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Signature switches ESA lab from Netherlands to Spain
With a flourish of pens, a key ESA lab has officially gained a new home. Last Thursday saw the signing of an agreement to relocate the Agency's High-Power Radio Frequency Laboratory from ESTEC in the Netherlands to Valencia in Spain.
The laboratory will now be hosted by the Valencia Space Consortium (VSC), a non-profit organisation set up by Valencia's two universities, its regional government and municipality. ESA and the VSC will contribute similar levels of resources to the Laboratory, with its existing equipment transferred on loan to the new locations.
The signing ceremony took place at ESTEC on 25 March. Michel Courtois, ESA Director of Technical and Quality Management, signed the contract with Francisco Camps Ortiz, President of the Regional Government of Valencia.
Other attendees included Alfonso Grau, First Lieutenant Mayor of the Municipality of Valencia, Francisco Tomás Vert, Rector of the University of Valencia, Francisco José Mora Más, Vice Rector of Planning and Innovation of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Ramón Saénz de Heredia, Consul of Spain in The Hague.
"The High-Power Radio Frequency (RF) Laboratory is a centre of excellence for Europe," said Director Courtois.
"Its specialised investigations of side effects of high-power RF signals in the space environment have long provided crucial support to ESA projects and the European space industry.
"The Laboratory's move to Valencia will only increase the effectiveness of its support, giving it access to new facilities, resources and expertise existing on site. This move will also allow its utilisation to be maximised, not only for space but also other hi-tech domains."
The facility will become the latest addition to ESA's Europe-wide network of specialist external laboratories, such as Spasolab in Spain, Millilab in Finland, the European Space Tribology Lab in the UK, and the Microelectronics Technology Support Laboratory in Ireland. Its existing equipment transferred to the VSC, the Laboratory will be run by a basic team of technicians overseen by its current ESTEC manager.
High radio power can spell problems in space
It is difficult to overstate the importance of RF systems for space. Vital for communicating with and returning data from spacecraft, they also underpin global telecommunication and navigation services and – through radar and radio sounding – serve as tools for the scientific study of Earth and other planets.
"There is a continual push for higher RF range, bandwidth or data quality," says David Raboso, Manager of the High-Power RF Laboratory. "Each new generation of satellites has much more powerful RF systems. Those of the early satellites worked at just a few watts each, but today's big missions operate at power levels thousands of times higher. That is way past the threshold where harmful phenomena can start to occur."
In the past quarter of a century the Laboratory has provided support to many ESA missions, from ERS and Envisat to Galileo and Alphasat. In April its work at ESTEC will conclude before restarting in Valencia this July.
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Stoke manager Tony Pulis would have been "absolutely devastated" if his side had been denied their first Barclays Premier League victory of 2013 on Saturday afternoon.
The Potters, whose previous top-flight win had come on Boxing Day, beat Reading 2-1 at the Britannia Stadium having dominated much of the contest but been forced to endure a nervy finale. Reading remain 17th in the table, two points clear of the relegation zone, while Stoke stay 10th.
After seeing his team hang on for the victory - unlike in their previous home outing, when they had squandered a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Wigan - Pulis said: "It has been a long time. I thought we deserved to win the game - I would have been absolutely devastated if we hadn't won the game today."
After Stoke defender Robert Huth had opened the scoring with a 67th-minute header, a fierce strike from substitute Cameron Jerome with nine minutes of normal time remaining appeared to make three points safe for the hosts.
But Adrian Mariappa nodded in two minutes later for the Royals, who had scored a host of important late goals in their recent unbeaten sequence of four league games. And Reading might have completed another dramatic comeback if referee Michael Oliver had not waved away Adam Le Fondre's penalty appeals in the dying moments.
Pulis added: "After the first half I thought we deserved to be coming in leading, but we just picked the pace up and the two subs (Jerome and Kenwyne Jones) made a great difference again. Cameron Jerome is a great impact player and he scored a great goal."
Regarding the Le Fondre incident - where the in-form striker went down in the box under the attentions of Ryan Shotton - Pulis said: "Firstly I was told it was a penalty, then I've just been told (you can see) it actually isn't from a different angle - that the lad isn't caught, but just arches his back and falls over. But if it was a penalty, I have to say thank goodness we have had a break, because we deserve one."
Reading boss Brian McDermott had no doubt what he thought about the penalty claim. "Once we got to 2-1, I thought we would get it (a draw), and unfortunately the ref has missed a penalty at the end, the last kick of the game," McDermott said.
"He got hold of the ball, flicked it by him and he caught him. It was a stonewall penalty. I've just gone in to see him (Oliver) and he didn't see it that way, so that's fine, but I thought it was.
"Sometimes as a manager you get those things - with the last kick of the game, it would have been great to get the point. We hung in there and showed great resilience and desire. This is not an easy place to come to, which everyone knows."
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Dillinger Escape Plan isnt hardcore. theyre something else and they dont use breakdowns, rather, they do use wierd off time rythmns.
??While DEP is hardly a worthy topic of conversation, they are clearly a harcore band (no, we're not talking about hardcore punk here, rather hardcore as defined by the current "scene"), and they clearly use breakdowns - in almost all their songs, at least on their first full length. Breakdowns don't have to be in 4/4.
i know they dont have to be in 4/4. and i guess i mistook hardcore for meaning something else.
Modern hardcore is much separated from the hardcore punk of the past. It's breakdown obsessed, pit dancing, idiotic crowd music, with chorus like slogans for lyrics.


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Posted 04 September 2012 - 06:47 PM Edited by GTA-King, 04 September 2013 - 04:42 PM.
Posted 05 September 2012 - 05:55 AM
I guess that is your style .
Ahh in all seriousness, It really does take some memory jogging for me sometimes to remember everything. But I remember a good chunk. Finally glad to see it coming back.
I think obviously Clay by the looks of it, is going to try to get his spot back as the president some how. Only reason I remember him being alive is for some deal that needs him. I lost most of my respect for him, so yea he is should be grateful he is still around .
Like I said, it is going to take some memory jogging for me to come up with better posts ..
Posted 05 September 2012 - 07:25 AM
By the way, Tara's gonna be a badass this season. I think there will be an interesting dynamic; she'll hate Gemma and become more like her as it develops.
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 05:25 PM
I think the main reason I started this thread is to cope with the wait for Breaking Bad season 5B to be honest...
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 06:21 PM
|QUOTE (ajbns87 @ Thursday, Sep 6 2012, 17:29)
|Could never get into this show, I just wasn't gripped by the drama or the characters, or their stupid names.
Naww... Man.
You gotta give it another chance, right from the start.
Watch a few episode, better than any of the other sh*t on TV really.
Also, despite being listed as a 'drama' I feel The Sopranos was way more dramatic and even then I barely noticed that.
Posted 06 September 2012 - 07:33 PM
|QUOTE (ajbns87 @ Thursday, Sep 6 2012, 18:29)
|Could never get into this show, I just wasn't gripped by the drama or the characters, or their stupid names.
Give it another chance man. It's the best tv show out there!
Can't wait for season five!
Posted 06 September 2012 - 08:08 PM
|QUOTE (ajbns87 @ Thursday, Sep 6 2012, 10:29)
|Could never get into this show, I just wasn't gripped by the drama or the characters, or their stupid names.
They do have stupid names don't they.
Jax, Gemma, Clay, Chibs, and Tig, and Juice.
Still not as bad as the Hunger Games.
Posted 07 September 2012 - 03:18 AM
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|I haven't seen this show yet, and my blockbuster que has it on "very long wait" should I just buy it? Is it that good?
If you're a dude you'll like it, it's not great but it's not sh*t, it really speaks to your inner caveman. It's very tribal and violence oriented, not as sophisticated as The Sopranos or Boardwalk Empire, it's much more primal.
Posted 08 September 2012 - 01:43 PM
Posted 09 September 2012 - 02:18 AM Edited by GTA-King, 12 September 2012 - 05:01 PM.
"The family drama is loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet; indeed, star Ron Perlman has said, "I'm sure theyre going to stick to the structure of Hamlet all the way to the end" of the series. Clay is based on the role of King Claudius and Gemma as a Gertrude figure. Jax stands in for Prince Hamlet himself. Jax's reflective questioning of the SOA culture, brought on by the birth of his son, references Hamlet's melancholy over the death of the king. Additionally, Jax "communicates" with his dead father by way of his late father's unpublished journal/manuscript; Hamlet, of course, literally communicates with the ghost of his father. The drama and characterizations are also enhanced by drawing on Macbeth, another Shakespeare tragedy. Katey Sagal's Gertrude-like Gemma resembles Lady Macbeth becausewhile it is never entirely clear from Hamlet how complicit Queen Gertrude is in the murder of Hamlet's fatherit is obvious that Gemma has willingly participated in the cover-up of the death and may even have encouraged Clay in his treachery. Creator Sutter has said of the Shakespeare element, "I don't want to overplay that but it's there. It was Jax's father who started the club, so he's the ghost in the action. You wonder what he would have made of the way it turned out. It's not a version of Hamlet but it's definitely influenced by it."
I've always like Hamlet, good play and story. Here's a comparison I made between characters in Hamlet and SoA. Pretty accurate I'd say...
CLAY MORROW- He is King Claudius, Hamlet's Uncle.
JAX TELLER- He is Prince Hamlet.
GEMMA TELLER-MORROW- She is Queen Gertrude.
TIG TRAGER- I think he's Laertes.
CHIBS TELFORD- Well, I can't find a character, so let's just label him as one of Hamlet's lackies.
PINEY WINSTON- I think he's Polonius so I don't think it's him.
OPIE WINSTON- He is Horatio, Hamlet's childhood friend.
JUICE ORTIZ- He seems to be Osric, a foolish courtier (see the comparison?)
TARA KNOWLES- She is Ophelia.
I was also surprised at how much Hamlet is refrenced in The Lion King. Take a look.
Posted 10 September 2012 - 12:30 PM
Great attention to detail King!
I can't say I'm a huge fan of Hamlet, but I do know it moderately well and your linking above seems to be almost 100%, but I can't help the feeling that something is missing from it..
Posted 12 September 2012 - 02:31 AM
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I'm still rooting for Tig. Have been since the beginning. He is such an interesting character. Kim Coats, the actor, is a big fan of Shakespeare's work, and you can tell by the way he plays the character. Tig is interesting because he's very loyal to the club, as well as Clay. I felt really bad for him when he accidentally killed Donna, especially after learning how sorry he was (remember the bad shrooms trip he had?). Going to be interesting to see how Tig is now, since he is no longer supporting Clay.
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 03:58 PM
Everything that has happened to him is Clay's fault. I hope Tig is the one that kills him. That would be satisfying.
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 10:47 PM
Also like the addition of Jimmy Smits.
Great premiere.
Posted 13 September 2012 - 09:50 AM
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| I'm excited to see Tig go apesh*t. I thought it was a nice touch to show that Pope might be remorseful for what he did, for a second you see it in his face after the ice cream truck.
I'm not sure that was remorse, struck me more as him just reflecting on what he's lost. Pope seems like an interesting character though - more of an intellectual than a thug. Will be interesting to see how the Sons deal with him.
This will be Tig's season, and its about time I think. So many things to delve into with him as a character, but he's been neglected thus far.
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 08:25 PM
I can't find anywhere in the UK to watch the first few episodes. Looked online and nothing. Anyone know of anywhere? Could you please send me a Private Message if you do, I can't risk coming into this thread again and not get anything spoiled
Posted 17 September 2012 - 09:39 PM
Posted 18 September 2012 - 01:16 PM Edited by Diggdydog, 18 September 2012 - 01:26 PM.
I'm wasn't sure Tig's daughter being burned to death was the bad. It didn't physically make me tense up, like some of the torture scenes in the past. I think the torture scenes are much worse. The one where the VP of the Belfast chapter gets tortured was probably the most intense, for me anyway. Or maybe when Otto loses his eye?
That's a good point, I wonder what they'll do with Otto? Anything else before he receives his sentence you reckon?
Yeah, I noticed the peg-legged dude. Just because he's got a peg-leg doesn't mean it is the same peg-leg as the Nomad. I guess we'll soon find out!
Does episode 2 air tonight?
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Lowe's Iris Smart Kit
Another standout CES product in the home automation category is Lowe's Iris Smart Kit, a cloud-based, do-it-yourself system that lets homeowners monitor their home from anywhere using a smartphone or tablet.
Lowe's showed off a number of next-generation Iris products, including apps for remotely monitoring lawn sprinklers, smoke detectors and home energy costs. For pet enthusiasts, there is even an app that keeps track of pet doors so it's easy to tell when the family dog is coming and going. Lowe's Iris kits are compatible with iOS- and Android-based devices, and most start around $179.


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BOLTON -- Five outstanding student athletes from Nashoba Regional High School made their intercollegiate dreams come true Wednesday afternoon, putting pen to paper as they signed their national Letters of Intent during a small ceremony in the school's media center.
Seniors Kim Slade, Laura Courtney, Zack Hume, Tori Danby and Katie Lombardozzi all scrawled their names to the letters, signifying their intent to attend a Division 1 or Division 2 institution to study and ply their athletic trades for the next four years.
Slade, a member of the state finalist girls' soccer team this past fall and the lone goal-scorer in the Central Mass. final against Algonquin Regional, made the worst-kept secret in North Central Mass. official as she will head to Huntington Avenue in Boston, where she'll attend Northeastern University.
"When I toured the campus in my junior year, I fell in love with it," the attacking midfielder said after signing her letter. "The coach is amazing, the atmosphere is great, and I felt like I would fit in."
Along with Northeastern, the University of Vermont, Penn State as well as UMass fought for Slade's signature.
"There were a bunch of schools that didn't stand out to me, but when I heard about Northeastern, I read up on the coach and the co-op program, and I knew right away," she said, noting that her club coaches, Dave Baker and Jason Duhurst from Stars of Massachusetts, had told her about the Huskies' coaching staff.
Slade's mom Theresa and her dad Gary Muello joined her alongside longtime Nashoba head coach Pam Vaughan and athletic director Tania Rich.
Her teammate, Courtney, will attend prestigious Lehigh University -- even though she had the opportunity to continue crossing the ball to Slade with the Huntington Avenue Huskies.
"I looked at a lot of different schools, and I fell in love with Lehigh from the beginning," the midfielder said, noting that she had made her decision to attend the Patriot League school 13 months ago, with Northeastern and LaSalle her other two choices. "I wanted to get a little farther away from Massachusetts, as tempting as going to school with Kim was."
"That may be the hard thing," Slade added, "adapting and not playing with my best friend and one of the best teammates I'm ever going to have."
Courtney signed her LOI with mom Shelly and dad Kevin next to her.
Hume, a linebacker on the two-time Division 2 Super Bowl champion football team, will bring his hard-nosed style to Orono and the University of Maine Black Bears, with Sacred Heart being the runner-up.
"It's great football," Hume said moments after signing, with his mother Lindy, father Carl and brother Kyle alongside him at the table. "When I went up there, I knew that we had some stuff; they're a real tough team and it's a tough division. I can't wait. I'm very excited.
"I just felt something with Maine. I just loved it."
Danby, a member of the Division 2 semifinalist field hockey team, will head to Bryant University, which she said after she signed her letter was the first school she had emailed as a sophomore.
"I've always loved it, and I fell in love with it when I visited," she said after signing her letter with her mom Regina by her side. "I was going back and forth between divisions, and large schools and small schools. Ultimately, I loved the team."
While Danby's choice ultimately fell to the Smithfield, R.I. school, Western New England, Clark and Bentley were also potential landing spots for her.
"It came down to the coaches; I only did the overnight at Bryant, and they were all so welcoming, so that helped a lot in my decision, too," she said.
Teammate Lombardozzi will stay a little closer to home and play for Assumption College in Worcester.
"I loved how their field hockey team was family-oriented," she said before scooting to Gardner for her co-op ice hockey game. "They do everything together in the offseason, and I loved that."
Lombardozzi, who signed with mom Darlene and father Steve beside her, said she made her decision two months ago, with Providence and UNH coming up short in the race for her Jane Hancock.
With the exception of Lombardozzi, who'll study occupational therapy, the other Chieftains are undecided about what they'll study in college.
The first Wednesday of February is designated National Signing Day, the first day that student-athletes from around the nation are able to sign the LOI's.
Student athletes planning on attending Division 3 schools do not have to sign a letter of intent.
And Wednesday may not be the only LOI day here along Route 117, as Rich said there are several more seniors on the fence about where they'll matriculate come September.
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HIGHLAND PARK — The Franklin High JROTC this morning unfurled a large American flag at the Veterans' Memorial at corner of Figueroa Street and York Boulevard during one of several Eastside events planned for Memorial Day holiday. Pan dulce was served at the ceremony, which was attended by officials from the American Legion and Council District 1, said Nathan Solis, who snapped some photos of the event.
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Hi Everyone!
This fall I'm interning in London and living in the center of Kings Cross. I have a sports marketing internship with a company called GO Mammoth. Currently, GO Mammoth is the leading social sports company in London and is rapidly expanding to other parts of England. The majority of the company is based on its website, venue growth, competition analysis and league management. While I've been here I have been working with a few members of GO Mammoth to improve the website and market the company to other parts of England. In addition, I have been helping out in expanding the company's sites, which means I have been calling a good deal of venues around England to set up branches of GO Mammoth in other areas. This hands-on experience has been so valuable to me as I have learned a lot about marketing this term.
Not surprisingly, many people in England aren't familiar with lacrosse so it is one of the few sports GO Mammoth doesn't work with.
A couple of weeks ago my teammates Liz Calby and Bailey Johnson came to visit Lindsey Allard and myself here in London. We roamed around the city doing 'touristy' things such as taking pictures in front of Big Ben, climbing the Monument and exploring the exhibitions inside the London Tower Bridge. I am usually scared of heights, but I managed to climb the 331 steps of the Monument to see the pretty London skyline. It was a great climb and made me nostalgic for the stadium workouts on Memorial Field at Dartmouth.
One of the favorite excursions thus far has been going on the London Eye at night. The London Eye is 135 meters tall and is the world's largest ferris wheel. It takes about a thirty minutes to complete the ride, so when you're at the top it can make you feel anxious, but seeing the city lit up at night certainty has a calming effect!
A great bonus of living in England is the accessibility of travel. For the past few weeks I've been travelling all over the country (more specifically to Stonehenge, Bath, Oxford and York). In Salisbury, Lindsey Allard and I climbed Britain's tallest spire. In Bath we met up with fellow Dartmouth students who were studying at a nearby college on the History Foreign Study Program. It was so interesting to see how intricate the Roman baths were even though they were built thousands of years ago.
Another quite interesting experience was travelling to Dublin. After almost missing our flight, we arrived in the Irish homelands where everything was as green as Dartmouth, the good old "Big Green". In one day we managed to see every possible tourist attraction offered in Dublin: from cathedrals to museums to restaurants. My favorite site in the city was Dublin Castle. I had never been to a castle before and it was so amazing to see one in real life. However, one of the biggest disappointments of the trip was that they didn't serve potatoes in any of the restaurants we went to!
As many of you may know, London is certainly not known for its food, so I've been busy in the kitchen getting ready to show off my cooking skills for when I return to the States and go to Australia. My favorite type of food to eat here is actually Italian. The gnocchi and gelato here are the best I've ever had! Sundays are my favorite day of the week. It's when I get to kick back with a large gelato and watch football.
London has been such a wonderful experience and I can't wait to get back to the team in a few weeks to start training for Australia!!


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Duck Hunt With Kim Kardashian: A Fun New Twitter Game
You guys know about duckface, right? Duckface occurs when the subject of a photograph exaggerates his or her pout, by curling/puffing out the lips and sucking in cheeks to give the appearance of a pillow-lipped, leaner, stupider face? Here are a few examples: quack, quack, quack, quack. If you'll allow me to flagrantly generalize, duckface is an unfortunate byproduct of the western world's idealization of full lips and, because not everyone is gifted with Angelina mouth, sometimes people overcompensate in order to conform.
You know who overcompensates the most? Loathsome fameball Kim Kardashian. "Kim Kardashian," you say, "Vain?! Surely not!" Yes, even though Kim's lips are perfectly full, she still puffs 'em out in nearly every one of the vanity shots she posts to her various social media accounts. I then propose a new game: Duck Hunt, like the classic Nintendo game, except it doesn't involve sitting directly in front of your television screen and hating ungrateful dogs.
Play by retweeting Kim's pouty-faced vanity shots and say, "Duck Hunt!" or some such (to wit). Also, here's a gallery of evidence with some things we imagined a Duck Kim might tweet.


text: According to judge Nicki Minaj, Wednesday was Angie Miller's night on "American Idol." The Beverly native scored high marks all around for her three performances on the Fox singing competition. A major Jessie J fan, Miller performed that singer's "Who You Are" during the "contestant's choice" part of the show and was given a standing ovation by three of the four judges for the piano ballad. (Judge Mariah Carey said she refrained from standing only because her chair was on the train of her dress.) Miller, along with fellow top four contestant Candice Glover, brought most of the judges to their feet with their duet of Rihanna's "Stay." After her final performance of the torch song "Cry Me A River," her choice for the "one-hit wonder" theme, judge Keith Urban deemed her performance "mystical and celestially powerful." Miller will discover if voters agreed with the judges on Thursday's elimination episode at 8 p.m. on Ch. 25.


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text: shermantine Killer Takes Crossville Woman on "Roller Coaster Ride" By Associated Press • Jan 23, 2012 CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Crossville woman says a convicted murderer sitting on California's death row has taken her on a 26 year-long roller coaster ride. Wesley Shermantine is one half of the notorious "Speed Freak Killers" who may have committed as many as two-dozen murders in the 1980s and 90s during a drug-fueled rampage that terrorized California's Central Valley Region. The bodies of more than a dozen victims are still unaccounted for. Shermatntine now says he's willing to show authorities where some of those bodies are buried.


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Marcia Franklin talks with two writers about their works and gets their recommendations for good summer reading.
Franklin's guests are authors Kim Barnes and Tim Cahill. Barnes, a professor of English at the University of Idaho, is the author of five books, including her latest, In the Kingdom of Men, a coming-of-age story about a young American woman who moves to Saudi Arabia in the 1960s. Barnes' first book, a memoir titled In the Wilderness, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
Cahill, a founding editor of OUTSIDE Magazine, is the author of 10 books, most about adventure travel, including: A Wolverine is Eating my Leg, Jaguars Ripped my Flesh, and Pecked to Death by Ducks.
The two were in Boise to speak at the Idaho Writers and Readers Rendezvous, presented by the Idaho Writers Guild and the BSU Story Initiative.
The two discuss the themes of their works and their styles of writing, and recommend some of their favorite books. In a special web extra, Cahill discusses the future of travel writing and weighs in on the controversy surrounding fellow Montanan Greg Mortenson, the author of Three Cups of Tea.


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It is Monday, 3/25 and I noticed your posting for a friendly hit session/ partner.
I would enjoy hitting. Tell me more about your game and why you stopped playing?
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Hi Kari,
I used to live in White Plains for a number of years, so I am very familiar with the city.
Gedney Park tennis courts were a favorite, as well as, the White Plains HS hardcourts.
Currently, I play three times a week at Club Fit. The Club Fit courts are green clay courts.
I can hit after work, but where can we play?
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Like a rockstar, Gina DeJesus was in the parade for the Puerto Rican festival.
Crowds cheering wildly for the young woman, who was robbed of almost a decade of her life but managed to make it out of kidnapper Ariel Castro's dungeon.
The event that should have been celebrated as Gina's official first appearance in the Cleveland community has many whispering about her ride in the car of Cleveland Council Candidate Janet Garcia.
This came after what we showed you on Friday, Gina in photos on Garcia's Facebook page.
Is this a candidate cashing in on a victim's years of abuse? Janet Garcia is running against Councilman Brian Cummins.
He even helped start The Courage Fund, raising money for all of Castro's victims.
At one point Gina was seen wearing a sticker here for a candidate for mayor, too.
Cummins had this to say to 19 Action News Reporter Ed Gallek, "That's a touchy subject. That to me is outrageous that any candidate would use this family. I'm most concerned about the voters."
Gina's dad drove the car with her mom in the front seat.
They spoke at the festival, calling for more to be done to find missing children.
Was it goodwill or a campaign stunt?
Brian Kazy also running for the same seat said, "Sad, but if Janet Garcia feels the need to use her that is shameful. I wish the DeJesus family well in the future."
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My son, Lyle, was born at 8:06 a.m. Nov. 17, 2011.
My wife and I, surrounded by a small group of family members, recently celebrated his second birthday. There were cookies, cupcakes, decorations - a typical arrangement for a child's birthday party. Lyle opened presents with a big smile on his face, despite still not quite having figured out the most efficient gift-opening techniques.
Watching him, so full of life, made it hard for me to imagine that he almost didn't make it to that day.
Two years ago this past Sunday Lyle had successful open heart surgery at OSF St. Francis in Peoria to correct a rare birth defect called total anomalous pulmonary venous return. His little body became so weak, and he struggled with every breath he took.
Time stood still as we sat in the waiting room and watched the TV screen that updated the stages of surgery for each patient. His code number flashed across the screen. His second chance at life - or as I call it his "second birthday" - started at the same time as his first, 8:06 a.m.
I am grateful every day that he is here, even during the beginning stages of his terrible twos.
My wife often prays at night for the doctors and nurses who helped Lyle while he was in the hospital. Every last one of them played an important role during his 15-day hospital stay.
But I like to think of somebody else, a mystery person who received no compensation for aiding Lyle back to good health. I think of the person with the A-negative blood type who donated blood to save my son's life.
So as I celebrate Lyle's "second second birthday" I decided to donate blood for the first time. A slight fear of needles and a busy schedule shouldn't have been a good enough excuse to prevent me from doing this in the past, but I know it's finally time for me to do what any healthy person 17 years-old or older should do.
A single blood donation can save up to three people's lives, said Jennifer Bowman, public relations and marketing manager for the Rock River Valley Blood Center.
"There are 40,000 units (of blood) transfused every day, and you don't really know about it until it affects you," she said. "We always tell people, don't wait to become a statistic. There is very little you can do in a philanthropic volunteer fashion where you can have a direct impact on three lives right in our community."
And as our region continues to be hit with below zero temperatures and what seems to be almost daily snowfall, the need for blood is even greater.
"We have only had to cancel one or two blood drives, but we have had to reduce the hours or we have had blood drives where employers make it optional to come to work that day," Bowman said. "That has all diminished the supply, and the demand does not really take a break."
Bowman specifically challenges millennials, like me, to step up and donate.
"Baby boomers make up the majority of our donor base," she said. "But they are aging out or they are the ones moving to warmer climates. We have had a difficult time changing our mindset of communicating because a baby boomer wants a personal phone call and a millennial wants us to text them."
For an hour of your time and just a little discomfort you can truly make a difference. Who are you going to give a 'second birthday'?
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I want to build a pretty simple website where I am only selling a couple things. The website will be for a book I'm self-publishing, and all I need is a way to sell a download of the book, in only 2 or 3 formats.
I've looked at websites like Moonfruit, and they do seem to have an ecommerce option, but I don't need a big shopping cart system, that would be overkill, since I'm just selling a download.
Is there a tool out there that could help me?


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Aging Potion.
Aging Potion.
Or something.
RIP Fardin Qayyumi (AKA "cricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990 - 15/4/2006
Up to 2400 as my Pocket Queens pay out.
5,155 here, 60th place.
I know the standard in these isn't great, but i swear this is the most god awful table i've ever played at, 4 of them min raise everything then call a re-raise with J high.
I've been screwed so many times on pocket aces it's not funny. Almost a curse.
Anyways are people still on?
Rest In Peace Craigos
I'm going on the cash tables after i bust out of the freeroll which should be anytime soon
Still hanging in there. $2195 at mo.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"Like queuing at the post office, or a cardboard cup of weak milky tea there is a quality of slightly clichéd but still beautifully reassuring Englishness about watching Cook bat"
- Barney Ronay
Am I the lone remaining CW-er then?
3410 at present. Table 37
860th. Went all in on ace flush (the ace was in my hand) on the turn & some turd jammed a full house on the river. Hateful.
Up to 6870 Flopped trips.
EDIT: 8227 Had 33 vs 88. Flop came KK3.
EDIT: Past the 10k barrier.
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Your current position is 38 out of 737
Now: The 35 minutes Heroes blind-off
Only ever played Texas Hold 'Em.
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson = Greatest Ever Manager
"One from ten leaves zero." - Eric Williams, former T&T PM
Member of Cricket Web Green
Member of Northside Power
R.I.P Fardin Qayyumi
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
I entered then realized I'd rather watch YouTube and went all-in first hand. Will pay more attention tomorrow probably.
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The EU is calling for voluntary deployment of eCall -- a collision notification system that uses GPS and wireless communications to notify public safety agencies if a vehicle is involved in a crash. But if member states don't hurry up and provide the infrastructure voluntarily, officials say they are ready to mandate it.
"Too many people are still dying on European roads," said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for information society and media, in a statement. "Every week I hear about road accidents where eCall would have helped. The time has come for member states and industry to move from talk to action ... I want to see the first eCall cars on our roads next year: If the eCall roll-out does not accelerate, the Commission stands ready to set out clear rules obliging governments, industry and emergency services to respond."
EU-wide standards have been agreed to by industry, but six EU countries are not ready to commit, citing costs.


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Published: 2013/01/31
by Randy Ray
All Roads Lead to Home: A Conversation with Chuck Garvey of moe. (Five Years On)
Earlier this month we ran an interview with moe.'s Al Schnier and Rob Derhak. Today we look back five years to this conversation with another of the group's co-founders, guitarist Chuck Garvey.
Photo by Norman Sands
Nickeled and dimed by some other guy's lies, I'm tried and true, I've got news for you – "All Roads Lead to Home," Chuck Garvey
moe. returns on the heels of the sprawling The Conch with another fine studio release in late January 2008. This time out on Sticks and Stones, the veteran jamband chose another unique method to cut tracks. For the first time, the New York group recorded the material in the studio without having debuted the songs on the road [with two notable exceptions]. The result is an excellent set of ten songs produced by John Siket that offer a mixture of classic rock, jam and stately passages which feature Allie Kral from the bluegrass band Cornmeal on violin and viola and Umphrey's McGee on the set closing piratesque sing-a-long "Raise A Glass." Indeed, raise one or three as Jambands.com sits down with moe. guitarist Chuck Garvey on the afternoon of their tour opening, sold out performance at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Garvey is as adept with his soul-searching banter as he is with his speed-defying guitar licks and delivers a unique perspective on the moe. history and our current cultural climate in Election Year 2008.
RR: What can we expect from moe. on this first tour of 2008 other than the fact that we will hear some Sticks and Stones material?
CG: Yeah, you're going to hear some Sticks and Stones. That's like a big part of what is going to be going on here (laughs) because of the way that we recorded this album, writing and then recording everything right away then, not playing it for the most part. We haven't really played these songs, yet. We're going to be relearning them, doing live preproduction and then, playing them for the first time. The way that we usually do things, we've written songs and then we play them live for a while and the arrangements might change or the way we approach them might change. But it's exciting when you debut a new song. At the very least, we have eight new songs to debut so it's exciting for usand a little nerve racking, maybe (laughs)there's like a different kind of energy that comes with doing all of this stuff for the first time. We've been waiting for a while to be able to try to do something like this.
RR: What led to the decision to record the majority of the material in the studio for the new album without having played the songs live?
CG: We've actually wanted to do it for a while but out of necessity, we just couldn't do that. It takes a lot of commitment and time and money and a lot of other things to make it happen. Logistically, it just never worked out although, that's what we wanted to do. We just had to force the issue this time and say that this is what we are going to do. We've done it before with a couple of albums where we've come up with new songs like, for example, on _Tin Cans and Car Tires_the two songs "Hi and Lo" and "Big World," we put together as we were doing preproduction for the album. We were working with a bunch of songs that we had done live and then, we added those two. (laughs)
Then, we talked about how we were going to approach it. Are we going to not play these songs until the album comes out? We ended up playing them live before Tin Cans and Car Tires came out. It's been done before that we wrote and recorded songs without playing them in front of an audience but we've never kept the mystery for this long (laughs)to try to spring it all at once on an unsuspecting audience is going to be a much different thing. It's exciting for us and hopefully, it's just as exciting if not more so for our fans.
RR: The last time I saw moe. was at Vegoose over Halloween weekend in 2007. I saw the festival gig but I also caught your late night show at the Joint. How far along was the new material at that point?
CG: It was already mixed, I think.
RR: You had already been in the studio and were done with the recording?
CG: Yeah, we built our own studio. (laughs) Initially, in September, we did the writing and the bulk of the basic tracksthe full band tracksand we did vocals and overdubbing, later at the Magic Shop in New York. That was kind of like the beginning or towards the end of October. Everything was getting mixed by the timeoh no, that's wrong. That's right. We figured out that we needed more time.
RR: And the decision was also made not to debut the songs at Vegoose at that time?
CG: Oh yeah, definitely. We definitely made the decision that we were not going to play these songs until it was released.
RR: As far as late October and the new albumthe new material needed additional work? Were there mixing issues?
CG: Yeah, you just feel like there is more work to be done some times. With us, I don't know. We definitely imposed some time restrictions on ourselves. It was just a littlemaybe, it was a little bit unrealistic. Everything came together really quickly. It's just, you knowevery time we do a recording, it's a learning process and we kind of figure out how to engineer in the time for mistakes.
You know what happened? We recorded everything digitally and there was one issue during the recording where we lost two days or a day and a half where we couldn't do anything and it was actually a big step back. We lost some work that we had done on the recording or producing aspect of it. There was some kind of a big crash (laughs) and we lost some of the recorded stuff. I guesseverything had been going really well and we just had one thing like that happen that set us back. The mixing process started off leisurely and then, towards the end of it John Siket [producer] was burning the midnight oil to get it all done.
RR: I love the fact that Sticks and Stones created a challenge for moe. The songs had not been performed live. I also appreciate the fact that the band plays ten songs and then, the album is over in a reasonable amount of time, an album length obviously, after the time-consuming work on your previous album, The Conch. There are major differences in the recording process between the two albums.
CG: It was a little bit of an about face, wasn't it? (laughs) Talking about the differences between The Conch and Sticks and Stones alonethey are kind of night and day in how we approached it, the amount of time that we took, the (laughs) overall sound of it, the way we played, the way we arranged the songs, everything was a complete reboot (laughs) to our system. That's good for us because getting in a rutwe all get really bored and thisactually having a fresh outlook and approach to everything made it all the more interesting and easy for us because it was a new challenge. Not like trying to make a good facsimile of what we've already done live or taking all of the best bits of what we've learned about a certain song live and applying it to the studio. Just having the completely fresh outlook on everything made it really fun for us. Hopefully, you can hear that in the recording. (laughs)
RR: I've listened to the new album several times and I hear moe. trying to find a new group identity, a new persona that is different from what moe. has done before. I'm wondering what rut you felt that you were in that led to this revelation?
CG: It's not a rut but it's just having our past m.o. being writing a song, playing it in front of an audience and then, we have it down. To a certain extent, the life goes out of it a little bit. When it comes time to record it, it's like "O.K. we're going to do a really stiff version of this, now." Where if the song is so young that we've literally just arranged it and say, "O.K. this is going to be the arrangement, let's play it," and now, that's the songthere's a little more nervous energy to it. It's more like a teenager than an old codger. (laughter) It has that energy. We're all listening to it with fresh ears. We're not listening to it like it's something that we're very comfortable with; it's something that if you don't pay attention, it might get out of control.
It's like the beginning of a relationship. (laughs) I don't know. After approaching the recording this way, that's the way it appears to me. I definitely see the benefits of doing it that way. The format is also refreshing, too. In the past, the limitations of CDs are that you can cram 72 and a half minutes of whatever on a disc and just because you can do that doesn't mean that you should. People's attention span is reallyafter 20 minutes, I can get bored if it is not doing what it should. We tried to make everything be the concise best that it could and make it something that stands as a whole. At 42 minutes or whatever it is, it is a good length, it is the classic length that was imposed by vinylthe restrictions to cutting to vinyl. It just made sense in a lot of different ways to have it be a 42-minute attention span, which is digestible and also, it does harken back to the golden age of recording between 1965 and 1975 where all of those classic albums came from. Maybe it's a nod to that. It's kind of both.


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Where now, Lupita?
The Oscars are over. Time to get the f-ck out of LA. Just hours after the parties, Lupita Nyong'o arrived at LAX yesterday, destination unknown. Where now, Lupita? She doesn't have her next project lined up…yet.
I hope and I want to believe that that's only because she's taking her time to make her next move. Which is smart. I also hope and want to believe that given her overwhelming popularity during this award season, she's now being considered for a wider range of possibilities.
Hey casting directors, were you considering Scarlett Johansson for that part? Because Lupita could play it too. Let her be on the same list as the Scarjos and the Keiras and the Careys and the Annies and the Jennifer Lawrences. At the moment, no one is more beloved.
You know where I think she might be heading though?
The Miu Miu show is tomorrow. And she's the face of the current campaign. Which, of course, is why she wore Prada on Sunday to win her Oscar.
We've seen Lupita in a lot of cocktail and gowns the last few months. But we don't often see Lupita's casual steeze because until now, really, she hasn't been a pap target. If her casual steeze is anything like this airport outfit, please, please we need more.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A court has thrown out the conviction of a Fort Wayne man who used a camera hidden in his shoe to take video images under teenage girls' skirts at an Indianapolis shopping mall.
The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday that David Delagrange's behavior didn't violate state law regarding attempted child exploitation because the statute makes only "sexual conduct by a child" illegal and no such conduct was alleged.
Delagrange was arrested in February 2010 at Castleton Square Mall and found to have video images of a 15-year-old girl and three 17-year-olds. He did not deny that he attempted to take photographs beneath women's skirts, court records said.
Delagrange was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child and sentenced last March to six months in prison.
Judge Melissa May wrote that under the law, the girls would have had to expose themselves to satisfy sexual desires.
"The state presented no evidence the victims exhibited their genitals or intended to satisfy anyone'," May wrote in the 2-1 decision.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Edward Najam Jr. said that the law governing child exploitation could not be interpreted to depend on the child's intentions.
"Such an interpretation improperly focuses the elements of the crime on the actions of the child and undermines the very foundation of the statute, which was designed to protect children," Najam wrote.
Jennifer A. Drobac, a professor at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, said she agreed with Najam.
"This man is walking around with cameras on his shoes. I think even to an unsophisticated observer (that) is deviate sexual behavior," she told WISH-TV.
The Indiana attorney general's office said in a statement that it was reviewing the appellate decision.
Delagrange was originally also charged with voyeurism. However, a court commissioner in Indianapolis dismissed those charges on the basis that voyeurism means peeping inside a dwelling, not looking up a skirt in a public place.
The Indiana General Assembly changed the state's voyeurism law to cover such public photography. Drobac said legislators now may also have to rewrite the child exploitation law.


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Bulgarian archeologists in the historical coastal town of Sozopol are working on unearthing two antique temples - of Gods Poseidon and Priapus.
The information was announced over the weekend by the Director of the National History Museum and former Minister for Bulgarians abroad, Bozhidar Dimitrov. He added that archaeological excavations were ongoing near the fortress wall where the entrance to the town was uncovered in the summer with well-preserved parts of two towers and the "Saint Nikolay" monastery.


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BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- Short drivers can sometimes feel like they're in an episode of Little People, Big World when out car shopping, so here are five great models for those of us who look more like Danny DeVito than LeBron James. "Short drivers obviously have different needs than taller ones," says Warren Clarke of Edmunds, which recently named the Best Cars for Short Drivers for 2013. "The main thing they need is visibility. If you're short and you buy the wrong vehicle, you can end up looking at the car's door instead of out the window." Clarke says the best models for smaller drivers have low "beltlines" -- the border between a car's metal body and its windows -- and big "greenhouses," the glass area above the frame and below the roof. He says short drivers should also look for cars with narrower seat cushions, as wide upholstery makes it harder for smaller people to reach a vehicle's pedals comfortably. "People tend to assume that smaller cars are the best choices for smaller drivers, but that's not always true," Clarke says. "Visibility and seat comfort have to do with how a vehicle's cabin has been designed, not necessarily with the car's size." Unfortunately, wider seat cushions often make cars more comfortable for bigger drivers, while higher beltlines and smaller greenhouses tend to look cool -- so more and more automakers seem to favor all three. "There are still models that offer lower beltlines and bigger greenhouses, but you have to specifically look for them," Clarke says. Click below to check out the five lowest-priced such models that Edmunds recommends for shorter drivers (or here for cars the site suggests tall drivers consider). All vehicles listed below appear in order of their manufacturer's suggested retail price for 2013 base models.
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The WebOS era at HP came to an inauspicious end Monday when the tech giant announced it had sold the mobile operating system to LG Electronics.
But WebOS won't be used for LG smartphones or tablets; the South Korean company said it will use the platform for its Smart TVs. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but LG will acquire the WebOS source code and development team from HP, along with various patents, licenses and other WebOS-related materials.
"This groundbreaking development demonstrates LG's commitment to investing in talent and research in Silicon Valley, one of the world's innovation hotbeds. It creates a new path for LG to offer an intuitive user experience and Internet services across a range of consumer electronics devices," said Skott Ahn, president and chief technology officer at LG Electronics, in a press statement. "The open and transparent WebOS technology offers a compelling user experience that, when combined with our own technology, will pave the way for future innovations using the latest Web technologies."
[Related: HP Cuts 275 More WebOS Jobs In Push To Open Source]
LG said it has no plans for any mobile devices running WebOS; the company has already hitched its mobile wagon to Android. The company did say it will continue to support WebOS for existing Palm device users. Ahn also stated that the WebOS business unit "will be the heart and soul of the new LG Silicon Valley Lab," where LG's U.S.-based research and development will be headquartered.
HP, meanwhile, said it will retain all of Palm's cloud computing assets, including engineering staff, source code, infrastructure and customer contracts. HP, however, didn't say what specific cloud technology those assets included.
"LG's track record of innovation and broad distribution provides this opportunity, while enabling HP to accelerate our cloud efforts," Bill Veghte, HP's chief operating officer, said in a press statement. "In particular, with the cloud assets that will remain with HP, we will focus on delivering innovative solutions that will enable our enterprise customers to mobilize their workforce."
LG had shown interest in WebOS last year when reports emerged that the company was working with Gram, HP's spin-off company for WebOS, on developing a version of open-source operating system for televisions.
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What's in a sister?
Just why is it important for our area to have a relationship with a city most of us have never heard of that most of us will likely never go to?
At first glance, one might be tempted do a bit of eye-rolling when considering the Kenai Peninsula Borough's sister-city relationship with Akita, Japan. However, our relationship with this city across the Pacific Ocean is important for many reasons.
Akita is the capital city of the Akita Prefecture in the Tohoku region of Japan and has about 330,000 residents. Oil refining, woodworking, metalworking and silk textile production are the city's main industries.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough is a unique area, but its economy and population make-up doesn't differ greatly from the rest of Alaska. When we try to measure up to other areas around us we see much of the same. Sometimes that doesn't make for the best rubric on which to improve.
When we consider Akita, many things are different. Our economies, cultures and traditions differ greatly. But in the folds of differences we can find understanding, respect and then, perhaps, progress in a way we might not have considered before.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough, and the rest of the state for that matter, would do well to take lessons from Akita's rich cultural history, which was recently on display for many of our local officials. Our area and state is a melting pot, of sorts, but we do have an established history of traditions set by our local Alaska Natives. As the area continues to expand, we should seek to keep those traditions alive and celebrate them just as Akita does, along side our more modern multicultural practices.
If Akita is also looking to take something away from us, perhaps we'd suggest gleaning from our continued efforts to balance a vibrant ecosystem with a healthy development-based economy. Sure we've had our shortcomings in that regard, but for the most part we'd consider our progress positive and beneficial for the future.
The relationship has also grown in other positive areas during the years. Consider local dentist Dan Pitts' work to host Akita's exchange students and his several trips to the city. Wouldn't it be great if Pitts' attitude could rub off on others, leading to more opportunities for national exchange?
As Pitts said, the relationship started as an educational exchange but grew into a cultural exchange. Now the two cities are trying to establish a business exchange, and that's even more exciting.
These days our economy — including those industries like fish, tourism and oil — are being marketed to larger and larger audiences as the line between the nation's economy and the global economy blurs. Perhaps there is an opportunity for our two cities to benefit economically from our ties — as any business owner will tell you, establishing good relationships is key.
Our sisterhood also should also serve in another capacity — one that forces us to put aside our squabbles about fish and politics and focus on putting our best foot forward from time to time. That attitude was on display this weekend at the Soldotna Progress Days parade when Akita representatives marched right along with locals.
In short: When you stop and consider all the aspects of our relationship with Akita, it makes it all that more special. We can learn more about the world and more about ourselves in the process and that's a pretty unique opportunity.


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42 U.S. Code § 300aa–26 - Vaccine information
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(a) General rule
Not later than 1 year after December 22, 1987, the Secretary shall develop and disseminate vaccine information materials for distribution by health care providers to the legal representatives of any child or to any other individual receiving a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table. Such materials shall be published in the Federal Register and may be revised.
(b) Development and revision of materials
Such materials shall be developed or revised—
(c) Information requirements
The information in such materials shall be based on available data and information, shall be presented in understandable terms and shall include—
(d) Health care provider duties
On and after a date determined by the Secretary which is—
(1) after the Secretary develops the information materials required by subsection (a) of this section, and
each health care provider who administers a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table shall provide to the legal representatives of any child or to any other individual to whom such provider intends to administer such vaccine a copy of the information materials developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, supplemented with visual presentations or oral explanations, in appropriate cases. Such materials shall be provided prior to the administration of such vaccine.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXI, § 2126, as added Pub. L. 99–660, title III, § 311(a),Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3775; amended Pub. L. 100–203, title IV, § 4302(b)(1),Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–221; Pub. L. 101–239, title VI, § 6601(p),Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2292; Pub. L. 102–531, title III, § 312(d)(15),Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3505; Pub. L. 103–183, title VII, § 708,Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2242.)
In subsec. (a), "December 22, 1987" substituted for "the effective date of this subpart" on authority of section 323 ofPub. L. 99–660, as amended, set out as an Effective Date note under section 300aa–1 of this title.
1993—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–183, § 708(c), inserted "or to any other individual" after "to the legal representatives of any child".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–183, § 708(a), struck out "by rule" after "revised" in introductory provisions and substituted "and 60" for ", opportunity for a public hearing, and 90" in par. (1).
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–183, § 708(b), inserted in introductory provisions "shall be based on available data and information," after "such materials", added pars. (1) to (4), and struck out former pars. (1) to (10) which read as follows:
"(1) the frequency, severity, and potential long-term effects of the disease to be prevented by the vaccine,
"(2) the symptoms or reactions to the vaccine which, if they occur, should be brought to the immediate attention of the health care provider,
"(3) precautionary measures legal representatives should take to reduce the risk of any major adverse reactions to the vaccine that may occur,
"(4) early warning signs or symptoms to which legal representatives should be alert as possible precursors to such major adverse reactions,
"(5) a description of the manner in which legal representatives should monitor such major adverse reactions, including a form on which reactions can be recorded to assist legal representatives in reporting information to appropriate authorities,
"(6) a specification of when, how, and to whom legal representatives should report any major adverse reaction,
"(7) the contraindications to (and bases for delay of) the administration of the vaccine,
"(8) an identification of the groups, categories, or characteristics of potential recipients of the vaccine who may be at significantly higher risk of major adverse reaction to the vaccine than the general population,
"(9) a summary of—
"(A) relevant Federal recommendations concerning a complete schedule of childhood immunizations, and
"(B) the availability of the Program, and
"(10) such other relevant information as may be determined by the Secretary."
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–183, § 708(c), (d), in concluding provisions, inserted "or to any other individual" after "to the legal representatives of any child", substituted "supplemented with visual presentations or oral explanations, in appropriate cases" for "or other written information which meets the requirements of this section", and struck out "or other information" after "Such materials".
1992—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 102–531substituted "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" for "Centers for Disease Control".
1989—Subsec. (c)(9). Pub. L. 101–239amended par. (9) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (9) read as follows: "a summary of relevant State and Federal laws concerning the vaccine, including information on—
"(A) the number of vaccinations required for school attendance and the schedule recommended for such vaccinations, and
"(B) the availability of the Program, and".
1987—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–203substituted "effective date of this subpart" for "effective date of this part".
Effective Date of 1989 Amendment
For applicability of amendments by Pub. L. 101–239to petitions filed after Dec. 19, 1989, petitions currently pending in which the evidentiary record is closed, and petitions currently pending in which the evidentiary record is not closed, with provision for an immediate suspension for 30 days of all pending cases, see section 6601(s)(1) ofPub. L. 101–239, set out as a note under section 300aa–10 of this title.
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James Ernest (Jim) Main
James E. Main (86) died on Saturday, August 11, 2012 in Amarillo, Texas. He was born August 19, 1925 in Oklahoma City, OK to Francis E. Main and Hazel Tyner Main. James was just 8 days away from his 87th birthday.James (Jim) Main married Dorothy Joan (Dot) Steele in Oklahoma City on August 17, 1946. Dorothy (born September 28, 1927) was the daughter of Milan G. Steele and Edith Wyant Steele. Jim was preceded in death by Dot on August 17, 2010.Dot and Jim's parents had been friends since their college days at Oklahoma A & M in the early 1920's and later both the Steele's and the Mains attended the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in downtown Oklahoma City.Jim met Dot through church youth activities (CYA) when the Steele's moved back from Colorado Springs to Oklahoma City in 1942.Jim worked on the Alcan Highway immediately following his high school graduation until called to the service. He enlisted in the Army on May 31, 1943 and began active service on November 29, 1943 and served until 1946. Jim remained in the Army Reserves for several years after active duty rising to the rank of Captain. As a veteran of World War II, Jim served in France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and also in the Philippines. He was a Private First Class in Company I, 342nd Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division. Jim's military occupation was Mortar Gunner and was part of the Central Europe GO 33 WD 45 Campaign. He was decorated with the American Theater Ribbon, the EAMET Ribbon, the APT Ribbon and also received the Good Conduct Medal Victory Ribbon.After military service and following their marriage, Dot and Jim both attended Oklahoma A&M on Jim's GI bill, supplementing their income with part time jobs. Jim graduated from Oklahoma A&M In Stillwater, OK with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1950 (OSU today). He earned a Master's Degree from West Texas State University in 1968.After college, Jim made his career in engineering, eventually taking early retirement from Phillips Petroleum Company, where he had been in charge of the nationwide warehousing of rubber from the Borger Copolymer plant. He also worked in real estate, obtaining licenses in both Texas and Colorado. They made their home in Borger, Texas from 1957 to 1985. In 1973, they purchased property in Lake City, Colorado, and on July 4th opened the Slumgullion Gift Gallery in the two story brick model-T garage behind the "Green" house . The Slumgullion Gift Gallery proved to be a successful retirement business and continued to be open each summer from the Memorial Day weekend through September. In 1998 they decided to retire from this business and then daughter, Gail, and her husband Mark, bought it and ran the business for some time.Dot and Jim bought a home in the Ball Flats area of Lake City and remodeled it and moved there in the fall of 1999. Jim was able to build a railroad track house and a panorama for his extensive model train collection. Jim also enjoyed stamp, coin collecting and also played his trumpet with the local Lake City band. In 2006, Dot and Jim bought a home in Amarillo, Tx for health reasons and moving to a lower altitude was a great improvement. Several large family Christmas gatherings were celebrated during these years. However long term illnesses remained and Jim continued a slow decline with Alzheimer's disease.Jim is survived by four children: Jeremy G. Main of Bethesda, MD; Steven E. Main of Loveland, CO: Peter M. Main of Lake City, CO; and Gail Main Frick of Amarillo, TX. Jim is also survived by eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jim is also survived by his brother and sister: R. Neil Main of Oklahoma City, OK and Ellen Main Knight of Fayetteville AR. Jim was a lifetime member of the Disciples of Christ Church. His most recent membership was at the First Christian Church in Amarillo, TX. He was also an Associate Member of the Community Presbyterian Church in Lake City, Colorado. Dot and Jim were always active members and participated regularly in choirs and other activities.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- Eagles general manager Howie Roseman didn't say he expects to apply the franchise tag or reach contract agreement on a long-term deal with wideout DeSean Jackson, but Roseman did indicate optimism today, when he was asked about Jackson's situation during a media session at the NFL Scouting Combine.
"We're excited about the future of DeSean Jackson in Philadelphia," Roseman said.
Later, when Roseman met with Philadelphia-area reporters off to the side, Roseman was told that his words from the podium probably were going to be viewed as optimistic.
"I'm an optimistic guy," Roseman said. Asked if he intends to meet with Jackson's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, while both men are in Indianapolis this week, Roseman said: "I expect to meet with a lot of representatives of players on our team."
Roseman spoke of wanting to sit down with Jackson and his agent; asked about that in the side session, he said he wants to make sure Eagles players are getting the team's message "from us, not through the media."
In fact, the Eagles have been frustrated in the past by what they feel is an incomplete or inaccurate picture of what they've offered as it travels from the agent to the player. Pretty savvy of Howie to blame the media instead of calling out Rosenhaus directly.
Roseman also indicated the Eagles expected to sign former Bills quarterback Trent Edwards to compete for a spot on the roster. Sure enough, a few hours later the Eagles announced they had agreed to terms with the former Buffalo starter to a one-year deal. Edwards, 28, was cut by the Raiders after training camp last fall. He was a third-round Bills pick out of Stanford in 2007.
The move might indicate the team, which retains backup Mike Kafka, isn't planning on drafting a quarterback this year. Obviously, Vince Young is moving on. Of course, the Eagles could still draft a QB and have Edwards and Kafka compete for the veteran backup spot.
More Howie highlights:
*Roseman echoed other talent evaluators here in saying he feels the offensive line might be the strongest position grouping in the 2012 draft. He said defensive end is a relative weak spot.
*Asked how likely it is that corner Asante Samuel remains an Eagle in 2012, Roseman called Samuel "a big-time playmaker who handles everything like a pro ... we're fortunate to have him as an Eagle.' Which, of course, wasn't the question.
*Roseman indicated the Eagles are very interested in re-signing pending free agent defensive tackle Derek Landri and guard Evan Mathis, but he said that since those players signed one-year deals for the veteran minimum last year, the Birds must wait until free agency begins March 13 to re-sign them. He said rules prohibt them from getting reworked contracts during the league year they are playing under the veteran minimum. Mathis saw on twitter that Roseman had said this and promptly tweeted that he and Landri were headed to the Arena League Allen Wranglers. (He was joking.)
*As he has done in several appearances lately, Roseman talked about still having great expectations for defensive end Brandon Graham. Graham spent much of the season coming back from his 2010 ACL tear, as Jason Pierre-Paul, taken by the Giants two slots later in the 2010 draft, developed into the dominant key to a Super Bowl championship.


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DANVILLE (AP) – A judge in east-central Illinois has sentenced a 79-year-old Markham man to 8 years in prison in the fatal shooting of his former business partner.
Prosecutors say Antone Akroush shot his cousin Imad Farah Shteiwi in Danville after arguing about money. Shteiwi died of multiple gunshot wounds. Akroush says he fired in self-defense.
Akroush originally was charged with first-degree murder. Prosecutors say they opted for second-degree murder in a plea agreement because a witness left the country and was unavailable to testify.
Judge Nancy Fahey's sentence Thursday was less than the 15-year maximum. Vermilion County prosecutors say Akroush won't be in prison long because he only has to serve 50 percent of his sentence and he's already been in custody for almost 4 years since his 2009 arrest.


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Simple answer is because the old Hc doesn't have a clue about what it means to be a HC. Rex Ryan is a darn great DC and there's nothing wrong with that.
The Jets used to have a Solid HC who was not a play caller on either Offense or defense. He managed the players, the NY media and his coaches. If he was given the lattitude that Woody Johnson is giving this blowhard of a HC we have today, who knows what could have been.
I have never before in my life hear someone say that they failed miserably at the Job they were hired to do, not once but twice and was given even more power by their employer. What could be so bad that you would rather be thought of as the village idiot than to have your issue exposed ? With all Rex Ryan's issues, what could he possibly have on Woody Johnson ?
The current Jets team is in need of a large scale rebuild both in personnel and philosophy. A new head coach will be able to oversee the process from its first stages while instilling his own system, vision, and expectations.Originally Posted by Paradis
There is no evidence that Rex will be able to adapt as a head coach and start moving this team in a new direction. We've all heard it before only to see nothing change and things to continue to spiral downward.
In my mind, a Rex-less Jets team is inevitable so why delay the start of the next chapter of this franchise?
By bringing in a new HC, they can take their lumps in 2013 and build for 2014 and beyond.
By keeping Rex, The delusional Woody and Rex are going to make short-sighted decisions to try and win in 2013. So instead of winning 3 or 4 games, we may win 5. But the cost will dig into 2014 and beyond.
1. Rex won't draft a QB. Not in the first, not in the 7th. He does not have the time to develop a QB.
2. In order to give the Jets more cap space, he is going to approach players like Cromartie, Pouha, Holmes, possibly Mangold and D'Brick to rework deals. So instead of having $60M in cap space to work with in 2014, we eat up a ton of space in order to field the best possible team in 2013 - which will be futile.


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Professor Black
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:39 am
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I thought Choosing Death was Death Metal history for dummies. Not well written, up Earache's ass and not nearly as analytical as it should have been.
I haven't read it, but I tend to find "insider" histories problematic, precisely because they have loyalties to mind, whether it's to Earache or to a particular political agenda, as in the case of Lords of Chaos. They also have to worry about selling copies, of course, which reduced a lot of "Sound of the Beast" to something Scott Ian would be reading off of cue cards on VH1.
The best books I've ever read about metal were written by academics, and are here:
New edition, which I haven't seen:
And one that is completely awesome in terms of documenting the musical tropes (despite using Van Halen in several examples):
Note that these pretty much stop after the 80s, so if your experience with metal pretty much starts with the 90s, you'd probably find the other books more entertaining.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:50 am
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dreamethereal wrote:
I don't understand why everyone seems to love Lords Of Chaos (the book). I think it was poorly written and doesn't really talk about the music enough.
Choosing Death was a good read though...
Beacuse from a cultural, socio-political viewpoint, which the book was ultimately coming from, the music is secondary. The central tenet of Lords of Chaos was "what provoked & inpsired these musicians to adhere to such ideals and philosophies and the influence it then had".
I thought Choosing Death was Death Metal history for dummies. Not well written, up Earache's ass and not nearly as analytical as it should have been.
Regarding Amon Amarth's music; I've never really been a fan though I like some of their songs. They're the Manowar of Death Metal is many respects and their music is entertaining.
A friend of mine met the author of LoC once who coincidentally is not a metal fan. I guess maybe that explains the approach. Either way I would consider that a weak attempt as to the "why" of black metal crimes, etc.
Even though I plan to pursue my master's degree in creative writing, I would really like to write some type of black metal historical account and focus specifically on the music.
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Invictus Productions
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:54 am
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I think the LOC chapter 'Resurgent Atavism' was one of the central parts of the book. For Black Metal history, music wise, fanzines are your man. I find the factors that influence the music more interesting that hearing someone talk about the actual music.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:45 pm
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Last week I picked up a copy of the Swedish Death Metal book by Daniel Ekeroth and I'm hoping it will be a worthy investment. I am hopeful because right in the introductory chapter he promises to avoid what I consider the most glaring pitfall in most of the books on metal I've read have. They focus on the superficial aspects that surround the music but spend little time discussing the music itself. This is why I heavily disliked Lords of Chaos. The individuals who made up the Norwegian scene, removed from the music they created, were the same breed of bored and restless teenagers found the world over. I have precious little interest in church burnings, murders and other acts are merely sensational and really don't have anything to do with the music itself. Folks that age have been doing moronic shit for a long long time. Take out burning a church and insert joining a gang or robbing a convenience store. Makes zero difference to me. What matters is the timeless music these individuals created. I'll go further to say that to me really that is the
thing that matters.
Articles like this, again the author spends too much time on superficial aspects. For someone whose primary focus and concern is always with the music this really couldn't be any less relevant. It works with sweeping generalizations and has little, if anything, to do with music.
I was a brazen prince and cold, now a king on an oaken throne
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:58 pm
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I think the LOC chapter 'Resurgent Atavism' was one of the central parts of the book.
Which is pretty much why the book was written- he wanted to make Varg his new poster boy.
People forget that when Lords Of Chaos came out it sold relatively few copies (mainly because it had little or no distribution) and it wasn't till a good many years later that it became some sort of black metal 101 for the commercial metal fan/layman.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:17 pm
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Old Westerns
Why does it matter what you like and why always the need to subject separations on intersts.
An insane satanic psycho can like Lust and Johhny Cash all the same.
The sad thing is the current need to turn metal into a common marketable crap fest like the pop music scene or rap scene.
Trying to turn the genre into a commonly acceptable and understandable life style for the main market just results in mindless and endless crap being created, and not just albums alone.
That retarded Headbangers Journey... a direct result of being gay and feeling a need to explain why you like metal to parents or teachers, to the main masses of pop orientated populations... soon Britney Spears and Cradle of Filth will tour together and everyone will love one another.
I hope I die by the sword long before.
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Every record is instantly sold out it seems now, except for the ones that are not. Buy one of those!?
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:51 pm
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That retarded Headbangers Journey... a direct result of being gay and feeling a need to explain why you like metal to parents or teachers, to the main masses of pop orientated populations.
I enjoyed that documentary primarily because it didn't do that, offer "excuses" for why metal is what it is. It didn't go in any great depth or detail but I had no expectations of it doing so. The director also didn't rely on endless hyperbole as the basis for everything he discussed (unlike Sound of the Beast, another shoddily written tome on metal). While he failed to point anything out that any respectable and perceptive metalhead wouldn't think to be common sense he wasn't an idiot either and was fairly astute in his observations. Perhaps a B- effort.
I was a brazen prince and cold, now a king on an oaken throne
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Amon Amarth itself isn't too bad, but (for the most part) "viking metal fans" are idiots. Stupid article imo.
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krawling kaos
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:42 pm
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Professor Black wrote:
Thesis: Metal is the new alternative.
Sub-thesis: Metal has more relevance to politics than indie rock.
Support 1: Indie rock is sometimes very lame, its fans lamer.
Support 2: Metalheads do not dress androgynously.
Support 3: I am building my entire argument based on imagery and fashion. Music is irrelevant to what I am saying. I do not actually listen to music. I watch it.
Conclusion: It turns out that I am not capable of writing anything meaningful on this subject. Here is a barnyard analogy to prove it. The vacancy of Amon Amarth's songwriting may have something to do with this all, but I can't be certain.
Yes, Goldenbull, you do need Isten back issues.
Damn, I wish Professor Black was my Comp 102 professor.
I'm not being sarcastic, the guy's smart.
"Great holes secretley are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl..."
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Location: inside the preserved Moose
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:52 pm
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I'm always really astounded that people are so suprised about and dislike LOC so much. Any background on Moynihan and Blood Axis makes his agenda quite clear and as such I really quite like the book - but I had been into his music and writings for some years before it came out. Being a sociology graduate may also help in that respect haha.
Personally, I find books that are just lists of dates, albums and tours about as boring as watching paint dry. The Swedish DM book is quite good though.
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Triple threat: Writer, performer, artist all wrapped up in Bobbee Cera
July 18, 2013
Bobbee Cera may be new to Lehigh as she has lived here for a mere three years. But she is becoming well-known in the community because she is an entertainer, a pianist, an artist and an author....
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You may have felt a great void opening up in the world of entertainment this past year—a yawning chasm filling slowly with an undefined sense of unease, a restlessness, a yearning. This would have been the hole left behind by the shuttering of the great young adult franchises of the last half decade—the Harry Potter and Twilight series—and the collective panicked shudder of the book and film industries that followed in its wake. Where would the summer job billions come from now?
They needn't have feared. They never do, of course—the teenager has ruled the roost for generations now—but until a new hero is anointed there is always that chance of failure, however fleeting. (Which might explain the rumors that Twilight will live on as a television series after this year's film finale—an appropriate afterlife for those immortal and undead characters.)
This week, though, audiences are introduced to a new idol: the teenager Katniss Everdeen, the young woman at the heart of the post-apocalyptic story The Hunger Games. Played by Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone), Katniss is anti-authoritarian and good with a bow and arrow, but not so outre that young women couldn't imagine themselves filling her hunting boots.
Based on a massively popular book trilogy by Suzanne Collins (which may be stretched to four films), The Hunger Games story is a sci-fi staple: in a future North America—much of it lying in ruins—citizens are forced to compete against each other in violent spectacles enjoyed (or endured) by the rest of the nation.
Schwarzenegger did it in The Running Man, and the little-seen film Series 7 told a similar story not long ago. But the work Collins' book is most often compared to is the Japanese bloodfest Battle Royale, which, like The Hunger Games, features schoolchildren plucked at random to compete in a government-sanctioned battle to the death.
It's an easy comparison, but an unfair one. None of those films were the first to tell this story, which evinces shades of Lord of the Flies (1954) and The Most Dangerous Game (1924), among other things. For her part, Collins has cited everything from Greek myth to reality TV as inspiration for her yarn. And of course, a story needn't be new to be worth telling—were that the case, we would have run out of teen heroes a long time ago, and many of our best movies would never be made. Whether or not The Hunger Games offers up more than its predecessors or is just another teen movie is still up for debate, but we should be thankful that it has an actress of Lawrence's capabilities—she was just 20 when she was nominated for her first Oscar—at the helm.
Also this week: After having its local release date pushed back a week, We Need To Talk About Kevin should be in area theaters by the weekend. Lynne Ramsay's emotionally devastating picture is a disquieting look at the relationship between a mother and son (the magnificent Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller), and the questions that have to be asked when it turns out that a child is capable of unthinkable acts of violence.
How deeply can a mother still love her son when he is responsible for the deaths of other loved ones? How culpable, if at all, is her own behavior in rearing him? Director Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar), working from Lionel Shriver's novel of the same name, takes a modern tragedy and digs in deep. The question is, can we ever go deep enough to find an answer we can live with?
Finally this week, the 2012 Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival continues with a free showing of Al Más Allá at Isenberg School of Management. Screening on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., the film is a cross between documentary and narrative styles that explores the reality of drug trafficking along the coast of Mexico. In it, director Lourdes Portillo (who will be present to discuss her work) uses the stories of a fictional documentary crew and a band of drug-selling fishermen as a jumping-off point to explore how far she can push the boundaries of the documentary form.
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2010-11 Women's Basketball
Franklin 57, Bluffton 45
Franklin shuts down Beavers in 57-45 win over Bluffton
December 11, 2010
By: Josh Bruner, sports information assistant
FRANKLIN, Indiana - The Bluffton University women's basketball team was unable to find any offensive rhythm for the second consecutive game as Franklin scored a 57-45 win over the Beavers on Saturday, December 11, 2010. Bluffton fell to 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the Heartland Conference. The Grizzlies improved to 5-3 on the season and 2-2 in the HCAC.
The teams proved to be even through the start of the game with neither squad to be able to pull away from the other. Brittany Stegmaier (Garfield/Trinity) put in the first bucket for the Beavers at the 18:23 mark to tie the game at two.
Junior Brittany Stegmaier was one of two Beavers in double figures with 12 points and five rebounds. Fellow junior Rachel Daman dropped in 12 points on 3-of-4 shooting from behind the arc. She also pulled down four rebounds. Sophomore Lauren Hutton collected a game-high 12 caroms to go along with her eight markers, while senior Kim Miller pulled down nine boards.
Bluffton hit just 15-of-52 shots from the field (28.8 percent), but Franklin was not much better at 19-of-54 (35.2 percent). The Beavers struggled mightily at the line, converting only 10-of-22 freebies for 45.5 percent, while the home team cashed in on 17-of-24 attempts from the stripe (70.8 percent). Franklin finished with two more rebounds (43-41) and one less turnover (15-14) than the Beavers. The home team handed out six more dimes than Bluffton (11-5).
The Beavers return to action in one week when they host The College of Wooster on Saturday, Dec. 18. The contest is slated for 2 p.m. in Founders Hall.


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A friend of ours up in Maine told us where he was working on a house so we went and checked it out. At the edge of the forest where the dark, moss-covered spruce trees meet the cliffs of the rugged coastline, Marty's house is perched on a bunch of footings. The house was built, I believe, in the sixties, and the renovation was more for safety than anything else. Most of the original feel appears to remain – it seems like a modern Scandanavian kit house, and it has such a perfect relationship with its sublime site. These were the best pictures I could get from outside on the deck of a place that's private property, check them out:


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Video: Two Men Threaten, Assault Young Pride Goers On NYC Subway
Activists in New York are searching for the two men pictured above in connection with a vile attack on young NYC Pridegoers riding the subway.
Writes the witness who uploaded the video to YouTube:
On Sunday, June 30th at around 11:45 PM, I was riding home on the Queens-bound F train following a day of LGBT Pride festivities. Two men were loudly making homophobic comments, such as "Today was a scary day for me. There were fags everywhere." When a group of queer youth got on the train, the men proceeded to harass them, stating that the teens made them want to puke and that they would be killed if they were in Iran. The first assailant then threatened to rape them, at which point I took out my phone to document the incident.
Seeing that he was being recorded, the first assailant lunged at me, violently grabbing my arms while trying to steal away my phone. One of the youth took the phone from me temporarily to protect it and told the assailant he shouldn't attack a woman. When the assailant threatened to punch me, I took the phone back and ran to the other side of the train to push the emergency button and alert the authorities. At this point the second assailant got up and came towards me, grabbing my body and hands to try and get the phone to destroy the evidence. I yelled and told him I was an attorney. An onlooker then got up and stood between the assailants and myself, and another person left to get the train conductor.
A group of people had gathered to stand up to the gay bashers. During this, the second assailant put his hand around the neck of a young queer woman. When the doors opened up at the Roosevelt Ave stop, both assailants fled. I followed them to the station exit while calling 911. One witness had overheard them saying they were on route to Jamaica; they're likely commuters who regularly take this route.
If you know these men, the Anti Violence Project wants you to help:
REPORTING VIOLENCE HELPS END VIOLENCE: AVP encourages you to report violence you experience or witness to our free and confidential 24-hour bilingual (English/Spanish) hotline at 212-714-1141 where you can speak with a trained counselor and seek support, or you can report violence anonymously online.
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GREENVILLE, Ill.-- The Greenville College Women's Soccer team earned an impressive 3-0 win over Bendictine-Springfield in their home-opener.
Greenville got on the scoreboard in the 13th minute of the game when Mo Murphy slotted a great pass through the Benedictine defense to Kieley Leach who shot it past the Bulldog's goalie. Leach's goal brought GC up 1-0 heading into halftime.
In the game's 70th minute, Panther midfielder Kelsey Panzau scored an unassisted goal, bringing the home team even further ahead of Benedictine. Just 17 minutes later, Kency Lopez sent a dangerous corner kick into the box straight to Emily Wright who was able to put the ball in the back of the net. Wright's goal brought the game to it's final score: 3-0, Greenville.
The Panthers out-shot Benedictine 12-1 in the match and GC 'keeper, Heidi Koehl, was credited with the shut-out.
This win brings the team's record to 1-2. The ladies next match is Wednesday, September 11 when they travel to Rose-Hulman to take on the Fightin' Engineers.