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Green Bay Packers running back James Starks injured his knee on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings and might be placed on season-ending injured reserve, according to a report Tuesday night on ESPN Milwaukee.
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The story cited a league source who said the injury was not an anterior cruciate ligament and is not expected to require surgery. It occurred on a hit by Vikings cornerback Josh Robinsonin the fourth quarter of Green Bay's 23-14 victory.
If Starks is unable to contribute to the Packers for the season's final four games, the team might elect to put him on IR and use his roster spot for another player.
With Cedric Benson out for the season with a Lisfranc injury, Starks has split carries with third-year man Alex Green. Starks had 66 yards on 15 carries against the Vikings.
"I liked what James Starks did. I thought he stepped up," coach Mike McCarthy said after the game. "I thought Alex (Green) ran well, I thought John Kuhn played tough like he always does. (But) I thought James was a little cut above today, and that's why I went with him in the fourth quarter."
Starks has had an injury marred career, missing significant time in his first two seasons and suffering turf toe earlier this year.


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(CNN) - Hilary Rosen offered an apology Thursday after her comments about Ann Romney sparked an uproar and a debate over women and the economy.
"I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended," Rosen, a top Democratic strategist and CNN contributor, said in a statement. "Let's declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance."
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The previous day, Rosen argued Ann Romney could not understand the struggles of women in the sluggish workforce because she "never worked a day in her life" as a stay-at-home mother.
Her comments quickly set off a spiraling controversy, as high-profile leaders on both sides of the aisle rushed to the defense of Ann Romney and that of women opting not to pursue their careers to solely focus on raising their children.
Read the full statement below:
"Let's put the faux 'war against stay at home moms' to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his lack of a record on the plight of women's financial struggles. Here is my more fulsome view of the issues. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let's declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance."
Hilary committed the ultimate sin for her profession - becoming the story rather than spinning the story. I have no doubt someone's interfered to tell her to STFU and get off the stage.
That comment revealed the mindset of the speaker who is now trying to enact some damage control. There are too many people in the US who think a woman is not valuable unless she has a job outside the home.
Statistics bear the proof that homes with a stay home parent raise children who are involved in less crime and have a better education then those which do not. Democrats seem to think WOMEN, who they pretend to support, should work outside the home to show their worthiness. As if raising responsible, respectful children who contribute positively to society is a bad idea. The net effect is too much like the lifestyle in the 1950's and 60's Soviet Russia. "Let the government raise your children, it knows better how to do that." In my opinion guiding children to rise to their potential and improve this world is the highest calling any person can undertake.
Never worked a day in her life?
Hah, Ms. Rosen evidently has someone else do her cooking, cleaning, and laundry. That's work, trust me.
Mrs. Romney don't know Jack and have no clue as to where to find him. Period.
Oh my god. She should not have appologized in teh slightest. The conversation was about the GENDER GAP IN THE WORKPLACE. Romney seems to think his wife has a great perspective on that issue. Anyone who thinks saying a person who does not belong to the workforce has no perspective on teh workforce is not insulting. It is an obvious criticism. She said nothing about her making the wrong choice to be a stay at home mom. But if you are a stay at home mom, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BEING A WOMAN IN THE WORKPLACE, NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's get back to the real issues and not this phony war? Rosen is an elitist who is so out of touch with reality. THIS IS THE REAL ISSUE FOR WOMAN...........we are not divided as woman by the "work" that we do daily in or out of our homes or the color of our skin or who we worship on Sunday or all of the crap within the crap of political rhetoric. THE REAL ISSUE for all women is jobs, jobs, jobs, to feed our families first. We don't want government run hand outs for the rest of our days. We want success. If we can't afford to feed our children and give them a better life........................without being forever dependent on a big "pimp" government................nothing else matters.
As an outsider, I find it rather strange how Americans do not seem to understand how valuable working women are to the economy. The Norwegian prime minister has stated that the equality between men and women in the Norwegian labour market has been of greater value to the nation's economy than discovering oil. Having social benefits which allows the average paid woman to combine being a mother and working (mostly) full time is of the essence. The Save the Children's "State of the Worlds Mother's" reports from 2010 and 2011 states that Norway is the best country in the world for mothers and children, while the USA does disturbingly bad, dropping from 28. to 31. Polen, Latvia and Slovakia scores better. But still, being a stay at home mom is not at all common in Norway. Social and financial structures make it possible for women to contribute to the Economy, while teaching their children equality on a day to day basis by earning their own independance.
Let's accept the apology from the idiot and move on to real campaign issues. Let's talk about Obama's record and the good things he has done in 3 years. 1) ??????????? 2) ?????????/. I guess he hasn't did any good even when they controled the house congress for 2 years, and this is why the DEMs keep starting hate and discontent wars, "women, race, economic class" what's next?
Being middle class and a parent whose children were raised by a stay at home mother...by choice...leads me to believe that most of these people made their own choices good or bad...thinking no one deserves a free ride...bad choices should not be rewarded...at least that's what we taught our children
GOP trying to deflect yet again! Romney does not have the same concerns as the hard working waitress, doctor, secretary, clerk, reporter, engineer, teacher and so on. The GOP want to take away contraception for women, jobs for women, healthcare for women of low income like in my state of TX, trying to scrap programs for child care and so on. Yeah Romney really has to worry about those things. I see many men are siding with Hilary Rosen as well bec they need the extra income in their households to make it. Not every woman has a choice of Cadilacs to choose from! Go HILARY!
wow, someone is comparing what Rush said to what Ms Rosen said..............wow
Why did Mit through his wife into the fire? He has no answer to the middle class and poor. Except cut social security and medicare. Everytime he is stuck with a question he puts it on sombody else. Is that the kind of President we want?
I think the real story needs to be that Anderson Cooper just sat there and did not challenge her comments, neither the 'war on women' meme or the 'Ann never worked' crapola. He just sat there. He was totally incapable of thinking on his own to come up with a follow up question? Or did he totally agree with her comment? Either way, another massive failure by AC.
AmericanMom – now you have to apologize to Hilary Rosen because she does have children and a demanding job outside the house. As a mom you KNOW that she does more than put on her makeup. How can you criticize her and then say much worse things about her yourself. I thought women were smarter than men. Why are we fighting each other, her comment was not meant to disrespect you but yours was sure meant to disrespect her.
Rosen has nothing to apologize for. She clearly wasn't criticizing stay at home mothers. She was criticizing Mitt Romney for using his wife as a source of information on the economic situation for working women. It's to be expected that Republicans will twist someone's words, but I'm extremely annoyed that Democrats are doing it too. What's the matter with Cafferty and Blitzer? Aren't the supposed to report accurately?
I don't begrudge the Romeys for their money but I am not stupid enough to believe they can fathom what I have faced as a woman and working and raising my children. They are people of privilege and have the wealth to make choices that most of us can't. So for Mitt to rely on Ann as a surrogate/authority of what the majority of women face in the country is absurd. And if women have chosen to stay at home with their children or to work is not the point, the point is what women HAVE to do to make ends meet without a choice because they do not have a choice. I never what someone ho has not walked in my shoes or who realistically understands the struggles of women much worse than mine to use their so-called "informed understanding" to be the basis for making decisions that effects the majority of women in this country. Amazing Mitt can use his wife's cancer and MS in his campaign but it's hands off that she was privileged enough to stay at home and swim with her kids in their backyard pool..at which home who knows.who cares?..they are not the mainstream of this country.
to morgan painter who says 'Democrats seem to think WOMEN, who they pretend to support, should work outside the home to show their worthiness'.
Where do you get these ideas from? Democrats do not think any such thing and you should not be making stuff up just to stir the pot a little more. Women, let's stick together before all of rights disappear while we are busy fighting with each other over a bad choice of someone's wording.
And Obama didn't try to pressure the supreme court! I guess not only republicans have foot in mouth disease. It's not what you meant. It's what you said.
Hilary Rosen has got to be the most unqualified person to be speaking about women's issues or criticizing others for speaking about them. She's lesbian and single mother, not exactly the "norm" in America. Ann Romney, on the other hand is like so many American women, working hard as a wife, mother, grandmother, and volunteer. She's done a remarkable job.
What about all those welfare moms that don't work Rosin? I guess they don't know jack either..
Rosin on;y visits the white house to pick up a check every other week .

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Creates Digital Comics and Animation Company Targeted At Indian Youth Audience Liquid Comics Co-Founder, Sharad Devarajan Appointed as CEO of New Company.
MUMBAI, INDIA – January 17, 2013 – CA Media, LP, the Asian investment arm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG), today announced that it has acquired a large minority stake in Graphic India, a comic book and animation company focused on creating mythological and superhero characters, comics and stories for the Indian youth market, published across mobile and online platforms.
Launched last year by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman as a subsidiary of U.S. comic book company Liquid Comics, Graphic India will now be jointly owned by Liquid Comics and CA Media. Devarajan will be appointed CEO of Graphic India and remain Executive Chairman of Liquid Comics. As part of the transaction, Liquid Comics will contribute one of the world's largest and highest-quality comic book libraries based on Indian characters to Graphic India. In addition to CA Media's investment, it will partner with Graphic India to provide industry expertise and create iconic franchises for Graphic's characters through multiple media within the Indian entertainment ecosystem.
Graphic India will provide a new creative voice to the Indian youth marketplace, a population that is one of the largest and fastest growing demographics in the world, with more than 500 million consumers under the age of 25 and with more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. Graphic India is uniquely positioned to meet the increasing demand of this connected and sophisticated youth population for multi-platform entertainment content that respects India's creative traditions and the global ambitions of the Indian people today. Through animated shorts, digital comics, and associated media content, Graphic India will launch mythological and superhero characters and storylines that India's youth audience can celebrate with pride. Graphic India will enable consumers to experience its growing library of content across a variety of mobile and online devices, both within India and worldwide through its own digital platform as well as through distribution partners.
Rajesh Kamat, CEO of CA Media India, stated: "Following our successful entry into the traditional media space, we are very pleased that Graphic India marks our first investment in the digital space.CA Media's aim is to create an ecosystem of diversified assets across media, where each asset not only unlocks its own value, but also adds to the rest of the portfolio. Graphic India is a valuable addition to this mix, especially in the youth segment. We look forward to working with the company to create heroes that inspire the next generation of Indian consumers."
Paul Aiello, CEO of CA Media, added: "CA Media is thrilled to be partnering with the talented Liquid Comics team, headed by Sharad Devarajan. We look forward to building the business with Sharad and his team, an amazingly gifted group of content creators and phenomenal operators."
"India is home to some of the most creative minds in the world, and we believe that the next Batman, Harry Potter, Pokemon or The Avengers, can come from this country,"commented Graphic India, Co-Founder & CEO, Sharad Devarajan. "At Graphic India, we intend to find, nurture and promote a new generation of creators to transform the world with their stories. The team at The Chernin Group and CA Media bring an unparalleled level of experience in entertainment and we could not imagine a better partner to work with to launch this mission."
Graphic India intends to launch numerous new projects in the upcoming year showcasing original stories from young breakthrough talent as well as established Indian and global icons. The company has partnered with POW! Entertainment and Stan Lee, the legendary co-creator of Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Iron Man, Hulk and The Avengers, to create his first superhero for the Indian market, Chakra The Invincible. The story centers on Mumbai teenager Raju Rai, who develops a technology-enhanced suit that activates the mystical chakras of the body, unleashing newfound abilities and powers. Lee will be collaborating with a team of leading Indian artists and creators to bring the new superhero to animation and comic books.
In addition to numerous new properties in production, Graphic India will release new digital content around the highly acclaimed comic books previously published by Liquid Comics, including:
• Devi, created by preeminent filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth; Mr. India; The Golden Age) features the story of an immortal goddess reincarnated as a young woman in the fictional Indian city of Sitapur, charged with using her super-heroic powers to save her city from demons and monsters.
• The Sadhu, created by Gotham Chopra, about a British colonial soldier who becomes trained by the Indian mystics known as Sadhus and uses his newfound abilities for justice and currently being developed as a theatrical live-action film in Hollywood.
• Ramayan 3392AD, a futuristic epic inspired by the classical Ramayana myth and currently being developed as a theatrical live-action film in Hollywood with Mandalay Entertainment.
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Liquid Comics is a digital entertainment company focused on creating cinematic and mythic graphic novel stories with filmmakers, creators and storytellers. The company was founded by entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman and uses the medium of digital graphic novel publishing to develop properties for theatrical live-action films, animation and video games. Liquid Comics has created and is creating original graphic novels with acclaimed filmmakers and talents including John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Grant Morrison, Dave Stewart, Marc Guggenheim, Jonathan Mostow, Edward Burns, Nicolas Cage, John Moore, Wes Craven, Barry Sonnenfeld and others. The company currently has a number of film and television projects in development based on their properties. For more information:www.LiquidComics.com
About The Chernin Group
The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG) is a privately held, independent media holding company founded by Peter Chernin and based in Los Angeles, CA. TCG has built, managed, operated, and invested in businesses in the media, entertainment, and technology sectors around the world since 2010. TCG's assets include Chernin Entertainment, which produces feature films and television programs; a majority stake in Hong Kong-based CA Media, which builds, manages, and operates media, entertainment, and technology businesses across Asia; and several strategic investments in digital media companies including Pandora, Fullscreen, Base79, MiTú, Tumblr, Flipboard and Scopely. Providence Equity Partners LLC; Qatar Holding LLC; Victor Koo (founder and CEO of Youku) and Chengwei Capital; and other shareholders are strategic partners of and investors in TCG.
About CA Media
Majority-owned by The Chernin Group, CA Media was co-founded by The Chernin Group and Paul Aiello in November 2010 with a mandate to build, manage, and operate media, entertainment, and technology businesses throughout Asia. Based in Hong Kong, CA Media is building a regional footprint primarily focused on India, Indonesia, and China. CA Media has acquired significant stakes and has partnered in the success of Endemol India, a leading television and film production business; Only Much Louder (OML), a music, live events, and youth media company in India; Legend Fighting Championship, a Hong Kong-based mixed martial arts promotion; and most recently Graphic India. CA Media is launching FLUENCE, India's leading 'online influencer network' around celebrities and brands.
The CEO of CA Media, Paul Aiello, was formerly the CEO of News Corporation's Star TV Asia. Prior to that, he was the Head of TMT investment banking at Morgan Stanley for the Asia region. The CEO of CA Media India, Rajesh Kamat, was formerly COO of Viacom18 Group, CEO of Colors and founded the India operations of Endemol as its Managing Director.


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Energy Star Insomniacs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced the Energy Star program last year in an effort to encourage computer manufacturers to add energy-saving features to their products. The features act something like a screen saver, putting equipment to sleep when it's not actually being used. The monitor shuts off and the hard disk drive spins down, then the computer wakes up at the touch of a key, with open documents intact.
Even if it sports the whimsical Energy Star logo, however, the new computer won't save energy as it is supposed to unless the energy-saving feature is activated. Many participating manufacturers are shipping their products with the sleep feature turned off, and the products vary widely in how easy it is for the user to activate it.
The EPA started planning the Energy Star program in 1992, inviting computer industry input to ensure that the program's parameters were realistic. The voluntary, market-based program was introduced officially in June, 1993 and has since enlisted 299 computer and monitor manufacturers, and 43 printer manufacturers, representing a total of more than 2,000 products. At this point, it's impossible to tell how many products on the program's list are shipped with their energy-saving features activated because the agency only recently started tracking that statistic.
Energy Star program manager Linda Latham is working with manufacturers to address this glitch. It's a process of educating both manufacturers and the consumers. Latham says that manufacturers are concerned that many personal computer users never read the manuals, and will freak out when their expensive new machine blanks out the first time, leading to calls for technical support which cost the manufacturer time and money. Government agencies--which purchase more computers then anybody else in the world--already require that computer products arrive with the energy-saving feature activated, and an EPA Energy Star brochure suggests that individual purchasers make the same request.
While the major computer manufacturers expect to eventually ship their products with the features turned on, they don't want to do so before they, and the computer-buying public, are ready. It's a little unnerving at first, says David Lear, environmental program manager for Compaq Computer Corporation, of his own introduction to the feature on a notebook computer. You have to educate the user. There are a thousand things going on when he turns on the computer.
We've gone above and beyond to make it as easy as possible for the customer to access the Energy Star feature, Lear says. Compaq's Energy Star machines start-up the first time with the Compaq Welcome Center, which includes an icon that lets the user activate the power-management feature. Lear, who claims to know his way around computers, says he recently made a trip to his neighborhood electronics superstore to check out the competition, and could figure out how to access Energy Star only on the Compaq models. The company offers 26 models, 19 of which qualify for Energy Star. The other seven also offer power management features, but these bigger models can't power down below the 30-watt program requirement. He adds that the machines can wake up to accept or send faxes in the middle of the night, and are so smart that they turn the monitor on only when there is action on the keyboard.
Jackie Streeter, senior director of engineering interface and design at Apple Computer, says that all of her company's products offer the Energy Star energy-saving feature. Apple is shipping all of its products with the features turned off, but Streeter says the feature is easily accessed through an Energy Star icon in the control panel, a feature found under the Apple icon on the screen. We wanted to make the features voluntary, says Streeter, who foresees manufacturers eventually agreeing to ship with the feature on.
The Energy Star feature saves a considerable amount of energy. A typical setup consisting of a personal computer, monitor, and printer, might draw about 150-250 watts of power and consume about 700-1,000 kWh of electricity annually. Of this, the computer, monitor, and printer typically consume roughly one-third each. A computer is inactive most of the time it is running. Inside the computer, the major power consumers are the disk drives, power supply, processors, and memory. There's a widespread misconception that frequently turning computers off shortens their life. It is also untrue that screen savers save significant amounts of electricity. In fact, equipment life may be extended with less on-time. The EPA estimates that the Energy-Star feature may save as much as $2 billion annually.
According to Philippe Lapujude, a Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) research engineer, studies and educated estimates indicate that 20%-40% of the nation's 30-35 million personal computers are left running at night and on weekends. (This is more often the case in offices than in homes.) A National Resource Council of Canada study of 94 computer systems concluded that computer energy consumption could be reduced by 58% if the machines were switched off after 60 minutes of inactivity.
Lapujade monitored the performance of an Energy Star computer, monitor and printer for 86 days, after collecting identical measurements on a standard and comparable 486 system. He measured power demand in watts, power factor for the whole system, and power demand for the laser printer, every 15 minutes. Power factor was low, at around 0.66 for both the Energy Star and the non-Energy Star units (only the computer and monitor were measured). However, power quality dropped to 0.60 when the energy-saving feature was activated. Power demand was 120 watts for a standard computer and monitor, compared to an Energy Star setup in active mode. However, when in sleep mode, the Energy Star computer and monitor drew less than 30 watts.
Lapujade's measurements show that the standard computer system (computer, printer and monitor) used about 470 kWh/year, compared to an estimated consumption of 350 kWh/year for the Energy Star system. The Energy Star system used 26% less energy during the test period, as compared to the standard system, saving 120 kWh per year, or $12.00 (at a cost of 10cents/kWh). The bulk of these savings came from the printer, which saved 80 kWh and $8.00, or 38% of the standard setup's energy use. The computer and monitor cut consumption by only 40 kWh, and saved $4.00, for 17% savings compared to the standard computer. Of course, they turn off their computers at night at FSEC, and Lapujade points out that these savings estimates are conservative for computers that are used less responsibly.
Dariush Arasteh, a researcher in the windows and daylighting group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), recently acquired an AST computer that arrived with its energy-saving feature turned off. After a little snooping, I figured it out, but only because I was curious, says Arasteh. I would estimate that less than 5% of users would figure it out. Turning the feature on was simple, but not obvious, and it was not documented on paper.
The computer always falls asleep on me, and takes 5 seconds to wake up, says Arasteh. I should really turn it off. Arasteh says the computer's logic is based on hard disk access time and the sleep mode is set to ten minutes. If he does not use the hard disk (either because he is not using the program or because what's in memory is sufficient), the computer falls asleep after ten minutes. If you're typing for ten minutes, the hard disk goes into sleep mode. At minute 11, if you want to save, spell check, or whatever, the hard disk is asleep.
Two computer configurations can hinder proper operation of Energy Star power-management features. Some users have reported that power-management settings configured with Microsoft Windows are lost each time the system is turned on. According to Mary Ann Piette, a staff scientist in LBL's Energy Analysis Program, users can configure the power management through their computer's BIOS set-up to overcome this problem. Future versions of the Windows program should be improved, and not all Windows users have had this problem.
There have also been snags with local area network (LAN) configurations. Many personal computers connected to LAN systems don't power down--the energy-saving feature does not get activated. Network servers typically poll each personal computer every 1 to 5 minutes, which may prevent power management from occurring. (The opposite problem may also occur: the computer may go to sleep, killing the connection to the LAN.)
Piette says one way to overcome this hindrance is to instruct the LAN server to poll only at specified periods during the day, allowing power management to occur during other periods. A second strategy to achieve power management while LAN-connected is to use a network card that stays active even when power management functions are in effect, she says.
The EPA's Latham has been pestering and prodding the reluctant manufacturers to ship the computers with the energy savers switched on, and expects most to make the necessary changes to their assembly lines to do so. She believes that, within a few years, everybody will know--well, of course your computer will go to sleep.
-- Abba Anderson
Abba Anderson, formerly Home Energy's associate editor, is a freelance writer based in Forestville, California.
Further Reading
Power to the PC, PC Magazine, April 26, '94, p.114. PC Magazine, One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5802. Tel: (212)503-5255.
Lean Green Windows Machines,
Windows Magazine, May '94, p.206. Windows Magazine, One Jericho Plaza, Jericho, NY 11753. Tel: (516)733-8300.
Green PCs, InfoWorld, January 26,
'94, p.64. Infoworld Publishing Co., 155 Bovet Road, Suite 800, San Mateo, CA 94402. Tel: (415)572--7341.
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[The best way for established neighborhood residents and homeowners to curb irritating student behaviors—like leaving garbage carts on the sidewalk all week long, making lots of noise and parking on the grass—is to go talk to their student neighbors soon after they move in to discuss things like city noise ordinances and politeness.
That's the advice Athens-Clarke Co. Commissioner David Lynn offered in Sunday's Athens Banner-Herald story about some college students violating a local ordinance limiting how many unrelated people that can live together in house in neighborhoods zoned for single-families.
Compared to trying to enforce an ordinance that requires the counting of "unrelated" people living together, he's surely right: direct talk about what really irritates people—the trash, noise and parking issues—is a better approach.
But even though there's much to recommend Lynn's approach—it's immediately implementable, it doesn't involve writing new rules and it apparently works (at least so far, in particular neighborhoods)—there are problems with it. First, it gets old pretty fast. And second, it won't work in neighborhoods under heavy student pressure.
I've now lived in four college towns, always fairly near campus. It's not fun to have to talk to new neighbors every year about fairly obvious matters of politeness and then be ignored as often as not. Over time as more students move in, fewer established residents have the patience to do that every year and so they move...and yet another block gets lost to student rot—which is a real loss to the community.That said, I personally haven't had any student problems where I live in Athens...but I'm sure some neighborhoods nearer to campus do have such problems.
Anyway, here's my take on a possible way to address the problem of student rot. I wrote this while living in Lexington, Ky. in a neighborhood that was badly afflicted with the rot...]
* * *When college students cram into homes built for single families, the rot that results is hard to miss. Even if you've never lived in a neighborhood near campus, you'd have no trouble identifying the telltale signs. Trash-strewn yards. Over-parked streets and driveways. Rotting couches on rotting porches. Loud parties into the wee hours.
There is no mystery about why college students make nice, older neighborhoods look crappy when enough of them move in. What is a mystery, though, is why cities and colleges—town and gown—don't seem motivated to do much to prevent the spoiling of these neighborhoods.
This lack of motivation is not good news for anyone—for neighborhoods, for cities, for colleges or for students. Here are three reasons why town and gown should work together to stop student rot:1. Crappiness and crime. When too many college students move in, they have two neighborhood-killing effects. First, they quickly make houses look like run down tenements. Second, their high turnover rate sucks the life out of the neighborhood by making it hard for neighbors to come to know and trust and respect each other. When neighborhoods lack neighborliness they rapidly become unpleasant, and risk becoming unsafe as well. Cities risk seeing neighborhoods slide into shabby and dangerous places in need of constant patrol. Colleges risk being surrounded by such neighborhoods.
2. Use of prime residential areas for workers and families. Near campus neighborhoods are usually located in desirable parts of town. They are often walkable neighborhoods, close to work, schools and shopping. Such short commute neighborhoods are becoming even more desirable for working families and individuals as gas prices continue to rise and as more people seek "greener" lifestyles. Having such neighborhoods helps cities attract and retain longer-term taxpaying residents. They also help colleges to attract new faculty.
3. Opportunity to harness student energy. Efforts to stop student rot, if done right (I'll suggest ways to do it right below), can transform even large student populations into unalloyed economic and cultural gold for cities. After all, students are hardly just a bane for cities; they are huge assets, too. The trick is to harness student energy to create more vibrant life on campus and in a distinctive student-centered city district.
Myths about student rot
Let's say, after having absorbed the three points just mentioned, city and college policymakers now understand why it's important to fight student rot. Let's say they are motivated to act. What should they do?
The first order of business should be to avoid being distracted by some common myths.
Myth #1: Students are only half the problem. It's true that students and the absentee landlords that rent to them don't cause all the rot. Irresponsible homeowners certainly do exist. So do responsible students. But because you can find examples of bad homeowners and good students doesn't change the reality that most students are highly transient renters with little stake in the neighborhoods they live in and that most homeowners aren't very transient and usually do care a lot about where they live. Students don't cause all the rot, but they are surely responsible for most of it.
Myth #2: Student rot in neighborhoods near campus is to be expected. Well, of course, your neighborhood is infested with students. You live next to campus! What did you expect? If something like that is your response to people who complain about student rot, consider this: not long ago neighborhoods right next to campus—right next to lots of students—were populated mainly by homeowners with a sprinkling of student renters. Not long ago many of these neighborhoods were pleasant, cared-for places. An enlivening diversity of people—most with a real stake in a good neighborhood—lived there. This mix often included college faculty, administrators and workers and their families, first-time homebuyers, older folks with long-time connections to the area—and some students.
Myth #3: Increasing student enrollments are the cause. Students flood into once pleasant, stable neighborhoods. Homeowners flee. Neighborhoods deteriorate. Surely, increases in student enrollment explain this. Well, that's certainly part of the explanation. But it is only part because the student flood into residential neighborhoods outpaces the growth in enrollment in most places. Choices made by colleges play a bigger explanatory role. Choices such as: building less on-campus student housing; ending on-campus living requirements for freshmen and sophomores; and banning or severely restricting on-campus drinking. It's these choices—choices that push students off-campus into city neighborhoods—and not increasing enrollments that account for most of the student influx.
Myth #4: New ordinances will solve the problem. Under pressure from homeowner constituents, city policymakers may be tempted to fight student rot with new ordinances. Direct attacks on the problem include proposals to limit the number of students that can live together in one house or to restrict the number of houses that can be rented to students. Other proposals target symptoms: ticketing loud partiers, fining students and landlords for trash and poor upkeep and extending college conduct rules to cover off-campus behavior. There an indirect efforts, too, such as using zoning rules to protect architectural character which may have the effect of reducing the financial attractiveness of chopping-up single-family houses into student rentals. Some of these ideas might be worthy on their own terms or employed as temporary measures. But they won't do much to stop student rot because they don't deal with a fundamental economic fact: the intense student demand for housing near campus and the good money to be made by renting. Ignoring the economics isn't helpful. The force is too strong.
Better ideas
So, what should be done? What might work?
As I see it, the efforts of city and college policymakers should aim at significantly reducing student demand for housing in near campus neighborhoods.
This doesn't mean adopting policies that allow homeowners to shoot students on sight. It doesn't mean dispersing students far and wide. It doesn't mean cutting enrollments.
What it does mean is concentrating most of student life where it belongs: on campus and in a well-defined, vibrant student-centered district.
Here are three proposals intended to accomplish that:
1. Revitalize on-campus student housing. Colleges should revive the tradition of on-campus living for most students, and build the capacity to house them. Many students today don't want to live on campus. One reason they don't is that most dormitories really suck; they are the American version of bleak East German apartment blocs. But this can be changed. Some colleges are now building new-style residence halls featuring well-designed rooms with fully equipped kitchens, fitness centers, social lounges, movie theaters, pools, game rooms, cable TV and even restaurants, coffee shops and other retail spaces. Even college administrators are starting to realize that cool student housing and other social amenities help with recruitment efforts. When combined with requirements that students live on campus, such efforts create a concentrated, revitalized campus culture. Students like that.
2. End prohibition. When colleges ban on-campus drinking they give students a powerful motivation to move into off-campus neighborhoods where they can party at will without any supervision. Colleges that lift this prohibition and establish policies to allow of-age students to drink responsibly in their rooms and create other venues where social drinking is permitted will be better positioned to intervene when there are problems. Prohibition doesn't stop student drinking; it just shifts where the drinking is done. The responsibility for supervision properly lies with the colleges, not the residents of near campus neighborhoods.
3. Create a vibrant student district. Even where there's a lively on-campus student culture, students will spill into the city—especially into the nearby neighborhoods—for adventure or at least a change of pace. The city should welcome them with a well-defined, concentrated district that caters to their interests and needs. Restaurants. Bookstores. Coffee houses. Smoke shops. Affordable off-campus apartments. Clothing stores. Free wi-fi. Bars. Art galleries. Some high-end condos for the rich kids. A museum. A public water fountain that it's OK to splash around in. Such a district would be extremely appealing—and not just to students. It would harness the economic and cultural energy of students for the good of everyone.
In the meantime
To do these things will require lots of cooperation among city and college policymakers and developers, too. And because it won't happen overnight, city and college leaders must also cooperate on policies for the interim to assure both existing and prospective near campus neighborhood residents that the vitality and quality of these neighborhoods is important.
This means cities should vigorously enforce housing codes and noise ordinances and swiftly fine students and absentee landlords for violations. Colleges should extend student honor codes to encompass off-campus behavior and appoint troubleshooters to work with neighborhood groups and residents to identify and deal with student problems in residential areas.
But don't forget these are temporary "fixes." They are intended mainly to signal that cities and colleges care about the fate of near campus neighborhoods. If intended as permanent solutions to the problem, these policies will only guarantee endless frustration for everyone involved. If the real problem—student demand for housing in near campus neighborhoods—is not dealt with, then the result will be campuses surrounded by shabby, unsafe neighborhoods. This will happen sooner than you think. And when it happens, everyone—students, residents, city leaders and college administrators—loses.
New goal for neighborhood residents
The benefits of these proposals are clear and substantial. Cities get higher quality neighborhoods. Students and colleges get re-vitalized campus life. Everyone gets to enjoy the cultural and economic energy of a new and distinctive student-centered district.
To obtain these prizes, however, town and gown policymakers will have to be pushed into action by the residents of near campus neighborhoods.
But these residents will have to embrace a new, more strategic goal—that of significantly reducing demand for student housing in their neighborhoods.
This means energies currently spent on seeking new ordinances to control student rentals and to punish students and absentee landlords for misbehavior will have to be re-directed. The new work will involve enlisting city and state policymakers to help push colleges to build more student housing and to re-vitalize campus life. It will also mean demanding that cities start working with planners and developers to create student-centered commercial and cultural districts.
Such work will take more time than getting a new ordinance passed, but the pay-off will be much sweeter: a pleasant, safe neighborhood right next to campus.
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It looks like music is getting a new R&B and Hip-Hop duo. Detroit's own "Roc" lyricist Brittany Elliott and "Stea'D" vocalist Jessica Lamarre are LIVE Record Label's debut duo, Roc Stea'D.
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"We didn't even have the idea to come together; it was actually James Terry's idea. He found out I could sing through my voicemail and he knew Brittany could rap so he had the idea to put us together," explained Jessica. "Before we started it was a revolving door of girls in the group but Jessica and I were always the last two standing. I'm in a group with an amazing singer and an awesome writer and that comes out in our songs," continued Brittany.
As for the song that made James fall in love with Jessica?
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Weld County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Reams reported on Tuesday that Peck was arrested after two dogs were found running loose near Peck's home at 4343 Weld County Road 6, east of Erie. One of the dogs was emaciated.
Reams said no photos of the dogs are available and he believes one is under veterinary care.
"My officers are still working through this case so I don't have too many details right now," he wrote in an e-mail to the Times-Call. "I apologize, but this is a case that we can't put out a lot of info on as it tends to hurt us in court for prosecution purposes."
Peck has a history of hoarding and abuse cases in California and Wyoming that have garnered media attention. In 2009, authorities in California grappled with her over keeping nearly 200 dogs at her private residence, according to media coverage then. She threatened to euthanize the dogs if authorities pressed her. Her home was ultimately declared a public nuisance and she moved the operation, media reported in 2009. Reports followed her movements and legal problems for years.
According to the Wyoming News Tribune, she surrendered 53 dogs in Cheyenne after authorities received a tip about her whereabouts. She was reportedly hauling the dogs in a trailer towed by a truck. She kept four dogs.
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Audience in the Teatro Verdi awaiting the screening of Le Voyage dans la lune in colour, David Robinson (far right) introducing
The days go by, as they tend to do, and here I am on my last day in Pordenone, with the Giornate del Cinema Muto only halfway through. Never fear, there is cover organised, and for the four remaining days you will be getting reports from the Bioscope's anonymous but observant and eloquent co-reporter, the Mysterious X. But it is Tuesday 4 October, and I am up with the lark once more, ready as soon as the doors of the Verdi opening for our first films films of the day – and what a marvellous start it is.
We begin, as we have each day, with a Disney Laugh-o-Gram. Puss in Boots (USA 1922) is great fun, never more so than when Puss goes to the cinema to see 'Rudolph Vaselino'. It is filmed with zip and zest and a gag in every shot, though somebody should have told Walt that he had used the joke about eight of a cat's lives floating up from its prone body a few times too often – it's the third time we've seen it this week.
Next, two films in the Treasures of the West strand, both of them gems. Deschutes Driftwood (USA 1916) is an Educational Films production from the time when they made educational film, not the comedies for which they later became famous. The film follows a hobo ('Walter') as he travels along the Deschutes river, Oregon, hoping from train to train as a succession of authorities move him on. It is half a scenic (a phantom ride from a tramp's point of view) and half a melancholy disquisition on a rootless life. It seems informed by a sensibility years ahead of its time, even if it is not strictly sympathetic towards its stubborn hero. Stephen Horne gives a sensitive accompaniment on piano an accordion, and this wistful, unexpected 11-minute film is for me the hit of the festival so far.
Or at least until the next film to be shown. Now, if you are introducing someone to the delights of the silent cinema for the first time, what would you encourage them to see? Metropolis, maybe? Pandora's Box or The General probably. Well it's always good to see a classic, but somehow classics stand alone and tell you more about themselves than they do about the medium to which they belong. If I were introducing someone to silents, I might prefer a film of more modest ambition, but one which nevertheless demonstrates through subtle artistry a particular understanding of human things, one that shows off the medium to its greater advantage. A film such as The Lady of the Dugout (USA 1918).
The Lady of the Dugout, with (L-R) Frank Jennings, Al Jennings, Corinne Grant and Ben Alexander, from http://www.filmpreservation.org
The Lady of the Dugout was produced, co-written by and stars Al Jennings, a sometime small-town lawyer, turned outlaw, turned evangelist (after a spell in prison and a presidential pardon). The film documents a tale from his time as an outlaw, heading the Jennings gang alongside his brother Frank (who like Al plays himself in the film) in the late 1890s. It's a Robin Hood-style story, in which the Jennings brothers come across a deserted wife and child in a wretched dugout home (literally a hole in the ground with a roof over it), living in the middle of nowhere and without food. They come to her rescue (using money from one of their robberies), then when her brutal husband returns they take her to her middle-class family home, where her once unforgiving father now takes her back.
The story is engrossing, and the insight it gives into a frontier life where dreams have turned sour is a special one. There is an authenticity in locale, in the weatherbeaten looks of the Jennings brothers, in the action (a particularly convincing, almost matter-of-fact bank robbery), in manner and in human feeling. The film develops not out of the demands of story but out of circumstance, character and a true moral sense. The director was W.S. Van Dyke, and I can't think of a better-handled silent film. It's low-key, it doesn't touch on any grand themes (though forgiveness, which is what it is ultimately about, is a noble theme), but it is about things that matter and people that we care for. You feel that nothing stood in the way of the filmmakers being able to tell the story exactly in the way that they wanted to (its sympathetic view of the outlaw life is extraordinary). It's hard to believe that a film of such easy naturalism was made only four years after The Birth of a Nation. Only an over-cute child, and for this screening a poor quality DVD-R after the DigiBeta wouldn't play, let things down. It's on the new Treasures of the West DVD – please see it.
We return to The Canon Revisited, the strand of silent classics that the Giornate feels we need to see again to see how well they stand up in modern times, but which many of us are not too sure we'd ever heard of. Certainly one senses few in the audience could tell you much about director Fridrikh Ermler and would have to confess that they are seeing Oblomok Imperii (Fragment of an Empire) (USSR 1929) for the first time. Few would deny its position of greatness by the end of it, however. This is quite an extraordinary film. Its subject is a shell-shocked soldier, Filimonov (mesmerisingly played with wide-eyed puzzlement by Fedor Nikitin), who loses his memory at the end of the First World War, gradually regaining it four years later, when he discovers a very different country to the one he thought he knew. The buildings have changed, manners have changed, most significantly there are now no masters – he, like everyone else, is the master now.
Except that things are not quite like that, and this is where the film's startling satirical power lies. Filimonov embraces socialism, but finds that many in this so-called new society have not given up on the old, bad ways, in particular the party apparatchik who has married Filimonov's wife. Ermler recognises the private face of the USSR behind the public facade, and that all is not yet well, or as some would have things be, because people will be people. Ultimately the film is conflicted in the lessons it wants to draw from Filimonov's experience, the eye for truth coming up against idealism and ideology. It is dispiriting when Filimonov, whom we have come to like greatly, turns to the camera at the end of the film and says (through intertitles), "No, it is not the end – there's a great deal yet to be done, comrades". Of course it is the only ending that could be expected, given the political climate, but the film has shown a much more interesting and plausible world, and it is remarkable that he was allowed to do so as much as he did. A few years later, there would have been no chance of anyone making such a questioning piece of cinema.
The film is technically dazzling, particularly some hallucinatory flashbacks, including a war scene where Filimonov encounters a German soldier played by the same actor. The opening is particularly arresting – a soldier lying close to death amid typhoid-ridden corpses, desperate to quench his thirst, sees a nearby dog with her puppies, is suckled by the dog, then someone comes up and shoots the dog, before Filimonov rescues the soldier (whom he meets later in the film). This traumatic scenario is recalled throughout the film. It is impressions like these of the past that continue to haunt the USSR, Ermler seems to be suggesting. Society may think of utopias, but the mind has other ideas.
Praise, by the way, is due to John Sweeney for his spirited accompaniment, in particular a moment of sheer genius when a balaika band appeared on screen (John not having seen the film beforehand) and he instantly produces the sounds of balaikas on the piano. We really are blessed at Pordenone by some outstandingly skilled, imaginative musicians.
Collegium audience learning about The Soldier's Courtship
I head to join the Collegium, a sort of school for budding film archivists and scholars which the festival hosts. In practice this means a series of presentations relating to films and themes from the festival. I'm here to see the presentation by the Cineteca Nazionale and restoration specilaists Omnimago on The Soldier's Courtship, the 1896 British film we saw yesterday. this is a fascinating mixture of historical investigation and technical exposition. The film has been held by the Cineteca for many years under a generic title and was only identified recently. At 80ft it is double the legnth of a standard Robert Paul film of the period, and Paul had problems showing it initially as his projector could not cope. Paul's catalogue offers the film in two parts, though it is hard to say where the join could have been. As well as the 35mm film they held, the restorers also made use of the fragment from the film held by the National Media Museum in Bradford and a Filoscope flipbook of the film. There were signs of retouching in the print, possibly done in 1900, and there was further retouching done for the digital restoration, where damaged sections were papered over by clean sections from other frames (they wonder out loud whether they have over-restored to some degree – the purists might have been reassured by the sight of more blotches). One wishes Paul could have seen the extraordinary lengths to which we can now go to return a one-minute film to pristine state – electron microscope analysis, Diamant software, SCANITY film processing, Photoshop treatment of individual frames. We can make the past look so much better, the further in time we retreat from it.
I miss the afternoon's screenings of Thanhouser films, being preoccupied by work matters (from which there is never any real escape) but fortunately I have notes from The Mysterious X, who was there, and reports thus:
First up post-lunch was a session of Thanhouser films, curated and presented by Ned Thanhouser, starting with four one-reelers: Uncle's Namesakes (USA 1913) was a blast; a father of twin girls deceives their rich British-based uncle, who wanted the offspring to carry his name, into thinking they were twin boys; an inheritance is at stake. But Uncle rumbles the situation and decides to pay a visit … Petticoat Camp (USA 1912) was a delightful proto-feminist comedy over job demarcation on a camping holiday, and the strike and walkout that follows. An Elusive Diamond (USA 1914) was the tale of jewel thieves outwitted by the quick thinking of the young lady they target. Their One Love (USA 1915) was a US Civil War tale of twin girls whose childhood playmate grows up to go to war. David Copperfield (USA 1911) was a three-reel adaptation; based visually, as so many adaptations are, on the Phiz illustrations. It rolled along nicely, but suffered a little in comparisom to the slightly later, more energetic one-reelers.
I don't know enough to say if these films are entirely representative of the Thanhouser output, or if Ned Thanhouser has (understandably) cherry-picked the very best of what survives; but if they are, or even close to it, what a studio that must have been. All the films featured excellent staging and use of locations, some finely sensitive acting – only slightly broad in the comedy; and notably good, involving roles for the women to get their teeth into. Their One Love featured a charming passage-of-time device; a calendar on a desk is not unusual … having a miniature becloaked Father Time walk onto the desk to rip pages off the calendar is a tad more ambitious. And the lighting and special effects used during the battle sequence were exceptional; not the epic spread of Griffith's cast of thousands, but intelligent use of less generous resources to great result. Playing the piano for these was the always excellent Phil Carli, but here seeming absolutely in his element with these cracking little films. As always happens somewhen during the Giornate, I really feel the need to explore further; to the Thanhouser website on my return home.
Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films interviewed about the colour restoration of Georges Méliès' Le Voyage dans la lune ("The Avatar of its day"), with clips from the film itself (without the Air soundtrack)
The evening show commences, and the theatre, with all four tiers full, is a-buzz with excitement. It is not the main feature that is causing such fervour, but the short that precedes it – the colour restoration of Georges Méliès' La Voyage dans la lune (1902), undoubtedly the most familiar of all early films, now to be seen as none of us has seen it in a hundred years. Festival director David Robinson introduces Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange from Lobster Films, who have restored the film. Their plan is to make prints available in each of the major film archives around the world, while popularising their discovery by making it accessible to new audiences – people who "don't know anything about anything", in Bromberg's somewhat unfortunate phrase. A significant element of the popularisation has been the decision to give the film a soundtrack written by vogue-ish French group Air, about which they seem a little ashamed and which Robinson introduces with apprehension, telling the audience (which is trembling in its seats in fear at this rude intrusion of the 21st century) that maybe they can screen the film later in the festival with traditional piano, which won't upset anyone.
And then the film screening, and a pounding beat from the start probably comfirms the audience's worst fears. Well, all I can say is that if silent films can't stand up to 21st century treatment then there may be no good reason for continuing with them at all. And the Air soundtrack is a triumph. I don't think I have heard a better modern accompaniment to a silent film. It is electro-pop with occasional diversions into odd noises, even background talk, with each scene given a different musical treatment, the musicians having noticeably picked up on various visual cues, such as the hammering of workmen when the rocket is being constructed. There is great variety, yet each element combines to make the harmonious whole, with a rousing stomp for the film's triumphal finish that continues over the credits. The colour definition varies quite a bit throughout the film, but what comes over with great clarity is that this was always a film meant to be shown in colour – in truth, we haven't seen Le Voyage dans la lune properly until now. Colour and music combine naturally to accentuate the film's huge inventiveness. And David Robinson did have the good grace to say afterwards that he thought they'd actually made quite a good job of the music. Indeed they have. I hope it is enough to give the film the theatrical screenings that have been talked about (maybe accompanying Martin Scorsese's Hugo, which features Méliès as a character?). It is a triumph in every degree.
OK, follow that. Well, what could? We do have Shinel (The Overcoat) (USSR 1926), another FEKS production from Grigori Kosintsev and Leonid Trauberg, a classic of sorts, though instead of Shostakovich's music we get Maud Nelissen and trio playing her score to the film. I would happily listen to the music again, but not see the film again. Indeed for quite some time I listen only to the music and ignore the film entirely. Based on Gogol's short story and avant garde in treatment, it goes on and on, seemingly without purpose. Why do people move and gesture with such meaningless slowness? What is the point of it all? When will anything happen of any significance? Why should we care? An old print does not help matters, and all in all this was a very odd choice for one of the prestige evening screening. Shinel feels lost to another age; Le Voyage dans la lune feels like it belongs to today.
The last film of the evening is Az utolsó hajnal (The Last Dawn) (Hungary 1917), directed by Michael Curtiz (as he would become). This was a pleasant surprise. I have been expecting something far cruder in technique and performance than that which we get. The film is sophisticated in performance and polished in technique, if wordy and frankly at times a bit above itself. It concerns a world-weary upper class man who decides to commit suicide, after insuring his life, to help a friend escape debts. The film makes something of a misjudgement when it moves to India (not an easy place to recreate in Hungary on a limited budget), then becomes intriguing when the man does indeed kill himself with the help of a mysterious Indian friend. This takes us greatly by surprise, but not nearly as much as when the Indian whips off his beard and reveals himself to be a relative of the man who appeared earlier in the film and who has actually ensured that the poison he has taken will not kill him. Much applause from the audience at a corny trick well executed. An enjoyable film, if a long long way away from Casablanca.
And that is Pordenone for me this year. I must return to London to deal with assorted pressing matters. I have enjoyed the Giornate, particularly the screenings today, though the feeling is (and others seem to share this) that it hasn't quite hit the heights too often. Perhaps the Mysterious X, who takes over this diary for day five, will see things differently. We shall see.
Pordenone diary 2011 – day one
Pordenone diary 2011 – day two
Pordenone diary 2011 – day three
Pordenone diary 2011 – day five
Pordenone diary 2011 – day six
Pordenone diary 2011 – day seven
Pordenone diary 2011 – day eight


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Even a small amount of preparation before an emergency can make a huge difference and can save lives. That is why the PCHD Office of Public Health Preparedness is doing its part. We are creating plans, practicing them, and conducting training to better protect the residents of Pima County.
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Being prepared has three steps: Be Informed, Make a Plan, and Ready a Disaster Supply Kit.
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The Amazon Daily blog has a fun tip about making Windows XP look and work like Windows 7:
Not quite ready to take the plunge of the free release candidate of Windows 7, but still dig on its snazzy new look? If you're one of the millions who are sticking by the tried-and-true Windows XP until the grass is proven greener, here's an easy way to get a bit of Windows 7's spruced-up look and features with just three free downloads.
1) ViGlance--There've been several XP themes designed to mimic Windows 7's appearance, but ViGlance does that AND brings you some of the actual functionality of the new taskbar--you can group processes and even get some sliding transition effects.
2) Desk Topmost--Here's a nice substitute for the Aero Peek feature. Instead of using the Ctrl+D shortcut to minimize all windows, Desk Topmost lets you use Ctrl+Alt+D to fade all open windows to show the desktop, and you can either click on the desktop icons as normal or right-click anywhere on the screen to return to your open windows.
3) Power Resizer--One of the hyped features of Windows 7 is Window Snap, where you drag a window to the top or side of the screen and it will automatically resize the window to take up half or all of the screen. Power Resizer lets you do this in XP, but even takes it a step further by automatically resizing open windows in relation to a window that you actively resize. Which means that if you resize an open window, the other open windows will resize themselves automatically in relation to it to fit the screen.


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Staff Awards & Honors
December 2009
Scott Chambers Elected AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Chambers of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in being named a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publishes the journal Science. The association gives the honor of Fellow to members who have made particularly distinguished scientific contributions.
Chambers' research focuses on the growth and properties of crystalline oxide films. Oxides have wide-ranging properties, making them useful for electronic and magnetic technologies, as well as for catalysis. Chambers studies the fundamental relationships between composition and structure, and the resulting electronic, magnetic, and photochemical properties. Understanding these structure-function relationships enables new technological applications of these materials in solid-state electronics and energy conversion.
In addition to his own research, Chambers assists users of the Department of Energy's EMSL in designing experiments and growing oxide films for their own use. In July 2009, he was named a Wiley Research Fellow. As such, he will lead the design and construction of EMSL's third generation oxygen plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy system. The system will enable the controlled growth of oxide films of increasing complexity.
Chambers is a PNNL Fellow, an American Vacuum Society Fellow, and Affiliate Professor in the Departments of Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.


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RTI is not a series of implementation steps to cross off on a list, but a way of thinking about how educators can ensure each child receives the time and support needed to achieve success. This workshop was developed for school teams who have started RTI but are still refining processes or experiencing challenges. The presenter has worked with hundreds of schools throughout North America and can help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable. RTI work must be divided between collaborative teacher teams and two schoolwide teams (a leadership team and an intervention team). Together, the entire school assumes responsibility for the learning of every student.
Learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail, and then learn how to create an RTI model that works. Acquire four essential guiding principles—collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access—and experience a simple process for bringing these principles to life in your school.
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GABURO, KENNETH: Maledetto, Antiphony VIII
Pioneer of electronic music, compositional linguistics, and founder of the New Music Choral Ensemble and Lingua Press, Gaburo has spent his life experimenting with language-as-music and music-as-language. The two pieces featured here are the 1967-9 Maledetto, a remarkable, high-octane vocal theatre piece for 7 speakers centred on the word screw' in all its connotations, and Antiphony, for tape and percussion - a strongly theatrical piece for percussionist and tape. A rare recoding by Gaburo, whose work is generally underrepresented even today.
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One area that needed help was the rate of adolescent women giving birth, which caused a serious strain on health resources, as well as emotional struggles with teenage mothers who find themselves in difficult situations. In 2012-2013, the birth rate declined, along with disparity in infant mortality rates. In addition, the study data showed that over a 10-year period, the number of high school students (at Boston public schools) who felt depressed or sad decreased.
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Classic car show rolls into Kennedy Park
FALL RIVER — The shining 1965 maroon Chevy Impala appeared to have been professionally restored to show quality condition.
But, that wasn't the case at all.
The car's owner, Bob Astle, a retired Fall River brick layer, was as original as his Impala.
"You might see original cars, but you don't often see the original owner," Astle said.
Astle still has the original bill of sale for the car. He paid $3,000 for the Impala on March 9, 1965. The car today at a ripe old age of 49 has just 80,000 miles on it.
"I put $25 down and didn't know how I was going to pay for it," Astle said.
Astle simply took good care of the car all these years. The original spare tire is still in the trunk.
When Astle bought the Chevy Impala, he never knew it would one day be a "classic" car, worthy of being shown.
"I didn't know I was going to have it this long," Astle said. "My wife used the car every day when the kids were growing up."
It's no longer his everyday vehicle, and hasn't been for a long time.
Astle's car was one of about 100 cars and bikes on display at the third annual Customs for Kids Expo at Kennedy Park on Sunday.
Adults and kids got a close-up look at custom and antique cars and bikes, including a 1928 Ford Model A sport coupe painted with a swirling gray and purple finish.
Many of the vehicles dated to the 1950s and 1960s, like a jet black Chevy Chevelle, an orange and black Plymouth Road Runner, and a ruby red Monte Carlo.
Steven and Darlene Tetrealt showed their 1965 black Volkswagen Beetle, built in pieces from the ground up, to honor their late daughter.
"I made a promise to my daughter before she passed away," said Steven Tetrealt.
The promise was to build a vintage vehicle. He never got to keep the promise when his daughter was alive.
Mirissa Medeiros, 22, died in a car accident on Route 24 on Thanksgiving 2011.
"Six months later, I built it," Tetrealt said. "It was built in pieces with the help of my daughter's friends."
Christine Carvalho, event organizer, said the Customs for Kids car and bike expo, presented by County Street Autosports, has raised $10,000 in the last two years. All funds benefit Greater Fall River Re-Creation.
Carvalho, a Silvia School teacher, owns the business with her husband, Mike Carvalho, She said so many of "her kids" enjoy Greater Fall River Re-Creation, so she decided to host the annual event for city children.
The Carvalhos called in their numerous custom and vintage car contacts for the show. The event also offered lots of family activities, including a bounce house, face-painting, dancing, games, entertainment, along with food and refreshments.
"It's a place that benefits my students," Carvalho said. "That makes it all worth it."


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