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The centerpiece of George C. Wolfe's 1986 satire The Colored Museum is a scathing sketch called The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play. A Raisin in the Sun is the über-mama-on-the-couch play — though in the powerful revival currently at Trinity Repertory Company (through March 8), I don't recall Barbara Meek's Lena Younger once resting her weary bones on the old rose-colored couch. Freestanding brick-tenement façades punctuate Michael McGarty's gauzy maze of a set, but I don't recall many walls, either — and that includes the fourth, usually a major edifice of realism. Instead, Brian McEleney's staging of Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 African-American family drama floats on the stage like a Tennessee Williams play and addresses itself to the audience like a political placard held aloft by Bertolt Brecht. And the audacious miscegenation of techniques seems to place the old couch, with or without mama on it, in that broader universe that Thornton Wilder, in an earlier American classic that abolished furniture altogether, located in "the Mind of God."
Considered a groundbreaker, A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by an African-American woman to open on Broadway, where, helmed by a black director (Lloyd Richards), it ran for more than a year, copping the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play. It has been done to death since then, most recently on Broadway in 2004 with a cast led by Sean "Diddy" Combs. But Trinity sheds new light — both warm and fiery — on the old work. Raisin draws its title from a Langston Hughes poem that here finds its way, on more than one occasion, into the play, the actors facing us directly to trade off declaiming Hughes's inquiry into what happens to a dream deferred: "Does it dry up/Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?" At Trinity, the dream is ultimately grasped with a feisty melancholy. It's the character of Walter Lee Younger, in the riveting if too volatile person of Joe Wilson Jr., who's allowed to explode.
Lighting the fuse are occurrences within the Younger family as they await, in their Chicago Southside apartment, the arrival of a $10,000 check — the life-insurance legacy of Lena's husband and Walter Lee's father, "Big Walter," a laborer who worked himself to death in the service of his family. (The remaining members are college student Beneatha, who aspires to be a doctor when she isn't flirting with African culture, and Walter Lee's wife, Ruth, and their 10-year-old son, Travis, whose bedroom is the couch.) Walter Lee sees investment in a liquor store as the clan's key to the American dream. Lena, appalled by her family's splintering into frustration and dissent, instead buys a house in what is revealed to be a snivelingly unwelcoming white neighborhood.
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Considering she lost early at the Australian Open she had plenty of time to hit the beach with her assistant.
The assistant isn't a bad looking Tigerstyle lady, just gets dwarfed in the presence of She Hulk.
with her "white friend" ???
Mr. Robert likey the "white girls"
I'd be all over Serena Williams, of course, some of us aren't blessed enough to handle all that if you know what I mean.
Serena is built very manly imo…..she just seems more masculine than feminine in the physique standpoint. Heck of a tennis player though!
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I downloaded Open Office Impress and successfully did a presentation. I have an iPad 1 and it does not have Keynote, so I downloaded a free app called SlideShark to view the presentation in. However, it looks like it doesn't support music and you have to click to advance each slide.
Can anyone suggest a good presentations viewer for the 1st generation iPad that doesn't cost too much and that displays video and music?
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They best one is called Keynote.
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Yes, Keynote is the best one, it's easy to use and has great features. I think it's under $10 for the iPad.
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Sorry I haven't been back sooner. Thanks for the suggestion of Keynote. I'll try that one.
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Posted October 7, 2002; 11:34 a.m.
The University's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies is holding a meeting Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11-12, to explore the past and present of cultural conflict in the United States.
The event is intended to highlight a three-year project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. It opens with a public forum at 4 p.m. Friday titled "Culture, Contention and Conflict: A Historical Perspective" in 016 Robertson. The events on Saturday are reserved for invited participants only.
The public forum is a panel discussion meant to provide an historical context to contemporary battles over artistic expression and cultural and moral values. The panelists include: Stanley Katz, director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies; Gerald Graff, professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago and author of "Beyond the Culture War: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education"; Michael Kammen, professor of history at Cornell University and author of "Contested Values: Democracy and Diversity in American Culture"; and Nell Painter, professor of history at Princeton and author of "Southern History Across the Color Line" and the forthcoming "Creating Black Americans."
The Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies is affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and was created to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication of discourse about the nation's artistic and cultural life.
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Karen Dórame, Utah, "Quilting a Legacy"
This picture is all about Elna Worthington. She is the story behind the photo. Her living room floor is filled with a quilting frame, and her large dining room table centerpiece is a sewing machine surrounded with fabric and a rainbow variety of thread.
Elna Worthington is a 91-year-old quilter from Utah who has made quilting her life's passion for just short of a century. She worked on her first quilt as a teenager and figures she has completed hundreds more over her lifetime.
Her love for quilting may have been fostered by her work as a nurse at Pioneer Hospital in what is now known as West Valley City (part of the greater Salt Lake City area). Nursing helped her realize how a warm quilt provides soothing comfort. She continues that noble legacy to this day by donating quilts to the Church's humanitarian efforts, as well as to family, local hospitals, and neighbors.
Elna delights in creating unique themes for her quilts with a clever twist of humor. Her "Pantry" quilt features canning jars and a line of marching ants, as well as a lingering spider in a web lurking in the corner.
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Discover more about the characters that help bring to life one of the most exciting titles on PS Vita.
Get the inside scoop behind Gravity Rush on PlayStation Vita - welcome to the first in an exclusive series of features where the team at Sony Studio Japan takes us through some of their thoughts in creating this stunning action adventure. Want to know more about the game's main character, Kat? Beat the rush and start here...
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In Gravity Rush we challenged ourselves to create a strong yet introverted personality that is different from other video game characters. We wanted someone players could almost see as a friend, and whom they would want to support and cheer for.
From a story point of view, we wanted to focus on a lead character who was initially lonely, yet soon gained skills, made friends and won people's confidence. We also wanted to create a character that players could get attached to, so we eventually decided that a young, clumsy yet endearing female would match our concept well and fit with the design of the game.
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One of the most important things we wanted was to give our female lead universal traits that would be easy to relate to - a design that would be timeless and not just fit present-day trends.
We were careful not to give her overly anime style expressions or obviously heroic features, which you sometimes find in some American comic books. We concentrated on removing any specific resemblance she might have with other people, cultures or eras to go with her unusual world perspective. And finally, we made an effort to design her in such a way that she would fit into the many situations - from light-hearted to the serious - that Gravity Rush has to offer.
"A gleam of supernatural power..."
When creating Kat from a playable point of view, we thought that a strong, exotic character type would be well suited to the game. We fashioned her in a ninja-like image, gave her a small frame and made her agile with various skills. We polished off her design by adding a visual touch of style typically seen in American comic book heroes - a gleam of supernatural power in her eye.
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Some of the elements we put into Gravity Rush, such as Kat having a cool rival, or having to complete undercover infiltration missions, were inspired by television series such as The Bionic Woman and anime from the 70s. We had a lot of fun and went to great lengths to create a game that was unlike others, easy to related to, childlike and yet mature all at the same time. That was the type of nostalgic feel we aimed for and we hope we succeeded.
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The second draft of ODR is out. Comments are welcome and solicited
- project name: online disk replicator (aka odr)
- Aim: odr allows to share (read/write) a block device among several nodes. if the fs does the locking, several nodes can mount the device at the time. if nodes fail, the remaining ones try not to interupt the service.
the differences with v1 are :
- ability to have several writers at the same time.
- ability to read/write the block device during a resync phase.
- bugs in log fixed based on Stephen Tweedie's suggestions.
- strip all the fancy mecanisms to acknowledge blocks.
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Growing up in a household headed by my stepfather, Judge Luckey, the longtime public defender of the 13th Judicial Circuit and several times president of the Florida Public Defender Association, I understood at an early age that poor people deserve justice, too.
Judge was a robust, politically savvy good ol' boy whose Southern drawl filled the room with good stories.
He was one of the first assistant public defenders hired in Hillsborough County after the creation of the public defender system. With a big heart for helping his clients, he lived and breathed what Gideon v. Wainwright, a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision that sparked the creation of Florida's public defender system, stands for: the right for indigent people to have effective representation when charged with crimes.
When I was fresh out of law school in 1974, then 13th Circuit State Attorney E.J. Salcines, Jr. (now a senior judge on the Second District Court of Appeal) hired me as his first woman assistant state attorney. Every day in court, I watched with respect as assistant public defenders ably represented their indigent clients, frequently demonstrating greater skill than lawyers who were being paid by their clients to represent them.
Today, as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gideon, I want to thank those Florida lawyers who have chosen to work in the public defenders' office or agreed to be a court-appointed counsel when the public defender has a conflict. It is not an easy job. Being an assistant public defender is a true calling, with a starting pay of $39,074.
It's also a time to reflect on where Florida stands when it comes to guaranteeing that those charged with crimes have access to not just a lawyer — but to effective assistance of that lawyer as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment.
When the Florida Innocence Commission, appointed by the Supreme Court, met in May 2012, many members were shocked to hear details of how poorly Florida funds our criminal justice system.
One court-appointed registry attorney told how he spent $26 an hour out of his own pocket to represent a client charged with murder.
Todd Doss, a Lake City criminal defense attorney on the board of directors of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, told the commission that while he has accepted court-appointed conflict cases, he refuses for ethical reasons to sign the contract limiting fees. The statutory cap to defend a death case is $15,000, a life felony is $3,000, and other felonies are $2,500. In the 2012 budget, however, except in capital cases, the fees are even less, essentially pro bono.
Second Circuit Public Defender Nancy Daniels, a member of the commission, brought these statewide statistics: There are 1,511 assistant public defenders to handle about 761,689 cases — and that comes out to 504 cases per attorney. On average, this means one attorney has only two hours to devote to a case.
Julianne Holt, who serves in both the roles my stepfather once held — public defender of the 13th Circuit and president of the Florida Public Defender Association — testified before the commission that there is no doubt that a lack of funding has affected representation of clients. Her office has to triage cases and decide where to put their limited resources. More motions for post-conviction relief are being filed in her circuit than ever before, she acknowledged, and there is a problem with not being able to call witnesses to testify.
Rory Stein, an assistant public defender in the 11th Circuit, gave commissioners this real-life scenario of harried lawyers in his office pushing through pleas at arraignment in 20 to 30 percent of the cases:
"I'm talking about a situation where there's been no investigation. There's been no testing of evidence. There have been no experts retained. And yet, in all likelihood, there are innocent people who are being asked to plead guilty to a crime under circumstances in which they can't make an objective decision. They need to get out of jail to save their families. So, frequently, innocent people will plead guilty under those circumstances without getting a whole lot of assistance from their lawyers."
The funding crisis seriously impacts the other side of the aisle, too.
Fifth Circuit State Attorney Brad King, a member of the commission, said because of crushing caseloads — about 900 case referrals annually per assistant state attorney — the average time a prosecutor has to spend on a felony case (including capital murder) is about five hours total from intake through trial.
As 18th Circuit Judge J. Preston Silvernail, a member of the commission, stated: "Without adequate counsel, due process is not assured. If we do not provide adequate funding, there is a loss of the due process of law, which will lead to wrongful convictions."
When the Innocence Commission issued its final report in June 2012, it listed five top causes of wrongful convictions that have caused 13 men in Florida to collectively serve 259 years in prison for crimes they did not commit: eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, informants and jailhouse snitches, improper or invalid scientific evidence, and professional responsibility.
"While studying the topic of professional responsibility," the executive summary says, "it became crystal clear that a sixth significant cause exists that may lead to wrongful convictions: The underfunding of the criminal justice system in Florida."
This is not the equality of justice the U.S. Supreme Court had in mind when it ruled in the landmark Gideon case. Fifty years later, we face this realization: The promise of Gideon can only be kept by funding effective assistance of counsel. It's a promise which the Florida Legislature must address.
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Scholar discusses post-Zionism, April 13
Posted April 8, 2005; 05:17 p.m.
"Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism and the Messianic" is the title of the second annual Edward Said '57 Memorial Lecture, which will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in McCosh 50.
This year's lecture will be delivered by Judith Butler, the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California - Berkeley and the Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Butler has written on philosophy, religion, identity politics, gender and sexuality. Her books include "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990), "Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex'" (1993), "Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative" (1997) and "Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death" (2000).
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- Claims LGBT-headed families are "just not faring as well because—guess what?—it's not what God created, it's not his best"
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In conjunction with the museum's show, Elegantly Attired, Julia's Gallery for Young Artists will host a holiday exhibition, Fashionably Late. This show will showcase work of teen artists from around the state who will submit art objects that explore the themes of identity, history and culture through the lens of fashion. In addition to a statewide call for art, midcoast area students will have the opportunity to attend workshops with mentor artists, the museum's curatorial staff and other experts to investigate the cultural and political context of two time periods in America – the Victorian and the present day – and explore how history influences fashion design. Fashion pieces created in these local workshops may also be submitted for consideration for the Fashionably Late show.
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Grandmother holds burglar at gunpoint until police arrive
SPOKANE, Wash. - A grandmother of ten fired a warning shot and then held a would-be burglar at gunpoint in her home until police arrived and arrested him.
The burglar was first seen smashing windows just after midnight at a business in the 2700 block of North Pittsburgh. A neighbor saw him, called police and then chased after him.
As police began tracking him with K-9s, just 15 minutes later that burglar -- Sean Denny -- showed up at a home in the 2000 block of East Dalton.
The homeowner, Sandy Mize, is no stranger to people stealing from her home. Her home was burglarized in 2010 and luckily for that individual she wasn't home at the time. She was home overnight Wednesday when Denny broke into her home.Grandma holds burglar at gunpoint
Mize declined to do an interview, describing herself as shy, but this grandmother of 10 is definitely not timid or scared.
"I think it's great," neighbor Vicki Plastino said. "She's wonderful. More power to ya woman."
Plastino is proud to know Mize and said that what she did when Denny broke into her home sends a clear message.
"I just think it is great. Don't mess with us old folk," she said.
"Props to her," James Bryant said. "She had to do what she had to do, so, if they would have done something to my house, I would have done the same thing."
Bryant, his fiancé and son live next door to where this incident actually started just after midnight on North Pittsburgh.
"We hear this big k-sshhh and I looked out my window and I saw a guy at the corner of the building and I am like I am going to go check this out," he said.
Bryant did just that, then ran back home and had his fiancé call 9-1-1.
"[The] boyfriend of the witness went out and apparently chased the guy off, gave a pretty good description," Spokane Police Lieutenant Dean Sprague said.
A K-9 began tracking Denny but before police could find him he had broken into Mize's home.
"Lady called saying that somebody had forced their way into her house, she had grabbed a firearm that she kept for her own personal protection, fired one round, ended up hitting the wall and then she held him at gunpoint in her living while the police responded," Sprague said.
Denny made a last ditch effort to escape out the back door but was greeted by that K-9 team that was out looking for him.
"He is receiving treatment from a minor injury from that," Sprague said of Denny's run-in with the K-9.
Authorities said that Mize's actions couldn't have been more appropriate, and they recognized her efforts for a job well done by giving her a Spokane Junior Police Badge.
Denny is being held on a $25,000 bond.


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Hans Krása "Friends called him 'the rascal of the century' and they had good reason for it. His slim, moderately bent figure, neglected elegance, and a face imprinted with many life stories, all revealed a man touched by the hand of the turn-of-the-century decadence, a man who gave an impression of being dependent and in need of care. And the latter he received from all sides. He was well-liked for his gentle manners and scintillating humour, which sometimes bordered on sarcasm. Humour transcended in undiminished measure also into his music. However, we do not find in it any trace of decadence, which had marked his appearance; penetrating intellect, education and perfect orientation toward contemporary ideology brought into his music a great deal of the rationale - 'too great a deal of the rationale', as the unfriendly criticism would have said."...
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The La Roche Quartet was formed in 1988 and takes its name from the authoress- Sophie La Roche who was born on Kaufbeuren in 1731 and lived the greater part of her life in Koblenz. Since its foundation four years ago, the La Roche Quartet has given many concerts to great critical acclaim. The quartet has concerts all over the world, presenting a wide and varied set of programmes.
*Ivar Berix, clarinet, started to play the clarinet in the local brass band when he was ten years old. He studied at the Conservatory of Utrecht under Bas de Jong and at the Conservatory of Amsterdam under George Pieterson. He was also taught by Antony Pay. Ivar is a member of Calefax, an Amsterdam reed group, and plays as a freelance musician in different Dutch symphony orchestras as well as in groups like the Asko and the Schönberg Ensemble. He also performs as a soloist in various orchestras.
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(...) Met behoud van eigen identiteit ontdekken de 4 spelers van binnenuit schijnbaar als vanzelf een gemeenschappelijke taal. (...)
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(...) Was die tsechische Musik mit Hans Krása verlor, läßt das vorliegende Kammermusik-Programm allenfalls ahnen. (...)
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(...) Fresh-sounding and full of irony and humor (...)
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(...) One hope that more music by Krása will be recorded.
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1) The Vong showed up in the galaxy shortly before Palpatine's rise to power. They seemed very interested in the technology of the planet from Rogue Planet (I forget the name), attacked with an army, and then more or less vanished. Where were they during the interrim?
2) When did Nom Anor enter the galaxy as an undercover operative? He's in Crimson Empire, but seems fairly well established by that point.
3) What is the force that drove the Vong from their galaxy? Will the Republic encounter that force? And will it be friend or foe?
4) What is the alien menace referred to in Vision of the Future? Is it the Vong, or somehow related to the Vong?
5) Why have the Empire, Hapans, Hutts, Correllians, Corporate Sector, Chiss, and even the Ssi-Ruuk been so reluctant to join the battle? The Empire, Hapans, Correllians, and Chiss all showed up for one battle each, then pretty much went home! Think about how illogical this is. It's as if aliens invaded the British Empire at the height of its power, and everyone else ignored it.
6) As Thrawn pointed out elsewhere, why are the Yuuzhan Vong described as being so much like the Yevetha?
7) Is the Force only present in the Star Wars galaxy? If not, why are the Vong immune? (Even Hutts and Toydarians aren't absent from the Force.)
8) Where's Boba Fett? And Dash Rendar, Kyle Katarn, and pretty much every other fringe character?
9) Waru--when first I encountered him in The Crystal Star, he was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard of. But every time I think of it, he seems more like a Vong construct of some sort.
10) Will we get to see the Vong's home galaxy?
11) The Republic seems to have learned of Vong tactics and weapons relatively quickly. (I think Rogue Squadron had learned to deal with dovin basals as early as Vector Prime.) How, then, did an obviously antagonistic force (c'mon, they're wiping out whole planets right and left!) make such an incursion into Republic territory in just less than three years?
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When we left off I teased that we would talk about open houses and Troop visits.
But going back to the relationships that have built with the Packs, they get the first invites to the open house, even though they should be familiar with the workings of the Troop.
The open house or Troop visit is an important part in the recruiting process. There are as many ways to do this as there are troops, but the important part is that you need to conduct these events. They are opportunities for parents to see the Troop in its environment, they get to see the youth leaders, they have the opportunity to talk to the committee and ask questions about the Troop. It is a great way to show case the unit.
Our Troop is a backpacking troop. At our open house that we do annually we present the Troop as it normally camps… in the backpack style. Our philosophy is to be very up front and show the Troop how we are. We set up a camp site in our meeting hall to show the types of gear we use and provide lists of the recommended and required gear. This is important for the new parent to know just what they are getting into.
We have photo albums and a slide show running for the new parents and Scouts to see, as well as invoke a story or two from the older Scouts. I think that is real important for both new Scouts and parents to see. It is the shared experience of the Scout that is what we are selling. This is a big part of the promise that we deliver.
Our open house is not on a meeting night. Meeting nights are for meetings… and Troop visits.
During a Troop visit we conduct business as usual. When we have visitors, we treat them as guests and have a regular meeting. We think this is important so the visiting Scout and his parents see just what a meeting looks like and they get a real feel for the Junior leaders and how the Troop operates. Keep in mind sometimes this is ugly and confusing to the untrained eye.. that is where Assistant Scoutmaster (insert name here) comes in. He is the wrangler of parents and acts as the translator as the evening progress's. He can be a great help in answering questions and explaining the process's that are unfolding before these shocked parents… he should also be versed in treating for that shock and also how to fill out applications and merit badge counselor interest cards. The bottom line is that the Troop visit should reflect the true flavor of the Troop. If you put out your best, then it is fair that you should be that way all the time… it is ok for visitors to see reality and understand that young men run this program.
Some key items for both the Troop visit and the open house:
1. A copy of the Troops Annual plan
2. A copy of the Troop budget
3. A list of "Must haves" that include uniform standards, gear, handbook, and other things unique to your Troop.
4. Business cards for key leaders (Scoutmaster, Committee Chair, Membership chair, Treasurer)
5. Hand out with "GO TO INFO" : Troop website, email address's, resources, FAQ's.
In our next edition of "If you build they will come" we will talk about the annual plan, the meat and potatoes of the recruiting effort.
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JACKSON – The charter school debate has dominated much of the first month of the legislative session, but House and Senate leaders have stressed that other efforts to improve education are coming.
On Friday, House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, and some key members of his leadership team held a news briefing where he reiterated that other education legislation will be considered, including efforts to invest state money in early childhood education, make all school superintendents appointed and improve third-grade reading.
Gunn said the House would "bring forward a full array of ideas for comprehensive education reform."
Another proposal that Gunn said will be considered is to offer scholarships to top-performing students to try to entice them to go into teaching and work in areas with low-performing school districts.
Many of the proposals, such as improving third-grade reading, recruiting top students to the teaching profession and investing in early childhood education, also are part of Gov. Phil Bryant's Education Works proposals.
The Senate Education Committee already has passed legislation that would make all superintendents appointed unless people in the district vote to retain an elected superintendent. Moore said the House Education Committee also will take up separate legislation to make all school boards elected.
Currently in Mississippi, about half the superintendents are elected and some school boards are appointed while others are elected.
Rep. Toby Barker, R-Hattiesburg, is proposing a plan to provide tax credits to companies that provide scholarships for low-income children to go to quality day care programs that would be developed through early learning collaborative organizations that could include various groups, including the public schools and day care providers.
But House Appropriations Chair Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, said there was little chance of fully funding the Mississippi Adequate Education Program this year, though he said he would support it if the money was available. Frierson said he also supports placing in law a definition of average daily attendance since school districts are not using a uniform method of counting attendance.
The money going to school districts through the Adequate Education Program is determined by average daily attendance.
Many other education proposals are pending, such as Bryant's plan to provide scholarships to allow students in low-performing districts to go to private school and repeal of a constitutional prohibition on providing state funds to non-public schools. Both of those proposals would take more than a simple majority to pass.


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CORINTH – Amanda Elzy did something not many teams have done at Corinth, win.
The tall Panthers beat the Journal's top-ranked Warriors 57-45 Saturday in the MHSAA Class 4A North championship game.
Both teams had clinched state tournament berths. Elzy will play at Jackson's Mississippi Coliseum on Mar. 4 at 2:30 p.m., Corinth at 8 p.m.
Corinth couldn't find room inside against Janarious Middleton (6-foot-9), Rahkeem Lehaman (6-4) and Gerald Glass, Jr. (6-7)
"They're so long and so athletic. They challenge every shot," Corinth coach Keith Greene said. "We tried to attack the rim and get some contact but they play the ball so well."
Corinth hit only 17 of 47 shots, 1 for 13 from behind the arc. Booneville was the last team to beat Corinth at home, two years ago in the North 3A finals.
The Warriors cut a 10-point lead to four early in the fourth, but as it did all night, Elzy (29-5) answered.
Corinth (26-7) trailed by six at the half. In the opening seconds of the third quarter, Antares Gwyn had what is normally an easy lay-up. Instead, Lehaman caught up and pinned the shot from behind.
"These guys are on a mission," Elzy coach Gerald Glass said. "We just kept our poise."
Elzy got only two points from MSU commit Maurice Dunlap, 12 from Middleton and 10 from Lehaman, who's headed for Middle Tennessee.
Warriors rally
Raheem Sorrell went inside to trim the lead to 41-35 early in the fourth but Elzy's Glass answered.
Terrel Payton scored two of his game-high 18 points to get the Warriors within four.
Sorrell and Gwyn had 11 each for Corinth.
"We couldn't hit anything from the perimeter, very, very cold," Greene said. "Against a team with that length, you've got to make some shots."


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St. Paul, MN The Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE) is pleased to announce it has been chosen to receive a 2012 federal College Access Challenge Grant in the amount of $1.56 million. The purpose of the College Access Challenge Grant Program (CACGP) is to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. Minnesota has been awarded this grant every year since it was enacted by Congress under "The College Cost Reduction and Access Act" in 2007. "These federal dollars will be used to prepare hundreds of students for success in college and assure they have the necessary skills for the future workforce," said Dr. Nancy Walters, who manages the grant at OHE.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) projects that over the next ten years, approximately 59 percent of the total job openings will require at least some college. At the same time, Minnesota's population is rapidly becoming more diverse, and the U.S. Census Bureau is predicting the number of students of color in Minnesota will grow quickly over the next few decades.
According to Walters, Minnesota has one of the largest racial achievement gaps in the country; poverty also disproportionately affects certain racial and ethnic groups in the state. Walters said while it is encouraging that aspirations to attend college are high across all Minnesota high school students, many lack the support and knowledge necessary to reach this goal.
"As a result of Minnesota's continued shortage of school counselors, students and parents are not receiving the direct services necessary to improve college readiness and success," said Dr. Walters. "These federal funds allow us to assist school counselors across the state with their college advising and counseling responsibilities."
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- Financial Literacy Grant Program, a competitive program to help low-income high school students make sound financial decisions
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- Outreach to Latino Community
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Since the program's implementation in 2008, over 600,000 contacts have been made with low-income students through interactions with middle and high school counselors from over 267 school districts.
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Toxic shock syndrome
(TSS) usually strikes women. While it can be extremely serious, it is also quite rare. Often associated with tampon use, TSS is caused by a toxin released by
specific bacteria.
Although TSS can affect anyone, most cases occur in teenage girls and menstruating women. Some cases have been related to exposure to an
infection contracted during surgery or after suffering a burn or open wound. Although most people have naturally occurring antibodies that protect them from this toxin, some do not, and it is in these people that infection can lead to TSS.
In the late 1970s, tampons—especially the super-absorbent type—were linked to an increased susceptibility to TSS, especially in women under age 25. Although the exact relationship between tampon use and TSS is still not known, it is believed that tampons may cause very small cuts, lacerations, or ulcerations in the vaginal wall, which make it easier for bacteria to enter into the bloodstream.
The symptoms of TSS, which almost always come on very suddenly and occur in women, usually strike during or following a menstrual period. These symptoms include:
While relatively rare, TSS can lead to serious complications, especially if left untreated. TSS can lead to
shock, kidney and/or liver failure, paralysis, and
miscarriage. In a very small number of cases, death can result from hypotensive shock. The body's reaction to the toxins can be overwhelming—blood pools near the digestive tract, causing the heart and lungs to be deprived of blood and to stop working.
If you suddenly have a high fever or any other symptoms around the time of your menstrual period, call your doctor. If a you are using a tampon, remove it right away. TSS can be a medical emergency, so it is important to call for emergency medical services immediately.
If TSS is suspected, treatment will be started as soon as possible. Once treatment is underway, your doctor can perform tests to confirm a diagnosis. This is necessary because many of the symptoms associated with TSS are similar to several health conditions or diseases. TSS can be confimed with a vaginal culture.
Treatment can include:
In severe cases, a hospitalization may be required to allow the doctor to more closely monitor and, if necessary, treat for the possible complications that might develop. Complications of TSS include
septic shock,
kidney failure, or liver failure.
Like most medical conditions, the best treatment for TSS is prevention. To that end, all women should take the following preventative measures:
Finally, though TSS is not contagious, it can strike the same person more than once. If you've had TSS before, don't use tampons again without first getting approval from your doctor.
The American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology
US Food and Drug Administration
Health Canada
Women's Health Matters
Clostridial toxic shock syndrome. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
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Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
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Toxic shock syndrome. Nemours Kid's Health website. Available at:
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Toxic shock syndrome. Virginia Department of Health. Available at:
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VRIRSA was created in response to the growing problem of identity theft to the people of California. The system creates "Informational Only" copies of birth certificates, while ensuring that only those legally entitled receive Authorized copies by providing a sworn statement. The objective of the VRIRSA system is for county or State representatives to have the ability to easily and quickly search, request, and print informational-only copies of redacted birth and death certificates.
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(April 10, 2006)The UTSA women's golf team will compete in its first-ever Southland Conference Championship event Monday-Wednesday, April 10-12, at Kingwood Country Club's Forest Course.
The Roadrunners will face six other conference teams -- defending champion Lamar, Louisiana-Monroe, McNeese State, Nicholls State, Sam Houston State and Texas State -- in the fifth annual league championship.
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The field will play 18 holes each day, beginning with 8 a.m. tee times. For directions to the course, visit http://www.kingwoodclub.com/index.htm.
The freshman trio of Laura Baker, Allie Jordan and Jenna Wessels leads a very young UTSA squad into the meet. Baker leads the team with an 80.57 scoring average during the 2005-06 campaign, including an 81.00 mark this spring. Baker also posted the team's top finish, a runner-up showing at the Lady Cardinal Invitational last September.
Jordan owns an 82.13 stroke average and a third-place showing at the Lady Cardinal, while Wessels is scoring at an 83.60 mark.
As a team, UTSA has carded an average round of 337.7 this spring, highlighted by a 321 in its final round last week at the CenturyTel Bobcat Classic. Lamar leads the league with a 314.3 scoring average.
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The University Art Museum is bringing the Middle Ages to life with its presentation of "The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible" on view through June 6.
The Picture Bible one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts produced in France during the 13th century has been unbound for research and study, offering visitors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view 26 of the book's original pages in a single exhibition. Organized by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, the exhibition uses the Picture Bible, on loan from the Morgan Library in New York, to explore ways in which Christian, Muslim and Jewish cultures used storytelling to define themselves and their values.
On view with the Bible are other objects from the Gothic period arms and armor, religious artifacts and everyday domestic items similar to those seen in the pages of the manuscript itself. On Saturday, March 27, the art museum, the Index of Christian Art and the Department of Art and Archaeology will present a colloquium, "Between the Picture and the Word: The Book of Kings in Focus," which will honor John Plummer, professor of art and archaeology emeritus and former curator of manuscripts at the Morgan Library.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:48 PM GMT on October 26, 2011
There is little change to Category 2 Hurricane Rina, which continues slowly west-northwest at 4 mph towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The most recent hurricane hunter mission was at 3:58 am EDT this morning, and the next aircraft is not due into the storm until this afternoon, so we'll have to rely on satellite estimates of the storm's strength until then. Recent satellite intensity estimates suggest Rina has peaked in intensity, and may have weakened slightly since the last hurricane hunter mission. The eye is no longer visible on visible satellite loops, and the storm has a distinctly lopsided appearance, which are both signs that Rina may be weakening. Recent microwave images (Figure 1) suggest that the southern portion of Rina's eyewall may have a gap in it. Wind shear is a moderate 10 - 20 knots due to upper-level winds out of the south. Water temperatures are very warm, 29 - 30°C, but Rina will be leaving a region of high oceanic heat content late tonight, and will not have as much high-energy fuel to sustain itself. Rina has brought sporadic heavy rain squalls to the Yucatan; Cozumel Island airport reported 9.10" of rain yesterday and another 3.25" as of 9 am EDT today. I'm not sure this is correct, since two personal weather stations on the island reported only 1 - 2" of rain over the past two days. The outer rain bands of Rina are visible on Cancun radar and the La Bajada, Cuba radar.
If Rina does make it to Category 3 strength, it would join a very short list of major hurricanes that have occurred this late in the year. Since record keeping began in 1851, there have been only twelve major hurricanes in Atlantic on October 26 or later. Rina is a medium-small hurricane, with hurricane-force winds that extend out 25 miles from the center. The latest estimates of Rina's Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE) made yesterday afternoon by NOAA's Hurricane Research Division put the damage potential of Rina's storm surge at 2.5 on a scale of one to six. This is a relatively low number for a Category 2 hurricane, and means that storm surge damage will be confined to a relatively small area in the right front quadrant of Rina's eyewall. For comparison, the storm surge damage potential for Hurricane Irene when it was a strong tropical storm approaching Long Island, New York on August 28, 2011 was 4.1 on a scale of 1 to 6, since Irene was a huge storm that put vast areas of the ocean into motion.
Figure 1. Microwave satellite image of Hurricane Rina taken at 7:15 am EDT October 26, 2011. Rina appears to only have the northern half of its eyewall intact. Image credit: Navy Research Lab, Monterey.
Forecast for Rina
The hurricane hunters found that Rina had a large elliptical eye with a diameter of 23 - 34 miles with a gap in the south eyewall during their 3:58 am EDT eye penetration this morning. Rapid intensification usually requires a circular eye with no gap in it, and thus I expect only gradual intensification of Rina can occur today. Wind shear is not expected to increase to the high range until Thursday afternoon, so Rina still has a day and a half to potentially intensify. Given the storm's inability to close off its eyewall so far, I expect that a Category 3 storm is the strongest that we will see. It is more likely that Rina has peaked in strength, and will begin to weaken. On Thursday, Rina will encounter high wind shear associated with upper-level westerly winds associated with the jet stream and a trough of low pressure moving through the Gulf of Mexico. These conditions should weaken the hurricane, and turn Rina more to the northwest by Thursday and northeast on Friday. Cozumel Island off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula appears at the highest risk of receiving a direct hit from Rina; the 5 am EDT Wind Probability Forecast from NHC gave the island a 27% chance of receiving hurricane force winds, the highest chance of any land area in the forecast. If Rina hits Mexico, it would most likely be at Category 1 strength, with Category 2 strength also quite possible. NHC is giving Rina a 21% chance of being a Category 3 or stronger hurricane on Thursday afternoon, and I don't expect the storm will be a major hurricane at landfall. The chief threat from Rina is probably its rains; the hurricane is moving slowly and has the capability of dumping 8 - 16 inches of rain over the coastal Yucatan. Western Cuba is also at risk of receiving heavy rains of 5 - 10 inches.
After Rina makes its closest pass by Cozumel, it is uncertain if the storm will be strong enough to fully "feel" the steering influence of the trough, and be swept to the east-northeast into Southwest Florida and the Florida Keys. If Rina makes landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula and weakens significantly, the storm will likely be too weak to get caught up by the trough and will remain trapped in the Western Caribbean. This is the solution of the latest runs of the ECMWF and HWRF models, with the usually reliable ECMWF model continuing to predict that Rina will dissipate over the Yucatan. However, if Rina grazes the Yucatan and remains strong through Friday, it is more likely to get caught up by the trough and drawn into the Florida Keys or Southwest Florida near Marco Island, as a weakening tropical storm. This is the solution of the latest 2 am EDT run of the GFDL model. The latest 2 am EDT runs of the GFS and NOGAPS models are in-between, predicting that Rina will get very close to the Keys on Saturday, but then weaken and sink southwards towards Cuba. There is high degree of uncertainty which set of model runs will be correct, and the threat to Florida depends strongly upon how much of a blow Mexico receives from the hurricane.
97L in the Central Caribbean not expected to develop
A broad region of low pressure in the Central Caribbean south of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, (Invest 97L), is moving west at 10 - 15 mph. Heavy thunderstorm activity has decreased since yesterday, and is disorganized. The storm is surrounded by a large region of dry air, and this dry air is the main impediment to development. Wind shear is a low 5 - 10 knots, and is expected to remain low through Thursday. None of the reliable models are predicting that 97L will develop, and NHC gave 97L just a 10% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Friday, in their 8 am EDT Tropical Weather Outlook. NHC is no longer interested enough in 97L to generate computer model forecasts of its track. Heavy rains from 97L should reach Jamaica on Thursday, and the Cayman Islands by early Friday morning.
There will be a new post on Rina late this afternoon.
Jeff Masters
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If you try to upload a sketch does the D13 LED blink twice the same as when the reset button is pressed?
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MADISON, Wis. - Millions of middle-class Americans would face higher taxes right away if Congress fails to reach an agreement to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff."
A little-talked about change to the alternative minimum tax, enacted decades ago to hit the wealthiest Americans, would instead hit joint filers making as little as $45,000 if lawmakers fail to avoid the cliff.
"It'll come as a surprise for many people," said Marshall Mennenga, an enrolled agent with Mennenga Tax and Financial Service. "There's going to be a lot of people very upset if they don't pass the 'patch' and get this thing corrected."
The alternative minimum tax, or AMT, went into effect in 1968 to tax 155 wealthy Americans who were deducting so much that they weren't paying any income tax.
But it was never indexed to inflation, meaning it's catching more and more people each year.
With the so-called "patch," or Congress' short-term solution, individuals making as little as $48,450 or joint-filers making $74,450 might have to pay the AMT.
Without a deal, the net expands to $33,750 for individuals and $45,000 for joint filers.
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Congress remained out of session on Wednesday on Christmas break, although the U.S. Senate planned to reconvene on Thursday. It remains unclear when the House will come back.
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What are your thoughts on Adobe's subscription-only model? Personally, I'm disappointed. I think offering a subscription model is fine, but I think only offering a subscription model is... dumb.
My family has had Photoshop CS3 Extended for about 6 years now. The newer versions of Photoshop have offered fewer and fewer new features that justified upgrading, and as a result of not upgrading for ~6 years we've been able to stretch our "dollar per year" out to a decent amount. $20/mo seems fine, and I'm okay with it for Photoshop, actually, but my dad wants to buy Lightroom and Acrobat (which, no matter how you look at it, are not worth $20/mo each), which means to get what we want requires $50/mo. Not worth it at all. Sure, we get access to more software at $50/mo, but much of it is software I don't need or want.
So, how do you feel about Adobe's new subscription-only model? Will you be subscribing, or holding onto your current versions (or buying a copy of CS6)? Do you think this will help any Adobe alternatives to become more popular, and if so, which ones do you think will increase? I'm always looking for new, good alternatives. I've been using Gimp and Inkscape on one computer, and they're okay, but certainly not a drop-in replacement for Photoshop or Illustrator.
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Put Death to the Test
Dear Alibi,
So who died and left Rep. Gail Chasey (D-Albuquerque) God? I can't think of a reason other than a person's individual conscience that would make them oppose the death penalty. But wait, Chasey is a vocal opponent of the death penalty but tabled the measure to reinstate it instead of allowing the voters to choose. If I'm not mistaken, the Rep. in Chasey's title stands for representative and not self-appointed conscience. Why not allow citizens to vote on the death penalty? What does Chasey have to lose? I am not arguing for or against the death penalty. I am questioning how our representatives cast their votes. Their votes are supposed to reflect the majority of the voters who elected them. All too often I hear and say how our representatives are out of touch with the citizens. And these representatives may not be casting their votes that represent the majority of us. So why would they do this? Personal interests are the only reasons I can think of. There are some issues that the voters should decide directly. The death penalty is one of those issues.
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Dear Alibi,
In all of the newspapers' postmortems I have read about the disappointing 2011 legislative session, I have seen nothing about Senate Bill 2, School Capital Outlay, Grants and Consolidation. It passed the Senate Education and Finance Committees unanimously, and then languished on the Senate floor for weeks.
This bill would have slanted capital outlay funding toward the creation and maintenance of smaller schools. It would have provided strict requirements for closing or combining small schools.
SB 2 recognized many experts' preference for small schools. From Think New Mexico's issue statement: "Smaller schools have higher graduation rates, higher student achievement, lower levels of student alienation and violence, and higher levels of satisfaction among students, parents, principals and teachers."
Without the protection afforded by this bill, village and neighborhood schools are at the mercy of local school boards. They can be closed by non-educators whose eyes are on short-term financial rather than on long-term educational goals.
It is vital for all New Mexicans, whether or not they have children in our public school system, to monitor the actions of their school boards, and to voice their concerns when budget-cutting threatens their communities' welfare with the loss of their schools.
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A Nationalistic Rant
Dear Alibi,
This letter is in response to Jerry Ortiz y Pino's support letter of driver's licenses for illegal aliens in New Mexico [Opinion, "License to Rage," March 17-23]. While I agree with some of his points, I greatly question two. First, he states that these licenses "led to a major decrease in the number of uninsured drivers on the state's roads." Where are the proven facts to support such a claim? I seriously doubt most illegal aliens buy car insurance. They have no real assets to protect and barely squeeze by as it is! When an illegal alien hit me from the side last year he had no insurance, and I had the honor of paying my $500 deductible to fix my own truck, despite him being at fault. Give us facts, not wishes stated as facts!
Secondly, Ortiz y Pino claims illegal aliens "pay taxes like everyone else ... ." How can this be? Given that Ortiz y Pino admits these illegals have no Social Security numbers, how can they file state tax returns? Federal tax returns? They send their kids to our schools, but does [Ortiz y] Pino want us to believe they pay property taxes to support those schools? How can they can get a mortgage without a Social Security number?
The issue of illegal immigrants is compelling enough without writers like Ortiz y Pino issuing opinions as though they are facts. In fact, he discredits his editorials when he uses such methods. I respectfully request he address each of my points specifically in the Alibi. But I'll bet he doesn't. At least not specifically.
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[Opinion, "A Swing and a Miss," March 31-April 6] Right on, Jerry. Too bad the Albuquerque Journal can't find some space for critiques of the last legislative session, as you have spelled out. Thanks for your perspective and honest appraisal of what we are all up against.
Mary Ann Corley
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[Blog, "Nice Parking Job, Asshole?" March 24] This is a photo of my stroller, and I am pretty sure that my angry neighbor sent it in. OK, so I live on the third floor of an apartment building, have a 16-month-old and a dog. The stroller weighs at least 30 pounds. Unless whoever sent this in is willing to come to my house and help me carry said baby, stroller, diaper bag and dog down the 36 steps every time we go for a walk, then they can be quiet. Also, the stroller is attached to a pole that is in or on a parking spot that I pay for. In addition, other, more intelligent, less angry individuals have noted the resourcefulness behind my ingenuity. Also what is weird about this? Dear neighbor who I am almost positive sent in this photo, you really need to work out your anger.
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[Music, "Rebel Radio," March 31-April 6] Hey Cap'n, let's get that transmitter back from Radio Tomada and get back on the air now that the FCC is a shadow of its former self! Love, Sunshine ...
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