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EastEnders star Samantha Womack has spoken today about filming her last scenes as Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC soap opera.
She was at Milton Keynes Theatre to speak to the press about her forthcoming role as Queen Rat in Dick Whittington, and exclusively told Heather Jan Brunt: "We're in the middle of filming the last scenes, it's traumatic, but I'll get through it. It'll be strange saying goodbye to 10 years."
The actress is looking forward to working in a new musical next year as well as filming in America.
She appears in Dick Whittington at Milton Keynes Theatre from Thursday December 8 to Sunday January 15. Call Box 0844 871 7652 to book.


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The fight over the government shutdown remains at a stalemate, 20 days after some federal agencies closed. President Trump traveled to Texas Thursday to visit the Mexico border, meeting with members of the U.S. Border Patrol. Meanwhile, protesters across the country urged an end to the shutdown. Lisa Desjardins and Yamiche Alcindor tell Judy Woodruff why there are still few signs of optimism.
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It doesn't matter if the sky is bright and cloudless, or if raindrops are painting the sky, you will always find sunshine in the greenhouses and rows of flowers at Seasons of New England, the former home of Warwick's longtime favorite, Donabedians. Now under new ownership, this familiar garden shop is an oasis of brilliant color and fragrance, blooming in all its beauty on Warwick Avenue. Come here and you will think you have entered a veritable rainbow.
Seasons of New England, now owned and operated by Carmen Piperata, offers a wide array of seasonal flowering plants, herbs, and vegetable plants of every imaginable variety and color. Carmen Piperata grew up on a farm and has a deep-seeded love for the earth and what it so abundantly produces for both our use and our pleasure. With this sensibility, she has carefully selected her plants from local farmers to ensure that they are healthier, heartier and ready to be planted in your flower bed, garden, planters, window boxes or borders. You can also chose from a large selection of potted planters and incredible hanging baskets - spilling over with flowers.
Carmen is excited to serve her customers, both those discovering this "garden of Eden" for the first time, as well as those who are returning customers of Donabedians. Her goal is to provide the highest quality and best value for your dollar, as well as the friendly service you might expect from someone who is always surrounded by such beauty! As you re-visit Seasons of New England over the course of the year, you will find flowers and plants to beautify your home, fill your vegetable gardens and delight your friends and neighbors. You can also watch for local and seasonal produce in the upcoming weeks.
Some of the many options to choose from include:
• Geraniums
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• Snapdragons
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• Daisies
Vegetable plants
• Tomatoes - many varieties
• Sweet/hot peppers
• Squash/zucchini
• Carrots
• Lettuce
• Cucumbers
• Eggplant
• Cabbage
Many herb plants such as basil, oregano, thyme and rosemary, to name a few, are also available here at Seasons of New England.
Seasons of New England, Gardens & Gifts is located at 479 Warwick Avenue. They are open weekdays, 9:30am -5:30pm, Saturday 8:00am to 5:30pm, and Sunday, 11:00am to 3:00pm. Closed Tuesday. Phone number: 941-8800.


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Bridging traditional Open Source Content Management and the Web of Data with the Apache Stanbol Semantic Engine
This talk will introduce the Stanbol project and showcase how it can be integrated in traditional Enterprise Content Management solutions.
Stanbol is an Open Source project under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. Its goal is to provide Web and CMS developers with a set of HTTP / RESTful services to help them integrate semantic technologies into their products and web sites.
The following Stanbol services are currently under active developments:
- Enhancement engines: use Natural Language Processing tools such as Apache OpenNLP to extract knowledge (topics, named entities, facts) from unstructured content and link it to unambiguous URIs from reference knowledge bases;
- Entity Hub: a Linked Data indexing cache built on top of Apache Solr, Clerezza and Jena that comes with precomputed indexes and live connectors to popular knowledge bases such as DBpedia, Geonames, YAGO...
- Content Hub: a faceted search engine based on Solr to search for content using the knowledge automatically extracted by the enhancement engines;
- CMS bridges to lift the structured content of document repositories using the JCR and CMIS access protocols (using Apache Chemistry) and store the result into a triple store suitable for SPARQL access;
- Rules engine based on Apache Jena for knowledge refactoring (e.g. convert extracted knowledge into the rich snippet vocabulary for SEO), integrity checks, merging rules, deductive inference...
The Semantic Web has made significant progress over the last years, and while it always gave a lot of promises, it is now the time where it can concretely be used in Enterprise Solutions.
If you are curious about the web of data, and want to see how concretely it can be used and integrated today in enterprise solutions thanks to software like the Stanbol projects, this session is for you.
You should also attend if you are interested in emerging technologies and don't have knowledge about semantic technologies, this will provide a good insight on how they can disrupt the usual way to develop applications.


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Bravo TV is teaming up with Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on a reality show about Silicon Valley.
The cable network, home of the Real Housewives reality franchise, says the new docu-series "captures the intertwining lives of young professionals on the path to becoming Silicon Valley's next great success stories."
The working title is Silicon Valley. It will begin production in the next couple months and tentatively debut later this year. Bravo is still casting the show. It will include entrepreneurs and dot-com people in their 20s and early 30s, according to the network, which is owned by NBCUniversal.
It is produced by Den of Thieves with Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager serving as executive producers and Randi Zuckerberg as executive producer. This is the first time Bravo has worked with Zuckerberg, a former marketing director at Facebook.
It is one of 11 new and eight returning series Bravo announced today.
For a short preview, see here.
The characters in the preview "are people we are looking at. No deals have been signed," a Bravo spokeswoman says.
In the clip, a character says, "Silicon Valley is high school, but it's only the smart kids and everyone has a lot of money."


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Brits will spend nearly eight years of their lives doing household chores, a study has found.
Cleaning, ironing, food shop shopping and even walking the dog means the average adult spends just under three hours a day on domestic tasks.
This amounts to 20 hours and 55 minutes a week - the equivalent of 45 days a year or seven years and 10 months of the average adult lifetime.
But despite the staggering amount of time already spent on chores, one in five say they would do more if they weren't so busy.
And one in four went as far as to say they 'enjoy' doing the housework.
Jenny Questier from cleaning experts Jeyes, which commissioned the research, said: "A few hours of chores here and there might not seem too bad, but when you add it all up over time, it amounts to a large chunk of our lives.
"As a nation, we're known for being quite house proud and as a result we are often found cleaning or generally tidying up our homes and gardens.
"But it means our spare time is taken up with doing these little jobs to make sure our home and garden is looking its best."
The study of 2,000 adults found that cooking takes up the most time, accounting for four hours and 13 minutes each week.
Washing up and cleaning the kitchen takes up to an hour and 38 minutes a week, while just over an hour is spent cleaning the bathroom.
Another hour a week is spent ironing, while vacuuming takes up to an hour and seven minutes and laundry accounts for one hour and 42 minutes.
As well as other household chores, Brits also spend an average of one hour and 11 minutes a week walking the dog and one hour and 40 minutes food shopping.
But it's not just the inside of the home which takes up so much of our time with around an hour and a half spent washing the car each month and an hour and 26 minutes pottering around in the garden.
Sweeping, cleaning and pressure washing the driveway and patio also accounts for three hours a month.
It also emerged that cleaning the oven is the most disliked chore, followed by washing and cleaning the windows, vacuuming the stairs, dusting and removing mould from the shower tiles and grouting.
Defrosting the freezer, ironing shirts and removing hair and dirt from a plug hole also feature, with unblocking a sink and cleaning the skirting boards completing the top 10.
Researchers also found 68 per cent of people spend more time on indoor chores than they do on outdoor ones, and 78 per cent of people have been put off gardening if the weather looks bad.
But while 47 per cent clean regularly anyway, 84 per cent will go to more effort if they have a visitor coming around.
A lucky one in 20 even said they currently employ a cleaner to do most of the chores for the, with another 49 per cent saying they would do so if they had unlimited funds.
Time spent on chores per week:
1. Cooking 4 hrs 13 mins
2. Washing clothes 1 hr 42 mins
3. Weekly food shop 1 hr 40 mins
4. Washing up and cleaning the kitchen 1 hr 38 mins
5. Gardening 1 hr 26 mins
6. Walking the dog 1 hr 11 mins
7. Cleaning the bathroom 1 hr 08 mins
8. Hoovering 1 hr 07 mins
9. Ironing 1 hr 01 min
10. Tidying the bedroom 50 mins
11. Changing beds/towels 47 mins
12. Dusting 44 mins
13. Tidying cupboards 39 mins
14. Sorting wardrobe 32 mins
15. Washing the windows 32 mins
16. Decorating 26 mins
17. Cleaning the car 24 mins
18. Sewing/mending clothes 22 mins
19. Driveway cleaning 17 mins
20. Patio cleaning 16 mins
Total - 20 hours and 55 minutes a week on chores
Top 30 most disliked chores in the home
1. Cleaning the oven
2. Cleaning the windows
3. Hoovering the stairs
4. Dusting
5. Cleaning mould from shower grouting
6. Defrosting the freezer
7. Ironing shirts
8. Removing hair from plug
9. Unblocking the sink or plug hole
10. Cleaning the skirting boards
11. Cleaning the bathroom
12. Taking out the rubbish
13. Doing the washing up
14. Moving furniture to clean behind
15. Cleaning glass shower doors and panels
16. Cleaning out the fridge
17. Removing limescale from the shower head
18. Removing limescale from the tiles
19. Fixing a toilet flush
20. Cleaning your barbecue
21. Fixing a leaky tap
22. Mowing the lawn
23. Fixing/sewing/repairing an item of clothing
24. Mending broken floor tiles
25. Sorting out a bedroom cupboard
26. Hoovering under the sofa cushions
27. Polishing silver/ornaments
28. Painting walls - touching up scratches/marks
29. Organising the garage
30. Cleaning garden furniture


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DuPont brings innovative science and solutions to meet the challenges faced by farmers today and into the future.
In agriculture, succeeding for our customers means growing a healthy, marketable and profitable crop. For DuPont, it means something bigger: feeding the world sustainably. Our mission is to deliver agricultural products from seeds to crop protection to deliver higher crop yields and more nutritious foods. We believe that by working together with our customers, we can find better ways to improve the quantity, quality and sustainability of the world's food supply.
DuPont Pioneer
DuPont Pioneer, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is the world's leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics, agronomic support, and services to farmers. Innovative and customer-focused, Pioneer seeks to increase farmer productivity and profitability, and to develop sustainable agricultural systems for people everywhere. Increasing populations, changing economies, and limited cultivatable land are significant factors driving Pioneer to use the broad application of plant science to improve the value generated from each field.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Philip Monk, former Curator at The Power Plant from 1995-2004, engages in a conversation with FASTWÜRMS, a Creemore-based duo of artists who has been included in The Power Plant exhibitions in 2010 and 1997.
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre: TransMigration Artist Salon
Thursday, April 26, 2012
7:30pm 9:00pm
Kaha:wi Dance Theatres Artist Salon is a first-hand, exclusive look at the creative process behind TransMigration. Meet the artists, discover the work-in-progress and share your thoughts and ideas on creativity, contemporary arts, First Nations arts and the impact of Norval Morrisseaus paintings and life.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
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For details, inquire at the Info Desk or call 416 973 4000.


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Former Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt has said she is "gutted" her family will not appear on the next series of the Channel 4 show.
The I'm A Celebrity .... Get Me Out Of Here winner left the programme after her success in the jungle saw her handed a number of new TV roles.
Moffatt has signed up to join forces with presenter and comedian Alan Carr as they co-host a new entertainment show and has agreed to front a return of reality dating show, Streetmate.
The 26-year-old has been appearing on Gogglebox from their home in County Durham alongside her mother and father since 2014.
After news of her other TV commitments surfaced, including a presenting role on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, creators of the show said the family would be axed.
Fans went on Twitter to air their disappointment, with Moffatt replying to one writing: " W e are gutted to ( sic) , thought my mam and dad (and little Ava) would still be able to do it but we will still be watching."
Earlier she had posted on Instagram: "We are going to miss doing #gogglebox so so much but can't wait to watch the new series (good luck my fellow goggleboxers you will smash it love the Moffatts)."
Gogglebox returns to TV screens on Friday.


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Shocking development, via Dan Shaughnessy: The ongoing longitudinal study of narcissistic personality disorder known as Red Sox Nation has somehow contrived to turn Game 6 of a Phillies-Yankees World Series into a drama centering on ... Red Sox Nation
"Six years later, he is back in new Yankee Stadium, still pitching for the honor of Red Sox Nation," Shaughnessy begins. He means Pedro Martinez, who is fated to spend the rest of his natural days being trailed by a herd of Back Bay poet manqués, even though he has now pitched for five teams in all, four of which were not the Red Sox.
Pedro Martinez gets the ball in Game 6 tonight of the World Series, and he is the only thing standing between the Evil Empire and its 27th world championship.
In his role as Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher, Pedro knows he is carrying the colors for Sox fans around the world - just as he did in 2003 when Grady Little left him on the mound too long in the ancient ballpark across the street.
And the curly-haired boyfriend concludes:
The Yankees were Pedro's daddy when Grady left him on the mound too long in 2003. Tonight Pedro has a chance to make everything right. All these years later, he's still pitching for the Red Sox.
Yes, at last, a second shot at redemption (after that first, successful shot at redemption in 2004). This one's not just for Pedro, either. It's for all of Red Sox Nation, those long-suffering souls who've tragically gone a full month without anyone giving a shit about them.
A night at the theater [Boston Globe, via Can't Stop The Bleeding]
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It looks like Microsoft's Windows Phone platform will finally be blessed with a 'Notifications Center' as leaked screenshots of a W.I.P. Windows Phone 8 update showcases the same.
Back in 2012, Microsoft was bold enough to state that they "ran out of time" with the development of Windows Phone 8 to include a 'Notifications Center', much to everyone's dismay. A notifications drop down panel is very useful to check all pending notifications and attend them, as well as be able to quickly launch certain background apps or check their status. It's bad enough that all major mobile operating systems had a notifications drop down panel even before Windows Phone 8 released, and to see a new platform release without one lead to many new Windows Phone users fruitlessly try to pull down a menu from the top edge of the screen before finally adapting to its absence altogether.
Leaked screenshots of an upcoming software version 12084.WPMAIN(wpbldlab).20130509-1407 (compiled May 9th) showcase a 'Notifications Center' in Microsoft's slick mobile OS. Additional UI changes are also in tow (check attached screenshots) and Microsoft has some improvements to the multi-tasking view as well (adding an option to close apps from within the multi-tasking view).
The leaked screenshots (certainly a handful), show a particular app named "Here Drive" mention "deltaBLUE" at the end of its name. We can relate BLUE to Windows Phone 8.1 Blue but don't really know where to place the remainder of the word. Despite that, we don't doubt that this is indeed a working build of a future version of Windows Phone 8. Don't be alarmed by the number of apps starting with the letter 'z' as that is common with previous W.I.P. (Leaked) builds of Windows Phone.
It is entirely plausible that these new features come to existing Windows Phone 8 users with the impending 8.1 Blue update, which is scheduled to arrive after desktops and tablets running Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT receive the update. We can only hope that it comes before 2014 (as per our previous report), as the next year is (disappointingly) far away and the update would come in a little too late by then (perhaps even Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie would be out by then).


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I love this photo. There's something maternal about it, with that soldier about to break clean from the umbilical cord that joins him to the belly of the gigantic mothership.
Staff Sgt. Taylor Worley took this awesome photo of the 820th Red Horse Squadron's airborne flight parachute troops dropping form a C-17 Globemaster III at Nellis Force Base, Nevada. [USAF]


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Oscars 2012: "Saving Face" winner Daniel Junge's night of parties
While most Denverites were likely sleeping, Oscar-winner Daniel Junge, whose "Saving Face" won for best short documentary, was partying at Vanity Fair's annual fete.
The local luminary texted this photo in the wee hours. Because Mad Moviegoer loves sports as much as movies, she's pretty sure the guy next to him is a football player. Though you don't need to know anything about the gridiron to recognize Tim Tebow.
"I'm now an Oscar winner," Junge texted this morning. "How surreal."


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Carlos Quentin had some encouraging words Tuesday night before joining his teammates in pre-game batting practice.
"I'm getting closer," Quentin said while carrying several bats.
After missing five weeks because of plantar fasciitis in his left foot, Quentin has increased the intensity of his workouts to the point where a minor-league rehabilitation assignment is coming into focus.
Because of the nature of his injury and the lengthy recovery, this won't be a brisk stint at Triple-A Charlotte, hitting coach Greg Walker said.


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June 21-23, 2018 (Thurs - Sat)
Lansing, MI
Located in Lansing, MI, the centrally-located capital city & home to MSU's Spartans! Join us for our 8th year in Michigan! Great summer location for those who fly in - no car needed. All-in-one accommodations with hotel and meeting rooms attached & walkable restaurants & shopping! Centrally located
an hour from Ann Arbor, just over an hour from Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and the Detroit suburbs
, and a driveable 3-4 hours from the Chicago area.
start & end times each day & a complete daily schedule of camp, please see our
Schedule Page
Final registration deadline is May 15.
Tell me about Scor!...
It's got everything -
Chamber Music, Orchestra, Instructional Sessions, & more!
For 3 whole days, make music with newfound friends in
, meet our incredible knowledgeable faculty in our unique
Instructional Sessions
, play
chamber music
& receive coachings with experienced &
fantastic faculty
, take a
private lesson
to solve your playing mysteries (optional), & more! It's a
learning, growing, fun, exciting, educational, inspirational
experience you won't want to miss! Instruction is
tailored especially for adult string players like you
by national leaders in the field of adult string education. Learn more about playing technique, general string-related skills, and of course, play... a lot! Judy says "The Scor! experience was absolutely perfect for me. You are wonderful musicians & gifted teachers. The program schedule was interesting & engaging. Thank you for inventing
a super experience
for adult learners!"
The Scor! Experience
"I hardly know where to start.
Scor! has truly changed my life.
writes one long-time Scor! camper. "Scor! is the
most supportive and encouraging environment
for the adult string player on the planet." says a faculty member. If you immerse yourself fully in the Scor! experience, we're confident that you'll share the same story!
Scor! is packed with
instruction, ensembles, & musical fun
. Nurture your technical skills and musical sensibilities and
enjoy playing with others like you
. Be inspired by the quality teaching & performing of our first-rate faculty.
Enjoy a diverse experience
with relevant instructional sessions, lots of playing opportunities, chamber music, and more! A first-time camper writes,
"Scor! was a delightfully challenging and satisfying learning experience for me...
Scor! has energized my musical soul."
Fun & Inspiration!
We take our quality instruction seriously. But we also have loads of fun! Shed that pressure of always having to get it right and
enjoy learning and growing with your peers
. Let your hair down for a few days and take in the Scor! experience: meaningful, transformative, enjoyable, challenging, fulfilling...and just plain fun. A long-time camper says of Scor!,
"Positive encouragement in a non-threatening, low stress environment that
brings out the best musician in each of us!"
Scor! is full of friendly, excited, and enthusiastic people who are immersed in musical and personal growth. Meet others with similar interests; enrich your life through wonderful new friends. As one camper describes:
"Taking up the cello as an adult was a kind of isolated pleasure until I discovered Scor!. Experiencing a community with the same interest and with
such an incredible level of enthusiasm and friendship
has been wonderful."
(picture: friends & campers enjoying some impromtu duets)
For you!
You will love and treasure your Scor! experience, specially designed for adult string players like you. A camper recently wrote of Scor!,
"No one can deny the importance of music in a child's life. Of equal (or more) importance is the discovery and development of music appreciation and participation for adults.
One of Scor!'s strongest contributions to the love of music is sharing talent and enthusiasm for adults."
The building Scor! is truly a labor of love--by campers, founders Kyle & Beth Bultman, donors, faculty, board members, volunteers, sponsors, and more! This has resulted in the one-of-a-kind Scor! 'flavor' or 'vibe'... As a recent multi-year camper puts it,
"The atmosphere at Scor! is
uniquely infectious and powerful.
First-timers catch the spirit immediately. Scor! deserves the support of everyone who loves music & people."
What about my level?
Learn about
playing levels at Scor!
tracks designed specifically for adults like you, and how you fit in
Performance Track
In addition to the Basic & General Tracks, we offer a
Performance Track for advanced amateurs
at Great Lakes Scor!. See how you fit in
Don't miss working with our
extraordinary faculty, including
Cellist David Peshlakai
& Scor! Founders Beth & Kyle Bultman (Violin & Viola)
(click here for bios)
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what Scor! participants are saying
this video
(interviews with General Track campers)
Scor! Store
Need some new sheet music? Want music better suited to the level of your chamber group or orchestra? Benefit Scor! & have fun shopping at the Scor! Store. In addition to a growing collection of string sheet music, choose from Scor! clothing, tote bags, mugs, and other musical items.
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The piping plover's return to Fire Island, N.Y., will severely restrict truck access to the barrier island during cleanup efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. If officials don't get the estimated 82,500 cubic yards of trash removed by the end of March, they'll have to haul the remaining debris by barge. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey,File)
Superstorm Sandy debris removal slowed by piping plover nests
One special visitor's planned arrival to Fire Island is creating a pressing deadline for the cleanup of tons of rotting wood, sheet rock, old refrigerators and other Superstorm Sandy debris from the popular vacation destination east of New York City.
Contractor crews are scrambling to get the trash removed by the end of March, before truck access is severely restricted to protect the nesting areas of the endangered bird species known as the piping plover.
"The deadline has everyone's attention," said Suzy Goldhirsch, president of the Fire Island Association, which represents businesses and homeowners on the 32-mile-long barrier island south of Long Island.
She said most homeowners do not begrudge laws protecting the plover, a compact, pale shorebird with coloring that makes it all but vanish against the open sand flats where it nests.
But if officials can't get the cleanup done by the deadline, they will have to haul away the estimated 82,500 cubic yards of trash by barge, which will be much more expensive and take longer.
That could push the cleanup closer to the Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tourist season, when the population of Fire Island swells from 300 to 75,000.
Access to the beachfront by vehicle will be banned until after September, according to environmentalists.
Adding to the urgency has been the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' difficulty in finding a contractor. It has already been forced to eliminate two companies that had been chosen for the work because of questions over their eligibility.
A third company has been identified to perform the work and could start hauling away trash this weekend, said Marilyn Phillips, an Army Corps spokeswoman. She said the new contractor, Knoxville, Tenn.-based Phillips & Jordan Inc., will be required to hire half of its workforce to perform the debris removal locally and must have the debris gone by the March 31 deadline.
The exact cost for the debris removal contract has not been determined, but two previous companies chosen to perform the task estimated it between $8.8 million and $10.5 million.
She said before any federal contractor could begin the debris removal, 1,700 property owners had to sign release forms allowing government workers onto their property. An estimated 200 homes on the island were destroyed, and although many others suffered damage from flooding, many structures were protected by massive sand dunes that had been constructed along the oceanfront.
The piping plover is protected in many Atlantic Coast states, but the issue on Fire Island is particularly acute in the aftermath of Sandy.
Sean Mahar, director of government relations for Audubon New York, said environmentalists have seen increases in the plover population since protection laws were instituted in the mid-1980s. He said New York and Long Island currently have 800, or 10 percent, of the total global population of piping plovers.
"They are really hard to see on the beach," Mahar said. "That's one of the reasons why they need protection. If you allowed vehicles on the beaches while they are nesting, people would not be able to see them and would run them over."
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BEND, Ore. — Health officials have confirmed that an Oregon man has the plague after he was bitten while trying to take a dead rodent from the mouth of a stray cat.
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The unidentified man, who is in his 50s, remained in critical condition Friday at a Bend hospital. His illness marks the fifth case of plague in Oregon since 1995.
State public health veterinarian Dr. Emilio DeBess says the man was infected when he was bitten by the stray his family had befriended. The cat died and its body is being sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing.
Karen Yeargain, communicable disease coordinator for Crook County, said the sick man lives in rural area outside the Central Oregon city of Prineville.
DeBess, who is in Prineville investigating, said test results confirmed what officials had suspected, that the man had become infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that devastated Europe during the Middle Ages.
DeBess has collected blood samples from two dogs and another cat that lives with the man's family. DeBess also collected blood samples from neighbors' pets and from animals in the local shelter to determine whether the area has a plague problem.
More than a dozen people who were in contact with the sick man have been notified and are receiving preventive antibiotics.
There are three types of plague: bubonic, which infects the lymph nodes; pneumonic, which infects the lungs; and septicemic, which infects the blood. The man's infection is septicemic, Yeargain said, which causes a "very significant generalized illness."
Symptoms of the plague in humans, which typically appear within four days, include fever, chills and a bloody or watery cough. In pets, plague typically presents itself with enlarged lymph nodes under the jaw, as well as fever and tiredness.
"The plague is something that is always around. In some areas of the country, they have very regular outbreaks in the rodent community," Yeargain said. "Humans don't tend to come in direct contact with it as much here in Oregon, so we don't think about it as much."
Plague is spread to humans or animals through a bite from an infected flea or by contact with an animal sick with the disease. Fleas that normally live on rodents are the source of the plague bacteria. Domestic cats come into contact with these fleas, or with rodents who have been infected by the fleas, when they roam outdoors and hunt rodents.
"The reality is that, in rural areas, part of the role of cats is to keep the rodent population controlled around our homes and barns," Yeargain said.
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EFFECT: A brass canister, lid and die are examined by a spectator. The die has six different symbols, one on each side. While the performer looks away, a spectator places the die into the canister any way he wants, he then remembers the symbol on the top of the die and then covers the lid. The performer turns around, picks up the box and hands it to the spectator, asking him to hold it and concentrate on his symbol. Next, the performer picks up a piece of paper, concentrates, then draws a symbol. The lid is removed from the box and the performer's paper is turned around…The symbols match!
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ST. LOUIS- In a dim meeting room at the America's Center in St. Louis, two rows of armless stick figures splash across a projection screen. The figures, some upright and others upside down, look like two-tentacled squids lined up to tickle each other's feet. The stick figures represent lipids, the molecules that make up fat. In this picture, they line up to form a lipid bilayer, the material that makes up the membrane, or skin, of living cells. What the scientists at this symposium are learning about lipid bilayers could change the world.
Six scientists at the February convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)-the largest general science conference in the world-presented their individual versions of the stick-squid illustration and their own research in nano-biotechnology. By coating a nano-sized machine-say, a silicon chip smaller than a human cell-with a lipid bilayer, the scientists could trick a human cell into talking to the machine, maybe even into taking orders from it.
The names of these scientists-Jay Groves, Barbara Baird, and Atul Parikh, to name three-might one day make it into the history books. But for now, they are relative unknowns, even in the scientific community. At last month's AAAS event, planners scheduled their symposium four hours before the meeting's opening ceremonies. They may have been sharing groundbreaking science, but most of their conference colleagues were still arriving at the St. Louis airport.
Science-fiction writers and politicians have had more success drawing attention to nanotechnology. Michael Crichton's 2002 bestseller Prey featured a swarm of nano-robots gone berserk, controlling the minds and bodies of people for its own devious purposes. President George Bush included nanotechnology in a list of the "most critical basic research programs in the physical sciences" in his State of the Union address last month, and he proposed doubling its funding. Already federal funding for nanotechnology research has more than doubled to $1.05 billion in the last five years.
But what is nanotechnology and what promise does it hold?
Anyone in the market for an iPod knows that "nano-" has become a powerful marketing tool. In his newly released book, Nano-Hype, professor David Berube highlights companies such as NanoPierce Technologies, which changed its name to include "nano" even though it has nothing to do with nanotechnology.
The strategy works, Mr. Berube argues, because of the public's misunderstanding of real nanotechnology. The public thinks of it as something new and novel, when it is really the same old science-on a scale 1/800th the size of a human hair.
When a chemistry teacher draws concentric circles on the chalkboard to explain atoms, or a biology teacher holds up a model of a double helix to represent DNA, that's nanoscience. Nanotechnology is simply the most recent attempt to manipulate the basic building blocks of matter. So far, it has succeeded best in the clothing industry with the manufacture of stain-repellent material. Consumers can buy "nanopants," as the industry calls them, from Eddie Bauer, Gap, and Brooks Brothers.
Plotting the future of nanotechnology is more difficult. The 2003 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act established the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) to coordinate the government's different nanotechnology programs. Sections of the act resemble the legislation that established NASA, with emphasis on "ensuring United States global leadership" and "ensuring that advances . . . bring about improvements in quality of life for all Americans." But as the government sends wagons of money to the nano-frontier, neither the scientists nor the politicians who support them know the extent to which nanotechnology will change life as we know it. Uncertainty in the laboratory, however, hasn't stopped a host of those on the outside from campaigning for their respective visions of a nano-future.
Human-techno interaction already is common in medical treatments and devices such as dialysis, prosthetic limbs, breast implants, and pacemakers, as scientists study and implement nanotechnology inside the human body to cure disease and extend life spans. Nano-biotechnology aims to make these interactions between humans and machines less invasive and cumbersome than in today's technology.
At Washington University's Siteman Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, researchers are developing nanoparticles that deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors. The treatment could destroy tumors without exposing the rest of the body to the painful side effects of chemotherapy. The center was established in late 2005 and will begin clinical trials at the end of this year.
But the cancer center's fast turnaround does not reflect painstaking preliminary research, scientist Greg Lanza says. Mr. Lanza and the project's principal investigator, Samuel Wickline, spent more than 10 years figuring out which nanoparticles to use, what drugs they should carry, what kind of chemicals and proteins to coat them with, and how to track them in the body using MRI. And they aren't finished yet. The therapy they will test at the end of the year targets the vessels that send blood to a tumor. The treatment would not kill the cancer, but it could make the tumor more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiation by weakening its blood supply.
"We come with the experience of knowing how difficult it was, and knowing that things we thought were going to be easy were harder," Mr. Lanza said. "I know there is no 'A to Z' in one step."
Cancer research notoriously disappoints scientists and patients. Treatments that make perfect sense in theory fail in reality. The role of telomeres in cancer is a perfect example. Telomeres are like ticker tape printed with a repeating sequence of DNA, wrapped around the ends of every chromosome. Each time a cell divides, a little bit of the ticker tape is torn off. When the chromosome gets to the end of the ticker tape, it stops dividing.
Not surprisingly, cancerous cells usually have an abundance of the enzyme that makes telomeres, telomerase. Telomerase stops the ticker tape from tearing, so cells do not know when to stop dividing. Until 1999, many scientists thought getting rid of excess telomerase would cure cancer.
But when they tried the theory in mice, the telomere-deprived creatures still got cancer. Ron DePinho, a researcher on the experiment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, called the results mind-bending. They spawned an arm of cancer research devoted only to understanding exactly what telomeres and telomerase do.
"The bottom line is that it is really complex," he said at the time.
The case of the missing telomeres also explains the disconnect between nano-scientists-like Mr. Lanza-and nano-prophets, those who predict nanotechnology will bring about a utopian future.
In 2001, the National Science Foundation and other government agencies convened a meeting of nano-prophets to divine the ways nanotechnology could improve the human body and mind in the next 10 to 20 years. The meeting headlined representatives from the government, private sector, and academia, including Mihail Roco, a senior government adviser on nanotechnology, and Phillip Bond, undersecretary of commerce for technology.
After the meeting, the NSF published a 467-page document, "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance." It has been called both the scariest and the silliest government report ever printed.
Its authors predicted that in the next 10 to 20 years, nanotechnology would allow a broadband connection between the human brain and machines. It would enable new sports, art forms, and means of communication; allow the human body to resist stress, sleep deprivation, disease, and aging; and find ways to exploit the resources of the moon, Mars, or approaching asteroids. In short, nanotechnology will solve all the world's problems.
"The 21st century could end in world peace, universal prosperity, and evolution to a higher level of compassion and accomplishment," Mr. Roco and another science adviser claimed in the report's introduction. "It may be that humanity would become like a single, distributed and interconnected 'brain.'"
The European Commission and the German Parliament criticized the U.S. report (called among nano-techies the Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno, or NBIC report) for being overly futuristic without considering societal and moral issues. In its own report, the German Parliament noted its bias toward a pseudo-scientific movement called transhumanism. Transhumanists believe science, including nanotechnology, will help humans transcend their mental and physical limitations, including pain and death.
"These ideas have bled into mainstream science technical thinking," says Nigel Cameron, director of the Center on Nanotechnology at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Mr. Cameron works to bring together transhumanism's critics to voice their concerns. He cites the work of Kevin Warwick as one reason to take transhumanism seriously.
Mr. Warwick, a professor at the University of Reading in England, claims to have connected his central nervous system to a computer during a 2002 experiment. Doctors implanted a tiny electrical sensing device in a nerve in Mr. Warwick's left arm. The sensor sent and received signals between his central nervous system and a computer. According to Mr. Warwick's university website, the implant allowed him to control a mechanical hand with his own thoughts and movements. He also sent neural signals to a simpler implant in his wife, who felt sensation in her arm as a result.
Mr. Warwick explained his worldview in a 2000 column in Wired: "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate-a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change."
Mr. Cameron points to Mr. Warwick's experiment as evidence the human-computer connection envisioned in the NBIC report could happen. But will it?
Although the NBIC report's authors made recommendations on government policy, there is little evidence they had much influence. The subsequent act that established the NNI instead requires research on the social, legal and environmental concerns about "enhancing human intelligence." Nowhere does the act, or the initiative's strategic plan, list civilian human enhancement as a priority. (Department of Defense research on human enhancement for soldiers was ongoing before the NBIC report came out.)
NNI spokeswoman Cate Alexander told WORLD that the report "is not an NNI output and is not indicative of the NNI agenda."
For now, it seems the people with the most direct influence on nanotechnology are the scientists actually doing the research. And scientists have a way of surprising the public. When a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher announced he had isolated human embryonic stem cells in 1998, it was almost three years before the president announced a policy limiting funding for embryonic stem-cell research. Congress continues to debate whether to expand or refine Mr. Bush's policy.
David Guston, director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, wants to help nanotechnology avoid a mess like the stem-cell debacle. At the AAAS meeting, he explained the center's plans to scour scientific journals and interview researchers about current and upcoming developments in nanotechnology. Center staff members would share the information with citizen groups and give their feedback to the scientists.
That could be an important time for those concerned with the ethical and real-life implications of nanotechnology to step forward. "There is so little interest in having this conversation in the churches. Basically people are pro-life, but they think, 'technology is wonderful and what's for dinner?'" said Mr. Cameron.
The "Real-Time Technology Assessment" project aims to help scientists incorporate the public's values in their decisions. At the least, it will help the public see what is coming before, as Mr. Guston put it, "out from the lab pops a technology that's relatively cleanly black-boxed and, oh, society has to deal with it."


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Owner Assem Allam wants to change the team's official name from Hull City AFC to Hull Tigers, incorporating their nickname in a bid to attract greater commercial interest from overseas.
The idea has been greeted with opposition by many fans, with protest groups formed and frequent chants of 'City Til I Die' at home games.
But Allam has forged ahead and has lodged an official request with the FA to complete the name change in time for next season.
The governing body must sign off on the plan for it to go ahead and are currently accepting submissions from interested parties ahead of a decision - possibly as early as next month.
Dyke insists all sides will be heard but believes the experienced Bruce is a voice that carries considerable weight.
"It needs FA permission to change the name and the FA Council will eventually make the decision. There's been a request and the FA are considering it," Dyke told the Yorkshire Post.
"Obviously, there are a lot of fans who made their thoughts clear they don't want it. We will be taking everything into account and we'll see. Steve Bruce does the manager's job and he's done it well in a few places and he's done a brilliant job at Hull.
"I'd be interested to know if it bothered him or not."
Bruce has attempted to play peacemaker in the row for much of the season and has vowed not to speak publicly on the matter until a verdict is reached.
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Caterpillar opens new Arkansas factory, hiring 600
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By CHUCK BARTELS (AP)
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Caterpillar Inc. dedicated a $140 million road grader factory Wednesday, a facility that will employ 600 people and produce the big machines for markets around the world.
The plant produced its first grader in June, and two of the behemoths flanked the stage as plant manager Jon Harrison described a four-month training program that's part of the company's investment.
"We're going to export a lot of product from this facility," Harrison said, noting that productivity will have to be competitive on a global scale.
Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar laid off 24,000 workers worldwide last year, but the North Little Rock plant stayed on course. Gov. Mike Beebe expressed his gratitude for the company sticking with its plan "in the midst of the worst recession in our lifetimes."
The factory in North Little Rock is operating in a converted videotape and DVD facility. Caterpillar received $3 million from the Governor's Quick Action Closing Fund to help the project along.
"They (Caterpillar) wouldn't be here without the Quick Action Closing Fund," Beebe said. The $50 million fund was first approved by the Legislature in 2007 and renewed in 2009.
Arkansas has lost more jobs than it has picked up during the downturn, but Beebe said the state has worked to replace the lost jobs with better ones, such as high-level white collar jobs and upper-end manufacturing.
The recession has only grazed Arkansas, which has made modest budget cuts while other states endured mass layoffs and furloughs. But all hasn't been roses. Whirlpool Corp. laid off thousands from its refrigerator plant in Fort Smith after it opened a plant in Mexico. That rippled through the community as supplier businesses saw their orders cut or canceled.
Beebe acknowledged that many Arkansans need jobs but pointed to training that is available when opportunities arise.
Pulaski Tech community college worked with Caterpillar to train its workers, a model that other communities in the state have used as new employers opened shop.
Caterpillar said the average wage for workers at the plant would be $21 and hour. Harrison said customer feedback has been "off the charts," adding that the workers share Caterpillar's quality goals.
"They (the workers) have made a family decision" to join the company, Harrison said.
Beebe said that kind of praise for the work force does more than reflect well on Caterpillar.
"You're giving us ammunition to get somebody else," Beebe said.
Sen. Mark Pryor was on hand with his counterpart, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, both D-Ark.
"I think people in our state have not given up on American manufacturing," Pryor said.
The state has landed a number of major employers, including wind-energy manufacturers in Jonesboro, Little Rock and Fort Smith, though a Mitsubishi turbine plant for that city is on hold due to litigation. Conway attracted a Hewlett-Packard Co. service center with about 1,000 employees and Little Rock will be home to Southwest Pool Inc., which is building a $62 million headquarters where its 640 employees will earn an average of $85,500 per year. The company manages electric distribution for the multistate region.
Beebe said state revenue numbers that are due later in the week came in above the state fiscal office's forecast, but said the money will serve as a cushion, not a signal that the recession is over.
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Driving north from Brisbane the tourist drive starts at the intersection land-marked with signs to Rainbow Beach and Tin Can Bay. Turning onto to Brisbane Road the first point of interest is less than one kilometre into the drive - The Gympie Gold Mining and Historic Museum. Grab a coffee at the cafe and follow the story of Gympie's establishment as it evolved into a thriving gold mining town. Before continuing take a moment to stretch your legs with a walk around beautiful Lake Alford. Take time to breathe in some fresh air, admire the birdlife and let the kids play in the all abilities playground or use the off leash dog park.
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2010 SAG Awards hilights, gossip, photos, and video.
Pippy's Shelf-less weekend with the exes
He's a smug little bitch, but his game is music. And when he's playing his game, he is almost infallible. Justin Timberlake's rendition of Hallelujah with Matt Morris on Hope For Haiti Now was gorgeous. And a stark reminder: STOP ACTING. Please. It is not your gift. You have a gift. Full Story
WORST SAGs: Drew Barrymore
I can't remember loving to hating as swiftly as I have for Drew Barrymore. Because if you've been reading my site long enough, I adored her. So much. But something happened along the way to Grey Gardens. And now Drew has gone from goofy and endearing to eyestabbing f-cking annoying let-me-slap-the-fairy-dust-out-of-your-nose insufferable. Full Story
Best SAG: Marion & Diane
Both have the Guillaume Canet connection and they were seated at the Weinstein table. Awkward or no? There was a lot of white at the SAGs. I'm biased, I guess, but no one was better than my Marion Cotillard. The side swept hair, so chic, the short length was perfect, the feathers were sublime, and the way she sweetly applauded everyone so enthusiastically beside DDL in the front row, enchanting. Full Story
Best SAG Hair: Third Lip Kidman
She looked good, y'all, she did. She looked immobilised in the face, sure, but compared to how she's been lately, she did look good. With her hair loose and wavy, wearing a beautifully ornate Oscar de la Renta, Granny was almost fresh. Like fresh out the freezer. So much better ginger red than she is as a blonde. Full Story
SAG Best Body: Sandra Bullock
This, as noted by my friend Sasha, is kinda figure skating styles. Also an Alexander McQueen. Fitting too because on Saturday night, the US Figure Skating Championships were decided. Christina Gao: there may be a new Michelle Kwan for me next year. If she develops according to plan, this girl will be a champion for a long, long time. Full Story
SAG Housewife of Las Vegas: Anna Paquin
Her dress is an Alexander McQueen. Worn by someone like Kate Moss or Kristen Stewart, it's totally f-cking badass. Because they would know to give it the right steeze. Like crunked out messy hair spilling everywhere, or pulled all the way back slick and tight, with layers and layers of black eyeliner and leather booties. Full Story
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The Desperate Housewives have all but disappeared from awards shows. In their place – Lea Michele as the new Eva Longoria. There will be ruffles, there will be a train, and above all else, a naked ambition to be the star, the only star. Lea Michele is Rachel Berry. How utterly unoriginal. So Rachel Michele showed up in green Catherine Malandrino and a plunging neckline. Full Story
SAG Men: Firth & Ham
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SAG Capable: Meryl & Tina
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SAG Imitation of Hilary Swank: Kate Hudson
How did Kate Hudson manage to get up on stage twice? (We'll discuss the Pippy connection later). This is how you know our girl is manslinging HARD. Because she wore a dress for a nominee. When Hilary Swank did it, she was the leading contender for Best Actress Oscar. And won. Ugh. Still, Swank's selection merited her stature. Full Story
Old SAG girl beats New SAG girls: Helen Mirren
Relax. Old doesn't have to pejorative. Old in this case is simply the opposite of "new". Old in this case is also better than new. Because confronted with all these fresh, young faces, Helen Mirren stood stately and superior above them. That's a sexy bitch, non? STUNNING. A cut above the ones coming now. Full Story


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