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Mr. Dalyell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects West Mercia Constabulary to be informed of the DNA test results by the Forensic Science Service in the case of Hilda Murrell; and if he will make a statement. [154270]
Mr. Charles Clarke [holding answer 23 March 2001]: I understand that the Forensic Science Service anticipate the results of the current round of DNA tests in the case of Hilda Murrell by the week beginning 23 April, and the West Mercia Constabulary will be informed shortly thereafter.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) funded and (b) actual specials were in post in each of the Welsh constabularies on (i) 31 March 1997 and (ii) the latest date for which figures are available. [154803]
Mr. Charles Clarke [holding answer 22 March 2001]: The Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate collect police personnel statistics, including those of the Special Constabulary.
There are no national targets for specials and each of the Welsh constabularies has advised that it does not differentiate between funded and actual specials. The Special Constabulary strength figures for the Welsh constabularies for 31 March 1997 and 30 September 2000 (the latest figures available) are given in the table.
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Mr. Breed: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of rural parishes do not have a police station. [153132]
Mr. Charles Clarke: Information on the number of rural parishes which do not have a police station is not held centrally.
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent the Home Office building at 50 Queen Anne's Gate uses hydrofluorocarbons for (a) refrigeration and (b) air conditioning; what amounts of hydrofluorocarbons have been purchased in each year since 1995; and what plans he has to phase out the (i) purchase and (ii) use of hydrofluorocarbons. [153020]
Mr. Straw [holding answer 9 March 2001]: Hydrofluorocarbons are used in domestic fridges at tea
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points and freezer cabinets and fridges in the staff restaurant area. They are also used as refrigerants in the air-conditioning systems.
Figures supplied by our maintenance contractor on the purchase of hydrofluorocarbons are:
Our policy is that hydrofluorocarbons should be used only where other safe, technically feasible, cost effective and environmentally acceptable alternatives do not exist.
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's policy is regarding the purchase of (a) hydrocarbons and (b) other environmentally benign refrigerants to meet all the refrigeration and other energy needs of buildings and premises (i) owned and (ii) leased by his Department; and if he will make a statement. [153019]
Mr. Straw [holding answer 9 March 2001]: The Home Office does not have a specific policy on the purchase of hydrocarbons. However, my Department's policy is to ensure that no products are purchased which contain chlorofluorocarbons and--except where existing systems cannot be easily converted--no hydrochlorofluoro- carbons, halons, carbon tetrachloride, 111 trichloroethane or any other ozone-depleting substances. The policy also states that hydrofluorocarbons should only be used where other safe, technically feasible, cost effective and environmentally acceptable alternatives do not exist.
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which buildings and premises (a) owned and (b) leased by his Department use (i) chlorofluorocarbons and (ii) hydrochlorofluorocarbons for refrigeration and other energy needs; and if he will give details of such use and the reasons for it. [153016]
Mr. Straw [holding answer 9 March 2001]: Information on the use of chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons is not recorded centrally. My Department's policy is to ensure that we do not purchase any products which use chlorofluorocarbons and, except where existing systems cannot be easily converted, hydrochlorofluorocarbons.
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (a) after school clubs and (b) holiday play scheme places there were in the Northern Region in (i) 1996 and (ii) at the latest date for which figures are available. [155010]
Ms Hodge: The available information on out-of-school clubs 1 and holiday scheme places in the North East region is as follows.
In March 1996 there were 70 out of school clubs providing 2,267 places and 143 holiday schemes providing 3,784 places.
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In March 2000 there were 200 out of school clubs providing 6,615 places and 692 holiday schemes providing 26,541 places 2 .
Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what discussions he has had with Treasury Ministers about the extension of the Child Care Tax Credit to cover formal child care in the home; and if he will make a statement. [154565]
Ms Hodge: My right hon. Friend the Chancellor announced in the Budget recently that the Government are considering this matter, in particular to help families who may need care in the home because they are shiftworkers or have children with disabilities. I keep in close touch with my hon. Friend the Paymaster General on this issue.
Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the constituency, the effects on the Manchester, Gorton constituency of his Department's policies and actions since 22 November 2000. [154503]
Mr. Wills: Outlined are details of the effects of a range of the Department's policies on the Manchester, Gorton constituency and the Manchester LEA.
This paragraph updates the information on EIC which was provided in November 2000.
Manchester was designated an Excellence in Cities area in Phase 1 of the programme. The Partnership covers all 23 secondary schools in the city. The partnership now has:
Manchester is also included in the Excellence Challenge programme with planning to be completed by June 2001 for implementation in September 2001.
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Funding per pupil
In Manchester LEA, funding per pupil has increased by £610 in real terms between 1997-98 and 2000-01.
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|Access at 85 per cent.
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Student numbers at all FEFC funded institutions where home postcode is in the local authority district of Manchester.
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Since 22 November 2000, we know of 13 starts on Modern Apprenticeships (seven on Foundation Modern Apprenticeships and six on Advanced Modern Apprenticeships) in the Gorton constituency (as at 31 December 2000).
For comparison, known starts on Modern Apprenticeships for the period 2 May 1997 to 21 November 2000, broken down by financial year, are:
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|Advanced Modern Apprenticeships(23)
(22) Foundation Modern Apprenticeships, formerly known as National Traineeships, were introduced nationally in September 1997.
(23) Advanced Modern Apprenticeships, formerly known as Modern Apprenticeships, were introduced nationally in September 1995.
(24) To 21 November 2000.
1. The Trainee Database System (TDS), from which these data are taken, is less complete than Management Information supplied by the Department by Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) (around 95 per cent.).
2. In addition, the postcode information on the TDS, from which parliamentary constituency data are compiled, are 95 per cent. complete.
3. TEC Management Information does not provide information at parliamentary constituency level.
4. Data for the period 21 November to 31 December 2000 may be less than 95 per cent. complete due to some notifications of training starts not yet being received from TECs.
WBTYP trainee database
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In the Gorton constituency, 1,968 young people have joined the New Deal to end December 2000. 843 have found jobs, 604 of which are sustained.
The working age employment rate in Manchester in autumn 2000 was 60.4 per cent., below the UK rate of 74.7 per cent. The rate in autumn 1997 was 55.8 per cent.
The claimant unemployment rate has fallen from 25.0 per cent. in February 1997 to 13.0 per cent. in February 2001 in the Gorton constituency.
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Court Properly Restrains Feds' Worst Wetlands Excesses, But Ruling Could Ultimately Leave Federal Agencies With Broad Wetlands Authority
"Multitude of court opinions" shows that "Congress must act to clarify the law"; Problem of legal uncertainty particularly acute for Michigan
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MIDLAND, Mich. — The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling today "delivers a welcome victory by curtailing federal regulators' overbroad reading of their wetlands regulatory powers," said Mackinac Center Senior Legal Analyst Patrick J. Wright. "But at the same time, the ruling sets an ambiguous precedent that could leave few checks on federal agencies' ability to regulate Americans' private property."
Wright added: "The court's ruling restrains some of the Army Corps of Engineers' worst excesses and requires that wetlands 'significantly affect' navigable waters before being subject to federal regulation. But lower courts will generally defer to regulators in determining what's 'significant,' and many regulators will set guidelines that let them exercise discretion over lands far removed from navigable waters. This is a result close to what federal regulators originally asked for in front of the Supreme Court."
Russ Harding, the Center's senior environmental policy analyst, observed: "It was encouraging to see the court of appeals' findings vacated, but responsibility for the multitude of Supreme Court opinions really should be laid at the feet of Congress. In its offhand manner of writing the Clean Water Act, Congress abdicated its responsibility to set policy and provided language so broad that federal agencies were able to abuse Americans' property rights. In fact, the language was so vague that not even a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court justices could agree on the act's meaning.
"Congress must act to clarify the law," continued Harding, a former director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. "This is particularly important for the people of Michigan. They live on a peninsula filled with lakes, rivers and streams. The most difficult wetlands cases will involve their property, and the court's ruling falls short of giving Michiganians the clarity they need to comfortably exercise their property rights. That's particularly problematic given Michigan's troubled economy. Until Congress acts, we can only hope that federal regulators will show some discretion and acknowledge the court's check on their power."
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Romantic comedies are so predictable. Or are they...?
The beautiful brunette in the flowing dress walked with a purpose down a busy West Village street, though the street looked hyper-real. The sidewalks too perfect, even in how they were cracked and gum-speckled. The newspaper boxes too shiny and clean, like they were actually still installing new boxes for the dying media. The other walkers on the street a little too pretty, even for a very pretty area like the West Village.
Coming from the other direction down this hyper-real West Village street, a street you could somewhat recognize but not exactly pinpoint, came a handsome man in a tight t-shirt. Rugged and scruffy, chomping on some gum as if trying to get rid of its sugary flavor as quickly as possible.
As this handsome man neared a street corner garbage can—again, far spiffier than any Manhattan garbage can you've ever seen—he cavalierly spat the gum wad from his mouth, shooting it at the can, but missing just barely, the wad resting on the sidewalk. Moments later, the beautiful woman accidentally stepped in it.
The woman tried to lift her expensive shoe but it adhered strongly, creating an elastic affect which snapped her foot back to earth every time she tried to lift it in a tiny bit of physical comedy, though she was hardly laughing. She was rather furious, yelling "Hey!" at the handsome and unwitting man.
The man turned and asked if "Something's the matter?"
"You spit your gum on the ground and I stepped in it. Now I can't get my foot up!" she cried.
"That wasn't my gum," the rake replied with a smirk on his face.
"But I saw you!" she countered.
"If you saw me, then why did you go ahead and step in it?" he volleyed back, a wiseass grin plastered on his face.
"Ugh! Could you just help me!"
The man casually bent down and grabbed the woman's bare leg, looking up and cockily smiling at her as if he was touching her leg in a most romantic manner. The man finally removed her foot from the gum and, using a free newspaper from a bin, wiped her shoe clean.
"You're lucky I don't have you arrested!"
"For what?"
"For...for...for spitting gum onto the sidewalk!"
The woman stormed off in a huff and...the director called cut because this was just the opening scene in a soon-to-be blockbuster romantic comedy (working title: The One) directed by an intentionally eccentric director of some ambiguous Nordic origin who simply went by the name of Super-Sven (real name: Sven Erickson Johannes) and which was slated to be released by my company in the early summer of 2011.
The opening scene was what is called in my business—that business being the movie business—a "meet cute." People in the business don't really use that term any more because it's been around since at least the 1930s and movie people have no regard nor knowledge for history—either movie or just historical history (why so many historical epics are historically devoid of accuracy)—but meet cutes still exist. Perhaps now more than ever. Hollywood's hacky like that. They are always the opening scene to a romantic comedy, a contrived encounter of two people under unusual circumstances, a purportedly comic situation created entirely to bring these two seemingly opposite people together. Back in the 50s and 60s, these opposites might be black and white or rich and poor or Jewish and Christian or even pretty and ugly. But nowadays, with all the PC bullshit and the desire to not offend any one less we potentially lose even a hair of box office share, we usually just make the "opposites" opposites in demeanor. Usually a cool, laid back stallion of a guy and some snooty cunt of a woman. I don't know about you, but I've never fallen in love after first hating someone's guts, but this must happen to other people a lot as audiences keep eating it up.
After Super-Sven called cut, Welsh actor Alexander Hugh Davies exhaled and smiled at his fellow actor and scene partner Shelly Clarke. It was weird to go from being contentious in a scene with someone to quickly being nice to them on the drop of a dime. The drop of a clapperboard.
Hugh was immediately apologetic to Shelly.
"So sorry I literally arrived a second before today's scene. My red-eye was delayed a few hours."
"Don't worry about it. I know you had that project in, where was it...?"
"Easter Island."
Super-Sven approached. He sported a silver fox head of bushy hair, a full beard, and wore glasses and a denim shirt tucked into jeans with white sneakers. For inspiration, he had noted during pre-production that he would be spending each day on set channeling a legendary director both on the inside and out. Today he was channeling George Lucas for some reason, perhaps due to the action content of the day's work. Super-Sven wrapped Hugh and Shelly for the day, asked them if they needed car service (both declined), and told them he'd see them for their 6:00 AM call the next day. Then, Hugh and Shelly were again alone as underpaid PAs cleared stuff from set.
"Um...what time is it, Hugh?"
Hugh looked at his watch, surprised at what he saw. "2:15?!" He laughed, quickly understanding, and tapped the Timex. "Fuckin' prop watch."
Shelly laughed, too, and Hugh got an idea.
"Hey, if you got a few minutes, that kiss-up second AD gave me a decent bottle of wine. Would you like to share a glass with me? We should probably build some rapport or something being that this is the first day we've ever been around each other."
Soon, both Hugh and Shelly knelt side by side in his trailer, looking closely into a mirror as they removed their make-up.
"What exactly do I call you, Mr. Alexander Hugh Davies?" Shelly wondered.
"Hugh is fine. Hugh is my name. I had to take that unwieldy name because of SAG. Some washed-up asshole who was on some sitcom in the 60's gets to be the real Hugh Davies. So annoying."
"Well I'm the first asshole to be Shelly Clark, so other Shelly Clarks can be mad at me for the rest of time."
Their conversations continued after a few glasses of wine.
"Have you worked with Sven before?" Shelly wondered.
"Once. On a commercial. He's a good bloke, bit of an eccentric, bit of a hack, but his movies do quite well."
"My manager wanted me to do this project. I've never really done a romantic comedy before but he says I need a hit since I haven't had one in a few years."
Hugh was shocked. "What about G-Spotting? I fuckin' loved that picture."
"You saw G-Spotting?!" Shelly was even more shocked as it was a small indie film that only played four theaters in New York and LA and wasn't even available on Netflix as of yet.
"Of course I saw it. I specifically asked my agent for a screener. It was terrific. You were terrific."
"Yeah, maybe," Shelly lamented. "But it made about fifteen dollars at the box office."
"Hey, fifteen bucks ain't so bad. Wait...was that domestic or international?"
Shelly laughed hard. Hugh had a great sense of humor, she thought. Most actors were real stiffs. Perhaps he was different since he was...she couldn't exactly tell but she thought Australian maybe.
"If it was something you wanted to do, Shelly, then you made the right decision to do it regardless of box office. You should always only do what you want to do."
Shelly smiled. He was funny and sweet. A rare combo. You typically had to be an asshole to also be funny. She suddenly felt a little tipsy. She wasn't one of those actresses that never ate so that even if the camera added those ten pounds they'd still look skinny as sin, she'd just been too busy on this day to eat, having only been able to snag some fruit from the craft services table during a brief camera set-up break.
"What time is it, Hugh?"
Hugh lifted his wrist toward Shelly.
"Remember? Prop watch."
Shelly glanced at the small twin-sized trailer bed behind Hugh.
"You ever slept in one of those things before?"
"I AM a movie star," Hugh half-jokingly boasted.
"Oh, so what, you take all your co-stars back to your trailer?"
Hugh feigned shock, putting his hand to his chest.
"You got a dirty mind, Ms. Clark. What I meant was, I AM a movie star so I usually sleep in a giant bed in my giant mansion. Not in a twin-sized bed in a trailer."
They were soon having sex.
The next day on set, Hugh (as character "Gary McBride") strolled into the Cock of the Walk past several clothed strippers gabbing. He briefly chatted with a busty blond named Erica about her lack of tips the previous evening. He took his place in the DJ booth and introed "Destiny" before she went on stage to dance for the lunchtime hour's few customers. Gary's boss, Guy Clemens (an overage frat boy archetype portrayed by popular TV star Mick Ritter), entered the booth to razz Gary for being late. Gary told Guy about his encounter with the pretty woman in the Village. Guy was intrigued, you could tell his character was always intrigued when it came to women, and wondered if the women had "big fakies, long blond extensions, a slutty look on her face?"
"Quite the opposite actually," noted Gary.
"Disgusting. So tiny mosquito bites, pale skin, and..." and here Mick (as Guy) shuddered, "dark hair?"
That afternoon Shelly (as character "Lizzy Olney") acted frazzled as she arrived late to a college lecture hall packed with students. She walked to the front of the room where she was greeted by her flamingly gay T.A., Ricky (no last name mentioned in the script, portrayed by straight comedian Andy Stevens), before launching into a discussion with her all-female class on Third Wave Feminism, noting that just because society is patriarchal, it doesn't mean women have to be stripped of their self-sufficiency.
After Sven called "cut" and "that's a wrap," Shelly was surprised to find Hugh still lingering by the playback monitors, being that he had wrapped several hours earlier. He claimed he liked watching his co-stars perform in order to aid in his own "craft," but quickly and embarrassingly amended it into an admission that he really just wanted to ask Shelly out to dinner.
Shelly reluctantly accepted but told Hugh they couldn't go to a restaurant in L.A. lest the paparazzi catch them and immediately start some buzz. Instead, she entered her address into Hugh's iPhone and told him to come over for a home cooked meal at 9:00.
That night, as Shelly chopped veggies and prepared dinner, Hugh sat at a barstool next to to the massive island in her massive kitchen and sipped on a beer. They made small talk.
"It's nice to be home for once. My manager makes me occasionally go to all these awful celebrity restaurants just so people will take pictures of me. I didn't want that to happen today. Not yet at least."
"The paps don't bother me in Hollywood."
"But you're really famous, Hugh."
"Yeah, in Europe."
"No one recognizes you here?"
"Oh, people recognize me. As Gerard Butler, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jackman. Never myself."
"Well, do you get bothered when you're back home?"
"Nah. They let me be. They're proud of me: local boy done good."
Shelly smiled.
"I'm embarrassed to ask this but us Americans just hear 'sexy foreign accent.' We don't know whether it's Irish, Scottish, Australian..."
Hugh smiled. "I'm Welsh."
Shelly nodded. "Oh. Wales."
Hugh was impressed. That dope, Mick Ritter, had thought he was from some country called Well.
While Shelly's back was turned as she sauteed some garlic, Hugh flapped open the laptop on her counter and started surfing. He read something and smirked. Not an asshole smirk like the way he smirked when he was portraying Gary McBride in The One, but a more pleasant smirk. Shelly turned over her shoulder, curious.
"What are you smiling at?" she wondered.
"You know how the first date is all about questions? Like a job interview. Just like you asked. Where ya from? Where'd you grow up? How are you parents? Where'd you go to school?"
"Right." Shelly wondered whether this was technically their second date being that they'd already been drunk together, slept together, and, well, actually slept together.
"I hate that part of dating. So boring."
"I'm sorry." Hugh disarmed her, but she liked the feeling. Maybe it was the Welsh accent.
"No big deal. But it's nice to go on a first date with a celebrity. I don't have to waste time asking you those questions. I can just pull up your Wikipedia page and..."
Shelly dropped her spatula and sprinted over to the island to find Hugh actually on her Wikipedia page.
"...see you were born in Durham, North Carolina. Grew up in Charlotte. You made your screen debut at age twenty-one, you like to golf...hmmm...interesting. And it looks like Autograph magazine named you the second rudest female celebrity autograph signer of 2009."
Dismayed, Shelly leaned in to read her own Wikipedia bio, quickly scanning the screen.
"Hey! It doesn't say that!"
She snapped the laptop close. She found Hugh incredibly charming. Soon, their home-cooked meal was a home-burned one and they were having sex for the second time, in her enormous bedroom on her enormous canopy bed.
Afterward, they discussed what was happening between them. Hugh claimed he had never hooked up with a costar, heck, a fellow actor before. Shelly felt like she shouldn't believe him, but for some reason she did. She had to wonder why, though. He noted that he took his work very seriously and, until meeting her he'd never wanted to lose focus just to dip his pen in the company inkwell.
"I'll thank you not to call my vagina an inkwell," cracked Shelly.
That was the line that made Hugh fall in love with her. Shelly had already fallen for Hugh. They'd barely known each other twenty-four hours.
Principal photography progressed with eccentric Sven shooting in sequence despite the $2.5M in additional costs to the studio. On the day Sven wore a bald cap with a pasted on ginger beard, Gary and Lizzie bumped into each other again, this time at a neighborhood coffee shop where she was a little taken aback to see him studying a text on Marcus Aurelius. "You're into the Stoics?" she asked, clearly shocked that this man she had thought nothing more than a Neanderthal was into something so cerebral. "I wrote my thesis on Stoicism at Princeton," she added. She walked out of the coffee shop and couldn't help but catch herself grinning.
On the day Sven wore an E.T. ball cap, glasses, and a salt and pepper beard (he was beginning to realize there must be something about directors and their beards), Lizzie and Ricky attended a Yankees/Red Sox game. Ricky complained about always having to attend "boring" baseball games with her. Lizzie told him to enjoy the night air and eat his hot dog. Ricky made a mild sexual entendre about hot dogs. On the other side of the stadium, in the bleachers, Gary and Guy slugged beers and Guy taunted the Red Sox right fielder. Gary mentioned to Guy the amazing fact that he yet again ran into that pretty brunette and he, yet again, didn't have a chance to get her name or number. Just then, on the Jumbotron, the "Kiss Cam" was turned on, a popular segment between half-innings during which the camera quickly scans the ballpark, looking for couples, and encourages them to smooch each other for the entire 50,000-plus in attendance to see.
"It's her!" yelled Gary when the "Kiss Cam" parked itself on a shocked Lizzie and Ricky. Lizzie was even more shocked when Ricky planted a big kiss on her kisser. "Why did you just do that?" she screamed, after the cameras were off them. "Just givin' the fans what they want," noted Ricky. "I guess she has a boyfriend," lamented Gary. "Go track her down any way, that guy looked like a real fruit," added Guy, a line we at the studio hoped wouldn't be flagged as discriminatory by GLAAD.
Hugh and Shelly's second date took place at Hugh's Santa Monica rental home and, smartly, he ordered some sushi in. They fed each other hand rolls while playing a little game Hugh had just invented on the fly: all they were allowed to discuss that night, he said, were terrible things about themselves. Hugh figured that, since they were celebrities, and since so many terrible things were always said about them, they might as well lay their honesty cards on the table before going any further. Shelly agreed.
Hugh revealed that he had been married, but for just a week, to some girl he'd met on a vacation in Thailand who may or may not have been a prostitute.
Shelly revealed that she'd had her breasts augmented.
Hugh revealed that he had briefly dabbled in cocaine in his early twenties.
Shelly revealed that she'd had a year-long affair with a very famous man who was still married to his very famous wife who still didn't know.
Hugh revealed that, despite what her agent told her, he was actually making double her salary for The One.
Shelly revealed that she really had a thick North Carolina accent but that she worked really hard to lose it so that she'd be more castable. Hugh thought that was cute and made her show him what she really sounded like. When she did, he laughed and mimicked her the best he could. "I don't think you'll be getting cast as a gal from the Carolinas in any upcoming films," she giggled. They ended that night in Hugh's California King, yet again having passionate sex.
From there, their romance progressed like most normal romances progress, even despite the fact they were A list celebrities (well, Hugh was actually B list in America, but who's counting?).
The movie proceeded according to the Aristotelian Drama Pyramid as run through an American rom-com Mad Libs fill-in-the-blank, despite Sven insisting he was making something "sui generis," a word he'd just learned after having skimmed through a biography of Stanley Kubrick (another be-bearded director) on his iPad during his last cross-country flight.
Hugh and Shelly started boosting the national sex averages of fifty times per person per year at four minutes per time by having sex ten times per week (over the next two weeks) at an average of seventeen minutes per time if a "time" was defined as starting at Hugh's entry and ending at Hugh's orgasm, which was a totally archaic and patriarchal way to measure these things, but even your prototypical left-leaning pro-women Hollywooder, like myself, probably couldn't have come up with any better way of measurement.
Gary and Lizzie continued to run into each other, pretend to hate each other despite the obvious sexual attraction and tension, think about each other, then head back home to masturbate to those thoughts (the latter, of course, never filmed nor shown nor mentioned on screen because us producers were hoping for a more viably lucrative PG-13 rating.)
Eventually, their relationship reached a certain point of seriousness, even though Hugh joked that nothing in his life was "serious." It's why he'd become an actor in the first place and not some boring CPA like his father. "I've never understood why when you decide to commit to someone monogamously you have to tell people you've gotten 'serious.' Because we haven't," he told Shelly. "Haven't we decided to commit to each other because all we've done is laugh the last three weeks? There's been nothing serious about it at all. Just fun. Instead, can't we tell people we've finally decided to get 'comical' with each other?" Shelly laughed.
Gary and Lizzie were seriously getting sick of randomly running into each other at the bodega and the grocery store and the bar, especially in such a large city like New York, when the forces of nature, the parameters of simplistic scripts, insisted that something occur at the end of what was called Act One, in order to catapult the action to a new level, to "up the odds," and make you wonder "What next?" In good scripts this was handled effortlessly, subtly, realistically. In Pierce Underwood's (author of previous rom-com smashes Status Update, Plus-One, and Groomzilla) script, this was handled by Gary amazingly being the only person to sign up for a $550 eight-week summer course on Corporate Feminism that Lizzie was teaching for the Learning Annex, a dramatic stroke only more farcical than their meet cute.
There are no second acts in life, they say, but since Hugh and Shelly were now in the second act of The One, they were spending everyday acting across from each other, which was great, despite the contentiousness of these scenes dramatically. They were likewise spending two to three nights of every week with each other, and all forty-eight hours of the weekend, mostly indoors.
Lizzie was furious and embarrassed. Embarrassed only one person had signed up for a class she was teaching to supplement her income so she could afford to take a sabbatical semester to help abused women in Vermont at the start of fall; furious her one student was this "frat boy" who was clearly only taking the class to annoy her. Despite his ever present smirk, Gary insisted his reasons for taking the class were honorable, he was truly interested in learning the subject matter, something us as audience members skeptically believed despite what we knew about his character.
Staying in each other's mansions having sex marathons was great, but Hugh and Shelly began desiring the ability to leave the house together, grab a drink, dinner, see a rock show, shop on La Brea, simply hold hands on set and let it be known they were together. Shelly's manager publicly "outed" their relationship by "anonymously" tipping off one of his Hollywood blogger friends that the new couple would be dining al fresco that evening at Beep-za (a hip neo-pizzeria that made brick oven pizza that tasted like it just came from the microwave) where they shared a medium Veggie Addicts pie.
As the film progressed, the two-dimensional supporting characters in Gary and Lizzie's life became even less dimensional, now simply used as occasionally appearing sounding boards for our main characters to work out problems without the script having to resort to clunky, "on-the-nose" narration.
All the tabloids and blogs were excited about the new romance between Alexander Hugh Davies and Shelly Clarke. I was even more excited as it was giving our film tons of free buzz well before principal photography had even wrapped.
On the morning Sven wore a suit over top a fat suit and kept saying in a jowly drawl, "Goooood evening," Gary and Lizzie accidentally kissed each other during a late night study session. They quickly retracted their heads and acted like they were disgusted with each other.
Hugh started getting annoyed that just going out to grab a bite or a pint, even if he was alone now, had become a media circus. Shelly thought he should be thankful that the simple act of dating her had made him into a much bigger celebrity on these shores. Hugh reminded her that he may have been less famous than her, but he was still getting a larger salary than her. "Plus points," he added, a fact she hadn't known and which he hadn't shared with her until then.
Gary wondered aloud to Guy why Lizzie retracted so quickly from kissing him, even when she clearly wanted it just as much him. "Must be because she's still dating that fruit," insisted Guy, the second time Guy had called Ricky a "fruit," something that would surely be noted by GLAAD.
With only ten days left in shooting, and only six weeks into their relationship, Hugh told Shelly that he thought they should quit seeing each other. He was still attracted to her, but perhaps that's all their relationship ever was: a sexual relationship. "Love at first sight is easy in a business where all your co-workers are a sight to behold," he noted, which Shelly thought sounded both like a complement and a slam and, perhaps, a confirmation that he had actually done this kind of thing before despite what he'd initially said.
As Act Three drew to a close, on the last day of their class together, Gary told Lizzie his feelings for her. Lizzie was torn, trying to fight her own clear feelings for Gary. Yet, all she could do was tell him he'd gotten an "A" in her class. Gary left the building distraught, confused as to why Lizzie wouldn't fall for him the way he'd fallen for her. That night, he went to his job at the strip club where we learned that he wasn't working at the strip club for some sleazy reason. He wasn't even working there just to earn a little extra loot, no, he'd been working there as a secret way to observe strippers and strip club owners in their environment for a massive academic book he was writing about the feminism of strippers. Unfortunately, only us in the audience learned this and not Lizzie, who had decided, on her own, that she really was in love with Gary and wanted to go tell him. Using the address he'd used in enrolling for the class—a class he was taking in order to help him with his book—she excitedly marched over to "West 45th and 7th Ave" looking for Gary's apartment but instead finding Cock of the Walk...and Gary inside introducing "Heartlights" to the stage for a dance. Lizzie was disgusted and dismayed and fled the scene. Gary never saw her.
Luckily, both Hugh and Shelly were professionals and were able to finish out their shooting schedule with no problems arising on set.
On the last day of shooting, our set designers had turned soundstage G into a replica of Grand Central Terminal for what I was certain would become an iconic scene in the genre, despite its real-life inaccuracies. Like in any good rom-com, Pierce Underwood had used this final scene to recall something from the opening scene, the meet cute. When Lizzie had fled the Cock of the Walk dismayed, Guy, outside smoking a cig, had curiously noticed her, mentioning to Gary that he thought he saw "that chick you wanna pork" come into the Cock. Now Gary was the one dismayed, telling Guy he had to jet. He sprinted to Lizzie's apartment, but she wasn't there. Taxied over to her classroom where he found Ricky, who informed Gary that she had decided to leave early for Vermont and, in fact, was probably about to board her train right about now.
Gary hauled ass to Grand Central where he amazingly saw Lizzie hauling ass, too. He tried to catch her but she was fast, allowing us to recall when she had mentioned she was a college sprinter at Vassar in what we thought was an off-the-cuff manner in the Second Act. Our shooting day began with Shelly (as Lizzie) bursting through the revolving doors into Grand Central and Hugh (as Gary) following suit some fifty feet behind. Here, Gary realizes, and so do we, as locked-in audience members, that if he is unable to stop Lizzie from boarding the 8:25 to Vermont then they will never be together. Which we want them to be.
Gary calls after her. "Lizzie! Lizzie! Lizzie! I love you!!!" But she either can't hear him, or doesn't want to. Soon, she is sprinting toward track 124, her track, where the train to Vermont is calling "All Aboard," about to leave, yet Gary still can't catch her. Down the track she goes. "Lizzie! Lizzie! Lizzie! I love you!" he calls.
Finally, Gary has an idea. An idea? Heck, he has no choice. He pulls a piece of gum from his pocket and begins chewing. Once it's a sticky wet wad he hurls it ahead of him toward Lizzie, but his throw is too short. He tries again. Again, too short. And again, one last throw before she will be on the train, about to leave the station. This wad of gum lands just inches in front of her and Lizzie doesn't notice and she accidentally steps in the gum—in the same shoes she was wearing in the opening scene—and she can't get her foot unstuck and her train pulls away and Gary pulls up and they look at each other and both are panting hard and Lizzie kind of looks mad.
And he says: "Lizzie, I love you. I can explain."
And she says, "How about you unstick me?" but she's finally smiling. And then they hug and kiss.
It was the little things like this that made the audience feel smart and as if they had been along for the entire ride of a couples' romance from meeting cute to finally falling in love.
Privately, during that shooting day, Hugh had told me he was furious at how Shelly kept missing her mark. Later that same day, Shelly told me she was pissed they'd cast such a "rag-armed Welshman" in the role as his weak throws of the chewing gum kept messing up the blocking.
A few months later, at the public premiere at the ArcLight, it was no surprise to me that all the "normal" people in attendance went crazy for The One, it was clearly going to be a hit with the female demographic and make me a bundle. I heard a group of twentysomething girls beside me even say, as the lights went up, "I want that. I want a Gary."
Walking out of the theater, I caught up with Hugh and Shelly begrudgingly holding hands so the paparazzi could get it on camera as they exited, still forced to pretend they were dating and in love for the sake of the picture and to counteract the internet buzz that they'd broken up. I stood behind them and between them, my arms resting on their shoulders, as they graciously fielded a few questions from entertainment reporters.
"Hugh, Shelly, great picture! Are you guys planning on making a sequel?"
Hugh and Shelly looked at each other and smiled big, as if they were two people still madly in love, pondering their next move, their next movie. They were truly great actors, great stars. They both turned back to the reporters and spoke the same words at the same time.
"We'll have to see how things go..."
© 2010 Goldfarb
You'll love the rest of the collection too, all stories about the sexes, sex, and sexiness in New York, which features these ten other tales:
"The References" -- The final few lines of one's resume are usually devoted to references that can tell a would-be employer you're the right person for the job. One's life references are a little different, but even more important.
"The Ambiguous Woman" -- A man struggles to figure out exactly what a woman is thinking while on a date with her.
"The Boyfriend Trials" -- A fed-up thirty-year-old woman has a most interesting methodology in searching for the perfect partner.
"Health" -- Arthur Lampkin is the sex-ed teacher at a Staten Island high school whose life is a living hell of comical sex-ed tools, oversexed teenagers, and an undersexed home life.
"The Feminist" -- Kelly Meyers is the only male professor at an all-girls college.
"He Proposed" -- The day a woman gets proposed to is the most exciting day of her life. And, she can't wait to tell you all about it.
"Born. Again" -- What happens when a sexually promiscuous New York atheist spends a weekend with a chaste Midwestern Christian?
"Gross Humans" -- If you knew what most couples did behind closed doors, you'd be repulsed.
"Ain't Nothing Like a New York Romance" -- There can't possibly be a better place to fall in love than New York City. Can there?
"The Cheat Sheet" - [plot redacted]
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Question is in the title: when you begin a dungeon with a DF group, do you use Bane in packs of trash mobs (or even adds for bosses)?
I ask for a couple of reasons:
1. I love using Bane. I use it all the time. If I get Bio/Bio2/Miasma on a monster, and there are one or more other mobs nearby I use Bane. It is incredibly MP efficient as opposed to recasting those debuffs manually on each additional mob. I like to use Bane even on mobs that have been slept by a BLM. If the mob is asleep and you use Bane, the mob does not wake up when the DoTs are applied. This leads me into #2.
2. Tanks don't seem to know how to keep hate on slept mobs. Obviously the tank wants to make sure not to wake a slept mob, but if I can begin damaging it and by the time you get around to fighting it I have already dropped its health by 15-20% that is a huge bonus. Tanks should be using flash or something similar to keep building hate on mobs while they sleep.
I have been cussed out for using Bane on trash mobs because the tank can't keep hate off me when they wake up. Some tanks are on the ball, realize what I am doing and manage their hate very well, others can't seem to keep up. I am a bit of a relentless DPS when it comes to my DoTs - they never stop.
Bane is also one of the best tools for clearing trash adds in boss fights. Prime examples are the first boss in Brayflox and first boss in Qarn.
What are your thoughts fellow Arcanists? Do you use Bane in DF groups? Do you hold back to placate the tank?
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I am 39 years old. When I was a child, I was always experiencing low blood sugars. When I was 20, I had a six hour GTT and was told that I had hypoglycemia. Nothing was done. With my second child, I was told that I had gestational diabetes and it was controlled through diet. After the birth, I felt increasingly sick and two years later, I was diagnosed with hyperinsulinism. That was a year ago. I have lost 15 pounds and watch what I eat because I am still overweight. I lost all weight after both children, then immediately gained it back, lost again before I had my second child and now can't get the weight off.
I am on thyroid medication because I have thyroiditis and adenomas. I am on metformin, 500 mg in the morning and 1000 mg at night and Actos, 15 mg at night. My insulin level was first tested at 63, then at three month intervals over the last year; it has subsequently tested at 70. From my understanding, there is not much more that can be done to bring my insulin level down.
I have had my gall bladder removed in the last year and have had an MRCP (magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography) and subsequent other MRIs which have not shown any pancreatic problems. What else can be done to bring my insulin levels down? My grandmother had type 2 and my mom was also diagnosed with type 2 in January.
I love my doctor and have no desire to replace her and have not found any other specific solutions to even talk with her about other than continually raising my medications. I can't take too much metformin because then I have severe diarrhea which interferes with my IBS. Everything regarding hyperinsulinism deals with children not adults, I also don't still usually have hypoglycemic problems even though my insulin levels are ridiculously high.
It is likely that you have an inherited form of insulin resistance that may potentially be improved by medications that improve insulin sensitivity. However, this is not always the case. Weight loss helps. You are always going to be more insulin resistant and at increased risk for developing diabetes. The other drug that has been tried for insulin resistance comes from the groups of medications known as thiazolidinedione drugs (rosiglitazone, pioglitazone). Keeping your activity up through regular exercise will also decrease insulin resistance. Even if you cannot normalize insulin levels, you may be able to keep them at a lower level.
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Hildegard's Ghost is very honoured to be involved in this unique concert centred around worldly approaches to improvisation. Sharing the night with HG will be Sina Ettehad (kamancheh) and Amarjeet Singh (tabla) who fuse Hindustani and Persian traditions with the common theme of improvisation: The music that we play together reflects the improvisation styles of our cultures. This means taking a small idea or melodic form or phrase and developing it into something much larger, beyond its primary character. It takes place at the Kay Meek Theatre on December 17th.
Written on the Body
Hildegard's Ghost is pleased to be joining contemporary flamenco/tap dancer Dayna Szyndrowski and harpist Elisa Thorn in their interdisciplinary project, Written on the Body. The performance takes place Friday November 20th in the Aberthau Mansion, Vancouver. More info here.
Photo by Kalliedoskopia Photography
Photos from LAUNCH Fest 2015!
Thank you to photographer Ash Tanasiychuk from VANDOCUMENT for these exquisite pictures that document LAUNCH Festival 2015. To see all of the photos, click here.
Dancer/poet Britt MacLeod performs "This City" with Hildegard's Ghost.
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Hildegard's Ghost is proud to announce that we will be featured among a line up of emerging artists in SFU's LAUNCH! Festival 2015 on Friday, June 19th. We will be collaborating with the amazing Britt MacLeod once more to perform a multi-disciplinary version of "This City." MacLeod will be debuting a brand new poem and choreography to accompany the harp/piano duet. Click here for tickets.
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Chris Kluwe is perhaps the NFL's most well known punter. Unfortunately for him, it has little do with his punting skills, and he is now out of the league.
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What is a conservatory measure?
The Superintendent of Bankruptcy puts in place conservatory measures when a bankruptcy or insolvency estate needs protection. It might be in cases of Licensed Insolvency Trustee (LIT) malfeasance or if serious wrongdoing on the part of a LIT puts estate files at risk. Conservatory measures may also be put in place if a LIT becomes ill or dies without a valid succession agreement. Finally, conservatory measures may be put in place if a LIT, for whatever reason, has allowed the administration of his or her practice to become substandard.
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Whereas the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (the Act) provides the Superintendent of Bankruptcy (the Superintendent) with the general power to supervise the administration of all estates and matters to which the Act applies;
Whereas Donna M. Leitch (the trustee) is the holder of an individual license as trustee in bankruptcy;
Whereas an investigation made by the Superintendent pursuant to section 5(3)(e) of the Act revealed that the trustee had a number of deficiencies in her administration and control of estate trust funds;
Whereas the trustee has failed to maintain employee fidelity insurance or a bond or other suitable financial arrangement, which is a condition of practice;
Whereas a Practice Review commenced in March of 2006 has revealed a number of banking and financial deficiencies detailed below;
Whereas the trustee has drawn funds without authorization from the consolidated trust account;
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Whereas the trustee has failed to comply with the provisions of Directive 5R, Estate Funds and Banking, which sets out the minimum standards for the accounting for and proper custody of estate trust funds, particularly by:
- failing to maintain up-to-date books and records, including a control ledger, of estate funds;
- failing to advise the Division Assistant Superintendent, in writing, of all outstanding errors that have not been corrected within seventy-five (75) days of the bank statement date;
- failing to adequately document the monthly bank reconciliation with a complete, detailed list of outstanding cheques and deposits, including any cheques outstanding for more than six (6) months, as required;
- permitting the payment of personal expenses from a trust account;
- permitting trust accounts to be overdrawn and not immediately correcting the transactions that caused the overdraft; and
- maintaining a sub-account within the consolidated trust account;
Whereas the deficiencies in the operation and administration of the consolidated trust account identified above have resulted in a reconciliation that is unverifiable;
Whereas the trustee failed to provide a requested response to an Audit Report that was issued to her on May 27, 2004, which identified a number of similar issues as described in these Directions;
Whereas the trustee has failed to ensure that adequate human resources are available to satisfactorily conduct and conclude the administration of estates under the trustee's supervision;
Whereas I believe on reasonable grounds that the estates require protection;
Whereas the Superintendent may, for the protection of an estate, exercise the powers set out in subsection 14.03(1) of the Act, in the circumstances referred to in section 14.03(2) of the Act;
Whereas the Superintendent has delegated to me, in accordance with section 14.01(2) of the Act, the powers of the Superintendent as specified at section 14.03(1) of the Act, in the circumstance referred to in section 14.03(2)(b), a copy of which delegation is attached, along with copies of sections 14.01, 14.02 and 14.03 of the Act;
I, Fred Sheeler, in my capacity as delegate for the Superintendent, direct the Royal Bank of Canada (1181 Davis Drive East, Newmarket Ontario, L3Y 7V1) that, pursuant to sections 14.03(1)(b) and (c) of the Act:
- it consider, upon receipt of the present directions, Stefan Miskovsky and Mike Cacciavillani and Dan Marshall, employees of the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, as the only three authorized co-signatories as relate to any operations of the funds credited to the estates of bankruptcies and proposals administered by Donna M. Leitch;
- it make no debit, payment or transfer of funds credited to, or which ought to have been credited to, the estates of bankruptcies and proposals administered by Donna M. Leitch without the countersignature of either Stefan Miskovsky or Mike Cacciavillani or Dan Marshall;
- it not pay out of these accounts: cheques, bills of exchange, bank drafts or other instruments, issued before the receipt of these directions which are presented for payment after the receipt of these directions, without these cheques, bills of exchange, bank drafts or other instruments being countersigned by either Stefan Miskovsky or Mike Cacciavillani or Dan Marshall;
- it submit all statement of accounts, accepted cheques and other documents or information having to do with the above-mentioned estate trust bank accounts, to Stefan Miskovsky, Senior Bankruptcy Analyst, Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, 25 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 600, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 1M2;
That these directions take effect immediately and will stay in place until such time as the undersigned is satisfied that the estates no longer require protection;
That in accordance with section 14.03(3) of the Act, these directions bind the Royal Bank of Canada, which must comply with them;
That, pursuant to section 14.03(4) of the Act, a person who complies with this direction is not liable for any act done by that person only to comply with this direction.
Signed at the City of Toronto Ontario, this 22th day of August, 2006.
Fred Sheeler
Acting Assistant Superintendent, Trustee Compliance
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that he would not support the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker for EU Commission president.
Orban said Juncker would probably be elected with an overwhelming majority. Juncker's nomination will be discussed on the second day of an EU summit, which began on Thursday.
"I will not support this decision," Orban told public radio in an interview.
Orban reiterated that Budapest rejected any "sneaking" changes to the EU's treaty, referring to the selection process for picking the EU Commission's new president.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Nick Macfie)


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ERISA-DOL Provides Guidance On Whether Revenue Sharing Payments Are "Plan Assets"
In Advisory Opinion 2013-03A, the Department of Labor provides guidance on whether revenue sharing payments that Principal Life Insurance Company ("Principal") receives for services are "plan assets" for purposes of ERISA.
The following facts were presented. Principal provides recordkeeping and related administrative services to retirement plans subject to Title I of ERISA, including 401(k) and other participant-directed defined contribution plans. Principal also makes available to plans a variety of investment options, including its own insurance company separate accounts and affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds. Principal receives revenue sharing payments from these investments in the form of Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 12b-1fees, shareholder and administrative services fees or similar payments. Although Principal retains all of the payments, it may agree with a client plan to maintain a bookkeeping record of revenue sharing received in connection with the plan's investments.
Principal deposits the revenue sharing payments into its general asset accounts. It does not establish a special bank or custodial account to hold the revenue sharing payments. None of its agreements with the client plans call for Principal to segregate any portion of the revenue sharing payments for the benefit of any plan. Principal makes no representations to the plan fiduciaries or to any plan participants or beneficiaries that revenue sharing amounts it receives will be set aside for the benefit of the plan or represent a separate fund for payment of benefits or expenses under the plan.
In analyzing the facts, the DOL said that the assets of a plan generally include any property, tangible or intangible, in which the plan has a beneficial ownership interest. The identification of plan assets therefore requires consideration of any contract or other legal instrument involving the plan, as well as the actions and representations of the parties involved. Similarly, whether a plan has acquired a beneficial interest in specific assets also depends on whether an intent has been expressed to grant such a beneficial interest or a representation has been made sufficient to lead participants and beneficiaries of the plan reasonably to believe that such funds separately secure the promised benefits or are otherwise plan assets. On the other hand, the mere segregation of a service provider's funds to facilitate administration of its contract or arrangement with a plan would not in itself create a beneficial interest in those assets on behalf of the plan.
The DOL said that nothing in the facts presented would lead it to conclude that amounts recorded in the bookkeeping account as representing revenue sharing payments are assets of a client plan before the plan actually receives them. However, the DOL continued, the assets of a plan may include any type of property, tangible or intangible. Thus, the client plan's contractual right to receive the amounts agreed to with Principal, or to have them applied to plan expenses, would be an asset of the plan. Similarly, if Principal should fail to pay amounts as required by the contract or arrangement with the plan, the plan would have a claim against Principal for the amount owed and the claim itself would be an asset of the plan.


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President: Federica Wolf
Organizing Committee: André Mazur Rhian Touyz Federica Wolf
President: Federica Wolf
Organizing Committee: André Mazur Rhian Touyz Federica Wolf
You are warmly invited to join us, to learn about this fascinating essential element or to share your research with the experts. We hope to raise stimulating discussions and to switch on new ideas and collaborations.
President of Magnesium in Health and Disease
Prof. Federica WOLF, PhD
09:00 – 09:45 Registration (Sala Musica)
09:45 – 10:00 Welcome Remark
Federica I Wolf (Rome, Italy) (Sala Curci)
SESSION 1 Magnesium Homeostasis, Status and Epidemiologic Data
Chairmen: André Mazur (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Federica I Wolf (Rome, Italy)
10:00 -10:30 Kidney, the Key Organ of Magnesium Homeostasis
René Bindels (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
10:30 – 11:00 Magnesium Status Evaluation: Where are We Now and What is the Future?
André Mazur (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
11:00 – 11:30 Magnesium Deficiency and Diseases
Qi Dai (Nashville, USA)
11.30 – 11.45 OC01 – Oral Communication
Proposed Guidance for the Determination of Status Indicators and Dietary Requirements for Magnesium
Forrest H Nielsen (Grand Forks, USA)
Breaking News Session
11.45 – 12.15 Daily Magnesium Fluxes regulate Cellular Timekeeping and Energy Balance
Gerben van Ooijen (Edinburgh, UK)
12:15- 13:30 Welcome buffet Lunch (villa Malta garden)
SESSION 2 Magnesium in Cardiovascular Diseases
Chairmen: Andrea Rosanoff (Pahoa, USA)
Rhian Touyz (Glasgow, UK)
13:30 – 14:00 Magnesium and Cardiovascular Biology in Health and Disease
Rhian Touyz (Glasgow, UK)
14:00 – 14:30 Dietary Magnesium and Cardiovascular Diseases
Jorge Salas-Salvadò (Reus, Spain)
14:30 – 15:00 Dietary Magnesium and Stroke
Kathryn M Rexrode (Boston, USA)
15.00 – 15.30 Magnesium in Coronary Calcification: an Epidemiologic Approach
Adela Hruby (Boston, USA)
15:30 – 15:45 OC02 – Oral Communication
Magnesium Supplementation and Mg Transporters in Pre- hypertensive Subjects
Mariana R Rodríguez (Durango, México)
15.45 – 16:15 Coffee/Tea Break around Posters (Sala Archivio)
SESSION 3 Magnesium in Metabolic Diseases
Chairmen: Fernando Guerrero-Romero (Durango, Mexico)
Andrea MP Romani (Cleveland, USA)
16:15 – 16.45 Mg2+ Deficiency Results in Increased Intra- Hepatic Cortisol Levels Through NF-kB Translocation and Inflammatory Cytokines Production
Andrea MP Romani (Cleveland, USA)
16:45 – 17:15 Magnesium in Metabolic Syndrome
Ka He (Bloomington, USA)
17:15 – 17.45 Magnesium, Obesity and Metabolic Disease
Fernando Guerrero-Romero (Durango, Mexico)
17:45 – 18:00 OC03 – Oral Communication
Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Glucose Metabolism: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trials
Nicola Veronese (Padova, Italy)
18.00 – 18.15 OC04 – Oral Communication
Magnesium Supplementation and Counseling on Glycemic and Genomic Outcomes among Overweight Pregnant Women
Simin Liu (Los Angeles, USA)
18.15 – 18.30 OC05 – Oral Communication
Chronic Exercise Down-regulates Expression of Magnesium- Responsive Genes in Blood Cells of Diabetic Patients
Fu-Chou Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan)
SESSION 4 Magnesium in Chronic Diseases
Chairmen: René Bindels (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Rhian Touyz (Glasgow, UK)
08:30 – 09:00 Magnesium and Chronic Kidney Disease
Ziad A Massy (Paris, France)
09.00 – 09.15 OC06 – Oral Communication
TRPM7 Kinase Domain Modulates Macrophages and T- lymphocytes Infiltrated in kidneys and spleens Induced by Aldosterone and Salt Treatment
Francisco J Rios (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
SESSION 5 Magnesium in Neuropathology and Stress
Chairmen: Mihai Nechifor (Iasi, Romania)
Robert Vink (Adelaide, Australia)
09:15 – 09:45 Magnesium in the Central Nervous System
Robert Vink (Adelaide, Australia)
09:45 – 10:15 Magnesium and Depression
Miguel Angel Martínez-González (Pamplona, Spain)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break around Posters
10.45 – 11.15 Magnesium in Anxiety and Depression: Lesson from a Rodent Model
Ewa Poleszak (Lublin, Poland)
11.15 – 11.45 Magnesium Treatment and Stress
Elena S Akarachkova (Moscow, Russia)
11.45-12.00 OC07- Oral Communication
The Effects of Magnesium Supplementation on Subjective Stress and Anxiety: a Systematic Review
Louise Dye (Leeds, UK)
12.00 – 12.15 OC08 – Oral Communication
Magnesium in Addictions
Mihai Nechifor (Iasi, Romania)
12:15 – 13:30 Buffet Lunch (Villa Malta Garden)
SESSION 6 Magnesium in Inflammation, Immunity and Cancer
Chairmen: Michael J Lenardo (Bethesda, USA)
Jeanette AM Maier (Milano, Italy)
13:30 – 14:00 Magnesium, Transporters, Cells and Inflammation
Jeanette AM Maier (Milano, Italy)
14:00 – 14:30 Role for Mg2+ in Immune Cell Metabolism Revealed by MagT1 Immunodeficiency
Michael J Lenardo (Bethesda, USA)
14:30 – 15:00 TRPM7 and its Dual Action in Cancer
Halima Ouadid-Ahidouch (Amiens, France)
15.00 – 15.15 OC09 – Oral Communication
Magnesium modulates Doxorubicin Activity through Drug Lysosomal Sequestration and Trafficking
Valentina Trapani (Rome, Italy)
15.15 – 15.30 OC10 – Oral Communication
New Targeted Fluorescent Sensors For the Study of Intracellular Magnesium Distribution and Mobilization
Daniela Buccella (New York, USA)
15:30 – 16.00 Coffee/Tea break around Posters (Sala Archivio)
SESSION 7 Magnesium in Gender Medicine
Chairmen: Marie José Laires (Lisboa, Portugal)
Halima Ouadid-Ahidouch (Amiens, France)
16:00 – 16.30 Magnesium in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Motti Hallak (Hadera, Israel)
16:30 – 17.00 Magnesium and Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk
Ailsa A Welch (Norwich, UK )
17.00 – 17:15 OC11 – Oral Communication
TRPM7 and MagT1 are Critical in the Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Bone Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Sara Castiglioni (Milano, Italy)
17:15 – 17:30 OC12 – Oral Communication
Magnesium and its Effect on Human Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts Differentiation
Bérengère Luthringer (Geesthacht, Germany)
17:30 – 17:45 Award Nomination and Closing Ceremony
Chairmen: André Mazur (Clermont-Ferrand, France),
Rhian Touyz (Glasgow, UK)
Federica I Wolf (Rome, Italy)
Posters should be displayed during all the congress. You will be able to fix your poster on June 23 from 8.00 to 9.00 am.
Panels dimensions: cm 75 x 174 (h)
Abstracts must be submitted ONLINE and in ENGLISH, based on the available Template. The abstract must respect the following framework:
• Purpose
• Materials and methods
• Results
• Conclusion
Abstracts must not exceed 300 words (title and the list of authors not included). Simple figures and tables may be included, but must be inserted as jpeg-files. Text should not include bibliographical references. Caution: the contents of abstracts will have to be for purely scientific purposes. Any commercial promotion is prohibited.
SELECTION After the deadline for Abstract submission (15th May, 2016), the review process will start. Some abstracts will be selected for oral or poster presentation.
FROM JUNE 23, NEW REGISTRATIONS CAN BE DONE ONSITE IN VILLA MALTA at 9:00 AM
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REGISTRATIONS CANCELLATION POLICY Cancellations made within March 31, 2016 will incur NO charge. Cancellations made FROM March 31, 2016 to May 15, 2016 will incur a 60% charge. Cancellations made after May 15, 2016 will incur 100% charge
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No. 3 Maryland Handles Wake Forest, 3-1
Oct. 23, 2010
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Courtesy of Maryland Athletics
The No. 3 Maryland men's soccer team picked up its first win against Wake Forest since 2006, downing the Demon Deacons, 3-1, on Saturday night.
Paul Torres, Casey Townsend and Matt Kassel accounted for Maryland's (11-2-1, 5-1-1 ACC) scoring on the nights. The Terps, winners of seven straight, outshot Wake (5-7-2, 3-2-2 ACC) an astounding 22-7 in the match and attempted a season-high 13 corner kicks, including eight in the first half.
Torres provided the Terps with their first goal in the 30th minute. A groundball shot from Patrick Mullins was saved by Demon Deacon keeper Akira Fitzgerald but the rebound bounced to Jason Herrick, who also had his strike saved. A streaking Torres up the middle then finished the drive with a bullet to the right corner for a 1-0 lead.
At 62:58, Townsend tallied his second goal of the week off a serve from a pressed-up Taylor Kemp. Townsend shook a pair of Wake defenders and powered the ball past Fitzgerald for a Terrapin two-goal cushion.
A Wake Forest score in the 68th minute from Danny Wenzel was nearly cleared out before inching past the goal line moving the score to 2-1.
Townsend pressured an attempted clear by the Wake backline and caused a deflection that ricocheted to Herrick who was taken down in the box in the 72nd minute. Kassel missed his first penalty kick of the year but came back with a vengeance in the 83rd minute with a 30-yard blast off a free kick that lifted out of reach for Fitzgerald.
Maryland is now 11-0 when scoring the first goal of the game this season. With the win, the Terps even the all-time series with Wake, 15-15-4.
"It was a great win. Defensively we were outstanding and we were very connected," head coach Sasho Cirovski said. "We had good communication all over the field.
"That's a young but very talented Wake Forest team. To their credit, they competed throughout the game. I was really proud of our whole team and thought defensively it was one of our best performances of the season. This is a very good win and a step forward."
Maryland has the midweek off before traveling to No. 8 Virginia to cap the ACC regular season Friday.


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Wordsmith University's new training on Job, Career and minor global fame being a translator and interpreter
Category : Uncategorized
I meet many corporate workers in India and in their private conversation, I detect a sense of deep insecurity and powerlessness. They feel that even though they have many skills and competencies and proven as these are, any 'optimization', 'restructuring', 'corporate mandate' , 'disruption' will overrule these. This is fact and they know it. There is a fear because of this and this fear reflects into various kind of 'alternatives' people indulge in. The alternative includes 'stock market dabbling', 'real estate investor play', 'running a business in spouse's name' and many more. But if their regular office-going is to be factored in, none of the alternatives give them the confidence and the fear remains but is sedated with a placebo that the alternatives are being worked upon.
Long back, somewhere in 2000, while I was working as a corporate man, I was thinking of how to establish a single hop between me and my earning. After many diversions and zig-zag (detailed in my business autobiography – Wordsmith Book of Business), I became a translator of 4 languages and eventually started an agency.
When I started as a translator, it was not an alternative play. It was the only play. Today, after eight years of running a business, I felt that I still need to establish a direct connection between me and revenue. I need to be a craftsman again, over and above a business owner.
Last year, in a cold winter evening, a very senior corporate man finding danger ahead in terms of retaining the current-salaried position and job told me, wistfully that how much he wants to have a 'craft' which he can 'practice' and earn a modest living. The example he gave was that of a doctor of old time, a small mechanic or a goldsmith. What he tried to tell me was this : I want a process and model where I can be a craftsman with a direct control of who chooses to pay me rather than being part of a ship run mostly by strangers.
I found translation, cultural consultation as the trade for me. I also found that I am part of a guild with a level of experience and I can learn more from the senior members of the guild and help the junior craftsmen of my domain. http://www.wordsmithuniversity.com was the result of that thought. We have taught worldwide : online and offline and collaborating with similar senior guild members from China to Brazil and Moscow to Sydney.
We are now trying to do this in home territory. The first attempt is below
Job, Career and minor global fame being a translator or interpreter workshop
Have a great New Year ahead !


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Chinese Mirch opens in Stamford
Best of both worlds: Restaurant fuses cuisine of China, India
Chinese Mirch, a Chinese-Indian fusion restaurant named for spicy Chinese food, recently opened its third location, this one in downtown Stamford.
"I used to go to New York to get this kind of food, so I thought, why not in Stamford?" said Nitesh Pundra, an information technology professional from Stamford who last week opened the franchise's latest 70-seat location with his friend Sundeep Cherlakola after frequenting the original restaurant in New York City. "The food is very fresh and very healthy."
The first restaurant was opened in 2003 in Manhattan by Vikram and Seinam Lulla, who came from Bangalore, India, in 2001. The business has grown to two locations in New York City, and a fourth restaurant is under development in Cambridge, Mass.
"We felt it was a very popular cuisine in India, and we wanted to do something different," said Vikram Lulla, 35, who hopes to franchise the business throughout the Northeast and then across the country. "We'd like to see the brand grow, yet there are only so many places we can be at the same time."
Menu selections for Chinese Mirch, which has eight employees in Stamford, include a crispy okra appetizer for $9 and entrees of five spice roast duck for $14 and twin pepper lamb for $15. The restaurant also offers several red and white wines.
The fusion of Chinese and Indian cuisines has become popular over the past five or six years because both cultures use similar herbs and spices, such as garlic, ginger and chili, said Linda Kavanagh, a principal in Stamford-based MaxEx Public Relations, which focuses on the restaurant industry.
"They make sense," said Kavanagh, who attributes the crossover to the large Chinese population in India. "It's really fun to see these two worlds come together."
The phenomenon has given rise to Chili Chicken, a Chinese-Indian restaurant that opened late last year at 19 High Ridge Road, Stamford, Kavanagh said.
Fusion restaurants are gaining in number as diners seek new gastronomic experiences, said Nicole Griffin, executive director of the Connecticut Restaurant Association.
"If this is something working in (New York) City, it should work well in Stamford," she said.
A new restaurant offering fare from two cultures may bring new customers to Stamford's other shops, said Barbara Seiter, vice president of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce.
"We like to see new items like that coming into the area because it creates a new consumer market," she said.
Chinese Mirch's Stamford restaurant, 35 Atlantic St., is open for lunch 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, and noon to 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Dinner hours are 5:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday, and 5:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.


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NEW DELHI — Sikh leaders have backed off from a showdown with militants controlling the Golden Temple in Amritsar, announcing that a planned religious assembly would be moved elsewhere to avoid a confrontation.
While the decision Tuesday avoids a potentially bloody encounter, it leaves the militants firmly in control of the shrine. It also creates uncertainty for the 5-month-old moderate Sikh government in Punjab state, which was under increasing pressure to stand up to the militants.


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Jon Jones, Vitor Belfort Cleared for Light Heavyweight Title Clash at UFC 152
It has been a bumpy ride outside of the Octagon in 2012 for UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Come fight night, however, the man known as "Bones" always delivers the goods. When he squares off with Vitor Belfort, Jones will look to erase at least some of the ill will generated by the UFC 151 cancellation by doing what he does best: providing high-quality violence.
Jones checked in at 204.6 pounds for his five-round title defense against Belfort (204.2) in the UFC 152 headliner on Saturday at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The eight other fighters slated for main card duty, including flyweight championship hopefuls Joseph Benavidez (124.4) and Demetrious Johnson (125), also met their contracted weight requirements at Friday's official weigh-in at the Mattamy Athletic Centre.
A Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts product, Jones has reeled off seven consecutive victories since being disqualified for the use of illegal elbows against Matt Hamill at "The Ultimate Fighter 10" Finale in 2009. The 25-year-old New York native last appeared at UFC 145 in April, when he captured a five-round unanimous verdict over former teammate Rashad Evans in Atlanta. His resume also includes notable triumphs over three more former UFC 205-pound kings: Lyoto Machida, Quinton Jackson and Mauricio Rua. Jones was originally scheduled to face former two-division Pride Fighting Championships titlist Dan Henderson at UFC 151 on Sept. 1, but when "Hendo" was forced to withdraw due to a knee injury, the champion balked at facing Chael Sonnen on eight days' notice. Without a suitable main event replacement, the entire card was canceled.
A former UFC light heavyweight champion himself, Belfort will be making his first appearance at 205 pounds inside the Octagon since UFC 51, when he dropped a split-decision to Tito Ortiz. Outside of a 195-pound catch-weight matchup against Rich Franklin in 2009, "The Phenom" has been entrenched at middleweight since his return to the promotion. A front kick from Anderson Silva ended Belfort's bid for the 185-pound strap at UFC 126, but the Brazilian has since rebounded to post back-to-back first-round stoppages of Yoshihiro Akiyama and Anthony Johnson in his last two outings.
UFC 152 "Jones vs. Belfort" -- which airs on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT -- also features a key middleweight duel between former WEC light heavyweight king Brian Stann (185.4) and "TUF 3" winner Michael Bisping (185.6), a light heavweight conflict pairing the recently unretired Matt Hamill (205.6) with Maximum Fighting Championship staple Roger Hollett (203.6) and a featherweight clash pitting Jackson's MMA representative Cub Swanson (145.8) against fast-rising Brazilian prospect Charles Oliveira (*146.4).
Two hours prior, the FX network will air four preliminary contests, Igor Pokrajac (205) battles Vinny Magalhaes (204.8), Evan Dunham (155) locks horns with T.J. Grant (154.6), Lance Benoist (170.4) collides with Sean Pierson (169.4) and Jim Hettes (145.8) locks horns with Marcus Brimage (145.4). The three remaining undercard bouts -- Seth Baczynski (171) vs. Simeon Thoresen (170.4), Mitch Gagnon (135.2) vs. Walel Watson (135) and Kyle Noke (170.4) vs. Charlie Brenneman (170.8) -- will stream live to the UFC's Facebook page.
UFC 152 Weigh-In Results:
Jon Jones (204.6) vs. Vitor Belfort (204.2)
Joseph Benavidez (124.4) vs. Demetrious Johnson (125)
Brian Stann (185.4) vs. Michael Bisping (185.6)
Matt Hamill (205.6) vs. Roger Hollett (203.6)
Cub Swanson (145.8) vs. Charles Oliveira (*146.4)
Igor Pokrajac (205) vs. Vinny Magalhaes (204.8)
Evan Dunham (155) vs. T.J. Grant (154.6)
Lance Benoist (170.4) vs. Sean Pierson (169.4)
Jim Hettes (145.8) vs. Marcus Brimage (145.4)
Seth Baczynski (171) vs. Simeon Thoresen (170.4)
Mitch Gagnon (135) vs. Walel Watson (135.2)
Charlie Brenneman (170.8) vs. Kyle Noke (170.4)
Oliveira missed weight on his first attempt.