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IUCN welcomes the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly yesterday to establish a new international body designed to boost the global response to the loss of the world's biodiversity and ecosystems.
The new independent body, the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) aims to bridge the gulf between the wealth of scientific knowledge about the accelerating degradation of the natural world and government action needed to reverse it. IPBES is being widely compared to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which has helped global understanding and action on climate change.
"This is a wonderful way to end the International Year of Biodiversity and this resolution adds to the big achievements of the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Nagoya in October," says Cyrie Sendashonga, Director of IUCN Programme and Policy.
One of the roles of IPBES will be to carry out high-quality peer reviews of the science of biodiversity and ecosystem services emerging from research carried out around the world. It will ensure that governments are armed with the best information on which to base their decisions and outline the various policy options that are open to them.
IUCN has been a strong supporter of the establishment of IPBES and is playing a key role in its development through its commissions of experts on species, ecosystem management and protected areas.
"We still have a lot of work ahead of us to promote the implementation of IPBES in a way that reflects what IUCN would like to see, including the involvement of civil society in the new body and IUCN playing a role in the hosting of its distributed secretariat. The involvement of all components of IUCN will be needed to promote and support IPBES," adds Sendashonga.
Yesterday's resolution calls on the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to take the necessary steps to put IPBES into operation by convening its first plenary in 2011. This will build on the groundwork laid during a series of meetings earlier this year.
The decision should provide further impetus to the International Year of Forests which begins in January 2011, and the international decade of biodiversity, also starting in January 2011.


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Harvard's heavyweight crew, last season's runner-up, rows for a national championship at the 110th Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships this weekend on the Cooper River in Camden. N.J.
The Crimson heavyweight varsity eight, second varsity eight and Eastern-champion freshman eight all completed flawless dual seasons with wins against the rival Bulldogs in the 147th Harvard‑Yale Regatta last weekend, following top-two finishes at Eastern Sprints. Those boats, along with the open and varsity fours, compete in heats Thursday morning, looking to advance to semifinals Friday and finals Saturday.
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Notes | Schedule | Seeds | Thursday Draw
Probable Lineups
Varsity Eight
Cox: David Fuller, 8: Patrick Lapage, 7: Michael DiSanto, 6: Caspar Jopling, 5: Matthew Edstein, 4: Sam O'Connor, 3: Parker Washburn, 2: Andrew Holmes, 1: James O'Connor
Cox: William Hakim, 8: Peter Scholle, 7: Ben Lynton, 6: Josh Hicks, 5: Nick Jordan, 4: Andrew Reed, 3: Elihu Reynolds, 2: Jack Morrissey, 1: Justin Mundt
Freshman Eight
Cox: Jack Smith, 8: Charles Risbey, 7: James Medway, 6: Ed Rippon, 5: Andrew Emmett, 4: Josh Bernstein, 3: Max Meyer-Bosse, 2: Alexander Uruchurtu, 1: Lachlan Hanbury-Brown
Cox: Alex Sopko, 4: Ryan Furey, 3: Jamie Law-Smith, 2: Alex Macintosh, 1: David Paresky
Varsity Four
Cox: Brittanie Maxwell, 4: Matt Vincent, 3: Andrew Hamm, 2: Andrew Stein, 1: Nick Jaroszewicz
Last Season
Both the heavyweight and lightweight varsity eights placed second—the lights by just one‑fiftieth of a second—as Harvard totaled six medals in its seven events at last season's IRA regatta. The lightweight four won IRA gold, while the heavyweight second varsity eight joined the two varsities as silver medalists.
Washington topped Harvard by 2.7 seconds in the heavyweight varsity eight grand final, the only race the Crimson did not win in its collegiate season. Harvard edged defending champion California for the silver and placed second in the team competition for the Ten Eyck Trophy. The Crimson freshman eight and open four each took bronze, and the varsity four placed second in its third-level final.
Team Strength
In the four IRA events in which Harvard regularly competes during the season (heavy varsity, second varsity and freshman eights; light varsity eight), Harvard's boats own a combined 32-0 dual-racing record and added four medals, two gold and two silver, at Sprints.
Planting Seeds
The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight (8-0 dual record) is seeded third, behind defending champion Washington and the Brown crew that edged the Crimson for Sprints gold. The Crimson freshman eight (8-0) is seeded second behind the Huskies, and the second varsity eight (7-0), seeking its third straight IRA medal, is seeded fourth. The Crimson lightweight varsity (9-0) enters with a No. 1 national ranking.
Not Done Yet
The IRA regatta marks the end of Harvard's collegiate season, but both the Crimson heavyweight and lightweight teams will send boats to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta June 27-July 1 in Henley-on-Thames, England. Harvard's heavyweight four captured the Prince Albert Cup last year at Henley.
Crimson Champions
Three of Harvard's nine official heavyweight national championships have come at the IRA regatta: 2003, '04 and '05. The Crimson lightweights have won seven IRA titles. The only schools to sweep the heavy and light races are Harvard (2003) and Princeton (1998).
Heavyweight IRA History
The first IRA regatta took place in 1895 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Harvard first rowed at the IRAs in 1896, placing second to Cornell and ahead of Penn and Columbia in a race on the Hudson River. The Crimson raced again in 1897 but did not come back for almost 100 years, in 1995, when it placed fourth in a race won by Brown on the Cooper River.
After an eight-year absence, Harvard returned again in 2003, claiming the Varsity Challenge Cup with an open-water victory over Washington. That helped propel the Crimson to the Ten Eyck Cup, representative of overall team supremacy. The Crimson followed with varsity and team titles in each of the next two seasons. Harvard has also captured IRA gold in the 2004 freshman four, the 2006 second varsity eight and varsity four without coxswain and the 2008 open four events.
A Grand Tradition
In the nine years since returning to the IRA regatta, the Crimson heavyweight varsity has reached the grand final eight times. Harvard tied Stanford for second place in 2007 for its most recent varsity medal before last season.
Heavyweight Varsity Eight
The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight is made up of four oarsmen from last year's IRA runner-up varsity (Michael DiSanto, Matthew Edstein (Sydney, Australia), Patrick Lapage (Shrewsbury, England), James O'Connor (Christchurch, New Zealand)); two sophomores from the 2011 bronze-medal freshman boat (Andrew Holmes (Lochwinnoch, Scotland), Caspar Jopling (London, England)); Sam O'Connor (Christchurch, New Zealand), who missed the 2011 spring with an injury after rowing in the Eastern-champion varsity in 2010, and Parker Washburn (Andover, Mass.) and coxswain David Fuller (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), who earned IRA second varsity silver last season.
The nine athletes have totaled 12 IRA medals, with seniors DiSanto, Edstein, Lapage and Sam O'Connor winning freshman silver in 2009. Seven of them took part in the Head of the Charles win in October.
Back for More
The lone three-time IRA medalist on the Crimson is Elihu Reynolds (Queensbury, N.Y.), who earned silver in the 2009 freshman and '11 second varsity eights and bronze in the '10 second varsity. There are five other two-time medalists among the 21 athletes competing for Harvard who earned medals last season.
He's Honored
Harry Parker was one of five recipients of the 2012 Harvard Medal for extraordinary service to the university named by the Harvard Alumni Association. They received the medals from President Drew Faust as part of Harvard's Commencement ceremonies May 24.
From Near and Far
Six of the nine athletes in the varsity eight hail from outside the United States. The other three are Massachusetts natives. The second varsity includes three athletes from the Bay State and three from abroad. The freshman eight, coxed by Jack Smith (Worcester, Mass.), is manned by five Australians, two Englishmen and Max Meyer-Bosse (Westport, Conn.).
Patriot Games
Junior Parker Washburn (sweep) and freshman Max Meyer-Bosse (sculling) of the Harvard heavyweight crew have been invited to the U.S. Men's Under 23 National Team camps to select crews for the World Rowing Under 23 Championships July 11-15 in Trakai, Lithuania.

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Fire and Sand - Regions and Victory Points
In the annual specials since 2014, the game takes place on a map of Ancient Europe divided into 87 regions. In the 2017 special, Fire and Sand, the map is smaller and consists of 401 x 401 tiles, as opposed to 801 x 801 tiles in the regular version.
Regions, settling and control
There are 87 independent regions that can be controlled by alliances. This allows them to gather victory points and activate ancient powers (artifacts).
So, how can you take over a region? First, it has to be unlocked. This happens once the top 5 biggest alliances in the region have at least 4,000 population altogether in the region. Population of other alliances, players without an alliance, on vacation or banned, as well as Natar villages is not taken into account. Once the region is unlocked, it cannot be locked again, even if the population falls below 4,000.
It is only possible to settle new villages in regions that are unlocked or are neighboring unlocked regions. The only exception to this rule are a few regions in the center, where new players are spawned and where it is always possible to settle new villages.
If one of the alliances in an unlocked region manages to achieve over 50% of population in the region (only top 5 alliance villages in the region are counted), it will start taking control of the region. This takes 24 hours. If they manage to hold the majority, they will control the region.
Information about the population of the region and the top 5 alliance shares is shown in the Statistics > Region tab and in any Embassy located in the region. Keep in mind that the column "Regional population" in the statistics shows the population of the top 1 alliance in the region, not the total population in the region.
Here's an overview of regional mechanics:
|Region status
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|All regions start locked.
|Cannot be settled unless it neighbors an unlocked region or is one of the regions in the center.
|Top5 alliances in the region have to achieve a total of 4,000 population in the region.
|Can be settled and contested. Cannot be locked again.
|One of the alliances has to achieve over 50% of the top 5 alliance population in the region.
|Can degrade to unlocked if the alliance loses the majority.
|The alliance has to hold the majority for over 24 hours continuously.
|Members of the controlling alliance can activate the ancient power of the region (if it has one) and the alliance receives victory points.
Ancient powers and victory points
All members of the alliance that controls a region can benefit from the ancient power of the region, if it has one. To activate the ancient power, the player needs to have a Treasury at level 10 (for small, village-related powers) or 20 (for account-related powers). You can activate the power in any village; it doesn't have to be located in the same region as the power.
You can activate one power in each village, but only one of the powers can be used for the whole account. Once activated, the power lasts for 24 hours, afterwards it can be reactivated if the alliance still holds the region. One activation is free each day; each additional activation costs 5 (for village powers) or 10 (for account powers) Gold.
The power can also be deactivated under the following circumstances:
- If you quit your alliance
- If you lost the village where it was activated
- If your alliance lost control of the region holding the power
Ancient powers, although very useful, are not the only benefit of controlling regions. If you want to win, your alliance needs to gather victory points. Every day an alliance controls a region, it earns victory points. The amount depends on the region:
- Unique power – 10 points per day
- Big power – 30 points per day
- Small power – 50 points per day
- No power – 100 or 200 (Delphi region only) points per day
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I finally got it working - but not with a browser. I downloaded the following:
But, before I ran it, I did what M$ suggested and reset the media player settings:
Open a terminal, and type the following:
regsvr32.exe wmpdxm.dll
Now, run the program from PGH Design - it's just a wrapper to the Sirius Widget - and voila, it works.
Now, if you restart, like I did, sometimes the setting gets lost - so I've had to redo the regsvr32 command whenever PGH Design's widget doesn't stream.
Not a perfect resolution - but at least I'm getting my tunes now.
let me know how that works for you.
Again, IE8 and Firefox will not run even after the regsvr32 command. I have no idea what the difference is between these two things - but there's something.
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The bittersweet musical "Once" captured eight Tony Awards on Sunday, including best musical direction, best lead actor in a musical and the top award, best musical.
The inventive play "Peter and the Starcatcher" was next with five awards.
Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," the remarkably perceptive Pulitzer Prize-winning play about race and real estate, won the best play Tony.
Audra McDonald was named best lead actress in a musical and her "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was named best musical revival. This is her fifth Tony Award, tying the competitive record held by Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris.
Arthur Miller's 63-year-old masterpiece "Death of a Salesman" won the Tony for best play revival and Mike Nichols won his ninth Tony for directing it.
For a full list of the 2012 Tony Award winners, click here.


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Steven Tyler, Joe Perry lead Songwriters Hall of Fame class of 2013
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Mick Jones and Lou Gramm of Foreigner will join the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year along with the writers of iconic rock hits "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Heartache Tonight."
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Aerosmith and Foreigner will get the attention here, but inductees Holly Knight, JD Souther and Tony Hatch also have distinguished careers that helped define the sound of rock 'n' roll.
Knight wrote anthemic hits "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Invincible" for Pat Benatar and "The Warrior" for Patty Smyth. She also wrote several songs for Tina Turner, including "The Best" and "Better Be Good to Me," that became standards for the star.
Souther, who has a role on the music-inspired television show "Nashville," had a partnership with The Eagles that spawned several hits, including "Heartache Tonight," "Victim of Love," "New Kid in Town" and "Best of My Love."
Hatch made his mark during the British invasion, teaming with Petula Clark on hits like "Downtown" and "My Love" that helped shaped the future of pop music.
Perry and Tyler have survived a sometimes contentious relationship to become one of rock's most successful songwriting teams over the last 40 years. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, staples of classic rock radio and pop culture icons, are known for hits like "Sweet Emotion," "Dream On" and "Livin' on the Edge," and released their 15th studio album last year.
Jones and Gramm are contemporaries of Perry and Tyler who also ruled radio for a time, but they sometimes came at it from a different angle. They could lay down a straight-up rocker like "Jukebox Hero" or "Feels Like the First Time." But they also could slow it down with hits like "I Wanna Know What Love Is" and "Cold as Ice" that helped foreshadow the ballad-driven rock of the late '80s.
The Songwriter's Hall of Fame 2013 induction ceremony will be held June 13 in New York.


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Medical spa expands to bigger space in Greenwich
Medical spa expands to bigger space in Greenwich
After nine years at 1345 E. Putnam Avenue, The Greenwich Medical Skincare and Laser Spa will move down the road to a brand new building in Riverside Commons.
The skin care facility will occupy two-thirds of the space at 1233 E. Putnam Ave., expanding its footprint from 1,700 to 2,500 square feet starting on or around Aug. 11.
"I've been eyeing that space since the day that I moved here nine years ago," said Marria Pooya, the medical spa's managing partner.
Verizon Wireless will take over the building's remaining third.
The medical spa's new home will have 700 square feet of retail space for skin care, makeup and novelty health and beauty items, Pooya said. The number of treatment rooms will grow from four to seven. And there will be a new acne clinic as well as a lunch room for public skin care seminars over tea and sandwiches.
"A lot of people don't know some of these treatments or what the difference is between Botox and dermal treatment," said Pooya, a 42-year-old ex-Wall Street analyst who lives with her husband and two children in Westport. "A lot of people don't know how to take care of their skin. Teens with acne oftentimes don't know how to take care of their skin using a more holistic approach. So we want to help inform people whether they're our clients or not."
Pooya said she plans to hire four new employees with help from an $80,000 grant from the state Department of Economic and Community Development. The state also awarded her a $300,000 loan to finance the build-out, she said.
"I think the new space is just going to give us such great energy," she said. "We have done really well and the new space is a great place to celebrate that and I think it will help take us to the next level."
The medical spa offers a host of beauty, skin and body treatments. The most sought-after treatments are Botox, a muscle relaxant that removes wrinkles, and Ultherapy, a noninvasive skin tightening technology, Pooya said. She describes the majority of her clients as middle-aged moms interested in nonsurgical treatments geared at age management.
"Our average client is a 42-year-old woman who has kids, who is middle- to upper-income and who wants to look better and refreshed but isn't ready for the more invasive treatments," Pooya said. "We do have male clients, and we've been getting more and more of them in the last year and a half, especially for CoolSculpting."
CoolSculpting is a nonsurgical body contouring treatment that permanently removes fat cells, Pooya said.
"It's for people who diet and exercise but have little bulges that diet and exercise won't remove," she explained.
Pooya said the success of her business is much more sweet due to the fact that it got to a rather sour start. In 2005, she opened the business as Radience Medical Spa, a franchise she bought under the belief that it came with a large and loyal contingent of clients.
"Turns out the franchiser was a crook and there were no clients," Pooya said. "We thought we had a client base and we had nothing. But for me, failure wasn't an option, so we started with grassroots marketing and banging on doors."
In that first year, Pooya said the business made $18,000. She said she sued the franchiser, changed the name of the business to its current title and stayed afloat only because she and her family were able to live off her husband's income.
"We are very successful right now, but there were nights I couldn't sleep thinking, `How are we going to pay the bills?' "
But with hard work and innovation, Pooya, a native of Afghanistan who moved to Long Island, N.Y., at age 9, said she was able to rebound and expand.
"Owning your business just gives you so much freedom and confidence, especially as a woman," Pooya said. "It's great and I'm proud of our success."


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Marketers Eye Big New Market: Latinos
A milestone was reached this summer when Spanish language network Univision won July sweeps in the No.1 spot for adults 18 to 49 in broadcast or cable. How are advertisers changing to serve this new market? John Gallegos, CEO of Groupo Gallegos, joins MoneyBeat.
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Postal employees often feel that they are second-class citizens – both in terms of their status and stature as a "Federal employee" who is under either the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) or (for those lucky ones who are quickly diminishing in numbers but who were able to enter the Federal workforce prior to the 1986 transition) under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS); and in terms of pay scales and discussions in Congress related to bloated budgets, inability to become profitable, etc.
For Postal employees who are considering filing for Federal Disability Retirement, either under FERS or CSRS, the question is often queried as to whether the U.S. Office of Personnel Management treats Postal employees differently than non-Postal, Federal employees. Whether there is any empirical evidence of discriminatory intent on the part of OPM against Postal employees who file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, is essentially a non-starter. For, in the end, each case must be decided on the unique quality and extent of the medical documentation compiled. Further, one cannot compare and contrast differentiated groups lumped by "Postal" as opposed to "non-Postal", precisely because the uniqueness of each Federal Disability Retirement case is characterized by the medical condition itself; the type of job and positional duties undertaken by individual X who suffers from the medical condition; and the extent, severity and chronicity of the medical conditions in relation to the duties.
With literally hundreds of Federal agencies, and thousands and tens of thousands of differing types of jobs, one cannot aggregate a generic "Postal Worker" and compare it to a compounded composite of "other Federal workers". Thus, it is a wrong question to ask. Instead, the proper question to ask would be: Given a Postal Worker who is in craft-X, who suffers from medical condition-Y, is there a greater incidence of denials from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management of Postal Workers who file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, and if there is a greater proportional aggregate of denials as compared to the total number of denials, is there a valid reason for such disproportionate treatment?
In other words, it would be – on its face – incomparably unfair to compare an IT Specialist with the Department of the Navy, who suffers from severe Major Depression and anxiety, to a City Letter Carrier who suffers from status-post cervical discectomy and fusion, precisely because of the type of medical condition involved, and the positional requirements of both. Further, are there inherent factors within the U.S. Postal Service which can account for any disparate treatment (if we proceed on the assumption that there even exists such differentiation of reviewing and deciding Federal Disability Retirement applications filed by Postal Workers, as opposed to non-Postal, Federal employees)? The answer is, Yes.
The Postal Service has for years been identified with the notoriety of refusing to accommodate their workers. Whether in association with OWCP and the Department of Labor, where workers are sent to "second opinion" doctors and "referee" medical facilities in an effort to get people off of the rolls of OWCP and back to full duty; or in conjunction with the National Reassessment Program where an across-the-board infrastructural policy was implemented stating that no accommodations were available for those craft employees who could no longer perform all of the essential functions of one's job, and that no medical restrictions or limitations would be henceforth honored – a maneuver meant to get rid of all Postal employees who were not fully functional in their jobs – the approach of the U.S. Postal Service in attempting to regain a competitive edge was to try and get rid of anyone and everyone who suffered from a medical condition such that the medical condition prevented the employee from performing all of the essential elements of one's job. One might think, upon first considering that approach, that such a maneuver by the U.S. Postal Service would increase the chances for getting a Federal Disability Retirement application approved – for, by conceding that the injured craft employee cannot perform any jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, the assumption would be that such a concession would be evidence for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, as well as the Federal Disability Retirement applicant, that one is qualified because of the self-admission by the Postal Service, for Federal Disability Retirement benefits.
The problem is twofold: First, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is a separate agency from the U.S. Postal Service, and applies a legal criteria which gives scant attention to what the Postal Service thinks, does, or acts upon; and Second, evidence of what the U.S. Postal Service decides – while of somewhat dubious impact and persuasive authority – is ultimately not what makes a Federal Disability Retirement applicant eligible for Federal Disability Retirement benefits.
Indeed, look, for example, beginning with some older precedential cases such as Wilkey-Marzin v. OPM, 82 M.S.P.R. 200 (1999) – where the Merit Systems Protection Board found that in order to determine a disability retirement in favor of an appellant, there must be a showing beyond uncorroborated subjective evidence, and provide a "reasoned explanation" of the origins of the disabilities, and how it is disabling with respect to one's specific duties. In providing some guiding principles, the Board noted that the Judge should consider the following evidence: (1) objective clinical findings; (2) diagnoses and medical opinions; (3) subjective evidence of pain and disability; (4) evidence relating to the effect of the applicant's condition on his ability to perform in the grade or class of position last occupied (see also Dunn v. Office of Personnel Management, 60 M.S.P.R. 426, 432 (1994) ). Note that nowhere in the four (4) guiding principles is there an indication that what the agency does or doesn't do, should be of primary consideration. This is not to say that the issue of accommodations will not be relevant; and, certainly, one can argue that an NRP-based decision of refusing any work, or the dreaded "DRAC" (the so-called District Reasonable Accommodation Committee) determination of "no work available", cannot be effectively used; but the primary focus in a Federal Disability Retirement case, from the viewpoint of the U.S. Postal Worker, should be to prove one's case based upon the medical documentation, and not rely upon anything which the Postal Services does or doesn't do.
In the end, if there has been an increase in the number of disability retirement applications, in proportional numbers as compared between "Postal Workers" and any other single Federal Agency of the U.S. Government, it may be because of such unreasonable and uncompromising positions taken under the NRP, the DRAC decisions or in conjunction with OWCP claims. For, when a determination is made that an agency (in this case, the U.S. Postal Service) will refuse to in good faith attempt to accommodate injured employees, such an intransigent policy will quite obviously increase the numbers of applications to obtain Federal Disability Retirement benefits. But reliance upon what the agency does, without solid medical evidence to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the Postal Worker is eligible and entitled to Federal Disability Retirement benefits, is to run a fool's errand. Postal Workers have had to face multiple obstacles over the years, both in economic downsizing and frozen pay structures; and the decision to shed its workers from within because of medical conditions is merely an indication of the heart and soul of the Postal Service – not necessarily any evidence which would qualify the Postal Worker for Federal Disability Retirement benefits. For that, one must affirmatively go out and compile one's case, and use such evidence of the NRP as merely a secondary, peripheral


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O.J. Simpson returned to a Las Vegas courtroom Monday in a bid for a new trial more than four years after his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in a 2007 hotel room confrontation involving two sports memorabilia dealers.
Timeline: OJ Simpson's Legal History
Simpson wants a new trial because he says his longtime lawyer, Yale Galanter, failed to disclose that he knew about the hotel room raid in advance, told Simpson it was legal and provided bad advice at trial. The 65-year-old former NFL and USC star running back — he was handcuffed and wearing blue prison clothes when he walked into the courtroom Monday — is scheduled to testify Wednesday.
Simpson, who did not testify during the trial, received a prison sentence of nine to 33 years for the armed robbery and still maintains he was not aware two of the five men with him at the Palace Station hotel brought guns. The caper involved sports memorabilia dealers who Simpson thought had personal belongings he lost following his acquittal in 1995 in the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
Far from that "trial of the century" case, this week's proceedings are called a writ of habeas corpus, not a trial. Clark County District Court Judge Linda Marie Bell will hear five days of testimony beginning Monday on 19 separate claims of ineffective representation of counsel and conflict of interest.
Crowds at the courthouse Monday morning were small, unlike the 1995 murder trial in Los Angeles and the 2008 robbery and kidnapping trials.
The new challenge follows the Nevada Supreme Court's denial of Simpson's 2010 appeal, also handled by Galanter. Simpson's new attorney, Patricia Palm, filed the write of habeas corpus in May 2012, seeking her client's release from prison and reversal of the conviction.
Simpson's attorneys must prove that his trial lawyers botched the 2008 trial. If they can't, it's possible the former Heisman trophy winner and NFL Hall of Fame football player will spend the remainder of his life in prison. He has already served four years in prison, but must serve nine of the maximum 33-year sentence before he is eligible for parole.
Four Simpson co-defendants pleaded guilty to felonies and testified for the prosecution. A fifth defendant, Clarence "C.J.'' Stewart, was convicted and served more than two years in prison before the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that Simpson's fame tainted Stewart's conviction.
Stewart was granted a new trial but avoided retrial by pleading guilty to two felonies and was freed.
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Remembering the Rays and Gameworks Events
Over the past couple of Tampa Bay Rays seasons that Rays Season Ticket holders have seen some of their past " advantages" going by the wayside. We used to get one of every promotional item, plus had an end-of-the-season Team Photo Day with the Rays players to get memorable photos to put on our face book pages or computer screensavers. We were a bit spoiled at times and got used to getting the "star" treatment from the Season Ticket Sales Department at every turn.
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When the Gameworks family-friendly arcade closed their doors after spending 10 years upon the landscape of the small cultural center of Ybor City. So I want to take today's blog posting to remember some of the events and times I remember at the Centro Ybor landmark that I will miss more for the faint echoes of young Rays fans and their familes taking a night out with Rays teammates and celebrating as a true Rays Republic.
I can still remember attending a long ago Rays Christmas party for local youth from the Boys and Girls Club at Gameworks where ex-Rays Toby Hall and Seth McClung spent most of the afternoon playing carnival type games and race simulation events with the kids laughing, smiling and giggling at the big players trying to keep up with them both on the screen and running around the arcade area. With presents and food and games galore, I do not think anyone, including the Rays players went home without an ear-to-ear smile on their faces.
But the scene that still stays deep within my mind is not the photo of me helping myself to the yellow chocolate sauce fountain, but of Rays outfielder Jonny Gomes holding court at the end of the bar just to the left as you entered the arcade. Gomes was in hid element that night, shaking hands and hugging friends, plus raising a toast or two to the Rays success. And hidden just a few feet behind Gomes was Maddon who was sitting there with several fans discussing all kinds of things besides baseball and seeming to really enjoy himself. But the best part was seeing Rays players like Scott Kazmir playing an NBA video game with a younger Rays fans and getting his booty kicked, but loving every minute of it.
And the 2009 event was a standing room only affair with almost double the crowd, and double the fun as most of the Rays players from that day came out including every member of the Rays rotation. From Matt Garza trying to be slick and getting beaten time after time on the Dance, Dance Revolution machine, to Grant Balfour's fiancee' kicking all comers' brains-in on the Dance, Dance Revolution machine, including reliever Randy Choate. It was a great time where fans and players got to mingle and bring some of that special chemistry that Rays have with their fans.
And maybe it is true that all good things come to an end sometimes, and that you got to truly treasure your moments within the game of baseball for the future telling of great tales and adventures. And you can bet Gomes, Kazmir and Jackson have taken these memories of Gameworks with them as they left for other Major League Baseball venues, and hoped that their new teams would also embark on these same types of great inter-mingling player/fan activities.
It is a time I that is near and dear to my heart, because as an ex-football player, I always cherished these special times with the team's fans to not only take photos and talk about other things outside of baseball, but to show the "human" side of ourselves to those same fans.
But this Rays team is certainly one of the most open and fan-friendly teams I have ever seen around baseball. They respect the way the fans support and try and use noise either by cowbells or their voices to show audible support for the team. And the many home-made or professionally-made signs by Rays fans show they have their players back.
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Congratulations on your 750th post. I can always count great stuff about the Rays when I come by here.
I've seen Arcade, after Arcade close down in my hometown. A shame because I sometimes have the urge to share my great video game ability with others. Awesome chocolate fountain, btw!
Thanks for that.
Been a long time writing on here, and glad someone actually reads to the end of the post (lol).
Video arcades like we had when I was a kid are a dying breed. They are replaced now by the home unit anyone can purchase, with a set of game for around $ 300.
No more hunting for quarters, saving up for a movie and an hour in the aracde on a Saturday afternoon.
I will miss Gameworks because it is a part of my youth that is disappearing fast.
Now I understand my grandfather's woes when the soda fountain was replaced at the Rexall Drug store near out house.
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Wow! Your 750th post! Pretty impressive. Just wanted to let you know I put the pic of us on my blog for a contest I'm running!
I am not sure if it is impressive or just a lot of writing about nothing, Seinfeld-style.
Seriously it has been an eye-opening experience at times, but has never been dull or routine to me.
I try and write what I might like to see or know about, and try and do an angle the rest of the world either doesn't have the time to write, or do not think their editors will approve for print.
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congrats on 750! if there was ever a MLBlogs HOF, you will be in the first induction class!
i'm so pumped for tonight. even though the Bucs arent in action i will be following the O's-Rays. my two best buds at WVU are die hards of either squad. im excited to be the moderater
I might have a place in some list, but the Hall of Fame would not be the place for my name.
It is not like a blogger could ever win a Ford Frick Award, unless they are a major media player like Peter Gammons.
It should be a great game, and some of the pre-game stuff is just as exciting as the game action some nights.
I am sorry that West Virginia did not pull it out in the NCAA Tourney. I had them in the Finals in 5 of my 10 entries, and really thought Duke and WVU might be in the fight to the Final Four.
Guess one out of two isn't bad, but thre wrong one is the Champs.
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Last month, we started a regular look at the price and cost of multiple sclerosis. At the end of last year, you gave me so many ideas that it's obvious to me that it's an important topic to you.
I read a couple of years ago that the annual economic impact of MS on a family is somewhere between $50,000 and $75,000 USD per year. 50-75K is an awful lot of money, and I expect that some of us don't see how it could "cost" us that much.
I'll write more about that number next time, but I think it's safe to say that the largest single chunk of that number is the price of our disease-modifying therapies: our MS drugs.
Shots that we take daily, weekly or every other day have a price tag between $1,500 and $3,000 per month. Those of us who get a larger dose of IV drugs are in for $3,000-$7,000 per month (once the ancillary costs of those treatments are figured in).
Most of us have insurance of some kind for our drugs (and I really would like to hear from anyone on the drugs who pays that cost out of pocket) but seldom does insurance pay the whole bill. There are co-pays, deductibles, co-insurances, "doughnut holes" and the like to be budgeted for and shelled out.
All of the drug companies have some kind of financial assistance programs to entice us to think about their drugs…okay, entice might be a little strong; they are there to help with the expense. However, if you are on the Medicare Part D drug plan the pharma companies can't offer that kind of assistance.
Even if we only have a 20 percent co-pay for MS drugs, we could be looking at a minimum of hundreds of dollars per month in drug expense. How do you pay for that kind of treatment?
I know, I know…money is one of those things that's tough to talk about in polite society but neither are bladder and sex issues and we talk about those. Actually…when do we talk about polite subjects around here???
Some of us have great insurance coverage that covers a lot of our costs and we should be happy for those people! If you're one of those, don't hesitate to tell us that either. We're not going to be bitter with you (maybe a little jealous, but certainly not going to hold a grudge). We all learn from each other here at Life with MS, because we share.
I just got billed for a drug plan for which I did not sign up for, so that's on my to-do list for today.
Looking forward to reading this discussion over the next couple of days and weeks.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.


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DEFIANCE, Ohio – Defiance College had its 2010 home opener spoiled at the hands of the Franklin Grizzlies, who bounced the Yellow Jackets by a 42-7 margin. Kyle Longsdorf matched a career high with 22 tackles but that was one of the few highlights for DC on Saturday at Justin F. Coressel Stadium.
The powerful Franklin offense entered play having outscored its opposition by a 98-16 gap in the previous two weeks and averaging 41.7 points and 512.7 yards of offense on the season. FC did little to hurt those numbers, as the Grizzlies found the end zone on six of their first eight possessions, en route to piling up 42 points on 490 total yards of offense on the afternoon.
Defiance could not keep pace, as the Purple and Gold managed only 183 total yards of offense in the loss and did not have a serious scoring opportunity until Alex Puente fell on an unforced fumble by Franklin on its own seven-yard line.
Garrett Teague ran the ball twice on the ensuing DC series to push the ball to the one-yard line, before Joey Chester punched it in to make it 42-7 with 1:49 left in the game. The touchdown run was the first collegiate score for Chester.
The highlight of the afternoon for Defiance was provided by the relentless play on defense by Longsdorf, who logged 22 tackles for the second time in his last five outings. Longsdorf ended the 2009 campaign with 22 tackles and a DC single-game record of 15 assisted tackles in a 35-0 win over Bluffton on November 14, 2009. The senior safety has since led the Jackets in tackles in five-straight games dating back to the record-setting Bluffton performance and has piled up 84 total stops during that span.
Defiance (1-3, 1-1 HCAC) will take the next week off, before hosting Mount St. Joseph (3-0, 2-0 HCAC) on October 9, as part of DC's 2010 Homecoming Weekend.


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Hypothyroidism may be present during pregnancy. Low thyroid is a condition marked by an underactive thyroid gland and many symptoms are similar to pregnancy symptoms. For example, fatigue, weight gain and abnormal menstruation are common to both.
What are the symptoms of hypothyroidism?
Hypothyroidism is a common condition, which can go undetected if symptoms are mild. Hypothyroidism means the thyroid is underactive, producing insufficient amounts of thyroid hormones. Symptoms of hypothyroidism may be mild and may start slowly. The following are the most common symptoms of hypothyroidism:
- Feeling tired
- Unable to stand cold temperatures
- Hoarse voice
- Swelling of the face
- Weight gain
- Constipation
- Skin and hair changes, including eyebrows
- Carpal tunnel syndrome (hand tingling or pain)
- Slow heart rate
- Muscle cramps
- Trouble concentrating
- Irregular menstrual periods
The symptoms of hypothyroidism may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
How does hypothyroidism affect the fetus?
During the first few months of pregnancy, the fetus relies on the mother for thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormones are important in normal brain development and growth of the fetus. Hypothyroidism in the mother can have long-lasting effects on the fetus.
How is thyroid function tested?
Screening for hypothyroidism involves a blood test that measures thyroid hormone (thyroxine, or T4) and serum TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) levels. Hypothyroidism is often suspected when TSH levels are above normal and T4 levels are below normal. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
How is hypothyroidism treated during pregnancy?
Thyroid hormone replacement therapy is used to treat the mother. Hormone dosage is based on the individual's levels of thyroid hormones. These levels may change during pregnancy, so the thyroid replacement dosing may also change. The treatment is safe and essential to both mother and fetus. Routine screening for all newborns includes a test of thyroid hormone levels.*
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Still the well-known arrow shaped design, but the fire-new Smargo Reader V2 is now in matte grey ABS case. It ensures that you have the latest innovative hardware and software features. Firmware design is fully improved to meet all latest smartcard needs. New hardware design is based on the industry-leading 32-bit ARM CortexTM-M3 processor.
The Smargo Reader V2 SmartReader is an USB cardreader /programmer based on a powerful ATMEL ARM CortexTM-M3 processor. The SmartReader incorporates an integrated USB to Serial converter, which enables the SmartReader plus to work with all standard Phoenix compatible Linux and Windows applications.
The Smargo Reader V2 SmartReader supports besides Linux/Windows computers and receivers like Octagon SF-1018 HD PVR Linux Twin, various Linux and Windows applications for PCI-DVB or USB-DVB.
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- Works on all Dreambox Models with USB connection, also on 6 MHz with Dreambox 7025.
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Born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria on June 8, 1977, Plamen Karadonev comes from a musical family. His father Dinko Karadonev was a choir director, educator, and accordionist. Plamen started playing the accordion at age five. He later fell in love with Bulgarian folk music and soon began playing the piano...
During his teenage years Plamen became fascinated by jazz and other contemporary styles and for the next few years he focused on recording some of his original compositions which meld folk and jazz. Soon after, Plamen participated at a number of jazz festivals and concerts and during his studies at The State Academy Of Music, Sofia, Bulgaria he became the pianist of the National Radio Big Band.
A Berklee College of Music Scholarship brought Plamen to Boston in January 2001 where he found a whole new world of musical adventures. In the United States he has performed with some of the most respected jazz musicians currently on the scene including Randy Brecker, Gene Perla, George Garzone, Hal Crook, Dave Liebman, Jimmy Cobb, Richie Barshay and many more.
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One of our customer's was recently exploring using ServiceNow's Service Catalog to initiate a provisioning request to vCloud Automation Center. There are several ways customers have requested vCloud Automation Center integrate with ServiceNow. These integrations can be bidirectional – ie, vCloud Automation Center -> ServiceNow, by generating a service ticket and updating the CMDB and invoking vCAC Services from the ServiceNow Catalog, and ServiceNow -> vCloud Automation Center, using our orchestrator to receive the request and invoke our own pre-built integrations to our suite. While it is still our best practice that vCAC serve as the main customer interface for self-service, this post looks at how we successfully integrated ServiceNow's Service Catalog to provision services in vCloud Automation Center. And it also demonstrates how vCAC services could be invoked from any Service Catalog, using vCenter Orchestrator.
To see more examples of integrations, check out the great blogs at vCOTeam.info and vCACTeam.info.
Special thanks to Tom Bonnano, Chris Decanini, Eric Hardcastle, Michael Steward, and Derek Reinhard for helping me with this integration and the vCAC Plugin.
Create the Workflow in vCenter Orchestrator to receive the ServiceNow request
In order to initiate the request to a third party system, your customer has to create a form to collect inputs and create a workflow to pass those inputs to the third-party system. Because every request takes a custom created form, the inputs (and how they are us
First, we created the master workflow that ServiceNow would invoke. I recommend you start very simply – for us, we only added a single variable, Hostname, which would receive a value from ServiceNow, and show that it passed all the way through to the server that was provisioned by assigning that hostname.
To do this we dragged the "Provision a virtual machine from a blueprint (Deprecated)" workflow from /Library/vCloud Automation Center/Infrastructure into our workflow, and assigned all of its values to attributes. ed) will differ from service to service. We opted to integrate ServiceNow directly to vCenter Orchestrator's SOAP API, so we could leverage the 6.01 vCAC Plug0in and use that to invoke provisioning in vCloud Automation Center. This would also make editing and maintaining these workflows much easier due to vCenter Orchestrator's rich object model and allow us to get updated workflows directly from VMWare (instead of having to re-write our own).
We assigned everything upfront to hard-coded values to complete the test (with the exception of the "custom" attribute, which is an array that contains each "customProperty=value" entry. To change the hostname of the provisioned server, we would have to insert "hostname=<something>" into this array.
We then used a scriptable task in front of that workflow, to create the "custom" array that would eventually contain our one custom property.
We made a simple script that pushed the formatted value onto this array so it was ready to go.
Make sure your workflow has one input that prompts the user, called "Hostname". Now, when you think you're ready, run this workflow, input a hostname, and see if it provisions a server! Make sure this works before moving on to the next step.
Create the Workflow in ServiceNow that calls vCenter Orchestrator's SOAP API
Link the form in ServiceNow's Service Catalog to the workflow operations that invoke vCenter Orchestrator. NOTE: we found some limitations in ServiceNow's SOAP message operations for some WebServices, where SOAPActions cannot be blank. Please see the Troubleshooting section for more information. We chose to use a Powershell operation in the ServiceNow workflow to call the SOAP endpoint (as it passed the SOAPAction header properly), and instead opted to pass the variables into this script. This allowed us greater control to override the SOAP client behavior (and to ignore self-signed certificates, as you'll see below).
In ServiceNow, you should specify the workflow to be run from the form, and the workflow should invoke a Powershell operation.
We started with a completely hard-coded script, which would call the service and pass information.
This could then be modified to substitute the hard-coded values to the ServiceNow ${variable} syntax, which ServiceNow would replace with the form values on execution time.
Because this was a test environment and all of the certificates were self-signed, we ended up adding a line to the top of the script to allow Powershell to trust certificates that were not signed by their local CA chain:
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true}
And that's it! Now, when the form is submitted, it provisions through to vCAC, setting the hostname to the one you hard-coded in the Powershell.
Testing vCenter Orchestrator using SoapUI
To ensure we could communicate with vCenter Orchestrator successfully, I used a program called SoapUI to send requests and to view the headers and responses. It's a very nice client and will automatically generate all the soap actions for you. I used this to simulate API calls with my vCenter Orchestrator first, to get the inputs right.
This is what was generated, and I simply filled in the blanks to test if it worked.
Testing Powershell Outside of Servicenow
It was important to first test the commands being issued from the ServiceNow MID server to determine if we had connectivity to vCenter Orchestrator, and if it would accept our self-signed certificates. I recommend you invoke Powershell from your local ServiceNow MID server (which will receive the command from ServiceNow) to see if it works:
Displaying What ServiceNow is Sending vCenter Orchestrator
We found some limitations in ServiceNow's SOAP message operations. vCenter Orchestrator's SOAP messages specify that a blank SOAPAction header should be passed, but the SOAPMessage operator in ServiceNow cannot have a blank "SOAPAction" field. The request generated will omit the header "SOAPAction" if the action is blank (instead of passing a blank quoted string). vCenter Orchestrator considers missing headers a malformed request, and will output a 500 error in the server request log. You can see errors in the test scenarios of this SOAPMessage test:
We discovered that the operation SOAPMessage in ServiceNow must contain a SOAPAction, or else it will omit this header entirely.
We know from our previous testing with SoapUI we require that a blank header be sent, and SoapUI allows us to see what that header should be:
So we really need to understand what's being sent by ServiceNow, it's obviously not being correctly generated. You can examine any requesting service to see if the correct headers are being sent by starting a Mock Service on the server that has SoapUI installed, and sending the ServiceNow request there. Below is a screenshot of a mock service running on port 8088, where I print out the headers and content of the request, using a groovy script within the OnRequest field, located here: https://github.com/momecca/SoapUI
This will help you understand what is being sent, and compare it to other client's and the requests they generate.


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Nice guide, thanks. I wish I'd seen this before rolling my own.
For completeness - there's a very similar approach used at the link below, which also explains how to use a variant of this Pi media server to serve well-formed MP4s over to your ChromeCast devices connected to your TVs (upon initiation from an android tablet or phone on your LAN).
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 76#p694676


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Clamshell Straightener Eases Maintenance for Wellman Friction Products
Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, MI, recently installed a new clamshell-style Model CPPS-406-42 power straightener and a CPR-PO-15042 coil reel at Wellman Friction Products, Solon, OH. The manufacturer of friction components that go into brakes, transmissions, and clutches replaced existing feed equipment on a 600-ton press line with the new straightener, to process material to 42 in. wide by 1⁄4 in. thick. The unit's 30-hp AC variable-speed drive provides line speed to 60 ft./min., producing large clutch plates for use in earth-moving and farming equipment.
The straightener features an easy head-lift function that allows for maintenance and cleaning. Wellman expects that the unit will reduce downtime compared to the older unit, which required disassembly of the straightener head to clean the rolls. With the new straightener, the top rollers separate from the bottom rollers to provide access to the straightening rolls for inspection and cleaning. Pushbutton controls are used to activate hydraulic cylinders that raise the head containing the top rolls.
The CPPS-406 model features 4.0-in.-dia. straightening rolls and 6.3-in.-dia. pinch rolls. Other features include a nine-roll straightener, an alligator-style peeler for effective dekinking and threading operations, and independently adjusted powered coil guides for effective coil loading and guiding. Wellman also opted to include Coe's LoopMaster laser loop control, a non-marking chrome roll package, single row straightener backup rollers, self-centering hand-crank entrance edge guides and a Trabon automatic-lubrication system.Coe Press Equipment: 586/979-4400; www.cpec.com
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