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Although the headlines have continued to frustrate the living daylights out of me (hugging being banned in school/Iraq war costs skyrocketing to over 1.6 TRILLION dollars /1 in 4 homeless are veterans/Chinese manufactured toys continue to endanger our children), I haven't really had the desire/energy to do any blogging lately since my life's been a bit too full of uncertainty and limbo. In times like these, instead of doing what I should (like packing), I tend to turn to my drug of choice: MUSIC! (Yes, I have done some packing while listening to music, but…)
My all-time "turn that mood around" artist is, without a doubt, Bob Marley (especially "Three Little Birds"), closely followed by local Southern California bands Common Sense (LOVE "Say the Word"), B-Side Players, and Ozomatli, along with a heaping helping of Blues Traveler. Then to go a bit old school I've just got to throw in some Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, and The Kinks. And since blues music is right next to reggae at my soul's core, there's got to be some John Lee Hooker (regret having not seen him before he passed), B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland, and Candye Kane. Topping it all off are more recent faves The Cliks, Placebo, and The Cat Empire.
Yup, a bit on the eclectic side when it comes to music, so thank goodness for iTunes party shuffle to keep me happy with a constant rotation of my favorite artists and music. Seriously, if you put ANY of the above mentioned artists on the CD player my mood would instantly change…for the better! Come to think of it, I've seen all but four of them live, so I'm sure the great memories of their concerts and the fun times we had must have something to do with their music's ability to change my mood. Don't you all have music that can do the same thing for you? I hope so because it would be such a shame if you didn't–if music didn't affect your life the way it does mine. Then again, maybe it's just me!
Sadly I missed the return concert the other day of B-Side Players to San Diego after their recent tour. I am really enjoying their new album "Fire in the Youth", although truth be told I'm still a sucker for their older stuff (again, possibly due to having seen them in concert so many times). I thought I'd introduce those of you unfamiliar with this high-energy, positive message, deeply talented band, with the following video of them talking about their band, their music, and their latest release. I'll also see what other B-Side Players videos I can round up to really help you enjoy their music, but the truth is that no video could EVER come close to capturing the energy of a live B-Side Players concert. Take one in when you can!
B-Side Players "Fire In The Youth" EPK
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Culinary Alaska
Consider yourself a foodie? Always in search of under the radar culinary destinations that defy stereotypes and exceed expectations? We have the perfect spot in mind! Alaska may not be the first place you think of when imagining an epicurean's dream locale, but we can assure you that America's largest state offers much more than breathtaking views and roaming wildlife.
From its locally sourced, fresh ingredients to the abundance of quirky dives in unexpected places, Alaska's flavors will keep you returning time and time again. Interested in a one of a kind culinary adventure?
It's a Bus! It's a Train? No, it's an Alaska Restaurant
By Lisa Maloney
Nowhere is the pioneer "make do" spirit more evident than in Alaska's small towns, where the oh-so-Alaskan habit of repurposing vehicles and buildings has made its way into the food scene. In fact, some of the best food you'll find in Alaska comes from restaurants that cook and/or serve out of repurposed buses, train cars, and in one case even a yacht.
The Train Wreck in Seward
There's nothing broken about the "Train Wreck Complex" in Seward. Situated just off the harbor docks and a short stroll from the cruise ship terminal, this collection of retired railroad cars has been repurposed into a clever micro-hotel on one side and a restaurant — the Smoke Shack — on the other.
Known for its killer breakfasts, the Smoke Shack is "cozy" — there are only a few booths inside — and they don't take reservations. So, if the train car is full and the often-rainy Seward weather isn't cooperating for outdoor dining, you may have a long wait ahead. But the casual, creative fare and reasonable pricing are well worth it.
Red's Burgers in Seward
If you're hungry for bountiful garlic fries, an old-fashioned milkshake and one of the best burgers in the state, look no further than the old red school bus parked on Van Buren Street in Seward.
That's the kitchen for Red's Burgers, a seasonal May-to-September restaurant that draws a steady stream of enthusiastic visitors (and rave reviews) from all around the world. You can take your food to go, eat outside and admire the mountain views, or you can stay and eat inside another remodeled bus with four-top tables. Heads up: Red's only takes cash, but there's an ATM on-site if you need it.
The Burger Bus in Kenai
Red's has some competition: The Burger Bus in Kenai, a mere hundred road miles away, draws its share of burger-related accolades, too. The Burger Bus is almost its own neighborhood, with a small shelter in front of the bus door and an outdoor dining area nearby. And while it may not look like much, locals and visitors alike rave about the great food and friendly service.
"The Bus" Seafood Express in Hyder
Of all the unlikely places where school buses turn up in Alaska, the tiny town of Hyder may be the most remote. Hyder's year-round population is less than one hundred people, but summer tourists come in droves to watch black and grizzly bears at nearby Fish Creek — and to enjoy stellar fresh seafood from "The Bus." There's limited indoor seating nearby or, if the weather's nice and there are no bears around, you can chow down at a few outdoor tables.
Baja Taco in Cordova
Seafood doesn't get any fresher than what you'll find in Alaska's isolated seaside communities, and the seafood tacos don't come any better than those you'll be served at Baja Taco in Cordova. This unexpected little restaurant is yet another sterling example of turning a school bus into a kitchen, although its seating options — the shelter of an adjacent building or out on the deck — are nicer than most.
Payo's Thai Kitchen in Talkeetna
Buses aren't the only stationary road vehicles Alaskans have turned into unconventional eateries. Payo's Thai Kitchen in Talkeetna is based in an old camper trailer with an open-air dining shelter just outside, so you have a place to eat if it rains.
Dinner Ahoy on Galley Gourmet
If your cruise ship, ferry or plane takes you to the island community of Kodiak, get ready for the most luxurious "vehicle restaurant" you'll ever experience. Book far enough in advance, and the husband-and-wife team behind Galley Gourmet will take you out for a dinner cruise like no other. You'll dine on just-harvested seafood and garden vegetables with Kodiak's lush green shores and a medley of eagles, sea lions, seabirds and sometimes even whales as the backdrop to your meal.

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Johnny Lewis, an actor who most notably appeared on the FX series "Sons of Anarchy," died on Wednesday in Los Angeles after he either fell or jumped off a roof to his death at a home where an 81-year-old woman was found dead inside.
Authorities say 28-year-old Lewis is suspected of killing the woman, who owned the house. He may have been renting a room from the homeowner, identified as Catherine Davis by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
Officers had been sent to the residence after receiving reports of a woman screaming.
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According to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, Lewis was seen fighting with neighbors outside following the alleged altercation with Davis.
He was then spotted climbing up on the roof and was later found dead on the driveway.
Lewis also appeared on such programs as The O.C., Boston Public and Criminal Minds as well as the feature film The Runaways with Kristen Stewart.


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Do Canadians really need to be any nicer?
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In a series of television spots, outdoor ads and posters, the campaign highlights all the ways people can be nicer to each other -- like giving up a parking spot or a seat on the subway. The television spots highlight how rare common courtesy has become, with the tagline, "If Good Deeds Were More Common, They Wouldn't Stand Out as Much." The spots and ads point you to the campaign's site, peopleforgood.ca, where good deeds are collected, shared and featured.
The campaign also features an iPad app that throws out suggestions like "Start up a non work-related conversation" when shaken or tapped.
There's also plenty of online conversation with people tweeting out the good deeds they did today along with the hashtag #peopleforgood.
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Northeastern University School of Law Professor Michael Meltsner has written a play inspired by the efforts of several local lawyers to ensure that torture was stopped and the rule of law was respected at places like Guantanamo Bay in the wake of 9/11.
"I don't believe our nation has confronted what took place," Meltsner says. "We have a right to self defense, but we don't have a right to torture people."
The professor cites the Fifth and Eighth amendments of the U.S. Constitution and elucidates his perspective in the 16 scenes of "In Our Name: A Play of the Torture Years," which will debut at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre (949 Commonwealth Ave.) on March 27 at 7:30 p.m.
"All lawyers and artists can do is present the facts to the public in a way that makes people stop and think and feel," Meltsner says.
He will be at the March 27 show to discuss the play with the audience, as will the Massachusetts lawyers who inspired him: Stephen Oleskey of WilmerHale, Joshua Rubenstein of Amnesty International and Harvard University, Sabin Willett of Bingham McCutchen and Doris Tennant of Tennant Lubell.


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The Farm Beginnings class is a 12-month training session that helps beginning farmers clarify their goals and strengths, establish a strong enterprise plan and start building their operation. The course uses a mix of farmer-led classroom sessions, on-farm tours, and an extensive farmer network.
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These days, our knowledge of celebrities too often originates with paparazzi images and snarky quotes by anonymous "insiders." After a while, it's easy to forget that stars are real people. That's why HuffPost Celebrity decided to launch its all-new #nofilter quick-fire question and answer series. Because how well do you know someone until they've shared their guiltiest pleasures?
It's been quite a year for Kristen Stewart. Leaving aside her tumultuous off-screen existence, she put a cap on one blockbuster franchise (in all, the five "Twilight" movies made more than $1.3 billion at the box office), kicked off another ("Snow White and the Huntsman" took in a healthy $155 million) and renewed her indie-movie cred card with a daring performance in Walter Salles' "On the Road," which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and opens in limited release on December 21. HuffPost recently talked to Stewart about "On the Road" -- and persuaded her to answer some #nofilter questions while we had her attention.
What's your guiltiest pleasure? Hmm. I take these things very seriously. Whenever anyone's like, "Oh, we're just gonna do a fun quick-fire-question thing." My guiltiest pleasure? Shit. God. Dude, what's yours?
Oh, God, I probably wouldn't want to say, now that I think about it. See?
Have you ever stolen anything? Actually, no. I stole a pack of gum when I was younger and literally turned right around and gave it back. And he was such an asshole to me. I was like, "I should have just walked. I am being a good person." And he literally chastised me for 15 minutes. I was like, "Why did I even give this back to him?"
If failure weren't an option, what's one thing you would do? Oh, god. God. That is too -- dude, these are not quick-fire questions. They're heavy questions.
What shows are on your DVR? I actually don't watch TV.
Do you ever text in the movie theater? Um, I don't typically sit in a movie theater.
If you could ask Kim Kardashian one question, what would it be? Um, wow. I have no idea.


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by Tom Utescher
Showcase season continues for female hoopsters, and last weekend Springside School and Germantown Academy were among the 14 teams on display before a throng of college coaches at the Blue Chip Basketball Super Sunday event at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor. It wasn't a good time for the injury-ravaged Springside Lions (12-8) to be matched up against one of the top teams in the Delaware Valley, Archbishop Wood (13-3), and after hanging tough for the first dozen minutes the locals were pillaged by the Vikings, 49-26. GA (16-3) also had a tough go, losing 60-50 to a powerful opponent from central New Jersey, St. John Vianney.
Junior forward Elana Roadcloud, one of Springside's most effective players in recent weeks, has joined several of her teammates on the injured list, and coach Brian Morris had to reach farther down the bench to come up with a starting quintet. From a season-long perspective, the Lions were now missing four of their original top six players.
The holes in the line-up were not unknown to Wood (which had its primary players healthy for this outing), so the Vikings were a bit taken aback by Springside's strong performance at the start of Sunday's contest. A short bank shot by sophomore Gianna Pownall and a lay-up by junior forward Michelle Boggs gave the Lions a 4-3 edge, but then Wood went ahead as the Vikings' Steph Keys canned her second and third three-point field goals of the game.
Following a Boggs free throw, a lay-up by the Vikings made it 11-5, then Springside put together a 7-0 run in the final two minutes of the opening frame. Senior Brenna Coll knocked down a trey from the left corner and Boggs bagged a lay-up, then Pownall scored off a steal to send the Lions into the second round with a 12-11 edge. Two free throws by the sophomore raised the count to 14-11 early in the second quarter, but then Wood started to effectively pressure the Springside ballhandlers. Aubrey Howland scored consecutive fast-break baskets off of steals, moving the Vikings ahead for good. Springside was unable to score for the remainder of the period, and trailed 22-14 at the interlude.
The Lions' drought continued into the second half, and Wood spread the score to 32-14 before Springside finally got its side of the board to budge with a baseline jumper by freshman guard Julia Schumacher. The margin was a full 20 points at the end of the third quarter (40-20), and the Vikings added another three points to its margin in the last eight minutes.
Pownall popped in nine points and Boggs scored seven for the Lions, who received six from Coll and two apiece from Schumacher and junior guard Alexis Giovinazzo. Among the ten players who scored for Wood were Keys, with a game-high 12 points, Howland, with nine, and Lauren Nealon, with six.
St. John Vianney is a team that the GA Patriots have scrimmaged with in the past, and after last Sunday evening's encounter Germantown fans might have found it sobering to learn that the Lancers (14-2) are only in third place in their league, the Shore Conference.
The first two minutes looked promising for the Pennsylvanians as a quick drive by junior Jaryn Garner was followed by one free throw by Dana Lotito and two by fellow senior Alexa Gallagher. After that 5-0 start, though, GA was doubled up by St. John, 32-16 in the remainder of the first half.
Most of the damage occurred in the last five-and-a-half minutes of the second quarter, after a three-pointer by Patriots senior Monica Shacker gave GA a 15-14 edge. Colgate University recruit Missy Repoli got the Lancers rolling with three consecutive three-pointers from left, right, and center, and the Jersey girls went on to a 32-21 halftime advantage.
This was a fast, physical game, and the fact that the officials appeared reluctant to make traveling calls (on both sides) only added to the pace.
St. John had the lead up to 16 points twice during the second half, the last time at 48-32 with seven minutes left to play. The Lancers were still up 15 (54-39) with under four minutes remaining, then Gallagher, Garner, Shacker and Kiernan McCloskey helped GA outscore the Lancers 11-6 the rest of the way.
Lotito fouled out of the game midway through the fourth frame and Gallagher departed in the final minute with a team-high 17 points. The Pats got 11 points from Shacker, eight apiece from Garner and Lotito, and six from McCloskey. The Lancers' Repoli led all scorers with 21 points, and St. John received 13 from guard Jackie Kates and 10 from forward Katie O'Reilly.


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Worldwide Leadership Team
Shozo Mori, CEO/Chairman
Wilson Learning Worldwide Inc.
Shozo Mori, CEO and Chairman of Wilson Learning Worldwide Inc., is responsible for investor relations and providing overall strategic direction to Wilson Learning's global organisation, while upholding the company's mission to provide solutions that inspire, develop and transform organisations around the world. Mori San has been an intricate part of Wilson Learning Worldwide for more than 30 years, having served as President, CEO and Chairman. His background and experience has been instrumental in Wilson Learning Worldwide's growth and development.
Tom Roth, Chief Operating Officer and President
Chief Operating Officer, Wilson Learning Worldwide
President, Wilson Learning Japan
Tom Roth is Chief Operating Officer of Wilson Learning Worldwide and President of Wilson Learning Japan. With more than 40 years of experience developing and implementing human performance improvement solutions, Mr. Roth is responsible for the strategic direction and business performance of Wilson Learning Worldwide operations. In addition, he leads the global marketing services and R&D solutions group, which is responsible for the research and development of all solutions and position papers. Mr. Roth assists global executive leadership teams with issues related to employee engagement, leadership development, strategy alignment, and business transformation. Before assuming his current role, he was President of the global R&D and solution development groups and also served as President of Wilson Learning Americas.
Mr. Roth has extensive experience developing and implementing human performance improvement solutions. He is coauthor of the book Unplugged: How Organisations Lose Their Energy and How to Get It Back, coauthor of the book Creating the High-Performance Team, and is published in numerous business publications. Mr. Roth is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and client events, presenting on a wide variety of issues including leadership, employee engagement, change, and strategy implementation.
Ed Emde, President
Wilson Learning Corporation
Ed Emde, President of Wilson Learning Corporation, is responsible for overall business strategy and operations in the Americas. Ed's tenure at Wilson Learning Corporation includes serving as Executive Vice President where he was responsible for sales, marketing and learning services operations for Wilson Learning Americas. Earlier in his Wilson Learning career, Ed managed business development and implementation services for key client relationships in the Midwest United States.
Ed has 25 years of experience working directly with senior level executives in linking human resources development, organisational development, training and education initiatives to strategic imperatives and business outcomes. He has held executive and leadership positions with a number of leading training and organisational development companies, including Ninth House and serving as President and CEO of Blessing White. He has managed several successful turnarounds, as well as the acquisition, merger and integration of several businesses. Ed is published in numerous print and on-line business publications, including CLO Magazine and Training Magazine.
David Yesford, Managing Director and Senior Vice President
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Managing Director, Wilson Learning Asia
David Yesford, Senior Vice President of Wilson Learning Worldwide, has nearly 30 years of experience developing and implementing human performance improvement solutions around the world. He brings valuable experience, strategic direction, and global perspective to his work with clients. Mr. Yesford is an active member of the Wilson Learning Global Executive Board, with current responsibility at a global level. Over the years, he has held strategic roles in our core content areas of Sales and Leadership, as well as e-learning and Strategic Consulting. He has also held managing director positions in both China and India. Mr. Yesford is the contributing author of several books, including Win-Win Selling, Versatile Selling, The Social Styles Handbook, and The Sales Training Book 2. He has also been published in numerous business publications throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Mr. Yesford frequently speaks at international conferences and summits, focusing on issues such as sales and sales strategy, leadership, employee and customer engagement, brand, and strategy implementation.
Richard Chappell, Managing Director
Wilson Learning Europa Limited
Richard Chappell, Managing Director of Wilson Learning EMEA is responsible for overall business strategy and operations within Europe, Middle East & Africa. He leads an internal team as well as managing the Authorised Distributor network throughout the region. Richard has more than 20 years' experience in leading customer centric sales teams within the Learning and Development space and is passionate about creating high performing sales organisations.
Life before Wilson Learning included managing the Technical training company, Learning Tree International's EMEA operation including responsibility for the partner businesses. Prior to this, Richard served in the military for 5 years and started his commercial career as a graduate trainee within the pharmaceutical industry (GSK) culminating in him running the UK's South East Region.
Vivek Chandramohan, Managing Director
Wilson Learning India
Vivek Chandramohan, Managing Director of Wilson Learning India, is responsible for overall strategy and operations across India. In this role, he regularly meets with business leaders to provide sales, consulting and leadership development guidance. Vivek has been an integral part of Wilson Learning for nearly six years, having served as the Wilson Learning India Sales Manager and a programme facilitator and consultant.
Vivek has more than 15 years of experience in the fields of information technology (IT), information technology enabled service (ITES), sales, and sales management, including tenures at IBM India, e-Serve International Ltd., Dell International Services Ltd. and HCL Technologies. Through his industry involvement, Vivek has gained extensive knowledge and experience in sales and consulting, customer service, process transition management, global solutions and leadership development.


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Mullet Run
As mullet spawn in the southeast Gulf of Mexico each year from early November through January, the commercial fishing fleet that operates out of the village of Cortez harvests up to 400,000 pounds of mullet roe.
The fishermen sell the fish eggs for between $6 and $15 a pound to processors, who freeze the roe in its natural casing and ship it to Europe and Asia. There, much of it is salted and sun-dried into a solid block that tastes somewhat like anchovy. In Italy, where it's called bottargo, the roe is shaved or grated over pasta or bread. In Japan, it's a pricey delicacy called karasumi that's usually served with sake. Some cured roe is exported back into the United States, where it's gaining favor among chefs, selling for $100 or more a pound.
Seth Cripe, a 34-year-old Manatee County native, did the math and saw opportunity both for himself and for the fishing industry in Cortez.
With help from some friends, including restaurant owner Ed Chiles — son of the late former Gov. Lawton Chiles — Cripe created the Anna Maria Fish Co. and began processing mullet roe into bottargo.
Last mullet season, the company produced 2,000 pounds of bottargo and sold it for about $90 a pound. This year, Cripe plans to process 5,000 pounds. He and his mother, Nancy, do most of the salting and curing themselves.
hiles, a partner in the fish company, says curing the roe in Florida keeps the added value in local pockets rather than sending it "halfway around the world." He says the same goes for Gulf octopus and sardines, which the fish company plans to can and sell, and Gulf sunray clams, which he says taste better than littleneck clams and ship better as well.
"Many people say the best days of Cortez are over," Chiles says. "But if we do these things we're talking about with the wild and sustainable products that are available here and if we look at changing the business model from a commodity-based one to a value-added-based one, then Cortez's best days are still ahead."


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Dark Reign 2 Strategically Invades GOG.com
Dark Reign 2, from the now defunct Pandemic Studios, is available for $5.99 on GOG.com. Running on a "full 3D engine," Dark Reign 2 continues the adventures of the JDA and Sprawlers soldiers and features "intense action, diverse missions and fairly demanding opponent's AI."
For those itching for an even more old school title in the RTS genre, the original game in the series (released in 1997) is already available on the digital download service.
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You mean this Dark Reign + expansions? (Which is linked in the article blurb too)


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How to Find the Poor
As India expands and overhauls its social safety net, from a new food benefits program to cash transfers, it has also been grappling with how best to select those who should receive this aid.
In India, that no easy task given that the country has hundreds of millions of poor people, but with many variations and different needs among them, and a fiscal deficit that constrains the government's capacity for generosity.
The revised poverty line that India proposed in 2011 met with so much criticism that Indian officials said that year that the provision of benefits would not be linked to that poverty line, but could include people above it. Even so, there has to be some method for choosing these beneficiaries.
Poverty expert Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that rather than government programs choosing the poor people it intends to help, doing the reverse is a lot more efficient, research shows.
Asking those who need benefits to step forward and identify themselves is, counter-intuitively, the most accurate and viable way of identifying the poor for the purposes of poverty-alleviation, Mr. Banerjee said in a lecture at a university in the western city of Pune on Saturday.
Mr. Banerjee, who is also a co-founder of the Poverty Action Lab, a research initiative at MIT that uses techniques from clinical drug testing to test the efficacy of anti-poverty efforts, laid out three possible ways governments can identifiy the poor people they need to help.
The methods were tested in field research in Indonesiain 2008 and 2009, in which households were selected for a cash transfer using these methods. Partial results from the experiment were published in a Poverty Lab newsletter earlier this month.
As part of the experiment, over 640 village households were also individually surveyed by researchers for an independent assessment of how many poor familes there were. The accuracy of the methods of finding poverty program recipients was gauged by comparing the number of households living on $2 or less a day and the number of households that got the cash transfer using each method.
In an ideal world, the most comprehensive way to identify the poor would be to visit each and every household in the country, collect their income data and then set a cut-off, said Mr. Banerjee. That, of course, is a logistical nightmare and impractical.Indiacarries out a population census just once in 10 years, for example.
Instead, it's easier to check if a household owns a set of easy-to-observe consumer durables. For instance, if a family owns a refrigerator or a motorcycle, it's not poor. This is much less cumbersome than measuring every household's income.
The second method is asking members of a community to identify the poor within their community. This can be done either by asking each member of the community or asking only the community leaders.
The research found both of these methods arrived at similar results in terms of selecting recipients for the cash transfer.
But Mr. Banerjee said research found both of these methods were inferior to self-targeting -- offering benefits to everyone on the assumption that only those genuinely in need would bother to show up to collect them. One example of this, he says, isIndia's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which promises 100 days of employment in manual unskilled jobs every year to adult members of every rural household at the statutory minimum wage.
"The philosophy of the NREGA is if they take up a job digging ditches in the middle of the summer, they are poor, because no one else would want that job," says Mr. Banerjee.
To test the third method, Mr. Banerje carried out an additional experiment involving 400 Indonesian villages. The benefits were generous -- potential recipients were offered cash equaling 11% of their annual consumption for the last six years.
The participants were told not to bother applying if they were not poor because government workers would visit their homes to vet their applications.
The results of the experiment showed that self-targeting works better than the previous two methods. More poor people and less ineligible applicants signed up than in either of the other two methods.
The other question was whether the results improved if it was made more difficult for people to sign up, for instance by making people travel five miles or wait in a queue for three hours to sign up.
The result was many more poor people failed to show up, particularly those on whom a difficult process extracted more of a toll, such as disabled people or single mothers with children to get back to.
"When you increase the cost, the poorest people also drop out," said Mr. Banerjee.
Yet even the self-targeting method was surprisingly wide of the mark said Mr. Banerjee. As many as 40% of the people identified as eligible for the benefit by researchers in their baseline survey did not come forward to sign up for help, said Mr. Banerjee.
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I'm in New York City for the next few days, shooting season two of I'll Take That Dare for CafeMom Studios, and when I arrived in town today at 11:30am, my room wasn't ready.
This was no big deal, given the fact that my room was just a few blocks away from Fifth Avenue. I spent my afternoon happily shopping. It was a beautiful day in New York, so plenty of other people were out and about, too -- including A TOPLESS WOMAN, OMG.
Seriously. A topless woman came walking down Fifth Avenue with a purse slung over one shoulder, just like nothing was out of the ordinary... sort of like the woman in the photo above. But more... swingy. And less sexy. And do you know what was even weirder?
No one even flinched.
Everyone around me just kept on moving. I saw preteen boys, kids, mothers and fathers, men, and other solo women shopping. Not one person turned to gawk at this woman's bare breasts.
Luckily, I had my sunglasses on, so I could gawk away.
I realize that there was a bit of a stir at one time over whether it was legal in New York for women to go topless on the streets (it is)-- you know, since men can go topless and no one bats an eye. From time to time, women have banded together to go topless in the Big Apple, but as recently as last year, women walking around doing it alone were still worthy of write-ups on city blogs.
So I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, who sighted a rare solo bare-breasted woman in the city.
Interestingly, not five minutes later, I spotted Jimmy Fallon on a street corner. As far as I know, he and the topless woman sighting were completely unrelated.
I'll probably forget over time that I once saw Jimmy Fallon standing on the sidewalk in New York. But I have a feeling that me seeing the topless woman shopping on Fifth Avenue is destined to go down in Ferrier Family Lore. I already told my eight-year-old daughter about it and she was speechless. Completely speechless.
My question for you... Now that the topless look is catching on in New York, do you think it will spread across the nation?
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With a little time and energy, it's possible to put together the right combination of hardware and software to provide a great SOHO server. For those without the inclination, though, a NAS box can provide a great alternative. NAS makers have done the hard work of building compact, energy efficient hardware, and putting an interface between you and the operating system that makes configuring the server a relative snap.
A few years back, the low-end consumer hardware would do little more than ensure that the shared storage space would be visible on the local network. If you wanted more sophisticated software, you had to pay to step up to business-class hardware. While some companies are still selling simple, stripped down network storage (Drobos and Apple's TimeCapsule are the primary examples), in general, this is no longer true. Several companies now offer NAS firmware that behaves identically across their entire product line, from single-drive home backup systems to high-end rack-mounted hardware.
Just as significantly, the firmware that many companies are offering is now extensible. Most NAS boxes are Linux systems, and it's often been possible to ssh in and install software on them. But several companies are currently offering something that looks suspiciously like an app store, where NAS users can do one-click installs of additional features.
More power, more ports
One of the key enablers of the expanded functions of NAS products has been the large rise in processing power of the low-cost processors that run them. Thanks in part to the booms in smartphones and tablets, the current generation of ARM processors is quite a bit more potent than anything available just a few years back. And, to compete, Intel has developed the Atom platform; embedded versions of Atom now power a lot of the current hardware.
Obviously, the extra processing power, coupled with incredibly cheap RAM, has given the hardware the ability to do a lot more—it can run more services at once, and actually engage in a bit of computing, if needed.
That processing power has been accompanied by better options for interacting with other hardware. The ubiquity of gigabit Ethernet has been a real boon. On a reasonably configured network, GigE will be faster than just about any external drive option, making a NAS an appealing option for large backups. It also means that handling more than one stream of content at a time won't be crippling.
Adding additional ports has turned out to be cheap and easy, so most companies have done it. Many NAS units now have eSATA ports to expand their pool of high speed storage. And just about all of them have USB ports. These can be used for adding storage, but they can also add some significant features—printer sharing and transferring images from cameras are among the most common, but software can add some useful features.
For example, some of Synology's hardware includes a button that, when pressed, triggers the hardware to search its external storage for photos, which it will copy into a directory dedicated to sharing images. If you've got a USB reader for SD or CF cards, getting your images off your camera and safely archived is a snap, with any intervention from the computer completely optional.
A mix of custom and commodity
That sort of behavior requires careful hardware/software integration, but for the most part, extreme customization like that is pretty rare. Just about all NAS systems have standardized on some form of Linux and, as a result, there's a certain set of features you can count on finding in just about any NAS system. Some of these can be hugely convenient, like printer sharing or a built-in server that turns your music folder into an iTunes-compatible network source. Even firmware that takes the most minimalist approach to things, like Netgear's, offers that.
Many of them also offer features that will only appeal to a subset of users. For example, a few companies bundle a bit torrent client, which allows you to start a download that's handled by your NAS. Put your computer to sleep, and the file should be waiting for it the next time it wakes up. Just about all companies offer integration with UPS power backup systems. Most of them also offer the option of duplicating everything on the system to an off-site rsync server, providing an additional level of backup (or a useful bit of mirroring for remote offices).
But there's plenty of space for customization. Netgear and Synology, for example, offer software that turns their NAS boxes into something closer to a Drobo, where you can add disks of any size and the system will simply maximize the storage while still protecting the data it hosts. Iomega's hardware has folders where, after you place an image there, the system will automatically upload it to Facebook or Flickr. Synology seems to view their systems as complete solutions, equipping them with mail servers, firewalls, and even a PPPoE client.
Because of all this complexity, though, the quality of their web-based interfaces that let you manage all these options is critical. Netgear and some others keep it fairly simple only because they don't quite offer as many services in the default firmware. Iomega provides lots of options, but attempts to break them down into manageable groups, and provides links so you can skip among the settings to other relevant ones. QNAP uses a coverflow-like approach to navigating its settings. Synology has done its best to make it look like its hardware is running an entire OS within the browser window, complete with a control panel and several other widgets that behave like applications. It's an impressive bit of web programming.
A platform for other apps
Since these machines run Linux, the underlying platform is open sourced, meaning that you can, in theory, port software to run on these machines. A few of the companies, however, go much further, offering an official SDK and providing places to save the software that won't be blow away by every firmware upgrade. If you don't have that level of technical prowess, however, then you used to be out of luck.
But for a few platforms, that's starting to change, in that you're no longer limited to just the software that comes bundled with your firmware. Synology, for example, offers a large collections of applications for download directly from within the firmware. The installation is simple, and the software for configuring it is integrated into the rest of the firmware.
Iomega is taking what you might view as the Nook approach to matters. For that platform, Barnes & Noble identified a set of developers that it wanted on its platform, and worked with them to make sure the apps behaved well and were easily available to its users. The first example of this in Iomega's artillery is software from SecureMind, a security and monitoring company that makes Windows software and allows fine-tuned control over the capture and storage of security camera footage. Their software now works on Iomega's NAS boxes, archiving the footage to local storage. Users can choose to use Iomega's built in software but, if that doesn't meet their needs, they can opt to step up to the full commercial package, and add licenses for more cameras as needed.
By its nature, NAS hardware will never end up going the way of a general computing app platform like a tablet, but it wouldn't shock me if some manufacturers started offering what Synology is: the equivalent of an app store, where developers can place server-focused software that the manufacturer doesn't feel the need to provide.
Always on, always available
Some of this additional software, like a WordPress installation, isn't especially useful unless someone can find your server. Fortunately, the NAS makers have this covered too. Most of the manufacturers support some dynamic DNS redirection in software, and QNAP and Synology have their own services. Simply set your account info in the NAS preferences, and the box will make sure your address is kept up to date.
For most users, the hardware remains behind a router, which means a (potentially complicated) port forwarding setup, to make sure traffic from the outside world only ends up at the NAS. Synology and QNAP do this one better: for a variety of router hardware, you can simply identify the device in the NAS firmware, enter your password, and it will communicate with it, opening up whatever ports are needed to make the services accessible. Synology's also got a clever setup where each device produces a unique ID that it hands to a service running on the company's servers. Simply plug that ID number into its mobile apps, and the device will be redirected to your NAS. (Almost everybody is now offering mobile apps that play nicely with their servers.)
This is great if you want to run a web or FTP server, and it can even let you access file shares if you open the right ports. But several manufacturers are now moving towards what they term a "personal cloud." This isn't a cloud in the sense of lots of servers that will host redundant copies of the data being stored; instead it's a cloud in the sense that it provides always-available storage space. In this case, the disk space is on the NAS, but software streamlines let you access it from anywhere, and can make files accessible through a Web interface.
Essentially, the device manufacturer runs a server that any NAS can be set to connect to, providing it with its current IP address. You then can request the company connect you from your laptop while on the road. The web service then hands you off to the NAS; none of the traffic goes through the company's servers. This service is offered by Iomega, QNAP, Synology, Western Digital, and probably others. Synology also has Mac and Windows clients that turns your NAS into something resembling Dropbox.
There are some other interesting twists. Iomega is now part of EMC, making them a corporate cousin of the Mozy cloud backup service. This offers users a pretty interesting alternative to the (sometimes glacial) process of backing up a brimming hard drive to the service. You can now back it up (quickly) to the NAS while you're on the local network, and then have the NAS handle the slow process of getting all that information onto the cloud server.
Managing complexity
Pretty much every device manufacturer has now put together a rich set of offerings that run on their platforms. And, they've made it progressively easier to take advantage of these options, even when you're not sitting on the same network the hardware resides on.
The main challenge is that all these options add a degree of complexity to managing things, some on the NAS itself, and some in terms of integrating it with your router, software, etc. Finding the software and firmware with the right balance for you is probably more important than picking your hardware. Of the ones we've tried, we're partial to Synology's firmware (some of us exceedingly fond) because of its huge range of capabilities and frequent updates that add even more. But if you can, try a few


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Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
Computing and information sciences professor advances artificial intelligence, science in Kansas
MANHATTAN -- In addition to writing software, one Kansas State University researcher has also written his way into the state's scientific history.
David Gustafson, a professor of computing and information sciences, was named by the Ad Astra Kansas Initiative as one of the top 150 scientists ever to work in Kansas throughout its 150 years of statehood.
Gustafson researches and develops software, largely focused on advancing artificial intelligence for robots. His goal is improve robots' uses for military and search and rescue operations, as well as for home assistance to elderly or physically impaired individuals.
Gustafson also advises the university's student robotics team. Together they programmed the robot Slick Willie -- named after Willie the Wildcat. It can fetch coffee cups, pill bottles, fruits and vegetables, and can even crack a joke.
"I first started working with robots because it was exciting to get a robot to accomplish difficult tasks," Gustafson said. "However, I continued with trying to improve robotic capabilities, including vision processing because robots will be used for many essential tasks that can not always be done by humans."
Gustafson is a member of a national team of computing science experts who are working with industry and the Kansas State University Institute for Commercialization to develop new cybersecurity software.
He also led a student team that created more intuitive software for the Master Gardeners program. It catalogs general information about plants, like what week and month a plant blooms, and is meant to replace the record keeping traditionally done by hand or through complex database management software.
Throughout 2011, Ad Astra spotlighted 150 Kansas researchers, scientists, inventors and engineers from the past to the present who have advanced the scientific field in Kansas' 150 years of statehood. The initiative's project, "Science in Kansas: 150 Years and Counting," celebrated the state's sesquicentennial and emphasized the importance of science and the career possibilities in research and innovation to K-12 students.
Gustafson is the one of the 21 active faculty researchers at K-State to be named among Kansas' top 150 scientists. He joins other historically noted state researchers on the list like George Washington Carver, Charles H. Sternberg, Clyde Cessna and Hall Livingstone Hibbard.


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Episode 113: Of Wards and Game Awards
We share impressions of Dementium Remastered and our trip to the 2015 Game Awards, plus examine the first plausible NX patents and Nintendo's IP strategy.Read More →
We share impressions of Dementium Remastered and our trip to the 2015 Game Awards, plus examine the first plausible NX patents and Nintendo's IP strategy.Read More →
We share our impressions of Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash and Human Resource Machine, discuss our favorite Nintendo holiday memories, and give you a chance to win $35 in eShop credit!Read More →
We share full impressions of The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes and Nintendo Badge Arcade, plus discuss all the latest Nintendo Direct news, including Cloud in Smash Bros. and Twilight Princess HD.Read More →
We give our full impressions of Yoshi's Woolly World, go hands-on with the upcoming Yo-Kai Watch, and share our theories on the hidden potential of Miitomo.Read More →
We go hands-on with the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, discuss the latest NX reports, and weigh in on rumors of a Twilight Princess HD remake.Read More →
Does Nintendo rely too much on nostalgia? What's next for amiibo? And what's the deal with the NX? We address all that and more in a roundtable-style discussion.Read More →
We share impressions of Super Mario Maker, weigh in on the smartphone-only Pokemon Go, and discuss the future of Nintendo under its new president.Read More →
Ready, set, run! We share impressions of Runbow for Wii U, break down Nintendo's fall lineup and some of its questionable choices, discuss amiibo news, and announce our Ness giveaway winner.Read More →
We revisit Splatoon after its major update, discuss the design choices of Pokken Tournament as a competitive fighter, and conclude our Summer Giveaway Series with your chance to win a Ness amiibo!Read More →
Is the new Super Smash Bros. update enough to keep us hooked? We weigh the pros and cons, plus go hands-on with Mighty No. 9, make a few NX predictions, and give you a chance to win Guacamelee for Wii U.Read More →
Our full impressions of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, the ongoing Devil's Third drama, and Nintendo's arcade renaissance await. Plus, your chance to win a Super Smash Bros. for Wii U DLC bundle!Read More →
From Nintendo's Gaming Lounge to a blood-squirting Dark Souls III fountain, we've distilled four days of Comic-Con craziness into a gallery of 70 photos.Read More →
We go hands-on with Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash, Yo-Kai Watch, LBX, Star Fox Zero, and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, plus announce our Robin amiibo winner and discuss Satoru Iwata's legacy.Read More →
It's impressions galore as we go hands-on with Super Mario Maker, Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, Metroid Prime: Blast Ball, and upcoming indie games. Plus, your chance to win a Robin amiibo!Read More →
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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT – a broadcast about law, cast broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un groupe d'étudiants et étudiantes en droit de la communauté montréalaise.This month the program is entitled, "Rethinking Legal Structures."
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Host Garret Zehr guides us through three main topics, all of which force a reconsideration of the present legal structure in place. In order: 1) the Quebec Student Movement and the legal struggles of CLASSE and other activists in the courts – J-P MacKay speaks with Me Sibel Ataogul; 2) Adelle Blackett offers an evaluation of the legal framework of labour law, especially as it applies to workers from the global south and in relation to domestic workers; and 3) Me Étienne Poitras sur la sujet des mouvements sociales et les droits de manifestants.
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Ugliest gaffe: Senator George Allen's "macaca" comment to UVA student/opposition filmer S.R. Sidarth provokes a firestorm of debate. What exactly was he trying to say?
Faintest support of Albemarle's attempts to control growth: "Central planning didn't work in Russia, so I don't know why we're trying to do it here," Supe Lindsay Dorrier tells breakfasting Albemarle-Charlottesville Republicans August 12.
Most like your mom: The Albemarle School Board votes to ask the General Assembly to allow police to notify schools of underage drinkers, Matt Deegan reports in the Progress. Lone dissenter Jon Stokes calls it a "kneejerk" idea and asks whether the schools should take on the responsibility of monitoring off-campus misbehavior.
Worst loss of a community activist: Grace Tinsley, 72, the first black woman to serve on the Charlottesville School Board, dies August 9.
Boldest protest: Gay UVA students Rachel Miller and Wyatt Fore notify the media in advance of their August 9 attempt to enlist in the military despite its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. The rejected wannabe recruits are part of a national gay rights organization called Soul Force, based in Lynchburg, of all places.
Worst James River accident: A 16-year-old teen from Scottsville falls off Rock Island August 13 and strikes his head. The youth is in serious condition and on life support, Rob Seal reports in the Progress. Four teenagers with the boy are charged with underage possession of alcohol.
Most fecal: At least eight streams in Albemarle and Buckingham counties that feed into the James River have high levels of fecal bacteria, according to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. Impaired streams include Totier and Ballenger creeks. Aaron Kessler has the story in the Progress.
Worst day for fires: August 10, when a 136-year-old Stony Point house, a Lonesome Mountain Road barn, and J. Bruce Barnes Lumber in downtown Crozet all ignite.
Worst vandalism: Several homes, vehicles, and construction equipment at Old Trail in Crozet are vandalized August 13.
Biggest copper bust: Tony Dirk Park is arrested August 10 in Louisa for allegedly stealing 59 rolls– 300 pounds– from the county's railroad tracks, WCAV reports. With copper at $3.65 a pound, the wire has a street value of nearly $1,100.
Wisest plea bargain: Taylor Behl-murderer Benjamin Fawley, 39, gets 30 years August 9 for the death of the 17-year-old VCU freshman, who disappeared September 5, 2005. In return for his second-degree murder plea, prosecutors drop 22 counts of possession of child pornography.
Most chilling survey: A Mason-Dixon poll shows that 56 percent of Virginia's voters are likely to approve a state constitutional amendment in November banning gay marriage– in spite of the state's ample laws prohibiting such acts. Bob Gibson has the story in the DP.
Best review of a local writer in the Washington Post: Donna Lucey's Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age is reviewed July 30.
Worst week for flying home from London: A terrorist plot creates mayhem at Heathrow, and in the U.S., shampoo and bottled water are banned from carry-on luggage.
Worst press intimidation (besides the Albemarle commonwealth's attorney subpoena of all media outlets): Tina Mae Bickley gets 15 days in jail for attacking News Virginian reporter Michael Owen when he came to her house April 21 to ask about her assaults earlier that day of Waynesboro City Manager Doug Walker and human resources manager Jim Fitzgerald outside City Hall, the News Virginian reports. Bickley, who'd been fired from the Waynesboro public works department, was sentenced to five days in those attacks.


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You know how most of us declare fantastical New Year's resolutions only to see them go up in flames by February?
Yeah, well, chalk that up as one more reason to be a fan of high school sports. Because while most of us are inhaling leftover Christmas ham in front of a mediocre bowl game or out cashing in on post-holiday sales of the century right about now, chances are there are dozens of prep athletes sweating in area gyms and getting a head-start on their hopes and dreams for 2013.
Whether it's winning a state title, breaking a school record, turning in a new personal best or simply making the junior varsity squad, high school athletes set their sights and then pour their souls into reaching their goals each day.
The year 2012 proved another testament to that fact. From the triumphant to the heart-breaking to the inspiring, our top BoCoPreps.com-area prep stories of 2012 all illustrate folks who paid far more than lip service toward their aspirations.
1. Boulder boots title drought:
From 1977 to 2000, Boulder High School racked up 16 team state titles in sports ranging from football to volleyball to basketball to baseball to golf to softball. Then there were none — for 12 years anyway.
The Panthers boys soccer team halted that skid with a stirring run to the Class 5A state title in the fall. In a soccer-rich community that often produces some of the state's top players, the Panthers proved top dogs, topping cross-town rival Fairview in the state semifinals before downing Smoky Hill 3-1 in the championship game to bring another gold trophy back to a once-elite athletic program.
2. Football fans get Chuckstrong:
What started as the feel- good story of a local boy reaching the heights of his profession when Fairview grad Chuck Pagano was named head coach of the Indianapolis Colts in January turned into so much more.
Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia in September, and his determination to beat the disease and get back to the sidelines sparked the "Chuckstrong" rallying cry from Indianapolis to Boulder and beyond. Pagano's cancer is in now remission and he's returned to work with the playoff-bound Colts.
3. Girls hoops takes
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Colorado is well-known as a recruiting hotbed for girls basketball. So when two local squads reached Class 5A's state title game in one of the state's most competitive sports, it marked a banner day for area hoopsters.
Legacy, led by current University of Denver freshman Kailey Edwards, rallied past nearby Front Range League rival Monarch for a 58-51 win in the state championship game. After losing to the Coyotes twice during the regular season, the Lightning finally had their first crown in the sport.
4. Raptors reload,
exceed expectations:
Forget top stories of the year. The 2012 Silver Creek Raptors figured to be an afterthought following a 2011 Class 3A state runner-up run on the back of a loaded senior class.
All the Raptors did, though, was one-up themselves with a gritty group that had little varsity experience but plenty of determination. SCHS went 12-2 for the second year in a row and routed a juggernaut Rifle squad 32-15 in the state title game to entrench itself as the top 3A football power so far in this young decade.
5. Dynasties brought down:
No Colorado girls basketball team could lay claim to a run like Broomfield's string of five straight titles. Legacy, meanwhile, was looking to join Erie as the only other Colorado softball team to win six crowns in a row.
In the end, six proved to be no lucky number for either Broomfield or Legacy. Both saw their incredible championship streaks halted — at least for now. Eventual state champion Air Academy unseated Broomfield in the 4A girls hoops quarterfinals, while Loveland played giant slayer against Legacy in the 5A softball semis.
6. Coyotes track down
title 2:
Monarch's football team was already celebrating to start the season, commemorating the 10th-anniversary season of the Coyotes' first state title in 2002. But the Coyotes did more than just honor the past. They added their own legacy to the program's brief-but-storied history.
Facing a talented Denver South squad that had the whole city of Denver on its side, Monarch topped the Rebels 17-14 for the 4A championship. The victory came 10 years and 1 day after MHS' first crown.
7. Lyons roars to
finish line:
Freshman phenom Paul Roberts burst onto the rich local distance running scenes with a Class 2A state cross country title that set the stage for a career that has the potential to be the best we've seen out of an area runner in a long time. But his feat was merely icing on the trophies for Lyons' track and cross country programs.
The Lions swept the 2A boys and girls track and field team titles in the spring, with multiple individuals winning crowns. The boys cross country squad followed that up with a team championship in the fall, with three runners finishing in the top eight at state, while the girls were runners-up.
8. Trojans win 22 straight:
Longmont High has a championship history in the sport of volleyball, and the city as a whole has proven its prowess time and again in recent years, with LHS, Skyline and Silver Creek all making multiple state tournament runs.
But it's been awhile since an area volleyball squad has made waves like the 2012 Trojans. They reeled off wins in their first 22 matches in a row before dropping the regular-season finale to 5A power Eaglecrest. LHS finished with a stellar 25-2 mark that included a perfect 14-0 run through the deep Northern League.
9. Lazaroff in class
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If you're not a sports fan or you've been hiding out in Ward, you might not have noticed that lacrosse is booming in Colorado in recent years. Players like former Centaurus standout Emma Lazaroff are one reason why the sport will only continue to grow.
As a senior last spring, Lazaroff — now a freshman at Duke — broke the national high school single-season record for goals scored with 143 as she led the Warriors to the state semifinals for the second year in a row.
10. Allman fells
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Valarie Allman's entire junior season seemed to be building toward the moment. With a Class 4A discus title already locked up, the Silver Creek standout stepped into the ring for her final toss of the state meet.
Then she gave the large crowd gathered exactly what it came to see. She uncorked a throw of 164 feet, shattering the 18-year-old all-classification state record by nearly 4 feet. Did we mention she's got another prep season this spring?
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Bike commuting is an olfactory experience. I like the smell of cut grass and I'd imagine really enjoying the opportunity to bike past bakeries and their wafts of freshly baked bread, though this isn't something I actually get to do. My primary olfactory sensations are those are much more negative: smoggy bus fumes, fetid standing water, eighth grade boy tourists, llamas escaped from "Brian's Llama Tours: Como se llama a fun way to DC? Brian's llama tours" (Ok, this last one isn't real. Yet). I enjoy the sensory experience of smell, even when it's not good smell. This might be because I have an inadequate sniffer. Those cursed with much better senses and sensitivity assuredly would mind a whole lot more. This is why I support mandatory nose plugs for all bike commuters.
New sandwich place opening on 11th Street.
I stopped at the intersection of 11th and R and waited to make my left turn. I waited for there to be a gap in the cars coming from the other direction. You know, for safety and such. And then a guy coming down R starts rolling through his red light towards me, perhaps looking to cut in front of me and continue straight on R as I wait to make the left turn. This move would be highly obnoxious. Break all the laws you want, but try not to be a dick about it, you know?
I saw a van that advertised its bus shelter maintenance services. I did not know there was such a market for such a niche activity. Judging by the state of our bus shelters, I can't imagine the business is very successful.
I've developed a tremendous affinity for a bike commuter that I see on many days, but I've never been able to work up the effrontery to bother her by saying hello and that I see her quite a lot and that I think it's cool that she bikes everyday on the same route across town that I take at roughly the same time. I'm sure that when I do eventually decide to strike up this conversation and then mention that I have a bike blog in which I've previously mentioned my noticing her but not ever saying anything, it sure won't seem weird at all. It's easy to develop a bike-quaintanceship with someone who rides in the other direction. You nod. He nods. Mutual recognition accomplished. It's much harder to do when you're traveling in the same direction. I guess you could say something if you pass the person, but I'd still be hesitant. I've had bicyclists say stuff to me when they've pulled around to pass and it's always sounds like "Hefasjkbskdjbgegagasv." (Along with my bad sense of smell, I can also barely hear. When I start losing my eyesight, I'll be a triple threat)
I've stopped wearing my clip-in bike shoes during my commute. I now wear a pair of slip-on shoes and no socks. I have a deep antipathy for socks in the summer. This might also be abetted by my poor sense of smell. I haven't made the full conversation to biking in sandals yet. Or barefoot. That'd be hardcore.
I rode on the Rock Creek Parkway trail this past weekend. It is terrible and unfit for bicycling, even if its unpeopled by walkers and runners and hikers. That is all.
Do embassies have public restrooms? I'm asking for a friend who sometimes might need to stop while riding up Massachusetts but never has because it's not that far away from his office anyway.


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Tottenham Hotspur has signed US international Clint Dempsey in a last minute deal on transfer deadline day.
Out of all of the last minute transfer deals, Dempsey's transfer is the one that went back-and-forth more than any. Yesterday, it was reported that Liverpool offered cash plus Jordan Henderson for Dempsey, but Henderson didn't want to move to Fulham. Then this morning, Aston Villa agreed a £5m (plus £2m add-on) deal with Fulham. However, Dempsey turned down the opportunity to move to Villa Park because it was reported he wanted a move to Anfield instead.
And then today, Liverpool and Tottenham lodged deals for Dempsey. Reportedly, Liverpool offered £4m, which Fulham turned down, but Fulham and Dempsey were able to agree a £6m deal with Tottenham Hotspur with just one hour to go before the deadline.
The move from Fulham to Tottenham is certainly a step-up for Dempsey. Tottenham desperately need a proven striker, so Dempsey's arrival is a win-win.
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Israel airlifts 450 Ethiopians to the Jewish state
August 28, 2013
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have completed what they say is the final large airlift of Ethiopian immigrants, ending decades of efforts to bring the remnants of an ancient community to the Jewish state.
Tali Aronsky, spokeswoman for the semi-official Jewish Agency, says 450 people arrived Wednesday. They are Falash Mura, a community whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity under duress about 100 years ago, but managed to keep some Jewish customs.
Aronsky said the airlift caps a three-year operation that brought in 7,000 Falash Mura. Thousands of Ethiopian Jews live in Israel. Many arrived in secret airlifts in 1984 and 1990. Small numbers of Falash Mura remain behind in Ethiopia. Dozens of their relatives held a protest at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem Wednesday to demand Israel bring them over.


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Welcome to all those riders that are brushing off the cob webs on their bikes after their winter nap. This month in Best of Forum I'm bringing back a well done thread on the Spot Personal Locator. While this thread started some time ago it's relevance is still timely. Try to remember, the Best of Forum posts serve to re-direct you to something that you either missed or maybe forgot and are still Open . If you have new information that others may find interesting or informative-jump on in!
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Halbertsma (Halbetsma) family
Halbertsma (Halbetsma) is a Dutch Mennonite family, formerly living in the province of Friesland, now spread throughout the Netherlands. From the side of the mother this family became Mennonite. Dr. Scipio Halbetsma, a lawyer at the Court of Friesland, in 1669 married Catharina Rinia Stinstra (Mennonite) of Dokkum (daughter of Joost Rinia and Antje Hendricksz Stinstra). Their son Hidde Halbetsma (1685-1762) was a silversmith and a member of the congregation of Gorredijk. Their son Joost (1723-1788), b. at Gorredijk, moved to Grouw, where this family resided for many generations and where are still found the Halbertsma woodworking factories. Joost's son was Hidde (1756-1809), a merchant and officer of a volunteer corps. This Hidde was the father of Pastor Joost Halbertsma (1789-1869). Like him, his brothers Tjalling (1792-1852), a merchant, and Eeltje (1797-1877), a physician, both living at Grouw, were active in promoting the Frisian language and culture. Their popular literary work in the Frisian language was compiled in the collection of Rimen en Teltsjes (Rhymes and Tales), of which a fifth edition appeared at Leeuwarden in 1918.
These Halbertsma brothers have a large progeny, many of whom served in several Mennonite congregations as deacons. Lieuwe E. Halbertsma (b. 1824 at Grouw, d. Lippspringe, Germany, 1854), a son of Tjalling, mentioned before, went into the ministry after having been trained at the Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary. He served the congregations of Ternaard 1850 and Emden, East Friesland, 1850-1854.
Nederland's Patriciaat V (1914): 172-181; XII (1921-22): 206-217; XI (1925): 135 f.; XL (1954): 174-198.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Halbertsma (Halbetsma) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 15 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Halbertsma_(Halbetsma)_family&oldid=120503.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Halbertsma (Halbetsma) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Halbertsma_(Halbetsma)_family&oldid=120503.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 631. All rights reserved.
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29 May 2014
07:57 | Posted by TRACEY O
I love that we can manipulate paper and cardstock to make them look like something else. Here I paper piece, emboss and then add gloss to make a piece that looks like a ceramic tile. It reminded me so much of the hand painted tiles I saw in the Alhambra in Spain, that I incorporated the piece into a Bon Voyage card for a traveller.
Products Used:
Bazzill Basics Cardstock:
8-808E Vanilla
9-960E Kraft
S4-368 Hexagons
EL-031 Diamond Fleur De Lis Embossing Folder
S2-026 Window Three
Other Materials Used:
Xpress GraphX Triple Tac Adhesive
Stamper Anonymous Playful Journey stamp
Lily Bee Designs 6x6 pad
Step 1
Cut shapes that will tessellate (eg hexagons, squares, rectangles) in a variety of coordinating papers.
Step 2
Using Triple Tac, adhere these shapes to a piece of cardstock that has been cut to size.
Step 3
Dry emboss this piece using an embossing folder.
Step 4
Sponge some brown ink onto the embossed piece to bring out the detail.
Step 5
Apply a thick coat of Triple Tac over the top to seal.
Step 6
Allow to dry and the result will be a glossy embossed piece ready to use on your project.
Tutorial created by Design Team member-Teresa
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27 May 2014
17:10 | Posted by TRACEY O
Here we have another pretty layout to share with you.
Materials used:
Bazzill Basics Paper:
10-1001 Bazzill white
S5-086 Bitty Blossoms
S5-129 Foliage 2
S2-047 Blooms four
S5-202 Scalloped borders 2
Other Materials Used:
Authentique papers
Adirondack dimensional pearls: stream
Lilybee alphabet stickers
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21 May 2014
20:15 | Posted by TRACEY O
The Birds on a Wire dies make fantastic silhouettes, and what better way to show them off than cut out in black against a colourful background?
Products Used:
Bazzill Basics Cardstock
10-1037E Blackbird
IN-024 Birds on a Wire
S5-172 A2 Curved Matting Basics B
Other Materials Used:
Canvas paper
Perfect Pearls Mists
15 May 2014
15:40 | Posted by TRACEY O
Today we have another pretty all occasion card to share.
Materials used:
Bazzill Basics Paper:
10-1001 Bazzill white
5-5104 rainforest
S5-160 Opulent Ovals
S5-147 Resplendent rectangles
S4-328 Foliage
S2-047 Blooms 4
Other Materials Used:
My Mind's Eye Memorable paper collection
Adirondack dimensional pearls
Versamagic ink
Seed beads
Heartfelt Creations, Heartfelt Expressions precut stamp
9 May 2014
18:49 | Posted by TRACEY O
The Silhouette die set has been used to create windows to show a background that has been created using Gelatos water soluble crayons.
Products Used:
Bazzill Basics Cardstock:
10-1001E Bazzill White
IN-010 Silhouette
S2-048 Sprigs
Other Materials:
Canvas paper
Assorted flowers
Jillibean Soup patterned paper
6 May 2014
19:23 | Posted by TRACEY O
Today we have a lovely layout to share with you.
Materials used:
Bazzill Basics Paper:
10-1001 Bazzill white
7-7117E Coastal
S5-086 Bitty Blossoms
S4-328 Foliage
S2-047 Blooms four
S5-143 Jewel flowers and flourishes
S5-129 Foliage two
EL-031 M-Bossabilities Diamond Fleur
Other Materials Used:
Platinum Ranger Liquid Pearls
Lindy's Stamp Gang Paint Mists
May Arts twine
Kaisercraft rub on
Lilybee stickers
Memory box stencil
Jo Sonja texture paste
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3 May 2014
18:49 | Posted by TRACEY O
This card uses the laurel wreath from the Silhouette die set as a frame for the sentiment. The French Harmony die has been used to emboss the background instead of cutting it.
Products Used:
Bazzill Basics Paper:
10-1001E Bazzill White
5-511E Hillary
5-510E Parakeet
S5-222 French Harmony
IN-010 Silhouette
IN-012 Celebration
Other Materials Used:
Gold glitter paper
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What could possibly be more American than watching big rumbling V8's turn left for hours on end? Watching those big V8 stock cars turn left in the wet stuff. Last weekend, in France (Seriously?) the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series showed us yanks that even they can do our motor racing better than us.
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Jennifer Zdenek, the mother of an 11-year-old autistic boy, is outraged at Microsoft's Xbox Live for labelling her son a cheat and taking back all his online achievements, which she claims were earned fairly.
Zdenek said her son, Julias Jackson, only seems to have cheated because he's so good at playing Xbox games. She insisted his achievements were earned through many hours of hard work, Seattle-based US TV channel Q13 Fox reports.
Xbox Live is supposedly Julias' main source of interaction outside of school, and being labelled on Xbox Live a "cheater" has devastated him, his mum claimed.
Zdenek said that she would cancel her son's Xbox Live subscription at the beginning of next month should Microsoft continue to ignore her requests that Julias' achievements be reinstated.
That doesn't seem likely to happen. Xbox Live staff have emailed Zdenek three times to say why Julias' Gamerscore was reset and that he can still earn achievements in future. Assuming, of course, Xbox Live's system doesn't once again conclude he's cheating.
In an update to this story, Microsoft released evidence on why it had concluded that the boy had cheated. The company also offered Julias a free month of Xbox Live to start fresh with a new Gamertag. ®


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Kym Cooper kuoli 37-vuotiaana sairastettuaan borrelioosia kahdeksan vuotta. Hän kirjoitti yksityiskohtaisen selonteon kärsimyksistään ja taistelustaan lääkäreiden kanssa. Hänen äitinsä löysi viestin kolme päivää tyttären kuoleman jälkeen. Cooper kärsi pahasta fatiikista ja voimakkaista kivuista. Cooper kirjoitti: "Auttakaa, tarvitsen kaiken mahdollisen avun, sillä en tule parempaan kuntoon, ainoastaan huonompaan." Lääkäreiden lisäksi useimmat ihmiset eivät kuitenkaan ymmärtäneet miten punkinpuremasta voi tulla niin sairaaksi.
Cooper sai punkinpureman v. 1998. Muutama päivä puremasta puremakohtaan tuli borrelioosille tyypillinen ihomuutos. Lääkäri ei ottanut asiaa vakavissaan vaan kehotti laittamaan iholle voidetta. Cooperin oireet lisääntyivät: fatiikki, kävely- ja puhevaikeuksia. Vasta noin vuoden kuluttua ihomuutoksesta, hänellä diagnosoitiin borrelioosi.
Worn down by Lyme
Family says disease caused death at 37.
By GREG MILLER of the Tribune?s staff
Published Saturday, January 21, 2006
Although Kym Cooper?s autopsy says she died of natural causes, her family believes her death Monday while she was sleeping was a product of Lyme disease, an illness she struggled with for eight years.
"Anybody is going to wear down," said Adam Boster, Cooper?s brother-in-law. "I don?t think we?re meant to go forever in that stage." Cooper lived with the severe pain and fatigue that accompanied the disease she contracted in 1998. She detailed her physical torment and battle with doctors who didn?t understand her sickness in a 2001 letter her mother found three days after her death at age 37.
"This came from Kym," Susan Cooper said yesterday, showing the letter to a reporter. "There were just so many people who couldn?t understand how a tick made her this sick."
In the United States, ticks are responsible for more human disease than any other insect, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services says. Lyme disease is just one of several illnesses that can result from a tick?s bite.
The disease is caused by a bacterial agent, Borrelia burgdorferi. Symptoms include fever, severe headache, muscle or joint aches and a red rash around the site of the initial bite.
Kym Cooper had worked as an activities director for a Fayette nursing home. After she was bitten by a tick in 1998, she just picked it off and kept walking, sister Steffany Boster said. It?s unclear whether the bite occurred on a trail in Boonville or in Columbia.
"I don?t think she ever gave it any thought," Boster said.
A few days later, a red rash developed around the bite.
A Boonville doctor advised Cooper to apply an ointment and forget about it. But she then began to experience extreme fatigue and had trouble walking and speaking.
"I knew something was really wrong," Cooper wrote in the 2001 letter.
Cooper?s Boonville doctor then diagnosed the problem as a stress disorder.
But as Cooper?s health declined, another doctor referred her to Gordon Christensen, a physician and professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Nearly a year after the bite occurred, Christensen diagnosed Cooper with Lyme disease - something he?s only diagnosed three times in his career.
"It?s a real challenge," Christensen said. "We don?t know a lot about this."
In Missouri, there were 15 cases of Lyme disease reported in 2004, said Karen Yates, the vector-borne diseases program coordinator at the Department of Health and Senior Services.
"We really have a hard time tracking that," Yates said yesterday. "We suspect that there are other people who do become ill and are not being counted."
Some cases of Lyme disease are incurable, but there is no diagnostic test to determine the presence of the disease.
For Christensen to make a strict diagnosis, he had to follow a strict set of questions and symptoms laid out by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Making matters even more complicated, Borrelia burgdorferi has never been isolated in a patient from Missouri.
"By that definition, there?s never been a case of Lyme disease in Missouri," Christensen said.
To test for Borrelia burgdorferi, a blood sample must be taken to see whether blood reacts to the illness?s genetic material, but other things can cause a reaction.
"It?s a big mess," Christensen said of efforts to make such a diagnosis.
Christensen said these unknowns have divided most physicians into one group that doesn?t believe Lyme disease has occurred and treats the symptoms and another group that aggressively treats the disease with antibiotics.
"I?m kind of right in the middle," Christensen said. "I don?t think either group has got it right."
Confusion like this drove Cooper to type a one-page letter.
"If you run into a doctor that says Lyme disease doesn?t exist, it?s time to find another doctor," said Adam Boster, Cooper?s brother-in-law.
Yates said that of Missouri?s 15 cases of Lyme disease in 2004, three affected residents of Boone County. The state department of health says the incidence of the disease was 2.21 per 100,000 in Boone County, compared with the state average of 0.46 per 100,000.
No confirmed Lyme disease case has been fatal.
"It?s a chronic illness, but it?s not considered to be lethal," Christensen said. "It?s the complications."
The CDC lists several tips to protect against ticks: Avoid tick-infested areas, wear light-colored clothing, use tick repellent and perform daily tick checks.
If someone finds a tick embedded in his or her skin, the CDC Web site recommends using fine-tipped tweezers to grab the tick close to the skin and gently pull it straight up to keep its head intact with its body. After handling the tick, wash hands, clean the bite and watch for signs of illness.
As Cooper?s family members mourn, they are preparing for a service at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Memorial Funeral Home. They have asked for donations to the National Lyme Disease Association because they know - through Cooper?s letter - how important Lyme disease education can be.
"I hope that whoever reads this letter will have better understanding of what it is like to live like this," Cooper wrote. "Please, I need all the support I can get because I am not getting better only worse."
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