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The road to the heart of the Vatican's fight against clerical abuse has been a long and painful one for Irishwoman Marie Collins. As a young girl in the 1960s, she was sexually abused by a priest in a children's hospital in Dublin. Decades later, when she told Church authorities of her experiences, she was met with a wall of silence.
Collins soon began to learn she wasn't alone. Her tireless activism on behalf of those who had been abused by priests led to the establishment of a judicial inquiry, which uncovered decades of abuse by clergy in the sprawling Archdiocese of Dublin. The Murphy Report, published in 2009, showed that Church leaders had put the avoidance of scandal and the reputation of the Church ahead of the needs of children when they were made aware of abuse.
Collins' abuser — known by the pseudonym Father Edmondus — was eventually imprisoned in 1997. It later was discovered that the archdiocese had first received a complaint against him in 1960, yet he was not removed from ministry until months before his conviction in 1997.
Despite her suffering, Collins has never lost her sense of compassion. Referring to her abuser, she says "a man like that deserves our prayers but not our protection." This compassion reflects the depth and strength of her Catholic faith. "I have remained a Catholic but not without much difficulty and struggle," she said. "There have been periods when practicing my faith has been impossible. I have tried to separate the institution of the Church from the Faith. My belief in God has never wavered."
Now, as a member of the newly established Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, Collins is clear that the body must bring about real change. "Survivors will not be satisfied with more words or promises; they need to see real change," she told Our Sunday Visitor in a recent interview.
For Collins, the priority is to ensure that the mistakes that have been made in places like Ireland and the United States are not repeated, as countries — particularly in the developing world — respond to allegations of abuse.
The Church needs "a strong worldwide child protection policy, which would include sanctions for any member of the Church in a position of authority who ignored these rules," she said. "Having been to the first meeting and having met the other people involved, it's clear to me that the establishment of the commission is a serious attempt to deal with the issue globally rather than the Church dealing with the issue country-by-country."
She believes the fact that the body answers directly to the pope is also key in avoiding getting bogged down in bureaucracy.
"The fact that we are responsible directly to (Pope Francis) is indicative of the fact that he's taking the issue seriously, and he's determined for this to be handled worldwide.
"I think the pope understands just how important this issue is and how important it is to back up words with concrete action. As time goes on, there'll be more signs of that," she said.
One sign, for example, is Pope Francis' May 26 announcement that he would be meeting face-to-face with survivors of clergy sexual abuse and celebrating Mass for them in the near future.
The issue of accountability is a key concern for Collins. Too many bishops who have failed to act against abusive priests have been allowed to remain in office undisciplined, she said.
It seems clear that this will be an important part of the commission's work. Speaking to reporters after the first meeting, Boston Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, another member of the pontifical commission, said the group will "make recommendations regarding policies for assuring accountability and best practice."
Collins said she has been "very impressed" with Cardinal O'Malley's "openness and his ability to listen."
"I'm also heartened by the fact that he sees the issue of accountability and transparency as vitally important," she said.
A challenge for the commission, Collins said, will be getting everyone to see the centrality of accountability.
"The need for accountability is understood on the commission, but this isn't the case everywhere," she said. "I think a lot of Church people, particularly in countries where we have had the issue dealt with over many years, think that the issue is over and done with and we can move on without accepting the accountability issue.
"At the level of the commission, accountability is seen as the core issue; you have to look at that as being one of the main failings of the past," she said.
The original eight members of the commission are shortly expected to add more members to the body. However, most observers don't expect the group to grow much beyond a dozen members. Collins is the only abuse survivor among the members, and she sees her appointment as a "clear signal" that the Church "is committed to hearing the experiences of survivors at the highest level."
Collins said she brings a different perspective. "It doesn't matter how much professional or clerical experience that's there in dealing with the issue, having lived the abuse, and not just the abuse, having lived the attitudes within the Church, I think I do bring a whole different perspective," she said.
And one attitudinal shift she'd like to see is in reaching out to victims. "I would like to see the way survivors and their families have been treated change. The concentration on often-abusive legalistic responses instead of caring for those hurt needs to end."
Too often in the past, she said, Church leaders have found it difficult to handle the "justified anger" of survivors. This, she believes, "underestimated the damage done to lives and the hurt and anger and thirst for justice that so many survivors feel."
She describes her appointment as "a big step for the Church to include a survivor on the commission, but a very necessary one."
Collins believes the commission can also play a vital role in ensuring that Church leaders everywhere prioritize the issue of safeguarding children.
"There are so many countries that don't think they have a problem or the problem hasn't arisen yet. The commission — with the pope's backing — can play a vital role in saying to bishops and Church leaders all over the world that they have to face this issue," she said. "I meet very sincere people in the Church who think that child abuse is not a reality in their culture of their country. It's not just denial, it's ignorance. The commission will have to challenge this."
In Collins, Pope Francis has found a determined champion for vulnerable children. "The ultimate test," she said, "will be that we see accountability throughout the entire Church."
Michael Kelly writes from Ireland.
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- It wouldn't be September (or August; or July; or any month, really) without basketball drama in the Bluegrass State, as the hoops hotbed that never rests continues to churn out storylines to keep the residents buzzing and the links clicked. The latest and greatest kerfuffle involved a Louisville Courier-Journal story by Tim Sullivan late last week that analyzed the hyper-competitive world of recruiting at the most elite programs — including, of course, Kentucky — and tying it back to some of the commentary among John Calipari, Jim Boeheim and others weighing in on Mike Krzyzewski's perceived recruiting advantage as the head coach of Team USA. The firestorm that ensued among social media users and the rest didn't stem from the article itself, though; rather, it was the accompanying photo of a "crybaby" hybrid Calipari/infant image that set the world ablaze. On Monday, the newspaper published an apology from Executive Editor Neil Budde, effectively stating that their internal editorial controls should have, but didn't, catch the "mistake." Was it a mistake, or was it calculated clickbait meant to drive readers to the website (even though the picture only made it into print editions)? Only a few will know the answer to that, but Calipari tweeted that he accepted the apology, putting a tidy bow on the entire proceeding until the next blow-up (probably early next week, if our timing is right).
- Since we're on the topic of #BBN, there were a lot of Kentucky fans feeling a little punchy over the weekend when it was reported that former Wildcat star and current media personality, Rex Chapman, had been arrested in Arizona for allegedly shoplifting over $14,000 worth of Apple electronics and fencing them through pawn shops in the area. The day-by-day details of the scheme are troubling, especially for someone who made over $22 million during his playing days and seemed to be doing well working as a broadcaster for Turner Sports as recently as April. His notorious pre-title game tweet about John Calipari supposedly taking the Los Angeles Lakers job (#donedeal), however, had left a bad taste in the mouth of many Wildcats' fans, and although his 14 felony counts of stealing headphones and the like do not rise to the level of bad behavior from athletes in the news lately, there was a vocal minority who felt some karmic retribution had been had.
- The NCAA will host the Final Four in Indianapolis next April and in Houston (ugh) again in 2016, but dates beyond the next two years have yet to be set. One of the candidates vying for position among the crowd is Glendale's University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals and the Fiesta Bowl, as well as the future site of the 2015 Super Bowl and the 2016 college football national championship game. Glendale is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area — although the stadium is located 15 miles northwest of downtown — and NCAA officials are spending time there this week to scope out the quality of the city's bid for one of the 2017, 2019 or 2020 Final Fours. Given that Phoenix has proven capable of handling other high-profile sporting events, this should be a no-brainer, and it would nice for the NCAA to have its marquee event on the West Coast once again (the last Final Four west of Texas was in 1995 in Seattle).
- Speaking of the NCAA, president Mark Emmert recently addressed the issue of domestic violence among student-athletes in light of the NFL's Ray Rice fiasco, and although he took the easy way out by punting back to the schools, it was also the right call. With schools of all shapes and sizes scattered through all 50 states (and correspondingly, 50 different penal codes), it would be exceptionally difficult for the NCAA to try to police something like this. And the NCAA simply isn't any good at equitable justice anyway. Emmert is correct — other than to say that the organization strongly opposes domestic violence of any kind and encourages schools to educate its players about the dangers, they should pretty much stay out of it.
- Well, this is just weird. Maryland's Dez Wells Instagrammed and tweeted out a picture of himself playing basketball at Xavier that a friend of his found in an anatomy textbook called "Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise." In a post-O'Bannon environment where the public tide has clearly shifted to support of revenue-sport players sharing a piece of the multi-billion dollar pie that their talents create, a stock photo of Wells skying for a dunk in an obscure textbook seems like relatively small potatoes. Still, it's just one more example of athletes like Wells getting the short end of the stick when it comes to the fairness of use of their likenesses. As Wells said through social media, #ShowMeTheMoney.


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Nanotechnology comprises the techniques for making things small (<100 nm) — i.e., nanopatterning — and the resulting applications, ranging from the results of undirected nanopatterning such as Goretex, paint, and reactive gold nanoparticles, to those of directed nanopatterning such as semiconductor and photonic circuits and genomic microarrays. Fanciful extensions to useful nanorobots and nanorotating machinery can be discarded, certainly for my lifetime and probably forever.
Nanotechnology predates the NNI by several decades. The late 1950s saw the invention of the integrated circuit, the landmark papers by Buck and Shoulders and by Feynman, and early examples of nanopatterning by Moellenstedt. I "wrote" a 10-nm feature in 1963. In the early 1970s, the quantitative advantages of scaling electronic circuits to smaller dimensions were formalized, and fabricating vertical structures to monolayer precision through molecular-beam epitaxy and Langmuir Blodgett technology became accepted techniques. Also in the 1970s, electron beam lithography became a standard technique for pattern generation and demonstrated features down to 5 nm. The throughput limitations of this technique also became apparent. The National Science Foundation set up the National Submicron facility during this time as well, and the facility has now morphed into the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network.
Nanopatterning has paid off spectacularly for semiconductor circuitry. As features are scaled down, the speed of a given circuit has increased linearly and the energy per computing function has decreased as the cube of the scaling factor. Unfortunately, the equipment now being developed for semiconductors is too expensive and too specialized for other applications. The next generation ("45-nm node") of semiconductor circuit patterning tools will cost $30 million and can only accommodate 300-mm diameter silicon wafers partially immersed in water. Alternative nanofabrication techniques include nanoprinting, which has evolved into a variety of techniques with capabilities to replicate 10-nm features at about 1 cm2/s.
What is still missing is the ability to make and inspect the necessary templates economically. I have some ideas — a few of them borrowed from the disk storage industry. We also need to be able to place the patterns to sub-10 nm precision and ensure the absence of defects. A related challenge is how to fabricate nanostructures on non-flat (e.g., doubly curved) surfaces. Non-directed patterning, such as self-assembly techniques, can help by rapidly filling in specified areas with nano structures on the sub-25 nm scale. When we meet all of these challenges, we will have even more opportunities for pushing nanotechnology into a wide variety of applications.
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While on sabbatical in 1993 and 1994, Pease conducted research on the synthesis of DNA microarrays at Affymetrix Corporation. From 1996 to 1998, he was assigned to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he initiated programs in advanced microelectronics and molecular-level printing. He has also served as a consultant to IBM, Xerox, Etec Systems, and Lawrence Livermore Labs, and is on the technical advisory boards of Ultratech Stepper and Affymetrix.
Pease is a fellow of the IEEE and has served the association in a variety of capacities. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. With his student David Tuckerman, he received the fi rst IEEE Paul Rappaport Award. He received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 2001 for advancing high-resolution patterning technologies, high-performance thermal management, and scanning electron microscopy for microelectronics. His other honors include the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Microfabrication, which he shared with his student Tom Newman, for writing a page of text in a 6-micron square with 25 nm linewidths; and a Title A Fellowship from Trinity College, Cambridge. He has published more than 200 articles and authored several book chapters.
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It's actually been quite a good way for me to listen to artists from other countries, which is something that I'm often quite rubbish at (apart from North American acts naturally). There's some good stuff here, and others that I don't like at all, but it's worth giving Jason's project a whirl to see how it goes.
There are 12 blogs from different countries at the moment (the UK has been split up, and I'm representing England, which is a funny position for a Scot to be in) but more may follow in time. The list of participating blogs, tracks and some blurbs follow right now...
USA – I Guess I'm Floating
Arizona - The Glowing Bird
Brian Storming – France
Miami Horror – Don't Be On With Her
Miami Horror pretty much blew everyone's mind from the start, just by being called Miami Horror even though he's a producer from Melbourne (kinda like when everyone freaked about The Streets being just one guy). Then he cemented the name he had made for himself with unapologetically synth-heavy remixes - bootleg and official - of a crazy-wide array of artists from Perth's The Dirty Secrets to France's Stardust. And now here he is with the official release of his first single.
Diefenbach – On The Move
Diefenbach have been long-time stalwarts of the Danish indie scene, starting out as a post-rock band and gradually evolving into what they are today. Think Beach Boys meets Mogwai meets...well, Diefenbach, actually. The new album, Dark Spinner, is due in late October but the track we're presenting is from 2005's Set And Drift.
Absentee – Bitchstealer
Absentee's debut album proper Schmotime was one of my favourites of 2006, and new record Victory Shorts is a direct continuation of what the East London band does best. Singer Dan Michaelson's ravaged drawl, the sweet boy-girl vocal play-offs with keyboardist Melinda Bronstein and hugely pleasing riffs from Babak Ganjei all call to mind a much less polished Teenage Fanclub or a poppier Pavement.
Plúseinn – Shake
The man behind the band Plúseinn is Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson also known as Árni Plúseinn (a.k.a. Árni +1). He recently released an album called Lettuce And Tomato, made in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York under the name Hungry And The Burger. Árni Rúnar is and was involved in a lot of Icelandic bands and projects (e.g. Hairdoctor, Motion Boys) and is a founding member of the band FM Belfast.
Fight Like Apes – Digifucker
The band have just released their debut Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion in Ireland and the UK. The album was produced by John Goodmanson in Seattle over the summer. They are currently touring the UK with The Ting Tings.
Le Man Avec Les Lunettes – The Happy Birth Of You And Me
LMALL's new album Plaskaplaskabombelibom is free to download from their website.
PERU – SoTB
ERA – Opium
Taken from the band's second album Ufocalipsis which was released last year.
Roddy Hart – Dead Of The Night
Roddy Hart made the folk-rock masterpiece Bookmarks, arguably one of the best albums to have come out of Scotland. Dead Of The Night is the first fruits from its follow-up due out in 2009. It's a live favourite and easily the most immediate pop song the Glaswegian has ever written.
Blacanova – Los Remedios
Blacanova is a band from Seville and this song is from their second demo, Perro EP. They are influenced by Joy Division, Seefeel, The Cure, Spanish band Sr Chinarro, David Lynch and Tod Browning films, and the writer Alejandra Pizarnik. Their music is a cross between dark pop, IDM (intelligent dance music) and shoegaze.
Tvärvägen – September
Tvärvägen is an eclectic one-man orchestra from Gustavsburg, Sweden. Notice both the clattering instrumentation and hummable melody. It's that dichotomy that makes Tvärvägen so unforgettable. The band's debut record is out November 6 on the small label Knoppar.
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|2012-08-03, 19:07
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Episode 29:
Kakeru was quite hilarious in that episode; I still get vibes from the manga when I think of that scene in the shower rooms. I can't wait for the baby-faced assassin to play with that blue shirt on.
About Mai... I want Mai to improve as a character (who wouldn't?) and as a player for the Nadeshiko since we see more of them in the anime than in the manga. However, someone should think about firing Takeda, bring on someone with a Ferguson-esque stern face of a coach and have such new coach who's not shy of letting Mai warm the bench as a punishment for her selfishness. The only way (and I mean it when I say it), really the only way Mai can grow as a player is through the presence of a stern disciplinarian to show her how it's done. It's one thing for Seven to still believe in Mai, but getting rid of that selfishness requires some horse remedy.
|2012-08-04, 11:18
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This time it started with girl's soccer.
Mai & Seven play really good.
Seems like Mai was not satisfied with her performance though.
This time guys were forced to do a really intense training.
So basically, to become the best, they have to get much stronger.
I wasn't surprised by Araki's behavior though.
That guy really needs to stop eating so much!
Turns out that Mai is acting pretty selfish. She's not mush of a team player.
Her passes at Kakeru really made him loose his cool ^^
Kakeru a U-16 Japanese representative!! Awesome!
|2012-08-04, 14:38
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However, the sad truth is that neither the director nor the creator of this series has the balls to show viewers what it costs to any character (primary or secondary) when playing with such selfishness.
|2012-08-11, 04:22
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The short recap was a nice reminder of how it all began.
U-16 representative training camp.
Kakeru & Araki got invited.
Flashback to soccer days with Suguru was interesting to watch.
Araki's weight sure was getting attention from other players ^^"
Those 15-minute games were pretty intense.
Hazing Kakeru was LOL
|2012-08-12, 03:24
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Now, we are getting into some interesting stuff. Good to see the likes of Yusuke and Hibino joining Araki and Kakeru in that huge camp.
I lol'ed when Hibino finally got tempted to peep in that hazing session. Kakeru is still pretty much the cherry boy at heart.
Araki's mom was after making quite the supreme effort to lose weight of her own.
I didn't know Captain Taeko Ishiki is only 25. I thought she would be a little older than that.
|2012-08-18, 07:01
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Kakeru in a match against USA.
Just looking at others play was pretty interesting.
That USA goalkeeper was really good.
With all those great players Kakeru really had to go all out to prove himself.
The USA guys sure were big when compared to the Japanese team.
Getting one over Americans won't be easy as the inter high matches.
Looks like Kakeru realized he needs to get more serious.
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It was a decent episode, though next episode looks to be another OOC filler time.
Still, it did a good job of giving Kakeru a 'start' into future story arcs when the time comes for the story to go onto the international scene, and starts by establishing 'national-level' rivals he'll face in tournaments.
Kakeru does still need to level up some more. Despite having some neat tricks, as a player overall, he's pretty unimpressive compared to the others.
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What puzzles me is how Seven told Kakeru that the focus of improvement should be on the Phi trick instead of adding a wider variety of feints. It's probably the first time I openly disagree with Seven on the approach to take because that ain't gonna help Kakeru to use the same thing even if it's an improved version. Even the best strikers of the game today use a number of different feints to shake off the defenders and find the opportunity to score. Do we want Kakeru to become a speedy fox in the box like Filippo Inzaghi or rather a more complete striker like Robin van Persie? That's one good question to ask.
I also lol'ed at Mai's apparent cluelessness when Seven explained the way a goalkeeper would win a race to block a loop shot.
Next episode should be fun with the festival coming up. Volume 16 in the manga should be good preparation about what to expect next week.
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The thing about Kakeru is that even his 'trump cards' can be rather underwhelming and circumstantial, especially when compared with what other players have as well. Everyone else seems to have something that they can built around their fundamental core strength or team play. Even the highly circumstantial Hibino Cannon has its place in the 'build of the team' via the Four Arrows, much less more rounded abilities like Asuka's game planning skills and Takajo's ability as a striker.
As for his all-rounder skill... while it doesn't seem to be bad, it definitely lacks behind even Yuusuke, which means he still has a fair bit to go.
But the series seems to be actively pushing for Kakeru's development as the 'Knight in the Area' , so what can I say?
|2012-08-18, 22:28
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Someone from another forum wrote that it would turn Kakeru into a one-trick pony by just levelling up the Phi trick until it becomes unstoppable (like Naruto's Rasengan Shuriken). And Kakeru looks to keep on trying that too often in the manga as well instead of developing something else and use the Phi trick as a last resort. That's why I'm not too warm at Seven's idea.
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|2012-08-25, 23:49
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Kota is really good at creating quite a mess by hiring Mai into the maid cafe and then getting everyone to wear dresses. Kakeru dressing like a girl was a collector's item reminding me of Shinji Ikari in that funny Evangelion spin-off manga I read some time ago. But Kaoru dressing as a girl was... Oh God! He even made Mai cry in jealousy and I lol'ed even harder when Hibino was told that the "girl" was Kaoru.
The theater act was a very hilarious one as you mentioned.
Nana using her full tomboyishness of old to act as Romeo... wow! Really, take a bow, son! Take a bow!
|2012-08-25, 23:56
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I suppose it was only a matter of time until they put the baby-faced assassin in a dress... If only they'd switched his and Araki's roles when Araki suggested it, the whole spinal collapse would never have happened.
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|2012-09-14, 20:50
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That looked more like tiki-taka than total football to me, but it's still a tough system to play against. Ironically, without Araki Enoshima is suffering from the same thing the US National team is - a lack of a creative and intuitive force in the midfield. Stuart Holden can't come back soon enough.
AnK has definitely found a nice stride over the last few weeks. I think it's the best run of eps so far.
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On today's episode of the Daily Stir, Stefanie encourages us to break into celebrity homes, dishes on Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's New York dinner date, and manages to do one heck of a Ke$ha impersonation. Watch!
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Lady Gaga Tried to Feed Unhinged Fans Who Broke Into Her House on Thanksgiving
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Ke$ha Had Sex With a Ghost. I Repeat, Ke$ha Had Sex With a Ghost.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Suits Up to Receive Cinema Vanguard Award
Leonardo DiCaprio looks dreamy as always while attending an event to receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Thursday (February 6) at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif.
The 39-year-old actor received the award alongside Martin Scorsese for collaborating on five films throughout their career.
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Leo's The Wolf of Wall Street co-star Jonah Hill was also on hand to celebrate his pals. It was announced this week that the actors will be reuniting for another film. Make sure to check out the details!
FYI: The festival is Sponsored by Heineken.
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I'm majoring in Econ so it is not like I don't know anything about these kinds of things. Ian Thomson of PointForward correctly pointed out the greatest risk there is for both the players AND the owners:
There has been tremendous fear from both the players and owners of alienating their supporters, who will be infuriated that a relatively small group of adults cannot agree how to share the proceeds of their $4 billion industry. But the bigger risk is indifference. What if a large number of fans realize they can live without the NBA? That they're happy enough to focus on the NFL, March Madness and baseball over the months ahead?
I couldn't say it any better (which is kind of the main reason for quoting anyone I guess). Anyway, I can see it for myself. There isn't anything going on this summer, even less than there usually is. I used to get up every morning and check the newest trade rumors and free agent talk. We'd have Summer League and other basketball related issues. Our star has a strained thigh or whatever could rattle me in my basketball life.
David Stern has formed a highly successful league and I believe it's his right to try everything in order to keep it that way ... except for risking its success. People will switch to other sports, maybe not even other sports, but other countries. In 1998 there weren't any strong basketball leagues in this world besides the NBA. Meanwhile, the European leagues have become really strong, especially the EuroCup and the ULEB Cup offer satisfying basketball. If some of the major stars decide to go over there and play for them their marketing budget while explode and help them to offer NBA salaries quite possibly within the next year. Maybe it's Stern's masterplan to create a European Division in the NBA, maybe it's not.
As for myself, I have already started paying closer attention to my old love German soccer. I will follow the German basketball league, which pretty much sucks, and the other European leagues, heck, maybe I will go to Bologna for a week end and see what Kobe's doing. It's just a one-day-drive away although I bet I'm not the only one thinking this.
Alienating a fanbase who's been so supportive during the past decade and risking losing major stars is a big thing. I'm not entirely sure if David Stern understands the world has changed and the players union has much, much more power than a decade or even five years ago. The European NBA stars, especially the ones near or in their 30s won't struggle with the decision whether to go back home. Kobe loves Europe! The Gasols, Dirk, Kobe, Parker, Ginobili, Ibaka, Bargnani, etc. are just some of the names that come to mind.
The season might be saved by January, the NBA could change forever in the next three months.


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Fatal accident prompts fifth probe into Metro-North
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration are investigating the death of a worker struck and killed by a train on an elevated section of track in East Harlem, N.Y., while performing maintenance work Monday morning.
The investigation into the death of 58-year-old James Romansoff, of Yonkers, N.Y., is the fifth the agency has opened into Metro-North accidents since May and the second involving the death of a track worker. It is the first major incident under newly appointed Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti, who has pledged to make rider and worker safety his top priority.
"The entire Metro-North family mourns the loss of a colleague and a friend, and we offer our deepest condolences to Jim Romansoff's family," Giulietti said in a statement Monday. "Keeping our customers and employees safe is the most important job we have on the railroad. With our partners at the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, we will re-examine our procedures and protocols to ensure we are performing our jobs with safety as the paramount concern."
A source at the railroad said Romansoff had exited the established work zone onto a section of track where trains were running. Romansoff, who worked in the railroad's power department for eight years, was killed by a Poughkeepsie-bound Hudson Line train at 12:54 a.m. on a section of the Park Avenue viaduct near 106th Street, according to the railroad.
Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the NTSB, said three investigators were traveling Monday afternoon to New York City to investigate the accident.
On Sunday night, Romansoff and his crew were working in a two-mile stretch of two adjacent tracks closed to allow them to re-electrify the section that had been shut off to enable repair to a rail switch, according to Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders.
Anders and other Metro-North officials declined to discuss whether safety protocols were in place, citing the NTSB investigation. Last week, Giulietti released a 100-day safety plan of ongoing and completed safety initiatives, including a computer system meant to protect track workers while performing maintenance.
Giulietti said further improvements would rely on the results of external reviews, including Operation Deep Dive, a 60-day investigation started in December by the Federal Railroad Administration to review Metro-North's safety protocols across the board. That report is due next week.
The new computer software system, called the enhanced employee safety system, would require rail traffic controllers to transmit a random code to a rail foreman during maintenance operations that would need to be sent back before a piece of track was reopened to rail traffic. Anders said under the system, a rail traffic controller would not be able to physically reopen a closed track until receiving the code.
The new system was created in response to NTSB's recommendations made last summer from the investigation of the death of 52-year-old Robert Ludens in May, who was struck by a train traveling 70 mph when a rookie rail traffic controller opened a section of track where Ludens was working. In response to that incident, the NTSB recommended Metro-North develop new safeguards for opening and closing tracks to address "inadequate" protection for railway workers.
Stephen Milone, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 817, which represents third-rail employees at the railroad, said he suspects Monday's accident is due to human error.
"I believe it was some kind of communication problem," Milone said. "But it's really too early to determine that, and we'll have to see what the NTSB investigation discovers."
Milone said that on Monday morning Romansoff was alongside several other workers on the project to restore power to tracks. Milone said Romansoff was part of a group of about 100 workers who maintain electrified third rails that power trains.
"Unfortunately, it's a very dangerous job even on a good day, but these are the things that are inherent with the job," Milone said. "If you're not getting hit by a train, you could be electrocuted, and that's why these people are the heroes of the railroad."
Romansoff's death is the latest tragedy in a string of disasters at the railroad, including two passenger train derailments in Bridgeport and the Bronx, N.Y. and a slew of service disruptions and pervasive delays related to safety-driven track work.
The railroad's troubles began with the derailment of a train and collision with another in Bridgeport that injured 76 people, followed two weeks later by Ludens' death.
Commuters have faced ongoing delays as a result of a more rigorous track inspection regimen adopted in the wake of the Bridgeport derailment that has created a backlog of new repair projects to make the system safer.
In September, the railroad faced questions about its management when the failure of a 138,000-volt feeder cable in Mount Vernon, N.Y., disrupted electric train service for more than 13 days while a second cable was out of commission for repairs, leaving no backup power to drive trains.
In December, four people were killed in a derailment in the Bronx, N.Y. when an engineer dozed off, and a train careened into a sharp curve at 82 mph where the speed limit was 30 mph.
In late January, the entire Metro-North rail network came to a halt on a frigid night when a maintenance crew knocked out power to an auxiliary power system on the railroad's centralized signalization computer.
The Federal Railroad Administration is expected to release the results of its own review and investigation of Metro-North's safety culture and protocols by a congressional deadline next Monday.
"While we have concluded much of the investigative work related to Operation Deep Dive in order to report our findings to Congress next week, our findings will be heavily considered as we conduct our investigation into yesterday's accident and as we continue to work with Metro-North to improve its safety record going forward," said Kevin Thompson, spokesman for the FRA.
Congressional delegation members said Romansoff's death underlines the need for federal investigators to provide more information to correct safety problems at the railroad and provide necessary management oversight.
"The reason to demand answers from Metro-North and the National Transportation Safety Board is, very simply, this is the second fatal tragedy of a worker in a year and completely unacceptable," Blumenthal said. " If proper worker protection protocols are in place, there should be no such tragedies or safety incidents of this severity. Everyone who rides the rails in the Northeast has a stake in safety and reliability, including the workers who provide this essential service."
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., who spent part of Monday's morning rush hour speaking with commuters at the Greenwich train station, said Giulietti and other Metro-North leaders have to restore the railroad's safety first to help rebuild public trust.
"The safety problems at Metro-North are a matter of life and death, for both passengers and employees, and the culture that allows these frequent mistakes cannot continue," Himes said. "I am eager to see Metro-North's new leadership bring the change necessary to make this essential transportation system safe and reliable."
Steven Ditmeyer, an adjunct professor of rail management at the University of Michigan, said that an advanced collision avoidance system called positive train control that uses Global Positioning Systems to avoid train crashes could also allow rail traffic controllers to pinpoint whether workers were on tracks where trains were running.
Metro-North is trying to install the system by a Dec. 31, 2015, deadline but has cited obstacles obtaining radio frequencies needed to operate the system.
"You'd know the exact location of that person so there would be confirmation when they are clear of the tracks and the computer would not allow the track to be reopened until work crews were clear of the track," Ditmeyer said.


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Thoughts on Diablo 3 and always online requirement?
When I heard Diablo 3 announced 4 years ago and when I saw the gameplay footage released at the same time, I was completely stoked. Knowing Blizzard, I was also completely ready to wait at least 3 years before I could play it.
When I head 9 months ago that the game would require a constant online connection, I was devastated and to this day am contemplating a complete boycott of the game. However, I am weak, the game looks awesome and I still really want to play it.
I have never played World of Warcraft, or any other MMO for that matter. I was stunned when people proclaimed "same old Bizzard" when there were launch day problems. I was so used to Blizzard games coming out with a sparkling polish....I was used to Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 and Starcraft. I was a fan of Blizzard games back in the late 90s. I was never a rabid fanboy however and actually shook my head at some of the more delusional ones.
Steam was the first DRM method which actually caught my attention. When Half-Life 2 came out, I was still on a freaking slow modem. The online activation scared me away from the game. I remember at the time there was a good bit of outrage over it. Now STEAM is ubiquitous and anyone who would question it is disregarded as a nut job.
Now I have a very good internet connection with no bandwidth limits, but I still do not like the idea of always online DRM. Even with very good internet, my internet might go down, their server might go down. I might want to play the game on a laptop where there is no internet. I've already seem people complaining about progress lost due to being dropped. I don't want some Denial of service attacks to screw with my leisure time. I don't want to worry that the company will shut down the servers in 5 years and the game is gone for good. Despites Blizzard's insistence, this is not an MMO. This game is very different from MMOs and there really is no reason other than prevention of piracy and cheating for the game to be online only.
Ubisoft has caught a ton of flack over Starforce and their more recent always online DRM. I have never seen anyone defend Ubisoft. While I see plenty of people outraged at Blizzard, I see just as many who defend Blizzard until their fingers are raw from typing.
I've been dismissing these Blizzard defenders as fanboys and those who drink deep of the Blizzard Kool-Aid and ask for seconds.
I find mostly reasonable people on this site. So I ask, Diablo III's DRM reasonable?
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I'm not playing this game just because of that.
My biggest concern is Battle.net being down. Because of the volume of users during Diablo III's launch, they've already experienced outages.
Rest in peace Mike Clements, aka "Yellowbeard"
Rest in peace Joerg Theissen, aka "GI Joe"
Of course it was day 1 overflow, but the traffic for their servers will be high for the next few weeks...maybe the next few months.
I have never played World of Warcraft or any other MMO for that matter, so I don't know what type of server down time they face, but I have been hearing they have down time at least once a week. That is ridiculous for a $60 game which from all the professional reviews I am reading, is designed like most single player games.
I hears whispers of subscription fees for battle.net as well. I just don't understand why some people are defending Blizzard so vehemently and giving them a free pass on the same issue that many people have stated is destroying PC gaming.
"There is no way you can be Harvard Monday through Friday, and try to be Alabama on Saturday" -Art Guepe former University of Virginia head football coach
The same applies to BF3.
I only got the boxed game because it was an Xmas present.
It took something like over 2 hrs to install Origin (sort of like Steam) and then the game itself, plus some updates.
I can't see the point of the game disc since most of the content is downloaded.
Then eventally the game launches through a web browser...pffft.
What annoys me is that you have to be online, even if you want to play SP (which is a bit kak) or adjust any in game settings.
I can see a point in the future where this game is hardly played, and therefore the game will be useless.
At least with any previous BF game, I could happily play against bots in SP, and the game couldn't care less if I were connected to the internet or not, only if I wanted to play online.
Last year I re-installed W7 and it took just over 3 hours to install Origin + game including updates, which is near enough the time it takes to re-install Windows, drivers, update it, install software and a few games.
I have just re-installed W7-64 and I am certainly not going to attempt to put BF3 back on the PC.
If I feel the need to play BF3 then I can boot up my Win7-32 drive and play from there, but the novelty of the game has worn off pretty quick, so I am not in a rush to do it.
I hate this DRM total control malarky, and doubt I will buy any further games that make you jump through hoops before I can attempt to play it.
I shall stick to my selection of older games as they mostly still give me some hours of gaming fun.
Like BF2142 which to me is still my favourite BF game, but sadly for me in the UK there are only a couple of servers still running it......but, at least I can still play it in SP which won't be the case of BF3 when all the online servers have dried up.
The joys of UT99 (still fun to play) where there is no CD key, just install and play.
Oh, sorry about the rant..
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I got a code for the "starter" version of the game from a friend, which lets you play up until the first major boss. While playing it, I discovered another side of the DRM. Not only does the game require you to be online, but all events are actually handled server-side (movement, attacks, enemy placement and actions, etc.). This means that if your internet connection has high latency or doesn't have a lot of bandwidth and gets bogged down easily by data transfer, you'll experience lag in the single-player mode of Diablo 3. That's one of the main reasons I won't be buying the game.
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Yeah I've heard the lag gets horrible.
Not to mention that the DRM isn't working. People's accounts are already getting hacked. Even people who use the authenticator.
I would not be surprised if Blizzard gets sued when a person's account is hacked now. Now that Blizzard is running a real money auction house, people's in game gear is worth real money.
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CARY, N.C. (AP) – Russ Cochran topped the SAS Championship leaderboard Friday in his return from a back injury, hitting all hit all 18 greens in regulation and shooting a 6-under 66.
Cochran, the 2010 tournament winner, is making his first start since the U.S. Senior Open in July.
"I came here hoping to finish the tournament really,'' Cochran said. "But I fell into a great mode and played a good, solid round. Maybe I need more time off, I don't know.
"Of course, when you're playing well, you feel like you could do it all the time,'' Cochran said. "But I've got to give myself a lot of room and be very, very patient and realize that I haven't been in the heat in a long time. I haven't played much less been in the heat. I'll be pretty calm (Saturday), I think.''
Steve Pate, Andrew Magee, Fred Funk and Jay Don Blake were a stroke back. Funk, the Insperity Championship winner in May, missed a birdie putt on 18 by inches that would have given him a share of the lead.
"I had a really efficient front nine,'' said Funk, who made the turn with a 30. "I got everything out of that front nine. Obviously, shooting 5 under's great. I'm playing really good. I'm playing solid, close to playing really, really good, and it's more – it's fun just to play.''
Magee extended his streak without a three-putt to 190 holes, the third-longest run on the Champions Tour this year.
Defending champion Kenny Perry and Bernard Langer topped a group at 68.
Neal Lancaster, from Smithfield, shot a 72 in his debut on the 50-and-over tour. He won the 1994 Byron Nelson Classic for his lone PGA Tour title.


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Storm Brings High Winds, Snow To NJ [VIDEO]
A post-Christmas storm has brought high winds and snow to New Jersey.
The National Weather Service says Jersey Shore residents were buffeted with winds as high as 74 mph.
In northern and western areas of the state, some communities got more than six inches of snow.
Heavy rains also are raising fears of flooding.
The weather service says the strongest gust of wind was 74 mph recorded in Brick at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Other parts of Ocean County experienced gusts of up to 70 mph, and a 61 mph gust was recorded in Sandy Hook
Many residents in areas of Toms River & Brick prone to flooding were urged to move to higher ground
The highest snowfalls were recorded in Sussex County. Highland Lake and Wantage each received about six inches. Montague received about five and a half inches.
Parts of Morris County got up to four inches.
The National Weather Service says as the storm moves away from New Jersey the Northeast's heaviest accumulations will be in northern Pennsylvania, upstate New York and inland sections of several New England states before the storm heads to Canada on Friday.
Despite the wet weather, no flights are delayed Thursday morning cities like New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
At 7:00AM JCP+L is reporting just over 5000 customers without power on its outage map, mostly in Monmouth County with Aberdeen. Asbury Park, Freehold Township, Neptune and Belmar the hardest hit.
PSE+G is reporting under 500 outages in its service areas on its outage map and in a press release.
And if that isn't enough, a wind advisory has been issued for the same time period as gusts are expected to reach as high as 50 mph.
After a respite Friday, snow is expected to return to the area Saturday.
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Untreated major depression may hamper the protective effect of varicella zoster virus (VZV) vaccine against herpes zoster -- shingles -- in older individuals, researchers found.
After receiving the vaccine, patients with major depressive disorder who were not receiving antidepressants had lower cell-mediated immunity to VZV than both healthy individuals and depressed individuals who were receiving drug treatment, mostly with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (P<0.01 for both), according to Michael Irwin, MD, of the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience, and colleagues.
After receipt of the vaccine, in fact, the healthy controls and the treated depressed individuals had 69.7% and 288.1% increases, respectively, in cell-mediated immunity, but there was no significant change in the untreated depressed individuals, the researchers reported online in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
"Because the incidence and severity of herpes zoster and its complications, particularly postherpetic neuralgia, are increased in persons with depressed cell-mediated immunity to VZV, persons with untreated depression may be at greater risk for herpes zoster and its complications than either nondepressed adults of similar age, sex, and medical comorbidity or depressed persons receiving antidepressants," the authors wrote, noting that confirmation would require a very large study because of the low rate of herpes zoster in the older age group.
Also, they wrote, it is possible that untreated depression could leave patients susceptible to infection with other pathogens and poor response to other vaccines.
"Thus, among depressed elderly persons, treatment with [an] SSRI might increase the efficacy of zoster vaccine and, possibly, vaccines against other important pathogens, such as influenza viruses," they wrote. "In addition, diagnosis of depression in the elderly may identify individuals who might benefit from more potent vaccines or multidose vaccination schedules."
The study is very interesting "in that it is one of the first demonstrations that depression can influence how the immune system responds in vivo," according to Andrew Miller, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, who noted that most previous studies on the issue have been done in cell cultures.
"What [the impaired response in depressed individuals] tells us is that we need to be very careful in screening individuals who are going to have various vaccines, especially if they're older, screening them for depression," he said in an interview.
Irwin and colleagues examined data from the depression substudy of the Shingles Prevention Study, a randomized trial evaluating the efficacy of an investigational, high-titer, live-attenuated VZV vaccine in individuals 60 and older who had a latent VZV infection.
The substudy lasted 2 years and included 92 community-dwelling individuals (mean age 68) -- 18 had major depressive disorder and were not taking antidepressants, 22 had major depressive disorder and were taking antidepressants, and 52 did not have a history of depression or other mental illness.
Cell-mediated immunity to VZV was measured before vaccination and at 6 weeks, 1 year, and 2 years after vaccination.
After adjustment for age, sex, and medical comorbidity, untreated depressed individuals had lower cell-mediated immunity compared with the healthy controls and with the treated depressed individuals, despite similar depressive symptom severity in the two groups with depression throughout the study.
The immune responses in the control group and in the depressed individuals who were taking antidepressants were similar by 6 weeks after vaccination.
Among the individuals who received placebo as part of the larger trial, cell-mediated immunity to VZV at baseline was nonsignificantly lower in the patients with depression who were not receiving drug treatment, and did not change over time.
The authors noted that the findings could have been influenced by factors that are both associated with depression and might affect cell-mediated immunity to VZV, including psychological stress, intercurrent viral infection, and alcohol use.
The study was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the VA Cooperative Study Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Merck, the National Institutes of Health, the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, and the James R. and Jesse V. Scott Fund for Shingles Research.
Irwin reported that he had no conflicts of interest. One of his co-authors reported relationships with Merck.
- Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner


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Evening & Morning
October 4, 2013
Every week, Jody Hirsh, the JCC's Judaic Education Director, provides a Judaic message that is featured at the top of the JCC's weekly email newsletter. Below is the Shabbat message for Friday, October 4, 2013.
Evening & Morning
So... Shabbat starts at sundown on Friday, right? People celebrating the Sabbath rush home on Friday afternoons so they can be ready when the sun sets. The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, and other Jewish periodicals, publish lists of "Candle Lighting Times" which are calculated 20 minutes before sunset. There are Shabbat sirens in Israel just before sunset, and candle lighting before sunset, and on and on. But why?
Why does the Sabbath Day start at night – in fact why do all Jewish holidays start at night? Doesn't it make sense to start in the morning? Or perhaps at midnight? Doesn't our American (Gregorian) calendar start each new day at midnight? Don't we ring in the new secular year at midnight between December 31 and January 1? Why sunset for Jewish days?
The answer is at the very beginning of the Torah in Genesis, chapter one. Genesis recounts the story of creation. God creates light, and then we are told, "And there was evening and there was morning… the first day."
Evening and Morning. Not Morning and Evening. The Rabbis thousands of years ago assumed that since the creation account describes the evening first – it was God's will that we start our account of the days with the evening. For that reason, we say the Sabbath Eve Kiddush (the blessing over wine) immediately after the sun sets, putting an end to the sixth day and commemorating God resting on the seventh day. We begin with the following words:
Vayehi erev, vayehi voker, Yom Shishi . . .
And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
Shabbat Shalom


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"Looking ahead, our franchise should continue to benefit from a broad and balanced customer base as well as from rail's inherent advantages over other transportation modes: safety and reliability, fuel efficiency, and environmental sustainability." -Charles W. "Wick" Moorman, CEO for Norfolk Southern
Keeping an eye on the competition is always a smart thing to do in any business, and for truckers, that eye should be trained not just on fellow big rig operators but freight locomotives as well.
It's been a banner year for the railroads so far, despite the run-up in oil prices and the softening U.S. economy - and the reasons are pretty simple, too. For starters, strong export demand for bulk commodities, such as coal and agricultural goods, is generating a lot more freight revenue for railroads, while shippers seeking to cut down on transportation costs are shifting over to intermodal where possible.
That truck-rail modal combination is definitely something truckload carriers and well as private fleets need to keep an eye on going forward, especially in lanes 800 miles or longer, where intermodal is most competitive with trucking.
Take a look at Omaha, NE-based Union Pacific's second quarter earnings, for example. Net income increased 19% to $531 million on 13% higher revenues of $4.6 billion compared to the same period in 2007. Five of its six business groups showed big revenues gains: agricultural (up 29%), chemicals (up 14%), energy (up 21%), industrial products (up 9%) and intermodal (up 7%). Only automotive shipments were down (some 9%). Overall, UP said its average revenue per car (ARC) increased 16%, reaching an all-time record of $1,835 per car.
"We expect that our diverse business mix will continue to provide us with opportunities through the year," said Jim Young, the company's chairman and CEO. "Although high fuel prices and a soft economy present challenges, we remain committed to ongoing productivity and customer service initiatives as we look forward to achieving a record year."
Jacksonville, FL-based CSX Corp. is also seeing a boost across its markets, posting earnings of $385 million on 15% higher revenues of $2.9 billion compared to the second quarter in 2007. "CSX continues to deliver significant value for shareholders and demonstrate the secular strength of our business," said Michael Ward, chairman, president and CEO, pointing to sustained strong demand for export coal, grain, ethanol, metals and phosphates and fertilizers, as well as solid yield management, as the reason for revenue increases in eight of the its ten markets.
And even though Montreal-based Canadian National watched its net income slide 11% to C$459 million (US$450.7 million), despite a 4% increase in revenues to C$2.09 billion (US$2.05 billion) - no doubt in part because its fuel costs rose 60% compared to last year, to some C$400 million (US$392.7 million) for the quarter - E. Hunter Harrison, CN's president and CEO, pointed to intermodal as a bright spot for the railroad.
"Despite the headwinds, we saw double-digit growth in intermodal revenues as a result of new container traffic over the Port of Prince Rupert and continued import strength at the Port of Vancouver, as well as higher volumes of commodities to support oil sands development in Alberta," Harrison said.
Five of CN's seven commodity groups registered revenues gains in the quarter, led by intermodal (14%), coal (8%), petroleum and chemicals (7%), metals and minerals (6%), and grain and fertilizers (4%). Forest products revenues declined 14% and automotive revenues declined 13%, CN noted.
For Norfolk, VA-based Norfolk Southern Corp., despite continued weakness in the automotive- and housing-related industries - which contributed to a 2% reduction in traffic volume compared with the same quarter last year - higher average revenue per unit more than offset the effect of reduced volumes. Net income reached $453 million on 16% higher revenues of $2.8 billion compared to the second quarter of 2007.
NS's general merchandise revenues increased 10% to a record $1.5 billion, coal revenues climbed 34% to a record $775 million, and intermodal revenues increased 11% to a record $532 million, said Charles "Wick" Moorman, the company's CEO.
Back in June at the Merrill Lynch Global Transportation Conference, Moorman said in a speech to analysts that it's his belief that the transportation marketplace has changed fundamentally in ways that favor the railroad business - and these second quarter results may offer some proof for that, especially for intermodal service.
"There are clear signs of escalating intermodal demand across our network, and in particular within the eastern half of our market," he said. "Five-dollar-a-gallon diesel fuel provides a powerful incentive to ship by rail, and we are introducing new intermodal lanes and products, and we are improving our service performance to take advantage of additional opportunities."
He said the growing strength of U.S. exports, the re-emergence or at least strengthening of North American manufacturing, and a focus on what is being called "regional production" - the idea that goods should be produced closer to the point of consumption in order to reduce transportation costs - is changing transportation across the U.S.
"We've already seen the resurgence in exports, particularly in commodities, as empty containers on both coasts have now become much more sought after," Moorman noted. "How far the concepts of more manufacturing and regionalism progress is anybody's guess, but they are changes that our company can and should be preparing for."
(Charles "Wick" Moorman, Norfolk Southern's CEO.)
One of the biggest changes can be encapsulated in one word, he noted - GREEN. And that is going to be a big battleground between trucks and railroads, as evidenced by Moorman's comments.
"Particularly with what will be a constantly increasing focus on carbon emissions, railroads are clearly the greenest form of surface transportation, and to our friends who don't particularly take to the carbon discussion, we have an equally compelling case in terms of energy independence," he said. "Green/energy credentials are resonating even more strongly with public policy leaders and I believe that we can capitalize on those credentials to our, as well as the environment's, advantage."
So keep an eye on those locomotives going forward. While intermodal can be a trucker's best friend, it can also be a big competitive advantage for the railroads as well - alongside a new focus on environmentalism too.


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Do you want to know something?
Justin Bieber in concert is not, as you might have guessed, terrible.
I didn't contract Bieber Fever but, rather, tinnitus but it was clear from the get-go that the 18-year-old singer poured every ounce of his slim frame into delivering a Saturday night performance that his young fans (many of whom were at their first concert) will call their favorite concert ever.
At least until British boy-band One Direction arrives at the Maverik Center in July.
In front of a sold-out EnergySolutions Arena, Bieber opened the 2013 leg of his "Believe" tour by throwing down the pretentious gauntlet: clad in all-white suit and black shades, Bieber came down from the rafters above the stage with a pair of silver wings.
His arrival onto the long catwalk came a too-long 70 minutes after pleasant opener Carly Rae Jepsen finished her 25-minute set, and the pre-teen and teenagers who packed the arena were apoplectic for the rest of the 90-minute show.
The song selection over the first half of the gleefully over-the-top theatrical extravaganza wasn't spectacular by any means, with Bieber's R&B-lite leanings overshadowed by bells, whistles, fireworks, smoke and mirrors as well as vocals that were more Auto-tuned than I would have liked.
But half-way into the concert, Bieber fully demonstrated his musicality with the tandem of "Be Alright" and "Fall," both accompanied by only acoustic guitars, one of them played convincingly by Bieber. Even though he was once again suspended 50 feet above the stage in a revolving crane that lofted him over the catwalk, it the first time all evening that he showed off his impressive, soulful vocal range and emotional vulnerability and Guess what? a real-life, human personality.
After those slower songs, the rest of the set was pure pop sugar, and the show was the better for it, with break-neck, high energy renditions of his catchiest songs: "Never Say Never," "Beauty and a Beat" (which Bieber closed with him on the drums), "One less Lonely Girl," "As Long as You Love Me," and "Believe" (with Bieber on the piano). With 12 back-up dancers and three back-up singers, Bieber fed off on the blood-curdling shrieks that made much of the evening's music indecipherable.
Bieber is a choreographed showman, which at times became irritating, especially when he would take a full 5 seconds to slowly remove his shades, and nearly a minute to remove one of a number of jackets he wore during the show. It whipped the girls into a frenzy every time.
Compounding the noise was Bieber's D.J., who repeatedly implored the audience to "make some noise," although the audience was already plenty noisy. And, in one of the more uncomfortable moments, Bieber was shown on video physically attacking a corps of relentless paparazzi, although I had still-fresh memories of a photographer who was killed on New Year's Day when chasing whom he thought was Bieber.
But in the end, Bieber provided the crowd a visual spectacle that could be favorably compared to past EnergySolutions concerts from Britney Spears and Lady Gaga. It was a feast for the eyes that provided a little indigestion, but believe me or not, Bieber sweated his way to an entertaining, while not musically compelling, night.
In less than a month, Bieber will release his first acoustic album. At that point, we will get the chance to see if he shows signs of being the real deal, hopefully unadorned with girls' squeals, digitally processed instruments and vocals, and pyrotechnics that blind and distract.
Maybe then he will make us believers.
Side note: Justin Bieber on Saturday visited a 7-year-old girl at Primary Children's Hospital who was too sick to attend his show, KUTV reported. Millie Flamm is suffering from leukemia. Her family this week went to social media to ask Bieber to visit while he was in town.


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An audaciously ambitious novel that takes great creative risks and, against considerable odds, makes most of them pay dividends.
What kind of novel is the latest from the British Arnott (The Long Firm, 1999)? Science fiction, most likely. Or World War II espionage. Or Utopian/dystopian. Or sexual manifesto. Or religious parable. Or a narrative about the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Or a series of interrelated stories inspired by the cards of a tarot deck. Or all of the above. Yet the reader need have no knowledge of the tarot (or the occult, which pervades the novel) to appreciate its imaginative vision or make sense of the way it hopscotches across genre, chronology, geography and cosmos. It begins and ends with the first-person account of a fictional American science-fiction writer named Larry Zagorski, best known for a novel titled American Gnostic, which attracted a hippie cult following in the 1960s. For the novel, Zagorski drew upon his own experiences with the likes of Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard (the latter, fictionalized in Zagorski's novel and rendered under his own name in Arnott's, transforms his science fiction into a religion in both). Also playing key roles in the novel are Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Hess, Ian Fleming and Jim Jones (the prophet of mass suicide). Told through multiple narrators, it is a novel of "quantum leaps, of diverging timelines, alternate futures, and crucial moments when things could go either way." Yet, it sustains a narrative momentum as it unfolds as fact and fantasy, mystery and revelation, pulp fiction and metaphysical transcendence. Along the way, it traces the thematic arc of science fiction, which has gone "from being about the probable, the possible, the impossible, the metaphysical to the ordinary, the everyday. It seems the one form that can truly grasp the essential strangeness of modern living."
A novel that combines the pleasures of genre fiction and the thematic richness of literary fiction, while blurring the line between the two and exploding the very concept of genre.


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PA Sen. Farnese and PA Rep. Sims Release Statement on the Introduction of Senate and House Bills 300
On May 7, 2013
Legislation protects LGBT citizens from housing, accommodation and employment discrimination
Harrisburg, May 7, 2013 – PA Sen. Larry Farnese and PA State Rep. Brian Sims released the following statement on the introduction of House and Senate Bills 300 which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression statewide in employment, housing, credit and public accommodations.
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"Today's introduction of SB 300; an important piece of legislation that prohibits discrimination in employment and housing because of a person's sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression; marks one of my proudest moments as a Pennsylvania Senator. I'm excited to co-sponsor this bill with Sen. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh) in the Senate and Reps. Frankel (D-Allegheny) and Ross (R-Chester) in the House. And to take this important step with my friends Rep. Sims (D-Phila.), one of our state's strongest LGBT champions, and Sen. Leach (D-Montgomery/Delaware), head of the LGBT Caucus is exciting. Together, and thanks to the support of some amazing advocates, we can strike a blow against discrimination in our Commonwealth and make life better for every single Pennsylvanian," said Sen. Larry Farnese (D-Phila.).
"Today was nothing short of historic and it is no surprise to me that the charge for equality across the Commonwealth finds some of its strongest voices in Philadelphia. For over 30 years, the City of Brotherly Love has fought to protect its gay, lesbian and bisexual citizens, and for over a decade, Philadelphia has led in the effort to protect its transgender citizens. The prime sponsors, Sen. Farnese, along with Sen. Browne in the Senate and Reps. Frankel and Ross in the House, and all of my colleagues who are co-sponsors in the House recognize that we are woefully behind when it comes to realizing the dream of an equal America for all citizens. Pennsylvania's citizens, its businesses, and now its elected leaders are demanding these most basic protections and I am honored to be a part of such historic leadership," said Rep. Brian Sims (D-Phila).
As of today, the bills have a combined 102 sponsors, 77 in the House and 25 in the Senate, including seven House and two Senate Republicans.
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Senator Larry Farnese was elected to the Senate in 2008 to represent Pennsylvania's First Senatorial District which contains some of Philadelphia's most unique and vibrant neighborhoods from Port Richmond on the Delaware River to Fairmount Park on the Schuylkill River and South Philadelphia, Center City, the Navy Yard, Philadelphia International Airport. He is also a member of the Appropriations Committee, Banking and Insurance Committee, the Law and Justice Committee and the Judiciary Committee.
Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims is a policy attorney, advocate & speaker, most notably on issues pertaining to LGBT civil rights. In 2012, he was elected as the Democratic nominee for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 182nd legislative district. Facing no challenger in the general election, he became the first openly LGBT state legislator elected in Pennsylvania history.
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There is a new Twitter movement out there, it's called "Follower of 10"
It simply means reducing the people you follow on Twitter to 10 people.
The point is to increase the signal, decrease the noise.
It's not for everyone, everyone has their own social media strategy.
I'm taking up this challenge, it's difficult as I get the feeling I'm missing out or am unable to influence a useful connection. But, there are so many more efficient ways to stay connected. Also, if you are worried that someone will de-follow you simply because you de-follow them, then their follow is probably worth less than you think.
This is not a hippy dippy movement to keep things real and fruity, rather it's a time management thing.
Increase the signal, decrease the noise.


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Number: 111- 52
Date: September 29, 2010
House Passes H.R. 6200, the
WIPA and PABSS Extension Act of 2010
On September 28, 2010, the House passed H.R. 6200, the "WIPA and PABSS Extension Act of 2010," by voice vote. The bill would:
- Extend, through fiscal year 2011, funding authorization for the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) and the Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS) programs.
- Extend the current PABSS requirement to WIPA that requires grantees to report annually on their services to the Commissioner of Social Security.
- Allow WIPA grantees to carry over no more than 10 percent of its obligated grant funds for one fiscal year. These funds would be available for providing benefits planning and assistance only to people who were already receiving assistance from the grantees.


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Tube Saturator is the world's most accurate real time tube amp plug-in. Unlike other tube simulators, which use radically simplified models, Tube Saturator uses state of the art circuit simulation technology to capture every nuance of an analog circuit. With circuit simulation, the analog schematic (consisting of the individual resistors, capacitors, tubes, and so on) completely defines the signal processing. The schematic is converted into a system of non-linear differential equations which is solved at each sampling period, in realtime. That's mathematical talk for "it sounds exactly like the analog circuit".


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AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON (AP) – Victims of a meningitis outbreak tied to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy will likely be allowed to do an exhaustive inspection of the facility, a federal judge said Thursday.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer Boal said she is inclined to allow the inspection by experts and lawyers for more than a dozen victims who filed lawsuits in Massachusetts against the New England Compounding Center.
The plaintiffs allege that they contracted fungal meningitis from contaminated steroid injections made by NECC. Health officials say 36 people have died and more than 500 others have been sickened nationwide by the injections.
Judi Abbott Curry, an NECC attorney, said the company agrees that the plaintiffs' lawyers have the right to inspect the facility, but she argued that the inspection should be conducted after a federal judicial panel rules on whether the lawsuits in Massachusetts and hundreds more around the country should be consolidated before a single court. A judicial panel is scheduled to hold a hearing on that issue in January.
But Boston attorney Kimberly Dougherty, legal liaison for the lawsuits filed in Massachusetts, said the victims should be allowed to do the inspection as soon as possible. Dougherty said they want to do a four-day inspection that would include cutting holes in the walls, ceiling and floors for swabbing, photographing and other testing.
"We don't have any alternative way to get this evidence," Dougherty said.
Dougherty said lawyers in the Massachusetts cases are willing to share their test results with lawyers who have filed suit elsewhere.
Curry said conditions at the facility have changed since the steroid injections were made, because numerous government investigators have been in and out over the past few months. She said an expert hired by NECC believes there is no test that will pinpoint the exact age or origin of mold spores.
Inspections by federal health regulators found a host of potential contaminants, including standing water, mold and water droplets.
Curry said conditions at the facility also could have been affected by Superstorm Sandy, which devastated parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut but caused relatively minor damage in Massachusetts. Curry said the plaintiffs' attorneys will not be able to determine whether certain things, such as water infiltration, occurred at the plant before or after the storm.
That argument drew skepticism from attorney Michael Hugo, chairman of the Framingham Board of Health.
"I'll tell you what _ we didn't get much rain from the storm in Framingham," Hugo said after the hearing.
Dougherty said there are ways to test for degradation of wood and to evaluate the age of mold.
"If it was recent as a result of this hurricane, we'll be able to tell," she said after the hearing.
Dougherty urged Boal to allow the plaintiffs to inspect the property by the end of December, saying she fears that if they wait any longer, NECC will argue that their testing was conducted too long after the contaminated steroids were discovered.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha, whose office is conducting a criminal investigation into NECC, told Boal that prosecutors want to be present for any inspections. Dougherty said the victims' lawyers do not object.
Boal said she expects to issue a written order after receiving suggested protocols for the inspection from lawyers.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ike Davis became the first player to hit grand slams for different teams in the same April, and Neil Walker had a winning run single with two outs in the ninth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates twice overcame deficits to beat the Reds 6-5 Monday.
Pittsburgh trailed 2-0 before Davis' fourth-inning homer off Mike Leake. Davis hit a game-winning, ninth-inning slam off the Reds' J.J. Hoover on April 5 for the New York Mets, who traded him to the Pirates on Friday.
According to STATS, no player previously hit slams for different teams in the same April. Davis became just the third to hit slams for different teams against the same opponent in the same year, following Ray Boone in 1953 and Mike Piazza in 1998.
The Pirates were behind 5-4 before Andrew McCutchen's leadoff homer in the eighth against Manny Parra.
Walker got the winning hit off Hoover (1-2) after consecutive one-out walks to Russell Martin and Andrew McCutchen followed by Pedro Alvarez's popout.
Jared Hughes (1-0) pitched a scoreless, two-hit ninth for the win after being recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis earlier in the day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Raul Ibanez delivered a tiebreaking three-run double as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning on a night that Mike Trout and Bryce Harper went a combined 2 for 8 with zero runs or RBIs in their first matchup as opponents.
Los Angeles trailed 1-0 going into the eighth. But Albert Pujols — who went 0 for 5, staying on 498 homers — reached on the first of shortstop Ian Desmond's two errors in the inning, raising his season total to nine. Later, Erick Aybar's third hit of the night scored Pujols to even it.
After Tyler Clippard (1-2) walked the bases loaded, Ibanez doubled to left-center.
Fernando Salas (1-0) won with a hitless seventh.
Joe Smith worked the eighth and Ernesto Frieri pitched the ninth to earn his second save, despite allowing Desmond's leadoff homer. Frieri struck out Denard Span with a man on second to end it.
ATLANTA (AP) — Evan Gattis hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning, leading the Atlanta Braves past the Miami Marlins 4-2 Monday night.
Dan Uggla led off with a single up the middle off Arquimedes Caminero (0-1), and Gattis followed with a shot into the left-field seats for his fifth homer of the season — and first career walkoff homer.
Andrelton Simmons homered for the Braves, and Jason Heyward put Atlanta 2-1 with a seventh-inning single off Mike Dunn. Anthony Varvaro (1-0) worked a scoreless inning for the win.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jenrry Mejia pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning and David Wright delivered another key hit.
Wright lined an early RBI single that extended his hitting streak to 12 games and Kyle Farnsworth earned his first save as the New York's newest closer.
On an evening when the Mets debuted new camouflage tops to salute the military, they looked sharp. The Cardinals lost for the third time in four games.
Mejia (3-0) bounced back well from a torn blister on his right middle finger that limited him to five innings in his last start. The 24-year-old righty began the game by getting Matt Carpenter to look at three straight strikes, and rarely was in trouble.
Tyler Lyons (0-1) lost in his first major league game of the season. Promoted from Triple-A Memphis earlier in the day to take the rotation spot of injured Joe Kelly, he allowed two runs and six hits in six innings.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aramis Ramirez homered and Ryan Braun drove in two runs.
Wily Peralta (3-0) gave up three runs and six hits in 6 1-3 innings as the Brewers improved their major league-best record to 15-5. Peralta stuck out six.
Will Smith pitched out of a base-loaded jam in the seventh inning. Tyler Thornberg worked a scoreless eighth and Francisco Rodriquez finished for his eighth save this season and 312th of his career, good for 19th on the career list.
Andrew Cashner (2-2) gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings.
DENVER (AP) — Charlie Blackmon hit two of Colorado's five homers and Jorge De La Rosa threw five efficient innings, lifting the Rockies to a victory over the Giants.
Nolan Arenado, Wilin Rosario and Corey Dickerson also homered for the Rockies, who've won four of the last five. It was Blackmon's first multihomer game of his career.
De La Rosa (1-3) rediscovered his rhythm, allowing five hits and one run for his first victory of the season. The hard-throwing lefty tied a career high with 16 wins last season.
Ryan Vogelsong (0-1) never got on track and was pulled after 1 1-3 innings, his shortest start with the Giants. He surrendered five runs and six hits, including three homers.
Blackmon lined solo homers in the second and eighth innings. He's now hitting .411 this season.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cliff Lee scattered four hits over eight innings, struck out 10 and retired 21 of his last 22 batters to lead the Phillies to a victory over the Dodgers.
Carlos Ruiz hit a two-run homer and a two-run double and Ryan Howard also went deep for the Phillies in the opener of a four-game series.
Lee (3-2) had at least one strikeout in every inning he pitched and did not walk a batter, giving way to Jeff Manship after 113 pitches.
Lee has 38 strikeouts and two walks through his first five starts, after leading the majors in strikeout to-walk ratio and fewest walks per nine innings during each of the previous two seasons.
CHICAGO (AP) — Travis Wood hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs to back his nine-strikeout performance on the mound, leading the Cubs to a victory over thea Diamondbacks.
Wood (1-2) gave up a run and six hits over seven innings. His four RBIs and nine strikeouts matched career highs.
Bronson Arroyo (1-2) allowed five runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings for Arizona. The Diamondbacks have lost nine of 10 games and have the worst record in the majors (5-17).
Welington Castillo hit a two-out bloop single to right field to score Starlin Castro from second for a 1-0 lead in the second inning.
Ryan Kalish followed Castillo's RBI single with a single of his own to extend the inning. Bronson Arroyo fell behind in the count 1-0 before Wood hit a hanging slider for a three-run shot into the left field bleachers. It was Wood's seventh career home run.


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From JmPm
Jerusalem.pm Meeting September 23, 2008
כל ההרצאות בעברית
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This month the famous star Perl expert Gabor Szabo gave a special talk
An introductory talk on how to write cross platform desktop GUI application using wxPerl
here is a note that Gabor wrote to the Jerusalem Perl Mongers mailing list
This talk will be something that you take with yourself and start using it. So I need you to install a few things before the talk. Specifically I need you to install the source version of Padre on your Windows machine. If you don't yet have Perl there, then install Strawberry Perl, otherwise you can install it on ActivePerl as well. If you happen to use Linux or Mac as your desktop, then obviously you should install Padre there. For instructions on how to install Padre, go to the Download page: http://padre.perlide.org/wiki/Download If you need help don't hesitate to ask on this list. It can take a few days as some of the prereqs are not easy to install so start it now. regards Gabor
- 20:00 – The End
Exlibris, Malcha Technological Park (Jerusalem) - Building 9, 4th floor - Large meeting room
כיבוד קל burekas, fruit, soft drinks, nuts
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Police standoff in Northland ends peacefully
Some homes evacuated as precaution
Police standoff in Northland ends peacefully
Some homes evacuated as precaution
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Kansas City police say a standoff at a home in the Northland has ended peacefully.
Authorities said a man surrendered about 11 a.m.
Police said in a news release that they were called to the 5800 block of North Colorado Avenue at 7:17 a.m. on a report of a suicidal person.
"(The) suspect may have explosives, surrounding homes have been evacuated," police tweeted a couple of hours later. The police perimeter at the scene covered
Ravenwood Elementary School, where about 200 students and staff members were participating in summer school classes, was also placed on a precautionary lockdown.
The Bomb and Arson unit brought its robot to the scene to check for explosives. Police did not report finding any.


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