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New: Is Fizzled Berkeley Fair on Teley Fizzled Out?
Telegraph Businessmen and Mayor Bates kept expectations low when they closed a few blocks of Teley street traffic to hold a summer-Sundays fair, launched June 9.
According to all concerned, the fair would grow.
Week eight, the fair's latest gasp was plagued by dismal fog-drips. The retrenching from four blocks to much less than two continued. Event planners will expand the event in the future, they say.
But by week seven the fair had contracted—relegated to a block and a half stretch of the four-block fair route.
Teley boosters like Craig Becker (Caffe Med), Al Geyer (Annapurna), and Eddy Monroe (Street Vendor) made it seem the fair would soon pull a rabbit out of a hat.
But the rabbit may have been waylaid by Porky Pig.
What is wrong?
More students have come to town since the deserted days of June when Teley was a bare bone. But these students have a primary and exclusive destination—Cream, an ice-cream store hole in the wall at Teley/Channing, a former Mrs. Field's Cookies, where they score ice-cream jammed between just-out-of-the-oven thick dough-globs for $2.50 (up from $1.50).
The mishmash melts before you can make it across the street to "Melt," raising the possibility of switched at birth.
"We just scarf it down fast before it melts," a student told me. Scarfed too fast to taste?
Fair planners have tried, jugglers, chess events, clowns, bands, but nothing can turn Summer (always slow business) into Fall.
An ad hoc group of fixers met at the Med, recently to fix the fair. This South Side Reporter sat in and contributed to the fix with the idea of a Big Lebowski day. The fixers focussed on participatory activities.
The chess stand at Teley/Channing, which draws chessnuts, exemplifies the participatory fix, but Big Lebowski seems not to have made the cut.
Reasons given for the present fizzle include: absence of students, weather, competing events, and seasonal doldrums.
Unmentioned is lack of publicity. The fair has not made various events calendars.
That problem has been partially addressed.
Rasputin, that rapscallion, may come to the rescue with a heavily-promoted street concert featuring crowd-drawing groups. This event-changer could come to the rescue soon. Other participatory activities are scheduled.
By September, as students begin their comebacks, the fair should thrive, its fetal swoon forgotten.
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2011 Honda Odyssey Long-Term Update 8
A couple of months ago, I mentioned that the Honda Odyssey's sliding doors were acting up. Any time I was parked on an incline, the doors would not close all the way. I have had to either turn off the power mechanism and close the sliding doors manually or simply give the door an extra push to help it through the point at which it seems to catch. Either way, it was becoming an annoyance.
Before I was able to take it in, an issue with the Battery Monitoring System surfaced. I received a Technical Service Bulletin in the mail from Honda, stating that the BMS needed a software update. Additionally, the Maintenance Minder system alerted me that the minivan was in need of an A123 service. All these issues certainly added up to a much needed visit to the dealership!
When our Odyssey finally made it in to the local Honda dealership for a check-up, I brought to the mechanic's attention all the issues I have been experiencing. Thankfully, I was able to replicate the problem with the power doors in the dealership's driveway and they suspected the door tracks were in need of lubrication. As for the technical bulletin, they simply asked to see the paperwork I received in the mail. These two items would be covered under warranty with no cost to us. On the other hand, the A123 service, which consists of replacing the engine oil, air cleaner element, dust and pollen filter, and transmission fluid, rotating tires, and inspecting the drive belt, would require a somewhat hefty charge.
I left the Odyssey with the folks at the Honda dealership in the morning, and received a call from them mid-afternoon saying the minivan was ready to be picked up. They had lubricated the side doors, which alleviated the problem I was experiencing. (I was able to test the power opening and closing on site before leaving the dealership). The total charge for the A123 service visit was $314.49, half of which was labor costs. As stated before, we were not charged for the BMS update or the power door fix, as they were covered under warranty.
Since the service visit, I have double-checked the power sliding doors while parked on the hills around my house and they seem to be working flawlessly. I have yet to test out the Battery Monitoring System and don't foresee an opportunity anytime soon to leave the van parked with its doors open for hours at a time. Besides, at this point, I've developed the habit of turning off all the interior lights anytime I leave the doors open. If I want to run the radio while the van is parked, I leave the engine running, but it never hurts to keep a set of jumper cables with you, no matter what you're driving.
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You had to know something was up when after Super Bowl XLIV, Kim Kardashian said the only ring she was worried about was Reggie Bush's championship ring.
It appears she had good reason not to worry about that promised engagement ring from the New Orleans Saints super star.
A source has told E! Online that the made for Reality TV relationship of Kardashian and Bush is officially over.
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Of course, you have to take this news with the same huge pillar of salt you take when you hear Brett Favre announce he's done with football.
Bush and Kardashian have been an off-and-on couple since 2007. Bush was supposed to propose to his love interest if the Saints won the Super Bowl in Miami. (We took the under on this prop bet by the way. Cha-Ching!)
They won't. He didn't.
Kim and her sisters are in South Beach this week because they never seem to be anywhere else. Actually, they are shooting some footage for the second season of Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami.
According to Miami New Times, the Kardashian Clan was involved in an incident last night with the paparazzi. It was the usual allegations of body guards picking on defenseless, annoying cameramen.
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While hopping in a tub filled with freezing cold water after the game is a common practice for competitive athletes, there is growing evidence that ice baths don't help muscle recovery or reduce pain.
New research suggests that it may even delay the process of rebuilding muscles. Naomi Crystal, who led the study at the University of New Hampshire, found that ice baths interfered with plasma chemokine ligand, a protein that helps the body recover, leading to diminished gains in fitness. "People tend to think the inflammatory response following exercise is a bad thing because it is painful and temporarily reduces athletic capability," says Crystal. "But it is actually a very important part of recovery and adaptation [and leads to] getting more fit. The inflammatory response, though unpleasant, serves a very important purpose." Previous studies have come to similar conclusions, measuring at best minimal gain for muscle recovery and soreness after of a post-workout ice bath.
Instead of relying on this scientifically controversial practice, stick with the tried-and-true rules for muscle recovery, which include drinking fluids with sodium immediately after (or during) your workout, eating a snack with carbohydrates within 10 minutes, and having a full protein-rich meal within at least two and a half hours.
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Club: Independiente
Club: Club Atlético Independiente | Independiente
Club: Club Atlético Independiente
WC 86' number: 3
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- Who said Maradona was alone in the 1986 World Cup? Terribly mistaken, Bochini was there. The 32 year old was the voice of experience, and by the way, Maradona's idol. The almost creepy resemblance in their game led to a sort of legacy from the Avellaneda's idol to a young 26 year old Maradona.
Bochini was devoted his whole career, and some might say his whole life (as he continues attached), to the club of his heart: Independiente.
He stayed there for 19 years, scoring near a 100 goals, and winning so many titles it would be an un-ending list, including a Inter-Continental Cup final against no other than Juventus (in this season: 1978) scoring the winning goal and becoming a legend between the Independiente's supporters, who still see him as one of the greatest Argentineans of all times.
Nowadays, whenever someone does a great, unbelievable pass a lot of Argentineans refer to them as a "bochinesque pass"; imagine the excentricity of this player's lobs and passes.
Well, to end, I'd like to add what Maradona said to him when he was subbed in the '86 WC: "Thanks 'Maestro', thanks for the football"


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New Hampshire is looking at a wide open race for governor this year, and there are intriguing primaries coming together on both sides of the political aisle.
For political analyst Dean Spiliotes, how this race materializes could be particularly interesting. Gov. John Lynch has occupied the corner office for eight years and has governed in a centrist way. Lynch has said he won't seek reelection. He has appeal across party lines, though there has been tension the last couple years between him and conservatives in the legislature, particularly those in the state House of Representatives.
So Spiliotes wonders what the strategies will be. Will Democrats run on an argument that the right-wing legislature needs to be checked? Will Republicans align themselves ideologically with the legislature and come out against gay marriage and strongly in support of lessening gun regulations?
On the Democratic side, it looks like the race will be between two former state senators: Maggie Hassan and Jackie Cilley. Former Portsmouth mayor Steve Marchand and former attorney general Phil McLaughlin both passed on running. Former Stonyfield Yogurt CEO Gary Hirshberg has said he doubts he'll run.
For Republicans, the field could be even more wide open. Ovide Lamontagne, a Senate candidate in the 2010 Republican primary, was first to get in and is the presumptive frontrunner. Former Cornerstone Research executive director Kevin Smith is in the mix, and Salem businessman Steve Kenda is exploring a run. Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas is mentioned a lot.
In 2010 Republicans clearly had all the momentum. It's less clear this time around.
"It's hard to say," Spiliotes said. "It's not like it was in 2010. The situation is a lot more fluid now. The nature of Republican excitement is unclear. Certainly there's some, but it's not like 2010. ...."
There has always been some tension between Lynch and the more progressive wing of the Democratic party. It would be difficult to characterize Lynch as particularly progressive. Sure, he signed the state's same-sex marriage law, but he did so seemingly begrudgingly after saying repeatedly he thought marriage was between a man and woman.
Spiliotes figures Democrats would probably continue the tradition of trying to represent mainstream New Hampshire voters, though the tension between the centrist crowd and the progressive wing will probably still exist.
"I don't know if we're going to see more ideologically polarized campaigns," Spiliotes said. "Democrats are going to argue that the legislature is too far to the right. … I don't know that it's going to be far right versus far left. Whatever Democrat can occupy the space in the middle will try to paint Republicans as extreme."
Hassan has already signed the pledge that states she wouldn't support any effort to institute a broad-based tax, such as an income or sales tax. If Cilley opts against taking the pledge — and she had indicated she won't take it — Spiliotes said that could tie one hand behind her back. Refusing to take it would help her more in the primary than in the general election, but in the general election it would leave her open to attacks that she would look to raise taxes and fees.
"There's an interesting dividing line right there," Spiliotes said.
Hassan will probably try to argue that she is the more "electable" option.
Whoever is the Democratic nominee would be buoyed by President Barack Obama's sudden surge of approval in New Hampshire. Recent polling had the president experiencing an 18-point swing of support here, from down 10 percentage points to up 8 points.
Cilley spent a lot of time in her announcement talking about her own past and her efforts to represent workers. A native of Berlin, Cilley probably has a considerably different story than Hassan's in Exeter. Spiliotes sees potential for a class discussion on the Democratic side — "The working-class imagery," Spiliotes said. "Berlin is very different from Exeter."
"I think Ovide has always pushed very hard to be viewed as the true conservative," Spiliotes said. "I think the question is going to be, because Kevin Smith is in there and Steve Kenda sounds like he's going to run, and both are conservative … [the question] is how he does that in this primary. Of course, part of it is name recognition."
Lamontagne is better-known and he's traditionally been on good terms with people of all political stripes. He nearly emerged victorious in the Senate primary in 2010, running as the happy conservative while now-Sen. Kelly Ayotte and candidate Bill Binnie engaged in a bitter fight.
"[Lamontagne] will try to paint a vision of New Hampshire that is appealing across a spectrum of voters," Spiliotes said. "Smith, people immediately know his work with Cornerstone, which is seen as much more conservative…."
Spiliotes sees the Republican primary as particularly interesting, with plenty of discussion on conservative principles as well as who would be best able to work with the legislature.
Spiliotes hasn't given too much thought to the possibility of Gatsas' entering the race, but that could surely shake things up. Gatsas is a skilled and experienced politician, and his platform as mayor of Manchester would be a strong one to run on, Spiliotes said.
Smith would be coming from an advocacy organization perspective, Kenda would be the businessman, and Lamontagne feels like the establishment candidate. Lamontagne is also a three-time loser in political contests. Gatsas currently holds office, is a former senate president and is a successful businessman. Spiliotes figured Gatsas would be able to mobilize a political operation similar to Lamontagne's, rather than be a movement conservative.
In the next few months, Spiliotes will be watching how candidates build name recognition, fundraising operations and campaign teams.
"Who are the first people to get on board?" Spiliotes said. "That's usually an interesting indication of how things are going."


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[Kenny] Williams said it is not out of the question that the payroll stays near the $127 million mark. He'll know more by the time the winter meetings take place in Dallas during the first week of December.
"Who's to say we're going to lose money and who's to say we're not going to win? We still have the talent in place to win. Now, when I say that, that means we have to have some bounce-back years from some guys. Can I give you some logical, sensible reasons why I would expect that? No more so that I would have thought that some of the guys that had tough years would bounce back in the second half of last year. So that would just be blowing smoke up your [butt] and I won't do that. I don't know."
If Kenny keeps this up, he'll announce a payroll increase next week.


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i should just move the linkfests to mondays … get it over with. (~_^) (then at some point i'd prolly switch to publishing them on wednesdays or thursdays … and eventually, someday, they'd migrate all the way back to sundays again!)
Are Liberal or Conservative Americans More Likely to Support Restrictions on Racist and Anti-Religious Speech?
Singapore is world's least emotional country, poll finds – see also steve sailer (who is not the world's least emotional country).
Does being fat make you more jolly? – "The FTO gene makes a protein associated with obesity and fat mass…. [H]aving one copy of this mutant in your genome decreases the risk of depression by 8 per cent; two copies doubles that dip…. Based on its prevalence among ethnic groups, it should prevent 6.7 per cent of the cases of depression that would otherwise afflict Africans, 5.3 per cent of cases in Europeans, and 2.2 per cent in Chinese."
Longer life link to low vitamin D – in some dutch people. h/t sean!
Meat, Cooked Foods Needed for Early Human Brain
The Evolutionary Mystery of Homosexuality – i know, i know. greg cochran would say there's no mystery here. (~_^)
Conservatism is white men – from the awesome epigone.
Why Is Intelligence the Measure of Ultimate Human Worth? – from kanazawa.
Mitochondrial DNA in Ancient Human Populations of Europe (der Sarkissian 2011) – "This work presents direct evidence that Mesolithic eastern Europeans belonged to the same Palaeolithic/Mesolithic genetic background as central and northern Europeans. It was also shown that prehistoric eastern Europeans were the recipients of multiple migrations from the East in prehistory that had not been previously detected and/or timed on the basis of modern mtDNA data. Ancient DNA also provided insights in the genetic history of European genetic outliers; the Saami, whose ancestral population still remain unidentified, and the Sardinians, whose genetic differentiation is proposed to be the result of mating isolation since at least the Bronze Age." – @dienekes'.
Archaeologists discover 10,000 year-old home – in scotland.
People who live in tropics more likely to die seven years earlier – "Overall mortality in the region was affected by disease, conflict, poverty and food insecurity…."
Improved Water Supplies In Africa Increase Poverty – 'cause of lower death rates. that s*cks. – from parapundit.
bonus: Fraud fighter: 'Faked research is endemic in China'
bonus bonus: The Black Cat Analogy – from jayman!
bonus bonus bonus: Think twice before using "mankind" to mean "all humanity," say scholars – scr*w that!
bonus bonus bonus bonus: Camel Genome Holds Desert Survival Secrets – "[M]any of the Bactrian genome's rapidly evolving genes regulate the metabolic pathway…. [C]amels can withstand massive blood glucose levels owing in part to changes in genes that are linked to type II diabetes in humans."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Larry Hagman: the superstar who made history – "In 1991, a Bedouin tribe delayed its annual migration across the Sahara because its elders were not prepared to miss the last episode of Dallas." – heh.
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WASHINGTON — An administration official said Monday the overhaul of the government's $700 billion financial rescue program is likely to include a partnership with the private sector to buy troubled assets.
The Obama administration pushed back the announcement of the keenly awaited bank rescue plan until Tuesday as it pressed lawmakers to settle their differences over a huge economic stimulus package.
The official said the plan will use government money to support private sector purchases of bad assets that are weighing on banks' balance sheets and keeping them from resuming more normal lending.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because certain details of the plan are still being worked out.
A Treasury Department spokeswoman said the revamped program was basically done with only "minor tweaks" occurring on Monday.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will outline the bailout plan in a speech at 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, the Treasury Department said.
"We're focused on working with Congress to pass an economic recovery bill so we can create the jobs and make the investments necessary to get our economy moving again," Treasury Department spokesman Isaac Baker said on Sunday.
While the Senate is expected to pass the $827 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, it faces difficulties reconciling the Senate bill and the House version that passed earlier.
The announcement of the bank rescue plan — which will seek to shore up some of the biggest commercial banks in the United States — had been due Monday.
But the Senate is now expected to be focused on the massive economic stimulus package ahead of a vote on Tuesday.
For that reason, Geithner had postponed release of the bank plan, Baker said in a statement.
Key parts of Obama strategy
The stimulus and the bank rescue plan are key parts of President Barack Obama's strategy for tackling the deepest financial crisis in the United States since the Great Depression.
Shares in major U.S. banks such as Bank of America and Citigroup have been volatile in recent weeks on speculation about the contents of the financial rescue plan and whether it would successfully remove the overhang of toxic assets that is forcing banks to take huge losses.
White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers said the administration wants to keep lawmakers concentrating on the stimulus plan.
"There's a desire to keep the focus right now on the economic recovery program, which is so very, very important," Summers said on ABC television's "This Week."
Summers urged lawmakers to craft quickly a compromise on competing House and Senate versions of the economic stimulus bill that could be worth more than $800 billion and which the White House hopes will create 3 million to 4 million jobs.
After the Senate vote, the stimulus plan must still go through final negotiations between the Senate and the House of Representatives before it can be sent to Obama to sign it into law.
Geithner had been scheduled to detail on Monday how the administration plans to use the $350 billion remaining of the $700 billion so-called Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) financial bailout program.
Banks laid low
Banks worldwide have been laid low by huge losses on U.S. mortgage-related debts. The scarcity of credit is choking the U.S. economy, which is mired in a deepening recession.
The Bush administration used the bailout program primarily to inject capital into banks in order to keep them from crumbling.
Obama's team is now turning its efforts to cleaning up the toxic assets clogging the financial system and it is expected to propose a range of measures, including further state acquisitions of stakes in banks, buying up some toxic assets and guaranteeing banks for losses on others.
Summers suggested the bank rescue plan may offer incentives for private sector investors to buy mortgage-related assets that have lost value because of the collapsed U.S. housing market.
"It can't all be private capital," Summers said on "Fox News Sunday."
"But with the right kinds of government guarantees, with the right kinds of financing ... with the right strategic approaches, Secretary Geithner believes that we can bring in substantial private capital," Summers said.
He pointed to a similar approach already adopted by the Federal Reserve, which has announced plans to buy mortgage-backed securities, resulting in dropping mortgage rates.
Relying on private sector?
The New York Times, citing administration officials, also reported that the plan is likely to rely in part on private sector investors other than banks to buy the contaminating assets that wiped out the capital of many banks.
The officials told the paper that they are counting on the profit motive of private investors like hedge funds, private equity funds and perhaps insurance companies to create a market for the assets.
The government would guarantee a floor value as a way to overcome investors' reluctance to buy the assets, the officials told the paper.
The head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, noted on CBS' "Face the Nation" that the administration has already pledged that $50 billion to $100 billion would be used to help people with distressed mortgages.
Geithner told Democrat lawmakers on Saturday that the administration would require banks getting public aid under a new rescue plan to help struggling homeowners by reworking their mortgages, Democratic sources said.
The Obama administration is also designing a mortgage rescue program that would see Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ease payments for hundreds of thousands of borrowers and offer a model for Wall Street to do the same, sources familiar with the plan said.
The government's two largest foreclosure prevention initiatives of the last 12 months have fallen flat with only a handful of borrowers having been helped despite promises that hundreds of thousands would qualify.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Olympic star Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears in the dock on Friday as he was charged with the Valentine's Day murder of his model girlfriend, a charge he denied "in the strongest terms."
The 26-year-old South African Paralympian gold medallist sobbed inconsolably as Pretoria magistrate Desmond Nair announced a single charge of killing his lover, blonde covergirl Reeva Steenkamp.
The double amputee was an inspirational hero of last year's London Olympics.
But on Friday he sat hunched and silent except for audible weeping as the court heard that prosecutors will argue the murder was premeditated, a weightier charge that would carry a life sentence.
A bail hearing was delayed until Tuesday to allow the defence more time to prepare.
He will be kept in police custody until then.
In a statement issued by Pistorius's family and management company after the court appearance, the fallen star said "the alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms."
He also offered his condolences to the those close to his former lover.
"Our thoughts and prayers today should be for Reeva and her family -- regardless of the circumstances of this terrible, terrible tragedy."
Twenty-nine-year-old Steenkamp, who was due to appear in a celebrity reality show from this weekend, was shot four times at Pistorius's upmarket Pretoria home in the early hours of Thursday.
The pre-recorded show filmed in an exotic location in Jamaica features the model and several local personalities competing for one million rand ($A110,183) prize money.
Trailers for the series show a beaming Steenkamp clad in a bikini and other skimpy clothing.
Producers said they had decided not to shelve the show, which will premiere two days after she was shot dead at Pistorius's home.
"As we grieve today with Reeva's family and friends and struggle to make sense of this shocking tragedy, it has taken much deliberation to come to the decision to continue screening Tropika Island of Treasure 5 as planned," executive producer Samantha Moon said in a statement.
"This week's episode will be dedicated to Reeva's memory."
She was killed with his 9mm pistol, suffering wounds to the head and hand and died at the scene.
The Beeld newspaper, which first broke the dramatic news of his arrest, said the shots that killed Steenkamp were fired through a bathroom door but there has been no police confirmation.
After the shooting Pistorius's apparent fall from grace has captured the attention of millions, with press from around the world cramming the courtroom to cover events.
Better-known as "Blade Runner" because of his carbon fibre prostheses, Pistorius has inspired millions by becoming the first double-amputee to compete alongside able-bodied athletes at the Olympics.
"Oscar's Bloody Valentine" was the headline in South Africa's most popular tabloid, the Daily Sun.
Police were called to Pistorius's home at around 4am local time by neighbours who heard gunshots.
But they poured cold water on initial reports that Pistorius had shot Steenkamp, his girlfriend since late last year, after mistaking her for a burglar.
Pistorius was publicly adored in his native South Africa, but questions had been raised about his colourful private life that was replete with glamorous girlfriends, guns and fast cars.
"Obviously we are shocked," his father Henke Pistorius told AFP.
Steenkamp, once an FHM cover girl, was described as "the kindest, sweetest human being; an angel on earth," by Sarit Tomlins of her management agency.
Born in Cape Town, she grew up in Port Elizabeth where she graduated with a degree in law from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Police have revealed there had been previous allegations of domestic disputes at Pistorius's home.
In 2009, Pistorius spent a night in jail after allegedly assaulting a 19-year-old woman at a party.
He has often spoken publicly about his fondness for guns. Last year he told a newspaper he sleeps with a pistol, machine gun, cricket bat and baseball bat for fear of burglars.
The Johannesburg-born athlete won gold in the 4x100m relay and the 400m individual at the Paralympic Games in London. He was triple gold medallist in the Beijing games in 2008.
He was named by Time Magazine last year as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Pistorius had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11-months-old after being born without lower leg bones.


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ANTH-152 Public Culture
This course is an anthropological introduction to public culture in the U.S. It takes public culture to be: a public circulation of sensibilities, identities, dreams, styles, discourses and forms of power; and a way of life enacted and given form in the practices of everyday life and in institutions, laws, social movements, physical and social spaces, and expressive forms. Students will be introduced to key terms and theories in contemporary anthropology and their application in the study of representation; historical imagination; gender, sexuality and identity politics; and nationalism, citizenship and globalization. 4 SH. CC: Diversity, Social Interactions, Writing Intensive.


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shaxs brauchte ein neues Button oder Icon Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 57 Designs von 18 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are developing a web 2.0 helpdesk system because we are sick of all the bloated, over-priced ones out there that do not work properly. We need a set of initial icons for our system.
Clever Helpdesk
Desired Color Scheme:
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Desired Style:
Web 2.0
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We are developing a web 2.0 helpdesk system because we are sick of all the bloated, over-priced ones out there that do not work properly. We need a set of initial icons for our system.
We would like, if possible, for the icons to be vector based so we can scale them as needed. Our initial size will be 60x60 pixels. If you cannot do vector based, please let us know with your submission. This will not automatically count you out.
These icons need to have a very web 2.0 feel to them. The color scheme of the help desk will be changed based on the users preference, so the icons will need to go well with different color schemes. Or you will need to provide the same icons in different colors. YOU MAY NOT borrow icons from somewhere else- they MUST be original to this contest only.
We will need the following icons:
- Submit a ticket
- Check ticket status
- Live Chat (not this is not the icon/logo that will be embedded on websites that will say online/offline, but this will be an icon to depict live chat is part of the system
- Knowledgebase
- Manuals (like a software manual on how to operate or do things)
- Downloads
- Forums
- Tutorials (like flashed or video based tutorialsThe winner will be paid via paypal and the prize money is $300. I have run quite a few successful contests here on SitePoint before. We also will be needing more icon work as we progress with the system, so we will come back to the winner for more icons later.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments! Thanks
UPDATE: I have uploaded a very early mockup of the helpdesk homepage where these icons will be used: http://www.clevertools.com/temp/hel…k-home.jpg . Don't judge too hard, its a first round draft ;) But it should give you a better idea of style and color.


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If Mazda had only made the RX7 and Miata over the company's entire lifetime, they would be revered as one of the greatest automakers of all time. Of course, we haven't been able to buy an RX7 in America since the late 1990s. It's sad.
But now, the company is saying that the car will be back for 2017. Or are they?
We've heard this a million times before. "The RX7 will be back in a few years time." Mazda mentions it once then it disappears from the news.
This time, Mazda stated the car will be back in 2017, five years away. And people inside Mazda even said it was happening!
But it's been said that a new RX7 would be here in 2011, which never happened, arrive in 2012, which didn't happen, and 2013, which ain't happenin.
So yeah, we doubt we're actually getting one. Look out for a story in a year that pegs a new RX7 to be arriving in 2019.


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Enea has announced the availability of IPsec and SSH network security protocols for DSPNet, a compact, high-performance IPv4v6 stack optimized for the Enea OSE ck real-time operating system. The new protocols provide integrity verification, authentication, and encryption services that facilitate secure data transmission.
IPsec provides confidentiality, data integrity, and authentication for packets sent over the Internet. IPsec encrypts the IP data packets to hide its contents from unauthorized viewing. It also authenticates the sender and checks the received data for integrity. The SSH daemon (Secure Shell) provides a secure alternative to Telnet for accessing the OSE ck shell, which is used to execute commands on the DSP for management, configuration, status, and debug purposes.
"The drive to reduce IP transport costs has made Ethernet the standard interface for all DSPs used in communications infrastructure," said Enea's Terry Pearson. "DSPNet provides a secure, reliable, high-performance IP transport solution that enables DSPs to perform network processing as well as real-time signal processing."


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State police have known for at least three years that a convicted rapist was not at work the day Rebecca Lynn Williams was raped and stabbed to death in her Culpeper apartment, according to an investigative report unsealed by court order Friday, November 12.
In addition, Kenneth Tinsley's DNA was found in seminal fluid on a blanket at the scene of the June 4, 1982, crime. Results of the DNA tests, conducted in 2000, prompted then-Gov. Jim Gilmore to grant a full pardon to Earl Washington Jr., who had been sentenced to death for the Williams slaying. Tinsley has not been charged in Williams' death.
In the documents that U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon ordered unsealed, Tinsley told police he had no idea how his semen got on the blanket.
"If it's mine, as God's witness, I do not know how it got there," Tinsley was quoted as telling investigators.
Tinsley, 59, speculated that detectives might have planted the evidence, using a semen sample from a previous trial. Tinsley is serving two life terms for a 1984 rape in Albemarle County.
He also said the blanket perhaps was stained in a previous consensual sexual encounter elsewhere.
"He stated that over the years he possibly had sex on a blue blanket in various cities," including New York and Chicago, the investigators wrote.
Another report recounted a conversation with an executive at Tultex Corp. in Martinsville, where Tinsley worked. The executive said records in Tinsley's file showed he was not at work on June 4, 1982.
Washington, who is mildly retarded, confessed to the crime but later recanted. He came within nine days of being executed. After DNA testing in 1993 cast doubt on Washington's guilt, then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder commuted his sentence to life in prison. Gilmore granted the pardon based on more sophisticated tests, but prosecutors have said Washington remains a suspect.
"Even when they released him, they did it in this grudging manner, leaving clouds of suspicion– all totally unjustified," says Eric M. Freedman, one of Washington's lawyers.
Washington filed suit against the authorities who prosecuted him, in part to clear his name. But state police sought to keep its file on the Williams' slaying secret and under court seal, arguing that release of the documents could jeopardize their ongoing investigation.
U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to stay Moon's order and the file was opened.
The records were sought by Washington's lawyers and five news organizations: The Associated Press, The Washington Post, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, and the Virginia Press Association.


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There's been a heated controversy in cancer research over the past several years about the alleged presence of cancer stem cells that fuel tumour growth. But now, new research conducted by three independent teams has confirmed the existence of these "master builder" cells — a discovery that will likely lead to completely new forms of therapy for cancer patients.
Therapists are often frustrated when, after chemotherapy sessions, they see a tumor in their patient shrink, only to grow right back. This has led to the suggestion that there must be some kind of cell that drives tumor growth — and that the identification of these cells could hold important clues for future cancer treatments.
And indeed, these undifferentiated proto-cancer cells have now been discovered, the details of which were published in the journals Nature and Science. Writing in the LA Times, Rosie Mestel and Eryn Brown explain:
All three studies used molecular tricks that allowed scientists to mark certain tumor cells with bright colors. When these marked cells divided, all of the daughter cells were similarly colored. This permitted the researchers to see whether any old cell in a tumor can continue to fuel its growth or if only a subset of cells is responsible.
The three groups used different experimental approaches and different kinds of cancer, but all of them found the latter to be true.
The three research teams used different experimental approaches and different kinds of cancer, and each one of them confirmed the existence of cancer stem cells. They tested their hypothesis on mice with glioblastoma (cancer in the brain), intestinal cancer, and skin tumors.
And according to Nature's G. Driessens, this discovery is set to be a game changer:
It is too soon to know whether these results - obtained for tumours of the brain, the gut and the skin - will apply to other cancers, says Luis Parada at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, who led the brain study. But if they do, he says, "there is going to be a paradigm shift in the way that chemotherapy efficacy is evaluated and how therapeutics are developed". Instead of testing whether a therapy shrinks a tumour, for instance, researchers would assess whether it kills the right sorts of cell.
Read more about this important breakthrough at Nature and the LA Times. The studies themselves can be found here, here, and here.
Images via LA Times and Nature.


text: The beginning of each year offers so much promise. It's a fresh start, a chance to look ahead with wonder, with optimism and with more than a little anticipation. This year will be especially good to gearheads. There is no shortage of lustworthy machinery coming down the pike, from absurdly powerful muscle cars to drop-dead gorgeous electrics and leading-edge motorcycles. We may even see the first flight of the spaceships that will one day take us to the heavens. Here, then, are the 12 things we're most looking forward to in 2012. KTM Freeride E The problem with electric motorcycles isn't range, it's accessibility. Until now, anything truly worth riding was built in limited numbers by tiny startups. The promise of zero-emissions riding on a machine you'd actually buy was out of reach to almost everyone. The KTM Freeride E solves that problem. The first electric motorcycle from a major manufacturer is utterly unintimidating to newcomers but fast enough to keep experienced riders entertained. Motorcycles like this will open new riding areas to new riders. Quick, clean and quiet, small bikes and electric bikes are the future. The future starts now with the KTM Freeride E. — Wes Siler Photo: KTMSubaru BRZ / Scion FR-S Much has been written about these cars in recent months, and with good reason. These cars, developed in a corporate partnership between Subaru and Toyota, flat-out rock. Think about it. They're crazy light. They're rear-wheel-drive. They offer 197 horsepower in a package not much larger than a Mazda MX-5 Miata. They're gorgeous, with styling that recalls the classic Japanese sports cars of the 1970s. And they're affordable, with prices starting in the mid-20s. Small size. Light weight. Low center of gravity and decent power. Can you say insanely fun to drive? Oh yes. Sign us up. — Chuck Squatriglia Photo: SubaruTesla Motors Model S Tesla Motors proved long ago with the Roadster that it could design a top-notch electric drivetrain. The Roadster is the benchmark for EV range and performance, and a damn fine car. Yet it was merely the opening act for the main attraction: Model S. Model S is Elon Musk's all-in bet that Tesla Motors is a real car company, one worthy of respect beyond the EV community. Critics like to say the Roadster is simply a converted Lotus Elise, which is unfair because it fails to recognize the remarkable engineering of the drivetrain. The Model S is Musk looking those idiots straight in the eye and saying, "Get stuffed" while telling Detroit (along with Japan and Europe), "Look what we can do." The Model S was designed entirely by Tesla Motors, which assembled a team of engineers from the likes of Lotus, Jaguar and Williams F1. The car promises to handle as well as it looks, and Tesla is making good on its promise to deliver the S with a starting price of $49,900 after the federal EV tax credit. You'll be able to get it with one of three packs — 40, 60 or 80 kilowatt-hours — with each offering greater range, performance and price. The top-of-the-line Model S Performance provides a claimed range of 300 miles, does zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds and starts at $87,400. That silence you hear is Tesla's critics. — Chuck Squatriglia Photo: Tesla MotorsFisker Automotive Karma This is the other big-ticket car with a cord we're looking forward to. Company founder Henrik Fisker — who designed automotive eye candy like the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin V8 Vantage — wants to prove green and gorgeous aren't mutually exclusive. On that score, he's definitely succeeded. The Karma is a stunner. Beneath the gorgeous bodywork the car works a lot like the Chevrolet Volt, with a battery providing an EPA-certified 32 miles of range. When the battery winds down, a gasoline engine drives a generator to keep juice flowing to the wheels. At that point you're looking at 20 mpg, the feds say. Those figures fall well short of what the company promised, but they're respectable for a luxury car that weighs 5,500 pounds. And then there was the battery issue that led to a recall, but Fisker swears that's been straightened out. Fisker's delivered about 40 Karmas so far, and early reviews suggest the car goes as well as it looks. The glossies have given it favorable reviews, and the gearheads at Top Gear named it the luxury car of the year. Not bad for Fisker Automotive's inaugural effort. Photo: Fisker AutomotiveAirbus A350 XWB Now it's Airbus' turn. For the past several years the Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been the center of attention in the commercial aviation world. That focus now shifts to Airbus as it begins building and flight testing its first composite airliner, the A350 XWB. The A350 XWB (for extra-wide body) has, like the 787, had a tumultuous start marked by changes and redesigns to meet customer needs. Airbus also is taking a different approach to composite construction. Rather than make the fuselage entirely of composite materials as Boeing did, Airbus has for many reasons opted instead to affix carbon fiber panels to an aluminum airframe. Many in the industry are waiting to see if the new design will lead to a faster, simpler development with fewer delays, or if Airbus' unique use of composite material will tread the same tortured development path Boeing followed. Either way, we're eager to see this new airplane take wing. — Jason Paur Photo: Airbus. The view from within the first 21-meter long forward fuselage section of an A350 XWB.2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Think about this: 650 horsepower and 600 pound-feet of torque in a Mustang. A Mustang. Not some one-off, either, but a factory-built car with a warranty. The top speed is said to be north of 200 mph. Unlike past GT500s, this one might actually handle. And stop. It's a 200-mph Mustang. (Faster than Chevrolet's Corvette Z06.) It's a 200-mph Mustang with a warranty. (Faster than Chevrolet's Camaro ZL1.) Did we mention it does more than 200 mph? What a ridiculous anachronism. How glorious all the same. — Sam Smith Photo: FordLamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 Spyder Modern day Lamborghinis are not scary. Sexy, fast and raucous? Most definitely. But scary, as in, "Oh my god, this thing is gonna kill me!"? No. Not for some time now, thanks to tarmac-grabbing all-wheel-drive and handling tuned for understeer. Perhaps that's why our recent experience in a Lamborghini was so momentous. The car was the Gallardo LP 550-2 Tricolore, and its mid-mounted V-10 delivered every one of its 550 horsepower to the rear wheels. The lighter, twitchier coupe put us on edge at the Monticello Motor Club's road course and literally took our breath away, just like tempestuous Lambos of yore. And that's why we want a Gallardo LP 550-2 Spyder. The droptop challenges drivers, makes them earn the excitement that only a supercar can deliver. It also promises symphonic aural entertainment, with its 10-cylinder engine roaring just aft of the cabin. At $209,500, the Spyder ain't cheap. But considering it's the second most affordable Lamborghini in the lineup, the rear wheel-drive roadster just might be scary enough to conjure a cult following. — Basem Wasef Photo: LamborghiniDucati 1199 Panigale You've undoubtedly heard of Ducati. It's not so much a motorcycle as a brand. But what all those glitzy "lifestyle" ads and strategic product placements don't tell you is this: The reality of Ducati has not always matched the image. Until now. For the first time ever, Ducati can legitimately say it sells the fastest motorcycle in the world. Hell — it's the fastest production bike ever if we're talking lap times. With an 1,199cc V-twin making 195 horsepower in a bike that weighs a scant 395 pounds ready to ride, the Panigale — named after Ducati's hometown — is as powerful as anything else in the world and quite a bit lighter than anything else in its class. The Panigale harnesses that record-breaking power-to-weight ratio with bleeding-edge electronics pulled straight from the track. Performance-tuned traction control, wheelie control, launch control, ABS and suspension that electronically adjusts itself on the fly will make this bike not only the fastest ever, but one mere mortals can ride as fast possible. — Wes Siler Photo: DucatiMercedes-Benz SL550 The soon-to-be-defunct Mercedes-Benz SL was a slick bit of kit, but it also tipped the scales at well over two tons. That's hardly the stuff of sports car dreams, and a mockery of the roadster's storied "Sport Light" designation. For 2013, Mercedes is ditching steel for aluminum, and the result is nothing short of stunning. The chassis is not only 240 pounds leaner, but also stiffer, with a lower center of gravity. Add a 429-horsepower, twin-turbocharged V8 and the flagship SL550 hits 60 mph in an estimated 4.5 seconds. That makes it as quick as the outgoing SL63 AMG. Which, of course, only means the upcoming AMG version of the SL will be even more lustworthy. Bravo, Mercedes-Benz, for shunning status quo and returning to your lightweight roots. Enthusiasts everywhere thank you. — Basem Wasef Photo: Mercedes-BenzFiat Abarth 500 Given that the anemic 101-horsepower Fiat 500 is a blast to drive, we can't wait to get our hands on a cinquecento stung by Abarth's scorpion. The Abarth 500, announced at the L.A. Auto Show in November, the real deal and a car Carlo Abarth would be proud of. It's got a turbocharged version of Fiat's MultiAir 1.4 L four-cylinder engine good for 160 horsepower and 170 lb-ft of torque – in a car that weighs a hair over 2,500 pounds. Mama mia! — Keith Barry Photo: FiatFord Focus ST Yeah, yeah. We know. Another Ford. But hear us out. The hot-rodded Focus ST takes an entertaining car with an amazing chassis and ridiculous value and gives it a better suspension and 247 horsepower. It's the first fast Focus on this side of the Atlantic since Ford killed the SVT in 2004. This will be a respectable alternative to the Volkswagen GTI and the (ugh) Mazda Mazdaspeed3. What's not to love? — Sam Smith Photo: FordCommercial Space Flight Takes Off We'll see big things this year as commercial space flight blasts off. Scaled Composites is expected to begin powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo, the spacecraft that Virgin Galactic will use to carry those with deep pockets into space. The craft will be carried aloft aboard its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, before rocketing toward the heavens. If the development of its predecessor is any indication, it won't be long before SpaceShipTwo is inching its way toward 328,000 feet (100 kilometers), the somewhat arbitrary line defining space for most in the industry. Flying even higher, SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft into space atop the Falcon 9 rocket in early February. Its destination? The International Space Station. As part of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation System competition, the Falcon 9 will deliver the Dragon into orbit and, if all goes according to plan, the capsule will dock with the space station some time in mid February. — Jason Paur Photo: Virgin Galactic


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Workshop Web site development is mostly a complex process, often made more so by people from IT, marketing, publishing and design all having to sit in the same room together for long periods of time.
Phrases like "content is king" and "monetising the clicks" run thick and fast. While some proceed according to "principles of information architecture" others just go by the rule "build it and they will come".
But whatever approach prevails there is a need to plod through all the stages from planning to testing, rejigging, coding, more testing, more coding and then hopefully, implementation.
Visual documentation includes wireframes, prototypes and project management diagrams. They are all grist to the mill for diagramming tools. At the most basic level, these tools provide the means to create web site maps and wireframes that allow visualisation of the intended site's pages, and to share the design for collective changes to be made.
Higher up the food chain there are tools that go some way towards simulating the site in operation, and even a few that can automatically generate some of the code, although we are still a long way from being able to press a button that automatically builds it.
Microsoft Visio is known as a Steady Eddie in web design circles. It does what it says on the tin, namely it is allows you to create simple web site maps and wireframes.
In earlier versions, Microsoft included a set of Windows XP stencils for such work. For Visio 2010, it has provided a new set of wireframe shapes that are generic and not specific to the operating system. As before there are shapes for building dialogs, controls and toolbars, and in addition there are common icons for Windows, web and multimedia applications.
The look of the new wireframe shapes can be customised through "themes" or formatting. Introduced in 2007, the Themes drop-down menu allows you to introduce colours and effects in shapes.
Most shapes are customisable, resizeable and have state options. The new Containers concept also allows a range of shapes to be built within a container so that when the container is moved all controls inside it move too.
Visio is also capable of helping maintain a site through the Web Site Map template. It diagrams the pages, the graphics, where the graphics are stored, the hyperlinks and where there are broken hyperlinks.
Andrew Binns, a Microsoft Visio Most Valuable Professional (MVP), comments: "While web site designers may not be so keen, it's ideal for SharePoint site managers. SharePoint 2010 is designed for all users to create web pages but they won't necessarily have the skills of a designer, leading to excess pages and broken links. When I've shown this feature to web site managers they have been very impressed."
"There really is no excuse these days for not doing proper and visible wireframing and prototyping"
David Parker, managing director of BVisual and a Visio MVP, adds: "There are many different methods of creating a website and Visio cannot satisfy them all. It's good for sketching out concepts, though, and I would like to see the wireframes enhanced. But the reverse engineering of web sites can be a bit hit-and-miss."
Tools like Visio also have to compete with more niche applications. Chris Roth, who blogs as Visio Guy, says: "Something like Axure seems more interesting to me. Its graphical software is aimed specifically at wireframes and prototyping of web sites and user interfaces. You can take the core engine behind it and wrap it up in several special-purpose applications that people really need for their business." Axure and Balsamiq Mockups have their fair share of fans, but there are also those who say their automatic coding feature is not worth bothering with, a topic of much debate among web designers. A web site prototype can be built using paper, colour pens on whiteboard, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Keynote, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Visio, Adobe Fireworks, Balsamiq Mockups, Axure, Wordpress or pure code.
The problem with static prototypes is that they cannot be tested and you need imagination to see how the site will work. But bearing in mind that many web sites begin life as paper or Post-it notes on a whiteboard, this is not necessarily a great drawback in the early stages. Experts favour "the right tool at the right time" approach, judging by the heated discussions in web design forums.
Deri Jones, chief executive at web testing firm SciVisum, says: "There really is no excuse these days for not doing proper and visible wireframing and prototyping. The tools are there, cloud-based if you want. If you share the planning and the results for your site via easy-to-use tools, Wikis and online whiteboards, confidence in the outcome will grow.
"Where a lot of companies drop the ball is in the nasty stage where the pages go from mock-ups to real engineered objects carved out of HTML, CSS and javascript."
Dave Ward, deputy creative director at agency Realise Digital, believes less is more. "The best tools for wireframing are stripped back enough so that it does not become a design tool," he says. "However, the software should also have enough detail to enable your design team to make strategic decisions. It should allow for the creation of a functional test platform, and ultimately a working product." ®


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Well, I figured it's about time to get in on the collection posting fun. Don't know how soon I'll get through everything, but I figured I'd start be posting my newest acquistions.
This came in the mail yesterday:
I picked it up off Ebay from Miskatonic. I actually lost the bid by a buck, but was given a Second Chance Offer since they had an additional one in stock. As an added bonus, they threw this in for free:
It's a PC copy, but a free s/l chapbook is still pretty cool. It also gives me a chance to read more of Brian Knight's stuff since I'm not too familiar with his work.


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Obama Surges Ahead Of McCain 47% to 45%, In Reuters/Zogby Poll
[Election 2008]
Democrats coming home and an increase of support from women helped Democrat Barack Obama take a 47%-45% lead over Republican John McCain, the latest Reuters/Zogby nationwide telephone survey of likely voters.
The poll, conducted of 1,008 likely voters from Sept. 11-13, 2008, is a seven-point reversal from the August 14-16 Zogby/Reuters poll that showed McCain ahead, 46%-41%. In that survey, 13% were not sure or favored another candidate. Now, that number is down to 8%, with their movement primarily to Obama.
The change from a month ago may correlate with the perception among likely voters that the McCain campaign has been the more negative.
Overall, 44% say McCain's campaign has been the more negative, compared to 31% who say the same about Obama's campaign. Among self-described political independents, 48% said they think McCain's campaign has been more negative.
As the table below shows, it has been a rollercoaster summer, but McCain is still better off than he was in July, when he trailed, 47%-40%.
When Libertarian Bob Barr and Independent Ralph Nader are included in the horserace question, Obama and McCain are tied, 45%-45%. Both Barr and Nader registered between 1%-2%. Last month, McCain led by five points in the four-way race.
The perceived tone of the campaign looks like a factor in the latest turn in Obama's favor. Here how those results broken down by party affiliation:
Which campaign is more negative? McCain 44%; Obama 31%.
Exactly one-half of voters said the economy was the most important issue in deciding whom to choose as President. No other issue garnered more than 9%.
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ROCHESTER — The 23rd Rochester Elks Sports Hall of Fame will induct six new members on Saturday, May 4, at the Rochester Elks Lodge.
The HOF's latest class includes contributors Dave Keller and Dan Wensley, and athletes Curt Connelly, Kelly Donohue, Michael Flynn and Kristen Zeimetz.
Also, Profile Bank will be presented with the Roy Allain Award, while two state championship teams will be recognized: The 1954-55 Holy Rosary High School boys basketball squad, which won the Class C state title that year with a 24-0 record (Rochester's only state hoop title), and the 1965 Spaulding High School Division II football champions, the first of five gridiron state champs coached by Hall of Famer Hugo Bolin.
The event will start on May 4 with a social hour at 3:30 p.m., followed by the prime rib dinner from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and then the induction ceremony.
The cost of the banquet is $25 and tickets may be purchased at the Elks Lodge, Collins Sports Center, Lachapelle & Higgins Insurance, and Profile Insurance Group.
Tickets may also be purchased online at the Hall of Fame website -- www.rochestershof.com -- at a cost of $27. The deadline to purchase tickets is April 29. For more information you may email event chairman John Creteau at email@example.com.
Keller's visibility in the Rochester community has been long-lasting. He graduated from Spaulding in 1962 and, after attending Plymouth State University, taught social studies 35 of his 37 years in the Rochester school system. He was a coach for the Spaulding football team for 39 years, starting in 1968, and serving various capacities, including three years as head coach after Bolin retired. He continues to work the Spaulding High boys and girls basketball games, a position he has held for 45 years.
Wensley worked with Hall of Famer Art Hoover in many capacities. He helped with the Little League baseball, Babe Ruth baseball and American legion baseball programs, including coaching and fundraising. He coached the Green team in the Rochester Youth Football League for close to 10 years and continues to serve on the Roger Allen Recreation Association board, which he has done since 1978. As a local attorney, Wensley offered free legal advice to Rochester sports teams.
Connelly will be remembered for his prowess as a baseball centerfielder for both the Spaulding and the University of New Hampshire baseball teams. A three-year starter in center for Spaulding, he was a two-time all-state pick. At UNH, he played four years in center, he was a full scholarship player and is the last man to hold that position for the Wildcats as the program was discontinued after the 1997 season. A full scholarship player for UNH, Connelly batted .335 as a junior and .337 as a senior. He set school records for doubles (14) and runs scored (45) as a junior. He also played football and ran indoor track at Spaulding, still holding the school record in the 300-meter dash (36.34 seconds).
Donohue excelled in soccer, basketball and outdoor track for the Red Raiders, and is widely considered to be the best all-around female athlete in school history. She led the Spaulding girls soccer teams to three state tournament appearances, which included two playoff wins, and was a three-time Class L first-team all-state pick. Her 79 career goals are a school record, as is her senior total of 29, which stands as a single-season mark. She was a 1,000-point scorer for the girls basketball team, leading the Red Raiders to three straight Class L playoff berths. As a first-team all-state pick her senior season in 1996-97, Donohue led Spaulding to the most wins in program history (18-5), and the program's last playoff win to date. Also an accomplished sprinter, she was among the best at the 100- and 200-meter dashes in the state, winning the 200 title at the Meet of Champions as a senior. She later played four years of basketball at UNH, scoring 733 career points with 341 assists (5th all-time) and 162 steals (10th).
Flynn is clearly the most decorated golfer with Rochester roots. While a student at St. Thomas Aquinas High school, he won the state schoolboy title at Amherst Country Club in 1988, following that up with an NHGA Junior title and a pair of State Am crowns in 1992 and 1994. He later attended Texas Christian University where he was the team's No. 1 player as a junior and senior. He also befriended golfing legend Ben Hogan while he was there. Flynn has played professionally, starting in 1994, for nearly 20 years on a number of tours, including the Asian, Canadian , Gateway and Hooters tours.
Zeimetz was a standout swimmer for Spaulding and the University of New Hampshire. While a Red Raider, she won state titles as a junior and senior in the 200-yard individual medley and 100 breaststroke, setting a then state record in the 100 breast as a senior. At UNH, Zeimetz was the America East swimmer of the year in 1999 (UNH won the America East team title that year) and qualified for the 2000 Olympic team trials in the 100 and 200 breast. She was undefeated at UNH in the 200 breast for four years, winning America East titles all four years in that event. She graduated with seven America East titles, two records, was a four-time all-conference pick and was inducted into the UNH Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.


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Today is Day 5 in the 15 Day Blogger Challenge!
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45-Year-Old Female Christian School Teacher Arrested For Having s3x With A 17yr Old Student In Florida!
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Florence Medical Clinic Served With Federal Search Warrant [AUDIO]
A multi-agency task force served a search warrant on Tuesday, April 1, at Big Creek Family Medicine and Urgent Care in Florence.
Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman said the warrant was served by local, state and federal agencies.
"The task force, comprised of members from the Ravalli County Sheriff Office, the Missoula High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation, and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, served a search warrant this morning at Big Creek Family Medicine and Urgent Care in Florence," Hoffman said. "The search warrant was issued by District Court Judge Jim Haynes in support of a nearly two-year investigation into the prescription writing practices of Dr. Chris Arthur Christensen. No criminal charges have been filed at this time. Due to the sensitive and ongoing nature of the investigation, no further information can be provided at this time."
Hoffman said patients of Dr. Christensen and the clinic can seek their medical attention at the emergency room at Marcus Daly Hospital in Hamilton, or at any other emergency facility. Hoffman said he understands the sensitive nature of the investigation, and will make more details into the investigation known to the public when it is available.
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These are the web pages for the lab of Heroen Verbruggen at the University of Melbourne in the School of BioSciences.
Research in the lab focuses on the evolutionary diversification of marine algae, using molecular phylogenetics to explore their diversification and answer specific questions about their evolution. We focus on a range of topics in algal biology, including geographic modes of speciation, evolution of niches through geological time, paleontology, the emergence of important cellular and physiological innovations and the genetic changes underlying such innovations. Bioinformatics and phylogenetics take a central position in our approach to these research questions. We also carry out systematic research, asking how molecular and morphometric data can complement one another in algal species delimitation.
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Army Cadets is a youth program for both young men and women that are between the ages of 12 and not yet 19 years old, that emphasizes the development of leadership skills, participation in local community service, greater fitness levels and an understanding of the Canadian Forces as an organization.
There is NO cost to the cadet to participate in this program. Uniforms, daytime and overnight activities as well as summer camp are provided free of charge. Plus there are no weekly dues required.
Army Cadets provides the opportunity for Oakville youth participation in challenging and exciting activities. Army Cadets is the oldest and one of the largest youth programs in Canada with a focus on outdoor adventure activities. Participation in Army Cadets will generate all of the required High School community service volunteer hours and is a great way for young people to make new friends.
The Army Cadet program is supervised by Reserve members of the Canadian Forces, specifically from the Cadet Instructor's Cadre (CIC).
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Video of a giant alligator getting its back scratched by a brave worker with a brush is going viral.
The video is of the alligator named Seven, a resident of Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale.
Gabby Nikolle is the one tasked with the brush down as Taylor Francis (@francisferox) had the camera rolling.
The video, posted 3 days ago, has nearly one million views and 19,000 shares.
According to the park, Seven is a rescue. Gabby is performing a routine cleaning of the gator pic which includes scrubbing the backs of alligators to keep them happy and health.
Seven, a 9-foot-7-inch alligator, weighs 280 pounds. He received his name because he's missing a toe on one of his back feet. Alligators have four toes on each back foot and since he's missing one, he's named Seven.
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Liberty News
Williams Stadium sees record crowd
Liberty University saw a record-setting crowd at Williams Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 12, as 16,112 fans attended the first home football game of the season. (Liberty won 35-10 over North Carolina Central.)
The stadium's previous record was 15,631 fans in attendance for Liberty's matchup with William & Mary on Oct. 14, 2006.
Arthur L. Williams Stadium was completed in 1989 with seating capacity of 12,000. The Williams Football Operations Center was added in 2006.
Now plans are under way for major stadium renovations to begin immediately following the end of the football season in early November. The project calls for boosting the stadium's seating capacity to 30,000 over the next five years. For more information, view a special edition of the Liberty Journal.
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In a tour of the city's cultural and architectural legacies, Shafik Meghji discovers that it's not just the steep hills and ancient elevators that rise and fall in Valparaíso, Chile.
In the mid nineteenth century Valparaíso lived up to its nickname of "The Jewel of the Pacific". It was one of the world's most important ports, thanks to its key position on the shipping route from Europe to the west coast of the US, midway up Chile on the Pacific coast. The city also benefitted from Chile's booming silver and copper trade, the government's decision to create public warehouses where merchants could store their goods, and later the California gold rush. British, French, German, Italian and Swiss businessmen flocked to Valparaíso, extravagant mansions and public buildings were built, and the local economy flourished.
However, at the start of the twentieth century the good times came to an end. On 16 August 1906 a powerful earthquake almost razed the city to the ground, killing over 2000 people. Then, eight years later – almost to the day – the situation became terminal. On 15 August 1914, 17 days after the outbreak of World War I, the Panama Canal opened, rerouting international shipping traffic and swiftly deflating Valparaíso's once buoyant economy. Since then Nobel Prize-winning poet, and one-time resident, Pablo Neruda's description of the city has been rather more accurate than its old nickname: "Valparaíso is a heap, a bunch of crazy houses."
Today the local economy remains in the doldrums, and crime and poverty rates are high for Chile. But despite these disadvantages this "heap" remains one of the most beguiling cities in South America. Home to innumerable artists, musicians and writers, it has a vibrant, bohemian cultural life – the former prison, to take just one example, has been turned into a cultural centre. Valpo (as it is known locally) also has an unparalleled setting: colourful houses cling precariously to a series of undulating cerros (hills) circling a wide bay. These steep hills, many of them covered by cobbled streets, are linked to the narrow port area below by a series of wheezing ascensores (funicular lifts), built during the city's golden era.
Although a little rough around the edges, the downtown Barrio Puerto (Port District) still has some architectural gems from the city's heyday. Highlights include the former Banco de Londres building (now home to a branch of Santander bank), an elegant structure filled with bronze and marble-work imported from the UK, and the stately Turri clock tower, which stands opposite the bank.
Some of the city's most atmospheric bars and restaurants are also found here. In El Bar Inglés, which dates back to the early 1900s and is tucked away behind a forbidding exterior, you can scan the shipping listings on the walls and – if you're feeling confident or suitably lubricated - take on the local sea dogs at a game of dominos. A short walk away, the El Cinzano bar is rather more lively in the evening, especially when the aging crooners take to the stage. If you need something to soak up the alcohol, J. Cruz Malbrán – more a museum than a restaurant, and decorated with a clutter of kitsch trinkets – is the birthplace of the chorrillana, a vast, life-shortening combination of steak strips, onions, eggs and French fries.
Echoes of Valpo's former prosperity are perhaps loudest on neighbouring Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepción, a short ascensor journey from the downtown districts. These residential areas are warrens of precipitous cobbled streets and narrow alleyways, crumbling townhouses – some now home to charming little hotels and inventive restaurants – and whitewashed churches. Many of the street names – such as Templeman, Atkinson and Leighton – reflect the area's former British residents, as do the neatly tended gardens, while the half-timbered, shuttered houses show a distinct Germanic influence.
A looping walk round to Cerro Bellavista takes you to La Sebastiana, former home of Neruda, who described it as his "casa en el aire" ("house in the air"). Ransacked by the military following the 1973 Pinochet coup – Neruda was a prominent supporter of the deposed president, Salvador Allende – the house has been painstakingly restored. It contains a treasure trove of the poet's possessions, which include everything from a wooden merry-go-round horse to an embalmed Coro-Coro bird from Venezuela.
At the top of La Sebastiana, Neruda fitted a telescope and encouraged guests to look across to the roof of a particular house where he claimed a woman would often sunbathe naked. No one else ever saw her, but – almost 40 years after Neruda's death – visitors still come to take a look. Even if you don't catch a glimpse of her, the panoramic views of Valparaíso are reward enough.
Shafik Meghji is the co-author of The Rough Guide to Chile. He blogs at www.unmappedroutes.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @ShafikMeghji.


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Despite Rights Abuses, Uganda Seeks Security Council Seat
As world leaders gather for this year's annual United Nations General Assembly meetings here in New York, the East African country of Uganda in a bid to burnish its image will be making its pitch to permanent members of the Security Council for a seat on the powerful body.
The ICC earlier this year also indicted Jean Pierre Bemba, a Congolese warlord who was financed by
"It's a serious concern that the human rights records of these countries are not taken into consideration in elections for the Security Council seat," a spokesperson for New York-based Human Rights Watch tells The Black Star News.
The African bloc of countries at the UN already has thrown their support behind
A State Department spokesman declined to say whether the U.S. would back Uganda's bid. "The United States doesn't preview its vote for the rotating seats on the Security Council," Mark Schlachter, who is with the State Department's Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, tells The Black Star.
The Security Council consists of 15 members; five permanent members with veto power and 10 non-permanent members without veto power who sit for two-year terms.
Still, a combination of seven non-permanent members of the Security Council can band together and block measures favored by a permanent member.
Permanent Security Council veto-wielding member countries are the
Uganda wants to be rewarded for being the only African country to send troops to participate in the U.S.-backed Ethiopian occupation of Somalia. Ironically, human rights organizations say the occupation armies have been involved in mass killings that would qualify as war crimes.
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Absent, Anonymous and Vulnerable Witnesses
- Auteur(s):
- Stefano Maffei
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- 2012
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- 16x24 cm
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- 9789089520708
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This book investigates the theory and practice of the Right to Confrontation, the right of accused persons to examine witnesses against them. Although exceptions to confrontation have always been recognised by domestic criminal courts, no European consensus exists on the values and interests that may legitimately allow incursions into this fundamental right.
Based upon the concept of testimonial evidence – which was first developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Crawford v. Washington in 2004 - this book identifies three categories of declarants whose statements may pose a threat to the fairness of criminal trials: the "absent", "anonymous" and "vulnerable" witnesses. In a truly supra-national perspective, attention focuses on the Confrontation clause of Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights, as interpreted by the case-law of the Strasbourg Court (including the 2011 leading case Al-Khawaja and Tahery v. UK). The book then moves on to provide a comparative study of the Right to Confrontation in the context of the rules of criminal evidence and procedure in Italy, France and England and Wales.
Dr. Stefano Maffei is Professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Parma (Italy). A registered attorney since 2003, he completed a doctorate in Law at the University of Oxford in 2005 and was a Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College. Dr. Maffei joined the Harvard Law School as a Visiting Researcher in 2002 and was a Fulbright Scholar at Temple Law School in 2011. His publications, research and teachings interests are in the area of Human Rights, criminal evidence and procedure.


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FAIR OAKS, Ind. (AP) - A natural gas fueling station powered by cow manure from one of the nation's largest dairy cooperatives has opened in northwestern Indiana.
Investors in the AMP Americas' station that opened Monday along Interstate 65 near the town of Fair Oaks say the station completes a transportation corridor, along with a sister station along I-65 in southern Indiana. The stations will fuel 42 milk delivery trucks owned by Fair Oaks Farms, a dairy cooperative of 10 farms housing about 35,000 cows. Those trucks deliver milk to three Kroger grocery store dairies serving 560 retail stores in eight states. Chicago-based AMP Americas' founder and CEO, Nate Laurell, tells The Times of Munster (http://bit.ly/WsorHQ ) he hopes the venture can open at least 10 more natural gas corridors across the eastern U.S.