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Posted on 1/7/2011
In the first week of January, the staff of TRiO-Student Support Services moved into their new office in Minot State University's Student Center (second floor) as part of a $1.1 million Title IV grant. The five-year grant, from the U.S. Department of Education, provides opportunities for academic development, assists students with basic college requirements and serves to motivate students toward completing their postsecondary education. The program strives to increase the retention and graduation of its participants and help students move from one level of higher education to the next.
"The TRiO Student Support Services program offers support to students who possess rising potential but need the motivation and confidence to succeed with their university education," said Holly Major, TRiO Student Support Services program director. "We are funded to serve 200 students per year."
To be eligible to participate in the TRiO-SSS program, an individual must be currently enrolled or have been accepted for full-time enrollment at Minot State University, be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and meet at least one of three qualifications. The qualifications are being a first-generation college student (neither parent nor guardian has received a four-year degree), being income eligible (family income is at or below federally determined guidelines) or having a documented disability.
Services TRiO-SSS provides to students include:
- Academic tutoring, directly or through other services provided by the institution, which may include instruction in reading, writing, study skills, mathematics, science and other subjects, to enable students to complete postsecondary courses.
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Besides Major, the TRiO staff members are Tiffany Fylling, Jancy Brisson and Lynn Redden.
Major, an alumna, previously was the family support specialist for Minot's Pathfinder Parent Center. She earned her master's degree in administration from Central Michigan University and a bachelor's degree in business administration and marketing from Minot State.
Fylling, learning skills specialist, served as the administrative assistant in MSU's Office of Enrollment Services. She completed a bachelor's degree in health science from Valley City State University.
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Redden, administrative assistant, was an admission advisor at San Joaquin Valley College, Bakersfield, Calif., before moving to Minot in July. She received an associate's degree in hotel office management and sales and marketing from Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, Calif.
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SHERMAN, TX – Austin College celebrated the career achievements of former members of the Kangaroo family on Sunday at its annual Legends Gala, with University of Texas Associate Athletic Director Butch Worley among those being honored as this years recipient of the Coach Joe Spencer Award for Meritorious Service and Lifetime Achievement in Coaching.
Worley, a 1976 graduate of Austin College, played football and baseball for the Kangaroos before becoming an assistant football coach at Sherman High School upon graduation. After graduating from Texas Tech School of Law in 1983 and spending the next few years as a practicing attorney, he returned to athletics as a member of DeLoss Dodds' athletics staff in 1987 and has remained a prominent member of the Longhorn family for the past two decades.
In conjunction with Worley being honored with this lifetime achievement award, Austin College also inducted alumni Jim Baird, Bo Brown, Allison McKinney-Tarpley, and Kenneth Tatum into the school's Athletic Hall of Honor, with long time faculty member Dr. Kenneth Street being inducted as an honorary member of the Hall of Honor.
In addition to the Coach Joe Spencer and Hall of Honor honorees, the school announced Greenville Christian School football coach Larry Uland as the annual Kedric Couch Coach of the Year Award recipient. Uland was named the TAPPS Division I Six-man Football Coach of the Year in 2007.


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I am trying to optimize memory usage of my application. I am using JProbe 5.2.2. for this purpose. I found my dialog objects are not getting garbage collected. When I debug the application in JProbe I found Win32GraphicsConfig is keeping the dialog reference in WeekHashMap.
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A 53-year-old Taiwan businessman has contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu while travelling in China, Taiwan's Health Department said on Wednesday, the first reported case outside of mainland China.
The man was hospitalized after becoming ill three days after returning from Suzhou on April 9, Health Department Minister Wen-Ta Chiu told a news conference. Chiu said the patient was diagnosed with the H7N9 virus and was in serious condition.
Chiu said Taiwan will take appropriate measures, including opening a special out-patient clinic for H7N9 cases.
Taiwan and China have growing business and economic ties, and many businessmen frequently travel across the straits.
As of Tuesday, 108 people had contracted the disease on the mainland since the first deaths were reported last month.
New bird flu strain 'one of most lethal influenza viruses'
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Matt Lucas is possibily the most humourous person you will ever hear about. Everything he says is a joke, In a good way! He plays most of the characters in his show Little Britain, from 'I am the only gay in the village!' gays to 'Anyone, No, Dust?' fat women who are supposed to help you lose weight but just make fun of you.
It is probably IMPOSSIBLE for ANYBODY to sit next to this mad-man (in a funny way) for 10 minutes without laughing.. even if they had the laughing part of there brain removed. In 'Lucas and Williams Perfect Night In' He will be showing you his favoruite funny programs, so go watch them.. and Little Britain!


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"The Last Will,'' the final play in Robert Brustein's Shakespeare trilogy, will open off-Broadway April 17 in a production by Abingdon Theatre Company, to be directed by Austin Pendleton. The play will close in New York May 5, then travel to a festival in China.
The drama, in which a mortally ill William Shakespeare loses his grip on reality and accuses his long-neglected wife, the former Anne Hathaway, of betraying him with his brother, premiered last month at the Modern Theatre in Boston in a coproduction by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Suffolk University, directed by Steven Maler.
There will be several casting changes for the production in the June Havoc Theatre, where previews are slated to begin April 5. Peter Cameron will play Shakespeare and Stephanie Roth Haberle will portray Anne, roles played by Allyn Burrows and Brooke Adams in Boston. The part of Shakespeare's younger daughter, Judith, played by Stacy Fischer in Boston, will be played by Christianna Nelson in New York. Merritt Janson will reprise her role as Susanna, Shakespeare's older daughter, while Jeremiah Kissel will again play the actor Richard Burbage.
Abingdon Theatre Company will take "The Last Will'' to the Wuzhen Theatre Festival in Wuzhen, China, May 15-18. Brustein is the festival's honorary chairman.
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The United States sent Guantánamo's youngest captive home to a prison in his native Canada on Saturday, ending the decade-long U.S. detention of the Muslim militant who grew from a teenager into adulthood at the Pentagon's prison camps in Cuba.
In 2002, at age 15, Omar Khadr hurled a grenade in war-torn Afghanistan that killed an American soldier. He was captured and kept by U.S. forces ever since. Now 26, he's home and could serve up to six more years in a Canadian prison. Or authorities could release him sooner. Canada considers him a juvenile offender who can apply for parole a year from now.
"He thinks he's in a dream. He's pinching himself," said Toronto attorney John Norris, who spoke to Khadr soon after his arrival. "He never believed this day would come; he's been betrayed so many times before."
Khadr departed the base in Cuba before dawn Saturday, a secret transfer 10 days after a Canadian diplomat paid Khadr a visit on his 26th birthday. He landed at a Royal Canadian airbase in Ontario and was transferred to the Millhaven maximum security prison for what his lawyer described as an assessment of the most suitable place to serve out his sentence.
The case of Khadr — Guantánamo's last Western captive — stirred debate in international law and human rights circles.
Because he was captured at such a young age, some called him a child soldier who was dropped off in the war zone by his father and deserving of rehabilitation not interrogation. Others called him the respected scion of an al Qaida family, nicknamed Canada's First Family of Terror in news reports, and opposed his repatriation.
Psychiatrist Michael Welner, testifying at the Guantánamo war court for the prosecution and paid by the Pentagon, called Khadr a continuing danger who spent his time at the U.S. prison camps in Cuba "marinating in a community of hardened and belligerent radical Islamists."
Khadr's lawyers offered up tales of abusive treatment in U.S. custody. He'd been questioned in Afghanistan while emerging from surgical anesthesia, they argued. He was used as a "human mop" at Guantánamo after he urinated on himself and the floor during an interrogation. His lawyer was forbidden from seeing him during his first two years of interrogations.
U.S. troops captured Khadr, who was near death, in a July 27, 2002 firefight at a suspected al Qaida compound near Khost, Afghanistan.
U.S. air strikes had leveled the compound and as a Special Forces unit assaulted, Khadr admitted in a 2010 guilty plea, he threw a grenade from the rubble that mortally wounded Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, 28. Medics were able to save Khadr's life and turned him over to what became a decade of on-again off-again interrogation.
Since his conviction, he was confined to a maximum-security wing at Guantánamo, a mostly solitary existence that his lawyers tried to ameliorate with a Canadian-style college preparatory curriculum — literature, physics and videos of "Little Mosque on the Prairie," a popular Canadian TV show about a Muslim community in a fictional prairie town.
He also read Shakespeare with his U.S. defense lawyer, Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, who played Juliet to Khadr's Romeo.
"Now that Khadr is back in his own country, Canada should assist in his rehabilitation," said Human Rights Watch counterterrorism counsel Andrea Prasow. "International law provides him the right as a former child soldier to be reintegrated into society."
The nation's Public Safety Minister, Vic Toews, took months to decide whether Khadr was entitled to repatriation.
"I am satisfied the Correctional Service of Canada can administer Omar Khadr's sentence in a manner which recognizes the serious nature of the crimes that he has committed and ensure the safety of Canadians is protected during incarceration," Toews said in a statement.
Defense lawyers had asked that he get special protections at whichever Canadian prison was chosen because of his notoriety.
In his plea agreement, Khadr also admitted to planting landmines in Afghanistan meant to shred invading allied forces. Once captured, and interrogated, he directed U.S. troops back to their location to safely disarm them.
Testimony at pre-trial hearings showed U.S. interrogators saw the 15-year-old as a human intelligence treasure trove because as a child his family had spent time with the family of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. His father, Ahmed Said killed in Pakistan in 2003, was seen in Canada as a high-level al Qaida functionary who moved his family to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
One of Omar Khadr's elder brothers, Abdurahman, also spent a short time in Guantánamo as an informant but never saw his kid brother there. Abdurahman is now free in Toronto.
With Saturday's transfer, the Pentagon now has 166 captives at Guantánamo.
The youngest is now believed to be a Yemeni named Hassan bin Attash, whose leaked detention records indicate he was born in Yemen in 1985. He's the younger brother of former CIA captive Walid bin Attash, an alleged al Qaida lieutenant now at Guantánamo facing charges in the Sept. 11 death penalty case.
The Khadr transfer could break a logjam in efforts to get other captives to plead guilty. Defense lawyers have characterized the Obama administration's inability to get Khadr back to Canada as an obstacle to negotiations with other alleged al Qaida foot soldiers whose testimony might be useful at the Guantánamo war court.
Amnesty International USA used the occasion of the transfer to urge President Barack Obama to close the detention center. "Khadr's tragic story underscores why Guantánamo should close — not tomorrow, but today," Amnesty Executive Director Suzanne Nossel said in a statement.
"Given the Obama administration's glacial pace towards closing the U.S. controlled detention center, little and late though it is," she added, "today's news represents progress."


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SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering Awarded
The 2007 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering was awarded February 20 to Chi-Wang Shu, Professor of Mathematics in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.
Shu received the prize "for the development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing, including TVD temporal discretizations, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods."
The prize is awarded jointly by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The prize, established in 2002 and first conferred in 2003, is awarded in the area of computational science in recognition of outstanding research contributions to the development and use of mathematical and computational tools and methods for the solution of science and engineering problems; it consists of a hand-calligraphed certificate with the citation and a cash prize of $5,000.
The prize was awarded at the 2007 SIAM Conference on Computer Science and Engineering, held February 2007 in Costa Mesa, California.
The members of the selection committee for the 2007 award were John B. Bell (Chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Anthony Ralston, State University of New York at Buffalo; and Mary F. Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin.


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yup, it works. why dont we make you an editor instead of the random guy that approved the article?
If link availability would change from one OS to the other, we would soon all be doomed, for sure. It would be like a revival from IE6 times, but worse.
Hehehe... you could have just viewed the source:
multi-celled creatures living a mile and more below the planetâ(TM)s surface
That thing won't open even in lynx.
Actually it worked in the submission (I saw it after I'd submitted an unintentional dupe.) From memory it was Cosmos [cosmosmagazine.com].
My own links were via NewScientist: This story [newscientist.com].
A story about the discovery of radiation eating bacteria [newscientist.com] by the same team.
And a long article from '96 about what this all means for the search for life on (or in) Mars [newscientist.com].
What has the OS to do with it? Ah
Well, tried it with a mouse, then a trackball, then a touchscreen. Nada.
Yeah, same here.
Isn't there supposed to be a href inside an anchor tag? I think I read that somewhere...
Most life is sentient. It's how they find food, mates and avoid threats.
Slashdot is just screwed up.
* The link doesn't work at all
* I come read the comments and see others are having the same problem, so I go to log-in and comment
* If I try to log in, my username password appears behing a banner ad.
* When I do succeed in logging in, I can no longer see any comments.
* So, here I am posting as AC.
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It appears to be an "A" tag without the "HREF" portion...
There's a bug of some sort. I'm putting the link in right, but something is wrong. The link is to this WaPo story [washingtonpost.com].
the link doesn't work
Now that the worms have been outed, they're trying to suppress it before everyone finds out.
the link doesn't work
The worms have cut the cable.
the link doesn't work
The worms have cut the cable.
What do you mean, "*The worms* cut the cable"? How could they cut the cable, man? They're animals! Oh dear Lord Jesus, this ain't happening, man... This can't be happening, man! This isn't happening! Aw, man. And I was getting short. Four more weeks and out. Now I'm going to buy it on this rock! It ain't half-fair, man! Four more weeks! Aw, man!
As a slashdot frequenter, I can't believe this many people even click on TFA.
You mean it isn't enough to just shade the link in blue [xkcd.com]?
It's not such a big deal. It's only a mile's commute to the nearest Starbucks.
And yet there's no complex life there, either...
I wonder if life could actually start in an environment like that, as opposed to starting in the oceans like it did on earth and then migrating downwards over millions of years. If life needs relatively hospitable conditions to start then we should not expect to find life on planets with only harsh environments.
Now i am thinking about mind worms, for Alpha Centauri...
What, not permanently installed? Oh wait, that would result in a catastrophic reduction of productivity...
I wonder if life could actually start in an environment like that, as opposed to starting in the oceans like it did on earth and then migrating downwards over millions of years. If life needs relatively hospitable conditions to start then we should not expect to find life on planets with only harsh environments.
This answers a different question - essentially "what are the (current) parameters for environmental conditions that allow life (as we know it)". We just kicked that can down the road a bit. Obviously, if lifeforms cannot survive in a particular environment it makes it unlikely that the started out in that environment but the converse isn't necessarily true. The planetary environment was markedly different when life started - warmer temperatures, little oxygen and just the fact that there weren't any oth
Allow me to be the first to say it...
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
More from the article: "The research is likely to trigger scientific challenges and cause some controversy because it places far more complex life in an environment where researchers have generally held it should not, or even cannot, exist."
I thought they stopped saying that after finding life in the Challenger Deep [nationalgeographic.com] section of The Mariana Trench.
lithotrophic bacteria that live from certain anorganic chemicals found down there
According to the team that found these nematodes (and the bacteria five years earlier), the bacteria lives off of radiation in the rocks, not chemistry. (Come back in a few years to see what eats the worms?)
lithotrophic bacteria that live from certain anorganic chemicals found down there
According to the team that found these nematodes (and the bacteria five years earlier), the bacteria lives off of radiation in the rocks, not chemistry. (Come back in a few years to see what eats the worms?)
Trapped miners?
Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world.
Not that kind of worm. This kind [imdb.com]. We have to wait a couple of million years until the planet dries up for the big ones. Oh, a FTL travel. And Spice.
The spice must flow...
Half a millimetre long. (The spice must trickle.)
(About 1/50th of an inch, for the uneducated.)
Sandtrout fry.
If the scientists had been looking for it, they'd have seen a pre-spice mass among the rock strata there. Lucky they didn't use water in their drilling system.
or at least a concrete donkey.
How many times now have we found life in extreme conditions where we were convinced life couldn't exist?
And given that we believe life adapted to the environment on Earth (early organisms didn't even breathe oxygen) then why we are so convinced that theoretical life in the universe must conform to the rules on Earth?
We're now seeing examples where DNA can be built using arsenic. The principle still applies that life on Earth is believed to be a response to the environment on Earth. Why wouldn't that be true elsewhere?
Our entire precept of what is required for life to exist could be flawed based upon our limited perspective.
We're now seeing examples where DNA can be built using arsenic.
We're now seeing examples where DNA can be contaminated with arsenic. Fixed that for ya,
"How many times now have we found life in extreme conditions where we were convinced life couldn't exist?"
Approximately once per research facility on the cusp of closure.
Pity that the only picture available is some unclear SEM picture of the worm's head. Why not a picture of the whole animal? Now we still don't know what it looks like and how long it is.
The worm is now claiming that its twitter account was hacked and somebody else sent that picture. But it does admit that it really is that long.
Wired's article [wired.com] said 0.05cm. So half a millimeter. Can't really get a picture of that too easily. I mean, it's just a roundworm... it's not like it's that amazing unless you get up close.
TFA mentions that they grow to a third of an inch. Huge, no, multicellular yes.
My question is this: just because you find life in extreme conditions, does not mean it can develop in those conditions. It seems more likely to me that life develops in more ideal conditions, then migrates to areas where conditions are more harsh. Am I being too skeptical or pessimistic?
I tend to agree with that thought. Looking at human history as an example, we have adapted to live in some very extreme conditions, albeit we often create artificial devices to do so, however, it still stands that we have found a way to live in both arctic climates as well as deserts and tropical forests for centuries. While animals don't have the mechanical capacity we do, life still adapts to new challenges and environmental changes.
But (unless I missed a memo) we actually don't know what conditions the first life formed in. Although we tend to focus on the ocean environment, it's entirely possible that the first cells formed in some more exotic deep crevise and only later migrated to the surface. In many ways, walking around in the open air makes *us* one of the most exotic extremophiles of the world.
Here is one of the later memos [nih.gov]. Yes, the conditions on earth at the beginning of biogenesis (as opposed to the other Genesis) were very, very different that the current environment. We wouldn't like it at all. Many theories of biogenesis use solid phase chemicals (like various clays) as early catalysts and / or structural parts of the earliest life forms.
I agree with you, but this still has implications for the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Mars used to be much warmer and wetter, so it is possible that life developed under more ideal conditions and continued to survive under harsh conditions.
But my doubts come because TFA says the worms were "found in water flowing from a borehole about one mile below the surface". That seems like plenty of opportunity for contamination. I'd be very skeptical that there are worms one mile below the surface of the earth in locations not touched by human activity. If you found them in a freshly drilled borehole with no water flowing that would be much more interesting.
> That seems like plenty of opportunity for contamination.
By what route?
By the borehole, which sounds like it's been there for a while. By the water, which may be flowing into the borehole from the surface. By the humans, which from looking at the picture are gathering samples without wearing gloves or a mask, or at least are visiting the area without gloves and masks. I don't see any precautions against these.
A primary hurdle the team had to overcome was proving that the nematodes had not come into the mines on the shoes or clothing of miners or through mine ventilation water. The contamination issue was resolved through extensive testing of the soil and mining water, which contains two disinfectant bleaches that would kill nematodes.
Neither. You've just proposed a hypothesis. That's what all of science is about.
Really, it's ok to say "we don't know". We can't say for sure if it developed down there or migrated. I doubt the scientists said anything to that effect, either. Or even if they did, most of them wouldn't. Science articles are typically rife with horribly inaccurate "paraphrasing" because the journalist doesn't know what they're talking about and try to translate scientific jargon to "layman" speak.
It seems more likely to me that life develops in more ideal conditions, then migrates to areas where conditions are more harsh. Am I being too skeptical or pessimistic?
It seems more likely to me that the Sun and planets move around the Earth.
It seems more likely to me that the continents stay put.
It seems more likely to me that humans were created by a conscious act of a supreme being rather than evolved by chance over billions of years.
It seems to me that motion just naturally comes to rest after a time.
It seems to me that if I spin around and throw something it will follow a curved path for a while before straightening out.
It seems to me that people might have learned f
I don't think you're being skeptical, but too narrow-viewed.
Earth may have served as an optimal place for life to develop in some areas, and then evolve to tolerate/inhabit less-optimal environs.
That doesn't preclude the idea that the process took place one step earlier, either: that life getting to earth in the first place may have ALSO been a matter of it surviving inhospitable conditions until it reached a place where it could flourish.
In fact, it suggests that (with the sample size of 1, of course) that
The research is likely to trigger scientific challenges and cause some controversy because it places far more complex life in an environment where researchers have generally held it should not, or even cannot, exist.
If the critters have conclusively been found to live there, then people will just have to accept it, recalibrate their views on what's possible, and continue from there. Why the controversy?
What's next? "Pigeons from Hell"?
If the Rossi/Focardi eCat (a claimed nickel-hydrogen LENR cold fusion device) really works, maybe cold fusion also happens at the boundary of the Earth's nickel-iron crust? And maybe the core even ejects neustrons, as suggested about the sun? And the end result might be abiotic oil and other "food" that could support an underground biosphere? Could life have even started down there (if bacteria did not come from beyond the solar system)? What other scientific dogma remains to be overturned? Related comment
I just thought I would mention Thomas Gold [wikipedia.org]'s book The Deep Hot Biosphere [barnesandnoble.com]. Gold's thesis is that "fossil fuels" aren't, and have an abiological origin, much like the hydrocarbons we can see in interstellar nebulae. An essential part of the theory is that "extremophiles" aren't all that rare, and permeate the earth down to unsuspected depths... that explains why the oil coming up out of the ground looks biological in origin (handedness): it's been messed with by the deep bacteria.
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RICHMOND – Nippersink District 2 athletes will pay a lot less next year to participate in their sports.
The District 2 school board unanimously voted to cut the competitive sports fee to $50 from $150 to bring its fees in line with what other districts charge. Noncompetitive or intramural sports fees also were cut to $35 from $50.
"I would love to see the sports fees go down and participation go up," board President Bert Irslinger said. "Hopefully, this will help to some extent."
This year, 113 youths are in competitive sports for which they have to try out, such as basketball, cheerleading and volleyball, Associate Principal and Athletic Director Desiree Richards said.
Last year, 103 children participated in noncut sports, such as cross country.
The fee reduction will take the programs from being self-sustained to being subsidized by the district, board Vice President Sharon Bianchini said.
Fees help cover costs such as transportation. Fees for intramural sports go toward transporting children to Richmond Grade School, where they play, Richards said.
The district also waived the $35 fee to participate on a Future Problem Solving team, a competitive academic program required for students in advanced language arts, said curriculum director Belinda Veillon. The program fee doesn't cover all of its costs.
Board member Mindy Ross said she wasn't sure the district should charge any fee for something that is required.
The school board will look at registration fees at its February board meeting after staff conduct a survey of what other districts charge.


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About a 25-car pile closed Interstate 78 westbound in Greenwich Township, after a band of snow hit Berks County the day after Christmas. The Interstate was closed from about 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
State Police Trooper David Boehm told The Patriot that the first call came in at 8:45 a.m. on Dec. 26, for two multiple vehicle crashes involving about 25 to 27 vehicles between mile marker 35 and 40.
Boehm estimates 44 people were treated or seen by EMS at the scene, out of which 25 were transported by ambulance to St. Joseph Medical Center, Reading Hospital and Lehigh Valley Hospital.
Boehm said the cause of the accidents was weather related.
According to a Kutztown Fire Company report, Companies 46 & 33 were dispatched at 8:46 a.m. for a reported vehicle accident with multiple vehicles and entrapment on I-78 at mile marker 38.1. Deputy 46 responded and was advised of multiple entrapments in two separate pile-ups, which involved 11 vehicles in one and 22 in the other, according to Kutztown Fire Co.
Also at the scene were Companies 44, 21and 61 as well as Lehigh 51 and fire police to shut down the Westbound side of the highway at Exit 40.
�Crews used multiple hydraulic tools to gain access to the trapped victims. EMS initiated a triage system and the most severe were quickly removed,� according to the fire report.
Kutztown Fire Company reported that there were 13 victims entrapped with two in critical condition. One victim was pinned between the guardrail and the vehicle. Emergency crews removed the rail to free the victim.
�Crews contained minor fluid spills due to the initial crash and no major spills or leaks,� reports Kutztown Fire Co.
The Patriot awaits the release of State Police reports for further details.


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BOGOTA, Colombia — A former member of the U.S. armed forces kidnapped in Colombia ignored warnings from police and hotel staff not to attempt a trek through jungle controlled by Marxist rebels.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said in a statement on its website on July 19 that it had captured a U.S. soldier named Kevin Scott Sutay on June 20 in Guaviare province, a remote jungle and cattle-ranching area in southern Colombia. The U.S. Embassy in Bogota said in an emailed statement it's working closely with Colombian authorities on the case. Sutay is a U.S. citizen with no current connection to the U.S. military, the embassy said.
A week before being abducted, Sutay said in an interview he planned to walk through more than 300 miles of rain forest to the town of Inirida, on the border with Venezuela. Staff at Hotel Las Palmas in the provincial capital of San Jose del Guaviare, where Sutay was staying before he was abducted, were so concerned for their guest's safety that they called the police, hotel administrator Adriana Sanchez said.
"I explained to him that it was dangerous, that it was an area without much military presence," Sanchez said in a telephone interview. "He kept insisting. So we called police and advised them that he wanted to make this trip, and that they should take action."
National Police officers came to the hotel and tried "many times" to dissuade Sutay from making the trip, Sanchez said.
Sutay, a lanky man in his 20s with a military-style crew cut, said he'd been discharged recently from the U.S. military, where he served in a combat unit in Afghanistan. Hotel workers advised him not to talk about his experiences in Afghanistan, Sanchez added.
"We told him it was dangerous to talk about these things in a place where anyone could be listening," she said.
Sutay is the first U.S. citizen to be held hostage by the FARC since Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves, employees of Northrop Grumman, were rescued by the Colombian army in 2008 in Guaviare province. They had been in captivity more than five years.
Michael McKinley, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, said the FARC should release Sutay as soon as possible.
"He has nothing to do with any military mission inside Colombia," McKinley said in comments Sunday to the media in Bogota. "He is a private citizen who has nothing to do with the conflict in Colombia."
Sutay said he was from Raleigh, N.C., and had mainly traveled by land through Mexico and Central America to reach Colombia. Sutay said in a June 14 interview that he planned to dodge FARC patrols by keeping off trails and pioneering across the jungle using survival skills he learned in the army.
Two days before leaving San Jose del Guaviare, he bought a machete for his trip and said he planned to use a compass to navigate through the jungle.
The FARC, in its statement, said it will release Sutay to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Marxist rebel group, which has been fighting since 1964, is in peace talks with government negotiators in Cuba.
"Despite our right to hold the soldier Kevin Scott as a prisoner of war, we have taken the decision to free him as a gesture that is framed by the atmosphere of the talks in Havana with the Colombian government in search of an agreement to end the social and armed conflict in our country," FARC said.


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Bonfire night is soon approaching and I'm a little worried how Sally is going to react. This will be her first Bonfire Night as she was born in February. We have been invited to a family members house where we take Sally regularly so she is familiar with the surroundings. We will have to take Sally as we have nobody to look after her but obviously I'll stay indoors with her. There will be fireworks but no bonfire. I'm worried Sally will be terrified of the fireworks and maybe we should give it a miss and stay at home but then she'll still here neightbours fireworks. Any suggestions?


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Three schools in Lowndes County will receive a total of $232,000 as part of the State Board of Education's Pay for Performance Program.
"It's a major effort towards school improvement. It is a school improvement plan. The teachers commit to it and they know if they do it, they'll be rewarded. That's an incentive but it's school improvement and the emphasis is on student achievement," says Iris Mathis.
In order to receive the reward, a proposal must first be submitted to the state with objectives for improving student achievement. If the proposal is approved, the teachers must carry out initiatives for the next year. Teachers say the cash incentive is a positive reward.
"It benefits both the teachers and the students both. It motivates both of them monetarily and also to strive and meet curriculum goals and such," Ken Overman says.
Seventy percent of the objectives accomplished at Hahira Elementary were academic. Teachers created programs to help improve math, reading, writing and performance on state tests. Other initiatives include more creative programs like a stock market simulation for fifth graders. Hahira school officials say the approved proposal also required teachers to become more active in writing grants.
"We committed to have fifty percent of our teams here to procure some kind of grant to implement some kind of innovative programs in their classroom," adds Iris.
At Hahira Elementary, teachers decide how to spend the money. They plan to split it up among all school employees.
A total of 68 schools received more than $5.8 million in the 2002 school year from the Georgia Pay for Performance Plan.


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On June 19, 2013, the Walton County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Children and Families was conducting a joint investigation involving methamphetamine being manufactured at a home on Chestnut Street in DeFuniak Springs, Florida; the residence of Aaron M Miller, 31 and Leia Lee, 28.
While at the home, Investigators observed items in plain view that are associated with the "Shake and Bake" method of producing methamphetamine.
A search warrant was obtained for the residence and a more thorough search was conducted. The search revealed all the necessary ingredients for the "Shake and Bake" method of producing methamphetamine.
There was also a trafficking amount of methamphetamine located that exceeded 200 grams, syringes for injection, and plastic bags used for sale.
Miller was not at the residence at the time of the search. On June 24 investigators located Miller back at the home. He was placed under arrest and charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, a second degree felony; trafficking in methamphetamine, a first degree felony and possession of drug paraphernalia, a first degree misdemeanor.


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Great day in Oklahoma, bright sunshine, weather in the 80's and the OKC Thunder begin their NBA Championship series with the Miami Heat tonight. WWEShop is still offering 25% off JR's products at http://www/wweshop.com/Category/JimRoss. Let's start the grill....
Random Thoughts on things hither and yon:
Three hour TV shows are daunting and must be approached with extensive, long term planning and preparation. I enjoyed many elements of Monday Night Raw but watching ANY TV show for three hours isn't easy for me.
Hopefully, three hour Monday Night Raw's will provide more multiple segment wrestling matches and not more talk. Yep, old school guy here...I like the wrestling, drama, athleticism, and personal issues better than most talk.
Don't get me wrong, a focused, passionate, entertaining in ring promo that engages the live audience and takes us fans on a ride and closer to the talent's intended destination is still money. Unfortunately, an adlibbed, spontaneous promo is becoming a lost art.
Huge night for AJ who I thought was one of the standouts of the night in Hartford. Her TV persona is one of the more intriguing ones on WWE programming and AJ, for my money, is the most interesting female in WWE at this time.
@HeelZiggler aka Dolph Ziggler had a significant night. Opportunity knocks for Ziggler and I hope that he capitalizes on it. I've long been an advocate of Ziggler's and have felt that he's deserving of main event opportunities. I hope Ziggler and Sheamus, another one of my favorites, blow the PPV up on Sunday. That's how you don't get put on ignore...steal the show.
It's all about maximizing those minutes and seizing the moment when opportunity knocks.
Ziggler and Christian had a helluva outing in the waning moments of the Fatal Fourway. @Christian4Peeps is vastly underrated by some who aren't as smart as they perceive that they actually are.
Loved the return of Vader on Raw. Leon White aka Vader has lost a bunch of weight after getting north or the 400 pound mark and looked to be 330ish the last time that I saw him which was down in Tampa a few weeks ago. Vader's son is 'Jake Carter' who is one half of the Florida Tag Team Champions along with Cory Graves.
For those asking I have no idea if Vader's appearance is a one off or if he will be back occasionally. I can't see him in full time but, again, I don't know.
Big Show showed amazing restraint listening to John Cena verbally brow beat the World's Largest Athlete before physicality broke out. I'd expect that the newly minted, giant sized villain will be particularly impressive come No Way Out Sunday on PPV.
'Jim Ross' Trending on Twitter during Raw was a surprise. The Hornswoggle/Mr. McMahon skit impersonating yours truly must have struck a nerve with some folks. The Boss and 'Swoggle made for a comedic pair. Sell 'da Sauce!
By the way, you can follow me on Twitter @JRsBBQ.
This just in....several items of JR's products are currently out of stock at WWEShop due to the heavy increase in sales/orders. Fresh inventory is in route and it will be business as usual in a mere matter of days. Order yours at http://www.wweshop.com/Category/JimRoss. I apologize for any inconvenience as there is no excuse for running out of inventory this time of the year, or anytime for that matter, including it being Father's Day upcoming.
The 1000 episode of Raw is Monday July 23 in St. Louis and I'd expect that the fans in attendance and watching at home will enjoy many nostalgic and surprising moments. I'm asked daily if I'm going to be there and I can only answer that if invited that I will certainly attend. My best days in WWE were sitting at ringside for Monday Night Raw during some of the most challenging and crucial times WWE ever experienced. Loved those days and consider them the best days of my career...so far. I'm only hoping that the fans in St. Louis pack the place.
The FCW tryout camp last week was really a positive experience for me and I'm anxious to see who out of that group of 20 something athletes got offers. I saw a handful of individuals who I think just might have something special. No one can say for sure until each athlete begins training.
Looking forward to heading to Orlando this week for the NXT taping at Full Sail University on Thursday evening. I expect a faster paced, more audience friendly taping with some great action Thursday night. I love the atmosphere there and the passion that the talents bring to Full Sail as the rebranding of NXT continues. If you can join us, I think that you will have a great time.
Wish my pal John Layfield aka JBL @jclayfield the very best of luck in his mountain climbing challenge that starts in a matter of days in Russia. John and I have often talked about how we 'think' that we would have kicked ass had we ever worked regularly together at the announce table. John's work with at risk kids in Bermuda is heartwarming. JBL is a guy who reinvented himself multiple times in WWE and his athletic competitive spirit pushed him to become one of the best performers ever in WWE. A true success story and one of my luckiest hires. When one hires highly motivated, extroverted, talented jocks, often times the results are favorable for all involved.
Off topic...but steel cage matches were one can win via escaping the cage is akin to calling grilling "BBQ'ing." It's somewhat close but not actually the real deal....in one guy's opinion.
I thought that @JerryLawler and @MichaelCole both had solid nights at the announce table on Raw in Hartford. Folks don't realize how hard it is to navigate a live, three hour TV show with commercials. Better them than me unless there was a porta potty nearby.
King's Domino's Pizza was delivered backstage last night and apparently @wwejoshmathews ate it. Josh is a big JR's Beef Jerky fan. The Domino's thing is more good product placement by WWE. Smart marketing by Domino's.
Wife Jan made some badass, egg salad a day or so ago using JR's All Purpose Seasoning and Main Event Mustard. Couldn't sit still and eat it. Last night it was grilled Salmon with a JR's Original BBQ Sauce glaze.
Q&A's are updated on this website that is the best kept secret on the internet.
Getting ready to do some more writing for WWE.com. I kid them but good luck in finding my passages on the Classics section. Seriously, I enjoy writing missives for WWE.com.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Money allocated to Iraq, Afghanistan should be used elsewhere
By the end of this year, the U.S. will have fewer than 10,000 troops left in Afghanistan. The U.S. won�t technically be at war with any country. So why does President Obama want to increase the amount of money our country allocates to war funding?
I was disturbed to learn that, in his budget request of March 4, the Obama administration asked Congress for $80 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations that is in addition to core Pentagon spending of about $500 billion. This Overseas Contingency Operations account was created to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With those wars over, the account should disappear. Instead, it seems to be becoming a permanent slush fund that could help the Pentagon get around the effect of budget cuts -- a luxury that no other parts of the government have.
Marguerite Rouleau,
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text: Ganz has launched a new Facebook game for women with soap opera-like story lines filled with drama, intrigue, treachery, and forbidden love. Tail Towns Friends allows players to build and expand their land and grow their harvest businesses by selling goods to neighbors. Players can also design and decorate their own realistic country homes. The casts of mice and furry critters have juicy stories to tell as players become increasingly involved in the virtual game. Ganz has also created collectible hand-painted figurines that relate to each of the characters' story lines and "Secret Diary Goals." The Tail Towns Friends figurines are sold within the game and at specialty retail stores. To locate a store, visit http://tailtowns.ganzworld.com/store-locator.


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Ian Somerhalder Wants To Play Christian In 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'
Ian calls the role of Christian Grey a 'phenomenal opportunity,' and I fully support that.
If you think about it, The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder is a lot like Christian Grey, the titular character in E L James' glorified erotica Fifty Shades of Grey. Ian may not share Christian's tragic back story, but they're both young, charitable and smolder-y — and Ian sees the similarities too! "I absolutely would be up for that," Ian told Ryan Seacrest on April 23 when asked if he was in the running to play Christian on the big screen. "It could be amazing."
Ian revealed that, along with saving the planet, he's been getting frisky with books recently — and Fifty Shades of Grey is at the top of his summer reading list.
"I just started reading it," he revealed. "I think that would be a pretty incredible thing. Hopefully, that would pan out. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, that would be a phenomenal opportunity."
Do you think Ian would make the perfect Christian Grey, and more importantly, who could play his Anastasia Steele? (I hear he has pretty good chemistry with Nina Dobrev!) Hit up the comments section with your thoughts on Ian in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie.


text: A self-labeled "Lifestyle Music Company," Quango focuses on underground urban sounds with a world music edge. Following a brief hiatus, the label re-launched in 2001 with a slew of cutting-edge compilations including Cosmic Funk, Space Jazz, Mystic Groove, Brazilified, and Lush Life Electronica. These comps feature artists such as Thievery Corporation, Jazzanova, Truby Trio, Tosca, Funky Lowlives, and Miguel Migs.


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The Dolphins have just drafted a very excited and engaging young man in the fourth round, taking Ohio State slot receiver Brian Hartline in the fourth round.
"I'm super competitive and hate to lose," Hartline just said. "No one is ever going to out-work me. I'll do anything for our team to win."
Hartline, who is 6-2 and 195, ran a 4.58 time in the 40-yard dash at the Indy Combine. He compares himself to former Ohio State and current Indianapolis Colts receiver Anthony Gonzalez, who is his mentor.
"I like what he does," Hartline said. "I like what he brings to the table. But I'm my own player. I don't know what Miami has in mind, but whatever they have in mind I'll get the job done."
Hartline will make the team -- just about every fourth-round pick does -- but to be active on game days he's going to have to play special teams. And he's apparently ready for that.
"I'm a big kickoff coverage guy," he said. "I love cracking heads."
Hartline is getting married May 23 to a young lady named Lindsay Smith. That isn't necessarily the first thought in his mind this hour.
"I can't wait to get down there and get to work," Hartline said. "My heart is beating out of my chest right now I'm so excited."


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Tables were gaily decorated with napkins tied with bright pink ribbon bows and European garden centerpieces complimented by matching pink sparkle tulle. A ceramic tile on an easel displaying an inspirational verse was placed at each member's seat, a gift from the hostesses. Following welcoming remarks and the invocation by Mrs. Cross, guests were served a pre-selected meal featuring a choice of Trilogy Salad, Cafe Pasta or Hot and Crunchy Chicken. Dessert was a luscious frozen tiramisu.
At the conclusion of the luncheon, members traveled to the home of Ron Wade for the day's program. Mr. Wade's home is filled with a wide variety of political memorabilia and includes a replica of the presidential oval office, featured in a number of news articles and television shows. He began his collection as a child growing up in Gilmer with political buttons picked up at the Yamboree building during the Goldwater-Nixon election campaign. From that time, his fascination with politics has developed into a lifetime of collecting. He has personally known seven Presidents and has been friends with George W. Bush for many years. A number of pieces were purchased from Jackie Kennedy's collection including a chair from her bedroom and JFK's rocking chair. When an opportunity arose to purchase an exact replica of the Resolution desk used in the oval office he realized that his collection was surpassing the space in his home and the idea of recreating the oval office became a necessity. Today, the beautiful addition features not only the desk but a number of oil paintings, other pieces of furniture from the White House, a handmade rug that duplicates that in the "real" office, and even a red phone once used by presidents. The final showcase for the day was his room filled with political campaign buttons, bumper stickers, and other election memorabilia. Twentieth Century members thoroughly enjoyed their visit as have groups of tourists from around the world.
Members in attendance in addition to the hostesses included Cal Arnold, Annette Breazeale, Mikie Clark, Sandy Dean, Betty Finney, Bridgett Fowler, Jean Hamil, Annette Herrmann, Tamara Moler, Cindy Murry, Betty Orms, Rebecca Skinner, Bettye Lou Smith, Jeannie Smith. Melinda Smith, Abby Stewart, Raye White, Barbara Williams, Irma Williams, and Rolinda Shipp.


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MOSCOW — Police in Russia's capital say they have detained 1,200 Vietnamese who are in the country illegally during a pre-dawn raid on a complex of small workshops.
A statement from the Interior Ministry said today's operation found workers and their families living in unsanitary conditions. The statement did not say if they would be deported.
The detentions follow a series of sweeps of Moscow markets where hundreds of people were detained on suspicion of being in the country illegally.
Those raids followed a weekend clash at a Moscow market in which a crowd attacked police who were trying to arrest a suspected sex offender. One policeman suffered a fractured skull.
Police say the raids are aimed at stifling crime in Moscow's markets, where many workers are migrants.


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All righty then. From the list in the "never say never" post below:
- Don't drink too much. Okay, allow yourself that one night where you slug down some vodka and dance around the living room to techno trance (for the first 30 minutes) before feeling sorry for yourself and throwing a mug against a tree and railing against your fates and . . . and then just don't . . . don't allow yourself to drink yourself into a stupor where you curl into a ball in a chair and sob and fall asleep and wake up with your mouth dry and your pea-headed brain full of cotton and then unsteadily climb into your bed where you wake the next day feeling like crap on a stick that's been beaten against a tree. Don't. Find another way to cope. For that alcohol habit is not one you want to find yourself embedded in. No scenario has you drinking too much and then going, "Sure am glad I did that! I feel great now! All my problems are SOLVED!" Yeah . . . no. And especially do not drink and text . . . .
- Don't text whiny self-indulgent messages to anyone but your most trusted BFF (or post Facebook updates). No one wants to read that shit. No one wants to see your dark depressed underbelly. Believe me dangity do, that if you DO text/message/FB update with your whiny ramblings, you will forever regret it. Yes you will. YES YOU WILL! Do whatever is necessary not to bare your darkened squishy brain ramblings to anyone other than that trusted bestie. Later, when you are back to your strong kickass self, you will rather that you had not let people see a side of you that you'd have rather not—you will forever wonder if they now see you differently and not in a completely positive self-respecting I know my worth way. Remember, once again: NO ONE wants to read that shit—not even your BFF, but the contract of BFF'dom says they have to, so they have to suck it up. Only them, and you'd do the same for your BFF.
Don't further isolate yourself by further isolating yourself. Give yourself a little time–a week? two? three? four? oh oh-five? six? oops . . . seven? erk . . . to push all the nasties out of your system, and then it's time to stop wallowing. Get out with friends. Go for a drive. Invite someone(s) over. Workout. Smile at people. Talk to people. Be aware of your surroundings and remember where you once found joy. Remember that things are not all BAD, just different, and if there is some BAD, then remember it will not last forever unless you give the bad POWER—don't give away your power. Find excitement in that different—isn't this what you wanted? *Did you think this would be easy?*
- However, pertaining to Number 3, don't spend time with people you don't give a rat's big ole ass about or who don't give a rat's big old heiny about you, just so you won't feel alone. Self-Worth! Say it to yourself, in your head and then aloud: I know my worth! I am worthy! Look about your psyche-house until you find your self-worth and self-respect – are they under the bed, all dusty and rusty? Pull them out, dust them off, and let them back onto your life. Say it with me: I am worthy; I know my worth. You do not NEED people or company or that "friend" or that man or that woman or that crowd—be with the ones who give you joy, or are fun to be with/around, or you complement each other's psyches or whatever. "I am worthy; I know my worth."
Beating yourself up? Don't. Stop it. Yes, even if you've done the above. Give yourself a big fat break for being human. Beating yourself up will only make things worse. Even if you are the one who made the decision to dive into dark terrifying unknowns, who cut ties, who said, "I do not want this anymore," why are you punishing yourself? Why are you saying, "Oh well, this is what I get. This is what I deserve for shaking things up." Nope. Not reality. Be your own BFF for a while. Use this quiet solitude time to discover just what kinds of guts you have. Recognize how you are doing exactly what you wanted and needed and considered for quite some time—and did you really think it was going to be easy? Hell no! Not much worth doing and having and obtaining ever comes "Easy." Be kind to yourself. Love yourself. Give yourself some credit for Going For It, whatever that is, despite the initial feelings of grief and terror and stark-raving-madness.
- Do find gratitude—every day. Every morning take a deep breath and consider just what you are grateful for. And throughout the day, remind yourself what you are grateful for! Don't forget to let out that breath. Ha.
Do get out and breathe in some fresh air; and definitely get some exercise. Your body and your brain will love you for it, and you will feel GREAT. I promise you this. If you have never exercised, then take a simple walk, and then another, and then another, and one after that, and another after that, and feel your body grow strong and your brain feel centered.
- Do live in the NOW, not some future. Remind yourself throughout the day to calm the voices in your head, stop for a moment, and BE IN THE NOW. What scents are surrounding you? How does your skin feel when you touch it? How do your lungs feel as you fill them with air? Your feet as they connect to the ground? Find the NOW, the present, this very moment in time, and savor it. The future will come soon enough and it's rarely exactly how you envisioned it.
- Do reach out to your BFF(s) and your family. You can allow yourself a few whiny self-indulgent messages to the BFF (and maybe, MAYBE a trusted close family member), but after that, work with your besties and/or family on solutions to how you can transition from Old Life to New Life. There will have to be some grieving of the old life, even if you were ready to move on. So . . . .
- Do allow yourself to grieve. If you don't, then you are only denying what was once an important part of your life, no matter whether it wasn't all healthy or perfect or wonderful or enlightened, it was still YOUR LIFE. Grieve the old as you step into the new.


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The Golden State Warriors will try to avoid extending their losing streak to a season high four straight games when they close out a four- game road trip Saturday against the Dallas Mavericks.
The Warriors are winless so far on the swing and dropped a 99-93 decision against the Memphis Grizzlies Friday night. Stephen Curry poured in 32 points and handed out eight assists, while David Lee netted 26 points in defeat.
Klay Thompson had nine points to go along with a game-high six turnovers for the Warriors, who also lost three straight from Jan. 13-18. Golden State allowed 63 points in the first half, but held Memphis to 36 in the last two quarters.
"It was a tough loss for us. We didn't make shots," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said.
Golden State had won four in a row until this latest slide and is 14-14 outside of Oakland this season. Warriors guard Jarrett Jack missed his second straight game with a right shoulder contusion and could return Saturday.
The Warriors will host Houston on Tuesday in their return home.
Dallas will resume its five-game homestand Saturday and opened the residency with Wednesday's 105-99 triumph over the Portland Trail Blazers.
O.J. Mayo scored 28 points and veteran Vince Carter added 17 in a reserve role for the Mavericks, who won for the eighth time in 13 tries. Dirk Nowitzki finished with 16 points and eight rebounds, while Shawn Marion added 13 and 10 in a winning effort. Marion has three double-doubles in his last four games.
With the victory, Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle reached 500 career wins.
"It means I've been around a long time; I'm getting old. It's meaningful, but I'm not into those kinds of things," Carlisle said. "I'm into the day-to-day stuff. One relief I have is I think after tomorrow I won't have to hear about it again for a while, so that's good."
Carlisle's club used a 12-0 run to erase a 43-31 deficit and later grabbed a 95-86 advantage thanks to an 18-4 burst. The Mavericks held the Blazers to just 38 points in the second half, including 17 in the fourth quarter, and registered a 38-9 difference in bench scoring.
Dallas has scored 100-plus points in 11 of its last 13 games. In milestone news for Nowitzki, he needs only seven free throws to pass Wilt Chamberlain (6,057) for 15th place on the NBA's all-time list.
The Mavs are 13-9 in Big D this season and will also host Atlanta, Sacramento and Orlando on the current homestand.
Dallas has lost the first two meetings with Golden State this season, but is 8-4 in the past 12 matchups between the Western foes. The Warriors have lost 20 of 26 trips to American Airlines Center.


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The auctioneer opened the sale at $10 million. The first bid pushed that to $16 million. The final gavel fell minutes later at $27.5 million for the ultra-rare 1967 Ferrari — a world record.
MONTEREY, Calif. | The auctioneer opened the sale at $10 million. The first bid pushed that to $16 million. The final gavel fell minutes later at $27.5 million for the ultra-rare 1967 Ferrari — a world record.
The cheers got louder as the price continued to rise Saturday night in downtown Monterey, Calif., where the Ferrari 275 GTB/4*S N.A.R.T. Spyder passed to new owners from the family that originally bought the car. The final price, which included commission, makes it the most expensive road car ever sold at auction.
The sale was a highlight amid a strong night of sales for RM Auctions, which handled the Ferrari sale, and rival Gooding & Co. In all, $149 million worth of cars sold Saturday night alone.
Throughout Monterey Classic Car Week, RM, Gooding and other auction companies including Bonhams, Russo & Steele and Mecum sold $244 million in rare sheet metal through Saturday, a 15 percent increase over the same period last year. Gooding planned to host its second night of auctions Sunday night after the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance concluded.
The concours, considered the most prestigious in the world, ended Sunday afternoon with the best of show award going to a one-off 1934 Packard 1108 Twelve Dietrich Convertible Victoria. After driving his car onto the stage littered with confetti, owner Joseph Cassini said he felt like lightning had struck twice — Cassini also won best of show at the 2004 Pebble Beach Concours.
"This is the Olympics of car shows," Cassini said, flanked by his daughter and wife on the stage. "You never think you can win the Olympics twice."
The New Jersey collector bought the car three years ago, in rough shape, with the goal of showing it at Pebble Beach. It took more than two years to restore. Work on the car finished just eight days before he brought it to Pebble.
Drawing nearly as much attention as Cassini's win Sunday afternoon was Saturday's sale of the rare Ferrari.
The single-family ownership of the N.A.R.T Spyder — one of 10 built — only added to the interest and the car's record-breaking value.
Owner Eddie Smith Jr.'s late father took delivery of the car in North Carolina in 1968.
"This is a bittersweet moment for us," Smith Jr. told a packed crowd before the bidding started. "Ferraris came and went, but this one never went, thank God. We enjoyed it as a family for 45 years."
He had advice for its new owners: "Drive it, love it, enjoy it and, more importantly, share it with others so they can see it."
Smith Jr. reminded those in attendance that his family would be donating proceeds from the sale to charity.
At this, the crowd took to its feet to cheer, and many people remained on their feet as the bidding started. After the first bid of $16 million, the figure quickly jumped to $20 million, then $21 million, with each new bid drawing roars of approval from the room.
The final bid was $25 million without commission, and the crowd erupted into cheers and applause as four white-gloved attendants took to the stage to roll the red Ferrari off to its journey to a new home. The auction house has not disclosed the name of the new owner.
Saturday night's sale almost set the world record for any car sold at auction. That figure stands at $29.6 million, set in July by a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 race car.
The 275 N.A.R.T. Spyder is widely considered one of the prettiest Ferraris ever made. A bright-red version was featured in the 1968 film "The Thomas Crown Affair."
N.A.R.T. refers to the North American Racing Team, a Ferrari-backed venture created in the late 1950s to promote the brand in the U.S. at a time when the name meant little to most racing fans.
This limited run of 275 N.A.R.T. Spyders boast a 3.2-liter V-12 with six Weber carburetors, making 300 horsepower. The engine is paired with a five-speed manual transmission and four-wheel independent suspension. The car also has taller gear ratios than other 275s, to accommodate the longer straightaways of U.S. tracks.
Smith Sr., a self-made millionaire, bought the car for $14,500 when it was new, the equivalent of about $100,000 in today's dollars. Never a Ferrari collector, Smith enjoyed using the car for its intended purpose: driving. He was known throughout the small town of Lexington, N.C., for giving kids a ride in the car so they could share the experience.
Smith Jr. said the family decided to sell the car because it's been "kept in a prison" without being driven as much as their father would have liked. In keeping with Smith Sr.'s emphasis on philanthropy, the money from Saturday's sale will go to various charities in Lexington, as well as the family foundation, Smith Jr. said.


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Intrada released two new CDs this week -- Laurence Rosenthal's score for the 1989 TV movie THE FORGOTTEN, directed by James Keach and starring Keith Carradine and Steve Railsback (who also co-wrote the script); and a remastered, slightly expanded version of Jerry Goldsmith's re-recording of his own score for the 1964 Western RIO CONCHOS, including his prologue music for The Agony and the Ecstasy.
Varese Sarabande has announced two new score CDs to be released on September 3rd - ADORE (formerly titled Two Mothers), a drama about two women (Naomi Watts, Robin Wright) who have affairs with each other's adult sons, directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) and scored by fan favorite Christopher Gordon (Mao's Last Dancer, Master and Commander, Moby Dick, On the Beach, Daybreakers ); and the horror TV series HEMLOCK GROVE, scored by Nathan Barr (True Blood, Hostel 1 & 2).
The latest CD from Kriterland features John Williams' offbeat, striking score for the famously unsuccessful (but surprisingly watchable) 1976 Marlon Brando-Jack Nicholson Western THE MISSOURI BREAKS, featuring both Williams' LP re-recording (previously released on CD by Ryko and Varese Sarabande) with the previously unreleased original score tracks).
Quartet has announced two upcoming, imminent score CDs -- the first-ever release of Michael Kamen's score to CRUSOE, the 1988 film version of the Daniel Defoe classic Robinson Crusoe, with Aidan Quinn as the eponymous castaway, directed by one of the world's greatest cinematographers, Caleb Deschanel; and a CD pairing two scores previously released only on CD -- Michael Kamen's score for Neil Jordan's excellent romantic noir MONA LISA, which earned Bob Hoskins a much-deserved Best Actor Oscar nomination, and Stanley Myers and Hans Zimmer's score for Nicolas Roeg's true-life drama CASTAWAY, starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe.
La-La Land has announced several upcoming CDs, including the first commercial release of Shirley Walker's Christmas-themed thriller score for TURBULENCE (July 16) and Alan Silvestri's score for the imminent sequel RED 2 (July 30), as well as such in-development releases as a two-disc THE MATRIX RELOADED (Don Davis), POLICE ACADEMY (Robert Folk) and THE WARRIORS (Barry DeVorzon).
Blondy - Stelvio Cipriani - Quartet
Byzantium - Javier Navarrete - Silva (import)
Cicciolina Amore Mio - Gianni Marchetti - Beat
Copperhead - Laurent Eyquem - Varese Sarabande
The Far Horizons/The Secret of the Incas - Hans J. Salter, David Buttolph - Kritzerland
The Forgotten - Laurence Rosenthal - Intrada Special Collection
Game of Thrones: Season Three - Ramin Djawadi - Watertower
Il Tigre - Fred Bongusto - GDM
Io La Conscevo Bene - Piero Piccioni - Beat
La Banca Di Monate - Carlo Rustichelli - Digitmovies
La Grande Notte Di Ringo - Armando Trovajoli - Digitmovies
La Leggenda Della Pianista - Ennio Morricone - Digitmovies
Leonor - Ennio Morricone - GDM
Pacific Rim - Ramin Djawadi - Watertower [CD-R]
Rio Conchos/The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint - Jerry Goldsmith - Intrada
Stark System - Ennio Morricone - Beat
Timanfaya - Stelvio Cipriani - Quartet
Waiting for Lightning - Nathan Furst - Lakeshore [CD-R]
Fruitvale Station - Ludwig Goransson
Grown Ups 2 - Rupert Gregson-Williams
The Hot Flashes - Marcelo Zarvos
The Hunt - Nikolaj Egelund
Pacific Rim - Ramin Djawadi - Score CD-R on Watertower
Still Mine - Hugh Marsh, Don Rooke, Michelle Willis
July 16
Beneath - Fall on Your Sword - Milan
The Conjuring - Joseph Bishara - La-La Land
The Legend of Korra - Jeremy Zuckerman - Nickolodeon/Sony
Only God Forgives - Cliff Martinez - Milan
Turbo - Henry Jackman, songs - Relativity Media
Turbulence - Shirley Walker - La-La Land
Young Justice - Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion, Kristopher Carter - La-La Land
July 23
The Hangover Trilogy - Christophe Beck - Varese Sarabande
The Lone Ranger - Hans Zimmer - Intrada/Disney
The Smurfs 2 - Heitor Pereira - Varese Sarabande
White House Down - Thomas Wander, Harald Kloser - Varese Sarabande
July 30
Caprica (the series) - Bear McCreary - La-La Land
Red 2 - Alan Silvestri - La-La Land
The Wolverine - Marco Beltrami - Sony
August 6
Elysium - Ryan Amon - Varese Sarabande
Planes - Mark Mancina - Disney
Prince Avalanche - David Wingo, Explosions in the Sky - Temporary Residence
August 13
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das - J. Mascis, Devadas - Varese Sarabande
August 20
Kick-Ass 2 - Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson - La-La Land
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones - Atli Orvarsson - Milan
September 3
Adore - Christopher Gordon - Varese Sarabande
Hemlock Grove - Nathan Barr - Varese Sarabande
The Vikings - Trevor Morris - Sony (import)
September 10
The X-Files, Vol. 2 - Mark Snow - La-La Land
Date Unknown
Arthur of the Britons - Elmer Bernstein, Paul Lewis - Silva
Crusoe - Michael Kamen - Quartet
The Hour - Daniel Giorgetti, Kevin Sargent - Silva
I, the Jury - Bill Conti - La-La Land
The Missouri Breaks - John Williams - Kritzerland
Mona Lisa/Castaway - Michael Kamen, Stanley Myers/Hans Zimmer - Quartet
Once Upon a Time: Season Two - Mark Isham - Intrada
The Paradise - Mario Malagnini - Silva
Revenge - iZLER - Intrada
Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope - Blake Neely - Buysoundtrax
Star Trek: Music from the Video Games - various - Buysoundtrax
Wyatt Earp - James Newton Howard - La-La Land
July 12 - James Bernard died (2001)
July 12 - Benny Carter died (2003)
July 12 - Fred Steiner's score for the Star Trek episode "Who Mourns For Adonais?" is recorded (1967)
July 12 - Fred Steiner's score for the Star Trek episode "Elaan of Troyius" is recorded (1968)
July 13 - Ernest Gold born (1921)
July 13 - You Only Live Twice opens in New York (1967)
July 14 - Michel Michelet born (1894)
July 14 - J.A.C. Redford born (1953)
July 15 - Geoffrey Burgon born (1941)
July 15 - Bill Justis died (1982)
July 16 - Fred Myrow born (1939)
July 16 - Stewart Copeland born (1952)
July 17 - Wojciech Kilar born (1932)
July 17 - Peter Schickele born (1935)
July 17 - Stanley Wilson died (1970)
July 17 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to Babe (1975)
July 17 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score to Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
July 18 - David Shire records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Hell Toupee"(1985)
THE LONE RANGER - Hans Zimmer
"With tips of the 10-gallon chapeau to old Hollywood westerns (the John Ford vistas) and to spaghetti westerns (the Ennio Morricone-like soundtrack twang), Verbinski's opus oater looks beautiful, and plays smart. And yes, they even work kemosabe in there. Hi-yo, Silver! Away!"
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
"When 'The William Tell Overture,' the Ranger's theme song since his radio days in the 1930s, finally blares on the soundtrack after being sneakily withheld for much of the picture, the effect is so rousing that you levitate in your seat a little bit. Made at a reported cost of a whopping $250 million, 'The Lone Ranger' certainly looks wonderful, with beautiful John Ford-style vistas, a score inspired by Ennio Morricone and action set pieces that minimize the use of CGI whenever possible."
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
"And as satisfying as it is to hear snatches of Rossini's 'William Tell Overture' and hear a stirring 'Hi-Yo, Silver,' it's just as sad to report that although this Lone Ranger is good at helping strangers, rescuing his own film is beyond even him."
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"While the movie does indeed have all sorts of potentially objectionable fun with the Lone Ranger ideal, put forward so seriously in the old television series, the fact of the matter is that the revival of the character here is merely a pretext to allow Verbinski and company to pay goofy tribute to pretty much every Western ever made. I hope someone made sure to pay Ennio Morricone residuals on the leitmotif from the score of 'Once Upon A Time In The West' that Hans Zimmer's score quotes from so frequently."
Glenn Kenny, MSN.com
"Presumably, the myth will be burnished in future installments, although it's difficult to foresee 'The Lone Ranger' becoming an international hit. No doubt the baby boomers who grew up with the original forms will smile when the 'William Tell Overture' kicks in during the film's climactic sequence, but director Gore Verbinski's strenuous efforts to inject enough violence, spectacle and action to make 'The Lone Ranger' comprehensible to foreign audiences wind up making way too much of way too little."
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
"Adding insult to injury, racism isn't even 'The Lone Ranger''s only problem. There's also its bloated length; its score, which dares to introduce an Ennio Morricone homage into a film Sergio Leone wouldn't line his gatto's litter box with; its waste of some great character actors (Barry Pepper, William Fichtner); its assumption that having random characters ask the Lone Ranger 'What's with the mask?' over and over is the funniest joke ever; and its failure to follow through on its few inventive elements -- that herd of Monty Python-inspired rabbits, for example."
Cheryl Eddy, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Still, there's no denying that Verbinski is good at this stuff. When the train is speeding along, and the Lone Ranger is riding his white horse on top of the train, and Tonto is dancing to avoid bullets, and a bridge the size of Hoover Dam is about to be blown up, and 'The William Tell Overture' is finally -- finally! - budda-bump budda-bumping away, your heart races a little bit, and you realize: This is why I wanted to see this movie!"
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"There are some shameless thefts from Sergio Leone's great 'Once Upon a Time in the West,' which include not only the railroad-baron plot but specific sound effects. (The soundtrack even occasionally apes Ennio Morricone's brilliant score.)"
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
"There are likable nods to 'Once Upon a Time in the West' (in particular a railroad subplot and the oscillating dramatic score), 'Little Big Man,' 'The Searchers,' and 'The Bridge on the River Kwai.' The final action sequence (also set on a train) proves to be as exhausting as the first was amusing, with the body count escalating unpleasantly and the 'William Tell Overture' -- used sparingly throughout most of the film—commencing to trample everything in its path."
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
"There's a terrific scene in 'The Lone Ranger' that reminds you it was directed by Gore Verbinski, the crazily inventive skipper behind the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies. While two runaway trains careen down parallel tracks toward a dynamited bridge, a masked lawman on a white stallion gallops through and atop the passenger compartments, a fearlessly gymnastic Indian leaps and swings between the locomotives, a damsel and her son evade pistol-packing outlaws from several directions, and the cavalry charges through the rugged canyons -- all to the rousing tune of 'The William Tell Overture.' Unfortunately, that scene is preceded by two hours of tedium."
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
THE WAY, WAY BACK - Rob Simonsen
"Let us assume this film's title refers to its young protagonist's self-assigned seat in the family station wagon, from which he bursts free to a heartstring-tugging music swell near the end."
Jonathan Kiefer, SF Weekly
Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
July 12
AMERICAN GIGOLO (Giorgio Moroder), LIGHT SLEEPER (Michael Been) [UCLA]
BADLANDS (George Aliceson Tipton) [Cinematheque: Aero]
CLUELESS (David Kitay) [AMPAS]
FLASH GORDON (Queen, Howard Blake), BARBARELLA (Bob Crewe, Charles Fox) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Silent Movie Theater]
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (John DuPrez), TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: SECRET OF THE OOZE (John DuPrez) [Silent Movie Theater]
July 13
CAT PEOPLE (Giorgio Moroder), DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST (Angelo Badalamenti, Trevor Rabin) [UCLA]
KING KONG (Max Steiner) [AMPAS]
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Silent Movie Theater]
PUSHER (Povl Kristian, Peter Peter), WITH BLOOD ON MY HANDS: PUSHER II (Peter Peter), I'M THE ANGEL OF DEATH: PUSHER III (Peter Peter) [New Beverly]RAGING BULL [Cinematheque: Aero]
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (George M. Cohan, Ray Heindorf, Heinz Roemheld) [UCLA]
July 14
THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN, THE SONG OF SONGS [Cinematheque: Aero]
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Silent Movie Theater]
July 15
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (Maurice Jarre), REALITY BITES (Karl Wallinger) [New Beverly]
HARDCORE (Jack Nitzsche), LIGHT OF DAY (Thomas Newman) [UCLA]
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Silent Movie Theater]
July 16
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (Maurice Jarre), REALITY BITES (Karl Wallinger) [New Beverly]
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Silent Movie Theater]
LE SAMOURAI (Francois de Roubaix) [Silent Movie Theater]
A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Laurence Rosenthal) [LACMA]
July 17
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (Mike Patton), BLUE VALENTINE (Grizzly Bear) [New Beverly]
RISKY BUSINESS (Tangerine Dream) [AMPAS]
X - THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (Les Baxter) [Silent Movie Theater]
July 18
THE FULLER BRUSH MAN (Heinz Roemheld) [Cinematheque: Aero]
LA VIE DE JESUS (Richard Cuvillier) [LACMA]
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Silent Movie Theater]
MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM, DR. X [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (Mike Patton), BLUE VALENTINE (Grizzly Bear) [New Beverly]
July 19
BATHING BEAUTY (Johnny Green), TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (Adolph Deutsch) [Cinematheque: Aero]
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Wendy Carlos) [Nuart]
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Miklos Rozsa) [LACMA]
ERASERHEAD (David Lynch) [Silent Movie Theater]
PATTY HEARST (Scott Johnson), AUTO FOCUS (Angelo Badalamenti) [UCLA]
POINT BREAK (Mark Isham) [AMPAS]
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Nigel Godrich) [New Beverly]
SOLARIS (Edward Artemyev) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (Franz Waxman), ADAM'S RIB (Miklos Rozsa) [New Beverly]
WONDERWALL (George Harrison) [Silent Movie Theater]
July 20
BIG (Howard Shore) [AMPAS]
THE SACRIFICE, THE MIRROR (Edward Artemyev) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE (Dave Grusin), BUSTING (Billy Goldenberg), MACHO CALLAHAN (Patrick Williams) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE WITNESSES (Philippe Sarde) [UCLA]
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (Franz Waxman), ADAM'S RIB (Miklos Rozsa) [New Beverly]
July 21
AFFLICTION (Michael Brook), BLUE COLLAR (Jack Nitzsche)
ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (James William Guercio), CORKY (John Parker, Jerry Styner) [Silent Movie Theater]
ENTER THE DRAGON (Lalo Schifrin) [Arclight Hollywood]
NOSTALGHIA [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE STING (Marvin Hamlisch), SLAP SHOT (Elmer Bernstein) [New Beverly]
U2 3D [Cinematheque: Aero]


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Dear Buck:
You mentioned in a column on the safety of the U.S. 34 bridge over Interstate 25 that it is not designed for pedestrians or bicyclists. Where can bicyclists safely cross I-25 in Loveland? We love to bike and are considering a move to Loveland. We would like to be able to bike to all the amenities Loveland has to offer.
Signed, Avid Two-Wheeler
Dear Two-Wheeler: There are two places to bike across Interstate 25 in Loveland and a few more in the region if you want a longer trip, according to Dave Klockeman, Loveland city engineer. The interchange at Crossroads Boulevard includes sidewalks/bicycle lanes under the interstate with access to The Ranch to the north and Centerra to the south.
Also, South County Road 24E, which connects with Boyd Lake Road, crosses over a bridge and connects with the East Frontage Road, Klockeman said. From there, Ronald Reagan Parkway to the north extends to the 25-34 development. Or cyclists can turn onto Thompson Parkway from Ronald Reagan to connect with Centerra.
Another option is Colorado 392 (the Windsor exit) with new pedestrian and bike lanes spanning a brand new bridge a few miles north of Crossroads Boulevard.
Future improvements, though not yet scheduled or designed, could add cycling capability at U.S. 34.
Buck Thompson finds answers to questions regarding life in Loveland. Send your questions to 201 E. Fifth St., Loveland CO 80537; or to email@example.com.


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Stories from Bangladesh
Bangladesh has one of the highest child malnutrition rates in the world, with 43 percent of under-fives stunted (chronically malnourished). Particularly in rural areas, children's diets are woefully short of essential micronutrients. A product known as the Pushti Packet is already available, but WFP is working with GAIN to improve its recipe to make it more effective in the prevention and reduction of child malnutrition.
Research and development is ongoing, and WFP is working with internationally renowned Bangladeshi institute ICDDRB in this process. Pilot batches from local manufacturers must be tested for shelf-life and acceptability amongst mothers and their children. The aim is to produce at least three recipes, which will then be tested for their efficacy and effectiveness for preventing malnutrition.
It is intended that the developed product would be available for use by the Government of Bangladesh, WFP, or any other credible organisation whose objectives are to prevent child malnutrition.


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The more you learn about Vivian Maier, the more you want to know.
Her story is a bit bizarre, one of an obscure Chicago nanny who kept to herself as she roamed the city with a camera. A couple years before her death in 2009, thousands of her images were discovered in an abandoned storage locker.
Those images have captured worldwide acclaim.
As much as they each tell a story, so does the life Maier led.
It's a story about the power of photography and the value of each individual, said Richard Cahan, co-author of "Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows."
He and co-author Michael Williams sought to tell Maier's story for years.
"I instantly, like many other people around the world, just became intrigued," said Cahan, a photojournalist and editor who first learned about Maier in 2009 after the contents of her storage locker had been auctioned, the images discovered and shown on one of the first websites featuring her work.
Cahan and Williams sought to do more than offer simply a portfolio of Maier's work through the years.
"We always ask, 'What do these pictures mean?'" Cahan said. "We view pictures as kind of the building blocks of a movie or a story. We spent about a year really tracking down everything we could find out about Vivian."
A nanny on Chicago's North Shore in the 1960s and '70s, Maier was born in New York City but spent most of her childhood in France before returning to the United States.
Living in squalor toward the end of her life, possibly homeless for a time, her more than 100,000 abandoned negatives were auctioned for pennies.
At the end of her life, the children she had nannied paid for an apartment for her and took care of her. The contents of her storage locker were auctioned unbeknownst to them due to delinquent payments.
Maier often hid her photos from the eyes of others throughout her life. Upon discovery, the images have been displayed at museums, including "Vivian Maier's Chicago" at the Chicago History Museum, and are now being archived and catalogued.
"For those who have never seen the work, I think they will be engaged with Vivian's life story, and they'll be thrilled with the aesthetic beauty of the pictures," Cahan said. "For people who know the story, I think there's this moment that people just find it hard to believe one person could have taken so many beautiful photographs."
Her images depict the children she cared for, historic landmarks and cherished sites in Chicago as well as random people, often destitute.
They range from leaves on a street to a mother pushing a baby in a stroller to a man jumping over a puddle.
"We've seen all of her pictures before in our lives," Cahan said. "Most photography that we see are pictures taken by people who have access to things we don't have every day, sitting in a dugout of a Cubs game or at Cape Canaveral. ... Vivian didn't have a press pass. She took the bus and she took the train and walked around her neighborhood. We've seen all this stuff before, but whoever would have thought about taking a camera and photographing it.
"Now a lot of us are doing that with Instagram pictures. She was really 40 years ahead of her time."
Although she lived a rather clandestine life, she somehow connected with the people in her images, even if only for the minutes it took to take their pictures, Cahan said.
In researching Maier and creating the book, Cahan said he became even more inspired to appreciate the richness of life.
He and Williams are working on a follow-up book about Maier, likely titled "Eye to Eye," and focusing more on the photographs she took of subjects looking directly at her.
"Ultimately, I think one of the messages I hope to have come across is that we live in a world where many people are somewhat outsiders. They live in the fringes," Cahan said. "We don't take our time to talk to them or understand them or appreciate them. I think that's one of the most interesting things about Vivian.
"I keep thinking about her. Everyone has a tremendous net worth, and we don't have time to get to know people. There are hundreds of Vivians out there, maybe not photographers, but as people they have a lot to tell us," he said.


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Former Australian water polo representative Keli Lane has formally lodged an appeal against her conviction for the 1996 murder of her baby daughter, Tegan.
And Lane is now set to make an application to be released on bail pending the appeal hearing.
Lane was found guilty by a Supreme Court jury in December 2010 after a four-month trial – a decision which has caused considerable debate within the legal fraternity and the wider community.
Tegan's body was never found and therefore no cause of death was ever determined.
On Friday Ms Lane's solicitor, Ben Archbold, formally lodged eight grounds of appeal.
This included the argument that the trial judge, Justice Anthony Whealy, should have instructed the jury that manslaughter and infanticide were alternative charges to consider when deciding on their verdict.
Lane's defence team, which Mr Archbold said would be led by defence barrister Winston Terracini SC, will also argue that the Crown Prosecutor in the case, Mark Tedeschi, QC, reversed the onus of proof in his closing address by positing a series of questions that he said the defence had to answer.
In criminal trials the prosecution must prove a person's guilt, rather than the defence proving their innocence.
"Keli's confident because she hasn't done anything wrong," Mr Archbold said.
"She really does maintain her innocence. It's been a long fight and she's looking forward to her appeal and she's excited by it."
He said the defence team would also lodge an application for bail which they expected to be heard early next year.
"We believe that the grounds of appeal warrant her being on the outside. It's going to be a lengthy appeal ... a person shouldn't remain languishing in custody.
"There's been no baby found, there's been no cause of death – nothing can be ruled out."
The developments come after the trial's presiding judge, retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Whealy, QC, revealed to Fairfax he did not personally believe the Crown had proved its case against Lane, and he was unconvinced of her guilt.
Lane, the trial heard, had multiple secret pregnancies in the 1990s, two ending in termination and two in adoption. Tegan was born at Auburn hospital on September 12, 1996, and within hours of her discharge two days later, Lane appeared at a friend's wedding without the infant. The child has not been seen since.
Among the points to be argued on the appeal is that the guilty verdict was unsafe, as it cannot be supported by the evidence.
In documents seen by Fairfax Media, it is submitted that the body of Tegan Lane – if she is dead – has never been discovered, or located, meaning that the Crown cannot point to any deliberate act done by Lane to cause her death.


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Another $250 authentic down the damn drain"Several" league executives tell CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora that they would not be surprised if LeGarrette Blount were shipped out of Tampa Bay prior to Tuesday's 4PM ET trade deadline.
The same execs named Rams WR Steve Smith, Browns QB Colt McCoy, and Dolphins QB Matt Moore as trade candidates, although the latter is much less likely with Ryan Tannehill coming off Week 8 knee and quad injuries. A Blount trade would probably the the least surprising of the group. The Bucs can move forward with D.J. Ware and rookie Michael Smith behind featured workhorse Doug Martin. We suspect they couldn't get back more than a sixth- or seventh-round pick.