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I think the lovely and talented Amber Campisi, Miss February 2005, is a really special woman from an amazing family, so it was a pleasure putting together this post, although there was sadness in it, too.
Photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda.
As one of the managers of Campisi's Restaurant, a family-run business that has been a Dallas favorite since 1946, Amber Campisi can be chauvinistic about her family's cooking. "I'll eat anything," she says, "but I don't usually like Italian anywhere else. The way we do it is just better."
When the 23-year-old restaurateur visited our office, she hauled in enough oval Campisi's pizzas to feed the staff. "My family can't travel without them," she says. "When we go to the Cayman Islands every year, we bring lasagna and pizzas in a cooler. It's ridiculous."
"There are pictures of me wearing an apron and a name tag when I was five years old," she says. "I would go to work with my dad when I was little and stay until closing time. They'd cover me with napkins, and I'd sleep in a booth."
Jack Ruby, a friend of Amber's grandfather Joe, dined there the night before he shot Lee Harvey Oswald. This led the Warren Commission to interview the elder Campisi. "One of the stories is that Ruby came in and told my grandfather he was going to do it to spare the Kennedys the pain of a trial," she says. Whatever was said that night, Dallas now has seven Campisi's restaurants that are better known for their squisito Italian cuisine. ("Specialty of the House," Playboy, February 2005.)
AMBITIONS: To help run the family restaurant and one day pass it on to my children.
TURN-ONS: Athletic men, someone who is confident but not cocky, and redheads.
FAVORITE COLLEGE COURSES: Nonprofit Communication, Communication Research and Argumentation
Heck yeah, charity and hot gingers — you see what I mean? This girl is super awesome. And you know she eats spaghetti. Strong family bonds, love of cooking, she's got some great and special qualities, in my opinion. This is not some airbrushed airhead looking to launch a D-list career with her rack. Ms. Campisi seems fun-loving and genuine.
Her father, was on an E! special called Wildest Party Parents, which focused on his restaurant Campisi's Egyptian Room.
The handlers at the E! cable network have been very soothing to Dallas restaurateur Corky Campisi, who will be featured in Friday night's Wildest Party Parents.
"They said, 'Don't worry, you won't be embarrassed,' " says Corky. "The previews show me with a girl's high heel in my mouth."
Regardless, Corky is anything but embarrassed. "As long as it's good for business," he says, referring to his family's Mockingbird Lane eatery, Campisi's Egyptian.
An E! camera crew was in Dallas in December and filmed Corky out on the town with his three daughters, former Playboy centerfold Amber Campisi and twin sisters Tara and Gina Campisi. ("Campisi puts the E! in party." Peppard, Alan. The Dallas Morning News, May 30, 2007.)
You may hit Ms. Campisi up on the myspace, or follow her on the twitter. Sadly, Amber's younger sister Gina just passed away last Wednesday, February 3. She was only 26. Amber got this tattoo as a memorial.
I'm sure their large family is beside themselves over losing her sister so young, especially Gina's twin Tara. So maybe, please, don't send Amber a bunch of pervy or weird stuff right now?
The Morning News is reporting that Gina Campisi's death is an apparent suicide, which understandably makes the loss that much more tragic and difficult for her family to process. It's especially tragic because she had only recently begun to build on her family's food history and make a name for herself.
With business partner Brittany O'Daniel, Gina had opened her own restaurant, Fedora Restaurant & Lounge at One Arts Plaza, just last year. When you go to the website for Fedora, it is not only gorgeous and well-designed, but, on a fun note, it plays the "Parla più piano" ("Speak softly, love") theme made famous in the Godfather films. It seems that, like Amber, Gina was sensitive to family traditions, stylish history, and culinary flair.
Interior shot during a party.
Fine Italian dining demands a swanky, romantic setting –– like that of Fedora Restaurant & Lounge, owned by Dallas' Gina Campisi and Brittney O'Daniel and designed by Tyler Duncan of Duncan Design Group. Reminiscent of a scene from The Godfather or an Al Pacino mobster movie, large plush red couches, black, white and cream interiors and dramatic chandeliers give the restaurant a 1940s feel. Flat screen televisions play classic Hollywood flicks as the sensational smells of Chef Jordan's creations waft from the kitchen. ("About Fedora," official site)
Gina in 2008 at a DIFFA Dining by Design event in North Dallas; photograph by Christopher Wynn of Eats Blog, guidelive.com
Enter Gina Campisi. The 25-year-old granddaughter of the legendary Joe Campisi is no stranger to the local scene. Her family's Campisi's Egyptian has been dishing out pizza and pasta for more than 60 years, though her new restaurant is far removed from the old-school appeal of the family business. …
Campisi says her aim was to create a place that was hip and modern while appealing to a broad cross section of Dallas diners. "And really, I just wanted to stay as true to my roots and upbringing as possible," she says.
For delivering credible, updated Italian food with flair* – and an approachably modest price point – I'll give Fedora a tip of the hat.
("Restaurant Review: Fedora." Harwell, Kim. The Dallas Morning News, March 13, 2009.)
*Please note that the chef at the time of Ms. Harwell's review, Christopher Patrick, is no longer with Fedora. Beginning in December 2009, the kitchen has been headed by Chef Jordan Rogers.
All of my condolences to the Campisi family, and R.I.P. to Gina Campisi. Male a che muori; s'acconza la menestra ("Pity he who dies; those who live, continue to prepare the supper.").


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A California judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Apple that claimed Apple defrauded China-based Proview when the company purchased the rights to use the iPad trademark in China in 2009. The two companies have been locked in a dispute over ownership of the trademark since 2010.
Judge Mark Pierce agreed that Apple's motion to dismiss the suit had merit based on the fact that the two companies had already agreed to settle the dispute over the trademark in Hong Kong. Both companies are currently involved in court-ordered settlement talks there. His order was signed on Friday, May 4, and discovered by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
Apple had purchased the rights to use the "iPad" trademark in China and other Asian countries from Proview in 2009 using a UK-based proxy called "IP Application Development." That proxy later turned the trademarks over to Apple, which launched the iPad in early 2010. Proview then claimed that the trademarks were sold by a subsidiary without the main company's permission, and sued Apple for $1.5 billion in damages.
Proview filed an additional lawsuit in California Superior Court, claiming that Apple had indeed acquired the trademarks, but did so "with oppression, fraud and/or malice," since IP Application Development made no mention of eventually transferring the trademarks to Apple.

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Submitted to: Weed Science Society of America Meeting Abstracts
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Publication Acceptance Date: 11/4/2007
Publication Date: 2/4/2008
Citation: Webber III, C.L., Shrefler, J.W. 2008. Corn gluten meal as an alternative organic preemergence herbicide for onions (Allium cepa L.) [abstract]. Weed Science Society of America, February 4-8, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. Paper No. 34.
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Technical Abstract: Onions (Allium cepa L.) are a potential alternative crop for Oklahoma and northeast Texas and corn gluten meal (CGM) is an alternative organic preemergence herbicide. Successful onion production is dependent on reliable weed control because of the onion's slow growth rate, short height, non-branching plant structure, low leaf area, and shallow root system. Corn gluten meal is a certified organic material with potential as a preemergence or preplant incorporated herbicide for organic crop production. In addition to weed control efficacy, it is important to also determine the crop safety of any proposed herbicide. In 2002 and 2003 field research was conducted in southeast Oklahoma (Lane, OK) to determine the impact of organic and synthetic preemergence herbicides on weed control efficacy, crop safety, and onion yields (cv. Hybrid Yellow Granex PRR). The 9 organic treatments evaluated included 5 CGM applications, a full-season weed-free (hand-weeded) treatment, a full-season weedy-check, a partial-season weed-free (weed-free for the first half of the growing season), and a weedy-check without onions. Corn gluten meal was applied at 4 rates (1000, 2000, 3000, and 4000 kg/ha) plus a full-season hand-weeded treatment combined with a 4000 kg/ha CGM application. Visual crop injury, weed control ratings, and onion yields were evaluated. The highest CGM rate (4000 kg/ha) maintained 72.1% total weed control and 82.7% broadleaf weed control until 46 days after planting. Although the CGM applications did not produce visual phytotoxic symptoms or any reductions in bulb production, the large and total marketable yields were less for the CGM weed-free treatment than the full-season weed-free treatment. The reduction in onion yields for the CGM weed-free treatment compared to the full-season weed-free indicate that CGM had a negative impact on spring-transplanted onion growth. Increased weed competition caused a downward shift in bulb size distribution across the four bulb categories (colossal, large, medium, and small). This research demonstrated that corn gluten meal can provide moderate weed control for spring-transplanted onions, but supplemental weed control is required to maximize onion yields.


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As an avid hiker, I'm always looking for backpacks to make me more comfortable on the trail. I've just seen a new one that I think is revolutionary.
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All right, baseball fans, the NLCS and ALCS are poised to throw their first pitches as the path to the World Series continues.
And these two LCS series, more than any other in recent memory, feature pitching match-ups that are a dream for baseball purists. The Phillies may have the three best starters with which any team has ever entered the postseason. And the Yankees are not far behind. That should make for some great LCS games…and two very deserving teams heading to the World Series. (more…)


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Expenses & Deductions
Deductions for meals and entertainment expenditures are generally limited to 50% of the actual expense incurred, per Sec. 274(n). However, who is allowed to deduct the expenditures and, in turn, is subject to the limitation, can be complicated for expenditures incurred while performing services for another individual under a reimbursement arrangement.
An exception under Sec. 274(e)(3) requires the limitation to be applied to the person who actually bears the expense when an individual pays or incurs expenditures for meals and entertainment while performing services for someone else under a reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement.
This exception is often applied in an employer/employee relationship, but it also applies to independent contractors and other nonemployees. The IRS recently issued proposed regulations (REG-101812-07) that clarify the definition of a reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement and provide guidance on the applicability of the Sec. 274(e)(3) exception under various circumstances including employer/employee, two-party, and multiparty arrangements. Although the effective date of these regulations is on or after the date they are published as final, the IRS noted that taxpayers may currently rely on them.
Reimbursement or Other Expense Allowance Arrangement Defined
The proposed regulations adopt the position taken in Rev. Rul. 2008-23 that for purposes of Sec. 274(e)(3), reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangements include, but are not limited to, accountable plans as defined in Sec. 62(c). Under the proposed regulations, a reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement involving employees is an arrangement under which an employee receives an advance, allowance, or reimbursement from a payer (the employer, its agent, or a third party) for expenses the employee pays or incurs in performing services as an employee. A reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement involving persons that are not employees is an arrangement under which an independent contractor receives an advance, allowance, or reimbursement from a client or customer for expenses the independent contractor pays or incurs in performing services if either (1) a written agreement between the parties expressly provides that the client or customer will reimburse the independent contractor for expenses that are subject to the deduction limitations, or (2) a written agreement between the parties expressly identifies the party that is subject to the limitations under Regs. Secs. 1.274-2(a)–(e) and Sec. 274(n).
Adequate Substantiation
As indicated in the proposed regulations, the main requirement of a reimbursement or other expense allowance plan for a person other than an employer is that the individual substantiate to the reimbursing party the amount of expenses incurred. The individual can substantiate or account for actual allowable expenses by maintaining adequate records or other sufficient evidence. Adequate records include maintaining an account book, diary, log, statement of expenses, trip sheets, or bills to support the expenses. The taxpayer should have documentary evidence such as canceled checks or receipts to support the expenses incurred. Alternatively, for expenditures that are incurred while traveling away from home, under Rev. Proc. 2011-47, taxpayers can use an optional per diem rate to substantiate those business expenditures and determine the deductible amount. The per diem rate is generally equal to the sum of the applicable federal lodging expense rate and the applicable meals and incidental expense rate, as published annually by the General Services Administration. (See News Notes, p. 782.)
While substantiation is not included in the requirements for the exception for reimbursement arrangements between an employer and an employee under Prop. Regs. Sec. 1.274-2(f)(2)(iv)(B), substantiation is required under Sec. 274(d) to support any deduction taken by the employer.
Reimbursement of Meals and Entertainment for an Employer/Employee
Presuming that the substantiation requirement is met, a key question in determining whether a reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement qualifies for the exception under Sec. 274(e)(3) is whether the employer includes the reimbursement in the employee's compensation. If the employer includes the amount of reimbursement in employee compensation, then the employee bears the expense and can deduct the amount as an employee business expense subject to the 50% and other applicable limitations. The employer would deduct its payment to the employee as compensation expense that is not subject to the limitation. However, if the employer does not include the reimbursement in the employee's wages, the employer deducts the expense subject to the limitation.
Independent Contractors and Sec. 274(e) Exception
The proposed regulations also clarify how the Sec. 274(n) limitation applies to independent contractors. When an independent contractor performs services for a client or customer in a reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement and the customer then reimburses the independent contractor, the deduction limitation does not apply to the independent contractor to the extent that the independent contractor accounts for the expenditures to the client or customer. In that case, the client or customer is subject to the limitation and deducts the expenses. If, however, the independent contractor does not account for the expenditures to the customer or client, the contractor is subject to the limitation. Similar rules apply to multiparty reimbursement arrangements.
Multiparty Reimbursement Arrangements
In a typical multiparty reimbursement arrangement, an employee pays or incurs expenditures that are reimbursed by another party (an initial payer), and a third party then reimburses that initial payer in accordance with a reimbursement agreement. This situation occurs when a company leases its employees to a client to provide services. The proposed regulations state that such an arrangement must be analyzed as a series of separate two-party reimbursement arrangements. The first arrangement is between the employee and the initial payer, and the second arrangement is between the initial payer and the third party. If the initial payer accounts to the third party for the expenditures incurred by the employee, then the initial payer is not subject to the limitation, and the third party, which pays the actual expense, is subject to the limitation. However, if the initial payer does not account to the third party for the expenditures, the initial payer deducts the expenses subject to the limitation as the party that actually bears the expenses.
When analyzing the applicability of the Sec. 274(e)(3) exception, one ultimately must ask who bears the actual expense. The party that bears the expense generally is subject to the 50% limitation. An independent contractor with an arrangement with a customer or client needs to account to the customer or client for the expenses. If the expenditures are not accounted for, the party that incurred the expenditures is subject to the 50% limitation.
When taxpayers incur Sec. 274 expenditures under a reimbursement or other expense allowance agreement, reviewing the proposed regulations will help determine which party is subject to the 50% limitation.
Michael Koppel is with Gray, Gray & Gray LLP in Westwood, Mass.
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There's little doubt from the reporting of the lackluster meeting between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 in Mexico yesterday that the White House's Russia policy is moving from "reset" to "regret."
Of course, we've seen this coming for awhile — despite lots of wishful thinking on the administration's part.
Team Obama's hope over the last three-plus years has been that Russia would become a partner of the United States on a range of international issues if ties could only be "reset," pruning away thorny tensions that have grown in the relationship.
In other words, if we could just get relations chummy enough, the Kremlin and the White House would become a dynamic duo, tackling a growing list of world problems.
So much for that plan.
One key focus of the "reset" policy was getting Russia to help stop Iran's expanding nuclear (weapons) program. While supporting some added pressure on Tehran, Moscow hasn't really come on board.
This week's P5+1 meeting (the latest in a seemingly endless series) in Moscow on Iranian nukes probably won't change that.
In fact, after the supposed "reset," Russia finished building Iran's first nuclear reactor and provided fuel for it. If Tehran doesn't return the fuel rods, it could reprocess them for plutonium, providing another avenue for making nukes.
The Russians have been continually cranky about US-led missile defense in Europe, too, seeing it as being aimed at their nuclear deterrent rather than at the growing Iranian missile threat.
The griping didn't stop even after Obama unilaterally abrogated the deal to put antimissile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Not long ago, a senior Russian general rattled a Soviet-like saber, threatening a pre-emptive strike on US-NATO missile defenses in Eastern Europe, if necessary.
Another flashpoint is Syria. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week blasted the Russians with both barrels for sending weapons to their longtime friend, the Syrian regime. Even with a few words of support for a democratic transition in Syria at the G-20, Moscow has frustrated Washington's UN efforts to punish Syria's Basher, er, Bashar Assad. (The Kremlin is reportedly crabby about Libya, believing the mission crept beyond its original UN mandate.)
Russia continues to befriend countries of concern, too: Venezuela is a rapacious buyer of Russian arms; Moscow held its first-ever naval exercises with Beijing in April in the Yellow Sea, waters China considers "sensitive" to US military operations.
Team Obama has tried to lump Russia in with its claimed foreign-policy successes, citing the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and Moscow's provision of supply and withdrawal routes in and out of Afghanistan as proof positive of better relations.
Of course, many see New START as having advantaged the Russians, since a majority of the cuts came from us. The Russia-Afghanistan road is worrisome because it's much more expensive than through Pakistan (currently closed) and gives Moscow leverage over us, especially when we pull out.
Critics say we've also given ground on a Russian sphere of influence in some parts of the former Soviet Union's stompin' grounds — and Obama's certainly been pretty much mum on political and social liberty in Russia.
Yet the president may still be hoping for a "reset" redo in a second term. Who can forget his open-mike moment this spring, offering now-former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev more flexibility on missile defense after the US election?
Isn't that comforting?
The fact is Putin wants the US to get out of the way of Russia's re-emergence — but is willing to cooperate on issues that benefit him politically or Moscow in general. That's really nothing new.
So it's probably a good time to forget the reset — and instead embrace a pragmatic policy that sees Russia for what it is, not what Team Obama hopes against hope it will be.
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Qods Force is now a listed terrorist entity under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act.
According to the Ministry of Public Safety, the Qods Force is the clandestine branch of the IRGC responsible for extraterritorial operations and for exporting the Iranian Revolution through activities such as facilitating terrorist operations.
"The Qods Force provides arms, funding and paramilitary training to extremist groups, including the Taliban, Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command," the ministry said in a statement.
The news came Dec. 20 from Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, following the government's Dec. 11 addition of the IRGC to the list of entities under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA), which allows Canada to take action against businesses, groups and individuals who fund such organizations.
"The list of terrorist entities sends a strong message that Canada will not tolerate terrorist activities, including terrorist financing, or those who support such activities," Toews said.
Jewish community organizations greeted the news enthusiastically.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) called it a "clear message to Tehran" that Canada will hold it to account for "past and future acts of terrorism."
CIJA chair David Koschitzky said his organization had called on the government to list the IRGC "for many years."
It's "the next logical step in countering international terrorism," he said. "In sponsoring horrific terror acts that have claimed scores of lives around the world, the Iranian regime has acted with impunity for far too long."
B'nai Brith CEO Frank Dimant also applauded the move, saying that his group has also long urged the government to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity.
"[It] has been implicated in the targeted murder of innocent Jews internationally through acts of terror particularly in Argentina, India and most recently Bulgaria," he said. "While most terrorist groups are not directly affiliated with any government, the [Qods Force] has direct ties to the present Iranian regime characterized by its support for international terror, nuclear threats and genocidal intent towards Israel and the Jewish people."
Both the NDP and Liberal parties also supported Toews' decision, although NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar told The CJN his party hoped the government would have taken this action earlier.
"It's the right thing to do and, in fact, we've been calling on the government to do it. Given IRGC's role in cracking down on peaceful protesters in Iran, its backing of international terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and its support of the Assad regime, we should have taken this step sooner," he said.
Meanwhile, Mount Royal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, who has long called for this and other sweeping actions against the Iranian regime, said while listing the Qods Force is a "welcome" decision, he also hoped the government would take further steps against Iran.
"The government is engaged in a piecemeal rather than a necessary and comprehensive strategy," he said, adding that "the whole of the IRGC" needs to be listed as a terrorist entity.
Cotler said the government should also take legal action available to it under the Genocide Convention "to hold Iran to account for its state-sanctioned incitement to genocide" against Israel.


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Product: Aplenzin
Company: Sanofi Aventis
Pharmacologic class: Antidepressant (aminoketone)
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Active ingredient: Bupropion HBr 174 mg (equivalent to bupropion HCl 150 mg), 348 mg (equivalent to bupropion HCl 300 mg), 522 mg (equivalent to bupropion HCl 500 mg); extended- release tabs.
Indication: Major depressive disorder.
Pharmacology: Aplenzin is a once-daily, extended- release tablet formulation of bupropion HBr. The mechanism of action of bupropion in treating depression is not known, but it is likely mediated by its effects on norepinephrine and dopamine.
Clinical trials: The approval of Aplenzin was based on its bioequivalence to another form of bupropion, Wellbutrin XL. In a 10-day study comparing the use of Aplenzin 348 mg once daily to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg once daily, the peak levels and the extent of absorption for the parent drug and its metabolites were shown to be equivalent.
The effectiveness of bupropion in the treatment of depression was established using a short-acting formulation of bupropion HCl in two four-week placebo-controlled trials in adult inpatients and a six-week study in adult outpatients. These studies showed the effectiveness of bupropion HCl on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale total score, the depressed mood item from that scale, and the Clinical Global Impressions severity score. In another trial, a 44-week study demonstrated the long-term efficacy of bupropion in responders.
Adults: Swallow whole. Take in the am. Initially 174 mg once daily; may increase to target maintenance 348 mg once daily on Day 4; may then increase to maximum 522 mg once daily if inadequate response after four weeks. Severe hepatic cirrhosis: maximum 174 mg/48 hours. Renal or mild-moderate hepatic dysfunction: reduce dose and/or frequency. Switching from other forms: use equivalent dose on once-daily basis. Re-evaluate periodically.
Children: Not recommended.
Contraindications: Seizure disorder. Bulimia. Anorexia nervosa. Within 14 days of monoamine oxidase inhibitors. Abrupt withdrawal of sedatives or alcohol. Concomitant other forms of bupropion (e.g., Zyban, Wellbutrin).
Precautions: Seizure risk or history. Discontinue if seizure occurs; do not restart. Bipolar disorder. Psychosis. Unstable heart disease. CHF. Recent MI. Hepatic or renal dysfunction. Suicidal tendencies (monitor). Maintain at lowest effective dose. Write prescription for smallest practical amount. Labor and delivery. Pregnancy (Cat. C). Nursing mothers: not recommended.
Interactions: See Contraindications. Avoid alcohol. May be potentiated by CYP2B6 substrates or inhibitors, efavirenz, fluvoxamine, nelfinavir, paroxetine, ritonavir, sertraline. Caution with drugs (e.g., antipsychotics) or factors (e.g., opiate addiction, excessive use of alcohol or sedatives, diabetes) that lower seizure threshold. Caution with levodopa, amantadine, and with drugs metabolized by CYP2B6 or CYP2D6, including tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, beta blockers, class 1C antiarrhythmics; consider dose reduction. Antagonized by carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin. Monitor for hypertension with nicotine patches.
Adverse reactions: Central nervous system stimulation, dry mouth, GI upset, dizziness, pharyngitis, palpitations, abdominal pain, sweating, tinnitus, anorexia, urinary frequency, rash (may be serious, e.g., Stevens-Johnson syndrome), myalgia, neuropsychiatric effects.
How supplied: Tabs—30
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New Details on Bollywood Theater's Second Location
High food and labor costs, struggling sales, increased competition: The restaurant world is rife with problems. Bollywood Theater owner and chef Troy MacLarty has faced many of these and more, but in his case, the problems are mostly good ones.
MacLarty's fast-casual Indian inspired restaurant has been booming since its doors opened on NE Alberta in 2012, and last month Bollywood Theater was named "Rising Star" restaurant in The Oregonian's annual Diner Guide.
Since the announcement of the Rising Star award, Bollywood's business has increased between 30 and 35% according to MacLarty. "We were already slammed. The amount of pressure on the line reminds me of working at Chez Panisse."
His small staff churns out 1200 to 1400 plates every day, with no prep cooks or storage space to buffer the inevitable onslaught of the next day or even the next meal.
Just four days after receiving the reward, Bollywood Theater announced the opening of a second location in the in the upcoming D-Street Village development on Southeast Division Street at 30th Avenue. The 4,000-square-foot hybrid space will host another street-food slinging eatery (plus large patio) fueled by an expanded kitchen, as well as a mini-market with select Indian spices and ingredients.
"There's high demand for our housemade paneer," says MacLarty, "but we don't have an exact plan for what we're going to serve just yet." MacLarty is considering adding other Bollywood specialties to the list such as curries and specialty spice mixtures, but isn't afraid to admit that, despite his excitement, the retail aspect of the new outpost is easily "the most intimidating" element.
MacLarty seems not to sweat the other aspects, however. He prides himself on creating manageable menus, which he aims to infuse with more seasonal influence. The space limitations at the Alberta outpost have prohibited him from changing the menu more frequently. But with the extra kitchen space, the Bollywood crew can prepare and store food for all the eateries meaning that guests can look forward to new dishes at both locations following the SE Bollywood Theater opening, which is slated for November of this year.
Sounds like the solution to Bollywood's plethora of "problems" - limited kitchen space, growing popularity, increasing accolades - will lead to an exciting addition to Portland's Southeast dining scene.


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The Playoff Picture
Yogi Berra famously said, "It ain't over 'til it's over."
Well, it's over.
Salt Lake and Arkansas have been eliminated from post-season contention, and finish their regular season schedules today.
Rancho Cucamonga and Cedar Rapids also finish their regular season schedules today, but they're going to the post-season.
Despite a poor year, the Quakes are in the post-season due to how the California League playoff system works. High Desert won both halves of the South Division, so the second- and third-best teams by overall winning percentage play in a best-of-three series while the Mavericks get a bye. So the Quakes (61-78) will host the Storm (73-66) on Wednesday, with Games #2 and (if necessary) #3 Thursday and Friday at Lake Elsinore.
The Kernels (77-60) play Peoria (80-57) in a best-of-three series starting Wednesday at Peoria. Games #2 and (if necessary) #3 will be Thursday and Friday at Cedar Rapids. The Kernels get the home field advantage because they qualified in the first half but Peoria didn't.
The Orem Owlz (47-24) play through Friday 9/11, then begin their three-game series against Ogden (41-30) on Saturday 9/12 at Orem. Games #2 and (if necessary) #3 are Sunday and Monday at Ogden, which won the first half title.
The Tempe Angels (38-18) qualified for the playoffs but lost to the Scottsdale Giants (39-17) in the Arizona League playoffs.


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As you may recall, I recently said some nice things about recent developments at OverDrive. Unfortunately, I have nothing nice to say about their most recent developments.
The news has had the biblioblogosphere buzzing (e.g., Library Journal, Jessamyn West at librarian.net, Sarah Houghton-Jan at Librarian in Black): OverDrive has announced that they will be changing their ebook lending policies to allow publishers to limit the number of times an item can be "borrowed." More specifically, each title published by HarperCollins will expire from the library's collection once it has been used 26 times. Naturally, this is in addition to the restriction that only one person can have an ebook "checked out" at a time (what OverDrive calls the "one-copy / one-user model").
Now, for those of us who work with technology, the one-copy / one-user model is frustrating; it's a way of artificially reducing the usefulness of electronic content. But the fact is, this model makes ebook lending more like the lending of physical books, so it's not completely outrageous. On the other hand, limiting the number of uses is not related to traditional lending. Although it's true that books wear out eventually, I would question the binding quality of any book that was damaged beyond repair after 26 instances of normal use. I understand that it would be unfair for a consortium of libraries to pay for a book once and then allow all of their clients to simultaneously download it and keep it forever, and that's why we have the one-copy / one-user model and digital files that become inoperable after a designated loan period. Limiting the total number of downloads makes OverDrive much less attractive to libraries, and I would expect that some libraries who have been considering subscribing to OverDrive will decide against it after hearing this news.
The Library Journal article, among others, seems to be placing the blame mainly on HarperCollins; the policy seems to come straight from this publisher, who then put pressure on OverDrive. However, while I'm disappointed in HarperCollins, I'm more annoyed with OverDrive for a number of reasons:
- As an academic business librarian, HarperCollins simply doesn't affect my part of the world too much.
- I've been writing nice things about OverDrive lately.
- I'm concerned that OverDrive may be opening the floodgates for other publishers to further restrict library use of their electronic content.
I should point out that the OverDrive announcement also included other bad news that I expect would be more relevant for public libraries; read the Librarian in Black article for more details.
The ebook industry is still relatively new, so it's normal for it to be experiencing growing pains. As the popularity of Kindles and Sony Readers has increased, so has ebook piracy, and publishers have every right to be concerned, both for themselves and for their authors. In the early days, most publishers avoided letting libraries lend electronic materials at all, so OverDrive itself was a major step forward, and librarians have hoped that openness and usefulness would continue to improve. By offering compatibility with more devices and improving ease of use, OverDrive took another step forward. By limiting the number of times an item can be used, OverDrive is taking many steps back.
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There's been lots of activity in the studio since the valentine pilot gave an aerial tease of the new piece I'm currently working on. It now has a name, thanks to my husband Rob, who called it Rabbitat after I told him I was making a habitat for rabbits. This is not an illustration for a book, but a stand alone fabric relief picture. I'm still sewing parts of the scene, like this lilac bush.
I'm also working with some local filmmakers, the husband and wife team of Daniel Cojanu and Elise Hugus. I've hired them to make a 3 to 5 minute film about my artwork, with Rabbitat as the subject. Here they are, filming and recording the interview portion in my studio. See the finished film here.
The film will show my process of working, with a voice over of me explaining and describing what I do. It won't really be a how-to, but more of a glimpse into what I think about art and the creative process. Here I am, setting up a shot with Daniel.
Not everything is sewn in place yet, so we played with the dolls. Here's Daniel filming one of the rabbit characters.
We had fun twirling the rabbit around on the tripod, while the camera rolled. Daniel and Elise will come back and film some more when I'm finished making Rabitat. I hope to have the film finished in a few months, so I can show it on this blog and when I give presentations about my work. Until, then, I'll give little glances of Rabbitat, but save the details for when the film is completed and ready to show.


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June 8, 2011 -- People who continue to engage in moderate to intense exercise as they age may be less likely to develop the small brain lesions commonly referred to as silent strokes, new research suggests.
Silent strokes are generally not recognized at the time they happen because patients do not have the symptoms associated with major strokes, such as severe headache, dizziness, speech problems, and paralysis.
They occur when small blood vessels in the brain become blocked or rupture and, just like clinically evident strokes, they can lead to long-term issues such as memory problems.
Regular exercise has been shown to protect against major stroke, but the role of physical activity in silent stroke has not been well understood.
Moderate to Intense Exercise vs. Light Exercise
The newly published study by researchers at New York's Columbia University and Florida's University of Miami included roughly 1,200 older people who had no history of stroke at enrollment.
Most of the study participants were in their 60s when they completed a detailed questionnaire exploring how often and intensely they exercised upon entering the study.
Roughly six years later, at an average age of 70, the participant underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans.
The scans showed that 197 participants, or 16%, had small brain lesions indicative of silent stroke.
People who reported engaging in moderate to intense exercise were 40% less likely to have the lesions than people who did not exercise at all, even after the researchers took into account other stroke risk factors such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Regular light exercise, such as golf, walking, bowling, or dancing did not appear to decrease the risk for silent stroke, but study researcher and stroke specialist Joshua Willey, MD, says these activities clearly benefit health.
Willey is an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University.
"I would not want these findings to discourage people from walking or performing other light exercise," he tells WebMD. "But it may be that a certain level of exercise frequency and intensity is needed to lower silent stroke risk."
American Heart Association: Get Moving
The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends at least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity exercise or 75 minutes per week of vigorous activity to lower cardiovascular risk.
Moderate to intense activity can include brisk walking, gardening, housework, swimming, jogging, hiking, biking, and tennis.
AHA spokesman and stroke expert Daniel Lackland, MD, of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, tells WebMD that while exercise is good for the heart and arteries, older people who have been sedentary for years need to be careful.
"You wouldn't tell someone in their 70s or 80s who has not exercised in the past to go out and start jogging," Lackland says. "But just about anybody can start an appropriate medically supervised exercise program at any age."
Willey counsels his stroke patients to discuss the level and type of physical activity that is appropriate for them with their general practitioner or internist before beginning an exercise program.


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Black/white, rich/poor, fat/thin, female/male, old/young — these are just a few of the dichotomies explored in the first of the 'Paradise' trilogy from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl. Our chronology is a bit messed up, since we already reviewed (very favorably) the second entry "Paradise: Faith" out of Venice, but having missed 'Love' in Cannes, we were happy to catch up with it at a very packed screening at the Göteborg International Film Festival earlier this year. Perhaps "happy" is the wrong word: "Paradise: Love" proved a frequently uncomfortable and rather overlong watch, but we still came away profoundly impressed and not a little troubled by the questions it raises, and the unflinching, uncompromising way in which it does so.
So, an occasionally punishing tale of social and personal humiliations and injustices from an Austrian director? So far, so Haneke. But if the directors share a certain detachment, Haneke's coolness feels more mental and psychological, while Seidl here deals in the corporeal, making his film an altogether fleshier affair. We should mention that the flesh most frequently the subject of Seidl's dispassionate but obsessive camera, is that of Margarete Tiesel as lead character Teresa, whose body, overweight, aging and overflowing in a series of unflattering bikinis and beach wear, is simply not one we're used to seeing so graphically represented on our screens. There is no doubt that's where some of the discomfort comes from on the part of the viewer, and it is one of the quandaries that the picture explores: if the sex scenes featured nubile, smooth-skinned pretty things engaging in this behaviour, be it degrading to one or either party, would we have such a distaste for it? At least part of our reaction to these scenes is not just intellectual or moral (because A is exploiting B, along racial, cultural or sexual lines), but visceral.
Not only that, but many of the humiliations and degradations with which we are presented are remarkable for being perpetrated on men by women. A particularly striking and gruelling (for the viewer) example is a scene in which four white women hire a black male stripper/rent boy and challenge each other to get him hard. His complicity in his own utter objectification (not just as a man, but explicitly as a black man) is degrading, but our revulsion toward the scene is also colored by the fact it's female-on-male. We've seen similar or equivalent scenes of women being sexually exploited by (often older, less attractive) men elsewhere many times before, and it's never exactly a lark, but the reversal of power here definitely adds another layer of shock value. It's not an original point — that, even subconsciously, we hold women and men to different standards — but having it demonstrated so forcefully and at such length did give us pause.
Teresa, who works with the mentally disabled and is mother to a sullen teenage girl (who will herself be the subject of 'Hope,' the forthcoming concluding chapter of the 'Paradise' trilogy), takes a holiday to Kenya with a friend to celebrate her birthday. In the resort they meet some other white, German-speaking women who are all more or less up-front about the reason for their trip there: sex with young, athletic local Kenyans. A little squeamish at first, Teresa finds she cannot reconcile herself to the tawdriness of a purely transactional encounter, and instead hopes, futilely, for a sexual relationship not based on money. She is looking for love, of a sort, or at least to be desired by one of the smooth-talking, smooth-bodied young locals for the person she is, spare tire, sagging boobs and all. She appears blind to the hypocrisy, racism and cultural ignorance of this unattainable dream, and of her behaviour in chasing it. Gradually disillusioned, her behaviour becomes more overtly unpleasant and selfish, leading to a bitterness aimed both inwards and outwards: her birthday party culminates in two separate instances of appalling sex tourism/exploitation, before we leave her, unfulfilled and sobbing with self-pity and self-loathing, partially clad on her hotel bed.
No, we don't like Teresa much, but she is an astonishingly real character, and first-timer Tiesel's performance, brought out by Seidl's part-scripted, part-improvisational process, is a small miracle. Not just because of the absolute lack of vanity or artifice in how she allows her heavy, flabby body to be shot and mauled and manhandled, but also in refusing to soften or sweeten her characterisation to make it more palatable. We don't understand why this performance has not received more attention — whatever one's issues with the film, her commitment is total and devastating in its unsentimentality.
"Paradise: Love" is a hard film to like and an even harder film to unpack, it's so loaded with layers of -isms. And perhaps it doesn't have a huge amount to contribute to the discourse around any one of the issues it touches on. Still, over its somewhat excessive running time, it's to its credit that we found ourselves compelled to ask some uncomfortable questions not just of the characters, but of our relationship to them and their representation. Challenging, complex and frequently ugly, "Paradise: Love" is a ruthless exploration of how unlike our everyday selves we can behave when we're "on holiday," and how much that illuminates who we really are. [B+]
This is a reprint of our review from the Göteborg International Film Festival.
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IRVINE, Scotland (June 27, 2008) - Former ETSU All-American Gareth Shaw (Lisburn, Northern Ireland) teamed with Jonathan Caldwell to defeat American's Derek Fathauer and Chesson Hadley, helping Europe to a sweep of the United States during Friday morning's four-ball matches in the Palmer Cup presented by Monster at the Glasgow Golf Club.
With four points in all Friday morning, the Europeans used that momentum to win three and halve three other singles matches in the afternoon to recapture the Palmer Cup from the U.S., 14-10. While the Americans lead the all-time series 6-5-1, they have lost three straight in Europe.
Shaw and Caldwell allowed Europe to complete the sweep with the only match that went the complete 18 holes in the morning. The Americans held the lead for much of the front nine, however ultimately fell 1-up. The U.S. won the second and third before Europe claimed the fourth and fifth to send the match back to all square. The Americans would again take the lead after a birdie at No. 7 but Europe took Nos. 9 and 10. The two sides alternated the next three and again at Nos. 15 and 16 to even the match. Europe reclaimed the lead at No. 17 and halved the 18th to secure the victory.
Shaw ultimately fell in another tightly contested singles match, falling 1-up to Chesson Hadley. Hadley won the first hole with birdie and would hold the lead until conceding the fifth. The two players traded wins - Hadley at No. 6 and Shaw at the seventh - on the next two holes. Hadley rattled off three-straight birdie victories starting at No. 10. Shaw battled back with wins at the 14th and 15th but was unable to completely close the deficit.
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- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Health violated federal law governing the handling and storage of hazardous waste at two of its facilities and has fined the agency $68,000 for the violations. EPA inspections at the facilities, the Old Municipal Facility in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas and 3500 Estate Richmond, Christiansted in St. Croix, found unlabeled and decaying containers of chemicals and pesticides on the properties. Many of the containers spilled and the USVI Department of Health failed to properly identify what types of waste were being stored. In some instances, the hazardous chemicals had been kept on-site for over ten years in a state of neglect and decay. Among the hundreds of hazardous chemicals on-site were pyrethrin (a neurotoxin), chlorpyrifos (an insecticide) and calcium hypochlorite (a bleach) – all of which are toxic. Federal environmental law requires hazardous chemicals to be stored, handled and disposed of properly to safeguard public health and the environment.
Pesticides and insecticides are intended to harm or kill pests and are toxic by design. They can be very harmful to people's health depending on the toxicity of the pesticide and the level of exposure. Pesticides have been linked to various forms of illnesses in humans, ranging from skin and eye irritation to cancer. Some pesticides may also affect the hormone or endocrine systems. All chemicals should be handled properly to protect people's health.
"Pesticides are chemicals that must be handled and stored carefully and properly to protect the health of workers and the people who live near the facilities," said Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator. "In this case, the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Health repeatedly violated federal hazardous waste laws. Government, especially a health agency, should lead by example and ensure that pesticides and chemicals are properly handled."
The Department of Health stores pesticide products to be used in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease. Among the violations, the Department of Health failed to determine which substances should be considered hazardous waste, as required by law, to ensure that they are managed properly. Correctly determining whether a waste meets the definition of hazardous waste is essential to determining how the waste must be managed. The Department of Health also failed to maintain and operate its facilities in a manner that minimized the possibility of a fire, explosion or accidental release of chemicals.
In 1998, the Department of Health asked the EPA for help in removing and properly disposing of outdated chemical products stored in one of its chemical storage buildings at the Old Municipal Facility in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas. The EPA responded, removed and properly disposed of the outdated chemicals and pesticides. Over 850 gallons of liquid pesticides and over 1,700 pounds of solid pesticides were removed by the EPA. Subsequently, the EPA strongly recommended that the Department of Health develop and follow pesticide storage and handling regulations to avoid a repeat of the environmental hazard.
In 2008, the EPA conducted an inspection of the St. Thomas facility and also visited 3500 Estate Richmond in St. Croix. Once again, the EPA observed conditions of neglect and sloppy practices. Pesticide products were abandoned and had spilled throughout the facilities. The EPA reiterated the need for the development of and adherence to a pesticide storage and handling program.
On September 30, 2010, the EPA ordered the Department of Health to institute a program to properly manage and dispose of pesticide products. Since the initial order, the department has properly removed all outdated chemicals, conducted an inventory of the remaining chemicals, properly stored them and created a pesticide storage and handling program. The EPA conducted follow-up inspections in 2011 and confirmed that the remaining chemicals were properly stored. In March 2012, the EPA issued its final order in this case, requiring the Department of Health to pay a $68,000 penalty.
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AMSTERDAM – Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world's largest brewer, said Wednesday that profit fell 4.9 per cent in the fourth quarter due to higher financing costs, and it forecast weak first quarter sales volumes in the United States and Brazil.
The maker of Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois and Beck's said net profit was $1.76 billion (€1.35 billion), down from $1.85 billion in the same period a year ago. Exchange rate-linked losses in the fourth quarter of 2012 and gains on derivatives a year earlier caused a combined $400 million downward swing that wiped out savings made through cost cuts.
The company managed to offset a dip in sales volumes in the fourth quarter by hiking prices, leading to an 8.8 per cent rise in revenue.
Over the whole of 2012, it said sales volumes had grown in the U.S., its most profitable market, for the first time since 2008 and "market share is showing signs of stabilizing."
However, it expects weak first quarter volumes in the U.S. as consumers there have less disposable income and the weather has been bad. It also expects soft first quarter results in Brazil, where it has a 68.5 per cent market share with brands Skol, Brahma and Antarctica, due to an early carnival and wet weather.
Sales volumes in China, the company's third-largest market, grew 1.9 per cent and AB InBev said it gained market share in the fourth quarter, with Budweiser becoming the bestselling "premium" beer in the country. AB InBev expects better growth in China this year.
More than half of Budweiser sales now take place outside the U.S., the company said.
AB InBev, based in Leuven, Belgium, didn't outline whether it expects to increase profits in 2013, saying only it expects its revenue per gallon sold to increase faster than the rate of inflation, and costs to rise "in the mid-single digits."
Shares erased early losses to rise 0.5 per cent to €70.15 in Brussels.
The numbers were "below market expectations at the earnings level," but better than expected in terms of revenues, said Jonathan Jackson, head of equities at Kilik & Co. He said the company is "well positioned to capture rising emerging market incomes and recovering Western economies." However, he repeated a "neutral" rating on shares, because those strengths are already reflected in the share price.
AB InBev has been attempting since June to take over the half of Corona maker Grupo Modelo it doesn't already own for $20.1 billion, but the deal was challenged by the U.S. Department of Justice over concerns it would make the company too dominant in the U.S.
In response, AB InBev announced a side-deal this month to sell the rights to market Corona in the U.S. to smaller competitor Constellation Brands, hoping that would appease regulators. For now the deal "remains subject to the existing challenge," AB InBev said Wednesday.
The company's U.S. subsidiary, Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis, Missouri, is facing a lawsuit from consumers who on Tuesday accused it of watering down its beers, including Budweiser and Michelob, so that they carry a lower alcohol percentage than their label suggests.
"Our beers are in full compliance with all alcohol labeling laws. We proudly adhere to the highest standards in brewing our beers, which have made them the bestselling in the U.S. and the world," said Peter Kraemer, vice-president of brewing and supply, in a statement.


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The Latin American and Caribbean Migration Research network ( MIGRALAC ) brings together researchers who are working on a broad range of issues relating to Latin American and Caribbean migration and... Read more
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Here's a sobering fact: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2018 there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the United States and, at the current rate of students graduating with degrees in computer science, we will fill only 61 percent of those openings. These predictions are all the more dispiriting when you realize that the latest advances in improving healthcare, protecting the environment, and upgrading manufacturing have come from technological innovations. I believe that no other field offers as much opportunity for students and society as computer science does. This is why Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)—the week of computer pioneer Grace Hopper's birthday (December 9)—is so important: it's our chance to inspire as many students as possible to pursue this field. CSEdWeek recognizes the critical role of computing in today's society and the imperative to bolster computer science education at all levels.
In a way, it's surprising that more young people aren't going into computer science. As I travel the world and meet with students in middle school, high school, and college, I encounter a reoccurring theme: these students want a career where they can make an impact. They want to take on social issues, world issues, and be part of something bigger. This is where I explain to them that computer science is the field they want to pursue. Innovations in combating HIV, understanding the human genome, protecting the environment—these, I tell them, are just some of the urgent global needs that are being addressed with technology. It's imperative that bright young people see the enormous potential for doing good through computing.
This is why, in conjunction with CSEdWeek, representatives from Microsoft Research and the newly formed University of Washington Women in Informatics headed to the Kent Technology Academy (a middle school) and Kent Meridian Technology Academy (a high school), to share with students what can be accomplished in the fields of computer and information sciences. We demonstrated how technology can help students understand the universe (with WorldWide Telescope); bridge the gap between science and the humanities (with ChronoZoom); develop games (with Kodu); and create mobile applications (with TouchDevelop) and rapid prototypes (with .NET Gadgeteer). We showed how social media can help us better understand human emotions and behaviors, which can lead to better healthcare, and, above all, we strove to convey the excitement and fulfillment that comes from engineering innovations and making tools that are used by millions across the world.
I came away with a renewed respect for the teachers, as we hustled through six 55-minute sessions with only a short, 30-minute break for lunch. Typically, the teachers hurry through their meal and then grade papers during this short timeout, but they broke with their normal routine to talk with us about their students, their curricula, and the challenges and opportunities offered by computer science. It was heartening to hear their optimism about their pupils and the future of technology, and extremely humbling to be thanked for our participation in their efforts. I think Susan Whitehall, the principal at Kent Meridian Technology Academy (KMTA), said it best:
At KMTA, our goal is technology integration. Our teachers involve students in projects that are not necessarily about technology itself, but use technology to expedite, enhance, and expand all areas of learning. The partnership with Microsoft allows students to see what can happen when knowledge, technological expertise, and creativity all come together. Our students get to work with excellent role models and engage in high-interest, hands-on activities. Most importantly, this partnership helps remind students that they themselves are amazing human beings with limitless potential.
That amazing potential was on full display during our visit, making it an enjoyable experience for everyone. For me personally, the most fun was working with students as they learned about rapid prototyping and industrial design through our .NET Gadgeteer platform. The students learned that computer science isn't just sitting at a computer, programming in isolation. They discovered that the field also involves working on teams and creating tools that people use every day—items like digital cameras and media players. Given the short class periods, we could do only simple projects, but these were enough to make the students' eyes light up and to prompt questions about where they can buy a kit. My eyes lit up, too, at the possibility of having inspired hundreds of budding computer scientists.
—Rane Johnson-Stempson, Education and Scholarly Communication Principal Research Director, Microsoft Research Connections
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Canadian Sandra Oh will also host the 76th annual Golden Globes, along with Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg, from Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 6.
Oh got a nod for best actress in a TV drama series for Killing Eve, on which she's also an executive producer.
Oh's competition for the Golden Globe includes Elisabeth Moss for The Handmaid's Tale, which is shot in Toronto, as well as Caitriona Balfe for Outlander, Julia Roberts for Homecoming, and Keri Russell for The Americans.
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This will mark Oh and Samberg's first time co-hosting together. The pair presented an award together at the Emmy Awards in September.
Oh will be the first person of colour ever to host the event. She will also be the first Canadian to host the Globes.
Earlier this year, Oh was nominated for an Emmy for lead actress in a drama series for the role, making her the first Asian woman to be nominated in that category. She didn't win but made a big splash by bringing her parents to the awards show.
In an interview earlier this year, the former Grey's Anatomy star said she enjoyed "delving deeply into a piece about female psychology."
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"What is more interesting to me is seeing two human beings embroiled in a relationship that they can't define or let go of," Oh told The Canadian Press.
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Samberg has previously hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2015 and the Film Independent Spirit Awards in 2013.
"Sandra and Andy are the perfect choices to host this world-class event," Paul Telegdy and George Cheeks, co-chairmen, NBC Entertainment, said in a joint statement. "They bring wit, charm and style to a room filled with the very best of film and television. It's sure to be another unforgettable fun-filled night."
The last duo that shared hosting duties for the Golden Globes were Tina Fey and Amy Poehler from 2013-2015.
— With files from the Associated Press


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Readers Guide: Mark Greaney's 'Support and Defend' at Library
If you attended the Friends of Oak Ridge National Lab Dick Smyser Community lecture in July 2013, you heard former Oak Ridger Mike Tabor talk about his experiences as a forensic dentist. Dr. Tabor has now published a mystery featuring a couple of meth addicts who go on a crime spree, leaving an unidentified body in their wake. Dr. Chris Walsh, Chief Forensic Odontologist of the Tennessee Medical Examiner's office, sets out to put a name to the victim and find the killers in "Walk of Death" (M).
According to fans and critics, the late Tom Clancy would be pleased with Mark Greaney's handling of his Jack Ryan franchise. "Support and Defend" features President Ryan's nephew Dominic Caruso, who heads the ultra-secret arm of the government known as The Campus. Despite a series of personal tragedies, Dominic begins a race against time to find Ethan Ross, a former midlevel employee of the National Security Council who has disappeared, taking with him a flash drive full of top secret information.
The Army's 1st Infantry Division, known as the Big Red One, were battle seasoned veterans by the spring of 1944 hoping to go home, but by June it was clear they had another job to do. They were among the first wave of troops to go ashore in the invasion of Normandy and their valor that day made victory possible for the Allies. Historian John C. McManus highlights these brave men in "The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: the Big Red One at Omaha Beach" (940.542).
Frankie Rowley returns home after spending 15 years as an aid worker in Africa to find her father slipping into dementia and her harried mother thrown reluctantly into the role as caregiver. The elder Rowleys have moved permanently to their summer home in little Pomeroy, New Hampshire, and during Frankie's first night there one of the neighboring summer homes burns to the ground. When another summer house burns down several nights later, the local newspaper editor, who is a new resident, suspects arson — and touches off resentment between the permanent residents and the summer people. Sue Miller's latest multi-layered novel is "The Arsonist."
Whether you have visited Versailles or know of it only through books and film, you have never seen it like this. Yves Carlier, head curator of the Documentary Resources Department, and photographer Frances Hammond invite you to spend "A Day at Versailles" (944.366). They take you into closed off areas few tourists see and into the vibrant history of this extraordinary place.
Frequently when someone is murdered the police suspect the spouse. In the case of Oliver Lane, who was shot to death at the family's summer rental on the Outer Banks, his beautiful wife, Diana, becomes the top suspect— until Lane's second wife, Jewels, is discovered, followed closely by the discovery of Lane's third wife, Roberta. Watching the case unfold and knowing far more than she lets on is the story's narrator, Picasso, Oliver and Diana's precocious 12-year-old daughter. The intriguing "I Love You More" marks the fiction debut of Jennifer Murphy.
New DVD titles:
Feature — "Her," starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson;
"Philomena," with Judy Dench and Steve Cougan;
"Pompeii," featuring Kit Harington and Emily Browning;
"The Nut Job," with the voices of Will Arnett and Brendon Fraser;
"The Wolf of Wall Street," featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill.


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Chris Brown under investigation over alleged fight
Authorities are investigating allegations that Chris Brown punched an unnamed victim in an altercation in West Hollywood, California, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department tells CNN.
According to a statement, deputies responded to a call of six men fighting on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. The brawl, which witnesses said was over a parking space, reportedly took place Sunday night at a recording studio.
Witnesses told deputies that Brown allegedly punched a victim during the standoff.
Authorities haven't named the victim, but Grammy-nominated singer Frank Ocean has tweeted he was involved in the fight.
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"(G)ot jumped by chris and a couple guys. lol. i only wish everest was there," Ocean tweeted Sunday night. "(C)ut my finger now I can't play w two hands at the grammys."
According to the sheriff's department, the fight ended after the men were separated, and Brown and his camp were gone by the time deputies arrived. The investigation is ongoing, and the department said it plans to contact Brown at a later time.
CNN has reached out to Brown and Ocean for comment, but there has been no response yet.
According to MTV, Brown and Ocean have crossed paths before. In June 2011, the two exchanged words on Twitter after Ocean seemed to take offense to Brown comparing him to singer/songwriters such as James Fauntleroy and Kevin Cossum. Ocean reportedly fired back by comparing Brown to Sisqo and Ike Turner.
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Growing hairy software, guided by tests
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Software grows organically. One line at a time, one change at a time. These changes soon add up. In an ideal world, they add up to a coherent architecture with an intention revealing design. But sometimes software just grows hairy – full of little details that obscure the underlying logic. What makes software hairy and how can we stop it?
Hairy code
Generally code starts out clean – brand new, shiny code. But each time you make a change that doesn't quite fit the original design you add a hair - a small, subtle detail. It doesn't detract from the overall purpose of the code, it just covers a specific detail that wasn't thought of originally. One hair on its own is fine. But then you add another, and another, and another. Before you know it, your clean, shiny code is covered in little hairs. Eventually code becomes so hairy you can't even see the underlying design any more.
Let's face it, we're all basically maintenance programmers. How many of us actually work on a genuinely greenfield project? And anyway, soon after starting a greenfield project, you're changing what went before and you're back into maintenance land. We spend most of our time changing existing code. If we're not careful, we spend most of our time adding new hairs.
The simplest thing
When changing existing code, there's a temptation to make the smallest change that could possibly work. Generally, it's a good approach. Christ, TDD is great at keeping you focused on this. Write a test, make it pass. Write a test, make it pass. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work. But, you have to do the refactor step. "Red, green, refactor", people. If you're not refactoring, your code's getting hairy. If you're not refactoring, what you just added is a kludge. Sure, it's a well tested, beautifully written kludge; but it's still a kludge.
The trouble is, it's easy to forgive yourself.
But it's just a little if statement
It's just one little change. In this specific case we want to do something subtly different. It may not look like it, but it's a kludge. You've described the logic of the change but not the reason. You've described how the behaviour is different, but not why. Congratulations, you just grew a new hair.
An example
Perhaps an example would help right about now. Let's imagine we work for an online retailer. When we fulfill an order, we take each item and attempt to ship it. For those that are out of stock, we add to a queue to ship as soon as we get new stock.
public class OrderItem { public void shipIt() { if (stockSystem.inStock(getItem()) > getQuantity()) { warehouse.shipItem(getItem(), getQuantity(), getCustomer()); } else { warehouse.addQueuedItem(getItem(), getQuantity(), getCustomer()); } } }
As happens with online retailers, we're slowly taking over the universe: now we're expanding into shipping digital items as well as physical stuff. This means that some orders will be for items that don't need physical shipment. Each item knows whether it's a digital product or a physical product; the rights management team have created an electronic shipment management system (email to you and me) – so all we need to do is make sure we don't try and post digital items but email them instead. Well, the simplest thing that could possibly work is:
public class OrderItem { public void shipIt() { if (getItem().isDigitalDelivery()) { email.shipItem(getItem(), getCustomer()); } else if (stockSystem.inStock(getItem()) > getQuantity()) { warehouse.shipItem(gettem(), getQuantity(), getCustomer()); } else { warehouse.addQueuedItem(getItem(), getQuantity(), getCustomer()); } } }
After all, it's just a little "if", right?
This is all fine and dandy, until in UAT we realise that we're showing delivery in 3 days for digital items. That's not right, so we get a request to show immediate delivery for digital items. There's a method on Item that calculates estimated delivery date:
public class Item { private static final int STANDARD_POST_DAYS = 3; public int getEstimatedDaysToDelivery() { if (isDigitalDelivery()) { return 0; } else if (stockSystem.inStock(this) > 0) { return STANDARD_POST_DAYS; } else { return stockSystem.getEstArrivalDays(getSKU()) + STANDARD_POST_DAYS; } } }
After all, it's just one more if, right? Where's the harm? But little by little the code is getting hairier and hairier.
The trouble is you get lots of little related hairs smeared across the code. You get a hair here, another one over there. You know they're related – they were done as part of the same set of changes. But will someone else looking at this code in 6 months time? What if we need to make a change so users can select electronic and/or physical delivery for items that support both? Now I need to find all the places that were affected by our original change and make more changes. But, they're not grouped together, they've been spread all over. Sure, I can be methodical and find them. But maybe if I'd built it better in the first place it would be easier?
A better way
This all started with a little boolean flag – that was the first smell. Then we find ourselves checking the state of the flag and switching behaviour based on it. It's almost like there was a new domain concept here of a delivery method. Say, instead I create a DeliveryMethod interface – so each Item can have a DeliveryMethod.
public interface DeliveryMethod { void shipItem(Item item, int quantity, Customer customer); int getEstimatedDaysToDelivery(Item item); }
I then create two concrete implementations of this:
public class PostalDelivery implements DeliveryMethod { private static final int STANDARD_POST_DAYS = 3; @Override public void shipItem(Item item, int quantity, Customer customer) { if (stockSystem.inStock(item) > quantity) { warehouse.shipItem(item, quantity, customer); } else { warehouse.addQueuedItem(item, quantity, customer); } } @Override public int getEstimatedDaysToDelivery(Item item) { if (stockSystem.inStock(item) > 0) { return STANDARD_POST_DAYS; } else { return stockSystem.getEstArrivalDays(item) + STANDARD_POST_DAYS; } } } public class DigitalDelivery implements DeliveryMethod { @Override public void shipItem(Item item, int quantity, Customer customer) { email.shipItem(item, customer); } @Override public int getEstimatedDaysToDelivery(Item item) { return 0; } }
Now all the logic about how different delivery methods work is local to the DeliveryMethod classes. This groups related changes together; if we later need to make a change to delivery rules we know exactly where they'll be.
Ultimately writing clean code is all about discipline. TDD is a great discipline – it keeps you focused on the task at hand, only adding code that is needed right now; all the while ensuring you have near complete test coverage.
However, avoiding hairy code needs yet more discipline. We need to remember to describe the intention of our change, not just the implementation. Code is primarily to be read by humans so expressing the reason the code does what it does is much more important than expressing the logic. The tests only ensure your logic is correct, you also need to make sure your code reveals it's reasoning.
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"25 December. The twenty-second day of the lunar month. Innumerable ages having passed since the creation of the world…The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh."
So are the beginning and ending words of the proclamation of the birth of the Savior at Midnight Mass. The words speak of the long waiting for the Savior from the beginning of time, culminating with the birth of Jesus. Christmas is here! What better way to celebrate with the Universal Church than to watch Midnight Mass unfold with Pope Francis at Saint Peter's Basilica.
Here is this year's schedule of how to participate:r's Basilica in Rome.
Step 1: Download the Booklet for the Holy Mass of the Night here.
Step 2: Choose where to watch (if you can't be in Rome).
EWTN will be broadcasting with English translation at the following times:
12/24 at 3:30 PM ET; and 12/25 at 8:00 AM ET, and 7:00 PM ET
If you prefer to watch it without translation, and just follow with your Booklet, you can watch live from Rome, 3:30 PM ET (9:30 PM Rome Time), right here below:
Let us unite with one another in prayer for Pope Francis, and for all those he challenges us to reach out to, especially the most poor.
Blessed Christmas Everyone! Buon Natale a Tutti!
May the Child Jesus fill your hearts with His Love and Joy!
Urbi et Orbi
The Pope's annual "Urbi et Orbi" message to the world will be given from Saint Peter's Square on Christmas Day at 12pm Rome time (6.00 am ET / 3.00 am PT), and will be live-streamed above in the video window, via Centro Televisivo Vaticano.
Or, if you wish to watch with English translation, EWTN will broadcast on Christmas Day at 6:00 AM ET, 10:00 PM ET; and again
12/27 at 2:00 PM ET;
12/28 at 6:00 PM ET;
12/31 at 9:30 PM ET.


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With the move, Yahoo will trump its two largest rivals in free e-mail, Microsoft
Corp. and Google Inc., which currently provide 2 gigabytes and 2.8 gigabytes
of free storage, respectively.
Yahoo's e-mail users currently get 1 gigabyte of storage. Yahoo plans to gradually
lift all space constraints in May, but it will take several months before all
of Yahoo's e-mail users have infinite storage space.
Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, the fourth largest e-mail provider, began offering
unlimited storage for free last summer.
Yahoo's commitment will require substantially more resources because its e-mail
service is nearly five times larger than AOL's.
"We're psyched to be breaking new ground in the digital storage frontier
by giving our users the freedom to never worry about deleting old messages again,"
John Kremer, a Yahoo vice president of mail, wrote in an announcement posted
late Tuesday on the company's Web site.
The expansion represents a dramatic shift from Yahoo's e-mail philosophy just
three years ago. At that time, Yahoo was offering as little as 4 megabytes of
free storage and charging nearly $50 annually for 100 megabytes of storage.
But Google changed the competitive landscape in April 2004 with the introduction
of Gmail, which initially offered 1 gigabyte for free before steadily expanding
to its current limit of 2.8 gigabytes.
Yahoo and its rivals have been willing to spend millions of dollars on adding
storage space because they consider e-mail service a powerful magnet that spurs
frequent visits, and thus more opportunities to sell ads. And the cost of storage
has been declining for years, making it even easier to give users more space.
Meanwhile, e-mail's ubiquity and the proliferation of digital media -- from
photos to music -- has increased the demand for more storage.
When Yahoo began offering free e-mail 10 years ago, the capacity of the entire
service topped out at 200 gigabytes. It takes about 10 minutes for Yahoo's incoming
e-mail to devour 200 gigabytes of storage today, Kremer wrote.
Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said its offer of infinite storage is meant to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of its e-mail service. But the decision also comes a month
after Google posed a more serious threat to Yahoo by dropping the final remnants
of Gmail's invitation-only restrictions and opening up the service to all comers.
In February, Yahoo's e-mail attracted 243 million visitors with Microsoft in
second with 233 million visitors, according to market research firm comScore
Media Metrix. Gmail ranked third with 62 million visitors, a 68 percent increase
from the previous year, followed by AOL at 50 million, comScore said.
Yahoo's expansion will be largely irrelevant to many e-mail users who haven't
come close to approaching their current limit.
That's one reason why Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has no immediate plans
to match Yahoo's offer.
"Storage has not been a major issue or pain point for customers for years
now," Microsoft said Wednesday in a statement.
Mountain View-based Google has been adding about 145 megabytes of free storage
to each e-mail account annually -- a pace that would raise storage limits to
about 3.27 gigabytes in three years. The company has no current plans to change
that formula, Google spokeswoman Courtney Hohne said Wednesday.
In an interview last month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin indicated the company
would probably begin charging a small fee for people who want even more e-mail
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week announced the release of a publicly available and free post-incident hunting tool for organizations using Microsoft Azure, Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 applications.
Microsoft this week reminded organizations using Microsoft Teams Rooms devices of a coming July 1 deadline to get their licenses compliant with its relatively new Basic and Pro plans.
Simplified labeling and documentation are key to avoiding a management mess.
Microsoft this week announced a preview of custom claims providers for Azure Active Directory users.
Microsoft this week announced plans to shift the schedule for when it releases its optional nonsecurity patch previews for Windows systems.
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