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When installing cable on any project, you must consider fire containment. This means understanding the importance of firestopping. Technically speaking, the term firestop refers to the installation of "qualified" firestop materials in holes made through fire-rated floors, walls, or ceilings for the penetration of pipes, cables, or other construction/building, service/utility items. Since it's often necessary for you to create openings in existing walls and floors within buildings in this line of work, it becomes equally necessary that you safely close them.
Why is firestopping necessary? This practice buys you time because fire and smoke typically spread through openings in walls, floors, and ceilings. It also saves lives, protects critical systems and investments, and serves as a building liability reinforcement. You should use firestop products to restore the opening to the original fire-rated integrity. Most common requirements are for 1, 2, or 3 hr. In rare instances, you'll need a 4-hr to 6-hr rating.
As a cabling installer, you must use approved methods to restore any penetrations made during the installation to the original rating of the structure you're penetrating. You're also responsible to firestop any holes created by the removal of existing penetrations. There are two basic types of penetrations:
• A through penetration is a hole made in a fire-rated wall or floor to run pipes, cables, or any type of building service, completely through from one side of the fire barrier to theother.
• A membrane penetration is a hole in one side of a fire-rated wall or floor for a single surface-barrier penetration. (i.e., an electrical outlet/switch box).
A third party must independently test all firestop materials to ensure functionality. Always install products according to the manufacturer's instructions based on independent testing, or you may be held legally and financially responsible.
This means you cannot substitute products that are not part of the qualified assembly; cannot add more of a product to get a higher rating; cannot add or change the type or location of penetrations; can be held personally responsible for improperly firestopping or not firestopping at all; and can contact the manufacturers to get written assistance for situations not covered in their installation practices for qualified assemblies.
To break down the topic of firestop systems even further, there are two broad categories: mechanical and nonmechanical.
Mechanical systems consist of manufactured elastomeric components pre-sized and shaped to fit around standard cables, tubes, and conduits. These products are made of several flexible substances that resemble rubber. These systems use mechanical pressure to hold the elastomeric components in place and provide a tight seal around the penetrating devices. Whether or not this includes frames, you must have some means of applying compression to the modules. The elastomeric modules are fitted around penetrating elements or arrayed within a flame.
Nonmechanical firestop systems are generally pliable. These include items such as putties, caulks, blankets, silicone foam, and other types of materials that can be molded to fit into an opening to seal it.
Since all firestop products have unique properties to help contain the fire, each may contain one or more properties, including:
• A firestop that is endothermic can absorb heat. This prevents the temperature from rising on the other side of the fire barrier.
• A firestop that is intumescent will swell or enlarge when under the influence of heat. The material swells around and within the penetration to provide a tight seal. In some applications, it is designed to crush the penetration, such as with combustible conduits.
• A firestop that is ablative develops a hard char that resists erosion from fire and flames. This allows a soft firestop to become rigid, to help it withstand the force from a hose stream. When referring to firestopping systems, the terms qualified, tested, listed, classified, and approved are essentially synonymous. Each refers to firestopping systems tested by an independent laboratory and certified as effective (different laboratories use different terms). For simplicity, this lesson uses the word qualified to represent all of these terms.
As they relate to firestopping, the terms system and design are nearly synonymous; both refer to an arrangement of specific firestopping materials in a specific configuration. Keep in mind, this lesson does not address local authorities' requirements concerning the design, use, and specifications for these structures or assemblies. Consider the following guidelines before selecting a qualified firestopping solution for your specific application.
• Consider actual conditions tested/ covered by the system.
• When substituting one manufacturer 's system for another's, ensure the firestop materials selected are appropriate for the actual conditions.
• Never substitute products of a qualified firestop system with another manufacturer's products. Products from one manufacturer's system are not interchangeable with products from another's.
• The difference between the actual floor/ceiling/wall thickness and conditions tested during qualification may affect listed F and T ratings. Generally, the thinner the construction qualified, the better the F and T performance may be if actual construction is thicker. The reverse may not be true.
• A firestop material capable of sealing against the passage of smoke and toxic gases through the penetration is desirable.
Most importantly, you should select a qualified firestop system that matches the actual conditions that exist (i.e., penetrating item(s), material, wall/floor/ceiling configuration). If you cannot make an exact match between firestop systems listed and actual conditions, select a system that's close and seek an engineering judgment by a qualified local authority having jurisdiction.


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December 06, 2012
The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians is pleased to report that its decades-long effort to have the same rights to water as any other user in the El Dorado Irrigation District (EID) is finally over. On Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO), a local agency that determines EID's service area, voted to remove restrictions that it placed on the Tribe's water service long ago. Specifically, when the Tribe sought water service from EID in 1988, LAFCO purported to restrict the amount of water the Tribe could receive, restricting it to limited residential purposes (amounting to enough for only 40 residential lots) and no commercial purposes. The purpose of the restrictions was to preclude any economic development on the Tribe's lands, since water is needed for commercial operations. By a vote of 6 to 1 Wednesday night, LAFCO removed the restrictions that have long plagued the Tribe.
"We could not be happier today," said Nicholas Fonseca, Chairman of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. "We have worked for many years to simply be treated like any other water customer, and remove what are obviously unfair and we believe illegal restrictions on the Tribe. Last night's vote was a long time coming, and justice finally prevailed."
The Tribe had worked with EID and the United States Department of Interior to remove the restrictions, through a formal application to LAFCO. Prior to that formal application, the Department of Interior had issued an opinion that concluded the discriminatory treatment of the Tribe violated federal law. On the basis of that opinion, and an EID policy that provides water on a "first come, first serve" basis, the Tribe and EID entered a Memorandum of Understanding in 2008 that would provide the Tribe the same water rights as any other customer.
"Our choice at the time was to sidestep LAFCO, or sue LAFCO," said Chairman Fonseca. "We chose what appeared to be the most reasonable choice, which was to proceed in good faith with an agreement with EID."
In exchange for water service from EID under the MOU, the Tribe agreed to pay the commercial rate for water (even though it is a government, entitled to a governmental rate). The Tribe also agreed to upgrade water-delivery infrastructure on the reservation, an upgrade that positively affected water pressure not only on the reservation, but within the surrounding community.
A local group opposing the Tribe's Red Hawk Casino (Voices for Rural Living) challenged the Tribe's MOU with EID in state court, and without reaching the legality of the restrictions; a Court of Appeal recently ruled that EID and the Tribe had to formally ask LAFCO to remove the restrictions. "So EID filed a formal application," said Chairman Fonseca. "And with LAFCO's action last night, VRL's legal challenge appears to be moot, and as soon as that case is dismissed, we can all move on."
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Chicken Tikka Masala - Secret Secipe Club
Welcome to our continuing series, Scenes from the Secret Recipe Club. In this month's episode, we serve a heaping helping of Chicken Tikka Masala, brought to you by Melissa of Fried Ice and Donut Holes. Melissa is a teacher by profession, and a cook and baker by passion. When you visit her blog, be sure to check out her About section to find out why "fried ice and donut holes" came to be a warning to behave (it's kinda cute!).
Melissa has a very eclectic taste in food, as well as I ... and her delicious recipes showcase it! This made selecting just one quite difficult. Should I make a batch of Indian Spiced Cream of Tomato Soup with Couscous? But that Roasted Tomato and Basil Risotto looks so divine! Or maybe her version of Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups instead?
But the Chicken Tikka Masala truly beckoned me. I've had Tikka Masala at the local Indian restaurant several times, but never got around to making it myself. Now there are no more excuses!
There wasn't much tinkering that had to be done to make the recipe kosher-friendly ... just subbing olive oil for the butter, and coconut products for the remaining dairy items. Coconut is an ingredient in many Indian dishes so it wasn't a big deal. And since low-fat coconut milk replaced the heavy cream, the total fat content was reduced significantly (my cholesterol count says thank you).
That can of tomato sauce that I thought I had (but didn't) was replaced with a tablespoon of tomato paste and 1/2 cup of water. Not sure why I didn't use an entire cup of water, but it worked out so well that I included them in the ingredients.
I omitted the jalapeño (forgot to buy it). If you like heat, add back up to an entire minced jalapeño. Finally, I significantly reduced the amount of salt in the dish. Kosher chicken is inherently salty due to the kashering process. If a teaspoonful is not enough, taste and add what works for you.
Speaking of taste, Dear Reader, you are probably thinking, how was the taste of the finished product? Let's just say that Chicken Tikka Masala has been added to the dinner rotation at my house. YUM! Thanks, Melissa!
Chicken Tikka Masala
Adapted from Fried Ice and Donut Holes
1 cup plain soy or coconut Yogurt
1 Tbl. fresh lemon juice
2 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper
1 Tbl. fresh ginger, minced
1 tsp. table salt, or to taste
1 small to medium-sized yellow onion, finely chopped
3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 tsp. olive oil
1 Tbl. olive oil
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tsp. ground cumin
2 tsp. sweet paprika
1/2 tsp. table salt, or to taste
1 Tbl. tomato paste
1/2 cup water
1 cup coconut milk
2 cups cooked rice (white or brown)
1/4 lightly packed cup fresh cilantro (stems and leaves), chopped
For the marinade: In a large bowl, combine the yogurt, lemon juice, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne, black pepper, ginger, and salt. Stir in the onion. Depending upon the type/brand of "yogurt" you use, the marinade might turn into a thick paste. Stir in the chicken pieces. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Meanwhile, start the sauce: Heat oil in a large heavy grill pan or skillet over medium heat. Saute garlic, cumin, paprika, and salt for 30 seconds or until fragrant. Stir the tomato paste into the spices for 30 seconds, then add water and coconut milk.
Simmer on low heat until the sauce thickens, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
About 10 minutes into the simmering, start on the chicken: lightly grease a grill pan with the oil. Remove chicken pieces from marinade; discard remaining marinade. Grill chicken over medium heat for 5-10 minutes, turning as needed to brown all sides (chicken will probably not be cooked through!).
Transfer grilled chicken to the sauce, turning as needed to coat. Simmer on low for an additional 10 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in the center.


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Regent Seven Seas: Delighting in the Detailsby Jim Glab | September 5, 2007
Commitment to passenger satisfaction includes 2007 upgrades to three ships; the significance of Regent's "string theory."
What can a mere piece of string tell you about a cruise line?
Quite a bit. The piece of string was something I marveled at during a recent Baltic cruise aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises' 700-passenger, all-balcony-suite Seven Seas Voyager. It was in the bathroom, inside a cabinet under the sink, and it told me just how much thought the line puts into its passenger amenities.
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The bathroom had a wastebasket mounted to the inside of the cabinet door, so when you opened the door, the wastebasket would swing out for easy access. But think a minute: If you need to use the wastebasket, odds are that you will be holding something in one hand to throw away. The wastebasket has a lid on top. So if one hand is holding your trash, and the other holds open the cabinet door, how can you lift the lid on the wastebasket?
Regent's solution was to attach one end of a string to the lid of the wastebasket, route it through a small metal loop and attach the other end to the wall inside the cabinet, so the act of opening the cabinet door pulled the string taut and lifted the lid of the wastebasket.
Maybe you would consider this insignificant - after all, you could just hold the door open with your leg, then lift the lid with your free hand. The point is, you don't have to. Lots of companies might have just installed a wastebasket without the string -- they might not even have attached it to the door. But someone at Regent thought through this small bit of human activity and engineered a solution to make it a little easier.
2007 Upgrades It's things like that piece of string that make the difference between a true luxury ship and a lesser vessel. To maintain its status in the cruise world, Regent has to keep making its ships and its cruise product better, and it took a big step in that direction this year with $20 million in improvements to the Voyager, and to its sister ship Seven Seas Mariner, and the smaller (470 passengers) Seven Seas Navigator. (The line's smaller, 330-passenger Paul Gauguin, based in Tahiti, got an upgrade last year.)
All three ships got a communications upgrade, with the addition of in-cabin wireless service for passengers' laptop computers, as well as faster Internet connectivity and cell phone service. When we met the butler for our suite on Voyager, he introduced us to the newest amenity for butler suites: Bose speakers for use with your iPod. You didn't bring one? No problem - the butler dropped off an iPod fully loaded with hundreds of songs from various genres. The music quality was great. The speakers were on the desk right next to my laptop, which I cranked up to see if the in-cabin WiFi really worked. It did.
Other enhancements to the three ships during their 2007 dry dock included new Anichini bed linens, duvets, cashmere throws and bathrobes; new towels and slippers; new Regent-branded amenities in the bathrooms; and the re-carpeting of the ships' public areas. If you're fortunate enough to book a Master or Grand Suite on one of the ships, you'll see a Nespresso coffee machine in your cabin. The ships' computer lounges also got new espresso bars.
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|Regent Seven Seas Voyager
In addition to the iPod and speakers, guests in butler suites now get a choice of daily canapés, which they can pick a la carte off the butler's menu. In its dry dock, the Mariner added a coffee bar on Deck 6; besides coffee, it also has breakfast and lunch snacks and after-dinner drinks. And on the Navigator, the fitness center/aerobics room, displaced from its Deck 11 site by the addition of a new Navigator Suite, was reinstalled in the space previously occupied by the observation lounge. Other enhancements this year are in the ships' entertainment offerings, which now feature a nine-piece band on each vessel -- "the largest aboard any luxury cruise line," a spokesman said -- as well as five new musical productions by the resident Regent Singers and Dancers.
No Nickel-and-Diming One thing I like about Regent is its all-inclusive pricing. Cruise rates cover all the usual stuff -- food, entertainment, etc. But they also cover some things many lines charge separately (and considerably) for. Passengers get a mini-fridge restocked daily with bottled water and their soft drinks and beer of choice; those in butler suites also get two bottles of liquor -- again, whatever they choose -- in their cabin at no charge. (Can't finish it? Take it home.) If you're heading out for a shore excursion, take one of those water bottles stacked near the exit -- they're free. And don't fret over how much to tip the crew -- there's no tipping. Want some wine to enjoy with your dinner? It's included (although premium selections from the extensive wine list are extra). Or try one of the three alternative restaurants instead of the main dining room -- there's no surcharge, even for the elegant Signatures.
I was surprised to see that on our seven-night Baltic cruise on the Voyager, there were no formal nights -- just informal (jacket, no tie) and "country club casual." Regent, keeping up with the industry's changing standards, also has an open-seating, come-anytime policy for its main dining room, Compass Rose (want a table by the windows? Get there early -- they go first.) The three entrée choices that changed each night in Compass Rose sometimes included regional specialties, like Baltic snapper and reindeer. In addition, every night the menu offered chicken, steak or salmon prepared to your specifications, plus a pasta dish. A full page of the menu was devoted to that night's 'Menu Degustation,' the chef's recommended tastings-type menu. Another nice feature: Separate listings on the back of the menu divided the night's cuisine (entrees, appetizers, desserts, etc.) into categories for the health-conscious, including no-added-salt dishes, heart-healthy and vegetarian.
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|Signatures Restaurant
|Poolside Grill
For a relatively small ship, the 46,000-ton Voyager has a full range of passenger options, including four dinner venues. Besides Compass Rose, there's 1) Signatures, the ship's gourmet Le Cordon Bleu restaurant, with continental cuisine and white-glove service; 2) Latitudes/Indochine, serving up elegant Asian dishes with grace and style; and 3) La Veranda, which is the breakfast/lunch buffet restaurant, but in the evening becomes a sit-down dining venue -- they call it a steakhouse, but the cuisine is Italian. Go figure. Both Signatures and Latitudes require reservations.
Voyager also has most of the other features you'd find in a larger vessel - a spa, fitness center, casino, computer center, a sizeable library, shops, various lounges, large theater for evening shows; etc. Up on top are the pool (with a poolside grill), running track, a less-than-regulation-size tennis court, shuffleboard court and an observation lounge.
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|Running Track
|Fitness Room
|Observation Lounge
Cabins and Crew The basic accommodations on Seven Seas Voyager start at 356 sq. ft. for categories D through H, with 50 sq. ft. balconies (I once had an apartment in Manhattan smaller than that -- and no balcony). Class C suites are 386 sq. ft. with a balcony more than twice as large. And anything above that -- Penthouse A and B suites, Seven Seas suites, Voyager suite, Grand suite and Master suites -- come with the aforementioned butler service and the extra perks that it brings. They range from 370 sq. ft. for Penthouse suites to 1,403 sq. ft. for the largest Master suite. All cabins have king-size beds convertible to twins, a separate sitting area, marble bath with tub and separate shower, walk-in closet, DVD/CD player and more.
The ship's 447 crew members are quite international in their origins; we met staff that came from places as varied as France and Bali. They wear stylish uniforms and are unfailingly pleasant to passengers. They may have been influenced by the line's staff educational program, overhauled when the company was renamed last year from Radisson Seven Seas to Regent Seven Seas, aligning its product more closely with its luxury sister hotel company, Regent International. "As part of last year's rebranding, all Regent employees received training in the 'Tao of Regent,' the guiding principles for its brand essence, values and service philosophy," a spokesperson said.
A World of Cruise Options Instead of serving up a continuously repeating series of itineraries, Regent sends its ships literally all over the world, with cruises of varying lengths, from seven nights to world cruises of almost four months. We were delighted to find that the line had some Baltic cruises of only seven nights, since some of us do have to get back home and back to work, and since seven-night Baltic itineraries are relatively rare. This shorter cruise length had a marked impact on the average age of the passengers, who were noticeably younger than those we had seen on a 10-day Regent sailing we took a couple of years ago.
Our seven-day sailing departed from Copenhagen and called at Visby, a Swedish island with a well-preserved old town; Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, with its own popular old city on a hill; and St. Petersburg, before ending in Stockholm. The highlight of any Baltic cruise -- it claims to be the world's fastest-growing cruise venue, by the way -- is St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad. It's Russia's second-largest city and home to many of its most renowned cultural and historic treasures, from the world-class Hermitage Museum to the iconic Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood, to the czars' ridiculously opulent summer palaces outside the city, like Peterhof, resplendent with gold-leaf-lined walls and legions of larger-than-life statues and giant fountains spread across its extensive grounds. Fortunately, Regent scheduled a stay of three full days in St. Petersburg, giving passengers plenty of time to see the city. (When I visited on a cruise several years ago, on a line that no longer exists, we had just one day in port, time only for a quick city tour and a rushed walk through a few of the Hermitage's scores of galleries.)
Any complaints? Just a couple of minor things. The newly upgraded Internet service seemed a bit slow and dodgy, especially the in-cabin WiFi. But Regent says this was a unique circumstance related to the ship's far-north Baltic location. The line even posted a notice in the computer center warning that Internet service would be "intermittent due to the low elevation of the satellite antenna and also due to interference in some ports." The other minor irritant came as we docked in Stockholm. A staffer at the Travel Concierge desk told us that Regent's motorcoach transfers to the airport would cost $65 per person. When we asked about taxi fares, he said they were about $120, almost as much as two people would pay for the bus transfer. As it turned out, the motorcoach was full, so we took a taxi by default -- except the fare only came to about $70. Shouldn't a Travel Concierge know that? And why would the line charge almost twice as much as taxi fare for a 30-minute bus ride?
For 2008, the Seven Seas Voyager will kick off the year with a 115-day world cruise from San Francisco to Athens, visiting 51 ports in 26 countries. It will also repeat its offering of seven-day Baltic cruises from late July through the end of August, again with Copenhagen-to-Stockholm itineraries or the reverse. Fares for those cruises currently start at $5,795. For details, go to www.rssc.com


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Monday was :(. Today was much better.
I got a new tire this morning. I called around to places and saved over $50 in the end.
Drove to work and actually missed taking the bus, especially on the way home.
Lunch was a pb and banana sandwich and strawberries and blueberries mixed into my Aldi strawberry greek yogurt.
Pretty similar nutrition info to Chobani, huh? It tasted nearly identical (and it was only 88 cents)! I need to compare ingredients now.
March photo a day: 5 p.m. All I could think about was the SNL skit from the 90's. Maaaaking copies.
Around 4 pm, I was day dreaming of making a salad for dinner and putting wasabi peas in it. I had this with a side of pizza. The pizza didn't even taste good to me! Bring on more veggies! I am craving them like mad lately. That and berries.
I got a good workout in tonight. I mainly focused on lifting weights. I love the endorphins I get from cardio though, so I biked for a bit and walked/ran on the track.
Craig sent me this article and in the subject line of his e-mail, he wrote, "no-we can't move for this." I knew it was some amazing opportunity I would die for. Yup, I would totally love this job. Wouldn't you? If you can move anywhere, apply for it! In case you don't feel like clicking through–the title is "B.C. city posts $50K foodie dream job" and to summarize–Calgary wants to hire a food blogger who can eat out every day for the next year and blog about it. Sign me up! Or better yet, Milwaukee, please create this position and I'll boast about our city and the restaurants here, like I do already anyway. 🙂


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Twenty years ago, a 12-year-old girl stood before government officials from most of the world's countries and pleaded for her future. Worried about pollution and overuse of natural resources on her finite planet, she begged, "If you don't know how to fix it, please don't break it." The occasion was the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which ended with the world's countries committing -- at least on paper -- to make environmental concerns a priority and eliminate unsustainable forms of production and consumption. Above all, delegates agreed that development must not jeopardize the welfare of future generations." Reminding the grownups in the room that their children and grandchildren deserved a decent life, too, the girl asked, "Are we even on your list of priorities?" Canadian Severn Cullis-Suzuki -- who pleaded on behalf of her generation then and who now has a toddler and an infant of her own -- will return to Rio in late June, when delegates gather again to try to map a sustainable course for the world's 7 billion people. The theme is one often raised by Pope Benedict XVI. During a Sunday blessing last November, he urged delegates to an international climate conference to consider "the needs of the poorest and future generations." A few days later, he told young Italian members of a Franciscan environmental group, "There is no good future for humanity or for the earth unless we educate everyone toward a style of life that is more responsible toward the created world." Many observers, however, are dubious that delegates in Rio will map a route toward that lifestyle. So far, negotiators have failed to agree on the summit document, which was supposed to be 90 percent complete before the summit begins; an additional writing session was scheduled May 29-June 2.
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Girl Talk On Remix As An Art Form
from the knock-on-wood dept
In the chat, he responded to a question I raised about why he uses a noncommercial license for his music (as he makes commercial use of others' works), arguing that transformative fair use would still allow commercial use of his music and noting that his label suggested the noncommercial license as a "safe move." Gillis was also asked whether he's surprised that he still hasn't faced a lawsuit, even though his profile has been much higher in the past few years.
Kind of. I believe in what I'm doing. I do not think it should be illegal. But at the same time, if you look at the history of sample-based music, it is somewhat surprising. Biz Markie, 2 Live Crew, Danger Mouse, Negativland, etc. Those are the people who laid the groundwork. They all had issues.He notes that he was under the radar with his first couple albums, but since 2006, it's been hard for him to ignore publications like the Rolling Stone and the New York Times talking about how he's going to get sued. Yet, no lawsuits. He says times are changing.
The way the general public views intellectual property in 2009 is much different than in 1999. Look around the internet. So much content comes from pre-existing media. We're used to it now. Christian Bale goes crazy on the set of T4. That turns into a techno song, which then turns into a cartoon on YouTube, which will then turn into a T-shirt. Everyone is constantly exchanging ideas and building upon previously existing material. So the idea of a remix being a real artform is being validated in our culture every day.Certainly, artists like Girl Talk, as well as others ranging from DJ Kutiman to the creator of the "rap chop" video, have been debunking the myths about "original" content, showing people that remixing can be creative and original and that it contributes to culture. Still, there are plenty of people who believe otherwise. Hopefully, Gillis continues to avoid legal troubles, though I don't think things have changed so much that this isn't still a huge risk. But, insofar as the remix is increasingly validated as an art form, perhaps a lawsuit would end up highlighting the limits that copyright law places on artistic expression nowadays.


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June 23, 2014
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered a new method of reactivating latent HIV, which could be one of the keys to finding an HIV cure, according to a study published in the journal Science. By increasing the random activity, or noise, associated with HIV gene expression -- without actually increasing the average level of gene expression -- the researchers found that they could reactivate latent HIV hidden within the HIV reservoirs.
"If we can make the virus show itself, we can then use ARVs [antiretrovirals] to eliminate it. This so-called 'shock and kill' approach holds great promise, but to date it has unfortunately shown only limited success," said lead author Roy Dar, Ph.D., in a press release from Gladstone Institutes.
One of the things that makes HIV so elusive is its ability to hijack and embed itself into the DNA of an infected cell, causing the cell to make copies of HIV's genetic material, a process known as transcription. This leads to the production of more virus, also known as expression, which leads to more hijacking of other immune cells in the body.
While today's ARVs are very good at inhibiting HIV from replicating, some virus remains hidden in reservoirs where ARVs can't reach. According to the researchers, one of the reasons this proves difficult is because of the random, or stochastic, nature of HIV latency. Random, unavoidable fluctuations in transcription lead to "noise" around the average level of gene expression; HIV happens to have very noisy gene expression. Because of this noise, previous approaches to reactivating latent HIV have not been so successful.
According to the press release:
In this study, the team tested the counter-intuitive notion that compounds that increase noise in gene expression could work together with transcriptional activators to increase overall levels of HIV reactivation. The concept borrows from other fields of science such as chemistry, where theoretical arguments long ago argued that increased fluctuations can increase the efficiency of reactions.
First, they screened a library of 1,600 compounds using a specialized cell line that produces a green fluorescent protein (GFP) when gene expression is activated. The team identified 85 small molecules that increased noise without changing average GFP gene expression levels. They then combined these newly identified noise enhancers with known transcription activators in a cell line that serves as a model for HIV latency.
They found that while the noise enhancers could not cause reactivation on their own, 75 percent of them could synergize with activators and increase viral reactivation relative to activator alone. In fact, some noise enhancers doubled reactivation levels when combined with activators. Furthermore, they found a direct correlation between noise enhancement and the degree of reactivation synergy; the greater the noise, the greater the effect on reactivation. For the first time, these results show that expression noise and reactivation of latent HIV are directly related, and identify new candidates for the "shock and kill" approach to treating latent HIV infection.
Further research is needed, but these early results are promising. "The implications for using noise also extend far beyond HIV reactivation, since random cellular activity contributes to a wide range of processes, from antibiotic persistence to cancer metastasis. Thus, this approach could represent a new tool for drug discovery across multiple fields," concluded Leor Weinberger, Ph.D., senior author of the study.
Warren Tong is the research editor for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
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Nagano (長野) is the capital of Nagano prefecture, in the Chubu district of Japan. It flourished as a temple city of Zenkouzi. Zenkouzi is a famous temple.
Nagano hosted the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. Many of the Olympic facilities remain open - like the M-Wave speedskating arena and the Aqua-Wing arena - making Nagano a popular destination for indoor and outdoor sports enthusiasts. It's also a key launching point for trips to onsen and ski resorts in the nearby mountains, which are often referred to as "the Japanese Alps".
Get in
By train
Nagano is about 90 minutes from Tokyo station on the bullet train. The Hokuriku Shinkansen, also known as the Nagano Shinkansen or Asama (あさま), was completed in time for the 1998 Winter Olympics. There are 2-3 departures per hour from Tokyo Station, at a cost of ¥7970 each way. Smoking was banned on all Asama trains as of December, 2005.
The Wide View Shinano limited express train runs hourly from Nagoya to Nagano. Taking about three hours, and at a cost of ¥7130 each way, this is the best method of reaching Nagano by train from Kyoto, Osaka, and elsewhere in western Japan; simply take the Shinkansen and change to the "Shinano" in Nagoya.
By bus
Highway buses from Tokyo depart from the terminal in Shinjuku, and from the Sunshine City Prince Hotel in Ikebukuro. The trip takes around three and a half hours, and the fare is ¥4000 one-way. The ¥7200 round trip fare is about half the cost of the Shinkansen.
Hankyu and Nankai buses also make a few daytime and nighttime runs from Osaka and Kyoto to Nagano. The day runs take about seven hours, and the night runs take nine hours. Expect to pay ¥6200 one-way, ¥10000 round trip from Osaka, and ¥5300 one-way, ¥9500 round-trip from Kyoto.
Get around
There are buses that loop around the city center called the Gururingo. If you stay within the main area a ride is only 100yen.
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What Makes a Blockbuster Movie in China?
Foreign films such as "Iron Man 3" have accounted for just 42% of China's box-office sales so far this year, compared with 51% last year. Michael Berry of UC Santa Barbara tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan how local filmmakers drew audiences in with lower-budget movies like "Finding Mr. Right" and "American Dreams in China".
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... the ... Hollywood blockbuster ... finance in China ads in local films produced in Hong Kong and mainland China I'm Deborah con ... joining me now is Professor Michael Bay area found the UC Santa Barbara ... I a professor of film and ... so Michael there was a time when Hollywood of blockbusters were doing really well in China and why ... losing market share ... you know there's a complicated number of factors that I think it's contributed to the shift has been taking place ... one of them is that ... there's been us and we call it It's fertilization of various Hollywood actresses John Rose forms filmmaking techniques by the local industry itself ... or by a lot of Chinese films were becoming more like on the way ... so that ... foreign element that so many audiences were flocking to the tailgating through their own mobile phones ... ok and there was a time when we heard and I think it is still an issue for films that ... I would say the industry ... taking away a lot of market share aam ... and that seemed to me the truth ... for foreign films or is that just a universal problem ... will the issue in hiring in China I think has dramatically shifted over the last several years with the digital revolution so ... with fewer and fewer people are going out and buying physical media anymore in China ... and all of those Deb's the stores that were targeted as the chief culprits of the pirated the street ... have largely disappeared and now a lot of the industry is although online ... and it's I think in some cases better regulated online ... because you can ... certain sites that are forcing Hollywood content ... and their certain copyrights is that it paid in such a lover ... it's hard to completely get around to cut the pirated I'm just wondering that is that I love to own ... that tends to do better in China I mean for awhile you know we saw lot of the action cones ... I'm good at it and the top of that the box office that but is there is there any way I hear or read financial what does better ... well what's the for Hollywood fare ... he is indeed the big budget action ... films to ... become a blockbuster says Michael desexed optical films that really do very well in China ... and those tend to be the ones that ... of Hollywood products to really dominate in the Chinese market ... so what's interesting is that for local Chinese films it's often see at least in the last couple years this is a ... big ship because in say the last decade from the late nineties into the early two thousand was also Chinese blockbusters that weren't doing the best in terms of Chinese films performing the trapeze ... box office of films like euro house of flying daggers curse of the Golden flower ... he's been John Davis optical films all been very very well ... um ... in that market however there's been a shift now ... to smaller budget ... comedies romances local Chinese films ... that can be made on a much smaller budget and they're doing very well ... at the box office in what's really interesting is the last see your so ... a lot of these films are ... very ... very noticeably up Procreating Hollywood tropes or Hollywood forms formulas ... for instance ... of one of the big blockbusters of recently was my lucky star ... which was a project that was held by ... the activist John Ziegler things ... together ... Hollywood director David Gordon ... and it has also Hollywood screenwriter onboard but ... largely Chinese crew and cast ... the film performed very well the box office ... and it really appropriate a lot of that kind of Hollywood on ... comedy romance type type formula ... also other recent films like finding Mr and it's ... which is a ... it was marketed in China the Chinese version of sleepless in Seattle why ... you come to Seattle ... and see he's the ... sooner you ... I ... I mean I'm no deal by Hong Kong based director Peter Chan call American screens in China ... which is about it's kind of a social network site formula film ... is about three friends ... who going business together the various fallout saying that this is ... something like twenty years in a friendship and a portion of the film ... was shot in New York ... and so that ... the exotic foreign landscape that pot of audiences were looking for and getting two Hollywood films ... and I'm giving local films with your package aid package market in ... which he says that the Chinese language ... so that's much more probable to ... a local audiences than watching subtitled films and those films of in form very well ... and they're also able to be produced for a much smaller budget which overall is ... better for the Chinese local industry ... yes certainly does prayer that you don't need to ... spend ... billions of dollars to have I've popularity in the box office ... thanks very much a Michael berry a professor from joining us from UC Santa Barbara ... for more on that star a pink added any estate dot com under for ...


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KnowledgeBase 00094: Dictionary I-Type Records
Developers migrating applications to QM from Pick style systems are frequently confused by dictionary I-type records. Actually, these are very simple and offer many features that are not possible with correlatives in A/S-type records.
Format of an I-Type Record
An I-type dictionary record has the following structure:
1: I {description} 2: Expression 3: {Conversion code} 4: {Column heading} 5: Format code 6: Single/multivalue flag (S or M) 7: {Association name}where elements enclosed in curly brackets are optional. Much of this is very similar to an A or S-type record but in a different order. The expression serves broadly the same purpose as a correlative but is much more powerful.
The I-Type Expression
The expression in an I-type dictionary is essentially the same as the right hand side of a QMBasic assignment statement. Unlike correlatives, I-type expressions are not limited to integer arithmetic. With a very few exceptions, all QMBasic functions are available in I-types. So, a simple expression to calculate the due date for an invoice as 30 days after its issue might be
ISSUE.DATE + 30In an I-type expression, names that in QMBasic would be variables relate to other A/C/I/S type items in the same dictionary. Note that, unlike correlatives, numeric constants are not quoted. If there is a need to refer to a field by field number, the data can be extracted from @RECORD using the normal field operators:
@RECORD<6> + 30The above examples show why using D/A/S-type items to name all fields leads to easier maintenance by making it clear to anyone reading the expression what data it references.
Of course, I-type expressions may be much more complex than this simple example.
A common use of I-type expressions is to fetch data from another file using the TRANS() function. This is essentially the same in purpose as a T conversion. For example:
TRANS(CUSTOMERS, CUST.ID, NAME, 'C')to fetch the NAME field of the CUSTOMERS record for which the record id is in the CUST.ID field of the record being processed. Unlike many other multivalue products that support I-type records, QM allows the item being fetched (in this case NAME) to be a further I-type or other calculated value in the remote file's dictionary.
There is an important action of the TRANS() function that developers need to be aware of when retrieving multivalued data. Mark characters in the data returned are demoted by one level (e.g. value marks become subvalue marks). This is done because the TRANS() function can take a multivalued list of record ids in its second argument and returns a composite result with the data for each record appearing as a value in the returned data. There is a similar RTRANS() function that does not demote mark characters.
Multivalued Data
In Pick style systems, a correlative expression used with multivalued data is evaluated once for each value. An I-type, on the other hand, is evaluated just once, processing then entire multivalued data in one operation. To support this, the QMBasic language has many multivalued functions that operate on each field, value or subvalue in turn, returning a similarly structured result. There is a link below to a KnowledgeBase article that describes these.
Compound I-Types
Sometimes it is easier or more efficient to evaluate an I-type expression in stages. This ability is provided by a "compound I-type" which is simply a series of expressions separated by semicolons
The result of evaluating the first expression is stored in an internal variable named @1, the second expression in @2, and so on. Any expression can use the results of earlier expressions. Using just @ as a data name refers to the value of the immediately preceding expression. The value of the whole I-type expression is the value of the final expression.For example:
OCONV(DATE(),'DYMD');OCONV(DOB,'DYMD');@1[1,4]-@2[1,4];IF @1[6,5]>@2[6,5] THEN @ ELSE @ - 1The above expression, somewhat horrific at first sight, calculates someone's age in whole years based on a date of birth in field DOB. There are four expressions. The first two convert the current date and date of birth to YYYYMMDD format. The third expression calculates the difference in years based on the YYYY portion only. The final expression adjusts this value depending on whether the person has had a birthday in the current year. Other commonly used techniques such as dividing the date difference by 365.25 do not work for people born on 29 February or when performing the calculation on that date.
Unlike many other multivalue products that support I-type records, QM allows compound I-types to be nested to any depth.
Compiling I-Type Records
An I-type is just a QMBasic expression and, like the full QMBasic programming language, it must be compiled before it can be used. The object code is stored in fields 16 onwards of the dictionary record. The ED and SED editors hide this object code as it is binary data which could cause unwanted effects when sent to a terminal device.
The query processor will automatically compile an I-type expression if needed, however, there is an important consideration when using nested I-types. For example, if we have an I-type named PROFIT to calculate the profit we make selling an item
SELLING.PRICE - COST.PRICEand a second I-type named PCT.PROFIT to calculate this as as percentage of the cost price
PROFIT / COST.PRICE * 100the process of compiling the second I-type substitutes the PROFIT expression such that the actual expression compiled is
(SELLING.PRICE - COST.PRICE) / COST.PRICE * 100If we were to execute a query that used the PCT.PROFIT item, the query processor would compile it if it has not been compiled since it was last changed.
Now consider what happens if we had accidentally entered the PROFIT expression as
COST.PRICE - SELLING.PRICEWe would notice the error when we run the report using PCT.PROFIT. We could then correct the definition of PROFIT and repeat the query, however, we would get the same incorrect result.
Why does this happen? Because nested I-types are resolved at compile time rather than as a run time subroutine call, changing the PROFIT item does not have any way to automatically invalidate or recompile the PCT.PROFIT item. We need to force recompilation using the COMPILE.DICT (short form CD) command. As a general rule, it is a good idea to compile a dictionary whenever a change is made to an I-type that might be used by another expression.
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SCA Biennial Meeting, 2014
The Ends of Work
Detroit, Michigan, May 9–10, 2014
Registration: To register for the conference, please click here. Early registration for the conference ends April 17.
Hotel information: The conference will be held at the Hotel Crowne Plaza Pontchartrain Detroit. Registered conference participants may request a special SCA room rate until April 17, space permitting. Please call the hotel directly at (866) 710-7531 to inquire about the rate and room availability.
Submissions are now closed.
See the full preliminary schedule. The schedule at a glance is below.
The SCA 2014 meeting invites a wide-ranging engagement with the startling transformations of work today. The contours and critiques of work demand our attention in ways both familiar and new. From the "reinvention" of manufacturing and making to reconceptualizations of immaterial and affective labor, the means of assembling livelihoods—and of living variously under the sign, the imperative, and the lack of work—require our attention, and perhaps a slowing down.
We thus invite contributors to think with and about work in ways that range from labor in feminist and Marxian senses to broader understandings of human and non-human activity, as in performance, creativity, effort, or force in the world. Ends, in turn, need not signal termination, the end, but also the goals and temporalities, desires and extremes, the minimal thresholds and maximizing aspirations that contemporary activities and imaginations of work may entail, elicit, or foreclose.
The ends of work are legible in, for example, contemporary transnational politics of (im)migration, the configuration of race, and the conduct of war. Work's reimagination is indexed in persistent warnings of a "jobless future" in Europe and the United States, as well as in the rise of New Economy movements, the demands of indebtedness (sovereign and otherwise), the rise of narco-economies, and new/old constellations of intimacy, violence, and love. Anthropology's central concerns with diverse conditions of economic life, with subjectivity and collective imagination, and with the constitution of spaces of the political, are keenly relevant and even necessary to understanding the contours and content of work today.
The SCA 2014 meetings will be held in Detroit, Michigan. The city has attracted far too much attention as a kind of post-industrial ground zero, and its historic declaration of bankruptcy, in which pensions (alongside art work) are being positioned as auctionable municipal assets, has only heightened that sense. But Detroit is also on the forefront of U.S.-based re-imaginings of the futures of labor and work, within a history that exceeds the breathlessness of today's crises. We seek to make those projects and those sensibilities an integral part of the meetings. The city is thus more than a backdrop for these discussions. The SCA is working closely with Detroit-based colleagues, activists, and artists to create multiple opportunities for engagement and dialogue, on- and off-site.
Keynote events include The Detroit Roundtable, and plenary conversations with Sylvia Yanagisako, Kathi Weeks, Dimitris Papadopolous, and Gilberto Rosas.
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From Dining Room to Home Office: Without Buying Anything
Although I have a slim desk behind the sofa in my living room, I have always blogged from bed. But now that I'm working at home all day — not just a for a few hours in the morning — I felt the urgency to get serious about my office space. Over this weekend, in preparation for starting work at my "new job," I looked around my house for a place to set up my new office. I faced two challenges: The first was financial; I didn't want to buy anything. The second was functional; I still wanted my home to look pretty — not like I just plopped a desk into the middle of nowhere. Here's what I came up with.
After looking around, my dining room seemed to be the best bet. It gets minimal use and (confession) this would certainly be a lot better than using it as a dumping ground for mail. In fact, I'd previously considered transforming it into an office/den but scrapped the project as too costly for now.
Deciding how to orient the dining table/desk was the key to figuring out the whole space. The chandelier hangs too low to walk under. Then I came across a photo that provided inspiration; putting the table/desk at an angle solved my problem. Plus, it lets me face outwards instead of looking at a wall all day. After that it was just a matter of gathering up items from around the house. A pile of favorite and inspirational design books, a vase, a tray. I'm starting to put together my taxes so my financial folder is on my desk. Later, maybe I'll add a desk lamp or move my fishbowl to the desk's corner but for now I'm ready for work!
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Alberts, a three-time first team All-Ivy selection, is one of the most dynamic players in the Northeast. He needs only four assists to become Yale's all-time leader, and his 51 career points are the fifth most in school history. Last year, Alberts led the Ivy League in assists, tied for ninth in points and earned second team All New England honors. In addition, he was named the Offensive Most Valuable Player of the Brown Tournament. Alberts missed all of the 2001 season due to mononucleosis. In his sophomore year Alberts earned first team All-Ivy honors for the second year in a row. As a freshman, Alberts was the first Yale player to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Year. His 21 overall points were the most ever scored by a freshman in Yale history. In the summer of 2001 his club team, Busch from St. Louis, won the under-20 national championship. He also has played on the national B team. A graduate of Whitfield High School, Alberts was a four-time all-conference selection, a three-time all-district and all-state selection and set the all-metro career scoring record as a junior.


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Our anniversary is the day after tax day. And we still haven't filed our taxes yet, or even begun to sort receipts and all the jazz that comes along with it. We keep putting it off. Instead we're dreaming of how to spend our fourth anniversary together. Shall we grab dinner and a movie? Hire a private jet and fly to Paris for the weekend?* Drop acid and make out?** Or maybe just open a bottle of prosecco and enjoy some hot financial planning?
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Most people would think that such a beautiful girl would only be with a bear like Greasy for his money. Watch out for claws! Being unbiased and hopeful romantics, TMZ would like to think that the oily bear heir has found true love.
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I'm not going to lie; it's been a pretty tough couple of weeks. Turns out, the pain in my hip was, as thought, this bone disease which has caused it to collapse. It is very likely that it was caused by complications from using steroids to treat my RA. Not great news then. It's so frustrating that the things I have been taking to get me back on track and get my condition under control have ultimately caused me more problems. Although, I'm not sure what's worse? Should I have suffered continuously for the past year and not taken steroids? Or is enduring this severe pain for (hopefully) a shorter period of time the lesser of two evils? Jury's out.
I am constantly reminding myself when I have had my extremely fed up moments recently that I knew this could potentially happen. Well, not that I knew this specific hip thing would happen, but I knew complications would arise from time to time because of my condition and I thought I had learnt to accept them. It is like a big slap in the face though when something like this knocks you back. I have worked so hard to turn my life around, dealing with my RA, dealing with my depression and anxiety because of my condition and starting my own business to combat the potential lack of jobs my condition presents. It just seems, sometimes, what is the bloody point? If things like this are likely to keep happening then why do I bother?
The simple answer is, because you have to. It's just life. If we all gave up when shitty things happened then none of us would bother at all and the world would be chaos. I am still not sure how I feel about having a hip replacement (as that is what is going to happen any day now as I am an emergency case because my hip has collapsed). Am I ok with having an artificial hip at 24? Well, it's not ideal is it? But then again, it seems the less of two evils as I am not sure how much more of this excruciating pain I can take. I am exhausted, the pain has kept me awake most of the night for 3 weeks now (more so than my RA ever has) and I am fed up with struggling to walk and do things for myself. I nearly caused an accident the other day when my hip wouldn't move and my foot was stuck on the accelerator in my car... I mean for Christ sake! It's just a joke.
So for once I am not actually writing about my RA as such, however I do have to mention that the consequences of all this stress and pain have caused a massive flare up in my knees and wrists (which is just fabulous on top of everything else) But to be fair it's not a scratch on the pain in my dead hip. I am walking around constantly thinking, I am going to have a fake hip. I'm 24 and I'm going to have a fake hip. What do I say to people? Will they know? Do people who have artificial body parts tell everyone they meet? Probably not. Ridiculous as it sounds I'm just trying to make sense of what this means. What it ultimately means is further hip replacements in the future, as new hips don't last forever. Plus, it seems the other hip is on its way out too according to the orthopaedic doc. I will probably have to have this one replaced at some point down the line too as osteoarthritis has set in already in both of my hips. Oh God what a mess. What an awful bloody mess my body is in right now. I can't help thinking in 10 years time will there be any of the real me left? Will I have had knee and wrist replacements too by then? What is this going to mean for my future and being able to start a family and stuff if I'm constantly in the body shop having work done?!
Well, I'm not a car requiring spare parts. I am a person after all, with thoughts and feelings, ones of anxiety and fear right about now. I don't like the thought of having an operation. I don't like the thought of not being able to work. I especially don't like the thought of having to rely on other people to help me do day to day things until I recover. I have been doing so well figuring out ways to do things without other peoples help. I don't like being a hindrance to others or feeling week and pathetic and going back to asking for help up and down the stairs and in and out the bath is exactly that.
Enough of the negativity. I need to put my brave face on and, once again, face this head on so I can continue with 'normal 'life... just with the addition of a new hip.


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The alleged plot by Iranian agents to hire a Mexican drug trafficker to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US has reignited the debate over Iran's intentions in Latin America.
Iran has cozied up to several Latin American leaders in recent years as it inks projects to expand trade – and influence – in America's back yard. Many dismiss this as nothing but politics: perhaps a concern, but not a threat.
Others voice outright fear that Hezbollah and supporters in Iran seek to attack US and Israeli interests with the help of drug cartels south of the border. The news of the alleged assassination plot by two agents tied to Iran is already raising the volume on this view.
"It is going to stir up a lot of interesting questions about Iranian connections in the Western Hemisphere," says Ray Walser, an expert on Latin America at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the foiled plot "creates a potential for international reaction that will further isolate Iran, that will raise questions about what they're up to, not only in the United States and Mexico."
Ahmadinejad, Chávez and their 'new world order'
While Iran has been expanding its presence with many countries in recent years, its his ties with Venezuela's anti-American socialist firebrand President Hugo Chávez that raise the most concern.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in fact, was supposed to visit President Chávez this September, days after emptying the United Nations chamber for raising questions over the events of 9/11. The trip was canceled at the last minute, but it would have been one of several reciprocal state visits over the past few years.
Last year, Chávez, on a worldwide tour that took him to Tehran, stood with President Ahmadinejad telling reporters they were committed to forming a "new world order. "
Iran has found allies too in the ALBA countries – those aligned with Venezuela, such as Bolivia and Nicaragua, in an alternative trade alliance. Perhaps most irksome to the US was the former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's openness to Tehran. During his administration he hosted Ahmadinejad, visited him, and supported Iran's bid for a peaceful nuclear program.
Iran isolated? Not in Latin America.
Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas, sees the bigger Iranian footprint in Latin America as an effort to make new political friends, as the globe questions its nuclear intentions.
"If you are getting support from Latin America, it reduces your isolation," says Mr. Farnsworth. "It allows you to say with some justification that the whole world isn't against you."
But others say the intentions are more sinister. The Jewish community in the hemisphere, for example, has long voiced concern over Iran's capabilities.
Claudio Epelman of the Latin American Jewish Congress told The Jerusalem Post:
"In Argentina we have learned of the seriousness of the Iranian threat," said [Mr. Epelman]. "First, in 1992, an attack destroyed the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and took the lives of 29 people. Two years later, a car bomb blew up the Jewish Community Center, AMIA, killing another 85 people. For this latest attack, the Argentinean Justice, with Interpol's support, has ordered the arrest of seven former Iranian officials and a Lebanese member of Hezbollah, accused of being the masterminds of the terrorist attack. However, the Iranian government has consistently refused to cooperate and even protected the accused."
In Mexico, many say the connection to Iran and drug trafficking is being overblown – that even if they sought the help of drug traffickers here, those very drug traffickers are unlikely to bite (in this case one of the accused agents inadvertently sought the help of a DEA informant). The plotters could just as easily have paid off a thug in urban America, they argue.
But the foiled plot is definitely one more piece of evidence for those who see Iran as a real and immediate threat in this part of the world.
Roger Noriega, who wrote the recent paper "The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America" for the conservative American Enterprise Institute, took the opportunity yesterday to outline the key points of that paper in a blog:
1. With Iran's direct support, at least two parallel yet collaborative terrorist networks are growing at an alarming rate in Latin America. One is operated by Hezbollah and aided by its collaborators in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, and the other is managed by the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
2. These terrorist networks are sharing their terrorist experiences and techniques with Mexican drug cartels along the U.S. border and have established deep relations with other transnational criminal organizations.
3. These two networks encompass more than eighty operatives in at least twelve countries throughout the region (with the greatest areas of focus being Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile).


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Trump and immigration (all times local):
8 p.m.
President Donald Trump has privately defended his remarks disparaging Haitians and African countries, saying he was only expressing what many people think but won't say about immigrants from economically depressed countries.
That's according to a person who spoke to the president as criticism of his comments ricocheted around the globe.
Trump spent Thursday evening making a flurry of calls to friends and outside advisers to judge their reaction to the tempest, said the confidant, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to disclose a private conversation. Trump wasn't apologetic about his inflammatory remarks and denied he was racist, instead, blaming the media for distorting his meaning, the confidant said.
Critics of the president, including some Republicans, spent Friday blasting the vulgar comments he made behind closed doors.
— Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire
5:30 p.m.
President Donald Trump is privately defending his inflammatory comments about African nations and Haitian immigrants.
Trump made a round of calls Thursday night to friends and outside advisers to judge their reaction to the tempest, says a person who spoke to Trump but wasn't authorized to discuss a private conversation.
Trump wasn't apologetic, the person says.
The president instead blamed the media for distorting his meaning, arguing his description of "shithole" was not racist but rather a straightforward assessment of some nations' depressed conditions.
Trump also said he believed he was expressing what many people think, according to the person.
During a bipartisan Oval Office immigration meeting Thursday, Trump questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa.
— Josh Lederman and Jonathan Lemire
5:15 p.m.
The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee say they plan to introduce a censure resolution against President Donald Trump over his "bigoted fear mongering" about Haiti and Africa.
Democratic Reps. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana and Jerrold Nadler of New York say they were deeply troubled by Trump's comments referring to African nations as "shithole" countries during an Oval Office meeting on immigration.
Richmond and Nadler say the countries Trump insulted "produce immigrants that are remarkable and make significant contributions to our country."
The censure resolution has little chance of passage in the Republican-controlled House, but Richmond and Nadler say it's important because "America is a beacon of hope." They say Trump's comments don't "represent the real feelings" of most Americans.
3:20 p.m.
Sen. John McCain says all elected officials, including the president, must respect that people from all over the world have "made America great."
The Arizona Republican's statement comes a day after President Donald Trump referred to African nations as "shithole" countries during Oval Office talks with lawmakers about immigration.
McCain says respecting all people "is the essence of American patriotism." He says rejecting that "is to oppose the very idea of America."
McCain did not specifically mention Trump or the profanity he used. He did employ a variant of Trump's campaign theme, "Make America Great Again."
Trump's vulgarity was described by Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin, who attended the White House meeting, and three others briefed on the session.
McCain is in Arizona being treated for brain cancer.
3 p.m.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he "said my piece" to Donald Trump after the president's comments about Africa and Haiti that have stirred such controversy. But Graham isn't confirming exactly what Trump said.
In a statement Friday, the South Carolina lawmaker says, "Following comments by the president, I said my piece directly to him." Graham also says diversity is "our strength, not our weakness."
Graham released his statement a day after an Oval Office immigration meeting at which Trump referred to African nations with a vulgar term. Trump's words have prompted an uproar and were relayed by Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois — who was at the session — and three others familiar with the meeting.
Trump disputes the accounts of the language he used, but he has not denied the most controversial word he is said to have uttered.
2:45 p.m.
The State Department says American diplomats will have to work "extra hard" to send the message that the United States cares about other countries after President Donald Trump used the word "shithole" to describe Africa nations.
Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein says it's Trump's right to "make whatever remark he chooses." He says that's the benefit of being president.
But Goldstein says U.S. diplomats have an obligation to represent the U.S. throughout the world. He says Trump's remarks don't "change what we do."
Goldstein says the State Department is advising U.S. ambassadors to "primarily listen" if summoned to explain Trump's comments to foreign leaders. He says they'll tell foreign countries that the U.S. commitment to their nations "hasn't wavered" and that the United States is honored to have diplomatic representation there.
2 p.m.
The lone Democrat in a White House immigration meeting says talks were "combative at times" and that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham pushed back after President Donald Trump used a vulgarity about African countries.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says he was the only Democrat among 12 people at Thursday's meeting, where he says Trump "repeatedly" used the term "shithole" to describe African countries.
He says Graham "spoke up" and told Trump his own family's story of coming to the U.S.
Durbin says it's up to the South Carolina senator to say more.
Durbin also repeated his earlier account that Trump said the U.S. doesn't need more people from Haiti. He says he told Trump if he singled out Haitians it was "clearly a racial decision."
Trump says he did not denigrate Haitians.
1:25 p.m.
Two Republicans who were in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump say they "do not recall" him talking about "shithole" countries in Africa.
Georgia Sen. David Perdue and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton issued a joint statement Friday. They say, "We do not recall the president saying these comments specifically." They say, "But what he did call out was the imbalance in our current immigration system, which does not protect American workers."
Trump's slur came as pro-immigration senators tried to pitch Trump on a deal to protect younger immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. Perdue and Cotton had travelled separately to the White House.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says Trump made the comments, as do people briefed on the conversation.
1:15 p.m.
Legal experts predict it won't be long before President Donald Trump's remarks about immigrants from "shithole countries" in Africa start showing up in lawsuits and judicial decisions, much as the president's tweets already have.
Lawyer Neal Katyal says on Twitter Thursday that he's putting the finishing touches on his latest Supreme Court brief. The brief opposes Trump's ban on visitors from six mostly Muslim countries. Katyal says Trump's words "remind us again of how his un-American racist ideology impacts policy."
South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman says he is "willing to bet you lunch" the comments will find their way into a pending travel ban decision from the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
12:50 p.m.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says that President Donald Trump's vulgar slur about Africa was "very unfortunate, unhelpful."
The Wisconsin Republican was referring to Trump's asking during an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers why the U.S. should admit more immigrants from "shithole countries" in Africa.
Trump on Friday denied using certain "language," but didn't offer more specifics. Illinois Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin said Friday that Trump "said these hate-filled things and he said them repeatedly."
Ryan said his ancestors were Irish and "were really looked down upon." He called immigration "a beautiful story of America " and said Africans in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, are "incredible citizens."
Ryan made his remark Friday at a public forum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
—This item has been corrected to show that Ryan was complimenting Africans, not Haitians, in his hometown.
12:45 p.m.
GOP leaders are staying quiet while more moderate Republicans are speaking out against President Donald Trump's incendiary comments in a White House meeting Thursday about "shithole" countries in Africa.
Florida GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Trump's alleged comments were "completely unacceptable," telling WPLG-TV in Miami that "if that's not racism, I don't know how you can define it."
Moderate GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine chimed in on Twitter to call Trump's remarks "highly inappropriate & out of bounds." She said they are hurting prospects for a bipartisan agreement on immigration.
And Idaho Republican Mike Simpson told The Associated Press that Trump's remarks were "stupid and irresponsible and childish."
Simpson added that, "this is a big deal. America's influence and power in the world has really been about our ability to persuade because of our leadership, and he's just destroying that."
12 p.m.
President Donald Trump did not respond to questions about his use of a vulgarity or his question about why the U.S. should accept more immigrants from Haiti and African nations than from countries like Norway.
The questions came Friday in the White House when Trump signed a proclamation honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day, noting the contributions of a "great American hero."
Trump did not respond to several questions about the incident, including whether he actually used vulgar language to describe African nations, or if he is racist.
The president said at the White House that "love was central" to the slain civil rights leader. Trump said the nation celebrates King for "standing up for the self-evident truth Americans hold so dear, that no matter what the color of our skin or place of our birth, we are all created equal by God."
11:50 a.m.
A prominent evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump's is standing by him after Trump used a vulgarity to describe African countries.
The Rev. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas says that, apart from the reported choice of words, "Trump is right on target in his policy."
Jeffress says Trump has a constitutional responsibility as commander in chief to protect the U.S. "above the needs of other countries." Jeffress says Trump has courage and deserved gratitude for his leadership.
Jeffress sent out the statement as many evangelical leaders condemned the remarks as offensive and racist.
People briefed on the Oval Office conversation on immigration reform Thursday said Trump questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and what he called 'shithole countries" in Africa.
10 a.m.
A senator present at a White House immigration meeting says President Donald Trump used vulgar language to describe African countries, saying he "said these hate filled things and he said them repeatedly."
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, on Friday told reporters that Trump questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and that he referenced "shithole countries" in Africa.
Durbin said "shitholes" was "the exact word used by the president not just once but repeatedly."
Durbin added, "When the question was asked about Haitians ... he said, 'Haitians? Do we need more Haitians?'"
Trump said on Twitter Friday that his language during the meeting was "tough," but "this was not the language used." He did not specifically deny using the word "shithole."
9:15 a.m.
President Donald Trump is insisting he "never said anything derogatory about Haitians."
Trump is reacting on Twitter Friday, after reports that he questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa rather than places like Norway. Some media outlets also reported that Trump said in reference to Haitians, "take them out."
Trump tweets: "Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said 'take them out.'"
The White House has not denied the language used at the Thursday meeting on immigration. Three people briefed on the conversation described the language. The people were not authorized to describe the conversation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
7:45 a.m.
President Donald Trump says "this was not the language used" after reports that he referred to "shithole" African nations in a meeting.
Trump tweeted Friday amid criticism over his comments during a White House meeting Wednesday. The White House has not denied the language, nor have the several Republican lawmakers in the meeting.
Three people briefed on the conversation say Trump questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa rather than places like Norway. The people were not authorized to describe the conversation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Trump says Friday: "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!"
7 a.m.
President Donald Trump says a bipartisan immigration proposal is "a big step backwards." He tweets that it would force the U.S. "to take large numbers of people from high crime countries which are doing badly."
Trump seems to be defending himself against the furor over his vulgar words to describe African countries. Trump questioned at a White House meeting Thursday why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and Africa than from places like Norway.
Trump says the "so-called bipartisan" deal "was a big step backwards" because it doesn't fund a wall along the Mexican border.
He adds: "I want a merit based system of immigration and people who will help take our country to the next level. I want safety and security for our people. I want to stop the massive inflow of drugs."
2 a.m.
President Donald Trump's dismissal of Haiti and certain African countries with a vulgar expression has created a furor.
Trump made the remark Thursday during a White House meeting after senators discussed revamping immigration rules. That's according to three people who were briefed on the conversation but weren't authorized to describe it publicly.
Trump questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa rather than places like Norway, as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal.
Trump's contemptuous description of an entire continent startled lawmakers in the meeting and immediately revived charges of racism. The White House did not deny his remark but issued a statement saying Trump supports immigration policies that welcome "those who can contribute to our society."


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Stone Lodge in Resort Town near Lake Michigan
Whimsical architect Earl Young was famous for building the fairy-tale mushroom houses of Charlevoix, Michigan. He had an equally fanciful plan when he designed the Weathervane Terrace Inn in 1960. Located along Lake Michigan, the hotel resembles a European castle, with turreted towers, a stone façade, and leaded windows ordered from a Polish estate. Inside the lobby, the quirky designer constructed a boulder fireplace that artistically illustrates the surrounding area's natural attractions. The design benefits from the hotel's picturesque setting—guests have to walk only a few feet to reach Lake Michigan or charming downtown Charlevoix.
For warmer waters, guests can head to the eight-person indoor hot tub. Couples on romantic getaways can settle into a whirlpool room, which has a white soaking tub and a glowing electric fireplace. The Lake Michigan suite's private balcony looks out over the lakefront.
Charlevoix, Michigan: Quaint Town Surrounded by Three Lakes
Located in the northern half of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, the small town of Charlevoix is a popular resort destination, known for the petunias lining its 5-mile stretch of US 31 starting in May. A half mile from the Weathervane Terrace Inn lies Round Lake, which surrounds a quaint shopping district; you can take a sunset cruise here on one of the yachts or sailboats that bob in the marina. The third lake around the city is Lake Charlevoix, a nice spot for fishing.
To learn more about Earl Young's whimsical designs, take a walking tour through his mushroom houses, located less than half a mile from the hotel. Stonework façades and frosted stone chimneys characterize the pintsize dwellings, which have been described as "hobbit houses" and "elf cottages."


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