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John Cowman, president of the air show, said this will be the first time the Thunderbirds will fly over the event.
Organizers expect about 75,000 people to flock to northwestern Georgia for the two-day event at the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport on Oct. 12 and 13.


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T O P I C R E V I E WSteve_ColbyThere are approx. 10 of these plastic discs in the collection of items from Hal French. They are approx. 1-1/4" and are all numbered the same. Any ideas? GACspaceguyThey look like tool chits. In most Aerospace companies when you sign out a tool from the tool crib a worker would give them one of these and it would record who had the tool. That way if it was not back at the end of the shift they would know who had that tool. Just my thoughts, no specific knowledge on these specific items.mdmyerAnother guess would be a safety lock tag. This tag would have been around the iron bar of a lock. When an electrical panel would need to be de-energized the handle would be pulled down then a lock put through the handle. This tag would have been stayed with the lock to show who had the box locked out.Again, just a guess.Mike MyerHumboldt KS
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A majority of people surveyed believe gray wolves should continue to be protected in Wisconsin, despite efforts to remove them from federal protection.
A Northland College professor in Ashland has surveyed more than 600 people in Wisconsin and Michigan about the wolves.
Kevin Schanning says he found that generally those surveyed aren't quite sure how to manage the wolf population, but they don't think killing them is the answer.
Last fall, the Fish and Wildlife Service held hearings on a proposal to remove the wolf from the threatened species list in Wisconsin. That would allow some hunting and trapping of wolves to control the population. A decision is expected by June.
Wisconsin's wolf population is about 400. The wolf is a native species that was wiped out in Wisconsin by the late 1950s after decades of bounty hunting.


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SAPULPA, Okla. - An Amarillo couple was killed in a head-on crash Sunday afternoon on a highway near Tulsa, Okla., Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers said.
Donald L. Clift, 54, and Jana T. Clift, 52, of Amarillo were killed when a pickup crossed the center lane of State Highway 33, just west of Sapulpa, troopers said.
Carmen D. Spicer, 36, of Mannford, Okla., was driving west in a pickup about 12:15 p.m., when he collided head-on with the eastbound SUV carrying the Clifts, troopers said.
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Wanda Koop...On the Edge of Experience
For almost three decades, Winnipeg painter Wanda Koop has created an overwhelming body of work tied to an overarching critique of how modes of technology impact nature. Be it social or ecological, nature is a broad concept that has been constructed, manipulated, destroyed, mutated, copied, and revered since humans began to use simple tools. Koop is deeply entrenched in these approaches, building an archive of sorts through compulsive note-taking, sketching, researching, photographing, and filming. For each idea there is a resultant investigation that culminates in an all-encompassing installation of paintings which more recently has been twinned with video.
On the Edge of Experience presents a selection of large-scale signature paintings ranging in date from 1983 to the present. Visitors will be able to explore key elements of the artist's inspiration through a recreation of Koop's impressive studio environment that outlines her creative process and includes a number of her single-channel video works.
Koop feels that the creation of her large-scale paintings is akin to a type of choreography—she dances the paintings. Appropriately, the climax of the exhibition is her new work, Hybrid Human, which combines painting, video projection, and the contemporary dance movement of acclaimed performer and choreographer Jolene Bailie, set against a sound piece by Susan Chafe, and lighting design by Hugh Conacher. Hybrid Human is an investigation of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the human body's integration and understanding of this mediated way of experiencing the world.
A publication for this exhibition is available in the Gallery Shop.
Organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.
The exhibition will be on view at the National Gallery of Canada from February 18 to May 15, 2011, followed by a national tour.
Hybrid Human
Based on sketches created in the early 1990s, the installation piece Hybrid Human will explore the constructed notion of robots and ideas around the disembodied experience, consciousness, creativity, alien intelligence, and artificial life. A recent conceptual breakthrough for Koop has centered on the notion of the screen. Contemporary living is dominated by watching a screen, be it a computer, cell phone, movie, or television. All these screens filter information and are how we make sense of experiencing our day-to-day world. For Koop a painting is another type of screen that holds the potential to morph into a mirror; as we look into Koop's paintings we catch ourselves looking back at our own reflection.
Below is a series of questions Mary Reid, WAG Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography, posed to both Wanda Koop and Jolene Bailie about the Hybrid Human project.
MR: How did this idea of combining painting, installation and dance come together?
WK:. Dance is a lot like painting in a way. It is a visual art, a translation of the body into visual form and display. Painting is also a lot like dance. It's physical and often choreographic. Jolene's work projects a quality and scope that I feel resonates closely with my own. We are both working with the same concern of carving out a space between ourselves and the technological world.
MR: What has the collaboration process been like? How has each artist's practice impacted or informed the other?
JB: As a whole team, we have spent countless evenings working together. We have been talking, sharing, eating, and brainstorming for over two years. Being an artist who was invited into a project, Wanda's paintings are the main catalyst for all of the ideas I am currently digging into and experimenting with. The huge presence of technology in our lives, how much we are required to interact with a screen in today's world, and the development of robotics have all been key influences.
MR: You invited Hugh Conacher and Susan Chafe to join you both on this journey. What have they brought to the project?
WK: I am very open to the possibility of working with others. It can be stressful at times, but it's important to learn that a collective effort can bring about even greater ideas. Artists can become more than the sum of their parts if they look around, listen, and engage. I have worked with both Hugh and Susan on other projects over the years and my work has only benefited from the process. This collaboration was a natural extension of these working relationships and friendships.
JB: I have collaborated with Hugh for over a decade. He brings a wealth of history, knowledge and experience to this project and he is an expert lighting designer who ensures that all technical and production needs are met. Hugh has created an original design for the work and his work helps focus the viewer as well as transform the space and the perspective of the viewer.
I worked with Susan this past season on a previous dance work, and it was a really great, amazing collaboration. Her sound creates an important layer to the work and is integral to creating an atmosphere for the experience. Sound is important to everyday life and technology, and is also a pathway for the audience to enter into the work.
MR: What should viewers expect when they experience Hybrid Human?
JB: Live performance is very much a thing to experience. Hybrid Human will be presented within the exhibition space. Five paintings, five dancers, video, lighting, and sound. All work presented as Hybrid Human is new work created specifically for this project.
WK: I want people to feel discombobulated, as they too become performers in a sense when they enter the gallery space. Viewers may question when the act of seeing begins—is it when they look at a painting or when they step into the gallery itself?
MR: What do you want viewers to come away with after seeing Hybrid Human?
WK: –Viewers will find themselves stepping outside their own personal space and interacting with the art and with each other. My intention it that they develop a closer understanding of themselves, not in a didactic sense but towards something that is more personal and individual.
JB: I hope people will question the impact that technology has on everyday life and humanity.
Public performances of Hybrid Human
Wed, Nov 10 / Fri, Nov 12 / Sat, Nov 13, 8pm • $20 WAG members, $25 adults, $15 students • Available at the WAG information desk. Note: The November 10 performance will be followed by a discussion between dancer/choreographer Jolene Baillie and curator Mary Reid.
There will also be performances at the September 25 public opening and the October 2 Gallery Ball.
Hybrid Human is supported by the Winnipeg Arts Council New Creations Fund, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Contributors to Hybrid Human are Evelyn and David Friesen, Art and Lee Friesen, Duncan and Judy Jessiman, Paul and Shirley Martens, Dr. Donald S.Reimer and Mrs. Anne Reimer, Arni Thorsteinson and Susan Glass, Gail Asper and Michael Paterson, Bill and Margaret Fast, Art and Leona DeFehr, and
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Related Programs & Events
Past Programs & Events
Family Sunday - On the Edge
An afternoon of family fun with music and art-making.
Sunday, September 12, 2010 from 1:30pm to 4pm
Members' Event - Wanda Koop
For WAG members only! An exclusive look at the exhibition with tours by the artist and curator.
Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 11am to 6pm
Nuit Blanche
A free all-night celebration of the arts!
Saturday, September 25, 2010 to Sunday, September 26, 2010
Drop-In Tours - Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience
Sunday, September 26, 2010 from 2pm to 3pm Sunday, October 17, 2010 from 2pm to 3pm Sunday, October 31, 2010 from 2pm to 3pm Sunday, November 14, 2010 from 2pm to 3pm
Gallery Ball 2010
A glamorous, black tie evening of fine dining, live and silent auctions, and a live performance of Hybrid Human from the exhibiton Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience.
Saturday October 2, 2010
Curator's Tour
Tour of Wanda Koop...On the Edge of Experience
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 from 12:10pm to 1pm
Performance - Hybrid Human
A performance choreographed by Jolene Bailie as part of the exhibition Wanda Koop...On the Edge of Expererience.
Wednesday November 10, 2010 at 8pm Friday November 12, 2010 at 8pm Saturday November 13, 2010 at 8pm Saturday November 13, 2010 at 11pm
KOOP - a film by Katherine Knight
This experience-based film follows artist Wanda Koop as she takes a sketching trip down the Saint Lawrence on a freighter.
Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
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It's noontime on a bright winter Saturday, and at Church restaurant in the Fenway, a group of 20-somethings is enjoying Bloody Marys and Screwdrivers and plates of eggs and toast. Around them, other patrons watch basketball on TV, emitting an occasional whoop.
But the seven seated on leather couches near the doorway have spreadsheets and agendas in front of them. They're here to work.
"Newtown in Boston" is what these members of Newtown High School Class of 2006 are calling themselves, and they're planning a March 23 fund-raiser at Fenway Park to benefit their Connecticut hometown, where 26 people were shot to death in a December rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"Although we all currently reside in Boston, we still feel so connected to our hometown and the shooting affected us all very deeply," says Laura Oggeri, 25, who in November married high school sweetheart Pete Oggeri.
Newtown is where they grew up, where their families live, and where some of their siblings are still in the public schools. The friends had lost touch with one another after high school, but after the massacre, they reconnected on Facebook and decided to do something for the town they love.
In just weeks, the 24- and 25-year-olds have managed to pull off what even the most seasoned event planner would find challenging: They've booked the State Street Pavilion and EMC Club at Fenway, they've got Samuel Adams beer and food by Aramark for hundreds of guests, the band Flipside, and floral arrangements by Winston Flowers — not to mention big-ticket items for a silent auction — all for free.
A week after the tickets went on sale on their website (www.newtownin
boston.com), they'd sold 220; they're almost at 250 now. They hope to attract 600 people and, like any millennials worth their iPhones, they're using social media to promote it. Tickets are $65, and just $45 for those under 21. At their recent meeting, the group decided to offer discounted tickets of $50 to Newtown teachers and first responders.
The event is drawing some Boston pols, including Governor Deval Patrick, Mayor Tom Menino, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Senate President Therese Murray. Laura Oggeri, who attended Boston University, is Murray's deputy director of communications.
Using everything from parental connections to older NHS alumni — and the weight that the name "Newtown" now carries — the 20-somethings have found widespread support for their cause: raising money for a children's museum in Newtown.
EverWonder Children's Museum incorporated as a nonprofit in 2011, and Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung was one of its early supporters. Hochsprung was among the first killed at Sandy Hook as she lunged at gunman Adam Lanza, police said.
The museum, the brainchild of local parents, is still in the fledgling stage, housed in temporary space. The all-volunteer effort hopes to open its first exhibit in April.
"Night in Newtown," as the fund-raiser has been named, is the largest effort to benefit the museum, with a goal of $26,000. Some of the proceeds will go toward the museum's permanent home, some to fund operations.
"The museum will celebrate childhood and education and the joy of learning," says Kristin Chiriatti, president and founder. Her husband, Chris, is also on the board of directors. Their children, ages 6 and 7, lost friends at Sandy Hook. The Chiriattis and others on the board plan to attend the Boston fund-raiser.
In its permanent location, the museum plans to pay tribute to the victims "in a way that is respectful and doesn't cause grief and anxiety to visitors," says Chiriatti. "Everyone has been affected in this town. There's just a fog of sadness here."
On Jan. 11, after Jill Tanner had returned to Boston from Newtown following Christmas break, she sent Facebook messages to those from her high school class who were living here. Would anyone be interested in doing something for their hurting hometown?
The first response came within 20 minutes, the first meeting a week later, and the group has been together since. Seven of the eight are from the Class of 2006; Allison Jagoe graduated in 2008.
"It was so isolating to be in Boston when all we wanted to do is be at home and support our community," says Tanner, a nurse who is working on her master's degree at Northeastern University.
"Honestly," says Pete Oggeri, "I haven't talked to any of these people in Boston since high school. Now, I talk to them more than I talk to any other friends. We're building a huge bond while doing something for a common cause."
Planning "Night for Newtown" has been healing, those in the group agree. "It's given me some semblance of comfort in the aftermath of the shootings," says Eddie Small, a reporter at the Boston Courant. "It's a chance to reconnect with people from home."
None of the eight were best friends in Newtown, but they all knew each other. Will Jacob took Erin Clark to the senior prom. Jill Tanner and Laura Schroeder (now Oggeri) played tennis together in elementary school, and Laura and Pete dated in high school. Tanner and Sarah Salbu were co-captains of the NHS tennis team. Also in their class was Ryan Lanza, the older brother of the shooter, but none of them knew him well.
Of the "Newtown in Boston" group, only Pete Oggeri and Eddie Small attended Sandy Hook Elementary. The day after the shooting, Small wrote an essay for TheAtlantic.com headlined: "Did This Really Happen in My Elementary School?"
Of Newtown, he wrote: "It's a town of about 27,000 people where things don't stay open past 10 p.m. and a boy digging a big hole is a story worthy of the local paper's front page." He added: "I'm sad, confused, infuriated, and I want to do something about it. The problem is, I can't think of anything that would actually matter."
Pete Oggeri's mother was working out with a Sandy Hook parent at a local gym when news of the shootings broke; no victims would be identified for hours. His mother, says Oggeri, was reassuring her frightened friend that all would be OK.
"My mother didn't find out until the next day that her friend's son was one of the victims," says Oggeri, who graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology and is assistant project engineer at Gilbane Inc.
At first, the Newtown High grads thought they'd do a small event, maybe at a local bar and charge a cover fee. But the project grew as they tapped into resources with deep pockets and good will. Poland Spring offered to underwrite the cost of renting the EMC Club and State Street Pavilion, which the Red Sox are providing at a discounted price. That's where Jill Tanner's dad came in; Rick Tanner is vice president of marketing for Nestle Water/Poland Spring.
Laura The event is drawing some Boston pols, including Governor Deval Patrick, Mayor Tom Menino, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Senate President Therese Murray. Laura Oggeri's father, Robert Schroeder, works for Schlumberger, a global oilfield services provider, which made a donation. The Boston band Flipside, which played at the Ogerris' wedding, is donating its services; Sam Adams, the beer. Arbella Insurance Foundation is kicking in $9,000. Winston Flowers is donating the floral decorations; Jacquie Wheeler, class of 1977 at Newtown High, works in customer service.
Wheeler has contacted others in her class, and several plan to attend the fund-raiser. "It will be fun with 50-somethings and 20-somethings," says Wheeler. "I think it's great they're doing this. It takes a lot to pull something like this together."
Wheeler called Jean Fay; they graduated together. Fay, who is a special education aide in Amherst, is also going to the event, and has offered to help however she can. "It's a hard reason to connect with people, but everyone wants to help," says Fay
As for the younger generation, Will Jacob, who works at Deloitte consulting, promises that the night will be a fun, not somber, event. "We don't just want Newtown to be a source of grief and sorrow," says Jacob, 24, a Bowdoin graduate. "We want this event to be framed in a positive light, that Boston supports us, that somehow this will help heal us, that we will get through this."
There's excitement as they discuss the silent auction items, the programs, and who will speak at the event. On to the fun stuff: what to wear. Among the women, there's talk of black dresses with accents of green and white -- the colors of Sandy Hook Elementary.
Jill Tanner, who sent that first e-mail just over two months ago, is happy she did. "I think we've found great comfort in this, knowing that while we're not home in Newtown, we're not alone in Boston," she says.Bella English can be reached at email@example.com.
Correction: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect name for the Newtown elementary school. The school is Sandy Hook Elementary School.


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Shows revolving around prisons and law enforcement have traditionally sensationalized crime and dehumanized criminals. Think Lockup, CSI, Oz, Cops, the Law & Order franchise - there are good guys and bad guys, and the bad guys are really bad. But TV is changing. Pockets of programming are becoming sophisticated and analytical when it comes to crime, The Wire being perhaps the foremost example of a show that indicts our country's dysfunctional criminal justice system more than the individuals ensnared in it. Netflix's new series Orange Is the New Black is a welcome addition to this trend. It isn't as gritty or nakedly political as The Wire, but it has no fear about revealing that the good guys aren't always good, the bad guys aren't always bad, and the system is setting all of them up to fail.
Created by Jenji Kohan (Weeds), Orange Is the New Black centers on an educated, cosmopolitan woman from New York City with the über-white name of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling). Piper finds herself in prison for a crime she'd committed a decade earlier when she carried money for a drug trafficking ring at the behest of her lesbian lover. She later went straight (in both senses of the word) and got engaged to Larry Bloom (Jason Biggs), a struggling writer who's a bit of a nebbish. Piper's one-year sentence is a test that the couple resolves to pass. Orange's storyline comes from a memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman.
Yuppies like this aren't representative of the general prison population. But then, that's precisely the point in this fish-out-of-water narrative. When Piper Chapman arrives at Litchfield Penitentiary in upstate New York, she meets a cast of characters that reflects some key realities of women's prisons: the racial diversity (plurality white, but with large black and Latino populations), the socioeconomic disadvantage of most inmates (Piper is nicknamed "College" and often held in suspicion due to her privilege), and the indifference, cruelty and sexual abuse frequently dished out by prison staff.
Power-Hungry Prison Staff
Although virtually everyone on the show has sympathetic moments, the most unlikeable characters are usually prison employees instead of inmates. A male guard fittingly nicknamed "Pornstache" (Pablo Schreiber) is a particularly loathsome character. He gropes women whenever he can get away with it and brags that prisoners are willing to give him a blow job for half a cigarette. And he's not the only employee who abuses power. When several women are frisked in search of contraband, one inmate insists that a female guard be called to do her pat-down. The manager overseeing the search takes umbrage with this show of autonomy and sends the prisoner to solitary confinement (the Special Housing Unit, or SHU) as punishment, promising that once a female guard is found, she'll give the inmate a "thorough, thorough search."
Orange portrays solitary confinement as a cruel and arbitrarily-deployed weapon. And that is precisely what inmates in actual American prisons frequently allege, as anyone familiar with the current hunger strike in California facilities can attest. Orange's portrayal of the experience is appropriately unnerving. A minute-long montage of one prisoner's crushing terror, boredom and detachment from reality while in SHU may have done more to illustrate the horror of solitary confinement for Americans than all of this past month's news articles about the hunger strike.
Litchfield Penitentiary's employees aren't trained to be sensitive to the emotional needs of inmates. They are trained to be precisely the opposite: harsh and dehumanizing. Never mind the research suggesting that treating prisoners well is associated with fewer crimes committed upon release. That is not what Litchfield's employees know. One newly hired female guard - doe-eyed and kind - gets brought into the office of her supervisor, Joe Caputo (Nick Sandow), to receive a talking-to about how she's going too easy on the inmates:
These women are criminals…You need to get on your game. You maintain your authority. You remind them who's in charge…It helps if you don't use their names. Just say "inmate," like they're all the same to you. It reminds them they're not really people…They are sheep. We feed them. We herd them from one room to the next. They're not like you.
We may be tempted to blame the supervisor as an individual for harboring this destructive attitude. But surely he was taught the same thing. Real-life American prisons aren't run according to psychiatric best practices - not even close - and that's a systemic problem Orange reveals.
The inmates, for their part, are portrayed as utterly human. The show uses flashbacks to illuminate how several of them got where they are. They generally don't look like angels, but they aren't devils, either. There's the girl who received no love from her mother and got caught up in drugs; the one who shoplifted, but kept meticulous notes on how much she owed everyone so she could repay her debts someday; the one who committed an atrocious crime to protect someone from another atrocious crime. These characters controvert the perception that criminals are somehow less human, less worthy of basic care, than the rest of us, even if the system in which they are trapped sees them as animals.
The Stacked Deck
Of course, systemic problems are not limited to what goes on between the prison walls. Once people leave incarceration, they find they have few options. Orange tackles this subject through a prisoner who returns to Litchfield after violating parole. She explains herself this way:
When you get out, they gonna be up your ass like the KGB. Curfew every night. Piss in a cup whenever they say. You've got to go do three job interviews in a week for jobs you never gonna get….Minimum wage is some kind of joke. I got part-time work at Pizza Hut and still owe the prison $900 in fees I gotta pay back…I ain't got no place to stay.
This is the reality that formerly incarcerated Americans face. Drug offenders (disproportionately women) are often prohibited from using public housing upon release, and that includes staying in someone else's public housing unit. In many states, they can't get food stamps. And most employers have no interest in hiring someone with a criminal record. So the former prisoners have no housing, no food, no job - how exactly are they supposed to become the productive citizens we claim we want them to be?
Disproportionate sentences are another factor that boosts the US prison population, and in Orange's first episode, Piper explains how that affected her. For carrying a suitcase full of money on a single occasion, she pled guilty to criminal conspiracy, which gave her a one-year sentence. If she had gone to trial, she would have been charged with a worse crime carrying a mandatory minimum sentence that would have been much longer. She, like countless actual Americans, was bullied into a plea deal because the alternative would have been catastrophic. Orange gives no further attention to mandatory minimums after this one scene, but the fact that it was even broached is an improvement on typical TV crime dramas.
Sins of Omission
There are, however, deep problems with the criminal justice system that Orange does not raise. Over the course of 13 episodes, the show never conveys the sheer size of our prison system. The United States has 2.2 million people incarcerated, which makes us the prison capital of the world - both in absolute number and per capita. Count the people on probation and parole and the number is seven million. Add everyone with a criminal record and it's 65 million. One might get the sense from watching Orange that these are just a few people huddled in the shadows of American life. But there are neighborhoods completely devastated by mass incarceration - areas where barely anyone can get a job, children hardly know one or more of their parents and the drug trade is just about the only way to make a living and claim social status. Moreover, at a price of $74 billion a year, incarceration is sapping money that could be invested in education, job programs, and social services to prevent crime from happening in the first place.
The show also glosses over the criminal justice system's racial bias. In New York City, where many of these women come from, there are more than 1800 stop-and-frisks conducted everyday - and 85% of those stopped are blacks and Latinos. Nationally, blacks and Latinos are three times more likely than whites to get searched during a traffic stop. And once women leave prison, they'll find more racial disparities: their wages grow slower than those of formerly incarcerated whites, and several states ban felons from working in fields like nursing and child care that are staffed disproportionately by women of color. One might say that orange has long been black.
Ultimately, though, these sins of omission are venial, not mortal. The show demonstrates a solid commitment to generating empathy for prisoners and exposing the systemic problems that plague criminal justice in the United States. Besides, the show has been on for one season only; even The Wire took five years to unpack the various factors that shape and constrain US criminal justice. Orange has been renewed for a second season, so there's plenty of time for the show's writers to introduce more background on what brought those women into Litchfield Penitentiary and what life is like when they leave. If the first season is any indication, Orange will continue to elevate our expectations of what a prison show can be.


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These days, if leaders of political movements want to influence people, their Internet presence must be impeccable. Here's the web page of Ségolène Royal, which hit the world yesterday:
The thick black frame around the video is not particularly aesthetic, and the presentation of a dozen buttons is boring. Furthermore, this allegedly professional website is based visually upon a free Microsoft background image:
It's the sort of basic website that could have been assembled by an average schoolkid. A single adjective springs into the minds of connoisseurs: cheap. Is Ségolène Royal no longer in contact with talented photographers, web designers and media experts? Today, would-be leaders can no longer get away with cheap stuff like this. There are simply too many brights kids around. And they're going to vote for tomorrow's leaders.
BREAKING NEWS: The website's getting worse. Yesterday, we saw a typical specimen of amateur web creativity at a junior college level. Today, we're informed by a big banner that the creation of Ségolène's website will be a "participative" affair, with various Socialist Party committees throughout France taking turns in contributing various backgrounds. This morning, to start the ball rolling, they've moved down to an infants' school level.
If this process continues, Ségolène will soon be demonstrating that even a year-old baby can participate in the creation of a website. Maybe, for background: a dirty diaper.


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A new trailer has been released, showing some gameplay from Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2. It's good to see the game get some air-time, as there were points a while back when many wondered if it had simply been shelved.
I seemed to be one of the few people who really enjoyed Episode 1, so the next instalment is high on my list.
Source: GameSpot
dude90MemberSince: Nov 2009
Looks good, I must go back and finish Episode 1 before this release.Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 09:47.
dude90MemberSince: Nov 2009
releases*Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 09:47.
justboyMemberSince: Jul 2010
Glad to see tails is back, just wasn't the same without him!Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 10:19.
Ed the PenguinMemberSince: Dec 2008
I would have thought that.. until I was replaying Sonic 2 the other night. I kept losing the special stages because he's a bomb magnet!!Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 13:08.
Smallville2106MemberSince: Feb 2011
Looking great.Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 10:53.
seravokMemberSince: Oct 2011
Loved the first episode, Made me wanna play the second.
Hoping that they follow the three previous games and introduce one extra playable character for every new episode. KNUCKLES!Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 12:58.
SympoziumMemberSince: Aug 2009
I hate to say it… but it looks worst than the first.. >.> but I'm just nitpicking like I don't like Metal Sonics thruster..Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 14:09.
jayjay119MemberSince: Apr 2010
I was thinking exactly the opposite. Sonic doesn't look as sluggish when he moves like he did during Ep.1 and the stages in this look like they have some original thought put into them and are not just a 'greatest hits' of styles from previous Sonic games. Let's just hope there are no stupid gimmicky levels, such as the score 100000 rings to pass level, in this game and its better than Ep.1 in every way. For me anyway.Comment posted on 24/02/2012 at 19:55.
Forrest_01MemberSince: Jun 2009
Crikey, that was a long time coming wasn't it?
Ah, well at least they understand about episodic content more than valve! :PComment posted on 24/02/2012 at 16:50.
aerobesMemberSince: Aug 2009
The Sonic games always look great but then again, I've always enjoyed watching them being played than actually playing them.Comment posted on 25/02/2012 at 16:49.
sparkyscrumMemberSince: May 2011
Nice! Been so busy playing Vita I haven't seen this yet. Looking very good!Comment posted on 25/02/2012 at 17:25.


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Reigning European and world champions Spain have finished 2012 at the summit of the Fifa Ranking for the fifth time in succession.
Joachim Low's Germany remain the second-placed team in the standings, with South American giants Argentina completing the podium.
Euro 2012 finalists Italy have climbed one place and now sit fourth in the ranking, ahead of Colombia who were named "Mover of the Year" after reaching fifth position from 36th at the start of the year.
England are sixth, while Portugal (seventh, three down), Netherlands (eighth, one down),Russia (ninth) and Croatia (10th) complete the rest of the top 10.
Copa America holders Uruguay have to settle for 16th place after dropping five places, while 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil are only 18th.
Cote d'Ivoire remain Africa's highest placed team at No.14, while Japan are the pride of Asia in 22nd position.
Cuba are this month's biggest climbers as they went 41 places up to make it to 100th spot, while Belize (down 23) dropped the most positions compared to last month's Fifa Ranking.


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — Bruins head coach Claude Julien isn't itchy to pull the trigger on line changes in the aftermath of his team's recent 4-4-1 stretch of mediocrity.
Julien instead is emphasizing the need for all 18 skaters and both goaltenders to be better as Boston's schedule continues to get tougher with a back-to-back this weekend against Pittsburgh and Washington. The Sidney Crosby-less, Jordan Staal-less Penguins visit the TD Garden Saturday afternoon.
"I think today, it's not about changing the groups or changing lines or stuff like that. It's mostly about bringing the tempo or work ethic up," said the coach after his team's 30-minute practice. "Anybody who watched our practice today, I think, saw that it had a pretty good pace. This is kind of what we've got to carry into our upcoming games here, bring our work ethic and commitment and everything else up to the next level that we have to bring it to."
While the news hasn't been great for the Bruins on the ice of late, it got a little better off the ice today. Julien said there was a possibility that concussed forward Nathan Horton, who is feeling better, might start to ride the bike and work out.


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Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed List just arrived on newsstands (and, if you're so inclined, the internet), stocked with the usual cohort of financiers, movie stars and improbably named socialites. Didn't we read about Ogden Phipps II in an Evelyn Waugh book?
We were glad to see Tiki Barber on the list, if only to provide a break from all the financiers, but we refuse to believe this is the best picture they could find. It's a fine suit, and the brown oxfords are a nice touch to keep him on the informal side of bankerdom, but the photo editors let him slip through with a buttoned top button that throws his whole jacket into disarray. It's not a slip-up on Tiki's part—a strangely draped jacket happens to the best of us from time to time—but it's a little embarrassing to end up on a best-dressed list with this many wrinkles.
But graded on the ex-football-player curve, he's practically Cary Grant.


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If you wanted to attend the Laracon EU that happened in Amsterdam back in August but weren't able to make it, there's good news. They've started posting the videos of the sessions recorded at the event.
The sessions they've added at the time of this post are:
- Building Artisan Commands - Taylor Otwell
- Standardization, the Symfony Way - Fabien Potencier
- Software Design Patterns in Laravel 4 - Phil Sparks
There were more great speakers and sessions at the event, so keep checking back for more as they're added.


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Yet another potentially precedent setting application regarding a coastal erosion structure came before the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday, this one for a rock revetment on bluff-front property just east of the Shadmoor State Park in Montauk.
To protect his house, which was moved back from the bluff in 2003, John Ryan of Surfside Avenue wants to construct an approximately 100-foot-long by 10-foot-wide stone armor revetment with cedar terracing along the west side of an eroding stream channel that runs perpendicular to the oceanfront bluffs. The project would involve regrading along the channel. To facilitate this, Mr. Ryan needs a natural resources permit and a variance from the town's coastal erosion overlay district regulations to construct a revetment in an area where the construction, placement, or installation of new coastal erosion control structures is prohibited.
The proposed revetment is partially seaward of the state-designated coastal erosion hazard area boundary. In addition to the bluffs, Mr. Ryan's property contains freshwater wetlands, beaches, and tidal wetlands. Mr. Ryan received a coastal erosion hazard area and tidal wetlands permit from the State Department of Conservation in December.
Before the 2003 move, his house had been 15 feet from the coastal bluff crest. It was moved to the northwest section of the property and was reconstructed after sustaining damage when 12 feet of bluff slumped.
On Tuesday, Philip Gamble, chairman of the zoning board, received a letter from Carole Friedman, a land management assistant at the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, requesting additional time to comment on Mr. Ryan's application for a natural resources permit. "Due to the environmentally sensitive nature of this bluff and other factors we would like to receive a copy of the construction plans for our engineers to review," Ms. Friedman said in the letter.
According to Drew Bennett, an engineer for Mr. Ryan, this is a slope stabilization project necessitated by severe erosion from storms. "There is a gully side on his property that's unstable and is slumping off in chunks." He said the erosion "is not being caused by waves or currents, it's stormwater erosion." Also, Mr. Ryan claimed that his plan to add 100 feet of angular rocks and vegetation has been successful in stabilizing these types of soils elsewhere.
The proposed work is on the property line, and as Mr. Ryan has "already retreated once, he has nowhere else to go," said Mr. Bennett. The runoff comes from about 20 acres in the nearby Surfside Estates area, as well as roads, wetlands, and other residential lots.
The Town Planning Department questioned in its environmental assessment form whether or not Mr. Bennett had considered other alternatives, and wondered if the proposed rock revetment could slump off in the future.
"We considered smaller stones or adjusting the channel itself, the best sites are on state property, where we don't have authority to go," said Mr. Bennett. "We're focusing on stabilizing the soil, which is slumping off in chunks and liquefying off the hill." When asked if the rocks would roll, Mr. Bennett said they are "on the slope, angular, and anchored to the hillside itself. We don't expect it to move in the foreseeable future."
His strategy is to "pin the toe, which is the outside edge of the channel, and begin to soften and stabilize the slope as you go up the hill."
There were several speakers opposed to the application who expressed concern over the long-term effect of the structure, and questioned its legality.
"This application calls for use of three to five-ton boulders that I believe will eventually end up on the beach," said Jay Levine, who lives in Montauk and is a member of the Surfrider Foundation and the Concerned Citizens of Montauk. "The engineer said they won't move for quite a few years. I wonder, Mr. Bennett, what happens after a few years? What liability does a property owner have for these boulders on the beach, and what is the liability with East Hampton Town?" he asked.
According to Mr. Levine, the revetment along the west bank of the creek will likely cause erosion on the east side of the creek, the boulders will be undermined and fall in, and there will be deleterious effects on the state park. Also, citing town code, Mr. Levine said that this type of revetment is prohibited unless it is to provide safe navigability in boat channels.
Also opposed to the plan, Thomas Muse, who lives near Surfside Avenue and is the environmental coordinator for the Surfrider Foundation, homed in on the legal aspects of the application. "It appears this is a request for an illegal action in East Hampton Town. This property falls in that district where these structures are prohibited. It should be easy for the board to reject this application on that alone," he said.
In response, Mr. Gamble said, "If you read the entire substance of that particular requirement, they're talking about jetties or groins." To which Mr. Muse replied, "The toe of this structure, in my estimation, is going to interact with wave action. You can split hairs whether this is on the beach or not, but it's close enough to the beach. There used to be a staircase, that is now detached from the cliff and waiting to fall down. The evidence of how things go out there is there."
"This project is designed to fail. It's a young stream, very V-shaped, it cuts the channel, the sides slump in, over time, the channel erodes and carries sediment down the beach," said Mr. Muse. He claimed that the rocks will end up in the stream channel and make their way down the beach, and questioned if the wetlands will be destroyed. "I would request there be an updated wetland flagging. We have rare and federally protected and endangered species in that park. Chances that they're in that bluff are fairly high," said Mr. Muse.
Bringing recent events into play, Mr. Muse referenced a lawsuit involving a private homeowner on the north side of Montauk and East Hampton Town, and wondered why the town would get involved for a private residence. Mr. Gamble replied, "If we were to worry about lawsuits, then we'd never do any applications. There are risks with anything. That's why we have engineers. New York State wants to give input and has vested interest in this particular area. What if it comes to a conclusion different than what you've stated, what do you do then? Ignore New York State or go for the engineers' report?" he asked.
"We need to put weight on this decision, and the policy of coastal management," replied Mr. Muse. "The town, by approving this application, will be handicapped in the future. If we open this door, we need to look at our whole coastal policy, and that is bigger than this whole application."
According to Jeremy Samuelson, an environmental advocate with Group for the East End who also works closely with Concerned Citizens of Montauk, Mr. Bennett said there is potential for undermining slope stabilization, and maintenance may be required. "This is essentially a take it or leave it position. The applicant has truncated the review process. It's supposed to be a coordinated review, but if that was the case, New York State Parks and East Hampton Town would have been notified at the same time. The New York State Office of Parks wouldn't have had to submit an 11th-hour letter requesting more time for review," said Mr. Samuelson.
He also reminded the board that the approval for the D.E.C. permit was given far in advance of when the application was submitted to East Hampton Town. He suggested exploring alternatives that could meet the applicant's needs while minimizing impacts.
"I respectfully ask that the Z.B.A. . . . look at alternatives that may exist. The needs and desire of the applicant must be balanced with those of the community," said Mr. Samuelson. "This is the first application for the Z.B.A. of this kind in an area where it is expressly prohibited. We don't even have a letter from the town engineer rendering an opinion. I'd ask the board to reach out to your engineer, just as we're reaching out to New York. We're moving too quickly here. There is protocol to embrace."
At the request of Mr. Samuelson, the record will remain open so that Rameshwar Das, who wrote the town's local waterfront revitalization plan, can comment on the application, and so New York State will be able to respond, as well.
The board will revisit the application in late September.


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LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation network usage
There are 4 svchost.exe( LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation) running that are causing network resources to constantly peak. What are these used for and are they need or can be turned off some where?
This is a fresh install on a intel qaud core Q6600 system with 4gigs of ram.
Run Task Manager and go to the Services Tab, it will tell you.
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
- Marked as answer by Mark L. FergusonModerator Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:47 AM
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Run Task Manager and go to the Services Tab, it will tell you.
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
- Marked as answer by Mark L. FergusonModerator Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:47 AM
Not a very good answer. LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation kills my pc for 10 to 15 minutes anytime I start or restart. I analyze the wait chain and wmpnetwk.exe is waiting on LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation. Anyone have any idea why it does this and how can it be fixed. Thanx!
here's a starting point
LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation is related to Windows 7 Media Center (networking and extenders).
- Proposed as answer by KingElessar Friday, August 29, 2014 8:09 PM
Thanks for the information. I am havng the same problem and this gives me a good starting point. You should write up your answer and submit it to Microsoft because the Tech Ned Pyle didn't have a clue as to what was going on and gave a pretty ignorant answer.
I have the same issue, after setting up xbox360 as a windows media player extender it seems the WMP service is pulling a steady 25-30mbps of traffic down via the network adaptor. Wouldn't usually be a problem, but the adaptor is actually a tether interface to my android and i'm seeiong a few mb every 10 mins being downloaded by the phone - eating up my data.... this isn't cool. What the hell is it doing??
Im working with the same assumptions or more of an inquisition about the LocalServiceNoImpersonation issue.
if indeed the media center is the responsible party for this then I would point to advanced sharing opions and to block all media streaming so that the media center is not activity searching for devices and devices cannot connect and grab media from your pc if you do not wish this.
as for this service stealing processor time, or your computer taking a long time to boot, first start by checking for infections or broken references to startup items that may be residue from infections.
i had this problem. And turned out to be from the Team Viewer v6.
i made the team viewer service on manual start from the services assistant (type in start->run "services" and it will open this assistant) and the problem is solved :). It seams that team view version 6 and windows 7 x64 ultimate are not working to well together :( if you need team viewer install version above 6 and cpu will stay come and the system will run great :)good luck
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I looked for ways to minimize network activity when the computer was idle. The svchost.exe (LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation) appeared to consumer a lot of CPU (35-65%) even when I was not asking the system to do anything. It was also a constant network downloader/uploader.
Following the advice of others in this thread, I changed the Windows Media Centre settings. But this did not do much in terms of either CPU or network activity.
However, I discovered that it lowered significantly CPU and network activity for the above service when I disabled all the features of Windows Update. So my advice is, check all those update programs that check or listen for new updates in the background. Microsoft appears to be the main culprit in my instance. But perhaps check you WinAmps, iTunes (or Zune), Laptop Vendor etc.
Good luck.
I had the same problem, for me at least it turns out to be Nvidia update service, what I did was open "service" in the windows search bar then under "standard" tab look for "Nvidia Update Service" and set it to "disable".
Then using process explorer disable the svchost with the localserviceandnoimpersonation, seems to fix it for me.
I've come to the conclusion that it's a problem caused by some form of update services.


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The İzmir Metropolitan Municipality is preparing to surround the historical Smyrna Agora with specially designed walls. The walls will provide for the safety of the Agora and be 3 meters high and 810 meters long.
The Smyrna Agora Ancient Site Safety Wall project has been approved by the İzmir Committee for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Properties. The project will protect the historic Agora, which was integrated with the crowded İkiçeşmelik Street after confiscation and destruction works were completed.
The project was designed to reveal the historical richness of the agora and will provide sitting places for people visiting the area.


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I bet if they were willing to talk you would find out how disenfranchised many of the leaders feel. I think it's difficult for those who have a passion for scouts (and are heavily involved like the OP) to see it from the standard volunteer's POV.I used to attend every leader meeting when I first got involved. Not because I had to, but because I was hoping for some guidance on what to do. The training offered by Council was really not helpful. The programming offered was dull (my girls never enjoyed it), so I was looking for help from other leaders to find brainstorm and get ideas from.The leader meetings were more disappointing than the "training". It was a bunch of people reading us memos from council, telling us all the things we couldn't do, and trying to make us play team building games. meanwhile, I was missing dinner and time with my family. So, last year, when the broke our SU into 3 new SU, the leader meeting was moved to the same night as my troop meetings. I approached the SU leader and her solution was, oh, we'll cant you change your meeting night? Nope. My troop had established its meeting night years ago. My parents planned their daughters activities knowing that GS would always be on that night. So, I stopped attending.When I signed up to be a leader I was assured that I would have control of my troop and support from my SU and council. The reality is, I'm getting CONSTANT pressure from my SU to add more girls to my troop. We're very happy with our small group of girls. We're able to do more because I only have to plan for 10 instead if trying to get enough materials and meeting space for the 20 or 30 they think I should have. When I suggest they get another parent to lead another troop (if tere is that much interest), I'm told they cannot find anyone to volunteer. I wonder why?I've had two serious issues pop up over the 5 years and I turned to my SU for help. They directed me to council who agreed it was a big deal, but then NEVER contacted me with the promised help or a solution. So, I ended up having to deal with it myself.After all that, I have as little interaction with GS outside my troop as possible. I turn in my paperwork on time, I follow the rules, but I do my own thing. My parents are happy, my girls are happy, and I avoid the drama that comes from higher up the food chain.Oh, and don't get me started on the "exciting new changes" to the cookie program next year. . My cookie Mom and I are already discussing how we're going to deal with that one.
When you emailed the parents asking for feedback, did you offer specific options for them to respond to, or did you leave it open-ended? It can be very difficult to send constructive feedback, especially when you're feeling like things won't change no matter what you do, if the question is open-ended. It can be hard to feel like you're able to say something constructive without getting too negative. On the other hand, if you can present something closer to a survey, with potential shortcomings acknowledged upfront and potential solutions offered as options, you might get a better response. So, for example, using some of the issues magiccat has brought up, instead of saying, "What can we do better?" you could ask for very specific feedback on very specific issues. Such as,1) Meeting frequencyWould you be more or less likely to be able to make time to come to a meeting if they were less frequent? If we had meetings every other month, or quarterly, would it be easier to make it a priority? If we offered an alternate time for the same meeting content, would that help you be able to schedule time to come?2) Meeting length & contentDo you feel like the meetings have enough useful content for you? Would you prefer more "meat" and less ice-breaker type filler, or do you enjoy the chance to visit with other leaders? Of the meeting components a, b, c, and d (where those are the things you do in a regular meeting - ice breakers, minutes, event planning, etc.), which would you prefer to minimize or eliminate altogether?3) Email distributionDo you feel like there is content addressed in the meetings that would be better served as an email announcement? Do you feel like you already receive too many emails from us?Anyway, those are just some samples of more specific questions you could ask that might prompt some who do have issues to be able to respond without feeling like their problem is too big to know where to begin, or like they'd be getting too critical if they were to address the things they've been thinking about.
Thanks for all the good ideas. I don't want to require anyone to do something they really don't want to do for sure. It wasn't an issue until we started getting parent complaints. We just got the roster of all email addresses from council (parents/girls included). Our Communication Chair is working through them to add to an updated email list but she has to do it with her normal job just like the rest of us so its not quick (they didn't send it in Excel format which would have been easy to email from). We've also discussed offering training after meetings, but are wondering if it would be too late. We try to keep meetings under an hour but if there is a lot of info or questions it can be difficult. My daughter comes to babysit which I feel is helpful to some. As far as meeting location, we are in a church central between the schools but I admit its closer to the catholic school and one of the districts. The other district is about 10 miles away (we are in a very rural area, and the other district is literally down a windy road in the middle of the woods with no nearby town). Our schools don't have free wifi and neither does the church we meet in so its difficult to do a web meeting. Many families don't have internet still either due to cost or that it just doesn't exist for them. Magiccat, what are these new cookie changes you've heard about? I sincerely hope its not something more off putting to our leaders.
-"Pack" type meetings - I would love to do this, but getting 27 troops together seems....impossible. I will run it by everyone though! I do love how the boy scouts do it but it does mean they have more meetings to attend.
-Events: The ugly truth is we need more people on the event committees. The same ones of us are working every event. We enjoy it but it takes a lot out of us.
Quote from: despedina on April 18, 2013, 10:50:06 PM-Events: The ugly truth is we need more people on the event committees. The same ones of us are working every event. We enjoy it but it takes a lot out of us. I have something to offer in response to this. Stop doing it. People who won't volunteer to take over something will step up if there is an actual space.
Quote from: Bethalize on April 24, 2013, 10:01:08 AMQuote from: despedina on April 18, 2013, 10:50:06 PM-Events: The ugly truth is we need more people on the event committees. The same ones of us are working every event. We enjoy it but it takes a lot out of us. I have something to offer in response to this. Stop doing it. People who won't volunteer to take over something will step up if there is an actual space.Yep. You need to create the vacuum. And if not enough people want to put out any effort, then maybe the event is not that valuable to them.We have a central garden shared by several co-ops. We had a big influx of parents w/ small kids, and the older people (whose kids were older or grown) got a little testy about the pressure to have kids' events. At our bldg's meeting, someone said, sort of snottily, "I notice no one is planning any *adult* events." And someone else tsk-tsk'd as if this was so awful.I thought, "If you think they're so important, why don't you volunteer to run one? Oh, and btw, I never see you out there at the grownup events anyway!"What I said was, "Well, if people don't value the events enough to organize them, maybe that means the events aren't very important to people."I *would* suggest that you widely publicize that you will be *cancelling* the event if no one steps up to organize it. In a far-flung organization w/ the same people doing the same organizing from year to year, people get complacent, and they may never realize that help is needed.
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LCC's Military Medic to Paramedic Program Highlighted at White House Forum
April 30, 2013
LANSING, Mich. - Lansing Community College's unique program to transition military medics to civilian jobs and advanced education was a focus during today's White House Forum on Military Credentialing and Licensing in Washington, D.C.
Margie Clark, Dean of Health and Human Services, Elva Revilla, Associate Vice President for External Affairs and Development, and Lisa Ferris-McCann, Program Director for the Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic Programs, presented at the Forum in the Advanced Medical Operations and Emergency Medical Services Industry Roundtables, which focused on developing strategies to transfer military training and experience into credit towards nursing, physician assistant, and EMS certifications and licensure.
LCC's Military Medic to Paramedic Program launched as a pilot in January 2012 with five veterans to help them transition from military medics to civilian paramedics, and, if interested, to the college's nursing program or a physician's assistant program at a partner university. Previously denied classroom credit for their prior medical training, these medics can now be credited for their efforts as they pursue civilian medical certification and licensure. The paramedic program, typically two semesters plus an internship for a certificate of achievement, can be completed by these individuals in five to six months.
Since the program launched, the number of students has grown. The current class, set to graduate on May 24, has 10 veterans. A third class, scheduled to begin in August, has 40 students with a waiting list.
In a related note, last Friday Frederick E. Vollrath, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness and Force Management for the U.S. Department of Defense, visited LCC to see the program first hand. He was joined by U.S. Senator Carl Levin, who met with program leaders earlier this year and shared his impressions with Secretary Vollrath.
The Secretary noted that LCC's program is unique in that it goes beyond credentialing to advanced education and employment. He lauded community colleges for their role in preparing America's workforce.
The White House Forum discussions built on the efforts of the President's Military Credentialing and Licensing Task Force, and the First Lady's call-to-action to our nation's governors in February to take legislative or executive action to help our troops get the credentials they need. The President's Military Credentialing and Licensing Task Force, led by the Department of Defense, is charged with identifying military specialties that readily transfer to high-demand jobs; working with civilian credentialing and licensing associations to address gaps between military training programs and credentialing and licensing requirements; and providing service members with greater access to necessary certification and licensing exams.
For more information about LCC's Military Medic to Paramedic Program, go to http://www.lcc.edu/nursing/militarymedic/. For information about the Obama Administration's work to streamline military credentialing and licensing, view their recent report "The Fast Track to Civilian Employment."


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The Guide mentions several vampires who change humans just for the fun of it, or for experimentation. Stephenie calls them "Puppeteers." These include characters like Joham, who we knew of, and three new ones: Boris, Luca, and George. Even Amun, now that we understand who he is, can be considered as part of this group.
What do you think about their actions? How does this change the vampire world? How do you view the Volturi and Joham and Amun in light of this?
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Stitches Review
Did you grow up playing Operation, the game of maintaining a steady hand as you de-bone a cartoon patient using unsanitary tweezers? The answer is probably yes. Now, imagine playing that game in the following scenarios: during an earthquake, after an evening of heavy drinking, and after eight cups of coffee. Do those sound like fun? If so, go ahead and download Stitches right now, because that's what the game simulates.
Of course, there's a good chance that the above scenarios don't sound like fun to you. Maybe your hands don't move with mechanical precision, and you found Operation so difficult that the sound of the blaring buzzer still haunts your nightmares. In that case, you might want to save yourself a lot of unpleasantness and hold off on buying Stitches.
Let's open you up and have a look inside.
Stitches comes with just four levels, and each one is essentially the same, but with a slight twist. Every level has you rotating and plucking a number of internal body parts out of a severely unwell patient. Among other things, you'll remove a pickled liver, a jar of toe jam, and a frozen brain. In each case, you'll rotate two fingers on the touchscreen to turn the problematic organ, and then spread your fingers apart to lift it out of the aptly-shaped hole in the skin.
On each stage, two factors are pressing in on you: a time limit, and the patient's health points, which decrease when you let an organ touch the side of the hole as you pull it out.
Dinner is served.
The controls are great– they're very responsive and perfectly suited to the task. And it's awesome to have what is essentially the board game Operation on your iPhone. But the game's big problem is that, to increase the difficulty, it simulates you being in an earthquake, drunk, or high on caffeine.
So instead of being creative and giving you new complicated things to remove from the patient each level, it makes you remove the same items, but adds shaking or blurring effects. To be sure, this makes the game more difficult, but it doesn't make it any more fun– just more annoying. On the plus side, if you want to keep playing after you've beaten the levels, you can play them again to get a high score on the online leaderboards.
That's all there is to Stitches. It's a near carbon copy of the board game Operation, with some annoying onscreen effects tossed in for good measure. All told, it took us about an hour to beat the game, and that's including the time we spent fuming after rage-quitting several times at the unfairness of the shaking effects. If you love Operation and want to play the game on your iPhone, by all means download Stitches. However, chances are that after five minutes you'll find yourself wanting more, and not the more they give you.


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I've had some good duh moments that resulted in burns too. Once I was cooking something in a dutch oven in a 400f oven. I took it out of the oven, put it on the stove, turned around to put my oven mitt down and then grabbed the very hot dutch oven.
I was eating some chocolate Riesens once while waiting on a movie to start. Just chomping and smacking away. Had a thought of, "I sure hope this gooey stuff doesn't pull of my crown" just seconds before - you guessed it - I pulled off the crown. It was a Sunday and my dentist wasn't available. So it was off to the store for some denture adhesive for a quick fix. Later told my dentist about it and he laughed his bottom off at me.
Quote from: SisJackson on October 07, 2011, 04:10:56 PMI'm an occasional victim of the "ohnosecond" - that infinitesimal slice of time where you realize you've done something dumb but it's too late to stop yourself.Do you ever stand there futilely shouting "Control-Z! Control-Z!"? (I do. )
I'm an occasional victim of the "ohnosecond" - that infinitesimal slice of time where you realize you've done something dumb but it's too late to stop yourself.
Quote from: Ginger G on October 11, 2011, 12:19:14 PMJust last night, my boyfriend decided to make himself a sundae with mint chocolate chip ice cream and hot fudge sauce. Too bad he ended up with mint chocolate chip ice cream with chinese hoisin sauce topping!Ohhh noo!A friend of mine received a "chocolate" sundae. Unfortunately, it was ice cream and balsamic vinegar.
Just last night, my boyfriend decided to make himself a sundae with mint chocolate chip ice cream and hot fudge sauce. Too bad he ended up with mint chocolate chip ice cream with chinese hoisin sauce topping!
I just remembered this.Last winter, we had had a decent snowfall. Probably 3-4 inches. DH was doing something in the garage and called me to move one of the cars. I was very reluctant and said I didn't want to get dressed and go outside in that weather. He said don't bother getting dressed, just run out here and hop in the car. So I complied, wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops.He wanted to switch the positions of our 2 cars, so I had to back one car out onto the street, wait for him to pull his car out, and then pull my car in. So I pull my car out into the street, and DH decides that it's a fantastic time to start doing something else. Minutes tick by. I honk at DH occasionally and he makes "just a minute" gestures. Finally another car comes down the street, and I can't keep blocking it, so I decide to drive down the street, turn around, and drive back home.I turn around on an intersecting street, which apparently got MUCH more snow than my street did. My car is stuck. I am still wearing shorts and flip-flops. I do not have my cell phone, as DH insisted that this would just take a second. Home is half a block away, uphill. It takes me half an hour to maneuver my car off the side street and get back home. When I got home and told DH what happened, he said "Well what did you do that for?"
If *he* wanted to switch the two cars, why did you move your car first?
The winter before last, we got an incredible amount of snow. I didn't go into work that morning and was enjoying my sleep when my dh calls me. His usual thirty minute walk to work took him two hours and when he finally got there, he found a note on the door saying they were closed. So, I run to the car in my pajama shorts and slippers. I brush all the loose snow with my arm and then start scrapping the ice off my wind shield. I was thinking of how stupid I looked and how cold I was when I realized that it wasnt my car.
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SHS students receive certifications
Students at Sweetwater High School took certification tests in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. The test certify the students as Microsoft Specialists. The following students (shown) took the Microsoft Office Specialist test for PowerPoint. They received a certificate for passing the test: Caroline Brennan, Tadeo Canon, Cody Chapman, Laura Duclos, Colin Dunn, Cody Foust, Brittany Green, Alexis Castillo, Madison Jones, Clay Kitchens, Jenny Medellin, Francisco Olguin, Gabbie Reyes, Eathen Speer, Rhett Torres, Leah Warren, Allison Winslett, Kala Wofford, and Ty Crain. Not pictured are Madeline Montgomery, Natalie Cox and Sierra Flores.The following students took the Microsoft Office Specialist test for Word: Caroline Brennan, Natalie Cox, Cody Chapman, Laura Duclos, Cody Foust, Kaylun Green, Francisco Olguin, Caitlyn Owens, Eathen Speer, Rhett Torres, Leah Warren, Allison Winslett, Kala Wofford, Colin Dunn, Clay Kitchens and Jenny Medellin.


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Submission + - Amazon makes a move which could fundamentally chan (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: Online retailing leader Amazon is to make a compelling offer this coming Saturday – use their smartphone app to compare prices, and they'll effectively pay you $5 to walk out of the store. It is an historic move in the evolution of retail sales. Gizmag writes that, as smart phone penetration heads for ubiquity, the price comparison app might go mainstream quite quickly from here. For the customer, it means getting accurate comparison information before a purchase. For the shopping app provider it means an opportunity to make a bid on a customer's patronage at the time- and point-of-sale, inside a competitor's bricks and mortar, at the same time as creating a marketing intelligence tool par excellence.


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For kids of all ages, Halloween is THE night of the year to dress up as someone – or something – else. And this year, the right costume might win you $25,000 and a chance for a walk-on role on the Hub Network's Daytime Emmy® Award-winning series, "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series."
One semi-finalist from each state will be flown to Hollywood for a taping of the "Hub Network's First Annual Halloween Bash" to be broadcast on Saturday, October 26, 2013, Kenan Thompson ("Saturday Night Live") is the host, pop-music star Cody Simpson will be performing, and Martha Stewart serves as the Halloween-expert judge!
Need some inspiration and not sure where to get started on a creating a costume? Here are some tips garnered from the Martha Stewart Halloween Special Issue, which is on stands now, and from www.MarthaStewart.com:
- To turn your kid into a charismatic cowboy, just rustle up some brown-paper grocery and trash-compactor bags. When you get home, snip and punch them into a fringed vest and chaps, then add paper-fastener studs and candy-cup conchos. A mop-maned horse is ready to accompany this rider on a hunt for candy.
- With a few clever tricks, it's easy to dress up as Napoleon and Josephine. They take a needle and thread and a minimum of skill. Napoleon's jacket begins as a navy-blue hoodie; it's cut and then trimmed with sections of red felt and gold upholstery fringe. Josephine's dress is fashioned from lengths of inexpensive cotton, with elastic to cinch the top and create a gathered bodice; another piece of fabric becomes the shrug and sash. Use crystal beads to make a choker, necklace and bracelets fit for an empress.
- A striped shirt and a hat with a red flower shout "mime" loud and clear. That's thanks to Marcel Marceau, the famous Frenchman who debuted this now-iconic look. Easy to find striped boat neck shirts anchor the outfit and face paint finishes the effect.
The "Hub Network's First Annual Halloween Bash" costume competition is open to all ages, including individuals or a maximum of five people per group submission.The deadline to enter is Sunday, September 29, 2013. Full details on how to enter are at www.hubhalloweenbash.com


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|I made these savory toaster tarts with vegan cream cheese and L to R, olives, harissa and pesto [Olive and cream cheese were my favorite but they were all delish.]
|FInally, toaster tarts for adults, fresh from the oven, before cutting.
My second cookbook included a recipe called Pop-Art Tarts – basically a homemade version of pop-tarts. Today, I after spying a bowl of unrolled pie crust and sundry jars of savory condiments that have accumulated in my refrigerator, I decided to take the recipe a step farther and make homemade "pop" tarts for adults – savory homemade toaster tarts. These are basically a sandwich: think of the pie crust as the bread slices, and in my case, vegan cream cheese, harissa olives and homemade pesto as the fillings. One or two of these would make a great lunch, but I think next time I have a party [and that time is drawing near] I will definitely makes these, cut into bite-size squares, to serve as appetizers.
|Cut into cute, bite-sized squares, these are no-brainer party appetizers.
|Sweet vegan cream cheese contrasted against salty olives = heaven in a crust.
Savory "Pop" TartsCrust:
- 4 T Earth Balance
- 4 T non-hydrogenated vegan shortening
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- About 5-7 T ice cold water.
- Any savory, spreadable or thin filling, eg, vegan cream cheese, pesto, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, shredded vegan cheese with refried bean, about 1 tsp per tart
Number of servings varies, depending on how large you cut your tarts.
|You don't need a pastry wheel but using one makes things look neater.
|Fill each tart with less than 1 tsp of flling, leaving about 1/4 inch of space around the edges.
|Place tops on and crimp edges with a fork, and cut a few air vents into the top crusts.
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Designer draws up digital camera-cum-punchcard printer
Holes for pixels
Instant camera photo paper is pricey, so a student designer based in San Francisco has sketched plans for two digital cameras which physically impress pictures into sheets of paper.
Punch presses images into paper using hole punch theory
In essence Punch is a digital camera with a series of hole punch pins inside. Simply take a picture, slide a sheet of paper into the camera's special slot and then slam your fist down onto the side of the camera labelled "Punch".
This action causes your photo to be embedded in the paper in a form like a screened photo in a newspaper. Four sizes of pin make for a greyscale effect by allowing different size holes to be punched.
The images – if you can call them that – are not multi-megapixel quality, but at least allow you to give friends an almost instant and unique copy of the shots you've taken.
Each digitally-snapped image is also given a code, which is punched onto the side of the paper picture. This directs your friends to a website where they can download a proper version of the image.
Punch Reworked is more compact and features a USB Flash drive
Designer Matty Martin has also created a second version of Punch, called Punch Reworked. This is a smaller version of the original which presses picture holes using a roller mechanism.
One end of Punch Reworked also contains a handy USB Flash drive.
Further details about Martin's Punch designs are available online now. ®
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My two sons are the light of my life. I love them more than any words can possibly express. This is not a news flash for the fellow moms reading this. We all know that there is nothing we would not do for our children. However, there are times when we have to step back from the every day craziness to figure out just what we are teaching our kids. Between getting them to school, laundry, housework, cooking dinner, volunteering at the school, cleaning and the general things we do every day just to get through we can looe sight of the real job at hand: raising this tiny person to be a happy and healthy adult .
The other day, I was washing dishes and my 19-month-old son was just dying to see what I was doing in the sink. He thought, "She has been standing there and ignoring me for quite a bit so that must be a whole lot of FUN!" He literally grabbed a chair and dragged it over so he could play like Mommy.
My first reaction was to tell him no and to leave me be so I could get this chore done. There was a look in his face that made me stop and think. Why can't he help me wash the dishes a bit? I was almost done. Just a few cups and utensils left. What was the harm? Aidan got such a kick out of playing with the water and the bubbles and filling the cups just to dump them out again. It actually made washing dishes a bit amusing. It may have taken me longer to finish but the smile on his face was worth it.
Something similar happened with my 6-year-old son, RJ. He came home from kindergarten just not a happy camper. It was a long day at the end of a long week and he wanted to play a board game with me. Again, my first reaction was no. I had gotten held up at the grocery store that day and there was a bunch of laundry still needed to be folded, plus I had to start dinner and mate that huge pile of socks at the end of my bed.
There was something about RJ's face that told me he needed some time to hang with his mom. I made a deal with him that if we played a game he would help me mate the socks when we were done. For dinner that night we had soup and sandwiches instead of the meatballs I had planned on. RJ even picked a game that we could play with his little brother so all three of us had a fun time. We laughed and laughed, and I think that it made it that much easier for him to get up and off to school the next day.


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Well I'm fairly new but welcome back m0e...:)
I just wanted to post in the intro forum because I've been away a long time. I love the site's new look guys, its awesome! Glad to see some old faces still around too. Well, things have slowed down for me some now that I have my store set up and the doors are open. So, I should be back pretty regularly now. Again, nice to see the good discussions are still here. Have a good 'un! :smilies_musik45:
Well I'm fairly new but welcome back m0e...:)
go chiefs...nahh jets
Yep. It's good to have you back.
Sorry to hear about your home town Chiefster.