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Live Review: Mos Def's Haiti Benefit at the Independent, San Francisco
A favorite pastime firmly rooted in the modern day has become looking over people's shoulders at shows while they compose texts-in-progress. At last night's Mos Def show in San Francisco, dude next to me gets another one of many Facebook updates throughout the night on his iPhone: "So-and-So commented on your status: 'You're updating your status more than you're watching the show.'"
His response, thumbs twitching with Mos Def less than 10 feet away: "I'm pissed and he's boring."
Indeed, the crowd last night was subdued to Ritalin-like extremes while Mos Def pulled almost exclusively from his new record, The Ecstatic. And in a way, that album's version of Hip Hop 2.0 isn't entirely conducive to losing your shit. Like other off-kilter artists—Georgia Anne Mudrow, Shafiq Husayn, Declaime, Erykah Badu's recent material—Mos Def is riding a weird phase where driving boom-bap beats have given way to implied rhythm. At one point last night he told people to stop clapping, which says a lot about where he's at. He also stopped the show early on to ask the sound man for "some of that psychedelic sound" on his red bullet mic. The relatively low volume of the Independent's sound system magnified it: this was not music for getting down to.
And people weren't having it. Requests for "Definition," "Respiration" and "Ms. Fat Booty" were met by Mos Def with a shit-I've-heard-this-so-many-time look and a schooling. "Stop doing that. That never works," he said. "No one ever does the song you yell for. I create the magic of rock. You enjoy it."
What people got instead was, to my mind, a really good look at an artist who's trying, despite his fans' reluctance, to stretch hip-hop into unchartered territory. It's not just jazz and it's not just rock. It's a weird world of Mos Def's own making, and which even he might not be comfortable in just yet. But he has his enablers, especially in the form of Jay Electronica, who was billed as an opener but essentially co-headlined. Jay's famous for releasing 15 minute-long songs with no drums whatsoever and bursting lyrical over looped samples from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He has no official album out, just internet mixtapes and a huge buzz.
So Jay Electronica came out and killed—lots of a capella, lots of drumless samples—and for a while there Mos Def spent a good deal of time showering praise on Electronica ("You're a genius, man") and criticism on a heckler who kept shouting for "Exhibit B." ("There is no Exhibit B! Exhibit C is Exhibit B! You're shouting for something that doesn't exist!.." ad infinitum.) Jay's highlight was his one-two of "Exhibit A" and "Exhibit C," and when he left the stage I counted four people around me leaving the show.
At the end of the set, Mos Def finally announced "Okay. And now… for the classics." But the plural was a cruel tease. "Umi Says," the most Ecstatic-like track off Black on Both Sides, closed the show. There was a lot of head-scratching out on the sidewalk, but I left feeling like at least someone is trying something new. And I say that as a fan who sold back his copy of The Ecstatic after a week.
Also—and I feel bad mentioning this at the end—the night was a benefit for Haiti, and organizers didn't skimp on the pressing need for help. Pierre Labosierre of the Haiti Action Committee and Walter Riley of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund both spoke very, very eloquently about the history of Haiti and the truth about the situation on the ground. Freestyle whiz Supernatural did his usual amazing act while dropping "Liberation," "Unity" and "Hope" into his "Three Words" routine. Mos Def talked about how Haiti's independence represented the first uprising against slavery in history, and "When they're suffering, it's not just Haiti that's suffering. It's… it's…"
"Freedom!" someone yelled.
"Right! Freedom. It's freedom that's suffering."
("Latinos!" yelled the Exhibit B guy. "I'm not sure what that has to do with what we're talking about," Mos Def replied dryly, "but right on.")
So for real, whatever you think about his new album, or the show, or his direction, you've got to admit that the Haiti aspect of the night was a success. At $35 a head I'm sure it sent a lot of much-needed help, plus it did what a benefit should do, by both educating and entertaining the people. That is, if you were actually paying attention and not composing useless passive-aggressive tweets about the drunk girl next to you who kept hitting you with her purse.
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Confirming that investigators believe a U.S. Border Patrol agent fired the first shot in a suspected "friendly fire" incident last week, an agents-union official said Sunday that the Border Patrol will review procedures to help prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
"It's just a horrible, unfortunate incident," said George McCubbin, National Border Patrol Council president, who has reviewed investigative reports.
After the FBI and the Cochise County Sheriff's Office complete their investigations, the Border Patrol will investigate whether policies and procedures were followed and whether they're adequate to prevent an agent from firing at another agent in the field, McCubbin said.
Border Patrol officials were not available for comment Sunday.
Agent Nicholas Ivie was killed about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in a shooting in a remote, mountainous area known for drug smuggling about 6 miles east of Bisbee and several miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The FBI announced on Friday that there are strong indications that the shooting involved friendly fire.
Ivie, 30, and two other agents were responding to an activated sensor. Ivie and the other agents arrived in vehicles, then set out on foot, said acting Cochise County Sheriff Rodney Rothrock. McCubbin said Ivie was approaching a shallow canyon from the north, and two agents, a man and a woman, were approaching from the south.
"They were dropping into a saddle (shallow canyon) from different directions," McCubbin said. "The area was heavy with thick brush."
Investigators believe Ivie thought he had run into an armed smuggler and fired, striking the man in the ankle and buttocks, McCubbin said. The agents were about 20 yards apart, Rothrock said. McCubbin said the injured agent returned fire, killing Ivie. The female agent also fired her service revolver, but it's not clear whether she struck anyone. She was not injured.
"We believe Agent Ivie was responding to whatever was there," McCubbin said. "Initial reports said he was ambushed."
McCubbin's statements confirm what azcentral.com reported late Friday. A source close to the investigation told The Arizona Republic and azcentral that the agents lost radio contact and Ivie got spooked and started to shoot, with another agent returning fire.
It is unclear if Ivie identified himself before firing, which is common practice, McCubbin said, and it's unclear if the other agents heard him if he did.
"It's at night and you have more than one unit responding to the report," McCubbin said. "We are running into canyons and saddles and down mountains, and you don't know what you are going to find down there."
Rothrock would not comment on whether Ivie shot first, but said, "They (the agents) were able to distinguish there was somebody else there but not able to distinguish that they were border agents."
The agents' weapons have been seized, and they are on paid leave pending a Border Patrol review of the incident, which is customary, McCubbin said. The union has hired lawyers for both agents, standard practice in any incident involving a shooting.
Investigators have reported there is no evidence that border crossers tripped the sensors. Sensors are often tripped by grazing cattle, McCubbin said.
He said, according to investigative reports, Ivie and the other two agents knew they were responding to the same tripped sensor because they radioed dispatch. They apparently lost radio contact, he said.
He said radio communication has been an issue during his 27 years on the force.
Representatives from various agencies attended Sunday's visitation.
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Care, General Care Projects in Ethiopia by Clea Arrieta
Four years ago I attended a small information night presented by Projects Abroad. I told my parents that night that I wanted to do a service trip of sorts, similar to what Projects Abroad offered, but I didn't think much of it for too long because I thought I was too young at 15 years old.
Three years later, I found myself planning what to do after high school and despite my initial plans to go straight into university, I decided to take a gap year and travel to Africa. I didn't know which country I wanted to visit and I really wasn't picky as to where I wanted to go. So after some financial budgeting and some quick searches, I decided to head to Addis Ababa in the country of Ethiopia.
Volunteering in Ethiopia
I worked at two different placements while in Ethiopia. I was at Hillside School and Selam Orphanage. At Hillside, I taught English to children in the primary class and oversaw a large portion of the science fair that the school was holding.
I didn't know what to expect before arriving to my placement, so I brought small toys like tops and some short children's story books to read to my classes. Little did I know, the school would be grateful for my donations, but my physical presence amidst the children and the energy I brought was more rewarding than anything I could've tangibly brought from Canada.
We played games, we did some spelling tests, and learnt how to use verbs and put them into the past. I met some brilliant young minds during the science fair and am incredibly excited to see what the students put together in the future.
At Selam Orphanage, I got the opportunity to work in their school, but also directly with the children living in the orphanage. I fell in love with every single one of those children, but one boy in particular named Abutica took my heart and ran away with it. I'm sure that aside from family he didn't know anyone who could care about him as much as I did. I told him that complete stranger can love him because of how good his soul is.
My host family
At my accommodation, I lived in a home that had a host mum and a host grandma. My host mum had a son that was abroad studying for university who is the same age as me, so she somewhat took on the position of being my mother figure. She did everything she was meant to and always made sure that I had somewhere safe to stay within the chaos of Addis Ababa. I was lucky that she spoke English very fluently alongside multiple other languages as she was a translator at one of the orphanages in Addis, so I could always count on her to fully understand what I had to say.
My host grandma was a character that didn't speak English at all, but we got by on my basic French and the surprisingly decent amount of Amharic I learnt while away. I will never forget how she'd always be downstairs when I'd go down for breakfast and wave goodbye from her small porch attached to her bedroom whenever I left for work. She was the embodiment of genuine Ethiopian love and she certainly shared all she possibly could with me.
Travelling in Ethiopia
I was lucky enough to do a lot of travelling within the 4.5 months I was in Ethiopia. My first trip was going east to Awash and Harrar. I was able to visit my first National Park and visit the city where coffee runs in the blood of the people living there. Harrar was beautiful and colourful and quite amazing on a historical stand point and that was definitely when I fully came to accept that I was undoubtedly in Africa.
The last trip I was able to go on was when I visited the south - Hawassa, Shashamene, and Langano. Hawassa somehow managed to have a very 'island feel' probably because of the humongous lake it was named after. Not too far from Hawassa was a little town called Shashamene which is known to be a home of the Ethiopian Rastafarian Community.
The people were colourful and tight knit, full of characters of all sorts. Visiting this town made me realise how we're all truly living under the same sky. Belief systems and religions and social class may temporarily segregate groups of people, but at the end of the day we're all sharing this one beautiful sky.
The last place I visited was Langano Lake. My two roommates and I splurged on a nice resort for one night and it was the best decision we made. The lake and the scenery was a view that took my breath away.
The entire time I was in Ethiopia, I saw both conditions of wealth can poverty. Despite the extreme differences between the social hierarchies, neither was more beautiful than the other. Each memory I've saved from my trip held its own beauty in its own right and all deserve to be seen.
Projects Abroad staff and volunteers
Reminiscing of the staff and volunteers I met brings tears to my eyes. Anyone that's left everything they've known and just jumped head first into a new culture and way of living will understand how important one's companions become. Words don't explain how grateful I was for Weini and her motherly understanding and unconditional love, or Menassie's sense of humour and guaranteed ability to make me feel welcomed.
The Projects Abroad staff in Addis were brilliant - they made the experience I had and the experience of the 30 other volunteers I met from around the world, definitely one we'd never forget nor regret. They were always a call or text message away (given there was service when we needed them) or never too far away to get to. I miss them all so dearly and never go a day without thinking about them.
So all in all, that's the best I can summarise my 18 week trip. I grew, I learnt, I opened my mind to more things than a year at school could have taught me. But I would be lying if I said I didn't have any doubts while on my trip. I had moments where I questioned why I came to Africa, why I thought I could do or change anything in the first place. But after a scarce and momentary spiral of doubt, I'd realise that I was there and I would be leaving a mark regardless of the size.
I began to value the smiles I received from people on the 'lada' taxis. I began to feel grateful towards the Ethiopian's that would stop me on the street to ask me about my culture with the want to practice their English with me. I began to buy loaves of bread with my roommates to give to the people of Megenagna. I began promising myself every night that I'd go back there one day to see all of those beautiful things again.
It's a trip that will change you psychologically for the better. No one back at home will be able to see the change you've withstood, but you'll feel it and you'll know it. You will be the only person to know what you've truly done within your stay and you'll realise that the trip was not only for the children of Ethiopia but for yourself. I suggest it for everyone and if you're wondering if you really should? Just do it.
Clea Arrieta
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There are good cops, there are bad cops...and there is Pufferfish, aka Detective Inspector Franz Heineken.
Pufferfish (Contusus brevicaudus): Body moderately short, pectorals rounded. Slow swimmer. Scavenger in the mud, at home in the murky shallows, where it roots out and feeds on detritusbody able to bloat and even explode under extreme provocation.
A severed head rolls out of the runnish in a crowded Tasmanian caravan park, and the hunt is on for the killers ... and for their victim, a man no-one seems to miss, a man no-one wants to know.
As Pufferfish digs deeper, he runs straight up against mainland law and order ... and the smell of corruption grows.


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Kumasi (Feat. Chyno & Malik Yusef) - Sun Gone Shine
This Video is Dedicated to the New President. It was Shot the day of the election in Chicago by Todd Strickland. After capturing unique footage in Chicago, Compton, Kumasi's home town, Portland Oregan, Los Angeles, D.C. and Baltimore were the next stops. It features Raheem DeVaughn, the best poet in the world Malik Yusef and GLC, both from Kanye's G.O.O.D Music label. Poet J. Ivy, Chyno on the vocals, Kumasi as the lyracist, the last mayor of Compton, Omar Bradley. The top high school basketball team in the Nation (Jefferson High School) Coached by former Oregan State star point gaurd Pat Strickland. Charles, Veronica, and Shalonda Shannon. Students of John Muir, where Kumasi was a Special Educations teacher of Math, English and Reading before becoming Black Wall Street's new conscious artist.
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Beautifully directed by Emmy Award� winner Paula Heredia and produced by Equality Now, AFRICA RISING travels through remote villages in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Somalia and Tanzania. Weaving together dynamic footage and the poignant stories of girls personally affected by FGM, it shows how African women and men are putting an end to this human rights violation. Convincing circumcisers to lay down their knives, engaging the police to implement the law, and honing leadership skills in girls, these determined activists have been working tirelessly for years to conceptualize their campaign. AFRICA RISING paints an intimate portrait of the broadly-based but little-known anti-FGM movement and shows that courageous, creative and resourceful individuals can change the course of history.
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Last Monday, the staff of Hot Rod magazine towed a 1985 Chevrolet Corvette to Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. They then beat the hell out of it — literally. Predictably, Corvette guys are pissed.
Of course, no one's really surprised here. People taking offense to something? On the Internet? Gasp! (Woo! Sledgehammers!) Shock! (Look, it's going faster!) Horror! (That car will never roll onto the grounds at Bloomington again! Aieeee!)
Fun times. Also, Hot Rod's staff claims that their
ass-whooping modifications made the car two seconds a lap faster around Irwindale's road course. Good thing these guys didn't take this too seriously.


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for a feature article about clashing roommates in bust magazine's fall preview issue. (art director: erin wengrovius)
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for a feature article about clashing roommates in bust magazine's fall preview issue. (art director: erin wengrovius)
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I love this!!! Endlessly cool! xxx
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- lamina @ do a bit said...
Great illustration... I think I was the girl on the right when I was flat sharing :)
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- yelena bryksenkova said...
thanks to both of you! i was definitely the extremely neat, passive aggressive one :(
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So great!
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Nice contrast
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Great expresions!!! I love the colors!!
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I found your blog through a friend and immediately recognized the spread from the magaine on my coffe table! Great work!
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A great piece, I particularly like the amount of expression you have managed to convey through the facial expressions and little differences between the opposing sides of the image, like the sticky tape keeping the posters on the right side.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News agency Agence France Presse and two photographers sued NFL star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen over an incident in which they allege the couple's bodyguards fired on the photographers.
The plaintiffs seek at least $1 million in damages from the New England Patriots quarterback and his wife after bodyguards shot at the photographers at the couple's after-wedding party at Bundchen's holiday home in Costa Rica.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, blamed Bundchen and Brady for negligence and carelessness.
After taking photographs of the event, the photographers were approached by bodyguards who demanded their cameras and memory cards, the suit said. When the photographers refused, the incident escalated, and one of the bodyguards opened fire with a pistol at the photographers' vehicle, the suit said.
One of the shots struck and shattered the rear window of the photographers' vehicle, hit the front windshield and ricocheted off it into the driver's seat, the suit said. It narrowly missed the heads of photographers Yuri Cortez and Rolando Aviles, who are both citizens of Costa Rica.
Cortez and Aviles have incurred expenses for medical care and treatment, medicines, nursing services, physical therapy and other treatment, the suit said.
Representatives for Bundchen and Brady were not immediately available to comment.
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I was looking in Home Bargains yesterday and spotted a familiar product – Dandrazol shampoo which basically got rid of my flaky scalp (bearing in mind I have tried all sorts such as T-Gel etc. for years).
The shampoo was on sale for a mere £1.49 (retail £5.49 for the smaller size). Bargain! Since I used this once a week for maintenance I snapped up a few bottles.
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I worked as an attorney at the Criminal Law Dept of the Israeli State Attorney's Office.
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I liked the combination between the friendly atmosphere and the high quality of the curriculum.
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Meeting many interesting and diverse LLM students and Penn Law faculty.
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I enjoyed all my classes at Penn Law. Since the program is so flexible and we get to choose all our classes, I took only classes that I found very interesting. If I had to choose I would say that the best ones were "Human Rights & National security" and "Law & Morality". These two classes were very different but both of them were very mind opening and encouraging broad thinking.
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Reading material in my favorite café in Center City.
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Welcome High Gloss Magazine! I actually heard about this magazine the other night while watching Chelsea Lately from Ms. Handler herself (the contents of her purse are featured in one spread). Wow, while the print magazines are disappearing, it's opening up a lot of opportunities for enterprising creatives to create online magazines. High Gloss, you had me with the ivory donut phone and the twin Dorothy Draper dressers on the cover…


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For super fresh fish from the Adriatic try Al Pesce Azzurro on the beach in Fano.
It's the local fisherman's cooperative - they catch it, cook it & serve it to you the same day!
For an incredible deal I must say - 2 antipasti, 1 primi, 2 secondi, 1 contorno (veg), 1/2 litre acqua minerale, 1/4 litre D.O.C. vino & pane all for 10 Euro a person for lunch! No skimpy servings either - we could barely finish all our food & tons of fish! No frills, no choice, self-serve (slide your tray style) - totally perfect! Arrive early because locals start lining up 20 minutes before they open.
Open for lunch 12:00pm - 2:00pm & dinner 7:30pm - 10:00pm (closed on Mondays)
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Bloomberg: Guns should be Obama's top priority
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — an outspoken advocate for stricter gun laws — said Sunday that dealing with gun violence should be at the top of President Barack Obama's agenda.
"This should be his number one agenda. He's president of the United States," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in the aftermath of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
"If he does nothing during his second term, something like 48,000 Americans will be killed with illegal guns. That is roughly the number of Americans killed in the whole Vietnam War," Bloomberg told host David Gregory.
Bloomberg said that Obama doesn't need Congress' cooperation of everything — he can simply enforce current law.
"There's something like 77,000 - people who've been accused of lying when they applied for a gun permit. We've only prosecuted 77 of them," Bloomberg said.
"The president can introduce legislation - even if it doesn't get passed. The president campaigned back in 2008 on a bill that would prohibit assault weapons," the mayor went on. "We've got to really question whether military-style weapons with big magazines belong on the streets of America in this day and age."


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On February 27, a high-level regional workshop kicked off in Lomé, Togo, with the participation of Ministers of gender affairs and officials from 11 economies from West and Central Africa focusing on the World Bank Group's Women, Business and the Law 2014: Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality report. A welcome dinner prior to the official opening of the event revealed the dynamic nature of gender affairs Ministers – all women – and the common realities and issues facing their nations. Most were meeting for the first time in a unique experience that enabled sharing stories and views about laws, cultural norms and traditional roles within the family in prelude to the official discussions.
The opening remarks at the workshop reflected well the importance of gender equality for the region. In welcoming the event, Mr. Hervé Assah, the World Bank's Country Manager for Togo, noted that "underinvesting in the human capital of women is a real obstacle to reducing poverty and considerably limits the prospects for economic and social development." Those concerns were echoed by the Minister of Social Action and Women and Literacy Promotion in Togo, Mrs. Dédé Ahoéfa Ekoué, who highlighted the importance of women's participation in society and the economy, both in Togo and worldwide. The tone was thus set for this two-day event, which aimed at both highlighting recent reforms enacted by countries in the region and promoting the sharing of experiences, challenges and good practices among the participants in promoting women's economic inclusion.
There is certainly much to highlight and share over these two days and beyond. Over the past two years, several Sub-Saharan African economies passed reforms promoting gender parity and encouraging women's economic participation. For example, Togo reformed its Family Code in 2012, now allowing both spouses to choose the family domicile and object to each other's careers if deemed not to be the family's interests. Côte d'Ivoire equalized the same rights for women and men, and also eliminated provisions granting tax benefits only to men for being the head of household. Furthermore, Mali enacted a law allowing both spouses to pursue their business and professional activities and a succession law equalizing inheritance between husbands and wives. While the pace of reform has been accelerating in the region, it is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, Sub-Saharan Africa is the region that has reformed the most over the past 50 years: Restrictions on women's property rights and their ability to make legal decisions were reduced by more than half from 1960 to 2010.


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Mt. San Jacinto College has a host of fun family activities lined up on Oct. 30 to celebrate Homecoming and honor MSJC's athletic heroes.
The fun starts at 11 a.m. with a Tailgate BBQ at the San Jacinto Campus. The Tailgate is free and open to the public. Hot dogs, nachos and sodas will be available for $1 each. Visitors can enjoy DJ music, participate in games and have a chance to win prizes.
The Tailgate celebration kicks off the Homecoming football game, which starts at 1 p.m. at the Carl Quandt stadium on the San Jacinto campus. The MSJC Eagles will host Compton.
After the game, the MSJC Eagle Athletic Club will hold its inaugural Hall of Fame Induction dinner and ceremony. The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the Country Club at Soboba Springs.
2010 Hall of Fame inductees are:
John Chambers
— Coach Chambers spent 33 seasons as a community college head coach, 31 of those at MSJC.
John recorded 703 victories in that time and retired in 2003 as the winning-est coach in California Community College history. He was named conference coach of the year 13 times and in 1998 was the state coach of the year. John is already enshrined in the CCCBCA State Hall of Fame.
Robert Stangel
Coach Stangel's coaching career at MSJC ran from 1974 to 1999. During Stangel's tenure the Eagles won 154 games which makes him the school's all time leader in that category. Stangel was named the conference coach of the year 7 times and Region Coach of the Year three times. In 1998 he was named the CCCFCA State Coach of the Year. Bob is already a member of the State Football Coaches Hall of Fame.
Alvin Walton
— Alvin was a standout strong safety for the Eagles in 1982 and 1983. Alvin was twice named first team all conference and in his sophomore season also recognized as All State and All American. Alvin went on to become a two year starter at Kansas University where as a senior he earned 2nd team All Big 8 honors. Following the 1986 season Alvin was drafted in the third round by the NFL's Washington Redskins. Alvin played six seasons with the Redskins including 1988 when he was a starter on the team that won Superbowl XXII. Alvin completed his playing career in the CFL where he helped the Baltimore Stallions win the Grey Cup.
MSJC Football Games cost $8 for adults; $5 High School and Jr. High Students with ASB cards; $5 Elementary Students; Free for students with MSJC ASB cards or for children under the age of 5.
The Hall of Fame dinner (dressy attire) costs $75 per person and reservations are required. For more information and to order tickets online visit:
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San Jacinto Campus, 1499 N. State St.
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11 a.m.: MSJC Tailgate BBQ
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
First trip to Ireland to research genealogy
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A great find and a wonderful adventure you had in Ireland! Thanks so much for sharing your story. I look forward to reading more from you here on your new blog.ReplyDelete
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You've got a great genealogy blog and I've added it to the blog list at GeneaBloggers.
In addition, I've made sure your blog is listed in our search engine (http://www.geneabloggers.com/search-geneablogger-member-blogs/) so that it may be searched along with over 800 other genealogy blogs.
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Hi, kwech, welcome to the genea-blogosphere.ReplyDelete
You're story makes me want to get busy and track down my Irish lines. It sounds like you had a really nice trip!
I loved your story. How wonderful you could go and visit. It sounds like a dream trip. Keep up the good work!
What a great start! Looking forward to future stories.ReplyDelete
Welcome to the Geneabloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I'm fairly new, as well, and have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.
Keeping telling your ancestor stories!
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In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will resume the fraught conversation about what exactly took place at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year on Sept. 11. Members of Congress have made it clear they will focus on how the events, which led to the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, were characterized in the hours and days that followed.
That issue flamed into white-hot partisanship ahead of the U.S. presidential election, with some accusing Obama appointees of deliberately downplaying Al Qaeda involvement for political reasons. But acting CIA Director Michael Morell has said that it was analysts within his agency, not political operatives, who changed the wording of the unclassified intelligence summary now under fire for misleading the public. His admission suggests that it is an image-conscious and cumbersome bureaucracy rather than political meddling that should be under scrutiny for the mischaracterization, and even perhaps for an intelligence failure.
Characterizations of events that chaotic night — provided both by then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus in closed congressional testimony and by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on television talk shows — were reportedly hammered out in a long flurry of exchanges within the intelligence community.


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European Union (EU) leaders should forcefully raise concerns about human rights abuses in Kyrgyzstan during President Almazbek Atambaev's visit to Brussels on September 17, 2013, and get specific commitments to address them, Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders said today.
The EU should press Atambaev for the immediate release of the wrongfully imprisoned rights defender Azimjon Askarov. EU leaders should also seek a promise from the Kyrgyzstan leader to call a halt to the rampant courtroom violence that plagues the country's justice system, and to reject a problematic draft bill that would seriously restrict the work of nongovernmental groups.
"The Askarov case is perhaps the clearest illustration of the grave injustices that followed the outbreak of ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan three years ago," said Mihra Rittmann, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The EU should press Atambaev, once and for all, to call on the authorities to reopen the case, have the conviction set aside, and investigate Askarov's allegations of torture."
Askarov, a prominent rights defender whose work focused on ill-treatment and torture by the police, has been serving a life sentence following his deeply flawed trial and conviction for alleged involvement in the ethnic violence that rocked the country's south in June 2010. During his trial, Askarov, 62, made credible allegations that he had been tortured in custody, but prosecutorial authorities have repeatedly declined to investigate. His health has declined markedly in prison.
During his trip to Brussels, Atambaev will hold talks with several high-level EU officials including Catherine Ashton, the vice-president and high representative for foreign affairs and security policy; European Parliament President Martin Schulz; European Commission President José Manuel Barroso; and European Council President Herman van Rompuy.
The deeply troubling legislative proposal was published on September 6 by two members of parliament. It would seriously curb independent advocacy and other work by nongovernmental groups by placing new, draconian limits on freedom of association, said Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders.
The bill, which heavily borrows from Russia's notorious "foreign agents" law, would similarly require organizations in Kyrgyzstan that receive foreign funding and supposedly engage in "political activities" to register as "foreign agents."
"President Atambaev needs to hear – loud and clear – that a 'foreign agents' law has absolutely no place in Kyrgyzstan," said Mary Lawlor, director at Front Line Defenders. "An active civil society is an essential component of any functioning democracy."
In a disturbing trend, the proposed "foreign agents" law is not the first legislative initiative in Kyrgyzstan this year that has sought to curb the activities of nongovernmental groups. In late January, a draft law on money laundering was introduced by the State Financial Intelligence Unit under the prime minister's office that would have placed undue financial controls on nongovernmental organizations. The groups successfully intervened, however. They organized a public hearing, and then formed a working group with representatives of the unit, who ultimately agreed to remove the discriminatory provisions.
"EU leaders should encourage President Atambaev to speak out against discriminatory legislative initiatives that would gravely undermine freedom of association in Kyrgyzstan," Lawlor said.
Kyrgyzstan is the only country in Central Asia that has ushered in a parliamentary democracy and has had a peaceful transfer of presidential power. Following the June 2010 ethnic violence that rocked the southern part of the country, with hundreds killed and thousands left homeless, the government instituted some political and rights reforms, such as decriminalizing libel and introducing a national torture prevention mechanism.
Despite these positive steps, authorities have been violating fundamental human rights, particularly in the south. Over the last three years, authorities have failed to provide justice for victims of the 2010 ethnic violence or to hold those responsible to account.
Another key concern is widespread torture and ill-treatment by law-enforcement officials during their investigations into the 2010 violence. Human Rights Watch and others, including the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, who visited Kyrgyzstan in December 2011, have documented these abuses. Prosecutorial authorities in Kyrgyzstan often decline to investigate serious and credible allegations of torture.
Only a handful of June 2010-related cases are still in court. But the deeply hostile courtroom environment and repeated violent attacks on lawyers and defendants persist. These problems and the impunity for those who violently disrupt trials have marred many of the June 2010-related trials.
The Kyrgyz authorities should stop turning a blind eye to these courtroom attacks, and instead intervene to stop them and hold those responsible for the violence accountable, Front Line Defenders and Human Rights Watch said.
Similarly, the authorities should ensure that every credible allegation of torture is fully and impartially investigated in a manner capable of bringing those responsible to account.
"Torture and violent attacks put the weakness of Kyrgyzstan's law enforcement and judiciary on clear display," Rittmann said. "EU leaders should urge President Atambaev to put an end to these blatant abuses."
Gender-based violence and violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are also longstanding problems that the Kyrgyz government has not effectively addressed. Domestic violence is widespread, as are abductions for forced marriage, despite recent legislative amendments increasing the penalties for this practice. Gay and bisexual men are at serious risk of extortion schemes and physical and sexual violence at the hands of the police in abuses that go largely unpunished.
EU officials should use their talks with Atambaev to urge him to provide leadership in ensuring a more effective response to gender-based violence and bride-kidnapping. He should also be urged to support and initiate concrete measures to address discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, including ensuring that victims can seek and get justice, Front Line Defenders and Human Rights Watch said.
Kyrgyzstan following in Russia's footsteps with proposed "foreign agents" bill
European Union (EU) leaders should forcefully raise concerns about human rights abuses in Kyrgyzstan during President Almazbek Atambaev's visit to Brussels on September 17, 2013, and get specific commitments to address them, Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders said today.
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Bialowas to serve 15 years for manslaughter in Norwich pickup truck death
A New London Superior Court judge sentenced 48-year-old Kevin Bialowas to 15 years in prison Monday, telling Bialowas he had taken away everything Stephen Germano had when he struck him with his pickup truck and fled the scene on July 14, 2009 in Norwich.
Bialowas, initially charged with murder, had been convicted by a jury in October of the lesser crimes of second-degree manslaughter and evading responsibility.
According to the state, Bialowas, driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck, hit Germano, 33, at the intersection of Elm Avenue and East Town Street during a dispute involving Bialowas' female passenger, Jennifer Sanford. Germano died of blunt traumatic injuries.
Bialowas, who had been released from a halfway house hours earlier after serving a six-month stint for tax evasion, did not stop or report the incident to police.
"I find it significant that this event took place on the day you were released from prison, which calls into question your ability to be a productive member of society," Hadden said.
Defense attorney John Franckling had argued for a shorter sentence for Bialowas, who he said had been threatened by Germano, who was speaking on the phone with Sanford during a seven-mile chase that began at her home in Baltic.
"He was being pursued by a very large, very angry, very violent man," Franckling said.
Bialowas had attempted to back up his truck when Germano exited his vehicle but had nowhere to go, according to Franckling.
"The jury rejected very rapidly the state's contention that there was intent on Kevin's part," Franckling said. "They did find he was reckless."
Prosecutor Stephen M. Carney had asked the judge to impose a lengthy sentence. In his summary of the crime, Carney said Bialowas, who dated Sanford before he went to prison and kept in touch with her during his incarceration, had gone to Sanford's home in Baltic hours after he was released from a halfway house. He encountered Germano, who he knew had been pimping out Sanford as a prostitute at Mohegan Sun while Bialowas was incarcerated.
"Mr. Bialowas couldn't exactly be described as Richard Gere in 'Pretty Woman' in light of what happened next," Carney said.
Bialowas and Sanford left together, and Germano began following them. At the Norwich intersection, Carney said Bialowas put his truck into drive, uttered an obscenity, and drove directly into Germano, whose body came to rest on the hood of the car before Bialowas turned the wheel and Germano fell off.
Bialowas' parents, siblings and children were in the courtroom for his sentencing.
Nobody was present on behalf of Germano, a Milford, Mass., native who grew up in a tumultuous family environment, according to testimony.
Germano's cousin, Michael Evangelista, said he had hoped to attend the sentencing but was unable to travel here from Texas.
In an email sent to The Day this weekend, Evangelista referred to Bialowas as "a coward."
"All that Stephen Germano wanted that day was to have a good American fist fight with the man who took his girl and he would have walked away, never bothering anybody again," Evangelista wrote.
"But instead, he did not stand in front of a man, he stood in front of a coward who drove his car at him trying to run him over because he was scared."
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Sunday, July 01, 2007
Weekend Cat Blogging - Kelly and Edith
It's raining, so please don't make us go outside.
It's actually quite rare to see Kelly and Edith this close. They don't like each other much, and Edith will usually chase Kelly and hiss loudly at her. I have no idea why. But Kelly likes to nap on the couch, and that blanket there - it's Edith's very favorite. It's been stowed away for a few months, but I felt a bit cold the other night and brought it out. And Edith is determined to have it, even if it means laying down next to her least-favorite cat.
For new visitors - Edith is the black smoke one, a British Shorthair, and Kelly is a shaded golden British Longhair.
This week's host for WCB is Pet's Garden.
12 comments:
- Holler said...
We have to fight our cats for the couch too!
- July 01, 2007 2:17 PM
- meeso said...
Oooohhhh, Kelly is so fluffy...she's SO cute! Cat's are such beautiful animals!
- July 01, 2007 2:38 PM
- Kitikata-san said...
Ah, it is true that every cat has her price. Rain and favorite binky must be it!
- July 01, 2007 6:26 PM
- Pelle said...
Your cats are adorable :) If my girlfriend wasn't allgergic I would probably have a few too. Now I will have to settle for a dog instead :)
- July 01, 2007 11:12 PM
- sammawow-china cat-willow said...
That is such a lovely picture of those two kitties!
- July 02, 2007 6:36 AM
- Nancy Lindquist-Liedel said...
My cats have an uneasy truce with one another. Only the dog bothering one of them, will bring the other cat to a defensive posture. They hate eachother, but they loathe the dog.
- July 02, 2007 11:42 PM
- Catherine said...
I'm green with envy, I wish we could have cats in our apartment.
I'm so glad that you let them stay inside!
- July 02, 2007 11:48 PM
- Irene Grumman said...
I laughed out loud at Kelly's crotchety expression.
- July 03, 2007 8:26 AM
- Daph said...
I am a cat lover too and yours are simply beautiful!
- July 03, 2007 2:16 PM
- Z said...
Hey Anne, I found you through Blogger's "of note". I adore kitties - we have two, babies of a stray that a friend took in.
On the Sacher Torte thing, I heard a piece on the BBC (From our own correspondent) where the woman said pretty much the same thing as you.
Z in Villigen CH
- July 04, 2007 8:56 AM
- Maudla said...
For pets I have 12 fish. These two adorable pets remind me of two of my daughters. They fight forever ; but they makeup.
- July 07, 2007 8:29 PM
- Nabeel said...
hmm leather sofa and cats .. do they not scratch? Or have you trained them not to :) .. like the sofa color.
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I think there might have been a serious/flashback episode like Hiro's before - the Natsume origins episode. So much of the show's more dramatic material (and just as much of its fluffy softness) revolves around this trio. Yuno's meeting with Arisawa back in ☆☆☆ also comes to mind. While it's not ground the show treads very often, when it does, it handles it well.
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Hidamari x Honeycomb 07 - The Local Stage, the College Stage, the World Stage
While this episode returns us to Yuno as the focus, in some ways, it feels like a continuation of Hiro's story from last week. Ruminations on what it means to be an artist and where the future leads. Yuno's character development has been kind of slow and subtle (it's been spread out over so many episodes, after all), but this episode above all shows that she has definitely become more defined as a person since the first episode of the first season. Her determination to create art under pressure was pretty inspiring, and it was a real treat seeing Arisawa again. As Yuno herself pointed out, graduation doesn't mean the end of things, and in Hidamari, probably won't. Even when the day comes that Sae and Hiro leave, I don't think they'll stop being major characters. It may even mean a chance for more artsy downtown scenes like the ones this episode gave us - it looked Shafty, and beautiful.
Also, Miya must be incredible if she can render a 3D image in paint. The beats of this show are all too familiar by now, but the content keeps changing and moving forward. Another school festival comes, and will go, but for Yuno, this is simply another step forward. But she'll always be the same determined, kinda shy, reflective Yuno that we've known from the beginning, at heart.
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Yuno's way to art stardom has begun. Loved how her dad freaked out, while her mom stayed totally cool.
|2012-11-18, 14:56
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I loved the 3D bit, but then I've always liked Miyako's creative spirit!
There's definitely a sad-tinged edge to the series as we approach Sae and Hiro's inevitable graduation, although bolstered in the sequence with Arisa(wa) showing that graduation need not mean an end to friendship as long as people stay in touch.
It's the wonderful moments like that which are one of the reasons I love this show so much.
|2012-11-18, 17:02
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Is it just me or are background characters (school/classmates) drawn out more frequently in this season? I can't remember how it was in the previous seasons but I feel like that aspect might have improved, not sure.
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|2012-11-20, 14:07
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damn, I just looked at the spoiler, now you completely ruined the anime for me as I know that that will happen !
just kidding, was just gonna ask who is mami ?
Also I am now set on the idea that the end of this season will be sae and hiro's graduation, good thing we have the day to day format, so we can always have "flashback" episodes in which they are back.
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It's interesting to look at some of the "extra" animation going on, most noticeably for me at least in episode 7. Continuity isn't all there though -- at the beginning of the School Store scene (approx 5:30) we see a man in a brown shirt and brown hair standing to the left of Hiro at the shelves. In the next high-angle shot he's been replaced by someone in a white shirt and grey hair.
And what's with that brown-haired girl in the same scene who walks through the shelves to the drinks display, picks up a bottle and walks back out of shot? Is this another foreshadowed character like Nazuna and Nori's appearance in x365?
That's not to say they've gone totally wild animating new characters -- in the preceding scene as lunchtime approaches we see five girls including Yunocchi and Miyako finishing up. Two of the other girls are animated if in a somewhat limited manner but the one at the back left is frozen solid. Maybe the budget didn't stretch *quite* that far.
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Yah, I am expecting hidamari sketch to take a small break after this season, something around 2 years.
talking aobut shaft, what projects do they have ? I know that a third madoka movie is in teh works , a second madoka season has been hinted and there are posibilities of a prism banana season if the pvs achieve whatever they are supossed to achieve, I don't know if *monogatari anything has been confirmed, tho and know less about any other new projects, like how much maria holic sold or how mauch manga they have left ot adapt. so as things stand (afaik) it would be one year of break for hidamari.
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Mami got to talk a lot this episode, which was nice since she's cute. And Miyachan in her kimono/ghost costume with her hair down was really cute.
And the balloon room... what a strange idea haha.
Still the same Yamabukisai, yet it felt different than the year before's.
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Hidamari x Honeycomb 08 - A Little Late for Halloween, Isn't It?
Such a well-done episode. So many little character moments that exemplified the best of Hidamari Sketch. There were NoriNazu moments, HiroSae moments, YunoMiya moments, and appearances from everyone short of Chika and the landlady. (When is Chika going to show up in this season? She's been a constant.) I loved the motif of the spider at the beginning and the end, with Yuno appreciating it for its webbed art. And the second half of the show looked to have a motif of hands running through it. Miya's hand, Yuno's artist's hand and a fake plastic hand.
Making even the reception desk scary is just the kind of thing I'd expect art students to do - along with a highly liberal adaptation of Shakespeare. Hiro Shimono was the right guy to get for such a role. And the Monta-牛 pun is cheap and terrible - just the way I like it. The thread of Yuno and Arisawa's relationship was continued, with Yuno making an active effort to continue texting her, and Yuno and her parents are more alike than Yuno thinks, even if she finds them embarrassing.
Even the throwaway lines are wonderful, such as Nazuna wondering if Sae and Hiro were doing an udon art exhibit (come to think of it, that sounds kinda cool). And Yoshinoya. Oh my, Yoshinoya. She only got about three scenes, but stole the show in every one of them. She makes a fine Sexy!Momotaro, and the failed bonfire hijacking is perfectly timed silent comedy. I've seen many, many, many episodes set at school festivals, and this one is strengthened by everything before it. It produces more laughs than tears, but that undercurrent of Yuno coming into her own gives it a poignant feeling.
I think I need nearly as many words to write about this episode as Yuno does to write about her pamphlet. And why shouldn't I? There's plenty to be proud of.
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