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Guest Post: Hayden Hartland works at Spearstone, makers of Spearstone's DiskAgent offering which provides a multi-platform approach to smartphone security by allowing lock, data-wipe, and GPS-tracking from any web-browser along with online backup for your business.
Breathtaking advances in smartphone capabilities are changing the ways we work and live. In their latest forms, phones such as the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Symbian, and Palm are beginning to rival, and in several areas (think GPS, camera and video) exceed the capabilities of laptops and desktops.
Increasingly, we email, keep contacts, track tasks and appointments, browse the internet, capture family moments, connect with friends, shop, and even run powerful business apps from our hand-held do-it-alls. No wonder then that surveys show some people giving up computers altogether for smartphones. Trends indicate smartphone sales and usage will exceed that of laptops in the next five years. Analysts describe a future where Smartphones that dock to keyboards and monitors obsolesce the laptop altogether.
The problem is that while smartphones are leapfrogging laptops and desktops in utility and connectivity, they have introduced security risks that too few take seriously. Unlike desktops and laptops where some of the biggest risks lie in viruses, and the eventual failure of spinning hard drives, the biggest risk with a smartphone is the loss and exposure of the information you store on it.
More than 5,000 smartphones are lost or stolen each day. Most smartphones hold thousands of confidential records – patient lists, emails, documents, medical records, patient payment records, and so on – yet there is little or no ability to prevent their compromise if your phone is lost or stolen. Many were carried by healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, dentists, office managers, billing providers, support staff, and so on) whose information represents real risk to their practices and patients if compromised.
Next time you notice a staff member, equipment rep, supply rep or any BAA using a smartphone, consider asking, "Are our emails accessible on that phone?" and "If you lose it, can anyone access them on the phone?" If you are a medical professional carrying a smartphone you need protection because odds are that eventually you will lose your phone. Furthermore, HIPAA, the FTC and state consumer organizations require notification of all patients of a data breach (not exactly good for any practice or healthcare business).
Current phones and typical user practices do a poor job of safeguarding your confidential information. While many smartphones can require a password or PIN number to use them, few of us can tolerate the hassle of actually using one. We simply use our phones too frequently to put up with it. Yet without one, we're completely exposed. And while a phone password may protect your information in the case of loss, it can't stop someone with phone hacking skills who wants to access your information.
Here are some practical tips you can employ to reduce your risks:
- Create a passcode for your phone. If you (like me) hate being pestered by it, set it to be required after 4 or 8 hours, so that you only need to enter it once or twice a day. If your phone is stolen and locked the thief will either need to hack your phone or reset the phone to factory settings thereby removing all the data in the process.
- Create a splash screen when your phone is locked displaying a contact phone number or email address and reward value. Consider etching your name and contact information somewhere on the phone.
- Remove sensitive information from your phone as soon as possible.
- Write down your IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number. If your phone is stolen, call your carrier immediately and ask them to deactivate the IMEI number and the phone will be rendered inoperable for calling on all networks. This ensures the phone is unusable although it doesn't protect any unencrypted information on your phone.
Fortunately, a few larger clinics and hospitals are beginning to address these concerns. If yours is a larger practice with a Blackberry Enterprise server and or Exchange Mail Server and your users exclusively use the corresponding phones (Blackberries, and Windows Mobile devices), you can remotely remove emails and some other sensitive information in the event of a loss or theft. Other alternatives are to deploy encryption software or use the expensive MobileMe services provided by Apple. For other organizations, Spearstone's DiskAgent offering provides a multi-platform approach to smartphone security by allowing lock, data-wipe, and GPS-tracking from any web-browser.


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Cellular repair could reduce premature aging
Researchers have identified a potential drug therapy for a premature ageing disease that affects children causing them to age up to eight times as fast as the usual rate.
The study is the first to outline how to limit and repair DNA damage defects in cells and could provide a model for understanding processes that cause us to age.
The findings could have significant benefits, such as reducing degeneration of some tissues in older age, and could assist health management in countries, including the UK, where average life expectancy is extending, according to the researchers.
The first results of the 18-month study, led by Durham University, are published in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.
Researchers looked at a group of inherited degenerative disorders called Laminopathies that are caused by mutations in the gene LMNA. The most severe disorders linked to mutation in this gene include Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), a fatal disease that causes premature ageing in children.
The Durham University and University of Bologna team used in-vitro models and molecular imaging techniques to measure levels of oxidative stress and DNA damage in cells. Oxidative stress relates to the dynamics of cells and the body's ability to detoxify and repair itself. When cells are stressed, levels of highly reactive molecules known as reactive oxygen species (ROS) can increase dramatically. This can result in significant damage to cell structures and to DNA which is one underlying cause of premature ageing and standard ageing.
The team monitored changes in thousands of 'crinkly', damaged cells after administering NAC, a widely-used and well-tolerated drug. They found that while this drug did not affect some aspects of cell stress that are effectively controlled by currently used drugs, it very effectively controlled ROS generation and DNA damage. The results suggest that administration of NAC in combination with currently used drugs might improve the health of children with progeria.
Professor Chris Hutchison, a member of the Biophysical Sciences Institute, Durham University, said: "In children with progeria, we can see that double-strand breaks in the DNA architecture of cells increase which in turn adds to poor rates of cell growth. Our treatment of these cells with the drug N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) reversed both of these effects.
"Mutations in the LMNA gene cause more diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, than any other that we know. We've found that DNA damage can be controlled and our findings could be an important step to helping both children with progeria and older people to live lives that are less debilitating in terms of health problems."
The researchers said their findings were at an early stage and further studies and human clinical trials would be needed to develop effective drug treatments.
Professor Hutchison added: "We are using a careful approach that will look at patients with progeria to see if there's a model that can be used for wider medicine. It would be great to find a way to help relieve some of the effects of progeria and to extend the children's lives, whilst also finding a way to help increasingly ageing populations in many parts of the world.
"The findings are at a very early stage but they show the potential for helping people to live more comfortable and less painful lives when they reach 70 and 80 years of age and beyond."
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome "Progeria" or "HGPS" is a rare, fatal genetic condition characterized by an appearance of accelerated aging in children. Progeria has a reported incidence of about 1 in 4 - 8 million newborns from all over the world. It affects both sexes equally and all races. Although they are born looking healthy, children with Progeria begin to display many characteristics of accelerated aging at around 18-24 months of age.
Progeria signs include growth failure, loss of body fat and hair, aged-looking skin, stiffness of joints, hip dislocation, generalized atherosclerosis, cardiovascular (heart) disease and stroke. The children have a remarkably similar appearance, despite differing ethnic backgrounds. Children with Progeria die of atherosclerosis (heart disease) at an average age of thirteen years (with a range of about 8 21 years).
Dr. Leslie Gordon, Medical Director for The Progeria Research Foundation, said: "Dr. Hutchison's study has not only confirmed basic cellular defects in Progeria, but has also identified potential ways to improve those defects. This type of biological science is how progress towards treatments and a cure for children with Progeria will advance."
The research could also provide a model for the future for tailoring treatments and dosages of drugs to the individual and therefore improving patient health where drugs are administered.
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INDIA: Jharkhand tribal groups up in arms against projects
Tribal outfits and political parties in mineral-rich Kolhan region of Jharkhand are up in arms against development projects, including industries, fearing they would result in large scale displacement of inhabitants and loss of their sources of livelihood.
Salkhan Murmu, the chief convenor of Advasi Adhikar Morcha, said AAM will file a public interest litigation in the Jharkhand high court by November-end against the investors' move to acquire tribal land for the proposed industries.
The outfits and parties, including Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, have launched a series of agitations and demonstrations protesting the memorandum of understanding signed between the Jharkhand government and prospective investors since the creation of the state in 2000.
The Jharkhand government has drawn flak from the opposition camp as well as the tribal groups ever since it started signing MoUs for setting up units in the mineral-abundant state.
A massive demonstration was organised recently by various organisations, including Bhoomi Raksha Gramin Ekta Manch, Moolvasi Adhikar Morcha, Adivasi Adhikar Morcha and Jharkhand mines area co-ordinations committee in the district head-quarters in Kolhan region comprising of east and west Singhbhum and Saraikela-Kharswan to oppose the projects.
District administrations have, however, been trying to convice the villagers that the development of the state was not possible without investments and projects.
According to Xavier Dias, spokesperson of JMCC, the Jharkhand government had signed over 42 MoUs with investors including Mittal Steel, Tata Steel, Jindal Steel and Power Company Limited worth about Rs1,69,198.26 crore ever since the Jharkhand state was carved out five years ago.
Dias claimed approximately 47.445 acres of land will be required for the projects in Kolhan Region, which was likely to affect about 10,000 families and cause deforestation of 57.15 km land.
While the tribal organisations have adopted an aggressive posture vowing to sacrifice their lives to protect their land rather than vacate it for development projects, JMM advocated promotion of agriculture sector and agro-based industries in the state.
Addressing a massive 'ulgulan' (revolution) rally in Chaibasa, head-quarter of west Singhbhum district, on Tuesday, JMM chief Shibu Soren called on tribals to be prepared to sacrifice their lives to protect their "Jal, jungle, jamin' (water, forest and land) and charged the Jharkhand government was bent upon "displacing them from their own lands on the pretext of development".
Soren demanded a proper rehabilitation policy before any displacement.
He threatened to launch padyatras (marches) across the state against the "anti-people" approach of the government and said it should promote agriculture sectors and small scale industries instead of big industries, if it was really serious about development of the state.
Like Soren, Salkhan Murmu, the chief convenor of AAM, which has been organising rallies and demonstrations across the state to mount pressure on the Jharkhand government to implement panchayat (extension to schedule area) Act,1996 (pesa-1996), said AAM was not opposed to development of Jharkhand, but certainly not at the cost of tribals' interest.
Murmu suggested that land owners ready to vacate their land for the industries be made share-holders in the proposed company with ownership right of their land in return of their approval for setting up the industries. He said hundreds of adivasi families have been leading a miserable lives and are forced to migrate to other states in search of livelihood after they had been displaced from their own lands for development projects in the past.
"In fact, Jharkhand does not need big industries for the next two decades, but the agriculture sector and agro-based industries need to be promoted for the benefit of tribal masses," Murmu, a former parliamentarian, said.
Murmu advocated an honourable "rehabilitation act" in the state instead of a rehabilitation policy, which had been "proved anti-tribal" in the last five decades.
The tribal leader said any forcible acquisition of tribal land in the scheduled area will be violation of the Constitution as well as the 1997 judgement of the Supreme Court on a case between an non governmental organisation 'Samatha' and Andhra Pradesh government.
Various organisations have announced their course of action against the development projects in the region.
Bhumi Raksha Gramin Ekta Manch alongwith AAM, Moolvasi Adhikar Manch have announced a 'janata curfew' in Kolhan belt in protest against the possible ground-breaking ceremonies to be performed by investors.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shailendra Mahato, who is also the president of the Lok Adhikar Morcha, has declared that not an inch of land will be given to investors for setting up their plants and threatened to launch 'Jamin Chipko Andolan' from November 20.
Mahato said the movement will begin from Tentaposhi in Saraikela-Kharswan district where Tata Steel has proposed to set up a 12 million green field integrated steel plant at a cost of Rs 53,000 crore in phases.
Mahato expressed apprehension that residents of two villages, which were likely to be acquired by the Tata Steel for its new plant, would be rendered homeless and their livelihood snatched as the Jharkhand government did not have any concrete rehabilitation policy as yet.
He said Jharkhand government should rather focus on backward districts like Simdega, Gumla, Latehar and Santhal Paragan region where development projects were necessary.
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I don't know about you, but I love to visit college towns. They are perpetually injected with youth and the funky vibe that comes from college coeds. And as all things "vintage" become trendier, college towns are really turning into hotbeds of places to thrift for cool, unusual, or wonderfully seasoned secondhand pieces. So, revisiting Knoxville, Tennessee moved to the top of my junkin' journey list! Home to University of Tennessee's main campus, it's a fun mountain town that boasts a LOT of thrifting and antiques-shopping options.
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As the name suggests, this shoe from Under Armour has been designed in collaboration with Jordan Spieth – and it certainly doesn't disappoint with it being one of the most stable shoes we've ever seen.
Softspike Silver Tornado cleats on the sole improve traction from the Spieth 2, with the lower profile almost making it feel like your feet are gripping the ground itself. A waterproof membrane releases perspiration while keeping out additional moisture at the same time.
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UT wants to globalize Longhorn brand
AUSTIN - Twenty years ago, the University of Texas committed an act many felt fell between the absurd and the sacrilegious: The Longhorns turned to corporations for sponsorship and support, setting a national trend that changed college athletics throughout the country.
Two decades later, awash in the cash that flowed into the Longhorns' coffers as a result, new athletic director Steve Patterson said he doesn't merely want to alter UT's world again. He wants to expand it. Patterson wants the Longhorns to become an international brand. There's a new market to discover.
"Do I think we're maxed out? Absolutely not," said Patterson, who replaced DeLoss Dodds as athletic director last November. "College athletics is a largely underleveraged asset. The potential here is even bigger than I expected."
Patterson isn't the first to see the upside of selling college sports overseas. More than a decade ago at Oregon, sports marketing expert Rick Burton helped the Ducks and Nike initiate engagement with a university in China.
But the Ducks do not have the power of the Longhorns, Burton said.
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UT and its sponsors
Corporate sponsorships at the University of Texas athletics department start at around $300,000. The six deals worked out between the school and the sponsor make up 34.9 percent of what it received from sponsorships for the 2012-13 school year.
Companies: Gatorade, Easton Sports, Nike USA, Coca-Cola, University Federal Credit Union, TYR Sport
Revenue from deals: $5,770,000 1 The other deals representing the other 65.1 percent of the sponsorship revenue, are worked out between IMG College, which represents more than 200 college properties, and the sponsors. Companies: American Campus Communities, AT&T, Clear Channel Austin, Coca-Cola, Muscle Milk, Equipment Depot, H-E-B, Lowe's, Pizza Hut, RICOH, SiriusXM, Southwest Airlines, St. David's HealthCare, Stubhub, UPS.
Revenue from deals: $10,768,582.40 Total sponsorship: $16,538,582.40
"Of all the programs in the United States, the University of Texas is one of only a handful that could think about doing this," said Burton, now a sports management professor at Syracuse. "Texas, Ohio State, Michigan - these are some of the biggest brands in our American sports culture.
"Why can't they become international brands like the Yankees or 49ers?"
Sponsorship explosion
In 1994, UT wasn't even selling its brand in Austin. Only a few colleges nationwide were even considering the idea of going corporate at that point, and the ones dipping their toes into the sponsorship pool did so cautiously.
The Longhorns needed money, though. To comply with Title IX, they had three new women's sports - soccer, softball and rowing - to fund, and their facilities all desperately required improvements.
Over the course of about three years, then-athletic director DeLoss Dodds and director of external services Chris Plonsky crafted a plan to generate new revenue, and in 1997 they benefited from two big breaks. First, UT regents changed rules regarding solicitation and distribution on campus, making it possible for the Longhorns to sell companies the use of their logo. Second, UT hired football coach Mack Brown, who rejuvenated the program on the field and on the fundraising circuit.
Initially, UT was going to cap it at six official sponsors, but it soon learned companies couldn't wait to associate themselves with the Longhorns. Texas filled those six spots within the first two years, and its stable of sponsors has grown ever since.
Texas led the nation last year with $165.7 million in athletics revenue, $22.3 million ahead of second-place Alabama. In the athletic department's recently released 2012-13 report, UT listed $33.4 million in royalties, advertising, sponsorship and media rights. Much of that came from selling third-tier media rights to the Longhorn Network, which also broke new ground nationally.
A document obtained from the university through a public records request shows that $16.5 million came specifically through 20 corporate sponsorships.
And in 2013-14, the department has added three more corporate sponsorships - two-year deals with Chevrolet and MillerCoors and a three-year deal with the Hershey Company.
Patterson said the Longhorns have the capacity to resonate further and attract even more big-brand partners. To do it, he said they need to start thinking more like some of his former employers.
Patterson spent more than 20 years working as a professional sports executive, including stints with the Houston Texans and Houston Rockets.
He said even though "the emotional attachment people have to their university is far greater than what they have for pro sports," college athletic departments haven't done a great job of capitalizing on it.
"You haven't had the same kind of interactive, cross-promotional, deeply activated sponsorship programs that you find more commonly in pro sports," Patterson said. "We can do a better job of activating markets around the world."
South of the border?
One of Patterson's most attention-grabbing ideas for activating foreign markets is staging neutral-site college events in places they traditionally haven't been hosted. One proposal? A UT football game in Mexico City, the advantages of which would be immense, according to Patterson.
When he worked for the Rockets, he said, NBA executives told him he was crazy for pitching a game in Mexico City. But he saw an untapped new market, with 8.8 million people and more than 100,000 millionaires, according to a study by Wealth Insight. Now, the NBA has made trips to Mexico a priority.
Patterson said he has no intention of giving up UT home games to play out of the country and that the Longhorns would need the right partner to make it work. The bottom line, he said, is that athletic directors can't afford to get stuck in an outdated way of thinking.
"People are experiencing sports differently," Patterson said. "We have to work with engagement. We'll need to grow our brand internationally. We'll expand what we do not just in English but in other languages."
If it sounds like a stretch to think a college program can develop fans in places where the people have no connection to the university, experts say it shouldn't. Burton, the sports marketing professor, said Patterson's vision is not unlike what has happened with English Premier League soccer in the United States. Even though there are no traditional ties to that league here, it's taking a foothold.
"All kinds of Americans are saying they're Arsenal fans," Burton said.
Other programs besides UT are seeing the benefits of expanding their borders. Notre Dame has played two football games in Ireland. UCLA has stand-alone retail stores in China. Multiple college basketball programs have played exhibition games in Europe and Asia.
Patterson faces many challenges in his new position, challenges similar to those that sparked the initial UT corporate boom.
Within the next decade, a new arena will need to be built to replace the Erwin Center, which will be demolished to make way for a UT medical center.
And the Longhorns will expect to keep raking in more money. As much of a financial behemoth as its athletic department is, its $165.7 million in 2012-13 revenue represented just a $2.4 million increase over the previous year, its smallest jump in a decade.
To keep the budget trending upward, Patterson said UT will need to keep looking for more corporate sponsorships, more international market expansion and more ways to take advantage of digital technology.
And in the end, Patterson said, he's not simply selling the UT football or basketball teams. He's selling everything about being a Longhorn.
"You look at the strategy of how you leverage the brand for the university as a whole," Patterson said. "You can use the sporting events as a platform to better tell our story."


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This exhibition is based in a research regarding new ways of thinking science fiction which we live between artistic production democratized by new technologies and curatorial research. Photographers that share images in the flickr internet network and who virtually meet in a globalized context sharing local images of a country that one might recognize as being Portugal. Exhibition of photographic images in digital forma of ways of look: roads, people at cafes, loves, cars, abandoned factories with sea and sky always present. The territory we draw today doesn't bring borders, but an enlightenment that distinguishes itself from other geographies; Authors without first name, without signature, the work of art to be found within an invented name and real as the fiction which we live in our day by day between facebooks and video-conferences; This is the portrait of a country who thinks its Present from a distance, with the clarity that this doesn't allow to have. We don't sign a collective story, but we keep in a virtual memory, the images that we built through our passage by a real territory. Os Sem Nome are all of us, but their portrait still might be unknown to us.
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Will Chris Webber Decide Who Wins the 2007 NBA Title?Stop me if you've heard this story before: an All-Star power forward wears out his welcome with several teams; he amasses impressive statistics but his teams do not win any championships; by the time his last team gives up on him, he is barely averaging 10 ppg and his career seems to be coming to an unceremonious end. Sounds like Chris Webber, right? It does, but I'm actually referring to Bob McAdoo. The Lakers acquired McAdoo in December 1981 to replace the injured Mitch Kupchak and McAdoo revived his career, making indispensable contributions to two Lakers title runs in the next four years. Then Lakers Coach Pat Riley has said on more than one occasion that the Lakers would not have won those championships without McAdoo.
As you've probably heard by now, the Philadelphia 76ers have bought out Chris Webber's contract and will waive him, enabling him to sign with any team in the league. TNT's David Aldridge reported that it is virtually certain that Webber, a Michigan native who played his college ball for the University of Michigan, will land with the Detroit Pistons but Webber refuted that suggestion just a short while later when he was interviewed by Ernie Johnson and the TNT studio crew. Time will tell if Aldridge spoke too soon or if Webber will pull a "Saban" and end up in Detroit. Meanwhile, it is tantalizing to consider some of the possibilities. Webber said that money is not an issue--which is an easy stance to take when you've just received tens of millions of dollars from the Sixers--and that his primary concern is that he wants to go to a team that is contending for a title. That rules out most of the teams in the East including, if Webber is smart, Detroit; regardless of the Pistons' regular season record, this team is clearly on a downward arc as a playoff squad--champions in '04, runner-up in '05, conference finalist in '06. The two most important pieces of that championship team--Coach Larry Brown and perennial Defensive Player of the Year Ben Wallace--are gone and Webber does not have enough left in the tank to replace their contributions.
One interesting possibility for Webber if he wants to reprise McAdoo's career renaissance is to go where McAdoo is currently an assistant coach and where Pat Riley is running the show--the Miami Heat. That might sound crazy at first, but Miami is the defending champion and the main thing that the Heat are trying to do is stay in the playoff hunt while Shaquille O'Neal and Riley get recharged for the playoffs. Would anybody in the East really want to face the Heat in the playoffs if O'Neal is completely healthy and Riley is on the bench calling the shots? Webber told TNT that based on being a 20-10 player last year that he still considers himself a starting player. He would not likely be a starter in Detroit but he could start at center or power forward right now for the Heat and could start at power forward alongside Shaq once the Diesel returns. Honestly, no other team in the East makes sense for Webber at this stage of his career.
If Webber decides to go to the Western Conference, there are several destinations that would be a good fit. How about San Antonio? The Spurs have not been getting enough out of the center position. Webber said that he would be willing to play center. Duncan and Webber would be an interesting frontcourt tandem. Another intriguing option is the L.A. Lakers. Andrew Bynum and Kwame Brown have shown promise but I'm sure that Coach Phil Jackson would love to have a veteran big man who can rebound and pass. Webber specifically mentioned that he thinks that the triangle offense is perhaps the best offense ever; it is certainly well suited to his skills as a high post passer.
A lot of people seem to believe that Webber is done physically but I disagree. As he pointed out, he was a 20-10 player last year despite having a bad leg. Webber says that his leg is healed now. There is no question that he has not been an explosive leaper since he had microfracture surgery but with the Sixers this year he is still getting about 8 rpg in limited minutes. He can still rebound and he always has been able to pass and that means that in the right situation he can definitely still contribute. Webber's history in clutch situations is not great but if he goes to Miami, San Antonio or the Lakers that will not be a problem: Wade, Duncan or Kobe will have the ball down the stretch, not Webber, but teams will still have to guard him (and box him out), which will provide Webber's teammates more room to operate than they have now.
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Lewis joins as svp of theatrical distribution and marketing and most recently served as evp and general sales manager at Summit Entertainment, where he worked on the Twilight and The Hurt Locker, among others.
Prior to Summit he spent more than a decade at MGM heading Eastern US theatrical distribution efforts for such films as Hotel Rwanda, Legally Blonde and the James Bond franchise featuring Pierce Bronson.
He has held theatrical posts at Hemdale, Lorimar, DEG and UA Theatres.
"Bill has a tremendous history in the theatrical business and has been key in the release of some very high profile franchises," said Anchor Bay Entertainment president Bill Clark. "We extremely pleased to have an executive of Bill's calibre and experience join our senior team."
"I'm very excited to be working with Bill Clark and the entire Anchor Bay team," said Lewis. "Anchor Bay Films has created a unique distribution niche with their strategy of aggressive acquisitions and star-driven titles. With that, there are many opportunities ahead and I look forward to taking advantage of them."


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San Francisco 49ers safety Donte Whitner will appeal the $21,000 fine he received Tuesday for a Week 4 hit against St. Louis Rams wide receiver Chris Givens.
Whitner was flagged for unnecessary roughness on the play when he drove his shoulder into Givens' face mask and dislodged the ball. He was flagged for a personal foul penalty for hitting a defenseless player above the shoulder.
The league deemed the hit a finable offense, but Whitner told The Sacramento Bee that Givens told him after the play that he believed it was a clean hit.
"If the guy that was hit thought it was legal, then I don't know what else to do," Whitner said.
Whitner said he was aiming lower than Givens' shoulders, but the wide receiver dipped into his hit.
The 49ers safety, once heralded for a debilitating hit on New Orleans Saints running back Pierre Thomas in the 2011 playoffs, has been vocal about the NFL's culture change regarding big hits. He even joked about taking the "W" out of his last name and becoming Donte Hitner, per CBS Sports.
"The game is changing," Whitner said Tuesday. "I don't know what we can do as players -- just put flags on and pull those off. Maybe fans will like that. Maybe not."


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The sigh of relief that Diana Bolden's going to breathe when she finally moves into her new home may be more forceful than most such sighs of relief. That's because the construction process, which Bolden embarked on when she signed a contract with Nationwide Homes last March 31, has turned out to be significantly longer and more difficult than she expected.
Nationwide sells modular homes, which are constructed in two parts– front and back– at a manufacturing plant and then set on the foundation and joined. On its website, Nationwide says, "The home is designed and built in a climate-controlled environment. This means harmful weather never touches the inside of your home."
The inside of Bolden's house, unfortunately, wasn't so lucky.
The house wasn't placed on the foundation until September 12, due to a string of problems: Excavation took longer than expected because the site was so rocky, and then there were snafus, largely bureaucratic, with the septic system and well. Then came the worst one yet: On September 17, the open joint between the two halves was covered with plastic sheeting– which promptly blew off when Hurricane Isabel came through the next day. If the joint had been sealed, the interior would have been watertight.
Instead, there was serious water and mold damage to the house's interior. When I spoke with Dan Goodin, Nationwide's consumer division vice president, I wondered aloud whether this might be a cautionary tale for people thinking of buying a modular home. Goodin took strong exception to that, and said that of the roughly 40 houses Nationwide will install in Virginia during this year of record rain, Bolden's is "the only one [I'm] aware of having significant water damage."
Which isn't to say that the company, headquartered in Martinsville, wasn't concerned. Because of Bolden's situation and "a few others," Goodin told me, both the manager and the construction supervisor for the Charlottesville office were terminated in October. "Customers weren't being treated the way they needed to be treated," he explained.
Goodin also said that he'd given the new construction supervisor "carte blanche" to remedy Bolden's situation, and had directed that all water- or mold-damaged items be replaced rather than repaired.
I had seen pictures of the damage before I toured the house and am glad to report that it looks like matters on that score have been resolved. Or have they? Bolden's husband, Richard, claims that daylight still shows through the roofline seam, which can be viewed through a hole cut for access to the attic. It was dark when I visited, however, so I could not confirm this.
In addition to the water damage and delay, Bolden claims that Nationwide has been slow to respond to her concerns. The latest headache, she says, has been the large rear deck: When the subcontractor arrived to install it, he found that because of an incline, the work would be more involved– and expensive– than estimated on the $117,000 contract for the house. That meant opening negotiations with Nationwide to decide who would cover the extra costs.
When I spoke with Goodin, he said he had assumed that Bolden was satisfied with the project's status. Quite the opposite, I replied, and suggested he speak with her. He called Bolden the same day, and the result was that the new manager of the Charlottesville office, Tony Santoro, arranged to walk through the house with Bolden on December 8. According to an email from Bolden, Santoro's goal for the inspection was to "fix or make right any of our frustrations."
When Nationwide has had sufficient time to address Bolden's concerns, I'll check with her and see where things stand. If problems develop, I'll follow up in a future column.
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Im waking up to fast! I have nothing! and I'm starting to come back! Now, I know why I went to sleep in the first place!
My answers would be given to me if I was with God! so, why stay!
In a state of dissociation I was not allowed to see the world anymore! Now as I come back! I simply want to go away and never come back! I have nothing here! Im wanted by no one!
I want to go home to God! I want nothing else! I do not understand why I was born! for what purpose! I am not allowed to have my life! and if I take my life, no one would flick a piece of grass! it would mean nothing to the change in the frequency of the earth! its as if I was never born! I was erased before I got here !
I am not afraid to die! I don't care! I never have!
I am trying to live; or find anything; anything of value for this society! I can find nothing! Im trying to hang on; but I have nothing to hang on to!
Im a decent man! Im trying to stay alive! but I will not stay here if I have no life! Im not even allowed to make art or have relationships!
I have to listen to others make music from the radio or the youtube vid; I have more talent then they! and I have no way of privacy! so, I cannot make my art form! any art form!
I cannot have relationships! I do not qualify! As I am! Im not noticed, understood or accepted!
Its been said; understand others! I say no! instead! You understand me and be dam grateful for it!
I simply want to go home to God! that is all I ever wanted! their is no life here on this planet and never has been! and I am fooling myself to think otherwise!
I have tried to work with the Universe to build a life! I am getting nothing! So, possibly, Its time to leave and go to heaven! ive tried! The Universe is not listening! God is not listening! I tried! Possibly, this is a sign I need to go to God!
Ive tried! but nothing on this planet is understanding or listening! and they don't care anyway!
I want to die! that is the problem! Iv tried everything I know how not to die! and no one cares! nothing cares about anything human! so, I would rather go to heaven and leave this place! its in human! it is not made for decent men!
I will not be remembered by anyone
I cannot continue to live a forced animal!
Im a stranger in my own land! and not wanted!
Ive tried! I really have; but Im of interest to no one!
Ive tried to work with God! and I get no answer! So, I must go back to him!


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The Copernicus Maritime Surveillance (CMS) service, implemented by EMSA, provides earth observation satellite images to support a better understanding and improved monitoring of activities at sea. The service is available to support authorised users in a wide range of operational functions, including maritime safety and security, fisheries control, customs, law enforcement, and marine environment monitoring.
The CMS Product Catalogue presents the products available through the service, including earth observation image products (optical and synthetic aperture radar), value added products and fusion products.


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Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Mrs. King's most prominent role may have been in the years after her husband's 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement.


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São Paulo-based Fernanda Marques has achieved a residence called Loft 24-7 in São Paulo, Brazil. The residence has an idealistic balance by using "outdoor" elements inside and "indoor" elements outside. On a surface of almost 250 square meters, the living room is presented as an open environment full of light, in which a light plays and the expression of nature makes the space live within as if it was outside. Limestone, rough stone, steel, glass, wood paneling and furnishings that speak to the architect's modernist style, all create a harmonious, seamless environment where you are never quite in and never quite out. The decor looks like a continuation of the external elements, combining details that recall the country houses together with those of modern housing in a unique style and great taste. Read More
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Charlotte 49ers name stadium after Panthers owner Jerry Richardson
Richardson donated $10M
The Charlotte 49ers have announced their new 15,300-seat football facility will be named Jerry Richardson Stadium following a $10 million donation from the Carolina Panthers owner.
Construction on the stadium was completed last October.
Charlotte Chancellor Phillip Dubois said Tuesday in a release that Richardson "knows that football can bring the students and the city of Charlotte together and he wanted to be among the first to stand up and state, 'this program is important to me.'"
The playing surface was previously named McColl-Richardson Field after an earlier donation from Richardson and former Bank of America chairman Hugh McColl.
Richardson also announced an endowed football scholarship in honor of his son, Jon Richardson.
Charlotte begins play this fall as an FCS independent before joining Conference USA in 2015.


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Chest discomfort or pain may be a key warning symptom of a heart attack. Heart attack symptoms may include:
Chest discomfort or pain that comes on or gets worse with exercise, stress, or eating a large meal and goes away with rest may also be a symptom of heart disease called angina.
If you have any of these symptoms of a heart attack, call 911 or other emergency services immediately. After you call 911, the operator may tell you to chew 1 adult-strength or 2 to 4 low-dose aspirin. Wait for an ambulance. Do not try to drive yourself. Since most of the damage to the heart muscle during a heart attack occurs in the first 6 hours, emergency treatment may prevent damage to the heart muscle and death. For men and women, the most common symptom is chest pain or pressure. Women are somewhat more likely than men to have other symptoms like shortness of breath, nausea, and back or jaw pain.
Most people fear that chest pain always means that something is wrong with the heart. This is not the case. Chest discomfort or pain, especially in people who are younger than age 40, can have many causes.
Other, more serious problems that can cause chest pain include:
Check your symptoms to decide if and when you should see a doctor.
Many things can affect how your body responds to a symptom and what kind of care you may need. These include:
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Shock is a life-threatening condition that may occur quickly after a sudden illness or injury.
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Symptoms of a heart attack may include:
The more of these symptoms you have, the more likely it is that you're having a heart attack. Chest pain or pressure is the most common symptom, but some people, especially women, may not notice it as much as other symptoms. You may not have chest pain at all but instead have shortness of breath, nausea, or a strange feeling in your chest or other areas.
Based on your answers, you may need care soon. The problem probably will not get better without medical care.
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Sometimes people don't want to call 911. They may think that their symptoms aren't serious or that they can just get someone else to drive them. Or they might be concerned about the cost. But based on your answers, the safest and quickest way for you to get the care you need is to call 911 for medical transport to the hospital.
After you call 911, the operator may tell you to chew 1 adult-strength (325 mg) or 2 to 4 low-dose (81 mg) aspirin. Wait for an ambulance. Do not try to drive yourself.
Home treatment is not appropriate for chest pain if the pain occurs with symptoms of a heart attack. If you think a heart attack might be the cause of your symptoms, call 911 or other emergency services immediately. After you call 911, the operator may tell you to chew 1 adult-strength or 2 to 4 low-dose aspirin. Wait for an ambulance. Do not try to drive yourself.
If you have stable angina, you can probably predict when your symptoms will happen. You probably know what things cause your angina. If you and your doctor have made a home treatment plan, follow that plan. If you are having angina symptoms more often than usual or if they are different or worse than usual, call your doctor right away. If you have angina symptoms that do not go away with rest or are not getting better within 5 minutes after you take a dose of nitroglycerin, call 911 or other emergency services immediately.
You may be able to control how much your angina bothers you by making changes in your lifestyle. You may find it helpful to:
If you do not need 911 emergency medical treatment for your chest pain or angina, take your pulse before reporting your symptoms to your doctor. Your heart rate and rhythm at the time of your chest pain may help your doctor evaluate your symptoms.
Home treatment for minor chest pain depends on the cause of the pain. Minor chest pain often improves with home treatment. A visit to your doctor may not be needed.
For chest wall pain caused by strained muscles or ligaments or a fractured rib:
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Talk to your child's doctor before switching back and forth between doses of acetaminophen and ibuprofen. When you switch between two medicines, there is a chance your child will get too much medicine.
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If you have other symptoms along with your minor chest pain, see the Related Information section for topics that relate to your other symptoms.
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I live in New York, but I rarely drive here. In fact, I know very, very few people with a car here. It's a town reliant on other transportation — subways, taxi cabs, your own two feet. So driving was a treat and a challenge. Could I adopt a new transportation culture in my home city?
When I got the chance to drive the Jaguar F-TYPE in New York (it was the same model I had in Los Angeles — orange and sleek as hell and in my possession for reasons that are becoming increasingly obvious), I quickly left the East Village and sped off across the Williamsburg Bridge, where the city exploded in vertical behind me. I was picking up a friend in Bushwick so we could go to the Mike Kelley show, at PS1 in Long Island City. I outraced the J train over the bridge, then maneuvered through pothole-strewn streets as pedestrians hollered and pointed. Later, with my friend sitting shotgun, we shot over the Pulaski Bridge with its insane view of the skyline.
I'll mention the weather here: it was glorious. The drive was all sun and high temperatures. The top of the convertible was down, February be damned.
The first thing that grabbed me when driving in New York was the incessant honking. Of course, this cacophony is not new to me — I've walked down New York's streets day and heard the loud, syncopated symphony of car horns blasting over everything else. At all corners you hear the bleating sounds of automobiles; they've become part of Manhattan's DNA. There's a reason why Tom Wolfe called the city's native accent The New York Honk.
But from behind the wheel, I heard the hard beeps in a different way. These were streets I'd walked down countless times — Orchard, Houston, Bowery, Chrystie, Delancey — where I regularly run into old friends and new. Yet these streets became new when I got to glide over them on four wheels. Especially now that the honking was pointedly directed at me. Why were the other drivers making this awful noise? Was I doing something wrong? Something right? Those sounds I had heard forever — meepmeep! mee-eee-eep, meep! — were now part of a mode of communication. The drivers were saying something.
At the end of the day, I valeted the car at The Standard, near my apartment. "This is the coolest thing I've seen all day," the valet attendant said. There the car stayed for the night.
On game day, I decided it was best to get out of the city entirely. Manhattan was destined to be a madhouse of events and tourists, all rushing around via any transportation they could find. I drove the car out of the city, due north toward Connecticut, for a brunch at a friend's parents' house in Darien. Compared to the warped and dilapidated streets of Manhattan, especially during the frenzy leading up to the game (and let's not get started on Houston Street construction). The highway driving was a dream. It's easy to forget that I live in a swamp, that Manhattan is a tiny island amid a bigger archipelago. Once I left, big steel bridges took me wherever I needed to go. I rode over bridge after bridge, zoomed up I-95, then crept along the snaking paths of the suburbs.
This is the way to drive in New York, a city with so many modes of transportation that having your own automobile seems superfluous. It's perfect for outings to places that seem out of the way (like — for me, at least — Long Island City and the far reaches of deep Bushwick), and if the traffic's not bad, might as well drive around instead of walking. You certainly save money on cabs. But conserve most of your gas for a trip outside the city, when you can feel the total freedom of the road and not worry about hordes of pedestrians.
That is, unless you want to worry about the pedestrians. When I got back into town after the trip to Darien, I rumbled off the Williamsburg Bridge onto Delancey Street, and the inevitable happened: I saw a friend cross the street.
"Will!" I yelled.
He turned around and did a double take. I've known Will since we were in middle school, but he had never seen me drive in New York. And he had never seen someone drive a convertible with the top down in February. So he hustled over to me as the light changed to green.
"Get in the car," I said as cars behind me began honking and Will hopped into shotgun. "Let's go for a ride."
Nate Freeman is the Editor-in-Chief of Good To Be Bad. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer.
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Romanian Man Pleads Guilty To Role In International Fraud Scheme Involving Online Market Place Websites
Alexandru Stanciu, 34, of Bucharest, Romania pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud for his role in moving approximately $320,000 in illicit proceeds derived from an international online marketplace fraud scheme, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
According to testimony at the plea hearing, members of the conspiracy fraudulently listed vehicles for sale at online marketplaces such as Autotrader and eBay. When potential buyers expressed interest in purchasing the vehicles, co-conspirators sent e-mails that directed the buyers to wire payments to certain bank accounts. In total, 17 individuals sent approximately $321,389 to accounts opened by Stanciu. None of the victims ever received the vehicles for which they paid.
"International online marketplace fraud schemes pose a serious threat to consumers and to Internet commerce," said U.S. Attorney David Rivera. "Foreign-based criminals believe they can flee safely back to their home countries and avoid the consequences of the crimes they commit here. They are mistaken. Federal, state, local, and foreign law enforcement officials increasingly are working together to investigate, arrest and prosecute the people responsible for these schemes. The safe havens for these criminals are shrinking thanks to these coordinated efforts. Prosecutions like this one reinforce that message."
According to testimony, beginning at least as early as December 2011 and continuing to as late as July 2013, Stanciu opened bank accounts under false identities, which were supported by fraudulent identity documents including counterfeit passports. Stanciu opened 10 such accounts, under nine different names. Stanciu subsequently sent the bulk of the money to other co-conspirators located abroad
Stanciu was apprehended in July 2013 at Miami International Airport, from which he was scheduled to travel to Bucharest, Romania by way of London. At the time of his arrest Stanciu had $1,850 U.S. Dollars and 4,600 Euros in cash in his possession.
Stanciu is scheduled to be sentenced on June 2, 2014. He faces a maximum of thirty years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Byron M. Jones with the Middle District of Tennessee and Trial Attorney Mysti Degani with the Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.


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5 oz 2015 America the Beautiful | Saratoga National Historic Park Silver Coin
Celebrate the turning point in the U.S. revolutionary war while investing your savings in a hard asset.
Saratoga National Historic Park preserves the battlefield and site of the British surrender in 1777. The park is filled with many monuments to the battles, and preserves several buildings from the period.
The obverse of the coin features the John Flanagan effigy of George Washington, as it has appeared on US quarters since 1932.
The reverse features British General Burgoyne surrendering his sword to American General Gates after the Battle of Saratoga in the fall of 1777.
The America the Beautiful series will eventually comprise 56 unique coins by the time the series is complete in 2021. These US Mint coins are a perfect way build your wealth in ounces by investing in a government minted product with a relatively low premium.
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Once the buns were in the oven, that's when my problems started. You see, I was making the cinnabuns for Mom to take to a meeting the next morning and so I was starting them late at night. I was also supposed to make some muffins and scones for the meeting as well, so that meant that I had been multitasking, which apparently, I may not be overly good at. To start with, I should have only baked one tray at a time, but oven space was at a premium because I still had to bake scones and muffins, so I shoved both trays in at once. Once I had them all in there, I should have rotated the trays part way through because I know that my oven runs hot and cold and in spots and if I don't rotate trays, something always gets burnt before the rest is done. I could have gotten away with this if not for the fact that I forgot about my poor cinnabuns and they ended up in the oven much longer than they should have been. You'd think the wonderful smell of baking cinnabuns would have alerted me to their completion, but no, it was the smell of burning that made me jump out of my chair and rush to the oven in a panic. I pulled the buns from the oven and really should have taken a picture at that point so that you could have seen the outer ring of burnt buns with two pretty ones in the middle of each tray. Those four buns you see in the pictures are the only four that I managed to save. If this had of happened at another time, it wouldn't have been such a big deal, but it was already the wee hours of the morning and the lack of buns meant that I had to bake something else for the meeting.
It wasn't the recipe that I was angry at, just myself for making a stupid mistake. It seems to be a trend as of late. I also managed to stick my hand into the oven a couple days ago to retrieve a hot pan, sans oven mitt. Ouch. Another stupid decision was not to remake the cinnamon buns or attempt the sticky buns when I was in a more sane state of mind. I suppose I haven't quite reached that point yet, but when I do, these buns are on my "to-make" list. Thanks for passing along a great recipe Marce! Which, by the way, can be found on Marce's post about this month's challenge. Also, make sure to check out how all the other Daring Bakers fared by checking out the Daring Bakers Blogroll, which is growing larger every month and thus requires its own site.
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Holiday Gift Ideas From Jessica Shyba
Real Mom Gift Guide: All Jessica Shyba Wants For the Holidays Is . . .
We've got mamas on the mind this holiday season! When mom's done doing the holiday shopping for everyone on her list, we're sure there are still a few items on there that she wants for herself.
Jessica Shyba is the woman behind Momma's Gone City, a blog chronicling her daily life with two tots since moving from the Bay Area to New York City so her husband could attend dental school. Since becoming a city mama, she's learned — and written about — the ins and outs of public transportation, the beauty of living in small spaces, and the unexpected adventures of day-to-day life. She welcomed her third child last night (almost in the taxi on the way to the hospital) but shared a few things she's hoping to unwrap later this month.
- An iPad 2 ($500): It's about time that our family has one of these brilliant devices. My kids will love it and benefit from it, and I would like something that I can slip into the diaper bag easily so that I can work on the go.
- Keurig ($134): I am the only one in the house that drinks coffee and hot beverages, so the large coffeemaker is wasteful and time-consuming, especially when you wash it every single day! With this new baby, I know that a yummy, hot apple cider will be a nice treat for me during his overnight feedings.
- Epiphanie "Lyric" Camera Bag. ($155): Just this week I purchased a new SLR camera and two new lenses — something I've been wanting and saving up for, for a while now. I just need a gorgeous new bag to carry it in as well. I rarely leave home without a camera, and this particular one will be able to accommodate a few diapers and wipes as well.
- A session or three at The Braid Bar at the John Barrett Salon in Bergdorf's: This is the prettiest, low-maintenance hair style I have found, and this salon does an amazing job at braiding hair! I would love to treat myself to an appointment, especially when I know that showers will be few and far between in the very near future!
- Tali Gilette's Mama Necklace, 14k Gold ($525): The perfect push prize, holiday gift, and everyday memento of the most important aspect of my life: motherhood.


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2012 Oscar Wrap-Up
That's a Wrap — Beauty, Fashion, and Winner News From the 2012 Academy Awards
Red-carpet fashion and beauty coverage:
- Vote on all the fashion and beauty Oscar red carpet polls
- 2012 Oscars: who should win best dressed?
- The ladies bring their best looks to the glamorous Oscars red carpet
- Oscars 2012: find out who wore what
- Oscars' most dazzling duos
- Heidi Klum, Nina Dobrev, and more hit up Elton John's Oscar party
- Oscars trendspotting: train gang
- Hollywood glamour dazzles at Oscar parties
- Stars step out in style at Vanity Fair's Oscar party
- Oscars trendspotting: the white idea
- Oscars trendspotting: cool shoulders
- The Oscars' best bags and baubles
- See all the Oscars beauty looks!
- Get up close and personal with the night's best makeup looks
The list of all the winners, press room excitement, and much more!
- See the entire list of 2012 Oscar winners
- Bret McKenzie says he can't wait to play his "Oscar card"
- Octavia Spencer calls her Oscar win "fan-effing-tastic"
- Christopher Plummer says he "loves Oscar" in the press room
- Meryl Streep, The Artist, and Hugo win big — and more Oscars highlights!
- Video: Octavia Spencer gets emotional thanking her Help family during Oscar speech
- Get the 411 on The Artist's Bérénice Bejo and her date
- See which couples stepped out together on the red carpet
- Oscars eye candy: hottie or nottie?
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The students look astonished. It is the first day of summer school. More accurately, it is the first minute in their Global and Regional Studies course, "Bicycles, Globalization and Sustainability," and they're sitting around a classroom table on the fifth floor of Williams Hall.
The professor, dressed in sandals, shorts, and a floppy-collared checked shirt, just strode into class. He radiates an easy-going cheerfulness, and, except for a few silver strands in his hair and a certain scholarly furrowing around the eyes, you might think he was an undergraduate.
"I'm Luis Vivanco," he said, smiling, identifying the course, counting heads, and arranging a few papers. And then he announced, "the best way to start off a summer class is with some smoothies," — and walked back out the door.
Now the students are frozen, half-grinning. For an instant, only their eyes move, looking back and forth to each other, and then toward the door. From outside the classroom they can hear Vivanco announce: "I'll say just one thing: these smoothies don't have an aftertaste of coal or petroleum." What to do? They get up and follow their professor.
In the dimly lit landing, near Vivanco's office in the Anthropology Department, stands a strange bicycle. It looks like a cross between a mountain bike, a tandem, a rickshaw, and a kitchen appliance.
From between the handlebars protrudes a double-piped chrome horn worthy of a Mac truck. In the middle, a tall seatpost holds an old-fashioned-looking leather saddle plus an additional set of handlebars for a passenger. From the rear, as if the bike has been stretched, a long aluminum rack extends, supporting a pair of huge saddlebags. On top of the rack, a geared plastic housing connects to the rear wheel. In the housing sits a blender, filled with bananas and strawberries.
Vivanco pours apple juice into the blender and asks one of the students to hold the lid closed. Then he gets on the bike and starts pedaling. The rear wheel, raised slightly off the ground by an outsized kickstand, starts spinning, the blender starts whirring, the fruit liquefies into a pink mash, and, soon, Vivanco is handing out cups of bike-blended smoothie to his — still somewhat astonished — students.
Anthropologists are "merchants of astonishment," wrote the great theorist Clifford Geertz, and Vivanco places himself in that lineage. And his capacity as a teacher, with casual good humor, to both astonish and gently prod his students to see the world, and themselves, as surprising — to make the familiar strange, he says—goes a long way toward explaining why he was chosen for the university's highest teaching honor.
In May, at commencement, Vivanco received the George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award, presented each year by the UVM Alumni Association. Dozens of Vivanco's former students and colleagues wrote letters of nomination, praising him, like Megan Johnson '09, for his "infectious inquisitive nature" and "unwavering support" of students in the classroom — and beyond.
Many recalled class meals and desserts at his home, his leadership on study-abroad semesters in Oaxaca, Mexico; his support of student activist efforts including a recent campaign to ban bottled water on campus; and his role as advisor to BUG, a new student bike group that launched a successful bike-sharing program.
"Ever tried to go speak with Luis Vivanco during his office hours?" wrote Mickey Hardt '11. "Students sit and wait for multiple hours," to speak with him, he recalled, drawn by Vivanco's patient, incisive guidance.
Carey Dunfey '10, remembers coming to Vivanco "utterly confused about my topic and the path," and leaving, hours later, "with a pound or so of his books in my bag," she noted. "He made me want to write."
Laura Hale '07 recalled a "devastating C," on her first paper in her first-year first-semester Integrated Social Sciences Class. "I had always received A grades in high school and Luis's standards were far higher," she wrote. Four years later, she won an award for the outstanding senior in Vivanco's department.
As a cultural anthropologist and, now, director of UVM's fast-growing Global and Regional Studies program, Vivanco has taught many classes since he arrived on campus in 1997, including ones on the media, Latin America and the Caribbean, environmental issues in global context, Latinos in the United States, one called the "Fourth World: (Re)imagining Indigenous Cultures" — and, over the last three years, ones on mobility and the global place of bicycles.
In all these courses, Vivanco seeks to have his students develop a "deeper appreciation of the fundamental plurality of the human condition," he says, drawing on Geertz. Not just confronting "inconvenient facts," as Max Weber described the role of useful teachers, Vivanco urges his students to wrestle with constellations of differing facts that, peeled open, reveal deeper structures that shape human economies, power relations, and beliefs.
"There are facts in the world," Vivanco tells his students, "And depending on who you are, you're going to produce different kinds of facts."
This realization rocked Josh MacLeod '04, who is now pursuing a doctorate at Brown University in anthropology. "Initially a biology major, by chance I took an anthropology course with Dr. Vivanco," he wrote. "The disruption this course caused in my life was quick and decisive; the next semester it was out with genetics and in with the social construction of reality."
On the fifth floor of Williams, Vivanco's students are considering the social — and literal — construction of his bicycle.
"This bike is an interesting design that obviously is uncommon in this country," he says, after Erica Bareuther '13 has had a chance to pedal it for a second round of smoothies. "It's called a cargo bike."
Vivanco's model is called the Big Dummy, made by the hip Minneapolis-based manufacturer, Surly. Base retail: about $2,200. Fully tricked out, as Vivanco's edition is, it's north of $4k. He had to write a four-page proposal to his wife, Peggy, to explain why the family needed this extremely expensive rig.
But in another light, the Big Dummy is a bargain. "Now, we're a one-car family," he explains to his students. And he uses the bike to take his kids to school, drop off his trash on Pine Street and to, as per the proposal, take his wife out on dates. "It's our family SUB," he says, laughing.
Even more important — and unsettling, perhaps — in the context of this class is how this type of bike fits in a global narrative. "Believe it or not," he says, "this bike models itself on the design that the Viet Cong used during the Vietnam War to move material up and down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They were called long-tailed bicycles. During the war, they would drape people who were wounded over these things." And the Big Dummy is a cousin to "boda boda" taxi bikes that ferry people across the Uganda/Kenya border.
In other words, there are many narratives, a plurality of facts, Vivanco would say, around what a bike — or any cultural object — means and what it does that may upset received ideas. "I got this bike blender thing aftermarket," he says — and the only fuel it needs is a rider who ate breakfast. With the Big Dummy, "we're trying, through our example, to show that there are other ways to think about getting around, other ways to enjoy a smoothie that don't require a plug in the wall, other ways to think about what a bike is," Vivanco says. He's making the familiar strange.
One of the standard narratives in the United States is that bikes are for kids, cars are for adults; that bikes are static, cars are evolving. "But why is that?" Vivanco asks. His cargo bike is just one example of the many bikes that the students will study in his class including electric bikes and high-tech "velo" bikes that can attain speeds that would allow them to travel on highways — if they were allowed.
And this is the point: Vivanco wants his students to think beyond the bike itself to the patterns and forces behind it. "Bikes challenge the dominance of the automobile and the industries that uphold it," he wrote on his course syllabus. Americans spend almost twenty hours a week in their cars, he notes, and about eighty percent of that time doing short-haul errands like getting groceries, half of which are under three miles. Bikes provide "another choice," Vivanco says.
Therefore, bikes provide a lens on a whole host of deadly serious, adult topics, Vivanco tells his students as they gather in a half circle around him and his bike, like the obesity crisis, climate change, neighborhood cohesion, affordable transportation, urban sprawl, peak oil, and safe streets.
Or, rather, they might be part of a not-so-deadly alternative vision of how we organize roads, patterns of transport and consumption, and our very lives — an alternative to the approaching "carmageddon" of grid-lock and pollution, Vivanco says, drawing on the scathing social criticism of Ivan Illich.
"People are making choices about how they get around and I want you to think about these," he tells his students. "These are all structured by very powerful forces from capitalism to the media. That is what this course starts introducing you to: What are those forces that are shaping our mobility choices? In what ways do bike social movements challenge the status quo to make changes in the ways we think about streets? Is the bicycle really "green" and, if so, in what ways?"
These questions nest within Vivanco's larger interests in environmental anthropology. He studied environmental movements in Costa Rica for his PhD dissertation, which led to two books, Green Encounters and an edited volume on adventure, Tarzan was an Ecotourist.
"I remember I was doing field work in Monte Verde," he says, resting his hand on his bike, as his students sip smoothies from cups. "I would be hanging around ecotourists and I'd often ask them: Why are you here? What are you looking for? This is what anthropologists do: listen and ask questions."
And with this deep practice, "Luis is very good at recognizing the legitimacy in what students are saying," Jens Pharr '12 says. "Even if the student isn't really fluent in the language of academia, he hears you."
Luis Vivanco and his students finish their smoothies and head back into the classroom to get the discussion started, and to get going on a deep stack of reading. He wants them to know more than they do now when they head out in a few days for a class field trip — on their bikes.
The students look astonished. It is the first day of summer school. More accurately, it is the first minute in their Global and Regional Studies course, "Bicycles, Globalization and Sustainability," and they're sitting around a classroom table on the fifth floor of Williams Hall.


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The ruins of Alexandria Troas, an ancient city founded by Alexander the Great's general Antigonos I in 300 BC, lie 30km south of Troy, and 2km south of Dalyan village. Excavated since 2000 by archeologists from the University of Münster, the site (unenclosed; free) consists of mostly Roman ruins surrounded by 8km of city wall. A sacred way linked it to Smintheion, while another avenue lined with shops (now uncovered) served the ancient harbour at Dalyan. The modern road roughly bisects the city; just west of this are the site's most obvious features, including the agora temple, its columns and reliefs set aside for restoration; a huge structure of unknown function; and a partly dug-up odeion with two massive arched entrances. On the other side of the road are a basilica and one of several baths, with clay piping exposed. If the warden is present and you can understand Turkish, a free guided tour is available: if not, you can wander the site at will.
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If you find pictures purporting to be those of Osama bin Laden's body after he was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs, they're most likely frauds.
The government is not letting anyone in the public see them.
A three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that the government was justified in denying Freedom of Information Act requests for the photos and videos taken after the raid, including bin Laden's burial at sea, because it would endanger national security. The court found that the Defense Department and the CIA properly classified the documents as private.
"This is not a case in which the declarants are making predictions about the consequences of releasing any images," the court wrote. "Rather, they are predicting the consequences of releasing an extraordinary set of images, ones that depict American military personnel burying the founder and leader of [al-Qauida]."
Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, requested the pictures shortly after President Barrack Obama announced that commandos killed bin Laden in his Abbottabad, Pakistan, hideout, ending a manhunt that stretched out almost 10 years. The group sought the pictures and videos in order to complete the public record of the demise of the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
But the court accepted the government's position that releasing the photos and videos would enflame al-Qaida and other extremists, possibly putting Americans at risk. It noted the effect Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad, the founder of Islam, had on radicals. The government also warned that releasing the images used to identify bin Laden through facial-recognition software could reveal intelligence sources or methods.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton denounced the decision as "craven" and said the group is weighing its next legal steps.
"The courts need to stop rubber-stamping this administration's improper secrecy," Fitton said. "There is no provision in the Freedom of Information Act that allows documents to be kept secret because their release might offend our terrorist enemies."
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The tool costs $19 and it works with any Google Apps account. If you post an insightful comment that explains why do you want to migrate from Outlook to Google Apps, you could get gMOVE for free. Don't forget to include your email address so I can contact you.
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January 11, 2012
Anonymous wages attack on National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, re-signed by Obama into law, giving the military extraordinary sweeping powers to detain US citizens indefinitely without trial.
Time magazine called the protester the person of the year for 2011, but if the US government and Obama Administration continue with its campaign against American freedom, defying corruption with demonstration as such will be outlawed in only a matter of time in the USA.
Concerned over how very real the collapse of the US Constitution is because of Congress' passing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the NDAA, global activists with the online collective Anonymous have proposed a national day of action against the controversial legislation to occur within next month.
Hacktivists had initially proposed a massive campaign against the act for January, but have now moved the protest to launch on February 3.
NDAA lays foundation for targeting political dissenters, activism
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or NDAA, was recently signed off by US President Barack Obama. Under the legislation, the Department of Defense is guaranteed spending appropriations for a 12-month span. Certain provisions snuck in, however, the US government is granted the powers to indefinitely detain and torture American citizens without charge, essentially creating Guantanamo Prison-style detention possibilities for anyone deemed a threat by American authorities.
US President Barack Obama insists that he will not abide by such provisions, although the laws are still written and approved under his own name. Although he could abide by his word and remove himself from endorsing any of the provisions, the fact that the legislation does still for such enforcement does not negate its existence.
"The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by Obam and future US presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield," stresses American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Executive Director Anthony Romero of the dangerous realities promised under NDAA. Even if Barack Obama claims he will not abide by the powers he has now been bestowed with under the legislation, Romero says that US President Obama "will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law."
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On January 22, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack H. Obama proudly issued his first three executive orders, one of them, a directive requiring the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison facility to be closed within one year.
Nearly three years later, Guantanamo Bay remains open with prisoners being held without trial, and a new law enacted with the stroke of his pen could mean more American citizens will be joining them soon.
Activists against the legislation have rallied in opposition since it first moved through Congress. Following Obama's New Year's Eve signing, however, widespread disbelief and concern has only increased and now Anonymous is urging Americans to take it to the streets before Congress begins to act on the damning bill.
"While we cannot force the American people to protest, we must tell them that this law will trip away any rights they thought they had including but not limited to free speech, free press, free access to information and the right to protest, assemble and bear arms," recites a digitzed voice in a recent YouTube clip uploaded by an account alleging to be affiliated with the Anonymous collective. The narrator describes that NDAA allows for the government to detain suspects, "even American citizens, without trial" for any allegedly belligerent acts.
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"What is a belligerent act?" asks the speaker. "Is protesting a belligerent act? Is being Anonymous a belligerent act? This is where we draw the line."
"This is when we revolt."
Previously, hacktivists aligned with the Anonymous collective attempted to wage cyber attacks on the creators and signers of NDAA, going after lawmakers involved in the bill by posting private information on the Web.
"No longer will you be able to enslave the people. The whole world will know of your violations against the rights of the citizens you were elected to represent," read a statement from one Anonymous operative then. In recent weeks, a similar online-organized attack against supporters of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, forced in part several major corporations from withdrawing support of the legislation.
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"We've had an incredible run. It's been an unbelievably successful season, and we've got high hopes dreams of season four hope things go well if it doesn't it's not going to tarnish the season any," Alford said.
While winning is the ultimate goal in March, those Ws add up to some serious cash in Alford's contract. For starters, his base salary along with other compensation and retirement pays him more than $1 million.
Alford's deal allows him to earn up to $625,000 more in incentives. In total, Alford has already made $150,000 in incentives this season.
Winning both the Mountain West regular season and tournament added $60,000 to his wallet. Alford earned an extra $10,000 by being the conference's coach of the year. A trip to the big dance was also worth another $20,000 for the coach.
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Just as it was transforming itself into a modern, buzzing city, VAN was rocked by a major quake in 2011. At the time of writing, reconstruction was under way, and many hotels, restaurants and bars were open for business. The region is well used to earthquakes, and despite the initial trauma there's an air of steely determination to recover. Van itself, set 4km from Lake Van against the backdrop of the volcanic, 3200m Erek Dağı, continues to make a great base to explore the lake's numerous attractions. Its highlight, ancient Van Kalesi, is spectacularly situated 3km west by the lake, where it overlooks the poignant remains of the old city destroyed during World War I.
Most visitors reach Van by road, along the scenic southern-shore route from Tatvan, which initially follows a pretty willow-fringed valley to the pass of Kuskunkıran (2234m), then descends through a checkpoint and along the lakeshore, with vistas of Akdamar and Süphan Dağı reflected in the still waters. The lake and mountain views are similarly spectacular if you approach Van by air, or on the erratic ferries from Tatvan.
Although Van is basically a conservative town, that's mitigated by the presence of the large student population attending Yüzüncü Yıl university. Numerous bars litter the centre, where it's possible to drink in mixed company, and listen to Turkish and Kurdish folk and rock music. Van is also a good place to shop, with a wide selection of local (Kurdish) tribal rugs, as well as often cheaper ones from nearby Iran, though you need to bargain hard to get a good price.
Following the winding down of the war with the PKK, the locals are increasingly asserting their Kurdish identity. In 2009 the pro-Kurdish DTP party won sixty percent of the vote in local elections, and the city's central tea garden on Cumhüriyet Caddesi has been given a Kurdish name.
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