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In this second part of his "Peace Through Commerce" commentary, Oliver Williams, CSC, discusses how the broadening values of business leaders and employees is leading to a broadening of values of capitalism to include social responsibility. Read More
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The traditional role of business to produce wealth for stakeholders is expanding. The new paradigm is for businesses to dedicate their considerable leadership skills and resources toward solving some of society's most intractable problems. Read More
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Nearly 3 million people were displaced in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, due to fighting between the Pakistani military and the Taliban. Fleeing to the Mardan District, many were forced to live without proper shelter or access to water. During her recent travels to the country, Dean Carolyn Woo visited CRS-sponsored relief efforts. Read More
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Carolyn Y. Woo, dean of the Mendoza College of Business, recently traveled through Afghanistan and Pakistan to observe the efforts of Catholic Relief Services to support entrepreneurship and education in these struggling countries. Read More
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An innocent woman was killed Monday two drivers started chasing each other during a road rage incident, according to police. One of those drivers lost control, hitting a minivan and killing the woman inside.
Rosalba Jauregui-Rojas was a mother of three.
She and her husband were on their way to register their 15-year-old son for high school. On the way there an SUV ran a red light and crashed straight into them.
"She was lovable, she was a sweet woman, she was just my world, she was everything," says Jesus Garcia, the victim's son.
15-year-old Jesus Garcia's world was shattered when his mom, 41-year-old Jauregui-Rojas, became the innocent victim of road rage. His dad was also hurt in the crash.
"Why why, my parents, why did this happen to my family, why me?"
It happened Monday afternoon near 27th Avenue and Baseline. A silver Mazda hit a Trailblazer from behind. Police say that Mazda took off and the Trailblazer started chasing after it, running a red light and losing control, crashing into Rosalba's minivan. She has three sons.
"She always wanted me to be the best, to take care of my brother, my dad," says son Ulises Garcia.
That's what Jauregui-Rojas' sons are doing -- caring for their dad. He's still in the hospital.
"He has broken ribs, his face is all messed up, it's just hard seeing him like that."
The driver of the Trailblazer, a woman, had three teens in her car. They weren't hurt. She could still face charges. Investigators are also looking for the driver of the silver Mazda. He got away.
"I want justice for my mom, it just isn't fair," says Jesus Garcia.
Anyone with information on this case should call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.
An account is set up at Chase Bank under the name of Rosalba Jauregui-Rojas.
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CROWN POINT | Another large tract of land could be rezoned for business on the city's east side near the intersection of 109th Avenue and Interstate 65.
The Plan Commission recommended approving a request to rezone about 42 acres from agriculture to business. The City Council will have the final say.
The land is suitable for development by hotels, restaurants and retail establishments, Gerald Steiner, with the real estate firm Wille and Steiner, told Plan Commission members.
The land is owned by a trust.
The location has attracted attention despite a tough economy, Steiner said, and interest in the property as a hotel site already has been shown. Steiner did not say which hotel chain showed interest.
City officials earlier this year fast-tracked the rezoning of 130 acres on the city's east side to make it shovel-ready for potential development.
Construction on the property could happen sooner if it's shovel ready, Mayor David Uran said then.
The B3 zoning granted by city officials for the 130 acres permits hotels and other commercial development on the property, between Broadway to the west and Interstate 65 to the east, north of 109th Avenue and south of Summit Street.
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After countless lunches and dinners, tens of thousands of calories, and hours of careful deliberation and debate, our fourth annual ranking of the Denver area's best restaurants is complete. Dig in for a comprehensive, of-the-moment snapshot of the local dining scene.
8 Luca D'Italia (last year 4)
The experience of dining at Luca plays out in chef-owner Frank Bonanno's elegant Italian dishes, which contain just enough rusticity to not feel overstated. For several years, the kitchen was entrusted to chef de cuisine Hunter Pritchett, who ably melded his talent with Bonanno's vision. When Pritchett left in January to take a job in Los Angeles, pasta chef Eric Cimino replaced him. Luca's pastas remain as light and flawless as ever, but other areas of the menu need more precision: Some items are too salty; others could benefit from a bit more seasoning. A recent Arctic char dish, however, displayed Cimino's sense of balance. The crispy-skinned fish arrived with beautifully cooked artichokes, cannellini and fava beans, and summer squash. One last note: The restrooms of a restaurant such as Luca need to be as expertly executed as the rest of the experience. An overhaul is long overdue. 711 Grant St., 303-832-6600, lucadenver.com


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Admission to the Kelley School of Business is competitive and based on a combination of factors. The primary factor is academic performance or GPA. Students are eligible to apply for admission provided they meet the minimum requirements. The minimum requirements do not guarantee admission.
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Please note that all applications for admission to the university are submitted through the IUPUI Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Campus Center 255, 420 University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140; phone: (317) 274-4591. Beginning students normally enter the University College (UC), where they are advised on enrolling in required general-education and prebusiness courses.
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While attention has shifted from gamescom to PAX Prime without us even thinking about it, there is a summit that will fly mostly under the radar this year — Cloud Gaming USA. Just after we've gone home with our swag bags and hangovers, this event will take place in San Jose, Calif. September 7 – 8.
Industry professionals will fill a conference hall adjacent to Silicon Valley in efforts to shape the future of how we play games. Most likely, the future won't look like the above picture. Albeit, a look at the attendees may provide insight as to why we should pay attention.
Cloud Gaming USA released their attendee list Tuesday. It features those one would expect to show up, the Cloud Notables so to speak like Amazon, Comcast and Gaikai. Or, in other words, those who would stand to profit most from gamers migrating from owning to paying for access. Dig a little deeper into the list, and one finds a bevy of publishing and developing names like Namco Bandai, Nintendo and THQ.
Are we to expect the likes of Tekken, Mario/Zelda/Donkey Kong and Saints Row soon to be found in the cloud? That may be the most visceral reaction. It's more likely that these companies are interested in offering additional cloud based services, something like a persistent profile that maintains a copy of all your saves and purchases similar to the rumblings coming from EA, Ubisoft and Sony, who also will be attending.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Downtown Spokane is going through what some may call an epidemic. Many businesses are starting to lose business and profit due to the expanding population of teenagers that hang out down around Wall Street.
Local business owner Chris Cope recently had his business broken into and the perpetrators attempted to make way with quite a bit of his materials. Chris Cope is the General Manager of the local Spokane bar called The Vault.
The teenagers broke through the glass window in front of his bar and grabbed a lot of his property, mainly alcohol, and than made an attempt at an escape minutes later. Chris and a co-worker showed up minutes later and saw the door broken and the suspects out on the street. They were able to detain them until the police arrived and took them into custody.
KHQ Local News Reporter Dylan Wohlenhaus spoke to Chris who had this to say, "We've seen these kids outside causing trouble. A lot of people are afraid to walk by them, they're you know, running a muck. I think people in Spokane are really getting tired of it."
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Gould & Lamb to Host Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance Breakout at Workers' Compensation Institute Educational Conference
The 67th Annual Workers' Compensation Educational Conference and the 24th Annual Safety and Health Conference are just around the corner. Set for August 19 through 23, 2012 at the Orlando World Marriott, the conference will again focus on the national workers' compensation and safety industries, serving as a gathering of national stakeholders to study and be educated on issues of common concern. For the first time, the Conference program has expanded to a fourth day (Thursday, August 23) with a full 2-day breakout for mediators.
As usual, this year's program offers creative and innovative speakers from around the country. The hottest issues in workers' compensation and safety will be discussed. All aspects of workers' compensation and workplace safety will comprise the topics of discussion with breakouts for risk managers, regulators, safety professionals, health care providers, adjusters, insurance professionals, attorneys, medical case managers, professional employer organizations (employee leasing), temporary staffing, mediators, and medical office administrators.
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Sponsored by Gould & Lamb, LLC, this year's conference will again be the only national conference to feature a full-day breakout on the Medicare Secondary Payer Act and related subjects. One of the most difficult areas in handling workers' compensation and general liability matters is understanding and dealing with the serious pitfalls that this expanding responsibility creates. The comprehensive breakout will clarify what has become an extremely complicated process that has created enormous issues for the workers' compensation industry, soon to further expand into the general liability area.
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Program Moderator, Bret Cade, Executive VP of Sales at Gould & Lamb, LLC will lead the day long seminar. Planned presentations include Medicare Secondary Payer Act 101: The Reader's Digest Version by Roy Franco, Esq., Principal at Franco Signor, LLC, The Eye in the Sky: Mandatory Insurer Reporting by Scott Huber, Vice President of Information Technology at Gould & Lamb, LLC and Jeff Gurtcheff, VP and General Manager at PMSI, Render Unto Caesar What is Caesar's: Conditional Payments Resolution by Wanda Reas, Esq., Partner at Znosko & Reas, P.A. and John Cattie with the Garretson Resolution Group, So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done: A Legislative and Case Law Update by Mark Popolizio, Esq., Senior Legal Counsel at Crowe Paradies and Roy Franco, Esq., Principal at Franco Signor, LLC, Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: MSA/LMSA Trends by Rafael Gonzalez, Director of Medicare Compliance & Post Settlement Administration at Gould & Lamb, LLC, Celia Mendez, Esq., Mediator & Attorney at Moreland & Mendez, P.A., and Cynthia Sage, Esq., Corporate Counsel at FCCI Insurance Group. The program will end with MSP Compliance in the Real World: A Roundtable Discussion where all of the previously mentioned speakers will be joined by Skip Brechtel, Chief Technical Officer at CCMSI, Wade McGuffey, Esq., of Goodman, McGuffey, Lindsey & Johnson, LLP, and the Honorable David Langham, Deputy Chief Judge of Workers' Compensation Claims.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs placed defenceman Mark Fraser on injured reserve on Thursday.
Fraser twisted his knee in the team's game against Philadelphia on Wednesday. It is unclear how long he will be out.
With Fraser sidelined, it is likely that Morgan Rielly will make his NHL debut on Saturday when the Leafs play the Senators. Rielly was the team's 5th overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft.
Fraser had seven hits and racked up 16 penalty minutes in the Leafs' first two games before being injured against the Flyers on a hit from Jay Rosehill.


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Dir: Tommy Ti Lung
Scrs: Ni Kuang, Tommy Ti Lung
Prod Co: Chang's
Cast: Lin Ching, John Chiang, Tommy Ti Lung, Lu Ti
1975 / Colour / D Beta / Mandarin / 99min
A gripping story of how the unfailing love of a mother redeems her son from evil ways. In an emotionallycharged exchange between mother and son, the camera captures her tear-laden eyes and soft beseeching tone, punctuated by disheartening silence, creating a beautiful display of motherly love that lasts around five minutes. It's a huge pity that Mother Dearest (1956), based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and also featuring Lin Ching, is lost, denying audiences another tour de force of one of Hong Kong cinema's favorite mothers.
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Book Review: "Horns" by Joe Hill
Published on Monday, January 2, 2012 - 7:19pm
Recently on NPR, I heard a report from Barbara Bradley Hagerty, who proclaimed 2011 a good year for heaven and hell. She talked about nonfiction books on heaven and hell. One of the books mentioned was Rob Bell's Love Wins: ABook About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. You may want to listen to her report on NPR's website: "Hell on Fire in 2011, Thanks to Films and Books."
I found the report interesting. I had just finished the fiction book Horns by Joe Hill. I thought the book would have fit in nicely with her report. The main character, Ig Perrish, wakes up one day with genuine horns on his head. Those horns are quite troublesome at first, but Ig soon realizes the horns are going to help him through the rest of his life. He has already been living hell on earth with losing his girlfriend to a murder. Ig is pretty sure he did not commit the murder, but he is the one accused and must find out the truth. This is a wrestling with the devil kind of story. Above all, this is an amazing love story.
I have been curious to read a Joe Hill work since I read that he is Stephen King's son. I was looking for a copy of The Heart-shaped Box. Horns was on the shelf. I was uncomfortable with the story at first, but I kept reading, and I was not disappointed. Just like his father, Joe Hill can deliver a good read.


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PITTSBURG -- No. 7 Pitt State road the wave of a 28-point second quarter to a 49-23 victory over No. 8 Delta State Saturday (Dec. 10) to advance to the 2011 NCAA Division II National Championship.
The Gorillas (12-1) will face unranked Wayne (Mich.) State at Braly Field in Florence, Ala., in the season's ultimate game. The Warriors (12-3) posted their fourth straight road playoff win in their first appearance in the national playoffs to reach the title game, defeating Winston-Salem State, 21-14, Saturday.
John Brown sparked Pitt State early, returning a punt 43 yards for a touchdown after the Gorillas defense forced a quick three-and-out.
Zac Dickey completed 12 of 22 passes for 168 yards and two scores for the Gorillas. He tossed a 30-yard TD pass Jon Thomas as well as a 38-yard scoring strike to Brown in in a two-minute stretch of the second quarter to turn a 14-13 lead into a 28-13 margin.
Eighteen second later following a Delta State fumble, Andrew Castaneda threw a double pass to Levi Kuntzsch for a 36-yard score and a 35-13 lead.
The Statesmen (11-3) couldn't recover in the second half.
The Gorillas overcame five turnovers -- four fumbles and an interception -- to force six takeaways themselves on three interceptions and three fumble recoveries.
Pitt State also limited Delta State to one of six on fourth down conversions, twice holding the Statesmen in the red zone -- the final time at the PSU 1 with 3:28 to play in the game.
Nate Dreiling logged a game-high 18 tackles with 4.5 TFLs, a quarterback sack, a forced fumble and an interception. He led a Pitt State defense that limited the Statesmen to 58 net rushing yards and forced Harlon Hill Trophy finalist quarterback Micah Davis into a 27-for-58 passing night with four sacks and three interceptions.
Delta State did outgain the Gorillas, 465 to 450 yards, in the contest.
Three Pitt State backs -- Jeff Seybold, Jason Spradling and Dickey -- each gained 55 or more yards rushing. Seybold had a team-leading 58 yards, with Spradling (57) and Dickey (55) close behind.
Pitt State advances to the Division II National Championship game for the fifth time in school history. The Gorillas captured the 1991 national title and finished as the national runner-up in 1992, 1995 and 2004.
After seven years away, the Pittsburg State football team will be returning to the NCAA Divison II National Championship game. The Gorillas earned the right to return to Florence, Ala. with a stunning 49-23 win over Delta State on Saturday (Dec. 10) night.
The Gorillas led only 7-3 after the first quarter, but used their typical second quarter surge to take a 28-13 lead into the locker room at half time. Neither team scored in the third, but PSU came back in the fourth adding 14 points, while Delta State added 10 for the 49-23 final.
Though Delta State gained 15 more yards and ran 40 more plays from scrimmage, the Gorillas offense was helped by a strong defensive effort. Pitt State's defense allowed only one Delta State offensive touchdown and three field goals. The Statesmen's additional score came from a return on a blocked punt. The defense also added a touchdown to the Gorilla scoring effort as Paul Robinson returned an interception 91 yards for a score.
Pitt State's offense was very balanced as the Gorillas ran for 246 yards and passed for 204. Four different players rans for 40 yards or more. Jeff Seybold was Pitt State's leading rusher with five carries for 58 yards, all late in the game. Jason Spradling ran eight times for 57 yards and a score. Quarterback Zac Dickey led the team with 13 carries for 55 yards. Eric Love had two carries for 41 yards.
Dickey was 12-for-22 for 168 yards and two touchdowns passing on the night. He also threw one interception. Drew Castaneda also threw one pass for a strike on the night.
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James Fallows, The Economics of the Colonial Cringe
(It's the cultural cringe, but whatever.)
James Fallows, The Economics of the Colonial Cringe
(It's the cultural cringe, but whatever.)
Paul Krugman, "Hung Over in Britain," The New York Times, May 7, 2010
Monarchists in Australia like to say of our system of government that it "ain't broke, don't fix it." The problem is that our system of government is broke, and just because it may work on a day-to-day or year-to-year basis doesn't mean that it doesn't have major structural problems that have no good means of resolution. In Australia we saw that in the latest fiasco of an election in Tasmania, in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam in the '70s, the dismissal of NSW Premier Jack Lang in the '30s, the attempted interference of the British Crown and Parliament in NSW affairs as recently as the 1980s, and the anxiety in NSW last year over whether and how the Governor could call an early election to rid the state of its loathed government. This is not a system that works. This is a system that, in our country's lifespan of little more than a century, regularly breaks down.
And now in the UK, it looks like they might encounter a similar problem. In an age where we do not consider hereditary monarchs to be gods who may rule naturally over us commoners, giving them and their representatives a role in democratic politics is a recipe for failure. There is no such thing as a ceremonial political position. If the royalty has a de jure place in our government, it will sooner or later end up having to take an active place in our government. It might seem a safe fantasy to shield checks and balances away in unelected positions, so we don't have to deal with unseemliness of Presidential politics that we (tell ourselves we) witness in American government, but the only result of that is that one day we end up with unelected people forced to make decisions with legal force that can never be supported by the force of popular will.
The system is broken, and where ever it is used in the world, it breaks. Monarchism is a sick remnant of times when people were not considered able to govern themselves. Where ever it endures in the world, it should be destroyed.
Matt Yglesias, "The Need for Speed," Think Progress, May 11, 2010
Oh how I weary of Yglesias's periodic pieces fetishizing European systems of government, particularly when they don't seem to be based on a proper understanding of the system he's fetishizing. See, the thing is, a shadow cabinet doesn't need to be confirmed. Which means you can put any idiot in charge of whatever arrangement you can cut an intra-party deal on. (A favorite in the Australian Liberal-National party coalition is to make the rural-based National Party responsible for the Trade portfolio, resulting in a trade policy that constantly skews pro-agriculture and against tech-based innovation.) So when all you have to do to form a government is show you've got a majority of one house prepared to say they'll ride with you, yeah you get a government pretty quick. It doesn't mean it will be a government filled with talented individuals the country can agree should be representing it.
The big advantage with the American system of confirming the administration is that the branch is, in a very real sense, accountable to the people. In a parliamentary system, ministers aren't all that accountable. Take Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan. Swan represents an electorate in Queensland, which means that his job is to look after the money of the entire nation as well as to be the representative of a bunch of Banana Benders. But when it comes election time, the nation doesn't get to judge Swan. The nation can only say yea or nay to the party that decided he should be Treasurer. The Queenslanders whom Swan represents get to decide, however, whether he is a good representative, and if they decide he is not a good representative, then the rest of the nation does not get to decide he was a good Treasurer. (Or if they decide he was a good rep, then the rest of the nation cannot signal that they do not like their Treasurer.) Then repeat this throughout the cabinet. Think this doesn't have a real world effect? Opponents of former Australian leader of the opposition Malcolm Turnbull, who fought the 2007 election as Member for Wentworth and Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, campaigned against Turnbull at a local level on the basis that he wasn't doing a good job as Environment Minister (a national position). But only people in the suburbs of Eastern Sydney could cast a vote evaluating Turnbull's fitness to be Environment Minister!
So, yes, parliamentary systems ensure a much more rapid transition of power, but that's because they only have to transition power from one Prime Minister who thinks he's got the numbers to another Prime Minister who thinks he's got the numbers. Yes, there are very real debates to be had about how many American Administration-level positions should be subject to Senate confirmation, and there are very real problems associated with the length of time a lame duck Administration has to flop around before its successor is inducted. But a lot of the reason it takes so long is that America inducts a new national Government every four years, instead of permitting one dude to say, "Hey, I know these guys. They're all right. Give 'em a job!"
Look, if I didn't love being here, I would go home tomorrow. I could do it easily. And when I got there, people would look at me strange. Like, don't you love America? Yes I do, and, stupidly, on many days here I step outside and am amazed that I'm in America, and get so happy because of that fact. I am not anti-American.
But there's this American thing, where if you're an American even slightly educated about the world beyond your borders, you think you know everything there is to know about the world beyond your borders. The place I notice this most frequently is in politics and sports.
I was at my local bar tonight (and the differences between a local bar and a local pub are one of the many things I love about America), and the bartender, obviously wanting to make conversation, asked me is I was excited about the World Cup. (This is while I was watching the Suns-Lakers game and the Mariners-Tigers game, both of which I was mildly interested in.)
Now, this is a question he could not have known I would take offense at, but it's also a question he would not have asked if I didn't talk with a certain accent.
See, I not only consider soccer to be a foreign game, I consider it to be an invasively foreign game. This is not a view all Australians share. But, when I hear an argument of equivalence made between Australianness and soccer, I think of the way Aussie soccer fans idolize Manchester United and Liverpool and Chelsea, and other English teams, and I think of colonialism, and I think of the eternal political debate in my country as to whether our head of state should be one of us or should be a foreign monarch, and I get very patriotic.
None of which is something an American should be expected to know. Except for the fact that, in Australia, the most popular non-cricket sports are Australian Rules football, Rugby League and Rugby Union. That is, there is no reason for an American to believe that Australians are interested in soccer unless they deduce "non-American places like soccer," and "Australia is a non-American place," therefore, "Australia likes soccer."
America. I love you. But there is a huge difference between "non-American place" and "X country that is not America." Countries that are not you do not do sport like England. Countries that are not you do not do politics like England.
And I sympathize. I understand, and enjoy, how immersive American life is. It is difficult to know what happens beyond these borders while you're here. And even though I once was offended when a friend of mine asked if we celebrated Christmas in Australia (um yes), this seems a far more honest approach than to extrapolate knowledge of other nations from an understanding of Canada or from an understanding of England.
To the bartender's credit, when I told him I was Australian, he responded, "Oh, so you're more into rugby." Which is, hey, thanks for the recognition, but where i'm from rugby means rugby union, which I have to dislike for class reasons, even though I don't at all like rugby league, which I'm meant to like for class reasons. But how can I explain that to someone who is being generous by even supposing that I might like rugby (a game with local cultural roots) as opposed to a foreign game like soccer?
I might be creating an unfairly high standard. But it does infuriate me that the Americans that are most interested in a world beyond their borders seem to be the ones most comfortable with thinking they understand my culture when they do not.
It is understood that in the past few weeks the Queen's treasurer, Sir Alan Reid, has briefed government officials that her expenditure is running at about £7 million ($12 million) more than the annual allowance. This shortfall is being met by an emergency reserve that is expected to run out in 2012.
The civil list, £7.9 million a year, has been frozen for 20 years.
Courtiers say that, in the long term, the Queen needs an increase in annual funding that at least takes into account inflation over the past 20 years - 80 per cent during that time.
The Queen, however, is sensitive to public opinion and ministers fear a public relations disaster if the civil list is increased by such a large amount in the wake of the economic crisis.
Andrew Alderson and Patrick Hennessey, "Queen is $12m short each year," The Sydney Morning Herald, May 31, 2010
The civil list is the money the British Parliament pays the Queen to be queen.
So. We have a woman whose only job is to smile and wave and nod at ceremonies, who qualified for such a job by crawling out of her mum's vagina eighty-something years ago and staying alive long enough for her dad to die, and she receives millions of pounds every year from the British taxpayer for this highly-technical work.
And she spends almost twice as much as she "earns."
And the only reason she doesn't ask for even more money is because it might look bad. Because the people who pay her don't have a lot of money at the moment. Not because she doesn't do shit to earn the money she's asking for, but because it might look bad.
I have a modest proposal for the British Government. How about they cut this dumb bint's earnings to about zero pounds per year, and tell her to go get a fucking job?


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My research interests focus on the developmental biology and diversity of hydrozoans (Cnidaria). Central issues of my work concern pattern formation and differentiation processes within the individual and on the level of colony forming entities. The approaches comprise interspecific comparisons on both the molecular and morphological level and aim at conceptual frameworks on (i) how higher levels of organismal complexity are achieved and (ii) how variations in differentiation gene sets lead to species-level phenotypic differences. Hydrozoans are taken as models for the understanding of key transitions in metazoan evolution.
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I am broadly interested in the evolutionary history of life, and in understanding the processes responsible for generating diversity (phylogenetic, functional, or phenotypic diversity). Specifically, I reconstruct gene trees that I use to understand the evolutionary history of organisms or genes, and I study comparatively the processes at the organismal or molecular level shaping these histories. I am also interested in methodological issues in systematics and evolution, ranging from methods on species delimitation to computational challenges in phylogenetic inference. In the Dunn lab, I am working with high-throughput sequencing data to understand the evolutionary history of major groups of animals. Although I am a botanists at heart, in the Dunn lab I am discovering the fascinating world of Metazoa!
You can read more about my work at my google scholar page.
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As an application scientist at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization, I help faculty and researchers better utilize high performance computing (HPC) resources, with a focus on bioinformatics applications. My current projects include:
- Researching faster and better methods for de-novo assembly of genomes and transcriptomes from Illumina sequence data
- Building infrastructure to assemble phylogenetic matrices from large sequence data sets
- Engineering software infrastructure for command-line bioinformatics pipelines
- Designing and piloting Brown's Certificate Program in High-Performance Computing
Graduate Students
I am interested in evolutionary processes and phylogenetics algorithms, and the reproducibility and accuracy of their results. Although the number of programs and algorithms for genome assembly and tree reconstruction expands every year, there is often no way to assess their benefits and drawbacks or to compare between specific programs, and the metrics that are out there are not well understood. Eventually I hope to develop methods that will address these issues.
Broadly, I am interested in the origin and evolution of new levels of biological organization. In particular, I am interested in the evolution of functional specialization in siphonophores, and the mechanisms that underlie colony-level development. I am also interested in siphonophore ecology, morphology, and systematics.
I am fascinated by the evolution of major transitions in the history of life, with a particular focus on the origin and evolution of multicellular animal life, and likewise the evolution of colonial animals. I am specifically interested in the evolution of development in cnidarians, as well as their systematics and natural history. Please see my site for more information.
I also write over at Deep Sea News.
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I am a Biology concentrator at Brown University with a focus on comparative biology and phylogenetics, as well as developmental biology. I am interested in the history of life, especially the history of diversification and adaptation within the plant, animal, and fungal phylogenies. Currently, my work includes the histology and development of deep-sea colonial organisms known as siphonophores.
I am a Geology-Biology concentrator at Brown, with interests in evolutionary and organismal biology as well as creative science communication. I am presently studying differential gene expression in siphonophora, a clade of fascinating colonial organisms. My project uses molecular biology techniques to investigate the biology of these organisms from an evolutionary perspective.
I am currently a Marine Biology concentrator at Brown, with an interest in the neurobiology and behavior of invertebrates. I am working on a project with Rebbeca Helm involving the evolution of development in a few species of cnidarians, and in particular medusa development. I am also going to explore microscopy (confocal) and husbandry within these same species of cnidarians. These species include Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Atlantic sea nettle), Pelagia noctiluca (mauve stinger jellyfish) Chrysaora colorata (purple striped jellyfish), Chrysaora fuscescens (Pacific sea nettle), Aurelia aurita (moon jellfish), and Vallentinia gabriellae.
My interests are very broad... including phylogenetics, invertebrate symbioses, bioluminescence, chaetognath morphology and life history, and intertidal ecology. Much of my current work in the lab focuses on preparing field collected specimens for next-generation sequencing to address a variety of questions, as well as optimizing RNA isolation and cDNA preparation for broadly sampled non-model organisms.
I am currently studying bdelloid rotifers, a group of tiny asexual invertebrates who are capable of drying out and remaining dormant for years without aging or metabolizing. My project uses Illumina sequencing to study the impact of desiccation on the bdelloid genome in order to look at the relationship between desiccation and asexuality. More broadly, my interests include genome evolution, multi-level selection theory, and the evolution of cooperation and sexual reproduction, as well as scientific communication and creating tools to spread scientific literacy.
My research interests broadly include many aspects of evolutionary biology. Specifically, I work on computational challenges associated with the construction of large phylogenetic (including phylogenomic) datasets as well as evolutionary analyses on the constructed phylogenies. Much of this work is done in collaboration with Alexandros Stamatakis and the iPLANT iPTOL project. I am also interested in questions involving the rates of evolution as well as the geographic context of evolution. Although I am surrounded by animals in the Dunn lab, my organisms of interest are generally angiosperms.
I am interested in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. In the Dunn lab I have been studying zooid formation in siphonophores, and producing creaturecast.org.
I am interested in marine systems and the invertebrates that inhabit them. In the lab, I have worked with mollusk and cnidarian specimens from the field, and used them to create cDNA libraries that are then sequenced using various next-generation sequencing technologies. These EST data sets are then used to answer various questions about their relationships. I am also interested in using these sequencing technologies in quantitative gene expression profiles in order to answer developmental questions.


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A 14-year veteran of the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office could face criminal charges after allegations that he pawned his county-issued weapons for cash.
Authorities said Chris Hammontree, a patrol deputy, is on paid leave while the sheriff's office investigates whether he pawned his rifle and shotgun at American Pawn shop in Dalton, Ga.
Each officer is issued a handgun, rifle and shotgun at the department, said Maj. John Gibson, and the officer is responsible for taking care of the weapons but doesn't own them.
When the sheriff's office pawn unit was checking local shop records, they found Hammontree's name on the list and an internal affairs investigation was opened, Gibson said. Authorities discovered Hammontree had pawned the guns in exchange for a loaned amount of money, but they didn't say how much.
Hammontree could face a charge of theft by conversion for taking somebody else's property for his personal benefit, Gibson said.
The deputy has talked with investigators about what happened, but Gibson said he couldn't say why the weapons were pawned because it's an open investigation.
A telephone number couldn't be found for Hammontree, and he didn't respond to requests for comment on social media.
When the investigation is finished, authorities said, they will take administrative action and the case will be turned over to Conasauga District Attorney Bert Poston to decide whether the officer should be charged. Poston declined to comment Tuesday, saying he hadn't seen the case yet.
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Dior is hosting the first Raf Simons Spring 2013 Haute Couture collection in Shanghai on March 30. The catwalk show will gather 300 of the elite Chinese and will be followed by an exclusive gala dinner. The event which will take place at No. 5 on the Bund is the first by a major fashion house this year. Unlike previous years when Prada, Armani and Chanel hosted catwalk shows in China, the slow down in sales seems to have prompted a change in marketing strategy. Chanel will be hosting its exclusive catwalk show of the Fall Winter 2013 collection in Singapore, in May.
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Friday, October 26, 1984 From The Old . . if ! - 1 J ' f . .. ...-. : . .. : 4 . i : . y - 'I "'" ' y ' "' 1 -w MM" Weber State College Vol. 45 No. 8 The Signpost has put together some remnants of days gone by. For a pictorial look at Weber's past, check the inside pages. . ...... ... , , . jt - 5v iv, X ,W .v . V' . V'7 " - ,' , f . H'"" . .i . r , . v n . . -.it !. -ii r i - Top: The 1929 Weber College football team poses for its team picture. The uniforms worn provide evidence that the game of football has come a long way. Middle left: Not long before the tragedy in Los Angeles, the late Senator Robert Kennedy made a campaign swing through Utah. The Senator is pictured here speaking to students and faculty at a Weber State convocation. Middle right: Currently the Deseret Gymnasium, this building once housed what was, in the early part of this century, Weber Normal College. The building is located at 550 25th Street. Bottom: Head Football Coach Mike Price expects Saturday's game to be a high scoring one, with Weber coming out on top. Price was the speaker at Thursday's convocation, held in the Wildcat Theater. ; Li i i ; i-i iaS To The New Price Explains The Tricks Of The Trade by Rae Dawn Olbert Managing Editor Signpost photo'jclf Bybce Homecoming is the time to look back and see how far we've come. Starting out in one building as a stake academy owned by the LDS Church, Weber has grown into a large undergraduate college that rivals the largest and best in the nation. The LDS Church founded Weber in 1889 as a high school and classes were held in the Ogden Second Ward meeting house. Renamed Weber Normal College in 1916, Weber added two years of college classes and in 1923 dropped the high school curriculum to become a junior college. Upon becoming a four year college on May 14, 1963, Weber State College was given its present name. According to Academic Vice President Robert Smith, WSC has an instructional role in the format of Utah's schools. It provides strong undergraduate degree programs in vocational and educational areas, as compared to BYU and the U of U, whose roles are those of research institutions. Weber has an even 11-11 record for past Homecoming games, but Coach Mike Price feels that the record will be bettered to 12-11 this Saturday. Price feels that the football team will play much better than they did last week, and although the upcoming game will be tough, Weber will win. see "Tricks" on page 2.
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Is Adobe Still Worth the Patience?
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Although it's still too early to assess how effective Adobe's (NASDAQ: ADBE) transition has been, the company is proving that it's been making good use of the time that it has gotten from patient investors. However, concerns about the stock remain, particularly over the high P/E of 23 that it carries.
Although it is not uncommon for tech stocks to sport high multiples, Adobe is trading at near 52-week highs and its P/E ratio is almost double that of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). From that standpoint, investors are wondering if they will ever get the sort of returns that the valuation presumes. But did the company do enough in its fourth quarter earnings to prove that the high valuation is deserved?
The Quarter That Was
The good news is that Adobe beat on both its top and bottom line estimates. The company reported net income of $222.3 million, or 44 cents per share on revenue of $1.15 billion. On a year-over-year basis, revenue arrived relatively flat, but it improved 7% sequentially. Adobe's digital media segment was a bit tough to read, however. Although revenue increased 5% sequentially, it declined 2% year-over-year. What did this mean?
This has to be a concern. As the company is migrating from selling individual pieces of software to a cloud-based subscription model, Adobe can't afford declines in digital media if it wants to assure investors that it can enact this changeover without meaningful disruptions to the stock. Should investors be concerned by the 2% drop in Q4 whereas in Q3 digital media grew by 3%?
On the other hand, the company was able to grow its digital marketing segment by 5% year-over-year and 10% better than Q4; and this didn't impact profitability, which arrived strong. Despite gross margins shedding 70 basis points, the company still logged 22% year-over-year growth in operating income, while besting Q4 by 11%. Adobe's CEO, Shantanu Narayen offered this:
"I think people are really seeing the benefits of always having access to the latest applications...The new products we're delivering as part of the cloud are seeing significant adoption, which I think bodes well for us."
Moving Forward
After several successive quarters of slowing revenue and earnings growth, management decided "enough was enough" and began transitioning its traditional boxed software model towards a more efficient cloud-based subscription service. The company deserves a considerable amount of credit for what it has been able to accomplish in such a short period of time.
However, this relative success came at a cost, including $94 million restructuring charge the company had to absorb in the fourth quarter. But it seems it was worth it. Still, I worry that companies, such as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), that offer free Adobe alternatives like Google Apps will continue to add pricing pressure to hurt Adobe's margins.
It also does not help that PCs are on their last legs and being replaced by tablets and smartphones. The proliferation of these devices has hurt Adobe particularly for the fact that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) refused to adopt Adobe's Flash player in favor of HTML5. Recently, Adobe decided to no longer offer support for Flash on several devices, including Google's Nexus 7 tablet.
The impact this has had on Adobe has been negligible. However, the company will need to address mobility in some way if it wants to maintain its revenue growth. As I've said recently, there continues to also be plenty of M&A chatter involving Microsoft, Google and possibly Apple. But I question whether the synergies are really there.
In terms of acquisition, I see Microsoft as more of a possibility since its flagship MS Office suite has wide support for several of Adobe's popular titles, including PageMaker, Illustrator and Dreamweaver. But then again, these two have been rumored to pair up for quite some time – it's just never happened. It would be interesting, though, to see how it would unfold since both Adobe and Microsoft have mutual hatred for Apple and Google.
Bottom Line
I like Adobe's business and so far the transition is going well. Although the stock is not as risky as some of the other tech names with inflated valuations, Adobe is proving that there is little risk to the downside. As much as I'm willing to loath a P/E of 23, it's not often one finds a company the size of Adobe that is growing operating income year-over-year by 22% either. I always cringe at stocks sitting at near 52-week highs, but as part of a long term hold, Adobe is now as good of a play as any other stock.
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This week's blog starts exactly the same way last week's started:
Not opera (again)
Saturday night, I attended OBT's final performance of Giselle (with Jennifer Hammontree, our Production Stage Manager, as my always-fabulous date. Actually, I was her date. I DIGRESS). I love watching dance, but with the exception of that one time in kindergarten, I've never taken a dance class in my life.
That one time in kindergarten: my mom took me to one ballet class, ever, when I was five. She grew up dancing -- my aunt was a professional dancer and dance teacher -- and thought I'd follow in her footsteps. But I hated pink and preferred playing with worms in the backyard. Sorry, Mama.
I was really excited about Giselle. I'd read a few great reviews and everyone I knew who'd seen it said it was terrific. Hilariously, Jen and I kind of forgot that we weren't at an opera, and we didn't think to read the program beforehand, so for the first act we really had no idea what was going on. I found myself looking for the supertext screen just as the house lights dimmed, because I'm so accustomed to seeing "Please silence all electronic devices" flash up there. Meanwhile, she's next to me saying "house to half, go," because she can't sit in the theater without mentally calling the show.
This is how people in theater end up dating and/or marrying other people in theater. Because sometimes we might be a little insufferable?
As the dancing started, I spent the first few minutes engrossed in the visual of it all: the movements of the dancers, the sets, the costumes. I completely forgot there was a story, so I wasn't paying the slightest attention to what was going on dramatically. Then, when Duke Albrecht knocks for the first time on Giselle's door, I remembered with a start that there was a plot, and began to try and key into it. I figured out who Giselle was pretty quickly -- because everybody applauded when she entered -- and then I put together that there are these two dudes who maybe are fighting for her attention? And then a queen or something appears (in a totally amazing costume), and then there's a sword, and the dudes threaten each other, and then there's more dancing, and then Giselle's hair comes loose and she dies.
(Her hair!! I was really worried about her hair because I wasn't sure if it was loose on purpose or accidentally. Did she not get her bun tight enough? Then I got to thinking about all the weird skills you never think about when you think about performers -- like how it's a given that ballet dancers must be able to secure a really good bun on their heads. Better even than librarians.)
Anyway. I was enthusiastic about the performance but had very little understanding of what I was watching. I had read in more than one review that the dancing in Giselle is phenomenally difficult, and I felt a little bit sad during Act 1, because I couldn't begin to discern the difficult parts from the rest of it. Everything simultaneously looked impossible (because I couldn't begin to move like that) and miraculously easy (because those dancers are pros). Fortunately, we were seated near several people who clearly had ballet backgrounds; I heard one woman behind us whisper to her companion, "I used to hate that exercise -- my leg always locked up!" Those people were my ticket to understanding: occasionally they would gasp out loud, and that's how I'd know: that thing she just did must be really difficult.
My OBT experience made me realize what it must be like to watch opera as a first-time opera patron, or as a person with very little opera background. Although the popularization of supertext means that most opera audiences no longer sit in the house wondering what on earth is going on, there are, I'm sure, plenty of other opera customs that I've grown to take for granted. At the ballet I was suddenly very aware that I was an outsider to this art form (though not in a bad way), and I thought, "What could I say on the blog that would be informative to folks who are coming at this from square one?"
To be honest, blog readers, this is something I'm still mulling over and working on. Maybe there's a future post ahead: a compendium of standard opera conventions particularly tailored to new opera fans. If you have any ideas, let me know.
This situation also made me think again of our recent production of Madame Butterfly, and how we struggled to impart upon people the phenomenal performance they were seeing when they watched Kelly Kaduce. It was hard for us to explain how amazing her Butterfly was, in the same way that it was difficult for me to understand the dancing in Giselle. I don't dance, so I don't know what's hard and what isn't.
So let me tell you briefly a thing about Galileo Galilei. The work has been performed just four times before: once at its 2002 premiere at The Goodman Theater in Chicago; once, not long after, at Brooklyn Academy of Music; once, at The Barbican in London; and once, just a month or so ago, at Madison Opera. Now, us.
We believe we may be the first company to perform the work with the music of Maria Celeste (Galileo's daughter) sung as it appears on the page. This is absolutely not a dig on any of the three companies who've done the work before. The role of Maria Celeste is vocally demanding because it sits almost unreasonably high in the soprano's tessitura, making it difficult to simultaneously hit the notes and make the words understandable. In previous productions, the role has been revoiced to be more comfortable for the singer. In a class yesterday (with our resident historian, Bob Kingston, who you might know from all our pre-curtain lectures), we discussed Glass's writing for this role, and for the voice in particular. Our POSA soprano, Lindsay Ohse, who's singing Maria Celeste, said, "It's like he has this idea: soprano and tenor: high. Mezzo: somewhere in the middle. Baritone: low. And that's it."
We discussed. Does Glass not know how to write for the voice, or is it that he's writing for a particular voice -- he often writes for musicians he knows -- making it accidentally difficult for other singers to step into the roles? There's no real answer to that question. During Orphée, we did, in fact, drop down an octave or re-voice some moments in The Princess's music, because it too was relentlessly high, both for the singer (Lisa Saffer, who was fantastic) and for the ear. Heurtebise (the tenor role) did not have quite as grueling a sing, but there was at least one place in the score where Ryan MacPherson (our tenor) sang a section as written, up in the stratosphere, while the tenor in the previous production had opted to drop the octave.
Out of curiosity, I ran a little Google search on Philip Glass's vocal writing, and came across this funny but also insightful blog post, from Virginia Opera's blog: How Philip Glass Saved My Marriage. The crux of which is, essentially, that Glass's vocal writing in Satyagraha was so jarring (because of the tessitura) that the author and his wife drove home from the performance feeling very tense and cranky without immediately understanding why.
So when you come hear Galileo, imagine me sitting next to you during Scene 3, when Lindsay sings her way up into the clouds and hangs out there for awhile. That is some hard dancing.


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The son of a member of the Braves' 1995 World Series champions may be the first Georgia high school player selected in this year's major-league baseball draft, which starts Monday.
McIntosh outfielder Dwight Smith Jr. carries the same name as the former Braves outfielder. He has signed a baseball scholarship with Georgia Tech, is touted as one of the "best pure hitters" out of the high school ranks and is projected to be drafted in the top two rounds.
One year after the state produced an astounding five high school players drafted in the first round, it might have only a couple selected next week. Berrien outfielder Larry Greene and Stratford Academy outfielder Tyler Gibson, son of the Mercer baseball coach, also are highly rated prospects.
Meanwhile, Tech left-handed pitcher Jed Bradley is a consensus top-10 pick.
The 5-foot-11, 195-pound Smith looks a lot like his father, who played eight years in the majors, including stints with the Cubs, Angels and Orioles. He retired after the 1996 season with the Braves.
"I didn't have me teaching me at a young age and grooming me," Dwight Sr. said with a laugh.
"He has a beautiful swing and is going to have more power than me. I think with the speed, he's eventually going to be faster than me. He is very sound fundamentally with his offense and defense. More than that, he carries himself in a good manner. I'm more proud of that than his baseball accomplishments."
Dwight Jr. played all four years at McIntosh, where his hitting coach was another former Braves outfielder, Terry Harper. Naturally, though, his biggest baseball influence has been his father. Dwight's first baby steps were at Wrigley Field when his father played for the Cubs.
"My father has taught me everything about the game, from defense, base running and hitting — and especially the mental part," Dwight Jr. said. "You really need the mental part to play this game every day. You have to have a short memory because 162 games will really wear on you."
Said Tech coach Danny Hall: "He's an outstanding baseball player and can really hit. He just plays the game the right way. You can tell his dad has mentored him. He plays the right way and carries himself the right way."
Since retiring from baseball, the elder Smith has focused on raising his family with his wife, Cheryl. The couple has been married 20 years, with Dwight Jr. the oldest of three children, along with younger sisters Taylor and Shannyn.
"I might mention that Cheryl is the backbone of this family," Dwight Sr. said. "She has worked hard to keep us all intact. My son has got a mother that went through the minor leagues and major leagues with me, so he's packed with baseball knowledge."
The elder Smith has called the Atlanta area his home since 1990, long before the two-year stint with Braves, because "Chicago was too cold in the winter."
Because of the father's professional career, the son has always had high baseball expectations placed upon him. Dwight Jr. said it has been both a blessing and a curse, but something he relishes.
"When I succeed, people expect it," he said. "When I don't, they expect that I should. But I like having a target on my back. At the end of the day, I feel like I play my game and try not to be anybody else but myself."
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June 4th, 2011
1:16 am
Now wake me up when football season starts.
June 4th, 2011
1:48 am
Check again. Skole's only batting .244 — he's SLUGGING .306. Not exactly torrid.
June 4th, 2011
8:22 am
Congrats, way to go, represent this well. Thanks
June 4th, 2011
9:00 am
Great article in USA Today earlier this week about the Royals' approach to their bevy of young talent. Basically said that when a hitter is drafted out of high school, they try to promote him above his level and ignore his stats for the first two years. Obviously there are always exceptions like Heyward and Bryce Harper, but at this point, it's hard to gather much from what those first year kids are doing.
June 4th, 2011
11:19 am
Hopefully the Braves can get Dwight Smith Jr. man do they need offense congrats young man were ever you get drafted .
June 4th, 2011
1:43 pm
Signed for "… for $1.116 million. The family celebrated with dinner at a Waffle House."
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June 4th, 2011
4:00 pm
Bedrock! Bedrock!
June 4th, 2011
6:03 pm
Whoo….it is not stats at this point in any players career. Never has been. If he makes AA and is a top player at that level, the big club will consider him a serious ML prospect. That is the way all big league clubs qualify their players.
June 4th, 2011
7:56 pm
What was his dad's first name? Can't remember any Smith other than Lonnie with the Braves.
June 4th, 2011
8:28 pm
Tech Football got their 3rd commit for 2012 today, sweet
June 5th, 2011
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