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New Chief Named for Queer Publisher
The largest independent queer publishing company in the U.S. has a new publisher and the business will remain LGBT-focused even though she is a straight ally.
Brenda Knight, who has more than 20 years of experience in the field, was named publisher of Cleis Press earlier this month. Felice Newman, chief financial officer and co-founder, made the announcement.
Knight, 54, had been associate publisher of Cleis Press and founder of the imprint Viva Editions under the publishing house. She said she is "thrilled" to be stepping into the role of publisher of the lesbian feminist publishing company and the imprint.
"She was so successful and she has taken the company in such a great direction it seemed really clear that she was virtually doing the job of publisher as associate publisher," said Newman, 57. "It made sense to give her that promotion because really she is the right person for the job and she will take the company in even better directions and there will be even more growth."
Cleis founders Newman and Frederique Delacoste, both out lesbians and friends, have been in the publishing industry for more than 30 years. The women are now focused on spearheading their passions and their unique skills at strategically guiding the company into the future while letting go of the daily operations.
Delacoste, who was not available for an interview, will remain president of Cleis Press and publisher of Midnight Editions, the company's human rights imprint. Newman will stay on as chief financial officer.
Newman is the author of the bestselling Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us, with more than 125,000 copies in print, published by Cleis.
Cleis will remain feminist and queer and will have a solid LGBT staff, the women told the Bay Area Reporter.
"It didn't matter how anybody identified," said Knight. "I love acquiring LGBT books and I'm honored to be what I think of as a standard-bearer and carrying it on.
Newman agreed.
"We haven't lost anything," said Newman, pointing out that Cleis' audience continues to evolve, breaking out of the so-called gay ghetto and indulging in all of their various interests. "We've added to it. We see our audiences getting bigger and wider.
"We are all interested in everything, so it just doesn't make sense to me anymore to have a publishing company that only publishes in one very specific area," she added. "The independent presses that are still around have really followed the interests of their audiences."
At the same time, Cleis is still very queer inside its operations. Knight and Newman pointed to the publishing house's list of lesbian and queer books and the staff.
"There are plenty of queer people involved in Cleis," Newman said.
Passionate Publishers
Founded by Delacoste and Newman in 1980, Cleis has done something few other feminist, LGBT and even mainstream presses have done in recent years: thrived.
Newman credited Knight's foresight and smart publishing decisions combined with Newman's financial acumen. The company has a solid financial foundation and no debt, she said.
Knight came from corporate publishing with an impressive pedigree that included HarperCollins, Conari Press, and other respected houses. She authored and self-published Women of the Beat Generation , which won an American Book Award, and other books.
Cleis has experienced unprecedented growth for the past five years since Knight came on board as associate publisher. As of May 1, sales at the estimated $3 million company, according to Knight, were up 42.22 percent from 2012. Sales of paperback books were up 80 percent, according to a company news release.
The company publishes upward of 60 titles a year, the two women said.
Newman wouldn't confirm the private company's value, stating it was "proprietary information."
Knight has transformed Cleis, which was still operating with three and a half staff members when she started. Now the company has up to 10 staff members, half full-time and half part-time, according to Newman.
Cleis is known for being cutting edge and taking risks that other publishers wouldn't, publishing controversial fiction and sexual manuals about taboo topics. It has been an early adaptor, keeping an eye on its audience and jumping on emerging technology. The company was an early converter to e-books, waiting for years until the market was ripe for the transition. Cleis has also been aggressively using networking and social media.
What it didn't have when Knight was hired was more mainstream titles.
They were "real outliers" and "total badasses," said Knight, who was seeking to get out of corporate publishing at the same time Cleis was seeking to spread its wings.
Delacoste attributed "the phenomenal growth in sales to Viva Editions, which is blazing new trails in the gift market," she said in a news release.
The imprint launched by Knight focused on more mainstream and practical titles covering cooking, gardening, inspiration, parenting, and more.
"Five years ago, we never thought we would have books in Costco, Wal-Mart, Hallmark, Whole Foods, or Target, and now we do," stated Delacoste.
Knight added that e-book sales have also given the company a boost, especially with the advent of tablets. The company has seen its e-book sales skyrocket on a steady trajectory for the past five years, particularly in the erotica section.
E-books have become the new "brown paper wrappers," said Knight, especially among the "execubears," well-to-do burley gay men who buy Richard Labonte's series of erotica published by Cleis.
"They are super fabulous, have the shiniest gadgets, and read bear erotica," said Knight. "I just love that."
Another project for which she is proud is publishing a novel that Random House ditched, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov: A Novel , by gay author Paul Russell. The story is a historical fictional tale about the real-life gay brother of Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov, Sergey, who perished in the Nazi concentration camps.
Knight is committed to maintaining Cleis' high standards set by Delacoste and Newman, and to "up the game," by finding what people want to read before they even know they want it, she said.
Newman believes Knight will take the company in an even better direction and is comfortable leaving it in her hands.
"I want Cleis to last longer than me," said Newman. "It seems very clear that is going to happen."


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Ganey Rill finds art in yesterday's castoffs
by Jeff Joiner
The tangle of
rusty metal at first looks worthless a pile of castoff tools, engine
and farm implement parts and unidentifiable pieces of iron and steel.
But for Ganey Rill the pile of scrap on his southwest Missouri farm is
a treasure-trove of possibilities.For
him the useless looking metal is the makings of his unique yard and garden
gates that he's made for decades.
"Here a check
wire from old corn planter. Here a plow point. Here tin snips," says Ganey
in his halting speech, the result of a brain aneurysm he suffered in 1962.
Despite his speech
difficulties, the 83 year old sports a sharp mind that retains the name
of nearly everyone he's ever met. And he can identify every obscure piece
of metal in the pile.
There's wagon
springs, engine valves, camshafts, hopelessly rusted Crescent wrenches,
parts of horse harnesses and wheels, lots of wheels.
Ganey incorporates
just about anything metal that can be welded into his gates which always
feature a wheel in the center. Ganey has welded a hundred or more gates
and has given every one away, save for a couple on his own farm.
Dozens of farms
and homes around Lawrence County feature a Rill gate. Some are actually
used as an opening in a fence while others are mounted on sides of barns
or erected in flower beds. Some are left in their natural (read rusty)
state while others are brightly painted by their owners. Ganey leaves
that up to them.
Making folksy
metal gates is not just a hobby for Ganey. It's a way for him to continue
to use his professional skills and a way to overcome a disability.
Ganey and his
wife, Clara, were married in 1940. After the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor the next year, Ganey found he couldn't pass a military physical.
That was a sign of his developing health troubles.
There was plenty
of work to be had in the United States during World War II and Ganey and
Clara moved to southern California to work in defense plants. Ganey learned
to weld and was hired in a shipyard building Liberty ships, the cargo
ships built by the thousands to supply the war effort. Clara found work
at Douglas Aircraft making parts for bombers.
After the war
the couple came home to southwest Missouri but the opportunities in sunny
California were too hard to resist. They moved back in 1951.
Ganey continuing
to work as a welder in manufacturing plants. In the midst of the Cold
War in the 1950s both Clara and Ganey went to work for Lockheed Corporation
in their missile plant. But In 1962, at age 44, Ganey was struck down
by his most serious health threat, a brain aneurysm.
"The doctor told
me he had a place on an artery in his brain like a balloon on an inner
tube," says Clara. "He had surgery and the doctors clipped it off. But
he couldn't talk after his surgery," Clara says.
"Good memory,
good memory," says Ganey recalling his recovery. "Seven weeks in hospital.
Read paper. Watch TV, but no go home."
A few weeks after
the aneurysm, as Ganey began to recover his speech, he suffered a stroke
and lost the ability to speak again. "Those were trying times," Clara
Ganey went through
two years of speech therapy and regained much of his ability to talk,
but it was apparent his health problems wouldn't allow him to return to
work. In 1964 the couple bought a farm near Halltown and moved back to
Missouri for good.
Clara went to
work in nearby Springfield while Ganey worked around the farm and kept
a small herd of cattle. But he really needed something else to do.
He started going
to auctions and buying old farm implements and tools and odds and ends.
At one sale he bought a load of pipe and hauled it to his father-in-law's
blacksmith shop in Republic where he welded together gates from the pipe.
Soon he decided
he could build smaller yard and garden gates and decorate them by welding
other parts to the pipe frames including entire wagon wheels. He gave
them away to relatives and friends and soon word spread. People started
coming by with pieces of metal, wagon wheels, old tools and whatever and
asking him to make gates. A
niece bought him a bucket full of rusty wrenches at a sale and he began
incorporating them into his gates.
"Here a Model
T jack handle and here a clutch from a Buick," he says pointing at photos
he's taken of his gates. He goes through a dozen photos naming the parts
he used and recalling who he gave the gate to and whether they mounted
it in a fence or in a flower garden.
Sometimes the
parts are easy to identify like the many horseshoes Ganey uses. But often
he likes to stump visitors with what a piece is. "That one (from) an engine,
old truck," he says, pausing. "Oil pan."
For Ganey making
gates is a way to tinker in his shop and revisit earlier times through
old tractor parts and pieces from Model Ts. It's also a way to maintain
friendships and family ties.
He won't accept
payment for a gate and doesn't take orders, though if you bring him parts
he might use them to build you a gate.
Clara, who's 82,
has thought about moving into a town nearby as they grow older, but Ganey
doesn't want any part of that. He's settled in and wants to stay on the
farm where he can tinker and weld.
"No more moves,"
he says.

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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The eighth grader from Maryland was quite the scene-stealer at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Fourteen-year-old Surjo Bandyopadhyay of Lusby, Md., was riveting to watch at the semifinals Thursday morning. Presented with the medical term "lysozyme," he blurted out: "May I please have all the information on this word?"
Surjo then shifted his eyes, wrinkled his brow and nodded his head as he listened to the definition, origin and a sentence — then spelled the word correctly. In the next round, he puffed his cheeks, thrust his arms forward and spelled "phyllomancy" so fast that the judges paused for what seemed like forever before nodding their approval, a tension that had him doing a double-take before returning to his seat.
Surjo was one of 41 semifinalists remaining from the 275 spellers who began the 84th edition of the bee Tuesday. Six more were eliminated in the first semifinal round. The finals were scheduled for Thursday night, with the winner receiving more than $40,000 in cash and prizes.
One of the interesting new twists at this year's bee: The semifinalists got to see ESPN's feature profiles on a big screen while they were airing on television. It might have seemed like a distraction, but it actually served to ease the tension. Grace Remmer of St. Augustine, Fla., giggled as she watched herself enjoying Disneyworld — then calmed down and approached the microphone, where she correctly spelled "anaphylaxis."
Among those still in contention were two finalists from last year, Joanna Ye of Carlisle, Pa., and Laura Newcombe of Toronto.
The first semifinalist to hear the dreaded elimination bell was 12-year-old Emily Keaton of Pikeville, Ky., who left the "c" out of "sciamachy," a noun that means fighting with a shadow. She was escorted to the bee's comfort sofa, where she was greeted with cookies, water and soothing words from bee staff and her family.
A rare spelling bee exit was made by Hanif Brown Jr. of St. Thomas, Jamaica. Hanif spelled the word "nataka" correctly, but after his alloted 2½ minutes had expired.
The semifinalists reflected an array eclectic interests. Anna-Marie Sprenger of Provo, Utah, has a passion for ballroom dancing. Samuel Estep of Berryville, Va., designs games on his calculator. Mashad Arora of Brownsville, Texas, has built and raced a hydrogen fuel cell car. David Krak of Lititz, Pa., plays Gershwin on the piano. Nicholas Rushlow of Pickerington, Ohio, is a competitive swimmer and violinist. Parker Strubhar of Piedmont, Okla., has been to 29 states and wants to make it to all 50 before he graduates from high school. Anja Beth Swoap is known as the "scarf queen" in her hometown of Edina, Minn., because she has such of large collection of the fashionable neckwear.
The bee continued to exhibit a sense of humor in the sentences used by pronouncer Jacques Bailly. He referenced a "set of prison bars for the name Bernie Madoff" in his example for "brachygraphy" and later made a reference to the "The Jeffersons," a sitcom that went off the air some 10 years before the oldest of the spellers was born.
On Wednesday, all of the 275 spellers ages 8 to 15 from across the United States and around the world took turns in the spotlight, getting to spell two words without the fear of being dinged off stage by the bell. Their scores were combined with a 25-word written test to determine the semifinalists.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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It seems as if the 2015 free agency period has the potential to flip the league on its axis. Some teams with restricted players will have to dish out some serious cash to keep a key player. While some playoff teams will no longer be playoff teams after major subtractions.
- What will happen in Cleveland? Coach LeBron James is now using the "wait-and –see" approach as if he doesn't know what he will do. James will stay with the team and he will put his general manager cap. He obviously wants David Blatt gone and more depth added to the team. It doesn't look like James wants to team up with Kevin Love anymore as the experiment did not work. (Sidebar: Love is capable of getting 20 points and 20 boards each night. He cannot do that by playing on the wing. Just because he can shoot from the perimeter, inaccurately, does mean you should put him there.) James has gone on the record saying that he wants to see Tristan Thompson come back and be a Cavalier for live. For the record, LeBron has not been a Cavalier for life. It is Cleveland after all. That city can screw up a 911 call dialing 119. BTW we will be previewing all 32 NFL teams in 31 days. The first team up is the Cleveland Browns. There are so many great things to not say about this franchise.
- Jimmy Butler has singlehandedly carried the Chicago Bulls in the absence of Derrick Rose. Butler is developing into a superstar shooting guard who will have the ability to make another team an instant threat if he were to leave the Windy City. Most likely he will be offered a max salary that Chicago should match. The Bulls would be placed in a tough position if he were to leave. They already are in need of shooters. This team could go from a championship contender to a middle of the pack team. It is the East where a .500 record can get you in the playoffs.
- In the past two seasons Portland has had its best record since the Nate McMillan days. The Blazers will lose at least one star. LaMarcus Aldridge has already put his home up for sale and informed the team he won't be returning. He will become a max player early in free agency. Wesley Matthews is also an unrestricted free agent who happens to be recovering from a torn Achilles tendon. If he is 100% healthy he can make a team better over night. The only notable player that may be left in Portland is Damien Lillard who happens to be going into his final year of his contract.
- The Los Angeles Lakers will be spending George Steinbrenner money this offseason. Rumor has it that they will be making a serious push for Kevin Love, Jimmy Butler, LaMarcus Aldridge, amongst others. Can they become ShowTime again? Who knows? Expect Kobe to still put 40 shots a night.
- My favorite NBA owner, Mark Cuban, will also be looking to spend some dineros this offseason as he is still trying to win another championship for Dirk Nowitzki. It is rumored that they also want Aldridge, C DeAndre Jordan and PG Goran Dragic. It is safe to say the Rajon Rondo will not be returning to the team as he was a bud Rick Carlisle was happy to nip (People thought the Rondo addition would guarantee them a title. Silly rabbit). The team will most likely not get Monta Ellis back.
- Then there are the New York Knickabockers. I, like everyone else, have no clue as to what this team/Phil Jackson is attempting to do. It's clear Carmelo Anthony does not care about winning. He proved that last year when he decided to resign. It was no surprise to see the team perform to horrifically. It appears as if Greg Monroe is going to join the team and continue to be a part of a below .500 team. It's a shame to see a team with such a good fan base be so irresponsible.
- The Spurs will be resigning Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan and hoping that they have enough left over to go after Aldridge. Remember Kawhi Leonard is a restricted free agent. It's not often San Antonio has to make salary and personnel decisions during the offseason.
- Boston is going to look to get bigger. Last season they tried unsuccessfully to get Kevin Love. Expect them to land a big name person to go in the post. Brad Stevens and Danny Ainge have done a great job thus far of putting this team together. They came a long way in such a short period of time.
- I want to see the Charlotte Hornets pick up someone. Anyone. This team was the biggest disappointment last season. There is a lot of talent, but they can't put it together. When Michael Jordan, THE GREATEST NBA PLAYER OF ALL-TIME, at age 52 says that he can beat every player on his team there is a serious problem.
- Will Dwayne Wade stay in Miami? It would be hard to see him a different jersey next season. Would it matter if he left though? Yes, if Chris Bosh would have been healthy at the end of the season the Heat would have been a playoff team. However, Wade will be one year older this season and if healthy he can give a team a maximum 50-60 games? D-Wade should leave to try to win another title. He should join a team where he would need to play about 30 minutes a night.
Bonus: The Philadelphia 76ers will be looking to add Slava Medvedenko, Nick Young, Mark Madson, Brad Miller, and Kwame Brown. You can never have to many centers and other worthless players, right?
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Doulas and Home BirthMonday, May 4th, 2015
Is there benefit to hiring a doula for a home birth? I say YES absolutely.
An oldie but a goodie, from Desirre, in honor of International Doula Month.
As a seasoned doula who has attended home births as labor support and now an intern midwife who clinically supports the mother, I believe that many women can keenly benefit from a doula when having a home birth.
The most simple reasoning is that the doula is there physically, emotionally and educationally specifically for the mother and family just like at the hospital or a birth center. She (he) is an integral part of the birth team.
- The doula will likely be laboring with the mother first, providing a continuous care support framework for when the midwifery team arrives.
- As the midwifery team sets up and prepares the space clinically, the doula is right there maintaining the comfort, peace and encouragement of the mother. Often lessening any disruption that new people in the environment can cause.
- The doula is there SOLELY for the mother and husband (partner), step by step, eye to eye while the midwifery team is there to first and primarily clinically assess, maintain safety and be unobtrusive as possible.
- The doula offers guidance and suggestions for position changes, physical/emotional comforts and helping to ensure the mother eats, drinks, voids and rests.
- The doula gives the husband (partner) the opportunity to rest, have less stress, do the very best he/she can do along with enjoying the process more.
- A doula can be present specifically to help with the other children.
- A doula's presence offers reduction in any interventions and cesarean.
- A doula's presence offers increased satisfaction with birth, bonding and breastfeeding……….
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Remembering the 'L.I. Express' hurricane of 1938
Sept. 21, 1938, was shaping up to be just another gray day on the North Fork for 5-year-old Verna Campbell.
Her Wednesday morning at the newly built Pulaski Street School went along like any other day, from what she can remember.
In Riverhead and across the Northeast, no one appeared to be fazed by reports of a hurricane speeding up the East Coast. School children like Ms. Campbell and then-high school junior Lewis Tomaszewski were sent to school as usual, because experts believed the storm had missed the southern states and was headed out to sea.
That morning's New York Times editorial only boosted people's confidence. The editorial hailed the U.S. Weather Bureau's "unparalleled warning system" for alerting the public to inclement weather. The Times' opinion piece focused on the hurricane that was expected to slam Florida, but turned eastward, avoiding landfall.
That same day, the bureau's advisory out of Washington, D.C., made no reference to the hurricane, which even the most seasoned meteorologists assumed was destined to fizzle out in the Atlantic.
But by mid-afternoon, the wind had begun to pick up.
Hurricane outlook: When will the next big storm hit?
Mr. Tomaszewski remembers waiting for school buses to arrive to take the students home, watching through the windows as the hurricane struck.
"You could see these trees falling," Mr. Tomaszewski — now 92 years old — told the News-Review.
In her kindergarten class, Verna Campbell and her classmates watched as the storm whipped through the nearby cemetery.
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"I was so frightened," Ms. Campbell recalled. "The sky was gray and eerie and very terrifying. I wanted so desperately to go home."
Not long after that, the hurricane that would become known as the "Long Island Express" unleashed its fury on the East End.
Seventy-five years later, that hurricane — known officially as the New England Hurricane of 1938 — has gone down in the record books as one of the most powerful and costliest storms ever to hit the region.
It slammed into the Northeast as a Category 3 hurricane with wind speeds gusting to more than 120 mph, toppling nearly two billion trees, according to National Weather Service estimates. A wall of water estimated at 17 feet crashed over Long Island. The storm made landfall on the South Shore sometime between 2:10 and 2:45 p.m. As quickly as the storm struck, it was gone, barreling across Long Island Sound into Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts within hours.
As many as 700 people were killed.
Related: How to prepare for the next big storm
"Homes were washed away, roads were washed away, Long Island Rail Road tracks were washed out, any of the fishing industry out here out east is gone, the apple crop was destroyed, a lot of livestock and farming was destroyed," National Weather Service meteorologist David Stark said in a recent interview. "This was a very powerful, very destructive storm no matter how you look at it."
Speed was partly to blame for the devastation, Mr. Stark said.
The hurricane traveled as fast as 60 mph up the coast — faster than any other storm in recorded history — after it got caught in the jet stream.
Without modern-day technology like satellites and radar, Long Island was caught off guard.
"Back then we were relying on data from ships going across the Atlantic," Mr. Stark said. "They were thinking it was a tropical storm at that point. They didn't really see [its] actual strength."
Related: Pieceful Quilting, 11 months after Sandy, rebounds
Westhampton Beach bore the brunt of the hurricane's force. The village area was flooded under eight feet of water. A movie theater filled with customers enjoying a matinee reportedly was lifted off its foundation by the storm's waves and carried two miles out to sea, where it sank – drowning all inside.
While the damage in Riverhead was nowhere near as severe as in Westhampton Beach, the town suffered the "most savage storm in years," according to an article in the County Review. The Peconic River overflowed its banks and tossed boats moored there — including a massive dredge — onto the shore, the article states.
More than 100 trees fell at Riverhead Cemetery and buildings like the Suffolk County Historical Society, the county courthouse, the elementary school on Roanoke Avenue and the high school on Pulaski Street were damaged, according to the article.
A group of "Riverhead lads" also managed to save the life of a woman trying to row across inundated Westhampton Beach, the newspaper reported.
In a special edition filed one week after the disaster, the County Review reported that at Old Steeple Church in Aquebogue the eponymous steeple was lost and a hole was punched through the roof. The church was left a "sorry looking spectacle," the article states.
On Roanoke Avenue, barns, sheds and garages were blown down and some residents were still without water or electricity one week after the storm.
Along Sound Avenue, fruit was stripped from trees and the belfry and spire of Sound Avenue Hall were knocked down.
Ms. Campbell, now 80, recalled the damage she saw in her neighborhood after she returned home safely with a friend's parent and the storm had fully passed. She was devastated to find that her favorite maple tree had been struck down by lightning. The tree had symbolized stability to her young mind, Ms. Campbell said.
It took until her teenage years for her to get over her fear of storms, she said.
Mr. Tomaszewski's family was lucky; their Calverton farm suffered practically no damage in the hurricane.
"It was more the people by the bay. They got hit hard," he said.
John Yakaboski, who recently turned 100, also recalled the substantial destruction the Express wreaked on the East End.
"That was a bad one," he said in a brief interview from his Calverton home. "A couple weeks later we took a ride to Westhampton Beach; the seaweed was 20 feet high on the telephone pole."
A private study done by a risk management company in 2008 showed the storm brought unparalleled destruction to the East End. The damage was equivalent to an F3 tornado, according to the study.
The storm caused $620 million in damage at the time, Mr. Stark said, or roughly $18 billion today. He added that if the 1938 hurricane hit today, it would cause an estimated $41 billion in damage.
Ten times more people were killed by the Long Island Express than by Sandy.
Last year's storm brought winds near 80 mph, but Mr. Stark said Sandy's winds stayed below hurricane force across most of Long Island.
The storm of 1938, by comparison, had sustained winds 20 to 30 mph stronger than Sandy's most powerful gust.
And Sandy's historic surge that swamped downtown Riverhead was still at least three feet lower than the tide brought in by the 1938 storm.
Meteorologist Stephanie Dunten at the National Weather Service station in Taunton, Mass., said that while other storms may share similar wind speed, storm surge or pressure readings, no other hurricane in the region's recorded history has combined the different elements to create such a powerful storm.
"All the different storms have bits and pieces of it, but this one has everything," she said. "It just baffles me."
Weather experts say the historic nature of the 1938 hurricane's power means few storms can match the destruction of the Long Island Express.
But storms like Sandy prove that the threat — however small — of a powerful hurricane always looms.


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A group of Stanford University researchers specializing in artificial intelligence have developed software that lets you embed graphics into a video -- images, photos or even another video. The researchers, computer science graduate students Ashutosh Saxena and Siddharth Batra, and Assistant Professor Andrew Ng see interesting potential for the technology they call ZunaVision. They say a user of the software can easily plunk an image on almost any planar surface in a video, whether wall, floor or ceiling. And the embedded images don't have to be still photos -- you can insert a video inside a video.
There is also a potential financial aspect to the technology. The researchers suggest that anyone with a video camera might earn some spending money by agreeing to have unobtrusive corporate logos placed inside their videos before they are posted online. The person who shot the video, and the company handling the business arrangements, would be paid per view, in a fashion analogous to Google AdSense, which pays websites to run small ads.
The embedding technology is driven by an algorithm that first analyzes the video, with special attention paid to the section of the scene where the new image will be placed. The color, texture and lighting of the new image are subtly altered to blend in with the surroundings. Shadows seen in the original video will be seen in the added image as well. The result is a photo or video that appears to be an integral part of the original scene, rather than a sticker pasted artificially on the video.
For the algorithm ("3D Surface Tracker Technology") to produce these realistic results, it also must deal with what researchers call "occluding objects" in the video. In the birthday video, an "occluding object" might be a partygoer walking in front of the newly hung photo. The algorithm can handle most such objects by keeping track of which pixels belong to the photo and which belong to the person walking in the foreground; the photo disappears behind the person walking by and then reappears, just as in the original video.
Camera motion gives the algorithm another item to digest. As the camera pans and zooms, the portion of the wall containing the embedded object moves and changes shape. The embedded image must keep up with this shape-shifting geometry, or the video may go one direction while the embedded image goes another.
To prevent such mishaps, the algorithm builds a model, pixel by pixel, of the area of interest in the video. "If the lighting begins to change with the motion of the video or the sun or the shadows, we keep a belief of what it will look like in the next frame. This is how we track with very high sub-pixel accuracy," Batra said. It's as if the embedded image makes an educated guess of where the wall is going next, and hurries to keep up.
Other technologies can perform these tricks -- the spectacular special effects in movies and the virtual first-down lines on televised football games -- but the Stanford researchers say the existing systems are expensive, time consuming and require considerable expertise.
Some of the recent Stanford work grew out of an earlier project, Make3D, a website that converts a single still photograph into a brief 3D video. It works by finding planes in the photo and computing their distance from the camera, relative to each other.
"That means, given a single image, our algorithm can figure out which parts are in the front and which parts are in the background," said Saxena. "Now we have extended this technology to videos."
The researchers realize that their technology will be used in unpredictable ways, but they have some guesses. "Suppose you're a student living in a dorm and suppose you want to show it to your parents [in a video]. You can put a nice poster there of Albert Einstein," Batra said. "But if you want to show it to your friends, you can have a Playboy poster there."


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*This book is in the Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America book series (Series editors: Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly)
This study examines the role of presidential electors in the presidential selection process. The research conducted here provides the authoritative treatment detailing who these anonymous, yet integral political figures are through mail surveys of presidential electors from the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Electoral Colleges.
Examining each of these elections as distinct cases reveals that a great deal of political activity that has heretofore gone undetected occurs during the period when citizens cast their votes for their presidential ticket and the time when electors cast their vote for their presidential ticket. Intensive lobbying campaigns aimed to persuade electors to change their votes have occurred in each of the past three elections. Moreover, it appears that a potentially receptive audience exists within this elite political institution. Surprisingly, not all electors identify themselves as strong partisans nor do they see themselves as ideologues. Electors vary sharply in the amount of political and financial commitment they make to their respective parties and presidential candidates. Many factors influence the type of individual who serve as a presidential elector. The context of a presidential election, how parties select presidential electors, and a party's presidential ticket account for many variations among presidential electors. The findings suggest that presidential electors should be given far more attention than they currently receive. If past is prologue, elector lobbying campaigns will persist in future elections and a significant number of electors will consider joining the ranks of past "faithless electors" needlessly putting the Republic at risk.
The role of presidential electors is integral to the presidential selection process, yet virtually no scholarship exists detailing this important linkage between the citizenry and America's next president. Surprisingly, no other book has explicitly investigated these mysterious figures who translate popular votes to electoral votes. To undertake this study, the author surveyed members of the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Electoral Colleges to find out who these individuals were, how they became electors, and what they thought about the institution. The responses received were overwhelming—in their profundity and in their revelations. Over 60% of electors responded to each of the surveys conducted. This data comprises one of the most comprehensive treatments of presidential electors ever assembled. More importantly, the data reveal a significant risk to the presidential selection process—one that has not yet been systematically analyzed.
The data reveal two completely new findings regarding presidential elections that have heretofore never been systematically examined. First, in each of the past three elections, intensive elector lobbying campaigns have occurred seeking to persuade electors to vote contrary to expectations. These campaigns have taken place in the period between the general election and the time electors cast their votes in December. Second, and most important, a significant number of electors actually consider voting for candidates contrary to expectations. The data reveal that the presidential selection process is indeed threatened by a sizable number of potentially faithless or what is termed here as "wavering" electors. This finding has far reaching consequences both in the scholarly community and for the integrity of the presidential selection process. For instance, in 2004, nearly 10% of presidential electors and in 2008, over 11% of presidential electors considered voting for someone other than to whom they were pledged. As a reference point, this would be analogous to California's entire delegation considering defecting from their party's presidential ticket. These findings are completely novel, unexpected, and alarming. This study should stimulate great debate among scholars and laymen alike regarding the role of presidential elector.
The Electoral College is already a controversial institution. Yet, the arguments offered in this study will likely create much more concern over the way presidents are selected. The study develops a theory of elector behavior that takes into account an elector's motivation to "make a statement against their party," "make a statement against their party's candidate," or to "make a statement against electoral practices." The theory and findings are completely original and have far reaching implications for presidential elections and the Electoral College. In short, this project is wholly original, addresses a previously neglected topic, and reveals a real-world problem that has significant consequences for American democracy.
Presidential Electors and the Electoral College is an important study for students of the presidency, political parties, interest groups, institutions, and recent U.S. history. Party professionals (including electors themselves) will also be very interested in this book. Finally, organizations interested in electoral reform (such as Fair Vote and the National Popular Vote Campaign) will also find this work to be of great interest.
Read the CNN article.
Watch Professor Alexander's interview on NPR.
Dr. Alexander was also asked by CNN to weigh in on the 2013 government shutdown.


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Phuket, ThailandKirsty Turner
Phuket is easy to get to as there are frequent flights to and from Bangkok airport as well as direct flights to many other Asia and European airports. There are also regular buses and trains from around the country and Phuket can be reached by boat from many of the surrounding islands.
As well an the enormous main island, Phuket Province contains 39 other small islands, all perfect for exploring, whether via a snorkelling or scuba diving trip or a boat tour. Located just 25 kilometres from Phuket City, Ko Nakha Noi is a popular destination for a boat trip, as are Ko Si-re, Ko Lon, Ko Bon, Ko He and Ko Mai Thon, which is famous for its unique and very beautiful colourful coral.
Also known as Coral Island, Kho Hae is located to the Southeast of Phuket Island. Reachable in just 15 minutes by speedboat from Chalong Bay, this beautiful island is a great destination for a day trip, or visitors can choose to stay overnight at the resort.
Another popular day trip is the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, which is located near the beautiful Bang Pae waterfall. This is an amazing opportunity to meet the Gibbons in their natural environment and there is a visitor centre manned by Western volunteers and English speaking Thai staff who will tell you all about the project.
If you are interested in the island's wildlife, elephant trekking is a good way to support the remaining domesticated elephants of Thailand and offers a new way to explore the jungle. The Phuket Zoo has an interesting collection of animals, whilst Phuket Submarine takes visitors on daily tours of the underwater world.
Both Khao Rang (Phuket Hill) and Laem Promthep are great places to see the sunset and get an idea of the island's size and beauty. Whilst in Phuket, pay a visit to the Khao Phra Thaew Forest Reserve, which protects a stunning area of lush rainforest.
Many visitors to Phuket like to plan their trip to coincide with one of the area's vibrant festivals. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is held for 10 days during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, which usually occurs in October. This is the time when local residents, especially those of Chinese ancestry, follow a vegetarian or vegan diet in order to cleanse their spirit and make merit. The festival features self-mortification rituals such as walking barefooted over hot coals and ascending ladders with bladed rungs, as well as much singing and dancing and of course delicious vegetarian food.Another long awaited festival is the Phuket Gay Pride Festival, which takes place in February and the Siam World Cup Windsurfing Championships on Ao Bang Thao are held in January.
If you are in the area between November and February, head to the pretty beach of Hat Mai Khao on the northwest coast. Here you will discover sea turtles laying their eggs, but be careful not to disturb them as the turtles are now quite rare.


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Serious Beer: 10 New Pumpkin Beers
Seeking out the best in malty, hoppy refreshment.
The leaves on my street haven't started turning, yet pumpkin ales are already popping up in my local package store. We at Serious Eats have discussed pumpkin beers in depth last year and the year before. Fortunately for your trusty tasting team, there's a big crop of new pumpkin beers this season.
As we've mentioned in previous years, what we often think of as 'pumpkin flavors' are really pie spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Some brewers also add squash to their mash (no pun intended), but in beer, the vegetable flavor is usually subtler.
We tried 10 new beers, looking for a balance of pleasant pumpkin and subtle spices. Do you already have a favorite among these recent releases? Is there an excellent pumpkin beer we haven't tried? Let us know in the comments.
Serious Beer Ratings
5/5 Mindblowing; a new favorite
4/5 Awesome, stock up on this
3/5 Around average for the style
2/5 There are probably better options
1/5 No, thanks, I'll have water.
Flying Dog The Fear, Maryland 9.0% ABV The Fear is a gorgeous beer—dark mahogany shot through with ruby highlights. Cinnamon and nutmeg come through clearly in the aroma, underlined by a whiff of alcohol. There's a stiff bitterness in the finish, but it's nicely balanced by sweet graham crackers, molasses, and spicy Mexican chocolate. I liked the judicious use of pumpkin-pie spices in this beer—they convey pumpkin-ness without being obnoxious. The alcohol causes noticeable warming, but perhaps this is just the ticket for fast-cooling fall evenings. 4.25/5
New Belgium/Elysian Lips of Faith Kick, Colorado 8.5% ABV Kick is made with a blend of cranberries and aged in barrels, and these influences define the aroma and flavor. The nose is tart, with some musky notes of smoke. The flavor is a sour burst of cranberry followed by intense, candied-apple sweetness, ending in earthy malt. There wasn't much pumpkin to be found here, so if you have your heart set on that, look elsewhere. However, this is an excellent and unique fall beer. 4/5
Clipper City Heavy Seas, The Great Pumpkin, Maryland 8.0% ABV Caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, raisins, and warming alcohol are all evident, making this a sipping beer probably best served with dessert. The pumpkin comes through clearly, and we also tasted ginger, a flavor that works so well with the pumpkin that I'm surprised it doesn't make its way into more of these brews. 3.75/4
Cambridge Brewing Company Great Pumpkin Ale, Massachusetts 4.2% ABV Great Pumpkin Ale is an old crowd favorite, not a new release, but this is the first season you can get it in bottles instead of only at CBC's brewpub. We smelled banana bread and roasted squash, with pie spices playing backup roles. The flavor is mild and balanced. Flavors of crackers and pumpkin flesh are redolent in the peppery, dry finish. Cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg add nuance. 3.75/5
Cape Ann Fisherman's Pumpkin Stout, Massachusetts 7.0% ABV We smelled nutmeg, herbal hops, and cocoa. The flavor up front is bitter, with a burst of spices and blackened toast, and it ends slow and dry on notes of coffee and pumpkin. The body is thin, but the beer is well-balanced with good use of pumpkin and spices. 3.5/5
Iron Hill The Great Imperial Pumpkin Ale, Delaware 9.0% ABV Iron Hill's offering is sweet and fruity, with brown sugar and banana flavors that reminded me of Bananas Foster. You wouldn't guess that those flavors would pair well with roasted root vegetables and pumpkin spices, but the combination works. 3.25/5
Harpoon UFO Pumpkin, Massachusetts 5.9% ABV Nutmeg and rye spices in the aroma are joined by banana and floral notes. The flavor is initially sweet, by quickly fades to a dry wheat finish. There are more spices than pumpkin here, and a light and refreshing body makes this more suited for a warm autumn day than a cold autumn night. 3/5
Wachusett Imperial Pumpkin Ale, Massachusetts 8.0% ABV The aroma and flavor have subtle hints of pumpkin, but more typical ale characteristics are prominent. Sweet caramel malt, roasted earthy notes, and an herbal-tea, hop-bitterness make this beer more of an ale with pumpkin than a pumpkin ale. 3/5
Shock Top Pumpkin Wheat, Missouri 5.2% ABV The nose is mild fruit and caramel, and the flavor is characterized by a sweet, acidic sourness. Herbs and citrus stick around for a long finish, where vegetable pumpkin and corn flavors also appear. A thin body and some metal in the aftertaste prevent this from being a better brew. 2.75/5
Sixpoint Autumnation, New York 6.8% ABV Autumnation is defined more by intense, pungent wet citrus hops than by pumpkin. The flavor is prickly and peppery, ending with a dry, grain-and-biscuit sourness. What wrecked this beer for our tasters was a sulfuric onion and garlic flavor in the finish. 1.5/5
Disclosure: All beers except Harpoon, CBC, and Cape Ann were provided as samples for review.
About the Author: Nick Leiby is a Boston-based scientist and homebrewer. When he's not drinking yeast, he's probably studying it in lab.
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After several years of steady deterioration, the surface at Phillip Island is about to get fixed. According to reports from Australia, work commences on resurfacing the iconic Australian circuit on Tuesday morning, and over a period of two days, the track will receive a fresh layer of asphalt, for the first time since 1998.
The new surface is to be laid over a flatter substrate, with 40mm of the old tarmac already having been removed to make way for the new asphalt. The aim of the project is to remove the bumps which have accrued over the years, as the track has taken punishment from MotoGP, World Superbikes, Australian V8 Supercars and the many track days and other events which happen at the circuit nearly all year round. Casey Stoner was brought in to consult on the project, the former MotoGP champion telling the media in October that he had advised the company which bumps to remove (most of them) and which bumps to leave in as they added to the circuit's character.
Some 5000 tonnes of asphalt are to be layed over the next 48 hours or so, at a cost of some AUD $3 million. The resurfacing project leaves the layout completely unchanged - and rightly so, as the track is loved by just about every single racer who competes there, on two wheels or four - but should give the track a vastly improved surface with most of the bumps gone. Track records should fall once racing returns to the circuit, with the World Superbike riders the first to get a crack at the improved circuit on the weekend of February 24th.
First crack
The extremely competitive 20th Island Classic (including the International Challenge) at the end of January 2013 will be the first major event getting a crack at it with competitors like Steve Martin, Robbie Phillis and Jeremy McWilliams and other racers from all over the world trying to set even faster laps than last year's 1:37.5 (done with a 1981 Suzuki Katana).


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This is the output below. I am given the 3 menu items, prices, and 3 Product numbers.
I have to create the source code. I am using elcipse ( My code at bottom)
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Enter ItemNumber of Product (OR ZERO to end) order.
Cheeseburger $2.49
Enter ItemNumber of Product (OR ZERO to end) order.
Enter ItemNumber of Product (OR ZERO to end) order.
Enter ItemNumber of Product (OR ZERO to end) order.
Sorry, we do not carry that item.
4 Enter ItemNumber of Product (OR ZERO to end) order.
Billy Goat Fast-Foods
Description Price
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Cheeseburger $2.49
Pepsi $1.00
Chips $0.59
The total cost of this order is $ 4.08
Thank you from Bily Goat Fast-Foods.
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My start on this problem
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ____________________________________<YOUR CODE HERE> import.java.util.Scanner; public class BillyGoatArrays { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner input = new Scanner (System.in); int itemNumber [] = {1,2, 3}; String menu[] = {"Cheeseburger", "Pepsi", "Chips"}; double price[] = {2.49, 1.00, 0.59}; int loopIndex = 0; for (loopIndex = 0; loopIndex < 3; loopIndex++) { System.out.println("Enter itemNumber of Product or enter ZERO to end order"); System.out.println("Menu is = " + menu[loopIndex]); System.out.println(menu[loopIndex] +" Price is = " + price[loopIndex]); } } }
I think I can figure out the print prompts . I am stuck on the array for the item number and the message for item 4. I do not understand why item number 4 shows up in output twice in a row but shows the Sorry message only once. To get the program to display all of the products sequentially and then total them has me stuck. I am wondering if I need an if statement for the number 4. Instructor says he wants this program to allow up to 100 items to be ordered. I don't know how to make the third array of item numbers with an index of 100 . Would I do something like itemnumber[100] and then go itemnumber[1] = cheeseburger, itemnumber [2] = Pepsi... and so on and then do the Sorry message for item number 4, or would I do some type of catch statement? I don't want the answers given to me.. Just a little guidance. My instructor is a a very old programmer and he DOES not Teach. He just throws this stuff at us with the chapter and expects it done when this is supposed to be our first INTRO to Programmming class. Basically everyone eventually copies the program of the one guy in the class that has a programming background.. But I don't learn anythng this way.. A littel advice appreciated. I also still have to creat a scanner object to allow console input.. That I know.. Setting the item numbet array to not use zero so it can be used as a way to end loop and total order is beyond me, too.


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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Lourdes Lopez says she had heard the rumours about Miami City Ballet, that it was a failing institution in a cultural wasteland.
But she says neither turned out to be true. The dance company's new artistic director said Thursday that she's found a vibrant arts scene and support for her ambitious plans.
Lopez's program for the ballet's 2013-14 season challenges the dancers and their audience with new choreographers. She's also planning to create a new curriculum for the company's dance school to include dance and music history, not just dance instruction.
Lopez took over at the ballet in September after the abrupt departure of its founding artistic director, Edward Villella. He was ousted after nearly a year of financial struggles and management shake-ups that threatened to overshadow the company.


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Network Working Group B. Fenner Request for Comments: 4624 AT&T Research Category: Experimental D. Thaler Microsoft October 2006 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) MIB Status of This Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Abstract This memo defines an experimental portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes managed objects used for managing Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) (RFC 3618) speakers. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework ......................2 3. Overview ........................................................2 4. Definitions .....................................................3 5. Security Considerations ........................................28 6. IANA Considerations ............................................29 7. Acknowledgements ...............................................30 8. References .....................................................30 8.1. Normative References ......................................30 8.2. Informative References ....................................30 Fenner & Thaler Experimental [Page 1] RFC 4624 MSDP MIB October 2006 1. Introduction This memo defines an experimental portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes managed objects used for managing Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) [1] speakers. 2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to section 7 of RFC 3410 [7]. Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. MIB objects are generally accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the Structure of Management Information (SMI). This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described in STD 58, RFC 2578 [4], STD 58, RFC 2579 [5] and STD 58, RFC 2580 [6]. 3. Overview This MIB module contains four scalars and four tables, one deprecated. The tables are: o The deprecated Requests Table, containing the longest-match table used to determine the peer to send SA-Requests to for a given group. This table is deprecated because Requests were removed from MSDP before it became an RFC. o The Peer Table, containing information on the system's peers. o The Source-Active (SA) Cache Table, containing the SA cache entries. o The Mesh Group Table, containing the list of MSDP mesh groups to which this system belongs. This MIB module uses the IpAddress SYNTAX, making it only suitable for IPv4 systems. Although the desired direction for MIBs is to use InetAddressType/InetAddress pairs to allow both IPv4 and IPv6 (and future formats as well), the MSDP protocol itself is IPv4-only, and the MSDP working group made an explicit decision not to create an IPv6 version of the protocol. Fenner & Thaler Experimental [Page 2] RFC 4624 MSDP MIB October 2006 This MIB module is somewhat disorganized, with scalars before and after tables, holes in the OID space, tables with the RowStatus in the middle, and so on. This is because objects were added and removed as necessary as the MSDP protocol evolved, and the plan was to renumber the whole MIB when moving to the standard mib-2 tree. The MSDP Working Group then changed direction, publishing the MSDP protocol as Experimental. Since there were existing implementations using the strange object order under the experimental OID, the WG decided not to renumber the MIB and to publish it as experimental, keeping the experimental OID. 4. Definitions -- -- MSDP-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN IMPORTS MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, NOTIFICATION-TYPE, experimental, Counter32, Gauge32, TimeTicks, Integer32, IpAddress FROM SNMPv2-SMIShow full document text


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Philly mob underboss gets over 15 years in prison
A federal judge sentenced a Philadelphia mob underboss to more than 15 years in prison for racketeering, while calling him gregarious and intelligent, and musing on why he never put those talents toward a legitimate career.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno, a native of Cuba, suggested that if La Cosa Nostra members once had few business opportunities because of racial or ethnic discrimination, that is not the case today.
"I can only conclude that you just don't get it. You never got it," Robreno told Joseph "Mousie" Massimino. "There is nothing before me that bodes well for your future as a law-abiding citizen, despite all your virtues and talents."
Massimino was convicted in February. Reputed Philadelphia boss Joseph Ligambi and several other co-defendants are awaiting an October retrial after a jury deadlocked on much of the racketeering, gambling and extortion case.
In rambling remarks to the judge, Massimino attacked prosecutors, probation officers and mob informants who testified against him.
"I'm no boss of nothing," he said, complaining that he and his co-defendants were compared to terrorist groups.
"If they put the money and manpower into al-Qaida that they put into my case, maybe the World Trade Towers would still be there, and people in Boston would have their legs," Massimino said, referring to the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon.
Massimino's rap sheet spans five decades. He was expelled from a Catholic high school in Philadelphia before graduation, then had what prosecutors called a "mediocre" crime career for 20 years, with arrests for drug trafficking and state-level racketeering. Then he joined the ranks of the mob, they said.
"The LCN is not just a rag-tag bunch of guys hanging on a corner in South Philadelphia," Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Labor argued. "It's a large, well-established, entrenched criminal enterprise" around the world.
Labor urged an even stiffer sentence on grounds that organized crime stubbornly rises anew in Philadelphia every few years, despite near-constant federal prosecutions.
"It seems like every 10 years, there's a different manifestation of the Philadelphia mob. But it always persists, despite the best efforts of law enforcement and despite their internal warfare," Labor said.
The Ligambi regime, though, has been far less violent than the bloody reign attributed to earlier Philadelphia bosses Nicky Scarfo, Angelo Bruno and others.
The indictment, described by some as "mob lite," detailed relatively small-scale loansharking and gambling operations, such as efforts to control poker machines inside South Philadelphia bars and private clubs. At least one alleged mobster was heard on tape saying the Philadelphia mob today was broke.
Robreno nonetheless agreed with prosecutors that their threats amount to crimes of violence but declined a request to go above sentencing guidelines and settled on the maximum guideline sentence of 188 months.


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Texas Pulling Out of Council of Chief State School Officers
Texas has withdrawn from the Council of Chief State School Officers, an influential Washington organization that is helping lead the push to create common academic standards across states, among its other efforts.
The state's commissioner of education, Robert Scott, made the decision to pull out of the CCSSO, citing concerns about philosophical differences with the organization, as well as worries about membership costs, a spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency said.
The commissioner felt that "our values don't align with each other" on education policy, said Suzanne Marchman, a spokeswoman for the agency. "We didn't see a return on investment from participating in the organization."
As a result of its decision, Texas will be the only state in the country that is not a CCSSO member, officials with the organization confirmed. CCSSO said it will no longer receive $60,000 in annual dues from the organization.
Forty-five states, plus the District of Columbia, have adopted the common-standards, which are meant to provide a clear and consistent set of academic expectations for students around the country regardless of where they live. Currently, the expectations for what students should know by the time they reach certain grades vary greatly across states, as do the tests and textbooks used in the states.
CCSSO, and the National Governors Association, in Washington, spearheaded the standards effort. The two organizations convened panels of experts to write the standards and circulated them among the states for review and revision.
But Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican who has said he is considering running for president, has been a strong critic of the common-standards movement, which he has argued is an attempt to create a national curriculum.
Marchman said that the decision to withdraw from the CCSSO was Scott's, not Perry's. Scott was appointed by Perry as commissioner of education in 2007 and reappointed to a four-year term in 2011.
In a letter to the CCSSO, Scott voiced strong objections to the organization's work on common standards.
"[P]lease know that your organization's advocacy for national standards and national tests is not in the best interest of the state of Texas and in my opinion, the nation," Scott wrote on June 14.
CCSSO describes its standards work as a state-led effort, not one designed to create national standards. But Scott said despite CCSSO's arguments that it has considered the needs of individual states during that process, its "actions in concert with other Washington, D.C.-based interest groups and the U.S. Department of Education demonstrate otherwise."
"It never was and still is not in the best interest of Texas to be coerced into replacing its transparent standards-adoption process and highly evolved assessment system" Scott wrote, with a process "developed largely in secret through a process led by special-interest groups who are not elected and who lack any public accountability."
Perry has sounded similiar arguments, contending that the federal government is playing too strong a role in the standards process. The Obama administration supports the states' common standards efforts, and has provided federal money to pay for states' development of common tests to align with the academic expectations.
CCSSO is a nonpartisan membership organization that seeks to bring together top state education leaders around the country to improve schools. The organization works in many areas of school policy, not just common standards, and it also seeks to represent state leaders on important education issues before Congress.
"We regret that Texas has decided to withdraw from the work of the council and recognize that is their responsibility to make decisions based on what is best for children in Texas," said Gene Wilhoit, CCSSO's executive director, in a statement. "States are leading critical reform efforts across the country to improve education for every student, and CCSSO remains focused on supporting this ongoing work."
Texas is struggling to close a major budget shortfall, which factored in the state's decision, Marchman said. Lawmakers in the state are expected to make significant cuts to the state's K-12 budget, which could result in the loss of thousands of school jobs, education advocates say.
Texas' move to pull out of CCSSO is not unprecedented. In 1995, Georgia's Republican state schools chief, Linda Schrenko, and Pennsylvania schools chief Eugene Hickok, who later served in George W. Bush's administration, announced that their states would not renew membership in the organization, after objecting to a stance CCSSO had taken on federal policy. The CCSSO had lobbied against cuts to federal education favored by congressional Republicans.
And in 1999, Colorado's education commissioner said his state would not take part in CCSSO, because the organization's positions ran counter to those of state elected officials. He cited CCSSO's objections to a Republican plan to give states more flexibility in using federal education money, and the group's support of then-President Clinton's efforts to raise teacher-certification requirements.
But those states have since rejoined the organization, CCSSO spokeswoman Kate Dando said, making Texas the only non-participant.
Photo: Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott in 2009 (Harry Cabluck/AP)


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Do you agree with SI's pick for 'Sportsman of the Year'?
This honor may trump a fifth NFL MVP award. Sports Illustrated announced Sunday that Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is its Sportsman of the Year for 2013.
Manning, 37, is in the midst of an unprecedented comeback from four neck surgeries that forced him to miss the entire 2011 season with the Indianapolis Colts, an injury that led to his release, free agency, and a new chapter in his career with the Denver Broncos.
Manning was named NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 2012 and has 47 touchdown passes this season - three off the league's single-season record with two games remaining. He has led the Broncos to an 11-3 record and is a top candidate to win his record fifth MVP award this season.
"At first, when I knew we were considering Manning, I thought: good choice. Lifetime-achievement-award choice," said SI Senior Writer and NFL guru Peter King. "But if you isolate this year, you're looking at a player two years removed from four neck procedures that would have prompted many 35-year-old legends to choose retirement. He has his Super Bowl. He has his MVPs. Now he's on the verge of breaking the most important single-season quarterback records (touchdown passes and passing yards) in the 94-year history of the game. He threw seven touchdown passes against the defending Super Bowl champs. And he's got his team set to win the top seed in the AFC. Who plays his best-wounded, with so many great young guns chasing him-at 37?"
Annually, the magazine presents the Sportsman of the Year award to the athlete, coach or team that demonstrates superior athletic achievement. The award debuted in 1954 with Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile barrier. Manning is the eighth member of the NFL to receive the award, following commissioner Pete Rozelle (1963), Terry Bradshaw (1979), Reggie Williams, (Athletes Who Care, 1987), Joe Montana (1990), Tom Brady (2005), Brett Favre (2007), and Drew Brees (2010).
The Sportsman of the Year has previously gone to the likes of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Michael Phelps, the 1999 U.S. women's soccer team and 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team to name a few.
"I don't like the idea of narrowly defining a Sportsman based on what he's done in the last 12 months," Chris Stone, managing editor of Sports Illustrated said during a press conference Monday at the Broncos' Dove Valley headquarters. "I think you can take somebody's collective body of work and everything that they've established throughout their careers. I think the collective body of work is what we're rewarding here."
Manning will receive the honor at a dinner in Denver on Monday night.
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