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Katamari Damacy (塊魂, Katamari Damashii, lit. "clump soul") is a third-person puzzle-action video game that is developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was first released in Japan, and then later in South Korea and North America. The game resulted from a school project from the Namco Digital Hollywood Game Laboratory, and was developed for less than $1 million. In designing Katamari Damacy, the development team aimed to maintain four key points: novelty, ease of understanding, enjoyment, and humor.
The game's plot concerns a diminutive prince on a mission to rebuild the stars, constellations, and Moon, which were accidentally destroyed by his father, the King of All Cosmos. This is achieved by rolling a magical, highly adhesive ball called a katamari around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to people to mountains, until the ball has grown great enough to become a star. Katamari Damacy's story, characters, and settings are bizarre and heavily stylized, rarely attempting any semblance of realism, though the brands and items used are based on those current in Japan during the game's production.
Overall, Katamari Damacy was well received in Japan and North America. The game was dubbed a sleeper hit, and won several awards. Katamari Damacy inspired the development of other video games, and led to the release of seven sequels in Japan and other territories: We Love Katamari (PlayStation 2), Me & My Katamari (PlayStation Portable), Beautiful Katamari (Xbox 360), i Love Katamari (iOS, Windows Phone 7, Android), Katamari Forever (PlayStation 3), Katamari Amore (iOS), and Touch My Katamari (PlayStation Vita).
The primary story in Katamari Damacy deals with the aftermath of the planet-sized King of All Cosmos' binge drinking spree that wiped out all the stars and other celestial bodies from the sky. The King (who appears to be chronically dissatisfied with his 5-cm-tall son's small size) charges the Prince to go to Earth with a "katamari"—a magical ball that allows anything smaller than it to stick to it and make it grow—and collect enough material for him to recreate the stars and constellations. The Prince is successful, and the sky is returned to normal.[3]
A side-story follows the Hoshino family as the Prince works at his tasks. The father, an astronaut, is unable to go to the moon after it is wiped out by the King, and the daughter, whose name is Michiru, "senses" the Prince's work—she can feel when each constellation returns to the sky. Ultimately, the family, along with their house and town, are rolled up in the katamari that is used to remake the moon.[4]
The player controls the Prince as he rolls the katamari around houses, gardens, and towns in order to meet certain parameters set by the King of All Cosmos. The player uses the two analog sticks on the DualShock controller in a manner similar to the classic arcade game Battlezone to control the direction the katamari rolls. Other controls can be triggered by the player to gain a quick burst of speed, flip the Prince to the other side of the katamari, and more.[3]
Objects that are smaller than the katamari will stick to it when the player comes into contact with them, while greater objects can be hurdles; colliding at high speed with any may cause objects to fall off the katamari, slowing the player's progress. The game uses size, weight, and surface area to determine if an object will stick to the katamari. This allows slender objects, such as pencils, that are longer than the katamari is wide, to be picked up, and these will alter how the katamari rolls until more objects are picked up.[3] Animals such as cats will chase the katamari, knocking things from it, but once the katamari is great enough, it will scare the animals away, and they can be rolled up once they are chased down. As objects stick to the katamari, the katamari will grow, eventually allowing objects that were once hurdles to be picked up, and creating access to areas that were formerly blocked. In this manner, the player might start the game by picking up thumbtacks and ants, and slowly work up to the point where the katamari is picking up buildings, mountains, and clouds.[3]
The typical mission given by the King of All Cosmos is the "Make a Star" mode, where the player needs to grow the katamari to a specific size within a given timeframe. Other missions have more specific collecting rules, such as collecting as many items (swans, crabs, pairs) as possible within a given time, or collecting the largest item possible (such as a cow or bear).[4] The player can attempt a score attack mode for any level, in which they would try to make the greatest katamari possible in the time allotted. Certain levels can unlock an "eternal mode" by creating an exceptionally large katamari. In eternal modes, the player can explore the level with no time limit.[5]
Each level features two secret items that can be found. The first item is a royal present that contains an object that the Prince can wear. Most gifts are non-functional, but one includes a camera that can be used to take in-game screenshots.[5] The other secret item is a cousin of the Prince, which, once rolled up in main gameplay, can be used as a character in the various multiplayer modes. However, cousins can only be found and rolled up after the game is beaten. The game also tracks which objects the player has collected at any time, allowing them to review all the various objects within the game.
In the two-player mode, a player can choose to play as either the Prince or one of his numerous Cousins. The screen is split vertically; player one is on the left, and player two is on the right. Players compete simultaneously in a small arena to collect the most objects within three minutes. The playfield is replenished with new objects periodically. Players can ram into each other, knocking items from their opponents' katamaris, and if one player leads by a fair amount, then it is possible to roll up the opponent's katamari.[5]
Toru Iwatani, head of research and development for Namco, stated that the idea for Katamari Damacy resulted from Keita Takahashi's[6] school project from the Namco Digital Hollywood Game Laboratory, a sponsored institute for game development education. Keita Takahashi's final thesis bore out the core gameplay ideas, while a team of ten (including the student) developed the final product. The game was developed for less than US$1 million, a tenth of the cost of Namco blockbuster titles such as Ridge Racer or Soulcalibur.[7] The game took a year and a half to develop, with eight months of prototyping.[8]
Lead developer Keita Takahashi said that the team was aiming for four key points in developing the game: novelty, ease of understanding, enjoyment, and humor.[9] Iwatani compared the game to Namco's Pac-Man, which focused on simplicity and innovation, and served as a template for future games from the company.[7] At one point during development, Takahashi "proactively ignored" advice from Namco to increase the complexity of the game.[9]
The core gameplay of Katamari Damacy is the subject of U.S. Patent 7,402,104, "Game performing method, game apparatus, storage medium, data signal and program". The patent, issued in 2009, primarily describes how the game maintains the roughly spherical nature of the katamari when objects are picked up, though extends to concepts such as tracking objects collected based on temperature or weight values, which were modes included with later games of the series.[10][11]
Katamari Damacy was first revealed at the 2003 Tokyo Game Show, at which the press dubbed it a "snowball simulator".[12] The image featured on the cover of the pre-release demo showed the large red ball used in "Tamakorogashi", a game played at Japanese school sports meets (undokai) that was an influence for the game.[8] Plans for releasing the game in Western countries were tied to its performance in Japan.[13] Katamari Damacy was first shown in the United States at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop during the March 2004 Game Developers Conference. Due to its popularity at trade shows and a write-in campaign, Namco decided to release the game in the United States.[14]
In Japanese, Katamari (塊) means "clump" or "clod" and Damashii is the rendaku form of tamashii (魂) which means "soul" or "spirit". Therefore, the phrase approximates to "clump soul". The two kanji that form the name look similar (sharing the same right-side element 鬼), in a kind of visual alliteration. The name is officially transliterated as Katamari Damacy in most releases. In an interview with Dengeki Online, producer Keita Takahashi said that when asked about the title, "It just popped into my head suddenly, and this is what it has been from the beginning."[15]
The music in Katamari Damacy was widely hailed as imaginative and original (winning both IGN's[16] and GameSpot's[17] "Soundtrack of the Year 2004" awards), and was considered one of the game's best features. The soundtrack was released in Japan as Katamari Fortissimo Damacy. Its eclectic composition featured elements of traditional electronic video game music, as well as heavy jazz and samba influences (Shibuya-kei). Most of the tracks were composed by Yuu Miyake, and many feature vocals from popular J-pop singers, such as Yui Asaka from the Sukeban Deka 3 TV series, and anime voice actors, including Nobue Matsubara and Ado Mizumori. One track is sung and written by Charlie Kosei, composer of the Lupin III soundtrack.
Katamari Damacy enjoyed moderate success in Japan. The game was sold at about two-thirds of the price of a new game at the time. It was the top selling game the week of its release with 32,000 units sold.[7] However, Namco originally estimated that over 500,000 units would be sold in Japan.[13]
Katamari Damacy was one of the recipients of the 2004 Good Design Award in Japan, the first time a video game has won this award.[29] The game was included at a 2012 exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art, entitled "Century of the Child: Growing by Design", and was used to demonstrate the change in toys and playthings over the 20th century, specifically praising the game for its "quirky manipulations of scale" that makes it accessible for all ages.[30][31]
The game was not released in PAL territories such as Europe and Australia, since publishers thought it was too "quirky" for these markets; however, Electronic Arts picked up both sequels, We Love Katamari[32] and Me & My Katamari,[33] for release in Europe.
The North American release of the game was very well received by professional reviewers, was mentioned and praised on TechTV, and was a featured sidebar in the May 23, 2004, edition of Time magazine. Time continued to praise the game in its November 22, 2004 "Best games of the year" special, calling it "the most unusual and original game to hit PlayStation2".[34] Most retailers underestimated the demand for such a quirky game, and only purchased a few copies of this sleeper hit; it rapidly sold out nationwide, with sales surpassing 120,000 units in North America.[35] It also won the U.S. award for "Excellence in Game Design" at the 2005 Game Developers Choice Awards,[36] and G4 awarded Katamari Damacy its "Best Innovation" prize in its G-Phoria of that year.[37]
Although the game has rapidly achieved a cult following and has been praised by many reviewers, it also has its share of criticism. A common complaint is that the game is relatively short and repetitive—it can be completed in under ten hours, and the gameplay stays virtually the same all the way through. However, others, such as Electronic Gaming Monthly reviewer Mark McDonald (who gave the game 8.5 out of ten with his EGM staff), argue that the game's limitations are made up for by its strengths: "Sure, you're basically doing the same thing each mission, but Katamari's elegant controls, killer soundtrack, and wicked humor make it perfectly suited for replay."[38] As a well-executed, non-traditional game, Katamari Damacy has been influential in the game development community. Since its release, a number of designers have developed works inspired by Katamari: among them Isostar, and The Wonderful End of the World.
Katamari Damacy has spawned numerous sequels on the PlayStation 2 and newer game consoles. The game's direct sequel on the PlayStation 2, We Love Katamari (みんな大好き塊魂, Minna Daisuki Katamari Damashii, literally Everyone Loves Katamari Damacy), was released internationally in 2005 and 2006. Its story is self-referential, following on the success of the first game, most of the levels are based on requests from newfound fans of the King and the Prince. Though sharing the same mechanics, We Love Katamari introduces new gameplay features, such as co-operative play, and new goals, such as collecting the most valuable objects, that would continue through its sequels. Me & My Katamari (僕の私の塊魂, Boku no Watashi no Katamari Damashii, literally My My Katamari Damacy using the two words in Japanese for "I" which connote a masculine ('boku') or neutral ('watashi') speaker) was released for the PlayStation Portable in 2005 and 2006, featuring levels based on helping the animals of an island devastated by a tsunami.
Beautiful Katamari (Beautiful Katamari Damacy (ビューティフル塊魂, Byūtifuru Katamari Damashii)) was an Xbox 360 title released in 2007 and 2008, following the Royal Family using katamaris to close up a black hole created while the King was playing tennis. The newer console allowed for higher-resolution graphics and support for online network play, leaderboards, and downloadable content. While PlayStation 3 and Wii ports were planned for Beautiful Katamari,[39] these never were released. Katamari Forever (Katamari Damacy Tribute (塊魂TRIBUTE, Katamari Damashii TRIBUTE)) was released for the PlayStation 3 internationally in 2009. Katamari Forever incorporates a mix of previous levels from the series, framed around the King trying to recover from amnesia, and new levels where the katamari is needed to repair damage done by a rampaging "RoboKing". It further improved on the graphics capabilities of Beautiful Katamari, and introduced new moves for the player.[40][41]
Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Damacy was released for the Nintendo DSi via DSiWare in 2009. Similar in play to Tetris, the player used the prince to drop a katamari into the playing field to clear the puzzle field. Touch My Katamari (Katamari Damacy No-Vita (塊魂ノビータ, Katamari Damashī Nobīta[42])) is a regional launch title for the PlayStation Vita portable game system in late 2011 and early 2012. The No-Vita moniker is a play on the Vita console name and the Japanese word nobita, meaning "to lengthen or extend". While the core mechanics are similar to other games in the series, Touch My Katamari allows the player to use the rear touch-pad on the Vita to temporarily stretch the katamari into an ovoid shape, allowing it to roll through narrow spaces or collect small objects.[43]
Several mobile versions have also been released. Rolling With Katamari was released in Japan in 2007 for the Mitsubishi P904i series of phones, using their tilt-sensitive technology to let the player control the katamari.[44] It was ported to J2ME for release in other countries.[45] Katamari Damacy Mobile was released in 2009 for several wireless devices, and is a 2D side-scrolling version of Katamari Damacy similar to a mini-mode included with Me & My Katamari.[46][47] I Love Katamari was released in 2008 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, with later patched for the iPad and other iOS devices and for Windows Phone 7.[48][49] Another iOS game, Katamari Amore, was released in early 2011.
WindySoft, a South Korean developer, announced plans for a Katamari Damacy Online game, which was due to be released in 2007. It was never brought to the US.[50][51]
The character of the Prince became a mascot for Namco alongside Pac-Man, and makes an appearance in some other Namco-Bandai games, such as Pac-Man World Rally, Noby Noby Boy, the Taiko no Tatsujin series and Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku. In March 2011, an independent developer made a web–browsing application that allows users to play Katamari with the webpage they are viewing. This was not developed by NamcoBandai but was named after the game. KatHack Chrome App
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Eric Cartman's arch-nemesis returns to South Park to exact his revenge in the Xbox Live exclusive South Park: Tenorman's Revenge. Why is he so vengeful? I suppose it has something to do with Cartman making him eat his own parents.
Developed by Other Ocean Interactive and published by Microsoftl, South Park: Tenorman's Revenge is a four-player co-op platformer that casts players in the roles of Cartman, Eric, Kyle, and Kenny as they travel through time and do battle with their greatest enemies. Is that a ManBearPig I see? Why yes, yes it is.
More information and the debut trailer will be revealed during the South Park panel at the New York Comic-Con, Friday, October 14 at 6:15 p.m. in room A22.
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The late Johnnie Bassett, known as 'The Gentleman of the Blues,' won a Detroit Music Award for his CD 'I Can Make That Happen' (Sly Dog) on Friday. Bassett's last recording was named Outstanding National Small / Independent Label Distribution Album.
Bassett, who passed away from complications of liver cancer on Aug. 4, 2012 at the age of 76, was a silky smooth singer-guitarist, who got his start in the mid-1950s with Joe Weaver and the Blue Notes (the studio band for Fortune Records), backing up musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Turner, and Ruth Brown.
After a stint in the U.S. Army, Bassett lived for a time in Seattle, where he hosted a Sunday night jam session often attended by a young guitarist named Jimmy James, who later became well-known as Jimi Hendrix.
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[Verse 1 - Scarface]
Now flip with a nigga, as we dip through the Dirty
Four-tops, spin out and bent up to thirty
I only ride for homies, cause hoes ain't worthy
Never put a bitch before your road doggs, ya heard me?
Plus, we do shit other rappers can't feel
Like, hangin' in the same spots we hung out for the deal
For real, the ghetto ain't a pop song, Cutty
The ghetto bodies get up, get out, and get nutty
And fool, do it 'til the death if you have to
Just get the fuck up off the cuts, 'fore they grab you
And have you doin' penitentary time
Got these rap cats thinkin', if they shit to lift rhymes
If you ain't in the streets, then nigga
Stick to the balance, or get caught up
Tossed up in this bitch, like a salad
Dedicated to my niggas out here stuck in the trap
I deliver it just like I live it, it ain't rap
Trust me
This is really that gangsta boggie (2 times)
That gangsta (4 times)
This is for the ballers
Gangsta rap!
What all the hoes love
Gangsta rap!
What you hop your 6-4 to?
Gangsta rap!
You can do what you want to
Gangsta rap!
Yeah, this is for the ballers
Gangsta rap!
What all the hoes love
Gangsta rap!
What you hop your 6-4 to?
Gangsta rap!
You can do what you want to
Gangsta rap!
[Verse 2 - Crooked I]
What did you fall in the spot?
You could say that they callin' a cop
I'm robbin' niggas, whether they ballin' or not
The Steven Segal of the block
Clock you with a pool ball in a sock
Pop you and crawl off in a drop
Dodger hatted-up
I'm fly as a shot when it hovers
A mix between Morpheous and Matrix
In rocket in colors
Tell me, can I...
Rip 'em up? This a jack
Keep them hands high
Stick 'em up
No Metropolis, stoppin' this apocalypse
You couldn't see this novelist
With positive and optimistic results from an optometrist
G shit, that we dreeze, ah!
I'm in that L (dot) B (dot) C (dot) G (spot)
And we's, domes like two head soldiers
I'm ghetto enough to go platinum on bootleg versions, uh-huh!
Strapped, jumpin' outta the caravan
Kids turn the channel, now I'm finna smoke the camera man
[Verse 3 - Treach]
I got a question, what's the question?
"What is gangsta rap?"
Is it gangsta niggas that's rappin'?
Or rappin' niggas that act?
I'll tell you what, gangsta rap ain't even force
It ain't bangin' on wax
With dirty backs
Gettin' slapped at The Source
Hmmph, comin' in with your toes pointed out
Runnin' quicker than the bitches and the hoes runnin' out
Don't be pussy and shoot my kids
The set trip, next shit
And don't make it out to be East & West shit
I'll trigger Treach it then bless it
Manhandle the message
Double my records, Death Row the best shit
Illtown, L.A.!
You late then pay
Still doesn't weigh
You're laid out the same day
This is really that gangsta boggie (2 times)
That gangsta (4 times)
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BALANCING ACT: Miracles can happen
Staff writer
It is kidding season at our small farm west of Hillsboro. Despite the added workload of milking does and feeding baby goats in the wee hours of the morning, and making barn checks every three hours during the night, there is nothing better than the joy of watching baby goats come to life, sometimes literally in one's hands.
The first baby of the year is always special. And while our first baby goat of 2013, a Sable doeling named Dillan, came with a phenomenal show and milk production pedigree behind her, and a story all her own, it was baby number four that got the "miracle" tag.
Daisy, baby number four, was born early Monday morning sometime between 3 and 5 a.m. I knew her momma was close to kidding at the 3 a.m. check, but was still surprised to see her standing over a muddle of what looked to be frozen twins at 5 a.m.
Sadly, it looked like one baby never made it out of the birthing sac and was a frozen ball. Ugh ... not a good way to start the day. I found another baby, now called Daisy, flat as a board, mostly buried in dirt, and seemingly frozen as well.
After picking her up for an examination and concluding there was no life there either, I placed her back down and turned to check other does.
A small squeak of sorts teased my ears as I turned. What was that? It certainly did not sound like a baby goat, but it had to be.
I bent down to examine the dirty, flat, and very cold lifeless body I had placed on the barn floor. Was that a movement? Was she breathing?
I stuck my finger in the baby's mouth — it was cold as ice. I rubbed her belly a bit, and it moved! She was alive, but barely.
I scooped her up and ran to the warm milk parlor, talking to her and hoping for a miracle on the way.
Her neck, backbone, and legs were stiff, almost frozen, but her mouth, though caked with dirt and debris, was moving.
I cleaned her face off with warm water, wrapped her in rags saved for the purpose, and began rubbing her body, hoping to inspire her to keep breathing.
Barely, just barely, she sucked in air. Her abdomen moved, but then quit. She had such a dim spark. Her entrance into life had been cold and hard. I was not sure if she wanted to live or not.
Knowing I needed more help, I headed into the house to wake the rest of my family. Before long, we had her lying on warm towels fresh out of the dryer, absorbing heat from a space heater, and receiving continual stimulation as someone stroked her head and her body, reminding her to breathe.
It was not until 1 p.m. that same day that she finally decided to lift her head and squeak again. By that time her neck, back, and legs were warm, and though her mouth was still cold, it was evident she had decided to live.
Twenty-four hours later, she was standing in a box by the wood stove, letting us know every three hours with a loud, typical Nubian dairy goat maaa that she was hungry. Her eyes were still watery, as they had been packed with dirt. But she was alive, truly a miracle from the frozen barn floor.
Her birth and subsequent existence is a good reminder that sometimes all it takes to help someone who is struggling with life is to find a way to warm them up, clean off the dirt, and never let them forget to breathe. Of course, praying for a miracle doesn't hurt either.
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[Hook: Big Krit]
When I pull up, it's over (I pull up, it's over)
When I pull up, it's over (I pull up, it's over)
When I pull up, it's over (I pull up, it's over)
Better cuff yo chick, this shit here legit
[Verse 1: Big Krit]
5 in the morning, wide and yawning, can't turn my beat up
On the way to a bopper with a crib that I kick my feet up
See the candy was shining, freshly priming, first time I seen her
Now she wanna ride high with her head in the sky look down on all her people
Ain't it crazy how pavement be cracking when I'm slabbing them 'bows
Hoes go to jump in and can't find the handles on my doors
So much twerking and working in here, I should install a pole
For them strippers that love to suck and fuck and get, get down on the floor
Transformers can't fuck with this, not the way my doors flip
Skyscraper tall when I creep and crawl, is that Krit or a solar eclipse
Rise of the apes in my trunk, while my chariot swanging down
Make a pro catch ghosts like the rapture approach when my old school come around
[Verse 2: Big Sant]
Say bitch I pulled up on the curb, straight peeled off with yo girl
Said she wanna ride with a pimp, wanna get that dick that she deserves
Said my back seat softer than a pillow top, paint so wet that it hit the spot
And I'ma quench ya thirst, that little nigga should've did it first
You was holding hands and I was in her purse
I'm getting throwed up under city lights
She right side checking lipstick, tryna make sure that her titties right
We in the parking lot with the trunk open and sipping
Sitting outside the whip with the wood grain wheel like it's 1996
Yea trick I'm riding dirty, Big Sant bitch I know you heard me
Tryna get the 'Lac with the '84s, tag just gon' say "beg for mercy"
I just swerve and swang and bang it, but beware 'cause a ho might leave you hanging
Better let 'em know I'm forever ho, they kicking doors open, pay what you owe me
I told 'em...
[Verse 3: Bun B]
See pimping is what pimping is and macking do what it feels like
Drip the drape with that ? stitching and 4s and vogues so I feel right
Candy paint on that body mane, chrome the grill and that woman
Them belts and bucks and 5th wheel on the trunk, you'll hear beat knock when I'm coming
That bass so hard that it's numbing, that chrome so shiny it's blinding
Them seats so soft that I'm sinking in and so it's no need to recline 'em
I drop the top and you see me, got different shit on each TV
Got one with Sopranos, one with The Wire, the one up front is Boardwalk Empire
Wood grain wheel so goddamn new, that sap come out when I grip it
I represent for that PAT and that H so hard, I'm still tipping
I chunk the deuce when I flip it, for my city I put on
RIP to the Pimp, this UGK for life for real and I'm gone
"You know, I had to reach out to Bun to jump on that. It has a very gritty, riding old school feel to it. But it's brighter than a lot of my old school music"
– Big Krit


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United Nations: Sudan Humanitarian Fund received $ 44 million
New York
The United Nations has announced that the Sudan Humanitarian Fund has received $ 44 million from donors in 2018 to spend on humanitarian activities.
A report by the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today that the Fund and partners this year targeted Jebel Marra, Blue Nile, South Kordofan and Kassala areas for their important humanitarian needs.
According to UN estimates, the Fund has given over $ 1 billion (from donor countries) to international organizations, national organizations, United Nations agencies, funds and programs to enable them to implement life-saving projects in Sudan in recent years.
According to the report, the Sudan Fund is responding to unforeseen emergencies through its reserve allocations and giving priority to the country's humanitarian needs.
There are 21 United Nations humanitarian organizations operating in the Sudan.
WFP has been operating in Sudan since 1963, along with 104 other foreign organizations, most of whose activities are concentrated in conflict zones. The Sudan Humanitarian Fund is run by the United Nations, to spend donor contributions for humanitarian activities in the country.
The UN supports the Philippines in their disaster aftermath the deadly storm hit it.
By|Hue Gey
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Saturday that the Organization stands ready to provide a support to the Philippines who are facing a strong disaster caused by the Tropical Storm Tembin.
Secretary-General Guterres] salutes the efforts of the national rescue and recovery teams as well as volunteers who are operating under difficult conditions," said a statement attributable to Mr. Guterres' spokesperson.
"The UN stands ready to support the local and national authorities, in addition to the support already being provided by humanitarian partners," the statement added.
Tropical Storm Tembin – known locally as "Vinta" – made landfall in Davao Oriental in southern Philippines on 22 December and crossed various provinces across Mindanao causing flash floods and landslides, which rendered several roads impassable.
It is announced that at least 75 people were killed and dozens more are reported missing. The Storm also displaced thousands of people, and damaged homes and infrastructure.
According to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OHCA), 151 evacuation centres have been set up but the number of displaced persons could rise as information from the field comes in.
In the statement, the UN chief also offered his sympathies to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to those injured.
UN declares the responsibility of the Syrian regime for the attack by sarin gas in Khan Sheikhan
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The report of a UN committee confirmed on Thursday the responsibility of President Bashar al-Assad's regime for a deadly attack by sarin gas on the Syrian city of Khan Sheikun in last April .
"The Commission is confident that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for launching the Sarin gas on Khan Sheikhan on April 4, 2017," said the joint report of the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
"The Sarin gas was fired by a bomb dropped by an aircraft," it said.
The Committee pointed out on the other hand that the elements of the "Daash" used the mustard gas in an attack on the area of Umm Hawash in northern Aleppo in September 2016.
The attack on sarin gas on the town of Khan Sheikun in Idlib province, which was controlled by fighters of the opposition factions and jihadists, killed 83 people, according to the United Nations, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights killed at least 87 people, including thirty children.
In response to Khan Shikhun's attack, two US ships in the Mediterranean Sea on the sixth night of April 7 fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at the air cap base in central Syria.
From this base, according to Washington, the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhan was launched.
United Nations experts have recently gone to Al Qaeda to prepare their report.
The United States, France and Britain accuse Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of responsibility for the attack on Khan Sheikhan, but Damascus denies any involvement.
Russia insists the sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikun was probably caused by a ground bomb and that it was not carried out by a Syrian air attack, as the West claims.
Earlier, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed the use of sarin in the April attack, but did not have the authority to determine who was responsible for the attack.
The new report came two days after Russia vetoed the UN Security Council on Tuesday to extend a one-year mandate to investigate the body behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nicky Hailey welcomed the findings of the new report and said the UN Security Council should send a "clear message" that the use of chemical weapons should not be tolerated.
"Ignoring the huge number of evidence in this case shows a deliberate disregard of widely agreed international standards," Hayley said in a statement.
"The Security Council must send a clear message that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated ... and must fully support the work of impartial investigators."
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the new report had reached a "clear conclusion", calling for "the international community to unite in order to hold the Assad regime accountable."
"I call on Russia to stop covering up its abhorrent ally and to keep its commitment to ensure that chemical weapons are never used again.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has reservations about the UN report on violations of children's rights in Yemen
By|Abeer Almadawy
The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed its reservation to the UN report around the human right of children in Yemen because of the inaccuracy of the information that the report contained ,in which was based on misleading sources.
The Secretary-General of the Organization, Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, said that the organization hoped that the report would faithfully convey the main reasons behind the intervention of the Arab coalition forces in Yemen after the Salih and Houthi militias took over the legitimate authority in Yemen and threatened the peace and security of the region.
And talking about using the children as human shields, in flagrant violation of international and humanitarian law,is inaccurate at all and is incompatible with the reality of the situation in Yemen.
From other side Al-Othainmeen praised the efforts exerted by the Arab coalition countries under the leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who struggle hardly to ensure the safety of Yemeni civilians, including children. It is working to restore legitimacy and fight terrorism in Yemen and is one of the most important countries providing humanitarian assistance to the Yemeni people. High Level Conference on Humanitarian Assistance to Yemen held on the sidelines of the current session of the United Nations General Assembly.
He added that the coalition countries are making a determined effort to support the peace process led by the UN envoy in order to reach a political settlement according to the Gulf initiative and the outputs of the national dialogue and Security Council resolution 2216.
He stressed the need to adhere to the objective methodology in the preparation of such reports to maintain the credibility of the United Nations.
Yemen demands UN human rights council to provide support for Yemen national committee for investigation
Yemen's minister of human rights Dr. Mohammed Askar post with a demand to the Geneva-based human rights council to implement its decision pledging to provide technological support for the Yemeni national committee for investigation.
In a symposium organized by the Arab British Center for Strategic Studies and Development in Geneva titled "Yemen at crossroads: present and future challenges, Askar reviewed the violations committed by the Houthi militias and pro-Saleh troops against the unarmed and innocent Yemeni people.
He said the militias have 480 detention centers, including underground jails and custody centers, noting the deterioration of health of the arrestees and their families since the spread of cholera in Yemen.
Secretary general of the United Nations Antonio Guterres starts an official visit to Kuwait
By: Abeer Almadawy
Secretary general of the United Nations Antonio Guterres who is currently on a visit to Kuwait discussed number of issues that are effective on the region.
Guterres discussed the file of Syria crisis, the Palestinian issue and the crisis in gulf with terrorism.
The UN secretary was received by Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Al-Saif palace , and appreciated the role being played by the Emir of Kuwait in the field of humanitarian work as well as his role in the current crisis among the GCC countries.


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WBU Theatre taking show on the road to Ruidoso, reprising in Plainview
PLAINVIEW – Marti Runnels is used to working in the familiar space of the Harral Studio Theatre. But this summer, he'll get to broaden his horizons as he takes the Wayland Baptist University theatre production of Art to the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts in Ruidoso, N.M.
As Director of Theatre at Wayland, Runnels directed the show in 2002 on the Plainview campus, and he's pulled the original cast together to reprise the production in June. For Runnels, the setting and the venue could not be more ideal.
"Going to Ruidoso and the Spencer Theater is like vacationing in the midst of a burgeoning art community. What was once just a mountain getaway with skiing and the race track is emerging as a place for artists of all kinds to work, exhibit and perform," Runnels said. "The Spencer Theater houses the largest private collection of Seattle Glass Sculptor Dale Chihuly's work in the Southwest. His work is hardly what one would classify as traditional and often not even representational, yet it is admired and respected by many people.
"What better place to perform Art, this show that uses the ideas about what makes art art to talk about the mysteries of relationships."
The performance of Art will be the centerpiece of a weekend planned for WBU alumni and friends in Ruidoso, June 24-25. Specifically, the show will be at 8 p.m. on the evening of Saturday, June 24, at the Spencer Theater. The two weeks prior to the performance, Runnels and technical theatre director Chris Moore will be leading the Sacramento Mountain Theatre Collaborative in Ruidoso, an intensive theatre course for high school seniors involving them in set design, rehearsals and the entire production process.
Before the group heads to New Mexico, however, they'll reprise Art on the Wayland stage for area theatre fans, playing at 8 p.m. on both June 9 and 10. Both shows will be by donation, with funds raised helping to pay for the theatre collaborative and extra expenses of taking a show to another venue.
The cast includes Moore playing the role of Marc, Patrick Whitfill playing Serge and Cory Norman playing Ivan. All three are Wayland graduates and veterans of the WBU stage, with Moore and Norman making numerous appearances as theatre majors during their time at Wayland. Both Norman and Whitfill are doing graduate work at Texas Tech, while Moore works at Wayland and is pursuing a graduate degree as well.
Four years after they originally filled the roles, the trio says the play is still enjoyable, though not necessarily any easier.
"It's familiar to us, but we're having to learn all the lines over again and all the blocking. We thought we had it all up here," Moore said, taping his head with a smile, "but we didn't."
Written by Yasmina Reza, Art involves three friends – Marc, Serge and Ivan – who are having a disagreement about a new piece of artwork purchased by Serge. A large white canvas consisting of white diagonal lines, the piece invokes strong feelings from Marc, who feels it's a joke, and Serge, who believes the artwork is brilliant and thinks Marc is not refined enough to appreciate it. Ivan has his own personal issues but finds himself drawn into the argument over the painting.
Eventually, the jabs about the artwork turn into personal jabs and threaten the friendships. The bonds are tested near everyone's breaking point, and the final moments make for some classic theatre. The play garnered a Tony Award for Best Play in 1998 and in 1996 earned an Olivier Award for the best comedy.
"I think the script is the kind of thing that everyone in Ruidoso – and anywhere for that matter – can relate to because all perspectives about art are presented in the play. Who hasn't had the experience of saying, or if not, at least hearing '$100,000?! Are you kidding, I could paint that!'" said Runnels. "Of course, it is a somewhat sophisticated play – not a play for children because most of the ideas here would be lost on them – but it resembles, in some respects, the great children's story The Emperor's New Clothes."
The Spencer production will be followed by a special reception in the theatre's Founder's Club, featuring light snacks and a fellowship time for the artists and theatre fans. An exhibit of artwork by WBU faculty members Dr. Candace Keller and Mark Hilliard will be on display at the theatre as well. Tickets for the event are $30 and reservations should be made in advance by calling the alumni office at 291-3600.
A full schedule of the weekend, along with a printable reservation form, is available on the WBU web site at www.wbu.edu.
Reservations for the local show can be made by calling the box office at 291-1087.


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Supply-side economics
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Around midnight, the spring sky spawned a twister that tore through Belmont, a small town just across the Catawba River from Charlotte. It ripped an 82,000-square-foot warehouse in half, strewing structural steel and sheets of siding like shrapnel and soaking the ruins in rain. As he surveyed the damage that morning in 2008, CEO Charles Lingenfelter didn't know it would cost $8 million to rebuild and restock the warehouse beside his company's headquarters. But he knew just how quickly the job could be done.
That's because Industrial Distribution Group Inc.'s business is supplying whatever a customer needs and knowing how to get it where it's needed, when it's needed. A distributor sees a hospital not only as a place doctors treat patients but also as thousands of light bulbs and miles of gauze. A ballpoint pen is not just a writing tool; it's plastic parts and ink shipped from all over the world. As business grows increasingly global, distributors of every stripe have become bigger players, as evidenced by their prevalence on Grant Thornton's North Carolina 100, the annual ranking of private companies based in the state that the accounting firm's Carolinas practice compiles for this magazine. For most of its 27-year history, manufacturers dominated the list. Since the mid-2000s, the wholesale-distribution category has been the largest sector in number of companies and in total revenue.
Though not the largest distributor on the list, IDG is moving up fast, leaping from 22nd last year — its first appearance in the ranking — to 13th this year. Some new contracts could move it into the top 10 by 2013. In March, the company won a bid to supply and manage all indirect material — anything utilized outside the production process — for the North American operations of Ingersoll-Rand PLC, the Dublin-based manufacturing conglomerate whose headquarters on this continent is just up the road in Davidson. There had been more than 2,000 suppliers. Now, there's one. "Everybody was bidding on that deal," Lingenfelter says.
But everybody is not IDG, which is not only a distributor but also what industry types call a supply-chain manager. IDG will dispatch specialists to a customer's operations to probe everything from the janitor closets and storerooms to warehouses to review what the company uses or might need. They will recommend organizational software programs, new, more-efficient equipment and even look for inconsistencies in vocabulary — maybe a widget in a company's tool room in Fort Worth, Texas, is called something different in Trenton, N.J. — then recommend ways to organize or update inventory. Each customer is given a catalog that resembles in size and heft a metro phone book listing everything IDG has in stock at its 27 locations in 16 states and China. It also will store customers' indirect materials in its own warehouses, distributing them as they're needed. "A lot of companies aren't willing to take inventory and supplies off the books to help with cash flow," says Billy Moore, leader of Grant Thornton's Carolinas consumer- and industrial-products industry team. "That's unique to IDG."
Like the inventory in those warehouses, IDG is made up of many parts — 31 companies that were acquired or came together in a giant roll-up of distributors. Originally private, it went public and is private again. After working 15 years for Ingersoll-Rand in a variety of positions, Lingenfelter left the company in 1987 as a vice president of sales and marketing. In 1988, he bought Ensco Supply Co. in Greensboro, which soon merged with Tucker, Ga.-based Boring-Smith Industries Inc. They became Industrial Distribution Group, which acquired Shelby-based Dixie Industrial Supply Co. (in which Lingenfelter was a shareholder). To enlarge the company's footprint even farther, it merged, again, on Sept. 23, 1997, this time with eight other companies across the U.S. The next day, IDG went public. Making Atlanta headquarters, it sent the companies involved in the roll-up — some retaining their names but operating under the IDG umbrella — hunting for other distributors that offered new customers and lines of business. It acquired 20 within 15 months, eventually dividing the nation into four regions. Lingenfelter ran the Southeast division until he became CEO in 2005. He moved the headquarters to Belmont, near his home in Charlotte. Wanting to concentrate on long-term goals rather than on meeting analysts' estimates, he persuaded his board to take the company private, which it did in August 2008.
Aside from the general benefits of being private, including less oversight, a distributor's business model is inclined to yield unpredictable results, which aren't in line with the consistent revenue stream analysts usually expect from a public company. Fully stocked shelves over long periods can lead to poor quarterly statements. "There's an old term in wholesale distribution called turn and earn," says Randolph Smith, Charlotte-based national leader of Grant Thornton's transportation industry team. "You turn inventory as fast as you can, so margins are lower. The faster you turn inventory, the more money you make."
Employee-safety handouts and calendars are all that decorate the walls of IDG's headquarters. Carol Marks, vice president for business-management systems, points to one cubicle, then to the next, then to the next, explaining their different purposes. It's a dizzying maze of padded walls lined with every shade of gray in that spectrum of the corporate rainbow. The flashiest thing on the property is Lingenfelter's new orange '57 Corvette parked out front. The gift to himself is probably deserved. Though sales declined 30% during the recession, the company increased revenue more than 20% in 2010 and should reach "about a half-billion" this year. As a private company it's not obligated to disclose financials, but things have "significantly improved" since the dark days of 2008, a spokesman says. IDG employed 1,050 at the end of its latest fiscal year, when Grant Thornton cuts off the list, but had 1,118 on the payroll in mid-September. Lingenfelter says it will add 100 over the next year.
Two new contracts — Ingersoll-Rand and one in a new market segment the company declines to discuss — have helped, but this year the company also introduced an "e-catalogue," which puts all the products housed in its warehouses just a click away. A digital copy of the print catalogue it provides customers, it's Amazon.com for the industrial world. All this growth begs a question: Can the company afford to remain private and independent? Lingenfelter essentially ignores the inquiry. An acquisition by a bigger company, scared by the competition IDG poses, is a possibility, or it could go public again. Who knows? With two big contracts about to unfold, today, for now, trumps tomorrow.


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Making Burp Cloths
I decided to get creative after going to Dazzle Days with Jessica.
I thought making these cloths would be rather hard, but it was so super easy!!
First: I bought some baby cloth diapers(white).
Second: I went to my favorite store Hobby Lobby, and shopped for fabric and ribbon. This took the up the most time of the whole project, mainly because I could shop in Hobby Lobby for days.
Third: Took my baby cloth and measured the middle section, then cut the fabric 2 inches wider and longer.
Fourth: I got out my iron, and folded the fabric to fit onto the baby cloth perfectly. Then ironed down the edges.
Fifth: Pinned down the fabric to the baby cloth and sowed it together!!
Sixth: On some of mine I added ribbon to the edges of the fabric!
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I teach a number of courses at UW Bothell that incorporate art, history, politics, literature and film. My background is in art history, by its nature an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural study that includes such fields as cultural history, politics, philosophy, criticism, ethnography and museum studies. I am fascinated by the way the past informs the present and how world-views are shaped by cultural, social and political contexts. For me one of the most important aspects of teaching is to facilitate an understanding of the past so that we can take action in the contemporary world. In my teaching I emphasize the relevance of cultural change. I especially appreciate the joy of mutual discovery while working with students, and those moments of understanding when we apply what we have been studying to interpretations of new material. I think it is important balance my own continuing studies with the collaborative teaching approach supported by the IAS program.
I have a strong background in the art and culture of Mexico, and also focus on art and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in general. I am especially interested in printmaking and photography, and in the early twentieth-century avant-gardes such as German Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism. In my courses I focus on politically motivated art practices, social change as manifested in art, and issues of gender, race and ethnicity. I take a socio-political approach that often challenges generally held stereotypes. In this process I encourage students to do close readings of images and to learn about art first-hand through visits to museums and galleries; in my classes students sometimes make art that responds to the subject of the course. I emphasize scholarly research and writing; I like the process of teaching writing by working with students on an individual basis. I use MDID, the UW's online image database, in the classroom, and I draw on my training and experience as a librarian to teach students to use library databases and other resources in their research.
In addition to working at UW, Bothell, I teach in the Division of Art History at UW, Seattle on a regular basis. I am also an avid photographer and ceramic artist and have worked in a variety of media, including printmaking and collage.
BIS 209 Engaging Visual Arts: Visual Arts & the Modern Era
BIS 300 Interdisciplinary Inquiry
BIS 351 Topics in American Culture: Mexican Art and Culture
BIS 383 American Art and Architecture
BIS 470 Art, Politics and Social Change
BIS 476 Issues in Art History: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
BIS 490 Senior Seminar: Art and Society in the Twentieth Century
BIS 493 Special Topics: History of Photography
BIS 493 Special Topics: Modern Art from Impressionism to Surrealism
BIS 493 Special Topics: Women Artists from the Renaissance to the Present
My research interests center on twentieth-century Mexican painting, printmaking and photography and painting, sculpture and architecture of the immediate post-Conquest period in sixteenth-century Mexico. My book on the Mexican political printmaker Leopoldo Méndez puts the artist's life and work into a broad cultural and political context.
"A Brief and Partial History of Political Printmaking," Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, PM Press, November 2009.
Leopoldo Méndez, Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print, University of Texas Press, 2007.
Exhibition: Mariana Yampolsky, Imagenes de México, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, 2006.
"A Brief History of Political Printmaking," Paper Politics, Seattle Print Arts, 2005.
The St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists, "Lola Alvarez Bravo," "Graciela Iturbide," "German Cueto," "Julio Ruelas," "Leopoldo Méndez," "Francisco Goitia," "Pablo O'Higgins," "Jose Chavez Morado," "Fermin Revueltas," 2004.
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Homemade Laundry Detergent
A few years ago I read about making laundry detergent on a blog and decided to try it. My mother, who is also working on simplifying and saving, decided to try it before I did. She liked the results and the savings so she shared the recipe with me and a jar of it to try. I really liked it, especially since it didn't have a perfume scent. I like my clothes to smell clean but, not like a wildflower meadow.
I purchased the ingredients I needed, including a five gallon bucket with a lid. It was a really easy process and 24 hours later I was using my homemade laundry detergent that costs pennies a load. I will admit that I have purchased laundry detergent since I started making it because sometimes I let myself run out and we need clean clothes before the 24 hours are up.
There are a lot of recipes on the Internet for liquid and powdered detergent. Some call for adding essential oils but I don't like the added fragrance. Like I said earlier, I just like a clean, fresh smell for my laundry.
Here is the recipe I use.
1 cup Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
½ cup Borax
1 bar of soap
(If using in cold water use 2 tablespoons of glycerin)
Approximately 3 gallons of water
Grate the soap.
Put four cups of water in a pan and bring to a boil and add grated soap a little at a time. Lower to simmer and stir until soap is dissolved. When the soap is dissolved, take off the heat and cover for 20 minutes.
Put three gallons of warm tap water in a five gallon bucket. Add soap solution, borax and washing soda. Stir. Leave mixture for 24 hours with the lid on, stirring occasionally. Stir and use one cup per load.
You can find washing soda and borax at Walmart or Kroger on the laundry detergent aisle. I have used the large bar of Ivory soap but have heard that people have had good results from Fels-Naptha laundry soap so my next batch will be made with it. I'll let you know how I like it. I found this at Walmart and I think it was less than a dollar a bar. This is not as good a savings as Ivory, especially if Ivory can be purchased with coupons.
I gave the recipe to a friend recently and she had some trouble finding all of the ingredients. Here in Campbellsville I have found the glycerin at CVS, washing soda at Walmart and Kroger on Broadway, and Borax at Walmart and Kroger. I haven't checked the dollar stores but they may carry all the items also.
I keep a laundry detergent jug that I add my solution to since it is not fun to deal with a five gallon bucket for every load. I funnel it in and that gives me an easy way to measure and pour.
Let me know how you like it if you try it.
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On May 10, Secretary Spellings testified before the House Committee on Education and Labor regarding the Department's oversight of college student aid and the Reading First program. "Federal student aid is crying out for reform," she said. "The system is redundant, it's Byzantine, and it's broken.... Since President Bush took office, we've worked hard to clean up this system. Today, the majority of schools and lenders are doing the right thing. But when the public's trust is violated, my Department has and will act." Specifically, the Secretary noted her convening of representatives from student groups, institutions, and the lending community to "look at ways to make the system more transparent and easier to use." Then, when that group failed to reach consensus, she assembled an internal task force to work on lender issues. "But let me be very clear," she added. "If we limited our efforts to lending practices, without addressing the interrelated nature of cost, financing, quality, and accessibility in higher education, we're only treating the symptoms, instead of finding a cure." Therefore, the Department has been acting on the recommendations of the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education to increase affordability, accessibility, and accountability. As for Reading First, the Secretary said she had appointed new leadership, issued clearer guidance and training on implementation, and sought input from the states on reforms. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/05/05102007.html. (The Secretary's written statement, detailing how the Department has improved management and reduced the default outstanding loan portfolio by 40% since 2001, is available at http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2007/05/05102007.html.)
One day later, the Secretary invited House and Senate education leaders to a working lunch to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act and the Higher Education Act. "I am hopeful the pursuit of oversight will not delay moving forward legislatively on these two important laws," she wrote. "Indeed, reauthorization of NCLB and the HEA is an effective way to address the issues raised by your oversight activities." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/05/05112007a.html.
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The Department has proposed regulations to ease bureaucratic burdens, increase flexibility, and assure accountability by states in preparing America's infants and toddlers with disabilities to succeed in school. Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) serves children through age 2 with developmental delays or who have diagnosed physical or mental conditions with high probabilities of resulting in developmental delays. In 2005 (the most recent available data), about 298,000 children, or about 2% of the population of infants and toddlers nationwide, were served under Part C. Comments on the regulations are welcome and will be considered in the development of final regulations; they must be received by July 23 (see link for various submission options). Also, public meetings will be held as follows: June 4 (4-7:30 p.m., Portland, OR); June 6 (4-7:30 p.m., Oklahoma City, OK); June 11 (4-7:30 p.m., Indianapolis, IN); and June 14 (3-7:30 p.m., Washington, DC). For more information, please go to http://idea.ed.gov/static/partCNprm.
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Last week (May 9), Secretary Spellings joined First Lady Laura Bush and more than 500 other stakeholders at the "Summit on America's Silent Epidemic," a day-long event targeting the national high school dropout crisis sponsored by Civic Enterprises, MTV, the National Governors Association, TIME magazine, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Today, a quality education is more important than ever and solving our dropout crisis is not just a moral imperative, it's an economic necessity," the Secretary stated. "The U.S. has the most severe income gap between high school graduates and dropouts in the world.... Yet, every year, nearly a million kids fail to graduate high school with their peers." The summit produced many materials, including a 10-point plan endorsed by over 100 organizations and a new, online tool from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (http://220.127.116.11/edweek/main.html) providing reliable, comparable data on the graduation rate of every school district. For more information, please go to http://www.silentepidemic.org/summit/. (The Secretary's full remarks are available at http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/05/05092007.html.)
A related, May 12 op-ed by the Secretary and Senator Edward Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, is posted at http://www.ed.gov/news/opeds/edit/2007/05122007.html.
New STEM Report
One of the strategies to prevent dropouts is challenging students with rigorous courses in the growing fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). However, according to the final report of the Academic Competitiveness Council (ACC), which inventoried 105 federal STEM programs, there is a "general dearth" of effective practices and activities in STEM education across the federal government. Moreover, there is some duplication, as well as critical programmatic gaps. For example, less than 1% of federal program funding is targeted solely to math education. To improve the situation, the ACC issued six recommendations, from maintaining the program inventory so as to facilitate interagency coordination to requiring a rigorous, independent evaluation of any program receiving an increase in funding. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/competitiveness/acc-mathscience/.
NAEP History and Civics
Earlier this week (May 16), the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released results from the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests in U.S. history and civics. Overall, student achievement improved significantly at all three grade levels tested (fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade) in U.S. history (previously assessed in 1994 and 2001) and at the fourth-grade level in civics (previously assessed in 1998). In addition, on both exams, achievement gaps narrowed in the fourth-grade: white-black and white-Hispanic gaps in U.S. history and white-Hispanic gaps in civics. On the other hand, eighth- and twelfth-grade civics achievement has not changed, and, on both exams, achievement gaps persist in the upper grades. One interesting side note. The twelfth-grade improvement in U.S. history marks the first time high school students have had a significant increase in achievement on a NAEP test since 1998. On all NAEP tests since then (reading, math, science, and civics), results have been flat or declining. For more information, please go to http://nationsreportcard.gov/ushistory_2006/ or http://nationsreportcard.gov/civics_2006/.
In a statement, Secretary Spellings attributed fourth-grade gains to the No Child Left Behind Act's emphasis on reading. "As students' skills in reading fluency and comprehension strengthen, so does their ability to do well in other subject areas," she explained. "While critics may argue that NCLB leads educators to narrow their curriculum focus, the fact is, when students know how to read and comprehend, they apply these skills to other subjects like history and civics. The result is greater academic gains." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/05/05162007.html.
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Applications are now available for the Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant competition. Safe Schools/Healthy Students is a collaborative program supported by three federal agencies: Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice. Under the program, school districts partner with local law enforcement, juvenile justice, and mental health agencies to implement a comprehensive plan focused on six elements, including safe school environments, mental health treatment services, and early childhood emotional development programs. Successful applicants propose plans that take up these issues with a thoughtful, well-coordinated strategy that links all services in a more systematic and effective manner. The deadline for applications is June 19. For more information, please go to http://www.sshs.samhsa.gov/.
Also: Deputy Chief of Staff Holly Kuzmich recently testified on school and campus safety. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/05/05172007.html.
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"The pursuit of knowledge is such a pure and admired value. It's a universal representation of hopea means to a better life. And, I believe that's part of why the tragedy at Virginia Tech has resonated and impacted us all so deeply.... Yet, when something bad happens, education is also a means to get through itan opportunity to learn from and act on the moment we're in. The events at Virginia Tech remind us just how precious life is, how important it is to seize the day, give your kids a hug, take time for that cup of coffee with a good friend, and never take tomorrow for granted."
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Dr. Pomper's research projects in central nervous system imaging include using positron emission tomography (PET) and advanced magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) techniques to uncover brain metabolic correlates of AIDS dementia; using PET to study molecular (neurotransmitter) and cellular abnormalities in patients with AIDS dementia; and the development of new radiopharmaceuticals for imaging nicotinic and glutamatergic neurotransmission as well as for imaging inflammation.
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The Johns Hopkins Small Animal Imaging Resource Program (SAIRP) works to generate the confidence necessary to move new cancer therapies to patients. Its ultimate goal is to move small animal imaging science forward to the point where the incorporation of such imaging techniques becomes second nature in the daily practice of cancer researchers.
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Banerjee, S.R., Pullambhatla, M., Byun, Y., Nimmagadda, S., Foss, C.A., Green, G., Fox, J.J., Lupold, S.E., Mease, R.C., Pomper, M.G. "Sequential SPECT and optical imaging of experimental models of prostate cancer with a dual modality inhibitor of the prostate-specific membrane antigen." Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2011, in press.
Bhang, H.-E., Gabrielson, K.L., Laterra, J., Fisher, P.B., Pomper, M.G. "Tumor-specific imaging through progression elevated gene-3 promoter-driven gene expression." Nat. Med. 17:123-129, 2011.
Banerjee, S.R., Pullambhatla, M., Byun, Y., Nimmagadda, S., Green, G., Fox, J.J., Horti, A., Mease ,R.C., Pomper, M.G. (68) "Ga-labeled inhibitors of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) for imaging prostate cancer." J. Med. Chem. 2010 Jun 22.
Nimmagadda, S., Pullambhatla, M., Stone, K., Green, G., Bhujwalla, Z.M., Pomper, M.G. "Molecular imaging of CXCR4 receptor expression in human cancer xenografts with [64Cu]AMD3100 positron emission tomography." Cancer Res. 70(10):3935-44, 2010.
Wang, H., Byun, Y., Barinka, C., Pullambhatla, M., Bhang, H.-E., Fox, J.J., Lubkowski, J., Mease, R.C., Pomper, M.G. "Bioisosterism of urea-based GCPII inhibitors: synthesis and structure-activity relationships." Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 20(1):392-7, 2010.
Labeled inhibitors of prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA), biological evaluation, and use as imaging agents
Patent # US9044468 B2 | 06/02/2015
The prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is increasingly recognized as a viable target for imaging and therapy of cancer. Various 99mTc/Re-labeled compounds were prepared by attaching known Tc/Re chelating agents to an amino-functionalized PSMA inhibitor with or without a variable length linker moiety. Ex vivo biodistribution and in vivo imaging demonstrated the degree of specific binding to engineered PSMA+ PC3 PIP tumors.
Imaging infection with compounds that bind to thymidine kinase
Patent # US8691186 B2 | 04/08/2014
The instant invention provides a method for diagnosing an infection in a subject by administering to the subject a compound suitable for imaging which binds to a thymidine kinase present in the infecting organism, and obtaining an image of the subject to determine the presence and location of the compound, wherein a localization of the compound is indicative that the subject has an infection.
PSMA-binding agents and uses thereof
Patent # US8778305 B2 | 07/15/2014
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) binding compounds having radioisotope substituents are described, as well as chemical precursors thereof. Compounds include pyridine containing compounds, compounds having phenylhydrazine structures, and acylated lysine compounds. The compounds allow ready incorporation of radionuclides for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) for imaging, for example, prostate cancer cells and angiogenesis.
TSPO-targeting compounds and uses thereof
Patent # US8778304 B2 | 07/15/2014
Translocator protein (TSPO) targeting compounds are described. Methods of making the compounds, and uses of the compounds for imaging are also described.
Imaging agents and methods of imaging NAALADase or PSMA
Patent # US8227634 B2 | 07/24/2012
The present invention relates to compounds particularly asymmetric urea compounds which are labeled with one or more radioisotopes and which are suitable for imaging or therapeutic treatment of tissues, organs, or tumors which express NAALADase and/or PSMA. In another embodiment, the invention relates to methods of imaging tissues, organs, or tumors using radiolabeled compounds of the invention, particularly tissues, organs, or tumors which express NAALADase and/or PSMA to which the compounds of the invention have an affinity.
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