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Camp C.O.P.E.: Helping Kids from Military Families
As Elizabeth Reep helped her stepsons deal with their soldier dad's deployment and war injuries, she realized there were thousands of other kids just like them. So she created Camp C.O.P.E., where kids help one another heal.
Getting Deployed
The boys and girls in a Killeen, Texas, classroom were busy putting pen to paper, but their task had nothing to do with school. They were military kids, gathered on a hot September Saturday to write encouraging notes to children with parents serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Dear Son or Daughter of a Deployed Parent," wrote one 13-year-old. "I know how you feel. When I found out that my dad was going to Iraq, I cried all night. It changed my life. When you are mad, sad or depressed, please remember that you are not alone."
Letter writing is just one of the many activities at Camp C.O.P.E., a free support program for children of deployed, injured and fallen U.S. service members. Designed for kids ages 4 through 18, Camp C.O.P.E. was cofounded in 2005 by Elizabeth Reep, 42, a social worker from Grand Prairie, Texas, and wife of wounded Iraq war veteran Tracy Reep, 43.
The catalyst was Tracy's deployment in April 2003, when Elizabeth's stepsons Hunter and Austin were 8 and 10. "We said goodbye, then stood waving our flags as the bus drove away, not knowing whether we'd see him again," remembers Elizabeth. As a counselor, she knew it was key to keep the mood as positive as possible. So off they went to a local Build-A-Bear store, where each designed a soldier bear in Dad's honor. That night Elizabeth called the first Operation Support Tracy Reep bear battalion meeting to order.
"Well, soldiers," said Elizabeth, speaking through her bear, "Dad shipped off today. And, actually, I'm a little relieved. Now we can start the countdown to his return." The meetings became a ritual whenever the boys were with her, typically on Wednesdays and every other weekend. "Austin and Hunter were able to verbalize their feelings through the bears, asking questions they might have been afraid to bring up otherwise," she says. Elizabeth would respond as best she could, letting them know it was okay to feel confused, afraid and angry. "People tell military children that their parent is a hero, but kids don't always see it like that," says Elizabeth. "Sure they're proud, but they're also mad that mom or dad is not at their soccer game."
As the months passed, Elizabeth and the boys tackled new projects: hanging yellow ribbons in the front yard, snapping pictures of the Halloween pumpkins they carved. Everyone looked forward to Christmas, when Tracy was scheduled for a leave. Unfortunately his convoy was ambushed on Veteran's Day in 2003. Tracy lost an eye and two fingers in the explosion. He was sent to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where he underwent 25 surgeries and spent eight long months recovering.
Coming Home
When he was finally released in July 2004, the family celebrated with a party, but it soon became clear that life was going to be a lot different for a while. "Tracy was angry and frustrated, which is common with veterans," says Elizabeth, who experienced the same behavior with her dad, a Vietnam vet. Tracy had been planning to start a business when he was deployed, and now those plans were derailed. His limited vision left him unable to drive, and he struggled with everyday tasks, like opening jars. He'd fly off the handle over little things. The boys began to founder too. Like many military children, they suffered nightmares, stomachaches, headaches and panic attacks. Their grades went down, and they began acting out in school.
During Tracy's rages, Elizabeth would take Austin and Hunter into another room, explain that he wasn't mad at them and encourage the boys to brainstorm more constructive ways to express anger. She felt fortunate to have the necessary training and expertise to help. But she worried about the hundreds of thousands of other military children experiencing similar ordeals at home. While there were support options for service members, little was available for their offspring. "We forget that kids serve too," says Elizabeth. "They may not be on the battlefield, but they make an enormous sacrifice for their country. Children need help coping with their emotions, and they need to know that other kids are going through this also. I wondered if there was a way I could help them as well."
The answer came in December 2004. The Reeps were attending the annual Road to Recovery Conference in Orlando sponsored by the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes (CSAH), an organization that provides services for wounded vets and their families. "There were workshops for the grown-ups but nothing specifically for the kids," says Elizabeth. "I figured I could complain or be part of the solution." So she approached the man in charge, told him of her background and offered to develop a youth program for the following year. He promised to consider it if she put together an outline and a budget.
Elizabeth turned to friend and child counselor Sarah Bravo, 32, to design a curriculum. Through crafts, games and small group activities, they'd teach kids of injured military members how to express and manage their feelings. Equally important, they'd offer a chance for kids to bond with peers in similar circumstances. The women named their program Camp C.O.P.E., which stands for Courage, Optimism, Patience and Encouragement. Their proposal was approved, and they were given $1,600 to make it a reality.
Camp C.O.P.E. launched at the 2005 Road to Recovery Conference. Eighty-five kids showed up, including Hunter and Austin. Attendees were split into age-appropriate groups, led by Elizabeth, Sarah and volunteer counselors. Those who came in grumbling and skeptical were quickly drawn in by the fun and games. The Introduce Yourself session featured contests to see which family had moved the most places. Kids blew off steam through yoga-type exercises. In small groups, counselors instructed them to smash flowerpots with hammers to symbolize families shattered by war, write on the broken pieces (how they felt on the inside and a wish for the future on the outside), then glue them back together to represent the resilience of military families.
Making a Difference
There were many truly touching moments, says Elizabeth. A 15-year-old girl whose mother had post-traumatic stress disorder realized, "My mom's wounded inside, and that's why she doesn't give me many hugs anymore." A 14-year-old admitted that it sometimes annoyed him to be considered the "man of the house." Austin and Hunter learned that others' dads got angry also. "Over and over, we heard kids say, 'That happens to you too?' " Elizabeth recalls. When the camp ended, they didn't want to leave. "Considering we were competing with Disney World, that seemed pretty remarkable," says Elizabeth.
CSAH sponsored Camp C.O.P.E. for two more years. Then Elizabeth and Sarah began taking their program to military bases nationwide. That meant they had to file for nonprofit status and begin covering costs themselves. So far, they have completed 18 camps, serving about 2,500 children. Parents gratefully report that kids who attend are calmer and have fewer behavioral problems at school. Besides targeting families of injured service members, Camp C.O.P.E. now includes those of deployed and fallen soldiers.
Donations must cover supplies, travel, meals and the small stipends paid to counselors. "It's challenging," admits Elizabeth. "But every time we start worrying about money running out, something comes through." Most recently, they scored $100,000 from Taste of the South, a charitable organization based in Washington, D.C. Camp C.O.P.E. also won $5,000 from Newman's Own and the Fisher House Foundation.
Still, Elizabeth often stays up late applying for grants, because her days are busy—she has a full-time counseling practice and a toddler. (Son Sawyer was born in December 2010.) But her efforts are paying off. Last year Camp C.O.P.E. received a $220,000 grant from the Lynx Foundation in California. The Bob Woodruff Foundation, established by the wounded journalist and his family, has also contributed generously. All money goes toward upcoming camps.
Meanwhile, Camp C.O.P.E. has become a family affair. Tracy, back to work running a medical supply business, organizes golf fundraisers. Hunter and Austin volunteer at camps. Elizabeth and her cofounder, Sarah, both bring along their little ones (and their mothers and nannies) when running an event. "In these families, the need for children's counseling is greater than ever," says Elizabeth. "Still, the strength of the kids just amazes us."
Austin Reep's upbeat outlook was evident in the letter he wrote to a military child at the Killeen, Texas, Camp C.O.P.E. event: "Never blame yourself. Always look forward to tomorrow, 'cause it's another day. No one knows what is ahead, but the sun and moon will always shine. Love is strong and so are you."
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James Franco will Play a Serial Killer and Direct 'The Night Stalker'
by Daniel Haim
New York Post confirms James Franco will play satanic serial killer Richard Ramirez and direct the movie version of true-crime author Philip Carlo's "The Night Stalker," Page Six has learned. The "127 Hours" star, making his directing debut, will start shooting this summer when he's on a break from Yale.
In 1985, Ramirez went on a rampage of sexual assault and murder, entering homes at night and generating fear throughout Southern California. He was later found guilty of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries.
The film, also titled "The Night Stalker," will show how Ramirez, currently on death row in California, became a killer. It's being co-produced by Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell and Nicolas Constantine, who also wrote the screenplay.
Constantine said, "Phil Carlo painted such an amazing portrait of Richard Ramirez, the human being, and it's that which drew us all to the project. Sure, Ramirez was a monster — but Phil investigated how he became that monster, and that's what this film is about.
"This isn't a horror film, nor does it glorify Ramirez in any way," Constantine said. "James Franco shares that vision, and we all agree that he is absolutely the one actor, and now director, who can truly do this very intense role and story justice.
"I had no idea if he would do it, though, since it's pretty dark subject matter. They told me he was studying to be a director and this was perfect for him. We watched three short films he made, two of which were dark and one of which was about a serial killer. That confirmed James definitely had this dark side, and it definitely sealed the deal for us. Sure enough, James read the material and responded to it immediately."
Carlo died two months ago after a battle with Lou Gehrig's disease. His widow, Laura, said that when Cornell and Constantine optioned the book last year, "he spent many hours talking with them and was very impressed with their vision for this film."

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Jun 02, 1992 | ISBN 9780140184747
Selected PoemsForeword by Nadezhda Mandelshtam
Foreword by Donald Davie
Translator's Preface
Introduction by Donald Rayfield
From Stone (1913, 1916, 1923 and 1928)
The careful muffled sound
Suddenly, from the dimly lit hall
To read only children's books
On pale-blue enamel
What shall I do with the body I've been given
A sadness beyond words
Words are unnecessary
Ear-drums stretch their sensitive sail
Like the shadow of sudden clouds
I grew, rustling like a reed
Sultry dusk covers the couch
How slowly the horses move
Light sows a meagre beam
The sea-shell
I hate the light
In the haze your image
No, not the moon, but a bright clock-face
The traveller
The casino
The Lutheran
Hagia Sophia
Notre Dame
Poisoned bread, satiated air
Horses' hooves…The clatter
There are orioles in the woods
Nature is Roman, and mirrored in Rome
Sleeplessness. Homer. Taut sails
Herds of horses gaily neigh or graze
Unpublished in the Struve/Filippov editions
Newly reaped ears
Two poems first published by Struve/Filippov, 1964
The hunters have trapped you
The old men of Euripides, an abject throng
From Tristia (1922)
– How the splendour of these veils and of this dress
We shall die in transparent Petropolis
This night is irredeemable
Disbelieving the miracle of resurrection
Out of the bottle the stream of golden honey poured so slowly
Spring's transparent-grey asphodels
Sisters: heaviness and tenderness bear the same insignia
Return to the incestuous lap
When Psyche – life – descends among shades
I have forgotten the word I wanted to say
For the sake of delight
Here is the pyx, like a golden sun
Because I had to let go of your arms
When the city moon looks out on the streets
When, on my lips a singing name, I stepped
I like the grey silences under the arches
From Poems (1928)
I was washing at night in the courtyard
To some, winter is arrack and a blue-eyed punch
Rosy foam of fatigue on his sensual lips
As the leaven swells
I climbed into the tousled hayloft
My time
Whoever finds a horsehoe
1 January 1924
Two Poems Published in NOVY MIR (1931 and 1932)
Poems Published Posthumously
I was only in a childish way connected with the established order
Help me, O Lord, to get through this night
For the resounding glory of eras to come
I drink to the blossoming epaulette
We exist, without sensing our country beneath us
The body of King Arshak is unwashed
Your narrow shoulders are to redden under scourges
Black earth
Yes, I'm lying in the earth, moving my lips
You took away my seas and running jumps and sky
My country conversed with me
For those hundred-carat ingots, Roman nights
A wave advances – one wave breaking another's backbone
I shall perform a smoky rite
I shall not return my borrowed dust
I can't make sense of today
Like a belated present
I would sing of him who shifted the axis of the world
You still haven't died, you're still not alone
I look the frost in the face, alone
Oh, these suffocating, asthmatic spaces of the steppes
Plagued by their miraculous and all-engulfing hunger
Don't compare: anyone alive is matchless
What has contended with oxide and alloys
The mounds of human heads disappear into the distance
Listening, listening to the early ice
A little boy, his red face shining like a lamp
Where can I put myself this January?
Like Rembrandt, martyr of light and dark
Breaks of the rounded bays, shingle, blue
I sing when my throat is damp, my soul dry
Eyes once keener than a sharpened scythe
Armed with the insight of narrow wasps
I am plunged into a lion's den, a fort
If our enemies take me
Life's reticulations loosen, madness looms
This is what I want most of all
This azure island was exalted by its potters
As if words were not enough
I raise this greenness to my lips
With her delightful uneven way of walking
Notes and Acknowledgments
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I don't know how many of you are familiar with the SSC Ultimate Aero II which is a car that is said to be the fastest production car in the world. I came across this article on a car that I never even heard of, but the images of it looked so darn futuristic and cool. So here is a tutorial on "how to Draw a SSC Ultimate Aero II", step by step. I did a little research and found that this almost million dollar car is one of the fastest and aero dynamic vehicles in the world. The Ultimate Aero II has a 6.8 twin turbocharged V-8 engine that has a little over thirteen hundred horsepower. It clocks in at a top speed of two hundred, seventy five miles per hour which is freaking crazy. The same people that brought you the Bugatti are the same ones that produced this beast of a machine. The car weighs over two thousand pounds, and the tires or wheels are made in one piece. There are so many different qualities to this vehicle that for me to sit here and name them all would make me sound totally out of my league. I do know that Shelby Supercars is supposed to sell this vehicle for nine hundred, seventy thousand dollars. If you want to read more detailed information on this vehicle, just visit SSC Ultimate Aero website and you will be able to fill your car loving brain with all the specs and details of this amazingly cool looking car. Well, that is all I have for you folks today, join me again later with some more drawing fun. Peace out people and try not to go too fast when tackling this lesson.
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Bash / CSH shell offers command history feature. Most of you may be aware and using of UP / DOWN arrow keys to recall previous commands. History expansions introduce words from the history list into the input stream, making it easy to repeat commands, insert the arguments to a previous ommand into the current input line, or fix errors in previous commands quickly.
To repeat last command that started with bar word type i.e. refer to the most recent command starting with string bar):
! bar
For example, let us run lighttpd to test config file:
# /usr/sbin/lighttpd -t -f /jail/usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Syntax OK
Type few commands:
# pwd
# date
Now to repeat last command that started with lighttpd word type
# !lighttpd
lighttpd -t -f /jail/usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf Syntax OK
Want to refer to the previous command, just enter
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Candler School of Theology lies at the heart of Emory University's commitments, campus and tradition. In turn, the university creates a unique and remarkable laboratory for shaping exceptional ministers, advocates, educators and leaders.
Our alumni—over 8,200 and counting—are real people making a real difference in the real world. They follow their hearts–and apply their gifts–in endless directions.
The alumni, friends and donors that make up the Candler community play a critical role. By getting involved in events, donating time or money, and staying engaged online, you are helping Candler fulfill its mission to educate—through scholarship, teaching and service—faithful and creative leaders for the church's ministries in the world.
Investing in Candler has never been easier. You can make an annual gift, create or support an endowed fund, and invest in scholarships. You also may invest in Candler with a bequest or life income gift, which can provide for you and your family, create tax benefits, and leave an important legacy for education, research, patient care, or community service at Candler.
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Alumni and friends who invest in Candler are helping the school build upon its clear strengths in educating active religious leaders and first-rate scholars. Your gifts help Candler lead with wisdom, clarity, compassion and tolerance the urgent conversations among the streams of Christianity and with other religions of the world.
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With expertise across the spectrum from the classical to the practical fields, Candler faculty members strive to enhance the quality of religious and public life. Your gift will create endowed professorships to recruit and support the best faculty, scholars who strengthen Candler's commitment to serve Christ by educating faithful and creative leaders for the church's ministries in the world.
Endowed gifts to Candler ensure support for today and far into the future. Endowed professorship gifts are guaranteed through named endowment funds, and a major portion of the interest income provides financial support as outlined in the gift agreement. The remainder of the interest income is returned to the fund's corpus to protect against inflation and permit the endowment to grow over time. In this way, endowed gifts have far greater earning power: A one-time gift lasts forever.
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Candler's Program of Black Church Studies prepares men and women to provide learned, prophetic, and compassionate leadership in black and multiracial churches; and, educates the entire Candler community about the origins, development, and contemporary diversity of the black church tradition. The program also explores religious traditions among peoples of African descent across Africa and the diaspora. The program seeks to integrate black church studies into foundational courses at Candler and to expand and deepen black church studies courses.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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Tennis' next generation emerges from shadows of today's Olympians at East West Bank Classic
by Paul Teetor
Published July 31, 2008/ Easy Rider
The big winner at the East West Bank Classic at the Home Depot Center in Carson last week was next week's Beijing Olympics.
The official winner, however, was 22-year-old, late bloomer Dinara Safina, who blitzed what was left of a once-formidable field and walked away with the championship trophy Sunday afternoon. After fighting off a match point early in the week with a powerful ace, the newly swift and sleek Russian 6-footer rolled over everyone else in her path, including top-seeded Jelena Jankovic, whom she crushed in Saturday night's marquee semifinal. As in past years, the tournament also showcased several future potential top women players.
Meanwhile, the big losers were the fans who bought advance tickets expecting to see mega-stars such as Venus and Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Svetlana Kuznetsova -- all of them last-minute dropouts due to various knee injuries they hoped to heal up in time for the Olympics.
Defending champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia and Manhattan Beach's own Maria Sharapova -- technically she's still Russian, but lives here when not touring -- also chose to sit out and train for the Olympics. But at least they hadn't committed to playing -- which allows the tournament to use their names and images in its advertising -- and then withdrawn at the last moment.
A week on hard courts under the searing summer was not going to help anyone's knee or shoulder problems, so in a sense the mass exodus from Carson was understandable. The Summer Olympics only come around every four years, an Olympic medal is always a great thing to have on your resume, and there's a women's tournament with $600,000 in prize money -- give or take a hundred grand -- almost every week of the year somewhere in the world.
Then there are those old-school virtues of pride and patriotism.
But still the superstars' last-second disappearing act was tough to take for fans, press and tournament officials who ultimately couldn't escape the long shadow of the much-hyped, much-anticipated Chinese Olympics.
Even Safina had the Olympics on her mind moments after smacking a mach-speed backhand past a tired, limping and virtually unknown Flavia Pannetta in Sunday afternoon's finals at the Home Depot Center.
"I still have to go to Beijing after all this," Safina said after the 6-4, 6-2 win that took 70 minutes. "If I stay healthy and strong, and keep playing like this, God only knows what can happen at the Olympics."
Little sister grows up
Safina has always been an imposing physical presence with a build and physique similar to that of her better known big brother, Marat Safin, a two-time Grand Slam winner.
Safin, however, is also the most notorious head case on the men's tour, a racket-smashing, multi-lingual shouter and X-rated screamer who once pulled down his shorts and mooned a hostile crowd. And he's a notorious under-achiever, with a ranking nowhere near his talent level.
His equally talented little sister is also known for smashing rackets and losing control of her game, mostly by trying crazy shots at bad times. But at least she has never shed her clothes on the court.
And the under-achiever label has stuck to her as well. The athleticism, the overwhelming size, the big serve and the technically perfect strokes -- her mother is a big-time tennis coach in Russia -- were always there as she made her way onto the tour over the last six years and slowly pushed her ranking into the mid-teens.
But she stalled out last year when her weaknesses in movement and her erratic temperament were exposed. She usually found a way at crucial moments to lose to the top players and became known as a head case, a dangerous but inconsistent Big Babe banger just as likely to beat herself as her opponent.
In the last six months, however, she hired a new coach, added a fitness guru, dropped 10 pounds and rededicated herself to achieving her full potential.
Their solutions: better diet, better quickness and better emotional control.
"My coach told me the only way I could get better was to tone down the emotional part of my game," she said. "When he said it is the only way I could get off the level I was stuck at, I decided to do it. And it's working.
Indeed, the East West title capped off an incredible streak in which Safina won a Tier 1 event in Berlin, reached the final of the French Open, and won 22 of 24 matches before adding 5 more impressive wins this week.
Besides her straight set win over Jankovic in the semis, she survived the most riveting match of the entire week, a 7-6, 0-6, 7-6 win over 20-year old Russian Alla Kudryavtseva in Thursday night's marquee match.
That was followed Friday afternoon by a 6-3, 6-2 steamrolling of 8th seed Victoria Azarenka, a 19-year-old up-and-comer on the tour. Azarenka, who looks like a slightly shorter version of Sharapova and whose constant grunting sounds EXACTLY like Sharapova's well-known shrieking, never had a chance.
Safina later said it was one of the best matches she had ever played.
"It was perfect," she said, seemingly amazed at what she now realizes is capable of. "I can't think of anything that went wrong today."
Top girls
Safina's Saturday night demolition of Jankovic -- and the collateral damage to the Serbian's Number One dream -- was the artistic highlight of the tournament. It provided fans at least a taste of the high-level, high-velocity, high-emotion tennis that is usually generated when two of the Top Girls square off.
In the last six months Safina has morphed into one of the Top Girls -- this victory will elevate her to eighth in the world -- while Jankovic became a Top Girl not long after breaking through right here at Carson two years ago.
That's when Jankovic rebounded from a nightmarish streak of 10 straight first-round losses that had her musing aloud about quitting the tour and going back to college. But she kept fighting, rode her daring, down-the-line backhand all the way to the semifinals and began her climb from the depths of the computer rankings.
Two years later, even without winning a single Grand Slam event, she started the week as number two in the world and the protagonist of the only legitimate storyline the tournament had left: Could JJ -- as her growing legion of fans have taken to calling her -- win the tournament and gain enough computer points become number one in the world?
"I think our fans are very excited about the prospect of seeing Jelana become number one right here in Carson," Michael Roth, vice-president of communications for the Anschutz Entertainment Group, said Tuesday night, two hours after Serena Williams finally, officially, pulled out. "It's not often you have the opportunity to see something historic like that."
And Jankovic, who had a love affair with the crowd all week, was clearly eager to win the title and grab the number one ranking from her countrywoman and not-so-great friend Ivanovic.
"I don't care if it's only for one week that I am number one," she said. "I go in the history books as number one in the world and they can never take that away from me."
She too planned to play in the Olympics and she too had knee problems that forced her to wear a long, conspicuous thigh bandage down to her kneecap. But she vowed to play through the pain and seemed happy to let Ivanovic do the heavy lifting at the Olympics.
Saturday night showdown
Once the rash of withdrawals had been digested and third-seeded Anna Chakvetadze checked out in a second round loss to Sybil Bammer, it became clear that either the top-seeded Jankovic or the fourth seeded Safina was going to win the tournament. Unfortunately, they were in the same half of the draw and thus scheduled to meet in the semi-finals, not the finals.
The imbalance in the two halves of the draw became crystal-clear when Saturday dawned to find the first semifinal featuring 21st ranked Flavia Pennetta against 54th ranked Bethanie Mattek, who is known more for her outrageous outfits than her boring baseline game. Their early-afternoon war of attrition was played under a broiling sun that turned the stadium court into a frying pan and the brave spectators into slices of crispy bacon. Three hours later, with both players fighting to make it into their first Tier 2 final, Pannetta's superior strokes and graceful movement finally overcame Mattek's funky game and bulldog determination to pull out a third-set marathon.
Saturday night was reserved for the Jankovic-Safina semifinal, but almost everyone in the stadium knew it might as well be the final. The winner was a lock to take the title over the 26-year-old Pannetta, who had severe blister problems on her feet and has been on the tour long enough to prove she simply isn't in the same class as either Jankovic or Safina.
The tension was high as both women took the court with Jankovic sporting the red dress that the crowd preferred over her white one in an informal poll she took after her second round win over Long Beach's own Vania King, 7-5, 6-2.
To see how tough life is on the pro tour, consider the plight of the 5-foot-5, 19-year-old King: as twilight fell in the stadium Wednesday night, she was playing so well that she held a set point while leading Jankovic 6-5, 40-30. After a long, tough rally -- King also has great wheels, like Jankovic -- King smacked a backhand down the line that Jankovic barely got her racket on. She somehow scraped up a towering lob that was loudly called out as it landed at the intersection of the baseline and the sideline. But before King could get to her chair to celebrate her first set victory, Jankovic challenged the call. The replay showed the ball caught the slightest sliver of the sideline and thus was considered in. The point was replayed, Jankovic won the point and eventually forced a tie-breaker at 6-6. A chagrined King was never the same and quickly fell apart.
Why not Dinara?
Jankovic continued her determined march to number one Friday night with a straight set win over 9th seeded Nadia Petrova, another big strong Russian known as a head case who falls apart at key times. Right on cue, this time she was broken late in each set and went away without a struggle.
The strengths of Jankovic's game have been clear ever since she emerged at Carson two years ago. Her suffocating court coverage is the best on the tour, her favorite and most effective shot is her two-handed down-the-line backhand, and her once weak serve was a liability but it has gained some pop this past year.
Now both women, good friends off the court, were on a Saturday night mission: Safina to keep the best streak of her career going, and Jankovic to grab that elusive number one ranking, something she had tried and failed to do twice this year in earlier tournaments that could have given her the top spot.
The showdown featured Jankovic's all court-game, as she glided effortlessly around the court for impossible gets, versus Safina's pure power package, a barrage of two-fisted backhands and heavy-duty serves. But it was the new elements in Safina's game - the improved movement and agility, the elimination of her what-the-hell-was-she-thinking errors - that ruled the night and demonstrated why she is suddenly a serious contender for number one in the world.
At a strange, transitional moment in the women's game when Justine Henin suddenly and inexplicably retired at the age of 26 while still ranked number one, and the Williams sisters are only playing when they feel like it, and Sharapova is reaching for greatness, but unable to claim the top spot as her own, suddenly the possibility is there: why not Safina as number one?
Tie breaker
The semi-final match began ominously for Jankovic. Safina broke her at love with a bullet-proof backhand that flew right past her. But Jankovic broke right back, and they dug in for a fierce battle all the way to the tie-breaker, which played out as a microcosm of the match.
On the first point Jankovic unleashed a wheel-of-fire forehand winner that caught Safina wrong-footed, then she followed that up with a down-the-line backhand service return winner to go up 2-0 in the breaker.
But Safina, as she had done all week, never blinked and just kept pounding the ball to the corners and charging forward at the slightest opening She started on the road back with a service winner that handcuffed Jankovic and cut the lead to 2-1.
Suddenly Jankovic showed serious signs of nerves with a double fault and a badly mis-hit forehand that gave Safina a 3-2 lead. Grateful for the unexpected gifts, Safina pounded a service winner to build her lead to 4-2 as they changed sides.
Jankovic, suddenly favoring her right knee, dumped a forehand right into the net for an unforced error that left her trailing 5-2. She held on stay alive at 6-3, which set up the best point of the match, a fire-fight of bludgeoned backhands and flying forehands. Finally Jankovic went for broke on one of her trademark inside-out forehands, but it went way wide and Safina had the breaker and the first set.
Suddenly Jancovic's hint of a limp turned into a full-fledged leg crisis, and she proved that you have no chance against Safina if you cannot run after hitting your shot.
"My legs just seized up," Jancovic said. "The whole week just caught up to me. It was the first time all week I was feeling pain, and then it just started getting worse and worse."
Soon it was over 7-6 (3), 6-1, and 18 hours later Safina was picking up the winner's trophy.
Breakout girls
Over the years the East West Bank Classic, as it is now known, has been famous for giving fans an early look at great players-to-be. In 2003, the first year it was held at the Home Depot Center after moving from the its original home at the Manhattan Beach Country Club, Sharapova made her professional debut as a 16-year-old and made it all the way to the fourth round, where she took a set off eventual champ Kim Clijsters before bowing out.
Two years ago, both Jankovic and Ivanovic had break-out tournaments that launched them into the top five. As many players have noted over the years, there is very little room at the top and moving from the top 10 to the top five is as difficult as moving from the top 100 into the top 10.
Tennis fans this year got to see at least two stars of the future at the Home Depot Center, both potential top tenners and one of them a potential top five player. And once you make it into the top five, you have a real shot at number one.
Alla Kudryavtseva is the 20-year-old Russian who had a match point on Safina at 5-4 in the third set of their third-round match. But Safina pounded an ace and shook her fist while she screamed in triumph. Soon she was into a tie-breaker, where she narrowly prevailed, 7-5.
Kudryavtseva, a brainy sort of 5-foot-10 blonde who thinks her way through matches, has a big forehand and a fierce competitive will that enabled her to upset Sharapova at Wimbledon, a victory which vaulted her ranking from number 154 into the top hundred.
But the potential Grand Slam champion is a 19-year-old, 5-foot-3 package of tennis talent and nervous energy named Dominica Cibulkova, from Slovakia. With thick, powerful legs shaped like fire hydrants, she bounces around the court like an Olympic gymnast on steroids, a whirl-wind of movement, energy and passion as she leaps from side to side, from the baseline to the net and back.
On the tour barely two years, she has risen like a rocket and is already ranked 31st in the world.
Maybe someday soon -- say in two years, like Jankovic -- she could be playing for the East West title and competing for number one in the world.
"Anything is possible," Safina said about the race to number one. "All you can do is train hard and play hard. If you do that, the results will take care of themselves."
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The San Francisco Symphony sets the highest possible standard for excellence in musical performance at home and around the world; Enriches, serves, and shapes cultural life throughout the spectrum of Bay Area communities; Maintains financial stability and gains public recognition as a means of ensuring its ability to fulfill its mission.
In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco's civic leaders set about creating a permanent orchestra in the music-loving city. In December 1911, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) gave its first concerts, rekindling the city's cultural life. It delighted audiences with a kaleidoscopic mix of classics and new music.
The orchestra grew in stature and acclaim under a succession of distinguished music directors. Henry Hadley was followed by Alfred Hertz, who had led the American premieres of Parsifal, Salome, and Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera. Then came Basil Cameron, Issay Dobrowen, the legendary Pierre Monteux, who had introduced the world to Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and Petrushka, Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, and Herbert Blomstedt, who continues to serve as Conductor Laureate. Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) became Music Director in 1995. Under his leadership, the orchestra has reached new artistic heights and new audiences.
The SFS has won some of the world's most prestigious recording awards, including Japan's Record Academy Award, France's Grand Prix du Disque, Britain's Gramophone Award, and a bundle of Grammy® awards. With MTT, the Symphony has won eleven Grammy®s, including three for its 1999 recording of Stravinsky ballet scores, and seven for the acclaimed Mahler symphony cycle recorded over the last decade. The Mahler recordings were released on the Symphony's own label, SFS Media, which launched in 2001. Earlier, for RCA Red Seal, MTT and and the orchestra recorded scenes from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, which also won a Grammy®, Mahler's Das klagende Lied, two Copland albums, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a Gershwin collection (featuring works they performed at Carnegie Hall's 1998 opening gala, telecast nationally on PBS's Great Performances), and Charles Ives: An American Journey.
Some of the most important conductors of their time have been guests on the SFS podium, among them Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein, and Sir Georg Solti. The composers who have led the orchestra comprise a who's who of modern and contemporary music: Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, and John Adams. For its adventurous programming, the Symphony has been honored twelve times by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. And in 1979, the appointment of John Adams as New Music Adviser became a model for composer-in-residence programs adopted by major orchestras across America.
The San Francisco Symphony provides the most extensive education and community programs offered by any American orchestra. It brings music into every classroom, K-12, in the San Francisco Unified School District, free of charge. The Symphony's Adventures in Music is the longest-running education program of its kind in the country. Begun in 1988, it teaches music to every child in grades one through five in San Francisco's public schools, reaching more than 23,000 students. The Symphony's Instrumental Training and Support program brings professional musicians into middle and high schools throughout the city to coach students once a week. It also provides technical assistance, supplies and concert tickets.
The acclaimed San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, which has toured the world and made impressive recordings, gives pre-professional training to the Bay Area's most gifted young musicians at no cost. In 2002, the SFS launched sfskids.org, a comprehensive and interactive online music education resource for children, schools, and families. More than 35,000 students throughout Northern California hear the Symphony each year in its Concerts for Kids program, which began in 1919. For adult amateur musicians, the Symphony created Community of Music Makers, an innovative new program of workshops and events for vocalists and instrumentalists in Davies Symphony Hall. SFS orchestra players mentor the community musicians, who get help forming chamber ensembles.
In October 1989, in a gesture harkening back to the Symphony's beginnings, Herbert Blomstedt and the SFS Orchestra and Chorus helped San Francisco begin to heal five days after the destructive Loma Prieta earthquake, playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to an audience of more than 20,000 in Golden Gate Park. In September 2011, to celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Symphony, led by MTT and joined by pianist Lang Lang, played a free, sun-drenched concert in the city's Civic Center Plaza that drew 10,000 people.
In 2006, MTT and the SFS launched Keeping Score, a multi-year, multimedia program designed to make classical music accessible to people of all ages and musical backgrounds. It included a national PBS television series seen by over 6 million Americans, an interactive Web site, a national radio series hosted by MTT, documentary and live performance DVDs, and a classroom program for K-12 schools that integrated classical music into core subjects. Keeping Score is available on DVD and Blu-ray, and can be accessed at keepingscore.org. The Symphony's use of new technology to reach audiences dates back to 1926, when it became the first orchestra in the United States to play on regular radio broadcasts. Today, the SFS is heard on nearly 300 radio stations across the country, enriching American musical life.
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Abstract: After urgent invitations by,the editors, W. A. Paton has sent us some recollecions of the circumstances leading to his interest in accounting, and of his experience as a writer in this field. The editors have added a bibliography of his major accounting works, but the list doesn't include data regarding some of the translations mentioned in these reminiscences. Additional information is invited from readers who may be familiar with Paton's writing.
I should perhaps confess, to start with, that I've been interested in writing from boyhood days on, and when I finally undertook college work seriously I still cherished the notion that I might make a success as a short-story writer, stressing the mystic and morbid, in the Poe tradition. This ambition was strengthened, temporarily, when I took a course labeled "the short story" at the University of Michigan in the summer of 1913. This course was given in what was called the "Rhetoric" department in those days, a department stressing advanced English composition. A major requirement of the course was preparation of an original short story, and I still recall how worried I was about this assignment—an anxiety due in part to the fact that I was still an undergraduate and most members of the class (a group of more than 60) were graduate students, including a sprinkling of writers who had already had stories pub-lished. Imagine my astonishment when the professor selected my mystic yarn as the best submitted, and read it aloud to the assem-bled class a few days before the final exam. I was of course elated by this triumph, and walked on air for a day or two. I might add that this old tale appeared in 1976 in the fall issue of Dividend, the quarterly magazine of the Graduate School of Business Administra-tion, The University of Michigan.
Fortunately, as I saw it later, my idea of becoming a successful story teller was abandoned shortly. In the fall term (school year, 1913-1914) I happened to elect an advanced course in economic theory taught by Fred M. Taylor. I can say without exaggeration that Professor Taylor was basically responsible for the shift of my


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A battle of ideas is going on inside your mind.
Reprinted from the Jun 26th 2008 edition of the Economist.
THAT problem solving becomes easier when more minds are put to the task is no more than common sense. But the phenomenon goes further than that. Ask two people to answer a question like "how many windows are there on a London double-decker bus" and average their answers. Their combined guesses will usually be more accurate than if just one person had been asked. Ask a crowd, rather than a pair, and the average is often very close to the truth. The phenomenon was called "the wisdom of crowds" by James Surowiecki, a columnist for the New Yorker who wrote a book about it. Now a pair of psychologists have found an intriguing corollary. They have discovered that two guesses made by the same person at different times are also better than one.
That is strange. Until now, psychologists have assumed that when people make a guess, they make the most accurate guess that they can. Ask them to make a second and it should, by definition, be less accurate. If that were true, averaging the first and second guesses should decrease the accuracy. Yet Edward Vul at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harold Pashler at the University of California, San Diego, have revealed in a study just published in Psychological Science that the average of first and second guesses is indeed better than either guess on its own.
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Supreme Court sides with Oklahoma in water fight
- Border war with Texas tested multistate water compacts
- Justices assert states%27 rights over federally approved deals
- Battle critical for nearly 2 million residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth area
WASHINGTON — With water, water virtually everywhere, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that thirsty Texas counties can't run a pipeline into Oklahoma for more drops to drink.
The decision, which upholds two lower court rulings, is a victory for states' rights over multistate water compacts that are common throughout the West. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion for a unanimous court.
On one side of the dispute was Texas, accused of trying to divert water from Oklahoma under terms of a four-state compact that entitled each state to up to 25% of the water from a segment of the Red River. On the other was Oklahoma, asserting that Texas can get the water from within its borders or elsewhere.
"This is a major victory for Oklahoma, with all nine justices agreeing with our argument that Texas does not have the right to come into Oklahoma and take our water," Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said. "This unanimous decision will affect all western states governed by multistate water compacts."
The battle was being watched closely by other states with interstate compacts similar to the one the two states share with Arkansas and Louisiana. There are more than two dozen compacts nationwide, mostly in the West, and at least nine with similar provisions.
The battle is critical for nearly 2 million residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth area who get water from the Tarrant Regional Water District. The fast-growing area needs far more water than it has; it warns that if it goes dry, other areas reliant on such compacts could as well.
Under the 35-year-old compact, each of the four states is entitled to no more than 25% of the water. The dispute was over where they could go to get it. Because the main stem of the river is salty, tributaries such as the one in Oklahoma that enticed Texas are considered preferable.
The Lone Star State had lost in both lower federal courts, which ruled that Oklahoma can bar such water invasions. Texas contended that the four-state compact, approved by Congress, should trump state laws, and the U.S. Department of Justice agreed.
During oral argument in April, Lisa Blatt, the attorney representing Oklahoma, said Texas' claim was unprecedented. If granted, she said, it would produce "open season for Oklahoma water" and lead to a situation in which "every state could have crisscrossing pipelines into every state."
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A student is living in a converted ambulance in a Monmouthshire woodland as he races against the clock to save one of Wales's rarest moths.
Every second counts for Bangor University research student Joel Walley, who is roughing it in Hendre Woods in a bid to be as close as possible to the Drab Looper. The moth's population has rapidly declined and Hendre Woods is one of only two sites in Wales where it can still be found.
Forestry Commission Wales and Butterfly Conservation have carried out emergency management work in the woodland over the past two winters, to improve the natural habitat for the beautiful moth with an unfortunate name.
As part of his MSc research, Joel is comparing conditions in Hendre Woods with another stronghold for the species just over the border in Herefordshire. He will be spending the summer rooting around in the bracken and brambles, in an effort to shed light on the endangered moth's preferred breeding sites.
Richard Gable, FC Wales local area manager, said: "Our woodlands provide essential habitats for many species and I'm delighted that the Drab Looper has been located in Hendre Woods.
"This species of moth is extremely rare in Wales, so we must do everything we can to ensure that its favoured habitat is both managed and preserved."
Joel's work will be critical in determining habitat conditions favoured by the Drab Looper. His findings will inform management work scheduled this winter, to save the moth as a breeding species in Wales.
Russel Hobson, head of conservation Wales for Butterfly Conservation, said: "Joel has taken on this challenge with gusto. Student projects like this are sometimes the only way to understand the conservation needs of rare species.
"Butterfly Conservation is lucky to find students as dedicated as Joel to do this important work. He's even living in a converted ambulance to be as close to the sites as possible and make the most of every bit of sunny weather."


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An exciting year for Barbara Steele fans
Feature film news, DVD releases and a memorable BBC interview with Mark Gatiss.
Feature film news, DVD releases and a memorable BBC interview with Mark Gatiss.
A rare screening of Mario Monicelli's uncompromising and hilarious vision of the Middle Ages.
After a short run at festivals, The Butterfly Room is finally available on DVD, with European discs and an imminent release from Anchor Bay UK. No news on a Stateside or Blu-ray release however…
For over a decade, DVD presentations of The Mask of Satan have opened the door to Mario Bava's sinister world of revenge, sex and death. Since the Spring of 2013 however, two Blu-ray releases of this important film have been available for film fans to consider. So which of these is the definitive disc of Bava's film?
Barbara Steele in a midnight movie screening to remember: Mario Bava's glam-gore shocker, The Mask of Satan!
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The Raiffeisenbank has been a capable financial services partner for the local economy and population for over 100 years. As well as this, through the Raiffeisen Club Tirol, the RBK also supports the local youth in learning to handle money responsibly and organise their leisure time well. Through partnerships with local clubs and associations, and public institutions in the cultural and social sector, the Raiffeisenbank fulfils their goal of being a successful local commercial enterprise. Various self-service facilities at the individual branches, as well as Raiffeisen electronic banking, make banking practical and available around the clock. This means that customers aren't reliant on the opening hours of their RBK branch.


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ASHBY — Selectmen deferred making a decision on whether they will issue a license to a Fitchburg company to relocate its business to Ashby until next month because the board felt it needed more information from the town's attorney.
Performance Transportation Inc., a transportation company operating on Lunenburg Street in Fitchburg, is in the process of purchasing 101 acres of property in Ashby owned by JC Madigan.
Last week, during the first portion of a public hearing on the license, neighbors asked owners of the company to bring trucks to the property so they could gauge the amount of noise the vehicles would make.
Selectmen Chairman Peter McMurray said a main concern residents had during the process Sunday was the amount of traffic on Route 31, where the property in question is located.
McMurray said he has been in touch with Police Chief Edward Drew, who promised to have more directed patrols in the area as well as a speed trailer.
Performance Transportation has been in business since 1989 and primarily transports gasoline to customers across New England. Its owners would house 10,000 gallons of fuel on site to fuel the trucks in their fleet, which would pick up the fuel to transport to customers at separate sites.
The business is allowed by use under the current zoning bylaw, but because flammable or combustible liquids (gas) would be stored on the property, it must get a license from selectmen.
Charlie Reggio, who lives next to the property with his wife, said he was pleased with the way Sunday morning's experiment went, but isn't sold on the business moving in.
"I think the response was well done," he said. "The noise is far less that I anticipated. I think there should be some restrictions on this though. Most people can't just do whatever they want anywhere he want."
He suggested that from noon Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday, the business not be allowed to operate out of respect for neighbors.
"If noise became an issue, we could deal with it then. If something else came up, we could deal with it then," he said.
Selectman Mike McCallum said he believes the project does not conform to the zoning bylaw because the license application states that 500,000 gallons of gas could be stored on site at any one time but only if the trucks came back full.
He said having that much fuel on site could potentially be dangerous, and while it is presumed all trucks will come back empty, they are asking to be licensed for a large amount of gas.
"That doesn't forbid us from giving you the license but what's the use of issuing it if it can't do anything for you or your business?" he asked.
Selectmen will next meet Dec. 5 and in the process, will ask the town attorney to weigh in on the subject.
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The Journal of International Criminal Justice has announced the establishment of a prize in honour of Antonio Cassese. According to the announcement of the prize in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (see here)
This biennial prize will award €10,000 (ten thousand euro) to the author of the most original and innovative paper published in the Journal in the two years preceding the award. The aim is to enable the winner to undertake a research or publication project, or further studies in the field of international criminal law (including aspects relating to human rights, humanitarian law issues, as well as substantive and procedural law matters).
The prize is a fitting tribute to Judge Cassese who is one of the leading international lawyers of our generation and who has made an outstanding contribution to international criminal law. In addition to being a Professor of International law for most of his career, he was the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Last month, the United Nations announced that Professor Cassese would be the President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon which was established by the UN Security Council to prosecute those responsible for political killings in Lebanon, in particular the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005. He was also the Chair of the International Commission of Inquiry into Darfur, whose report was a precursor the UN Security Council referring the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court.


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The UK has a wealth of land and freshwater habitats, including
dunes, fens, grassland, heathland, marsh, rivers and woodland.
Together they are home to many thousands of species.
Habitat Management on the Web is a
search engine designed to deliver information about how best to
manage non-marine habitats in the UK for biodiversity and
conservation. It is similar to a standard internet search, but it
searches only web pages that have been pre-selected to take users
to the most useful sources. It does not completely exclude
irrelevant hits, but we hope it will guide the user to the best
available management guidance. The search engine can only locate
information that has been published online – papers and books are
not covered.
The UK's habitats are subject to various protective measures. A
number of international conventions, European
Directives, and UK laws apply to them, including:
Each has been formulated into a number of policy measures and
formal site designations. They include Sites/Areas of Special Scientific Interest
(SSSIs/ASSIs), which is the fundamental statutory mechanism for
protecting sites of ecological interest in the UK. Detailed
Guidelines for the selection of biological
SSSIs are produced by JNCC.
Many UK habitats are listed on Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive. We provide
advice and assistance to Government to help it to meet its
obligations to conserve habitats under the Directive. In
particular, JNCC has the role of co-ordinating the identification
and submission of possible Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) to the
European Commission. We have also worked with the country nature
conservation agencies to secure an agreed approach to reporting on
the Conservation status of Annex I habitats and their component
SACs. In 2007 we produced a UK report on the status of the Annex I
habitats and we published an assessment of the most urgent actions
needed to improve them.
Advice on habitat conservation issues is also required to
support the implementation of the Water
Framework Directive and the Convention on Wetlands of
International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in the UK. Under the
Biodiversity Action Plan, we have assisted in the selection of
priority habitats and the design of Habitat Action Plans
JNCC supports habitat conservation through advice on survey
methods and by maintaining common standards for habitat
classifications. Information is provided through publications like
the National Vegetation Classification (NVC) and
through online resources such as interactive distribution maps for various NVC types. Rivers
and lakes each have their own classification systems.
Providing advice on habitat surveillance and monitoring is
an important element of our role, incorporating the use of
traditional ground-survey methods and the development of newer
Earth Observation techniques. We work
closely with the country agencies on monitoring guidance for
habitats, species and earth science interest features on protected
sites through Common Standards Monitoring. We are also helping
to develop surveillance and monitoring initiatives in the wider
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AccuWeather reports while some areas of the U.S. already have a high chance of a white Christmas this year, an active winter storm track across the country is increasing the odds for others.
Since many people may have a different idea of what constitutes a white Christmas, it is being defined in this story as a snow depth of an inch or more on Christmas Day.
Mountains in West Have Highest Chance of White Christmas
While a western storm train continues this week and into next week, the Cascades in Washington and Oregon, the Sierra in California and the Rockies are expected to have a white Christmas this year.
As much as 2-4 feet of snow has blanketed the mountains of the West over the last several days, so there is a substantial snowcover.
Flagstaff, Ariz., has a decent chance of a white Christmas. There is currently a snow depth of a foot on the ground from heavy snow that fell last weekend and a couple of inches that fell through Tuesday night. While some of the snow will melt, there is yet another snow opportunity for fresh snow on Christmas Eve into early Christmas Day.
"Flagstaff could have around half of a foot of snow left on the ground by Christmas Day," AccuWeather Expert Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews said.
While there is not much snow on the ground now in Salt Lake City, Utah, snow may arrive on Christmas Eve. That may be just enough to provide a white Christmas.
Denver will receive a windswept snow on Wednesday, before a second round of snow may occur Christmas Eve night into Christmas Day.
Good Chance for a White Christmas Across Upper Midwest
Meanwhile, a huge storm will bring blizzard conditions from the Rockies to the central Plains and the Upper Midwest during the middle of this week. Cities from Omaha to Green Bay will receive substantial snow amounts from the storm.
Whether areas impacted by the storm have a white Christmas or not will depend on where cold air sticks around to keep snow on the ground.
The Upper Midwest, including the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, and portions of lower Michigan may stay cold enough for a white Christmas. In fact, reinforcing cold air and lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes through the weekend will increase the chances for many communities.
One to two feet of snow may blanket the typical snowbelts downwind of the Great Lakes.
The chance for a white Christmas may be lower for the central Plains, including portions of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, where temperatures may warm up enough to melt snow.
Northern New England May Have White Christmas, Mid-Atlantic Not Likely
Northern New England and areas to the lee of the Great Lakes have the best chance for a white Christmas in the East.
Snow will continue falling across northern New England on Wednesday, while a storm departs the Northeast.
More snow will arrive with a storm across northern New England late this week and into the weekend. This storm will drag much colder air into the Northeast, triggering lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes.
It does not appear likely that New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., will have a white Christmas.


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I hope you all had a great thanksgiving and I hope you're all revved up for the rest of the holiday season. I have another new tutorial for you this week, and hopefully a few more to follow shortly (short week this week at work so I should be able to get quite a bit done. I have a great tutorial on how to draw WoW style trolls and I'm hoping will be a good reference for all of you. I have tips and tricks and useful hints so get out your tools of the trade and we'll get right to it.
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A federal judge rejected Facebook's settlement for its "Sponsored Stories" lawsuit, saying he had doubts about the "adequacy and fairness" of the $20 million settlement that would still enable the social network to run the user-featured ads.
"Sponsored Stories" are advertisements from Facebook that publicize user "Likes" of companies, sometimes featuring users without their knowledge, according to the New York Times. Using likenesses of people to sell products without knowledge of consent is illegal in California.
Facebook's settlement would allow users under 18 to opt out of "Sponsored Stories" and would educate users about the process. The social network would also pay $10 million to those working on digital privacy rights and another $10 million to cover plaintiff legal fees. However, the settlement would not stop or even pause its continued sponsored stories.
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Judge Richard G. Seeborg of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco asked both sides to justify the negotiated settlement and that the decisions made were not "plucked from thin air." He also questioned whether the plaintiffs' lawyers may have "bargained away something of value."
"We continue to believe the settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate," a Facebook spokesman told the Times.
We think the settlement looks as if this lawsuit was about getting paid. Facebook admits no wrongdoing, doesn't end sponsored stories and the plaintiffs get paid -- or at least their lawyers do. Is this justice? Not really, it's simply a quick payoff with minor concessions.


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