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At The Plate – The Cubs left some runs out on the bases in this one but they found just enough offense to come away with a win. Brett Jackson was 2-for-5 with a double, two RBI's, and his fourth stolen base of the season. Dave Sappelt had a good day going 2-for-4 with his first home run of the season, two RBI's, and a run scored. J.C. Boscan was 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored in the win. I mentioned that Iowa left some runs out there, they were 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position, and left nine guys on base.
On The Mound – Guillermo Moscoso was brilliant in this one for the Cubs as he improved his record to 2-0 on the season. Moscoso went seven innings giving up one run, unearned, on six hits while walking one and striking out seven. Zach Putnam worked a scoreless inning out of the pen giving up one hit while walking one. Blake Parker was solid again for his fifth save of the season, he worked a scoreless ninth while striking out one.
At The Plate – The Smokies finally found a way to beat the Barons, and almost blew the lead late before hanging on to a 5-4 victory. Matt Szczur was good again at the top of the order going 2-for-4 with two RBI's, two runs scored, and two stolen bases, he now has twelve stolen bases on the season. Ty Wright was 2-for-3 with a walk, and a double in the win. Christian Villanueva had another solid day going 3-for-4 with two doubles, and an RBI, he's hitting .294 over his last ten games.
On The Mound – Matt Garza had a solid outing for the Smokies, and more importantly came out of it healthy again. Garza went 3.1 scoreless innings giving up three hits while walking two and striking out two. Matt Loosen struggled with his command out of the pen but managed to get the win. Loosen went four innings giving up three runs on two hits while walking four and striking out six. Marcus Hatley struggled a little bit but earned his first save of the season going 1.2 innings giving up one run on two hits while walking two and striking out one.
At The Plate – After falling behind 3-1 early the Cougars went to work at the plate scoring six times over the final six innings en route to a 7-4 victory. Pin-Chieh Chen was solid at the top of the order going 2-for-5 with a double. Dan Vogelbach was 1-for-4 with a walk, a double, and a run scored, he's now hitting .292 on the season. Willson Contreras had a huge day going 3-for-5 with a double, his fourth home run of the season, two RBI's, and two runs scored. Gioskar Amaya only had one hit in this one (1-for-5) but he had two huge RBI's.
On The Mound – Michael Heesch flirted with disaster all day long but pitched out of trouble for the most part. Heesch worked six innings giving up four runs on twelve hits while walking one to earn his second win of the season. Brian Smith was outstanding out of the pen, he worked three scoreless inning giving up two hits while striking out three to earn his first save of the season.
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Paul Gauguin's desire to find ecstasy in the tropics, listening to "the soft murmuring music of the movements of my heart in amorous harmony with the mysterious beings around me," led the French artist to Tahiti and syphilis. Gauguin found his final tonic in morphine; bartender James Lombardino of New York's 1534 offers a gentler remedy: mango puree, gin, allspice liqueur, and lemon juice.
When it comes to gin, Lombardino is equal parts user and pusher. Alongside tequila, gin is his poison of choice ("It's the original flavored vodka," he declares). He fancies himself a juniper matchmaker of sorts: "I can turn anybody on to gin...There's always one out there for you."
After honing in on mango for Gauguin's Cure, which is part of the bar's French-colonial themed menu's Polynesia section, Lombardino decided to buck the usual tropical suspects (rum, tequila or pisco) in search for mango's juniper match. "Beefeater was too sharp for this; the juniper became the drink's prominent note."
Lombardino eventually settled on Bombay East, which is similar to Bombay Sapphire, but with two added botanicals: Thai lemongrass and Vietnamese black peppercorn. "It's very light, with more floral and citrus notes than you'll find in a London dry style."
Like artfully applied base makeup, two ounces of gin create a solid foundation that's subtle but essential; the drink would seem spotty and flat without it. Mango and gin find another unlikely companion in allspice liqueur. "The allspice really plays up the gin's botanicals," notes Lombardino.
The cocktail conjures up images of both palm trees and crunching leaves. Mango puree—pleasantly thick and a little creamy—takes center stage, with warm allspice surfacing after a few seconds.
With the pop of a purple gomphrena bloom atop the vibrant yellow drink, Gauguin's Cure is so darn pretty that you almost don't want to sip it. But not as much as you do want to.
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Cher Interviewed On Judging And Performing On Dancing With The Stars, Career Tribute Planned
I'm so excited about Cher judging and performing on Dancing With The Stars. I've always loved her. As a kid growing up in the 70's, I remember being so hooked on she and Sonny in their variety show together and then later The Cher Show (if you don't think she can dance or knows something about dancing, do a You Tube search on both variety shows). Remember how she use to flip her hair? lol Anyway, People.com interviewed her about her judging and singing gig next week on Dancing With The Stars. Note too how the article says Dancing With The Stars will play tribute to her "decades-long" music career!
No one was more stunned than Cher when she recently found out Dancing with the Stars will pay tribute to her decades-long music career on the Nov. 4 show.
"It's always strange when people do something like this. You're not thinking about those kinds of things," she tells PEOPLE. "It just always takes me by surprise. It just does."
Cher will sing her hit "Believe" and her new song "Closer To The Truth" on the show, as well as serve as a guest judge, but won't be dancing because of a foot injury she sustained years ago. "I am waiting to have an operation," she says. "The doctor got a little crankier and said I have to do it."
Even if she could dance today, you won't find Cher dancing on DWTS as a contestant. "Aren't I old enough now not to be a contestant anymore?" the singer, 67, says. "Haven't I got past the contestant part?"
More at People.com . She discusses Chaz too and his dramatic weight loss!
ETA: Here is more info on Cher, the tribute, and the dances planned for next week.
ETA2: If you go to Entertainment Weekly, you can watch a video of some of the cast talking about Cher and how they feel about her being on the show next week. They are excited to say the least. lol


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ATLANTA -- For an organization looking to infuse young talent into its system, the Marlins came up big on Wednesday when they won the lottery to receive the first pick in the Competitive Balance Round A of the 2015 First-Year Player Draft.
Miami's pick will come immediately after the conclusion of the first round, and it will give the club two picks before selecting in the second round.
Competitive Balance picks also are valuable property, because they can be traded.
The Marlins actually used a Competitive Balance Round A pick in June to acquire reliever Bryan Morris from the Pirates. The deal was made a few days before the June Draft, with Miami parting with the 39th overall pick for Morris, who has become a valuable back-of-the-bullpen piece.
"You talk about building organizations, that's nice to have," manager Mike Redmond said. "It's nice to be able to pick at the top and get some of the best players in the country."
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This study empirically examines the macroeconomic determinants of technological progress (total factor productivity) in Nigeria that is consistent with the endogenous growth theory. The estimations are carried out with time-series data from 1970 to 2006 using the Johansen estimation techniques. The study is distinct from most of the existing literature since it made an attempt in generating a time-varying technological progress. It employs the Kalman filter technique to determine the evolution of the Solow residual estimated from a Cobb-Douglas production function. The results conform to the existing literature that macroeconomic instability, the level of financial development, and the level of human development are highly significant determinants of technological progress in Nigeria.
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Twinprov is an improv duo whose show consists of forty-five minutes of improvised rapping and scene work.Twin brothers Clint and Buck Vrazel are in town from Oklahoma this weekend, performing tonight and teaching a workshop at Duofest tomorrow. I talked to Clint about how in the world he and his brother freestyle a forty-five minute improv show.
How did you come up with rapping as your format?
We like a lot of different things– we've done a Shakespeare show, relationship comedy, a musical, we even do a show that has no words, so rap is just one thing we do. But rap is just a thing that really took off. We did it through lots of trial and error.
We weren't allowed to listen to rap music as children, because we're from small-town Oklahoma, and that's just the way it was. MTV was banned from the town. So we discovered hip-hop in eighth grade, and before that wed only heard Weird Al Yankovic. So our exposure to quick, intelligent music that rhymed was from that tradition of Monty Python and Weird All. And we were like, "Oh, you can make up your own words and it can be better than the original music." So we'd make up songs.
I couldnt rap at all five years ago, and three years ago we couldnt keep any beats going. It was a lot of teaching ourselves and our friends. We thought, "We should be able to do this. We can do it for a few seconds, so we can do it for longer, right?" We did the wrong thing for a lot of years, cos we learned improv from watching Whose Line Is It Anyway?, until we finally got exposed to Chicago and the greater improv culture.
But we tried The Hoe Down and we would do Irish Drinking Songs and all these games, and it turns out that thats not how poetry or lyricism or shakespeare, thats not the best way to channel it. That's not even how your brain works. My brother and I are very interested in patterns and psychology. I have a math degree, he has a psychology degree, and we love to teach. And so we discovered all these ways our brains do work. It was a lot of trial and error, a lot of research. And we can get people rapping now in about an hour and a half if theyre improvisors and about three hours if theyre not. So the exercises we came up with for other people became our own practice.
We didn't know that we weren't supposed to be able to do this. We didn't know, you shouldn't be able to do a forty-five minute improvised rap concert. We just loved it so much we just kept going. Now it's like a language that we speak and teach.
You said you were exposed to Chicago. Was there a certain school or teacher who influenced you?
CV: It was 2005, we had a teacher who came down to Oklahoma from Toronto–he's trained at Second City, he had a degree in Improv and English–you can study that, I guess, in Toronto. He came to Oklahoma for a literature program. He never thought he'd find improv in Oklahoma. He found us messing around in like a food court at the University of Oklahoma, and he said, "Oh, you guys are trying short-form. Here's how to do it well and here's how to make improv art." He taught us long form and got us to go to the Chicago Improv Festival.
He got us to take a workshop, as part of a college thing, and I took a workshop from Andy Carey from the Beat Box, and that really inspired me, and I did a rap battle that really inspired me. Because I'm not mean at all but my first opponent was this little black girl who's like 4'10", and here I am, this nerdy, white-guilt oppressor guy, and I'm like, "What's my suggestion?" And they're like, "Your opponent is your suggestion." And I can't make fun of somebody. I didn't get into improv and storytelling to strip all that away and make fun of poeple. And so I went down in flames but with my integrity intact, and I've since rapped circles around people who try to go negative. Definitely the Beat Box with Andy Carey was very inspirational.
How does freestyling feel different from just improvising regular scene work?
It's not about thinking rhyme to rhyme. You can stump an improvisor by saying, "Say something funny." There's no improv exercise called the Say Something Funny Exercise. There's a million exercises you can do, but there's not one called Be Funny. In rapping there's a million things that often you can do, but not like, "Rhyme." Rhyming is like, "I have a wish, to eat a dish, that is my fish." You can sell yourself out really quickly for a rhyme just like you can sell yourself out for a joke. The challenge and fun of rapping is you get to be very expressive and you actually have no time to think. In improv you can take pauses. With rapping that time is reduced so you get to paint more pictures with your words.
It's great to move into that heightened realm– it makes it more magical and brings the ernergy up even further. As long as you don't sell yourself out the rhyme can serve you and make something memorable.
Once we go out and we hit that first song, it feels pretty easy. We can't do any wrong after that. The energy is so high. We're still truthful, we have points of view, we have characters– you just can't sell yourself out.
What's it like having your twin brother as your partner?
It's as much an advantage as a disadvantage. I trust him to always be with me. But if I'm really out there, it's like, "Wait I'm the same as you, where did that come from?" I don't recognize that." We also push each other. When I look at him I see myself. I say, "Oh, I should be able to do that". Even though we know we have intrinsic differences. We know I'm the Andre 3000, he's the Big Boi. Our competitiveness really helps. As far as life experience and stuff, it's hard to be more varied. It's like, "Oh, we covered that. He took mine." We've always stolen each others' stories as twins.
Your show has picked up a lot of steam lately. Do you have any plans for expanding your show beyond a stage show?
We are working on our first album right now. We have, as you might imagine, hundreds of improvised songs now– many demos. And every time we go to a festival we get super charged with energy and we rap in the car all the way there and all the way back. We'll come with a musician who's got a little banjo or ukulele or we'll have Pandora or something. We have so many car recordings that that's basically our studio. So we're working on our first album, or albums really, because we have enough for multiple stuff, and we're looking to start releasing that.
Our stage show, we're looking to expand. We've gone in front of bands and freestyled with them– you know, "You be The Roots and we'll be the rappers." We'll play parties. Sometimes we come in as motivational white rapper speakers and tell kids to stay in school. (Laughs). So we would love to have an album and have some cool music videos and travel more with it.


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NL DIVISION SERIES: DODGERS v METS
October 5, 2006
Grady Little
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Game Two
THE MODERATOR: Questions for Grady.
Q. What will be the message to your team going back to LA after losing the first two games?
GRADY LITTLE: I think that we're in a tight spot, you know. That pretty much sums it up. We've been there before this year where we've had games we've had to win and we were able to get the job done. So we're in that spot again. We've got to come out ready to win three in a row. That's all.
That will be one of the first times in any of our lives we'll be looking forward to flying back here so shortly.
Q. Can you fill us in on what's happening with Nomar.
GRADY LITTLE: Today he strained his quad, the same injury he's been operating with for the last two or three weeks. He's trying to get through it, and it's very difficult.
But we'll check him again tomorrow and see how he is.
Q. Do you at least feel confident that you have Maddux on the mound on Saturday for you?
GRADY LITTLE: I think that goes without saying that we're confident with our pitcher on the mound on Saturday. We're very confident, we're a much better offensive club than we've shown here these last two days.
Q. It seemed you guys were done with a few mistakes tonight between the ball that Julio Franco beat out that you weren't able to turn the double play, another bunt attempt and the error with Tokyo. Do you think you can clean that up?
GRADY LITTLE: Well, we don't have a choice. The kid we had on the mound today, we were very impressed with the way he battled. He kept his composure out there. We misplayed a couple of balls and a good team took advantage of those.
The guy we're facing certainly showed us the reason why he's getting ready to win 300 games.
Q. You had a conference with the home plate umpire after the first pitch. Can you tell us what was discussed?
GRADY LITTLE: I guess it was a bookkeeping error from the other side because the lineup card that we got was not the exact one that the umpire had, the official one. I guess they had a late scratch in their lineup or something, but it was nothing major. The official card had the correct team on the field, the one the umpire had in his pocket, but it wasn't the same thing we had in ours.
Q. Was it a discrepancy of one player?
GRADY LITTLE: Yes.
Q. Who?
GRADY LITTLE: I guess earlier in the day, it happens to all of us, you have one lineup in your mind and by the time you start the game, there's a change. The lineup that we had had Green in it, and Chavez took the field. We wanted to make sure that what the umpire had was the correct one, and it was. That's what happens when you start using these computers to do these lineup cards (smiling).
Q. You touched upon Glavine before. Can you just talk about his performance.
GRADY LITTLE: Well, I think he's been doing that to hitters for a long time. We watched him do that in Atlanta for a long time and now he's had a great season here. This guy's an outstanding pitcher and a lot of hitters talk to themselves after they face him three or four times.
Q. The table-setters, the top three guys in your batting order have struggled the last two games. Is that more about the fact they're not producing or they're being pitched very well?
GRADY LITTLE: I think it's all about them being pitched very well. I tell you, those two guys have been doing a heck of a job all year long for us, and they've done a good job scoring runs and making a lot of action on the bases.
But these first two games, it hasn't happened. But hopefully Saturday they'll get it going.
Q. Talk a little bit more about Greg Maddux going for you in the next game. He's had a lot of success against the New York Mets in his career. Talk a little bit about, you know, what you're looking from Greg coming up.
GRADY LITTLE: Greg is going to have a great plan when he takes the mound, and he's one of those pitchers that can take this great plan and put it into effect. Hopefully, he'll be able to do that on Saturday.
He will have a plan. It's as good a plan as anyone could have. He'll execute it and see what happens.
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Pfc. Bradley Manning was to appear on the witness stand again, the fourth day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, Md.
He testified Thursday in support of a defense motion claiming his confinement for nine months at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., was so harsh that his case should be dismissed.
Manning, speaking publicly Thursday for the first time since his May 2010 arrest, said he got so used to leg irons and being locked up 23 hours a day that when he was finally transferred to medium-security confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in April 2011, he felt uneasy moving freely around the cell block.
"There was the sense of, 'OK, I know they're going to put the hammer down on me soon,'" Manning said near the end of his five hours on the witness stand.
Besides being classified "maximum custody," Manning was subjected to additional restraints during his nine months at Quantico because he was either on suicide watch or considered at risk of hurting himself or others. Commanders maintained the extra restrictions despite repeated recommendations by brig psychiatrists that they be eased. They included scratchy, suicide-prevention bedding and sometimes having all his clothing, eyeglasses and reading material removed from his cell.
The military contends the treatment was proper.
Manning testified that he angered brig commander Chief Warrant Officer 2 Denise Barnes when he vented his frustration.
"There was a word, I think it was 'absurd,'" he said. "That was my opinion of how I see the restrictions at that point."
Manning said he got frustrated spending up to 23 hours a day in a windowless, 6-by-8-foot cell.
"It was pretty draining," Manning said under questioning by defense attorney David Coombs.
At one point during his testimony, Manning donned a dark-green, suicide-prevention smock resembling an oversized tank top made of stiff, thick fabric. He said it was similar to one he was issued in March 2011, several days after Quantico jailers started requiring him to surrender all his clothing and eyeglasses each night as a suicide-prevention measure. This occurred after he told them -- out of frustration, he said -- that if he really wanted to hurt himself, he could have done so with his underwear waistband or flip-flops.
Before receiving the smock, he was forced to stand naked at attention one morning for a prisoner count, he said.
"I had no socks, no underwear, I had no articles of clothing, I had no glasses," he said.
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The 5-foot-3 soldier looked youthful in his dark-blue dress uniform, close-cropped hair and rimless eyeglasses. He was animated, often speaking in emphatic bursts, swiveling in the witness chair and gesturing with his hands.
Manning was polite throughout his testimony, referring to his attorney as "sir" and making frequent eye contact with Coombs and the judge. Only after watching two videos of himself speaking to his guards while wearing only his boxers -- the first video shows him surrendering his clothes -- did his voice waver.
"It brings that back, the fact that I was there," Manning said of the video.
Earlier Thursday, the military judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, accepted the terms under which Manning may plead guilty to eight of the 22 charges he faces. Coombs revealed the plea offer in early November, saying it would enable Manning to take responsibility for sending U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks.
Lind hasn't formally accepted the pleas but has indicated she will consider them at a hearing starting Dec. 10.
Under the offer, Manning would plead guilty to certain charges as violations of military regulations rather than as violations of federal espionage and computer security laws. The offenses would then carry maximum prison terms totaling 16 years rather than 72.
The pleas would include admissions that Manning sent WikiLeaks classified memos, Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, Guantanamo Bay prison records and a 2007 video clip of a U.S. helicopter crew gunning down 11 men later found to have included a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
The government could still prosecute Manning for all 22 counts he faces, including aiding the enemy. That offense carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
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Athlete looking at Sunday for supersonic skydive (Update)
Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner hopes to make a second attempt to become the world's first supersonic skydiver with a 23-mile (37-kilometer) free fall over New Mexico on Sunday or Monday.
Baumgartner aborted his mission Tuesday due to high winds, and his team had hoped the weather would allow him another try Thursday. But now they're looking at the next window being Sunday or Monday.
Baumgartner is hoping to become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier by jumping from a capsule floated more than 120,000 feet (36,576 meters) into the stratosphere by an ultra-thin, 55-story helium balloon.
The jump was postponed due to wind Monday, then aborted at the last minute Tuesday because of wind gusts. The balloon is so delicate that it can take off only if winds on the ground are 2 mph (3.2 kph) or less.
Baumgartner is disappointed "like the rest of us" but taking a couple of days of critical downtime, his high-performance athletic trainer, Andy Walshe, said Wednesday.
Team meteorologist Don Day noted during a media briefing at the Roswell launch site that weather delays are common in stratospheric ballooning.
"It takes a lot of patience," said Joe Kittinger, a former Air Force captain whose free-fall record Baumgartner is trying to break. Kittinger is a lead member of Baumgartner's team, and will be the only member of mission control who will communicate directly with Baumgartner during his nearly three-hour ascent in a pressurized capsule.
Kittinger said his 1960 jump, the first attempt to break the sound barrier, also was delayed by weather. He leapt from a helium balloon-floated, open-air gondola from an altitude of 19.5 miles (31.38 kilometers).
"I was ready to go and had to wait," Kittinger said at the briefing. "It's frustrating. But you have to go through it. What you see is what you get."
Kittinger reached 614 mph (988 kph), or Mach 0.9. Baumgartner, a former military parachutist from Austria, hopes to reach 690 mph (1,110 kph), or Mach 1.
Kittinger also was involved in the Air Force's Excelsior project, making a series of parachute jumps from helium balloons in the stratosphere in 1959 and 1960. Excelsior was a test bed for the nation's space program. With one balloon flight, "we waited 30 days and we never got it off," Kittinger said.
Baumgartner's team had hoped to make the launch in the summer, when there is less winds, but was forced to delay it until October because of problems with the capsule.
One of the disappointments of Tuesday's aborted launch was losing the balloon. The balloons are so fragile that once they are taken out of the box, they cannot be reused. The team has one more balloon. Team members said they are looking for a backup, but that could take four weeks or more.
Art Thompson, the project's technical director, said there likely would be windows in the weather for making the jump through November, but declined to speculate on long-term plans beyond that.
The jump is being sponsored by energy drink maker Red Bull. The costs have not been disclosed. But Thompson said Wednesday the balloons cost several hundred thousand dollars each, and he estimated the team lost $60,000 to $70,000 in helium with the aborted jump.
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By Chris Tomasson, Rocky Mountain News
October 12, 2004
Kenyon Martin says he always gives "110 percent." If Monday's practice is any indication, even mathematicians might have a hard time arguing.
It was a routine scrimmage, but the Denver Nuggets power forward played with so much intensity, you'd have thought there was an "NBA Finals" logo stuck to the floor. When a call didn't go his way, he scowled at a member of the Nuggets staff who was playing the role of referee.


text: With the debut of iOS 7 this week, Apple has made the most radical change to its mobile operating system since it first launched on the iPhone way back in 2007. Need proof? Let's take a walk down memory lane and look at how iOS has evolved. Apple introduced a boatload of design and user experience elements with the first version of iOS. The bulk of those stuck around largely unchanged through iOS 6. Over the years, new apps, settings, and features were added -- all things that made the OS more useful and, for the most part, improved the user experience. And of course, these additions all spoke the same design language. But now, for the first time since its birth, the look and feel of iOS is fundamentally different. We look at how it got there, and we trace some of its important milestones along the way. Photo: Alex Washburn / Wired iOS 1 With the launch of the first iPhone, Apple established the general look and feel of what would become the world's first mature touchscreen-driven mobile operating system. Its main interface became iconic -- a grid of app icons, each a square with rounded corners, and a dock of four icons fixed across the bottom of the screen. It's a look that inspired a few copycats. Besides the homescreen, iOS 1.0 established a number of other interfaces and design elements that would continue to show up in each subsequent version of iOS. The onscreen keyboard, Google Maps, mobile Safari, the phone call interface, "visual voicemail" were all key features established in iOS 1.0. Also, the Settings menu -- with the darker blue title bar across the top, lighter blue background, and tappable options rendered in black text -- stayed largely the same after launch. Photo: AppleiOS 2 While iOS 1.0 established the paradigms of Apple's mobile experience, iOS 2, that experience expanded with the addition of the App Store and third-party apps. The second version of iOS was released when the iPhone was a year old, in July 2008. It kept the same general look and feel as the original, but added MobileMe, Apple's first failed venture at cloud-based mail and syncing. There was also added support for Microsoft Exchange accounts, and the ability to search through your contacts -- nothing else that majorly affected the UI. But the App Store was a huge addition, and a model that went on the revolutionize software distribution -- not just for iOS, but for mobile and dekstop apps across several platforms. Photo: AppleiOS 3 With iOS 3, Apple polished things up. Its Apple-made app icons gained depth and texture -- a subtle way to show off the improved processing power of its latest handset, the iPhone 3GS. iOS 3, which launched in June 2009, filled in a lot of the blanks left by previous versions of the OS (copy and paste!) and added things users had been requesting, like making the keyboard available in landscape mode. iOS 3 brought the introduction of the push notification, which would eventually alert us to everything from new emails and text messages to the availability of new editions of digital magazines, or whether you needed to take action in a game ("Oh no! My plants are dying!"). Voice Control was also added, giving users a new way to find and play music, or call specific contacts just by speaking requests into the phone. In April 2010, Apple released iOS 3.2, which marked a major change in iOS' evolution as it filled a big screen for the first time -- the iPad had arrived. 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Apple also introduced folders into iOS 4, allowing you to group related apps in a single place. The background in the folders was a black linen texture, a skeuomorphic element that made its way into a number of Apple apps. Photo:Wired iOS 5 While the interface remained largely the same, iOS 5 brought one very important addition to Apple's mobile OS: Siri. Although her abilities were initially quite limited, for the first time, Apple introduced a real way we could interact with our iOS device in a different manner. Siri became a portal to information, and to information normally housed within specific apps. This meant you could bypass having to click on an app or doing a Google search in the first place. You could just tap and hold the home button to pull up Siri, and you'd see that now-familiar circular chrome icon punctuated by pulsing purple virtual light. Skeuomorphism was always an integral part of the iOS experience, easing users into apps that replicated the purpose of real-life objects by looking like those real-world counterparts. Notes is one of those, with its yellow notepad background; Reminders, an addition to iOS 5, was another one. It featured lined paper with a paper pulp background texture. Background textures like paper and linen became an increasingly prominent fixture in iOS 5. Photo: Wired iOS 6 One of the major themes of iOS 6 was its unification with OS X through cloud-synced services like Messages, Calendar, and of course, iCloud. Design cues from the desktop OS were shared with the mobile OS, and design elements for syncing behaviors were repeated from app to app. Also, the use of textures was still going strong. The design changes from iOS 5 were subtle -- things like the shine pattern on chrome in the OS, which changed depending on the angle. This was particularly evident in the music player and volume slider. Skeuomorphism remained at an all-time high, as new apps like Passbook featured pseudo-paper-shredder animations. More of the user experience changed around sharing and syncing (in addition to deeper iCloud integration, iOS 6 introduced Facebook sharing) than it did around design though. Photo:Wired iOS 7 Onstage at WWDC this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook called iOS 7 "the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone," and we certainly can't disagree, based on what we've seen so far. Apple's typically slow, iterative design roadmap came to a stark about-face with this rebirth of iOS. Version 7 ditches the simulated shine and textures of a number of its apps and app icons, redrawing the visual elements in a simple, flat style. Just a couple of contrasting colors, maybe a gradient, and that's it. The new iOS also uses circles as a key design element throughout the interface. 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I have been taken to task by two TEOF posters now about the level of obsession I have with my former faith. I have benefitted from the scrutiny and words of encouragement from one of the posters. There seems to be an underlying annoyance with my posts. But several posters have also told me that while the contents are bizarre, some of what I post is helpful and even half way intriguing.
I was in a cult for three decades, from birth—I was so deeply interred that I still grapple with the fear of "what if I left god's only true church" from time to time. It can be a wild ride. One month I am truly strong in my convictions, then there are those wacky moments of wicked doubt. Which are, arguably, becoming less invasive. Part of reason I was posting, pretty solidly, for the last few months with reference to my former cult allegiance was to get purposefully pinged from those who never had to grapple with any cult mindset. See, the cult mindset is unfathomable to those who do not know it. It invades the deepest part of you and controls what you eat, drink, smoke, and do down to what clothing you will wear (even your underwear in some cases), what kind of and how much sex you will have, movies you will watch, books you will read, what charities to give to, what college you will attend, people you will associate with and eventually marry.
It is completely and utterly fascinating for me to see how easily most if not all of you will dismiss any and all religions. There are a few of you who have had to grapple with leaving Catholicism or fundie christianity. In my opinion, those are cults too—very much so. But seeing how flippantly Joseph Smith is called out as a huckster etc is amazing to me. I still have to support a wife who deeply believes in Mormonism, which means I still rub shoulders with her congregation. This means I am exposed to frequent statements of assurance that these people "know" that Joseph Smith was god's prophet for our day. Polar opposites.
People who leave a cult physically, as I have learned from studies done on people like this, rarely ever completely shed that "cultural accent". This is more true for those who participate in the cult from birth. And since I choose to remain married to my wife for some very excellent reasons, It is likely that I will never really "recover".
So I have decided to continue to post from time to time with reference to my former cult life. I will be more judicious in what I say and describe, I will answer questions that are given to me in order to assist perspective. And I will try to keep my references posted here in this part of TEOF (cults). I feel this is an appropriate location to do this.
If there are posters who have a problem with that, please use the "ignore" function and you'll never have to read any of my posts. It's all good. Or please, do take me to task privately or publicly. I don't mind.
Hi Noggin,
You write very well.
I don't think you are in any danger of winding up on any ignore list here.
You postings are most excellent.
Religion is very closely tied to personal identity.
But it is not the only thing. You should read some posts here where Libertarians and pinko-tree-hugging-lefties like me get into.
They are somewhat similar to discussions between Xian and heretics.
I heard a guy say once that people pick their political affiliation early in life, around adolescence and very, very few ever change them.
It is the same with religion. These are our orientation points in a world that we really don't understand. Abandoning or changing these I find a courageous act.
By the way, Monterey is in my sales territory. If you ever want to hook up for coffee or a pint, let me know.
Don't worry, I am not a serial killer, I gave that up years ago :D
Ironic, isn't it, that the very thing that this board sprang from is the need to address the ludicrous message in religion, yet some do not want to know what that actually entails, and how messy the process can be. Someone who has escaped a religion that had them literally wrapped up down to the underwear is perhaps the most interesting case study they might hope to run across, so it surprises me that you've been taken to task in any way, and I would only remind you that your posts are riveting and thought-provoking to the vast majority here. As you say, those who don't want to see what some ex-theists have been through, are still going through, and how deeply these beliefs invaded every aspect of your daily life. . . can choose to ignore. Screw 'em. Squelching your real history in the cult would be to deny what really goes on out there in Religiousfundamentalistland.
How do they suppose extremist Islamists are created? They were only fed a slightly different brand of BS, that's all. Your tales are filled with incredibly pertinent information, and I read every one with empathy. I think lifelong atheists must think it's a simple "snap out of it and move on" sort of deal. Not the case. Good to see you, Nogs .
Noggin, you are quite right.
As a life-long atheist, I frankly cannot imagine believing in the God myth or of being part of a religious cult.
Because of this, it is "utterly fascinating" to me to see how you, and others who have been saddled with such irrational belief burdens, have had the courage to take the steps to break the spell and to know how hard you continue to struggle every day to shed it for good.
I guess that I am hopeful that in reading your posts and those of others in similar situations I will begin to gain some understanding of the grip that religion has on so many of my friends and relatives and therefore may be better able to help them to make the break if and when the opportunity arises.
So, I for one hope that you keep posting your thoughts, doubts, struggles, stumbles and triumphs.
Oh, and BTW, Joseph Smith WAS a huckster and a charlatan! :wink:
Yes, Noggin, thank you for your posts, I enjoy reading them. Like CA above, I have no personal experience with cults and therefore felt I had nothing to contribute to your various threads. I have, however, read every word of them.
[quote author="Noggin"]I have been taken to task by two TEOF posters now about the level of obsession I have with my former faith. I have benefitted from the scrutiny and words of encouragement from one of the posters. There seems to be an underlying annoyance with my posts. But several posters have also told me that while the contents are bizarre, some of what I post is helpful and even half way intriguing.
Quite frankly, since you're not trolling at all (and even then I'd still say the following is just about as valid), if anyone is for whatever reason annoyed by reading your posts . . . well, the solution is pretty obvious for anyone over, say, three or four . . . no?
Complaining like that is akin to walking up to a conversation and telling the participants you're not interested, so they need to change the subject. In person that would be obviously narcissistic, but it's less obvious online.
[Lewis Black Mode]
It's really not very tough not to fucking read what you don't want to fucking read. Jesus H. Fucking Christ people! Do you need others to dress and feed you as well!?
If you're annoyed by reading posts I have to say you've worked through it, so your annoyance is well earned, so you may as well enjoy it.
I think I'll go and poke myself in the eye now so I can complain about how much it hurts to get poked in the eye.[/Lewis Black Mode]
PS: a great example just presented itself. Panopeia just posted a new topic "Contradictions in the Bible, one by one by one…" I'm sure a number of forum participants will actually delve into that one and get into it with her, but all I need to see is the heading and who posted it to know I have precisely zero interest in that thread. If I were forced to read it I would be bored and possibly even annoyed, so since I'm not forced to read it I'll opt out, thank you. On the other hand I have no problem at all with those who do want to participate, and I'm certainly not so infantile as to expect my own sentiments to have any bearing what-so-ever on them. I don't get it, but that really doesn't matter in the slightest, does it. By all means dig in and enjoy—sincerely.
Noggin - I am new to this forum and in the process of shedding a rather heavy garb of tenacious Catholicism.
Reading your posts is helping me to understand the strength of my own cult "death grip".
It might seem to people reading these posts that a person becomes obsessed with all of this.
I hope that those who perceive us to be "obsessed" could understand that exfoliating the doctrine is a lifelong process.
It is not an easy thing for one to hop from devout believer to creedless heathen.
Well thanks for the kind words.
[quote author="Ellecram"]Noggin - I am new to this forum and in the process of shedding a rather heavy garb of tenacious Catholicism.
Reading your posts is helping me to understand the strength of my own cult "death grip".
Hi Elle
I appreciate the difficulty you might be facing. One of the biggest eye openers for me was allowing myself to shake hands and rub shoulders with other faiths that claimed they were the ones with God's only Truth and Mormonism was a joke… Truly bizarre to see them scoff at how obviously false Mormonism was. I just shake my head. I mean, I ran around Europe for 2 years as a missionary telling all who would listen that they were in error and they needed (desperately) to convert to Mormonism, but I was full tilt brainwashed back then. Totally different now to bump into people now and hear them dismiss my former faith. And then examine where they are coming from… as far as how THEY really, actually, truly know that they are the sole possessors of Gods one and only Truth capable of saving a human soul.
Is it strange for you to look at me sitting here typing a post to you, and know that I have not even one shred of worry that I am going to some Catholic hell? While there you sit, perfectly comfortable in your knowledge that, of all the fates out there, the fear of a Mormon hell fate is not one of them?
Religion is a virus given, in many cases, to the young by their parents and family/social peers. The only antedote is knowledge. As you indicated, Elle, it can be a slow and twisted process extricating ones self from the effects. I am thankful that it is possible to do it.
I understand the feeling of being alone so well. It is as if my family thinks I have contracted some knd of contagious disease!!!!
Interesting observation on the partitions of Hell - the Mormon Hell and the Catholic Hell - I never conceptualized it quite this way!
My mother (deceased long ago) used to be inflexible on the One True Religion issue. My father was a convert from some Protestant religion and was a little more open minded.
Forums like this are so liberalizing.
That would include me. I always check the cults forum when I visit to see if you, Noggin, posted anything new. I have not heard a more personal, indepth account of the inner workings of scientology. Just fascinating.
Just for those not familiar with what I mean by Noggin and scientology:
Hi rab… yes, my scientology experience was a nice confirmation in so many ways.
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Hi Noggin—
I find the posts about your experiences particularly helpful to me because I was in a similar boat. I studied with the Jehovah's Witnesses for more than ten years, and though I never got baptized, I was pretty wrapped up. I spent my early years, birth to about 18 years old, as a practicing Catholic, church every Sunday, never thought to question. Then I went to college in Chicago. College was a real challenge to my religious beliefs. I thought maybe I just had the wrong religion. So when the JWs came to my door, I started a study. One thing I have to say about the Witnesses—they really do know their bibles. I studied and prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to make the scriptures clear to me. I gave it a long time, but it didn't click. I saw the movie "The God Who Wasn't There" and it clicked. I read Earl Doherty's 'The Jesus Puzzle' and 'Challenging the Verdict' and it clicked. I read End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation and books by Dennett and Dawkins and E.O. Wilson. Next on my night table is Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Right now, I'm in the middle of Michael Shermer's 'Why Darwin Matters'. I suppose you get my point. They're all clicking. It took me 43 years of earnest scholarship to arrive at the point where I can be honest with myself, and with those around me and say that I don't believe the Bible is the inspired word of God. I believe it is a work which originated in man's imagination. I still read it. I am still fascinated by it.
I read a few comments by people who post on this forum, declaring that it is an Atheist site and lamenting the input of those who are still religious, or those, like us, who are in transition. I guess if you're an atheist, then you see this site as an atheist site. But if you're not an atheist, then you see it from a different perspective. For me, this is a site where people come to discuss the points brought up by Sam Harris in his books, and related topics. I would expect that other points of view, in addition to atheist ones, allow for a more thorough analysis of the problems.
Other than that, all I really want to say is peace, brother Noggin'. I look forward to your continued posts.
[quote author="woofy"]Hi Noggin—
Other than that, all I really want to say is peace, brother Noggin'. I look forward to your continued posts.
Hi woofy and thanks for the added perspective. You know, one of the religions I studied post Mormonism was Jehovah's Witnesses. I agree with you that they know the bible. They have their own interpretation of it, don't they.
Hats off to you for your reading list. Those are some really great books. Demon Haunted World, imo, should be a reading requirement for every young person before they get their driver's license.
After I read many of those books something really wonderful happened to me. I became acutely interested in history. I am insatiable. I kind of understand why, but I kind of don't. I mean, so many civilizations have come and gone, each one seemingly convinced that they have the world all figured out and I am just fascinated with what each one of them came up with as they painted their cultural tapestry for us to see later. And we all are doing just that aren't we. My painting of what life interprets itself to me is so different than what I originally started out. I think that is kind of rare. Too many times I see people continuing to paint their life's work within the confines and parameters of what their parents and peers told them it should be. Sure many leave that all behind and paint outside the lines, but many many do not.
Thanks for stopping by this thread.
Hey Noggin,
It's gramps, the grumpy atheist from the so-called "FAIR(?) board, now known as MA&D.
Good to find you here. I'm glad to see you are enlightening the masses as to the "truth" of Mormonism. Carry on the good fight. If you don't mind, I will jump in from time to time, as well.
All the best to you.


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Last night saw the broadcast premiere of the documentary China's Stolen Children, in which filmmaker Jezza Neumann focuses on the epidemic of child kidnappings in the Olympic host country (some 70,000 a year) through the story of 5-year-old Chen Jie, who was snatched a few months prior to principal photography. The reasons for the raft of kidnappings, the film explains, can be directly traced to the country's one-child policy and its preference for baby boys... which has also given rise to a market for females that families can then marry off to their sons. Above left, a clip of Chen Jie's parents, followed by an interview with Wang Li, a trafficker who "explains" the trade in young women and girls. (A schedule of upcoming showings is here.)
China's Stolen Children [HBO]


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A fixed term deposit is a safe and stable way to earn a fixed return on your cash investment.
Fixed term deposits are essentially bank accounts where you lock your money away for a fixed period and earn a fixed interest rate on those funds.
Fixed term deposits can be both short term, which is usually anything under 12 months, or long term, which can be up to 10 years.
Once the fixed term has ended, the bank or financial institution will give you back your initial deposit plus any interest you earn during the fixed term period.
Depending on the type of fixed term deposit account you open, when the term matures, you may have the option of rolling the funds over for a new term or withdrawing the funds.
Unlike other savings or transaction accounts which offer variable interest rates and flexible features, fixed term deposits offer fixed interest rates, which means the amount of interest you earn will remain the same during the term of the deposit.
Sometimes you only want to tie up your money for a short period, maybe because you want to make a quick return on a large sum, or just to have more flexibility and access to your money. That's where a short term deposit can come in.
Short term deposits are usually less than 12 months (e.g. 30 days, 90 days, six months or 12 months), though you will still not be able to access your money for the length of the term without incurring a penalty fee.
At the end of the term, you can roll your deposit over, or you can withdraw it. An advantage of short term deposits is that you can take advantage of higher interest rates with a different financial institution, if they are available.
Term deposits can be a great way to build your savings, but before you invest, you might have one important question. Are term deposits safe?
When it comes to investing your money, you can choose between high-risk and low-risk options. High-risk options tend to have a better potential payout, but you also risk earning no profit at all or even losing your original investment.
Low-risk options tend to earn less profit than high-risk options, but they're also safer, with little to no risk of losing money. Term deposits fall into the low-risk category.
Term deposits are safe because they're low-risk, but they're also protected by the Australian government's Financial Claims Scheme. This government guarantee will insure your deposit for up to $250,000 per person, per institution, meaning that even if the bank collapses, the government will reimburse you for your deposit.


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Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create mobile products and services designed to offer consumers, operators and developers choice and opportunity. As each company would focus on its core competencies, the partnership would create the opportunity for rapid time to market execution. Additionally, Nokia and Microsoft plan to work together to integrate key assets and create completely new service offerings, while extending established products and services to new markets.
Under the proposed partnership:
- Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.
- Nokia would help drive the future of Windows Phone. Nokia would contribute its expertise on hardware design, language support, and help bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points, market segments and geographies.
- Nokia and Microsoft would closely collaborate on joint marketing initiatives and a shared development roadmap to align on the future evolution of mobile products.
- Bing would power Nokia's search services across Nokia devices and services, giving customers access to Bing's next generation search capabilities. Microsoft adCenter would provide search advertising services on Nokia's line of devices and services.
- Nokia Maps would be a core part of Microsoft's mapping services. For example, Maps would be integrated with Microsoft's Bing search engine and adCenter advertising platform to form a unique local search and advertising experience
- Nokia's extensive operator billing agreements would make it easier for consumers to purchase Nokia Windows Phone services in countries where credit-card use is low<.li>Microsoft development tools would be used to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones, allowing developers to easily leverage the ecosystem's global reach.
- Nokia's content and application store would be integrated with Microsoft Marketplace for a more compelling consumer experience.
"I am excited about this partnership with Nokia," said Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. "Ecosystems thrive when fueled by speed, innovation and scale.The partnership announced today provides incredible scale, vast expertise in hardware and software innovation and a proven ability to execute."


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A lot of muffins have made an appearance in my posts this spring, most of them on the sweet side, so I thought it was time to make a savory muffin, incorporating lots of favorite breakfast foods like bacon, eggs, green onions and potatoes. Cheddar cheese and cornmeal were on my list as well.
I love when a recipe comes together exactly right on the first try; I can't tell you how many times I've made something that just didn't work at all, which means no photos and no recipe to share. But these muffins were soft and moist, full of flavor, and baked up so light and fluffy. I loved the chunks of soft potato and crisp bacon sprinkled throughout.
We ate them warm, spread with a bit of softened butter slightly sweetened with honey and cinnamon...
Savory Breakfast Muffins with Potatoes, Bacon, Green Onions and Cheddar Cheese
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- 1 cup diced red potatoes, unpeeled (2-3 small)
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups low-fat (2%) buttermilk
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup cornmeal
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1/4 cup sliced green onions, green and white parts (1-2 stalks)
- 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese, or other cheese
Preheat the oven to 350. Spray a muffin pan with non-stick spray.
Place the potatoes in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook until fork tender. Drain and mash the potatoes, leaving some lumps. Spread out on a plate to cool quickly.
In a large bowl, whisk together the mashed potatoes, oil, eggs and 1 cup of buttermilk until well combined.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and pepper. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, stirring just until moistened. Stir in the bacon, green onions and cheese, then add the remaining 1/4 cup buttermilk if needed.
Fill 12-14 muffin cups with the batter; they will be full, almost to the top.
Bake muffins for 18-22 minutes, until golden and puffy and a toothpick comes out clean. Cool muffins in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes before serving. Serve warm, with soft honey cinnamon butter.
Yields 12-14 muffins.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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|HENRY COLE (JOHN COLE) was born 1627 in England, and died 10 DEC 1676 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married SARAH RUSCOE 10 DEC 1646 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, daughter of WILLIAM RUSCOE and REBECCA. She was born ABT 1626, and died JAN 1688 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.
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|JOHN COLE (HENRY COLE, JOHN COLE) was born 14 FEB 1652 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. He married DEBORAH BARTLETT 22 NOV 1668 in Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, daughter of ROBERT BARTLETT and ANN w\o ROBERT BARTLETT. She was born BEF MAR 1646, and died 11 DEC 1711 in Hatfield, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.
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|Abigail COLE (HENRY COLE, JOHN COLE) was born 28 OCT 1664 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. She married John STEEVENS 28 APR 1684 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, son of THOMAS STEEVENS and MARY FLETCHER. He was born 10 MAR 1660 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, and died 1722 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. She married John FRENCH BEF 21 MAR 1723, son of Thomas FRENCH and Mary BUTTON. He died 28 DEC 1727. He was buried in West Cemetery. Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
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The family of a special education student is suing a Long Island, New York, school district for $25 million, alleging their 12-year-old son was forced to falsely confess to belonging to ISIS and planning to blow up the school, NBC News reports.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, accuses East Islip Middle School administrators of violating Nashwan Uppal's constitutional rights when they allegedly coerced him into saying he was a terrorist and had bombs, searched through his belongings and locker, and for a period of time refused to let him contact his mother.
The alleged forced confession came a day after older students harassed Uppal in the cafeteria, repeatedly calling him a terrorist and asking "what he was going to blow up next," the suit says.
U.S. & World
East Islip Union Free School District spokesman Michael Ganci told NBC News the district doesn't comment on pending litigation.


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