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HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- Caribbean Baseball Confederation president Juan Francisco Puello Herrera would like to see the Caribbean Series return to Miami and is in talks with the Marlins about utilizing their new stadium in Little Havana, Puello confirmed to MLB.com on Thursday.
Talks, however, are still in the infancy stages, and such a move would not take place any time soon -- probably not within the next four years.
The 1990 Caribbean Series took place at the Orange Bowl, located where Marlins Park sprung up last year, then moved to Bobby Maduro Miami Stadium, also since demolished, in '91. Those were rough times for the Caribbean Series, and Puello would like to recoup the event's image in the city with a heavy Latin influence.
One possibility is to include Miami in the Caribbean Series rotation, which currently consists of the four nations playing in the tournament -- Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
"We've been in conversations through our representatives over there," Puello said in Spanish. "I think that, with a centrally located ballpark like they have, if we promote it right, things could go better over there."
One motivating factor could be the return of Cuba to the Caribbean Series.
Cuba hasn't been in the tournament since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro gained power, and though chatter has surfaced the last few years about a possible return, that is still a long shot. If Cuba does return to the Caribbean Series, Puello said, it would have to be on a permanent basis.
"I can't allow Cuba to participate in just one Caribbean Series," Puello said. "They have to come every year to the Caribbean Series and stay permanently."


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In a widely expected move, Obama selected agency veteran Gina McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator and scientist Ernest Moniz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take over for Steven Chu as Energy secretary.
Obama also announced his choice to lead the White House budget office - Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Walmart Foundation, a charitable group with ties to giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
McCarthy and Moniz Round out the team Obama hopes will carry out his second term energy agenda. They join Sally Jewell, nominated last month to run the Interior Department.
The trio will be at the forefront of divisive issues surrounding the extent of U.S. natural gas exports and a possible move into crude oil exports, hydraulic fracturing and climate change.
The president, whose effort to establish a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions failed in his first term, prominently raised the issue of global warming in his Inaugural and State of the Union addresses earlier this year.
He urged Congress to embrace a market-based mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or face executive action from his administration to achieve the same goal.
McCarthy, currently the assistant EPA administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, has worked for Democrats and Republicans in the past, including Obama's 2012 presidential opponent, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
"Gina has focused on practical, cost-effective ways to keep our air clean and our economy growing," Obama said at the White House, ribbing McCarthy for her Boston accent.
"She's earned a reputation as a straight shooter. She welcomes different points of views," he said.
Environmentalists and congressional Democrats largely welcomed her nomination, but she is likely to face tough grilling from Republicans, who have accused her of promoting policies that cost jobs.
Moniz, meanwhile, would become the go-to person for Obama's goal of reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil and establishing America as a leader in clean energy technology.
A former undersecretary of energy during the Clinton administration, Moniz is currently director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Energy Initiative, a research group that gets funding from industry heavyweights including BP, Chevron, and Saudi Aramco for academic work on projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.
"Ernie knows that we can produce more energy and grow our economy while still taking care of our air, our water and our climate," Obama said.
Moniz's selection was greeted with less enthusiasm from the environmental community.
"Ernest Moniz ... has a history of supporting dirty and dangerous energy sources like gas and nuclear power with polluting partners including BP, Shell, Chevron and Saudi Aramco," said clean energy advocate Courtney Abrams of Environment America.
"We are concerned about the Department of Energy's priorities given this track record and hope Moniz will focus on clean, renewable ways to get our energy that don't put our families and our environment in harm's way."
Elgie Holstein, chief of staff at the Energy Department when Moniz was hired during the Clinton administration, dismissed complaints that Moniz is too supportive of natural gas.
"I think the view that he is some sort of fracking fiend is entirely misplaced. He has a very balanced view of that," said Holstein, who is now with the Environmental Defense Fund.
One of the first decisions facing Moniz will face at the helm of the Energy Department is whether to allow exports of natural gas to more than the current list of countries.
A 2011 MIT study on the future of natural gas, chaired by Moniz, said the United States should not "erect barriers to natural gas imports or exports."
Many manufacturers and some lawmakers are concerned more exports will mean higher natural gas prices for consumers and companies. Moniz is likely to be questioned about the issue during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Energy analysts cautioned against placing too much weight on Moniz' involvement in the study advocating against restrictions on exports.
"Moniz may contribute, but we don't think he alone will decisively shift top-level debate within the White House policy ranks," Kevin Book of ClearView Energy Partners said in a research note regarding gas exports.
Moniz may be able to make a bigger stamp on nuclear power. His background as a nuclear physicist and work as a member of the administration's commission on nuclear waste has sparked some hopes that he may be able to bolster support for nuclear power at the department.
"The real question mark is the nuclear side because of his expertise, but I think it's a real opportunity," said Bruce Bullock, director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Texas.
The choice of Burwell to become director of the White House budget office had also been widely expected.
All three nominations require confirmation by the Senate.
Obama appears to have delayed some Cabinet appointments, whose names were well known for weeks, until after the March 1 deadline for massive spending cuts known as "sequestration."
Obama and congressional leaders failed to reach an agreement to delay those cuts on Friday, threatening other policy priorities in the president's second term agenda.
Burwell will be instrumental in steering the budget process that will encapsulate Obama's stated goal of reducing the U.S. deficit while investing in areas such as education and clean energy technology that are necessary for U.S. competitiveness.
Raised in West Virginia and educated at Harvard and Oxford, Burwell, 47, returns to an agency where she was once deputy director - one of a number of roles she had in the Clinton administration, including a stint as chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
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In 1963, Walter Elias Disney flew over an uninhabited stretch of swampland near Orlando, Fla., and saw a vision of the future: a completely new type of theme park that would dwarf even his revolutionary Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Occupying more than 20,000 acres, this new amusement park in the center of the Sunshine State would be large enough to contain all the necessities of a family vacation— attractions, dining, shopping, leisure— and also grow and change over the years.
A side view of the Burnham Institute at Lake Nona building, which officially opened with a dedication ceremony on Oct. 8; the front portion of the building (left) houses the administrative wing, while the labs and technology centers are in the back (right)
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Thirty-six years later, another successful California enterprise has come to Orlando, as this past October La Jolla's Burnham Institute for Medical Research has opened up a brand new $85 million research facility. Burnham's new building may not be quite as eye-catching as Spaceship Earth at Epcot, and it probably won't bring in quite as many tourists as its illustrious neighbor; however, the expansion of this private biomedical research institute into Orlando, along with the other planned research and medical facilities that eventually will make up a biotechnology park, has just as much potential to be extraordinarily transformative to the state of Florida as Walt Disney World.
Traditionally, Florida's economy has been supported by three primary industries: tourism, agriculture and construction. All of those, though, are sensitive to factors beyond the state's control, such as unpredictable weather and global economic factors. And, much like any three-legged object, kicking out even one leg destabilizes the whole thing.
Back in 2003, then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush began looking for a fourth leg to provide more long-term economic growth and stability and saw an opportunity in biotechnology.
Somewhat surprisingly, despite having the fourth-largest state population, four major metropolitan areas and several large universities and hospitals, Florida never has been a major player in biotech. Burnham associate professor Masanobu Komatsu, who completed his undergraduate, graduate and first postdoctoral work at the University of Miami, saw that firsthand. "I really liked the area. It's where I met my wife, and I didn't want to leave, but at that time Florida didn't offer much of a career future in cancer research."
Bush hoped to change such perceptions, and he drew inspiration from another sunny, tourist-driven location: San Diego, which gradually had built up a vibrant biotechnology industry, basically starting from scratch. It most certainly would be a risky proposal, but it would be one with high reward potential. A successful biotech cluster would create thousands of jobs, generate tremendous revenue and increase Florida's intellectual capital. So, the state began wooing the best in biotech to its sunny shores.
And, although the Burnham Institute for Medical Research was not the first to set foot in Florida— that honor actually would go to its neighbor in La Jolla, the Scripps Research Institute— its arrival is part of Florida's most ambitious recruiting effort to date. While other biotechnology hubs like San Diego and Boston took decades to fully develop, Orlando hopes to jump-start the biotech boom by quickly attracting multiple established institutes, as opposed to untested startups, to a ready-to-develop 600-acre site in southeastern Orlando near Lake Nona known as "Medical City."
And the cornerstone of this city would be the Burnham Institute for Medical Research.
From its origins as a research center aimed at understanding the development of cancer, Burnham has built up a scientific mission of tackling disease via fundamental discovery and innovative technology, whether through its continued work as a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, or other areas, such as infectious and inflammatory disease, neuroscience and stem-cell research.
That disease-driven mission will continue to be represented in Orlando, although, like any sibling, this site also will find its own identity by pursuing an avenue of research that is complementary to research at the La Jolla institute: understanding metabolism and how it relates to obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. "This new center is thematically distinct, which gives us a reason to be," explains Burnham at Lake Nona scientific director Daniel P. Kelly, "but our studies also extensively cross-cut with Burnham's other themes, which lets the two campuses stay connected."
The Lake Nona institute will be headlined by the Diabetes and Obesity Research Center, which is composed of two distinct programs: the metabolic signaling and disease program and the cardiovascular pathobiology program. In turn, the research carried out by those two programs will be supported by several advanced technology platforms, such as high-throughput small-molecule screening, genomics, metabolomics, medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. Some of the technologies, like medicinal chemistry, are extensions of platforms that Burnham has in La Jolla, while others, like genomics, were developed to complement Lake Nona's research areas. Two platforms, though, were developed specifically to give this new center a unique feel.
The first technology is a very extensive small-animal phenotyping core that will allow researchers to evaluate insulin resistance, body fat mass and composition, heart function and energy expenditure of mouse models. The second is a metabolomics platform, set up in collaboration with Duke University's Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, which will conduct mass-spectrometry-based metabolite profiling.
"Both of these sophisticated technology resources can put into overdrive our opportunity to do translational research that could not be done at traditional academic institutes," says Kelly, who was at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis prior to taking the scientific director role in early 2008.
"An Out-of-the-Box Proposal." That curiously titled e-mail header, from Kelly, was Philip A. Wood's first introduction to Burnham's Orlando facility. "I had known Dan for about 20 years," says Wood, who was a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham when that message hit his inbox last year. "We had published some papers together and gave talks on the same stages, so I decided to give it a look. After all, an out-of-the-box proposal was exactly what I needed at that point in my career."
After a visit to Orlando that he describes as completely first class, Wood was hooked. "Everything was just so well done and efficient; all the resources I wanted for my studies into fatty acid oxidation and how the body handles increased fat loads— metabolic physiology, genomics and metabolomics— were under one roof, and I realized I could do my research here with minimum aggravation. Add in the fact that I don't really like snow, and coming here was a no-brainer."
From Kelly's point of view, bringing Wood on board was also an easy decision. As a trained veterinarian with more than 30 years of experience, Wood knew the medicine and genetics of seven different species, which allowed him to think in comparative terms. That kind of broad expertise was perfect for Kelly's vision of assembling a diverse research team that could take advantage of the technology platforms.
"I was very keen on developing an environment without barriers," says Kelly. "Looking at it from a discovery sense, we need to consider metabolism from many different disciplines."
That meant bringing in scientists with Ph.D.s, M.D.s and even D.V.M.s, as well as mixing strong academics like Timothy Osborne, who was a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Irvine, before coming over as metabolic signaling and disease program director, with industry types like Stephen Gardell, who had spent 20 years working in drug discovery at major pharmaceutical companies.
The pace of hiring has been extremely rapid, with 14 of an anticipated 30 lead scientist positions already filled since Burnham first agreed to expand to Orlando back in August 2006. Kelly attributes that pace partially to luck, partially to Burnham's existing reputation and partially to his nature. "I don't want a sparsely populated building, you know, because the technology cores need collaborators to get up and running," he says. "So I've been hard on the recruitment trail."
The location certainly helps as well: "I grew up in Wisconsin and was always a Midwest guy, so Florida was always the least likely area I thought I would live in," Kelly says. But he adds that for others, such as empty-nesters or people with children, Florida has a sort of magnetic appeal.
Osborne is a prime example. Tenured and quite content at Irvine, he initially came to visit with his wife out of curiosity and professional courtesy, but he was quickly won over. "Everyone we met, none of whom knew us from Adam, was amazingly friendly and treated us so well, and the facilities were amazing," he says. "To put it simply, we were just floored."
While Burnham received a generous start-up package from state, local, and private groups, Kelly acknowledges that, in the long term, Burnham at Lake Nona cannot be sustainable purely on the National Institutes of Health funding received by its scientists.
For its continued success, and the success of Florida biotech, it'll need philanthropy and business interests, and therefore productive partnerships with universities, hospitals and companies. Fortunately, buoyed by Burnham's early commitment, Medical City will provide many partnership opportunities; already, the University of Central Florida is nearing completion of its brand new medical school just down the road from Burnham, while Nemours Children's Hospital, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando and the University of Florida also have agreed to build facilities there.
But while the presence of a life science cluster at Lake Nona will be extremely beneficial, Burnham also has undertaken a forward-looking model to ensure its research effort is maximized.
That's where Gardell comes in. In his specialized role as director of translational research resources, he oversees Burnham's two flagship high-technology platforms— metabolomics and cardiometabolic phenotyping— and assists researchers in shepherding their projects toward clinical utility, which in turn, he believes, will further Burnham's mission. "Translational research is a circular process," he says. "It involves bench-to-bedside— and bedside-to-bench research pursuits. Discoveries made in the clinics must feed back to guide basic research. This is a critical component of overall success."
Burnham Institute researchers Steven R. Smith (left), director of the Florida Hospital-Burnham Institute Translational Research Institute, and Stephen Gardell, director of Burnham's translational research resources, both will be instrumental in fulfilling the institute's aims of pushing its fundamental discoveries toward clinical and industrial utility.
Speaking of bedsides, Gardell will work closely with Steven R. Smith, a trained endocrinologist who was hired by Burnham in a joint appointment with Florida Hospital. When he's not in lab studying genetic and epigenetic changes that may alter muscle metabolism, Smith heads the Florida Hospital-Burnham Institute Translational Research Institute. The TRI, which will also soon have its own state-of-the-art building, employs clinical scientists conducting patient-oriented research who will work closely with Burnham to apply their work back to basic research. Smith envisions that, just like him, some other TRI researchers will have joint labs at Burnham, thus making the collaboration even more intertwined.
Such collaboration will be essential because, in choosing diabetes and obesity as its research focus, Burnham at Lake Nona has taken up quite a challenge. As Smith discusses his clinical work, he points to a graph of obesity trends, and the hockey-stick like rise seen over the past decade. Diabetes rates have not yet advanced that high, but Smith notes somberly, "Diabetes usually follows obesity by about 10 years."
And diabetes is no simple beast: "You can find as many theories about the mechanisms underlying insulin resistance as you have labs working on it," Wood says, adding, "Just look at cholesterol problems by comparison, where statin drugs are highly effective. We have no statin equivalent in diabetes; after all these years, the best treatment is still diet and exercise."
If anyone's up to the challenge of changing that, it may be the Burnham. "We've got a great institute that's focused on a core set of principles, where everyone loves to get together and talk about ideas," Smith says. "I'm optimistic we'll get some good things done."
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At 0123 hrs, Pullman Police responded to the 300 Block of NE Maple Street for an assault that just took place. The 19 year of female victim reported that she was walking home when she noticed that she was being followed by a male. She was later tackled in a parking lot off of Maple Street and sexually attacked (fondled). She screamed and the male fled on foot. A witness to the screaming (not the attack) saw the suspect, called 911 and was able to give responding officers a physical and clothing description.
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1: "Families are like fudge mostly sweet with a few nuts." ~Author Unknown
3: It's the little things that make life beautiful.
4: Love/Valentines Day/Anniversary | "I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you." -Roy Croft | "Lucky I'm in love with my best friend"
5: The best thing about me is you.
7: "The more you laugh the longer you live" | "Good times are even better when they are shared"
8: Some Bunny's Having An Easter Egg Hunt | Spring is Here!
9: Hippity Hoppity Easters On It's Way
10: Good times are even better when shared with
11: "Friends are Flowers that Never Fade"
12: The ribbons of your love are woven around my heart
13: "Flowers have the sun, children have their mothers." ~Kay Andrew
15: DAD: The Man, The Myth & The Legend
16: Family, Fun, Food and Fireworks
17: "Home of the free... Because of the Brave" ~Author Unknown | Let's Celebrate! | OOOOOOooooo! Aaahhhhhh! Ohhhhhhhh!!!
18: Best Friends!
19: The Best Summer!
20: Happy Birthday to You | Hooray For Birthdays
21: Look At All These Presents, I Can Handle This
22: Getting Back To Nature
23: Always a New Adventure
24: A New School Year
25: Little Scholars | Play Time
26: Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" - Dexter Kozen
27: Trick or Treat!
28: "Good times are even better when they are shared"
29: "The more you laugh the longer you live"
31: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
32: Holiday Memories Warm Even The Coldest Of Days
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37: Out With The Old And In With The New...This Year Is Going To Be Great!


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Deduction & Induction
In logic, we often refer to the two broad methods of reasoning as the deductive and inductive approaches.
Deductive reasoning works from the more general to the more specific. Sometimes this is informally called a "top-down" approach. We might begin with thinking up a theory about our topic of interest. We then narrow that down into more specific hypotheses that we can test. We narrow down even further when we collect observations to address the hypotheses. This ultimately leads us to be able to test the hypotheses with specific data -- a confirmation (or not) of our original theories.
Inductive reasoning works the other way, moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories. Informally, we sometimes call this a "bottom up" approach (please note that it's "bottom up" and not "bottoms up" which is the kind of thing the bartender says to customers when he's trying to close for the night!). In inductive reasoning, we begin with specific observations and measures, begin to detect patterns and regularities, formulate some tentative hypotheses that we can explore, and finally end up developing some general conclusions or theories.
These two methods of reasoning have a very different "feel" to them when you're conducting research. Inductive reasoning, by its very nature, is more open-ended and exploratory, especially at the beginning. Deductive reasoning is more narrow in nature and is concerned with testing or confirming hypotheses. Even though a particular study may look like it's purely deductive (e.g., an experiment designed to test the hypothesized effects of some treatment on some outcome), most social research involves both inductive and deductive reasoning processes at some time in the project. In fact, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that we could assemble the two graphs above into a single circular one that continually cycles from theories down to observations and back up again to theories. Even in the most constrained experiment, the researchers may observe patterns in the data that lead them to develop new theories.
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Opinion: Iran's Mythical 'Moderate'
WSJ assistant books editor Sohrab Ahmari on the results of Iran's recent presidential election. Photos: Associated Press
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel you're looking in a photograph of Iran is new leader ... sixty four year old cleric Hassan a rough on me ... what suggestions from the press from the Obama administration the skies and moderate a Sunday a weekend deal with ... is that really true I've got Wall Street Journal Assistant books editor so ever Mari here ... to discuss the ... toaster and in India moderator isn't he ... he's not he's the a ... and fees for having me he's would you call a smiling all ... the smiling Mala ... is a guy who has the same backward social views ... in terms of the team and a win in the treatment of the press but he might give you a set of women having to cover up all the way to their forehead ... The might give you a little bit of an inch of hair to show ... and the yuan on foreign policy matters he believes the same stuff he thinks we should try to undermine on U S allies in the region ... we should try to ... undermine U S ... interests ... and alliances in the region ... but ... keep Max all of that with a veneer of talking about dialogue among civilizations and ... and the so the the the ... grandiose ... rhetoric ... that isn't really backed up by any ... concrete ... policy changes from what's come before from this regime ... so basically the press isn't completely hoodwinked by this guy a and and and his history doesn't suggests unease among her in any way shape or form ... um so what does affect the turnout was so high in the selection in ... the three pointer that the sale of the rain people have their say ... he did the turnout was high time something over seventy percent of people voted for you hafta take it with a little bit of a grandest Coronet saw a lot of people in Iranian society ... are required ... to vote on because they get various handouts ... and ... getting those handouts to keep in your state job is contingent upon you voting but ... the videos the use of people being jubilant and dancing the streets those are probably genuine and the reason that is because the ... the mullahs actually Masters the plane the society in other words ... you have a society that's like ... a boiling cauldron ... you know you have ... something like two thirds of the Society of people who are ... under twenty five around thirty years old ... and ... you have octogenarian ball is rolling over them well that's not gonna work ... and you have the lead of the cauldron ... I ... but occasionally you let out the set of switch the spigot so that ... some steam gets let out ... and be around people because they're frustrated because the last two years have been really tough ... whatever opportunity comes up that the fall of going to St to celebrate ... they're gonna do it I'm but it doesn't necessarily mean that David sent it to the regime ... Suzie China stoking an anti Japan sentiment same kind of thing aam I was caught up on the screen from Denis McDonough ... as chief of staff the Obama missed ration in he said and I quote ... I see as a potentially hopeful sign ... I think the question for us now is if he's interested in ... as he said his campaign events mending his relations Iran's relations with the rest of the world ... there's an opportunity to do that and quotes are on ... that sounds like that the White House wants to do you do deals with this guy is that how you read it it's it's deja vu all over again it's as though the past thirty four years of the past four years of the Obama missed ration ... had and hadn't occurred ... on and it's as though that the regime could it be the answer that Washington has forgotten this regimes history ... every new Iranian administration that comes and ... says we want to have better relations with the world we wanna have dialogue among the civilization ... and at the same time they ... that they ratchet up the repression at home ... and they had tried a planned assassination plots where they carry the mountain in Argentina in the nineteen nineties where O pour more recently with the attempt to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington ... in Washington that all of that has gone on while ... the guy who comes and says ... on the moderates ... are let's talk about Matt and I live ... of course that in a sentence is up with about thirty seconds left but it's not just about repression who was about the nuclear program ... so bye bye saying signaling the sky we wanna talk to you ... I was that mean for the development of that program the threats to us or our allies in the least I think this is going to buy more time is going to be more meetings about meetings about meetings ... and ... technical ... meetings where they talk about when to have ... more meetings ... Andy's cousin to buy time to get to it than him ... okay so I ... very very gloomy gloomy outlook smiling my life was to journalists assembled senators sober Marty thanks much for being on show ...


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I wrote and read the below eulogy through many tears at Mom's Requiem mass. The liturgy was sung in Plainchant Latin, and I felt like I was standing at the gates of heaven listening to angels sing. Mom would have been 75 years old today. Happy Birthday, Mom. You are always in my heart. I love you!
Mom's Eulogy
How can I do justice to 74 years of a life lived with what amounts to just a few paragraphs. When I think of Dianne, I think foremost of things she has said and done over the years that have stayed with me, words and actions that reflect her essence. Dianne was larger than life for me. She saw me take my first breath. I have known her all of my life because she was my mother. And she told me I would always be her little girl no matter how old I was. Some of my earliest memories are of our girl time together – painting our nails and curling our hair. Mom did all the things for me that a mother does: feeding us, making clothes for us, caring for us when we were sick, but she also taught my brothers and I to be honest, have a work ethic, and be persons of integrity. She made sure we thought about and questioned things. She took us to art galleries, museums, and theaters in Washington D.C., and instilled a love for the arts in us. Most importantly to me, she taught me to say my prayers and imparted her faith to me, enabling me to develop a deep love for God while I was still a young child.
Mom's nurturing spirit shone best through her gardening. She turned her entire back yard into a peaceful sanctuary with many different seasonal flowers, bushes, and trees: using every space, carefully planning where each plant would thrive, and adding new creations every year. Her essence is still there in her gardens, where a timeless rose bush graces the porch roof with sprays of pink spilling over the sides, where birds bathe and hollies offer their food. One can feel her presence there. I think of the quote by James Russell Lowe which she often repeated, "Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare."
Mom also had a strong will, and she never backed down from a challenge. She went back to school in her thirties, while raising three children. She acquired a bachelor's degree in sociology and then went to Georgetown University on scholarship. There, she earned a master's degree in demography and subsequently worked for the House of Representatives, Bell Atlantic, and the Census Bureau as a demographer. She was a published author in her field, and she was named in Who's Who in American Women in 1984. After her retirement, she returned to school and earned a master's degree in history at the age of 70. She did not see impediments along her path in life. She saw opportunities, and she achieved what she believed she could do, and she never gave up.
Dianne was a daughter, sister, mother, friend, neighbor, coworker, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a wife. Her best friend and the love of her life was her husband, David. They shared 35 years together enjoying their dogs and birds, their gardens, and their many discussions about politics, history, ancestry research, and the latest good movie. They enjoyed learning, and loving life and each other.
If I look closely at those things I loved about my mother, I find that they are right here within my own heart and soul. I cherish what I have gained from knowing her, from having loved her, and from having the privilege of calling her Mom. This quote from Edmund Spenser's, The Fairie Queene, recently reverberated in my head until I gave it my full attention and wrote it down:
"For whatsoever from one place does fall,Is with the tide unto another brought:For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."
I leave you with this quote by Saint Teresa of Avila, which I found recently in Mom's devotional, and surprisingly, it is one I also know by heart:
"Let Nothing Disturb You,
Let Nothing Frighten You,
All Things are Passing Away,
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing.
Alone God Suffices."


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Tribe's offense erupts behind Masterson's gem
ST. PETERSBURG -- The Indians were coming off consecutive shutouts, only to wake up Sunday and have to face the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, Rays ace David Price. And they were set to do so behind starter Justin Masterson, who hadn't beaten Tampa Bay since 2008.
It was far from a promising outlook, but it couldn't have turned out much better for the Tribe. The Indians had their way with Price, and Masterson outpitched the Rays' ace in Cleveland's 13-0 win at Tropicana Field. Just like they drew it up, right?
"We went 20 innings without scoring a run. We had to score some time," Indians designated hitter Mark Reynolds said. "It just happened to be against him."
Cleveland racked up 17 hits, including five homers and six doubles, and held Tampa Bay to just four hits. Reynolds crushed two homers, Lonnie Chisenhall and Michael Bourn hit one each and Carlos Santana picked up a career-high five hits -- including two doubles and a ninth-inning homer off Rays closer Fernando Rodney -- to lead the way for the Indians.
The fact that the Indians broke out of their two-day slump wasn't a surprise. That they did it against Price, and in such a big way, was a little more unexpected.
Heading into Sunday's matchup, Price was 5-0 with only seven earned runs allowed in 38 1/3 career innings against the Tribe. Meanwhile, Cleveland's bats had gone completely silent the previous two days. After stranding Bourn at third base in the first, the Indians' scoreless streak stretched to 20 innings. That figure didn't stand much longer, though.
Drew Stubbs put the Tribe back on the board in the second inning with an RBI single to right field. Reynolds added to that lead in the third, crushing Price's 0-1 curveball to dead center field for a three-run homer.
"He throws hard, so if you barrel it, it's going to go," Reynolds said. "You always feel good if you come away from a game with a knock against him. He's tough."
Ryan Raburn led off the fifth with a double to left and scored on Santana's two-out double, and Cleveland kept piling it on from there. Mike Aviles singled to put runners on the corners, then Chisenhall hammered a 3-1 fastball into the right-field stands to give the Tribe an eight-run lead.
"I really don't have a positive from today. And that's kind of tough to do," Price said. "I just have to keep getting better, working hard. It's not due to lack or work or anything like that. This is a very tough game and they put it to us today. It was very rough."
Price didn't come back out after the fifth, exiting with eight earned runs, 10 hits and three walks to his name. Not that Masterson needed the help with the way he pitched Sunday.
Cleveland's Opening Day starter was even better in his second outing of 2013. He gave up only two hits over seven shutout innings while striking out eight, picking up his first win over the Rays since June 3, 2008. Cleveland manager Terry Francona said Masterson took it upon himself to stop the Tribe's three-game losing streak, adding that he "really showed his colors" with his dominant performance.
And much like Price had been dominant against the Tribe before getting hit around Sunday, Masterson had practically no previous success against the Rays. He recorded 10 groundball outs, none in the air and retired the final 13 batters he faced. But Masterson wouldn't take much credit for his dazzling start, instead crediting the Tribe's hitters for giving him a big lead.
"The boys came out and they just bamboozled," Masterson said. "I just watched them."
The Indians didn't let up when Price left, either. Facing Kyle Farnsworth in the seventh inning, Reynolds bashed a towering shot off the upper deck in left field. Reynolds' 19th career multi-homer game gave the typically slow starter four home runs in the Tribe's first six contests.
"I don't know where this is coming from," said Reynolds, whose first homer in 2012 came on May 4. "It was important for me personally to come out and get off to a good start. To be able to do it this year, especially against the pitchers we've faced, is a huge confidence booster, and hopefully this will get some kind of rollover for me and I can kind of put it together a little bit."
The rout continued from there. Santana laced another double down the left-field line and scored on Aviles' single to left. Bourn, who stole his first base of the season in the first inning, clobbered his first homer of 2013 in the eighth inning, a solo shot to right field off reliever Brandon Gomes.
Reynolds doubled to lead off the ninth, setting up Santana's fifth hit -- a line-drive shot to right against Rodney, Santana's teammate on the Dominican Republic's World Baseball Classic championship squad.
"He's my friend with the team in the WBC," Santana said. "But here, no."
It was that kind of day for the Tribe. A friend becomes an enemy, the pitcher conquers the team he can't beat and the hitters crush the ace who held a Cy Young plaque over his head on the same field less than 24 hours earlier.
"When you get this game figured out," Francona quipped, "let me know."


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what are the differences between an iGesture and a Touchstream Mini?
Specifically, what are the dimensions of each, and can an iGesture be programmed, via the MyGesture editor, to have keys?
And for each, how many sensors does it have?
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Good question. I think there's some communication going on between the software and the FW device that checks the actual firmware... so that might be an obstacle.TP Diffenbach wrote:could you trick the firmware updater
I only said that the sensor arrays are identical. The printed circuit board underneath is probably only similar -- differing in exactly those aspects. But I haven't looked for myself, so I'm just speculating...TP Diffenbach wrote:are the components EXACTLY the same? ... do the single-pad products ... have the ribbon cable attachment the two-pad products have?
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If you are nostalgic for your command-prompting days of yore, take a look at retro-synth all-star Com Truise's video collaboration with designer Myk Dawg.
The video for Terminal, off his 2011 full record Galactic Melt, is a whirlwind of ascii art, configuration prompts and text adventures; the bread and butter of early '90s personal computing. And the music ain't bad either! [YouTube via The Verge]


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This practical challenge invites you to investigate the different
squares you can make on a square geoboard or pegboard.
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
If you had 36 cubes, what different cuboids could you make?
Here is a table containing all the letters of the alphabet:
It has six rows (going from left to right) and five columns (going from top to bottom). The Vikings communicated in writing by making simple scratches on wood or stones called runes. Sometimes they were written in a secret or coded way. Here is 'was' written in NRICH's coded runes:
Can you work out how the code works using the table of the alphabet?
Here is a message in secret runes:
Can you decipher it?
Perhaps you can make up your own message.
This activity requires some lateral thinking - a bit of fun!


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Contemporary Chinese Language Cinema with Guest Speaker, Peggy Chiao
Wed, November 9, 2011
From November 9-13, the Department of Radio, TV, and Film and the Center for East Asian Studies presents a Chinese-language cinema master class, public lecture, and mini film festival with guest speaker, Peggy Chiao, a distinguished Taiwanese scholar and film producer.
Public Lecture: Chinese-Language Cinema - The New Image
Nov 11 (Fri) 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Legends Room, the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center
Master Class: Filmmaking in China: From Art Cinema to Commercial Production (NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) Nov 10 (thur) 3:30 - 5 p.m. CMA 4.128
Public Screenings of Films Produced by Peggy Chiao
Buddha Mountain Nov 9 (Wed) 7:30 p.m. CMB Studio 4D (CMB 4.122)
Beijing Bicycle Nov 10 (Thur) 7:30 p.m. ART 1.102
Taiwan Cinema of the 2000s In Celebration of the Founding of the Taiwan Academy
Nov 11 (Fri) 5 p.m. -7:30 p.m. Legends Room, the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center
Public Screenings of Films Made in Taiwan
7:30 p.m. CMB Studio 4D (CMB 4.122)
Hear Me Nov 11 (Fri)
Blue Gate Crossing Nov 12 (Sat)
Yang Yang Nov 13 (Sun)
Please see the RTF list for more details:
From the Internet Movie Database:
Peggy is a multi-faceted and distinguished Taiwanese filmmaker. Her wide repertoire ranges from film production, international distribution, film criticism to her work in education as a professor. She has over 70 film-related publications under her belt. Widely reputed for spearheading Taiwanese New Wave directors and China's 5th & 6th Generation filmmakers onto the international festival circuit in the 1980s, she continues to promote Chinese-language cinema of today by writing and producing. Her production company Arc Light Films, founded in 1996, was behind many acclaimed international co-productions. In 2000, she set up Trigram Films to produce a string of popular, youth-oriented movies like Hear Me, Love You 10000 Years, Me 19 and Tempest of First Love. Besides writing and producing, she served two years as the chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Awards, the most renowned and prestigious festival in the Chinese speaking area. Her most recent film (Associate Producer), Buddha Mountain, won Best Actress and Artistic Contribution Awards in the Tokyo Film Festival, 2010. She is currently a professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts.
Please download the Center for East Asian Studies fall seminar series PDF to view upcoming events.


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This is what some of our kids call Paul and they may be right. He pretty much amazes me everyday and I am hanging onto his coattails for dear life.
Yesterday he called home around 4:30 and said 'Let's meet for dinner'. So we met and he said 'Happy Anniversary'! I said 'What?' He said 'Happy 10th Anniversary'! To which I again said 'What?'. 'Today is the exact day I found out that I had cancer for the first time and I think we should mark this day with a celebration. He went on to thank me for being there during the dark days of cancer and how grateful he felt to be alive. Then he gave me a really nice present. Really? I got the present? He should be getting a present for surviving it all. He's just so thoughtful.............did I mention I'm hanging on to his coattails? Hard..............
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
This is what some of our kids call Paul and they may be right. He pretty much amazes me everyday and I am hanging onto his coattails for dear life.
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- Summer said...
Dad definitely is an amazing man! Who happened to marry an amazing woman. We're all so blessed to have you for our parents; I'm not sure how I got so lucky to squeak into this family! What a great way to mark the celebration of him beating that nasty cancer!
- December 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM
- Rachel Garcia said...
AWWW... I am seriously tearing up at my desk as I read this and I am dying to know what he got you! What a kind sweet man. May he be an example to husbands everywhere!!
- December 15, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- nic + allison said...
I agree Summer. I definitely must have squeezed in to this family - I made a bargain with Heavenly Father. haha He is an amazing man/father/husband. Yay for celebrations! :)
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Media Events for Development Campaigns
Using large international events to get attention for a development objective is a pretty good idea. Events like the Soccer World Cup are so called media events - events that capture the attention of a large audience, that break our routines, and unify a large scattered audience. Whatever team you were cheering for, you weren't the only one cheering for it, and didn't you feel like your team's friends were also your friends? This kind of mood - attention and a feeling of community - provides a great environment for campaigns that want to raise awareness about certain issues or that want to change norms and behaviors.
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- Tanzania
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- Paraguay
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- Media Events
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We are providing only the address at this time, there has been an error in the MAPQUEST link application. While we work on a resolution, we are providing the street address information and provided notes to playing fields. In addition, we are providing a DIRECT link to MapQuest - from which you can generate driving directions. Shortly we will restore the Mapping function.
Below you will find the address to Playing Field Skyline Park for BRONOTES: From Rt 9 eastbound, exit right onto Hammond Pond Parkway. At traffic circle at end of parkway, take first exit onto Newton St. Watch for the sign for the Park entrance which is about half a mile on the right. Follow the road up the hill where parking is available. This field has a synthetic surface.
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The Global Call for Climate Action
Antonio Hill started as the new Executive Director of the GCCA in April 2014. Mr. Hill previously worked for Oxfam, where he was a Policy Adviser since 2000.
From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Hill worked as Senior Policy Adviser for Oxfam's global campaign for an international climate change agreement in the interest of people living in poverty. He specialized in issues relating to international climate finance for adaptation. Mr. Hill advised rural development programmes on small-scale agriculture, sustainable livelihoods, international trade, and environment and natural resources conservation, from 2000-06, and his most recent role with Oxfam was as Campaigns and Advocacy Adviser for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Before joining Oxfam, Mr. Hill worked for the World Foundation for Environment and Development (WFED), where he focused on international climate change and biodiversity conservation issues. In 1997, WFED published a four-volume sourcebook on lessons learned from an early pilot of international carbon market arrangements that Mr. Hill edited.
In addition to his work with Oxfam and WFED, Mr. Hill served as a member of the Steering Committee of the UK Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy from 2008 to 2010. From 2008 to 2009, he advised the Government of Colombia on climate adaptation issues through a consultancy with UNDP. In 2011, he participated in COP17 as a member of the Bolivian delegation as lead adviser on climate finance. In 2013 and 2014, respectively, Mr. Hill taught diploma courses on international climate finance for civil servants in the Government of El Salvador and government officials from across the Latin America region.
Mr. Hill holds a B.A. in Government and Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a M.Sc. in Development Studies (Environment & Development) from the London School of Economics. He also has a certificate in Macroeconomic Policy from the Brandeis International Business School.


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Rock 'N' Roll Allstars Tour: Tentative Setlist Leaked by Promoter
We recently reported that rock legends such as Duff McKagan, Sebastian Bach, Gene Simmons and many more are planning to embark on the Rock 'N' Roll Allstars tour in Central and South America. To get fans even more excited, a tentative setlist has been released (spoiler alert), featuring some of the most celebrated songs in rock history.
The Rock 'N' Roll Allstars tour is a unique experiment, allowing current and former members of bands such as Guns N' Roses, KISS, Deep Purple, Alice in Chains and more to share the stage with one another. During a March 1 press conference held at the Roxy in Hollywood, Calif., some of the rockers participating in the tour were able to share their excitement with fans.
"For me to be the singer in Gene Simmons' first-ever side project is amazing to me!," raved ex-Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach. "Dreams come true, indeed."
Velvet Revolver / ex-Guns N' roses drummer Matt Sorum also projected his anticipation for the upcoming gigs. "In my opinion we've got what I would call the greatest rock 'n' roll tour in my era, in my distant memory. All in one shot too."
KISS bassist-singer Gene Simmons also gave a statement at the special press conference. "It is our honor to step up on stage – hallowed ground, holy ground in front of our bosses. We're doing all this for the fans. This hearkens back to a magical moment in rock 'n' roll history when the great Alan Freed allowed the legends of rock 'n' roll Chuck Berry, Little Richard and all the greats on stage together. The fans got the best shows of their lives."
South American promoters Premier Producciones revealed a tentative setlist for the Guatemalan date of the Rock 'N' Roll Allstars tour, which begins on April 19 in Paraguay. Check out the monster setlist below.
Tentative Rock 'N' Roll Allstars Setlist
Duff McKagan – 'It's So Easy'
Sebastian Bach – 'Welcome to the Jungle'
Sebastian Bach – 'I Remember You'
Sebastian Bach – 'Youth Gone Wild'
Sebastian Bach – 'Whole Lotta Love'
Sebastian Bach – 'Crazy Train'
Glenn Hughes – 'Highway Star'
Glenn Hughes – 'Burn'
Glenn Hughes – 'Smoke on the Water'
Glenn Hughes – 'Firewoman'
Glenn Hughes – 'Wildflower'
Ed Roland – 'Shine'
Ed Roland – 'Rebel Yell'
Ed Roland – 'Man in a Box' w/ Glenn Hughes
Gilby Clarke – 'Knockin' on Heavens Door'
Joe Elliott – 'Animal'
Joe Elliott – 'All the Young Dudes'
Joe Elliott – 'Sugar'
Joe Elliott – 'Tie Your Mother Down'
Gene Simmons – 'Deuce'
Gene Simmons – 'Doctor Love'
Gene Simmons – 'I Love it Loud'
Gene Simmons – 'Cold Gin'
TBD – 'Paradise City'
Gene Simmons – 'Rock and Roll All Night'


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Event Number 2979
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology)
- Double Disk Dark Matter
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Andrey Katz, Harvard University
- Abstract: We consider a scenario that we call Partially Interacting Dark Matter (PIDM). This scenario contains self-interacting dark matter, but it is not the dominant Dark Matter component. Even if PIDM contains only a fraction of the net dark matter density, comparable to the baryonic fraction, the subdominant componentaEuroTMs interactions can lead to interesting and potentially observable consequences. Our primary focus will be the special case of Double-Disk Dark Matter (DDDM), in which self-interactions allow the dark matter to lose enough energy to lead to dynamics similar to those in the baryonic sector. We explore a simple model in which DDDM can cool einotfciently and form a disk within galaxies, and we evaluate some of the possible observational signatures. The most prominent signal of such a scenario could be an enhanced indirect detection signature with a distinctive spatial distribution. Such scenarios also predict additional dark radiation degrees of freedom that could soon be detectable and would ininot,uence the interpretation of future data, such as that from Planck and from the Gaia satellite.
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Walking down your front steps is an uneventful activity, but when a rattlesnake impedes the path, that quickly changes. That was the case for one Red Wing family when members discovered a timber rattlesnake coiled up on their front steps June 22. It took a call to Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Brittany Hauser to send the snake on its way.
"It was located right in the middle of town," Hauser said. "Obviously not a common place for a rattlesnake."
She speculated that the snake hitched a ride with a harvest or grain truck.
One day prior to the sighting of the slithering front-step serpent, Hauser said she received a call from a woman who had seen a snake in the St. James Hotel parking lot under her car. Hauser received a picture of the snake and verified it was a rattlesnake, leading her to believe the one found on the front steps the following day was the same specimen.
"The odds of two different verified rattlesnakes within a half mile and within two days of each other is unlikely," Hauser said.
Adding to the rarity of this sighting is just how uncommon this snake is to find in general. The only part of the state the timber rattlesnake can be found is in the southeast. Even then, the chances of stumbling across one is next to none. The snake is habitually a shy creature that will generally flee - it's not going to sit there and wait for something or someone to agitate it.
"Most of the time we won't even know it's there," Hauser said. "We could walk right by and not even know. There is maybe one verified rattlesnake every three or four years. They are just few and far between."
Hauser said that she has received four snake calls all thinking it was a rattlesnake, but they have always ended up being a fox snake or bullsnake - two species much more common to the area. The easiest way to tell the difference is to catch a glimpse of the snake's tail. The timber rattlesnake has the iconic rattle that's easily identifiable, while the fox snake and bullsnakes have tapered, pointed tails that often are shook next to vegetation mimicking a rattle sound. For the brave, another way to tell is the head of the snake. Rattlesnakes have a triangular-shaped head while fox snakes and bullsnakes are more rounded.
Stigma on snakes is something Hauser seeks to reduce by educating those who come into contact with Minnesota's native snake species.
"I like having the opportunity to educate people about them because they are misunderstood, especially rattlesnakes," Hauser said. "A lot of people are fearful of rattlesnakes, but they actually do a lot of good for our ecosystems."
Keeping rodents in check is perhaps the most noticeable benefit to a healthy snake population, and of course, coyotes, raccoons and raptors help keep the snake population under control as well. It all balances in the end.
What to do
Hauser also likes to educate those who encounter rattlesnakes or other native species how to respond to an interaction.
"If you come across them in your house, give us a call and we will get them out of there," Hauser said. "But if you come across one in your yard, the best thing to do is just leave them alone." That includes keeping children and pets indoors so they don't agitate the snake.
A key reason why the DNR advocates leaving the snake alone and letting it pass through is the risk factors involved in moving the snake. With rattlesnakes, when moved a mile or more from where they were, the mortality rate is greater than 50 percent. For this reason the DNR has set up designated den sites to release the snakes when necessary. Hauser said that once the den sites became the main drop-off locations, the snakes have had a much greater chance at survival after being moved.
Even with the den sites though, Hauser still would like to avoid moving the snakes.
"We don't like to move them unless we have to," she added. "Just leave them alone and they will move on."
Unless of course, the snake is on your front step.


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Worldwide Travel Information (area) World Countries > Europe > Monaco
Worldwide Travel Information (area) World Countries > Europe > Monaco
MonacoMonaco is a sovereign city state, located on the French Riviera in Western Europe. Bordered by France on three sides, with one side bordering the Mediterranean Sea, its center is about 16 km from Italy, and is only 13 km north east of Nice, France.
Monaco the second smallest, and the most densely populated country in the world. Monaco has a land border of only 4.4 km, a coastline of 4.1 km, and a width that varies between 1.7 km and 349 metres.
The highest point in the country is a narrow pathway named Chemin des Révoires on the slopes of Mont Agel in the Les Révoires district, which is 161 metres above sea level. Monaco s most populated Quartier is Monte Carlo, and the most populated Ward is Larvotto/Bas Moulins. After a recent expansion of Port Hercules Monaco s total area is 2.05 km2, with new plans to extend the district of Fontvieille, with land reclaimed from the Mediterranean Sea.
Monaco is a principality governed under a form of constitutional monarchy, with Prince Albert II as head of state. Even though Prince Albert II is a constitutional monarch, he still has immense political power. The House of Grimaldi have ruled Monaco with brief interruptions, since 1297.
The official language is French but Monégasque Italian, and English are widely spoken and understood. The state's sovereignty was officially recognized by the Franco-Monegasque Treaty of 1861, with Monaco becoming a full UN voting member in 1993, after much political debate. Despite Monaco s independence and separate foreign policy, its defence is the responsibility of France. However, Monaco does maintain two small military units, totaling 255 officers and men, the Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Monaco and the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince.
Economic development was spurred in the late 19th century with a railroad line to France, and the opening of the first casino, Monte Carlo. Since then, the principality's mild climate, splendid scenery, and gambling facilities have made Monaco world-famous as a tourist and recreation center for the rich and famous.
However, in more recent years Monaco has become a major banking center holding over €100 billion worth of funds, and has successfully sought to diversify its economy into the services and small, high-value-added, nonpolluting industries. The state has no income tax and low business taxes, and is well known for being a tax haven. Monaco boasts the world's highest GDP nominal per capita at $172,676 and GDP PPP per capita at $186,175.
Monaco also has the world's highest life expectancy at nearly 90 years (94 for females), and the lowest unemployment rate at 0%, with over 48,000 workers who commute from France and Italy each day. For the third year in a row, Monaco in 2011 had the world's most expensive real estate market, at $65,600 per square metre.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco]