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7 April 2005, Antananarivo, Madagascar - Mankind's closest living relatives - the world's apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates - face increasing peril from humans and some could soon disappear forever, according to a report released today by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN - The World Conservation Union's Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI).
Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates - 2004-2006 reveals that 25 percent - or one in four - of the 625 primate species and subspecies are at risk of extinction. The report compiled by more than 50 experts from 16 countries cites deforestation, commercial bushmeat hunting, and the illegal animal trade as the primary threats, and warns that failure to respond will bring the first primate extinctions in more than a century.
The golden-headed langur of Vietnam and China's Hainan gibbon number only in the dozens. The Horton Plains slender loris of Sri Lanka has been sighted just four times since 1937. Perrier's sifaka of Madagascar and the Tana River red colobus of Kenya are now restricted to tiny patches of tropical forest, leaving them vulnerable to rapid eradication. Hunters kill primates for food and to sell the meat, traders capture them for live sale, and loggers, farmers, and land developers destroy their habitat.
"More and more, mankind's closest living relatives are being cornered into shrinking areas of tropical forest," said CI President Russell A. Mittermeier, who also chairs the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. "This is especially true of Madagascar, one of the planet's biodiversity hotspots that has lost most of its original forest cover. More than half its lemurs, none found anywhere else in the world, are threatened with extinction. Without immediate steps to protect these unique creatures and their habitat, we will lose more of our planet's natural heritage forever."
The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates list, compiled at the 20th Congress of the International Primatological Society in Turin, Italy, follows similar reports in 2000 and 2002. Fifteen of the primates on the new list, including the Sumatran orangutan of Indonesia and the northern muriqui of Brazil, are "three-time losers" for having appeared on all three lists. Seven are new additions to the 2004-2006 list, and three appeared once before.
Madagascar and Vietnam each have four primates on the new list, while Brazil and Indonesia have three, followed by Sri Lanka and Tanzania with two each, and one each from Colombia, China, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of Congo. Some primates on the list are found in more than one country.
By region, the list includes 10 from Asia, seven from Africa, four from Madagascar, and four from South America, showing that threats to monkeys, lemurs, great apes and other non-human primates exist wherever they live.
All 25 primates on the 2004-2006 list are found in the world's biodiversity hotspots - 34 regions identified by Conservation International that cover just 2.3 percent of the Earth's land surface but harbor well over 50 percent of all terrestrial plant and animal diversity. Eight of the hotspots are considered the highest priorities for the survival of the most endangered primates: Indo-Burma, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands, Sundaland, Eastern Afromontane, Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa, Guinean Forests of West Africa, the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, and Western Ghats-Sri Lanka.
Habitat loss due to the clearing of tropical forests for agriculture, logging, and the collection of fuel wood continues to be the major factor in the declining number of primates, according to the report. Hunting for subsistence and commercial purposes also is a major and insidious threat, especially in Africa and Asia. Live capture for the pet trade also poses a serious threat, particularly to Asian species.
"Southeast Asia's primates are subject to relentless poaching because of the profits to be made from the illegal trade," said Chantal Elkin, manager of the Threatened Species Program in CI's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. "Although some of the region's threatened primates are taken as pets - notably orangutans and gibbons - they are most often hunted and traded for use in traditional medicines. Most of this trade appears to be international, primarily to China."
As "Flagship Species" and our closest living relatives, nonhuman primates are important to the health of their surrounding ecosystems. Through the dispersal of seeds and other interactions with their environments, primates help support a wide range of plant and animal life that make up the Earth's forests.
Hainan black-crested gibbon from China by Stephen Nash, SSC Primate Specialist GroupThe 2004-2006 list focuses on the severity of the overall threat rather than mere numbers. Some on the list, such as the Sumatran orangutan, still number in the low thousands but are disappearing at a faster rate than other primates. The December tsunamis that devastated coastal Sumatra have triggered a possible new threat to orangutan habitat from resettlement of area residents.
Changes to the list from 2002 reflect a desire to draw attention to other endangered primates. For example, Miss Waldron's red colobus, which has gone decades without a live sighting, was replaced by the Bioko red colobus to show that other colobus species also are under extremely grave threat.
"All evidence tells us that the first extinctions among Africa's primates will occur among the red colobus," said Thomas Butynski, director of CI's Eastern Africa Biodiversity Hotspots Program. "Miss Waldron's red colobus in Ghana and Ivory Coast, and Bouvier's red colobus in the Republic of Congo may already be extinct, while the Tana River red colobus in Kenya and Bioko red colobus in Equatorial Guinea could be gone within the next 20 years."
The full report is available here (706 KB)
The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, and the countries where they are found:
The list below is also available as a separate file to download here (120 KB)
* Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) - Madagascar
* White-collared lemur (Eulemur albocollaris) - Madagascar
* Perrier's sifaka (Propithecus perrieri) - Madagascar
* Silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus) - Madagascar
* Eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei ) - Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
* Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) - Nigeria, Cameroon
* Mt. Rungwe galago (an as yet undescribed form of the genus Galagoides) - Tanzania
* Tana River red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus) - Kenya
* White-naped mangabey (Cercocebus atys lunulatus) - Ghana, Ivory Coast
* Sanje mangabey (Cercocebus sanjei ) - Tanzania
* Bioko red colobus (Procolobus pennantii pennantii) - Equatorial Guinea (Island of Bioko)
* Black-faced lion tamarin (Leontopithecus caissara) - Brazil
* Buffy-headed tufted capuchin (Cebus xanthosternos) - Brazil
* Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) - Brazil
* Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus brunneus ) - Colombia
* Horton Plains slender loris (Loris lydekkerianus nycticeboides ) - Sri Lanka
* Miller's grizzled surili (Presbytis hosei canicrus ) - Indonesia (Kalimantan)
* Pagai pig-tailed snub-nosed monkey (Simias concolor) - Indonesia (Mentawai Islands)
* Delacour's langur (Trachypithecus delacouri) - Vietnam
* Golden-headed langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus poliocephalus) - Vietnam
* Western purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus nestor ) - Sri Lanka
* Grey-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus cinerea) - Vietnam
* Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) - Vietnam
* Hainan black-crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus hainanus ) - China (Hainan Island)
* Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) - Indonesia (Sumatra)
For further information, the complete report and photos or illustrations of species, contact:
Tom Cohen, Media Relations Director, Conservation International; Tel: +1 202 912 1532; Email: email@example.com
Andrew McMullin, IUCN Species Programme Communications Officer
Tel: +41 (0)22 999 0153
Email: email@example.com
About the organizations:
Conservation International (CI) applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas and key marine ecosystems. With headquarters in Washington, D.C., CI works in more than 40 countries on four continents.
The Species Survival Commission (SSC) is one of six volunteer commissions of IUCN - The World Conservation Union, a union of sovereign states, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. SSC's mission is to conserve biological diversity by developing and executing programs to save, restore and wisely manage species and their habitats. Survival of the world's living primate species and subspecies is the principal mission of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, over 300 volunteer professionals who represent the front line in international primate conservation.
The International Primatological Society (IPS) was created to encourage all areas of non-human primatological scientific research, to facilitate cooperation among scientists of all nationalities engaged in primate research, and to promote the conservation of all primate species. The Society is organized exclusively for scientific, educational and charitable purposes.


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Late goal lifts Wild over Blue Jackets 3-2by Dan Myers
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Missing for the better part of five games, the Minnesota Wild's secondary scoring showed up just in the nick of time.
Playing on their heels after blowing a 2-0 first period lead against the Columbus Blue Jackets Tuesday night at Xcel Energy Center, Minnesota's Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored his 100th career goal with 5:19 to play in regulation, propelling the Wild to a 3-2 victory -- snapping a three-game losing streak for the home team.
Bouchard's game-winner was a thing of beauty which started way back in the defensive zone, when he passed to defenseman Justin Falk standing near the Wild bench. Falk send a cross-ice pass to Torrey Mitchell at the offensive blue line, who dished back to a charging Bouchard entering the zone. He sent a wrister over a sprawling Steve Mason for his second of the season.
The goal was also the first by a Wild forward not named Zach Parise, Dany Heatley or Mikko Koivu since the season opener against Colorado 10 days ago.
"Mikko's line has been playing some solid hockey since the beginning of the season," Bouchard said. "We need to support them and the other lines need to play better."
For Bouchard, scoring his 100th goal has been a long time coming. The 28-year old scored 77 goals over his first six seasons in the National Hockey League. But concussions have limited the slick-skating winger to just 97 games over the last three seasons. Sitting just 23 goals shy of 100 following the 2008-09 season, it's taken almost four years to finally reach the milestone.
Bouchard's return to health is also a harbinger of good things for Minnesota, which improved to 66-19-6 all-time in games Bouchard has scored a goal, including 2-0 this season.
"It's fun. The last few years have been pretty tough," Bouchard said. "It's good to be back, to play in these kinds of games and to win again."
After a back-and-forth first few minutes, Minnesota grabbed control of the game. Koivu scored his second goal in as many games by gathering in a rebound of a Jonas Brodin shot, wheeling around the right circle and backhanding a shot from behind the goal line off Mason's leg pad and in at 9:23.
That goal seemed to break Columbus, as the Jackets struggled to create any offense for the next period and a half.
Nine minutes later, Minnesota went ahead 2-0 after a Koivu shot from the slot deflected off James Wisniewski's skate right to a crashing Tom Gilbert at the right circle. His wrister beat Mason for his second goal of the season and fifth point in six games.
After that, Mason was brilliant, stoning several other Grade-A chances the rest of the way to keep the Jackets alive.
Columbus made it pay off. A goal late in the second by Mark Letestu made it 2-1 before a power-play tally by Jack Johnson early in the third knotted the game at 2-2.
"He was great," said Columbus coach Todd Richards. "He kept it [2-0], then we got a great shift by Mark Letestu and [Derek Mackenzie]. Then we came out and played hard in the third."
Richards was frustrated with his team's effort, saying the final result was what the team probably deserved.
"We played 30 minutes -- the first 10 and the final 20," Richards said. "If guys are waiting for me to motivate them, we're going to have a tough time because I can't go in every game. It's gotta come from within, they gotta be ready to go, they gotta be ready to do the right things."
On the other bench, Minnesota coach was please with his team's first 40 minutes. But a parade to the box in the third -- reminiscent of the team's performance Sunday in St. Louis, which allowed the Blues to come from behind in a 5-4 loss -- was a little disturbing.
"The one thing we have to get better at, particularly in the third, is not coming back and being on your heels," said Wild coach Mike Yeo. "We have to be more aggressive, as far as getting into our game and not being so reactive."
Bouchard noted the team may have been too cautious with the lead, but called the temporary letdown a learning experience.
"We came out a little soft and played too careful," he said. "We have to play better when we have the lead."
Backstrom made 17 saves to earn his second win of the season. Mason made 23 saves in the loss.
Minnesota will return to home ice Wednesday against the Chicago Blackhawks -- undefeated this season and well rested, having not played since Sunday.
The Blue Jackets begin a crucial six-game homestand Thursday against St. Louis.

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Scientists are learning more and more about the human brain all the time. We've learned a lot about the brain by studying disorders and instances of the brain not working the way it normally does. But there are also new medical imaging devices that allow researchers to take a peek at how normal brains work, too. Here are just a few links about some fascinating brain studies.
- Scientists at UC Berkeley have started to develop a method that could reconstruct mental images using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain activity of volunteers. Reconstructed videos aren't exactly high definition reproductions, but they vaguely match up to the videos that the volunteers are shown. [url]
- The placebo effect (for pain) has been shown to involve cannabinoid receptors in the brain. The study suggests that people are capable of creating their own natural opiate-like chemicals with some training. [url]
- After a professor of neuroscience developed synesthesia and started to actually feel sounds, there's a bit more interest in discovering how the sense of touch is related to hearing. Come on, feel the noise. Girls, rock your boys. [url]
- To discover more interesting articles on the human mind, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]


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While I had wanted to test HP Public Cloud through RightScale (as I had done in my other cloud tests), RightScale does not currently support all regions/zones that HP has in the U.S. So I verified that I got similar results testing RightScale CentOS 6.4 images through RightScale in HP's Availability Zone 1 and HP CentOS 6.4 images directly through HP, and then tested HP's CentOS 6.4 images in all of the availability zones. Thankfully, the OpenStack command-line interface (CLI) is well-documented and supported by HP (and the OpenStack community), and so testing was easy to automate.
As of today, there are two U.S. regions (East and West), each with three availability zones, and 11 instance types, although not every instance type is available in each availability zone. I ended up running 46 VMs across the six different availability zones on HP's CentOS 6.4 image.
At this point in time, HP's public pricing page does not offer any discounts for commitments or pre-payment. I was told by an HP salesperson that discounts are available, but are negotiated between customers and HP, so I can't speak to how much those would be.
HP Public Cloud Benchmark Results
Here are the main takeaways that I have from testing across HP Cloud:
• I did not find HP Public Cloud to have significant variations between regions in terms of performance, although I did find that West-AZ2 and West-AZ3 were the most limited in terms of instance availability.
• Most IaaS providers either fall into the category of (a) having a single family that all runs on the same underlying hardware and naming instances Small, Medium, etc., based on the number of cores/RAM allocated or (b) having multiple families and naming instances HighCPU-Medium, HighMem-Medium, etc. HP does something different; it has a "regular" family and a HighMem family, but even within the regular family, there are clear variations in performance.
For example, by the single-core UnixBench scores, the Standard 8XLarge does better than the Standard 4XLarge, which is running on a better processor than the Standard 2XLarge, and on down the line. Most individual benchmarks in UnixBench showed these differences (e.g., Shell Scripts -- 1 concurrent -- ran almost four times faster on the Standard XLarge than on the Medium). Yet all of them get reported as "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz" by the VM. So if you're comparing with other providers, you should really consider that each instance type is its own family. (Note that HP Cloud does not address this in its FAQ or feature description).
• Like other clouds, the best price-per-performance for single-core UnixBench is the cheapest one; with HP, it's the Standard XSmall. HP has a gentle price-per-performance drop as you vertically scale instances, so unlike other providers, there aren't a few small instances that have much better price-per-performance than the rest.
• HP's price-per-performance for multi-threaded UnixBench scores matches pricing so well that there's not much to say. If you go with HP Public Cloud, you don't really need to think about instance-type selection as much as you would with other IaaS providers.
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I used to think "May Day" was a distress signal uniquely reserved for hapless pilots and captains. In fact, it wasn't until graduate school while taking an American rhetorical history course that I learned about the Haymarket Riots/Massacre and that Labor Day for many people around the world (International Workers Day), except for Americans, is May 1, in memory of those who died in Chicago on May 3 and 4, 1886 and in celebration of the humanist accomplishments of the international labor movement.
On May 1, labor unions had organized a strike there for the eight-hour day, better working conditions ("The Jungle" is hard to beat on this), for an ideal of international proportions: that one's labor and the person from whom it issues must be respected. For some people such respect meant that laborers deserved certain rights of negotiation and safety to avoid a new feudalism in the age of mass production.
On May3, they organized a strike at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., where a fight broke out on the picket line; police intervened, killing two workers and wounding several others. Workers across the city were enraged. Anarchists then distributed flyers for a labor rally at Haymarket Square the following day. Reports vary in this highly politicized event, but many note that people listened peacefully to anarchist leader August Spies's address. Then apparently someone threw a bomb over the crowd, which landed on the police line killing a police officer and wounding other policeman who died later. Policeman fired into the crowd killing a number of people (there are no uncontested counts). Eight German immigrants associated with anarchism were rounded up and convicted on no evidence. The motive was that they were anarchists. Seven of them were sentenced to death. One committed suicide. One's sentence was commuted to life in prison. And five were hanged publicly.
The trial produced some of the most eloquent criticisms of American industrial society and its political butresses. Some, such as George Engel's, even provide an explanation/argument for how one came to be a socialist/anarchist. Here is an excerpt from George Englel's address to the jury, which I recommend reading in its entirety by clicking on this link.
[...]On the occasion of my arrival at Philadelphia, on the 8th of January, 1873, my heart swelled with joy in the hope and in the belief that in the future I would live
and in a free country. I made up my mind to become a good citizen of this country, and congratulated myself on having left Germany, and landed in this glorious republic. And I believe my past history will bear witness that I have ever striven to be a good citizen of this country. This is the first occasion of my standing before an American court, and on this occasion it is murder of which I am accused. And for what reasons do I stand here? For what reasons am I accused of murder? The same that caused me to leave Germany-
of the working classes.
And here, too, in this "free republic," in the richest country of the world, there are numerous proletarians for whom no table is set; who, as outcasts of society, stray joylessly through life. I have seen human beings gather their daily food from the garbage heaps of the streets, to quiet therewith their knawing hunger.
I have read of occurrences in the daily papers which proves to me that here, too, in this great "free land," people are doomed to die of starvation. This brought me to reflection, and to the question: What are the peculiar causes that could bring about such a condition of society? I then began to give our political institutions more attention than formerly. [...]
"I came to the opinion that as long as workingmen are economically enslaved they cannot be politically free. [...]
Of what does my crime consist?
That I have labored to bring about a system of society by which it is impossible for one to hoard millions, through the improvements in machinery, while the great masses sink to degradation and misery. As water and air are free to all, so should the inventions of scientific men be applied for the benefit of all. The statute laws we have are
in that they rob the great masses of their rights "to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
I am too much a man of feeling not to battle against the societary conditions of today. Every considerate person must combat a system which makes it possible for the individual to rake and hoard millions in a few years, while, on the other side, thousands become tramps and beggars.
Is it to be wondered at that under such circumstances men arise, who strive and struggle to create other conditions,
over all other considerations? [...]
As this article demonstrates, the radical democratic history of May Day has been coopted in a few places in the world (in an attempt to rob it of its radical history as a resource for current politics), namely the U.S. Like other rights and practices many people hold to be sacred today, the eight-hour day was the result of social struggle and bloodshed (I'm just testifying about it; don't try this at home) by those considered "extremists."
In that same graduate school class where I learned about the history of May Day, a Polish student who had grown up in the last days of the Soviet Empire told an interesting story. Apparently on May Day, a Polish TV news correspondent was sent to Chicago to report on May Day. He went to the site of the Hay Market, where a monument to the police had been constructed then vandalized. (Only in 2004 was one constructed to acknowledge the workers who died there too. The politics of memorializing this event is quite a story in itself--see "Haymarket Square in the Aftermath"). The Polish reporter went around Chicago asking citizens if they knew that May Day was an international holiday in memory of the Haymarket riots and massacre. No one knew what he was talking about. He responded on their Communist state-run TV broadcast, "This is how capitalism perpetuates itself. Citizens here are robbed of their own history and live in a dreamworld." You don't have to like the Soviet Union to find truth in his observation. (and please, neo-liberals, don't be so cynical as to characterize this memorial as an extreme argument for state ownership of property;it's rather about some redistribution for equal opportunity and the basis for participation in civic life, and limitation of the most powerful who set the terms for the labor market)
The testimony of Engel and others at their fateful trial is also a causal argument about what desperate human beings will do when they suffer political exclusion to work out conflict peacefully. The fact that this event is largely a ghost in American history speaks to how unwilling some people are to look at the ugliness of our history (not that forgetting isn't best in some situations from a certain point of view), the struggles of citizen against citizen because such knowledge is threatening to myths of nation and its tenuous coherence. It's also threatening to those whose interests invested in criminalizing critiques of a consumer society that is killing our planet, not just its people. Part of the reason why it may continue is the suppression of other knowledges of the past and critiques of the present. Just as many wounded laborers were afraid to go to the hospital for fear of being arrested when police opened fire on the crowd on May 4, 1886 (after the bomb exploded) , so today one faces being branded an extremist, a radical, a revolutionary, merely for remembering this past.
Today (yesterday for some people reading this) is May Day. Today, let us remember these people who brought us the weekend.


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Clark's Department of Visual and Performing Arts is composed of six individual programs, each with its own distinct curriculum and faculty:
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Why study the arts at Clark?
Studying and creating art in Clark's liberal arts environment will provide you with many rich opportunities for the exchange of ideas, and the option to combine and inform your art studies with related disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
The five programs encourage and support working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment, both through their courses and use of the department's multi-purpose facilities in the Traina Center for the Arts.
Most courses in the department are open to both majors and non-majors, as are opportunities to audition for Clark theatre, dance and music performance groups.
Whether your goal is to become an art scholar, a practicing artist, or to use one of the majors as a meaningful focus of intellectual inquiry for your liberal arts education, courses in Visual and Performing Arts provide a solid foundation in critical thinking and creative skills for life.
Technology and the arts
Courses using computer technology, particularly those in graphic design, video editing and computer music, demonstrate the department's commitment to new directions in the arts.
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With faculty approval, you can cross-register for related courses like interior design, interactive media, music or art therapy at Worcester's consortium colleges or at Clark's College of Professional and Continuing Education.
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All students are invited to attend the many on-campus art exhibitions, film presentations, and musical, theatrical and dance performances featured throughout the academic year. Click on the link for more information about on-campus events.
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Clark's location in New England's second largest city, as well as its proximity to other important cultural centers (Boston, Cambridge, Hartford, and Providence are only an hour away) provides you with many options for experiencing and participating in the arts. New York City, approximately four hours from Clark, can be reached via public transportation from Worcester's Union Station.


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Kids need a lot of stuff for school these days. Of course, there are the ever-present backpacks and bookbags, lunch boxes and containers, and notebooks. But the modern-day student needs more. Audio headphones for the bus, clothing and equipment for team sports, cell phones and cameras—you'll find it all in one back-to-school store. You'll also be able to equip the little one in your life with the tools they will need for activities like arts and crafts as well as reading and writing. Not only will you find pens and crayons, but learning toys, which are particularly effective ways for younger children to learn.
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Nov. 6, 2012 12:29 PM
PORTLAND, OR -- (Marketwire) -- 11/06/12 -- Centerstance, a consulting company specializing in cloud-enabled business transformation solutions, announced today it has been acquired by NTT, the world's largest global IT and telecommunications services company. The $130 billion company based out of Japan, ranks 29th in Fortune's Global 500 list. The company will be renamed as NTT Centerstance, Inc. and will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT.
As one of only a few Salesforce.com Platinum partners in the US, Centerstance is a fast-growing consulting company specializing in helping companies identify and move key business processes to the Cloud leveraging the Salesforce.com platform. Centerstance has completed over 2000 deployments for clients of all sizes since their inception in 2003, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.
Centerstance and NTT Group companies will work in tandem to offer the global market a single partner across the entire Cloud Computing landscape, from strategy to implementation and management.
"The acquisition accelerates our strategy to become the largest provider of high quality cloud based business solutions in the market," states Nick Yarymovych, Senior Vice President of Global Consulting and Operations.
"This business combination positions us to extend our reach to emerging markets, globally scale our high impact consulting team, while maintaining our optimized methodology and focus on solving customer business process challenges with cloud technologies. Recent conversations with our customers and partners over the last weeks indicate they are thrilled about the combined company and welcome the enhanced value."
With a strategic focus on Cloud computing, NTT has increased its level of investment in cloud-related innovations through group companies Dimension Data, NTT Communications and NTT DATA to provide clients solutions spanning a variety of cloud service and delivery models. Today, its extensive portfolio of Cloud solutions is enabled by capabilities that span the full applications lifecycle and managed infrastructure services leveraging one of the world's largest IP backbones and a network of over 200 data centers.
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Senator Leahy Ignores Serious First Amendment Concerns With COICA
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"There's no First Amendment right that protects thieves. It protects speech."Seeing as he's a Senator, it would help if he were familiar with the law. As such, he would know that (1) copyright infringement is not "theft," and (2) yes, the First Amendment protects all kinds of speech, even speech made by criminals and (3) the Free Speech issues that many of us are concerned with are the takedowns of legitimate non-infringing content, which we've seen happen repeatedly by Homeland Security -- which is the type of program Leahy is looking to expand with COICA.
It's immensely frustrating that someone like Senator Leahy would flat-out mislead over these very serious concerns. Though, of course, I have some ideas why. Perhaps the fact that Time Warner and Walt Disney are the two largest contributors to his campaign, and Vivendi (owners of Universal Music), General Electric (until recently owners of Universal Studios) and Viacom are not far behind has something to do with it...


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Wild's Cullen takes young Zucker under his wingby Dan Myers
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Matt Cullen has worn many hats for the Minnesota Wild this season.
Playmaker. Goal scorer. Catalyst.
But his latest role is the one that may certainly leave the most lasting impact on the franchise located in Cullen's home state: mentor.
Cullen said it doesn't seem like that long ago when he was the rookie. When he broke in with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in 1997, Cullen said it was Ted Drury, Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne who took him under their wings.
Now, it's Cullen with left wing linemate Jason Zucker -- 16 years his junior. When Cullen broke into the League, Zucker was a 5-year-old in Las Vegas. Ice was a dream, much less ice hockey.
Could Cullen have even imagined back then playing that same veteran role someday?
"That old guy? You can just say it," Cullen says with a laugh. "You don't ever really think about it, it just happens so fast. I still remember being a rookie in Anaheim with Kariya and Selanne. It goes so fast, but it's been a fun run."
When Zucker broke in with the Wild at the end of last season, he played a bit role with mostly bottom-six minutes. Called up for the first time this season Feb. 17, Wild coach Mike Yeo put him next to Cullen on the Wild's second line and watched it take off.
In his first game up this season, he scored his first career goal, the tying goal in an eventual 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings. He finished the regular season with four goals and five points in 20 games and was a plus-4.
And while Zucker has always played the game fast, he credits Cullen for showing him the smaller points of the game.
Does anyone stick out more than another?
"I don't think I can pick out one thing, there's a lot of stuff he's done to help me," Zucker said.
Cullen said, "Small things, especially as you get into the playoffs, it's the small things that make a difference. We just talk about puck placement, different positioning, especially on the forecheck, how we can [get to] pucks. We talk about getting pucks back, because the more puck time we can have in their zone, we're going to create off of that."
It's that puck time that has been the second line's bread and butter this season. Along with right wing Devin Setoguchi, the trio uses its speed to win puck battles and control zone time. When that group has played well, so has the Wild.
On the bench, Zucker can be found next to Cullen -- typically having his ear talked off about something that may have happened on the last shift, or what to expect on the next. That information has been invaluable.
"More than you guys even know, he's been unbelievable all year," Zucker said. "I have to give him a ton of credit for my development."
Cullen said, "That's nice to hear, I don't know if that's the case, he's obviously pretty good on his own. I try to help as much as I can, but often times, it's more getting out of the way of some skilled, good young kids."
Zucker scored all four of his regular season goals in his first 10 games this season. In the 11th, he took a vicious high hit from Anaheim Ducks forward Corey Perry, which knocked him from the lineup for a couple of games.
When he returned, Zucker's play wasn't the same. After three games, he was returned to the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League. He returned to Minnesota for five games in April before being sent down again.
He was called up for the final time on the eve of the Wild's regular-season finale, a game Minnesota needed to win to get into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They did.
"Through the highs and lows, best games, worst games, he's been there, making sure I'm not getting too high or too low and keeping my game going," Zucker said.
Zucker and Cullen were electric in Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Chicago Blackhawks, creating several Grade-A scoring chances with their speed. The rookie nearly won the game in overtime after ripping a Cullen faceoff win off the crossbar.
In Game 3, the duo was at it again, when Cullen somehow got a pass to Zucker -- while on his stomach -- standing below the left circle. The rookie didn't bother looking for a place to shoot but buried it past Corey Crawford anyway, throwing his hands in the air and crashing into the glass in celebration.
"A couple of buddies told me they would have had a better cele," Zucker said.
For Cullen, who won a Stanley Cup with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006, any "cele" will do, especially this time of year.
"It's fun, you see the enthusiasm, the energy, I mean you see the reaction after he scores, it's a guy that's excited," Cullen said. "It's fun, it's what it's all about. It's fun to be here now and being able to watch that and be a part of that."


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EBay said Tuesday it would take a $3 billion tax charge to bring most of its foreign-held cash back to the U.S. WSj's Greg Bensinger and Scott Thurm discuss the online marketplace's first-quarter earnings report. (Photo: AP)
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Tommy Manzella, Brian Bogusevic, Brian Esposito, and Wesley Wright have been optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Who is this bad for? Well, them. But who is it good for? Matt Downs, and J.B. Shuck. Shuck is that guy who won't go away (not that it's a bad thing). Also, Jason Bourgeois, the other lefty-off-the-bench candidate. More reaction a little later.
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No, it's that other speedy black guy from Houston that's the lefty-swinger. And who is this really good news for? Mr. Waiver Wire Guy (he just doesn't know it yet).
- March 24, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- tpack said...
Wow, Astros going to have a glut of Outfielders at AAA. By my count: Gaston, Bogusevic, Locke, DeLome, Steel (AA?), Martinez (AA?), and then one of Bourgeois and Shuck...
- March 24, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- tpack said...
Sorry, should read Steele.
- March 24, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Astros County said...
Excellent use of snark by Anonymous
- March 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM
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(NewsUSA) – "Innovation" is a term companies use quite often. While many companies are quick to brand themselves as inventive, very few have the legacy and pioneering spirit to be truly innovative. But occasionally, a few great companies manage to prove their claims of innovation by successfully extending core technologies into new fields and applications.
You may be grasping at air when you try to explain valve and sensing technologies to a friend. While many don't see or interact with these technologies on a daily basis, they are utilized in applications that many customers and end-users use each and every day -; and the roles these technologies play in your everyday safety and comfort shouldn't go unnoticed. One such valve and sensing technology manufacturer, Schrader, takes innovation seriously.
"Since 1891, our valve and sensing technology has played a critical safety role within global automotive applications. We invented the first pneumatic tire valve, the very same valve used on every vehicle in the world today. More recently, we pioneered tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), now required on all new vehicles in North America, and growing in European and Asian-Pacific countries," says Paul Wise, director of marketing at Schrader. "However, what differentiates Schrader is our ability to extend these foundational technologies to new markets and applications."
For example, Schrader has been successful in adapting its sensor technology to monitor power transmission belts and industrial hoses, which are found in diverse applications for factory equipment, construction, agriculture, robotics and other markets as well.
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Schrader valve and sensing technology within automotive applications helps to save lives, reduce fuel costs, and reduce environmental impact via TPMS. Additionally, Schrader's continued history of innovation has resulted in an all-electric way to better measure fuel levels in gas tanks as well as new flex fuel sensors for hybrid vehicles — its technology has even expanded to the medical field, including oxygen monitoring for hospital and patient environments.
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Earlier today I presented a keynote speech at the World Food Prize 2012 Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa. I'd like to share with you some of what I had to say about smallholder farmers and the important role they must play in feeding the world.
Today, our fragile and beautiful Earth is home to seven billion people. Over the next 30 years, two, maybe three billion more will join us. The global food system is struggling. Food prices peaked in 2008 and peaked again a few months ago, sparking riots and export bans. Land grabs, increasing oil prices, biofuel development, food production and distribution failures, disturbing water shortages are converging and reshaping our world and the very character of poverty and hunger.
All these forces are contributing to the distressing spike in malnutrition and poverty around the world.
But to the good, the G8, G2O, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum and others have rediscovered the critical importance of agriculture and are all promisingthrough public-private partnershipsto do more for smallholder farmers. We laud these decisionssmallholder farmers are the best change agents we have to help feed this hungry world. Let me explain.
Heifer International is helping lead what has been called the livestock revolution. We are working to reach a rapidly growing group of smallholder farmers, mostly women, to inspire agroecological productivity, biodiversity, financial security and health to create the surplus needed to feed the world.
There are 650 million smallholder farmers in the world and 50 to 80 percent of them are women! They grow the majority of the food eaten every day. By doubling their productivity, they can help feed the world. And we will need these 300+ million women to feed us all.
Along with this, we need to take advantage of new plant technologies, and spread as rapidly as possible best practices, which can double or triple yields. We also need more and better public-private partnerships to advance agriculture to help meet global needs in food security. They can open access to finance and technology and link smallholders to markets. By combining strengths, partners can all make better progress than by working on their own.
By using the greatest asset in agricultural developmentthe smallholder farmeralong with the best seeds, the best plants, judicious use of a range of fertilizers and wise husbandry, we can increase yields by factors of three or four. Also, rethinking subsidies for biofuel could free up vast acreage for human food production, which we know we need.
Overcoming these challenges will require new thinking, new collaborations, new openness ... understanding that all successful agricultural public-private partnerships should lead to win-win situations that benefit farmers. Recent studies suggest that improvements in national incomes tied to agricultural growth have been underestimated. In truth, few countries have achieved increased prosperity without equivalent growth in agriculture.
So, what does that mean? It means that successful poverty elimination utilizes market-driven development and depends strongly on deeply embedded social engagement.
But lets be clear on one thingsomething we learned at Heifer International a long time ago: Economic growth and community development cannot be separated. They must go hand in hand.
Come back to the Heifer Blog tomorrow to learn more about how economic and community development must be done together.


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The No. 7 host C. Milton Wright field hockey team used its speed and teamwork to upset No. 1 Garrison Forest, 3-0, at its inaugural tournament Saturday.
The loss ended a 37-game unbeaten streak by the Grizzlies (1-1).
"We couldn't get started," Garrison coach Traci Davis said. "We are a new team with lots of things to figure out."
The Mustangs got goals from Madie Adams, Haley Matthai and Maggie Gallagher. Sabrina Rhodes recorded all three assists, and goalie Sydney Rhodes made six saves.
Garrison Forest went on to beat No. 10 Hereford, 2-1, and C. Milton Wright beat No.6 Notre Dame Prep, 2-0. Adams got her second goal against the Blazers.
Roland Park 3, St. Stephen's & St. Agnes 1: Sophomore star Ellie Carson's hat trick powered the Reds (2-1) past the Saints in the final game of the Sally E. Nyborg Invitational Tournament.
Sophomore forward Andi Weinberg notched the only goal for the Reds (2-1), who beat Westminster, 2-1, in the morning game of the six-team event that also featured Fallston, Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Severna Park.
Weinberg's goal was assisted by Landon Warren, who had a goal against Fallston, along with fellow junior midfielder Abbey Roswell. Senior forward Natalie Faust and junior forward Molly O'Hern had assists in the Reds' win.
St. Stephen's & St. Agnes, which topped Bethesda-Chevy Chase, 2-0 in its first game, held off a strong Roland Park rally in the second half behind junior goalie Ellie Majure (five saves).
A stout defensive effort by Severna Park allowed only one shot on goal while posting a pair of shutouts over Fallston, 2-0, and Bethesda-Chevy Chase, 1-0.
Senior defender Emma Slattery had the only goal for Severna Park against the Barons. Senior defender Maeve Doherty and sophomore forward Eva Klaus scored to beat the Cougars.
The annual event is held in honor of the memory of former Reds player Sally Elizabeth Nyborg, who died of complications from lupus. Proceeds from the tournament went to the Sally Nyborg Foundation for Lupus Research, which helps fund lupus research at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
—Nelson Coffin, Baltimore Sun Media Group
Archbishop Curley 46, Kiski Prep (Pa.) 25: Cyrus Boardman threw three touchdown passes to power the host Friars (2-0) past the Cougars (0-1).
Boys soccer
No. 10 River Hill 7, Dundalk 0: Mike Heitzmann scored twice to lead the Hawks past the Owls at Catonsville.
Girls soccer
Dulaney 3, North Carroll 2: Ellie Mathey had a hat trick to lead the Lions (2-0) past the host Panthers in the North Carroll Tournament.
Dulaney later fell to Poolesville, 4-1.


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i have a HTC sentation with ViperS 3.1.2 with Android 4.1.1 and with V2.3.3 (before last update) from rSAP everything works fine with a VW Golf 6 BT Premium system. Then after the automatic update to V2.4, rsap don't connect anymore.
I tried uninstall and reinstall and nothing, also reinstall the rsap Installation file and the same. To take out doubts i reinstall a ROM Backup with version V2.3.3 and everything works fine again with perfect and quick connection to BT system.
After another automatic update to V2.4 and again same problem, no connection.
Do anyone have similar problems or any suggestion ?
Admin,it's possible to stay in V2.3.3 ? i can't find in playstore where to disable the updates.


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