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Kanye West's skirt steals 12-12-12 Sandy show
What did you think of his outfit?
The 12-12-12 concert was filled with big names and fabulous performances.
But the one thing that really set Twitter on fire?
Kanye West's skirt.
His girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, tweeted, "Awwwwwwww I'm so excited right now!!!!! He looks so cute!!" (We have to assume she was talking about Kanye.)
Photos: Stars make questionable fashion moves
But other commenters weren't so into his leather-look kilt-like outfit.
Among the wisecracks:
- "Kanye must have swapped suitcases with Kim Kardashian."
- "'Wear this black trash bag as a skirt. Then, just kinda run around the stage scaring white people' - Kanye West's manager before the show"
- "Maybe a new item from the Kardashian collection?"
- "Kanye West looks like the episode when Steve Urkel became a cheerleader!!!!"
But some liked it: "I love that @kanyewest went from pink popped collars to leggings and kilts in 10 years and he's still on top of the game," wrote one fan.
And, of course, within minutes of taking the stage, Kanye's Skirt had its own Twitter page. The skirt noted that "Sir Paul (McCartney) is wearing mom jeans."


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While global economic growth has been sluggish in recent years, Africa has been growing. We've seen a resurgence of traditional sectors such as agriculture and the extractive industries as well as promising new ones such as ICT. Not surprisingly, these booming sectors need highly skilled technicians, engineers, medical workers, agricultural scientists and researchers. Yet large numbers of African graduates remain unemployed as their skills are often not in line with industry requirements.
African countries are keen to bridge this "skills" gap, and new partner countries such as China, India, Brazil and Korea are willing to help. We recently brought together ministers from nine African countries and partner representatives in Addis Ababa to explore a potential partnership on skills development in applied science, engineering and technology, and I am delighted to report that we've made a lot of progress. Following early interest expressed during consultations with these countries, I think there was a strong commitment from all sides to align various ongoing and future skills development activities according to the individual priorities of each African economy. To my mind, this is very important, not least because more people living in African countries need to benefit more from widespread economic growth across the continent, and to possess the right skills to take advantage of new employment opportunities.
At the workshop, over 90 participants from Ethiopia, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan and Tanzania; as well as the four partner countries— brainstormed about ways in which their shared knowledge and experience can help Africa upgrade skills. They came from governments, academia, and, of course, the private sector. As foreign direct investment increases from new partners into African economies, it is a "win-win" situation for both if the right skills can be rapidly developed locally. The proposed PASET partnership could, with support from the World Bank Group, provide a strong framework for this collaboration on skills that can be developed along a continuum from vocational training to professional and scientific training.
This short video features ministers and other participants at the Addis Ababa meeting, expressing their views ad expectations regarding what countries need and what partners can offer. It gives you a flavor of the many conversations that were made possible during the three-day workshop. I was very encouraged by the fact that, at the end of our time in Addis Ababa, all African countries presented action plans with concrete ideas about next steps. This workshop was just the beginning of what I hope will be a very useful effort. We are exploring follow-up events to bring together private sector representatives from partner countries, ministries of finance and sector ministries involved in skills development. We will also bring together workshop participants in about a year's time to review progress and to exchange implementation experience.
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Being originally from Liberia, my concern on a partnership like this is - how would the new skills developed be utilize immediately? Although Liberia has a broken educational system, the country continues to graduate a record number of individuals receiving undergraduate, graduate and legal degrees; most of these graduates are unemployed, not due to lack of skills, but jobs creation ability. Hence, talk of skills development in Liberia should be approached on a project by project basis; for example, training the administrative division of each ministry to better manage and to make concerted effort to improve the quality of key public services. However, if skills development is going to be focused on the general public, there should be a plan for immediate placement. No amount of training sessions is going to affect an economy if it's not being used. Also, an ethics course needs to be added to all professional development training in Liberia - this might help individuals to consider building cohesion and shared prosperity - ultimately, leading to a middle income country. My thoughts and frustration with Liberians in the diaspora and in Liberia are:
* we lack the ability to think and be creative
* we spend most of our productive time duplicating, instead of building
* we urgently need wealth building education (investment and saving training)
* we need to appreciate learning, and see it as a step to long-term socioeconomic success
* we need to fully understand entrepreneurship to develop businesses
* we need to be realistic about our skills and experiences

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The University Magazine
Her mission is to help others
|Carpenter-Palumbo '84
True or false: Most substance abusers are homeless people wandering the streets of large cities.
"That's the big misconception," says Karen M. Carpenter-Palumbo '84 (social work), commissioner of the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. "We know that one of out seven people has a substance abuse problem – 1.8 million New Yorkers. People from every walk of life. Everyone knows someone who struggles with an addiction."
Carpenter-Palumbo is responsible for making sure that those people don't have to struggle alone. She oversees the largest substance abuse treatment system in the United States, serving 110,000 people daily in more than 1,500 programs statewide, with a $1.7 billion annual budget. The agency addresses prevention, treatment and recovery, with treatment remaining by far the largest part of the three-pronged approach to a huge societal issue.
Appointed to her current position in February 2007 by then-Governor Eliot Spitzer, Carpenter-Palumbo has more than 25 years experience in the areas of health, mental health, substance abuse and disability-related issues. Immediately prior to becoming commissioner, she served as regional vice president for the American Cancer Society. From 1997-2004, she was executive vice president of Government Programs for Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc. From 1990-1994, she was assistant secretary to Gov. Mario Cuomo, where she served as his senior policy adviser on issues of state agencies in the areas of mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse and general disability issues.
During the time she worked in the Cuomo administration, the Division of Alcoholism and the Division of Substance Abuse merged. Today, the agency also provides services for people with gambling problems.
A native of Horseheads, N.Y., Carpenter-Palumbo was a student at Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, N.Y., when it became a part of RIT in 1979. When the college closed in 1983, "I was devastated," she says. But finishing her degree at RIT meant an internship with Rochester Police Department and the opportunity to add a practical focus to her liberal arts background. That helped determine her career path.
"It worked out very well for me," says Carpenter-Palumbo, who went on to earn a master's degree in social work from Adelphi University.
She calls her current position "an honor and a privilege," although it's a 24/7 commitment involving travel, public speaking and heavy administrative responsibilities. As commissioner, her job is to lead and motivate a team of more than 1,000. She enjoys the challenge – and especially the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.
Last year, she announced a plan to make all addiction treatment centers in the state smoke free and to provide clients with a program to cure nicotine dependence. Her motivation was the alarming fact that 92 percent of people in substance abuse programs are smokers, compared to 18 percent of the general public. She believes it makes no sense to help people overcome drug and alcohol addiction while overlooking another serious health threat. The new policy went into effect in July 2008.
"It's not easy," she says, "but people are embracing it. It's the right thing to do.
"We want to make sure people who have struggled with an illness can be supported for a lifetime of wellness and sobriety," she says. "We must make sure we're doing everything possible for their health and well being."
For more information about the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services visit www.oasas.state.ny.us. If you or someone you know needs help, call the OASAS 24-hour help line at 1-800-522-5353.


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Topic: New Feature: Reputation/Karma points
Like eBay. Like other message boards. Like life. You can get praise, you can get criticism. But, by making a game out of it, just like post counts and stars, your incentive is to raise your reputation up.
You can + and - others for any reason, but when you give them praise/smite, you and everyone else knows it's you plus you have to give a reason. If you give a point to someone (1 per person limit), they might return the favor as you post replies or start new topics.
You can also turn off the feature, so no one can rate you, but you can't rate others if you do so. (To do so, click "Profile" at the top, then click "Display" on the left, and note the new form at the bottom, "Display of reputation.")
Want to see what I'm talking about? I just gave props to "draco fett" for his topic on Boba Fett's theme music:
We'll display who's got the highest reputation, plus who gives the most praise/smite.
Let the ratings begin. Be generous, be fair and be good. Enjoy.
And, as usual, please add feedback below. If it's good, let us know. If we've crossed the line, let us know, too.


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No Unsacred Place explores the relationships between religion and science, nature and civilization from a diversity of modern Pagan perspectives. With climate change ever-present in today's cultural and political discourse, and the realities of ecological destruction increasingly impacting our local communities and daily lives, questions about how we live as members of this jeweled, blue-green planet are no longer merely abstract philosophical musings or theological exercises. While cultures throughout history offer us examples of human beings in relationships of worship, stewardship, domination and exploitation of the Earth, modern Paganism is unique in drawing together the wisdom and ecocentric focus of ancient religions with the insights into the physical world afforded by modern science and technology.
No Unsacred Place draws inspiration for its title from the contemporary American poet and environmentalist, Wendell Berry, who wrote: "There are no unsacred places. There are only sacred places and desecrated places." Berry confronts the assumption that "the sacred" can be cordoned off and separated from the mundane, and challenges us to examine our relationship to those places we consider to be "unsacred" — whether they are untamed forests and barren deserts, or human-made landscapes of metal and concrete — to discover how our attitudes and actions lead to desecration and destruction. Pagans today face the challenge of reconciling the lessons and influence of "dark green religion" environmentalist and conservation movements in contemporary society, with an ambivalence towards the wildness and wilderness of the Earth that is as old as Western civilization itself.
This blog features coverage and analysis of environmentalism and ecology in the news from a Pagan perspective, as well as essays and personal reflections about the role of science, environmental ethics, eco-friendly lifestyles, and an awareness of the land and its seasons, both in religious community and in the personal spiritual lives of modern Pagans.
Monthly columns include "Fur and Feather," in which Juniper Jeni draws on her extensive background in homesteading and animal rescue to explore issues of animal rights, and "The Sacred in Suburbia," in which John Beckett confronts the challenges of living sustainably and cultivating sacred relationship with the earth in a land of manicured lawns and strip malls; in addition, Ruby Sara writes on earth-based liturgy and ritual in her column, "Earthly Rites."
Other participants of note include Alison Leigh Lilly, a Druid essayist, poet and author of Meadowsweet & Myrrh who writes on issues of deep ecology, environmental justice and earth-centered peacemaking; Pagan geologist and environmental scientist Meical abAwen, who teaches with Blackberry Circle; and Cat Chapin-Bishop, who writes on the practice and purpose of her environmental witness at her blog, Quaker Pagan Reflections.


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Harvard Business Review Press Goes DRM-Free And Platform Independent
from the DRM:-keeping-pirates-in-business-since-1995 deptDespite the growing evidence that consumers absolutely hate DRM, many publishers still hold harbor fantasies that locking down digital goods prevents unauthorized copies from spreading across the internet. Most DRM ends up serving one purpose: to make authorized copies less functional than unauthorized versions.
This practice is particularly prevalent in the book publishing industry. With rare exceptions, most major publishers still keep their products under digital lock and key. There are a few exceptions. Baen was one of the first publishers to go DRM-free, recognizing the limitations far outweighed the benefits to it or its authors. O'Reilly Media has also shunned DRM for the same reasons, noting that unauthorized sharing leads to more readers without an appreciable drop in sales. TOR has attempted to do away with most of its DRM, although it has been hampered by publishers insisting the DRM remain in place.
Perhaps noting, as Cory Doctorow pointed out, that "no one's ever bought a book because it has DRM," another publisher, Harvard Business Review Press has opted to go DRM-free.
[H]BR have adopted the "buy once, read anywhere model" and that anywhere includes a Kindle. This means their consumers aren't locked into a device or format. And it means that their purchases are 'future proof' to a good degree. It also means that if they want to share a book, there are no 'technical' things stopping that. To be sure, selling an HBR eBook is illegal but this mode is more tolerant of sharing.Here's HBR's official statement, one that treats its customers with respect.
We make our ebooks available to you DRM-free so you can read them on the device of your choice. We trust that our customers will abide by copyright law and refrain from distributing ebook files illegally. Please note that in the case that you download a PDF, it will be personalized with your email address.This small statement asking readers to respect its copyright is preferable to installing DRM and treating every paying customer like a thief. Additionally, HBR is offering multiple formats which gives readers more options and keeps them from being locked into any particular device.
Joshua Gans points out that offering this freedom to its customers should pay off for HBR, whose target audience is a bit different than most publishers.
[T]he business book market is a little different than other book markets. Many sales are generated by people giving books to each other. The typical case is of a boss insisting all of his underlings read something. But there are also bulk distributions to clients and the like. Amazon and all other platforms do not offer bulk sales so HBR had to do something different. Moreover, to manage that with DRM would just be too hard. So instead they went their own way and so now you can buy eBooks in bulk with a volume discount. A real innovation.Gans notes that this additional freedom comes at a price.
But there is a cost to this. HBR have not gone 'all in' on DRM free. For instance, one of the books they offer is Clay Christensen's famous book, The Innovator's Dilemma. Buy it from HBR directly and it will cost you $17.99 (and you can also see there they currently have the eBook 'In stock') but on the Kindle from Amazon it is $9.89 and from the iTunes bookstore it is $10.99 (not sure what happened to the most favored customer clause there!).The question is, will customers pay extra to avoid being locked into a device? In HBR's case, the answer is likely a "yes." As was mentioned earlier, HBR offers bulk purchases, something Amazon and iTunes don't. Additionally, these bulk rates are discounted depending on the number of copies purchased, bringing the price per copy more in line with its competition. Purchasing directly also gives the buyer three different formats (PDF, ePub, mobi) for the price of one, allowing them to move books from one device to another.
Gans suggests that HBR's ebook policy could lend itself to more innovative offerings, leading to more reasons to buy directly from the publisher and giving authors more reasons to offer their books through HBR:
I have my own eBook coming out with HBR Press in a very short time. I'd love it to be the case that they decided to offer the book on their site with an explicit 'sharing' option. For instance, the normal 'don't share' this book might cost the same as Amazon while the 'sharing' option may be somewhat higher but would say allow you to assign 'ownership' of the book to another person as well.One of the best ways to avoid locking yourself or your customers into walled gardens like Amazon or iTunes is to give them a direct, DRM-free option that recognizes the reality of digital life. Trying to lock them into a single device or punishing them for the actions of others isn't really giving them any reason to buy from anyone but the lowest bidder. Treating your customers with respect and recognizing that most people have more than one form of "e-reader" is a better way to grow your audience. Once you've decided to stop policing infringement, you can throw that time, energy and creativity into building better, more innovative offerings for your paying customers.
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Liberian President Defends Anti-Gay Legislation in Talk With Tony Blair (VIDEO)
Nobel Peace Prize Winner and President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf defended the country's anti-homosexuality laws in an interview alongside former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday, saying the citizens of her country "like ourselves just the way we are."
In Liberia, acts of "voluntary sodomy" are punishable by up to one year in prison, although newer legislation has been proposed that would increase those penalties.
Sirleaf also added in the interview with the Guardian's Tamasin Ford that she would not pass any harsher penalties against homosexuality, saying, "I won't sign any law that has to do with that area, whatsoever."
Sitting next to Sirleaf during the interview was former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a pro-homosexual rights Roman Catholic who created civil partnerships and allowed homosexuals into the military while leading the U.K. government.
Blair currently heads the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), an organization he helped found that works to help struggling nations improve in development.
"We've got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve," said Sirleaf, casting sideways glances at Blair and choosing her words carefully.
Ford then asked for Blair's opinion of the legislation, much to the ex-prime minister's chagrin.
"I'm not giving you an answer on it," Blair explained with a grimace. "One of the advantages of doing what I do now is I can choose the issues I get into and the issues I don't. For us, the priorities are around power, roads, jobs delivery."
Blair and Sirleaf were meeting to discuss the AGI's assistance with a set of plans to help African governments develop and improve infrastructure.
"I'm not saying these issues aren't important," Blair added, "but the president has given her position and this is not one for me."
After spending many years in exile during the reign of former dictator Charles Taylor, Sirleaf was elected as the president of Liberia in 2005 and again in 2011. She is currently the first and only female head of state in Africa.
Sirleaf, along with fellow Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Tawakkul Karman, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her accomplishments in defending women's rights within the region.
Homosexuality in Liberia has become an even more contentious issue this year after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced at the end of 2011 that LGBT rights would be taken into consideration when dispersing U.S. foreign aid.
Since then, Liberian public opinion has put even more emphasis on the issue of homosexuality, which some newspapers in the country have called "desecrating," "abusive," and an "abomination."
Many other African nations have taken similar stances against homosexuality, with homosexual acts designated as a criminal offense in 37 different African countries.
"If [Sirleaf] tried to decriminalize the [current anti-gay] law it would be political suicide," said Tiawan S. Gongloe, Liberia's former solicitor general.


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Cajun Dirty RiceThere are as many dirty rice recipes as there are southern cooks, but authentic dirty rice recipes always include chicken giblets of some kind - the kidney, heart, gizzard and liver. This is just one of those Cajun dishes that was born out of the tradition of using every part of the animal in meals. Also, when we cook rice in the south, which we do regularly, we tend to cook a bunch so that there's just about always some rice hanging around in the fridge. This dish is a great way to use some of that leftover rice, which I feel surely must've had something to do with its creation in the first place.
The giblets are what creates the "dirty" look to the rice, because they impart a color that clings to rice and gives it a sort of, well, dirty look. Without them it really isn't dirty rice at all because it is both lacking in the classic color and the unique flavor of the giblets. Still, even "cleaned up" for folks who can't stomach the idea of eating giblets of any kind, it's a darned good dish - so you can omit them if you like.
Although I love it the authentic way, my husband isn't gonna touch a liver or gizzard, least not knowingly, so I usually use a combination of ground beef and hot pork sausage, which while not really authentic, makes a perfectly acceptable dirty rice. Y'all know what I always say - make it the way you like it and that's always the right way, no matter what anybody says.
We treat this more like a rice dressing where I come from, so it is typically served as a side dish often to a blackened or roasted meat, though other folks around the country often serve this is a one skillet, main dish, adding a nice garden salad or green veggie as their side. Dirty rice also serves as a great filling too for things like tacos, burritos, wraps or lettuce cups.
Don't go overboard with the Cajun or Creole seasoning though - all of your seasonings should be to taste and a little bit of cayenne goes a long way! Always start with a little, taste and adjust as needed. Make it a Creole Dirty Rice by adding in 2 cans of drained Rotel tomatoes and 1 small can of tomato sauce.
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Recipe: Cajun Dirty Rice©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 30 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 3 slices of bacon, chopped
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped celery
- 3 toes of garlic, chopped
- 2 tablespoons of chopped jalapenos
- 1 pound of mixed chicken livers & gizzards (or a combination of giblets), trimmed, rinsed and ground or finely chopped
- 1 pound of ground beef or pork
- 1-1/2 teaspoons of kosher salt, or to taste
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoons of freshly cracked black pepper, or to taste
- 1 teaspoon of Creole or Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste
- 4 cups of leftover cooked rice
- 1/4 cup chopped green onion
- Hot sauce, for the table
Saute the bacon pieces in a cast iron pot until cooked but not crisp. Remove the bacon and set aside. In the bacon drippings, add the onion, bell pepper and celery, cooking until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and jalapeno and cook for another minute or so. Add all of the ground meats and cook until lightly browned and cooked through. Do not drain. Add the salt, pepper, Cajun seasoning and return the bacon to the pot; reduce heat to medium low, cover and let simmer for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add a small amount of water only if needed to prevent sticking.
Add the rice and green onion, stir together, cover and reduce heat to a medium low simmer. Heat through, stirring occasionally. Taste and adjust seasonings. May also be kept covered on very low heat and allowed to continue to steam until needed. This dish is often the central feature of a meal so you could serve it with a salad and a veggie, but it is often served as a side dish too.
Serve with hot sauce at the table.
Cook's Notes: Save some time with this dish by using the seasoning blend (typically onion, bell pepper and celery) available fresh in the produce section or in the frozen foods.
Variation: You can eliminate the gizzards and add in additional beef or pork, or a combination of the two. Substitute pork sausage (seasoned raw pork) for part of the ground beef. Make it Creole Dirty Rice by adding 2 cans of drained Rotel diced tomatoes and 1 (8 ounce) tomato sauce.
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The New Xeons: A Big Step Forward
The focus of the line is the Xeon 5500, which was code-named "Nehalem-EP." It's designed for systems with two or more sockets. This series is available in 15 different flavors, with 4MB or 8MB of Level 2 cache, at clock speeds ranging from 1.86 GHz to 3.2 GHz, and at prices ranging all the way from $188 to $1600. Combined with a new chipset that accompanies it, this is the "Tylersburg" platform.
Intel also announced three models in the Xeon 3500 family, designed for single-socket systems, which seem to be about the same as the Core i7 desktop chips introduced a few months ago (at identical speeds of 2.66, 2.93 and 3.2 GHz and prices from $284 to $999).
The new chips include about 730 million transistors (in the 8MB L2 versions) and are effectively Intel's second 45nm design for servers and workstations; the Xeon 5400 was based on the "Penyrn" design. The company is claiming big performance improvements, just as a 160 percent improvement in virtualization over the 5400 line, though of course, performance results will vary a lot depending on your application.The important new features of this design include an integrated memory controller, the QuickPath Interconnect, and Turbo Boost, for speeding up a single-threaded task by shutting down unneeded cores.
Some products based on the design were announced early, including Apple's MacPro (reviewed here) and new workstations and servers from Lenovo and Dell.
This week, IBM, HP, Sun and more announced their support. HP's "Z series" workstations sound particularly interesting, with the company claiming features such as a self-checking power supply and the ability to consume only 1 watt of power in the "off" state.
Of course, the new Xeon family will face off against the latest AMD Opteron parts, based on AMD's 45nm "Shanghai" design.
I haven't benchmarked the systems in servers, but a comparison of the architecture in desktops showed the Nehalem-based Core i7 is outperforming the current Shanghai-based Phenom X4 by a good margin in most applications.
The initial reviews of the Xeon 5500 seem to be showing the same trend, compared to current Opteron servers in typical dual processor applications. Here are reviews from BitTech , Legit Reviews, and PC Pro. Note that these reviews are all good indicators, but aren't focused on typical server applications. (Update: here are a few more posts from InfoWorld and Tech Report.)
The Opteron platform has been more successful in multiprocessor, high-performance computing applications, though, and I haven't seen a comparative benchmark there yet.
Also note that Intel has a processor designed for multiprocessor systems called the Xeon 7000 series ("Dunnington") with six cores, and AMD has been showing its six-core processor called "Istanbul", which is due out later this year. One big advantage of that chip is that it supposed to be plug-compatible with the current Opteron systems, including single, dual, and multiprocessor designs.
Later this year, Intel is planning an 8-core MP server chip called "Nehalem-EX", while AMD's roadmap for 2010 includes the six-core "Sao Paolo" and 12-core "Magny-Cours" processors.
But for now, the Xeon 5500 looks to be a big step forward for typical dual-socket servers and workstations.


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October 13, 2005
LOS ANGELES - For the third time in four years, a UCLA Anderson professor has earned the prestigious John D.C. Little Award, given annually to the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science. Bart Bronnenberg received the honor for his paper, "Market Roll-Out and Retailer Brand Adoption for New Brands," co-authored by Prof. Carl Mela of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Bronnenberg joins marketing faculty colleagues Ely Dahan (who received the award last year) and Dominique Hanssens (who was honored three years ago and also won in 1995) as winners of the award presented by the Institute for Operations and the Research Management Sciences (INFORMS Society).
"It's nice to win the Little award," said Bronnenberg. "But it's really very good for the marketing group to receive these kinds of awards. It's quite rare that a group has won such an award three times in four years."
The award-winning paper looks at the ways in which manufacturers introduce new products into the marketplace. Bronnenberg and Mela analyzed the multi-billion dollar frozen pizza industry, in particular the DiGiorno and Freschetta brands. "We found that brands roll out pretty slowly," Bronnenberg said. "DiGiorno was first introduced in a few local markets and wasn't a national brand until two years later." The paper also explores how the brands went from regional introduction to a national brand.
"We found two things," he said. "First, manufacturers select markets where retailers cover the widest possible geographic area and, second, that retailers select new products based on their competitors. We found retailers influence each other."
Bronnenberg discusses his current research in his classes: "We use it as an illustration about consumer goods that leads to discussions about market share. The MBA students react favorably to the discussion; it's easy to use in class." But it will take more time and further study before the results are accepted more generally as fact.
"For the results to become empirical fact, we need to look at whether or not the same thing happens in other markets as well," Bronnenberg said. "We're looking at generalizing the result to see if it generalizes to different categories. The things we use in class now as generalized facts were first published as examples maybe 10 years ago, but with the appropriate caveats we can discuss these results from the get go."
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Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson School of Management provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to UCLA Anderson School of Management as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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Rampant overcrowding plagues prisons across the globe, even in the world's most developed nations. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest countries, and one struggling to emerge from a decade of civil war, prisons are cauldrons of violence and neglect, where death and disease stalk inmates at every turn. In the nation's capital of Freetown, the crumbling Freetown Central Prison was built to hold 220 adult inmates but houses 1,300, including dozens of children as young as 14 years old.
In 2010, Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres traveled to Sierra Leone determined to document what he describes as "disastrous" conditions at the penitentiary. Inspiration for the trip, he says, came after viewing the work of French photographer Lizzie Sadin, who has spent time capturing prison conditions around the world. The result of Moleres' work could not have been more fruitful in a purely professional sense. He has won several international prizes for his work at the notorious Freetown Central Prison, better known as Pademba Road, including a 2012 Lucie Award and a 2011 award from World Press Photo. His series, additionally, has been published by some of Europe's most prestigious publications.
Yet Moleres refuses to call his work a success. He remains haunted by something his photos were not able to convey — the uncertainty that reigns at the penitentiary. Dozens of boys, Moleres explains, have spent up to six years in prison without knowing anything about their judicial case. Many boys, abandoned by their families and with no support to speak of, believe they will die incarcerated.
"It's very difficult to reflect this neglect through photography," Moleres tells TIME. "In Sierra Leone, a prisoner is nobody, and a young prisoner is nothing."
Faced with this disregard, and frustrated by photography's constraints, Moleres resorted to his previous profession as a nurse, which he practiced as a youth in his native Orduña, in northern Spain's Basque Country. During his first visit to the prison on Pademba Road, Molores snuck in with medicine to help prisoners where photos could not. And Moleres insists that the images of acute neglect — dehydration and scabies plague most inmates — cast a constant cloud over the professional accolade he has received.
"Photography has its limits," says Moleres, who worked as a nurse in Spain before turning to photography. "I'm very happy with the project, it has received a lot of attention, but it's just a drop in the ocean. Nobody has moved a finger to help these boys."
Until recently, that is. Moleres returned from another excursion to Freetown just last month, where, with the help of the NGO Free Minor Africa, he gave birth to an organization that will help boys navigate through Sierra Leone's penal and judicial systems. When fully up-and-running, Moleres hopes to help up to 20 boys, whether they need legal assistance or help with rehabilitation once they are freed from prison. Moleres will also provide them with the option of returning to school or retraining so they may enter the workforce.
Moleres, nonetheless, has no intention of abandoning his photography. He's currently working on a book that will capture the boys of Pademba Road at various stages of their prison experience, from incarceration to rehabilitation to life on the street.
"If you don't do anything to follow it up, photography is not worth much," says Moleres. "We become very conscious of everything but there is little action. I'm more interested in dedicating myself to photographic projects in which action follows close behind."
Fernando Moleres is a Barcelona-based photographer. He was awarded second prize in the Daily Life category of the 2011 World Press Photo competition for his work in Sierra Leone.
Alfonso Serrano is a senior editor at TIME.com.


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Pac-12 SYT: 11.17.11Posted by Connor Pelton on November 17th, 2011
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There have been a handful of interesting games so far this week, but today begins a stellar weekend (yes, as Buffalo Wild Wings says, "weekends start on Thursdays") of Pac-12 action. Today we get the two appetizers, which include St. John's-Arizona and USC–San Diego State.
St. John's vs #16 Arizona – 6:30 PM PST on ESPN2 (****)
- I find it hard to believe that the Wildcats are ranked 16th after they have struggled against teams like Seattle Pacific, Humboldt State, and Duquesne. But they are, and that means the Red Storm and the pro-St. John's crowd at Madison Square Garden will make it even tougher on the young and restless Wildcats. For Arizona to advance to the championship of the 2K Sports Classic Friday night, step one will be defending the SJU big men. God's Gift Achiuwa and Maurice Harkless have been unstoppable so far this season, averaging 17.7 and 16.7 PPG, respectively. Guarding the pair will be Jesse Perry and Solomon Hill, both of whom have had solid campaigns in their own right this season. The key to an Arizona victory will be on the shoulders of those two, both on the defensive side of the ball but also on the glass.
- It's tough to see this game going one way or the other. Both teams have been so inconsistent, looking great one minute but terrible the next. While this game will definitely come down to the play inside, a tight matchup like this one is usually decided on a late three-pointer or some clutch free throw shooting. And while (once again) both teams have been inconsistent with their shooting, the Cats have the edge in this category. Read the rest of this entry »


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Second in a in two-part series. Read the first instalment here.
Regina doctor John Thiel disagrees with B.C. ovarian cancer experts who recommend removing Fallopian tubes to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. There just isn't enough scientific evidence to justify such a procedure, he contends.
"I'm not an old crock. I love innovations. But I also believe in evidence-based medicine," he says.
After B.C. ovarian cancer experts began urging gynecologists in 2010 to start removing Fallopian tubes in patients having hysterectomies or tubal ligations, Thiel used a guest editorial in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada to criticize the new protocol.
"As physicians, we need to rise above the emotional argument that removal of normal tissue should be acceptable because it may prevent cancer," wrote Thiel, who is the medical director of women's health at Regina General Hospital. "Patients from across Canada are beginning to hear this information and are requesting removal of their tubes because it just seems like the right thing to do."
In tubal ligations, surgeons tie or clip the tubes; complication rates are said to be low (one to four per cent). Thiel's concern is that if the sterilization process also involves tube removal, there could be a greater risk of bleeding and injury to adjacent organs and structures.
"Until we know things like the number needed to treat (to prevent cancer) it's all supposition on their part. Removing normal tissue based on some group's 'Aha moment' is just wrong, in the absence of evidence."
The decision by B.C. cancer experts to make the recommendation came after multiple studies suggested the most common and most deadly ovarian cancers — high grade serous carcinoma — often originate in the Fallopian tubes. Doctors argued it was time to get proactive, given there is no effective way to screen for ovarian cancer, treatments have stalled, and mortality rates are as high as 70 per cent.
BC Cancer Agency experts estimate that removing tubes in women undergoing hysterectomies or tubal ligations — as well as referring more women with suspected genetic mutations predisposing them to ovarian cancer — could reduce deaths by as much as 40 per cent over 20 years.
North Vancouver nurse Kathy Cooper is puzzled to hear there's controversy and inconsistency across the country over the B.C. recommendations. The operating room nurse at Lions Gate Hospital had a tubal ligation last year and her tubes were removed.
When her sister in Calgary had a baby by caesarean section, Cooper urged her to ask the surgeon to remove her Fallopian tubes at the same time. But he balked at the suggestion, saying, "Oh, that's just a Vancouver thing."
Cooper told her sister to persist, especially since their mother had been diagnosed with one of five subtypes of ovarian cancer.
"After her doctor said he didn't feel comfortable removing her tubes, I told her to go to another doctor. So she went back to her family doctor, who called the gynecologist and talked him into it. So it's done, and honestly, even if our mom hadn't been through cancer, I know I still would have done this," Cooper said.
And Cooper's sister-in-law, Cristina Valentinuzzi, is also considering tube removal in the future. Valentinuzzi, a Vancouver engineer, stays abreast of research into ovarian cancer because her mother died from it a few years ago. Late last year, she attended an ovarian cancer symposium with her twin sister, Stephanie, to learn about the new protocol in B.C.
The twins are only 29 and haven't yet started families, so having their Fallopian tubes removed is not something they'll be doing in the near future. "But we will eventually because it's a way to be proactive about our health," she said.
As to potential risks and complications? "I would definitely take those risks," Valentinuzzi said.
"And so would I," echoed her twin, "because this cancer put my mom, and our whole family, through so much misery."
Waiting for proof
B.C. is believed to be the only region in the world embracing this change in surgical paradigm on a large scale. In interviews with experts across North America, The Vancouver Sun found that while most gynecologists know about the B.C. protocol, and some are even following it, not all are convinced it's ready for prime time.
Indeed, while many admire the bold change, and the way it is being communicated and executed, there's decidedly more caution about the procedure beyond B.C.'s borders.
"What (the B.C. experts) are doing is taking existing knowledge and saying, 'One plus one equals five'," said gynecologic oncologist Dr. Robert Lotocki, during an interview at Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital.
"Why should the rest of the world jump on the bandwagon before we see published outcomes? Until then, it's a leap of faith to think removing the Fallopian tubes will prevent cancer.
"People can die from seemingly benign operations," he continued, questioning any decision to remove healthy body parts, even if surgeons are already operating in the same area. "Any surgery is an insult to the human body, so it's irresponsible to do something without knowing all the potential harms."
Lotocki has less of an issue with removing Fallopian tubes during hysterectomies.
"If the uterus is coming out, it doesn't add that much more to take out the tubes," he said, adding he's more opposed to the removal of tubes during other procedures.
"The B.C. team may not be wrong, but they haven't yet been proven right. There are areas of debate in medicine where issues aren't black and white. And this is one of them."
In an interview at a University of Washington hospital in Seattle, Dr. Barbara Norquist said that while removing the ovaries in women who carry a genetic mutation predisposing them to breast or ovarian cancer is the right thing to do, she's uncertain about removing Fallopian tubes.
"I would say that the suitable candidates for this would be mutation carriers who are done with child-bearing, but are too young to have their ovaries removed," said Norquist, a gynecologic oncologist. "The pros for that are that we're removing organs at risk while biding time before ovarian removal. But the cons are that we don't have long-term data to tell us whether this is a strategy worth the risk for the average population."
Even so, Norquist concedes she's conflicted.
"The concept (of removing the tubes during hysterectomies or tubal ligations) makes sense to me, in a biological and scientific sense, but we need to know the effects. Does it affect the age of menopause and the heart? If doctors are going to do this, then they have to make it clear to patients that they can't quantify the risks."
Dr. Barry Rosen, head of gynecologic oncology at the University of Toronto hospital network, said he doesn't doubt high-grade serous carcinoma can originate in the tubes.
"It's very clear that the origins are there and that when we remove the tubes in high-risk (genetic carriers) we can substantially reduce the risk of cancer, from 40 per cent to one per cent," he said, referring to the elevated risk of ovarian cancer in women with a specific gene mutation.
"But since there's no such thing as surgery without risk, the question we have to ask is what is the acceptable risk for us to proceed with this change in practice?" he said in an interview at Princess Margaret Hospital.
"Because if there's a 10-per-cent complication rate, people will be on the fence. If it's one or two per cent, then that's probably acceptable. My guess, at the end of the day, is that this should be pretty much complication free."
Rosen agrees with B.C. Cancer Agency experts that potential benefits are significant. Since up to a third of women have hysterectomies or tubal ligations, there are plenty of opportunities to potentially reduce or even eliminate ovarian cancers in such women.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not a naysayer. But to do that means this can't be some fad. It has to be an enduring practice."
Rosen, who is himself offering the procedure to patients, is also concerned about varying skill sets of surgeons, and urges women considering such a procedure to ensure their surgeons are experienced.
"I presume the risks are low, but I'm concerned about gynecologists who haven't done this before (Fallopian tube removal) and those who attempt it without the right instrumentation. Yes, we have an opportunity to reduce ovarian cancer rates during hysterectomy, but if there are deaths or serious complications, then we have lost that opportunity, so what have we accomplished?"
Surgical risks
During an interview at Montreal's Notre Dame Hospital, Dr. Diane Provencher said she's "not against the virtue" of the B.C. protocol.
But she, too, wonders about gynecologists with less practice and skill encountering blood vessels and "ending up with difficulties."
"Some women have varicose veins in these regions that makes it more complicated. For surgeons used to doing this kind of work, it's routine, but for others, you have to pray they don't encounter many veins. And then you have to make sure the pathologists on the receiving end of these tissues are comfortable knowing how to examine them. Because I've wondered about the medical-legal implications of pathologists not fully evaluating the distal end of the tube and cancer eventually being diagnosed, but too late."
She guesses half of gynecologists in Montreal teaching hospitals are removing the tubes. "Changes like this require leadership and discussions during medical rounds to make surgeons comfortable with this. Otherwise, it's a conundrum."
Said Dr. Barbara Goff, an ovarian cancer expert with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance: "The B.C. recommendation is controversial. The reason being is that by removing the tubes in all patients with hysterectomies or tubal ligations, you don't know what the impact of possible reduced blood flow to the ovaries will have.
"If surgeons can remove the tubes without significant impact to the ovaries then this recommendation might be reasonable. However, there aren't any animal studies that evaluate what happens to ovarian function if just the tubes are removed. Given that the blood supply to the tubes and ovaries are intimately related, it's hard to know what this recommendation will mean to long term ovarian function," she said, referring to the paired organs which produce eggs and release the hormones, estrogen and progesterone.
Asked to respond to Goff's comments, Dr. Dianne Miller, the BC head of gynecology oncology, said: "The blood supply to the tube comes from the uterus via the internal iliac artery. The blood supply to the ovary comes from the gonadal vessels which arise from the aorta, so it's a different source entirely. There's no blood vessel that runs from the tube to the ovary. Hence, there's no intrinsic reason to believe that removing the tubes will interfere with the blood supply to the ovaries.
"But we do have a project underway to assess the risk to ovarian function, though this is expected to be negligible at best, based on the information currently present in the literature."
Change coming slowly
When about 2,100 gynecologic cancer experts came to Vancouver last year for the biennial meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, doctors noted that women hearing media reports about the B.C. protocol were starting to seek elective Fallopian tube removal as a cancer prevention strategy, and not just in the context of a tubal ligation or hysterectomy.
That poses a conundrum for some gynecologic cancer experts like Dr. Gavin Stuart. The Dean of the University of B.C. medical school said that although he's comfortable with the new protocol (tube removal during hysterectomy or tubal ligation), he is less convinced about broadening the practice. He understands that women who have lost relatives to ovarian cancer might be more determined to get their tubes out, "but we're not yet at a point to recommend elective removal of the tubes in a normal population.
"I would not be prepared to do such a procedure (in that scenario), but I would offer a second opinion for another gynecologist if a women wished to do so."
Miller said despite what some say, the procedure to remove the tubes is straightforward, and she has not heard of one serious complication in B.C. since 2010, when surgeons here began offering the procedure. According to a federal database, Fallopian tube removal procedures are climbing across B.C. where there were 6,133 hospital visits for tube removals in 2011/12. A breakdown of the reasons for such procedures was not available.
But Miller acknowledges the naysayers.
"Change is incredibly difficult for people. There have been many early adopters and some who haven't made these changes. You can't always wait for quality of evidence because then you disadvantage a whole cohort of women.
"Sometimes you hang your hat on the knowledge at hand and take a leap. In some places, there are no champions of this change. In other places, there's been no pushback. It would be great if there was a screening test to detect ovarian cancer in the earliest stages, but at this point in time, there is not even one on the horizon so removing the Fallopian tubes is an innovative prevention strategy," Miller said.
As to skepticism over how many deaths may be prevented by the intervention, Miller concedes that cancer or pre-cancer cases will probably only be found in older women. "We aren't expecting to find lesions in women in their 30s and 40s. Ovarian cancer peaks in post-menopausal women."
Dr. Eduardo Franco, interim chair of oncology and director of cancer epidemiology at McGill University, said he doesn't have a problem with the fact that B.C. experts spearheaded change before having all the risks and benefits evidence.
"It's a good thing, based on the strong science that is emerging on how ovarian cancer originates. This approach of prophylactic (preventive) surgical procedures, coupled with a provincewide campaign of genetic testing to identify high-risk women, could have more impact on reducing ovarian cancer incidence and mortality than anything else that has been tried before anywhere."
Collecting data
"Dr. Huntsman's crusade makes a lot of sense," he said, referring to OvCaRe leader Dr. David Huntsman. And Franco said there is no question that studies are important before there can be "pan-Canadian acceptance for the new approach."
Huntsman promises data will be shared and major studies will be conducted, as soon as scientists garner major funding for their work. (Private donations to hospital foundations are funding data collection in the meantime.)
Dr. Jessica McAlpine, a gynecologic oncologist at Vancouver General Hospital, concedes every operation carries risk and not all surgeons have the same skills.
"Our oath states that, first, we do no harm. There is no precedent for removing Fallopian tubes, because in the past they were viewed as these innocent organs so we just left them there. Because of that, we don't have data on the risks and complications but we are collecting that.
"As to competency, I'm comfortable in my skill set and my practice has always been to swim upstream for changes that make sense. But we can't tell patients there's proof this will prevent cancer and that it's absolutely safe. A surgeon could hypothetically cause injury to a vessel, the bowel or the ureter, in any type of gynecological operation.
"So if there are surgeons who aren't comfortable with either the mechanics of this or the rationale, then they should refer women to others who are."
McAlpine and Miller said that thus far, there has been no increase in risks since the change in protocol.
Dr. Lucy Gilbert, director of gynecologic oncology at the McGill University Health Centre, finds the B.C. Fallopian tube strategy compelling. "I'm on board with it in principal. But this is not a procedure that has been routinely done. So there will definitely be more complications.
"Of course, no operation is without risk, just operating in that region of the body poses risk. So if a woman is already having surgery, providing the patient provides informed consent, this is a good idea. When the B.C. team publishes results, we'll know more."
Gilbert says given the realization that most ovarian cancers start in the Fallopian tubes, it's a misnomer to even call it ovarian cancer. She advocates a name change, to something like pelvic cancer. Gynecologists are unofficially debating that whole issue.
Support growing
Dr. Patricia Shaw, a leading ovarian cancer expert in Toronto, said doctors who aren't buying into the notion of Fallopian tubes as the site of origin for ovarian cancer may have hidden agendas. "They have their research focused on other things, and maybe they don't want to see their legacies uprooted and overturned."
Her colleague, Dr. Joan Murphy, a gynecologic oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, is fully behind the B.C. experts.
"Oh, the B.C. team certainly has made big news, no doubt about that, but there are a lot of skeptics around. The change hasn't caught fire like it has in B.C.
"But as for me, I'm all for it. I think the B.C. team was brilliant the way they came out of the gates, shouting from the rooftops with a coherent strategy to change medical practice and to gather data in a formal way. In a decade, we'll start to know about the impact on cancer rates."
Murphy praises the B.C. team for the way it got "almost unanimous and immediate buy-in from doctors in B.C.
"Here in Toronto, changes are happening and people are coming on board, but it's not everyone."
Dr. Andrew Berchuk, director of gynecological oncology at Duke University in North Carolina, predicts the international community will eventually get on board with B.C. experts.
"In general, the gold standard for changing medical practices is based on randomized controlled trials. The B.C. approach is sensible, but it's one that has to be proven to be safe. (But) it's hard for me to imagine how this might cause harm. It hasn't yet been adopted in other parts of the world because it's kind of like a theory.
"I think maybe thought leaders are leaning toward getting on board with it and maybe we all need to follow in (B.C.'s) footsteps."
Last year, Berchuk joined a group of international experts in a statement echoing the B.C. protocol, but it didn't go as far since tubal ligations weren't included:
"Given the newly appreciated importance of the Fallopian tube in the genesis of high-grade serous ovarian cancer, it is recommended that complete removal of the Fallopian tube should become standard of care in any woman undergoing hysterectomy and/or oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries)," said the report called Rethinking Ovarian Cancer.
Leading the way
Huntsman, Miller, McAlpine and other B.C. ovarian cancer experts are sanguine about the prospects of winning over doubters. Nearly three years into the new surgery paradigm, they are confident that women electing to have their Fallopian tubes removed aren't guinea pigs in some untested experiment. Their goal is to show whether the initiative reduces ovarian cancer rates. They are collecting data on costs, complications (blood loss during surgery, transfusions, hospital re-admissions, hormonal changes and deaths), and studying all tubes removed.
Their hypothesis is that removal of the tubes at the time of gynecological surgery will prevent ovarian cancer in both average and high-risk women.
"If proven correct, it will dramatically shift our focus in ovarian cancer control from one of treatment to prevention, not only in B.C. and Canada, but around the world," said Huntsman.
"We are well aware of the fact that outside of B.C. and Canada, people have been looking to us to prove whether this works. We're going to do that," he added.
The controversy in medical circles puts women in a quandary when it comes to making a decision about whether to get tubes removed. Dr. Sarah Finlayson, who has been one of the leaders of the surgical change, said the fuss in some quarters is much ado about nothing.
"The Fallopian tube has one role — to transport egg and sperm. Once that role is over, it's not needed. Removing it is simple, and it was only a matter of surgeons' habits as to why it was always left inside with the ovary," said the gynecologic oncologist at Vancouver General Hospital and the B.C. Cancer Agency who stars in a video about the change.
Miller said "naysayers" are common in medicine.
"It's never possible to get 100-per-cent consensus. What I do know is that a discussion between patients and their surgeons about removal of the tubes at the time of hysterectomy or tubal ligation should be part of the informed consent process.
"If absolute certainty was required for every change in health care, nothing would ever change. So we can only recommend what we believe is in the best interests of the women of B.C."
Sun Health Issues Reporter
Research costs for Pamela Fayerman's series on ovarian cancer were partially offset by a health journalism grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Fayerman won the award for a series on Knowledge Transfer, the process by which medical research changes patient care. Future stories will look at other big, B.C.-based innovations.


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SINGAPORE, 6th May 2011 - Average capital values rose 1.8% q-o-q in 1Q11 across monitored luxury residential markets in Asia, largely similar to the previous quarter according to the recent Residential Index from Jones Lang LaSalle's research team. However, price growth has slowed steadily from the 7.4% q-o-q pace recorded in 3Q09, as sales activity has cooled after the string of anti-speculative measures implemented from 2010 onwards by various governments.
Of the 8 featured luxury residential markets, 5 saw an increase in capital values during the quarter, while prices remained stable in two cities and declined in Kuala Lumpur. This result was similar to the previous quarter. Despite the latest round of government measures aimed at curbing speculative demand, luxury residential prices in Hong Kong grew strongly by 8.3% q-o-q in 1Q11, due to the sustained low holding costs and tight supply. On the other hand, prices in Singapore's luxury prime market remained stable for the third consecutive quarter as buyers remained cautious after recent government tightening measures.
In the China Tier I markets, sales activity remained quiet throughout 1Q11 following the pilot property tax as well as the ban on buyers already owning two apartments from buying additional units. However, prices remained largely stable or on the rise. Capital values of luxury apartments rose marginally by 0.4% q-o-q in Shanghai but by a stronger 3.2% q-o-q in Beijing.
"The growing pool of high net-worth individuals from mainland China will not only lead to a structural change in buyers' profile in Hong Kong's luxury residential market, but will also gradually raise demand for high-quality residential properties in other Asian cities, where the investment environment and social infrastructure are good" says Joseph Tsang, Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets, Hong Kong.
Luxury residential prices are generally likely to remain stable or see slower growth in 2011 due to on-going policy and interest rate risks. Prices in China are expected to either remain flat or edge down slightly over this year as developers will likely introduce more price discounts and launch less high-priced units over the next 12 months. The luxury markets in Hong Kong and Singapore should retain some price momentum due to strong end-user demand and with long-term investors continuing to be attracted by the current low holding costs and the potential hedge against inflation.
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July 2014 Fellow Feathers Meeting Minutes
Ken Martin, George Artz, Raffy Lavin, Pat Denevan, Steve Rodrigues, Tom White, David Kiesling, Wayne Michelsen, Karl Almandinger, Van Pelham, Diev Hart, Tim West, Damien Dykman, Dave Royer, Chuck Kranz, Larry Carpenter, Ward Carter, Duane Cromleigh, Polina Vinogradova, Mike Jefferson, Pete Welch, Walter Whiteside, Krista taylor, Andrew Whitehill, Rob Johnson, Tom Rust, Brad Martin.
Ken Martin presided over meeting as acting president in continued absence of Zac Majors.
Ken reported that he is ok with continuing as acting president while Zac is away.
Treasurer reported on finances, requested a second officer to be signer on bank account. Ken Martin agreed to this.
Clubhouse manager reported that a misplaced glider was located.
Tech officer reported on his archiving of tandem non compensation forms. Ropes camera non functional and needs replacement.
GGNRA liaison reminded board that SUP will expire 9/30, will be up for renewal.
Ken brought up air races, proposed a tee shirt logo design. Will need to inform GGNRA of date.
Discussion proceeded regarding ideas to improve sand trail safety:
- H4 only landing in front of sand trail.
- Whistles carried by pilots to announce intention to land, so that monitors can assist clearing sand trail.
- Assigned trail monitors.
- Flags delineating landing zone with "caution" printed on them.
- 30" high pole held up on sand trail from time to time as graphic demonstration of height over pedestrians necessary to avoid 25" rule violation.
- No chips landing on weekends and holidays.
- Letter sent out to all Funston pilots explaining evolution of the problem, to raise awareness.
- Re locating sand trail.
Ken brought up the May 2014 meeting motion to send a letter urging USHPA to re instate memberships of Emily Hutchinson and Ward Carter.
It was determined that Ward Carter was not actually qualified to vote as he was not a Fellow Feathers voting member, therefore the vote was actually a tie of 5 to 5, thus did not pass.
Ken recommended alternatives to pilots interested in communicating their feelings on the matter to the USHPA.
Motion to impeach Tom White put forward by Tom Rust, seconded, role call vote recorded by Walter Whiteside. 8 voted for, 10 voted against. Motion did not pass.
Ken reported that he was attempting to handle current disciplinary suspensions in a cooperative, quiet way with offending pilots.
Ken then read aloud a letter sent to the board by a paraglider pilot complaining of an incident of intimidation and harassment by a Funston H.G. pilot. Ken pointed out that although the two pilots worked it out face to face on the ground, and came to a cordial understanding, the fact remains that an incident did occur of a PG pilot having been intimidated, and that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated. Ken solicited comments from pilots present who fly both HG and PG, two commented that aggression of this nature constitutes a serious threat.
Meeting adjourned.


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By now, most of us have probably heard the sad news about the death of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness founder Bridgett Schneider over this past weekend. The RAOGK website has been down for about a month due to Bridget's illness.
I have been a RAOGK volunteer for a few years now, although I haven't been able to do much volunteering lately do to my work obligations. I joined RAOGK as a way to "pay it forward", to return the help and kindness shown to me by others around the country. If I could get up tomorrow and jump in my car, just me and my laptop (and a couple of cases of Dr Pepper) and travel all over this land of ours in search of genealogical data, I would in an instant!
Unfortunately, that isn't possible for me and probably most of you. So to get some of the documents and images I need for my research, I have used RAOGK many times, usually with exciting success! The volunteers that I have dealt with over the years have been selfless and diligent, frequently providing me with much more data that I had originally requested. Bridgett's dedication and hard work made it all possible. She will be missed!
I hope RAOGK will soon be up and running again, but in its' absence there are still many things that we can do to help each other. For my part, I am uploading headstone photos to Find A Grave. I joined up about 3 years ago, but really didn't do much. About 5 years ago, I spent several weekends during the hot Texas summer inventorying and photographing headstones in 2 rural Hill County, Texas cemeteries that are the final resting places for several ancestors. I intended to upload these images to Find A Grave, but then I am an outstanding procrastinator…
Today, at about 3am, I uploaded my cemetery images to Find A Grave. I couldn't sleep, might as well get some work done. As it turns out, for one of my cemeteries, a gentleman had already added his own images. All except one. I have that image! When I took those photos several years ago, the headstone in question was broken and difficult to read, but still there. Sadly, it is now gone. I am so glad that I had taken the time to get those photographs!
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Culinary students from Concord, Nashua and Hillsboro-Deering will compete against each other in creating healthy lunches for their schools at the New Hampshire School Nutrition Association spring conference at Exeter High School on Saturday, March 31.
For the competition, students will have to adhere to United States Department of Agriculture school lunch nutrition guidelines and create recipes that have the designated calorie, sodium and saturated fat content. Each team of three students must bring enough ingredients to prepare six portions of their dish in the high school kitchen. The meals will be adjudicated by a panel of five judges, with the sixth portion of each dish displayed for members of the nutrition association.
The competition was modeled after Cooking Up Change, a Chicago-based initiative that challenges students enrolled in culinary programs, at school or after school, to create healthy school lunch recipes. The recipes presented at the conference will be posted on the New Hampshire Farm to School website for any school that would like to use them.
"The idea is that with the recipe ingredients [students] could source some of the ingredients locally … it all goes back to the healthiness and the freshness and, of course, supporting local farmers," said Stacey Purslow, New Hampshire Farm to School coordinator, who will oversee the challenge. Purslow hopes to include students from culinary programs at more schools in the healthy lunch competition at the New Hampshire School Nutrition Association fall conference. She has been approached by family & consumer science teachers from local middle schools and hopes to also be able to include their students in the fall competition.
Gail McWilliam Jellie, director of agriculture at the state department of agriculture, markets and food, said it is never too early for children to learn about nutrition.
"Once you start eating … you can learn about making good food choices and learn about where food comes from so you can have that connection," she said. "It's really important. We all as generations are getting further away from understanding where food comes from." McWilliam Jellie is also a member of the New Hampshire Farm to School board.
"I think there is definitely an interest on the part of school food service directors to provide local and nutritious food in economical manner," McWilliam Jellie said. Some food service directors run into difficulties with the economic piece because of tight budgets and the number of students they need to provide meals for, she said.
When the New Hampshire Farm to School program was created in 2003, its first initiative was to provide locally grown apples to schools on the seacoast. The program now provides more than just apples to schools statewide as it helps facilitate partnerships between farms and schools.
"Every year there is more participation from farms and schools … we have more than 45 farms now selling to public schools," Purslow said.
"More and more local producers are interested in working with schools to show them that what they offer can [work] in their economic model," McWilliam Jellie said. "It just means in some cases that the school has to take the raw product and convert it into whatever they need for the meal."
Unfortunately for some schools, she added, their facility does not lend itself to preparing raw, fresh products.
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I like the way the Knicks are playing. Lets keep this in perspective though.
Yes, the Knicks are 4-0 since Mike D'Antoni was replaced by Mike Woodson. They are playing very well on both ends of the court, but lets keep some perspective. Toronto is not a good team. They're 15-31 for a reason. The Knicks dominated Toronto defensively and overwhelmed them offensively, scoring 50 points in the paint. They obliterated the Raptors, as well they should, but there are a few glaring things this team must improve on. Any win is a good win when you're a 22-24 8th seed, but the Knicks are not out of the woods yet.
Here are my notes from the game:
- This was the second straight game in which the Knicks didn't shoot well from outside the arc. Despite their 19 point victory, the Knicks shot just 5/16 from downtown. On Saturday against Indiana, the Knicks shot just 7/24. One of the Knicks big deficiencies under D'Antoni was their inability to consistency hit 3's. In Woodson's first two games, the team shot very well. These last two games, not so much. You could say that I'm micro-analyzing and being a critic. Here's the truth. To beat the great teams, Chicago, Miami, etc. the Knicks will have to hit their 3's. I understand they played Saturday's game on a back to back and may have just had a bad shooting game tonight, but this team is going to have to get consistent shooting 3's.
- My second gripe with this game is free throw shooting. This is a problem. It's been happening all year. They cannot consistently hit free throws, which will hurt them down the stretch and in the playoffs. The Knicks missed 10 free throws, 22/33 69%, tonight. That is completely unacceptable. I understand that 3 of the 10 misses came from Fields and Chandler, who are bad free throw shooters, but that is no excuse. Those are two guys that are going to play a lot for this team and they need to capitalize on free points. Carmelo Anthony also missed two free throws. The Knicks currently rank 19th in the league in team free throw shooting percentage. I understand that free throws aren't everything, but for the Knicks they are important. New York's stars have not been stars this year and the team as a whole has failed to mesh. Two or three missed free throws may be the difference in winning or losing an important game or even a playoff game. The Knicks have to improve this.
- My last gripe is the Knicks propensity to switch on defense. Tonight, a lot of Toronto's offensive production came when the Knicks switched on defense. Often times, Jose Calderon was being guarded by Amar'e Stoudemire while Carmelo Anthony was trying to box out 7'0 center Aaron Gray. As good as they were defensively tonight, the Knicks could have been a lot better. Mike Woodson is notorious for coaching his defenses to switch. That cannot happen with this team. If the Knicks were going to do 1-2 switches or 2-3 switches, I could live with it. There are times when New York is doing 1-5 switches and ending up with their point guards guarding the opposing team's center. That cannot happen against good teams. Like the free throw shooting, switching has been a problem all year for this team. It is yet another thing the Knicks must improve on before they can reach the elite in the Eastern conference.
- Now the good stuff!
- The Knicks played very unselfishly tonight. I loved the ball movement I was seeing from the entire team, and that includes Carmelo Anthony. Jeremy Lin had 10 of the Knicks 23 assists. Eight of the eleven Knicks that played in the game recorded an assist. The sky is the limit for this offense when they distribute the ball like this. This style of play was Mike D'Antoni's vision. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for him, but I'm happy to see the offense working for Mike Woodson. I hope the Knicks can continue to play this way.
- Can Ciara come to every game? Amar'e Stoudemire's ex-girlfriend, music artist Ciara, was at the game tonight. Stoudemire had a real nice game, scoring 22 points and pulling down 12 boards. His vertical still wasn't Stoudemire-esque, but he played an excellent game. I liked his effort on the boards tonight. His put-back at the end of the 3rd quarter was one of the biggest baskets in the game and led to the Knicks pulling away from Toronto in the fourth quarter. Also, Stoudemire's dog, Spudd, was sick. The Knick power forward tweeted pictures of him going for a pre-game walk before the game. If there's anyway to get Ciara to every game and Spudd sick, not fatally of course, before every game I am all for it. Good dog:
- I thought Linsanity was dead? The NY Post had a ridiculous picture of a tombstone proclaiming that Linsanity was dead. It's not. Sure, Lin isn't scoring 30 points a game, but nobody thought that would keep up. Lin's numbers were going to go down with the returns of Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony and the signing of JR Smith. The league has adjusted better to defend Lin, but that does not mean Lin is ineffective. Far from it. The Knick point guard was very good tonight. He had 18 efficient points, 6/10 shooting, and 10 assists in 29 minutes. Over his past five games, Lin is averaging 14 points on 50% shooting and 7 assists per game. He is playing some quality basketball right now, so I will proclaim that Linsanity, in fact, is still alive.
- The Knicks only turned the ball over 11 times tonight. Turnovers have been a problem all year for the Knicks. They weren't tonight. In fact, the Knicks have improved their ball security in this four game winning streak. They have only turned the ball over an average of 13 times a game under Mike Woodson, having 11 turnovers in each of their past three games. Jeremy Lin, who apparently couldn't help turning the ball over, has only turned it over an average of 3.4 times a game over his past five. The Knicks are doing a much better job of being efficient with ball security and the results are paying off.
- Toney Douglas was dusted off the bench tonight. In his first appearance since
the Mesozoic eraFebruary 15th, Douglas did not play well in three minutes of garbage time. There has been a lot made lately of whether Douglas should be inserted into the rotation. He shouldn't. Plain and simple. Something is not right with Douglas. There are rumors that his shoulder is not yet healthy and there are rumors that he is dealing with a personal problem. I love Toney Douglas. I had supreme confidence in Douglas at the start of the year. I want him to be successful, but its apparent to me that it's just not going to work out this season. He'd be better off just sitting on the bench, hopefully learning from the coaches, and coming back strong next season. Given the Knicks plethora of expiring contracts and deficiency in roster flexibility, there should be a role on next year's team for Douglas. He'll continue to play in some garbage time blowouts, but I don't think there's any way that Toney Douglas re-enters the rotation this year. I hope Douglas the best and I hope he gets his game right for next year because the Knicks will need him.


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THE Government is in "active" compensation negotiations with a former nun wrongfully convicted of the rape of a 12-year-old girl.The Irish Independent has learned that Nora Wall, who had her rape conviction declared a miscarriage of justice by the Court of Criminal Appeal in 2005, is seeking court orders compelling the State to provide her with documents relating to her prosecution.
Four years ago, Ms Wall, a former Sisters of Mercy nun known as Sr Dominic, launched a High Court action challenging what she claimed was the refusal of the State to make a decision on her compensation claim.
The case intensified in recent months when Ms Wall (65) sought details of the circumstances surrounding her prosecution and negotiations are now at an advanced stage.
"The case is still active and negotiations are currently under way," said a spokesperson for Justice Minister Alan Shatter.
"In the circumstances it would not be appropriate to make any comment."
Ms Wall was convicted of rape at the Central Criminal Court in June 1999 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
She was the first woman in the State to be found guilty of rape, but only served four days of her life sentence as her conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal six weeks later.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions agreed to a retrial when it became apparent that there had been non-disclosure of evidence in relation to one witness.
But within months, the DPP said that he would not be pursuing the retrial, instead supporting Ms Wall's application to the Court of Appeal for a declaration of miscarriage of justice.
It emerged that one of the complainants had a history of making false complaints of assault and a key witness had been declared unreliable prior to the trial and should never have appeared in court.
In 2005, the Court of Criminal Appeal declared a miscarriage of justice after hearing a "forensic debacle" had led to her conviction.
The DPP said that had he been aware of significant information which had come to light, the prosecution against Ms Wall and a now deceased homeless man, Paul McCabe, for the alleged rape of the girl would never have been brought.
In 2009, Ms Wall was given leave by the High Court to bring a judicial review challenge to the alleged refusal by the Justice Minister to make a decision on her application for compensation.


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