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Hello all,

He's understanding, he's patient, he has a good sense of humour, he's not a hobbit for real, he's full of paint stains after his hard training and he is available for behind spammed.
Welcome aboard Bilbo1_OC

Few things you have to remind :

- You won't become a moderator by asking. In fact it's worse than trying to divide by zero.
- There are no set criteria for the moderator position except the changing ones constantly created by my weird and sick mind.
- People are not selected because of their levels, guilds (but if you want to join Open Casket, please, spam elchew_OC a lot so he can understand what it means), ELO ranking or colour of their socks, it's far worse than that and I won't tell you more about it or it will wake Cthulhu up. He is always very grumpy when he wakes up and it's not really a good thing.
- Believe me or not, moderators are players who volunteer, they don't get massive super powers, they can't change water in chocolate milk nor tell you what will be next collectors. They are nice people with a big quality : they are very patient. And is some cases, it's a bigger power than changing water in chocolate milk.

Tuesday 08/06/2010, 13:33

Join the club bilbo, me too! lol
Welcome smiley

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Tuesday 08/06/2010, 17:30

Congratz xD

Tuesday 08/06/2010, 19:59

Lol, Congrats to all smiley

Tuesday 08/06/2010, 20:18

So...if I join OC I got a chance to become a moderator???

Tuesday 08/06/2010, 20:54

I have heard moderators can look at a players [ast accounts is that true?

Tuesday 08/06/2010, 22:29

@ Edon: everyone can be a mod not just OC people. You just have to be... Well, mod material.

@Kingshadow: you can look at other players' account yourself. It is not a mod specialty. Mods can do a few extra things but it is mostly for forums and not for investigating things.

Wednesday 09/06/2010, 00:33

Congrats mate. smiley

The other day you're just helping a very patient guy to get closer to his goal, and now he's a mod. Everything is too fast.

You have a very big virtue - Patience. Don't lose it smiley

And btw. Euzebe is lying. Yes, you can't change water to chocolate milk, while being a mod. That's too far superior, only she can do this. Mods are only capable of turning water to chocolate OR milk.

Please do not mix this.

Wednesday 09/06/2010, 00:57

Congratz my friend.. very nice

Wednesday 09/06/2010, 08:06

All these mods + choc milk jokes are epic fails...

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As the previous article has gone bit longer, so we decided to put new information regarding the Vishist BTC (VBTC) or the process of recruitment of 2253 primary teachers in Uttarakhand in this article.

If you want to get informed about the whole matter please go through the previous UTET-1 related articles and then read the Part-1 of this post and the valuable comments of our visitors on Vishist or special BTC process in UK.

What the matter is all about- Let us recall that the candidates who have qualified
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As far as the latest information from the Nainital High Court is concerned the hearing is fixed for tomorrow i.e. 22nd Feb, 2012 under a new Judge.
So friends today’s (22nd Feb, 2012) update is that court has delayed the process for perhaps another two weeks.
Today’s (13th March) update says that the matter is further extended for another two weeks.
Well that was bit anticipated. Process may go on till the formation of new government.
If any information comes in between this we will put that here.

23rd March, 2012- Friends reports are there that Court has directed the Education Secretary and the Director to file their views on the 346 various writs that are related to VBTC and UTET. And perhaps 29th is the new date of hearing.
But some source has confirmed that the Judge hearing this case will be busy in some family affair so the date may be extended further.
Well not good news for those 15000 candidates. But what is surprising is the number of writs that are there.

28th March, 2012- 9th April might be the new date. But what is coming out from there is that some candidates based on the information gained through RTI from the education directorate, are planning to challenge the inclusion of the regular BTC candidates within this recruitment process without TET. They want that all post should be reserved for the TET passed candidates.

10th April, 2012- wait for another week and perhaps another week after that also. That is Indian system.
And highlighting the slackness or inaptitude or whatever it is of the Uttarakhand government, one newspaper reports that in the state of Assam, Manipur and Chattisgarh B.Ed. candidates are eligible for the basic school teaching up to 2014. These state had already taken permission regarding that before the expiry of provision (B.Ed. candidates are not eligible to become a primary school teacher)
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19th April, 2012- The proceeding has been adjourned till Tuesday, 24th April.

24th April, 2012- The proceeding has been adjourned till 2nd May, 2012. In spite of the promises or declaration made by Mr. Naithani, this adjournment came into effect due to the advocate representing the state Government.

2nd May, 2012- Today after a long wait the maximum part of the case was heard by the judge but the final hearing and the judgment may come up tomorrow. And some positive sign are there for the Vishist BTC or UTET-1 candidates. Perhaps tomorrow we will post some part of it.
One point that come to our notice through the comments posted below by the respected visitors that some candidates trying to go for the agitation. But are they agitating against the court? against the state Government? And will it be fruitful? Unless and until the matter is in court Government would not be doing anything or in fact cannot do anything reasonable. Just try to ensure that the matter is not get prolonged due to the state government or any small vested interests of very few peoples. What can be done at this moment is to get the matter out of court and then pressure the government (or to be more precise put pressure on Naithaniji who has hinted toward increasing the posts earlier also) for increasing the seats of the VBTC. However there is no harm in a previous meeting at certain place to have a proper strategy before taking any action.
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Stoned driving bill advances |

Stoned driving bill advances

EAGLE COUNTY – State lawmakers say “it’s high time” for a marijuana motoring bill. The Colorado House Judiciary Committee unanimously passed a bill that would establish a legal limit for driving after consuming marijuana.

“It’s high time we give law enforcement the tools they need to ensure the safety of our roads,” said House Minority Leader Mark Waller. “We can’t kick this can down the road any longer.”

State lawmakers now have until the end of this year’s legislative session in May to come up with ways to regulate and tax marijuana. If they fail, marijuana will remain unregulated, under the terms of Colorado’s Amendment 64.

Eagle County’s two top law enforcement officials, Sheriff Joe Hoy and District Attorney Bruce Brown, say they’ll have to live with whatever lawmakers pass, but this version is not ideal.

In this year’s version of the bill, a defendant is permitted to argue that a blood THC level of five nanograms per milliliter or more did not impair him or her.

The bill’s co-sponsor, state Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, said the law makes allowances for marijuana users who build up a tolerance for the drug and may be unimpaired with a blood THC level above five nanograms per milliliter.

“There are some people who argue they have a high tolerance for alcohol. It means nothing. Under the state statute, you either meet the standards or you don’t,” Hoy said. “We can’t have people driving around with just any amount of pot in their system, legal or not. If it’s going to impair you in any way, there have to be standards set forth under the state statute.”

Brown said he prefers an intoxication level that cannot be rebutted in court, similar to the blood alcohol level used in drunken driving cases – currently .08 percent.

“You can challenge that and tell the jury ‘It didn’t affect me that way’ with expert witnesses and other testimony,” Brown said. “That doesn’t make the motoring public safer.”

Unlike limits on blood alcohol content, however, under the bill a driver who reaches the five nanogram limit can argue in court that he or she is unimpaired at five nanograms because of their tolerance, size or other contributing factors.

Delta-9-THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that renders a driver impaired after consumption.

In 2011, 13 percent of Colorado’s fatal car crashes involved marijuana, Waller said.

The number of marijuana users in Colorado is expected to increase following last year’s approval Amendment 64, Waller said.

“This is a public safety issue,” he added. “It is never OK to get behind the wheel and put citizens’ lives at risk. This bill will make people think twice about doing that.”

The bill now goes to the House Appropriations Committee.

“This is about public safety,” Fields said. “The voters have told us with Amendment 64 that we have to come up with regulations to govern recreational marijuana use, but we certainly don’t want our streets full of stoned drivers endangering law-abiding citizens.”

This is the third consecutive year Waller has introduced legislation that would create limits for drivers under the influence of marijuana. Waller and Fields co-sponsored this year’s bill.


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Virtual Tour

Take a Tour of the Valley Performing Arts Center

Tours of the Valley Performing Arts Center are available every second Tuesday of the month. The tours take about an hour.

The Tour begins in front of the Main Box Office, located in the center courtyard just off of Orange Grove Walk and Lindley. Tours include the surrounding landscape, the Rickey Sculpture, the Flemming Grand Staircase, the Great Hall, some of the backstage area, and either the Founders Room and Rooftop Terrace, or the Art Gallery and the Roth Lobby.

Reservations are necessary and must be made no later than 48 hours prior to the tour schedule. There is a fair amount of walking and stair access in the regular tour, but handicapped accommodations can also be arranged by phone.
For questions about tours, please call (818) 677-8800.

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Right now, music streaming services, such as Spotify and Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) are a big hit. New services come online almost monthly, all battling it out for that coveted number one position at the top of the popularity charts. Judging by the take-up figures, music fans like them. They’re convenient and, with a low monthly subscription fee, relatively cheap, compared to buying physical product, or downloads.

But what about the content providers? Big name artists are removing their music from these services, stating that low royalties make it economically unviable to sell their music. At around $0.005 royalty per stream on Spotify (1/140th the revenue gained from an iTunes download), it’s not hard to see why.

Spotify raging against the machine

Pink Floyd is seething at Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P), Aimee Mann has filed a lawsuit against Medianet, and Thom Yorke of Radiohead fame has pulled his solo album from Spotify, saying:

“Make no mistake. New artists you discover on Spotify will not get paid. Meanwhile shareholders will shortly be rolling in it.”

But the question is: for how long? If bands continue to leave the streaming services, how long will it be until the fans look for their music elsewhere too? As it stands, there’s little left for artists after shareholders recoup their investment and providers cover their costs. Which, in turn, means no funding for new music.

Is Spotify killing the cash cow?

Mark Williamson, director of Artists Services at Spotify says that 70% of their revenues go back to the people who own the rights to the music. But Spotify has steadfastly refused to be transparent with their royalty pricing and, in many cases, it isn’t the artist that owns the music—it’s the record label.  “We have to do deals with tens of thousands of entities to get these rights, but whereas there are specific differences in their deals, across the board, really they’re equitable,” says Williamson. “We’re not massively favoring major artists. We’re providing a level playing field for all artists on the service.”

Spotify say they will have paid out $1 billion in royalties by the end of the year, but considering that most of these royalties will go to record companies who negotiated secret deals for long dead artists with big back catalogues, how much will working artists and songwriters actually see for their efforts?

Don’t give up the day job

Damon Krukowski of the band Galaxie 500 is keeping tabs on his streaming earnings. His song, Tugboat, was played 7,800 times on Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) in the first three months of 2012. His revenue? 21 cents! That’s a grand total of 7 cent for each of the three songwriters. They did slightly better with Spotify. For a total of 5,960 plays, they were paid $1.05.

Galaxie 500 can count themselves among the fortunate ones. Their songs aren’t owned by a record label. So they get another royalty for being the owners as well as the musicians. Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) had to pay them $64.17 for the quarter for this privilege and isn’t happy about it. The corporation is currently lobbying to have this extra expense removed.

Meanwhile, revenues at Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) for the 2012 fiscal year were up 56% at $427 million. The stock currently stands around $18.40. Yet both Pandora and Spotify still managed to report losses of tens of millions. So where is all the money going? One group is making money. Pandora’s executives sold $63 million of personal stock in the company in 2012. Do they know something the rest of us don’t?

Yet Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, says that it isn’t about profit:  ‘The question of when we’ll actually be profitable seems irrelevant. Our focus is all on growth.”

He is, of course, talking about growth of the company, not the music industry. In Spotify’s world, the music is irrelevant. Nothing is being reinvested back into the product they’re selling. With all the money going to shareholders, execs and expansion, there’s nothing left to fund new music. So musicians are giving up and going back to their day jobs. And if this continues, well, there’ll be no profits left for anyone to share.

A self-defeating business model

At best, Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) and Spotify are going against one of the fundamental rules of business: you sell something for more than it costs. Pandora and Spotify sell music for much less than it actually costs to make and this is where the streaming model fails. It’s all short-term gain. Something perhaps felt by Chief Executive of Pandora, Joseph Kennedy, when he stepped down earlier this year to ‘get to a recharging station sooner rather than later’.

Sales might be rising, but losses are accelerating year-on-year at both Spotify and Pandora. Profitability looks more distant than ever.

Music is going nowhere

So what happens if and when the streaming bubble bursts? Obviously, people will still want music. CD sales have been falling for years, as witnessed by the demise of many big music retailers, but there’s another trend being ignored – the re-emergence of vinyl. Sales at small independent stores, springing up across the US, show sales of vinyl up 100% year-on-year, and it’s a phenomenon spreading to other countries.

The truth is, music fans are loyal to the artists they love; they’re not fans of corporations looking to make profits for shareholders, especially when those organizations are selling their heroes short. The likes of Spotify and Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) would be well advised to take notice of that. The old entertainment industry adage is true: be nice to people on your way up, you’ll meet them on your way down.


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by Aeschylus
Christ Church Cathedral
690 Burrard St.
July 24-30
$15 per show/
$35 for all three plays

You know the cliché about great art being “timeless”?  In the case of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, a 5th century BC three-part Greek tragedy, that cliché is absolutely true. It’s a story of violence begetting violence, revenge begetting revenge, death begetting more death, until Condoleezza …oops, I mean the gods themselves have to step in and stop it, in the process creating the basis for civil society: organized systems of justice replacing blood feud and vendetta.

What a pleasure it is to hear these great plays performed by a strong professional cast in John Lewin’s excellent colloquial translation.  It’s a special pleasure to see them in beautiful (and cool) Christ Church Cathedral, a venue that reinforces the spiritual dimensions of Aeschylus’ arguments about the self-defeating illogic of violence.  And it’s heartening to know that everyone involved has donated their services so that all proceeds go to PAL (Performing Arts Lodge) Vancouver.

Agamemnon, the first part of the trilogy, marks the return to Argos of the great Greek general (powerfully arrogant Donald Adams), home from conquering Troy.  But the celebrations are cut short when he and his war trophy, Trojan princess Cassandra (Naomi Wright), are murdered by his wife Clytemnestra (Denyse Wilson), who has waited years to revenge herself for Agamemnon’s sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia.

Clytemnestra is assisted by her lover Aegisthus (Tobias Slezak), who is revenging a terrible crime against his father and brothers committed long ago by Agamemnon’s father. And in the next play, The Libation Bearers, the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Orestes and Electra, will take revenge against their mother and Aegisthus for their father’s death. Finally, in The Furies, even the gods will see that the insanity has to end.

On a bare stage, with altar and stained glass window backdrop, director Torquil Campbell (his mother Moira Wylie and legendary father Douglas Campbell direct the other two parts) gets excellent performances from most of his cast, particularly the women.  Wilson’s methodical Clytemnaestra operates from a very deep well of anger that has festered for a long, long time.  Wright’s Cassandra is terrifying, a woman cursed with the ability to see every awful turn in the horrible road ahead.

The powerful men and even the impotent, including the chorus of “stay-at-homes” (led by the superb John Innes), posture and rant—sometimes a little too loudly for the acoustics, especially when competing with Chris Dumont’s electric guitar.  As in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, currently at Bard on the Beach, it’s pretty much a man’s, man’s world—and what a mess they’ve made of it.

Agamemnon repeats Thursday at 8, the other two parts play Friday and Saturday evening, and all three run Sunday at 3, 5, and 7 PM.

Jerry Wasserman

last updated: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:24 PM
website design by Linda Fenton Malloy


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Marketing menopause: The definition of a tough sell

Erin Ellis, Vancouver Sun

Pushing 50 and feeling hot? (Sadly, not that kind of hot.) You’d think throngs of companies would be clamouring to make you feel better.

The beauty industry still preys on aging women, promising to lift and plump and tuck. But attempts to deal with menopause and its formerly hushed-up symptoms — hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness — leave marketers in a no man’s land, if you will.

Personal products giant Kimberly-Clark took a brave leap a few months back when it launched its Poise line aimed directly at women in menopause. Its multi-million-dollar “360” ad campaign — print, TV and online, including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube — pitches incontinence pads, vaginal lubricant, cooling skin wipes and gel, scented stickers for your underwear and a “gentle wash ... for the intimate area”.

Paula Montoya, the head of Poise brand planning for Kimberly-Clark Canada, says it’s too early to talk about sale figures, but noted that drug stores are having a hard time figuring out where to place the product line: near adult incontinence pads, tampons or with condoms where it’s been ending up because of the lubricant.

The company used a light touch for a heavy topic before when comic actor Kirstie Alley hammed it up about “light bladder leakage” in Poise TV campaigns.

The maker of Kotex products and Depend adult diapers tried even harder with its Hot Flash Road Show, now online after single performances in New York and Los Angeles this fall. It includes a rap scene with the lyrics, “We feel chubby and sweaty and swirly-eyed crazy, we can’t sleep worth s*** and our memory’s hazy.”

Montoya says the company’s extensive research in North and South America found humour to be the second-most popular marketing technique among women; No. 1 is the chance to communicate with others in the same situation for which Poise created its “Second Talk” online campaign. (It’s based on the idea that most girls hear a “first talk” before they start menstruating.)

“Because this happens to all women, and because 50 million women across North America are going through it, if we all talk about it, if we hear what others have to say, it becomes so much better,” said Montoya in a recent telephone interview from Toronto.

“I just don’t understand why it hasn’t been talked about it before. ... There are few unmet needs out there, but this one was a big one ... why someone else hasn’t been on it before?”

Good question. Likely for the first time in history, menopausal women have real financial clout. Canadian women aged 45 to 60 are at their highest earning power and, even though they still generally earn a shocking 70 per cent of their male counterparts’ wages, many reach parity in these years, according to Statistics Canada. Single women between 45 and 54 earned average annual wages of $54,300 in 2008 compared to $50,300 for single men working full time.

Baby Boomer marketing consultant Carol Orsborn says most companies fear that targeting women over the age of 50 in ad campaigns will alienate younger clients.

“It’s astonishing to me how out of the loop that marketers seem to be in terms of understanding the amount of dollars and the need and the loyalty of older women consumers,” she said in a telephone interview from her office in Los Angeles.

Both corporations and consumers generally don’t want to examine getting old, she says.

“The dominant ethos coming out of the advertising and marketing world is definitely anti-aging and eternal youth. And unfortunately many boomer women have adopted that aging self-hatred,” said Orsborn, also the founder of www.Fiercewithage.com.

As for the Poise campaign, Orsborn says it focuses too much on asking women to identify themselves with a set of symptoms.

A more effective approach would be to feature women in roles that are meaningful to them — be it a CEO or a dog groomer — who are happily coping with menopausal annoyances with the help of a product.

“The point is that women at 50-plus or 40-plus are living full, rich lives and they don’t want any physical symptoms or inconveniences to get in their way. They want to deal with it efficiently and effectively and get on with it. They don’t want to fall into the morass of it ...”.

Menopause marks the end of women’s reproductive years when monthly menstrual periods become erratic and then stop entirely, typically around age of 50. The phase leading up with to that is called perimenopause and is often marked by the beginning of annoying symptoms such as hot flashes which cause a sudden, intense, yet relatively short-lived increase in blood flow to the chest and face. Medically, doctors consider a woman to be menopausal one year after her last period.

Many women breeze through it without noticing much of a change, but between 15 and 30 per cent of women go to their doctors looking for help to cope with the symptoms, according to a review of 10 studies of menopausal women published in 2008. The bad news? Half of the tens of thousands of women in the studies said they continued to have symptoms four years after their last period; 10 per cent said they had them 12 years later.

Some will take hormones to stop their symptoms, other women steer clear of medication.

Click here to read more from Erin Ellis about natural remedies for menopause

Click here to read more from Erin Ellis about hormone therapy

On the small business side of this market, Susan King-Wilson of Port Coquitlam started making perspiration-wicking pyjamas called CoolFemme from home in 2004 because she couldn’t find sleepwear for her own night sweats.

“People feel like they just have to put up with it,” she said in a recent telephone interview.

While it hasn’t made her rich — and she declined to share her sales figures — she says business is picking up again since the recession and as Internet shopping continues to grow among her clients.

At 65, King-Wilson is on the leading edge of women who have gone through menopause in Canada. She predicts more interest in serving that group with the biggest demographic bulge hitting “the change” right now.

“As more women get there, the more noise they’ll make and they will be looking for more.”

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Abbotsford Airshow: What to know before you go

Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun

Move over, Celebration of Light, and make way for The Twilight Show.

The 52nd annual Abbotsford International Airshow, which runs from today until Sunday at the Abbotsford International Airport about 40 kilometres east of the Port Mann Bridge off the Trans-Canada Highway, has something tonight that it has never had before: a night performance complete with lights, pyrotechnics and flares on aircraft.

“We did a teaser three weeks ago over Kitsilano Beach and English Bay, and Twitter lit up,” said airshow spokeswoman Jadene Mah on Thursday. “We’re hoping ticket sales will be out of this world.”

Attendance at the airshow was about 60,000 last year, but organizers are expecting 80,000 this year.

Tonight’s Twilight Show, which features performers Matt Younkin, Team Rocket and Dan Buchanan lighting up the sky in their aircraft, also includes a CF-18 Hornet and Paul Stender’s Jet School Bus lighting up the runway with jet afterburners and fireworks.

The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will start the Friday night show, with gates opening at 4:30 p.m.

History buffs this weekend will also see a very rare de Havilland Mosquito, one of just two airworthy Mosquitos in the world today, fly at the air show. The Mosquito — known as the ‘Wooden Wonder’ because its construction included plywood — was restored in British Columbia by collector Bob Jens, who purchased it in 2005.

Other attractions through the weekend include the Bremont Horsemen Aerobatic Team and its three P-51 Mustangs, the Canadian Forces SkyHawks Parachute Demonstration Team, a Beechcraft Military T6-C Harvard II demo, and Dan Buchanan’s Ultralight glider.

Mah said there will be over 100 aircraft on site, with more than two dozen aerial acts and routines.

Schedule of Events

4:30 p.m.: Gates open to public

5:50 p.m.: Welcoming

6 p.m.: The Canadian Forces Snowbirds

Brent Handy — Pitts S-2B

Cat Fight — F8F Bearcat vs. F7F Tigercat

Snoopy’s Jet Doghouse

Gregory Colyer — Ace Maker T-33

Bremont Horsemen — P-51 Mustangs

Renny Price — SU-29 aerobatics

8:30 p.m.: CF-18 Hornet demo

Wall of Fire — AV8FX

Dan Buchanan — Ultralight/pyrotechnics

Jet Schoolbus

Matt Younkin — Beech 18 Night Show

Team Rocket — Night Show

9:45 p.m.: Program Finale: Fireworks

10:30 p.m.: Gates close

Saturday/ Sunday

9 a.m.: Gates open

10:30 a.m.: RC Model Flights

Indy Boys Jet Bus teaser

11 a.m.: Airshow Opening

Brent Handy — Pitts S-2B

Canadian Museum of Flight

Ken Fowler — Rocket solo

F8F Bearcat vs. F7F Tigercat

Snoopy’s jet doghouse

12 p.m.: Mosquito — “F for Freddie”

Beechcraft Military T6-C Harvard II demo

CP-140 Aurora demo

Renny Price — SU-29 aerobatics

Buffalo / Skyhawks streamers

Skyhawks para demo

1:30 p.m.: Warbirds

Team Rocket — Ken Fowler/Eric Hansen

Dan Buchanan — Ultralight glider

Greg Colyer — Ace Maker T-33

Indy Boys jet school bus

Matt Younkin — Beech 18 aerobatics

Bremont Horsemen P-51 Mustang team

2:50 p.m.: CF-18 Hornet demo

3:33 p.m.: The Canadian Forces Snowbirds

6 p.m.: Gates close

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The move by the Federal Government to restrict the importation of fairly used vehicles  (Tokunbo) into the country with a new automotive policy through a higher tariff regime is unsettling for many Nigerians, especially low income earners who depend on  the vehicles for  their daily transportation need as they cannot afford new cars because of high prices. While big car dealers see the policy as a good initiative to resuscitate the local automobile industry, private individuals expressed the  fear that prices of imported vehicles may soar once the implementation of the new tariff regime from 35 per cent to 70 per cent begins.

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The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, while giving the run-down on the framework of the policy, tagged, ‘New Automotive  Industry Policy Development’, said the initiative is to promote massive investments in affordable made-in-Nigeria cars to limit excessive imports. He explained that his visit to South Africa resulted in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to secure more inputs into the new policy as well as technical-know-how, even as he discussed with global car manufacturers on the need for them to set up  plants in Nigeria.

He said, “The policy will not result in banning of the importation of vehicles in Nigeria but to focus on promoting investments in affordable made-in-Nigeria vehicles. What government will do is to raise the  tariff on importation of such vehicles to discourage influx of used cars into the country and encourage local manufacturers to enhance capacity utilisation in the local industry. Importation of Tokunbo vehicles will not pose a threat to the new plan.”

In the same vein, the director general, National Automotive Council (NAC) Aminu Jalal, said, “Nigeria spent N550billion on importation of cars, buses and trucks, which does not include tractors and military vehicles. We also spent about N500 billion on spare parts and N150billion on tyres. Now with the new policy, we will support local car plants to make standard cars at globally competitive prices, which will boost the local content policy of government.

To assemble a car locally, we need about 2,500 different parts. If many cars are made locally and sold in the country, that will encourage local manufacturing of these parts, thereby creating more jobs and wealth for our economy”.

According to government, increase in tariff will reduce the huge amount expended annually on importation of cars, as report shows that Nigeria spent over an estimated N550billion  importing cars in 2010 economic year and about $3.4billion in 2012.

Some car dealers who spoke with Sunday Vanguard, expressed their views:
Government must be careful about policy inconsistency –  Mr. Adel Charles, the manager of Adel Motors, Ikorodu:   This is not the first time government is talking about automobile policy in Nigeria. The problem with this government is policy inconsistency and lack of adequate implementation framework, even on important issue that affects national development.

This is not affecting the automobile industry alone but other sectors of the economy, because government can just come up and make a policy pronouncement today and tomorrow the same government will say something else or even act differently. Can the government come out to tell us what exactly happened to the automobile policy initiated over three decades ago in this country?   For example, in the 1970s Nigerian government came up with a new policy to build the automobile industry locally.

The initiative made waves at the initial stage as government quickly went into partnership with notable auto companies like Volkswagen, Peugeot, Fiat and Daimler-Benz.   Before we knew it, some of those firms starting winding up due to low capacity utilisation, lack of infrastructure and other challenges, which confronted the industry at that time following lack of a condusive operating environment for the business to thrive.

Government must give a realistic time line –  Mr. Paul Nwosu, with Pauline Motors, Apapa: Government should give sufficient time line for the local automobile industry to be adequately restructured before increasing the tariff on imported  Tokunbo vehicles, if not, this will greatly affect many car dealers in   the country, especially those operating on a very small scale. This is because aside from the effect this policy may have on micro auto dealers, a lot of people now depend so much on these tokunbo vehicles for transportation across the country. So, government must take everything into account before implementing the new policy.

I am not against the policy and programmes of government in trying to put things right in the country because the minister said in the media recently that the local automobile industry is capable of creating about 700,000 jobs over a period if well restructured. This is quite good for the country but my concern is for government to also protect the citizens by ensuring that those small scale auto dealers are not just thrown out for business for the giants to monopolise the industry.

Government policies should not always be about throwing the masses out of jobs, businesses and making things difficult for them, but protecting and giving them a sense of belonging in their own country. For example, government claimed that the recommendations were adopted after consultations with major stakeholders in the sector including some Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), while the Federal Executive Council (FEC) further approved that every vehicle bought by government must be from local vehicles assembly plants, unless it is specialised. How many small scale dealers made inputs in those recommendations?

Today, the big car manufacturers are in partnership with only few local companies to distribute their brands in Nigeria while numerous dealers operates on a small scale just trying to survive in the business. For example, Honda brand is distributed by Stallion motors, BMW is solely distributed by Coscharis motors, the most sought after Toyota brand is distributed by Toyota Nigeria limited and Elizade motors, KIA motors handles the distribution of KIA and CFAO motors is in charge of Mitsubishi brand.

These companies are all leading distributors in the country while the small scale dealers are just trying to survive. I want the media to investigate what I am saying here to know how the industry operates before making conclusions.   Also, apart from top government officials, big business tycoons who are also working indirectly with government, few corporate entities and viable commercial banks buying new cars, most Nigerians patronise fairly used vehicles.

Comments expressed here do not reflect the opinions of vanguard newspapers or any employee thereof.


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A gold-based drug currently used in human and veterinary medicine to manage certain immune diseases may prove useful in combating osteosarcoma, a devastating bone cancer that affects both dogs and people, University of Florida veterinary researchers report.

By examining an aggressive bone cell line in both species, the researchers found that the drug, aurothiomalate, commonly known as gold salts, kept cancer cells from forming in the laboratory.

“We also were able to demonstrate that the drug slows tumor growth and decreases metastasis when canine bone tumors were created in a mouse model,” said Dr. Valery Scharf, the study’s lead author. A small animal surgery resident at UF, Scharf completed her master’s degree last year. The research was the focus of her thesis.

The findings appear in the March 2014 issue of Anti-Cancer Drugs.

“This study shows that there is potential promise for the role of gold drugs as a part of bone cancer treatment in dogs and potentially in people, although more studies are needed before we can use them in a clinical setting,” Scharf said.

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone tumor found in dogs and accounts for the vast majority of cancerous tumors — around 80 percent — in the canine skeleton. The condition occurs most commonly in large-breed dogs that are middle-aged and older. The cancer frequently appears in the front leg, but it can occur in any bone. Dogs with osteosarcoma often show signs of lameness in the affected leg.

Veterinarians typically amputate the affected limb to remove the primary tumor. Dogs can also receive chemotherapy if the cancer has spread. However, some dogs aren’t candidates for amputation, and the decision to amputate can be difficult for pet owners.

In people, osteosarcoma is rare and also affects the long bones of the body. It typically is diagnosed in people under 25 years of age.

“Osteosarcoma is a frustrating disease, as you can treat the local tumor, but the metastasis is something there is no effective means of preventing,” Scharf said.

The use of gold compounds in human medicine has traditionally been based on gold’s ability to affect the body’s immune response and anti-inflammatory properties, with the primary use being the management of rheumatoid arthritis. In veterinary medicine, gold-based drugs are most commonly used to treat various autoimmune disorders. In recent years, however, aurothiomalate has been investigated for its potential effects against certain types of cancer.

The UF study is the first to focus on the drug’s effectiveness as a tool for possible canine bone cancer treatment through petri dish tests and in vivo studies in mice.

They found that low doses of the drug significantly reduced cancer spread to the lungs — the site that osteosarcoma most frequently travels to in dogs. High doses reduced microscopic spread to the lungs and the incidence of tumor cell clusters within blood vessels.

Further study is needed to better understand how aurothiomalate works against osteosarcoma cancer cells, and to better determine effective dose ranges before extending this research to dogs, the researchers said.

“One of the interesting things to me in studying oncology and our pets is that their disease often translates to human disease as well,” Scharf said. “Therefore, research on the animal side can potentially translate to human medicine as well.”

In addition to Scharf’s mentors, Drs. James Farese and Rowan Milner,  study collaborators included Drs. Jeffrey Abbott, Julia Conway, Shannon Roff and Dietmar Siemann, all from UF. Dr. Matti Kiupel, of Michigan State University, also collaborated on the study.

UF veterinary oncologist captures real-life journey as cancer survivor in new book http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/2014/03/03/uf-veterinary-oncologist-captures-real-life-journey-as-cancer-survivor-in-new-book/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:55:47 +0000 http://vetmed.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu/?p=7313 Sarah Boston: Lucky Dog cover

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Dr. Sarah Boston waited four weeks for pathology test results to confirm that she had thyroid cancer. As a veterinary surgical oncologist at the University of Florida, her animal patients typically have these results in four days.

Her insights and frustrations as a cancer patient and survivor led the Calgary, Canada native to chronicle her personal observations in writing, which in turn has led to yet another role — that of a soon-to-be-published author.

Boston’s book, titled “Lucky Dog: How Being a Veterinarian Saved my Life” is expected to be released by Canadian publishing company House of Anansi Press in June 2014.

“It’s basically about being a patient but also being a doctor, a veterinary doctor,” said Boston, an associate professor of surgical oncology in the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of small animal clinical sciences. “It’s about that whole experience, but also about taking care of animal patients with cancer.”

Boston’s odyssey began in 2011 when she was still a faculty surgical oncologist at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. She discovered a lump in her neck and went to her primary care doctor, who told her it was “probably fine.” At a gut level, Boston knew otherwise, based on the way the growth pushed against her neck and grew in a matter of days.

When she learned it would take two weeks even to be seen for an ultrasound, Boston had her husband, a fellow veterinarian, bring home a portable ultrasound machine so she could scan and view the growth herself. Even without biopsy test results in hand, Boston believed it was likely a carcinoma and she pushed to have it surgically removed.

“I knew this was going to be a thyroid carcinoma.” Boston said. “When I went to see my endocrinologist to go over these results, he just kept saying he was shocked.”

Between appointments with her endocrinologist, primary care doctor and head and neck surgeon, the process of getting to her first surgery took 2 1/2 months.

“I remember at the time I was going through this, I had a patient whose owner was very upset that she had to wait a whole day to get a CT scan on her dog,” Boston said. “I remember just thinking: ‘You have no idea.’”

In addition to juxtaposing her experiences with human and veterinary medicine, a central theme in Boston’s book is the importance of taking personal responsibility for one’s own health.

“Our owners are advocates for their pets,” Boston said. “If you’re ill, either you have to be your own advocate or have someone advocate for you.”

Soon after her surgery and subsequent treatment, Boston spoke at a fundraising gala to benefit cancer research at her college. She decided to read excerpts about her experience to explain the connections between human and animal cancers.

After the reading, she went back to her table, where she happened to be seated next to Canadian author and journalist Noah Richler.

“Noah said, ‘Give me your info. I’m going to put you in touch with the best publisher in the country,’ Boston said.

Thus began an email correspondence between Boston and Richler’s wife, Sarah MacLachlan, the president and publisher of House of Anansi Press. Boston eventually had arrangements to meet publisher MacLachlan at her office in Toronto.

“It was my total ‘Sex and the City’ moment,” Boston laughed. “I kind of thought they’d pat me on the head and say, ‘You’re a cute little vet; keep writing,’ and maybe give me some tips. Instead, the publisher comes right out and says: ‘So we love your book.’”

After a year of writing and working with her editor, Boston’s book is in the final phases of production. She’s beginning to tweet as @DrSarahBoston in anticipation of a more active social media presence after the book’s release this summer, and her book is already available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

But Boston, whose cancer is now in complete remission and likely cured, takes nothing for granted.

“I know how lucky I am,” she said.

UF veterinarians successfully remove massive tumor from dog face http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/2013/12/09/uf-veterinarians-successfully-remove-massive-tumor-from-dog-face/ Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:12:29 +0000 http://vetmed.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu/?p=7028

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Bubbles with her care team, UF veterinary student Kim Herron, Dr. Nick Bacon and Dr. Sarah Boston. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Smith and Noah’s Arks Rescue.)

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A loveable 5-year-old Neapolitan Mastiff mix named Bubbles’ health burden is lighter and her future brighter thanks to University of Florida veterinarians who removed a life-threatening, 9-pound tumor from the dog’s skull Nov. 25.

“She needed a chance, and we were able to give her one with help from the UF veterinary oncology team,” said Jennifer Smith, director of Noah’s Arks Rescue, which is based in Okatie, S.C. The group had taken in Bubbles earlier that month after she was found as a stray in Baltimore, and remained dedicated to caring for her and getting her the medical help she needed.

Smith personally drove Bubbles 10 hours to Gainesville, Fla. for the surgical procedure, which was led by Nick Bacon, Vet.M.B., the Imparato Endowed Associate Professor in Surgical Oncology and chief of the oncology service at the UF Veterinary Hospitals. Assisting in the procedure was Sarah Boston, D.V.M., D.V.Sc., an associate professor of surgical oncology at UF. The surgical team noted that although there were additional issues to consider due to the size of Bubbles’ tumor, they’ve performed similar complex operations many times before.

“This was a complicated surgery, but I was confident the procedure would go as planned, based on the physical examination and CT-scan Bubbles received when she got here,” Bacon said. “Although massive, there were a few key features of her tumor that made me optimistic. She’s a very lucky girl in that respect. She’s also lucky to have met Jennifer Smith.”

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Jennifer Smith, president of Noah’s Ark Rescue, with Bubbles shortly after the two arrived back in South Carolina following Bubbles’ discharge from UF. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Smith, Noah’s Arks Rescue)

Smith said she had explored every option for the treatment of Bubbles’ condition, consulting with veterinary specialists all over the country before deciding to bring her to UF for care.

Bubbles’ story is really one of hope and survival,” Smith said. “I know there’s still a lot ahead for her, but she’ll have a great home now. The worst is over for this dog. Whatever life she has left will be a good life, because of all the people who understood that Bubbles is a fabulous dog who deserved her chance.”

The type of cancer Bubbles had is known as multilobular osteochondrosarcoma (MLO), a locally aggressive tumor that tends to grow in the flat bones of the skull. Although Bubbles’ tumor was unusually large, the typical treatment for such a growth involves surgically removing the part of the skull where the cancer originates, regardless of size, said Bacon, an American College of Veterinary Surgeons Founding Fellow in Surgical Oncology, who has a reputation for tackling difficult cases such as this one.

Bubbles, before and after tumor removal.

Bubbles, before and after tumor removal. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Smith, Noah’s Arks Rescue)

Although Bubbles still must undergo additional future treatment, including chemotherapy and possibly radiation therapy, Bacon said he was “very encouraged” by how well the surgery went.

“We are all amazed at the progress Bubbles has made to this point,” he added. “We are aiming to save at least some of the vision in her left eye that had been compressed by the tumor for so long, and also keep infection at bay while Bubbles continues to recuperate.”

He said UF’s oncology team would determine the exact nature of Bubbles’ future treatment when her full pathology report is received in a few days.

The night Smith arrived back in South Carolina with Bubbles in tow, she posted an update on the Noah’s Ark website informing followers that they were home and Bubbles was doing “remarkably well” and enjoyed some outdoor exercise after they’d arrived.

“Bubbles was having a field day chasing me around, and I was so busy watching her that I tripped over a garden hose,” Smith said. “Before I knew it, she was on the ground next to me with her really big paws wrapped around my neck and showering me with sloppy kisses.”

Smith said that Bubbles is eating out of a regular dog bowl, as her head will now fit in it, and gaining weight – about a half-pound per day.

“She’s like a different dog,” Smith said. “’Life is good’ is her new motto.”For additional updates on Bubbles or to donate to her care, please visit the Noah’s Arks Rescue website.

UF researchers: Tail vaccinations in cats could save lives http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/2013/10/31/uf-researchers-tail-vaccinations-in-cats-could-save-lives/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:34:37 +0000 http://vetmed.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu/?p=6804 Veterinary student Cleon Hendricks, with Dr. Julie Levy.

Veterinary student Cleon Hendricks, with Dr. Julie Levy. Hendricks participated in the tail vaccination study through the Merial Veterinary Scholars program. (Photo by Sarah Carey)

An alternative to a widely accepted vaccination protocol in cats could literally move the needle for feline cancer treatment, according to University of Florida researchers.

“One to 10 cats out of every 10,000 vaccinated against infectious diseases develop cancer at the vaccine injection site,” said Julie Levy, D.V.M., Ph.D., the Maddie’s Professor of Shelter Medicine at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. “It’s still important to vaccinate because death from these infections is much more common than the cancer, but unfortunately this complication is one that does affect thousands of cats each year.”

When administering vaccinations, veterinarians typically follow the current recommendations of the American Association of Feline Practitioners, giving the injections below the elbow or the knee joint in the leg. That protocol is based on the understanding that the most effective treatment for cancer that occurs near vaccine injection sites is radical surgery – amputation of a limb.

“Many cat owners elect not to pursue the most effective treatment — radical surgery of the tumor — because excision of tumors in the limbs and torso is often disfiguring, painful, and expensive,” Levy said.

But in a report published online this month by the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, Levy and a national team of experts in infectious disease and vaccinology report that administering vaccinations in the tip of the cat’s tail appears to be as effective as vaccines at traditional sites. The researchers say tail vaccination would make surgical treatment of any cancer occurring near the site much easier, less invasive and less disfiguring for the animal, which could encourage more owners to treat the disease in their pet when it occurs.

As a first step in amassing information for the study, the researchers developed a questionnaire that was sent to veterinary oncologists practicing around the world. Oncologists were asked to rank 11 potential vaccination sites, and to note their top three preferred sites, considering only surgical treatment of sarcomas that might develop at those sites.

When the tail emerged as a favored site, the team performed a trial to see if cats would even allow it to be done to them.

Sixty cats that had come for spay or neuter services through the Operation Catnip trap-neuter-return program at UF were enrolled in the study. Only cats that were tame, outwardly healthy, had a full-length tail and were brought by a caregiver who committed to returning the cat in one or two months for further evaluation were selected for the study, the researchers said.

The study showed that cats tolerate tail vaccination at least as well as the currently recommended injection site in the hind leg.

“Dr. Levy’s study is very important for a number of reasons,” said Julius Liptak, B.V.Sc., a surgery specialist and a founding fellow in surgical oncology with the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.

“Firstly, it is important that vaccinations in the tail are effective in providing the necessary immunity against infectious and communicable diseases,” he said. “Secondly, vaccinations in the tail are easy to perform and well tolerated by cats, which will hopefully mean that general practitioners will be willing to change their vaccination protocols and try this new location.”

Most important from a cancer treatment perspective, “If vaccinations on the end of the tail become a widely adopted practice, then amputating the tail is a much easier and less traumatic procedure, which will hopefully result in a much greater potential to cure this disease,” Liptak said.

Levy’s research team included UF veterinary student Cleon Hendricks, a Merial Scholar, as well as serology experts Edward Dubovi, Ph.D., of Cornell University, and Cathleen Hanlon, V.M.D., Ph.D, of Kansas State University, who tested blood samples from the cats for antibodies before and after vaccination.

The study was supported by grants from Maddie’s Fund, the Merial Veterinary Scholars Program and the Harold H. Morris Trust Fund for Research in Diseases of Small Animals.


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South Park: The Stick of Truth began without funding

Tuesday, 18 December 2012 03:35 GMT By Brenna Hillier

We’ve known for some time that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone approached Obsidian Entertainment directly about making The Stick of Truth, but a new report reveals the developer got on board without financial backing.

In a profile piece on Kotaku tracing the developer’s history, Obsidian boss Feargus Urquhart said Parker and particularly Stone were impressed by the developer’s initial pitch, but Urquhart himself had doubts.

“Look: let’s pretend we can do all the RPG stuff. We can handle that. If it doesn’t look like the show, all of this is pointless,” Urquhart said to the pair.

“That’s our job. We need to go and make something that looks like the show.”

Obsidian spent a week putting together an initial prototype, using construction paper supplied by South Park Digital Studios to help get the look right. The animation company was still a little leery.

“They said, ‘That’s totally on the right track, once you do a little bit more,'” Urquhart said of the company’s reaction.

Perhaps thanks to Parker and Stone’s enthusiasm, Obsidian kept working on the prototype – unpaid. Parker and Stone liked the result so much that the deal was made immediately. Viacom funded development until the project could be pitched to publishers, eventually resulting in a contract with THQ.

The full piece through the link above is full of interesting details, including word of a Snow White game cancelled by Disney, details of the shelved Aliens RPG, and more.

South Park: The Stick of Truth is due early in THQ’s 2014 financial year, putting its launch at April or beyond. Obsidian’s next known release is Project Eternity, a Kickstarter-funded RPG expected in April 2014.


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Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes expansion announced

Wednesday, 6 February 2013 00:18 GMT By Brenna Hillier

Stardock has announced a standalone expansion to Elemental: Fallen Enchantress with an interesting twist on the core game’s mechanics.

In Legendary Heroes, the player doesn’t go questing to find warriors to recruit; the heroes come to offer their services to the throne, depending on what choices the player has made in developing their kingdom.

The pack also includes additional monsters, champions, magic, tactical battle maps and larger general maps. Graphics have been overhauled and there’s a new levelling system.

Legendary Heroes will launch in April, but those who pre-order will have beta access in March. The pack is $40, but just $20 to those who already own Fallen Enchantress – and free to those who picked up Elemental: War of Magic before November 2010.

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress launched in October, and was free to those who’d bought the very buggy launch version of the first Elemental game, which released in 2010.

Moe information on Legendary Heroes is available on the Elemental forum.