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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – UMBC track and field junior Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin)was named the America East Field Athlete Performer of the Week, the conference office announced on Tuesday afternoon.
The announcement comes after McDearmon claimed the gold medal in the weight throw and the silver medal in the shot put at the Patriot Games, held on Saturday at George Mason.
McDearmon, who already places fourth on UMBC's all-time list in the weight throw, recorded the second-longest throw of the year in the America East with a toss of 17.37m (56' 11.85) to pick up his second win of the year.
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We hope the lessons from Senator Vandenberg's legacy can inspire a new era of cooperation among today's politicians. - Gleaves Whitney, Director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies
Grand Rapids, MI (PRWEB) November 08, 2012
Grand Valley State University will host several hundred guests from more than 100 different locations who will take part in a groundbreaking, live webcast focusing on bipartisanship in government and politics.
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"Senator Arthur Vandenberg and the Lost Art of Bipartisan Statesmanship" will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, November 14, at Grand Valley State University's Loosemore Auditorium on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus, 301 Fulton Street West, Grand Rapids, MI. The town hall will also be streamed live on the Internet at gvsu.edu/bipartisanship. Organizers expect several hundred local guests, with hundreds more viewing the live video stream from World Affairs Councils locations nationwide.
Organized by Grand Valley's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities and World Affairs Councils of America, the program will bring together four speakers who will discuss bipartisanship, with hopes of encouraging a national dialogue on the possibilities of bipartisanship in Washington today.
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- Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian at George Mason University, will discuss the high-water mark of bipartisan cooperation in the 1940s as well as the breakdown of our formerly cooperative party system since Vandenberg's time.
- H.W. Brands, historian at the University of Texas, Austin, will provide significant historical examples of bipartisanship from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the 1940s.
- Kiron Skinner, political scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, will share examples of bipartisanship since Vandenberg's time, including cooperation between Republicans and Democrats during the Reagan administration.
The program will be moderated by Hauenstein Center director and presidential scholar Gleaves Whitney, who will also facilitate an interactive question-and-answer period where the panelists will take questions from the audience.
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Columbus, Ohio -- December 8, 1994 -- The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) announces that five science video animations produced at the center were among the 34 selected for the International Supercomputing '94 Conference showcase video, SuperViz '94, as excellent examples of scientific research.
Columbus, Ohio -- December 8, 1994 -- The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) announces that five science video animations produced at the center were among the 34 selected for the International Supercomputing '94 Conference showcase video, SuperViz '94, as excellent examples of scientific research. With the assistance of OSC staff Tim Rozmajzl, Leslie Southern, and Rob Berry, two of the projects were created by high school students who participated in OSC's 1994 Summer Institute program.
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More than half the time New Orleans police receive reports of rape or other sexual assaults against women, officers classify the matter as a noncriminal "complaint."
Police, who have been touting a decline in rapes, say the share of noncriminal complaints reflects the difficulty officers face in coaxing rape victims to push forward with their complaints. But former Orleans Parish sex crime prosecutor Cate Bartholomew says the frequent use of the alternative category -- referred to as a "Signal 21" in NOPD parlance -- is a problem, arguing that some of the cases she saw should have been categorized as sex crimes.
Bartholomew and some other experts say the alternative labeling of alleged sexual assault raises questions about the accuracy of the department's recent rape statistics, showing a sharp decrease from 2007 to 2008 in the number of rapes and attempted rapes reported to the FBI: 114 rapes in 2007, down to 72 rapes last year.
The police statistics contrast with the experience of the Interim LSU Public Hospital, where the number of sexual assault victims seeking rape examinations climbed from 149 in 2007 to 168 in 2008.
Police officials, however, countered that the drop in the tally of rape allegations could simply reflect decreased reporting of verifiable sexual assaults to law enforcement, emphasizing that they strive to encourage every victim they encounter to report the crime and assist with an investigation.
New Orleans police would never label a reported crime backed up by evidence as anything other than a crime, said Assistant Superintendent Marlon Defillo, who oversees the department's sex crimes squad.
"If it is a rape or a sexual assault, it is a sexual assault," Defillo said. "There is no gray line with respect to that. We call it the way we see it."
Defillo said persuading victims to follow through with investigators can be particularly challenging in a city where many people drink too much alcohol, often blurring their recall of what happened and making them reluctant to come forward.
No national benchmarks
In 2008, police say, there were 146 cases marked up by the sex crimes unit as a Signal 21, compared with 97 rapes and sexual batteries ultimately listed as criminal offenses by the Police Department. That means police classified 60 percent of rape calls as a Signal 21.
There are no national benchmarks for comparison, since the use of noncriminal classifications by local police varies widely. But New Orleans' high number of Signal 21 listings sets off alarm bells for sex crime experts.
"Any way you look at it, it is just too high," said Joanne Archambault, a consultant who previously lead the San Diego sex crimes unit.
Archambault said departments need a noncriminal category for some situations, such as a call about a suspicious activity that turns out not to be a crime. But too often detectives will put cases into these alternative categories -- or declare a rape case to be "unfounded," meaning that it didn't occur -- when they can't substantiate a claim of a sexual assault.
That may happen, she said, if they can't track down a victim who reported the crime or the victim doesn't continue cooperating after making an initial report. While those circumstances frustrate detectives, they don't justify declaring cases invalid, she said.
179 murders, 65 rapes
Several experts said New Orleans' official rape number reported to the FBI -- which doesn't capture all sexual assaults -- seems too low, especially considering the overall crime rate in the city.
Tulane University criminologist Peter Scharf said the number of rapes doesn't make sense when considered alongside New Orleans' high rate of homicides. In comparison, Jackson, Miss., at a population of about 170,000 people, reported to the FBI last year 63 murders and 136 rapes. New Orleans, where the 2008 population estimates have topped 311,000, last year reported 179 murders and 65 rapes to the FBI. Police later changed the number of rapes that fit FBI guidelines to 72 in response to a newspaper request for statistics.
In a written explanation provided with crime data, the NOPD explained that the Signal 21 designation is used for a variety of reasons, including the basic one that elements of a case "have not yet been established."
Other reasons included victims "unwilling or unable to give an account of the incident," victims "unsure of what occurred" and a victim being "unsure if she wants to report the incident to the police."
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To examine in more detail how the NOPD handled cases given something other than a criminal designation, The Times-Picayune asked to review the reports of the Signal 21 and "unfounded" sexual assaults for the past three years -- as well as documents, called "morfs," prepared when the sex crimes unit receives a call but no formal investigation is undertaken.
The information hasn't been delivered, as city officials maintain that assembling such documents would be time-consuming and costly. A letter sent to The Times-Picayune last week from City Attorney Penya Moses-Fields, for example, said the Police Department believes an officer would need 30 minutes to review and redact the "name, address and identity," as mandated by state law, in just one crime report at a cost of at least $20 an hour.
Bartholomew, the former sex crimes prosecutor, said that in late 2008 she wrote several memorandums to supervisors at the Orleans Parish district attorney's office about the NOPD practice of coding some sexual assaults as Signal 21s. While many of the classifications she saw were legitimate, Bartholomew said, some should have been categorized as crimes.
Bartholomew said she was most concerned about the larger policy ramifications if sex crime statistics are being low-balled, saying a reduced number of reported rapes would hinder all criminal justice agencies' abilities to obtain needed grant money.
A prosecutor who started under former District Attorney Harry Connick, Bartholomew conducted training in sex crime prosecutions for the National Association of District Attorneys before returning to the Orleans Parish district attorney's office. She left after DA Leon Cannizzaro took office.
Sex crime team
Cannizzaro said he could not directly address Bartholomew's concerns, as he had not talked to victims in those particular cases. But he acknowledged that his staff has dealt with a couple of older cases that "could have been handled better."
That led him to create a team of sex crimes specialists -- a prosecutor, investigator and victim advocate -- who would go to crime scenes, just as his office does with homicides. This is an effort to build better rapport with victims and encourage them to come forward, he said.
Speaking for the Police Department, Capt. Gwendolyn Norwood, who directs the sex crimes unit, said she saw little basis for Bartholomew's concerns about cases that were wrongly placed in a noncriminal category. The former prosecutor brought few complaints to her attention, Norwood said, and when she did Norwood was able to show that the procedures Bartholomew thought were neglected actually had been performed by police.
Many of the Signal 21s involve cases in which a friend or relative of the victim called the police, but the victim herself doesn't want to tell police what happened, Defillo said.
In cases like that, police can't write it up as a crime because they don't have the factual basis to assert a crime occurred, Defillo said.
Dale Standifer, executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Women and Children, which provides sexual assault counseling, isn't among those concerned about Signal 21 classifications.
"My personal experience with the NOPD (is) they shoot pretty straight," she said.
Changes in Philadelphia
In other cities, the police practice of putting rape complaints into a category other than a crime has been controversial. Investigations have found that the practice sometimes resulted in a large number of cases that should have been counted as rapes not making it into official crime statistics. In several cities where this practice has come under scrutiny, police departments changed policies, allowing few exceptions to criminal listings.
This is what happened in Philadelphia a decade ago after a series of newspaper reports that questioned a policy of the Police Department's rape squad to classify about a third of the reported sex crimes under a noncriminal code that meant "investigation of person." A police internal review of 2,000 such cases determined that 700 were actually rapes, while 500 were other sex crimes, according to news reports.
Then-Police Commissioner John Timoney all but eliminated the alternative coding of sex crimes, said Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia.
Tracy and Archambault both said some departments have unfounded rates that are suspiciously high. For example, in Philadelphia the 2007 unfounded rate for rape was about 10 percent, according to FBI data. The national unfounded rate for rapes reported to the FBI in 2006 was about 5 percent.
In New Orleans, the Police Department for more than half of this decade recorded unfounded rates of at least 20 percent, although last year the rate dropped to 8 percent, according to data obtained from the FBI.
The unfounded category, for what police believe to be false sexual assault reports, differs from Signal 21s, which involve a variety of other reasons for a non-criminal listing.
Tracy and Archambault said even cases in the unfounded group demand scrutiny, to ensure police made sound decisions.
Scharf, meanwhile, said he was troubled that the use of Signal 21s has escalated in the past few years, even as the number listed as unfounded has dropped.
"If you blow off a case right in the beginning and say it is a 21, what it really says is you aren't investigating," he said.
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|Information: Release of Information Regarding Armed Robbery With Off-Duty Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputy At Marie's Pizza-1513 Charles Street-Rockford, IL
|Date: 10/01/11
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NARRATIVE: Sheriff Richard Meyers is releasing information concerning the armed robbery and shooting at Marie's Pizza, 1513 Charles Street in Rockford on Saturday night, October 2, 2011. Deputy Frank Pobjecky is 29 years old and was off-duty at the time of this incident. He was a customer patronizing the business and he was acquainted with the establishment's owner and family. Deputy Pobjecky was hired by the Sheriff's Office as a deputy on May 9, 2008, and is a veteran of the United States Army. During his enlistment in the Army, Deputy Pobjecky was deployed to Iraq. Deputy Pobjecky is currently on paid administrative leave, which is the standard department procedure for these types of incidents. The Rockford Police Department continues to conduct the investigation into this incident. When the criminal investigation is complete, Sheriff's personnel will conduct an administrative review of this matter.
Although those processes are yet to be complete and this is not a final decision or determination of what occurred, it appears that Deputy Pobjecky reacted in a manner which is consistent with departmental policy and his training when faced with a violent, life-threatening confrontation with multiple armed robbery suspects. Deputy Pobjecky's actions were dictated by the actions of four individuals who were committing a violent forcible felony.
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Slot technicians at The Tropicana Casino and Resort have authorized a strike against the casino, which is about to be sold in a bankruptcy auction.
The 23 workers represented by the United Auto Workers are protesting the lack of a contract after more than a year of negotiations.
The technicians maintain and repair slot machines, which are the main money-makers for Atlantic City's 11 casinos.
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|Shahryar NashatDownscaled and Overthrown
Text by Dominic Eichler
A conversation with the artist by Giovanni Carmine and Kathleen Rahn
"As soon as I see a male nude sculpture made between 1500 and 1700, I can't help but chop its top off at thigh, calf, or foot-height."
Downscaled and Overthrown is the first monograph on the work of the Swiss artist Shahryar Nashat (*1975). Whether he truncates Renaissance bronze sculptures through photography, or redesigns a section of the Louvre to accommodate the baroque frescoes of Rubens while filming a well-trained athlete performing a one-armed handstand while looking at the paintings, Nashat's works and exhibitions involve his interest in art collections, art libraries, reproduction of works of art, as well as questions relating to appropriation and artistic reuse, display issues, and apparatus. Lighting, plinths, pedestals, and the mode of projecting and positioning all play pivotal roles in Nashat's video installations, sculpture, etchings, and photographs. Wherever he draws his source or reference material from, he consistently makes a certain artificiality or constructedness obvious in order to generate the possibility of critical reflection about the medium itself. The monograph appears on the occasion of Shahryar Nashat's first solo exhibition in Germany at the Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft.
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A behind-the-scenes look at filming around the world for television and movies, as seen from the streets.(Clockwise from top left: Steve Sands / GC Images/Getty Images; Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images; GWR/Star Max / GC Images/Getty Images; Stickman / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Actor Andrew Garfield, right, rehearses a scene with his stunt double William Spencer on the "The Amazing Spiderman 2" movie set in Madison Square Park in New York.(Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)
In a closed-door meeting on the Sony Pictures Entertainment lot, a few dozen location scouts, agents, producers and studio executives gathered to discuss the state of L.A.'s hometown industry.
Taking center stage: Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti.
Garcetti held the meeting recently to solicit ideas on how he can help stem the exodus of film and TV production from Southern California. He pledged to fight runaway production and to name a film czar to serve as an industry advocate in City Hall.
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Although reversing the loss of film production is beyond the power of a single politician, the fact that Garcetti was reaching out to the industry before even taking office was seen as a positive sign by his audience, according to people at the meeting. Several contrasted Garcetti's stance with that of outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who also contemplated naming a film czar but never followed through.
"There was a lot of disappointment that filming didn't appear to be a huge priority for" Villaraigosa, said location manager Chris Baugh, whose credits include the Oscar-winning film "Argo."
"I feel pretty good about Garcetti," Baugh said. "He seems to be working hard to understand the problem and bring filming back to L.A."
Garcetti has taken other steps as well, including meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) to advocate strengthening California's tax credits for location filming to make them more competitive with other states.
"After school funding, this is my No. 1 statewide priority," Garcetti told The Times editorial board. "We can't take the industry for granted. It's crazy how we've neglected our brand."
Garcetti plans to take a page from New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who regularly touts his city's pro-film stance and its Made in New York program, which gives filmmakers free advertising on bus shelters, subways and in-taxi TV programs. The city's film sector now generates more than $7 billion in spending a year, up more than $2 billion from 2002.
ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll
As New York and other cities have gained production, however, Los Angeles has continued to see declines in its share of the business over the last decade. But Villaraigosa defended his record as mayor.
"One of the most important things that we can do is to support more film tax credits, and I've been one of the leaders of that effort since the 1990s," Villaraigosa said. "We've been able to get film credits passed at the state level. I spearheaded that with other legislative leaders, and I also spearheaded the extension."
But Villaraigosa acknowledged there is "a lot of work to do" in stemming the erosion of L.A.'s film industry.
"I think Eric is going to do a great job building on the things we've done in the past," Villaraigosa said. "He's right to focus on film and the entertainment industry. I'm very supportive of his efforts."
Garcetti, who represented the Hollywood area on the City Council, said the film czar could serve as a liaison to the industry, much as film commissioners do in other states. That appointee would promote the city as a filmmaking destination, serve as a troubleshooter for the local industry and lobby lawmakers in Sacramento to beef up the film-incentive program.
Much is at stake. Location-based feature film production in Los Angeles has plunged nearly 60% in the last 15 years, and TV drama production dropped 20% last year as crews migrated to Canadian and U.S. cities — especially Atlanta, New Orleans and New York — in search of better tax credits.
New York state for example, allocates $420 million annually to qualifying production companies — dwarfing the $100 million offered by California. This year NBC announced its "Tonight Show" would move to New York in February, in part to take advantage of an amendment to the state's incentive program that made such talk shows eligible for a 30% credit on production costs.
"We have to figure out a better way to beat everyone over the head so they each do the right thing, so they invest here and stay here," Garcetti said during his recent meeting at The Times.
He cited leadership roles played by figures such as former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who championed that state's successful film program and would personally meet with filmmakers to show his support.
"More than just tax credits, other states are starting to build the infrastructure and the postproduction" facilities, Garcetti said. "These places are going to permanently take away this industry soon."
Garcetti already has reached out to lawmakers in Sacramento, engaging in a "spirited debate about tax credits and their importance" with Steinberg and shared his concerns with Gov. Brown, who he said did not include entertainment among his top five industries in the state.
In September, the state approved a two-year extension of the current $100-million film and TV credit, short of the five-year extension the industry wanted, amid opposition from groups such as the California Teachers Assn.
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"We have to methodically educate folks in Sacramento about this," Garcetti said.
Garcetti has deep ties to the film industry — and a handful of film and TV credits. He played himself in the 2012 Jake Gyllenhaal cop movie "End of Watch" and in the soap opera "All My Children," and he had a cameo as the mayor of L.A. in "The Closer" — for which his father, former L.A. County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti, was a consulting producer. He also played the mayor last year in an episode of "Major Crimes."
As a councilman, he pushed a plan to waive fees the city charges producers of TV pilots (the city has yet to implement the plan, which was approved by the City Council). He also made runaway production a key plank in his campaign, drawing sizable campaign donations from the arts and entertainment community.
His predecessor was not as bullish on Hollywood, which had a lukewarm and at times testy relationship with Villaraigosa.
The mayor did not attend a December 2010 event held at Los Angeles Center Studios to launch a marketing campaign, dubbed Film Works, to promote filming in L.A.
But Garcetti did — and spoke at the event in his capacity as council president.
Although the city did take some steps under Villaraigosa's administration to become more film friendly — offering free parking on city-owned lots and installing electrical power nodes downtown — Villaraigosa was criticized by some for not highlighting their concerns.
"There was a lot of frustration" with Villaraigosa, said Ed Duffy, business agent for Teamsters Local 399, which represents casting directors, location managers and drivers. "There was a lot of talk and not much follow-through. We welcome [Garcetti's] involvement and the fact that this is a topic of conversation."


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Hope College student Jenna Buck of Elburn, Ill., has won third place in the finals of the Opera Grand Rapids Collegiate Competition, held on Sunday, April 14, at the Betty Van Andel Opera Center in Grand Rapids.
She was one of nine finalists competing in the event after being chosen from among 30 singers in a semi-final round held on Friday, March 1. Each contestant performed two arias for the judges and an audience of approximately 250.
Judges for the April 14 event were Dr. Rachel Gates Bergan, visiting assistant professor of voice at Michigan State University; Dr. Raymond Harvey, director of the Kalamazoo Symphony; and Paul Mow, professional tenor and director of theatre at Southwestern Michigan College.
The Opera Grand Rapids Collegiate Vocal Competition provides an opportunity for outstanding student vocalists being trained full-time at Greater Grand Rapids-area colleges and universities to compete in a professional competition and to be recognized for excellence by a professional opera company. The participating students are asked to perform two arias in differing styles, languages and composers from opera and/or operetta.
Buck, who is a 2012 Hope graduate and vocal music performance major who is continuing studies at the college, was also a finalist in the 2012 competition. Active in music performance throughout her time at Hope, she was a featured soloist during the college's annual Concerto and Aria concert on Friday, Jan. 25, and Musical Showcase on Monday, March 4. In addition, this past November she placed second in the Advanced Men and Women category in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Michigan State Chapter Auditions.
Accepted into multiple graduate-level programs in music, she plans to pursue her M.M. in vocal performance at Michigan State University.
Buck is a 2008 graduate of Kaneland High School, and the daughter of Mark and Cathy Buck of Elburn. She studies voice at Hope with Linda LeFever Dykstra, who is an associate professor of music and chair of the voice division.


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Nicolas Andre handed over a bag of fresh chicken livers to a customer at the West Tisbury Farmers' Market on Saturday morning. After ringing up the sale, Nicolas, age 12, sent the customer on her way with a "Have a nice day" so sincere it could have only come from a child.
"It's fun," he said of growing up on his family's Cleveland Farm in West Tisbury. "Local food is always around and we always have fresh meat."
Meat is his favorite food group, he said.
Helping process chickens, as he had the day before, and going out to the coops every morning to collect eggs is a normal routine for Nicolas and dozens of other Vineyard children growing up on small farms.
At Cleveland Farm in West Tisbury, the work is a family affair. Richard Andre manages the livestock, his wife Ina Andre runs the vegetable garden and young Nicolas is the egg man. Every morning and evening, both summer and winter, Nicolas goes out to collect eggs.
"When you come home from school, how do you get to the house?" Mrs. Andre prodded.
"I like to walk past all the animals out of habit," Nicolas replied.
"He comes up to the house all smiles," his mom said.
"Farming allows you to spend a lot of time together as a family," she continued. "We're around when Nicolas gets home from school. We get to work on things together and enjoy it together." She added: "The nice thing about winter is there's almost no farming so we just get to hang out as a family."
At Breezy Pines Farm in West Tisbury, the Thurber family is similarly all hands on deck, where they grow vegetables for sale at the farmers' market and also their own farm stand off New Lane. They also make herbal and honeycomb skin care products.
"Everyone has a job, everyone has something they do, and not just something to do but something they like to do," said Travis Thurber. "We really try not to force them to do anything, but we definitely try to reward them with what they do, and not just with food, though they do love that.
"The kids love vegetables. Who wouldn't?"
Mr. Thurber, his wife Heather and sons Brahmin, 13, and Cabot, 11, all pitch in to help with weeding, planting harvesting and pruning.
"We try to teach them to do everything so when it's their turn they have no questions . . . to have an idea of where their food comes from and if they need it, how to make more," Mr. Thurber said. "It's about having a knowledge of food and how it works and what it takes to take care of, what it takes to produce," he said. "Most people don't understand what it takes and they've never seen a tomato plant before, just the tomato."
On Saturday, Cabot helped his dad with the farm table at the busy market. Asked about his daily chores at home, he ticked them off: collecting eggs, weeding and harvesting vegetables. He enjoys picking but "not the weeding" he said with a grimace.
Nearby, nine-year-old Joshua Dix of North Tabor Farm was learning how to make change under the watchful eye of his mother, Rebecca Miller.
"He's doing a great job," Ms. Miller said after Joshua counted out the correct change for a $100 bill. Joshua asked to keep the Ben Franklin, but his mother had a more sensible plan, to put the bill in the family vacation fund.
Joshua, his two sisters Ruby, 14, Sadie, 16, and dad Matthew Dix all work on the family farm.
"Everyone works at our house, it's the rule," Ms. Miller said. "Ruby says she doesn't know anyone who's 14 years old who has to work 15 hours a week, but they all work at least two days [in the summer]. We're also training Ruby to take over the winter farmers' market.
"She's been in training for two years; by the time she drives I think she'll have it down," she said with a smile.
She continued:
"Farming is hard work and we don't get much time to play. It helped me be close to my children growing up. We didn't do it for financial reasons; we did it because we wanted to be close to our food and we wanted our children to share in that experience.
"Even my daughter who's 16 and doesn't have to come to market wakes up early every Saturday and comes every week."
The kids said they enjoy the lifestyle.
"My favorite thing about living on a farm is that I can ride my bike everywhere," said Joshua Dix. Asked to name his favorite vegetable, he answered the question with another: "Does basil count as a vegetable?"
Ms. Miller extolled the virtues of raising a family on a farm.
"Oh my gosh, I could go on and on," she said. "Our kids excel in biology because they live it — they know about birth, they know about reproduction, they know about death."
North Tabor Farm employs workers from around the world every summer, another influence on the kids.
"They've grown up being exposed to people from all over the place and it's been amazing," she said. She concluded:
"I'm glad we did it. I wouldn't have it any other way."
This column is meant to reflect all aspects of agriculture and farm life on the Vineyard. Remy Tumin may be contacted at 508-627-4311, extension 120, or e-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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With final site preparation now complete, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber will join team, local and state officials at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 1 to officially break ground on the MLS team's new stadium in Chester.
Team supporters and Chester residents are encouraged to attend. Bleacher seating is limited and will be available on a first-come-first-served basis.
The Sons of Ben, a group supporting the team, is asking attendees to bring canned food for its second annual "Help Kick Hunger" food drive benefitting Chester's Bernardine Center.
MLS Philadelphia will make a matching donation of up to $500.
The site is located at 2501 Seaport Drive.


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Chris Pratt Brings Joy to Kids at Children's Hospital of L.A. [PHOTOS]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Over the past year, Chris Pratt has joined the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Mila Kunis as the Hollywood star that everyone wants to be BFFs with. And if you haven't been convinced of his charms yet, perhaps these photos of him visiting sick children will change your mind.
According to Buzzfeed, Pratt recently visited the Children's Hospital of L.A. as Star-Lord, his character in the new Marvel blockbuster 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' The official Twitter feed for the Children's Hospital tweeted the following photo of Pratt putting a smile on a young fan's face.
Star Lord (@prattprattpratt) cheered up our patients by sharing #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy! Thanks for making them smile! pic.twitter.com/kVsZIToZ73
— Children's Hosp LA (@ChildrensLA) August 21, 2014
Chris Pratt Center, an Instagram fan feed dedicated to Pratt, shared the following photos of Pratt posing with various kids.
Pratt was also photographed visiting Dylan Prunty, who has been nicknamed the "Lego Kid" for his amazing Lego creations that he has worked on as a way to forget about his health problems. Prunty suffers from mitochondrial disorder and has spent more time in the hospital than his home over the past two years.
"It distracts the pain. It's like the best pain medicine," Dylan's mother told CBS Los Angeles in regards to Dylan's love for Legos.
Pratt starred as the lead character in Warner Bros.' 'The Lego Movie,' which opened to critical acclaim earlier this year.


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A truly Canadian confection, the NANAIMO bar! These treats are a Canadian favourite! I know I use to love them before I went vegan. When I was surfing around the net looking for something yummy to make since it is Halloween. I found a recipe on the joyofbaking.com and thought it looked easy enough to veganize, and I was right!
Let me just say one little thing , I am not a fan of healthy desserts. If I need my sugar fix I pretty much go for it. Nothing will hold me back from the sweet sugary goodness of chocolate! I can't imagine them lasting very long in the fridge. One year I made a batch of these with some truffles and gave them away as winter gifts, they keep nicely in the freezer.
We never get many kids for the trick-or-treats. We still carve the pumpkins and have a bowl of candy at the door (just in case).
my pumpkin
The best part about carving pumpkins is the seeds! I always pick through the guts to save them for roasting. This time I roasted 1 pan with garlic powder & sea salt, the other one had tamari sprinkled on it with black pepper. I roast the seeds on low heat 275 for about 1.5 hours. Turn the oven off, and let them sit for a while in there so that they are really dry. A tasty treat!
2 whole pans of pumpkin seeds!!
our pumpkins
This is the recipe I got from joyofbaking.com and changed it to make it vegan


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Glass Half Empty
There were days when my whiny cantankerousness welcomed winter. Admittedly, I was a brat then. Unappreciative of Mother Nature's simplistic attire. I coveted sunshine, my ignorant mind misconstruing rays for happiness. Floral bounties and barefoot walks along the beach became the sole harbingers of joy. I succumbed to an intense yearning for warmth, failing to accept uncertainty & more so, change. A change that is entailed by the necessity for balance. I was blinded by my own stubborn resolve. I visioned winter to be a scorned witch on a broomstick, armed with unbridled blustery winds in one hand and frigidity in the other, constantly battle ready. I wasn't one to surrender, I fought hard, cursed and complained. If seasons had sounds then summer was synonymous with Mozart's harmonious symphonies while winter screamed of dissonance screeching like a rockstar's broken electric guitar.
No more.
Glass Half Full
The blinds have snapped off and the mind is finally eager to embrace nature's vivid transformation. Winter's mellifluous songs are naturally muted if I snobbishly turn a deaf ear. I realize the solution is by far, simple. My only task remains to let myself go. Perhaps if I attempt to embrace the cold, maybe I could avoid huddling in torture. Perhaps if I extend one hand, She will too. Once the answers unveiled themselves, in other words, once the attitude changed, the rest was easy. My mind's eye was finally ready to feel the season, Glass Half Full.
Emboldened by the faux fur parka, the breeze fortified by frost has become less intimidating. The somber, gloomy mornings have never posed a problem since they have a way of romanticizing the day. The natural, obvious beauty around helps too and Niagara on the Lake, a little town exhibits it immensely : Leafless trees move fearlessly with the gales, their skinny branches bent & curved like they're in the midst of an intense ballet recital. They mingle with each other, like socialites reveling at a soiree . Whispering gossip also possibly discussing when the heavens will lace their elegant arms with flurries.
Velvety earth culminating after a fresh flurry offers a gentle cushioning for weary feet but the aspect of impish fun comes into play when there's a generous snowfall and there are mountains of snow to carefully roll and fling at the husband!
Window sills and picket fences lined with green fern and crimson berries and wreaths in silver and gold make up for the lackluster as do brightly lit trees and reindeer topiaries and iridescent ornaments hanging from branches.
There are a couple of pictures below that our thickly gloved hands captured on the phone. (They're from Niagara on the Lake, a little town that appears to have taken a leap off of Gilmore Girls, a television series based in a similar town called Stars Hollow. I'll reserve another post to walk you through this quaint piece of calm.)
Additionally I'm sharing also, a recipe, one of the many festive bakes I indulged in this past month. Food tends to add a sense of ease especially if it involves excessive amounts of sugar.
These are bite sized Mini Chocolate Cupcakes spruced with Peppermint, a flavor that categorizes as a staple in my opinion, in the holiday season. A grand crown of rich White Chocolate Frosting is assiduously placed. The frosting is a rendezvous between a scarlet red and white, much like the striped peppermint candy.
The mint gently masks the sugar. The chocolate counteracts the bout of freshness. They go hand in hand, entwined in sweet romance and to me, their clandestine affair, just came to light.
Recipe for Mini Chocolate-Peppermint Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting ( Makes 12 Mini Cupcakes)
Ingredients for Eggless Cupcakes
1/2 cup All purpose flour
1/3 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/3 tsp Baking Soda
1.5 tbsp cocoa powder
A pinch of salt
2 tbsp Canola Oil
1/3 tsp + 1/3 tbsp white vinegar
1-1.5 tsp Peppermint Extract.
1/3rd cup Milk
2 tbsp warm coffee decoction
Ingredients for White Chocolate Frosting (Adapted from Sally's Bake Blog)
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter(Softened at Room temperature)
85 gms White Chocolate
1 cup Icing sugar
2 tbsp Heavy cream or milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
a pinch of salt
How to make the Cupcakes:
1. Line your mini cupcake pan with liners and preheat oven to 350F.
2. In a large bowl, sift together dry ingredients: Self Raising Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder and Cocoa Powder.
3. To this , add Brown Sugar and give it a good mix.
4. Next, in go the wet ingredients: Canola Oil, Peppermint Extract, 1/3tbsp white vinegar.
5. In a cup mix milk and 1/3 tsp white vinegar to make buttermilk. Add the buttermilk to the cake mix in the large bowl and mix well to ensure there are no lumps.
6. Mix in the coffee decoction and fill cupcake liners till they are 2/3rds full.
7. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
8. They are done when a toothpick comes out clean.
How to make the Frosting:
1. Whisk together butter, milk/heavy cream, vanilla essence together in a large bowl using a hand mixer or a stand mixer, until soft and creamy.
2. Add icing sugar in parts and keep whisking.
3. In a separate bowl, add chopped white chocolate and microwave for 20 sec. Remove, stir and repeat. Twice should do but if not melted after stirring, repeat once more.
4. Add the tempered chocolate to the buttercream as you whisk.
5. Whisk for 3-4 minutes until nice and creamy.
6. Pipe onto completely cooled cupcakes.
7. I added the icing into a bag with Wilton 6B tip in and lined with crimson colored food coloring.
Happy New Year everyone!


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Offering Windows developers an alternative to Microsoft's rival Silverlight rich Internet technology, SapphireSteel Software on Monday is releasing an IDE providing Adobe Flash capabilities for Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform.
To be formally launched Monday, Amethyst is an IDE with Flex, Flash, and ActionScript development capabilities for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Microsoft-based developers can design, code, and debug Flash applications and Flex applications without being forced to use an unfamiliar IDE, SapphireSteel said. Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) capabilities are offered as well.
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With Amethyst, Visual Studio users can leverage the more-established Flash platform instead of Microsoft's rival Silverlight, stressed Huw Collingbourne, director of technology at SapphireSteel.
"The Flash Platform is arguably the most widely used software platform bar none," Collingbourn said. "Adobe claims that over 99 percent of Internet-connected computers have the Flash Player installed. Clearly, in order to reach the widest user base, any Web-based application that requires the sort of interactive features provided by Silverlight would, in principle, be able to reach a larger audience if that front end were implemented using Flash."
Prior to Amethyst, tools for Flash development in Visual Studio "just weren't there," Collingbourne said. "Now, Visual Studio users have a real choice," he said.
Amethyst is visual, with developers able to drag components from the Visual Studio toolbox and drop them onto the Amethyst Designer for building Flash user interfaces. The product works like C# and Visual Basic environments, SapphireSteel said.
Projects can be imported to Amethyst from Adobe tools, including Flex Builder, Flash Builder, or the Flash IDE. The Amethyst Cylon debugger supports simple and conditional breakpoints and "break on hit count," SapphireSteel said.
Amethyst Professional costs $249. A free 60-day trial is available. After the trial period, the software upgrades to the Amethyst Personal free, limited version of the software unless a license is purchased.
This article, "Microsoft Visual Studio users get Flash development capabilities," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter.


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First Lady invites 102-year-old North Miami woman to State of Union speech
At 102 years old, it is possible that Desiline Victor is the oldest guest ever to attend a State of the Union address.
But the North Miami woman, known as "Granny" among the city's Haitian community, was chosen less for her age than what she stands for.
As a naturalized U.S. citizen who waited for more than three hours to cast her ballot Nov. 6, Victor represents what President Barack Obama wants to highlight most in his second term. So she will be sitting Tuesday night in the first lady's box, along with other invited guests.
"I know I'm going to sit with the president's wife," she said. "I did not think I would get here. I am proud."
As an immigrant, former farm worker, respected elder and minority from a heavily populated part of South Florida, Victor and others like her stand to benefit most from the policies the president will discuss during his speech, White House officials say.
She came to the attention of the White House through the Advancement Project, which tracked problems at the polls after Florida lawmakers reduced the number of early-voting days.
The White House describes Victor as "a spirited and independent centenarian" who was born in Haiti in 1910 and arrived in the United States in 1989. She enjoys attending church services and cooking her own meals.
For South Florida, Victor symbolizes the thousands who endured long lines during early voting and on Election Day.
On the first day of early voting, Victor stood in line for three hours until some voting rights activists complained that an elderly woman was struggling.
She finally left with a family member, but returned that evening. When she emerged from the North Miami Public Library with an "I Voted" sticker, the crowd erupted in applause.
"The line was shorter at night," she said. "I wanted to vote for my guy, my son, President Obama."
Word of her determination spread in the community.
"She said even if she got dizzy or collapsed on the line, 'This is something I have to do,' " said Philippe Derose, a North Miami Beach City Council member who met Victor later.
Voting concerns
Local activists and observers expect Obama to address voter rights during the State of the Union address. During his election night speech, Obama referred to those who waited hours to vote, saying, "We have to fix that."
He echoed a similar sentiment in his inauguration speech.
"Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote," he said.
Two Florida members of Congress members also are making a political statement with their guests at the State of the Union address. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston and Lois Frankel of West Palm Beach, both Democrats, invited two people whose lives were affected by gun violence.
Frankel's guest is Lynn McDonnell, the mother of Grace, 7, who was one of the 26 people — mostly children — who died in Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting tragedy in the Newtown, Conn.
Frankel said it would take public pressure to move some of her colleagues to act on gun reform.
"That's the reason so many of us are bringing guests from Newtown," she said. "You cannot look these parents in the eye and say, 'I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do.' "
Frankel sits on the Democratic Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, which recently outlined several gun-control measures, including a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Hialeah teen
Wasserman Schultz invited Megan Hobson, 17, of Hialeah, who was the victim of a drive-by shooting in May. Megan, who spent three weeks in intensive care, was hit by a bullet that entered through the trunk of a car and helped save the life of a 2-year-old passenger, according to the congresswoman's staff.
Hobson, now a senior at American Senior High School in Miami-Dade, will join Wasserman Schultz at a news conference Tuesday morning before traveling to Washington for Obama's speech.
Miami Herald Staff Writer Jacqueline Charles contributed to this report.


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Interim Department Chair: Dr. Chan Ham
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved KSU's Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering Degree in October of 2006. Fall 2007 was the first incoming freshman class.
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics was the first refereed journal published in the United States focused on Mechatronics. In the first issue (March 1996), mechatronics was defined as: "The synergistic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics and intelligent computer control in the design and manufacturing of industrial products and processes." Ten specific topics were identified under the general category of mechatronics:
- Modeling and Design
- Motion Control
- System Integration
- Vibration and Noise Control
- Actuators and Sensors
- Micro Devices & Optoelectronic Systems
- Intelligent Control
- Automotive Systems
- Robotics
- Manufacturing
Mechatronic systems can be a complete product or a sub-component of a product. Examples of mechatronic systems include aircraft flight control and navigation systems; automotive electronic fuel injection and anti-lock brake systems; automated manufacturing systems including robots, numerical control machining centers, packaging systems and plastic injection-molding systems; artificial organs; health monitoring and surgical systems; copy machines; and many more. Some common element of all these systems is the integration of analog and digital circuits, microprocessors and computers, mechanical devices, sensors, actuators, and controls.
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HANOVER, N.H. - Junior Eric Robinson snapped a 1-1 tie with 5:45
left in the third period to lift the Dartmouth men's hockey team to
a 2-1 win over Brown Saturday night in ECAC Hockey action at
Thompson Arena.
The goal was the third game winner of the season for the junior alternate captain who now has five in all this year. The Foxborough, Mass., native is doing it for a Big Green team that improved to 3-0-1 overall with the one-goal victory.
The Bears dropped to 1-3-0 (0-2-0 ECAC Hockey) on the season after opening the year with a win againstPrinceton in last week's Ivy Shootout. But a 3-2 loss to Harvard sandwiched between defeats at the hands of the Green and White has Brown on a three-game slide.
Despite the skid, Bruno looked like a team determined to snap a run of 11 games without a win to Dartmouth. However, Robinson's finishing of a centering pass from sophomore Brandon McNally pushed the Big Green's record against Brown to 10-0-1 in that stretch.
It was the Bears that jumped on the board first as Massimo Lamacchia found space under the bar and beat Dartmouth goalie Cab Morris moving post-to-post with a one-timer while on the penalty kill exactly eight minutes into the first.
That would be the only blemish on the night for Morris, who has quietly been putting together a solid resume in 2012-13 through two starts. Finishing the night with 24 saves, Morris now has a goals-against average of 1.44 and a .933 save percentage.
But none of the celebrating at center ice postgame would have been possible were it not for sophomore Eric Neiley's first of the year late in the second period to pull the two teams even.
Neiley finally had an answer for Brown's Marco De Filippo with 2:02 left in the middle period as his wrist shot from the top of the circles found space through a screen and between the leg pads of the Bears' goalie.
Sophomore Tyler Sikura picked up an assist and has a team-leading seven points and four helpers thus far.Senior captain Mike Keenan was also credited with an assist, his first point of 2012-13.
Until then, De Filippo looked solid in goal, stopping everything that Dartmouth could throw on him in an attempt to tie the game.
Now 3-0-1 overall, the Big Green are off to its best start in nearly a decade. The last time Dartmouthbegan the regular season without a loss through four games was in 2003-04 when the team went 2-0-2 and was 4-0-3 through its first seven.
Next week marks another tough home slate for the Green and White as RPI and Union make the trip to the Upper Valley. The Dutchmen just completed a two-game sweep of the Engineers in a home-and-home series this past weekend. Both Friday and Saturday games are scheduled for 7 p.m. starts.
NOTES: For the second time season in a row, Dartmouth swept it ECAC Hockey home-opening weekend after knocking off Quinnipiac, 5-4, and Princeton, 5-3, to start 2011-12...The win was the 75th against Brown in the all-time series between the two programs as the Big Green now hold a 75-63-8 advantage...Robinson has scored all three game-winning goals this year after notching just one in each of his first two seasons. In the last two years, the team's season-ending leader in GWG has had three, a figure Robinson has matched in just four games.
Robinson's Timely Goal Sparks Big Green
HANOVER, N.H. - Junior Eric Robinson snapped a 1-1 tie with 5:45
left in the third period to lift the Dartmouth men's hockey team to
a 2-1 win over Brown Saturday night in ECAC Hockey action at
Thompson Arena.


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In The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones we are handed the revelation that the world we think we know exists on top of a supernatural plane in which the forces of good and evil are constantly at war. New York teenager Clary Fray (Lily Collins) lives a normal existence – that is, until her latest birthday reveals strange new powers like "the sight" – a mystery that turns into panic when Clary's overprotective mother, Jocelyn (Lena Headey), goes missing.
While on the search for her mom, Clary is attacked by a fearsome demon – only to be saved by Jace (Jamie Campbell Bower), a mysterious demon-hunter ("shadowhunter") that only Clary seems to see. Jace reveals to Clary that she – like her mother – is one of a select group of shadowhunters, tasked with protecting the world from demonic forces. With a dark threat rising, and her mother in peril, Clary, Jace, and their allies will wage warrior against a clandestine threat within the shadowhunter order, while searching for the powerful talisman known as The Mortal Cup, whose location only Jocelyn knows for sure.
The Young Adult movie genre has gotten something of a stigma since Twilight invaded the mainstream, and most moviegoers approach any film within that genre – specifically the YA supernatural sub-genre – with a very critical eye for quality storytelling over hokey romance fantasy and skewed supernatural mythology. I'm proud to report that despite having a very skilled cast of both younger and older actors doing it justice, the material propping up The Mortal Instruments is every YA genre skeptic's nightmare, and the cinematic interpretation is such an overwrought, drab and cumbersome film that it's not even a suitable popcorn-muncher to help pass the time.
At the helm is director Harald Zwart, who is best known for the 2010 Karate Kid reboot and his early 2000s film, Agent Cody Banks. City of Bones is an ugly movie (in no uncertain terms) that squanders so much potential. The blocking, framing, angles and mis-en-scene are poorly imagined and executed; the cinematography by Hollywood newcomer Geir Hartly Andreasen looks like someone's grainy home video; and the director can't seem to capture or realize any of the imaginativeness of the source material – ultimately resulting in a fantastical world that looks anything BUT fantastical.
Zwart even manages to make his pretty leads just as often look awkward, grimy or otherwise unattractive – a rare feat in filmmaking. In terms of both action and (budgeted) visual effects, however, City of Bones is a definite step up from The Twilight Saga, offering a few sequences of genuinely exciting action and/or visual splendor.
To be fair, beyond the imaginative world and premise, there isn't much good material for Zwart to work with. City of Bones screenplay writer Jessica Postigo tried to streamline the convoluted novel by Cassandra Clare, but still winds up with an overwrought story that has little emotional punch or payoff and a whole lot of awkwardness by the end. It starts as an intriguing enough mystery, evolves into a suitable second-act quest; however, some third-act "twists" just derail whatever narrative momentum the story manages to build, and muddles both the mythology and character relationships developed up to that point, leaving us with an awkward ending that doesn't feel much like an ending so much as a chapter break.
This story also has more sappy romantic drama and soap opera-style love triangles than Twilight ever did, making it even more exhausting to endure. As this is both an adaptation and the opening chapter in a larger saga, there are many subplots, foreshadowings and other developments that the movie introduces but fails to explain or resolve – a detriment when set against the need for a film to tell a complete standalone story.
Too bad for the cast of actors in the crossfire, as they manage to do pretty well with their characters and the flimsy material they're working with. Blind Side and Mirror Mirror star Lily Collins is overqualified for her role, bringing real gravitas and emotion to a performance that is ultimately doomed by the movie around it. Jamie Campbell Bower is sharp and witty as Jace, Clary's newfound ally and love interest, and he and Collins have strong chemistry. Supporting players like Jace's adopted siblings Alec (Kevin Zegers) and Isabelle (Jemima West) or Clary's competing love interest, Simon (Robert Sheehan), are all interesting but ultimately shortchanged by a narrative that spreads itself way too thin in both focus and development.
There is also a cast of well-known stars given bit parts to play (to varying fun or ridiculousness). Game of Thrones star Lena Headey; Mad Men star Jared Harris; Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers; Being Human star Aidan Turner; Warehouse 13 star CCH Pounder and Lost star Kevin Durand are just a few of the quality character actors this film manages to (somehow) wrangle together. With the exception of Meyers, the veteran actors' respective scenes certainly elevate the material where possible – but unfortunately, those scenes are few.
In the end, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is yet another would-be franchise trying (and quite likely failing) to fill the post-Twilight void. Even with a richer, darker, more action-packed premise; a more intriguing world; and a cast featuring some quality UK thespians with actual acting chops in the leads, there is just no denying that the story and the movie are both sub-par, forgettable – and worst of all, crushingly boring by the end. Bury this one under a city of bones, and tell the cast to seek more lively pastures.
Kofi Outlaw blogs at Screen Rant.


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Welcome to the Mystery Poll!
Poll #13:
What do you think is the secret connection between Vermouth and the Boss?
Some other form of connection - 26% (15 votes)
She's the Boss's daughter - 21% (12 votes)
She's the Boss's mother - 14% (8 votes)
She's the Boss's lover - 10% (6 votes)
She's the Boss's adopted daughter - 5% (3 votes)
She's the Boss's favorite member - 5% (3 votes)
She's the Boss's wife - 3% (2 votes)
Some other sort of family relation - 3% (2 votes)
She's the Boss's best friend - 3% (2 votes)
She's the Boss's favorite actress - 3% (2 votes)
They don't have a secret connection - 3% (2 votes)
She's the Boss's sister - 2% (1 vote)
She's the Boss's granddaughter - 0% (0 votes)
She's the Boss's grandmother - 0% (0 votes)
Date started: 06/15/15
Date ended: 06/29/15
Manga status: 924
Total votes: 58
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Kor wrote:While it's true that that specific option got the most votes, it'd be incorrect to say that the majority voted for it (as in, 15 out of 58 is not a majority).
Technicalities aside, though, due to the soap opera nature of this series in the recent few years, I wouldn't dismiss an actual connection (love or familial relation, etc.) too easily.
Plus I may be not remembering right, but doesn't Conan exclaim that when Vermouth looked at the phone after receiving the text from the boss she had that weird expression? (don't remember the exact words).
As far as dropping the series goes, I'm under the impression that when Vermouth finally reveals all of her secrets, the manga would be in its final stages anyway, so if you stuck with it that far, it might be a bad place to drop it considering it'd be the near end (but that's just a speculation)
Shinichi Edogawa wrote:Gosho confirmed in his card that Vermouth is not the boss' wife.
Shinichi Edogawa wrote:Gosho confirmed in his card that Vermouth is not the boss' wife. For me, it's highly plausible that she's the boss' mother, her being his daughter wouldn't be surprising at all. She stopped aging a long time ago, she must be old and the BO doesn't know about her aging problem, if they knew the boss is her son, they would assume he's a child and it will be the perfect metaphor : the boss is an evil version of Conan and he has the same condition than Shinichi. Also how will the BO react if they find they obey to a boss in a weak condition? He'll be in danger.
DCUniverseAficionado wrote:Shinichi Edogawa wrote:Gosho confirmed in his card that Vermouth is not the boss' wife.
In that postcard, it was never clarified whether Gosho meant Vermouth was the boss' wife or James' wife, since he said in the same postcard that James wasn't the boss. I will say, however, it is, indeed, most likely that he meant that Vermouth isn't the boss' wife. The boss would have to be pretty apathetic about Vermouth having sex with Gin for him to continue being her husband or not punishing/killing Gin.
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