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By Hallie Cantor
The Three Little Friend Requests Once upon a time, there was a little pig with very lax Facebook security settings whose mother sent her a friend request. "Let me in, let me in," said her mother, and the pig said, "Not by the hairs of my chinny-chin-chin." Her mother said, "I told you we could go get those waxed at my salon if you want. Now let me in or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll get your brother to help me change the wi-fi password." The pig ignored the request and ran to Starbucks to use the free wi-fi to change her name on Facebook. Her mother texted her and said, "Let me in, let me in, or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll stop going grocery shopping and then you can find out how good you are at feeding yourself without my cooking." Fed up, the pig blocked her mother and made herself unsearchable on Facebook. 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"I can help you spin those pathetic Tweets into a golden Twitter page," he promised. He worked all night, crafting youthful messages and shortening links to promotional contests. "Now I shall have your first-born child, unless you can guess my gmail password," the guy from Accounting said. The young miller's daughter thought this was pretty messed-up, but whatever. She guessed his mother's maiden name, and he said no. Then she guessed the sport he played in middle school plus the last two digits of his birth year, and he said no. Then she guessed his first name, and he said yes, and she said, "Really?" and he got embarrassed and went back to the Accounting desk cluster. Beauty and the OkCupid Date Belle was the loveliest, brightest girl in her entire Google circle. One day, she followed her best friend into the dark, mysterious woods of OkCupid, in an effort to show her that online dating is a perfectly average thing to do and everyone else also feels weird about it and simultaneously superior to it. Alas, on her first date with a hideous and frightfully hairy OKCupid user, Belle found herself held hostage by the knowledge that they clearly weren't into each other but were each too polite to end the date early. Little did Belle know that from birth, her OkCupid date had been cursed with cripplingly low self-esteem, and only if she publicly declared her love by deleting her OkCupid account would he transform into a functional human being who could leave the house without being assured multiple times that his feet didn't look too fat in those shoes. When he returned from the bathroom and saw Belle in his living room, he flew into a rage. "I told you never to enter the West Wing!" he snarled. "It's already on the DVR. You don't need to enter it in. It's my favorite show." Belle also really liked the West Wing, so they watched a few episodes, and Belle realized that the OkCupid date looked a little like a hairy Bradley Whitford. They started dating, and over time the OkCupid date transformed into a strong, confident man. Then a few months later, they got bored of each other and broke up. Snow White and the Seven LinkedIn Connections Every afternoon after AP Bio, the prom queen logged onto her Facebook page and asked it, "Who has the fairest profile picture of them all?" And her Facebook responded, "You, my Queen, have the most comments saying 'I love this pic' and 'omg you are gorgous.'" But one day, it added, "There is another who will overtake you. Snow White has almost 40 likes on her profile picture." Enraged, the Queen cajoled the fencing club president to fake-ask-out Snow White that night over AIM. But Snow White charmed him with some solid AIM flirting, and so he warned her of the Queen's plot. 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EDIT: 95% of the way there! As of March 14, 2013 I am spending most of my time enjoying movies. However, there are a few items that are still in the works for the next few months: I will be finishing the entrance to the HT and adding a projector hushbox. In addition, I will be adding a ticket booth and another poster frame or two. I am starting to enjoy obsessing about the small decor details. Uh oh. :)
A preview of the almost but never finished product:
The panel on the equipment room door at the back of the theater...need to fill some nail holes!
Yes the alarm keypad is installed and painted black now. :)
Please excuse the ridiculous shadows here...I need to take some better pics!
A not-so-good panorama.
Poster frames and the entrance to the HT...still under construction. I am hoping to put a name above the door around the marquee but there will be very limited height on the face of the marquee. Here are two pics of the entrance coming together...
Current Equipment List:
120" wide 2.37:1 SmX screen (CineWeave HD)
Runco LS-5 projector
Panamorph UH480 lens, motorized transport
22" Samsung LED 1080p 60Hz equipment room monitor
PSB Image Series T65 fronts, C60 center, S10 rear surrounds
Triad OnWall Bronze/4 side surrounds
Danley DTS-10 Sub
Oppo BDP-93 Blu-Ray player
Marantz AV7005 pre-pro
Emotiva XPA-5 amp
Integra ADM-2.1 amp
Behringer FBQ1000 Sub EQ
Behringer EP4000 amp
APC H15 power conditioner
APC J10 UPS power conditioner & battery backup
iRule remote software (iPad and iPhone)
First, I'd like to thank everyone here for inspiring me to take on this massive project. I do not have any construction/building background, and I do not come from a household of handy people (I grew up with a screwdriver and a hammer and not much else). However, I have gained what I could here and there, purchased a few tools over the years, and am generally handy. I am looking forward to learning a lot and having a lot of fun throughout this building process. I have spent an absurd amount of time researching and reading through most of the build threads on this board over the last 4 years or so, and am finally settled in my first house, so I'm ready to start!
I feel like I know the basic layout rules etc., but really didn't want to botch anything, so I purchased the Pro Layout service from Dennis E., which I highly recommend. Just knowing that someone with Dennis' level of expertise looked it over went a long way in terms of giving me the chutzpah to begin this process. A portion of my basement is finished, and I originally wanted to build there to save some cash, but after Dennis drew everything up and I realized how much of the finished basement I would have to destroy to get what I wanted, I decided it would be better to build in a similar but unfinished area. So we are in the process of modifying the plans (sorry Dennis!) and now I am ready to get started…
A little about the project:
The room is going to be 14.5' by 25' (length subject to change), with the ceiling at about 7'3" after clips, hat channel, DD etc. I am currently waffling back and forth regarding sound isolation. If I do end up going for it, I'll likely do hat channel on the ceiling with GG + DD. However, I live alone and am not planning to go entirely crazy with it. I guess that's what's leading me not to attempt it at all – I understand that if you don't go for it full tilt, any effort you do make could turn out to be fruitless. I'm confident in my ability to hang 2 layers of drywall with some green stuff slapped in the middle, but backer boxes for light fixtures, putty pads, dead vents etc. are another story (and will increase the build cost substantially).
The only design element that was essential to me in planning was that there be four seats in the front row. (My girlfriend and I usually have another couple or my parents over for movies, and I think it would be awkward if we couldn't all sit in the same row.) I'm mostly an audio guy, but have been becoming more interested in video over the last year. The video setup will be acoustically transparent 2.35:1. The gear is:
Blu-Ray: Sony BDP-350 (to be replaced by Oppo 93)
Processor: Marantz AV7005
Amps: Emotiva XPA-5, Integra ADM-2.1, Behringer EP4000
L/R: PSB Image T65
C: PSB Image C60
Side Surr: Triad OnWall Bronze 4
Rear Surr: PSB Image 10S
Sub: Danley DTS-10 (aka Monster)
Projector: Sony VPL-HS10 (to be replaced and anamorphic lens added)
Screen: 92" 16:9 Da-Lite PermWall Hi-Contrast (to be replaced by 130" 2.35:1 AT screen)
Power Conditioner: APC H15
As far as estimated completion date, I think I am starting from a pretty good clean slate, but I am a new attorney working a lot of hours, and don't have construction experience, so I bet it's going to take a while (understatement of the year). It's far more important to me to do this properly than to do it quickly. So, my goal is 1/1/2012, but I recognize that's probably unrealistic based on many of the other theaters here put together by people with far greater skill than me.
Soooo…here we go! Pics of the unfinished space:
Annoying duct I will have to deal with...
EDIT: SUCCESS! Now my photos are appearing...
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Andreas' Slow Rotary Sub build
This weekend's project: lots of Drylok!
Here come the questions:
1 - The big one: Do I need to switch from what' in there now? (I think that anser is yes.) And assuming the answer is yes, is the method in the picture the right one to use?
2 - I spoke wth my local inspector and the required R value for insulation for basement walls is 11. If i use the 1" stuf, the R value is 5. But then I'm planning to put unfaced fiberglass batts into the wall - does that satisfy the required R value?
3 - What's the right adhesive to use to glue the rigid foam to the cement? I'm putting Drylok on the walls tomorrow, so I'm just wondering what's the right thing to put between two surfaces that won't absorb any water...
Thanks all!!
1) I think you mentioned a 118" screen. With a 14' x 25' room, you should be able to handle that size easily, if not more (if you're going 2.35:1). 80% of the room width is 139" (some people use 80% as a max. sizing estimate). I'm not sure I'd go that large, but something between 120 and 130 should work fine. 92" is way too small.
2) With a short ceiling (around 7 foot), you'll have some issues with the ductwork on the one side. It would be worthwhile to move that short duct somewhere else so that you can retain as much headroom as possible.
Good luck with the project.
My basement theater build thread:
Started: 2/20/10
Completed: 10/10/10
#3: I think you could use regular construction adhesive. I don't see why not.
Build log: DIY rotary sub for contemporary HT in 100 year old house?
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Re the ductwork, yeah, it's definitely gotta go. I'm going to try to get in touch with a HVAC guy this week. It's just a return duct and my floor plan is very open upstairs, so I'm hoping there's a decent compromise we can come up with.
Regarding the thinner/thicker insulation, I'd prefer to use the thinner stuff plus unfaced batts as long as its not going to adversely affect my heating bill or compromise the vapor barrier. The thinner stuff is less than half the price. (But the difference is only $300, so if it's going to adversely affect my heating bill, it will be more money in the long run to use the thinner stuff I think.)
For a little extra cost I might suggest using spray foam instead of foam board - it does a much better job of sealing up all those little air gaps.
Also if you do 2" of foam that is also your vapor barrier - no need for a poly vapor barrier. If you are only trying to hit R11 2" should do it. For soundproofing you would want some extra fiberglass insulation so you would be comfortably above that.
Any idea how much 350 sq. ft. of spray foam might cost me? I have no experience with it and didn't really consider it as an option because I figured it would be cost prohibitive. And I'm assuming you're talking about the stuff where I'd just hire someone to come in and do it?
Thanks! - and sorry if these questions are elementary - I'm uneducated on this topic!
Thanks Jeff! I didn't know if you could simply add the R values if the two types of insulation were placed next to each other or if there was some other way of computing it in that scenario. Will it make any diference if there is a small airspace between the foam and the unfaced batts? (Say 1/2 to 1 inch?)
I'm not a building science expert (or an inspector), but I'd say you're probably fine. I'll bet a building science expert would tell you that all that matters is that first layer of insulation, but I think in reality the "dead" space between the foam and the wall won't matter much--as long as your sills are well insulated.
How are your sills insulated? Fiberglass batts? Spray foam? Foam panels? You might want to be sure they're well insulated before you put walls up--preferably with spray foam. Houses lose a lot of heat through the sills.
As far as inspections go, in the past I also avoided permits. Until I sold my last house, and had to get permits after the fact. I did things pretty much up to code, so it was more a hassle than a problem, but the inspectors could have required me to tear everything apart for inspection. I'll always pull permits from now on. In my new house (the one I'm in now), the inspector helped me find some problems that I would have missed had he not been there. If you're making any structural or mechanical (electrical, HVAC, or plumbing) changes to the house, I highly recommend that you pull permits... But of course, it's your choice.
Regarding permits, I wish that were an option. Another uneducated question: am I correct in thinking that I can't get any permits at all (electrical etc.) because of my egress issue?
My local code requires a 5.7sq. ft. window no more than 44" from the floor, and a 36" deep window well. Altering the foundation of my house is a deal-breaker for me - I'm just not interested in getting into that. Luckily, there's really not much that needs to be moved (other than that one duct). The natural gas line for my heat and fireplace runs along the ceiling in my space, but it's pretty much up against the joists, so I think that once the hat channel and clips are up, there will be enough space for the pipe to run between the cieiling joists and drywall.
Wow - if NY is anything like Toronto, I had no idea spray foam was so reasonably priced. I was planning to do exactly what you said in the sills...cut, fit, glue, tape, and then fill the remainder of the rim joists with Great Stuff. By the time I'm finished with all of that work, including purchasing glue, tape, and Great Stuff (which gets expensive quickly if you need any notable quantity), the costs are pobably only $150 apart. I didn't plan on the insulation costing $900, but it's probably an area where I shouldn't skimp...I do NOT want mold.
Thanks again for the good info!
Pull the permit if you could. Construction permit should include opening new egress, so with or without existing egress, you could get permit.
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I had the insulator spray closed cell poly foam in the rims. It seals everything up real tight. Foundations have 1" of Foamular 150 attached outside the walls, with a layer of platon outside the insulation, and Foamular 250 beneath the slab, on top of a 6-mil vapor barrier. So I'm just going with fiberglass batts in the basement walls, no sealing paint or vapor barrier on the inside. I'm happy with R13 on the basement walls. That being said, the real experts on the subject recommend a different and more expensive approach. Take a look at Basement Insulation Systems.
If you really want to go with spray foam on the basement walls, you could do it yourself with Tiger Foam. Remember that when they specify square feet, it's square feet of wall space. So in a 14x25 basement with , 8' walls you'll need to buy enough to spray foam on about 600 sq ft of wall space, not 350 sq ft of room space. I found that Tiger Foam was about half the cost of having a contractor do it.
Jeff - I have read that doc you linked to and it is very good. That's actually where the pic above came from. After thinking about it a little (and I'm 99% sure I read somewhere on AVS that spray foam isn't as good as batts with regard to sound isolation) and doing a little reseach, I'm thinking I'm going to go with 2" XPS against the concrete and in the sills, plus Great Stuff for in the gaps (same method Andreas used). It seems like that will get me the R value I'm looking, will provide a good vapor barrier, and will be reasonable cost-wise. But if anyone has input/advice, I'd still love to hear it as I'm not going to buy my insulation for a couple of days...
Hi Walkinator - I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about permits and egress - I could get a permit without the egress? Or do you mean that I can get a permit as long as I'm planning to add an egress (which is not in the cards for me)? Can you explain a little more? Thanks! And yes, there are unfaced fiberglass batts in the rim joists now.
You can always get permit as long as you plan to add an egress, that is required by code, when you submit application, you need to draw a job site layout and you need to show where is the egress going to be.
As for rim joist, you need to use rigid foam board cut into smaller pieces fit to the rim joist and the use the Great Stuff expansive foam to seal the edge, then put the fluffy fiberglass batts back, this way, your rim joists are air tight, no moisture can get there to grow mold. Check my thread and you can see how I did it or read this:
Thanks for that link - that's exactly what I was planning to do...except I wasn't going to stuff the fiberglass back in there afterwards...I thought that had potential to get moldy. But I guess it certainly wouldn't be any worse than the unfaced batts in there now, and that has been in there 9 years since the house was built. Thanks again!
Sorry for the crappy pics! Couldn't get a decent shot of the cracks with the flash on...
I managed to get a permit without an egress window / door - just a double door entry, no windows. Maybe it's up to the building department's discretion? Initially they wanted the windows, but I guess I whined until they gave in, who knows.
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text: After a careful process of consideration regarding whether Mandy Moore was the right fit to play a desperately man-hungry woman—a process that involved Googling "Mandy Moore"—the producers of ABC's Pulling have chosen to replace her with an actress who can more convincingly be comically flustered by constant rejection. Moore's former role of "Louise" now belongs to Kristen Schaal, who joins the also recently cast Jenny Slate and June Diane Raphael in the U.S. adaptation of the British comedy concerning three women who should have everything already, because they're over the age of 30. In addition to being appropriately funny, Flight Of The Conchords' Schaal obviously has a history with playing characters who have trouble landing the men they want, while she also has a history with playing characters named "Louise," thanks to Bob's Burgers. This decision to replace Mandy Moore with Kristen Schaal represents a bold new initiative in TV development called "thinking about stuff first."


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A study showed that some people who say and receive these three words, which is -I LOVE YOU- is happier that that never do or less do. Study also showed that young women want to hear the magic words. They want romance in their lives. Since the women of today now look for that, the men who don't fight past their discomfort may find themselves out in the cold, maybe wondering why.
In my family we all say "I love you" a lot. While it is true that we often say the words without having a great depth of feeling at that moment, it is almost like a blessing we give each other. Recently, my husband must be away from us to work for a long time and I was glad that I always tell him that -I LOVE YOU-.
Those three little words carry a world of meaning, even when said as a greeting, but most especially if they are the last words we say to or hear from those we love. Show your love to your parents and lovers and let them know you love them at any place, any time. Don't mean it.
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Here are some useful ways to show her your love without saying it. Remember that sometimes you should tell her "I Love you" but make this in some special moments.
Surprise her every day with something that she does not even thought that you would do for her. For example, after a night spend together, wake up earlier make her coffee so it is ready when she gets up and take it with her breakfast at bed. This is definitely a good start for a great day.
Give her a soft kiss before you go to work and show her that even at work you are thinking at her and the time spent together by leaving her messages on her voice mail with a silly, romantic poem.
Make everyday special. Spend quality time with the one you love, cook her favorite meal, place love notes in her lunch and don't forget to compliment her sometimes, tell her that she looks amazing like in the day you met.
Get off work early and surprise her with a dozen of roses and dinner just to show how much you love her. Prepare a special evening with a candle-lit dinner. What can be more wonderful than wine and dine under the romantic glow of a thousand candles?
Give her roses for no reasons at all. Deliver flowers with a special note attached "I Love you". However, never forget anniversary and birthday.
In addition, you may offer her a special evening by making her a relaxing massage, rent a romantic movie, or create a romantic atmosphere by dancing in two on a slow music, your favorite one, and whisper "I Love you" in her ear.
Every day you have to make some new things in order to keep your love alive, and your partner not to feel bored with you. Therefore, you always should try impressing her and making her feel good with you.
For example, spend a night outside under the stars and talk about your first date, the other day prepare all the things and take her to a picnic, or plan a swim for two at the pool.
You have many possibilities to show your love for her but do not forget that sometimes it is good to hear that three words "I Love you".
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How The GPL Defangs Patent Trolls
from the mutual-defense dept
Last week, Red Hat settled an abusive patent lawsuit brought by a company called FireStar software. Way back in 2006, I discussed the patent in question, which covers some rather broad and obvious software concepts. It looks like Red Hat has settled the lawsuit in a way that extends patent protection to the entire free software community.
Why would a patent troll agree to this? Don Marti explains how the GPL strengthened Red Hat's bargaining position. In a normal patent licensing negotiation, the patent troll would demand a per-user license fee that would be passed along to the vendor's customers. But the GPL specifically prohibits Red Hat from doing this; if Red Hat agreed to pay per-user royalties, it would be in violation of the GPL and would lose the right to distribute the software at all. That put Red Hat in a strong negotiating position because Firestar knew Red Hat wasn't bluffing. In Don Marti's apt metaphor, a patent troll suing a free software company is like "robbing a store where the safe is on a time lock" -- the victim couldn't give him the goods if he wanted to. As a result, FireStar's only option was to grant Red Hat a patent license that covered not only Red Hat but everyone in the free software community whose products are derived from Red Hat's. Obviously, that greatly reduces FireStar's potential patent trolling profits, because it can't shake down all of Red Hat's competitors. This gives patent trolls a powerful incentive to focus on shaking down proprietary software companies, and leave free software vendors alone.
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If you do get the hankering for more WoW thanks to the trial, you can get the digital Battle Chest, which includes classic WoW and The Burning Crusade, for $19.99 (as soon as the Blizzard site works again, anyway).
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I Served My Country. Then It Kicked Me Out.
I was a veteran, a father and husband and a small-business owner. Then I was deported.
I often think about Friday dinners with my family. Every Friday, no matter what, my wife and I took our two children out to eat; it was a ritual we looked forward to all week. We would sometimes try new restaurants, but my children's favorite was the Olive Garden. My daughter loved to order Shirley Temples and my son always wanted whatever I was having, so I'd order two of the same meal for us.
Those memories feel a world away from where I'm living now, in Trelawny, on Jamaica's north coast. I'm trying to get a start as a pig farmer, but it's much harder than I expected. It costs about $200 a week to feed the pigs, and there's a water shortage so I have to walk about a mile each way to get river water for them. My family in the United States sent me $1,500 to get the business started but now I fear I may lose it all.
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Just a few years ago, I had a great life in the Tidewater area of Virginia. I had a wonderful wife who is a glass artist, and our two children were thriving. My trucking business was starting to take off. We were hauling goods from Norfolk's port to distribution centers for Target and Wal-Mart. My wife and I bought our first house and had money in the bank.
I applied to become a U.S. citizen in 2005 and answered all the questions on the application honestly, even admitting to a stupid mistake I'd made years earlier. I passed the written and oral tests and completed the Citizenship and Immigration Services biometrics exam. I waited and waited, and when I called to ask whether there was a problem no one had answers.
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Then at 6 a.m. on June 10, 2010, I answered loud knocks on our front door in my pajamas. Eleven armed immigration officers supported by state troopers were there with their weapons drawn, some wearing bulletproof vests. They stormed into my living room and put me in handcuffs while my wife came down the stairs, screaming, and my daughter, who was 12 years old, watched in horror. A few minutes later I was in their custody, just partially dressed, heading to the Hampton Regional Jail.
Who would have expected things to turn out this way? I was 17 when I came to New York to join my mother, who had left my siblings, my father and me behind near Kingston while she worked to build a better life for us in the United States. She was a legal permanent resident and worked two jobs as a home health aide, saving money so we could join her. My mom left for the United States in 1985 and came back four years later to get me and my brothers. She'd saved enough money and finished all the paperwork so our family could be reunited. Each of us was able to come to the United States legally with a green card.
I entered Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn. It was a hard adjustment—math and science were so easy for me, but I struggled with history and economics. There were some other Jamaicans at my school, but it was the first time I encountered people from so many different backgrounds. Most of the students were immigrants—from Guatemala, Mexico, St. Kitts, different parts of the Caribbean and Central America. I graduated in the middle of my class, but in math and science I was at the top.
We were chained together like slaves and kept handcuffed and shackled for seven hours before boarding an ICE chartered plane.
Navy recruiters came to my high school, and I quickly decided I wanted to enlist. It was a way to make my family proud and serve the country I now called home. So I signed up for a pre-entry program while I was still in high school and I worked on an aircraft carrier during the weekends. I graduated in May, and by August I was at boot camp in Chicago. It was hard and even scary at times—to wake us up in the morning, drill sergeants would come into the dorms with large metal trash cans and throw them across the floor. The first time I heard that sound, I was certain my heart would leap out of my chest. One of my dorm mates jumped out of his bunk in shock and broke his arm. Some guys washed out, but I stuck with it and when I finished and came home, I was proud to show off the uniform I had worked so hard to earn.
I was assigned to the big naval base in Norfolk. Our ship was in dry dock when I got there, but before long I was loading food supplies and bombs on board and we were in the water headed to the Middle East to serve in Operation Desert Storm. We spent six months at sea, and then came home for a month before shipping out again for three more months. We were a supply ship—carrying everything from underwear to bombs—backing up destroyers and carriers and other combat ships. We weren't on the front lines, but we were always in the danger zones.
I loved the Navy, but I wanted to go to school, so when my four years were up I decided not to re-enlist. I was honorably discharged and signed up for community college and started working in clubs as a DJ, playing the Caribbean music I love. I was "Dutch B" on a local radio station, and for three consecutive weeks a girl called the station and asked me to play the same song. Her name was Judith, and she was an art student at Norfolk State.


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A new phase of the industry's popular Go RVing marketing campaign — stressing the affordability and value of recreational vehicles — will launch in early 2010 with new television spots and a revised Go RVing website.
The Go RVing Creative Work Group, consisting of manufacturers, dealers and state association executives, gave the go-ahead for the revisions at an Oct. 7 meeting in Las Vegas during the RV Dealers International Convention/Expo.
The new ads, created by Go RVing's advertising agency, The Richards Group, Dallas, Texas, utilize existing and unused creative material from previous Go RVing campaigns as a cost-saving measure.
"The affordability and value messages in the new creative materials for Go RVing will show today's cost-conscious consumers how an RV can meet their family needs today as an affordable vacation option that will provide them with years of pleasurable return on their investment," said Gary LaBella, vice president and chief marketing officer for the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA), which administers the program for the all-industry Go RVing coalition.
The new ads will debut during the "Outlook 2010" breakfast Dec. 1 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky., prior to the opening of the 47th Annual National RV Trade Show.
"The new concept chosen by the group is now in production, with the new spots to debut in early 2010 as part of an effort to reenergize the RV industry and motivate consumers to buy as the economy improves," according to a press release.
The revised Go RVing website will go live when the TV spots begin running after the first of the year.
Meeting attendees included Debbie Brunoforte, owner of Little Dealer, Little Prices and chairman of the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA); Richard Coon, president of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA); Eleanore Hamm, executive vice president of RVDA of Canada; and Becky Lenington, executive vice president of the Pennsylvania Recreation Vehicle and Camping Association (PRVCA).
Also, Mike Molino, RVDA president; Chad Reece, director of marketing for Winnebago Industries Inc.; Dicky Riegel, COO of Thor Industries Inc. and co-chairman of the Go RVing Coalition; RVIA Chairman Jim Sheldon, assistant to the president of Monaco RV LLC; Go RVing co-Chairman Tom Stinnett, owner of Tom Stinnett RV Freedom Center; B.J. Thompson, president of B.J. Thompson Associates; Larry Troutt, Topper's Camping Center and immediate past RVDA chairman; and Lance Wilson, executive director of the Florida Recreation Vehicle Trade Association (FRVTA).


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Today was payday. November 15th was to see players receive 1/12th of their 2011-2012 contracts, but with nuclear winter coming on, they're out the equivalent of a month's salary—$220,000 on average. Actually losing money for the first time is hard on some players, like Samardo Samuels.
But Boris Diaw? No biggie. He's playing for the French team he runs, and just rocking out all over the place. Ben Swanson of Rufus On Fire dug up a commercial for Senz Umbrellas, where Diaw and some random dude take an umbrella out for a spin on a Waverunner in order to demonstrate its stability. If I'm Diaw, tooling around Lake Havasu, flying to the South of France, and making that sweet, sweet umbrella money, I never want the lockout to end. The alternative is Charlotte.


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Joss Whedon is headed back to television, and he's bringing even more badass women to the small screen. HBO has picked up his exciting new sci-fi series The Nevers, Deadline reports.
The story follows a group of Victorian women with super abilities who find themselves faced with numerous enemies and a mission to change the world. And if the show takes place in the late 1800s, it's the perfect era to incorporate some Steam Punk elements. Make it so!
Whedon will serve as writer, director, executive producer and showrunner on the project.
This marks Whedon's first TV project since Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which he co-created. He went on to direct the Marvel blockbuster Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. However, after Ultron was released, he took a hiatus and declared that he was "done with Marvel."
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Susan Band Horwitz to Deliver Einstein's 2016 Commencement Address
Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Cancer Research
Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Rose C. Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research
The research program in this laboratory is focused on: 1) the development of drugs derived from natural products, such as Taxol® and 2) the problem of drug resistance. The mechanism of action of Taxol®, a molecule that enhances the polymerization of tubulin by forming stable microtubules, is being pursued. The novel structure of Taxol®, its unique mechanism of action that was first described in this laboratory, and the positive results that have been observed in ovarian, breast and lung carcinomas have generated extensive interest in this drug. Our laboratory has used photoaffinity analogues of Taxol® to define the binding cavity for the drug within β-tubulin. The goal is to understand at a molecular level the interaction of Taxol® with the microtubule and the mechanisms by which the drug induces growth arrest and cell death in human tumors. Evidence indicates that Taxol® alters specific intracellular signal transduction events essential for drug-induced apoptosis.
Newly discovered potentially important antitumor drugs, such as the epothilones and discodermolide that are currently in clinical trials and whose mechanism of action is similar to that of Taxol®, are being actively investigated. We have searched for differences between these agents that could be exploited in the clinic and have reported that discodermolide is the first microtubule stabilizing agent that includes a powerful induction of accelerated senescence in its repertoire of tumor cell growth inhibitory mechanisms. Quantitative mass spectrometric-based methods to analyze the expression of tubulin isotypes and their posttranslational modifications are being developed. This is crucially important since there is accumulating evidence in human cancer cell lines, tissues and tumors that different isotypes exhibit differential sensitivity to Taxol® and are related to Taxol® resistance. A recent study from our laboratory indicated that compared with other β-tubulin isotypes, βIII-tubulin binds the least amount of Taxol®. Of particular interest is the fact that in several cancers, overexpression of βIII-tubulin is associated with drug resistance. Our laboratory noted that one region of βIII-tubulin contains a unique residue compared with other isotypes. Molecular dynamic simulations indicated that the frequency of Taxol® accommodating conformations decreased in the βIII-tubulin isotype compared with other tubulin isotypes.
This laboratory is committed to using the knowledge gained in research for the development of therapies for the treatment of human cancer.
From 260 publications
Rao, S., He, L., Chakravarty, S., Ojima, I., Orr, G.A. and Horwitz, S.B. (1999) Characterization of the Taxol Binding Site on the Microtubule. Identification of Arg282 in b-tubulin as the Site of Photoincorporation of a 7-Benzophenone Analogue of Taxol. J. Biol. Chem. 274, 38990- 37994.
He, L., Jagtap, P.G., Kingston, D.G.I., Shen, H.-H., Orr, G.A. and Horwitz, S.B. (2000) A Common Pharmacophore for Taxol and the Epothilones based on the Biological Activity of a Taxane Molecule Lacking a C-13 Side Chain. Biochemistry 39, 3972-3978.
He, L., Yang, C.-P.H. and Horwitz, S.B. (2001) Mutations in b-tubulin Map to Domains Involved in Regulation of Microtubule Stability in Epothilone-Resistant Cell Lines. Mol. Cancer Therap. 1, 3-10.
Rao, S., Aberg, F., Nieves, E., Horwitz, S.B. and Orr, G.A. (2001) Identification by Mass Spectrometry of a New b-Tubulin Isotype Expressed in Human Breast and Lung Carcinoma Cell lines. Biochemistry 40, 2096-2103.
McDaid, H.M. and Horwitz, S.B. (2001) Selective Potentiation of Taxol-induced Cell Death by MEK Inhibition in Human Cancer Cell Lines. Molecular Pharm. 60, 290-301.
McDaid, H.M., Mani, S., Shen, H.-J., Muggia, F. Sonnichsen, D. and Horwitz, S.B. (2002) Validation of the Pharmacodynamics of BMS-247550, an Analog of Epothilone B, During a Phase I Clinical Study. Clinical Cancer Res. 8, 2035- 2043.
Martello, L.A., Verdier-Pinard, P., Shen, H.-J., He, L., Torres, K., Orr, G.A. and Horwitz, S.B. (2003) Elevated Levels of Microtubule Destabilizing Factors in a Taxol-resistant/dependent A549 Cell Line with an a-Tubulin Mutation. Cancer Research 63, 1207-1213.
Verdier-Pinard, P., Wang, F., Martello, L.A., Orr, G.A. and Horwitz, S.B. (2003) Analysis of Tubulin Isotypes and Mutations from Taxol-resistant Cells by Combined Isoelectrofocusing and Mass Spectrometry. Biochemistry 42, 5349-5357.
Verdier-Pinard, P., Wang, F., Burd, B., Angeletti, R.H., Horwitz, S.B. and Orr, G.A. (2003) Direct Analysis of Tubulin Expression in Cancer Cell Lines by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Biochemistry 42, 12019-12027.
Orr, G.A., Verdier-Pinard, P., McDaid, H.M. and Horwitz, S.B. (2003) Mechanisms of Taxol Resistance Related to Microtubules. Oncogene 22, 7280-7295.
Chen, J.-G., Yang, C.-P. H, Cammer, M. and Horwitz, S.B. (2003) Gene Expression and Mitotic Exit Induced by Microtubule Stabilizing Drugs. Cancer Research 63, 7900-7906.
Mani, S., McDaid, H.M., Hamilton, A., Hochster, H., Cohen, M.B., Khabelle, D., Griffin, T., Lebwohl, D.E., Liebes, L., Muggia, F. and Horwitz, S.B. (2004) Phase I Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Study of BMS-247550, a novel derivative of Epothilone B, in Solid Tumors. Clinical Cancer Res. 10, 1289-1298.
Chen, J.-G., Yang, C.-P. H, Cammer, M. and Horwitz, S.B. (2003) Gene Expression and Mitotic Exit Induced by Microtubule Stabilizing Drugs. Cancer Research 63, 7900-7906.
Mani, S., McDaid, H.M., Hamilton, A., Hochster, H., Cohen, M.B., Khabelle, D., Griffin, T., Lebwohl, D.E., Liebes, L., Muggia, F. and Horwitz, S.B. (2004) Phase I Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Study of BMS-247550, a novel derivative of Epothilone B, in Solid Tumors. Clinical Cancer Res. 10, 1289-1298.
Honore, S., Kamath, K., Braguer, D., Horwitz, S.B., Wilson, L., Briand, C. and Jordan, M.A. (2004) Synergistic Suppression of Microtubule Dynamics by Discodermolide and Paclitaxel in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Cells. Cancer Research 64, 4957-4964.
Klein, L.E., Freeze, B.S., Smith III, A.B. and Horwitz, S.B. (2005) The Microtubule Stabilizing Agent Discodermolide is a Potent Inducer of Accelerated Senescence. Cell Cycle 4:3, 124-130.
McDaid, H.M., Lopez-Barcons, L., Grossman, A., Lia, M., Keller, S., Perez-Solar, R. and Horwitz, S.B. (2005) Enhancement of the Therapeutic Efficacy of Taxol by the MEK Inhibitor CI-1040 in Nude Mice Bearing Xenografts. Cancer Research 65, 2854-2860.
Yang, C.-P.H., Verdier-Pinard, P., Wang, F., Lippaine-Horvath, E., He, L., Orr, G.A. and Horwitz, S.B. (2005) A Highly Epothilone B-resistant A549 Cell Line with Mutations in Tubulin that Confer Drug Dependence. Mol. Cancer Ther. 4, 987-995.
Ikui, A.E., Yang, C.-P.H., Matsumoto, T. and Horwitz, S.B. (2005) Low Concentrations of Taxol Cause Mitotic Delay Followed by Premature Dissociation of p55CDC from
Mad2 and BubR1 and Abrogation of the Spindle Checkpoint, Leading to Aneuploidy. Cell Cycle 4:10, 1385-1388.
Mani, S., Huang, H., Sundarababu, S., Liu, W., Ganjam, K. Smith III, A.B., and Horwitz, S.B. (2005) Activation of the Steroid and Xenobiotic Receptor (hPXR or SXR) by Non-Taxane Microtubule Stabilizing Agents. Clinical Cancer Res. 11(17), 6359-6369.
Verdier-Pinard, P., Shahabi, S., Wang, F., Burd, B., Goldberg, G.L., Orr, G.A. and Horwitz, S.B. (2005) Detection of Human bV-Tubulin Expression in Epithelial Cancer Cell Lines by Tubulin Proteomics. Biochemistry 44, 15858-15870.
Huang, G.S., Lopez-Barcons, L., Perez-Soler, R., Freeze, B.S., Smith III, A.B., Goldberg, G.L., Horwitz, S.B. and McDaid, H.M. (2006) Potentiation of Taxol Efficacy by Discodermolide in Ovarian Carcinoma Xenograft-bearing Mice. Clinical Cancer Res. 12, 298-304.
Xiao, H., Verdier-Pinard, P., Fernandez-Fuentes, N., Burd, B., Angeletti, R., Fiser, A., Horwitz, S.B. and Orr, G.A. (2006) Insights into the Mechanism of Microtubule Stabilization by Taxol. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103, 10166-10173.
Xia, S., Kenesky, C.S., Rucker, P.V., Smith III, A.B., Orr, G.A. and Horwitz, S.B. (2006) A Photoaffinity Analog of Discodermolide Specifically Labels a Peptide in b-tubulin. Biochemistry 45, 11762-11775.
Mani, S., McDaid, H.M., Grossman, A., Muggia, F., Goel, S., Griffin, T., Colevas, D., Horwitz, S.B. and Egorin, M.J. (2006) Peripheral Blood Mononuclear and Tumor Cell Pharmacodynamics of the Novel Epothilone B Analogue, Ixabepilone. Annals of Oncology Advance Access published on October 3, 2006.
Wiesen, K.M, Xia, S., Yang, C-P. and Horwitz, S.B. (2007) Wild-type class I β-tubulin sensitizes Taxol-resistant breast adenocarcinoma cells harboring a β-tubulin mutation. Cancer Letters 257, 227-235.
Legrier, M.E., Yang, C.P., Yan, H.G., LopezBarcons, L., Keller, S., Pérez-Soler, R., Horwitz, S.B., and McDaid, H.M. (2007) Targeting Protein Translation in Human Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Via Combined MEK and mTOR Suppression. Cancer Research, 67(23), 1300-8.
Ojima, I., Chen, J., Sun, L., Borella, C.P., Wang, T., Miller, M.L., Lin, S., Geng, X., Kuznetsova, L., Qu, C., Gallager, D., Zhao, X., Zanardi, I., Xia, S., Horwitz, S.B., Mallen-St Clair, J., Guerriero, J.L., Bar-Sagi, D., Veith, J.M., Pera, P., Bernacki, R.J. (2008) Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of new- generation taxoids. J. Med Chem, 51(11), 3203-21.
Goel S, Comezuglu SN, Cohen M, Perrin L, Andre F, Jayabalan D, Iacono L, Comprelli A, Ly VT, Zhang D, Xu C, Humphreys WG, McDaid H, Goldberg G, Horwitz S.B., Mani S.(2008) The effect of ketoconazole on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ixabepilone, a first in class epothilone B analog in late phase clinical development. Clinical Cancer Research, 14(9), 2701-9.
Miller, L., Menthena, A., Chatterjee, C., Verdier-Pinard, P., Novikoff, P.M., Horwitz, S.B., and Angeletti, R. (2008) Increased Levels of a Unique Post-Translationally Modified βIVb-Tubulin Isotype in Liver Cancer. Biochemistry 47, 7572-7582.
Devred, F., Tsvetko, P.O., Barbier, P., Allegro, D., Horwitz, S.B., Makarov, A.A., Peyrot, V. (2008) Stathmin/Op18 is a novel mediator of vinblastine activity. FEBS Letters 582 (2008) 2484-2488.
Verdier-Pinard, P., Pasquier, E., Xiao, H., Burd, B., Villard, C., Lafitte, D., Miller, L., Angeletti, R.H., Horwitz, S.B. and Braguer, D. (2009) Tubulin Proteomics: Towards breaking the code. Analytical Biochemistry 384, 197-206.
Huang GS, Arend RC, Li M, Gunter MJ, Chiu LG, Horwitz SB, Goldberg GL. (2009) Tissue microarray analysis of hormonal signaling pathways in uterine carcinosarcoma. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 2009 Apr; (4):457.e1-5.
Khrapunovich-Baine, M., Menon, V., Verdier-Pinard, P., Smith, III, A.B., Angeletti, A., Fiser, A., Horwitz, S.B., Xiao, H. (2009) Distinct Pose of Discodermolide in Taxol Binding Pocket Drives a Complementary Mode of Microtubule Stabilization. Biochemistry, 48, 11664-11677.
Yang, C.H., Liu, L., Ikui, A., and Horwitz, S.B. (2010) The Interaction Between Mitotic Checkpoint Proteins, CENP-E and BubR1, is diminished in Epothilone B-Resistant A549 Cells. Cell Cycle, 9, 1207 –1213. (Cell Cycle News and Views).
Huang, G.S., Brouwer-Visser, J., Ramirez, M., Kim, C.H., Hebert, T.M., Lin, J., Arias-Pulido, H., Qualls, C.R., Prossnitz, E.R., Goldberg, G.L., Smith, H.O., and Horwitz, S.B. (2010) Insulin-like Growth Factor 2
Expression Modulates Taxol Resistance and is a Candidate Biomarker for Reduced Disease-Free Survival in Ovarian Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research; 16 (11) 2999-3010.
Shahabi, S., Yang, C.H., Goldberg,G.L, and Horwitz, S.B. (2010) Epothilone B enhances surface EpCAM expression in ovarian Hey cells. Gynecology Oncology; 119, 345-350.
Chao, S.K., Lin, J., Brouwer-Vissera, J., Smith, III, A.B., Horwitz, S.B., and McDaid, H.M. (2011) Resistance to discodermolide, a microtubule stabilizing agent and senescence inducer, is 4E-BP1 dependent. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.; 108, 391-396.
Chao, S.K., Horwitz, S.B., and McDaid, H.M. (2011) Insights into 4E-BP1 and p53 mediated regulation of accelerated cell senescence. Oncotarget, 2, No. 1-2, 89-98.
Khrapunovich-Baine, M., Menon, V., Yang, C.H., Northcote, P., Miller, J.H., Angeletti, R.A., Fiser, A., Horwitz, S.B., and Xiao, H. (2011) Hallmarks of Molecular Action of Microtubule Stabilizing Agents (MSAs): Effects of Epothilone B, Ixabepilone, Peloruside A, and Laulimalide on Microtubule Conformation. J. Biol. Chem., 286, 13, 11765-11778.
Smith, III, A.B., Sugasawa, K., Atasoylu, O, Yang, C.H., Horwitz, S.B. (2011) Design and Synthesis of (+)- Discodermolide-Paclitaxel Hybrids Leading to Enhanced Biological Activity. J. Med. Chem. 2011 Sep 22;54(18):6319-27.
Kuznetsova, L, Sun, L, Chen, J, Zhao, X, Seitz, J, Das, M, Li, Y, Veith, JM, Pera, P, Bernacki,R.J, Xia, S, Horwitz, S.B, Ojima, I. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel 3'-Difluorovinyl Taxoids. J. Fluorine Chem. 2012 Apr 15;143:177-188.
Xiao H, Wang H, Zhang X, Tu Z, Bulinski C, Khrapunovich-Baine M, Hogue Angeletti R, Horwitz S.B. (2012) Structural Evidence for Cooperative Microtubule Stabilization by Taxol and the Endogenous Dynamics Regulator MAP4. ACS Chem. Biol. 2012 Apr 20;7(4):744-52.
Chao, S.K., Wang, Y., Verdier-Pinard, P., Yang, C-P, H., Liu, L., Rodriguez-Gabina, A., McDaid, H.M., and Horwitz, S.B. (2012) Characterization of a human βV-tubulin antibody and expression of this isotype in normal and malignant human tissue. Cytoskeleton, August 2012; (69):566–576.
Miller, L.M., Yang,C-P, H., Xiao, H., Isaac, S., Seve, P., Dumontet, C., Horwitz, S.B., and Angeletti, R.A. (2012) A Label-Free Mass Spectrometry Method for Relative Quantitation of β-Tubulin Isotype Expression in Human Tumor Tissue. Proteomics Clin. Appl. 2012 Oct; 6 (9-10):502-6.
Hou JY, Rodriguez-Gabin A, Samaweera L, Hazan R, Goldberg GL, Horwitz SB and McDaid HM. (2013) Exploiting MEK Inhibitor- Mediated Activation of ERα for Therapeutic Intervention in ER-Positive Ovarian Carcinoma. PLoS ONE. Feb. 2013, 8(2): e54103.
Wang, Y., Sparano, J.A., Fineberg, S., Stead, L., Sunkara, J., Horwitz, S.B., and McDaid, H.M. (2013) High Expression of Class III β-Tubulin Predicts Good Response to Neoadjuvant Taxane and Doxorubicin/Cyclophosphamide-Based Chemotherapy in Estrogen Receptor- Negative Breast Cancer. Clin. Breast Cancer, April, 2013;13(2):103-8.
Albrethsen, J., Angeletti, R.A., Horwitz, S.B. and Yang, C-P, H. (2013) Proteomics of cancer cell lines resistant to microtubule stabilizing agents. Mol. Cancer Ther. 2014; 13:260-269
Wani, M.C. and Horwitz, S.B. Nature as a Remarkable Chemist: A Personal Story of the Discovery and Development of Taxol®. Anti-Cancer Drugs. 2014, 25(4):482-7.
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Typically I reserve Sundays for sleeping in, a big breakfast, and catching up with the family. I try to do errands and chores on Saturday so I can rationalize doing a whole lot of nothing on Sundays. Today was not my typical Sunday. My little heart did not feel good last night, and the fifth time she got up (in 2 hours), I told her to just crawl in bed with us. Of course that means that hubby and I are both hugging the edges of our King sized bed, while she sleeps comfortably in the middle. I was surprised to wake up at 6:45 am, since I had only been asleep since 2am, but I got up, wrote out a grocery list, and that was the first step to my amazingly productive day.
My husband is a rescue diver for the county, and this weekend they have been clearing swim areas at the lake, so my lil' heart and I joined them at Village Inn for a yummy breakfast, then went to get "real" coffee from our favorite coffee house. On our way we came upon a little family out for a Sunday stroll. Perhaps they were looking for a new ride?
After getting our coffee, we went grocery shopping. I don't really mind grocery shopping, but I do not like to do it on the weekends. I thought that perhaps going early enough would spare us the crowds, and I was mostly right. If I had only been in the store 20 minutes, it would have been perfect timing. It took a bit longer than that, so it was getting crowded by the time we left. We put away our groceries, but my productive streak still wasn't finished (much to my surprise). I cleaned bathrooms and litter box, did laundry, wrote cards and letters, packed up Mother's Day gifts and replied to emails. I even started dinner in the crock pot!
When I finally decided to sit down and check Facebook, Sabertooth was exhausted from watching me work, and needed a nap. Another nap. I wouldn't give him my lap, so he took what he could get. I don't understand how cats can be comfortable and sleep almost anywhere!
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Two area police departments have posted photographs on their Facebook pages of suspects in the recent thefts of metals from a barn and a business and an attempted house burglary.
While the cases in Webster and North Brookfield are unrelated, the suspects in each were caught on security cameras and police are hoping the images they've posted will prompt someone to turn them in. The crimes occurred earlier this month.
In North Brookfield, police wrote that two men, arriving in what appears from security camera photographs to be an older model white Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, knock on doors and if no one answers they attempt to break in.
If someone comes to the door, the men "state that they were responding to a request for chimney sweep service," North Brookfield police wrote.
In one instance they went into the barn of an elderly couple and stole metal items that police believe the suspected thieves thought were scrap. Police said one man distracts the residents if they are at home.
Webster police are also looking for a man who stole metal, hours after he went to a local business and asked if he could take scrap from the trash bin.
The man was told by employees at Cam's Oil Service Inc. that he could not have the items, but security footage shows he returned later that night and made off with the metal. An image is posted on the Webster Police Department's Facebook page.
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UNOSAT in new East-Africa partnership with IGAD for disaster reduction and emergency preparedness
15 February 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - As the attention of the international community turns once again to the importance of building resilience through capacity development, UNOSAT and IGAD have launched into a project to do just that, with a practical focus on the use of geospatial technologies to improve disaster reduction in East Africa.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is an eight-country regional development organization in East Africa with headquarters in Djibouti. It is a key player in the domains of drought, emergency response, and disaster reduction. IGAD countries are at high risk of drought and several natural hazards and often the theatre of crisis and conflict. The management of IGAD and UNITAR are working together to leverage the know-how of UNOSAT, with the support of the Norwegian government, to develop the capacity of the organization and its members to use GIS and remote sensing to enhance planning, emergency preparedness, and prevention across the region.
UNOSAT has been active in similar regional projects in South East Asia since 2011, and has initiated work in East Africa, together with IGAD, in January 2013. The capacity development plan for IGAD focuses on technical training courses, development of specific hazard databases, and awareness for IGAD decision makers.
Einar Bjorgo at UNOSAT says, "Our common goal is to do something concrete to improve disaster risk reduction in the region by mainstreaming the use of this technology in various thematic areas and to ensure that strategic decision making is done also on the basis of objective geographic information and analysis coming from the organization and its member countries."
The project is under way and advancing fast. A steering committee meeting took place in Addis Ababa in January, where a detailed training plan was agreed upon. Similarly to UNOSAT in-country projects, this activity uses a results-based management approach that allows UNOSAT experts and the beneficiary to monitor progress and impact as activities are implemented. UNOSAT has also hired one expert based in Nairobi to help follow the implementation from within the region while also providing direct support to the IGAD Secretariat and its components, which will draw additional benefits from the project, like the Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWARN) and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC).
Bjorgo explains, "We are developing better knowledge-sharing and capacity development tools all the time and these are next generation projects in which we privilege synergy, partnership, and multiple benefits for each investment of time and money that we make with our donors and beneficiaries."
In East Africa, UNOSAT also works with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) for better training and data sharing, and the new Technical University of Kenya.


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Where Are The Companies? The Hidden Empire of SoftBank
Softbank Corp. has expanded at breakneck speed since its origins as a software distributor three decades ago manned by CEO Masayoshi Son and two employees. (The two left after Mr. Son told them the company would someday report annual sales of ¥50 billion, fearing for the state of his mind. The company Thursday reported a quarterly net profit triple that and said it expects sales of at least ¥6 trillion in the year to March).
Mr. Son says his corporate group now includes stakes in more than 1,300 companies. But who are they?
Precious little is known about the SoftBank universe. Of the 1,300 companies, SoftBank lists 235 subsidiaries and 108 affiliates as of the end of March. Of these, 150 are consolidated into SoftBank's earnings reports, and 83 are counted as affiliates or nonconsolidated subsidiaries.
Softbank logs some portion of the earnings of those companies into its profits. But when it comes to the names of the companies and the size of its stakes and investments, SoftBank only disclosed information for 43 as of March.
"That's it," a SoftBank spokeswoman said. "That's all that we disclose. I'm sorry."
That the empire is growing is clear. In July, Mr. Son closed a $21.6 billion deal to buy a roughly 78% stake in Sprint, then paid another $500 million to raise its Sprint stake above 80%. SoftBank earlier in October announced plans to buy a majority stake in Finland's Supercell, the developer of the hit tablet game "Clash of Clans," and a 70% stake in the U.S. firm Brightstar Corp., which handles distribution of smartphones for wireless operators.
But the precise parameters of the SoftBank universe remain unknown.
SoftBank does give information on the investments that are now paying big time, just as SoftBank pushes into the competitive U.S. market through its acquisition of Sprint Corp.
These include Yahoo Japan Corp. -- 42.5% owned by SoftBank -- which has maintained its overwhelming dominance over Google as Japan's go-to search engine and portal, even as Yahoo Inc. in the U.S. floundered.
Mr. Son's firm also owns a majority stake in GungHo Online Entertainment, the developer of the blockbuster mobile game "Puzzle & Dragons." And SoftBank has also made public details on what may be its most valuable asset: a 36.7% stake in China's top online retailer, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Bankers say Alibaba could list its shares as early as this year in what is expected to be one of the largest initial public offerings by an Internet company.
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Snuggle Truck — Free App of the Day
Once called Smuggle Truck, where you try and smuggle immigrants across the border, the game was pulled from the App Store and rebranded as Snuggle Truck, where you try and keep cute fuzzy animals from falling out of a pickup truck. We like this idea better. Especially since it's free!
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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. --- The Lees-McRae men's volleyball team stumbled out of the gate and was unable to recover on its way to being swept, 20-25, 15-25, 26-28, by Mount Olive in Conference Carolinas action Friday night at Kornegay Arena in Mount Olive, N.C.
The Trojans (3-6, 2-2 CC) had two players record double-digit kills while hitting at a .526 clip in the second set. The Bobcats (5-3, 1-1) dropped their first set in the last seven while being held to a .033 hitting percentage in the first set.
Mount Olive jumped out to an 8-1 lead thanks to five consecutive attack errors and an ace from Quaid Marin to open up the action.
LMC would shave the deficit to three, 13-10, following a kill from sophomore Brady Markle (York, Pa.). The Bobcats would keep it close until the Trojans used a 4-1 run to stretch the lead to five, 22-17, before claiming the first set 25-20.
Senior Matt Harpenau (Cincinnati, Ohio) smashed a kill to knot the second set at 7 before Markle chipped in with one of his team-high 13 kills, but LMC trailed 11-10.
The Trojans would rip off a 14-5 run to capture the second set, 25-15.
Mount Olive's Garret Dimm, who hit .526 on the evening, had a trio of kills during the stretch.
The third set proved to be entertaining while providing 15 ties and neither team led by more than three.
LMC would take an 8-5 advantage after Markle had a trio of kills.
The Bobcats would eke out to a one-point advantage after a Randy Ramirez (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) kill, 11-10.
The set would be a see-saw battle until Sam Sheers (Centerville, Ohio) chimed in with a service ace to give LMC a 21-19 lead.
The Bobcats had set point in hand, but an Angel Dache kill made it a 24-23 contest. Mount Olive's Steven Cruse notched it up at 25 with a kill of his own.
Another Harpenau kill tied it at 26, but Dache earned another kill and an attack error gave the Trojans the 28-26 victory.
Ramirez paced the Bobcats with 31 assists while the front line racked up 14 block assists.
Dache (13) and Dimm (12) led the Trojans in kills while Marin amassed 33 assists as Mount Olive hit .338 on the evening.
Lees-McRae returns to action tomorrow for a Conference Carolinas bout with Barton in Wilson, N.C. with opening serve at 2 p.m.


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WORCESTER, Mass. – After earning runner-up honors the previous two seasons, senior guard Jimmy Bartolotta was unanimously selected as the 2008-09 NEWMAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year. Head coach Larry Anderson was named Coach of the Year for the second time, while senior captains Billy Johnson and Bradley Gampel also earned All-Conference plaudits.
For the second consecutive year, Bartolotta led the conference in scoring while ranking among the top five in every statistical category. He currently ranks second in the nation with an average of 27.6 points per game, while his career total of 2,225 points. Last week, Bartolotta was named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America of the Year, and was also selected as a finalist for the Jostens Trophy.
Gampel and Johnson earned spots on the All-Conference Second Team to complete a postseason sweep for MIT's tri-captains. Gampel is set the finish the season as the conference leader in assists and steals for the second consecutive year, while he ranks ninth in the nation with 6.9 assists per game. Gampel also ranks 17th in the nation in steals and has a 2.2 assist to turnover ratio.
Johnson, who was a two-time conference Player of the Week selection, finished the regular season ranked fourth in the NEWMAC in points, rebounds, and blocks. He scored a career-high 40 points in a win on Senior Day against Clark, while he averaged 20.5 points per game in league play.
Anderson earned Coach of the Year accolades for the second time in four seasons. His last honor followed the 2005-06 season in which MIT set a school record for wins (21). During the 2008-09 campaign, Anderson passed legendary head coach Jack Barry as the program's all-time winningest coach.
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TU Science Café to focus on time
The first installment in this year's Science Café series at Thomas University will be held Tuesday, Sept. 24, featuring Dr. Harrison Prosper, the Kirby W. Kemper Professor of Physics and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.
As a physicist, Prosper's interest in time stems from time's relation to other physical entities, such as velocity, energy, power and magnetic force. He holds a Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. He completed post-doctoral work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Virginia Tech and Fermilab. Prosper joined Florida State University in 1993.
In addition to the perception of time, his other interests include high energy physics, cosmology, advanced analysis methods and Bayesian statistics.
The Science Café is part of "One Book: Time to Read Together" community-wide reading event taking place September in Thomas County featuring the book "The Time Keeper" by Mitch Albom.
A reception will be held before the Science Café from 6 to 6:30 p.m. in the rotunda of Smith-Bonvillian Hall, TU's newest building located on the Main Campus. The presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Flowers Executive Classroom of Smith-Bonvillian Hall. There is no charge for admission, and the public is invited to attend.


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How to Prepare for a Windows 8 Upgrade
Nearly everybody experiences Windows 8 on a new computer. After all, Windows 8 comes preinstalled on nearly all of them. But older computers can also run Windows 8. Because Windows 8 doesn't demand a lot of power, it can run well on most computers sold within the past six years.
You can upgrade your old computer to Windows 8 in any of three different ways:
Upgrade: Sold on a DVD, this costs less than the full version. Why? Because you can install this version only on a computer that currently runs Windows.
Full version: Also sold on a DVD, this version can be installed onto an empty hard drive. That's handy when you need to install Windows 8 onto a new hard drive, a perk valued by computer builders and troubleshooters. The Full version can also be used as an Upgrade disc to upgrade existing Windows versions.
Online install: New for Windows 8, this upgrade lets you visit Microsoft's website, buy Windows 8 online, and upgrade over the web.
But no matter what version you buy, Windows 8 comes with a healthy list of requirements. Before upgrading, make sure that you've run through the following checklist:
Computer power: Make sure that your PC is strong enough to run Windows 8.
Security: Before upgrading to Windows 8, turn off your antivirus software and other security programs. They may innocently try to protect you from the Windows 8 upgrade process.
Backup: Before upgrading, be sure to back up all of your important files in case something goes wrong.
Upgrade path: Because Windows 7 comes in so many different versions, the following table explains which versions are eligible for which upgrades.
After you upgrade, you can pay extra to add even fancier features — a strategic Microsoft marketing move. You can pay extra to unlock the ability to play movie DVDs, for example.
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Programs: Windows 8 preserves your personal files when you install it on computers running Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP Service Pack 3. But it saves your programs only when installed over Windows 7. If you install Windows 8 over any other version of Windows, you'll need to reinstall all your programs from scratch. (When installed over Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows 8 preserves some system settings.)
For more information about Windows 8, explore Windows 8 For Dummies, available online.


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Managing Director—Accenture Strategy, Energy
Muqsit Ashraf helps Oil and Gas companies transform their strategies and operating models to elevate their performance and be better prepared to face the multifaceted energy challenges of the 21st century. He specializes in end-to-end lifecycle of unconventionals, in developing new business models for operators and service companies, and in designing and implementing large-scale transformation programs. He publishes frequently on these topics. Muqsit is based in Houston, Texas.
Managing Director—Accenture Strategy, Energy
Jean-Marie Rousset specializes in helping Oil and Gas operators, Automotive and High Technology Industry players with strategy, human resources, organization and supply chain projects. He advises clients with strategy, organization and capability transformations and restructures to achieve growth, reduce costs and enhance competitiveness. Prior to joining Accenture Strategy, Jean-Marie was with Schlumberger Business Consulting for more than 12 years. He is based in Houston.


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Yes, men and women communicate differently, but neither way is the "right" way. Both are useful and both are necessary. It really is long past time that male ways of doing things stops being "wrong" in this culture.
The Male/Female Brain
Talk to the most happily married couples or to the best of friends and they will tell you that sometimes they do not "understand each other," "he does not listen to me," or "I just do not understand her."
If this sounds familiar do not fret as it is to be expected and even normal. The female and male brain is different and the two brains process information differently. The good news is that with some conscious effort communication can be enhanced between the brains and frustrations lowered.
In general, female brains tend to employ both sides of their brain to process information while male brains tend to rely primarily on their dominant or language side to process. As the dominant hemisphere tends to be analytic, problem solving, task oriented, detailed, and verbal this helps to explain male behavior. A female brain can also process in this manner, but the non-dominant hemisphere that can process emotion, meaning without words, empathy, tone, and disposition is also engaged by the female.
Perhaps this helps to explain why females enjoy shopping while most men view it as a chore, women vote differently than males, men and women struggle communicating with each other, and men do not understand psychotherapy. Men tend to be more isolative, less talkative, and focused on solution. Women tend to be more group oriented, more talkative, and focused on the means and not necessarily the ends. This gets played out in the U.S. at this time as women and men tend to view the same debate between candidates differently (men tend to focus on content and women both content and style).
A great question from a male brain to a female brain is "what do you mean" or Am I correct in hearing this….." Female brains can enhance communication from and to the male brain by being explicit in language as male brains may have some difficulty "reading between the lines" or appreciating emotion if it is not declared explicitly.
Once again the good news is that each brain can benefit from the other if we try!