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RI man pleads not guilty to Fall River murder, firearm charges
FALL RIVER — An East Providence, R.I., man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and firearm charges stemming from the fatal Jan. 5 shooting of David Rodriguez outside the Ship's Cove apartment building.
William Tate, 34, was ordered held without bail following his arraignment in Fall River Superior Court. He is scheduled to return to court on March 6 for a pretrial conference.
On Jan. 31, a Bristol County grand jury indicted Tate on one count of murder, carrying an illegal firearm and carrying a loaded illegal firearm.
According to police interviews with multiple witnesses, including relatives of Tate and Rodriguez, the fatal weekend encounter stemmed from Rodriguez, 26, being upset that Tate was trying to start a relationship with his younger sister. Tate had also dated Rodriguez's current girlfriend, and Rodriguez may have believed Tate was also trying to rekindle that relationship, according to witness statements.
Meanwhile, Tate told his relatives that Rodriguez had threatened him. Tate told them that he was in his vehicle, outside the Ship's Cove apartments, when Rodriguez came running out of the building toward him. Tate said he believed he had been set up since Rodriguez's sister had just texted him to say that she would meet him outside, according to court documents.
A few minutes before the fatal shooting, the Ship's Cove's video surveillance system shows Rodriguez arguing with a man, identified as Tate, inside the building's first-floor laundry room. Both men were within inches of each other's faces, and were having a "heated" conversation, according to police reports.
At least five witnesses said they heard two to four gunshots, but none allegedly saw Tate squeeze the trigger. The murder weapon has not been recovered. Tate told a Rhode Island State Police trooper that he threw the gun off the Braga Bridge while he was driving home from Fall River, according to court documents.
Police said that when Tate learned he was being charged with murder, he responded, "He died?" Tate, according to police, then said, "I'm such an idiot" and "I just lost my life."
Fall River police detectives identified Tate as a possible suspect because Ship's Cove's video surveillance system has a license plate reader that recorded the suspect vehicle's plate. The black Chevy Impala was registered to Tate's mother in Pawtucket, R.I., according to court documents.
Tate's driver's license photo matched the description of the man who was seen arguing with Rodriguez in the surveillance video, as well as the man who drove away from the scene moments after Rodriguez was shot. Relatives of Tate and Rodriguez also identified Tate as the man in the surveillance footage, according to police reports.
On Wednesday, Tate's attorney, Jack M. Atwood, filed motions seeking funds to hire a private investigator and experts to examine the cellphones belonging to Tate and the victim's sister. A judge approved those motions, but took no action on a defense request for $2,500 to hire an audio-video expert to analyze the Ship's Cove security camera footage.
Tate has been held without bail since his Jan. 7 arraignment in Fall River District Court.


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Southwest Louisiana over the next two or three years is scheduled to become home for one of the most thriving industrial complexes in the country. Unfortunately, there is some question about whether the citizens who live in this state will be able to take full advantage of the thousands of job opportunities opening up at the half-dozen or more billion-dollar economic development projects that have been announced for this corner of the state.
How, for example, does the state supply just the 500 or more engineers who it is estimated will be needed to staff these gigantic projects? And are our community and technical colleges going to be able to train the thousands of workers needed to fill the technological positions?
Political leaders won't admit it, but the higher education our people will need to qualify for those jobs has been crippled since 2008 because of continuing state budget cuts. You knew things were going from bad to worse when some members of the state Board of Regents last week told higher education leaders to quit complaining. And regents are supposed to be looking out for higher education's best interests.
Jim Purcell, state commissioner of higher education, ran into a brick wall when he asked regents to lobby the Legislature for more support for public colleges.
"We need you to help us," Purcell said. "A lot of states are coming out of the recession and starting to reinvest in higher education. We are not one of those."
Consider what has happened at McNeese State University and Sowela Technical and Community College. They are the two local institutions that will be charged with training many of those citizens who would like to become future employees at those billion-dollar facilities.
McNeese's budget has been cut from $43 to $22 million over the last five years, a 49 percent reduction. Sowela's budget was $7.9 million in 2008 and that was down to $5.6 million five years later, a 29 percent cut.
Yes, institutions have been allowed to increase tuition, but the added funds don't come close to closing the gap. Louisiana's other higher education institutions are facing identical funding problems, and they could help train workers for those local jobs.
Former Govs. Mike Foster and Kathleen Blanco had higher education at the top of their agendas. By 2008, Louisiana had reached the Southern Regional Education Board average in funding for higher education. Since then, there has been a steady decline in state funding and a net loss of $300 million in state funds.
Obviously, that doesn't bother some members of the Board of Regents. Joseph Wiley of Gonzales, vice chairman of the board, told Purcell after his plea for lobbying help that regents needed to come up with a new strategy other than complaining about budget cuts before legislators start tuning them out. He said individual college systems needed to do their own lobbying.
"We really need to get off what's happened in the last four years," Wiley said.
Playing as though everything is right with the world isn't exactly the way to solve problems. You have to wonder whether some regents have forgotten how important higher education is to equipping young people for productive lives. A recent study, "College Funding in Context: Understanding the Difference in Higher Education Appropriations Across the States," explains it well in its opening paragraph.
"Access to a post-secondary education is a vital aspect of the American dream, allowing for equality of opportunity and a stable pathway to the middle class for all who are willing to work for it regardless of their background and socioeconomic status," the study said. "Higher education not only improves the prospects for the employment and earnings of individuals, but has benefits that feed back into communities and society as a whole…"
The technological age is the future, and it has pretty much passed Louisiana by. The funding study found the state ranks behind the rest of the country in terms of research and development and technological jobs that are so crucial to economic growth. Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Legislature have made some improvements in higher education. They passed the GRAD Act that makes performance rather than student population the criteria by which colleges and universities are evaluated. However, the cost of going to college has shifted from being a major state responsibility to parents and students who pay most of the costs through higher tuition.
The funding study mentioned earlier was done by researchers from Demos, a national, non-partisan public policy center located in New York City. It makes the point that state appropriations have historically been the most important source of funding for higher education, but state support has declined over the last two decades.
Those of us who have been around a long time remember when Southwest Louisiana failed to become the state's oil business center during the last century. Lafayette seized the opportunity, and that is a major reason it has enjoyed major economic success.
Are we going to again not take full advantage of an economic bonanza because we couldn't train our citizens to fill the jobs so they can benefit from the growth coming here over the next two years? You can be sure welleducated citizens from other states are waiting in the wings.
Jim Beam, the retired editor of the Lake Charles American Press, has covered people and politics for more than five decades. Contact him at 337-494-4025 or [email protected].


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Justin Verlander has core muscle repair surgery
DETROIT — Tigers ace Justin Verlander underwent muscle repair surgery Thursday after injuring himself last month during offseason conditioning.
Dr. Bill Meyers in Philadelphia performed the operation on Verlander, who is expected to need six weeks of rehab before being evaluated again. The first workout for Detroit's pitchers and catchers at spring training is scheduled for Feb. 14. The first spring training game is Feb. 25 against Florida Southern College.
"We fully anticipate Justin to participate in spring training and be in a position to compete at the beginning of the 2014 season," general manager Dave Dombrowski said in a statement.
The team did not identify the "core muscle" that was repaired, but called the surgery successful. Verlander turns 31 on Feb. 20.
The Tigers said Verlander hurt himself at the end of December. There was also a message posted on Verlander's Twitter account:
"Thanks for the support regarding my surgery today," it said. "It went well and now my only focus is to get ready for 2014! #determined"
Verlander went 13-12 last year with a 3.46 ERA for the AL Central champions. He has been Detoit's opening day starter for the last six seasons, the longest active streak by any player with one team, according to STATS. If Verlander isn't at full strength for Detroit's regular-season opener against Kansas City on March 31, the Tigers do have Max Scherzer, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner.
One of Verlander's biggest assets is his durability. The right-hander has thrown at least 200 innings in seven consecutive seasons.
Verlander's surgery was performed by the same doctor who operated on Detroit teammate Miguel Cabrera after the slugger was limited down the stretch last season by a tear in his groin.
Two years ago, the Tigers lost designated hitter Victor Martinez for the entire 2012 season after an offseason injury. Martinez hurt his knee.
Verlander's injury does not appear to be nearly as serious, but the Tigers now enter the 2014 season with two of their biggest stars coming off surgery.


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Tamara Fox goes to extremes for her cats that she wouldn't dream of for even her best friend.
"I clean their butts when necessary," she says of 10-year-old Emma, a lilac-point Siamese mix, and 15-year-old Brianne, a chocolate seal-point Himalayan. "I wouldn't do that for anyone else."
Dena Harris of Madison, N.C., endures a daily slapping around by her 8-year-old cat, Olivia, who taps her on the shoulder early each morning until she gets up and feeds her.
And Cecile Moore put up with acts of extortion from her cat Henry who regularly sat on the top of the bureau of her Athens, Ga., home and scooted a bottle of perfume toward the edge until she got out of bed.
While we'd never tolerate that behavior from a house guest — or even our own kids — we take it from cats, along with their extreme independence and their refusal to show affection except on their own terms and frequent shedding. Our relationship is based on us giving and them taking — kind of like a bad boyfriend. And yet, we adore, feed and house them, and we constantly try to please them in a hopelessly co-dependent kind of way. What does that say about us?
"There's a part of us as human beings that I think is attracted to dominance in other creatures," says psychotherapist Lois Abrams, Ph.D., who practices in Los Alamitos, Calif. "There's a part of us that likes to be controlled."
To be fair, we may not really have a choice. A pair of recent studies point to the persuasively manipulative ways felines have of turning us into putty in their paws.
A study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America makes the case that ages ago cats deliberately and cunningly domesticated themselves and so they could persuade people to give them free food and shelter — sometimes against their owners' better judgment.
"Cats do not perform directed tasks and their actual utility is debatable, even as mousers," wrote the study authors. "Accordingly, there is little reason to believe an early agricultural community would have actively sought out and selected the wildcat as a house pet."
Once in our houses, cats apparently began to train us to give them exactly what they wanted.
A study published this month in Current Biology revealed that today's cats have learned to motivate people to fill their food dishes by combining an urgent cry or meowing sound with the comforting sound of a purr, a noise that's annoying yet endearing and definitely difficult to ignore.
Experienced cat owners have long known that to be true. They've been interpreting their cats' vocalizations for years.
While "feed me" might be the most frequent feline command, cats have a lot more to say and many ways of expressing their demands. Take Willow, who lives with Fran Pennock Shaw of Lancaster, Penn. The 11-year-old gray tabby makes a small chirping sound to indicate that Shaw should pet her. A string of chirping sounds invites play or other intensive attention.
"She makes at least a dozen different sounds that are usually connected to a certain thing she wants me to do," Shaw says. "Combined with her body language, she can communicate to me everything she wants me to do and, of course, I do it."
Shaw says there are lots of reasons she does Willow's bidding. She believes that cats and dogs are intellectually and emotionally stimulated by human attention. And, she asks, why keep cats around if we don't want them to interact or communicate with us? But most importantly, she responds to Willow because she loves her.
"Willow is my baby," Shaw says. "I treated my dog Tuffy the same way. Even my guinea pig got 100 percent of my attention. I wouldn't ignore a child, so how could I ignore a pet?"
Manipulation by meow
Manipulation by meow isn't the only technique cats use to bend us to their will. Susie Q, a 10-year-old tortoiseshell and white Scottish Fold who lives in Toronto with Michelle West, uses her paws to indicate exactly where West should scratch her.
"She waves her paw for the hand she wants me to scratch with," West says. "She waves her left paw in the air to get my right hand to scratch the left side of her neck and the opposite for the other side. If I use the wrong hand, she shakes her head so I stop and waves the proper paw for the proper hand."
West admits that it took her a while to catch on to Susie Q's directions. That's probably because cats have learned that people aren't very good at understanding body language, so they are more likely to communicate vocally rather than with gestures, says veterinarian Sophia Yin, a member of the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior who lives in Davis, Calif. An individual cat may have learned that a particular movement will prompt a person to perform a certain action, Yin says, but they don't usually point with their paws.
So who has better coercion, er, communication skills — cats or dogs? Yin says it's cats, paws down.
"Cats seem to be regularly able to get people to feed them at 5 in the morning when the humans would rather be sleeping, yet have no demands put on them for anything," she says. "Dogs tend to be able to get what they want, too, but humans also have expectations for dogs to behave in certain ways."
Cats are quick studies
Let's face it: Some manipulation is part of any communication system. In evolutionary terms, animals that can use signals to manipulate others have an advantage. Cats are just speeding up the process.
"In the case of cats and humans, cats are learning to do this [on their own] during their lifetimes rather than being selected to do it," says Karen McComb, lead author of the Current Biology study. "I would guess that humans are generally not too bothered about being manipulated."
But Abrams, the California psychotherapist, believes there's a little more to it. She says we're driven by two competing emotions: the desire to nurture a small, dependent animal and the challenge presented by a cat's independence. When we've gained the approval of a cat, she says, it's 100 percent the cat's initiative. Call it the Sally Field syndrome: You like me! You really like me!
Kim Campbell Thornton is an award-winning author who has written many articles and more than a dozen books about dogs and cats. She belongs to the Dog Writers Association of America and is past president of the Cat Writers Association. She shares her home in California with three Cavalier King Charles spaniels and one African ringneck parakeet.


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Clapton and Opal's Doggie Brownies
I made these frequently when I had my competitive training school in Florida. Dogs who were unmotivated by the usual store-bought treats would do anything for a Doggie Brownie! My Doberman and golden retriever never moved from the kitchen when these were baking! Crunchy exterior — moist and chewy interior — perfection.
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1 pound beef liver
1 1/2 cups flour (plus more during mixing)
1 cup cornmeal
1 egg
1/2 cup grated raw carrots or minced apples
1 teaspoon fresh minced garlic
1 teaspoon anise seed or cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Dry liver with paper towel. Cut into chunks and puree it either in a blender or food processor. Set aside.
3. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl, then add pureed liver and rest of ingredients. If the dough is too sticky, knead extra flour into it as needed (flouring your hands first helps to keep the stickiness down to a minimum) so it doesn't stick to your hands. Get it to the point where it isn't wet mush, although it still will be a bit sticky.
4. Place contents of the bowl onto a nonstick cookie sheet and bake for approximately 1 hour in a 350 degree oven. You'll know the brownies are done because they will sound hollow when you tap them!
5. Cut into squares appropriate for your size dog.
Keeps a few days in the refrigerator; I store them in the freezer and defrost as needed.
Canine "Party" Snacks
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At my training school I see 100 dogs a week, and at least once a week someone is bound to forget their training treats. That's why my pantry always is stocked — in 10 minutes I can make an amazing treat that the dogs are wild for. Not mentioning any names, but I've got a few human students who've been caught snacking on these during class, too!
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons granulated chicken or beef bullion (not the cubes)
1 tablespoon garlic powder (or anise seed powder or cumin)
12 ounces oyster crackers
1. In a small saucepan, boil water, then add olive oil, bullion, and garlic powder. Simmer for a few minutes, whisking constantly, then remove from heat. Let cool to room temperature.
2. In a separate, large microwave-safe bowl, add oyster crackers. Gradually add the broth over crackers, mixing well with each addition until all liquid is incorporated into the crackers.
3. Place oyster crackers (in microwave-safe bowl) in microwave on High for 3 minutes
4. Remove from oven, stir.
5. Cook on high for 3 more minutes.
6. Remove from oven and let stand until cool — store these in a sealed container.
A note on the garlic smell: Okay, I admit it — these can really be odiferous, but making your best friend happy doesn't have a price, right? My husband thinks otherwise, so my "please everyone" solution is to put a cup of water in a microwave safe bowl, add powdered cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and heat it up for about a minute on high. The house and microwave smell great, the dogs have their treats, and life is good!
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(Ear Surgery, Cochlear Surgical Implant Procedure)
If a person has severe hearing loss, a cochlear implant may help. A cochlear implant is different from a hearing aid. A hearing aid makes sounds louder. It has the most benefit for a person who has some hearing loss. But a cochlear implant can help a person with very little or no hearing.
A cochlear implant is a small electronic device. It has two parts. One part sits behind the ear. It picks up sounds with a microphone. It then processes the sound and transmits it to the second part of the implant. The second part is put through the skin and implanted in the inner ear during a surgery. A thin wire and small electrodes leads to the cochlea, which is part of the inner ear. The wire sends signals to the auditory nerve. This is the nerve that sends sound impulses to the brain. A cochlear implant helps give a person a sense of sounds. It doesn't restore hearing to normal. But it can help a person understand speech and noises in the environment.
How a cochlear implant can help
How cochlear implants help varies from person to person. Some people can hear many sounds. But some people will have no change in hearing. A person may be able to:
Perceive different sounds, such as footsteps, a door closing, a telephone ringing
Understand speech without lip reading, or be helped with lip reading
Understand voices over the phone
Watch TV
Hear music
Important to know
Before considering a cochlear implant, it's important to understand certain facts. These include:
A cochlear implant requires a period of training and therapy after surgery. During this time, you will learn how to care for the implant. You will also have aural rehabilitation. This will help to improve your use of the implant. The amount of time you need for aural rehab depends on your age and your hearing before surgery.
Cochlear implants do not restore a person's hearing to normal. And in some people, they may not help with hearing at all.
You may lose the rest of your natural hearing in the ear where the implant is placed.
You may need to use new or recharged batteries every day.
You will need to remove the external part of the implant when bathing or swimming
The implant may irritate your skin. In some cases, it may need to be removed.
Static electricity may harm a cochlear implant. You will need to take care around computer and TV screens, synthetic fabrics, carpeting, and other things that make static electricity.
An implant can set off security systems, such as metal detectors. Implants may be affected by cell phones and radio transmitters. They must be turned off during takeoff and landing in an airplane.
You may not be able to have certain medical tests or treatments. These include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and ionic radiation therapy.
The implant can be damaged during an accident or while playing sports. Or, the implant can fail. Repairing the implant or replacing a damaged part may be expensive. In some cases, a new surgery may be needed to replace the implant.
Risks of the procedure
Risks of cochlear implant surgery include:
Infection in the area of the implant
Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
Dizziness or vertigo
Numbness around the ear
Taste disturbances
Leakage of the fluid in the cochlea
Leakage of spinal fluid
Injury to the facial nerve, which can cause movement problems in the face
Infection of the membrane that covers the brain (meningitis)
Chronic inflammation around the implant (reparative granuloma)
Risks of general anesthesia
Need to have the implant removed because of an infection
There may be other risks, depending upon your medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your health care provider before the procedure.
Before the surgery
A cochlear implant is not right for everyone. To find out if an implant is right for you:
You will need to meet with hearing and speech specialists. These may include an audiologist, otologist, and speech-language pathologist.
You will need to meet with a psychologist or other counselor.
You will have hearing tests and physical exams.
You may have imaging tests to look at the structure of your ear. These may include X-rays and MRI. These can help show how well a cochlear implant will work in your ear.
Your health care provider may require other tests or preparation, depending on your medical condition.
During the surgery
Cochlear implant surgery is done in a hospital or clinic. The surgery lasts two to four hours. You may go home the same day. Or you may need to stay in the facility overnight. You are given medication (general anesthesia) to make you sleep during the procedure. The surgeon makes a cut behind the ear to open up the mastoid bone. Then the surgeon makes a small cut in the cochlea. He or she inserts the implant electrodes into the cochlea. The surgeon places an electronic device called the receiver under the skin behind the ear. The incisions are then closed.
After the surgery
About 4 to 6 weeks after the surgery, the external parts of the cochlear implant will be added. These include a microphone and speech processor. This is where the implant is programmed and activated. The external parts work with the internal part of the implant. You will also learn the basics of using and caring for the implant. You may need to return for several visits over a few days for initial adjustments. Further fine-tuning may take place over several months.
Learning to use a cochlear implant is a gradual process. It will likely require visits with speech-language pathologists, audiologists, counselors, and teachers. But with commitment, you can experience an improved quality of life with a cochlear implant.


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Before the reforms of 1991 prised open the doors of Indian journalism (and the minds and wallets of publishers and promoters), "Gulf" was the El Dorado journalists and editors chased. In Bombay and Bangalore and Delhi, dozens of journalists and editors attended road shows and group-interviews in the banquet halls of five-star hotels.
Khaleej Times, Gulf News, The Peninsula… would eventually be the ports of call that beckoned some of India's bigget and brightest names, from S. Nihal Singh to Pranay Gupte, Bikram Vohra to Khalid A.H. Ansari.
Khaleej Times turned 35 years old this week and like the rest of its dead-tree brethren across the globe is coming to terms with the realities of the modern world. Ramesh Prabhu who left Mid Day, Bombay, to join the Dubai paper, writes in the anniversary issue on the what the next 35 years holds for newspaper journalism.
Eight years ago, while addressing college students at a media seminar in Bangalore, the editor-in-chief of The Indian Express group had bemoaned the fact that television news was chipping away at the raisons d'être of newspapers.
Television channels had expropriated from the dailies, Shekhar Gupta said, the who, what, when, and where of news. "Of the five W's and one H," he told the audience, "we are now left with only the why and the how."
Shades of "Video killed the radio star"?
At the time, in 2005, when Gupta was dwelling on a topic that would resonate with newspaper journalists everywhere, it had not yet become clear that Google was well on its way to eating the newspaper industry's lunch and dinner, having already chomped down its breakfast.
Quite a few people, especially young adults, were going online to get the who, what, when, and where of news. And when there were no compelling reasons to look for, or to understand, the why and the how, what did they have to read a newspaper for?
Cut to 2013. Already, the iconic Newsweek has gone "all-digital", while other print publications, including daily newspapers, especially in the West, are in the doldrums, pondering a future without a physical presence, as in the case of Newsweek, or any presence at all, as in the case of the Chicago Daily News and the Baltimore Examiner (visit NewspaperDeathWatch.com for all the gory details).
What to do?
Parvathi Menon, resident editor of the Bangalore edition of The Hindu, recently gave aspiring journalists something to think about regarding this issue.
Speaking at a local media college's annual seminar in February, Menon referred to the economic problems plaguing the industry but she asserted that the principles of journalism have not changed and do not need to change; it is only the medium that is changing.
She also spoke about the urgent need for newspapers to figure out how to make money off their Web offerings. The underlying message: Newspapers are not going to survive, leave alone thrive, unless they come up with a sound online strategy.
But what constitutes a sound online strategy?
The New York Times, one of the world's great newspapers, has been thinking hard about the answer to this question for some years now.
As far back as July 2008, responding to a reader's question on the newspaper's website, Marc Frons, the executive in charge of digital operations, had written that the goal was to enable "our readers to have the best of both worlds — technology that allows them to personalize aspects of their experience while at the same time highlighting the editorial judgment that's unique to The Times".
In other words, the aim at The Times was, and is, to engage with its audience not just once a day at the breakfast table but throughout the day with a continually updated, reader-friendly website.
Closer home, in India, the respected business paper, Mint, last year adopted what it calls a Web-first philosophy. What does this mean for the reader?
The editor, R. Sukumar, explained in a note in the paper that stories would now be broken first on the website, and updated continuously if they merit updates. The note continued (bear with me here for reproducing the longish excerpt below, but this will help us to understand the manifold changes newspapers need to think about making):
"It means opinion and analysis pieces, too, appear first on the Web, soon after a big event, so that the readers can understand what it means. It means the extensive use of social media to amplify stories, engage with readers, and also, in some cases, to constantly provide updates on developing-by-the-minute stories. It means the extensive use of multimedia, including video. It means reaching out to people on a variety of devices (phones, tablets) through apps and a dynamic website.
"It means producing a paper that factors in everything we have done in the past 12 hours and understanding what makes most sense for readers, sometimes a full 18 hours after the original news has broken. And it means doing all this without compromising our integrity or high journalistic standards."
There is no better way to chart out what should be the priorities of every newspaper today.
Note the emphasis on reaching out to people on a variety of devices. Most young people I know do not subscribe to a daily newspaper. And they will not read a newspaper, if they can help it. If at all they make an attempt to glean the day's news, they do it by firing up an app on their mobile phones or using their mobiles to surf online.
Note, too, the emphasis on editorial judgment in The Times executive's quote, and on journalistic standards in the Mint editor's note.
The zillions of bloggers out there offer news of a sort, sure, but the writing on most blogs, apart from being of poor quality, is often slanted and ill-informed, making it difficult to comprehend what one is reading. Only trained and experienced journalists can provide editorial judgment and be expected to uphold high journalistic standards.
(Yes, and this is sad but true, some publications have justly earned a reputation for being on the make. However, I believe that the greater number of newspapers — and journalists — take very seriously their role as watchdogs of society. This is a discussion, though, for another occasion.)
But are editorial judgment and high journalistic standards enough to attract the next generation of readers, the people who will form the bulk of the readership 35 years from now? The answer appears to be "No", going by the indifference to newspapers of young people today.
If we want them to read news on handheld devices and if we want newspapers to become the go-to sites on their screens, we need, as journalists, to focus on what I term the three E's of journalism: engage, entertain, enlighten.
Given that the basic values and disciplines of journalism have been imbibed and are being practised, the writing has to be top-notch, above all. There was a time when the No. 1 quality sought in journalists was their nose for news, their ability to judge newsworthiness; if their writing skills were, at best, adequate, it was considered good enough.
But adequate writing skills are not good enough today. And they won't be any good in 2050.
Indifferent writing breeds indifferent readers.
Quality writing attracts readers of all kinds.
In a topical book I am reading just now, The Imperfectionists by journalist-turned-novelist Tom Rachman, published in 2010, the editor of a Rome-based newspaper tells the mediator at an industry conference that news will survive and quality coverage will always earn a premium.
"Whatever you want to call it," she says, "news, text, content — someone has to report it, someone has to write it, someone has to edit it."
Rachman's fictional editor, Kathleen Solson, also discusses living in an era when technology is moving at an unheralded pace. "I can't tell you if in fifty years we'll be publishing in the same format," she tells the mediator. "Actually I can probably tell you we won't be publishing in the same way, that we'll be innovating then, just as we are now."
On that promising note, I am going to go out on a limb and predict that 35 years from now when Khaleej Times sets out to hire journalists for its expanded web-print empire, it will be looking for tech-proficient reporters and editors who have not only been trained in Journalism 101 but also have exceptional writing skills, even new writing skills that we are missing out on now.
They will be able to speedily compose and edit articles that will engage, entertain, and enlighten readers. Articles that will be read from first word to last. Articles that will give readers compelling reasons to stay glued to their screens.
The five W's and one H of news will be buttressed by two additional, crucial elements: "So what?" and "What next?"
There will be an incentive to care about the news again. And a well-known television journalist, speaking at a media seminar in 2050 in Dubai, will then lament how TV news channels are losing out to newspapers.
What is it they say about just deserts?
(Ramesh Prabhu has worked as a journalist in Mumbai, Dubai, and Bangalore, having begun his career with Mid Day in 1981. He is now professor of journalism at Commits Institute of Journalism & Mass Communication, Bangalore.)


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I'll have one of my SuperTrapp outfitted ZX-9Rs at the races in California this upcoming weekend, all cleaned up and roadworthy. If SuperTrapp has a booth or representative stationed there and would like to use my bike as a promotional example on Saturday & Sunday during the races, I'd be happy to ride it over to the infield. She is not a museum piece though. At 103,600 miles on the odometer, she's a purposeful machine with nicks & some road grime here and there.
This is the bike that has had it's horsepower & MPG boosted by adding your SuperTrapp aluminum racing series muffler, as pictured on your Web site. I cannot demonstrate the HP increases, since I have not had the bike tested on a dynometer, but I'd put a heavy bet on the claim that power is up significantly because of my SuperTrapp and matching jetting. It's no spring chicken with this many miles ridden, but she absolutely impresses. The miles-per-gallon figures are out of the stratosphere compared to other similar ZX-9Rs and all other similar liter-class sportbikes. I've tuned the Trapp and jetting for supercruise, basically everything above 3,500 RPM. And as I've often said, if riding through canyon twisties and long distances where it's about time-to-distance, she'll outrun any other motorcycle on the planet, especially the newer bikes that are said to be leaders of their categories. This bike has outrun them all. BMW GS, R & RR models. All dominated. Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda, Ducati, sport, touring, UJM, all combinations big and small, in the end, this bike leaves no question about it. It would be the first bike you'd see after anything above 255 miles. 510? Even better.
I'll be riding this bike each day. She's just too much fun not to show off! She probably won't get more than a half a look from those who only think of her as another ZX-9R. Newer bikes are more flashy, faster, more powerful, better handling, etc. But on the street, over distance, it would take a very very special combination of super rider and exotically tuned bike to match what I've done more simply by adding a SuperTrapp muffler.


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Lightning top Hurricanes to halt losing streak
Tampa, FL – Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat each scored their first NHL goals to help the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the visiting Carolina Hurricanes, 4-1.
Teddy Purcell and Nate Thompson supplied the other goals for the Lightning, who snapped a five-game losing streak at home with a third straight win over their Southeast Division rivals.
Tampa Bay goaltender Mathieu Garon made 21 saves. All three of his wins this season have come against the Hurricanes.
"That's what we need for the rest of (the season). We have to play a full 60 minutes every night," said Tampa Bay defenseman Victor Hedman.
Justin Peters allowed four goals on 26 shots for Carolina, which has dropped two games in a row.
Johnson, playing in his second NHL game, took Alex Killorn's pass off the boards and beat Peters high glove from the left circle for the game's first tally at the 10:54 mark of the opening frame.
Tampa Bay extended its lead with two goals in the second period.
Sami Salo fired a low shot from the point that deflected in off Palat's skate at 6:35. Thompson then took a stretch pass from B.J. Crombeen, shielded the puck with his body while fighting off a hook and lifted a shot over Peters with 7:05 remaining.
Purcell whipped a backhander on a breakaway past Peters to make it 4-0 at 3:54 of the third.
Eric Staal finally solved Garon at 6:21.
"I thought we competed pretty hard. I think there's areas we can tighten up a little bit better, " Staal said.
Game Notes
Purcell, appearing in his 300th NHL contest, snapped a 13-game scoring drought ... Carolina defenseman Joni Pitkanen returned from a six-game absence due to a lower-body injury ... The Hurricanes claimed forward Adam Hall off waivers from the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday. Hall played almost 10 minutes against his former club.


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An Airbus A321 will be flying between Hamburg and Frankfurt to test biofuel on scheduled flights over the course of six months. On this service, one engine will be using a fuel blend containing 50 percent biosynthetic kerosene. The key objective of this project is to conduct a long-term test during which the impact of biofuels on the maintenance and efficiency of jet engines can be investigated.
During this trial period, savings of around 1500 tons of carbon dioxide are expected. As part of this project, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will be taking exhaust gas measurements directly on the engine and comparing the emissions from kerosene and from the biofuel. "The use of biofuels on scheduled flights is ground-breaking; this is the first time biofuels are being used in a long-term test rather than just a one-off demonstration flight. We have reached a milestone in aviation research and are taking an important step towards achieving the ambitious goals of the European strategy paper 'Flightpath 2050'," explains Rolf Henke, the DLR Executive Board member responsible for aeronautics.This long-term test will allow scientists to make informed statements about, not only the environment friendliness of the fuel, but also the possible changes to the engine. "First we measure the emission pattern of a biofuel in comparison to conventional aviation fuel on the same engine model over an extended period of time," explains Manfred Aigner, Head of the DLR Institute of Combustion Technology (Institut für Verbrennungstechnik) in Stuttgart. "We expect to see substantial improvements in terms of sustainability. If all air traffic were to use bio-kerosene, it would be possible to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft by around 30 to 50 percent." Researchers also expect a significant reduction in the production of carbon particulates.
The bio-kerosene being used by Lufthansa is produced using only biomass. The manufacturer is Neste Oil, a Finnish petroleum refining and marketing company with many years of experience in the production of biofuels. The use of biosynthetic kerosene is one element in a four-part strategy that aims to reduce global pollutant emissions from aviation. These ambitious environmental targets can only be achieved, now and in the future, through a combination of extremely diverse measures including continuous fleet renewal, operational measures such as engine cleaning and the use of more lightweight materials, and improved infrastructure. Projects that address these topics are also under way as part of the aviation research programme. Through the use of new technologies, Lufthansa has been able to increase fuel efficiency by more than 30 percent since 1991. Today, the average per passenger fuel consumption for each 100 kilometres is 4.3 litres of kerosene.The use of biofuels forms part of the 'burnFAIR' project being conducted by Lufthansa, and is a successful example of an integrated research approach for achieving climate protection targets. This project forms part of the umbrella project 'FAIR' (Future Aircraft Research), in which the compatibility of biofuels is just one of the topics being examined, alongside new propulsion and aircraft concepts. The German federal government is funding the FAIR project with a total of five million Euros as part of its LuFo (Luftfahrtforschung) aeronautics research programme; of this, 2.5 million Euros is allocated to 'burnFAIR'.
The DLR Institute of Combustion Technology is conducting research aimed at replacing conventional, petroleum-based kerosene and, in the longer term, phasing it out altogether in favour of a better fuel ('designer' kerosene) to achieve a sustainable and eco-friendly future for aviation. Current results show that these 'fuels of the future' may even be superior to kerosene in terms of their reliability, as well as in their environment friendliness. The further development of the natural gas-based synthetic fuel 'Gas to Liquid' (GtL) represents an important bridge to the use of biofuels. DLR scientists are currently conducting research into the properties of this new generation of synthetic fuels.
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Phone (302) 674-0829 Fax: (302) 674-2694
Little Creek Vol. Fire Company
311 Main St. Little Creek DE 19961
Phone (302) 674-2149 Fax: (302) 674-0522
Magnolia Vol. Fire Company
2 N. Main St. Magnolia DE 19962
Phone (302) 335-3260 Fax: (302) 335-3587
Marydel Fire Company
110 Firehouse Lane, Marydel DE 19964
Phone (302) 492-9917 Fax: (302) 492-8428
South Bowers Vol. Fire Company
57 Scotts Corner Rd Milford DE 19963
Phone (302) 335-4666 Fax: (302) 335-4273
Smyrna America Legion Ambulance Service
900 Smyrna Clayton Blvd. Smyrna DE 19977
Phone (302) 653-6465 Fax: (302) 653-9342
Saint Francis Healthcare – City of Dover
1001 S. Bradford St. Suite 2 Dover, DE 19904
Phone (302) 747-7012
The Delaware Emergency Notification System (DENS) is a notification system dedicated to notifying Delaware residents in the event of an emergency in their area. The Kent County Emergency Communications Division, along with the Delaware Emergency Management Agency, encourages residents who exclusively use mobile telephones to register their numbers in a statewide database that will be used for the Delaware Emergency Notification System.
Additional information regarding this program is available on the Delaware Emergency Management Agency website.
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Most of us take this important task for granted; a guarantee that someone else will be there on the other end of the phone, ready to help at a moment's notice. As simple as it may seem, the system of 911 is both very clever and very sophisticated. Lets take a look at what happens when you call.
Most phones have the capability to dial into 911.
When you dial into 911:
Our 911 Center is now Phase II compatible with most cellular telephone companies. After ten seconds we can send a signal to your phone to request your GPS coordinates. With most cellular carriers we can determine your location to within about 50 feet.
When you dial 911 please stay on the line, do not hang up! Calls into 911 are taken in the order in which they are received.
The Dispatcher answering your 911 call determines the type of service needed using a proven and efficient interview process. They provide initial help if necessary and then immediately contact the appropriate emergency agency to provide assistance. The Dispatcher is the first link in the Fire/Medical Survival Chain, providing Pre-Arrival and Post-Dispatch instructions to callers with a fire/medical emergency. Critical procedures such as CPR, airway management, and childbirth, just to name a few, can be started before more advanced help arrives. The Dispatcher uses a Computer Aided Dispatch terminal. Together with a touch screen telephone interface, information about the caller's location and phone number is available for verification by the Dispatcher. A Dispatcher is a public safety employee who asks questions to determine the who, what, where, how and why (as well as the what should/can/might be done) in a multitude of circumstances, in which the caller often mistakenly assumes that the answers are obvious. The Dispatcher knows that action taken based on incomplete or inaccurate information can endanger callers, victims and the responders. That is why he or she must make sure answers to questions are clear, complete and precise. If an answer is "far," for example, the Dispatcher must ask: "how far? " If someone is having chest pains in a large building," the Dispatcher must ask: "What's the best access to the patient?" You can help by being as precise and exact as possible when providing information during a 911 call. Once the Dispatcher has analyzed the situation, the call is immediately routed by computer to a dispatcher for the appropriate emergency response (Police, Fire or EMS) to provide the service(s) needed.
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ACSO: Deputy fires shots during burglary call; Person of interest in custody
An Anderson County deputy fired several shots during a burglary call Friday morning, according to Capt. Darrell Hill.
Hill said deputies were called to Foothills Motorsports at 7:30 a.m. Friday.
The business is located on Halton Road in the Powdersville area.
Hill said when the deputy arrived he saw a man leaving the businesson a four-wheeler and told the man to stop.
According to Hill, the deputy feared for his safety and fired several shots.
No one was hit, Hill said.
Hill said the four-wheeler was found about 2 miles from the business.
He said K-9 units led deputies to a man, who was identified as Jeffrey Gilstrap, 29, of Pickens.
Gilstrap was taken into custody and charged with grand larceny and possession of burglary tools. He was taken to the Anderson County Detention Center.
The incident is under investigation.


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I think I can perhaps speak for quite a large percentage of us when I say: Oh, thank God.
I mean, truly. Knees down, palms together, offering a massive wave and slab and magnum champagne bottle full of deep, ferocious gratitude to whatever god, deity or divinely-shaped ball of progressive-soaked energy you choose to offer it up to, we say: thank you, thank you, oh sweet Jesus, thank you.
Oh sweet Jesus, yes
This just in: The pro-choice, pro-women, pro-environment, pro gay-marriage, pro-education, pro-health care-reform black guy who seems to genuinely care about the state of the world and helping as many people as possible even though he's imperfect and can't get it right every time, he beat out the hollow, wildly dishonest, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-environment, anti-everything rich guy no one really liked and everyone knew would slam us back a couple generations and a Mormon half.
And lo, it is a good day indeed.
At last, all these weeks and months of liberal hand-wringing can finally cease. The hot bubble of shock and awe that Mitt Romney managed to lie, fake, and bulls–t his way that close to the White House can finally burst and recede into giddy pools of nervous laughter and multiple double shots of whisky. Join me? Hell yes.
But wait, there's more. Turn your thoughts for a precious, relieved moment to the Supreme Court, to how it will doubtlessly be reshaped in the coming few years by Obama in positive, progressive, intelligent ways that will make Scalia scream, Alito whine and Clarence Thomas look around in numb confusion, same as always.
Glimpse if you will toward the future bogus wars, macho threats, military build-ups and various sabre-rattlings we will now not engage in, thanks to the lack of a hawkish, antagonistic, Bush-like Romney presidency.
Think of the survival of health care reform, the survival of Planned Parenthood funding, the survival of the first president in history to support gay marriage, the survival of any of the 200 campaign promises Obama actually did manage to keep and which will now not be rolled back and trampled to death by old white men who think women can't be trusted, gays are un-American and rapist babies are just God's will.
This is the feeling. It's such a sweet sigh of relief that it's almost too much to bear. The apocalypse may be nigh, we might very well be racing toward our doom, but at least we are in capable hands for a little while longer.
Perhaps you are not so sure. Perhaps your cynical side is kicking in right now, saying now it will just be a return to ugly business as usual; sure it's been a year and a half of exhausting, brutal, expensive, absurd campaigning, but now we just go straight back to acidic infighting, congressional stalemates and Wall Street not-so-secretly controlling the whole rigged machine anyway.
Is this you? Are you are one of those who takes the broad, cynical, hyper-fatalist view that it doesn't matter who's in the Big Chair, that it's all the same meta-corruption anyway, that capitalism is the end of humanity and it's all just suffering and pain and eating the poor for a snack? Fine. You are welcome to that view. And I am more than a little bit sorry for you.
Me, I'm going for the gleam in the eye of the hurricane. Me, I'm aiming toward something like awakened evolution. Me, I take the tone and energy of progress, of intelligence, of shimmering humanity wherever I can find it, and then try to celebrate and cherish the living hell out of it so it can grow and flourish and spread like a disease made of sex and trees and love. Hell, what else you gonna do, whine all day?
Say what you will, but it's the president who sets the tone for the country, who gives it its complexion and general stance on the world stage. And Obama sets a tone of progressive, thoughtful aptitude and intelligent calm. He's not always right. He's been pushed around far too easily by the sneering hatemongers of the right as he seeks consensus when all they want to do is stab him in the hallway. But, oh my God, the alternative.
I am right now recalling the bleakness of the Bush years, this lethal pallor that hung over the country like a fog for eight solid years. I am remembering waking up nearly every day and wincing in pain at some appalling headline, Bush rolling back this or that enviro legislation, approving this or that awful new law, launching useless and costly wars, embarrassing us on the world stage at every turn. And then leaving us with the thrill of the housing/Wall Street meltdown, a modern Great Depression, selling the country's debt for scrap to Japan and China for pennies on the dollar before sulking off to a bunker in Texas, too embarrassed and humiliated to show his face again.
Bush hated being president. He was miserable, lost, endlessly confused, in way over his head from the start. And Romney would be much the same, only smarter, savvier, a bit nastier when it comes to how best to pillage the Treasury and hasten the fall of the empire.
Barack Obama is none of those things. The only headlines about Obama that ever make me cringe are when he missed an opportunity to do more, or not go far enough. It's dead right to hold his feet to the fire, criticize obvious mistakes, wish he were less goddamn moderate and conciliatory, and lots more fiery and just a little bit ruthless. But it's dead wrong to think there's someone better or more capable right now.
But wait! There's so much more. Todd "legitimate rape" Akin and Richard "rapist babies" Mourdock both lost, and perfectly so. Somewhere, Ted Kennedy is smiling now that the amazing Elizabeth Warren beat cocky hotshot Scott Brown to lead MA and maybe position herself for a run at 2016, should Hillary decide she prefers hammocks and writing books to running for president.
We now have the first openly gay US senator in Tammy Baldwin, who beat Bush's crusty old-boy Tommy Thompson with aplomb. Maine and Maryland both voted in support of gay marriage (Washington state might join that one, too), and Maine went to far as to replace one of its Republicans with (gasp) an Independent. Colorado and Washington state legalized recreational pot. And California, well, California just sort of stumbled along, not making many real positive changes (and not repealing the death penalty, sadly), but not making anything much worse, either.
Oh, it's a fine night indeed. What sort of champagne you got? Share?