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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A record total of more than 100 Penn State student-athletes graduated during Commencement exercises this past weekend on the University Park campus. Student-athletes from 26 of Penn State's 27 programs (men's and women's track and field/cross-country are combined) have been approved to receive their diplomas.
A record 109 student-athletes, as well as seven members of the cheerleading squad and five members of the National Champion Lionettes dance team, were on the approved to graduate list. A record 18 football student-athletes, seven of whom have eligibility for the 2013 season, were among the 109 graduates.
Among the Penn State student-athletes who are graduating are Petra Januskova (women's tennis) and John Urschel (football), recipients of the 2013 Ernest B. McCoy Award. Owning a perfect 4.0 grade-point average, Urschel is earning his master's degree in mathematics four years after enrolling in the University.
Also among the spring graduates are Quentin Wright (Wingate), the Nittany Lion wrestling team's two-time NCAA Champion, and All-American women's gymnast Sharaya Musser (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
Among the other graduates were eight student-athletes whose teams have captured NCAA Championships during their careers, including Daniel Gomez-Tanamachi (fencing); Marika Racibarskas (women's volleyball); and Wright, James English, Nick Fischer, Bryan Pearsall, Derek Reber and David Taylor from wrestling (Taylor returns in 2013-14 for his final year of eligibility and English has received a sixth year of eligibility from the NCAA).
The Nittany Lion football team had 18 players graduating, seven of whom have eligibility for the 2013 season. In addition to Urschel, among the other football graduates are returnees Nate Cadogan (Portsmouth, Ohio), Glenn Carson (Manahawkin, N.J.), Adam Gress (West Mifflin), Stephen Obeng-Agyapong (Bronx, N.Y.) and Malcolm Willis (Marbury, Md.). All-Big Ten defensive tackle Jordan Hill (Steelton), who was selected by Seattle in the third round of last week's NFL Draft, also graduated this weekend.
Four members of the Nittany Lion basketball team and two members of the Lady Lion basketball team were approved to graduate this weekend. From the men's basketball team: Sasa Borovnjak (Belgrade, Serbia), Nick Colella (New Castle), Billy Oliver (Chatham, N.J.) and 2013-14 returnee Tim Frazier (Houston). The Lady Lions approved to graduate were Gizelle Studevent (LaJolla, Calif.) and Marisa Wolfe (Ford City).
Penn State student-athletes, who have captured 39 Big Ten Championships since 2005-06 and a 12 NCAA titles since March 2007, consistently have been among the nation's most successful in earning their degrees. Among some of Penn State's recent academic accolades are:
- The NCAA's annual study of institutions nationwide revealed in October 2012 that Penn State student-athletes at the University Park campus earned a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 88 percent compared to a 80 percent average for all Division I institutions for students entering from 2002-03 through 2005-06.
- The 2012 NCAA data showed the four-year federal graduation rate average for Penn State student-athletes was 78 percent, significantly higher than the national average of 64 percent and second to Northwestern (88) among Big Ten Conference institutions.
- The 2012 NCAA graduation data also revealed that student-athletes from five Penn State squads earned a Graduation Success Rate of 100 percent and 10 additional teams were at 90 percent or higher for a total of 15 out of 25 teams (cross-country/track and field combined).
- A record total of 100 Penn State student-athletes from seven fall sports earned 2012 Academic All-Big Ten accolades, the highest total in the conference. A total of 64 Nittany Lion student-athletes from winter sports earned Academic all-conference honors to bring Penn State's total to 164 honorees thus far in 2012-13 (spring and at-large to be announced).
Penn State Athletics is on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pennstatenittanylions) and Twitter (http://www.gopsusports.com/ot/socialmedia.html).


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Last week the internet went crazy with the news of super cool new stuff for techies to play with.
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We had the Apple Fanboys getting all excited over the iPad 3 launch, which I'm told has resulted in an availability shortage of the product because it's just soooo popular. Good to see the Apple Hype machine up to the same old tricks. We don't care about any of that here though do we folks? No sir, we want to what's hot with SQL Server 2012!
Microsoft released SQL 2012 to the world via their Virtual Launch Event last week. There was so much interest in the event that it actually brought the website down. There's still time for you to catch the keynote, enjoy all the other sessions from the event and enter various competitions so be sure to take a look.
With so many folks excited about SQL2012 I asked the community on Twitter:
What SQL2012 feature are you excited about the most?@JohnSansomJohn Sansom
Here's what some of you had to say:
@JohnSansom "I think [execution_path] is the best new feature ... in Denali" http://t.co/YsJZfGOL (Yes, really.)@jamietJamie Thomson
@JohnSansom SSIS Improvements and spatial improvements #SQL2012 #ReallyGeneralLikes@onpntTed Krueger
@JohnSansom AlwaysOn is pretty darned sexy. #sqlserver #sql2012@GFritcheyGrant Fritchey
@JohnSansom And I'm very excited about the Extended Events GUI #sqlserver #sql2012@GFritcheyGrant Fritchey
What I'm Excited About in SQL 2012
It's great to see excitement for such a variety of features. It just goes to show the diversity of both the product and the professionals that use it.
As expected there's a lot of excitement surrounding AlwaysOn technology in SQL 2012 and it's something that I'm particularly interested in as well. I think it could potentially serve as a replacement for some of the more common SQL Server Replication design patterns and I'm going to be doing some proof of concept work in the near future.
I'm also excited about the improvements to working with XEvents in SQL Server. This powerful tool has been perhaps a little tricky to get to grips with at first and it's without a doubt worth the investment of your time to learn, especially when you consider that SQL Server Profiler will eventually be going away in a future version of the product. A great way to learn about working with XEvents is by visiting the blog of Jonathan Kehayias (Blog|Twitter). The man has a wealth of brilliant content for you to benefit from.
What SQL 2012 feature are you excited about? Let me know in the comments.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines is a first-person shooter set after the events of "Aliens" and is designed to provide an exhilarating and engaging new chapter in the Aliens universe. Players blast their way through hordes of Xenomorphs on the USS Sulaco, the surface of LV-426 and Hadley's Hope, using weapons inspired by the film series.
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ubersonic writes: While insurance companies never seem to respect the privacy of their customers, European insurer Uniqua reached a new low with the introduction of PAYD (pay as you drive) recently. Uniqa's customers who choose the PAYD-model are going to have a NaviBox called "SafeLine" installed in their cars. The small box contains a GPS receiver and a GSM unit, which forwards once daily real-time information to a central computer. The users premiums are then calculated on the base of this data. The personal data protecting organization ARGE-Daten (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Daten, Engl.: Working group "Data Protection") is deeply concerned about the fairness of the new appliance. No one knows for what else this data might be used in the future.


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Camps offer a support system that isn't available in other places because [kids] are meeting other kids with diabetes, says Suzanne Apsey, program director for Triangle D Camp of Northern Illinois.
There are an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 young people who attend diabetes camps each summer. Summer camps provide kids ages six to 18 an opportunity to effectively manage their diabetes in an environment that is educational, safe and fun.
Diabetes camps strive to educate children with diabetes about the disease and offer advice on ways to assimilate the disease into their lives. In addition, summer camps help nurture the self-esteem and self-reliance of these children.
Different Ages
By coming to a camp and seeing hundreds of other children like them, kids with diabetes realize that they are not alone and that they didn't do anything wrong.
Rosalie Bandyopadhyay, executive director for Florida Diabetes Camps, told DIABETES HEALTH that camps for six-to-eight-year-olds with diabetes offer art classes to teach them how to express their feelings about having diabetes.
For middle school children, the focus is on psychology and medical education, while kids in their early teenage years are taught that they can still do everything that any other teenager can do.
"I'm sure everybody can relate to those middle school years," says Bandyopadhyay. "You never want to be different from other kids your age, but all of a sudden you have to eat differently, take snacks at different times and check your blood sugars before engaging in sporting activities."
Camps for high school kids are structured differently. Bandyopadhyay says that, at this age, most kids are drawing up their own insulin and giving themselves their own shots. Therefore, the education has a different focus.
"We work a lot with the older kids on carbohydrate counting," she says. "If they are playing soccer or swimming that afternoon, we'll ask them what they think they should eat for lunch to avoid going too low. The camp physicians and educators work a lot more individually with each kid to try to get them to think about how this is a part of their lifestyle."
Lowering Insulin Doses
Most camps have found it advisable to decrease the home insulin dosage by 10 to 20 percent or more, especially in those who were not active before the camp session.
"When they arrive at camp, insulin levels are lowered because their activity levels will be increasing throughout the summer," says Alicia McAuliffe, founder, director and president for Circle of Life Camp in North Greenbush, New York. "With the amount of hiking and swimming that they will be doing, they will not need as much insulin."
Hypoglycemia is common at the beginning of camp because of increased physical activity. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends that a daily record of a camper's progress be made and that all blood glucose levels and insulin dosages be recorded in a format that allows for review and analysis.
Informal Education
"Self-management of diabetes is dependent upon two things: knowledge and motivation," says Zula Walters, executive director for the Diabetes Camping Association (DCA). "Camps have an excellent record for educating campers through many types of experiences."
Walters adds that camps offer myriad ways to educate children with diabetes, be it through a formal lecture from a doctor, educator or peer, or from a cabinmate describing an insulin reaction he or she experienced and managed.
"It may be from having a counselor or another staff member answering any questions they have," says Walters.
Games, competitions, skits and programs led by fellow campers or just listening to others who describe their fears and frustrations are all informal techniques used to educate children on diabetes self-management.
Children are taught how to check blood-glucose levels and give themselves insulin injections.
According to Bandyopadhyay, most kids, by their middle-school years, can test their own blood sugars, while the youngest children have it done for them.
"Many parents send their kids to us with the single goal of having their kids learn how to give their own insulin shots," says Bandyopadhyay.
Children are never forced to administer their own insulin shots at camp. Most of the time, however, if they see peers or cabinmates giving themselves a shot, they are inspired to do the same thing.
"Most first-time shot givers are in the eight- to 10-year-old range," says Apsey. "It is certainly not something that is required of the children, but we will encourage them to try it."
Teaching Prevention of Highs and Lows
Apsey adds that prevention of hypoglycemia, as well as adjusting insulin dosages, diet and levels of exercise, are also taught at summer camps.
"Nutrition is the first thing we teach on the first day of camp," she says. "We have dietitians who work out all of the meal planning. The camp provides the food, which they make according to the dietitians' specifications. It is served family style, and we then train the counselors and medical staff to help the kids make choices from what is available."
The ADA recommends that each camp's medical staff be led by someone who is an expert in managing type 1 diabetes. The nursing staff should include diabetes educators and diabetes clinical nurse specialists.
In the event of an emergency, children are sent to the nearest medical facility. If the camp is located in a rural area, the ADA recommends that arrangements be made with a medical helicopter or fixed-wing airplane to provide rapid transport.
According to Bandyopadhyay, most counselors are nursing or medical students, and they are taught how to handle emergencies. In addition, there are testing areas throughout the camp at ball fields and at arts and crafts rooms, where there will be meters, snacks and juice.
For more information on the Diabetes Camping Association, contact Zula Walters via email at email@example.com. For more information on finding a camp in your area, log on to www.diabetescamps.org.


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Roland Piquepaille writes "What happens when you compress water in a nano-sized space? According to Georgia Tech physicists, water starts to behave like a solid. "The confined water film behaves like a solid in the vertical direction by forming layers parallel to the confining surface, while maintaining it's liquidity in the horizontal direction where it can flow out," said one of the researchers. "Water is a wonderful lubricant, but it flows too easily for many applications. At the one nanometer scale, water is a viscous fluid and could be a much better lubricant," added another one."


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A new way to think about "Time-Shares" in the Yucatan
Monday, November 16, 2009, 08:25 AM
As some of your know I spend a lot of time looking for property in the Valladolid area. I've looked a property that should be just left untouched and other properties that are already planted with acres of fruit trees. Ranchos that have cattle and all that come with cattle like corrals and wire fences. Properties with cenotes (fresh water "sinkholes" that are the only source of open water in most of the Yucatan) that are big and beautiful.
The problem I face is the same problem that faces everyone who looks at property or houses anywhere in the world; the property I can afford, I don't like and the property that I like, I can't afford. So here's a possible solution to my problem and a possible opportunity for you (or a friend of yours) to have a home in Mexico.
As an example, today I am going to look at a property, a rancho with a cenote and old-growth forest/jungle, of over 160 hectareas or almost 400 acres. It is close to Valladolid and the asking price seems very reasonable. However, it is out of the range of what I can afford. But if I had 9 more partners with USD$10,000 each, we could purchase the property together and each own a share in the entire property.
Lots of details to iron out, but I think that the concept makes a lot more sense than a two week time-share at a hotel. You would have year-around access. A big playground (400 acres is a lot of property). Easy access to all of the Yucatan (Valladolid is exactly halfway between Cancun and Merida). Easy access to both the Caribbean beaches and the Gulf fishing villages. Easy access to dozens of Mayan ruins.
Plus a much slower pace of living. A warmer climate. And a different approach to life. A opportunity to live pretty high on the hog on a chicken feed budget.
Plus an investment that has a very good prospect of returning interest in the form of sale of produce and/or rental or lease of living space/playing space.
Just so that you know where I am coming from, I am not interested in cattle. They take too much work for the return on investment. And they take a lot of time as well. Plus they cost the environment. I am much more interested in short term crops such as papaya (10 months from planting to first harvest); medium term crops like neem (fast growing tree that produces a natural pesticide) and structural bamboo; and long term crops like cedar and mahogany. I'm interested in making the property as energy self sufficient as reasonable and using solar and wind power as much as possible and as organic as reasonable. I have no interest in horses but this might be a great place to think about keeping a horse or two. I have no interest in racing ATV's through the jungle or in cutting old-growth forest for a quick profit. I'm not a fanatic on being green or organic but I certainly lean in that direction.
I am very interested in preserving traditional Mayan culture and values and in treating the Mayan people with respect. That means paying staff and ranch hands a decent wage, giving them a secure, dry place to live and interacting with them with love. Just so that you don't get scared off by this, a normal wage for a farm worker is between 100 and 150 pesos per day or USD$7.70 to USD$11.50 per day.
We will set up a Mexican corporation that will protect all of our investments and give us equal voice in the direction of the rancho. Foreigners can legally own property in Mexico through various means, including through a corporation. And for gringos, now may be a time to consider a secure toe-hold in someplace other than the USA. Taxes are less, health care is very good and affordable, government control of details of life is much freer.
I'm not sure that the rancho that I will see today is the right one to purchase, but this is great time to consider purchase in the Yucatan. The economy is down and it is affecting the local landowners. Property prices are down. Valladolid is spending a lot of money on infrastructure in anticipation of a surge in tourism and in commerce.
If you want to come down and see some of the opportunities that's probably a good idea.
The investment is low and the possible return is great.
If this idea rings any kind of bell with you, pass it along to your friends who might be interested. And then get back to me via email at
I am going to be traveling on a Mano Amiga planning trip over the next week, but I should have email access most of the time.
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A visit to a Mexican Emergency Room
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 09:30 AM
Contrasted with a visit to an ER in the USA
Yesterday as I was visiting Merida (the capital of the Yucatan), I started getting an violent allergic reaction (possibly to something I ate). First my hands and feet started itching, then my eyes watered, my face glowed red... I felt as if I were on fire... and my companions said that we should get to the hospital ASAP. Allergic reactions are potentially fatal since airways can shut down. So off we went.
There are three very good hospitals in Merida that I know of and we were closest to Clinica Merida. All three of these hospitals are private hospitals.
When I walked into the emergency room, the receptionist asked what the problem was, took my name and asked if I had insurance. That was it. My friend motioned for me to sit down but before I could sit the receptionist directed me to an exam room since she recognized a potentially serious problem. Before I could sit down there, the doctor entered, did a fast assessment and told me the options. Some slow acting pills or fast acting IV. By this time I was in agony and said "IV, Please!" (By the way, most if not all of the MD's that I have met in the Yucatan read English quite well and speak some English; this is because many medical textbooks are written in English).
I was ushered to a bed in ER, undressed and put on my johnny coat. Almost before I could get into bed, a nurse was there to check my vitals, followed very rapidly by a saline IV hook-up. Within minutes, the prescribed meds (a cortizone and an antihistime) were tied into the saline solution and the itching and redness rapidly disappeared. The needle work for both the IV and the blood samples was extremely professional and completely painless. Various nurses kept checking on me and I was visited by the admitting MD as well as a allergic specialist. I was held for observation for about 7 or 8 hours and then given prescriptions for some meds for the week.
The total cost for the visit including in-hospital meds, bed, blood work, MD visits, etc. came to less than 2,500 Mexican pesos or about USD$187. The prescribed meds for home-care totaled less than USD$45.
I contrasted the level of care, the speed of admission and the total cost with that of my last visit to an emergency room in the US. I was admitted much, much faster in Mexico than I was in the US (in the US, I was experiencing chest pains and had been referred to the hospital ER by a cardiologist... my total admission time was at least 45 minutes before I was in a bed in ER... and another 1/2 hour before I was seen by an MD). My level of personal care was much greater in Mexico in that all of the various medical personnel seemed much less stressed and much more available to attend to me and my needs. And the cost difference was HUGE! An 8 hour bed in any ER that I know in the USA would be at least USD$1,000 to $1,500. And then add on the MD costs, the lab work and the med costs! Very easy to project a total cost of over 10 times as much.
I don't know how to fix the health care system in the US, but it sure can be approved. There might be something to be learned from Mexico.
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Vitamin B Complex vs. Bug Bites
Sunday, August 23, 2009, 07:12 PM
Vitamin B Complex wins hands down!
Last December a visiting MD suggested taking Vitamin B complex on a daily basis for general health as well as for bug bites. Since that time I have been taking a B complex tablet every day. The vitamin that actually works is B12 but I take at least 100% of the MDR of all the B's. Since December I have had less than a dozen bites that I can remember. Yesterday brought the entire experience back to me vividly.
I was in the jungle yesterday with a friend; we were looking at a piece of property to purchase. It was a damp day with off and on light rain. And there were lots of bugs. I felt a sharp pain on my arm and looked down to see a huge fly taking a bite out of me. Before I could swat it, off it flew. But as soon as the fly flew, the pain stopped. And this morning, there was no welt. I took off one tick from my back last night, but found no other bug bites. My friend, however, was covered with bites, some became huge welts within a matter of minutes.
We were attacked by the same bugs, but my reactions were markedly less.
I'm not sure if the vitamin B complex changes my taste and or odor so that the bugs don't like me as much as they used to or if the B complex changes the way my body responds to bug saliva or whatever they inject into the skin.
Whatever the reason, it works for me.
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A Great Time to Visit the Mayan Ruins of Chichen Itza
Sunday, May 17, 2009, 10:19 AM
I went to the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza last week as a spur-of-the-moment trip. I arrived at about the time I normally tell guests to leave... about 11:30 AM.
Usually by this time, the parking lot is full with cars and there are about 100 or more large busses from Cancun and Playa del Carmen. The lines to purchase tickets are large and your must fight your way through crowds of people .
When I arrived I was able to park in the shade in the lot closest to the entrance. I had no line to purchase my ticket and was besieged by guides to utilize their services. When I entered the grounds, it was if the time was 8:30 in the morning rather than mid-day (I normally recommend to my guest to arrive by 9:30 AM at the latest).
Almost no one there. It was easy to take a photo of any structure with no one else in the photo. On the way out, I counted the large busses in the parking area. There were 9 when normally there would be 115. When I returned to Cancun from NJ on 5 de Mayo, there were 2 people in first class and 23 in coach. There just are no tourists.
What does that mean to you? First of all, the airfares to Mexico are the lowest that I have seen them in 12 years... even lower than the fares were after 9/11 if I remember correctly. Secondly, wherever you go, you will be treated as special because there are so few tourists (at Casa Hamaca we always treat all of our guests that way... we treat them as special individuals not just as another number). All in all, a great time to visit the Yucatan.
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Things that Go Bump in the Night... Alux? Spirits? or Ghosts?
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 12:09 PM
House cleaning, Yucatan-style
This is a subject that I have been loath to write about for fear it would scare off guests to Casa Hamaca. However, with the economy, the narcotraficante scare and now the swine flu scare, there are not a lot of guests to scare off. Tourist-related business all across Mexico is waaaay down.
Last night, I was awake at 2:00AM, thinking about some issues in my life when I heard my manager call out my name. I waited for a few minutes to hear her call out again or to knock on my door... and then I realized that she was not in Valladolid; she was spending the night in Chichimila. I put it out of my mind until this morning when the cook asked me if I made popcorn in the microwave at about 11:30 last night. I hadn't nor did anyone else 'fess up to making popcorn in the middle of the night. Then Karlos said that about 2:00 AM he had heard a number of people talking and walking about on the second floor... at a time and location when and where there were no guests or employees.
So what and/or who was it that made popcorn, walked and talked during the night and then called out my name at 2:00 AM? Alux? Spirits? Ghosts? Or what? When we discussed these phenomena this morning, a number of the staff expressed concern if not fear. All of my staff live in small villages surrounding Valladolid and all believe in alux and in other strange and wonderous beings. The local villages are filled with witches and shape-changers and Mayan-sirens and shaman and creatures that are now just part of the mythology of the Western, rational mind.
We all agreed that we needed a housecleaning... a cleansing to be more specific. So Tuesday, a shaman (h'men) is coming to do the annual feeding of the alux as well as a cleansing of the entire house and grounds.
Last year, in May, we fed the alux and have had no problems for about 11 months. For you who don't know about the alux, they are best described as Mayan leprechauns... small creatures with more or less human form that guard the fields and houses of the Yucatecans. But they need to be treated with respect and to be fed annually.
So what are the noises in the night? Things that go bump in the night? Ghosts? Spirits? or Alux? I'll let you know what happens Tuesday. And if anything changes Tuesday night. Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them?
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In the Kaats Kills, they fear my name. I am Tyro of the red typewriter. I am the boy with no heart. They call me ruthless and cruel. They say I drive nails into my feet and tap dance to the songs of crying babies. I've been known to yodel in the shower and cheat at solitaire. I've been known to cavort with Morisa.
They say Morisa worships the moon. They say she makes boys loony with the geometry of her open legs. It's no lie. She'll lead them to the dam site and I stand behind a tree and project my slingshot. We leave their naked bodies on the church steps.
They say her mother's a drunk and a cat lady who married the funeral director for make-up tips. The bandies cluck that we got no sense of propriety and no shame. To think what they'd say if they saw us rolling about in the cemetery! The ghosts we conjure. The coyotes and vultures we attract.
When I get Morisa laughing, she gets humid with humor. The scent gets me yawping and typing and standing on one foot. Oh, she's got it all! Back straight, chest out, eyes to the ground in search of lucky pennies!
And how to describe her face? It is an invitation to sin. Eyes selfish like a cat's. Breath that stirs my blood like wind rouses the clouds. Morisa says, Don't worry darling. You stick with me and you'll see the worst of it. Indeed, a healthy oyster never produces a pearl.
It's all true, what the bandies say. We lie, cheat, and steal. We cut the heads off chickens to see where they keep the eggs. Imagine a pearl you can suck the yoke out of. Imagine how yellow the taste of her mouth. The scratch of a just-formed claw.
If you ever saw Morisa on her back with her legs up in the air, you too would bend down on all fours to sniff out trespass and sin. For her, I steal deer antlers from hunting cabins. For her, I hoard my fingernail clippings. I rob frogs of their eyes and bats of their wings. On Valentine's I give her Great Granny's picture with the dead glued in with the living.
Morisa believes in equal protection under the law and therefore the liberation of the dead. She says that even a dead boy must have a heart. She pokes me in the chest. Only a fool would resist. At the dam, Morisa casts a spell with muddy water and the pulp scraped from our hearts. She commands my dead uncle to step from the photograph.
He steps from the photograph. He follows her around like he's a lost puppy. She names him Sailor Boy. We baptize him in the reservoir where a town once was. I point to the foundation of a house. Morisa says, That's where we'll live! Sailor Boy asks if we're running away. He asks if we've kidnapped him. I say, You've been spirited away, but we ask no ransom. We swim out to the underwater house and float the night away. There's no roof and the stars look lonely.
I ask Sailor Boy to tell us his history and Morisa laughs and laughs, for she knows that history is like a foggy dream that you try to write down in the morning but are unable to find a pencil and while searching in the couch cushions you come across a love letter addressed to someone else and smelling of a perfect stranger that you will perhaps fall in love with.
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concealment writes "The report evaluates the challenge of curbing online radicalization from the perspective of supply and demand. It concludes that efforts to shut down websites that could serve as incubators for would-be terrorists — going after the supply — will ultimately be self-defeating, and that 'filtering of Internet content is impractical in a free and open society.' 'Approaches aimed at restricting freedom of speech and removing content from the Internet are not only the least desirable strategies, they are also the least effective,' writes Peter Neumann, founding director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London and the author of the report."


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LXer Weekly Roundup for 17-Jun-2007
First off, Happy Fathers Day to all you Fathers out there, especially mine. It seems that Microsoft is all over the news this week. Between the Linspire deal, getting help from an old friend in the Justice Department to yet another one of their shills stating that OpenXML really is an open standard. Not to worry though, I have lots of other articles for you to check out.
Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.: Thomas O. Barnett, top Justice Department antitrust official and former partner at a law firm that representing Microsoft in antitrust disputes, has recently rejected a complaint by Google and is urging state prosecutors to do the same.
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn — Cool, Fresh and… Unstable: Borys Musielak writes "This will not be another "I just installed Ubuntu — it beats Windows — try it yourself" type of review. It is going to be rather a report from another successful upgrade, pointing out the biggest surprises and the most miserable failures of the latest release of Ubuntu Linux, codenamed Feisty Fawn."
Microsoft Spits in GPL Creator Richard Stallman's Eye: The GPL creator's attempts to stop Microsoft from cutting any more of those patent-protection deals like the one it cut with Novell don't quite seem to be working.
Linux Programmer's Toolbox: What does it take to start writing programs for Linux ? Most people will guess a text editor, knowledge of a programming language and the compiler and libraries of that language would suffice. But ask a professional programmer who has been writing code for Linux and he will differ with you.
Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3: Linux leader Linus Torvalds has finally found something that could convince him that the forthcoming version 3 of the General Public License is worth adopting: open-source Solaris.
Microsoft and Linspire Collaboration Promotes Interoperability and Customer Choice: Here is the press release announcing the Linspire-Microsoft deal. I keep hearing an old Queen song in my head, "and another one gone and another one gone, another one bites the dust".
From the Camera to the Web With Konqueror: Our own Don Parris shows us how to get pictures from our cameras and onto the web without pulling your hair out in another one of our LXer Features.
Microsoft Will Help Deliver a "Better" Linux (Linspire announces deal with Microsoft): Here is the letter that Kevin Carmony wrote where he talks about why the deal with Microsoft is good for Linspire and Linux in general.
Tutorial: Protecting Data with Encrypted Linux Partitions: In this tutorial Carla Schroder shows us how to protect our data using encrypted partitions.
How To Compile A Kernel - Debian Etch: In this tutorial Falko Timme of HowToForge.com shows us the steps to be taken in compiling a kernel under Debian Etch.
Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft: Eric Auchard likens the Open Source movement to a religious sect in his "slightly" slanted report on the recent get together of Open Source figures at Google headquarters.
Lessons from a Community Fundraising Project: D.C. Parris and Brian Proffitt publish their financial report and lessons learned on the Tux-500 campaign.
Microsoft Interoperability Team: Bring on Red Hat: Microsoft said the company hopes to strike a Linux pact with Red Hat similar to the partnerships it has forged with Linux vendors. So far Red Hat is not interested.
Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu and Microsoft -- he's not signing nothing: Steven Rosenberg found a post my Mark Shuttleworth on his blog concerning whether or not Ubuntu would be signing a deal with Microsoft. Mark has since expanded and reposted his thoughts on his blog.
Microsoft's next Linux partner is...?: In the first of our two FUD articles of the week SJVN tries to convince us of his telepathic abilities because he knew that Linspire was going to be next to sign a deal with Microsoft. So Steve, can you tell what I am thinking right now?
Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft: Microsoft's standards format has been misunderstood and being "pro Open XML" doesn't make one "anti ODF", claims Australian activist Rick Jelliffe. Hmm, I wonder who pays his bills..
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Whenever the operating system or an application attempts to read from or write to a BitLocker-protected volume, the BitLocker filter driver must decrypt or encrypt data in real time, sector by sector. The filter driver writes event log information when it encounters problems, even if the problem is corrected with an automatic retry of the operation.
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Winter Storm Rocky, Winter Storm Q bring back-to-back challenges for those charged with keeping streets, highways clear
The one-two punch of Winter Storms Q and Rocky sweeping across Kirksville left city crews to haul away more than 150 tons of snow and kept plows on the streets through the early hours Friday morning.
"For a large snow like this, and for us, it was one large snow because the two events were so close together, we hadn't really finished dealing with the first snow when the second one hit," said Public Works Director John Buckwalter.
The timing did allow for some respite over the weekend, giving crews enough time to get their trucks and vehicles back to the shop, get repaired, reloaded and back out all over again Tuesday for Rocky after responding to Q last Wednesday.
And the work isn't quite over for those crews, with drifts and cleanup still remaining from the heavy snow that left anywhere from 12 to 16 inches on top of snow already on the ground.
"We'll continue to do touch up," Buckwalter said. "We've been hauling snow most of the day, been doing alleys, widening streets and for the late shift [Thursday night] our plan is to clear the rest of snow on Franklin."
The decision to leave a snow-median on Franklin through Friday morning and large snow piles in downtown intersections that tower over cars and people is the result of a concerted effort started about three years ago to focus on making the downtown passable.
"No matter how much snow, the plan is the same," Buckwalter said. "It's about how long it takes to execute, how big the piles get and how soon we can let vehicles back in. We don't want to keep vehicles out of the downtown area any longer than we have to."
With snow mountains created at downtown intersections, the parking areas and sidewalks should theoretically allow for shoppers and business owners to carry on.
"We've gone to piling the snow about three years ago so we can get the streets clear as quickly as possible," Buckwalter said. "Drivers can drive around a snow pile but if the snow is piled in the middle of the street or a parking area, they can't get to the shops or the courthouse."
Main routes in the city were cleared at least 24 hours after the snow stopped falling earlier this week, but the heavy loads and steady snow for more than a day left many of the secondary routes still covered.
Buckwalter also noted the particularly wet nature of Rocky's snow, making snow pack and frozen snow difficult to clear even on roads already plowed.
"This snow was especially challenging like with the second part of the storm because it was so heavy and so wet and because there was already so much snow," Buckwalter said. "We had a terrible problem with snow building up and snow pack on the streets and our smaller trucks couldn't cut it. They couldn't literally cut down to the pavement so it takes time for them to get everywhere. There were some neighborhoods we did not get plowed down to pavement as quickly as we would have liked to."
He highlighted routes like College Park that provide only one way in or out for its residents as one of the crucial secondary routes that wasn't fully cleared until Wednesday morning.
The Missouri Department of Transportation also struggled with heavy snowfall, calling in crews on Monday from southern Missouri and the St. Louis area to help clear northeast Missouri highways but at no time were any highways closed in the district.
"It all went really well, especially with the two storms and the intensity of the snowfall," said MoDOT's Amy Crawford, with the Northeast District. "For several hours we were getting several inches an hour."
MoDOT began mobilizing its crews from other districts on Monday in response to the forecast. That helped provide both manpower and equipment to combat Rocky.
This series of storms was the first serious test of MoDOT since it announced in 2011 it was closing district offices, consolidating areas and drastically reducing its vehicle fleet and staff.
"We've had a few smaller snowfalls where we were able to work out some of the details and our crews and staff were really well prepared," Crawford said.
Even as the snow kept falling Wednesday, MoDOT crews focused on Highway 63 and Baltimore Street as well as the minor routes and highways.
Despite some minor flurries Friday morning, the most that remains from the pair of storms in Kirksville are the two dump locations the city has been using for its tons of snow off of Osteopathy Street.
Thursday afternoon, truck load after truck load, each weighing about 3,000 pounds, was deposited and piled on. Buckwalter estimated that with more than 450 loads of snow hauled for just Rocky, Public Works had cleared about 150,000 pounds of snow, or about 13,500 cubic feet.
And with the heavy lifting over, city crews will now turn their attentions to clearing significant snow drifts, especially piles that may impede sight distances at intersections.
"We're still working on essentially a complaint basis," Buckwalter said Thursday afternoon. "We're doing a lot of work similar to 2011 about trying to move piles of snow near intersections that are blocking sight distances. Some of those we pile, some of those we're not sure who piled up but we're going to try and eliminate those sight distance problems. We're hoping it gets nice and warm and those problems kind of melt away."
But next week's forecast may not cooperate with an about 40 percent chance of rain or snow on Monday and Tuesday and temperatures barely reaching the 40s.
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Winter Storm Rocky city crew totals:
488: total man hours spent clearing snow.
1,977: total number of miles plowed.
107: tons of salt used.


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The new apps look and behave much like the native apps you find on Windows and OS X. They're built using web technologies, but also with Chrome-specific code that means they won't be able to run on other web browsers - they're truly Chrome apps. They can exist outside of your browser window as distinct apps, work offline, and sync across devices and operating systems. They can also access your computer's GPU, storage, camera, ports, and Bluetooth connection. Chrome Apps are, for now, only available through Chrome on Windows or Chrome OS on a Chromebook. Mac users will have to wait another six weeks before their version of Chrome will be updated.
This is very important for Chrome OS - since this means it can now have applications outside of the browser. Google's plans for Chrome OS suddenly became a whole lot clearer.
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Yeah, didn't Flash start out this same way? It was this thing you could use when regular HTML just wouldn't do.
Yes, but Flash became an independent app runtime after the fact. Not before. Flash always was a way to enhance existing website deployments and was from the start marketed as such. Rich Internet Applications as they were called.
And then people started writing entire web sites with it, so instead of being this parallel thing, it ended up being a rather grotesque form of lock-in.
I think the results speak for themselves, in that HTML back then was entirely too limiting. For example, I remember when Silverlight 2.0 launched it had a JIT compiler that was ~1000x faster than Javascript. Obviously things have come a long way, but they weren't always so palatable.
I don't see that happening again, especially because Google isn't aiming this at the same market that Macromedia/Adobe was with Flash.
If HTML/JS isn't up to the task of doing real app dev work, then let people write REAL native apps that don't require a fucking web browser to be present. How much sense does that make?
You're talking about sense when there's a browser sitting in between the app and the OS. There's never, ever going to be sense in that. Ever.
If you're just going to write apps that work the same on every OS, then you might as well have only one OS.
Cross platform applications are the biggest lie of the century. Maybe they were true when the computing platforms were Windows, Linux, and OSX but with the advent of the mobile OSes, that's no longer an achievable goal.
HTML is a lowest common denominator (write once, suck everywhere) that we've been able to shoehorn into something, but I'm not convinced any platform can do it now. Not Flash, not Silverlight, and not Chrome Apps.
I think Google's ambitions (particularly on the cross platform side) are kind of silly, but that's completely aside from whether or not this is a nefarious act. I'm not convinced it is.


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Star-Banner readers share their thoughts on the proposed Yankees minor league stadium, and more.
Public meltdown
Allow me to share a situation that I witnessed at Paddock Mall last week that really upset me.
I was standing at the ice cream parlor waiting to be served when I noticed a family to my left that seemed really tense because the father stood screaming at what appeared the oldest son. The child looked over at me with the most downcast look I have ever seen on a child. The father kept on yelling at the child, and the mother seemed afraid to say anything.
There were three boys and one little girl in the family. All the kids were excited about getting ice cream and were picking out their desired flavor, except the boy who was being screamed at.
The guy serving the ice cream asked if I was next. Pointing to this family to my left, I said no, they were in front of me. So, he began serving them, and all during this time the father was still mouthing off at this poor kid and ended up buying the family ice cream, except this kid, which obviously hurt the kid even more.
I felt so very bad for this kid and really wanted to buy him an ice cream cone. But my better judgment jumped in and the message was NO, better trash the thought for fear of what this ill-bred animal would do or say to me.
It was obvious that he cared nothing for his family's feelings. I wonder, if he feels comfortable displaying such a scene in public as he did that day, what the atmosphere must be like in their home. In my opinion, this man was full of himself.
Have a blessed Christmas!!
Joyce Rose
Stadium's impact on earth
There are many pros and cons to the Yankees stadium issue. One we haven't discussed is the environmental impact this project would have. Some things to consider:
1. Removal of trees and wooded areas that provide habitat for multiple species of birds, insects and animals will bring unintended consequences. One example would be raccoons and coyotes relocating to residential or commercial areas nearby. Trees provide cooling shade and decrease carbon dioxide levels in the air.
2. Paving and asphalting of the parking lots, roadways and structure sites prevents rainwater from penetrating the ground and making its way back down to the aquifer that provides water for all of our needs. The rainwater hitting the paved areas will become storm water runoff and, unless treated, will eventually carry toxins into our aquifer. Local taxpayers foot the bill for the cleanup.
3. Landscaping issues: Unless native plants and xeroscaping modalities are employed, the grass and plants would require watering, fertilizing and pesticide applications. This would add nitrogen to the area's water supply and use large amounts of water. The stadium location lies in a springshed and our already-endangered springs will be negatively affected further.
4. Landfill issues. Best practices could include the following: using paper goods that will easily decompose, a strong commitment to recycling glass, plastic and aluminum. Food waste itself is an issue; uneaten food in our landfill provides sustenance for untold numbers of rodents and other species. Best case scenario: off-load edible but not sellable food to local shelters.
Any development in Ocala/Marion County should provoke this type of thinking. What will the environmental impacts be? What are the consequences of this project on the local plants, animals, springs and the aquifer?
What are the unintended consequences?
Barbara Brandon Schwartz
Build it, they may not come
I have noted Star-Banner's support and op-ed columns against the proposed Yankees baseball stadium. Despite some potential benefits involved, this project isn't viable.
The track record of these stadiums in smaller towns is poor. They usually don't produce the revenue needed to support facility over time. Further, they often become havens for young children whose parents use the facility as an alternate baby sitter. You know, drop them off and parents head for nearest bar. Eventually, as the fan base dissipates, it becomes a liability.
My concern is why are the Yankees seeking to leave an established fan base in Tampa, unless the fan base and the economics have disappeared?
Building it on the west side of Ocala may rejuvenate that area, but inadequate bus service would reduce the fan base there, too. Everything boils down to variable economic conditions, which dissipate over time.
The most disturbing aspect of the stadium project is using tax revenue to build it. Again, my observations have shown tax revenue may be needed to support it. This, in a community which has turned down increased revenue for schools, among other things. One would think the ball complex near Forest High School would be more feasible and could be done at less cost.
What should be advocated is updating current facilities, wherever they are, without expending funds to develop new facilities.
It's up to the Star-Banner staff to completely investigate all aspects of this before the tax referendum. Because, realistically, these facilities and their cost develop a life of their own. Better to finance schools and use updated school facilities with a clubhouse. Like that, the field could be universally used.
If I had to vote today, based upon my experience and observations about other communities, the answer would be no.
I've found that if you build it, they may not come, and eventually become a drain on local revenues.
Bob Lanschoot


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Associated Press Release
AUBURNDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Officials say a Polk County couple surrendered 47 dogs after sheriff's deputies found them stacked in cages without food and water.
The Ledger of Lakeland reports Randel Huggins and Bernice Walskey were arrested Friday on 40 counts each of confining an animal without sufficient food. Walskey was also charged with making and selling synthetic marijuana.
Polk County deputies say they were investigating reports of drug activity when they arrived at the home in Auburndale on Friday night. Inside the home, they found the dogs -- most of them Dachshunds -- stacked in cages. The dogs were standing in their own feces and urine. Deputies say the smell overwhelmed the home and the dogs showed signs of fleas and skin conditions.
The dogs were taken to a shelter.
Information from: The Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.),http://www.theledger.com


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Howell Police Locate Missing Autistic Teen
Howell Police have located an autistic teen who went missing on Saturday morning.
A number of law enforcement agencies were searching for the 16-year-old boy, who is an avid runner, went for a jog near Howell High School but may have run into an unfamiliar area and got lost according to the Monmouth County Police, Fire an EMS Facebook page.
Their efforts are focused on a 6 square mile area around Howell High School that is mostly wooded.
Howell Police set up a command post at the high school and are used K9 units in their search. Helicopters will also be used according to the Asbury Park Press.
.Police did not released the boy's name.
- Police searching for missing Howell boy / Star-Ledger
- Howell police look for missing youth with autism / Asbury Park Press


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The PC edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 certainly seems the finest, technologically at least. A range of shiny graphical improvements offered by the DirectX 11-supporting engine on PC were revealed over the weekend, joining the previously confirmed dedicated server support to make it sound pleasing pleasant.
The PC edition packs "enhanced lighting, shadows, antialiasing, bloom, depth of field, ambient occlusion, and other enhanced effects that are still in the works," the blog post explains. Naturally, it can run in higher resolutions and has an uncapped framerate.
Treyarch has revamped the engine to be faster too. Multithreading is improved, and it's jumped to the faster DirectX 11. "The DX11 API is leaner than DX9 and requires less CPU time to do the same amount of work," Treyarch says. "It is important to point out that this benefits the entire range of supported GPUs, not just DX11 hardware." Plus it offers more visual options to tweak.
Cod Blops 2 is coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on November 23, with a Wii U version rumoured and inevitable really. Here are the newly-revealed PC system requirements:
- CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHz
- Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB
- Memory: 2GB for 32-bit OS or 4GB for 64-bit OS
- OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7


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Community in Bloom Art Exhibit
Creative Collegiates
Spring Art Show 2012
Gallery 2 Wilson Library
3rd floor
May 7 - June 1, 2012
This year's student led community based show features work from Ferndale High School students. The work was submitted by the following eight students: Angela Stringfield, Eli Owen, Galina Shulga, Brad Vario, Samantha Johnson, Jennifer Nestle, Alyssa Peterson, and Maleenia Huntley. They all worked within the mediums of photography and digital art. Some of the themes within their work is the cycle of life, and rebirth in Spring, the growth and blooming of plants and animals in Spring, as well as the focus on contrast and light.
Western's Art History 308 students wanted to create a show that allowed the local high school and middle school students the freedom and honor of displaying their work in a show that will be open and up for the entire community to view. We really wanted to encourage students to be involved and active in their community and to display their creativity as much as possible, while also allowing us to be involved in that process.
Kate McKee, Chelsea Madura, Jourdan Hinkle & Angie Larrabee


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What's Next for Offshore Energy?
On Dec. 1, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced that President Obama and his administration are reversing plans, made earlier in March, to expand offshore drilling to the Atlantic Coast—preventing oil exploration there for another seven years. Meanwhile, coastal communities are making significant investments in another form of offshore energy: wind power.
Choosing Coastal Health Over Oil
Sadly, it took the loss of 11 lives and thousands of livelihoods in coastal communities along the Gulf coast to spur the turnaround. A tragic reminder that drilling is a dirty and dangerous business, the BP disaster made it abundantly clear that the only way to truly keep our coasts and ocean ecosystems safe is to keep them free of oil rigs. In making his decision, Secretary Salazar looked at the science, analyzed the economics, and listened to the outpouring of opposition to offshore drilling from around the country and world.
The Obama administration realizes the incredible value that clean oceans and beaches represent. In states that were under consideration for expanded offshore drilling, coastal tourism and fishing generate more than $200 billion annually and provide 4.1 million jobs, according to Too Much at Stake, a new report released by Environment America and the Sierra Club.
In fact, according to government estimates of oil and gas reserves, the annual value of sustainable businesses dependent on clean beaches and oceans is four times larger than the value of any oil and gas that may lie offshore. Atlantic, Pacific, and eastern Gulf Coast jobs in these businesses would not exist without clean beaches and a clean ocean, both of which would be threatened by offshore drilling.
A Cleaner Alternative
Secretary Salazar made it clear that it is the duty of the Department of the Interior not only to protect our oceans and coastal communities, but also to meet our energy needs. One week before the announcement to reinstate the ban on drilling, he vowed to move forward on offshore wind power, pledging to pinpoint areas with excellent potential for producing wind energy and to accelerate the permitting process.
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The most innovative thing about this wind farm isn't how it works, but who owns it.
Offshore wind is one of America's greatest untapped resources. The achievable wind capacity off our coasts is nearly 900,000 megawatts, nearly enough to meet the entire country's current electricity needs. Offshore wind is particularly appealing because it can be located relatively close to major population centers along coasts, reducing the need for large transmission lines across our landscape.
Up and down the Atlantic coast, states and offshore wind developers are making significant progress in advancing offshore projects, according to a new report. The report finds up to six gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind projects have been proposed along the Atlantic coast—the equivalent of about five coal-fired power plants and enough to power about 1.5 million average U.S. homes. Based on government analysis, the Atlantic Ocean has significant offshore wind potential, with over 212 GW of wind resources in shallow waters where current technology is best suited.
The report, Offshore Wind in the Atlantic: Growing Momentum for Jobs, Energy Independence, Clean Air, and Wildlife Protection, makes the following key findings:
- From Maine to Georgia, every state with significant offshore wind resources has taken steps forward on offshore wind. Northern states (Maine to Delaware) have the most advanced projects while southern states (Maryland to Georgia) are quickly mobilizing on a series of projects.
- The Atlantic's shallow water characteristics combined with excellent wind speed make it an ideal location for offshore wind farms. 93 percent (42 out of the 45) of offshore wind projects worldwide are in shallow waters (zero to 30 meters deep). Close to half of the United States' shallow water offshore wind is along the Atlantic coast.
- While the most extensive European study concluded that offshore wind farms do not appear to have long-term or large-scale ecological impacts, major data gaps for the Atlantic Ocean still exist and site-specific impacts need to be evaluated. A coordinated, comprehensive, and well-funded effort is needed to address these gaps and improve the permitting process.
Faced with a choice about the future of energy production along the Atlantic Coast, both the Obama administration and coastal states are making the right decision in choosing renewable wind energy over a reliance on expanded drilling for dirty fossil fuels. This is a triumph of common sense policy in our fight against global warming and a clear win for coastal residents, economies, and ecosystems.
- : Bill McKibben imagines himself in the year 2100, looking back at a century of climate chaos and asking: What did it take to save the world?
- : Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.
- : What if Americans could support a clean energy future the way they once supported the U.S. war effort?


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Thursday, March 29 2007
"The Injury"
TOBY HOSTS AN "OFFICE MARATHON" WITH AN ENCORE EPISODE OF "THE INJURY" -- Fans can stay late at "The Office" when "Toby Flenderson" (Paul Lieberstein), Dunder Mifflin's HR director, hosts "A Night at the Office," when five HR nightmare-themed encore episodes run throughout the night. Michael (Steve Carell) demands attention from the entire Dunder Mifflin office after he has a freak accident with his George Foreman grill, and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) begins behaving strangely following a minor car crash. Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski and B.J. Novak also star.


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- Spanish GP - FP2
Pole still crucial despite pace - Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton believes the nature of the Circuit de Catalunya means pole position is still of vital importance on Saturday despite his pace during Friday's practice sessions.
Hamilton looked untouchable in both FP1 and FP2, especially so in the latter, as Mercedes once again demonstrated ominous pace to the rest of the field. But during his runs Hamilton occasionally came up behind back markers and he feels the difficulties in overtaking in Spain means a mistake in qualifying could compromise his chances of a win on Sunday.
"I think even with the pace we have it's always important to get pole," Hamilton said. "I was following back markers out there today and it's very difficult to get past people, especially Mercedes [customer teams] for example. Position is everything so we will do everything we can to put ourselves as high as possible but the race is obviously the most important thing."
Hamilton complained about tyre degradation in FP1 but seemed to be at ease behind the wheel in the second session, with his times over the longer runs looking much better compared to Nico Rosberg in the other Mercedes. Hamilton admits he was surprised by how his tyres reacted in FP2.
"This is such a different circuit, it's so difficult to drive with the track temperatures so today was just seeing about how the tyres worked. [The tyres] felt pretty bad this morning but then we made some changes and I was pleasantly surprised. In the past, for example, we have a bad FP2 [with degradation], and then the race has gone better. Today FP2 has gone well so I'm hoping for even more good news in the race."
Hamilton also thinks it is a great advantage to him to know Mercedes is going to deliver him a quick car every time he gets behind the wheel.
"It's not nerve-racking because we know the guys don't just create something and then just throw it on. There's so many trials and tests we have to go through before it comes. You know when it comes that our correlation in the wind tunnel has been really good.
"To get back in the car and feel that positive step forward from the team. Today has just been a smoother day, I haven't had a Friday like this for a long time."


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what happens when i call 911 in the mountains?
Do I get redirected to a local SAR team?
Who determines if I need to be extracted or if I'm just tired?
Who pays for the services, and how much is it?
I'm asking because I spend time in the mountains but realized I've never thought past the decision to make the 911/SPOT call. Info I hope I never need but I figure it's good to know, and I assume people on SP would have the answers.


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With the outrageous rates per month that Comcast is charging its customers, why is it that when you try to call them, it's just a recording that says questions about this, press 1 or press 2 and so on? But when you press any of those numbers, you still can't talk to a live person. All that money and they can't pay someone you can talk to. Makes me sick every month to pay my cable and can't talk to anyone when you have a question.
I was wondering what year the state is going to do something about Route 724 between Birdsboro and Pottstown. Every time it rains the road floods. The other day I had to turn all the way around and be late for an appointment. You would think with all the money they're giving away to fix roads that they could get this fixed.
Those complaining about the weather forecasters need to be aware that even with radar, satellite imaging and computer models forecasting is still an inexact science. This is especially true in this area where approaching storms interact with ocean moisture and cold air masses to the north. Even a degree or two temperature change or a few hundred feet difference in elevation can make a big difference. Maybe you should be thankful rather than complaining.
This is to all the police traveling Route 422. If you want everybody else to slow down and do 60 miles an hour or less in that construction zone, how about setting a good example. I'm tired of everybody going like the dickens through there. It's only 40 miles an hour through there and everybody's going faster than they're supposed to. The police have to do it also.
I'm the caller about the world war plaque in Limerick that is all faded away and could use a sprucing up. It think it's even worse that it's World War I. That means it's been in disarray for a hundred years almost. It's time to spruce it up. We do whiz away money here, there and everywhere. This is something that should be done. We're all descendants from them.
To all Americans who want our president to succeed, please vote those stubborn Republicans out of Congress in 2014. It is so obvious that the Republicans hate Obama and don't want him to get anything done. Maybe because he's black, don't know. They cry about their taxes going up a little. So what? They're rich. If I was wealthy, I wouldn't mind a bit if my taxes were higher than the average who makes minimum wage. Get them out.
It would seem to me that the cardinals could lead by example. I don't think by polluting the air is the best way to alert the public that a new pope has been chosen. What about releasing a dove, or just sticking a note under the door, or how about a blast of the horn? Pollution I don't think in this day and age is the way to go.
Regarding the meteorologists who tried to predict the storm a couple of weeks ago, it is not their fault, it is an act of God. Sure they said these things are hard to predict but they can't help what track the storm takes, so don't shoot the messenger.
The other day I downloaded an email from Fed-Ex saying that I had a package due and wasn't home at the time of delivery and to print out the receipt to go pick it up at a Fed-Ex office. It was a virus and I just wanted to let everybody know.
This is to the person who thinks we shouldn't be looking into her basket at the grocery store and what card she uses. If it's on Welfare, excuse me, we have paid for that. Did you look in my cart? It was half full. Yours was falling over and possibly you had two. And that's because our wonderful president gave all you people a nice big fat raise. I hope you're using it wisely. I hope you don't go and sell that food.
I do think that the people and children should be taught to speak English versus Spanish and it should not have to be printed in both languages. As a child growing up in a German home in the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, they would speak to us in Pennsylvania German but we were always told to answer in English because in school you're taught English and in this country you speak English. I think all the other countries should respect this the same.
Very early Wednesday morning I saw white smoke billowing so I thought we had a new pope till I realized it was the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant.


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Fox sideline reporter gets run over by WR prospect at major summer event
Amy Campbell is on the road to being a big-time sports reporter. She's already on Fox Sports, she has all the makings of a potential future Erin Andrews. And the athletes she deals with as a field reporter for Fox Sports Next (i.e. Fox Sports' recruiting coverage) seem to genuinely like her. That's a good start.
Now, Campbell can say she's finally made it as a reporter. She's been completely dump trucked by a player who was rushing toward the sideline while conducting an interview.
The on field obliteration -- which was brought to Prep Rally's attention by Bob's Blitz -- occurred during The Opening, a Nike-backed prep football combine and training session in Oregon. While Campbell was interviewing a Fox Sports recruiting analyst, rising senior Ermon Lane, one of the top receiving prospects in the Class of 2014, came rushing toward the interview while running out a play.
What happened next was practically made for TV history. Lane and Campbell collided, and when Lane and Campbell collided there could only be one winner.
If you have to guess who would come out on top there, let's just reconsider that Lane is 6-foot-2 and 172 pounds. Campbell is 5-foot-not-a-lot and even less on the scale.
Luckily, Campbell popped back up and, like a Timex, she kept on ticking. Right on cue she kept delivering news, on Twitter and online and other sources all over.
That's the sign of a real reporter.
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Multidisciplinary Senior Design
As a 5th year engineering student, I have reached my capstone design course: Senior Design. During the fall and winter quarters, I will be working with my assigned team which includes another mechanical engineer, 2 computer and 2 electrical engineers to design and build our project. Our assignment is to create an un-tethered ankle-foot orthotic. Basically our project will have sensors attached to an orthotic to help control ankle motion when the user is walking on all terrains (flat ground, ramps, and stairs). We are still in the early stages of our design and developing our system design. After we get approval, we will continue through the rest of senior design 1 to make the detailed design for our project, and in senior design 2, we will start building.
Another key aspect of senior design is the group work. Usually in your classes, you work with students in your engineering major. Senior design unites all the engineering disciplines to work together for the design. This class also brings together everything learned within your time at RIT to help finish the project. For my team, I am a mechanical engineer, but I also get to use my skills for the minor I have added in engineering management and I will be serving as our project lead. I was also placed on the project where I can apply some of the technical electives I have taken in the bioengineering track, and will be useful when I pursue my dream to work in quality for medical devices. Click here for the archive of past projects.
So between Senior Design, and the co-op experience, all engineers will have a strong resume and amazing skills to bring with them when they seek full time employment after graduation!
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Juvenile taken into custody following Kake homicide
A 14 year old male was taken into custody Saturday evening in connection with the death of Mackenzie Howard.
The body of 13 year old Howard was found in the entrance of the Kake Presbyterian Memorial Church Feb. 5 by a community member and has been declared a homicide by Alaska State Troopers.
Investigation of evidence and interviews led troopers to arrest the Kake teen. He has been transported to a Department of Juvenile Justice holding facility in Ketchikan and due to the age of the suspect his name and charges that are pending against him cannot be released.
According to Alaska Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer Megan Peters there are many rules and regulations regarding juvenile suspects.
"The only way the name and charges can be released is if the case is waived into adult court," Peters stated. "Even then, it is up to the Division of Juvenile Justice to release the information."
According to Alaska Bureau of Investigation supervisor Lt. Rex Leath, they feel they have the right suspect and that he worked alone.
Authorities have treated this case as a homicide from the beginning and the state medical examiner did confirm that fact after the autopsy was completed.
Peters stated that information will be released as it is permitted by the state and juvenile authorities.


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Or at least, that would be a nice way to hack it. Keep everybody off the route you want to take, by having Google tell everyone else to avoid it. Google reports for your route: Bumper to bumper traffic jams, overturned tractor trailers, oil slicks, zombie attacks, etc.
And you'll have an open road.
I mean, it is nice to know that Google's fastest route is a disaster because freeway traffic that was assumed to move at 50mph is actually doing only 5mph but when is Google or any other map service going to use this information to calculate a route that works well now?
It would even be a nice touch to update the estimates based on a projected time. Right now, I can change the map to show traffic conditions at 9:00am Monday morning but the time estimate is still based on 11:00am Saturday.
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972


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David Hernandez and Sugein Cancel-Santiago were arrested for Aggravated Robbery. A third suspect has not been identified, because a warrent for his arrest has not yet been obtained. Police say Hernandez and Cancel-Santiago are responsible for nine home invasions, and that the third suspect took part in about half of them. Hernandez was arrested last night, following another attempted robbery at 4080 Airport Road in Colorado Springs. Police say the victims were able to disarm Hernandez, who then fled. Hernandez was found hiding in the backyard of a nearby house. Hernandez was already wanted on an outstanding $50,000 dollar Robbery warrant, and now faces charges of First Degree Burglary and Assaulting an Officer. The suspects may also face additional charges, in connection with three other cases in August.
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The Assistant Director is responsible for all aspects of public service within the Branch Libraries. The standard for service, programs, and materials shall be aligned with the District's mission statement and core values.
The Assistant Director generally receives assignments in terms of broad objectives related to the District's short-term and long range planning and development.
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A master's degree in library science from an ALA accredited program, MBA, MPA, or master's in non-profit administration plus eight years professional experience with a minimum of four years in an administrative capacity.
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Candidates possessing a second master's approved by the Director may be appointed at Salary Track L.
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"Oh my God. Oh my God!"
As his newborn baby son cried his first cries and took his first breaths, Cagney Wenk tearfully murmured those three words over and over.
Wenk, 26, had just witnessed the birth of his first child while sitting in a nearby chair hooked up to medical devices, head wrapped in a bandage, wearing sunglasses to protect his eyes. The new dad was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and has been through multiple surgeries.
He found out he had stage 4 glioblastoma three weeks before he and his fiancé, Jessica Li, were expecting their first child, his sister Marissa Wenk told The Huffington Post. He was diagnosed, she said, after experiencing headaches for three days.
Wenk is also undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for the cancer, which lies deep in the right lobe of his brain.
On September 18, when Li went into labor, Wenk's nurses in the intensive care unit at Boulder Community Hospital wanted to do something special for the couple. They brought him up from the ICU to the maternity ward – medicines and medical equipment in tow – so that the soon-to-be dad could be there for the birth.
His nurses also enlisted the help of Colorado photographer and videographer Sara Boccolucci, from the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, who documented the birth.
"The video was really for the family to have it as a memory of a magical moment," Wenk's sister told The Huffington Post. "I think the video shows it all with their reactions. There were so many tears, emotions and so much love."
Wenk described in the video how expecting a child changed his life.
"He got me a job. He taught me to relax. He's taught me a lot of life lessons that I wouldn't have learned otherwise," he said.
Boccolucci posted the video on her Facebook page with the hope that viewers would be inspired to help the couple by donating to their GiveForward fundraising campaign.
"It is my hope that people will see the video, feel the love this family shares, and help lift them up and make a donation if they are able," she told the Huffington Post.
Levon Robbie Wenk was born on September 18, 2016, at 2:12 a.m., a healthy 8 pounds, 8 ounces.
"We have all the love in the world around us right now," Wenk said as he and Li, with Levon in her arms, lay bed-to-bed holding hands after the birth.
But really, the video says it all.


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, Miamis longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the city of Miami, started the weekend with record crowds, surpassing the total attendance of 36,000 visitors which the fair achieved last year. Strong sales of both marquee works and emerging artists continued on Saturday. Distinguished for its depth, diversity and quality, Art Miami presents an incredible showcase of works from over 100 internationally renowned modern and contemporary art galleries.
Highlights from Saturdays sales included:
Mark Borghi Fine Art sold Alexander Calders Smeary for $550,000, a Gerhard Richter for $120,000, and a Frank Stella for $95,000
Scott White Contemporary Art sold a Helen Frankenthaler for $475,000, a Ross Blecker for $75,000, an Alexander Calder for $68,000, and a Kim McCarthy watercolor
Galerie Patrice Trigano sold a Mel Ramos Hav-‐a-‐Havana to a private European collection. The asking price was $380,000. The gallery also sold a Lucien Clergue to a distinguished American collector for $20-‐000-‐$30,000, and a Hans-‐Christian Berg visual votex
Schantz Galleries sold five Lino Tagliapietra glass works Dinosaur for $63,000, Atlantis for $43,000, two Ostunis for $53,000 a piece, and Mandara for $45,000
C. Grimaldis Gallery sold twelve works by artist Chul-‐Hyun Ahn totaling $225,000
Contessa Gallery received a commission for a Jane Manus sculpture for $45,000, and six David Drebin photographs ranging from $4,800 -‐$24,000
Ferrin Gallery sold a Chris Antemann sculpture titled Dining in the Altogether for $30,000
Gana Art sold Insook Kims One Ten Third Street for $20,000
Claire Oliver sold four large-‐scale sculptures by Beth Cavener Stichter to 21c Museum for an undisclosed amount
Eli Klein Gallery sold two editions Li Hongbo for $55,000, Flexible Human to Miguel Ferrer for the UBS Art Collection, one small Zhang Dali painting for $22,000, three Li Zhanyang sculptures, and eight Lui Bolin photographs, and three Cui Xiuwen photographs
The following galleries also reported sales:
Galerie Forsblom sold a small Peter Halley
McCormick Gallery/Vincent Vallarino Fine Art sold a John Henry, Jack Roth, and a John Little for undisclosed amounts
Greg Kucera Gallery Inc. sold Dan Webbs Sleeper
Caldwell Snyder Gallery sold a Julie Speidel sculpture, a James Wolanin and a Doug Owen
Edelman Arts Contemporary sold works by Doug Argue, Christopher Winter, John Margolis, and Scott Covert
James Barron Art sold a Tristano di Robilant sculpture
Jenkins Johnson Gallery two Julian Opie prints, a Scott Fraser painting, and a Julia Fullerton-‐Batten photograph
Leonard Ruethmueller Contemporary Art sold Yun Lees Pink Rhythm, and eight drawings by Salustiano
Among the high-‐profile crowd of collectors, museum groups, and influencers at the fair on Saturday was: Lowry Sims, President of The Studio Museum in Harlem and former curator of modern art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry Gottlieb, Head of Cultural Affairs for the City of Miami; Miguel Ferrer, The UBS Art Collection; 21c Museum; Steven Evans, Pace Foundation, San Antonio; Ludovico Pratesi, Museum of Contemporary Art Pesaro, Italy; Rivka Saker, Artis and Sotheby's New York; Manual de Santaren, Collector; Manon Slome, No Longer Empty, New York; Jovana Stokic, Location One, New York; Wolfgang Zaeh, art consultant, Germany. Ted and Ruth Baum returned to the fair for the third time, as did major collector Jorge Perez. Real estate mogul Tony Goldman was spotted in Waterhouse & Dodd eyeing photography artist Jean Francois Rauzier works, which he collects extensively.
Saturday bought in big crowds and a lot of new visitors to the Fair. Sales continued to be strong and many important works are on hold that we expect to be finalized by the close of the show tomorrow. The momentum of this years fair is incredible and we are looking forward to a successful last day, said Nick Korniloff, Director of Art Miami.
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Hartshorne Fine Glass Collection for Sale at Bonhams
Gifts Enhance Metropolitan Museum's Scholarly Activities in Cycladic and Early Greek Art
CalArts Launches 'East of Borneo', a Collaborative Online Art Journal and Archive
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New Orleans Museum of Art Celebrates First Century with Exhibition from Its Collection
Chillida-Leku Museum in Spain Announces It is Forced to Shut Down Due to Economic Crisis
U.S. Government Returns Degas Painting Stolen 37 Years Ago to French Government
Spanish Thieves Steal Van Containing 20 Pieces of Art Including Works by Picasso
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Washington's Transformer Gallery Vows Ongoing Protest Against Smithsonian
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High Museum of Art Appoints Brett Abbott as New Curator of Photography
Luba Caryatid Stool Achieves Record for a Work of African Art at Sotheby's: $7.1 Million
Photographers' Gallery Announces Four Shortlisted Artists Nominated for Annual Prize
International Design Museum Munich Presents Black N Dark: Photographs by Hubertus Hamm
Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé & Their Friends at Sotheby's Sale of Books, Manuscripts & Precious Documents
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Report Saying Western Wall Not Holy to Jews is Cut
King Tut NYC Exhibition at Discovery Times Square Exposition Extends to January 17, 2011
The Whitney Launches CLICKISTAN, Online Game Art, to Benefit the Annual Fund
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Collectors from Around the World Gather at Art Basel Miami Beach as It Opens Its Doors
Tate Britain is Changing: First Phase of Major Building Project Starts this Autumn
Sotheby's to Offer Important Old Master and 19th Century Paintings From the Collection of J. E. Safra
Art Miami Celebrates Opening Night with Marquee Works Drawing Large Crowds and Sales
Recent Paintings by Contemporary Scottish Painter Stephen Conroy at Marlborough Gallery
New Display Marks 100th Anniversary of the Formation of the Camden Town Group
$16.7 Million Cranes Lift Christie's Chinese Art and Ceramics Sale in Hong Kong
Christie's Hong Kong Achieves Highest Ever Sale Total for Chinese Paintings
Bed Down with Reindeer at Carsten Hoeller's Berlin Show at Museum fuer Gegenwart
After 30 Years of Service, Joan Rosenbaum to Retire as Director of the Jewish Museum
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Janis Gardner Cecil Joins Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art as Director of Sales
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$50,000 Hudgens Prize Winner Announced at the Hudgens Center of Arts in Duluth
Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Campbell to be Keynote Speaker for The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum in March
Imperial Russian Table from the Winter Palace Sells for £916,000 at Bonhams
Art Stage Singapore Set to Elevate Prominence of Asian Art in the Global Arena
Miami Art Museum Breaks Ground on New Building in Downtown Miami's Museum Park
Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin to Be Auctioned in Los Angeles
Gallery Protests Smithsonian's Removal of Video
MacDougall's Works on Paper Auction Set New World Records
December 1, 2010
Entombed for Over 2000 Years, Warriors of China's First Emperor, Arrive in Sydney
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Tragic Jackie Kennedy Image and Rare Marilyn Monroe Photo for Sale at Bonhams
Impressionist & Modern Art Sale at Sotheby's in Paris Includes an André Masson Masterpiece
Picture Bought for Its Frame in Devon Sells for $78,000 at Bonhams Canadian Art Sale
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The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy Explored in New Book
Jewels & Objects Formerly in the Collection of The Duchess of Windsor Sell for Double-Estimate
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Fresh Collapse of Wall at the Archaeological Site of Pompeii Sparks More Concern
Bob Dylan's Lyrics for "The Times They are A-Changin'" to Sell at Sotheby's in New York City
The Phillips Collection Releases Official Free App for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
Drawings and Sketches that Reflect Mexico's Independence Period Published
David Bomberg Drawings Acquired by Ben Uri Gallery with Help from the Art Fund
Jewish Museum in London Shortlisted for Major Award
Art Gallery of New South Wales Receives Important Collection from Mollie Gowing
Smithsonian Acquires Several Important Archives
Smithonian's National Portrait Gallery Removes Video After Group Complains
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Sotheby's to Offer the Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor, One of the Greatest Jewellery Collections
Sotheby's Upcoming Sale of Contemporary Art will Feature Two Sessions at the Galerie in Paris
The Diamond Encrusted Skull by Damien Hirst on Display at Palazzo Vecchio
Seoul Auction Autumn Sale Held in Hong Kong Achieved Over HK$35 Million
Berlin-Paris, International Gallery Weekend Fixture, Returns for the Third Time
First International Retrospective of Jean Paul Gaultier to Premiere in Montreal
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Tom Sokolowski to Step Down as Director of the Andy Warhol Museum After 14 Years
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