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CARMENPrice: - €.
an opera in 2 parts, sung in French with Lithuanian and English surtitles
Conductor Robertas Šervenikas
Director Arnaud Bernard (France)
Set Designer Alessandro Camera (Italy)
Costume Designer Maria Carla Ricotti (Italy)
Choreographer Gianni Santucci (Italy)
Light Designer Vinicio Cheli (Italy)
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas
Premiere: 20 November, 2009
It is probably appropriate to start our story about "Carmen" with a fact that it is the most often staged opera in the world, while its author Georges Bizet remains in the operatic history primarily as an author of that single masterpiece. 135 years have passed since its premiere at the Opéra-Comique theatre in Paris, and even to this day no other operatic work can equal G. Bizet's Carmen when it comes to the number of different stagings.
"Carmen" wasn't blessed with instant success - her first appearances were marked by scandal rather than acknowledgement. However, its popularity that emerged after Bizet's death is still very much alive today. In his plans Bizet had more than 30 opera drafts, but before his death he managed to finish only four of them, excluding "Carmen". Despite that, the glory of "Carmen" is enough to keep the composer's spirit among us.
Each country has its own understanding of femininity. The Spanish like strong women, thus the character of Carmen is always a challenge for any singer. She is fatalistic, hedonistic, living only in current moment and not looking forward. Carmen is ready to give herself away, fully understanding the power of such action, however, she will demand the same dedication from anyone she gives herself to. "Free, independent mistress of all of her wishes", Carmen radiates destructive, wild passion and unexplainably attractive power. She is probably the most charismatic character in operatic history. Don Jose, charmed by gypsy's whims, looses everything - his world, once moral, calm and virtuous, is now shattered to pieces. He hopes that his love will keep Carmen, maybe even redeem her... Sadly, his hopes are only illusions.
The character of "Carmen" keeps returning: sometimes surrounded by the original spirit of the work, or put in today's context, ascetic or decorated with lush stage designs. Every time she achieves new incarnations, remaining true to her essence - she intrigues, rouses wonder, fear and admiration.


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J.J. Sullinger, Dials, Reese to run charity basketball camp in St. Marys on July 18
ST. MARYS — Former Ohio State forward J.J. Sullinger recently could be seen sporting a St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer t-shirt around Columbus, a place where for three generations his family has become a sort of First Family of basketball.
The connection the former Ohio State basketball player made with some Memorial High School grads on a Buckeye-themed cruise will bring Sullinger and some friends to St. Marys this summer.
J.J. Sullinger will headline the St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer-3-Point Club Basketball Camp on Thursday, July 18, which will be open to players from all around the area in grades 1-12.
Sullinger, his father Satch (an influential former head coach at Columbus Northland and the father of J.J., current Boston Celtic Jared and former Kent State Golden Flash Julian) along with former Buckeye post players Terence Dials and George Reese are scheduled to be at the camp. Sullinger also has said there could be some other special guests if schedules work out.
The camp will cost $60, with $30 benefitting the St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer organization and $30 going to the 3-Point Club, which helps fund the St. Marys basketball program. Campers will receive a t-shirt and a knapsack-style bag along with the camp instruction from Sullinger and company.
Grades 1-6 will go from 10 a.m. to Noon. Grades 7-12 will go from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 18. It is open to any area basketball player from any school.
St. Marys native Andy Sloan and St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer organizer Traci Lauth spoke to J.J. Sullinger on a Buckeye Cruise and helped pave the way for the camp.
Lauth said Sullinger has been excited to do the camp since it was first mentioned as an idea. Lauth said Sullinger is giving of his time.
"He told me that he got to play basketball at Ohio State and got a free education, so if people want an autograph or some time, he's all about it," Lauth said. "He really impressed us. I felt like I knew him forever after talking to him."
St. Marys varsity basketball assistant coach Jason Clark said getting instruction from someone they've seen play on television is a big deal to young players.
"It's that spark in their eye that they think, 'Maybe I can get to that level,'" Clark said. "Kids watched him on TV, especially the older kids. It's somebody who they see on basketball court, they're going to have laser focus, whereas we're their basketball coaches everyday and they may not listen."
Clark said the hope is to have a coach, including Dan Hegemier, and St. Marys basketball players at each basket along with the Sullingers, Reece and Dials.
Sullinger wanted the camp to stay relatively small so each kids would feel like they got personal attention from a former Buckeye. Clark said they hope to have about 140 kids participate in the camp.
Anyone with questions can contact Jason Clark via email at email@example.com for more information.
The event will raise money for the 3-Point Club and St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer.
With Memorial High School moving to a pay-to-play system for athletics, the money raised for the basketball program will be much-needed, Clark said. Even before pay-to-play, costs for the families of players for summer camps, practice jerseys and the like add up quickly.
"It's been a struggle to even get practice jerseys," Clark said. "So it will be nice to have something to fall back on if we need it."
Half of the money will go to St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer, which has become a major area fundraiser for cancer research.
"Every year we are able to give back and we go to these events like the Buckeye Cruise and St. Marys is No. 2 out of everybody in Ohio at giving at the Tailgate events and people in Columbus just can't believe it," St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer founder Traci Lauth said. "That's what amazes me, just how giving everybody is. Every year everybody gets so excited about it. For a one-time thing to turn into this, our thing was at first we wanted to to raise $1,000. Just over the last four years, we've donated over $240,000."
This year's St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer will be Sept. 13-14. Ohio State will play California that weekend.
Lauth talked about how one year the organization the Tailgate raised money for had just $32 in its checking account before the donation. It's stories like that keep the St. Marys Tailgate for Cancer moving forward.
"I'm obsessed with it now," Lauth said. "How can I ever say now, 'I can't do it anymore'?"
Last summer Archie Griffin appeared at an event at Buffalo Wild Wings in St. Marys that raised money for both Tailgate for Cancer and the Rider Rooters.
Sullinger began his college basketball career at Arkansas under Nolan Richardson before transferring to Columbus to play for the Buckeyes. Sullinger emerged as one of the nation's best all-around players by his senior season. Sullinger played professionally overseas. He is now the lead real estate buyer for a company in Columbus.

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There is a hole in my pants' pocket.
Student or Learner
I wonder how you may say in spoken language that if suddenly a hole "shows up" on your pockets of pants/shorts...
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There is a hole in my pants' pocket.
I've ripped my pocket.
I've torn my jeans.
There's a tear in my shirt.
There's a rip in my trousers.
There's a hole in my pocket.
My trouser pocket has a hole in it.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
You can also "wear a hole in your pocket"; "I've worn a hole in my pocket".
This use of 'wear' is different from "wearing clothes, pants" etc. It means "wear down, erode, abrade".
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Hawaii's Merrie Monarch Festival celebrates 50 years
Updated 2:15 pm, Friday, March 29, 2013
You won't have to hunt too hard for bright colors on Easter Sunday in Hilo. That's when the 50th anniversary Merrie Monarch Festival begins a week of popular and cultural events capped by four nights of hula: one night of exhibition dances and three nights of solo and group competitions.
Easily the most sought-after tickets in the state this year, the Wednesday night Hō'ike (exhibition) and Thursday-Saturday contests in the Edith Kanaka'ole Tennis Stadium have long been sold out. Nevertheless, a week of free events — including a parade, pageant, arts and crafts faire and a beard contest in honor of the festival's namesake, King Kalakaua — will draw thousands of non-ticket holders. Avid hula fans around the world will also gather to watch either live telecasts and streaming video, beginning with a backstage broadcast of Wednesday's noncompetitive performance starting at 9 p.m. Hawaii time (midnight Pacific.) An incentive to stay up: Some of the original winners as well as groups from outside the islands will perform, along with special guests.
The TV/Web versions of the competitions — women soloists on Thursday, traditional (kahiko) men's and women's group numbers on Friday and modern ('auana) men's and women's dances on Saturday — start at 6 p.m. in Hawaii. Only hālau (troupes) from Hawaii and California will compete in the invitation-only event; the three Golden State groups participating this year include the men of Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu's iconoclastic Academy of Hawaiian Arts in Oakland, who tend to come home with more audience appreciation than awards.
I've mostly enjoyed the spectacle on TV and online, but there are certain elements — the scent of tropical flowers, the sound of swishing ti-leaf skirts, the sight of birds flying into the open-ended stadium — that it helps to be there to experience. Check out the attached photos from the 2011 event — and mark your calendars for Dec. 26, 2013, to post ticket requests for next year.
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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Contract negotiations are underway between the city of Rockford and the Rockford Police Union. It could get quite heated as city budget cuts will most likely lead to the termination of officer jobs.
Many on the department argue they're short staffed as it is and it's causing problems when it comes to making an arrest. So I spent a Friday night with them recently to see what they're dealing with.
Patrol Officer Mark Castronovo works through the wee hours of the night responding to calls that can be quite unpredictable.
He said, "Anywhere from a public nuisance to a domestic to a suspicious vehicle."
The weekend we rode with him officers were dispatched to about 500 different places and made 30 arrests.
Castronovo said, This is our nightshift squad roll with officers Peterson and Amadaris.
With the exception of a five-hour shift overlap there's just one squad roll or "transport van" that brings those just arrested from all over the city to the Winnebago County Justice Center. Until this year, there used to be two transport vans at any given time.
The van helps free up arresting officers, but with pre-booking paperwork and required medical checks some say the plan frequently doesn't work.
Officers working the transport van could be tied up for hours. This takes patrol officers off the streets which could cause some serious consequences.
Police Union President Terry Peterson said, "They may not be as aggressive or assertive about stopping cars, they may not go out and do warrant checks. They may find other alternatives to arrest at call scenes because they know the transport isn't available to them"
Rockford Police Chief Chet Epperson said, "That certainly is not the case. Our officers are doing a tremendous job and if they see that someone needs to be arrested, they're going to make the arrest and then they'll deal with whether they have the transportation van or not"
It's a mind-set, Police Union President Terry Peterson says, that could dictate whether someone goes to jail. If the department, which Peterson says is already down 18 officers, shrinks even more our safety could be at risk.
He said, "There's huge philosophical differences in the way we do things. These guys are in the front lines in the trenches and we're the ones that are at risk by not having the resources we need."
Cuts to the 2012 city budget could mean anywhere from 18-to-49 officers losing their jobs.
Epperson said, "I don't want to layoff any officers, but we're at a financial intersection now."
Epperson says the court system needs to be more vigilant in preventing repeat offences by keeping bonds high and better tabs on parolees.
He said, "We're never going to have enough officers to take care of that issue because that issue in itself has got to get better."
The arrests we caught on tape were all for suspended or revoked licenses. Other crimes reported that weekend include arson, drug possession, gun possession, and armed robbery: a type of crime Peterson says is becoming more prevalent in Rockford that requires the attention of a fully-staffed Rockford P.D.
Right now 268 people work there and that's down from 306 in 2009.
ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Staffing levels in the Rockford Police Department are expected to drop by at least 18 officers and as many as 49 under the 2012 budget.
Police Union President Terry Peterson argues they're short-staffed as it is, especially since there's only one prisoner transport van working overnight. This means arresting officers must frequently bring the newly arrested to jail, which could take them off the streets for hours.
Peterson says this leads to some officers second guessing whether making that arrest is worth it.
He said, "To look out after each other, they take on the mindset that look, I'm not going to get too wrapped up in something that's going to tie me up in the jail because I may be needed out here"
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Events and Activities Ideas: Theodor Herzl Publishes "The Jewish State"- February 14th, 1896
World Zionist Organization | WZO
Author: 12th House / USD Calendar Project
Background: Theodor Herzl – The Jewish State
It was January 5, 1895 and a young journalist, Theodor Herzl, was assigned to report on the ceremony that publicly stripped French Captain Alfred Dreyfus of his military rank prior to being sent to Devil's Island to live out the sentence of his court marshal.
Anti-Semitism in Europe in the late 1800's and prior was not a new concept or reality for Jews. However, the blatant anti-Semitism that took place with the Dreyfus Affair had a profound impact on Theodor Herzl and how he viewed himself and the role of Jews in Europe at that time. Compelled by the events of the Dreyfus Affair, Herzl published The Jewish State in 1896.
The idea of The Jewish State was, as Herzl phrased it, "a very old (idea) – it is the restoration of the Jewish State… The world resounds with outcries against the Jews, and the outcries have awakened the slumbering idea."
There were plenty of Jewish leaders before Herzl that called for the return of the Jews to Palestine. But what was different about The Jewish State was that it pushed for the formation of a political movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The Jewish State was simple in its approach. In summary, there is a Jewish Question and there needs to be a Jewish Plan. Herzl realized the "gravity of the situation of the Jews. Wherever they (Jews) lived in perceptible numbers, they are more or less persecuted."
The solution… "…we are a people – one people" that is in need of a homeland. As Herzl stated, "the creation of a new State is neither ridiculous nor impossible. We have in our day witnessed the process of connection with nations which were not largely members of the middle class, but poorer, less educated, and consequently weaker than ourselves. The Governments of all countries scourged by anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want."
The first Zionist Congress was convened by Herzl in Basel, Switzerland in 1897. From that Congress forward, preparations were made for the long journey forward for the creation of a Jewish homeland. In a little more than 50 years after the first Zionist Congress, the movement that Herzl had put forth to the Jews of Europe would become a reality when the State of Israel declared its independence as the Jewish state in 1948.
Event Ideas:
1) The "Jewish Question" Shabbaton – If not for Theodor Herzl and The Jewish State, it possible that the Jewish people would still be without a land. Herzl's publication, The Jewish State, is a document worthy of review and discussion.
As an interesting discussion for a shabbaton, why not debate the merits of The Jewish State or a portion of it (i.e., the "Jewish Question" or the Jewish Plan). There are plenty of very good resources on Herzl that will aid in making this a meaningful discussion. Be sure that everyone has access to the information prior to the shabbaton.
2) Herzl on Zionism – As the father of modern Zionism, here is an opportunity for an informal teach-in on the basics of Zionism. Conduct a lunch-and-learn about the basics of Zionism and have members of your group offer examples of modern day Zionism and the kind of role it plays in their lives.
3) Zionism a Century Later – There are many debates that suggest that we are now in the post-Zionist era. Some would argue that the Zionist dream has been achieved. Another theme for a brown bag program might be to discuss Zionism's place in the 21st Century – what's next… what's needed.
4) An Introduction to Zionism Campaign – Another simple campaign that you can conduct is to educate people as to the basics of Zionism. This campaign can consist of a flyer campaign and editorial series, helping people understand the fundamentals of Zionism and Zionist thought.
Alternative Dates:
Herzl's Birthday
Balfour Day
Israel Declares Independence
Israel Week
American Zionist Movement
World Zionist Organization
Jewish Agency
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After switching to Azo for my contact printing, I've come to like using single weight FB paper. I know this is against the mainstream but I've found handling, drying, and mounting single weight paper to be easier than double weight. I went looking for a single weight, multi-contrast fiber paper that I could use for enlargements that would very similar in handling and look as Azo. Lo and Behold, Kodak makes Polymax Fine Art in single weight. I had used Polymax when I started using FB papers but had drifted away from it because of the wide variety of papers out there to try.
Just finished a set of prints on my new stock of single weight Polymax and I must say I'm quite pleased. Its not quite Azo, but its as good, if not better than any of the other enlarging papers I've used, either MG or graded. In fact, I found it to be a little richer than Ilford MG.
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"Germans in the Ukraine," 1950. Includes correspondence between Paul Rohrbach and various people, including Fritz August Thiel, Bethmann Hollweg, and Ernst Jackh
Croix-de-Feu. Handbills of the French right-wing Croix-de- Feu, attached to a letter by one Max Buhler, relating to the French political scene in 1936
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Hitlerjugend. Study and organizational chart, n.d.
Luxemburg, Rosa. Article (in Japanese) by Masao Nishikawa, 1960
Nuremberg trials. Address by Eduard Wahl, 1947, and notes (of H. C. Meyer?) on the IG Farben trials, 1948
Rohrbach, Paul. Letter to the editor of Weltbuhne from Siegfried von Vegesack, relating to Paul Rohrbach
Second German-American Conference on Western European Integration and the Future of Eastern Europe, September 8-12, Wiesbaden. Proceedings; remarks of H. C. Meyer; and H. C. Meyer's correspondence relating to the conference
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Colomba Pasquale by Achille Zoia
I know Easter has passed but I needed yet another challenge...
Here I have made the richest Colomba Pasquale of all. One which comes from Italian master baker and Cresci co-author Achille Zoia.
This was even more challenging than the Iginio Massari Panettone I made recently as this has more fat, more sugar and less water!
I only just managed to pull this off! I had some technical problems along the way but it worked out in the end...
Original recipe calls for a pinch of added yeast but I left this out because my sourdough is so very powerful! As a result, the first dough rose bang on schedule at 12hrs. I also felt there wasn't enough salt, so I doubled it to 4grams instead of the 2grams originally called for.
First dough tripled:
Mixing the second dough was problematic. I think I developed too much strength too early which made incorporating all the butter very tricky and I ended up with a slightly greasy dough that lacked extensibility which made shaping a night-mare as you can see...
Shoddy shaping!
Inverted overnight:
Finished and ready for wrapping. This will mature for a few days to develop its flavours.
Adapted recipe:
First dough:
- 63g Lievito Naturale (Italian sourdough)
- 200g '00' Flour
- 80g Water
- 75g Sugar
- 50g Egg Yolks
- 75g Butter
Second dough:
- 50g '00' Flour
- 50g Egg Yolks
- 38g Sugar
- 25g Honey
- 75g Butter
- 5g Cocoa Butter
- 4g Salt
- Aroma Veneziana
- Seeds from half a Vanilla pod
- 125g Candied Orange Peel
Total Ingredients:
Flour 100.0% 292
Water 34.6% 101
Sugar 38.7% 113
Honey 8.6% 25
Yolks 34.2% 100
Fats 53.1% 155
Fruit 42.8% 125
Salt 1.4% 4


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Tailstrike and runway overrun
Melbourne Airport, Victoria
20 March 2009
Airbus A340-541
Tailstrike and runway overrun
Melbourne Airport, Victoria
20 March 2009
Airbus A340-541
Given the amount of risk involved many companies don't want to touch engine maintenance with a 60 ft pole.
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Even then, a darker problem is emerging with respect to automation. In Boeing-like systems, the AP does absolutely nothing without the say-so of the pilots. Airbus systems, different kettle of fish. If the pilot does something that the system detects could put the plane in a dangerous state, it'll over-ride the pilots. Several examples where this has provably crashed planes exist (possibly could include AF296 depending on who you believe) but it's possible that it caused the incident with the QANTAS plane en-route to Perth which lost 1000ft. Probably played a role in AF447 too.
I mean, if the system's getting the right info, all's well but if not, it might go haywire. Can't imagine how tough that would be to deal with let alone if the plane then stops you from doing anything about it.
Yeah I've talked to a few (granted, American) pilots/mechanics and a lot of them say "Airbus = scarebus" for that exact reason, you have no idea what the ****ing plane is going to do sometimes.
Last edited by Spark; 15-12-2011 at 08:45 PM.
It's fair that you point out they're American, fair bit of xenophobia involved "If it's not Boeing, I ain't going", etc., made worse that the Airbus is French (mon dieu!). AA587's crash didn't help matters either, several AA pilots utterly refused to get type-rated for Airbus's in response and went public.
Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript - What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics
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Flying at night by itself is pretty scary sometimes. Can only imagine the terror they went through being over water at night, plane pitching and rolling at will with cockpit alarms going nuts.
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A380 and 777 in near ground collision at Sydney Airport | Plane Talking
Bloody Emirates again..... This from two days ago.
Will be interesting to see whether the ATSB investigates, especially in light of the recently released report from the tailstrike a couple of years back.
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It was a long, long time ago that I read it though, would be impossible to dig up now.
As for the above - different issue, isn't it? Runway incursions and the like the curse of almost all big airports, I think.
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LOWELL -- The annual Bay State Classic Gymnastics meet, hosted by Walker's Gymnastics and Dance, will take place Friday through Sunday at the Costello Gym at UMass Lowell. More than 600 athletes from more than 17 gyms throughout New England are scheduled to compete. The athletes will compete on the vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise and will vie for both team and individual awards.
The meet is planned and run by Walker-Overs, Inc., the not-for-profit parent organization at Walker's Gymnastics. Once again, a portion of the meet fees will be donated to breast cancer research.
While the schedule is subject to change, Level 3-5 gymnasts will be competing from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday. Levels 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, along with Xcel Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond teams, will be competing from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Xcel Bronze, Silver and Gold teams will be competing from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The Bay State Classic meet is held under the auspices of the US Gymnastics Association (USAG), the nationwide governing body for competitive gymnastics that sets the competitive levels and rules for such meets.
Walker's Gymnastics and Dance will be sending several of its own gymnasts to the meet. Already this year, Walker's gymnasts have brought home many individual and team awards. The public is welcome. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children.
Sustainable Westford presents film
WESTFORD -- Sustainable Westford will present a showing of "Bag It" at 5 p.m. Sunday at First Parish Church United, 48 Main St. The film, which is part of the group's Winter Series, examines society's use and abuse of plastic, as it relates to the culture of convenience and disposable products. The event is free and open to the public. Sustainable Westford's Winter Series features trends and information on foods, nutrition, health and the environment. Visit www.sustainablewestford.org for information on upcoming films and workshops.


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While there are all manner of reasons why HR may need to rescind a job offer, including many reasons that are beyond their control, it pays to get it right in order to avoid discrimination or adverse action claims. Athena Koelmeyer, principal and director of Workplace Law, outlines to HCTV what the pitfalls are.


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Friends of the Library Cookbook
Looking for a holiday gift? How about a Friends of the Library cookbook? The cookbook is full of wonderful recipes from Friends of the Library and library staff. It costs $7.50, and proceeds benefit the Newton Public Library Friends organization. Purchase one during normal library hours at the check-out desk.
Healthy Eating Through the Holidays
Jenny Thompson, registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator, will present a program at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in the library meeting room. The program will be about healthy eating throughout the holidays and will include a cooking demonstration and tasty samples for attendees. Jenny is employed at Skiff Medical Center and the Newton Hy-Vee and has 17 years of experience working with people of all ages and helping them with their nutritional needs. This program is free and no pre-registration is required.
Story Times at Newton Public Library
• Enjoy stories about snow with Youth Services Librarian Phyllis Peter during Preschool Story Time, for children ages 3 to 5, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29. There will be no story time on Thursday, Nov. 22. Each story time includes books, music, fingerplays and a simple craft.
• Toddlers and Twos Story Time, which is for children ages 18 months to 36 months old, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. A second Toddlers and Twos Story Time will follow at 11 a.m. Choose to attend one session, but not both as back-to-back sessions are offered so neither will be too large. All story times meet in the Carousel Horse Room, except on holidays, and are free and open to all children and their caregivers. Contact Youth Services Librarian Phyllis Peter at (641) 792-4108 with questions.
Iowa Country School
Join the Newton Noon Kiwanis and the Newton Public Library for a meet-and-eat program in the library meeting room at noon Wednesday, Nov. 28. Bring a sack lunch and learn about Iowa Country School Milestones from Humanities Iowa Speakers Bureau expert William Sherman.
William Sherman worked as a publications/public relations specialist for the Iowa State Education Association for more than 35 years. Now retired, he continues to research, write and speak nationally and internationally on topics related to country schools. Sherman has organized annual conferences on country school preservation for the Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance since 2000. Audiences are encouraged to share experiences they have had with country schools and to bring teaching certificates, maps showing locations of country schools, books, photographs, diaries and related items that can be displayed and shared with participants.
ABC Author Book Club
The ABC Author Book Club will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, in the library's conference room. Call or stop by the library's information desk to choose from a list of books by this month's featured author, Agatha Christie. New members are always welcome, and the book club meets on the second Wednesday of each month.
Book Review of the Week by Library staff member Sarrah Knight
If you enjoy historical fiction, "Blue Asylum" by Kathy Hepinstall could be a good read for you.
During a time when a woman couldn't sit on a jury, plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is judged insane for publicly embarrassing her husband and consequently finds herself deposited at the Sanibel Asylum for Lunatics. Iris quickly realizes that the small-scale hypocrisies she suffers as a patient strongly resemble her treatment in the outside world. "Blue Asylum" examines the blurred lines between madness and sanity and also includes a touching love story. A brief but poignant novel, "Blue Asylum" transports readers to an obscure but fascinating chapter in Civil War and women's rights history.
First Grade Tours
of the Library
All first graders in the Newton Community School District are visiting the library this November to learn about the many services the library offers, and to learn about being a responsible library patron by taking good care of the books. The Friends of the Library sponsors the costs of the bus transportation, and each child receives a paperback copy of "Don't let the Pidgeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems. The Friends of the Library sponsored the purchase of these books through Scholastic's Literacy Partnership program. Thank you to individual volunteers who also are helping with the tours: Eugene Bryant, Susan Hawk and Nan Schmidt.


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Softball falls to Seattle at Gaucho Classic
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The South Dakota State softball team got big days at the plate from Alex Landon and Kori Seidlitz, but the Jackrabbits stranded nine runners in an 8-2 loss to Seattle on Friday in the first game of the Gaucho Classic II on Friday.
The loss drops the Jacks to 6-9 on the season, while the Redhawks improve to 8-5.
Landon led the Jackrabbits with a 3-for-4 day at the plate, while Seidlitz went 2-for-4 at the plate with an RBI, which came in the first inning that put SDSU on top 1-0.
SDSU increased that lead to 2-0 in the fourth in a Kelly Kleppin RBI single to centerfield that scored Sammy Bingham, who opened the inning with a walk.
The lead did not last though, as Seattle bounced back with four runs on three hits and one SDSU error in the bottom of the fourth to take a 4-2 lead.
The Redhawks would add a single run in the fifth and then salt away the win in with three runs in the sixth inning.
The Jackrabbits look to get back on the winning track with two games on the schedule for Saturday, starting with a rematch with Seattle at 12 p.m. PT and a 2:30 p.m. PT game against host UC Santa Barbara.


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On Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, at exactly midnight, a year walker leaves his cabin and begins his walk. The purpose of the walk is to see the future, to divine, through a curious process that takes place at the local church, what will happen to him. He might learn if he'll find love. He might learn if he'll lose a family member in the future. A walker can't force the walk to reveal what he wants to know; it's up to the walk.
A walker can't have food or drink or company before the walk. He sits alone in a dark room, cold and hungry, before he leaves for the church. Along the way, he'll experience the supernatural. He'll see things that go bump in the night -- and they might get him with tooth, hoof, or claw. Who knows?
This is the setup for Year Walk, the next game from Simogo, creators of Bumpy Road and, most recently, a rhythm puzzle game called Beat Sneak Bandit. Unlike these games, Year Walk isn't tonally cheerful or welcoming. It's kinda the opposite.
At the top-level it's a creepy first-person, 2D puzzle game that wants to give you the chills. It's wild how different it feels in comparison to Simogo's other stuff, but the fit is oddly snug; the game's washed-out grainy look and moody sound design work together well to create an atmosphere filled with suspense, while the game's meditative mechanics keep you hooked in.
At least during the first hour, Year Walk feels like a horror game. You're isolated, the world is dark, there's a lot of blood, and even a couple of scares. My mind wants to put this in the "horror" category, but Simogo rejects that.
"We had talked for a long while about doing something mysterious or horror-like -- even though I wouldn't define Year Walk as horror -- so that has always been in the back of our heads, but there's never been a real opportunity or great idea to match that will," Simon Flesser, one half of Simogo, tells us.
"Then my friend Jonas Tarestad presented a short movie script called Årsgång to me early 2012. It was odd and fascinating, and seemed to have an almost game-like structure," he says. "Things just snowballed from there and we decided to work together to re-work into a game."
Digging a bit deeper, you could also call Year Walk an adventure puzzle game. Similar to, say, Myst, Year Walk presents you with a world and a very specific task (get into the church grounds) and leaves you alone to figure out all the stuff it takes to do it. Also, as you interact with puzzles and meet the things that dwell in the game's world, you slowly start to wrap your head around the game's vocabulary and systems and how they interact with each other.
It's an interesting build-up that the best puzzle games nail. Flesser says that the best way to approach Year Walk is to free your mind; don't think about the game mechanically, and instead think of it experientially.
"I think the best thing might be to free oneself from the traditional thinking of rigid rules and just try different things. Explore, touch and listen! We have designed every encounter to feel unique," Simon tell us.
"We suspect a lot of players will eventually feel that they are stuck somewhere, but instead of us telling you what to do in the game through a hint system, we think it would be really cool if players got together to talk and help each other out by pushing each other in the right direction," he says.
"That was a really cool element about the games we grew up with. Some aspects of those games would be discussed to death at school and almost became part of a collective knowledge."
It strikes me as kinda stupid to dive into puzzle specifics since that'd be robbing you of a good time, so here's what I'll say: in my time with the game so far, I've scrapped together a list of verbs that I know have an impact in the world. I can spin, poke, and I can twist objects. I can also listen and tilt. All of these actions -- and I'm pretty confident there's more -- do something meaningful in the snowy world of Year Walk.
I've also got a great idea of how expansive the map is and I'm starting to learn exactly where each specific "hot" spot of activity is. I know the cabin and the puzzle box well, for example, and I'm well acquainted with the shacks and forest.
The crazy thing about Year Walk, too, is that it has its own lore. The beasts you meet are dark, dark things that take from people more than they give. Each has its own quirks and desires, some of which will put a chill to your spine. It's weird how I'm both anticipating and dreading a meeting with each one. I guess that's the point. Year Walk Companion, a reference guide, will give you the details on what makes these things tick.
Flesser teases that not all is what it seems in Year Walk, meaning there's a possibility that my impression of what game is now might change the further along I play. Ultimately, the point of this game design-wise is to explore how powerful certain emotions are, Flesser tells us, so I suppose there could be a twist as I become ... comfortable with my unease.
"I think those that finished the story in Bumpy Road could see that we have a more serious side that is perhaps not apparent if you look at our games at the surface. We wanted to explore something like Year Walk," Flesser says "as those emotions of uncertainty and uneasiness can be just as powerful, and sometimes just as enjoyable, as happiness and cheerfulness."
"Another part of it is just evolution, we constantly want and need to try out new things."
Year Walk is certainly a new thing, and it's been blast to play so far. If you're into it, you'll be able to grab it this coming Thursday for iPhone and iPad.


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January 10, 2013
Technology has been touted as a means for retiring federal workers to pass on their knowledge and expertise to tech-savvy new hires. But that may not be the only benefit it is having on knowledge transfer in the federal government. In fact, telework is playing a big factor in many retirement-eligible federal employees deciding to stay in their jobs – giving agencies an even longer window to capture their knowledge and expertise.
Andrew Krzmarzick, director of community engagement for GovLoop, writes in a blog post that telework may be a major driver of Baby Boomers deciding to stay in their jobs beyond their retirement age. He quotes a recent GovLoop interview with Nick Nayak, chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department, who noted that while 20-25 percent of DHS' workforce is at retirement-eligible age or soon to be, DHS workers in 2012 did not retire as quickly as they have in the past.
"Teleworking is a big reason for that," Nayak told GovLoop. "It allows employees the chance to work a more flexible schedule so they aren't retiring as early as before."
Are retirement-eligible Baby Boomers at your agency staying on longer than expected? Is telework contributing at all to this trend?
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Any other coaches out there? This will be my first year coaching. I'll be coaching Pee Wee League baseball, for my little cousins team. They had a shortage of coaches and asked if I wanted to coach... I was like Heck Yeah! Thought they meant assistant, but I will be the head coach... so I'm a little nervous.
Any advice? These kids will be pretty young, although I haven't heard what the actual age group is yet, but I think its 6-8.


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For someone who kvetches off and on about Comedy Central's lack of original thought, I sure seem to watch a lot of it, including the shows that are well outside the warm nightly sitz bath with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. This means I know a whole lot more than I might even want to know about the miserable-is-funny inner workings of the white, middle-class, Jewish-ish, young American male superego — along with whatever nods toward diversity "Key and Peele" manage to slip in.
I could unpack the network's demographic cliches in its programming and bore you to tears with one of those cultural thinkpieces. Nothing is less funny than too many words about comedy. Or we could just get down to it and criticize Amy Schumer, one of the rare women to get her own show on Comedy Central, for letting herself become one more example of a certain type of white guy on Comedy Central.
Everything about "Inside Amy Schumer," the comedian's new series premiering Tuesday night, follows the network's letter of the law, combining bits of her stand-up with hit-or-Ms. sketches about sexting, one-night stands, "Two Girls, One Cup," Hooters and so on — an array of subjects dotted with mold.
"I'm a little sluttier than the average bear," Schumer tells a comedy-club audience, as a way of launching into a mini-diatribe about how pharmacies make you ask for the "morning-after" pill.
Schumer's sharpness comes through best in such moments, when she's in stand-up mode and taking significant risks beyond the genre's still-customary boundary lines of gender, with such Sarah Silverman-esque observations as "We've all been a little bit raped. Just a scoch?" Meanwhile, her sketches and woman-on-the-street interviews with passersby feel burdened with the task of pleasing a male audience (while enlightening them a scoch). There's also the unfortunate problem of all that baggage she didn't pack but is nevertheless required to lug along, each piece of it tagged FEMALE COMIC.
An attempt to skewer the hypocrisy of the Hooters restaurant chain (yes, in 2013) becomes a tepid sketch about a restaurant called O'Nutters, in which Amy's character brings along a male co-worker to a happy hour where the all-male waiters wear revealingly tight shorts. "Sorry, broham, no beer," the waiter tells the horrified man. "But we do have skinny-girl margaritas!"
Schumer is at her most funny in segments called "Amy Goes Deep," in which she interviews other women about their jobs and lives — a stripper, for example. "Does your boyfriend have a pencil beard?" Schumer asks the woman. (No, she replies.) "Does he wear collared shirts with a lot of stripes?" (Uhh, yes.)
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IFC's "Maron" (premiering Friday night) is a sad-sack routine that follows Los Angeles comedian Marc Maron around in quasi-true stories inspired by his dour worldview.
Maron, who in real life had a spotty comedy career in the 1990s, found new purpose several years ago as an appropriately outraged radio host on "Air America" and then as a much-downloaded podcaster, inviting notable guests (Dennis Leary and Dave Foley are two seen here) into his garage studio for rambling and frequently hilarious chats about everything under the sun.
"Maron," then, is mainly about that, resulting in a downmarket iteration of Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," in which an embittered Maron and his friends act out an unremarkable variety of inconveniences and First World problems.
Consider my enthusiasm fully curbed — especially when Judd Hirsch shows up in the third episode as Maron's loser father, a vitamin-salesman living in an RV. The acrimony between the two men doesn't register as funny or entertaining. Louis C.K. has shown us, on "Louie," what sort of deeper meaning can be mined in such mutual contempt, but on "Maron" it just feels ugly and dull.
These sketches do play out, and finally we return to the garage for a glimpse of the free-flowing discourse that has made Maron's podcast a qualified success. This is the television's way of telling you to turn it off and go look Maron up on iTunes instead.
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My comedy-karma punishment for ragging on both shows comes in the form of ABC's "Family Tools," premiering Wednesday night — a stinkbomb sent to critics last summer that is now getting the burnoff it deserves at season's end. This is the network comedy equivalent of packing peanuts, and it's stuff like this that makes you want to run straight back inside Schumer's awkward embrace or hang out all afternoon while Maron moans about his ex-wife.
J.K. Simmons, who has our sympathies, stars as Tony, a career handyman whose heart problems force him into early retirement.
At the urging of his sister (Leah Remini), Tony agrees to turn the business over to his unsuccessful — and unhandy — son, Jack (Kyle Bornheimer), who moves back home and lives in the basement. It's not long before Jack shoots a nail gun into his bare foot, but it's also too long before Jack shoots a nail gun into his bare foot. And really, why couldn't it be his frontal lobe?
For those who keep track of such things, this is Bornheimer's umpteenth (it feels like) chance to star in a network sitcom, including "Worst Week" on CBS, "Romantically Challenged" on ABC and "Perfect Couples" on NBC.
By now, the only joke is where he'll show up next.
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"Inside Amy Schumer" (30 minutes) premieres Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central.
"Family Tools" (30 minutes) premieres Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. on ABC.
"Maron" (30 minutes) premieres Friday at 10 p.m. on IFC.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Senators on Thursday appeared poised to shoot down a pair of competing bills to stop automatic budget cuts from going into effect, paving the way for the so-called sequester to hit federal programs beginning Friday.
Democrats and Republicans were each preparing on Thursday to offer bills to replace the $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts scheduled for the remainder of fiscal 2013. But there was still a deep divide over including tax increases in the replacement legislation, and the focus was turning to a Friday meeting between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders about the automatic cuts.
U.S. investors appeared to be ignoring the Washington budget drama and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.16% was edging closer to its all-time closing high set in October 2007. See Market Snapshot.
The Obama administration and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have warned of the impacts of the sequester on everything from air-traffic control to federal programs for the needy to big defense contractors. While economists agree that the cuts would cause economic pain, they would not take effect all at once on Friday. They would take effect gradually through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Read: The Sequester starts Friday. Then what?
Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report published Thursday that the cuts for fiscal 2013 would actually total $42 billion, not the $85 billion cited by the White House. The lower number is due to the way the government arranges contracts, the nonpartisan CBO said.
"Acquiring major weapons systems and completing large construction projects, for example, can take several years," CBO said. Read the CBO's report.
As markets rose, political jockeying continued in Washington. Speaking on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he and fellow Democrats would later Thursday offer a "balanced plan" to replace the cuts that includes tax increases on the wealthy. Republicans are adamantly opposed to raising taxes, however, and the bill is almost certain to fail on a procedural vote.
Tampa, Charlotte among gainers.
• U.S. homeownership at 18-year low
"It's a gimmick," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said about the Democrats' bill. "They want it to fail so they can go around the country blaming Republicans for something the president proposed," McConnell said.
The GOP leader said his party would offer a bill allowing Obama to administer the spending cuts in a "smarter" way instead of forcing agencies to reduce program dollars across the board.
Reid dismissed the Republicans' bill. "They're punting," he charged.
Obama would veto the Republican bill if it passes, the White House said on Thursday.
The sequester grew out of the failure in 2011 by Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to achieve a "grand bargain" on taxes and spending. Beginning in fiscal 2013, the sequester — approved by both chambers of Congress and signed by Obama — is designed to slice about $1 trillion from budgets over a nine-year period. Republicans have been trumpeting reporting from the Washington Post's Bob Woodward showing that the sequester was the White House's idea and the administration has angrily fired back at Woodward. Read more on the Woodward-White House tiff on Political Watch blog.
House Republicans, meanwhile, kept up their insistence that the Democrat-controlled Senate must pass a sequester-replacement bill. Talking to reporters on Capitol Hill, House Speaker John Boehner said he is happy to meet on Friday with Obama, but once again rejected increasing taxes.
"How much more money do we want to steal from the American people to fund more government?" Boehner said.


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Wade LeBlanc got 21 outs with 94 pitches, facing 26 batters in his 7 innings of work. Our offense is regressing after that lovely 9-run display on Monday. Edgar Renteria continued his stellar season with a big, fat 0-fer. His $7 million 2009 line is .258/.316/.339 (BA/OBP/SLG). Yeah. That's the line--no joke. A .339 slugging percentage. And he gets a $2 million raise next year.
I actually thought we could get LEAGUE AVERAGE production from this guy. That's all I wanted--LEAGUE AVERAGE (.259/.331/.410). What we got was David Eckstein with more strikeouts. If you like the new metrics, The Rental's wOBA is .290, 6th worst in all of baseball, and he's worth about 0.6 WAR (about half of Andres Torres).
If you ever needed a reason to ignore ESPN and the rest of the goofballs who pen this sort of crap for the so-called "mainstream media," a gander a Jerry Crasnick's Barry Zito story will give you all you need to cut those ties. I'm glad Zito is pitching better this year (although not today!), but c'mon. He's been our 4th best pitcher all year, and now he's our fifth best. Get real, Jerry.
p.s. Here's a nice look at MadBum's debut on FanGraphs.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
This one really hurts
Starting pitcher: M.C. O'Connor
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The Giants got five friggin' hits and all you can do is blame it on Edgar Renteria? Just for reference, the Giants have now no possibility of even having a winning season against the San Diego friggin' padres, one of the worst teams in the league. We are 6-9 with three games to go in San Diego, where we have not won a single fucking game this year.
- Thu Sep 10, 12:04:00 PM PDT
- M.C. O'Connor said...
I needed a whipping boy, and he was handy. Surely you can understand that.
On the bright side, it was nice to see Torres contribute positively. Winn should sit for the rest of the season.
When you can't hit, you lose games. It almost doesn't matter who you are playing.
- Thu Sep 10, 04:42:00 PM PDT
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TDBank Garden is offering Girl Scouts discounted tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters on Saturday, March 27 or Sunday, March 28.
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Syria's rebels have been begging sympathetic governments for months to send them weapons in their battle against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
However, such help appears minimal at best, and the rebels have had to rely heavily on what they capture during battles, what they smuggle in from abroad or what they can make themselves.
New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers and photographer Bryan Denton recently spent several days with the rebels near Aleppo, in northern Syria, and witnessed how they were putting together their aresenal.
"They developed a sort of underground arms industry that manufactures all sorts of weapons. These are being made by local tradesmen," Chivers told All Things Considered host Melissa Block.
"There's a painter who's responsible for making many of explosives because he has experience in mixing chemicals," he says. "There are electricians who are making and wiring the circuits for bombs and putting together the detonators. And there are machinists who make the bodies of rockets and mortar shells."
Chivers also met an arms smuggler from Iraq who said that weapons the US provided to the Iraqi security forces are now being sold on the black market. Both the Syrian rebels and pro-government militias are buying these weapons from Iraqi smugglers, Chivers said.
Denton's photos show the rebels and their various armaments.
Their reporting also includes the video at the top of this post that shows the rebels with a pro-government militiaman they captured. The rebels tell the soldier they will release him by putting him in a truck. All he has to do is drive to a checkpoint manned by government soldiers and he will be free.
But it's a deception. The truck is rigged with a homemade bomb that is to be detonated when the captured soldier reaches the checkpoint.
"He was not to be freed. He was to be an unwitting suicide bomber," says Chivers, who narrates the video. "The prisoner had fallen for their deception and driven to the target."
Watch the video and find out what happens.
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block. They're trying to bring down a government using makeshift weapons cobbled together in workshops, part of a shadowy, grass roots arms industry. That glimpse into the world of Syrian rebels comes from C.J. Chivers of the New York Times. Earlier this month, he and photographer Bryan Denton spent five days with the rebels in northern Syria. He's now back in the States and joins me to talk about what they found. C.J., welcome to the program.
C.J. CHIVERS: Thank you for having me.
BLOCK: Your story running in the New York Times today describes these rebels assembling rockets and mortars pretty much any way they can. Talk about who is making these weapons, and what they're making.
CHIVERS: Well, what you see in Syria is, I think, common to insurgencies across the Middle East and beyond. The war broke out and one side had, you know, a large conventional arsenal. And the other had virtually nothing at all. You know, hunting rifles and shot guns and the like. And so, over time as the fighters and their guerilla movement worked with local businessmen and tradesmen, they developed a sort of underground arms industry that manufactures all sorts of weapons.
And these are being made by local tradesmen. You know, there's a painter who's responsible for making many of the explosives because he has experience in mixing chemicals. There are electricians who are making and wiring the circuits for bombs, and putting together the detonators. And there are machinists who make the bodies of rockets and mortar shells and the like. It's kind of - we're seeing a revolution being waged by a wide cross-section of the society that's come together in this really novel fashion to equip a force that started out with almost nothing at all.
BLOCK: When you were with the rebels, you were there when an arms smuggler came from Iraq. He was delivering machine guns and a mortar and a bunch of ammunition to the rebels, weapons that, indirectly you say, are coming from the United States.
CHIVERS: The smuggler was very explicit that, you know, the weapons that the United States had provided to the Iraqi Security Forces are something like freely available in Iraq right now to bidders who show up with cash. And, as he put it, both sides actually are buying weapons from the Iraqi security forces. The Syrian government and its loyalist's militias as well as the rebels are all sending their agents or their, you know, local businessmen to meet with these Iraqi smugglers with shopping lists, and weapons are coming in. We're tracking down some of the mortar rounds right now, but it does look to me as if they were manufactured in the United States and likely transferred to the Iraqi security forces who then passed them on.
BLOCK: You were with the rebels in Aleppo province in the north of Syria with a group called the Lions of Tawhid - part of the Free Syrian Army. How would you describe who they are? Are they mostly army defectors, mostly former civilians?
CHIVERS: I think when you look at the group I was with, what you're seeing is social movement that's been evolving. It began with local men. There was the crackdown last year, caused many people to move past disaffection with the government to outright anger and disgust. And these men came together and formed fighting cells. Over time, as they succeeded and as they, if you will, coaxed many defectors, or many soldiers to defect from the army and join them, the ratio started to shift. So the group now has 52 members. And 37 of them are defectors from the active service of the Syrian army or air force.
BLOCK: How are these rebels getting intelligence about government positions, who's where, what they have, things like that?
CHIVERS: Well, in Aleppo province this tactical tide has shifted over the summer and it's the government that's on its heels, and the rebels who have the run of most of the countryside, and so they have very good intelligence. They have people on all of the roads and when you're driving with a commander, it's actually kind of fascinating, because people are coming up constantly to his pickup truck on motorcycles and telling him various snippets of information, and then drifting away on motorcycles. I mean they have a very keen awareness of what's going on immediately around them. And to a certain extent up to the fences you will of the remaining Syrian army positions.
They also have a network inside the army. Many of these guys recently served and have friends in the Syrian army and they're communicating back and forth to an extent, trying to convince more people to defect. And so, there's a lot of interplay between the two forces.
BLOCK: C.J., in your story that ran in the New York Times last week, you describe watching as the Syrian rebels, whom you were with, took a prisoner, a militia member who had been captured, and sent him out on a suicide mission. He was supposed to drive a truck packed with explosives to a government checkpoint. An unwitting suicide bomber, as you write about it. And ultimately the bomb failed. I wonder if you could describe what was going through your head as you watched this all unfold.
CHIVERS: Well, it happened very quickly. We knew that there was an attack planned for a checkpoint before dawn. And we had been busy, Bryan and I, until sometime after midnight. And we decided to lay down and get a little bit of sleep, and I think we fell asleep for 15 or 20 minutes and someone gave me a good, firm kick. And I jumped up and kind of went outside in my socks very quickly and I saw the prisoner being led away in a blindfold and put into a truck. So I ran back and, in turn, gave Bryan a kick and said, you better get up, there's something happening. And he grabbed his camera as I grabbed mine and we went back out and started to work.
Now the prisoner was in the front of this compound. And the commander of the rebel group called my name and led me to the back of the compound, where we stepped through sort of a mouse hole in the wall, and out back, you know, almost against the wall were a pair of trucks. One of which had this bomb on it. And I began to talk to the guys who were putting some branches and the like on top of the bomb to camouflage it, or to obscure it from view for the ride down the road. And after just a couple of minutes of that, the man in the truck started it up and drove off with it.
And I hopped in it very briefly until we got to the main road and I saw the truck that had the prisoner in it pass in front of us. And I hopped out of the truck at that point. And I suspected that what was happening was in fact happening, but only had that instant to really digest it. In fact, the amount of time it's taken to describe it, probably is longer than the amount of time in which this all unfolded.
BLOCK: When the rebels came back later, quite dejected that this planned suicide bombing had failed, were you relieved when you realized that, in fact, this prisoner survived?
CHIVERS: You know, I'm a reporter. And my first instinct was to find out what happened. And when you're really working in an circumstance you tend to stay in the pursuit of facts. And so it was really just a matter of interviewing. And as the interviews take shape, your understanding of what happens takes shape. And that certainly does give you a lot to think about.
BLOCK: That's C.J. Chivers, senior writer with the New York Times. We were talking about his time with the rebels in northern Syria. C.J., thank you very much.
CHIVERS: Thank you for having me.
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I drove up to Ryan and Danielle's place up in Topsham this morning for a trail run. Mindy joined us as well. Of course, Danielle is preggers (but not for long!), so unfortunately she couldn't really join us.
We hit the Cathance River Nature Preserve and got in eight miles on the network of trails there. Great area. The river itself is beautiful and lots of neat bogs on the land as well. I mused a few times that quite a few areas would be prime owl territory.
We kept the pace pretty slow. I actually thought we went faster, but I guess the slippery rocks, roots and bridges helped keep the pace down.
Afterwards, we mowed down Ryan's famous omelets. The dude really does make a mean omelet. And Danielle's chocolate chip pumpkin bread was also to die for. Nothing like good grub after a trail run! Thanks guys.
Ryan also brokered a deal with a ski friend of his and I got a great deal on these Rossignol Xium skate skis. Can't wait for winter!
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Trails, lots of slick rocks, roots.
Moderately hilly.
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Oyster's 100th
Former Greens leader Bob Brown, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and director David Lynch are among the eclectic roster of contributors Oyster magazine has assembled for its 100th issue. To celebrate 18 years of independent magazine publishing in Australia, Oyster recruited 100 people from around the world to contribute their interpretation of the theme ''dream'' for the landmark issue on sale tomorrow.
Actor James Franco has taken photos for the issue, Lynch has contributed an interview and Lagerfeld has explained what role dreams play in his design process, for what sounds like an intriguing concept from an industry survivor.
''Obviously the last few years have been challenging for print publishing,'' Oyster publisher Monica Nakata says. ''[But] with the greater industry changes, our key focus for some time now has been on digital and we have experienced exponential growth in this area.''
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CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — Hiding a weapon inside a walking cane — it's one of the oldest tricks in the James Bond playbook, and it's apparently more common than you think.
Screeners at Dulles International Airport stopped a woman Monday after an X-ray of a cane she was carrying revealed a concealed sword.
The Transportation Security Administration said the woman had no idea that her walking stick was also a weapon.
TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says it's not uncommon for people to unwittingly carry canes that conceal weapons. The agency sent out an advisory Wednesday suggesting passengers with canes try to unscrew the top before heading out to the airport, just in case.
In Monday's incident, the woman was allowed to board her flight — without the cane — and did not face charges.
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Needing to lose weight
I was writing a nice blog in my head about the 4-5 pounds that I put on during January and February. This happens every year. It's not holiday weight. I think of it as winter weight, because it usually goes away in the spring. I was going to ponder whether it is caused by cold weather, a slightly more sedentary winter lifestyle, or some unknown factor.
I was also going to write about belly fat. While winter weight gain happens every year, this year it stuck around my tummy. That has never happened before. I was going to ponder whether the change was related to hormones, age, or some unknown factor.
It would have been a good blog. I would have tied in statistics about belly fat's relationship to other health problems and about my resolve to shed the pounds before it was warm enough to wear shorts.
Then I read the article about a starving mother trying to deal gently with her starving children in Africa. I posted that article, and began to ponder why I (and most other people in affluent societies) am so obsessed about weight gain. There are no obese people among the poor in India. There is no overweight problem in impoverished countries in Africa. They don't gain weight because they don't have enough to eat.
I on the other hand am bombarded by ads for diet programs, diet pills, and diet books that promise me that I can over eat and not gain weight. Bunk!
True, eating the wrong kinds of food can make someone put on weight faster and make them put on fat instead of muscle. That's one of several reasons I follow the BTD. But basically if I am already eating healthy food and I want to lose weight, I should eat less.
Before I go on – I have to issue a caveat. I went through 3 years of an eating/exercise disorder with my Darling Daughter. If your BMI is low, you do not need to lose weight. If you are obsessed with making your body look like some model's body you do not need to lose weight. Only in affluent countries do women voluntarily starve themselves. I am more firmly convinced than ever that eating/exercise disorders are spiritual problems.
So first of all find a website that calculates your BMI. If you really need to lose weight, cut back on your food intake.
Before you say you couldn't possibly eat less, think of the millions of starving peoples around the world. They would think it was a miracle if they had two of the three meals a day that we normally eat.
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Many of us can't simply lose weight by "eating less." Our bodies are far more complex than that.
Yes, I'm sure I could cut my calories in half and not die. But I don't think I could severely cut back on calories without it adversly affecting my health, energy levels, or mental stability. And it won't help any of the starving families in Africa or elsewhere in the world if I starved myself.
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Lending an ear to age related hearing loss
Age related hearing loss (ARHL) is far too easily ignored. Its onset is insidious. Its progression gradual. People with declining hearing often mistakenly believe the problem is that their conversation partners mumble or speak too quickly – and as hearing ability diminishes further, social exchanges slowly turn from fluid repertoires to too many non sequiturs. Frustrated from no longer being able to understand others well in social settings, people may stop going to the theatre or senior centres, or even just to a restaurant with friends or family. This social isolation, in turn, is associated with depression and cognitive decline. Disturbances of gait and balance have also been linked to ARHL.
Despite the considerable negative consequences ARHL can lead to, it has remained largely invisible, overlooked both by the medical community and broader population. Most people affected by ARHL simply accept it as a natural part of the ageing process and only the severest cases, for which hearing aids are required, get treated. Similarly, research during the past decade primarily focused on congenital hearing loss – which can be successfully treated in around 80 percent of afflicted newborns.
Only in the last five years has this focus slowly begun to shift. According to Professor Ferdinando Grandori from the Institute for Biomedical Engineering of the National Research Council in Milan, Italy, one of the most important factors driving that change are demands made by ageing baby boomers – those born between 1945 and 1965. Baby boomers want to maintain active social lives even in their twilight years, and good hearing is an important part of communication. These people therefore seek treatment not just for serious impairment, but for diminished ability as well.
Screening technologies have advanced to a point where it is possible to detect subtler function loss. More comfortable hearing devices (referred to as open-fit because they do not seal the ear) have also been developed. However ARHL continues to be untreated in many cases, because despite technological advancements and growing demand, there is no general awareness of the condition and its consequences.
To change this, a three-year coordination project, AHEAD III, was launched in 2008. With €1.1 million in EU funding, AHEAD III brought together 18 partners from across Europe. The project aimed to change the type of screening procedures used and to establish when and what tests should be carried out. "We were also coming up with recommendations for governments on how best to implement these screening procedures, so it was very productive to have such an interdisciplinary and international team," said Grandori, the project's coordinator.
ARHL is an important issue for European industries as well, since approximately 80 percent of worldwide hearing devices are manufactured in the EU. "Of course these manufacturers were interested in our work, but because of the EU funding we received, we could think about ARHL issues without any direct pressure from manufacturers," said Grandori.
Before AHEAD III, there was little appreciation of the difference between loss of organ functionality and loss of ability. A typical screening test will have a person listen to a series of whistles to assess their hearing ability. However, hearing impairment cannot be reduced to a diminished ability to hear whistles. That type of screening merely tests hearing sensitivity and thus only gives a partial picture of disability.
The World Health Organization (WHO) model of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) actually indicates that it is just as important to recognise the lived experience of a condition, as it is to identify its cause. AHEAD III therefore proposed that screening tests should measure difficulties in hearing everyday sounds, such as speech, rather than whistles. Only those types of screening tests offer a complete picture of the lived experience of ARHL.
"These screening tests are fundamental, because the first step of care is identifying those who need it," Grandori said. Since AHEAD III finished in October 2011, medical experts from around the world, including India and China, have begun to pay closer attention to ARHL. "I am very happy that it was European research which brought international attention to ARHL," Grandori said. Several pilot adult hearing screening programmes have already been carried out in Europe. For example, on the Greek side of Cyprus everyone who was 63 or older had their hearing screened with tests that assess speech understanding.
As per usual in questions of public health and wellbeing, it will probably take at least another four or five years before governments have devised mechanisms to deal with ARHL. Even now, however, adults suffering from diminished hearing ability can take comfort in the fact that their concerns are no longer falling on deaf ears.
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The group that drafted the blueprint for the consolidation of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools met Thursday, July 26, for what could be the final time to consider a few changes to their merger plan.
The schools consolidation planning commission approved some but not all of the suggested changes to the plan that came from feedback from the public including countywide school board members since last month.
The plan is now considered final and goes to the school board and Tennessee education commissioner Kevin Huffman for approval. Huffman has already said he approves of the teacher pay and benefits provisions he is required to approve under state law.
Planning commissioners stressed that they would like to see school board approval no later than next month to give the transition process a full year to work before the merger date of August 2013.
The commission considered eight major changes to its plan.
The group changed its recommendation from closing 21 schools in the western part of Memphis to "at least 20 closures" and adjusted the estimated savings from the school closures from $21 million to $19 million to account for increased transportation costs.
Neither the additional cost nor any other changes or clarifications made Thursday increased the overall $57 million gap between revenues and expenses for the merged school system as estimated by the planning commission. There were several other adjustments that evened out in terms of additional revenues and expenses.
The planning commission rejected a call by some school board members to phase in the school closings over several years and to factor in the costs of maintaining 24-hour security for the closed buildings. Some school board members said those costs could wipe out any projected savings.
Any decision on school closings is a decision of the school board. The planning commission noted that other large school system have closed similar numbers of schools in a single year including the District of Columbia school system and Cleveland schools.
A majority on the planning commission said the cost of security at the buildings shouldn't be factored into the expenses of the school system because the possible revenue to be made from selling the school buildings also wasn't factored into revenues the school system would have.
Another suggestion to keep optional schools enrollment a "first come-first served" system was also rejected by the group. The MCS program now uses a mix of lottery placement and first come-first serve enrollment. The planning commission concluded keeping that or gradually phasing in the lottery system would either create a new inequity or preserve an old inequity when the goal should be to have more options for students in that program as well as in open enrollment and transfers.
And the planning commission voted to stick with several efforts at the same time to pursue more local and state funding to close the gap between expenses and revenues.
The decision was a reaction to a suggestion to prioritize the pursuit of more funding to start with the city, then go to the state and then the county.
A suggestion to add 10 positions to the school system's central office for administrators to work exclusively on the transition to the merger was also rejected. The planning commission stuck with its recommendation of a transition process involving high ranking staff of both school systems who will work toward the merger as they also perform their daily duties in their respective school systems. Adding the positions would have come with an estimated increase in the funding gap of $6.4 million a year.
The changes also included a set of 14 "clarifying changes" that didn't change the basic and general intent of the plan. They included a specific statement that "there will be no forced busing for desegregation purposes" in the merger and specifically saying the plan's expansion of pre kindergarten would include students with special needs and that pre-k students would get the same kind of intervention approach to learning that older students would get.
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It's that time again, time for new characters!!! As promised the remaining four edo tensei characters from the last batch are included as well as some other interesting characters for you guys. All character images were chosen by submissions from you the players. Good luck unlocking the new characters and as always thank you for your continued support of Naruto Arena!
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Uzuki Yugao (S) is a member of the Hidden Leaf's anbu squad and a sensory type shinobi.
Dodai (S) is a skilled sensor shinobi and a lava release user as well. His intelligence is his most powerful asset and he will need it to survive this war.
Chojuro (S) confidence is building as the war rages one. The longer it lasts the stronger Chojuro (S) becomes.
Having gained complete control of all of the kyuubi's chakra Kyuubi Naruto (S) will be sure to rampage over every battlefield he comes across.
Konan of the Rain (S) has returned to the Hidden Rain village. Now that Uzumaki Nagato is dead she is aligned with Uzumaki Naruto and his quest for peace.
Zetsu (S) is intent to follow Tobi's orders. With his abilities he will be trouble for anyone that comes across him.
Not much is known about Tobi (S) other than he appears to be a member of the Uchiha clan.
Edo Tensei Chiyo (S) has been summoned back from the afterlife. She may not like it but she will do her best to help her opponents out with information while she is forced to fight.
Edo Tensei Kimimaro (S) is back and he is wreaking havoc. He has no problem shredding his enemies as he marches up and down the battlefield.
Edo Tensei Chukichi (S) is back on the battlefield and he is being forced to combat his comrades against his will.
Edo Tensei Fuguki (S) is back from the dead and on a rampage. It does not concern him who he attacks or who is controlling him.
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Giving Fate a Hand
Graduating from college and taking a year off, Edward went on a celebratory roadtrip around the country. Little does he know that he would meet a girl who changed his life and the way he lived it for the foreseeable future. ExB.
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I have, and it is the most memorable moment of my life. My experience with these feelings is bittersweet, though. I never got the girl. Hell, I never got a second meeting with her. I spent six perfect hours with her, and never saw her again. She haunts my thoughts, my dreams, my relationships, and she has no clue. She's the person I'm looking for, but I have no idea where to start looking. It didn't matter to me that the six hours I spent with her was with 92,000 screaming football fans at a football game, she was the girl for me and I had no clue who she was or where she was from. Sure, I got her number before she left the stadium with her friends, but on our walk back to the car it started raining, effectively ruining the paper she wrote it on.
That was two years ago. I had taken a year off after graduating college to just drive and see what was out there. I got to experience almost every kind of sporting event that existed. There were baseball games in Boston and New York, hockey in Philadelphia, college basketball in North Carolina, and even a few NFL games in various cities. My favorite experience was SEC football. I was absolutely enthralled by it. My first game was in South Carolina, and the next in Athens, Georgia. By the time I was passing leaving New Orleans, I knew I had to find a way to attend an LSU game in Baton Rouge.
When I arrived in Baton Rouge, I got to experience a truly amazing gameday atmosphere. I remembered that a guy I was friends with in high school had gone to LSU and arranged to meet him for the game. We drank the entire day and by 4:30 in the afternoon, I had decided that LSU was my favorite place I've ever been. We made it into the stadium and ended up squeezing into a row that barely had room for two more people to stand. Choosing to stand-we never sat once during the game- in that row has changed my life.
I'd be lying if I said that I knew the minute she slid in the row next to me that she would change my outlook on life, it just isn't true. I thought she was a pretty girl who looked cute in jean shorts. I noticed her a little more when the band made their way into the stadium. While I was talking to the guy next to me, she had thrown her hands above her head and was dancing to the drum cadence. I caught her eye as she danced and can remember thinking she was adorable when a blush colored her cheeks.
She introduced herself to me in the second quarter. "Hi, I'm Bella," she had said, "and I figured we should know each other's names if we keep getting shoved together all night." I laughed and introduced myself. She was right, though. Anytime a good play happened, there would be a surge within the crowd and she would end up right next to me, pushed up against my left side. The first time it happened, I almost jumped out of my skin at the electric current I felt. Eventually it became a natural reaction to lift my arm and have her settle in next to me with my arm wrapped around her waist.
I learned a bit about her during halftime of what would shape up to be the best football game of my life. She knew sports like nothing else. "Sports, literature, history, and God, and family." she told me when I asked her top 5 interests. "Of course, those are not in order. The last two would go first and the first three would go last if that were the case," she had gone on to explain. She was a sophomore, making her about two and a half years younger than me. She was a walking dichotomy and I loved it. I always thrived on being able to peg people easily and figure out what stance they would take on a subject but I was not able to do this to Bella at all. Not even once. She loved sports, but she never played. She was too clumsy, she stated. She was very religious, but had a foul mouth. "Only when it comes to sports," she assured me. She was always prepared with a quick response, but spoke slowly with a southern drawl that almost drove me crazy. "You know, I've never met anyone named Edward, so I guess that means you're my favorite one," she said sometime during the game. Before I left, I made sure to tell her she was definitely my favorite Bella. My brother would have laughed at the immense corniness of that conversation. But it was fitting, it was perfect, and I savored it.
The game turned out to be one of the best in college football that year, complete with 5 fourth downs including one that eventually sealed the game. Bella, being Bella, danced and celebrated and screamed until she lost her voice. At the end of the game, she launched herself into my arms and made me promise to be at the next game to sit by her; I was good luck, she told me. Then she asked one of her friends to take a picture of us, and luckily my friend had a camera to do the same. That's what I'm left with, the memory of a perfect night and a picture that sits on my desk.
Well, and a house in the middle of Baton Rouge, of course. You see, I'm a big believer in fate. I'm not the type of guy to just decide something was a coincidence. No, that's not me at all. And the way I see it, if the girl I want to see again, the girl I want to be with is in Baton Rouge, why would I live anywhere else? I graduated from an ivy league school with a degree in architecture, I can work anywhere. While I have a degree in architecture, I've always been interested in the structural restoration of historic buildings, and where better to do that than the deep south, where plantations are common? Or just down the road from New Orleans, where the architectural styles of so many cultures are welded into one? No, this wasn't entirely based on Bella. My career benefitted from this move, too. Of course, these are reasons I came up with after I made the impulse decision to move to Baton Rouge and buy a house that rivals the one I grew up in.
Okay, so that probably wasn't my best idea. The house was huge, and becoming increasingly lonely, but I had a good job and I liked my neighbors. I was pretty sure I was the youngest person around my house, and the people who lived around me took me in like I was a son. My parents appreciated that. I hadn't told them the exact reason behind my initial idea of moving to Baton Rouge, but I had told my sister. Alice, of course, freaked out and began to gush about star-crossed lovers and now makes sure to ask me at least twice a week if I happened to cross paths with Bella. As if I wouldn't be yelling it from the rooftops if I did. Unless she didn't want me to do that, of course.
She did give me her phone number at the game, so I have to assume she wouldn't be absolutely opposed to running into me again. I would just have to remind myself that she didn't need to know she was the inspiration for my near cross country move. No, she definitely didn't need to know that right off the bat. If I ever do run in to her, that is. No, that thought is not welcome. This is something I want, and I've always succeeded in obtaining things that I want. This situation is just a bit…trickier.
I'm a big believer in fate, but some things are too important to be left to it. I'm assisting fate, bribing it, if you will. I'm making fate's job a little bit easier. I am determined to see this through, because I have no other option. I would really rather not know that there is a girl out there somewhere that sets my body on fire and is able to continually make laugh and smile. Even if nothing works out and the only good memory I'm left with is the game, at least I would know. She seemed so different. Strong but delicate, feminine but pig-headed. I needed to be able to unravel the layers of her personality.
Bella was like coming up for a fresh breath of air. I had been with countless girls throughout high school and college, and none left me with the feeling of absolute free falling that Bella did after six hours. There was something there, and I really wanted to figure out what it was. No, I didn't want to, I needed to.
I just hoped she still lived in Baton Rouge.
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Carolina over Santurce 5-1
Kiké Hernandez got another start at third base for Carolina. He went hitless in five at-bats with two strikeouts while C Carlos Corporan was 1-for-4 with a strikeout. Hernandez wasn't the only player who had a tough day. *RHP Adalberto Flores got the start for Santurce and allowed five runs on seven hits (including a two-run home run) and two walks with seven strikeouts over five innings for the loss. But it was the seven stolen bases allowed by Flores that really hurt! Both Carolina and Santurce are 3-5 and two games back in the round robin playoffs.
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