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Local residents suffering from hearing loss have a new meeting place where they can participate in community events and be liberated from their impairment.
Local residents suffering from hearing loss have a new meeting place where they can participate in community events and be liberated from their impairment.
Piedmont Sertoma Club has partnered with a group of audiologists and the Four Seasons Restaurant at 1071 Fernwood-Glendale Road and to install a magnetic loop system in the eatery's private dining/meeting room.
The system, which was unveiled Thursday, is similar to others that have been installed at the Chapman Cultural Center, The Peace Center in Greenville and at least 10 church sanctuaries across Spartanburg County. Basically, it allows any telecoil-equipped hearing aid user to listen in by sending an electromagnetic signal that is picked up by the hearing aid's magnetic coil.
"People get hearing loss and they disappear from the world," said Scott Peyton, owner of Michigan-based American Loop Services, the company that has installed all of the systems locally. "This is about getting them back in."
Peyton, whose twin sister lives in the area, said came to Spartanburg a few years ago after connecting with by Dr. Ben Dawsey Jr. of Audiology Associates of Spartanburg.
Dawsey paid $8,000 to have a system installed at his church, Bethel United Methodist. Since then, Dawsey and his business partner Dr. Lynn Lehman have been helping Peyton lead the charge to expand the public use of assistive listening devices across the community.
"It's wonderful and exciting to me because it's an additional way that we can serve our patients," Lehman said. "The more places we have looped in Spartanburg, the better off we are."
Piedmont Sertoma Club member Bomar Edmunds said his group's work in helping to bring magnetic loop systems to the county grew out of the Sertoma Hearing Aid Recycling Program (SHARP). Under the program, Sertoma Clubs work with non profits and other agencies to collect used hearing aids, have them refurbished and distribute them to individuals in need.
Peyton said the system at Four Seasons is a little different than others in the area in that it includes two microphones — a handheld and an ear mic — as well as a "loop listener" that allows a person to listen in without the need for a hearing aid.
"We wanted to do something that would continue to help the hearing impaired in Spartanburg," Edmunds said. "We use this space three times per month for our meetings. While many of our members will benefit from this, we hope that others will now be able to use this as a meeting place."
Billy Diangikes and his wife, Grier, owners of Four Seasons, said they are pleased to have the system in their restaurant.
"I think it's great," said Billy Diangikes. "I hope it will be a benefit to the community and we appreciate the (Piedmont) Sertoma Club and all that they do."
Founded in 1960, the Piedmont Sertoma Club is one of four active Sertoma groups in the county.
The club has fully funded one Habitat for Humanity home build in Spartanburg and provided 50 percent of funds for three others.
As part of the club's outreach, it has given out 20,000 stylized copies of the Declaration of Independence to local fourth graders. It also awards scholarships and participates in the adopt-a-highway program, where it is responsible for cleaning up the stretch of South Pine Street from Palmetto Street to Country Club Road.
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Linda Dervishaj's work ranges from temporary, site-specific installations to architecture and urban design. Her projects explore scale, form, colour and texture as a response to their surrounding environment. She works with various media across several disciplines, shifting her focus between small details and broad visions. She lives and works in Toronto.
Victoria Taylor designs spaces informed and inspired by context, ecology, community engagement and social and horticultural possibilities. She curates Grow Op: Exploring Landscape and Place, the Gladstone Hotel's annual spring event celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape and place.
Using a series of 100 images shot during six weeks of Spring 2012 in Trinity Bellwoods Park, Emergent Structures celebrates changes in form, colour and context during this transcendent phase in the life cycle of trees. The work was previously shown at Queen Specific. Original photography by Victoria Taylor.
Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) Toronto's largest alternative design show enters a new decade with new initiatives and a diverse lineup of local and national talent: 25 installations, 60 artists, and 4000 visitors, all in under 4 days. Gladstone Managing Director of Art, Britt Welter-Nolan is joined by three new curatorial forces: Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Elise Hodson.
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By Alex Schmidt
Community gardeners across New York City are celebrating.
On March 23, Parks Department Commissioner Adrian Benepe announced that the city would extend municipal liability protection to community gardens. Previously, these gardens either depended on organizations to cover their private insurance policies or gardeners paid insurance expenses out of pocket.
I think its the best thing since sliced bread, said Toby Brandt, program coordinator of the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition, which helped keep community gardens in bloom as insurance costs skyrocketed after 9/11. During that time, the cost of insuring a community garden doubled and tripled in certain cases. Some gardens would have had to close, which would have been a loss to the gardeners, a loss to the community and a loss to the whole city, Brandt said. So this administration finally said, Well, wait a minute, we shouldnt lose the gardens over this. And they went out and found a way.
In a press release, Benepe said, We are grateful to have found a solution through the extension of the citys municipal liability, which keeps the financial and administrative burden of property insurance away from the gardeners who keep the property. With this extension of liability, claims against the city resulting from injuries suffered in gardens will be treated the same as claims arising from injuries on other city property. The city is self-insured and pays valid claims out of tax revenue.
Whereas city employees operate the citys public parks, the private volunteers who run community gardens make independent decisions about upkeep. Jon Crow, who began gardening in New York City when he moved here from the Pacific Northwest 20 years ago, says this level of autonomy may explain why gardeners for so long had the responsibility of finding their own insurance or doing without.
Yet, Carli Smith, a Parks Department spokesperson, pointed out that community gardeners have been subsidizing the city for 25 years by maintaining city property for free.
While community gardeners will continue to work for free, with the change in policy they will no longer need to pay to do so if they get hurt in their green oases.
We do this to clean up the neighborhood and the city, and to get a little nature back in our lives, said Crow.
The city has in effect declared that this work is important enough and the volunteers responsible enough to be covered by the municipal liability fund.
The community gardens record would seem to support the decision: only seven injury claims have ever been filed, and only three have resulted in payments to injured parties.
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LE MANS, France - Corvette Racing's bid for its first GT2 title in
the 24 Hours of Le Mans ended this morning at 9:42 a.m. when the No.
64 Corvette C6.R retired with an apparent engine problem. Driver
Oliver Gavin nursed the car to a marshal's station at Mulsanne
corner, where it was pushed behind the barriers and officially
"The guys fixed the car brilliantly after the crash, and I was able
to run my fastest lap of the race with a rebuilt car," Gavin said.
"The Corvette Racing team is fantastic, and I literally trust them
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determination to take on everybody. We had the fastest car for 18
hours, but unfortunately it wasn't enough."
"It's frustrating that we get so far into it, we prove that we have
the speed and the pace to win the race, and then a crazy move by one
of the Peugeot drivers forced Manu off the road at a very dangerous
spot," said Gavin. "Everybody has to share the track; we are racing
four different classes, and every driver has to have respect for the
others. That accident was huge, but it shows the strength of the car
that Manu was able to drive back to the pits and climb out without
an injury."
After six wins in the GTS/GT1 class at Le Mans, Corvette Racing was
bidding for its first GT2 title in the world's most famous sports
car race. The Corvettes qualified 1-2 and dominated the race until a
series of mishaps took them out of the running.
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certainly wasn't what we set out to accomplish," said Corvette
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to look at what you did accomplish and the goals that you had set."
"The Corvettes qualifying first and second in an extremely
competitive class validated all of the time spent designing and
developing the GT2 Corvette C6.R," he noted. "Second, we
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production to racing. The No. 63 Corvette had a huge impact, but
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton made a brief, private appearance Friday at publishing's annual national convention, BookExpo America, and offered booksellers a few details about her upcoming memoir, "Hard Choices."
Clinton's publisher, Simon & Schuster, told The Associated Press that the former secretary of state and possible presidential candidate met in the late morning with some 100 American and international booksellers for about 45 minutes. The event was not open to the press and Clinton departed without visiting the floor of the Jacob K. Javits Center.
Clinton has said that her book, coming out June 10, will not be a Washington "soap opera" and has indicated for a long time that she will focus on her work as secretary of state and not on her bitter 2008 primary battle against Barack Obama. But "Hard Choices" apparently will at least refer to that time.
According to booksellers who attended, Clinton said that while writing the book she recalled how foreign officials marveled that she agreed to be in Obama's administration after such a disappointing campaign. She specifically cited one of her first trips abroad, to Indonesia in 2009.
Oren Teicher, chief executive of the American Booksellers Association, said Clinton offered a simple explanation for her decision to accept Obama's offer.
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The Spartans of Central Davidson High School took no prisoners Thursday in winning the 2013 Quiz Bowl title.
After coming so close to victory last year in the Davidson County Public Library Quiz Bowl, the Spartans of Central Davidson High School took no prisoners Thursday in winning the 2013 title.
"We're here to win. It feels so good to win," said Central sophomore Jonathan Hench.
Central Davidson defeated North Davidson High School in the championship 140 to 90. The last time Central brought home the championship was 2009.
"It is absolutely fantastic," said sophomore Austin Young about winning. "We came from second-place last year. It was a good team effort."
This was Young's and Hench's, second year on the team. After being involved with Battle of the Books at the middle school level, they both couldn't resist the competition of being on the Quiz Bowl team.
"I thought it was fun," Hench said. "It makes you think fast. You read random things to prepare. We had some fierce competition from North. It was a tough, hard win."
More than 150 students, friends and family members rooted for their favorite teams or players in the Conference Center at Davidson County Community College. Six area high schools – Central Davidson, Davidson Early College, Lexington Senior, North Davidson, South Davidson and West Davidson – took part in the festivities answering a wide range of academic questions.
The Quiz Bowl is an academic competition of questions and answers among teams of high school students ranging from topics of human knowledge to current events. Each team is allowed up to eight members, but only four can participate at a time. The Quiz Bowl was started more than 30 years ago by the state library system.
The bowl consisted of three rounds. Questions in the first round were worth 10 points; second round, 20 points; and third round, 30 points. Teams could earn half-credit for correctly answering a question missed by the first team the question was directed to. Gerald Bosch served as the moderator and Gloria Johnson, Jonathan Foster and Michael Liu, all from Davidson County Community College, judged the bowl.
Members of the team started spreading the word of their victory through social media sites as soon as the competition ended.
"I'm ecstatic right now. It was a nice collective effort. I thank our cohesive team," said junior Charlie Killebrew.
"I'm on cloud nine," said Trent Younts, another junior. "All the hard work paid off. I will definitely brag about it until we can defend it next year."
Students from the CDHS will be given $25 each from First Bank in Thomasville. Trophies provided by The Winner's Circle in Thomasville were given to the first and second-place teams. The Quiz Bowl cup was presented to CDHS to display at school for a year. All of the participating students received a gift bag provided by donors.
Other members of the Central team included Saya Johnson, Spencer Snider and Alex Vergara. The adviser of the winning team is Mischa Williams.
"They have been a joy to work with," Williams said. "They worked hard. They impressed me with the knowledge they have. It was fun to come back and get a little redemption. They deserve it."
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A few weeks ago, Ryan Doherty entered a greenhouse where rows of Palmer amaranth-filled trays stretched out. Having earlier applied glyphosate to the pigweeds, the University of Arkansas graduate student expected to find the greenhouse largely a dead zone. He found just the opposite.
Doherty called his boss, Ken Smith, Arkansas Extension weed specialist. "He said, 'You won't believe this, but these weeds aren't dying,'" recalls Smith. "'Out of all them, there are two samples we totally controlled.'
"My mind said, 'Whoaaaaa. This isn't good.'"
The first time back at the greenhouses, Smith walked into "a bunch of healthy pigweeds, had a look around, and said, 'My goodness, if we're not careful this is going to blow up in our face.'"
Later, the pair of researchers — who are based in Monticello, Ark. — checked their counting procedures and testing set-up to see if the results were in error. Everything had been done properly.
Last fall, Smith and colleagues collected 280 seed samples from escaped pigweed in row crop fields across Arkansas. Without sufficient greenhouse space to screen all of them at once, 143 were grown out in the first batch.
"We took the seedheads and thrashed all the seed out of them. Then, we planted greenhouse trays with those seed. Those plants were thinned back to 200 per sample. That means for every seedhead collected, 200 plants were grown."
The trays of pigweed were spread out over two greenhouses, then sprayed with a full field rate — the equivalent of 22 ounces of Roundup WeatherMax. Of the 143 seedheads screened to date, only two were killed completely. In the other 141 samples, there was a range of resistance.
"Resistance showed up at 2 or 3 percent all the way up to 97 percent. That means, after spraying, some trays had four to eight plants that lived. In other trays, 97 plants out of 100 lived."
Smith can't definitively say "resistance favors one area over another. But the Phillips County and Lee County area seems to have the highest percentage of high-population resistance. That said, resistance is alarming from Newport to Crittenden County to Poinsett County to White County. Resistant pigweed is all over the state, now."
Smith, who has worked the resistant-weed beat for years, wasn't surprised the greenhouse work uncovered high resistance levels. However, he was "very surprised" at the magnitude.
Understandably, pigweed is currently on farmers' collective backburner. But Smith hopes they won't forget the need to keep glyphosate resistance tamped down.
"Right now, farmers have to deal with floods, high fuel prices and high fertilizer prices, soybean seed is scarce, wheat contracts need to be filled and all the rest. I think it'll be difficult to move weed resistance up the priority list until later. It's hard to think about pigweeds when floodwaters are lapping at your ears.
"But I'm telling you: this resistance is more severe and coming on a lot quicker than we thought even a few months ago. If we don't do something to control resistant pigweed, it'll be a long, long year. And all this flooding hasn't helped our resistant weed situation. By now, the water has successfully mixed up and moved all kinds of (weed) seed."
There are several ways a plant can become resistant to a herbicide. For example, one plant might not take the herbicide in at all. Another plant might take the chemistry in but is able to metabolize it quickly. Another plant might transport the chemistry to leaf margins so overall health isn't affected.
There are at least two mechanisms of glyphosate resistance in Arkansas pigweed.
"The pigweed patterns in a field are often very distinct. One pattern shows up very scattered — escapes will happen throughout the field. Maybe there's an escape every 10 steps, or so.
"I can take those 'scattered resistance' plants back to the greenhouse and allow them to cross-pollinate. A percentage of the seed collected and grown out will be susceptible to glyphosate at field rates. The other plants may not die, but they'll get sick. Glyphosate still has some effect and if I continue increasing rates, more plants will be killed."
A second resistance mechanism is typically found in smaller spots within fields — usually no more than 1,000 to 1,500 square feet.
"Pigweeds in such areas will be very thick — 100, or more, per square yard. That points to all those plants coming from seed of a single female plant the preceding year."
In such spots, no matter the glyphosate rate, the pigweeds show no ill effects. Even an 8X rate does nothing. Until the surfactant level is high enough to burn the plant, there is no herbicide damage on the plants.
"They're extremely resistant and it occurs due to a single mutation in the mother plant. And there's no way to control the offspring. If I cross-pollinate those plants in the greenhouse, every one of the offspring is just as resistant as the parent."
While Smith worries about all resistant pigweeds, the "spot resistance" is especially troubling. "We must control those areas using whatever measures are necessary. If a farmer or consultant finds one of those spots, he should do what he must to get rid of those pigweeds."
Last year, a farmer called Smith to a cotton field with such a spot. "I dug up some plants for the greenhouse and was putting them in the truck. When I'd finished, he immediately called his son and said to bring the tractor and disk over. That tractor went right out in the middle of the cotton and disked the weedy area up. They kept that spot clean all year long because they understood what it would mean if that pigweed spread."
More research
The second batch of Palmer amaranth seedheads is now being tested in the Monticello greenhouses. "Honestly, there's no reason to believe the results will be much different. The samples we ran first were random, just like these."
Smith reminds farmers there is no new chemistry coming down to deal with the growing resistance problem. "Some of the old products like Reflex, Valor, Flexstar, Dual and others are available. And if no new chemistries are introduced, eventually the pigweeds will become resistant to those too. The hope now is that we'll find new chemistries or techniques before that happens."
If there's a silver lining to the situation, "it's that crop rotation will help us. Pigweeds don't live in the soil for a decade.
"We can severely impact the pigweed soil seedbank by just keeping a crop clean for a couple of years. There's very few pigweed seed that'll live more than two years. The bad news is that pigweed plants are capable of producing 250,000-plus seed."
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It was a case of truly, madly, deeply. Interior designer Martha Angus and her husband, Christopher Flach, a Ph.D. psychologist-turned-art-photographer and financial-manager of Martha's business, took one look at the Nob Hill apartment's drop-dead views of the Golden Gate Bridge, gasped, and stammered, "Where do we sign?" The living room's neoclassical tall case Danish clock, shown here behind Martha and Christopher, was found in an antiques shop in New York, where Martha has a second office.
In the living room, a Roy Lichtenstein woodcut, Bedroom, floats down the mirrored wall. Lichtenstein's cartoonish take on an interior hangs inches above a creamy nubuck Deco-style sofa. The artwork's display is an eye-catcher, but that's just a starting point. Martha's special talent lies in mixing the graphically modern with the elegantly antique in one tight grouping: Joining the Lichtenstein-Deco ensemble are a pair of painted and gilt-trimmed neoclassical Italian chairs, upholstered in subtle, signature Fortuny.
Creamy backgrounds allow a pair of stellar gilded and black-painted Gustavian chairs to shine. French designer Jean-Michel Frank, prominent in the '30s, inspired the living room's ebonized oak coffee table, which Martha lightened with a lime rub.
A small steel dining table detailed with a Greek key design is softened with velvet-covered antique seating found in Paris.
A sidewalk-sale tree's sinewy root bears the same flowing grace as the fine marquetry of the Dutch rococo mahogany table on which it is displayed-a testament to Martha's honed eye for connections. The 18th-century table and inexpensive tree, doubled by a German gilt-framed rococo mirror, create transition to the dining area along with a Joan Mitchell painting.
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Facebook tests parental-guidance tools in plan to pull in under-13s
Pre-teens a lucrative ad target
Facebook is testing ways to open its social network to kids under the current cut-off age of 13.
Many pre-teens will typically circumvent Facebook's sloppy screening process by simply lying about their age during the sign-up process.
Facebook has acknowledged this widespread action by children under the age of 13 and is looking at ways for youngsters to access the site under parental supervision, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Of course, those untapped users could also help bump up ad sales now that the company has gone public.
According to the newspaper, Facebook is exploring a method that would link an under-13-year-old's account with that of their parents so that their activity on the network can be fully policed.
Facebook gave The Register this statement:
Many recent reports have highlighted just how difficult it is to enforce age restrictions on the internet, especially when parents want their children to access online content and services.
We are in continuous dialogue with stakeholders, regulators and other policymakers about how best to help parents keep their kids safe in an evolving online environment.
However, it's understood that the company – which claims to be closing in on 1 billion users worldwide – is not about to reveal a new system that would grant official access to pre-teens wanting to use Facebook.
A review of online privacy rules relating to the protection of children in the US, aka Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), to which Facebook has already given its own formal response, is expected to be published by the Federal Trade Commission in the next few months. ®


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But the crucial difference is: they were talented. The unemployable of today's world are often just that: unemployable. Remember the makers of buggy whips, with whom I'm sometimes compared? I believe they were talented too...
The funny thing is, the harder folks work the more lucky they seem to become. Ever notice that? No, maybe not.
Until the 'west' ... fails to stamp down hard on the users of drugs, the very ones who fuel the market in death (you don't long produce what folks won't buy), then of course the status quo continues and even grows.
Dreed, I finally give up: your moral quicksands are as untraversable as your logic of cause and effect.
I think you missed (or ignored?) my point. These great artist's talents were NOT recognised in their lifetime. Their fame is posthumous. The point is that talent and greatness is not always immediately recognisable. But that doesn't make talent useless.Remember You didn't build that
Oh, you mean the same way as prohibition in America worked so well in stamping out alcohol consumption and reducing crime. History surely proves that targeting the users is a great idea (!)
That which you describe/quote isnt really an organized conspiracy, the idea of which appears to be being propagated.Man is, by nature, an unfriendly sort of animal, much like the rest of the predators. That happens to be the purpose of civilization: the attempt to reconcile, or at least keep within (and not include!) homicidal limits, the relationships that we all have to endure. Sit in the subway, compete for a taxi at the hospital gates when you have made the call but somebody else says that they did the ordering; reach for your credit card at the supermarket to pay for your weekly shopping when the guy behind you has bought a couple of cans of beer and nothing much else. The hatred towards strangers is palpable; if looks could kill thered be no crowds.Haves and have nots are the norm and always will be. Its how life is, and no amount of envy and political posturing ever changes that trials and revolutions enough have been attempted already, all of which turn into nothing but a redistribution of the available goodies to yet another select grouping. Id rather they stay with those who create them than with those who steal them from the former. Rob C
If you could look a little further back, your opinions could have been a little different. Or simply read what Christopher Columbus wrote about the native Indians and their society on his first encounter about 500 years ago.
I watched Snowden Snr praise Putin today... Putin, that head of the political culture still killing journalists. Has Snowden Snr a finely developed sense of irony! (And to think they say that Americans don't do irony!
Putin, that head of the political culture still killing journalists.
Careful Rob, that's rather like standing in the centre of Glasgow and shouting the Scots don't do happy.
indeed... and then there is a political culture where mass shootings are rampant and so normal that they are happening 10 times more often than some journalist is actually killed in Russia ( Obama then is a head of it ) ...
Assuming that a question, then no: O'Bama (my little Irish joke) doesn't order or condone that, which is rather different.
Or, as Dilbert's boss said when Dilbert asked him if he knew what "irony" meant: "I send my shirts out."
Putin, that head of the political culture still killing journalists.
... He may consider orchestrating some terrorist attacks on landmark buildings in Moscow and blame whatever enemy he can come up with...
May!? How about "did"? Though not landmark, just two ordinary apartment buildings blown up by FSB (KGB successor) and blamed on Chechens in 1999. At least according to a widespread conspiracy theory.


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Combining two drugs from Novartis and Pfizer to treat post-menopausal women with a certain type of advanced breast cancer more than doubled the time they lived without their disease getting worse, study data showed on Monday.
Investigators conducting a clinical trial found that women treated with a combination of Novartis' Afinitor or everolimus, and Pfizer's oestrogen-blocker Aromasin, known generically as xemestane, had progression-free survival (PFS) of as much as seven months more than women treated with the Pfizer drug alone.
"This is a highly significant improvement in the time to disease progression. It's quite remarkable," said Jose Baselga of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who led the trial and presented the data at the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress (EMCC) in Stockholm.
He said side effects were consistent with those previously reported in trials of Afinitor and did not lead to a worse quality of life for patients on the drug.
Baselga's analysis of the data showed that PFS for women in the Afinitor group was 6.9 months versus 2.8 months for those not taking the Novartis drug, a 57 percent improvement.
The trial was stopped early after a separate independent analysis by a central review committee showed that Afinitor extended PFS to 10.6 months compared to 4.1 months, a 64 percent improvement.
"These results are impressive and, potentially, could represent a new therapeutic option," Baselga said.
Analysts at Vontobel Equity Research cited the new data in an upgrade of their forecast for peak Afinitor breast cancer revenues by $300 million to $1.8 billion. They also increased their estimate on the drug's probability of winning approval for advanced breast cancer to 80 percent from 40 percent.
Novartis shares were trading 1 percent higher by 0730 GMT.
Afinitor targets mTOR, a protein that acts as an important regulator of tumour cell division, blood vessel growth and cell metabolism. Novartis says there are around 220,000 newly diagnosed cases worldwide each year of the type of advanced breast cancer that could benefit from Afinitor.
Novartis is also upbeat about the prospects for the drug, which is already approved for other types of cancer, such as kidney and a rare type of pancreatic cancer.
The Swiss firm's CEO Joe Jimenez told Reuters in a recent interview it could generate an extra $1 billion or more in annual sales from its new use in breast cancer.
Herve Hoppenot, president of Novartis's oncology division, said the magnitude of benefit seen in this trial showed that Afinitor is "a potential important new treatment approach".
The Swiss drugmaker is planning to file for regulatory approval of Afinitor in breast cancer by the end of this year.
Novartis reported Afinitor sales for cancer of $243 million in 2010 but analysts expect that number to balloon if the drug is licensed in breast cancer. Thomson Reuters Pharma data show analysts on average forecast sales of $1.53 billion by 2016.
The hormone oestrogen promotes the growth of about two thirds of breast cancers, and hormonal therapies such as Aromasin which block the effect of oestrogen or reduce its levels are used to treat these so-called hormone receptor-positive breast cancers.
But many breast cancer patients, and nearly all those with advanced forms of the disease where it has spread to other parts of the body, become resistant to hormonal therapy.
"When patients stop responding to hormonal therapy, the benefits from any secondary therapy are limited," Baselga said.
The Phase III clinical trial, known as BOLERO 2, was designed to test the efficacy of Afinitor in patients resistant to aromatase inhibitors - drugs that cut the amount of oestrogen produced and help to slow or reverse the growth of the cancer.
It was as conducted in 24 countries in 724 patients with an average age of 62. All patients had already been treated with the aromatase inhibitors anastrozole, sold by AstraZeneca as Arimidex, or the generic drug letrozole. Some had also been treated with tamoxifen, fulvestrant and chemotherapy.
Pfizer's Aromasin lost its patent in April and is now available in a cheaper generic version.


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The Cambridge University mathematician laid the foundation for the invention of software. As part of its anniversary celebration, BusinessWeek is presenting a series of weekly profiles for the greatest innovators of the past 75 years. Some made their mark in science or technology; others in management, finance, marketing, or government. In late September, 2004, BusinessWeek will publish a special commemorative issue on Innovation. Elsewhere, there is also a special article for Turing.


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The Vancouver Whitecaps FC in partnership with the British Columbia Soccer Association (BCSA) are launching the 2008 Whitecaps BCSA U-18 Boys team program. This integrated Whitecaps BCSA team of players born 90 and 91 is designed to develop and profile players throughout the province for university, college, national and European opportunities. This Whitecaps BCSA team will also provide transition opportunities to the Whitecaps Residency program and professional teams. Three members of the 2007 Whitecaps BCSA U-18 team were signed to Whitecaps Residency in 2007. STAFF
- Head Coach - Bart Choufour – Head Coach, Boys Prospects.
- Assistant Coach – TBA
- Support Staff – Includes Thomas Niendorf, Head Coach Whitecaps FC Residency; Teitur Thordarson, Head Coach Whitecaps Men.
PROGRAM This year's program has a fine balance of top quality training, competition in regular season play against quality Men's Teams in the PCSL Premier Men's Division, all capped of with a trip to Europe. The Whitecaps have received the honor of an invitation to a top quality European tournament, the Roda JC U19 International invitational from August 6-15. Training
- Training once a week beginning the end of February, moving to three times a week by mid April at the Whitecaps Training Center at SFU.
- The training will conclude with the tournament August 15.
Competition Pacific Coast Soccer League
- Pacific Coast League (PCSL) Premier Men's Division (18 regular season games), PCSL (Pacific Coast League) exhibition games.
European Tour - August 6-15. Holland. Includes:
- Training and participation in selected exhibition games.
- Participation in the Roda JC U-19 International invitational tournament.The Roda JC tournament will have the top youth teams (U-19) from Hamburg SV, Borussia Monchengladbach, Olympiakos Pireus, Roda JC, Anderlecht, Feyenoord and Brondby.
SELECTION PROCESS The Whitecaps are putting on a number of evaluation sessions over the months of January and February. All evaluations will be held at the Whitecaps FC training facility, SFU field # 4. There is no cost for the evaluation sessions. Open Sessions Two open evaluation sessions will be held on Friday January 18
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As the name suggests, this is the classic house tune with original percussive organ sound from Korg soundbanks. This piece is perfect for presentations, videos, commercials etc. about music clubs, fashion shows, cars, sports, or slideshows about different topics.
Normal version (MP3 + WAV ) 1:57
Loopable version (WAV) 1:55 – very easy to perfectly loop in your projects.


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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, glabrous to hairy, generally aromatic
Stems generally erect, generally 4-angled
Leaves generally simple to deeply lobed, opposite, generally gland-dotted
Inflorescence: cyme, generally clustered around stem, head-like, separated by evident internodes (terminal in Monardella ) or collectively crowded, spike-like to panicle-like (sometimes raceme or flowers 212); subtended by leaves or bracts; flowers sessile or pedicelled
Flower generally bisexual; calyx generally 5-lobed, radial to bilateral; corolla generally bilateral, 12-lipped, upper lip entire or 2-lobed, ± flat to hood-like, sometimes 0, lower lip generally 3-lobed; stamens generally 4, generally exserted, paired, pairs unequal, sometimes 2, staminodes 2 or 0; ovary superior, generally 4-lobed to base, chambers 2, ovules 2 per chamber, style 1, arising from center at junction of lobes, stigmas generally 2
Fruit: nutlets 4, generally ovoid to oblong, smooth
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 5500 species: worldwide. Many cultivated for herbs, oils (Lavandula , lavender; Mentha , mint; Ocimum , basil; Rosmarinus , rosemary; Thymus , thyme), some cultivated as ornamental (in CA Cedronella , Leonotis , Phlomis )
Reference: [Cantino & Sanders 1986 Syst Bot 11:163185]
Perennial, generally hairy, sometimes glandular, from rhizomes or tubers
Stems erect, branched or not
Leaves basal and cauline; lower generally petioled; cauline becoming ± sessile upward
Inflorescence: flower generally 1 per leaf axil (or appearing as a bracted raceme)
Flower: calyx 2-lipped, lips ± equal, enclosing nutlets, back of upper lip dome-like or transversely ridged, generally with concave depression behind ridge; corolla 2-lipped, white to violet-blue, upper lip < lower lip, ± entire, hood-like, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 4, pairs ± equal, enclosed by upper corolla lip, anthers ciliate, lower two 1-chambered; disk below ovary generally green-yellow
Fruit generally ovoid, generally minutely papillate, brown or black
Species in genus: ± 300 species: generally temp worldwide
Etymology: (Latin: tray, from calyx dome or ridge)
Reference: [Olmstead 1990 Contr Univ Michigan Herb 17:223265]
Plant 30100 cm; rhizomes slender, tips ± swollen
Stem: hairs 12 mm, spreading, often gland-tipped
Leaves: basal petioles 210 mm; upper cauline blades ovate to cordate, crenate (rarely entire), base truncate to ± lobed, tip rounded
Flower: pedicel 23 mm; calyx 35 mm, ridged; corolla 1319 mm, white, lower lip blue-mottled, inner surface long-soft-hairy
Fruit brown to black
Ecology: Gravelly soils, streambanks, oak or pine woodland
Elevation: 3002000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Sierra Nevada, Inner South Coast Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges, s Mojave Desert.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
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Flower: corolla 1214 mm
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Runway Recap: Spike Jonze's Opening Ceremony Play, Naomi Campbell, David Beckham and more from Day 4 of NYFW
New York Fashion Week is about the clothes, yes. But if you are a brand that wants to stand out, it helps to have a few bold-faced names wearing those clothes.
Opening Ceremony raised the bar for fashion show as entertainment Sunday, throwing out the traditional runway format and replacing it with a one-act play by Jonah Hill and Spike Jonze. The production, set on stage at the Metropolitan Opera, featured a cast clothed in the brand's spring 2015 collection, including Elle Fanning, Dree Hemingway and Karlie Kloss. The hard-to-impress fashion set left abuzz.
Celebrities seated in a more traditional front row typically wear the brand as part of the appearance deal. That becomes a tad tricky if said star is hitting up more than one show in a day, as J.R. Smith did. After Public School and before Hood by Air, the pro basketball player says he had a "quick costume change"—in his car.
And, while runways are typically filled with a stream of models known only to industry insiders, there are a few names to nab that will guarantee tabloid coverage. Kendall Jenner was the focus of the pre-show Twitter chatter at Diane von Furstenberg, but her presence on the catwalk was all but eclipsed when Naomi Campbell appeared to close the show.
Click through for more of what you need to know from the front row, from the WSJ fashion team of Christina Binkley, Elizabeth Holmes, Paula Knight and Ray Smith.


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Net Impact, you ask? This is a great organization that sweetriot has been supporting since our founding. It brings together young people who believe in socially conscious business. Their annual conference was just held at Northwestern University, and we were there speaking at a session on 'mission-based food and beverage businesses."
Kristin from Revolution Foods and Annie from My Family Farm and were also there and have great stories to tell about their businesses. John the founder of Room to Read spoke about his amazing literacy non profit, and Graham from Net Impact Boston was there with his reused sweetriot tin and his iPod earphones. Nice.
To top off of the evening, it was Saturday Night - Halloween eve in Chicago, and the ghosts were out! The infamous Ted Ko was seen dancing into the wee hours. Have you heard of Net Impact and/or attended? Let us know...
PS - My alma mater, UMichigan, was awarded University Chapter of the Year! Go Blue!


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new growth is a fresh sounding, refreshing, clean, uplifting, orchestral inspired motivational piece. Opening with picking electric and acoustic guitars, a soft piano evolves into a melodic track using orchestral strings. The track opens up with piano arpeggio and mellow brass section on 1:10, descending towards the outro a delayed harp is used in a soft, open finish. Track also includes a loop file which is (loopable)
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1. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After EffectsRjL190365 Apr 4, 2012 4:45 PM (in response to dh91)
Several other drawbacks to the iMac or any other all-in-one computer system:
1) The GPU cannot be upgraded at all (at least not internally). In fact, iMacs cannot have their AMD (formerly ATi) GPUs disabled at all. And Premiere Pro CS5.x supports only NVIDIA CUDA GPUs for MPE GPU acceleration. (The current iMacs cannot be equipped at all with any GPU besides AMD/ATi.) Premiere Pro is thus forced to run in MPE software-only mode, which is much slower than with GPU acceleration.
2) No iMac has any room at all whatsoever for more than one single fast internal hard drive. Unfortunately, the interface that the iMac employs, SATA, is only a half-duplex interface (which means that data transfers can only move in one direction at a time). But video editing requires a disk system that does simultaneous reads and writes - but with only one disk connected only by a half-duplex connection, the system must wait for a given block of read operations to be completed before any writes of a given data can even begin at all. This slows down overall editing and encoding performance substantially.
3) Additional hard drives can be added externally - but the current external hard drive options available for the iMac are either very expensive or very slow. That's because the iMac has absolutely no USB 3.0 or eSATA capability whatsoever. The iMac has only USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt ports - but external Thunderbolt hard drives still cost nearly twice as much money per GB as other external hard drives, and USB 2.0 is limited in sequential transfers to only around 35 MB/s - far slower than the drives themselves are physically capable of (140 to 188 MB/s). Plus, of course, USB 2.0, like SATA, is only half duplex.
2. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After EffectsChuck A. McIntyre Apr 4, 2012 4:43 PM (in response to dh91)
This has been addressed a couple of times before. Try doing a search in the forum for iMac.
3. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After EffectsBill Gehrke Apr 4, 2012 5:21 PM (in response to dh91)
Why don't you do what the big boys are doing. Go to ADK and have them custom configure you a laptop PC computer custom designed to run Premiere and After Effects They are the number 1 expert that I know of in this field and their support is outstanding. Incidentally they sell both Mac and PC and can answer questions on performance of both systems.
4. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After Effectsdh91 Apr 4, 2012 8:36 PM (in response to Bill Gehrke)
Thanks for the link, but this ADK seems to be more overpriced than Apple. A MacBook Pro with specs less than the one I was looking for starts at almost $1000 more! That just doesn't seem right.
5. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After EffectsHarm Millaard Apr 5, 2012 2:13 AM (in response to dh91)
For that budget, you can get a much more powerful PC, that is at least 30 times faster. Look here: Adobe Forums: What PC to build? An update...
6. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After EffectsScott Chichelli Apr 5, 2012 6:32 AM (in response to dh91)
HI DH i beg to differ..
Apple 17" MBP
2.4GHz Quad
8 gig ram (only becuase thats all you can put in an apple)
3yr warranty
ADK speced the same (has the ability for 16 or even 32gig ram and up to 3 internal drives) a nvidia 560 Video card
thats a rather LARGE difference
for the price of the Apple you can get one of our 9000x which has the newer 670 and desktop X79chipset/ processor
oh and a 15 the same way
Apple $2798/ ADK $1958
7. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After Effectsdh91 Apr 5, 2012 6:54 AM (in response to Scott Chichelli)
Hi Scott,
Thank you for the reply. If you could, could you please post the links to ADK speced MBP and the 9000x?
It's actually extremely easy for a typical MBP 2011 owner to upgrade to 16 gb of ram, even 32. Many users at the macrumors forums have done so easily. Right now the only thing holding back 32 gigs is price and availability of 16 gb ram sticks since the MBP only has 2 slots (unless the 17 inch has 4).
I also know it's possible to put 2 hard drives in the MBP, but that requires removing the optical drive. I'd love to see how 3 internal drives is possible.
8. Re: 27 inch iMac for editing and After EffectsScott Chichelli Apr 5, 2012 8:39 AM (in response to dh91)
just pmed you.. both ours have 4 slots for ram..


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A two-county high-speed chase that caused multiple accidents ended Thursday evening with the arrest of a Jefferson City woman accused of being involved in a felony crime spree.
A two-county high-speed chase that caused multiple accidents ended Thursday evening with the arrest of a Jefferson City woman accused of being involved in a felony crime spree.
Ashley Suggett, 28, of Jefferson City, was arrested around 10 p.m. Thursday after totaling her 2002 Chevrolet Impala at the end of the chase. She sustained minor injuries and was immediately taken to the hospital.
Long said the incident began early Thursday evening while Pulaski County deputies and St. Robert police detectives were assisting the Crocker Police Department with the execution of a search warrant in the 28000 block of Bear Road, located east of Richland.
While law officers were at the residence, Long said a vehicle that was suspected of harboring a fugitive and being involved in multiple felony and weapon offenses in Pulaski and Camden counties arrived at the location.
The vehicle, which was being driven by Suggett, immediately began fleeing, leading officers on a high-speed chase through Pulaski and Camden counties, according to Long.
Long said the pursuit initially began at 7:50 p.m., and continued for about 30 minutes before officers lost sight of the car in southern Camden County. During this time, Suggett allegedly operated her vehicle in a dangerous and reckless manner and reached speeds of 100 mph.
She was also involved in several accidents and made an attempt to ram the sheriff and Crocker police chief with her vehicle, according to Long.
The suspect's car was later observed in Crocker, where a second pursuit was initiated when officers attempted to stop her.
The chase continued through northern Pulaski County on Highway 133 until a Richland police officer deployed spike strips in front of Suggett's vehicle, partially disabling it, according to Long.
Long said Suggett continued driving the disabled vehicle west on Highway 133 a short distance further, until she lost control of the vehicle at the intersection of Highway 7 in Richland. The Missouri State Highway Patrol report said the vehicle traveled off the road and struck a culvert before overturning.
Suggett was then arrested by Pulaski County deputies and was initially transported to Mercy Hospital in Lebanon to be treated with minor injuries.
Suggett was released from the hospital early Friday morning and is now in custody in the Pulaski County Jail where she faces multiple felony charges.
Officials are still looking for a second individual, who is a fugitive believed to have been with Suggett during a portion of this incident, according to Long.
The MSHP also assisted the above agencies in the pursuit, along with investigating Suggett's car accident.
Charges against Suggett are pending at this time.


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Bridge Workers—Nerves of Steel
"Nerves of steel" is a cliche,
but it best describes the ironworkers on the 1950 Narrows Bridge.
Daily they risked serious injury or their lives.
They were a rough group. They loved crude humor and practical jokes. The difficult, dangerous work bonded them. They didn't always get along, but there was a sense of camaraderie. They would "give you the shirt off their backs," says White.
Steelworkers had a distinct hierarchy.
Whether you were a local from the union hall or a "boomer," it prescribed the division of labor at the building site. "Bridgemen" were welders (who positioned and welded steel) or rivet men (who heated, caught, or drove rivets). Apprentices, or "punks," assisted the bridgemen, fetching needed items, sometimes trying their hand with the tools, and observing.
Usually, an apprentice became a regular bridgeman after 2 or 3 years. A first-level supervisor, called a "pusher," supervised several groups of bridgemen and apprentices. These levels operated under the watchful eye of a "walkin' boss," who reported to the construction supervisor.
Three workers lost their lives during construction of the current Narrows Bridge.
They were Robert E. Drake, carpenter at the west anchorage, May
24, 1948; Lawrence S. (Stuart) Gale, iron worker building the deck,
April 7, 1950; Glen "Whitey" Davis, iron worker building
the deck (date unknown).
Earl "Whitey" White (1921 --)
Earl "Whitey" White is a tough guy. And, he's a survivor. He "worked iron," for 43 years, on all kinds of structures.
He grew up in Puyallup and settled in Tacoma. White and his wife, Penny, raised two sons on the modest income of a welder and heavy construction steel worker.
White was born in 1921 in Wibaux, Montana. His parents moved to Puyallup when he was 3 years old, and there he graduated from high school in 1939. After a year in the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), young "Whitey" had enough money to take a welding course. By 1940 he started welding at the Tacoma Shipyards. When World War II came, he decided to join the U. S. Marines. At the age of 22 in 1943, he went off to fight the war in the Pacific with the 5th Marine Division.
Back home after the war, White again took up "working iron." From 1946 until he retired in 1989, he helped build hundreds of steel structures around Tacoma and the Northwest, including many of the buildings on the Tacoma tide flats, high-rise office buildings, radar towers, dams, and most memorable of all, the 1950 Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
"Working iron" is hard physical labor. You get busted up a lot. White has narrowly missed death and had parts of his body mangled. He has had his "lunch box brought home" by a co-worker three or four times, meaning he went to the hospital from an injury. One injury laid him up for 22 months—almost 2 years.
On the Narrows Bridge from 1948 to 1950 White worked on the suspended structure, putting up the towers, cable spinning, and building the steel deck. The work was hard and conditions sometimes harsh. He saw friends die. With a somber, steady voice he talks about the day that his buddy, Whitey Davis, "went in the hole," and "hit the water with a sound like an artillery piece going off." He saw another ironworker "go into the hole with 40 ton of steel." He suffered the severe winter of 1949-50, when bitter winds, lashing rain, swirling snows, and a catwalk frozen solid with ice made work miserable for weeks.
White faced danger routinely every day while helping to build the 1950 Narrows Bridge. He and the other bridge men worked hundreds of feet over the Narrows without "tying-off" their safety lines. They felt safer working unfettered. They had no safety net. But, working at great heights is not for everyone. "I've seen guys who've worked iron all their life freeze," says White.
"Bridge workers are a different breed of cat," says White. "They're a pretty rough bunch. They worked hard, they lived hard. And, damn near every one of them would give you the shirt off his back."
You could say that about retired 82-year old bridge-builder, ironworker Earl "Whitey" White too. And, he'd take it as a compliment.
Here are excerpts from our interview with Earl White:
Joe Gotchy (1903-1994)Quite a few men helped build both Tacoma Narrows Bridges. One who has left his mark on history is Joe Gotchy.Gotchy at the age of 87 published a personal account of that experience. The book, Bridging the Narrows (Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Society, 1990), is an important source of information about the construction of the two bridges and the people who worked on them.
On the two spans Gotchy handled various jobs. He supervised concrete mixing and operated cranes during pier construction. On the 1950 bridge, Gotchy worked as an operating engineer helping to build the towers, then building the deck from the Gig Harbor end toward mid-span with the west side deck crews.
Joe Gotchy loved bridges. Born on February 3, 1903 in Bothell, Gotchy grew up in rural Thurston County. He worked on bridges all over Washington State. A high school dropout, he lacked formal education. But, he read avidly and became a life-long learner.
In his career, Gotchy was an operating
engineer, an ironworker, and a lumberjack. He cared deeply about
his family, fellow workers, his community, and the environment.
Gotchy and his wife lived in Gig Harbor in his last 23 years. He
passed away on December 3, 1994.
Kip Wylie
Kip Wylie, Maintenance Supervisor for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, is a quiet man with a passion for windsurfing and restoring the 110-year old historic house he calls home.
He's also passionate about the span he's responsible for maintaining. To walk around the Narrows Bridge with him is to plant one foot in the past and one in the future. You're suddenly deluged with a wealth of facts, details of the maintenance routines, bridge history, and odd anecdotes. At the same time, his bright, watchful eyes point you toward the current problems and how they can be managed to keep the bridge working tomorrow for the public.
Wylie has worked for WSDOT at the Narrows Bridge since 1983. He was an experienced painter and brought that to the job his first day. By 1988 Wylie was lead technician ("line boss"), but his duties remained about the same—it was still a working position.
As head of maintenance operations at the bridge, Wylie supervises a crew of 5 men—3 painters and 2 ironworkers. There is a lot of replacement and repair work on The Narrows Bridge, now over 50 years old.
He not only schedules the crew's work, but also manages the maintenance budget for the bridge--$1.7 million for the 2-year budget period. Wylie handles a growing assortment of safety issues in cooperation with local fire departments and police. And, on any given day you may find him repairing phone lines or ordering supplies.
Wylie has seen some terrific windstorms in his tenure at the Narrows Bridge. The highest wind he recalls was clocked at 100 miles per hour. As for the Bridge's movement, that is hardly noticeable. "Nothing happens all of a sudden," says Wylie.
That's because the hydraulic dampening jacks and stiffening truss below the roadway keep all movement of the span very slow and virtually imperceptible. "Even in a high wind," he notes, "I'll sight down the deck and see the bridge is moving only slightly." The label once applied to the bridge, "Sturdy Gertie," has not become a household word, but, says Wylie, "It's justified."
Kip Wylie is now in his 20th year working
on the Narrows Bridge. It's almost like his second home. "I
live with it all the time," says Wylie. "I know its sounds,
creaks, groans and movements. I feel like this bridge is a member
of my family," he smiles.
Jon Moergen
The Maintenance Lead on the Narrows Bridge is Jon Moergen—simply "Moergen" to his friends. A genial, middle-aged man with a prominent handle-bar moustache draped under his nose, Moergen spends off-work time with his dog, two cats, and a 1930s era power boat he's restoring.
Modest and matter-of-fact in his approach to the daily routines of his job, Jon Moergen is also fiercely proud of the almost 20 years he has worked on the Narrows Bridge. "It's good maintenance that has kept the Narrows Bridge functioning and in good shape for over 50 years—so you don't notice problems," he points out.
On any given day, you might find him repairing a $2,000 arc welder in the bridge's shop, or walking the main suspension cable to check out a maintenance need.
Occasional visitors to the bridge ask Moergen questions that range from predictable to bizarre. Most often, he hears, "The bridge moves? I didn't realize the bridge moves." That brings a smile, and a patient reply that wins friends. "People look at the bridge as a static structure. They just can't seem to grasp that it is a constantly moving machine. Once they get the idea, they begin to think about the stresses the bridge must withstand."
Like Kip Wylie, Jon Moergen also has a hefty supply of historical facts, odd tales, anecdotes, and personal experience. Some of his daily routine is hair-raising to non-bridge folk. And, the tough, dangerous work has taken its toll. Moergen has had his share of injuries on the job—and narrow brushes with death.
Ask Moergen what really keeps him coming back
to his job, day-in, day-out. He'll tell you how he loves working
outside, especially on warm summer days. Then, you'll hear something
you didn't expect: "The most invigorating thing about this
job," he says with a dead-serious stare, "is the unknown.
You never know what to expect when you come to work each day. It's
always a challenge. Some days, that's also the worst part of the


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The Center for One Health Illinois at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Urbana is planning a lecture series in the spring of 2013 to bring awareness to issues with human, animal, and environmental dimensions.
Four lectures are planned, two of which will be offered in Chicago as well as in Urbana. The two-hour events will consist of brief presentations from 4-5 panelists in the first hour, followed by questions and discussion with the audience.
Marijuana, Monsters, and Milk: Public Health Perspectives will cover a range of topics including marijuana legalization, energy ("monster") drinks, antimicrobials in milk and meat, bottled water, vaccinations, and cell phones.


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The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that is a bridge between socially responsible investors and co-operatives, community oriented non-profits, and worker-owned businesses in New England. Equal Exchange Food Service Sales Representative, LJ Taylor, is the former board president of CFNE.
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Thinking of cooking a delicious, romantic meal for a loved one? Show them extra love by caring for their heart health with some tasty dishes using Equal Exchange's fairly traded products, for a meal that benefits your loved one and the farmers who grew the delicious ingredients. A heart healthy diet is low in saturated and trans fats (mostly found in animal products), high in omega-3 fatty acids, high in fiber, and low in salt and sugar.
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The road heading south between Guayaquil and Machala, on the coast of Ecuador, is lined with banana plantations. Endless rows of green banana plants stretch as far as the eye can see. Economic activity in this tropical region revolves almost exclusively around banana production and export. In fact, Ecuador is one of the world's largest banana exporting countries.
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Keith Olcott is Customer Service Manager at Equal Exchange - and our Organic Certification Coordinator.
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The great thing about working at a place like Equal Exchange is that not only can innovation come from anywhere in the company, but that it is actually nurtured and encouraged from anyone and everyone. Take some of the recent innovations that our Customer Service teams recently initiated.
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We held a contest here at Equal Exchange in West Bridgewater, Mass., to answer the question, "Who can come up with the best chocolate cocktail?" The judging panel consisted of me (Ashley Symons, nice to meet you), as well as Chocolate Products Coordinator Kelsie Evans, and Chocolate Products Manager Dary Goodrich.
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What's a worker-owned co-op? We get that question a lot. And sometimes, it can be hard to explain. But every May, we experience exactly what worker-ownership is about: democracy in action.
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At the Tierra Nueva coffee and honey co-operative, some new initiatives are helping women to improve their economic standing. Gender roles in Latin America, as in most parts of the world, are inequitable.
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Each May we celebrate World Fair Trade Day. It feels important to take this opportunity to revisit the roots of Fair Trade, and reconsider what we aim to accomplish. Most people understand the critical importance of higher prices, advance credit and direct relationships; they allow farmers to stay on their land, send their children to school, and diversify their incomes. Yet, there's another equally - some would say even more important - goal of Fair Trade, one that seems to be slowly disappearing as new iterations of "ethical trade" and "direct trade" appear in the market: empowering communities and social movements. It is for this reason Equal Exchange chooses to work with small-farmer co-operatives.


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New Saints president will teach in Alumni College
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Loyola press release - May 29, 2012
Loyola University New Orleans College of Business alumnus Dennis Lauscha, M.B.A. '93, the newly promoted president of the New Orleans Saints, will return to campus to teach a course on the business of professional football at the inaugural Alumni College, which will be held June 22-24. "The New Orleans Saints: The Business of Football" is one of many courses that will be taught by Loyola's outstanding current and retired faculty and alumni, and will be grouped into tracks that will help identify topics of particular interest.
There will be four tracks, six sessions per track, and a joint session on Sunday, taught by University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.
All alumni are encouraged to attend. Registration is available for $275 per person for the entire weekend or $150 per person to attend Saturday events only. Registration for young alumni (Classes 2001-12) is $175 per person for the entire weekend or $95 per person for Saturday only. The cost includes session fees, meals (excluding dinner at Arnaud's Restaurant) and parking.
Lauscha, who was promoted recently by team owner Tom Benson, H'87, previously served as an executive vice president and chief financial officer. He will take a more extensive role within the Saints organization and is expected to have a similar role with Benson's new team, the NBA's New Orleans Hornets.
A New Orleans native and graduate of Jesuit High School, Lauscha joined the Saints as treasurer in 1998 and has been steadily moving up through the organization ever since. As team president, he will maintain his role on the Saints' board of directors and will continue to oversee the financial operations of the team. In addition, he will take on the responsibility of overseeing the club's marketing, ticket operations, legal department and community affairs.
According to a report by The Times-Picayune, Lauscha played a key role in acquiring the Hornets, as well as brokering the Saints' recent long-term lease agreement with the state of Louisiana, which will keep the team in New Orleans through 2025. In addition to playing a key part in bringing Super Bowl XLVII to New Orleans next year, Lauscha was also responsible for expanding Benson's media presence by purchasing WVUE-TV and Horizon Entertainment, a film production company.
"He was a youngster when he came here, and I had to watch him close," Benson told The Times-Picayune. "He's come a long way, I can tell you. He's sure been a great asset to our company. And he's involved with everything. One thing with Dennis, you never ask him to work on a project and he turns it down. He's involved in everything, isn't he?"
College of Business Dean William Locander, Ph.D., says despite his busy schedule, Lauscha has still found time and energy to contribute back to Loyola.
"Dennis has been a loyal Loyola supporter for many years. He has done everything from hire our College of Business students as interns and full-time employees to serving as chair of our visiting committee," Locander said. "We are proud to have him as a graduate of our MBA program, a friend of the university and, we congratulate him on his success."
Lauscha was also profiled in the spring 2011 edition of Loyola Executive Magazine. For more information, contact Matt Lambert in Loyola's Office of Public Affairs at 504-861-5448 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Honda's 2013 Accord sedan is handsomely restyled and re-engineered to be more fuel efficient and refined than its predecessor, and it offers more technology.
Honda's 2013 Accord sedan is handsomely restyled and re-engineered to be more fuel efficient and refined than its predecessor, and it offers more technology, including a standard rearview camera that's an option on major competing sedans.
In fact, the new top-level Accord Touring model comes with standard light-emitting diode headlamps similar to the ones on Audis. They are the first LED headlights on an Accord and give the Accord a luxe-tech look.
This top Accord also has a first-ever frontal collision warning system, and some Accords are available with a cloud-based HondaLink system that provides hands-free access to services, audio and information.
Consumer Reports predicts reliability of the five-seat 2013 Accord will be better than average.
Best of all, the new Accord sedan's starting retail prices of $22,470 with four-cylinder engine and manual transmission and $23,270 with continuously variable transmission (CVT) that a driver operates like an automatic are increased just $200 from the 2012 Accord starting prices.
Even without factoring in the new standard equipment, which includes dual-zone, automatic climate control and the 16-inch alloy wheels on base 2013 Accords, the pricing is aggressive for Honda.
The competing Toyota Camry, which has been the top U.S. seller in the segment for years, has a manufacturer's suggested retail price, including destination charge, of $22,850 for a 2012 four-cylinder model with automatic.
Yet, the base Camry doesn't have standard dual-zone, automatic climate control or standard rearview camera, and the base , 16-inch Camry wheels are steel with wheel covers.
Toyota has not officially released details of its 2013 Camry.
Meantime, the 2013 Hyundai Sonata, which doesn't have standard alloy wheels, rearview camera or standard dual-zone, automatic climate control on lower-trim models, has a starting retail price of $21,770 with automatic transmission.
With sales of more than 235,000 in calendar 2011, the Accord is Honda's biggest seller. But following the previous generation Accord that grew big, bland and cheap-feeling, the 2013 version is critical for Honda.
There are both sedan and coupe Accords, with four-cylinder and V-6 gasoline engine offerings. Later in the model year, hybrid Accords are due.
The base, 2.4-liter, double overhead cam four cylinder with Honda's variable valve operation called i-VTEC is new and now is direct injected for sprightly performance.
It helps, too, that the 2013 Accord has been sized down just a bit — it's 3.5 inches shorter in length than its predecessor, for example — and thus has lost a few pounds.
Horsepower now is 185 or 189, depending on the Accord model, instead of the 177 from last year's four cylinder. The four cylinder's torque increased noticeably to 181 foot-pounds at 3,900 rpm in the base 2013 Accord from 161 foot-pounds at 4,300 rpm.
Despite the power improvements, the 2013 Accord has better fuel economy ratings, in part because the automatic has been dropped from four cylinder models and replaced by a CVT, which uses a wide power band, rather than pre-set gears, to optimize gasoline mileage.
A 2013 Accord with four cylinder and CVT is rated by the federal government at 27 miles per gallon in city driving and 36 mpg on the highway. This is up from 23/34 mpg from last year's four-cylinder Accord. The 278-horsepower, 3.5-liter, single overhead cam V-6 that was in the test Accord Touring sedan, however, was rated lower at 21/34 mpg and averaged 23.6 mpg in combined city/highway travel. The V-6 uses regular gasoline.
The V-6 now is mated to a six-speed automatic, rather than a five-speed, and it worked with smooth precision in the tester. A driver can shift gears without a clutch pedal for more spirited driving.
The new Accord sedan has graceful lines, but doesn't follow Hyundai's Sonata and Ford's Fusion coupe-like roofline.
As a result, seats can be fitted more upright, allowing the 2013 Accord's rear-seat legroom of 38.5 inches vs. the Sonata's 34.6 inches.
Headroom in front and rear is about on par, and the Accord's trunk space of 15.8 cubic feet is up from last year's 14.7 cubic feet but less than the 16.4 in the Sonata.
The new, front-wheel drive Accord is quieter than the old model, and in the Touring model, rode smoothly and handled curvy mountain roads with poise. Steering is a bit on the light side.
Honda devotees will appreciate the low cowl which, with slimmer-than-some-competitors' metal pillars at the sides of the windshield, gives an airier feel to the front seats.
The middle of the dashboard in the Touring model commanded attention because it had not one, but two, large display screens. The top one handled navigation items.
The lower one displayed views from the rearview camera and, more strikingly, a new LaneWatch blind spot system that's standard on EX and higher Accords. The first few times it activated, which was during right-hand turns, the driver was mesmerized by the clear portrayal of the curbs and sidewalk crossings displayed as the car passed by. It's not a view normally seen by a driver. Note this LaneWatch camera works only for the passenger side of the car.
Meantime, the rearview camera on the test car had a snafu once, turning on as the car traveled forward down an avenue. The camera stayed on for nearly a mile.
After the car was turned off and restarted, the rear view was only seen when it was supposed to — when the car is in "reverse."
Seats were soft-to-firm, and fit and finish inside and out was excellent on the test car.
Standard safety equipment includes six air bags, front-seat active head restraints to reduce whiplash, electronic stability control and traction control.


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UAlbany's National Death Penalty Archive Adds Papers of Race-and-the-Law Research Pioneer David C. Baldus
Race & Death Penalty Expert Panel April 20th, 3:30 p.m., Science LibraryALBANY, N.Y. (April 16, 2012) - The working papers of the late David Baldus, a legal pioneer on racial equality and the death penalty, will become part of the permanent collection of UAlbany's National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA), a national repository of archival material devoted solely to the death penalty. Baldus's work was at the center of a 5-4 1987 Supreme Court decision, which upheld Georgia's death penalty law regarding race-of-victim differences in capital charging and sentencing decisions. The papers will be donated at a public event featuring a panel of death penalty experts on Friday, April 20 at 3:30 p.m. in the Standish Room at the University's Science Library.
Papers of David Baldus, whose work was the center of a 1987 Supreme Court decision, will be added to the permanent collection of UAlbany's National Death Penalty Archive.
The panel discussion will feature guests Catherine Grosso, associate professor, Michigan State College of Law; Alice Green, founder, The Center for Law and Justice; David Kaczynski, executive director, New Yorkers For Alternatives to the Death Penalty and James Acker, Professor, UAlbany School of Criminal Justice.
"David Baldus's work has produced sobering evidence of the wide gap between how the laws are written and how they have been applied in courtrooms throughout the country," said Acker. "Having his working papers included in the National Death Penalty Archive and made available for inspection by historians, researchers, and the public will enrich our collection immeasurably and ensure that Professor Baldus's meticulous and important work will be preserved for posterity."
Prior to the Court's decision, Baldus, a long-time University of Iowa College of Law professor, and two colleagues examined more than 2,000 murders in Georgia, controlling for some 230 variables. The study found that people convicted for killing white victims were four times as likely to be sentenced to death as those convicted for killing black victims in otherwise similar cases. Therefore, according to the study, a death sentence often hinged not on legally relevant factors but rather on murder victims' race and, to a lesser extent, the race of the defendant.
Baldus, who died last year, wrote two books, "Statistical Proof of Discrimination" and "Equal Justice and the Death Penalty," as well as numerous scholarly articles.
The NDPA was initiated by UAlbany's Capital Punishment Research Initiative (CPRI) as part of its mission to collect, archive, and make available historical and other material on the death penalty in America.
The University at Albany Library's M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives is collaborating with CPRI to maintain and grow the National Death Penalty Archive.
UAlbany's School of Criminal Justice announced the establishment of NDPA, a national repository of archival material devoted solely to the death penalty, in August 2005. The National Death Penalty Archive was initiated by the school's Capital Punishment Research Initiative (CPRI) to collect archival materials documenting the important history of capital punishment, and to provide resources for historical scholarship. The collection of historical materials will be an unrivaled resource for scholars, students, and the public interested in the history of capital punishment in America, and in the legal and political battles engendered by the sanction. In addition to housing the records and documents of leading figures in scholarship, and legal and community organizations concerning capital punishment, the archive includes oral history interviews featuring prominent activists and professionals involved in death penalty abolition efforts and related work.
The Capital Punishment Research Initiative, part of the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, was founded in the late 1990s with three primary goals: (1) to build and maintain a national archive for historical documents and data on the death penalty; (2) to plan and conduct basic and policy related research on capital punishment; and (3) to encourage scholarship, conduct graduate and undergraduate training, and disseminate scientifically grounded knowledge about the ultimate penal sanction.
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