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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Teachable moments at 'brawl bowl'
December 11. 2013 8:26PM
LIFE is all about lessons learned, we are told. And one of the best places to learn those lessons is in the playing arena. Whether a cold November football field or a perspiration-dampened basketball gym, athletes learn all sorts of positive, life-affirming lessons.
Such lessons are now tumbling forth from two city high schools, after word got out that four Manchester Central football players received five-day suspensions for their actions during the city's traditional Turkey Bowl on Thanksgiving Day.
No Trinity High School students or staff have been disciplined, and earlier this week, Trinity Principal Denis Mailloux said the game, which took place two weeks ago today, is ancient history.
The contest pitted Manchester's top two football teams against each other at Gill Stadium. The third-quarter brawl took place along the Trinity sidelines.
A video, available on YouTube, shows a lot of pushing and shoving between players. After you view it, here are the lessons:
Tell the truth
That's what we hear from our moms shortly after we start talking. Even if it hurts, tell the truth and things will work out in the end. Four Central students seemed to be speaking truthfully in interviews earlier this week.
"He was talking dirty to me the whole game. I got frustrated and then just did it," a suspended player said, explaining his late hit on a Trinity player that preceded the brawl. (Note: Three suspended players talked willingly and provided their names, but this newspaper is not revealing their identities.) Another admitted he ran up to a Trinity coach and pushed him in the back, worried about what was happening to a fellow player.As for Trinity?
"Some things happened that were outside the rules. We're leaving it in the past at this point," said Mailloux, the Trinity principal. Both Mailloux and athletics director Chip Polak said they viewed the film and saw no inappropriate action on the part of Trinity players or coaches.
Mailloux said he'd love to hear details about alleged assaults and swearing by his students and coaches ... but only if Central administrators bring it up.
"I don't listen to what kids say," Polak said. "Kids can say anything."
The real lesson:Tell the truth, and if it's what people want to hear, they'll listen.
It takes two to fight
"He started it."
We've all said it, and we've all heard it. It's a trap that draws you into a swirling back-and-forth that resolves nothing.
Polak noted the late hit by a Central player.
"Nobody's proud, but it was initiated by Central," he said.
Another suspended Central player said, "It wasn't just us throwing the punches. They threw the first punch."
The film shows a chain reaction that follows the late hit. Hit unexpectedly, the Trinity player falls into Central players and a referee. A Trinity coach grabs the arm of Central player Gino Otero (who was not suspended), and Otero pushes back.
From there, it accelerates. Trinity coach Steve Burns tries to keep two players apart. One Trinity adult goes face to helmet with a couple of Central players. Burns eventually jumps onto two wrestling players.
Polak said Burns was trying to pull the players apart.
"In any brawl, any altercation, there are no rules," Polak said. "You step in any way you can. There are no written protocols for a fight."
Football players on both teams tried to hold back their energized teammates. As for Trinity coaches? Otero's mother talks about bringing criminal charges against one who grabbed her son right after the late hit. (Police said they have received no such complaint.)
The real lesson:It takes two to fight, but only one will take the blame.
It's only a game
Football and Thanksgiving. You think of the Kennedys tossing the pigskin in a friendly family game. Then there's the NFL games on TV, always good for dozing off to with a belly full of turkey and pumpkin pie.
Manchester's football tradition is the Turkey Bowl. The victors gain city bragging rights. But the New Hampshire Athletic Association season is already over. (Both Central and Trinity had winning records and made their NHIAA divisional playoffs.)
The game was competitive at first. But by the third quarter, Trinity was up 30-8. Twice in the third, the Trinity Pioneers executed an onside kick, a special-teams play aimed at producing a turnover. Central received at least one call for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Ho-hum. A lopsided game is little fun. All but the most diehard fan is bored. Players lose their drive. A coach can put in his second string. Or he can always just pile it on.
"The (Trinity) coaches kept saying, 'Pound them, pound them; they're weak,' " one of the suspended players said.
The final score was 52-8.
"They played hard. Both teams played hard within the rules of the game," said Mailloux, who directed me to Polak for further comment.
"That's football stuff," Polak said. "In my mind, the story of the game was Division II Trinity upsetting Division I Central."
Upset, in more ways than one.
The real lesson: It's only a game if we crush our opponents.
Mark Hayward's City Matters appears Thursdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader and UnionLeader.com. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — As cargo ships idled in the harbor or headed elsewhere, negotiators prepared Tuesday to return to the bargaining table with a federal mediator to try to end a costly, eight-day strike that has all but shut down the nation's busiest port complex.
About 44 percent of all cargo arriving in the U.S. by sea passes through the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, accounting for an estimated $1 billion a day in merchandise.
However, since hundreds of clerical workers went on strike, and thousands of dockworkers refused to cross their picket lines, most of that cargo has languished on docks, rail cars or ships.
"There's a billion-dollar impact to a work stoppage of this nature. It's an impact we cannot sustain," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said outside the harbor community center where negotiations have been held.
In the distance, giant cranes used to unload ships stood motionless.
Villaraigosa had emerged from an overnight negotiating session at the center to announce both sides had agreed to call in the mediator, who was expected to arrive by Tuesday evening.
The mayor said he was optimistic that an agreement could be reached within hours, explaining he had seen significant progress in the bargaining.
Representatives of both sides did not seem to share his enthusiasm.
"If it's close to any agreement, it's what kind of bagels we're going to bring in for breakfast," said Steve Getzug of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Employers Association, which is representing management.
Union spokesman Craig Merrilees did agree with Villaraigosa that significant progress had been made.
"But more remains to be done, particularly around the details of a plan to end the outsourcing of good jobs from the harbor area communities," he said.
Union leaders maintain that management wants to save money by outsourcing clerical jobs to places like China and Taiwan, where it can pay half the money for the same work. The result, they say, would be one more American sector taking an economic hit just to boost a giant company's profit margins.
Management maintains it won't outsource any jobs, but it wants more flexibility for hiring future employees so it doesn't have to pay people to fill slots that aren't needed. It contends the union wants "featherbedding" contract language requiring artificial staffing levels.
While management says it is willing to offer lifetime job security to all currently employed port clerks, the union says it wants to ensure that future generations don't lose out on well-paying jobs that could go overseas or to less labor-friendly states where workers could be forced to take drastic wage reductions.
The union says average clerical salaries are $41 an hour, or about $87,000 a year. When benefits are factored in, that raises annual compensation to $165,000, Getzug said.
After more than two years of unsuccessful contract negotiations, about 400 of the 600 members of the local International Longshore and Warehouse Union clerical workers unit walked off their jobs last week. They shut down 10 of the ports' 14 terminals when 10,000 dockworkers, who are members of their sister union, refused to cross picket lines.
The clerks handle such tasks as filing invoices and billing notices, arranging dock visits by customs inspectors, and ensuring that cargo moves off the dock quickly and gets where it's supposed to go.
Everything from computers to cars moves through the twin ports and onto trucks and trains, headed to warehouses and distribution centers across the country.
It's traffic that ports throughout the country would love to have, labor experts say.
With expansion of the Panama Canal expected to be completed in 2014, Los Angeles and Long Beach can expect to have more competition for shippers, Villaraigosa said.
That competition could heat up even more if shippers can't get their products to U.S. markets because of an extended strike, said Kristin Monaco, an economics professor at California State University, Long Beach, and an expert on port labor issues.
"The Gulf Coast and the East Coast ports would love to have our traffic," Monaco said. "And if I'm a shipper thinking the West Coast is becoming unpredictable because of labor issues, I'm going to be looking into other options."


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Portsmouth teen facing more charges in accident that injured 2 womenBy RYAN O'CONNOR
Union Leader Correspondent
June 26. 2014 9:49PM
HAMPTON — The Portsmouth teen who was allegedly intoxicated when he fell asleep at the wheel and struck two Hampton women is now facing four additional charges.
Hampton Deputy Police Chief Rich Sawyer confirmed Thursday that 17-year-old Remy Gross-Santos, who was booked for aggravated driving while intoxicated following the June 12 accident, has also had two charges of second-degree assault brought against him, in addition to counts of possession of drugs and transportation of alcohol by a minor.
"The alcohol and drug issues came about when we executed a search warrant on the vehicle as part of our ongoing investigation," said Sawyer. "As we continued that investigation, we developed probable cause for a second-degree assault charges to be filed as well."
Sawyer, who wouldn't specify what types of alcohol and drugs were found in the 1992 Volvo station wagon driven by Gross-Santos, said the assault charges are typical in cases that involve injury due to impaired driving.
Gross-Santos had reportedly been drinking at a party the night before and was on his way to Portsmouth High School graduation rehearsal when he fell asleep, crossed over the other side of the road, and struck 69-year-old Karen Weinhold and 60-year-old Lisa Beaudry, who were out for an early-morning walk.
A Massachusetts General Hospital representative confirmed Beaudry was released on June 20, eight days after the accident, but Weinhold, who was airlifted from the scene, remains hospitalized at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Officials there did not immediately return a call for an update on her health status.


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|Executive Summary: How can you help your organization choose the edition of SQL Server 2008 it needs? Michael Otey takes a quick tour through the available options.
Like death and taxes, the proliferation of editions of Microsoft products is a certainty we've come to expect. With eight editions, SQL Server 2008 has more offerings than any previous release of SQL Server. If you're considering a move to SQL Server 2008, you'll need to know which features and functionality each edition offers so you can decide which one is right for your organization.
Choosing Among SQL Server 2008 Editions
Most businesses will want either SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition or SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition. Both of these editions provide the core SQL Server relational database feature set as well as all the SQL Server business intelligence (BI) subsystems. If your organization can foot the bill, SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition is definitely the way to go. Yes, it costs more: $24,999 per processor as opposed to $5,999 per processor for the Standard Edition. (Microsoft counts processors by motherboard socket rather than by CPU core.) However, most of the cool new SQL Server 2008 features are Enterprise-only, including the Resource Governor, Data Compression, Transparent Data Encryption, and Change Data Capture (CDC). Plus, if you're getting into virtualization for server consolidation, the Enterprise Edition has some important benefits—it lets you run an unlimited number of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition instances in virtual machines (VMs) if all the processors in the system have been licensed.
If you're economizing, the Standard Edition still stacks up well against other enterprise-capable database platforms. Its inclusion of the full BI stack gives it more built-in features and a better ROI than its non-Microsoft competitors. Volume discount pricing and other enterprise agreements, such as Software Assurance (SA), lower the price that you actually pay for the product.
The Developer Edition shares the same feature set as the Enterprise Edition, but it's licensed for development work only and can't be used in production environments. It's $49.
The Web, Workgroup, and Express editions have the core SQL Server engine code-base, but the Express Edition doesn't include the BI subsystems. The Web and Workgroup editions support only SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
The Web Edition lets web hosting providers offer more competitively priced SQL Server-based database services. It's not intended for use as an internal line-of-business (LOB) database. Pricing is $15 per processor under a Services Provider License Agreement.
The Workgroup Edition has limited scalability and is intended for departmental and branch office installations to support their local database applications. It's limited by the number of processors it supports (two) and in the total memory it can access (4GB). It might be acceptable for some small businesses, but its limited BI functionality makes it less useful for large organizations. The Workgroup Edition retails at $3,899 per processor.
The Express Edition is free. It supports a single processor, 1GB of RAM, and a database limit of 4GB. Small businesses could use it as their database. Express Edition is more limited than Workgroup Edition: Microsoft and other software vendors often include Express Edition with their applications to provide database services. Express Edition with Advanced Services adds SSRS to its core SQL Server Express relational database services.
Compact Edition 3.5 is a different animal altogether. Instead of being a service-based database like the other editions of SQL Server, it's an in-process database. It's free and intended for desktop database services.
Doing More Research
For more information about licensing and pricing, go to www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/editionspricing.mspx. To learn more about which features are included in each SQL Server 2008 edition, see "Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2008" at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx.


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A fast-moving wildfire Wednesday displaced more than 1,600 residents from 1,100 homes, closing Chaffey College and five other schools.
No injuries or property damage had been reported late Wednesday, but residents throughout Rancho Cucamonga were forced from their homes by the Etiwanda Fire, which broke out about 8 a.m. and was fueled throughout the day by high winds.
"It was scary," said Rancho Cucamonga resident Kristy Weisgerber. "Especially when you are driving in and you see this big plume of smoke right where the kids' school is. It's a little nerve-racking."
Weisgerber, who works in Pomona, said she spoke on the phone with her son, Jacob, 14, and daughter Noah, 16, to get a better understanding of the situation.
"We were sitting in class, we were watching a movie, and all of a sudden we smelled like a campfire smoke, and everyone started looking out the window, and it was like orange and it got smoky, so people were getting calls in, and it was really hectic and everyone was leaving," said Weisgerber's daughter, Noah, a student at Los Osos High School.
As firefighters battled the blaze, 1,654 residents were ordered to evacuate their homes in north Rancho Cucamonga, from Etiwanda west to Carnelian.
Rancho Cucamonga resident J.T. Hinthorne and his family raced to pack their vehicle and get out of their home.
"We're just getting everything out," he said Wednesday morning. "We have to go."
Resident Sheryl Fiske helped her son-in-law and daughter with their belongings on Scarlet Way so they could evacuate. The family grabbed clothes for work, pictures and Social Security cards. Many of their neighbors are doing the same, but some were staying behind after sending the rest of their families away.
Over on State Street, Sandy Oak rushed around her house grabbing some clothes so she could go stay with relatives. She knew it was time to go when she saw the stream of cars heading away from her neighborhood.
"I've never gone through something like this in my life," Oak said.
Schools throughout the city were closed because of the fire, including Los Osos High School, Day Creek Intermediate, Banyan, Caryn and Golden elementary schools, all of which will be closed again today.
Other schools closed voluntarily, and youth sports events were canceled throughout the city.
Chaffey Joint Unified High School District Superintendent Mat Holton said he received a call from law enforcement officials about evacuating Los Osos about 9:30 a.m.
He said he immediately headed to the school site, which had activated its evacuation plan so that firefighters could use the campus as a staging area.
"We needed to get cars out of the parking lot, and we needed to do that quickly," Holton said.
Normally, Holton said, the school would release the students to parents, but students who drive were just released.
That meant 3,100 students released at one time. While there were reports of heavy traffic near the school site, Holton said San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputies helped direct traffic.
Those who didn't have transportation waited at the school until parents could come and pick them up.
Even schools that didn't have mandatory or voluntary evacuations had parents picking up their kids from school.
When Tressy Capps learned that John L. Golden Elementary School was being evacuated, she went down to Summit Intermediate School to take her son out of school.
"That's so close to the next school, that I just decided to pull him out," she said.
Capps said there were at least 80 other parents doing the same thing. It took about 30 minutes.
"It was organized chaos," she said. "But everyone was staying calm."
Many after-school sports games have also been canceled or rescheduled, as well as city league games. Some games that have been canceled or rescheduled include the Etiwanda track meet with Rancho Cucamonga, which has been canceled, and the Baseline League tennis finals, which have been rescheduled to Friday at Upland Tennis Club. Displaced residents were instructed to take pets to the County Animal Shelter in Devore or to the Animal Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Staff writers Melissa Pinion-Whitt, Grace Wong, Liset Marquez, Joe Nelson and Neil Nisperos contributed to this report.


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Elizabeth (Beth) A. Alquist
Beth Alquist is a trial attorney who represents a broad range of business clients in patent, trade secret, noncompetition, trademark, copyright, and Internet-related disputes in federal and state courts, as well as the International Trade Commission. Professor Alquist has tried more than a dozen cases to verdict, including patent infringement, trade secret, and non-compete matters, among others. She currently is the chair of the Intellectual Property Department and the past chair of both Women Working Together and the firm's Diversity Committee. She was named a Division I Academic All-American in basketball at Mount St. Mary's College in 1990-91 and continues her love of basketball as the coach for the girls youth basketball league in West Hartford. Professor Alquist served as law clerk to The Honorable Robert J. Callahan, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1994-1995. She has been recognized as a Connecticut Super Lawyer every year since 2006, including Top 25 Women Lawyer in Connecticut in 2011; named to the Hartford Business Journal's Forty Under 40 in 2008; and chosen for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in 2006. She holds a J.D. from the UConn School of Law.


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Organized into a new 8U enclosure, each 2U tray can hold up to 38 TB, with the 8U enclosure topping out at 307.2 TB. Designed to operate with the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), up to four enclosures can operate on a single VSP, for a total of more than a petabyte.
These raw flash capacities are enhanced with inline compression. A VSP equipped with the flash enclosure can exceed one million 8 KB random-read I/O operations per second (IOPS) and more than 270,000 8 KB random-write IOPS. When compared to a typical high-performance enterprise SSD, the array provides higher bandwidth, lower latency and consumes significantly less power per GB.
[ See Hitachi Unveils SMB Storage Array. ]
When used with the Hitachi Data Tiering system, the VSP and the new array, hot data will automatically be placed in flash memory. Performance-hungry applications, like online transaction processing, can take immediate advantage of the Accelerated Flash Storage. Hitachi customers can benefit from simply adding the VSP and Accelerated Flash to existing rotating media arrays.
HDS is the latest major storage manufacturer to announce an all-solid-state array. EMC's recent acquisition of Xtreme-IO is an example of leveraging intellectual property developed externally. HDS has taken the longer approach of developing its own technology in this area. Similarly, HP has taken the internal development approach, albeit based on technology it acquired with Lefthand, 3PAR and Ibrix. HDS also faces competition from a crop of startups including Astute Networks, Kaminario, NexGen, Nimble Storage, Nimbus Data Systems, Pure Storage, SolidFire, Tegile and Violin Memory.
HDS is in a position to exploit its customer base with the new product line. It has also done significant vertical integration to achieve economies of scale, from its controller technology to its aggregation of the flash chips into DIMM form factors.
The Hitachi Accelerated Flash Storage system and Virtual Storage Platform are available now.
Deni Connor is founding analyst for Storage Strategies NOW, an industry analyst firm that focuses on storage, virtualization, and servers. James E. Bagley is senior analyst and business development consultant at the same firm.


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Today's Meditation
Read Genesis 32:22-31
Jacob [said to the man], "I will not let you go, unless you bless me."
- Genesis 32:26 (NRSV)
Jacob was a scoundrel; he had tricked his brother Esau out of his birthright, he was a notorious deceiver, and he was often on the run. Faced with an uncertain future, Jacob headed back toward what he thought was imminent danger from the now-powerful brother he had treated badly in the past. Would Esau express the wrath that Jacob deserved?In chapter 33 of Genesis, we read that God had been at work changing Esau's heart. But God had also been at work in Jacob, changing Jacob's character little by little through the struggles Jacob and his family faced. And at this point in the story, Jacob refuses to give up. As Jacob struggles with "a man"--who we find out is actually God--he holds on tight to his faith and demands a blessing. In fact, Jacob's whole life was a blessing and a vital part of a larger blessing bestowed on Abraham.We too already have a great blessing, the blessing of salvation through Jesus Christ. Yet many of us have not fully welcomed that blessing by accepting and acknowledging God's grace. When we do this, we find peace. Nothing in our lives happens apart from God. Response to this realization leads us to focus on others, on how we can share the blessing of faith with them, helping them see the light of Christ.
Mark H. Anderson
(Pennsylvania, USA)
Thought for the Day: How can we show others Christ's blessing that we have received?
Prayer: God of peace, we give you thanks for the blessing of life that unfolds with new surprises each day. Amen.
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Staff from two HRSA-funded programs have been recognized with cash awards for their innovative use of technology in the delivery of HIV care. One program has designed a patient tracking system to reduce loss to care while the second is a telehealth program that delivers care to rural residents living with HIV. The programs were recognized by the AAHIVM/Institute for Technology in Health Care HIV Practice Awards--their third year of highlighting "best practices in technological developments for the benefit of HIV care providers and their patients," according to AAHIVM, an organization providing credentialing and support for HIV care providers.
The individual awardees and their programs, described below, are both funded by HRSA's Health Centers program and Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
Telehealth in a Rural Area
Steve McCrosky of North Country HealthCare in Flagstaff, Arizona received his award for a telehealth program that enhances the delivery of HIV care to patients residing in the largely rural area of northern Arizona. Telehealth features, in addition to 2-way remote communication between a patient and provider, include--for example--a USB-enabled tele-stethoscope to monitor vital signs, a still camera that is used to take photos of rashes for review by a dermatologist. The system reportedly works particularly well in bringing HIV care to patients living in rural areas who are further isolated by high levels of HIV stigma.
Reducing Loss to HIV Care Through IT Interfacing
Dr. Joanna Eveland of San Francisco's Mission Neighborhood Health Center was recognized for i2itracks (interface to interface), a population health management software for HIV care that talks to the site's electronic health records system, practice management software for patient appointments and demographics, and laboratory database. The system, which is searchable, enhances clinic work to track patient engagement in services and thus cut back on loss to care.
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The Advertorial's Best Friend
Last April, the BuzzFeed website posted "11 Things No One Wants To See You Instagram," a snarky reminder to resist the temptation to share online photos of your lunch or toes.
Over the next few weeks, the post drew 2,000 Facebook "likes" and about 330,000 views. But most of those views weren't on BuzzFeed's home page. Instead, they were from people sharing the post on social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Stories go viral every day. But what made the post unusual is that it was an ad for Virgin Mobile, which was promoting more entertainment for sharing on the Virgin Mobile Live website.


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One of the best stories out of Comic Con this year is the official announcement that Top Cow will be publishing Larime Taylor's A Voice in the Dark. Taylor is an up and coming creator who started gaining momentum last year for his Kickstarter project to print A Voice in the Dark graphic novels, the tagline of which was, "Disabled mouth-artist writes, draws, and letters the story of a young woman with a dark secret - she's a serial killer." And that's as succinct a description of Taylor's story as possible. Born with Arthrogryposis, Taylor has very limited use of his limbs, so he writes, draws, shades (the comic is in black and white), and letters A Voice in the Dark with a Wacom stylus in his mouth.
It's an inspiring story, blah blah blah... Listen. This morning, I ate scrambled eggs by scooping them up with my toast because I didn't feel like washing a fork. The drive that Larime Taylor shows in learning to produce comic books using only his brain and his mouth is incomprehensible to me, like the national debt or string theory. When people say that Taylor's story is "inspiring," it's not some PC, touchy feely bullshit. It's admiration.
But enough of that PC, touchy feely bullshit. None of this would matter if the comic in question wasn't good. The thing is, the comic is excellent. I've read it. I've raved about it in past articles. And Taylor keeps getting better with every new page he posts on Facebook, where this reporter is e-friends with him, putting Taylor in an elite club of people I will now name drop such as Dirk Manning and Ethan Van Sciver. Success and recognition hasn't made Taylor complacent - it's made him work even harder. You don't have to take my word for it, though I am a pretty reputable source. Taylor's work has been praised by respected industry pros like Gail Simone, Neil Gaiman, Michael Oeming, and Terry Moore.
And now, it's recognized by the guys at Top Cow, who have picked up A Voice in the Dark as an ongoing series for their Minatour Press line of black and white, creator owned comics. And they've got him on their panel this morning, and they've got him signing this afternoon at the Top Cow booth between 5PM and 6PM (and yes, he does this with a pen in his mouth).
This is the Outhouse. I thought about writing one of our usual parody articles about this, maybe where Top Cow, in an effort to upstage Godzilla, has a giant mechanical Larime Taylor rise out of the bay in his motorized wheelchair, but I decided to give it to you straight instead. Why? Well, being a super-important internet celebrity and close personal Facebook friend of Taylor, I've known about this story for a while, but seeing it happen officially - seeing hard work and natural talent pay off in an ongoing series from a renowned publisher announced at the biggest stage in all of comics, San Diego Comic Con? I couldn't write a better fake story if I tried.
But Larime Taylor probably could, and then he would draw, tone, and letter it himself. Because he's better than me, and probably better than you.
If you're at comic con today, head over to the Top Cow booth at 5PM and meet Larime Taylor. And the next time you're at your local comic shop, put in a pre-order for A Voice in the Dark, which will be in stores in November. Over the next decade, Larime's going to become one of the biggest names in comics, and, though he will be forced to deny ever having associated with us for the good of his career, we'll always remember the good times, like today.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Confidential files turned over for a lawsuit set to go to trial in Minnesota may shed new light on the problem of sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts of America.
The lawsuit centers on a scoutmaster now in prison for molesting Scouts.
One of the victims' attorneys, Jeff Anderson, won a court order forcing Scouting to produce files from 1999-2008 on adult leaders accused of improper conduct. They're newer than similar files made public in a mass release in an Oregon case last year, which covered 1965-1985.
Anderson declined to give details about what the new documents might show during the trial that begins Monday in St. Paul.
One expert says the files could show how the Boy Scouts evolved in their response to abuse allegations over the years.


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Tom Hiddleston joins High-Rise
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Tom Hiddleston has joined Ben Wheatley's adaptation of JG Ballard's 1975 novel 'High-Rise'
Tom Hiddleston is to star in 'High-Rise'.
The 32-year-old actor has joined the cast in the movie adaptation of JG Ballard's 1975 novel, which is being directed by Ben Wheatley, after he landed the lead role.
Wheatley announced the news on his Twitter page and personal blog, writing: "HIGH RISE: Here we go. Cant quite believe this is happening. Tom Hiddleston! Jeremy Thomas! Script by Amy Jump (sic)."
The movie follows the lives of an affluent community which descends into chaos when it is cut off from society in a luxury block of flats.
Wheatley - who is currently filming an episode of 'Doctor Who' with Peter Capaldi - admitted last year he was a fan of Ballard, who died in 2009.
He said previously: "I love Ballard's work. This project started out with me looking at my bookcase, seeing the book, and thinking, 'That would make a great film'.
"The idea is to be true to Ballard. I was born in 1972, so one of the attractions of the film was that I kind of imagine myself as one of the kids running around on the estate and my parents as the adults."
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First meeting of the 2012 Congress Preparatory Committee
The 2012 World Conservation Congress Preparatory Committee (CPC), established by IUCN Council to provide strategic guidance for the preparations of the Congress, held its first meeting at the IUCN Conservation Centre, on 17 November 2010. The meeting took place just a few weeks after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding outlining the strategic plan for the World Conservation Congress to be held in Jeju, Republic of Korea, from 6-15 September 2012.
The CPC is composed of IUCN Council members, representatives of the host country from the Ministry of Environment and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, and the Chair of the Korea National Committee.
Under the chairmanship of Miguel Pellerano, Regional Councillor for Meso and South America, the discussions of the CPC focused on the Congress slogan, the framework for Congress registration fees and the establishment of the Resolutions Working Group of Council.
The CPC also discussed the outcomes of the 2008 Congress evaluation and agreed on the key principles that will guide the design of the Forum. They recognized that it is important for the IUCN Programme to leverage the strategic influencing potential of the Congress in the areas of biodiversity conservation, climate change, energy, livelihoods and green economy. In addition, the Congress must provide a space for debate and the development of consensus on conservation issues, as well as for the showcasing of new concepts and evidence on the topic of resilience.
On the recommendation of the Congress Preparatory Committee, the IUCN Council, meeting from 18-20 November 2010, approved the selected Congress slogan, which will now be further developed to be used in upcoming Congress Communications. Watch this space!
Held every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world's most important international conservation event. The 2012 Congress aims to put nature and conservation at the top of the global agenda.
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High availability is a hot phrase in the IT industry, but do you know what it means and how to accomplish it? IT professionals attempt to implement high availability every day by buying a lot of expensive hardware and software without tackling the real problem. Many people, both in technology jobs and in management, believe that high availability is a canned technology solution that they can put in place and forget about. But technology is only a small piece of the puzzle called high availability.
True high availability combines people and processes with technology. Although you can build highly available solutions without one of these components, attention to all three lets you provide enterprise-class availability even in the smallest environments. Without the people in place to manage the solution, along with processes designed to ensure that systems remain highly available, the technology won't be up to the task.
How do you measure availability? IT professionals define availability as
where A is availability, F is mean time between failures, D is mean time to detect failure and decide on a remedy, and R is mean time to repair. The factors you have the most control over are the mean time to repair, mean time to detect a failure, and mean time to decide on a remedy. To detect a failure, you need technology and trained personnel. A highly trained person can prevent some failures and can detect others before they cause any problems, implementing remedies so that the system doesn't go offline at all. This preventative maintenance encompasses strong code-deployment processes that deliver baseline performance numbers for an operations team to monitor against. One of the most crucial abilities for a DBA is knowing when the system is performing as expected and when something abnormal is occurring. If load-testing processes aren't in place, you can derive performance numbers only by observing the application after it's in production, which can give you false results if an application experiences problems from the instant it's deployed. The performance-testing results of an application make DBAs better equipped to rapidly diagnose problems in production.
The only factor you can't control is the mean time between failures—it's entirely unpredictable. Therefore, your investments in high availability should be in people and processes to reduce detection and decision-making time and in the technology to reduce detection and repair time.
You should take away this set of rules from any discussion of high availability:
- Business needs dictate high availability.
- People manage and maintain high-availability solutions.
- Processes ensure those solutions will work.
- Technology provides physical support for high-availability needs.
The simple diagram that Figure 1 shows summarizes these rules. Without the people and processes, you're missing the vital core of high availability.
SQL Server High Availability
Availability is often measured in terms of "nines"—your system's percentage of yearly uptime. For four nines (99.99 percent), you can't be offline for more than 52 minutes per year. Five nines means that you can't be offline for more than 5.26 minutes per year. And six nines gives you an offline margin of just 32 seconds per year. Depending on your business definition, this downtime might include scheduled downtime. As you try to achieve more "nines" of availability, your processes must improve along with your technology solutions.
By leveraging three core technologies in SQL Server 2000—failover clustering, log shipping, and replication—you can achieve five nines of availability. I mention another aspect of availability in the sidebar "Disaster Recovery Means Availability, Too."
Any discussion of high availability needs to start with the editions of SQL Server you can use. To achieve highly available configurations, you must use the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2000. Only Enterprise Edition supports failover clustering and log shipping. Although it's possible to achieve high availability with the Standard Edition, you're limited to using replication and custom log shipping. Let's look at these three core technologies for availability.
Failover Clustering
The primary high-availability technology in SQL Server 2000 is failover clustering. In "Clustering SQL Server," page 27, Brian Knight walks you through the details of setting up a two-node SQL Server 2000 cluster on Windows 2000 Enterprise Edition. Before SQL Server 2000, failover clustering wasn't pretty and rarely worked well. However, Microsoft completely rewrote failover clustering in SQL Server 2000, and the technology became easy to implement because of SQL Server 2000's many new capabilities. You manage the cluster the same way you manage a single-machine SQL Server installation. Unless you're directly interacting with the desktop and Cluster Administrator (the utility that lets you set up clustering), SQL Server doesn't expose the fact that it's running on a cluster. This transparency makes administration of a cluster simple.
Although administrative procedures don't change when you go from a single-machine configuration to a multimachine configuration, you gain an important capability. In the event of hardware failure, the cluster automatically moves the SQL Server 2000 application to another available piece of hardware in the cluster and brings it online. If you've used certain development practices (which I describe later), your end users will never know that you had a hardware failure. This seamlessness is important because the availability rate at the server level is a relatively useless number. Only the availability at the data-consumer's desktop is important.
When the piece of hardware (called a node) that SQL Server is running on fails, SQL Server shuts down. The Microsoft Cluster service moves the ownership of the disk space to another node and starts up SQL Server. The failover of resources in a cluster occurs within about 15 seconds under normal circumstances. However, many people don't realize the implications of SQL Server shutting down and restarting. When SQL Server starts, it runs through a specific, sequential process called restart recovery. The crucial part of restart recovery is the undo-redo phase for a database. The redo phase is always short; you control it through the recovery- interval configuration option. In the undo phase, you're at the mercy of how an application was coded. Long-running transactions can severely degrade the cluster's failover time.
For example, say a user initiates an operation in the database that takes 6 hours to complete. At 5:59:00 into the process, the node running SQL Server fails. The Cluster service takes over, moves resources, and brings SQL Server online within 15 seconds. Although the cluster failed over in 15 seconds, users now have to wait nearly 6 hours before their data becomes available again because of the undo phase of recovery. Had the developer written this application so that it ran in recoverable chunks with a maximum duration of 3 to 5 seconds, the cluster would have failed over and data would have become available to users within 20 seconds of the primary node failure.
The other area where close developer support can produce an environment that gives significantly higher end-user availability is in the connection and transaction handling inside an application. Regardless of the hardware a SQL Server is running on, it will always have the same name. If a user is connected to a clustered SQL Server that suddenly fails over, that user is disconnected. To continue processing, all the user has to do is reestablish the connection to SQL Server. Developers can use this opportunity to make cluster failovers transparent to end users by programming the application to detect a disconnection from SQL Server, wait a few seconds, then reconnect. Once reconnected, the application should be able to reissue any transaction that hadn't completed before the failover. Leveraging the application this way allows for a resilient system architecture that ensures that no user data is lost even during a system failure.
Now, let me dispel some common misconceptions about clusters. A SQL Server cluster is a hardware-protection mechanism only. A SQL Server cluster won't protect you from data failures, application-logic failures, user errors, or data corruption. To protect against these errors, you need to leverage database backups. A SQL Server cluster also doesn't increase performance or scalability. You might have multiple pieces of hardware acting as one resource, but SQL Server can't access resources on another piece of hardware, and an application can't scale any further on a cluster than it can on one node.
Log Shipping
Because failover clustering only protects against hardware failures without any ability to offload processing or produce scalability, it isn't all you need for high availability. Log shipping, another SQL Server high-availability technology, is a fancy name for automating a database backup and restoring to a different server. Several articles by Ron Talmage (see the Related Reading box) cover log shipping in detail, so I won't examine the internal mechanisms of the technology here.
Log shipping provides a resilient option for protecting against hardware failure. Log shipping works by copying a primary server's backup files to a secondary server, then restoring the files on the secondary server. The basic design of log shipping provides for a primary server and a secondary server that are independent, not sharing any hardware components. This configuration removes the single point of hardware failure present in a cluster that uses a shared drive array.
You can use log shipping to provide significantly higher data redundancy with many more environments than is possible with failover clustering. For example, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition supports a maximum of eight nodes in a cluster. But the only thing that limits the number of secondary servers you can have with log shipping is how much infrastructure you can manage; you can create as many copies of the backup as you want. Log shipping can also operate across much longer distances than failover clustering. Most failover clusters are limited to approximately 80 to 100 miles. With log shipping, only the length of the cable between the primary and secondary servers limits the geographic dispersion of your secondary servers.
Although log shipping is a component of a high-availability solution, it's missing an essential feature. Log shipping doesn't have a mechanism for automatically detecting failure and initiating a failover to the secondary server. Log shipping also has a lag time during the failover when all backups are applied to the secondary server before it can be recovered and made available. Because log shipping relies on copies of the backups from the primary server, you risk losing some committed transactions if your primary server has a complete hardware failure. With failover clustering, once SQL Server is back online, clients can reconnect without any change in connection strings. Log shipping doesn't have this transparency; clients need to connect to a server with a different name than the primary server.
You access another feature of log shipping through the restore options you use when applying subsequent transaction log backups. If you use the WITH STANDBY option for restore, you can make the secondary server available for read-only activities. This secondary server is an excellent place to move reporting and other read operations from the primary server and gives you a level of scalability that you can't get from a failover cluster.
Replication, the third high-availability technology in SQL Server, is complex but not complicated. Because of its complexity, people don't use it as frequently as log shipping or failover clustering for high availability. For purposes of high availability, I restrict this discussion to transactional replication in the case of one Publisher—the primary server—sending data to one or more Subscribers—the secondary servers.
Failover clustering operates at the server level, ensuring that the entire SQL Server is available. Log shipping works at a more granular level, ensuring the availability of one database within a server. Replication moves to the most granular level: It ensures availability transaction by transaction and can even provide availability for only a subset of one table in a database. Whereas log shipping works by restoring transaction log backups from the primary server to a secondary server, replication works within the transaction log to send individual transactions to a secondary server as they occur. Because of this granular function, replication can provide extremely rapid failover from a primary to a secondary server. In most stable configurations, you can keep the data on the secondary server current to within 1 or 2 seconds of the primary.
Although it can accomplish extremely low latency, replication has no scheduling mechanism that requires a maximum latency between primary and secondary server. The replication engine replicates the data and applies it to the secondary server whenever it gets there. Although the replication engine will deliver the data eventually, the uncertain delivery time causes the most problems with replication implementations.
Fortunately, the delivery time is entirely within the control of developers, DBAs, and other IT professionals. You can't replicate a transaction until it's been committed, so developers who write large transactions create latency problems in replication on two fronts. First, because these long-running transactions aren't replicated to the secondary server until they're complete, the secondary (i.e., the replication target) falls significantly behind the primary. Secondly, when a transaction is committed, packaging up the transaction, transmitting it, and executing it on the secondary server takes a long time. Additionally, transactional replication guarantees that transactions will be committed on the secondary server in exactly the same order as on the primary. Because the replication engine serializes all committed transactions, all subsequent committed transactions will queue up behind a large transaction, waiting for their turn to execute.
This might seem like a severe limitation, and it has a significant impact on the replication engine, but it doesn't affect availability too badly. Replication implementations for high availability generally employ at least three servers. The Publisher is the primary server where the applications send all transactions. The Subscriber is the secondary server, which acts as a standby for the primary and is available if the primary fails. The third server is the Distributor, whose sole function is to guarantee delivery of transactions to the secondary server. As soon as transactions are copied from the Publisher to the Distributor, the Distributor delivers them to the Subscriber. This process lets an application immediately fail over to the secondary server—even though not all transactions might have been committed on the secondary—because the Distributor guarantees their delivery. In general, how you manage this latency in data availability will dictate how rapidly you can fail over from the primary server to the secondary. Under ideal conditions, clustering can accomplish a failover in about 15 seconds, log shipping can accomplish a failover in about 1 to 2 minutes, but replication can give you instantaneous failover.
Like log shipping, replication can maintain as many secondary servers as you want to deploy. The only limitation comes from your processing capacity, network bandwidth, and ability to manage the infrastructure. As with log shipping, you can use a secondary server to offload read operations to provide additional scalability. The secondary server remains 100 percent available to read operations even while the Distributor is applying transactions. It remains available because— unlike the transaction-log restores that log shipping relies on, which can't happen while another user is accessing the database—the replication engine issues the same transactions on the secondary server as the application on the primary issued. Also like log shipping, replication doesn't have a single point of hardware failure because it's using a physically separate server, and it provides no automated failover. As a side effect of the replication engine essentially reprocessing transactions on the secondary server, the replication engine can't propagate data corruption from the primary server to the secondary. Note that, as with every other high-availability technology, replication won't protect you from user error. This is the one availability problem that you can't handle with technology.
Sounds like replication is a great choice for high availability, but it isn't that simple. Although you have physically separate hardware components, because replication binds multiple machines together, failure of one server can cause the other server to fail. This is called a soft failure, and it usually results from the transaction log filling the available disk space and taking the database offline. Issuing a transaction-log backup doesn't solve this problem, because although such a backup removes committed transactions from the log, it doesn't remove transactions on replicated tables from the log until they arrive at the next server upstream. Therefore, replicated transactions on the Publisher can't be removed from the transaction log until they've been successfully written to the Distributor. And you can't remove transactions from the Distributor until they've been successfully written to all Subscribers. If a Subscriber fails and remains offline for a long time, the data volume on the Distributor might grow until it exceeds available disk space and causes the Distributor to go offline. This in turn prevents transactions from being removed from the transaction log on the Publisher until they've been written to the Distributor. If the transaction log fills up and can't expand, the primary server goes offline. If you're implementing replication for high availability, you need to closely monitor it and fix failures in the environment rapidly to prevent this cascading-failure scenario.
Three Ways to Available Systems
You can use SQL Server 2000's three core technologies alone or in concert to produce highly available architectures. Failover clustering protects against hardware failures while providing an automated mechanism to restart SQL Server on functioning hardware. But a failover cluster has a single point of failure in the shared drive array, can't protect from data errors, doesn't provide any scalability features, and is extremely sensitive to the duration of transactions. Log shipping protects against hardware failures and can prevent some data failures; it also provides a rudimentary mechanism to offload reporting from the primary server to a secondary server and increase scalability on the system. But log shipping is also sensitive to transaction duration and has the drawback of maintaining a separate copy of the data with no easy way to fail back from a secondary server to the primary. Replication can protect against hardware failures and SQL Server data corruption while providing a high degree of scalability in any environment. But replication can't protect against user error, is sensitive to the size and duration of transactions, and is relatively complex.
The bottom line is that no perfect solution exists. Each of these options can increase your availability and provide more data protection, and you can use them together to produce even higher degrees of availability. Your challenge is to figure out how to combine them to minimize each technology's drawbacks.
|Related Reading
BRIAN MORAN and DAVID SAPERY
"SQL Server Clustering," June 1999, InstantDoc ID 5331
"Log Shipping in SQL Server 2000, Part 1," December 2001, InstantDoc ID 23056
"Log Shipping in SQL Server 2000, Part 2," January 2002, InstantDoc ID 23230
"Log Shipping with SQL Server 7.0," December 2000, InstantDoc ID 15804
Lab Report: "Database Replication," February 2002, InstantDoc ID 23331
"Control Replication with ActiveX," July 2003, InstantDoc ID 39079
Microsoft's "SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide"


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The collection of product monographs forms the backbone of the publication, collectively taking up some 850 pages of text. Each monograph provides a comprehensive overview of its target product, listing information including names, regulatory and market status, product description, uses, and history. Also included is information related to manufacturing, markets, patents, competition, and cost, as well as ongoing trials, pending filings, and any follow-on research and development.
The book is very clearly laid out and intuitive to use. It is also professionally finished and comes with a freely accessible web site ( http://www.biopharma.com/). Although the main focus of the web site seems to be to market the book itself, partial product information can be obtained therein at no cost.
The publication is a comprehensive and fantastic resource. It would be particularly useful to professionals working in the biopharmaceutical sector or regulatory agencies, or as bio-business analysts. The publication would also make a wonderful addition to the library of any university.
The two-volume set costs $745, which is not cheap. However, it costs no more than the registration fees typical of many scientific conferences and, for most, it will prove more useful than any conference proceedings.
I found very few weak points in this publication. Apart from its cost it does have a slight American bias, mainly in the initial overview and commentary sections, in which issues such as summary overviews of recent approvals, market size data, etc., have more of an American focus. This, however, does not detract from the publication in any significant way. I highly recommend this publication to all.
Gary Walsh, is an associate professor in the Industrial Biochemistry Program at the University of Limerick, Limerick City, Ireland, +353.61.202664, [email protected]


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Anthony Seppe Oswain, a native of Sleepy Hollow and a former resident of Wappingers Falls, died suddenly on April 30 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 32.
"Tony," who was living in Long Island City, was to be married to his longtime sweetheart, Joanna King, at a luxurious resort in Cancun, Mexico in January, 2018. Over the years, he had risen from a restaurant server to general manager of Manhattan's TAO Downtown, one of the top-grossing restaurants in the United States. Revered and well-respected, Tony looked forward to a promising future with the TAO Group, a leading restaurant and nightlife company.
Born July 25, 1984, he was the son of Robert "Yankee Bob" Oswain, a former Westchester County corrections officer, and Rosalie "Ro" Seppe Oswain, a fitness trainer at Gold's Gym in Fishkill and LaGrange. He is a graduate of Arlington High School in LaGrange and attended Dutchess Community College.
In addition to his parents, Tony is survived by his fiancée, Joanna King; his sister, Roxanne Oswain; nephew, Dominic Oswain; aunts, Phyllis Seppe and Belle Garafola; uncle, Peter M. Garafola; and cousins, Chris Garafola and Melissa Garafola. A doting uncle and godfather to 4-year-old Dominic, he loved to shower him with "Star Wars" toys.
Calling hours were held on Thursday, May 4 at the McHoul Funeral Home, Inc., in Hopewell Junction and a Mass of Christian Burial was held on Friday, May 5 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Columba Church in Hopewell Junction.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Autism Speaks. Please visit Tony's Book of Memories at www.mchoulfuneralhome.com .
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Billionaire investor Tom Steyer said he is backing a four-part, US$1 million advertising campaign aimed at convincing viewers the Keystone XL pipeline will hurt the economy and communities and should be blocked.
[np_storybar title="Why billionaire Tom Steyer has re-invented himself as an anti-Keystone campaigner" link="https://business.financialpost.com/2013/08/14/why-billionaire-tom-steyer-has-re-invented-himself-as-an-anti-keystone-campaigner/?__lsa=5208-9033″%5DHedge fund billionaire and activist Tom Steyer rose to the top of the list of oil sands foes this year and has been making a name for himself with anti-Keystone XL publicity stunts. Keep reading.
The first commercial, airing today, features Steyer in Port Arthur, Texas, saying much of the oil to be shipped from Alberta to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast would end up being exported.
"Foreign countries will get more access to more oil to make more products to sell back to us, undercutting our economy," Steyer, founder of the hedge fund Farallon Capital Management LLC, says in the advertisement. "Here's the truth: Keystone oil will travel through America not to America."
Steyer's commercials begin airing two months after the American Petroleum Institute, whose energy-industry members back the pipeline, started TV and online advertising portraying Keystone as a boon to job growth in the U.S.
"Rarely do leading Republicans, Democrats, business leaders and labor unions all agree," according to a newspaper advertisement by the Washington-based oil industry lobbying group. "But on Keystone XL, they do."
Messages to be broadcast as part of Steyer's series will feature an Arkansas community where oil sands leaked from an Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline and contaminated a small suburban neighborhood.
The Keystone pipeline would carry about 830,000 barrels a day from the oil sands of Alberta and shale formations in the U.S. across six states to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico coast. The administration has previously given approval for the pipeline's southern leg to relieve an glut in Cushing, Oklahoma.
The U.S. State Department is considering the application of TransCanada Corp. to build the rest of the pipeline. A decision, which ultimately lies with President Barack Obama, could be made within months. Environmental groups are urging Obama to reject the pipeline, arguing that it will increase production of the oil sands, destroying forests and worsening climate change.
Obama in July said he wouldn't approve the project if the pipeline exacerbates global warming. He mocked proponents of Keystone in an interview with the New York Times for claiming that it would lead to tens of thousands of new jobs.
Steyer, an Obama donor, said his efforts are aimed at giving the president the political space to reject the pipeline. As the Keystone review faces possible further delay, the prospects for approval dim, according to Steyer.
And the California billionaire isn't just focused on Keystone.
This year he started an independent political effort to elect candidates ready to tackle global warming. That campaign supported Democrat Ed Markey in his primary campaign for the Massachusetts Senate seat. Steyer's group also is running US$500,000 in advertisements against Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia's governor race.
The message of today's advertisement is that the pipeline won't help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil or spur the American economy, because the oilsands will be sent to refineries along the Gulf Coast and then shipped out from there to China. It includes congressional testimony by a TransCanada executive who declined to pledge that the oil shipped through Keystone would stay in the U.S.
It's not the first time Steyer has made this argument, and TransCanada has previously taken issue with him. The company posted a blog response to Steyer in June, saying, "It simply doesn't make sense for companies to purchase cheaper Canadian crude, ship that product overseas while continuing to import higher priced oil from the Middle East and Venezuela."
Here's one of Steyer's earlier anti-Keystone XL pipeline commercials:


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Studies show that breast cancer is one of the most prominent fears of women at large. Check out these breast cancer myths to set your mind at ease.
Studies show that breast cancer is one of the most prominent fears of women at large. Check out these breast cancer myths to set your mind at ease.
A breast cancer diagnosis, indeed, any cancer diagnosis, is not an automatic death sentence. The vast majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer display no signs of the cancer spreading beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes. Furthermore, 80 percent of women diagnosed live at least five years and most live longer.
Despite recent studies, most medical professionals highly recommend that women have annual mammograms screenings starting at age 40, or earlier if the woman is at a heightened risk of breast cancer. Despite some controversies around mammograms, they are the single best screening tool available for early detection of breast cancer.
Every woman has some risk of developing breast cancer. About 80 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of the disease.
Some people believe that you develop breast cancer from eating too much fat and not exercising enough. While lifestyle factors might play a role in risk, no one knows exactly what causes breast cancer. Both perfectly healthy people and people with high-fat, sedentary lifestyles are diagnosed every day.
Treatment plans vary widely from patient to patient depending on the type of cancer they have, the size of the tumor, age of the patient and their stage in the disease. Some women need surgery, radiation and months of chemotherapy, while others will only require surgery or a chemo regimen.
Breast cancer is a name given to at least a half-dozen diseases, defined by more than just their location in the body. For example, hormonal activity, genetics and basal-type cancer are all forms of breast cancer.
For women with breast cancer at one site, with a tumor smaller than 4 centimeters, and with clean margins achieved during surgery, lumpectomy with radiation has been proven to be as effective as mastectomy.
Lymph node surgery can lead to discomfort, numbness and swelling, which is called lymphedema. However, proper care of the arm and physical therapy usually alleviates these symptoms or completely avoids them.
There is no conclusive evidence that antiperspirants influence your risk of developing breast cancer.
Cancer that has spread to other parts of the body can be silent for some time before it is discovered. No evidence supports surgery causing cancer to spread.


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Skrela exits Clermont?
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December 26, 2012
Fly-half David Skrela made his last international appearance during the 2011 Rugby World Cup © Getty Images
Former France fly-half David Skrela is reportedly set to confirm that he will move from Top 14 giants Clermont Auvergne to second division side Colomiers next season.
The 33-year-old, who won the last of his 23 Test caps at last year's Rugby World Cup, only joined Clermont last year having spent the three previous seasons at Toulouse but reports suggest he is poised to return to the club where he began his career.
Alain Carre, president of Colomiers, refused to confirm whether Skrela had signed with them but confirmed to AFP that "contacts had been made between the two parties".
Skrela, who steered Clermont to a 28-24 victory over Top 14 strugglers Bordeaux Begles in his latest outing last weekend and shared in their long-awaited Bouclier de Brennus success in 2011 but has seen his opportunities limited by the presence of first-choice playmaker Brock James.
Clermont are currently second in the Top 14 and well-placed to qualify for the Heineken Cup quarter-finals while Colomiers are currently languishing in 10th place in the ProD2.
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No matter what you think of "Forrest Gump," no one would call it in an informative history lesson. It's slick entertainment—and, in the interest of full disclosure, one of the few films that ever made me cry—but detailed and credible it's not.
That the condensed history in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" begs comparisons to "Gump" is a huge problem, considering "Butler" comes from a true story and intends to address eight decades of American race relations. The film feels like a 12-year-old's C- oral presentation on the subject.
Forest Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines, a White House butler who, much like Mr. Gump, finds himself on the fringes of numerous major incidents in American history. The film is most affecting when documenting the horror of people forced to stand silent in the background while their nation's elected leaders (such as Liev Schreiber as Lyndon Johnson and John Cusack's ridiculous impression of Richard Nixon) display blatant racism. Scenes of oppression by violent slave owners and food-throwing Southern racists are, of course, difficult to watch.
Yet offensively adjusted from the story of real-life butler Eugene Allen by first-time feature writer Danny Strong, "Lee Daniels' The Butler" actually dramatizes very little. Cecil provides voiceover for the entire film but almost never enhances our understanding. His commentary includes lines like "I didn't know if I was going to get home alive" and "I didn't know that an old man could feel so lost." When long hours at work cause strife in his marriage to Gloria (Oprah Winfrey), in voiceover Cecil says that he can cut back his schedule. So he does. What riveting drama! Especially since at no point is it clear that Cecil cares much about his marriage or is spending all his time at the White House. He's regarded as the best butler they have, but it's anyone's guess why.
Throughout the film, Cecil's son Louis (David Oyelowo) resents his father's work and becomes involved in the civil rights era. He joins the Freedom Riders, works with Martin Luther King and becomes a Black Panther. But Daniels hops from one moment to the next with negligent attention to the particulars of history, to the point that each brief stepping stone makes the story feel insensitive, not powerful.
It's not easy to turn years and years and years of race relations into a two-hour family drama. "Lee Daniels' The Butler" merely delivers some of the civil rights movement's greatest hits and emphasizes the landmark election of the first black president in a vacuum. Yes, that was great and historic, but sadly society still has a long way to go. It's wrong to suggest otherwise.
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June 23. 2013 7:18PM
Controversial error sparks Tigers to win over Red Sox
By RICHARD L. SHOOK
The Sports Xchange
Boston Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury (2) steals second base ahead of the tag by Detroit Tigers shortstop Jhonny Peralta (27) in the eighth inning at Comerica Park. (Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports)
— Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell thinks you can add one more to the plethora of umpiring fiascoes that have been seen in the Major Leagues this season.
A controversial two-base error call on a ball hit by the Detroit leadoff batter Sunday set up a three-run eighth inning that helped the Tigers to a 7-5 victory over the Red Sox.
The Tigers won three of the four games of the weekend series.
Torii Hunter's sacrifice fly brought in the run, breaking a 4-4 tie, and Prince Fielder followed with a two-run single to let Detroit withstand a two-out RBI double by Boston's Jonny Gomes in the ninth.
Avisail Garcia opened the eighth with a deep fly near the right field wall. Daniel Nava, who had replaced Shane Victorino when Victorino had to leave with a back problem, made a routine basket catch but then dropped the ball when he was flipping it from his glove into his hand.
Instead of an out, the play was ruled a two-base error, setting off a dispute that ended with Farrell being tossed from the game.
"When you spend the rest of the game in the clubhouse, you clearly have a difference of opinion," Farrell said. "What was kind of surprising to me was that the three other umpires didn't see it either."
Farrell felt it was the first base umpire's call, while crew chief Ted Barrett, the third base umpire, said it was under the jurisdiction of second base umpire Mike DiMuro.
"To have a catch," Barrett said, "you have to have complete control and voluntary release. Mike (DiMuro) had him with control, but did not have the voluntary release. When he flipped the ball out of his glove, he never got it into his hand. That's not voluntary release."
Barrett said he, too, saw replays and noted, "He never got the ball into his hand; therefore, there was no voluntary release and no catch."
"We made a number of miscues that led to four unearned runs," Farrell said. "That (call) certainly changed the complexion of the eighth inning. I don't know if it changed the outcome of the game."
Reliever Andrew Miller (0-2) compounded the error with one of his own. Rookie Bryan Holaday laid down a sacrifice bunt to the third base side of the mound and Miller's throw drew Mike Napoli off first base for an error that left runners at first and third.
Austin Jackson walked and then Hunter drove a 1-2 pitch from reliever Alex Wilson into right-center for a sacrifice fly. Miguel Cabrera was walked intentionally and Fielder greeted lefty Craig Breslow with a line two-run single to center. All three runs were unearned.
Jackson had three walks and two hits, scoring three runs in the game.
Joaquin Benoit, Detroit's new closer, came on for the final out of the top of the eighth and picked up the victory, although he gave up the RBI double to Gomes. Benoit is now 2-0.
"I was not good, but we won," said Tigers' starter Justin Verlander, who gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks in five innings. "I haven't been pitching very good as of late. Thankfully our team picked me up."
The Tigers tied the score, 4-4, in the seventh when Miller hit Jhonny Peralta with an 0-2 pitch with the bases loaded and two out.
The shift of Andrew Bailey out of the closer's role by the Red Sox did not get off to a promising beginning. He came in for the seventh and gave up hits to two of the three batters he faced. A defensive blunder cost him, though.
Hunter hit a liner to second with Jackson on first, but Dustin Pedroia dropped the ball. It could still have been turned into a double play but the throw went to Napoli, whose foot was on the bag, negating the double play. Jackson was standing on the bag, so getting the first out on Hunter eliminated the possibility of a force.
"That's one of the things we went over in Spring Training this year," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I don't know if that had anything to do with it, but we were teaching our runners to stay on the base in that situation."
Boston broke a 3-3 tie in the fourth when Ryan Lavarnway walked and went to third on Jacoby Ellsbury's long double to right-center. Victorino brought Lavarnway in with a high hopper to short. Boston had tied the score in the third off Verlander, who had problems controlling his fastball, when Napoli got the run home on a forceout.
Detroit took a 3-2 lead in the second on a passed ball by Lavarnway with runners on second and third and two out.
The Red Sox jumped on Verlander for two runs in the second. Lavarnway grounded an RBI single up the middle and Ellsbury hit a sacrifice fly to center to create the 2-2 tie.
"I didn't have good command of my fastball or my offspeed stuff," Verlander said.
Red Sox starter Felix Doubront had control problems, too, but the Tigers' patience came and went. Cabrera unloaded a ground rule RBI double to straightaway center, and the second run scored on Fielder's groundout to first.
Detroit RHP Max Scherzer now holds the club record with 11 straight winning decisions from the start of a season. RHP George Mullin was 11-0 in 1909 but one of those victories came in a relief role. Scherzer is currently on a schedule that would allow him to pitch an inning in the All-Star Game next month, with his last start prior to the game coming on Saturday. ... Boston LHP Franklin Morales experienced some soreness in his left chest area at the back end of his 2 1/3-inning outing at Detroit on Saturday night. "He didn't feel any drastic improvement," Farrell said Sunday, indicating a DL stint is possible. "We'll have him looked at Monday and make a roster decision at that time." Morales felt the soreness on his next-to-last pitch, a fastball, then broke off a bad curve that 2B Omar Infante hit for a two-run home run. ... RHP Rick Porcello of the Tigers has a 4.74 ERA that is bloated by two bad frames. He gave up six in one inning of his last start and nine in two-thirds of an inning April 20 at Anaheim against the Los Angeles Angels, his next opponent (Tuesday). ... Red Sox RHP Allen Webster remains in the Boston rotation "as of today," Farrell said. "I thought his three-pitch mix was better than his previous starts and his secondary pitches were much better. It may take some time (for Webster to develop)." Webster likely would be returned to Triple-A if RHP Clay Buchholz were ready to return, which he is not. ... Martinez, playing first to give Fielder a game off his feet, made a spectacular play on Ellsbury with one out in the sixth. Martinez dove to get Ellsbury's sharp grounder, which squirted out of his glove into foul territory. Martinez dove to the ground, grabbed the ball and flipped it blindly backwards to pitcher Drew Smyly covering for the out. "I was yelling, 'I'm here, I'm here,'" Smyly said. "It was all him. It was fun, a great play." "When I went to get the ball," Martinez said, "I knew where the base was. I just threw it to the base."


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — David Copley, the last in a line of San Diego Union-Tribune publishers and owners from a family who dominated the city's media for more than eight decades, died after crashing his car Tuesday night near his La Jolla home.
Copley, 60, was declared dead at Scripps Memorial Hospital at about 9 p.m., some three hours after he crashed his Aston Martin sports car into a parked vehicle, the newspaper now known as UT San Diego reported (http://bit.ly/UUG6Xf). Copley's close friend Dr. Robert Singer announced the death outside the hospital.
Police working at a nearby rally heard the crash and found Copley alone in the car and unconscious at about 6:15 p.m., fire department spokesman Maurice Luque said. Copley was resuscitated and taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The cause of the crash wasn't immediately clear, but police told the newspaper it may have stemmed from a medical emergency. Copley had a heart transplant in 2005.
Copley took over as owner and publisher of the Union-Tribune, the main newspaper in the nation's eighth-largest city, from his mother in 2001. He held the position until 2009, when parent company Copley Press Inc. sold the newspaper to the private Beverly Hills-based firm Platinum Equity, ending an 81-year San Diego dynasty.
Copley and his family also were major benefactors to art and charity in San Diego. Their name is on many of the city's cultural institutions, including its symphony hall and modern art museum.
The family had four publishers spanning three generations. Ira Copley, an Illinois businessman, bought The San Diego Union in 1928 and was publisher until 1947. His son, James Copley, took over until 1973 and James Copley's wife, Helen, was publisher until in 2001, when she named David Copley to replace her.
The Union, a morning newspaper, merged with the Copleys' afternoon paper, the Evening Tribune, in 1992.


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