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Coquitlam - Monday March 16 2020 5:00pm - 6:15pm Rink 2
Location: Planet Ice Coquitlam
Date: Monday March 16 2020
Time: 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Cost: 175.00 (including 5% GST & Liability Insurance)
Rink: #2
FACILITY CONTRACT for Planet Ice Coquitlam, Planet Ice Delta, Planet Ice Maple Ridge, Capital News Centre Kelowna, Prospera Place Kelowna, and Save-On Foods Memorial Centre Victoria, hereinafter referred to as RG.
1. Use of Facility
a) To strictly observe and abide by all regulations applicable by-laws and statutes including but not limited to indoor smoking by-laws, including fire safety regulations, liquor consumption and service regulations;
b) To provide a competent and trustworthy adult (18 years or older) who will personally undertake to be responsible for the due observance of regulations governing Planet Ice;
c) To be responsible for providing first aid attendants and/or supplies for attendees;
d) The Licensee agrees that no cancellations will be permitted for the attached ice/dry floor surface rental and that payments for rentals and special events are non refundable;
e) To ensure that all attendees do not enter the ice surface until the designated rental start time and that all attendees promptly leave the ice surface at the designated rental end time;
f) To ensure that all attendees leave the ice surface during ice cleans and remain off the ice surface until after the resurfacer has left the ice and the arena gates have been closed;
g) To ensure that all attendees leave the changerooms within thirty (30) minutes following the designated rental end time;
h) To keep and maintain rented areas in a clean and tidy condition at all times and be responsible for leaving the premises clean. Failure to do so will result in an additional fee for maintenance;
i) To inspect the premises and equipment on each occasion, before commencing use of the premises, and shall forthwith notify the Licensor of any condition that may render the premises or equipment unsafe for use.
2. Liability
To indemnify and save harmless the Licensor, its employees, servants, agents, successors and assigns RG from and against and all claims whatsoever including all damages, liabilities, expenses, costs, including legal or other fees incurred in respect of any such claim, or any cause or proceeding brought thereon arising directly from or in connection with the granting of this License and the use and occupation of the said premises, save that the Licensee will be under no obligation to indemnify and save harmless RG against or in any respect of any damage or judgment rendered against RG resulting from or arising or out of any negligence or fault on the part of RG in connection with the maintenance or condition of the premises to the extent that the damage, loss or injury was caused or occasioned by the negligence of RG.
3. Terms Affecting the Licensor
a) RG prohibits the Licensee and/or any participant of his/her group from bringing outside food and beverages onto the premises.
b) The Licensor shall not be responsible for loss of any personal articles, or damage to property of the Licensee or members of the Licensee's group;
c) The Licensor retains the right to cancel a portion or all of this license due to facility scheduling requirements or special events;
d) The Licensor retains the right to cancel a portion or all of this license at any time if, in the opinion of the Licensor, any of the following events occur.
i) unsatisfactory conduct by the Licensee or its invitees;
ii) damage to the premises or to any facilities therein by the Licensee or its invitees;
iii) failure of the Licensee to comply with any conditions of the license.
The Licensee in consideration of being granted permission to use RG agrees to be bound by the above Terms and Conditions and if the Licensee represents a Group or Organization, the Licensee agrees to inform all responsible officials associated with the Group or Organization of the Terms and Conditions.
Liability Insurance
The above noted rental is inclusive of a Two Million Dollar ($2,000,000) per occurrence Commercial General Liability insurance policy. Approved sport specific safety equipment must be worn at all times.
Please note:
Hockey and pleasure skating cannot take place at the same time on the same ice surface.
Adults and minors cannot play hockey together at the same time on the same surface.
Hockey schools do not qualify for this insurance and must call the appropriate booking office to determine required insurance.
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In White House Race, Huntsman Would Crowd Romney
Both have similar backgrounds, and face similar hurdles.
There's no formal quota system for the Republican presidential field for 2012.
In truth, though, there's probably room for just one wealthy, telegenic Mormon who served as governor and appeals to moderates. That's bad news for either former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
Romney, who lost the 2008 GOP nomination to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, is busy lining up advisers and A-list fundraising pros, hoping name recognition from the last race will help him stand out in a lineup of other former governors in a race that has no front-runner.
Huntsman is stepping down in May as U.S. ambassador to China, hoping to give himself some distance from President Obama as he tests the waters for a potential challenge of the guy who is technically his boss.
Romney and Huntsman are so alike, in résumé and demeanor, that one could stand in as the stunt double for the other. Both have amassed personal fortunes. Both appeal to moderates and independents, arguing that makes them electable in November 2012. And both will be pressed to explain ties to Democrats or Democratic policies, and will have to fight the perception that they are not conservative enough to appeal to the Tea Party and others in the vocal and dominant right wing of the GOP.
Those last points are central to the chances Republicans have of making Obama a one-term president. A polarizing conservative who would appeal to the party base in the primaries -- especially in the South -- would likely not beat Obama. It's probably what Obama dreams about at night -- facing a divisive, sharp-tongued GOP candidate who would drive independents, women, Hispanics and moderates to him.
With Romney or Huntsman on the ballot in November, Obama might be having nightmares. More states would be in play and more resources would have to be used by the incumbent.
But the path for Romney or Huntsman to claim the Republican nomination is steep. The most committed GOP voters, those most likely to take part in primaries and caucuses, will seek inspiration from, and pledge their support to, a conservative who speaks and thinks like they do about religion, small government, the deficit and social issues.
On these counts, challengers will portray Romney and Huntsman as less than pure.
Romney, for example, will be painted as the driving force behind a Massachusetts health care overhaul that became the template for Obama's sweeping national health law, which many Republicans now want to reverse.
And Huntsman will be tarred for working for the enemy, despite his view that he was serving the country when he accepted Obama's offer to be America's top dog in China. Opponents will also skewer Huntsman for his complaints as governor that Washington's stimulus package needed to be larger. That won't sit well with those in the GOP who see bailout money as a deficit driver.
Another problem that Romney and Huntsman face won't be openly addressed by their GOP rivals for the nomination, but it will bubble away beneath the surface and probably, sadly, boil over on the Internet.
The issue is religion. Every other candidate will say it doesn't matter that they are Mormons. But it does matter to some voters, especially those who tend to play an outsize role in GOP primaries. A Pew Research Center poll conducted just months before the start of the 2008 primary season found about a quarter of Republicans saying they were less likely to vote for a Mormon. Among white evangelical Protestants, the uncertainty was even higher -- 36% overall and a startling 41% among those who attended church weekly.
The election calendar also works against Romney and Huntsman. The states with the earliest primaries -- Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina -- all tend to favor conservative candidates. The moderates have to hope no clear front-runner emerges after those three primaries, and that one of them can survive a series of midpack finishes to be a factor on Super Tuesday, when delegate-rich states such as California, New York and New Jersey have their say.
Here, the similarities threaten to sink both candidates. If they split the moderate vote in early states with relatively few moderate voters, they risk finishing so far back in the pack of conservatives that they can't raise the money or enthusiasm to last until Super Tuesday.
Before they can distance themselves from the crowded GOP primary field, Romney and Huntsman have to find ways to distinguish themselves from each other.
If one or the other manages that, there's a good chance that candidate can stay in the race for the long haul.
But if that doesn't happen, if they remain interchangeable parts, the GOP right will probably leave both Romney and Huntsman feeling left out.

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Crossing Lines: Sina Punishes More Than 100,000 Weibo Accounts
When China's government wants the public to remember something, it tends to go with numbered lists.
In 2002, then-leader Jiang Zemin rolled out a new political ideology called the "Three Represents." A few years later, Beijing attempted to shore up the country's declining moral standards with the "Eight Honors and Eight Shames."
Now it's time to start paying attention to the "Seven Bottom Lines," a list of online behavior guidelines that Internet users are being told to adhere to lest they incur the wrath of the country's social media minders.
Though the formulation has come in for some mockery online, the operator of China's most popular social media platform is apparently taking the guidelines seriously.
Since the term was first coined in mid-August at the China Internet Conference, Sina has closed or otherwise "handled" 100,000 accounts on its Weibo microblogging service that have violated the principles, according to a Wednesday report from the state-run Beijing Youth Daily (in Chinese).
For those who might have forgotten, the seven bottom lines consist of: the legal bottom line, the socialist system bottom line, the national interest bottom line, the legitimate interest of citizens bottom line, the public order bottom line, the moral bottom line and the authenticity of information bottom line.
Though the dictums are vague, judging by the cases cited in the Beijing Youth Daily report, the list mostly refers to personal attacks, the publication of false information, plagiarism and the distribution of smut. The article doesn't mention any specific incidences, but the spread of politically sensitive information is also likely to violate a few of the bottom lines.
According to the Beijing Youth article, which couldn't be independently verified, of the 103,673 accounts penalized, more than 70% were targeted due to personal attacks, with 14,357 cases of harassment and 1,030 cases of spreading of false information about others. Another 3,773 accounts were temporarily suspended, deleted or otherwise punished for spreading "vulgar and pornographic" content, according to the article. Sina declined to comment on the veracity of the report.
The article comes as Sina reported strong third-quarter earnings, with net profit more than doubling from a year earlier and daily active users on Weibo rising 11% to 60.2 million at the end of September compared with the end of June.
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More worrisome for Sina's investors will be the fact that the time users spent on Weibo stayed flat in the third quarter compared with the second quarter. It's unclear whether that was due to competition from other apps, like Tencent Holdings's WeChat, or due to the increased censorship of the service's most outspoken and influential users.
Authorities have made influential "Big V" users – so named because their verified accounts are marked with the letter "v" – a target in their efforts to exert more control online. Some have been paraded on state television to extol the virtues of responsible posting, while others say they have been privately warned to watch what they write and repost.
Legal authorities, meanwhile, recently issued a new ruling that threatens social media users with jail time if they post false or defamatory information that attracts a wide audience.
Data provided to The Wall Street Journal earlier this year by analysts firm Weiboreach showed a 20% drop in monthly aggregate posts by influential Weibo users between January and August – a potentially problematic trend for a service that thrives on the ability of celebrity users to pull in others.
Still it seems Sina has gotten the message to take the "Seven Bottom Lines" seriously, and that means it's violating the first bottom line of social media: Let people talk about what they want.
--Paul Mozur with contributions from Josh Chin.
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Some Ethnic Groups More Susceptible To Adverse Drug Reactions
Adverse drug reactions and ethnicity
Some ethnic groups may be more susceptible to adverse drug reactions, finds a study published on bmj.com today.
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are an important cause of ill health and death. Several factors including genetic make up, age, sex, and even diet, can all alter a patient's susceptibility to ADRs. But it is not known to what extent susceptibility to ADRs might depend on ethnic group, whether as a result of genetic or cultural factors.
Researchers searched the scientific literature and identified 24 studies that included data for adverse reactions to cardiovascular drugs for at least two ethnic groups. Differences in study quality were assessed to identify and minimise bias.
They found that the risk of angio-oedema (swelling) with blood pressure lowering drugs was three times greater in black patients than non-black patients. The risk of cough was also nearly three times higher in East Asian patients compared with white patients.
For clot-busting therapy, the risk of bleeding increased 1.5-fold in black compared with non-black patients.
Some ethnic groups may be more susceptible to adverse reactions during treatment with cardiovascular drugs, say the authors. These findings may help doctors present more accurate and relevant data to their patients when prescribing cardiovascular therapy. However, differences in study quality and inconsistent reporting of harms mean that these results need to be interpreted cautiously, they add.
Future studies must report both adverse reactions and racial and ethnic classifications more fully, if we are to discover how they are linked, they conclude.


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Giving parents — and kids — what they want from your daycare
As a mom, I'm a little leery about leaving my daughter in a club's daycare. Why? Well, honestly, part of it is guilt. I work full-time, face a 50-minute commute, and only have about three hours at night with her until it's bedtime. I don't want to sacrifice any of that time so I can work out while she sits in a club's daycare watching a video.
As a club operator, how could you convince a mom like me to entrust a child to your daycare? Personally speaking, you'd need to show me that the daycare area and its toys are spic-and-span clean. Also, you must demonstrate that the daycare is as safe as my home. And, finally, if I'm doing something for myself instead of spending time with her, I'd want to know that she's having loads of fun and getting exercise at the same time.
I know that may sound like a tall demand, but I'm sure many parents feel the same way. So here are some suggestions on how to turn your daycare into a tons-of-fun center that make moms and dads comfortable.
Safety first. Steve Bowcutt, owner of Kidz Club Fitness, Sunrise, Fla., maintains a daily checklist for keeping his facility safe for children. He makes sure that the equipment and toys are in perfect condition, the hinges on the doors won't catch children's fingers, and the floors are dry.
"We have gotten rid of anything that is sharp or pointed," Bowcutt adds. "Everything in our facility is round, soft and colorful."
Facility maintenance and design aren't the only precautions. You also must make sure the children are safe from each other. For that reason, separate the youngsters into age-appropriate groups.
"When you have a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl [playing] together, there could be trouble," says Liz Price, owner of Energized by Exercise Inc., in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Don't forget cleanliness. Bowcutt washes everything in his facility with a mild detergent daily and an antibacterial detergent weekly.
"The first thing people notice in our facility is all the different equipment," Bowcutt says. "The second thing they notice is the overall cleanliness and clean smell that seems to be a missing factor in most daycare areas."
Hiring the right person for the job. A daycare employee should bring creativity, an outgoing personality and experience with children, Bowcutt believes.
"Creativity is extremely important," he notes. "If you have different children every day and different ages, you have to keep them all doing something and keep them going."
In addition to hiring the right person for the job, you must hire the right number of people, emphasizes Price. For youngsters 2 and under, she suggests a ratio of one instructor per four children. A one-to-eight ratio is fine for older children.
Keep it simple. You don't need a ton of money to stock your daycare.
"A ball, in my opinion, is the best toy ever developed," states Bowcutt. "They come in a wide variety of sizes, colors and textures."
And the possibilities are limitless. You can play a simple game of catch. Smaller children can roll the balls on the floor. You can hold a bouncing contest. The list goes on.
Other inexpensive equipment that offers endless options includes beanbags, hula-hoops, tumbling mats, flash cards, jump ropes and carpet squares. (See Simply Fun: Activities for All Kids.)
Whatever you chose, stick to equipment that allows physical activity, Price opines. While arts and crafts are fun, they are usually covered in school. Fitness isn't.
Spend (if you can). Simple is great, but if you have a budget, use it.
"Most clubs don't invest enough in their daycare," says Bowcutt. "Most just see it as babysitting. My thoughts are…parents typically pay for [daycare], so why not give them more than they expect, which will give more value to their membership and build loyalty because you care about their children and keeping them fit?"
Possible investments for kids include strength machines and cardio equipment designed for children. Yes, this equipment does take a little more supervision, but kids enjoy it.
"They see their mom and dad doing [these exercises] and want to try it," explains Bowcutt.
Give a report. When your members come to pick up their children, fill them in on what you did. Explain that you played games that worked on balance and coordination. This shows parents that you care and are actively participating in the development of their child, notes Price.
"This adds extra value to their membership," she says.
Simply Fun: Activities for All Kids
Your daycare should offer members more than babysitting. If you just stick kids in front of a television, you are sending mixed signals to the parents, notes Liz Price, owner of Energized by Exercise Inc., Colorado Springs, Colo. You want your daycare to be a place that children want to come to.
Even if you don't offer children's programming, you can provide fun physical fitness in your daycare center. Here are some enjoyable activities that you can implement without breaking your bank account.


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States Tightening Loopholes in School Vaccine Laws
Aim Is to limit opt-outs
As outbreaks of preventable diseases have spread around the country in recent years, some states have been re-evaluating how and why they allow parents to opt their children out of vaccines required for school attendance.
Requiring vaccines before school admission has been a key component of a decades-long campaign that had nearly rid the United States of some of its most severe illnesses, from the measles to whooping cough, public-health experts say. But they also warn that broad "personal belief" exemptions that don't relate to a child's medical condition or a family's religious beliefs have made it too easy to bypass vaccines, poking a sizable hole in the public-health safety net.
While some parents act out of a sense of personal conviction, others do so simply because they don't have time to schedule an appointment, said Stephanie L. Wasserman, the executive director of the Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition, an Aurora, Colo.-based group that seeks to increase vaccine coverage in the state.
"We want to close that convenience loophole," she said. "When you choose not to immunize, there are consequences not only to your child and your family; there are consequences to your community as well."
Since 2011, Washington, Oregon, California, and Vermont have revised their personal exemption processes.
In Colorado—a state with one of the highest opt-out rates in the country and the most recent one to examine its vaccine-exemption policies—a bill passed this month would draw schools into the public health fight.
House Bill 1288, which has not yet been signed by the governor, will require schools to collect information about their vaccination rates and to provide it to parents upon request. The state's permissive school choice laws would allow parents to transfer their children—including immune-compromised children who are not able to be vaccinated—to schools with higher vaccination rates, advocates for the legislation said.
And making the information publicly available could hold schools accountable for enforcing existing laws and encourage them to promote vaccinations through efforts like school-based health centers and pop-up clinics at school registration events, Ms. Wasserman said.
"We think it fits in the education reform model that places parents in the role of making decisions based on quality," Ms. Wasserman said of the reporting requirement. "It's an innovative part of the bill, and other states are already taking a look at it."
National Picture
All states require a schedule of vaccines that a child must have before he or she can be enrolled in school. Every state allows exemptions from vaccines for medical reasons, and all but Mississippi and West Virginia allow exemptions for religious reasons, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Public health experts find the most fault with personal exemptions, also known as philosophical exemptions, which are in place in 19 states. Those exemptions typically allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children by signing a one-time form and without disclosing a reason.
And the number of parents claiming such exemptions has grown over the last decade, with high concentrations of exemptions in states with especially permissive policies.
Some parents, including those who opposed tightening restrictions on Colorado's personal exemption, argue that it's their right to make medical decisions for their children, regardless of the reason.
The movement to opt out of all or some vaccines has spiked in recent years, in part because of scientifically unproven claims that vaccines are linked to autism and because of misinformation spread online, vaccine proponents say.
And as vaccines have been effective at largely wiping out the diseases they are designed to prevent, the public has grown less concerned about those diseases, Glen J. Nowak, the director of the Center for Health & Risk Communication at the University of Georgia in Athens said in a conference call with public-health advocates.
For some parents, that kind of progress tips the scale of concern away from illnesses and toward any possible side effects associated with the vaccines.
"One of the things that happens with low disease awareness is increased focus on risks" of vaccines, Mr. Nowak said.
While all states have school vaccination laws on the books, states vary on how much leeway parents have to opt their children out of required vaccinations.
50 states require specified vaccines for students, but allow exemptions for medical reasons.
48 states grant exemptions for people who have religious beliefs against immunizations. (Mississippi and West Virginia do not allow this exemption.)
19 states allow exemptions for those who object to immunizations for personal or moral beliefs.
In addition, immunization schedules have grown more complicated, and some people are resistant to any form of government mandate, Mr. Nowak said.
Waning 'Herd Immunity'
Data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that, in 2012, between 90 percent and 95 percent of kindergarten students in most states had received two doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The data showed the same range of coverage for most states for the diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccination.
By contrast, just 85.7 percent of Colorado kindergartners had received the MMR vaccine, and just 82.9 percent had the DTaP vaccination, the data show. Of the Colorado students whose parents claimed an exemption, 93 percent chose the personal belief exemption.
Vaccination rates that low fall below the threshold of what is required for what's known as "herd immunity" or "community immunity," which requires immunization rates of between 90 and 95 percent for most vaccines, Ms. Wasserman said.
A portion of every population is unable to be vaccinated because they are too young or because their immune systems are too fragile. Through "herd immunity," a critical mass of the population is immunized, helping to protect those without vaccines and to slow potential contagious outbreaks, according to the CDC.
Low immunization rates can directly affect schools, Ms. Wasserman said. In many states, public health officials have required unvaccinated students to stay home during outbreaks. In April, local health officials in Ohio warned parents that unvaccinated students may have to stay home for 25 days or longer if the region's mumps outbreak spreads into schools.
"By not having kids in seats, you're impacting their ability to have the instruction time and the teaching time," Ms. Wasserman said.
In Colorado, many students missed extended periods of school in 2012 and 2013 as the state faced a surge of cases of pertussis, or whooping cough. The state's health department reported 415 cases of pertussis in 2011, a number that grew to 1,494 in 2012 and 1,035 in 2013.
Public health officials blamed low vaccination rates and a change in the vaccine in the 1990s that made it less effective for some.
Other Approaches
States with permissive personal exemption policies have opted to amend them in recent years, rather than eliminating them all together. In 2011, Washington passed a bill requiring parents to obtain a doctor's signature before claiming a personal exemption. In 2012, California passed a similar law.
Under Oregon's law, passed last year, parents must now obtain a doctor's signature or complete an online education module before claiming a personal exemption.
Colorado's bill originally included a similar "informed exemption" requirement, but lawmakers amended that portion out of the bill after hours of emotional testimony from parents who oppose vaccinations and appeals from parents and medical professionals who support them.
Opponents called the medical counseling requirement "a re-education campaign," "brainwashing," and "propaganda."
The National Vaccine Information Center, a Sterling, Va.-based organization "dedicated to the prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths," said that, "under the guise of public education," the bill "makes it legal for the state to brand a minority of citizens as intellectually or morally inferior and serves to harass and coerce citizens making health care decisions for their minor children."
After the amendments, the bill still would require the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to create a process for sharing and analyzing immunization data. It would also require the state's board of health to create an online education module that parents can consult for information about vaccines and to re-evaluate how frequently parents have to submit exemption forms.
Discussion groups assembled by the Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition to evaluate the state's policies supported requiring parents to reauthorize exemptions on a schedule that mirrors a child's vaccination schedule, Ms. Wasserman said.
This would give parents an opportunity to reconsider their decision and remind those who opted out for reasons of convenience that they still need to vaccinate their children, she said.
"People are often adopting this option without having a deeply held personal belief," she said of the personal exemption. "We wanted to close that convenience loophole and also offer opportunities to get science-based, research-based, credible information out there about the importance of vaccines."
A spokesman for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said last week that his office has not yet received the bill, and he will review it before signing it.
Vol. 33, Issue 31, Pages 1, 23Published in Print: May 14, 2014, as Some States Overhauling Vaccine Laws
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VICTORIA BENATAR: ARCHITECT New York, New York – Caracas, Venezuela
Registered architect, AIA, M/WBE NYS--NYC, CIV, CAV, LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE. http:www.victoriabenatar.com
Victoria Benatar is a New York based Registered Architect dedicated to developing high--end interior design and architecture projects worldwide. Her firm design & build small or large project for commercial & residential uses, focusing on the maximization of the use of the space while adding value to your property and well being to your life. We do both architecture & interior design to create customized spaces for each client according to their needs and lifestyle because each project is different.
She has worked on major design assignments worldwide with clients that include Steve Madden, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame NYC Annex and others. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Art Forum, Archis, Oculus, New York Spaces, VSMD, Ocean Drive and others.
Ms. Benatar has been regularly acknowledged by the architectural community with numerous degrees, awards and invitations to teach and speak. She was an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University in the Urban Design department and since 1996 and she is teaching at Parsons the new School of Design courses on architectural representation with digital media.
She earned an Architecture degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela (1983) and a Master degree in Urban Design & Architecture from Columbia University (1995).
"During almost 30 years of experience, I have discovered there is a direct relationship between the quality of the spaces we use for living and working and human happiness & productivity.
My objective as an architect is to help as much people as possible to improve the quality of their lives by improving the quality of their spaces, because DESIGN REALLY MATTERS!!!"
Apart from her professional & academic life, Ms. Benatar is in the advisory board to Aid for Aids AID FOR AIDS International (AFAI) is a non--profit 501 (c) (3) organization committed to improving the quality of life of people with HIV or AIDS in developing countries and who are immigrants to the United States of America.
She also contribute helping FUNDANA a non profit organization that house and aid children that have been victims of negligence & abuse & VAEA the Venezuelan American Endowement for the arts.
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No not again. Temasek does another natural resources deal, it was reported last week.
Temasek and Hopu Investment Management, a Beijing-based firm, are to spend more than US$1bn to acquire a stake in New York-listed Chesapeake Energy; a US producer of natural gas from shale rock. They follow other foreign investors into the sector.
They agreed to buy US$600m of convertible preferred stock and have an additional 30-day option to acquire a further US$500m of the stock, which they are "highly likely" to exercise alongside other investors. Bloomberg reports.
Cynics must be wrong to continue believing that the government (and MM lee in particular) controls the decision-making process at Temasek. Temasek has the independence to do the wrong things. Bit surprising that Temasek's PR machine does not highlight this. Are there subversives in the PR department that want to hide the truth of the relationship between Temasek and the government from the public. Friends of SDP and Dr Chee?
But still, one would have tot Temasek would listen to someone whom Time magazine rates as among the 100 most influential persons in the world. Sigh, reminds me that somewhere in the bible there is something about a prophet being without honour in his own home.
Let's hope that the Fates do not punish the hubris of Temasek's management. We lose.
BTW three mining deals you may not be aware of
It agreed to buy a peanutty US$50 million stake in the January share sale in Hong Kong by SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd., a coal producer operating in Mongolia.
It provided funding for Niko Resources Ltd.'s $300 million acquisition of Black Gold Energy LLC. Temasek bought the C$310 million convertible bonds issued by Niko, the Calgary-based oil and natural-gas explorer said in a statement on Dec. 30.
And it bought 382,000 additional shares in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the world's largest publicly traded copper producer, in the first quarter, according to a recent filing with the SEC. Based on a closing price of US$70.24, that additional investment was worth about US$27 million, "peanuts".
Update 18/5/10
According to a Reuters report, it has also recently bot C$500 million in Inmet Mining and a peanutty US$50 million in Platmin over the past two months.


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Brandon Buchholz is calling "b.s." about who I am. Posting things about me that I can not see and then blocks me from responding like a coward. He calls me out and then runs away when I accept. He has lead a life of low character and cowardly behavior.
But don't take my word for it. Go to http://www.mncourts.gov/
And go to the criminal court link and type in Brandon Michael Buchholz.
He apparently does not know the difference between "good touch" and "bad touch" jiu jitsu. Spent 18 months in prison for felony criminal sexual assault against a minor. But he has the audacity to call me a fraude. Somebody set this match up for me, I am going to flush this turd!
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Re: The real fraude
Says the guy that calls everybody out. Sounds like you can dish it out but not take it. But you believe your hype. I mean your so great you put on a one fight card that nobody came to. Guess people dont wanna fight for the "greatest jiu jitsu" guy in the USA.
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The difference between you and I though Emmit, is that I have been willing to get out from behind the keyboard and fight. You were offered to fight me on several occasions but were too afraid to climb those steps and face me. You are half my age and double my weight and yet hid behind your computer screen. I think that is what burns you the most, is you want to be a fighter, but lack the main ingredient; courage.
You can prove me wrong though, you can sign the waiver and fight me on a future show. But you won't, because I have you pegged. You are bright yellow.
Re: The real fraude
I have never once been offered to fight you. And ive fought before so what the fuck are you talking about you dumb mother fucker. Pretty sure I stepped up and fought justin rheuame my first fight ever so what makes you think I would be scared of you. I havent fought since feb of 2010 and havent been offered a fight since then. But pretty sure your just mad that my buddy that didnt train a ounce for the fight lasted 3 rounds and BEAT one of your precious guys. Only interaction I had with you was you trying to get me to fight some college wreatler u had way after I had stopped fighting and then flipping your crazy switch on because I asked you where you got my email from.
Your really believe your the best jitz guy in the country which is funny as shit. The whole state besides the few guys you train think your a fuckin joke that belongs in st. Peter.
Re: The real fraude
You were offered to fight me on the Austin shows(when Gamst was running them) and once up at Black Bear Casino. Steve Shaw, Flavio Ibarra, Jimmy Dale, and Zack Buck from my team when we were the Crystal Fight Club way back in 2009 went up to Black Bear. I was offered a fight with you. But you declined. I remember things very well Emmit.
But like I said. You can prove me wrong and get this set up on a future show. You can put the Hostess Twinkie down, floss that gap in your horse teeth(so you will be understood) and call a promoter. You can prove that you're not a liar.
And I won't even use the USA's best jiu jitsu on you ha ha. I will punch those bucky beaver teeth of yours in. I'll give you a little touch up there, cave them right in!
Re: The real fraude
Man Mrs. Clark your a straight up asshole! You would think with your old age you would act more grown up but clearly your trying to compensate for something. People like you are bad for the sport.
Re: The real fraude
And of course I love to read constructive criticism and advice on proper etiquette from a passive aggressive who is too shy about confrontation to use their real name...
Re: The real fraude
Like I said I fought Justin my FIRST fight. What makes u think I woulda turned down a fight with you??? Like really man get over yourself. Your not even the best jits guy in the state. Fox 9 clearly from the story doesnt even know mma. I was never once offered a fight with you. I was never even offered a fight at black bear period. I havent fought since Feb 2009. And according to records you made ur debut in march. Do the math you big eared piece of shit.
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And buck teeth? In 29 years thats the first ive ever been told that. I think most of the time you dont even know who people are. Like your old ass gets them confused. Shut the fuck up already
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Meet the Maker: Coalfire Pizza's Pesto Pizza
Interviews with local food purveyors.
Coalfire Pizza
1321 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL (map); 312-226-2625; coalfirechicago.com
The Dish: Pesto Pizza
The Maker: Bill Carroll
Cost: $16.50
Last night I was on the phone with Apple, dealing with a defunct iPhone, and when the Scottish technician saw my address on his computer screen he said, "Chicago! Man, you guys have some great pizza." That's something this site has covered, and continues to cover, from top to bottom. Which is why I went against the grain when choosing which pizza to write about for this week's piece when I dropped by Coalfire Pizza on Grand Avenue, west of Ogden.
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Coalfire, which will see its five-year anniversary in May, has a style of pizza that's uniquely its own, drawing from regional variations in different ways. Its coal-burning oven is uncommon for pizzerias and harkens back to old school New Haven joints, and yet its thin crust is almost Neapolitan in style, but with more crisp. Co-owner Bill Carroll says, "Sometimes we refer to ourselves as 'Neapolitan-American,' but we don't really believe in labeling. There are so many forms and expressions of pizza, our theory is: We just are what we are, and if that fits some category, fine. If not, also fine!" Bill is from Springfield, MA and his business partner Dave is from Chicago. Both saw the opportunity for a different type of pizza in the city, and the idea for Coalfire was born.
When I moved here in 2009, Coalfire is where I was constantly told to go, especially for their red sauce pies (the Margherita is the goods). On a menu of nine different pizzas, all but two have red sauce: its White pie (mozzarella, ricotta, romano, fresh basil, garlic infused evoo, oregano, ground pepper) and Pesto pie (homemade pesto, ricotta, kalamata olives, olive oil). I walked in hoping the menu would help me decide which pizza to order, but instead found myself listening in on the order of a regular ahead of me. He was about to head to O'Hare for a flight, but had to get his Coalfire fix before taking off. And it was the Pesto pie that gave him that fix—so I had to get mine too, despite the popularity of its red sauce pies.
Coalfire makes its pesto in-house, and though Bill was shy to reveal how it is made, the basil was pretty forward with the expected soft grainy feel of parmesan and creamy nuttiness of pine nuts. When layering the pie, the dough is topped with a thin layer of mozzarella cheese, and then spread with a couple tablespoons of the fresh pesto. It's then sprinkled with a ricotta cheese that definitely lacks the moisture of a homemade ricotta, and I think with good reason. It'd be a shame for the water in a fresh ricotta to pool on top of the pie after cooking and mute out the texture and subtle flavors working on the thing, especially because the pizza is finished with sliced kalamata olives. The brine of the olive, and its soft flesh, is a great complement to the bright and herby pesto.
The 14" pizzas are baked in a Valoriani brick oven that was pieced together in Minnesota before seeing its final assembly in the kitchen, and it's fueled by coal. Bill and Dave chose the coal burning oven because not only was it hard to get coal-fired pizza, but the coals burn hotter and longer than wood. The guys wanted a hot, hot oven—and they got it. Even standing a few feet from the open oven, the heat really jumped out of its open front. The pizzas cook on incredibly hot bricks, with an oven temperature near 800 degrees, with an internal coal temperature that can climb to over 1,300 degrees (just look at the flames in the picture).
The cooking method is a pretty brilliant tool for the business, too. With their thin crust pizza, after three minutes in the oven the pies are done—a convenient thing for a dining room with several dozen seats and a booming carryout business (but no delivery). The pizzas come out of the oven with a raised and bubbly crust, charred and perfectly crisp. The bottom of the pie was nearly black after baking on the hot bricks. And that's what the pizza is all about. The char on the crust is literally an ingredient on the pizza, but without being invasive to the pesto or cheese or olives.
Bill gave a heads up that the Pesto pie doesn't sell as well as some of their others, and I'm not sure why that is. But then again I was like most kids who grew up despising olives on pizza, and maybe that's just a stigma we don't ever shake. But in this case, it's definitely one worth shaking.
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Aubergine curry with lemongrass & coconut milk
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal268
- fat20g
- saturates14g
- carbs17g
- sugars10g
- fibre3g
- protein5g
- salt1.39g
- 3 large red chillies, deseeded and stalks removed, chopped
Part of the capsicum family, chillies come in scores of varieties and colours (from green…
- 6 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- knob of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
Mainly grown in Jamaica, Africa, India, China and Australia, ginger is the root of the plant. It…
- 2 lemongrass stalks, trimmed and chopped
- 2 tbsp ground turmeric
Turmeric is a fragrant, bright golden-yellow root that is most commonly seen and used dried and…
- 1 tsp chilli powder
- 2-3 aubergines (about 600g/1lb 5oz), quartered lengthways, then halved
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- 1 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
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- 1 tbsp sugar
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- 6 shallots, finely chopped
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- 1 tbsp Thai fish sauce (nam pla)
Fish sauce
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- 400ml can coconut milk
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- 400ml vegetable stock or water
- small bunch coriander, roughly chopped, to serve
Using a food processor, pulse the chillies, garlic, ginger and lemongrass to a coarse paste. Set aside. Mix the turmeric and chilli powder together and rub it all over the aubergine wedges.
Heat the olive oil in frying pan, then brown the aubergines, remove from the pan and set aside. Cook the paste, sugar and shallots for a few mins, then return the aubergines to the pan. Add the fish sauce, coconut milk and stock or water, mix well, and bring the liquid to the boil. Reduce the heat and cook gently until the aubergine is tender, but not mushy, about 15 mins. Season to taste and sprinkle the coriander over the top. Serve hot with steamed rice or bread to mop up all the juices.


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Farm to Table: 6 Dishes from Hawaii Restaurants
Here are six locally grown dishes you can order in Hawaii restaurants right now—and the farmers who made them possible.
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Great food, we've come to realize, is a partnership.
It's a partnership among the farmers who raise it, the chefs who prepare it—and the customers who are wise enough to appreciate fresh, locally grown ingredients.
In Hawaii, we're fortunate that the rich, volcanic soil and the abundance of microclimates mean things grow well here, from livestock to lettuce.
We're less fortunate that the pressures of development and the availability of inexpensive imported food have put the squeeze on our remaining farmers.
Our chefs have stepped up to do something. They've sought out farmers to procure some of the best-tasting ingredients Hawaii has to offer.
We bring you six dishes you can find on Hawaii restaurant tables tonight—and the chefs and farmers who made them possible.
Alan Wong's Big Island Goat Cheese Mousse on Toast with Ho Farms Tomato Salad
The Farm
Bumping up the road to Ho Farms reminds you that Oahu has not been given over entirely to housing developments and shopping centers.
These 50 acres, just off the highway in Kahuku, show what's possible even on the most urban of islands.
In the packing shed today are nearly 40 laundry-size baskets, brimming with deep-green Japanese cucumbers, shiny clean, ready to be sorted by size and shrink-wrapped. The other day there were 300 baskets full, so many that the pickers, exhausted, took the next day off.
Today, cucumbers aren't even the main event. Everywhere, in boxes and baskets, spread out on wooden tables, are baby tomatoes.
Handpicked and vine-ripened, the tomatoes are little jewels, all colors and shapes. Oblong baby Roma. Cherry and black cherry. Golden and green grape. Kahuku gold. Yellow pear tomatoes. And tiny, round, dark-red currant tomatoes.
A worker packs an assortment, the "Ho Farms Family Tomato Medley," into two sizes of clear plastic boxes. There are larger, bulk packs for restaurants and Costco, and one-pound packs for Foodland.
"Tomatoes are our signature product, about 4,000 pounds a week," says Shin Huoy Ho. Ho is 29, looks younger and sports a "Kahuku's Finest" T-shirt. "To repair the soil we alternate them with cucumbers and long beans."
This is a family farm. Shin Ho's father, Wei Chong, her mother, Lexieng, and her younger brother, Neil, are all here, working.
In 1985, when Shin was 3, the family was in a camp for Laotian refugees in Thailand. Her brother was born there.
The family made its way to Hawaii in 1987. Wei Chong, with no farming experience, turned himself into a contemporary farmer. He studied with state ag experts and even traveled to Taiwan to learn in Chinese. "My English not so good then," he says.
Ho Farms grows its tomatoes in three 1,000-square-foot greenhouses. "Even though we lease the land, we put in improvements because we had to," says Shin, citing a common problem for farmers on land-starved islands.
The greenhouses not only protect the tomatoes, they minimize the need for pesticides and fertilizer, resulting in a purer product. The farm was the first on Oahu to receive food-safety certification.
"It's not easy being a farmer. Sometimes we have issues with the tomatoes and other crops," says Shin. "But we are making a go of it."
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Our Catholic faith compels us to respond to the needs of our neighbor. Yet, as revealed in the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, it is sometimes difficult for us to "see" our neighbor in need. In Lesson 5, participants will begin the EPIC (Ending Poverty in Community) social action project by seeing their community through the lens of Catholic social teaching and identifying a need they can help to address. Lesson 6 challenges participants to reflect on how they will work together to respond to the community need they identified and guides them in developing an action plan to help make a difference in breaking the cycle of poverty.
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Part I: Opening Prayer/Warm-up
(Estimated Time: 10 minutes)
Before the session begins, place a lit candle, dark sunglasses, and a Bible opened to Luke 16:19-31 (The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus) on a small table in the meeting room.
Ask a volunteer to proclaim the Gospel Luke 16: 19-31. Challenge participants to put themselves in the shoes of one of the people in the Gospel story and to imagine how that person must have felt. After the Gospel is proclaimed, ask participants to consider the following questions for large group discussion or silent reflection:
Part II: Activity — Identifying Community Needs
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The previous four lessons were designed to help participants understand the scope of poverty as a national issue and how our faith calls on each of us to respond. In the final two lessons of this curriculum, participants are challenged to work with their peers to put their faith into practice through a social action project called EPIC – Ending Poverty In Community.In this activity, participants consider some of the basic elements of Catholic social teaching and use a set of questions to see their communities through new eyes. They are then encouraged to identify community needs they believe should be addressed – and to select one that they will commit to work on.
Note: This lesson is best used in conjunction with Lesson 6, in which participants go the next step and design an action project that they can implement either individually or as a large group to address the need they identified in this lesson.
Begin by distributing the Identifying Community Needs>handout so every participant receives a copy. Read the first page together. Then facilitate a large group discussion in which students begin to discuss the themes of Catholic social teaching. Allow no more than 10 minutes for this portion of the activity. The facilitator may ask questions for participants to reflect on and share, such as:
Now divide participants into small groups of three or four. Ask each small group to read and discuss each of the questions in Part I (on page 2) of the "Identifying Community Needs" handout and to write their responses in the space provided. After they have completed this process, each group should respond to the Part II: Reflection Questions at the bottom of the handout and identify the greatest need they believe exists in the community. Tell participants that they will be sharing their responses with the large group later in this activity.
Note: This lesson provides a wonderful opportunity to invite a CCHD director from your diocese or a representative from a local CCHD-funded organization to speak to your class/group after the participants complete this activity. If there is a time constraint, you can shorten the activity to give the speaker time to share with the group. The speaker can make a presentation to your group regarding the community needs they have identified and are addressing. In communication with the CCHD diocesan director, encourage the guest speaker to lift up any significant, local needs that may still remain invisible to your class following their brainstorming. Being able to do so would help to illustrate how we all overlook injustice in our communities just as the rich man overlooked Lazarus>>
Part III: Reflection
(Estimated Time: 20 minutes with discussion)
Proclaim again the following Gospel passage:
"There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores."
This lesson has challenged participants to ask, "Who is Lazarus among us?" Now ask a representative from each small group to present their answers to the "Part II: Reflection Questions" to the large group. The facilitator should record the responses for all to see on a white board or on poster paper. Combine similar responses to avoid repetition. Save participant responses written on this paper for Lesson 6.
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Faith in Action Extension Activities
To most effectively use this lesson, proceed to Lesson 6 to complete the Ending Poverty in Community (EPIC) Social Action Project.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA has launched a new communication satellite.
An unmanned Atlas rocket blasted off Wednesday night from Cape Canaveral. NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite was on board.
This is the 11th TDRS (T-driss) satellite to be launched by NASA. The space agency uses the orbiting network to communicate with the astronauts living on the International Space Station. The satellites also relay all the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The first TDRS spacecraft was launched in 1983. The second was lost aboard space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
This newest third-generation TDRS carries the letter K designation. Once it begins working full time, it will become TDRS-11.
It costs between $350 million and $400 million.
NASA launches communication satellite
Agency uses orbiting network to communicate with astronauts on the ISS
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Surprise! More College Costs
Tuition, room and board aren't the only bills a student will rack up at school. Here are six unexpected costs to anticipate, and tips to ease the financial pinch.
Last week I laid out a crash course in managing money for financially clueless college freshmen. If your student is already a good money manager, consider yourself fortunate. But don't breathe too deep a sigh of relief just yet.
Sending a child off to college often raises unexpected financial issues that it's best to settle in advance. You don't want your fond farewell on the dorm steps to turn into an argument about who's going to pay for books (as happened with my son's college roommate and his parents).
Parents say the cost of textbooks -- which averages close to $1,000 a year -- is their most shocking expense. So be clear about whether you or your child (or perhaps a generous grandparent?) is picking up the tab. Whoever pays the book bill can save a bundle if your child taps campus book exchanges, or compares prices on new and used texts at BigWords.com, CampusBookSwap.com or Half.com.
After textbooks, parents say their biggest miscellaneous campus expense is car upkeep -- which includes not only insurance and a parking permit, but the tickets that are sure to add up when your child can't find a parking space. My advice: Leave the car at home. If it stays in your driveway, your insurance premiums could actually fall.
Anticipate surprise outlays. Suppose your daughter announces that she wants to joint a sorority, which could cost thousands of dollars in fees and dues. Does that fit into your budget -- or your child's?
And then there's "that (bleep) cell-phone bill," in the words of one father. Sure, you want to stay in touch. But are you willing to bankroll hours of conversation between your son and his girlfriend at another school?
Set up an account with a bank that has low or no fees and plenty of ATMs near your child's dorm. College students are notorious for going to the closest ATM, even if they're charged a fee, rather than walk a block to a free machine.
For managing money, a checking account with a debit card will do just fine. Discourage your child from signing up for a credit card until he or she has had experience managing cash, and you're confident he won't run up a balance he can't pay off.
And chances are your child won't need one of your cards for an emergency. A student once confessed to me that he and his roommate regularly used his "emergency" gasoline card to chow down on food at the service-station convenience store.
Another student got a phone call from her father wanting to know "who's this Steve Madden guy whose name is all over your credit card bill?" No emergency, Dad. Just a shoe store.
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The military could react quickly in the event of hostilities, officials say.
As tensions escalate on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. military is striving to maintain peak readiness for forces assigned to the region, Defense Department leaders said on Wednesday. Deep cutbacks in training and preparedness accounts taken this year because of the so-called budget sequester are making the job more difficult.
Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale listed the ability to respond immediately with force in Korea, if necessary, among a short list of Defense priorities the Obama administration seeks to "protect" from the sequestration ax during the current budget year.
Overall, the department will absorb $41 billion in across-the-board cuts in fiscal 2013 under the congressionally mandated initiative, which took effect early this year when lawmakers were unable to agree on how to close the federal budget deficit.
The Pentagon would "limit effects" of cuts "to the extent feasible" in maintaining a U.S. capability to "fight tonight" in Korea, if a conflict were to erupt there, according to a budget slide Hale showed reporters during a briefing on defense spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year.
U.S. military personnel in key regions, including the Korean Peninsula, "are at full ready status," meaning they could react quickly in the event of hostilities, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Ramsay, the Joint Staff director for force structure, resources and assessment.
Hale was asked how that might change in light of this year's sequester-driven cuts that the military services are saying will increasingly degrade the pace of training, exercises and preparedness over time.
"I sure don't want to leave the impression in the minds of any of our potential adversaries that this is an opportunity for them. It's not," Hale said. "I mean, we're going to be there if we have to be."
In addition, the 2011 Budget Control Act exempts "core" nuclear deterrence forces -- including the submarine, bomber and ICBM legs of the triad -- from sequester cuts, according to the comptroller's briefing.
These exempted programs -- which also include Afghanistan operations, wounded warrior initiatives and essential travel for senior leaders -- would experience "little or no effects" from budget sequestration, the document states.
Over the past few weeks, North Korea has repeatedly threatened to attack the United States and South Korea in response to the U.N. Security Council's condemnation of Pyongyang's recent nuclear test.
Also meeting with reporters, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would not say whether he believes North Korea has achieved the technical capacity to deliver a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile.
Following the Feb. 12 nuclear test -- the North's third underground explosive trial since October 2006 -- Washington and Seoul have been conducting annual military exercises in the region, much to Pyongyang's dismay. North Korea has also staged its own defense drills and curtailed a key bilateral economic project with South Korea along their heavily fortified border.
U.S. and South Korean troops in the region on Wednesday went on high alert upon indications that North Korea was poised to launch an intermediate-range ballistic missile from its east coast.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urged North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to tone down his nation's confrontational statements and actions. At the same time, Hagel assured that U.S. forces remain ready to protect the nation and regional allies should violence occur.
With its "bellicose" rhetoric and activities, North Korea has "been skating very close to a dangerous line," he said at the press conference. The temperature should be "ratcheted down," he said, "in the interest of all countries."
That said, if war breaks out, "our country is fully prepared to deal with any contingency, any action that North Korea may take or any provocation that they may instigate," according to Hagel. "And we have contingencies prepared to do that."
For fiscal 2014, the Obama administration is proposing a $615 billion Defense budget alternative that would avert a $52 billion cut that sequestration would otherwise impose during the coming fiscal year, Hagel said. The budget year begins on Oct. 1.
To avoid the 2011 budget law's $500 billion in mandated cuts on military accounts over the next decade, the president's new deficit-reduction plan calls for $150 billion in savings over 10 years. The biggest chunks are to be taken in later years, mostly after fiscal 2018.
The Pentagon's pitch in the budget request is for lawmakers to enact into law this more modest blueprint as a replacement for sequestration's deeper budget cuts. A number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are already rejecting the new bid and many analysts say Congress will likely opt to continue the sequester into the future.
Hagel said he anticipates that a Strategic Choices and Management Review, being led by Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, will by the end of May deliver specific recommendations for how best to apportion reductions in 2014 and beyond.
"We are living in a world of complete uncertainty," the Defense secretary said. The proposed approach offers "the flexibility that we need to manage," he said.
Representatives of the three military services indicated that even if sequestration is lifted, they would be struggling in 2014 to restore readiness after the training and operations cutbacks they must make this year to stay within sharp budget caps.
For example, the Air Force for the first time in its history is implementing a "tiered" approach to unit preparedness.
Roughly two-thirds of Air Force units will remain ready to undertake their assigned missions, said Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton, the service's deputy assistant secretary for budget. However, about one-third of the service's forces that are not deployed or preparing to deploy will be "standing down" and rated unready, he said.
The move will affect a number of nuclear-capable forces, with some B-2 bombers among Air Force aircraft that will be grounded for the remainder of the fiscal year, Defense News reported this week.
If the president succeeds in winning congressional approval for relief from the sequester cuts in the next fiscal year, normal training and operations schedules could resume.
Still, there are no additional funds for a "get-well plan" in the 2014 budget request that would make up for missed 2013 training, Bolton said. That means those forces that are unready as the new fiscal year begins will be playing catch-up to recover. He said it was unclear how long it would take to resume normal readiness.
Hale noted, though, that the strategic "pivot" toward Asia introduced during Obama's first term in office would continue.
"Despite the budgetary problems, we are working to rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region," he said. "Our most capable forces [are being deployed] forward.
"We've sent F-22s [fighter jets] to Kadena [air base in] Okinawa," Hale said. "By 2020, we'll have 60 percent of our Navy forces stationed in the Pacific region. We are working to expand access and cooperation, for example [with] a rotational presence in Australia [and] ships in Singapore."
Dempsey concluded his and Hagel's portion of the budget rollout with a note of disdain for the North Korean regime's spending priorities, seeking to strike a contrast with the U.S. military.
"We're having a press conference today about the Defense Department absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in reductions for the good of the American people so that the United States of America can get back on a more solid economic foundation," the JCS chairman said. "And what is Kim Jong Un doing? He's starving his people with a military-first policy. It's pretty hard for us to figure that out."
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Mich. professor's YouTube course is just right for many
- University of Michigan professor Andrew Maynard focuses on risk science
- Video provides information in small, short bites
- Only his hand, marker and whiteboard appear on screen
DETROIT -- Many universities host large online courses that feature a professor lecturing and guiding students through courses they regularly teach in person. However, University of Michigan professor Andrew Maynard's online education approach is geared toward people interested in a little bit of information on a certain topic, not an entire university course.
In Maynard's offerings, a hand, marker and whiteboard appear on the screen.
The hand begins to sketch a stick figure with a stocking hat on top.
A voice-over asks a provocative question: "Does wearing a hat keep you warm while dancing naked?"
The two-minute, 26-second YouTube video is one of the latest from Maynard, who runs the University of Michigan's Risk Science Center and posts videos at www.youtube.com/riskbites.
That video, posted in late December, explores whether wearing a hat keeps you warm. It's also part of Maynard's effort to combine serious teaching with YouTube.
"Something that has intrigued me is the rise of YouTube as an educational platform," he said.
About six months ago, Maynard started experimenting by posting a simple video on a topic he knows a lot about — risk science.
"What does intrigue me here is that not only is there a lot of cool science behind how we understand and address things that potentially affect our health, but that understanding and reducing risks to ourselves is something that everyone has a stake in," Maynard said. "And in many ways, it's odd that there isn't more information widely available on how to make smart decisions on risk that are based on science rather than guesswork."
All the short videos — there are 17 so far — follow the same basic format and feature Maynard's hand and voice, but never the rest of him.
"I've watched myself a few times," he said. "I'm absolutely awful speaking directly to the camera."
The videos include topics on "Are the Olympics bad for your health?" and "Could eating chocolate get you a Nobel Prize?" The most watched is "Tofurkey, tryptophan and Thanksgiving Torpor" with 3,262 views.
"There's a real hunger out there for science-based information," Maynard said. "If we're going to communicate effectively, we're going to have to give people information in small and short bites."
And Maynard said he thinks university professors are well-positioned to provide that information.
"People who are looking for information are looking for how much can they trust what they are being told," he said, adding that professors and other scientists have credentials that add legitimacy.
The videos haven't drawn a lot of reaction online, but one viewer with the screen name Ben Roberts noted he liked the way Maynard broke down a complex topic.
"I feel like I could show this video to my mom and she would finally understand what I am studying," Roberts posted in an online comment on a video titled "What is Environmental Health Science, and why should you care?"


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Ontario police confirmed Wednesday that pop star Justin Bieber's grandparents were in a car crash but say they are both fine.
Constable Kees Wijnands said Bruce and Diane Dale drove into a ditch Tuesday afternoon after hitting a patch of slushy snow on a road near Stratford, Ontario, Bieber's hometown.
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Wijnands said the car rolled over and struck a small tree before landing back on its wheels.
He said Bruce Dale was treated in the hospital and that both are fine.
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Bieber's mother, Pattie Mallette, broke the news on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, setting off an outpouring of support online.
"My parents got into a car accident today. They flipped into a ditch&totaled the car but thank God they are alive! My dad has broken ribs. Plz pray 4 him 4 quick healing! Count your blessings&forgive ur parents always. U never know what tomorrowholds!!!" she tweeted.
Bieber did not comment on the incident.
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I'd like to share photos from our recent 2 day Punic War game.
This shows the length of the table with the Romans & their Italian allies occupying the central position.
Hannibal's Carthaginians were at the southern end, separated by a mostly uncrossable river. His brother Hasdrubal's army was at the northern end.
The goal was to either destroy the Romans or, at least, join their armies.
The difficult river:
A marching fort occupied the heights, well defended.
A villa lay abandoned.
Hasdrubals cavalry moved forward, trying to tempt the Romans off their hill.
The formidable elephants, screened by Numidian javelinmen, waited.
Hasdrubal's left flank reveal yet more cavalry & his centre with its Offensive Spears, poised.
The cunningly placed ballistas (which actually took out a Roman Nellie) wait.
Roman Allied cavalry
Roman heavy infantry: the elite & nearly unbeatable centre of the Roman line
The Romans surge forward, too late to stop a junction of the two armies
The game had some hard fighting at the fords & the beginning of a battle on the slopes but ultimately the Romans were outmanoeuvred & the Carthaginians won a Minor Victory with a the joining of the two brothers' armies.


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Victim of Racine shooting dies
44-year-old woman shot several times, suspect arrested in Tennessee
A person of interest in the shooting of a Racine woman was taken into custody Thursday afternoon in Millersville, Tenn., according to Racine police.
Police said 44-year-old Lucinda White was found in the 600 block of Sixth Street late Wednesday night
White suffered from several gunshot wounds and was taken to Froedtert Hospital by Flight For Life, where she died Thursday night.
"I heard the first shot, and I thought it was just somebody closing their hood in their car or whatever, so then I went to go to the bathroom again, and I heard another shot, and I'm like, I said, 'Something ain't right,'" neighbor Lula Brown said.
Paul Roberts owns a nearby tavern. He said initially he was extremely worried, but after talking with the police, he felt he and his employees were safe.
"It was just an isolated incident, and that stuff is going to happen. It could have been here. It could have been a block down. It could have been four blocks over, you just don't know," Roberts said.
WISN 12 News has learned that White filed a temporary restraining order in 2010 for domestic abuse., but police have not said whether the shooting is related to that.


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