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WWAMI celebrates 40 years
Dear Colleagues:
I am very pleased to announce that during the 2011-2012 academic year, we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the WWAMI program. WWAMI is the regional medical education program managed by the University of Washington School of Medicine that offers medical training for the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.
The WWAMI program began in 1971 as an experiment designed to bring medical education to Northwest states that lacked their own medical schools and that needed more physicians. A $1 million grant from the Commonwealth Foundation made the pilot project possible. The vision, creativity and collaboration of many individuals at the UW School of Medicine and in the states of Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho moved the initial pilot forward. The program grew over time — WAMI became WWAMI in 1996 when Wyoming joined — and today, there are eight sites for first-year medical students in the five states, four MEDEX physician assistant training sites, and hundreds of clinical sites throughout the five-state region for training medical students, physician assistant students and residents. When students are asked to describe what they value most about their education, the answer is frequently the experience of working in diverse communities across the WWAMI states, from urban hospitals to small rural clinics.
The WWAMI program began in 1971 as an experiment designed to bring medical education to Northwest states that lacked their own medical schools and that needed more physicians. A $1 million grant from the Commonwealth Foundation made the pilot project possible. The vision, creativity and collaboration of many individuals at the UW School of Medicine and in the states of Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho moved the initial pilot forward.
The program grew over time — WAMI became WWAMI in 1996 when Wyoming joined — and today, there are eight sites for first-year medical students in the five states, four MEDEX physician assistant training sites, and hundreds of clinical sites throughout the five-state region for training medical students, physician assistant students and residents. When students are asked to describe what they value most about their education, the answer is frequently the experience of working in diverse communities across the WWAMI states, from urban hospitals to small rural clinics.
WWAMI is unique. No other public medical school crosses state lines, much less five state lines. No other medical school represents one-quarter of the American land mass. I believe that WWAMI is the finest example in higher education in our country of partnership, collaboration and communities working together — educators, legislators, governors, community physicians and other health professionals, and business communities — to advance the health of a region. WWAMI is a model for the nation of high-quality, cost-effective medical education. It offers outstanding education and training for students and residents and gives community physicians the pleasure of working with bright, motivated young people.
Events will be held throughout the year to celebrate this remarkable program, with each WWAMI state hosting at least one event. The first will be held in Anchorage on Saturday, Sept. 10 and will also mark the opening of the new Health Science Building on the University of Alaska-Anchorage campus. More information about that event is available online.
The second event will be held on Oct. 7 in Bozeman at the Montana State University first-year WWAMI campus in conjunction with the medical student white coat ceremony. For those of you attending the annual Association of American Medical Colleges in Denver, there will be a WWAMI reception on the evening of Nov. 6. More information is available from Kellie Engle, UW School of Medicine Regional Affairs director of operations, at email@example.com. Additional events will be listed in Online News throughout the year.
I would like to thank the thousands of individuals involved in making the WWAMI program a success. Without your efforts, WWAMI would not be possible. You are part of something that is truly extraordinary and your work has led to improved health for people throughout the Northwest. Thank you for your very fine work and commitment.
Paul G. Ramsey, M.D.
UW Medicine faculty among first to receive NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research funding
Researchers at the UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are among the first to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research program aimed at developing new drugs for disorders of the nervous system.
Principal investigators Edwin Rubel, UW professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery (photo, right); David Raible, UW professor of biological structure, and Julian Simon, associate member molecular pharmacology in the FHCRC Clinical Research Division and UW affiliate associate professor, will use the award for their project on hearing loss and balance disorders. The team will develop compounds to prevent the damaging effects of certain antibiotics and anticancer drugs on the inner ear. The team is testing compounds in larval zebrafish, which use similar cells to detect vibrations in water. The Blueprint has made awards to seven research teams at six academic institutions and one drug discovery company.
The Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network will serve as a resource enabling investigators to develop new drugs for nervous system disorders and prepare them for clinical trials, and will be funded at up to $50 million over five years. The Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network is one of the Blueprint Grand Challenges, intended to promote major leaps in the understanding of brain function and in approaches for treating brain disorders.
Project teams supported by the Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network receive research funding, plus access to millions of dollars worth of services normally only available to pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry consultants will assist investigators throughout the drug development process, from chemical optimization to biological testing to advancing the drug into early-stage clinical trials. Each project team will be required to meet a set of interim milestones to continue to receive funds and access to Blueprint resources.
The NIH Blueprint pulls together 15 of the agency's institutes and centers, leveraging their resources to confront major, cross-cutting challenges in neuroscience research.
Gregory Terman receives Life Sciences Discovery Fund commercialization grant award
Drugs targeting the central nervous system (CNS) currently must be delivered either systemically (orally or intravenously) or by direct injection into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). However, systemic exposure to drugs can cause serious side effects or toxicities, and CSF injection is risky, painful and expensive. UW and Impel NeuroPharma have developed a novel device for targeted drug delivery to the CNS through an intranasal route. Results of initial testing in animal models are promising. The goal of this commercialization grant is to demonstrate in human clinical studies that the device can preferentially deliver a pain medication to the CNS. The research team will compare CNS actions and blood levels of drug delivered via the device with those of systemically delivered drug. Impel NeuroPharma is pursuing partners and funding for commercialization of the device.
This award was made in the second round of the 2010 commercialization grant competition, which promotes the translation of promising technologies from Washington's non-profit research sector into marketable products and services with the power to improve health, foster economic growth, and enhance life sciences competitiveness in the state.
Funding for commercialization grants comes from donations to LSDF by Amgen, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Group Health Cooperative, Microsoft Corporation, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Regence BlueShield, and Safeco Insurance Foundation; and from Washington's allocation of payments under the Master Tobacco Settlement Agreement of 1998.
The Life Sciences Discovery Fund, a Washington state agency established in May 2005, makes grant investments in innovative life sciences research to benefit Washington and its citizens. For more information, contact Cathyryne Manner at firstname.lastname@example.com or 206.732.6755.
Valley Medical Center ranks as one of Washington's best work places
Valley Medical Center, the newest member of UW Medicine health system, captured gold in the Puget Sound Business Journal's annual Washington's Best Workplaces annual ranking, published in the July 2011 issue.
The medical center took first place in the Extra-Large Nonprofit Companies rankings. (Must have a journal subscription to read complete article online.)
Valley Medical Center serves a population of nearly 600,000 and employs about 3,000 people.
Rich Roodman, Valley Medical Center's chief executive officer (photo,left), said the culture at the medical center is founded on a lesson his mother taught him: "Being nice to people is a core value." Another is keeping the lines of communication open among all levels of employees, which has been a focus at Valley Medical Center.
UW Medicine to participate in pilot study on hospital readmissions
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has awarded UW Medicine a grant to support its participation in the Hospital Medicine Re-engineering Outcomes Research Network (HOMERUN), a collaborative of hospitalists across the United States.
The AAMC will provide $12,500 in matching funds for this pilot study, the first to better understand transitions of care and the causes of preventable readmissions.
HOMERUN aspires to be a trusted broker of what works in hospital medicine and how to spread proven strategies across the network of collaborating institutions and beyond. The network is comprised of hospitalists at 15 hospitals across the United States, including 10 university-based medical centers. The intention is to grow the network over time to include additional institutions and for Homerun to serve as a model for other effectiveness and implementation research networks in other clinical areas.
HOMERUN site-based principal investigators will lend their research expertise to the quality improvement initiatives already underway at hospitals across UW Medicine. HOMERUN collaborators at UW Medicine are Grant Fletcher, UW acting instructor of medicine; Annelise Schleyer, UW associate professor of medicine and director of the medicine hospitalist service at Harborview Medical Center; and Nicholas Anderson, UW assistant professor of biomedical health informatics and associate director of the Bioinformatics Core, Institute of Translational Health Sciences. Fletcher also sits on the HOMERUN steering committee.
The HOMERUN Steering Committee has developed a protocol and data collections instruments that will add more detailed information to better help us understand the complexities related to transitions of care and readmissions.
Alexandra Hunt named 2011 Pisacano Scholar
Alexandra Hunt, a UW fourth-year medical student, has been named a 2011 Pisacano Scholar. She was one of five recognized as an outstanding medical student who has made a commitment to enter the specialty of family medicine.
The awards, valued at up to $28,000, are given by the Pisacano Leadership Foundation to outstanding medical students who are committed to entering family medicine. It also recognizes leadership skills, academic achievement, communication skills, character and integrity, and noteworthy community service.
Hunt graduated with honors from the University of California Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in art.
Prior to entering medical school, Hunt worked as a health educator and volunteer assistant at a rural health clinic in El Salvador and a comprehensive perinatal health worker for the Comprehensive Perinatal Support Program of California. She is a board member and volunteer for the Children's Health International Medical Project of Seattle, the coordinator and a volunteer with the Perinatal Care Project, and a leader with UW's Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) for the last two years.
Hunt has volunteered with the free sports medicine clinic, the Latina Health Fair, the Aloha Inn Clinic and currently volunteers with the Dermatology Clinic for Homeless Men and Women and the Casa Latina Clinic. Alexandra is also currently a member of the Latino Medical Student Association and UW's Global Health Pathway and Hispanic Health Pathway. She is the recent recipient of the SPARX/CHAP Exceptional Participation Award, which is given to those students who demonstrate a major commitment to the program by their volunteer service.
Hunt wants to practice family medicine in a rural setting, where she can work with community members to advance their health goals.
Graduate Medical Education orientations focus on safety and communications
The UW School of Medicine's Graduate Medical Education Office welcomed more than 350 new interns, residents and fellows in June. Critical to their success at the bedside is the annual two-day UW Medicine orientation devoted to safety practices and communication.
The orientation for interns was held June 22 and 23, and the orientation for residents and fellows, June 29 and 30.
Lawrence R. Robinson, UW vice dean for clinical affairs and graduate medical education, welcomed participants at each orientation. The first day featured information about the UW Medicine Patients First initiative, on-line social networks, health sciences libraries, Washington State reporting laws and UW benefits. The second day consisted of in-depth, computer-based classroom training on medical information technology and software, as well as interactive, small group training in TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based teamwork system used at the hospitals to improve communication and teamwork skills among healthcare professionals.
Robinson noted in an article in the July issue of AAMC Reporter, a publication of the Association of American Medical Colleges, that many errors are related to communication breakdowns among all providers, not just residents and doctors. He said it is essential that residents are trained on how to communicate with all members of the healthcare team.
"Communication is essential in this environment because patient care is so complex and so many people are involved," Robinson said. "Anything we can do to enhance communication is going to be an improvement."
Montana WWAMI welcomes 20 first-year medical students
Orientation for the 2011 Montana WWAMI students was held Aug. 15 – 16 on the Montana State University (MSU) campus and at the Hyalite Youth Camp. The 20 students were welcomed by University of Washington School of Medicine and MSU leadership. Activities included a videoconference welcome from UW School of Medicine Dean Paul Ramsey, lunch with MSU WWAMI faculty and staff, a hike to Grotto Falls, and dinner with a Welcome to Medicine talk by Mike Spinelli, UW clinical instructor of medicine, preceptor coordinator, and Medical Information for Decision Making course chair, from Bozeman. The students then had time to chat around the fire with current Montana WWAMI third- and fourth-year students.
Students will spend their first year at MSU in Bozeman and participate in a curriculum similar and standardized with that of the UW School of Medicine. WWAMI students join their classmates on the Seattle campus for year two.
The hometowns of the incoming class range from across the state and include Alberton, Big Sandy, Billings, Bozeman, Conrad, Fairfield, Fromberg, Glasgow, Havre, Hysham, Miles City, Missoula, Rapelje, Scobey, and Stevensville.
Montana undergraduate colleges and universities attended by this entering class include Carroll College (2 students), Rocky Mountain College (2), University of Montana (4), Montana State University Bozeman (6) and Montana State University Billings (1). Non-Montana schools include Bowdin College in Maine, University of Minnesota, University of Oregon, Pacific Lutheran University in Washington, and Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Two entering students completed post baccalaureate studies—one at MSU and one at Harvard.
Of the 20 entering, five were accepted into the Montana TRUST (Targeted Rural/Underserved Track) program. Preceptors for this year's TRUST participants are UW clinical instructors and family medicine physicians Burke Hanson, of Dillon; Charles Marler, of Shelby; and Greg Rice, of Libby. Laura Bennet, UW clinical assistant professor and family medicine physician, of Lewistown, and Sue Gallo, family medicine physician of Miles City are also preceptors.
Alaska's first class of physician assistants graduates
Fifteen University of Alaska-Anchorage (UAA) physician assistant students were awarded Physician Assistant Certificates from the UW School of Medicine Aug. 18 at Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the UAA campus.
The group – Class 1 – is Alaska's first graduating class through the MEDEX Northwest Physician Assistant (PA) Program, a collaborative partnership between the University of Washington School of Medicine and UAA. The program's flagship site is in Seattle with locations in Spokane, Yakima and, most recently, Anchorage.
UAA Chancellor Tom Case and U.S. Senator Mark Begich were among the dignitaries who attended the graduation ceremony and congratulated Alaska's first class of physician assistants. Other speakers included Thomas Nighswander, assistant regional dean, WWAMI; Ruth Ballweg, division chief, MEDEX UW PA Program; and Cheryl Easley, dean, UAA College of Health.
PAs are licensed healthcare professionals that practice medicine with physician supervision. They conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, counsel on preventive health care, assist in surgery and can write prescriptions.
The need for PAs continues to grow across Alaska due in part to a lack of primary care physicians and surgeons in rural communities. Class 1 will blaze new trails in a state that is dealing with not only a physician shortage, but also health access issues in remote areas that are off Alaska's road system. PAs often work autonomously in remote locations but have 24/7 access to their collaborative physician by phone, in addition to monthly site visits.
Twelve of the 15 students are Alaskans, and 14 of the graduates intends to stay in Alaska to seek employment.
"There is very strong data that shows that where physician assistant students do their clinical rotations is where they stay," said John Riley, MEDEX program coordinator. "We have a class of self-selected pioneers who signed up to be in the first Anchorage PA class. I hope they will become advocates in their communities for improving health care. I believe they will be instrumental in improving access to health care for Alaskans."
Graduates of this first class also are eligible to earn bachelor's degrees in health sciences from UAA. Upon the successful completion of the program, graduates are eligible to sit for the National Certifying Exam for Physician Assistants.
Learn more about the MEDEX Northwest PA Program.
The following is a listing of some upcoming events that may be of interest to the UW Medicine community.
UW Department of Radiation Oncology Symposium, Sept. 9
Hypofractionation RT Strategies: Benefits and Pitfalls, a day-long symposium, Friday, Sept. 9, Orin Smith Auditorium, UW Medicine South Lake Union. Robert Stewart, UW associate professor of radiation oncology and medical physicist, will give the keynote lecture titled Biological Mechanisms Underpinning Fraction-Size Effects in Photon and Hadron Therapy. After the lecture, there will be oral presentations on new therapies, delivery systems and implementation techniques and equipment used in radiation oncology. Register online. For more information, visit the Department of Radiology Oncology website or contact Velida (Vee) White at firstname.lastname@example.com or 206.598.4115.
Bioethics Grand Rounds, Sept. 14
Integrating Palliative and Critical Care: An Empirical Approach to Providing Ethical and High Quality End-of-Life Care, 4 p.m., Room T-639, Health Sciences Building. J Randall Curtis, professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and director, Harborview/University of Washington End-of-Life Care Research Program, will describe the current state of palliative and end-of-life care in the critical care setting and review research designed to better understand and improve the quality of care. The research focuses on communication with patients and their families and a balanced and individualized approach to shared decision-making. For more information contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 206.543.5145. Sponsored by the Department of Bioethics & Humanities and UW Medical Center.
Ethical considerations in research collaborations conference, Sept. 22 – 23
Faculty Development Workshop, Oct. 21
"You Got Promoted to Associate Professor – Now What?" 8 a.m. to noon, Friday, Oct. 21, UW South Campus Center, Room 316. While this workshop is geared to midcareer faculty, all are welcome to attend. Speakers include UW School of Medicine faculty members Chris Surawicz, Robb Glenny, Deb Schwinn, Larry Robinson, Anna Wald, Grace John Stewart, Tueng T. Shen and Josh Benditt. The workshop is sponsored by the UW Medicine Office of Faculty Development. For information, contact Michelle Walter at firstname.lastname@example.com or 206.543.6232.
Future of Contraception Conference, Oct. 29 – 31
The Future of Contraception Initiative, a three-day conference, Oct 29-31, Edgewater Hotel, 2411 Alaskan Way, Seattle. The conference will bring together international experts to address global needs, new developments in male and female contraception, and recent research in reproductive biology. UW Department of Medicine Chair William J. Bremner is chair of the organizing committee and local host for the conference. Register online. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call 206.543.1537.
The fourth annual Northwest Genome Engineering Consortium Workshop on Genome Engineering takes place Tuesday, Nov. 8, in Seattle. The workshop provides a forum for discussion about genome engineering concepts, methods, and applications under study in both consortium and non-consortium laboratories. Register online. Visit the Northwest Engineering Consortium website or contact Andre Durudas, consortium project coordinator, at 206.884.7399 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Visit Continuing Medical Education for more information on upcoming classes.
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Dave D'Onofrio's Patriots Notebook: Woodhead makes chances countBY DAVE D'ONOFRIO
Special to The New Hampshire Union Leader
November 12. 2012 10:25PM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- IN INTRODUCING Kevin Faulk during a halftime ceremony at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, Robert Kraft said a lot of nice things about the running back who retired last month after 13 seasons as a Patriot - not the least of which was labeling him a champion. But like he might have done with some other honorees, the owner couldn't say there'll never be another like him.
Because the guy who has become very much like him had already scored one touchdown for New England, and was about to score his second.
Danny Woodhead didn't start Sunday's 37-31 win over the Bills, was on the field for just 16 of 72 offensive snaps, and touched the ball only five times. But he found a way to make those opportunities matter, and continued his emergence as one of Tom Brady's primary targets when the Patriots need someone to make a play on the game's most meaningful snaps - filling precisely the role that made Faulk a hero in these parts and led him to that podium on Sunday.
"Whatever the coaches ask me to do, I'm going to do," Woodhead said after the first two-touchdown game of his career. "If it's blocking, if it's playing special teams, if it's running or catching, I'm a football player and that's what I try to be is a football player and to do whatever I'm supposed to do on a particular play to the best of my abilities."
Those abilities are even similar to Faulk's. He's quick. He's elusive. He runs the ball well, especially out of a shotgun set. He catches the ball well. He's a weapon on third down. He's a reliable blocker and blitz protector. He's clutch. He's instinctive. He's smart. And, of course, he's short.
It was the last of those attributes that made him seem like something of a novelty when he came to New England in 2010 as a 5-foot, 8-inch product of Div. II Chadron State who'd been cast off by the Jets. If he passed you on the street, you'd think he was no nearer the NFL than a salesman at the sporting goods store - and, in fact, that's what he passed as in a hidden-camera video that went viral.
Outside Foxborough, there weren't many who saw him as an impactful piece of the Patriots, but only a day after he signed with New England a need arose for the team. Faulk tore the ACL in his right knee during a loss to the Jets, so Woodhead was thrust into action against Buffalo the next week, when he took his second carry 22 yards to the end zone.
"We said, 'The legend is born, you know,' because we saw him that week in practice, what he is capable of doing," Brady said Monday morning on WEEI radio. "And we kept saying why did the Jets release this guy? They had him playing receiver and he was a running back in college. He's just come in and done such a great job. He is the ultimate team player and teammate and dependable, consistent."
He has so earned Brady's trust that in the Super Bowl last season, after getting the ball to the Giants' 33 on the final series of the first half, five of the Patriots' six plays went to Woodhead - including the 4-yard touchdown pass that capped it.
Sunday, it was similar. With the Patriots facing third and 7 at the Bills' 37, Brady found Woodhead for a 15-yard completion. The next play, Woodhead ran for 7 yards. Then he burst up the middle for a 15-yard score.
His other touchdown came on an 18-yard catch, and - not surprisingly - on third down. He would've had another in those same circumstances during the fourth quarter had Brady not short-hopped his throw.
It was clear where the QB wanted to throw: He wanted to go where Faulk would've been a few years earlier.
Over the last 11 of those years, Faulk was never the Patriots' primary back - just as Woodhead isn't now. But like his predecessor was long the lead voice among New England's runners, Woodhead is now the elder statesman.
And he's filled that role vacated by Faulk, too.
"Phenomenal, man," Ridley said. "That's the leader in our room and Woody does it all. He runs well, he catches well, he's a threat for the defenses. They've got to find the little short guy out there somewhere, but most of the time he's making plays and it's too late. My hat's off to Woody for leading our room and doing it strong."
Doing it in the versatile, reliable, accountable way that Patriots fans came to learn and love with Faulk. That defines the best of what the Patriots have been about for the past decade-plus.
And that, thanks to Woodhead, Brady and the Patriots' offense has still never been without.
The Patriots held the New England Punt, Pass and Kick competition at Gillette Stadium prior to Sunday's game - and crowned a couple of champions from New Hampshire. Rachel Gardner of Stratham won the 12-13-year-old girls' category, and Katie Day of East Kingston was the champion of the 14-15-year-old girls' division. Their scores will be compared to other winners from around the country to determine who advances to the national competition.
Winners were honored on the field during a timeout in the action, when they each received a commemorative football from hall of famer Andre Tippett.
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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Photohops can't really show the TRC with only one gamma value but it's significantly close to gamma 2.2 so when you open custom Profile dialog box where it shows you sort of a DNA of the profile it simply says simplified sRGB.
If your display is an LCD, I'm inclined to really doubt your assessment that your display's "native gamma" is 1.9. How did you determine that? Most native gammas of LCDs are 2.2-2.3 unless something else might be going on with your display pipeline..
sRGB is only similar to Gamma 2.2 in mid and bright tones. In dark tonal values it's different (see attachment).
That is is a nice image. Thanks. Can I use it in tutorial if I need it, please? But do you think it effected what I was trying to show or are you saying that we can't talk about sRGB as being gamma 2.2 despite Adobe that it does. I mean it would depend on the context in which we use it, right?
That is is a nice image. Thanks. Can I use it in tutorial if I need it, please?
Well I used Spyder 3 Elite to measures TRC using one of their tests. This is the result. ...unless I misinterpreted something as you seems to suspect I assumed it's Gamma 1.9. Since even out of the box it was quite bright.
Adobe does not ever mention that sRGB is gamma 2.2! Please ignore the misleading "simplified gamma" in the custom profile dialogue box. Photoshop honors the 1024 TRC in the sRGB profile. Again, for accuracy, don't call it your display "gamma", it's a TRC. And sRGB is not 2.2...
sure... but better use this one (pure black was croped in the first image)
It is possible that the spyder software is approximating your too-bright display to Gamma 1.9 than Gamma 2.2. tlooknbill suggested this early on by saying that you can change the display "gamma" by adjusting the brightness setting. Not the most technically correct statement, but we get the idea. If you lower your brightness setting, it may reflect a native TRC closer to gamma 2.2.
How about approx Gamma 2.2, does that satisfy you? Context is everything and to an average user it won't matter much but it will add to the confusion, but I'm not dealing with average users here so I will use TRC of sRGB from now on.
Not sure. But if you can effect the measured gamma of the display with changing the brightness setting, won't you compromise the target "luminance" in the process?
I can't choose Native gamma in the calibration settings only this.
Not sure. But if you can effect the measured gamma of the display with changing the brightness setting, won't you compromise the target "luminance" in the process? But even if I do that, there had to be native gamma set in by the manufacturer, right? If I can effect the gamma myself than the term native gamma, seem to lose it's importance doesn't it? I can't choose Native gamma in the calibration settings only this.
What happens when you choose that radio button titled "Non-Gamma"? Maybe that's Datacolor's term for Native Gamma.
Seeing that your display is S-PVA with an outrageous brightness and contrast ratio, you haven't mentioned your display's luminance white (in cd/m2) as measured by Spyder3. It needs to be at least at or below 120 cd/m2 unless you're working in a bright office environment.
You need to adjust the brightness and contrast OSD buttons with NO LUT/Spyder3 profile loaded. Select sRGB as your system profile temporarily. You may need to reboot Windows if the display doesn't change globally switching from Spyder3 profile to sRGB.
If there is a noticeable change on the fly then start adjusting the brightness/contrast buttons to make that grayramp show an even and gradual distribution of each step from black to white. Also while you're at it adjust RGB gains if available on your display so white looks neutral or if no gains available pick a color temp/WB setting that gives the most neutral appearance.When done, reprofile with the Spyder3 choosing Native WB and 2.2 gamma target. Check to see if Spyder3 measures native gamma as 2.2 as well.I've also included the AdobeRGB tagged 21stepLinearLabGrayramp for you to use.
It still showed gamma 1.9 for the measured tone curve of the display.
Since you don't have a contrast adjust I'ld suggest you choose 1.9 as your target gamma. That way it will act somewhat as a null effect basically forcing/tricking the Spyder software into accepting the target as native


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Obama's commerce pick funded Fox News enemy
Chicago businesswoman was super bundler for president's campaign
President Obama has officially named Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker, the finance chairman of his 2008 presidential campaign, as his next commerce secretary.
The announcement of the choice Thursday ends months of speculation about Pritzker's likely nomination.
WND was first to report that Pritzker is a primary funder of the radical Media Matters for America activist group.
Other questions may be raised about Pritzker's financial history, primarily her family's ownership of a bank that was seized and shut down by the federal government in 2001 after it was accused of unsound financial activities and predatory lending practices.
Pritzker herself served as chairman of the failed bank, Superior Bank, from 1991-1994.
Last year, Media Matters found itself in hot water after the Daily Caller exposed the group's purported illicit tactics, including compiling a de facto enemies list; announcing an all-out campaign of "guerrilla warfare and sabotage" aimed at the Fox News Channel; and seeking to investigate the personal lives of reporters and news personalities.
The information came amid reports White House staffers held regular meetings and even a weekly conference call with Media Matters
At the time, WND reported the Media Matters donor list included the Pritzker Family Foundation, which donated a total of $400,000 to the progressive attack group in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The family foundation is directed by Penny Pritzker.
The Pritzker family is best known for owning the Hyatt hotel chain and is considered to be one of America's wealthiest families.
Pritzker is currently a member of Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
She served on the Obama administration's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which formulates and evaluates economic policy for the Obama administration.
In 1989, Pritzker's family purchased a 50-percent stake in Illinois-based Superior Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which had taken over the bank when it failed.
In 1993, with Pritzker as the chairman, the bank became a top lender in the subprime home mortgage market. In 1994, Pitzker moved to the board of Superior's holding company, stepping down as chairman.
In 2001, with her family still in charge, the FDIC seized the bank with the Pritzker family reaching an agreement with regulators to pay $460 million. In 1994, Pitzker moved to the board of Superior's holding company
On Sept. 11, 2001, Ellen Seidman, director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, told the Senate Banking Committee that Superior became critically undercapitalized largely due to incorrect accounting treatment and aggressive assumptions for valuing complicated financial instruments known as residuals.
The Pritzkers were roundly criticized for their role in Superior's collapse.
The Wall Street Journal reported government investigators and consumer advocates contended that Superior engaged in "unsound financial activities and predatory lending practices."
Besides serving as finance chairman for Obama, Pritzker was also listed among Obama's super bundlers, having raised more than $200,000 for his 2008 campaign.
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Her varied acting experiences have prepared her well for her newest role, the title character on Sci Fi's new series Painkiller Jane. Loosely based on the comic book series of the same name by Jimmy Palmiotti, the television show is about a covert agency that tracks down neurological aberrants, or "neuros." Loken's character, former DEA agent Jane Vasco, discovers that she has some abnormal skills of her own: She can be injured — and she can certainly feel the pain — but she heals very quickly and can survive experiences that would kill ordinary people. In the process, she kicks a lot of ass while taking down the bad guys.
Loken is co-executive producing the 22-episode series, which premieres on Friday, April 13 at 10 p.m. EST on Sci Fi. I recently talked with her about her new series, her experiences on The L Word, and how she feels about Michelle Rodriguez, with whom she has been linked romantically. "All I can say is I'm a very honest person," she told us, and her honesty just makes her all the more appealing.
[Warning: Some spoilers ahead for Painkiller Jane and The L Word.]
AfterEllen.com: Can you tell me how you became involved with the show? You're an executive producer now too, right?
I wasn't sure at first if I really wanted to sign onto a huge commitment of 22 episodes, but I actually fell in love with the comic. I'm not a comic book person by trade but Jimmy [Palmiotti] really created a very rich, very unique character. … Even though [Jane Vasco] heals from her physical traumas, she takes on the mental and emotional pain, so she's a bit tortured without being depressed. So I thought a tamed superhero would be a fun dichotomy of a character to play with.
I had produced my first independent last year called Lime Salted Love that premiered at the Whistler Film Festival and is now going to be at the Long Beach Film Festival, and I've been doing this since I was 13, and … producing just kind of seemed like a natural progression for me. So I decided that if I wanted to come on board for 22 episodes and make this huge commitment … I wanted to have some creative control over it, so that's when they also brought me on as a creative co-exec producer as well.
AE: So how much input do you have into the story lines?


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CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s wife says she signed a plea deal with federal prosecutors related to accusations her husband misused campaign funds.
Tom Kirsch tells The Associated Press former Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson agreed to plead guilty to one count of tax fraud.
Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged Friday with conspiring to spend campaign funds on personal expenses. His wife's charged with filing false joint tax returns.
The tax-fraud count carries a maximum 3-year prison sentence. Kirsch says the agreement doesn't "contemplate a sentence of that length."
He says his client and her husband have supported each other. He says the episode has been stressful for Sandi Jackson but she "expected to be held responsible ... and wants to put (it) behind her and her family."


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As most of you know, I went to Baku in Azerbaijan for the opening of Emporium, a multi brand shop that sells everything your heart desires from Givenchy and Chloe to Philip Lim and Christopher Kane. As soon as I set a foot inside the store, I was absolutely speechless (Picture 3 floors filled with amazing clothes, shoes, bags and accessories), its a little bit like Colette in Paris, but 3 times bigger aka shopping paradise.
When we arrived to the shop, I never expected it to be that big and to have such an international feeling, in fact Pelayo and I commented that what we liked the most about it (apart from the gazillion clothes) is that once you are inside, you could be in any city around the world, NY, Paris, London, LA, you name it, it was absolutely world class.
By the end of the night Pelayo, Shini and I were already sharing stories, jokes, laughs, unbelievably delicious food at restaurant Chinar and some of the most amazing watermelon cocktails I have ever had IN.MY.LIFE.


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President Barack Obama's promise to attack climate change is likely to light a fire under federal agencies slow to comply with a mandate to cut energy use - which could be very good news for companies that specialize in systems that save power.
Waiting in the wings are the likes of Honeywell International Inc, Johnson Controls Inc and Ameresco Inc that are ready to carry out heating and cooling system upgrades, lighting retrofits and similar projects in some of the government's 500,000 buildings.
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Efficiency projects, according to many, are a key way the government can reduce its own energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions without seeking additional funds from Congress.
Many of these projects are implemented under so-called energy savings performance contracts in which a company develops, installs and arranges financing for improvements to boost energy efficiency and lower costs. The energy service company guarantees the project's energy savings and services are repaid through those savings.
In late 2009, Obama mandated that federal agencies make significant reductions in energy consumption. The aim was for the government to "lead by example" by upgrading many of its facilities. Two years later, the administration tried to jumpstart that work by setting a goal for federal agencies to enter into at least $2 billion of energy efficiency projects within two years.
"There is a lot more potential in the program than what's been done today," said Adam Procell, executive vice president at Lime Energy Co, which works with larger companies such as Johnson Controls to design and install energy efficiency projects for federal customers.
With Obama renewing his commitment to combat climate change in his second inaugural address this week, some expect to see more pressure on agencies to get going on those projects.
"If President Obama was to let all of his administrators know that this was an important priority of his, you could see reacceleration of this market in a relatively short period of time," said Wedbush Securities analyst Craig Irwin, who follows energy efficiency companies.
With less than a year left to reach the $2 billion goal, major efficiency companies have been working to develop project proposals and expect a string of contracts to be awarded this year.
"In the last six months, federal government activity has heated up," Paul Orzeske, president of Honeywell Building Solutions, said in an interview. "That's going to step up as the year goes on."
In October, Honeywell won an $80.6 million project to improve energy efficiency at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, the largest such project ever awarded by the federal government, according to Orzeske. Most such projects are in the $10 million to $15 million range, he added.
The upgrades are expected to save more than $170 million over 20 years, guaranteed by Honeywell through the contract.
Other energy service companies poised to benefit from federal project awards include Ameresco and United Technologies Corp's Noresco unit, both of which have been active in the federal market in recent years. Other companies that have done federal projects in the past include Clark Energy Group LLC, Siemens AG and Schneider Electric SA.
The U.S. market for energy efficiency and services topped $5.1 billion in 2011, according to Pike Research, and is expected to reach $16 billion in sales by 2020. The market is dominated by municipal, university, school and hospital projects, but demand from federal agencies has increased because of the Obama administration's mandate and economic stimulus programs, the report said.
Johnson Controls Building Efficiency's vice president of government relations, Mark Wagner, said the government has not yet addressed what will happen once it meets its $2 billion goal, but he was encouraged by Obama's renewed pledge to address climate change.
"The budget is going to be tight in the federal government for the foreseeable future," Wagner said. "If government agencies want to make their facilities more efficient, performance contracting is the way to address their needs and to address climate change."
Johnson Controls won a $16 million contract in late 2011 to put in a solar energy installation and make other efficiency improvements at Fort Bliss, the nation's largest military installation.
Smaller companies that supply equipment or software to the project developers could also see a boost from federal projects, according to Aditya Ranade, who leads the sustainable building materials team at technology research firm Lux Research.
Specifically, Ranade called out LED and lighting systems companies Acuity Brands Inc and Digital Lumens and Optimum Energy LLC, which uses software and cloud computing to optimize heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, as companies that could see a boost in orders from federal contracts.
Acuity Brands' stock is already up 2.4 percent since Obama's speech on Monday and Ameresco's shares have gained about 3 percent.


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Super Snacks for Super Kids is a cookbook collection of simple snack recipes designed to meet children's nutritional needs for all their activities. This full color, hard cover cookbook by Sarah Fox and Julie Stephenson is divided into six sections: Snacks for Focus, Snacks for After School, Snacks for Play, Snacks for After Play, Snacks for a Crowd, and Staples. Super Snacks for Super Kids provides a variety of delicious and nutritious snack ideas for your whole family.


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It was the middle of winter, nine months ago, when Ahmed and his extended family – wife, daughter, parents, uncle and aunt – first arrived in Jordan. Life is hard here. But it was impossible at home.
Before fleeing Homs, Syria, Ahmed was arrested and detained for nearly 50 days in appalling conditions. Overcrowding meant detainees were forced to stand. As a result of his time in prison, Ahmed has spine-related problems that make any form of labour difficult.
Ahmed kept quiet with a determined look on his face as he chain-smokes, while his mother, Zeinah*, did the talking.
"It's very rare for someone in Syria to be released from prison, maybe one in 100 is released", explained Zeinah.
The family paid 2000 Jordanian dinar (2,170 euro) to bail him out.
"We sold everything, down to the last spoon, to find the money".
Before leaving Syria, Zeinah worked for the Syrian government for 30 years without problem, but once violence broke out she became fearful.
"I could sense things were changing and I was afraid of being arrested".
"There's not enough food in Syria, no bread. They destroyed everything, churches, houses… Two thousand people gathered to pray and demonstrate peacefully. They didn't want the fighting" Zeinah continued woefully.
Exile. Ahmed's wife serves us coffee in small gold decorated cups. She was seven months pregnant when they fled Homs on a bus to Amman.
"We came with nothing. For the first 50 days we lived here and there until we found this apartment.
Eleven members of the family, spanning three generations, live here together.
"It's better to eat dust here than to stay in Syria".
Zeinah's 14-year-old son works 12-hour shifts in a local falafel café for five dinars a day. He is the sole breadwinner since Ahmed and his father are unable to find work. The family relies on charity for the rest; clothes and medicines from a local church and neighbourhood clinic; food from an NGO; and uniforms and bags from the UN children's fund (UNICEF) so Zeinah's two younger daughters can attend school.
"They like it there. [But] it's so difficult to live here. Everything is so expensive".
The family pays 200 dinar a month in rent for their three bedroom apartment. Zeinah's husband needs special drugs for high blood pressure and a heart condition. With winter approaching, they are in dire need of blankets and heating oil.
Back in Syria both Ahmed and his father were drivers for tourist vans and had a good life. Her eldest son and daughter have remained in Syria.
"We try to keep in touch with them but the phone connection doesn't always work".
Until the dust of the prevailing conflict settles, the future of Zeinah's family and other Syrian refugees will remain uncertain.
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Beyoncé Addresses Lip-Synching Scandal on Instagram
"Can I live?"
It's been five days since we learned that Beyoncé may have lip-synched at the Inauguration, though it feels like much longer. And, despite the nation's non-stop debate about the subject, Queen Bey has still yet to say anything about the controversy. She did, however, make what seems to be a strong sartorial statement on Instagram, where she posted a black-and-white photo of herself in sunglasses, a baseball cap, and a sweatshirt reading, "Can I live?" (A probable homage to husband Jay-Z's track by the same name.) According to a friend who spoke to Us Weekly, Beyoncé's brushing the whole thing off her shoulders and "can't wait to get on the Super Bowl stage and show everyone." For everyone's sake, we hope the performance really is something special.


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Magdalena Toledo Mendoza, 85, of Prosser died on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
She was born July 22, 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas to Atanasio and Maria (Gutierrez) Toledo.
She married Hermilo Mendoza on Sept. 27, 1943.
She is survived by her children, Anita Mendez of Sunnyside, Jesusa Lozano and Juan Jose Mendoza, both of Grandview, Maria Viduarri, Hermilo Mendoza Jr. and Eduardo Mendoza, all of Prosser, Consuelo Ramos of Sunnyside and Mary Lou Mendoza Clark of Troutdale, Ore.: 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Atanasio and MariaToledo; and her husband, Hermilo Mendoza.
Viewing and visitation will be held Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., with recitation of the Holy Rosary at 6 p.m. at Smith Funeral Home in Sunnyside. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Prosser, with burial to follow at East Prosser Cemetery.
Smith Funeral Homes Ltd. in charge of arrangements.
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SanDisk/Ikyu.com case study
Established in 1998, Ikyu Corporation, known for its online hotel reservation site, Ikyu.com, focuses on luxurious Japanese hotels and inns. To improve the service level on the reservation website, in terms of rapid searches for hotels and inns, the company has selected Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards for their server storage. This improved search response and availability has enabled the company to achieve its highest user service level to date.
The Challenge
With more than 3.6 million users, Ikyu Corporation operates online reservation portals, such as Ikyu.com Biz, Ikyu.com, and Ikyu.com Restaurant, which are focused on luxurious Japanese hotels and inns, high-class facilities, higher-grade business hotels, and instant reservations of select restaurants. Ikyu Premium Service was launched for Ikyu.com, Ikyu.com Biz, and Ikyu.com Restaurant in April 2014. For each of four new membership stages, members can avail themselves of various benefits, such as higher award rates and invitations to special sales campaigns. Diamond members, who enjoy the highest membership level, receive special services such as upgrades and late check out times at partner hotels and inns. In addition, Ikyu offers services such as Ikyu Gift, which has a selection of elite items and Ikyu Market, which is a portal for purchasing coupons. With this increasing number of customers using the services of the company every day, Ikyu.com become concerned about the performance of the system that constitutes the backbone of the services.
Mr. Isao Senba, System Foundation and Infrastructure Team Manager at Ikyu.com, described the situation. "In terms of service level, our target response time is less than two seconds for users searching for hotels and inns. However, when searching with a wide range of conditions, for example 'Hotels in the entire Tokyo region' or 'Hotels and Japanese inns in the entire Hokkaido region in off season', it had become very difficult to maintain the response time of less than two seconds." In addition, slower response had become a problem when there was heavy traffic of users due to a marketing or advertising campaign.
In order to solve this problem, Mr. Senba focused on the I/O of storage installed in the servers. "Because the number of servers is not that high, it is essential to increase the speed of each server in order to improve the service response," he told us. "Search conditions, such as dates and location, differ each time by customer, and we can hardly expect high-speed search with cache. Therefore, we decided that the most effective way is to improve the I/O of the storage, which can easily become the bottleneck."
Simultaneous with improving response, Ikyu also wanted to further improve availability. In addition, one of their targets was optimizing IT investment. "For improving the satisfaction and convenience of customers, the underlying condition is to ensure stable operations without any service interruption," explained Mr. Senba. "As part of the specific measures taken, we wanted to improve the availability of the storage infrastructure."
The Solution
The measure adopted by Ikyu for solving these problems was a plan to migrate from hard disk storage to flash storage. "Flash storage is significantly faster than hard disk, and we expected a significant improvement in response," said Mr Senba. "Besides, its structure is simpler compared to RAID, and it has excellent fault resistance." Mr. Senba conducted a comparative study by actually testing products of multiple companies. As a result, he selected Fusion ioMemory ioDrive®2 PCIe cards from SanDisk, based primarily on the high IOPS value. This ultra-high-speed semiconductor storage—a Fusion ioMemory PCIe card equipped with NAND flash memory—is used for achieving performance and reliability equivalent to large-scale SAN storage.
In the summer of 2012, Mr. Senba installed the Fusion ioMemory PCIe card with the support of Tokyo Electron Device Limited. "Tokyo Electron Device offers thorough support, which is a great help. Earlier, when some problems occurred in the firmware, their friendly staff immediately prepared a detailed manual for us. This was very reassuring for us, because we did not want to stop the service. They immediately responded to our questions, such as commands of our desired functions." IOPS values were evaluated prior to migrating the system into production. In addition, the system was optimized for availability and high-speed search response to generate the best value from the IT investment.
Mr. Senba continuously strengthened the infrastructure by purchasing servers equipped with Fusion ioMemory. Furthermore, in 2014, he started looking into the possibility of installing the latest generation of the Fusion ioMemory PCIe card, the Fusion ioMemory PX600 PCIe application accelerator. Mr. Senba highlighted several reasons for continuously selecting the Fusion ioMemory series of PCIe cards. "Above all, it is about high-speed storage I/O. When we actually embedded it in our server and used the server, it delivered the expected performance. Reliability and stability are also satisfactory. We are continually using it because of these results."
Mr. Isao Senba, System Foundation and Infrastructure Team Manager, Ikyu.com
The Results
Ikyu has reaped several benefits by implementing the Fusion ioMemory cards in the server storage. The first benefit is improved search response. "IOPS of storage increased significantly, and speed of reading data also increased," Mr. Senba told us. "As a result, search response improved. Irrespective of search conditions, it became possible to achieve response time of less than two seconds, which is the target service level. At the same time, data writing for booking processes and batch processes also became high-speed processes." Mr. Senba is also pleased by the improved availability of the online service due to the implementation of Fusion ioMemory products. "More than two years have passed since our first implementation, and the system is operating in a stable manner without any malfunction," said Mr. Senba. "We have never had a situation where the system had shut down because of NAND flash memory."
Furthermore, the high-speed IOPS performance has provided a favorable impact on optimization of IT investments. "Storage no longer remained a bottleneck, and we could now adequately use the server resources," said Mr. Senba. "Therefore, even if the CPU has a lower performance than an earlier CPU, we can get the targeted performance from the server on the overall basis. We have been getting maximum benefits with minimum investment."
Going forward, Ikyu plans to continue to implement and reinforce Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards as required. In addition, Ikyu will continue to avail the support of Tokyo Electron Device and strive to strengthen the company's competitiveness by continuously improving service quality.
The performance results and cost savings discussed herein are based on internal testing and use of Fusion ioMemory products. Results and performance may vary according to configurations and systems, including drive capacity, system architecture and applications.
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Born in 1968 as the 1st International Week of Fantasy and Horror Movies, Sitges Film Festival today is an essential rendezvous for movie lovers and audiences eager to discover new currents and waves in the horror and fantasy genres. Highlights of this 43rd edition include a special programme paying tribute to Stanley Kubrick's epic film " The Shining", a new section dedicated to discovering new talents and promoting fresh filmmakers, and the terrific Zombie Walk where fans dressed as zombies invading and roaming the night-time streets.
Moleskine celebrates Sitges 2010 with the release of two special edition notebooks: a Film Journal to write down impressions and reviews of the screenings, and a Storyboard Notebook, large style, given to special guests, film directors and the jury members.
43rd International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
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Boston's Chinatown
Boston's Chinatown
Jan. 27, 1946: Boston schoolchildren from the Quincy school on Tyler Street, under the supervison of headmaster John P. Maloney, rehearsed for a celebration of the Chinese New Year. Pauline Yee tied a hair bow and put the finishing touches on the holiday costume for Caroline Jane Wong.
May 1, 1931: This man read standing in front of the Chinese "newspaper." It was actually a community bulletin board on the outside of a brick wall on Oxford Street where local announcements, job notices, news items, and cultural events were posted. This custom came from China where community announcements were posted in a similar fashion.
July 3, 1948 : When the automobiles left the parking lot at Kingston and Beach streets in the twilight hours on weekdays and all day Sunday, the parking lot was transformed into a softball diamond for Boston's Chinatown youth. A long fly ball hit by "Mr. Team" Yong drove in two runs in this picture.
Feb. 3, 1957: The din of thousands of firecrackers filled the air on Tyler Street as members of the Gung-Ho Club paraded through the area with the traditional dragon, touching off the Chinese New Year celebration.
Jan. 6, 1951: Posters in Chinese informed residents of the so-called "alien registration" regulations. Jan. 10, 1951, was the last day for undocumented immigrants to register with the government according to the law. Thirty thousand immigrant "address report cards" for the 25 cities and towns of the Boston Postal District had been turned in so far. The posters informed people that the Chinese Benevolent Association, then at 14 Oxford St., would assist anyone who needed help completing the government forms.
May 16, 1974: Susanna Lee appeared happy to wait on customers seeking to buy popular Chinese magazines.
Nov. 8, 1976: Officially zoned as an adult entertainment district by the city of Boston, Chinatown residents had to share their neighborhood with the strip clubs, X-rated movie theaters, and crime of the Combat Zone for decades. That indignity gradually passed with progressive community action that forced the city to reconsider adult zoning, with the makeover of the Big Dig and rising real estate prices also helping to force out the red light businesses.
July 13, 1981: Jose Rivera, the owner of a small apparel factory that employed 35 people at 15 Kneeland St., helped a seamstress with her work. Harrison and Kneeland streets were once the center of the apparel making industry in New England.


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ROODEPOORT, South Africa (AP) — Julius Mthembu's mud-spattered face lit up as he held a tin pan and pointed to the glimmering flecks of hope lying among sand and water: gold. The find meant the 48-year-old would eat that week.
"It's difficult. I don't make a lot of money here," Mthembu said as beads of sweat stood out on his forehead. The Mozambican and his countryman Santos Viriato have been gathering dirt from the shuttered Durban Deep mine and sifting it for leftover gold for two months.
South Africa, once the world's foremost gold producer, has been experiencing a labor upheaval in its critical mining sector, and Mthembu and Viriato are emblematic of both the troubles and the hope that persists, with not only gold but also platinum, chrome and other minerals remaining untapped.
A violent six-week strike at a Lonmin PLC platinum mine northwest of Johannesburg ended Sept. 18 after a pay hike of as much as 22 percent was given to the miners. The deal inspired thousands of workers in other mines to lay down their tools to seek higher wages. Mthembu and Viriato said they had been contract workers at another Lonmin mine — mostly working on pipes through the mines — and that they were laid off when the company they worked for lost money during the strike.
They wound up near a highway outside Johannesburg, sifting through the soil around the shuttered gold mine and hoping to strike it rich or at least eke out a living. Dozens of other men and women were also participating in illegal mining, working in makeshift operations in a sort of gold rush not far from the skyscrapers and highways of Johannesburg, still marked by towering mustard-colored mine dumps, a leftover from the city's heyday in mining.
"We want money and we have no choice," Viriato said.
They sift for gold by dumping soil into a plastic bin with holes punched in the bottom, pour water in and shake the bin, allowing the wet soil to fall onto a chute made of boards and covered by plastic tarps and bath towels. After dumping a bunch of buckets into the contraption that empties into a muddy creek, the men wring the towels out into three large buckets and then pan whatever comes out.
Another half-dozen such operations are nearby. Closer to Main Reef Road, women break up rocks and grind them between stones and concrete to reduce them to powder to be later panned for gold. The activity takes place in many other parts of South Africa, mostly around mines that were shuttered because of lack of productivity, and is fueled by rising gold prices that these days stand at around $1,700 per ounce.
"There are 6,000 abandoned mines in the country and I think the majority of them still have ore that would be economical (to extract) at today's prices," said Peter Major, a mining expert at Cadiz, a financial services group. "The problem is getting the capital to reopen them."
The illegal mining provides a chance at income for unemployed South Africans and immigrants. But in the long term the activity will make it harder to attract a legitimate mining company to an abandoned site because some of the more easily accessible minerals will have been removed by the illegal operations, Major said.
Gold was discovered here in 1886 and it helped fuel the creation and growth of Johannesburg, known in the Zulu language as Egoli, meaning "the place of gold." South Africa produced nearly 70 percent of the world's gold in the 1970s. Production has been falling and South Africa is currently the world's No. 5 producer, according to the government. With strikes having affected not just platinum mines but gold mines too, gold companies are trying to keep their footing.
Major said 500,000 people were working in gold mines in 1990, with the official number now 150,000. Some of those who lost their jobs are certainly doing illegal gold mining, he said.
Buyers often come to the ad hoc operations to weigh and purchase gold. Miners say they also sometimes sell gold within their squatter camps. Mthembu said he melts all his gold particles together and sells it at the end of the week.
Zingaphi Jakuja, spokeswoman for the South African Department of Mineral Resources, said the ministry is collaborating with law enforcement agencies to combat illegal mining "as the activities are generally fuelled by complex criminal activities."
Illegal miners are generally undeterred by the threat of arrest.
"When the police come, we run away. We've never gotten caught and we don't want to give them a reason to catch us," said 45-year-old Daniel Mazibuko who has three children and a wife. "It's illegal, but I still do it because I'm suffering and if there's no food at home I must do this job."
"Sometimes I make 100 to 150 rand ($11-$17) per day if I'm lucky. In my best week I've made 500 rand ($57)," he said.
On a recent day he was working with 21-year-old Siphelele Dyasi, who smoked a cigarette as he poured heavy buckets of water into a yellow plastic bin and shook it to separate the soil. The miners sometimes endanger their health by using mercury to extract the gold.
"There's no other choice, you go into it knowing the risks," said Dyasi, who came to Johannesburg from the distant Eastern Cape of South Africa after his father died and his mother couldn't provide for him and his brothers and sisters.
Dyasi and Mazibuko were trying their luck outside the Tudor Shaft mine, not far from the Durban Deep mine. At least five makeshift mining chutes could be seen among dusty fields of rock, orange dirt and black rocks near pools of water, that the miners use and recycle in their prospecting.
"You're never sure what you'll get. For example this week I only got 150 rand ($17) which I used to buy a small tin of milk, a packet of nappies (diapers), a small bag of maize, paraffin, fish oil and a bit of meat but it has all finished already," Dyasi said.
"I hope to get something today so I can bring some food home."


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By Norm Silverstein ~ Posted Fri, 05/02/2014 - 8:41am
The Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall in New York City only seats 2,804. But if you are not one of those fortunate few attending the RPO's historic concert there on May 7th, then I have some exciting news for you! WXXI's Classical 91.5 FM will be exclusively broadcasting the concert live at 7:30 pm that evening. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is returning to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 1985, as one of six orchestras invited to attend the fourth annual Spring For Music Festival — and WXXI will be the only place you'll be able to hear them perform "Merry Mount," an opera from former long-time Eastman School of Music Director Howard Hanson.
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IBM board gives Big Sam another $5bn
Continues throwing money at market to inflate EPS growth
IBM's stock repurchasing addiction to show earnings per share growth continues unabated, and today the company's board of directors gave the company's management another $5bn bag of junk to take to Wall Street to buy back its own shares in the coming year.
The news came as IBM was paying out its quarterly dividend of 55 cents per share, payable on December 10, and it was a reason for Big Blue to remind everyone that it has been paying out quarterly dividends since 1916. Other dividends might be bigger, but IBM's is longer and keeps a predictable rhythm, even in stressful times.
"IBM's strategic transformation to higher value businesses continues to drive profitable growth, and our strong cash flow performance has enabled IBM to return $73bn since 2003 to our shareholders," bragged Sam Palmisano, president, chief executive officer, and chairman at the company, in a statement. Some of that $73bn was spent on dividends, but the bulk of it went to buying back shares on the open market, allowing IBM to artificially grow EPS on a year-on-year basis. (Which is why I ignore EPS, except when it is the only metric available.)
IBM has raised its guidance three times for 2009, despite the economic meltdown, and is now promising to hit $9.85 per share in earnings this year. It says that it is well on track to hit $10 to $11 EPS in 2010, a goal it set several years ago. When your board of directors authorizes you to financially engineer this number from the cash the business throws off - rather than, say, invest in a whole new product line, or give bigger dividends to shareholders, or just sit on cash and make acquisitions like the failed Sun deal, which Big Blue walked away from as much because it couldn't afford it as it was worried about the deal going onto the antitrust rocks - it is hard to be impressed. But, then again, IBM is making profits that most other companies in the IT racket would kill for. So who's the dummy?
Certainly not the IBMers, like Palmisano, who are compensated in stocks. They are doing exactly what the system was designed to make them do.
IBM has $4.2bn left in stock repurchase authorizations on the books from this year, and now has another $5bn to go with it. And at the board meeting in April, the company's top brass will ask for more dough. It won't be long before IBM raises its target to $11 to $12 EPS for 2010, so its stock price can be pushed up even more. IBM's shares were up 1.3 per cent, to $121.67 each, in trading on Wall Street this morning after the news, giving the company a market capitalization of $157.5bn. IBM has not had a stock split since May 1999, and there is little question that the company would really like do to one again. There has been a strong psychological tendency in the market in recent decades to push IBM's stock up to $100 a share, so long as it is making money and not trying to go bust, as it was in the early 1990s.
The company also said this morning that James McNerney, who holds the titles of president, chief executive officer, and chairman at airplane manufacturer Boeing, has joined IBM's board of directors as its thirteenth member. McNerney has been at Boeing since 2005, and was in charge of electronic media giant 3M before that, and has had a number of executive positions at General Electric and Proctor & Gamble, where he is also currently a director. ®


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NEW YORK (AP) — Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler have added another boy to their team.
The couple welcomed a son Wednesday named Jaxon Wyatt, her publicist confirms.
Cavallari posted about the birth on her official Twitter account.
27-year-old Cavallari and the 31-year-old Chicago Bears quarterback are already the parents to a 20-month-old son, Camden.
The couple married last summer in Nashville.
Cavallari starred in the MTV reality series "Laguna Beach" as a teenager and then joined its spinoff "The Hills" when Lauren Conrad left the show.
She now co-hosts the E! lifestyle series "The Fabulist."


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First, my tastes are very eclectic - vintage to '60's to freeform to elegant. This actually looked better in person. Love the scattered, woven look w/the variance in tones. The primary color is obviously blue but there are some nice subtle, but can be pulled out, grass green flecks. Works well with the striped paper in the grouping. Not sure why some are named after states (it is not always obvious in the print) but I like this but don't see "Alaska". I just see nice paper!
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Newly released reports show U.S. payroll and manufacturing data down, while the Chinese government gave investors some good news in overnight announcements, according to an analysis from Miller Tabak & Co. Chief Economist Strategist Andrew Wilkinson.
Private forecaster ADP reported that the economy gained 118,000 jobs in November, down from 157,000 in October. The report noted that Hurricane Sandy and uncertainty over the presidential election and the fiscal cliff negotiations all contributed to the decrease. "Abstracting from the storm, the job market turned in a good performance during the month," Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics said in a statement. "Businesses appear to be holding firm on their hiring and firing decisions."
Manufacturing data also contracted this month, which Wilkinson attributes to shutdowns of Northeast businesses along with concerns over the continuing budget negotiations. Meanwhile, he says, "U.S. equity index futures keep building on gains and pushing up the daisies with a 5-handle advance at 7:54 am."
Overseas, investors were watching China, as several government announcements pushed stocks higher. "Investors' bullish receptors were earlier tickled by overnight events in China where the new leadership announced a drive towards 'urbanization', which means more infrastructure investment," Wilkinson says. "At the same time rules preventing insurance companies taking a larger stakes in banking companies were relaxed."
The Hang Seng index rose 2.2% on the news, while the mainland Shanghai composite jumped by 2.9%, putting it above the important 2,000 level, according to Wilkinson. The biggest market gains came from industrial companies, which rose by 3.7%, and technology and materials stocks, which gained 3.6%. The construction and insurance sectors also rose following the announcements.
The news coming out of Europe was more mixed, Wilkinson notes: "Despite the earlier wave of enthusiasm that helped drive Germany's Dax index to within 5-points of Tuesday's high, European benchmarks have lost their mojo and [are] deflating by 7:30am ET."
Although German stocks have rebounded over the past several weeks, the region-wide PMI composite indicator showed that the Eurozone continues to contract, albeit at a lesser rate. The PMI services index fell in France and Italy; in Germany the index advanced from 48.0 to 49.7, "indicating the health of the sector is heading towards standstill following a period of contraction stretching back as far as August," according to Wilkinson.
One sector that has experienced gains is the financial arena, Wilkinson says. In the Eurostoxx, the financial sub-index shows gains of 0.85%, beating the overall increase of 0.24% in the index. The financial sector of the Dax also rose, by nearly 1%, while the flat Ibex index is hiding gains of 0.54% for financial companies.


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An event every day that begins at 12:00am, repeating until May 7, 2019
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A bright-colored grid of St. Louis City streets greet thousands of travelers at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) as part of temporary murals at the Terminal 2 Baggage Claim. St. Louis artist Ellie Balk hand-painted the walls around Carousel 1 with 30 different colors- bright yellow, deep purple to accents of pink and orange, just to name a few. The mural is an abstract map drawn from the street grid of a section of St. Louis City, but from a slight bird's-eye perspective. It gives the viewers the feeling of soaring over St. Louis in a plane.
"It looks like what you would see outside of the window seat," Balk said. "I created the piece as one large map, and then it's wrapped around the carousel, which evokes that action of walking around and seeing the whole thing, because it's all connected."
Balk's work centers on mathematics and data visualization. Through color and abstraction, she creates systems to tell information.
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1A Oregon
When: Saturday – girls 10 a.m., boys 10:45
Where: Oregon Park West, 3 miles, Oregon
Advancement: Top 5 teams, top 7 runners not on those teams to 1A state meet, Nov. 3, at Detweiller Park, Peoria
Local teams: Boys – Newman, Rock Falls, Bureau
Valley, Erie-Prophetstown. Girls – Rock Falls, Erie-
Prophetstown, Oregon
Local qualifiers: Boys – Garrett Newman, Oregon sr.; Austin Burkhart, Oregon jr.; Cooper Pauley, Eastland-Milledgeville jr. Girls – Katelin Johnson, Bureau Valley jr; Jennifer Popovich, Amboy fr.; Haley Simpson, Newman so.; Regan Weidner, Bureau Valley so.
Other teams: Boys – Alleman, Galva, IVC, Rockford Lutheran, Byron, Harvard, Durand, Winnebago, Woodstock Marian, Rockford Christian, Marquette, Hall, Plano, Seneca, Princeton, Fieldcrest, El Paso-Gridley. Girls – Wethersfield, Alleman, Princeville, IVC, Galva, Winnebago, Byron, Rockford Lutheran, Woodstock Marian, Rockford Christian, Harvard, Marquette, Henry-Senachwine, El Paso-Gridley, Fieldcrest, Sandwich, Seneca, Hall
Outlook: While nothing's guaranteed, Newman's boys and Rock Falls' girls are safe bets to make state. In fact, the Rockets' girls could vie for the sectional title. As for the Rockets' boys, they, like Bureau Valley's guys, will need the race of their season to have an outside chance at punching their ticket to Detweiller Park as a team. If both squads come up short, Rock Falls' Brandt Cole is a near-sure shot individually, and his classmate Carlos Gutierrez, Bureau Valley junior Ryan Taylor and Erie-Prophetstown senior Devin Johnson could get through. BV sophomore Regan Weidner has the inside track on an individual title. Oregon senior Shelby Hunter has a solid shot to make it, as do Newman sophomore Haley Simpson and E-P sophomore Corrie Reiley. If the Panthers fire on all cylinders, the whole E-P gang could get through. They'd likely need to beat out Wethersfield and Alleman, who finished second and third, respectively, behind Rock Falls at last Saturday's regional.
2A Belvidere
When: Saturday – girls 10 a.m., boys 11
Where: Belvidere High School
Advancement: Top 5 teams, top 7 runners not on those teams to 1A state meet, Nov. 3, at Detweiller Park, Peoria
Local teams: Boys and girls – Dixon, Sterling
Other teams: Boys – Deerfield, Vernon Hills,
Grayslake Central, Lake Villa Lakes, Antioch, Woodstock North, Mundelein Carmel, Belvidere North, Boylan, Freeport, Marengo, Belvidere, Crystal Lake Central, Kaneland, Sycamore, Crystal Lake Prairie Ridge, Burlington Central, Woodstock, Hampshire. Girls – Deerfield, Vernon Hills, Grays-lake Central, Lake Villa Lakes, Antioch, Mundelein Carmel, Grayslake North, Belvidere North, Boylan, Freeport, Marengo, Belvidere, Crystal Lake Central, Kaneland, Sycamore, Crystal Lake Prairie Ridge, Burlington Central, Woodstock, Rochelle
Outlook: The boys' race is a spin on musical chairs. Dixon, Belvidere North, Kaneland, Crystal Lake Central, Vernon Hills and Grayslake Central are the six teams that will likely vie for the five team berths. Belvidere North won its home regional, Dixon finishing runner-up. Should the Dukes get edged, Simon Thorpe, Skylar Mitchell, Roy Hummel and Cody Sondgeroth could be duking it out for individual berths. Sterling's Keaton Dir and Nick Olds will need an outstanding showing to get into that competition. The Duchesses will be hard-pressed to crack the top five after placing fourth at the Belvidere North Regional. But Clara Thorpe, Brittany Schwarz and Katie Pitman, and Sterling's Mercedes
Sanchez should be in the mix for one of the
coveted seven individual spots. Anyone other than Marengo's Katie Adams winning the title would be an upset.


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"The Gift of Knowledge" is the second in the third set of James Holiday Angel collection. Through this beautiful series, James explores gifts worthy of angels encouraging us to live life to its full potential. "The Gift of Knowledge" grants us the ability to value the world and its many wonders. Coupled with the knowledge of our Saviors birth, we celebrate the joyous holiday season with songs of praise and thanksgiving.
James C. Christensen
James C. Christensen was born in 1942 and raised in Culver City, California. He studied painting at Brigham Young University as well as the University of California at Los Angeles before finishing his formal education at BYU. Since then he has had one-man shows in the West and the Northeast and his work is prized in collections throughout the United States and Europe. Opulent, colorful, Shakespearean, extraordinary: All words that aptly portray Christensens most popular artworks that have also been described as creations from the land a little left of reality. He has created a Shakespearean Island, an entire undersea world and a village of Mother Goose characters. But when he isnt giving life to others worlds, he paints a place of his own. The result is a unique kinetic kingdom where recognizable human emotions are often manifested as fish or fowl, utilizing the viewers own imagination as no other artist can. His art includes unique people, places and things that exist somewhere between adult dreams and childhood memories. I dont think of myself as a fantasy artist, said Christensen. I certainly have an affinity for myths, fables and ancient lore, but I also find time to create landscapes and other subjects which include commissions. Recent projects, for example, include a mural commission for a conference center in Nauvoo, Illinois, a poster for the 2001 Utah Shakespearean Festival and a sculpture for Nu-Skin. Whats truly important to me is that my art is introspective and in turn challenges the minds eye of those who view it regardless of the subject matter. The artist has been commissioned by both Time/Life Books and Omni to create illustrations for their publications and his work has appeared in the prestigious American Illustration Annual and Japans Outstanding American Illustrators. Christensen has also won all the professional art honors the World Science Fiction Convention can bestow, as well as multiple Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. Christensens fine art appears as works of art in porcelain and brass from The Greenwich Workshop Collection; artist-inspired products such as note cards, silk ties and books are also available. His first book, A Journey of the Imagination: The Art of James Christensen, was published to great acclaim in 1994. His second, the adventure fantasy Voyage of the Basset, has more than 75,000 copies in print. His subsequent book include the inventive Rhymes & Reasons, published in May 1997, Parables (written by Robert Millet, 1999), The Personal Illumination Series and The Personal Illumination Journal (2000), a series of interactive journals, A Shakespeare Sketchbook (2001) and James Christensen, Foremost Fantasy Artist (2001). Christensen was recently designated as a Utah Art Treasure, one of Utahs Top 100 Artists by the Springville Museum of Art and received the Governors Award for Art awarded by the Utah Arts Council recognizing the significance of Christensens artwork to Utahs cultural communities. He was inducted into the U.S. Art magazines Hall of Fame. Jim and his wife, Carole, co-chair the Mormon Arts Foundation.