosjean's retirement somehow helped Alonso to third place. Conspiracy theory's are rife at the moment…
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WORCESTER, Mass. - Sophomores Peter Dwyer (Keene, N.Y.) and Tom Gallant (Scotia, N.Y.), members of the Holy Cross men's rowing team, participated in the 2009 U.S. National Team Freshman Camp during the summer. The camp, which took place from June 14-July 11, featured 17 freshmen rowers from across the country. Dwyer participated in the camp's sessions at the Pennsylvania Athletic Club in Philadelphia, Pa., while Gallant traveled to the California Rowing Club in Oakland, Calif.
During the 2008-2009 season, Dwyer and Gallant were both part of the Holy Cross freshman eight. Their boat finished in 18th place at the Eastern Sprints, in addition to posting an 18th place finish at the Green Monster Regatta. The freshman eight also had an impressive six-second victory over Bucknell during the regular season.
The National Team Freshman Camp is for athletes with elite-level potential and aspirations, who are freshmen in college or have only one or two years of rowing experience. The goal is to provide an intensive experience to expose athletes to sculling and small-boat rowing, learn technical and physiological basics and train with athletes of a similar caliber. This camp is for the young athlete that has physiological potential and the desire to learn more about the national team.
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STRATHMORE University teams levelled the play off series 1-1 after winning their Nairobi Basketball Association (NBA) Game Two matches at Railways Club.
In the men's finals Blades beat Equity 58-49 to level the best of 5 series 1-all. Equity took the first two quarters 14-12 and 16-10 in this tough encounter. The students then recovered to claim the last two 25-12 and 11-7.
Bill Nyagosia played a key role with 10 points as did Peter Shilton for Strath. Hugh Ayara sunk 14, George Omenda bagged 16 points, Ian Wachiye shot 13 and Victor Musyoka 10 for Equity.
The women's final saw Strathmore whip Kenyatta University "Oryx" 46-22 to also tie the seris 1-1. The winners did their home work well keeping KU key players at bay most of the time. They led in all the four quarters 11-8, 6-3, 12-4 and 17-7.
Mid way through the last quarter, they shot two back to back three pointers from player/coach Sylvia Kamau and Susan Manya to make the scores 38-21 and from there it was only one team.
Manya had 15 points, Manuela Biel scored nine and Pauline Oketch hit seven. For the losers, Susan Kinyua had eight and six each came from Marial Ayen and Bettie Kananu.
Games three and four will be played this weekend at the same venue. Meanwhile United States International University (USIU) torched host African Nazarene University 76-10 in a one sided University and Colleges league match over the weekend.
Nancy Atieno was the main star for the Flames as she bagged a game high 20 points for the winners who had taken a strong 34-2 lead at half time.
Strathmore University whipped Catholic University of Eastern Africa (Cuea) 58-19 behind Quinter Odongo's 18 points. Usiu Tigers mauled Multi Media University (MMU) 40-27 as Evans letting scored 18 points.
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Prism by Katy Perry. Katy Perry follows up the record-breaking success of her Teenage Dream album, which spawned five number one singles, with a highly anticipated new release. Features the single Roar.
Frame by Frame by Cassadee Pope. Cassadee Pope won over millions of TV viewers to win the third season of The Voice. Three of her performances rose to the top of the iTunes charts. Now she unveils her solo debut, which includes the single Wasting All These Tears.
Let's Be Still by the Head and the Heart. Having gained confidence following the release of their 2010 debut, The Head and the Heart build upon their breakaway success with the release of their sophomore album, which showcases their musical growth. Includes the single Shake.
Mechanical Bull by the Kings of Leon. After three years of touring and working on other projects, Kings of Leon are set to release their sixth studio album. The album was recorded in the band's Nashville studio and includes the single Supersoaker.
Nothing Was the Same by Drake. The Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum hip-hop superstar's third full-length album features the single Hold On, We're Going Home. The single coasts along on his hypnotic R&B crooning, bringing together an unforgettable hook with silky and seductive soundscapes. It follows the hit single Started from the Bottom, which peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.
Paradigm Shift by Korn. Korn moves away from the dub step and rock fusion of 2011's The Path of Totality while promising to fuse their dual guitar sound with a fresh approach to electronics. The album also marks the return of guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch.


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Robert Souris, Guinness world record attempt: Hollywood goes for longest forward jump flip
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Robert Souris is flipping for joy.
The reason? The children's entertainer from Hollywood is confident that his third attempt to beat the Guinness world record for the longest forward jump flip will stick.
Souris, 29, has attempted to better the world record on each of the last two July Fourth holidays but has failed, mostly for technical reasons.
On Wednesday, Souris was once again in front of a crowd of children and parents at the Florida Triple Threat All-Stars gymnasium in Davie where he teaches.
"Success!" Souris proclaimed with confidence on Thursday believing that his third attempt was the lucky charm.
His jump was measured at 19-feet, 11.5-inches after he hurled his body off the purple mat, propelled himself forward, flipped mid air and stuck the landing. If official, it would beat the current world record of 19-feet, 7-inches held by Hasit Savani of London.
But it takes more than luck to woo the folks at Guinness.
To earn the coveted Guinness recognition, record seekers are required to document their feats in an application process that includes photos, video, local media coverage clips, notarized witness statements and more.
In 2010, Souris completed a hearty jump but it was bettered before his application was complete. And last year he was unable to submit the photographs necessary to support his claim,
"This year we had it down to a science," Souris said.
It will take several weeks before Souris learns if he is a world record jump flipper.
Self taught in acrobatics, Souris said he wants to show children what can be achieved from staying fit and active.
"Maybe 10 years down the road it will be someone I trained breaking my record. That'll be the day," said Souris.
When not teaching, entertaining or attempting world records, Souris gets occasional gigs in films.
Recently he was Adam G. Sevani's stunt double for his character "Moose's" in the movie "Step Up Revolution," a movie about dancing set in Miami that's scheduled to be released later this month.


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So development of a secure communications channel utilizing quantum crypto being inherently susceptible to a denial of service condition due to specialized hardware necessary for transmission which would have to wait for someone to stop listening before re-generating key pairs then transmitting?
I hope this is not in development to replace the 911 infrastructure or monetary data transmissions on a winder scale until that is addressed.
Perhaps a fiber switch/router hardware solution to allow switched routes and the necessary attenuation needed?


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I felt Paserman's analysis was just a rediscovery of a small part of what Friedrich List was saying in the early 19th century, well before Karl Marx.
He proposed a three-stage economic model. First open up to simple trade, to get the economy started. Then put up protectionist barriers, to let infant industries grow strong. Finally open up to world trade when you are ready.
Adam Smith said that Britain industrialised despite having strong protectionism in the relevant period (mostly reckoned as 1760 to 1830). List said that Britain needed protectionism, that the US was right to be protectionist in that era and that Germany should do the same. Which they did, industrialising under Bismarck.
Given the accuracy of List's predictions, it is odd that he gets overlooked.
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Many NIAID labs are engaged in adjuvant research. Investigators from the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, and Laboratory of Systems Biology are collaborating on a special program in vaccine adjuvants. This research program aims to identify the steps in the immune response that contribute to long-lasting, vaccine-induced antibody levels. The scientists are evaluating a diverse panel of candidate adjuvants and antigens in mouse and monkey models and in people. In addition, several labs are conducting and participating in adjuvant studies.
The Laboratory of Immunology (LI) studies the effects of adjuvants and adjuvanted vaccine antigens on the behavior of immune cells. LI researchers have tested interleukin 1 (IL-1), a chemical messenger of the immune system, as an adjuvant in vaccines directed against various pathogens. For example, they showed in mice that IL-1 can enhance the effectiveness of safe but inefficient vaccines against fungal infection.
Researchers in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases evaluate in mice and monkeys adjuvanted vaccines against Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis and is associated with several cancers.
The Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology incorporates adjuvant studies into its vaccine development program, with the goal of enhancing the effectiveness of malaria vaccine candidates.
Researchers in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases investigate how adjuvants stimulate certain types of immune responses. In 2013, they studied in mice how Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA) promotes a certain T cell response and identified the cellular mechanisms underlying CFA's adjuvant activity. CFA is an oil-in-water emulsion that elicits potent immune responses but is not used in human studies because of its severe side effects. Understanding how CFA boosts the immune system could help scientists develop less toxic adjuvants that promote similar protective immune responses.
Scientists in the Laboratory of Systems Biology (LSB) study signaling through innate immune receptors and build models to illustrate how a cell develops an appropriate immune response. Looking closely at the action of individual immune cells and cell-to-cell variations may help researchers examine the effects of adjuvants on various cell types.
In collaboration with their colleagues at the trans-NIH Center for Human Immunology (CHI), LSB researchers are using various experimental techniques to characterize the state of the immune system in healthy people, called the "normal immunome." These data may lead to new insights into the workings of the human immune system, which in turn could help scientists design novel immune-stimulating adjuvants.
LSB scientists and their CHI colleagues have identified a combination of pre-vaccination cell populations that can predict responses to influenza vaccination. Some of these predictors could potentially be useful for adjuvant research. The scientists plan to further evaluate these predictors in a clinical trial aimed at analyzing the effects of various adjuvants on human responses to a candidate H5N1 influenza vaccine. Read more about this research in NIH Scientists Model Immune Variation and Responses to Flu Vaccination.
The Vaccine Research Center (VRC) is conducting preclinical studies on the incorporation of known and investigational adjuvants into HIV vaccine candidates. This research encompasses a thorough analysis of how different immune adjuvants can influence the magnitude, durability, and function of HIV immune responses.
VRC scientists also are testing a two-step immunization strategy called heterologous prime-boost immunization. In this strategy, attenuated viral vector vaccines are given in sequence with adjuvanted vaccines containing protein antigens to enhance protective immune responses. Specifically, researchers are testing these novel prime-boost regimens to create a "universal" flu vaccine that could neutralize multiple strains of the influenza virus, as well as vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
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The interaction of CBL0137 with FACT (Facilitates Chromatin Transcription) complex results in simultaneous NF-kB suppression, Heat Shock Factor 1 suppression and p53 activation. This modulation of three key cellular pathways causes suppression of cancer cell growth. CBL0137 has been shown in preclinical studies to have a beneficial effect in multiple solid tumor animal models.
Two Phase 1 trials with different administrations of CBL0137 are currently ongoing:
A study evaluating intravenous administration of CBL0137 in patients with metastatic or unresectable advanced solid cancers and lymphomas was initiated in August 2013. For more information on this trial, please refer to Clinicaltrials.gov: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01905228?term=CBL0137&rank=1
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REDD+ could fail without near-term financial supportRhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
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Deforestation in Riau Province, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.
The report, released last week, looks at the projected gap between supply and demand for emissions reductions generated under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation program (REDD+). It finds that if an E.U. target for a 50 percent reduction in tropical deforestation by 2020 is to be met, current commitments would effectively fund only three percent of that amount, leaving a shortfall of 97 percent. That means developing countries would see only a fraction of the financial incentive they would otherwise expect for cutting deforestation before 2020, when REDD+ emissions reductions could start being used to meet compliance obligations.
"There is currently no source of demand that will pay for medium to long-term emission reductions from REDD+ in the period between 2015 and 2020," states the report. "This problem seriously threatens the successful implementation of REDD+, because without interim demand there will be little or no incentive for forest countries to participate and redirect resources towards REDD+, or for the private sector to invest."
"Large-scale demand for REDD+ emission reductions is expected to materialize only after a global compliance market comes in to existence, under the auspices of UNFCCC, in the year 2020," said Nick Oakes, Finance Programme Manager at the Global Canopy Programme, in a statement.
The report makes a case for a suite of near-term interventions, including donor governments buying billions of dollars in REDD+ emissions reductions, setting a price floor for REDD+ credits to reduce uncertainty and encourage private sector investment, and providing loans. It says financial and technical assistance could be provided through existing multilateral funds, like those managed by the World Bank, and new public private partnerships.
"Without a financial incentive in the interim period, tropical forest countries and the private sector have little motivation to invest the necessary political, human and financial capital in REDD+. Funding therefore has to be scaled up rapidly, to provide incentives in the fast-approaching interim period," states the report. "A performance-based financial incentive, providing clear price signals to all counter-parties, will improve the risk-return profile of REDD+ investments, leverage private sector capital, match the goals of global REDD+ policy with the scale of funding needed to achieve those goals, and retain the political momentum of forest country governments."
Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.
Deforestation and forest degradation account for roughly a tenth of carbon emissions from human activities. A handful countries — Brazil, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Malaysia — account for the bulk of emissions from tropical forest loss.
REDD+ has been under development for the better part of a decade. The concept gained momentum during 2005 climate talks in Montreal, advanced during the 2007 COP in Bali, and was officially approved during negotiations in Poland last November.
CITATION: Global Canopy Programme (GCP), the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Fauna & Flora International (FFI), and the UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). "Stimulating Interim Demand for REDD+ Emission Reductions: The Need for a Strategic Intervention from 2015 to 2020. A report of the Interim Forest Finance (IFF) Project. January 2014
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Love & Hip Hop ATL: New Cast Member Is Diamond? Or NOT!
I received an e-mail claiming that Diamond, former member of Crime Mob, and some teen age boy named KyTrell Kassidy were spotted around Atlanta filming scenes for Season 2 of Love & Hip-Hop ATL. I don't think it's true, read why below.
I don't know how many blogs this e-mail was sent to. BUT…Since it doesn't destroy any careers, why not post it. Someone wants you to know *whispers KyTrell* that:
Season two of VH1 "Love & Hip Hop is filming! I live in Atlanta and seen some of the cast filming scenes at Mexican restaurant. I seen two new cast members it look like that girl Diamond who always with Soulja Boy and a teenage boy who look around 16 or 17 years old. I wanted to say hi to them but they had security and camera crew all around them. But the good thing about it is the teenage boy went to the bathroom and I ask him was he on the show, he said just a supporting cast member and is a actor who Stevie J will mentor. I Google the kid and its legit! His name was KyTrell Kassidy. So there is two new cast members.
Honestly, sounds like a ploy to get a mention on the blogs, but it's a slow news day, so why not? Especially since the name of the person who sent the e-mail to me happens to be "KyTRell M". *Side Note* I think you're suppose to use an anonymous e-mail address when doing this. Can't knock the hustle even if its a bit thirsty. I also like how MTO is included on the e-mail as well. Oh my! I think this kid may have edited the LHHATL's Wikipedia page, too. SMH! This is what bloggers have to deal with. All I want to know is Why?
Guess Who? Reality Star School Pic…
Can you guess the reality star pictured below in this 8th grade school picture with the throw back vest? I can tell you one thing, she actually looks younger now that she did when she was a kid. Need another hint, she was never a wife.
Give up…continue reading for the answer!
Cops In Tyler Perry Racial Profiling Case Cleared Of Charges
Earlier this year in April, I reported a story about Tyler Perry being stopped by two white officers in Atlanta. He retold the story on his Facebook page, feeling that he was unjustly racially profiled for the stop. It seems that the Atlanta Police Department did an internal investigation of the case and have been cleared, according to CNN.
The report said the officers were working for the auto theft task force and one thought Perry's $110,000 sports car was similar to one on a list of stolen cars. The officer said that as he turned around Perry made the illegal turn.
Chad Johnson Officially Charged For Last Month's Arrest
According to Entertainment Tonight, Chad Johnson has officially been charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic battery. Chad was arrested after getting into an argument with wife Evelyn Lozada.
Chad is apparently expected to enter a plea of 'not guilty' this morning. Especially since a conviction of this charge could result in one year of jail time.
Protected: So Charlamagne Slept With Memphitz, Too…LOL
Ariane from Love & Hip-Hop ATL, you know Mimi's best friend, hits-up The Breakfast Club where she has one the most authentic and open interviews I've seen in a minute. Not only does she talk about K Michelle and Memphitz, Ariane also reveals that she once "dated" Memphitz, by dating I don't really mean "date". She also talks about busting out windows and getting slapped…You have to watch the interview to understand.
But the best part of the interview is when Charlamagne reveals that he saw Memphitz last week in LA in a gay bar . Angela Yee then accuses Charlamagne of sleeping with Memphitz, too. Hilarious! That's exactly how rumors get started…But why is Memphitz at the Standard Hotel in LA alone? I think Ariane knows something because she is filling in the blanks. (Skip to the 7:48 mark)…
P.S. - Charlamagne also reveals this little secret…well I guess it's not a secret anymore…
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