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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? The Golden Globes are heading to the Hall of Justice.

Dick Clark Productions (DCP) and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) go head-to-head Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles over who controls the television broadcast of the Golden Globes.

Dick Clark Productions has produced the broadcast for nearly 30 years, while HFPA is the non-profit organization that originated the entertainment awards.

Their heated conflict kicked off nearly a year ago, when HFPA, slapped DCP and its parent company Red Zone Capital with a lawsuit claiming its longtime producer "surreptitiously" renegotiated its television contract with NBC without its consent.

"DCP acts as though it has unilateral right to license the broadcast rights for the Golden Globe Awards on whatever terms it pleases, without HFPA's knowledge or authorization," the HFPA suit said.

For its part, DCP contends that its agreement with HFPA allows it to negotiate the TV rights. Further, the company says that under an "extensions clause," its contract to produce the show renews every time NBC extends its licensing pact.

HFPA counters that the clause is being grossly misinterpreted and does not give the production company the rights to produce the show in perpetuity.

The trial is expected to last from two to four weeks, according to individuals with knowledge of the litigation.

Daniel Petrocelli, an attorney for HFPA, declined to comment. Ronald Olson, an attorney for DCP, did not respond to requests for comment.

DCP Chief Executive Officer Mark Shapiro and former President of NBC's West Coast Business Operations Marc Graboff are among the people who will testify this week, according to an individual with knowledge of the litigation.

HFPA Chairman Philip Berk and CBS chief Leslie Moonves are also expected to testify during the trial.

Though HFPA will argue it is invalid, the contract in question was signed in October 2010 and extends the Globes' broadcasting rights by seven years. In it, NBC agrees to pay an average of $21.5 million a year for the rights, up from the $11 million it had previously shelled out. That fee would be split evenly between DCP and HFPA.

Seen by roughly 17 million viewers, the Golden Globes represents 15 percent of DCP's business and brings in millions of dollars every year for the HFPA, which it uses to fund most of its activities -- so the stakes for both sides are high.

HFPA is expected to argue that it could have received a bigger licensing fee from another network had the bidding for rights been competitive.

The "extensions clause," which forms the spine of DCP's case, was included in a 1993 amendment to the production company's agreement with the awards organization. DCP claims the clause was agreed to after the production company hammered out a deal with NBC that would bring the show from the cable news network TBS to broadcast television, substantially increasing its exposure.

DCP maintains it gives them the right to renegotiate a contract with NBC without the HFPA's consent, but attorneys for the awards group maintain that the "extensions clause" was never intended to be indefinite. To bolster that claim, they plan to refer to the transcript of a September 22, 1993 presentation by Dick Clark and his top executives to HFPA's membership that outlined the show' original contract with NBC.

In the transcript, former DCP executive Fran La Maina tells members that a deal with NBC would last between three to 10 years.

DCP's lawyers plan to counter that La Maina was merely discussing how long the original pact with NBC might last. He was not, they argue, discussing what extensions on DCP's deal would be activated if the production company signed new deals with the network.

La Maina also will be called as a witness during the first week of the trial.

The latest pact with NBC was signed in October 2010. After it was finalized, Shapiro sent Berk a note informing him that NBC had renewed its broadcasting license, which he said automatically extended DCP's production deal.

Berk's response to the news was a breach of contract suit.

Over 30 years ago, HFPA turned to DCP to help reburnish its image in the wake of allegations that Pia Zadora's husband had bought his wife an award by giving the group's members gifts.

Next week, when the two sides meet, they do so in the shadow of a show that remains controversial within the movie industry for its off-beat awards choices, but has nonetheless grown to become one of the most watched television events of any year.

(Editing by Chris Michaud)

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Monday, January 23, 2012

For the 26 million Americans with diabetes, drawing blood is the most prevalent way to check glucose levels. It is invasive and at least minimally painful. Researchers at Brown University are working on a new sensor that can check blood sugar levels by measuring glucose concentrations in saliva instead.

The technique takes advantage of a convergence of nanotechnology and surface plasmonics, which explores the interaction of electrons and photons (light). The engineers at Brown etched thousands of plasmonic interferometers onto a fingernail-size biochip and measured the concentration of glucose molecules in water on the chip. Their results showed that the specially designed biochip could detect glucose levels similar to the levels found in human saliva. Glucose in human saliva is typically about 100 times less concentrated than in the blood.

"This is proof of concept that plasmonic interferometers can be used to detect molecules in low concentrations, using a footprint that is ten times smaller than a human hair," said Domenico Pacifici, assistant professor of engineering and lead author of the paper published in Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society.

The technique can be used to detect other chemicals or substances, from anthrax to biological compounds, Pacifici said, "and to detect them all at once, in parallel, using the same chip."

To create the sensor, the researchers carved a slit about 100 nanometers wide and etched two 200 nanometer-wide grooves on either side of the slit. The slit captures incoming photons and confines them. The grooves, meanwhile, scatter the incoming photons, which interact with the free electrons bounding around on the sensor's metal surface. Those free electron-photon interactions create a surface plasmon polariton, a special wave with a wavelength that is narrower than a photon in free space. These surface plasmon waves move along the sensor's surface until they encounter the photons in the slit, much like two ocean waves coming from different directions and colliding with each other. This "interference" between the two waves determines maxima and minima in the light intensity transmitted through the slit. The presence of an analyte (the chemical being measured) on the sensor surface generates a change in the relative phase difference between the two surface plasmon waves, which in turns causes a change in light intensity, measured by the researchers in real time.

"The slit is acting as a mixer for the three beams ? the incident light and the surface plasmon waves," Pacifici said.

The engineers learned they could vary the phase shift for an interferometer by changing the distance between the grooves and the slit, meaning they could tune the interference generated by the waves. The researchers could tune the thousands of interferometers to establish baselines, which could then be used to accurately measure concentrations of glucose in water as low as 0.36 milligrams per deciliter.

"It could be possible to use these biochips to carry out the screening of multiple biomarkers for individual patients, all at once and in parallel, with unprecedented sensitivity," Pacifici said.

The engineers next plan to build sensors tailored for glucose and for other substances to further test the devices. "The proposed approach will enable very high throughput detection of environmentally and biologically relevant analytes in an extremely compact design. We can do it with a sensitivity that rivals modern technologies," Pacifici said.

Tayhas Palmore, professor of engineering, is a contributing author on the paper. Graduate students Jing Feng (engineering) and Vince Siu (biology), who designed the microfluidic channels and carried out the experiments, are listed as the first two authors on the paper. Other authors include Brown engineering graduate student Steve Rhieu and undergraduates Vihang Mehta, Alec Roelke.

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"He made a mistake, but I think Joe Paterno still lived an incredibly positive life. He goes down in my book as an incredible human being,'' former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said about Joe Paterno after the former Penn State coach's death on Sunday. Amid the outpouring of emotion that's followed has been this message that Paterno was not a god and just a human being who made some mistakes. The tributes have largely focused on the good that Paterno did in his life. "Joe Paterno will be remembered in different ways," says Matt Murschel at College Insider. "For being a husband, a father, a grandfather, a coach, a mentor, an icon, a pariah, and most of all a human being." Here's what others are saying about Paterno's life, legacy, and humanity:

Philadelphia Inquirer editorial: Now that Paterno is gone, perhaps his career can be put in its proper perspective. He was human. He made mistakes. But none that are known relate to what he accomplished as a coach. In acknowledgment of that, the Big Ten Conference should restore his name to its football championship trophy.

Bernie Miklasz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "We fail to remember that they are just men, only human, imperfect despite all of their achievements and best intentions. Their statues are sturdy and permanent and designed to last forever, but the bronze can't conceal the flaws."

Bruce Arthur, National Post: "Joe Paterno was not a monster, precisely, and he was not pure. He was human, and he faltered, and it ruined what was left of his life, and what was left of a lot of other people's lives, too. Tragedy, all around."

Mark Bradley, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "A year ago we'd have said he did it the right way and left it at that. Today we must rewrite that line to reflect the complexity that enfolded this life the same way complexity enfolds all human life. Today we must say of Joe Paterno: 'He did it the right way -- except for the one time he didn't.'"

Bob Wojnowski, Detroit News: "Ultimately, you focus on the sum of the man, a coach like no other and a human being like most. He did plenty of good things, and also had flaws. It ended with his own haunting words -- 'I wish I had done more.'"

Deron Snyder, The Washington Times: "In the end, Paterno's biggest mistake was hanging on too long. It demonstrated everything that made him a great coach and a flawed human being: dedication and stubbornness; commitment and selfishness; perseverance and obtuseness."

Ron Chimelis, MassLive.com: "Paterno's entire life, spanning his great success and also his breathtaking fall, screams out one message. Coaches are human beings. They do great things. They also make mistakes, sometimes monumental ones."

Jon Solomon, The Birmingham News: "In the end, Joe Paterno was human, not a god. Never did Paterno appear more human than in the final 11 weeks of his 85-year-old life. Long placed on a pedestal as all that's right about college sports, Paterno's image became that of a man who failed 10 years ago when faced with his biggest moral test."

Dave D'Alessandro, Star-Ledger: "Nobody wanted it to end like this, of course -- not this soon, not with the memory of an abject human failure, of an apparent moral cowardice, still so fresh... But they also need to recognize that he became so enamored of his own mythology that he somehow failed a basic test of human decency."

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Angelina Jolie was the golden girl at the 2012 Producers Guild Awards on Saturday night. She not only looked dazzling in her glamorous black Michael Kors gown, she was the recipient of the night's prestigious Stanley Kramer Award for her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey.

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When President John F. Kennedy announced in 1961 that America was committed to "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the decade, winning the race became the paramount objective of the national space program.

But UC San Diego nuclear chemist James R. Arnold played a crucial role in drawing official attention to another goal: preserving and studying the soil and rock samples that Apollo astronauts would bring back with them.

Arnold, 88, who died Jan. 6 in La Jolla from complications of Alzheimer's disease, was a member of a group of four scientists ? dubbed the Four Horsemen by colleagues ? who sounded the alarms that led NASA to establish a program for analyzing what proved to be a treasure trove for lunar research.

Along with fellow scientists Paul Gast, Bob Walker and Gerald Wasserburg, Arnold recognized that the moon rocks were "not just souvenirs but the subject of important scientific investigation," Wasserburg, a Caltech emeritus professor of geology and geophysics, said last week. "He was a sound and resolute fighter on behalf of doing science."

The precious specimens ? more than 800 pounds were retrieved between 1969 and 1973 ? yielded clues to many of science's most important questions, including the age and composition of Earth's closest celestial neighbor and the history of the sun.

"They are a major source of information about how things happen in the solar system," said Caltech geochemistry professor Donald S. Burnett, who was also involved in the early efforts to safeguard the moon rocks. He said the efforts of Arnold and his colleagues more than 40 years ago have left a rich legacy, including the discovery of water in moon rocks in 2008.

"Every few years some breakthrough is possible because these rocks are available to science," Burnett said.

For Arnold, who grew up on the science fiction of Jules Verne and idolized Buck Rogers, unlocking the secrets within the lunar materials was essential.

The problems they could solve, he told The Times in 1989, include "how to understand why our solar system got here, and ultimately perhaps whether our sun and planets are typical of the stars we see at night, or whether we are rare, or whether we are alone."

The son of a lawyer and archaeologist, Arnold was born in Metuchen, N.J., on May 5, 1923. At 16, he entered Princeton University, where he earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in chemistry. His 1946 doctorate was awarded for his work on the Manhattan Project, the military program that produced the atomic bomb and stirred the fears of nuclear fallout that led him to join the Union of Concerned Scientists.

After earning his doctorate, he helped University of Chicago chemist Willard Libby develop radiocarbon dating in 1949. The process, which enabled archaeologists and paleontologists to estimate the age of long-dead specimens, later earned Libby a Nobel Prize.

In 1955, Arnold joined the faculty at Princeton, where he expanded his investigations into the effects on meteorites of cosmic rays, the high-energy particles that speed through space. His work produced a method for recording the age of rocks, which helped scientists understand "how long a meteorite has been a rock in space and where it might have come from," Arnold once explained.

His research on cosmic rays drew him to the young UC San Diego, where he founded the chemistry department in 1960. He became a consultant to NASA, which in 1970 gave him its top medal for "exceptional scientific achievement." In 1980, two colleagues named an asteroid after him, after he created a computer model describing how meteorites traverse the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

He held UC San Diego's Harold Urey Chair in chemistry from 1983 until his retirement in 1993.

In Arnold's last decades, he advocated the colonization of space.

It was, Wasserburg said, "an obsession he had. We would fight about it. I thought it was nonsense. But he pressed hard to search for water on the moon, which was a cause for subsequent NASA missions. They found some water. He always worried that you have to have water if you go there."

Arnold's survivors include his wife, Louise, and three sons.

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ANKARA, Turkey ? A cargo ship brushed against two anchored vessels during severe weather off the coast of Istanbul on Friday and was left tilted to one side and taking on water, officials said.

A senior maritime official said the disabled ship is not in danger of sinking, but most of its crew members were evacuated.

The cargo ship's struggle comes during a time of heightened attention on ship safety following last week's grounding of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off Italy's coast, an accident that killed 11 people and left 21 missing. Also Friday, a freighter ran aground off a Dutch beach.

In the Istanbul area, the Sierra Leone-flagged Kayan-1, an 86-meter (282-feet) freighter carrying empty containers, tilted on its right side after drifting and colliding with the two anchored freighters in strong winds.

"It cannot sink," Salih Orakci, head of the General Directorate of Coastal Safety, told reporters. "But we are not able to intervene fully because of the weather conditions."

Orakci said the only apparent option at the moment was to pull the ship aground, if the captain approves. "But if the weather improves, we may have other options," he added.

Three captains of the ship remained aboard to steer the ship, which is pumping out the water, authorities said. Ten other crew members were evacuated. Five maritime officials boarded the Kayan-1 to assess the situation, then left the vessel.

The ship was trying to moor due to the severe weather when it got dragged and brushed against two other cargo ships: the Netherlands-flagged Slochterdiep and Tanzania-flagged Adria Blu. The Kayan-1 came to a halt near the shore at a depth of 9-meter (30-feet), Coastal Safety said on its website.

Authorities have canceled several scheduled ferry trips in the Sea of Marmara and in the Bosporus, the narrow waterway that bisects Istanbul, due to strong winds and high seas.

Separately Friday, a Philippine-registered freighter ran aground off a Dutch beach after its anchor slipped in an overnight storm.

The 500-foot (155-meter) Aztec Maiden was carrying no cargo when it drifted onto sand off the North Sea coastal town of Wijk aan Zee, 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of Amsterdam, the Dutch Coast Guard said.

The 21 crew members stayed on the ship. Tug boats will attempt to pull the vessel free at high tide around 1 p.m. (1200 GMT).

Spokesman Peter Verburg told national broadcaster NOS that the Coast Guard was closely monitoring the ship for any fuel leaks.

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Associated Press Writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed.

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By Athima Chansanchai

Just how much do you trust your spouse or partner? Enough to share passwords? For some, passwords are the final frontier of privacy not only in financial matters, but in social media and email correspondence. But for others, there are no secrets when you're in a relationship?? even risking the potential payback should a break-up sever the happy union.

The New York Times tells us about an "intimate custom" writer Matt Ritchel says is happening between teens in love: "sharing their passwords to email,?Facebook?and other accounts." The desire to be one even extends, the article claims, to couples creating identical passwords and letting each other read private emails and texts.?

For some, it takes a court order to share so much.

But for others, it's imperative to know each other's passwords as part of an open, healthy and fully functioning relationship. Sometimes this comes after a loss of trust, as when one partner has cheated on the other. On the Surviving Infidelity website, where more than 34,000 members have exchanged stories of betrayal and support one another in the forums, there is a saying that becomes a mantra for many of them: "Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing." To that end, nothing is private anymore in order to facilitate healing for the offended party.?

In this philosophy, those who have been unfaithful should share (or make open and available) not only passwords to their email accounts and Facebook, but also the contents of their text messages, phone logs, work and travel itineraries "without qualms."

Many in those forums mention how finding secret Facebook and email correspondences led to the big reveal of infidelity in their marriages and relationships, and we've seen surveys that attribute at least some fault in Facebook, though an informal poll we took at the end of year showed that nearly half of the 876 votes attributed the demise of their marriages with other factors. But 34 percent did blame Facebook.

Some of the teens in the New York Times article who opened themselves up were dealt a nasty lesson in human nature when their not-so-better halves decided to use the passwords in retaliation for perceived wrongs. The Times listed some examples:

The stories of fallout include a spurned boyfriend in junior high who tries to humiliate his ex-girlfriend by spreading her e-mail secrets; tensions between significant others over scouring each other?s private messages for clues of disloyalty or infidelity; or grabbing a cellphone from a former best friend, unlocking it with a password and sending threatening texts to someone else.

Take our poll and let us know if couples should share passwords.

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>>> on the campaign trail, the extraordinary battle over mitt romney 's tenure of the private equity firm bain capital continues. ron mott is with us from columbia, south carolina , tonight. good evening.

>> reporter: hey, brian, good evening to you. political push came to shove today here in south carolina about what many considered to be mitt romney 's achilles' heel, whether he put profits ahead of people when he ran a powerful capital venture firm. the sniping as ceo of bain capital .

>> when mitt romney came to town.

>> reporter: dramatized in a 27-minute documentary and tv ads, as well as by two opponents, sparked an intense fire fight within the republican party , with one candidate effectively declaring a cease-fire, while another stays on the offensive against the front-runner.

>> are you attacking bain or asking questions?

>> i'm asking questions. i'm shocked how defensive they are.

>> reporter: today former speaker newt gingrich didn't retreat, expressing surprise at the criticism aimed at him for questioning one of his party's position pro-capitalism.

>> there is counterpressure among the elite about raising questions. the american people have the right to know, and people who run for high office have an obligation to be transparent.

>> the vulture capitalists.

>> reporter: texas governor rick perry who designed bain as vulture capitalists dropped the term from his speeches.

>> free market capitalism in the state of texas has created over a million jobs. we understand how capitalism needs to work.

>> reporter: as the race moved to south carolina this week, whispers about romney's business past became full-blown attacks.

>> newt and perry blew it.

>> reporter: prompting prominent conservative voices from rush limbaugh to donors to push back hard.

>> i think any time a job is lost is a tragedy, for the family, for the individual that loses the job it's devastating.

>> reporter: jon huntsman and rick santorum were critical about dismissals about bain . huntsman went a step further with romney's pink slip comment.

>> when you have a candidate who talks about his enjoyment of firing people. who talks about pink slips . makes comments that seem to be so detached from the problems that americans are facing today, that makes you pretty much unelectable.

>> reporter: when confronted today by radio talk show host laura engram, rick perry said if this is a fatal flaw it's better to talk about it in january when he is the candidate than in september when he could be the nominee against president obama .

>> ron mott in south carolina ,

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For the first time, the polio virus has disappeared from the country for 12 months, but it could still be re-imported from neighboring nations that continue to fight the devastating disease

By Helen Branswell ?| January 9, 2012

A boy in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, shows his finger, painted to indicate he has just been vaccinated. Financial support for work that included this photograph came from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Image: Helen Branswell

In the mid-2000s, when scientists questioned whether the campaign to rid the world of polio could succeed, skeptics pointed to a problem that some called PAIN.

That stood for Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria?the four countries that were stubbornly standing in the way of success. The four had never managed to stop the spread of polioviruses within their borders and continued to send viruses, like embers off a fire, to re-ignite outbreaks in places that had previously halted transmission.

Now it appears someone's going to need to craft a new mnemonic.

India, which once seemed likely to be the last country on Earth to rid itself of polio, appears to have succeeded ahead of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria in besting the crippling viruses. The last child paralyzed by polio in India got sick on January 13, 2011, and surveillance for wild polioviruses in sewage has not turned up the pathogen in more than a year.

If India produces 12 straight months of polio-free surveillance data, it will be removed from the list of countries where polio is considered endemic, leaving only the other three. A statement hailing that likely eventuality will be issued by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on the one-year anniversary of the last case later this week. But with the time it takes to process pending laboratory tests, it may be mid-February before there is official word.

Still, there is the sense that India is on the threshold of a momentous achievement, one gained against tremendous odds.

"This is huge for us. It has taken more than a decade and tens of millions of health-workers, managers and a lot of mobilization to get to this point," says Hamid Jafari, project manager for the World Health Organization's National Polio Surveillance Project, based in New Delhi.

After more than a decade battling the virus, and heartbreaking years of seeing the numbers of paralytic cases dip tantalizingly low, only to rebound, some scientists doubted polio could be stopped in India. It was commonly observed that the eradication program had two distinct problems: In Nigeria, where some Muslim parents refused to vaccinate their kids on religious grounds, and in conflict-torn countries like Afghanistan, where safe access is a challenge, the programs were failing to vaccinate all children. In India, however, the failure was on the part of the vaccine.

Where children are well nourished and healthy, three doses of oral polio vaccine will do the trick. But malnourished children who live where sanitation is poor and diarrhea is a fact of daily life cannot mount a protective immune response so easily. In India children who had been vaccinated eight, 10 or more times would sometimes still fall prey to polio.

New vaccines that targeted first one and later two strains of polio, rather than all three, were introduced and began to make real inroads. But the country still faced enormous challenges. In India locating and vaccinating all the vulnerable children is a gargantuan task. In the two poor northern states where polio made its last stand?Uttar Pradesh and Bihar?more than half a million babies are born every month. On the twice-annual national vaccination days, 2.3 million vaccinators visit 209 million households.

"We have to get to these children, these newborns, with vaccine faster than the wild virus can get to them. It's a race against virus," Jafari explains.

In addition to introducing more effective vaccine, India got better at finding high-risk children, homing in on families that move about the country looking for seasonal work. Transit points?train stations, bus depots, busy highway intersections?are used as distribution centers during vaccination campaigns. And special efforts are made to locate and map where migrant families set up camps, to ensure their children are not missed when vaccination teams make their rounds.
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By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez had her thyroid gland removed amid fears of thyroid cancer. A detailed look at the tissues of her thyroid gland has shown no cancer authorities said Saturday.

The government announced late last December that the country's newly re-elected president had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer ?on the right lobe of the thyroid gland? during a routine medical examination. Fernandez, who underwent the surgery at the Hospital Austral in Pilar on Wednesday, had left the hospital accompanied by her family. She is recovering at the presidential residence in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the capital.

Presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said, ?Tissue studies ruled out the presence of cancerous cells in the thyroid, thus modifying the initial diagnosis? Scoccimarro said the postoperative tests showed the cells in question were ?adenoma?, not ?carcinoma?. Fernandez doesn?t even have to swallow the radioactive iodine that patients usually take after thyroid cancer surgery, to make sure any remaining cancer cells are killed, her spokesman said. But she will have to take hormone medicine for the rest of her life.

Vice President and former Economy Minister Amado Boudou would run the country during Fernandez's 20-day medical leave, the spokesman said. Hundreds of supporters of the 59-year-old leader had camped near the hospital, carrying banners and praying until she was flown home.

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January 9, 2012

Carpenters’ union hammer for Haiti

Members of Ontario?s carpenters? union with their Habitat for Humanity crew in Leogane, Haiti during a recent home building initiative.

Carpenters? union hammer for Haiti

KELLY LAPOINTE

staff writer

A trip to Haiti to build houses turned into a life changing adventure for four carpenters from Ontario?s carpenters? union.

Mike Yorke, Carlos Pimentel, Ucal Powell and Carmelo Castiglione travelled to Leogane, Haiti to work on houses for Habitat for Humanity with the Jimmy Carter Foundation. The initiative was in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity.

The crew built 12 feet by 12 feet houses made of wood, stucco and corrugated tin roofs during their one week stay in November.

?We were shocked at the level of devastation and need even 18 months after the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010,? said Powell, Executive Secretary Treasurer of the Carpenters? District Council of Ontario (CDCO). ?The country was in great need even before the earthquake and that has just made matters worse.?

This was not the first time the carpenters helped in such a situation; they were in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina as well.

The Leogane ground breaking ceremony was held on Sept. 15, 2011, with 140 foundations already on the ground. The community?s master plan includes two schools, a community sports center and a public marketplace, which still requires construction funding and the projects are expected to be rolled out by the end of 2012. The carpenters hope they can help with a trade school component to the secondary school.

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An example of the many 12 foot by 12 foot structures built in Haiti which will house residents.

A young man nicknamed Jimmy was on the carpenters? crew. They took him under their wing and taught him the tricks of the trade as they built the badly needed houses.

Toolboxes and hand tools were donated by Stanley and power tools such as drills were donated by Dewalt. The carpenters then gave some of these tools to Jimmy. By the end of the project, he was able to build small furniture, like stools, to furnish the newly built houses which could house up to about eight people in some instances.

The carpenters are already anxious to see how Jimmy will progress by next fall when they plan to return for another build.

?We left him with more than a house,? said Castiglione, member of carpenters Local 1030.

The Ontario carpenters worked on a crew with the people who were going to live in the houses paying their ?sweat equity? and with volunteers from all over the world. Each volunteer raises $5,000 to be able to build with Habitat.

One of the best parts of the experience for the carpenters was getting to know the people who would be living in the houses and hearing their stories. They worked in the sweltering heat, but ?it wasn?t onerous, it felt great,? said Pimentel, Director of Organizing with the CDCO. ?We worked hard, but met good people.?

The carpenters not only helped build four houses they also loaned their superior tools to other crews and taught them how to make better use of them.

Yorke, President of Carpenters and Allied Workers Local 27, said he was shocked at the amount of manpower it took to host the volunteers. An Irish charity, Haven, provided all the food for the Habitat workers.

The carpenters met former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, whom Yorke described as ?extremely down to earth? while they met and thanked the volunteers for their hard work.

As the carpenters travelled through Haiti, they were struck by the divide between the rich and the poor. There are still thousands of people living in tent cities that are little more than tarps on corrugated metal. Children wandered the street barefoot.

Though just a week, the experience changed them all forever, in even the simplest ways. Pimentel recalled the first time his wife came home with bags and bags of groceries.

?I just thought of how many Haitians that could feed,? he said.

Yorke thinks there is hope for the devastated country.

?Through more developments, there is a real opportunity that Haiti can be set on a better path,? said Yorke, pointing to the Canadian Construction Association?s efforts to rebuild the Haitian trade school Ecole Lakay in Le Soleil, Haiti.

?The construction [industry] can play a real leadership role in Haiti.?

The first 150 homes were finished by the end of November and the first residents moved in just before Christmas. The Carter Work Project is already scheduled to return to Haiti in 2012, and the carpenters hope to be there too.

?We are committed to more support for the people of Haiti and to that end; we look to support the development of a trade school component as part of the secondary school already planned as part of the Santo Community project,? said Powell.

Yorke said they will continue to teach and make people care. They hope more people from the construction industry join them next fall.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? HBO fired a shot across Netflix's bow this week, confirming it will no longer sell discounted DVDs of hit shows like "Boardwalk Empire" to the subscription video service.

The move by Time Warner Inc.'s pay TV channel is more antagonistic than damaging. Netflix Inc. can maintain its mail-order movie rental offerings by buying HBO discs from other sources ? even retail stores. "Netflix will continue to provide HBO programming on DVD and Blu-ray discs for our members," spokesman Steve Swasey said in a statement.

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"We believe in exclusivity," HBO spokesman Jeff Cusson said.

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The Starz pay TV channel, which carries movies from Sony and The Walt Disney Co., has said it will pull its movies from Netflix's streaming plan in March. That move is the result of a fee dispute between the companies.

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HOUSTON ? Hundreds of seniors at a southeast Houston high school were caught cheating on a final exam last month, said Clear Creek Independent School District officials.

Teachers and administrators at Clear Lake High School grew suspicious when about a third of the seniors had the same answers on an English exam taken before winter break.

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"We believe about 200 students engaged in cheating on the final exam for the English 4 test," said Elaina Polsen, director of communication for Clear Creek ISD.

The school district gave all 600 seniors two options: take the test again or have their semester grade calculated without the final exam in it.

"We are certainly not brushing this under the rug," said Polsen. "We are looking at our internal processes and making improvements where we need to to make sure this does not happen again."

Lisa Maxwell-Malik, whose son is a senior at Clear Lake, said: "That's pretty bad. It's disappointing."

Maxwell-Malik said officials from the school district called and emailed about the two options.

"I was a little disappointed that students would cheat, but also that they would wait until the day before school started to let the kids know they're going to have to repeat the test," she said. "They're going to have to study and take something when they thought they were down with [it] the first semester."

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Alena Baker is a junior at Clear Lake but is graduating early. She said she heard rumors about the cheating during finals week.

Alena didn't take the test but says the lesson is simple.

"Just do the right thing, because you don't want to have to be the one that made everyone retake the test," she said.

Disciplinary action against individuals who were caught cheating has not been determined because of the large number of students involved, said district officials.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Navy head women's basketball coach Stefanie Pemper and men's basketball senior guard Ted Connolly will appear on this week's edition of the Navy Sports Magazine Show. Pemper will lead the women's team (7-7) into its Patriot League opener at Lafayette Saturday at 3 pm. Connolly and the men's team (3-11) will host Lafayette in Alumni Hall on Saturday at 7 pm.

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