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Edythe Abdullah, Luther Coggin, Toni Crawford, Wilfredo Gonzalez, Wanyonyi Kendrick, Judith Solano, Bruce Taylor, Carol Thompson, Kevin Twomey, Jerry Watterson.
O'Neal Douglas, Steve Halverson, Ann Hicks.
Chair Thompson called the meeting to order. She remarked on the length of the agenda, stating that although there were a number of items to be dealt with there would probably be little deliberation as trustees had discussed most of the items in committee meetings and the budget workshops. She said she wished to delay her report until the end of the meeting during the item on the presidential evaluation.
President Delaney said he had three brief items to discuss. In response to an earlier request from Trustee Gonzalez regarding homeland security measures for the University, President Delaney passed out material from the chief of the UNF Police Department. He announced that the Board of Governors would meet at UNF on July 22 and 23. The University would host a reception, dinner, and a musical performance for trustees and other invited guests beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center. The third item pertained to a report from Consumer's Digest. President Delaney said UNF had been ranked number seven for best bargains in a comparison of public universities across the U.S.
Chair Thompson said that Trustee Coggin would give the report for the Educational Policy Committee in Trustee Hicks' absence.
Trustee Coggin asked Provost Kline to talk about the item on tenure nominations. Dr. Kline noted that the tenure process had been discussed during a number of BOT and committee meetings in the past, so he would limit his discussion to the item at hand. He said that generally during the tenure process there was review at every level. This was the case in most of the current tenure recommendations, with the exception of two: Dr. Gerard Giordano and Dr. Stephan Nix, who were newly hired and would be appointed with tenure. He asked if there were any questions. When no questions were forthcoming, Trustee Coggin motioned on behalf of the committee to approve the tenure nominations. No second was required. The motion passed unanimously.
Trustee Coggin also asked Dr. Kline to report on the legislative budget requests. Dr. Kline said the requests were for the current legislative session. He said that, though UNF had not been as aggressive as it could have been in the past, this year's requests were more substantial and were based on initiatives the deans and university administration felt were likely to be supported by the State. The first request included support for an additional cohort in the nursing program. Initially funded in part through assistance from eight local area hospitals, UNF would now assume the cost of continuing the program. There was also a need for nurse anesthetists. A request to support such a program was included in UNF's first priority. UNF's second priority addressed the need for teachers. There were a number of proposals for this area including funding for more special education, math, and science teachers, as well as a collaborative undergraduate program with local community colleges, and a program to improve the preparation of secondary level teachers. In the areas of information technology and engineering, a networking degree was being developed with FCCJ, and funding for staffing for the new video conferencing facilities had been requested. Funding for research into mosquito control was requested for a program related to the genomics and biotechnology of mosquito control in Florida and beyond. The final request was for the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, including a collaborative effort with Mayo to assist with business curriculum and business development support for Mayo Clinic's Biomedical Translational Research Program.
Trustee Kendrick expressed her excitement about the new networking degree in progress with FCCJ. She noted the need for more graduates from the computer sciences and said the degree was a great example of reaching out to the community and providing the right programs to meet community needs. She thanked everyone involved in the effort for a job well done. Trustee Coggin proffered a motion to approve the requests and they were approved unanimously.
Trustee Coggin said he had the privilege of serving on many boards and committees and had always been assigned to the finance committees. He said this had been his first opportunity to serve on an education committee and he was really enjoying it. He joked that he was getting quite an education and thanked the committee and University staff for their work on the latest issues before the Board. He then asked Ms. Monell to discuss the Florida Educational Equity Act Report.
Ms. Monell went over the highlights of the report, noting that minority graduate enrollment had increased steadily over the past five years, as had the rate of program completion among minority graduate students, and that the percentage of females participating in graduate programs at UNF continued to be a strength. She said that FTIC enrollment rates had remained fairly stable over the past five years with some minor fluctuations. Student retention rates fell within an acceptable range, but graduation rates for some minority groups had lagged behind that of white students' graduation rates, though the rates for Asian/Pacific Islanders and Hispanics typically exceed white students' graduation rates. Ms. Monell said Academic Affairs would work closely with the Academic Center for Excellence to ensure early intervention programs at the freshman/sophomore levels.
Ms. Monell said the University continued to demonstrate compliance with Title IX, with significant improvement from five years ago. With respect to scholarship support, UNF had made and achieved a commitment to enhance scholarships for female athletes. Two areas of non-compliance related to programmatic factors were noted: 1) In the area of coaching staff, another full-time female assistant coach was needed. The position is to be filled by August 1, 2005 to address this area of non-compliance. 2) Locker rooms were still needed for women's swimming and diving teams. This issue should be addressed by a fund-raising campaign for athletics this fall.
Regarding employment, UNF continued to make steady progress in meeting goals to hire or promote women and minorities in areas identified as underrepresented. The FEEA draft report was submitted to the Office of Equity and Access (OEA) on April 30 as required. Preliminary feedback from the OEA indicated the need for some minor revisions to the report, due back by June 30, she said.
Trustee Abdullah remarked that it was an impressive report and commended Ms. Monell. For her second year of viewing the report, she said, she could see the progress. Referring to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, she asked for the figures specifically on African American males in relation to enrollment and graduation rates. She said the article indicated that African American males were lagging far behind nationally and wished to see how UNF compared. Ms. Monell stated that though she did not have the exact figures, all males were lagging behind in enrollment and graduation rates.
Trustee Taylor said his understanding was that the University's goal was to have enrollment figures reflect the actual distribution of the population for the service area. He asked for those numbers. Ms. Monell replied that her office had originally included the figures but had been asked not to include them by the OEA. She said she would be happy to share the data with the Board. President Delaney agreed that it would be pertinent information for the Board and estimated the African American population for the area at 25%, which, he said, would indicate under-enrollment for that group.
Trustee Coggin said the Educational Policy Committee had studied the report and recommended its approval. All of the trustees voted in favor of the motion.
Chair Thompson expressed appreciation for the FAC chair and committee for their efforts on the budget. Trustee Twomey added his thanks to university staff and the committee, as well as the other trustees who had participated, stating that the committee and staff had worked on the budget for two to three months, often going through the information twice in order to come to an understanding of the process.
Trustee Twomey said he would not run trustees through the numbers again but would summarize instead. He said the first item for discussion was the PECO request, which was consistent with the University's strategic plan and university commitments. He recommended approval of the request and the Board agreed, voting unanimously in favor.
Trustee Twomey quipped that he was fairly certain trustees were in favor of prompt payment in any case. Vice President Shuman asked for permission to institute some non-substantive modifications requested by the State. The rule was unanimously approved with any modifications required by the State.
Trustee Twomey said that with devolution, the University now needed a bank account. After establishing authority to enter into banking agreements, lengthy discussion of policies and procedures, and a competitive bidding process, he said, the banking resolution for Wachovia was before the Board for approval. Trustees approved the agreement unanimously.
Trustee Twomey referred trustees to section 6D for data on the proposed rate increases. He said the increases were for the 2005/06 academic year to provide information for student recruitment. The average increase he estimated to be in the 4 to 5% range. He noted that the increases were consistent with the market and with the University's need to maintain appropriate reserves and coverage of various debts.
Trustee Twomey stated that Dr. Gonzalez had explained the process for building consensus on campus to the committee and he asked Vice President Gonzalez to address an earlier question from Trustee Watterson from the committee meeting regarding Mr. Watterson's involvement in the process. Dr. Gonzalez replied that he had met with Mr. Watterson and Vice President Shuman to go over the budget and Trustee Watterson had agreed with their findings. Trustee Twomey said he believed the increases were reasonable and appropriate and asked for their approval. The Board voted to instate the increases.
Vice President Shuman related that a location had been found for the union on or near the current location of Wackadoos. That tract had been determined to be the best area for involvement from alumni, students, patrons, etc. Funding for the union was progressing well, and Ms. Shuman said the University was in the process of looking for an architect. In response to a question from Trustee Solano, Ms. Shuman said that E & G funds could only be used for furniture and equipment and noted that the $2 million allotted for this purpose had been committed earlier under Interim President Kline.
Trustee Twomey commented on the process for developing the budget, stating that it had been very interesting and that he and the committee had learned a great deal, generating enthusiasm for this year's budget and even more enthusiasm for the coming year. He said it was a favorable budget with the appropriate reserves and demonstrated good financial strength. He complimented President Delaney on the work he had done in fundraising for the University and asked the president to comment on the budget. President Delaney said the University had been able to deal with some of the priorities this year, thanking the Board and past administrations for the ability to do so. He noted a significant increase in pay for faculty and staff, as well as in the monies available for research and scholarships. He said the budget allowed UNF to direct money in accord with the ongoing strategic planning.
Trustee Gonzalez remarked that he had graduated Magna Cum Laude – his only C had been in economics. He complimented Vice President Shuman for her explanation of the budget process, stating that he would have made a much better grade had she been his teacher in college. Trustee Twomey concurred, noting that he had been through many budgets and had actually enjoyed the process under Ms. Shuman's leadership. He asked trustees to approve the budget and they did so unanimously.
Trustee Twomey said the final item up for discussion was tuition and fees. The Legislature had mandated a 7.5% increase for undergraduate students and a 12.5% increase for graduate students. The committee, upon President Delaney's recommendation, voted against the implementation of an optional 2.5% increase for out-of-state students. Trustee Twomey recommended that the Board authorize promulgation of the tuition and fees rule reflecting the mandated increases, then asked if there were questions or comments.
Trustee Watterson expressed his appreciation of the Board and President Delaney for forgoing the optional increases and acting as advocates for the student body. Chair Thompson commented on Trustee Watterson's efforts as the student representative and said the Board was proud to include him as a member. She reiterated her thanks to the trustees both on and off of the Finance and Audit Committee and Committee Chair Twomey, as well as President Delaney and his staff, for their work on the budget. She said the Board was pleased with President Delaney's selection of Ms. Shuman for vice president of Administration and Finance and thanked Ms. Shuman for an outstanding job on the budget. Trustees voted in favor of the budget.
Chair Thompson acknowledged the previous administrations, stating that she and the Board were most grateful for their leadership. She said she wanted to preface the conversation about President Delaney's evaluation by reaffirming the importance of that function of the Board. She said one of the paramount duties of the Board was the selection of the chief executive for the organization. She outlined the process to be used in the evaluation. She said to assist President Delaney as he moved forward into the next year, the process she had recommended, and the trustees had agreed upon, was to ask the president to do a self appraisal to remind them of the year's events and summarize his goals. Trustees had been encouraged to make any comments they wished to the president directly or through the General Counsel's office, after which the entire Board would meet and have discussion. Chair Thompson said she would meet personally with the president after this meeting to finalize some comments in writing to go to the Board of Governors and to work together to come up with goals for future years. She verified that trustees had received President Delaney's self-report, which she said was extraordinarily well done. She said that though many people dread performance appraisals, they were simply an opportunity to give feedback and it allowed people to reflect on what had occurred during the previous year. Often, she said, they were amazed at what they had accomplished. She said the last year had been a very good year for UNF, in large part due to the leadership exhibited by President Delaney. She spoke of the recurring qualities discussed during the presidential search process: leadership, communication skills, and the ability to build consensus and vision. From the comments she had heard, Chair Thompson felt it was clear that UNF had a leader with those qualities. She then opened the floor for other comments from the trustees, asking them to summarize their thoughts on President Delaney's performance thus far.
Trustee Kendrick said she believed some of President Delaney's accomplishments had been left out of the report. She particularly appreciated his work with the community and felt his relationship with the Jacksonville community would help the Board and UNF in the years to come. She said she had heard nothing but great things about his presidency and knew the Board had made the right decision.
Trustee Abdullah began by saying that she had been a bit concerned in the beginning but any concerns she had were put to rest. She appreciated President Delaney's ability to build consensus as well as figure out what direction to take in a collaborative manner. She said she was thoroughly impressed with how much he had learned about the institution in his short tenure at UNF. She had been reading his self report and re-reading his inaugural address to prepare for the evaluation and decided that the terms used to determine the future path of the University: excellence, focus, relevance, and accountability, applied equally as well to his presidency. She felt he was leading UNF in the right direction. She said he was a man of great integrity, leadership and skill, and she was happy he was there connecting the University with the community.
Trustee Taylor said he wished to echo the comments by Trustee Kendrick and Trustee Abdullah. He had also been concerned at the time of the selection process about having someone with a more academic background as president, but said now he could not be prouder or more delighted by the Board's choice. He told President Delaney that he had done a great job and displayed strong leadership, listening carefully to the Board and quickly cutting through to the core essence of whatever issue was at hand. He said he was very proud and pleased to work with President Delaney and looked forward to working with him for many years to come.
Trustee Twomey said his great desire was that President Delaney remain with UNF for a long time to come and he hoped the president was interested in that as well. He said the Board now had the responsibility of structuring something that made sense. He said he looked forward to many years of continuing to work together.
Trustee Coggin reflected on his long relationship with President Delaney, stating that he had been a member of the group that originally approached Mr. Delaney to run for mayor. He noted that Mayor Delaney had run for a second term and won by a tremendous majority. He said Mayor Delaney had left office after eight years with an 80% approval rating, which was unheard of after a second term in political office. He said he was sorry Trustee Douglas hadn't been able to attend the meeting, as he was so eloquent in expressing his thoughts. Trustee Coggin said he commended President Delaney very highly for his ability to listen to students, faculty, staff, and the Board, taking all of their input and pulling their ideas together to develop strategies and handle the tactical issues of being president. He said President Delaney had done a marvelous job and he had initially been delighted to be a member of the board that helped to select President Delaney and was even more delighted after the first year of his presidency.
Trustee Crawford stated that she never had a doubt about President Delaney's leadership ability as she knew how he had approached leading the city. She thanked him and congratulated him, and echoed Trustee Coggin's statement about what a marvelous job he had done.
Trustee Gonzalez recalled an article he read about Jacksonville while he still resided in Washington DC. The article showed Mayor Delaney and Sheriff Glover and commented that the white Republican mayor and the black Democratic sheriff had voted for each other. He said the article had really made him consider his future and where he would like to spend it and had been one of the contributors to his decision to move to Jacksonville. He said President Delaney served as a catalyst for change and his integrity was indisputable. He was proud of his choice for the new leader of UNF and proud of President Delaney's ability to demonstrate integrity in any situation.
Trustee Solano acknowledged that she had been quite concerned with the hiring of a non-academic for president but appreciated the time President Delaney had spent learning about the University and getting to understand an academic atmosphere, as well as the fact that he had not come into the institution thrashing around like a bull in a china shop. She added that she believed the critical years for a new university president were the second and third years. She said she anticipated that those years would be as productive as the first year, but ultimately it still remained to be seen.
Trustee Watterson said that he would never have expected to see President Delaney at a 2:00 a.m. breakfast with about four hundred students. He felt that event had set the tone for his presidency and served as an example of how the student body felt about the president. He stated that he didn't know of a more student friendly president in the entire state university system. He valued President Delaney's ability to keep promises and his contagious sense of optimism. He said he appreciated the many things President Delaney had done for students, including providing an adequate budget for hiring more advisors and improving the relationships between faculty, staff, and students. He added that he was grateful for the friendship that had been built between them.Chair Thompson summarized the discussion on behalf of the Board. She began her summary with a section from President Delaney's self report:
Though an evaluation by definition involves a backward look, the past year actually sets the platform for the future. The critical years for a university president are probably the second and third years, where more widespread institutional change and implementation of mission are set to occur. In saying this, I am very proud of the structural policy and personnel changes made already and with the development of a UNF "point of view." But the key questions are about the next few years. One such evaluative question should be: Has the past year set the stage for the future? I believe it has.
With the understanding that the first year of a presidency would not be the defining year, Chair Thompson stated that the Board was very pleased with President Delaney's first year of leadership and had confidence in his ability to continue leading the University. She said the past year had set the platform for the future of UNF and she knew that President Delaney valued the efforts of the previous administrations that helped establish that foundation. She noted that goals had not been set the first year, expecting the president to spend the time familiarizing himself with the University. She said that clearly President Delaney had done considerably more than that. She stated that the Board would like to have specific goals to work toward for the future. Chair Thompson said that, with the concurrence of the Board, she would work with the president and general counsel in submitting the Board's evaluation to the Board of Governors. She would also work with the president and general counsel to write a new contract and come to an agreement on compensation.
President Delaney expressed his appreciation for each of their comments. He said he viewed himself as an assimilator, he assimilated good ideas from others and put those ideas into action. He said many of his ideas had come from the Board; the Board had articulated the four guiding principles. He said he had inherited six great people in the vice presidents on staff when he arrived and that they had become his friends and he wanted them to know of the high esteem in which he held each of them.
There was applause at the conclusion of President Delaney's remarks.
Chair Thomson thanked everyone for the work that had gone into the evaluation and said that the successes of the past year reflected well on both university staff and the diligence of the Board.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
SHOREHAM — Jeremiah Parker has spent his professional life restoring historic homes and barns to their former glory.
Now he wants to take a temporary detour from renovation to build some brand new homes — seven of them, to be precise. He is proposing those new abodes as part of "Green Woods Village," an eight-lot subdivision that would be located on a four-acre parcel in the village of Shoreham.
Parker, the owner of Shoreham-based Jeremiah Parker Restoration, is collaborating with the Addison County Community Trust (ACCT) to find state and federal grants to make the new homes more affordable for middle-income buyers. He said he wants to market the development to people of all walks of life, who would benefit from the project's proximity to town services, schools and churches.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — The Vermont Downtown Development Board last week awarded its official "downtown designation" to Bristol, which could make available more than $2 million in grants and tax credits to residents, business owners and property owners in the downtown area as well as to the town itself.
"It's a fairly big deal," said Joss Besse, coordinator of the Downtown Program of the Vermont Agency of Commerce. "The community has demonstrated it's done a lot of work already (preserving) the downtown area."
In order to obtain the downtown designation, which was created under the 1998 Downtown Development Act, a community must demonstrate a long-term commitment to revitalization through planning, capital improvements, economic development, and preservation of historic resources.
SHOREHAM — Having spent years selling apples, fudge and hot dogs, it's only appropriate that Steve Jackson would use a food metaphor in describing Vermont's economy.
The Shoreham Republican, one of two candidates in the running for the Addison-Rutland-1 seat in the Vermont House, likens the state's economy to a pie that needs to be super-sized.
"Whenever I hear that money is needed to fund particular programs in the state of Vermont, it's always, 'What department are we going to take it out of?'" Jackson said. "It's like the pie can be only one size. How about making the pie bigger?"
Jackson proposes to make Vermont's economic pie larger by making it an even bigger draw for tourists, while encouraging the state's smaller communities to follow Middlebury's lead in creating their own industrial/business parks.
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BRISTOL — The Deerleap Books team dashed into first place at the 27th annual Bristol Outhouse Race on July 4, and won the grand prize as the 2006 champions. In the final heat, they defeated teams sponsored by the Bristol Historical Society, Snaps Restaurant, and Robinson Elementary School with a time of 21 seconds.
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The problem with Hanoi's Old Quarter
I took a walk one recent Saturday afternoon. The sky was overcast but there was no threat of rain and the temperatures were perfect.
Not surprisingly the parks just outside the hotel were jammed with weekenders.
There were the usual suspects. The glamorous young women decked in their bridal finery, posing for pictures against the backdrop of my hotel and the magisterial colonial French building across the street.
There were legions of people playing badminton, with and without nets. Young men kicked shuttlecocks back and forth with a dexterity that surprises me still, spiking the object with the soles of their feet when need be.
In front of the statue of Emperor Lý Thái Tổ (974-1028), adolescents caromed their skateboards. One couple sat, she at some embroidery and he punching away at his smart phone.
Hanoians are starved for open space, and on a day like this when the weather's fine and it's time for games, they put more pressure on the available space like no people I've ever seen.
But I digress. I was taking a walk. I drifted into a circuit of pedestrians making their way around Hoan Kiem Lake.
The sidewalk was wide, the going was good. But trouble started at the head of the lake. That's where I made my way into the Old Quarter on Hang Dao.
If you know anything about Hanoi, you probably know a bit about the Old Quarter, otherwise known as the 36 Streets where, hundreds of years ago -- some say right after the Mongol invasions -- the guilds set up shop, each trade to their own street. The streets today are as commercial as they ever were and, to my mind, this place is the most fascinating part of Hanoi.
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In fact, if not for what I'm about to tell you, I'd be wondering why UNESCO hadn't inscribed the Old Quarter on its World Heritage list.
The ground floors of the street-side shops, known as mat tien (main street front) to the Vietnamese, are chock-a-block with commercial goods, so much so that the wares literally spill out the open maw of these shops.
The merchants perch on tiny stools, monitoring browsers, awaiting a sale.
But these same sidewalks are crowded with parked motorbikes and the streets are so thick with vehicular traffic that walking is not quite the word for it. Making your way is more like it.
The motorbike-ridden sidewalks force you out into the street, where you've got to fend for your well-being as the vehicles hurry by.
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Contrast this with the streets of Hoi An's Old Quarter where my family and I spent a couple of days some weeks ago.
They shut down the streets of their Old Quarter to vehicles in the morning and evening, creating pedestrian zones that are without peer in Vietnam. I can't wait to go back.
And this is what we want for the Hanoi Old Quarter.
I know, I know, people will say I'm being precious with this appeal for pedestrian friendly zones in downtown Hanoi. What about the people trying to earn their daily bread?
To that, I would say, the status quo isn't working. Hanoi is the beneficiary of one of the world's most fascinating commercial districts.
Why settle for the dysfunction we've got when there's an opportunity to create one of Southeast Asia's most compelling urban experiences: a walk in the Old Quarter?
Instead of having people leave Hanoi, talking about congestion, let's have them talk about how they can't wait to go back.
Kai Speth is the general manager of Hanoi's Sofitel Legend Metropole.
The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of Kai Speth.


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What have I been telling you about man made global warming being ridiculous. I am kind of disappointed because now everyone will know I am just well informed and not a psychic. I kind of liked lloyd thinking I could tell the future. When I told him 6 MONTHS AGO (and 6 months before his UN scientist said so himself) that the earth was heading for a cooling trend in the next 10 to 20 years.
So lloyd am I more informed then all your global warming scientist. I was able to call the cooling tend a full 6 MONTHS before they did. You said I was crazy for saying that back then, if so then I guess your global warming scientest are also crazy for saying it now, right.
lloyd you remember this right I'll just let what the BBC say on this speak for itself.


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Smith: The Last Rhodesian
Mugabe: "Ian Smith is responsible for the death of well over 50,000 of my people. I bear scars of his tyranny which Britain and America condoned. I meet his victims everyday.�
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The death of Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white leader who brought untold suffering to millions of Zimbabweans during a 16-year protracted armed struggle which ended in Zimbabwe's 1980 independence went largely unnoticed in Zimbabwe.
Most people were unmoved by the death of a man which the Zimbabwe Herald reported symbolized "the worst racial oppression."
His death was a dull and dreary affair in a retirement home in the St James area in Cape Town where only his stepson and widowed stepdaughter cared for him to the last moment despite having been in the limelight beginning in the 1960s until his defeat by Robert Mugabe in general elections.
"What can compel a sane person to waste precious tears on such an unrepentant racist?" wrote Kamutenga Dillon in a letter which appeared in the Zimbabwe Herald.
"Smith, PW Botha and Adolf Hitler belong to the same political graveyard. I was born free but atrocities committed by the Smith regime still haunt many in Zimbabwe."
The writer, capturing the sentiment of many here added: "Smith wanted to protect his kith and kin after announcing his infamous Unilateral Declaration of Independence on November 11 1965. Our parents, grandparents and siblings suffered at the hands of this heartless man. I won't miss a monster, though my progressive African culture does not allow me to speak ill of the dead, I am sure it can exempt me on Smith."
In the streets of Harare, people largely unmoved preferring to go about in their usual business.
Many said they had read about Smith's death in newspapers and they felt unconnected to a man who was responsible for the killing of more than 50,000 people in bombing raids in neighboring Zambia and Mozambique at the height of the 1970s war of independence.
"He is dead so we hear. I'm not moved at all about his death. Maybe it's because there is nothing good that I can directly relate to Smith's rule," said Monica Magama, a school teacher here in Harare.
The mainstream international media was largely sympathetic to Smith preferring to fill their pages with criticisms of Mugabe's rule and glossing over the murder of thousands of Zimbabweans in war camps in neighboring countries.
His bombing raids on neighboring countries were glossed over and some reports gave prominence to Smith's participation as a Spitfire pilot during the Second World War.
"The sensible chap, in fact, turned out to be the type of African leader that 'good old Smithy,' as his supporters called him, had campaigned against throughout the UDI years. He became the embodiment of corrupt, violent, amoral African dictatorship – just as Smith had warned his supporters," wrote Graham Boynton in an obituary titled: "Ian Smith has sadly been proved right" which appeared in the U.k.'s Telegraph.
"Let us not forget the context of Smith's determination to hang on to white rule in the 1960s. At the time that he claimed to be defending 'civilized standards', Rhodesians had already witnessed the flight of Belgian refugees from the Congo; Idi Amin had trashed Uganda, and Mobutu Sese Seko was about to introduce an even more brutal and dysfunctional regime in neighboring Zaire; immediately to the north of Rhodesia, Kaunda's Zambia was in a mess, riddled with corruption and economically mismanaged, and Malawi was being similarly misruled by the eccentric despot Hastings Banda. So why, Smith argued, would Mugabe be any different? Why, indeed."
A fantastic lie, considering that Idi Amin did not seize power in Ugandan until 1971.
"However ponderous, however humorless and unsophisticated he was, Smith had run a successful emerging African country and, although the whites were the main beneficiaries, there was increasing prosperity among the black population," added this apologist for white supremacy.
"Above all there was a sound, intelligently managed economy, free from the post-colonial blight of corruption.
"Today, Zimbabwe is a failed state with a non-functioning economy, a once-flourishing agricultural sector now moribund, and a population on the brink of starvation," Boynton said.
In this obituary, there is no reference to the stranglehold sanctions and virtual embargo against Zimbabwe, that has battered the economy, and which are orchestrated by the U.K. and the U.S.; both countries had rejected such punitive sanctions against Ian Smith's Rhodesia.
Not even, Mugabe's strengths in the education and health sectors soon after independence were mentioned. Mugabe is simply a "bad man" to Boynton and his ilk.
Smith had swiftly and ruthlessly imprisoned thousands of Black leaders, drove many others into exile and introduced draconian laws curbing civil rights and press freedom.
He jailed Mugabe for 11 years calling him a "terrorist." When Mugabe took over power in 1980, Smith became leader of Zimbabwe's opposition renamed Republican Front, but his support among whites waned. Mugabe treated Smith with great magnanimity, allowing him to stay in Parliament until 1986 and to keep his farm.
He also let him enjoy a quiet retirement in Harare and was free to attack Mugabe with impunity. Smith left Zimbabwe voluntarily and retained ownership of his ranch until his death. Mugabe never expelled Smith and has at several local and international gatherings said he regretted not having punished Smith and his white racist allies.
"I lost 11 precious years of my life in the jail of white man whose freedom and wellbeing I have assured from the first day of Zimbabwe's independence. I lost a further 15 years fighting white injustice in my country," Mugabe said at the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly on 26 September 2007.
"Ian Smith is responsible for the death of well over 50,000 of my people. I bear scars of his tyranny which Britain and America condoned. I meet his victims everyday. Yet he walks free. He farms free. He talks freely, associates freely under a Black government. We taught him democracy. We gave him back his humanity," he added.
"He would have faced a different fate here and in Europe if the 50,000 he killed were Europeans. Africa has not called for a Nuremberg trial against the white world which committed heinous crimes against its own humanity. It has not hunted perpetrators of this genocide, many of whom live to this day, nor has it got reparations from those who offended against it."
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New swipe-fee rules for debit cards take effect in October, which will mean lower costs for retailers. In some cases, they might pass those savings on to consumers.
But before you whip out a debit card to make your next purchase, consider the downside. Banks are already adjusting to the prospect of losing swipe-fee revenue. That means fewer perks for many bank customers.
For example: Chase's debit rewards program is set to expire, and many other banks have already done away with the once-ubiquitous perk. Free checking is now more likely to come only with a minimum balance, minimum usage, or online-only requirement. And some banks are considering ways to push customers to use their credit cards, perhaps instituting a $50 or $100 per-transaction limit on debit cards. (Swipe fees for credit cards aren't capped.)
Wealthy consumers will still be winners when the so-called Durbin Amendment takes effect. They will continue to earn rewards on their credit cards and they'll have the minimum balances necessary to enjoy free checking. The poor, on the other hand, will be less likely to qualify for free checking and they will lose out on debit rewards.
Will retailers lower their prices? That was the hope when Congress passed the Durbin amendment, a hasty addition to the Dodd-Frank reform bill, last year. It's not clear they will lower prices.
Retailers are the most likely victors of the reforms. Merchants from gas stations to boutique stores are subject to swipe – or interchange – fees, a charge levied by card networks every time a customer uses debit or credit. Unfortunately, the two dominant players, Visa and MasterCard, can pretty much dictate their chosen prices. The largest stores, such as Walmart and Target, can negotiate lower swipe fees, but smaller retailers with no such bargaining power must hand over a higher percentage of each transaction to the credit-card companies. Banks that issue the cards receive the largest cut of those swipe fees.
Thus, the average debit transaction of $38 cost a retailer an average 44 cent interchange fee. Under the new rules of the Federal Reserve, that fee would be capped at 21 cents, plus 0.05 percent of the transaction, with the possibility of charging 1 cent more if certain security – or a grand total of 24 cents. That's double the 12 cents the Fed originally proposed, before intense lobbying from the banking industry to push up the fees. Still, it's a significant loss of revenue.
The Fed will also attempt to break the Visa-MasterCard duopoly in order to drive swipe fees down to competitive prices. Merchants must be able to process each debit card on at least two independent networks. Because the legislation exempts small institutions (those with less than $10 billion in assets) from the cap on swipe fees, the credit card networks must be able to differentiate exempt from nonexempt banks.
The Fed has argued that merchants in low-margin, competitive sectors – like convenience stores – will pass most of the debit savings along to their customers, while those in less competitive areas will pocket the savings. But even the Fed says it is "uncertain" whether consumers will benefit overall.
The impact on consumers who bank at exempt community banks and credit unions is also up in the air. So far, most institutions with assets under $10 billion have held off changing their products. But in a February 2011 survey, nearly half of surveyed credit unions said they were considering eliminating free checking in the wake of the Durbin Amendment. The same number is considering ending rewards checking.
For all the controversy surrounding debit fees, credit cards are far more costly to retailers. A Visa Signature swipe fee can be twice that of a debit card. But the new law doesn't cover credit cards. Although merchants may want to pass on the savings, they will still be forced to keep prices higher than otherwise, in order to compensate for credit card swipe fees.
Prepaid debit cards, which the federal government often uses to issue benefits, also escaped regulation. The cards have a reputation for carrying onerous and well-disguised fees. Once the province of the unbanked, prepaid debit is moving into the mainstream. American Express recently introduced a new prepaid card with markedly lower and simpler fees, hoping to earn money on interchange revenue rather than charging cardholders directly. Other issuers are starting to follow suit.
Merchants are likely to continue to issue their own financial products, hoping to earn revenue more from store traffic than from interchange. Target already offers its own credit and debit cards, though they can only be used in its stores. Walmart offers its own credit card with special features designed to encourage spending, and the Walmart MoneyCard, a prepaid debit card, can only be reloaded for free in the store, or via direct deposit.
The Durbin Amendment will help the consumers best able to adapt to those changes: wealthy rewards cardholders who will benefit from any lowered prices but will not be affected by more expensive checking accounts. Poorer consumers will bear most of the negative consequences.
– Tim Chen is the CEO of NerdWallet, a credit-card search website.


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The regularly scheduled Tuesday, Aug. 20, St. James City Council meeting had only two items of new business on the agenda, which made for a short and somewhat eventless evening.
The regularly scheduled Tuesday, Aug. 20, St. James City Council meeting had only two items of new business on the agenda, which made for a short and somewhat eventless evening.
The consent items and previous meeting's minutes were approved unanimously to start the meeting. Consent items included training and conferences for city employees Molly Westman, Steve Carson, L. Minich, Jason Monnens, S. Lang, B. Whitehead and B. Orvis.
Item one of new business was to sign into effect the Salvation Army heat share agreement. The heat share agreement is an annual agreement the city enters into with the Salvation Army.
Anybody in the community can donate to Salvation Army, then 80 percent of that money goes back to the community to those individuals in need, to help heat their home during the winter months. Assistance that individuals can receive is available once per year at a maximum at $400.
St. James City Council Members decided unanimously to sign this agreement.
Next was a resolution authorizing a contract with SWMHP for SCDP Funding. The SWMHP is a small cities development program which schedules to close at the end of the year.
There are several applicants still waiting for the service; for this reason the city has looked at another small cities program. However the process is a three tier process with the final application submitted in January.
City council moved unanimously to work on step one of the three tier program which is the preliminary gathering of information. The costs are broken down by each step. This first step will cost the city $2,000. Since the city enters this project with Sleepy Eye that cost will be split in half and will cost the city just $1,000.
Project planning includes meeting with the community to define the grant activities, design of program and target area. It also includes holding a community meeting, and implementation of the community survey. If the community survey yields a successful result the project will proceed to the pre-application phase.
Residents of St. James are encouraged to get their vehicles and trailers off the streets while the St. James Street Department is doing road sealing during this next week. Residents should keep their vehicles off the road if their street has not yet been sealed. Vehicles not off the road have to be moved or will risk being towed.


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Dennis Edsall, 59-year old Amityville veteran and hero
Amityville resident Dennis C. Edsall was not only a war hero but also a local hero. In 1998, he received a commendation from Babylon Town Supervisor Steve Bellone for his efforts in rescuing an elderly woman from a fire. It was an act of selflessness that marked his life.
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Xianghua is one of the most beloved characters in the Soul Calibur series. This pint-sized fighter has some of the most graceful moves and can even hurt you by throwing a temper tantrum. But her range of ornate costumes over the years has earned her a spot as a perfect Cosplay of the Day
You might remember Xianghua as the petite, sword-wielding fighter who twirls around the stage and attacks you as if she was dancing, whirling this way and that. Her flexibility and the power she packs in such a tiny package makes her one of the best characters to use in any Soul Calibur game.
Here is Foxtale, an American cosplayer, in Xianghua's red alternate outfit from Soul Calibur 2. While the costume itself is pretty accurate, we enjoy the fact that she's taken to adopting a variety of the character's poses and stances. She mimics the moves so well that you'd think they used her to mo-cap Xianghua's attacks!
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Science, technology magnet school a New London success story
EDITOR'S NOTE: Football will be the focus Saturday, but during the rest of the week, it's all about math and science at New London's Science and Technology Magnet High School.
New London - Zakkiyya Griffin wakes up for school at 4:30 a.m. She leaves her home an hour and a half later to catch the school bus, which she rides for the next hour.
It's not easy, she says, but whatever it takes to get to her destination - the Science and Technology Magnet High School - is worth it.
"This is a great place to be because we're all different and we don't mind being different," the junior said. "We embrace being weird, and we love being weird, and that's what this magnet school is all about. We're not afraid to do what we want to do. It's cool to do your own thing. It's OK to be a nerd."
Her family moved across the Gold Star Bridge to Groton when she was in third grade, but by the time she entered middle school, she was itching to get out.
"I just showed up in third grade, and I had a hard time fitting in. I was all alone. I tried really, really hard to get friends and then I started doing things to make friends for all the wrong reasons," Griffin said. "When I was in eighth grade, people walked all over me and used me for things, and that didn't feel good. I didn't want to go through four more years of that."
Griffin, who plans to become a pediatrician, always enjoyed school and the challenges of learning. She considered Ledyard High School's Agri-Science & Technology Program, and the Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Technical High School, but once she learned of the magnet school's biomedical program - which allows students to earn college credit through Purdue University in Indiana and is the only accredited biomedical program in New England - she was sold.
"I didn't think, like, 'What happens if I don't get accepted?'" Griffin said. "Not being accepted wasn't an option."
A success story
In its seventh year, the magnet school has become one of the state's leading science, technology, engineering and math - STEM - magnet schools and if enrollment figures continue to rise, director Louis Allen anticipates an expansion.
At 350 students, the school is over-enrolled by 50 students, with 18 districts sending students there. Interested students must write a 250-word essay, fill out an application and visit the school with their parents to enter the admission lottery. The lottery is a recent change, and it was followed by a 33 percent decline in applications. But "at least we're getting kids who are genuinely interested in our program to apply," Allen said.
Being in a school district that has underperformed consistently and is under state watch makes recruiting a constant effort, Allen said.
"We know the barriers we have to overcome with the stereotypes about New London Public Schools, our test scores, graduation rates and peripheral issues in the community," he said, "but this place has done what it's supposed to do against all odds. It's a great success story for education."
One of 73 magnets in the state, the school provides many opportunities for students to learn outside the classroom.
Partnerships with Mitchell and Connecticut colleges, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Three Rivers Community College, as well as the chance to earn college credits through the University of Connecticut and Purdue entice students.
"You can't expect to just be in our building and learn," Allen said. "You're going to be outside of the classroom and have access to professionals working in the fields you're interested in."
Students complete their core graduation requirements at New London High School next door.
"You've got to adapt to a different environment, different expectations, different scenarios. You're coming into a school with all these different towns coming together, and you need to get along," Allen said. "Whatever attitude or reservations you have, you need to leave them at home, because once you walk through these doors, all that stuff doesn't matter anymore."
'STEM is the future'
When freshman Kate Ashbey hears the words 'math' and 'science,' her face lights up.
"I am in love with math and science, just totally in love with them," she said with a growing smile. "Here, you can double up on your math and sciences. I took (physical education) over the summer just so I could add another class to my schedule."
Doubling up on two subjects that are some times considered a student's worst nightmare?
"My schedule doesn't have enough room for all the classes I want to take. It's packed full," Ashbey said. "Right after my first week here, I knew I was home. I'm not going back to Waterford."
Local eighth-graders have many options for high school, both public and private.
Besides the Science and Technology Magnet High School, there are Ledyard's Vo-Ag program; the Marine Science magnet high school and Grasso Tech, both in Groton; Williams School in New London; St. Bernard High School in Uncasville; Norwich Free Academy and Norwich Tech; The Academy of the Holy Family in Baltic; and Fishers Island School.
"This school stuck out to me because it's STEM," Ashbey said. "STEM is the future of the United States, and that's what all the jobs of the future are going to be based on."
A member of the high school's Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program, Ashbey's sights are set on the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
"Structure, I need structure," she said. "I didn't fit into some of the classes at Waterford because there's always someone like the class clown standing on a chair or doing something to distract everybody. But here, everyone's here to learn."
Where do they come from?
Town-by-town breakdown of local school districts and the number of students they send to the Science and Technology Magnet High School in New London.
Colchester: 1
East Haddam: 1
East Lyme: 4
Griswold: 1
Groton: 26
Haddam: 1
Ledyard: 14
Lisbon: 3
Montville: 1
New London: 211
North Stonington: 1
Norwich: 36
Preston: 2
Salem: 2
Scotland: 1
Sprague: 8
Stonington: 4
Waterford: 33
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Saturday, March 14th, was Pi-Day! I'm no math-nerd, but thanks to Elizabeth Zimmermann, I'm familiar with a very practical use for Pi - her Pi-shawl.
Love it, Monika! I, too, like the simplicity of the basic pattern. You have inspired me to start one soon!
Die Decke gefällt mir sehr gut: schlicht, aber unglaublich wirkungsvoll - so kommen die Farben richtig schön zur Geltung!
LG von Heike
Hey, Monika!
That turned out great. Looks really good on the table.
For Pi Day my son made a wonderful asparagus quiche for brunch and a perfect homemade potato-chevre pizza for dinner. It's too bad it only comes around once a year. The Pi Shawl is beautiful. It's on my list to knit someday.
Monika, beautiful!
That is absolutely gorgeous as usual ! You're always finding interesting patterns , yarns , techniques . And your spinning is amazing too !
Glad you're feeling better ...
I've never been tempted to knit a circular shawl before, but then you go and post that!
I think I'll have to reconsider!
Isn't that beautiful!!! The colors do mirror nature and I love how it makes an artistic addition to your table :)
I hadn't noticed before that you do a crochet bind-off. I took a better look and really like that as an edging. I'm going to try that sometime too :)
Hope you are feeling better. If not, try a hot toddy before going to bed!
It's lovely how the colourworld of your Pi shawl and Kathy's picture match! Beautiful!
I love how the color compares to the photo of the puddle. The horse looks quite at home on the new table decoration as well.
Holy cow! Now I can see why you were so excited to see that picture of mine! It's a perfect match!!
That shawl really is lovely. Great job on it!
It's beautiful, Monika! A lovely tribute to Pi and EZ. I like your little figurine too.
Hope you're totally recovered! How's the rest of the family?
soooo simply beautiful!
I'm glad you're feeling better. I've never heard of pi-day, but then I never knew there was a square root day either.
Wow, that looks great!
Glad you are feeling better, your Pi shawl is just gorgeous, I love the graduated colour change.
What beautiful colors! And I think you blocked it just fine.
The photo is amazing. The translation into a shawl is beautiful.
Love love LOVE that yarn, the colours! I even went to the source, alas, they didn't have this colourway (that I could tell) MMMMMMM!
I love EZ's designs, what a genius mind.
Beautiful!!!! and that horse on it is just perfect! Congratulations on the finish :)
What a lovely Pi!! I also like the horse very much, it is beautiful!!
It's gorgeous & I love the colors. It's definitely a great pattern & I also enjoyed knitting it.
The colors are awesome!! SO beautiful! It's more a piece of art than a shawl!
Wunderschön geworden.
Der Farbverlauf begeistert mich.
Ich hab dich gerade entdeckt und möchte öfter bei dir reinschaun.
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Like others who have posted here, I have been very disappointed in the fact that no one has posted a really comprehensive plan for avoiding spam and deleting what does get through.
I have tried several ways in the past. One was a very long list of filters. They were automatic and put addresses and domains in the banned file, many times good names.
So I simplified it and had to do a lot of delete, delete, delete.
But within the past few weeks, I came up with this idea, which so far seems to work.
My first filter is a Pre Download Filter "Harvester Killer on Server" which scans all mail. I assume everyone knows this filter removes from the server all mail that has multiple recipients on the same server. A lot of spam has this trait; that is it is sent to hundreds of addresses on the same server.
My first Incoming Filter is "WireTap", a name I gave the filter that searches for java script, available on the POCO script site.
I am paranoid.
My second Incoming Filter searches for messages addressed to a news group and sends them to the appropriate folder. There are several more of these.
Next is a filter that compares all incoming mail against my address books. If found in the address books, the mail goes directly to the "In" box so no time is wasted on them.
Next is "Junk Message from Sender", a POCO script that matches all mail against the banned senders list. If found, it goes directly to trash. I am doing this for the next 30 days or less just to see what the filter is finding as banned so I do not lose any desirable mail. At the end of the trial period, I will change this to a pre download filter to delete all banned senders. I am alternating this with the filter that looks for "from" in the %junk senders%, which appears to work just as well and should be faster.
I need the test period because I have hundreds and hundreds of banned senders that got there by filters I had in the past and that were not really that well constructed. For instance, I found on a search msn.com banned as a domain. Banning msn.com or aol.com is going to trash a lot of mail that should not be trashed.
For the duration of the test period only, I also double check this filter and the Harvester Killer by looking at all mail with the "view server" window before I download mail. I make note of any names that I want to receive mail from and keep the window open until the download is complete so that if one of my filters zapps the wrong mail, I can manually copy that address and ask the sender to resend.
So far, I have had no need to ask for a resend.
Next is the DBSNL Script. I weighted everything in it at 25.
Next and last at this time is the junk mail filter which is run on all messages that survive to this point.
Mail that gets put in the junk mail box by the junk mail filter is operated on with a button by a script which strips it of all attachments and then sends it to the banned senders list in the junk mail filter. This script is a combination of PJR's "attachment remover" and Bruce Olson's " ban sender and delete".
Since no good mail ever ends up in my junk mailbox, only the bad stuff, it is only a matter of seconds to select all of it with shift+ctrl +click and zap it with the button.
For a short time, I am going to click on each message in the junk mail file one at a time to be sure it is getting all of the attachments.
So far, a typical morning on my first mail check, it will look like this: 75 messages total, 3 spams in the inbox with the good mail, 50 or so trashed by "Harvester Killer on Server", 6 or 8 or so in the trash mail box put there by %junksenders% search and the other 10 or 15 in the junk mail box, again a quick look at the junk mail box and zap them with the button and send them to the banned senders list.
As of last week, I had 26,415 adresses in the banned senders. That may be one reason very few spams get into my inbox. A few will always because the perfect address from a sender not in any of the banned lists or the DBSNL references is going to get by. Up until that point, he is clean.
My only wish so far with this system is that I am not able to instruct the junk mail filter to automatically send junk mail directly to the banned senders list and delete it automatically.
However, the junk mail filter does its job and sends the mail to the junk mail box and until it arrives in that box, it is out of control by any script.
Another interesting thing I picked up while working on spam.
The delete button on POCO or Barca does not get all attachments. It will warn you of the ordinary attachments and ask you whether you want to delete them or not, but there are some that it will not delete.
Here are some examples:
Therefore, I put PJR's attachment remover in its original form on another button and I run it on every email that I would ordinarily delete with the delete button and then use the delete button to delete it. When I get the time, I will simply add a delete script to PJR's and do away with the standard delete button.
I get a lot of email from business associates who send everything from documents, .jpg and complex AutoCad drawings to birthday cards and it is no fun searching through hundreds of weird names and numbers (PTV-36708, etc.) trying to figure out which attachments I should keep and which I should trash.
Maybe this will help someone work through the problem of spam and maybe not. But for what it is worth, here it is.
And I think the main thing is that with DBNSL and the banned senders list, anyone should be able to handle spam with the tools that come with POCO and Barca.
One last word. The DBSNL and the PJR Attachment Remover are two fantastic scripts. None of this would work well without them.


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Hal Holbrook, in full Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr., (born February 17, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), American actor best known for his exacting portrayal of author Mark Twain in his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight!, which ran for more than six decades.
Holbrook's parents abandoned him and his siblings when he was two years old, and the children were raised thereafter by their grandparents. In 1942 Holbrook entered Denison University, Ohio, where he studied theatre arts. At the end of his first year, however, he joined the U.S. Army to serve in World War II. He worked as a military engineer for the next three years, during which time he participated in an amateur theatre group in Newfoundland. Following his service Holbrook returned to Denison, graduating with a B.A. in theatre arts in 1948.
Holbrook's Mark Twain show grew out of an honours project he had done at Denison. Holbrook and his then wife, Ruby, put together a traveling show called Great Personalities, in which they portrayed historical figures, including Twain. In 1952 the Holbrooks moved to New York City, where Hal found regular work on radio and television shows. On the side he continued to develop the Mark Twain portion of their act, eventually turning it into a one-man show. In 1954 he gave his first solo performance as Twain, Mark Twain Tonight!, at a college in Pennsylvania. For the show, Holbrook assumed the persona of a 70-year-old Twain, complete with painstakingly applied stage makeup, and recited some of the humorist's works. Increasingly interested in perfecting Twain's mannerisms, he embarked on several years of study of Twain's character and habits and eventually memorized hours of Twain's material. In April 1959 Mark Twain Tonight! debuted Off-Broadway to critical acclaim. Holbrook continued to perform as Twain until 2017, giving more than 2,000 performances across the United States and around the world. Among these were several runs on Broadway—one of which earned him a Tony Award in 1966—and a special recorded for television in 1967, which garnered him the first of many Emmy Award nominations. He also produced recordings of his solo shows, for which he earned three Grammy Award nominations.
While intermittently touring with Mark Twain Tonight!, Holbrook maintained a career on television and, from the 1960s, on film. He also appeared in other stage shows, notably the musical comedy The Apple Tree (1967) and the drama I Never Sang for My Father (1968). On TV Holbrook memorably portrayed U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries Sandburg's Lincoln; the role earned him one of five career Emmy Awards. He also appeared on such television shows as The West Wing, The Sopranos, ER, Sons of Anarchy, and Grey's Anatomy. His film work included All the President's Men (1976), Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993), and Lincoln (2012), in which he took on the role of Lincoln adviser Francis Preston Blair. At age 82 Holbrook earned his first Academy Award nomination, for his portrayal of Ron Franz, a retiree who befriends a young adventurer in Into the Wild (2007)—making him the oldest man ever nominated for best supporting actor.
Holbrook's other honours included a National Humanities Medal (2003). In 2011 he published an autobiography, Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain.


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Spanx and stripes
First official outing for Naomi Watts since the birth of her second son Samuel Kai exactly a month ago today. Naomi and Liev Schreiber attended the Defiance screening in New York last night. Assisted by a striped dress over – assuming – a pair of spanx, Naomi looked as though she was never pregnant at all. Good outfit, great genes. And the shoes…always the shoes.
Also at the Defiance premiere – the cuteness Jamie Bell and a rather rushed Daniel Craig with the ever present Satsuki Mitchell (not pictured).
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This should be a good year to be running as a Republican.
Picture the following:
You are summoned to the reading of the will of your recently deceased grandfather.
You have mixed feelings about it. Sure, you're sad to see the old fella go. He was always very kind to you.
There is, however, that lingering resentment about his reneging on a promise of footing the bill for your college education.
Last Saturday the Roanoke Times took Bedford County voters to task, stating in an editorial that they only had themselves to blame for the current budget crisis that Bedford County Public Schools is now in. The local daily's reasoning: Bedford County voters opted for Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell in last year's election.
The flawed — that's the kindest word we could think of — thought process went something like this:
Having a say
As a student of Body Camp I think I should have a say.
Now, I do. I'm frustrated that they are closing Body Camp. My mother doesn't know at all where to put my autistic brother, because Body Camp provides such an education for every child in the school.
But where will Body Camp's teachers go? Especially our principal, where will he go?
Adoption offers a wonderful opportunity to bring children in need and caring supportive parents together. Each year, I have the incredible opportunity to nominate, for special recognition, families from across the Sixth Congressional District who have made a significant difference in the lives of children, particularly those who have chosen to build their families through adoption.
By Delegate Kathy Byron
Finishing up week six, we have now passed the "halfway point" of the General Assembly session often referred to as Crossover. At this point, both houses have completed work on all legislation filed by its respective members. From this point forward, members of the House of Delegates will be reviewing bills filed by senators, while members of the Senate will be considering measures sponsored by delegates.
The Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library continues to provide these Black History spots that were broadcast on WBLT in 1988. Keith Campbell donated several audio tapes from WBLT. We have transcribed these and are publishing them here. In 1988 the Rev. Laurie Carrie and Pat Austin read the following on WBLT and they were glad that the tapes had survived. They recount how they took a large number of children to the station and each child also recorded spots. The Museum has not found the children's tapes but maybe they will be found and we can use them in the future.
Washington D.C. and the mainstream media were abuzz last week with the news that Indiana Senator Evan Bayh is the latest Democrat to balk at running again. Bayh vented his frustration with serving in Congress in recent years, saying it was too partisan to work.
What he didn't explain was why he waited until a day or so before the filing deadline to quit, thereby punishing his own party in its efforts to find someone to replace him.
Last week Dina Linkenhoker, president of the teachers' union, took me to task for my column that appeared in this space in the Feb. 10 edition of the Bedford Bulletin.
In that column, I wrote:
The BCEA wants pay raises. When representatives appeared before the county school board last month, they chose to whine. Viola Henry told the school board that some of them have to take second jobs to make ends meet.
Gov. Bob McDonnell chose to reverse the freeze on the local composite index proposed by his predecessor, former Gov. Tim Kaine, before he left office. That formula helps determine the funding that each school district will receive from the state for education. When Gov. Kaine proposed the freeze, more than 90 school systems, including Bedford County's, were going to be helped. Gov. McDonnell's decision to reverse that decision cost those school divisions millions.
An apology
is owed
My name is Dina Linkenhoker and I am president of the Bedford County Education Association. The following is an open letter to Mr. John Barnhart following his editorial published on February 10, 2010.
Last week, Southside Virginia got a huge boost from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – or stimulus bill, which I supported – with a major investment that will benefit our kids' educational success in the short term and make our region more competitive in the long term. Two grants totaling more than $21.5 million will expand broadband internet infrastructure in our schools to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, and create jobs.
The news reports are startling – multiple congressional offices announcing that their computer systems have been compromised by hackers, including Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Pentagon reporting that their computer system is "scanned or attacked by outsiders more than 300 million times a day", and the General Accounting Office (GAO) testifying that the U.S. information technology infrastructure is vulnerable to attack.
I will be at the Moneta Library on February 20 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. for a Town Meeting. I encourage you to come and discuss any topic you wish.
The Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library continues to provide these Black History spots that were broadcast on WBLT in 1988. Keith Campbell donated several audio tapes from WBLT. We have transcribed these and are publishing them here. In 1988 Rev. Laurie Carrie and Pat Austin read the following on WBLT and they were glad that the tapes had survived. They recount how they took a large number of children to the station and each child also recorded spots. The Museum has not found the children's tapes but maybe they will be found and we can use them in the future.
een digging out of what has been the snowiest winter in memory, and while school kids are enjoying one of the longest unscheduled breaks in state history, the General Assembly has been passing legislation.
As a lifelong lover of snow, I remember how cool it seemed on Dec. 18 when this winter's first major snowstorm hit us.
I was off from work that day in order to get a tooth pulled. I actually went in early for the appointment at the request of the oral surgeon and his staff, who wanted to escape ahead of the predicted storm.
Are you enjoying all the winter? I've had to shovel global warming out of my driveway two weekends in a row, and what we got the last time was nothing compared with what folks in other parts of the Commonwealth experienced.
How about those high heating bills? I know one lady who lives in Bedford County who had an electricity bill that topped $500 for a month. She and her husband aren't heating Al Gore's mansion, either. They live in a doublewide.
atch out, the Green Police may be on their way to your local grocery store.
Arlington Democrat Delegate Adam Ebbin has introduced legislation into the General Assembly that would require retailers to charge shoppers 5 cents for each non-reusable bag issued to customers. It's just another case of government sticking its nose where it shouldn't and, by so doing, hurting the poor and middle class families the most.
Heart Month
February is American Heart Month and a good time to remind the increasing number of heart patients in Bedford and surrounding area that they are not alone in their recovery. Mended Hearts, affiliated with the American Heart Association, is a national nonprofit organization offering the gift of hope to heart patients, their families and caregivers for more than 50 years.
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If you're figuring out how to apply the Internet of Things (IoT) in your organization, bring your imagination and get ready to do some heavy lifting.
Sure, we've all seen the predictions from Gartner: 26 billion IoT units deployed by 2020, with product and service suppliers positioned to rake in revenue of more than $300 billion. But here, now, in 2014, the IoT -- and the machine-to-machine technology behind it -- is really a disparate assortment of ideas and products competing for attention.
Vendors are trotting out all manner of products and applications to address specific needs -- such as health monitors or home automation -- alongside ambitious platform plays. At the moment, though, we're seeing little action in the way of true enterprise-grade applications. To learn why, see InformationWeek editor Chris Murphy's in-depth look at the hurdles faced by enterprise CIOs who already have clear IoT wishes, at companies like GE Power & Water and ConocoPhillips: Internet Of Things: What's Holding Us Back?
One hurdle is that the IoT lacks standards, though efforts on that front are being made by major players in the space through the Oasis Consortium's IoT/M2M committee.
Also, the IoT space is currently so focused on consumer-oriented products and applications such as wearable devices and home monitoring systems that it's hard for an enterprise IT executive to see through the clutter to understand how the IoT can be applied in a business context.
In hopes of helping you wade through the piles of IoT information, we've assembled our list of eight IoT startups and projects to watch. This list is by no means comprehensive. We chose to focus on players that have products or software that hold potential for the enterprise, as well as some of the companies that are focusing on IoT platforms to ease the pain of building enterprise-scale IoT applications.
You won't read about Nest Labs here. That well-publicized Google-funded company is already selling a reported 40,000 to 50,000 of its home thermostats per month. We're hoping to raise your awareness of companies that are not generating major headlines -- yet. We also hope to tempt you down some new roads of thinking about how consumer-focused applications might be applied to the enterprise.
Tell us what you think of our choices in the comment section below. Are we off our rockers? Which companies fascinate you the most? Which ones downright frighten you, and why? And what other companies would you have liked to see on this list?


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New York City-based architect Davis Brody Bond is architect for the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, a 420,000-sq.-ft., nine-story building on Northwestern University's Chicago campus. Morse Diesel International is the preconstruction manager. The $200 million facility is scheduled for completion in 2004.
DMJM Architecture Group of Phoenix is architect for Chandler Commons Office Park, a 375,000-sq.-ft. corporate campus in Chandler, Ariz. Hunt Construction Group is the general contractor. Developer Lowe Enterprises Commercial Group plans five speculative two-story office/flex buildings for the 25-acre site.
New York City-based architect Robert A.M. Stern is design architect and Houston-based Morris Architects is executive architect for the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, an $88 million facility in Houston that will house two performance halls, a 2,650-seat theater for musical theater productions and the 538-seat Selim Zilkha Hall. San Francisco-based Swinerton Inc. is the general contractor. The project is scheduled for completion in 2002.
Washington, D.C.-based architect Ai will design a 14-story office building in Tyson's Corner, Va., that will be the first element of Capital One Financial's 30-acre headquarters campus. Davis Construction Co. is general contractor. Completion of the 550,000-sq.-ft. structure is scheduled for summer of 2002.


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2010-11 Season (Senior)
A Second Team All-Big West Conference selection ... Voted CSUN's Most Improved Player and the Andrew Chevalier co-MVP along with Lenny Daniel ... Gained Big West Player of the Week honors for his efforts in helping Cal State Norrthridge collect a 66-62 victory at UC Irvine (1/27/11) and at UC Santa Barbara (70-69, 1/29/11) ... At UC Irvine, posted 15 points and five rebounds including a game-winning three-point bank shot with 22 seconds to play ... At UCSB, scored a career-high 26 points (23 points in the second half) ... Hit three clutch free throws in the final seconds to preserve the Matador win at UC Santa Barbara ... Also tallied a career-high 26 points at UC Davis (3/3/11) ... CSUN's second leading scorer (14.6 ppg, #11 in the BWC) ... Scored in double figures in 24 of the 29 games played ... Scored 24 points along with five rebounds and two steals at California (11/16/10) ... Tallied 24 points with seven rebounds and four assists vs UC Davis (12/30/10) ... Scored 20 or more points in nine games ... Had career-highs in rebounds (8) and assists (4) at Air Force (12/2/10).
2009-10 Season (Junior)
CSUN's Most Inspirational Player ... Was hampered by a painful back injury throughout the 2009-10 season ... Nevertheless, played in 17 games, six as a starter ... Scored a season-high 14 points against Seattle (1/11/10) along with six rebounds, and another 14 points and five rebounds against UC Santa Barbara (1/30/10).
Frank Phillips College
During the 2008-09 season, McLemore led the Plainsmen in scoring at 17.6 ppg ... Averaged more than 20 points during conference play ... Started 24 of 28 games, shot .483 (174-for-360) from the floor, .349 (37-for-106) from three-point territory and averaged 4.7 rebounds per game ... Also collected 63 steals (second-best on the team), 88 assists (#2 on the team) and blocked 17 shots (third-best on the squad) ... Scored in double figures in 25 of 28 games played ... That included point totals of 36 against Trinidad Junior College and 33 against NMMI ... Also averaged five rebounds and five assists per game ... For his efforts, McLemore gained all-region and all-league honors ... Also named team MVP.
Ball State University (2007-08)
Began his collegiate career at Ball State University ... As a redshirt freshman, started 17 of 29 games and averaged 8.3 ppg ... Scored in double figures in seven games ... That included double-digit games of 17 points against Illinois State, 16 against Akron and 15 points against St. Joseph's.
Mt. Zion Prep Academy
As a senior, averaged 16 points, five assists and four rebounds per game ... His expertise was long-range shooting where McLemore drilled 90 three-point field goals and shot over 40 percent from behind the arc as a senior ... A McDonald's All-American nominee, McLemore helped lead Mt. Zion to a 20-10 record as a senior and a ranking of 12th in the nation ... Also played two years as a quarterback on the football team ... A member of the 2004 state champion Notre Dame Academy team.
Matador Memo
Born May 13, 1986 ... Parents are Ruth and Johnnie McLemore ... Has one brother (Johnnie Jr.) ... Roots for the Boston Celtics ... His favorite NBA athlete is Paul Pierce ... His favorite actor is Will Ferrell, and his favorite actress is Lisa Ray ... His favorite television show is "The Game" ... A movie fan of "Above the Rim" ... Chose Cal State Northridge because he wanted to experience life on the west coast ... His greatest sports moment was winning MVP honors at the state championship game while playing for Notre Dame Academy ... The best athlete he has played against is Josh Smith ... His best friends from another college team are Melvin Goins (Tennessee), Joel Bankers (Hartford) and Deontay Twyman (Quinnipac University) ... The best thing about being a student-athlete is the competition, according to Rashaun ... The toughest part is "keeping up with the school work" ... Would like to see more teams in the NBA ... The person in history he would most liked to have met would have been Martin Luther King, Jr. ... His favorite website is www.worldstarhiphop.com ... The famous person he has ever met is Bun B ... Would most like to switch places with Bill Gates ... Would also like to be stranded on a desert island with Alicia Keys ... Would also like to have dinner with Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell ... If Rashaun had to listen to one CD the rest of his life, it would be "My Brothers: JMAC" ... Rashaun would buy his parents whatever they wanted if he had a million dollars ... The best advice he offers to young people - stay in school and work hard on-and-off the court ... No one knows how much "I love my family" ... The best advice he ever received - "Phillippians 4:13" ... If a movie was ever made of Rashaun's life, Terrence Howard would play the lead role ... Rashaun says he can't go a week without talking with his family ... If he could change one thing about the world today, he would "make the economy better" ... The one thing that always makes Rashaun smile is "hearing my mama's voice" ... His greatest hero - my dad because he fights through adversity ... Pan African Studies major.
Rashaun McLemore - Career Highs
Points - 26 (2 games)
Field Goals - 10 vs UC Davis (12/30/10)
3-Point Field Goals - 4 (4 games)
Free Throws - 10 (2 games)
Rebounds - 8 at Air Force (12/2/10)
Assists - 4 (5 games)
Blocks - 2 at Eastern Washington (2/19/11)
Steals - 4 at UC Riverside (2/4/10)


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Apraxia is a disorder of the brain and nervous system in which a person is unable to perform tasks or movements when asked, even though:
- The request or command is understood
- They are willing to perform the task
- The muscles needed to perform the task work properly
- The task may have already been learned
Alternative Names
Verbal apraxia; Dyspraxia; Speech disorder – apraxia; Childhood apraxia of speech; Apraxia of speech; Acquired apraxia
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Apraxia is caused by damage to the brain. When apraxia develops in a person who was previously able to perform the tasks or abilities, it is called acquired apraxia.
The most common causes of acquired apraxia are:
- Brain tumor
- Condition that causes gradual worsening of the brain and nervous system (neurodegenerative illness)
- Dementia
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
Apraxia may also be seen at birth. Symptoms appear as the child grows and develops. The cause is unknown.
Apraxia of speech is often present along with another speech disorder called aphasia. Depending on the cause of apraxia, a number of other brain or nervous system problems may be present.
A person with apraxia are unable to put together the correct muscle movements. At times, a completely different word or action is used than the one the person intended to speak or make. The person is often aware of the mistake.
Symptoms of apraxia of speech include :
- Speech sounds and words may be distorted, repeated, or left out. It is difficult to put words together in the correct order.
- Struggling to pronounce the right word.
- Longer words are more difficult to use, either at all, or from one time or another.
- Short everyday phrases or sayings (such as "How are you?") can often still be used without a problem.
- The person often can write better than he or she can speak.
Other forms of apraxia include:
- Buccofacial or orofacial apraxia: Cannot carry out movements of the face on demand, such as licking the lips, sticking out the tongue, or whistling.
- Ideational apraxia: Cannnot carry out learned complex tasks in the proper order, such as putting on socks before putting on shoes.
- Ideomotor apraxia: Cannot voluntarily perform a learned task when given the necessary objects. For instance, if given a screwdriver, the person may try to write with it as if it were a pen.
- Limb-kinetic apraxia: This condition involves difficulty making precise movements with an arm or leg. It becomes impossible to button a shirt or tie a shoe.
Frustration, profanity, and depression are typical responses in persons with aphasia.
Signs and tests
The following tests may be performed if the cause of the disorder is not known:
- CT or MRI scans of the brain may help show a tumor, stroke, or other brain injury
- An electroencephalogram (EEG) may be used to rule out epilepsy as a cause of the apraxia.
- A spinal tap may be done to check for inflammation or an infection that affects the brain.
Standardized language and intellectual tests should be done if apraxia of speech is suspected. Testing for other learning disabilities may also be needed.
Occupational and speech therapists may help both patients and their caregivers learn ways to deal with the apraxia. However, because people with apraxia have trouble following instructions, occupational therapy is difficult.
Speech and language treatment may include:
- Repeating sounds over and over in order to teach mouth movements
- Learning to slow down how the person talks
- Different techniques to help with communication
Recognition and treatment of depression is important for people with severe speech and language disorders.
Other tips:
- Maintain a relaxed, calm environment.
- Take time to show someone with apraxia how to do a task, and allow enough time for them to do so. Do not ask them to repeat the task if they are clearly struggling with it and doing so will increase frustration.
- Suggest alternative ways to do the same things, for example, try a hook and loop closure instead of laces for shoes.
When speech apraxia is present:
- Avoid giving complex directions.
- Use simple phrases to avoid misunderstandings.
- Speak in a normal tone of voice. Speech apraxia is not a hearing problem.
- Don't assume that the person understands.
- Provide communication aids, if possible, depending on the person and condition.
Expectations (prognosis)
Many people with apraxia are no longer able to be independent and may have trouble performing everyday tasks. Ask your healthcare provider, which activities may or may not be safe. Avoid activities that may cause injury, and take the proper safety measures.
- Learning problems
- Low self-esteem
- Social problems
Calling your health care provider
Contact your health care professional if someone has difficulty performing everyday tasks or has other symptoms of apraxia after a stroke or brain injury.
Reducing your risk for stroke and brain injury may help prevent conditions that lead to aphasia.


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Boston Bombing Suspect Killed in Police Shootout
Boston-area residents were advised to stay in their homes after one of the marathon bombing suspects was killed and the second was said to be armed and at large. The WSJ's Jennifer Smith has the latest details.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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