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Pasadena, CA – Saturn's moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what forms the depressions on the surface? A new study using data from the joint NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) Cassini mission suggests the moon's surface dissolves in a process that's similar to the creation of sinkholes on Earth.
Apart from Earth, Titan is the only body in the solar system known to possess surface lakes and seas, which have been observed by the Cassini spacecraft. But at Titan's frigid surface temperatures — roughly minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 180 degrees Celsius) — liquid methane and ethane, rather than water, dominate Titan's hydrocarbon equivalent of Earth's water.
Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal many lakes on Titan's surface, some filled with liquid, and some appearing as empty depressions. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS)
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA – As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated worlds in surprising ways.
"NASA science activities have provided a wave of amazing findings related to water in recent years that inspire us to continue investigating our origins and the fascinating possibilities for other worlds, and life, in the universe," said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist for the agency. "In our lifetime, we may very well finally answer whether we are alone in the solar system and beyond."
NASA is exploring our solar system and beyond to understand the workings of the universe, searching for water and life among the stars. (NASA)
Pasadena, CA – A dual view of Saturn's icy moon Rhea marks the return of NASA's Cassini spacecraft to the realm of the planet's icy satellites. This follows nearly two years during which the spacecraft's orbits carried it high above the planet's poles. Those paths limited the mission's ability to encounter the moons, apart from regular flybys of Titan.
Cassini's orbit will remain nearly equatorial for the remainder of 2015, during which the spacecraft will have four close encounters with Titan, two with Dione and three with the geyser-moon, Enceladus.
After a couple of years in high-inclination orbits that limited its ability to encounter Saturn's moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft returned to Saturn's equatorial plane in March 2015. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Pasadena, CA – During 10 years of discovery, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pulled back the smoggy veil that obscures the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Cassini's radar instrument has mapped almost half of the giant moon's surface; revealed vast, desert-like expanses of sand dunes; and plumbed the depths of expansive hydrocarbon seas. What could make that scientific bounty even more amazing? Well, what if the radar images could look even better?
Thanks to a recently developed technique for handling noise in Cassini's radar images, these views now have a whole new look.
Presented here are side-by-side comparisons of a traditional Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) view and one made using a new technique for handling electronic noise that results in clearer views of Titan's surface. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI)
Pasadena, CA – Researchers studying data from NASA's Cassini mission have observed that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars or a comet when exposed to the raw power of the solar wind. The observations suggest that unmagnetized bodies like Titan might interact with the solar wind in the same basic ways, regardless of their nature or distance from the sun.
Titan is large enough that it could be considered a planet if it orbited the sun on its own, and a flyby of the giant moon in December 2013 simulated that scenario, from Cassini's vantage point.
This diagram depicts conditions observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a flyby in Dec. 2013, when Saturn's magnetosphere was highly compressed, exposing Titan to the full force of the solar wind. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Pasadena, CA – Ten years ago, an explorer from Earth parachuted into the haze of an alien moon toward an uncertain fate. After a gentle descent lasting more than two hours, it landed with a thud on a frigid floodplain, surrounded by icy cobblestones.
With this feat, the Huygens probe accomplished humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system. Huygens was safely on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
The hardy probe not only survived the descent and landing, but continued to transmit data for more than an hour on the frigid surface of Titan, until its batteries were drained.
An artist's interpretation of the area surrounding the Huygens landing site based on images and data returned by the probe on Jan. 14, 2005. (ESA – C. Carreau)
Pasadena, CA – NASA's Cassini mission continues its adventures in extraterrestrial oceanography with new findings about the hydrocarbon seas on Saturn's moon Titan.
During a flyby in August, the spacecraft sounded the depths near the mouth of a flooded river valley and observed new, bright features in the seas that might be related to the mysterious feature that researchers dubbed the "magic island."
The findings are being presented this week at the Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Tucson, Arizona.
Cassini radar data reveal the depth of a liquid methane/ethane sea on Saturn's moon Titan near the mouth of a large, flooded river valley. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell)
Pasadena, CA – When Galileo first observed Venus displaying a crescent phase, he excitedly wrote to Kepler (in anagram) of Venus mimicking the moon-goddess. He would have been delirious with joy to see Saturn and Titan, seen in this image, doing the same thing.
More than just pretty pictures, high-phase observations — taken looking generally toward the Sun, as in this image — are very powerful scientifically since the way atmospheres and rings transmit sunlight is often diagnostic of compositions and physical states.
The Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment is seen peeking out of a clean room during the weeks of testing before its scheduled November 2014 launch. (NASA/RAISE)
Written by Tony Phillips
Science at NASA
Washington, D.C. – Generally speaking, space missions fall into one of three categories: difficult, more difficult, and ridiculously difficult.
Flybys are difficult. A spaceship travels hundreds of millions of miles through the dark void of space, pinpoints a distant planet or moon, and flies past it at 20 to 30 thousand mph, snapping pictures furiously during an achingly brief encounter.
Going into orbit is more difficult. Instead of flying past its target, the approaching spaceship brakes, changing its velocity by just the right amount to circle the planet. One wrong move and the spacecraft bounces off the atmosphere, becoming an unintended meteor.
Pasadena, CA – As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas.
In the past, Cassini had captured, separately, views of the polar seas and the sun glinting off them, but this is the first time both have been seen together in the same view.
This near-infrared, color view from Cassini shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho)


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text: Glenwood Springs Your Evening News - December 24th, 2014 By Aspen Public Radio News • Dec 24, 2014 Crystal Palace Revue says "Farewell" Tomorrow A decades old tradition in Aspen is coming to an end. Tomorrow will see the last performances of the Crystal Palace Revue. The vast majority of those performing worked at the Crystal Palace dinner theater in downtown Aspen from the 1960s through the late 2000s. After the iconic business sold, performances have continued during the holiday season. Nina Gabianelli oversees the Crystal Palace Players and explains busy schedules and other commitments make it time to move on. "We don't want to just slap something together, and have people not have a positive memory of the crystal palace. We want to make sure that what you remember is what we did best." Like in years past, tomorrow evening's programs will feature satire including politics and the environment and will be held at the Wheeler Opera House. Valley Roundup - December 19th, 2014 By Rob St. Mary • Dec 19, 2014 Welcome to Valley Roundup – a review of the top news stories in the valley in the past week. This week, development can often seem like three-dimensional chess – we'll get the latest on Mark Hunt's lodging plans for Aspen. A wider runway is on the horizon for the Aspen Pitkin County Airport. But, if citizens need to vote on it would it get approved? Rifle remembers the life of Air Force Captain William DuBois as he is laid to rest. Glenwood Springs will get a review of air quality near downtown. Could an antique chair lift derail Aspen Mountain's world cup racing plans? How many weed shops are too many… one… six… sixteen? And, I'll have a conversation with a familiar name in the valley, and voice you hear often on this program, who is taking a leadership role in the Aspen Public Radio news room. Joining me this week are Curtis Wackerle, Managing Editor of the Aspen Daily News and Randy Essex, Editor of the Glenwood Post Independent. Your Evening News - December 17th, 2014 By Aspen Public Radio News • Dec 17, 2014 Snowmass Ski Area Changes Under Review The White River National Forest released a draft Environmental Assessment for changes at Snowmass Ski Resort. The Aspen-Sopris Ranger District reviewed what's being called winter recreation enhancements proposed by Aspen Skiing Company. They include the replacement and realignment of the High Alpine Chairlift, and boosting snowmaking. The changes could also include glade and trail projects. Official notice will be published in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent. The comment deadline will be thirty days later. Your Evening News - November 26th, 2014 By Aspen Public Radio News • Nov 26, 2014 CDOT Extends Glenwood Bridge Comment Period If you have an opinion about the new Grand Avenue Bridge, now there's another month to let officials know. The Colorado Department of Transportation has extended the comment period for the Glenwood Springs project. CDOT has gotten a lot of feedback already about the proposal...specifically the Environmental Assessment released at the beginning of the month. Spokeswoman Tracy Truelove says at a recent public hearing, some people were asking for more time to consider the bridge replacement. Valley Roundup - November 21st, 2014 By Rob St. Mary • Nov 21, 2014 Welcome to Valley Roundup, a review of the top news stories in the valley in the past week. Guest host this week is Loren Jenkins. This week ski season starts and there's excitement around that, but there's also excitement and concern, depending on whom you ask, about a developer buying up over a dozen buildings in Aspen. Meanwhile, Aspen city hall could be on the move soon. The state has taken its first shot at a unified water plan on diversions and other projects as Glenwood Springs continues to figure out how to mend fences over a new proposed bridge. Non-Profit To Serve People With Special Needs In Roaring Fork, Colorado River Valleys By Marci Krivonen • Oct 27, 2014 Cindy Bartell The director of a new non profit in Glenwood Springs says her family inspired her to start the program for people with special needs. Project Radius promises to provide social and therapeutic recreational opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Aspen Public Radio's Marci Krivonen spoke with Cindy Bartell who founded the organization earlier this year. Oil, Gas and Land Use Dominant Issues In Garfield County Race By Marci Krivonen • Oct 22, 2014 Marci Krivonen In one of the only contested Garfield County races, two candidates with different viewpoints are running for county commissioner. Incumbent republican Tom Jankovsky is seeking a second four-year term. He's being challenged by Michael Sullivan, a democrat, who says he'd represent a voice that's going unheard. Aspen Public Radio's Marci Krivonen reports. District One in Garfield County covers Carbondale and parts of Glenwood Springs. Candidate Michael Sullivan says he typifies the values and concerns in this area. Glenwood Springs Approves New Hot Springs Development By Elise Thatcher • Oct 16, 2014 The Glenwood Springs City Council has given a thumbs up for another hot springs development. The proposal came from owners of an amusement park attraction. Glenwood Springs currently has one hot springs-- named the same as the town and about as old. 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Review by Sunetra Chakravati,
The INQ1 cleverly integrates social networking services like Facebook.
The YouTube service is slick but the screen is a little small to watch too many videos in one sitting.
Social networking phones are big news at the moment. So much so that four of the major operators each has a UK exclusive handset with a web-based super service at its core.
O2 has the iPhone, T-Mobile has the Google G1, Vodafone has the BlackBerry Storm and now 3 has the INQ1, otherwise known as the Facebook phone.
Fair play to 3, the operator has already enjoyed real success with its Skypephone range of handsets, which delivered the integrated Skype instant messaging service and a slick web browsing experience in a phone with a mass market price tag.
However, while Skype has millions of users, it doesn't quite have the current cache or mass market appeal of Facebook, which is the star integrated service on the new INQ1.
It's perfectly true that any web-enabled mobile phone is capable of accessing a user's Facebook account, but the clever thing about the INQ1 is that Facebook has been cleverly integrated into the phone's messaging function. On top of that, you also get Skype calling, Windows Live Messenger and high-speed internet access over HSDPA. And, the great thing is, you can pick it up for around £80 on prepay or free on a £15-per-month contract.
The INQ1 phone has been manufactured exclusively for 3 by a new handset company called INQ, a subsidiary of Hutchison, which also happens to own the 3 network.
INQ has set out its stall to provide services to prepay phone users that you'd usually only expect to find on your computer. And if every handset is as rounded and rich with applications as the INQ1, they could be onto something big.
The device is a fairly regular looking compact slider phone. It's similar in design to the popular Nokia 6500 Slide but a touch smaller, and it's very nicely put together.
The phone has a brushed stainless steel finish on the front and back, which means it's cool to the touch and feels very robust. It also features a smooth slider mechanism and a nicely proportioned keypad, which activates the screen when slid open.
As for the screen, it's a standard size for a compact slider, but the INQ1's user interface is so neatly designed that you don't seem to notice the screen's relatively meagre dimensions.
Before we talk about the user interface, it's worth mentioning the INQ1's instruction guide, because rather than a dull text-heavy manual, instead you get a series of colour coded playing card-sized instruction guides with headings such as Know your INQ1, Facebook, Skype, eBay, Contacts, Widgets and Switcher. This is bound to appeal to the phone's target market of youthful users with a low attention span and a high boredom threshold. The info cards are a good idea and give you all the information you need to get your phone started with the minimum of fuss.
In home screen mode, the INQ 1 features a conveyor belt of icon-based applications that reside permanently on the bottom of the phone's screen. You can scroll left or right to land on an application and simply click the navigation key to choose one. Scroll once to the right and you'll find the Facebook icon, which takes you through to the log-in page with a single click. Once you're logged on, you'll see all of the latest status updates added by your Facebook friends and you can choose four simple icons at the top, which let you easily browse your Facebook profile, inbox, friends and photos. Facebook works as well on the INQ1 as it does on the iPhone or the Storm, but its trump card is the fact that it ties Facebook contacts as well as your other chat and messaging contacts into all parts of the phone.
So, alongside your latest text message you may find a new Facebook message or a new chat message from Windows Live Messenger or Skype.
As well as the popular social networking services like Skype and Windows Messenger, which are all accessible via an icon on the INQ1's homepage, you'll also find a Google shortcut, which gives you access to Google Search, Google Mail or Google Maps. The phone is HSDPA enabled, with data download speeds of 3.6 Mbps so it's a great device for browsing the internet.
Indeed, the INQ1 provides pre-loaded access to a host of popular websites via the 3 Favourites icon. These include Last FM, Yahoo!, Bebo, YouTube, MySpace and the BBC.
As with everything else, YouTube is beautifully integrated into the INQ1 phone, so in many respects the experience is slick and user friendly. However, the screen is not huge, so YouTube videos don't render as well here as they do on devices like the Storm and the iPhone, but the phone does give you the option of viewing videos in landscape or portrait, and you can view the video in a small screen or full screen mode.
Obviously, there are better handsets out there for the more video-intensive services or for photo browsing for that matter, although the INQ1 does boast a perfectly good 3.2-megapixel camera. It also has a music player, an RSS feed reader, plus access to a large selection of downloadable applications, including Premier football scores and Pac Man.
If you're looking to take full advantage of this phone's data services, you will need a data bundle that will allow you to browse and download without guilt, so 3 has been shrewd in the way it has brought these services to the fore.
However, the INQ1 is a very clever device at an affordable price that cleverly integrates the world's most popular social networking applications. If the Facebook phone isn't a hit, mobile punters deserve a big poke.


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UCIs stem cell scientists are pioneers in regeneration, in large-scale production of specialized cells with very high purity, and in methods for using such cells to treat damaged tissues.
The first clinical trial in the United States of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy likely will be based on work performed in Keirsteads lab at UCI. The therapy will treat people with spinal cord injuries, and the trial will be run by Geron Corp.
UCI plans to recruit six faculty members to expand its stem cell research and regenerative medicine programs. Along with other campus resources and support, this commitment is worth approximately $17.5 million over the next 10 years.
I am delighted with the progress our stem cell center directors have made in recruiting and planning for an expanded research program, said Susan Bryant, vice chancellor for research at UCI and a member of the ICOC. Our stem cell program is training young UCI scientists, as well as visiting researchers. We have enormous enthusiasm and excitement about the future of stem cell research at UCI.
In all, the new building will cost approximately $61 million. CIRM funding will be supplemented with private donations and campus debt funding.
Stem cell research promises to transform the treatment of disease and to give us longer, healthier lives, said Edward Thorp, a donor to UCIs stem cell program. Thorp is a founding faculty member at UCI and a pioneer in the field of quantitative finance.
We expect donor support will allow continuing breakthroughs by UCIs stellar research team, Thorp said.
Said Tom Yuen, chairman and chief executive officer of PrimeCell Therapeutics LLC and SRS Labs, and a UCI stem cell program donor: In the next decade, stem cell research will improve our quality of life and expand the frontiers of medicine. At UCI, world-class stem c
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The Himalayas, 1924. British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off for the summit of Everest, joined for part of the ascent by an equally pioneering explorer and filmmaker called John Noel. His documentary recorded the events that followed.
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Probably the same way I was always running off and doing shit without anybody knowing when I was a kid.
All kids do. But the writers could show that without making the kid into such a useless little bastard.
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The Queens Head at Kettlesing near Harrogate is a traditional country inn serving good home cooked food, well kept real ales from Masham & Knaresborough and comfortable B&B accommodation. We're mad about traditional homemade English food. Whether it's our all day Sunday Lunches or our famous Old Peculier steak pie or our yummy puddings, you can be assured you won't leave hungry.
The bar at the Queens Head has the welcoming hospitality, warmth and character of a traditional Yorkshire country inn, serving a selection of local real ales from Masham and Knaresborough. At the Queens Head enjoy one of our superb ask ales including Theakstons, Roosters and Black Sheep. Our wine list is full and varied with wines from around the globe plus a selection of fantastic champagne and sparkling wines. Why not spend some time in beautiful Nidderdale and relax for a few days in the peaceful surroundings at Kettlesing and the elegant spa town of Harrogate. Eight comfortable spacious en-suite guest rooms await. Wi-Fi Internet is available throughout the pub and all our accommodation for those who need to keep in touch. Why not escape to the Queens Head for an evening of fantastic food and drink or a relaxing few days away from it all at this Nidderdale hidden gem.
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Both Jonathan Rea and Leon Camier have been taken to hospital after a totally avoidable crash in the opening Nurburgring World Superbike race that has left the Irishman with a broken femur and Camier undergoing a CT scan on his neck.
Both riders had big crashes within seconds of each other at the same corner after Federico Sandi's Pedercini Kawasaki blew up and spilt oil. A lap later, Rea was first to hit the oil and career into the gravel and then Camier had the same crash, both riders were tangled in their bikes during the incidents.
Race direction didn't stop the race after the oil was down, prompting a backlash from the paddock and from former riders, including Andrew Pitt, who called them 'a joke' on Twitter.
As soon as we have more information on Rea and Camier's respective conditions, we will get it to you.


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Competition will certainly intensify in the second round with top four spots in sight. The top eight draws four top teams from the southern and northern tiers in May.Wells went to the Christmas break trailing the log leaders by two points and have since maintained the gap albeit with a game in hand.BDF are on 20 points while second-placed Wells have amassed 16 points. However, Wells will play struggling BMC in the only outstanding match from the second round. The league clubs are on a break this weekend with the second round expected to resume next weekend.
Botswana Softball Association (BSA) competitions organiser, Renny Molete said the teams will take a breather and only return to the field next Saturday.The second round looks likely to be taxing with the clubs placed within the fourth place and ninth bracket separated by a margin of just two points.
UB Giants, now in eighth place, had the best finish after two wins against Blue Angels and Bears last weekend.Giants' star Oteng Sesupo said the two wins were a big motivation for the students after struggling earlier in the round. Going into the weekend, they had only managed to win three of their eight fixtures."We had not won many games but the last two games we played extremely well. It's motivating and everyone is eager to do better in the second round," said Sesupo.In the ladies side, Bears maintained pole spot with 14 points from seven games. Bears lost once this season while second placed Vikings have lost twice and trail them by two points. The last seven games of the round look intriguing as BDF IX are also in with a chance as they share the same number of points with Vikings.


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Employees at Eastern Shore Associates Insurance (ESA) headquartered in Fulton donated a Christmas tree-full of toys for the Fulton Salvation Army's Angel Tag holiday toy drive. "Our employees' enthusiasm for this program is personally inspiring to me and it shows in the large amount of toys they donated," said Gail Cruse, ESA representative and project coordinator. "We've participated with this project for more than a decade and it's so gratifying to help the Salvation Army brighten up the holidays for children in our area." ESA also ran a toy collection campaign at its Fulton office for the Oswego County Marine Corps Reserve Toys For Tots program.
Eastern Shore Associates Insurance, www.esainsurance.com, is a Trusted Choice® independent agency and ESOP (employee stock owned) company with offices in Fulton, Pulaski, Phoenix, Camden, Waterloo, Rochester, N. Syracuse and Walworth. The Fulton office can be reached at 598-6000.
Employees at Eastern Shore Associates Insurance (ESA) headquarters in Fulton donated a Christmas tree-full of toys for the Fulton Salvation Army's Angel Tag holiday toy drive. "In this challenging economy, ESA employees stepped up and donated an even greater amount of toys this year," said Gail Cruse, ESA representative and project coordinator. "We've participated with this project for more than a decade and it's so gratifying to help the Salvation Army brighten up the holidays for children in our area." Eastern Shore employees showing some of the toys collected are, from left: Michelle Malone, customer service representative; and Linzy Bidwell, reception.
Eastern Shore Associates Insurance is an independent Trusted Choice® agency and ESOP (employee stock owned) company with offices in Fulton, Camillus, Oswego, Pulaski, Phoenix, Camden, Waterloo, Rochester, Walworth and Felt Mills. ESA's main office is in Fulton at 598-6000 and on-line at www.esainsurance.com.
OSWEGO, NY – The Oswego Salvation Army got into the Halloween spirit by hosting its annual Spooktacular recently.
The Oswego Corps of The Salvation Army continues to celebrate next week.
It will hold a community breakfast on Nov. 9 at 8 a.m. at The American Foundry, 246 W. Seneca St., to celebrate 125 years of service in Oswego.
Individual tickets and corporate tables are available and can be arranged by calling 315-343-9692.
Reservations should be made by Monday.
Proceeds of the breakfast will support the services of the Army in Oswego.
Proclamations from the county and city will be presented and Major Donald Hostetler, commander of the Empire State Division of The Salvation Army, will address the gathering.
OSWEGO, NY – The Oz Roller Girls, the community's new flat-track women's roller derby league, has blocked out time to address a number of community causes, from hunger to veteran support to animal welfare.
Leading up to their first bout, the team mounted a food drive to support the Oswego Salvation Army food services that help hungry families in the community.
Thanks to a generous response, the team could deliver many bags of non-perishable food.
The Oz Roller Girls' first bout, on April 23 vs. the Crown City Royal Pains, designated a portion of proceeds to support the local Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic.
In addition to scoring a victory in their home debut, the organization raised $196 to support the clinic.
For the next bout, May 14 in Oswego's Crisafulli Rink, Oz chose the Oswego County Humane Society as its designated charity.
In a doubleheader, starting at 6 p.m., the Oz Roller Girls will take on Watertown's Black River Rollers as well as debut a pair of intra-league teams, the Port City Sirens and the Nukes of Hazzard.
A portion of proceeds and an ongoing collection will support a spay/neuter clinic.
For more information on the Oz Roller Girls, event tickets or ways the league supports the community, visit www.ozrollergirls.com
OSWEGO, NY – The next Salvation Army Guest Chef dinner will feature Minetto United Methodist Church members serving up a turkey dinner with all the fixings.
It will be held at the Salvation Army's newly renovated building, 73 W. Second St.
The hours will be from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
The cost of the dinners is $8.50 for adults, $5 for kids and kids under 5 free.
OSWEGO, New York – The employees and staff at Sunrise Residential Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Oswego made the holidays a little brighter this year for the local community and Oswego Salvation Army with their annual holiday canned food drive, according to Sharon Kirk, Director of Recreation Therapy at Sunrise.
"This was about reaching out to our community through our local Salvation Army and helping those in need in any way that we could," said Kirk. "There is such a demand for outreach in this community, and our employees were very pleased to be able to once again contribute to the Army." According to Kirk, the employees were able to participate in "Jean Days" at the Sunrise facility on Mondays and Fridays leading up to the holiday season, in exchange for them making donations to Sunrise's annual holiday canned food drive."It was great for the staff to see how their efforts could benefit area individuals and families in need this holiday," she said.
Sunrise Administrator Joe Murabito also recognized the important partnership with the Oswego Salvation Army, one that he said has included Sunrise owners Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Castaldo for decades. "Our involvement in advocacy opportunities like the canned food drive through the Salvation Army is not only important to the employees, but a strong component of our mission as an organization in this community," Murabito said. "The Castaldo family have been supporters of the Oswego Chapter of the Salvation Army for years, and Mrs. Castaldo even served on their advisory board for over two decades." "It's a longstanding relationship and commitment that remains foremost for Sunrise," he added.
According to Major Corinne Hayes of the Oswego Salvation Army, the outreach on the part of Sunrise and their employees was very helpful this holiday.
"Our kettles, toy donations, and non-perishable foods were all slightly down again this year," Hayes said. "So, the organizations that stepped up for this community like Sunrise Residential Healthcare, truly helped brighten the holidays for those that we may not have been able to support otherwise."
Sunrise Residential Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a family-owned and operated, 120-bed long-term and sub-acute care facility located at 17 Sunrise Terrace in Oswego. The center offers long-term care; full rehabilitation services including: physical, occupational and speech therapy; post-surgical orthopedic care; respiratory care; and additional acute care services. Sunrise is made up of a team of registered and licensed nurses, physical/occupational/speech/recreational therapists, social workers and dieticians. For additional information please call (315) 342-4790.
The Oswego Salvation Army, located at 73 West Second Street, is part of the International Salvation Army organization, which is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. The local citadel provides food, education, services and spiritual support to the local community. For additional information on the Oswego Salvation Army please call (315) 343-6491.
OSWEGO, NY – The Oswego Salvation Army is hosting the final Guest Chef Dinner of the year on Dec. 1 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
The Army's famous "Roast Beef Dinner" will be served by the Mystery Chefs behind the Salvation Army curtain.
The public is invited to take a break from holiday shopping to meet the Mystery Chefs and to sit down and enjoy a delicious meal at the newly renovated Army facility at 73 W. Second St.
Take-out meals are also available for diners' convenience.
The Mystery Chefs are "seen" behind their assistants: Paul Santore, newly elected advisory board chair; Queenie O'Neil Sands, advisory board member; and Captain Ken Hayes and Major Corrine Hayes.
The dinner event has become a popular fund-raising effort for the community and Army volunteers.
Each year, a special roast beef dinner is served.
The funds help support the operations of the local Citidal.
"This year the need is great." noted Santore.
Dinner tickets are $8.50 each, $5 for ages 6-12 and children under 5 years old are free.
For more information contact the Salvation Army office at 343.6491.
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SECTORAL STRUCTURE OF SLOVAK INDUSTRY: A WIDENING OF THE BACKWARDNESS OR A CHANCE FOR THE FUTURE38th Congress of the European Regional Science AssociationEurope Quo Vadis? - Regional Questions at the Turn of the CenturyKarol KasalaDepartment of Regional Geography, Landscape Protection and Landscape Planning, Faculty ofNatural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, SlovakiaE-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com main goal of my paper is to give a perspective of a future position of the Slovak industry in thecoming information-age society. Disadvantageous sectoral structure is a main problem but thereis also a chance for the better future development in the human potential (knowledge as well ascheap labour), established infrastructure and other developmental possibilities. In the paper I dealsome theoretical (global world-economy, long waves of the world economy, product life cycles)as well as experiential (new international division of labour, Slovak cultural preconditions,experiences of similar newly industrialized countries...) preconditions inevitable for the optimal(sectoral) structure of Slovakian economy in a coming information age.SECTORAL STRUCTURE OF SLOVAK INDUSTRY: A WIDENING OF THE BACKWARDNESS OR A CHANCE FOR THE FUTURE
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Introduction This article deals with possibilities of transformed regional geography to understandperspectives of Slovak industry in contexts of both globalized world-economy and futureinformation society. Transformed (or new) regional geography is a rapidly changing discipline inlast two decades. Originally idiographic (describing) discipline is subject to challenge to exactize.As a result transformed traditional regional geography as well as originated new (transformed,reconstructed) regional geography. For the brief view on this topic see for example works(Entrikin, Brunn 1989, Gilbert 1988, Hart 1982, Johnston, Hauer, Hoekveld 1990, Kasala 1996aand others). Research problems and objects of study of regional geography borrowed otherdisciplines - among others regional science. However, field of study, approach and methods bothof them are different. Regional science is profiled as mostly technocratic discipline. Object of its study is society asit is in the case of regional geography, too. Regional geography has but wider range of view.Analytic character of regional science could be compared with more synthetic character ofregional geography. Our contemporary world is very sophisticated and growingly accelerated andinterrelated. Shifts from analytical methods towards syntheses, contextual methods andqualitative methods are unquestionable. There is also an opportunity for regional science toborrow experiences of social sciences (and regional geography) to be less technocratic, analytic,quantitative and "pure rational" in the sense of contemporary rationalism embodied in prevailingparadigm (Enlightment's belief in our unlimited abilities to know, to understand and to change theworld. Changing character of our dynamic and interrelated world is an opportunity also for myself asregional geographer. An understanding of the world, its structure, relations and dynamism is aninevitable precondition for an understading certain region. An understanding certain region is aninevitable precondition for searching its problems, planning it and proposing its developmentalperspectives. Thus my goal in this article is not to give complete information about sectoralstructure of Slovak industry but to see the sectoral structure in contexts of some theoreticalconceptions, experiences of similar economies and perspectives in the future age of informationsociety.
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Theoretical backgrounds Economy of Slovak Republic (and other postcommunist countries) is often called astransitional economy. Transition from centrally planned economy towards market economybrings many problems and has many specific features and expressions. Privatization,restructuralization, banking and finance sector establishment, development of new-typeinstitutions, social structures and relations creation, development of small businesses,technological development, removing of ecological consequences of heavy economy, new-typequalifications and re-qualifications... Many problems are principially different from those inestablished capitalist economies and many are specific for Slovak Republic. From points of viewof Slovak disadvantageous sectoral structure is inevitable to start with theories of both productand world-economy development.Long waves of the world-economy Economy of the world (or recently interconnected world-economy) has fundamentally cyclicalcharacter. Very known are Marxist interpretations (historical materialism), business cycles,Schumpeter's clusters of innovations as well as Kondratieff's long waves of economicdevelopment. The last theory is in geography and other social sciences very popular in last twodecades. Cycles of the world-economy are conditioned predominantely by clusters of innovations(Schumpeter's contribution to the theory). The first industrial revolution began in England at theend of 18. century and was accompanied by textiles, shipbuilding and coal and iron industries.These sectors may be considered at the beginning of 19. century as "high-technology industries"(HTI's). Every time of the economic history had its leading industries (that is its own "HTI's") andits leading spaces - states or areas (see later discussed Wallerstein's world-system analysis). Massproduction of certain products typical for certain time (or long wave of the world-economy)results into price decline and overproduction. Penetration of the world market by these "oldproducts" (see theories of products' life cycles) results into culmination of efforts to search newproducts. Phases of world-economy declines and crises are thus replaced by searching newtechnologies and innovations. Crises of the world-economy are thus substituted by cycles ofsuccessfull finding of new fundamental innovations and their clusters. The development has a
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character of periodical cycles - long waves of the world-economy. Author of the long-wavestheory, Russian economist Kondratieff and his followers (Mandel 1980 and others) haveidentified four long waves of the world-economy and Peter Hall has joined the fifth one (Hall1985). P. Hall characterizes present fourth long wave (1948-2000) as follows:Key innovations: transistor, computer, computer-based information technologies;Key industries: electronics, computers, communications, space industry, production services;Organization of manufacturing: mixture of large "fordist" and small companies (on the subcontract basis), transnational corporations;Work: bipolar (that is: lack of middle class);Geography: suburbanization, de-urbanization, new industrial regions;International context: American hegemony, Japan challenge, growth of newly industrialized countries, new international division of labour;Historical context: cold war, space race, "global village", mass consumption;Role of the state: welfare state, warfare state, organized research and development. The fifth long wave of the world-economy arises by my opinion in the second half of the1990's and it can be identified with information society. Wider societal changes are expressed in(or more probably are conditioned by) fundamental economic changes. Industrial economy isdependent on abundance of capital, postindustrial economy depends on information. Crucialsectors thus are those "information-based" which are aimed at production, processing anddistribution of information - computers (and their parts and applications including softwareindustry), telecommunications and telematics. The last-named industry is at the present times(and for the information-type economy and society) the most important. Advances and structuralchanges are thus conditioned above all by the improvements of information technologies,primarily means of distribution and transfer of information - telecommunication satellites(transmission of telephone talks and TV and radio broacasting), digital and mobile phones, globalcomputer nets (internet), digital comprimed television (and resulting both wider choice ofprogrammes and their specialization) and so on. There are many important social changes - seeworks of John Naisbitt (Naisbitt 1982, Naisbitt, Aburdene 1992). Naisbitt's megatrends (social,cultural, economic shifts as well as changes of awareness, attitudes and the whole superparadigmof our civilization), Toffler's third wave (Toffler 1981), Bell's postindustrial society (Bell 1973)
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and other theories analyse social and cultural changes. For us are important, but space shortage isan imperative for me to concentrate to "pure economy". Multiple choice, free access toinformation (and resulting less restricted chances for an individual) and other social changes areimmediately connected with economic changes. "Global restructuralization" of the fourth- and fifth-wave world-economy resulted also intospatial re-arrangements. Continuous decline of the American economy in 1960's-1980's was in1990's stopped and turned into one-decade ongoing growth. A reverse trend is typical for presentJapan and Europe has prevailing problems, too. The Asian newly industrialized countries (NIC's)seem to be winners. The case of NIC's development is thus analyzed later.Product (and profit) life cyclesCyclical character of changes is typical also for products. Raymond Vernon (Vernon 1966) isauthor of product life-cycle theory. Every product (and in a wide sense every sector of industry)passes through stages in its life and changes its spatial arrangement, corporate concentration,employment and skills, and so on. An American geographer Ann Markusen transforms the theoryinto "profit cycles". Her Marxist conception gives five profit cycles (Markusen 1985); each ofthem has its own geography:1. Zero profit - concentration;2. Superprofit - agglomeration;3. Normal profit - dispersion;4. Normal plus (or normal minus profit) - relocation;5. Negative profit - abandonment. The nature of Vernon's theory may be included in its four original life cycles:1. Innovation stage with important position of new product design and commercionalization. There are many small and innovative firms producing small series of products. Firms with qualified and well paid workers are localized in several original nuclei which have an advantage of creative environment and market changes information.2. Penetration stage with market penetration of new products and mass production, at most new jobs. Growing prices of both land and labour and environment degradation are decisive forces to search new locations on the perifery of original centres.3. Market saturation in the conditions of growing competition leading to cost reducing,
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profit oligopolizing, output restriction, employment lowering, market division agreements. Spatial decentralization accelerate, not only at interregional, but also at international level.4. Rationalization with strong competitive pressures at product prices, rationalization, employment lowering and bankruptcies. Ongoing corporate concentration creates large transnational corporations with tendencies to spatial recentralization to several (frequently foreign) locations. The most problematic industries seems to be those connected with first industrial revolution.In this sense is important to separate high technology and low technology (and perhaps middletechnology) industries. Low technology industries (LTI's) are those of first industrial revolution -textiles, coal, steel and shipbuilding. They are produced in large corporations, in several locationswhich operate frequently in Third world. "(First) industrial revolution areas" as Ruhr, Lorraine,southern parts of Appalachian region all have serious economic and social problems,unemployment, lack of investment and so on. Problems of restructuring are emphasized also withCheckland's Upas tree effect. In a shadow of old industries is impossible to restructure (a case ofGlasgow as opposite to Birmingham). Contrasting to unsuccessful old industrial areas appear newindustrial spaces which are connected with high-tech industries. There are several new(macro)regions which originate as a result of "spatial (economic) shifts", for example sunbelt inthe USA (as a result of snowbelt - sunbelt shift - shift of population and economic activity fromold manufacturing triangle to some southern parts of the USA as California, Florida, Texas andsouthern parts of Mountain region), British sunbelt (or M4 Growth Corridor with an axis London- Bristol), or not-so-strictly HTI's spaces as Catalunya, Lombardia, Baden-Württemberg as well asAsian NIC's.Global world-economy One of the most fundamental characteristic features of recent world economy is its "world-economy" character. Internationalization of the economy and society a gradual process. Traderelations were rare before technical revolution of 15th century and resulting "collapsing the worldspace", conditioned by advances in navigation. Rapidly growing internationalization enablesImmanuel Wallerstein (Wallerstein 1974) to apply a new concept world-system. His at thepresent times one of the most popular "discipline" called world-system analysis. Wallerstein'sworld-economy is dated from "long sixteenth century" (1450-1640). Intensified inner relations
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conditioned growing interdependency, complexity and spatial extension of the world-economy. InWallerstein terms world-economy passed through its stages of development up to presentcapitalist world-economy. Capitalist world-economy is characterized as follows:1. There is single world market which logic enables economic decisions.2. There is multiple state system; position of individual states is uneven (based on uneven exchange) and global world unevenness may result sometimes into hegemony and dominance of one state (USA in recent times).3. There is three-layer structure of the system: core, periphery and semiperiphery. System is very dynamic with semiperiphery as the most dynamic layer - from the periphery into the core pass Asian NIC's with open, dynamic and flexible economies. Internationalized world economy exists few centuries. Present economy, however is globalizedworld-economy, interconnected, interdependent and sophisticated in its nature. Some of thesetheses will be specified in parts dedicated to Slovak economy and its sectoral structure. Sectoral structure of Slovak industry Basic character of Slovak industries was laid in the times of socialistic industrialization.Slovakia was a part of former Austrian-Hungarian empire as a component of its eastern part -Hungary. Hungary obtained an equal status in Austria, but it give not independence to otherHungarian nations among them the Slovaks. Slovakia - as opposite to Czechia - remainedunindustrialized country following the exhaustion of its resources (precious metals). As a resultof World War I and uneven position and dependence status of Czechia and Slovakia wasestablished a new independent state - Czechoslovakia. Slovakian part of the state retained itsmostly agrarian character in contradiction to western Czechia with developing industries.Slovakia continued its semi-colonial uneven status, not in the sense of sweat exploitation andbasically unequal conditions, but above all in the sense of continued disadvantageous structure ofSlovak economy. Agrarian status had (and up to the present day has) its expression also inconservative and rural character of important part of the Slovak society. Thus less urbanizedcountry in the strictly economic sense forms up to now Upas tree effect for modern industries. Politics of Czechia towards Slovakia at the time between world wars seems to be for a largepart of present Slovak society as an exploiting one. Czech employees compensate for lack of
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Slovakian professionals, teachers, physicians and other specialists, but there were in Slovakia alsomany Czech gendarmes. Lack of domestic (Slovak) capital for investment was another problem. Underdeveloped Slovakia attained real development of its industry after World War II. Manyspecificities of socialist industrialization is up to the present day brake of the modern industrialdevelopment on the basis of growth of high-tech industries. Socialist industrialization was aimedto two basic goals: to secure key industries and to build diversified industrial structure. Importsubstitution politics in the conditions of closed economy and society located here primarily raw-and environment-demanding sectors plus military industries. Slovak industrial structure as aresult was dominated by large plants producing steel, chemicals, metals and foods; products were(and are) low quality and low competitive. Flexibility of these plants and concerns was loweredby centrally planned economy and their managements. Inefficiency as a result of a poormotivation, low level of productivity, bad locations of the plants... There are many problems inSlovak industries and some of them I deal in the last part of my article. International experiences of newly industrialized countries Conditions of present and future development of Slovak industry are comparable with those ofsome other relatively problematic, transitional, or underdeveloped countries. Some of them havesimilar problems as economy of Slovak Republic and for us are the most attractive those withsimilar size, openness and structure as well as with similar cultural preconditions and conditionsof the world-economy. From this point of view are for economic development of Slovak Republicvaluable experiences of Asian NIC's (which are well prepared for the information society), andsmall countries from European cultural environment as Ireland and Israel equally developing theirinformation-economy type industries. One of the first examples of new industrial spaces, characterized by high portion of high-techindustries, is Silicon Valley. "Silicon Valley story" (see for example Saxenian 1984, 1985, orspecial Silicon Valley issue of Business Week, August 25, 1997). Spin-offs and new businessesin the valley - originally Santa Clara County and at present an area with its centre in San Jose -created the most creative environment in the world. A crisis in the 1980's (competition of otherregions, congestion and traffic jam, ecological accidents) was overcome. One third of the mostinfluential computer companies are based in Silicon Valley (PC Magazine, July 1997). Success of
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this story is conditioned by creative environment, cultural and ideational melting pot,hardworking environment, and agglomeration effect attracting investment. Fortune firms arethose connected with information technologies sectors: telecommunications, internet and intranetand digital comprimation and transmision of information, video and audio as well as traditionalhigh-tech sectors - computers, electronics, biotechnology, aircraft and space industries, preciseand optical engineering, new materials and sources of energy. Asian newly industrialized countries (from rich sources see, for example, Auty 1995) startedtheir industrialization in the late 1950's. The first Asian NIC's followed pattern of Japan'sdevelopment four tigers (or dragons): South Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong and Singapore. Steadygrowth of their economies without interruption is one of the most important signs of the newinternational division of labour and - in addition to China, an economic miracle of the present daytimes - contribute to global economic shifts from North Atlantic area (symbolized by NATO as anarea of northwestern Europe and Manufacturing triangle of the USA) to Pacific (symbolized byAPEC as an area of Pacific coast of North America, Japan, Asian NIC's and China andperspectively also southeastern Asia and Australia). Cultural preconditions of this area are morespecific than other areas as well as conditions of the world-economy. 1960's-1970's - a time ofNIC's boom - were years of investment activity, lesser international competition, lesser inputprices (costs of labour, raws and other sources) and so on. More important for Slovak transitionaleconomy are, however, stages of economic development. Original periods of import substitutionand establishment of the key industries were changed by assembly operations (electronics,automobiles, computers) and at a present times by on own research and development-based high-tech industries. Europe - as a region with similar cultural preconditions as Slovakia - witnessed a new-typeindustrialization after Oil shock in the late 1970's. Industrialization affected European peripheryand Spain as one of the first countries (Naylon 1992). Long-term prosperity of the world-economy conditioned in first period from the beginning of the 1960's boom of investment andresulting change from the rural-agrarian to urban-industrial country in the first 15 years. Secondperiod after the Oil and investment crisis (and Japan's and NIC's' competition) of 1975-1985 wereovercome by sectoral restructuralization (growth of information technologies - microelectronics,telematics, information processing) accompanied by spatial shifts - decline of old industrial
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spaces (Basque regions, Cantabria, Asturia) and increase of new industrial spaces (Catalunya,Valencia, Aragon and tourism-based Canarias and Baleares). In comparison to Slovakia is Spain a large country with large and diversified economy andpurchasing power. From this point of view is appropriate to give another example. Irland has asmall economy, similarly as in the case of Slovakia with an inevitability to be export-oriented.Irish Republic was twenty years ago an idyllic country with an untouched nature, underdevelopedeconomy and high emigration. Development of assembly operations (especially microchips; seefor example Sayer 1986) were in the first period met with mistrust among both Irish and experts.However, similarly as in the case of Asian NIC's, this investment started an period of furtherrapid development: they laid the foundations of tradition, attracted investment and changedpsychology of Irish population. Irish Republic is at the present time a country with modernindustrial structure and Microsoft's choice of localization of Paneuropean version of Windows (inspite of diffusion of Irish pubs, however, at the time of rapidly growing interest about Celticculture, mysticism, music, and even search of European identity in Celtic past roots, increasenostalgic cries for real Irish culture). Shift from assembly operations to installations ofmicroprocessors is typical for Taiwan, Irish Republic and others and is an inspiration forpostcommunist countries. The last example is Israel which is part of European cultural tradition with unique symbiosisof individualism and sense for community (kibuts as well as Jews in the world) which may be aninspiration for Slovakia and its economy in information age. Israeli's economy witnessed throughits history different stages. The most important export articles originally were tropical fruits asoranges, growing foreign competition caused a reorientation towards diamond industries. A realturning point leading to Israeli's fast development was high-tech reorientation of its economy,first of all software companies startups. Software from Israel belongs to the most successful,some of the greatest companies locate their activities in the country. By the way, Slovakian (andCzech) programmers belong to the best in the world (results of the international high schoolcompetitions). Results of IT's production and sales but are not favourable. Backwardness ofEuropean information technologies in comparison with the USA is the same as the backwardnessof those of Slovakia in comparison with Europe. Slovak industries in information society
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Slovak (and postcommunist countries) backwardness is deep, but not insurmountable. Some ofthe positive preconditions were already mentioned. Firstly I would like to summarize them(including the negative preconditions) and then I will give some proposals of (economic) policyand some critique of present Slovakian economic praxis in the light both future informationsociety and outlined theoretical schemes.1. Historical conditions - as I already mentioned Slovak economic structure is disadvantageous as a result of relative backwardness in comparison to Czechia in a prewar (before the World War II) period and as a result of import substitution politics during the socialist industrialization. Socialist era was the most typical example of industrial thinking and resulted in the gigantismic economy of mass production, belief in abilities to forecast and to plan. Vestiges of this mode of thinking are very strong up to present day (decision makers, managers, public opinion "influencers", teachers).2. Cultural conditions - in the previous text I mentioned conservativism (that is less adaptability and new ideas acceptance) and maybe also sense for the collective. Collective and cooperative thinking is very important in the information-type economy. Sophisticate and creative tasks will require not pure individualistic approaches but voluntary cooperation. Mainly the first contact with an "incomer" (investor or manager) is confronted with Slovak openness of inner self, hospitality, warmth, sensibility, communicability, industriousness; less positive is, however, modesty, preffering of stability and certainty, closeness towards aliens and xenophoby as an extreme. Very positive conditions inevitable for the future society's needs are preconditions for creativity, i. e. sensibility, "positive irrationality" (intuitiveness, fantasy, imagination), impulsiveness but also simplification, anxiety to rely on "external control and need to motivate and activitate the employees because of less inner activity as a limiting factor. Cultural (or socio-cultural problem) is also duality of the Slovak society, mainly urban- rural gap.3. Political and economic conditions and inevitable measures - I would like to give a proposal for optimizing sectoral structure of Slovak industry in brief. In addition to right macroeconomic policy, structural policy (transparency of privatization, bankruptcy and monopoly laws), position of the state in the economy (including taxes lowering -
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the state uses up one half of created GDP; in Asian NIC's it is 15-25%) and so on. Result of disproportionate position of the state in the economy is lack of investment. The situation is impeded by many inner (technological, marketing and management backwardness, social and ecological demands, wrong economic policies) and outer (growing international competitiveness and protectionism, careful investment strategies) conditions hinder the Slovak economy to develop successfully. Possibilities of future successful development in the information-age world-economy are besides other factors conditioned by (Kasala 1996b, partially adapted): A. Deliberating economic policy with clearly stated and practically secured priorities, including preferentially developed sectors - high-tech industries and above all information technologies. It is inevitable to search ways to attract HTI's by the use of different measures - tax reliefs and holidays, providing least costly equipments, infrastructure (or plants/firms) and so on - these measures attracted foreign investment are by the Slovak government already applied. Other measures may may be used to support domestic businesses, above all small and middle entrepreneurs (this support declares the government only formally). Slovak government realizes no real policy aimed to IT's priority. US and EU information superhighway commissions, G7 Group in its Bandemann reports as well as American president through his commission and advisors are permanently influencing position of their countries. Former Czech prime minister V. Klaus was paradoxically known as an enemy of internet, but after his fall arisen in Parliament IT commission. Attitude of Slovakia is typical - refusing to pay VAT to Microsoft, Slovakia as a minimal requirement for providing all the Microsoft products to Slovak schools. B. Inevitable condition for optimal economic development is balanced and diversified sectoral structure of Slovak industry. Present disadvantageous structure with high proportion of heavy chemistry, steel, declining military industries is worsened by lack of raw materials (raw-intensive is one half of industrial production of the????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Slovnaft one twentieth of Slovak export). There is a necessary task to modernize industries, but in the same time also to diversify them, that is to strenghten positions of some middle-technology industries including assembly operations. Very
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important may be improvement of position of car assembly (Volkswagen Bratislava is one of the most successful plants of the VW Group and became the second largest exporter; VW is in the same time one of the largest investor in Slovakia) and electronics (Sony and some other foreign companies manifested their interests). Both????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? C. Diversification of industries and support HTI's and IT's must go hand in hand with lowering of old industrial sectors (as I mentioned above) and removing of old industrial thinking. "Captains" of Slovak industry behave similarly as those in 19th century. The main goal is for them to become wealthy, to eliminate competition, to be number one not only in the industry, but in the whole society. Typical example in this sense is East Slovakian Ironworks. Management of the corporation (in spite of lack of investment) buys foreign steel plants (East Germany, Hungary, USA), football teams, media and (sometimes illegally) banks, all with a substantial support of the central government. Conservation of this disadvantageous sectoral structure, however, is connected with world-economy and product life cycles. Steel as an old industry is produced mainly in developing countries (South Korea, Brazil) and in huge steel combines. The second of them are new, technologically advanced and located on the coasts of the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain,... - where are low transport costs. These European producers have itself serious problems with declining metallurgy and thus they are protected by their own governments (European Union protects them by import quotas). Probable extension of EU (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary) will mean for the Slovak exporter further lowering of export possibilities. D. Real status of the economy is a result of economic policy. In this sense I would emphasize above all export-oriented policy and regional economic policy attracted investment. Proexport policy is effective measure of the state which is carried out by marketing, information services, propagation activities, etc. Slovak Information Agency was established for the sake of positive information about Slovakia abroad. Activity of the agency was closed with the misappropriation of 3 mil. USD. Society for the export credits insurance is almost non-functioning and the whole export policy has rather antiimport than proexport character. Experiences of another areas
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and countries are saying us more about acts to attract investment and other regional political measures. Favourable environment and appropriate measures are able to attract into region or place capital, Slovakia is but absolutely centralized state. Regional policy raised Wales county Clwyd in the late 1980's. An old industrial space suffered at most after was closed the last steel plant down (1980). In the late 1980's were established technological park, specialized high schools and into the area were transfered technologies. In the middle of the 1990's was Clwyd one of the most dynamic British regions. Another example of successful development of an "Upas tree area" is Pittsburgh. Steel city was after deep economic and social problems transformed and in Fortune's top cities most attractive for the businessmen reached the fourth place. E. Modernization and informatization of economy bring a new geography, new spatial patterns and changing spatial relations. Fortunes and losses of individual regions alternate, but "the most powerful" regions remain almost unchanging during relatively long periods (at the present days the time but shorten to few decades). There are also changing position of infrastructure and geographic situation. Implosion of space conditioned by communication revolution enables interactive exchange of information in the real time. This factor in addition to homeworking enables decentralization of information-age economy. Changing task of infrastructure maybe deliver us from an inevitability of highway building, however we have rests in a quality of our analog telephone net, speed of our access to internet and in digital television. Changing sense of geographical situation is saying us that we must forget on our ideas of a bridge between East and West; our advantage thus is not geographical and geopolitical situation, but a knowledge of language, culture, and national mentality. F. From the point of view of geography and geoeconomical pattern in Slovakia seems to be optimal polarizational development, as in the sectoral sense (high-tech industries and above all information technologies as poles of the growth) as in the regional sense. Thus Bratislava is the most important growth pole, Košice and perhaps another cities - regional centres - are second rank growth poles. Advantages of Bratislava are obvious: educational and research and development potential,
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qualified labour forces, creative environment, relatively sufficient foreign investment, proximity to Vienna and perhaps Budapest (to both Austria and Hungary respectively). Perspectives of Bratislava in the future were evaluated by several foreign studies, one of them placed Bratislava and its vicinity at the top of Europe. G. Bratislava is (in spite of efforts of some of the political leaders) administrative capital and intellectual centre of the state as well as centre of decision making. For the fortunes in the future society is inevitable (perhaps more than whatever) to develop proper educational system as well as research and development, intellectually, institutionally and also by financing it. Universal character of general (basic and high- school) in Slovakia is from the needs of information society appropriate model, there is but a need to transform (and to support) universities - that is not to establish new ones, but to improve a quality, to heighten use of information technologies and courses of wider orientation, to motivate students towards their greater activity,etc. ReferencesAuty, R. M. (1995): Industrial policy, sectoral maturation and postwar economic growth in Brazil: the resource curse thesis. Economic Geography, 71, 3, 257-272Bell, D. (1973): The coming of postindustrial society. Basic Books, New YorkBusiness Week (1997), August 25Entrikin, J. N., Brunn, S.D. (1989): Reflections on Richard Hartshorne's The Nature of geography. AAAG, WashingtonGilbert, A. (1988): The new regional geography in English and French-speaking countries. Progress in Human Geography 12, 2, 208-228Hall, P. (1985): The geography of the Fifth Kondratieff. In: Hall, P., Markusen, A.: Silicon landscapes. Allen and Unwin, Boston, 1-19Hart, J. F. (1982): The highest form of the geographer's art. AAAG, 72, 1, 1-29Johnston, R. J., Hauer, J., Hoekveld, G. A. (1990): Regional geography: current developments and future prospects. Routledge, London and New YorkKasala, K. (1996a): Regions as spatial systems and regional development. AFRNUC, Geographica, 38, 91-107
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60 Years Old Hated Turkey Neck and Tired Looking Eyes - Birmingham, GB
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Lower Face Lift and Neck Lipo - Torquay, GB
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I had lost some weight and was still working out with a trainer i was 64 years of age and had some loose skin and fat under my chin..So i had my upper and lower eyes, neck everything but a brow lift i did not need…after 8 years now people still can't believe i my age of 72…dr. High is just... READ MORE
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I wanted to enhance my appearance, I was recommended by a very dear friend. She also was recommend by a friend of hers. So I made an appointment. Dr. Lee is very professional . I could not have been more comfortable, he was very easy to talk to and answered every question I had. I would... READ MORE
Mid-Face and Neck Lift in Hermosa Beach, CA
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48 Years Old, Tired of Looking Tired - Austin, TX
At 48 years old, I looked and felt much younger but was still bothered by heavy eyelids and the beginning of a little turkey wattle. For as long as I can remember, my mother's neck started at her chin and I did not want to have that, ever! I had a neck lift, lower face lift, upper... READ MORE
60 years old - Face, Neck & Eyes. Richardson, TX
I had just turned 60 and although most people said I didn't look my age, my face & eyes were really drooping. I grew up in the 70's - we loved dark tans, so I spent a lot of time at the pool covered in baby oil & iodine. In my early 20's I did get serious about good sunscreens and hats to... READ MORE
A Work of Art - Charlotte, NC
I decided when I turned 60, I would give myself the ultimate birthday present. I had to do something about my massive double-chin and turkey neck. I literally cried when I looked at my photographs…it wasn't who I saw when I looked in the mirror. After doing extensive research on possible... READ MORE
Jawline and Under Chin Not Fixed -Robinson Township, PA
I am 6 months postop and my jawline looks like nothing was done/fat under chin still flabby. Also,I have dents on both sides of my face. I had my eyes done as well,but have circles under the eyes along with hard cysts on upper lids I waited along time to get this surgery/ didn't have wrinkles,... READ MORE