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PORTSMOUTH — St. Thomas Aquinas field hockey coach Sara Carpenter said junior Gabbi Dodier had two goals going into Wednesday's Division II game against Portsmouth.
The first was to win and get the Saints closer to locking up the No. 2 seed in the upcoming tournament.
The second was to establish a new St. Thomas single-season scoring record.
Check and check.
Dodier scored two goals and led St. Thomas to its seventh straight victory with a 3-1 win over Portsmouth, breaking E.C. Chojnicki's record of 17 goals set in 2009.
"(Dodier) is certainly a game-changer for us, but there has to be somebody getting her the ball," Carpenter said. "She is good at finishing, very good, and that's what we needed. She's a fighter and a scrambler and she generates a lot of our offense. Her speed coming down the left side of the field is certainly something we need and we like to have. She's our little sparkplug."
Brooke Matthews gave Portsmouth a 1-0 lead with 7:15 left in the first half, sending the Clipper sideline into jubilation.
"We came out flat today and we weren't prepared," Carpenter said. "Portsmouth had nothing to lose and we had everything to lose. Portsmouth came out wanting it more than we did. I think that goal they scored was a wake-up call for us. We haven't had to play down much this season, so that goal kind of snapped us back into reality. We knew it wasn't going to be an easy game — no game is easy — and Portsmouth always plays us tough and for whatever reason we weren't as prepared as we needed to be."
The Clipper celebration was short-lived as St. Thomas junior Riley Kane tied the game on a one-timer with 4:47 left in the half. Dodier gave the Saints a 2-1 lead with 41 seconds remaining.
"Getting those two goals late in the half was a huge momentum-changer for us and I think we played much better in the second half," Carpenter said.
"Whenever you lose a lead like that it hurts, but it was nice to be up for the short time that we were," Portsmouth coach Shannon Fernald said. "This has been reminiscent of our whole season. We push and we push and we push real hard, but we just can't seem to finish."
Portsmouth suffered its sixth straight loss and fell to 2-11 on the season. The Clippers, who have not won since a 2-1 home victory over Goffstown on Sept. 19, will conclude their season on Friday against Bishop Brady. They have been outscored 26-7 this season and shut out eight times.
"I feel bad for the seniors who were part of winning teams in the past, and for them to be seniors and not make it to the tournament, that's really tough," Fernald said. "It hasn't been a bad year for us; it just hasn't been a winning year."
Dodier gave the Saints some breathing room with a goal midway through the second half, beating Portsmouth goalie Brittany Linane.
St. Thomas wraps up its regular season on Friday with a home game against Kennett. Carpenter believes a win would secure the No. 2 seed for the Saints in the upcoming tournament. The Saints lost in last year's Division II semifinals to eventual state champion Bow.
"It starts all over in the tournament; everyone has a clean slate come tournament time," Carpenter said.
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PORTSMOUTH — St. Thomas Aquinas field hockey coach Sara Carpenter said junior Gabbi Dodier had two goals going into Wednesday's Division II game against Portsmouth.

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TEHRAN (AFP) – It is probably the last thing you would expect to come across in the capital of the Islamic republic of Iran: a polo club, more commonly associated with the aristocracy.
Nestling in the foothills of the Alborz mountains on the southeastern edge of heavily polluted Tehran, the Qasr-e Firouze Chowgan Club is surrounded by greenery and shielded from view by a military camp.
Qasr-e Firouze is Farsi for the Turquoise Palace and chowgan means polo — a game the Iranians say originated in Persia more than two millennia ago.
To back the claim, they point to drawings dating from the time of Darius I (522-486 BC) in which a horseman is depicted holding a long mallet in one hand.
Today, more than three decades after the Islamic revolution toppled the shah, polo is still played in Iran.
On one sunny and clear day, ambassadors, wealthy amateurs and officials rubbed shoulders in a crowd of around 500 people who watched four teams play in a charity tournament to raise funds for a diabetes association.
"We organise matches and tournaments almost every week," the deputy head of the national Iranian Polo Federation, Mohammad Ali Bigham, told AFP.
The polo enthusiast and player boasted that his federation has 150 accredited members, both men and women — despite the strict Islamic dress code imposed on the women.
Tradition says that the game was exported from ancient Persia first to Constantinople or modern-day Istanbul, before later drifting east to the plains of Afghanistan and then to Tibet where chowgan became known as "pulu".
And the rest is history. Chowgan-pulu spread to India where it was adopted by the Raj and the British drew up a new set of rules for the game they simply called polo.
— Abbas the Great —
For Iranians, the historic central city of Isfahan is the cradle of modern-day polo
During the 16th century, the Safavid shah Abbas the Great, famed for the architectural marvels built in Isfahan, ordered the construction of a huge polo field in Naqsh-e Jahan Square in the city centre so he could watch players from a terrace in his palace.
Over the centuries polo in Iran was a game reserved for the military elite, royal court officials and the aristocracy.
After the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the shah, the game was banned.
But it was rehabilitated in the 1990s, and a national polo federation soon saw the light of day.
The rebirth of polo in Iran was largely due to a countrywide growth in a sense of "Iranian identity" along with the support it received from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who encourages all sports deemed to have Iranian roots.
"In the Islamic republic, it is better not to say that polo is the sport of the nobility. The authorities encourage the game because it was born in Iran," said one polo enthusiast, who asked not to be identified.
A large poster of Khamenei towers over the field at the polo club, bearing a clear message that urges Iranians to engage in "sports that are homegrown such as polo which is Iranian".
But third generation polo player Amir Ali Zolfaghari, 39, says "the game is not yet accessible to everyone".
"Like for horseback riding, you need money to buy and maintain a horse, and to purchase the equipment," said Zolfaghari, whose father and grandfather also played polo.
He regrets that polo is not accessible to more people in Iran, a country of more than 75 million people, but notes that the federation has been very active.
"The federation is doing everything it can to attract young people. It provides horses and equipment for beginners," Zolfaghari said.
"We have managed to set up four or five clubs in order to improve the standing of the national team, and I hope that in four or five years we will reach a good level," and attract more players, he said.
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It's not easy being green, especially the green, red and silver of the Bucks. However, as the team battles to retain playoff positioning (never too early to think about that), one interesting name has risen. As frequent commenter Frank brought up the other day, John Henson is being mentioned more and more often. Last night, he had 19 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks. He is averaging 11 points, 9 rebounds and a block for the month of January. Here's some other news and highlights from this weekend:
Anthony Davis – The rookie had 13 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal. His production in January has been inconsistent, but the talent is still there. By which I mean, you have to ride this out. Sorry.
Amir Johnson – He tallied 22 points, 14 boards, 4 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks to best teammate Ed Davis' 20 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, and 1 steal. I don't need to talk about these guys anymore, right?
Alexey Shved – Went blank from the field (0-7), but still managed 1 rebound, 5 assists, 2 steals and a block.
Ricky Rubio – He too dropped a goose egg (0-6) and earned 2 assists and 3 steals. Unlike Rubio, Shved was never accompanied with a palpable excitement. Where is the Rubio everyone was waiting for? You've probably invested too much in him to cut bait now, but man, he sure is testing your patience, huh?
Chris Duhon – Despite missing all 4 shots (including 3 from downtown), he still had 7 assists (plus a rebound and 2 steals) in 20 minutes. Here's another name that keeps resurfacing. As a deep league option, though, the potential for one good game a week is worth the add.
Spencer Hawes – On Saturday, 16 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks, plus a three just to complete the package. I guess he's finally comfortable being the featured big man for the Sixers.
Jameer Nelson – One of the league's top dime men dished out 11 points, 3 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals on Saturday, but he missed 5 of 7 from downtown and 10 of 14 overall. Seems there was a lot of bad luck floating around.
Blake Griffin – Blake, on the other hand, hit 15 of 22 to finish with 30 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists and a block.
Goran Dragic – He had 8 assists but only 7 points on Saturday due to poor shooting (2-8, 1-4 from downtown). Certainly a buy candidate if his owners are antsy.
Mario Chalmers – He had 34 points on Saturday thanks to a lethal 10 of 13 from the perimeter, although the peripheral stats weren't that great (2 boards, 3 dimes, 2 takeaways). As usually happens when he goes on an offensive explosion, I must warn you that these type of nights occur about as often as a sober Lindsay Lohan.
Stephen Curry – He went 7 of 9 from and 11 of 18 overall to finish with 29 points, 7 assists and a steal last night. His offensive output is still solid, but it's interesting that his rebounding has diminished this month (2.6 in January vs. 4.8 in December).
Roy Hibbert – With 6 points, 7 rebounds and 6 blocks, his streak of double digit boards is now firmly behind him, but he is still prolific block maker.
Iman Shumpert – He has been cleared to return and may do so Thursday in London. Not sure why the team would make him travel all the way to England to debut, but I would go if I was him. As they say in the United Kingdom, ¡muy bueno!


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Sadly, this example of a Move-O-Graph "Live Portrait" is missing half of the image, which means that it no longer "moves." I estimate that it was taken in the late 1910s or early 1920s, merely by the hairstyle and moustache, but I could be well out.
I've found very few examples of this style of portrait on the net.
In an article entitled Animated Portrait Photography Stephen Herbert quotes another article published in the Amateur Photographer in 1916 in which Living Portraits are described in rather sarcastic and derogatory terms. He also includes an example from his own collection. I can't find many references to this style of portrait, so I presume that they never became very popular.
I've taken the liberty of trying to recreate the effect that this Move-O-Graph Portrait would have had by using an animated GIF. You'll have to be the judge of whether or not you would have wanted yourself preserved for posterity in this manner.
If any other readers have such Move-O-Graph portraits in their collections, I'd be keen to hear from you, particularly if their "movements" remain intact.
Herbert, Stephen (1989) Animated Portrait Photography, in History of Photography, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan-Mar 1989)


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Tempe-bound at last
The end, thankfully, is near to a long, sometimes difficult winter. As troubling as it is to so many fans, figuring out how this team can be as good as it's been, or better, without Francisco Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Casey Kotchman, Jon Garland, Darren O'Day, Chris Bootcheck and, it appears, the great Garret Anderson. I've experienced enough springs with enough teams to realize that there are always new stories and new favorites on the horizon.
I somehow befriended Mark Fidrych when "The Bird" took baseball by storm in the Motor City, a story you find only in baseball. I was covering the Dodgers when Fernando Valenzuela came out of nowhere to energize a city and region, right on through an improbable World Series title in 1981. I was a columnist when Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant arrived in L.A. as confident teens, ready to claim their turf and write some history.
Personally, that's always been the essence and joy of baseball, and sports in general — watching new athletes emerge, form their identities, take teams to unimagined heights. I've been incredibly lucky to cover a wide range of champions, from the John Wooden Bruins through Muhammad Ali through those Dodgers teams of the '70s and early '80s, the Lakers of the '80s and early 2000s, and the 1986 Mets, the wildest bunch of them all. One thing they've all shared in common is a commitment to make every day count, to prove it all night.
In the words of my muse, Bruce Springsteen, everybody's got a hungry heart. I am looking forward to seeing what's in store when the Angels get together in Tempe on Friday and go through the early paces. I'll be as curious as anybody to see how Kendry Morales responds to his opportunity, how Brian Fuentes fits in, how Dustin Moseley meets the challenge, if Brandon Wood, Sean Rodriguez and Nick Adenhart can begin to full their tremendous potential.
I know a lot of fans are upset that the club didn't do more this off-season, but this roster is loaded with talent. I remember how it was last year at this time, critics routinely picking the Mariners to roll to the AL West title behind their new ace, Eric Bedard. I seem to recall the Angels doing OK with what they had, adding the superlative Torii Hunter to the mix. I would have welcomed Jake Peavy or Manny Ramirez or Adam Dunn this winter, and I would love to see Anderson in his familiar role as Mr. Consistency. But times inevitably change, and so do rosters.
I really mean it when I try to reassure fans that this team should be good enough to claim a fifth AL West title in six years, that perhaps 25 Major League owners, possibly more, would swap 40-man rosters with Arte Moreno in a heartbeat. I know I'm accused of being a homer when I write that — I do read the thrashings I get from fans — but I'm being honest here.
I realize I'm repeating myself now, a function of age, of course. But I like this team a lot, and I think you will too, if you give it a fair shot.
I look forward to hearing from all of you in this new forum. MLB.Com has moved away from the popular mailbag format to the blogosphere, for better or verse. Let's have at it, and have some fun. That is, after all, the whole point of these fun and games. Nobody knows what's going to happen, but finding out is always a new experience.
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Hi Lyle. I've been an Angels fan since 1967. So there were a lot of tough years in there. But now, to say we have a line up that could win another West title just doesn't seem like enough.
I know, I know, I was spoiled by 2002 but, dang it, I waited 35 years for it. And now I'm starting feel like the Philidelphia As under Connie Mack (do I have this right?) who had teams good enough to put butts in the seats for most of the season – and make money doing it – just to sell off the good players at the end.
We are headed to Tempe on March 19. I can hardly wait.


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Simultaneously, Bob has been the leader, singer, and harmonica player of The Blue Band for 30+ years for which he was inducted into the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame in 2005 and reinducted into the Iowa Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Mass censorship at UC SanDiego
In response to a shut down of all student media at UC San Diego a Facebook group has been formed-
Tell AS: Mass Censorship is NOT the Answer
The Facebok position statement follows.
In response to the recent string of racist events at UC San Diego, AS President Utsav Gupta, has recently put a moratorium on ALL media organizations.
What this means is that all 33 media organizations cannot have access to any of the funds they need to publish Spring Quarter. The hard work of hundreds of students is being denied because of the actions of a few.
Tell AS: mass censorship is not the answer. Punishing 33 organizations for the actions of one is neither fair nor productive. Media organizations on this campus represent a wide range of students, interests and opinions. They are a diverse set of publications that allow students to express their thoughts, opinions and creativity. Silencing this creative outlet WILL NOT solve the problems of racism, inequality and bigotry. If anything, it takes away outlets through which students can express their outrage at these problems.
You cannot promote diversity by eliminating creativity. You cannot solve racism by censoring the student voice.
The Associated Student president issued the following statement-
Friday, February 19, 2010
Dear UC San Diego,
Last night, a deeply offensive and hurtful program was aired on Student Run Television (SRTV), a service of the Associated Students. The content of this program does not represent the views of the Associated Students, and was aired by KoalaTV, the television show put on by the student organization The Koala. We condemn the actions of The Koala, its program and its content.
The Koala was not properly authorized to display content on SRTV. We are in the process of determining how the program was aired. In the meantime, as authorized by the ASUCSD Standing Rules, I have revoked the SRTV Charter for review. We will only open it again when we can be sure that such hateful content can never be aired again on our student funded TV station.
Alongside this initiative, I have frozen all student media organization funding. The Koala has long since been a controversial publication at UC San Diego and is primarily funded by our student fees. I do not believe we should continue funding this organization with our fees.
We must develop effective policies to ensure that our fees do not go to the support the hateful speech that targets members of our community. I ask that those media organizations that did nothing wrong and are unfairly affected to be patient until we can resolve this situation.
To this end, I have charged a campus-wide committee to review the funding of student media. This committee is open to every member of the UC San Diego community – faculty, staff, students, and whoever else feels strongly about this issue. The information about this the committee shall be posted to as.ucsd.edu in the next few days, or you may email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to obtain future email updates.
The Associated Students stands in solidarity with those affected by last night's program, and we remain committed to being the voice for all UC San Diego students.
Utsav Gupta
Associated Students President
The Foundation for Indivudal Rights in Education has issued a statement highly critical of the shutting down of student media at UCSD
Click here for San Diego non-student coverage of the situation.
The dankprofessor wants to make it clear that the racial comments made by some UC students associated with the student media are dastardly. Events at UCSD mocking Black History Month are also deeply offensive. However, shutting down student media is deeply repugnant to the ethos of university life. This is not Iran, people. This is also not the deep south of the 1940s. UCSD should deal with this in the context of a discourse characterized by civility, not censorship.
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The XFree86 Project has announced the XFree86 Technical Conference. The conference will take place on November 8th, 2001, in Oakland, California, in a concurrent run with the 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference. The last call for papers was put out on July 5th. You have up to July 13th to submit an abstract. I secretly hope that somebody will present a nice talk on the use of libICE in KDE's DCOP mechanism. This certainly deserves attention as one of the most interesting developments around the XFree86 project, along with antialiasing, modular drivers for the XServer and TrueType fonts support.
Seems to me a paper on the modular KWin and/or the NetWM implementation would be quite relevant too...
Startup Notification is a good topic.
Maybe someone will come up with a way to have large full-colour cursors in X... So the startup notification icons won't have to lag behind the cursor.
Oh, yes, PLEASE talk about full color cursors with alpha channels and animation at this conference. This really is something where X seriously lacks behind!
It might have been ok to have a 1-Bit cursor twenty years ago, but not today. Other OS's already feature cursors with a shadow! We could have this, too, if we had an alpha channel.
This is my biggest wish for XFree86.
I swear that busy cursor is gonna make me go into an epileptic fit! *Please* turn this blinking off! You really don't want to provoke seizures in your users!
The busy cursor is otherwise cool but it lags too slowly behind.
... so, you'll take the time to complain about it, but you won't take the time to find the option in the Control Centre to turn it off? Look for the 'Startup Notification' tab.
I would hope DCOP over ICE would not be something KDE shouts about. Its really not something to be proud of.
CORBA would have been a much better approach.
Hopefully ORBit2 can be modified to support DCOP over IIOP... and KDE and GNOME can transition to standardised CORBA interfaces.
I expect a lot of "CORBA is slow" replys here.
Just to pre-empt...
DCOP does:
client> marshal,
client> send to Xserver via pipe,
Xserver> send to server via pipe,
server> demarshall,
server> execute call
CORBA does:
client> marshal,
client> send to server via pipe,
server> demarshall,
server> execute call
So there is less context switching in the CORBA case.
> I would hope DCOP over ICE would not be
> something KDE shouts about. Its really not
> something to be proud of.
Hmm... I am very proud of the work of the KDE masterminds that created DCOP (among others). This proven to be one of a heck of a technology. It's only 18 months old and it's already largely widespread in KDE apps. It was so even after 1 week. It does the job now! When will end to, it will surely get replaced. Pragmatism.
Hi Robert,
You must be confusing ICE with something else because ICE doesn't use the X server.
And yes, CORBA is very similar to DCOP. The difference is that DCOP is aimed at solving KDE's
need for desktop communication and CORBA seems to be aimed at multi-vendor distributed computing solutions.
Different problems, different solutions.
Part of the reasoning might've been the fact that most of the free CORBA ORBs available when KDE was trying to develop their object model were huge and inefficient, or only supported a subset of the platforms that KDE worked on. It was assumed that since ICE was pretty much part of the X spec that it'd work around the board. Turns out that it was somewhat broken on a number of platforms. These days there are a lot of good ORBs out there that are fairly dependable and fairly inter-compatible with each other.
Unfortunately, just having KDE switch from DCOP to CORBA probably wouldn't solve the object model compatibility problem between KDE and Gnome, since I think they'd still be pretty oblivious to each other. There's no easy solution to this problem without either one side or the other suffering a lot of pain, or both sides going through a bit a pain to meet in the middle. I don't know enough about either the KParts or Bonobo/Gnorba developers to know if they'd ever be willing to give up on some of their ideals for the reason of interoperability.
I know a lot of people think that people stressing interoperability between KDE and Gnome are just trolling, but I really feel it's important. The existance of multiple desktop environments has been a major target for those who want to dismiss the idea of a free desktop environment ever taking root in the mainstream. The only way to make sure that multiple environments can exist and don't cause problems for customers and developers who would develop for the platform is to make sure that the application will behave as expected regardless of the user's preferred desktop environment.
>The only way to make sure that multiple environments can exist and don't cause problems [...] is to make sure that the application will behave as expected regardless of the user's preferred desktop environment.
I say again: Where do people get the idea that this is not ALREADY the case, right now? My KDE apps will run under GNOME, my GNOME apps will run under KDE. I can even make them look the same (KDE will change colors of GNOME apps to match itself, and can even import the GNOME standard theme). All apps work the same regardless of what desktop environment you use, and even if you don't use one at all!
If you use a sane distribution like Debian, it will keep your menus in sync, so that GNOME apps get added to your K menu and KDE apps to your GNOME (foot?) menu, and both kinds of apps to your twm menus or whatever oddball WM you use.
API-level compatibility between QT and GTK is even being achieved through QGTKWidget and such.
Where is the big problem? Are you so intolerant of differences that you simply MUST have all your apps share the same backend code (QT or GTK, CORBA or DCOP), even though the differences aren't really important to the end user as long as he can use the apps?
I think the ideal world would have you be able to put both GNOME and KDE components into a single application, and have them work and communicate together seamlessly. For this you'd need a common part framework, and a common communication framework. At the moment, they don't even share the same communication protocol.
Even if we moved from DCOP to CORBA, the hard work would still be ahead.
>I think the ideal world would have you be able to put both GNOME and KDE components into a single application, and have them work and communicate together seamlessly.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I really don't see this as such a big deal. Is it really that important for Nautilus to be able to embed KWord? Are there really any KParts that GNOME needs or Bonobo components that KDE needs? I don't see the need for this sort of thing.
The only real problem I can think of is if Big Company X decided to port popular application Y to KDE and wanted to have a KPart, then GNOME people wouldn't be able to use the KPart. I still don't think it's a problem, though, because the application itself would still work. You just wouldn't be able to embed it in Nautilus or whatever. Boo hoo.
Are you aware of OLE (or ActiveX, or COM, or whatever they renamed that technology to) components in Microsoft Windows? These would allow you to embed different documents within each other. You can have a Paintbrush picture inside your Microsoft Word document, inside a Lotus 123 spreadsheet. This is much more than just Konqueror or Nautilus using components as file viewers, and will become increasingly important. While I mean no disrespect to the developers of competing KDE graphics editors, The GIMP seems far more mature than anything KDE currently has, and it would be really nice if it could play nice with KDE apps when it comes to making compound documents. Without this, creating compound documents either means constantly exporting to a file, and insertting that file, or copying and pasting, which is a lot of work if you need to change what you're pasting many times.
Now, I know KOffice doesn't support this yet, and maybe even the KDE KParts framework doesn't support it yet, but don't kid yourself into thinking it doesn't matter. It will become a requirement in the future, and I don't want to have to take the tradeoffs one desktop environment would impose on me over the benefits of the other. Most users wouldn't understand the fact they can't use these two programs together because the authors had a difference in programming ideals.
There's more to application interoperability than just widget colours. There's things like keybindings, various UI preferences in each of the respective control centres. Then the really hard thing to co-ordinate is the object model that would let you do something like embed lets say a GIMP image inside a KWord document. Sure, I can run GTK+ apps on KDE and they'll work just fine, but I lose many features that I'd normally get if I only ran KDE or only ran Gnome apps. And that, is the problem.
I'm running KDE 3.0, and I can't get any of my gnome apps to look like the rest of my KDE apps. Can someone tell me how this is done?
Thanks =)
I've got the same problem. I can't make gnome apps look nice inside kde. They have an ugly theme by default. So when I run gnome-themes-manager from KDE , and I choose a theme that looks similar to my KDE theme, works fine: all gnome apps now have the theme i've choosed. But all this is lost when i logout & login again.
what can I do to apply these settings for every new KDE session?
Try gtk-qt-engine (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714). It works very well for me.
DCOP already does far more for KDE than has ever been done on any other desktop. Where else have you seen power similar to that of DCOP deployed? There is nothing matching the kind of power that DCOP puts in a KDE desktop user's hands.
Not even your vaporware network-componetized GNOME desktop. DCOP is something to be *extremely* proud of.
How about configuration? Windows has good graphical controls for setting bit depth, resolution and drivers on the fly (well, you have to reboot for the drivers.) But having an interface for setting these type of options without editing the config file and restarting the server would be nice.
I agree that this is a very important issue. Many friends of mine have given Linux a try. Often they end up with a non-perfect monitor setup, and then give up on Linux as they have *no clue at all* how to change the resolution.
In general the way of setting resolutions/freq/depth has to be more straightforward, and KDE, Gnome etc should also include config modules to handle this. Maybe a root-module for setting up a number of resolutions, and then a user-module to choose from these.


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Is it just me, or have we lost an unusual number of cultural icons in 2012? When someone who has affected you dies, it can bring back a wave of nostalgia for an earlier time.
Some of the deaths that had that effect on me this year were those of Etta James, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Dick Clark, Dave Brubeck, Gore Vidal, Johnny Pesky, George McGovern, Ravi Shankar, Henry Hill, and Norah Ephron.
Recently I learned of the death of one of those cultural icons: Jean Harris. She was the headmistress of an exclusive girls' school who was convicted of killing her famous lover Herman Tarnower, creator of the popular "Scarsdale Medical Diet."
The March 10, 1980, shooting of Tarnower — which she claimed throughout her life was her own suicide gone awry — was one of the most sensational crimes of its era.
It riveted the nation, not only because of its titillating combination of sex and violence. It raised what many experts said were important sociological issues, with some feminists rallying to Harris as a symbol of society's disregard for the plight of older women and others arguing that her case had nothing at all to do with feminism.
Women's movement icon Betty Friedan dismissed Harris as a "pathetic masochist" for staying with a man who mistreated her. But author Shana Alexander, who wrote a book on the case, described Harris as the "psychological victim of a domineering person."
Whether morality play or soap opera, the case inspired two TV movies: "The People vs. Jean Harris" (1981), in which Harris was portrayed by Ellen Burstyn, and "Mrs. Harris" (2005), which starred Annette Bening.
In 1980, Harris was the 56-year-old headmistress of the fancy, private Madeira School overlooking the Potomac River in McLean, Va. Tarnower was a 69-year-old cardiologist and best-selling author of a book on a high-protein, low-fat diet that he developed for heart patients at his medical center in well-to-do Scarsdale, N.Y.
While she was in prison, Harris managed to accomplish quite a bit.
Mrs. Harris was sentenced to 15 years to life, and spent 12 of those years at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, N.Y. But she managed to salvage that seemingly wasted period through a remarkable prison life. She counseled fellow female prisoners on how to take care of their children, and she set up a center where infants born to inmates can spend a year near their mothers. Then, after her release in 1993 following a grant of clemency by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, she set up a foundation that raised millions of dollars for scholarships for children of women in prison in New York State.
She also lectured about her often incongruous experiences with inmates.
"They looked at me as a rich white woman, even though some of the call girls earned six times what I did as a headmistress," she told an interviewer.
She also wrote two books in longhand on legal pads while she was incarcerated, Stranger in Two Worlds, the earnings from which she used to start her foundation and They Always Call Us Ladies: Stories From Prison. There's a lengthy piece about Harris' good works at The Daily Beast, and here's another long read about the case written for NY Magazine in 1980 by Anthony Haden-Guest.
The best thing I read about Harris was this short article by Norah Ephron who also died in 2012:
…on March 12, 1980, when all of New York awoke to the news, this was what we knew: that Jean Harris, 57, the headmistress of the Madeira School, had driven from Virginia to Scarsdale, New York, and killed her former boyfriend, a best-selling diet doctor named Herman Tarnower, 69, by shooting him four times.
There it was: socialite held in doc slaying. It was a tabloid dream. The doctor lived in an "exclusive" Westchester home, the socialite headed a "posh" girls' school.
We were thrilled. When I say we, I mean me, but I also mean every woman who has ever wanted to kill a bad boyfriend.
There was a kind of giddy exhilaration that passed through the city. I'm not just projecting. Everyone called everyone up. The day was completely blown discussing it. We were all thinking, You go, girl, even though that expression had not yet been invented.
It was clear there would turn out to be another woman (there was), and that she would be younger, prettier, blonde, and probably his receptionist (all true). But as it turned out, Jean Harris did not want to be a celebrity murderess like Roxie Hart, or even a poster child for women whose antidepressant supplies run low. She was a proud, prickly woman, a classic headmistress. The night of the murder, she'd worn a headband. She insisted to police that she hadn't meant to kill Tarnower; she'd brought the gun to Scarsdale only to kill herself. She claimed that Tarnower had tried to take the gun away from her, and she'd accidentally shot him.
Yes, that was how so many of us reacted the the news–secretly cheering Harris on for getting revenge on a manipulative, cheating lover. And, truthfully, it was a better story if she shot him deliberately.
Here are a few links to lists of people we lost in 2012.
U.S. News list of notable deaths
TV Guide photo gallery of celebrity deaths
Which ones affected you most?


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This Jan. 28 image shows Christopher Dorner, police say. It was taken by a surveillance video camera at an Orange County hotel.
Updated at 8:51 p.m. ET: Dozens of police officers went door-to-door in the snowy California mountains on Friday, searching 200 cabins and other buildings for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, suspected of killing three people in a revenge-fueled rampage he mapped out in an online manifesto.
Meanwhile, investigators released a new image of Dorner and searched the home of Dorner's mother, who police said was cooperating.
The image of Dorner was taken Jan. 28 by a surveillance video camera at an Orange County hotel, police say.
The search was focused on the mountains, where "it's extremely dangerous," San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a news conference Friday after more than 100 cops spent a tense night and day patrolling around the town of Big Bear Lake, where Dorner's burned-out truck was found a day earlier.
The search was suspended Friday evening, and was set to resume on the ground at 7 a.m. PT Saturday, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.
Police say Dorner, 33, is on a mission to execute former LAPD colleagues and superiors and their families to avenge his 2008 firing. They believe he murdered a retired captain's daughter and her fiance in Irvine on Sunday, then killed one cop and wounded two others in shootings Thursday.
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San Bernardino sheriff's Officer Steven Spagon mans a checkpoint during the search for fired Los Angeles officer Christopher Dorner in Big Bear Lake, Calif.
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The manhunt led investigators to the Big Bear ski resort, about two hours from Los Angeles, where the burning hulk of his dark-gray Nissan was discovered with footprints leading to two forest roads.
Police followed the tracks until they lost them on frozen ground. They said they have no idea if Dorner is still in the area or if he left the mountain on foot or with a different vehicle.
All night and into the next day, SWAT teams piled into snowcats and armored personnel carriers with snowchains and drove through eight square miles of mountain, checking cabins for signs of forced entry.
"We want to make sure he didn't find a place to hide for the night," McMahon said. "Certainly there has been time to get out of here, but we don't know if he has, in fact, left."
With the heavily armed suspect eluding capture for a second day, schools were closed Friday, though the ski resorts were open.
Credit: Los Angeles Police Dept. newsletter via NBCLosAngeles
This undated photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner.
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Friday afternoon, Irvine and La Palma police, joined by U.S. marshals, were at the home of Dorner's mother in La Palma, a small city in Orange County about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
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The LAPD believes Dorner, who is 6 feet and 270 pounds, has an arsenal of weapons that includes assault rifles.
Dorner earned a ribbon for rifle marksmanship and a medal for pistol expertise in the Navy Reserve, where he was a lieutenant until his honorable discharge last week. Two bases in Nevada and California where Dorner worked were on heightened security over concerns that he might still have his military ID.;
Dorner worked at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nev., from March to November 2009, Zip Upham, a spokesman at Fallon, told NBC News. He also oversaw some security operations at Stead Air Force Base, Calif.
Dorner previously served in the LAPD from 2005 to 2008 and was fired for making false statements after he accused a training officer of brutalizing a man.
During an internal review, he was represented by Randal Quan, a retired captain. His daughter Monica Quan, 28, and her fiancé, Keith Lawrence, 27, were fatally shot while parking their car at their apartment complex after a Super Bowl party.
In the 11,300-word manifesto, Dorner vented his rage at Quan and other police officials and made it clear he had no compunction about killing their loved ones.
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The father of the man who was allegedly roughed up by the training officer told NBCLosAngeles.com that he thought Dorner made too big a deal of the 2007 incident by filing a formal accusation.
"He stood up for what he thought was right," he said. "You could tell by the look on his face he was just a young, idealistic kid, who was proud of the badge," Richard Gettler said. "I commended him first. Then I got close to him and said, 'What is wrong with you? Weren't you thinking? ... It's the three musketeers, all for one and one for all!'"
Gettler called the recent killings horrible and urged Dorner to turn himself in.
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In the manifesto, Dorner suggests that he believes he will be killed during his spree, but LAPD Chief Charlie Beck appealed to him to surrender.
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M. Alex Johnson and vivian Kim of NBC News contributed to this report.
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By By Lee Benson | March 1, 2013
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If you ask me what opportunities I consider to be my greatest blessings, meeting my wife would be on the top of that list. I would go on to say that serving as a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army in Vietnam and working as a pilot for Los Angeles County fire would come in second and third. I mention this because this is my second article in which I presume to tell the Army how to do its business. I do this with great respect for the institution and its members. If your purpose is to manage anything well, than listen most closely to those with whom you disagree. Tempered with the reality that the disagreement needs to be rooted in the best interest of whatever you are trying to manage.
I have recently been within earshot of serving Army officers and others, who have expressed the opinion that the Army needs to replace the Bell Jet Ranger as their primary training aircraft.
The reasons given fall within three groups of thought: All Army pilots will fly glass cockpits throughout their career so they should start on glass. All Army pilots should began their career in a twin engine helicopters because that's what they will fly for the rest of their career. The Jet Ranger is becoming harder to support, particularly because Bell Helicopter has chosen to discontinue its production.
Let me begin my rejection of these lines of reasoning by stating a few facts. With 7,300 aircraft produced between 1965 and 2010, excluding Russia, the Bell Jet Ranger is the most prolifically produced turbine powered helicopter in the world. It is the safest single engine helicopter in the world. I personally have in excess of 5,000 hours in Jet Rangers, every hour of which, except for check rides, was doing some sort of utility work usually in the mountains. I have had several engine failures in Jet Rangers and never put a scratch on any of them. Now we transition from facts to my opinion. This is not because I was a great pilot, it's because the Jet Ranger is the most forgiving helicopter to autorotate I have ever flown. Somebody may make a better helicopter to autorotate, but I haven't flown it.
The Jet Ranger has a very well balanced control touch for a primary training helicopter. Not too sensitive to control inputs such as an MBB Bo-105, MD500 or AS350, or too slow such as a Hiller OH23, or uneven in response like the FH-1100, that I unfortunately have more time in then I would prefer. Nothing wrong with the above aircraft, in fact the Bo-105 is my personal favorite helicopter to just fly, but I would not choose one as a primary trainer.
The question of should a primary trainer have a glass cockpit is interesting. If the Army convinces itself that somehow this will benefit primary students, then modify the existing aircraft.
Next is the thought that all Army pilots should fly twins from primary school on. Does anyone out there think that the number of engines in the aircraft had anything to do with their first 100 hours of flight training? So following this reasoning the Army will replace its training fleet with 150 new light twin helicopters at a cost of say, probably at least 500 million dollars. This will give them a fleet of aircraft that burns at least 70 percent more fuel and requires 40 percent more hours to maintain than what they currently use.
The last reason given is the aircraft is becoming difficult to maintain, in fact I have heard the term "unsustainable" used. A Rolls-Royce executive informed me that there are at least 10,000 C20s in the marketplace and support for this engine extends into the foreseeable future. Friends of mine have been doing agricultural spraying here in Ventura County with Jet Rangers since the late 70s. I asked them the other day what they thought and the basic answer was every 5,000 hours or so, we bring in the aircraft put it in a fixture address any issues and send it back out.
Van Horn Aviation builds a new carbon fiber tail rotor blade set for the Jet Ranger. These blades are about the same acquisition cost as the standard blades with double the time before overhaul. There are several other examples of products that have been brought to market for the Jet Ranger that improve performance and direct operating cost but space prohibits the full list. Unsustainable? Not lately!


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Beautiful Barafundle Bay was once one of Pembrokeshire's best kept secrets. The locals knew this crescent-shaped golden beach of deep, soft sand, and told no-one. It was their jealously guarded piece of recreational paradise, facing east like the eye of Stackpole Warren whose long nose is Stackpole Head and its prominent chin Saddle Point.
A Blue Flag beach, in 2004 it was listed as one of the Top 12 beaches in the world, in 2006 The Good Holiday Guide described it as "the best beach in Britain." In the same year Country Life magazine dubbed it "the best place in the UK for a picnic," and in 2012 it again won the accolade "The UK's Top Picnic Spot."
Gentle waves sweep in to its sandy embrace, making it an ideal bathing place for small children, although one drawback is that the lack of road access and the uneven terrain of its approaches make it unsuitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs.
Lacking direct road access only a half mile walk from Stackpole Quay to the north and just over a mile from Broad Haven South, it is well worth the picturesque cliff-path ramble to reach it.
Part of the Stackpole Estate, now managed by The National Trust, it was historically the private beach of the Cawdor family, descendants of the Thane of Cawdor who is celebrated in Macbeth. The noble family's imposing country residence, Stackpole Court, nearby was demolished in 1967, since when Barafundle has been increasingly 'discovered' by visitors and also by film companies as a breathtaking location for films. In 2009 it became the setting for Hattie Dalton's award-winning British drama "Third Star" starring Benedict Cumberbatch, J.J.Feild, Tom Burke, Adam Robertson and Hugh Bonneville.
Barafundle is interesting geologically, marking the boundary the Carboniferous limestone cliffs of the Castlemartin peninsula to the south-west and the vivid red sandstone rocks of the Devonian period to the north-east at Stackpole Quay. In close proximity are several caves and no fewer than four 'blow-holes' - the collapsed roofs of caves through which in stormy weather air, water and even stones burst up spectacularly. The estate was acquired under the National Trust's 'Enterprise Neptune' scheme in 1976.
Fulmars glide the cliffs, kept aloft by the thermals which provide an effortless source of lift, waders and seagulls range the tideline and there is always the chance of a glimpse of a pererine falcon or a gannet diving offshore, one of the 30,000 residents of distant Grassholm rock. And those interested in flora will find the cliff and shore decorated with spring squill, sea pink, cross-leaved and bell heather and sea campion.


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The Squared Horizon: The Frames and Trajectories of Paul Virilio
Date: 6th June 2014, Nottingham Trent University, UK
In Desert Screen, Paul Virilio suggests the notion of a 'squared horizon' as a way of envisioning the interposition of the screen, multiple screens, in matters of war, conflict and international relations. Yet, the 'squared horizon' might also function as a starting point for bringing together the various frames and trajectories which make up Virilio's oeuvre. The 'squared horizon' evokes the fragmented, pixelated existence of late capitalism, the perpetual dividing up of time into ever smaller units, the deferred, bracketed out future, put aside in favour of the instantaneous and immediate, the impact of urbanization with its grid systems and blocks on our experience of space, time and identity.
This conference invites papers around the theme of the 'squared horizon' as it might feasibly be applied to various aspects of Virilio's work. It is hoped the event will bring together those using Virilio as a lens through which to read current socio-economic events, art, film, media and other forms of textual and visual representation as well as architecture and urbanism. At the same time, papers which place Virilio within a theoretical context in relation to interlocuteurs such as Baudrillard, Stiegler, Agamben, Bergson, Deleuze etc. are also welcomed.
A non-exhaustive list of potential topics:
- Blocks of Time
- Proximity, Distance, Depth
- Deferred Futures
- City Limits
- The pixel
- Screen Violence
- Image-Maps
- Frames and Trajectories
- Proliferating Screens
- Divided Selves
- Conscience and the Senses
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com by 28 February 2014.


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A Michigan high school student athlete with Down syndrome might get to keep playing sports during his senior year despite his age.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association said May 7 that its representative council had approved a proposal for a vote by member schools that would change the group's constitution to allow for a waiver of its maximum age limit under "narrowly defined" circumstances.Under current rules, students who turn 19 before September 1 are not allowed to compete. The rule is intended to prevent the possibility of injury or competitive advantage from an older, more developed athlete playing against younger students.Eric Dompierre (pictured), the Michigan student with Down syndrome, turned 19 in January. He was held back in kindergarten because of his disability.The athletic association did not mention Dompierre by name, but it released a statement that was clearly meant to deflect criticism over the way it has handled the question of his participation.Ballots will be mailed this week, the athletic association said, and schools will have two weeks to return them."The representative council does not advance proposals it does not want the membership to support, and an affirmative vote by schools is being specifically requested on this proposal," it said.The specific wording of the proposal was not immediately available. It is expected to be posted on the group's website no later than May 14. A two-thirds majority is required to change the organization's constitution.Dompierre has played sports with other children in Ishpeming, Michigan, since he was in elementary school."We didn't know how far he'd go, how many coaches would keep him on the team," said Dean Dompierre, Eric's father.When he got to high school, Dompierre was invited to keep playing. Now a junior, he is on the Ishpeming High School football and basketball teams. He attends every practice and works out with the other players and sometimes plays a few minutes at the end of the game.During this season's basketball playoffs, Dompierre brought the house down. After maintaining a nice lead, the team put Dompierre in the game and he hit a three-point shot against rival Negaunee High School.
"I was on the left side behind the three-point line and they passed me the ball," Dompierre said, smiling as he recounted the game. "I heard the fans, including my mom crying."Dompierre's father was in the stands with his camera and captured the amazing reaction."I videotaped the crowd on the other side and it was made up of mostly Negaunee fans, including their student section, and they were all on their feet cheering for Eric."The same thing happened when Dompierre kicked his first extra point for the football team toward the end of a game two years ago."I was amazed that he even had the opportunity to kick, and then when he did it, I thought woo-hoo! And then watching the kids react, they carried him off the field; it was just one of the best moments," recalls Eric's mother, Jill Dompierre.For the past two years, the Dompierres, with the support of the Ishpeming School District, have tried to get the rule changed so Dompierre can play during his senior year."The rule is 100 years old. We've come a long way in those 100 years in this country in the way that we involve and include people with disabilities. And I think it's time that the rule catches up with that," said Dean Dompierre.


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The holidays should be a joyful time for you and your family. But for many families raising grandchildren, it's tough to find the extra cash for holiday expenses. Using your credit cards may solve the immediate problem, but the debt can create other problems.
Most families don't plan to run up high balances on their credit cards during the holidays—it just happens. Nearly one-third of adults say they spent more than they planned on holiday gifts. Most spent $100 to $500 more than they planned. It is hard to pay off an extra $500 on credit cards after the holidays.
Ways to Control Spending
Ways to Cut Holiday Costs
Make gifts by hand or give gift certificates promising your time or talents. Have friends or family over for dessert rather than for a meal. Make your own holiday decorations. The gift that each of us remembers as most special is usually one that involved someone's time and thought, not large amounts of money.
Credit Card Offers
During the holidays, your credit card company may offer to let you skip a payment or two. Or, it may invite you to pay back only the minimum or even reduce your minimum payment. Don't take these offers—you'll end up paying more in the long run.
Stick to Your Plan
The best gifts are those that do not burden you with debt into the next year. For more information on using credit wisely, check out our Credit Card Smarts website at http://web.extension.illinois.edu/creditcardsmarts/.


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these pictures are slightly blurry, but that's the weak wintery sun for you. good thing spring is here so will have prettier, brighter pictures very soon. anyways, this is how i do a winter floral, layered with a sheer shirt, socks over tights and cozy ankle boots. i walked from one end of toronto to other this day, over 4 hrs round trip and stayed cozy/wozy.
i always pick walking over driving.
wearing: top:aritzia, dress:vintage, tights and socks: h&m, boots: cougar, bag: mulberry


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At the foot of the Big Hill, the outgoing New Caledonia brigade rode their horses south and east along the edges of the hills until they reached the place they called the Traverse, at modern day Little Fort, British Columbia.
Here they crossed the North Thompson River (shown to the left) in a 40 foot Native canoe that was provided by the Thompson's River post some miles downriver.
Today, people who want to cross the North Thompson River at the fur traders' traverse use the little ferry pictured at the top of the page.
This is a one-man ferry that takes one or two cars at a time; the operator waits on the west bank of the river (at Little Fort) until someone wants to cross.
Those who are coming from the east bank drive up to the dock and honk their horn to catch his attention.
The operator generously gave us a ride across the river; it was beautiful and so quiet you could hear the water bubble as it flowed under and around the ferry.
Obviously, the main road runs down the west bank of the North Thompson at this point; but the brigade used to cross the river and travel down the east bank of the North Thompson to the old Thompson's River post, at modern day Kamloops.
The brigaders made many crossings of the river in the Thompson's River post's big canoe, but they swam their horses across.
The brigaders made many crossings of the river in the Thompson's River post's big canoe, but they swam their horses across.
On the east bank of the river they loaded up their 15o-200 packhorses and rode downriver toward the post at the junction of the North Thompson and the South Thompson Rivers.
In later years (long after Anderson left New Caledonia) the HBC built a small post at the location of the modern day town of Little Fort; which stands on the west bank of the river where I have indicated the traverse.
Today the highway passes down the west bank of the river and Little Fort is barely a blip on the map.
But we spent some time here, enjoying our dinner and social time in an old pub that usually entertains motorcycle riders.
In 1840, when Alexander Caulfield Anderson left New Caledonia, Chief Trader Sam Black was in charge of the old Thompson's River fort.
By the time Anderson returned to New Caledonia in early winter, 1842, Sam Black was dead and John Todd was already constructing the new Kamloops fort across the North Thompson River from the old post.
After 1840, Anderson never again travelled over this old route as a fur trader.
But he did visit this territory once more, when in 1877 he and the other Indian Reserve Commissioners settled many of the Native reserves in this district.
Shortly after Dominion Day 1877, the Commissioners left Kamloops by steamship, travelling up the North Thompson River to Chief Andre's reserve.
They rode beside the chief over his lands, and travelled as far north as the old crossing place where, before 1843, the brigaders had carried their loads across the river in the Native canoe.
I think that Anderson looked back at his fur trade days as good times, regretting that these days were gone.
As we drove away from Little Fort, we looked back across the river valley at the Thompson plateau we had just crossed.


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Memories linger one year after Del. courthouse shooting
- Members of the Matusiewicz family remain jailed on charges in the shooting
- Courthouse has changed many security rules
- Attorneys%2C building staff still remember awful day
WILMINGTON, Del. -- One year ago Tuesday, violence came home to Deputy Attorney General Ipek Medford.
Thomas Matusiewicz walked into the lobby of the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington and ended the lives of his ex-daughter in law Christine Belford and her friend Laura "Beth" Mulford. After exchanging gunfire with Capitol Police, the 68-year-old Matusiewicz then ended his own life by turning his gun on himself.
"We see violence day in and day out," said Medford, who regularly prosecutes homicides. But the shooting at the courthouse was different. "As prosecutors, that is our home."
Thomas Matusiewicz's son, daughter and wife are all in federal custody on charges related to Belford's death.
Some prosecutors and defense attorneys, particularly younger ones, took the anniversary of the shooting in stride, saying that dealing with the aftermath of a shooting is just part of the job. But longer serving attorneys saw the shooting as an affront to what they do and what the court stands for – peaceful, civil resolutions of disputes.
Deputy Attorney General Steve Wood said he has experienced others' pain and sense of violation in the wake of a violent crime during his many years with the state, "and on that day I experienced those things for myself."
"Our courthouse, like any courthouse, is a special place where people place their faith and trust in the justice system," said Wood. "On that day we were reminded that our sense of safety can be shattered in a minute."
Deputy Attorney General Joe Grubb said it drove home the point that "violence has no boundaries and can come to your doorstep, whether it is the courthouse or your street."
Beyond emotional scars, there are also physical reminders of the shooting, most notably a large gray wall that has covered the side entrance to the courthouse lobby ever since Feb. 11, 2013.
Longtime defense attorney Peter Veith said seeing that wall every day – covering the door where most attorneys and members of the public entered before February 2013 – is a "very dispiriting" reminder of the shooting.
"I think about it every time I come into the building," said public defender Tim Weiler.
The side entrance to the courthouse lobby, which was shattered by gunfire, was fixed long ago. But the gray wall on the inside and a white picket fence on the outside still blocks access. The lobby now has only one entrance and exit through the sliding doors at the front of the courthouse.
New security procedures also have drastically changed the character of the lobby, which until the shooting was a place where people would linger and talk, or wait for rides during inclement weather.
Now security officers clear out anyone who lingers for more than a few minutes. On the day of the shooting, Thomas Matusiewicz waited in the lobby for about a half hour before Belford arrived.
Inside the courthouse there are more uniformed Capitol Police officers at the security checkpoint and inch-thick safety glass has been installed in a number of places where court staff deal with the public, including Superior Court Prothonotary and the clerks' office for the Court of Common Pleas.
"We learned an awful lot from that day," said Delaware Safety & Homeland Security Secretary Lewis D. Schiliro.
Shortly after the shooting, the Delaware General Assembly set aside $3.2 million from various sources for court security improvements.
This led to the addition of 14 new Capitol Police officers and two new dispatchers, said Capitol Police Chief John Horseman.
Horseman and Schiliro said money for security also was used to create a new "early warning" program to alert both court security and staff about "highly volatile" cases when they are set for court. It should be running this summer. It is designed to flag court cases, like the one involving Belford, before participants get to court so measures can be taken to keep each side far from the other.
On Feb. 11, 2013, Belford was due in court for a child support hearing with her ex-husband David Matusiewicz, Thomas' son, in the midst of a bitter custody battle that already had involved kidnapping.
David Matusiewicz, his mother Lenore and his sister Amy Gonzalez are all now in federal custody on charges they were involved in a years-long conspiracy with Thomas to stalk and harass Belford, leading to her death. A trial has been set for October.
In the year since the shooting, business has largely returned to normal in the New Castle County Courthouse.
Sgt. Michael Manley and Cpl. Steve Rinehart, the two Capitol Police officers that were shot by Matusiewicz – and were saved by their bulletproof vests – returned to duty shortly after the shooting.
And Medford said she does not fear for her safety in the building. "I think we have rebounded as fast as we could," she said, adding that is due in large part to the fact the shooter did not escape and his identity and motives were quickly determined.
Aida Torres, who works at the information desk in the lobby, agreed. "It feels safe now," she said.


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Crowder College has planted its flag in rapidly growing southern McDonald County by inking a deal last week for the purchase of 40 acres of land to build an off-campus center.
Crowder College has planted its flag in rapidly growing southern McDonald County by inking a deal last week for the purchase of 40 acres of land to build an off-campus center.
The property is located in Jane, about a mile and a half south of the intersection of U.S. 71 and Missouri Highway 90. Five acres front the west side of Highway 71.
Although a contract has been signed between Crowder and the seller, an easement agreement still needs to be approved by four land-locked property owners allowing them through-access to the highway.
Jim Tatum, chairman of the college's board of trustees, said there is an entrance to the land off Highway 71, but not a stoplight. He said Crowder has requested the Missouri Department of Transportation consider installing a light there and said it was one of several requirements before the center could be built.
"Of course, those things take time, and we don't need it right now anyway," Tatum said.
While there are water lines running to the property from the Jane Water District, there is no sewer, which is another prerequisite to construction. But Tatum said efforts are already being made by the McDonald County Community Development Council to build a pumping station just north of the Crowder property.
A survey must also be conducted before construction can begin on Crowder's McDonald County center.
Citing those preconditions — stoplight, sewer, property survey — Tatum hesitated to give a specific timeframe as to when the future facility would begin taking in students.
"We want to open as soon as we can because we know there are people in the area that need it," he said. "We've learned that geographic proximity makes access for people to come to college that normally wouldn't come…So we want to do this thing right, but we also want to do it as soon as we can because we know there's already a need."
He said the building might be erected in phases in order to start holding classes as soon as possible. As to the 40-acre tract, Tatum said Crowder would likely only require 15-20 acres to build a center on and might sell off the excess land at some point in the future.
Crowder President Dr. Alan Marble said the academic program at the McDonald County center would entail general studies and technical courses like those now offered at the college's main Neosho campus and at the other Crowder centers in Webb City, Cassville and Nevada.
Enrollment figures at the latter two locations would probably be similar, Tatum speculated, to the number of students eventually attending the McDonald County center. There were 319 and 360 students, respectively, enrolled at those two sites last fall.
According to Marble, the college might also acquire four acres of land farther south, near the Jane Wal-Mart Supercenter, that is owned by Freeman Health System and site of an urgent care center. Crowder is still considering opening a small facility there for its nursing and allied health programs, Marble said.
It's yet to be seen how many students that commute north to Crowder's main campus will attend the McDonald County location. Tatum guessed that many students living in the northern half of the county would still drive to Neosho, while those in the Noel and Pineville areas could decide to enroll at the southern Crowder site.
The college is already offering a handful of classes in Noel. Community response to that pilot program further seems to justify, according to both Tatum and Marble, opening a Crowder learning center in McDonald County.
"I think we have a lot of people sitting on the sidelines to see if we're for real," Marble said. "This has been talked about for 20 years. When you finally get around to doing something, people want to see for sure…but yeah, the response (to the Noel classes) has been very good. I think the response will be much better when we have a facility.
And I think the purchase of land will let people know that we're very serious about being here."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would bar President Barack Obama from providing military aid to Syria's rebels, saying the administration has provided too little information about what they see as a risky intervention.
The bill would prevent the Department of Defense and U.S. intelligence agencies from using any funds to support military, paramilitary or covert operations in Syria, directly or indirectly.
The bill's sponsors - Democrats Tom Udall of New Mexico and Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky - expressed doubts about Washington's ability to ensure weapons will not fall into the wrong hands, and called for debate in Congress before the United States becomes more involved in Syria's civil war.
"The president's unilateral decision to arm Syrian rebels is incredibly disturbing, considering what little we know about whom we are arming," Paul said in a statement.
Other lawmakers argued it was in the U.S. national security interest to get more involved in Syria.
"This is about looking at the possibility of a failed state in which terrorist actors already present within Syria in this fight can launch attacks against our allies, and potentially against the United States," Democrat Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters.
After months of equivocating, Obama decided a week ago to provide military aid to rebels trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, citing Assad's government's use chemical weapons in the two-year-long conflict.
The administration has since been working to win more support in Congress for the plan. Secretary of State John Kerry, a former senator, has been on Capitol Hill at least twice this week to make the administration's case to lawmakers.
On Tuesday he had a classified briefing for House of Representatives leaders from both parties and committee chairmen.
On Thursday Kerry conducted at least three briefings: one for the House Intelligence Committee, a second for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a third for other senators.
Many members of Congress, particularly in the Republican-controlled House, remain deeply sceptical about plans to arm the rebels, questioning the cost when other programs are being cut and worrying that U.S. weapons could fall into the wrong hands.
Others have been pushing for military aid for months, with some senators in particular denouncing Obama for his failure to intervene in a conflict in which more than 90,000 people have been killed.
Last month the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 in favour of a bill to provide lethal aid to the Syrian opposition. That measure has not yet gone to the full Senate for a vote.
Paul, Murphy and Udall were the three members of the foreign relations panel who voted against that bill.
Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Stacey Joyce and Xavier Briand


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Spanish Marano family of Amsterdam, with some members in Mexico.Abraham de Paiva:
Poet; lived in Amsterdam about 1687. A Spanish sonnet by him is included in a pamphlet by D. L. de Barrios ("Tora Or," p. 40).Jacob Ribero de Paiva:
Also lived in Amsterdam; author of a Spanish arithmetic.Moses Pereyra de Paiva:
Merchant of Portuguese descent; lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He visited Malabar and resided in Cochin, publishing at his own expense an account of the Jews in those regions, under the title "Notisias dos Judeos de Cochim" (Amsterdam, 1687), which appeared also in Judæo-German under the title "Zeitung aus Indien" (Prague, 1688; Amsterdam, 1713), and was published in Spanish as "Relacion de las Noticias de los Judeos de Cochim," this latter version existing only in manuscript.
- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. iv. 925;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. p. '2723;
- Zunz, G. S. i. 192;
- Kayserling, Bibl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. p. 88.