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OTTAWA — Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Thursday the federal government is looking at clarifying the law to allow non-resident gays and lesbians married in Canada the right to get divorced here even if their place of origin doesn't recognize them as a married couple.
"I will be looking at options to clarify the law so that marriages performed in Canada can be undone in Canada," Nicholson said in a statement.
The justice minister's announcement came as a political firestorm erupted Thursday after international headlines suggested the Canadian government doesn't legally recognize the marriages of thousands of foreign same-sex couples who travelled to Canada to wed because they could not legally do so in their home state or country.
While seeking to reassure Canadians that the government is not reopening the issue of same-sex marriage, statements by Nicholson and by the prime minister did not directly address whether Canada considers marriages in such cases to be legal.
In the middle of the controversy is a Toronto court case involving a foreign lesbian couple seeking a divorce.
The couple wed in Toronto in 2005. Under a court order, they cannot be named.
In response to their application, a lawyer for the Department of Justice contended that the couple cannot divorce in Canada because they were never really married.
The government's stance on the issue, according to the federal lawyer, is that a same-sex couple's marriage is only valid under this country's laws if gay marriage is also recognized in their home country or state.
The couple lives in Florida and England, which do not recognize gay marriages.
"As a result, their marriage is not legally valid under Canadian law," the federal lawyer stated.
Canada's Divorce Act also states that all married couples, regardless of sexual orientation, must live in Canada for at least one year in order to divorce in this country, which was not the case for this non-Canadian couple.
As Florida and England don't recognize the couple's marriage, they cannot divorce in those jurisdictions either.
On Thursday, Nicholson admitted that, under current law, the marriage of the couple in question "could not be dissolved in Canada."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, while speaking in Halifax, was quick to attempt to dispel the controversy.
Although he said he didn't know much about the case, Harper was clear that his government "has no intention of further opening or reopening this issue."
The sentiment was echoed by Nicholson.
"I want to be very clear that the government has no intention of reopening the debate on the definition of marriage," he said.
Solving the problem might require more than a simple amendment to the law, said University of British Columbia law professor Susan Boyd.
In changing the law to recognize foreign marriages, she said, the government would be wading into what is known as private international law — the set of rules that regulate private relationships across national borders. For cases involving marriages and divorces, the rules help dictate whether to apply the marriage laws of this country, or whether to defer to the marriage laws of another country.
"The whole idea is sort of grounded on the idea that, to some degree, each country's laws will recognize and respect the laws of other countries," said Boyd.
If Canada decides to change the notion that one's capacity to marry is based on the laws of the home country, it's almost challenging the legal authority of the home country, said Boyd.
"I guess the government would have to enact some kind of special provision in the Divorce Act maybe, but even so they would still have to say that despite the (home country) issue we're going to say that these are valid legal marriages because they were contracted in Canada," she said.
Those who fought publicly for the right of same-sex couples to marry in Canada were quick to voice their outrage Thursday.
Lynn Warren and Alex Ali, a gay couple known for their appearance on the television show The Amazing Race, said they were shocked and saddened when they saw Thursday's news.
The couple — not the ones seeking a divorce — exchanged vows in Ottawa, with Parliament Hill as a backdrop, in 2005.
"Our wedding was such a wonderful experience," Ali told Postmedia News. "The whole event was very dreamlike, and it was a great dream. This is more of a nightmare."
Warren said he had doubts after the ceremony that the marriage licence might one day be revoked.
"But a year passed, and a couple of years passed, and then nearly half a decade passed — and then to find this out, it's shocking," he said.
Seattle-based relationship columnist Dan Savage said he was furious to learn that his marriage — and his domestic partnership status in Washington State — had been called into question.
Savage and his partner, Terry Miller, were married in Vancouver in 2005. Same-sex marriage is not legal in Washington, but the law there does recognize couples married in jurisdictions where it is legal as domestic partners.
"If we're not legally married in Canada, we're not domestic partners in Washington State, which means this memo from these lawyers potentially stripped Terry and I overnight of the protections and rights that we enjoyed for the last seven years," he said.
"We spend a lot of time in Canada spending a lot of money doing very dangerous things. We go snowboarding all the time in the Canadian Rockies and we've always had the comfort of knowing that if, God forbid, should anything happen, we would be able to make medical decisions for each other in an emergency. And now what apparently is going to happen is that if there's an emergency, I'm going to have to find Terry's mom or he's going to have to find my dad to make emergency medical decisions. It's just insulting and unnecessary."
The political backlash was equally strong on Thursday.
In an interview with Postmedia News, NDP MP Olivia Chow said that the apparent reversal of the federal policy on same-sex marriage could make Canada a laughingstock for gay rights on the world stage.
"Canada was a beacon of hope for gays and lesbians around the world that want to be married," she said. "Now we are saying . . . that maybe you are not legally married after all."
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae said there is no logic behind the federal government's position to grant marriage licences to same-sex couples if they don't plan on recognizing the marriages as valid.
"It's a little ludicrous to say we were only kidding when we let you come here, we didn't really think that those relationships were real," Rae told reporters on Thursday. "We just ran through the process because we wanted to make you feel better."
Darrell Schuurman, president of Travel Gay Canada — a Toronto-based company that specializes in promoting Canada as a destination for same-sex couples and others in the LGBT community — agreed the threat of any changes could be devastating for this country's international image.
"The big thing that's at stake is our reputation as a very progressive and welcoming destination," Schuurman said. "In 2005, when (same-sex marriage) was legalized, what it did was position Canada not only as a leader in LGBT human rights . . . but also put us on the map as an LGBT travel destination."
Schuurman said if the legal status of same-sex marriages of couples from outside Canada can be clarified quickly, it might not have a lasting effect. If legal questions are dragged out, however, he fears it will work against Canada in terms of serving as a popular tourism destination of same-sex couples.
"The tourism industry is very competitive and with more countries going after this market, it's been eating away at our share," said Schuurman.
Once same-sex marriage became legal in parts of the United States, Canada lost some of its appeal for same-sex couples travelling from elsewhere to get married, he said. Coupled with heavy competition from other countries, such as Switzerland and Belgium, Schuurman said Canada no longer stands out as a more exclusive option for travellers.
Gay and lesbian rights groups reacted with a collective shock that the government of a country once celebrated for its welcoming attitude to same-sex marriage could take such an about-face position.
Robert Leckey, president of gay and lesbian rights group Egale Canada, said he was "stunned" when he heard about the case.
"It's been years of these marriages taking place, licences being granted, ceremonies officiated and the government has never before advanced the view that these would all be invalid everywhere," said Leckey, who is also a law professor at McGill University in Montreal.
"This doesn't feel like a government that is taking equality as its lone star."
Canadian gay rights activist Jeremy Dias, director of the anti-homophobic bullying youth group Jer's Vision, said the federal government's position sends a message "that it's OK to discriminate."
"What really bothers me the most is I think this is part of systemic forms of discrimination that we are beginning to see across the board," he said. "Internationally, I think it really brings Canada's reputation into question, and brings shame to our country."
More than 15,000 same-sex marriages have reportedly taken place since gay marriage became legal in Canada, with more than 5,000 involving couples from outside the country.
The Ontario Superior Court is set to rule on the couple's divorce application next month.
With files from Bradley Bouzane, Postmedia News, and Vancouver Sun


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You might recognize Michael Bacall's face from the big screen, but it's his words that you're getting really familiar with.
As an actor, Bacall's had roles in film and TV projects for two decades, appearing in such films as "Free Willie," "This Boy's Life," "Grindhouse" and "Inglorious Basterds." But lately "screenwriter" is the title that's been most closely associated with Bacall, having had a hand in the scripts and stories for "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World," "Project X" and his most recent project "21 Jump Street." Bacall takes PopcornBiz inside his transitional career from working actor to hot Hollywood screenwriter.
How did your screenwriting career catch so much fire so quickly?
I have an insane work ethic and I take on a lot of different jobs. I think after a few years of doing this I was just fortunate enough to work with some really talented people and finally get in to a couple of situations where the scripts that I was working on had a legitimate chance of not just getting made, but of getting made with really good filmmakers. 'Scott Pilgrim' was the first produced studio movie that I was involved in as a writer and Edgar Wright is a terrific filmmaker. I had a spec script that Todd Phillips had optioned before I did the 'Scott Pilgrim' job and I think his involvement in that – even though the film did not eventually get made – was very helpful in that regard. I just try to throw myself into whatever I'm working on with reckless abandon and hope that it works out. I'm sure there's an element of luck involved there.
With 'Jump Street,' where did you start with what you thought would be a good big-screen take on it? And did it stay consistent to what we see in the end or were there a lot of twists and turns to get to the final version?
It stayed pretty consistent. Jonah Hill came to me with the idea. We both sat down and started developing the story and talking about who the characters were. We really wanted to tell a story about two guys who had issues from high school – as we all probably do at some level, subconsciously or otherwise – and were forced to confront those issues when they go back to high school as undercover cops. That was the core idea. It really stayed there throughout multiple versions of the script – It stayed on point to that core concept.
How would you describe the writing dynamic between you and Jonah? Did one of you take a lead on a certain aspect of the story or how did it workout?
We would just sit down and shotgun ideas back and forth. Some of them would be plot ideas, some of them would be gag ideas. We knew really early on that we wanted to do a crazy car chase that felt like you were in 'Grand Theft Auto,' like jumping from vehicle to vehicle. So at first it has a very kind of loose feel to it, and then we kind of started to nail down what the overall structure would be and we kind of came up with this story, with this treatment. Once everyone seemed to be happy with that, then I go kind of scurry off into my cave and start banging away on writing the drafts. From that point forward every time I finished a draft we'd all kind of get into the room and go over it and figure out what the next version should be and continually try to make it better, try to make it funnier, try to make the action smart and really push it forward it in every way that we could until we're in production.
What were the first things from the source material that stood out as something you desperately wanted to make fun of, and then how did you incorporate the nods to the original series?
I really liked watching the show when I was a kid. At the time it was really edgy and it made you feel cool to be watching that show. There are some elements that I think could come across as unintentionally funny. We picked up on a couple of those, but we didn't want to focus the movie on that. We wanted it to feel like it could stand on its own, because I think a lot of younger people who watch this probably have never seen the show before. So we really wanted to have a couple of winks and nods to the source material without feeling confined to it and we didn't want to make an exercise in nostalgia where we were parodying the styles of the early '90's. So hopefully we struck that balance right.
I'm sure there was a lot of improvisation that happened during production of both this film and 'Project X.' Do you get a kick out of watching actors and directors take a funny scene to another level?
I love it. It's a different process. It really just depends on the filmmaker that you're working with. If you're working with someone like Edgar Wright, you're going to have a laser-sharp, very specific draft that you're working off of and there's not going to be a lot of room for improvisation. Really, the differences in performances are more inflection that you may not have expected, and there's still a lot of room to play around within that. But the lines are going to be the lines, much like the way that I think Quentin [Tarantino] approaches his own material – you're probably not going to be showing up and doing a lot of riffing and improvising as an actor. But when you're working with really great improvisational actors like Jonah it's really enjoyable to have really good jokes setup, good setups and payoffs in the script and know that you've got a very solid foundation to work off. Then you get to see what happens and what pops off in the moment. The hope is that you can never tell the difference between when it was scripted and when it was improvised.
Do you feel like you'll stay in the comedy realm – because there's more than just comedy going on in your recent films – or do you have different stories that you want to tell as well?
I've always tried to take on different genres. I started writing really darker material when I began and comedy was more of a fluke for me. I never really set out to be a comedy writer. I really enjoy it and I want to keep doing it, but there are other things that I like to explore. I'm kind of attracted to the darker side of things. I adapted a detective novel recently called 'Little Girl Lost' and that's an incredibly dark, really great story with lots of twists and turns. It's a thriller, so that was a fun moment of kind of dipping my toe into something a little darker again. I'm also working on something that's just incredibly hopeful and inspirational. I'm obsessed with it. I'm adapting a book called 'The New Cool' that was written by Neal Bascomb and it's a non-fictional story that takes place in the world of a high school robotics league. It's called 'The First Robotics League' and it's a competition that's kind of structured like a high school sport. There are regional competitions and a world championship that takes place in a football stadium. I did two hundred hours of research, following this team around. It's got a lot of heart, and humor to it as well. There's a bit of a 'Bad News Bears' aspect to it with a team of underdogs building this robot to go compete with it. That's something that I'm really excited about right now. It doesn't necessarily land in that rated R comedy world. It's something that I would love the whole family to be able to go see and be inspired by.
Are you still working on the Len Grossman 'Tropic Thunder' spin-off for Tom Cruise?
I turned in a draft of that to Paramount and I think that project is going to be largely dependent on Tom Cruise's schedule, so I'm not exactly sure where that's at, but I did have a blast working on that. Tom has some really amazing storytelling instincts, as well as Ben Stiller. Those guys are really smart. They've been in the business for so long and they really gave me a lot of amazing stuff to work with while I was writing that.
Is there still room for on-camera work in your schedule at this point?
I think so. I'm not actively pursuing it, but I'm fortunate enough to have friends who will toss me in front of the camera here and there because they know that I'm comfortable with that situation. I did a little role for my friend Ruben Fleischer, who just directed 'Gangster Squad' and that was really fun. It's was really exciting to kind of dress up in a period piece. I did a day on 'Django Unchained' recently. It's just a dream being on a set in any capacity, but it's extra exciting when you know that you're going to be in front of the camera even for a moment. There's a real buzz to that that you just don't get from anything else.
Did acting make you a better screenwriter?
Absolutely. Years of reading scripts, some good, some bad. I think that without even knowing it I just absorbed a lot of lessons from that.
Michael Bacall: From Tarantino's Supporting Player to Scripting "21 Jump Street"
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With New York facing significant fiscal challenges and concerns about terrorist threats, it may seem like an unusual time for citizens to launch a new campaign to preserve New York City's upstate reservoirs and their watersheds.
Yet that is exactly what is happening. Twenty-one groups, including some of the region's leading environmental and civic organizations, have unveiled a forward-looking plan that envisions expanded programs to safeguard watershed farms and forests and protect the lands that drain into New York's upstate reservoirs from sprawl that generates pollution.
In a recent letter to Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, representatives from the 21 groups noted that, despite progress over the last several years, "far too many acres of watershed lands are not permanently protected, and significant portions of the watershed are confronting intensified threats from haphazard development."
The letter outlined ambitious measures that the authors say are necessary to secure New York City's drinking water supply for future generations. The environmental and civic groups believe that implementation of an enhanced watershed protection plan will not only protect the public health of roughly 9 million water consumers, but will help avoid multi-billion dollar city expenditures for water filtration facilities.
In addition to the Natural Resources Defense Council (where I work), the other groups sending the letter are: Audubon New York; Arbor Hill Environmental Justice; Bronx Council on Environmental Quality; City Club of New York; Civitas; Environmental Advocates; Environmental Defense; Federated Conservationists of Westchester County; Friends of Jerome Park Reservoir; Friends of Van Cortland Park; New York League of Conservation Voters; New York Public Interest Research Group; Open Space Institute; Regional Plan Association; Riverkeeper; Scenic Hudson; Trout Unlimited - Croton Chapter; Trust for Public Land; West Harlem Environmental Action; and Westchester Land Trust.
New York City's water supply constitutes what may well be the region's single most important capital asset. The network, which has 19 reservoirs, is composed of three inter-related systems. The oldest, dating back to 1842, is the Croton system, located primarily in Westchester and Putnam counties. Beginning in the early 1900s, construction started on the Catskill and later the Delaware systems. Together, these two systems have six reservoirs, all west of the Hudson River, and send water downstate from as far as 125 miles away.
These 19 reservoirs and the watersheds that feed them supply roughly half of the state's population with more than 1.2 billion gallons of water every day. City water officials accurately describe this remarkable supply, often overlooked by most New Yorkers, as an engineering marvel.
But although New York City water quality still meets state and federal tap water standards, the long-term outlook for this supply remains uncertain, environmental watchdogs believe.
More than 100 sewage plants discharge treated wastewater in streams that flow into city reservoirs (the plants are now being upgraded). Over 110,000 individual septic and other subsurface systems in the watershed system also could pollute the water supply.
Of concern too, say environmental groups and drinking water officials, is stormwater runoff from roads, driveways and other paved surfaces, and from lawns, farms and golf courses. Rainwater picks up contaminants as it washes over these surfaces, and can flush pollutants into watershed streams and reservoirs.
They note that more than half of the 19 reservoirs have been found to be eutrophic, a condition that occasionally leaves green slime, caused by nutrients entering reservoirs from treated sewage and stormwater runoff. Eutrophication can lead to changes in the taste or odor of tap water, and the process to remove it can produce carcinogenic byproducts.
In addition to the public health imperative of keeping contaminants out of our drinking water supply, there are strong economic reasons for watershed protection.
Under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, water suppliers – in this case New York City -- must filter drinking water from reservoirs unless they can meet all water quality standards and demonstrate a comprehensive watershed protection program, including ownership or control of watershed lands.
A controversial federal court order already requires New York City to filter its East-of-Hudson Croton watershed system. The much larger Catskill and Delaware systems are unfiltered, and New York City has a five-year waiver from having to build filtration facilities for them. But unless watershed safeguards increase, it is quite possible that this system will face a filtration order. Mayor Bloomberg recently estimated the cost of Catskill and Delaware system filtration facilities at $6 billion.
"From both a public health standpoint and to avoid the huge economic burdens of Catskill/Delaware filtration, it is essential that New York State and City continue enhancing and making more robust their watershed protection program in all three reservoir systems," says Natural Resources Defense Council water specialist Robin Marx.
In l997, Governor Pataki, New York City and officials from upstate watershed communities signed an agreement that broke a political logjam and advanced a cooperative upstate-downstate partnership for watershed protection. Among other things, that program has allowed the city to purchase 40,000 acres of undeveloped watershed lands from willing sellers.
Despite this, though, sprawl development has continued unabated and is racing ahead of state and city efforts to protect watershed wetlands, forests and meadows that are essential to a healthy watershed ecosystem. The trend is most obvious in the east-of-Hudson Croton system reservoirs and the Kensico basin, the 21-group letter warns.
"New subdivisions, corporate and business 'parks' and even strip shopping developments have been transforming the East-of-Hudson watershed for years," the environmental and civic groups write. They note that Putnam County is the fastest growing part of the state, with a 69 percent population increase between 1970 and 2000.
Around the Kensico Reservoir in Westchester County, development pressures have mounted. Planned expansion of corporate headquarters, new subdivisions and runway expansion at Westchester Airport are the kinds of projects that, according to watershed watchdogs, threaten water quality in the reservoir that serves as the funnel for the entire Catskill and Delaware system.
While the West-of-Hudson watersheds have seen less dramatic changes so far, the threats to that mostly rural watershed area are also intensifying. Moving ahead in 2003 is the largest Catskills development project in memory -- the "Belleayre Resort," a mega-project with two 18 hole golf courses, two large hotels, hundreds of condominium and time-share units and related commercial facilities, proposed for 600 mountainside acres in Ulster and Delaware counties. Three new gambling casinos, to be built in Ulster and Sullivan counties, also could affect growth and land-use in the nearby watershed areas.
A 21st CENTURY PLAN FOR SAFEGUARDING WATERSHED LANDS
The 21 environmental and civic groups that outlined an enhanced watershed protection program in their recent letter to the governor and the mayor envision three major areas for stepped up activities.
First, the groups are urging a continuation and enhancement of the city's existing watershed land acquisition program. Their proposal calls for the city to purchase an additional 80,000 acres of watershed lands over the next 10 years by the city from willing sellers. This proposal would essentially continue the 8,000 acres-a-year pace that the city has been achieving since l997.
Second, the proposal envisions a greatly expanded program to acquire conservation easements on farms and forests in the watershed. These easements allow landowners to sell the development rights to their property, while providing the owners with continuing rights to live on, farm or harvest, and sell (but not develop) their parcels. The easements would be held in perpetuity by the city, state or land trust to protect the land.
Such easement programs also offer significant water quality benefits since they can preserve existing watershed land uses at roughly 60 percent of the cost of buying the properties outright. The environmental and civic group letter proposes that a combination of federal, state and city funds be utilized to secure 150,000 acres of farm and forest easements over the next decade.
Third, the 21 groups call upon the governor, the state legislature and local watershed communities to adopt and implement new strategies to advance "smart growth" and prevent haphazard development on Catskill, Delaware and Croton system watershed lands.
"There is no single greater threat to our way of life in New Jersey than the unrestrained, uncontrolled development that has jeopardized our water supplies, made our schools more crowded, our roads congested, and our open space disappear," said New Jersey's Governor James E. McGreevey in a remarkable discussion of sprawl and its adverse impacts, part of his recent 2003 State of the State address.
New Jersey, like Maryland, Oregon and a handful of other states, has been moving aggressively to protect their environment from the consequences of haphazard development. New York's water quality activists believe that similar actions are needed here.
To accomplish this, they propose ending highway expansions, as well as subsidies and tax breaks for developers seeking to build on sensitive watershed lands. Instead growth should be channeled into existing cities, towns and watershed hamlets. Also being proposed is state legislation that would give localities the option of placing a small surcharge on real estate transfers, with the proceeds being used to preserve open space in their communities.
According to New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Christopher Ward, the risk to New York City's water supply from a terrorist attack is small. The huge volume of water in the city's 19 reservoirs makes it extremely unlikely that toxins could be added to the water supply in sufficient quantity to harm the public without the perpetrators being detected, Ward and other environmental officials maintain. And city and state agencies have recently stepped up efforts to safeguard reservoir dams and other water system infrastructure from attack.
But the 21 environmental and civic groups who wrote to the governor and mayor remain concerned about the long-term, insidious threat to our reservoir network from ill-advised watershed development and the pollution it generates. Although far less dramatic than the threat of terrorism, this issue deserves recognition by all who care about the future of our city.
If Governor Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and New York's other top elected officials take further steps to safeguard New York's priceless and irreplaceable watershed landscape in 2003, they will insure a lasting legacy that benefits the health, economy and public safety of New Yorkers for the remainder of the 21st century.
Eric Goldstein is co-director of the urban program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.


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Although this isn't as grotesque as the MySpace quasi-hooker's self-portraiture, whipping out your iPad as a goofy camera during a wedding is just the worst. The worst. This marriage is doomed.
I'll never understand the psychology behind the iPad-as-camera phenomenon. We may never know—science can only penetrate the psyche so far. Do these people not carry a phone with them? Is it a bid for attention? A mental illness? Have years of amphetamine use rendered their hands so shaky that they can't hold on to a normal-sized camera? You know, one that isn't the size of an entire tablet?
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CHICAGO, IL (December 5, 2011) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Monday the team has purchased the rights to 20-year-old striker Orr Barouch from Mexican club Tigres UANL. Per league and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Having joined the Men in Red on loan from the Mexican Primera side in March, Barouch appeared in 28 league matches, tallying two goals and two assists during the 2011 MLS campaign. The Israeli youth international led the team in scoring with three goals during the side's run to the 2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final and added five goals during MLS Reserve League play.
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This document was last updated on May 7th, 2018.
This Privacy Policy describes how Genious Communications S.A.R.L. ("Genious Communications", "we", "us" or "our") as a data controller collects and use your personal data ("Information"), for example when you contact us, apply for a job, visit or use one of our websites, mobile applications, portals, or other parts of our network (each a "Site"), or use our products and services (each a "Service"). This Privacy Policy also explains the rights available to you in respect of your personal data.
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December 6, 2012
Washington, D.C. – Orchestras in 42 communities will support education and training of young musicians, artist residencies, commissions and premieres of new works, free concerts, community engagement programming, and the celebration of regional and indigenous culture thanks to $1,450,000 in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA's first round of Art Works grants, announced November 27th, supports projects that encourage and increase access to music in communities nationwide. On December 4th, the NEA also announced that Challenge America grants totaling $240,000 will support 24 orchestra projects that will extend the reach of music, performance discussions, workshops, and master classes to populations whose arts engagement abilities are otherwise limited due to geography, economics, or disability. In addition to providing direct funding, NEA awards, which require a minimum one-to-one match of federal funds, stimulate on average a return of at least seven dollars to one from other state, local, and private sources.
Future FY13 grants will be announced for Art Works (Part Two) in 2013.
The League has compiled the project descriptions for grants to orchestras and grants related to the orchestra field. Complete lists of grant amounts and project descriptions for awards in all disciplines may be found on the NEA web site.


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PHOENIX -- The A's could field a 5-foot-9 first baseman on occasion this year.
First they must test Alberto Callaspo's ability at the position, which Brandon Moss calls "the easiest one to play in the infield," before deciding if he is the team's best option to platoon with Moss.
"You can sacrifice defense for offense there because it's such an offensive-minded position," said Moss, who transitioned from the outfield to first base in 2012. "There's a lot going on, and you're always involved, but I don't think he'll have any problems at all."
This, just seconds after Moss yelled over to Callaspo, "Hey, I teach you!"
"I don't know, I'm too short for first base," the 30-year-old Callaspo joked. "You gotta be like [6-foot-8 Nate] Freiman. I never, ever, ever thought I'd play first base. I'll try, and I'm going to do my best job, but I think it'll be hard."
"The middle is a little bit more difficult to play," manager Bob Melvin said. "Third has its own dynamic, and he's handled that beautifully over the course of his career. His versatility kind of works against him in that he might have to do some things he hasn't done before, but we feel like he's able to do that."
Callaspo, a career .300 hitter against lefties, platooned with Eric Sogard at second base last year, but the A's have since brought in Nick Punto to play there, too. All three are expected to make the Opening Day roster, which would leave no room for first basemen Daric Barton and Freiman.
As a Rule 5 pick last year by the Astros, who then lost him on waivers to the A's, Freiman was required to remain on the active roster all season. He hit .274 with four home runs and 24 RBIs in 80 games, serving his role well. But the club can now start him at Triple-A without repercussions, which seems likely.
"We're in a mode right now where it's about winning," Moss said. "So this isn't just them having fun and trying new things out. It's about winning the game, and last year we did that with Freiman, and he did a great job, and now they're thinking about doing it with Callaspo, which is great.
"I could see lefties all day and not hit them as well as Callaspo does."
"We'll ease him into it," Melvin said. "Right now we do have some first basemen here, but it's certainly a potential target of ours for him to get at-bats against left-handers while playing first base, and we'll see how he does with it this spring."


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Those research scientists who have been searching for years for a miracle cancer cure - in the process working their way through countless millions of dollars in their struggle against the Big C - will be kicking themselves today since they could have had the Holy Grail all along for nothing.
What they should have done was simply ask Jesus, who would have thrown in the secret of world peace and the precise location of Heaven as part of the revelation package:
The winner of this auction will receive my handwritten journal where I have described in detail the four messages of Jesus Christ who has appeared to me.
Jesus revealed four specific things to me:
#1: The precise location of Heaven
#2. The cure for cancer
#3. The solution for the achievement of world peace.
#4. He revealed the future to me.
I will briefly discuss each of the four revelations now. HOWEVER, I HAVE DISCUSSED THESE IN DETAIL IN THE JOURNAL.
Jesus revealed four specific things to me:
#1. THE PRECISE LOCATION OF HEAVEN: When we die we will become stars... Literally stars! Jesus Christ is our Earth's sun. That is why we are His... Because we come on one of His planets. When we die and become stars we, too, will be blessed by wonderful special planets which orbit us and bring us great happiness. God the Creator is also a star... The first and the greatest. Two thousand years ago Jesus said "I am the Light of the World." Jesus now wants us to understand that this means He is the Sun and that when we die, we will become stars too.
#2. THE CURE FOR CANCER: The cure for cancer is actually the knowledge of the precise CAUSE OF CANCER. We already know the cures for cancer, mainly prevention and early detection. Also chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and alternative medicine. We also are acutely aware of the roles of carcinogens, environment, heredity and diet. But what is the PRECISE AND SOLE CAUSE OF CANCER? CANCER OCCURS WHEN WE EAT OUR OWN FLESH. (Two very simple examples of eating our own flesh are biting our cuticles or biting our lips.) When a piece of our own flesh is digested, microscopic fragments of our own DNA enter the bloodstream. If a piece of this DNA enters a vulnerable cell, the nucleus of the cell identifies the 'food' as 'self' and this causes a 'circuit' to be blown in the nucleus. When (and if) that cell goes to divide, it does so in a haphazard fashion, dividing into four instead of into two and the mutation continues. There is an interesting correlation to Christianity here. Jesus told us to "take His flesh and eat it." Now he wants us to know not to eat our own flesh in any way because it is deadly.
#3. THE SOLUTION FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD PEACE: This is so simple! According to Jesus, the way to achieve world peace is this: An AMERICAN president has to set a goal for WORLD PEACE BEFORE 2021. (President Kennedy did something similar when he set a goal for the USA to land a man on the moon in the 60's.)
#4. JESUS REVEALED TO FUTURE TO ME: The future will go one of two ways: If world peace is not achieved before 2021 the world will destroy itself. If world peace is achieved before 2021, there will be no more natural disasters.
Jesus appeared to me on March 17, 1984. I was 28 years old at the time. He instructed me to spread His solution for the achievement of world peace and to work towards it. He instructed me to tell people the precise location of Heaven. And he instructed me to share the cure for cancer. BUT He told me NOT TO TELL ANYONE He had appeared to me until after the dawn of the new millennium when at that time I would receive a sign. The sign would be a huge natural disaster. For a brief while I thought the events of September 11, 2001 were the sign that it was OK to tell people that Jesus had appeared to me. However, I knew that Jesus had said it would be a NATURAL DISASTER so I remained silent. Then the tsunamis of December 2004 hit. I realized that it was time for me to come forward. I have been trying to 'go public' since then.
I have decided to go with eBay in an effort to spread the messages of Jesus.. The winner of this auction will be given my hand written journal which tells in detail the messages Jesus revealed to me.. The person who wins this journal will have the right to copy it and distribute it in any way he or she desires.. I will seek no royalties.
And there you have it. We are pleased to report that we gather George Bush has already been talking to Jesus about their shared vision of how to achieve world peace. Since this heaven-sent guidance surely guarantees the eventual success of the US's holy crusade against evil, we advise all readers who wish to live beyond 2021 to stop biting their nails immediately. ®
Ta very much to Daniel Watts for revealing all.


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James Lipton is best known for interviewing Hollywood's biggest names on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio, but the 86-year-old is returning to acting on Netflix's much anticipated Arrested Development in May, reprising his role as Warden Stefan Gentles.
"I'm coming up pretty soon in one of the most talked about series in the history of television," Lipton tells TV Guide Magazine (he appeared briefly in the network's sizzle reel during January 2013's Television Critics Association Tour). "I'm back on Arrested Development — just brace yourself."
Lipton recently guest starred on ABC's Suburgatory, but is not often seen on screen as an actor. So why did he decide to make a rare character appearance? "I began as an actor so I love acting," says the Actors Studio creator/executive producer. "I went out to California for a week and already shot the show — I absolutely love it!"
But does he love the new wave of streaming series such as Netflix's original House of Cards? "I don't like watching movies at home," Lipton admits. "But I like watching television at my leisure, one episode at a time, which is the way it's always been done. We'll see. The world will see."
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Thursday September 12th: On The Field with a High School Referee
Earlier this year the replacement referees caused quite a bit of controversy in the NFL. Fans questioned their qualifications and training. Tonight Sean McDonald takes the field to see what tit takes to be a High School football referee. Turns out it's a lot more work than you might think.
Is the thought of getting a tree, pulling out the decorations, trimming and lights a little too much for you? Well there is a new tree in town that might be just what you're looking for. It's a sustainable Eco-alternative to a traditional Christmas tree that can add a bit of art and drama to the Holiday season. Come with us to Exeter to see how the Festive Tree came to be.
And on Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire: The Cadillac Tragedy.
For more information on tonight's stories:
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A test run of an "artificial pancreas" that monitors blood sugar and delivers both insulin and regulatory hormone called glucagon helped patients achieve near-normal blood sugar levels for more than 24 hours, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
The system -- made up of a glucose monitor, two pumps and a laptop -- is designed to better mimic the body's natural mechanism of controlling both high and low blood sugar.
In previous tests of artificial pancreas systems that deliver only insulin, some patients have developed dangerously low blood sugar, known as hypoglycemia.
Adding small doses of glucagon, a hormone released by the pancreas to raise blood sugar levels, helped overcome this, according to the study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
After some adjustments to a sophisticated computer program that acts as the brain of the system, all 11 adults in the study had good blood sugar control without experiencing hypoglycemia, even after eating three high-carbohydrate meals.
"This is the first artificial pancreas device that has used both insulin and glucagon," said Dr. Steven Russell of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who helped lead the study.
The finding is the latest in what has become a race to develop a fully functioning artificial pancreas that can give patients with type 1 diabetes an automated way to control their blood sugar.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body destroys its own ability to make insulin, rendering sufferers unable to properly break down sugar. People with the condition must frequently monitor and take insulin to regulate blood sugar and prevent diabetic complications such as eye damage, kidney failure and heart disease.
Devices like continuous glucose monitors, such as those made by Medtronic or Abbott Laboratories, that constantly track blood sugar and pumps that inject insulin help, but patients still risk hypoglycemia.
That is where glucagon comes in, Russell said. In people with type 1 diabetes, glucagon does not work properly. Building this into the system helps balance out both the highs and the lows of blood sugar control.
The system was developed in the lab of Edward Damiano, a biomedical engineer at Boston University whose son David developed type 1 diabetes when he was a year old.
Damiano's team developed the brains of the device, the computer program that constantly analyzes blood sugar and calculates when diabetics need a dose of insulin or glucagon.
Initial tests of the system revealed a surprise. While the computer program was based on recommended doses of the fast-acting insulin Humalog, made by Eli Lilly and Co, they discovered that many diabetics in their study process insulin much more slowly than expected.
Tweaks to the computer program fixed the problem but the issue demonstrates the complexities of treating diabetes.
In February, British researchers tested a similar system on 17 children and found it kept their blood sugar levels within the normal range for 60 percent of the time.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has teamed up with Johnson & Johnson's unit Animas, which makes insulin pumps, and DexCom Inc, which makes continuous glucose monitoring devices, to develop and test an artificial pancreas system.
Editing by Maggie Fox and Doina Chiacu
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Even hours before it is to kick off, Democratic and Republican operatives are engaged in verbal skirmishes about the VP debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. And no one's giving ground.
We give you two of them who frequently go toe to toe here in the nation's most populous state — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and California GOP state chair Tom Del Beccaro.
Our San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com Shaky Hand Productions cam caught up with them at former Mayor Willie Brown's hot ticket benefit breakfast yesterday in San Francisco.
Villaraigosa headed up the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, and is one of the top surrogates on the campaign trail for President Barack Obama.
Here's his take:
Del Beccaro headed up the largest delegation to the GOP convention in Tampa, and he weighs in here:
Stay tuned here all night for blogs, videos and follow us on Twitter (@cmarinucci) for the latest on the VP debate, which starts at 6 p.m. PST on all major networks and most cable news stations.


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The death knell for public employee unions ?
"In retrospect, there were two conspicuous giveaways that Wisconsin Governor Scott
Walker was headed for victory in last week's recall election.
One was that the Democrats' campaign against him wound up focusing on just about everything but Walker's law limiting
collective bargaining rights for government workers. Sixteen months ago, the Capitol building in Madison was besieged by rioting protesters hell-bent on blocking the
changes by any means necessary. Union members and their supporters, incandescent with rage, likened Walker to Adolf Hitler and cheered as Democratic lawmakers fled the state in a bid to force
the legislature to a standstill. Once the bill passed, unions and Democrats vowed revenge, and amassed a million signatures
on recall petitions."


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Our re-design is based upon the Open PCR system originally designed by Josh Perfetto and Tito Jankowski.
Below is the top part of the general body of the PCR machine. It will be altered so buttons can be placed next to the LED screen.
Key Features
Design changes on the top body part will include changing the layout so that it may fit input buttons that will be connected and programmed internally later. These buttons will allow an individual to set up cycling details and will remove the need of an external computer to run the device.
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A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is based on the enzyme DNA Polymerase's ability to synthesize complementary DNA strands. Through a series of steps involving polymerase breaking apart a DNA strand and then synthesizing a specified complementary piece, a PCR machine is able to isolate and amplify a desired strand of DNA.
Steps to Amplify a Patient's DNA Sample
1. PCR is a process that uses controlled temperature changes to make copies of DNA. Heat (about 95°C) separates double-stranded DNA into two single strands; this process is called denaturation.
2. "Primers", or short DNA strands, binds to the very end of the complimentary sequence that is being replicated. This step is called annealing, which takes place between 40°C and 65°C. The temperature that we use for this is 57°C.
3. Once the annealing process is done, the temperature is raised to about 72°C and DNA polymerase then extends from the primers copying the DNA.
4. PCR amplifies a segment of a DNA sequence from the original DNA strand. In the end, there will be two new DNA strands identical to the original strand.
Components of PCR Master Mix
• A modified form of the enzyme Taq DNA polymerase that lacks 5´→3´ exonuclease activity.
• dNTPs
• MgCl2
• Colorless Reaction Buffer (pH 8.5)
1. With a permanent marker, the transfer pipettes were numbered at the bulbs so that one pipette was used per sample. With the permanent marker, the Eppendorf tubes were numbered at the top.
2. Each sample was transferred separately (using one pipette per sample) into an Eppendorf tube containing 400 mL of buffer. This tube was labeled with the number of the sample. The entire sample was transferred into this Eppendorf tube. The pipette with the corresponding sample number was used to place the sample onto the fluorescent measuring device.
3. The specially labeled Eppendorf tube containing SYBR Green I was transferred using the specifically labeled pipette. Only two drops were placed on the first two centered drops as seen on the video.
4. The diluted sample was then taken and two drops were placed on top of the Syber Green I solution drops.
5. The light going through the drop was aligned, as seen in the video.
6. After setting up the Flourimeter and the samples, the Smartphone's photo settings was setting to the ones listed:
7. The flourimeter was placed into the light box.
8. The smartphone operator had taken as many pictures using the light box as he/she wants. Their goal is to take pictures clear enough so ImageJ can take data from the images.
9. Once they have taken enough photos of that sample, the flourimeter was taken back to the sample preparer to prepare the next sample.
10. Now the sample was either rerun again or that sample and its pipette was discarded. The SYBR Green I labeled pipette was kept.
11. This procedure was then repeated for all the samples. 5 samples can be run per glass slide.
12. As the last sample was run, the water from the scintillation vial as a blank was run using the same procedure as with the other samples.
13. ImageJ was used to analyze the images taken by the smartphone. To upload the image onto ImageJ, the ANALYZE tab was clicked and SET MEASUREMENTS was chosen. AREA INTEGRATED DENSITY and MEAN GREY VALUE were selected from the menu.
14. The MENU tab was selected and the COLOR tab was chosen, the function SPLIT CHANNELS was used; three separate files were then created. SYBR GREEN fluoresces green, sothe image name with "green" next to it was used.
15. The oval selection was used to draw an oval around the green drop. Then, the MEASURE tab was selected from the ANALYZE tab, and the sample number and the numbers measured from the image were recorded.
16. To get the readings from the background of the image, another oval of approximately the same size was drawn in the background green image and the MEASURE tab was selected from ANALYZE tab. The sample number and the numbers measured from the image were recorded , this data was labeled as "background".
17. The measurements were saved in an excel file by clicking SAVED AS from the FILE tab.
18. The INTDEN was collected for the positive and negative controls and the patient samples.
19. The DNA μg/mL was calculated with this equation: 2*INTDEN of sample/INTDEN of DNA Calf Thymus.
Research and Development
Background on Disease Markers
Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV is a horrible disease and is running rampant worldwide. HIV is especially prevalent in underdeveloped countries. This virus isn't limited to undeveloped countries however, as there are also many people with HIV in developed countries such as the United States. This disease affects chromosome 17 and the genome build 36.3. After researching the SNP for HIV, which is rs1024611, the mutation in the sequence was discovered to be ATA. So then a primer to be used along side a PCR was developed.
The primer that can be used to detect HIV is CGTCTGTCGATAGTGAAAGG and its reverse GCAGACAGCTATCACTTTCC. A diseased allele will only give results because of the way the PCR works and how the primers will attach. If the sample has the disease then the primer will attach to the DNA and as the PCR goes through its cycles there will be a multitude of the same DNA strand with the SNP rs1024611. If the sample does not have the disease allele then there will be no interaction with the DNA and the primer, therefore there will be no change from the original and the end results.
The primer will only bond to the diseases allele because of the specific genetic pattern. For each cycle the amount of binded primers will double creating an immense amount of the strips of DNA.
Bayesian Stats
The following equation can be used to find the Bayesian statistics:


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Ameridose to remain closed through December
Insects, contamination found at company
A Massachusetts drug company with the same founders as a compounding pharmacy tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak has agreed with state regulators to remain closed through the end of the year.
Ameridose first agreed to close for inspection in October after tainted steroids from its sister company, the New England Compounding Center, were linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak that has caused 32 deaths. The agreement has been extended several times. The latest would have expired Monday.
Ameridose has laid off most workers and recalled its products, though none have been found to be contaminated. The company makes injectable drugs for hospitals.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday its monthlong inspection of Ameridose found numerous potential sources of contamination, including leaky ceilings and insects. Ameridose has said it will work to address those issues.


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ABOUT Sleater-Kinney
Formed in 1994 from the ashes of Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17, a pair of groups that rode the first wave of the riot grrrl movement, Sleater- Kinney became one of the most important feminist punk rock bands of the '90s. Singer/guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein first met in 1992, when Tucker was one half of the duo Heavens to Betsy. Brownstein, a classically trained pianist, was so inspired by Tucker and other grrrl musicians like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile (not coincidentally Tucker's own influences) that she formed her own band, Excuse 17, a year later. Sleater-Kinney, which earned its name from a local freeway off-ramp, initially began as Tucker and Brownstein's side project. Things changed in late 1994, though, when Australia-born Lora MacFarlane signed on as the group's first permanent drummer. Over the course of the following two weeks, the trio recorded its self-titled 1995 debut for Chainsaw, a label run by Team Dresch bassist Donna Dresch.
Upon its release, the album earned widespread acclaim for its visceral intensity as well as the group's passionate vocals, intricate melodies, and provocative, politically charged lyrics. With 1996's Call the Doctor, Sleater-Kinney garnered even greater media exposure and critical applause on the strength of their incisive rants against gender inequity, consumerism, and indie rock's male-dominated hierarchy. Their Kill Rock Stars label debut, Dig Me Out, recorded with new drummer Janet Weiss from Quasi, followed in 1997, and was again among the most acclaimed releases of its season; The Hot Rock appeared two years later, and in the spring of 2000, Sleater-Kinney resurfaced with All Hands on the Bad One.
In August 2002, the group returned with its most musically accomplished record to date, One Beat. Sleater-Kinney upped the ante again with 2005's The Woods, a powerful, inventive album that was released by Sub Pop, produced by Dave Fridmann, and inspired by, among other things, the political climate of the mid-2000s and the freedom of the improvised parts of their gigs supporting Pearl Jam on a 2003 tour. During the summer of 2006, though, the group announced they were going on an "indefinite hiatus" after finishing the remaining dates on their tour. Brownstein went on to create the Spells with Mary Timony, and Corin Tucker launched a solo career in 2010.
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