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Asian markets mixed ahead of US jobs data

Agencies Dec 4, 2009, 05.49pm IST

HONG KONG: Asian markets were mixed on Friday as investors took profits after recent gains, following a decline on Wall Street ahead of the release of a key jobs report amid worries over the US economy.

Tokyo ended 0.45 per cent higher with investor confidence buoyed by the government's recent efforts to bolster the economy, as a weaker yen gave some comfort to exporters hit by the unit's recent strength against the dollar.

However, Hong Kong ended 0.25 per cent lower and Sydney was down 1.52 per cent as profit-taking set in after four days of gains.

Shanghai closed up 1.61 per cent on news China has raised the minimum capital adequacy ratio for major lenders to a lower-than-expected 11 per cent.

The region's gains in the past four sessions come after state-run conglomerate Dubai World said it was in talks with banks to restructure 26 billion dollars in debt.

But market sentiment was pressured ahead of a key monthly US employment report to be released Friday which will give investors a better idea about prospects for recovery in the world's top economy.

Weaker-than-forecast reports on business conditions in the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors released this week have suggested continued declines in hiring, albeit at a slower pace.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.83 per cent Thursday amid investor jitters.

TOKYO: Up 0.45 per cent. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index gained 44.92 points to 10,022.0 by the close, ending above 10,000 for the first time in five weeks.

Brokerages led the gains. Nomura Holdings jumped 4.5 per cent to 701 yen. Blue-chips were stronger, with industry bell-wether Canon rising 2.8 per cent to 3,630 yen and Sony adding 1.4 per cent to 2,510 yen.

The government's recent efforts to bolster the economy, including a planned stimulus package worth a reported 24 trillion yen (272 billion dollars), supported investor confidence.

Shares in struggling Japan Airlines surged 8.7 per cent to 100 yen as speculators snapped up its stock amid rival offers by American Airlines and Delta Airlines for a stake in Asia' biggest carrier.

Japan's largest shipper Nippon Yusen climbed 6.2 per cent to 275 yen.

HONG KONG: Down 0.25 per cent. The Hang Seng Index fell 55.72 points to 22,498.15.

The market took a breather after a 6.7 per cent gain over the past four days, following a fall last week on fears over Dubai's debt woes.

Exporter Li & Fung had the biggest fall among blue chips, ending down 3.8 per cent at 33.25 Hong Kong dollars after US retail sales came in below modest expectations in November.

Citic Bank extended its 11.7 per cent rise in the past four days, rising 2.7 per cent to 6.85 dollars on news Spanish lender BBVA raised its stake in the Chinese lender to 15 per cent.

SYDNEY: Down 1.52 per cent. The S&P/ASX 200 dropped 72.4 points to 4,702.2.

Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto fell sharply on softer commodities prices, losing 2.52 per cent to 41.40 dollars and 2.26 per cent to 71.85 respectively.

The big banks were also hit with ANZ down 0.99 per cent at 21.98, Commonwealth 0.28 per cent weaker at 53.96, NAB off 2.02 per cent at 28.10 and Westpac losing 1.72 per cent to 24.04.

Flag-carrier Qantas Airways dropped 2.15 per cent to 2.73, media giant News Corp was off 0.39 per cent at 15.15 and leading telco Telstra shed 2.01 per cent to 3.42.

SHANGHAI: Up 1.61 per cent. The Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, was up 52.42 points at 3,317.04.

State media reported Friday that China has asked major banks to raise their capital adequacy ratio to a minimum 11 per cent from 10 per cent, citing China Banking Regulatory Commission's Vice Chairman Wang Zhaoxing.

"It is lower than previous expectations of 13 per cent, which eases the capital pressure on banks," Wang Junqing, an analyst at Guosen Securities, told Dow Jones Newswires.

Bank of China was up 3.4 per cent to 4.30 yuan and China Construction Bank rising 3.9 per cent at 6.20 yuan.

Oil refiners also rose with PetroChina up 3.3 per cent to 13.97 yuan, and Sinopec jumped 5.4 per cent to 12.75 yuan.

SEOUL: Up 0.60 per cent. The KOSPI gained 9.76 points at 1,624.76.

Hynix Semiconductor added 1.3 per cent to 19,700 won. LG Electronics rose 2.7 per cent to 115,000 won.

Airlines advanced on recent positive data showing the recovery of both overseas passenger and cargo traffic. Korean Air rose 5.3 per cent to 53,700 won. Asiana Airlines advanced 4.5 per cent to 3,915 won.

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering gained 5.4 per cent to 15,650 won.

TAIPEI: Down 0.44 per cent. The weighted index fell 33.76 points to 7,650.91.

Sentiment was cautious before local elections at the weekend, dealers said.

Taiwan will vote Saturday to elect new mayors, magistrates and local legislators in large parts of the island.

Cathay Real Estate fell 1.50 per cent to 13.10 and Goldsun Development dropped 1.03 per cent to 14.40.


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Red alert: Maoists seize Kathmandu

PTI Dec 17, 2009, 11.03am IST

KATHMANDU: Maoists on Wednesday announced the seizure of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu declaring it an autonomous region, after storming into heavily guarded Durbar Square, in a development that could trigger a new political confrontation.

Waving red flags, 5000 militant cadres forced their way into the Durbar Square city centre where their chief Prachanda declared Kathmandu valley as the Newa Autonomous State. The Maoists, who have already announced formation of parallel governments in nine districts and paid little heed to warnings by the Nepali Congress, to desist from such tactics as it may lead to "biggest political and social confrontation".

Though the Maoist takeover was more of a symbolic nature, their choice of the capital city sent shock-waves in the ruling CPN-UML-led 22-party alliance. Prachanda lit a traditional lamp to declare Kathmandu as Newa Autonomous State by flying a banner that read "Newa Autonomous State" as hundreds of balloons were let off.

A gun salute was also given and the city declared an autonomous state amidst performance of traditional music.

"Our move is not intended to disrupt the peace process or block the constitution making task," Prachanda proclaimed adding it was to "make people aware about federalism and strengthen the republican system". The Maoist supremo claimed that "regressive forces were hatching a conspiracy against the republican system and trying to reverse the change".

Other Maoist leader who spoke on the occasion defended their move to declare various areas as autonomous regions rejected the claim that it would derail the peace process and lead to disintegration of the nation. The party is planning to declare altogether 13 autonomous states in the country by December 18.

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Karnataka governor HR Bhardwaj defends Robert Vadra

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NEW DELHI: Karnataka governor HR Bhardwaj's role as a constitutional authority did not come in the way of his itch to defend members of Nehru-Gandhi family. In an unusual move, Bhardwaj took up cudgels on behalf of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and termed charges of his property transactions with DLF as false.

"Like other charges made against the Nehru-Gandhi family, these will also fall like nine pins," the governor told reporters in Bangalore. "Many allegations were levelled against the Gandhi family even in the past. Indira Gandhi was attacked. But she had a towering personality and fought back. Morarji bhai made so many cases against her but they fell like nine pins," the governor told reporters.

Bhardwaj, a former Union law minister, was replying to a question on the allegations levelled by social activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan of India Against Corruption that realty major DLF favoured Robert Vadra. On Kejriwal's protests on corruption-related issues, Bhardwaj asked how far people of the country could face civil society members like him and Prashant Bhushan who are "taking law in to their hands and dictating terms to solve problems".

He also used the occasion to send out a message that a person like him was better equipped to deal with the activists. "If I were the law minister, I would not allow anybody to do my job of drafting the law by another person. I invited all the major NGOs in my career from the time of Rajiv Gandhi to Manmohan Singh (and tried solving problems through negotiations)," he said. A team that included law minister Salman Khurshid had negotiated with Team Anna on the Lokpal bill. "Is Kejriwal an expert? Why do these people talk on legislative affairs?" the governor asked.


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Bread baking tradition broken in Martinsburg

October 27, 2000

Bread baking tradition broken in Martinsburg

By RICHARD F. BELISLE / Staff Writer

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A 60-year bread-baking tradition ended in Martinsburg Friday with the closing of the Schmidt Baking plant, a change that will cost 90 workers their jobs.

Some have been on the job for 20 to 30 years, are in their 50s and are worried about their futures.

Schmidt is consolidating operations into its two modern bakeries in Baltimore, said John Kesecker, production manager at the local plant. Kesecker, who started in the Martinsburg plant 26 years ago as a laborer, is losing his job.

Schmidt bought the bakery at 311 Second St. in 1940 from the Lloyd family, Kesecker said.

"The equipment is old here. We don't have high-speed lines. We just fell by the wayside," Kesecker said.

"The Baltimore plants have modern, high-speed lines. We bake 5,000 loaves an hour here. They do nearly double that in Baltimore," he said.

The roll-making line was shut down three weeks ago, he said.

Late Friday morning the last few thousand loaves of white sandwich bread, the Martinsburg plant's specialty, were rolling out of the ovens across the cooling conveyors and through the slicers to machines that shot them into plastic bags with labels such as Sunbeam and Blue Ribbon.

The company's 15 trucks and their drivers will continue to operate out of the Martinsburg plant, but the bread they sell will be trucked in daily from the Baltimore plants, Kesecker said. The office staff for the sales department will also stay.

The outlet store in front of the plant on Winchester Avenue will also remain open.

Kesecker expects Schmidt will eventually sell the old building and move its local distribution center to a new site in the area.

Schmidt offered its employees good wages and benefits for the area, he said. An average worker earned more than $15 an hour.

Plant workers are represented by the Bakers, Confectionary Millers Union, Kesecker said.

He said the company is providing long-term workers with generous severance packages, but all benefits will end in December. The company is also providing references on request.

Ed "Pete" Smith has worked in the plant for 28 years in the sanitation and receiving departments. He also does inventory and keeps track of what comes in.

"This hasn't really hit me yet. It just sneaked up on me," he said. "Looks like I'll have to find another job, but I don't know where."

Jim LeMaster is 54. He's been with Schmidt for 33 years, has done just about every job in the plant and said he will look for part-time work in a grocery store.

His plan is to move to Florida with his wife as soon as she retires from her government job in about a year. In the meantime he will be added to his wife's health insurance, he said.

"I'm not looking for a full-time job so I'll be OK, but a lot of these guys won't be," he said.

LeMaster said he is sad to see the bakery close.

"A lot of us grew up in here. Like one boy said, this is like the family leaving and we're going someplace else.

"I guess it's just one of those things."

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Roberti Recall Emerging as Campaign of Paradoxes : Election: The longtime lawmaker is fighting for his political life at a time when he had planned to leave it.

SACRAMENTO — After 27 years in the Legislature, 13 years as head of the Senate and some 25 occasions as acting governor, state Sen. David A. Roberti--prodded by his wife, June--had finally decided to bow out of politics.

Hadn't the people cast their votes against career politicians anyway, with term limits? And hadn't running for office changed a great deal since 1966, when civic-minded volunteers and $3.50-a-plate spaghetti fund-raisers first vaulted Roberti into the Capitol?

And so, late last year, the Van Nuys Democrat had reached the decision to forgo running for higher office when his term expired in December. For the first time in practically three decades, Roberti was going to lead a normal life. Go home at night to his family, dabble in historical research and maybe get a job with a bigger paycheck.

Then something happened that made him so angry it changed his mind. A coalition including firearms rights advocates, upset over his assault weapon control legislation, got a recall election set against him for April 12.

"I think they were stupid because I actually had him convinced to look for something else . . . to go into private life, get out of public life," June Roberti, her husband's closest adviser, said in a recent interview. "But the recall changed everything. We're in it now to the end."

As his foes issued their "throw-the-bum-out" cry, Roberti upped the ante and tossed in a bid for the state treasurer's office, declaring that he will not be intimidated into retiring from politics.

Thus, the first recall election of a state official since 1914 may be remembered as something of an oddity, based on a series of paradoxes: a man fighting for his political life at a time when the exit light had beckoned; an election-turned-referendum on an assault weapon ban that falls short of perfection; a slick anti-recall campaign that skirts the issue of whether the senator has done a good job.

Friends in the Capitol say it is typical of Roberti, a naturally introverted man, to step out of his shell when challenged to protect his legacy. They say he desperately wants to avoid ending his long career as the victim of a recall effort.

"You can't turn your back on these people," Roberti said of the opponents he openly calls "cuckoos" or "nut cases" for the intensity of their Second Amendment rights views. "Otherwise, you turn your back on a career of 27 years, you turn your back on your life."

But recall proponents are quick to point out that 46,000 registered voters who signed their petitions apparently agree that Roberti has served too long in the Legislature.

"No one has questioned Mr. Roberti's intelligence," said Kevin Washburn, manager of the recall campaign. "What we are saying is he presided over the Senate at a time of the worst corruption of the democratic system in California history. And the people of this district are entitled to their democratic rights to recall him."

By now, the senator's strategy is apparent: deny that this is about Roberti the officeholder, and define the election as retaliation for his legislation to ban assault weapons.

While that tells part of the story, Roberti's own rhetoric shrinks away from his record or what he stands for ("You don't have to like Senator David Roberti . . . " says one campaign brochure urging a vote against the recall.)

"I really don't view it as an election about me," Roberti said in an interview. "If David Roberti were somebody else who had been able to do this (pass gun control laws), they'd be on their case."

Regardless of the underlying issues, a simple question will appear, in less than two weeks, on the ballot: "Should David Roberti be recalled (removed) from the office of State Senator?"

To answer that question, voters will have to determine just who is this man who burst onto the San Fernando Valley political scene in 1992, renting a Van Nuys duplex to set up residency after a quarter-century of representing Hollywood?

Capitol observers sum up Roberti, 54, as an adroit politician, one who shrewdly negotiates trade-offs--if need be--to further his agenda. And his sharp survival skills enable him to hone in on defining issues in the district, such as the Los Angeles Unified School District breakup movement in the Valley, which he championed.

He has a track record of successful fund raising, collecting hefty donations over the years from labor unions, law enforcement groups, the California Teachers Assn., applicant attorneys, trial lawyers and large corporations such as Arco and Chevron.

His ideology, he says, revolves around his belief that government has a responsibility to help people so they can eventually help themselves.

"I guess I gravitate toward the have-nots, the people who need somebody to fight for them," Roberti said, noting, however, that, "I think we make an error if we patronize anybody who thinks they are always right because of their condition, rather than the justice of their cause."

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Clinton Attends Birthday Party at Radio City Music Hall

Celebration: President, who turns 50 today, is feted at fund-raiser featuring stars and family memories. Bash yields $12 million in campaign cash.

NEW YORK — President Clinton celebrated on the eve of his 50th birthday Sunday with a gala fund-raising bash that combined big-name stars and an atticful of Clinton family memories to yield a $12-million pot of campaign cash.

With supporters looking on in 89 TV-linked fund-raisers around the country, the variety show used testimonials, rarely seen family pictures and home movies to retrace Clinton's life story in a way that left the birthday boy a bit thick-voiced and teary.

"I just hope you all have had half as good a time as I did," Clinton said after the two-hour show at Radio City Music Hall.

The variety show, two other New York events and the 85 related fund-raisers brought out a total crowd of more than 20,000 faithful Democrats--busting political fund-raising records, according to party officials. "I don't think anything has been offered on this scale," boasted Don Fowler, the national chairman of the Democratic Party.

The cast of entertainers was also on a generous scale: Singers Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Jennifer Holliday, Carly Simon and Jon Bon Jovi; comedians Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell and Leslie Nielsen; and Olympians Carl Lewis and Kerri Strug.

For the price of a ticket--donors paid anywhere from $250 to $15,000--the faithful got some glimpses of the president and his family that have rarely been seen even by their closest friends.

Here was family footage of daughter Chelsea, whom the Clintons have largely shielded from publicity, kissing her father, fishing with him, climbing with him into a hot-air balloon, chatting at the kitchen table. Here are shots of the president as a pudgy toddler swaddled in wool clothing and as a boy with hair whipped into a frothy pile in imitation of Elvis Presley.

And here, films of teen brother Bill taking younger brother Roger out to tool around Hot Springs, Ark., in his first car, an extravagantly finned Chrysler sedan.

The show summoned up the old memories in different ways as well. In the style of "This Is Your Life," the producers brought out Sister Mary McKee, who as Clinton's second-grade teacher gave him a C in comportment for raising his hand too many times in class. "I'm so proud of him I could pop," she said, leaning on her walker.

She added that once she had talked to Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelly, about his excessive eagerness to speak.

Also present was Roger Clinton, who appeared in a video with his wife and 2-year-old son, Tyler, photographed at Palisades Park in Santa Monica. Though it wasn't always fun being the president's brother, it was fun being Bill Clinton's brother, said Roger, who has endured some harsh news coverage during his brother's term.

The producers also arranged a video of Clinton's classmates at Hot Springs High School, who held forth lustily the school's cheer. Three men who shared a house with him during his Georgetown University days showed up in person.

As the camera panned to Clinton and his family in the front row, it caught him several times hastily wiping tears from the corners of his eyes.

The event and an earlier fund-raising reception brought out hecklers angry about Clinton's support for the welfare reform bill. One group of more than half a dozen black-clad young people chanted "Shame!" and unfurled banners in one corner of the auditorium.

The crowd began to chant, "Four more years!" But when one audience member cried, "Throw the bums out!" Clinton interceded: "Relax! Relax! One of the great things about this country is that you can say whatever's on your mind, and nobody can shut you up."

A few jokes during the evening came at Clinton's expense. Actor Nathan Lane, who co-starred in the film "The Birdcage," gave Clinton a greeting from the film "The Lion King" that he said meant, "You're 50 now, you're allowed to inhale."

But the comics took even more pokes at Clinton's 73-year-old rival, Bob Dole. Lane said Dole's birthday bash had been held at Stonehenge, which was erected for the purpose. And Goldberg, the emcee, joked that Dole's image had been found on the rocks recently retrieved from Mars.

Clinton, thanking the friends who contributed to the event, noted with some bitterness that some of his friends have been "subjected to ridicule. The term FOB--Friend of Bill--"has become an epithet in some quarters," he said.

Musing on turning 50, Clinton said he expects to have "couple of bad hours there" when he receives a routine invitation to join the American Assn. of Retired People. But he said he was comforted that ex-Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison "are all older than I am."

s For a minimum of $250 and a maximum of $15,000, 5,100 Democrats got a chance to attend the variety show. The final event of the evening was a post-show dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel for donors who put up $10,000 each.

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Fountain Valley Sails Past Edison for Title

February 10, 2000|DAVE McKIBBEN

Edison goalkeeper Joey Balbas was in the right place to stop Cliff McKinley's first-half penalty shot. But late in the second half, Balbas couldn't quite get himself in place to stop Sean Iliff's left-footed chip shot that seemed to float in the air forever.

When the ball finally came down, it took one hop and nestled into the left corner of the net. Five minutes later, Fountain Valley had a 1-0 victory and the Sunset League title.

"I saw him coming out and I thought I should put it over him," said Iliff, who scored his fourth goal in three games. "I just waited for it to go in. I was standing there, praying that it would."

And Balbas was praying he could beat Iliff to Aaron Siemers' pass. But Iliff got there first, and flicked it over Balbas at top left corner of the penalty box.

"He's faster than me," Balbas said. "I thought I could beat him with my speed, but I guess not. I started to go back, but it was too late."

Said Fountain Valley Coach Jason Smith: "We had been trying to isolate Iliff and get him the ball. But there was nothing set about that play. He just has a great nose for the ball."

Balbas, who missed Friday's victory over Esperanza with a foot injury, gave his team a lift with a diving save of McKinley's penalty kick. McKinley went to the right corner and Balbas extended himself to bat the ball back at McKinley, who launched a rebound shot well over the crossbar.

"I think it helped us for awhile," Balbas said. "We all started to realize we could win this thing. It's too bad it had to end this way."

Fourth-ranked Edison (15-4-2, 6-3-1), which would have edged Fountain Valley for first place with a victory Wednesday, finished second in league. Second-ranked Fountain Valley (16-2-3, 7-1-2), which was 2-7-1 in league last year, will probably be seeded no worse than third in the Division I playoffs.

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Security cameras finally installed in South L.A. park

Six cameras at Jackie Tatum Harvard Recreation Center will allow police to monitor activity after an anti-gang volunteer was killed last year.

January 24, 2013|By Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times
  • Gail Sears, center, mother of slain park volunteer Patrick Caruthers, holds a plaque honoring her son at a news conference announcing the installation of security cameras at Jackie Tatum Harvard Recreation Center in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles Councilman Bernard C. Parks unveiled six security cameras at Jackie Tatum Harvard Recreation Center on Thursday, an issue that stalled in the City Council for months until a youth volunteer was gunned down in the park.

The installation of the cameras marks the second phase of a multi-year project to revamp the South L.A. park, once a popular hangout for a Bloods street gang. Parks started pushing for cameras last year after he discovered reputed gang members were intimidating park workers, blocking residents from using the city-owned space and shooting music videos in the park after it was supposed to be closed.

"We have had great success with each of our parks in remodeling them, in changing them and upgrading them," said Parks, who represents the area. "This is just one more phase to bringing this park up to standard."

The cameras, which are located in the center and perimeter of the park, offer a 360-degree view, and have the ability to pan, zoom in and record, Officer Martin Martinez said. They will be monitored at the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Division police station.

The city spent $200,000 for the cameras, Parks said. And another city official, Jon Mukri, the general manager of the Department of Recreation and Parks, noted that the cameras were needed to ensure the safety and protection of park visitors.

"This was born out of tragedy and let's not underestimate it," Mukri said. "Parks should be free of violence. Everybody should be able to come to the parks to enjoy the outdoors ... but how sad it is that we have to do this?"

Surrounded by police officers, Parks said he hopes the cameras will deter illegal activities and prevent gang violence and tragedies like the shooting in September.

Patrick Caruthers, a fixture in the South L.A. park, was on a bench listening to music before starting his shift as a volunteer for the Summer Night Lights anti-gang program last September. A gunman walked up and shot him multiple times in the back. Police believe the 19-year-old college student was mistaken for a gang member.

No arrests have been made in Caruthers' death. A $50,000 reward has been offered to anyone who provides information in the arrest and prosecution of the gunman.

The reward signs were posted on a light pole, not far from where two new cameras watch over visitors.

"I'm happy that the cameras are finally in place," said Caruthers' mother, Gail Sears. "My only remorse is that they were not in place prior to my son's murder."

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Ice melt to expand Arctic shipping by midcentury

March 04, 2013|Monte Morin
  • A study projects optimal September navigation routes for ice-strengthened (red) and common open-water (blue) ships between Rotterdam, the Netherlands and St. John's, Newfoundland, in the years 2040-2059.
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Loss of sea ice due to global warming could open new seasonal shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean by midcentury, sharply reducing transit times and opening a Pandora's box of safety, environmental and legal issues, according to scientists.

In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Plus, researchers estimated that new shipping lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are likely to open between 2040 and 2059. The lanes would not be open year-round, however, and would likely be restricted to late summer, when ice cover is lowest.

Lead study author Laurence Smith, a professor of Earth and space sciences at UCLA, and colleagues examined current Arctic shipping routes as well as a number of global warming models in making their forecast.

Since 1979, satellite mapping has shown an overall decrease in the extent of summer sea ice, which scientists attribute to an increase in man-made greenhouse gases.

While climatologists have speculated that this trend may result in widespread Arctic Ocean shipping, this is the first study to make an prediction as to when that might occur.

Authors wrote that ships with reinforced hulls would have a choice of two new routes: directly over the North Pole and along the fabled Northwest Passage, skirting Canada's northern coastline.

Already, commercial vessels have begun using the Northeast Passage, or what the Russians call the Northern Sea Route, which hugs the coast of the Russian Federation.

While reduced ice cover will likely increase shipping along the Russian coast, a seasonal route over the North Pole would be 20% shorter, and not require the hiring of Russian escort ships, authors wrote.

The North Pole Route and the Northeast Passage would provide the shortest distance between Europe and Asia, and allow ships to bypass the traditional Suez Canal route.

However, the Northwest Passage, along Canada's shore, would not benefit European and Asian trade. Instead, it would link Asia to Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States.

 Currently, the Northwest Passage is theoretically navigable once every seven years, making it an impractical trade route. By midcentury, however, researchers predicted that it would be accessible roughly every other year.

Study authors noted that the mere feasibility of Arctic routes did not guarantee their heavy use.

"These results reflect conditions for peak late-summer (September) shipping season only, and are driven solely by projected reductions in sea ice thickness and concentration," authors wrote.

"Although sea ice currently represents the single greatest obstacle to trans-Arctic shipping, numerous additional factors, including dearth of services and infrastructure, high insurance, escort fees, unknown competitive response of the Suez and Panama Canals, poor charts and other socioeconomic considerations, remain significant impediments to maritime activity in the region."

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Fuel Tanks

March 12, 2008 | Miguel Bustillo, Times Staff Writer
Fifteen black and Latino airport workers in Dallas who alleged that white co-workers intimidated them with swastikas, nooses and other racist symbols have settled a lawsuit for nearly $1.9 million, their lawyer and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday. In addition, Allied Aviation Services -- a New York-based firm that employs about 3,000 workers to fuel airplanes at more than 20 airports -- will institute tough guidelines against racial discrimination and take steps to fire workers who taunt colleagues in the future, officials said.
February 26, 2008 | From Times Wire Reports
The missile that took down a disabled spy satellite last week almost certainly destroyed a tank filled with potentially harmful hydrazine fuel, the Pentagon said. "By all accounts this was a successful mission," Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a statement.
February 23, 2008 | From the Associated Press
The military's analysis of the missile strike on a dead U.S. spy satellite has revealed no sign of danger from debris, including no hazard from the satellite's fuel tank, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. "As we continue to do the post-strike analysis, [it] continues to give us confidence that the hydrazine tank was ruptured. However, the analysis is still ongoing," spokesman Bryan Whitman said. U.S.
August 24, 2007 | From Times Wire Reports
Aviation officials investigating this week's tarmac fire that destroyed a China Airlines jet in southern Japan found that a bolt had pierced a fuel tank. Investigators believe that fuel leaked through the small hole and caused the fire. The Boeing 737 exploded in a fireball Monday seconds after all 157 passengers and eight crew had evacuated at Okinawa's Naha Airport.
June 9, 2007 | John Johnson Jr., Times Staff Writer
The shuttle Atlantis roared into space Friday on an 11-day mission to add solar power arrays and a new truss segment to the International Space Station. The nearly 10-minute jump to space from Cape Canaveral in Florida began at 4:38 p.m. PDT and appeared to be trouble-free. No serious problems were noted by the crew or ground control operators. "We had a very good countdown and launch," said NASA Associate Administrator Rex Geveden. "It was a really good day for NASA."
May 30, 2007 | Susan Carpenter, Times Staff Writer
I'D been riding for years before I learned motorcycles' dirty little secret. Mile per mile, some bikes actually spew more gunk into the air than cars, pickup trucks or SUVs, even if they do use less gas. It was a sickening realization, since I'd spent so much time believing the opposite was true. That's why the prospect of a performance-oriented electric bike is so appealing. Of course, an electric motorcycle isn't the same as a zero-emissions motorcycle.
July 17, 2006 | Jennifer Oldham, Times Staff Writer
A decade after a Paris-bound jumbo jet exploded in the night sky and plummeted into waters off Long Island's south shore, killing all 230 aboard, the airline industry and federal officials still are strikingly at odds over measures that safety experts say would have prevented the accident. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 crashed minutes after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a spark ignited vapors in a fuel tank in the center of the Boeing 747's wing.
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NASA approved a major design change in the space shuttle's fuel tank, clearing the last major hurdle before shuttle flights can resume as early as July 1, officials said. "There were no surprises. Everything went smoothly," NASA spokeswoman June Malone said after managers and engineers approved the new tank design at a meeting at NASA's fuel tank manufacturing plant near New Orleans. Officials will choose a firm launch date for Discovery at the completion of a formal flight review next week.
June 1, 2006 | John Johnson Jr., Times Staff Writer
NASA said Wednesday that recent changes to the shuttle's external fuel tank should prevent large chunks of insulating foam from falling off and hitting the craft, keeping the next mission on schedule for a possible July 1 launch. "Based on what we know today, there is no reason not to launch on July 1," said N. Wayne Hale Jr., manager of the shuttle program.
January 18, 2006 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
State and local prosecutors announced Tuesday that AT&T California was paying up to $25 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the telecommunications company repeatedly failed to test and repair hundreds of underground fuel tanks in California. State Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer said at a news conference that the settlement was the nation's second largest related to violations of underground storage tank laws.
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To the Editor:

I am writing on behalf of the Allentown Health Bureau and the Allentown-Bethlehem Area Safe Kids Coalition to express our opposition to adult exceptions of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law. Although the exceptions language applies to adults (21 and older), we feel strongly that optional use of helmets will lead to increased brain injuries and deaths to those affected (many are parents) and sets an unsafe example for children.

It is a well-known fact that motorcycle helmets are the single most effective measure available to reduce injuries and fatalities in motorcycle crashes. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motorcycle helmets have been proven to be 67 percent effective in reducing brain injuries and 29 percent effective in reducing fatalities.

Extensive studies have been conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention including a 1979-1986 study that showed that death rates in states with partial or no helmet use laws were almost twice that of states with comprehensive motorcycle helmet use laws. The General Accounting Office (GAO), a non-partisan research agency of the U.S. Congress, reviewed 46 studies of motorcycle helmets and helmet laws. GAO reported that the studies comparing helmeted with nonhelmeted crash victims all found that helmeted riders had lower fatality rates, ranging from 28 percent to 73 percent lower.

I urge everyone to contact the Governor and State Representatives and Senators to express your dissatisfaction with the weakening of the motorcycle helmet law as soon as possible. Action on the bill takes place soon!

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February 6, 2013|By Arelis R. Hernández, Orlando Sentinel

Delays are building in Central Florida in all the usual places during this morning's rush.

Westbound Interstate 4 in Seminole County is slow from Lake Mary Boulevard to beyond Maitland Boulevard. Backups were also reported between State Road 50 and State Road 408.

Eastbound delays extend from John Young Parkway to S.R. 50 in Orlando.

A crash on eastbound Lee Road is blocking the entrance ramp to I-4 west.

Longwood Lake Mary Road is also blocked by a crash near Green Way Boulevard in Lake Mary.

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Tiarra Sanabria hit a two-run homer and also handled the pitching for Williamstown Monday in a 4-1 Tri-County Conference softball win over visiting Cumberland.

Sanabria, a sophomore righthander, struck out seven and walked one in a complete-game effort. Her homer in the sixth accounted for the game's final runs.

Also in the Tri-County, Gloucester Catholic's Abby Merryman tossed a four-strikeout one-hitter, blanking host Woodstown, 5-0.

Olympic. Melissa Parker's first career home run combined with Steph Vuono's four-hit pitching to steer Eastern past visiting Bishop Eustace, 3-1.

Seneca, fueled by Christina Seffrin's three-RBI day, rallied for four fifth-inning runs and slipped past visiting Timber Creek, 5-4.

Brittany Bollendorf and Erin Waller scored three goals apiece during Washington Township's 15-4 Olympic Conference win over visiting Cherokee.

Holy Cross needed five goals by Caitlin Chase to edge visiting Delran, 8-7.

Moorestown finished seventh in a 14-team field with a 279 score at the Red Devil Invitational at Copper Hill Country Club in Flemington. Lexi Howard led the Quakers with an 8-over-par 80.

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September 18, 2013|By Ira Winderman, South Florida Sun Sentinel

MIAMI — Chris Andersen has his life back. To a degree, the colorful Miami Heat center known as "The Birdman" only now can fully celebrate his team's 2013 NBA championship.

In a dramatic and definitive end to a two-year odyssey that began in 2012 with a search of his Larkspur, Colorado home by the Douglas County Sheriff's Internet Crimes Against Children unit, Andersen was found to have been a victim of an internet impersonator in Canada, with that announcement made Wednesday.

"I would describe him today as solemn," agent Mark Bryant told the Sun Sentinel of Andersen's reaction. "If they would have just left this, then he would have been left with this. And not only would he have been left with this, a lot of victims would have gone undetected."

Ultimately, the case came down to an acquaintance representing herself to Andersen of being of legal age and then a second woman essentially "cat fishing," portraying herself online to the acquaintance as Andersen himself. The initial acquaintance was 17, the legal age of consent in Colorado.

Bryant not only praised authorities in both Colorado and Canada for the thoroughness of their investigation, but also of handling matters in a fashion in the intervening months that did not interfere with what turned into Andersen's first NBA championship.

"Chris had texted me on Monday, 'Two more days, right?' " Bryant related to the Sun Sentinel. "He's usually a little more jovial. The onus of these labels that were out here and he had to live with, I can't even describe it. Thank God for the distraction down there called the Miami Heat World Champions."

When Andersen joined the Heat in January, Andersen and team officials said there would be no additional comment on the situation until its resolution.

Wednesday evening, the Heat issued a statement that read, "We are not surprised that this is the end result. We are happy for Chris and glad this unfortunate incident is behind him."

While Andersen was asked to remain away from the Denver Nuggets during the 2012 playoffs amid the investigation, both Andersen and the Heat said the delay in the shot-blocking center's return to the NBA was because of 2012 offseason knee surgery.

"I cannot say enough about the Miami Heat embracing him almost more as a person than as a basketball player who came in under these circumstances," Bryant said.

Bryant said interviews with Andersen by the authorities amid the investigation were scheduled around the Heat's schedule.

"There's been continued respect not to interrupt, not to put this around places it doesn’t belong," Bryant said.

Bryant, speaking from his Denver office, said Anderson would continue to work with the authorities going forward.

"What we know is that Chris Andersen was a victim," he said. "Is the case over? No, Canada is still seeking its prosecution. I believe the district attorney's office here will seek its own prosecution.

"Chris is a victim. He was never a suspect, which is a little hard to believe with the thousands of commentaries, never arrested. There was strictly a warrant that was executed on his house looking for things."

It is the latest chapter in a career revival for Andersen that included a two-season NBA suspension for violation of the league's substance abuse policy.

Andersen was not available for comment Wednesday, but previously issued a statement to the Denver Post amid the investigation that said, "I appreciate everybody that's supported me, and I don't want to say anything bad about anybody. It's everybody's worst nightmare, but I just want to thank everyone that supported me and knew this was a lie from the beginning."

Bryant said Wednesday proved to be one of mixed emotions for Andersen, 35, who spent seven of his 11 seasons playing in Denver.

"Chris' concern to me this morning," Bryant said, "was, 'How y'all doing out there?,' because of the flooding here."

Andersen has been working at AmericanAirlines Arena in advance of the Heat's Oct. 1 start of training camp. He signed a two-year free-agent contract with the Heat at the NBA veteran minimum in July.

The Heat's regular season opens Oct. 29 at AmericanAirlines Arena against the Chicago Bulls, when Andersen and his teammates will receive their 2013 NBA championship rings. Follow him at

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How To Stay Active in College

Expect life in college to be a lot more serious than that of high school. It is after all the beginning of your journey towards your chosen career. There are more challenges and added responsibilities, and you are expected to work mostly on your own. In spite of the pressure that college brings, there is no reason why it should change your active lifestyle completely. You may even need it more now, to ease some of the stress you are beginning to experience in college. There are a lot of ways to do this and stay healthy and active, almost as you were in high school. Making time and staying committed to whatever activities you may choose is all you need to make it work. Here are some suggestions to get you started.
  • Join a sports club. Continue what you have started in high school, like being on the football, baseball or volleyball team. Every college or university has its own clubs for different types of sports. Join one that interests you the most so you are always kept busy and active after schoolwork activities.
  • Join intramurals. Enjoy college intramurals more by participating in competitions. If you have joined a sports club, this would not be too difficult especially if you excel in the sport. Coaches will automatically choose members for these competitions. If not, you can volunteer to help in organizing intramurals. Aside from keeping you busy, this is a great way of making new friends and developing new activities you could enjoy.
  • Ask around. Chances are, you’ll join traditional sports clubs or college organizations. Why don’t you explore your options by learning the different organizations and clubs around the college? There could be an interesting group like a yoga club or environmentalists group that you may want to explore. Getting into something completely different is exciting and you could discover that you actually fit in. Give it a try.
  • Explore your options outside. Don’t just settle on what is being offered within the college. Ask acquaintances for more options outside. Perhaps they know more clubs or groups that are more interesting and suitable for you.
  • Join student publications. Widen your network by joining college publications. You’ll learn how to deal with different people and you’ll be among the first to know what’s going on around the college. Your brains get a good workout here too. If you love to write, this may be a good choice for you.
  • Challenge yourself. Identify your weaknesses and as early as college, learn how to overcome them. If you are an introvert for instance, joining clubs that require being socially active will help improve your personality. Your life outside of college will never be the same if you learn how to hurdle any obstacles.
  • Have fun with friends. Invite friends and have productive activities over the weekend like hiking, planting trees, exploring an undiscovered paradise, volunteering, and offering community services. For some, having fun would mean enjoying Saturday nights in a bar to unwind. That does sound like fun as long as you don’t overdo your drinking. Instead, focus on expending your energy dancing and giving your body a good workout.

The opportunities to stay active in college are limitless. You are still young and have that youthful energy to do just about anything. Be more creative and have the guts to try out new things. Besides helping you grow, staying active in college keeps you focused on schoolwork too. This comes from a healthy mind and body, a result of keeping yourself on the go all the time.
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Melbourne based artist Jessica Stewart likes to draw portraits of dreamers and lovers. Using pencil, paint and pastel she draws ships, homes, animals among all other sorts of symbolic objects to represent a bond, a freedom or maybe an escape from their current situation.

Growing up on the coast before relocating to Melbourne, its fair to say nautical influences hold strong in her concepts and final pieces.

Jessica was a finalist in BSG’s 2010 $10,000 Art Prize and also had a very successful group show at BSG earlier that year called Ladies’ First which many well known and upcoming female artists participated in.

“If each piece can bring just a moment of curiosity or imagination out of the viewer then its all worth it. I love when people can relate to the portraits, seeing some sort of glimmer that they may of forgotten was within themselves.”

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 02:11 AM

I'm starting a thread here on this book that I've finally started to read, but since the entire discussion is about television, I've put it here instead of in the "Literature & Creative Writing" section.

(A&F links to American Idol, American Idol 2008, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Amazing Race 18, The Amazing Race 17, The Amazing Race 16, The Amazing Race 15, The Amazing Race 14, The Amazing Race 13, The Amazing Race 12, Dance War, The Amazing Race 11, The Amazing Race 10, Survivor Cook Islands, America's Got Talent, Reality TV script writers strike, Treasure Hunters, The Amazing Race 9, Survivor: Vanuatu, Project Runway 2, The Amazing Race 8, The Amazing Race 1, The Amazing Race 7, Reality TV that's actually GOOD?, The Monastery, The Amazing Race 6, How bad TV happens, Apprentice 2, Horrifying, Are Reality TV Shows on the Decline?, Nanny 911, Extreme Home Makeover, The Amazing Race, Canadian Idol, Priest Idol, Amish in the City and Television bad for intimacy? AND escapism vs. entertainment ...)

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Nearly every night on every major network, "unscripted" (but carefully crafted) dating, makeover, lifestyle, and competition shows glorify stereotypes that most people assume died forty years ago.

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Back before we all succumbed to American idolatry, reality television wasn't a prime-time-dominating genre with it's own Emmy category - it was simply one low-rated, unscripted MTV soap opera called The Real World. In just two hours on February 15, 2000, [Mike] Darnell changed all that, with Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? The special, which predated the game-changing Survivor, was a hybrid of Miss America and a mail-order bride parade. With executive producer Mike Fleiss of Next Entertainment, Darnell brought fifty brides-to-be to Las Vegas to be auctioned off to a complete stranger. They sashayed in swimsuits, tittered nervously, and answered pageant-style questions to assess their moral fortitude and sexual prowess in thirty seconds or less ... Darva Conger, Rockwell's eventual choice, got her first glimpse of her "fiance" moments before they were legally wed on-air. Nearly 23 million viewers tuned in ... By February 2003, Fox was devoting a whopping 41 percent and ABC 33 percent of their sweeps offerings to reality shows. These percentages increased over the years, limiting the number of quality comedies and dramas available to viewers ... With 40 million viewers, the finale of Joe Millionaire was the third-most-watched television episode of the entire decade ...

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It's true that millions of people have become reality TV junkies, initially drawn in by a sort of cinematic schadenfreude. That "What's wrong with you?" reaction is the viewer's equivalent of rubbernecking at an accident. Sometimes it makes us laugh, sometimes it shocks us, but we're unable to turn away from the cathartic display of other people's humiliation. Often it makes us feel superior: No matter how bad our problems may be, at least we aren't as fill-in-the-blank (pathetic, desperate, ugly, stupid) as those misguided enough to sign up for such indignities on national TV. It's easy to feel like we haven't hit bottom compared to the dregs of humanity on Rock of Love Bus. We revel in the bizarre antics, pitiful tears, wild hookups, and self-loathing insecurities. We vicariously savor all the delicious melodrama of high school cliques and office gossip, with none of the guilt. These are normal, human emotions, masterfully manipulated ... After a long, stressful day, it can be comforting to zone out with mindless entertainment ...

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But while the schadenfreude and escapism factors may get us to tune in, that's not what hooks us. One a more subconscious level, we continue to watch because these shows frame their narratives in ways that play to and reinforce deeply ingrained societal biases about women and men, love and beauty, race and class, consumption and happiness in America ... People love to ask why we watch these shows by the millions, and why thousands audition to participate - areas ripe for sociological study. But as a journalist and media critic, what I find most relevant is what we've learned from a decade of unscripted programming. Too often what passes for discussion about reality TV is limited to "Wow, that bitch was crazy!" or "Should this dater/singer/model be eliminated?" We need a deeper debate in this country about the meaning and implications of reality TV's backlash against women's rights and social progress ... In January 2007, CBS Evening News reported that more people watched American Idol on Fox than saw President Bush's State of the Union speech on ABC, NBC and CBS combined.

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[My book] aims to stimulate deeper debate among academics, social justice activists, media makers, and journalists about the nature and meaning of the most talked about form of entertainment at the turn of the century ... Media both shape and reflect cultural perceptions of who we are, what we're valued for, what we want, what we need, what we believe about ourselves and others - and what we should consider "our place" in society ... We each bring our intellects, identities, and experiences to everything we watch, which affects the way we enjoy, interpret, or internalize media messages. Though we're unique individuals who react differently to specific TV shows, our ideas are inescapably shaped by our participation in collective culture and society. We live in a commercially controlled, media-saturated era ... The influence of all this media is systematic and affects how we think and feel in ways we don't always recognize, even - sometimes especially - when we consider ourselves immune.

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In the early '00s, young people had exceptionally critical responses to my reality TV clip reel. They found show premises to be "ludicrous," "vile," and "completely unrealistic." They'd gasp, groan, or grumble to one another when cameras intrusively zoomed in on rejected bachelorettes' tear stained faces, or on plastic surgeons' scalpels cutting into insecure mothers' bodies. They'd laugh when announcers described manipulative scenarios as "every girl's dream!" They were funny, wisecracking about the overuse of seemingly scripted phrases like "emotional connection" and "I'm not here to make friends!" They were angry, asking "Where do they get off treating women like that?" Most important, they saw right through the networks' fairytale facades. "It's like they want us to think feminism never happened," a Fordham student told me. "Do they think we're stupid enough to believe this shit is real?"

Eight years later, I find stark differences in young people's responses to similar TV clips ... Now when I screen clips, instead of snickering at cheesy narrators or blatant product placements that disrupt the flow of a show, students giggle when women sob after being dumped, when beautiful girls are badgered about their bodies, and when women of color go off on violent tirades. Girls used to ask me about the social and economic forces that might compel a woman to volunteer to have her appearance, personality, or romantic prospects savaged on TV. Now, girls regularly tell me they're dieting to audition for Top Model. Reality shows are appointment TV on many campuses I've visited. This pastime sometimes affects academic priorities and impacts the way educators work: A college in Boston rescheduled my visit because they'd inadvertently planned the lecture on an American Idol night, and no one shows up for events when Idol's on. The Millennial Generation seems to be getting more cynical ("Of course it's all bullshit, but it's funny. Whatever.") but less skeptical. That kind of mind-set makes advertisers salivate ... I am concerned at the increasingly uncritical ways I've seen students react to media over the last decade. I'd like to see scholarly investigation into what impact reality television's portrayals of gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism may have on the expectations and worldview of viewers who've come of age with these shows.

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"This show really is kind of a reality version of Cinderella," Ken Mok, executive producer of America's Next Top Model, told E!'s True Hollywood Story, describing a UPN-turned-CW series that regularly tells gorgeous, insecure young women that they're too fat, too flawed, and, in the case of girls of color, too "ghetto" to make it as an advertiser's muse.

This formula pops up wherever women are pivotal to a series. The central conceit of Fox's The Swan, for example, was that "ugly ducklings" would be sliced and diced into "beautiful swans," as if pitting emotionally unstable plastic surgery patients against one another in a bizarro-world beauty pageant were a modern Hans Christian Andersen fable rather than prime-time exploitation of body dysmorphia ...

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Friday, July 9, 2010

New Beginnings- Life Update

Well this summer has been crazy. I have been out of school for the past 2 weeks due to sprained ankles. None the less the injuries have really been a blessing in disguise. My time off has allowed me to take care of some business that I would not have otherwise had the time to do.

I recently interviewed with a few schools in the Metropolitan Nashville Public School district and have accepted a position with Shwab Elementary School. My boyfriend Rob and I have moved in together at his house, just down the street from Shwab and are loving life.

As much as I love my students at the King's Daughters' School, I was feeling ready for a change and so with Rob's encouragement and support I have made that happen. I am sad to leave the awesome family that I have grown to care so much for at King's Daughters' but am ready to embrace a new one at my teaching position.

One last exciting bit about all this change, the person who accepted my current position with the King's Daughters' School is none other than one of my very best friends from Rhode Island College. AJ Mindyas just graduated from RIC with his art education degree just I had 2 and a half years ago and is ready to follow my footsteps into the King's Daughters' family. He has been working with people with mental disabilities in group homes for several years and is ready to meet the challenges of the KDS students. I am so excited to pass the torch to my friend AND to have him here in Tennessee with me!

After AJ's acceptance of the position I really feel like everything that is meant to be is happening and fitting together like puzzle pieces. The process of interviewing and moving has been stressful but the results are so so sweet.

This coming week I will be attending the Tennessee Arts Academy for the second summer and will most likely be blogging about that as it happens.

I hope everyone's summer is going as good as mine!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Interactive Art... "Play me I'm yours"

Quick update, my students are working on a wall mural at school this week- I'm not there because I sprained BOTH my ankles this past weekend during my yART sale Saturday. BLAH So I am stuck here in the house and can't do too much of anything... except play on the computer and watch movies. So on facebook this morning, a band mate of mine from high school was tagged in an article and featured playing pianos in many photos of this new exhibit throughout the city of New York. Several pianos. which are decorated beautifully, are placed all over the city with stickers on them that say "play me I'm yours" and "sing for hope." Anyone can stop and play these piece of public art and become part of it! Much like other projects such as 1000 journals, you can go online and upload your videos, photos, and stories of your interactions with the piece onto the artists website! Street pianos have been exhibited in cities all over the world and are currently set up in london and in nyc. Go check them out for yourselves either in person or online!
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Hotels and hostels in Barcelona, Spain

I would love your recommendations for conveniently-located, secure, and moderately-priced accommodations in Barcelona. [more inside]
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Off the beaten path in London, Paris, Venice, Rome

I can't believe I waited this long to ask the MeFi hive-mind, but here we are. In 24 hours my wife and I will be leaving on our honeymoon to the above-mentioned destinations. What I'm looking for are some cool, unusual, secret, or just plain "local favorite" things to do and places to go. Rather than simply pointing me to other sites offering collected reviews of places (tripadvisor, et al) I'm hoping to get some first-hand recommendations from you all. Time will be rather short in each city (3-4 days each) so let's try to stay within the cities themselves, as we won't really have time for outlying excursions. To give you an idea of what we're after, my wife and I are both lifetime members of the gothic subculture, and she in particular is very interested in fashion. Eccentric bars/pubs are also favorites. We leave on May 4th, but feel free to contribute later in the week, as I'll be eagerly checking this thread for your suggestions. Cheers, MeFi!
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Where to go in Europe?

Going to Europe. We have 4.5 weeks. Help us narrow down our choices! [more inside]
posted by amicamentis on Nov 21, 2013 - 19 answers

Help me start planning my Adriatic trip for next year!

Okay, team. I'm going to take a trip to the Adriatic area next year for the month of August, but I've revealed myself to be inept at finding flight pricing. That, and I'd like some pointers for what to look into I'm the planning process, if you have any ideas! [more inside]
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Special snowflake goes abroad

I'm meeting up with family in Paris this June, and I'd like to spend a week or so travelling alone beforehand. Can you suggest inexpensive destinations with the following requirements? [more inside]
posted by smilingtiger on Apr 8, 2011 - 4 answers

Fun things to do in Norway & Finland

Fun things to do in Scandinavia in June. Itinerary inside! [more inside]
posted by Raichle on May 20, 2010 - 4 answers

Who will plan the global vacation that I'm too stressed to plan for myself?

What are the best reputable Web sites for booking packaged, affordable global travel from the U.S.? Not looking to actually travel until 2011. [more inside]
posted by croutonsupafreak on May 19, 2010 - 10 answers

Tourist fun in northwestern Germany

Family members who will be visiting me in Amsterdam in April have requested that we spend a day in Germany. What cool stuff can we do in northwestern Germany, fairly close to the Dutch border? [more inside]
posted by transporter accident amy on Jan 26, 2009 - 15 answers

Warsaw to Prague to ???

With a week to spend in Europe this summer, I am going from Warsaw (2 days) to Prague (3 days) to...where? Krakow? Dresden? Berlin? I have two days and have to be back in Warsaw on the 2nd day. I'm traveling by train. What would I be an idiot to miss? [more inside]
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Recommend Photography Tours and Travel Workshops

I would like to find out about good providers of photography tours and/or travel-based photography workshops abroad. Preferably, the workshops should be pitched at the level of an intermediate photographer. [more inside]
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What to do with 3 days outside Amsterdam?

In The Netherlands for a few days, what to see outside Amsterdam? [more inside]
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what's cool in europe?

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Tourist visas for Europe

Myself and my fiance will be travelling in Europe later this year, and he needs a visa to visit pretty much anywhere. A colleague has mentioned that there is one Europe-wide (apart from Ireland and the UK) tourist visa available, which would save us the time and expense of getting six separate visas, but I can't find any info about this. Does it exist? If so, where do we apply? Or would an e.g. French visa be valid to visit Spain? Thanks.
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advice wanted for 10-12 day trip to Italy

My wife and I are planning a 10-12 day trip to Italy in late Sept. and are looking for advice. We are torn between a guided tour-type trip where the majority is planned out for you or just getting tickets and hotel rooms and making the plans while we are there. Any advice or experience? [more inside]
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3 Weeks in Europe

Let's say you're spending three weeks in Europe late this summer. The first week is in Denmark, the third is in Ireland. Where would you spend the second? You'd like to go somewhere off the beaten path (in other words not Paris, London, or Amsterdam), but don't want to spend too much time in transit. You'd rather go somewhere rural than urban, you have a limited budget, and you'd prefer culture to castles and cathedrals. Any suggestions?
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Our household has 3 PC/laptops connected via wireless router (d-link 600). Is there a way to ban websites to all of the PCs connected to the wireless router by using my laptop? D-link's filter website feature is not working.

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Please provide a bit more information. If your Laptop is running Ubuntu and your laptop is running all day you could install a proxy (e.g. squid). Than you have to configure all other computers to use your laptop as proxy to access the internet and you have to block all other PCs in your router to avoid bypassing the proxy –  mbs Jun 14 '12 at 14:07

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Use OpenDNS to filter everything you like. Register a free account and follow their instructions.

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Try web filter, you can block unwanted sites by URL or keywords.

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This package is not in Software Center. Official page offer only source files. How can I install this on 10.04?

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It is in the Software Centre.

oli@bert:~$ apt-cache policy arista
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.9.5-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.9.5-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages

Just search for arista and you'll find it.

But to answer the actual question, you need to read the README.md file that's in the downloadable archive. It explains what dependencies you need. Moreover, it has an Ubuntu-specific install method available! Just run:

sudo python setup.py install --install-layout=deb

And it'll install. Just did this and it works fine. You might need to fetch the dependencies yourself (in the readme, again) but give it a go if you still can't find the arista package in the Software Centre

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Thanks searched once again and found it version 0.9.3 in software center. Webpage offer version 0.9.5 So I'll going to install it from source. –  vrcmr Dec 1 '10 at 12:09
If you upgraded Ubuntu to Maverick, you'd have access to the latest version in the repo :) –  Oli Dec 1 '10 at 12:16
Now I have 0.9.5 on my 10.04 with one warning. UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'zip_safe' –  vrcmr Dec 1 '10 at 12:23
Can not encode because these plugins are not installed. GStreamer-Element faac GStreamer-Element x264enc –  vrcmr Dec 1 '10 at 12:30

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I have created a live usb from an Ubuntu 11.04 daily cd image using usb disk creator. I have bandwidth constrains so I would like to update the live usb from a current daily cd image without downloading an entire image.

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I have tried two times and it worked for me (But i do not know if this is the correct way to do it). First you need to create the first Live USB following the USB Creator steps.

Then when a new update comes just overwrite the files that are newer than the ones in the usb. Well in my case everything in the dist, pool and casper folder. It worked the two times i have tried but am talking about when 10.10 was in beta till it was released.

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i don't think that this solves bandwith constraints –  bbaja42 Jan 3 '11 at 2:12

When you create the USB startup disk, you have the option to partition off so much of the disk into what is known as a persistence file. This file allows you to save your files and settings so that they are available next time you boot up the live image. The option in question can be seen in the below figure as point number 2:

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I haven't tried it myself, but this is how I would go about it.

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Installing upgrades directly from the live usb session fails. –  João Pinto Dec 21 '10 at 21:29
can you give details exactly why does it fail? –  bbaja42 Jan 3 '11 at 2:14

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I use digiKam on Kubuntu 12.10 to organise my photos and really like being able to upload to Picasaweb using kipiplugins. Unfortunately after having set up Google two-factor authentication I now need to create an application specific password each time I want to upload from digiKam.

This behaviour is a bug which seems to have been fixed upstream according to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292223 in digiKam 2.7.0.

I am using digiKam 2.8.0 on KDE Development Platform 4.9.5, with libkipi 1.6.0 (according to digiKam). Is there a reason why this bug-fix seems not to have been applied to my version of digiKam? I have been upgrading rather than reinstalling, so is there some config file or token file that needs to be deleted to allow the correct behaviour?

Alternatively is there a ppa version of digiKam with this functionality available?

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You could look the password up in KWallet, where it is saved, (but not reread unfortunately). This is faster than getting a new password each time from Google. It does not solve the bug, but makes it less annoying. –  Ingolf Schaefer Feb 10 '13 at 0:28
Thanks @IngolfSchaefer, this is what I've started doing and it definitely improves the workflow somewhat. –  ihuston Mar 26 '13 at 2:35
Known bug, should be resolved in Digikam according to the KDE BugDB - bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292223 –  sakjur Apr 6 '13 at 15:09

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If you go into your google account's security settings you can setup application specific passwords.

https://www.google.com/settings/security then click on "Authorising applications and sites"

Make one for digikam and then use this password where you would normally use your regular google password.

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Sorry if I didn't make it clear, but I am creating an application specific password. However, digiKam does not save this password, and I need to create a new one each time I want to upload to Picasa. –  ihuston Jan 11 '13 at 10:27

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I have been experimenting with a software RAID 1 installation of ubuntu 12.04 LTS in virtualbox, but am having some issues here.

What I basically did: 2 disks in RAID 1. Both disks contain a mirrored partition that has /boot and a mirrored partition that contains an encrypted LVM. All this so far so good, it boots perfectly after install.

When I decide then to try to remove one of both disks in virtualbox, it just says "waiting for encrypted source" (or something along those lines, can't remember exactly).

After several more minutes, it drops to an initramfs console, where I am stuck... And yes, I choose the option boot in degraded mode during install, I also checked in the initramfstools/conf.d, it states bootdegraded=true.

What am I doing wrong here? I thought a raid 1 was supposed to boot perfectly even if one disk completely disappears? Thanks for any help you can provide!

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How to install ubutnu touch on galaxy s4? I need dualboot, I won't to remove my android. when power on my device ask me for choice operation. please guide me to install ubuntu touch on samsung galaxy s4.

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I want to install ubuntu touch on my galaxy, but I don't know. I want to develop my project in my phone, then I decide install ubuntu touch in my galaxy. –  user255327 Jun 22 '14 at 7:17

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Ubuntu touch is under development and you cannot use it like android, if you want it for some development or technical purpose you can have it but make sure you know what you are going to do at every step...It is not just like dual booting desktop or formatting desktop

Take a look at this and you will understand everything...

What is Ubuntu Touch (Ubuntu for Phones)

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Audi Checks Every Link in Mexico Supply Chain

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Audi is applying an unusual level of scrutiny to its supply base, even working directly with raw-material vendors, as it gears up to open the first European luxury auto assembly plant in Mexico.

The plant under construction here will build the next generation of Audi's Q5 crossover. It is also poised to become a major global export hub for Audi and a crucial piece of its growth plans. Most of the 150,000 Q5s produced here annually will be exported, including about 40,000 units to the United States and Canada.

Local sourcing of parts is critical to that effort. Audi says that 75% of the Q5's parts content will come from North America, more than the 65% required to qualify for duty-free status under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Audi hopes eventually to boost North American content to 90% of the Q5 after production begins in 2016.

To that end, Audi has taken extra steps to ensure that each tier of its supply base in Mexico is capable of delivering luxury-caliber goods, an effort to apply some of the lessons German luxury automakers learned the hard way in past efforts to erect supply chains in the United States and Europe.

"In the past, we did not struggle with the first tier, but most of them struggled with the second tier," Bernd Martens, Audi AG's board member for procurement, told journalists here last week.

The 130 direct suppliers currently contracted for the next-generation Q5 have had to go through a rigorous screening, in which Audi reviewed their processes and looked down the line at their supply chains, to ensure that every component and raw material used in the Q5 meets the same quality standards as those in vehicles built in Germany, Audi executives said.

When required, teams from Audi work directly with Tier 1, 2 and 3 suppliers on quality initiatives. If a particular supplier isn't sophisticated or experienced enough to meet Audi's needs, Audi invites employees from that supplier to its plant in Ingolstadt, Germany, to learn Audi's production system firsthand.

"This is what we are emphasizing," Martens said. "They have to show us their plans and they have to show us where the parts are coming from that go into subassemblies. We are going to train the supply chain. This is a huge effort."

That type of involvement is unusual in the auto industry, where automakers typically deal directly only with their Tier 1 suppliers and have little knowledge about the companies that are farther down the supply chain.

The industry was reminded of this dynamic in 2011, when Honda, Toyota and other Japanese automakers scrambled for weeks to identify breakdowns in their supply chains from parts makers affected by the earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Audi began building its Mexican supply chain a year and a half ago. First it rounded up raw-material suppliers directly. Audi's labs in Germany reviewed everything needed for the next-generation Q5, from metals to plastic resins, to ensure they were up to company standards.

Martens says Audi has selected about 80% of the Mexican plant's suppliers so far. A key component of the supply chain will be Audi's supplier park on the plant's sprawling 1,100-acre compound, housing seven suppliers.

Other suppliers for the plant will have dedicated production lines for their Audi business, and 11 suppliers will feed the plant from all-new facilities, Martens said.

Audi says it has enough land on the site and capacity in its paint shop to add another 150,000 annual units of output should it decide to expand.

"Doubling the plant is not a big issue," Martens said. "The supplier structure is here; the infrastructure is here; but we make it in steps ... because we want to have sustainable growth."

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Georgia Perimeter College students have selected the New Orleans Mardi Gras as the theme of for the college’s 2011 homecoming celebration. “Students leaders from each campus came together during the retreat this summer and a number of ideas came up,” said Tjazha Mazhani, student life coordinator and homecoming organizer. “Mardi Gras and its celebratory theme was the idea the students liked the most.” :

Events planned for Homecoming:

o Monday, November 7
 Mardi Gras Parade, 12 p.m., Clarkston Campus (starts at Student Center)
 Hypnotist Tom Deluca, 3 p.m.-5 p.m., Newton Campus 2N Lecture Hall
 Mardi Gras Fest: Black Light Casino Night, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Dunwoody Campus Student Center
• Free admission and food for GPC students with ID
 Black Magic Dinner, 7 pm, Clarkston Campus Student Center
• Free admission and dinner for GPC students with ID

o Tuesday, November 8
 Homecoming Festival, 12 p.m.-5 p.m., Alpharetta Center side parking lot
• Free admission with college ID
• Featuring free food, games and giveaways with College ID
 Comedy Show ft. Steve Brown, Corwin “C Dawg” Oglesby and T Ray, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Decatur Campus Student Center (SC 2100)
• Free Admission and Giveaways

o Wednesday, November 9
 Music Fest, 6:30 p.m., Clarkston Campus Quad
• Free admission
• Free food for GPC students with ID
• Featuring Live Performances and special performances by “The Sugarfoot Stompers”

o Thursday, November 10
 Super Kart Experience, 7 p.m.-10 p.m., Andretti Indoor Karting & Games
• Free student ticket required for entry
• Valid driver’s license required for karting access
Student ticket available in the Student Life offices

o Friday, November 11
 Homecoming Take-It-To-The-Hoop Tailgate, 4 p.m., Decatur Campus Lawn
• Free admission
• Free food for GPC students with ID
 Men’s Basketball Game, 7 p.m., Decatur Campus – SC Gymnasium
• Free admission
• GPC students with ID eligible to compete in the half-court shot to win a free semester of tuition.

o Saturday, November 12
 Alumni College, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Clarkston Campus
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 Men’s basketball game, 4 p.m., Decatur Campus – SC Gymnasium
• Free admission
• Guests eligible to win two free tickets to an Atlanta Falcons Football Game.
 Masquerade Ball, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Omni Hotel at the CNN Center
• Live DJ and free food
• Witness the crowning of Mr. and Ms. GPC 2011
• Free ticket for GPC students with ID and one free guest ticket
• Faculty/Staff/Alumni tickets $15 per person or two for $20 (available online at

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Leather Hats – Looking Tough yet Stylish

One of the most essential accessories that one can have is hats as they are very fashionable. Initially, hats were only invented so that people could get protected from the rays of the sun. Then, hats were made waterproof so they could protect the wearer from the rain as well. As the years went on, many more designs and materials were incorporated to make hats more fashionable, and the most popular is the leather hat.

Usually, leather hats are manufactured by using cowhides. Makers of the leather hats would usually use the softest ones they could find so as to obtain the best results. While these hats make someone look sexy and very manly, they are also very practical when used outdoors. The heat coming from the sun is nothing to laugh about as the ozone layer is continually being damaged. As a testament of how useful these hats are, the American Cancer Society is constantly reminding everyone to use the hats when outside particularly between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

When the material used to craft hats is leather, it is a wise decision. Not only are they durable, they are also aesthetically pleasing regardless if it’s made for women or men. The classic black leather hat is still very popular and doesn’t seem to fade out of style. Leather hats can match any style of clothing, including the simple shirt and jeans. Hollywood celebrities even incorporate these hats to further amplify their appeal even though they are just wearing their casuals.

Although there are many hats in the market, none of them will have the quality of leather hats. They have a certain appeal that many people simply adore. It doesn’t matter if it’s a fedora, cowboy or even safari styled, these hats just scream personality and become the ultimate form of headgear. The appeal doesn’t come without a price though; these hats may cost you more than the regular ones but the durability makes up for it. A properly handled leather hat can last for a very, very long time.

With proper care, these hats can still look as good as new. The main thing you need to watch out for is water; should the hat get wet, let it dry naturally as drying it with heat will rob the leather of its oil. If it gets dirty, then you’ll need a damp cloth to wipe it off the surface. For storage, you need to make sure that it is properly contained in a box specially made for hats. If you still need more help, asking a professional for proper treatment is a good decision as well.


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Lol!  My daughter wants to go put a bible in the fiction section of the xian bookstore now!

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I GOOGLEd it and I really didn't find much that I was able to use. What I got down to is either ZUNE or iPOD.

I'm wanting to be able to download podcast that I want, my songs, and maybe play a game on it. Something simple, but I want to be able to move throught the podcast to any point I want. Also, want radio option and a long battery life. I doubt I need over 4G, but who knows.

Right now I have a Stone 2G. Not bad, but I'm stuck with not being able to move through the podcast or song.

My kids have 2G iPod Nanos. I like them! I like iTunes even. But with my Stone, I have to use the MP3 download option on the websites to get the podcast on my Stone. iTunes updates on my computer, but not the Stone.

So short of stealing the kids Nano, what am I to do?

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Personally I like the Creative line of MP3 and media player products.

Little or no DRM, on average of 90% file play back compatibility, I pretty much avoid the iPods and Zunes because of the DRM that they use.

I am about to purchase my 3rd creative mp3/divx player, more then likely it will be the Zen X but I am not sure, just waiting for my Zen Vision to kick the bucket.
Go easy on me....what is DRM? Is it Digital Recording Media? Just an educated guess...
DRM is Digital Rights Management. It's a sledgehammer approach to copy-protection that will prevent you from backing up your media files or moving them from one player to another. It's best avoided if you can
DRM as said above is digital rights management.

Basically they created it to combat piracy, but it is something that really only hurts the honest consumer. As long as it can be played back on something any digital file can be pirated usually very easily. It is the failing of the entertainment industry to recognize this, thus DRM is something that is largely useless in the way they apply it.

I have a rant on it here...

My big issue with DRM is that by using it the entertainment cartels are trying to make ordinary consumers into criminals for simply wanting options.
Ok, Jay, since my ZEN Stone Plus (found that is what I have!) is doing good, what ZEN product do I need? I can do without the games. I place battery life and at least 4G storage as high.
Now I only recommend creative because I personally like them, there are a lot of other very good product lines out there. It all depends on if you want to add Video payback and a mini-screen really, and what you want to spend. Your buying dollar is probably the main choice restriction here.

Most Creative Zens are between 4-32gig in size depending on make and model. Personally look for a Solid State memory device over something with an internal HardDrive (most mp3 players are like this now but always check). I get 4 hours of video off of my current model and about 16-20 hours of continuous MP3 playback.

Personally as I have said I like the Zen X-Fi, native Xvid/Divx/MP4 playback (video), radio tuner, 32 hours claimed of playback time, and a SD card expansion slot.
Personally, i LOVE my Creative Zen Vision:M! The features are endless but it's still pretty simple to use. Plays video too. And it can do what you want. As for syncing your podcasts, i'm still looking for a solution for that. It'll sync files just fine, but you still need a podcatcher or feed aggregator to actually GET them to your hard drive. I was using iTunes for that, but now it looks like i'll be switching to VLC (videolan.org) or something else so i can automatically download podcasts.

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