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Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement
- Note: Within this article, "CAFTA" refers to the agreement as it stood before January 2004, and "CAFTA-DR" is used after that.
The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) is a free trade agreement (legally a treaty under international law, but not under U.S. law). Originally, the agreement encompassed the United States and the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and was called CAFTA. In 2004, the Dominican Republic joined the negotiations, and the agreement was renamed CAFTA-DR.
CAFTA-DR, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and active bilateral free trade agreements such as the Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement are seen as bloc agreements instead of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement. Panama has completed negotiations with the United States for a bilateral free trade agreement known as the Panama–U.S. Trade Promotion Agreement, and has been in effect since October 2012.
The CAFTA-DR constitutes the first free trade agreement between the United States and a small group of developing countries. It was created with the purpose of creating new and better economic opportunities by opening markets, eliminating tariffs, reducing barriers to services, and more. In 2009, it was estimated that the total two-way trade resulted in $37.9 billion.[1] Nearly all Central American exports to the United States had already been tariff-free thanks to the 1984 Caribbean Basin Initiative.
The agreement is a treaty under international law, but not under the U.S. Constitution because in the United States laws require majority approval in both houses, while treaties require two-thirds approval in the Senate only. Under U.S. law, CAFTA-DR is a congressional-executive agreement.
The U.S. Senate approved the CAFTA-DR on June 30, 2005, by a vote of 54–45,[2] and the U.S. House of Representatives approved the pact on July 28, 2005, by a vote of 217–215, with two representatives not voting.[3] Controversy arose over this vote because it was held open 1 hour and 45 minutes longer than the normal 15 minutes in order to get some members to change their votes.[4] For procedural reasons, the Senate took a second vote on CAFTA on July 28 and the pact garnered an additional vote from Sen. Joe Lieberman—who had been absent on June 30—in favor of the agreement.[5] The implementing legislation became Public Law 109-053 when it was signed by President George W. Bush on August 2, 2005.
The Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras have also approved the agreement. They are all the current members of CAFTA-DR.
El Salvador became the first country to formally implement CAFTA, which went into effect on March 1, 2006, when the Organization of American States (OAS) received signed copies of the treaty. On April 1, 2006, Honduras and Nicaragua fully implemented the agreement. On May 18, 2006, the Congress of Guatemala ratified CAFTA-DR, which went into effect on July 1, 2006. The Dominican Republic implemented the agreement on March 1, 2007. In a referendum on October 7, 2007, Costa Rica narrowly backed the free trade agreement, with 51.6% voting "Yes"; the agreement took effect on January 1, 2009.[6]
The goal of the agreement is the creation of a free trade area similar to NAFTA, which currently encompasses the United States, Canada, and Mexico. CAFTA-DR is also seen as a stepping stone towards the FTAA, another (more ambitious) free trade agreement that would encompass all the South American and Caribbean nations as well as those of North and Central America except Cuba. Canada is negotiating a similar treaty called the Canada–Central American Free Trade Agreement.
If passed by the countries involved, tariffs on about 80% of U.S. exports to the participating countries will be eliminated immediately and the rest will be phased out over the subsequent decade. As a result, CAFTA-DR does not require substantial reductions in U.S. import duties with respect to the other countries, as the vast majority of goods produced in the participating countries already enter the United States duty-free due to the U.S. government's Caribbean Basin Initiative.
With the addition of the Dominican Republic, the trade group's largest economy, the region covered by CAFTA-DR is the second-largest Latin American export market for U.S. producers, behind only Mexico, buying $15 billion of goods a year. Two-way trade amounts to about $32 billion annually.
While not necessarily a part of Plan Puebla Panama, CAFTA is a necessary precursor to the execution of Plan Puebla Panama by the Inter-American Development Bank. The plan includes construction of highways linking Panama City to Mexico City, Texas, and the rest of the United States.
CAFTA-DR reduces tariffs, but every CAFTA country sets its overall tax level.
In January 2002 U.S. President George W. Bush declared CAFTA as a priority and received "fast track" authority from Congress to negotiate it. Negotiations began in January 2003, and agreement was reached with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua on December 17, 2003, and with Costa Rica on January 25, 2004. That same month, negotiations began with the Dominican Republic to join CAFTA.
On May 28, 2004, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, Costa Rican Minister of Trade Alberto Trejos, Salvadoran Economy Minister Miguel Lacayo, Guatemalan Economy Minister Marcio Cuevas, Honduran Minister of Industry and Commerce Norman García, and Nicaraguan Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce Mario Arana signed the 2,400-page document at headquarters of the Organization of American States. Negotiations with the Dominican Republic concluded on March 15, 2004, and a second signing ceremony including Dominican Republic Minister of Industry and Commerce Sonia Guzmán was held on August 5, 2004.
In May 2004 the Salvadoran American National Network, the largest national association of Central American community-based organizations in the United States, expressed opposition to CAFTA, which they claimed was not ideologically motivated: "As immigrants, we have a deep understanding of the potential benefits of improved transnational cooperation. We would welcome an agreement that would increase economic opportunity, protect our shared environment, guarantee workers' rights and acknowledge the role of human mobility in deepening the already profound ties between our countries. However, the CAFTA agreement falls far short of that vision."[7]
While manufacturing costs of generic drugs are relatively cheap, the costs of human tests are relatively expensive, and tests take months or years. If generic manufacturers had to redo the tests, the generic drug would be more expensive, and generic manufacturers might not be able to do the tests at all. Furthermore, if generic manufacturers had to redo the tests, they would have to compare the new, effective drugs to less-effective drugs, which according to Doctors Without Borders, would be unethical. In the United States, drug manufacturers must make test data public for generic manufacturers. Under CAFTA's test data exclusivity, drug manufacturers could keep test data secret, which would make it more difficult for local companies to produce generic drugs, and enable multinational pharmaceutical companies to keep a monopoly on branded drugs, including those used to treat AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.[8]
To create an FTA, governments pledge to grant market access to foreign firms by reducing and eventually eliminating tariffs and other measures that protect domestic products. To do so, the CAFTA-DR treaty stipulates national treatment and includes a most-favored nation clause. It also includes the protection of international property rights and requires from their signatories certain measures in the realm of transparency (e.g., parties are obligated to criminalize bribery in matters affecting international trade or investment).[9] Moreover, the agreement includes i.a. chapters on investment, public procurement procedures, and financial services.
Antidumping and countervailing duty measures may not be challenged.[9]
Cross-border trade in services
Each member country must treat service suppliers of another member country no less favorably than its own suppliers or those of any other member country. It requires firms to establish a local presence as a condition for supplying a service on a cross-border basis.[9]
Financial services
CAFTA-DR imposes rules requiring member countries to treat service suppliers of another member country no less favorably than its own suppliers or those of any other country, prohibits certain quantitative restrictions on market access of financial institutions, and bars restrictions on the nationality of senior management.[9]
CAFTA-DR establishes rules to protect investors from one member country against unfair or discriminatory government actions when they make or attempt to make investments in another member country's territory. Investors enjoy six basic protections:
- Non-discriminatory treatment relative to domestic investors as well as investors of non-parties;
- Limits on "performance requirements";
- Free transfer of funds related to an investment;
- Protection from expropriation other than in conformity with customary international law;
- A "minimum standard of treatment" in conformity with customary international law;
- The ability to hire key managerial personnel without regard to nationality.[9]
Government procurement
Each member country must apply fair and transparent procurement procedures and rules and prohibiting each government and its procuring entities from discriminating in purchasing practices against goods, services, and suppliers from the other member countries.[9]
CAFTA-DR requires that tariffs and quotas be administered in a manner that is transparent, nondiscriminatory, responsive to market conditions and minimally burdensome on trade and allows importers to fully utilize import quotas. Each member country will eliminate export subsidies on agricultural goods destined for another CAFTA-DR country.[9]
Intellectual property rights
Member countries must ratify or accede to treaties governing intellectual property rights, such as the WIPO Copyright Treaty.[9]
Each member country must provide:
- Protection for marks and geographical indications, including protecting preexisting trademarks against infringement by later geographical indications.
- Efficient and transparent procedures governing the application for protection of marks and geographical indications.[9]
- Copyright protection for the life of the author plus 70 years (for works measured by a person's life), or 70 years (for corporate works).
It also includes provisions on anticircumvention, under which member countries commit to prohibit tampering with digital rights management technology.[9] Member countries agree to make patents available for any invention, subject to limited exclusions, and confirm the availability of patents for new uses or methods of using a known product. To guard against arbitrary revocation of patents, the grounds for revoking a patent must meet the high standard of not having merited the patent in the first place.[9]
CAFTA-DR also ensures test data exclusivity for pharmaceutical corporations. It protects test data that a company submits in seeking marketing approval for such products by precluding other firms from relying on the data.[9]
Dispute resolution
If a dispute over an actual or proposed national rule cannot be resolved after a 30-day consultation, the matter may be referred to a panel comprising independent experts that the parties select. Once the procedure before the panel is concluded, the panel will issue a report. The parties will attempt to resolve the dispute based on the panel's report. If no amicable resolution is possible, the complaining party may suspend trade benefits equivalent in effect to those it considers were impaired, or may be impaired, as a result of the disputed measure. If a dispute arises under both CAFTA-DR and the WTO Agreement, the complaining party may choose either forum.[9]
Political standards
CAFTA-DR contains certain provisions that do not have the quality of mere technical liberalization, but are rather a commitment to political standards. The treaty obligates governments to the enforcement of environmental laws and improvement of the environment. CAFTA-DR Environmental Cooperation Agreement, signed in concert with the FTA, provides for environmental cooperation on issues of mutual environmental concern. Furthermore, CAFTA-DR contains provisions for the enforcement of the International Labour Organization's core labor standards.
See also
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- List of free trade agreements
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- OceanaGold - unsuccessful attempt to invoke CAFTA-DR against El Salvador
- ↑ "CAFTA-DR (Dominican Republic-Central America FTA)". OFFICE OF THE US TRADE REPRESENTATIVE. Retrieved 29 September 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 30 June 2005 Senate Roll Call Vote on Passage of S. 1307
- ↑ 27 July 2005 House Roll Call Vote on Passage of H.R. 3045
- ↑ "With push from Bush, CAFTA is approved" 28 July 2005 St. Petersburg Times article
- ↑ 28 July 2005 Senate Roll Call Vote on Passage of H.R. 3045
- ↑ Latinamerica Press: Article Archived May 10, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Central American Immigrant Organizations Oppose CAFTA Archived April 10, 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Data exclusivity in international trade agreements: What consequences for access to medicines?" Médecins Sans Frontières whitepaper
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 "The Dominican Republic - Central America - United States Free Trade Agreement with amendments". U.S. Trade Representative. 2004–2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
External links
- Official U.S. Government CAFTA-DR website
- CAFTA-DR Environmental Cooperation Website includes links to CAFTA-DR Environmental Cooperation Agreement
- "The Case for CAFTA: Consolidating Central America's Freedom Revolution" 2004 CATO Institute whitepaper
- Costa Rica CAFTA protest report, 24 October 2006
- "Vivir la lucha como una fiesta" - Video about the cultural movement against CAFTA-DR in Costa Rica(Spanish)
- CAFTA-DR: Can Free Trade Hold Up to Special Interest Siege? (CEI, 2005) by Frances B. Smith
- Global Trade Watch anti-CAFTA website
- Citizens' Trade Campaign anti-CAFTA website
- "CAFTA: Last Nail in the Coffin?" by Pat Buchanan, The American Conservative, May 9, 2005.
- "CAFTA-DR, Textiles, and Apparel" 2005 Congressional Research Service Report
- "Central America and the Dominican Republic in the Context of the Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) with the U.S." 2005 Congressional Research Service Report
- "CAFTA-DR Labor Rights Issues" 2006 Congressional Research Service Report
- "The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)" 2009 Congressional Research Service Report
- TradeRoots U.S. Chamber of Commerce FTA advocacy website
- CAFTA-US TEXTILE AND COTTON TRADE PROSPECTS: THE CHINA EFFECT (2006 study)
- House approves CAFTA, Michigan and Ohio Democrats blast it as bad deal (2005 Associated Press news report)
- Articles with Spanish-language external links
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Graphic design, interaction design, animation, data visualization, installations, digital art, new medias labs…Digital production is the conjunction of visual and audio-visual productions with computer. The latter is not only the main creation tool; it is most of all, the material. Its continuing evolution and the need to keep up with innovation make it also a part of the topic.
Thanks to digital design, images and sounds have become flexible and expressive materials. Computer networks are an interactive support and a shared space that ceaselessly affect our access to knowledge, contents and alter the way we communicate. Images, sounds, motions, plastic and graphic signs are combined together and give birth to new grammars.
With the increasing number of screens and the expansion of the information society, digital design is in a state of agitation. It is an original and autonomous creation field through which, the relationship between commerce, art, science and technology are being formulated again. It is made of human stories.

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Chrysler's Italian masters at Fiat fired BBDO Detroit, bringing in an Italian agency to do one commercial for the 300C gansgter-mobile. The ad stars Mikhail Gorbachev and calls for Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi's release. My name is-what the fuck?
Since this is a new ad agency we're sort of surprised this follows essentially the same trite pattern they use in the My Name Is Ram commercial. You know, mixing images and video of the car with inspirational pictures and video. And the imagery they chose? Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, a Trabant, a painting of Nelson Mandela and the Chrysler 300 mowing down a flock of doves. Seriously — talk about a mixed metaphor.
AdAge tells us
Fiat Chrysler Group's Olivier Francois, the president-CEO of the Chrysler vehicle brand, tapped Armando Testa, his ad agency for Italian Lancia, to warm up a leftover Lancia commercial for the U.S. market.
Hmm, somehow we've got to believe hiring an Italian agency for the work may not sit well with American taxpayers, who bailed out Chrysler earlier this year with billions of dollars in loans. And this while several hundred staffers of Chrysler Group's longtime ad agency, BBDO Detroit, will be out of work at the end of January when the contract expires.
But back to the spot itself. It's a mish-mash of images that have nothing to do with the Chrylser 300C. All this does is continue to beg the question: Why the hell is Chrysler still alive and why did the American taxpayer help keep it alive?
Also, is that a European license plate? Make that a "what the fuck" times two.


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Documentary Follows Dream Of Four Undocumented Hispanics With Hollywood Ending
WASHINGTON (AP) – The new documentary "Underwater Dreams" follows four teenage boys living in Arizona as they build an underwater robot for a major science competition.
On its surface, the story seems unremarkable. But their parents are Mexicans who are living in the United States illegally, and their high school is plagued by gangs and poverty.
American documentary maker Mary Mazzio said she set out to show just what the children of Hispanic immigrants can accomplish, especially if the U.S. Congress passes immigration reform eliminating obstacles for them to attend college, and to work.
"You have four kids that come from nothing, and look what they did," Mazzio said in a recent telephone interview. "There are millions of kids like them. All they need is a little bit of opportunity to flourish."
Narrated in English by actor Michael Pena, "Underwater Dreams" shows how two science teachers decided to enter the Phoenix high school in the robot competition organized by NASA by 2004, and the kids went on to beat teams from several prestigious universities, including MIT.
"Underwater Dreams" screens Friday at commercial movie theaters in New York and Los Angeles, and the AMC movie chain has promised 100 free showings to community groups around the country.
Telemundo, MSNBC and Mun2 will also simultaneously transmit a 44-minute version of the documentary in the United States at 1 p.m. EDT on July 20.
Although three of the four youths have not attended college in the U.S. because of their migratory situation, the film shows how high school students with limited opportunities can succeed if given the chance.
The showing of the documentary, Mazzio's eighth, comes several weeks after the Republican majority in the House of Representatives announced it would not vote this year for immigration reform legislation earlier approved by the Senate.
""Will the film change anything? Absolutely not, but if we can open one disbeliever's eyes on the magnitude of opportunities for these children, then we can start changing hearts and minds," she said.
Mazzio said her film also promotes the importance of careers in science and technology for Hispanics.
The filmmaker said she decided to look deeper at the Hispanic experience in the U.S. following the success for her 2011 documentary "The Apple Pushers," about immigrant street vendors selling fresh fruit from carts in New York neighborhoods suffering from obesity.
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First Colson Endowed Chair Named
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After a hiatus of nearly 20 years, Bruce Wrenn will return as a professor of marketing in the School of Business Administration starting July 1. His return marks the initiation of the first Colson Endowed Chair of Marketing, an endowment made possible by a large donation from Bonnie and the late William Colson.
Wrenn first came to Andrews University in 1978 where he taught in the School of Business Administration until 1989. He then spent a year teaching at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., before returning to Michiana as a professor of marketing at Indiana University South Bend.
Wrenn's return to Andrews marks the completion of a goal set by the Colson family, who live in the Pacific northwest, when they gave the largest single personal donation in Andrews University history in 2007. William Colson gave instructions for part of the donation to be set aside for endowed chairs in the School of Business Administration with annual interest paid to the chairs in addition to a full professor salary. The endowment also provides the chair with extra funds to travel and hold seminars as well as a book and equipment account.
"Andrews University seeks to attract and retain a committed, high-quality faculty of teacher-scholars who impact and inspire students," says senior development officer Chris LeBrun. "Endowed chairs help energize those faculty who have demonstrated best practices in teaching and research."
"It is very humbling to have been blessed as the first recipient of the Colson endowed chair of marketing. I am indebted to the Colson family for their generous endowment that makes it possible for me to serve the university and its constituents in this capacity. I hope to honor that choice by advancing my scholarship into the use of marketing practice by religious organizations and by teaching marketing courses in my areas of expertise. Andrews' School of Business Administration has a well-deserved reputation as a center for excellence in business education and I'm honored to once again be part of that tradition," says Wrenn.
Wrenn brings a wealth of educational and real-world experience to Andrews. He holds a BS in business administration from Auburn University and a Master of Management degree from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago where he studied under Philip Kotler, one of the most influential thinkers in the world of marketing. Wrenn later earned his PhD in marketing from Northwestern University.
From 1989–2008, Wrenn taught as a professor of marketing at Indiana University South Bend. During his time at IUSB, Wrenn published numerous scholarly articles and made many academic presentations. He received the IUSB School of Business Excellence in Research Award each year since it was initiated in 1998, through 2007.
Throughout his teaching career, Wrenn has also taken on a number of consulting clients, both corporate and private, including Biomet, Inc. of Warsaw, Ind., the South Bend/Mishawaka Convention and Visitor's Bureau, and Adventist Health Systems.
Wrenn currently serves or has served on a number of professional journal boards including the Journal of Business Research and the Journal of Ministry Marketing and Management, among others. Often a professional resource for media, Wrenn has been interviewed and/or quoted by a number of regional and national media including WNDU-TV, Baltimore Sun, Talk of the Nation and Christian Management Review.
"Dr. Wrenn's extensive teaching and research in the field of marketing, with particular emphasis in the field of not-for-profit marketing, will be invaluable to our business students and seminary students alike," says Allen Stembridge, dean of the School of Business Administration.


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His Beatitude, Photius of Alexandria was the Patriarch of Alexandria of the Church of Alexandria from 1903 to 1926. Before his election to the see of Alexandria, Photius was among the leading candidates for the see of Jerusalem.
Patr. Photius was born in 1853. At the repose of Patriarch Hierotheus of Jerusalem in 1882, Photius was elected to the see of Jerusalem by the Holy Synod of Jerusalem over the other candidates: Bishops Nicodemus and Gerasimus. However, Imperial Russia opposed his election and convinced the Turkish Sultan to not issue a Berât approving the election. After his rejection, Photius returned to his monastery at Sinai.
In 1890, the Patriarchate of Constantinople persuaded the Sultan to depose Nicodemus, the incumbent patriarch of Jerusalem, and assign the Berât to Photius. Once again Russia opposed Photius as Patriarch of Jerusalem, and he was once again not approved by the Sultan as patriarch. Photius was subsequently elected Metropolitan of Nazareth.
In 1899, Metr. Photius was elected and enthroned as Patriarch of Alexandria.
When, in the early 1920s, the Church of Greece contemplated a change to the use of the new calendar, Patr. Photius convened the Holy Synod of Alexandria which "reject[ed] every addition or any change of the calendar before the convocation of an Ecumenical Synod, which alone is capable of discussing this question, concerning which Ecumenical Council we propose a speedy convocation" as he reported in a telegram of January 15, (os) 1924 to the Patriarch of Constantinople. Significant in Patr. Photius' telegram is that he considered the issue one that needed to be discussed at an Ecumenical Council, not a "Pan-Orthodox Council".
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A mobile app created by NJIT students that gives middle and high school basketball teams a searchable database of performance statistics is the winner of the New Jersey Apps Challenge, an innovation contest initiated two years ago by former U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Called Scoutlit, but listed in the app store under the name "Basketball Stats Keeper," the program allows coaches and parents to track players' and teams' progress over several seasons. Over 45,000 teams have registered with the service, which lets users digitally record player statistics on the app and automatically sync them with the website. Data points include shots made and missed, fouls, steals, blocks, and offensive and defensive rebounds.
The contest was launched at a 2012 event in New Jersey at which Lautenberg and then-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski were joined by leaders from New Jersey's education, business and technology communities to announce new initiatives to spur high-tech innovation in New Jersey. Three universities – NJIT, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Rutgers University – participated in the challenge, which was open to students, faculty members and recent graduates.
A panel of judges evaluated the entries based on several metrics, including overall utility and potential commercial success before selecting an overall winner, as well as winners for each university.
"From students to recent alumni, all of the teams entered professional quality software that has been featured in a commercial app store. The winners were separated by only a few points and I am sure that all of these developers have a bright future," said Donald Sebastian, senior vice president for technology and economic development at NJIT and president and CEO of the New Jersey Innovation Institute, who added that 40 percent of the entrants in the challenge were developers with NJIT roots.
Lautenberg's vision was to stake a claim for New Jersey as an apps development "Silicon Valley," and he saw university-related innovation as key to this ambition.
"Before devoting his life to politics, Frank spent several decades building an IT company in New Jersey and understood well from his own experience the vital role that innovative technologies play in advancing not just our prosperity, but our quality of life as well," said Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, the senator's widow. "He was enthusiastic about the New Jersey Apps Challenge because it was designed to do exactly that – to spur high-tech innovation and economic growth in his home state. He also thought it critical that we give young people the tools and the opportunity to carry on the great Garden State tradition of invention and entrepreneurship."
Less than two years after its 2012 launch, Scoutlit became the number one basketball stats-keeping app on both Google and Amazon out of about 50 competing products, and it has been downloaded in all 50 states and every continent except Antarctica. This past season it was among the top 1 percent of the most downloaded Android sports apps.
Scoutlit provides a few analytics at this point, functioning like a stock chart in showing a team's points over time broken down into free throws, two- and three-point shots, and offering pie charts displaying the percentage of shots taken by different players on a team. Future plans include more advanced analytics, such as a visualization to highlight combinations of players that achieve the best results on court, as well as live datacasts of games so parents, fans, and others can see a play-by-play stream of stats, including shots made and missed, according to David Daudelin '12 and Kenny Chang '13, Scoutlit co-founders.
The Rutgers winner is an app that gives access to stories, photos, and other content published by the university's student-written newspaper, the Daily Targum. The Stevens winner is an app called MeloDroid that allows Android users to sync their iTunes music and playlists to their phone over a wireless network and USB cable, and to use their phone as a remote control for iTunes, among other features.
NJIT additionally awarded two of its teams Honorable Mentions for an app that aggregates data for health care providers transitioning to electronic health records (EHR), allowing them to monitor their progress and to reassess and reengineer their systems, and for an app called Poker-Stats, a poker statistics record for iPhone.
NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, enrolls approximately 10,000 students pursuing bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 120 programs. The university consists of six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, College of Computing Sciences and Albert Dorman Honors College. U.S. News & World Report's 2012 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT in the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is internationally recognized for being at the edge in knowledge in architecture, applied mathematics, wireless communications and networking, solar physics, advanced engineered particulate materials, nanotechnology, neural engineering and e-learning. Many courses and certificate programs, as well as graduate degrees, are available online through the Division of Continuing Professional Education.


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The real estate program is designed for those interested in careers in real estate or for professionals wishing to upgrade their skills. The program offers certificates for Real Estate Salesperson, Real Estate Broker, and Real Estate Appraisal, as well as an Associate in Science Degree in Real Estate. The Certificate of Completion: Real Estate Salesperson provides students with the coursework required by the California Department of Real Estate (DRE) for qualification to take the real estate salesperson license examination. Completion of the Certificate of Achievement: Real Estate Broker and the Real Estate Associate in Science Degree provide coursework that meets the DR E's educational requirements for real estate broker licensure in California. Completion of the courses for the Certificate of Completion: Real Estate Appraisal fulfill the educational requirements of the Office of Real Estate Appraisers (OREA) for appraisal licensure.
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Give students greater choice of electives in the real estate business.
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Real estate sales and appraisal; Real estate broker.
This certificate is designed for students interested in exploring a career in real estate sales. Real Estate 101, Real Estate 120, and one additional course from the elective list are required to take the Real Estate Salesperson's License Examination. For questions about DRE licensure requirements, contact the DRE at 619-525-4192 or www.dre.ca.gov.
Students who complete the certificate will be able to:
*A Certificate of Performance is a departmental award that does not appear on the student's transcript. All courses must be completed within the San Diego Community College District.
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System Restore points always disappearing at reboot! Help!
I keep getting the "volsnap" error messages in the Windows system event log during the early stage of the boot.
Error 09/03/2010 16:33:08 volsnap 25
The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being shadow copied.
Error 09/03/2010 16:34:04 volsnap 27
The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.
I Installed Windows Seven 32-bits on a HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook 3 weeks ago, everything fine till I noticed that no restore point was kept longer than one day as of the beginning of my installation. I have 16 GB free on my system and set up the snapshot parameter max capacity to 9.3 GB which leaves plenty of space for the restore points.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f85119a2-15d8-11df-b8a7-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f85119a2-15d8-11df-b8a7-806e6f6e6963}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 81.594 MB (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 448 MB (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 9.316 GB (10%)
I did a clean install over windows XP with the Microsoft easy transfer tools and the Old Windows directory to setup the personal user profiles. My system is not dual booting. Just plain Windows 7 without raid and mirroring.
Application installed: Office XP with FrontPage, Office 2003 for Powerpoint Word and Excel, Adobe Creative suite v2.0, HP Quickplay, HP photosmart, Skype, Sonic DvdPlus, Google Earth and iTunes
Antivirus is "Microsoft Security Essentials". No Norton products, CCleaner nor Spybot installed
The "create restore points" and the backup software is working without error messages.
My restore points are valid and working fine although not kept longer than one day. As well the manual ones as the window updates ones and the installation ones have been tested in a successful restore operation.
I am desperately at risk of loosing the system properties not being able to rollback after a system update or application installation. I tried everything, nothing helped.
Here are the things I tried out to cure the problem:
- Did the process with disable system protection, delete all the existing restore points, boot, re-enable the restore points, create a couple of them and test the reboot. No success.
- I deleted the "System Volume information" directory in case it got corrupted, playing around with ACL's and ownership settings. No problem for win7, the directory was re-created, owned by system and when I re-enabled the system protection the restore points were again created without a flaw, but … deleted at next reboot.
- With Vssadmin I assigned the Max storage capacity (90GB) and even setting it to unbound. No success.
- I made a Clean-Boot disabling all services not belonging to windows and disabling all service start-ups. No success.
- I checked the disk c: with "Sfc /scannow" and "Chkdsk". No errors detected.
- I did twice a complete Windows Seven upgrade/repair installation: one with only the minimum recommended safety settings and one with the complete recommended and safety settings. Still the same, no success.
Help me please, what can I do else ?
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|09 Mar 2010
Win 7 Home Premium-64bit
Restore Points
Im having the same problem but dont quite understand this: NOTE: With Windows 7 instead of Vista, you will still see the OS's drives listed in Computer, but when you open them, they will be blank and unaccessible instead of seeing the files afterwards.
in the instructions that u mentioned?
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|09 Mar 2010
Hello Fdc, welcome to Seven Forums!
Start by having a look at the threads below.
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|10 Mar 2010
Hi Barefoot, thank you for replying so quickly.
I had a look at the threads you suggested me and here are some remarks and thoughts about the various actions I took to resolve the problem:
Thread 1 (Crashnet): I do not use diskeeper or 3rd party tools except Acronis for my image backups. I have a scheduled Windows defrag running each Wednesday. So I take that in account when testing. I have some other sheduled tasks running. Some of them could perhaps influence the restore points but I don't know which ones. I shall have a closer look to identify them and inform you.
Thread 2 (Tedredted): my purpose here is not to save image restore points to another location because I need my restore points wherever I might be out of home. I want to make my laptop working as it should in every condition. I make regulary image backups of my system, the problem is that they are so time consuming.
Thread 3 (Jacktenenbaum): set system protection off , all RP's deleted, shutdown and reboot, put protection on, create RP,s shutdown and reboot. No way, all RP's deleted. I have only one c: drive primary NTFS partition.
I did not do the reset of the repository as Capt.JackSparrow suggested. Anyway I am able to make automatic and manual RP's.
Thread 4 (Whoosh7): I made 2 upgrade repairs already with my original Win7 DVD simulating an upgrade. This didn't fix the problem.
Perhaps my disk capacity could be the cause. I have a total of 93Gb from which roughly 16.4GB is free, 9.3GB (10%) is reserved for max snapshot SR. This should be OK as I am not doing image backups with windows. I use Acronis for image backups on external media. Drive C: is formatted in one single primary NTFS partition and contains no backups.
What are the minimum requirements for SR ?
I hope I will not have to erase my disk and reinstall everything.
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|11 Mar 2010
I have some other information about the snapshot capacity. During an Acronis image backup from my laptop to an external disk this afternoon I did some windows updates selecting the updates in 4 or 5 runs. Each run created a restore point. In the vssadmin shots I attached you can see the increase of the shadowspace. I noticed that even when no restore point was taken the shadowspace grew, probably due to the image backup running. Suddenly after a while, the backup was already finished at that time, the last restore point forced a delete with a volsnap event id 25 in the system eventlog. See attachments of the System and Application eventlogs. Now I know the boundaries of the used and allocated shadow spaces.
Used space : 350.22MB, Allocated space : roughly between 729MB and 800MB. Beyound that both used and allocated space is flushed and deleted. How is that possible with so many room available!!! The Max shadow copy storage was set to "Unbounded" during this test. There was 11Gb free space on the disk. See attachments.
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|11 Mar 2010
If the total "free space" (11GB total?) on the HDD was that low SR may not be able to create a point; I can't remember right off how much space has to be available for SR to create points.
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|12 Mar 2010
Hi Barefoot, it doesn't seems to be the 11GB causing the problem because I did the same test with 28GB free on the HDD and the results were exactly the same except the shadow storage capacities. I got the same 4 restore points. During the fifth one the shadow storage space was deleted with the volsnap eventid 25 in the system event log.
At that time the used shadow copy storage was something above 393.422MB
The allocated storage 1.785GB
There was no Vssmax limit (unbounded).
Now that there is 28GB free I will again upgrade/repair windows 7 because during the previous attempts there never has been so much free space. Perhaps this repair will fix the problem as it was mentioned in other threads.
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|12 Mar 2010
Hello Fdc.
Here's an excellent tutorial that I just found yesterday looking for info for you, at the link below; have a look through it to see if there's anything we've missed.
System Restore General Troubleshooting to Fix Issues
I'm pleased you're starting to get it sorted.
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|14 Mar 2010
Hi Barefoot,
I sorted it out and managed to make the system Restore Points working but now it is again going wrong, back to its starting point. History of what I did:
- First I freed 30Gb HDD space and did an upgrade/repair of win 7 but I got no results except that I was able to make a larger number of restore points. The system kept deleting them at each reboot as usual.
- In a second attempt I made 61GB free by removing files, pictures and music, no applications. I did an upgrade/repair of Win 7 and success: the system kept the restore points as it should. I played with the maximum allocated space, set it to 25Gb from unbounded. When it reached the max allocated it deleted correctly the oldest restore points adapting the capacity to the max usage. It did that a couple of times. In the event log it's traced with volsnap id 33. I played a while with reboots, creating restore points manually and also some with windows updates. I managed to create 31 restore points of which +/- 23 restore points were kept in the shadow space when suddenly during a reboot all restore points dissapeared the shadowstorage area got deleted. In the event log appears the classic volsnap errors 25 end 27. The fault occurs at the reboot not during the actual run and it doesn't always depend on a reclaim of space when the shadow space bounderies are reached. When it happened there was plenty of space free, on the HDD, around 35GB. The shadow max allocated usage didn't change, still 25GB.
- I tried to make it work again but no way, the shadow space keeps deleting at each reboot with the volsnap event ids 25 and 27 in the system event log. There is 58Gb free space now
Perhaps I should reinstall windows 7 ? What can I do else to repair the system restore points process. Any suggestion is welcome.
I send you in attachment the event log extracts of yesterday and today so you can easily trace the volsnap messages.
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|14 Mar 2010
Hello again Fdc.
Geez mate I was hoping that was sorted.
I know we started to discuss this and I think we got sidetracked, have you been through the whole (above) process with the max set at 4GBs or less?
Have a look at the tutorial at the link below to set the "max allotted" space to 4GB and see how that goes and let me know, this is how we were doing it in Vista before Windows 7 was released.
System Restore - disk space - Vista Forums
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Noam Nisan has a new blog on algorithmic game theory. This is great stuff. I must add that I'm finding Dick Lipton's blog fascinating reading, not only for the heavy research content, but the great historical perspective he brings to a number of well known problems.
p.s (snark alert) It does seem unfortunate that computational geometry blogs (and data structures) don't appear to be recognized as part of the theoretical computer science blogosphere, but in a world where SODA is viewed as a conference not worth attending, I guess this is small potatoes. (end snark alert)
p.p.s From an organizational perspective, it doesn't matter terribly whether geometry papers get published exclusively in SoCG/SODA, appear in STOC/FOCS, etc. Similarly, although Luca is concerned about crypto forking off from STOC/FOCS, I don't think there's a real problem with people naturally aggregating around a common topic area in their own conference. I'm also not too caught up with "name wars" despite my snark above.
The problem is really along other dimensions: the tenure process (what is your field and who evaluates you/writes letters), and even more crucially, the funding process. For many years, geometry was funded from a separate sub program of CCF than the rest of theoryCS (at least theoryA). This was a good thing (more money) and a bad thing (CG was clubbed in with solid modelling, graphics, and symbolic methods).
Now of course geometry has been folded back into the larger Algorithmic Foundations umbrella, and here's where perceptions start to matter. If AF gets defined (de facto) as STOC/FOCS stuff, geometry proposals are going to get short shrift (also because they tend to have more application-oriented material as well). This would be true for any other area that has forked off into its own community.
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We all know the game "would you rather," right? You know, the one where someone offers you a couple of options and you have to pick the best of the best or the best of the worst.
Like this: Would you rather go back in time and meet your ancestors or go into the future to meet your great-grandchildren? (FYI, I'd go forward).
Anyway, Maren is on a big would you rather kick recently. At first she didn't get it, which made for the worst games of would you rather ever. The other night at the dinner table, she wanted to know if I would rather live in Cinderella's castle for a month or sleep on the garage floor with no furniture? Uh, kid, I'll take the castle. Or, would you rather eat six pieces of pizza or six pieces of cake? Really, it doesn't matter.
So Maren and I had this discussion that she needed to hone her "Would you rather" skills. It took a few days but I had a feeling we were getting it. She's smart enough, I thought, it won't take long, but you could see the wheels spinning when she started talking about it.
Then this comes up: Dad, would you rather get eaten by an alligator or eaten by a bear.
That's actually a pretty good question, I thought. Morbid, but good. Then I thought how to answer it and it hit me: not only was it a good question, it needed answered carefully. Internally the conversation going on was something like this: If I get eaten by an alligator at least they would pull me under the water first and drown me. A bear would, literally, eat me first.
So I said alligator and quickly tried to change the subject. Of course she wanted to know why, what 7-year old doesn't want to know if you want eaten one carnivore over another. "The alligator would pull me under the water before eating me."
End of answer. Let's talk about Cinderella some more. But Maren thought it was a good enough question that she asked my mother-in-law. Before I had chance to warn Bobchi (Polish for grandmother) of her answer, she also chose alligator, because "a bear would eat you piece by piece while you were still alive."
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The Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, a landmarked building from the 15th century, serves as headquarters for the Metropolitan Market Center. Hamburg architect Jessica Klatten has turned the approximately 1,000 square metre space into a dynamic office for more than 300 agents.
Ms Klatten, what were some of the biggest challenges you faced fitting out the MMC?
There were several: The point of reference was the number of agents working here. In addition to normal work stations, they also require common rooms, training rooms as well as meeting rooms where they are not disturbed. For this purpose, we set up fully enclosed cubicles. The landmark protection committee also laid down certain conditions. The ceilings, for example, were to remain unchanged, and the chandeliers had to remain in place. We decided to illuminate the ceilings with wall lamps, which allowed us to achieve a desirable ambient lighting effect.
Did you have much creative leeway?
Yes, but this was not about me implementing my own style. Unlike with private homes, it is the CI of the client which is in the foreground when it comes to offices or hotels. It is about translating his requirements into architecture, in a figurative sense making a tailor made suit. It is really fun being involved with such a project right from the start and developing a corporate architecture.
Is there a big difference to Engel & Völkers shops?
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Move over Falling Rock - The Mayor of Old Town has taken over as beer tap king and is planning to hold office in Colorado for a very long time.
Even though The Mayor of Old Town has only been open for less than a year, the beer bar and restaurant at 632 S. Mason Street in Fort Collins, Colorado has already made a big name for itself as one of Draft Magazine's 100 Best Beer Bars in America for 2012.
Owner's Kevin & Barb Bolin spent several years traveling around to some of the best beer destinations around the country and got inspired to open up their own place. They wanted to offer customers a taste of some of the best available beers from not only here in Colorado, but also from around the world. Their fascination with great beer led them to set up a tap house and restaurant with a huge wall with 100 different beer selections on tap, 5 of which are nitro taps.
Add to that a beer cooler with over 35 other beers in bottles (I counted 62 different labels that day) and a wonderful food menu of gourmet sandwiches, oven baked pizza and local coffees based on the Red Table Cafe and they've got the complete food and beverage combo. They even serve breakfast items all day long.
They have an extensive beer glass supply suited to match every style of beer and a huge projection screen beer selection "scoreboard" above the tap lines that is updated instantly whenever a new beer goes on tap. Favorites are highlighted next to select beers on the board to let customers know of special offerings.
Kevin was kind enough to introduce his staff, including Michelle Peth, their bar manager who is in charge of ensuring that all 100 taps keep flowing. When asked what criteria she used to select beers for The Mayor of Old Town, she stated that beers are selected based upon variety, availability and seasonality. She chooses the best beers she can get here locally and ones that add variety for the season.
Keeping 100 beer taps working at the same time is no easy task. Kevin showed off his beer cooler in the building's basement. It's massive too as you can imagine. It's about the size of a full tracker trailer and can store just over 160+ kegs of beer. There were seemingly miles of highly organized tubes running from the cooler up to the taps upstairs.
The lines are kept cold using an in-house glycol system and each tap line is electronically monitored by a state of the art tap system. They know instantly the temperature, the pressure, how much beer has flowed from every line in the bar. It was an amazing site to see - plus it was all kept spotless. All their tap lines are thoroughly cleaned after each keg is drained. Keeping fresh beer tasting great is a high priority at the Mayor's.
Business has been very good so far since their opening. On certain nights, normally around the weekends, you can find a line waiting outside the door to get in. During the visit on an early Saturday afternoon, the place was nearly full already.
The food menu is quite extensive. I chose to try their "BBQ for You" pizza. It was served on a black tray that resembled an artists paint palate. I asked one of the wait staff what was one of the most popular food items on the menu and was told that their Jalapeno & Cream Cheese Pretzel was a fan favorite. It looked like a huge German-style pretzel and had a cream cheese filling and is served warm with jalapeno jelly.
The Bolin's did a great job in converting the stone-faced building from an old furniture store into one of the town's biggest beer attractions (besides the breweries themselves). They are planning to open up a new outdoor patio in March on the north side of the building and will have enough seating for an additional 42 customers. The patio will be open year-round weather permitting.
Also in the works are The Mayor's own hosted brewery tours. They plan to have regular tours daily with their own bus that will pick up and drop off patrons right outside the Mayor's building on South Mason Street.
There's even entertainment and beer clubs held regularly at The Mayor of Old Town. Mondays nights are the Gary Brewsey Men's Beer Club at 5:30pm, followed by alternating weeks of "Battle of the Beers", where two similar style beers go head to head in a competition decided by patrons. Tuesday nights host the Beer Betty's Ladies Beer Club at 6:00pm. You can usually find live comedy being hosted on Wednesday nights around 8:00pm.
On Thursday nights from 7:00pm to 11:00pm they host an Open Mic Night where patrons can sign up to perform for the crowd. The weekends are always busy. They recommend you get their early to get a seat.
Fans of The Mayor of Old Town can now follow what's new on tap via Twitter. Whenever a new keg is tapped at the Mayor you see a new tweet sent out automatically! They also have an extensive following on Facebook as well. Give them a Like!
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Gluten-Free South American Food: Cheese Arepa Recipe and Perico Scramble Recipe
I discovered Arepas some time ago thanks to some of my blogging friends, and I posted my own green chili cheese variation. It was lovely and delicious, and I was so glad to have bought some Pan corn mix to make them. And then… I put the mix away in my cupboard in a ziploc bag and forgot about it for a while. This weekend as I was trying to decide what to have for breakfast, I happened to see that mix in the cupboard, and thought… why not? I'd been curious about the Venezuelan take on arepa with its perico scrambled egg filling… and I also wanted to try them with a plain cheese filling. So, authentic or not, a mix of recipes or not, I found myself making arepas stuffed with cheese and topped with perico. I added a dollup of hot sauce because something in the scramble just seemed to call for it… and found it was the perfect breakfast with coffee… and then the perfect lunch with a cool glass of lime water (no sugar).
The next time you have gluten-free breakfast doldroms, why not try an arepa, in one of its many forms? I bet you'll find at least one that you love…
Karen's arepa Recipe
Shauna's simple and traditional arepa Recipe
My green chili cheese arepa recipe
Gluten Free Cheese Feta Arepas with Venezuelan Perico
1 1/4 cup PAN
1 1/4 cup warm water
1/2 tsp. salt
*1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
*1/4 cup feta cheese (not traditional, but what I had in my refrigerator), crumbled
*You can omit cheese for vegan arepa, or use vegan cheese sub
Perico Scramble
Preheat oven to 350 F. If you can't put your arepa browning pan (say a nonstick pan) in the oven, preheat something like a pizza stone in the oven (covered with a sheet of aluminum foil.)
Combine your pan meal, salt and warm water in a medium bowl and stir to combine. Then shape it into two balls and knead each with your hands until they are smooth and ingredients are well combined. Cover the dough you are not working with with a damp paper towel to keep it from drying out. Pull off a small ball of dough and shape into a flat disk, and place a small pinch of mozzarella cheese in the center, along with an even smaller pinch of crumbled feta cheese. Carefully fold over the disk so you have a potsticker/ perogie half moon shape and then gently press out the crease where the dough comes together so that it is roughly in the center of a new, circular disk you are creating. Make sure the edges of your arepa are smooth. Heat a nonstick pan or cast iron pan (ideal) with a little olive oil or other favorite oil on medium. Brown each disk- each side will take from 7-10 minutes. Try not to burn the disks- ideally they will be golden brown and not blackened. If they seem to be getting too dark too quickly, turn down the heat. When they are golden brown on both sides, put them in the oven either in the cast iron skillet OR onto the heated surface you have already placed in the oven. Bake for 15 minutes, turning if desired, or until the arepas sound hollow when you tap them.
While they are in the oven, you can make the perico scramble.
Place your arepas on a plate with your perico scramble and add some dashes of hot sauce to the scramble or on the side of the dish. Enjoy!
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AHL Game Night: 2-8-14 Falcons at Crunch
No one can call the Syracuse Crunch quitters.
ECHL loaner Allen York allowed 6 goals on 23 shots for the OT Loss. I'll let you all speculate on whether Desjardins or Gudlevskis would have performed better under the circumstances.
First Period
SPR Prout, (1) (St. Denis, Miller), 3:19
SYR Paradis, (1) (Rankin, Cote), 5:45
SPR Skille, (6) (Jacques, Chaput), 9:18 (PP)
Second Period
SPR Jacques, (7) (Prout, Bass), 8:50
SPR Aleardi, (6) (Thompson, Chaput), 12:55
SYR Tyrell, (6) (Richard, Korobov), 15:36 (PP)
Third Period
SYR Rankin, (11) (Richard, Sustr), 8:19 (PP)
SPR Miller, (1) (Marchessault), 14:35
SYR Angelidis, (8) (Tyrell, Connolly), 15:46
SYR Mormina, (3) (Richard), 17:28
SPR Prout, (2) (Marchessault, Bass), 3:52
Dana Tyrell and Evan Rankin were the game's second and third stars.
Springfield is the top team in the Northeast Division. Syracuse is last in the East Division. Syracuse came into this game with an ECHL loaner goaltender. They came into this game without Namestnikov on top of all the other players they lost due to recalls. They fell behind 4-1 more than halfway through the Second Period. Would've been easy to make an excuse and quit. They battled back and got it to 4-2 headed into the Third Period. Then Springfield cuts the comeback off making it 5-3 with less than 6 minutes to go. "Nice try, better luck next time, boys?" No. They found a way to tie it up with 2 goals late and Panik hit a post in OT before they finally surrendered the OT winner.
Springfield is the top team in the Northeast Division. Syracuse is last in the East Division. The Crunch outshot them 41-23. No one can accuse the Syracuse Crunch of being quitters.
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Pakistani Christians Launch Joint Resolution Urging an End to Religious Intolerance
Christians in Pakistan stepped up their nationwide campaign against religious intolerance in the country, as the government has failed to bring justice to last months burning of churches.
On Sunday, a coalition of leading Christian organizations and civil societies in Pakistan met in Lahore for an emergency consultation to review the situation regarding religious intolerance in the country, according to a statement released by the Pakistan-based Commission for Peace and Human Development
The participating organizations included the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP); the Commission for Peace and Human Development (CPHD); the Center of Legal Assistance and Settlement (CLASS); the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance; the Christian Study Centre- Rawalpindi; the Justice and Peace Commission (MSLCP)- Multan, Adal; and AWARD-Faisalabad and Human Development Centre- Toba Tek Singh.
Religious tolerance has become a key concern for Pakistani Christians after the terrifying burning of Christian settlements by some hundreds of Muslims in eastern Pakistans Sangla Hill village on Nov. 12.
Over the past few weeks, Pakistani Christians and churches have been lobbying the government to deeply investigate the incident and to identify those responsible for the violence. On Nov. 17, all churches and Christian educational institutions in Pakistan were closed in protest against the attacks. They requested a detailed investigation on the attacks and vowed to take further actions if no response was made.
Until now, the Pakistan authorities have not made significant progress, leaving the tension between Christians and Muslims in deadlock.
Church leaders and representatives of civil society said in the statement from the consultation that the present government is terribly failing to repair the situation firstly because it is not admitting the facts and is rather protecting the instigators of mob violence."
In the course of police investigation, Muslim groups accused a Christian named Yusaf Masih of blasphemy for desecrating the Koran, which they claimed had triggered the anger of Muslims.
In an open letter to the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, four leading Pakistani church leaders called the accusation a "baseless rumor." They argued the fact was that two Muslims who lost money to Masih have been trying to make use of the blasphemy law to settle their personal conflicts.
Despite repeated clarification of Christian leaders, the government has avoided to make any statement regarding the progress of investigation.
The statement from the consultation said that the Judicial Enquiry was "ineffective" due to "procedural delays," causing the loss of vital evidence to the offences.
The organizations also accused the government of "hiding facts from the people of Pakistan" by "concealing the extent of the abuse of blasphemy laws," according to the statement.
The participating organizations of the consultation issued a "Joint Resolution and Plan of Action" with an aim to step up their campaign against religious intolerance in Pakistan
According to the statement, the organizations demand the Pakistan government to take immediate actions to apprehend the instigators of the mob violence, to make public the findings of the Judicial Enquiry, to set free all innocent persons including Yousuf Masih, to repeal blasphemy law, and to remove hate speech and biased literature.
Meanwhile, AsiaNews reported that the leading Christian organizations in Pakistan would hold a joint press conference on Thursday in Islamabad, to highlight incidents sparked by religious hatred and to study their causes.


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It appears that my current webhost is making a right-old muck up of things. Thus I'm exploring other options.
I have all but one of my domain names hosted separately from my web host. This means portability. I designed my system like that from the start as I did hear it was much easier to switch between domain hosts and between web hosts than to switch when both were hosted by the same company. It does seem to be true.
My recent dip into mobile websites has shown up flaws in my webhosting that would otherwise have lain undetected and they're pretty major flaws. The framed redirect doesn't do a lot for any of my websites. My web host will not allow access to their domain server. At best, for double the money I'm paying them, I'd get a single add-on domain. For about double that I'd get more domains. None of their packages suit my needs any more. I'm thus thinking about alternate hosting.
I did come across an innovative solution whereby I could do my own hosting on my workstation and use a service to keep my DNS entries consistent with my dynamic IP address. That actually sounds quite promising. The cost would be about $60 per year for the service. The downside of self-hosting is keeping one's own machine running 24x7. The upside is total control over everything.
I've even come across one ethical server which is entirely wind-powered. That sounds very interesting. It also sounds like it's run out of somebody's bedroom with a small wind turbine set up on the corner of their parent's house!
I'm getting figures for a 12 month hosting deal of around $60 - $150 a year. In fact there're so many providers out there that it's puzzling to say the least, to work out who is best and which direction to take. Self-hosting does tempt me, however.


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Medicare Coverage of Massage Therapy
What It Is
Outpatient massage therapy
What's Covered
Medicare doesn't cover massage therapy.
Note: An exception might be made for a very limited amount of massage therapy provided as part of Medicare Part B-covered physical therapy.
If you have a Medicare Part C Medicare Advantage plan: Medicare Part C Medicare Advantage plans, also called Medicare Advantage plans, must cover everything that's included in original Medicare Part A and Part B coverage. But sometimes a Part C plan covers more, with extra services or an expanded amount of coverage. (Co-payments for Part C plans may also be different than those for Part A or Part B.) To find out whether your plan provides extra coverage or requires different co-payments for massage therapy, contact the plan directly.
What Medicare Pays
Medicare pays nothing for massage therapy.
Important: Regardless of the rules regarding any particular type of care, in order for Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, or a Medicare Part C plan to provide coverage, the care must meet two basic requirements:
The care must be "medically necessary." This means that it must be ordered or prescribed by a licensed physician or other authorized medical provider, and that Medicare (or a Medicare Part C plan) agrees that the care is necessary and proper. For help getting your care covered, see FAQ: How Can I Increase the Odds That Medicare Will Cover My Medical Service?
The care must be performed or delivered by a healthcare provider who participates in Medicare.
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2011 Season
Played in eight games with one goal, two assists and two steals.
High School
Played four seasons of water polo at Los Gatos High School ... A four-year starter, and team captain in her senior season ... An All-Central Coast Section (CCS) selection during her senior and junior seasons ... Also voted league MVP in 2008 and 2009 in addition to all-league accolades.
Matador Memo
Born August 11, 1992 in Chicago, Il ... Parents are Kathleen and Doug Nestler ... Has one sister (Halle) ... Roots for the world champion San Francisco Giants ... Her favorite player is Buster Posey on the SF Giants ... Her favorite actor is Chris Dane ... Her favorite actress is Rachel McAdams ... Likes to watch Grey's Anatomy ... Her favorite movie is The Matrix ... Likes to eat hamburgers but stays away from calamari ... Her favorite solo musical artist is The Rocket Summer ... Her favorite website is Facebook ... Chose Cal State Northridge because of the water polo program ... The best thing about being a student-athlete, according to Carson, is being healthy ... The toughest part about being a student-athlete is the work load ... Her pre-game ritual is to listen to loud music ... If Carson was president of the NCAA, she would give tons of money to the sport of water polo ... The most famous person she has ever met is Brandi Chastain ... Would have liked to have met Susan B. Anthony ... Would like be stranded on a desert island with Chris Dane ... If Carson was forced to listen to one CD the rest of her life, it would be Bare Naked Ladies ... If she had a million dollars, she would give it to her parents ... Her advice to young people - "enjoy yourselves." ... No one knows, according to Carson, that she talks in her sleep ... Can't go a week, says Carson, without knowledge ... One possession she can't live without is her iPod ... Years from now, she will still laugh about the time she spilled milk all over homecoming dinner ... If she could change one thing about the world, Carson would get rid of loneliness ... Turkey cranberry sandwiches at Togo's always makes her smile ... Her greatest hero is Superman because "he always gets it done." ... Major is Biology.


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VICCO, Ky. — Johnny Cummings grew up gay in this faded coal town, the son of a miner. He likes to joke that he didn't know he was gay until people around town told him he was.
Now 50, Cummings is the mayor of Vicco, population 334. He's Mayor Johnny in the mornings. In the afternoons he styles hair at his salon, Scissors, a few steps from the storefront Town Hall.
On Jan. 14, at the mayor's urging, Vicco's commissioners discussed an ordinance to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, "real or perceived." As recorded in town secretary Kitty Anderton's minutes, everybody "started debating back and forth and asking questions."
Three and a half hours later, on a 3-1 vote, Vicco became the smallest town in America to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals.


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CM Storm QuickFire TK Keyboard Review
Clicky clacky, clicky clacky, another mechanical keyboard has arrived at my desk for review. Cooler Master has added yet another member to the QuickFire lineup – the CM Storm Quickfire TK. It's a shortened up version of the Pro with a more compact layout to fit where ever you may go with it. The TK comes in three Cherry MX switches so you can pick exactly what "click" you want: red, blue, or brown. Each switch does ultimately decide what the exterior of your keyboard looks like as well – red switches come with red LED keys, blue with blue LEDs, and brown with white LEDs. A steelplate insert behind the keys also comes in those respective colors. Ultimately either your choice in appearance will choose your key type, or your choice in key type will choose your appearance.
Cooler Master gave me my choice – and the Blue in BluePanda won out. Not only did I want the blue appearance, but I did also want the blue switches. I've used both the Cherry MX reds and browns in the past but haven't yet had the opportunity to try out blues. Today that changes. For those of you who don't know much about the different mechanical switches I'll give you a brief run-down (though I do recommend some Googling to get some pictures on how the switches work). Cherry MX Red switches aren't the most loved switch as they are linear in motion, requiring less force to actuate, but easier to make typing errors with. Browns are light tactile switches – they split the field between typing and gaming. You can double tap fast and still feel the click while typing to avoid errors. Blues, what I'm trying out today, are known as the "Clicky" switch, literally because they have a clicky bump when the activation point of the switch is reached. The only down side is that the switch must fully return to be pressed again – making double tapping a little more of a challenge. It's really up to you what you want in a key. There are companies out there you can purchase sample kits from to really get a feel for what is best for you.
Back on track with the CM Storm QuickFire TK, it's about time we get looking at what this keyboard has to offer. We know it's smaller than your typical keyboard sporting the "Serious Firepower in a Compact Size" slogan, however, it still has media keys as well as a full number pad. How this all works out – well, I guess you'll have to do some reading…
Closer Look:
The CM Storm QuikFire TK got here just a little after the release date and thus lacked the actual packaging. So, instead of the usual box pictures, you get a little relief this time with me not talking all about the packaging. Instead, the keyboard came in a simple cardboard keyboard box with some numbers and letters written on the outside. The box opens up and the keyboard is safely inside with a foam bag wrapped around it to keep it warm.
Now, if you buy one, you'll get a typical flashy Cooler Master CM Storm box much like the one shown below. These pictures are courtesy of Cooler Master and show off what you will see in stores or on your door step. However, after playing with the keyboard – I must say the box is a bit misleading with the coloring on the keyboard. The box shows the keyboard with blue keys – but red lights for the toggled NUMLK , etc. The real keyboard actually sports blue all the way - Photoshop oops?
Moving right along, pulling everything out of the box you have a keyboard, a cable for your keyboard, and a key puller (I'm assuming you'll have a quick start guide with the normal packaging as well). Right away you can see the blue steelplate peeking through from behind the keys. This keyboard looks pretty sweet even without any lighting turned on; the keys are also very readable with no lighting, unlike some lighted keyboards that can only be read when lit up.
Focusing on the keyboard alone, it doesn't really look too different from a normal keyboard or too small without something else for scale. However, look again and you'll notice the arrow keys and INS, END, HOME, PGUP, PGDWN, and DEL keys hanging out with the numbers. The NUMLK key actually toggles when these keys can be used, and when the number keys can be used. You get one or the other – not both. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I'm guessing it isn't something I can't get used to…
The back of the keyboard, as expected, isn't too complicated. There's a big sticker on the back with a S/N for ownership and some quick labeling to tell you it's a CM Storm QuickFire TK. There are rubber grips on all four corners to help keep your keys under your finger tips and two rear feet to give those of you who prefer a higher angle a lift. You can also see the grooved channel to allow your cable to be routed best for your desk setup.
Looking from the side profile of the keyboard you can see that it tries to take up the minimum amount of space by only being just wide enough to place all the keys. The natural angle is about average for a keyboard but props up to stand quite a bit higher. You can also see the rounded cut out that allows you to pass your cable out the left side to keep your desk tidy. It has a nice simple look without trying to be over styled.
Turning the keyboard around and taking a look from the back side there are no annoying USB hubs or headphone jacks hiding on the back. I've never liked when companies thought I needed to plug things in here when the front I/O panel of my case is only a little further away. Instead we find just a simple CM Storm logo, rather subtle – and something I'll never see day to day. Turning it over with the feet up you can get a better idea of how robust these two feet are. They snap into place and besides jumping on the keyboard feel ready to hold up whatever weighted typing you may have. The tips of the feet also have rubber to again maintain placement of your keyboard.
If you didn't think about it in the first few pictures, the keyboard doesn't have a cable attached. The CM Storm Quickfire TK sports one of my favorite CM Storm keyboard features – the removable cable. One end is a mini-USB to plug into the backside of the keyboard, while the other end is your standard USB to plug into your rig. The cable is nicely braided making it easier to route your cables and avoid the "stick" between cables.


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Corporate Executive Team
Larry Gates
Larry W. Gates II is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer/Chief Operating Officer of myEcon, Inc. He brings more than 20 years of experience in communications, marketing and business operations. Mr. Gates oversees and manages all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the company; ensuring operations are in sync with strategy. He takes a leadership role in the establishment of performance indicators and monitoring performance against goals. Mr. Gates also has great people skills having spent several years in the financial services industry. Larry is married and has one son. His hobbies are spending time with his family, bass fishing and talking football.
Carliss Curry
Carliss A. Curry is currently serving as Chief Financial Officer of myEcon, Inc. She brings more than 30 years of administrative and business management experience. She is a graduate of Northwest College in Mississippi with a degree in Business Management. Mrs. Curry has worked in various management and accounting capacities for government and private sectors. Mrs. Curry has been married for the past 30 years and is the mother of three adult children.


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Overtime Goal Gives Wabash 3-2 Loss at Denisonby Brent Harris • October 2, 2010 Share:
A Denison goal in the sixth minute of overtime ended a comeback effort by the Wabash soccer team Saturday afternoon in a 3-2 loss to the Big Red.
The Little Giants (6-5, 0-2 NCAC) took an early 1-0 lead when Ryan Fier scored his second goal of the season moments after Denison (5-5, 1-1 NCAC) went down a man with a red card. Fifteen minutes later in the match, the Little Giants dropped to 10 men after Alex Lyon was issued a red card.
Denison scored two second half goals to take a 2-1 lead, getting the second goal on a penalty kick with 15 minutes left to play in the match. Femi Oluyedun tied the match in the 83rd minute with an goal on an assist from Ian Kelly. Each team managed a shot on goal in the extra session before Preston Wagner's second goal of the match found the back of the net to give Denison the victory.
"Our guys fought hard," Head Coach Roberto Giannini said. "After the red cards we kept our heads and played good soccer and continued to do what we do best. It just seems that we always face these heartbreaking conclusions. Both teams took good shots on goal. Denison's keeper made some very good saves, and we just couldn't put the game away after we tied the match.
"Once again we've shown we can compete with anyone. We still need to be more clear minded toward the end of games, but overall the guys did an excellent job. I was proud of them. We were just inches away from coming away with a victory."
Wabash goalkeeper Ian MacDougall recorded six saves, while Denison's Matt Wagner stopped seven Wabash shots. Tommy Pecar and Bobby Thompson each had two shots on goal for the Little Giants.
Wabash returns to action Tuesday afternoon with a 4 p.m. home match against Transylvania.


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