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ATLANTC, Iowa - With only days to go until the GOP primary contest finally begins in earnest, a new set of polling has brought forth a new anti-Romney candidate in the race, and today for the first time, Mitt Romney was asked by reporters to draw contrast between himself, and the surging former Sen. Rick Santorum.
Keeping with his tradition of rarely attacking his Republican rivals directly, Romney reminded the press that Santorum endorsed him in 2008, and that the former Pennsylvania congressman and senator spent the majority of his career in Washington.
"I don't think I've spent a lot of time trying to describe differences on policy. But instead I focused on the things I believe and the choices that Americans have to make. Senator Santorum was kind enough to endorse me last time around. I appreciate that. And we've been friends," Romney said. "I can tell you that our backgrounds are quite different. Like Speaker Gingrich, Senator Santorum has spent his career in government, in Washington, nothing wrong with that, but it is a very different background than I have and I think the people of this country recognize that with our economy as the major issue we face right now that it would be helpful to have someone who understands the economy firsthand."
Asked later whether he or Santorum, who has ridden a wave of evangelical and social conservative support to third place in the latest Des Moines Register polling, was the more conservative, Romney again chose not to attack Santorum directly, but to speak about his own record, concluding:
"I'll let people make their own assessment of our respective records, but I'm a conservative. I'm proud to be a conservative businessman, and I think what distinguishes me from the others in the field is that I understand the economy first hand, having lived in it. And I look forward to a spirited campaign"
The questions about Santorum came at the end of a chaotic retail campaign event, in which more than 75 journalists from local, national and international media overwhelmed campaign and restaurant staff at The Family Table restaurant in Atlantic, Iowa, spilling into the kitchen and out onto the street as space in the restaurant disappeared. The pack underscored Romney's recent reclamation of frontrunner status here, but also prevented him from talking to more than a few dozen voters, who clung to their tables and bar stools amid the crush and trample of camera crews and notepad-wielding reporters.
While working the room after his brief remarks, Romney was asked to respond to the latest poll numbers (by a voter or a journalist, it was impossible to tell) that have him leading here by a narrow margin, 24 percent to 22 percent over Congressman Ron Paul of Texas.
"I think it's really hard for pollsters to know exactly who is going to come out and who is not, but it's encouraging," Romney said. "I'm pleased that we're seeing the kind of crowds we're seeing and the kind of enthusiasm, so it's encouraging."
Another encouraging sign for Romney? His fourth quarter fundraising. Asked to predict his total haul for the final three months of the year -- a dollar amount described to NBC by a Romney campaign fundraiser last week as "phenomenal," -- the candidate sounded confident.
"We'll do better this quarter than any quarter so far but I don't have a final figure for you and when we do we'll let you know," he said.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. — January 23, 2014 — North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.38 billion in orders worldwide in December 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.02, according to the December EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI. A book-to-bill of 1.02 means that $102 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average of worldwide bookings in December 2013 was $1.38 billion. The bookings figure is 11.1 percent higher than the final November 2013 level of $1.24 billion, and is 48.3 percent higher than the December 2012 order level of $927.4 million.
The three-month average of worldwide billings in December 2013 was $1.35 billion. The billings figure is 20.8 percent higher than the final November 2013 level of $1.11 billion, and is 33.8 percent higher than the December 2012 billings level of $1.0 billion.
"Through the final quarter of 2013, both bookings and billings continually improved," said Denny McGuirk, president and CEO of SEMI. "The December three-month average bookings were at the highest level since June 2012 — a positive sign for the 2014 spending outlook."
The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.
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Source: SEMI, January 2014
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The data are contained in a monthly Book-to-Bill Report published by SEMI. The report tracks billings and bookings worldwide of North American-headquartered manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture semiconductor devices, not billings and bookings of the chips themselves. The Book-to-Bill report is one of three reports included with the SEMI Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS).
SEMI is the global industry association serving the nano- and micro-electronic manufacturing supply chains. Our 1,900 member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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Every time these guys get together on stage the world is blessed. A Tribe Called Quest, unannounced reunion, at the Knitting Factory last night:
I caught "Award Tour" at Outside Lands in SF where the festival crowd was subdued, but this is insane. Phife has heavy medical bills from diabetes, and the show was a benefit for him, but feel the joy in the room and try to deny the gift to the fans.


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UH Mānoa PRSSA announces kick-off meeting and prize giveawaysUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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The University of Hawaiʻi's Public Relations Student Society of America-Mānoa Chapter PRSSA) will hold its first meeting to kick-start the fall semester on September 16. PRSSA is open to all students from the University of Hawaiʻi system who are interested in public relations. Those attending will be entered into a raffle drawing for prize giveaways. The winners will be announced at the conclusion of the meeting.Who: PRSSA UH-Mānoa Chapter
What: Kick-off Meeting of the Fall Semester
When: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Where: Campus Center, Room 307
The Public Relations Student Society of America is the world's preeminent pre-professional organization for students interested in public relations. Founded in 1968 by its parent society, the Public Relations Society of America, the organization has grown to include more than 9,600 members at 284 colleges and universities.
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MORRIS – Approximately 210 area families took part in the mobile food pantry sponsored by First Christian Church that took place in Morris on Aug. 14.
With a total of 8,585 pounds of food delivered, each household received approximately 41 pounds of food. It contained 14 pounds of frozen meat and hot dogs and a wide variety of other items, including watermelons, carrots, bagged salad, cereal, hazelnut spread, rice, diced tomatoes, macaroni and cheese and croissants.
The next mobile food pantry is sponsored by Mazon State Bank, Seco Systems and ITW Filtration Systems and will take place Sept. 11 at Mazon City Park.
Registration will begin at approximately 3:45 p.m.; distribution will begin at 5 p.m.
Any family that resides in Grundy County and is in need of assistance with food is welcome to come to these food distributions.
Recipients are asked to provide proof of their residency, either with a valid driver's license, state ID or utility bill with their current Grundy County address.
Every person in line will be asked to show this proof, even if they have been to a mobile food pantry in the past.
Please note this and all future mobile food pantries will be nonsmoking events. Smoking will not be allowed anywhere on the premises.
Those interested in attending are encouraged to bring a container to carry the items they will receive; plastic laundry baskets and wheeled carts work well for this purpose.
It is not necessary to let We Care of Grundy County know whenever you plan to attend the distributions, but if you have any questions, call the We Care office at 815-942-6389.
Upcoming mobile food pantry sponsors include Standard Bank and New Community Christian Church.
We Care is a local nonprofit agency that provides emergency assistance to Grundy County residents in the form of food, rent, utility and prescription assistance.
We Care is a United Way partner agency and is funded primarily by private donations.


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Former players should contact Grant Swallows at (931) 372-3929
Invitation to Sofball Alumni reunion (PDF)
RSVP information for Softball Alumni Reunion (PDF)
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech is hosting its annual Softball Alumni Day on Saturday, May 8, when the Golden Eagles host Southeast Missouri in an Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader. The action has been moved back two hours due to graduation being held earlier in the day, and in an effort to help alleviate any potential parking problems.
The softball twinbill will begin at 3 p.m.
Recognition of alumni and the Wall of Honor ceremony will take place between games. Alumni are also invited to stay after the games to share a meal wth all former and current Golden Eagles, family, staff and friends.
Anyone planning to attend is asked to contact Grant Swallows in order to assist in planning for the day. Please call (931) 372-3929. Information and RSVP forms are available at the links at the top of this page.


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This sermon clip is making a stir in the blogosphere for all the right reasons—a great example of the typical reaction comes from Josh Harris.
The influence of C. J. Mahaney on Mark Driscoll is becoming ever more plain. In this clip Mark 'steals' an outline of practical advice on how to be humble from the man who he calls his dear friend. He also confesses to not having always demonstrated these traits himself. Interestingly he urges us to ask others about the appropriateness of our tone. (HT Justin)
In the beginning of the full sermon he extends this confession and repentance for his own pride.
So he begins the sermon by stating he is not qualified to preach on the subject, and that he felt his lack of humility had been a major failure of his time at Mars Hill. This is an amazing way to start a sermon!He speaks of a time in his life last December when a season of great opposition led to a phone call from C. J. to encourage him to see it as an opportunity to exercise and grow in humility. I found the whole message very convicting.
The whole sermon is available in video and audio download or to listen here:
For more information, see Mahaney on Humility. You can also influence what Mark will preach on in January by voting on his "Ask Anything" page. You have ten votes per day. Use them wisely.


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Meridian's water department at one time had four full-time employees to read meters in the city, but is now left to cover the entire city with only one. The water department is one of many, just like the police and fire departments, that desperately needs to hire, but can't until the Civil Service Commission is ready.
The Civil Service Commission was one of the focal points from the City Council work session. Council members say the city desperately needs to move forward in hiring new employees, as well as transitioning temporary employees to full-time.
"We need to test for it, we need to put the person in there," Council President George Thomas says in the session. "It's not fair to hire people in there and keep them more than 90 days. Plus it's a violation of the city policy."
The hiring freeze has been lifted, and the commission is now fully-staffed. But the city is still making some final decisions before they start testing new employees. CAO Mike McGrevey met with the chairman of the Civil Service Commission to determine what needs to be done before moving forward.
"Basically, our meeting this afternoon is about reviewing the testing process, as well as how do we move forward on a training schedule for our civil service commissioners," he says.
And while the city is on the verge of hiring on new employees, one of the most time-consuming measures standing in the way is looking at the tests, themselves.
"One of the larger issues was testing, and the obsolete conditions of some of the tests," Council Vice President Dustin Markham explains. "So we need to go back and revamp some of those tests, have the department heads determine whether those tests are still legitimately relevant to those positions."
McGrevey says there are anywhere from 35 to 40 vacant positions that need to be filled.


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2006 Baseball
John Carroll 8, Bluffton 3; Coast Guard Academy 15, Bluffton 11
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., sports information director
March 11, 2006
FORT MYERS, Fl. - The Bluffton University baseball team fell to 3-5 with a pair of losses at the Gene Cusic Classic on Friday, March 10, 2006. The Beavers dropped their first game to undefeated John Carroll (8-0) by a final score of 8-3 and lost 15-11 to the Coast Guard Academy (4-2) in the afternoon.
GAME 1 - John Carroll 8, Bluffton 3
John Carroll picked up a run in the first inning when it sandwiched a pair of singles around a walk to take the early 1-0 lead.
The Beavers found themselves down 5-0 after a third inning that saw John Carroll rip three hits, including a Wysmier double and a three-run Snider home run, to plate four runs.
Following a pair of outs to start the top of the fourth inning, Riordan McClain (Upper Sandusky/Upper Sandusky) started the Bluffton comeback when he was hit by a pitch. He moved to second on a Curtis Schroeder (Shelby/Shelby) single up the middle. A pair of wild pitches and an error on the John Carroll shortstop allowed both McClain and Schroeder to score cutting the deficit to three runs in the fourth.
John Carroll tacked on a run in the fifth when Wade opened the inning with a double to right center. A Bluffton error allowed him to cross the plate.
Lowell Wyse (Camden, Mich./Hesston J.C.) opened the eighth with a triple to right center. He crossed the plate on a Tony Moore (Elida/Elida) groundout to the shortstop, but the Beavers failed to push any more runs across the plate as John Carroll picked up the 8-3 victory over Bluffton to keep its record perfect at 8-0.
The Beavers were limited to five hits with Wyse collecting the lone extra-base hit for Bluffton. John Carroll finished with eight hits, but a pair of dingers helped the team plate eight runs.
Tim Kay (0-2) went 7.1 innings and gave up seven runs on seven hits to take the loss for the Beavers. He struck out seven and issued only two walks in the contest.
GAME 2 - Coast Guard Academy 15, Bluffton 11
Bluffton started quickly against the Coast Guard Academy in its second game of the day. Tony Moore picked up a leadoff walk and moved to third when Riordan McClain doubled to right center. Tim Kay (Alpharetta Ga./Blessed Trinity) picked up two RBI's on his double to left center which gave the Beavers a 2-0 lead after one inning.
Lowell Wyse doubled to right center following a pair of strikeouts and scored on a Moore single in the second inning.
Ryan Baightel (Wapakoneta/Wapakoneta) rapped the Beavers' fourth double of the game on a Jarbeau offering and it plated Kay who had led off the frame with a single up the middle.
The Coast Guard Academy put together three hits in the fourth to push two runs across the plate.
Bluffton took advantage of a pair of walks, a hit batter and an error in the fifth to score four runs before the dust settled. Austin Gray (Lewisburg/Tri-County North) knocked a double to left center and scored following walks to Wyse and Moore. McClain picked up a pair of RBI's when he singled to right center.
The Coast Guard answered in the bottom of the fifth with three runs on four hits and a Bluffton error. Consecutive singles by Franklin and Arena were followed by a three-run shot to center field from Jarbeau who finished the game 5-of-6 with three dingers and nine RBI's.
McClain plated Wyse and moved Moore to third with his RBI single to left center in the top of the seventh. Moore crossed the plate on a wild pitch from Guido.
Coast Guard banged out five hits in the bottom of the seventh to chase reliever Randy Miller (Willard/Willard) and cut the deficit to two runs (10-8) heading into the eighth inning.
Following a Franklin single in the eighth, Jarbeau drove an Aaron Krieger (Ida, Mich./Ida) offering over the center field wall to knot the game at 10.
McClain reached on an error to start the ninth inning. He stole second and moved to third on a Greg Sigg (Maumee/Maumee) single to right field. Schroeder picked him up with a sacrifice fly to center field.
Krieger struck out Higgins and induced Keefe into a groundout to start the bottom of the ninth inning. Back-to-back infield errors and consecutive walks allowed the Coast Guard to tie the game at 11 with Jarbeau coming to the plate. He drilled his third homer of the day to right center field for a walk off grand slam which gave the Academy a 15-11 victory over the Beavers.
Aaron Krieger pitched the final 2.1 innings giving up seven runs, only two were earned, on three hits to take the loss for Bluffton.
McClain went 4-of-6 at the plate, including a pair of doubles, and led the Beavers with three RBI's. Moore, Kay and Sigg all collected two hits and Lowell Wyse scored three times in the loss.
Tim Kay leads the Beavers with a .556 average at the plate (10-of-18) and eight RBI's. Riordan McClain is hitting .536 (15-of-28) and has scored 11 times. Freshman Curtis Schroeder has a .474 bating average (9-of-19) through the first eight games.
Following the Beavers Saturday game with Muskingum College, they will return from the Gene Cusic Classic to host Capital on Tuesday, March 14 at 3 p.m.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale softball team will host a Pitching/Infield/Outfield/Hitting Clinic inside Coxe Cage on Sunday, March 2 open to girls ages 8-18 years old. The pitching/infield/outfield sessions run from 10 a.m. to 11:30, while the hitting session is from noon to 2 p.m.
Pitching Session: Hall of Fame Pitcher and Yale Associate Head Coach Barbara Reinalda will lead the pitching session along with our current players. Coach Reinalda will review the fundamentals of pitching, as well as tips and drills for a variety or pitches.
Outfield Session: Led by Assistant Coach Cheryl Peterson and current players, the outfielders will work on throwing mechanics, angles, backup responsibilities, in addition to other fundamentals of outfield play.
Infield Session: Led by Head Coach Jen Goodwin, along with the current players, the infielders will work on throwing mechanics, ground ball approach, specific infield positioning, in addition to other fundamentals of infield play.
Hitting Session: Head Coach Jen Goodwin will oversee the Hitting Session, along with the coaching staff and current players. In this session Coach Goodwin will review the fundamentals of hitting, plus some advanced drills we use to improve bat speed, power and consistency. We will also cover bunting and slapping for those interested.
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The Daily Freeman (http://www.dailyfreeman.com)
Friday, February 8, 2013
Dear Editor:
Will the Freeman and the Main Street Media ever give an honest assessment of the Obama administration's handling of the economy in which the historical unemployment, number of food stamp participants, and shrinking of job opportunities continue to plague our people?
Obama's disastrous foreign policy decisions have made us a laughing stock of our enemies and allies and have led to the growing influence of terrorists (which the president claimed were on the run) throughout the world.
The unprecedented allocation of federal funds and mandates which have benefited political allies, Wall Street, international banks, and union leaders and led to the shrinking of the middle class and the downsizing and loss of small businesses, which are the most productive engines of our economy, are leading to "despair and change" to large segments of our population.
The promise of the Obamacare health reforms to reduce health insurance costs and offer better health care to all Americans has produced the reality of an ever-evolving disaster, cost and reduction of services and medications, and poses a grave threat to the medical professions and availability of hospitals in inner city locations.
Obama has promised to bring the country together, yet his actions, rhetoric and policies have identified him as the most divisive president in our history.
He has increased the number of bureaucracies, mandates, loss of our freedoms, as he uses false science dictates to justify government intrusion into the individual's rights and decision making. It is time for the Freeman and the Main Street Media to look beyond the rhetoric and political image creations and start presenting the reality of the disastrous decisions of the past four years, and the threat to our personal freedoms and security resulting from the elitist actions and ideology of this administration.
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Creativity International has teamed up with the UK's largest retailer, Tesco, launching a major promotion featuring Mister Maker craft packs.
Mister Maker is the interactive arts preschool TV show from Zodiak Rights, which airs on CBeebies in the UK and has garnered an audience worldwide. The month-long Tesco promotion, which launched on May 16, will see Mister Maker craft kits at special promotion prices.
As part of the promotion, Tesco will also launch an exclusive Mister Maker Sealife Puppets Kit. The promotion will take place in 286 stores, each using a display unit containing eight different lines, including Mister Maker Sock Puppets, Pom Pom Animals, Wild Animal Masks, Animal Hand Puppets, Pencil Toppers, Make a Face, and the exclusive Sealife Puppets Kit.


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Santa Clara Mag Blog
Santa Clara Magazine's blog, updated whenever the writing goblin visits the editorial staff of the magazine.
Celebrating La Virgen
Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011
Santa Clara and the Sacred Heart Parish commemorate the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a 15-year tradition—and a four-year scholarship.
Photo by Charles Barry
The sounding of the caracol (conch) echoed through Mission Santa Clara de Asís on December 4. Then came drums, singing, and ancient Aztec step dancing. The joyous occasion: La Virgen Del Tepeyac, celebrating the miraculous apparitions of La Virgen de Guadalupe to Juan Diego, a Christian Indian, on the Tepeyac hill in Mexico City in 1531.
This year marks the 15th annual presentation of La Virgen in the Mission Church. The event is a collaboration of the University and Sacred Heart Parish. Performed in the Flor y Canto (Flower and Song) Nahuatl tradition, the celebration featured the Aztec dance group Danza Yoloxochitl with narration, colorful cultural costumes, and music: drums and guitars, violins and flute.
Building bridges
Ana Maria Pineda, RSM, an associate professor of religious studies at SCU, helps organize the public presentation each year. She arrived at Santa Clara University in 1997 to teach Hispanic Spirituality: Guadalupe—the country's only course dedicated to studying La Virgen and her significance in history, popular religion, and current events—including immigration issues—as well as the daily lives of those who seek her comfort. La Virgen Del Tepeyac offers a two-way bridge to the underserved communities beyond SCU, venerating an icon central to many Latinos lives and identities, offering dignity, unity, strength, and hope.
While a student, María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles '98 was a member of Sacred Heart Parish. Her devotion to la Virgen inspired her to create a partnership between SCU and Sacred Heart. At the parish, she participated in El Teatro Corazón, made up of parish members. The parish had already been performing the Juan Diego account for nearly two decades. Castañeda-Liles helped persuade SCU's Campus Ministry that the reenactment is a form of popular religious prayer, not simply theatre, and that it would be fitting to host the celebration in the Mission. Parish members joined with Pineda's students with the help of Pia Moriarty, then director of Eastside Project (known today as Arrupe Partnerships for Community-based Learning), for the first celebration of La Virgen in the Mission Church in 1997. Since then, Castañeda-Liles has continued her involvement with SCU in another important way: She is an assistant professor of religious studies.
Santa Clara alumni are also strong supporters of the event. José A. Cabrales '00, who serves as president of the Chicano/Latino Alumni Chapter, underscores that the celebration has become an important SCU tradition, binding the community and generations.
In addition to the many who come to the celebration each year, Pineda has had more than 500 students in her Hispanic Spirituality course. The reenactment helps non-Latino students and those of other faiths come to a greater appreciation of culture and religious traditions beyond their own, she says. And it is an important part of reflecting on their own religious beliefs and how education has brought them opportunities they wouldn't have otherwise. As La Virgen's apparitions to Juan Diego symbolize her embrace of all, so does the presentation symbolize SCU's connection with the community beyond its campus.
Students, scholars, and alumni
Preceding the celebration on Dec. 4 was another tradition: the awarding of the San Juan Diego Scholarship. It recognizes Sacred Heart students who are committed to the parish, youth leadership, and the Latino community. This year the scholarship was presented to Araceli Guiterrez, who plans to enter SCU in 2012 as a freshman. Thirteen students have received the scholarship over the years, including some who were the first in their families to attend college.
It was the celebration itself that inspired the scholarship: Touched by the first performance in the Mission Church in 1997, Stephen Privett, S.J., then provost and vice president for academic affairs at SCU and now president of the University of San Francisco, awarded two scholarships to Sacred Heart students. The scholarship was later formally established by President Paul Locatelli, S.J. '60.
—Monique Marie DeJong '06
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On Campus: Poetry triple-header Nov. 2
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011
The Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Reading Series serves up a winsome threesome for the fall poetry reading: Santa Clara's own Kirk Glaser, Claudia Monpere McIsaac, and Chancellor William Rewak, S.J.
WHERE: Fess Parker Studio Theatre
WHEN: Wed., Nov. 2 — 4 p.m.
WHO: Well, there's...
Kirk Glaser. He's taught writing and literature at Santa Clara for over 15 years and serves as faculty advisor to The Santa Clara Review. His work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and he has received an American Academy of Poets prize, C. H. Jones National Poetry Prize, and University of California Poet Laureate Award. His poetry can be found in The Threepenny Review, Cerise Press, Alsop Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, as well as the The Cortland Review.
Claudia Monpere McIsaac. She's taught at Santa Clara for 25 years, and her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Prairia Schooner, Ecotone, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere.
William Rewak, S.J. Known as Santa Clara's poet-president, Fr. Rewak led the University 1976–88 and returned to Santa Clara as Chancellor this summer, after having served as President of Spring Hill College, director of the Jesuit Retreat House in Los Altos, and professor of poetry at Loyola Marymount University. Read more about Fr. Rewak in the Fall issue of the Santa Clara Magazine. And read his poems Abundance and Modern Warfare in America magazine.
Also know: We here at the mag like good writing. And it just so happens that Fr. Rewak founded Santa Clara Magazine 30 years ago, in autumn 1981.
Share the news: A PDF flyer about the poetry reading is available here for downloading, printing out, pasting up, handing forth.
Who's responsible? The reading is sponsored by the SCU Department of English and the Creative Writing Program.
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On Campus: The Economics of Good and Evil -- Oct. 19
Monday, Oct. 17, 2011
Economist Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few have. How? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: Economics is woven of history, myth, religion, and ethics—and ultimately it's about good and evil. In making his argument, Sedlacek ranges from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to Adam Smith, Fight Club, and The Matrix.
Sedlacek served as an economic advisor to Czech President Vaclav Havel, is a member of the Czech National Economic Council, and lectures at Charles University in Prague. He's been invited to speak to the World Bank and the House of Commons on taking economics out of a purely mathematical realm and putting it back into a human one. His book, Economics of Good and Evil, has been a best seller in the Czech Republic, was adapted for the stage—and now is out in an English language edition from Oxford University Press. This will be his only lecture in Silicon Valley.
The lecture is sponsored by the Civil Society Institute of Santa Clara University. It's free and open to the public. A PDF flyer is available here.
Wed., Oct. 19
7-8:30 p.m.
Daly Science 207
The talk is sure to be wide-ranging, energetic, and engaging. Don't speak Czech? No worries, the talk will be in English. And you can check out Sedlacek (in English) on YouTube here.
Steven Boyd Saum
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On Campus: 192 movements and a musical journey across the world
Friday, Oct. 29, 2010
When a piece of music has 192 movements and takes three years to record, it's premiere is going to take a special form, too. And here it is: SCU Associate Professor of Music and pianist Teresa McCollough premiered composer Steve Heitzeg's World Piece Music. Recorded at SCU over the course of three years, this composition comprises 192 movements, each with its own set of musical chords and artisitic representations. You can find the premiere on YouTube.
Each of the 192 movements represents a nation, telling of the ecological and political issues of that country.
McCollough's goal is to send a moving musical cry for world peace.
Unlike other live premieres, this one takes place online for the user to journey at their own pace. The movements range from a few, short chords, like the Solomon Islands (156), to a more lengthy string of notes, such as Bangladesh (14).
You can find more information on this project on the World Piece for Solo Piano page.
Teresa McCollough, professor of music at SCU and pianist
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On campus: National security and ... motorcycles in Kenna Hall?
Monday, Oct. 11, 2010It was a full house at the Mayer Theatre on Friday evening when Leon Panetta '60, J.D '63, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, kicked off the fifth annual President's Speaker Series as part of the Grand Reunion celebrations on the Mission campus."It's hard to believe that I am celebrating my 50th graduation anniversary," said the CIA chief. "I made some special friends at Santa Clara and we did some crazy things." Those included motorcycles on the first floor of Kenna Hall and "infamous" dances in San Francisco. (How infamous? He wondered if his classmates were still barred from the Palace Hotel.) "It was a special time."In his reminiscences, Panetta also fondly remembered a very special friend in Paul Locatelli, S.J., '60, former University president and chancellor who passed away in July."He made Santa Clara what it is today," said Panetta of his classmate. "He truly embodied the Jesuit ideals of academic excellence and public service. We have lost a friend but gained a saint."As he addressed his fellow classmates, SCU faculty, students, and staff, Panetta took everyone down memory lane. "Few of us could have imagined the events that would engulf us as we graduated from this university," he said.Among the highlights: the election and assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dr. King's marches, the Vietnam war, the tragic death of another Kennedy, Dr. King's murder, the various movements – civil rights, women's rights, environmental rights, Watergate, 9/11, Katrina, the gulf oil spill, two wars, and a recession."From Beatles to Bono, from typewriters to computers, from the telephone to the iPhone, from facts to Facebook … we have seen a lot of change," he said. " Yet, America has survived."As he expounded on the various ways the world has changed, Panetta shared the four key areas that inform the Central Intelligence Agency's operations: counter terrorism, counter proliferation, cyber security, and global responsibility."We know that terrorists will come at us any way they can," he said. "Good intelligence is more vital than ever. We have to know many different languages and we have to have diversity in our agency. Our technology has to be on the cutting edge, we have to be ahead of our adversaries, and we have to be agile."But, he stressed, given all of these challenges in a fast-changing, cyber-aware world one must not compromise on the values that this nation stands for."We have to protect our people, gather intelligence, and conduct all operations in a way that upholds our laws," he said.It's no easy task leading the charge of the country's premier intelligence agency … for Panetta, the beliefs and principles he formed as a student at Santa Clara have been a guiding force."I am grateful for the education I received here," he said. "The Jesuits not only gave me knowledge, they gave me an understanding of life. I learned that you have to question … and you have to have a willingness to fight for what you believe in."There's lots more; watch the full video of Panetta's talk on campus.Mansi BhatiaUniversity Writer/EditorPosted by Steven Boyd Saum | Permalink | Comments (1)


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Why is it that the only way common sense can win, in court, is through some obscure technicality?
Company X provides Service Y for free (with ads), but through an outdated or inconvenient method/medium. Company Z provides convenient access to Service Y, without changing the product, and Company X sues Company Z into oblivion.
How was Company Z's product or service hurting Company X?
Other than that, good luck to Aereo.
As a side note, why don't more gadget manufacturers include tiny antennae in their products specifically for tuning in OTA TV?
Is there some massive challenge that restricts this?
Yeah, something is missing here. My bet would the re-transmission fees. right now cable pays to re-transmit the signal. I bet Aereo is paying and broadcast TV is scared the cable companies will decide not to pay.
The problem is the world is changing radically right now and many companies are in their death throws as their market is replaced. Broadcast TV is dead it just doesn't know it yet, same as Newspapers. What will ultimately replace them isn't clear, because the do provide a needed service of local ne
*Aereo ISN'T paying
--sigh I need to learn to proofread before posting on
I was amazed the first time I found out that local cable companies pay to rebroadcast a local station over the cable system, to me it seemed like a win/win and no one would need to pay anyone. If anything you would think the cable company is helping get the station to more people and that creates more customers watching comercials. I think many cable companies do insert their own comercials thou, but only in some places, so I can understand paying for that. It sounds like Aereo is just wanting to make money
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Yep. You and most
Also, as long as we are on the topic, its "death THROES" not "death throws".
The first means you are dying. The second implies you are playing a game of catch with the Grim Reaper.
(myself included)
Also, as long as we're on the topic, it's "IT'S," not "its."
(missing an apostrofee)
and the point is that the broadcast separation by region is going to be dead sooner or later.
I could rent a box in n.y.c and do this for myself legally - so why couldn't I rent it from aereo? I could also view the signal as far as it broadcasts.
and the point is that the broadcast separation by region is going to be dead sooner or later.
I could rent a box in n.y.c and do this for myself legally - so why couldn't I rent it from aereo? I could also view the signal as far as it broadcasts.
The broadcasters are going after Aereo because Aereo takes away much of the friction. If you want to rent a box in NYC yourself, you have to find a friend who is willing to set up and host the box and let you use his internet connection... and when his cat knocks the box off the table during your favorite show, you have to wait until he comes home to plug it back in. Some people may do this, but few do.
Aereo takes care of setting up and supporting the "box" for you -- and for thousands of others.
Why include a TV tuner, FM radio, etc if you can get all of that over a normal network connection? Doing things that way means that you can get TV on any of your devices, not just the ones that have been built for it, or that you've hooked up to a USB receiver or whatever. I think what they're doing sounds like a good idea. If the cable companies or networks are upset, they should look into streaming their stuff directly online via a subscriber service.
they should look into streaming their stuff directly online via a subscriber service.
Pay a subscription
Well Areo are a subscription service. If they're "stealing" business from the cable company, then they have to do something to compete, or die. In the cable company's case, I guess it could require reducing their monthly costs. Individual channel's could look at providing a streaming service too. I'm not sure if they pay the cable companies or the cable companies pay them tbh.
They can prove people are watching ads on broadcast TV? How does that work...?
Only when people have specific boxes. Not that I agree with him though. I mean, i feel its probably easier to see what people are watching on a computer than on TV. Aereo probably has the capability of finding out what everybody is watching and when. More capability than cable even.
Seeing how many computers are streaming something does not tell you how many people are watching that stream, what their ages are, what their income bracket is, etc. The current ratings system provides that information, which is way more important to advertisers then how many devices are receiving a broadcast.
One day soon, the set-top box or the TV itself will sense and communicate the proximity and number of viewers back to the Mothership. It will not be possible to disable this "feature", either with manual controls / software, or taping over a sensor... Opening up the TV / box and physically disabling the feature will brick your account... Didn't you read the contract and TOS you signed?
Actually, getting sampling from Aereo would be even easier to get sampling from.
All they need to do is update the client app with a bit of data reporting on ads viewed, collect that info and send it back to the broadcasters.
It's not as though that's an unheard-of thing in today's world. In-game ads have been doing that for several years now, and they have a MUCH tougher row to hoe in determining if ads are being viewed and for how long. (have to calculate player "view" position in the game world, etc.)
The broadcasters are probably terrified because their marketing data is mostly speculation. They also have to attempt to control the end location of content they have licensed or else other broadcasters will sue them for stepping on their market area.
Aereo can tell what channels are being streamed at what times and could easily ask for demographics for targeted marketing. They can also send to mobile devices and offices where broadcast TV has very little uptake. Who carries a mobile receiver?
Streaming is potentially a huge improvement for the television market but rather than change or add to their current business model, broadcasters as a group attempt to litigate themselves into relevance.
Other than that, good luck to Aereo.
As a side note, why don't more gadget manufacturers include tiny antennae in their products specifically for tuning in OTA TV?
Is there some massive challenge that restricts this?
Based on the going rate for little USB-TV dongles (ATSC or DVB-T, depending on region) on ebay(obviously a OEM wouldn't shop there; but let's pretend that pacific-rim-bottom-feeder prices on ebay are vaguely correlated to actual-BOM-cost-for-something-not-totally-dreadful with savings from mass production) of $15-$25, depending on the phase of the moon, I'd assume that it's just the technically minor; but significant, issue of price sensitivity(and, in the UK market and any others with a similar setup, BBC
Makes me wonder if you could reasonably use SDR for both WiFi and DVB, or something like that.
I know you need multiple antennae and filters and such, and you would only be able to do one at a time, but that's not a horrible restriction for a tablet
As a side note, why don't more gadget manufacturers include tiny antennae in their products specifically for tuning in OTA TV?
in china, the broadcast transmission signal strengths are so high that you can pick up a good signal with a bit of wet string (literally, not figuratively).
however in the west the signal strengths are much much lower, and whilst attempts have been made to create digital receivers that are sensitive enough, they are either far too power-hungry or far too expensive. each of these things is incompatible with portable hand-held mass-volume devices.
so this is why internet-based video transmission is so important. the signal can be sent across pre-established [semi-reliable] connections where the data rate can be tailored to the conditions. what i'm hoping is that this company will actually develop multi-level video CODECs and publish them as free software algorithms. it could happen.
Except that their ad rates are based on Neilsen ratings, which are obtained by using a special box to see what channel people are watching. If people are using this service, the ratings go down, not up, and ad rates fall with them. To counteract that you need a way to determine streaming viewership that is trusted by both the ad sellers and the advertisers, and their isn't one yet.
So decouple the rates from the ratings. Nielsen has been irrelevant for ages anyway. If you MUST use ratings, just use average rating by time slot. It's not THAT hard.
What a brilliant idea! Just charge by time slot! Hey, we can have 'dead air' (except for ads) from 9-10PM and charge the same rate for ads as the channel that is running the number 1 show! And advertisers will willingly pay that rate!
They do. It's called "Infomercials".
Sure, but that model only works when there is a single sponsor for a show, and the sponsor is solely responsible for the content of the show. With the exception of infomercials, that model has not been used in TV for a very long time, and it seems very unlikely to me that there are very many advertisers who want to be in the TV program production business.
As soon as you move to a model where the advertiser is just 'buying time' during a show, the ratings of that show are the only thing that matter.
To counteract that you need a way to determine streaming viewership that is trusted by both the ad sellers and the advertisers, and their isn't one yet.
A trivially simple problem to fix. Technically, that is.
Since Neilsen boxes are installed on consumer TV sets on a voluntary basis, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to create a Neilsen s/w package to log and report streaming views. And install that on select customers' Internet enabled viewing devices.
But from a territorial point of view, that puts them square in the middle of Google (Apple, Microsoft and others) business models. I wouldn't be surprised if Neilsen, advertisers, content providers and other
kill him?
As long as they act like a fancy antenna for stuff you are in range of anyway, and don't mess with the signal like offering ad skipping, what's the problem?
Last I checked the business model was broadcasters license content to get people to watch and then get paid by advertisers to show commercials during the that content. Advertisers pay more based on the expected number of eyeballs and demographic.
If anything Aereo adds to the number of viewers, I am assuming the don't scrape the commercials out of the broadcast so I would think this would make the advertisers happy! If anything it should increase the stations revenue.
Of course it makes the advertisers happy, they are getting free ads. It is the people selling the ads that are not happy, because if anyone is free to retransmit their broadcast they have no way of knowing (and more importantly, 'proving') how many people are seeing the ads.
They don't know that anyway they have some dubious statistics purchased from another party based on questionnaire with much to small a sample size.
It doesn't matter if the statistics are 'dubious' or not, they are accepted. Now, if you can convince the advertisers that they should pay more because you think that other services are retransmitting their ads, so obviously that is a benefit to them, go for it.
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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A lot of parents send their kid off to universities to get a valuable education and to make something of themselves. This is accurate for a tiny amount of guys and girls who do attend college, but a large number of them are there to have the greatest sexual experience of their lives! There is no surprise that there are countless of college students across the world, but mainly in the US, that are participating in sexual activities than in school activities. Truth or Dare Porn has been growing high in demand and everybody wants to see these college women taking off every bit of clothing article and participating in naughty orgies with other college students.
Can Someone Lick Me Off lol
We're So Fuckt Up
It's incredible how crazy these college students get and how very proud they are willing to film their orgy parties. They get turned on knowing that other porn lovers can see their amateur videos all over the planet. A lot of these good looking chicks can even be future pornographic actresses if they continue doing what they are doing. Every time they have one of the group sex parties they make sure to bring out all kinds of whipped cream and much more. You can't find any other porn webpage that displays this type of steamy COLLEGE PORN elsewhere.
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And I love our feisty hero, Robert Wayne Tarus, who insisted on recording civic events despite lots of bullying and criminal prosecution. He sued in federal court, alleging claims under the U.S. Constitution (First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments) and the New Jersey Constitution and common law (false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and defamation), and lost on the federal grounds, which led to the discretionary dismissal of the state claims. Our hero started again in state court, alleging just the state common law and state constitutional claims, and he prevails!
The court finds a common law right (and doesn't need to reach the state constitutional grounds). Here's my handy cut-down of the opinion:
Today, hand-held video cameras are everywhere -- attached to our computers, a common feature in consumer still-shot cameras, and even built into recent generations of mobile telephones. The broad and pervasive use of video cameras at public events evidences a societal acceptance of their use in public fora.Hooray for the interwoven tapestry!
Commensurate with the use of video recording in society is its intrinsic value in documenting events. "Videotaping is a legitimate way of gathering information for public dissemination and can often provide cogent evidence . . . ." Robinson v. Fetterman, 378 F. Supp. 2d 534, 541 (E.D. Pa. 2005). ...
Openness is a hallmark of democracy -- a sacred maxim of our government -- and video is but a modern instrument in that evolving pursuit. The Mayor and Borough ran afoul of that principle and violated the common law right to videotape by imposing unreasonable ad hoc restrictions. Arbitrary rules that curb the openness of a public meeting are barricades against effective democracy. The use of modern technology to record and review the activities of public bodies should marshal pride in our open system of government, not muster suspicion against citizens who conduct the recording.
In sum, we hold that, subject to reasonable restrictions, members of the public have a common law right to videotape municipal proceedings in New Jersey. Our conclusion is supported by an interwoven tapestry of jurisprudence and policy that demonstrates both the value of open government and the right to document governmental proceedings.
(Sometimes the lawprof is just a cheerleader.)


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Brandon Phillips 4
Wilson Valdez 6
Joey Votto 3
Ryan Ludwick 7
Jay Bruce 9
Scott Rolen 5
Drew Stubbs 8
Ryan Hanigan 2
Johnny Cueto 1
Brandon Phillips 4
Wilson Valdez 6
Joey Votto 3
Ryan Ludwick 7
Jay Bruce 9
Scott Rolen 5
Drew Stubbs 8
Ryan Hanigan 2
Johnny Cueto 1
Will Stubbs make it to 100 hits this season? Baker must think he will.
Valdez: .196 .223 .214 .437
My guess is Stubbs will start at CF in every big park from here on out, including the first 2 in San Francisco if that's how it plays out.
It would be a nice time for Cueto to have a good game. I'd hate for him to go into the playoffs on a bad note.
Also, have there been any updates on Cozart?
And my guess is that Stubbs has caught 1 ball in the last month that others wouldn't have.
It's been beyond a joke for over a month.
No doubles or homers in over 100 AB? How is that even possible?
Management values defense on this team, we're built around it. Not saying I agree with it, just saying that Stubbs will most likely be in there whenever we play in big parks.
Playing six on nine is always a good idea. Stubbs and Valdez. The joke is on us. And make sure you put the major league's weakest bat in the two-slot. So he gets up a lot. Who will finish higher in OPS this year? Votto at 1.049 or Stubbs+Valdez at 1.067. It could go down to the wire.
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I do believe Stubbs will get a hit today. I do believe, I do believe, I do believe.
I don't really believe that.
Metrics? Stats? Arm?....what? He looks better catching routine balls? Prettier in the gaps? Dusty's decision on this is atrocious....and backed by nothing.
His totals for those last 8 games:
3 Hits
3 Walks
1 Run scored
0 RBI's
But only 7K's
His BA pre and post the all-star break is exactly the same .215
Again, I'm not arguing that it's the right decision by any means, just saying that it isn't surprising. Dusty has said numerous times that he wants Stubbs to patrol big outfields.
I know he's the punching bag lately for good reason, but our teams recent offensive woes are way bigger than him and even Valdez. We have quite a few guys who are slumping.
The icing is watching Stubbs after his outs. Body language speaks volumes, at least in this case.
Duhhhsty STRIKES AGAIN!
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If you think waterboarding isn't torture...
I have personally led, witnessed and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people. It has been reported that both the Army and Navy SERE school's interrogation manuals were used to form the interrogation techniques employed by the Army and the CIA for its terror suspects. What is less frequently reported is that our training was designed to show how an evil totalitarian enemy would use torture at the slightest whim.
Having been subjected to this technique, I can say: It is risky but not entirely dangerous when applied in training for a very short period. However, when performed on an unsuspecting prisoner, waterboarding is a torture technique - without a doubt. There is no way to sugarcoat it.
In the media, waterboarding is called "simulated drowning," but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.
Unless you have been strapped down to the board, have endured the agonizing feeling of the water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs, you will not know the meaning of the word.
How much of this the victim is to endure depends on the desired result (in the form of answers to questions shouted into the victim's face) and the obstinacy of the subject. A team doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological signs that show when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological experience, to horrific suffocating punishment to the final death spiral.
Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia - meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.
(Via Dispatches from the Culture Wars.)Most of the media discussions of waterboarding have completely omitted the part about the subject's lungs filling with water and made it sound like it's no more than having your head dunked under water, like bobbing for apples at Halloween.
UPDATE (November 14, 2007): Some doubts have been raised about Nance's reliability and whether waterboarding actually involves water filling the lungs (as opposed to triggering the gag reflex and some drops of water entering the lungs), though it's clear that the psychological effects are extremely strong, with the average CIA Officer able to withstand 18 seconds before begging for it to end. For the doubts on Nance and the details of waterboarding, see the comments on these posts at Positive Liberty and Captain's Quarters.
UPDATE (December 31, 2007): Here's a guy who experimented with waterboarding techniques on himself, and vividly explains the results.


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WORCESTER -- In Worcester Superior Court Thursday, lawyers in a class-action lawsuit targeting Unitil for its handling of the 2008 ice storm argued over the role tree trimming had on the massive power outage.
A group of 12 plaintiffs, both residents and businesses, are seeking unspecified damages for what they say was a preventable and mishandled disaster. The defendant is Fitchburg Gas & Electric Light, a company owned by Unitil that provides power in Fitchburg, Lunenburg, Townsend and Ashby.
Worcester Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins will make two rulings for the start of the case. Both sides have made motions for summary judgments, which means that they agree on the basic facts of the case and do not wish to have a fact finder, such as a jury, determine the facts.
Wilkins will also rule on class certification, which means he will decide if the case meets the standards to run as a class-action lawsuit.
Attorney C. Deborah Phillips, representing the plaintiffs, said there was no tree trimming in Ashby in the four years before the storm.
"Virtually every pole and line in that town went down," she said.
Attorney James M. Galliher, also for the plaintiffs, said in 2007 Unitil was 2.2 years behind its own schedule in trimming plants and tree limbs that grow around power lines, and the company decreased its own standards on how close plants to its equipment plants can grow. They asserted this was done to reduce operating expenses and increase profits.
Unitil attorney Gavin J.
Rooney also said the plaintiffs have failed to provide evidence proving that vegetation maintenance contributed to the outages. He said it was entire trees, not just tree limbs, that took many wires down.
"That's the nature of an ice storm," said Rooney.
Phillips wanted to use a report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities that concluded a lack of vegetation maintenance contributed to the case and Anne W. Chisholm, an attorney for Unitil, said its conclusions are not based on the same legal criteria as a superior court. Chisholm also referenced a report from the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission that stated Unitil had provided an appropriate response once the ice storm hit.
No date for Wilkins' rulings has been announced.
Cathy Clark of Lunenburg, founder of the activist group Get Rid of Unitil and a plaintiff in the case, said she is happy with how things went Thursday.
"I think people just need to know about this, that this lawsuit is going forward," said Clark. "(This is about) Unitil's blatant disregard of what we went through. I want to see justice."
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Here are some pictures of my art nouveau vase.
The material seems to be brass. It's not in perfect shape , but in general the condition is good. The hight is about 10 inches. On the bottom You can see the character of the maker.
Hopefully someone can tell me more about the vase.


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You could just list them in the summary - in less space than it takes to explain the "hover" trick
I couldn't make it to page 4 before it got
Yeah, I had that happen when I recently installed it. It's pretty slimy and left me with a bad impression of PDFCreator.
Thanks for the info. Enough reason to delete it from my download folder.
Not to mention that if you're using OpenOffice (like this article suggests you do) then you don't need a separate PDF app. OO.o generates PDFs just fine.
Not to mention that if you're using OpenOffice (like this article suggests you do) then you don't need a separate PDF app. OO.o generates PDFs just fine.
Which is useful if you only create PDFs from OpenOffice and no other program. PDFCreator installs a PDF printer driver. Once installed, any program that can print can make a PDF. That's much more useful.
I downloaded PDFCreator to give it a spin, but after learning about the toolbar and reading your post I've deleted it without completing the installation.
Wikipedia has further [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFCreator]details[/url]:
Starting with version 0.9.8, PDFCreator has included a toolbar application, PDFForge Toolbar. Users have reported that this software changes their computer settings. PDFCreator's end-user-license-agreement states that the software will "modify your Microsoft Internet Explorer and/or Mozilla Firefox browser settings for the default search engine, address bar search, "DNS error" page, "404 error" page, and new tab page to facilitate more informative responses as determined by The Toolbar". All instances of "page not found - 404 errors" redirect to a malicious search site. Choosing to not install the toolbar installs it regardless. Some reviewers have termed the toolbar as "malware" and PDFForge has received criticism for including this toolbar with PDFCreator.[8][9][10]
Writing in May 2009 Steven Avery stated:
"PDFCreator, formerly a respected open source product, is causing havoc with a malware install toolbar. Amazingly SourceForge hasn't done anything about this yet and still lists the software, and for many their trust level is shaken as well.[10]"
It has been reported that it is possible to deselect the Browser Addon during installation and that the PDFForge Toolbar can be uninstalled separately.[citation needed]
How about a list of more apps?
Anyone else have any good recommendations?
Celestia - astronomy program, lets you travel around the universe
Wireshark (as another poster already recommended) - lets you capture network traffic
FileZilla Server - FTP server
Cygwin - gives you Linux-like environment
Marble - 3D globe
I have plenty more:
http://user.interface.org.nz/~gringer/iopencd/browser/home.html [interface.org.nz]
No mention of WinSCP [winscp.net]? That's criminal!
Not going to be the next firefox in terms of popularity... but lisp in a box is just nice for getting into lisp/emacs on any platform. Used to be a big learning curve how to set slime, etc. up and all that.
http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/ [common-lisp.net]
Man, don't be dissing Lisp. Lisp is the foundation of a lot of the niftier concepts in lots of languages today, and is considered by most computer scientists to be one of the most perfect languages ever invented. Yeah, all those parentheses are a pain, but they consistently push you to do the Right Thing, and for me one of the highest complements I can place on non-Lisp code is "that looks almost Lisp-ish".
And if you don't believe me, believe these guys:
"The greatest single programming language ever designed." - Alan Kay
"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot." - ESR
"LISP being the most powerful and cleanest of languages, that's the language that's the GNU project always prefers." - RMS
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." - Philip Greenspun
"These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more... civilized age." - Randal Munroe
There is a Linux version of TrueCrypt.
The Open Source For Windows project
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
And while the Open Source CD project is dead, it looks like there's an alternative.
http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/ [ttcsweb.org]
Now if only Windows had Debian style repositories.
Is there a reason, other than complexity of interface, that one might choose it over gimp.
"complexity of interface" is a pretty damn good thing to base a decision on.
I suppose gimp does not have all the shapes of a drawing program, but it does paint, with colors.
When you have to look up documentation [gimp.org] to figure out how to draw a straight line in the Gimp, and that documentation is somewhat condescending, you might start to think that the Gimp isn't actually that good for simple tasks.
The best thing about that assholish tutorial is the terrible spelling and grammar. What a joke.
Paint.net is 1.6 megabytes and does everything most people need, even people who take a lot of photos but don't need to go into professional-level editing. It's one of the most impressive programs on any platform.
Article conflates the meanings of "Free".
It says it's "free" only, not OSS. They mean free-as-in-beer. However, the Free if FOSS means free-as-in-freedom.
According to its website (http://www.getpaint.net/license.html) Paint.NET is MIT-licensed. I don't know which doublespeak definition of "free" that goes under, but it's definitely open source.
Except that the source code does not seem to actually be available. The download page that is linked from the license page does not say anything about source code except how it is licensed. Looking at the source of the page shows a commented out section that talks about how to get the source code and links here [dotpdn.com]. However the link to the source code on that page is dead.
Also, the license has an exception for the GPC code, which is free for non-commercial use only. Admittedly, I don't know how much functio
Because not everyone wants to retouch photos or do other complex things requiring a tool like GIMP. Many times, simpler is indeed better. If I'm just drawing a simple diagram, and don't want to futz around with some Visio-like tool (such as Kivio) since it'll take me three times as long, I just start up a simple paint tool, such as KolourPaint in KDE.
Paint.NET is extremely small (1.6 MB download). It uses the
Sure, here's two reasons:
1) It's rock solid stable. GIMP is crash-prone on Windows. I swear I've caused it to crash by missing a toolbar button and clicking inbetween.
2) It has easy to create extensions, vastly enhancing capabilities. Stuff like, altering the colour tone of multiple images to match. You give it an old-style Western scene, and it'll turn any photo into that. Like most gimp-lovers, you seem to think "ease of use" counteracts "powerful". Software can be both. Paint.net is simplistic, powerful,
I recently came across InfraRecorder and was impressed.
http://infrarecorder.org/ [infrarecorder.org]
Same here.
Combined with DVD43_4-4-0_Setup.exe you can burn/play anything. DVD43 eliminates all those pesky region locks and such.
Da link... http://www.dvd43.com/ [dvd43.com]
I suppose it has a few pluses:
--It isn't a memory hog like VMWare.
--Guest tool installation is noticeably easier for non-MS guests.
But I still have issues:
--Installing guest tools completely breaks my OpenSolaris guest display.
--My shiny 1 GB graphics card becomes a 128 MB POS in the guests.
--No USB support in the Open version.
--Running my OpenSolaris guest in NAT mode totally gimps the connection.
VirtualBox isn't bad, but I can't see it being a VMWare killer anytime soon.
Yes, calling VirtualBox "enterprise grade" stretches it a little bit. It's a nice tool and they're making consistent progress, but I wouldn't recommend it for mission-critical solutions. There are just too many little bugs, also regressions in new versions. Most of them get fixed over time, but I still have to work around some things. VMWare on the other side has "always worked" for me.
--My shiny 1 GB graphics card becomes a 128 MB POS in the guests.
Yes, that certainly is a disadvantage compared to other virtualisation products which do exactly the same fucking thing.
Prettiness aside, I wonder why extended settings to for example tweak audio or video metrics always require two clicks to access.
And even after accessing them, you need to re-activate them before any adjustment.
Why? The reason I access these settings is to adjust them so it's better if I find them already activated. Is this too much to ask?
It's probably worth mentioning Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which is a fork of MPC that contains (among other things) integrated codecs via ffdshow. I prefer using this to VLC because of the various weird GUI bugs in VLC, plus the accurate seeking MPC-HC has compared to VLC. VLC comes a close second though, and first place if you aren't running Windows.
VLC is certainly better at playing random video files, but I prefer the UI for MPC.
Surely VLC [videolan.org] should have made this list?
The list was posted on a U.S. web site. VLC contains patented algorithms but doesn't come with a license to use the algorithms in the United States.
Unfortunately, that's not an option for those of us condemned to corporate serfdom, so these FOSS-on-Windoze programs are great for keeping us sane.
I don't know how I'd survive without Vim.exe, for instance.
It's really bizarre that the article author included Paint.Net in a list of "best free open source software for Windows", because the source code - as the author himself even admits - is *not* available for free download for any of the recent versions of Paint.Net.
If that wasn't enough, there's been no new release of Paint.net for almost a year and I'd have thought GIMP (or GIMPShop) was a clearly superior (and fully open source) graphics package on Windows anyway.
If we're discussing enterprise ready winners, why not talk about Zimbra and Alfresco?
The main reason suits don't want to talk about leaving Microsoft or considering FOSS on their desktop is because they are very much tied to Outlook. And right now Sharepoint is Microsoft's new big gun.
Lets talk about Zimbra. I've tried to bring up the following subjects on the Zimbra forum but can't get straight answers. What is disaster recovery on Zimbra like? Does it have single mailbox / single message restore functionality? For example, if dumb user Jane tells me that she deleted the super duper important email that she absolutely needs to have, do I need to restore the entire mail database, or can I go into the most recent backup of Jane's mailbox and restore the single email that she deleted?
Believe me, I'd love to walk away from Exchange, but as of yet, I have not seen what I consider to be a credible replacement. Since a lot of the data in my organization is highly confidential, services like GMail are right out.
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GLENVILLE -- Two Saratoga Springs men and one Glenville man were charged with felony gang assault, robbery and unlawful imprisonment for allegedly severely beating a man in July, authorities said.
According to Glenville police, Robert M. Nichols and Tony Deloatch, both 20 and both from Saratoga Springs, and Brody J. Gifford, 20, of Glenville severely wounded another man in an attack in July.
Police say the three were in a wooded area near the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake School District Administration Building at about 1 a.m. July 8 when they surrounded the victim. They struck him in the face with an empty vodka bottle, rendering him unconscious, and then hit him in the face with a two-by-four.
The victim suffered a fractured jaw, lost several teeth and required 25 stitches.
Police say the suspects stole the victim's backpack and went through his pockets, resulting in the robbery charge.
All three suspects were arraigned in Glenville Town Court. Nichols was denied bail and sent to Schenectady County Jail. Bail was set at $50,000 cash for Deloatch and Gifford.
Nichols was charged with misdemeanor assault by Saratoga Springs police in March.
Deloatch is a 2010 graduate of Saratoga Springs High School and was a well-known member of both the varsity football and basketball teams.
-- By Emily Donohue


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Monarchs Host UNCW In CAA Quarterfinals Tuesday at 7 p.m.
By ODU Athletics
Oct. 28, 2006
RICHMOND, VA--The 24th ranked Soccer Monarchs of Old Dominion (12-4-1/7-3-1) will be the third seed in this year's Colonial Athletic Association championships and will open the tournament up against the sixth seed Seahawks of UNC Wilmington (11-6-1/6-5) Tuesday night at 7 p.m in a quarterfinal match.
In the other quarterfinal match fourth seed George Mason (11-5-1 (7-3-1) will host fifth seed Northeastern (8-9-2/6-4-1) on Tuesday as well. Towson, ranked 17th nationally finished the regular season undefeated in the CAA at 10-0-1, 14-1-2 overall and along with second seed and two-time defending champion Hofstra (10-5-2/7-3-1) will have quarterfinal byes.
UNCW defeated ODU, 3-0 on Oct. 20th in Norfolk. Edson (Elcock Brooklyn, NY.)leads the Monarchs with ten goals and five assists for 25 points. He ranks in the top four of the CAA in goals, assists and points. Jared Kent (Marietta, GA.), who ranks third in the league in assists has six. Goalkeeper Evan Newton (Virginia Beach, Va.) returned to the lineup after missing five matches due to an injury suffered at JMU. He has a 0.89 goals against average.
The winner of the ODU-UNCW match will meet Hofstra on Friday night, Nov. 3 at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex. The GMU-NU winner will meet Towson in the other Semi-final game. Game times are 5 and 7:30 with the CAA championship set for Sunday at 2:30.


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Join Professor Robyn Rodriguez in the seminar
Neoliberalism and the Rescaling of American Citizenship: Rethinking the Politics of Immigration
Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
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The workshop will draw on the research Robyn Rodriguez has been doing on her book, In Lady Liberty's Shadow which is on race and immigration in New Jersey.
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- (Dis)unity and Diversity in Post-9 ⁄ 11 America
- Fighting for Fatherhood and Family: Immigrant Detainees' Struggles for Rights
Free and open to the public.
Robyn Rodriguez' 2010 book Migrants for Export: How the Philippines Brokers Labor to the World (University of Minnesota Press) has recently won awards from the Association of American Geographers and the Association for Asian American Studies. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. Prior to UC Davis she taught in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. Dr. Rodriguez received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Rodriguez's scholarship is broadly concerned with understanding how processes of globalization, particularly international migration, impact the societies that migrants leave and the societies to which they move. She is interested both in globalization "from above" and globalization "from below." Rodriguez's recent book MIgrants for Export (University of Minnestora Press 2010) focused on the role of the Philippine state as a "broker" of gendered and racialized global workers.
You might also be interested in Robyn Rodriguez' lecture Transnational Feminist Perspectives From Migrant Women Workers on Thursday, Feb.14 at 2 p.m.
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The One Direction guys grace the cover of Teen Vogue--each nabbing their very own cover pic!
Teen Vogue released a new cover every hour today of the guys and we have them all right here for your viewing (and repeated viewing) pleasure!
Inside the mag, there are even more dreamy 1D pics, plus Zayn, Liam, Louis, Niall and Harry talk about how, despite their fame, they're "just guys."
Niall assured Directioners, "What we do isn't normal, but we're normal."
Harry explained, "Sometimes it's hard to understand, because we're just guys. We're guys who would be at your school, who got this amazing opportunity."
Given their very "normalness," Teen Vogue still wanted to know what hasn't changed in their lives since they exploded on the scene.
Liam joked, "I still put on underwear every day."
Louis noted that there is some downtime with their fame, waiting around for photo shoots and such, so to stay entertained, they like to get in trouble.
Louis explained, "Like today, for example, Liam and I managed to get on the roof of [the photo studio], and we were hiding from everyone. We just try to keep ourselves entertained."
Check out the full interview and more pics of the boys at the Teen Vogue website.


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A groundbreaking commitment
In 1986, the world was paying little attention to the half million women dying in pregnancy and childbirth each year. Family Care International was the first international organization founded specifically to remedy this neglect. The next year, FCI organized a global conference that launched the Safe Motherhood Initiative, with FCI as Secretariat. Through 15 regional conferences and scores of illuminating publications, FCI and our partners put safe motherhood on the world's agenda. Since then, FCI has been one of the world's leading voices for political commitment, stronger policies, and more funding for programs that save women's lives.
Two years after FCI's launch, women's groups in Uganda asked us for help in designing a safe motherhood project. FCI opened an office in Kampala, beginning our in-country activities. Today we have locally-staffed offices in five countries in Africa and Latin America, and activities and materials that span the world. Over more than two decades of work, FCI has collaborated with governments, NGOs, grassroots organizations and communities in more than 25 countries to raise awareness, create innovative solutions and tools, and implement effective programs and services that improve maternal and reproductive health outcomes in the communities where far too many women still die needlessly every day.
Decades of achievement
Over the years, FCI's many key achievements have included:
As testament to the global impact of our work, FCI was selected to receive the prestigious MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2013, and the UN Population Award in 2008.
Connect with FCI...
"The world has yet to deliver on the promise that it owes to women everywhere to value their lives and enable them to deliver on their potential, for the sake of their children, for their communities, and most of all for themselves. Our work will continue until it does."
Ann Starrs
FCI's President and co-founder
"I had months of bleeding with my first 6 deliveries — and 2 babies died — because I delivered at home. In the past, there were no drugs, no proper help from the doctors. But now I can go to this health facility with medicines and helpful doctors."
woman in Homabay, Kenya,
a site of FCI's Skilled Care Initiative
"For an organization of its size, it is one of the most dynamic organizations in our field. FCI punches way above its fighting weight."
FCI advocacy partner
"Before my training with FCI... I didn't protect myself against STIs and HIV. I didn't know how to do it, or why. I had too many girlfriends, and I used to have sex without condoms. Now, my priority is to protect myself during sex, and especially to bring this information to my other classmates."
carpenter's apprentice
Mopti, Mali
"FCI was born when I was attending the UN Women's Conference in Nairobi, in 1985. A representative from the World Health Organization addressed the assembly, announcing the shocking news about women dying in childbirth. She asked, 'Who is going to do something about this?' and I thought, 'I will.' The seed of FCI was planted at that moment."
Jill Sheffield
FCI co-founder
"When FCI calls, everybody comes — morning, afternoon, night... It's impressive."
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The Detroit Music Awards take place at 7 p.m. Friday, April 25, at the Fillmore Detroit, 2115 Woodward Ave. Tickets are $20. Call 313-961-5450 or visit www.detroitmusicawards.com.
Celebrating Detroit musicians since 1992, the Detroit Music Awards Foundation is putting on the Detroit Music Awards at The Fillmore Friday, April 25.
With more than 70 genres and categories and 250 nominees, the DMAs highlight Detroit's musical talent.
Along with the award ceremony, the People's Choice Awards will be announced. Sponsored by Opportunity Detroit, a jukebox of 20 songs was open to the public to vote for this award.
The Detroit Music Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to recognize and highlight musicians in the Detroit Metropolitan area in all genres and styles.
Founded in 1988 by a group of Detroit music and media professionals, the DMAF put on its first award show in 1992 at Detroit's Music Hall Center before moving to the Fillmore, then the State Theatre, the following year.
In 1993, it received the Spirit of Detroit Award from the city.
Howard Hertz, President of DMAF, has been an entertainment lawyer in Detroit since 1976. Since his presidency of the organization, the show has branched out to many musical genres.
"The biggest growth has been in terms of people from different genres getting involved," Hertz said.
Starting out mostly with rock 'n' roll, the DMAF has expanded its categories — everything from jazz to hip-hop and anything in between.
"You'll see country artists hanging out with hip-hop artists, which you don't normally see," he said.
Along with the DMA awards, special awards will be presented to recognize those musicians from the Detroit area who have proven to be musical models.
Marshall Crenshaw. who grew up in Berkley and launched his critically acclaimed recording career in 1982 with the hit "Someday Someway," will be receiving a Distinguished Achievement Award.
"He was chosen by a Detroit Music Awards Foundation committee and is being recognized for exemplary work for more than 30 years as a truly distinctive and original songwriter and performer," said Oakland Press music writer Gary Graff, one of the founders of DMAF.
Along with Crenshaw, jazz artist Charles Boles and the late rock concert poster designer Gary Grimshaw will be presented with Distinguished Achievement Awards.
"All are based on the work of an entire career, the impact of that work and how that works serves in representing Detroit, both the metro area and the music community," said Graff.
Coming as a complete surprise, Crenshaw said he is honored to be receiving this award.
"Detroit area has a monumental musical legacy," Crenshaw said. He will be performing two songs at the ceremony.
There are three phases for musicians to go through. Phase one, the submission phase, is a list of musicians submitting their work. Anyone can enter, but only DMA registered voters can cast votes. Phase two, the nomination phase, allows registered DMA voters to fill out nomination ballots and vote from each genre.
The final voting phase narrows the nomination list for the final award ceremony. The votes were cast and counted. Winners will be announced at the ceremony Friday, April 25.
For more information about the DMA, visit www.detroitmusicawards.com.


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Sharron's room is small but filled with light. The bed is made, everything is clean and neat, a teddy bear the only sign that a teenager lives here. Sharron is 16 and soft-spoken. She only recently moved into this room at Inwood House on East 82nd, where she will stay until she has her baby.
Inwood House is a residence for pregnant teens, one of four in the city. But these young women are not here for a brief detour from their lives while they have their babies and then return back to their families. The girls in residence at Inwood House have themselves been in foster care for years, twenty percent of them for a decade or longer. Perhaps their parents died of AIDS, were incarcerated, lost custody or simply decided they couldn't cope.
As soon as the city finds out a teen in foster care is pregnant, they are transferred out of their foster homes and into a maternity residence, a requirement to insure that they are given the support they need during pregnancy. Indeed, a New York Presbyterian Hospital study in the 1980's found babies born at Inwood house were much healthier, with fewer pre-term births and low-weight births than babies of teen mothers seen at community clinics.
Nevertheless, it is yet another shift for these teens who finding themselves pregnant are then thrust into one more temporary home, living with 35 other young women.
"I thought it was going to be bad," admitted Kim, a 20-year old who has been at Inwood House since January. "But they help us a lot -- with placements and school and parenting classes." And, most important to Kim, she found the staff trustworthy. "When I have problems, I can speak to someone and I know it will stay with that person."
Sharron, was also fairly comfortable with her new surroundings. "I like the independence, " she said. "I like having my own room, and being able to come and go as I please."
Asked what the hardest part was in their present living situation, Tamara, 16 years old, spoke right up: "Being pregnant!"
The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized nation, according to a report by the Campaign to End Teen Pregnancy. Four out of ten young women become pregnant in the U.S. at least once before they reach the age of 20. While the teen birth rate has declined nationally by 18 percent since 1991, New York still ranks number 42 among the 50 states in teenage pregnancies.
Citywide, the figures for the last two years available from the New York City Department of Health show a 9 percent reduction (from 13,020 to 11,793 teen births), although the teen birth rate actually increased in Queens and Staten Island.
What can we do to prevent teen pregnancy? Plenty, thinks Gladys Carrion, Esq., Inwood House's Executive Director. "We need to prepare adolescents to be successful adults," she suggests. "They need job training, schools that work, and more mentoring to give them significant adults in their lives.
"We need more programs to help adolescents who have experienced violence become whole again," she continued. There is a correlation between adolescents who have witnessed violence and teen pregnancy.
"And we need to help families be whole so they don't have children going into foster care" she said. "Ninety percent of the children in foster care are not there because of abuse, but because of neglect, which translates into poverty. What are we doing to eliminate poverty?!"
Inwood House, originally located in the Inwood section of the city, was founded in 1830 as The Magdelen Society with funding from church women, their friends, and a $100 contribution from the city. In addition to the maternity residence and a Mother/Baby Foster Care Program, Inwood House has a Young Father's Program that works with young men on what it means to be a father. "It's not just about child support," explained Ms. Carrion. "It's about becoming a caring parent."
They also run Teen Choice, a coed pregnancy prevention program going into 14 junior high and high schools in the city, and Project Straight Talk which reac hes out to 5th grade boys about their responsibility with pregnancy prevention.
There is a school on the premises at Inwood House, a computer lab, parenting classes, writing workshops, an internship program, and just plain fun: on the day we visited, a trip was in the making to Virginia Beach.
"These girls hear over and over about being a parent now and having to be responsible," said Kathleen Clark, Development Director at Inwood House, "but they are also still teenagers, and they need recreation and art and music."
Although social workers at Inwood House explore all options with the young women, including terminating the pregnancy or putting their babies up for adoption, very few are interested in these alternatives.
"There is real peer pressure not to go with adoption or abortion," explained Ms. Carrion, "and that can make it difficult for any of the girls who may not want the baby." The predominant attitude is ÔI'm going to be the best mother there is.' Coming out of foster care themselves, they tend to feel ÔI'm not going to do to my baby what was done to me.'
Unfortunately, some of the young women do eventually lose their babies to the system and repeat that cycle.
Between 120 and 140 pregnant teenagers go through the Inwood House residence in the course of a year, having their babies and then, very often, waiting months for a new placement in foster care.
At present there is a terrible shortage of foster homes that will take in a mother and her baby. While they wait, the young women return to Inwood House and leave their infants in a nursery at the hospital, visiting daily.
"It's not easy to find families to take in these girls," said Ms. Carrion.
One sign of improvement is a recent contract awarded Inwood House by the city's Administration for Children's Services to almost double the Mother/Baby Foster Care. Inwood House will also open up several Mother/Baby group homes, as part of this contract, and has already established an office in Jamaica, Queens, offering teen parents follow-up assistance including parenting classes and help with independent living skills.


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WALTHAM, Mass. – Three members of the Brandeis University softball team have earned All-University Athletic Association (UAA) honors sophomore centerfielder Amanda Genovese of North Haven, Conn., was a first-team All-Association selection, while senior Casey Ducinski of Duxbury, Mass., was a second-team outfielder and rookie Danielle Novotny of Milford, N.J., was a second-team infielder.
Genovese, the 2012 UAA Rookie of the Year, showed no signs of a sophomore slump. In 38 games as the Judges' leadoff hitter, she leads the UAA in batting average (.456), hits (62) and stolen bases with a school-record 51 in 52 attempts. She leads all of Division III in stolen bases and is currently tied for the 10th-most in a single season in Division III history. Genovese has established a Brandeis record for career steals with 73 in less than two seasons. She also tops the Judges with 34 runs scored and owns team-highs in on-base percentage (.486) and slugging percentage (.522). Genovese is also fifth on the squad with 15 RBI. She had four doubles, a triple and her first collegiate home run. Genovese has hit safely in 32 of 38 games, including 20 in a row to start the season, and has 20 multi-hit games, including nine games with three hits. She has a steal in all but five of Brandeis's contests this season.
Ducinski was named All-UAA as an outfielder, but she has been equally valuable for the Judges as a pitcher. At the plate, she is among the top 15 in the UAA with a .354 batting average, second on Brandeis. Ducinski is tied for third with 18 runs scored and fifth with 14 RBI. She has four doubles, a triple and two homers to her credit for a .479 slugging percentage with a .386 OBP. In the circle, Ducinski has a 9-6 record, tied for the team lead in wins, while her 3.18 earned-run average leads the team and ranks 10th in the UAA. Her 112 1/3 innings pitched are fourth-most in the Association. Ducinski has 58 strikeouts, 42 walks and nine complete games this season.
Novotny has been Brandeis's best hitter out of the middle of the lineup this season. She is batting .333 – fourth on the team - with a team-high 26 RBI and 14 doubles, which ranks second in the UAA. Novotny is second on the squad with 20 runs scored and 44 hits, while ranking fourth with a .470 slugging percentage and .350 on-base percentage. Novotny has played in all 38 contests, starting at five different positions (catcher, first base, second base, left and right field) for the Judges so far, the only rookie to so do and one of only four players on the Brandeis roster. She had a nine-game hitting streak earlier this season, including a stretch of six games in a row with two hits.
For the season, the seventh under head coach Jessica Johnson, Brandeis has a 23-15 record with three games left in the regular season. The Judges were ranked No. 8 in New England in the first NCAA regional poll of and have posted wins against three other ranked teams. Brandeis is hoping for a seventh postseason appearance in as many years under Johnson, having been the ECAC New England tournament runners-up in the last two season after winning the crown in 2009 and appearing in the NCAA tournament in 2010.
Genovese is a 2011 graduate of North Haven High School. She is the daughter of Mark and Caren Genovese, North Haven, Conn.
Ducinski is a 2009 graduate of Duxbury High School. She is the daughter of Michael and Jean Ducinski, Duxbury, Mass.
Novotny is a 2012 graduate of Delaware Valley High School. She is the daughter of James and Jacqueline Novotny, Milford, N.J.
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