A Sampling of Clips for October 28^th, 2009

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Swine Flu: Heavy at Some Hospitals, Mild at Others
ABC News, Oct. 28 -- While most every hospital in the United States has made some provisions for a possible swine flu crisis, not all seem to be experiencing the surge of patients for which their emergency departments and intensive care units have prepared. While most every hospital in the United States has made some provisions for a possible swine flu crisis, not all seem to be experiencing the surge of patients for which their emergency departments and intensive care units have prepared. (Quotes Dr. Jake Jacoby, hospital director for emergency preparedness and response at UCSD) More

US, N. Korean Officials join in Unofficial Talks
Associated Press, Oct. 27 -- U.S. and North Korean officials in San Diego have wrapped up unofficial talks with other northeast Asian countries about regional security, but no major breakthroughs are expected. Susan Shirk a founder of the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, said Tuesday the two-day meeting was designed to be "frank but friendly" and was not preparation for a resumption of official multilateral talks. (Shirk is director of the UC system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science at UCSD) More

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Vanishing Pointe: Where are All the Great Female Choreographers?
Guardian (U.K.), Oct. 27 -- Dance has always been seen as the one art form where women weren't just more visible than men, but were also in charge. From the pioneering contemporary choreographer Martha Graham, to the Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois, to the late, great Pina Bausch, the list of female names who have been pivotal to the profession is as impressive as it is long. Yet last week, Britain's leading dance festival, Dance Umbrella, joined forces with the pressure group Dance UK to host a sell-out debate that was titled, starkly, Where Are All the Women? (Mentions UCSD professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance Yolande Snaith) More

SDG&E Gets $28.1M Federal Grant for Smart Grid Innovations
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 27 -- The Department of Energy has released a list of utilities that are getting federal grants to spur energy innovations under the $787 billion economic stimulus package, and San Diego Gas & Electric is getting $28.1 million to help build out its “smart grid” system. (Mentions UCSD) More

UCSD Ranks 6th Largest Fed Research $$ Recipient – Again
North County Times, Oct. 28 -- As universities go, the House that Roger Revelle built is a puppy, founded just four decades ago. But it’s one of the top dogs in pulling in federal research dollars. And according to the National Science Foundation, UCSD has once again ranked 6th nationwide. UCSD got $491 million in federal R&D money and spent a total of $842 million in total R&D activities for fiscal year 2008. More

The Case Against a High Household Base Fee
Voice of San Diego, Oct. 28 -- Several readers have raised issues both pro and con concerning San Diego’s base water fee for households. It is good to get a few facts on the table. San Diego’s water rates table shows a base fee of $35.18 bi-monthly or $17.59 per month. For a household using roughly 150 gallons of water a day, which is substantially more than many two-person households living in an apartment or condo would use, their water bill in San Diego would be $17.87 for the water used plus $17.59 for the base fee which is $35.46. Thus roughly half of the water bill is for the fixed base fee. For a single person living alone, the base fee can easily be 75 percent of the water bill. (Written by Richard Carson, economics professor at UCSD) More

UCSD Hosts 1,000 for All-Campus Family Weekend
La Jolla Light, Oct. 28 -- More than 1,000 parents, grandparents and other family members showed up over the weekend for UCSD's second All-Campus Family Weekend. They had a chance to visit the campus, see its new housing, music hall, landmarks, works of art, new transfer housing and music hall, and sustainability projects. "This is a new tradition for the campus," said Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. "And we hope it will be a new tradition for your family as well." More

Creative Time Revolutionizes the Sleepy Conference
Artinfo, Oct. 13 -- “In this country, when you’re critical of the government from the right, you get a mainstream TV show,” artist and activist Dara Greenwald declared on Saturday at “Revolutions in Public Practice,” the first ever summit organized by New York arts nonprofit Creative Time. She didn’t finish the thought, but the multigenerational crowd of academics, activists, and artists that had gathered at the New York Public Library to hear many of their most distinguished colleagues speak could probably fill in the rest.  (Mentions UCSD visual arts professor Teddy Cruz who attended the summit and participated in the panel on “Crisscrossing Geo-Political Boundaries”) More

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