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Europe, U.S. Traders Shrug Off Asian Selloff
John Shipman explains why an Asian stock selloff did not carry over into western markets. Also, Alcoa kicks off earnings season. Photo: AP
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John Edwards returns to court practicing law
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has returned to the courtroom to help represent a 4-year-old Virginia boy in a medical malpractice case.
Edwards is one of three attorneys representing the parents and guardians of a boy with brain damage and physical injuries they say occurred in December 2009. At that time, the boy was an infant in the care of Pitt County Memorial Hospital and an emergency room doctor.
In 2012, Edwards faced six felony charges in a case involving nearly $1 million provided by two wealthy political donors to help hide his pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter as he sought the White House in 2008.
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Part 1: (15 points) Implementation of Fibonacci Heaps.
Part 2: (5 points) Fibonacci Heap exercises.
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You can use a modified version of the command interpreter for binary heaps (in Assignment 4); as in that assignment, i, m, and e insert, return the minimum key value, and extract the minimum. Also, a routine to show the structure of your Fibonacci heap is supplied for you.
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It seems that clothing chain Zara is the latest thing that yiddishe mamas everywhere will bemoan as being "bad for the Jewish people." The Spanish clothing retailer manufactured and stockedits Israeli stores with a single design of men's suiting made from a combination of linen and cotton, which, to the ultra-orthodox, is un-Kosher. Though apologies have been made to the Israeli Orthodox community on behalf of Zara, we fear they may have forever lost the greatly coveted, fashion-forward Orthodox male demographic forever. Black hats and tallises will henceforth be bought at, where, H&M?
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Former Spice Girl Mel C collected the Tesco Celebrity Mum of the Year award on Sunday.
The singer said she was "really chuffed" with the prize, but admitted she does enjoy spending time away from her daughter.
"Going to work sometimes is like a little bit of a break.
"Nothing is as hard as entertaining children all day long and taking care of them," she said.
However, the 39-year-old mother of one, who will travel to Australia later this year to perform in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar, said balancing a career with being a mother does create issues.
"It brings a whole new set of problems with the jigsaw puzzle of childcare and the guilt you feel from being away.
"So that's interesting and it's something you're constantly working on, getting the balance right."
The star, who gave birth to Scarlet four years ago, was one of seven women who picked up an award.
Margaret Aspinall, who leads the Hillsborough Family Support Group, was the Campaigning Mum of the Year.
Aspinall, who lost her 18-year-old son James when 96 football fans were killed, fought tirelessly for the truth of what happened.
In September, the Hillsborough Independent Panel laid bare a shocking cover-up which attempted to shift the blame for the tragedy on to its victims.
After receiving her award, Aspinall said: "We can't get our loved ones back, but we can get what we achieved - which is the truth.
"I think it's a good legacy to leave behind because this can never be allowed to happen again to anyone."
X Factor finalist Rylan Clark was among the celebrities who attended the event at London's Savoy Hotel.
"I'm definitely one million per cent a mummy's boy," he said. "I love my mum to bits."
When asked what was the best thing his mother had done for him, the camp singer - who recently won Celebrity Big Brother - replied: "Just raising me in general. Trust me, I'm hard work! She put up with me."
The ceremony will be shown on Channel 5 on Mother's Day, next Sunday.


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Brook, Newton County gains improved ISO Fire rating
Property owners in the Town of Brook and Iroquois, Washington, and Jackson township areas could see their property insurance rates decrease effective July 1st due to the reclassification of the Public Protection Classification of the Brook-Iroquois Township Volunteer Fire Department.
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) conducted a rating review in December of 2012 and has lowered the classification for the Town of Brook from a Class 6 to Class 5; Iroquois Township has gone from a 6/9 to a 5/8B; Washington Township has gone from 9/10 to 8B/10; and parts of Jackson Township have gone from a 9/10 to a 5/8B.
Factors that are reviewed and taken into consideration are water supply, fire department equipment, and fire department training. ISO met with fire department, dispatch, and water department personnel over 3 days in December to determine the new rating.
Brook fire chief Kyle Conrad is pleased with the lowering of the classifications for his fire territory. "This is just one example of how our hard work and financial investment in equipment and infrastructure pays dividends to our community" says Conrad. "This is something for all of us to be proud of".
Property owners should review their insurance renewals that occur after July 1st to verify the new classification is noted on their policy. Those areas outside of 5 road miles from Brook in Washington and Jackson townships may not see any classification change due to their remote location.
The Brook-Iroquois Township Volunteer Fire Department consists of 23 volunteers and serves the Town of Brook, Iroquois Township, Washington Township, and the southern half of Jackson Township.


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CASE 322 - The history of Bolivia
Famous since Spanish colonial days for its mineral wealth, modern Bolivia was once a part of the ancient Inca empire. After the Spaniards defeated the Incas in the 16th century, Bolivia's predominantly Indian population was reduced to slavery. The remoteness of the Andes helped protect the Bolivian Indians from the European diseases that decimated other South American Indians. But the existence of a large indigenous group forced to live under the thumb of their colonizers created a stratified society of haves and have-nots that continues to this day. Income inequality between the largely impoverished Indians who make up two-thirds of the country and the light-skinned European elite remains vast.
By the end of the 17th century, the mineral wealth had begun to dry up. The country won its independence in 1825 and was named after Simón Bolívar, the famous liberator. Hampered by internal strife, Bolivia lost great slices of territory to three neighboring nations. Several thousand square miles and its outlet to the Pacific were taken by Chile after the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). In 1903, a piece of Bolivia's Acre Province, rich in rubber, was ceded to Brazil. And in 1938, after losing the Chaco War of 1932–1935 to Paraguay, Bolivia gave up its claim to nearly 100,000 sq mi of the Gran Chaco. Political instability ensued.
In 1965, a guerrilla movement mounted from Cuba and headed by Maj. Ernesto (Ché) Guevara began a revolutionary war. With the aid of U.S. military advisers, the Bolivian army smashed the guerrilla movement, capturing and killing Guevara on Oct. 8, 1967. A string of military coups followed before the military returned the government to civilian rule in 1982, when Hernán Siles Zuazo became president. At that point, Bolivia was regularly shut down by work stoppages and had the lowest per capita income in South America.
In June 1993, free-market advocate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was elected president. He was succeeded by former general Hugo Bánzer, an ex-dictator turned democrat who became president for the second time in Aug. 1997. Bánzer made significant progress in wiping out illicit coca production and drug trafficking, which pleased the United States. However, the eradication of coca, a major crop in Bolivia since Incan times, plunged many Bolivian farmers into abject poverty. Although Bolivia sits on South America's second-largest natural gas reserves as well as considerable oil, the country has remained one of the poorest on the continent.
In Aug. 2002, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada again became president, pledging to continue economic reforms and to create jobs. In Oct. 2003, Sánchez resigned after months of rioting and strikes over a gas-exporting project that protesters believed would benefit foreign companies more than Bolivians. His vice president, Carlos Mesa, replaced him. Despite continued unrest, Mesa remained popular during his first two years as president. In a July 2004 referendum on the future of the country's significant natural gas reserves (the second largest in South America), Bolivians overwhelmingly supported Mesa's plan to exert more control over foreign gas companies. Mesa managed to satisfy the strong antiprivatization sentiment among Bolivians without shutting the door on some limited form of privatization in the future. But rising fuel prices in 2005 led to massive protests by tens of thousands of impoverished farmers and miners, and on June 6 Mesa resigned. Supreme court justice Eduardo Rodriguez took over as interim president.
Landlocked Bolivia is equal in size to California and Texas combined. Brazil forms its eastern border; its other neighbors are Peru and Chile on the west and Argentina and Paraguay on the south. The western part, enclosed by two chains of the Andes, is a great plateau—the Altiplano, with an average altitude of 12,000 ft (3,658 m). Almost half the population lives on the plateau, which contains Oruro, Potosí, and La Paz. At an altitude of 11,910 ft (3,630 m), La Paz is the highest administrative capital city in the world. The Oriente, a lowland region ranging from rain forests to grasslands, comprises the northern and eastern two-thirds of the country. Lake Titicaca, at an altitude of 12,507 ft (3,812 m), is the highest commercially navigable body of water in the world.
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China's Latest Bubble Is Its Most Serious Yet
The sheer size and ever-changing nature of Beijing's asset-management industry make it near impossible to regulate
By Anjani Trivedi
China´s Asset Management Business
Chinese regulators are targeting the latest bubble in their financial system: the domestic asset-management industry. Unfortunately, it is a moving target.
The gargantuan industry—a byproduct of China's trapped and churning capital—has more than doubled in size in the past two years and is now worth around 60 trillion yuan, or nearly $9 trillion. A closely knit network of financial institutions like banks, funds, trusts, brokers and insurance companies issue the bulk of the industry's products.
The problem for Beijing isn't just the industry's sheer size. The evolving relationships between the key players and the ever-changing nature of the products they sell have made it nearly impossible to regulate. Even if the authorities manage to stamp out one area of egregious behavior, another quickly emerges.
Number of bank-issued wealth management products outstanding
Much of the problem stems from China's banks, which have issued almost 30 trillion yuan of wealth-management products in the recent past, offering them as lucrative short-term investment opportunities to ordinary household and corporate customers who buy them in the belief that they have an implicit guarantee from the bank. By the end of the first quarter, some 44,000 of such products were outstanding, more than half of which were due to mature by the end of the second quarter, according to analysts at Autonomous Research. By contrast, western banks issued around 7,300 similarly complex products between 1998 and 2008, ahead of the global financial crisis.
These products, usually recorded off the banks' balance sheets, ripple through the financial system in various ways that complicate regulators' efforts. Banks looking to artificially improve their capital-adequacy ratios have sold some $3.7 trillion of their own loans into WMPs, Autonomous estimates.
Other smaller banks, looking for high-yielding assets, are among the customers for these WMPs, which also invest in assets like stocks, money-market funds, bonds and commodities, periodically fueling bubbles in those markets.
Further muddying the waters, banks can also package up some of their loans and sell them to nonbank financial institutions like mutual funds and trusts. These then parcel the loans into so-called asset-management products and plans, which they can sell back to the original banks and other institutions. Hey presto! A bank's loan book has suddenly become part of the bank's investment portfolio. Autonomous estimates banks have unloaded another $1.9 trillion of loans this way.
Together with the loans channeled into WMPs, that is an amount equivalent to half of China's GDP stowed away into the shadows.
As banks find other new ways to channel these products, the network has come to include big insurers and brokerages, with such institutions often leveraging up to buy ever more products from each other, which only exacerbates the problem. The short-term nature of the products, when set against the long-term nature of the assets in which they often invest, creates the risk of asset-liability mismatches that could potentially destabilize Chinese markets if funding is squeezed.
Chinese regulators have now signaled their determination to quash the leverage in this system and untangle complex assets jointly issued by various financial institutions. The task looks herculean.
And as long as the financial system's shape-shifting continues, any regulatory crackdown may just lead to the emergence of new immeasurable risks.


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HYANNIS — Barnstable planning officials Monday night passed along a recommendation that the town implement a moratorium on medical marijuana treatment centers but decided to bogart a zoning proposal to deal with dispensaries.
HYANNIS — Barnstable planning officials Monday night passed along a recommendation that the town implement a moratorium on medical marijuana treatment centers but decided to bogart a zoning proposal to deal with dispensaries.
The town's planning board voted 5-0 to recommend the moratorium, which would prohibit the medical pot shops until either 2014 or 90 days after the state Department of Public Health releases final regulations for the dispensaries, whichever comes first.
By the same vote the planning panel voted to continue until February a public hearing on a zoning bylaw amendment that would establish an overlay district for dispensaries.
Barnstable Town Council will make the final decision on both amendments after more public hearings.
The use of medical marijuana, including the establishment of dispensaries, was overwhelmingly approved by Bay State voters in November's election.
Communities across the state are now grappling with how to deal with the rule change in a vacuum of guidance from the state, which has until May 1 to develop related draft regulations.
"As everyone else is, we're still waiting for the state to finish their work in this area," said Jo Anne Miller Buntich, director of the town's Growth Management Department.
The law eliminates state criminal and civil penalties for the medical use of marijuana by patients who have been diagnosed with debilitating diseases, such as cancer, AIDS, Crohn's disease, Parkinson's disease, ALS or multiple sclerosis. Qualifying patients are allowed to possess a 60-day supply of marijuana that can be obtained at registered nonprofit medical marijuana treatment centers.
Thirty-five centers are allowed statewide in the law's first year with at least one, but no more than five, per county.
The law does not change federal regulations prohibiting the possession of marijuana for medical or other purposes.
Barnstable officials first proposed an overlay district for the centers around Cape Cod Hospital on the east end of Hyannis. Town Councilor Ann Canedy then proposed a moratorium so the town could see what the state regulations look like before finalizing local rules.
During Monday's public hearings before the planning board on both ideas residents, several who came from across the town border in West Yarmouth, were unanimous in their sentiment.
"There's an opportunity for Barnstable to get this right," said Linda Bolliger of Hyannis Park, an area of West Yarmouth that would border the proposed overlay district.
There is too much opportunity for fraud and no guidelines for potency or the size of the supply of marijuana allowed under the law, she said.
"Institute the moratorium now," she said.
The overlay district in its current location would impact traffic, residential homes and property values, said Christine Greeley of Hyannis Park.
"Would any of you want to be living next door to this?" she said.
Town officials should consider locating the district in Independence Park where an adult use overlay district already exists, Greeley said.
Cape Cod Healthcare, which owns Cape Cod Hospital at the center of the proposed district, supports the moratorium, said attorney Michael Scott of Nutter, McClennen and Fish, which represents the organization.
Noting the sentiment in the room, planning board members voted unanimously for the moratorium but chose to hold off on closing the public hearing for the overlay district until they had more information.
"I almost feel like we'd like to do due diligence here," said board member Felicia Penn.
The overlay district hearing was scheduled to be continued Feb. 25.
Until state officials write specific regulations for the new law, qualifying patients with a recommendation from their doctor may possess and grow their own marijuana.
There is no existing definition under the law for what constitutes a 60-day supply of marijuana and the moratorium on dispensaries proposed in Barnstable doesn't address the personal possession and grow provisions of the law.


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Commission proposes new Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived
The European Commission has proposed to set up a Fund to help the most deprived persons in the EU.
The Fund would support Member State schemes providing food to the most deprived people and clothing and other essential goods to homeless people and materially-deprived children. The proposal now goes to the European Parliament and the European Union's Council of Ministers for approval.
The Commission foresaw a budget of €2.5 billion for the Fund during the period 2014-2020 as part of its June 2011 proposal for a Multiannual Financial Framework. Member States would be responsible for paying 15% of the costs of their national programmes, with the remaining 85% coming from the Fund.
Under the proposed Fund Member States would apply for funding to support operational programmes covering the period 2014 to 2020 for schemes providing, through partner organisations, food to the most deprived persons and clothing and other essential goods (such as shoes, soap and shampoo) to the homeless and to materially-deprived children.
The proposal would give considerable flexibility to national authorities to plan and deliver the assistance in line with their national schemes. Detailed criteria to allocate assistance would be the responsibility of Member States, or even partner organisations, as they are best placed to target assistance to local needs.
Partner organisations, often non-governmental, would be responsible for delivering the food or goods to the most deprived persons. To meet the Fund's social cohesion objectives, partner organisations would not only have to provide material assistance to the most deprived persons but also undertake basic activities aimed at their social integration. The Fund would also be able to support such accompanying measures.
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All the long-awaited bypasses and widening projects for U.S. 17 through Jones County are funded and work is scheduled to begin simultaneously in 2015.
�I can believe it because I�ve seen it in writing now,� Marc Finlayson, Highway 17 Association consultant, told the nearly 60 area business people attending a recent breakfast sponsored by Swiss Bear Development Corporation and New Bern Area Chamber of Commerce.
Finlayson said funding for those projects, totaling $225 million, got the blessing of the new administration in August when the N.C. Board of Transportation voted to accelerate all three so they will go ahead of the change in the state�s highway funding formula.
�DOT leadership agreed with us on the significance of this,� Finlayson said.
Some of those present at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center breakfast included Swiss Bear Director Susan Moffat-Thomas and former, who is stepping down after two years as Swiss Bear president. The two have been pushing for widening U.S. 17 through the state for decades.
Chamber President Kevin Roberts said he read in old records from 1903 that a local representative mentioned the highway going north and south and said then �something�s got to be done.�
Leaders of the 13 counties from the Virginia to South Carolina state lines pushed for the needed improvements beginning in 1959 and incorporated the Highway 17 Association in 1975, but N.C. Board of Transportation member Bob Mattocks said it had little demonstrable success until it hired Finlayson in 2006.
Finlayson said that U.S. 17 is the only north-south corridor east of I-95 and, as a result, safety improvements and widening it can produce significant economic impact for the state and region.
An economic impact statement done for the highway shows that improvements would create positive impacts for all three of the state�s top money makers: agribusiness, military and tourism.
He said the nearly $450 million state investment needed for the unfunded projects in the study�s Plan A scenario would yield an estimated $2.168 billion in return and more than 1,000 new jobs � 2,024 when the road is created.
That is a 4.5 to 1 cost benefit ratio return on investment, Finlayson said.
Plan B and Plan C scenarios don�t match that cost return but still offer a better than 2.5 to 1 ratio, he said, and could produce an estimated 4,000 recurring jobs.
He said it remains unclear how the new state funding formula will affect unfunded U.S. 17 widening projects, which now divides the 30 percent of transportation funding allocations for the 14 divisions by population rather than road miles or economic impact value, he said.
�We�re going to have to work extra hard to tell our story,� Finlayson said. �I understand the metropolitan concerns,� he added, but all the state�s highways need to be maintained.


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Another Election Day has come and gone and the people have spoken.
Another Election Day has come and gone and the people have spoken. Barack Obama has won re-election to a second term as president, with 303 electoral votes, to 206 for his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. Florida, and its 29 electoral votes, were still up for grabs as of Wednesday morning. Florida was the last state to be decided on what was a much shorter night for election watchers than expected.
The Electoral College system was designed to give smaller states more of a voice in elections. But it that still true? In this election, most of the campaigning and ludicrous spending that accompanied it was centered on about a dozen "swing" or "battleground" states.
Romney needed to win a combination of these states, particularly Florida and Ohio to pull off an upset. About 10:15 p.m. Central Standard Time, the major television networks declared that Ohio and its 18 electoral votes would go to Obama, even though the popular vote in the state was very close. When Iowa and Oregon were declared for Obama, it put him over the 270 electoral votes needed for election, although, at that time, Romney still had a lead of about 1 million votes nationally.
While the winner of the national popular vote usually wins the electoral college, it's not a certainty. Democrats remember Al Gore in 2000? In 2000, Gore carried the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes but lost the electoral college narrowly to George W. Bush. The 2000 election was not the first time this occurred — it happened in 1824, 1876, and 1888. And, 18 times since 1824 candidates have won the presidency with less than a majority of the vote.
Yes, the electorate has spoken, but the demographics of the electorate are undergoing change. Three of the biggest determining voting blocs in this presidential election were women, Hispanics and the youthful vote. Obama was the choice of about 60 percent of the nation's younger voters. Women supported Obama by an 11 percent margin, and Hispanics supported Obama by a 3-1 margin.
Women are playing an increasingly larger role in politics at the national and state levels. There are now 20 female United States senators, including Minnesota's very popular Amy Klobuchar. The Republican party will need to make inroads with these voting groups to gain the presidency again.


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ScrivereMusings by Leah Jorgensen
Archive for Gianni Schicchi
O Mio Babbino Caro
Banner from the opera Gianni Schicchi
One of my favorite movies of my girlhood was A Room with a View, a beautifully produced Merchant-Ivory film based on the classic by E.M Forrester, one of my favorite authors.
Being a romantic girl, I loved the gorgeous cinematography of Florence and the Italian countryside. The most romantic kiss in film history, as far as I'm concerned, is passionately and aesthetically presented in this film.
Julian Sands as George Emerson and Helena
Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch
What also struck me was the opening credits that included an ephemeral, graceful opera song, which is one of Puccini's sweetest arias, O Mio Babbino Caro.
Clip from the Merchant-Ivory film A Room with a View
I remembered hearing that song in our kitchen – as my Italian grandmother used to love to play opera records when she'd visit, just as the preparation of a meal would commence. Usually my mother would play the likes of Mario Lanza, Sergio Franchi, the Great Caruso, and, most especially, Luciano Pavarotti. Later, when my mother added a compact disk player to her kitchen, we developed a vast collection of opera CDs, many of which were compilations. I loved it whenever O Mio Babbino Caro came on. I soon began to sing along. When my grandmother would praise my performance, I felt like I was on to something. It made her happy when I sang opera. So, it made me happy.
My grandmother has since passed on, but, I still get very sentimental about that song. And, it still makes me really happy when I sing it.
As it came to be, O Mio Babbino Caro has a certain travel history with me. I have belted out that very song on a number of occasions walking at night under the stars in different cities around the world. And, often under the influence of some very good wines.
I have "performed" O Mio Babbino Caro in the following places:
- In the kitchen at my parents house in Fairfax, Virginia
- On campus at Sweet Briar College
- On campus at Hampden-Sydney College, after midnight
- In the streets of Washington, DC after midnight
- In the streets of Atlanta, GA after midnight
- On the walking bridge in Chattanooga, TN under the stars
- In the streets of New York City at 2:30 a.m.
- In the streets of Boston at midnight
- In the streets of Roma, Italia at midnight
- In the streets of Paris, France at midnight
- In the streets of San Francisco at 2:00 a.m.
- In the streets of L. A. (Sunset Blvd – I think), at 2:00 a.m.
- On the boardwalk in South Beach, Miami just after midnight
- On a cruise ship, on the deck looking at the stars somewhere in the middle of the Caribbean
- In the streets of Seattle, WA just after midnight
- In the streets of Portland, OR just after midnight
- In the streets of Ashland, OR
- On the gondola coming down the mountain restaurant in Telluride, CO (after dinner, stars were out)
- At the Painted Lady in McMinnville, OR (the restaurant was empty – we were the last guests!)
I think I should start video documenting my travelling performances. It's like a travelling gnome thing for me – where's Leah going to sing O Mio Babbino Caro next?
The song originates from Giacomo Puccini's comedic opera, Gianni Schicchi, based on an incident mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy, and was first performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918.
The work is the third and final part of Puccini's Il trittico—three one-act operas with contrasting themes, written to be presented together. Although it continues to be performed with one or both of the other trittico operas, Gianni Schicchi is now more frequently staged either alone or with short operas by other composers.
O Mio Babbino Caro Italian Lyrics
O mio babbino caro,
mi piace, è bello bello,
vo'andare in Porta Rossa
a comperar l'anello!
Si, si, ci voglio andare!
E se l'amassi indarno,
andrei sul Ponte Vecchio
ma per buttarmi in Arno!
Mi struggo e mi tormento,
O Dio! Vorrei morir!
Babbo, pietà, pietà!
Babbo, pietà, pietà!
O Mio Bambino Caro English Translation
Oh my dear father,
I like him, he is very handsome.
I want to go to Porta Rossa
to buy the ring!
Yes, yes, I want to go there!
And if my love were in vain,
I would go to Ponte Vecchio
and throw myself in the Arno!
I am pining and I am tormented,
Oh God! I would want to die!
Daddy, have mercy, have mercy!
Daddy, have mercy, have mercy!
The song has been made internationally famous by opera and pop-opera singers including Maria Callas, Rene Fleming, and Sarah Brightman.


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Mike Carey avoided refereeing Redskins games because of team name
The Washington Redskins team name debate may have emerged as a hot topic over the last year, but there are plenty of people who have had a problem with the racist undertones associated with the nickname for years. Former NFL referee Mike Carey is one of them.
Carey, who recently retired after 19 seasons as an NFL ref and is now the rules analyst for CBS Sports, began quietly protesting the term Redskins back in 2006. It was then that Carey asked that the NFL not assign him to any Washington games for the preseason or regular season, and the league honored his request.
"I've called them Washington all my life," Carey told Mike Wise of the Washington Post. "And I will continue to call them Washington. The league respectfully honored my request not to officiate Washington. It happened sometime after I refereed their playoff game in 2006, I think."
Carey, the first African-American official to ever work a Super Bowl, was one of the most respected referees in the NFL. He said he kept his request private and never went to Roger Goodell to discuss the issue.
"It just became clear to me that to be in the middle of the field, where something disrespectful is happening, was probably not the best thing for me," Carey explained. "I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn't have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful."
Carey's interesting revelation comes in the wake of two prominent NFL broadcasters saying they will avoid using the term Redskins this season. We're guessing Mike Ditka would strongly disagree with Carey's social stance.


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Pacers Sign Dominic McGuire
Pacers Sign Dominic McGuire
Official Release
January 7, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Pacers announced Monday the signing of Dominic McGuire to a 10-day contract.
Agness: McGuire Brings Defensive Intensity »
McGuire, a 6-9, 235-pound forward, has been with six different teams in his six-year NBA career, most recently the New Orleans Hornets. He played nine games with the Hornets this season, averaging 2.1 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. He was a second-round draft pick of the Washington Wizards in 2007 (47th overall) after playing collegiately at Fresno State. McGuire has also played with Sacramento, Charlotte, Golden State and Toronto.


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I live in NY and started going to the draft in 1990 when it was held at the Marriott Marquis. My first year I arrived at around 6:30am and was 97th in line to get in. They had a contest where you would guess whom each team would pick in the 1st round. I submitted my form and went up into the rafters above the floor where the team tables/reps sat. I remember trying to get the attention of the Seahawk reps but they wouldn't give me the time of day. We ended up taking Tez which I was very very happy with. Later on in the draft, right before Dallas took Emmit Smith, Tagliabue got up to the microphone and announced my name as the winner of the contest. The winner by the way got 2 tickets to the following years Super Bowl (Giants/Bills). I was literally speechless. My friends went nuts and eventually I realized what happened and went to claim my prize. After I returned to my seat people were motioning to me to look down at the floor where the team reps were. It so happens that the Seahawk reps saw that I won the tickets and were motioning to me congratulations and giving me the thumbs up.
I will never forget that day and even just writing about it now brings back memories. Like the time me and Fireman Ed (tool Jets fan) had some words. I used to go to the draft every year but it has gotten so crazy there that I have not gone in about 7 years. I really miss those days though of going to see it live.


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May 18, 2018
Do you like history? Then you'll love the city of St. Joseph. Founded in 1843, this small town north of Kansas City was one of the most important sites for trade and commerce in early America—and the site of the original Pony Express. Today, this city boasts 13 different museums, plus lots of other sites on the National Register of Historic Places.
Did you know that Jesse James spent his last days in St. Joseph? You can tour his modest house where he lived with his wife and children—and was ultimately confronted by Robert Ford, a former member of his gang. This museum features many artifacts from his family home and final burial.
The Pony Express began in St. Joseph in April, 1860—and these unique exhibits show the amazing lives of the Pony Express riders, who traveled 2,000 miles by horseback to deliver mail quickly to Sacramento, California. When you finish, visit the nearby Patee House Museum to see the headquarters for the original Pony Express operations, housed in the Patee House Hotel.
Considered one of the top 50 most unusual museums in America, the Glore Psychiatric Museum illustrates the bizarre history of mental illness cures and the 130-year history of "State Lunatic Asylum No. 2." Don't miss the exhibit of 453 nails swallowed by a patient in 1874. This museum has been featured on The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, PBS, and The Science Channel.
Every first Saturday of the month, downtown St. Joseph First Saturdays features different local musical and visual artists. Don't forget to stop in and shop and the local businesses while you are enjoying the scene. You can also join in on the Sculpture Walk and take in the beautiful outdoor art around downtown St Joseph.
Boudreaux's Louisiana Seafood & Steaks serves up traditional Cajun food, such as jambalaya, gumbo, and crawfish etouffe (open daily for lunch and dinner, Monday-Saturday). But more daring diners should definitely start with the fried alligator and freshly shucked oysters on the half shell, served in an historic brick building on the main square.
Looking for a home in St. Joseph? We have all your listings—right here.
Photo courtesy of the Allied Arts Council of St. Joseph, MO Inc.
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It's their wedded bliss, caught on camera.
After becoming man and wife in a quiet evening ceremony Saturday, actress Emily Deschanel and writer-actor David Hornsby mingled with family and friends, including her Bones costar David Boreanaz, at their wedding in the Pacific Palisades.
The bride is wearing 10-carat diamond drop earrings and two platinum-and-diamond scroll hairpins by Neil Lane.


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Seeing Green In Concrete Floors
By Matthew Perry
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At the 2009 ISSA/INTERCLEAN® North America Trade Show in Chicago, William R. Griffin, one of the industry''s leading cleaning consultants, said that the floor care industry is in for some big changes — in fact, many have occurred already.
Among those mentioned was that fewer facilities are demanding a "wet-look" shine on their floors due to both economic and environmental reasons.
Griffin noted that the types of floors installed are changing as well.
Although there still will be plenty of vinyl composition tile (VCT) floors in commercial facilities — along with different types of stone — many facilities are opting for concrete or what is often termed polished or "decorative concrete" floor coverings — polished or decorative concrete that has been finished, painted, stained, textured or had color particles added.
Before exploring the use and maintenance of concrete floors, we should have an understanding of what they are.
Concrete is typically made up of cement, aggregate — sand, gravel, crushed stones — and water.
The combination of materials used to make concrete can vary depending on where it is used and its application.
Traditionally, a basic type of concrete has been used as the subfloor under finished flooring; however, in more and more settings, concrete is the finished flooring.
It has long been the flooring in industrial-type facilities, but it is possible that its installation in "big-box" stores has increased its acceptance and pace of installation elsewhere.
The reasons for this, which go far beyond it being a new fashion in commercial facilities, include that concrete flooring is:
Environmentally preferable: Concrete is often viewed as an environmentally responsible and sustainable floor covering, and using concrete can increase the number of points awarded to a building seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.
Cost-effective: Compared to many other types of hard and soft floor coverings, concrete is considered cost-effective to install and to maintain.
Durable: One reason concrete floors are installed in big-box stores is that concrete is one of the most durable floor coverings available.
Low maintenance: Concrete floors are typically easy to clean and maintain. If no finish has been applied, they generally just need to be vacuumed or dust mopped/damp mopped using a neutral-pH cleaner; there are usually no grout areas requiring special cleaning and, in larger areas, an automatic scrubber can easily clean concrete floors.
Concrete Care
Although concrete flooring can be relatively easy to maintain — especially when compared to many other floor types — facility managers, service providers and building service contractors (BSCs) should know that decorative concrete floors can become more complicated and involved to maintain.
In some cases, a stain has been applied to the floor.
Although the stain will not flake off as paint might, it penetrates only the top layer of the concrete surface.
In time, it can wear away due to foot traffic or weather exposure.
To prolong the life of the stain, manufacturers recommend applying multiple coats of a clear sealer or floor finish to the concrete.
However, once a sealer or finish has been applied, the floor may need more restorative attention such as scrubbing to remove surface-level soils — just as with other types of hard surface floor coverings.
Further, the floor may eventually need to be stripped and refinished to deep clean and revive its appearance.
Unfortunately, this not only increases the costs to maintain a concrete floor but — because of the powerful chemical strippers, cleaners, polishes and glosses that must be used — it can minimize or eliminate the environmental benefits as well.
To avoid this, managers, service providers and BSCs can institute a regular maintenance program using diamond polishing pads or tools.
Typically, pad systems are used for existing polished floors that have been ignored but still have a surface that may be brought back up to a high-gloss luster.
In most cases, service providers and BSCs may work progressively through a system, beginning with an 800-grit pad and then moving along to 1,500- and 3,000-grit pads during regular maintenance programs, ultimately reviving the shine.
Conversely, some managers, service providers and BSCs may face a situation where the concrete flooring is not revivable using a pad system.
In this case, they would use a progressive diamond-grit-blade system.
Through this process, cleaning professionals begin with a 25- or 100-grit diamond-impregnated concrete tool to grind down the top layer of concrete.
After revealing the substrate, they will then work through a system comprising five polymer blades ranging from 100 to 2,000 grit.
Once this stage is complete, the concrete floor will have a shine similar to what customers typically see in a retail environment.
From here, cleaning professionals may maintain the polished concrete floor using a 3,000-grit diamond-impregnated pad with either water or a neutral cleaner to encourage more efficient green cleaning.
In the past, these systems were available only for use with heavy and often costly machinery designed specifically for concrete floor care.
These machines were large and complicated to use, and usually required specialized training.
Today, diamond-grit blades have been developed that can be used with a conventional floor machine, making this a more cost-effective option that requires less training and — because it eliminates the use of harsh chemicals and polishes — is more environmentally preferable as well.
Lucrative Add-on Service
The use of concrete as a finished flooring material is growing and, due to its many cost and environmental benefits, we can expect its use to increase in the future.
Although on a daily basis it can be easy to clean and maintain, facility managers and service providers should realize that concrete floor care, especially for a decorative concrete floor, can become much more involved.
New technologies such as diamond-grit blades are making concrete floor care easier and more cost-effective.
And, for astute BSCs, this can be a lucrative add-on service as well.
Mathew Perry is the product marketing manager for Powr-Flite/CFR, leading manufacturers of professional cleaning equipment. He may be reached at email@example.com.


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With the baby we need something that can carry two adults, a baby seat and a dog while still carrying everything we need to set up camp for 2-3 days. It's also going to need to be able to get to the places I like to go.
So the truck is getting an overland setup. First thing to do was to build a shelf and "drawer" to organize my bed. I only had a couple days to get it out together before camping this last weekend.
The bottom slider is just cut to fit my bed snugly. It has 4 d-rings to strap the heavy items down and 8 eyelets for bungee cords. The top shelf is just a 4'x4' piece of plywood on a couple 2x4's. I use a bungee cord net to keep everything in place.
The sorta-plan is to expand on this bed system with a dual battery setup to run all the house gear. A 12 volt cooler/fridge, a power station with 110VAC, 12VDC, and a couple USB ports. I have enough room to mount the second battery and a good sized water tank underneath the truck between the driveshaft and passenger side frame rail.
Also a 3" lift and 265/75r16's will be going on in the next couple weeks.Then it's bumpers. Options are limited for this model so a custom job may be in store. We'll see.
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Balboa Fun Zone gearing up for nautical upgrade
Jan 16, 2013
Orange County Register
By Deepa Bharath
Locals cherish the Balboa Fun Zone as a little vignette from the past – its rides, arcade games, the carousel and the Ferris wheel.
But after 76 years of providing the community with tacky yet enjoyable entertainment, the Fun Zone is gearing up for a big change.
ExplorOcean, formerly known as the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, has begun a vigorous fundraising process for a $105 million center that will feature a three-story "ocean literacy center" with 4-D attractions, ocean-themed rides, interactive exhibits and an ocean education curriculum that will create partnerships with school districts. They are hoping to break ground in the summer of 2016.
When the project is completed in 2018, it will attract 350,000 annual visitors and achieve at least 70 percent of its revenue from ticket sales, boardwalk attractions and waterfront activities, said Tom Pollack, Capital Campaign chairman. That's twice the revenue earned by the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, respectively.
The ocean literacy center will have a unique design, including three 30-foot "grow walls" that will be covered with vegetation, said Richard D'Amato of Irvine-based LPA, the architectural firm working on the ExplorOcean project.
The entire roof will be covered with solar panels that will help power the entire building, he said.
Pollack has been encouraged by words of support from the likes of Roy Disney and James Cameron, though the project is still in its infancy, he said. It will require the blessing of both the City Council and California Coastal Commission.
In September, the city commissioned the Balboa Village Advisory Committee, which includes Mayor Keith Curry and Councilman Michael Henn. The city will fix the streets and put in much-needed landscaping in the area as well as allocate funding for facade improvements, Henn said.
Henn called himself an enthusiastic supporter of the ExplorOcean project. He anticipates the city cooperating with Explor-Ocean to build a new parking structure in the area.
The project is not without its opponents. Longtime residents such as Louise Fundenberg were sad to see the iconic carousel go in 2011 when its lease ended.
"I loved that merry-go-round as a kid," she said. "Putting a few patio chairs in its place isn't doing it for me."
Howard Hall, a board member of the Newport Beach Historical Society, is doubtful ExplorOcean's concept will fly.
"They need to raise a lot of money to make these improvements and they're making it more about amusement and oceanography than our nautical history," he said.
Regardless of what is done with the Fun Zone, the area's history must be preserved, Hall said.
"Back in the day, Balboa was a destination," he said. "It was a time when there were fewer attractions in Southern California and this was it."
ExplorOcean is no amusement park, but it will have its own version of boardwalk games, including one that's being designed called "Burt the Bullshark," Pollack said. It's a shark ride much like a mechanical bull ride.
"We're not Sea World or Disneyland," Pollack said. "But this is going to be a cultural center that builds on Newport Beach's rich nautical heritage and our relationship with the ocean. We treasure the history of the Fun Zone too. But, we hope to give people new memories as well."
A History of the Fun Zone
- 1906: Fred Lewis owned a tract on the waterfront in old Balboa and operated a boat yard there, storing and repainting the boats for many of the locals.
- 1936: Lewis leased the land to Al Anderson. The boat yard was torn down and the Fun Zone was born. The arrival of the 1918 45-foot Ferris wheel and a carousel paved the way for kiddy rides and arcades, with fondly remembered favorites including Punk Rack and Spill the Milk.
- 1948: Anderson purchased the property from Lewis.
- 1972: Anderson sold the Fun Zone, which passed from one lending institution to another.
- 1985: Jordan Wank purchased the Fun Zone and obtained a permit from the city to bulldoze and rebuild it. A year later, the new Fun Zone opened with carnival-style rides such as bumper cars. Bob Speth and Joe Tunstall formed Balboa Fun Rides Inc. and signed a 25-year lease to operate the Ferris wheel and the carousel.
- 1988: Doo & Sons, a Japanese investment group, bought the property from Wank with plans to build condos. The City Council voted down the project and the property went into receivership.
- 1994: Speth and Tunstall bought the Fun Zone.
- 2005: The property was purchased by the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, which later changed its name to ExplorOcean.
- 2011: The carousel lease was terminated, bringing a 75-year run to an end.
- The carousel moved to the Westminster Mall.
- 2007 to 2010: ExplorOcean opens its Steele Model Pavilion featuring the museum's model ship collection. Planning begins for a new facility.
- Sept. 24, 2011: Fun Zone celebrates its 75th anniversary.
- 2011 to 2012: Architect and creative design teams are hired for the project.
Contact the writer: 714-796-7909 or [email protected]
By the Numbers
- 6.9 million: Number of people who visit Newport Beach every year
- 1.5 million: Number of people who visit the Fun Zone, boardwalk and ride the Balboa Ferry each year
- $105 million: Total cost of the ExplorOcean project
- 18: Number of months it will take to build the new three-story ExplorOcean center
- 40,000: Number of annual visitors to the ExplorOcean
- 350,000: Projected number of annual visitors after improvements are made.
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Battlefield 1942 took the FPS genre to a whole new level. With the game's detail, historical accuracy, vehicles, and focus on team play, it couldn't get much better. Soon the great game would be followed up with two expansion packs and a modding community that rivals that of the ancient Half-Life. Mods like Desert Combat, Eve of Destruction, and Galactic Conquest took BF1942 to Operation Desert Storm, Vietnam, and even to a galaxy far, far away.
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Why Madison Presidential Listening Tour: Research and Public Service
President's Journal —
Research and Public Service, Nov. 1, 2012
Today I had the opportunity to visit with JMU's Research and Public Service, an entrepreneurial group who together look to cultivate partnerships around the world and help apply and monetize JMU's research agenda—in short—to seek opportunity for the good of JMU. This group is monitoring public policy and soliciting relationships around energy, international stabilization, national security and more in a way that connects with JMU's faculty research agenda. RPS coordinates with federal and state policymakers and collaborates with other universities, agencies and labs. What I heard today in terms of RPS culture is similar to what I'm hearing about JMU in all my "Why Madison?" Listening Tour visits across the university—"supportive, collaborative, engaged." Because RPS is both inward- and outward-facing, it is a vital societal interface for JMU. This diverse group's efforts are impressive and the interchange that happens among them appears to be quite productive.
Federal Relations a major focus of RPS
One of the main responsibilities of RPS is federal relations, and I was impressed by its enlightened approach. JMU is not what one leader called JMU's "appropriations shop." Instead of looking for federally directed projects as other universities have, JMU has approached legislators strategically, going after national-level issues in areas like energy, international stabilization, and national security, which can help build capacity at JMU. RPS also reaches out to alumni groups like the JMU Politicos, a great network of people on the Hill, to help get our faculty in front of the right people and to get policy discussions started.
Future outreach should include executive branch and higher education policy groups
Having spent a lot of time in D.C., I think we'll want to make sure we continue to explore and develop relationships with the executive branch also. In addition, we want to reach out to engage higher education policy groups. I have spent a lot of my career connecting with the national organizations in higher education. In fact, I'm hoping at some point in the near future to take a day or two in D.C. and just literally visit a number of them on behalf of JMU. Part of the idea of having JMU become more nationally well known and respected is for us to be seen as a leader in higher education, and being engaged with these organizations can certainly help us do that.
Sponsored Research funding shows faculty commitment to scholarship and research
The Office of Sponsored Research showed me Powerpoint slides of our research awards, dollars and success rate. From 1995 to 2005, JMU's awards grew from $3 million to $21 million. Despite the economic downturn of 2008, it is clear that JMU's faculty commitment to obtaining external funding has not wavered. I am impressed with our high number of proposals and our 65 percent success rate, especially given that Madison is not a research university. Our faculty's commitment to research represents, nonetheless, a major commitment toward creating new knowledge and advancing the disciplines. Naturally, JMU is conducting this scholarly activity in its own unique way—often involving and mentoring undergraduates, almost always engaging with the world and attempting to address societal problems. One of the goals of the "Why Madison?" Listening Tour is for us as a university to consider how our educational culture encompasses aspects of a research-intensive university and characteristics of a small liberal arts college. I want us to think about and discuss how we can be the best JMU we can be. Our approach to research is a major component of that discussion.
Diversifying funding sources will be a major effort
As RPS is well aware, it is time for JMU to branch out and help the faculty diversify funding sources, as JMU proposals and awards are significantly weighted toward the federal side. We need to look at foundations and industry and increase our exposure with technology transfer and intellectual property.
Research Compliance is complex and vital
I am happy to learn about the success JMU has had in assuring research compliance issues on campus, an area that has become incredibly complex in recent years and can be antagonistic at some universities. It appears our Office of Research Compliance has made it a point to maintain effective faculty relationships, and in return, the JMU faculty has been quite cooperative. As an attorney, I appreciate that compliance is rule driven and integral to maintaining JMU's excellent reputation, especially in this age of accountability. I appreciate our attention to standards of conducting research, safety and welfare of subjects and facilities, financial management and public policy.
Sending undergraduates to national conferences
Research Compliance also wears a true feather in its cap—and shows its human side—for administering the long-running undergraduate research program at JMU, providing funding for select students to attend interdisciplinary conference to showcase their faculty-mentored research endeavors. For 26 years, JMU has been sending a contingent of students to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. JMU also has a long track record of sending young researchers to the Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Conference.
Monetizing intellectual property off to a strong start
Our very young effort in monetizing JMU's intellectual property and research—which includes the Office of Technology Transfer and James Madison Innovations Inc.—is off to a strong start: JMU is above the norm of three disclosures per $2 million of research funding and also has several patents in the pipeline. This office is beginning to make the faculty aware of the disclosure process, its potential and the generous royalty sharing policy of 50-60 percent based on the net royalties received total. In typical JMU fashion, it appears that disclosures are not just from research dollars either, but from all kinds of problem-solving applications.
Licensing is seeing returns for JMU, departments and faculty
Licensing too is a young effort at JMU. Since the corporation of JMI was formed in late 2008, it has resulted in an admirable return to JMI—plus return to faculty, inventors and seven departments—to be used for further research and innovation. Much of JMI's revenue has come from patents for JMU's pioneering work in plastics biodegradability and Madison Assessment from our CARS work.
Opening up new revenue streams for JMU will be a major concern
As I have been saying along the "Why Madison?" Listening Tour, I am very keen to open up new revenue streams for the university. Part of that effort will come from a comprehensive fundraising campaign. With our faculty's innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, there is also dramatic potential for growth in technology licensing, transfer and patents. It will be important to continue to expand disclosure and intellectual property at JMU and then share those success stories. What is truly exciting, again, is the distinct value that JMU adds to this process—we have our students involved with coming up with solutions to problems in countries across the globe. At research-intensive universities, this is often not the case. I was also glad to hear that this effort looks for ways to engage alumni—for instance through the law firms with which we contract to attend to the intellectual property demands of various disciplines.
JMU positioned to fuel national security community
It is no surprise to anyone that, with the Cold War long gone and its generation of analysts entering retirement, the national security community is having to reorient its conception of what kinds of threats we face. What is fascinating to hear from JMU's Institute for National Security Analysis is how universities—and JMU in particular—are uniquely positioned to address these new challenges. One of the key questions that JMU is answering through the work of INSA is, "Who is going to help create a new generation of analysts prepared to assess the problems of the next 50 years? I'm so glad to see JMU stepping up to the plate to answer that question because—and I experienced this having interned with the State Department—the intelligence community really values having broadly educated liberal arts students who are able to figure out how to make sense of lots of tidbits of information coming in from different vantage points. People who can do critical thinking and ask hard questions turn out to be very helpful.
JMU can build critical thinking methods and sociological understanding
JMU's potential is in developing analytical methods—not big weapons systems, not big software programs—but critical thinking methods, sociological understanding. These are exactly the kinds of things JMU is particularly well positioned to provide. This is right in JMU's wheelhouse, especially since partnerships open doors to new revenue streams and can help us build our own capacity at the same time.
INSA has been proactive, leading the way
Our institute has not waited for the national security community to come to JMU. INSA is already a leader in discovering, developing and delivering new analytic methods for the national security community, speaking at and often hosting the conference for all of the English-speaking intelligence agencies and also engaging and supporting our students who are majoring in the JMU intelligence analysis program. I am pleased to see how connected with this community JMU is through INSA.
CISR finds its cultural home at JMU
I was pleased to hear that the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery has found not only its physical home but its cultural home at JMU. At another university the center might be regarded simply as a grant-funded add-on. The grant funding is important, and we want to expand that, but, just as importantly, CISR is deeply embedded in the life of JMU. Created in 1996 to address the international humanitarian mine crisis, it has become the only center of its kind in the world to address the impact on post-war communities. It is of course known for documenting the global commitment to clearing conventional weapons of war, which are a security risk in post conflict environments, for its world-renowned Demining Journal and for its victim assistance, peer support and mine risk education programs. It also serves the international community by hosting the largest unclassified source of ordinance in the world on the CISR website, more than 5,000 pieces.
CISR is a prime example of engagement in action
Throughout our "Why Madison?" Listening Tour, on campus and off, I have been talking about engagement. CISR is a prime example of a highly engaged group. It is engaged throughout the world on its mission—it has a proposal in now with the State Department to take its mine education program to refugee camps along the Syrian border, for instance. Experts from around the world come to JMU regularly. CISR's work also thrives through the expertise of the JMU faculty—with, for example, the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Departments of Political Science and Health Sciences. Our faculty members have been working very recently in Burundi, Bosnia, Jordan, and Iraq. There appear to be many more opportunities for JMU to become more deeply involved overseas in post-conflict areas, as not many universities are engaged in these activities. Often this kind of work is taken up by contractors, but JMU has the added value of educating students and others along the way through its involvement.
How does JMU serve and offer opportunity to veterans?
One of the things that we've had a number of conversations about recently at the leadership level is services to veterans and doing more as a campus. Looking around the university I'm noticing quite a few pockets of outreach to veterans. I would think that there are veterans who would be interested in mine risk education as so many have been affected by mines. I want to make sure we're all connecting up to see if there are any synergies here. While CISR is focused on activities overseas, our conversation yielded some possible discussion points for bringing a CISR program to American veterans. I would like us to be to be talking to one another across the university about these kinds of opportunities.
Shenandoah Valley Partnership drives economic development
I received a briefing as well about the Shenandoah Valley Partnership, through which our major industries and companies and educational institutions seek to drive economic and workforce development in a region that is the most economically diverse in Virginia. I was delighted to hear the Shenandoah Valley described as the "education corridor," given its 12 colleges and universities along I-81, and that JMU's role is significant. The partnership's leadership teams are actively asking our business community what they need to prosper and then trying to help advance that business climate—for existing businesses as well as to attract new companies—in workforce development and advanced manufacturing. IT, life sciences and energy development from a JMU perspective are really important. We have faculty members with incredible expertise in these fields. I was pleased to hear it reiterated how tremendously this region's economic health is intertwined with major companies like SRI, Miller Coors, Merck, and Harris—and with JMU. To think we might play a role in helping to make Virginia a leader in energy development is exciting.
Virginia Clean Cities gets vehicles off of oil
The 501(c)(3) strategic Virginia Clean Cities alliance is a Virginia-wide collaboration of off-campus efforts designed to get cars and trucks off of oil and reducing emissions—including the state fleet, which are hybrids. This group is currently operating an impressive $10 million in programs. It tries to be there with outreach, education, community forums and direct technical assistance where there is a policy push for conversion to cleaner transportation and cleaner air and pair them up with industry and higher education partners and JMU faculty experts in particular who can help. Many students are interested in studying these greener technologies, and the College of Engineering and Integrated Science and Technology with its faculty are partners in conducting research and creating courses.
Shenandoah Valley Technology Council
I was intrigued to hear about the Shenandoah Valley Technology Council, a 501(c)(6) with potential for fostering relations among organizations and people who are creating technology and those who are using technology. Falling in that realm is the famously successful Lego League and the STEM industry internship program. This council holds luncheons and other networking events to expose the valley to technological opportunities and partnerships.
All of our work boils down to human relationships and engagement
As is the case across JMU, I was heartened to see—beyond the professional partnerships this team creates—the deep personal involvement the RPS team has with the civic organizations, churches, schools, Lego League, and other entities in our communities. As we talk about the Engaged University, I'd like to find ways to celebrate those connections and tell the JMU story on that front. Our session today with RPS has really been very helpful. I never met the late John Noftsinger, but I see his fingerprints all over this vital organization, which has advanced the capacity of James Madison University. All of what I learned today will be funneled into the strategic planning process, where the conversation will continue in committees of the Madison Future Commission as we collectively chart the course for JMU's future.
Published: Friday, November 30, 2012
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Anime where MC dies (SPOILERS)
So my holiday just started and as the end of the year is nearing, so too the end of some good animes. I somehow feel in the mood of watching animes where the main character dies ( doesn't matter where, be it at the start, middle or the end). The MC can also be revived, but preferable not to.
Now here's a list of Animes that I watched where the Main Character dies.
Clannad After Story
Death Note
School Days
Fullmetal Alchemist
Kore wa Zombies desuka + ( of the dead)
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
Mirai Nikki
Shakugan no Shana
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi (can't remeber if the MC died, but it just poped up in my head, please correct me if I'm wong)
Please just suggest animes or movies, no mangas.
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Aoi Bungaku Series - set of tiny dramatic stories.
Chrno Crusade
Code Geass
Ga-Rei Zero - one of my faves
Hakuouki - I would recommend to watch all season starting from prequel, but that's me.
Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin - to an extend
Romeo x Juliet - I really doubt it needs explanation
Sword of the Stranger
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Wolf's Rain
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Well, depending on which film or series of Space Battleship Yamato, it could qualify.
In fact some say that with Yamato, it isn't a question of "who is going to die", but "who is going to survive". Again, depending on the season or film being viewed.
(We don't know if this will be the case with Space Battleship Yamato 2199 as of yet.)
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Location: California
When you say you want an anime where MC dies, do you mean that you want anime where specifically the protagonist dies or do you mean anime featuring the deaths of any major character with a lot of screen time?
If you haven't seen it yet, there's the movie Grave of the Fireflies where both of the main characters die, but I'll warn you that although I do believe it's a great movie, it is extremely depressing.
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