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About this blog
FLEFF Intern Voices
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Blog Posting by Alexis Lanza, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts '15, Enfield, CT
Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint, founders of ecoarttech, brought apps to the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival for the first time this year.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
EcoArtTech is an engaging new media project that engages in environmental spaces through mobile technologies – the dichotomy between nature and modernization. Co-creator Lelia Nadir, along with Cary Peppermint, is a special guest at FLEFF this year. Nadir is an Afghan-American critic, scholar, artist and writer teaching...
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Blog post written by Haley Stearns, Still Photography '15, FLEFF Blogger, Buffalo, New York
Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir have worked collaboratively as EcoArtTech, an environmental new media collective, since 2005. Cary and Leila form a new media art duo that has been working on studying the...
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Blog posting by Kayla Reopelle, Documentary Studies and Production '14, FLEFF Blogger, Roy, WA
Flakes of snow...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Blogging Post by Alexis Lanza, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts '15, FLEFF Blogger, Enfield, CT
I joined the FLEFF blogging team not knowing what to expect. All I knew was I wanted to learn and I wanted to write about it. My job is a blogger. I am a number; part of a group that is part of a larger group. We are the festival team.
The theme is dissonance....
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Blog posting by Kayla Reopelle, Documentary Studies and Production '14, FLEFF Blogger, Roy, WA
This week, the FLEFF Blogging team got to Skype with Dr. Leila Nadir, co-founder of Eco Art Tech, an environmental digital art collective. Nadir will be co-hosting the event "Dissonant...


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Gadget fanatics looking to add Apple's iPad to their toy chest can finally get their hands on ... a keyboard to put in an order for the device.
Apple started taking pre-orders for the sleek new device at 5:30 a.m. Friday. All the models will be available for pre-order and most will be sent out on April 3. The exception is the 3G model -- those won't ship until late April.
There's no real indication of how popular the iPad will be. With all its beauty and promise, it's lacking one pretty significant function -- it can't run Flash. So many web favorites like Hulu, Netflix and other sites will hit a dead end on the iPad.
The iPad is offered in three WiFi versions: the $499 16GB version, the $599 32GB version or the $699 64GB version. The three 3G models are $130 more, at $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB. The 3G models need an additional data plan from AT&T. You can pre-order at Apple's online store.
But without Flash, the question becomes, will tech-savvy users users want to shell out extra cash for the iPad so early in the game?
People shying away from the iPad may want to try a netbook, also known as a mini laptop. There are a variety of brands and prices, but decent netbooks running Windows 7 are available for about $300.With almost the same functionality of a laptop computer but with more portability, many people will likely opt for a mini.
And for those Apple loyalists who want a mini but don't want to use a Windows machine, there are plenty of resources that will walk you through a lesson on turning your Windows netbook into a "Hackintosh."
Are you buying an iPad? Let us know in the comments section. If not, tell us why and what you're using instead.

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Most of my good friends know a dirty, little secret about me: that is, I have a stockade of freshly laundered socks in my house almost all the time. We call it the "SOCKade"! Unfortunately, this is not the only stash of uncompleted tasks in the Shaw home, but it is the most frequent irritant to us when we need to get out the door quickly. The truth is that I am one of the queens of unfinished business domestically speaking. While I'm usually eager to serve my family in this way, good intentions do not always give way to finished results. I feel quite certain that I'm not the only one who struggles with this…
While I can have a huge laugh over this "flaw" in my personality, all joking aside, I know the Lord wants me to do better in this area. It has caused me to take a look at the spiritual areas where I do this as well. I'm always amazed when I open up this conversation with the Lord. He showed me this verse this morning as I did so. It made me chuckle at first, because I could almost visualize Paul talking directly to me:
The Lord loves our desire to please Him and others out of the right motive. And, oh, how He must love it when our eager willingness is matched by our completion of it with the means that He gives us. Sometimes it is simply a matter of discipline and priorities, like the SOCKade; other times, it is the deeper sacrifice of surrender to Him, you fill in the blank.
Let's ask ourselves some questions:
• Are we eager to start the projects, tasks & missions that the Lord lays on our hearts? When we start them, do we persevere and finish?
• What challenges and obstacles get in the way of our "almost accomplishments"?
• Do we also have the desire to work through the buildup of anything hindering us spiritually? What stuff have we let build up in us that needs to be put away?
• What "means" would it take to finish what we've started?
• Read the following verses: 1 Thessalonians 5:24 & Philippians 1:5-6---If the Lord asks us to do something, will He give us what we need to finish it?
So, as the kids and I (yes, they're the kids' socks too!) work on depleting the stockade of socks and other stockpiles of things, I pray that all of us would take this challenge from Paul to sort through our own unfinished-though-it-began-in-eagerness offerings to the Lord. It will take perseverance, but along the way, it will help us become "mature and complete, not lacking anything." (James 1:4)


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Last night, an intrepid and computer savvy person who stands up for both women's health and internet trolling was able to briefly hack the Susan G. Komen For the Cure page, and added their own little message of hope to one of the slides. Very clever, hackers. Very clever indeed.
The hack reads "Help us Run Over Poor Women on the Way to the Bank," which is nice tip of the hat to Komen's move to defund Planned Parenthood.
Mischief managed.


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White House, Congress talk as 'fiscal cliff' nears
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner met with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Thursday and accused Democrats afterwards of failing to outline specific cuts to avert a fiscal cliff that threatens to send the economy into recession.
"No substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House" in the past two weeks, the Ohio Republicans told reporters after the private meeting in his Capitol office.
"I was hopeful we'd see a specific plan for cutting spending and we sought to find out today what the president really is willing to do," Boehner said.
The speaker has said that Republicans are willing to endorse higher tax revenues as part of any deal to prevent across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take effect at year's end, but only as part of a deal that includes savings from Medicare and other government benefit programs.
Boehner spoke by phone with President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, and said his remarks Thursday were the result of that conversation, as well as the session with Geithner.
Geithner had a later session on his schedule with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as well as Congress' top Democrats.
On Wednesday, the two sides maneuvered for political position.
"We have not seen any good-faith effort on the part of this administration to talk about the real problem that we're trying to fix," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
Obama is mounting a public campaign to build support and leverage in the negotiations, appearing at the White House with middle-class taxpayers and launching a campaign on Twitter to bolster his position.
"Right now, as we speak, Congress can pass a law that would prevent a tax hike on the first $250,000 of everybody's income," Obama said. "And that means that 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses wouldn't see their income taxes go up by a single dime."
Obama is insisting that tax rates go up on family income exceeding $250,000; Boehner is adamant that any new tax revenues come from overhauling the tax code, clearing out tax breaks and lowering rates for all.
Republicans are also demanding significant cuts to so-called entitlement programs like Medicare, such as an increase in the eligibility age for the program from 65 to perhaps 67.
"It's time for the president and Democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has," Boehner said at a news conference Wednesday in the Capitol. Boehner, like Obama, expressed optimism that a deal could be reached.
At issue are steep, across-the-board cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs set to strike the economy in January as well as the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts on income, investments, married couples and families with children.
That combination of tax increases and spending cuts would wring more than half a trillion dollars from the economy in the first nine months of next year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
No one anticipates a stalemate lasting that long, but many experts worry that even allowing the spending cuts and tax increases for a relatively brief period could rattle financial markets.
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As an adult, I find it curious what triggers the memories of my inner child. I was reminded of two of these triggers today: cigars and chainsaws.
Uncle George was not my uncle as defined by my family tree. But he was an uncle in every other sense of the word. Growing up, I don't recall many of my parents friends. Most had very little impact on me, except for one couple, George and Ruth. They were Flatlanders, hailing from the state of New Jersey, and wielding thick Jersey accents. Sparkles recalls Uncle George's accent and how the number 33 sounded like a gruff "turty tree" George perpetually smoked cigars, which seemed exotic in a world of Marlboro and Camel cigarettes. His voice, husky and thick from the smoke, made him seem scary to small children, but we all knew him as gentle and kind.
But what I remember of Uncle George the most is the sound of chainsaws, waking us up in time for church on Sunday mornings in the summer. I don't know when it started, and I don't know when it ended, but for the entirety of my childhood memory, every Sunday, Dad and Uncle George would fill up the chainsaws with gas, grab a case of Budweiser, and head out into the woods with the Jitterbug. For those of you unfamiliar with a Jitterbug, it is a big-ass, old, rundown truck, bigger than a pickup truck, but smaller than an eighteen wheeler. Ours was this green monster with a wooden flat bed in the back. Dad and George would toss in the chainsaws and beer and head out into the three hundred acre woods in search of trees to cut for firewood.
They would start in the spring after the snow melted, and finish up in fall sometime before the frost. The sounds of the chainsaws on Sunday morning through the open windows were hard to sleep through. And by the time we started running the fireplace in the late fall, we had about fifteen cord of wood stacked up under the tree.
I remember helping sometimes. I'm not certain, but if my memory of the story is correct, Uncle George was witness to my first word. Dad would take me with them into the field while they were splitting wood. Whenever Dad missed the log with the ax, he would say, "Shit." Me, as bright as I was, took in the situation. And when I was ready, and Dad missed with the ax, I said my first word. "Shit."
I hear it was funny until I was in church, during a very quiet part of the service. I dropped my book over the pew and said, "Shit."
I didn't swear again until I was eighteen.
I helped again as I was older. I don't remember ever being taught how to use an ax or chainsaw, but my job was stacking. I remember hating to stack wood. As a teenager, I would dread hearing the Jitterbug come back out of the woods full of trees because it meant time for us kids to work. We knew it was a necessity, but like any kid, we didn't want to participate.
I know that Uncle George must have taken a portion of their cut back to his house. He too had a large house and many children. But I don't recall ever seeing his black truck full of wood. I do remember, however, using his truck with the carpenter boxes on the side, as a horse trailer.
For a while, I borrowed a pony from a family down the street. Their kids had grown up and gone away, and the pony was just hanging out in the field, so Dad made arrangements for me to borrow it for a few years. So yes, when I asked for a pony, I got one. I was as spoiled as my parents could afford to allow.
To transport the pony the three miles to our house, Dad and Uncle George used a couple 2x4s and loaded the pony into the back of Uncle George's nicely painted black truck. I can still see the image of my pony in a pickup truck.
After their kids had left the house, my parents sold George and Ruth a parcel of land where they built a little cabin in the woods. Just one bedroom, a bathroom and an integrated kitchen/living room. Easy to heat during the harsh Maine winters, and beautifully constructed by George and his sons. And Meine Schwester. At that time, Uncle George referred to her as Punky Brewster. We always complained that she never helped with anything. But Uncle George knew better. He let her help build the cabin by nailing down floorboards.
A picturesque cabin in the woods. Made with love. The summer they were building it, my friends and Brother K and I would sneak out and meet there to play strip Trivial Pursuit. No one knew how to play poker and we never got further than bathing suits. Brother K was Tom Sawyer, sneaking out his bedroom window and climbing down the back tree. I was Huck Finn, going down the stairs, picking up the snacks Mom had left for us as I walked out the front door. I remember one night, walking home from their cabin through the woods and seeing my first meteorite streak down the dark trail. This is where George the Carpenter would retire. This is what made George and Ruth better Mainers than I would ever be.
Uncle George was an integral part of our lives. Through good and bad. Again, I don't know the details, but I know that he was there the day tragedy struck and I learned the lesson about operating heavy machinery while drinking. Uncle George's truck flew down the driveway as if it was defying gravity and friction. It was a few hours before we found out that Dad was in the hospital. Meine Schwester recalls seeing Uncle George's torn up thigh. The only detail I recall is that my father's hand had been cut by a chainsaw. Dad's tendons were cut in the last two fingers of his left hand. This wouldn't have been as tragic if Dad wasn't left handed.
Dad used to play guitar better than anyone else I knew. Of course, I probably thought that because he was my father, but he was incredible at picking and created pure magic in the air with his twelve string. Dad and George would play and sing, and no matter how bad things seemed, we always had music. It is what kept us all together. Dad's injury wouldn't have seemed so tragic, except that he does everything left handed except play guitar.
That was the day the music died.
I don't blame anyone. I don't know what happened. I don't even know what year that was. But I feel like it was a turning point for my parents. Eventually, my senior year, they divorced. I wasn't upset. They weren't in love. I was excited that they were moving on with their lives and they could stop being miserable. I went off to college, Dad moved away. My family moved out of the big house and into a smaller house that didn't require fifteen cord of wood to heat. My pony moved back to his home. I was busy learning about differential equations and stress/strain curves of materials. The sounds of chainsaws and guitars, and the smell of cigars faded into my memories.
Until today, when I learned that Uncle George had passed away. I hadn't known he was ill. I hadn't heard much about him for the past few years. I read the obituary and saw that his kids had all grown and married and have families of their own. I don't know how long he lived in that little cabin in the woods. I don't know if he still played guitar and smoked cigars and forced trees into works of art. But I do know that he made a difference in my life. And I never took the opportunity to tell him.


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I got the idea when you guys started sending us pictures of the book or you with the book in the strangest places. So I thought, wouldn't it be cool if you guys can take pictures of the book wherever you are in the world, maybe next to the Eiffel Tower, or the Pyramids in Egypt, or in Times Square in New York! And for the people in the Philippines, maybe the most unique picture? Here are some examples so far. Just expand on it:
Vinsoi took this in a dessert in Dubai!
I love this picture of the book in the snow! Buti pa yung book! Not sure where @jonnifc took this pic, but it's beautiful!
Jrhyan took this picture of real soldiers at the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta posing with the book. Hilarious!
You get the idea. So if you guys can send it via Twitter (just tag me @chicogarcia) or Facebook or email, I'll collect them and post the best ones here on my blog. I was also thinking of having the best ones printed and display them this Saturday at the last book signing at NBS MOA! Hope you guys could send it within the week so I can have enough time to figure out what to do with the photos, lalo na pag madaming maganda!
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Written by Jennifer Hogeland For Press-Gazette Media
As the holidays approach, and the invitations to parties pour in, parents must start their search for a sitter. If grandparents aren't available to watch your little ones for that gotta-go-to bash, it's necessary to enlist the help of a babysitter.
Finding just the right person to care for your children is no small task. The first challenge is finding a willing and capable teen. Then, before leaving your little darlings in his or her hands, there are several things you should discuss to be sure both of you will be happy with the arrangement.
Area experts offered suggestions on finding and interviewing potential babysitters before your night out on the town.
Finding the right match
Keep an eye open for responsible teens. Unfortunately, there isn't a magical list of certified and interested babysitters available from area organizations or the American Red Cross, so parents have to get creative.
Sara Weier oversees the babysitter training program for the American Red Cross in Wisconsin and she explains the best way to find potential babysitters is by reaching out to neighbors or community organizations.
"We tell potential babysitters to connect with neighborhood associations, churches and to talk with parents and other babysitters to make their interest in babysitting known," says Weier.
Word of mouth is key, suggests Yvonne Duffek, an American Red Cross certified babysitting instructor. Babysitters are told not to put their information on public boards; students are encouraged to hand out personalized business cards to trusted adults that could assist with their job search. So, ask around. Chances are friends and neighbors have a name or two to share.
Several websites have also popped up in recent years as a resource for parents searching for sitters in the area. Sites like sittercity.com and care.com provide a list of babysitters by zip code. You need to create an account and there may be fees for the information you seek. Peruse the detailed profiles of potential candidates before setting up an interview.
Paying the going rate
Discussing payment is a necessary conversation when hiring a babysitter. While the typical hourly fee falls within a range, parents should consider the number of children, their ages and the expectations of the babysitter before determining their rate.
"I think it depends on the family," said Denise Mancheski, enrichment director at the Greater Green Bay YMCA. "It varies. It isn't like years ago when every parent paid $2 an hour."
She shares some parents start at minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 per hour in Wisconsin.
Duffek has done some research and determined the minimum going rate for a Red Cross certified babysitter is currently $5 an hour, although some parents pay as much as $10
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This Sony Experience Expert ensures Best Buy delivers a world-class end-to-end experience across all aspects of home theater products with emphasis on the Sony ecosystem. This role works closely with customers and other employees to demonstrate, promote and sell a variety of exciting Sony products in the Home Theater Zone and across the store to ensure customers' end-to-end needs are met.
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Sunday, 25 March 2012
Summer time in march!!
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Sooo pretty ♥ Love the outfit and your hair :) So cute. ♥ReplyDelete
Oh, that looks lovely! I love the shirt and the white lace shorts together. So pretty!ReplyDelete
You looks really beautiful and sweet :)ReplyDelete
I love your shorts, so delicate and your hair so cool and full of life :D
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I really love this outfit--the top is so pretty and the shorts are perfect! The wedges are amazing! Nice look dear!ReplyDelete
You look adorable. The top is beautiful and love the lace shorts.ReplyDelete
You are so pretty!!!ReplyDelete
Good God i loove that short!!!
Hi! I've found your blog by Lookbook and I like your looks! Mayby you want to follow each other by bloglovin and GFC?:) Please let me know on my blog:)ReplyDelete
Very nice outfit! Love your short! :)ReplyDelete
J'aime beaucoup ta chemise et ton short! c'est très joli! J'ai aussi parcouru ton blog que je trouve très sympa, j'ai donc décidé de te suivre! BisesReplyDelete
Really nice spring look...so lovely! And your hair is just wow.ReplyDelete
Thanx for your comment on my blog :-)
Le short est vraiment joli, ça donne envie toutes ces broderies !ReplyDelete
J'aime beaucoup ta couleur de cheveux aussi :)
Merci de faire l'effort de poster en français ! Même si on comprend tous l'anglais ça fait toujours plaisir !
Bonne soirée, bisous !
I love your lace shorts :)ReplyDelete
love this outfit and i can't belive it too! in germany it's soooo sunny at the moment, mwaaah 8)ReplyDelete
Really cute look. I especially like the lace shorts! And I love how you wore the sheer shirt... I've always liked this style but have been too afraid to try it! So maybe I should! :)ReplyDelete
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Coucou. Pour mettre le noeud tu va dans la rubrique présentation du blog et là tu as marqué "Favicon" tu cliques sur modifier et tu choisit quelle "photo" tu veux mettre. Tu peux chercher des favicons sur google :). J'espère que je t'ai bien expliqué. Bisous :)ReplyDelete
Thank so much <3ReplyDelete
Loe the lace shorts!
J'adore ton short et ton chemisier :DReplyDelete
Des bisous !
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Thank you for your comment you're so sweet !ReplyDelete
I loooove your shorts, it's so cute :)
Merci beaucoup pour ton gentil commentaire, oh ! la la ! tu es toute belle, j'adore ta tenue *_*ReplyDelete
The shorts are so pretty!ReplyDelete
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oh my goodness, can i have your shorts? :)ReplyDelete
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I have just come across your blog and simply loved it! You have great style.ReplyDelete
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such great shorts and i love the overall look..very stylish and gorgeous looking :)ReplyDelete
I love your shorts!ReplyDelete
great outfit- I love those shoes!ReplyDelete
I love the print on your shirt!! The colours are so pretty.ReplyDelete
You look beautiful! XReplyDelete
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You look so pretty and oh so Summery!! Loving those shorts and your hair color is awesome.ReplyDelete
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Ta chemise est vraiment stylée!ReplyDelete
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Très jolie tenue!ReplyDelete
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tu es super belle et j'adore ton style ! XOXOReplyDelete
Love your blouse and shorts!ReplyDelete
I just found your blog and i`m happy because this is so fantastic!Love your outfits and you hair!<3ReplyDelete
Hope you come visit my blog too;)
lovely look!ReplyDelete
omg i love this top! i remember seeing it in Zara and i kept debating whether to get it, but they don't stock it in my store anymore :cReplyDelete
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Nice outfit!ReplyDelete
love your shorts, top and necklace...ReplyDelete
What a babe!
BTW followed you lovely blog, I hope you can follow me back =)
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We should follow each other!
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New haircut ? It suit very well to you !ReplyDelete
I love that look and your necklace is very nice !
Tu as vraiment une tres jolie couleur de cheveux. J'adore :)ReplyDelete


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Tom Verducci penned an interesting coda to Manny Ramirez' career. Verducci is one of the best baseball writers around so it is worth reading his entire article but one key statistical point must be emphasized: In the 180 games before Ramirez was suspended by MLB on May 7, 2009 he batted .334 and bashed one home run in every 15 at bats but in the 172 games after he was busted for being a cheater he hit just .277 and managed just one home run in every 25 at bats. Contrary to what some economists may believe, performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) do in fact enhance performance; that is why big league players take such drugs even at the risk of sexual dysfunction, various other health problems, possible federal prosecution and public humiliation. Ramirez retired on April 8, 2011 after another failed drug test that would have prompted an automatic 100 game suspension.
Ramirez and the other PED cheaters must never be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, which should instead honor players like Andre Dawson--the Hawk was finally welcomed into Cooperstown last year--who played the game the right way. It is ridiculous to say that because we don't know for sure who used PEDs that Hall of Fame voters should just base their choices purely on a player's statistics; should we set convicted murderers free because we have not arrested every single murder suspect? The legal system punishes whoever it can arrest and convict. The Baseball Hall of Fame voting guidelines stipulate that "Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played." Anyone who has tested positive for PEDs, admitted using PEDs and/or been credibly linked to PED usage has certainly shown a lack of "integrity, sportsmanship (and) character," which is more than reason enough to exclude him from Hall of Fame consideration. The fact that some bad apples may have already been inducted is no justification for honoring more cheaters and scoundrels.
A sidebar chart to Verducci's article listed the seven most prolific MLB home run hitters from 1996-2003 (the years immediately preceding when MLB instituted PED testing with penalties):
1) Sammy Sosa, 444 home runs
2) Barry Bonds, 399 home runs
3) Rafael Palmeiro, 373 home runs
4) Jim Thome, 351 home runs
5) Alex Rodriguez, 345 home runs
6) Mark McGwire, 345 home runs
7) Manny Ramirez, 328 home runs
Six of those seven players have been credibly linked to and/or admitted using PEDs. The lone exception is Thome, who is either the greatest slugger of all-time--the one clean power player in an era dominated by dirty hitters (and dirty pitchers)--or...you be the judge; here are a couple interesting pictures:
Memory can play tricks on us; some people believe that Thome is just naturally big and strong but in the first picture (from his rookie card) we see that a young Thome looked like someone who would get sand kicked in his face at the beach while in the second picture (from a decade and a half later) Thome has blossomed into Mr. Atlas. I am not accusing Thome of anything because I have no way of knowing what he did or didn't do; all I am saying is that if he was in fact clean then he almost has to be considered the greatest slugger of all-time, because he would be the only non-enhanced human who put up numbers comparable to those posted by the PED cheaters.
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Volkswagen's Golf Cabriolet has a history, in this country at least, mostly defined by the hormonal and angry field hockey players who drove them. Thanks to its roll hoop it earned a nickname used by countless high school and college kids: Bitch Basket. The new Golf GTI Cabriolet swaps the bitchy attitude for a bitchin' 200-horsepower turbo-four.
Last year brought the return of the hoop-less Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet, which is a visual copy of the normal Golf sans-top. Now the new GTI Cabriolet mimics the hard-top GTI top-to-bottom. Ok, not top.
Starting at the roof there's the same "high-speed" electro-hydraulic cloth roof from the base Cabrio, which opens in 9.5 seconds and can be operated at speeds up to 19 mph.
More importantly, the GTI gets all of the go-fast goodies. This includes the 2.0-liter TSFI turbo direct-injection fourbanger mated to either a six-speed manual or six-speed dual clutch transmission. The relatively tiny 200-horsepower drop-top also gets the XDS transverse differential lock and EDS electronic diff.
For true GTI fans there's also the "Jacky" tartan plaid interior — a retro touch that never goes out of style.
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Last week I published an article about a new unified security platform called REACT (Realtime Event & Access Correlation Technology). All in all, it received some very positive notices, but also raised some questions as to what exactly the platform is, and why it should matter.
Simply put, REACT is an approach whereby an organization leverages the capabilities of several security solutions into one central correlated repository of security intelligence. For instance, key information from an Access Management tool (such as SaaS SSO logins or views of/modifications on/additions to protected data) can be shared, processed and analyzed through a SIEM correlation engine. When this is done in real time, not only do you expand the centralized visibility, but more importantly any suspicious activity is immediately identified and alerted. When these systems are running in parallel, but not unified, it might be days or weeks before these anomalous instances are discovered and remedied.
REACT incorporates four elements: SIEM, Access Management, Identity Management and Log Management. Each, independently, addresses certain security and/or compliance functions. As a deployment of centralized and unified security, they enhance the enterprise's ability to perform, improve the granular visibility across independent silos and provide a true field of play in which to… yes…react! But the key is this monitoring must be done in real time to gain the advantages of proactive readiness and agile and accurate response.
Think of REACT like an apple pie. You might have apples, dough crust, butter and spices. Each can be used on their own. However, when using each of the ingredients together, you create a tasty result that is more than the sum of its parts. As a platform, REACT is similar. Your organization may already have Identity Management or SSO, but if it isn't "baked" together with forensic analytics like SIEM and/or Log management, you only get a portion of the information and a slice of the capability.
Why does that matter? Let's break it down into 3 key business advantages:
1. Creating 360o Visibility-In the current complex, multi-networked and interlaced business environment, the ability to know who is doing what, when and where to any part of the monitored IT landscape has moved beyond the "nice-to-have" strategy. Anything less is short sighted, and honestly, dangerous. It seems every few weeks, we hear about a large organization suffering some kind of breach. It could be internal sabotage, user carelessness, or hackers, but either way, sensitive data has been put at risk. By employing the unique advantage of multi-silo correlation and information distillation, the ability to expand visibility manifests as a huge return on investment through prevented breaches, supported work practices and easier compliance.
This enhanced visibility goes a long way toward internal proactive defense planning: who is logging in (or failing), modifying records, accessing data from any affiliated app across the entire extended network. When you have the right level of visibility, you can make better decisions faster…especially when factoring Big Data and BYOD.
2. Improved compliance- One of the top concerns for enterprises are compliance requirements. Hundreds of man-hours and other resources must be deployed per month just to provide the reports auditors require. When approaching security from a non-unified approach, IT needs to look at machine data and logs from many different servers from many different sectors of the network. It's a Herculean task given the best of circumstances. With multiple audits from multiple agencies, it takes an inordinate amount of time away from other core business needs. Yet when unifying and centralizing (and automating) the data required by audits, compliance becomes less of a burden. The automations across the enterprise now deliver the prescribed data in the right format, fully completed by the imposed deadlines
And also consider, requirements from agencies like HIPAA, PCI, FFIEC, CIP GLBA, SOX are not going to lessen. If history teaches us anything, the demands of such organizations are only going to increase as the usage cases of your online assets continue to diversify and evolve.
3. More capability for less cost– In many circumstances, asking an organization to make investments in all sorts of security solutions is cost prohibitive. Not to mention all the other time, personnel and computing resources needed to properly deploy the initiative. By leveraging the security functionality from the cloud, companies gain additional and immediate solution bandwidth along with expanded capabilities. As a unified security deployment from the cloud, the cost-to-function ratio dramatically drops. Colloquially speaking, you get more bang for the buck. But because the solutions are managed from the cloud it is not an apples-to-apples comparison. REACT can work as an on-premises platform, but through multi-tenancy, centralization and other economies of scale, cloud-based security users get best of breed solutions for pennies against the on premises dollar. In short the cloud provides a unique advantage in functionality, affordability and control for any sized company—not just the big boys.
So to recap… REACT is not a collection of individual solutions and functions, but an interpolation of all the data across the enterprise to gain a truly holistic security vantage point. AND REACT matters because you can see more, see it faster, manage it cheaper and protect a greater swath of your enterprise. It's a simple calculation-especially from the cloud.
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One of the Chuckle Brothers has told a court it was "a complete surprise" to hear claims veteran DJ Dave Lee Travis indecently assaulted a stage hand at a pantomime they were starring in.
Children's entertainers Paul and Barry Elliott starred alongside Travis in a production of Aladdin in the early 1990s, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.
Travis, who was playing "evil uncle" Abanazar in the show, is accused of indecently assaulting a female crew member in his theatre dressing room during the panto's run.
The woman, who was 21 at the time of the alleged incident, has previously told the court her ordeal ended when they were interrupted by one of the Chuckle Brothers walking past in the corridor.
Giving evidence today, Paul Elliott, 66, was asked by Stephen Vullo, defending Travis, whether he recalled any inappropriate behaviour by the former Radio 1 star.
Mr Elliott replied: "No sorry, I don't. As I say it was a complete surprise."
Mr Elliott, who starred in BBC children's television series Chucklevision alongside his brother Barry, said Travis was "very professional" during the panto.
Asked whether he was aware of any formal or informal arrangement to chaperone female staff members around Travis, Mr Elliott replied: "Not that I recall, not at all.
"I think I would remember."
Mr Elliott said he and his brother would have been made aware of such a policy as they were "top of the bill".
The comedian said he did not recall any particular incident when a female stage hand had left Travis's dressing room.
During his evidence, Mr Elliott was warned by Judge Anthony Leonard after using he word "we" to recall his time in the panto.
"Please bear in mind it's your memories we're after," the judge said.
Travis, 68, from Buckinghamshire, is accused of indecently assaulting 10 women and sexually assaulting another in incidents dating back to 1976 and the height of his fame.
Appearing in court under his birth name David Griffin, the alleged offences occurred when he was working as a BBC DJ, as a broadcaster with Classic Gold radio, while appearing on Top Of The Pops and when starring in panto.
He denies all the charges.
Travis, wearing a light grey jacket and turquoise tie, listened to the proceedings in the dock with the aid of earphones.
The court heard the brothers appeared in Aladdin as the Chinese policemen.
Mr Elliott, 66, said he and his elder brother had been appearing in panto together since 1967 and had been in around 46 in total.
He told jurors he thought it was the second one he had starred in alongside Travis. The defendant previously told the court that Aladdin was the first pantomime he had ever been in.
Wearing a maroon shirt, dark suit and patterned tie, Mr Elliott told jurors he and his brother had been in the entertainment industry since 1963.
Asked by prosecutor Teresa Hay if he would have been aware if a policy had been put in place to make sure female members of the cast and crew were always chaperoned, Mr Elliott said: "Nobody told us about it. I would have thought we would have known from somewhere."
Also appearing as a defence witness, Barry Elliott, 69, described Travis as a "jolly great chap to work with".
"He was fine as far as I can recall," he added.
"He was fine. He was great. I mean everybody seemed to get on."
Mr Elliott said that he and his younger brother sometimes played cards with Travis.
Questioned by Mr Vullo if he was aware of a policy being implemented to make sure female members of the cast were chaperoned, the elder Chuckle Brother said: "Not at all. I don't remember that, no."
Asked if he remembered Travis ever "struggling" with a young female in his dressing room, Mr Elliott said: "I don't remember that no. If it was something serious we probably would, but I don't remember anything like that at all."
Asked by Ms Hay if he had any particular memories of the show, Mr Elliott, who said it was his 22nd or 23rd panto, told jurors: "None whatsoever."
John Dean, who worked as a DJ with Travis in his live shows over 35 years, told the court the former BBC presenter was "very friendly" with female fans but he had never seen him act inappropriately.
"There were always female fans," he said. "We tried to keep control as best as possible."
Mr Dean said pens and photographs were organised to "keep the autograph hunters at bay".
He added: "Very often he would pose for photos with his arm around them."
On other occasions Travis would let female fans sit on his knee, Mr Dean said.
"There was always a room full of people," he said.
Asked by Mr Vullo whether he ever saw Travis act in an inappropriate way with a female, Mr Dean replied: "Never."
Former BBC radio producer David Tate, who worked with Travis on his Radio 1 afternoon show in the early 1980s, was asked by Mr Vullo whether he saw the veteran DJ as a "sexual predator".
"Absolutely not," Mr Tate replied. "I don't recognise this description at all."
Mr Tate, whose 30-year career with the BBC included roles as a senior producer at Radio 1 and executive producer on the World Service, said he did not hear of any complaints of a sexual nature against Travis or anyone else at the BBC during his time with the corporation.
"I didn't hear about anything in respect of anybody at the BBC," he said.
Mr Tate, who said he first met Travis in the late 1960s, described the DJ as a "warm, open, friendly" person who would often hug him while visiting the World Service.
"That may be inappropriate nowadays but I took that to mean he respected me," he said.
Mr Tate said he "strongly believed" any complaints of a sexual assault at the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s would have been taken seriously.
Referring to former Radio 1 star Kenny Everett being taken off the air after making "inappropriate remarks" while broadcasting, Mr Tate said: "If an official complaint had been made it would have had to be acted upon."
Jane Wallace, who worked as a "plugger" promoting bands for Virgin Music in the 1970s and later wrote for the Sun newspaper's Bizarre column, told the court she knew Travis from his days at Radio 1 and Top Of The Tops.
Asked by Mr Vullo whether she was aware of any inappropriate behaviour by Travis, she replied: "I certainly have not seen him act inappropriately with anybody."
Asked whether she had heard any such stories during her time as a gossip writer, she replied: "Not at all."
Earlier, a female DJ told the court that claims that Travis groped a carnival princess at the opening of a hospital radio station were "fantasy".
The woman, who worked as a presenter at the station in Hertfordshire, said she watched Travis closely when he appeared as a guest at the launch in the early 1970s.
The witness, who cannot be named, told jurors it was "utter nonsense" to suggest Travis became separated from a group of eight people meeting patients on the hospital's wards.
"He was with his wife the whole time," the woman said.
"I was watching what he was doing the whole time because he was an idol to me. It's utter nonsense or fantasy that anything like that happened."
The trial was adjourned until tomorrow.
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RICHMOND, Va. – Troy Daniels' NBA workout at Barclays Center May 22-23 has come and gone, but the VCU graduate's time in Brooklyn will have ripple effects in the coming weeks.
Daniels, the second-leading 3-point shooter in VCU history, says he has additional upcoming workouts scheduled with three NBA teams, Boston, Houston and Indiana, in the coming weeks. He did not disclose dates. The Roanoke, Va. native says he's received interested from other teams as well, and hopes to set up more workouts over the next few weeks.
In addition, Daniels says he has agreements to play in both the Orlando (July 7-12) and Las Vegas (July 12-22) Summer Leagues, but is not at liberty to reveal which teams at this time. It is not uncommon for prospects to play for different franchises at each summer league site.
Daniels is currently not expected to be selected in the June 27 NBA Draft, but could draw interest as an undrafted free agent if he impresses in workouts. A number of notable NBA players have started their careers via free agency, including guards John Starks, Gary Neal, Jose Juan Barea and Jeremy Lin.
And that's really all the 6-foot-4 sharpshooter could've asked for. Daniels' Barclays Center workout among a group of 40-plus NBA hopefuls for representatives of all 30 of the league's teams wasn't about scoring an immediate job, it was about starting the process. It was about getting his name out there, catching the attention of a few NBA executives. Daniels has exceptional shooting ability, and now he'll be able to continue to showcase that talent in hopes that some team decides his from-the-bleachers range is worthy of a roster spot.
In 125 career games, Daniels shot .386 (251-of-650) from 3-point range for the Rams. He trails only B.A. Walker's 269 treys on VCU's career list. Daniels set a school single-season records for 3-pointers with 94 and 124 threes during his junior and senior seasons, respectively. The shooting guard averaged 7.3 points per game during his career, including 12.3 as a senior.


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…hands down, it is with out a quesiton, Jimmy Carter.
As Victor Davis Hanson says:
"In his dotage, Carter is proving once again that he is as malicious and mean-spirited a public figure as he is historically ignorant. And for all his sanctimonious Christian veneer, and fly-fishing, 'aw shucks blue-jeans image, he can't hide an essentially ungracious and unkind soul. . . . Carter's Waterloo, of course was the Iranian hostage crisis. It was not just that his gutting of the military helped to explain the rescue disaster. Far more importantly, we can chart the rise of radical political Islam with the storming of the American embassy in Teheran and the impotent response of Jimmy Carter."


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About the "I need an abortion" project
We are working to make sure that women can access safe abortion services to protect their lives and health.
Abortion is one of the most performed medical intervention on the world. Still, many women do not have access to safe abortion
The online abortion help service can provide women living in countries where safe abortion is not accessible, information, medical guidance and a medical abortion. A medical abortion is a termination of pregnancy by using two medicines. These medicines, called Mifepristone and Misoprostol, provoke a spontaneous expulsion of the pregnancy from the uterus. The success rate is 98%. Mifepristone and Misoprostol are on the list of essential medicines of the World Health Organization.
The goal of this service is to help women around the world to obtain a safe medical abortion and to reduce the mortality and morbidity due to unsafe abortion. Each year 42 million women choose to have an abortion for all sorts of private reasons. In countries where safe abortion is not accessible, women seek unsafe services (20 million each year) as result of which every 10 minutes somewhere in the world a woman dies unnecessary (47.000 women each year). The online abortion help service makes self-induced abortions much safer and can prevent the recourse to dangerous backstreet abortions. The mortality of an unsafe abortion is 1:300. This means that when the service helped 3000 women it saved the lives of 10 women.


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Not all of us have nice wide sandy beaches to launch and land. Here in the Pacific NW, many of our local launch sites are only a bit larger than your kite and lines, are rocky and without any downwind outs.
If you have a sketchy launch site that you ride all the time, please post it here. It'd be great to see pics of the gnarly launches all over the world.


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Harvest Journal: Arriving in Napa
Editor's note: Our wine writer Sarah Chappell is out in Napa this fall, working through the harvest as a laboratory intern at a winery. She'll share her experiences here so we can follow along. Take it away, Sarah!
Wanna start work at 6:30 a.m.? Work for 12 hours, 6 days a week? Walk outside and be surrounded by beautiful rows of grapes? Have I got a job for you!
Or for me, as the case may be. The job that gave me a month to pause my New York City life, gather up what things could fit in two duffel bags, and move across the country to a place that I had only seen in Sideways. The job that has made me dig deep into the depths of my brain to remember long-lost words like "supernatant" and "titration," and is starting to add real-life experience to define "leaf roll" and "brix."
This job, my friends, is harvest.
Not all wine lovers are drawn to the technical side of things or the actual work of winemaking. But I am. I studied science (among many, many other subjects) in college, and one of the first things that I enjoyed about wine was how it actually made practical use of a liberal arts education: science, language, history, and an ability to maintain composure after excessive drinking are all part of working in wine.
Through the magic of Twitter I was able to apply for a position as a laboratory intern at a Napa winery for the fall harvest. I was thrilled to get an offer and an invitation to spend the next few months seeing winemaking from the inside. The laboratory, where I'll be working, is involved mostly with the scientific analysis of grapes, their juice, and the finished wine.
Here's a basic rundown of the various jobs:
Winemaker: The boss. In a large winery, this person gives the focus and vision to the rest of the team and can be very to not at all involved in the day-to-day operations. In a small winery, this person is usually very skilled at not only coaxing grapes into wine, but also at scrubbing it off of the floors.
Assistant Winemaker: Makes sure things actually happen.
Cellar master: Makes sure that the things the assistant winemaker wants to happen happen.
Oenologist: Runs the lab and tells me what to do.
Lab Intern: Does what everyone tells her to do. Runs tests on grape juice and wine, holds her arm aloft for hours while titrating.
My first day at work in Napa made two impressions. First: Napa really is awful pretty and has a lovely crisp heat (so different from humid NYC.) Second: I really hadn't seen anything yet. The winery is the first that I had ever visited that didn't mimic my sophomore year apartment in terms of creative space usage. The offices are in one side of the winery, with the winemaking accoutrement on the other (this is important because the espresso machine is in the office side; it takes prodigious quantities of coffee and beer to make wine).
The cellar is home to the wine for its post-grape growing, pre-bottling life. Stainless steel tanks and oak barrels in various sizes fill the large rooms. There is a room for bottling, three rooms for aging wine, and one little, fluorescent-lighted room for the lab. I say little, because in comparison to the rest of the winery it is, but for a wine lab it is really quite impressive. Many wineries can do basic analysis of sulfur, acidity, and sugar levels, but most have to send at least some work to outside labs. Where I'm working, we have many toys at our disposal, which allows us to do practically all the tests in-house. (And will allow me to learn more.)
I look forward to sharing my attempts to not ruin the harvest with you all over the next few months.
Pop open a bottle, and stay tuned.
About the Author: Sarah Chappell is a winemonger and writer living in
Brooklyn Napa. She holds the Advanced Certificate with Distinction from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust and has contributed to Foodista, Palate Press and WineChap. Follow her on Twitter @chapsholic.
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Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
As homeowners on Chappy, we want to express our complete and unrestricted support for Brad Fligor as a captain of the Chappy ferry.
We have known Brad since he started captaining the ferry. Of course he may not be the prettiest of the captains, but he sure is one of the most capable.
We have always found him to be respectful, courteous and most especially diligent about safety.
The true account of the what happened may never be known — we leave that to the investigating parties to determine.
But for Mrs. McLean to take the position she did was just one more example of the "I didn't do anything wrong, I am a victim, It is the other guy's fault," mentality that has crept into our society.
Mrs. McLean, you were the driver. It is your responsibility to operate the car safely — and please don't tell us that this was the first time you drove on the Chappy ferry.
Jozef and Sheila Sliwkowski
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Thank goodness all involved are safe. That said, as adults let's take responsibility for our actions. In reference to the driver who did not put her vehicle in park when she drove onto the On Time, this error in judgment was hers alone. The boat travels at a severe angle to compensate for the current. Driving onto that little boat, there should be no question in anyone's mind, you put your car in park, wheel chocks or not! That would be the responsibility of the person behind the wheel.
Kirk Sawmiller
Columbus, Ohio
and Vineyard Haven
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
This letter is also being sent to town manager Michael Dutton and the Oak Bluffs selectmen.
I was shocked to read of the decision to eliminate lifeguards at Oak Bluffs beaches for summer 2008. Our beaches are perhaps the most heavily used on the Island, by summer and year-round residents alike, particularly families with young children.
Elimination of lifeguards will seriously endanger all those who use these beaches, a group that includes not only Oak Bluffs taxpayers, but seasonal visitors and residents from all over the Island who come to our beaches to swim and relax.
During the summer months Martha's Vineyard is a resort Island. Shouldn't the town welcome those who come to patronize businesses in town and also protect those who wish to enjoy our beaches?
I have been a summer resident of Oak Bluffs for over 50 years and I am a daily swimmer at town beaches. I am also a taxpayer 12 months a year on an Island where I spend two to three months annually, and like other summer residents my tax dollars are an important part of the town's tax base. Our safety and enjoyment of the beach should be an important part of the town's concerns as well.
What is the budgetary process that led to these proposed cuts? Isn't there a public safety issue involved? What was your rationale for coming up with this decision? Where is the transparency in why these cuts are necessary? How was it decided to cut these services as opposed to others?
And while we are loath in America and on the Vineyard to acknowledge the elephant in the middle of the beach, what role does race play in this decision? Is it only chance that lifeguards are to be eliminated at the beaches in Oak Bluffs predominantly used by African Americans?
These are not rhetorical questions, but ones that demand answers. I look forward to a prompt response. I ask you to reconsider your decision to eliminate lifeguards and rethink the decision to cut funds for a seasonal position at the board of health and for the town tennis program.
I look forward to a prompt response to this letter.
Jill Nelson
Oak Bluffs
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
This letter is also being sent to the town manager of Oak Bluffs about eliminating lifeguards.
A few short years ago, Oak Bluffs reassessed all the property. We who live here (I have a seasonal home) gave to the town a boat load of dollars in property taxes — huge increases, all at once. I'm not sure how well the money was spent.
At the time, I didn't believe that people in town management would really know what to do with that influx of cash. And here we are. God knows the new hires, the new positions, the grand projects dreamed up that now all require constant, consistent financial maintenance.
But lifeguards are now apparently extravagant. Lifeguards, in a beach community, whom we once could afford, we cannot. You now cannot squeeze out salaries for lifeguards — in a beach community — for two months. That salary you would say is wasteful? With this cost-saving measure, where would that salary money now go?
Don't complicate Oak Bluffs. I don't think we need more money. We need better money managers.
Rosemary Verri
Oak Bluffs
and Sudbury
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The tributes to Virginia Poole by Phyllis Meras and Peter McGhee in the Vineyard Gazette on March 14 are pieces of writing that she would surely admire and enjoy. I did, and that gave me some solace. These descriptions of a life and time now past are beautifully crafted — one a more specific history (a personalized obituary), the other a more general and subtle reference to loss felt deeply. Such expressions keep loved ones alive, so we will read them over and again and feel grateful to the ones who dedicated themselves to creating the record, telling the story.
One more salute — to Captain Poole who piloted his good vessel, Virginia, through the uncharted waters of the Parkinsons channel. Firm hand on the tiller, Everett kept Jini on course. He applied a gentle touch for delicate maneuvers. He was vigilant for changes in current and tide, skillful in handling bad weather when it hit, able in maintenance of equipment and provisions, clear in his direction of a loyal crew and inventive in the galley from which he stewed up a steady stream of nourishment.
When Captain Poole's Virginia went down, Everett and his crew brought the people of the home port and neighboring towns to somberly witness the final resting place — silent there, save for the distant surf and a slight sea breeze in the cedars. The pastors alone spoke. Then our minstrel Merilee softly sang some familiar lines, and the sun shone brightly on our goodbyes.
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What does Quebec want? It was a pressing question some time ago, when constitutional tinkering was in vogue, but hasn't been heard much in the intervening years. Yet now the question looms starkly, and it begs to be answered by Quebecers.
This was driven home by Thursday's concerted attack on the métro that shut the system down, disrupting the lives of tens of thousands of Montrealers. It was an attack on a vital public service – in effect, an attack on the general public, on us all. Thus all of us now, all Quebecers, have an obligation to reflect and decide – and let it be known – whether we want a society governed by democratic rule and a legitimate system of laws, or whether one governed by the dictates of mobs and vandals. If any good comes of this outrage, it will be to make it clear that this conflict over tuition fees has brought Quebec to a societal crossroads.
The crippling of the métro may or may not have been perpetrated by boycotting students. But it happened in the context of the student revolt, and would probably not have happened in the normal course of Montreal life. So the students who have pushed the confrontation to this intolerable point will find themselves rightly wearing some of the blame.
Some hard facts have to be faced by reasonable and rational people in this province – which, it would appear, excludes the leaders of the student rebels and their hangers-on, like the artistes engagés taking advantage of the situation to polish fading street cred.
The boycott movement has thoroughly discredited itself by any reasonable measure. It has rejected all compromise, even when the government bent to sweeten its proposal. It has made a mockery of democratic practice, both by seeking to intimidate the government with mob tactics and in its own assemblies, with dubious voting methods and sparse turnouts for votes. (On numerous campuses, votes to reject the last government offer have passed with fewer than a quarter of student-body participation.) Student leaders, meanwhile, showed themselves unworthy of trust by reneging on an agreement they had signed at the first hint of blowback from their ranks. And this despite the fact that it was an agreement that for practical purposes ensured that no deserving student would be denied higher education for financial reasons.
Thoroughly unhelpful contributions to this mess have come from other quarters, including the Parti Québécois leadership, which all along has advanced no better suggestion than that the government appease the mob ever more. And then there's Quebec solidaire's Amir Khadir, who persistently asserts that the government is inciting mob violence by holding to its reasonable decision to raise tuition rates.
Khadir is also stridently calling for an inquiry into police tactics in response to last weekend's violent assault on the Liberal Party meeting in Victoriaville. He makes no mention, though, of an inquiry into who started the fracas, or who was throwing bricks and billiard balls at the police, or who administered the beating to an officer who strayed too deeply into the crowd. One can certainly question the Sûreté du Québec's use of plastic bullets. But it was clearly the protesters who incited the violence, and it was incumbent on those who sincerely wished to protest peacefully to back off as soon as it broke out and to discourage their fellows bent on mayhem.
The time has come for true majority rule enacted by Quebec's democratically elected government backed by a decisive majority of Quebec's citizenry – something that the latest polling happily shows is shaping up. It is evident by now that no accommodation short of abject surrender will becalm the student mob. It is up to the government to draw its own line, and to draw it hard. Students who wish to attend classes or exams should be enabled to do so, if necessary by law-enforcement authorities. Students who wish to keep cutting classes in defiance of a deadline to return should have their semester scrubbed. And teachers who don't show up on the job should have their pay suspended.
An assertion of the lawful and legitimate order of things would be in the long-term interest of all Quebecers.
It would take some concentration of the Québécois mind, to be sure. The kindest thing that can be said about the folly of the student rebels is that the blame rests in large part with their parents. The students have grown up in a Quebec society defined by a culture of collective entitlement at others' expense: limousine services at bus-ticket cost to the beneficiaries. It is a society where past governments in succession caved in to special-interest groups that could incite a sufficiently threatening mob. It is perhaps understandable that they might think that if it worked for their parents' generation, there's no reason why it shouldn't for theirs as well.
But it is madness to repeat now what was foolish then. It may take a certain wrench of the collective mindset, but in light of the current situation, Quebec must decide in short order what it wants, now and for the future: order or anarchy.


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Conservation and Environment in Ecuador: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Ecuador Monthly Update October – November 2013
We have been working in the Giant Tortoise Breeding Centre (Chelonoidis chathamensis) in conjunction with the Galapagos National Park and this month we have been concentrating on the animals' diet and the cleaning of the artificial pools where they feed and drink fresh water. In parallel, we have been working to remove invasive species such as the "supirrosa" (Lantana camara) which competes for both space and nutrients with the islands native flora. In addition to the pool sites we have been performing the same plant removal around the tortoise nesting sites to make egg collection easier. These young tortoises will be raised in captivity before release back into wild habitats on the island of San Cristobal. The first site for release is called Punta Pitt.
Elsewhere at the centre we built a corral for a giant tortoise that was rescued from a pig pen on a nearby farm. This female must be kept in quarantine until we can be certain that she has no diseases, bacterial or viral, contracted from domestic animals that could jeopardise the entire population of the breeding centre.
In the Galapaguera plant nursery we have been working hard in filling plant bags with our freshly produced compost where we will transplant seedlings at a later date. We have been monitoring the plant beds and selecting the strongest seedlings for reforestation. We are currently replanting enemic species around the borders of the plant nursery and these include Lecocarpus Darwinii, "rodilla de caballo" (Clerodendrum molle) and Calandrinia Galapagosa. On the nearby Cerro Colorado we continue our work controlling the "supirrosa" which is out-competing the Lecocarpus plants are being reforested in several locations in an attempt to increase its density in areas it once flourished.
Our reforestation work has been recognised by many organisations on the island but we have to keep pushing ourselves and whilst it would appear logical that reforesting native and endemic plant species will only benefit the ecosystem we must have some evidence that this is the case. To this end we have start a bird census on Cerro Colorado. The idea is to observe the bird populations and their dynamics to see whether the changing plant compositions is attracting back those species historically dependent on the endemic flora. These bird observations occur early in the morning (5am) and after this we take breakfast before continuing with our reforestation work.
In our own nursery we are germinating the button mangrove (Conocarpus erectus) and cotton tree (Gossypium darwinii) both of which are scheduled for future reforestation work, environmental education for children and members of the local community. This is important to encourage island residents to plant endemic gardens and only use plants native to the Galapagos.
We continue to monitor marine species by patrolling the beaches of the island. We hope to gain a better understanding of the population numbers, dynamics and local migrations of two important species endemic to the Galapagos. The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) and the Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki).
I look forward to bringing you more news from our patch of Paradise next time...
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Conservation Manager, Ecuador


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Where's the ACLU?
In the last century, I took an interest in the lack of a ward system in Charlottesville, which seemed to coincide with Democratic majorities on the City Council ["Poor and ignored? Schilling makes the case," News, March 18].
The ACLU had participated by the mid-'90s in 18 lawsuits concerning voting practices which frequently related to the lack of a ward system in a sued community, thereby prejudicing the voting power of minorities.
After some correspondence, it seemed to me they were not interested in Charlottesville's lack of wards: The existing system there resulted in Democratic councils. This was even though most of the councilors at the time lived in the same neighborhood or potential ward. The ACLU's responses focused narrowly on whether the city had "a compact racial population" which had been "unable to get elected under the current electoral plan."
They did not show any interest in the fact that, while the council usually had a racial minority Democrat, it had failed to seat any racial minority Republicans. Consequently, it was unclear whether they were interested in a two-party system or just in electing Democrats.
Certainly they have not used their awesome legal powers to that end here as they have in more conservative communities. Accordingly, while wards seem the answer to a healthy two-party system, they have been resisted in Charlottesville by the ACLU and the Democrats.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Football coach Bill O'Brien announced today (Dec. 3) that quarterbacks coach Charlie Fisher and linebackers coach Ron Vanderlinden have resigned to pursue other opportunities.
"I appreciate all of Ron and Charlie's hard work and thank them for their dedication and service to Penn State," said O'Brien. "I wish them well in all their future endeavors."
Vanderlinden was the Nittany Lions' linebackers coach since 2001. Fisher was the quarterbacks coach the past two seasons.
"I've greatly enjoyed my 13 years at Penn State and all the student-athletes I had an opportunity to work with," Vanderlinden said. "I wish Coach O'Brien and Penn State nothing but the best in the future."
"I want to thank Penn State and Coach O'Brien for the opportunity to be a part of the program the past two seasons," said Fisher. "It was a great experience and I am very proud of what we accomplished. Now I'm looking forward to the next chapter and making a positive impact on the next group of players I have the privilege of working with."
O'Brien stated he will begin an immediate search to fill the two positions and will not comment on the status of the search until the positions have been filled.
Penn State defeated No. 14 Wisconsin last Saturday to finish the season with a 7-5 mark. The Nittany Lions return 16 starters for the 2014 season (eight offense, seven defense, one specialist).


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Benefit for Barker Saturday
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- Published on 22 November 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The benefit for Rusty Barker is at 4 p.m. Saturday, November 23 at the Hagansport Community Center. Chili, stew and desserts will be served for a donation at the event.
An auction for baked goods will also be conducted. For more information, see the November 21 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.