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NEWPORT BEACH – The Uptown Newport Village project near John Wayne Airport took another step toward reality Tuesday night when the City Council approved several items relating to the project, including the environmental impact report.
The City Council voted 6-0, with Councilman Tony Petros abstaining.
The project is proposed on about 25 acres of land on Jamboree Road between Birch Street and MacArthur Boulevard.
The developer, Irvine-based Shopoff Management Inc., proposes to build 1,244 residential units, 11,500 square feet of "neighborhood-serving" retail space and about 2 acres of parks. The homes would be a mix of condominiums, high-rise apartments and townhomes for sale and rent.
The project will be completed in two phases, said William Shopoff, president and CEO of the the Shopoff Group, who addressed the council during Tuesday's public hearing. The first phase is expected to be completed in 2018 and the second phase in 2021. Construction on the first phase is expected to begin this year.
Shopoff said the project "underwent substantial changes" after Planning Commission and public hearings. He said the highlight of the project is its open space component.
"We have parks, paseos and plazas," he said. "We will have about 5 acres in this project available for open use." Paseos are public walkways or boulevards.
Shopoff also said that the project will bring about 2,800 construction jobs to Newport Beach.
John Adams, a neighboring property owner, asked that the developer increase the setbacks for the project.
"This project will be 15 feet from our property," he said. "Given the size of the project, we don't see any reason why it cannot be increased to 35 feet."
City resident Jim Mosher said he is concerned that this would become a residential development without necessary amenities.
"This is not a self-sufficient project," he said. "This is an isolated island of residences plopped in the middle of office buildings. There are no nearby schools available to children and no amenities."
Shopoff said his company has been working with the Newport-Mesa Unified School District to annex this area, which now falls within the Santa Ana Unified School District.
As part of Tuesday's action, the City Council also passed a measure overriding a vote by the Airport Land Use Commission, which stated that the project is inconsistent with airport land use. City staff members said that the California Department of Transportation, which oversees the Airport Land Use Commission, agreed with the city's view that the project is appropriate for the area.
Council members said they are happy with the progress of this project.
Councilwoman Leslie Daigle said she was initially concerned about the "livability" of this project.
"But, I'm now satisfied that we have a process in place that will produce recreational amenities for the community," she said.
Mayor Keith Curry said the project will promote the city's economic growth, bringing jobs into the community.
"It will help us fund our parks and streets and revitalize this area into an entirely new neighborhood for the city," he said.
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Editorial board member Steve Moore on immigration reform's prospects in the Senate. Photo credit: Getty Images.
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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the Senate voted on Tuesday to proceed on immigration reform ... by what's it like an info ate into the fifth team ... that sounds like a big number overwhelming support ... but my next guest says ... don't ... believe it editorial board member Steve Moore joins me now from Washington ... by Steve ... at eighty two members voting to proceed ... and why isn't that a stunning victory ... well Mary this was just above a boat to see whether they should actually debate the immigration bill ... down what disappointed me was that there are fifteen Republicans who basically said no they wanted to proceed with the debate on US allied make the case to Mary that this this ... is not the most important issue this year are ... for the Congress one of the top two or three and to save or not the beta ... or we haven't Pixar operation system and some twenty five years ... I think is highly irresponsible now seem there were some Republicans out of that fifteen who were very predictable obstructionists ... kind of preen for their own political ends guys like Ted Cruz ... on my pansies others ... um but but a guy like Richard Shelby ... and here's a grand old man of of the Republican Party ... knows that that they need to pass immigration reform ... afraid this next election elections to come what is to get out of owning know ... what you're seeing Mary is a kind of populist revolt on the right against immigration reform and I'm very disappointed on the site I think this is really critical to our economy ... I think it's really critical for the ... you know millions of people I've come to this country and build a better life ... and I would even make the political argument Mary that this is good politics for the Republicans to put this issue ... of can say Amen ... and you know is you know Republicans got less than three at a time of the ... Hispanic vote last election they cannot win elections of a national scandal ... when they're not getting at least forty percent of the Hispanic vote and this is one of those issues that just a few Republicans are seen as people don't wanna Hispanics in this country ... well ... Steve why isn't such a heavy lift for the Republican party given the results of of of last year's ... election are people ... feel marching in the streets against immigration reform incidents in the southern districts is that the heritage study what what was it the about me I have been scratching my ... last number weeks wondering ... what the answer is the question I think it's a little bit of everything that you just sat ... in six months ago after the Republicans got wiped out in the end of two thousand twelve elections ... I especially getting Cree CREE By Hispanic Allum at also Asian bowlers ... of Mary it was a wake up call the party that they better do something about this immigration issue ... of what you see in a note in the last odd couple months is a kind of bought snapback by the rise ... of cut copy was right saying we don't want ... you know we don't want legalization program the people were here we don't want a guest worker program some groups don't want any additional immigration whatsoever I think that's a big mistake of policy Apple ... now Steve what's it all the Democrats in the Senate ... vote for immigration reform ... which may very well with with which may happen so they all vote for gun then you get the small number ... of it let's call them ... moderate Republicans a marker Rubio is of the world has been pushing for this reform ... voting with exams ... if that is that enough ... to generate the momentum ... to get that ... same set of bills through the house only attract yuan one thing I don't think people a marker Rubio or shuffling think of themselves as moderates at ... a peak of themselves as God Jack kept Ronald Reagan pro growth Republican said ... and I take this cup it's the ... shuffling of thirty verses that cannot be counted when the party but frankly ... a ... lot I don't think that this bill were to Marco Rubio and jet Li said this is not can work which is getting five or six Republicans in the Senate it has to be truly bipartisan with in my opinion and independent people like Leighton Rubio about with Paul Ryan also in the house those guys are in a very thoughtful ... of concern for Republicans they say this can be at least fifteen or twenty Republicans and Senate ... right now Kerry ... has his vote indicated there are still a long way from now ... that eighty two to fifteen vote in the Senate ... to proceed with the did they ... it doesn't mean immigration reform is a slam dunk


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I am so exhausted its been hard to write. We have been driving on the bus all night and rehearsing all day – stopping to do shows on The Cho Dependent Tour – it's incredible. I love the physical benefits – all these weird little aches and pains have been disappearing, because I am moving for the first time. The body is supposed to move, I am understanding this now. I want to keep it up.
The dance this week is hard and fast and I want to do it all the time. I kick out steps in my sleep as the bus rolls on to the next town. I am glad we are out of town because everyone from DWTS is getting sick. We are away from everything and in our own world, which is perfect for me. I am doing the routine in my head, as John Roberts and I lie in bed and watch Jersey Shore (omg this week was incredible with Angelina's pad! Need to talk to The Situation about that one). I am watching Louis and I dance it over and over on my flip camera. How did we do anything without technology before? I absolutely love my costume. It's so gorgeous and glamorous. It should win from fabulousness alone.
I am enjoying now the brief silence between the rehearsals and the shows. The interim when you have ordered the pizza and you know it is coming. I am so ready for week 2.


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It was clown day at Noah's school. He was convinced that he was going to get to fly across the gym on a trapeze. He settled for throwing some bean bags through a hoop and walking on a
This little man is still entertaining the world and doing a darn good job of it.
I got a haircut. My stylist showed me how to style my hair in those loose wavy curls that look so effortless on all the covers of the magazines. Yeah- I'm way too innept with my flatiron to figure this one out. It still blows my mind that you make curls with a flat iron. Whatev.
I bought an actual nighty to take to Hawaii (in 2 days!!!!). I'm trying to decide what possessed me to do it, being as how my husband has seen me sleeping in whatever ratty t-shirt happens to be clean for years. I have visions of eating breakfast on the balcony and I don't want to be doing it in a ripped up tee. I'm giving myself an A for effort. And if any of you make a comment that I am coming home from our vacation preggers, I will have a conniption. Now excuse me while I go knock on some wood. I'd put up a picture of it, but my father reads this blog and well- that would just embarrass the crud out of me.
One thing that does not embarrass me... (shamelessness is about to follow!) is the following tweet I got from the one and only Lisa Ling (journalist extraordinaire) in response to yesterday's post.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't skip around the house like a nut and whoop at the top of my lungs when I saw it. Lisa Ling read my blog, y'all! Holy rusted metal, Batman. I mean seriously- I am now only one degree of separation from Oprah. And if I ever got on Oprah! Oh my word. I'd talk about Congo and the world orphan crisis until they drop kicked me off the stage. My heart is beating out of my chest just thinking about it.
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Randy Dedini, who has thrice been named Big Sky Coach of the Year, completed his 12th season as head coach of the Sacramento State women's soccer team in 2018. Dedini, who took over the squad in 2007, has guided the Hornets to unprecedented success, including two NCAA Tournament appearances and two conference titles, both firsts in school history. He is the winningest coach in program history in terms of total wins and winning percentage.
Dedini, who ended the 2018 season with a career record of 92-104-31 (42-43-17), has guided Sacramento State to .500 or better conference records in seven of his 12 seasons, including a regular season Big Sky title in 2007. The Hornets also won the Big Sky Conference Tournament title in 2007 and again in 2010 to earn the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Dedini was named Big Sky Coach of the Year following the 2007, 2010, and 2016 seasons.
In 2017, Dedini lead the Hornets to an 8-8-4 finish, including a 3-3-4 mark in Big Sky compteition, good for sixth in the conference and a spot in the postseason tournament. 2017 marked the third straight season in which the Hornets advanced to the postseason, matching the program record. Sacramento State last advanced to three consecutive postseasons from 2005 through 2007. The 2017 team had six all-Big Sky selections, including three First Team selections, the team's most since 2010. In addition, Kylee Kim-Bustillos was named the Big Sky's Newcomer of the Year, the second straight year the award was won by a Hornet.
Dedini earned his third Big Sky Coach of the Year honor in 2016 after he led the Hornets to a 6-2-2 Big Sky record for a second place regular season finish and the No. 2 seed for the Big Sky Tournament after the team was picked to finish sixth in the preseason Big Sky Coaches' Poll. The 2016 Hornets set new program records for points in a Big Sky regular season (20) and Big Sky wins in a season (6). The Hornets also ended the regular season undefeated (4-0-1) in Big Sky road games for just the second time in program history.
The 2016 team won five straight games to end the regular season, matching the longest winning streak in program history. The Hornets also set program records for the longest road winning streak (3) and road unbeaten streak (5).
As the No. 2 seed for the conference tournament the Hornets earned a bye into the semifinals before being edged by Northern Arizona, 3-2. The Hornets ended the season leading the Big Sky in save percentage and ranking second in the league in goals against average while seven players earned all-Big Sky honors. Seniors Rachel Leonard and Jennifer Lum were named to the first time, with Leonard also named Defensive Player of the Year and to the NSCAA Division I All-Pacific Region third team, while freshman Mikayla Reed was named Co-Big Sky Top Newcomer.
Dedini has mentored a total of 36 first or second team all-Big Sky selections, including offensive player of the year Katie McCoy in 2007, defensive player of the year Rachel Leonard in 2016, and conference Golden Boot (point leader in conference games) winners McCoy (2007) and Kim Kemper (2008). McCoy and Elece McBride were named Big Sky Tournament MVPs in 2007 and 2010, respectively. The team had eight all-Big Sky selections in 2012, including a first team honor for senior Victoria Ramirez and a second team accolade for freshman Kassidy Kellogg.
In 2015 Dedini led his team back to the Big Sky Tournament and to its first postseason win since 2010, beating Eastern Washington 3-1 in the quarterfinal round. The win was the team's fifth straight postseason victory before the squad was narrowly outlasted by second-seeded Northern Colorado in the semifinals. Sacramento State's five regular season Big Sky wins were the most in program history and the team had three players earn all-Big Sky honors with a second team selection for forward Kayla Collins, who led the team with 7 goals and 6 assists for 20 points.
The Hornets narrowly missed Big Sky Tournament berths in both 2013 and 2014, playing with a chance to make the postseason in their regular season finales. The 2013 squad was dealt a big blow when Kassidy Kellogg suffered a season-ending injury in the second game of the year, but Dedini's team remained competitive throughout the season. In 2014 the Hornets lost Alyssa Anderson in the preseason after she and Jennifer Lum earned All-Big Sky second team honors in 2013. Sophomore Maggie Pleis was an all-Big Sky second team selection in 2014 while seven Hornets received honorable mention accolades.
Dedini, a former goalkeeper at Sonoma State, helped mold local product Savannah Abercrombie into one of the top goalies the Big Sky has ever seen. Abercrombie had six shutouts as a senior in 2011, pushing her career total to 29, both a conference and school record. Abercrombie finished her stellar four-year career with a 30-28-9 record, 282 saves and a sparkling 0.92 goals against average.
Dedini took home Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2010 and capped off his fourth season at the helm of the Sacramento State program with his second conference championship. Dedini and the Hornets defeated No. 1 seed and host Northern Arizona, 1-0, in the tournament championship game to clinch their second league title in four seasons.
The Hornets posted a 9-10-1 record in 2010, capping off a late-charging season with wins over Portland State in the semifinals and NAU in the championship match of the Big Sky Conference Tournament. The Hornets met No. 1 ranked Stanford in the first round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament, losing 3-0. Sacramento State, which had the top offense in the conference with 34 goals scored, was the No. 3 seed in the Big Sky Tournament after going 4-3-0 in conference play during the regular season. Leah Larot was named first team all-conference and the Golden Boot winner after leading the Hornets and the conference with 10 goals.
Sacramento State went 8-5-5 in 2009 (3-2-2 Big Sky) in Dedini's third season as head coach. The Hornets had the stingiest defense in the conference, allowing just 13 total scores while netting 20 goals. Abercrombie was three times named Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week and seven players were given all-conference honors, including a first-team selection for defender Cori Shreve.
The team finished the 2008 campaign with a 9-8-2 overall record, including a 3-3-1 mark in Big Sky Conference play. Two Hornets, Kemper and Kara Taylor, earned first team all-Big Sky honors, while four others earned honorable mention accolades. Kemper also became the second straight Hornet to win the Big Sky Golden Boot award, given to the league's scoring leader.
In his first season as head coach, Dedini guided the Hornets to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history after collecting their first-ever Big Sky Conference Tournament title. The Hornets also won the Big Sky regular season title in 2007 for the first time in school history while posting a program-record 12 wins. For his efforts, Dedini earned Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year honors - the first head man in program history to do so. Dedini oversaw nine Hornets who earned all-Big Sky honors during his first season, including McCoy, the Big Sky Offensive MVP. McCoy was also named Big Sky Tournament MVP, and earned the conference's Golden Boot award for leading the league in goals.
As an assistant from 2004-06, Dedini oversaw the team's ascension into the top of the Big Sky standings. During the fall of 2006, the women's program reached the Big Sky Tournament championship game for the first time in program history. The team's 10-7-4 record was also a then program-best until the 2007 team bettered that win total. In 2006, a highly-touted recruiting class made major contributions during the year. The program's 30 goals during the season were fueled by Dedini's aggressive offensive approach and the ability of the newcomers to contribute immediately. Sacramento State outshot its opponents 172-106.
Dedini first started as the goalkeepers coach for the Hornets in 2004. During that year, freshman keeper Brittany Auernig was named rookie of the year after making eight starts and 59 saves. Dedini made the move to top assistant in 2005. The Hornets' improved recruiting efforts and change in philosophy paid off with a then program-best second place finish in the conference standings and an 8-8-3 overall record. The team also advanced to the Big Sky Tournament for the first time since 2001.
In his own playing career, Dedini competed at American River JC before transferring to Sonoma State. Dedini had two standout seasons for the Seawolves as the starting goalkeeper and graduated with a degree in kinesiology. A second team All-American in 1993, Dedini posted a school-record 13 shutouts that season, leading Sonoma State to a 17-3-2 record. He currently ranks second in school history with 21 shutouts and his career goals-against-average of 0.75 is by far the best in school history. The Seawolves inducted Dedini into the Sonoma State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008 and he is widely regarded as the best keeper in school history.
After graduation, Dedini played in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids and the Kansas City Wizards (now Sporting KC). After his MLS career, Dedini spent five years playing with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the A-League (now United Soccer League), earning honors such as team MVP, Iron Man and the century award for breaking the 100-cap mark. In all, Dedini played professional soccer for 11 seasons. While playing for the Riverhounds, Dedini served as the assistant coach for the men's varsity soccer team at Quaker Valley High School in Pittsburgh, Pa., helping the squad to the 2002 state championship.
Dedini is a Northern California native, having graduated from Vacaville High School in 1988. He and his wife, Katie, have two daughters, Jordyn and Jaycie, and one son, Jake.


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Over the past several years, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the so-called rise of the rest, which saw the economies of many developing countries swiftly converging with those of their more developed peers. The primary engines behind this phenomenon were the four major emerging-market countries, known as the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The world was witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime shift, the argument went, in which the major players in the developing world were catching up to or even surpassing their counterparts in the developed world. These forecasts typically took the developing world's high growth rates from the middle of the last decade and extended them straight into the future, juxtaposing them against predicted sluggish growth in the United States and other advanced industrial countries. Such exercises supposedly proved that, for example, China was on the verge of overtaking the United States as the world's largest economy-a point that Americans clearly took to heart, as over 50 percent of them, according to a Gallup poll conducted this year, said they think that China is already the world's "leading" economy, even though the U.S. economy is still more than twice as large (and with a per capita income seven times as high). As with previous straight-line projections of economic trends, however-such as forecasts in the 1980s that Japan would soon be number one economically-later returns are throwing cold water on the extravagant predictions. With the world economy heading for its worst year since 2009, Chinese growth is slowing sharply, from double digits down to seven percent or even less. And the rest of the BRICs are tumbling, too: since 2008, Brazil's annual growth has dropped from 4.5 percent to two percent; Russia's, from seven percent to 3.5 percent; and India's, from nine percent to six percent. None of this should be surprising, because it is hard to sustain rapid growth for more than a decade. The unusual circumstances of the last decade made it look easy: coming off the crisis-ridden 1990s
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Howard County announced Thursday that it's building a 33-unit apartment complex to help house people who are chronically homeless.
The Howard County Housing Commission said in its effort to end homelessness, it's acquired land in North Laurel on which it will build a complex of 33 small efficiency apartments for people in desperate need of permanent supportive housing.
A Day Resource Center will also be built in the facility to help the residents with any needs they may have.
"The Housing Commission's plan is based on research that shows the chronically homeless need stable living conditions if they are to work through the situations which have caused them to become homeless in the first place," said Howard County Executive Ken Ulman.
The nonprofit group Volunteers of America Chesapeake will help the county develop, construct and operate the facility, as well as provide daily support services to help stabilize those residents experiencing life crises.
The property, which currently contains the Beechcrest mobile home park, is on Route 1 north of Whiskey Bottom Road. The commission said it plans to close the park in one year and will provide relocation assistance to the current residents.
A meeting to discuss the plans with neighbors is set for Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the North Laurel Community Center at 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road in Laurel.
Officials have not yet said what funds will be used to build the complex.


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Getting started on configuring deployment sources for Functions using C#
Azure App Service basic sample for managing function apps.
- Create 5 function apps under the same new app service plan:
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"The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt." —The Washington Post
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A lifetime of secrets. A history untold.
No. It is a simple word, uttered on a summer porch in 1936. And it will haunt Kitty Milton for the rest of her life. Kitty and her husband, Ogden, are both from families considered the backbone of the country. But this refusal will come to be Kitty's defining moment, and its consequences will ripple through the Milton family for generations. For while they summer on their island in Maine, anchored as they are to the way things have always been, the winds of change are beginning to stir.
In 1959 New York City, two strangers enter the Miltons' circle. One captures the attention of Kitty's daughter, while the other makes each of them question what the family stands for. This new generation insists the times are changing. And in one night, everything does.
So much so that in the present day, the third generation of Miltons doesn't have enough money to keep the island in Maine. Evie Milton's mother has just died, and as Evie digs into her mother's and grandparents' history, what she finds is a story as unsettling as it is inescapable, the story that threatens the foundation of the Milton family myth.
Moving through three generations and back and forth in time,The Guest Book asks how we remember and what we choose to forget. It shows the untold secrets we inherit and pass on, unknowingly echoing our parents and grandparents. Sarah Blake's triumphant novel tells the story of a family and a country that buries its past in quiet, until the present calls forth a reckoning.
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"Thought-provoking and propulsive…Welcome to old money, new heartbreak, big secrets, and the kind of mouthwatering picnics nobody packs in real life (boiled eggs, tin of sandwiches, bottles of gin). But the North Star of Sarah Blake'sThe Guest Book isn't the Milton family—although they are fascinating, even the ghosts—it's the Maine island cottage where they spend their summers." —The New York Times Book Review
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"Sarah Blake's latest novel,The Guest Book, isan engrossing epic that charts the course of the Milton family over three generations, from the 1930s to present day. Pertinent issues that have plagued American history like classism, prejudice, and identity are neatly tied in thistranscendent novel." —BookRiot
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"Sarah Blake is such a beautiful writer she can make any world shimmer, butThe Guest Book is particularly fascinating—an intergenerational exploration of memory, identity, love, and family loyalty, of what it costs to inherit a name, a place, and a difficult alignment with history.Powerful and provocative storytelling." —Paula McLain,New York Times bestselling author ofThe Paris WifeandLove and Ruin
"I lovedThe Guest Book. Sarah Blake has managed the extraordinary feat of writing both an intimate family saga and an ambitious excavation of the subterranean currents of race, class, and power that have shaped America. This is a vivid, transporting novel, written by amaster conjuror of time and place." —Jessica Shattuck,New York Times bestselling author ofThe Women in the Castle
"Sarah Blake's powerful, beautifully written story portrays a couple's secret choices that come to haunt succeeding generations.The Guest Book isrichly atmospheric and morally compelling in a way that stirs the mind long after the last page." —Nancy Horan, author ofLoving FrankandUnder the Wide and Starry Sky
"Epic and sweeping, without ever leaving behind the personal and profound,The Guest Book isa reminder of what novels do better than anything else. Without losing their specificity, three generations of Milton women reveal something about every family, the secrets and unspoken truths that color everything that happens to us. This is a book you will be dying to talk to someone about." —Arthur Phillips, author ofThe Tragedy of ArthurandPrague
"Breathtaking…Blake saturates each scene with sensuous and emotional vibrancy while astutely illuminating sensitive moral quandaries. Blake deftly interrogates the many shades of prejudice and 'the ordinary, everyday wickedness of turning away.' Blake's brilliant and ravishing novelpromises to hit big." —Booklist (starred review)
"Spanning three generations of Miltons,The Guest Bookdeserves a spot on your summer TBR in 2019." —Bustle
"The story of the Miltons engages not just with history and politics, but with the poetry of the physical world. This novel sets out to bemore than a juicy family saga—it aims to depict the moral evolution of a part of American society. Its convincing characters and muscular narrative succeed on both counts." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This powerful family saga…ispotent and mesmerizing."—Publishers Weekly
"Blake isa masterful storyteller, whose past novel,The Postmistress, won considerable acclaim. I believeThe Guest Book will as well." —San Diego Jewish World
"A juicy family saga andan examination of the American elite." —Refinery29
Praise for Sarah Blake'sThe Postmistress
"Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.The Postmistress is one of those rare books. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it." —Kathryn Stockett, author ofThe Help
"Some novels we savor for their lapidary prose, others for their flesh and blood characters, and still others for a sweeping narrative arc that leaves us light-headed and changed; Sarah Blake's masterfulThe Postmistressserves us all this and more."—Andre Dubus III, author ofHouse of Sand and Fog
"Even readers who don't think they like historical novels will love this one and talk it up to their friends. Highly recommended for all fans of beautifully wrought fiction." —Library Journal, starred review
"Blake captures two different worlds…with a deft sense of character and plot, and a perfect willingness to take on big, complex questions." —Publishers Weekly
"To open Blake's novel… is to enter a slipstream, so powerful are its velocity, characters, and drama." —ALA Booklist, starred review
"The Postmistress belongs in what Gellhorn called 'the permanent and necessary' library." —Howard Norman, author ofThe Bird Artistand Devotion
"Hits hard and pushes buttons expertly…Ms. Blake writes powerfully about the fragility of life…." —The New York Times
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Process Integration:The Key to a Profitable, Lean Punching Operation
It's been said that "whoever frames the question wins the debate." Along that line of thinking, as lean-manufacturing concepts have gained prominence, variations of lean manufacturing have morphed in order to be applied to an individual operation's particular set of demands. In so doing, we have made buzz words like "speed" and "efficiencies" preeminent in our search for the newest capital equipment with which a fabricator can update its shop.
I want to challenge that paradigm using the concepts of "flexibility" and "process integration" as the primary criteria.
Flexibility + Integration = Profitability
Eliyahu Goldratt wrote in his book, The Goal: Do not improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operating expenses, reduce inventory and increase throughput."
The ultimate goal obviously is increased profitability. With this as our goal, let's take a deeper look at how focusing on the concepts of flexibility and process integration can help a metalformer add to its bottom line.
For our purposes, we'll define flexiflexibility as the ability to get what you want, where you want it, when you want it there. Flexibility is essential because of the human component as well as product-demand fluctuations. We cannot escape the cause and effect of what happens in the lives of our workforce and the impact on individual productivity. Neither can we avoid fluctuations in product demand—where one day a fabricator must satisfy a rush order for 100 units of widget A and the next day fulfill a rush order for 50 units of widget B. Unpredictable variants force flexibility to be a key component in our process evaluations. Flexibility trumps all when it comes to lean manufacturing.
We'll define process integration as the combining of operations, thereby eliminating post-process or secondary operations. New CNC punch-press technology has given fabricators the ability to leverage both of these concepts. Since the advent of hydraulic press technology and servo-driven ram technology, we've gained the ability to precisely control the ram stroke. This does much more than simply increase process speeds; it allows fabricators to take advantage of new tools that add more value to the parts and eliminate secondary operations.
Setup-Time Reduction
The continued development of laser-cutting technology has forced manufacturers of CNC punch presses to develop technology that combats some of the major drawbacks to traditional punching operations. As a result, we've recently seen
The key point to note here is that without implementing newer punch-press technology, your operation will be limited in its ability to increase operational flexibility.
Additionally, the need for automation is increasing due to the demands of cost reductions and the shrinking of the skilled labor pool. In the past, many viewed automation as being limited to long-run high-volume jobs. With the knowledge and benefits of full sheet processing in a laser environment now being applied to a punching environment, the demand for automation to handle full sheets of material has increased. The problem with that scenario is that in a functional, real-world environment, shops were not able to realize significant cost reductions due to the added costs related to secondary operations—shake and break to separate parts from the skeleton, part sorting and deburring and skeleton removal. Operational costs simply shifted from the front end of the operation to the back end.
Full-Sheet Processing
In the late 1990s, CNC punch-press manufacturers introduced automation with pick-and-place loading/sorting that made processing of full sheets a functional reality. Fabricators can create part nests to accommodate whatever the shop's customers need, and parts can be punched and extracted from the blank to be sorted as a mirror image of the dynamic nest—as a kit or stacked according to the next process. Loading/sorting automation addresses the need for flexibility to meet small lot sizes and part-variety demands, and the need for process integration to eliminate post-op costs.
To understand why process integration is the key to a lean punching operation, let's first look at the total time that material is in a plant.
• Setup time—time spent waiting on a resource to be readied for processing.
• Process time—time spent being processed or adding value.
• Queue time—time spent waiting on a resource while the resource is busy working on something else ahead of it.
• Wait time—time spent waiting for another part to be assembled or shipped.
It's clear that lean-manufacturing methods address each element of time. However, if our primaryocus in determining the efficiency of a system is the speed at which a part is produced, we may find ourselves only adding to our inability to increase profitability. Recently, I toured a sheetmetal-fabricating shop with a fully automated system that spits out parts like Bayer does aspirin. It was impressive to see. The rationale for acquiring the system: speed and efficiency, and the labor savings from the automation. As we waded through a warehouse full of work in process, the owner noted how pleased he was with his new system, and then said: "Now if I can just make money."
The acquisition of this new system addressed the two smallest portions of elapsed time for processing any part—setup and process times. And since queue and wait times consume the majority of elapsed time, by integrating processes we can address the largest segment of available time. In the end, this company may have been better off to have allocated valuable resources to more flexible systems that can pace the shop and reduce WIP.
Fewer Touches, More Savings
Fabricators that invest in process integration realize cost savings by reducing post-operational costs. The goal is to reduce the amount of touches to a workpiece, and the related time consumed, for setup, processing, queue and wait.
New punch-press technology combined with new tooling technology can allow fabricators to produce parts with offsets, ribs, louvers and flanges formed in process, as well as straightline and contour shearing. Fabricators can even use a deburring tool in their CNC punch press that eliminates burrs in process.
Another recent innovation from providers of punch-press tooling are tools capable of performing in-process bending by forming C, Z and L bends up to 0.79 in. Difficult tabs on the interior of a part or smaller flanges can be formed in-process, eliminating the need for additional press-brake operations.
Another perk of improved ram control from machine vendors: part marking, with either dot-matrix or scribing tools. Parts are marked or labeled by the ram coming down under precise control, until the tool penetrates the surface of the material by about 0.002 in., combined with precision sheet positioning on the work table. This process can eliminate many post-process part-marking operations.
Tapping is another typical post-process task that can be accomplished on a CNC punch press, using various options. Available to fabricators is an in-turret tapping tool that taps 12-24 through 3⁄8 or M6 - M10 at speeds to 180 holes/min. This can reduce the cost of a tapped hole to as low as $0.01/hole. Other tapping options include four- and eight-station tapping units that mount right onto the frame of the machine, offering greater flexibility with multiple resident tools. Once again, by utilizing in-process tapping, post-operation costs are reduced. MF
See also: Muratec Murata Machinery USA, Inc.
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Jim Fetzer (with Mike Pincher)
At first consideration, the question sounds very odd on its face. How could Zapruder have not taken "the Zapruder film"? So here is some background. As many readers may be aware, I organized a JFK research group in 1992 of the most highly-qualified persons to ever study the case, including a world authority on the human brain, who was also an expert on wound ballistics; a Ph.D. in physics who was also an M.D. and board-qualified in radiation oncology; another M.D. who had been present in Trauma Room #1 when JFK was brought in for care and, two days later, was responsible for the treatment of his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in Trauma Room #2; a legendary photo-analyst, who had testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) and later advised Oliver Stone on the production of "JFK"; and another Ph.D. in physics, this time with a specialization in electromagnetism, which includes the properties of light and of optics and images of moving objects.
We discovered that the autopsy X-rays had been altered to conceal a massive blow-out at the back of the head; that another person's brain shown in diagrams and photographs at the National Archives had been substituted for that of JFK; and that the most famous footage in history, the Zapruder film, had been recreated by the removal of some frames and by the introduction of others, using the sophisticated techniques of optical printing and special effects applied to original footage to create a new film. I organized and moderated the first symposium on the authenticity of the film in Dallas in 1996 and would subsequently organize and moderate a conference on this subject in Duluth in 2003. (The conference is now available on YouTube in 66 segments, under the heading, "Zapruder Fakery".) Later that year, I would publish my third collection of studies by experts on different aspects of the case, THE GREAT ZAPRUDER FILM HOAX (2003), one of the greatest photographic scams of history.
Which film is "the Zapruder film"?
This may sound like a lot to swallow, so I will break it down for accessibility. One of the first results of the Zapruder Film Conference was the discovery that the films currently available to the public, including David Lifton's "Z Film" (undated), the Macmillan CD (1993), Robert Groden's "The Assassination Films" (1995), and MPI's "Image of an Assassination" (1998), differ significantly in the amount of information they provide. It we take the MPI version, which is the most complete, as the base of 100% (with a total of 411,305 pixels), the least complete is only about half of that:
FRAME/ WIDTH (pixels) HEIGHT (pixels) AREA (pixels) AREA/MPI
MPI (frames):…671……………484………….324,764……………78.9%
Sprocket area:..273…………….317……………86,541………….100.0%
These considerations suggest that the MPI version is the best available for research. Somewhat surprisingly, however, even MPI's "Image of an Assassination" (1998) has frames missing and others out of order. MPI's version does not include frames 155 and 156 or frames 208, 209, 210, and 211; it has reversed frames 331 and 332; and it is also missing (what ought to be) frames 341, 350, and even (the last frame) 486.
As it happens, John P. Costella, Ph.D., has produced a fresh, new version of the film, which overcomes all of these deficiencies and introduces improvements never before seen in any other version of the film, namely: corrections for pincushion and aspect ratio distortion; the inclusion of the so-called "ghost panels"; and masking of open sprocket holes to make information more accessible. In the interest of advancing the frontiers of knowledge, education, research, science and inquiry, this new, improved version is being made available to the public at no charge and is accessible at The New Zapruder Film Frames
Here is an example of frame 317 from Costella's version, which is of special interest. When a frangible (or "exploding") bullet entered his right temple, it not only set up shock waves that blew his brains out the back of his head but it also blew open a skull-flap on the right side of his head, which some have mistaken for the blow-out itself. As we shall see, they are not the same, nor should either of these genuine effects be confounded with the whitish "blob", which, as Roderick Ryan, a Hollywood expert, explained to Noel Twyman, was painted in. (See "The JFK 'Head Shot' Paradox".)
The Skull-Flap is Visible but the Blow-Out is Not in Frame 317
Notice, especially, that while a skull flap is extending from the right side of his head, which is also visible in the HSCA diagram and photograph below, like them, no blow-out to the back of his head is visible, even though it can be seen in frame 374 below. A stabilized real-time version is also available at assassinationscience.com toward the bottom of the home page. The frames and the stabilized version can be down-loaded for further study, where this is the best available version for serious research.
Was it Copyrightable?
The study of the film has been inhibited by the control that has been exercised over it by a private company and now by The 6th Floor Museum. A brief I commissioned by Mike Pincher, J.D., an attorney from California, was published as "The Zapruder Film: "No" to Copyright Protection". He contends—with complete justification, in my opinion—that the film was never entitled to copyright from the start. There are two separate questions that have to be addressed. The first is that if the film is genuine as an accurate depiction of an historical event, is it entitled to copyright protection? The second is that if the film has been altered and is no longer an accurate film of an historical event, especially when it is marketed as genuine, does it deserve copyright protection? Interestingly, the answer to both questions seems to be the same, "No!" It appears obvious to me that this abuse of copyright has been deliberate to inhibit the serious study of the extant film, which has become an expensive proposition. In certain respects, the question of whether the film is properly subject to copyright is even more intriguing than whether a reworked film is deserving of such a protection.
Even if the film were judged to be authentic and complete, there are good reasons why it still should not be entitled to copyright protection. The predominant one is the 1990's federal legislation popularly known as "The JFK Records Act" that was a direct countermand to the veil of secrecy pervading the subject matter (arguably already placing the film in the public domain), but also because of language in judicial case law. In 1998, the government purchased the film for $16,000,000, but did not also acquire its copyright. As Pincher argues in his study, while one 1968 federal district court case called it copyrightable, it is highly doubtful, based on subsequent case law, that even the Federal Second Appellate Circuit would agree. More significantly, it is doubtful that the U.S. Supreme Court would support it. Pincher contends—and I agree—that the film was never properly copyrightable to begin with, both because of its great public interest as a news event, and, no doubt more importantly, in that the assassination cannot be properly understood without public access to this source in toto. The idea of the event and its precise Z-film depiction cannot be properly treated separately. Even if the film were authentic, it would not deserve copyright protection.
And if the Film is Fake?
In considering the issue of copyright, a sharp line must be drawn between not only fiction and non-fiction, but between non-fiction and the recording of an historical event. There is no latitude of expression for the latter. Substantial similarity, as in the case of Oliver Stone's "JFK", has no bearing. An historical record per se is either accurate or not, has no creative value otherwise and cannot be tampered with. The Zapruder family and assignees have no entitlement of copyright protection relative to the extant film, when the film that came out of Zapruder's camera and what we see in that film are two different depictions—and, indeed, depictions that are drastically different—and by design. The Kennedy assassination can only be accurately studied based upon the original film as a whole, with its expression appreciated as a whole uncompromised by change or alteration. Even individual frames are incapable of doing the occasion justice. Privilege only attaches to the real film seen as a whole in real time. Thus, no copyright protection can attend to the extant version of the film.
Those who study the individual frames or the stabilized version of the film archived at assassinationscience.com may notice a feature that they have probably not seen in earlier versions, in particular, the "ghost panels" that surround the sprocket holes These are double-exposures due to the design of the camera that was originally used by Zapruder to take the original film, which link one frame to another and cannot be duplicated. When those who were recreating the film had made the content changes they desired, then had to re-shoot most of its frames in a laboratory to recreate the ghost panels, in the absence of which the deception involved in its re-editing would have been immediately apparent. It is for this reason that the film as a whole had to be recreated, which makes the film as a whole a "fabrication". That does not mean that none of it is real, but only that it takes a great deal of investigation and study to separate the authentic from the fake parts, as I am about to explain. But the answer to the intriguing question with which we began should be evident: Zapruder did not film the Zapruder film for the simple reason that no one took a film that was revised!
How we know it's fake
The reason the article, "Who's telling the truth: Clint Hill or the Zapruder film?", is so very important, therefore, is that we now have new proof of its alteration from an unexpected source. Clint Hill, a Secret Service agent on the Kennedy detail, is, along with Jack and Jackie, the most conspicuous figure in the Zapruder film, where he is the only agent who responded in an attempt to protect Jackie. What Clint has to tell us about his actions at the time—which he has maintained for 47 years!—contradicts what we see in the film. Another agent on the opposite side of the limousine, John Ready, also started to respond when the first shots were fired, but was called back by Emory Roberts, Agent in Charge of the Secret Service Detail in Dallas. This makes Roberts one of the principal suspects in setting JFK up for the hit, where we have discovered more than 15 indications that that was the case. The other key players were the driver, William Greer, who, unbelievable as it may sound, actually pulled the limo to the left and to a complete halt to make sure that JFK would be killed, and Floyd Boring, the Assistant Agent in Charge of the White House Detail, who was not in Dealey Plaza, as Vincent Palamara has also explained in MURDER IN DEALEY PLAZA (2000).
That Clint Hill has been saying the same thing for 47 years might make this sound like "old news". But the discovery that Clint had been saying this for so long only became apparent when John Costella viewed the video of what he had to say at a Warwicks bookstore, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYpY8zI_wwA , only this past December. John took a closer look and recognized that Clint had been saying the same thing, but that its importance for the authenticity of the Zapruder film had up until now gone unnoticed. Mike Pincher has also pointed out to me that, insofar as the film appears to have been recreated at a highly-classified photographic and film laboratory run by the CIA at Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, NY, the extant film appears to be a product of the government. Products of the government, which are financed at taxpayer expense, however, like other government documents, studies, and reports, do not qualify for copyright protection. Ironically, the discovery that the film has been faked also nullifies any arrangements that even the government itself has made regarding its copyright protection. There thus appear to be a variety of grounds for denying copyright to the extant film, which Mike Pincher has explained.
Resistance to Zapruder fakery
Among those in the JFK research community who have been the most outspoken in opposition to Zapruder film fakery are Robert Groden and Josiah Thompson. Robert Groden has a vast collection of JFK memorabilia, including what appears to be an early copy of the film. Josiah Thompson published his book SIX SECONDS IN DALLAS (1967), based upon the study of the film to which he had access through a special arrangement with LIFE magazine. In my opinion, they both have serious conflicts of interest in being objective about the proof we have adduced, since the value of Groden's collection and the significance of Thompson's book would be seriously compromised were the fabrication of the film to become widely accepted by the public. The arguments that they have given for its authenticity, moreover, have not withstood critical scrutiny. Josiah, for example, has argued that it would have been impossible to fake the film because of an unbroken chain of custody from Dallas to LIFE magazine and after, a claim that was recently dismantled by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), a civilian panel created by the JFK Records Act.
Its former senior analyst for military affairs, Douglas Horne, has now published INSIDE THE ARRB (2009), in which he traces the discoveries that occurred during its years of operation in declassifying more than sixty thousand documents and records that had been withheld from the public by the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service and other government agencies. Among those discoveries was that one version of the Zapruder film was brought to the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, 23 November 1963, and another on Sunday, 24 November 1963. The first was an 8mm film that had been developed in Dallas. The second was a 16mm film that had been developed in Rochester. There were five physical properties of the strips of celluloid which distinguished them, as I have explained in "US Government Official: JFK Cover-Up, Film Fabrication". So the chain of custody argument, which Thompson, especially, has championed, has no merit.
Both the Skull-Flap and the Blow-Out are Visible in Frame 374
In addition, we have discovered a great many changes in the content of the extant version of the film from what it should have shown, based upon studies of the medical evidence, the physical evidence, and the reports of a large number of eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza, none of whom, interestingly, reported observing the dramatic, back-and-to-the-left motion of JFK's body that is so striking in the film. Clint also describes peering into a hole in the back of JFK's head, a gaping, fist-sized blow-out, which by itself contradicts the official X-rays, some of the autopsy photographs and diagrams, and early frames of the Zapruder film, where, as a new group of Hollywood experts has found, it was (crudely) painted over in black. Some years ago, on the hunch that the conspirators who were redoing the film might have spent so much time concentrating on those early frames, especially 313-317, that they could have overlooked the wound in later frames, I made a search and found that it is clearly visible in frame 374, as I emphasized in HOAX. So the simplest proof that the film has been altered is that the head wound is visible in some frames but has been concealed in others, which is something that you can confirm for yourself.
Algorithmic Proofs of Fakery
Here is how you can prove for yourself that what I am telling you is true. Go to the article, "Who's telling the truth: Clint Hill or the Zapruder film?", then do as follows:
(1) Scroll down to frame 374, where you can see the blow out in his head;
(2) Compare that with the HSCA photo and diagram, the next image in line;
(3) Do you observe that the skull flap is present but the blow-out is not?
(4) Scroll down to the witnesses reporting the location of the blow-out;
(5) Do you see that it corresponds with the blow out seen in frame 374?
(6) Scroll down to the X-ray on the left and "Area P" defined on the right.
(7) Do you see where "Area P" closely resembles the blow-out in frame 374?
(8) Do you see where "Area P" is unusually bright in the X-ray on the left?
(9) Scroll down to the diagrams of the head wound by Charles Crenshaw, M.D.
(10) Do you see how his diagram agrees with frame 374 and X-ray "Area P"?
(11) Go to the Zapruder film as individual frames or in its stabilized version.
(12) Compare what you see in frames 313-317 with what you see in frame 374.
Since the blow out is visible in frame 374 but not in earlier frames, such as 313-317, what does that tell you? Hollywood experts have determined it (the blow out) was painted over in black in those early frames, which means that the film has been altered. The limo stop was also taken out, where we have around 60 witnesses who reported seeing it dramatically slow or come to a complete stop. But the car had to slow dramatically as it came to a complete stop. Notice in the section entitled, "The Limo Stop", I quote witnesses—Toni Foster, Billy Lovelady, Roy Truly, and Mrs. Earle Cabell—who report seeing the limo stop with their own eyes. Is there anything you question about what they are reporting? But if the limo came to a stop—and all four of the motorcycle patrolmen said the same thing—since the stop is not in the film, what happened to it? Did it simply disappear? Or did it have to be removed when the film was reworked, because it was an obvious indication of Secret Service complicity in setting JFK up for the hit? Which is the principal reason the Zapruder film had to be faked, the ramifications of which clearly extend far beyond recreation of the film.
The Commission's Dereliction
Indeed, there are more than 15 indications of Secret Service complicity in setting him up for the hit, including leaving two Secret Service agents (who would have been with the limo) at Love Field, placing the vehicles in the wrong order (with the President's limo first, when it should have been preceded by those of the Mayor of Dallas and of the Vice President), removing the flat-bed truck that should have accompanied the President's vehicle to provide for press and television coverage), not welding down the manhole covers, not covering the open windows, ordering the 112th Intelligence Unit to "stand down", allowing the crowd to spill out into the street, taking a turn of more than 90°, changing the motorcade route three days before the event, reducing the motorcycle escort to four and directing them not to ride forward the rear wheels, not responding after bullets began to be fired, pulling the limo to the left and a stop to make sure JFK would be killed, getting bucket and sponge to wash the brains and blood off the limo at Parkland Hospital before he had even been pronounced dead; and more that involve the autopsy X-rays and photos, which suggests the direction in which responsibility lies for the assassination of JFK.
Greer's bringing the limo to a halt and Kellerman's silence and inaction over blatant violations of protocol for which he was responsible confirms both of their roles among the crucial conspirators. Moreover, whether someone personally finds Hill credible or not does not detract from impugning the integrity of the Warren Commission itself. Clint Hill's account so severely contradicts the Zapruder film that the commission had a duty to inquire of him, which it failed to do. Thus, neither the accuracy of the film nor the integrity of the Secret Service appear to have been of the least concern to the commission, which was operating—with tacit or overt complicity of the FBI and its own staff—to substantiate the predetermined conclusion that Oswald was "the lone gunman" regardless of truth. His testimony is sufficient, at the least, to either establish that the film wasn't what it was presented to be (which eliminates it as authoritative evidence for assassination research) or that he, as a member of the president's protective detail, was lying and should have been removed as an agent or criminally prosecuted or both. The corruption of the Warren Commission becomes all the more glaring from these reflections on what it did not do as well as what it did.
Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer who earned his Ph.D. in the history and the philosophy of science, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota. He co-edits assassinationresearch.com with John P. Costella, Ph.D. His latest–and 29th–book is The Place of Probability in Science.
Mike Pincher, J.D., of Palmdale, CA, currently practices as a trial attorney in the Los Angeles area, graduated from SUNY Albany and earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence at San Fernando Valley (now LaVerne) College of Law.


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College of Engineering co-sponsors China meetingUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Twenty concerned U.S. earthquake scientists, engineers and hazard planners, including a contingent of five from Hawaiʻi, will meet with Chinese colleagues from October 18 to 22 to focus on new research ideas to minimize future earthquake disasters.
The National Science Foundation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Engineering, Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaiʻi and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute are supporting the USA team for scientific exchange to advance earthquake science and hazard mitigation practices to reduce the future loss of life and property damage.
In a project accepted by Lu Yongxiang, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and supported by the Architectural Society of China and the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, the USA team will participate in a one day symposium on October 19, as well as two days of site visits to the location of the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, where over 69,197 lost their lives 374,176 people were injured and more than 4.8 million people became homeless. The USA team will also participate in two days of meetings with other organizations including the China Earthquake Administration, China Academy of Building Research, Ministry of Civil Affairs Natural Disaster Reduction Centre, Beijing Normal University-Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Tsinghua University-Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Project and other institutions.
By making advances in the siting of structures, construction design, building codes, rehabilitation of existing structures, pre-disaster planning, emergency response and implementation, risk from future events can be reduced in China, the USA and internationally.
The Hawaiʻi contingent includes Ian Robertson, UH Mānoa professor of civil and environmental engineering, Dennis Hwang, coastal zone mitigation specialist with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Sea Grant College, and Gary Chock and Guangren Yu, both with the Hawaiʻi structural engineering firm of Martin & Chock, Inc.
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PRINCETON, N.J. – Four distance athletes competed for UMBC to start the weekend for the Retriever track and field team, Friday on the opening day of the ECAC and IC4A Championships at Princeton's William Weaver Track and Field Stadium.
Sophomore Redatu Semeon (Waldorf, Md./Thomas Stone) started UMBC's participation in the championship meets by running in the men's 3,000m steeplechase. Semeon placed third in section one, and 14th overall, with a time of 9:07.91, less than a half-of-second behind his career-best of 9:07.52 which ranks fourth in the UMBC record book.
For the women, sophomore Nicole Dawson (Jessup, Md./Hammond) and senior Kirsten McGovern (Sykesville, Md./Century) competed in the 10,000m run. Dawson finished 20th with a time of 37:49.99 while McGovern was two spots back in 22nd with a time of 38:09.98.
Sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) completed the Retrievers' action for the night by racing in the men's 5k. Omar ran in the second of the two sections and finished 25th overall out of 34 athletes with a time of 14:45.45.
The 2014 ECAC and IC4A Championships continue on Saturday morning as the decathlon and heptathlon pick back up at 9:00 a.m.


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2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report
Please note that the back-up materials, notices, and support documents for this proceeding have been moved to the Energy Commission's Archive website. That website is located at: https://energyarchive.ca.gov.
2005 IEPR - Docket # 04-IEP-1, et. al.
The 2004-2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report Committee that oversaw this proceeding is:
John L. Geesman,
Commissioner and Presiding Member
James D. Boyd,
Commissioner and Associate Member
Senate Bill 1389 (SB 1389, Bowen and Sher, Chapter 568, Statutes of 2002) requires the California Energy Commission to adopt an Integrated Energy Policy Report every two years.
This web section is for the 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report, which was adopted by the Energy Commission on November 21, 2005. The Commission held more than 50 public workshops and hearings. It published 80 supporting reports, scores of presentations, and received hundreds of public comments. The final main reports can be downloaded below. Background materials and supporting documents can be found in the on our EnergyArchive site. The Executive Summary of the report is below.
2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report
Commission Final Report
Adopted November 21, 2005,
Publication # CEC-100-2005-007-CMF.
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2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report - (REVISED) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, Publication # CEC-100-2005-007-ES, posted: November 21, 2005. (PDF file, 18 pages, 440 kilobytes)
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In the campus comedy "Back to School," Rodney Dangerfield plays a lovable lout of a tycoon who joins his son in college, displaying a penchant for partying and an unexpected talent for diving.
For others, reliving school days is no joke. With many adults flocking to community colleges to bolster job skills amid layoffs and a struggling economy, some celebrities – coincidentally or not – are returning to the classroom, in decidedly different ways.
Actor Jerry O'Connell has enrolled at Los Angeles' Southwestern Law School, Us magazine reports. (Maybe the "Kangaroo Jack" star, who is married to Rebecca Romijn, needs to fend off lawsuits accusing him of being the world's luckiest man).
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Reality star Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the terror of "The Apprentice," recently began a two-year hitch at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH, where, presumably, she'll learn that God has an office in a place much higher than Trump Tower.
"I think everybody has an opportunity to change and to grow and to transform," Manigault-Stallworth, who is studying to become a minister, told CBS' "The Early Show." "And I'm going through a transformation right now.
Meanwhile, Tony Danza is combining education and reality TV with "Teach," an A&E series that will show him teaching 10th-grade English in Philadelphia's Northeast High School. Danza, a boxer-turned-sitcom star-turned-talk show host-turned Broadway singer and dancer, is proving he's the boss of reinvention.
Reinvention is what returning to school is all about, not just for stars, but for the many who are trying to stay a step ahead of the economy and chart the rest their lives.
For the celebrities, unlike the rest of us, the return to the classroom isn't about money. More likely, the move can be linked to a reassessing of values, changing interests – and just maybe, to take a page from the Book of Dangerfield, a quest for a little respect.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Israel pressed deeper into Gaza Tuesday in its assault on Hamas. As the battle grew deadlier, calls for a cease-fire mounted as did outrage at Israel after two strikes outside United Nations schools killed at least 34 Gaza civilians.
Across the Arab world the conflict continues to tear at the rift between factions that extol resistance to Israel and the Western-friendly autocracies and monarchies that rule in the region. As anger at Israel grows, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas backers in Iran and Syria gain more currency on the street at the expense of American allies: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. And this shifting tide of support could have an impact on US policy in the Middle East for decades.
"This conflict, like the July [2006 Hezbollah-Israel] war, is one in which the stakes are very high for both sides," says Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a Lebanese expert on the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. "I would expect now an even-deeper polarization in the region."
As with the 2006 Lebanon war, the Gaza conflict suggests that the most dynamic forces at play in the modern Middle East are not states but the powerful militant organizations – Hezbollah and Hamas – that have emerged and evolved over the past two decades.
"These are very powerful, legitimate, and perplexing actors for the world to deal with. The really important actors are the militant nationalist, Islamist resistance groups," says Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Center of Lebanon at the American University of Beirut.
These divisions between anti-Israeli factions and US allies were first thrown into sharp relief in July 2006 when Hezbollah fought the Israeli army to a surprising standstill in south Lebanon. At the onset of that conflict, Saudi Arabia implicitly accused Hezbollah and its backer Iran of "uncalculated adventures," an unusually stinging rebuke.
But in this war between Israel and an Islamist militant group, the verbal barbs have been sharper. The Saudis, while providing humanitarian aid to Gazans, have implicitly blamed Hamas for the offensive, saying that the "massacre would not have happened if the Palestinian people were united behind one leadership."
On the other side, Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah charged the Sunni Egyptian regime of conspiring with Israel and urged Egyptians "to take the streets in their millions."
"Can the Egyptian police kill millions of Egyptians? No, they cannot," he said.
This was an unprecedented call from the politically astute leader who has always been wary of aggravating Sunni-Shiite tensions.
"The gloves have come off and Hezbollah is no longer afraid of antagonizing the Sunnis," says Ms. Saad-Ghorayeb.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul-Gheit shot back at Sheikh Nasrallah, saying that Hezbollah had destroyed Lebanon in 2006 and accused him of having "insulted the Egyptian people."
"I found Nasrallah's comments to be objectionable, but I also found them to be ineffective because they had absolutely no effect on the ground," says Nabil Fahmy, an Egyptian diplomat and former ambassador to Washington. "What has had more of an effect in galvanizing the Egyptian people, understandably, is the bombing itself."
The Israeli offensive has triggered demonstrations in Europe and the Arab world. While Europeans have largely directed their protests at the Israeli government, Middle Easterners are pointing their ire at Egypt, with thousands marching on Egyptian embassies in Beirut and Amman, Jordan.
But as the war drags on, unease is growing among so-called Arab "moderates." Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan have become more vocal in their denunciations of Israel's excessive military force. King Abdullah of Jordan has sacked his intelligence chief in what may be a move related to the Gaza crisis. Last week he and his wife, Queen Rania, donated blood for Palestinians in Gaza.
The violence hastened steps Tuesday to reach a cease-fire arrangement and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed to the UN to consult with Arab officials.
Syria, which hosts Hamas's leadership, also has been drawn into the diplomatic moves with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, holding talks Tuesday with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Damascus as part of a tour with European officials.
Syria is in an unusual position. It is the sole Arab state member of the so-called "resistance front," it continues to maintain an alliance with non-Arab Iran, backs Hezbollah and Hamas, and has acted to scuttle US policy gains in neighboring Iraq and Lebanon.
Still, its relations with Europe have thawed lately and there are hints of a renewed dialogue with the US under President-elect Barack Obama's administration. On the other hand, Syria's ties with Saudi Arabia and Egypt have worsened.
"The Syrians have strong reason to believe that Hamas will not be defeated in this war, and on the contrary, will score a point for its allies, vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who are loudly critical of Hamas today," says Sami Moubayed, a Syrian political analyst. "It's not on Syria's agenda to make up with either Egypt or Saudi Arabia, given their positions on the current war. Syria is sticking by its allies and continuing to build-bridges with Europe."
But it is the powerful nonstate actors of Hezbollah and Hamas that draw most attention. Nasrallah's televised addresses are watched avidly by friends and foes alike for clues on what his enigmatic organization might do next. Hezbollah and its allies are in a strong position to triumph at the polls in June to form a new parliamentary majority and government. Hamas, having won elections in 2006, is the ruling authority in Gaza.
But with power comes responsibility. Hezbollah has refrained so far from coming to the assistance of its ally Hamas by opening up a new front in northern Israel largely because of the domestic political backlash such a move would invoke. Hamas, too, even if it emerges from this war claiming victory, may find its military options curtailed.
"In the short term, there will be a perception that they [Hamas] are stronger and that countries that supported them are stronger," says Mr. Fahmy, the Egyptian diplomat. "But if whoever is controlling Gaza a few months down the line cannot give people a better lifestyle … then I don't think they will continue to be heroes."


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The Queen's Baton, destined for an arrival of pomp and pageantry in Glasgow this July for the Commonwealth Games, made its way around New Providence as part of its Commonwealth Relay.
Officials of the Bahamas Olympic Committee greeted the baton and those who are escorting. The trek through Nassau included a welcome reception at the Diplomatic Lounge at Lynden Pindling International Airport, a relay through the streets of the capital that involved the various member federations of the BOC, a cultural presentation at the Kendal Isaacs Gym and a reception at Government House.
The Bahamas was the 56th Country to receive the baton.
Ms. Louise Martin, Honorary Secretary of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and Vie Chair of Glasgow's Organizing Committee is pictured presenting the baton to BOC President Wellington Miller as Deputy Prime Minister Philip "Brave" Davis looks on. (Photo: Patrick Hanna/BIS)
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