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Broadway Opening: April 7, 2009
Music: Arranged by Ethan Popp, David Gibbs, Orchestrated by Ethan Popp
Book: Chris D'Arienzo
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Florida Medical Device Manufacturer Announces New Product Release for Radiation Therapy
.decimal, Inc. announces the release of custom Electron Aperture devices for Cancer Treatment
Sep 12, 2011, 10:42 ET
SANFORD, Fla., Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- .decimal, Inc. (pronounced dot decimal), an innovative manufacturer of patient-specific medical devices for radiation therapy, announced that it received 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market electron apertures for use with Varian treatment machines. These devices are now available to radiation oncology centers across the U.S. and Canada.
Electron apertures -- also known as electron 'cutouts' by radiation therapy departments -- are medical devices required for the targeted delivery of electrons to patients in radiation therapy.
As a medical device, an electron aperture is a metal tool featuring an opening through which a radiation beam passes during the delivery of electrons to a patient with a tumor, as in the case of neck and head or breast cancer.
Hospitals and cancer centers across the U.S. will order electron apertures via the internet and receive the devices already in the mold frames within 24 to 72 hours from receipt of an order.
By providing custom-made electron apertures to radiation oncology centers, .decimal® helps these facilities reduce the cost of maintaining an on-site mold room, which can add to the department or facility's costs.
"At .decimal®, our staff excels at the development of radiation therapy devices based on our customers' needs," said Richard Sweat, President and CEO of .decimal, Inc. "We are energized that the release of Electron Apertures can eliminate the need to handle toxic materials like Cerrobend at medical facilities."
Cerrobend is an alloy composed of cadmium, lead and tin which can be shaped at relatively low temperatures, but releases toxic fumes that, when produced at a medical facility, have the potential for affecting clinical personnel thus requiring expensive ventilation systems.
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District 220, teachers submit final offers
Barrington Unit District 220 and its teachers union sent their "last and final" offers to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board Thursday afternoon, having failed to reach a contract agreement Wednesday night.
Two further negotiation meetings are scheduled for Friday and Tuesday as they try to reach a deal ahead of a potential strike Feb. 21. The school board already has moved its regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 5 to Monday, Feb. 4 in order to accommodate the negotiations.
"There were some great discussions," school board President Brian Battle said Thursday of Wednesday's session between the district's and teachers' representatives. "I'm sure both parties will review the last and final offers we exchanged this afternoon."
With two more negotiation meetings to occur in the next few days, the "last and final" offers published by the state next Thursday may or may not still be the ones both parties are considering, Battle said.
And no matter how much longer negotiations go on, there is no legal obligation to update those published offers.
Because the Barrington Education Association, which represents the nearly 700 teachers, declared an impasse in negotiations last week, the two sides were given until 5 p.m. Thursday to submit their so-called last and final offers to the labor relations board. If no agreement is reached by Thursday, Feb. 7, the labor relations board will then publish those final offers.
If the impasse continues for another two weeks beyond that, teachers could legally strike as early as Thursday, Feb. 21.
The union and school board have been negotiating since March toward a new contract to succeed the one that expired at the end of August 2012. A federal mediator became involved in December.
District 220 teachers last went on strike in 1980. That strike lasted three days, district sources said.


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Sharon E. Jerko, 79, of 135 Laurel Lane, Kersey, died Sunday morning, Nov. 21, 2010 at the Elk Haven Nursing Home after a lengthy illness.She was born July 15, 1931 in Hallton, daughter of the late George and Geraldine Dobson Zimmerman.On Aug. 20, 1955, in St. Leo's Church, Ridgway, she married George R. Jerko, who survives.She was a lifelong resident of the area and was a graduate of Ridgway High School, Class of 1950. She was a member of the St. Boniface Church and the church choir, member of the Elk County Cursillo Movement, Fox Township Senior Citizens and was a volunteer at the Guardian Angels Center.Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Dr. Christine Jerko Ph.D. of Portland, Oregon; two sons, George R. Jerko Jr. of Bellefonte and Gregory S. Jerko and his wife, Cheryl of St. Marys; two grandsons, Mitchell Jerko and Matthew Jerko; and a brother, Jerry Zimmerman and his wife, Mary Ann of Kersey.Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Douglas Jerko in 1990; and three brothers, William Zimmerman, Robert Zimmerman and Emerson Zimmerman.Family and friends are invited to attend a Funeral Mass for Sharon E. Jerko to be celebrated in the St. Boniface Church on Wednesday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. James Faluszczak, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the St. Boniface Cemetery.There will be no visitation.Memorials, if desired, can be made to the St. Boniface Church or School, 355 Main St., Kersey, PA 15846; or to the Guardian Angels Center, P. O. Box 116, Kersey, PA 15846.The Lynch-Radkowski Funeral Home in St. Marys is in charge of arrangements.


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(CNN) -- Lytro cameras, which let you take a photo and refocus anywhere after it's taken, are getting two much-requested new features: Instagram-like filters and the ability to bring the entire image, not just one section, into focus.
The camera was released early this year by a new Silicon Valley-based startup. Long and rectangular with a small touchscreen on one end and minimal buttons, the camera uses Light Field technology to capture its interactive images.
Since the camera's release, Lytro employees have been busy testing and releasing new features. The most recent additions will be available December 4.
First is the new Perspective Shift feature. Until now, you could focus only on one small section of a Lytro image at a time, which seemed to negate the benefit of having a camera that could focus on everything in the frame. Perspective Shift finally allows you to bring the entire image into focus, but that's not the most interesting part. When you click and drag on a Lytro picture, there is also a 3-D effect, allowing you move the image around for altered angles. Existing Lytro camera owners will be happy to learn that the effect can be applied to older images as well.
For one test photo, Eric Cheng, Lytro's director of photography and a former underwater photographer, filled a glass Christmas ornament with paint and shot a pellet through it, capturing the explosion as it happened (click and drag the image to the left to see the effect).
The desktop application will also gain new filter options. If there's anything the photography industry has learned over the past two years, it's that people love adding quick filters to their photos to make them look better. Lytro's first nine filters are a mix of typical retro -- Film Noir, 8-Track and Crayon -- and some genuinely unique effects that take advantage of the interactive features of Lytro pictures.
For example, the Glass filter (below) throws up a pane of frosted glass between the foreground and the background. Click around to refocus, and it will move accordingly. Carnival distorts the photo like a funhouse mirror, undulating in different directions depending on where you focus.
A year after the product was announced, the question of who exactly it is for still lingers. The $400 and up price tag is steep for a camera that takes only one kind of photo, and while it's fun to play with, it's not immediately clear what practical purpose refocusable photos serve. A flattened JPEG of a Lytro image is only 1.2 megapixels, which rules out many pro photography uses like product photography.
Lytro is not sharing any sales numbers or statistics but says the camera has mostly been a hit with amateur photography enthusiasts. Enterprising customers have found some creative uses. Food bloggers are snapping interactive shots of their meals (the ability to make a bowl of ramen jiggle in 3-D could be an amazing or gross addition). An artist who makes miniature figures uses it to document her work. Bug lovers everywhere like its impressive macro photography abilities.
Some in the medical field have tested the technology out, too; Lytro says there is a dermatologist who uses the camera to take up-close photos of skin issues, and a dentist takes shots of teeth.
"What we're looking for are people who are interested in storytelling in some new way," Cheng said. "That's the common thread between all of our earlier camera owners."
Lytro has released other updates to the camera's firmware and desktop software over the year, including rolling out a Windows version of the desktop application and adding manual camera controls. With the manual controls, you can speed up or slow down the shutter speed to play with interesting effects like light paining.
The company has also released a handful of accessories, cases and a tripod mount. There are new Lytro body colors (hot pink and forest green), but other than that, the hardware is the exact same camera that started shipping at the start of the year. The prices have also stayed the same: $399 for the 8GB camera and $499 for the 16GB version.


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Much of $4.5 million hike due to road projects.
LEXINGTON—Dawson County's operating budget is up just over 20% from last year.
Commissioners recognize that it's a considerable jump but are quick to point out that roughly $4.3 million of the $4.5 million increase comes from a pair of road projects to be completed this year.
One is a $1.5 million overlay of 13th Street outside of Lexington. The other is a 15-mile stretch of resurfacing between Overton and Sumner which commissioners financed through highway bonds totaling $2.7 million.
The county board adopted the 2010-11 budget following a public hearing during the regular bimonthly meeting on Sept. 15.
"Dawson County has many miles of blacktop that should have been taken care of long before this," said commissioner Roger Bauer of Overton. "Now we need to try and save them."
The county is resurfacing 25 miles of road this year of the 150 miles or more of paved roads in the county.
"Some of our gravel is in bad shape too after the weather we've had," said Bill Sewart of Lexington. "We're still working on those and we're not caught up yet."
In adopting the budget, commissioners also set the tax asking at $7.4 million and the levy at 40.7 cents per $100,000 in valuation.
"If your value went up then your taxes will go up for the county portion of your tax bill," Stewart said. "If your value didn't go up, your taxes should stay relatively the same."
In other business, county commissioners agreed to be a supporting applicant for a Building Entrepreneurial Communities Act (BECA) grant that Dawson Area Development is applying for with the City of Lexington as primary applicant.
DAD executive director Jen Wolf told the board the BECA grant, if awarded, would help pay for
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Adams State University does attract many high-quality students. As an example, the average GPA of a recent incoming class was 3.2, and the average enhanced ACT score was 20.8 NOTE: If applying for scholarships or financial aid, prospective students must be admitted by March 15.
First-time freshmen should complete the following steps for admission to Adams State University. Those needing clarification or any further assistance should call the Office of Admissions at (800) 824-6494:
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HILLSDALE � As the Hillsdale Rotary Club completed one Phase of the Sandy Beach Project Saturday, the next phase was officially announced and a challenge to the community was made. During Saturday�s rededication of the newly renovated concession stand, Rotarian Richard Moore announced that a private donor has pledged $25,000 to the next phase of the project.
But there�s a catch. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the Rotary that they would only donate the money if the community can raise the same amount in the next six months. Moore accepted the challenge and while he knows its a lot to ask, he thinks the community will respond.
"I�m confident. I�m very confident. We have a couple fund raisers coming up and I think that is going to help out a bit," Moore said. "But I just think that people like challenges. I don�t think there is any doubt that people are going to feed into that."
Moore said a lot of his confidence in the next phase stems from what has already been accomplished at the site. Between the new concession stand being completed this year and the beach restoration previously, Moore says the community has seen what can be accomplished.
"When people see this project completed, people are flocking over here to check it out. People have given us the money before we completed it and now that they can see that we did what we supposed to do," Moore said. "As long as people continue to give us the money, we�ll continue to go along with the different phases."
The next phase is scheduled to include an upgrade to the beach�s playground equipment which Moore said was "dated."
Prior to the announcement, the rededication of the concession stand featured speeches from member of the Rotary and officials from the city of Hillsdale.
"I do thank the Rotary on behalf of the mayor, the council and the citizens of the city of Hillsdale," said City Manager Linda Brown.
Rotary President Eric Macy then turned over the building keys to the city. The concession stand officially opened after the ceremony and patrons flocked to purchase drinks and soft serve ice cream.
"This really is a community base project, everyone has contributed to it," said Michelle Loren, the city�s head of recreation. "It is my hope as well as the city�s that we continue to be proud of this, support it and keep it as beautiful as it is in the future.
"It�s just one more thing that Rotary has done that�s pulled the community together and it shows what community can do and will continue to do in the future."
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From February 4- 6, Marian University sophomores Natalie Butler and Aly Witkowski are working to remind the campus community about the transformation that can come from cancer by hosting Cancer Awareness Week on campus. The event includes talks from a nurse at St.Vincent Health, a student survivor, junior Phillip Ryan, and a local family dealing with cancer.
"All of these will be in some way very educational, whether it's the medical aspect, the faith aspect, or the relationships with other people aspect, and how they grow," said Witkowski.
In addition to bringing the community together to talk about cancer, Butler and Witkowski are raising money for what they call a "Marian University Room" at the St.Vincent Hospital and Health Center. The Marian University Room will be themed to reflect "a person's walk with Christ as they battle cancer". The room will be occupied by families and children on the oncology floor of the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St.Vincent.
"St.Vincent's has invested so much of itself in Marian University and now we want to put Marian University into St. Vincent's. It would be placing the faith side of Marian University as a source of hope for those who stay in the room and the doctors and nurses who treat in the room," said Butler.
Cancer Awareness Week and the planned room are all a part of Butler and Witkowski's sophomore service project for the San Damiano Scholars Program.
The San Damiano Scholars Program is offered to incoming students who are interested in becoming leaders in parishes, schools, health care, and not-for-profits. All San Damiano Scholars are required to come up with a service project their sophomore year that will benefit an outside charity or the Marian University community.
"The sophomore service project is an integral part of the overall San Damiano Scholars Program. The projects help students begin the transition into answering Jesus' question, 'Who do you say I am?' But more importantly, the projects give students some 'real-world' experience with running a program before the junior- and senior-year internships," said, Mark Erdosy, executive director of the San Damiano Scholar Program.
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Few design and construction professionals will quibble with the notion that U.S. retail operators have largely eschewed green design techniques. To date, office and multi-family developers and tenants have led the charge in the practice of securing LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (GBC). Retailers and shopping center developers have been slower to adopt environmentally sustainable features. The lag, however, has not been because the retail industry is not interested in green design. Instead, the industry has found achieving existing LEED standards — developed with homes and offices in mind — too onerous for the retail world.
The rare operators willing to go green have found the rules of the LEED guidebook for commercial properties provided by the GBC, the nonprofit organization dedicated to sustainable building design, to be a bad fit for retail because of stringent occupancy, transportation, water and energy requirements that are easier to apply to offices than they are to stores or shopping centers, according to Kate Costanza, a sustainability coordinator with MulvannyG2 Architecture, a Bellevue, Wash.-based architecture firm. What's more, the certification process, which currently requires extensive documentation and thousands of dollars in registration fees for each property, is too overwhelming if all you're trying to do is get a 5,000-square-foot location certified. The requirements clash with the retail business expansion model, which dictates building dozens of new stores in a matter of months. "When you have a rapid construction schedule to open up in time for the holidays and you have to make sure that all of the [necessary] information is being gathered and documented, that speed can be daunting," Costanza says.
However, some retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Kohl's Corp., have chosen to work with GBC and convinced the agency to tweak its rules. Those efforts are now contributing to the creation of new retail-specific LEED standards that are in the pilot stage. When finalized, they may open the door to widespread adoption of sustainable design techniques within the retail sector. Currently, the GBC is conducting pilot programs that will tailor the LEED certification process to retail, including core and shell construction and store interiors. The changes will affect only a handful of certification credits, according to Marc Heisterkamp, director of commercial real estate with GBC, but are expected to have a significant impact on the retail sector. The agency will also make it possible for business owners across all sectors to certify a prototype property and then build all subsequent projects according to that model, eliminating the need for building-by-building certification. All three programs, including LEED for Retail: New Construction, LEED for Retail: Interiors and LEED Volume, are scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2009. "I have worked with a lot of retailers who were interested in beginning to look at sustainability and they were frustrated because there hasn't been LEED certification available for them," says Dawn Clark, a principal with NBBJ, a global design firm. "This is all very new and they are very motivated."
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When it comes to LEED for Retail: New Construction, the points retail developers will be able to earn to qualify for certification won't differ significantly from other commercial buildings, says Teresa Burrelsman, director of the sustainability program with Seattle-based architecture firm Callison, which has been working with Wachovia on rolling out 300 LEED-certified regional banking branches by 2010. The program rewards the use of brownfield sites, recycled building materials and daylighting techniques. Where the changes will really come into play will be within LEED for Retail: Interiors, which will rework GBC's existing standards for commercial interiors to fit with retailers' unique energy, water use and transportation requirements, according to Don Grainger, associate principal with Perkowitz + Ruth, a Long Beach, Calif.-based architecture firm. Perkowitz + Ruth has been working with Wal-Mart, which is participating in the LEED for Retail pilot program along with about 40 other retailers.
For example, office buildings are required to reduce their water consumption by up to 30 percent to earn certification points. But water use at offices is limited to bathrooms and kitchens, notes Grainger. Supermarkets, by contrast, need water to regularly clean produce and comply with health codes, greatly increasing usage and making it harder to cut down. As a result, in the LEED retail guidelines the GBC will exempt fixtures whose flow rates are regulated by health codes from the reduction requirements.
The program will also adapt its daylighting requirements to retail properties. At the moment, GBC requires from 75 percent to 90 percent daylighting quotas for other commercial buildings. In an office building, that requirement can be easily satisfied through the installation of extra windows on each floor. But the necessity for plenty of shelving space and increased security measures at one- or two-story stores makes adding extra windows impractical. To solve the dilemma, GBC will encourage retailers to use kitchen/back of the house areas to provide extra daylighting with windows and skylights, according to Nick Shaffer, retail sector coordinator with the agency. "Retail center developers, in order for them to get credit for core and shell certification…will have to consider the back of house when assessing the viability of achieving the daylighting credits," he adds. "This potentially could have a large impact on the design of shopping centers."
The GBC will also tailor LEED transportation guidelines for retailers. The challenge stems from the fact that municipal planning departments dictate parking requirements and usually call for about five parking spaces for every 100,000 square feet of retail, says Grainger. So retailers have little leeway. To account for that, under LEED for Retail, chains will gain points by providing bicycle parking spaces and preferred parking spaces for fuel-efficient cars, encouraging employees to carpool to work and offering delivery services, which will reduce the volume of car traffic to and from stores.
At the same time, the program will make it harder for retailers to earn certain points easily gained by office space users. In an office building, most of the waste comes from paper and food rather than a laundry list of other materials, says Burrelsman, which simplifies recycling efforts. Retailers, on the other hand, deal with a much greater variety of waste products, including paper and plastic packages, hangers and food cartons. As a result, to earn points for waste management, they will have to undergo waste audits, identifying their top five recyclable waste streams by either weight or volume. And if the available recycling services can't handle all that waste, the retailer will have to come up with alternative ways to re-use it. "That's a case of LEED certification being a little bit tougher on retailers, but more appropriate, so being LEED-certified means more," Burrelsman says.
Retailers will also face more complicated guidelines for energy consumption reduction. Instead of simply optimizing the use of their lighting and air-conditioning systems, the way other space users do, retail chains will be divided into two categories — those that sell food and those that don't. Because the grocery sellers rely on heavy refrigeration, they will have to reduce their entire energy load by using more energy-efficient refrigeration and storing equipment, according to Grainger.
That has already led to pressure from Wal-Mart, Target and others for electric appliance manufacturers to produce "greener" products. "They are banding together and saying, 'We've got 300 stores we'll do next year and we are on track to improve our energy performance and you've got to beat what you are doing right now,'" Grainger says.
Though retailers are certainly excited about the prospect of sector-specific LEED certification, perhaps the most influential development coming from the GBC will be LEED Volume, which will cut out the need to certify each store individually. Just to manage the process can cost a store operator anywhere between $75,000 and $100,000, on top of LEED registration fees, according to Grainger. But with LEED Volume certification, only the prototype store will need to go through the complete certification process — each subsequently built property will just need to be developed according to the set standard. As of late August, GBC pre-certified seven applicants for LEED Volume.
Many retailers have expressed interest in instituting measures that could lower operating costs, but want proof that LEED certification in itself will be worth their while in dollar terms. That might come if consumers become aware of LEED certification and what it stands for, says Eric Anderson, a senior associate with MulvannyG2. As the GBC works to improve its guidelines, LEED certification might gain the kind of brand power necessary to get retailers' attention.
"I think we are all insanely happy that LEED is on the scene because it has given more credibility to the environmentally sustainable [movement]," Anderson says.


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MCLEAN, Va., Dec. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- December 2-4, 2012, In his opening Keynote Address at the "8th Annual U.S. Afghanistan Business Matchmaking Conference 2012", when describing the climate for investment during the critical "transition" period in Afghanistan, the Minster of Commerce and Industry of Afghanistan, Dr. Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, stated that, "the government of Afghanistan is close to announcing a new 10-year tax holiday for investments made over the next two years". This anticipated incentive, combined with a liberal regulatory environment and complemented with greatly expanded infrastructure and a growing number of skilled professionals and workers educated or trained abroad or graduated from local institutions, make for enhanced prospects for investment in a promising region of the world for economic growth.
Dr. Ahadi, a former Central Bank Governor and Finance Minister (remarks), went on to say that "a tight monetary policy has ensured that inflation is low and the exchange rate for the national currency, the Afghani, is stable. Thousands of kilometers of new highways, expanding transmission lines and a new railway can support investments in export-oriented sectors including cashmere, marble, carpets, and agriculture as well as development of local industries to replace current imports of refined petroleum products, cement, steel, poultry, edible oils, sugar, dairy products, and light manufactured goods".
U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Raymond 'Ray' LaHood (awaiting remarks) expanded upon the Minister's remarks when he commented on the enormous potential for Afghanistan as transportation, logistics and distribution hub for the vast emerging South and Central Asian market. He reviewed details of the DoT's work in Afghanistan and said his "Department and the Administration are committed to a successful Afghanistan". Secretary LaHood commented on the tremendous improvements in Afghanistan's infrastructure for road, air and rail and the impending increase in regional connectivity as crucial to the future of the country.
The conference focused on ways in which U.S. companies can tap into business opportunities in Afghanistan and the region and realize the value of partnering with Afghan companies and entrepreneurs. The Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) held the Conference in Washington, D.C. on December 2nd to 4th at the Ronald Reagan Building -- International Trade Center with related evening activities at the JW Marriott Washington, D.C. Hotel directly across the street.
Security is such a big concern for everyone investing in Afghanistan and this issue was addressed head-on by Col. Ret'd. U.S. Army, James Bullion, Director of the DoD Task Force promoting business in Afghanistan (remarks). Bullion stated that "investment in Afghanistan is being held back by perceptions that simply do not reflect the reality of most of the country today". He gave examples of how businessmen and women across the country are building their enterprises apart from, and in spite of, conflict areas. He mentioned that one recognized index of global violence has Afghanistan ranked 119th in the world, "well less than many Central American and African countries". Drawing parallels with Africa, where foreign investment is supporting widespread development, he described support for the extraction of minerals, infusions of international equity for traditional Afghan industries, and establishing entrepreneurship training centers and small business incubators.
Some 400 participants, including businessmen and women, financial organization representatives and government officials, from both the U.S. and Afghanistan, registered for the conference, including were some 100 participants from Afghanistan.
Ms. Holly Vineyard, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, ITA, (awaiting remarks) spoke about the expanding presence of the Department of Commerce (DoC) on the ground in Afghanistan as 'transition' points the way to greater and greater focus on the market economy. The DoC Task force on Afghanistan Reconstruction has been working for years in various sectors of the economy such as carpets, marble, construction and agriculture value chains, they are receiving greater resources to engage in these and other areas of the economy.
Col. Ret'd. U.S. Army, Mr. James Balocki, the Chief of International and Interagency Services of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (awaiting remarks) outlined future developments in Afghanistan. The Corps supports almost a thousand individual construction projects for the NATO military and Afghan security forces, and importantly local development funds support a variety of grass roots projects and an Afghan Infrastructure Fund supports major civil development projects.
Focusing on collaboration among the Government, Military and Business Communities, Mr. Hugh Haworth, a Senior Economics Advisor with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (remarks), indicated how USAID has shifted from large infrastructure projects to training, advising and assisting Afghans to maintain the gains already achieved and allow Afghans themselves to progress into the future. On a national scale, USAID is working with the Afghan power utility to effectively collect revenue covering its costs, completing large-scale hydropower projects and supporting the Ministry of Public Works with systems to maintain roads and public infrastructure. He advised as to how Afghan businesses are shifting from dependence on military and donor contracts to new opportunities with agriculture food chains, telecommunications expansion, and efforts to re-establish Afghanistan as a center of regional trade among other opportunities.
His Excellency Noorullah Delawari, the Governor (PPP), brought back to the Governorship of the Afghan Central Bank by President Karzai in the wake of the Kabul Bank collapse, described how the banking system learned and is now healthier. He outlined the major improvements in regulatory oversight of the banking system and went on to describe how the Afghan Central Bank has maintained a stable Afghan currency and managed liquidity in the local financial market.
Complementing these keynote addresses, expert panels addressed opportunities in agriculture and food processing; telecommunications and information technology, mining and natural resource development; transportation and logistics; construction and infrastructure; culture and tourism; and finally, financing and promoting the Afghan private sector. These panels, including both private sector and government representatives, addressed the practical experiences of Afghan and foreign businesses and investors, new opportunities for U.S. companies, and the Afghan perspective on commercial opportunities. The full Conference Agenda is available on the AACC website.
Opportunities for networking and private discussions were provided by an evening Welcoming Reception, networking breaks between meetings, business luncheons and a Mix & Mingle Dinner and Awards Reception featuring the presentation of the AACC Business of the Year Award to Nadim M. Amin of Afghan Resources Group (ARG); the Performance Excellence and Support for AACC Award to Zamari M. Kamgar of Kam Group; and an Award from the Chairman of Afghanistan's Senate, Fazal Hadi Muslimyar,to AACC President & CEO, Hon. Don Ritter for Building Business and Economic Bridges Between the U.S. and Afghanistan. (Award Speeches)
Highly popular with attendees, one-on-one networking discussions were conducted for some two hours in the afternoons where AACC arranged for individual consultations by attendees with panelists and speakers from relevant businesses, trade associations and government agencies.
An AACC Information and Communications Technology Working Group demonstrated new communications technologies that enable Afghans using high speed satellite connections to get real time support by experts abroad teamed with a translator at a 3rd location.
AACC is deeply grateful for those sponsors who literally made the conference possible with their generous support.
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Annual to shrubs, generally glandular, some green root-parasites
Stem generally round
Leaves generally alternate, simple, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 12 in axils
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed); stamens generally 4 in 2 pairs, generally included, a 5th (generally uppermost) sometimes present as a staminode; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2
Fruit: capsule, generally ± ovoid, loculicidal or septicidal
Seed: coat sculpture often characteristic
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 3000 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Antirrhinum, Mimulus, Penstemon ) or medicinal (Digitalis )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include only Buddleja, Scrophularia, and Verbascum in CA; other genera moved to Orobanchaceae (Castilleja, Cordylanthus, Orthocarpus, Pedicularis, Triphysaria), Phrymaceae (Mimulus), and Plantaginaceae (= Veronicaceae sensu Olmstead et al.)
Key to genera by Elizabeth Chase Neese & Margriet Wetherwax.
Perennial to shrub
Leaves generally opposite, entire to toothed; upper sessile
Inflorescence: panicle or raceme; bracts generally small
Flower: calyx lobes 5, ± equal; corolla tube ± cylindric or lower side expanded, ± 2-lipped, generally pink or blue to purple (some red, yellow, or white), upper lip 2-lobed, external in bud; anther sacs 2, generally spreading ± flat at dehiscence; staminode attached near base of corolla tube, well developed, generally hairy on upper side; nectaries 2, at bases of upper stamens; stigma head-like
Fruit: capsule, septicidal and sometimes also loculicidal at tip
Seeds generally many, irregularly angled
Species in genus: 250 species: North America., especially w US
Etymology: (Latin & Greek: almost thread, from stamen-like staminode)
Reference: [Holmgren 1984 In Cronquist et al. Intermountain Flora 4:370457]
Largest genus of flowering plants endemic to North America. See also Keckiella , Nothochelone.
Perennial 535 cm, generally mat-forming, ± short-(sometimes ashy-)hairy
Leaves entire; basal leaves many, (15)2075 mm, (2)432 mm wide, (ob)ovate, petioled; cauline leaves lanceolate to obovate, sessile, clasping
Inflorescence glandular
Flower: calyx 36 mm, lobes lanceolate to ovate; corolla 1115 mm, cylindric narrowly funnel-shaped, blue with lighter floor, dark-lined, glandular outside, floor ± yellow- or white-hairy; anther sacs 0.50.8 mm, dehiscing full length, valves barely spreading; staminode orange- to yellow-hairy
Chromosomes: 2n=16
Ecology: Open montane to subalpine forests, sagebrush scrub, pinyon/juniper woodland
Elevation: 15003000 m.
Bioregional distribution: High Cascade Range, n&c High Sierra Nevada, Great Basin Floristic Province
Distribution outside California: to Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado
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Dave D'Onofrio's Patriots Notebook: Once again, Pats have goal in sightDAVE D'ONOFRIO
December 28. 2013 9:07PM
After an offseason defined by the incarceration of one star and the departure of another, after a spate of injuries struck down a number of important pieces, after all the questions brought on by a season full of close games, after the penalties that were called, after the penalties that weren't, after the comebacks, and after all the crazy conclusions - here are the Patriots. Again.
With one day left in the NFL's regular season, they're just a win away from finishing this campaign exactly as they did the last. Just a win away from winding up with a record of 12-4, good enough to be champions of the East division and recipients of the first-round bye that accompanies a seed of no worse than No. 2 in the AFC playoffs.
Just a win away, and with a chance to get it at home. Against a foe that hasn't won in Foxborough since Doug Flutie beat injured Drew Bledsoe in 2000. Against the division's resident cellar dweller. Against a quarterback who opened the season on the practice squad and will be without his leading receiver. And against a defense that just put its leading interceptor on injured reserve.
So the objective today for the Patriots is obvious, after the experience that has put them in this position: Don't blow it.
They've overcome too many hurdles, endured too much, survived too long to waste the opportunity that awaits them this afternoon at Gillette Stadium - particularly when considering what taking advantage of said opportunity would really mean in the context of competing for the conference championship.
Because they control their own destiny as far as a bye is concerned, and because a bye would instantly mean advancing to the divisional round, winning today against the Bills would essentially be like winning a playoff game. Except better.
If New England is forced to fight its way through wild card weekend, a team that had road troubles would be forced to travel for Round 2, whereas win today and the Pats are home at least until the AFC championship game. Not to mention that beating Buffalo is an easier task than beating Kansas City or whichever team escapes the pile to claim the No. 6 seed.
But if the Patriots don't beat the Bills, and don't capitalize on the opportunity, the path to a title becomes so much tougher. If New England loses today, it would take only a Cincinnati win over Baltimore, or an Indianapolis win over Jacksonville, to force the Patriots into action next week and subsequently force them to the road a weekend later if they were fortunate enough to survive that.
As this season has shown - and as Tom Brady has noted on several occasions - the Patriots' margin for error is smaller than it has been in recent seasons, and so every advantage matters. Every game will be a significant challenge, and every win will have been a serious chore. That's the way it has been during the regular season, and that's the way it will continue to be in the playoffs.
To this point the Patriots have found a way to meet those challenges and complete those chores often enough that they're in an excellent position. Heck, if Denver loses to Oakland today, there's a chance the Pats could have home-field advantage throughout the conference tournament.
But that is predicated on them winning today. So is the rest. And so might be any realistic chance that this team can get to the Super Bowl. That opportunity is there for these pesky, persistent Patriots to make a run in the playoffs.
And that starts with the opportunity before them today.
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UNDERRATED: Buffalo's pass defense. The Bills have allowed the fifth-fewest yards through the air this season (210.4 yards per game), while ranking second with 22 interceptions. That starts up front, where Mario Williams (13), Kyle Williams (10.5) and Jerry Hughes (10) have all contributed double figures to Buffalo's league-high total of 56 sacks. But there's talent on the back end, too, with safety Jairus Byrd headed to the Pro Bowl and Leodis McKelvin having broken up 20 passes. Particularly with rain in the forecast, the Patriots might first try to exploit the Bills' 23rd-ranked run defense.
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OVERRATED: Momentum. Patriots fans shouldn't worry about style points today, at least in terms of projecting to the playoffs, because end-of-season momentum matters little moving forward. The last Super Bowl champion to enter the playoffs with more than two straight wins was the 2005 Steelers, and not since the 2003 Patriots has the champ finished with more than four consecutive victories. Instead, over the last seven years every eventual winner faltered late, including last year's Ravens, who closed the regular season by losing four of five. What matters today for New England is that they win, not how they do it.
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KEEP AN EYE ON.: The Patriots' point total, where 23 is the magic number for New England today. When allowing opponents at least 23 points this season, the Bills are 1-9 - including the 23-21 last-minute loss to the Pats in the season opener - while when Buffalo has managed to limit its enemy to less than 23 points, it is 5-0. Furthermore, the Patriots are 10-1 when scoring at least 23, compared to 1-3 when failing to do so.
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STAT OF THE WEEK: Pats receiver Julian Edelman needs four catches totaling at least nine yards to reach the 100-catch and 1,000-yard plateaus for the season. In the previous four seasons of his career, he totaled 69 grabs and 714 yards.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Patriots for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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