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This story was originally published Nov. 29, 2009.
RUSKIN — At the end of the school year at Beth Shields Middle School, the taunting became so bad that Hope Witsell's friends surrounded her between classes. They escorted her down hallways like human shields, fending off insults such as "whore" and "slut." A few days before, Hope had forwarded a nude photo of herself to a boy she liked - a practice widely known as "sexting." The image found its way to other students, who forwarded it to their friends. Soon the photo was circulating through cell phones at Shields Middle and Lennard High School, according to multiple students at both schools. "Tons of people talk about me behind my back and I hate it because they call me a whore!" Hope wrote in her journal. "And I can't be a whore i'm too inexperienced. So secretly TONS of people hate me ... " School authorities learned of the nude photo around the end of the school year and suspended Hope for the first week of eighth grade, which started in August. About two weeks after she returned to school, a counselor observed cuts on Hope's legs and had her sign a "no-harm" contract, in which Hope agreed to tell an adult if she felt inclined to hurt herself, her family says. The next day, Hope hanged herself in her bedroom. She was 13.
Her death is the second in the nation in which a connection between sexting and teen suicide can clearly be drawn.
"This is very important, because it shows that sexting-related suicides are tracking the same way cyberbullying-related suicides are," said Parry Aftab, a nationally known "cyberlawyer" who has appeared on Good Morning America and the Today show.
A 2009 Harris online poll shows that one in five teens admits to having sent naked pictures of themselves or others over a cell phone. But even that number may be low.
Hope grew up in Sundance, an isolated rural suburb 6 miles off U.S. 41 in south Hillsborough County. Her parents, Donna and Charlie Witsell, met in the post office where they both work. They married in 1995. Hope was their only child together. They took her to church every Sunday.
Hope wasn't a troubled girl. She was an "A" and "B" student in all subjects but math. She had many friends, whom she liked to give bear hugs. She often went fishing with her father in her big, white-framed sunglasses. On mornings when she was running late to school, Hope carried her cereal and milk in a coffee cup and ate on the bus.
Hope knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: attend the University of Florida and major in agriculture. Then she would start a landscaping and nursery business.
Like many other girls her age, she was boy-crazy.
Tacked to her bedroom door beneath a Twilight poster of the vampire Edward Cullen is a piece of notebook paper folded in quarters. It is a note from a boy, one line written in faint pencil:
"U still like me?"
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Accounts vary, but many students describe the chain of events this way: The last week of school in June, Hope forwarded a photo of her breasts to the cell phone of Alex Eargood, a boy she liked. A rival girl, who was the girlfriend of another boy Hope liked and a friend of Alex's, asked to borrow Alex's phone on the bus. That girl found the image and forwarded it to other students.
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Explore all your optionsAlex, now 16 and a freshman at Armwood High School, told the St. Petersburg Times last week that he deleted the photo. He does not remember whether he deleted it before or after the girl borrowed his phone. The mother of the girl told the Times that her daughter would not comment for this article.
Within hours, the image had gone viral at Shields and Lennard High.
"People were getting it at school and sending it at school," said Lane James, 14, a friend of Hope's at Shields Middle. "The hallways were not fun at that time."
Lane, who shared four classes with Hope last year, called the atmosphere around school that week "brutal."
"She'd walk into class and somebody would say, 'Oh, here comes the slut,'" Lane said.
At the same time, friends say, Hope knew that the biggest mistakes made were her own.
"She didn't blame it on anybody," said Rebecca Knowles, 14. "She realized it was her fault for sending them in the first place."
Sexting, defined as the sharing of nude or seminude images over a cell phone or a computer, is growing among teenagers, including young teens. The Harris poll showed that 9 percent of 13-year-olds admitted doing it - even though most teens polled believe it is wrong to send nude photos of minors to others.
Aftab, who in April led a town meeting on teen sexting with Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer, noted that teens who participated in the Harris poll needed their parents' consent. She believes the real number of teen sexters to be much higher.
A poll conducted by her organization, WiredSafety, found that 44 percent of boys in co-ed high schools had seen at least one naked picture of a female classmate. Overwhelmingly, they shared the images with others.
Early adolescents like Hope face the biggest psychological risks, Aftab said. An 11-year-old doesn't have as many hormones, while a 16-year old may have developed enough of a social network to cushion the blow.
"The real risk is the 12- and 13-year age," she said.
The speed of the Internet and the ubiquity of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook make it that much harder to escape the embarrassment. It also means the photos may never go away.
"If they are sexting images that are being made public, they are going to be tagged forever as a slut," Aftab said. "So they don't see a future. And if they don't see a future, they (think they) might as well end their life. We are seeing a lot of that in this age."
The social consequences can be even worse for high-performing teens who consider themselves "good kids," said Yale psychiatrist Robert King.
"There are some kids who are very self-critical and very demanding of themselves, and see any kind of setback or embarrassment as just a humiliating catastrophe," said King, a professor of child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and an expert on teenage suicide. "It sort of sounds like that's the flavor of kid she was."
Those types of kids also are more likely to keep their deepest emotions hidden from their parents, experts say. That was the case with Hope. When she was feeling down, she wrote about it in her journal but did not confide in her parents.
"Hope certainly did not let on that something was wrong," said Charlie Witsell, 46. "She never really said anything to us."
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Two weeks after school let out, the school learned of the nude photo and called Charlie and Donna Witsell for a conference. Officials issued the one-week suspension for the fall.
The Witsells confiscated Hope's cell phone and computer and grounded her for the summer. They were dismayed, but also thought it could be a learning opportunity.
"In a strange way I was glad she got caught, because at least that way we got to see what's going on," Charlie Witsell said.
Hope said she was sorry for her actions, which she could not explain. She vowed to undergo her punishment and start the new school year afresh.
Hope would, however, be allowed to attend the annual FFA convention in Orlando, less than two weeks after the end of the school year. The convention rewards students for their work in statewide agriculture competitions.
An FFA student adviser for her school before the incident, Hope was due to pick up at least two awards: a first-place team award for nursery and landscaping, plus her individual trophy for the highest test score in the state for her age group in that category.
No one knows how Hope met a group of boys staying across the hall. Rebecca Knowles, who is the FFA president, saw Hope talking to the boys by the hotel pool.
The boys were in their late teens and were not there for the FFA convention. They insisted she send a nude photo to them.
One of the boys was especially aggressive and called the room repeatedly on the conference's last night, asking Hope for a photo of her breasts.
"They kept calling and they kept bugging her," said Rebecca, 14, who said she was in the room but asleep. "I think she was just scared. One of our roommates was scared as well and said, 'Oh, my God, just do it.' They were scared and wanted to get it over."
The boy calling didn't have a cell phone. So Hope used Rebecca's phone to take a picture of her breasts, then slipped it outside her door.
The phone, which Hope had left outside for the boy, was still in the hallway when an adult found it and saw the photo.
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After the incident in Orlando, Charlie and Donna Witsell decided to take Hope to a Christian counselor. After the third visit, the counselor told Donna that Hope didn't want to be there. Forcing her to come wouldn't do any good, the counselor said. Reluctantly, Hope's parents agreed.
Just the same, the quiet, introspective summer seemed to be doing Hope some good. The parents made a few exceptions to her grounding - a sleepover with a friend, a family vacation in Sanibel.
Hope fretted that there would be further consequences over her actions in the spring. She especially worried that she might lose a chance to run again for FFA student adviser.
"Making mistakes &/or stupid choices doesn't necessarily make it impossible for you to give advice and lead people in the right direction," she wrote in her journal. "Do you think people ever told Elvis Presley he couldn't lead people to be singers & give them advice because he had made some bad choices with drugs & alcohol? ... I don't think so!"
While serving her suspension week at the end of August, Hope and her mother stopped by Shields for a status update. There her mother learned that the school would not allow Hope to run for student adviser that year.
Lane James, who was in the office at the time, remembers seeing Hope after that meeting.
"She was in the corner, just bawling and bawling," Lane said. "She wouldn't talk to anybody."
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About a week after Hope's suspension ended, she and Rebecca found three boys seated at the cafeteria table the girls had always claimed as their own.
The ringleader, Rebecca said, hectored Hope about the photo that had made its way through the school in June. Another boy joined in.
Hope left the table in tears. She spent the rest of the day in the office talking to counselors, her mother said.
Hope stayed home from school the next day. While her parents were at work, she cleaned the house top to bottom.
What happened at school on Friday, Sept. 11, remains an open question. Samantha Beattie, Hope's aunt, gives the following version of events she said Hope gave to her.
Hope met that day with Jodi Orlando, the school's social worker. Another staff member had noticed cuts on Hope's leg and become concerned.
The social worker quizzed Hope, then had her sign a "no-harm" contract in which Hope agreed to talk to an adult if she felt an urge to hurt herself. Both Orlando and Hope signed the undated contract, which her parents found in Hope's bedroom trash can after her death.
Hope's parents say no one from the school called them to say their daughter might harm herself.
The Hillsborough County School District, through spokeswoman Linda Cobbe, declined to comment on Hope Witsell's interaction with school officials or her suicide, saying officials were prohibited by law from discussing student discipline matters.
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Donna and Charlie Witsell both worked Saturday, Sept. 12. Hope stayed home and cut the grass.
On his way home, Charlie stopped by the grocery store for shrimp and crab legs. The family ate seafood that night.
At 8:30 p.m., the phone rang. Hope sprang to answer it. When her parents asked who it was, she answered, "Theresa."
The caller ID, which appeared on the television screen, said "Michael," the name of a 15-year-old boy Hope liked.
Donna heard a boy's voice on the extension. Because she had lied, Hope's parents grounded her from the phone for a week.
At 9:10 p.m., Donna checked on Hope in her room to see if she was all right. She found the girl lying on her bed, writing in her journal. Hope said she was fine.
But Hope was not okay. She wrote in her journal:
Sept. 12, 2009
I'm done for sure now. I can feel it in my stomach. I'm going to try and strangle myself. I hope it works.
A few minutes after 10 p.m., Donna checked in again to see if Hope wanted to come downstairs and watch television with them. Hope declined.
About an hour later, Donna eased open Hope's door again to kiss her good night. She saw her daughter standing a few feet away - her head lowered, her hair was hanging over her face.
"Hope, what are you doing?" Donna said.
Then she saw that a pink scarf was knotted around the canopy of her queen-sized bed. The other end was wrapped around Hope's neck.
Downstairs, Charlie was about to let the dog out when he heard Donna's voice.
"Call 911!"
An ambulance arrived and took Hope to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Hope's death a suicide. The doctor who examined her body found a "zone of shallow cuts" up to an inch or so long on her right thigh.
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One Hillsborough School District official agreed to speak generally about how schools handle students who may be suicide risks. And that would involve a call to the parents if the threat of suicide seemed real.
"If it's felt that students are at risk for harming themselves, there is a followup with parents," said Tracy Schatzberg, the psychological services supervisor for Hillsborough schools. "We would involve parents depending on the level of risk."
Said Donna Witsell: "They dropped the ball big time."
As for sexting, the school district said it routinely presents information to all students about the perils of the practice.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has finished its investigation into Hope's death, but a sheriff's spokesman said they are still at work on another aspect of the case.
"The whole issue of the nude photograph being distributed through cell phones, we're still looking at," said spokesman J.D. Callaway.
Florida law considers the possession or distribution of nude images of minors to be child pornography, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Hope's case is the second known sexting-related suicide in the country. The first received national attention.
Jessie Logan was an attractive high school senior in the Cincinnati area who forwarded nude images of herself to a boyfriend at his request.
After they broke up, the boyfriend forwarded the photos to others. The images spread through her high school. Logan, 18, tried to tackle the issue head-on, going on a television news program and urging other teens not to repeat her mistake.
She found it harder to endure the humiliation of walking the halls at school, where other students called her a "porn queen," dumped drinks on her and threw her out of graduation parties.
Two months later, her mother found her hanging in her bedroom.
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After Hope's death, Charlie and Donna Witsell retraced their steps many times, looking for clues they might have missed.
"Should I have been more careful about what I allowed her to watch?" Donna, 48, said. "Should I have been more careful about what I allowed her to read? Should I have been more careful about restricting her relationships with the opposite sex? There's a fine, fine line, especially when our kids become adolescents. They are maturing way sooner than they used to."
Whenever the Witsells asked Hope how she was feeling after the sexting incident, she always said she was fine. It was only after her death that they found the no-harm contract, deeply despairing diary entries and complex pencil doodlings drawn in class that referred to death and suicide.
The Witsells are coming forward because they feel Hope's sexting incident is a just a symptom of a larger problem: the hyper-sexualization in media aimed at young teens, which they believe forces young minds to contend with ideas of lust and love that they have trouble understanding.
They hope other teens and parents can learn from Hope and avoid the same tragic end.
"Have you been reading these teen magazines lately?" Donna asked. "'How many ways can you turn your boyfriend on? How sexy can you kiss?' We want to think our child is going to learn and grow and develop the skills to make the right choices. They don't have a chance in hell. These kids are bombarded."
Contact Andrew Meacham at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 892-2248. Follow @torch437.


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Fire Marshal calls for burn ban in King County
Friday, July 26, 2013
Fire pit and photo by Roy Mangel |
As hot and dry weather conditions continue, the outdoor fire danger has increased. In response King County is issuing a fire safety burn ban in unincorporated areas of the County effective July 29, 2013.
This is a Phase 1 burn ban and applies to all outdoor burning except for small recreational fires in established fire pits at approved camp grounds or private property with the owner's permission.
Recreational fires must:
- Be built in a metal or concrete fire pit, such as those typically found in designated campgrounds; and not be used as debris disposal;
- Grow no larger than three feet in diameter;
- Be located in a clear spot free from any vegetation for at least 10 feet in a horizontal direction, including at least 25 feet away from any structure and allow 20-foot vertical clearance from overhanging branches; and
- Be attended at all times by an alert individual and equipment capable of extinguishing the fire.
For more information, visit the King County Department of Permitting and Environmental Review Fire Marshal website.

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The Pembroke Pines Fire Department responds to all fire and medical calls, vehicle accidents, and other services at no cost. With regards to ambulance services, the Fire Department charges approximately $500 to $700 (dependent of the level of medical service provided) for transport to the hospital. This is consistent with other cities within the South Florida area. The Fire Department accepts most major insurance carriers including Medicare and Medicaid and their partners, however copayments or other fees may apply as dictated by the individual insurer's policies.
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The Pembroke Pines Fire Department (PPFD) hires throughout the year on an as-needed basis. The PPFD utilizes National Testing Network to create a list of eligible candidates for hire. For more information, visit the National Testing Network site. Select 'Find Jobs', then select Firefighter Jobs and sign up for the Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue Department.
Once a list is compiled, Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue Department will contact candidates on the list and invite them to participate in further stages of the selection process. The hiring process takes approximately 90 days to complete. Each candidate will partake in an oral interview, an application and review process, a background check, a polygraph test, and a medical examination.
Applications are provided at the end of the oral interview process.
Please avoid calling or emailing the City of Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue Department or Human Resources Department.
The City of Pembroke Pines website maintains an up-to-date list of all available employment opportunities within the City. Job listings and employment applications may be found at our Human Resources Department page.
All fire stations are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For emergencies, dial 911 and you will be connected with the City of Pembroke Pines dispatch center. For general questions, a non-emergency number is available as well, 954-764-4357.
Fire Department Administration is located at 9500 Pines Boulevard, Building B, 2nd Floor Pembroke Pines, Florida 33024. Office hours are Monday through Thursday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The business telephone number is 954-499-9600.
The Fire Prevention Bureau is located at 601 City Center Way 3rd Floor Pembroke Pines, Florida 33025. Office hours are Monday through Thursday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The business telephone number is 954-499-9560
The City of Pembroke Pines utilizes a fire assessment fee, which is collected via the county's tax collector to fund the fire protection service portion of the Fire Department budget. The fee is currently $312.32 per residential unit, and a rate table is utilized for commercial, industrial, and institutional occupancies based on various ranges of square feet. This rate is set annually by the City Commission during the budget planning process.
For incident reports not related to medical emergencies, such as a house or vehicle fire or a service call, you may obtain a copy of the incident report by using the City's Public Records Request portal. Once you complete the online form, the report will be ready in approximately seven City business days.
For medical incidents, reports may be obtained at Fire Department Headquarters, 9500 Pines Boulevard, Building B, Pembroke Pines, Florida 33026, on the second floor, during regular City Business Hours. Calling ahead to 954-499-9600 will aid in the process. Due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other patient privacy laws, medical reports can only be released to the person involved in the incident, who must appear in person and provide proper identification. If the involved person cannot appear in person, the report can only be released to a party who holds a legal power of attorney on the patient's behalf.
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In the first of several reports from RAW STORY on an expansion of the widening fundraising morass currently plaguing Republican House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, the White House itself is now being named as a major beneficiary of Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm in dollar numbers that dwarf anything DeLay has so far been tied to!!!
In a major afternoon exclusive, RAW STORY will report that Greenberg Traurig, Abramoff's lobbying firm, has made what amounts to a "massive in-kind donation" to Bush-Cheney to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars!!!
Bush-Cheney 2000 Recount Committee has $314,000 "unpaid" to Greenberg Traurig from total bill of $800,000!
Four-plus years after recount, outstanding portion of Bush-Cheney's bill to Abramoff's lobbying firm still unpaid.
Newsweek reported in 2001, when the unpaid number was still at $800,000:
We suppose those "in-kind contributions" to the "reputations" of Greenberg Traurig employees may have served as a fine trade for the in-kind contribution that Greenberg Traurig appears to have made to Bush-Cheney by not collecting on their billed fees...
RAW STORY is now reporting that many of those employees, including the son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was hired by Greenberg Traurig during the recount period after being retained by Bush-Cheney, have enjoyed great boosts to their resume from the work done on the 2000 Recount...
Full story now available at RAW STORY!!!
Clarification from RAW STORY on their original edition of the article...


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President Obama made a secret deal to support Hillary Clinton when she runs for president in 2016, campaign sources say, payback for the support her husband gave him in 2012.
Bill Clinton's animosity toward Obama is legendary. A year before the last election, he was urging Hillary to challenge the sitting president for the nomination — a move she rejected.
According to two people who attended that meeting in Chappaqua, Bill Clinton then went on a rant against Obama.
"I've heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I've heard from Obama," my sources quoted Clinton as saying. "I have no relationship with the president — none whatsoever. Obama doesn't know how to be president. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!"
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{ ⊂)(●) (●) \ "Normally I'm a stay-at-home kinda person…
| / ///(__人__)/// \ but today is gonna be different!"
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The Akiba Good Smile Tetsujin Cafe!
It was the morning of a weekday, but there were still so many customers!
And the reason I'm visiting today is because…
The Project mirai cafe has started!
Sega's 3DS game, Miku Hatsune and Future Stars Project mirai was released on the 8th of March, and so the GSC Testujin Cafe is working in collaboration to bring a cafe themed around it!
The Project mirai game is a music game where Miku and the others dance around and sing for you, it's incredibly cute! I was also involved here and there with it's production, and had great fun with it! I hope everyone will try it if they can!
The stage at the back!
There is a giant panel featuring Nendoroid Miku-sab, as well as a monitor playing one of the movies found in the game. Of course the cafe is filled with Miku's beautiful voice for you to listen to while you're eating!
I was placed at a Rin & Len seat!
Ooh! Very cute indeed! Depending on the seat you are placed at, you'll be greeted by different characters! Unfortunately you won't be able to pick for yourself though… you have to just look forward to finding out which character you will be seated with. :P
A brand new original menu!
To start off with, the menu features dishes based around Miku and Luka! However the menu is planned to change every so often, so keep checking the GSC Cafe website to see what's coming up!
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Miku & Luka drinks!
The Miku drink is a lemon soda with blue curacao and vanilla ice cream. The Luka drink is a strawberry au lait with vanilla ice cream!
The Miku drink has a much fresher taste to me, while Luka is much sweeter! They were both delicious, but I think girls will love the Luka drink the most!
Each drink also comes with a free coaster!
Leek Fried Rice! (With Leek Soup!)
As expected of the Miku dish! A ton of leek! Let me try some…
/ ⌒ ⌒\ "It's delicious!
/ (○) (○) \ The rice has a lovely flavor and a perfect texture!
/ ///(__人__)/// \ and the crispiness of the leek is wonderful"
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Miku with her fried rice!
It's been awhile since I've taken photos that haven't been for a product review.
MikuLuka Leek Tuna Plate!
When it comes to Luka, you just have to include tuna! Let's try this one with a little bit of wasabi…
/ ⌒ ⌒\ "This is also delicious!
/ (≡) (≡) \ There is such a lot of tuna as well!
/ ///(__人__)/// \ The chopped up nori on the side is great as well.
| `Y⌒y'´ | and really blends the tastes together perfectly!"
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Luka with her tuna!
It really is so much fun to take pictures together with the figures! Plus they become an important memory to remember at a later time!
The Project mirai concept art!
These are all the actual materials from Sega, that the cafe is borrowing! Thanks Sega!! There are all sorts of illustrations of costumes and the like that were used in the Project mirai game.
"Aku no Musume" and "Aku no Meshitsukai"!
Rin & Len have such detailed costumes! You can even see the little textures on their outfits! I'm pretty sure these would be a mission to make Nendoroid Petites out of… :P
"Mousou Sketch" and "Kimi no Taion"!
The designs really had the lovely Nendoroid feeling about them even at the design stage. From this point, the illustrations would be changed into 3D models by Sega, they really all came out spectacularly…
Gakkun from the manufacturing team and I would then look at all the 3D images, and say things like "It's really cute… can't you make it cuter though". We went through every costume just like that until they were all up to the cute standards of Nendoroids.
I remember commenting on the "Mousou Sketch" and "Kimi no Taion" models as well – I really loved them, so I went particularly strict on them to make sure they were as perfect as possible! Thanks for all you hard work, Sega!!
"Sakasama Rainbow"!
Even the little accessories are all carefully detailed on the designs!! All these details went into the Project mirai models!
There are even storyboards!
This is from the opening theme, 'Yumeyume'! I really want to compare the storyboard to the final video sometime…
This is where Miku opens the door!
I really loved the opening, so I've watched it a number of times. It's amazing to look at the storyboard and then see what the final product looks like. The opening is running on the monitors at the cafe, so those who haven't seen it can take a look right at the cafe!
The original work for "Happy Synthesizer"!
Original illustrations!!
This is by Ryuuichi Makino from the animation production company, AIC! These rare illustrations can only be found at the GSC Cafe! (well, at the moment :P)
There are also figures on display!
A variety of Vocaloid figures from GSC and Max Factory are all on display for customers to enjoy! Photos are welcome!
The secret back room!
Station Yamada and Akiyama were up all night preparing things the day before the launch! They were then waiting here in the back room to make sure everything ran smoothly on the opening day. They look really highly strung in this photo for some reason…
Thanks for all the hard work guys!
Ren-kyun at the entrance!
I had to rudely ask for a photo for the blog! :P Apparently the staff cosplay was only for one day… they should have kept it going much longer!
Adorable shop cards!
These are all free to take home! They are sitting at the front desk, so just grab on your way out!
3900 Yen! ((((゚Д゚))))
All that for just 39000 yen!!! It's a miracle! I can live on with Miku by my side!
Now it's time to move on to Suidoubashi!!
The Tokyo Dome City Hall!
Today (8th March), the Miku Live Party 2012 was being held right here!
GSC also had a booth up on display!
This was the sales corner!
We had quite a lot on sale, but there were so many visitors that almost everything was sold out by the end of the evening! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth!
The latest prototypes on display!
A couple of figures including Tony's Luka Megurine and Miku Hatsune: Cheerful Ver. were on display with lots of people taking photos! Luka in particular seemed very popular – and with good reason!
The Live Starts!
Miku-san was right there in front of our eyes!! Look at all the green glow sticks as well!
The box we were in was smaller than the previous event, but it was a booth with seats, so it was actually easier to see than before! Everyone was so exited, which really added to the atmosphere!
Here are a few pictures from the live! (`・ω・´)ゞ
Overall, it was very similar to last year's Miku-Pa, but the location and set were very different which gave a nice new atmosphere to the event! It was great to have attended!
Anyway, that's all for today!
I hope to see you all again soon! (・∀・)ノ゛
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Fire Department History
Seaside has had an interesting, if not challenging, history and our fire department is no exception. Established as a county Fire District in 1940, and brought under the City's control during incorporation in 1954, the Seaside Fire Department is proud of its role in contributing to Seaside's success.
The early days of the department are well preserved through photographs and various documents, and demonstrate a series of challenges, due largely to the growth of Fort Ord during the Second World War. The fire district not only faced rapid, and poorly planned initial community expansion, but a shortage of volunteer fire fighters. In fact, in the spirit of Rosie the Riveter, Seaside's fire fighting efforts during the war were largely aided by the wives of volunteers serving in the armed forces. By the mid 1940's, Seaside had grown so quickly that it required at least some full time personnel, along with a new fire station.
In subsequent decades, Seaside's continued expansion and modernization, required a likewise expansion and modernization of fire protection, so during 1950's, a new, larger, fire station was occupied on Olympia Avenue. By the 1950's, the number of emergencies had also increased to the point that volunteers could no longer reliably handle many of the calls and complete full time staffing was provided. During the remainder of the 1950's and through the upcoming decades of the 60's, 70', Seaside pioneered active fire prevention and public education efforts, which continue today. Seaside also provided emergency medical care and transportation for our citizens long before the advent of paramedics.
Since the 1980's, the fire department has operated out of its current home at Broadway Avenue and Yosemite Street. And today, under strong leadership and a pro-active city council, the fire department is positioned to provide effective and reliable service to our citizens and the adjoining community of Del Rey Oaks, who we proudly serve under contract.
First Seaside Fire Fighters, With Future Fire Chief Pacchetti in Front Row, Fourth From the Left
Late Night Structure Fire (Circa 1950S)
A public education demonstration during an annual open house (Circa late 1980's)
Santa Claus hitches a ride on our 1954 Coast Pumper
The Seaside Fire Department (Circa 1968)
Del Rey Oaks City Hall (pictured during its early years as Seaside Fire District Station No. 2)
First Full Time Firefighters in Seaside


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Young, Gay And Homeless: Fighting For Resources
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
It's largely because gay youths are more often kicked out of their homes than straight youths. And even if they are not kicked out, they may feel so uncomfortable that they leave.
In New York City, nearly 4,000 young people are homeless every night — many of them gay.
Reaching Out To Homeless Youths
On the Christopher Street pier in Greenwich Village, where dozens of gay and transgender youths hang out, Carter Seabron and Elena Wood of Safe Horizon's Streetwork Project hand out snacks, condoms and information. The organization sends out several nightly teams to find homeless youths.
"Would you like a snack?" Seabron and Wood ask. Oreos, Rice Krispies treats and chewy bars are the favorites. They also give out information about Streetwork's drop-in centers, where young people can get showers, clothing and housing referrals.
Seabron, the outreach coordinator for the Streetwork Project, says that "for the most part, the majority of youth we see who identify as being homeless also identify as being LGBT."
Wood says not all of them are thrown out of their homes, although many are.
"The parent might not say, 'You have to get out now,' like, 'I am kicking you out,' especially since that is illegal if they are under 18," she says. "It's a fine line between what is their choice and what is not."
Each homeless young person has a different story.
Jeremiah Beaverly grew up in Wisconsin and Illinois.
"The day after my 18th birthday this year, my adopted parent kicked me out," he says. "At the time, I was really infatuated with this guy, and she was listening to my phone calls. She started telling my family, 'He is this, he is that, he is gay,' and talking about me as if I wasn't part of the family."
Beaverly was lucky — he had friends whose parents were more accepting. He stayed with them until he finished high school. Now, in New York City, he is in emergency housing — only available for 90 days.
"I went from shelters and couch-surfing to my own bed," he says. "I haven't slept in my own bed for almost a year, so it is really nice."
'Living In A Societal Moment'
There are three organizations that cater to homeless gay kids in New York City.
Carl Siciliano is the founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center, which he describes as the nation's largest organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth. When he started the center almost 10 years ago, he says, "kids were dying in the streets; there was no shelter for gay youth; every couple of months, I would know someone who was murdered in the streets."
In the beginning, Siciliano's goal was just keeping kids safe. But as the years have gone on, he says, "it has become clear to me that we are living in a societal moment, where kids are coming out at younger and younger ages, and there are so many parents who can't be parents to their gay kids. They can't cope, they can't deal with it, their religion is in conflict with the reality of their kids' lives, and these kids are getting thrown away."
It makes sense if you think about it. Kids growing up today see gay people on television. They read about gay marriage in several states. If they think they are gay, they think they can come out of the closet at a younger age.
Tiffany Cocco grew up in East Harlem. She dropped out of school, did some drugs, was kicked out by her parents. She is now 23 and on a waiting list for housing. She's been homeless since she was in her teens. She says she has slept at friends' houses, couch-surfing, among other places.
"I lived on the streets," she says. "Literally, the A Train was my best ride: Waking up to the sunrise, gorgeous. I slept on stoops, park benches — then, finally, shelters."
Siciliano says the gay rights movement has not been good about dealing with the issue of homeless gay youth.
"The movement was articulated and thought out at a time when it was almost all adults coming out," he says. "We have framed our fight for equality in adult terms, and almost all the victories we have won only really benefit the adults in our community."
He also says the gay community hasn't really dealt with poverty and destitution.
A Fight For Resources
Siciliano attended a recent rally in Union Square for gay homeless youths. A crowd of several hundred people chanted, "They're our kids; they're our kids."
At the microphone, Siciliano says it's a different kind of struggle to protect gay kids than the battles the movement has fought in the past.
"With adults, it's a fight for laws like marriage equality," he says. "It is not so much laws with the kids; it is economics. It's a fight for resources. That's what our community hasn't quite gotten yet; we have to fight for resources to protect our kids. How dare we say 'it gets better' to the kids if we are not willing to fight to make sure they have what they need."
There are only 250 beds for 3,800 homeless kids in New York City; waiting lists are huge. Facing a $10 billion deficit, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made compromises with the New York state Legislature. Budget cuts would have taken 100 of those beds away. The city council restored monies cut from both the city and state budgets, so no beds have been cut. A spokesperson said Cuomo asked all local governments to take more responsibility for their budgets by eliminating waste and prioritizing vital programs.
But Siciliano is still angry that homeless kids are not a priority. Of the governor, whom Siciliano describes as heroic in regard to gay marriage, he says, "It's tearing my heart in two. Here you have a political leader who is doing so much to help the adults of our community and is taking actions that harm and imperil the most vulnerable youth of our community. What do we do? What is our response to that?"
Siciliano hopes the rally in late October is the beginning of a real campaign for youth shelter. They're calling for 100 more beds for homeless youth each year until the need is met. But homeless kids don't have power, money or votes. It's hard to believe they will be at the top of many politicians' list in future city and state budgets.


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A controversial technique for producing oil and natural gas called hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — has led to drilling booms from Texas to Pennsylvania in recent years. But there are concerns that it may be polluting drinking water.
As policymakers in Washington discuss how to make fracking safer, there is concern that fracking itself has become a distraction.
In the U.S., pretty much all of the oil and gas that was easy to get to is gone. Fracking makes it possible to extract petroleum from hard-to-reach places — say, a mile underground in dense layers of shale.
Drillers pump truckloads of water mixed with sand and chemicals into the rock. Under intense pressure, that creates tiny fractures that allow oil and gas trapped there to escape.
"Hydraulic fracturing is truly the rocket science of what's happening in energy," says Tisha Conoly Schuller, president and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.
Schuller has seen fracking bring new life to old oil and natural gas fields, boosting domestic production in the U.S. She says that's a good thing — especially for natural gas, because it burns cleaner.
I think hydraulic fracturing has become a synonym for oil and gas development or anything one doesn't like about oil and gas development.
In Pennsylvania the number of natural gas wells drilled into the Marcellus Shale has increased from 34 in 2007 to 1,446 last year.
But drive around the region and you'll see that not everyone shares the industry's appreciation of fracking. There are lawn signs opposing gas drilling, and in Sullivan County, N.Y., a handmade sign reads, "Thou shalt not frack with our water. Amen."
Many fracking opponents were inspired by the movie Gasland. In one compelling scene, Weld County, Colo., resident Mike Markham shows how he can light his tap water on fire.
Throughout the movie, filmmaker and activist Josh Fox gives fracking special attention — calling into question how safe it is and whether it's adequately regulated.
Says Schuller: "I think hydraulic fracturing has become a synonym for oil and gas development or anything one doesn't like about oil and gas development."
The industry worries that the focus on fracking could prompt policymakers to restrict the practice and bring a halt to the gas booms under way. That's already happening around the country in places such as Buffalo, N.Y., Pittsburgh and most recently Morgantown, W.Va. New York is deciding on new rules to govern fracking there.
It's not just the industry concerned about the focus on fracking. Some environmentalists say it may be taking attention away from the other problems that go along with drilling, like air pollution and toxic spills.
"I'm hoping that it's really just a starting point — a jumping-off point — to look at all these other issues," says Amy Mall, senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
And Mall hopes the focus on fracking will lead to more research about how oil and gas development affects people.
"There's very little science about any of these impacts — not just the fracking, but the air quality, the waste-management issues," Mall says. "But it does seem the immediate priority of the agencies is to focus on fracking."
Certainly that's what the Energy Department's Natural Gas Subcommittee will discuss as it meets in Washington, D.C., this week. Eventually the group's recommendations will be sent to the federal agencies that have a role in regulating fracking.
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When Facebook launched its Live video service last year, the social media giant's 1.5 billion global users began living their lives as if they had TV cameras in their back pockets. A team of Carnegie Mellon University students and alumni recently harnessed the power of the Live system to take first place in the 2016 Facebook Global Hackathon.
Over the course of 24 hours in November, Abdelwahab Bourai, who earned his bachelor's degree in computer science this past May and is now a master's student in computational data science, worked with teammates Jean Haddad, a junior in chemical engineering; Sebastian Guerrero Cardenas, a junior majoring in information systems and human computer interaction; and SCS alumnus Vivek Krishnan to create a hack that generates highlights from complete Facebook live videos based solely on user comments.
"We really wanted to use Facebook Live — we think it's a very unfiltered news source," Bourai said. "The problem is that livestreams can be two or three hours long. Nobody's going to sit there and watch it all. But people are more likely to watch five 30-second clips, which was the basic idea of our hack."
At the finals, held at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., the team created a technology that scours comments on Live videos and filters them based on quantity and content. They demonstrated their software on a wide range of content featured on Live — they extracted goals from a soccer game, pinpointed times when Clinton or Trump were doing well in a debate, and even provided brief 30-second highlights for the entirety of the protests in Charlotte, N.C., earlier this year.
"There's a lot of data right under our nose that we don't think about, that can be way more useful than what we've been looking at," Bourai said. "User comments have been around forever, but they're actually really powerful. If you're ever in doubt, play around with some data and something cool will happen. And when it does, it's a really eye-opening moment."
The team qualified for the Global Hackathon by winning TartanHacks2016 this past February.


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– Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation
– Fukushima Risks Chernobyl 'Dead Zone' (Bloomberg, May 30, 2011):
Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan's crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a "dead zone" remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded.
Soil samples in areas outside the 20-kilometer (12 miles) exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant measured more than 1.48 million becquerels a square meter, the standard used for evacuating residents after the Chernobyl accident, Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, said in a research report published May 24 and given to the government.
Radiation from the plant has spread over 600 square kilometers (230 square miles), according to the report. The extent of contamination shows the government must move fast to avoid the same future for the area around Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant as Chernobyl, scientists said. Technology has improved since the 1980s, meaning soil can be decontaminated with chemicals or by planting crops to absorb radioactive materials, allowing residents to return.
"We need to finish this treatment as quickly as possible, within three years at most," Tetsuo Iguchi, a specialist in isotope analysis and radiation detection at Nagoya University in central Japan, said in a telephone interview. "If we take longer, people will give up on returning to their homes."
Soil Samples
Soil samples showed one site with radiation from Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter about 25 kilometers to the northwest of the Fukushima plant, according to Kawata's study. Five more sites about 30 kilometers from Dai- Ichi showed radiation exceeding 1.48 million becquerels per square meter.
When asked to comment on the report today, Tokyo Electric spokesman Tetsuya Terasawa said the radiation levels are in line with those found after a nuclear bomb test, which disperses plutonium. He declined to comment further.
Japan's government introduced a mandatory exclusion zone 20 kilometers around the plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out power leading to three reactor meltdowns. Kawata's study didn't include samples from inside the exclusion zone, where only government and Tokyo Electric staff may enter.
The government in April ordered the evacuation of towns including Iitate, Katsurao and Namie that are outside the 20- kilometer zone after finding high levels of radiation.
'As Soon As Possible'
"Basically, the way in which the current zones have been drawn up aren't a concern in terms of the impact on health," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. "Using Mr. Kawata's report as a guide, we want to do what we can to improve the soil, so people can return as soon as possible."
While the area containing soil pockets over 1.48 million becquerels a square meter is smaller than around Chernobyl –600 square kilometers compared with 3,100 square kilometers — the level of contamination means soil needs to be cleaned or removed before residents can return, Kawata said in his report.
"It might take about one or two years for people to return to land outside the 20-kilometer zone," the University of Nagoya's Iguchi said. "If we replace the soil, it is possible for people to return even inside the zone."
The "dead zone" around Chernobyl remains at 30 kilometers, Mykola Kulinich, Ukraine's ambassador to Japan, said in Tokyo on April 26, the 25th anniversary of the disaster.
Chernobyl Fallout
Belarus, which absorbed 80 percent of the fallout from the Chernobyl explosion, estimates that 2 million, or 20 percent of the population, was affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe, while about 23 percent of the country's land was contaminated, according to a Belarus embassy website. About a fifth of the country's agricultural land has been rendered unusable, which means some $700 million in losses each year, according to the website.
Using crops was one solution being considered by Belarus with the idea that grains harvested from contaminated areas could then be processed to make ethanol. A study funded by a philanthropy arm of Heineken NV (HEIA) found that radioactive elements do not transfer into ethanol and this would allow Belarus to become a major supplier of the liquid used to dilute gasoline to the European Union.
Crop planting was planned in areas of "low-level" radiation, Michael Rietveld, chief executive officer of Ireland's Greenfield Partners, which agreed with the Belarus government in 2007 to develop an ethanol business project to decontaminate the soil, said in an interview October 2009.
Crop Planting
"There are cows walking over this land now," Rietveld said in reference to Belarus. "People are living over there. It's not a dangerous venture to use crops in low-contaminated areas. Most of the contamination is in the soil not the air."
The global financial crisis hampered Greenfield's fund raising and the project closed last year after the Belarus government expressed concerns about the Irish company's ability to attract financing.
Another solution for Fukushima may be chemical treatment of the soil to allow cesium to be absorbed into porous crystals, such as zeolite, which are more visible and simpler to remove, the University of Nagoya's Iguchi said.
Restoring the land may be more critical in Japan than Belarus, where the population density is about 46 people per square kilometer, according to United Nations data. That's more than seven times less than the metric for Japan, where 127.6 million people live on about 378,000 square kilometers.
Road Map
Restoring land use in Fukushima hinges on Tokyo Electric, known as Tepco, ending the crisis at the nuclear station, where three reactors went into meltdown following the earthquake and tsunami that also left more than 23,000 people dead or missing.
The utility on April 17 set out a so-called road map to end the crisis in six to nine months. Tepco said it expects to achieve a sustained drop in radiation levels at the plant within three months, followed by a cold shutdown, where core reactor temperatures fall below 100 degrees Celsius.
The chance of Tepco achieving that goal is six or seven out of 10, William Ostendorff, a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee earlier this week.
Tepco has yet to decide how to deal with the plant site, Megumi Iwashita, a spokeswoman for the company said on May 26.
The most cost-effective solution may be to allow the cesium to move down into the soil to decay, Kathryn Higley, a radiation health physicist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, said in a telephone interview. Cesium has a half-life of about 30 years, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"They're going to make decisions on an acre-by-acre basis as to what's going to happen to these facilities," she said. "The area around Chernobyl is now a nature park. When you move 100,000 people out of an area, nature does pretty well."


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Is hell about to freeze over? We thought the chances of Roland ever revisiting its TR-808 drum machine were about as slim as they could get, but in the video above, the company is teasing something called Aira, which it's billing as "the evolution of the TR-808 rhythm machine".
There are no official photos or specs - just a couple of Roland engineers discussing the concept behind the original TR-808, which was released in 1980, and confirming that they were surprised by the ways that musicians started using it.
The engineers close by saying: "But by now, musicians want new and exciting things. So the time has come to take the next step."
What that next step will be remains to be seen. But we know that it's coming, and it's coming soon.
UPDATE: An image of what appears to be the Roland Aira TR-08 drum machine has leaked online:


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2016 Election: | Hillary's book | Trump's book | Bernie's book | Ted Cruz's book | | | 2016 Senate Debates |
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, by Jimmy Carter (Click for Amazon book review)
BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org: This book is former President Carter's statement on faith in government. He explicitly states that he writes the book as a private citizen, since several of his statements defend the separation of church and state (p. 2, p. 30, p. 49). Despite that unambiguous separation in terms of policy, Carter describes how each of his policy stances is influenced by his Christian faith. These include helping gay AIDS victims (since Jesus similarly helped lepers, whose disease was considered sinful; p. 66), to his well-known Habitat for Humanity (where homes are built for poor families and, as per Biblical rules, no interest is charged; p. 185). Carter wrote this book in 2006, with the purpose of differentiating Carter's form of faith-based policy stances from Bush's form of faith-based "fundamentalism." That's Carter's choice of terms -- he considers religious fundamentalism in the U.S. to be just as bad as religious fundamentalism abroad -- and devotes much space to decrying the evils of charismatic male authoritative leadership and its negative effects on American politics (focused in chapter 3). Evidently Carter's own church, the Southern Baptist Convention, fell into that category, and Carter severed ties with that church in 2000 -- the history of that schism is described from the period of Carter's presidency, but is difficult to follow for mainstream outsiders. The evils of fundamentalism are characterized as "rigidity, domination, and exclusion" (p. 35) which Carter applies to his own church; to President Bush's policies; and to terrorist groups abroad. Carter addresses in detail President Bush's policies, or more generally, the influence of faith-based neoconservatives and direct influence on Bush policy from fundamentalist churches. Carter attributes those sources as the reason that American politics has become so divisive ("us-versus-them" thinking is part of fundamentalism, p. 34). Carter, presumably out of respect for the presidency, usually does not cite President Bush by name. For example, Carter writes that "under the tax cuts pushed through Congress since 2000" the rich have benefited at the expense of the poor (p. 192). Bush's name is never mentioned; but of course that was Bush's signature policy. And Carter applies the same unnamed criticism to Bush's Iraq policy, calling it an "unjust war" under standard Christian criteria (pp. 152-4). All of Bush's policies are critiqued from a Christian perspective, and most are found greatly wanting. This book might serve as a handbook for the religious left. Unfortunately for President Carter, the religious left has little influence on the Democratic Party (consider your own reaction to the term "religious left" -- it feels like a typographical error because the "religious right" is so dominant these days). If the religious left ever does rise in influence, this book clearly outlines its policy prescriptions, including those that differ from the mainstream left. Those include only weak support for abortion rights (p. 72); a call for massive decreases in military spending (p. 198) in favor of diplomatic intervention abroad; and a pro-Palestinian stance that even most Democrats would consider anti-Israel (p. 114). The most important relevance of this book to current politics is that Hillary Clinton is a member of the religious left, as described in God and Hillary by Paul Kengor. President Carter does not discuss Hillary's faith nor her issue stances in this book, but astute readers might apply Carter's lessons to Hillary for a fuller understanding of her issue stances. Hillary is careful about never mentioning faith, but for example, she indeed matches Carter on hedging her support for abortion rights (yes, Hillary is pro-choice, but she, like Carter, greatly prefers to avoid abortions). Paul Kengor's thesis that Hillary is a full-blooded member of the religious left is substantiated unambiguously by Carter's book. -- Jesse Gordon, email@example.com, July 2013
America's Moral Crisis, by Jimmy Carter.
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"The Priesthood Man," Ensign, May 2014, 62–65
The Priesthood Man
You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.
We all have heroes, particularly when we are young. I was born and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States. The most famous sports teams near where we lived were headquartered in New York City. It was the home of three professional baseball teams in those faraway days: the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants, and the New York Yankees. Philadelphia was even closer to our home and was the home of the Athletics and the Phillies baseball teams. There were many potential baseball heroes for me on those teams.
Joe DiMaggio, who played for the New York Yankees, became my baseball hero. When my brothers and my friends played baseball on the school grounds next to our house, I tried to swing the bat the way I thought Joe DiMaggio did it. That was before the days of television (this is ancient history), so I only had pictures from newspapers to use to copy his swing.
When I was growing up, my father drove me to Yankee Stadium. That was the only time I saw Joe DiMaggio play. As if I am still there, in my mind I can see him swing the bat and see the white baseball fly straight into the stands at center field.
Now, my baseball skills never came close to those of my childhood hero. But the few times I hit a baseball well, I copied the level of his powerful swing as closely as I could.
When we choose heroes, we begin to copy, consciously or unconsciously, what we admire most in them.
Happily, my wise parents put great heroes in my path as a boy. My dad took me to Yankee Stadium only once to observe my baseball hero play, but every Sunday he let me observe a priesthood man who became a hero. That hero shaped my life. My father was the branch president of the little branch which met in our home. By the way, if you came down to the first floor on Sunday morning, you were in church. Our branch never had more than 30 people in attendance.
There was a young man who drove his mother to our house for meetings, but he never came into the house. He was not a member. It was my father who succeeded by going out to him where he parked the car and inviting him into our home. He was baptized and became my first and only Aaronic Priesthood leader. He became my priesthood hero. I still remember the wooden statue he gave me as a reward after we had completed a project to cut firewood for a widow. I have tried to be like him whenever I give justified praise to a servant of God.
I chose another hero in that little branch of the Church. He was a United States Marine who came to our meetings wearing his green marine uniform. It was wartime, so that alone made him my hero. He had been sent to Princeton University by the marines to further his education. But far more than admiring his military uniform, I watched him play in Palmer Stadium as captain of the Princeton University football team. I saw him play on the university basketball team and also watched him play as the star catcher on their baseball team.
But even more, he came to my home during the week to show me how to shoot a basketball with both my left and my right hand. He told me that I would need that skill because I would someday play basketball on good teams. I did not realize it then, but for years he was, for me, a model of a true priesthood man.
Each of you will be a model of a priesthood man whether you want to be or not. You became a lighted candle when you accepted the priesthood. The Lord put you on the candlestick to light the way for everyone who surrounds you. That is especially true for those in your priesthood quorum. You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord. He said it this way:
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
"Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."1
I have been blessed by examples of great priesthood holders in quorums where I was fortunate to serve. You can do what they have done for me by being an example for others to follow.
I have observed three common characteristics of the priesthood holders who are my heroes. One is a pattern of prayer, the second is a habit of service, and the third is a rock-hard decision to be honest.
We all pray, but the priesthood holder you want to be prays often and with real intent. In the evening you will get on your knees and thank God for the blessings of the day. You will thank Him for parents, for teachers, and for great examples to follow. You will describe in your prayers specifically who has blessed your life and how, during that day. That will take more than a few minutes and more than a little thought. It will surprise you and change you.
As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.
One way you will be changed by such fervent prayer is, I promise you, that you will feel truly that you are a child of God. When you know that you are a child of God, you will also know that He expects much of you. Because you are His child, He will expect you to follow His teachings and the teachings of His dear Son, Jesus Christ. He will expect you to be generous and kind to others. He will be disappointed if you are proud and self-centered. He will bless you to have the desire to put the interests of others above your own.
Some of you are already models of unselfish priesthood service. In temples across the world, priesthood holders arrive before sunrise. And some serve long after sunset. There is no recognition or public acclaim in this world for that sacrifice of time and effort. I have gone with young people as they serve those in the spirit world, who are not able to claim temple blessings for themselves.
As I see happiness rather than fatigue in the faces of those who serve there early and late, I know there are great rewards in this life for that type of unselfish priesthood service, but it is only a token of the joy they will share with those whom they served in the spirit world.
I have seen that same happiness in the faces of those who speak to others about the blessings which come from belonging to the kingdom of God. I know of a branch president who almost every day brings people to the missionaries for them to teach. Just a few months ago he was not yet a member of the Church. Now there are missionaries teaching and a branch growing in numbers and strength because of him. But more than that, he is a light to others who will open their mouths and so hasten the Lord's gathering of the children of Heavenly Father.
As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow. You will become more aware that He is saddened if you are dishonest in any way. You will be more determined to keep your word to God and to others. You will be more aware of taking anything that does not belong to you. You will be more honest with your employers. You will be more determined to be on time and to complete every task you are given by the Lord that you have accepted to do.
Rather than wondering if their home teachers will come, children in the families you are called to teach will look forward with anticipation to your visit. My children have received that blessing. As they grew, they had priesthood heroes help them set their own courses in serving the Lord. That blessed example is now passing into the third generation.
My message is also one of thanks.
I thank you for your prayers. I thank you for getting on your knees in recognition of the fact that you don't have all the answers. You pray to the God of heaven to express your gratitude and to invoke His blessings upon your lives and your families. I thank you for your service to others and for the times you felt no need for acknowledgment of your service.
We have accepted the Lord's warning that if we seek credit in this world for our service, we may forfeit greater blessings. You will remember these words:
"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
"Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
"But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
"That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly."2
Those who have been my models of great priesthood holders do not easily recognize that they possess heroic qualities. In fact, they seem to have difficulty seeing those things that I so much admire in them. I mentioned my father was a faithful president of a tiny branch of the Church in New Jersey. He later was a member of the Sunday School general board for the Church. Yet I am careful today to speak modestly about his priesthood service, because he was modest.
The same is true for the marine who was my childhood hero. He never spoke to me of his priesthood service or of his accomplishments. He just gave service. I learned about his faithfulness from others. If he even saw the characteristics in himself that I admired, I could not tell.
So my counsel to you who want to bless others with your priesthood has to do with your life which is private to all but God.
Pray to Him. Thank Him for all that is good in your life. Ask Him to know what individuals He has placed in your way for you to serve. Plead that He will help you give that service. Pray so that you can forgive and so that you can be forgiven. Then serve them, love them, and forgive them.
Above all, remember that of all the service you give, none is greater than to help people choose to qualify for eternal life. God has given that overarching direction to us on how to use our priesthood. He is the perfect example of it. This is the example we see in small part in the best of His mortal servants:
"And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying: The heavens, they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but they are numbered unto me, for they are mine.
"And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my words.
"For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man."3
We are to help in that work. Each of us can make a difference. We have been prepared for our time and place in the last days of that sacred work. Each of us has been blessed with examples of those who have made that work the overriding purpose of their time on earth.
I pray that we may help each other rise to that opportunity.
God the Father lives and will answer your prayers for the help you need to serve Him well. Jesus Christ is the risen Lord. This is His Church. The priesthood you hold is the power to act in His name in His work to serve the children of God. As you give your whole heart to this work, He will magnify you. I so promise in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior, amen.


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by Mark Kennedy
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NEW YORK (AP) — While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more critical: It was his last one before Sunday's Tony Awards.
"I just need a trim," he tells stylist Valjean Guerra, crunching his hair with both hands to show the textured look he hopes to maintain. "I want to keep the same shape."
Porter, nominated for best actor in a musical for his role as a drag queen in "Kinky Boots," then settled into a leather chair in a chic Harlem salon for an hour of pampering before a cast album party and another grueling show.
It was nine days before the Tonys — the perfect amount of time to wash and cut what he calls his "chunky thing." If done too close to the awards, his haircut might look forced.
"I like it to breathe a little bit. I don't want it to look so clean or too perfect," he says. "I like it to look clean but not like I got my hair cut yesterday. You know what I mean? Hair is actually a little bit better when it's a little dirtier."
Smiling nearby is Brenda Braxton, a Tony-nominated actress who owns the luxury men's spa BBraxton where Porter sits. A veteran of "Chicago" and "Smokey Joe's Cafe," Braxton has known Porter for decades. After comparing foot pains and calluses, she confesses that she's giddy that people are finally recognizing his talent.
"Very seldom do you get people who know what it's about and respect the business," she says. "We don't always get it when we think we're going to get it but we get it. He's paid his dues. It's his time."


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I remember talking to my dad about getting a little Derringer. He was adamantly against it. Small guns can be wrestled away and used against the owner, he said. Instead, he advocated for a gun that was effective with one shot.
Several years have passed since I first thought about owning a gun. Recently, I have a renewed interest in learning to use one. I want my daughter to be educated on firearm safety and use—I want her to be smart and prepared.
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I did some research and read some good reviews about the Sandy Springs Gun Club and Range, just north of Atlanta. When I called about their membership, the woman who answered discussed my options. She mentioned that Thursday was set aside for women—and there were no range fees.
I'm not going to say that I felt immediately at ease or unafraid, but it was important to me that a well-spoken woman had all the answers to my questions, and she understood my apprehension.
"Make sure you let the person at the desk know you need some help," she said, adding that it's standard to assist guests.
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I was met by Brandie Huth, director of marketing and Casey Retterer, director of training. Retterer provided us with safety information about the gun, the club, and how each range is segmented—all completely state-of-the-art.
He set aside a Browning Buck Mark 22 for our first experience. Then he took us to the side and gave us the four cardinal rules of gun safety:
- A gun is always loaded. Casey does not want there to be any mistakes or confusion and he doesn't believe in simply, "treating a gun as if it's loaded."
- Never cross the muzzle of a gun over anything you are not willing to destroy. Again, Casey's safety-first training kept us feeling at ease.
- Always keep your finger on the side unless you have made the conscious decision to shoot. Even after we went into the range, he impressed upon us to wait until your aim is set before putting a finger on the trigger.
- Always be aware of your target, the foreground and the background. Being aware and knowing what is happening in that space is critical.
Once on the range, Casey showed us how to load the .22, pull back the slide and get the first shell into the chamber. I was surprised how easy it was to focus and not get distracted by the other shooters on the range. After a while, fear was set aside as we learned more about the pistol. There was only one person in the other lane so the noise was minimal and we were wearing ear protection.
The pistol was easy to handle, easy to load and had very little recoil. The target was only about 5 yards away, but I didn't seem to be hitting the circle very well. My daughter, however, was a sharpshooter right out of the gate.
"I love it," my daughter exclaimed, as we left. And with our first range session being a success, we wasted no time. We were already making plans to return and try other handguns.
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documenting the activities, accomplishments, and honors of the University
of Houston Law Center Faculty.
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Bruhl presented a paper on judicial deference to administrative agencies at a
program organized by the Administrative Law Section of the Association of
American Law Schools at the organization's 2013 annual meeting in New Orleans.
J. Duncan's article Lafler and Frye:
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as the Balance in Legal Education section. In addition, she has been
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Hester's proposed article on The Emerging Science of
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European Society on International Law for presentation at its annual conference
in Amsterdam on May 23-24, 2013. He also participated in an
invitation-only symposium at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to
discuss his research (in concert with Professor Glenn Sanford) on the potential
legal uses of advanced remote sensing technology in environmental
enforcement. Professor Hester was also named to the Board of the Texas
Environmental Research Consortium, which directs scientific and policy research
projects that benefit air quality in the Houston-Galveston area.
Hoffman collaborated with the law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP and the St.
Mary's law school's Immigration and Human Rights Clinic to represent children
in a case before the Fifth Circuit. Professor Hoffman was interviewed by the Houston
Chronicle La Voz on the issue of deportations of
parents of U.S. citizen children in Texas in late December. Professor Hoffman's guest post, Using
the Deportation Power to Threaten Free Speech, appeared on the
Immigration Professor's blog, available at: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2013/01/geoffrey-a-hoffman-.html.
Additionally, Professor Hoffman's op-ed regarding the petition to deport CNN
commentator Piers Morgan was published in the Houston Chronicle on
Monday, January 14, 2013.
Joyce was
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sponsored by the Supreme Court of the United States. Professor Joyce has
served continuously for 25 years.
Sapna Kumar participated in a roundtable on
genetic diagnostic testing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. At the
roundtable, she discussed why gene patents might violate the Fifth Amendment's
Due Process Clause. Professor Kumar also presented her article Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Genetic
Information at the AALS New Voices in Administrative Law panel.
Douglas Moll concluded his year as the Chair of the
AALS Section on Agency and Unincorporated Business Associations. He
moderated the program on the scholarship of Professor Larry Ribstein.
Professor Moll also completed the revisions of his chapters for the 12th
edition of his casebook -- Corporations, including Partnerships and Limited
Liability Companies (with Jon Macey).
Professor Moll will speak in February on a panel with Chief Justice Steele of
the Delaware Supreme Court. They will be discussing minority owner rights
in closely held businesses.
Tom Oldham announces that the world is now
blessed with the seventh edition of Krause, Elrod and Oldham, Cases and
Materials on Family Law.
Michael A. Olivas completed his term as AALS Immediate
Past-President at the recent 2013 AALS Annual Meeting, and has been retired to
pasture. He also introduced the Law and Film Series feature films, and was on a
panel to discuss the new Association Recommendations for Good Practice in
Faculty Hiring. He was interviewed by a number of newspaper reporters in
English and Spanish on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Jordan Paust submitted a chapter on Basic Forms of International Law and Monist,
Dualist, and Realist Perspectives to the editor of a book, Basic
Principles of International Law – Monism and Dualism, to be published later
this year in Serbia. His essay Iran's
Nuclear Weapons Program and Lawful Israeli Self-Defense has been published
at JURIST, http://www.jurist.org/forum/2013/01/jordan-paust-iran-israel.php.
Sandra Guerra Thompson was interviewed about the Gideon v.
Wainwright case for a film produced by the State Bar of Texas for use in high
school classrooms. A speech Professor Thompson gave in Turkey last May was
recently published in a Turkish Criminal Law Journal: http://www.terazi.com.tr/makalegoster.aspx?id=1961.
Jacqueline Weaver served as Course Director and
lecturer for a 5-day Advanced Legal Studies Program on specialized topics in
oil and gas law presented to lawyers from Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) at
the University of Houston Law Center; Houston, Texas;
December 10 – 14, 2012. She also
moderated two panels ("Women in Science" and "How to Benefit from Experience
Abroad") at the Schlumberger Foundation, Faculty for the Future Fellows
Regional Forum, presented in collaboration with Rice University; Houston,
Texas; December 19, 2012.
Bret Wells, on December 14th, taught a
one-day tax course covering US inbound international tax issues as part of the
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Twitter is sending out emails to 250,000 users it says may have had their accounts compromised in the last week as the site experienced "unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data." Twitter tells TechCrunch that this is "not related" to the widespread, but intermittent, outage the site saw yesterday.
The text of the email is below. In its blog post on the hacking, Twitter recommends that all users make sure they have a secure enough password on their account. In truth, there still seems to be some big unanswered questions. Twitter notes that "attackers may have had access to limited user information – usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords", which can also be interpreted as "may not have had access", or may not have had access to all of those different elements. The reader who sent in the letter below tells us that he had not seen any unusual activity on the account recently — so any password or other kinds of compromises had not yet translated into actions, for him at least.
One coincidence that appears to be emerging is that many of the people who have been affected were among some of the earliest adopters of Twitter. Our reader signed up in 2007, and we have heard similar reports from others receiving the email.
Twitter says that it believes that other websites may have been compromised.
"This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident," Bob Lord, director of information security at Twitter, notes in the blog post. "The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked."
Twitter would not comment on whether it had any information on which other companies may have had related attacks — although by coincidence Amazon yesterday also had an outage, although TechCrunch understands that Amazon has determined that outside groups were not involved. Twitter does, however, refer to the security breaches at both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, as well as the recent security issues with Java in browsers, as examples of how hacking is everywhere (and to possibly deflect a little attention from what has just happened on its site).
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