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Redbox Follows Netflix's Lead, Delays Fox and Universal DVD Releases by 28 Days
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Redbox offers two main benefits to its customers: convenience and price. Its machines are everywhere these days, and its $1 per night price capitalized on the widespread consumer displeasure with Blockbuster and other rental chains' high prices and late fees. The Redbox customer is price sensitive; so is it really very likely that delaying the release of a movie by a month is going to get them to decide to shell out $15-$25 per movie to see it immediately after it's released? The same goes for Netflix subscribers. If they're already paying for their subscription service, why would they run out to buy a new release -- particularly when they already have to wait to get some new releases anyway. The studios think they can force customers to change their behavior by controlling access to new movies. All this plan is going to do is to illustrate to them that the part of the market they're aiming for with these delays really doesn't care enough -- or cares about other factors more -- to behave any differently.


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Warzone Kings Chess Tournament [54]
★ FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/ChessNetwork★ TWITTER http://twitter.com/ChessNetwork★ GOOGLE+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/111685059261358125042/posts★ LIVESTREAM http://twitch.tv/ChessNetworkThis is a chess tournament (Warzone Kings) I competed in on chesscube.com while livestreaming on http://twitch.tv/ChessNetwork . Time controls are 1 minute per player, however with a time handicap they are adjusted according to both players' ratings.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Haiku Wednesday...
Hot Dogs...Ice Cold Beer.
The Boy's of Summer are Back!
Batter Up....Play Ball!!!!!
Hopes are HIGH for the 2012 Deetroit Tigers.
Cy Young winner and League MVP..Justin Verlander
Newly acquired Rocket Launcher...Prince Fielder.
Opening day this Thursday!!!
Is it Wednesday? Do you Haiku? Yes?
Then post one on your Blog and visit Jenn at...
Sensational Haiku Wednesday.!!
There is no Theme this week....It's Freestyle!
18 comments:
- Brian Miller said...
nice...used to go watch the Lakeland Tigers all the time when we lived in FL...am a diamondbacks fan...but def like the tigers as well...
- April 3, 2012 at 8:12:00 PM EDT
- Yvonne Osborne said...
I wish I was going down Thursday, biggest downtown bash of the year. How about you? Playing hookey?
- April 3, 2012 at 8:24:00 PM EDT
- G-Man said...
No such luck...
I gotta work 12 hours on Thursday to cover for two co-workers who scored some tickets. I have gone to a Home Opener...It's a Blast!
- April 3, 2012 at 8:38:00 PM EDT
- Helen said...
LOVE this ... I am a crazy b-ball fan. Saw the Angels and White Sox in a spring training game last month in AZ...Albert the great out of his Cardinals uniform ... I grew up in the St. Louis and have been a fan forever. Also love the Twins, my son adores the Yankees (sorry.)
- April 3, 2012 at 8:41:00 PM EDT
- Cloudia said...
- April 3, 2012 at 10:13:00 PM EDT
- lime said...
best of luck to your tigers. baseball is one sport i can actually enjoy. :)
- April 3, 2012 at 10:53:00 PM EDT
- TALON said...
Oh, I love when a sport you love is getting all geared up for a new season. Goooooooo Tigers!!!
- April 4, 2012 at 12:25:00 AM EDT
- Akelamalu said...
We had summer last week, this week we're back to snow!
- April 4, 2012 at 5:57:00 AM EDT
- ArtMuseDog and Carol said...
Fun haiku ~ enjoy ^_^ ~thanks, namaste, ^_^
- April 4, 2012 at 7:46:00 AM EDT
- Sarah said...
Meh, Baseball
- April 4, 2012 at 9:14:00 AM EDT
- anthonynorth said...
Not a game I follow but hope they do well.
Anyone for cricket?
- April 4, 2012 at 10:06:00 AM EDT
- Ellecee said...
Baseball and summer go together always. Fun haiku. Thanks.
- April 4, 2012 at 12:54:00 PM EDT
- Craig said...
Love Dem Tigers. . .
Not much left to be said; time to start playing the games, and see if they're really as good as we think they are. . .
- April 4, 2012 at 4:17:00 PM EDT
- Christine said...
we have a team in the minor league called the Goldeye's, never attended a game, my son did once, won 750.00 at a 50/50 draw, makes me want to go to one now
- April 4, 2012 at 7:09:00 PM EDT
- Magical Mystical Teacher said...
No theme, so you go for hot dogs and beer! :)
Cactus Did Not Doubt
- April 4, 2012 at 7:55:00 PM EDT
"the boys of summer are back" ... like :)
- April 4, 2012 at 11:30:00 PM EDT
- moondustwriter said...
My favorite time of year is baseball season
- April 5, 2012 at 9:22:00 AM EDT
- Secret Agent Woman said...
Already? I love spring/summer, too, but for different reasons.
- April 5, 2012 at 7:16:00 PM EDT


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Right-Wing Media React To Obama's Re-Election: War, Impeachment, Revolution
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In the wake of President Obama's re-election, right-wing media outlets and figures compared the president to a dictator, called for a revolution, and baselessly suggested impeachment.
Right-Wing Media React To Election Result: "We Should Have A Revolution"
Breitbart.com: "The War Begins Now." A Breitbart.com post titled "#War More Years" by editor Ben Shapiro belittled the Americans who supported the president and wrote:
The answer here isn't to end the war against liberalism - a philosophy that will bankrupt the country in the long run and steal its constitutional soul in the short run. The answer is to fight back.
The fight does not end with retaking the Republican Party, though. It extends to the palace guard for liberalism - the media.
We will not heel. We will not stop. The defeat of Barack Obama would have launched the beginning of America coming together. But apparently, liberal America prefers to battle for the soul of the country.
And so we battle.
Democracy works. We still believe in democracy. We still believe in the power of ideas. But the only way to win in the battle of ideas is to fight the bullies, as Andrew did. Democracy is not blood; that's a miracle. But the civil war for the heart and soul of this country is real.
We've made gains; perhaps we will even win the popular vote. In any case, the election of 2012 was not the election of 2008. But the battle has only just started.
The war begins now.
#War [Breitbart.com, 11/6/12]
NY Post Compares Obama To Caesar After Re-Election. The New York Post tweeted a post-election front page, showing the president wearing a toga and a wreath with the headline: "Hail 'O' Caesar":
[Twitter, 11/6/12; New York Magazine, Daily Intel, 11/7/12]
Wall Street Journal: Obama's Successful Campaign Was The "Definition Of Winning Ugly." A Wall Street Journal editorial claimed that Obama caricatured Mitt Romney's position "even by the standards of modern politics." But, the Journal claimed, Obama's strategy "worked with brutal efficiency -- the definition of winning ugly." The Journal also claimed that Obama benefitted from a "long run of extraordinary good luck" and pinned some blame on Republican appointees who helped Obama such as Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and Chief Justice John Roberts:
[Obama] said little during the campaign about his first term and even less about his plans for a second. Instead his strategy was to portray Mitt Romney as a plutocrat and intolerant threat to each of those voting blocs. No contraception for women. No green cards for immigrants. A return to Jim Crow via voter ID laws. No Pell grants for college.
This was all a caricature even by the standards of modern politics. But it worked with brutal efficiency--the definition of winning ugly. Mr. Obama was able to patch together just enough of these voting groups to prevail even as he lost independents and won only 40% of the overall white vote, according to the exit polls. His campaign's turnout machine was as effective as advertised in getting Democratic partisans to the polls.
Mr. Obama also benefitted from his long run of extraordinary good luck. Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast a week before Election Day, letting him rise for a few days above the partisanship that has defined his first term. The storm changed the campaign conversation and blunted Mr. Romney's momentum. The exit polls show that late-deciders went for the incumbent this year when they typically break for the challenger.
The President owes a debt as well to a pair of Republican appointees in government--John Roberts and Ben Bernanke. By joining four liberals on the Supreme Court in upholding ObamaCare in June, Chief Justice Roberts provided a salve of legitimacy to the President's deeply unpopular health-care law. It also helped him unify his party around something to protect in an otherwise aimless second term. [The Wall Street Journal, 11/7/12]
Fox's Todd Starnes: Time To Impeach Obama. Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes wrote that Republicans should begin "impeachment proceedings" after Obama's re-election:
[Twitter, 11/6/12]
Fox Regular Trump: "We Should Have A Revolution." Regular Fox News guest Donald Trump tweeted twice that America needs a revolution after the president's re-election. Trump later deleted the tweets.
[Media Matters, 11/7/12]
Fox Host Brian Kilmeade: "We're The Shallowest Country In The History Of Man." Discussing exit polls that found voters approved of Obama's handling of the response to Hurricane Sandy, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade attacked people who said their votes were swayed by Sandy:
STEVE DOOCY: (co-host): The October surprise turned out to be something named Sandy.
HEATHER NAUERT (Fox News host): Yeah, who would have thunk that, right? Well, 42 percent of those people we spoke with said the response to the storm was an important issue, and 15 percent said it was the most important issue. So this may have become --
GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): I can't believe those numbers.
NAUERT: Yeah. This may have become a national issue in fact.
KILMEADE: Then we're the shallowest country in the history of man. One photo-op, walking over a two-by-four, and all of a sudden, he's handling a storm, which by the way hasn't been handled well. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/7/12, via Media Matters]
Washington Times Columnist Ted Nugent: "Pimps Whores & Welfare Brats" Now Have A President To "Destroy America." Washington Times columnist and NRA board member Ted Nugent tweeted in reaction to the president's re-election that "pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters" won the election:
[Twitter, 11/7/12]
WND's Farah: "We Have Allowed Our Fellow Americans To Pronounce Judgment On The Nation." WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah wrote in his column following the election that Obama's re-election shows Americans "have turned away from" God and the founders:
For those of us who fundamentally reject Obama's policies, things are going to get very rough for the next four years. We have allowed our fellow Americans to pronounce judgment on the nation.
That's what Obama represents to me - God's judgment on a people who have turned away from Him and His ways and from everything for which our founders sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
When you turn away from the ways of God Almighty, this is what you should expect, if you are a student of the Bible and history. [WND, 11/7/12]
NRO's Steyn: "If This Is The Way American Wants To Go Off The Cliff, So Be It" In a blog post for National Review Online titled, "Live Free ... Or Die," conservative columnist and guest host of The Rush Limbaugh Show Mark Steyn wrote about Obama's victory in New Hampshire and concluded: "If this is the way America wants to go off the cliff, so be it." [National Review Online, 11/6/12]
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TAMIU Lecture Explores Medical Mystery of
Dr. Jane Unzeitig
Texas A&M International University students and members of the community at large will have a rare opportunity to travel back in time to review the state of medicine in the 1700s when local physician and guest lecturer Dr. Jane Unzeitig presents "Medical Triumphs and Tribulations in the 1700s," on Monday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. at TAMIU's Student Center room 236.
The lecture, hosted by the Daughters of American Revolution (DAR), is the inaugural event of the DAR Historical Lecture Series and is offered free of charge.
A local allergist and member of the Lucy Meriwether Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Dr. Unzeitig has presented medical history lectures to local DAR members.
"When asked to give a presentation several years ago, I naturally gravitated towards the subject of medicine in revolutionary times," Unzeitig explained, "The New England Journal of Medicine that year published a chilling account of the calamitous events surrounding the medical care and subsequent death of George Washington.
"Further research on events in that era focused on illnesses that have long been eradicated and on treatments that had been used for centuries and had absolutely no benefit for the patient," she noted.
Among penetrating questions raised by the well-researched lecture: Did the efforts of the finest physicians in 1799 actually hasten the death of the Father of our Country? Why was the only physician to sign the Declaration of Independence accused of killing more patients than he cured? Why was he on trial for malpractice on the day of the death of George Washington?
Unzeitig has been practicing medicine for over 29 years with specialties in pediatrics, allergy and immunology. She graduated from Northwestern University Medical School (Chicago) and completed her residency training in pediatrics and her fellowship training in adult and pediatric allergy at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
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Canadians are reporting accord on Peace Bridge
Canadian officials say they have reached an "agreement in principle'' with New York State to resolve a bitter dispute with New York State over the future of Peace Bridge improvements.
A Canadian official, speaking on condition of anonymity Tuesday night, said the looming deal should be announced soon that will be "good for both sides of the border and one that favors hard hats over lawyers' bills as we've argued for all along.''
Canadian government officials have not ruled out legal action against New York State if the Cuomo administration seeks to dissolve the bi-national authority that runs the span's operations, but officials in Canada on Tuesday night appeared the most optimistic that they have in weeks that the cross-border dispute is coming to an end.
The official told The Buffalo News that the deal, which officials hope to announce this week if talks proceed as planned, aims to ensure the free flow of trade over the important border crossing. Final details were still being negotiated Tuesday evening, but all sides were intent on quickly resolving the dispute that has involved top officials from Washington to Albany to Ottawa.
The high level talks could lead to progress on Canadian priorities as well as a new traffic study on the U.S. plaza.
The traffic study, which eventually could lead to expansion of the Buffalo plaza, is now viewed as the key to New York State objectives and could offer a way out for all parties embroiled in a months-long international dispute over the pace of development on the U.S. side, according to Rep. Brian Higgins and several informed sources on both sides who asked not to be identified.
Following weekend meetings in Manhattan involving Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Ambassadors Gary Doer of Canada and David Jacobson of the U.S., the sources say all parties continue to build on progress and seek an agreement before Friday's next scheduled meeting of the fractured Peace Bridge Authority.
Higgins, D-Buffalo, who has assumed a key role in brokering peace, said Tuesday that the personal involvement of the governor and two ambassadors has "kicked up" the level of discussions in a way that provides optimism for an agreement.
"There are still some issues that need to be resolved," he said. "But the right people are in the room."
But even if that goal is not attained, sources say Cuomo wants a new effort to begin planning for eventual plaza expansion in Buffalo while approximately $50 million in projects already unanimously approved by the authority proceed.
Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan, D-Buffalo, who has also assumed a visible legislative role in the ongoing dispute, said the traffic study now figures as an important part of the negotiations. He also said attaining an agreement before the Friday meeting remains desirable but does not present any kind of deadline.
"The goal is a comprehensive plan," he said. "We have to do a traffic study."
The word "simultaneous" has emerged as key to the talks, since New York officials fear that exclusive concentration on other projects could further delay plaza expansion.
"The rhetoric has changed," the source said. "People are talking."
Higgins defended Cuomo's hard-charging approach to attaining progress on a Buffalo plaza long perceived as a symbol of inaction, noting that several of his predecessors have come nowhere near gaining at least some results. And key to the effort, he said, is an environmental review process that would allow U.S. planners to prepare for several alternative approaches while other projects proceed.
"The governor wants to look at a plan for the existing American footprint that may include reorganization of American facilities," he said, with an eye toward improving traffic flow and easing congestion.
"It's not important how you get attention, it's what you do with the attention," he added.
Higgins noted that a "comprehensive" settlement that includes governance of the international span still needs approval by both sides. Ryan also has addressed that issue, questioning whether the authority needs to build massive reserves for its construction projects.
While Ryan noted an agreement before Friday is not essential, others said Cuomo would like to announce an end to the dispute in Buffalo soon in the same manner as his recent truce with the Seneca Nation of Indians over its gambling compact.
The Friday meeting also assumes significance because the Peace Bridge Authority agenda includes awarding a $13 million contract to widen the span's Buffalo approach. Canadian officials of the authority, meanwhile, continue to insist that with Ryan's bill to dissolve the authority passed last week by the State Legislature and awaiting Cuomo's signature, uncertainty clouds the future and most likely will cause the panel to delay a vote on the contract and the widening project – unless an agreement is reached.
Still, Higgins reiterated that the elevation of the talks to top levels has helped the situation.
"The Peace Bridge Authority is not hesitant in its responsibility to finance further American improvements," he said. "The question is what is the right procedure."
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Very few places in this world posses the charm and quaintness that the villages of Tuscany posses. Hillside towns run rampant with cobblestone streets. People welcome you to their home for warm meals and treat you as family and the architecture is long lasting and unique to the land. This charming wall tapestry depicts an herb filled staircase leading to the front door of a hillside villa.


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You Can't Be Serious: Hooded Gunmen Bust In A Church And Open Fire In Richmond, California! (Shooting 2 Teens)
"Richmond police were looking for three men Sunday they said opened fire on the parishioners inside a church, leaving two teens wounded. Witnesses said three male suspects entered the New Gethsemane Church of God In Christ Inc. at 2100 Roosevelt Ave. at about 12:30 p.m. where about 100 people were inside attending the service, Richmond police Sgt. Bisa French said. Police said the three males suspects wore hoods and came into the church possibly to see who was inside then left. When they came back, one or more of them opened fire, injuring a 14-year old boy and 19-year old man." - KT News
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George Varughese left the Foundation in March 2018.
Dr. George Varughese served as The Asia Foundation's country representative in Nepal from May 2009 to 2018, where he oversaw a broad range of programs that support an effective political transition, including constitutional development and assistance to the Constituent Assembly; facilitate conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and alternate dispute resolution; safeguard women's security and combat the trafficking of persons; support public policy analysis and engagement; and enable local economic governance and opportunity. During the 2015-16 academic year George Varughese served as Visiting Professor and Senior Scholar in the University of Wyoming's Global and Area Studies program.
Prior to this position in Kathmandu, Varughese was The Asia Foundation's country representative in Afghanistan, where his responsibilities included overseeing capacity-building initiatives in the center of Afghan government; supporting electoral management capacity building; women's advancement; and public education and discourse on democratic political processes. His achievements include spearheading the internationally-respected annual Survey of the Afghan People and its companion studies on state building and developmental challenges in Afghanistan; and advocating and helping lead investment in Afghan sub-national governance.
George Varughese formerly served as deputy country representative in Nepal until 2005, working on programs that strengthen the capacity of democratic institutions to assure good governance and the rule of law; provide access to justice, particularly through alternate dispute resolution; encourage greater respect for human rights, particularly during conflict; and support policy reforms in the economic sector with regard to small business. Prior to joining The Asia Foundation in 2000, he was country program advisor for the United Nations Development Program in Nepal.
He holds a joint doctorate in public administration and political science, with an emphasis on public policy, political theory, and environmental policy. His dissertation examined the intersection of decentralization policy in the natural resources sector with local-level collective action and local government, based on primary research he conducted in 18 districts in Nepal. Dr. Varughese's peer-reviewed publications include, among others, "Practical Challenges: Conducting Survey Research in Afghanistan" Public Opinion Pros, LFP Editorial Enterprises, www.PublicOpinionPros.com (April 2007); "The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal," World Development Vol. 29, no. 5 (May 2001); and "Population and Forest Dynamics in the Hills of Nepal: Institutional Remedies by Rural Communities" in People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and the Governance of Forests (2000), Cambridge: MIT Press.
Varughese was 2010 Senior Visiting Fellow of The Australian National University's Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and 2008 Senior International Fellow of the City University of New York's Graduate Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.
Education: Doctor of philosophy degree, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Afghanistan in 2008: A Survey of the Afghan People – State Building, Security, and Social Change in Afghanistan
Afghanistan in 2006: A Survey of the Afghan People – State Building, Political Progress, and Human Security in Afghanistan
Practical Challenges: Conducting Survey Research in Afghanistan
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Phil Cruver is president and CEO of KZO Sea Farms, a social entrepreneur, founder of four start up companies, and has served as CEO of two public companies.
He is the Co-founder and former Chairman of KZO Innovations, Inc., a venture capital funded software company that created the technology for the Learning 2.0 Platform.
Previously, he co-founded and was CEO of Kidz Online, a nonprofit educational organization that pioneered peer technology training programs as broadband interactive video and webcasts.
Phil was founder and CEO of International Dynergy Inc., a public company that financed and installed USD 50 million of wind turbine generators in Palm Springs, CA.
He was Senior Vice President and member of Board of Directors of Auto Train Corporation, an American Stock Exchange Company that transported automobiles and passengers to Florida and CEO of its subsidiary Railway Services Corporation.
Global demand for food over the next 40 years is expected to double. Under present production technologies, meeting this demand and achieving global food security will require a doubling of water consumption levels. Meanwhile, the chemically fueled "Green Revolution" has run its course, leaving soil moistures depleted, and unclear climate change patterns threaten a looming agricultural water crisis. According to a study by McKinsey, a third of the world's population lives in regions facing water shortages; by 2030 global water requirements could be as much as 40 percent higher than the currently accessible supply.
Ironically, 70 percent of our planet is covered with seas offering more economical protein production without depleting scarce water resources. However, wild fisheries around the world have reached or exceeded their maximum sustainable harvest so the United Nations is projecting a 40 million ton seafood shortage by 2030. Therefore, the $50 billion worldwide marine aquaculture industry - the deliberate farming of ocean species that provides half the world's edible seafood - will continue to be the fastest growing form of food production in the world.
While global aquaculture has grown at a rate of about 8 percent over the past three decades, there are concerns that finfish farming may not be sustainable and its environmental impact is controversial. The cultivation of shellfish is recognized as the only form of aquaculture with no negative impact. Furthermore, in contrast to traditional shellfish farming in congested and increasingly polluted bays and estuaries, the cultivation of shellfish in pristine offshore waters is an emerging paradigm that is gaining recognition.
Bivalve shellfish are low-trophic (scientific-speak) because they are close to the plant base of the marine food web pyramid. Species feeding low in the food chain efficiently utilize natural resources. Each level up the food chain inflates costs related to the use of resources and the production of waste and the maintenance of water quality.
The phenomenon of upwelling elevates deep offshore nutrients to the sea surface for the propagation of phytoplankton: the foundation of the bountiful marine food web. Phytoplankton is the feedstock for filter-feeding bivalve shellfish. Unlike other forms of aquaculture, bivalve shellfish do not require costly external feed inputs fomenting the contentious sustainability issue.
Fast growing shellfish crops require little attention as they feed on drifting phytoplankton, are easily harvested and processed, and have a long shelf life for extended distribution. This is attracting the attention of private sector investors: no external feed, no negative environmental impact and harvest times less than a year reduces risk and generates a phenomenal return on investment.
The Prolific Pacific Oyster
Native to Japan, the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) has colonized worldwide as an aquaculture crop and now boasts the highest annual production of any freshwater or marine organism amounting to about 4.2 million metric tons and worth $3.5 billion. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Pacific oyster introductions have been recorded in: Ecuador, Belize, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Brazil, Israel, Philippines, Malaysia, Romania Ukraine, Seychelles, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Palau, Samoa, and Vanuatu.
The Pacific oyster was introduced to Northwest America in the 1920s and has grown into a $72 million industry. The Pacific oyster was then introduced to France in the 1970s with 562 tons of adult oysters from Canada and 5 billion spat brought in from Japan. By 2000 this alien shellfish represented 95% the country's harvest amounting to 180,000 tons per annum. Today, the Pacific oyster in France generates $842 million annually and nearly all the harvest is consumed locally.
Globally, Pacific oysters have become the gold standard for replacing stocks of indigenous oysters that have been severely depleted by over-fishing or disease. The Pacific oyster with its large size, vitality, resilience to adverse conditions, resistance to deceases, rapid growth and reproductive capacity is ideal for cultivation. Thus, it is the most widely farmed oyster species in the world and has created a multi-billion dollar industry across the globe where none previously existed.
Cracking the Oyster Genome
All life forms are subject to the primacy of the genetic code (ACGT), which governs heritability, the ability to reproduce, and the propensity to evolve. As society faces the challenges of insufficient food production and environmental degradation, genetics will become a sustainable survival tool for humanity.
For as long as plants and animals have been domesticated, the tendency has been to select species for improvement like better growth, disease resistance, or any characteristic producing a better yield. With the advancement of shellfish hatchery technology over the past thirty years, the shellfish industry has employed these techniques to improve their crops.
On September 19th 2012, an international team of 75 researchers published the full genome of the Pacific oyster comprising 800 million DNA base pairs, including around 20,000 genes. A close look at the genes of the Pacific oyster immune system will reveal why it is largely resistant to plaguing diseases. Oysters can tolerate 100-degree water but also can withstand being covered with ice. They can survive out of water for weeks, if kept cool. They inhabit water where salinity varies seven-fold depending on season and weather. Now that disease-resistant genes have been identified, this could lead to a "molecular breeding" program in which oysters carrying them are raised in large numbers and used for greater yields in aquaculture.
The oyster genome may also shed light on the consequences of climate change, which could threaten marine organisms' ability to form shells as the ocean becomes more acidic. Although oysters have high fertility, their offspring are very vulnerable and tend to die soon after birth. With the advent of ocean acidification, combined with the certitude of climate change, defined shifts in gene expression related to environmental stresses will provide transcriptional clues to the adaptations oyster employ for survival.
Stress response pathway enriched in the oyster genome, Nature. 2012 Sep 19
Pacific oyster genes are also specialists in inhibiting "apoptosis," the process by which a cell kills itself in an orderly fashion once it suffers serious damage, gets old, weak or unneeded. Pacific oysters have 48 genes coding for proteins that inhibit apoptosis. The human genome has eight. Could the complexity of the oyster genome shed light for cracking the code for longevity?
With global population forecast to reach 9 billion by 2050, there will be many more mouths to feed and perhaps more if the oyster gene reveals the code for inhibiting apoptosis in humans. This "Next Big Thing" of sequencing the oyster gene will allow scientists and shellfish farmers to increase yields with higher survival rates to help meet the monumental challenge of feeding an aging and burgeoning population.


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I'm not even a Lance fan but I'll jump on his bandwagon and post the "lost" audio clip of Tony Kornheiser calling for the intentional crashing of cyclists by motorists (note: the March 11 audio clip was removed from ESPN980's archive, but it lives on thanks to YouTube).
From the Washington Post: Lance Armstrong doesn't appreciate Tony Kornheiser's remarks about cyclists.
"Disgusting, ignorant, foolish. What a complete f-ing idiot."
-- "Lance Armstrong, starting a Twitter crusade against our former colleague Tony Kornheiser over the cantankerous radio guy's rant about cyclists taking up too much space on the road and urging his fellow motorists to give them a nudge. ("I'm not saying you kill them. I'm saying you tap them.") They made peace later Thursday, according to another Lance tweet, with an agreement to hash it out on Tony's ESPN980 show Friday."
Here's to hoping that peace only occurs when Kornheiser apologizes to every cyclist whose life he encouraged other motorists to put in jeopardy, and is then forced to ride a road bike for at least 30 miles as any road cyclist who so desires "taps" him with their car. I'm not saying you kill him. I'm just saying you give him a little love tap. To quote Lance, "Disgusting, ignorant, foolish. What a complete f-ing idiot."
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Memory management myths: promptness
12 comments:
- Aaron said...
I get an OOM exception in the F# "O(1) space" code. Did you test it in F# or OCaml?
- 14 October 2013 at 20:26
- Jon Harrop said...
I tested it in F#. Make sure you don't have the debugger attached...
- 16 October 2013 at 08:25
- Unknown said...
I think your C++ example is wrong. You use an object on the stack (shared_ptr) that points to an object on the heap (std::vector) that points to a sequence of objects on the heap (doubles) to prove that stack objects are destroyed when the stack is unwound. We all know that. There is no need for the shared_ptr here, using just vector is enough.
vector<double> loop(vector<double> tmp, int i)
if (i <= 0)
return tmp;
vector<double> tmp2 = loop(tmp, i - 1);
return tmp2;
int main()
auto vec = vector<double>(10*1024*1024, 0);
auto ptr = loop(vec, 2000);
return 0;
However, this also has the problem of making unnecessary copies and running out of memory (since memory is released when the vectors go out of scope that happens when the function call in which they were created returns).
So I think the better implementation of your example should use move semantics.
vector<double> loop(vector<double>&& tmp, int i)
if (i <= 0)
return tmp;
vector<double> tmp2 = loop(std::move(tmp), i - 1);
return tmp2;
int main()
auto vec = vector<double>(10*1024*1024, 0);
auto ptr = loop(std::move(vec), 3600);
return 0;
This run 'indefinitely', though in practice stack overflow happens after 3600+ recursive calls (in my tests).
- 22 October 2013 at 01:33
- Marius Bancila said...
What I missed to mention in my previous comment is that translating code line by line from one language to another will not produce the expected results. You should use the appropriate paradigms and practices for each language if you want to achieve performance. You can shoot yourself in the foot with any programming language. Writing C++ code like in F# or F# code like in C++ is no good and one should avoid that.
- 22 October 2013 at 14:11
- Current said...
Jon is right that reference counting isn't "prompt" in the way that some people claim it is.
On the other hand I don't quite agree with him about his F# and C++ examples. As I understand it in most languages work like this... When a recursive call is made the context of the call is repeated. The scope that the first call occurs in is not the same as the scope that the second call occurs in. So, the "shared_ptr > tmp1" and tmp2 are different each time "loop" is called and each creates a new reference. The C++ example fails because the C++ compiler's optimizer doesn't recognize that this type of recursion can be optimized, but the F# optimizer does.
The memory exhaustion happens because of a combination of two things. Firstly, there are many scopes and many local variables that aren't removed by compiler optimization, these cause many references. Second, reference counts are only decremented at the end of each of the scopes.
Really, only the second factor is important for Jon's argument, the first is an aspect of compiler optimization. But his examples depend more on the first factor. If the F# compiler used reference counting it wouldn't fail due to memory exhaustion either because it would optimize the excess variables out of existence. Similarly, if the F# example were written to use mutual recursion (or to otherwise fool the optimizer) then it would fail just as C++ does.
A better example is a much simpler one.... Imagine the "main" of a large program.
int main (void)
int beetroot[HUGE];
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
Suppose the function spends most of it's time in "everything_else", but the array beetroot is very large. In a GC system beetroot will be deallocated and the memory freed. In static memory systems and most reference counting systems that array won't be deallocated until the program has exited. So, it will take up memory throughout the entire execution cycle. (Even if the memory pages it uses are swapped to disk it will still use address space and time to swap the data to disk). "GCC magic" was introduced to GCC and the Linux kernel to prevent this problem.
- 23 October 2013 at 18:30
- Jagan said...
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- 29 December 2013 at 10:38
- Jagan said...
As Marius Bancila, noted you don't need a shared_ptr for this. Even if you believe that memory management comparison in C++ vs F# should be fair then why not use unique_ptr ?
This is what I have.
std::unique_ptr> loop(std::unique_ptr> tmp, int i)
if (i <= 0)
return tmp;
auto tmp2 = std::move(loop(std::move(tmp), i - 1));
return tmp2;
int main()
TimeTaken([]() -> bool {
auto tmp = std::make_unique>(10 * 1024 * 1024, 0);
tmp = std::move(loop(std::move(tmp), 4000));
std::cout << (*tmp)[0] << "\n";
return true;
}, "Time taken for recursive loop using unique_ptr");
Time taken for recursive loop using unique_ptr.Time taken:46.88 ms.
- 29 December 2013 at 10:41
- Jagan said...
If you thought std::move() is a bit of cheating, then I am creating unique_ptrs in the fn. loop() instead of std::move().
typedef std::unique_ptr> Doubles;
Doubles loop(Doubles&& tmp, int i)
if (i <= 0)
return std::make_unique>(tmp);
auto tmp2 = std::move(loop(std::make_unique>(tmp), i - 1));
return tmp2;
int main()
TimeTaken([]() -> bool {
auto tmp = std::make_unique>(32 << 20, 0);
std::cout << "Trying to recursive loop through 4000 times with the data of size:" << tmp->size() << "\n";
tmp = std::move(loop(std::move(tmp), 4000));
std::cout << (*tmp)[0] << "\n";
return true;
}, "Time taken for recursive loop using make_unique");
- 29 December 2013 at 11:12
- Jon Harrop said...
@Jagan: "As Marius Bancila, noted you don't need a shared_ptr for this. Even if you believe that memory management comparison in C++ vs F# should be fair then why not use unique_ptr?". This is not a comparison of C++ vs F#. This is a comparison of shared_ptr vs tracing garbage collection. That's why I've used shared_ptr.
- 2 February 2014 at 10:49
- Jon Harrop said...
@Unknown: "There is no need for the shared_ptr here, using just vector is enough". The sole purpose is to study the promptness of shared_ptr vs tracing garbage collection.
- 2 February 2014 at 10:52
- Jon Harrop said...
@Current: Actually, I deliberately wrote these programs to inhibit tail call optimization (there are no tail calls here) so it cannot be the cause.
"GCC magic was introduced to GCC and the Linux kernel to prevent this problem". Absolutely. I would argue that a better solution would be to move decrements earlier when possible on the basis of liveness analysis. However, that approach still produces some floating garbage.
- 2 February 2014 at 10:56
- Current said...
I see what you mean. I still can't wrap my head around how this happens though.
You write "This can only be because the argument tmp is no longer reachable via the stack when the recursive call is made and, consequently, gets garbage collected."
How does that work? I don't know about OCaml's internals, but in other languages "tmp" and "i" will be put on the stack. Or more likely a pointer to tmp will be put there. They won't be removed from the stack until the function has exited. So, when the GC probes the stack it will find the pointer to tmp and hang onto it. The compiler must be doing something special here to drop the reference to tmp, such as reusing the pointer to point to something else. I can't see how GC can create this behaviour on it's own.
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Britain, which had previously lobbied along with the United States to try to get the Palestinians at least to postpone their manoeuvre, said it would consider voting for the resolution pending certain amendments and public assurances, including a clear commitment from the Palestinians that they would return immediately to negotiations with Israel without preconditions and that they would not pursue Israel for war crimes in the International Criminal Court. But on Wednesday it seemed unlikely those assurances would be forthcoming, meaning Britain would abstain.
Germany has said it will not vote for the resolution but has not yet specified if it will vote against it.
Israelis and the Palestinians agree on one thing: support for the Palestinian bid grew as a result of the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that oversees Gaza, which elevated the stature of Hamas among Palestinians at the expense of that of Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank.
"Before the military confrontation there were several European countries willing to oppose the resolution," said Oded Eran, a former Israeli ambassador to the European Union. The new support, he said, was meant "to give Abbas a moral victory over Hamas in the contest between violence and diplomacy".
Husam Zumlot, a Palestinian official who has been active in lobbying in Europe, said more countries had decided "to support the diplomatic horizon and not the military-security approach that they see leads nowhere".
Israel has argued that the Palestinian move is a unilateral action that violates peace accords and that a vote for the resolution – which, according to the draft, "reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to independence in their state of Palestine on the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967" – will make it harder to negotiate a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But looking at a resounding defeat in the General Assembly, Israeli representatives are increasingly describing the bid for enhanced status as meaningless.
"Other than symbolic value for the Palestinians," said Yigal Palmor, the spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, "it may give them some procedural advantages, such as access within the United Nations system to some things, but that's it. It does not change the status of the territory."
Mr Palmor added that there would be no automatic response from Israel.
"We are going to see where the Palestinians take this," he said. "If they use it to continue confronting Israel in other UN bodies, there will be a firm response. If not, then there won't."


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Of course, right before I had read that article, I had been reading an article where the reporter spoke to an energy grid expert, who called such claims "a bunch of hooey." The guy, Seth Blumsack, along with a couple of colleagues, had been hearing all these stories about how "at risk" the electric grid was, so they went looking for the evidence. After looking at the claims and predictions, they realized that those claiming the electrical grid was at risk didn't actually appear to understand the physics of how electric grids actually work.
Blumsack, Hines and Cotilla-Sanchez decided to contrast the performance of a topological model with one based on actual physics - specifically on Ohm's and Kirchoff's Laws governing the flow of electricity in the real world. They tried out both kinds of model on an accurate representation of the North American Eastern Interconnect, the largest and one of the most trouble-prone portions of the US grid, using real-world data from a test case generated in 2005.Seems like, once again, the claims of cyberwar are overblown.
The three engineers say that the physics-driven model was much closer to reality, and that this verifies what physics models show. The results showed that in fact it is major grid components through which a lot of power flows - big generating stations and massive transformers - which are the main points of vulnerability, not the minor installations scattered across the country.
It isn't so much that a minor event on a minor line or installation can't crash the network: such things do happen. But in general there have to be huge numbers of such minor events before one of them happens to hit the miracle weak point and bring everything down. It would be an impossible task for terrorists or other malefactors to know in advance just where and when a minor pinprick could cause massive effects.
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Earth : Africa : North Africa : Morocco : Middle Atlas : Ifrane
Ifrane is a city in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco.
Ifrane is one of the most beautiful places in Morocco, residing on the Atlas mountain with a population of rougly 13,000 people. The current Moroccan king and his projects - like the university and huge new hotel - have had a large impact on the town. However, it can not be considered a large town. The majority of the population are farmers, sheepherders, etc, and therefore live outside of the town borders.
The main language in Ifrane is Berber, but you can also hear a great deal of Arabic and French. It is home to Al-Akhawayn University, an American-style university taught in English, French, and Arabic. Nearly all university students will be able to converse fluently in English, but most of the native residents can not.
The climate is mostly cold with a beautiful clement summer, with a great deal of rain in the first few months of the year. The people are overall very friendly.
Overall, there is very little reason to specifically visit Ifrane if you're limited on time in Morocco. Unless you're a student here or a member of the king's entourage when he visits, there's not a huge amount to visit here- a carved lion, some parks, funky roofs, lots of storks, outdoorsy things, and a Sunday souq pretty much summarize the town.
Get in
Most of the business comes from Fez and Meknes, which are the two major neighboring cities. Both cities are roughly 45 minutes away by taxi, which should cost no more than 150MAD for the entire cab, but drivers will certainly try to charge mmore. At some times (very late/early, during strikes), you may have to pay a good bit more. There is no train station in Ifrane. There is a bus stop, though catching busses from Ifrane can be a trick. There are always buses stopping in Ifrane from nearby cities, with CTM buses being cleaner and quicker, but 'sketch' buses being equally safe - just alot dirtier and a little cheaper, with more stops (longer trip), and leaving more often (easier to catch).
Get around
Most places are within walking distance, but petit taxis are also readily available for reasonable prices. Grand taxi drivers are a little more unscrupulous, so try to be aware of how much you should be paying for any given trip.
Places to visit: - Al-Akhawayn University. Normally the campus is closed to non-students, but there are occasional events that allow visitors to see the campus. You can also request special permission from the faculty.
- Centerville: The newer part of the city. Here, you can find the center for tourism, the iconic lion statue that many tourists like to take pictures next to, the lake and park, and a number of restaurants, cafes, and convenience stores.
- Marché/souq: The souq, open every day, is where the locals buy their supplies. Anything from books and electronics to meat and fruit can be bought here. There are also many restaurants of varying quality and price.
- Ein Vitel: A series of waterfalls, some of which are found inside the forests of Ifrane, others which you should take a taxi to. None are particularly impressive, but all are pretty.
There are three centers of nightlife in Ifrane: Teal, the Grand Hotel, and Aglemem. Teal and the Grand Hotel both contain dance clubs, and offer expensively priced alcohol. The clubs are most popular on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, and play only House/Techno music. Teal is currently the better-attended of the two, due to its recent renovation and their promotion of special deals. Aglemem is a bar/restaurant that occasionally holds live music events.
However, Ifrane's main attraction is its natural beauty. It is highly encouraged to hike in the area. You can easily rent a horse and guide for a few hours. It is also only a short distance from Ifrane to a place where you can find and feed wild monkeys.
Places to eat:
-In Centerville: 1. L'Apelle-- a bit expensive, but more high class than most restaurants in Ifrane. The only place that serves pastilla in the vicinity. 2. Agelmem-- a bit expensive, and most of the food is only mediocre. Very good chicken tagine. Has alcohol, and sometimes live music. A favorite of the university students. Where international students go to briefly forget they're in Morocco. 3. La Rosa-- middling prices, but normally has mediocre to bad food. 4. Various cafes-- all of the cafes are priced roughly the same, and have roughly the same quality of food. Normally a safe bet, though you can expect only the standard fare--pizza, tagine, harira, brochettes, etc.
-In the Marché: 1. Restaurant Al-Akhawayn: decent prices, good food. More varied menu than many others. 2. Syrian Food: the chawarma is the best option, and for about 50MAD. Those with a lot of experience with traditional middle eastern food may find this chawarma lacking, but others will find it delicious. (The Syria restaurant is closed now because the owner went back to Syria).
There is no budget accommodation in Ifrane. The best is probably to stay in Azrou (15 minutes by grand taxi, ~6 Dh).
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia pizza cook who called in a bogus airplane threat to get back at a romantic rival over a Facebook photo has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Kenneth Smith must also send written apologies to 38 passengers who watched as armed agents stormed the tarmac at Philadelphia International Airport last fall.
The 26-year-old Smith says he was angered over a compromising photo of his girlfriend that rival Christopher Shell had posted.
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Warner Bros. Claims That Annoying Customers With 28-Day Rental Delay Is Working
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Of course, that leaves out all sorts of important details. Beyond the simple correlation ≠ causation issue, there are so many other variables here, I'd be hesitant to believe that the higher sales were due mostly to this delay. Perhaps there was just a popular movie that people really wanted to own when it came out. Or perhaps there were other promotions. Or, maybe, it's just a dead cat bounce. Either way, let's wait and see before declaring that pissing off your customers so much is a good idea.
The best part, though, might be the confident quote from the guy:
"You make money in the film business by putting your content in appropriate windows that matches up with the way consumers like to use it."Thing is, he's got it wrong. It's not the "windows," but the different convenience and values that people consider. You can offer "the way consumers like to use it," all at the same time, if you want. The studios aren't doing this because they're so in love with the "windowing" system as a way to price differentiate, that they keep wanting to introduce more and more windows. At some point they'll realize that this is really dangerous short-term thinking. Pissing off people eventually comes back to bite you.


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Tony Martin shocked tubular tire aficionados when he won last year's UCI time trial world championships on Continental clinchers, and then repeated the feat to capture the German national title.
Martin will continue the trend at this year's Tour de France and according to new tire sponsor Specialized, the decision is one purely rooted in speed: clinchers are faster.
Tubulars are still widely favored in racing circles for a number of reasons: they're safer in the event of a puncture since they can be ridden flat; they generally offer better cornering characteristics on account of their (usually) round cross-sections; they're lighter as a wheel-tire system; and oftentimes they're more supple and thus deliver a better feel for the road.
However, in terms of rolling resistance, several studies have already shown that clinchers can sometimes perform better than tubulars, and Specialized is capitalizing on that fact with a special new TT-specific tire developed with the Omega Pharma-QuickStep team.
Specialized is basing that claim on data from independent wheel and tire test facility Wheel Energy in Nastola, Finland. According to data provided by Specialized to BikeRadar, Martin's prototype 700x24mm S-Works Turbo clincher generates 21.8 watts of rolling resistance when equipped with a latex inner tube (50kg static load, 116psi, 40km/h). An ultra-thin butyl tube moves the needle to 23.7W, a Continental TT-specific clincher with the same butyl tube logs 27.8W, and interestingly, Continental's Competition tubular tire is a touch slower at 28.8W.
The casing and tread are very thin and flexible — this quite certainly is not a training clincher
According to Specialized tire product manager Wolf vorm Walde, the new tire's highly flexible, 0.28mm-thick, 220tpi nylon casing is carried over from the current S-Works Turbo, making the tread the key part of the formula. Martin has most recently been testing three different versions (Specialized says "more than ten different protos" were made), all with unusually thin and finely patterned tread caps made from a fully synthetic rubber formulations derived from the automotive industry that – at least for now – is exclusive to Specialized.
The fastest tire is designed exclusively for dry conditions on swept roads and has a barely-there tread depth of 0.6mm (tread thickness greater than 2mm is more typical) and a minimal breaker belt to ward off punctures. The intermediate tire – designed for dry roads that haven't been cleaned – and the wet-conditions variant both add another 0.3mm of tread depth and switch to a triple-compound tread for "a little more reserves and more grip on the sides," according to vorm Walde. Given the greater possibility of punctures, those tires also get a more durable cross-woven polyamide breaker.
Currently, all of the tires are handmade in Thailand by Specialized's compound engineer, Wolfgang Arenz, and use vulcanized construction instead of an open tubular setup. Actual weight for the dry and clean conditions version is just 158g.
Consumer versions will be somewhat heavier when they're released later in August as they'll need to be more durable. Tread depth is currently targeted at 1.8mm for those and there will also be a switch to single-compound fully synthetic rubber.
Team mechanics told BikeRadar that Martin is the only Omega Pharma-QuickStep rider that will definitely use the new clincher tires, mounted up on a variety of Zipp carbon clincher wheels. Whether other teammates – and perhaps even riders on other teams – follow suit remains to be seen.
Worm Walde said that durability and safety issues will still see the riders using tubulars on road stages but Specialized will ultimately integrate the new rubber compounds into those tires as well.
"We don't expect tubulars to go away for road stages any time soon on account of their greater safety in the event of a puncture but it's not as big an issue in time trials, nor is the increased rotating weight for most courses."


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CIM Group and Denihan Hospitality Group Announce the First West Coast Location of The James Hotel Brand at CIM's Sunset La Cienega Development
CIM Group and Denihan Hospitality Group announced today an agreement to bring The James hotel brand to the Los Angeles area, where it will be situated in the heart of the iconic Sunset Strip at the southeast corner of Sunset and La Cienega Boulevards in West Hollywood.
The James Los Angeles, the first new ground-up hotel in West Hollywood in approximately 30 years, will be comprised of two 10-story towers with 286 rooms, two restaurants, rooftop and lobby bars and approximately 10,000 square feet of meeting space – with spectacular views of the Los Angeles area.
CIM Group, the owner and developer of the two-block Sunset La Cienega mixed-use development, selected Denihan Hospitality Group as its joint venture partner for the boutique hotel portion of the project. Denihan, a full-service hotel management company that owns, develops, and operates boutique hotels in major urban U.S. markets, is expanding its presence and The James brand to Greater Los Angeles with The James Los Angeles, which is anticipated to open in 2016.
"We selected The James brand as it brings an inspired guest-experience to West Hollywood and the Greater Los Angeles area," said Shaul Kuba, Founding Principal of CIM Group. "The hotel's attention to detail and premier amenities complements the distinctive Sunset La Cienega project underway at this legendary Sunset Strip location."
CIM, an investor in communities throughout North America, is the largest commercial real estate owner in Hollywood with other investments in West Hollywood. CIM has designed and is developing both The James Los Angeles and the two eight-story residential towers directly across La Cienega Boulevard that will consist of approximately 190 residences and approximately 40,000 square feet of prime street retail space.
Sunset La Cienega is surrounded by the many retail, restaurant and entertainment venues in West Hollywood, and will feature plazas and public spaces designed to enhance the pedestrian experience on the Sunset Strip.
"We are excited to be partnering with CIM in one of the most prominent developments in West Hollywood in years," said David Duncan, President of Denihan. "CIM has selected The James as the perfect boutique hotel brand for this location; built with warm, modern design, and enriching the guest experience through authentic, local cultural experiences and intuitive service. As a brand, The James is mindful of the needs of our neighbors, and we look forward to becoming an integral part of the West Hollywood community."
The James Los Angeles will be the fourth hotel operating under the brand, joining The James Chicago, The James New York and The James Royal Palm, Miami.
CIM identified the city of West Hollywood as an urban district that meets the firm's strategic investment guidelines, and made its first investment in the city in 2005. Since then, it has acquired and developed a portfolio of properties in West Hollywood that includes office, retail, studios, and multi-family residential uses.


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