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In June 2011, Donald Vangundy sat down at his home computer and began to type out an extraordinary, eight-page document.
A civilian worker for the Navy for more than three decades, Vangundy called it a "A Road Map."
In rambling sentences and lengthy paragraphs, the document outlined his version of how he was able to get away with a near decade-long bribery scheme, where he raked in more than $400,000 worth of bribes from North County defense contractors who were supplying parts and equipment for a military aircraft maintenance program at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado.
The "map" is one of a handful of previously undisclosed documents that piece together how a midlevel worker like Vangundy was able to orchestrate a fraud and bribery scheme that robbed U.S. taxpayers of millions of dollars.
How did it happen?
Court records and trial testimony show government safeguards that should have been in place were not, so for years no one caught on. The main defense contracts that Vangundy and his co-defendants exploited were written to be intentionally vague and to circumvent normal procedures for procuring materials.
Vangundy helped write those contracts and administer them. The contracts did not call for yearly audits, which are normally required.
They also did not call for a crucial fail-safe: a contracting officers representative, someone specifically designated to monitor how a government contract is being administered.
The scheme started small, with cash payments or a bottle of liquor to Vangundy from defense contractor Jesse Denome. And then it grew: expensive remote-controlled airplanes, a 42-inch flat screen TV, tires and rims for his wife's Mini Cooper. The number of people involved grew, as did the bribes handed out.
A half dozen televisions, Apple computers, top-grade kitchen appliances all went to the bribery ring.
"There's no way to account for where everything that was paid for under these contracts went," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Huie, who prosecuted the case. "We had a very difficult time tracking that."
The trial
A federal jury last week convicted the owners of two Poway defense contracting firms of bribing Vangundy and his cohorts. Robert Ehnow, owner of L & N Industrial Tool & Supply, and Joanne Loehr, owner of Centerline Industrial Inc., were found guilty of conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud. Prosecutors said they received $4.5 million between them in government work under the scheme.
A third contractor, Michael Graven of X & D Supply in Carlsbad, got $2 million in government work. He is serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty; Ehnow and Loehr face years in prison when sentenced in May.
Vangundy was a witness at the trial of Ehnow and Loehr — the only two of the 11 defendants charged in the bribery case who didn't plead guilty.
In his "road map," Vangundy blamed a culture at the base that pressured workers to get the materials needed quickly to repair aircraft being used to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Getting tools, equipment and supplies through normal channels can take time and require several different levels of approval.
Vangundy suggested drawing up a type of contract that lists items routinely purchased but does not specify amounts or delivery times. It also requires far less paperwork or documentation.
That makes the procurement process faster, but with one very large pitfall. The way the contracts were written made it "much easier to provide himself cover," Vangundy told investigators in February 2011, after they had searched the base.
He made the declaration in a confidential memo that was the result of a "proffer" session, where subjects of investigations meet with federal authorities and tell them all they know but with the understanding it won't be used against them in court.
The scheme
The bribery ring was centered in a program repairing E2 Hawkeye and C-2 Greyhound planes at the Fleet Readiness Center Southwest at North Island.
Five civilian workers were involved: Vangundy, who started as the tool control manager for the program and in 2007 was promoted to supervise and authorize purchase and replacement of tools at the center; his co-worker Kiet Luc; two supervisors, Brian Delaney, the deputy program manager, and David Lindsay, the supervisory production controller; and Kenneth Ramos, who worked in the business office.
Each benefited in different ways. Luc collected $240,000 in gift cards and cash. Delaney got $50,000 in labor and materials to remodel his home, and Lindsay $20,000 for his home remodel.
Here's how the scheme worked, as described in court filings, memos and testimony.
Contracts for tooling and tooling-related products used to repair the planes were inked in 2007 with L & N and X & D. They were for one base year and three renewable option years, at a total of about $400,000 for L & N and $1 million for X & D.
The L & N contracts called for supplying "kitting services," toolboxes used in repairing C-2s, and reamers, tools that create holes in metal. The X & D contract was for items such as abrasives, drill bits and wire brushes.
With the contracts in place, Vangundy began to ask the contractors to pay for personal items for himself and friends. Often it was in the form of gift cards to Lowe's, Best Buy or the Apple store.
Vangundy told investigators that Graven of X & D would also supply gift cards for Red Wing work shoes. Vangundy said he would hand these out to the workers when a Red Wing shoes sales truck would come on the base.
After workers had purchased the shoes of their choice, Vangundy demanded they return the cards to him with whatever money was left on them.
After buying the bribe items, the contractors would then bill the government, rolling the costs of the bribes into invoices for services allowed under the contract. Sometimes, they included markups of as much as 25 percent.
The scheme also included fraud. Vangundy and Luc would ask contractors to provide materials not called for under the contracts, often for the buildings and offices at the Fleet Readiness Center. These items would be billed falsely as kitting or reamer services.
At first, the requests would be for materials just outside the scope of the contract, Graven testified, such as a particular drill bit or special tool.
"Then it got a little broader," he said. "It would be, we need some computers for our offices. And then it got exponentially crazier as time went on."
Ehnow paid for an expensive bike fork Vangundy wanted. Luc and Delaney each ended up with $3,700 massage chairs in their homes.
"It got pretty brazen, because the people doing it knew no one was looking," said Frank Vecchionne, the lawyer for Delaney.
In one contract, L & N estimated 100 "kitting services" would be needed over a four-year period at a cost of $5,431. But in June 2010 alone, the contractor billed the Navy for 2,491 kitting services, at a cost of $138,872.
In Vangundy's "road map," he wrote that as the pace of exploiting the contracts picked up, "it became impossible to track what was a legitimate program requirement and what wasn't."
He said his boss, Delaney, put pressure on the workers to do jobs quickly, creating an environment to "work around the process of procurement."
At first, Vangundy said, he tried to create a spreadsheet to track all the spending, "but it was like trying to single-handedly control a large fire hose."
The scheme may have continued unnoticed if not for an anonymous tip in late 2010 to a government anti-fraud hotline.
Huie, the prosecutor, said no one in the Navy noticed the criminal activity because the scheme co-opted not only line workers such as Luc, but also supervisors such as Delaney and Lindsay.
But Kevin McDermott, the lawyer for Ehnow, said during the trial that the Navy should have noticed.
"With all the Navy personnel out there," he told jurors, "no one sat down and said: 'What are you doing here?'"
The aftermath
The sentencing of Ehnow and Loehr in May will close what has been a three-year probe into the bribery ring on the Navy base.
A spokesman for the Fleet Readiness Center blamed the corruption on the five civilian employees and said the organization has taken a number of steps to "strengthen existing controls and procedures." An executive committee now reviews procurement requests, said spokesman Mike Furlano.
He declined to make any member of the command staff available for interviews.
Gerald Blank, Vangundy's lawyer, said investigators targeted a "little guy" — his client. When Vangundy was sentenced in October, Blank said contractors plying workers with gifts to get business was nothing new at the base. "This has been going on (at) that island for a long time," he said.
For his part, Vangundy said at the end of his eight-page "road map" that he took responsibility for his actions but believed the Navy's system was flawed.
He pointed the finger at management's "get-the-job-done" attitude, and contractors who knew how to work the system and had unfettered access to the base. Those issues have to be fixed, he said.
He ended with a warning: "I must say, I am not the only one by far. There will be more in the future."
The civilian workers involved:
Donald Vangundy, 55: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, wire fraud and filing false tax returns, and sentenced to 41 months in prison. Received more than $125,000 in cash and gift cards, $116,000 in goods from bike and hobby shops, and $35,000 in home remodeling services. Must pay restitution of $501,096.
Kiet Luc, 53: Pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and filing a false tax return, and sentenced to 30 months in prison. Received $400,000 in checks, $240,000 in gift cards and cash, $12,000 in electronics, and a $3,700 massage chair. Must pay restitution of $718,548.
Brian Delaney, 56: Pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, and sentenced to three years' probation and 30 consecutive weekends in federal prison. Received $50,000 in labor and materials for home remodeling, three televisions worth $5,000, and a $3,700 massage chair. Must pay restitution of $60,600.
David Lindsay, 57: Pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, and sentenced to same term as Delaney. Received $40,000 in cash and gift cards, $20,000 in home remodeling services, and a $1,500 massage chair. Must pay restitution of $66,400.
Kenneth Ramos, 53: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery of a public official, and sentenced to five years' probation and 30 consecutive weekends in prison. Received more than $10,000 in cash, jewelry and electronics. Must pay restitution of $5,000.
The contractors involved:
John Newman, 52: Former owner of L & N Industrial Tool & Supply, later sales manager after selling the company. Pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Provided gift cards, checks and electronics to Navy workers, and fraudulently billed government. Must pay restitution of $759,937.
Michael Graven, 44: Owner of X & D Supply. Pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Provided cash, gift cards and checks to the Navy workers, and fraudulently billed government. Must pay restitution of $622,181.
Paul Grubiss, 40: Sales manager for Centerline Industrial Inc. Pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Provided cash, bike and hobby goods, electronics, gift cards and home appliances to Vangundy. Must pay restitution of $300,000.
Jesse Denome, 49: Owner of JD
Robert Ehnow, 46: Owner of L & N Industrial Tool & Supply. Convicted March 4 of bribery, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, and scheduled to be sentenced May 20.
Joanna Loehr, 52: Owner of Centerline Industrial Inc. Convicted March 4 of bribery, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, and scheduled to be sentenced May 20.


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Greetings to the New Pilots: 20 Series We Hope to See in Fall 2011
Yes, once again, it's pilot season: the time when the broadcast networks put all of the potential projects for the 2011 – 2012 season on the table, take a cold, hard look at what's available to them, and decide which ones have the most potential for success come the fall…or spring, depending on how much or how little confidence they end up having in the final product.
Critics everywhere should be throwing parades in honor of TV Guide's Natalie Abrams, who has done the heavy lifting for the rest of us and offered up The Complete Pilot Report, listing off all of the pilots currently in the running for ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and NBC, along with their creators, their premises, and the actors currently attached to them as of this writing.
Having taken a gander at Abrams' decidedly comprehensive list, here's our list of the 20 shows we'd most like to see turn up come the kickoff of the Fall 2011 season:
1. Alcatraz (Fox): A cop (Sarah Jones) and a team of FBI agents track down a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day after disappearing 30 years earlier. J.J. Abrams will executive-produce and Liz Sarnoff ("Lost") will be the showrunner. Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill, Jonny Coyne, Jason Butler Harner, Parminder Nagra, Santiago Cabrera and Robert Forster also star.
2. Awakening (The CW): Two sisters (Lucy Griffiths and Meredith Hagner) face off during a zombie uprising. William Laurin, Glenn Davis, Howard T. Owens, Carolyn Bernstein and Todd Cohen will executive-produce.
3. Brave New World (NBC): The project centers on a group of characters at Pilgrim Village, a theme park that recreates 1637 New England. Peter Tolan ("Rescue Me") wrote the pilot and will executive-produce with Michael Wimer ("2012"). Ed Begley Jr., Nick Braun, Will Greenberg, Jazz Raycole, Robbie Benson and Anna Popplewell will star.
4. The Council of Dads (Fox): Based on the non-fiction book by Bruce Feiler, a man who learns he's dying enlists five men to help his wife raise their two children. The project comes from "Rescue Me" creator Peter Tolan. Kyle Bornheimer, Diane Farr, Patrick Breen and Ken Howard will star.
5. Hail Mary (CBS): An Atlanta-set P.I. drama tells the story of a suburban single mom (Minnie Driver) who teams up with a street hustler (Brandon T. Jackson) to solve crimes. Jeff Wadlow will write and executive-produce with Joel Silver and "The L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken. Enrique Murciano and Stephen Tobolowsky will also star.
6. How to Be a Gentleman (CBS): An uptight guy (David Hornsby) learns to live his life with the help of an old high school friend. The project comes from Hornsby ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"). Dave Foley, Nancy Lenehan and Rhys Darby will also star.
7. Little in Common (Fox): This project revolves around families whose children play Little League together. "Veronica Mars"' Rob Thomas will write and executive-produce. Rob Corddry, Paula Marshall, Kevin Hart and Gabrielle Union star.
8. Pan Am (ABC) – The stewardesses and pilots of the titular airline are the stars of this soap set in the Jet Age of the 1960s. Jack Orman ("ER") wrote the pilot and will executive-produce with Nancy Hult Ganis and Tommy Schlamme ("The West Wing"). Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Karine Vanasse and Michael Mosley will star.
9. Person of Interest (CBS): A presumed-dead CIA agent (Jim Caviezel) is recruited by a billionaire (Michael Emerson) to catch violent criminals in New York City. "Memento"'s Jonathan Nolan and J.J. Abrams will executive-produce. Taraji P. Henson will also star.
10. Playboy (NBC) – At the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963, "bunnies" (incuding Amber Heard and Naturi Naughton) flirt with danger. Chad Hodge and "Apollo 13″'s Brian Grazer will executive-produce. Jeff Hephner, Laura Benanti, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Leah Renee, David Krumholtz and Wes Ramsey also star.
11. Reconstruction (NBC) – In the aftermath of the Civil War, a soldier (Martin Henderson) crosses the country and settles in a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior — whether he likes it or not. "St. Elsewhere" co-creator Josh Brand wrote the pilot. Bill Sage, Claire Wellin, Emma Bell and Rachelle Lefevre will also star.
12. REM (NBC): A police detective (Jason Isaacs) who's involved in a traumatic car accident wakes up in two fractured realities. The project comes from Kyle Killen, creator of Fox's short-lived "Lone Star," and "24"'s Howard Gordon will also executive-produce.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- The Harvard women's water polo team picked up its first Northern Division victory of the 2010 season. The Crimson defeated Brown 7-6 in overtime Wednesday night at Blodgett Pool. The win snaps Harvard's 11 match losing streak to the Bears and is the first victory over Brown since 2006. Harvard improves to 12-10 on the season overall and 1-1 in the CWPA Northern Division. Brown falls to 18-12 overall and 0-2 in the conference.
The Crimson trailed 2-1 after the opening quarter. Neither team could get more than a two-goal lead in the contest. The two squads were tied 4-4 entering the fourth quarter. Harvard jumped out to a two-goal advantage as Ita Barton-Kettleborough notched a power play goal. Brown got two quick goals to knot the game at 6-6. The Crimson buckled down on defense and came up with a couple of huge stops in the final minute. Harvard gained its composure and went for the win. The Crimson drew up a play to get the last shot of regulation. Patient ball movement lead to an opportunity with less than five seconds remaining. The ball got dropped into the center where Devan Kennifer managed to get off a sweep shot that ricocheted off the post, sending the game to bonus water polo.
In the first overtime period, neither team could find the back of the net as both goalkeepers turned in stellar performances throughout the game. With 1:50 left in the second overtime session, Harvard drew a much-needed ejection. Monica Zdrojewski capitalized on the man-advantage, scoring what would prove to be the game-winning goal with just over a minute to play. The Crimson thwarted the Bears' attack to close out the game and earn its first Northern Division victory of the season.
Elise Molnar and Zdrojewski lead the way with a pair of goals each. Lizzie Abbott, Barton-Kettleborough and Kennifer all buried a marker in the win. Sophomore netminder Laurel McCarthy played a magnificent game between the pipes, turning aside six shots.
Harvard returns to action this weekend with a pair of Northern Division contests. The Crimson will host Hartwick, April 17, at Blodgett Pool. Harvard will take on Brown April 18 in a road contest to close out the regular season.


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National Transportation Safety Board investigators say the Bay Area Rapid Transit employee who was operating a train during an accident that killed two track workers was a trainee and did not have his safety certification.
James Southworth, the NTSB's lead investigator, said the trainee had held other positions with BART, but he would not say whether the operator was a manager learning to operate the train to provide service during the strike.
The train was carrying six BART employees who were on maintenance and training duties and was going 60 to 70 mph during Saturday's accident, he said.
Investigators said the person operating the train was aware of an announcement that there were workers on the tracks, and that he tried to stop the train, but it was too late.
MORE: BART Commuters Struggle as Strike Continues
Just after the accident, BART officials said the person behind the controls was an experienced train operator. Multiple union officials and BART employees told NBC Bay Area the BART manager hadn't operated a train in more than a decade.
The Contra Costa County coroner's office identified the victims as Laurence Daniels, 66, of Oakland, and Christopher Sheppard, 58, of Hayward.
Sheppard and Daniels were inspecting the track after reports of a "dip" in the rail, BART Assistant General Manager Paul Oversier said over the weekend.
The four-car train was not carrying any passengers due to the strike. BART has said it had dropped off some vandalized cars to be cleaned and was returning to a train yard under computer control Saturday when it hit the two men. They are the sixth and seventh BART workers to die on the job in the system's 41-year history.
It could take several weeks to determine if the work stoppage or the way BART management deployed non-striking workers played a role in the fatalities, Southworth said earlier.
Union employees walked off the job Friday, shutting down the nation's fifth largest commuter rail system and creating a transit headache for BART's estimated 200,000 daily riders. BART workers also walked off the job in July for four days.
The ongoing investigation at the collision site could delay the resumption of service there if the strike's end is imminent, Southworth said.
Federal investigators plan to interview BART managers on Tuesday to learn about safety procedures.
There was no outside-facing video footage from the train, but the inside footage of the cab has been sent to Washington, DC, to be analyzed by the NTSB.
The NTSB has said it would take between four and 10 days to complete its investigation.
Oklahoma State University transportation engineering professor Samir Ahmed, who has studied rail transit safety, said he would be surprised if the strike did not somehow factor into the accident.
"When you have a strike like what is happening at BART now, communications are poor in general,'' he said. "The strike environment causes confusion.''
That the two inspectors were hit by a train shows that critical information was not relayed either to the workers on the track or the people operating the train, Ahmed said.
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"There should have been someone at the controls there talking to the workers and talking to the train engineer,'' he said. "Something did not did not go right, and if it is their policy to have this kind of maintenance during a strike they should have communicated that to the engineers.''
Family members said they are planning a memorial service at Daniels' home in the Oakland Hills, possibly for later this week, but the coroner has not yet released his body.
Sheppard's family said they would fly his body back to his hometown in New Jersey, where he has family, and plan to have funeral services there.
Sheppard belonged to a union that was not on strike, but some of its members, including Karen Goetz, have joined the picket lines.
"I knew them as human beings and I cared for both of them… and their death is a terrific loss," Goetz said. "Larry had a great sense of humor and was a fun guy. And Chris was a lovely man. I cared about both of them."


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STOCKTON - A growing tourism trade, powered by sporting events and small group gatherings, helped Stockton hotels experience above-average growth in occupancy and revenue in 2012, the Stockton Convention & Visitors Bureau reported Monday.
STOCKTON - A growing tourism trade, powered by sporting events and small group gatherings, helped Stockton hotels experience above-average growth in occupancy and revenue in 2012, the Stockton Convention & Visitors Bureau reported Monday.
Overall, Stockton-area innkeepers saw occupancy rates rise 9.8 percent in 2012 from the year before to finish with a year's average of 53.9 percent. In comparison, California hotels occupancy rose 3.6 percent to 68.8 percent.
In addition, according to the latest Smith Travel Research data, Stockton hotel revenue per available room grew 13.4 percent to $35.15 in 2012. Overall, the state saw per-room revenue grow 9.6 percent to $84.81.
That means Stockton-area room rates are slowly returning to pre-recession levels, said Wes Rhea, the convention bureau's chief executive.
"Things are coming back," he said Monday.
Area hotels were hit hard by the recession and occupancy rates, which had averaged in the low 60 percent range, bottomed out at 46 percent in 2009, "just a tough, tough year," Rhea said.
But occupancy and room revenues have been on the rise since.
Sporting events are a cornerstone of the area's leisure and hospitality industry.
"Sports has been our recession-proof business that continues to grow and expand," Rhea said.
The convention bureau supported nearly 20 youth and amateur sporting events in 2012, resulting in more than 9,000 hotel room nights and an estimated economic impact of $2.5 million.
The agency also partnered with the Stockton Ports to bring two new baseball events to town this coming year - the California Collegiate Athletic Association Baseball Championship Tournament and the West Coast Conference Baseball Championships.
"The sports market has been a high priority for the bureau and will continue to be as we move forward," George Kaplanis, president of the convention bureau's board and Stockton Hilton general manager, said in a statement.
Rhea said small group gatherings, such as clubs and associations, are also rebounding.
"There's been a strong increase in a lot of those (events) outside of sports," he said.
More details are available in the convention bureau's 2012 annual report, posted online at issuu.com/stockton_cvb/docs/scvb-annual-report-2012.
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"We are already seeing improvements in the way we operate due to Sage CRM. It's been a very, very positive experience"
Jeremy Kann, General Manager, Australian Grand Prix Corporation
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) is responsible for Australia's premier Motorsport events and uses integrated Sage CRM and Sage 300 to manage and maximize corporate customer data that is crucial to its business.
Integrated vision realized with Sage
Before Sage, sales of corporate entertainment packages and sponsorship were hampered by old CRM packages and spreadsheets that made it impossible to share data easily with the organization's financial system. This led to the double handling of data and occasional discrepancies between the two systems. AGPC recognized the benefits of having a fully integrated system rather than simply bolting a CRM solution on to the financials. It would make it easier and faster for the sales and commercial teams to work together and get their jobs done. At the same time, finance would benefit from the new efficiencies when it came to keeping track of orders and invoicing.
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If I arrive on time, I might have to warm-up with Kathy (pictured here) and the speedy teenagers. This is sometimes stressful, as Kathy only knows one way to run - fast. I mean, she ran 38:21 in the Canberra Times 10k and she's older than me! I think she inherited some talent from her son and daughter. Her son was able to do no running for months, then come to training for a couple of weeks and run under 2 minutes for 800 metres. Her daughter is one of the best young steeplechasers in the ACT.
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(Machias, ME) The Clippers earned a 4-0 victory today in front of their homecoming crowd. Freshman Tyler Pelletier put the Clippers in the lead in the 28th minute when he ran onto a ball that Jakob Jordon played a ball through. EMCC held the Clippers to one goal in the first half despite the Clippers having 20 shots on goal.
In the second half, Kris Wignes put the Clippers ahead by two when Patrick Zahui played him a ball at the top of the box and he put it past the EMCC keeper. Tyler Pelletier and Stefan Zalucky rounded out the scoring on the day. Goalkeeper Luis Herrera made two saves to preserve his shutout. With the win the Clippers move to 5-0 in the conference and will Face conference opponent Univ. Maine Augusta on Monday night.


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Nonmelanoma skin cancer may cause the following symptoms:
- Spots or bumps that grow over time (a few months to a year or two) or that appear as a sore that does not heal within three months.
- Basal cell carcinomas may appear as flat, firm, pale areas or small, raised, translucent, pink or red, shiny, waxy areas with visible blood vessels or depressed center areas that bleed when slightly injured.
- Large basal cell carcinomas have oozing, crusty areas.
- Squamous cell carcinomas may look like small lumps with an uneven, rough surface or flat reddish patch that slowly grows.
Melanoma skin cancer may appear as
- Spots, sores, lumps, blemishes or markings on the skin that change in shape, size or color.
- Skin may become reddish, crusty or scaly.
- Skin may ooze, bleed or swell or may feel painful, scratchy or tender.
Causes and Risk Factors
The following factors increase your risk of getting skin cancer:
Frequent exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays. Sunlight is the main source of this exposure. Tanning lamps and tanning booths are other sources of UV radiation.
Fair skin. Caucasians are 20 times more likely to develop skin cancer than African Americans. Fair-skinned individuals with red or blonde hair and skin that freckles or burns easily are also at greater risk.
50 years or older. Half of all melanoma cases occur in this age group. However, some melanoma cases also occur in people age 20 to 30 years. In fact, the most common cancer among people under 30 years old is melanoma.
Family history. Individuals whose immediate relatives (mother, father, sister, brother, child) have been diagnosed with melanoma are considered at high risk. About 10% of melanoma cases show a family history of the disease.
Reduced immunity. Individuals who have received medications that suppress the immune system, such as organ transplant recipients, are more likely to develop melanoma.
Male gender. Men are two times more likely than women to develop basal cell carcinoma and three times more likely to develop squamous cell carcinoma.
Exposure to chemicals. Arsenic (an ingredient in pesticides), paraffin, industrial tar, coal and certain types of oil may increase risk.
Exposure to radiation. Individuals who have undergone radiation treatment are at risk to develop nonmelanoma skin cancer in the irradiated area.
Severe skin injury. Scarring from burns, bone infections and other severe inflammatory skin diseases are risk factors.
Psoriasis treatment. Patients receiving psoralen and UV light treatments (PUVA) may be at risk.
Most people have moles, which are generally harmless. However, certain types can change in appearance, color or size and develop into melanoma. To distinguish between a normal mole and a melanoma, use the ABCD rule:
Asymmetry - Half the mole looks different from the other half
Border - The edges of the mole are irregular or ragged
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Diameter - Normal moles are typically smaller than six millimeters (a quarter inch) in diameter. Melanomas are generally bigger, although recently doctors have seen melanomas between three and six millimeters in diameter.


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People cook with wine for the same reason they drink it out of a glass: they enjoy its unique taste. But as any wine lover will tell you, that's only part of the tale. Every bottle of wine tells a story: about where it was cultivated, how it was stored, how long it was aged and what kind of life it had on the vine. Cooking with wine brings those same qualities to food, adding nuance and flavor that the dish would otherwise lack. Here are a few tips to cooking with wine that will add to the experience.
Selecting the right wine to cook with need not be a difficult choice. My first rule is not to cheat your dish—or yourself. You wouldn't buy an inferior cut of meat to serve your guests, don't cook with low-quality wine. Remember that your goal is to enhance your meal; adding less than ideal ingredients will predictably produce less than desired results.
I haven't yet met a cook who would use a $3,000 bottle of Burgundy to make Beef Bourguignon, but I wouldn't hesitate to incorporate a $20 bottle of Bourgogne to bring the authenticity of the meal's flavors into balance. Start with mid-range wines you would consider serving in a casual, at-home setting, and let the region of your dish guide your selections.
Also, keep the wine you're serving with the meal in mind when making your cooking wine selections. A light wine sauce of Sauvignon Blanc is perfect for preparing fish or chicken and it makes an ideal complement when served with the meal. If you plan to share your favorite $30 Pinot Noir from Willamette Valley, Oregon, see if the winemaker makes a less-expensive bottle of Pinot, or select another Pinot from the same region to cook with.
When cooking with wine, care should be made to incorporate it at the right time. Wine should be brought to a boil, turned down to a simmer, and then reduced for optimal results. Boiling concentrates flavor, acidity and sweetness. That's why when I'm making sauces or soups, I add it towards the beginning of the recipe—usually just before I add the stock, so that it can both concentrate in flavor, and burn off most, though not all, of its alcohol as it cooks.
The hardest part is getting started. The more you cook with wine, the more skilled you will become in predicting which wines work best with your favorite meals.
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Peter Ellenshaw
Peter Ellenshaw was a renowned landscape artist, motion picture art director, matte designer, Academy-Award winning special effects artist, and official Disney Legend who worked on many features during an storied artistic career that spanned more than six decades. His art can be found in public and private collections around the world.
Born in London, England in 1913 barely a year before...
Peter Ellenshaw was a renowned landscape artist, motion picture art director, matte designer, Academy-Award winning special effects artist, and official Disney Legend who worked on many features during an storied artistic career that spanned more than six decades. His art can be found in public and private collections around the world.
Born in London, England in 1913 barely a year before World War I besieged the U.K. with bomb-dropping zeppelins and an economic downturn that would last for decades, Ellenshaw spent his early years in terrific hardship, "War was the devil that haunted all of us, driving out happier memories," he wrote in his pictorial autobiography, Ellenshaw Under Glass, published in 2003. Ellenshaw's father died in 1921, and his mother soon married the groundskeeper on an estate in Kent. Ellenshaw's biological father had his family living in Wilton Castle, near Enniscorthy, Ireland, and prior to his father's death, Peter had been attending a private school in which he was taught, among other things, fine social graces. This ended abruptly when his mother remarried, and his family moved into the cramped living quarters on the estate his new stepfather tended to. Here, instead of kindly doffing his hat for the ladies, the seven-year old Ellenshaw was enlisted for the purpose of holding the lantern while the latrines were emptied at night. Recurrent and frequent childhood illnesses left Peter unable to pass the basic entrance exams for grammar school, and at his mother's suggestion, he became an auto mechanic at 14. Simultaneously, his mother also encouraged him to develop his artistic talent, especially painting and drawing. It was in this manner that Peter managed to keep his floundering self-esteem afloat. "I certainly developed an inferiority complex," he confessed years later, "because in England, dirty unskilled work was the lowest rung on the social ladder."
It was around this time that Ellenshaw had a chance meeting with a neighbor, a famous local artist of his time, Walter Percy Day. It was a relationship that changed the trajectory of his life. Percy "Pop" Day, who went on to become a legend in pioneering visual effects for film and later a recipient of the O.B.E., played a pivotal role in Ellenshaw's creative development, discovering his talents and taking him on as an assistant, tutoring him not only in painting on canvas, but in painting on glass for the purpose of creating matte backgrounds for film. (Mattes are realistic paintings done on glass, against which films of actors and other parts of the set are projected; then both painting and film are re-photographed to create a new, realistic image.)
After serving his country as an RAF pilot in World War II, Ellenshaw returned to work for Day at the studios, reestablishing their mentor-apprentice relationship as the younger of the two began working alongside the elder doing visual effect work for studios. After a brief yearlong stint at MGM, Ellenshaw left in 1947 after his work caught the attention of an art director for the Walt Disney Studios, who asked Ellenshaw if he was interested in working on a project for Walt Disney Studios. (Disney was in the pre-planning stages of his very first live-action film, Treasure Island, which would be produced in Great Britain.). In 1953, the Ellenshaws moved from Great Britian to the United States where Peter began creating full-time for the Walt Disney Studios. As it turned out, this partnership, a professional collaboration and personal friendship with Walt Disney, would span more than thirty years and 34 films with Disney, earning Ellenshaw five Oscar nominations, including an Academy Award for his work on "Mary Poppins," in which he recreated scenes of Edwardian London in 102 different mattes. Walt Disney became Ellenshaw's mentor and friend, spurring him on continually to perfect his craft and push the creative envelope. "Walt was the dominant figure in my life for all those years," Ellenshaw explained. "He talked to me as a father would. I cherished our relationship." Ellenshaw thought of Walt Disney as a source of inspiration, a wonderful executive, and over the years, a close friend. "Walt had the ability to communicate with artists," said Ellenshaw. "He'd talk to you on your level - artist to artist. He used to say, 'I can't draw, Peter.' But he had the soul of an artist, and he had a wonderful way on transferring his enthusiasm to you." However, after Walt Disney passed away in 1968, making movies wasn't the same anymore. "After Walt was gone, things were different," he wrote. "I ceased to be as interested in film making."
One of Ellenshaw's first Disney projects upon his arrival at the Studio was to generate a conceptual rendering of something called "Disneyland." Ellenshaw went to work painting an aerial view of the proposed theme park on a 4x8-foot piece of fiberboard. The painting was then used by Disney to help introduce television audiences to this new, cutting-edge project, while he simultaneously used the painting to attract backers on this exciting new concept in outdoor entertainment.
In 1964, Ellenshaw won the Best Special Visual Effects Academy Award for his breathtaking matte work in Walt Disney's beloved line-action musical-fantasy, Mary Poppins. Not only did Ellenshaw create the beautiful landscapes of Victorian London, he was also responsible for giving inspiration to the creation of the rousing rooftop dance of the chim-chimney, chim-chimney sweeps in the lively, "Step in Time" dance sequence. At this time more than ever, Ellenshaw became more deeply engrossed with his second career—painting landscapes for the sheer beauty and pleasure of it. By 1968, this was occupying every possible spare moment, as he scrambled to keep up with the demand created by galleries and collectors.
Disney's The Black Hole (in 1976), viewed both as an artistic masterpiece and a cinematic failure, was Ellenshaw's last film for Disney Studios. Ellenshaw began to broaden his Hollywood horizons at that point, working on Superman IV with son Harrison in 1984. In 1993, Ellenshaw was officially designated a "Disney Legend" by The Walt Dinsey Company during a ceremony at The Walt Disney Studios officiated by Michael D. Eisner and Roy E. Disney.
During his amazing film career, Ellenshaw was nominated for four Academy Awards. His storied movie credentials speaks to the enormity of his artistic talents and range as a painter. Highlights include - The Thief of Bagdad (1940), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Old Yeller (1957), Johnny Tremain (1957), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), Pollyanna (1960), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Mary Poppins (1964, Academy Award winner), The Love Bug (1969), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971, Academy Award nominee), The Island at the Top of the World (1974, Academy Award nominee), The Black Hole (1979, Academy Award nominee), Dick Tracy (1990).
He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including those by the American Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Film Institute in Chicago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the R.W. Norton Art Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, along with the Disney Legends Awards. He has had many one-man exhibitions, and his Disney art was included in a retrospective show at New York's Museum of Modern Art. An artist who continually strived to paint better, Ellenshaw eventually turned his artistic attentions to painting the world's most famous golf courses. He says of this prolific and celebrated career - "The wonderful thing in painting is that one can never reach the peak of one's endeavor."
Ellenshaw managed to maintain his unique identity as a traditional landscape artist during his Disney years and always found time on evenings and weekends to work on his own canvases. After he retired from the film business, Ellenshaw dedicated his life to his passion for fine art painting. Numerous works were created, of both Disney Fine Art and non-Disney themed subjects, which have been highly collected. In February of 2007, Ellenshaw passed away peacefully at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 93 years of age.
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Of course, the first question is: why I'm doing this. Just for fun! I'm learning more about Linux kernels and I have a virtual machine that I can replace in 15 minutes.
Getting to business, I don't know how to do this, so I went to trying to edit the makefile (trying to learn). So I started with the makefile in the path
ubuntu-raring/Makefile, which is the main make file; can be found under this link:
And there I changed every
gcc to
icc, and every
g++ to
icpc, and every
-O2 to
-O3. The result is the following:
I followed the instructions from this site, too:
But eventually, I'm getting weird errors that seem to be caused by using
g++ rather than
icpc. For example, I got an error in the file
ubuntu-raring/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h that some macros are already defined, while this file shouldn't be included in the first place! The macro that includes it is in the file
ubuntu-raring/include/linux/compiler.h, and looks like:
#ifdef __GNUC__
#include <linux/compiler-gcc.h>
/* Intel compiler defines __GNUC__. So we will overwrite implementations
* coming from above header files here
#ifdef __INTEL_COMPILER
# include <linux/compiler-intel.h>
And while I don't understand the comment written above the Intel header (sounds weird... why would you define implementations then overwrite them? Never done that in C++!), removing the include of the
gcc header manually solved the problem, but other problems came up, and I have no idea whether they're related.
So now I'm confused! What did I do wrong? And should changing every
gcc and
g++ in the Makefile be sufficient to use a different compiler? Or are there other things to be changed that I overlooked?
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This Thursday will see people up and down the country gather around bonfires and watch firework displays. But what are the rules around using fireworks?
Remember remember the fifth of November. Follow these guidelines to have fun - and stay safe - this year:
Bonfire night 2015: Where to watch fireworks across the Harrogate district
Plan your firework display to make it safe and enjoyable.
Keep fireworks in a closed box and use them one at a time.
Read and follow the instructions on each firework using a torch if necessary.
Light the firework at arm's length with a taper and stand well back.
Keep naked flames, including cigarettes, away from fireworks.
Never return to a firework once it has been lit.
Don't put fireworks in pockets and never throw them.
Direct any rocket fireworks well away from spectators.
Never use paraffin or petrol on a bonfire.
Make sure that any fires are out and surroundings are made safe before leaving.
It's also important to stay within the law, so don't set fireworks off after midnight (the cut off is 11pm most of the year) and never set off or throw fireworks in the street or other public places. You need to be 18 or older to buy fireworks in the UK and you can be fined up to £5,000 and/or imprisoned for up to 6 months for selling or using fireworks illegally. You could also get an on-the-spot fine of £90 - so it pays to follow the rules.
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Aug. 15, 2013 -- Louisiana Public Broadcasting unveils a special presentation of the first episode of its new six-part series Alive! In America's Delta on Monday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. on LPB and Friday, Aug. 23 at 8 p.m. on WLAE in New Orleans.
"The Whooping Crane's Majestic Return" features the biologist team leading the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' whooping crane reintroduction project.
This documentary follows the initiative to reintroduce whooping cranes into their ancestral territory in southwest Louisiana. By increasing the numbers of whooping cranes, the bird could eventually be removed from the list of critically endangered species.
For an exclusive view of these remarkable animals and the professionals who prepare them to thrive successfully in the wild, LPB producer Donna LaFleur and photographer Rex Q. Fortenberry followed alongside the LDWF staff members as they worked with the cranes. Fortenberry even donned the required crane costume to disguise himself and his camera to capture the arrival of the young birds to the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area and throughout their release into the Louisiana marshlands south of Gueydan.
Future episodes in the Alive! In America's Delta series explore Louisiana black bears, wildlife enforcement, and endangered species on land and in the water.
Additional broadcasts of the "The Whooping Crane's Majestic Return" on LPB are scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 21 at 10 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 8 p.m. and again on LPB 2 at 9 p.m. Live streaming access to the program will be available on www.lpb.org/live [4] on Monday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. The program will then be available on-line through the end of August at www.lpb.org/alive [5].
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They never saw it coming. Only heard the thunder in the distance. But then it wasn't thunder. Then the sound was on top of them and the stairway erupted into an inferno.
And when he awoke at his home in Gaza, a 7-year old Abdallah Alathamna's life had been ripped from him in the cruelest of ways.
Sixteen members of his family had been killed by an Israeli bomb which the military later said was an accident.
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"I feel very bad because I lost my mother and two sisters, and my family," Abdallah, now 14, said. "And I feel very, very sad for them."
That was 2006. And though Abdallah was alive, the lower part of his right leg had been blown away. He was scarred inside and out.
A year later the Palestine Children's Relief Fund arranged for Abdallah to come to California's Bay Area where an Oakland prosthetic specialist fit him with an artificial leg.
"Coming from that part of the world after this incident happened, not knowing what to expect," said Adli Rasheed, Abdallah's host in San Ramon, "it was pretty tense for him."
Abdallah already knew the first thing he would do with his new leg. Before he kicked a ball, before he ran, before he climbed stairs. The very day he got his new leg, he rode a bike.
"His late mother, before she passed away, she would ask him to buy milk every day and he would ride the bike to do that," said Rasheed. "He said that was one of his goals to ride the bike again because that made his mother very happy."
This week, Abdallah returned to the Bay Area from his home in Gaza after seven years. Rasheed noticed he now used gel in his hair, spoke haltingly good English and was taller. Abdallah had grown. And now his prosthetic leg didn't fit anymore.
"I feel bigger and it is smaller and I go walk like this," Abdallah said flapping his arms.
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund once again arranged for him to come to the Bay Area where Oakland prosthetic specialist Tony LaFrance volunteered to create a new artificial limb.
"Most of the time, by the time they grow out of them," said LaFrance, "which would maybe would be three or four years, they're shot and kaput."
Rasheed's family once again took in Abdallah, who had grown close to Rasheed's five children. He said they were his second family.
On Wednesday afternoon, Abdallah sat in LaFrance's office as the specialist wrapped plaster strips around a mold to build the prosthetic leg. Abdallah sat quietly watching the work, his eyes darting around the room, eventually settling on Rasheed.
LaFrance told him to come back in a week to try out the new limb. He would have to walk on a ramp among other things to make sure it fit. The final fabrication would take another week.
After that, Abdallah would return to Gaza – back to his father who he phones every day. Abdallah said he someday wants to be a doctor. Rasheed, who is also from Gaza, said it's difficult for people with disabilities to find work there.
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Never leave anyone in a parked car. This is a common cause of heat-related deaths in children. When parked in the sun, the temperature in your car can rise 20 degrees F (more than 6.7 C) in 10 minutes.
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The American Idol presenter helped fund the multimedia broadcast centre at the Children's Medical Center Dallas, and he enlisted local girl Gomez to help unveil the venture.
Gomez, who is an ambassador for the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the wing, and told reporters, "To be able to have this so that the kids can come down here, and have fun, and be distracted, and actually do something for my hometown feels really, really good."
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Rebekah Brooks unresigns
July 17, 2011
In yet another twist to the phone hacking scandal, former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has announced her unresignation from the company.
'It is totally inconceivable that I could have known anything about my resignation,' said Ms Brooks, speaking to a small crowd of remaining News International staff. 'Clearly I cannot be held responsible for any decision to resign because when I made it I was only in charge,' adding, 'and anyway I was probably on holiday at the time.'
The unresignation has been welcomed by News Corp chairman James Murdoch. 'It's great to have her back on board. Over the past few weeks Rebekah has played an invaluable role in detracting attention away from me and my dad and our honest endeavours to make the whole thing go away.'
Ms Brooks has now signed a new contract with News Corp in which she agrees to resign and unresign on a daily basis. 'This new firewall contract is the perfect solution,' explained Ms Brooks, 'It allows me to take decisions one day while evading responsibility for them the next.'
The decision to unresign follows outrage after Ms Brooks' original resignation was deemed 'insensitive', coming as it did while BBC journalists were holding a one day strike and unable to cover the story in full. 'This is so typical of Rebekah,' complained BBC political editor Nick Robinson. 'She deliberately waited until I wasn't there before resigning. She should now do the decent thing: unresign, then resign again for not resigning well enough the first time.'
Politicians have also welcomed the move. 'I have been calling for her resignation for ages,' said MP Chris Bryant, 'but now that she has actually resigned it leaves a massive gap in my diary. I think I speak for everyone when I say, welcome back Rebekah. Now we can all get back to the important business of demanding that she resign.'
In a rare interview Mr Murdoch senior welcomed the development. 'Yes, we have made a few minor mistakes', he confessed, 'but now that everyone at News Corp has been forced to sign our new employment-unemployment contract in which they resign every day, nobody can ever be held accountable for their actions. We have finally achieved my lifelong dream: power without responsibility, the prerogative of the Rupert throughout the ages.'


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Welcome to Morning Would, where we present you with some of the most desirable, controversial cars ever built and ask if you yourself would drive one.
Lee Ioccoca thought that his baby, the Mustang, needed to get into the SCCA's B-series to appeal to the young folk and fit in with the whole company's "Total Performance" campaign. In '65 he got Carroll Shelby to strip the car down to 2,788 pounds (no rear seats!), tune the 289c.i. (4.7L) V8 up to 306 horsepower, and work over the fairly woeful stock suspension. Thus the G.T. 350 was born.
After all of these years, the GT 350 is still a noisy, uncomfortable, not super fast old car. On top of that it's pretty damn expensive, fetching six figures at auctions. You can get your hands on faster muscle cars for less, and you can find yourself nimbler sports cars from the era, but they're not Shelby Mustangs. Does the road racing Shelby 'Stang hit the perfect balance for you?


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Biology professor involves the public in an entomological sleuthing mission.
by Chelsea Theis '08
Roses, beavers, and bluebirds are all commonly found in New York -- a good thing, as they are the official state flower, animal, and bird. But the state insect hasn't been, er, spotted in New York in 15 years. The nine-spotted ladybug seems to have disappeared. And IC biology professor Jason Hamilton is working to find out why.
Hamilton has teamed up with Cornell University professor of entomology John Losey not only to find the once-thriving state insect but also to understand why its population decreased so drastically in the last two decades.
The nine-spotted ladybug, also known as the C-9, has been photographed in the Northeast only once in the last 14 years, but may have been seen recently at the edge of the species' former range in Canada. While there was no formal study to provide an estimated population before the C-9's crash in 1987, it was certainly quite common prior to its unexplained decline. Hamilton and Losey decided two years ago they wanted to research this phenomenon. Strong advocates of "citizen science," the two decided to involve the community. "We needed a study to capture people's imaginations and interest," says Hamilton. "It's easy to get people interested with animals. And ladybugs are a charismatic insect."
Over this past summer the two professors hosted the first of what they hope will be many "Ladybug Blitzes." Via just one newspaper ad and a few mass e-mails, they attracted 25 volunteers. In two days scouring fields off Hanshaw Road in Ithaca, they caught 800 ladybugs to photograph and catalog at a roadside station. The volunteers ranged from age three up to senior citizens.
Not one of the insects they met was a C-9, but among eight other types of ladybug was one fairly rare species. "This means there is still some diversity in native ladybugs, and not all have disappeared," says Hamilton. "This suggests we might have a chance to find C-9."
The initial excursion gave baseline information on the different species. Hamilton and Losey plan to photograph 30,000 to 50,000 ladybugs in the next few years while expanding the project nationwide.
Why did the species crash? The professors believe the C-9 is not extinct. "It seems very unlikely to me that it could have gone in a few decades from being so common to complete extinction here in New York," Losey says. "It is probably still around, just in low densities."
Hamilton has incorporated the project into his teaching, taking students to Cornell Plantations to catch and document ladybug species. Biology major Zachary Cava '09 has taken two of Hamilton's classes and has participated in the ladybug labs. He says that in recent years much attention has been given to saving iconic animals such as giant pandas, tigers, elephants, and great apes, but that many people couldn't care less about the demise of a species of spider or other small and seemingly insignificant creature.
"Often," says Cava, "these easily overlooked organisms have the biggest effect on humans. Jason wants students to take with them that every living thing on this planet is worthy of human attention regardless of its assumed 'value' to us. Jason teaches his students to think about the world in ways they never have before."
Hamilton and Losey believe this citizen-participatory research will enhance the community's awareness of the natural world — and that the C-9 will once again thrive in New York, along with the state's other living symbols.


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Justin Timberlake's role in "The Social Network" is loaded with fantastic irony. He not only plays the founder of Napster, the representation of online music piracy -- but he also plays the baddest egghead you can ever imagine.
Justin's a long way from the man responsible for bringing "Sexy Back."
"He plays the King of the Geeks," co-star Joe Mazzello tells PopcornBiz. "He kind of plays the coolest geek you can find in the geek world."
But a geek nonetheless.
As Napster founder Sean Parker, Timberlake's Parker walks with an attitude which has the fellow brainiacs in the film envious, including Mazzello's character, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.
"(Parker) was a legend in the hacker community. A Christ figure for all of these guys," says Mazzello. "He comes in and tries to take over a little bit."
"To the computer nerds he's very cool. To everyone else, he probably isn't."
Timberlake's performance is already garnering tremendous buzz for the movie due out in October.
Jessie Eisenberg, who stars as controversial Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg, tells PopcornBiz that the humor of Timberlake playing the founder of Napster was not lost on anyone.
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