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Tutoring/Supplemental Education in Emergency and Fire Management
Career summary: Emergency Management Directors
Average Salary
National Average, Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Career Outlook
8% job growth by 2022, which is below average
Earn a degree in emergency and fire management from an accredited college
One of the best ways to prepare for a career in emergency and fire management is through a college education. A Tutoring/Supplemental Education will help you develop entry level skills, general emergency and fire management know how and the basic emergency and fire management experience you need to start your career off right. You may also consider a Diploma in Emergency and Fire Management to help you take your education and career to the next level. Please select emergency and fire management school below.
Why would I want an emergency management degree?
Emergency management directors prepare plans and procedures for responding to natural disasters or other emergencies. They also lead the response during and after emergencies, often in coordination with fire and law enforcement officials, elected officials, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.
Job Description
What does a person with an emergency management degree do?
Emergency management directors typically do the following:
- Plan responses to emergencies and disasters in order to minimize risk to people and property
- Meet with law enforcement officials, private companies, and the general public to get recommendations regarding emergency response plans
- Organize emergency response training programs for staff, volunteers, and other first responders
- Coordinate the use and sharing of resources and equipment within the community to assist in emergency response
- Prepare and analyze damage assessments following disasters or emergencies
- Review emergency plans of individual organizations, such as medical facilities, to ensure their adequacy
- Apply for federal funding for emergency management responses and report on the progress of such grants
- Revise and review local emergency operations plans
How much does someone with an emergency management degree make?
The median annual wage for emergency management directors was $59,770 in May 2012. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $30,760, and the top 10 percent earned more than $107,810.
Most emergency management directors work full time. However, most are on call at all times and may need to work overtime to respond to emergencies and to support emergency management operations. Others may work evenings and weekends to meet with various community groups in preparing their emergency response plans.
Career Outlook
How popular are emergency management jobs?
Emergency management directors will be needed to help businesses and organizations continue providing essential products and services during and after emergencies. Employment of emergency management directors is expected to grow the fastest in hospitals, schools, and private companies. For example, employment of emergency management directors is projected to grow 18 percent in health care and social assistance and 22 percent in the professional, scientific, and technical services industries from 2012 to 2022.
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Emergency management directors typically need a bachelorâs degree. Many emergency management directors get their degree in business or public administration, fire science, or emergency management.
Although some smaller municipalities or local governments may hire applicants with a high school degree, these applicants usually need more extensive work experience in emergency management.
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Sec. 9, 80 Stat. 944 (49 U.S.C. 1657).
(a) This part prescribes general rulemaking procedures that apply to the issuance, amendment, and repeal of rules of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation. It does not apply to rules issued by the Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Maritime Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Research and Special Programs Administration, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, or Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
(b) For the purposes of this part,
(1) Any Assistant Secretary.
(2) The General Counsel.
(c) Records relating to rulemaking proceedings are available for inspection as provided in part 7 of this subtitle.
The Secretary initiates rulemaking on his own motion. However, in doing so, he may, in his discretion, consider the recommendations of other agencies of the United States and of other interested persons.
Any person may participate in rulemaking proceedings by submitting written information or views. The Secretary may also allow any person to participate in additional rulemaking proceedings, such as informal appearances or hearings, held with respect to any rule.
(a) Records of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation concerning rulemaking actions, including notices of proposed rule making, comments received in response to those notices, petitions for rulemaking or exemption, petitions for rehearing or reconsideration, grants and denials of exemptions, denials of petitions for rule making, and final rules are maintained in current docket form in the Office of the General Counsel.
(b) Any person may examine any docketed material at that office and may obtain a copy of any docketed material upon payment of the prescribed fee.
(a) Any person may petition the Secretary to issue, amend, or repeal a rule, or for a permanent or temporary exemption from any rule.
(b) Each petition filed under this section must:
(1) Be submitted in duplicate to the Docket Clerk, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC 20590;
(2) Set forth the text or substance of the rule or amendment proposed, or of the rule from which the exemption is sought, or specify the rule that the petitioner seeks to have repealed, as the case may be;
(3) Explain the interest of the petitioner in the action requested including, in the case of a petition for an exemption, the nature and extent of the relief sought and a description of the persons to be covered by the exemption;
(4) Contain any information and arguments available to the petitioner to support the action sought; and
(5) In the case of a petition for exemption, unless good cause is shown in that petition, be submitted at least 60 days before the proposed effective date of the exemption.
(a) Unless the Secretary finds, for good cause, that notice is impractical, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest, a notice of proposed rule making is issued and interested persons are invited to participate in the rulemaking proceedings with respect to each substantive rule.
(b) Unless the Secretary determines that notice and public rulemaking proceedings are necessary or desirable, interpretive rules, general statements of policy, and rules relating to organization, procedure, or practice are prescribed as final without notice or other public rulemaking proceedings.
(c) In his discretion, the Secretary may invite interested persons to participate in the rulemaking proceedings described in § 5.29 of this subpart.
(d) For rules for which the Secretary determines that notice is unnecessary because no adverse public comment is anticipated, the direct final rulemaking procedure described in § 5.35 of this subpart may be followed.
(a) Each notice of proposed rulemaking is published in the
(b) Each notice, whether published in the
(1) A statement of the time, place, and nature of the proposed rule-making proceeding;
(2) A reference to the authority under which it is issued;
(3) A description of the subjects or issues involved or the substance or terms of the proposed rule;
(4) A statement of the time within which written comments must be submitted and the required number of copies; and
(5) A statement of how and to what extent interested persons may participate in the proceeding.
(a) Any person may petition the Secretary for an extension of time to submit comments in response to a notice of proposed rulemaking. The petition must be submitted in duplicate not later than 3 days before expiration of the time stated in the notice. The filing of the petition does not automatically extend the time for petitioner's comments.
(b) The Secretary grants the petition only if the petitioner shows a substantive interest in the proposed rule and good cause for the extension, and if the extension is in the public interest. If an extension is granted, it is granted as to all persons and is published in the
All timely comments are considered before final action is taken on a rule-making proposal. Late filed comments may be considered so far as possible without incurring additional expense or delay.
The Secretary may initiate any further rulemaking proceedings that he finds necessary or desirable. For example, he may invite interested persons to present oral arguments, participate in conferences, appear at informal hearings, or participate in any other proceeding.
(a) Sections 556 and 557 of title 5, United States Code, do not apply to hearings held under this part. As a fact-finding proceeding, each hearing is nonadversary and there are no formal pleadings or adverse parties. Any rule issued in a case in which a hearing is held is not necessarily based exclusively on the record of the hearing.
(b) The Secretary designates a representative to conduct any hearing held under this part. The General Counsel designates a member of his staff to serve as legal officer at the hearing.
Final rules are prepared by representatives of the office concerned and the Office of the General Counsel. The rule is then submitted to the Secretary for his consideration. If the Secretary adopts the rule, it is published in the
(a) Rules that the Secretary judges to be noncontroversial and unlikely to result in adverse public comment may be published as direct final rules. These include noncontroversial rules that:
(1) Affect internal procedures of the Office of the Secretary, such as filing requirements and rules governing inspection and copying of documents,
(2) Are nonsubstantive clarifications or corrections to existing rules,
(3) Update existing forms,
(4) Make minor changes in the substantive rules regarding statistics and reporting requirements,
(5) Make changes to the rules implementing the Privacy Act, and
(6) Adopt technical standards set by outside organizations.
(b) The
(c) If no written adverse comment or written notice of intent to submit adverse comment is received by the Office of the Secretary within the specified time of publication in the
(d) If the Office of the Secretary receives any written adverse comment or written notice of intent to submit adverse comment within the specified time of publication in the
(e) An "adverse" comment for the purpose of this subpart means any comment that the Office of the Secretary determines is critical of the rule, suggests that the rule should not be adopted, or suggests a change that should be made in the rule. A comment suggesting that the policy or requirements of the rule should or should not also be extended to other Departmental programs outside the scope of the rule is not adverse.
Pursuant to § 5.1(b), the following officials of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation are authorized to conduct rulemaking proceedings under this part, as specified in this appendix:
(1) The General Counsel is authorized to conduct all rule-making proceedings, except the issuance of final rules, under the Act of March 19, 1918, ch. 24, as amended (15 U.S.C. 261-264); the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 107, 15 U.S.C. 260-267); and section 6(e)(5) of the Department of Transportation Act (80 Stat. 939, 49 U.S.C. 1655 (e)(5)).
(2) The General Counsel is authorized to determine the practicability of applying the standard time of any standard time zone to the movements of any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, and, under section 2 of the Act of March 19, 1918, ch. 24, as amended (15 U.S.C. 262), to issue operating exceptions in any case in which he determines that it is impractical to apply the standard time.

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This week at the Shubin Theater, Philly Improv Theater continues its two-week run of shows. PHIT has recently changed their schedule, shifting showtimes to 7:00, 8:30, and 10:00PM. You can check out their full schedule here.
Monday night open mic Comedy XChange has gone through a bit of a facelift, and will now be known as Comedy on the Corner. Not letting the closing of their venue, Bar Xchange, stop them from putting on a show, hosts Chris McGrail and Dan Vetrano have decided to go guerrilla and hold their open mic on the street, at the corner of 20th and Ludlow.
Tuesday night Philly will say good-bye to Luke Giordano, who is departing for Los Angeles, where he will continue his comedy career as a writer for the sitcom Two and a Half Men. Luke will not go quietly into the night, as he is being sent off with a "Trashing" [Facebook event] – which is similar to a roast, but from the mind of Brendan Kennedy.
Also this Tuesday The Bird Text Comedy Show will make its return to Helium Comedy Club. This week's show will feature sets from Tom Cassidy, Alex Grubard, Mikey Gleason, and David James.
The Theme Show will make its debut at 10:00PM this Friday night at PHIT. Hosted by Rob Baniewicz, The Theme Show continues in the tradition of Gregg Gethard's Bedtime Stories as a monthly variety show where all the acts are based around a common theme. This months theme is, fittingly, "The First Time."
Submissions are currently open for the 7th annual Philadelphia Improv Festival, being held October 3rd – 9th, kicking off the second annual Comedy Month. Applications forms are available on their website, and the deadline to submit is Sunday, July 17th.
Auditions will be held this week for two Fringe Festival shows being produced by Philly Improv Theater. Twenty-four is a show that will unfold in real-time and is described as "a twenty-four minute window on the realistic relationship dynamics of six individuals." Twenty-four is being directed by Steve Kleinedler and will hold auditions on Tuesday, July 5th and Saturday, July 9th. Dark Comedy is PHIT's take on the famous Chicago format "The Bat" an improvised show that takes place completely in the dark. Dark Comedy is directed by Jason Grimley and will hold auditions on Sunday, July 10th.


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As one budget year comes to a close, members of the Brush Board of Education (BOE) and district administration are already looking ahead not only to the upcoming year, but to the future.
At last week's meeting of the BOE, School Business Officer Aaron Oberg reported on the recent visit of Senator Mike Johnston, who stopped in Brush on June 5 to update, discuss and answer questions surrounding the Colorado Public School Finance Act recently adopted by the Colorado legislature.
"We know it's already passed, it's done, the bill itself has passed," Oberg told the board. "The emphasis now is on what's next. We're done talking about the policy…now the question is how can we fund the policy."
For the Brush School District, the next step is to garner support for a ballot initiative that would raise taxes for education.
According to Oberg, between 86,000 to 90,000 signatures are needed to put the issue before voters on the November ballot, which, if approved by voters, could raise between $950,000 to $1 million for the Brush district.
Colorado School Finance is funded by a mix of property taxes, specific ownership taxes and the state share (income and sales taxes). According to information from the school district, 56.3 percent of total program funding comes from the local share with 43.6 percent coming from the state.
To raise awareness and gather input, the Brush School District has held several public meetings in regards to a Mill Levy Override (MLO) which would help recover a portion of the reduced state funding and provide adequate opportunities for Brush students.
With the MLO, the district is proposing a $1.5 million increase in property taxes.
District administration recently mailed more than 4,200 community surveys with information on the MLO proposal, as well as proposed questions in an effort to gather input from the community. Surveys are due to the district office by Friday, June 21.
Oberg also reported that administration are reviewing draft language in the upcoming budget, with hopes of presenting it to the BOE for review prior to the next meeting on Tuesday, June 18.
In other matters before the board, recognition was given to Anthony Thomas on his accomplishments as a member of the Brush High School track team. Thomas closed out his senior year by breaking the record in the 1600, as well as placed in both the 1600 and 3200 at state competition. He also was named a champion in cross country, as well as earned Athlete of the Year from the Denver Post.
"Anthony is going to leave a legacy behind here that people will look up to for a while," said BHS track coach Ron Albo. As Thomas will be attending Western State, Albo continued, "He is going to a good program. It's a good fit for him and we wish him all the best of luck."
Board members also approved several projects including work involving the ceiling in the ag shop. "One of the hot spots at the high school is the ag shop ceiling," Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michelle Johnstone told the board. With insulation that is in dire need of replacement, the superintendent recommended that new insulation be blown in, along with power washing the shop area and painting be completed.
A motion was made, and approved, to have Technical Foam Corporation of Brighton, perform work of blowing in two inches of polyurethane foam to cover 12,000 square feet at a cost of $25,600, with the stipulation there be a five-year warrant on the material used to adhere the insulation to the surface.
Replacement of the windows in the high school courtyard was another project approved by the board with All American Glass in Loveland to complete the work for $47,810. Work is expected to start in mid-July and take two to three weeks to complete.
Upgrades to security in each building was another issue addressed by the board at last week's meeting.
Following a walk-through of the district's buildings by members of the safety committee and administration, and with help from Buildings by Design, board members approved moving ahead with projects that would allow the district to seek building permits, as well as obtain architectural plans in upgrading security entrances at each of the buildings.
Brush students will be using new textbooks in math and science next year following board adoption.
Although staff reviewed three different curriculum, Dr. Johnstone recommended purchase of the Holt McDougal math series at a total cost of $38,389.36. She explained that in coming to her recommendation, she performed a vertical teaming from fifth grade through high school, finding this series to be a "better fit" for the district.
High school science teacher Craig Needens asked the board to approve 50 textbooks for Anatomy and Physiology classes at a cost of $6,900, as he has had quite a few students asking for a harder biology class than what he has been teaching. "The kids are asking for A&P as there is a need for a higher level curriculum class for biology students interested in the health care field," he told the board, adding that around 75 students have signed up for A&P and A&P advanced classes.
"We want to be a premier school district and I would like to help the district head in that direction with this class," Needens added. "This book is great…the kids looked at it and they were excited about it."
Because of the amount of students requesting the class, Needens said it is possible there will be two sections of A&P next year. "The kids are excited about it."
In other business, board members approved Resolution 2013-016 pertaining to the Reading to Ensure Academic Development (READ) Act. This act replaces the Colorado Basic LIteracy Act (CBLA), Dr. Johnstone explained and targets literacy in kindergarten through third grade. "It keeps the same elements," she said, adding, "It looks for kids who are not proficient in reading in their literacy skills."
She continued that the district is now required to test all children within 30 days of enrollment. If students do not meet the guidelines, they will be retested within 30 days and if the student still does not meet the guidelines, they will be put on a READ plan.
According to the superintendent, the READ Act calls for staff to meet with parents of affected children whereas the CBLA Act did not. In that meeting, parents are allowed to choose retention as an intervention strategy if their child is significantly below grade level and have the authority to make that decision for students in grades K-3 through the 2016-17 school year.
Beginning in 2016-17 and for students completing the third grade, the decision for advancement is then made by the superintendent.
At the conclusion of the 2012-13 school year, five kindergarten students are in need of a READ plan, with 17 in the first grade and five in second grade. Third grade students who qualify for a plan stands at 39, the superintendent noted, adding that this data has been sent to the state.
Testing of students will take place on August 20 and 21, with a retest to take place after 30 days, she continued.
"The next conversation we need to have is what are we going to do with the fourth and fifth graders," Beaver Valley Elementary Principal Jennifer Kral commented, adding that she is sending a team of five teachers to training this summer on how to build a better intervention system in the school.
Board members approved the consensus agenda with approval to hire Malori Rudnike as assistant volleyball coach and Aaron Ingersoll as the assistant wrestling coach, both at the high school. Also approved for employment were Sally Goerner to serve as a half-time language arts English teacher, Keri Quick as counselor and Adam Cordova as the ESL/Spanish Teacher, all at the high school.
Resignations were accepted from Esther Anderson as a paraprofessional at Beaver Valley, Cory Anderson from his Special Education paraprofessional position at the middle school, Paige Ramey as a preschool teacher at Thomson Primary School, Adriana Villalobos as an ELL teacher at Thomson, Mark Muniz as the middle school head football coach, as well as District School Nurse Deborah Sample.
Business items found the board approving the move of Brian Clason from middle school assistant principal/athletic director to the position of Administrator of Curriculum, Assessment and Educator Effectiveness; approving Kevin Hansen and Susan Kendrick to serve on the Ag Advisory Committee; approving handbooks for Thomson Primary, Brush Middle and High School; approving a change to the district's Mission Statement; as well as approving resolutions placing Dan Kennedy and Connie Dreitz on district bank accounts.
The board will meet on TUesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. at the district office, with a Finance Committee meeting to be held at 6:30 p.m.
The all-day board retreat is planned for July 16.
Brush BOE approves updates to district buildings
As one budget year comes to a close, members of the Brush Board of Education (BOE) and district administration are already looking ahead not only to the upcoming year, but to the future.


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4 September is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). There are 118 days remaining.
- 1991: The Gryffindor First years have their first Astronomy Class at midnight, on the top of the Astronomy Tower.
- 1992: The Second years have a Charms class in the morning.
- 1994: Bartemius Crouch Jr. (impersonationg Alastor Moody) teaches the Fourth year students about the Unforgivable Curses.
- 1995: Harry has his second detention with Dolores Umbridge.
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The sunburst Les Paul Standards of 1958-'60 may grab most of the attention, but for plenty of no-nonsense players out there, the 1954 Les Paul Model "Goldtop" with two soapbar-style P-90 pickups and wraparound tailpiece embodies raw blues rock and roll more than any other guitar on the planet. From Carl Perkins' recordings of "Honey Don't" and "Blue Suede Shoes" to Freddie King's "Hideaway", a Goldtop was there—rippin' it up and making musical history in the process. The Gibson Custom Shop's 1954 Les Paul Goldtop VOS is the veritable second coming of this revered yet short-lived variant of the venerable Les Paul, presenting all the period-correct finepoints that aficionados of the breed know and love. With its hot, gritty P-90 single-coil pickups, deep-set, long-tenon neck joint; lightweight wraparound "stud" bridge; rounded '50s profile D neck; and gently aged nitrocellulose "gold" top, which is actually a metallic bronze powder suspended in lacquer, this baby is the real deal, raw and ready to rock. While the Les Paul Model might have "evolved" from this point, fans of the '54 know that it never sounded quite the same again, either. The direct feel and solid, resonant tone of that wraparound stud bridge can't be matched by any other configuration, and the P-90 pickups are a world unto themselves, too—with the meat power of later humbuckers and the clarity and bite of single coils, P-90s have proven enormously popular for more than 60 years.
When Les Paul and Gibson sat down at the drawing board to devise the first solidbody electric from a leading guitar manufacturer, the artist who was giving his name to the project insisted that this radical new instrument needed to be finished in gold, a color that would claim the Les Paul Model's place in the world. Marrying a solid, lightweight mahogany back to a carved maple top was the first stroke of genius, and established the most legendary tonewood combination in the history of electric guitar manufacturing. To complete the design, Gibson added the features that players of this radical new amplified music were demanding, while rendering the entire package with the historic company's traditional arched top, bound body and neck, glued-in neck joint, and supreme tone and playability—in short, making the Les Paul a high-quality instrument for a new breed of player. With the addition of the wraparound bridge in late '53/early '54, the Les Paul had arrived, and it has never looked back. With its historically correct features, quality tonewoods, and proprietary VOS (Vintage Original Spec) hardware and finish aging process, the Custom Shop 1954 Les Paul Goldtop is as close as a player or collector can get to landing the real thing. Gibson's alnico-magnet P-90 pickups are the closest reproductions to original '50s P-90s that the company has ever produced, and quality CTS volume and tone pots and "bumblebee" tone capacitors take it all the tone from pickup to Switchcraft output jack in glorious style. To top it off, a final set up and fret dressing from Gibson's phenomenal PLEK system makes it as sweetly playable as a guitar can possibly be. Each 1954 Les Paul Goldtop VOS comes protected in a Gibson Custom Shop hardshell case and includes a Certificate of Authenticity and full owner's manual and instructions. Check out your own today, and grab a piece of that Gold.


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Making Text Masks in After Effects
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[whirring] [ADOBE® TV PRESENTS] [SHORT AND SUITE] [mechanical clunking] [JASON LEVINE] [clunking continues] [KARL SOULE] [clunking continues] [whirring] [SHORT AND SUITE - ON THE ROAD WITH JASON AND KARL] Hi, and thanks for tuning in to Short and Suite. I'm going to show you a couple of techniques for working with text in After Effects where if you want to create sort of a silhouette look of your text and be able to kind of animate something through your text, there's a couple of really simple techniques for doing that in After Effects. They're not new techniques, but I thought I would give you a starting point for your own animations. So to get started, I have a project here. All I've really done in this project so far is I've dropped a video clip in and I've created a text layer-- let me go ahead and turn that on so you can see it-- just using a wonderful font here called Flood Standard I've written the word "Paladin" in this font. Now, what we want to do is we want to get the video clip to actually shine through the letters. So there's a more traditional way of doing this that I'm going to show you to start with, and that is using the Track Matting function inside of After Effects. So to get to the Track Matte function, I need to toggle the switches here so that I can see the column here called Track Matte. And when I do this, what I can do is I can say, "Take this layer, "and I want to use the value of the text layer so I can only see what's visible "inside the text here." So I'm going to go ahead and say, "Instead of No Track Matte, "let's change this to Alpha Matte Paladin." And when I do that, you can see that it's using the alpha value of the text and now I have the video actually shining through the text. So this is the traditional way of doing this. There's another way that's a little bit more complicated. This is good if you want to do things like maybe animate the text from here and have the text fly around on the screen. But there's also a more complicated way that gives you some additional fine-tune control, and that involves actually creating a mask based on this text. So I'm going to go ahead and turn off the Track Matte here, turn on my Text Layer here, and what I'm going to do in this case is I'm going to actually convert this text into a series of masks. So to do this, I'm going to go ahead and select this, go to Layer, and there are some options down here at the bottom. One of them is Create Masks from Text. When I do this, what you'll see happen is my original text layer turns off, and all of a sudden there's a new layer created that's called Paladin Outlines. And if I twirl that down and twirl down the masks, you'll see that there are individual masks for each of the different letters. In fact, in many cases, because of the nature of this font, there's actually multiple masks for each of--like the letter N, for example, has a whole series of different masks because of all these little extra brushstrokes that kind of mimic the look of paint. Now, from here, these are standardized masks, and if I want to, in one pass I can take these and copy them and paste them onto the video. So I'm just going to go ahead and Select Masks, and on my keyboard--you have to do this from the keyboard-- I'm going to hit Control C, and that copies every one of the masks that are on this particular layer. I'm not going to use this layer again. I could actually delete it if I want to. But I'm going to go ahead and just make it invisible for the time being, come down here to my Video Layer and hit Control V, and you see that that now pastes all of these different masks into the video. If I come in here and I twirl this down, you can see here are all the individual masks. And the advantage in this case is if I want to be a little bit more free form in the shape of the video--maybe I want to animate the shape of each of these different masks--I can come in here and the mask path is actually something that is animatable. If you want to see a really cool example of something that involves taking mask paths and animating and kind of morphing from one to the other, I want you to check out a tutorial from a guy by the name of Satya Meka. [http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/create-an-ethereal-morphing-letter-canvas] His video is up on ae.tutsplus.com It's a wonderful example of somebody who has really delved into After Effects. Basically, in his video he takes an old effect, something called Radio Waves-- it's been in After Effects for many generations now-- and he finds something really, really cool that takes this concept of converting text into masks and then basically projecting radio waves through those masks, and it's a really, really cool effect. I really want you to go and check that out. That's all I have for today. Thanks again for watching. [Executive Producer - Bob Donlon] [Producer - Karl Miller] [Director - Kush Amerasinghe] [Post Production - Erik Espera] [ADOBE® TV PRODUCTIONS - tv.adobe.com]
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After Effects makes it simple to use text as an outline for a different layer. Karl Soule' explains how.
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The US Trade Representative has published a text which, subject only to a last legal review, is proposed to be the final text of ACTA. The differences between this text and last month's, from the Tokyo round, are mostly cosmetic but there's an important positive change giving signatories the option of excluding patents from section 2. As for software patents, most harm has been avoided. If signatories make use of the section 2 exclusion option, there might be no harm at all. Lobbying for this will be important. Meanwhile, the many problems regarding Digital Restrictions Management, and the extra powers given to businesses to obtain personal and identifying information about accused copyright infringers "in the Digital Environment" are still there (mostly section 5). Earlier texts were much worse. The improvements in recent months are surely due to public outcry, leaving us indebted to the anonymous friends who scanned and leaked the various secret versions and the activists who made text versions and spread them across the Internet. There's a chance we can still influence the text in this legal review phase, but the bigger task ahead will be working on the national implementations. It's not yet clear what procedure the US will require for its own ratification.
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I don't mean this to be an alarm, but I have been having this argument with fellow Saints fans about our WR core. While I do not think we 'need' a number one WR, I am worried that now that we lost Meachem, we've lost the most talented WR on the team and there is no replacement on the roster.
Colston is our number one for sure, but you cannot be blind to the fact that Meachem had the potential to be beat you deep and do the possesion receiver stuff Colston does. I thought AA would step up, but he's injury prone. Morgan I think is a straight line runner. Tanner is a possesion receiver I think. Toon hasn't gotten on the field and I think Roby is who he is (albeit a great ST contributor). Who will step up and provide that dual threat in the 1 WR sets Meachem played in? That play action from the big formation ('12' personnel with OT lined up as TE) was a huge part of our arsenal the past 3 years.


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Caltrans, UC Berkeley and IBM hope to improve the reliability of estimated commute times, and give drivers personalized travel recommendations that save time and fuel.
With private-sector backing, California's state government and the state's flagship public university are teaming up to develop an intelligent transportation solution that will help drivers avoid congested traffic.
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the University of California, Berkeley's California Center for Innovative Transportation, and IBM Research hope to improve the reliability of estimated commute times, and give drivers personalized travel recommendations that save time and fuel.
U.S. commuters waste 28 gallons of gas and $808 each year because they are stuck in traffic, according to the IBM announcement of the intelligent transportation project. Traffic snarls are notoriously acute in California.
The average person in Los Angeles wasted 38 hours per year in highway traffic jams, according to 2007 U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. In San Francisco, it was 30 hours; in San Diego, it was 29 hours.
"As the number of cars and drivers in the Bay Area continue to grow, so too has road traffic. However, it's unrealistic to think we can solve this congestion problem simply by adding more lanes to roadways, so we need to proactively address these problems before they pile up," said Greg Larson, chief of the Office of Traffic Operations Research for Caltrans.
The collaborative research team hopes to give California reliable real-time traffic information before drivers get behind the wheel. "Even with advances in GPS navigation, real-time traffic alerts and mapping, daily commute times are often unreliable, and relevant updates on how to avoid congestion often reach commuters when they are already stuck in traffic and it is too late to change course," according to IBM.
The company said its researchers have developed a new traffic modeling tool for travelers that continuously analyzes existing congestion data, commuter locations and expected travel start and arrival times throughout a metropolitan region for a variety of transportation modes, including mass transit. The tool could someday recommend the most efficient travel route and also integrate parking information.


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Today my requested death certificates arrived. They were not certificates like we know today but, rather, information written in a ledger.
First interesting fact. The great grandfather Anton Sperl, whom I had suspected his death was unexpected, it was indeed. He died at the age of 38 from Typhoid Fever. The length of his illness was three weeks. Typhoid is a strain of Salmonella.
It is spread by ingesting food or water contaminated with the feces of another infected person. The treatment today is a course of antibiotics, especially Ampicillin. It is said that more people die from infection (pre antibiotics) than any other cause. This is especially true in the Civil War and the World War I and II. Antibiotics came into use at the end of World War II. With the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria we may be heading in that direction again.
Anton's parents died with in a few years Christ, age 72 from asthma and Margaret, age 74, from pneumonia.
I found another for Thomas Naughton, 12 months, from fever. They lived in Dookers Hollow, in North Braddock PA. Could this be Bridget's brother? The babies father is listed as Thomas Naughton and mother Nora Thornton, born in Ireland. Dookers Hollow was a small area and that is where Bridget Naughton Dowd lived. Thomas died in October 1893.


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More than 700 U.S. flights were canceled and about 4,400 were running late on Tuesday as a winter storm swept across the Northeast.
Adding to travelers' woes: United Airlines experienced problems with its computer system used to check in passengers, print boarding passes and get baggage tags.
By early evening, about 650 United flights and another 1,000 flights on regional affiliate United Express had arrived late or were behind schedule, according to tracking service FlightAware.com. United said that most of the delays were due to the computer glitches.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Travelers took to Twitter to complain to United. Spokeswoman Jennifer Dohm told The Associated Press that the airline fixed the problem and was working to get passengers to their destinations. Glitches also led to widespread delays at United in early 2012, when the computer systems of United and Continental Airlines were combined after their merger.
United wasn't the only airline struggling to stay on schedule Tuesday. Southwest had more than 1,100 delays, according to FlightAware.
Southwest spokeswoman Michelle Agnew said the delays were caused by the winter storm in the Northeast and high winds that temporarily grounded flights in Denver, a key outpost for the airline. Southwest's on-time rating has fallen sharply -- dropping to last in government rankings -- since August, when it began packing more flights into peak hours of the day.
Snow and ice snarled air traffic in the Northeast. By early evening, more than 100 departures had been canceled at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey and dozens more at New York's LaGuardia Airport and in Philadelphia and Boston.
Several big storms have slammed travelers this winter. U.S. airlines have canceled more than 78,000 domestic flights since Dec. 1, the highest number since the government started keeping records in the winter of 1987-1988.


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The Civil War Trust is trying to raise $339,000 to close on three important parcels.
The people of Franklin are doing well with this.Good for them. I'm a bit more concerned with the very opposite situation a few miles to the East in Murfreesboro.People there. seem to be committed to bliterating/developing what remains of the Stones RIver battlefield (outside the park boundary) as quickly as possible. The park contains only about 1/6 of the actual battlefield. Very sad. In a few weeks will be the 150 anniversary. I doubt that much will be said about battlefield preservation.
I'm sorry to hear that Stones River isn't being taken care of. I think people sometimes tend to assume that if there's a battlefield park, then the battlefield is forever safe and sound, when in fact parks often include only a portion of the important ground.
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The plural form of dictum. A statement of opinion or belief considered authoritative because of the dignity of the person making it. The term is generally used to describe a court's discussion of points or questions not raised by the record or its suggestion of rules not applicable in the case at bar. Judicial dictum is an opinion by a court on a question that is not essential to its decision even though it may be directly involved.
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"Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear," written by Randy Newman and first recorded by the band Harpers Bizarre, was performed as "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear" in episode 101 of The Muppet Show. All recordings of the Muppets' performance of the song are listed under this alternate title.
When Kermit refuses to change the name of the show from The Muppet Show to The Muppy Show, J.P. Grosse's favorite pet Muppy locks himself in his dressing room and refuses to perform his number with Scooter, "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Dog." Fozzie Bear becomes a last-minute replacement, and the number changes to "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear" instead. Fortunately for all involved, Newman's lyrics (such as "wear," "fair," "stare," and "everywhere") wouldn't have rhymed with "dog" anyway.
Dressed like a ringmaster, a mustachioed Scooter does most of the singing and dancing, while Fozzie, who is being led around the stage on a chain, hams it up all around him. Rowlf accompanies the duo on piano in the background, so it can be presumed that, in the worst case scenario, Scooter could have performed an a capella version of "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Dog" with him had Fozzie not become available.
The same set would be used for the performance of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" in episode 102. The reuse of the set might be due to the fact that both episodes were shot as pilots, months before the rest of the first season. This song was also performed by Richard Hunt and Frank Oz at Jim Henson's Memorial.
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A roundup of editorials from Gatehouse Media sites on Thursday's shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, that killed five journalists at the city's newspaper, The Capital Gazette.
Mike Kuhns, Stroudsburg (Pa.) Pocono Record executive editor
I remember the anger.
I remember the sadness.
But what I remember most about 9/11 was the unity of the country.
It was one of the few times in my lifetime where I felt neighbors cared about one another. The color of your skin didn't matter, family rifts were forgotten, co-workers bonded like never before.
The country – from shore to shore – cared about one thing and that was about being one in a time of crisis. We supported each other – friends and strangers alike. That's the feeling today on the heels of a random shooting which left five journalists dead at the Capital Gazette on Thursday afternoon.
Five lives lost, because a man – Jarrod Ramos – is charged with five murders after he became upset when the paper published his charges of threatening and harassing a woman on Facebook. He sued the paper six years ago and lost.
Some have understandably grown numb to public shootings. Our schools have been targeted, our churches, concerts and nightclubs, making us all feel like the secure world we once knew is slowly crumbling away.
We all read the news of various shootings – 58 people killed last fall during a Las Vegas concert, 32 killed in a 2007 Virginia Tech shooting rampage, 27 killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 – and each time we ask when it will all end?
It's not ending, and in fact it's getting worse. There are more public mass shootings in the United States than any other country in the world. According to a CNN report, while the US has 5 percent of the world's population, 31 percent of mass shootings occur on US soil.
The mass shootings continue at an unprecedented clip.
And yet we hold on to each other in our most difficult times – events like 9/11, war and natural disasters. When tornadoes and floods rip through neighborhoods or you are involved in a traffic accident, who is the first person to help?
Most likely it's a stranger.
The Red Cross. A fireman. A passing motorist.
We need each other sometimes – no matter race, religion or political view – to know that the unity isn't lost. There is a value to asking a stranger in need, are you OK? There was a time when young men assisted their elders crossing a street.
In the weeks ahead, our colleagues at the Capital Gazette will need help "crossing the street." They most likely can't do it on their own. The support is already pouring in just hours after the deadly shooting.
It's amazing that the staff at the Gazette accomplished publishing a paper on Friday. It's editorial page was left blank except for the words, "Today we are speechless."
We all are.
So we stand together as a country, supporting one another after this latest tragedy which leaves us all wondering, how do we make mass shootings stop? Until we have an answer, we're left with the duty of standing united with friends and strangers alike even in the worst of times.
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
We are better than this.
We are better than the deadly attack that rocked a quiet newsroom Thursday afternoon in Annapolis, Maryland, putting five victims on their own front page and on our national consciousness.
We know we are better than this because we see and report stories daily of people who are working to make their communities better. We honor Everyday Heroes and cover individuals and groups who are striving for civility and compassion. Some are just doing their jobs. Some go beyond expectations in service to others.
And too often — more and more it seems — we must also tell stories of those whose actions are driven by hate, by intolerance, by impulse and by demons most of us can't fathom.
This senseless violence must stop. Not just because it has struck a chord with us as journalists but because its growing frequency threatens to numb all of us to what is right and true.
And it threatens to muzzle our ability to freely express opinions, to question what is and to strive for what could be.
This newspaper and the journalists who toil here are saddened by the loss of life at The Capital Gazette, and we are also inspired by the survivors' determination to carry on.
As Dispatch Editor Alan D. Miller said in a memo to our newsroom on Friday, "Five of our colleagues in journalism are dead — gunned down while doing their jobs. We mourn their loss, the loss to their colleagues and families, and the loss to their community.
"I can think of no better way to honor them than to continue to do good journalism. As journalist Ida B. Wells said so long ago, 'The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.'
"We hold that light."
The values that this nation was founded on, that we celebrate this coming Independence Day, are as important as ever — the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness for all. We cannot let fear of confrontation and disagreement keep us from pursuing truth, not as journalists and not as individuals.
Rather than let differences separate us, we must recommit to being open to diverse views, to seek to understand others and to avail ourselves of opportunities to learn what is happening in our communities, our nation and our world.
The challenge for all of us is to recapture civility and to model for the rest of the world what it means to live in a free country.
Columbus already recognizes the need for this movement, as demonstrated through ongoing work of the Columbus Partnership to promote civility and the Columbus Foundation to promote understanding through the Big Table.
As journalists, we will not shrink from our responsibility to hold a mirror to our communities and to try to help make sense of the news through editorials, letters from readers and a variety of columnists' opinions. We share our own views and those of others to promote conversation, learning and understanding.
We know from the feedback we receive that some of you do not agree with everything we print, and that's OK. We hope you all appreciate having access to new business development and government actions, to crime reports and uplifting features, to sports articles that go beyond wins and losses, and to diverse perspectives on opinion pages.
Your right to know drives us, and it always will.
Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal
The journalists at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, showed their dedication and commitment to their profession when they put out a paper Friday, the day after five of their co-workers were killed in their newsroom.
It was both a terrible day for journalism in America and a great day because of their example.
When a gunman attacks your workplace, killing several of your friends and colleagues, it would be easier, and normal, and probably healthier to go home, curl up in a ball and weep. The best advice would probably be to rest, to recover and to mourn.
The surviving reporters, photographers and editors of the Capital Gazette continued working. They were not able to shrug off the pain and the grief. Their words clearly show that. "We are heartbroken, devastated. Our colleagues and friends are gone," Editor Rick Hutzell said.
But there was a huge story in their city, and their job was to inform their community about that story. What most people may not understand is that it is more than a job. It is a calling, a passion.
If these people had been making widgets, they probably would have left the production line, which would have been closed down during the investigation and cleanup.
But journalists don't just produce a product for sale. They serve their communities. They find the truth about issues and events that the community needs to know, and they tell those stories.
Journalists have had to contend with some pretty bad times over the past couple of decades. The newspaper business is changing and contracting rapidly. Newsrooms have faced massive layoffs and cutbacks, but the people who remain, in communities all over the nation, have struggled valiantly to keep their communities informed.
Journalists don't make much money. They have almost no job security. They constantly have to learn new skills to keep up with digital evolution. They don't work regular hours.
And lately, they are bombarded with criticism from those who expect the news to reinforce their existing opinions. They are denigrated as "the enemy of the people" when nothing could be further from the truth.
There are few reasons to do these low-paying, insecure, long-hour jobs other than a dedication to serving the community. Journalists at community newspapers are uniformly intensely dedicated to covering stories and informing their readers.
Never was that dedication better displayed than in the Capital Gazette staff's production of their Friday issue.
When Adolph S. Ochs took control of The New York Times in 1896, he issued an announcement that has been taken as a motto for news people ever since. He declared that his newspaper would "give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved … ."
Newsrooms across the country have endeavored to deliver the news without fear or favor despite the current business and political climate surrounding them. There is likely to be more fear in newsrooms now, but America's journalists will carry on, trying to live up to the example set by the Capital Gazette.
Alan Rosenberg, The Providence (R.I.) Journal executive editor
I think it was the faces that really hit me. The photos of the five people killed at the Annapolis Capital Gazette.
They looked familiar, as though they could have been my co-workers here at The Providence Journal. And reading their biographies, I felt as though I had actually known them.
John McNamara, the longtime sportswriter who loved covering high-school games and athletes. Gerald Fischman, the quirky editorial writer who found love late in life with a Mongolian opera singer. Wendi Winters, the community-news writer who also was a mother of four. Rebecca Smith, the sales assistant just starting out. And Rob Hiaasen, the editor who also wrote a column.
Variations on all these people work here, or have worked here over the years. I'm one of them.
Maybe that's part of the reason this felt so personal.
Like most people who work in news for any length of time, I've learned to tamp down my emotions when dealing with horrific stories. We get clinical in our discussions, the better not to have to confront the reality of these events.
But there was no hiding from the impact of this one.
Because there was more: from what we know, the shooter had a vendetta against the paper because it had written a story about his guilty plea seven years ago for criminal harassment.
That, too, struck a chord. Newspapers often make people angry because they accurately report what those folks would prefer to keep hidden. So people call us or email us, demanding that we change or remove our story.
Sometimes, there's a threat involved.
We tell ourselves that in covering the story, we've done the right thing — and generally, we have. In those cases, we explain why we can't make a change. And we shrug off the threat. It's part of the job; it comes with the territory.
But in the back of our minds — at least, in the back of my mind — there's a part that wonders: will this be the person who follows through?
For some of us, too, Thursday's events evoked memories of a shooting here in Providence, in 2002.
That was when a 20-year employee at our own printing plant killed two co-workers and wounded a third before taking his own life.
The circumstances — friends and family said he'd complained about being harassed at work, but company and union officials said there was no evidence to support such a claim — were different. But the impact here was deep and lasting.
As events unfolded in Maryland, more than one reporter recalled that day.
So as the story progressed, I found myself reading each update, wanting to know more about all of it.
The victims, the shooter, the circumstances.
And the determination of the Annapolis paper's staff to publish Friday's paper, even in the face of this all-too-imaginable tragedy.
Then I went to the gofundme page that's been set up to help the victims and made a small donation. It's what I'd want someone to do for us, if — God forbid — it came to that.
"You okay after this newspaper shooting?" my daughter texted me from California on Friday. "Must feel close to home."
Yes. Yes, it does.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
As has been our lot in recent years, another mass shooting — and multiple smoking guns afterward.
The man accused of fatally shooting five journalists in their newsroom in Annapolis, Md., Thursday had raised flaming, fluttering red flags in front of several folks in the years leading up to the attack: One woman who was allegedly stalked by 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos warned police that he was a "nut job" who "will be your next mass shooter." And after the Capital Gazette in 2012 reported on his stalking conviction, and he lost a frivolous defamation case against the paper but kept his grudge going, an editor recalls surmising, "I was seriously concerned he would threaten us with physical violence. I even told my wife, 'We have to be concerned. This guy could really hurt us.'"
When are we going to listen?
This time, the story is told by the victims themselves: The Capital Gazette, while picking up the pieces of its shattered life and mourning its fallen colleagues, heroically determined Thursday night, "Yes, we're putting out a damn paper tomorrow."
It is the worst shooting of journalists on American soil, and brought to mind the even worse attack on Paris weekly Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 in 2015.
American journalists, wrapped in the Kevlar of the First Amendment, have historically been allowed to do their jobs as up-close observers of life's most dicey and dangerous moments. Pray they continue to be — for their safety and for the freedom of all.
The Beaver County (Pa.) Times
Another mass shooting in America, this one directed at journalists of The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., and once again we are left grieving and speechless.
Whatever the motivations of the despicable madman who took five innocent lives, the fact is that these victims were simply doing their jobs, thankless though those jobs may be in the current climate of verbal and online attacks on the media.
President Trump routinely refers to media outlets as purveyors of "fake news" when he disagrees or simply dislikes what is reported. He told Americans that media members were enemies of the people, a threat to democracy.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Community journalism is the bedrock of freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment. Reporters and photographers at smaller publications may not be rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes or nationwide fame, but their work provides important information about local schools, governing bodies, police actions and the courts. And yes, local journalists help shine a light on injustices and corruption.
The Capital Gazette, like The Times and other small newspapers across the country, is committed to its community. We didn't personally know the victims of this horrific shooting, but we're certain they did their jobs because it mattered to their readers.
It mattered so much that the survivors of the shooting went straight to work as journalists and covered the story. We cannot imagine how they were able to report on a tragedy that so directly impacted them, but they produced an extraordinary account of what had to be their worst nightmare.
Gazette staffers showed they not only cover the community, but are part of it. That's the way it is in community journalism. Take a look at Times employees and you'll see people who are active in local youth sports activities with their children; people who are involved with their churches and schools; people who generously volunteer their time to make their communities better.
We are not the enemy of the people. We are the people. And we care about our community and its residents as much as anyone else.
Most important, we will continue to do our jobs because we remain committed and dedicated to the premise that a democracy cannot survive without a free press to protect it.
Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune
Our hearts go out to the family, friends and colleagues of the five people gunned down at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, on Thursday. This attack in particular strikes close to home for us at the Tribune because it was more than a cowardly attack on random people. It was an attack on the institution of journalism and freedom of the press.
Thursday's attack could just as easily been at any newspaper, including ours. Several members of our staff have been threatened at various times during our careers. In fact, most reporters are threatened at some point if they stay in the field long enough. We mostly shrug off these threats, telling ourselves it's just angry readers venting. Perhaps this outlook needs to change.
We won't waste ink publishing the suspected shooter's name. It was a barbaric, cruel and cowardly act. His name will not be immortalized on this editorial page. The victims, however, must be remembered. Robert Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, John McNamara and Wendi Winters worked in the Capital Gazette's newsroom. Rebecca Smith worked in advertising.
The suspected shooter, we've since learned, was a disgruntled source of a column published seven years ago based on factual information provided by the courts and others. The suspect filed a lawsuit against the newspaper that was dismissed. This is what authorities believe led up to Thursday's shooting.
Those who threaten the press will never win. We won't allow it. Just like the staff at the satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo after 12 people were killed in January 2015, Capital Gazette staff immediately went to work after the shooting. Reporters sat in the back of a pickup truck parked across the street from their office, which had been turned into a crime scene. We hope in the days and weeks ahead they find time to mourn, but yesterday was not that time. Duty called.
That's how journalists work. If you want to ensure something is printed, make threats that it not be. If you want to renew our conviction, attack our institutions. The willful defiance of tyranny runs in our veins. There is only one way to do our jobs: with courage and conviction. The meek don't stick around newsrooms for very long.
Capital Gazette reporter Chase Cook tweeted shortly after the attack: "I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper."
We're proud of their response, and emboldened by the courage and commitment they've shown.
Some call us the enemy of the people. These individuals don't understand the true enemy: the absence of ideas and viewpoints. America wasn't built with screaming matches. It was built by civilized debate.
We are not your enemies. And we are not your friends. We are more than either. We are your historians as history is being made; we are your conscience during times when you prefer not to have one; we are your protectors when your rights are threatened; and we are a reflection of this community and all who reside in it.
Some industry folks call a daily newspaper the daily miracle because of the arduous process that goes into every edition, every day. Really it's more of a daily gift from us to you because we care so damn much, and putting out a paper each day is how we show it.
Newport (R.I.) Daily News
One was an "old-fashioned journalist," another living out his dream as a sportswriter. There was a columnist, a reporter and a sales assistant. No matter their roles, these five people showed up to work each day at The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, ready to churn out another newspaper.
Until Thursday.
A gunman, believed to be 38-year-old Jarrod M. Ramos, burst his way into the newsroom and began shooting. Four journalists — Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters, Gerald Fischman and John McNamara — and sales assistant Rebecca Smith were killed. Two others, Rachael Pacella and Janel Cooley, were injured.
Of the four journalists, the youngest was 56-year-old McNamara, the sportswriter. When they began their respective paths in journalism years ago, the world was a different place. The newspaper was read cover to cover by most people, an honest account of the previous day's happenings.
But along the way things changed. The internet exploded, creating less demand for newspapers, many of which lagged behind the times. Newsroom staffs were slashed because of budget cuts; workloads got heavier. Still, these four journalists — with decades of experience — carried on with their duties.
Until Thursday.
There are similarities and connections between Annapolis and Newport. Both are sailing-mad cities with a naval presence. The National Sailing Hall of Fame very well could be moving north from there to here.
What they also have in common is each city has a small newspaper that employs dedicated reporters, editors and photographers. For many, there is no time clock, no 40-hour work weeks. It's a job with a deadline that needs to be met every day. Journalists don't get into this business to get rich, and they don't do it for the accolades. These days, working for a small newspaper is a labor of love.
Not much is known about the suspected gunman. According to the Baltimore Sun, he burst into the newsroom by shooting his way through glass doors. People went scrambling, with one report saying an employee jumped over a dead body to escape. Ramos' motive is believed be a vendetta he held against the paper for a 2011 article involving a criminal harassment charge against him.In 2012, Ramos filed a defamation suit against the paper, which made its way to the state Supreme Court. A ruling in 2015 was upheld in favor of the newspaper.
"I remember telling our attorneys, 'This is a guy who is going to come in and shoot us,'" said Thomas Marquardt, the paper's former editor and publisher, who was named as one of the defendants.
That's beyond frightening, to think that simply because a journalist was doing his or her job, reporting the news, a gunman would enter the building and start shooting whoever is in sight.
This is not lost on us in The Daily News newsroom. Here, we have an open-door policy, unlike at many newspapers. People can enter the double doors that lead to the newsroom, ask questions, bring in their announcements and talk to the reporters and editors. We consider ourselves the voice of this community and we enjoy interacting with those who live here.
We've been yelled at by angry people, have even joked darkly about how vulnerable we would be to a violent attack. But it remained unfathomable that a gunman actually might enter and begin shooting.
Until Thursday.
There is a certain stigma surrounding newspaper reporters. They are criticized for what appears in the pages and at times dehumanized. They're not out to "ruin lives." They simply present the facts and allow readers to form an opinion based on those facts.
Perhaps the most incredible part of Thursday's tragedy is the fact The Capital Gazette published an edition on Friday. "5 shot dead at The Capital," a banner headline read, with pictures of those killed. That front page serves as a reminder of the grit, determination and professionalism of journalists at a small newspaper — reporters writing through tears after watching five of their colleagues get gunned down, but still knowing the job must be done.
This isn't written to rail against gun control — though it was reported by the Associated Press that the gun used was purchased legally — or President Donald Trump's continuous attacks on the media.
This is written to champion the fine journalists at local newspapers across the country with small staffs — which are getting smaller and smaller every day — who believe they are doing their part to inform their community. Employees at The Capital Gazette felt they were doing that in a safe environment.
Until Thursday.


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- March 18, 2013
My Unrecognizable Democratic Party
The stakes are too high, please get serious about governing before it's too late.
By TED VAN DYK
Mr. Van Dyk served in Democratic national administrations and campaigns over several decades. His memoir of public life, "Heroes, Hacks and Fools," was first published by University of Washington Press in 2007.
As a lifelong Democrat, I have a mental picture these days of my president, smiling broadly, at the wheel of a speeding convertible. His passengers are Democratic elected officials and candidates. Ahead of them, concealed by a bend in the road, is a concrete barrier.
They didn't have to take that route. Other Democratic presidents have won bipartisan support for proposals as liberal in their time as some of Mr. Obama's are now. Why does this administration seem so determined to head toward a potential crash and burn?
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Even after the embarrassing playout of the Obama-invented Great Sequester Game, after the fiasco of the president's Fiscal Cliff Game, conventional wisdom among Democrats holds that disunited Republicans will be routed in the 2014 midterm elections, leaving an open field for the president's agenda in the final two years of his term. Yet modern political history indicates that big midterm Democratic gains are unlikely, and presidential second terms are notably unproductive, most of all in their waning months. Since 2012 there has been nothing about the Obama presidency to justify the confidence that Democrats now exhibit.
Mr. Obama was elected in 2008 on the basis of his persona and his pledge to end political and ideological polarization. His apparent everyone-in-it-together idealism was exactly what the country wanted and needed. On taking office, however, the president adopted a my-way-or-the-highway style of governance. He pursued his stimulus and health-care proposals on a congressional-Democrats-only basis. He rejected proposals of his own bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission, which would have provided long-term deficit reduction and stabilized rapidly growing entitlement programs. He opted instead to demonize Republicans for their supposed hostility to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
No serious attempt—for instance, by offering tort reform or allowing the sale of health-insurance products across state lines—was made to enlist GOP congressional support for the health bill. It passed, but the constituents of moderate Democrats punished them: 63 lost their seats in 2010 and Republicans took control of the House.
Faced with a similar situation in 1995, following another GOP House takeover, President Bill Clinton shifted to bipartisan governance. Mr. Obama did not, then blamed Republicans for their "obstructionism" in not yielding to him.
Defying the odds, Mr. Obama did become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to be re-elected with an election-year unemployment rate above 7.8%. Yet his victory wasn't based on public affirmation of his agenda. Instead, it was based on a four-year mobilization—executed with unprecedented skill—of core Democratic constituencies, and on fear campaigns in which Mitt Romney and the Republicans were painted as waging a "war on women," being servants of the wealthy, and of being hostile toward Latinos, African Americans, gays and the middle class. I couldn't have imagined any one of the Democratic presidents or presidential candidates I served from 1960-92 using such down-on-all-fours tactics.
The unifier of 2008 became the calculated divider of 2012. Yes, it worked, but only narrowly, as the president's vote total fell off sharply from 2008.
Other modern Democratic presidents have had much more success with very different governing strategies. In 1961-62, John Kennedy won Republican congressional and public support with the proposals of his Keynesian Council of Economic Advisers chairman, Walter Heller, to cut personal and business taxes "to get America moving again," and for the global free movement of goods, services, capital and people.
In 1965, Lyndon Johnson had Democratic congressional majorities sufficient to pass any legislation he wanted. But he sought and received GOP congressional support for Medicare, Medicaid, civil rights, education and other Great Society legislation. He knew that in order to last, these initiatives needed consensus support. He did not want them re-debated later, as ObamaCare is being re-debated now.
Johnson got bipartisan backing for deficit reduction in 1967, when he learned that the deficit had reached an unthinkable $28 billion. Faced with today's annual deficits of $1 trillion and federal debt between $16.7 and $31 trillion, depending on whether you count off-budget obligations, LBJ no doubt would appoint a bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission and use it to get a tax, spending and entitlements fix so that he could move on to the rest of his agenda. Bill Clinton took the same practical approach and got to a balanced federal budget as soon as he could, at the beginning of his second term.
These former Democratic presidents would also know today that no Democratic or liberal agenda can go forward if debt service is eating available resources. Nor can successful governance take place if presidential and Democratic Party rhetoric consistently portrays loyal-opposition leaders as having devious or extremist motives. We really are, as Mr. Obama pointed out in 2008, in it together.
It's not too late for the president to take a cue from his predecessors and enter good-faith budget negotiations with congressional Republicans. A few posturing meetings with GOP congressional leaders will not suffice. President Obama's hype about the horrors of fiscal-cliff and sequestration cuts, and his placing of blame on Republicans, have been correctly viewed as low politics. His approval ratings have plunged since the end of the sequestration exercise.
But time is running out for Democrats to get serious about governance. That concrete barrier—in the form of the 2014 midterm—lies just ahead on the highway, and they're joy riding straight toward it.
Mr. Van Dyk served in Democratic national administrations and campaigns over several decades. His memoir of public life, "Heroes, Hacks and Fools," was first published by University of Washington Press in 2007.


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Two neighbors got into a fight early Wednesday morning on Chicago's South Side, police said, and one man attacked the other with a chainsaw.
The attack happened just before 2 a.m. in the backyard of a home on the 1000 block of West 103rd Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood.
Police said Preston Smith and his neighbor were hanging out late into the night when they got into some sort of altercation. The neighbor pulled out a chainsaw and wound up slicing Smith's neck and hands, nearly slicing off some of the man's fingers.
Smith, 55, was rushed to Advocated Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was listed Wednesday morning in stable condition. Police News Affairs said his fingers were still attached but dangling.
The neighbor wasn't in police custody by late morning, but officers said they know exactly who they are looking for.
Family and authorities said the two have been friends for a long time and the altercation was likely the result of a drunken fight.
Police called it an isolated incident between acquaintances and said the neighbor is not a danger to the community.
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Colorado Rapids midfielder Hendry Thomas has had a good week.
First, he and his family received their U.S. Permanent Residency (green cards).
Then, his Honduran National Team - in tying Jamaica, 2-2, on Tuesday - secured their place in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
"I'm happy for the group that was there, and for all Hondurans," Thomas told ColoradoRapids.com this week. "To qualify for a second consecutive World Cup shows a lot, so I'm very happy and supporting of the group."
Thomas was a key part of Honduras' 2010 World Cup team, however he has not played a role in any Qualifiers during this cycle. Still, he remains optimistic - and hopeful - to be part of next summer's World Cup squad.
"I'm a very positive person. I always visualize myself in good situations," Thomas said. "So I'll keep working hard in case the coach at some point gives me the opportunity so that I can be ready."
Honduras will play Brazil in friendly on November 16 at Sun Life Stadium, just a few miles away from Thomas's home in Miami, Fla. Honduras will also play Ecuador in Houston, Tex. on Nov. 19, according to Diez.hn.
Should he get the Honduras invite, it would be a nice way to celebrate two special occasions with his family.
"To receive our green card is a joy which is difficult to explain," he said. "There are many people that would like to have (residency). I want to thank everyone here that participated in helping my family and myself acquire our green cards."
Beyond the governmental benefits, by having his residency Thomas will no longer occupy an international slot on the roster.


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A candidate for Bluffton Town Council has pulled out of the race.
Bill Roe said he has decided not to seek a seat on Bluffton Town Council.
Roe said he will be spending time in Boston and will not be able to campaign.
Roe is a native of Teaneck, N.J., and is a graduate of the University of Georgia.
Meanwhile, Larry Toomer of Bluffton Oyster Company is seeking a seat on Bluffton Town Council.
Fred Hamilton, a former Bluffton Mayor Pro Tem is seeking a seat again on Bluffton Town Council.
Hamilton is Chairman of Bluffton's Affordable Housing Committee.
Garfield Moss is also seeking a seat.
Moss, a large property owner in Bluffton, ran for Bluffton Town Council about eight years ago, but didn't win.
Incumbents Michael Raymond and Oliver Brown filed for re-election.
Brown was elected in 2008 and became Mayor Pro Tem in 2012. Elected in 2009, Raymond is a Bluffton Township Fire District commissioner.
Lastly, Gary Bensch filed as a candidate for the Nov. 5 election. Bensch is the husband of Cynthia Bensch, who last November won a seat on Beaufort County Council.
Candidate filing for two Bluffton Town Council seats ends at noon Friday.
People who plan to seek elected office should file at Town Hall at 20 Bridge Street. The filing fee for Town Council is $100. Each candidate also must file a South Carolina Ethics Commission statement of economic interests form electronically using http://ethics.sc.gov. If you have questions about the process or need help, contact the Bluffton town clerk at 706-4502.
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Yale University's School of Management lost "$15 to $20 million over the last 15 years," according to Dean Edward Snyder. The disclosure was made in a New York Times story this week.
Snyder, previously dean at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of Virginia's Darden School, was recruited to Yale to gain greater recognition for its business school. He assumed the deanship of SOM in August of last year.
The losses are not entirely surprising because Yale has remained a relatively small and unambitious player in the business school market, with a high faculty-to-student ratio, a small student enrollment, and few executive education offerings. Even so, it's somewhat shocking that the school lost that much money given the prestige of its brand during what were widely considered boom years for MBA education.
According to the story, Snyder has a five-step plan to transform a school into a leader in the field:
1. Start by focusing on the sectors where the school has strong relationships and build from there. Or, as Snyder says, ''Give up the undifferentiated, multi-brass-ring strategy of best recruiters, best students, best facilities, blah, blah, blah.''
2. Embrace a mix of faculty, particularly those with real-world experience. ''You'll still want some strong, fast-ball-discipline types in areas like economics, finance and psychology to teach how markets work and function,'' Snyder says. ''But get fewer of them.''
3. Calculate the cost of things — any things! ''Be very focused on and systematic about collecting data and sharing data with other schools around the country and the world,'' he says. ''Collect data on industries and on markets. It's really valuable for students to do that, and you'll make your school valuable for insight and information.'' Extra credit: ''It's good for branding.''
4. Offer a broader mix of programs, including part-time ones. ''That's more affordable in today's economy and where the market at business schools is going.''
5. Book your ticket to Gdansk! ''If you're going to be global, be selective and try to identify a less well served country like Vietnam or Poland instead of China. Pick places with young populations that don't already have a lot of business schools.''
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It can be tough to stay motivated to exercise in the winter. According to Mike Nunes of Survivor Bootcamp, the solution is to attack the problem, work hard and get fit out in the cold — rain or snow be damned.
"I've never ever cancelled class for weather," he says.
Nunes is the franchisee and head trainer for Survivor Bootcamp in New Westminster, and that means he's outside every day, leading classes through workouts that emphasize hard work, camaraderie and balanced fitness.
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"We break it down by body group," Nunes explains. "Upper body cardio, an abs day, legs and butt … we make sure that the whole body gets worked. A lot of jumping around, callisthenics, plyometrics, and then just the weight training and cardio."
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Quote from: HunterofThePegs on May 11, 2006, 11:46 AMNow that I've won the VTSC JD Giveaway, I can send away for this bad boy!Now that I think it's the CT sculpt and CT helmet, I think you can put the emphasis on "bad".
Has anyone sent off for theirs yet? I have all the stickers and form, but just haven't sent it out yet. I guess with all the horror stories that came from the Early Bird set, I was a little nervous to send it in too early and have it get lost .
Nothing here either on about the same timeline as you, Jim, and the check hasn't cleared. I sent another in this week to my new address. Jack, I actually had luck with the Hasbro Customer Service folks in redirecting the EB figures to a new address. You should give them a shot and see if they can fix things for you. Not like they don't have a ton of those things they're sitting on.
I guess at SW Weekends in Orlando if you purchase the set of 5 VTSC figures you'll be able to get your GL figure as well. No having to send in the POPs. Not sure if this is entirely true.If it is true then it's bull**** making everyone else send in those little stickers when someone can walk into the Star Tours store and purchase it outright.
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Cleveland Indians looking for Governor of 'Brohio' for 2014 season
Cleveland, OH — The State of Ohio is holding a gubernatorial election in 2014, and so are the Cleveland Indians.
The club announced Monday that it is looking for a full-time Governor of "Brohio," the Nick Swisher-spawned section of Progressive Field (Section 117) that also went viral on social media throughout the summer months and the drive for the Postseason.
Fans will submit videos at Indians.com/Brohio detailing why their fellow fans should consider them for the Governor role. Then, at least three finalists will campaign in an interactive event on the KeyBank main stage at Tribe Fest during the 4-8pm session on Saturday, January 25, where they'll be asked questions by Indians personalities, including Swisher.
Those finalists then will be placed into a fan vote on Indians.com, with that fan vote counting for 50% of the total vote. The other half of the total vote will be cast by Swisher himself.
As the election's official rules state, finalists will be chosen based on four factors:
– "Bro-hio-ness": Do they exemplify the core values of Bro-ness?
– Indians passion/pride/knowledge
– Creativity: What will they bring to the Brohio Governor's office that will help Brohio thrive and grow?
– Leadership: how will they rally others to not only participate in Brohio and Bro-ness, but do so with passion and energy?
The eventual Governor winner, who must be 18 years of age, will receive an ultimate Tribe fan prize: A ticket to each Friday and Saturday home game at Progressive Field this season, in Brohio, Section 117. The winner also must:
– Proactively engage and interact with bros in Brohio and throughout the ballpark
– Have full knowledge of all Brohio happenings; stay in contact with Indians representatives
– Lead Brohio cheers, encourage fans to rock their Brohio tee, create unique Brohio signage, etc.
– Project a positive, Swishalicious attitude at all times
– Additional related duties as determined by Brohio team
For more information on the contest, visit Indians.com/Brohio. The contest submission period ends Wednesday, January 15 at 8PM ET.


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