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Latino voters proved during last week's presidential election that they play an important role in key elections. A new study shows that their political muscle will continue to grow.
A study by Pew Research Center based on U.S. Census Bureau data shows the number of Latino voters is expected to double within a generation. While Latinos make up only about 17 percent of the country's total population – and only 10 percent of the voting public – there are certain factors that will lead to this almost unprecedented rise, the study said.
One being that Latinos are by far the youngest voting bloc in the country, with their median age at 27 —and just 18 years among native-born Hispanics—compared with 42 years for that of white non-Hispanics.
"In the coming decades, their share of the age-eligible electorate will rise markedly through generational replacement alone," Pew stated.
Pew also found that a large number of Latino immigrants – about nine in 10 – who have not become naturalized citizens said they would if they could. However, the immigrants cited administrative costs, lack of English and lack of initiative as the main reasons why they did not.
However, recognizing the key role Latinos played in his re-election and the increasing growth of the Hispanic community in the U.S., President Barack Obama said any legislation should make permanent the administrative changes he made earlier this year that allow some young undocumented immigrants to remain in the country under the Deferred Action policy. The initiative by the Obama administration gives a two-year reprieve from deportation to undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors.
"This is the fastest-growing group in the country," Obama said. "You're starting to see a sense of empowerment and civic participation that I think is going to be powerful and good for the country."
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Any data integration vendor will tell you, its No. 1 competitor is hand-coded integration. Our Loraine Lawson talked with IT leaders who say it's just simpler to write a few lines of code – they don't need a "data integration platform." But how much do those few lines of code – and the problems they create later, when there's no documentation on the integration – cost them in the long run?
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Just what is the big deal these days with wholesale shopping? It seems like everyone
has jumped onto the bandwagon and I have to wonder why. Are the deals that much better at the wholesale clubs or are people really going there for the convenience
of buying in bulk?
We have been a member of a wholesale club for about three years now and in the beginning
I did the majority of my shopping there. This was a time when we had a lot more
money in our bank then we do now and I did not take the time to do the pricing research.
I now buy items at the wholesale club, but my approach to it is a little different
then it once was. I am now an educated consumer so I know what is a good deal and
what is not. Not so surprising is the fact that I was buying a lot of things thinking
bigger meant cheaper. This is what the wholesale market would have you believe as
well, but bigger does not necessarily mean cheaper- so it is important that you
too are an educated consumer before you step into the wholesale clubs.
First off, just what is a wholesale club? Wholesale clubs offer
to their member's items that you can buy in bulk at a "reduced cost." There are
three major competitors in the wholesale market that you can choose from- Sam's
Club, B.J.'s and Costco. Most of these clubs along with offering items in bulk also
offer other services such as pharmaceuticals, film development, optical services,
books, and clothing items.
In exchange for allowing you to buy these items in bulk at a reduced cost, they
require that you pay a yearly membership fee to be able to make these purchases.
I will break down the membership fees and special deals that are offered for each
club so that you can see whether or not gaining a membership to these clubs is worth
it for you.
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I hope you have a very happy birthday Stella. it is my stepson and my granddaughters birthday today too so it is a very special day. I hope you get lots of loving from your sweet kids and all those grandsons!
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Oh, my gosh... how did I miss this! Hope you had a most wonderful, happy, merry birthday, Stella!
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I love a parade and because I am relentless, my friends have learned to love them, too. Today, I shanghaied them for a trip to Portland to see the Rose Parade. Our crew gets larger every year and when we get together, we look like we're on a field trip, enjoying a day away from the home. I suspect we were quite a sight. In addition to chairs, we were also lugging picnic hampers for lunch in the park to round out the day. Food for the picnic was a communal affair and I was the designated dessert lady. I made several types of bar cookies because they travel well and could hold up to the jostling that would get them from here to there. I'll eventually be sharing all the recipes with you, but tonight I'd like to focus on the one that made the cookie that I liked least. Let me hasten to add, there is absolutely nothing wrong with these cookies, save for the fact they are too sweet for my taste. The sweet lovers in the group enjoyed the bars and they were gone by the end of the afternoon. The cookies, while expensive to make, are simple to prepare and all the information you need to successfully make them is in the recipe below. If you have a sweet tooth, I suspect you'll love these bars. Here is how they are made.
Apricot-Oatmeal Bars with Pistachios and Chocolate Chips...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Fine Cooking magazine
9-ounces (2 cups) all purpose flour
1-1/4 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon table salt
8 ounces (1 cup) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
4 ounces (about 1 cup) chopped, shelled natural pistachios
1/2 cup diced dried apricots
1/2 cup white chocolate or semisweet chocolate morsels
1 (15-1/4-oz.) jar apricot preserves
1) Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Using an electric mixer, combine flour, oats, sugar, cinnamon, and salt; mix on low speed until well combined. Add butter and mix on medium until butter is mostly blended and mixture appears moist and begins to pull together, about 3 minutes. Stir in pistachios. Transfer 1-1/2 cups of crumb mixture to another bowl, then stir dried apricots and chocolate morsels into it, and refrigerate.
2) Firmly press remaining mixture into the bottom of an ungreased 13x9-inch baking pan. Bake in middle of oven for 25 minutes. Let cool for about 20 minutes (leave the oven on). Spread apricot preserves evenly on top, leaving a 1/8-inch border around the edge of the crust.
3) Crumble reserved crumb mixture over apricot preserves. Return to oven and bake until lightly browned and fruit filling is bubbling all over, including the center of the pan, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool completely before slicing into 18 bars (or into smaller pieces, if you like).
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man is seeking to have his pregnant wife removed from life support and may try to obtain a court injunction against a state law requiring her to be kept alive because she is with child, reports said.
Marlise Munoz was admitted to a hospital in Fort Worth on November 26 after suffering what her husband believes was a pulmonary embolism. She has been on a ventilator since then.
Her husband Erick wants her to be removed from life support, saying that he and his wife are both paramedics in the Fort Worth area and discussed what they wanted to do in such a situation.
"We both knew that we didn't want to be on life support," he told Dallas broadcaster WFAA.
He found his wife unconscious on the kitchen floor when she was 14 weeks pregnant and is worried the fetus may have been injured by a blood clot that cut off the flow of oxygen and nutrients in Marlise's body, he told WFAA.
"We've reached a point where you wish that your wife's body will stop," he said.
Marlise is now about 18 weeks pregnant and tests have shown the fetus has a normal heart beat, WFAA said.
Under Texas state law, a person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment from a pregnant patient, even if there is a "do not resuscitate" request from the patient or the family of the patient seeks to end life support.
"The hospital is following the law," J.R. Labbe, a spokeswoman for the John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, told Reuters.
Erick was not immediately available for comment.
In July, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law tough new restrictions on abortion, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy, marking one of the biggest victories in a decade for opponents of the procedure in the United States.
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The practice has created a live-work space which successfully marries old with new
Sanya Polescuk Architects have submitted this project into the AJ Small Projects Awards. The 2 phase retrofit of a Victorian house in Belsize Park, London has transformed the building into a live-work environment, winning a commendation in NLA's Don't Move, Improve! Awards.
Formerly a coach and stables mews house, the project is situated within a conservation area, which led to some interesting challenges. By retaining the original features of the former Victorian mews, the architects have paid respect to the historic value of the structure whilst meeting the needs of modern thermal efficiency standards.
After removing the domestic additions of recent years, a single open horseshoe shaped workspace was created on the ground floor with independent access from the mews.
The existing structure of the house is load bearing solid brick walls, typical of buildings of this age. A single timber beam spans ten metres across and is propped up only by one cast-iron column. This allowed them to create an open span area containing the circulation and studio space.
To increase thermal performance and reduce the building's carbon footprint, the structure has been 'wrapped' with insulation.
The ground floor studio area was insulated with breathable wood fibre insulation to the walls and floor, allowing the existing fabric and insulation to breathe together.
The first floor maisonette living space has been internally sealed with PIR insulation on the walls and roof. The fabric breathes through a ventilated cavity between the existing building fabric and the insulation.
Windows can often be a problem when retrofitting in conservation areas, with planners often requiring original timber sash windows to be kept despite their inefficiencies. For this project Sanya Polescuk Architects worked with the existing windows, adding secondary glazing at ground floor level, and at first floor the original sash windows were overhauled, draft proofed and new Histoglass double glazing installed.
The maisonette living areas of the retrofit follow Code for Sustainable Homes guidelines, achieving Level 4.
The success of this retrofit project lies in its sympathetic marrying of old and new. The character and style of the original coach and stable mews has been kept through the careful retention of historical details such as the wall tiles and cobblestone floors. Where elements have had to be changed to fulfil requirements of a modern live-work environment, a nod to the past has been kept, for instance, the outline of the original stairs to the hayloft has been painted white on the wall, leaving a shadow of the building's past existence.
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Contract period phase 1 March – July 2011
Contract period phase 2 January – August 2012
Gross internal floor area: 185m²
Form of contract Traditional JCT Minor Works
Total cost £240,000
Annual predicted CO2 emissions 25.8kgCO2/m²
Air tightness levels 9.56m³/hr/m²
Predicted energy demands for studio and flat gas: 10,756kWh/year, electricity: 2,340kWh/year
Environmental targets Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4
Wall U-values 0.20W/m²K
Floor U-values 0.20W/m²K
Roof U-values pitched slate: 0.13W/m²K, lead dormer: 0.15W/m²K
Glazing U-values original timber sashes with new Histoglass: 1.9W/m²K, new timber framed casements: 1.1W/m²K, new aluminium roof light: 1.0W/m²K
Renewables solar thermal hot water
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Structural engineer Michael Chester & Partners
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text: Client stories highlight Loyola Clinical Centers 10th anniversary celebration September 30, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Kathy Klein (center) tells the story of her still-ongoing recovery from a stroke, which rendered her unable to speak for more than a year. Jordan Differding (left), a speech-language pathology student at Loyola, is working with Klein at the Loyola Clinical Centers to address the speech impairments caused by her stroke. In January 2012, Kathy Klein suffered a stroke that affected the left side of her brain and the right side of her body. She didn't speak for more than a year after the injury because she physically couldn't make words. It was devastating. On Sept. 26, 2013, she was able to tell her story from a podium in front of a room full of people at a reception to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Loyola Clinical Centers (LCC). "They taught me to talk," said Klein, a 52-year-old graphic designer from Lutherville, Md. Klein has been receiving individual speech-language therapy at LCC for a year. She is living with aphasia (language impairment) and apraxia (motor speech disorder), and she still struggles mightily, laboring over every word. But she can communicate, and she's eager to discuss the milestones of her still-ongoing recovery. "I'm thrilled Kathy's able to give this speech. She was timid when she first came through our doors because of her speech intelligibility," said Andrea Atticks, adult neurogenic coordinator at LCC and Klein's clinical supervisor. "Because of the stroke, her brain can't program every word and sound she's trying to say. Where that's automatic for you and I, she's thinking of how her lips and tongue need to move." Klein joined others who shared compelling testimonials at the event, held in LCC's newly expanded Belvedere Square headquarters in north Baltimore. The 75 attendees included supporters and donors, faculty and student clinicians, and prominent Loyola University Maryland administrators. Paul Rao, Ph.D., vice president of inpatient operations and compliance at the National Rehabilitation Hospital and a former Loyola faculty member, was honored for his decades of commitment to advancing health and human services. The evening was an opportunity to see and hear first-hand how the interdisciplinary graduate training clinic has transformed thousands of lives over the past decade. "When you think about what the mission is of the Loyola Clinical Centers and the Jesuit philosophy of Loyola, and about reaching the underserved, underprivileged, those that are often ignored, in this instance you're able to have tangible, measurable outcomes of the work that you're doing because you can see the impact not only with the clients and their families but all the people they interact with on a daily basis, both at work and in the community," said Martin Yankellow, member of LCC's board of advisors and vice president for Correct Rx Pharmacy Services in Linthicum, Md. Those outcomes are clear from LCC's continued growth. In 2012, LCC served nearly 4,000 clients with more than 12,000 clinical sessions; the year LCC opened, fewer than 400 clients were served, and just over 600 clients were served in 2006. LCC is now training more than 170 students each year in literacy (undergraduate and graduate), psychology, speech-language pathology, and pastoral counseling. Almost 60 percent of LCC's services are provided at reduced rates, and that percentage has increased steadily over the past five years. A $50,000 grant from the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Charitable Foundation in 2012 allowed LLC to strengthen programs for those living with brain injury and brain disorders, as well as their caregivers. And while LCC also operates in two other locations – Loyola-Notre Dame Library and the Graduate Center-Columbia Campus – its most impactful expansion has been into the community. "Our faculty and students have moved from working within the walls of our facilities to really engraining the LCC in the community—in Head Start programs, in schools, in senior centers, and in partnerships with various other community agencies," said Janet Simon Schreck, '91, M.S. '93, executive director of LCC. Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., president of Loyola, called LCC an "invaluable community resource" and emphasized the critical role LCC plays in Loyola's overall goals. 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House Bill 208 (Growlers Legislation) allows holders of Class A, B and D Licenses (PDF) to hold a refillable container permit (PDF) to sell draft beer for consumption off the licensed premises in certain refillable containers with a capacity of not less than 32 ounces and not more than 128 ounces, and that meets the standards under Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Section 21-107 (2013 supplement).
Trade Practice Prohibition—"Free Alcohol"
Licensees are prohibited from offering "free alcohol" promotions in A Letter to Licensees from the Chief Administrator (PDF).
Liquor License Task Force
The Liquor License Task Force (LLTF) was created to look into the need for liquor licenses to support the expansion of the restaurant sector of Baltimore County's economy.
LLTF Presentation (PDF)—This is an overview of the purpose and goals of the Liquor License Task Force.
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The Liquor Board Commission investigates and processes all alcoholic beverage license applications, investigates police reports pertaining to liquor law violations, all public complaints, and updates license information in the Alcohol Beverage License Book (PDF). If a violation of the State Alcoholic Beverage Laws or Local Rules and Regulations is found, the Board may have a hearing to consider a fine, suspension of the license or revocation of the license. All licensees shall operate their establishments in such a manner as to avoid disturbing the peace, tranquility, safety, health and quiet of the neighborhood.
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Gigi Sayfan specializes in cross-platform object-oriented programming in C/C++/ C#/Python/Java with emphasis on large-scale distributed systems. He is currently trying to build intelligent machines inspired by the brain at Numenta (www.numenta.com).
My wife recently completed certification as a spinning instructor -- you know, riding real hard on a stationary bike -- and began teaching classes. It turns out that music is very important for spinning, and instructors have to prepare CDs with proper tracks for warm-up, main work-out, and cool down. Each part is measured and you have to find the right tracks with the proper combined length. Of course, you could do this manually by looking at the duration of each track and try to add them together, but this approach is tedious and error-prone. A more serious problem is that the duration of MP3 files is recorded as an ID3 tag in the file header. There is no guarantee that this number is correct (and often it is not). This situation is simply screaming for a software solution.
The solution I present in this article -- the "MP3 Duration Calculator" -- lets you select MP3 files from a directory and calculate the total duration of the selected files on-the-fly. The complete source code and related files are available here. To calculate the duration of each track, the software actually opens the file in a media player and gets an accurate duration number. Figure 1 shows the folder selection dialog where you choose the folder that contains the MP3 files.
Figure 2 shows the main window of the MP3 Duration Converter.
The program is a WPF application implemented in C# over the .NET 3.5 framework. It demonstrates a few interesting aspects such as:
- Dynamically loading MP3 files
- Working with the MediaElement component
- Asynchronous execution of long operations while keeping the UI responsive
- On-the-fly resizing of GridView columns (more obscure then it should be)
- Data binding and custom conversion
- Application state persistence
An Introduction to WPF
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is the user interface/display system of Windows. It is built on top of DirectX and can take advantage of hardware acceleration. It is more advanced than previous UI APIs (including the .NET Windows Forms) all based on GDI/GDI+ and the User32 API. WPF offers a declarative UI (XAML), animation, multi-media support, rich text model, web-like layout model, browser-like page-based navigation, rich drawing model (including 3D) based on primitives and not pixels, totally customizable look-and-feel for controls (via templates and styling), and more.
Silverlight, Microsoft's rich web client platform, is based on the same design and is almost compatible, which really helps if you want to multi-target your application to the desktop and the browser. At this writing, WPF is not supported by Mono (and probably won't in the near future), so if you need to target multiple platforms your best bet is still the Windows Forms API.
XAML, short for "eXtensible Application Markup Language," is an XML dialect for instantiating .NET objects and hooking them up. It can be used for many purposes, but currently its primary use is to define WPF user interfaces. It provides the following capabilities:
- Full namespace support
- Resource definition
- Animation definition
- Control template definition
- Hooking up event handlers
- Data binding
- Design time integration with Visual Studio 2008
This is a rich feature set for a UI description markup language. It should be noted that XAML is not required and you can code any WPF construct programmatically. However, many things are easier with XAML, especially if you use Visual Studio as your IDE.
MP3 Duration Calculator Design
The design is straightforward. There are four classes:
- App (the application class)
- TrackDurations (engine)
- DurationConverter (a helper class)
- MainWindow (GUI).
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More than 500 people were killed when Peru was hit with by an enormous earthquake last week. When we learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL under which the GNU/Linux operating system is licensed, was in Peru during the quake, we asked if he would share his experiences with us. Here's his report.
On the evening of August 15 I was answering email in the offices of COSOLIG, the
free software organization of the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la
Vega in Lima. I was just about to do a batch mail transfer when the
earthquake began. It was strong enough to shake my body in an
interesting way, but insufficient to damage a concrete
building, or even to make a bookshelf fall over.
Other people in the office urged me to go outside with them, and I did
so, figuring they knew better than me. Some of them were quite
frightened, but the shaking did not get stronger and we could plainly
see that no damage was being done. I was surprised by the long
duration of the shaking, which lasted more than a minute. Nothing was damaged
at the university, and not much in Lima at all. For me, it was an
exhilarating experience.
When the shaking stopped, I went back into the building and tried to
do the mail transfer, but the entire Peruvian Internet had crashed, so
it was impossible. Instead I answered questions for a pending
interview. The Internet came back up around an hour later.
About 20 minutes after the quake, people reported having heard a news
report that the epicenter had been in the jungle, inland. I thought
it was good news, because I figured there would not be much damage or
casualties there. It was only the next day that I learned that
southern coastal cities had had substantial casualties and damage.
Several people I know wrote that they were worried I had been hurt.
Since the casualties were few, rationally they should have presumed I
was OK. Someone even started a rumor that I was "missing." He could
not have had any basis for that statement.
I was supposed to take a bus to Chimbote that night. We thought for a
while that the bus would be cancelled, because communications were out
and the line could not tell that the roads were safe. That would have
meant missing my speech the next day. However, the bus departed on
schedule and I gave the speech as planned.
I read that a church collapsed on worshipers during mass; later I
heard that the priest had been rescued. Believers surely attributed
the rescue to the good will of a benevolent deity. They probably did
not attribute the collapse to the ill will of an evil deity, but it
would be equally logical. In the 18th century, an earthquake
destroyed a cathedral in Lisbon, killing thousands of believers. Many
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Cornell Dupree, a versatile guitarist whose long, productive career included performances and recordings with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Miles Davis and Lena Horne, died Sunday at his home in Fort Worth. Dupree, who had emphysema, was 68.
Often called "Mr. 2,500" as a reference to the number of recordings he participated in, occasionally as a leader but mostly as a first-call sideman, Dupree adapted easily to the changing demands of soul, R&B, pop, jazz and beyond during his nearly five-decade career.
Working in the studio, Dupree was renowned for his ability to add something uniquely unexpected to the music. Although his playing was rooted in Texas blues, he quickly developed a style of his own, investing solo lines with subtle harmonic references and bringing rhythm passages to life with buoyantly propulsive accents.
Add to that his on-the-spot creativity, which offered hooks and rhythmic chording to catch a listener's ear. Some examples include his slippery, sliding lines at the start of Aretha Franklin's "Respect," and his rhythm plucking that supports the brass on Mariah Carey's "Emotions."
"No matter what I play, I just stay with the feeling of the song," Dupree told the Boston Herald in 1995. "I don't press, and I don't try to impress. Be yourself and play what comes natural — that's my thing."
Cornell Luther Dupree Jr. was born in Fort Worth on Dec. 19, 1942. He was barely into his teens when he heard Johnny "Guitar" Watson. Fascinated by Watson's pioneering electric guitar techniques, Dupree decided to teach himself the instrument, primarily by sitting in with older blues and R&B guitarists.
When he was 18, Dupree was heard by saxophonist, bandleader and fellow Texan King Curtis. Impressed by the young guitarist, Curtis promised Dupree a job if he continued practicing. A year later, Curtis brought Dupree to New York to join the Curtis band, the King Pins.
By the late 1960s, Dupree was at Atlantic Records, his sound and style playing a significant role in the shaping of the label's classic soul recordings. Producer Jerry Wexler, writing in the liner notes for Dupree's "Bop 'N' Blues," recalled how his usual practice of employing three guitars in the rhythm section changed dramatically when Dupree came on the scene. "Miraculously, it seemed to me," wrote Wexler, "one man, playing rhythm and lead at the same time, took the place of three."
It was a style that kept Dupree in the studios for long working hours, usually with pop music's most visible artists.
He was often asked about his personal favorites among the 2,500 recordings he made. He told the Syracuse Post-Standard that his favorites included King Curtis' "Live at the Fillmore," Brook Benton's "Rainy Night in Georgia" and Esther Phillips' "From a Whisper to a Scream." In other interviews, he also referred to "Donny Hathaway Live" and "Aretha Franklin Live at Fillmore West," as well as the Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb recording "Guilty." But, Dupree was quick to add, "it's hard to remember them all."
Dupree began recording on his own in the 1970s with "Teasin'." His Grammy-nominated "Coast to Coast" in 1988 took him in a more jazz-oriented direction in the company of saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman and pianist Ellis Marsalis. In the '90s he shifted musical gears again, this time toward funk and jazz.
From the mid-'70s to the early '80s, Dupree was a member of the group Stuff. A jazz-funk band recalling the urban blues bands of the '40s, it included keyboardist Richard Tee (with whom Dupree worked frequently), drummers Steve Gadd and Chris Parker, guitarist Eric Gale, and bassist Gordon Edwards. All five of the band's albums went gold, and one received a Grammy nomination. The group's members also backed Paul Simon, Joe Cocker, Franklin and John Lennon, among others.
More recently, Dupree occasionally toured with a New Orleans-oriented group called the Bayou Buddies. By the mid-2000s he was performing with the Soul Survivors, an ensemble featuring pianist Les McCann and saxophonist Ronnie Cuber. Despite his illness, Dupree reportedly recorded his 10th album in April.
Dupree is survived by his wife, Erma Kindles Dupree; children Celestine Allan, James C. Dupree, and Cornell Dupree III; and nine grandchildren.


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The April jobs report is a miss!
There were just 115K new jobs created in April. That's well below the 160K that was expected.
But unemployment rate fell from 8.2% to 8.1% and last month was revised from a gain of 121K to 166K.
So it was a disappointment, but not a catastrophe due to the revisions.
Other key numbers:
- The underemployment rate has stayed flat at 14.5%
- No improvement in weekly hours.
- Average hourly earnings grew 0.2% month over month.
- The labor force participation rate has fallen to 63.6%, the lowest level since 1981.
Markets have ticked lower now higher on the news...
And here's some industry sub-sector data:
Employment in professional and business services increased by 62,000 in April. Since a recent low point in September 2009, employment in this industry has grown by 1.5 million. In April, employment in temporary help services edged up by 21,000. Employment grew in architectural and engineering services (+7,000) and in computer systems design and related services (+7,000). Retail trade employment rose by 29,000 over the month. General merchandise stores added 21,000 jobs in April but has shown no definitive trend in recent months. Employment in building material and garden supply stores continued to trend up; the industry has added 19,000 jobs since December. Health care continued to add jobs (+19,000) in April. Within the industry, employment in ambulatory health care services, which includes home health care and offices of physicians, rose by 15,000. Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and drinking places continued to trend up (+20,000) in April. Since February 2010, food services and drinking places has added 576,000 jobs. Manufacturing employment continued to trend up (+16,000) in April, with job growth in fabricated metal products (+6,000) and machinery (+5,000). Since its most recent employment low in January 2010, manufacturing has added 489,000 jobs, largely in durable goods manufacturing.
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Detroit housing project where Supremes lived razed
DETROIT (AP) — A backhoe crunched and gouged into a former low-rise row house in Detroit on Wednesday, marking the first official demolition work on a massive, vacant Detroit housing project once home to boxer Joe Louis and the Supremes before the musical trio became vital voices of "the Motown sound."
The mechanical jabs and spins were for the news cameras, but crews were quietly beginning to encircle the 18.5-acre site of the former Frederick Douglass Homes. They were doing the preparation work necessary to raze the entire graffiti-covered complex comprising several city blocks better known as the Brewster projects — a persistent, prominent symbol of abandonment and decay in a once-vital manufacturing city searching for its financial footing and larger recovery after decades of job and population losses.
For Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, the tear-down offers the chance to hit the reset button on what could be a valuable swath of real estate near the downtown of a city that recently became the largest in the nation to file for bankruptcy. Bing, a member of professional basketball's Hall of Fame and former steel supply company owner, knows such a project wouldn't be possible without the direct aid of the federal government — in this case, a $6.5 million emergency grant for the first phase of demolition and assurances that more could come for the rest of the work.
For Bing, who along with the City Council must run all financial decisions by state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr, the demolition marks a major milestone in his four-year effort to demolish 10,000 vacant structures in the city. He said the city is on track to meet that goal by year's end, but it still leaves in limbo long-debated efforts to do something with the dilapidated, hulking Michigan Central train depot on the city's southwest side.
A developer also faces tall odds in his plan to revamp another monolithic symbol of Motor City blight: the old Packard automobile plant that's increasingly become the target of thieves, metal scrappers, urban explorers and graffiti artists.
"Without (federal) support, this could not have happened," said Bing, who was joined at the media event with Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan.
Work began on the complex's low-rise row houses, and the mid- and high-rise structures are expected to follow later this year and continue into 2014. The housing project consisted of four 15-story high-rise apartments, two 6-story mid-rise buildings and 96 low-rise row houses.
Bing said he expects "a lot of developers" will look at the property even before the city issues requests for proposals. The area sits between the city's rebounding Midtown and downtown areas, and near the proposed $650 million development that includes a new arena for the Detroit Red Wings.
He acknowledged the Brewster's lore as the proving grounds for Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson before joining Motown Records a half-century ago as well as the training ground for Louis, who trained at the nearby Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center. The city also said the complex, abandoned in 2008, was the nation's first federally funded housing development for African-Americans when it opened in 1935.
Still, history can't erase current reality: The buildings on the edge of downtown have become a haven for crime and arson, as well as an "eyesore on our city's landscape," he said.
Donovan said the demolition represents "the first step in reversing that cycle," but he hopes people focus on what it represents. He expects that any new development will embrace a mixed-use, mixed-income model that's accessible to schools, businesses and public transportation.
"We're here to celebrate a very important step toward the longer-term revitalization of the site, the neighborhood and the city," he said.
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Creating counterfeit notes is a child's play these days. Literally. Finding it too hard to believe? Check out today's news report which says: five students from New Milford High School successfully create $1,000 in counterfeit $5 and $20 bills, using a home printer and a stack of coarse resume papers.
In fact, the notes were so brilliantly done that cashiers in the stores and bars were easily duped. And as the story goes, one counterfeit bill was used in school cafeteria and another was used to buy food at the Dunkin Donuts. The modus-operandi of these boys was simple. Visit stores and bars late in the night, and in the low light, pass on the fakes as real.
However, their happy hours didn't last long as all of them got arrested pretty soon. But since these boys were minors, no serious charges would be leveled against them. But the fact of the matter is, how could a few school kids manage to fool so many grown-ups, so easily?
Now, don't you think this situation could have been avoided, had the cashiers installed currency counting machines? These are not simple machines, given that they are equipped with sophisticated technology such as ultraviolet rays and magnetic detectors to detect counterfeit banknotes in a blink.
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As passenger numbers rise, Miami International Airport adds more venues, flights
Passenger traffic continues to climb at Miami International Airport, where the number of shops, restaurants and flights is also increasing.
Miami International Airport said Monday that two new venues opened in October: a health supplement store and an Irish pub. GNC, which sells health products, opened Oct. 8 in the pre-security area of concourse G in the airport's central terminal. And The Clover Irish Pub made its debut to customers on Oct. 15 near gate D-30.
A new nonstop seasonal route on WestJet between Miami and Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, was scheduled to launch Monday night with the first flight arriving in Miami. The first departure from Miami is set for Tuesday morning, before which airport and airline officials are scheduled to hold a ceremony. The WestJet flights will be offered four times a week until Dec. 14. Starting Dec. 16, the frequency increases to six times a week.
MIA said in a press release last week that is expecting the new Canadian route as well as new service from Mexico, Brazil and Italy to continue fueling growth. Through the end of September, the airport saw total passenger traffic increase year-over-year by 2.1 percent to 30.5 million. The number of international travelers increased by 4.4 percent to almost 15.2 million.


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Police are searching for the man whose brazen Molotov cocktail attack outside a busy southern California market set his victim on fire, leaving him gravely burned.
They released surveillance video Sunday of the horrifying attack in the hopes of tracking down the person responsible for tossing the firebomb Friday night, NBC 4 Southern California reported.
The victim, in his 50s, was hospitalized with burns from the waist down after a man, believed to be in his late 20s, launched the lighted bottle at him he sat outside the busy El Paisano Ranch Market in Long Beach, said Long Beach Police Sgt. Aaron Eaton.
Eaton said the victim was sitting outside the market, minding his own business and waiting for his father to get food, when the suspect came from an alley and attacked.
The surveillance video shows a ball of fire explode as the bottle hits the ground, barely missing a mother with a baby in a stroller. A man runs from the scene through the parking lot, where others can be seen trying to put out the flames.
The firebombing victim was taken to the hospital, where he was in serious condition, medically sedated, with serious burns to the lower part of his body, his hands and his face, police said. He was not being identified due to concerns about his safety.
Police said it didn't appear the victim and suspect knew each other, and the case is likely not gang-related.
Anyone with more information about the crime was urged to call police at (562) 570-7260.


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Mitch Vance, left, and Steve Rumrill, with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, inspect the bottom of a section of the Japanese dock that washed up on Agate Beach in Newport, Ore. in early August.
The Japanese man's request wasn't unreasonable. After all, Japan's tsunami had already swept a Harley-Davidson and a 66-foot concrete dock to U.S. and Canadian shores.
Still, the mayor of a small Washington state city told The Daily World newspaper that he was surprised when he received a postcard from a 77-year-old man in Japan asking him to look out for items he lost in the tsunami a year and a half ago.
"This man felt compelled to write us, looking for what he lost," Mayor Bill Simpson told The Daily World, based in Aberdeen, Wash. Aberdeen, a working-class coastal town known as the birthplace of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, welcomes visitors with a sign that reads, "Come As You Are."
The postcard was addressed simply, in impeccable cursive, to the mayor's office in Aberdeen. The letter writer, named Mr. Saito, hails from the Sapporo ward, which is 300 miles north of the epicenter of the 8.9 earthquake that devastated parts of Japan in March 2011.
Mr. Saito wrote the mayor that he had lost his "collected surveyed amounts' library cards."
"To your seashore areas, have you been observing the floated materials?" Mr. Saito asked. "If you find some, please let me know any news."
Harley-Davidson motorcycle swept away by Japan tsunami to be preserved in museum
In Washington state, the Department of Ecology estimates that 5 million tons of debris was swept into the Pacific Ocean -– 70 percent of which immediately sank.
That still leaves 1.5 million tons, most of it mundane plastic, Styrofoam and junked refrigerators. The Daily World reported that garbage from one cleanup effort in June filled the beds of 70 pickup trucks.
The Guardian of London reported that a research vessel that journeyed into the debris this summer returned predicting that it was bound for the West Coast. The garbage plume was dispersed and measured between 1,000 and 2,000 miles wide.
Rachel La Corte / AP file
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, right, listens as Lynn Albin of the Department of Health describes the Geiger counter readings she's getting from a piece of Styrofoam found on the beach in Ocean Shores, Wash. in June. Officials say that there has been no radiation detected from items that have washed ashore.
There have been remarkable finds, such as a 20-foot fiberglass boat that washed ashore in Washington, the motorcycle still in its crate from the Miyagi prefecture, the ghost ship that appeared, unmanned and unmoored, off the coast of Alaska. A soccer ball belonging to a teenager whose family had lost everything arrived in Alaska. The ball, on which was written the 16-year-old's name, had been a gift from his teacher and his classmates when he switched schools seven years ago.
Rachel La Corte / AP
Common marine debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami include plastic and Styrofoam.
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency is collecting data on the debris; the agency website says that radiation experts do not believe the debris is radioactive.
There's more debris to come, according to The New York Times; oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer said he expects most of the debris to make landfall in October.
What washes ashore may also serve as a grim reminder of the 3,000 people who went missing in the tsunami, Ebbesmeyer said at a symposium in Port Angeles, Wash., according to the Peninsula Daily News.
"We're expecting 100 sneakers with bones in them," he said. "That may be the only remains that a Japanese family is ever going to have of their people that were lost."
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A Transgenic trait for the control of fungal diseases in corn and soybeans could be in the marketplace within the next six to eight years.
DuPont and Hexima Ltd. have announced an agreement to develop and commercialize certain biotech fungal disease resistance technology in corn, soybeans and other crops. The companies are joining forces to share intellectual property and anti-fungal protein assets to speed development, and Pioneer will commercialize the products in corn and soybeans.
"Hexima's technology works well with our proprietary gene-shuffling technology, and it is a partnership that will provide better products and greater value to our customers," says Jerry Harrington, public relations manager at Pioneer.
The companies have not yet said whether the proprietary technology will be licensed to other seed providers.


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Letter to Representative Tim Walz on supporting the NCLB Recess until Reauthorization Act (H.R. 6239)
June 18, 2008
Dear Representative Walz:
On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we would like to offer our support for the NCLB Recess until Reauthorization Act (HR 6239), which would suspend imposition of any new sanctions for failure to make Adequate Yearly Progress under the No Child Left Behind Act and, instead, allow schools to focus on improving student achievement. We thank you for your leadership in introducing this bill - one that will make a real difference for public school students in Missouri and across the nation - as well as your ongoing efforts in support of public education.
H.R. 6239 would prevent any new or additional sanctions from being imposed on schools and school districts under the No Child Left Behind law for one year or until the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act is reauthorized, whichever comes first. It would not remove sanctions from schools or school districts currently subject to them.
The current sanction system imposes escalating sanctions in a rapid succession, with little time to evaluate their impact on educational quality. In imposing a moratorium on new sanctions, your bill recognizes their detrimental impact on the very students the law was intended to help. In fact, many students in high-poverty schools subject to escalating sanctions have actually seen a reduction in curriculum in favor of "teaching to the test." In addition, there is little evidence that the NCLB mandated sanctions have helped raise student achievement or close achievement gaps.
Six and a half years after enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, 18 states still do not have final approval for their system of standards and assessments, raising serious questions about the validity of sanctions imposed since they are based on the results of those assessments. The Department of Education has indicated it is unlikely to give any additional states full approval by the end of the current school year. Therefore, a pause in designating more schools for improvement, as called for under your legislation, is essential to preventing the continued possible misidentification of schools.
We believe your legislation offers a common-sense approach to slowing down the sanction process until the entire system can be reevaluated through the reauthorization process. If the bill moves forward we have some technical suggestions to the language to clarify that schools and districts already identified will still be subject to the appropriate requirements of the law. We thank you again for your leadership on these important issues and look forward to continuing to work with you in support of great public schools for every child.
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Winning Wild Card 2 Ticket Sold in Lennox
South Dakota lottery officials say a Wild Card 2 ticket that won the game's second prize Wednesday was sold in Lennox.
The ticket matched all five white balls, but missed the Wild Card. The odds of winning the Wild Card prize are about 1 in 127,000.
The ticket was worth $6,000.
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"We can't really blame China for taking all the manufacturing jobs away from us, we can start by blaming the CEO's the owners the share holders of big business for wanting a better bottom line, for not being content with a comfortable profit, or for giving there fellow citizens gainfull employment, to supporting communities by keeping productive plants and a proud workforce working, no they don't care about us, they care about making another $1,000,000,000.00 and who cares if one day we wont be able to afford the products there pimping on us, we are a small market compared to China and India, when there economies boom and there people can afford to buy there products they will reap even bigger profits. We are also to blame for shopping for the cheapest product we can find and where do ya think thats made? Sorry for sounding so bitter but I am directly affected by this globalization, though it seems a little one sided to me "
well said, im directly affected too, we all are. and were throwing it away so we can buy some cheaper plastic baubles at a ****mart. india and china are the new superpowers. yes,we are a very small market.


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Biodiversity preservation is linked to limiting the spread of disease in a new study unveiled Wednesday by a researcher at the University of Colorado.
Findings from the study, led by Pieter Johnson, an assistant professor in CU's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, were published in the journal Nature.
The study determined that the greater the diversity of amphibian species living in a pond, the less vulnerability frogs, salamanders and toads living there would have against parasitic infection that can cause deformities such as the growth of extra legs.
By extension, researchers believe their results indicate that biodiversity in larger ecosystems could also afford greater protection against diseases that attack people, such as West Nile virus, Lyme disease and hantavirus.
"At the heart of the study, I think, is really trying to get a better understanding of how preserving or maintaining biodiversity may be beneficial to controlling wildlife disease, or even human infectious diseases," Johnson said.
"I'd say in the last three decades there has been tremendous interest in the value of biodiversity and what it can do in relation to things like crop yields, pest control, water purification, nutrient cycling, biomedicine," Johnson added.
"All of those would be examples of interest in biodiversity and what value it might have for society."
A challenge for Johnson's team was the inherent difficulty in constructing comprehensive studies that might highlight the link between disease transmission and the number of species present in a large ecosystem, due to the high number of living things to be sampled and the wide area those species might inhabit.
The scientists answered that problem by shrinking the habitats being examined.
Over three years, they traveled to hundreds of ponds in California, primarily in the Bay Area south of San Francisco, recording the types of amphibians found there along with the number of snails infected by the pathogen Ribeiroia ondatrae. Snails are an intermediate host used by the parasite in one stage of its life cycle.
The researchers backed up their work in the field with laboratory tests measuring how susceptible to infection each amphibian species is. They also created pond replicas using plastic tubs stocked with tadpoles that had been exposed to a known number of parasites.
Over the course of three years, researchers sampled 345 wetlands and recorded malformations such as missing, misshapen or extra hind legs caused by parasitic infections in 24,215 amphibians. They also catalogued 17,516 snails.
Their results show that ponds with a half a dozen amphibian species had a 78 percent reduction in parasite transmission compared to ponds with only one amphibian species.
The study was co-authored by CU graduate students Dan Preston and Katie Richgels, along with Jason Hoverman, a former postdoctoral researcher in Johnson's lab who now is an assistant professor at Purdue University. It was funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Johnson said the findings come at a time when biodiversity is a threatened commodity.
"Many scientists argue we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event," Johnson said.
The most recent, 65 million years ago, was the elimination of dinosaurs after a large meteor struck the Earth.
"But this is unique, in its being human-caused. Habitat loss, habitat modification, pollution, are all contributing to some pretty dramatic changes in biodiversity, worldwide.
"If you look among the vertebrates, amphibians are arguably the most threatened vertebrates on the globe. About of the third of them are threatened or declining."
Primary causes of species depletion cited by Johnson are habitat loss, infectious disease, pollution and the influx of invasive species.
There is not unanimity of opinion, however, that biodiversity reduces disease. Bradley Cardinale, an associate professor and director of the Conservation Ecology Program at the University of Michigan, was the lead author in a June 2012 study, also in Nature, which reviewed more than 1,700 peer-reviewed papers on the subject of biodiversity.
Of those, 107 papers examined how biodiversity relates to disease in plants, while another 45 dealt with disease in animals. Cardinale said that 67 percent of the studies supported the contention that biodiversity tends to reduce disease — meaning that roughly a third did not.
"The bottom line for me is, this is suggestive of it requiring more attention and research," Cardinale said. "I would proceed with caution, with grandiose claims about how important biodiversity is for humans, so far.
Cardinale added, "Pieter's is one case study in a pretty large body of literature that says about two thirds of the time, biodiversity reduces the spread of diseases. If we go around generally advocating for diversity, and how great it is for (limiting) disease, if one third of the time you are wrong and disease goes up, that has important implications for humans."
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TAPR was founded in 1982 as a membership supported non-profit amateur radio research and development organization with specific interests in the areas of packet and digital communications. In the tradition of TAPR, the Board of Directors at their Fall 1995 meeting voted that the organization would begin to actively pursue the research and development of amateur radio spread spectrum digital communications. At the Spring 1996 board of directors meeting, the following statement of purpose was passed:
"TAPR believes that the technical facts support our conviction that conventional and spread spectrum systems can coexist without detriment to conventional systems on all frequencies from MF to EHF. To this end, TAPR will begin to research spread spectrum systems that will develop technology for future deployment."As stated above, the TAPR board feels strongly about TAPR's focus on spread spectrum technology and especially how it relates to the potential coexistence on frequencies that will have increased number of users occupying them. The amateur radio bands, like other spectrum will become more heavily utilized in the future. It is in the interest of amateur radio to develop systems that are interference-resistant while not interfering with other primary or secondary users on those frequencies.
TAPR understands the concerns many have with the new technology, and believes that efforts in both education and research is necessary in order to allay the fears about interference and to demonstrate the benefits of the technology.
TAPR believes that todays' communications technology is moving toward all digital transmitters and receivers. These advances in technology, combined with the swift evolution of cell based transmission and switching protocols, are opening up a new set of possibilities for unique new services utilizing intelligent networks. These will contain smart transmitters, receivers, and switches. Today's Internet is perhaps the best example of a self-regulating structure that embodies these new technological approaches to communications in the networking domain. However, to date, many of these innovations have not moved into the wireless networking arena. TAPR will work on moving these innovations into the amateur radio community.
TAPR feels that the VHF/UHF/SHF radio networks of the future will involve a mixture of links and switches of different ownership, which terminate at the end-user via relatively short-distance links. What will then be required is a built-in, distributed, self-governing set of protocols to cause the network's behavior to make more efficient use of a limited, common shared resource, the radio spectrum. Creating such a self-regulating structure for the optimal sharing of spectrum will require much effort.
One of the major problems which stands in the way of these new approaches today is the current FCC regulatory environment and the manner in which spectrum is managed and allocated under its rules.
Historically, the current regulatory approach to radio has been based upon the technology that was in use at the time that the Communications Act of 1934 was framed, basically what we would call today, 'dumb' transmitters speaking to 'dumb' receivers. The technology of that time required reserved bandwidths to be set aside for each licensed service so that spectrum would be available when needed. Given this regulatory approach, many new applications cannot be accommodated since there is no available unallocated spectrum to 'park' new services. However, given the new set of tools available to the entrepreneur with the advent of digital technology, what once were 'dumb' transmitters and receivers can now be smart devices which are capable of exercising greater judgment in the effective use and sharing of spectrum. The more flexible the tools that we incorporate in these devices, the greater the number of uses that can be accommodated in a fixed, shared spectrum.
Therefore, TAPR will focus its spread spectrum effort in the following areas:
- TAPR will work to promote rules and technologies to make the most efficent
use of the spectrum through power control, forward error correction, and
other means to minimize interference among spread spectrum users and
existing communications systems.
- TAPR will work on issues and efforts with other national organizations to
change the regulatory environment and rules in order to promote the
experimentation, development, and later deployment of spread spectrum
- TAPR will work to develop information on the topic to help educate members
and the amateur community as a whole about spread spectrum technology, and
to disseminate this information via printed publications, the World Wide
Web, presentations at conferences and meetings, and other means.
- TAPR will work to foster experimentation, development, and design of spread
spectrum systems, and to facilitate the exchange of information between the
researchers and other interested parties.
- TAPR will work to develop a national intra-network to foster the deployment
of future high-speed spread spectrum systems into regional and local
communities, including the development of suitable protocols and guidelines
for deployment of these systems.
- TAPR will work with commercial companies who manufacture spread spectrum
devices which operate in spectrum shared by the amateur radio service (ARS),
in order to make them more aware of the nature of ARS operations on those
bands with the goal to work towards the deployment of devices which will
minimize interference between all spectrum sharing partners.
- TAPR will work with commercial companies who manufacture spread spectrum devices in order to identify equipments that can be either used or modified for use for Part 97 operation.
Adopted by the TAPR Board on September 20th, 1996 at Seatac, Washington Board Meeting.
Spread Spectrum Statement Committee:
- Greg Jones, WD5IVD
- Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP
- Barry McLarnon, VE3JF
- Steve Bible, N7HPR


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The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has given $9 million for the expansion of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in downtown Flint.
The grant, announced Monday in Flint, will create an endowment that will help MSU increase the number of students trained in Flint; recruit six to seven top public health researchers who will be based in the city; and create space for the medical school and public health program in downtown Flint, according to a news release from the Mott Foundation and information provided by MSU.
The endowment will also aim to double the number of third- and fourth-year MSU medical students at three Flint-area hospitals and other clinical sites in the city.
This is the second contribution the Mott Foundation has given to MSU for the planning and development of the Flint campus; it gave a $2.81 million grant in 2011, according to the news release.
In 2011, MSU decided to embed the public health program in Flint. It launched, along with the college's Masters in Public Health degree, at its East Lansing campus in 2008, with one of the university's core goals being for Flint to develop a national research reputation in the field of public health.
The Genesee County Health Department, Genesys Health System, Hurley Medical Center and McLaren Health Care Flint have been among the other local contributors to the Flint program.
The MSU College of Human Medicine and MSU's public health program will occupy 40,000 square feet of space inside a building formerly occupied by the Flint Journal; it will include three levels of academic and research space. Renovations are underway, and the college is expected to move in this November, according to MSU. The building is owned by Uptown Reinvestment Corp., a firm heavily involved in the downtown redevelopment effort.
More than 750 medical students have received part of their clinical education in the Flint medical community since the 1970s, said the release.
The Mott Foundation, established in 1926, had $2.4 billion of year-end assets in 2013, and made 400 grants totaling more than $101 million, including $10 million given to an effort to support underfunded pensions and the preservation of the Detroit Institute of Arts' work in the wake of Detroit's bankruptcy.
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Isaiah Ekejiuba's introduction to football came when he answered an ad on a campus bulletin board for prospective players at the University of Virginia.
Ekejiuba said he knew nothing about the game at the time and spent most of his time tackling any player who got in his way until he grasped the nuances of the game.
A few years later, he was signed by the Raiders and carved out a nice career as a core special-teams player who tackled as well as anyone in the league. His Raiders career ended Thursday after five seasons, according to Ekejiuba on his Twitter account.
"Well, Raider Nation, it was fun while it lasted," Ekejiuba said on his account. "Sure you'll be hearing soon enough, I just got waived by the team. Thanx for all the support!"
For the second time today, we bring you Raiders-related news that the Raiders deemed unfit for them to announce. The move has not been acknowledged on their website, and Ekejiuba still is listed on their roster.
Ekejiuba's listed position was linebacker. However, he spent most of his time on the field with the special teams units, where he developed into one of the league's most effective players in that role.
The Raiders thought enough of Ekejiuba to keep him around for five seasons as a special-teamer. They also gave him a three-year contract last offseason. He earned a base salary of $1.2 million last season and was scheduled to earn $1.45 million this season and $1.5 million in 2011.
It's possible that the Raiders are confident enough in the abilities of players such as Ricky Brown, Sam Williams, Travis Goethel, Stevie Brown, Jeremy Ware, Tyvon Branch and Jerome Boyd that they deemed Ekejiuba too expensive and, thereby, expendable.


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Another EPIC rant from Kanye West!!!!
This time, he's bitchin' about the evilness of corporations, how he hates sellouts and why people who put "numbers" on the back of their shirts are crappy designers.
Kanye was at a listening party for his pal Pusha T in Manhattan last night, when he grabbed the mic and went off -- admitting he'd been hittin' the Grey Goose pretty hard earlier in the night.
Nobody was harmed in the making of this video ... but he did take some time to brag about himself:
"We make good music, we make good music. We don't give a F*CK about how much god damn money you make, we make good music!"


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Essex County New Jersey Resident Wins Sales Excellence Award At Verizon Wireless
ORANGEBURG, NY — Essex County resident Maurice Leonardo, a senior sales representative for Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, recently was named one of the company's top sales achievers for 2001. He was one of only 10 Verizon Wireless employees to receive the Area of Excellence sales award for the company's New York metro area. Award winners received a trip to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
Leonardo earned the award based on his sales leadership and exceptional customer service.
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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The Goal is about New global principles of manufacturing. It's about people trying to understand what makes their world tick so that they can make it better. As they think logically and consistently about their problems they are able to determine 'cause and effect' relationships between their actions and the results. In the process they deduce some basic principles which they use to save their planet and make it successful.
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Tigerhawk catches the disgusting Juan Cole reverting to form, referring to Michael Rubin and Michael Ledeen as "American hawks tied to the Israeli Likud Party…who are also trying to get up an American war on Iran." Tigerhawk comments:
I'm not sure what "tied to the Israeli Likud Party" is supposed to mean — that Ledeen and Rubin have friends who support Likud? — but I do know that Michael Ledeen has never advocated war with Iran. He absolutely believes that Iran has been waging war on the United States directly and by proxy since 1979, and he also believes that we should be supporting Iranians who resist, or would resist, the regime of the Islamic Republic. There is no evidence, however, that Ledeen supports war with Iran, however extensive our moral or legal justification for war might be. Worried that I might have missed a call for war in Ledeen's voluminous writings, I confirmed his position by email this morning, something that Cole, who takes great umbrage when others (allegedly) mischaracterize his position, obviously did not do.
Given his German heritage and his characteristic rhetorical maneuvers, it may be time for Cole to be described as a Bundist.


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Bali, Indonesia has long been a dream destination of mine. I feel incredibly lucky to have been able to tag it to our trip to Hong Kong earlier this year. In one word, Bali was simply Amazing. More than just beautiful beaches, it's a place with rich culture, friendly locals, and delicious cuisine. We spent a week on this paradise island and loved every minute of it.
Other than spending quality time at the pool soaking up the Bali sun, we spent most of our days exploring nearby regions - Kuta, Legian, and Seminyak. The narrow streets were bustling with motorcycles and people shopping at charming boutiques. From trendy clothing to furniture stores, you can find nearly everything in these small shops. My favourites were the boutiques with traditional batik. I was mesmerized by all the patterns and colors and wished I had the luggage space to buy a few pieces. As a compromise, I purchased a batik bracelet instead!
I think many of you would agree that trying local food is probably the best part of travelling. The food at the Padma resort where we stayed was amazing, but so was food at smaller restaurants around town! I'm Chinese and love my fried rice, so of course I had to try their Nasi Goreng. After all, it is Indonesia's national dish! The shrimp chips and sweet chili sauce perfectly complimented the meal. It was SO delicious that my lack of sharing with the boy was justified :)
Our day trip inland to Ubud was the most memorable. Located in the central region of the island, Ubud is known as Bali's arts and culture centre. Driving through the town, we saw countless shops selling oil paintings, sculptures, wicker furniture, decorative mirrors, you name it! We stopped often to gaze at the stunning panoramic view of the rice terrace. I could have stayed there forever. Nearby at the Monkey forest sanctuary, I was tempted to kidnap one of the oh-so-tiny and cute baby monkeys... although I know his mother would have shredded me to pieces! We had a positive experience at the park but were warned they can be vicious. Not sure about vicious, but one fella was sure spoiled. He wasn't impressed with the size of the banana I gave him so he grabbed my hat in protest!


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