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Mexican Mayor Maria Santos Gorrostieta Killed by Gunmen was Defiant to the End
She's been labeled a "heroine of the 21st century," a symbol of defiance in México's fight against the country's ruthless drug cartels -- and possibly bullet-proof, after surviving two assassination attempts.
But when Mexican police identified the body of a half-nude, tortured and mutilated woman on a rural road in the state of Michoacán, María Santos Gorrostieta also became another statistic in the country's grisly drug war.
The discovery of her body ended the suspicion of what happened to the former mayor of the small town of Tiquicheo, who stood up to the cartels.
On Nov.12, while dropping her daughter off at school in the state capital of Morelia, gunmen pulled in front of her car and adducted her as she pleaded for them to leave her child alone.
Five days later, her body was found by farm workers from San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township, who were heading to work.
Despite my own safety and that of my family, what occupies my mind is my responsibility towards my people.
Born in 1976, Santos Gorrostieta, who held a PhD, became the mayor of Tiquicheo in 2008, and almost immediately incurred the wrath of México's organized crime for her outspoken stance against the cartels.
The state of Michoacán is the home turf of the quasi-religious drug cartel, La Familia Michoacana.
The state has become a hotbed for operations growing marijuana and poppy for heroin as well as a major importer of cocaine from South America and chemicals used to make methamphetamines from Asia.
Since outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared war on the country's drug cartels in 2006, around 60,000 people have perished in the ensuing violence - including over 20 mayors.
"Despite my own safety and that of my family, what occupies my mind is my responsibility toward my people, the children, the women, the elderly and the men who break their souls every day without rest to find a piece of bread for their children," Santos Gorrostieta said, who besides taking a strong stance against the drug cartels was also known for her social work among the region's poor.
Within a year of taking office, the mayor was ambushed by cartel gunmen and suffered at least seven gunshot wounds. Despite escaping with her life, her husband and the town's former mayor José Sánchez Chávez was killed.
Only three months later, gunmen once again opened fire on Santos Gorrostieta as she was traveling in her brother's car. Shortly after, she made headlines across the globe by displaying her wounds in photographs published in Tiquicheo's municipal newsletter.
"I wanted to show you my wounded, mutilated body," she wrote, according to the Telegraph newspaper. "Because I'm not ashamed of it. It's living testimony that I am a strong and righteous woman, and despite my wounds, I'm still on my feet."
There were also purportedly at least two other assassination attempts that she never reported, the México City Daily stated. Once she left office in 2011, her public protection was withdrawn.
She ran for a seat in México's Congress recently, where she was defeated, and Mexican authorities believe that the cartel gunmen waited until her security detail was withdrawn to strike.
Santos Gorrostieta is survived by her daughter and two sons. Her husband, who she married two years after her first was killed, has now been officially reported as missing.
Her death overshadowed the meeting yesterday between U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto.
The new Mexican president has vowed that his top security priority will not be arresting the leaders of the organizations that move hundreds of millions of dollars of narcotics each year into the United States. Instead, he and his advisers say, they will focus the government's resources on reducing homicide, kidnapping and extortion — the crimes that do the most damage to the greatest number of Mexicans — by flooding police and troops into towns and cities with the highest rates of violent crime.
"Her footprint should be remembered," wrote Rox Exum, a columnist for the Chattanoogan newspaper. "The two presidents … should assure that Dr. María Gorrostieta – in her defiant quest for freedom -- did not die in vain."
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Hey! So after a year and half I have finally filmed my "Get ready with me for college" video! (By college I meant high school since I'm from the UK) I usually take around 45 minutes to get ready from getting out of bed to walking out the door, hope you'll enjoy watching it!
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Many only think of welfare as money going to the needy. A lot of money goes to the rich….
Tom Eblen: Economic development incentives are welfare for big business
Published: December 8, 2012 By Tom Eblen — Herald-Leader columnist
When a poor person gets a government handout, it's called welfare. When a rich corporation gets one, it's called an economic development incentive.With local, state and federal government budgets tighter than ever, social programs are getting a hard look. But what about corporate welfare?The New York Times started a good conversation last week with a three-part investigative series called the United States of Subsidies. Reporter Louise Story spent 10 months analyzing corporate tax breaks, gifts and other incentives in all 50 states, which she figured add up to at least $80 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to business.Business subsidies have mushroomed since the 1980s, when automakers started pitting states against one another to host new assembly plants. The strategy worked so well that other industries demanded freebies, too.A big reason corporate welfare has flourished is that politicians love being able to announce lots of new jobs coming to their area. (They often are out of office when those jobs never materialize or leave for another state offering better incentives.)From a national perspective, it is a zero-sum game. State and local incentives do little or nothing to grow the national economy; they just determine where in the nation the growth will occur.But it's more insidious than that. Incentives redirect billions of tax dollars to corporate bottom lines instead of to improving education, health, safety, infrastructure and making other public investments that will create genuine, long-term economic development.The Times website (Nytimes.com) has state-by-state breakdowns of incentives and a searchable database of recipients. It shows that the nation's biggest business incentive Santa is high-growth, low-wage, high-poverty Texas, at $19 billion a year.West Virginia and Oklahoma give up incentives equal to one-third of their budgets.The Times calculates Kentucky's annual incentives at $1.41 billion — about 15 percent of the state budget, or $324 per Kentuckian. Those include $264 million in personal income tax credits; $108 million in sales tax refunds, exemptions and discounts; and $69.2 million in corporate income tax reductions, credits or rebates.The Times reports that most Kentucky incentives, $569 million worth, go to mining, oil and gas industries — no surprise there, given their political clout. That is followed by $341 million for agriculture and $180 million to manufacturers.As is true nationally, some of the biggest Kentucky incentive recipients in recent years were automakers: $307 million for Ford; $83.8 million for Toyota and $10 million for General Motors. Given their high wages and large supplier networks, those might be good investments.But the big head-scratcher in the Times' database was $94.1 million in incentives to Tyson Foods from 1995-2009 for a low-wage chicken-processing plant in Henderson County. Is that the kind of economic development Kentucky taxpayers should be subsidizing?While the Times' report is impressive in its national scope, there has long been debate about the value of incentives. The Herald-Leader published an investigative series in 2005 that questioned the value of many Kentucky tax breaks and other giveaways. The report resulted in some improved accountability, but did little to stem the flow of tax money into corporate pockets.A state-commissioned study issued this summer came up with incentive figures smaller than the Times reported, but still pretty staggering: $1.29 billion between 2001 and 2010. The report said 577 companies took incentives to locate 55,173 jobs in Kentucky at a cost to taxpayers of $23,385 per job.The incentive system favors large corporations over small businesses — often the employers who are already in a community and aren't looking to leave. Officials have responded by coming up with some incentives for them, too, which just further drains government coffers.How do we stop this racket, where cities and states compete to steal jobs from one another? It would be great if Congress could pass a law, but it probably can't. Still, with about 20 percent of state and local government budgets coming from federal dollars, somebody needs to be looking out for the national interest.Taxpayers should demand reform of these corporate welfare systems, just as they did social welfare systems in the 1990s. But it won't be easy. Corporations employ more lobbyists and make more campaign donations than poor people do.
Tom Eblen: (859) 231-1415. Email: email@example.com. Twitter: @tomeblen. Blog: tomeblen.bloginky.com
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Rook wrote:I'm curious how they're going to do the Asteroid Field.
Inzane wrote:Rook wrote:I'm curious how they're going to do the Asteroid Field.
My guess, site unseen, is it's going to be a transparent clear ball with some kind of decals or printing indicating some asteroid formations.
Ibiscribe wrote:So that would mean... "Asteroid Filled w/ Tie Bomber and Tie Pilot"?
Not sure I got that right, but I assumed 'Field' was the correct interpretation given how frequently E's and L's get swapped when people type. Logically I know it probably will just be a sphere as convention dictates. If it is, perhaps I'll have to construct an asteroid fiELd myself.
Blue Squadron wrote:The other thing that occurred to me was that they could use a number of the smaller two-part "boulder" pieces (previously used in things in sets like the Power Miners series), supported on transparent stands.
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Students from throughout the Great Lakes Colleges Association will gather at Hope College on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20, for the GLCA Students of Color Leadership Conference.
The conference will feature the theme "Reclaiming Our Virtues." Approximately 200 students are anticipated for the event.
Following registration and an opening event, the conference will feature a dinner with a keynote presentation by Gail Perry-Mason, who is first vice president of investments with Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. She is author of the book "Money Matters for Families" and co-author of "Girl, Make Your Money Grow!: A Sister's Guide to Protecting Your Future and Enriching Your Life." She serves on numerous boards and has received several awards, including being named one of 2007's Top 10 Michigan Business Women by the Greater Detroit Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Friday's activities will conclude with a book-signing and networking events.
Activities on Saturday will include multiple presentations and workshops featuring guest resource people and professionals from a variety of fields as well as students.
Saturday will open with a plenary session featuring Floyd Brady, a 1968 Hope graduate who is a special assistant to the dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is also director of the Rev. Dr. H.B. Brady Foundation. Brady's career has included serving in the past as senior vice president of CNA Insurance and president of the CNA Insurance Companies Foundation, and as vice president of INROADS Inc. In October 2005, he was a featured keynote speaker during the dedication celebration for the college's MarthaMillerCenter for Global Communication, presenting "The Wind Beneath Your Wings - Buckle Up."
Additional sessions during the day will include a lunchtime keynote presentation by Dr. John Lee, a licensed psychologist who is coordinator of the Multi-Ethnic Counseling Center Alliance at Michigan State University; two sets of concurrent workshops led by professionals including a lawyer, entrepreneur, surgeon, law enforcement specialist, educators and business executives; and presentations featuring students.
The conference has been organized by a six-student committee at Hope that includes: senior Hilary Cason of Detroit (conference co-chairperson); sophomore Julian Hinson of Eagan, Minn. (special task assistant); junior Leticia Parker of Holland (conference co-chairperson); junior Anedia Pineda of Holland (registration coordinator); junior Allison Smith of Gary, Ind. (program coordinator); and senior Rosemarie Villarreal of Saginaw (publication coordinator). The conference advisor is Vanessa Greene, who is director of multicultural education at Hope.
The GLCA consists of 12 selective private liberal arts colleges located in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The members of the consortium are Albion College, Antioch College, Denison University, DePauw University, Earlham College, Hope College, Kalamazoo College, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Wabash College and The College of Wooster.


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TRAIN ticketing machine and departure board information glitches are causing problems for rail travellers this morning.
First Great Western has reported problems with its advanced purchased ticket machines and booking offices meaning customers can't print their pre-booked tickets.
They are advising customers to bring proof they have bought the ticket instead, and also to allow extra time to show them to staff at the barriers.
The real time departure information boards and train apps are also showing trains to be delayed when they are not.


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Starting Pitching Looks Good Early
The Giants top young arms, Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum (fresh off his newly signed 1 year, $650,000 deal; more at bottom of post), threw well in their first starts of the spring and in the most recent outing, the Giants got 2 hit-less innings from Barry Zito on Saturday. Zito allowed no base runners and struck out a batter in those two innings and hopefully it means the 30 year-old lefty is on the right track. Over the previous two springs, Zito hasn't really had many outings to feel good about, but this was certainly one of them. Jonathan Sanchez is another guy who opened some eyes in his appearance as well. Sanchez didn't start his game, but came in after Randy Johnson's 2 inning, 1 hit start and dominated the Royals. Sanchez went 3 innings and stuck out 4 while allowing a run on 3 hits. The most impressive stat though was that Sanchez didn't walk anybody which is no small feat for the hard-throwing, wild-at-times, left-hander. Sanchez is looking to build off of an overall solid first season as a full-time big league starter, and after impressing in spring training batting practice sessions, the young lefty looks like he is ready to take that next step and give the Giants a solid 180-200 innings pitched without tailing off in August and September. Sanchez will be be leaving the Giants to play for Puerto Rico at the end of next week, but will probably get one more outing with the Giants before he takes off.
The Bullpen candidates haven't been fairing as well as the starters. Projected closer and set-up man, Brian Wilson and Bob Howry, each threw well in their first spring outings but the guys expected to get them the ball haven't fared as well. Jack Taschner, Sergio Romo, Jeremy Affeldt and Alex Hinshaw, all guys expected to make the team, have all been less than stellar so far this spring. I know it's only spring and most of the guys mentioned above have only had one bad outing, so you can't pick your team based on what's happened so far, but normally this early in the spring, the pitchers are supposed to have the edge on the hitters and most of these bullpen guys are facing the opposing teams back-ups and minor leaguers. Alex Hinshaw is a little concerning too, as he has had two outings and has been wild and in-effective in both of them. Some of the young guys who are trying to beat the odds and make the team and have thrown well here early on are Billy Sadler, Kevin Pucetas, Luis Perdomo and Brandon Medders.
The offense thus far hasn't been bad at all, but since their explosive Cactus League opener, they haven't done too much. The team continues to be led by the young guys. Travis Ishikawa has hit safely in his 3 games and still leads the team with 2 home runs and 4 RBI and has played very well. Another guy who has driven in a couple of runs who is also trying to certify his starting spot in the infield is Kevin Frandsen. The 26 year-old second basemen has 4 hits in 5 at-bats so far and along with his 3 RBI, he has a home run and a double. The problem for Frandsen is that Emmanuel Burris looks like he is going to really make this a tough decision for Giants' management. Also, Fred Lewis, who is trying to ease his recovering heal into game shape, hit a a majestic shot on Saturday, his first time hitting in the third spot, the spot I think he makes the most sense at. The Giants have been talking about hitting Lewis behind Bengie Molina in the 5th spot, but I like the speed and the ability to get on base in the third spot with Sandoval hitting 5th. Other Giants who have hit the ball well through the springs' first four games are Rich Aurilia, Juan Uribe (don't be fooled by his solid start, he's still a below average player), and Nate Schierholtz.
As I said at the top of the post, Tim Lincecum signed his deal for the 2009 season and the '08 NL Cy Young Winner is only getting $650,000. I say only just because of what the market value is for your typical Cy Young winner. I think the Giants should have at least given him a million bucks, just as a token of appreciation at what he's accomplished already and a sign that they want him in SF for the next 10 years. Lincecum will be arbitration eligible next winter, so he realistically could start making $10,000,000+ per season as early as 2010 if he has another all-star season. Get him signed Sabes, and do it sooner rather than later. I would feel completely confident giving Timmy a 5 year, $40 million deal and if the Giants offered that too him this season, they probably could lock him up for the foreseeable future.


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Oct. 12, 2006
MACON, Ga. - Reigning regular season champion Belmont occupied the top spot in both the Atlantic Sun coaches and preseason polls as announced by the league office on Thursday. The Bruins received 23 first place votes between the two polls and are predicted to win the A-Sun Tournament, according to the media poll. Despite only reaching the semi-finals of last season's championship, Belmont saw post-season action in the WNIT, dropping its eighth match of the season to Tennessee Tech.
After reaching the A-Sun Finals last season, Gardner-Webb has emerged as the second place choice by the coaches and media alike. With a combined 11 first place votes in both polls, the Bulldogs were also selected to take the A-Sun Championship in the coaches poll.
ETSU is predicted to finish third in both polls. Last season, the Lady Bucs started off hot and eventually posted an 18-10 overall record and a 14-6 A-Sun mark in their first season of league competition. The third place prediction is a far cry from team's sixth place spot in the coaches poll a season ago.
Campbell claimed the fourth spot in both polls. The Camels went 11-18 overall and tied for fifth with Mercer last season.
Ranked fifth among the coaches and sixth by the media was Jacksonville. Mercer was ranked fifth by the media and sixth by the coaches.
2006-07 A-Sun Coaches Poll
1. Belmont (7) 97
2. Gardner-Webb (3) 90
4. Campbell 65
5. Jacksonville 55
6. Mercer 54
7. Stetson 39
8. Lipscomb 36
10. Kennesaw State 15
Tournament Champion: Gardner-Webb
2006-07 A-Sun Media Poll
1. Belmont (16) 196
2. Gardner-Webb (4) 172
4. Campbell 134
5. Mercer 112
6. Jacksonville 94
7. Lipscomb 86
9. Stetson 60
10. Kennesaw State 26
Tournament Champion: Belmont
2006-07 A-Sun Preseason Player of the Year
Alysha Clark, Belmont
2006-07 Preseason All-Atlantic Sun
Ashley Williams, Jacksonville (Sr./G/Jacksonville, Fla.)
Alysha Clark, Belmont (So./F/Mt. Juliet, Tenn.)
Sarah Russell, Mercer (Sr./G/St. Simons Island, Ga.)
Adrienne Rieley, Campbell (Sr./F/Hope Mills, N.C.)
Shameka Smith, Gardner-Webb (Sr./F/Bessemer City, N.C.)
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10 Truly Bizarre Museums Around the World
Las Vegas is now home to the Mob Museum. The cultural ode to organized crime opened its doors on February 14, marking the 83rd anniversary of Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Gang wars erupted in the Illinois state in 1929, leading to the murder of seven mob associates. Now you can learn about it all, up close and personal in Sin City — a place with its own history of mob ties. Exhibits include a revolver found at the site of the famous massacre and the barber chair, in which 1950's mobster Albert Anastasia was assassinated. In order to keep things accurate, the museum staffs former FBI agents, former police officers, historians, and other experts. The Mob Museum isn't the only offbeat institution, of course. We've found a few other bizarrely fascinating museums around the world that easily rival it. Find out what other exhibition spaces we raised our eyebrows at past the break. Tell us the places you've been to below.
The Leeds Castle Dog Collar Museum
Leeds Castle offers visitors gorgeous English grounds to marvel at, but the luxurious looking fortress is also home to a Dog Collar Museum. It started accidentally, you could say, when Gertrude Hunt donated the first few collars in memory of her husband, John Hunt — one of Europe's finest medievalists. The collection kept building over the years and now boasts more than 100 historical collars for pups.


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This course is suitable both for users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills. You'll learn how to make custom content types and use Views as well as use the block system and taxonomy to organize content. You'll also be able to create custom pages, blocks, and RSS feeds on your site. Building calendars and using popular modules to execute complex, dynamic queries of content is also covered in depth.
Course Prerequisites
- Experience with web development.
Course Objectives
- Know how to use the block system and taxonomy to organize content.
- Be able to create custom pages, blocks, and RSS feeds on your site.
- Have created a photo gallery, an automated Workflow and Calendaring system
- Know how to make custom content types and use Views, blocks and taxonomy
Course Outline
Session 1: Introduction
- Unit 1.1: What is Site Building?
- Unit 1.2: Your client, GlobalTravel
- Unit 1.3: Site configuration review - Prepare your site
- Unit 1.4: Improve the developer experience
- Unit 1.5: Professionalize your development workflow
- Session Summary
Session 2: Designing and planning content
- Unit 2.1: Planning content types
- Unit 2.2: Create and plan content types
- Unit 2.3: Add and customize fields
- Unit 2.4: Add taxonomy field to categorize content
- Unit 2.5: Manage display
- Unit 2.6: Set permissions
- Unit 2.7: Content type test drive
- Unit 2.8: Modify image styles and display
- Session Summary
Session 3: Content display and organization
- Unit 3.1: Building custom queries with Views
- Unit 3.2: Create lists of content using Views
- Unit 3.3: Related content
- Session Summary
Session 4: Site structure and layout
- Unit 4.1: Patterns, Paths and URL aliases
- Unit 4.3: A custom menu
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Case Studies: How did they do that?
Session 5: Functionality and interaction tutorials
- Introduction: An architecture workshop
- Step by step: Extend content types with new field types
- Step-by-step: Company reference link
- Step-by-step: Job list with drop-down filter
- Step-by-step: About this author
- Step-by-step: Member list and custom profiles
- Step-by-step: Set custom error message
- Step-by-step: Search and related content
- Step-by-step: Challenges! A review
Session 6: Customizing appearance with Themes
- Unit 6.1: What are themes?
- Unit 6.2: Step by step - Install and configure themes
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Session 7: Content and site maintenance
- Unit 7.1: Improve content editing - Text formats and WYSIWYG
- Unit 7.2: Content lists for content administrators
- Unit 7.3: Taking a site offline
- Unit 7.4: Backup and local testing
- Unit 7.5: Updating a module
- Unit 7.6: Security review
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JCPenney is switching over to mobile checkouts, but not everyone is as happy about the changes as CEO Ron Johnson.
Johnson is a big fan of using iPads and iPods over the traditional cash register, and so, he's working on phasing out the old technology. Eventually, the vacated cash register space will be filled by coffee and juice bars.
We spoke with a JCPenney associate who works at a store in the Midwest about what it's like on the other side of mobile checkout at the retailer.
She had a bunch of complaints about the new systems that have been put in place.
Here's what the associate, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing her job, had to say (lightly edited for clarity):
"We use iPods in some of the departments now. Often they do not work.
If a customer does go to an associate and the associate uses an iPod that's working for a sale, and then customer wants a paper receipt, we have to go halfway through the store to get the receipt and then take it back to the customer.
That is not convenient for the customer. At least we don't see how it is (on the sales floor).
We can see why Internet sales are down: there isn't a catalog department anymore. Customers go to a register — where there is one — and then their item is brought to them. Before Ron Johnson it was right there in the catalog department itself — no long waits.
Older folks who were used to just going in getting their merchandise and then leaving happy are not leaving happy anymore!"
JCPenney is banking on mobile checkout to improve the customer experience in stores, so hopefully the process is improved over time.


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Amy (Appelt) Slade enters her sixth season at the helm of the Retrievers. Slade served as a co-head coach for her first two seasons at the head of the program after being hired as an assistant coach in July of 2012.
Slade has posted a 43-40 record while serving at UMBC's head coach. In 2017, Slade's Retrievers made a third-straight appearance in the America East tournament, the first time since the 2010-12 season. The Team also shattered the records for most goals in a season (248), most assists (129), and most points (378). UMBC had five players - Sam Nolan, Carolyn Jamison, Kayla Renehan, Lauren McDonald, and Sara Moeller - named to the America East All-Conference Team. Nolan also became the program's assist leader with 73, while Moeller and McDonald each set the single-season marks in assists (35) and goals (62), respectively.
In 2016, Slade and the Retrievers made a back-to-back appearance in the America East Championship and saw junior Sam Nolan and sophomore Carolyn Jamison named to the America East All-Conference Team. In 2015, she guided the Retrievers back to the America East Championships for the first time since 2012 and the seventh time since joining the league. UMBC had five players finish with 20-or-more goals, while two added double-digit assists. Senior Abby Wilson earned America East All-Conference Second Team honors after leading the team in goals and points. Freshman Tianna Wallpher earned a spot on the league's All-Rookie Team, while classmate Caitlin Miller matched the program's single-season draw control record.
In her first season at the helm of the Retrievers, Slade and Giro guided the Retrievers to their best start through nine games since 1986 by posting a 7-2 mark, however, UMBC battled a tough schedule, taking on four nationally-ranked opponents, to finish the season with an 8-8 record and narrowly missing out on the America East Tournament. Appelt had a pair of her midfielders earn America East postseason honors, with junior Kristen Bilney being named to the All-Conference First Team and sophomore Alyssa Semones being named to the Second Team.
Slade spent three seasons as an assistant coach for the Retrievers, prior to being named co-head coach. In her first campaign on the staff, UMBC posted its best season since 2002, with an 11-7 overall mark and its first-ever trip to the America East title game. In 2011, the Retrievers replicated their success, posting an 11-7 overall mark and knocking off defending champion Boston University in the semifinals, before falling to Albany in the championship game.
Slade, who won the prestigious Tewaaraton Trophy and led the University of Virginia to a national championship in 2004, joined the UMBC women's lacrosse staff in August 2009. She was a four-time All-American at Virginia, where she set school records for career goals (258) and points (373) and ranks second in career assists (115). Her goals and points totals are fourth and fifth, respectively, in the NCAA Division I record books, and she set an NCAA record by scoring a goal in 66 straight games.
Slade became the first Cavalier to win the Tewaaraton Trophy as the nation's best player in 2004, when she led the NCAA in scoring with 90 goals – also a school record – and 121 points, and those totals still rank in the top 10 in Division I history.
The native of Garden City, N.Y., has received a number of accolades, including 2002 ACC Rookie of the Year, 2002 Inside Lacrosse National Rookie of the Year, 2004 ACC Player of the Year, 2004 IWLCA Player of the Year, 2004 and 2005 Inside Lacrosse andwomenslacrosse.com Offensive Player of the Year and the 2004 Honda Award.
Appelt is also a three-time All-ACC selection and earned spots on the 2004 ACC All-Tournament Team and the 2004 and 2005 NCAA All-Tournament Teams, as well as the NCAA's 25th Anniversary Team in 2006. She earned her bachelor's degree in English in 2005 and spent the 2007 season as a volunteer assistant coach at Virginia, helping to guide her alma mater to the NCAA title game, where the Cavaliers fell to Northwestern, 15-13. She was a part of the U.S. National Team from 2002-09 and was a member of the 2005 World Cup training team.


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What constitutes a car-friendly city may differ from person to person. For instance, if you're in the market for a new home and collision frequency is a concern, you might peruse the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Accident Reporting System. If you're more worried about vandalism, the National Insurance Crime Bureau's vehicle theft rate list is worth a look.
If, however, you're keen on studies that use more texturized data, or you're mostly apprehensive about finding a parking spot in a big city, then you're in luck.
Best Cities for Drivers Based on a Variety of Flavors
Two lists from NerdWallet and WalletHub weave together a rich tabulation of metrics, digging deeper than the most obvious driving headaches – such as long commutes and delays, both of which figure prominently among the worst cities. But while the two indices' metrics are relatively similar, each weighs them differently.
NerdWallet's list focuses on major cities, comparing them across seven key metrics. Delays and accident rate are weighted heaviest, followed evenly by congestion, weather, parking availability, insurance premiums and gas prices. Its top 10 best driving cities are as follows:
- Omaha, NE
- Kansas City, MO
- El Paso, TX
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Albuquerque, NM
- Richmond, VA
- Raleigh, NC
- Phoenix, AZ
- Milwaukee, WI
- Tucson, AZ*
Even more texturized is WalletHub's roster, which compares the 100 most populated cities along 21 metrics. Like NerdWallet, delays are weighted toward the top, but the heaviest attribute is gas prices. On top of aforementioned factors like weather, commute time, parking and accident rate, WalletHub also computes accident fatality, larceny rates, DUI law stringency, quality of roads and bridges, and number of dealerships per capita, to name a few. Its list of top cities include:
- Scottsdale, AZ
- Tucson, AZ*
- Corpus Christi, TX
- Gilbert, AZ
- Mesa, AZ
- Chandler, AZ
- Reno, NV
- Laredo, TX
- Las Vegas, NV
- Tampa, FL
Although more elaborate, WalletHub's list may be a tad skewed by the slew of less weighted variables, like dealership availability and DUI "harshness" – especially if you already own a car and have a contingency plan for nights on the town. It does, however, break its list down into sub-categories (lowest accident likelihood, lowest car-theft rate, etc.). This allows you to pinpoint criteria that are of highest priority.
How Metrics Come Hand-in-Hand
As denoted by an asterisk (*), you may have noticed that Tucson ranks on both lists. In fact, the top cities on both lists are predominantly in the Southwest, where climates are drier and roads more forgiving. It's therefore not so surprising that an Arizona city appeared multiple times. This also alludes to other important correlations, some of which may be less obvious.
Take, for example, the list of cities with the longest commute times by Inrix, a transportation analytics firm. Of its top seven cities, three appeared on WalletHub's "Highest Accident Likelihood" sub-category, from which three cities, in turn, earned top 14 spots on another NerdWallet study – most expensive cities for car insurance. In fact, between WalletHub and NerdWallet's lists, there's another correlation, that of high auto theft rates and, again, higher insurance premiums.
How commute times sync up with accident rates may not be a shocker. More interesting, perhaps, are the ways in which high auto accident and car theft rates correlate with expensive insurance policies – not to mention, how it all comes full circle.
Individual insurance premiums are determined, in part, by accident rates and vandalism in the policyholder's region. This is why cities with higher rates of auto theft or collisions may also have higher premiums for those who live there. Likewise, poor highway infrastructure and/or high population density are more apt to have longer commute times and thus greater incidents of collisions. So, if a city has, say, high population density and a substandard highway system, there's a decent chance other variables will be impacted, such as driving safety and insurance.
If Big City Parking is the Biggest Concern
Is your next move to the big city? Commuting and traffic accidents aside, one of the biggest travails of moving to a bustling metro is parking – not only finding it, but also having to pay for it. And for potential buyers, scarce parking and high parking prices can be a deal-breaker.
That's why if you're moving to a major city like San Francisco or one of New York's five boroughs, the app Parknav may prove hugely beneficial. Using a color-coded system (much like Google Maps does for traffic), this app allows drivers to find parking-friendly streets. Plus, their website allows users to search real-time parking conditions in over 70 cities in the U.S. and Germany to get a gauge of parking conditions in a given neighborhood.
Additionally, back in the beginning of 2016, ParkNav partnered with Trulia to identify the best and worst places to park in seven major cities, including New York (Manhattan and Brooklyn), Philadelphia, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon) and Washington, D.C. Parking scores ranged from 0 to 100. Although the study was mainly focused on renters, prospective homeowners can also benefit from their list of ample-parking neighborhoods and hone in on promising new digs.
While there may be no exhaustive register of car-friendly cities, these lists do offer a starting point, whether based on your personal concerns or those you may not have considered before—like the number of auto repair shops, or the average cost of new cars, in the area. If driving is your passion, it may be best to steer clear of densely populated cities and head for the suburbs. At least there you can be close to the excitement and bustle without always being deadlocked in the thicket of it.


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By JOHN FLOWERS
MONTPELIER — An overwhelming majority of Addison County's legislative delegation on Tuesday helped override Gov. James Douglas's veto of same-sex marriage legislation.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
GRANVILLE — Granville residents voted to close their 158-year-old, one-room schoolhouse on Monday, opting 50-19 to tuition all of the town's elementary and secondary students to schools outside of the Addison County town.
RIPTON — They filed into the Middlebury College Museum of Art this early spring day, taking positions in front of works they eagerly drank in with their eyes.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
MIDDLEBURY — In a Tuesday game sandwiched between two critical NESCAC contests, the Middlebury College men's lacrosse team took care of business against visiting Rensselaer to win, 11-6, and move to 8-1.
By Karl Lindholm
Happy New Year!
The baseball season is upon us once again. Praise the Lord.
Addison County is Boston Red Sox country. Tolerant folks that we are, however, we allow a few Yankee interlopers to live among us.
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Funeral arrangements have been made for Nina Cordero, the Westchester teenager that was killed over the weekend after a driver overturned his BMW in Yonkers, ejecting her from the vehicle.
Visiting hours will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 31 at the Flower Funeral Home in Yonkers. There will be a funeral mass beginning at 9:30 a.m. the following day at Sacred Heart Monastery Church. The interment will be private.
Members of the Yonkers Police Department were dispatched to the northbound lanes of Central Park Avenue, near Sadore Lane at approximately 7:15 p.m. on Saturday, where there were reports of an accident involving an overturned vehicle.
Upon arrival, Yonkers Police Sgt. Dean Politopoulos said that officers spotted the BMW M5 in the roadway, with a passenger having been ejected from the vehicle further down the road, unconscious and unresponsive. First responders administered medical aid, including CPR and transported the 19-year-old Yonkers resident to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
A former employee of Lord and Taylor's in Ridge Hill, Cordero was set to continue her education at Southern Westchester BOCES next month.
Cordero was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico to her parents, Edwin Cordero and Maritza Celez. She is survived by her fiance, Nicholas Hicks, and her sisters Jennifer Pabon, Kirtizia Cordero and jessica Pabon.
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