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Nancy Cleveland went to Jacksonville City Hall Tuesday night to hear what the Jacksonville City Council candidates had to say.
Nancy Cleveland went to Jacksonville City Hall Tuesday night to hear what the Jacksonville City Council candidates had to say.
The Jacksonville resident listened for nearly 90 minutes as candidates answered questions on a variety of issues facing the city during Forum Onslow.
Three candidates for the two at large seats and two candidates for the one Ward 2 seat answered approximately 10 questions on topics ranging from what qualifies them for a seat on the council, the area�s biggest assets and deficiencies, what can be done to improve relations between the city and county, and their visions of downtown Jacksonville.
Panelists from the Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce prepared several questions in advance and the audience also had the opportunity to submit questions via cards in the council chambers, where the forum was held, Twitter and email. Daily News Publisher and Executive Editor Elliott Potter was the event�s moderator.
Several candidates said the area�s biggest asset and deficiency is the base.
�Our greatest asset is the military but we have almost complete dependence on them,� said Randy Thomas, at large candidate and incumbent.
Bob Warden, who is also an incumbent competing for an at large seat, attributed the area�s ability to weather the recession to the base, which provided work for area residents through construction and other opportunities.
�Our greatest weakness is our lack of work � manufacturing work. We�ve got a lot of service work here available. We�ve got a lot of opportunities on the base. I don�t know what that future is going to hold � we may see some of those opportunities go away. I would like to see us a little less dependent on the base but it�ll take time,� Warden said.
According to Jerry Bittner, who is running to retain his seat for Ward 2, the area�s disadvantage is a �lack of diversified economy� which would entice youth to return after college.
Alex Eatman, a candidate in the at large race, said that the area has a �strong industry of service.�
�People in Jacksonville are more geared toward that type of thing,� he said, explaining that Jacksonville is a �very service oriented and very giving kind of community.�
Another topic of discussion was relations between the city and Onslow County and what could be done to improve cooperation between the two.
According to Warden, city officials are �willing and ready to cooperate with the county on any project that�s a win-win for both parties.�
�That relationship with the county could always be better � but a good public servant does not let personalities, does not let issues, stand in the way of � the No. 1 primary goal,� he said, explaining the goal is to best serve the tax payers.
Bob Williams, who is competing in the Ward 2 race, said he doesn�t �see any good cooperation between the two from an outsiders� standpoint.�
�The county and the city need to work together � our citizens of Jacksonville are part of the county. There�s no reason why we can�t work together �,� Williams said, explaining that the two entities could work together to improve downtown Jacksonville and Burton Park.
Thomas said the two entities are similar to family.
�We�re all in this together. It�s much like a family, you don�t get to choose a family except your spouse,� he said. �I�m hopeful that through outreach and cooperation, we can improve those relations.�
The candidates also discussed their visions for improving the downtown Jacksonville.
Bittner said the council has made �great end roads� in what�s been accomplished downtown through building homes, demolishing buildings and improving Riverwalk Park and will continue to do so.
According to Warden, the hope is that future development will be �because of the good start that we got.�
Thomas said that recent improvements have done a great deal.
�I think downtown is a lot like a diamond in the rough. It�s got all the components to be successful,� he said.
Eatman feels that the council should not have a vision for the downtown area and that the vision should be �whatever the property owners would like to have done with it.�
�But as far as the city trying to mold any part of town into a specific direction, I would not want to see that happen,� he said.
Williams also felt that citizens should be the proponents of the downtown�s future.
�I think the citizens of Jacksonville should have a vision for downtown and they should bring that to us,� he said.
Bittner used one of his rebuttal cards, of which each candidate had two, to explain that the downtown master plan was created by community planning groups consisting of citizens, not the council.
Candidates also discussed whether or not the city and ONWASA compete for customers and if it�s a waste of tax payer dollars, their thoughts on government spending and municipal budgets, if Sturgeon City is worth the resources being spent on it and what the council can do to help owners keep their investments.
According to Williams, not much should be done since government funds should not be used for private enterprise but he doesn�t think that continuing to build houses in the area will help the area see less foreclosures or empty residences.
Eatman, like Williams, said that government shouldn�t have its hands in investments.
�You shouldn�t expect the government to bail you out of investments,� he said.
Bittner feels that homeowners will be helped if the economy is stimulated by bringing in industry.
�We can do our best by keeping taxes as low as possible,� he said.
Warden doesn�t think that the city �should be telling folks that they should or should not be building.�
Thomas said that builders found Onslow County attractive in recent years due to the troop build up and resulting work, while other parts of the state suffered. He said that �you can only do so much� and that expenses should be kept low so Jacksonville remains a nice place to live.
When the forum was over, Cleveland said it helped her get ready for voting in November and recommended residents watch the forum on G-10 when it replays. The forum can also be viewed on the city�s website at jacksonvillenc.gov.
The Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce plans to organize a future forum on the school bond but a date has not been determined.
Oct. 11 is the final day to register for the Nov. 5 municipal election.
Jerome Willingham, who is running unopposed for Ward 1, did not attend the forum.
Amanda Hickey is the government reporter at The Daily News. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Ten Trends in a Global Economy - Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini is the Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, his own global macroeconomic consultancy firm. He is also a professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.
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Wed. Feb. 27: Watch These 3 Stocks
Steve Russolillo joins the News Hub to discuss which stocks he's watching in the markets today. Photo: Getty Images.
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LONDON -- British police say 300 potential victims of a disgraced BBC entertainer, the late Jimmy Savile, have come forward so far since details emerged earlier this month that he was among the country's most prolific sex offenders.
Commander Peter Spindler of Scotland Yard said Thursday the Savile case marked a "watershed" moment for the victims of childhood sexual abuse, since many now felt able for the first time to contact British police.
He told reporters, of the 300 people who have come forward so far, officers had spoken to 130 potential victims who have made 114 separate allegations of sexual assault.
"On the victims, we are more or less at the 300 figure ... It is quite staggering the number of women, and this is primarily women _ we have only got two men in the system so far," Spindler said.
Spindler said although the majority of cases related to Savile alone, some involved the former television presenter and other unidentified suspects acting together. He said some who came forward with abuse cases linked to Savile also had other abuse cases that did not involve Savile.
He declined to say how many other people may be involved in the allegations of abuse or specify whether any of those suspects are still alive.
"There's Savile on his own, and that's the vast majority of what we're being told about, there's Savile and others _ and it's the others, if they're living, we can look at them," he said.
He confirmed that police could seek to prosecute any suspects who are still living, but said no one has been arrested or questioned so far.
The BBC has been rocked by allegations that Savile sexually abused underage teens over several decades, sometimes on BBC premises. Some of the alleged victims have accused other entertainers and BBC staff of participating in the abuse.


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Mud, Snow and Cyclocross: The Boston Globe, TourChats, and More Reviews!
I've been traveling like a maniac the last couple of weeks, with no end in sight, but I wanted to pop on and post a few of the coolest things that have happened to me lately.
First of all, Ed Medina wrote an AMAZING article that was published in The Boson Globe yesterday all about cyclocross, with a whole piece interviewing me and talking about the book and how people can get into cyclocross. So exciting!
I also was lucky enough to be featured on Tour Chats with Neil Browne and Dan Wuori, where I talked about the book and cyclocross, showed off my cowbell tattoo, and generally had an amazing time.
There have also been a few great reviews of the book that have come out lately. The Washing Machine Post from the UK did one, as did Scum City Racing.
Colt from CyclingDirt did an interview with me at USGP Sun Prairie, which was a blast, even though I talk on video about why reading is way better than watching a video…
Lastly, I got to do a book signing at CrossVegas, and in Interbike with Cat's Tongue Towels and USA Cycling, which was an absolute blast.
Stay tuned for more, and check out the coverage from the USGP's that I did, because there are some great interviews in there.


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9 Most Expensive American Cities
(NEW YORK) -- What drives costs in the most expensive cities in the U.S.? The answer is housing. But the nationwide trend of falling home prices won't knock the city with the highest cost of living, New York, out of the top spot anytime soon.
According to an index of 306 cities published by the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), the cost of living in the borough of Manhattan in New York City is 128 percent higher than the national average, with an index score of 228.
The council has published the quarterly data since 1968, after it was originally published by the government, and uses the prices of 60 consumer goods and services in six categories: grocery items, housing, utilities, transportation, health care and miscellaneous items.
Housing, which is weighted the heaviest in the analysis, created challenges for the data collection with its plummeting prices across the country.
"This is the worst economy the project has seen since 1968," said Dean Frutiger, project manager of the Cost of Living Index project at C2ER.
Frutiger said the project usually does not use new home prices below $365,000 for its data collection, but he has been seeing "prices that are far below that."
"The economy forces us to be pretty flexible," he said.
Here's a list of the nine cities with the highest cost of living out of the 306 regions analyzed by C2ER:
Manhattan (New York), N.Y.
While C2ER aims to collect uniform data about mortgage rates, housing prices and rental costs across the country, the densely populated area of Manhattan requires certain attention with its 1.6 million residents, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
C2ER works with local organizations to collect data on designated days so the information is as consistent as it can be across the country.
Frutiger said C2ER usually looks at homes with four or more bedrooms at about 2,400 square feet.
"In Texas, that's a closet, but that's going to be huge in Manhattan," he said.
For that reason, C2ER will have to pro-rate housing data from New York to compare to the other cities in the index.
Brooklyn (New York), N.Y.
The borough of Brooklyn creates similar challenges to that of Manhattan. With a population of 2,504,700, according to the U.S. Census, Brooklyn is the most populous of the New York's five boroughs. It is however, the second largest, which arguably may make housing more affordable than in Manhattan.
New York boroughs make it to the top of the list frequently, Frutiger said.
"I don't think anyone would be surprised looking at that," he said.
San Francisco, Calif.
The cost of living is 66.5 percent higher in San Francisco than the national average. While housing is more affordable in San Francisco than in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the Golden Gate region's transportation costs and health care were slightly more expensive Brooklyn's, according to the data submitted to C2ER.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The cost of living in Honolulu is 65.8 percent higher than the national average, closely following San Francisco. While its housing costs are below that of San Francisco, Honolulu's five other categories -- its grocery items, utilities, transportation, health care and miscellaneous goods and services -- were higher than in San Francisco.
San Jose, Calif.
San Jose may be a world away from San Francisco in terms of urban and suburban aesthetics, but it is just a one-hour drive to the south in good traffic. The heart of Silicon Valley had higher costs than San Francisco, according to the index, in the categories of utilities, transportation and healthcare.
Stamford, Conn.
A suburb of New York, Stamford has a cost of living 47.4 percent higher than the national average. Though finance professionals have been known to escape to Stamford for lower costs and more real estate space, the index indicates utilities costs higher in Stamford than in Manhattan or Brooklyn.
Queens (New York), N.Y.
The largest New York City borough by area, Queens is an expensive real estate market. Though housing prices are lower than in Brooklyn, Queens had higher costs than Brooklyn for grocery items, utilities, transportation and health care.
Orange County, Calif.
Encompassing the metropolitan area of Santa Ana, Anaheim and Irvine, Orange County's housing costs were higher than in Queens, New York. However, its utilities and healthcare costs were lower than those of Queens. Lacking an efficient public transit system, Orange County had transportation costs higher than those of Queens, San Francisco and San Jose.
Washington, D.C./Arlington/Alexandria, Va.
In previous years, Washington D.C. was not on the top ten list, but has become one of the most expensive cities in recent years, Frutiger said.
"The housing market in D.C. has remained very strong, unlike the rest of country," Frutiger said. "Housing can drive the index very easily."
Housing costs in Washington, D.C. were higher than in Orange County, but were lower than in the other cities of the top nine.
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Gnocchi Recipes
Gnocchi in Bolognese Sauce
Bolognese gnocchi is comfort food at its best. And with the chilly temperature we've been having this week in the Bay Area, a warm bowl of potato gnocchi pasta in Bolognese sauce fits the bill.
It took some time to complete the meal but it was so worth it. I made everything from scratch. I started by simmering Bolognese sauce for over an hour. While the beef and tomatoes were cooking down in the sauce, I mashed potatoes and added flour to form the gnocchi. I also added roasted turnip to give texture to the dish.
I didn't add cheese to the dish because I've been trying to be healthy and hit the gym regularly, but I'm sure a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese wouldn't hurt the flavor. It's up to you!
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Stuffed Gnocchi (Cheese Stuffed Pasta with Romesco Sauce Recipe
I recently had stuffed gnocchi at a restaurant and have been itching to recreate the dish at home, with my own little twists of course. I decided to stuff my homemade gnocchi with pieces of Nabulsi cheese, which is Persian black sesame cheese. I chose this particular cheese because I like the way it melts when it is cooked. It's not as messy as mozzarella, but it does become soft and a bit stringy. I paired the cheese-stuffed pasta with homemade romesco sauce, which contains pine nuts, almond butter, olive oil, bread, a head of roasted garlic, sherry vinegar and roasted red bell pepper. The bright, red color pops against the gnocchi. And since the sauce pairs so well with seafood, I served fried fish on the side.
Lya, Lulu and I had so much fun filming the "how to make gnocchi" video a few weeks ago, and this dish brought back the memories. My little munchkin was sad that she didn't get to help roll and form the gnocchi last time, so I made sure that she got her chance today. She enjoyed it so much, mostly because she nominated herself to be the official taster. Making gnocchi is very interactive, and I've found it's a great way to get kids cooking. It doesn't hurt that it tastes great too!
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Sweet Potato Gnocchi Recipe with Cooking Video
I made sweet potato gnocchi this weekend. But instead of making regular potato gnocchi with eggs as a binder, I used chana dal paste and a little tahini. The dough comes out a little sticky compared to using eggs, but the texture turns out the same. I paired the gnocchi with Asian ingredients for the sauce and bok choy.
I haven't posted anything over the weekend because I spent the last few days filming my very first cooking video! I had no clue how long it would take to film and edit the takes, and I have to admit, it was quite a lot of work. I hope you like it! Let me know what you think and check out the blooper reel below for a few laughs.
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Whole Wheat Gnocchi Stroganoff Recipe
The term "stroganoff" is synonymous with beef, but for this dish I made everything vegetarian. I used the usual ingredients needed for the sauce, which originated from Russia: mushrooms, onions, shallots, vodka, sour cream, coarse-grain mustard and tomato paste, but I paired it with my homemade gnocchi. This was my first experiment with making gnocchi from whole wheat flour. To ensure that the pasta turned out moist and to enhance the flavor, I added goat ricotta cheese.
If you have a vegetarian in the house as I do, finding an alternative to meat dishes isn't as complicated as it seems. Try this recipe, and you'll agree.
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Purple Potato Gnocchi with Roasted Beets
Gnocchi are a lot easier to make that one would think. The dough is made of mashed potatoes, flour and eggs. The preparation is very basic. The gnocchi bathe in boiling water for a few minutes and they're sautéed in a little butter.
To make it more fun and playful for the kids to eat, I used purple potatoes, called Okinawan sweet potatoes. They look very similar to a white sweet potato and are oval-shaped with pointy tips. To repeat the purple-colored theme, I paired the pasta dish with roasted beets. I also added sage for flavor and almonds for crunch.
We eat with our eyes first, and the vibrant color of this dish is sure to capture the attention of even the pickiest eater. After the reception it got from my girls, I expect I'll be making it fairly often.
Uncooked gnocchi.
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When Seattle's beloved Top Pot Doughnuts began selling wholesale to Seattle-area Starbucks retail locations a few years ago, it raised some concerns about the continued quality of the product. Now, the program has expanded: their doughnuts can be seen in Starbucks throughout the country! However, if you buy a Top Pot at Starbucks in Omaha or San Jose, are you really getting the same experience as if you were to buy it at the Top Pot Doughnut stores in Seattle? Or are they giving their own doughnuts a bad name?
Committed to finding out the truth, Cakespy recently staged a tasting between Top Pot doughnuts, both the same flavor (old-fashioned glazed)—one from the Belltown location, and one from a local Starbucks. Our Tasting Panel consisted of several Madison Park Greetings employees, as serious a collection of Cake Gumshoes as we've ever seen. The tasting was "blind" in that the tasters did not know which doughnut was from Top Pot and which came via Starbucks before rating them. Our overall object was to find out if Top Pot Doughnuts sold in Starbucks stores are of comparable quality to those sold in Top Pot Doughnut locations. So how did they stack up? Here's our review:
Cost: Including tax, the Starbucks version was $1.75; the Top Pot version was $1.63. Not a huge difference, but a difference nonetheless.
Texture: The Starbucks version was lighter, and slightly less dense. It appeared the the Top Pot version had been fried longer; it was darker and more well-done.
Taste: Overall, the taste was similar, although the taste of the frying oil was more evident in the Top Pot version. However, as to whether this was a good thing or not was of some debate; some found the added frying made it taste more crisp/fresh and added a nice contrast and taste complexity, while others found the lighter texture of the Starbucks version to be more appetizing.
Freshness: Our panel was split on this one, but the overall consensus seemed to be that while neither was stale necessarily, neither seemed like it was just out of the fryer; one taster suspected that the Starbucks version had been refrigerated.
Which did you prefer: 75% of our panelists preferred...the Starbucks version!
To sum it up: While we can't ignore the fact that certain aspects do throw off the scale (the fact that the Top Pot version was fried longer, in this case, which might not be the same case on a different day; the fact that transit time to different parts of the country may affect freshness), the overall review was quite positive for Top Pot doughnuts via Starbucks. Although they were not exactly the same, there weren't any red-flag differences between the quality of the two versions, and both were overall quite good quality, classic doughnuts. Will you like the doughnuts? Well, that's for you to see; however, we can confidently say that readers over the US who are curious about trying Top Pot via Starbucks will have a fairly authentic Top Pot taste experience.
For more information on Top Pot Doughnuts or to find locations, visit toppotdoughnuts.com.
Cakespy Note: In all of the photos above, the Starbucks version appears on the left, and the Top Pot version on the right.


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Taipei Orders Google & Apple To Offer 7-Day Free Trials Of All Apps Offered Via App Markets
from the liability-confusion deptApparently some regulators in Taiwan's capital city of Taipei have extended some consumer protection laws such that they've ordered Google and Apple to start providing 7-day free trials of every app, in either the Apple App Store or the Google Android Marketplace, or face large fines. The issue is that the consumer protection laws require a grace period for returns, which neither of these services provide to the extent that Taipei regulators would like. Apple and Google, quite reasonably, point out that they should not be liable as third parties, suggesting (implicitly) that it should be developers themselves who are responsible for obeying any sort of consumer protection regulations. However, Taipei regulators aren't buying it:
"Such a claim is an irresponsible business practice," Yeh said.The two companies have been given 15 days to comply with the law, and if they are unable to do so, they could be facing significant fines. It does make me wonder if either company even has the functionality to offer such things across the board, and how various developers would feel about that.


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Hot, spiced and boosted with wine and spirits, gløgg is an elixir worthy of the vikings. Throughout the month of December, this libation is a Nordic staple, served in cafes, doled out from street carts and ladled at social gatherings. It's the season's response to the cold and dark and as ubiquitous as herring. Most home cooks will make their own brew, either enabled by a mix or from scratch. This recipe is my version of gløgg from scratch, and I encourage you to try this method. It avoids the cloying sweetness often found with mixes and is remarkably easy to prepare. You don't have to splurge on a nice bottle of wine for this recipe, but be sure it has heft.
Serves 8 to 10 friends.
For the garnish:
1 cup raisins
1/3 cup Cointreau or Gran Marnier
1/2 cup whole almonds (optional)
For the gløgg:
1 1/2 cups Port wine
1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1/2 cup Cointreau or Gran Marnier
1/3 cup brown sugar
Zest of 2 untreated or organic oranges, shaved in strips with a vegetable peeler
10 cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
2 bottles full-bodied red wine
Fresh orange slices as garnish
Prepare the garnish:
Combine the raisins and Cointreau in a small bowl. Let sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours. (Raisins may be prepared up to one week in advance. Cover and refrigerate until use). Toast the almonds in a dry skillet on the stove. Remove from heat and coarsely chop in large pieces.
Prepare the gløgg:
Combine all of the ingredients except the 2 bottles of red wine in a heavy large pot with a lid. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer uncovered until reduced to 2 cups, 12-15 minutes. Add red wine and warm over low heat with the lid on the pot. Do not let the gløgg come to a boil (lest the spirits will evaporate!)
To serve, add a spoonful each of raisins and almonds, if using, to a glass or mug. Strain gløgg into glass. Garnish with fresh orange slices. Serve with a spoon for scooping up the raisins and almonds.


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Chris O�Brien
Los Angeles Times
After tiptoeing out of the long shadow of Steve Jobs this last year, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has taken a giant leap into the spotlight.
In a kind of transparency rarely practiced by his enigmatic predecessor, Cook recently granted a pair of candid interviews that underscored the difference in both style and substance between the two men.
They also served as the latest sign of how Cook has embraced the Apple motto to �Think Different� as he methodically and quietly reshapes the culture and business of the company he inherited.
�He�s the kinder, gentler Apple,� said Carl Howe, a longtime Apple analyst for market advisory firm International Data Corp.
�This is a big, multinational corporation. I think Tim has done a better job of recognizing that,� Howe said. �Jobs could remember when it was just three guys in a garage. When you get to be one of the largest companies in the world, you need a different skill set.�
Cook has dramatically expanded the pace of Apple�s product introduction, rolling out in the last few months the iPhone 5, a new iPad, upgrades to iPod line and the new iPad Mini at a size that Jobs once dismissed as too small.
But Cook also addressed the tone of Apple when he restructured management by dismissing an executive who had been a favorite of Jobs to emphasize collegiality over confrontation.
Such a break has drawn some applause. But it has not been without risks, analysts said. And there have been stumbles, as witnessed by the Apple Maps controversy that raised questions about whether the company�s design instincts had weakened without the heavy hand of Jobs to guide them to perfection.
Analysts also acknowledge the general concern that Cook still might not have the �chops� to push more new products down the pipeline � electronics that change the way people work and live.
Apple�s stock has experienced volatility amid questions about its slipping market share and prospects for growth.
Still, in an interview with the publication Bloomberg Businessweek, Cook insisted that the blessing to change direction and chart his own course came from Jobs himself in the weeks before the company�s co-founder died last year.
�He goes, �I never want you to ask what I would have done,� �� Cook recalled. � �Just do what�s right.� He was very clear.�
Longtime Apple observers said Cook has taken that advice to heart, though at his own pace.
�He didn�t simply want to start as CEO by making radical changes,� said Regis McKenna, the Silicon Valley marketing legend who began working with Apple in its earliest days. �He doesn�t do precipitous acts just to be different. He is thoughtful and methodical. He does things because he thinks they�re right.�
The latest and most surprising change that resulted from Cook�s deliberative process was revealed when he announced in the interviews with Bloomberg and NBC News� Rock Center With Brian Williams that Apple intended to move some of its manufacturing back to the United States.
Cook said the company would invest $100 million to begin building some Mac computers domestically, though he didn�t specify the location. Apple assembles some products in the U.S., but it doesn�t disclose how many or where.
Just as remarkable to many observers were the reasons: Cook said he believed that the company did have an obligation to play a social role above and beyond the goal of fattening the bottom line.
�I do feel we have a responsibility to create jobs,� Cook told Bloomberg. �I don�t think we have a responsibility to create a certain kind of job, but I think we do have a responsibility to create jobs. I think we have a responsibility to give back to the communities, to pick ways that we can do that.�
Tim Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies, said the amount of manufacturing moved to the U.S. was likely to be small. Though it might bolster Apple�s reputation, he said, that probably wasn�t the main motivation for Cook.
Still, Cook�s comments were unlikely ever to have come from Jobs, who bristled at such notions as the company�s social impact and charitable giving.
One of the first big departures for Cook was the way he handled mounting criticism of the labor practices of Apple�s overseas manufacturing partners, particularly the plants in China at a supplier company called Foxconn that faced accusations of overworking and underpaying underage employees.
After touring Chinese factories, Cook raised the standards that partners were expected to meet. He signed on with the Fair Labor Association to conduct independent inspections of Apple suppliers.
Cook�s experience building and running Apple�s supply chain put him in closer touch with those who make the company�s products, Howe said. Indeed, the creation of Apple�s world-class manufacturing system had been Cook�s crowning achievement.
But Cook�s changes haven�t gone far enough or fast enough to suit many critics. Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, executive director of corporate responsibility group SumOfUs, said the return of some manufacturing to the U.S. was too small to do anything more than buff Apple�s image.
�It does not change the fact that their entire business model relies on the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers,� she said. �Apple has an obligation, and Tim Cook personally has an obligation, to address this problem. He knows better than anyone how these people are treated since he was in charge of the supply chain.�
Jobs hired the 6-foot-1, soft-spoken Alabama native in 1998 from Compaq Computers. It was a big risk for Cook because at the time Apple was still struggling for survival. But Cook told Jobs� biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he couldn�t resist the chance to work with the dynamic Jobs.
�Five minutes into my initial interview with Steve, I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple,� Cook told Isaacson. �My intuition told me that joining Apple would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for a creative genius.�
Cook set about overhauling Apple�s manufacturing and supply chains, which were in disarray. He is the architect of a system that is the envy of gadget-makers around the world and was a crucial part of Apple�s revival. But it was also a shift that relied heavily on outsourcing almost all of Apple�s manufacturing overseas.
When the temperamental Jobs grew so sick he could no longer run Apple last year, he pushed the board to make the more mellow Cook his successor.
Jobs told Isaacson he did have one reservation about Cook: �Tim�s not a product person, per se.�
That concern remains central to those who worry about Apple�s future.
�Can Tim Cook move fast enough to use the technology in Apple�s labs to avert a disaster? That�s the big question he hasn�t had to answer yet,� said Vivek Wadhwa, vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University in Silicon Valley.
In the short term, questions about Cook�s product leadership haven�t stopped him from accelerating the pace of new product launches and upgrades this year, another departure for a company that boasts of focusing on just a few products.
And it seemed to push Cook�s supply chain to the limit when the company had to delay shipments of its new iPhone 5 this fall because it couldn�t meet the demand.
The company also faced controversy when it abruptly replaced Google Maps on the iPhone with a new Apple Maps app that users criticized as being weak and inaccurate. Cook publicly apologized, but Apple fans fretted that this was a larger sign that Apple had lost its design mojo and the eye for perfection demanded by Jobs.
In the wake of the maps uproar, Cook delivered another shock in October when he announced that Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple, was out. Forstall had been a Jobs favorite, but was also reportedly similar in personality to his boss: confrontational and abrasive.
Howe said the best way for Cook to calm investors was to continue to deliver stellar results. But Howe said it�s also important that investors and customers continue to get to know the man who carries the burden of Apple�s success.
And that means that Cook, who once told Isaacson he�d �prefer my name never be in the paper,� will have to continue to embrace a larger role as a public figure.
�I think we all miss Steve,� McKenna said. �He was such an unusual dynamic character that it seemed that Tim would always be in his shadow.
�But when you start running a billion-dollar company, you have a responsibility to meet with analysts, journalists and a public to keep the company�s image alive and strong,� he said. �Tim Cook is his own person, and we�re all starting to finally see that.�


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After months of bickering between the general election candidates, the 2012 presidential show-down will officially come to a close today (or, hopefully, pending how close the election is - it will conclude in the coming days).
Below, find five important things to watch out for as voters have their say in the presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney:
1. WHO TURNS OUT? Not all votes are created equal. The presidential candidates have competed furiously for support in well-established battlegrounds and among constituencies each finds the most favorable.
A robust turnout among minorities would favor Obama's re-election; Romney needs to drive up his numbers among working-class white men, a group that has tilted his way in polls.
2. LATE RALLIES? Obama starts and ends his day in his hometown of Chicago. Romney is in Boston to vote in the morning and take in returns at night, but making a trip in between to Ohio and Pennsylvania. Will the late rush sway votes? Will Obama follow suit?
3. DOES IT FALL TO NEVADA? Of the nine most contested states, five fall in the Eastern time zone, two are on Central time, one is on Mountain time and the last — Nevada — is on Pacific. That makes Nevada the last to close, three hours after the first polling place end times in the East. Will the outcome still be unclear by then? If so, Nevada could prove more important than previously imagined.
4. PROVISIONAL BALLOTS? Disputes over who is eligible to vote could leave some ballots in limbo. Both sides have armies of lawyers on duty to keep eyes on polling places. When there is a doubt, voters could wind up casting ballots that may not immediately figure into election-night tabulations. Will those ballots come into play later?
5. CALL ME MAYBE? Acrimonious as the campaign was, losing presidential candidates have a tradition of wishing the victor well once his fate is clear. Some calls are placed on election night. Others get put off until morning when the dust fully settles. Should either Obama or Romney wait up by their phones? Tradition says "yes," but with the stakes so high this go-around, we'll have to wait and see.


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text: .,..but at some point you just have to cut a guy who is not doing his job. McCarthy and everyone else including Wayne Larrivee for some reason, go way out of their way to talk about Crosby being mentally strong – giving him votes of confidence no matter what he does. But right now, he is in the midst of an unreal slump (55% on the season) – AND HISTORICALLY HE JUST HASN'T BEEN VERY GOOD (77% career average). He is hurting this team right now and we need to look at some other options.


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EDGARTOWN, Mass. -- The U.S. "strongly condemns" the violent clashes between Egyptian security forces and protesters and repeats its call for the interim government in Cairo to use restraint, the White House said Wednesday.
But White House spokesman Josh Earnest offered little indication that the deadly violence that shook the Egyptian capital Wednesday had caused any shift in the U.S. policy toward the military leadership that ousted democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in July.
"We have repeatedly called on the Egyptian military and security forces to show restraint and for the government to respect the universal rights of its citizens, just as we've urged protesters to demonstrate peacefully," Earnest said. "We also strongly oppose a return to a state of emergency law and call on the government to respect basic human rights such as freedom of peaceful assembly and due process under the law.
"The world is watching what is happening in Cairo."
Earnest said President Obama was monitoring the situation while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard. The president was briefed Wednesday morning about the violence by National Security Advisor Susan Rice and would continue to receive updates throughout the day, Earnest said. The president was scheduled to to golfing Wednesday afternoon, the third day of his summer hiatus.
Egyptian security forces had warned for weeks that they planned to clear pro-Morsi protesters engaged in sit-ins organized by his Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement. The raids Wednesday morning erupted into chaotic and deadly violence.
The White House said the raids were a sign that the interim government was "not currently following through on their promise to transition back to a democratically elected civilian government," Earnest said.
Still, the U.S. has refused to call the military overthrow of the Morsi government a coup, a label that could have implications for the continued flow of U.S. aid to Egypt. Earnest repeated Wednesday that the White House was not willing to take that step.
"We have determined that it is not in the best interest of the United States to make that determination," Earnest said. "But as we've also said throughout that process, we are, on a regular basis, reviewing the aid that is provided by the United States to Egypt. And we'll continue to do that."
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A car built with ZL2 will have a .75" hole just above the fuse box for the wiring harness. There is another small hole for the relay on the firewall above the RH rocker cover.Ill check out for that hole above the fuse panel. Thanks,
The ignition coil bracket would also be at an angle that the straight non ZL2 hoods did not use.So if someone just added the hood chances are they didn't swap the coil in anticipation of changing over the air cleaner.


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WaPo admits plagiarism in story
The Washington Post apologized Wednesday for an article published four days ago by reporter William Booth that had four plagiarized sentences from a scientific journal.
The copied sentences were taken from Environmental Health Perspectives. The original author, Andrea Hricko, notified the post of the problem Tuesday.
In an editor's note, the newspaper apologized:
"An earlier version of this article included material borrowed and duplicated, without attribution, from Environmental Health Perspectives, a monthly scientific journal. In that earlier version, four sentences were copied in whole or in substantial part from 'Progress and Pollution: Port Cities Prepare for the Panama Canal Expansion,' published on Dec. 3 and written by Andrea Hricko, a professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
"It is The Post's policy that the use of material from other newspapers or sources must be properly attributed. The Post apologizes to Andrea Hricko, to Environmental Health Perspectives, and to its readers for this serious lapse."
Editor Marty Baron sent a written apology to Hriko, a professor at Keck School for Medicine of the University of Southern California saying, "This represented a serious violation of our ethics standards. It was a disservice to you, and it breaks faith with our readers. You have our deepest apology, and you have our assurance that we are taking this matter very seriously." That written apology was given to POLITICO.
The reporter also apologized saying that it was "an inadvertent and sloppy mistake."
"The Post will be taking severe and appropriate action with regard to Mr. Booth," according to statement from the Washington Post communications director Kristine Coratti, but the statement did not provide specifics.
Patrick Pexton, the Washington Post ombudsman, tweeted after the story was updated, "'The Post will be taking severe and appropriate action with regard to Mr. Booth.' Newsroom sources say he will not, however, be fired."


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New York, November 7, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by reports that access to at least five Sri Lankan websites has been blocked by the country's government.
The sites were blocked because they had maligned top government officials, the secretary of the media ministry told the BBC. A Sri Lankan official said, "A number of websites have already been blocked because they have engaged in 'character assassination' of the president [Mahinda Rajapaksa]," the BBC reported.
The BBC reported a government official saying that any website dealing with Sri Lankan affairs must register with the government or face legal action. Although newspapers, radio, and television stations must already register with the government before they start publishing, such requirements are new for websites, The Associated Press reported.
"Blocking online media is another step in the Sri Lankan government's plan to silence any media critical of its policies or personnel," said Bob Dietz, CPJ's Asia program coordinator. "The government must stop targeting news media and allow them to resume reporting."
The blocked websites include Lanka eNews, Sri Lanka Mirror, Sri Lanka Guardian, and Lanka Way News, according to Anusha Palpita, the director general of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, the AP reported.
Lanka eNews, a staunchly anti-government website, has been under attack for more than two years. In April, the site's staff members were arrested then released weeks later, and in the same month, the site was temporarily banned by a court order. In January, the offices were hit with an arson attack. The site's political cartoonist, Prageeth Eknelygoda, has been missing since January 2010.


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First, please be aware that our concern for author's rights means that this workshop is not for
stories about someone else's characters or settings; no STAR TREK stories, no ALVIN MAKER
stories, no MURDER, SHE WROTE stories, and so on. These, and others like them, are
copyrighted and such stories are only published under very special circumstances. We'd like you
to be able to see your own stories published; professionally, if possible.
Second, there are several discussion areas in the Hatrack River Writers Workshop forum.
The first area is for more information about how the forum works and it elaborates on some of
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The second area is for you to introduce yourself and tell other participants about your writing,
past, present, and future.
In Open Discussions on Writing, you can discuss all kinds of questions on writing. Feel free to
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In the Hatrack River Writers Workshop Writing Class you will find a few assignments that may
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The author may ask for clarification of another writer's comments, but any explanations,
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"The leads are weak," Jack Lemmon's character, Shelley Levene, tells Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross."
The advent of steam-powered machines, most notably locomotives, ushered in the Industrial Age nearly 200 years ago. The early leadership of railroads and other business enterprises was drawn largely from the ranks of the military. Not surprisingly, these top brass brought with them the hierarchical, authoritative leadership model that had served them well in their former military careers.
This top-down style of leadership also served their companies well, until the dawn of the Information Age, which reflected the social and political upheavals of the day. In 1970 Robert K. Greenleaf, founder of the servant leadership movement, published "The Servant as Leader," inspired by his reading of "Journey to the East" by Herman Hesse, a favorite of the counterculture at the time.
Greenleaf subsequently wrote "Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness," in which he posited that the power of leaders arises from the consent of the followers, hardly a new idea, but one whose time he felt had come. His philosophy was best summarized in another work, "Essentials," where he wrote, "The servant leader is servant first. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first. The best test…is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?"
The concept of servant leadership as envisioned by Greenleaf has been characterized by 10 key attributes: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to people's growth and building community. Collectively these attributes comprise more than a leadership model, but a spiritual framework for achieving its objectives. Greenleaf believed that central to servant leadership is a desire to serve a higher purpose, something beyond ourselves "to strive for, to move toward, to become."
As Joseph Jaworski, a Greenleaf disciple and author of "Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership," put it, "I have come to believe that leadership is much more about being than doing. It is about orientation of character, our state of inner activity."
This concept of leadership calls for embarking on a journey toward self-discovery and lifelong learning to fulfill our own unique purpose and help others fulfill theirs. Those of us who consider ourselves to be servant leaders may feel we're making pretty good progress on this journey. At least I did, until I recently read an article on grief counseling that suggested saying, "I'd like to make dinner for your family tomorrow," rather than "Let me know how I can help." Even if the person doesn't want dinner, they are much more likely to tell you how you can help.
However, I had already sent a note thanking and offering to help a group of employees who attended a weeklong program on self-awareness and leadership development. I received no responses other than to thank me for the conference. My offer to help had been construed as an empty platitude that didn't warrant a response. When I subsequently rephrased the question asking them in person rather than by e-mail, "What one thing can I do to help you on your journey?" I received entirely different responses – responses like, "Would you share books on leadership that have helped you?" "Can you help me to identify those areas where I can become truly exceptional?" "Would you help me with a problem involving a direct report?"; "Could you help us hold bimonthly meetings to continue to work with each other on leadership skills?" "Would you be a mentor to me?" "Could you help me to communicate with someone I haven't been able to connect with?"
It was then I realized the greater specificity of the "One Thing" approach was not only more effective, but more consistent with the tenets of servant leadership as well. Since my epiphany, I have used this approach in other ways, asking my colleagues things like, "If you could change one thing about our marketing communications program, what would it be?" "If you could think of the one thing to most improve our employee communications, what would it be?" "What is the one thing you would do differently if there is another recession?" What one thing can I do to make for a better working environment?"
This technique has elicited extremely specific and actionable responses, and my team knows if they ask me to do "one thing" for them, I will even if I have to stay up all night to do it. The "One Thing" approach captures the very essence of servant leadership, which can indeed make our employees "healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants."
Janet C. Jessen is vice president of global marketing, engineering and innovation for Palmyra, NY-based Garlock Sealing Technologies, which manufactures high-performance sealing products for the world's process industries. She also has served as vice president of business development for WaterfordWedgewood USA. She can be reached at 800-0448-6688 or email@example.com.


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You thought it couldn't be done?
The extended movie trailer for "Cloud Atlas" was leaked online – and though it may yet be too soon to tell – word is, the motion picture adaptation of the intense, centuries-spanning novel is extraordinarily stunning.
IndieWire called it "staggeringly ambitious" and "visually impressive."
The Wall Street Journal noted that the nearly 6-minute trailer, which debuted on Apple's website Thursday, was such a hit it bumped "Cloud Atlas" from 2,509 on Amazon's best seller list to No. 7 in record time. Random House has ordered 25,000 new paperbacks to meet the renewed interest. Not so unusual for a movie version of a book to stimulate fresh interest in an old title. But a mere trailer? Now that's impressive.
As is the trailer.
Lana and Andy Wachowski – the sibling duo behind "The Matrix" – and Tom Tykwer are behind the "and-you-thought-it-couldn't-be-done-transformation" of David Mitchell's acclaimed bestseller. The film, which weighs in at 164 minutes, stars an eclectic cast including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Bae Doona, David Gyasi, Susan Sarandon, Keith David, James D'Arcy, and Hugo Weaving.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the book and why this trailer is so impressive, consider this: "[A]uthor David Mitchell's dense, centuries-spanning novel ... tells six separate but interlocking stories starting in the South Pacific in the 1800s and progressing to a dystopian future with genetic clones," writes the Los Angeles Times. Among the "disparate worlds that the directors have created," writes IndieWire are "a Pacific sea expedition in the 19th century, Belgium in the 1930s, San Francisco in the 1970s, London in the present day, Korea in a dystopian future, and Hawaii at the end of time."
The 2004 novel tells the mind-bending stories of six narrators across time and space whose stories and histories are connected and whose actions impact one another's destinies. The novel won the British Book Award's Literary Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize.
"As big fans of the book, we've wondered for some time if the filmmakers would be able to come anywhere close to its material, but we have to confess that this is pretty stunning, for the most part," writes IndieWire. "The production values look incredibly high, the scope and ambition and variety is like nothing else we've seen in a long time, and the cast, aided by some excellent make-up, look to be rising to the occasion."
If the trailer generates this much interest, we're eager to see the impact of the actual film – on audiences and of course, in the resurgence of interest in the original novel.
"The experts all said it was too complicated," Lana Wachowski told the LA Times.
So far, it seems the adaptation has exceeded all expectations.
"Cloud Atlas" will makes is world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and hit US theaters Oct. 26.


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King Charles III, which plays Chichester Festival Theatre November 30-December 5, takes the nation forward to a moment of constitutional crisis after Prince Charles has finally acceded to the throne.
Playing Kate to Robert Powell's Charles is Jennifer Bryden. She's promising a fascinating night.
"It's an important play politically in terms of the status of the royal family, but it is brilliant writing.
"(Playwright) Mike (Bartlett) knew when he had the idea for the play that it needed to be epic in form because the subject is so epic in scale, the royal family, the state of the nation. It is a very muscular piece.
"He calls it a modern history play or a future history play. He has copied the five Acts of Shakespeare and done the same, and it works brilliantly. It is funny. It is witty. It is conversational. And it is important.
"What struck me is that we have been living with the same monarch for 60 years, three or four generations under the same monarch. My grandfather had the same queen, as have my nephews, and I don't think we realise how much she is specifically tied up with the identity of our nation, how much (when she dies) that is going to change massively. That's why I think it is a really-important play.
"Even in her time, the Queen has changed massively and has had to adapt to changing times. What is expected of her has changed. To think she would do a mock jump out of a helicopter for the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games would have been just laughed at 60 years ago. What she has recognised is that she has had to bring up to date the brand, but I think the royal family has struck a balance. They have kept their mystique. It is not like the Dutch or the Danish royal family that you might just see cycling about. They have remained an unknown quantity to a certain extent."
As for playing living, breathing figures, Jennifer recognises the burden: "There is a real sense of responsibility. I don't think it is something we have taken lightly, but I think what has been really important, from day one of rehearsals, is that we have tried to play the characters in the play and not just try to focus on doing some kind of Spitting Image or impersonation.
"They are real people but the story we are putting them on stage in is fabricated. We have to treat our characters as we would any other characters. Kate especially is seen in the play as not the character that we see day to day.
"Most licence has been taken with her character probably because she is the one that we know least about… but if we got too wrapped up in the fact that these are real people, it would become a very different play."
But no, Jennifer really wouldn't want to see the real Kate sitting there in the front row of the audience.
"I would be terrified quite frankly, but I don't think she would want to see it either. I don't think anyone ever wants to see themselves fictionalised on stage.
"Inevitably we have taken artistic licence, and this is my interpretation of someone I don't actually know and that I have only ever seen in one context… So no, I don't think she would enjoy it!"
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It is with true sadness that I'm writing to report the death of one of the 2010 LA whooping cranes. L7-10 began her life in LA, as an egg produced at the Audubon Species Survival Center, and sadly last week her life ended in LA.
I'll never forget L7 because in mid-March when we released the birds from the top-netted acclimation enclosure she was the first one to fly and I just about fell over because although she walked fine and had always walked fine when she got up in the air her left leg hung down. I was shocked to see this because when a crane flies with a dangling leg it's usually a result of a broken or severely injured leg, yet this bird had just walked in front of me without so much as a limp. I watched anxiously, waiting for her to land, expecting there to be a major problem but she landed with only the usual clumsiness of a first time flier and no indication there was anything wrong with her leg. After sending photographs around to our state vet and the small crane vet community it was thought that she might have some kind of nerve or tendon damage causing the leg to hang down in flight but appear normal when walking. Since it only looked strange but didn't seem to affect her there was nothing to do except monitor her.
As the marsh dried and the birds split up and moved around L7 remained close with #'s 2 & 4 in the north end of the impoundment where the pen is located. On 30 May she was seen by herself and was noted to have an odd gait with her left leg but still looked good and was actively foraging. She did however have a lot of mud on her feathers and mud covering the solar panels on her transmitter which caused it to stop working. I saw her the next day from a plane and she looked good, again actively foraging.
A week later she was not so good. A local landowner several miles north of the marsh called and reported that she appeared to be sick or injured. My colleague from LSU, Tandi Perkins, headed down to White Lake to find her. L7 could walk and fly but was weak and lethargic and not behaving normally. Tandi was able to catch her and immediately noticed how thin she was. We began making phone calls and arrangements and later that evening got her into the top-netted pen with food and water. She didn't have any wounds, injuries, or broken bones but after putting her down in the pen Tandi and I were both able to observe the abnormal gait of her left leg – similar to, but worse than what had been seen a week earlier.
The next day we took her to the LSU vet school and Dr. Tom Tully and his team worked with us to get her examined and evaluated. They took radiographs and blood. They gave her fluids and a variety of medication. The good news is there were no major problems detected – there was no foreign body or obstruction, no broken bones, and even her blood work wasn't that bad – no raging infection. The flip side of course is that we didn't have a clear answer as to what was going on with her leg or why she was so thin. We brought her back to the pen with prescriptions for antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medication as well as rest and monitoring in a contained environment.
Early the next week our state vet, Dr. Jim LaCour, came down to examine her and repeat the blood work. We also started her on some medication for a parasite that was found in her feces. She ate and drank and slowly began to gain a little bit of weight but her leg issue remained the same. Unfortunately by the end of her first full week in the pen I began to hear some gurgly respiratory noises. We immediately put her on some additional medication for a fungal infection which I suspected she had now developed. Her outlook for recovering and being released had been slim but now with a respiratory infection her chances of survival weren't looking that good.
I cared for her every day and felt bad that my costumed presence wasn't a comfort to her as it had been when she was young. Because she had been caught and handled she had become wary of the costume and that wariness grew each time I had to catch her and restrain her to weigh her or give her, her meds.
We scheduled a return visit to the LSU vet school exactly 2 weeks after we'd been there the first time. The main issue this time was her respiratory system; her leg and low weight were secondary problems of lesser concern at this point. Sadly Dr. Nevarez and his team found granulomas in her lungs, likely an Aspergillosis infection just as I suspected and feared. Unfortunately, there is no good way to treat this type of infection so the decision was made to humanely euthanize L7-10. Her life was short but I'd like to think it was good, especially the few months she had to fly free over the marshes of southern LA.
In addition to our core whooping crane team I am very grateful to Dr. LaCour who was wonderful to work with during this difficult time, to the landowner who reported the bird to us and to the White Lake staff who helped Tandi initially find and capture #7. We are also incredibly grateful to the LSU vet school, in particular Drs. Tully and Nevarez and their teams for their assistance and excellent work in caring for and treating our L7.
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A pole star is a visible star, preferably a prominent one, that is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation; that is, a star whose apparent position is close to one of the celestial poles, and which lies approximately directly overhead when viewed from the Earth's North Pole or South Pole. A similar concept also applies to other planets than the Earth. In practice, the term Pole Star usually refers to Polaris, which is the current northern pole star, also known as the North Star.
The south celestial pole currently lacks a bright star like Polaris to mark its position. At present, the naked-eye star nearest to this imaginary point is the faint Sigma Octantis, which is sometimes known as the South Star.
While other stars' apparent positions in the sky change throughout the night, as they appear to rotate around the celestial poles, pole stars' apparent positions remain virtually fixed. This makes them especially useful in celestial navigation: they are a dependable indicator of the direction toward the respective geographic pole although not exact; they are virtually fixed, and their angle of elevation can also be used to determine latitude.
The identity of the pole stars gradually changes over time because the celestial poles exhibit a slow continuous drift through the star field. The primary reason for this is the precession of the Earth's rotational axis, which causes its orientation to change over time. If the stars were fixed in space, precession would cause the celestial poles to trace out imaginary circles on the celestial sphere approximately once every 26,000 years, passing close to different stars at different times. However, the stars themselves also exhibit proper motion, and this motion is another cause of the apparent drift of pole stars.
At the present time, the northern pole star, or North Star, is a moderately bright star with an apparent magnitude of 1.97 (variable), the brightest star in the Ursa Minor constellation (at the end of the "handle" of the "Little Dipper" asterism).[1]
Its current (October 2012) declination is +89°19'8" (as per epoch J2000 it was +89°15'51.2"). Therefore it always appears due north in the sky to a precision better than one degree, and the angle it makes with respect to the horizon is equal to the latitude of the observer. It is consequently known as Polaris (from Latin stella polaris "pole star"). It also retains its older name, Cynosura, from a time before it was the pole star, from its Greek name meaning "dog's tail" (as the constellation of Ursa Minor was interpreted as a dog, not a bear, in antiquity).
The North Star can even be seen slightly south of the Equator (because of atmospheric refraction); further south, it cannot be used for navigation.
A common method of locating Polaris in the sky is to follow along the line of the so-called "pointer" stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper asterism, specifically, the two stars farthest from its "handle". The arc between the pointer stars and Polaris is nearly five times greater than the arc between the pointer stars.[2]
The North Star has historically been used for navigation since Late Antiquity, both to find the direction of north and to determine latitude.
Due to the precession of the equinoxes (as well as the stars' proper motions), the role of North Star passes from one star to another.
In 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star. At magnitude 3.67 (fourth magnitude) it is only one-fifth as bright as Polaris, and today it is invisible in light-polluted urban skies.
During the 1st millennium BC, β Ursae Minoris was the bright star closest to the celestial pole, but it was never close enough to be taken as marking the pole, and the Greek navigator Pytheas in ca. 320 BC described the celestial pole as devoid of stars.
In the Roman era, the celestial pole was about equally distant from α Ursae Minoris (Cynosura) and β Ursae Minoris (Kochab).
α Ursae Minoris was described as αει φανης "always visible" by Stobaeus in the 5th century, when it was still removed from the celestial pole by about 8°. It was known as scip-steorra ("ship-star") in 10th-century Anglo-Saxon England, reflecting its use in navigation.
The name stella polaris has been given to α Ursae Minoris since at least the 16th century, even though at that time it was still several degrees away from the celestial pole. Gemma Frisius determined this distance as 3°7' in the year 1547.[3]
The precession of the equinoxes takes about 25,770 years to complete a cycle.
Polaris' mean position (taking account of precession and proper motion) will reach a maximum declination of +89°32'23", so 1657" or 0.4603° from the celestial north pole, in February 2102. Its maximum apparent declination (taking account of nutation and aberration) will be +89°32'50.62", so 1629" or 0.4526° from the celestial north pole, on 24 March 2100.[4]
Gamma Cephei (also known as Alrai, situated 45 light-years away) will become closer to the northern celestial pole than Polaris around AD 3000. Iota Cephei will become the pole star some time around AD 5200. First-magnitude Deneb will be within 5° of the North Pole in AD 10000.
When Polaris becomes the North Star again around 27800 AD, due to its proper motion it then will be farther away from the pole than it is now, while in 23600 BC it was closer to the pole.
Currently, there is no South Star as useful as Polaris. Sigma Octantis is the naked-eye star closest to the south Celestial pole, but at apparent magnitude 5.45 it is barely visible on a clear night, making it unusable for navigational purposes.[5]
It is a Yellow giant, 275 light years from Earth. Its angular separation from the pole is about 1° (as of 2000[update]). The Southern Cross constellation functions as an approximate southern pole constellation, by pointing to where a southern pole star would be. At the equator it is possible to see both Polaris and the Southern Cross.[6]
Although the south Celestial pole currently lacks a bright star like Polaris to mark its position, slow changes over time (due to the effects of precession) mean that other stars will become southern pole stars.
The Celestial south pole is moving toward the Southern Cross, which has pointed to the south pole for the last 2,000 years or so. As a consequence, the constellation is no longer visible from subtropical northern latitudes, as it was in the time of the ancient Greeks.
There have been many pole stars throughout the millennia. Around 2000 BC, the star Eta Hydri was the nearest bright star to the Celestial south pole. Around 2800 BC, Achernar was only 8 degrees from the south pole.
In the next 7500 years, the south Celestial pole will pass close to the stars Gamma Chamaeleontis (4200 AD), I Carinae, Omega Carinae (5800 AD), Upsilon Carinae, Iota Carinae (Aspidiske, 8100 AD) and Delta Velorum (9200 AD).[8] From the eightieth to the ninetieth centuries, the south Celestial pole will travel through the False Cross. Around 14000 AD when Vega is only 4 degrees from the North Pole, Canopus is only 8 degrees from the South Pole and is, thus circumpolar on the latitude of Bali (8 deg S).[9]
Pole stars of other planets are defined analogously: they are stars (brighter than 6th magnitude, i.e., visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions) that most closely coincide with the projection of the planet's axis of rotation onto the Celestial sphere. Different planets have different pole stars because their axes are oriented differently. (See Poles of astronomical bodies.)
In Japan, the Pole Star was represented by Myōken Bosatsu (妙見菩薩).
In the Greek Magical Papyri the Pole star was identified with Set-Typhon, and given authority over the gods.
In Hindu mythology, the pole star is called Dhruva.
In Hawaiian mythology, the pole star is called Kiopa'a.[12]
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Bohème and Me: 12 Things
I couldn't possibly write anything grown-up about La Bohème, which I'll be seeing tonight at the Canadian Opera Company. Like many of the operas I loved before becoming sophisticated, the music is more like a part of my body than anything I experience with my mind. So, I give you my personal history with it, in the form of a list of trivialities.
1. Bohème was my first "favourite opera," the first opera that really sunk its manipulative little hooks into my teenage brain. I got there through a "best of opera" compilation that included Che gelida manina. The operas I loved back then remind me now of taking the bus to the mall and having a lot of feelings.
2. The part I still love the most is the first 20 minutes or so, with the friends grumbling, celebrating, and carousing before Mimi shows up. The first couple of bars promise that exciting things are about to happen.
aside: Carreras sure was handsome back then.
3. The part I put on opera mixtapes, however, was the Mimi/Marcello bit from Act III.
4. I couldn't afford to buy opera box sets (and wouldn't buy "highlights" discs on principle) so I got them out from the library instead. The recording I learned the music from featured Renata Scotto and Gianni Poggi. Later, looking it up in the Penguin Guide, I discovered that it's considered to be rather dreadful. I eventually bought myself a cheapo set featuring Miriam Gauci. It was unsatisfying.
5. Tonight will be my fifth live Bohème, I think. This is the quintessential date-night opera, but I've always attended alone. The same will be true tonight.
6. My first was at Edmonton Opera in 1999, and I cried, of course. After I became a full-blown opera lover, my mother became a member of the opera guild, primarily for my benefit. It mostly meant I could hang around backstage with her before and after the performance (one chorus member taught us how to correctly pronounce the word latte). I also had good access to posters. After that first Bohème, I took a poster to the Mimi's dressing room to have it signed. Her name was Monique Pagé, she was French-Canadian, and she was very kind to me.
7. My second Bohème, in 2005, was an accident. I had just moved to Toronto, wanted to Take Advantage of the Cultural Offerings, and fixed my intentions on a string quartet performance. My path took me past the COC's erstwhile venue on Front Street, and on my way to the chamber music someone called out: "want some opera tickets?" Turned out I did. After some mild haggling I gave him $25 for an orchestra-level seat, perhaps too much given that the performance had already started. The ushers were kind enough to let me in during Act I to stand in the back. I was bored of Bohème by then, but I still cried at the end.
8. Against the Grain Theatre's version had a modernized libretto that included the phrase: "the first chance I get, I'll make an appointment for some manscaping." That's the main line from Joel's libretto that I remember. I still cried at the end.
9. Bohème was a supremely comforting opera for me as someone on the cusp of adulthood. It's about young artists in the big city! They don't have money or success, but they are full of energy. They eat, drink, and carouse; they fold themselves into the bustle of the city; they form deep and close friendships; they embark on exhilarating romances. And they work on their art. Those were all things I wanted for myself. The prospect of dying of TB wasn't a concern.
10. I've met people who never really grow out of the things they loved when they were young; whatever movies and albums blew their mind at age 16 are on their top five lists for all time. Perhaps all of us are like this at heart, but for anyone aspiring to connoisseurship it's imperative to develop and discard.
11. There are so many reasons for an advanced opera-lover to discard Bohème: its postcard nostalgia, its cold and cloying manipulations, the fact that it's comfort food for your aunties and a cash cow for opera companies who churn out plush productions in soft colours season after season. If you go to the opera with any regularity, Bohème's popularity will virtually ensure that you soon tire of it.
12. Even so. When I think of how many great operas are dull or straight-up incoherent in patches, how many attempt sweetness and fail, how many depict love in a way that seems mechanical and foreign, or don't make me cry in the sad scenes, it's hard to see Bohème as anything other than a masterwork. It is precisely what it needs to be.


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Microsoft Has Four Game, 250GB Xbox 360 + Kinect Bundle For $316 In JapanBy Spencer . February 24, 2013 . 10:45pm
A bundle slated for release on March 7 includes a Xbox 360 console with a 250GB hard drive, Kinect sensor, plus codes to download Dance Central 2, Forza Motorsport 4 Essentials Edition, Kinect Adventures, and Child of Eden from Games on Demand.


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KDE 4.3.2 Available
The KDE community today proudly announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.3.2. As with any minor release, there are no new features but a strong concentration on further polishing the 4.3 series, which has been widely received as a release suitable for end users of all sorts.
KDE 4.3.2 brings a nice number of bug fixes including crashers. UI issues have been ruled out in KMail, and KWin effects have become more stable. There is also a good number of fixes in KDE's core libraries, which are beneficial to all applications using KDE libraries. More information can as usual be found in the changelog. Most distributions will have updated packages available shortly, so do not hesitate to update your KDE. KDE 4.3.2 is a recommended to everybody using KDE 4.
KDE Four Live
An easy way to give a quick test to KDE 4.3.2 is using KDE Four Live. I don't know if it's linked from any of the important page, but I haven't seen it, and I'm quite happy that Stephan Binner has updated the ISO to the latest KDE. KUDOS to him!
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Solaris packaging started as well
The KDE4-Solaris project has branched off its specfile repository as well (solaris.bionicmutton.org/hg/kde4-specs-432/) to keep up-to-date (but I admit, that's a pretty obscure niche for now).
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Nice to know that SunOS got already newest packages, even when using OpenSolaris.
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AOL Explains: Our Movie Journalism Is Movie Studio PR
Yesterday, Tech Crunch writer Alexia Tsotsis did a noble thing: she more or less told her parent company to fuck off, in public, after a Moviefone/ AOL rep emailed her suggesting that the "snark" be "toned down." That was entertaining. But the response of Moviefone is even more entertaining! If you like unbelievable things.
Patricia Chui's official response from Moviefone is here. It made me laugh! (Not on purpose.) Particularly this part:
1) The person who wrote that email [to Tech Crunch] was not acting in an editorial capacity. That person's job is to act as an intermediary between the studios and editorial — not to dictate content, nor to weigh in on the content of Moviefone or any other AOL site. In fact, the presence of a person with that role is just one means we have of ensuring editorial integrity on Moviefone.
Ha... ha? They "ensure editorial integrity" by having a staffer whose job it is to receive complaints from the subjects of stories and then act as their advocate in an attempt to get writers to change those stories to reflect more favorably upon the subjects? There's a name for that: a PR person. But they don't usually work for the same company as the writer.
Anyhow, just read the email from the Moviefone/ AOL person ("Let me know if you're able to take another look at it and make any edits") and then read the Moviefone explanation ("Staying on good terms with studios means that we will relay information if asked") and then remember that you never assumed that Moviefone would feature anything other than move studio PR, anyhow.