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Gerth on Citibank Tanked; FNC Revealed Trie Leads Being Suppressed
1) In the same paragraph the
New York Times applied different ideological labeling standards to a
liberal and a conservative.
2) The New York Times
published Jeff Gerth's exclusive about how Citibank is impeding an
investigation of money transfers from China, but didn't put it on page
one. The networks ignored it.
3) FNC's Carl Cameron
outlined how Justice failed to pursue leads in the Chung and Huang cases
and "political pressure" is now suppressing pursuit of Trie's
charge that top Democrats "knew he was receiving illegal foreign
4) Instead of exploring
Chinagate issues on Tuesday night ABC ran a soundbite from a Kennedy about
how the U.S. wasn't a democracy until the 1960s and CBS highlighted
Hillary's opposition research.
5) "The Virginia
Democratic Party, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Mary Sue Terry,...1993
Democratic gubernatorial candidate," all swapped fundraising lists
with Washington's PBS station.
6) MTV news host Kurt Loder
compared Woodstock '99 to a "concentration camp" in blaming
organizers for the rioting.
>>> All
the Chinagate revelations the networks ignored, all in one place. The MRC
has created a new Web page featuring a compilation of MRC analysis of
Chinagate disclosures and what many media outlets have not covered about
Chinese espionage and technology transfers. The page lists links to MRC
Special Reports, Media Reality Check fax reports, MediaWatch studies,
op-ed pieces and columns, as well as video contrasts comparing network
coverage of China versus Iran-Contra. Plus, videos of some Fox News
Channel explorations of subjects the other networks wouldn't touch. Go
to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/chinacoverage/welcome.html
Up first today: A quick quiz. Below are three takes on the same paragraph.
One is what actually ran as the third paragraph of a story in the
"Washington Final" edition of the July 27 New York Times. The
other two are made up, but only differ by one word from what really
appeared. Can you identify the real one?
a) "The
investigations are led by Representative Dan Burton, an Indiana
Republican, and Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat."
b) "The
investigations are led by Representative Dan Burton, a conservative
Indiana Republican, and Senator Carl Levin, a liberal Michigan
c) "The
investigations are led by Representative Dan Burton, a conservative
Indiana Republican, and Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat."
Answer: C. Options
A and B would reflect equal labeling of both politicians, but New York
Times editors chose to be a little biased and only found Burton worth
tagging ideologically.
The New York Times
Web site version of the same story offered a shorter, yet equally labeling
imbalanced, version of the same paragraph: "The investigations are
led by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., a conservative, and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich."
To learn from
which story this paragraph was lifted, see item #2 below.
Tuesday's New York Times featured Jeff Gerth's piece on how Citibank
is not cooperating with congressional investigations over money transfer
from China, a story the Drudge Report discovered was held since last
Friday. Monday night Matt Drudge reported that "the story that will
appear on Tuesday is said to be a 'moderation' of Gerth's original
report. The efforts of a congressional committee that is currently
investigating the cash trail from China appears to have been de-emphasized
in the final edit."
It was also bumped
off the front page and placed on page A6, not that the placement would
have any impact on the networks picking up the story since they regularly
ignore Clinton scandal developments plastered across the front page.
Tuesday morning
and night the three broadcast networks skipped Gerth's exclusive about
the probes directed by a Republican and a Democrat. CNN also ignored the
story on both Inside Politics and The World Today. Only FNC touched it in
a Carl Cameron story which delivered other fresh information. See item #3
below for details.
reflecting last-minute editing, the version in the printed newspaper
differs from what appeared on the paper's Web site as item #1 above
noted. The first editing change appears in the very first clause. The
printed version in the "Washington Final" editions begins:
"Two congressional investigations, set off from different starting
The Web version
starts: "Two congressional investigations, launched from different
starting points,..."
With that noted,
here are excerpts of Gerth's July 27 story as taken from the Web-posted
version, headlined: "Under Scrutiny: Citibank's Handling of
High-Profile Foreigners' Accounts."
WASHINGTON -- Two congressional
investigations, launched from different starting points, are examining
Citibank and the confidential world of private banking, a growing and
highly lucrative service.
The investigations, led by lawmakers who
rarely find common cause, are examining how Citibank -- and a handful of
other institutions -- handle the private accounts of foreign officials and
their relatives. The investigations are likely to result in the closest
scrutiny yet by Congress of private banking.
The investigations are led by Rep. Dan
Burton, R-Ind., a conservative, and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
Burton is looking at allegations of Chinese
involvement in the financing of the 1996 American election campaign,
including $300,000 in Chinese government money for the Democratic Party
that was wired from Citibank's Hong Kong branch.
Levin, aides say, wants to know how half a
dozen American banks managed sensitive foreign accounts, including
Citibank's work for powerful families in Asia, Africa and Central America.
Citibank, a unit of Citigroup Inc., entered
the private-banking business in the 1970s, taking some business away from
the highly secretive Swiss banks. Citibank is a leader in global finance,
and while its private bank is relatively small, it has attracted elite
But some customers have come under intense
law enforcement scrutiny, and so too has the private bank.
First came Raul Salinas de Gortari, who is
the brother of Mexico's former president and who is currently in jail in
Mexico. Raul Salinas secreted millions in a Citibank account, money that
investigators suspect came from illicit activities....
More recently there was Liu Chaoying, the
daughter of China's former top military official and the reported
paymaster for $300,000 in Chinese military money intended for the
Democratic Party in 1996, according to testimony from a participant in the
The Salinas investigation has caused
Citibank to tighten its policies.
"Since the Salinas episode, the bank's
policy on accepting public figures as customers has toughened," said
Tom Lahiff, a vice president and lawyer for Citibank. "Public figures
are not a target market," he said, adding that public figures who do
become clients are reviewed annually by top executives....
Last week Burton, chairman of the House
committee on government reform, complained in a letter to Citibank about
"undue delays" and a "seeming lack of compliance" with
a committee subpoena for records on the $300,000 wired to a Democratic
fundraiser. Bank records list the sender as Ms. Liu, a Chinese military
officer and aerospace executive whose father was then China's senior
military official.
"We've been quite responsive to the
committee in a short time frame," Lahiff said. "We sent an
additional document today and by the end of the week we will have given
them everything we can."
Ms. Liu's Citibank transfer came a few days
after the head of Chinese military intelligence told Ms. Liu and the
fund-raiser, Johnny Chung, that he would soon have Ms. Liu forward
$300,000 to Chung to support President Clinton and the Democratic Party,
according to Chung's testimony last May before Burton's committee. Chung
pleaded guilty to campaign-related charges, and was sentenced to probation
after cooperating with investigators.
In his letter last week, Burton also
questioned the lack of authorized signatures for Citibank accounts held by
the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank. Last year federal
bank regulators had similar questions about these accounts as they tried
to trace tens of millions of dollars from the central bank to an account
at Citibank Private Bank that was controlled by the daughter of one of the
Communist Party's old guard, government documents show. The woman is the
sister-in-law of Ms. Liu and a former official at a small California bank
that served the Chinese business community.
Lahiff said the incomplete documentation
stemmed from banking laws, common in some countries, including China, that
"prohibit our production of certain information."....
END Excerpt
If you are a
registered user of the New York Times online edition, you can read the
whole piece by going to: http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/072799citibank-probe.html
Drudge added
Monday night: "Gerth left out specific details of the bank's lack of
cooperation with investigators. Congressional investigators have
subpoenaed bank account records of suspected money runners. Citibank has
balked at providing the records, citing, among other things, a 'language
barrier' problem with its Hong Kong office."
The Drudge Report
Web site includes the text of the letter Congressman Dan Burton sent last
week to Thomas Lahiff Jr., Citibank VP for legal affairs, demanding
immediate cooperation in providing details about the money transfer to
Johnny Chung. Burton offered solutions for two the impediments Citibank
claimed to have encountered:
In your conversation, you also represented
that you are having difficulty acquiring answers to the Committee's
inquiries due to two main obstacles: (1) the "twelve hour time
differen[tial]" between New York, New York and Hong Kong which has
forced you to call Hong Kong at 1:30 a.m.; and (2) the "language
barrier." which has made communications difficult.
I am confident that as a Vice President of
an international bank with locations spanning the globe you and your
company have developed efficient and effective ways of communicating
across time zones. In the event that Citibank is not as sophisticated as I
have been led to believe, e-mail would seem to be an available form of
communication for a multi-national corporation.
Furthermore, with regard to the
"language barrier," I have a simple suggestion. Call the
Citibank, N.A., Hong Kong, legal department. Mr. Griffin has spoken with
individuals there. As I'm sure you are aware, they are fluent speakers of
the English language. Whatever method you choose, it is evident to me that
a number of employees in the Hong Kong office -- from teller to counsel --
should be able to determine the existence of the account in question.
END Excerpt of
To read the entire
letter go to: http://www.drudgereport.com
The Justice Department knew back in 1997 about the $300,000 transfer to
Johnny Chung, but "did not thoroughly investigate it," FNC's
Carl Cameron revealed Tuesday night.
In addition,
Cameron charged that deputies to Janet Reno frustrated a probe of the
Buddhist temple fundraising and disclosed that some prosecutors are now
"fighting to continue their investigation of [Charlie] Trie's
assertion that senior White House and Democratic Party officials knew he
was receiving illegal foreign contributions" from entities "with
ties to both the Chinese government and Asian organized crime." But,
a source told Cameron, there is "incredible political pressure to
wrap up Trie's case" and "close down" the entire campaign
fundraising investigation.
Cameron's story
led the July 27 Special Report with Brit Hume at 6pm ET/9pm PT and a
briefer version ran on the 7pm ET Fox Report.
Cameron set up his
disturbing revelations: "The three most significant suspects in the
four-year-old China fundraising scandal, John Huang, Charlie Trie and
Johnny Chung are all expected to have plea bargained to minor fundraising
abuses and been sentenced to probation within the next three weeks. The
Justice Department once labeled the China money investigation its largest
and most important case -- over a hundred agents and prosecutors. Buy
Attorney General Janet Reno's team blew it, according to a recent
Inspector General's report which concluded that leads were not followed
and feet were dragged. Now some investigators, and members of Congress,
fear the case is being allowed to peter out."
Cameron reviewed
each of the three cases, starting with Johnny Chung who is on probation
after agreeing to cooperate and testifying to a House committee that in
1996 he "funneled money from the head of China's military
intelligence to the Democratic National Committee."
Advancing the
story, Cameron intoned: "But documents obtained by Fox News indicate
that Justice had Chung's bank records as evidence of that back in
November of 1997 and did not thoroughly investigate it. Chung received
more than $2 million in Chinese currency, the equivalent of about $300,000
U.S. dollars, in a Citibank wire transfer from Liu Chao Ying, a Lieutenant
Colonel in the Chinese military. Justice never even tried to trace the
money, or it could have discovered that the cash came from China's top
military spy."
Next, Cameron
moved to John Huang who faces charges on August 2 for illegal donations to
a local campaign in California. Cameron reviewed his history:
"Huang also admits funneling illegal Chinese
contributions to the Democratic National Committee, but there are no
charges for that. Huang was also involved in the infamous Buddhist Temple
fundraiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, at which foreign
contributions were laundered through Buddhist nuns and monks. Fox News has
learned that shortly after the 1996 event a federal prosecutor in the
California U.S. Attorney's office wanted to investigate, but Attorney
General Janet Reno's lieutenants halted the subpoenas. Three years later
no one has been or is expected to be charged."
Finally, Cameron
got to Charlie Trie and how Justice may be ignoring his leads: "Trie's
sentencing for fraud is scheduled for August 12, but sources say that may
be delayed because some prosecutors are fighting to continue their
investigation of Trie's assertion that senior White House and Democratic
Party officials knew he was receiving illegal foreign contributions from,
among others, a Macao businessman with ties to both the Chinese government
and Asian organized crime. And a senior prosecutor in the Justice
Department's campaign finance task force says as of now no decision has
been made to postpone Trie's sentencing or to investigate any of his
additional allegations. In fact, the source says, there is incredible
political pressure to wrap up Trie's case, sentence him quickly and
shortly thereafter close down the entire investigation."
Dan Burton,
Chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, appeared later on
FNC's The O'Reilly Factor to discuss Reno's decisions and the
Citibank situation. Previewing his show on the Fox Report, O'Reilly
opined: "I think all Americans should take a deep breath and say we
got an Attorney General here who's not enforcing the law and that's
+++ Watch
Cameron's story. By 10am ET Wednesday MRC Webmaster Sean Henry will have
Cameron's piece up on the MRC home page in RealPlayer format. Go to: http://www.mrc.org
Instead of doing some original reporting like Cameron or simply reciting
Jeff Gerth's New York Times story what were the networks doing Tuesday
night? ABC ran a soundbite from a Kennedy about how the U.S. wasn't a
democracy until the 1960s and CBS happily highlighted an opposition
research find passed along by Hillary operatives about how in 1964 Rudy
Giuliani rejected the carpetbagger issue used against Robert Kennedy.
On July 27, CBS,
CNN and NBC all led with the heat wave and the drought. ABC went first
with the FDA's approval of a new anti-flu drug to be sold under the name
After stories on
mistakes made by bounty hunters and China's crackdown on the Falun Gong
sect, Peter Jennings closed World News Tonight with a tribute to federal
Judge Frank Johnson of Alabama who died last week. The
Eisenhower-appointed judge decided many of the most important civil rights
cases in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, Jennings explained, including the
Rosa Parks bus case and forcing localities to allow the Selma to
Montgomery march. In the piece Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed:
"Johnson came in and finally completed the American Revolution and
made this country a democracy for the first time in history."
Like CNN and FNC,
the CBS Evening News ran a story on Rudy Giuliani's trip to Arkansas to,
as anchor John Roberts put it, "attack her carpetbag and fill his
money bag." On the carpetbagger issue Diana Olick relayed the Hillary
Clinton camp's counter-punch from the October 9, 1964 edition of
something called Manhattan Quadrangle: "Her supporters provided us
with a column from 1964. The author, then Democrat Rudy Giuliani, defended
Robert F. Kennedy's New York Senate aspirations. 'The carpetbagger
issue...is a truly ridiculous reason for not voting for a man in the year
The broadcast
networks haven't touched Chinagate this month, but Monday night CNN did
update viewers on how Wen Ho Lee will probably face a lesser charge than
espionage. As MRC analyst Paul Smith noted, on the July 26 The World Today
Pierre Thomas reported:
"If Lee is charged, it won't likely be for
espionage but probably for gross negligence in handling classified
information. According to law enforcement sources, that lesser charge is
likely because Justice officials do not yet have direct evidence of Lee
passing classified material to anyone. And there's no evidence of any
payoffs. Given those facts, Lee's supporters are pointing to dozens of
similar cases involving government secrets. Among the cases sited, former
CIA director John Deutch, accused of improperly storing classified
information at his home. Staffers for Iran-Contra independent counsel
Lawrence Walsh lost a secret document during that investigation."
Washington's WETA-TV, a major provider of programming to the PBS system,
has conceded its list exchanges for fundraising tilted heavily toward
liberal lists.
In a front page
story in the July 27 Fairfax Journal, a Virginia suburban daily, reporter
Stephen Henn wrote:
"The Virginia Democratic Party, Sen. Barbara
Mikulski, D-Md., and Mary Sue Terry, former Virginia Attorney General and
1993 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, swapped fundraising lists with
the region's largest public television broadcaster, Arlington-based WETA,
a station official conceded yesterday.
"WETA, which carries Sesame Street, Nova and
the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer among other programs on channel 26, began
swapping its contributors list with partisan groups more than a decade ago
and sold donor lists to a third-party broker working for Mikulski's
Senate campaign as recently as last year...."
Later, Henn added
that WETA spokeswoman Mary "Stewart said most of the partisan groups
that traded with WETA were Democratic, but she noted several Republican
organizations also swapped with the station."
organizations," meaning not the Republican National Committee but
some unnamed groups.
While there's
nothing illegal about what WETA did, their list preferences demonstrate
how they realize Democrats and liberals are their base of support.
For background on
the controversy over PBS stations exchanging or renting lists with
political groups, go to the July 16 and 21 CyberAlert issues: http://www.mediaresearch.org/news/cyberalert/1999/cyb19990716.html#3
For the testimony
of the MRC's Tim Graham before a House committee last week, go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/news/pr19990720a.html
Woodstock as deadly as a concentration camp? Yes, according to MTV newsman
Kurt Loder who blamed organizers for the destructive rioting which took
place at Woodstock '99 on Sunday night.
MRC analyst Mark
Drake came across Loder's thinking in Tuesday's USA Today in which Ann
Oldenburg relayed:
"He blamed the 'remote' and 'ugly'
setup at Griffiss Air Base in Rome NY. 'It was like a concentration
camp. To get in, you get frisked to make sure you're not bringing in any
water or food that would prevent you from buying from their outrageously
priced booths. You wallow around in garbage and human waste. There was a
palpable mood of anger.'"
The people who
should really be angry are those who lost relatives murdered in Nazi
concentration camps who now hear that equated with what people had to
endure for a weekend at a rock concert they voluntarily attended. --
Brent Baker
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MONTREAL - Just after Gazette resto critics Lesley Chesterman and Sarah Musgrave revealed the top dishes of the 2013 Montreal resto scene and leading up to the much anticipated pronoucements of the best Montreal restos, again by Chesterman and Musgrave, we asked Gazette readers to add their voices to the look back on Montreal dining in 2013.
We asked readers to name their favourite fine-dining and casual-dining restos in 2013 and more than 200 of you responded. Here are the top-five choices in those two categories, followed by lists, below, of all fine- and then casual-dining spots named by readers, with links to our reviews where we have them and resto websites where we don't.
> Gazette readers top-five fine-dining spots:
1. L'Orignal
4. Bâton Rouge
> Gazette readers' top-five casual-dining spots:
2. Bâton Rouge
Editor's note: This is how we ranked the top 5 lists: We started with the most votes and, sorted alphabetically within the group receiving the same number of votes.
> Additional fine-dining restos named by readers:
Bistro 1834
La Griglia D'Oro in Lasalle
Il Mulino
Park Restaurant
Restaurant Fabbrica
Sterlings Steak House (Laval)
Tong Por
> Additional casual-dining restos named by readers:
Chez Divito
Peking Garden
Le Petit Coin du Mexique
Rotisserie Romados
Restaurant Orientale Ngan Dinh
Scores dorval mall
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I wrote my first post on an alternative for throwing away those wasteful, pesky not-really-recycled/recyclable K-Cups in 2007. Since then, I have reviewed a number of alternatives. I've even reviewed another single-cup brewer. However, now that some of the patents on K-Cups have expired, we have more variations and and alternatives to Keurig brewers and single-cup pods, cartridges, and capsules than Carter has little pills.
Avoiding sending coffee-related trash to landfills (and using much more sustainably-grown coffee than is typically available in pre-packaged single-cup coffee products) is certainly within the purvey of a web site on coffee sustainability. But it's come to the point that if I were to review, or even mention, half of the K-Cup alternatives flooding the market this site would veer away from an emphasis on the ecological effects of coffee growing. I am going to semi-retire from discussing or reviewing these types of products, unless there is some sort of remarkable innovation or noteworthy news.
For my finale, here is a table that summarizes the popular products currently on the market which are reusable alternatives to K-Cups which allow for the use of a consumer's own coffee that are compatible with many of the original Keurig brewers.
Reusable alternatives to K-Cups
|My K-Cup Reusable Filter
|3.5/5 (1,000+)
|Requires removing filter assemby on brewer.
My post here.
Second-most popular with C&C readers.
|4/5 (2,000+)
|Also available in a durable stainless steel version.
My post here.
|K2V-Cup For Keurig VUE
|4.5/5 (600+)
|For use in VUE brewers, in which old K-Cups and alternatives do not fit.
See also gold version
Most popular with C&C readers.
|4/5 (1,000+)
|My post here.
|My-Cap (was My-Kap)
|$6.99 for 3 + brush
|9, or however much you can fit into an old K-Cup
|4/5 (100+)
|Used to refill old K-Cups.
My post here.
|EZ Cup by Perfect Pod
|Around 9
|4/5 (500+)
|Requires proprietary filters, approximately $12 for 100.
I'm not sure, given the fact that there are so many competitors and K-Cup brands, that K-Cups themselves will ever be truly eco-friendly. Here is what Keurig owner Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) had to say in their recently released 2011 CSR document (PDF):
Widespread adoption of the Keurig® single cup brewing system raises some important — and complex — environmental challenges. To better understand the impact of our products and guide our efforts to address those challenges, we conducted a life cycle analysis comparing single cup brewing systems to drip-brewing systems. We learned that the cultivation of coffee beans, operation of brewing systems, and use of materials in product packaging all represent significant impacts on the environment. The study revealed that packaging disposal represents a fraction of a product's environmental impact across its entire life cycle.
Literally billions of K-cups ending up in a landfill may be just a "fraction" of this product's environmental impact, but it is huge in and of itself. With the alternatives listed above, there's no excuse for using this wasteful product.
Update: Here's a couple of articles on the lack of recyclability of K-Cups in general and lack of sustainability in newer versions as well.
*I've included the capacity as stated in promotional material, user reviews on outside web sites, and/or my own testing, if available. The volume of coffee grounds that will fit in something that goes in the original Keurig brewers is, in my opinion, the biggest limitation to coffee quality to those machines. The Specialty Coffee Association of America recommends 10 grams of coffee per 6-ounce cup; most people drink larger mugs of coffee and may also prefer a stronger cup. A regular K-Cup can hold about 9 grams of coffee. Despite "bold" selections and brewers that make various cups size, the physical capacity of the older (not the new "Vue" brewers) machines is difficult to overcome. Therefore, getting a well-crafted cup of coffee from a Keurig brewer (and many other brands I have seen or used) is hit or miss.


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Procedure for Protein Extraction and Purification from BL21(DE3) Cells
Speed: 18,000rpm Temperature: 4°C Time elapsed: 2 hours Rotor used: Sorvall F21S-8x50y
Result for Protein Extraction and Purification from BL21(DE3) Cells
Procedure for E.coli cell Transformation
225rpm 37°C 1 hour
Following reagents were weighted out: 20g of LB Agar powder from Teknova® 5g of tryptone from Teknova® 2.5g of yeast extract from BD® 5g of NaCl from Fisher Scientific® 7.5g agar from BD® Above were placed into a 800mL Erlenmeyer flask. 500mL distilled water was added to reagents. The solution was autoclaved under liquid cycle (see 2012/11/03 for protocol for liquid cycle) After cooling to ~50°C, 50mg ampicillin was poured into autoclaved solution, swirled to mix Under sterile condition, the solution was poured into separate petri dish when temperature reaches ~40°C Plates were left under sterile condition to solidify
Results for E.coli cell Transformation
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) San Francisco's Tim Hudson, Cincinnati's Alfredo Simon, San Diego's Huston Street and Washington's Tyler Clippard have been added to the roster for Tuesday's All-Star game at Target Field as the National League changed about one-third of its pitching staff.
They replace a quartet of pitchers who started Sunday: the Giants' Madison Bumgarner, the Reds' Johnny Cueto, the Padres' Tyson Ross and the Atlanta Braves' Julio Teheran.
Hudson, a four-time All-Star, is 7-6 with a 2.87 ERA, and Simon is 12-3 with a 2.70 ERA. Street has 24 saves and a 1.09 ERA, and Clippard is 6-2 with a 2.03 ERA in 43 relief appearances.
''It's a give and take. Obviously, I'm honored and happy in that sense,'' Clippard said before laughing and adding, ''I'd like to go get some rounds of golf in, but I'll take one for the team.''


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Hello. My name is Shannon and I am an insomniac. Yeah it's 4am, I'm posting on a forum when I should be asleep.
Looking around, I see a few people I know. Heh, the net isn't that big afterall. D:
I'm a Graphic Designer from Ireland. Still watch the odd anime now and again and am always looking for recommendations on something to watch with a good storyline. Shannon hates any kind of film/series that can be regarded as eye candy with no substance, whether it be anime or otherwise.
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I often find this forum whenever I google Higurashi related things, so I figured to join since I'm a HUUUUGE fan of the VN.
I'm more of an rpg otaku if anything though. Xenogears, Grandia, Lunar, you name it. I've played it!
Competitively in video games however, I'm not under a rock either. I'm a prime competitive battler in pokemon. And I'm part of the test krewe in Guild Wars who helps balance the game :P
On the side of rpgs, I lose all the time at Counterstrike: Source, and I love it!
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Rising levels of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) secondary to ozone depletion are an issue of concern for public health. Skin cancers and intraepidermal dysplasia are increasingly observed in individuals that undergo chronic or excessive sun exposure. Such alterations of skin integrity and function are well established for humans and laboratory animals, but remain unexplored for mammalian wildlife. However, effects are unlikely to be negligible, particularly for species such as whales, whose anatomical or life-history traits force them to experience continuous sun exposure. We conducted photographic and histological surveys of three seasonally sympatric whale species to investigate sunburn and photoprotection. We find that lesions commonly associated with acute severe sun damage in humans are widespread and that individuals with fewer melanocytes have more lesions and less apoptotic cells. This suggests that the pathways used to limit and resolve UVR-induced damage in humans are shared by whales and that darker pigmentation is advantageous to them. Furthermore, lesions increased significantly in time, as would be expected under increasing UV irradiance. Apoptosis and melanocyte proliferation mirror this trend, suggesting that whales are capable of quick photoprotective responses. We conclude that the thinning ozone layer may pose a risk to the health of whales and other vulnerable wildlife.
1. Introduction
Since the 20th century, worldwide mounting levels of solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) consequential to ozone depletion [1–3] have generated concern owing to their health implications [4–5]. Across all latitudes, cases of skin cancers and intraepidermal dysplasia are being increasingly reported in humans who are chronically or excessively exposed to UVR [4–6]. Despite UVR-induced alterations of skin integrity and function being well established for humans and laboratory animals [4], similar studies on wild mammals are virtually non-existent [7]. However, effects are unlikely to be negligible, particularly for species such as cetaceans, which by anatomical (e.g. lack of fur, feathers or keratinized plates) or life-history constraints (e.g. obligate air-breathing physiology, lactation or socialization at the sea surface) are unable to avoid continuous exposure to UVR [8,9]. Interestingly, in recent years, reports of cetacean skin lesions have multiplied [10,11]. The aetiology of some of the skin conditions that show distinct patterns have already been characterized (e.g. lobomycosis, caused by the fungus Lacazia loboi [12], and poxvirus tattoo skin disease [13]), but many other types of lesion (e.g. blistering lesions) have not [14]. It is possible that these lesions are linked to mounting levels of UVR, since for each percentage of stratospheric ozone lost, erythema-inducing (skin-damaging) radiation increases by 1.2 per cent [1].
Studies in humans and laboratory animals have shown that lighter-skinned individuals are more sensitive to UVR than those with darker skin [15,16], whose risk of developing skin cancer is 10- to 100-fold lower [17]. When controlling for differences in skin pigmentation, longer periods of exposure to the sun influence severity of skin damage [4]. If this knowledge were extrapolated to cetaceans, one would expect cetaceans with paler skin pigmentation and those spending longer periods at the sea surface to be more severely exposed and develop more blistering skin lesions. In addition, as a result of mounting levels of UVR, an increment in skin lesions over time would also be expected.
We tested these predictions by examining skin lesions in three seasonally sympatric cetacean species (blue, fin and sperm whales) from the Gulf of California, a region situated near tropical latitudes, where skin cancer radiation dosages are five times higher than in mid-latitude zones [18]. Marked differences in skin pigmentation among these species, as well as distinct surface behaviours (figure 1a), made it possible to investigate the potential photoprotective role of cetacean skin pigmentation and the importance of sun exposure length for lesion development. We performed gross analysis of skin sections using high-quality photographs, and microscopic analysis that involved routine and specialized staining to detect apoptotic cells [17,19]. We find widespread evidence of epidermal damage commonly associated with acute and severe sunburn in the three species, and demonstrate that whales with more melanocytes have fewer lesions and more apoptotic cells. Interestingly, apoptosis and melanocyte proliferation increase in time, suggesting quick photoprotective responses.
2. Material and methods
(a) Sample collection
Cetacean surveys were conducted in the Gulf of California (Mexico) between January and June (2007–2009). High-quality photographs were obtained using a digital camera (Canon EOS20) and skin biopsies were collected with a 7 mm stainless steel dart from blue whales, Balaenoptera musculus (n = 98 and 71, respectively), fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus (n = 34 and 50), and sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus (n = 24 and 21; details in electronic supplementary material, table S1). Epidermal samples were preserved in 10 per cent buffered formalin. Each whale was photo-identified and catalogued based on skin patterns and scars on the back and dorsal fin [20] and the ventral side of the flukes [21]. In each season recaptured individuals were excluded from the analyses, the first capture being the one included. Minimum age was calculated from the first year each whale was observed in the Gulf of California. We excluded new individuals (minimum age = 1) from the age-related analyses (n = 58).
(b) Analysis of gross lesions
Occurrence, prevalence (%) and intensity (number of lesions/individual) of gross lesions were determined in a previously defined area using high-quality photographs (see the electronic supplementary material). Photos were included only when the whale's flank was perpendicular to the camera and focus was sharp. To ensure consistency, all photographs were analysed by a single person at the end of the final sampling season.
(c) Histology
Skin sections were stained with haematoxylin and eosin (H&E). Accumulation of glycogen was confirmed with periodic acid schiff (PAS) and diastase-resistant (DPAS) stains [22]. Four categories were defined for cytoplasmic vacuolation, from zero (absence) to three (severe; see electronic supplementary material, figure S1a–c). Apoptosis was examined in a subset of 43 individuals using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate-biotine nick end labelling method (TUNEL) that detects DNA double-strand breaks typical of final stages of apoptosis [17,19,23]. A semi-quantitative measure of apoptotic cells was used as indicated above (level 0 to 2 = none to few localized apoptotic cells, level 3 = many and widely distributed apoptotic cells; see electronic supplementary material, figure S1d–f). Melanocytes (M = number of melanocytes per 100 arbitrary units), which were used as a surrogate measure of skin pigmentation, were counted within a standardized area (details in the electronic supplementary material). To avoid bias, all slides were examined at the end of the final sampling season.
(d) Statistical methods
Interspecies differences in lesion prevalence were examined with Fisher's exact tests. ANOVA and non-parametric Kruskall–Wallis tests were used to compare melanocyte counts between years and lesion intensity among species, respectively. Generalized linear models (GLMs) were constructed to investigate interspecies differences in melanocyte counts and epidermal lesions, and temporal trends in lesion prevalence. When explanatory variables were bimodal responses, error structure was defined accordingly. Analyses were conducted in R [24].
3. Results and discussion
Melanocyte counts varied significantly between species, being lowest for blue whales (14.1 M ± 0.77) and highest for fin whales (30.8 M ± 1.71; Kruskall–Wallis, χ2 = 54.1, d.f. = 2, p = 1.8 × 10−12; figure 1b). Gross lesions observed were predator bite marks (19% overall prevalence) and blister-type lesions (hereafter blisters; 28% overall prevalence). Histological analysis revealed a range of abnormalities, including intracellular oedema, cytoplasmic vacuolation, glycogen deposition, microvesicles and leucocyte infiltration (figure 2), all considered characteristic of sunburn and generally observed 24 h after UVR exposure [19,22]. Basal dendritic melanocytes and basal and suprabasal perinuclear melanin pigments (supranuclear caps) were common findings. These phenomena arise as protective responses following UVR exposure in humans [25,26].
As predicted under the assumption that pigmentation plays a significant photoprotective role [16], the prevalence of blisters and microscopic abnormalities differed between species, being lowest for fin whales, the darkest species (figure 3). Moreover, for each species, melanocyte counts inversely predicted cytoplasmic vacuolation and intracellular oedema (p < 0.02 for all responses; full model details in electronic supplementary material, table S2), providing further evidence of photoprotection in cetaceans. Interestingly, despite having different average melanocyte counts, the prevalence of blisters and microscopic abnormalities was equal for blue and sperm whales (figure 3). This finding might reflect dissimilar sea-surfacing behaviours. Sperm whales spend approximately 7–10 min breathing at the surface between foraging dives, whereas both blue and fin whales tend to surface for less than 2 min at a time [27]. Moreover, although all species remain at the surface while resting, sperm whales also aggregate virtually all the daylight hours at the surface during socialization, in periods of up to 6 h at a time [21]. A fitted GLM showed that the length of sun exposure (i.e. surface time) predicted epidermal lesions, although skin pigmentation remained the most important explanatory factor for all lesions examined (full model details in electronic supplementary material, table S3a).
Another non-exclusive explanation for the higher prevalence of lesions observed in blue whales when compared with fin whales could relate to differences in migration patterns. This is because UVR (and consequently skin cancer radiation dosage) varies across latitudes, being five times higher at lower latitudes when compared with mid-latitudes [18]. Across Mexico, UVR is high during most of the year, and the UV index at clear sky values (a measure of the potential human exposure to UVR) is normally 6 (high) to 15 (extreme) [28]. Thus, blue whales from the northeast pacific population that migrate annually from the feeding areas between Alaska and California [29] to the Gulf of California, where some remain for at least two months (normally arriving in January/February and leaving in April/May) [30], are abruptly exposed to higher UVR. Conversely, fin whales are year-round residents of the Gulf of California [31] and thus constantly exposed to high UVR. If, as occurs in humans, sun-induced damage is most critical when first exposed to higher levels of UVR, it is possible that the observed variations in lesions, melanocytes and apoptotic cells between species reflect differences in migration. Interestingly, blue whales sampled at the beginning of each sampling season had a higher prevalence of microscopic lesions than those sampled at the end of each sampling season (LR = 37.99, d.f. = 1, p = 0.04; see electronic supplementary material, table S4 and figure S2), suggesting that some acclimatization might occur, as happens in humans [32].
Exposure to UVR produces numerous effects on keratinocytes, including the formation of 'sunburn cells': keratinocytes showing eosinophilic cytoplasm with or without remnants of shrunken and condensed nuclei [17,19]. These are apoptotic cells resulting from UV-induced DNA damage [17]. Highly pigmented skin is better able to prevent damage and remove potentially precancerous UVR-damaged cells via melanin-mediated apoptosis [15]. Thus, whales with more pigmentation would be expected to have higher epidermal apoptosis rates than less-pigmented whales. We found that sunburn cells were present in nearly all (95%) of the skin sections and in more than half (56%) of all whales; these cells were distributed throughout the epidermis (figure 4), including the basal layer. Such high levels and widespread distribution of apoptotic cells are uncommon in clinically healthy mouse skin, and are associated with acute responses to UVR exposure, which peak between 24 and 48 h [33]. When investigating the association between individual melanocyte counts and apoptosis, a positive relationship was found for all species (full GLM and model details in electronic supplementary material, table S3b), implying that darker pigmentation confers an advantage for the elimination of UVR-induced damage in whales. Geographical variation in pigmentation has been described for southern right whales, Eubalena australis [34], and humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae [35], and there is evidence that dorsal skin gradually darkens with age in right whales [34]. To our knowledge, the evolutionary significance of whale skin pigmentation patterns has not been discussed in terms of photoprotection, but it is tempting to speculate, based on our findings, that selection might operate at this level.
As a consequence of the global reduction in the stratospheric ozone layer, levels of UVR have augmented, leading to higher rates of acute lesions and skin cancer in humans [4]. If whale skin is affected by exposure to growing levels of UVR, a higher prevalence of lesions over time would be expected. When testing this hypothesis for blue whales, the species for which we had data and samples spanning a 3 year period, we found that while bite marks remained unchanged (GLM: LR = 110.33, d.f. = 2, p = 0.18), the prevalence of blisters rose significantly over time (GLM: LR = 90.50, d.f. = 2, p = 5.24 × 10−5; figure 5), being markedly higher in 2009. A similar (but statistically insignificant) trend was observed for cytoplasmic vacuolation (GLM: LR = 5.44, d.f. = 2, p = 0.07; figure 5). Despite the short time frame, our results would suggest that, as predicted, heightened exposure to UVR secondary to global [1–3] and regional [36,37] ozone depletion is leading to more skin damage in whales. It is worth mentioning that we found no evidence that the population is ageing (GLM: LR = 32.16, d.f. = 2, p = 0.31), suggesting that the observed results do not reflect an age-related decrease in repair mechanisms [38]. The obvious question to arise from our results is: if whales are historically adapted to daily UVR exposure, are their photoprotection and damage-repair mechanisms able to respond to increasing average radiation? When addressing this question we found that blue whale epidermal apoptotic cells and melanocytes also expanded in time (GLM: LR = 16.00, d.f. = 2, p = 0.04; ANOVA: F = 4.33, d.f. = 2, p = 0.02), a trend that also occurred in fin whales, the darkest species studied (GLM: LR = 5.00, d.f. = 1, p = 3.6 × 10−3; ANOVA: F = 11.20, d.f. = 2, p = 1.74 × 10−4). If, as occurs in humans and laboratory animals, exposure to UVR increases the number of melanocytes [25], stimulates the synthesis of melanin and leads to augmented apoptosis [17], it is possible that our results indicate quick responses to increasing irradiation. Testing this hypothesis in more depth was beyond the scope of our study, but quantifying the expression of genes involved in melanin production and DNA damage repair might help address this question in the future.
Taken together, our results show that whales exhibit lesions typical of acute UVR exposure, suggesting that the thinning ozone layer poses a significant and rising threat to the health of our oceans' whales. Considering that UVR is expected to increase 4 per cent in the tropics and up to 20 per cent in the poles [39], more studies are needed to fully understand the consequences of UVR-induced damage and the evolutionary significance of cetacean pigmentation.
Members of the Cetacean Ecology Laboratory (CICIMAR) greatly assisted us during fieldwork. We are grateful to Hal Whitehead for allowing us to participate in his sperm whale research expedition, and to Prof. Cerio for his assistance with PAS/DPAS staining. Robert Brownell, William Amos and Paul Jepson provided valuable comments that greatly improved our manuscript. L.M. is funded by a NERC Studentship (NE/F00818X/1). This work was partially funded by a Royal Society Grant (2005/R2) awarded to K.A. and by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Samples were collected under permits SGPA/DGVS/00506/08, SGPA/DGVS/09760/08 and SGPA/DGVS/08021/06 issued by SEMARNAT.
- Received September 3, 2010.
- Accepted October 18, 2010.
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Stan and Jan Berenstain introduced the first Berenstain Bear books in 1962. Mike Berenstain grew up watching his parents work together to write about and draw these lovable bears. Eventually he started drawing and writing about them too. Though Stan died in 2005, and Jan in 2012, Mike continues to create the delightful Bear adventures from their studio in Pennsylvania, in an area that looks much like the sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Happy 22nd Birthday, Keely!
Today was my daughter Keely's 22nd birthday. I suppose most parents indulge in a bit of nostalgia on the birthdays of their children. I've been thinking about the little Keely of days gone-by. I can see her personality and sharp little mind sparkling in this photo. It's been great to watch her grow up, though I must say that the years have gone by much too quickly. She'll be graduating from college this December.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Harvey played hard-to-get before deciding to become a daytime television talk-show host.
The veteran comic, whose new show gets a jump on the fall season Tuesday, was first approached about a show three years ago when his first book, "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man," was on the best-seller lists. The television production company Endemol thought the idea of Harvey giving women advice from a man's point of view made a perfect theme.
Harvey said no, thanks.
One of the original "Kings of Comedy" thought late-night was a better place for him on TV. Daytime is more sedate. He had a thriving stand-up career he wasn't ready to give up and a popular morning radio show broadcast across the country. Harvey also thought his suitors were trying to limit him.
"They just wanted to make a relationship show and I didn't think that was rich enough," Harvey said. "I don't think you can do five years, five days a week just talking about who likes who."
Harvey instead signed on as host of the game show "Family Feud." His success there made producers want him more, said David Goldberg, chairman and CEO of Endemol North America.
Goldberg tried again, and this time sealed the deal. "Steve Harvey" is Endemol's first-ever talk show in the U.S., and it is competing in a tough market with new talk shows also starting this fall starring Katie Couric, Ricki Lake and Jeff Probst. A partnership with NBC's top stations, where Harvey's show will air back-to-back with Ellen DeGeneres, gives him a fighting chance.
Harvey now feels more comfortable with the idea of trying daytime. He should: There are few surer routes to riches in the television business than a successful syndicated show.
He said he also feels more comfortable asserting himself in molding the show's direction.
"Look, I was leery about being able to maintain who I am," he said. "Not so much the edginess, but I really wanted to be frank on TV. I really wanted to say what I say. I'm happy if you're a guest on my show, but if you sit over there and say something that I don't think is cool for me or my listeners, I've got to reserve the right to say so. Just because you've got this book doesn't mean you're right about everything."
Harvey said he has pushed show producers to go beyond the theme of his book in exploring ideas. One that he's borrowed from his radio show is about forgiveness, asking people carrying a longtime grudge to unburden themselves.
Overprotective parents, adult children who have moved back in with their parents and people who share too much information about their children online are among the topics addressed on "Steve Harvey" during the show's first week.
Harvey, a father of seven, can draw on plenty of experiences.
"I've been unemployed, homeless, had a lot of jobs, been dirt-poor and out of it and been pretty successful," he said. "Married a few times, bad credit, good credit, tax troubles, no tax troubles. I've just about been through it all. Never been a drug user, but other than that, I've had a pretty nice slice of life."
He wrote his book on the advice of his daughters, who would be mortified when Harvey would give the third-degree to their dates but have come to learn — even if it took some time — that dad's assessments were spot on.
The young don't have it figured out yet, but life repeats itself, he said.
"You can text a girl, you can Skype a girl, you can Facebook a girl, but guess what?" he said. "You're going to eventually have to take her to dinner. You're going to have to look across the table and you're going to have to know what to say. That's really what it comes down to, and that never changes."
Harvey, 55, is a comedian, but as a talk-show host is not trapped in that persona, Goldberg said. The show "really is aimed to entertain, for people to have fun and for people to always come away with something," he said.
Harvey faces a crowded marketplace, but will be helped by the pairing with DeGeneres and an aggressive promotional campaign that included advertisements during the Olympics, said Bill Carroll, an expert in the syndication market for Katz Media. The persona he's helped create through his books should also benefit Harvey. "You have to have some other reason to spend time other than 'he's a likable guy,'" he said.
Carroll wasn't particularly concerned with Endemol's rookie status in the genre. It's a worldwide company with plenty of successes in the U.S., including "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ''Wipeout" and "Big Brother."
"I liked Dave Goldberg immediately," Harvey said. "I knew they had never done a talk show before, but they know how to win."
The show will be recorded in Chicago in the same building where Harvey will broadcast his radio show starting at 5 a.m. local time. When that's done, he'll work out, take a meeting and prep to record one or two talk shows. Harvey will keep doing "Family Feud," which records in Atlanta during two intense months of work in the spring.
He officially retired from live stand-up shows after an Aug. 2 performance in Las Vegas. It was, Harvey said, the hardest career decision he's ever made.
"How do you give up something that has defined you for 27 years?" he asked. "And you've been successful at it. I can go and sell out an arena in any major city in this country and earn a living. I'm going to stop doing that and take a shot at doing a TV show?"
Yet he figures he's accomplished all he can in the stand-up realm, and it's hard to keep it going with all the travel. "I had to let something go to fit something else in," he said.


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The November ballots are nearly filled for voters in the Fayette and Lyons areas. With one exception, voters will see at least one candidate for each position.
The exception is the Fayette board of education where only one candidate filed to fill two slots. Incumbent Deb Leininger filed to seek another term on the board, but board members will have to appoint another member after Paula Schaffner's term expires at the end of the year.
FAYETTE—Ruth Marlatt is the only candidate running for mayor. The term will expire Dec. 31, 2011. Marlatt currently serves as a council member and has served as mayor in the past.
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LYONS—Lyons voters have a surplus of candidates seeking council seats. Incumbents Dale Hallett, John Arquette and Julie Fenicle will run for reëlection, although four council seats will need to be filled. Other candidates are Joan Klier, John O'Neil, Lee Patterson, Amanda Winters, Ty Walker and Andrea Gleckler.
EVERGREEN—Incumbents Gary Pennington, Gregory Creque and Julie Carter will vie for three positions on the Evergreen Board of Education.
CHESTERFIELD—Incumbents Paul Holman and James Stubbins will run for two trustee positions. Clark Emmons was appointed to fill an unexpired term and will run against Paul Johnston to complete the term.
FRANKLIN—Incumbents Keith Buehrer and Jon Rupp will vie for two Franklin Township trustee positions.
GORHAM—Incumbent William McKinney will run for one of two Gorham Township trustee positions against Brian Keefer and Matt Lumbrezer.
ROYALTON—Incumbents Ronald Lumbrezer and Steven Gillespie will vie for two Franklin Township trustee positions.


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DRUID Working papers Forfattere "Lorenzen, Mark"
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Internationalization of Indian Film IndustryLorenzen, Mark; Taeube, Florian Arun (Frederiksberg, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In the context of an emerging economy, the paper analyzes indigenous growth and internationalization. Using novel and original data, the paper studies the Indian film cluster in Mumbai, Bollywood. It argues that as the world's biggest commercial film cluster and a conspicuous growth phenomenon in an emerging economy context, Bollywood can be seen as a paradigmatic case for adding to our understanding of the development of film clusters outside the USA, as well as suggesting more general insights into the growth and internationalization of industries in emerging economies. The empirical analysis of the paper points to the importance of home market, government regulation, and industry structure for Bollywood's recent export growth. The paper discusses how the existence of a well-defined and geographically centered social network among producers, directors and other key roles in filmmaking in Mumbai supports the development of a 'Bollywood model' of filmmaking with a industry structure remarkably different from Hollywood's. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7872
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Maskell, Peter; Lorenzen, Mark (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The many competing schools of thought concerning themselves with industrial clusters have at least one thing in common: they all agree that clusters are real life phenomena characterized by the co-localization of separate economic entities, which are in some sense related, but not joined together by any common ownership or management. So hierarchies they are certainly not. Yet, it is usually taken for granted that clusters, almost regardless of how they are defined, all expatriate the 'swollen middle' of various hybrid 'forms of long-term contracting, reciprocal trading, regulation, franchising and the like' residing somewhere between hierarchies and markets. This fundamental (but usually implicit) assumption would, perhaps, be justified if markets could be reduced to events of exchange of property rights, between large numbers of price-taking anonymous buyers and sellers supplied with perfect information as they are commonly conceived in mainstream economics. One of the original attractions of Neoclassical price theory was precisely that it promised a way of analysing the economy in general and market exchange in particular independently of specific institutional settings. However, introducing transaction costs as more than fees paid to intermediaries leads inevitably to comparative institutional analysis and, not to be forgotten, to the perception of markets as institutions with specific characteristics of their own. Some sets of characteristics are so common that they represent a specific market organization or market form. The cluster is one such specific market organization that is structured along territorial lines because this enables the building of a set of institutions that are helpful in conducting certain kinds of economic activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7265
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A Rank-Size AnalysisLorenzen, Mark; Vaarst Andersen, Kristina (Frederiksberg, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Using novel statistical data, the paper analyzes the geographical distribution of Richard Florida's creative class among 445 European cities. The paper demonstrates that size matters, i.e. cities with a high proportion of creative class tend to get more creative through attraction of still more creative labor. More specifically, the distribution of the European creative class falls into three phases, each approximating a rank-size rule, with different exponents (i.e., inequality). The exponent for the smallest cities is profoundly more negative than for the middle-sized cities, and this tendency is stronger for the creative class than for the general population. Furthermore, the exponent of the largest cities is slightly less negative than the middle-sized cities, and this tendency is also stronger for the creative class. In order to explain this, the paper presents four propositions about how effects of large and small population sizes of cities may be more detrimental to attracting the creative class than attracting the population in general. Below a population size of approximately 70,000 inhabitants, there is a rapid drop of attractiveness to the creative class with decreasing city size. We propose that this may be because below this size, cities begin to drop below minimum efficient market sizes for particular creative services, below minimum labor market sizes for particular creative job types, and below minimum levels of political representation by the creative class. Above a European city population size of approximately 1,2 million inhabitants, the attractiveness of increasing city size for the creative class drops, and we propose that the creative class may respond particularly adversely to urban congestion. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7871
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Lessons from Co-operation and Higher-order Capabilities Amongst geographically proximate firmsLorenzen, Mark (Frederiksberg, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7847
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Product Experimentation in the Music IndustryLorenzen, Mark; Frederiksen, Lars (Frederiksberg, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The paper is conceptual, combining project and economic organization literatures in order to explain the organization and management of market-based projects. It dedicates particular focus to projects set up in order to facilitate product innovation through experimentation. It investigates the internal vs. market economies of scale and scope related to projects, as well as the issues of governance, planning and coordination related to reaping such economies. Incorporating transaction cost perspectives as well as considerations of labour markets, the paper explains the management of market-organized innovation projects by virtue of localized project ecologies and local labour markets of leaders and boundary spanners. It illustrates its arguments with a case study of the Recorded Music industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7881
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Who's the Extremist on Roe v. Wade? - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, August 4, 2005
Washington, DC -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, announced that his organization will launch a special two-month educational campaign to bring Americans to a deeper understanding of how extreme the Roe vs. Wade decision is, and how out of step it is with the opinions of the American people. The campaign is meant to counteract the view that opposition to Roe is extreme -- a view that will be assumed in many discussions during the Supreme Court confirmation battles.
"Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion nationwide throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Most Americans don't know that and most Americans oppose that policy."
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Conclusions show readers the value of your completely developed argument or thoroughly answered question. Consider the conclusion from the reader's perspective. At the end of a paper, a reader wants to know how to benefit from the work you accomplished in your paper. Here are ways to think about the purpose of a conclusion :
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From Mounting methodologies to measure EUV reticle nonflatness ( 7470, 2009), by UW–Madison Professor Roxanne L. Engelstad's lab. Notice how Battula et al. explain the limitations of their findings, and identify specific future developments that would make their proposal more accurately testable.
The horizontal whiffle tree mount should have performed the best considering the kinematics of the 16 support points, as well as theoretically displaying the least amount of gravitational distortions. However, due to possible friction at the pivoted joints and the current tolerances on the whiffle tree system, there were difficulties in using this mount. At this time, the process of averaging the measurements taken at four vertical orientations appears to be the best approach.
From Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: Where Enslavement and Enfreakment Meet ( 37, 2011), by UW–Madison Professor Ellen Samuels. Notice how Samuels's conclusion briefly summarizes her article's main claims before turning to the consequences of her strongest claims.
While there are still many questions left unanswered about the McKoys, and many possible truths to be drawn from their lives, I have aimed in this article to establish that at least two things are not true: the tale of the beneficent and beloved slaveowners and the resigned, downcast expression on Millie's face in the altered picture. Moreover, I contend that turning away from historical legacies as complex and dangerous as those of enslavement and enfreakment keeps us from being able to understand them and to imagine different futures. We need to develop paradigms of analysis that allow us to perceive and interpret both the radical empowerment of the McKoys' lives and the oppressions that are no less fundamental to their story. Such an analysis must allow for dissonance, contradictions, and even discomfort in its gaze. Only then can we move forward with the work of shaping new representations and new possibilities for extraordinary bodily experience.
From UW–Madison Law Professor Andrew B. Coan's Judicial Capacity and the Substance of Constitutional Law (2012). Notice how this conclusion emphasizes the significance of the topic under consideration.
Judicial capacity has been too long misunderstood and too long neglected. It is a central institutional characteristic of the judiciary, which has significant predictive power in important constitutional domains and also significant normative implications. It deserves consideration from constitutional theorists on par with that accorded to judicial competence and judicial independence. Indeed, it is crucial to a full understanding of both of these much-discussed institutional features of the judiciary.
British, Arab, and Jewish reactions to the recommendations were not favorable. Jewish terrorism in Palestine antagonized the British, and by February 1947 Arab-Jewish communications had collapsed. Britain, anxious to rid itself of the problem, set the United Nations in motion, formally requesting on April 2, 1947, that the U.N. General Assembly set up the Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). This committee recommended that the British mandate over Palestine be ended and that the territory be partitioned into two states. Jewish reaction was mixed--some wanted control of all of Palestine; others realized that partition spelled hope for their dream of a homeland. The Arabs were not at all agreeable to the UNSCOP plan. In October the Arab League Council directed the governments of its member states to move troops to the Palestine border. Meanwhile, President Truman instructed the State Department to support the U.N. plan, and, reluctantly it did so. On November 29, 1947, the partition plan was passed by the U.N. General Assembly.
At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel proclaimed a new State of Israel. On that same date, the United States, in the person of President Truman, recognized the provisional Jewish government as de facto authority of the Jewish state ( de jure recognition was extended on January 31, 1949). The U.S. delegates to the U.N. and top-ranking State Department officials were angered that Truman released his recognition statement to the press without notifying them first. On May 15, 1948, the first day of Israeli Independence and exactly one year after UNSCOP was established, Arab armies invaded Israel and the first Arab-Israeli war began.
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Outerwall Inc.'s OUTR first-quarter earnings edged up 2.5% as the kiosk operator recorded higher revenue.
Results were bolstered by higher revenue from the company's Redbox video-rental kiosk business and Coinstar kiosks.
Citing the most recent results, Outerwall raised its full-year earnings view, saying it now expects to report per-share core earnings from continuing operations between $6.68 and $7.18, compared with the company's prior forecast for $5.16 to $5.76 a share.
Outerwall also narrowed the range for its revenue forecast for the year, and now expects revenue between $2.38 billion and $2.49 billion.
Outerwall, one of the few still standing in the business of renting DVDs as the market swings toward on-demand and digital viewing, recently tested new uses for its vending machines. But in December, Outerwall said it would discontinue three of those concepts: a coffee kiosk, one that distributed prepared foods and an interactive photo booth.
In February, Outerwall named a Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. executive, Mark Horak, to lead the company's Redbox business.
Looking ahead, Outerwall, previously known as Coinstar Inc., sees current-quarter core earnings of $1.24 to $1.44 a share on $546 million to $576 million in revenue. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected $1.54 a share and $591.6 million, respectively.
The second-quarter guidance reflects significantly lower box office and fewer titles than the year-ago period, said Galen Smith, Outerwall's chief financial officer. He added that the company continues to expect rents and revenue per kiosk will be up year-over-year in the third and fourth quarters.
For the latest quarter, Outerwall reported net income of $23.2 million, or 94 cents a share, up from $22.6 million, or 78 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding restructuring costs, a tax benefit and other items, core earnings from continuing operations rose to $1.27 a share from $1.12.
Revenue rose 4.7% to $600.4 million.
The company in February had guided for core per-share earnings from continuing operations of 77 cents to 97 cents, and revenue of $570 million to $600 million.
Revenue from Redbox, the company's biggest top-line contributor, rose 1.5% to $515.7 million. Coinstar sales rose 5.2% to $68.8 million
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Payne's double-double lifts No. 9 Michigan State over Northwestern
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Adreian Payne is surprising even his coach with his recovery from a foot injury.
"It's amazing," Michigan State's Tom Izzo said of his senior star. "Here's a kid that two or three years ago couldn't get up and down the floor more than 15-18 minutes a game. Now he's carrying our team. I'm proud of him."
Payne had 20 points and 14 rebounds, and No. 9 Michigan State cruised past Northwestern 85-70 on Thursday night to stay tied atop the Big Ten. Izzo can only hope his other injured players come back as well as Payne has. Keith Appling was out again with a wrist problem, and Branden Dawson has an injured hand.
The Spartans (21-4, 10-2) are even in the standings with rival Michigan — and those two teams meet in Ann Arbor on Feb. 23.
Payne missed about a month with his injury, and in three games since returning, he's scored 56 points. After Thursday's win, he was looking forward to seeing 8-year-old Lacey Holsworth, a young girl fighting cancer whom Payne has become close with. She was seated near the court at the game.
"I haven't seen her yet, but she'll be out there in a few minutes," Payne said. "It's always good to see her smile that way."
Payne played one of his better games of the season Thursday, and Gary Harris added 14 points for Michigan State, rebounding a bit from a poor shooting performance in a loss to Wisconsin last weekend. The Spartans shot 53 percent from the field against a Northwestern team that came in with a sterling defensive reputation.
The Wildcats (12-13, 5-7) had not allowed 80 points in a game in over a month.
"We definitely had more breakdowns tonight defensively than I thought we've had in the last month," Northwestern coach Chris Collins said. "Part of that is them running a really good offense, and part of that were some breakdowns we had that we just haven't had."
JerShon Cobb had 22 points and seven rebounds for Northwestern.
The Wildcats have won road games at Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota this season, and their tough defense has given a number of Big Ten teams problems. But this game started with both teams scoring efficiently through much of the first half.
Michigan State led 39-30 at halftime, then scored the first seven points of the second half. Payne had a dunk and a 3-pointer in that stretch, and although the Wildcats prevented the game from getting totally out of hand, they weren't able to cut their deficit back into single digits.
"When healthy, I truly believe they're the best team in the country," Collins said. "They're loaded. I hope they can get healthy."
Izzo said he's hoping Appling can come back within a week — and Dawson not long after that.
"I'm hoping sometime in the mid-20s or early-20s of this month, we'll get Branden back," Izzo said.
Michigan State led by 11 when Denzel Valentine and Harris made back-to-back 3-pointers to make it 77-60. Valentine finished with a career-high 16 points, along with six assists and five rebounds.
Travis Trice had 11 points and six assists, helping the Spartans withstand Appling's absence.
"When I'm scoring the basketball, it really adds something to this team," Valentine said. "If I can score from eight on up, we're a different team."
Harris went 3 of 20 in the loss to Wisconsin, but he scored seven points in the first half of this game and had plenty of help. Michigan State had nine offensive rebounds in the first half and shot 62 percent from the field in the second to pull away.
Michigan State beat Northwestern 54-40 on Jan. 15, but this was a much higher-scoring game. Cobb made five 3-pointers, and Drew Crawford and Tre Demps scored 18 points each for the Wildcats.
But only two other Northwestern players scored.
The Spartans shot 11 of 21 from 3-point range, with Trice and Valentine making three each from beyond the arc. Michigan State turned the ball over only seven times.