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Definition of Lollywood in English: A name for the Pakistani popular film industry, based in Lahore. - While Bollywood, which is based in Bombay, thrives, Pakistan's industry, based in Lahore and called Lollywood, is on the wane. - The magazine also delves into the Indian film industry's less-than-stellar counterpart in Pakistan, dubbed Lollywood. - Based in Lahore, the film industry is affectionately known as Lollywood. What do you find interesting about this word or phrase? Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.

Translation of photography in Spanish: - photography is my hobbymi hobby es la fotografía(before noun) (magazine/class) de fotografíaExample sentences - The firm has just branched out into doing canvas prints and fine art photography. - That explains why she tried so hard to achieve the effect of painting in photography. - This is photography as an art form as you will never have seen it before. What do you find interesting about this word or phrase? Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.

Definition of Le Guin, Ursula in English: ( 1929-), US writer; full name Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Her science fiction includes five Earthsea novels for children (1968–2001) and the Hainish Cycle novels, which include Rocannon’s World (1966) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). What do you find interesting about this word or phrase? Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.

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Moves to improve the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester took a step forward today, when Network Rail indicated its preferred option for the project. This would see double track reinstated for four miles from Finstock, near Charlbury, to Ascott-under-Wychwood, and on the 16-mile section from Moreton-in-Marsh, in Gloucestershire, to Evesham, in If the scheme gets the go-ahead, the only remaining single-track sections on the line would be for 10 miles from Wolvercote junction, north of Oxford, to Finstock, and from Evesham to Norton junction, on the outskirts of Worcester. After a £150,000 year-long feasibility study, Network Rail has included the project in its updated Strategic Business Plan, which was submitted to the Office of Rail Regulation today. The plan says that the improvements, which are estimated to cost between £74m and £92m, could allow up to four trains an hour on the line, instead of the current two, improve reliability and reduce journey times by up to four minutes by using new high-speed points at the start of the single-track sections. Although the redoubling scheme is not among the improvement projects the Government has indicated it is prepared to fund from 2009-14, the rail infrastructure firm is understood to believe it has a strong business case for the plan and can show it has wider benefits for the route between London, Reading, Didcot and Oxford. The ORR is expected to give its verdict in June. Knock-on delays caused by services from the Cotswold Line often affect services on other routes, with the long single-track sections to blame for the problems. In January, First Great Western's Thames Valley route director Mike Carroll told Charlbury commuters that the Cotswold Line had the worst punctuality record on the firm's entire network, though there have been signs of improved performance in recent weeks. The Cotswold Line Promotion Group, which represents passengers on the route, has campaigned for 30 years for the reinstatement of double track, which was removed from much of the route in Andrew Wilkins, from Long Hanborough, is the CLPG's treasurer. He welcomed the news and said: "We would say this is a step in the right direction. Improved infrastructure is the only way to get over the current reliability problems. "There are too many trains using the single line and when something goes wrong, we know what the consequences will be. "Reducing the length of single track in Oxfordshire could significantly reduce delays to trains which are held up at Wolvercote and Ascott-under-Wychwood." A Network Rail spokesman said: "We are already working hard with First Great Western to push up performance and we believe that the Cotswold Line project offers good value for money and would meet the objectives of improving both performance and capacity. "While not part of our core funding requirements, we have put a strong case to the ORR to seek additional funding for this worthwhile project."

- Contract Packaging - Leaders in Packaging Podcast | November 10, 2010 Particulates in aseptic packaging At Aseptipak 2010, Roger Hoffman, president and CEO of contract packager Foodswing Inc., talked with Packaging World Editor Pat Reynolds about particulates in aseptic brick packs. "There has yet to be a partnership between the brand owners, the FDA, and a packaging company like us," said Hoffman. Pat Reynolds, VP Editor, Packaging World E-Book Special Report Total Cost of Ownership Sign up to receive timely updates from our editors and download this E-Book Special Report to learn how to calculate the true Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of your packaging machinery.

From the sounds of this article about a Virginia gun club that needed approval to take on some construction projects, it appears as though anti-gun advocates were actually trying to end all gun owner activities rather than having any concern for actual firearms use on the range. In July, they report that 13 people came out to oppose the club’s plans. Now, that might be expected if the club was looking to vastly expand the number and size of ranges or do something else that would greatly increase quality-of-life factors for residents around the club. But, no. They were opposing a new clubhouse, a picnic pavilion, and a driveway expansion. Opposition to those kinds of improvements is a direct opposition to gun owners meeting and organizing. That’s not about noise from a gun range or concerns over stray rounds. That’s just opposition to gun owners. In September, the anti opposition had dropped to just one woman who appears to have made up concerns like a new clubhouse might mean that there’s a new sudden interest in trespassing, along with concerns about noises from non-gun activities. I’m continually amazed at how so many anti-gun groups really want us to believe that they aren’t proposing going after gun owners when we see repeated assaults like this on even allowing gun owners to gather. At the national level, it’s been legislation that would effectively shut down gun shows. Here, it’s silly opposition to a freakin’ picnic pavilion. h/t to VSSA, a great resource for Virginia gun owners

Dr. Manhattan's Penis / by Dustin Rowles Film Reviews | March 9, 2009 | Comments () After months and months of hype, eleventy billion dollars in promotion, enough viral marketing to kill anyone with a weakened immune system, and finally the biggest wide release ever for an R-rated film, the one facet of the entire Watchmen phenomena that attracted more attention than any other over the weekend was a goddamn flaccid blue penis. Yeah. A penis. An appendage that 49.5 percent of the world’s population own. Because the deep, puritanical streak running through this nation will never completely die. A director can shove in enough boobies to in a picture to float a hot-air balloon, but one average-sized dong, and all this country’s moral righteousness rears its uncircumcised head. But this is different, they say! Because Watchmen is a comic-book movie, and comic books appeal to children, therefore, Zack Snyder is indirectly slapping America’s youth with a blue, semi-engorged member, just like Joe Camel’s boner schnozzle. So, for those of you who didn’t go see the movie, and are basing your decision on whether to go on Billy Crudup’s penis, here’s my review: Mostly flaccid, kind of droopy, and hangs reasonably low, although for a stanky that isn’t erect, I have to give Dr. Manhattan points for turgidity. Clearly, he’s not suffering from shrinkage issues. My biggest complaint is its hue: Glow-in-the-dark blue doesn’t exactly scream, “Let me in! Let me in! Rock my world, Blue Man Goob.” It says: “Fuck me, and you’ll be pissing Smurf chunks for a week and shitting urinal cakes.” Although, the color does obscure the veins, which is a nice chameleon-like advantage. And, like any decent movie, Crudup’s penis leaves a few unanswered questions that will be debated among geeks for decades: What color is his urine? His semen? Can he procreate? What would a lil Manhattan look like? But the biggest unanswered question? Where is his extraordinary nutsack?

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CHARLOTTE - The Panthers clearly are ahead of where they were this time last year, but they're also not getting ahead of themselves according to wide receiver "You don't want to peak too early," Smith said Thursday following the team's 10th and final Organized Team Activity. "You don't want to be in training camp shape today, because then when you go into training camp, you're in season form. "Then where does that leave you for the season? That's how guys peter out." Smith was in midseason form throughout the 2011 season, bouncing back from the quietest statistical year of his career as a starter with his first 1,000-yard season and first Pro Bowl appearance since 2008. Along the way, he became the franchise's all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards and the 35th player in NFL history to reach 10,000 career yards. In preparation for his 12th pro season, Smith isn't trying to break any records in offseason workouts but says the offense is continuing to break new ground. "The older guys are just trying to stay in tempo, get in shape and be smart. We're also trying to lead by example and show the tempo and the understanding," Smith said. "We've been able to expand the offense and add a lot of things. We're getting a mouthful." Smith said the offseason program is most helpful to the team's newcomers, a sentiment his head coach echoed. "You do see some of the veterans at a different pace, because they're comfortable with a lot of the things that we're doing," Panthers head coach Ron Rivera said. "For the rookies, it's getting their introduction to what we want to do and the players around them. They seem to really be the ones benefitting the most." Rookies and vets alike can benefit from extra time in offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski's ever-changing playbook. "You can never get comfortable," said Smith, who took a playful jab at Chudzinski when asked about his flirtation with a trio of head coaching jobs earlier in the offseason. "When he was interviewing, I just told him, 'Hey, listen. Wherever you think you're going to go, you can go ahead and put that L down because we're going to run through you.' "It's good to have him back. He's innovative. His offense is always evolving. You can never get comfortable." While Chudzinski kept the offense on its toes throughout Organized Team Activities and will do the same to opposing defenses throughout the season, Smith is looking forward to operating at a more leisurely pace after the team's minicamp on June 12-14, having planned a trip with the family to Peru to kick back after a productive offseason. "I got a little cardio and got an opportunity to mess up while feeling things through," he said. "It went good."

Sentences Containing 'intrepid' The intrepid treasure seeker walked round it, and, selecting the spot from whence it appeared most susceptible to attack, placed his lever in one of the crevices, and strained every nerve to move the mass.. Most certainly, but for the prompt assistance of your intrepid servant, this dear child and myself must both have perished.'' She took it, and looked attentively on the count; there was an expression on the face of her intrepid protector which commanded her veneration. The unfortunate youth was intrepid in the attack, and rude in the defense. It was the business of a knight-errant to right wrongs, redress injuries, and succour the distressed, and this, as a matter of course, he makes his business when he takes up the part; a knight-errant was bound to be intrepid, and so he feels bound to cast fear aside. No sooner had those who were with Don Quixote seen them than they turned about and withdrew to some distance from the road, for they knew that if they stayed some harm might come to them; but Don Quixote with intrepid heart stood his ground, and Sancho Panza shielded himself with Rocinante's hind-quarters. Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore? And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man. Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen. But however prolonged and exhausting the chase, the harpooneer is expected to pull his oar meanwhile to the uttermost; indeed, he is expected to set an example of superhuman activity to the rest, not only by incredible rowing, but by repeated loud and intrepid exclamations; and what it is to keep shouting at the top of one's compass, while all the other muscles are strained and half started--what that is none know but those who have tried it. Rumor has it that it was nicknamed 'Bletchley-in-the-Tropics' after the English country house where the "Enigma" code was broken (Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film "A Man Called Intrepid" resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming). Although generally shy at home, Luise was "immensely athletic" in school, becoming a champion runner and an "intrepid" mountain-climber. The earliest reference to specific liturgical rites surrounding the feast are by the intrepid nun Egeria, during her pilgrimage to the Holy Land (381–384). The chair of the NASA committee that made the selections pointed to the guidance from Congress that the orbiters go to facilities where the most people could see them, and the ties to the space program that Southern California (home to Edwards Air Force Base, where nearly half of shuttle flights have ended and home to the plants which manufactured the orbiters and the Space Shuttle Main Engines), the Smithsonian (curator of the nation's air and space artifacts), the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (where all shuttle launches have originated from and a large tourist draw) and the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum (which served as the recovery ship for Project Mercury and Project Gemini) possess. The report noted a scoring error, which if corrected would have placed the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in a tie with the Intrepid Museum and Kennedy Visitor Complex (just below the California Science Center), although due to funding concerns the same decisions would have been made. Friedrich Joseph of Nauendorf, a general and field marshal in Habsburg service during the French Revolutionary Wars, was noted for his intrepid and daring raids. She was unsuccessful, however, garnering 1,000 to 1,730 votes in each election; among her supporters was the nationalist writer Manuel Gálvez who, opposed to both the Conservatives and the ruling UCR, opted to vote for the "intrepid Dr. Lanteri." By his single-handed attack on an overwhelming force and by his intrepid and heroic fighting, 1st Lt. The very intrepid may simply want to treat it as a xenharmonic music interval; depending on the size of the meantone fifth it can be made to be exactly 20/13 or 17/11, or less commonly to 32/21 or 49/32. Intrepid reporter Molly Sloan and her assistant Timmy Mendez are meeting with an informant, Vlad, in the Carpathian Mountains. More recently, in VB39, 1999, and in VB42, 2000, the artist explored the possibilities of fully male performances with the U.S. Navy in San Diego, CA and with the U.S. Silent Service at the Intrepid in New York, respectively. Potter is enlisted by Witherall for help in solving the murder, along with intrepid housewife Topsey Beaton. Some supporting characters continue between novels; there is always a beautiful girl, a handsome former student, and an intrepid housewife. An innate part of the Turkish psyche, folkloric song and dance can erupt at any moment and overwhelm even the most intrepid expatriate. Worf's parents were killed during a surprise attack by the Romulans on the Khitomer outpost. The colony's distress call was answered by the Federation starship USS "Intrepid". More Vocab Words::: postmortem - autopsy; ADJ: occurring after death; of a postmortem ::: verisimilitude - appearance of truth; quality of appearing to be true or real; likelihood; Ex. verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth ::: obligatory - binding; required; compulsory; V. oblige: constrain; make grateful; do a favor; accommodate ::: impending - nearing; approaching; about to happen ::: patrimony - property inherited from a father ::: dilapidated - falling to pieces; in a bad condition; ruined because of neglect; Ex. dilapidated old car/castle; N. dilapidation ::: communal - held in common; public; of a group of people; of a commune ::: embrace - hug; clasp with the arms; adopt or espouse; accept readily; encircle; include; Ex. embrace the cause/socialism; Ex. all-embracing; CF. brace; CF. bracelet ::: fusillade - simultaneous firing or outburst (of missiles, questions, etc.) ::: incubate - hatch; warm (eggs) with the body to promote hatching; maintain at optimal environment conditions for development; be holding in one's body an infection which is going to develop into a disease; N. incubation; CF. incubation:disease

Triple-digit heat will mark Independence Day 2013 and some local residents are planning their celebrations around air conditioning and river water. "I’m staying indoors," said Paradise resident Dennis Kleppe as he fueled up at the ARCO AM/PM on Clark Road Tuesday. Kleppe said he was invited to a block party but the heat put the kibosh on that plan. He is working on home remodeling and wants to "get ’er done," so he’ll work through the holiday then hole up inside where it’s cool and order a pizza. "Pizza, indoors with the air conditioning and I’ll watch the fireworks on TV," he said. Yankee Hill resident Bob St. Cartier also said he’d watch fireworks on television. He said the Yankee Hill area has far too much vegetation for any kind of fireworks display. "I’m going to stay indoors as much as I can," he said. Paradise resident Krystal Nunez and her family will likely find a spot on Highway 32 for a panoramic view of Butte County’s firework displays. It’s somewhat of a tradition for the family, she said. The tough part is beating the heat, but her family has a plan. "We’re going to take an ice chest full of ice, eat ice and have ice fights," she said. Stephanie Baus of Paradise is going to see her family in Anderson to "kick back and barbecue." She said the temperature there will be comparable to Paradise, but she’s not worried about the heat at all. "My mom’s house has awesome air conditioning upstairs and downstairs, and when they’re both on it makes it real cool," she said. Baus and her family will likely go to the Anderson Fairground to watch the fireworks display. She advised that those staying in town stay cool by "going to the lake," adding "Don’t drink too much and stay safe." Paradise resident Logan Pendergast said he’s going to spend the holiday skateboarding with his buddies. He hasn’t decided yet, but he might go the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds to watch the fireworks display. In the meantime, he’ll likely "head to some water spot to cool off." And cooling off is what Ridge residents will need this holiday. The National Weather Service predicts highs of 105 on Independence Day with no cloud cover in sight. There will be a 7-mile-per-hour wind. Temperatures will probably drop to a low of about 71 degrees that night. Today’s highs are expected to be about 106 degrees with the lows dropping to about 77 degrees with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11 p.m. The weekend is going to cool off a bit, but only by a few degrees. Friday and Saturday are predicated to have highs in the mid 90s with lows in the mid to high 60s. Sunday and Monday will be even cooler, with high temperatures in the low 90s and lows in the mid 60s. PRCC hosts Party in the Park The Paradise Ridge Chamber of Commerce is hosting its weekly Party in the Park and Marketplace. The marketplace features a farmer’s market and live music. This week the Butte County Players Club will entertain the crowd with classic rock and roll. The festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. The annual fireworks display at Lake Oroville has been canceled this year. However, the City of Biggs plans on hosting a fireworks show at no cost to the public, although donations will be accepted. And, of course, The Silver Dollar Speedway will host its annual fireworks display. Cal Fire also reminds residents that fireworks, even the "safe and sane" kind, are illegal outside the city limits of Oroville and Gridley. "Any person who causes a fire while using fireworks could be charged with a felony and will be ordered to pay for the suppression costs and any associated damage," said Fire Prevention Battalion Chief Todd Price, in a press statement. Under California law, illegal fireworks include sky rockets, bottle rockets, roman candles, aerial shells, firecrackers and other miscellaneous types that explode, go up in the air, or move about the ground in an uncontrollable fashion. Cal Fire also includes these tips to help people enjoy a safe Independence Day: * Purchase only "Safe and Sane" fireworks approved by the State Fire Marshal and use them ONLY in areas where it is legal to do so. In Butte County those areas are within the city limits of Gridley and Oroville. * Remember, most fireworks injuries occur to children – always have an adult present. * Most fireworks-caused injuries are to hands and eyes and can be very serious, resulting in the loss of one or more fingers, a hand, or your eyesight. Light one at a time and keep a safe distance away. * NEVER point fireworks at another person. * NEVER use near dry grass or other flammable materials. * NEVER attempt to re-light or modify fireworks. * Have a bucket of water, sand or garden hose available at firing sites.

We hear a lot about financial bubbles in stocks, real estate, and heavy metals. But moral belief bubbles are most in need of attention. The biggest moral bubble of all started in the Enlightenment and since then the human rights moral bubble has extended to a dangerous and destructive extent. Example: Courtesy of the European Court of Human Rights criminals serving life sentences will get in vitro fertilization treatments from behind bars so they can have kids. London - Four murderers and a drug dealer are in line for taxpayer-funded fertility treatment so that they can father a child from behind bars. These guys carry genes that should not get replicated. We should not let women attracted to killers to make babies with them. We can not count on these women to act in the interest of the rest of the human race. As Heartiste likes to point out, some chicks dig serial killers. You can go on a murderous rampage and, as a result, get love letters in jail. A warden's wife even helped a murderer escape and then lived with him. The sickest one so far: One Argentinian woman is in love with the guy who killed her twin sister. We can not take civilization for granted. Many humans have instincts which lead them to act in ways destructive to the continuation of civilization. A pure rights-based system leads to policy madness. As far as the Enlightenment's political project is concerned you can consider me post-Enlightenment. We should test proposed rights against consequences rather than treat all imaginable rights as moral absolutes. |Share |||By Randall Parker at 2012 December 30 07:12 PM|

The Summit County Sheriff's Department is continuing its investigation of an apparent murder-suicide in Oakley over the weekend. The bodies of Sean Kenealey, age 45, and Toni Cavagnaro, age 40, were discovered in the garage of a home located on State Road 32 near River Road. According to investigators, each died of a single gunshot wound to the head. The weapon, a .45 caliber handgun, belonged to Kenealey. "I am confident that what we are dealing with here is a murder-suicide," said Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds. "It looks like a domestic incident." The two individuals had, at one time, lived together in the newly built home where the shooting took place. The bodies were discovered at about 1:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon by a close friend of the victims. According to the sheriff, the friend had become concerned because he had not heard from Cavagnaro or Kenealey for some time and stopped by the house. He discovered the bodies in the garage and immediately called 911. Investigators determined that the victims may have been shot the night before. Sheriff's deputies cordoned off the site while waiting for a search warrant. "It was a very tragic scene," said Edmunds. Investigators are waiting for results from the coroner's office to help determine a motive in the case. Cavagnaro's family, including her mother and two sisters, Marci and Lori, arrived in Park City early in the week. See related story: Butterfield: 'She was like a little sister to me' A memorial service for Cavagnaro will be held Thursday, April 18, at 4 p.m. at Butcher's Chophouse, 751 Main Street. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Friends of Animals Utah or the Peace House in Park City.

Santa Claus on Fifth You'd think that Santa would be too busy to do personal appearances at this time of year. Yet, he somehow manages to get around, doesn't he? In fact, he'll be making three stops on Park Slope's Fifth Avenue, over the next three Saturdays: Saturday, December 8 2-5 pm: Pork Slope Restaurant (247 Fifth Avenue) Saturday, December 15 2-5 pm: Has Beans Cafe (620 Fifth Avenue) Saturday, December 22 2-5 pm: El Pollito Mexicano (119 Fifth Avenue) Plus, Free Hot Chocolate! See you there!

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Hey Britain, watch your back! Turns out, America has the ole upstairs/downstairs dynamic too, and while our class system may be more mobile and less in-your-face, money still divides. And with the news that ABC has given a straight-to-series order for David O. Russell’s new country club drama to series, we’re ready to strut our (classist) stuff. We’ll get glimpses of the rich and snooty, of course, but also the little people who mow the lawns and serve drinks and try to hide in the woods near the golf course so they don’t have to work for a precious hour. Wait, sorry—that last part was just a memory from my summer job in high school. The show, as yet unnamed, has been commissioned for 13 episodes. Russell wrote the teleplay with Erin Brockovich screenwriter Susannah Grant, and the project was developed by CBS studios, which is farming out a show to a non-CBS-affiliated network for the first time.

Image Number 14 for United States Patent #8134319. A method of constant airflow control includes various controls to accomplish a substantially constant airflow rate over a significant change of the static pressure in a ventilation duct. One control is a constant IRPM control, which is primarily used in a low static pressure range. Another control is a constant RPM control, which is primarily used in a high static pressure range. These controls requires neither a static pressure sensor nor an airflow rate sensor to accomplish substantially constant airflow rate while static pressure changes. Also, the method improves the accuracy of the control by correcting certain deviations that are caused by the motor's current-RPM characteristics. To compensate the deviation, the method adopts a test operation in a minimum static pressure condition. Also disclosed is an apparatus for conducting these control methods.

Director Angela Tucker has been putting out a video series called “Black Folk Don’t…” which offers a funny, serious, honest look at black perspectives on a variety of often-stereotypical issues. Black Folk Don’t: Swim. Black Folk Don’t: Have Eating disorders. Black Folk Don’t: Go to Therapy. And, as of today, Black Folk Don’t: Do Atheism: Don’t get mad as you watch it. Just listen to what they say, even if you know it’s untrue, and find out what black atheists are up against. A lot of the soundbytes actually speak in favor of atheism. (Plus, professor Anthony Pinn gets a nice shout-out in the video!) While black atheists are a minority within a minority, it should be noted that there are efforts to form communities for them, including African Americans for Humanism, a number of local/campus groups around the country, and even a subreddit. Given the secular history of the Harlem Renaissance, it’s amazing how much religion and the black community are still intertwined, but that can change as more black people speak openly about their non-belief. In case you’re interested, there’s a Q&A with the director of the video tomorrow.

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(2) Our Thyroid chapter, which was recently extensively updated, has been reviewed by Shahidul Islam, MD, PhD, Director of Cytopathology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ontario, Canada. (3) We added a new article to our Management Page - Billing Contracts verses Managed Care Contracts, by Mick Raich, Vachette Pathology. Click here for the article or you can access the Management Page from the center section of our Home Page. (4) Do you have good examples of Ovarian-nontumor pathology? Help your fellow pathologists worldwide by contributing these images to PathologyOutlines.com, where they will be viewed on a regular basis. To view the images or references in this Case of the Week, you must click on the links in blue. Links in green are to journals with free full text-no registration. You can also access these cases by visiting our Home Page, then click on the Case of the Week button on the left hand side. Thanks to Dr. David Cohen, Herzliya Medical Center, Israel, for contributing this case. To contribute a Case of the Week, email NatPernick@Hotmail.com with the clinical history, your diagnosis and diagnostic microscopic images (textbook quality) in JPG, GIF or TIFF format (send as attachments, we will shrink if necessary). Please include any other images (gross, immunostains, etc.) that may be helpful or interesting. We will write the discussion (unless you want to), list you as the contributor, and send you $35 (US dollars) by check or PayPal for your time after we send out the case. Please only send cases with high quality images and a diagnosis that is somewhat unusual (or a case with unusual features). Case of the Week #144 A 63 year old man presented with a massive tumor adherent to his stomach, right colon and gallbladder. Seventeen years prior, he had an extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the right kidney, which was excised. The gallbladder lumen was filled with a solid grey-brown mass, which was attached to the wall via a pedicle and was continuous with the tumor on the external surface. The tumor on cut section showed firm, grey-white, fibrous tissue and interspersed tan-yellow areas. No calcified, hemorrhagic or cystic areas were noted. What is your diagnosis? Inflammatory malignant fibrous histiocytoma or dedifferentiated liposarcoma The sections show marked granulocytes with occasional eosinophils, plasma cells and lymphocytes. The inflammatory cells obscure the markedly pleomorphic tumor cells, which have prominent eosinophilic cytoplasm and markedly atypical nuclei. Some tumor cells have prominent nucleoli and resemble Reed-Sternberg cells. Other tumor cells contain phagocytized neutrophils. No well differentiated liposarcoma areas were seen. Immunostaining shows tumor cells that are immunoreactive for CD68, but negative for melanocytic markers Melan A, S100 and HMB45; epithelial markers EMA and AE-1; and lymphocytic markers CD3, CD20, CD45, CD15 and CD30. They are also negative for vimentin, CD117, CD34 and smooth muscle actin. Inflammatory MFH is defined as a very rare tumor of neoplastic histiocyte-like cells mixed with and often obscured by neutrophils and other inflammatory cells. Most of these tumors are probably dedifferentiated liposarcomas, based on classic liposarcoma areas and immunoreactivity for MDM2 and CDK4 and 12q14 amplification (J Pathol 2004;203:822). Clinically, they may be associated with fever, leukocytosis and eosinophilia. The differential diagnosis is broad. Besides dedifferentiated liposarcoma, it may include xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (Int J Urol 2006;13:1000), other reactive lesions, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, Hodgkin’s or anaplastic lymphoma (Mod Pathol 1997;10:438), melanoma, and metastatic renal or adrenal carcinomas. These tumors have traditionally been considered to have a very poor prognosis, although many prior studies include tumors which would now be classified differently. Additional References: PathologyOutlines.com-Soft Tissue Tumors Part 1 Nat Pernick, M.D., President 30100 Telegraph Road, Suite 408 Bingham Farms, Michigan (USA) 48025 Alternate email: NatPernick@gmail.com

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Q: I heard there is a new organization in town called PUMAA that has something to do with airport operations. Is there such an organization and what is its purpose? Are there plans to expand the airport? A: According to the organization's website (www.geocities.com/loudplanes), the acronym stands for Payson United Municipal Airport Alliance, and its purpose is to "allow the nonflying Payson taxpayer to have a voice in town airport operations, finance and policies." To that end, they "encourage the town council to support the airport manager by granting the authority he needs to make the airport safe, quiet and a facility that serves the needs of the entire community." PUMAA also encourages citizens to report unsafe aircraft operations and its website provides instructions, addresses and phone numbers for doing so. "I think they're looking at orderly expansion from the standpoint of realizing that if the town is going to grow, the airport has to grow, but that it has to happen in an orderly manner," said airport manager Ted Anderson, who has talked with several members of the group. Q: Isn't there a deadline coming up for making a tax-deductible donation to the the Clean Elections program? A: Yes, April 15. When you file your state income tax return, check the "Clean Elections Fund Tax Reduction Box." By so doing, your tax liability will be reduced by $5 or, if you have a refund coming, you will receive an extra $5. For married couples filing jointly, the amount is $10. When you check the box, $5 also goes to the Clean Elections program to reduce special interest influence in Arizona politics. Voters approved the Clean Elections Act in 1998, through which candidates for statewide and legislative office receive funding. "Not only is it an easy way to lessen your tax liability," Citizens Clean Election Commission executive director Colleen Conner said, "it is an opportunity to participate in the democratic process by voicing your opinion to remove special interests from the election process."

As yet another storm system moves through the Rim country this week, Payson Water Department officials caution that recent precipitation might have little impact on the drought, which has gripped the area since 1989. "The annual total for 2004 isn't that much above normal, which is right around 22 inches," Town Hydrologist Mike Ploughe said. That's good news, considering that precipitation has reached normal levels only twice in the last 10 years. But in fact, an occasional normal year is "normal" during a prolonged drought, according to Ploughe. "Typically you have a pretty wet period within the middle of a long-term dry cycle, so this could just be another one of those bumps within a dry cycle," he said. "That would be my interpretation at this point, but it's really anyone's guess when it comes to drought predictions because it's not an exact science." Forecasters, in fact, are hedging their bets these days, according to Public Works Director Buzz Walker. "NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the National Weather Service have just about quit going past maybe six months out, and now they qualify it so it's basically a worthless prediction," Walker said. "Before they would have made a prediction about inches of rain and everything, but they don't do that anymore." What the national forecasters did predict was a "slightly warmer, possibly-wetter-than-normal winter for this area," according to Walker. "As far as I'm concerned they were right on that one," he said. Last week's storm produced more than 3 inches of rain in Payson, bringing the year end total to 24.93 inches, according to Anna Mae Deming, National Weather Service observer. Without an occasional above-normal year, surviving a drought would be much more difficult. "With our aquifers here, anytime we get a good year, especially an above average year, it can make up for quite a few years of decline," Ploughe said. "But all this is going to do is level us off so our groundwater decline stops." It's just too early to tell exactly how much the area's aquifers have benefited from recent rains. "I like to see where we are at the end of the recharge season, right about the end of March, before I really want to say exactly where it's at," Ploughe said. "I want every last drop of water to get in there." The water department issues a water status report in April based on the readings taken in March and on other information collected during the preceding 12 months. What could really have a positive impact on that report, according to Ploughe, is some serious snow. "You get lots and lots of runoff when you have this kind of rainfall," he said. "The ground can only take in so much at a time, so that's why the snows are so important to us -- because they melt slowly and percolate into the ground a little bit slower, more equal to what the ground can actually take up than what happens when it rains like it's been." Payson has basically reached "safe yield," or the point at which the amount of water removed from the ground equals the amount that is replenished. The town council tries to operate on the principle that safe yield will not be exceeded. Both Ploughe and Walker remind residents that the town is still at water conservation level 3. According to the town's water conservation ordinance, the conservation level is determined each April based on the annual status report, which is in effect until the following April. "It's a 12-month ordinance and a 12-month cycle," Ploughe said. Besides other restrictions, Payson residents are not allowed to water native plants; water between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.; wash paved areas or vehicles; and fill or refill swimming pools, wading pools or spas. Under the ordinance, water waste of any kind is prohibited, along with the planting of new turf areas; using artificial water features such as ponds and lakes larger than 50 gallons; and growing plants that require spray irrigation and the use of misters. Violators can be fined or have their water service terminated.

Rim Country highways could get crowded at times over the Christmas-New Year holiday. People traveling to and from Payson will join 13.2 million others in the west on the nation's roadways during the holidays. Nationwide, more than 65 million Americans are expected to travel between Christmas and New Year, public affairs manager for AAA Arizona, Linda Gorman said. Of that number, more than 53 million are expected to travel by motor vehicle, she said. "The roadways and airports will stay busy across the upcoming holidays as Arizonans visit family, friends and enjoy their winter vacations," she said. With both Sunrise Park Resort, near Pinetop-Lakeside on the White Mountain Apache Indian reservation, and Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff being open, Gorman said traffic in Rim Country could be a little heavy at times. "It's unusual for them to be open this early, but the good news is, the Christmas holiday is more spread out than a lot of others," she said. She said motorists likely would not see the same kind of congestion as during the Thanksgiving weekend though. "The Christmas-New Year holiday takes place over a longer period of time than, Thanksgiving for example, so people won't see the same kind of bumper-to-bumper traffic like holidays that only last a day or two," Gorman said. Because the Christmas-New Year holiday lasts longer, she said travelers need to prepare if they plan to drive to where there's snow. Emergency kits recommended Motorists should take extra water, food, blankets and snow chains, or a vehicle capable of driving in winter conditions, like a 4-wheel-drive, before coming to higher elevations, Gorman said. "Last year, our emergency roadside service responded to nearly 8,500 stranded motorists in the state between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. We strongly encourage motorists to pack an emergency car care kit and to get a pre-trip check-up before heading out of town, if possible," Gorman said. Friday, Dec. 21 is expected to be one of the heaviest traffic days of the season, she said. Gorman said motorists should call, or log onto AZ511 to check road conditions and restrictions prior to starting any holiday travel. Travelers should also be prepared to pay more this year to go see Grandma, she said. "As we said, costs are up across the board this year, so people should budget for the increase in the price of gas. Running out of gas before getting to Grandma's house would put quite a damper on the holidays," she said. Gorman said people could estimate how much gas would cost them by using tools like fuelcostcalculator.com. She also recommended checking weather forecasts before going into higher elevations. For Payson, the National Weather Service Web site says there is a 30-percent chance of snow Friday, with clearing Saturday, and sunny to mostly sunny conditions through Christmas.

Dave Goddard's skid marks still mar the northbound lane of the Beeline Highway where it intersects with the Bush Highway/Saguaro Lake turnoff. For more than a year and a half, it has been a reminder of the dangers of that intersection -- a black mark against the inaction of the Arizona Department of Transportation. In February 2005, a week after the tragic accident at that intersection that took the life of Goddard's wife and young child, we wrote an editorial begging ADOT to do something about that intersection. Most of us pass that intersection with trepidation and one foot ready to step on the brake. Even Department of Public Safety officers say they are careful to slow and brake when driving through the intersection, even if they are responding to an emergency. The danger is doubled by the fact that some of the drivers are returning from a day at Saguaro Lake and are under the influence of alcohol. It may be an hour from Payson, but Payson residents travel it daily on their way back from the Valley. Payson residents have been injured or lost their lives there, which makes it Payson's business. Last week, ADOT announced that $18.2 million in funding is finally in place to do something about that dangerous intersection. Beginning late this summer, they will construct a new interchange connection of the Beeline and Bush highways. ADOT crews will build a new bridge to carry Bush Highway traffic over Highway 87, as well as off-ramps connecting the two highways. This construction is long overdue. Enough lives have been lost. ADOT expects the work to take 16 months to complete. During those 16 months, which will undoubtedly result in delays, you may get frustrated. In traffic, 16 months can seem like a long time. But we ask that, before you shake your fist at ADOT while you navigate through the cones and past the flag-wavers, take a moment instead to be grateful for the lives that are being saved by that work. Roll down your window and say "thank you."

A long history of alcohol abuse landed a Payson woman in jail last week after pleading guilty to aggravated drunk driving. A judge sentenced Irene M. Jackson, 49, to serve eight months in prison, three years of probation and pay more than $5,400 in fines after driving with a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit. On Oct. 1, 2010, a Gila County sheriff’s deputy pulled Jackson over on a routine traffic stop. A police report said that Jackson’s eyes were red and bloodshot, her speech was slurred and she smelled strongly of alcohol. At the sheriff’s office, a breath-alcohol test revealed Jackson had a blood alcohol level of .228, nearly three times the legal limit of .08. Jackson admitted in a pre-sentencing report that she drank excessively to cope with difficulties in her personal life. This is the second time Jackson stood before an Arizona court for drunk driving. In January 2002, Jackson was arrested on charges of extreme DUI, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of DUI. Jackson served 10 days in jail for the offense. Superior Court Judge Peter Cahill noted that this sentence did nothing to prevent Jackson from driving drunk again. A probation officer made a similar determination. “It is quite apparent the defendant has failed to benefit from the past lenient treatment by the court and society is at risk for her continued behavior of getting behind the wheel while impaired,” wrote Kathy Joerns, deputy probation officer in a pre-sentencing report. Standing before the court, Jackson made no comment. Her attorney, Ronald DeBrigida, said Jackson understands the magnitude of her drinking problem and wants to get help. Jackson has the support of her family, including her children and fiancé who attended the sentencing, DeBrigida said. DeBrigida asked Cahill to consider the minimum sentence of four months in prison. Noting her past convictions and the seriousness of this crime, Cahill sentenced Jackson to three years of probation and eight months and eight days in jail with credit given for eight days already served. Jackson will also have to complete an alcohol education program, have an ignition interlock device installed and her driving privileges are revoked for three years. After the sentencing, Jackson appeared shocked.

The Tonto Community Concert Association’s final concert of the 2010-2011 season, featuring the Dallas Brass, will be held Friday, May 13 in the Payson High School auditorium. Also featured that evening will be the Payson High School band. The concert begins at 7 p.m., however, plan to be there early to enjoy music by “The Big Band Music Machine” — the local jazz band directed by Mike Buskirk, which includes both Payson middle school and high school students. Tickets will be available at the door. Since its founding in 1983 by Michael Levine, the Dallas Brass has become one of America’s foremost musical ensembles. The group has established a unique blend of traditional brass instruments with a full complement of drums and percussion, which creates a performing entity of extraordinary range and musical challenges. The Dallas Brass’ repertoire includes classical masterpieces, Dixieland, swing, Broadway, Hollywood and patriotic music. According to Levine, “A Dallas Brass concert is intended for the entire family. Our ideal audience has a range in ages from 5 to 95. Our goal is to entertain and enrich by playing great music, while showing our audience how much we enjoy what we do.” In addition to their solo engagements, the Dallas Brass appears with symphony orchestras nationwide. Symphonic credits include the Cincinnati Pops conducted by Erich Kunzel, New York Pops conducted by Skitch Henderson, and the Philadelphia Pops conducted by Peter Nero. The Dallas Brass has performed at Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and has toured overseas to Europe and the Far East. It has also shared the stage with the late Bob Hope, have performed for Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, have appeared on the CBS “Early Show” and its music has been used numerous times on the television show, “The Young & The Restless.” The ensemble has released six recordings: Debut, Dallas Brass II, A Merry Christmas with Brass, Windborne, Nutcracker and American Musical Journey. The Dallas Brass has a strong dedication to working with young musicians, frequently going into the public schools to present clinics and workshops for students of all ages. The Tonto Community Concert Association received support from the Western States Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts to present the Dallas Brass concert. At this final concert of the 2010-2011 season, it will be possible to purchase subscriptions to the 2011-2012 season planned by the Tonto Community Concert Association. Purchase before July 1, 2011 and enjoy the early bird subscription price of $85 per person. After July 1, the subscriptions will be $90 per person. Scheduled to perform during the TCCA’s 2011-2012 season are: The Shangri-La Acrobats, Sept. 27; Edgar Cruz, guitarist, Oct. 15; Take Me Home, a John Denver Tribute, Nov. 9; Chaplain — A Life in Concert, Nov. 29; Billy Dean, Jan. 12; American Spirit, a Matt Davenport production, Feb. 28; The Water Coolers, March 16; The American Tenors, April 19. Visit the TCCA Web site, tccarim.org for more details.

Payson Ranger District fire specialists plan to conduct a 300 acre burn east of the Houston Mesa Horse Trail extending to the Mesa del Caballo area Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 1-2. Residents and visitors can expect to see and smell moderate amounts of smoke each day of the prescribed fire operation. Mesa del Caballo will be impacted by smoke during the day. Diurnal air flow in the evening will move residual smoke into the E. Tyler Pkwy. area, Chaparral Pines, Rim golf Club and the Payson area. To mitigate the impact of smoke, ignitions will end each day by 3:30 p.m. Smoke may linger in these areas thru Friday. During fire operations, signs will be posted along roads that are likely to be affected by smoke. Broadcast fire treatments can continue for several days or weeks and generally are conducted during cooler weather after grasses have dried and cured. Moderate winds are needed to carry flames across open areas and achieve the beneficial effects desired by land managers. For information about prescribed fire and mechanical fuels reduction operations, call the Payson Ranger District at (928) 474-7900. Residents can also stay updated on forest prescribed fires at www.fs.usda.gov/tonto.

Forme of Cury, Ancient English Cookery, Compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King Richard II, Presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward Lord Stafford, and now in the Possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. Illustrated with Notes, And a copious Index, or Glossary. A Manuscript of the Editor, of the same Age and Subject, with other congruous Matters, are subjoined. [ A modest number of these recipes are redacted in Cariadoc's Miscellany. In particular, if you look in the recipe index, most recipes labeled "English, 14th c." are from Forme of Cury. ] I also have a transcription of this text, thanks to Project Gutenberg. And eventually, the original text will be digitally available: The digitized original should appear here: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/inthebigynnyng/manuscript/ms7/ Click on the links below to jump to the appropriate page of the facsimile. Or you can download the entire book at once as a single (large) pdf file. Don't know all the funny words? For a while, you can get free access to the of Michigan Press Middle English Compendium. Also, you can look at a glossary of medieval and renaissance culinary terms. - cover picture - title page - preface (by Pegge) - notes on ingredients: - cheese, ale, wine - rice, alkenct, saffron - honey, sugar - spices, cinamon, macys - cloves, galyngal, pepper, ginger - cubebs, grains of Paradice, nutmeg, caraway, powder-douce, - powder-fort, spykenard de spayn - sample page from manuscirpt Ancient Cookery. A. D. 1381. Index and Glossary Rolls of Provisions Credits: Scanning by Cindy Renfrow, transcription by the Distributed Proofreaders of Return to the Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage. Who else has links to this page?

SAP's co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has responded to analyst Forrester's criticisms following the launch of HANA enterprise cloud, claiming that it is a logical business model because customers want to control their core systems. Last week SAP announced that enterprise customers could deploy Business Suite on HANA as a managed service in a private cloud in a third-party data centre, which it hopes will drive the adoption of the in-memory platform. It suspects that customers will be more willing to test transactions and analytics in-memory if they don't have to fork out money for expensive kit to run prototypes. However, key to this is that it the cloud is available under a 'Bring Your Own Licence' model, which means that customers will have to purchase a full HANA licence before being able to migrate to the cloud. Following the announcement Stefan Reid, principle analyst at Forrester, heavily criticised this approach and labelled it a 'half-baked business model'. Reid said: "The HANA Cloud is a very careful move to a new business model. It is not disruptive and will NOT accelerate HANA usage to the many more customers who have been struggling with HANA on-premises because of its licensing. "The announced HANA Enterprise Cloud follows the 'Bring Your Own License' paradigm. While this is great for customers that already have a HANA license and would like to relocate it into the cloud, it is useless for customers that might have largely fluctuating data volumes or user numbers and might specifically use a cloud because of its elastic business model." He added: "SAP could really disrupt the enterprise market not only with the HANA technology but also with a disruptive cloud business model." However, during a press Q&A session at the company's annual customer and partner event in Orlando this week, co-CEO Snabe rebuffed the criticism and insisted that the Bring Your Own Licence model is in place to ensure that enterprises can maintain control of the core ERP estate. "We believe there are two kinds of cloud solutions. Firstly, [clouds with] narrow scope, many users, lots of collaboration happening - we have four of those," Snabe said, referring to SAP's public cloud offerings - SuccessFactors, Ariba, Cloud for Travel and Cloud for Financials. "These are relatively narrow in scope, they have many users, and they are relatively simple in nature. "Then you have the core, which runs everything your company does except these extensions. Most of the larger companies that we work with want to control the core. So the HANA enterprise cloud is about simplifying the consumption of that core, without losing their control. What does it mean to control? That means that they upgrade when they want. They configure when they want. They decide how this system is being used for their business." He added: "That's not what happens in the public cloud, there you get whatever is there and everyone gets the same." Snabe finished by saying that it is in no way a 'half-baked business model' and that it is 'very logical' for SAP and enterprise customers. "In the areas you want control, you want to buy a perpetual licence. You want to manage the build face of your infrastructure, but you don't want to build the infrastructure itself. We will do that for you," he said. "With that you have a perfect combination of cloud."

Yahoo! Local Maps (beta) Clean, intuitive, and works fairly well. Drag navigation makes it easy to move within the map. - Cons No pushpin-type markers. Driving routes can be roundabout. Yahoo! Local Maps (beta) forgoes a lot of the glitzy features in favor of a clean straightforward interface and good routing features. It provides a quick means of locating local places and things from within an intuitive interfaceand it's still only a beta. Yahoo! Local Maps, currently in beta testing, is tailored for those times when you just want to generate a local map or produce directions. The maps generated here are far more interactive than those made in tandem with searches on Yahoo! Local, which is geared toward helping you search for local events or businesses. Keep in mind, though, that what makes the maps interactive is the use of Flash, so you may need to upgrade to the latest free version of Macromedia Flash Player (Version 6,0,79,0 as of this writing; the PC we initially used for testing had Flash 6). There's also a non-Flash, non-beta version of Local Maps, but it lacks a lot of the snazzy effects available in the Flash-y beta version. The application uses both Tele Atlas and Navteq data and is particularly rich in map content. You won't, however, find the multiple types of map views (such as bird's-eye views, satellite imagery, or hybrid views) you'd encounter at Google Local or Windows Live Local. Yahoo!'s focus has been on the search capabilities and maps themselves. As with Google's maps, you can easily click and drag the maps in Yahoo! Local Maps (beta), though they are a bit slower and less responsive. If you're a registered Yahoo! user, once you've signed in, the service will open a map of your home address as a default jumping-off place. Another feature we really likeonce we'd discovered itwas being able to click and drag the flags on the map we'd generated during searches. Dragging them from the map into the left-hand search pane we could very simply generate a multi-point itinerary. We could also easily change the order and, best of all, we'd end up with a highlighted route on the map. A Yahoo! representative explained that everything on this page, as well as much that populates the beta version of Local Maps, was created in response to user feedback and requests. When questioned about a lack of some of the more intriguing things found at the other sites, such as the satellite views and other imagery, the response was that these things aren't among the features most requested by Yahoo! users (though a satellite component is in the works). In fact, our only real criticism of the site is that some things don't show up in search but will show up on the map if you know where they are and zoom in far enough (we can't just pick on Yahoo! here either; all these new map/search sites suffer the same symptoms). For instance, we had the same trouble finding the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum with Yahoo! Local Maps (beta) that we did with Google. Searching on "Intrepid" brought up lots of businesses with Intrepid in the name, and you could locate the site by digging a bit in the results (under Intrepid Foundation), but you had to dig. Nor could we find the site through combinations of the museum's official name, within quotes or without quotes. Such things can be and generally do get fixed as people provide feedbackone of the truly great aspects of the Webmade even easier by Yahoo!'s "Tell us what you think" feedback box. We'd have liked a pushpin-type feature on Yahoo! Local Maps (beta) similar to what we found on Windows Live Local. Though a Yahoo! spokesperson told us that it is possible and simple to place multiple markers on our map, we could not figure out how to make the application do this. When you search for a location or business, a marker will be placed there, but that marker is removed when you perform your next search. We also encountered repeated errors when we tried to use a "My Saved Locations" feature. Even with these hiccups, we really like the overall layout and functioning of the page. The left-hand side of the main map page is where you enter your searches. Topping the list is "Get Map and Directions." You have two further hyperlink choices immediately below, for generating "Reverse Directions" (so you don't have to read your original directions backwards to get home) or "Roundtrip." Below these features is the more general "Find on the Map" search bar. Immediately below this you'll find some hyperlink choices that let you further narrow your search by browsing through preset categories such as "ATMs & Services," "Entertainment & Shopping," "Restaurants & Bars," and "Travel." At the top of the map itself there are several choices as well: one for generating a printable version of the map; a link for e-mailing the map; "Send to Phone," which is clickable only when you've registered for this feature and are logged in; and Live Traffic. You can also add a map to your my Yahoo! Page. Links at the bottom of the page will take you to the Yahoo! Developer Network and a Yahoo! Maps API Application Gallery. Yahoo! reps told us we can expect the new version of Local Maps to be finalized "soon."

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PERRIS: Home to the region’s gold rush Shift change at the Good Hope Mine. CONTRIBUTED IMAGE, Perris Valley Historical Museum Prospecting in California is usually associated with forty-niners and the Gold Rush in the northern part of the state. But Southern California had its share of gold mining and treasure-seeking prospectors, too. The Lucky Strike, the Santa Rosa and the Good Hope were just a few of the gold mines in the Pinacate district, which was established in the 1870s near present-day Perris. âThe Pinacate Mining District made Perris,â said Paul Price, 71, a local historian who grew up exploring the mines in the area and has amassed a collection of mining artifacts. Standing on a rocky mound where the Good Hope, the most prolific in the district, once operated, Price gestured toward busy Highway 74 below. âAll the cars whizzing by here. Theyâre not even aware that theyâre driving on top of tunnels,â he said. The Good Hope, now sealed off, had multiple levels and thousands of feet of tunnels. On a still night, the roar from its 20-stamp mill, added in 1894, could reportedly be heard crushing ore as far away as Hemet, Price said. The local newspapers around that time captured â" and perhaps fanned the flames of â" gold fever, predicting ârich findsâ and âbonanzasâ in the Perris area at every turn. âMining Excitement Continues,â a Riverside Daily Press headline reported in April 1893, quoting an âexpert prospectorâ who estimated there were a couple of hundred people at least prospecting in the Pinacate district, âand more outfits coming in all the time.â âRiverside County is, it is true, the true home of the orange,â the Riverside Enterprise declared in January 1894, âyet there can be no doubt that great wealth lies hidden in the mines of the county ⦠There is no reason why this county should not soon become quite as well noted for its mines as for its fruit.â âAn era of mining development out there is near at hand,â one Riversider told the Enterprise, âthe result of which will in a short time astonish the country.â Though dozens of gold mines were dug around the area, most struggled to make a profit. âMost of the time, the struggle came from underground water,â Price said. Even the Good Hope had a spotty history. The mine changed hands repeatedly and was plagued by litigation, increasing labor costs, flooding and more, Price said. During World War I, the mine machinery was sold for scrap. There were later attempts to reopen the mine and to process the old tailings with more advanced methods, but they proved unsuccessful, Price said. âI never encountered any old miners who were anything but dirt poor,â he said. Contact Sarah Burge at 951-368-9694 or email@example.com

Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot. Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those. Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe. Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is an intriguing guy...[he] asks great questions and answers others with style, flair, reason and wit. On the blogroll he goes. Make him a part of your regular blogospheric reading. I certainly will. Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant. Common Sense Junction: Misha @ Anti-Idiotarian never ceases to amaze me. He keeps finding other good blogs. I went over to A.I. this morning for my daily Misha fix and he had found this guy named Morgan Freeberg in Fair Oaks, California, that has a blog, House of Eratosthenes. Freeberg says its "The Blog That Nobody Reads" but it may now become the blog that everybody reads. Jaded Haven: Good God, Morgan, you cover a topic from front to back with a screwy thoroughness I find mind boggling. I'm in awe of your thought proccesses, my friend, you're an exceptional talent. You start by throwing in the kitchen sink, tie in someone's syphilitic uncle, bend around a rip tide of brilliance and bring it all home in a neat, diamond dripping package of an exceptionally readable moment of damn fine wordsmithing. I love reading you. Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads. Philmon: When Morgan meanders, stick with him - he's got a point and it'll be worth it in the end. He's not a hit-and-run snarky quip kind of guy. The pieces all fall into place like tumblers in a lock and bang! He's opened a cognative door for you. Rightlinx: Morgan at House of Eratosthenes is one of the best writers out there. I read him nearly every day because he manages to provide an interesting perspective, even though I don't always agree. Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew... Yeah, must have put this one together shortly after the accident that occurred four years ago…maybe need to drop that last “2” and stick in a “6” but it won’t do much good if she isn’t willing to step up. And who could blame her. Over the past several years I see many trends. I’ve already discussed how there is evidently a hemisphere-wide attitude of hostility against simply dealing with details in the information, particularly the most important details, the details required to meet the stated objective. People talk about what needs to happen and at the end of every cherished make-it-all-good strategy, there is a trailing-off, it seems, a sort of vaporous and implied “…and then, I’m reasonably sure it will all work out okay.” But if you think on how such-and-such a cause is supposed to lead to such-and-such a desired effect, you realize you’re just dealing with more nonsense. Compassion for those who are less well-off, it seems, is more and more of a forced sort of thing, not something to be left up to the whims of individual desire, or sympathy. It’s more and more taxed, which means coerced, involuntary. Simultaneous with this, there is a palpable dropping-off of the good old-fashioned feelings of true charity on the part of the givers, which is to be expected since, hey, they are no longer choosing their donations, the loot is being forcibly taken from them. And as for those receiving, it seems there used to be a sentiment of pure gratitude that is no longer there. Gimme gimme gimme, Obamaphone is free. “Work,” at least the kind of work that earns respect and widespread appreciation, has changed. It isn’t productive work that people appreciate anymore, by which I mean the kind of work that creates wealth where it did not previously exist — or, the supporting work that makes that kind of work possible. No, we seem to be reserving our appreciation for “hard work” for the work that is purely non-productive. Or even anti-productive…the kind of work that interacts with that other work, the kind that creates wealth, and interferes with it. Don’t build that, there’s tree sloths & snail darters & caribou or whatever… Side note: Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe has been canceled. Welcome to twenty-twelve. I have faith. Things can get only so absurd, and then they’ll have to snap back again. It always works out that way; thing is, it’s always damned uncomfortable. Our fate lies in that direction, somewhere. Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.

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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:08 pm Post subject: Savage Exalted I know this has been asked a few times, but I couldn't find a lot of good feedback about tested Savage Exalted. I'm wondering: has anybody out there tried Savage Exalted? I've heard the superpower handbook may be good, so I'm going to look at that. i've also lazily pondered up a rather simplistic balance method of my own: use the existing power system, and just triple the results for a Solar (with a few exceptions to make sure things don't get too crazy). The Super Powers Companion is almost certainly the way to handle Exalted. Most powers will Require Activation, but the flexibility and strength of those powers is in the same league as Exalted. For a more "core rules" approach, I'd start with this conversion that I found through Savage Heroes. The system uses power points as resource management, rather than the "permanent investment" of the Super Powers Companion. Still, obviously a labor of love and it seems to have had a few legs under it. Good luck! _________________ "Got a problem? I've got the solution: Rocket Launcher." "Not against a Servitor." "... We're all gonna die." Chaos Steve just ran a fantasy game using the Super Powers Companion at Con on the Cob. It wasn't Exalted exactly but the use of the SPC (with restrictions and Activation/Device modifiers) worked very well for super powered Fantasy! I would recommend it. _________________ Norm "No Relation" Hensley You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum

James Emery White About the Author James Emery White is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, often cited as one of the fastest growing church starts in the United States. He is the author of seven books, including You Can Experience a Purposeful Life, Rethinking the Church, and A Search for the Spiritual. Dr. White holds a Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and has done post-doctoral work at the University of Oxford. He and his wife, Susan have four children.

Want more top stories? Sign up here for daily or weekly newsletters with our top news. I say “can” because many are willful, crafty little rascals that simply aren't well-trained. If you're thinking of gifting your child with a pony or horse — in my opinion one of the best gifts possible — please exercise wisdom by buying a well-trained pony that's already proven itself good with children. Sugar was one such Shetland pony. She came into our lives in her 20s as a confidence booster for my niece, Brooke, then 8, after our other two ponies, Snowball Express and Goldie Boy, proved too willful for her to handle. Yes, other children had ridden both ponies before we bought them, but I quickly discovered that didn't indicate they were obedient to their riders. Goldie's always demonstrated himself a dream pony in every way except when he wants to eat, and he wants to eat all the grass he sees all the time. At the time, I didn't know I could correct that problem by running baling twine from each side off his bit, up the bridle and attaching the end to the saddle horn. That contraption prevented him from pushing his nose forward, pulling the reins out of Brooke's hands and putting his head down to eat. Earning his name Snowball Express earned the name Express because of his lightning-quick ability to scoot out from under his young rider, thus leaving a scared, crying youngster on the ground. After Brooke gained confidence on Sugar, she quickly gained the confidence and ability to control Snow and Goldie. Many readers probably know Brooke went on to become a champion barrel racer with Sequim High School's equestrian team. Sugar also helped her younger brother, Wesley, gain confidence in the saddle. While he never had much desire to be a horseman, he did have a passion to be an adventurer like the fictional movie character Indiana Jones. Frequently, I'd see him in the backyard, dressed in his Indiana Jones hat and outfit, riding Sugar on some adventure through our big cedar and hemlock trees. My favorite memory is of him galloping little Sugar in the lower yard with his arms outstretched to each side, eyes up at the sky while grinning from ear to ear with a look of sheer joy on his face. By the way, Sugar loved it, too, and Wesley never ran her for long. Be aware, however, that even the best-trained pony can sometimes pull a little shenanigan. Once, on a family trail ride in the Cassidy Creek DNR, Sugar decided to make a quick dash for home. On that ride my youngest nephew, Keaton, 4, was riding Sugar, Wesley rode Snow, and Brooke rode Goldie. I was riding April. On all other rides with Keaton and Sugar, I was able to release Sugar's lead rope on the journey home, and she'd follow right behind April. This time, as soon as I unsnapped the lead rope, Sugar took off running for home. Fearing if I suddenly urged April to run in pursuit that the other two ponies would join in and I'd have an out-of-control stampede for home, I urged April to a quick trot while lightly singing out to the screaming-in-fear Keaton to pull back on the reins and ask her to “whoa.” Wesley immediately responded to Keaton's cry by spurring Snowball into a run, thus managing to quickly catch up with the smaller and slower Sugar, grab her right rein and bring her to a halt. “Why didn't you run after them?” he asked me accusingly. OK, so I felt foolish for not immediately spurring April into action to stop Sugar, but experience has taught me that if I had spurred the lead horse to run, I may well have had three out-of-control ponies running for home. Thankfully, a quick-thinking Indiana Jones, aka Wesley, saved the day. ■ 5 p.m. Friday — Back Country Horseman Peninsula chapter Christmas party at Lincoln Park's Loomis Lodge in Port Angeles, with a potluck dinner and dancing. RSVP to Jennifer Reandeau at firstname.lastname@example.org or 360-928-3824. ■ 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday — Freedom Farm show practice, 493 Spring Road in Agnew. Phone 360-457-4897. ■ Noon to 3 p.m. Sunday — Freedom Farm cow-working class. (See entry above.) ■ 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15 — The Jefferson Equestrian Association annual meeting and membership drive at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St. JEA's Horse Park will be a multiuse facility for equestrian and other outdoor activities such as biking, walking and dog events. For more details, visit www.jeffersonequestrian.org. Karen Griffiths' column, Peninsula Horseplay, appears every other Wednesday. If you have a horse event, clinic or seminar you would like listed, please email Griffiths at email@example.com at least two weeks in advance. You can also write Griffiths at PDN, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles, WA 98362.

Alan Van Noord ,who is in charge of leading the investment operation of the $49 billion Public School Employees’ Retirement System, will retire June 30. Van Noord, whose salary was recently increased to $296,232 earned $280,860 last year, has served as the agency’s chief investment officer for the past 11 years. While a national search is underway over the next few months for his replacement, James Grossman Jr., the deputy chief investment officer, will serve in the position in an acting capacity. “Deciding to retire is an extremely difficult decision to make, especially when you enjoy your job as much as I do,” Van Noord said in a news release issued Thursday. “Together, PSERS investment team and I have built a well- diversified investment structure and significantly reduced investment risk in the Fund. I am confident that I leave behind a strong investment structure better able to withstand any difficult economic times in coming years.” Van Noord’s wife, Collene, is the superintendent of Palmyra Area School District. She also plans to retire June 30. The couple plan to do some traveling and spending time with their family in Michigan and California in their retirement. Grossman, of Mechanicsburg, has served as the agency’s deputy chief investment officer since 2011, but has worked at PSERS since 1997. He previously served as acting chief investment officer from December 2001 to July 2002. Van Noord served 27 years with the State of Michigan Retirement System before coming to work at PSERS. PSERS is the nation’s 17th largest state-sponsored defined benefit public pension fund. It has a membership of nearly 273,000 active school employees and 202,000 retirees.

Picks and Pans Review: The New Show updated 03/12/1984 AT 01:00 AM EST •originally published 03/12/1984 AT 01:00 AM EST Adding a laugh track to this son of Saturday Night Live would be an act of charity. Now the poor studio audience does its best with polite chortles. You couldn't ask any more of them. For there isn't much to laugh at in this hour of overlong skits that go nowhere and stay there. Dave (SCTV) Thomas has Carrie Fisher dress up in scanty undies. Fine, but why? In a takeoff on Entertainment Tonight (not as good as the one on SNL recently), Thomas and Buck Henry report on "Ray Kroc, McDead at 81." Cute but cruel. John (SCTV) Candy as Orson Welles punches out a Ruth Gordon look-alike. Gratifying, granted, but senseless. New Show creator Lorne Michaels should have stuck to his old series, SNL. The only time the show shines is when Steve Martin comes to the rescue as a guest star. "What kind of guy watches The New Show?" he asks. "He likes his sushi well-done." True.

The Bacon Brothers are Nashville bound! Kevin Bacon and his older brother, Michael, are heading to the country music destination Wednesday, just in time to present at the CMT Awards. "It's gonna be fun," Kevin tells PEOPLE. Although The Bacon Brothers have been playing together for more than 15 years, they still relish the quality time they spend together on the road. "We get to spend time in unusual places and do unusual things together," Kevin says. "We were down in Texas the other day – sitting playing music, singing songs watching the river go by in a part of Texas where probably we never would go and definitely wouldn't go together." The duo has experienced their fair share of success in Nashville as well. "One of the most fantastic thing that happened to our careers is when we played the Grand Ole Opry with the Bellamy Brothers," says Michael. But don't expect them to show up at a local microphone this week in Tennessee. "Nashville is a very intimidating place to play because you have the finest musicians and finest songwriters there all the time," Kevin says. The CMT Awards air Wednesday on CMT at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CMT and CMT.com.

Laci Peterson's Mother, Sister Testify 06/07/2004 AT 05:00 PM EDT Laci's mom, Sharon Rocha, choked up as she delivered an emotional account of Dec. 24, 2002, when Scott called to tell her that Laci, 27, was "missing," PEOPLE reports from the Redwood City, Calif., courtroom. She then spoke about her close relationship with her daughter and the extent of Laci's fatigue during the late stages of her pregnancy. Prosecutors allege Peterson, 31 – who was having an affair with Amber Frey – killed his eight-months-pregnant wife in their Modesto home, then drove Laci's body nearly 100 miles to San Francisco Bay and dumped it from his small boat. He has pleaded not guilty. Laci's health was a major issue in Monday's testimony, because Peterson told police that his wife was preparing to walk their dog before he left for a fishing trip on the day she went missing. Scott's lawyers suggest she may have been abducted during the walk, but prosecutors say Laci had stopped walking weeks earlier under doctor's orders. Sharon Rocha told the court that her daughter had become nauseated and dizzy while walking on two occasions. Scott's attorney Mark Geragos, however, tried to paint Laci as a relatively healthy expectant mother. During his cross-examination of sister Amy Rocha, the younger sibling acknowledged that Laci walked regularly and had attended yoga classes. At one point, Geragos showed her a photo of Laci and Scott on a beach in Carmel, about six weeks before she vanished. Geragos said the spot was nearly a mile away from their hotel, and that the couple had walked there, up a steep slope. In other Peterson news Monday, Ron Frey, the father of Amber Frey, told reporters outside court that he was concerned about how Geragos will treat his daughter on the stand, if and when she is called to testify. Frey himself has hired a lawyer, Barry Rekoon, to advise him on the case.

updated 08/27/2014 AT 2:05 PM ET •originally published 08/27/2014 AT 5:25 PM ET The worst thing to ever happen to James Costello was also the best. The Boston Marathon bombing survivor – who was famously photographed in the wake of the April 15 attack, burned and with his clothes hanging in tatters – has married Krista D’Agostino, the nurse he met in rehab after the tragedy. The couple celebrated their union on Saturday at the Hyatt Regency in Boston, where they “danced the night away,” Emily Sharp, a rep for the hotel, told the New York Post. It was an elegant, Nantucket type of theme, which is one of the couple’s favorite places, a nod to their cherished memories together, a real fairytale vision, Sharp added. “It was just so much fun.” Wedding planner Rachael Gross told The Boston Globe that the pair, who chose John Legend’s “All of Me” as the song for their first dance, went for a nautical theme, “but without the literal nautical elements.” “It was such a true representation of their character, their style and their love,” shared Gross. “Everyone was soaring, soaring.” Sam Adams Brewery donated a special “Brewlywed Ale” to the event, which included about 150 guests. Costello, 31, proposed to D’Agostino, also 31, eight months after meeting her at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where he was transferred after undergoing multiple surgeries at Massachusetts General Hospital following the attack. “April 15 was one of the worst days of my life. I soon wondered why and for what reason this has happened,” he wrote in a Facebook post in December. “I now realize why I was involved in the tragedy. It was to meet my best friend, and the love of my life.”

updated 12/18/2013 AT 7:00 PM ET •originally published 12/18/2013 AT 3:30 PM ET She posted a heartfelt message on Twitter on Wednesday that appeared to address the speculation she’d quickly rebounded into the arms of baseball star Matt Kemp. “This, in and of itself, is heartbreaking and torture to my soul,” Kardashian, 29, wrote. “Please, I don’t need the extra rumors and BS right now.”

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(crazyinsomniac) Re^2: So it's homework - so what?by crazyinsomniac (Prior) |on Oct 28, 2001 at 07:54 UTC||Need Help??| Of course, students two and three will be the best engineers. Student one will give you all the wrong answers that are in the texts, all the wrong answers when typos are made, etc. Student four will give you lots of wrong answers, on the advice of self-proclaimed experts. (after all, being somebody's "mum" doesn't make this woman any more likely to be able to cook a good steak.) Students two and three each will be valuable engineers, and are the sorts who are more likely to catch other people's mistakes, and verify that their own answers are consistent with nature.I tend to disagree. There are no good engineers in the bunch, but all of them have good qualities (er, behaviours | practices | habits..). Tachyon said asked "Which student will make the best engineer?", and all but the last are equal. If he askeed his mum why, would be as equal as the rest. You can't be a good engineer and stick only to one practice. You have to understand the theory, experiment with proper procedure to ensure you understand the theory, and that the theory is sound and applicable.... basically, your reasoning against one and four is wrong. Tyepos my pipmpersnickle. Who's to say "mum" has to be his mother (it's a codename for the best engineer on earth, a true expert). What if four had a faulty thermometer, and three didn't know how to conduct the experiment properly (which by the way was faulty. It took him waaay too long to cut the meat and take the sample, that all his results are 10 degrees off, due to loss of heat whilst he cut). Anyway, like I said, a good engineer will have all of the four qualities. update: oh yeah, when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me, and mostly you, cause you're in charge of the project (and i'm the dumbass who hired you :D)

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– Preported by Briggs Heaney – 30th KBC-Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde The Italian will use De Panne again this year to prepare for the defense of his Flanders crown, looking to ignite his Italian fans with a repeat victory in both races, but won’t be alone in his quest for Flandrian glory. The 2008 edition of De Panne has almost all of the contenders for Sunday’s Tour of Flanders present, and while some will take it easy throughout the three day, four stage event, preferring to save their legs for De Ronde, others will pour all of their efforts into the hunt for overall victory. Even so, the racing should be action-packed amongst a field of cycling’s elite. The Stage one 192 kilometer affair from Middelkerke to Zottegem, is arguably the toughest, with 12 hellingen dotting the course. The short punchy climbs, some of them cobbled, are characteristic of many of the Belgian classics, and they tend to soften the field leaving only the strongest riders left to battle for the overall victory. Last year, Ballan used stage one to distance himself from eventual second place overall Joost Posthuma of the Rabobank squad, effectively laying the foundation for his overall win. A good ride in stage one will separate the true contenders from the pack fodder, while the stage four time trial will settle the overall winner once and for all. Regardless of sprint finishes, the racing is always tough in windy Belgium, as everyone sharpens their cues for Flanders. Favorites for the stage one win include last year’s overall winner Ballan, who will be keen to try to repeat his 2007 triumph, as well as Quick Step’s new signing Stijn Devolder. Teammate Tom Boonen will probably ride in support of his fellow countryman, as he did last year for Gert Steegmans, which is bad news for the rest of the peloton. In addition to Boonen, Devolder will have Wauter Weylandt, winner of the recent Nokere-Koerse race at his disposal as well. Stages two and three will highlight cycling’s fast men, as both stages are flat and conducive to bunch finishes. Look for Danilo Napolitano, Robbie McEwen, Graeme Brown, Mark Cavendish, Francesco Chicci, Baden Cooke, Julian Dean, Olaf Pollack, and Tom Steels at the front as some of cycling’s best sprinters battle for the stage wins. One factor that could thwart bunch sprints is the Belgian wind common at De Panne. Usually though it isn’t enough to keep the sprinters from having their day. Racing in Belgium wouldn’t be the same with these local delicacies. Vladimir Gusev of the Astana team, third overall in the time trial in 2007, will return to De Panne to try his luck at the overall, but he may still be a bit off form after having broken his collar bone in February at the Tour or California. Gusev is a tough Russian though, and will throw himself into the competition despite any lingering pain. Sergei Ivanov, also of the Astana team, will be the designated leader, and will have a good chance at the overall providing he can gap some of the favorites in stage one. Ivanov had a good E3 Prijs showing, making the final selection, and could be a dangerous rider here. Joost Posthuma, last year’s second overall on the GC will ride again for Rabobank, hoping to score the victory for his rabid Dutch fans. His teammate Graeme Brown will be active in the sprints for stages 2 and 3, but the team will work to place Posthuma on the top step of the podium at the end of the race. Meanwhile, the Italian Liquigas team will have Manual Quinziato for the overall, as Quinziato strives to position himself amongst the world’s elite classics riders. The Belgian Lotto-Silence team will once again work for Leif Hoste, as the Belgian tries to repeat his 2006 overall victory. Hoste is a heavy favorite for Flanders, as the Belgian finished second last year. So far in 2008, the Belgian has maintained a low profile, as he prepares for another run at a dream win at Flanders. Hoste too had a good E3 Prijs race, finishing with the leading group after a tough day climbing the 12 hellingen of the Prijs. Team High Road will be led by American George Hincapie, the 2004 overall winner. Hincapie is one of the best time trialists of the contenders, and at 13.7 kilometers, the time trial at De Panne may give the American enough road to distance the field and take the overall win. Lastly, former Belgian national champion Niko Eeckhout will hope for a stage win at De Panne, and could have an outside shot at the overall if he can escape from the field on stage one. After stage one’s tough climbing, stage two and three are relatively flat and won’t affect the overall classification. The deciding fourth and final stage will be the 13.7 kilometer time trial that closes out the race. The course is flat, but the total distance should be enough to see some significant gaps between the contending riders. Stijn Devolder, George Hincapie, Vladimir Gusev, Mikhail Ignatiev, and Steven Cozza could all contend for the overall title if they survive stage one without giving up any time and have great time trial rides. Anyone who can drill the stage 4 TT will be hot come Sunday. Of the teams entered in the race, there is one notable team that is missing. CSC, arguably the best team thus far in 2008, will not be represented in the 2008 edition. Fabian Cancellara, who will start the Tour of Flanders as the number one favorite, will instead take the week to prepare for De Ronde away from his competition. Cancellara and CSC haven’t gotten their race preparation wrong yet so far in 2008, so expect them to arrive at Flanders prepared to win. The Three Days of De Panne will miss team CSC, but there is enough talent to make for some great racing as Flemish Cycling Week continues. • Test your foreign language skills and get more info at the official website: Veloclub-depanne.be Briggs Heaney is a contributer to PezCyclingNews. His site, Euro Peloton, covers professional cycling in the US and Europe.

Homeschooling advocate Colin Gunn is unrelenting in his attacks on the public school system in his documentary, “IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America,” which seeks to end the teaching of evolution and eradicate the “sinful” and secular public school system that he says subjects children to the philosophies of gays, progressives, and abortion rights activists. In an interview with Voice of Christian Youth America’s Vic Eliason on Crosstalk, Gunn asserts that even the school bus is emblematic of the United States’ “totalitarian education system.” Gunn alleges that public schools are persecuting Christians and compares public school education in the US to Nazi indoctrination through the Hitler Youth. Eliason echoes Gunn’s abhorrence of the public school system. According to Eliason, the teachers in the public school system who do not uphold and instill Christian ideology are performing “mental molestation,” which deserves to be recognized and punished alongside physical molestation. Gunn: Draw a parallel between Nazi Germany where you have an authoritarian government that took over the whole nation, partially through the youth movement by co-opting all of the youth movement into the Hitler Youth, and therefore indoctrinating them into the class of this unbelief and this idolatry of the state. And so sadly that’s what we’re seeing very much today and we wonder why, why can’t people understand the abortion issue or these other issues that are political—well it’s because they’ve been indoctrinated. And we really can’t fix any political issue until we fix the public school system, controlling the future of America by controlling the hearts and minds of all the children that are sent there. Gunn: The nature of the public schools is it allows your child to be subject to those philosophies, whether it is gay rights or the progressives or evolution, if you send your child there be aware that he’s open to all of those views which he wouldn’t be if you kept him home or you put him in a private school. Eliason: Right now the news is a blare with a man who molested children, and he’s going to prison for the rest of his life. That’s physical molestation. But folks, there is mental molestation going on in the public school, and the people are getting by scot-free. And I’m not criticizing many fine Christian teachers who are trying to do their very best as they are employed in the public schools, but the molestation is a philosophy that is being pushed over all that literally is a molestation of the mind and nobody has a penalty for that. Gunn does not stop at equating public school education to Nazism. He further claims that the teaching of evolution can contaminate “the culture of a school” and trigger violent incidences such as the Columbine school shooting. Gunn cautions that the “faith of many children are undermined very quickly in the science class,” and that the Bible should be basis of “understanding of real science.” Gunn: We cover the story of Columbine where a man loses his child to a system that teaches evolution, because as a result of the culture of the school, he lost his own son. So it’s really important to hear the testimonies in our film and be warned. Eliason: I was talking to [Creationism advocate] Ken Ham about a pastor who was telling his young people, he said there are some people who believe in Creation in six days and some people who believe in the Big Bang Theory, but whatever you like that’s fine, and Ken put it this way, he said, if you can’t be sure about the miraculous power of God to create as the Bible says it, why should a kid believe anything else that’s in that book? Gunn: Absolutely, I think the faith of many children are undermined very quickly in the science class when they’re taught and the Bible is literally discredited in front of them rather than it being an understanding of real science, which is creation science. Eliason also alleges that the public school system is being pervaded by homosexuality, which he calls an “abnormal, aberrant lifestyle,” and claims that there is a correspondence between gay awareness and academic mediocrity. The godless mentality of the issues of lifestyle, we’re talking about homosexuality being diversity, and pressing for diversity training to kids. And of course we’re not talking about hating people, but when you have abnormal, aberrant lifestyles that are being paraded as normality, isn’t there some wonder that parents would be upset? Some years back, Colin, here in the Milwaukee school system, they had manuals, three ring binders, hard-cover binders, complete with about at least an inch of material that had been put together. And they had hundreds of these binders that were being passed out to the teachers. The binders and the booklets were made by GLSEN, which is the Gay Lesbian Straight Alliance [sic]. They were hoping to provide vital information to teachers as how to infuse the subject of homosexuality in a way that would give more normal handling of it, as they talked about Heather has Two Mommies, or somebody else has two daddy’s. And we’re seeing this type of thing along with the weakness of academic excellence. Last year, David Barton began recommending a book called "None Of These Diseases" by S.I. McMillen, which claims that everything we need to know about medicine and health care can be found in the Bible. Barton called the book, which states that promiscuity is the cause of arthritis and insanity, that it is not necessary for women to experience orgasm, and that women who have been punched the face by their husbands just need to learn to submit, "one of the best healthcare books you'll ever read." Today, on "WallBuilders Live," Barton recommended the book again as he predicted that eventually science will discover that salt is not actually bad for you ... because that is what the Bible says: That's one of the life verses I love is Joshua 1:8 that if you do things according to His law, you'll have prosperity, you'll have success. You just do it according to His way. You also get the promise of Exodus 15:26 that says now if you do all of the things that I command you, you won't be stuck with all those diseases I put on the Egyptians, you'll really be health. And so this is really the basis of healthcare is actually doing your body the way God wants you to do your body. That's one of the great books out of the 60's called "None of These Diseases" by Dr. S.I. McMillen who's just a medical doctor and he said 'hey, let's go back and look at what God said about health things in the Bible." And, my gosh, four thousand, five thousand years later we doctors have finally figured out God got it right. And I'll make a speculation on this because I think the Bible is always right on science and science eventually does catch up, we're going to find out salt is not that bad a deal for you. There's a reason Jesus made salt a good thing, that we are the salt, we are the light, we're the preservative. Now anything taken too much is going to be a problem, but I have seen in the last two weeks new studies coming out saying well, it turns out salt is not as bad as we thought it was. David Barton recently appeared on "The Story of Liberty" radio program to discuss the document he released earlier this year proclaiming that Barack Obama was "America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President." Predictably, the interview was filled with the sorts of half-truths and misrepresentations we have come to expect from Barton, including one segment where he spun a convoluted theory that President Obama refuses to protect the conscience rights of Christians not to pay for contraception because Obama himself has no conscience as demonstrated by his support for abortion rights. It wouldn't be a proper Barton interview if it didn't include several outright lies which, of course, this one did: [President Eisenhower] has the National Day of Prayer started. So that's been going since 54 and the White House regularly participates in the National Day of Prayer and issues National Day of Prayer proclamations until May of 2009; the first National Day of Prayer after Obama's in office and they decline to host services for the National Day of Prayer. So from the very start, he starts off in a brand new direction after President Clinton had national days of prayer at the White House, and President Carter and President Reagan, but not President Obama, he's not going to do that. Seven times he deliberately omitted the reference to God in the Declaration [of Independence,] quotes it but leaves the God part out because he doesn't agree with that. So that's crazy. And he won't say the national motto is "In God We Trust" - I'm sorry, that's established by law - no, he says the national motto is 'E pluribus unum,' that is not the national motto, that is the reverse side of the National Seal, but that is not the national motto. But he says it's not In God We Trust, it's E pluribus unum. He just won't even acknowledge God in traditional ways that we're used to most presidents doing. As we have pointed out before, even the National Day of Prayer Task Force admits that it was not until President George W. Bush that the White House hosted annual National Day of Prayer events, so Barton's assertion that all presidents until Obama did so is patently false. As is his claim that Obama regularly refuses to include the phrase "endowed by their Creator" when quoting the Declaration of Independence: For program host John Bona, Obama's supposedly hostility toward all things Biblical was just further evidence that "no honest, sincere [Christian] can vote for Obama": Now, what I'm saying is if you're a professing Christian, let me say this real clear, if you're a profession Christian and you vote for somebody - in this case it's President Obama - who stands for abortion and gay marriage and a host of other things were going to go through, you're denying your Christian faith. Because why? Because Christians are to vote for those most likely to govern according to God's stated laws and principles that's outlined in Holy Scripture. So if that's the standard we use, then there's no honest, sincere person, a Christian, who can vote for Obama. Now what I'm saying is there isn't any candidate, including President Obama, that should receive a single vote from any true Christian. On today's episode of Liberty Counsel's "Faith and Freedom" radio program, Mat Staver and Matt Barber discussed "the awakening of pastors in this election and the critical importance of this fall." Such an awakening is particularly important now, Staver explained, because "we are at a critical time of the future of America and literally the survival of Western Civilization, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that": Bryan Fischer has already made it clear this week that there cannot be any dialogue or compromise with those who do not share his views because, in his view, liberals "cannot be reasoned with ... they can only be defeated." Fischer repeated this point again today while discussing the recent decision by Gallaudet University to place its chief diversity officer on paid administrative leave for signing petition aimed at overturning Maryland's marriage equality law, saying it proved that the Constitution and the "homosexual agenda" cannot co-exist and so Christians "cannot give an inch, we cannot give one centimeter, we cannot give one millimeter to the forces of homosexual activism. We cannot accommodate, we can't compromise, we can't find middle ground, they cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be compromised with, they cannot be dialogued with, they can only be defeated": Rick Joyner dedicated yesterday's "Prophetic Perspective on Current Events" program to, once again, warning his viewers about "Islam and Shariah Law and its current threat toward America." Joyner commented on how he could not understand how any person who knows anything about Sharia could be anything other than vehemently opposed to it, especially women ... prompting him to declare that it is absolutely "mind-boggling" that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been "advocating using Sharia and honoring Sharia law," leading him to conclude that "I don't think she knows what she is talking about": A three-judge US District Court panel yesterday upheld South Carolina’s restrictive new voter ID law, but ordered that the law go into effect after November’s election. South Carolina softened its interpretation of the law during litigation. Under that interpretation, voters without proper photo ID are required to cast provisional ballots, although the presumption is that the voters' ballots will be counted unless a clear case can be made that they lied about why they do not have proper ID. South Carolina members of People For the American Way Foundation’s African American Ministers Leadership Council reacted, expressing concern that that even the softened law could might keep African American South Carolinians from the polls in future elections. “Today’s decision shows the continued necessity of the Voting Rights Act,” said Rev. Terry Alexander, pastor of Wayside Chapel Baptist Church in Florence and member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. “Because of the VRA’s preclearance provisions, South Carolina had to reinterpret a law that would otherwise have disenfranchised many African Americans. We now urge the state of South Carolina to enforce this law in a way that lives up to its promises in court, ensuring that every South Carolinian, with or without photo ID, can cast a vote that counts. If even one person is disenfranchised because of this law, that will be one person too many.” The African American Ministers Leadership Council, a program of People For the American Way Foundation founded in 1997, works nationwide to help bring African Americans to the polls through the non-partisan “I Am A VESSEL and I Vote!” program. Rev. Brendolyn Jenkins-Boseman, pastor of Abundant Life Fellowship in Camden, who was recently named the first-ever female co-chair of AAMLC, added, “We’re working every day to make sure every member of our congregations and communities can cast a vote that counts. While we work to educate voters on their rights under this law, we will also continue to work to make our elections fairer and more accessible.” James Robison dedicated two days of his "Life Today" program this week to beseeching his audience to stand up for "faith, family, and freedom," especially heading into this election, because America is "going to have to choose between the forces of light and darkness, good and evil." At a time when "the collapse of commitment and relationships in marriage, the deterioration of the American family, [and] the literal mockery of God" are everywhere, Robison warned, Christians must take a stand and decide that either God is going to be placed at the head of our nation or America is just going to place itself totally "under the control of ungodly forces": Please click to download, print, use and distribute the following informative flyers: Yesterday, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the results of a survey finding that "the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today." Those findings were quite alarming to CNBC's Larry Kudlow, who brought Ralph Reed on to his program yesterday to reassure him that the numbers were not really as bad as they looked. After Reed speculated that the rise in young people claiming no religious affiliation would begin to reverse itself once those young people got married and had children, Kudlow warned that they should not be downplaying the rise in secularism because secularism "is not good for this country, there's too much of it, [and] it's proclaimed too loudly in the mainstream media" before declaring that "a faith-based life has got to be a more rewarding, fulfilling, and better life": Ted Nugent used his column in the Washington Times today to promote his new show, which airs tonight on the Discovery Channel, about his love for guns and gun culture – quite the platform for the conservative activist who compared President Obama to a coyote that must be shot and warned that if Obama is re-elected he “will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” Nugent has even said that the Obama presidency is making him wish the South had won the Civil War. After taking to Twitter to claim that Obama is committing treason, Nugent wrote in the Washington Times that his show about “real Americans” is meant to be a counterbalance to “the brainwashed cult of denial drooling in the shadow of a gun-hating media and White House.” That’s right, Obama and the media are conspiring to take away his guns, even though a major media network just gave him a show. So when Discovery Channel asked if we would like to produce a TV show titled “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country,” I said it is already in progress, so just bring the cameras and push the record button. Our new show airs Wednesday at 10 p.m., and it simply celebrates and promotes the self-evident truth that 99.99 percent of American gun-owning families use our guns on a regular basis for all the right reasons. The same 99.99 percent of Americans with guns will never use our guns in a crime or for any negative misuse whatsoever. We train, we plink, we shoot, we compete, we hunt, we have unlimited fun perfecting the use of these wonderful tools for the most pragmatic, utilitarian functions. We shoot billions and billions of rounds of ammo each year, and we own more firepower today than any society in the history of planet Earth. For the brainwashed cult of denial drooling in the shadow of a gun-hating media and White House: With all this unprecedented increase in guns and ammo in American citizens’ hands, the use of guns in crime is at an all-time low. It’s not just “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country,” it’s hardworking, hard-playing America’s gun country, and we could not be prouder of it. Tune in to the Discovery Channel for, like our award-winning “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild” on the Outdoor Channel, you’ll witness how real Americans enjoy the great outdoors and peace through superior firepower. Recently Arkansas state Rep. Jon Hubbard has been receiving a lot of attention for his self-published book in which he states that "the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise [because] the blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth." Most people, when they read something like this, just shake their heads in amazement ... but not Bryan Fischer, who asserts that though Hubbard may have phrased it poorly, he has a point because "if we have blacks today, now that we've gotten past slavery, blacks are living in America and no matter how they got here - and nobody is trying to say they way they got here was a good thing, nobody is saying that, nobody is defending that - but now they're in a land of opportunity. So maybe God, in his grace, took something that men meant for evil - slavery - and He turned it into something good for blacks who know live in a land of opportunity and unlimited possibility rather than being trapped on a continent which is still mired in poverty and disease": Mission America’s Linda Harvey hosted Robert Knight of the American Civil Rights Union this weekend and expressed her dismay that the Jewish community in the U.S. is not rallying en masse against President Obama, as polls show that Obama has a commanding lead among Jewish voters, and that she has even met Jews in Israel who favor Obama. Knight explained Jewish support for Obama by arguing that he is merely winning the backing of secular Jews, pointing to his former chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel who he said “is Jewish himself but he is secular Jewish” (both Emmanuel and Obama’s current chief of staff Jack Lew are Orthodox Jews). "Liberal politics is the religion, that’s the mindset, that’s the values world that they live in,” Knight claimed, and Harvey added that “Judaism for those folks who are secularists are just an identifier, kind of tribal, but in so many ways they just don’t get it. Harvey: There is so much of a legacy of traditional liberal values lining up with pretty much secular Jews and that’s true in the US too, and their eyes are being opened, don’t you think? Knight: I do, I think when the election rolls around we’ll see a record percentage of Jewish votes for the Republican candidate. Not that they love Mitt Romney but I think that they fear Barack Obama and they’ve seen him in any number of ways signal to Israel that he’s not their friend. It’s kind of funny because of his chief of staff used to be Rahm Emmanuel who is Jewish himself but he is secular Jewish, his family wasn’t but he is. Apparently, liberal politics is the religion, that’s the mindset, that’s the values world that they live in. Harvey: Judaism for those folks who are secularists are just an identifier, kind of tribal, but in so many ways they just don’t get it. But they’re starting to I think so many folks are waking up and are starting to understand that this man is no friend to Israel and will betray you. Harvey, who earlier argued that Obama “bends over backwards for Islam while sticking it to Christians time and again,” asserted that liberals are now aiding advocates of Sharia law, which Knight said is because both groups “hate America” and are “trying to destroy Judeo-Christian America.” Harvey: Anybody who is an apologist for Islam is no friend to liberalism, either, I find myself looking at these strange bedfellows of all the left who are such apologists for the repressive values of people that advocate Sharia. Knight: It’s a weird alliance…what they have in common is the liberal left hates America and the Islamists hate America and they have common cause, trying to destroy Judeo-Christian America, that is the main enemy. California recently passed a law banning sexual orientation conversion therapy for minors and the anti-gay Religious Right is predictably outraged, prompting Liberty Counsel to file suit because, as Mat Staver and Matt Barber explained on the "Faith and Freedom" radio program today, banning therapists from seeking to turn gay kids straight is like requiring therapists to help people accept and embrace their alcoholism, pedophilia, or kleptomania: Kirk Cameron, who compared the backlash to the anti-gay statements he made on Piers Morgan Tonight to the persecution of Puritans in England and being “drug out to the public square and stoned so to speak,” told Liberty University students last week that “blasphemy laws are still alive and well in America” and that his critics tried to “crucify me” because he had “blasphemed the God of Political Correctness.” He said conservative Christians shouldn’t be “wussing out” when confronted by questions about homosexuality and should deliver a message of “truth in love” in order to “see people in a right relationship with God, helped and healed and whole.” Later in his speech, Cameron promoted his movie about the Puritans who settled in Massachusetts Bay and claimed they supported “limiting the powers of government” and “religious and political freedom, freedom of speech.” Unfortunately for the students at Liberty University, founded as Liberty Baptist College, they didn’t learn that under the Colony’s law those who “openly condemne or oppose the baptizing of infants,” and a central doctrine of the Baptists is the rejection of infant baptism, “shall be sentenced to banishment.” So while Cameron holds the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a model for the contemporary U.S., the colony’s Puritan government held that “Idolatry, blasphemy, heresy . . . are to be restrained and punished by the civil authority.” When Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died of pancreatic cancer in July, her obituary revealed that she was a lesbian who had been in a committed relationship for the last 27 years. This revelation prompted the anti-gay "scientists" over at the Family Research Institute to wonder if Ride's sexual orientation may have played in role in her death: Sally Ride, the first U.S. female astronaut, died this year at 61 of pancreatic cancer. Most women live until their 80s. Something strange afoot? Ride was married to a fellow astronaut from 1982 to 1987. But it was just revealed she had a ‘long time lesbian relationship’ of 27 years. Do the math: her 27 year relationship with a professor of school psychology (and co-founder of Sally Ride’s company) means that she got into that relationship in 1985, smack in the middle of her marriage. It would appear that her childhood friend broke up her marriage. And Sally may have paid with some of her lifespan. Our latest research into recent homosexual obituaries from San Francisco indicates that lesbians are dying on average around 60ish. Ride fits the pattern of lesbian deaths, but not that of married women’s deaths, which usually extend into the early-to-mid 80s. Is this proof that homosexual activity leads to an early death? No, of course not. Had she stayed married, Sally Ride might have died at the same age and of the same malady. But, on average, her death fits a consistent pattern suggesting that homosexuality is associated with an early demise. Washington Times columnist Jeffrey Kuhner while speaking to Janet Mefferd yesterday insisted that listeners should not believe claims that President Obama is a Muslim but instead argued that he is a “cultural Muslim” who is working to bring down the US in order to further the cause of anti-American Islamists. After delivering a tirade of already-debunked myths regarding the Obama administration’s response to the Libyan embassy attack, Kuhner said Obama is “literally unleashing radical Islam” in the Middle East and predicted that Obama will be impeached and ultimately removed from office if Republicans win control of both houses of Congress. He is a disciple of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, it’s not that complicated, he is a believer in black liberation theology, he believes that the Third World’s poverty is due to Western imperialism, Israeli imperialism and American imperialism. So he’s a cultural Muslim in the sense that he identifies with the Muslim world, he identifies with the Arab street because like his father and like his mentor George Marshall Davis [sic] and like his spiritual adviser Jeremiah Wright, he sees them as victims of the West and of America. So in his mind, these Islamists are anti-American because we’ve mistreated them so if we just topple these dictators and allow them to come to power and not interfere in their internal affairs then they’ll love us. So that’s why he didn’t interfere in Iran and he let the mullahs crush the pro-democracy movement there, it’s why he pulled the plug on Hosni Mubarak even though the Muslim Brotherhood is infinitely worse than Mubarak, they’re more brutal, more authoritarian, more dictatorial, Christians are being slaughtered in that country every day, and now we have this Islamist monster in Libya. So in his mind he thinks he’s a great liberator but all he is doing is literally unleashing radical Islam. The Obama White House literally left our U.S. officials to die, he cannot get around that. So I think this will eventually engulf him—I’m not saying today, I’m not saying tomorrow—like Watergate, these things take time. But even if he wins re-election, this will haunt him throughout his second term, it will be a cloud over his entire presidency and if the Republicans manage to lose this election but manage to get control of the Senate he will be impeached and I believe he will be convicted. Amid reports that absentee ballot requests among those serving in the military are down dramatically this year in comparison to 2008, Tony Perkins and Don Wildmon brought Jerry Boykin on to "Today's Issues" today so all three could wildly speculate as to the cause. While some are suggesting that requests for absentee ballots are down because the number of soldiers who are deployed is down and other are explaining that levels are similar to what they were in 2004, Perkins and Boykin suspect that something else is going on; namely that military leaders have had to spend so much time instituting the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and "implementing the President's social agenda" that they haven't had time to make sure soldiers were able to vote. In fact, suggested Boykin, this might even be intentional because members of the military are so angry over the repeal of DADT and "the way the military has been exploited for political purposes with all the release of information about the killing of bin Laden" that they are going to vote overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney:

In Europe, May Contrasts EU Model to U.S. WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. regulators need a new regulatory framework to function efficiently and fairly in a digital era, Progress & Freedom Foundation Senior Fellow Randolph May said today at a conference in Stockholm. Speaking at the VON Europe 2005 Conference and Expo, May contrasted the European Union's regulatory framework with that of the United States, "a framework that almost everyone agrees is not a model of rational coherence." May, PFF's director of communications studies, noted that the EU regulatory framework that came into effect in July 2003 contrasts markedly from the U.S. model. As the June 2004 European Commission staff Working Document entitled "The Treatment of VoIP Under the EU Regulatory Framework" states: "The convergence of the telecommunications, media and information technology sectors demands a single regulatory framework that covers all transmission networks and services. The EU regulatory framework addresses all communications infrastructure in a coherent way, but does not cover the content of services delivered over rand through those networks and services." The U.S. framework, May pointed out, relies on differing service definitions such as telecommunications, information services, cable and broadcasting. "These are based on what I have called techno-functional constructs," he said. "The distinctions that U.S. regulators are called upon to make based on technological and functional characteristics are downright metaphysical -- and they have little to do with how consumers view the services or the market position of the various services." May argued for a new, market-oriented model. For more, including Randy's interaction with Europeans on issues such as "naked DSL," "open access," number porting and emergency services including E-911 for VoIP, see Randy's entry on the PFF blog at http://blog.pff.org. May is the co-chairman of the Regulatory Framework working group of The Progress & Freedom Foundation's Digital Age Communications Act (DACA) project. DACA is a broad-based effort to formulate legislation to guide regulators in the digital age, and involves PFF fellows, other think tank and university scholars, and policy officials from the last five presidential administrations. May and his working group co-chairman, Northwestern U. law professor James Speta, hope to have a working draft of regulatory framework reform available for feedback from the public next month. The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. It is a 501(c)(3) research & educational organization.

Q. I manage the paint line at a company that paints automotive plastic parts. Our paint spray booth is only about two years old, but we frequently have high humidity problems in it. Today, for example, the humidity reading in our paint room is 83 percent. Our customer’s specifications allow for no more than 65 percent humidity in the spray booth. We are located in southern India, where the normal temperature is 30-40°C. How can we control the humidity and temperature in the spray booth? V.L. A. The best way to control and eliminate the high humidity is to completely enclose the spray booth and use conditioned (temperature- and humidity- controlled) air as make-up air to the spray booth areas. Ambient temperatures of 30-40°C (86-104ºF) in paint application areas are pretty high and can be reduced. Furthermore, you are not in compliance with your customer’s painting specifications. One of our major appliance manufacturing plants had a “glass house,” fully enclosed paint spray booth that used filtered, temperature- and humidity- controlled make-up air. This had the added advantage of eliminating airborne dust and particulate matter.blog comments powered by Disqus

Jay Haas and Peter Jacobsen lead after 36 holes at Big Cedar Lodge In the second round of the 2014 Big Cedar Lodge Legends of Golf presented by Bass Pro Shops, Jay Haas and Peter Jacobsen lights up the course at Top of the Rock with seven birdies to take a one-stroke lead. © 1995-2014 PGA TOUR, Inc | All Rights Reserved. PGA TOUR, CHAMPIONS TOUR and the Swinging Golfer design, and PGA TOUR Champions Tour are registered trademarks. Web.com is also a registered trademark used here with permission, and used in the Web.com Tour logo with permission.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- Michael Thompson’s 9-foot birdie putt on No. 18 curled out, leaving him at 13 under, one shot ahead of Billy Horschel after three rounds of the McGladrey Classic. Thompson trailed Horschel all afternoon until No. 16, where Horschel pulled his tee shot into a water hazard and double bogeyed, putting Thompson ahead. Thompson and Horschel will tee it up together again Sunday in another Alabama-Floirda showdown. Trevor Immelman and Webb Simpson will enter the finale two shots back while Jeff Overton, Kris Blanks, Nick O’Hern and Louis Oosthuizen are four off the pace after 54 holes.

www.PharmacyTimes.com Pharmacy Times | 08.09 n 93 Novel Diabetes Drug Enhances Glucose Control, Reduces Weight Albiglutide (Syncria) significantly reduced blood glucose levels and provided weight loss across weekly, biweekly, and monthly dosing, according to phase 2 data presented at the American Diabetes Association 69th Scientific Sessions in New Orleans. The randomized, multicenter, double-blind, parallel-group study enrolled 356 type 2 diabetes patients previously treated with diet and exercise or metformin (mean baseline A1C 8%). Patients received either subcutaneous placebo, alb iglutide weekly (4, 15, or 30 mg), biweekly (15, 30, or 50 mg), or monthly (50 or 100 mg), or exenatide (open-label reference arm, in metformin-treated patients) over 16 weeks. Dose-dependent reductions in A1C with albiglutide 30 mg weekly, 50 mg biweekly, and 100 mg monthly were 0.9%, 0.8%, and 0.9%, respectively (P<.05). The A1C reduction by placebo was 0.2%. Open-label exenatide A1C reduction was 0.5%. Weight loss (approximately 2-4 lb) was observed across all doses. NEWS & VIEWS OUTLOOK Increased Valganciclovir Duration Better Protects Transplant Patients Doubling the duration of prophylaxis with oral valganciclovir (Valcyte) reduced the incidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease by 56% in high-risk kidney transplant patients within the first year posttransplant, according to the results of a phase 3 study. The global, multicenter, double-blind IMPACT (Improved Protection Against Cytomegalovirus in Transplant) study randomized 326 high-risk kidney allograph recipients to either 100 days of treatment with valganciclovir (900 mg once daily) post-transplant followed by 100 days of placebo, or 200 days of valganciclovir (900 mg once daily) posttransplant. The results showed that the 200-day valganciclovir treatment prevented CMV disease in 84% of patients and reduced the incidence of CMV disease by 56%, compared with the 100-day valganciclovir treatment. The data were presented at the 9th annual American Transplant Congress 2009. Tobramycin inhalation powder (TIP) showed improved lung function in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with respiratory Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, compared with placebo, according to the results of a phase 3 placebo-controlled study. The investigational formulation of tobramycin also decreased sputum P aeruginosa density, hospitalization, and other antibiotic use, compared with placebo. For the study, patients with CF were given treatment with TIP 112 mg twice daily or matching placebo in a 1:1 ratio during cycle 1 (28 days on and 28 days off treatment). This was followed by 2 cycles during which all patients received TIP. The primary efficacy variable was relative change in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) percent predicted from day 1 to day 28 of cycle 1. Patients on TIP showed a significant improvement in FEV1% predicted with an average improvement of 13%, compared with placebo (P = .0016) at 28 days. At the end of the first full cycle (day 56), improvement over placebo in predicted lung function was maintained. The results of the study were presented at the American Thoracic Society 2009 International Conference in San Diego. n Better Lung Function with Respiratory Infection Drug for Cystic Fibrosis Patients Clinical Trials Everolimus Shows Antitumor Effect in Patients with Multiple Lymphomas Data from a phase 2 study showed that everolimus (Afinitor) tablets significantly reduced tumor size by 50% or more in 1 of 3 patients with refractory or relapsed lymphoma. The results of the open-label trial of 145 lymphoma patients, presented at the 14th annual European Hematology Association congress in Berlin, Germany, showed the 33% overall response rate, which is defined as complete or partial tumor shrinkage (95% confidence interval [CI], 26%-41%). The median time to disease progression for all 145 patients was 4.3 months (95% CI, 3.6-5.9 months), and the median duration of response for the 48 responders was 6.8 months (95% CI, 5.4-11 months). The disease did not progress at all at 6 months for 19 of the responders. A phase 3 trial is under way to investigate adjuvant treatment with everolimus in preventing relapse in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

- Resource Centers Drs. Horn and Hansten are both professors of pharmacy at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. For an electronic version of this article, including references if any, visit www.hanstenandhorn.com. In the first article on drug transporters, we focused on the efflux transporter P-glycoprotein (December 2008 Pharmacy Times; see www.PharmacyTimes.com/DrugTransporters). This time we are going to examine the uptake transporters. These transporters actively pump drugs into cells, including hepatocytes and renal tubular cells. Drugs can then be secreted into the bile, metabolized (hepatocyte), or secreted into the urine (renal tubular cell). These uptake transporters are generally divided into those that transport anionic molecules (organic anion transporters [OATs] or organic anion transporting polypeptides [OATPs]) and those that transport cationic molecules (organic cation transporters [OCTs]). OATPs are primarily found in the liver, while OATs and OCTs can be found in the liver, kidney, and brain. Examples of OAT substrates include methotrexate and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These drugs are secreted by the renal tubular cells as their primary method of elimination. When 2 drugs that are both substrates for the same OAT are coadministered, the possibility for competitive inhibition of the transporter, and hence of drug elimination, will be present. Numerous reports have described an interaction between NSAIDs and methotrexate that can result in severe methotrexate toxicity. This outcome is the result of the NSAID competing for OATs and reducing the renal clearance of methotrexate.1 Several HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors including pravastatin and cerivastatin are partially eliminated by OATs. Cyclosporine is an inhibitor of OAT and has been demonstrated to increase the plasma concentrations of these statins by over 5-fold.2,3 The ability of probenecid to reduce the renal clearance of penicillins and cephalosporins is at least partially due to competition for OATs in the renal tubule.4 OCTs transport a number of drugs including cimetidine, metformin, procainamide, and triamterene from the plasma into hepatocytes and renal tubular cells. As with cytochromes, a variety of different OAT and OCT transporters exist. Metformin's uptake into the liver, where it exerts its pharmacologic effect, is mediated by OCT1, while its elimination via the kidney is primarily due to OCT2. The capacity of OCT2 to transport metformin is at least 10 times greater than OCT1. Thus, OTC2 and the renal elimination of metformin are primarily responsible for its pharmacologic properties. 5 Cimetidine also is a substrate for OCT and can compete with metformin for both OCT1 and OCT2. Because OCT2 is primarily responsible for metformin's elimination, competition from cimetidine will result in reduced renal clearance of metformin and elevated plasma concentrations.6,7 Procainamide is another known OCT substrate. Its renal clearance has been reduced following coadministration with several drugs, including amiodarone,8 levofloxacin, 9 and cimetidine.10 The clinical outcome of drug interactions based on OAT or OCT inhibition will depend on the pharmacologic properties of the object drug. For example, inhibiting the hepatic uptake of a drug may reduce its metabolism, leading to higher plasma concentrations. If the site of action of the object drug is intrahepatic (eg, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors or oral hypoglycemic drugs), however, a reduction in the desired pharmacologic effect also may occur, despite increased plasma concentrations. Nevertheless, the resulting increase in the drug's plasma concentration may lead to an increase in side effects unrelated to the drug's therapeutic effect. Relating to the examples given above, patients taking statins might have an increased risk of myopathy, whereas those on metformin could have a greater risk of developing lactic acidosis. The effect of inhibited object drug renal clearance will depend on the percent of drug eliminated via the kidney and its therapeutic window. In general, clinically significant effects will occur with drugs having at least 50% of their elimination via renal secretion and demonstrate a narrow therapeutic window. Finally, although a large number of drugs have been shown in vitro to be potential inhibitors of OAT and OCT, their concentrations in vivo are often too low to produce significant competition for transport with other drugs.

Skip to main content PHA’s Facebook communication has come a long way. Our Facebook page was launched on October 7, 2009, and made 33 fans by the end of that day. Today we have nearly 5,500 fans around the globe. Over the years, it has provided a space for our PH community to learn, advocate and build relationships. » Read more » Spotlight On... Conference Advocacy Challenge» Get Smart» Website Discoveries» PH Community Scoop » From the PHA News Desk» Medical Community Bulletin» Also of Interest» PH News Headlines Since January, PH community members sent 273 messages to their Members of Congress requesting co-sponsorship of the Tom Lantos Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Education Act. Whether or not you will be at PHA's Conference, each message becomes part of the Advocacy Challenge: From a Kitchen Table to Congress! Find out how you can join the Challenge! » Learn more Friday, March 23, 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PTIt is an exciting time for PAH research. Over the past 17 years, nine PAH therapies have been approved by the FDA. During this webinar, hear from Dr. Michael McGoon of the Mayo Clinic as he discusses the treatments that are currently available and treatments in the pipeline. » Register now A recording of the webinar “Creativity and Healing through Blogging” is now available in PHA Classroom. In this recording, panelists discuss their experiences with blogging and other forms of creative self-expression and offer tips from the PH blogging community. » View recording I have found a great way for you to help people in your life understand pulmonary hypertension. It was over a dozen years ago, but it is still clear in my mind how I replied when my cousin told me he finally had a diagnosis for his distressing symptoms - pulmonary hypertension. I asked, "What is pulmonary hypertension?" » Read more February 29 was Rare Disease Day – a global effort to raise awareness of rare diseases and the need for more research and treatments. PHers joined in the effort by hosting awareness tables, spreading the word on Facebook and even speaking out on Capitol Hill. » Read more Thursday, March 22, 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PTWant to chat with another patient? Can't make it to a local support group meeting? A support group is only a phone call away. Our patient telephone support group makes it easy to participate in support groups regardless of your work hours, distance or health concerns. » Learn more Joanne, a PH patient from Long Island, N.Y., was nominated by her husband Ken and won the Dunkin’ Donuts “Show Us Your Heart” contest. » Read the great things Ken said Planning to attend PHA’s 10th International PH Conference and Scientific Sessions? Don’t forget that the discounted Early-Bird Registration rate ends on April 2. Register before the deadline and receive a discount of $25/person off the registration fee. We hope to see you in Orlando! » Learn more and register Acknowledge those who have helped you through your PH journey or remember those who have passed with a Note of Thanks and Remembrance printed in the program book for PHA’s 10th International PH Conference and Science Sessions. You don’t have to go to Conference to be able to tell the 1,300 expected attendees who is important to you. Each note is $25 and all proceeds support the Conference Scholarship Fund. » Submit your note today Saturday, April 14, Philadelphia, Pa.The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will be hosting the annual Alfred P. Fishman Symposium on April 14. This year’s symposium, “Pulmonary Vascular Phenotypes in Research and Clinical Care,” aims to present novel methods of phenotyping patients with pulmonary vascular disease, including genetic, metabolomic and network approaches. » Learn more Recently, PHers joined American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC) members to double our impact on Capitol Hill. We educated elected officials about the need for increased access to respiratory therapists and requested co-sponsorship of the Tom Lantos PH Research and Education Act. Learn more about AARC | Take action on the PH bill Disability.gov recently launched a newly designed website, making it easier for people with disabilities and their families to find disability services in their communities. The website connects Americans to more than 14,000 resources, including government agencies, academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. » View the site » Florida Suspends Doctor Accused of Illegal Stem Cell Therapy » Differences of Cardiac Output Measurements by Open-circuit Acetylene Uptake in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Cohort Study » Whittier Woman Receives Miracle and Gives Back » Annual Shamrock Run Paints Portland Green, Brings Joy to PH Patients and Participants » Las Vegas Woman Stays Positive While Battling Rare Diseases » Raynaud's Disease Sufferers Learn to Adapt, Avoid the Cold » More News March 24, 2012The 2012 Woodlands Crawfish FestivalThe Woodlands, Texas March 24, 2012Spur a Cure for PHPhoenix, Ariz. » Go to the Events Calendar Need more information? 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The Big Sleep For six weeks in the summer of 1999, national media congregated at the Maricopa County courthouse to observe the Scott Falater "Sleepwalking Murder" trial. The Phoenix case attracted such attention because of its peculiar facts and even more peculiar defense ("Wake-Up Call," Paul Rubin, July 1, 1999). That June, local television and radio stations broadcast the verdict live from Judge Ron Reinstein's courtroom: The jury concluded that Falater, a 43-year-old churchgoing father of two with no criminal history, had, with premeditation, stabbed his wife Yarmila 44 times, then rolled her into the family's swimming pool and held her head underwater. In so doing, the panel rejected Falater's contention that he'd unconsciously attacked his beloved wife in a sleepwalking state in January 1997. The attorneys tried to bolster their argument by pointing out that the usual motives for murder -- money and jealousy -- never had emerged. Falater was sentenced to life in prison, while his trial attorneys, Lori Voepel and Mike Kimerer, expressed hope that appeals they filed on his behalf would earn him a new trial. In a unanimous opinion issued January 17, the fifth anniversary of Yarmila Falater's murder, the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld Falater's conviction and sentence. The court recounted how a neighbor of the Falaters had seen Scott Falater try to quiet a barking dog, and continued to watch Falater as he'd rolled Yarmila into the pool and held her underwater with gloved hands. Police later found Scott Falater's bloody clothing and the murder weapon in his car trunk. Writing for the court, Judge Sheldon Weisberg scoffed at the defense contention that prosecutors should have had to prove Falater was not sleepwalking when he'd killed his wife. Weisberg noted that even a defense sleepwalking expert, Janet Tatman, had testified that scientists don't really know what goes on in a sleepwalker's mind. "[Tatman] even conceded that it was 'not impossible' that [Falater] lured the victim out to the backyard even if he was sleepwalking," Weisberg wrote. The justices rejected Falater's allegations of misconduct against prosecutor Juan Martinez, noting that Judge Reinstein had only sustained a handful of defense objections against Martinez during the three-week trial. The court also rejected Falater's argument that jurors should have been allowed to consider a manslaughter charge, which is far less serious under Arizona law than first-degree murder: "We agree with [Judge Reinstein] that there was no evidence of any provocation by the victim, let alone that [Scott Falater] had acted upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion." Get the This Week's Top Stories Newsletter Every week we collect the latest news, music and arts stories — along with film and food reviews and the best things to do this week — so that you’ll never miss Phoenix New Times' biggest stories. - Legal Marijuana in Arizona Would Generate $72M Yearly in Tax Revenue, New Report Says - John McCain Claims to Be Unaware of Arizona's Anti-Islam Movement and That Planned... - Phoenix Nativist Michelle Dallacroce Bashed "Anchor Babies" Before Donald Trump and...

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Specs for the Nokia Lumia 525 recently leaked, and we expect the Chinese variant to offer the same 4 inch LCD screen with resolution of 480 x 800 (WVGA). Under the hood is a dual-core 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of native storage. The phone brings a 5MP rear-facing snapper and is powered by a 1430mAh battery. The Lumia 526 connects to the proprietary TD-SCDMA network used by China Mobile. The Nokia Lumia 526 receives certification in China source: TENAA (translated) via liveside.net, WMPoweruser

Sony Ericsson to retain the Xperia mini concept in 2011 The words of Steven Walker, (acting) head of global marketing at Sony Ericsson: "There will be subsequent generations of products in these lines as well. We will see new Minis in the future." Furthermore, it seems like the guys at Sony Ericsson strongly believe in the company's existing product lines, and plan to retain them: "We believe in the concept of product lines and the idea of creating a product experience that will last beyond one hardware generation. I won’t go into specifics, but conceptually all these lines we created in 2010 will roll forward into 2011 and beyond. We want to build on all the Xperia lines and ranges." As we told you a few hours ago, the company claims it has learned from its mistakes. The fact is that a few promising Sony Ericsson phones are on the horizon - among them the XPERIA Play (a.k.a. the PlayStation Phone) and the Sony Ericsson Hallon, along with some more handsets that we told you about back in November. 2011 promises to be an exciting year for the Japanese-Swedish joint venture, and with MWC around the corner, it is sure that we will know more about its future projects very soon. We will be in Barcelona between 14-17 February, and as with CES, you can expect plenty of news and hands-on reports coming straight from the horse's mouth. 1. cadetz (unregistered) i really love the mini pro concept and i do hope they will have it in the market as most phones are getting bigger SE have one that is actually smaller which actually fits my hand and i can operated in one hand i am glad that they have it and hope SE can keep it

Sony already rose to prominence among Android manufactures this year, snatching the 2nd place from HTC , with just the almighty Samsung before it. If the rumored Sony Yuga flagships for the first half of next year are any indication, it might also carry this trend into 2013. After all, the leaks point to 5-inchers with Full HD displays, quad-core processors and 13 MP Exmor RS cameras on the back, which won't be something to sniff at even in the summer of next year. Now a user in the leaky Sony forum for their upcoming machines, is confirming the specs we expect for the Odin/Yuga, but throws a few more devices in the mix, if Google's translation is to be trusted: The most interesting part of the tip, however, is the Q4 flasghip of Sony, said to be intended for an October release. It is listed as a quad-core Cortez-A15 endeavor, but neither Qualcomm, nor NVIDIA with Tegra 4 are in the mix. It is also claimed to feature 3 GB of RAM, 16 MP camera, and 3,000 mAh battery, all worthy ingredients. The overall size is said to be around the Yuga, with the final design still being decided upon. Now that phone would be a sight to behold - between the 5" of the Droid DNA and eventually Galaxy S IV , the rumored 5.5" Optimus G2 , and the claimed 5/6" Sony flagships, next year is shaping up to push the final limits of smartphone screen size and resolution.

iPhone 4 Beats All SuperPhones Today magnumfinger 23 Jun 2010, 00:15 posted on 0 0 There's no doubt that the iPhone 4 today is the current superphone for the marketplace. Not saying that, we can't choose any alternatives if we want to. Although, one should realize that any smartphone has its time-clock, and iPhone's competitors isn't blind. Give this 3-4 months, and we'll see a new breed of smartphones which can perform at par or even better with this unit. 1. burtonsnow8 (Posts: 41; Member since: 05 Apr 2010) WTF are you talking about?? Phones with similar or better hardware have been out since late 2009. I understand you are blinded by everything apple but open your eyes, in terms of hardware this phone is not the best out there. It is very good and comparable with the latest round of smartphones, but it is in no way superior. I love the new changes to the os4 and I think the added functionality will help push apple on par in terms of software, but they still have a ways to go on hardware (replaceable battery, SD card). Apple makes a quality product but in no way is its OS or hardware superior, just a different flavor. 2. richk (Posts: 32; Member since: 23 Jun 2010) why is everyone hating s jobs has gone on record to say he takes old tech and makes it better i.e ipad etc 3. burtonsnow8 (Posts: 41; Member since: 05 Apr 2010) It is not that I'm hating, it is just that people think this has never been done before. I'm not saying that they don't have a great user interface and intuitive features. I am not saying fuck apple and steve jobs, i'm just asking that iPhone and apple users stop being so arrogant. Your products are not THAT innovative. Although I don't agree with everything in this post it does have some validity: http://calacanis.com/2009/08/0 5. osanilevich (Posts: 268; Member since: 29 Sep 2009) bottom line, if you want apps look no further than apple. if you want super speced workhorses look for android, WinPhone 7 (they have the best specs but windows has a slight advantage due to its standard requirements) or HTC (perhaps the EVO or the G2 for its build quality). You can also start with something from the DROID lineup but they are getting kind of outdated. If you are in the market for a quick business/messaging phone its Blackberry and nothing else 6. dan55 (Posts: 1; Member since: 16 Oct 2010) hi guys, ive got ip 3g and soon to upgrade - ip4 is obvious choice - but what about the HTC HD 2 ? cheers dan 7. osanilevich (Posts: 268; Member since: 29 Sep 2009) if you're interested in the HD2 I recommend waiting for the HD7 and then making a choice

We've already seen a slightly redesigned LG Optimus One headed for Verizon under the name Vortex, and now it looks like the device may be headed to T-Mobile, too. The good folks at TmoNews have received the photo you see above, a flier showing off the LG Optimus for T-Mobile, which is apparently going to be a "with Google" device. The most notable addition is the ability to make calls over WiFi, a feature which Android has been severely lacking. It's kind of tough to tell with the dark image above, but it also looks like T-Mobile won't be messing with the look of the Optimus One like Verizon did with the Vortex, opting instead to keep things as LG intended. There's no word on pricing or availability just yet, so stay tuned for more! As with almost all of these leaks that we see, keep in mind that this information should be taken with a few grains of salt. Still, I don't see why T-Mobile wouldn't want to release the Optimus, and this definitely isn't the first time we've seen a mention of an Optimus for T-Mo. Given all of the evidence, I'd say the Optimus looks pretty legit. Would any of you consider picking up the Optimus on T-Mo, especially considering the possibility of WiFi calling?

FCC Chair Genachowski to Step Down Julius Genachowski, who has for four years led the Federal Communications Commission, today announced his imminent departure from the organization. He will leave his post in the coming weeks, said the FCC. Genachowski was appointed to the post in 2009 by President Barack Obama. The FCC regulates radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable-based communications within the U.S., certifies telecommunications equipment for use in the U.S., and manages spectrum allocation and licensing. Genachowski's tenure has been marked by the accelerated move away from copper-based telecommunications to IP and broadband-based networks. Four candidates are on deck to replace Genshowski, reported the Wall Street Journal. Earlier this week, FCC commissioner Robert M. McDowell announced his plans to leave the FCC. The President will have to fill the two seats vacated by Genachowski and McDowell. The FCC is managed by five commissioners. Sorry to see him go

Back in May we shared that the Ubuntu Intel graphics performance was still in bad shape after testing out very early Ubuntu 9.10 packages. The netbook experience was killed in Ubuntu 9.04 after a buggy Intel Linux graphics stack led to slow performance, stability issues, screen corruption, and other problems. Months have passed since we last exhaustively looked at the Intel Linux graphics stack, but we have just carried out some new tests using Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3. This new development release of Ubuntu carries the latest kernel, Mesa, and Intel driver packages as we see how the graphics performance is with an Intel 945 and G43 chipsets. Yesterday NVIDIA released their first 190.xx Linux beta driver for their GeForce and Quadro graphics cards. The NVIDIA 190.16 Beta driver brought a number of VDPAU fixes, PowerMizer control features, a number of new official and unofficial OpenGL extensions receiving GLX protocol support, and there were a number of other fixes and enhancements too. However, now that we have had a chance to analyze this driver, there is more in store than what the change-log shares regarding this driver. There is in fact support for the unreleased OpenGL 3.2 specification. This morning VIA's Bruce Chang had submitted the DRM code for the Chrome 9 IGP with a request that it be pushed into the mainline Linux kernel. The DRM alone isn't usable to an end-user without a Mesa driver or something else to take advantage of this kernel component. VIA previously expressed interest in a Gallium3D-based Chrome 9 driver, but now today we find out they have no intentions on creating an open-source Chrome 9 3D driver. Instead, they just want this DRM into the mainline Linux kernel so that it can be used by their binary blob and to hopefully have some open-source developers come along and create a free software driver from their incomplete documentation. To those running ATI Radeon graphics cards on Linux, this week has been very important with several key announcements having been made. The TTM memory manager is getting ready for inclusion into the Linux kernel, which finally will allow the open-source ATI driver (and soon the Nouveau driver too for NVIDIA hardware) to have kernel-based GPU memory management. With the memory management work set in the ATI driver via a mix of TTM and GEM, the ATI kernel mode-setting is also getting ready to be released as a staging driver within the Linux 2.6.31 kernel. The announcements this week have not been only about the GPU and Linux kernel, but the Radeon driver rewrite has also been merged to master. As we discussed in yesterday's news post, this Radeon Mesa re-write brings several key improvements immediately and there are still more features to come. Kernel mode-setting for Intel graphics hardware can already be found in the mainline Linux kernel and will be included by default in the release of Ubuntu 9.10 later this year. While Intel's kernel mode-setting support has been maturing in a steadfast manner, this support has not been moving along quite as fast for ATI and NVIDIA hardware. It is possible we will see ATI/AMD kernel mode-setting along with the necessary memory management support enter the Linux 2.6.31 kernel and potentially see this feature appear in Ubuntu 9.10 as an end-user option, but currently this support is still deemed under development. For those with ATI Radeon hardware looking to test out kernel mode-setting, there is now a Launchpad PPA and a LiveCD available for testing out these mode-setting capabilities atop Ubuntu. For as long as I can recall, ATI/AMD video cards have typically had decent support in Linux. It's not hard to pick out points in time where drivers were slow to come (R300 sticks out in my mind), but that was not due to the lack of effort by the open-source community as it was the difficulty reverse engineering a chip with no documentation. Intel seems to be the one getting most of the press these days regarding their open-source graphics support, but AMD is putting forth its own notable effort as well. They have multiple full time employees working on open-source support and have released specifications and programming documentation for their entire range of chips. The past few months have seen a flurry of activity in graphics related development, and a fair amount of this is centered around AMD hardware. AMD ended out last year by releasing basic R600/700 3D code that allowed the rendering of open-source triangles, but not much in the way of usable OpenGL acceleration for end-users. Just last month AMD had then pushed out new R600/700 code that plugged into the Mesa stack and is being used as the groundwork for the providing open-source OpenGL acceleration on the Linux desktop with newer ATI graphics processors. In between December and April, AMD had also released extensive documentation covering the 3D engines on the R600 and R700 graphics processors along with the R700 instruction set architecture. While the open-source 3D support is still emerging for the Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series, AMD has released some more documentation. This time around they have a programming guide for those developers interested in understanding the latest ATI GPUs. We began talking about Intel graphics regressions in Ubuntu 9.04 back in January but for the most part that went under the radar at Canonical up until Ubuntu 9.04 was nearing release. At that point it was then explored whether greedy migration heuristics improved performance as the UXA acceleration architecture was still too problematic to enable by default. We had found that using some of the latest kernel code had improved the performance some, but still there were major regressions within Intel's new Linux driver stack. As we reported in December, the Nouveau driver is available in Ubuntu 9.04. Unlike Fedora 11 where the Nouveau driver is being enabled by default on NVIDIA hardware, the Nouveau driver will be an after-installation option to Ubuntu users. In this article are the simple steps on how to enabled the Nouveau driver in Ubuntu and what you can expect from this open-source, community-spawned graphics driver. In late December AMD had published open-source R600/700 3D code that also allowed for 2D and X-Video acceleration, but was not of use to end-users interested in full OpenGL acceleration. AMD had then released the R600/700 3D documentation a month later and then the R700 ISA documentation just a few weeks back. Today, however, AMD is finally pushing some workable code into a public code repository. X Server 1.6 was released back in February, and there have been test releases for it going back to the end of last year, but today AMD has finally delivered support for this new X.Org server in their proprietary Linux graphics driver. Like last month with the Catalyst 9.3 release, the Linux version was not released on the same day as the Windows build, which ended up being a one-week delay. Besides X Server 1.6 support there are also a few other changes in Catalyst 9.4 worth reporting. While Intel has long backed an open-source graphics driver for their integrated graphics driver, it was not up until last year when Intel released the i965/G35 documentation that there was public, NDA-free documentation concerning their newer IGPs. Later that year they then released the GMA X4500HD series and since then we have been waiting for them to push out public documentation concerning their G45 chipset. Well, Intel has finally come to the table with this documentation and it is very extensive. This documentation drop today is split into several volumes and makes up well over 1,000 pages of Intel hardware documentation and register descriptions that are available under the Creative Common Attribution, No Derivative Works license. As we have outlined before and shared benchmarks of in the past, the Intel graphics driver stack has been going through some significant changes. The Intel graphics driver now has a proper memory manager in the form of the Graphics Execution Manager, there is upstream kernel mode-setting support, and a new 3D component is coming soon in the form of Gallium3D. With all of this invasive work going on, regressions are currently prevalent from stability problems to graphical corruption to slower 2D performance. While these are problems users will face with the new distribution updates in H1'09, some have been trying out different driver configurations in order to circumvent the situation. Canonical, for example, had been toying with the idea of enabling greedy migration heuristics by default. While the Catalyst driver for Windows was released a number of days ago, the Catalyst Linux driver was missing. It has, however, been released today. AMD's Linux engineers ended up delaying the Catalyst 9.3 release so they could spend additional time tuning this driver, since it will be the last release that supports the R300 through R500 series as the support is being dropped. The significant feature that was pushed back into the Catalyst 9.3 Linux driver is improved Composite support. Ubuntu 9.04 will be released towards the end of next month and it is picking up the Linux 2.6.28 kernel, GNOME 2.26, and other improvements like install-time support for the EXT4 file-system and some subtle improvements. When it comes to the X.Org side it is shipping with X Server 1.6 and the stabilized version of Mesa 7.3. Specifically in regards to the ATI Linux graphics, it will be shipping with an updated xf86-video-ati driver by default and Catalyst 9.4 will be an option for the user. With Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6 having been released last week, we have run a few benchmarks comparing the open-source ATI performance in Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6. In this edition of the Nouveau Companion, covered is the status of this open-source NVIDIA display driver and what went on at FOSDEM with the Nouveau project status and combining LLVM with Gallium3D. Recently the Nouveau developers have been successful in using EXA acceleration on newer GeForce 9 graphics cards, backlight controls working on more NVIDIA graphics cards, and a port of the Nouveau driver to FreeBSD. Work on kernel mode-setting and proper kernel memory management is also underway. This afternoon AMD has released the Catalyst 9.3 driver for Windows along with ADL, or the AMD Display Library. The AMD Display Library is a cross-platform library that provides a single SDK to access graphics hardware information. In the past AMD has provided a few SDKs for obtaining this information on Windows, but this is the first time we are seeing such support on Linux. This year NVIDIA has been following the "release early, release often" mantra with it seeming like two weeks can't even go by without seeing a new Linux driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of their legacy drivers picking up a few fixes (at times they have even released four drivers at once). On the opposite spectrum, AMD continues with monthly Catalyst driver updates on both Linux and windows. Rather than a continual stream of new public driver releases, AMD maintains a private beta program for their Catalyst Linux driver. This private program is made up of AMD developers, hardware vendors, users of different Linux distributions, other Linux vendors, and end-users. Phoronix has been apart of this program for years, but those testing this driver are under a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement with AMD regarding pre-releases of their Linux software. Today, however, AMD has decided to declassify some information pertaining to its Linux Graphics Driver Beta Program. Yesterday we broke the news that AMD will stop supporting the R300-500 GPUs in the Catalyst driver. There have been well over one hundred posts in the Phoronix Forums from ATI customers upset with this decision, but fortunately, there is first-rate open-source support available. AMD continues to release documentation and code while the X.Org development community has been hard at work on the xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd drivers along with Mesa and Gallium3D components. The main problem though is the open-source stack -- at this time -- providing poor gaming performance, but power management can also be a problem. In yesterday's article we provided some R500 comparative 2D and OpenGL benchmarks, but in this article are some power management results comparing the Catalyst 9.2 driver to the xf86-video-ati driver. Beginning next month with the Catalyst 9.4 release, support for the R300/400/500 generations of graphics processors will be dropped from AMD's mainline ATI driver. In a move they hope will allow them to focus their efforts on newer and upcoming graphics processors, the mainline Catalyst driver on both Linux and Windows will stop supporting cards older than the Radeon HD 2000 series. Linux customers affected will be encouraged to use their open-source driver stack (xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd and Mesa) or stay with the Catalyst 9.3 driver. For months we have seen S3 Graphics advertise a magical Linux driver in their press releases that promised to offer OpenGL 3.0 support and advanced video functionality. They had reported to us the driver would be released in December, but that deadline had passed and they continued to announce Linux support when launching the Chrome 540 GTX, but still there was nothing. However, S3 Graphics has now actually delivered such a driver! They have delivered a Chrome 500 series Linux driver that not only provides OpenGL 3.0 support but also H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 hardware decoding on the GPU. While it may appear to be good, this driver is still far from perfect. During the X.Org meetings at FOSDEM, Stephane Marchesin had discussed what he and other open-source developers are doing by using a code compiler (LLVM) and interweaving it with the Gallium3D driver architecture. By strapping the Low-Level Virtual Machine to Gallium3D, developers are hoping they can use the power of this relatively new compiler infrastructure to provide advanced GPU shader optimizations. This is not exactly an easy task, but it is believed it can be accomplished with beneficial results and they are making progress. At FOSDEM 2009 in Keith Packard's talk on the rebuilt Linux desktop, he shared the progress made in composited 3D, monitor auto-plugging, 2D/3D/media shared objects, kernel mode-setting, and kernel-based 2D drawing. Allowing these problems to be addressed was the Graphics Execution Manager for kernel memory management. The Graphics Execution Manager was used instead of TTM (which we talked about several times before at Phoron The first X.Org talk at FOSDEM 2009 was on version 1.3 of the Resize and Rotate extension. Matthias Hopf talked about RandR 1.3 and then Keith Packard demonstrated the transformations and panning operations using this soon-to-be-released version of RandR. Among the features for RandR 1.3 are querying state without output probing, multi-monitor panning, display transformations (translation, scaling, rotation, projection), and support for standard outputs. Just over a month ago we shared that patches had emerged to support Intel's VA-API in MPlayer and FFmpeg. VA-API supports popular video formats such as MPEG-4 and VC-1 and is able to accelerate IDCT, Motion Compensation, LVC, bit-stream processing, and other functions, but this video API has not picked up much speed yet. The only display driver to have implemented support for VA-API in the hardware is Intel's closed-source driver (the one that's a bloody mess) for the Poulsbo chipset, which is found in a few select netbooks/nettops. However, it is now possible to use Intel's VA-API with NVIDIA hardware (the GeForce 8 series and later) and soon will be possible to use this video API on ATI/AMD hardware too. AMD has just released its first official Catalyst driver update for the new year. AMD had delivered several key improvements to their proprietary Linux driver stack last year as we shared in our AMD Linux 2008 Year in Review, but what's there to get excited about in Catalyst 9.1? Well, first and foremost there is improved Composite support during video playback, Hybrid CrossFire support, and a number of fixes. Oh, and there's also OpenGL 3.0 support! The NVIDIA 180.22 Linux driver was released less than three weeks ago, but today NVIDIA has released a new 180.xx display driver update. In addition, NVIDIA has updated all three of their legacy display drivers. A month ago we compared Intel's graphics performance between Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest Ubuntu 9.04 daily snapshot at the time. With those tests we found Intel's performance had degraded significantly. However, with many new graphics packages having been released since then, we have carried out some additional tests this morning to look at where the Intel Linux graphics performance stands today. Earlier this week we delivered results from a comparison between the Catalyst and X.Org Radeon drivers looking at the R500 2D performance. With a lot of interest having been generated from that, we have now carried out the same set of tests again but this time using an ATI Radeon HD 4850 (RV770) graphics card and the experimental EXA support. Four months after Mesa 7.2 was released, Mesa 7.3 has now officially surfaced. Mesa 7.3 has been in testing since earlier this month with it having gone through three release candidates. The new features found in this latest version of the standard Open-Source OpenGL stack is proper support for GLSL 1.20 and the Intel DRI driver now supports the Graphics Execution Manager and Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2. 716 display drivers articles published on Phoronix.

Version 7.10 of the GNU Debugger (GDB) has been released with various new features and updates to existing functionality. GNU Hurd now has a native package manager via the Guix package manager. Earlier this month I wrote about glibc 2.22 and its new features being ready for release and today that version has been officially put out the door. Glibc 2.22 has been tagged and is in the process of going out the door for release while the latest Git code now reflects development for glibc 2.23. GNU Guix, the functional package manager designed for the GNU system and GuixSD distribution, is out with a new release that has more than 800 commits over the past two months. One of the features coming for glibc 2.22 is a port to Google's Native Client for ARMv7-A while separately there is also a new vector math library (libmvec) for OMP4. GNU Octave, a high-level programming language for numerical computations and an open-source alternative to MATLAB, is out this weekend with a huge release. Meet GNU Octave 4.0. GCC 5 was formally released this week with under their new versioning scheme the initial stable release being GCC 5.1. GCC 6.0 is now in development as the next major release due out in about one year's time while the next GCC 5 point release will be GCC 5.2. Version 0.6 of GNU Hurd was released today. Before getting too excited about GNU Hurd, it's still bound to x86 32-bit and doesn't offer any compelling new features. A new version of the modern GnuPG was released on Saturday by Werner Koch. GNU Nano 2.4.0 was released this morning as the first stable update to this open-source CLI text editor in a number of years. Version 7.9 of the GNU Debugger is now available with numerous new features. Following yesterday's release of the Linux 3.19 kernel is the newest version of the GNU Linux-libre kernel that strips out kernel functionality dependent on binary-only microcode/firmware images. Richard Stallman has come out against support for basic LLVM debugger (LLDB) support within Emacs' Gud.el as he equates it to an attack on GNU packages. Version 2.21 of the GNU C Library is now available. Glibc 2.21 fixes a lot of issues while also adding some new functionality. GNU Guix continues to be one of the most interesting new package management initiatives going on in the past few years. Guix also continues evolving into its own Linux distribution filled with GNU software. While it doesn't get talked about too much these days, GNU Hurd remains under active development. A GNU Hurd developer has shared a status update about the state of Hurd in 2015 and how you can start contributing. Back in 2013 the Free Software Foundation endorsed its first laptop as respecting the user's freedoms. Being announced today is another laptop now being endorsed by the FSF. The latest high-profile security vulnerability affecting Linux systems us within Glibc, the GNU C Library. The GCC libgomp library started off with a focus on OpenMP support, but its supported interfaces and targets have outgrown its original focus. GNU Automake 1.15 was released today as a bug-fix release and continued warning about Automake 2.0 breakage. The Automake 1.15 release comes one year after the development of this important GNU project has been on rather troubled ground. The first version of GNU Nano-Archimedes was released on Sunday and is trying to free up more of quantum simulations. If you're not into all of the modern, resource-intensive Linux games or just prefer something more skillful, GNU Chess has been updated for some terminal gaming action. 2014 wasn't the year of the GNU/Hurd desktop, but nevertheless this nearly 25 year old micro-kernel made more progress this year. The GNU Guix package manager also made interesting process this year along with the many other associated GNU projects. Version 2.25 of Binutils is new this week. Binutils consists of the GNU linker and assembler along with other common binary tools to GNU/Linux environments. The Free Software Foundation has now built up a committee to review their "High Priority Projects" list and they're looking for more feedback from the community. Grep 2.21 has been released and represents nearly a half-year worth of improvements to this commonly used GNU utility. The GNU Guix functional package manager has been updated to version 0.8 and incorporates four months of changes. GNU Emacs is finally in the process of transitioning to Git for their revision control system rather than GNU Bazaar. The Software Freedom Conserfancy and Free Software Foundation have announced Copyleft.org. 114 GNU news articles published on Phoronix.

Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers Take the Heat Out of Materials ProcessingAndrew May, Rofin-Baasel UK Ltd. Ultrashort-pulse (USP) lasers have, since the late 1990s, been an exciting technology looking for opportunities to gain mass market application in industrial materials processing. In recent years, a wide range of new products offering innovative architectures and higher pulse energy combined with high pulsing frequencies are finding many uses in regular manufacturing, where they make components with unprecedented quality, accuracy and speed without visible signs of thermal interaction during the cutting or drilling process. Owing to the high speed (short duration) of the pulses, the laser energy can be input to the material in a shorter time than heat can be transferred – leading to cutting and ablation without dross, burr or visible melt damage. Cold laser materials processing using USP lasers has become one of the most promising new technologies for high-precision cutting, ablation, etching and drilling of almost all types of material, without causing thermal damage to the part. These characteristics have opened up new application areas and materials for laser processing, allowing previously impossible features to be created and also reducing the amount of postprocessing required to an absolute minimum, saving time and cost. Two major advances in the design of USP lasers in recent years have allowed them to move from being primarily a research tool in universities, institutes and major R&D laboratories to the shop floor, where they can now be found undertaking production processes in high volumes and at previously impossible speeds. First, the advances in fiber laser design have simplified the laser source, dramatically reducing the size of the laser resonator and eliminating the need for fine tweaking of mirror mounts to optimize the output. This has provided the reliability and stability necessary to integrate these systems into production tools and also enhanced the ease of operation, eliminating the need for any daily adjustment of output or for continuous system maintenance using dedicated experts. Figure 1. Laser pulse duration influences removal rate and quality. Photos courtesy of Rofin-Baasel UK Ltd. The second advance is that the output power range has been dramatically increased both in terms of pulse energy and average power. Fine cutting of intricate parts is now possible at a much higher pulse frequency, and higher cutting speeds have made the applications economically viable, delivering a faster return on investment for the production tool. Manufacturers must choose from laser sources covering the range from femtoseconds to milliseconds, as well as CW lasers, finding the ideal combination of quality, throughput and cost for a specific application. An open-minded view is better than a “one size fits all” philosophy. In some cases, the quality and speed of a more conventional source will be sufficient for the application needs, so a USP laser might not be a necessity to achieve the production goal. Industrial picosecond and femtosecond lasers have seen wider applications in less than a decade, from the medical device market in the early days to many other major industries including electronics, semiconductor, automotive and microtechnology manufacturing. A few case studies show how specific application results are achieved using a particular laser source. Driving the future of automotive engines Drilling injector-nozzle holes for automotive gas engines is an application that demands tight control of diameter and shape of the hole, with excellent straightness and the avoidance of taper or heat-affected zone in the metal around the hole (diesel-engine injector-hole drilling is even more demanding and not yet practical in production using laser processing). The automotive industry is being driven by legislation to provide better efficiency of engines, combined with lower emissions without knock-on degradation of the performance in terms of acceleration or torque. The goal is to achieve maximum combustion while maintaining the required horsepower, and the use of direct fuel injection is the area where such improvements can be made, potentially combining the benefits of current diesel engine fuel economy with the attractive emissions benefits of gasoline. Many of the major car manufacturers are working on new engines based on this technology, and the optimum hole geometry and patterns are used to optimize the results in the engine performance. Stainless steel with a thickness of 300 µm can be drilled using 250-fs pulses, achieving the diameter and hole-quality consistency demanded by the market at speeds that make it viable for production (Figure 2). The same technology can also be used in other markets, such as for drilling ruby crystals in the watch industry or for fine drilling of silicon, glass or polymers in the medical industry. Figure 2. These injector holes, 120 µm in diameter, were drilled by Rofin’s StarFemto FX at 250 fs; they show excellent quality with no sign of thermal damage. Photos courtesy of Rofin-Baasel UK Ltd. Precise engraving plates Another example comes from the printing industry, where pad printing (or tampography) transfers ink from a cliché plate to an object. The current process typically uses plastic plates produced by photolithography followed by wet chemical etching. An alternative process allows metal plates to be engraved precisely using ultrashort laser pulses. The metal plates have a longer life, and as long as the required accuracy can be obtained by laser engraving without burr or distortion, the results are suitable for high-security or high-quality applications. A high-repetition-rate laser that can provide pulses as short as 12 ps at up to 20 MHz, combined with high-speed galvo scanning beam delivery, enables the ablation of large areas at high speed to achieve the required throughput and economic advantages necessary to justify the choice of laser in production. One such laser is the StarPico from Rofin, and it is not just a laser for ablation – the short pulses can also cut composites and other materials. Better screens for smartphones The final example is taken from the electronics industry: the ablation of metal or organic coatings from glass or other substrates, which produces portable electronic touchscreens and displays for the booming market for smartphones and personal entertainment devices. Manufacturers need to maximize the scribing speed of coating ablation and also achieve excellent consistency of coating removal – without damage to the substrate. A laser with longer picosecond pulses (approximately 800 ps) offers a good combination of repetition rate and pulse duration, allowing it to remove thin layers accurately at speed (Figure 3). Figure 3. This 1-µm indium tin oxide coating was ablated from glassusing the PowerLine Pico from Rofin. Photos courtesy of Rofin-Baasel UK Ltd. For solar cell ablation, it is necessary to entirely remove fine coatings with minimum damage to the silicon material, which is very sensitive to cracking and melting if the wrong parameters are used (or the wavelength or pulse duration is not optimized for the application). Reaping the benefits At shorter wavelengths (by frequency doubling or tripling), all these lasers perform better in materials where the natural absorption at around 1-µm wavelength is not appropriate to achieve the best results. In this case, changing to a visible (green) or, in some cases, UV wavelength can offer the best performance and suit materials affected by discoloration or thermal damage where longer pulses or longer wavelengths have been used in the past. Meet the author Andrew May is the managing director of Rofin-Baasel UK Ltd. in Daventry, England; email: email@example.com.

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Bonnie & Clyde will play the Washington University South Campus Theater (6501 Clayton Rd) Oct. 2-25, Jerry Springer the Opera will run March 5-28. Scott Miller and Mike Dowdy will direct both shows. Casting follows: The Bonnie & Clyde cast includes Matt Pentecost, Larissa White, Brendan Ochs, Sarah Porte, Reynaldo Arceno, Zachary Allen Farmer, Christopher “Zany” Clark, Mara Bollini, Joel Hackbarth, Alison Helmer, Ann Hier, Marshall Jennings, Nellie Mitchell, Kimi Short,and Christopher Strawhun. The Jerry Springer the Opera cast includes Keith Thompson, Kevin Collier, Pentecost, Farmer, Ryan Foizey, Jennings, Lindsey Jones, Taylor Pietz, Christina Rios, Anna Skidis, and Luke Steingruby, Reynaldo Arceno, Joel Hackbarth, Kurtis Heinrich, Ann Hier, Sarah Porter, Michelle Sauer and Short. The third show in New Line's season, The Threepenny Opera, will run May 28-June 20; casting will be announced at a later date. Tickets range from $15-$25. For other information and to purchase, visit newlinetheatre.com.

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