| Mexico's consul general in St. Paul being reassigned
Nathan Wolf, Mexico's consul general in Minnesota, will be leaving in the coming weeks, a Consulate of Mexico official said today. Wolf, who has been consul general since the consulate opened in St. Paul in June 2005, is being reassigned to the secretary of foreign relations in Mexico City. Wolf, 39, has worked for the Mexican Foreign Service since 1992 and has held many positions abroad including Mexican embassies in Uruguay and Washington, D.C. The consulate in Minnesota is one of about four dozen that Mexico maintains in the United States. The consulate at 797 E. 7th St. in St. Paul, serves Minnesota, South and North Dakota, as well as parts of northern Wisconsin. It issues passports and a vital identification card called a matricula consular.
Netropa Features NAVTEQ TRAFFIC PATTERNS(TM) in New PND
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT) , a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, announced today from the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show that Netropa, a manufacturer of location devices, will power its latest Intellinav models with both NAVTEQ(R) maps and NAVTEQ TRAFFIC PATTERNS. The new addition to the Intellinav line is the first PND to utilize NAVTEQ TRAFFIC PATTERNS, a rich database of historic traffic information. Intellinav 3's functionality is enhanced through the inclusion of NAVTEQ TRAFFIC PATTERNS, which enables a device to provide more accurate arrival time estimates and alternate route options that avoid areas with the highest typical congestion. Georeferenced to NAVTEQ's powerful map database through Traffic Message Channel (TMC) location codes, NAVTEQ TRAFFIC PATTERNS utilizes historic speed data collected on highways and surface roads across the 48 contiguous United States.
Stem Cells May Gradually Replace Antirejection Drugs For Kidney ...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2008) After a transplant surgery, anti-rejection drugs for the organ recipient are a must, but with prolonged use can have serious side effects, including infections, heart disease and cancer. A team led by Joshua Miller, MD, a researcher at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, is working with Northwestern Memorial Hospital's department of organ transplantation to enroll qualifying subjects in a new research study that seeks to transplant stem cells from a kidney donor's bone marrow into the recipient, with the hope of gradually eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. If research proves successful, it would mean a dramatic change in the post-transplant quality of life for the transplant recipient. .
The Chronicle Local News Blog
Sometimes it's edifying, enlightening, even fun to put local issues into a global context. It may be a small world after all, but things aren't necessarily the same all around the world. Consider, for instance, the hoo-hah raised by North Bay residents over the proposal to levy a $1 to $2 congestion-based toll on Doyle Drive, the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. The toll would secure a federal grant for Doyle Drive and provide enough funding to get the unsafe, 70-year-old structure replaced. Highway robbery, cry the folks from the North Bay, especially affluent Marin County. Good thing they don't live outside London, which charges a congestion charge or cordon toll, essentially an entry fee, for vehicles driving into the city's central business district.
In the land of the Iron Chef
It is the world's most temperamental substance. Without the glutinous binding properties of wheat, the dough becomes so prone to shredding that learning how to make it takes a staggering three years of training after which one attains the status of "soba master." That's what chef Matsamura did. But then his soba-dough-rolling expertise is only one example of the fetishistic, borderline maniacal culinary philosophy at Kikouchitei. After all, this is a chef who insists on grinding his own buckwheat flour with his own granite millstone. A millstone that sits behind glass like some monument in the middle of the restaurant. His noodles supple, faintly grainy and cottony soft are served Zaru-style. This means they are dipped into a broth that is its own mixture of absurdly rarefied ingredients, including a Japanese sugar that costs $250 a kilogram, rice vinegar aged for more than 2 1/2 years, and donko, the most expensive dried shiitake mushroom on the planet.
Colour your house
The colours you see when you walk into your neighbourhood paint store are selected months – if not years – in advance, says Sharon Grech, who is Benjamin Moore's colour and design manager for central Canada. And their selection is not a random event, but is backed by entire organizations devoted to determining what colours will fit in with current trends. Grech represents her paint company at the Color Marketing Group, an international association of more than 400 disparate members who have been gathering twice yearly since the 1960s to exchange information and predict what is going to colour our world in the coming months. The colours discussed at its most recent meeting in December will likely start appearing in 2010, she notes. "Pretty much everything that has colour is represented, from paints to shoes and cars," Grech says.
Nothing poetic: Paxson a bust
How perfect. John Paxson's middle name is MacBeth, which fits right in with the ongoing local basketball tragedy. Everywhere we look in the NBA, there is thick and palpable drama, with trade after crackling trade energizing a league that only months ago was dragged down by a referee's point-shaving episodes, an unwatchable Finals and the touchy-feely scandals of the New York Knicks. ``We're awful pleased about the state of our game,'' raves David Stern, a proud commissioner. .
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