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One Hutu killer describes feeling "like two different people" as he took part in the genocide: a man who obediently slaughtered his Tutsi neighbours because the mayor told him to, yet who hid one of their daughters in a grain basket to save her from the machetes.
A Tutsi survivor recalls the moment attackers rounded on her 17-year-old brother as he cried: "Why are you killing us? We used to be friends."
And an aid worker and an ambassador lament the world's failure to stop the fastest genocide of its scale in history.
These are fragments from a series of first-person accounts we've collected to mark the 20th anniversary of Rwanda's 100 days of slaughter. Taken together, they give extraordinary insight into the psychology of atrocity: how so many ordinary people - friends, neighbours, doctors, teachers, priests - could take part in the bloodletting.
They also hint at the moral complexity underlying Rwanda's efforts to balance truth and reconciliation, justice and forgiveness.
Take Frederick Kazibwemo, the man who killed "like an animal" by day and felt sick by night as he recalled the kindnesses of his now-dead neighbours. In addition to describing the mindset of a genocidaire, his account touches on the economic and political resentments that helped fuel the ethnic hatred.
"The mayor told us we have to kill Tutsi," he says. "We should take their land and cows. We should take everything. Many of us Hutu were poor and the Tutsi were rich."
Twenty years later, old resentments fester alongside new.
A great many genocidaires like Kazibwemo spent years in custody as they waited for their time in village courts known as gacaca that were set up to deal with more than 2 million cases. Given the overflowing prisons and enormous backlog, the courts often let the accused go if they confessed and showed remorse.
Other convicted killers were released early after a 2003 amnesty, provided they confessed and asked for a pardon. The result is that thousands of murderers today live alongside survivors.
It's coexistence, but hardly reconciliation.
"If you kill people and you are not punished, you cannot understand the seriousness of what you did," a survivor told our correspondent, Katy Migiro, who collected most of the stories. "If they have another opportunity to kill, they will."
Meanwhile, many Hutus feel aggrieved at what they see as a one-sided narrative of the genocide presented by the Tutsi-dominated government of President Paul Kagame.
That narrative, they say, ignores the thousands of moderate Hutus who were slaughtered by extremist Hutu militia. It also glosses over alleged atrocities committed by the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), Kagame's rebel army that swept in from Uganda in 1994 to end the genocide.
A major part of Kagame's reconciliation strategy is to promote a Rwandan identity that eschews ethnic labels. Remembrance is a collective affair, played out every April during genocide commemoration week.
But critics say the approach paradoxically serves to entrench ethnic divisions. Here's how one Hutu in exile puts it: "In Rwanda today, they say there's no ethnic groups and then they speak of genocide against the Tutsi. It's a contradiction. The automatic question is who killed them and the answer is Hutu. Hutus are made to feel like criminals.
"It is very dangerous when people are made to feel guilty because of their identity. If you do that, it makes them identify with themselves even more and begin working out how to get out of it by any means including removing the powers that be to regain their dignity."
Given Rwanda's history of massacres, the phrase "by any means" has an ominous ring.
For the outside world, the memory of Rwanda is one of shock and shame. Shock that genocide unfolded right under our noses. Shame that nobody did anything to stop it.
"You still hear about it: 'The international community abandoned Rwanda'," recalls Johan Swinnen, Belgian's then ambassador to Rwanda,
It marked a turning point for international aid workers, who only really got into gear when hundreds of thousands of Hutus, fleeing the advances of the RPF, crossed into what was then eastern Zaire.
As deadly cholera struck the refugee camps that sprung up around Mount Goma, it suddenly dawned that the people the aid workers were helping included large numbers of killers and their families. Meanwhile militia leaders virtually controlled the camps.
"You could see the militia soldiers training," recalls Samantha Bolton, who worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres, which pulled out of the camps in December 1995 after realising humanitarian aid was actually helping Hutu extremists regroup and prepare for another conflict.
"They would be jogging and marching with their clubs and machetes. You could see they were killers. Their eyes were dead, their souls gone."
On Monday, when Kagame lights a flame of memorial that will burn for 100 days, the focus will be on remembering the 800,000 who died in one of history's cruellest chapters.
But questions around humanitarian intervention in morally complex conflicts and how best to bury the past are dilemmas that will resonate wherever atrocities are committed, from Liberia and Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka and Syria.
When people talk about moving on, they tend to use words like truth, acknowledgement, justice and forgiveness. Those words had real meaning in post-apartheid South Africa, for example, where Nelson Mandela presided over the reconciliation process with undisputed moral authority.
But how much currency do those words have in Rwanda today?
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Progressive Companies Uplift Snacking
The modern approach to snacking is changing as progressive companies make an effort to lift snacking to its original status
Simple packaging conveys Snacktrition's simple message of health … along with a complex process that bakes in additional fiber and calcium, which "nurtures digestive and bone health."
Consumers eventually learned that not all granolas were healthful. Bear Naked snacks kept health in focus, and endeared itself to athletes.
FutureCeuticals combines ancient grains amaranth, barley, buckwheat, durum, millet, chia, quinoa and spelt in a formulation-friendly powdered blend called AncienTrim, which can be used in bar formulations.
Many snacks are salty. Wild Flavors' SaltTrim can reduce up to half the salt in a snack without affecting the taste.
Note to packaging
Snack food manufacturers are some of the most innovative packagers. All food processors can learn from their eye-grabbing graphics, convenient on-the-go structures, some of which are resealable, and smaller packages, many of which are sized to 100 calorie packs. If you missed our June packaging story Lessons from the snack packers
In 1971, Sally De Vore and Thelma White took readers on a trip through the dietary cultures of nine civilizations noted for their health. In a refreshing book titled Appetites of Man, the authors showed how a balanced diet of nutrient-rich foods played a significant role in the health and success of each civilization. And they did so without the usual dietary evangelism and extremism that characterizes today's popular diet books.
De Vore and White compared the diets, both meals and snacks, of various civilizations with the "typical American" meals and snacks of the time. Though this was just prior to the fast food explosion, the American diet was viewed as rich in calories and low in nutrients, just the opposite of the healthy cultures featured in this fascinating out-of-print book.
In the healthy civilizations, snacks were an extension of a healthy diet. Nutrition wasn't sacrificed simply because a snack was quickly prepared or easily transported. In the modern world, snacks all too often undermine a healthy diet and contribute to the growing epidemic of obesity. Taste and convenience so overwhelm nutrition that the real value of snacks is all but lost.
Only recently has the practice of eating healthy food several times per day to maintain energy and blood sugar been recognized as a legitimate dietary strategy, especially for athletes. But of course this is old news to healthy civilizations where snacking fills both a hunger and an energy gap.
The modern approach to snacking is changing, however, as progressive companies make an effort to lift snacking to its original status.
Redeeming the potato chip
While some of our snacks stem from ethnic traditions, others are relatively modern in origin. Potato chips were popularized when an exasperated chef, Charles Crumb of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., tired of fielding complaints of thick soggy fried potatoes from the same customer. Crumb sliced the potatoes too thin to be eaten with a fork and stir-fried them. "Saratoga Chips" were a surprise hit, and the popularity of potato chips would grow.
From a nutrition perspective, the low point of potato chips came when they were deep-fried in partially hydrogenated oil. Today, manufacturers have replaced the trans fat-rich hydrogenated oils with healthier selections. But the most innovative twists on potato chips are methods of preparation and formulation.
Popchips Inc. was formed in 2007 to bring to market a natural line of popped chips with half the fat of fried chips. "Thanks to the magic of popping, Popchips offers a snack so tasty and crispy that you won't even notice it's healthier," says Keith Belling, cofounder of Popchips, San Francisco. "Popchips chips aren't fried or baked. We take the finest all-natural ingredients, like potatoes, apply heat and pressure [no oil, mind you], and pop! It's a chip. All that's added is a flavorful blend of natural seasonings." The popping process also is used to create popped corn and rice chips.
How about potato chips to lower cholesterol? Los Angeles-based Corazonas Foods Inc. adds CardioAid plant sterols from Archer Daniels Midland Co. Packages carry the FDA-certified health claim: "Foods containing at least 0.4g per serving of plant sterols, eaten twice a day … may reduce the risk of heart disease."
Genisoy, Tulsa, Okla., uses soy crisps to pump up the protein of a traditionally low-protein snack. The taste is light and fluffy, much like puffed grains, but with the added protein power of soybeans.
Other innovations in chips include the use of different vegetables. For example, Terra Chips from Hain Celestial Group, Boulder, Colo., are made with such diverse vegetables as taro, parsnips, sweet potato, and yucca, and include a variety of vegetable powders.
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The Ford Focus didn't get much love in our $20,000 Compact Car comparison, where the Focus sedan brought up the rear of a five-car field. The Focus' amazing handling dynamics weren't enough to make us look past its small interior, poky acceleration and confusing controls for simple features. While the small size and confusing features remain, the performance-injected Focus ST hatchback with a 252-horsepower, turbocharged four-cylinder expands on the Focus' best handling attributes. As a testament to its performance intentions, the ST only comes with a six-speed manual transmission.
The 2013 Ford Focus ST is a well-thought-out, refined performance machine that manages to remain civil when needed — and downright fun when wanted.
The ST competes with the Mazdaspeed3 and Volkswagen GTI — plus the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ — on the merits of cheap performance. Click here to compare the ST to a regular Focus.
The non-ST Focus already has amazing handling and is easily one of the most fun to drive compact cars currently available. These traits are exaggerated to their best extent in the ST, which has the tenaciousness of a sports car and the civility of an everyday driver — not an easy task. The ST's great steering feel and turn-in confidence make this Focus hot-hatch a riot to drive. Its roadholding ability puts the aggressive front-seat side bolstering to work as the car tests the limits of how much pressure internal organs can take when pushed up against a seat in a hairy turn.
Expectedly, the sport suspension's ride is stiffer than that of the base Focus. What surprises is how compliant the car feels over a long haul, without the rock-hard suspension common to many small performance cars. This isn't a new trait for a Ford performance car: The Mustang's various trim levels (GT, Boss 302 and GT500) master a similar balance of performance and everyday drivability.
The EcoBoost turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder's plentiful power is packed into the engine's mid-range. The experience is similar to the GTI's 2.0-liter engine but with a bigger punch, considering the ST's 252 hp and 270 pounds-feet of torque, compared with the GTI's 200 hp and 207 pounds-feet of torque. There's no need to wind out to a bazillion rpm to have fun, as you must in the FR-S and BRZ.
The ST's power is backed by surprisingly good EPA-estimated gas mileage of 23/32 mpg city/highway, 26 mpg combined, besting the GTI (25 mpg), Speed3 (21 mpg) and manual-transmission FR-S and BRZ (25 mpg).
The benefits of a rear-wheel-drive FR-S or BRZ are apparent when you drop the hammer in the front-wheel-drive Focus ST. Drive aggressively, and the ST torque-steers badly enough to tug the wheel out of a light grip. A torque-steer prevention system and electronic differential attempt to combat this characteristic, but the 270 pounds-feet of torque still has plenty of say as to which direction the car goes.
The trick is gradual throttle application and smooth gear changes to quell the wickedness of the car darting across the road. Torque-steer is less prevalent on smooth roads or a racetrack, where the tires don't have as many grooves and bumps to follow.
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The cramped confines we've complained about in the regular Focus are less of an issue in the ST because the cocoon-like cabin feels more appropriate for a performance car. Helping the interior's fit-like-a-glove atmosphere are the ST's optional Recaro seats, which I think are among the best in the business. Many optional performance seats put a death grip on your side yet leave a total void of back support. The ST's seats have back support and side support that make them a winning combination on long drives as well as during aggressive cornering — the model I tested almost went back to Ford with some worn-out seats because I wanted to swap them into my own car.
Other editors weren't as enthused about the seats and wanted more vertical adjustment; editor Mike Hanley preferred the optional Recaros in the 2013 GT500 we recently tested. The ST's seats can come with heated leather upholstery; non-heated, partial-leather ones are also available. Two-tone color is optional. Both are part of expensive option packages, either $4,435 for the heated Recaros or $2,385 for the non-heated ones.
Ford's optional MyFord Touch multimedia system with an 8-inch screen has small virtual buttons and difficult usability. Unfortunately, it's tied to many of the packages, like the heated Recaro seats and an excellent-sounding premium Sony stereo, so you might get it whether you want it or not. Our tester's options raised the car's final price to $28,170 including a $795 destination charge and options including MyFord Touch, navigation and the premium sound system. A base ST starts at $24,495 with destination.
The hatchback version of the Focus is an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick because it earned the institution's best rating, Good, in frontal, side, roof strength and rear tests. Standard safety features include front airbags, seat-mounted side-impact airbags for front occupants, and side curtain airbags for front and rear occupants. See here for a complete list of safety features and here to see how well child-safety seats fit in the ST.
Focus ST in the Market
The ST has a fun factor close to a dedicated sports coupe like the Scion FR-S or Subaru BRZ, but with a much more usable interior and only slightly less performance appeal thanks to front-wheel drive and the inherent characteristics of that layout.
Simply enough, the Focus ST is seriously fun. It handles well, it's quick, it's comfortable and it gets great gas mileage compared with the competition. This hopped-up Focus makes more sense as a performance car than the regular Focus does as an ordinary passenger car.


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Jimmie F. Samuels
Jimmie F. Samuels, 77, of Big Spring, Texas, died Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 in a Midland, Texas, hospital. Memorial services were held at noon Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel with Dr. Randy Cotton, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Josh Holcombe, Youth Pastor, Green Acres Baptist Church South Campus, of Tyler, Texas and Randy Samuels, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Sinton, Texas, officiating He was born April 26, 1936 in Breckenridge, Texas, and married Carol June Lee Nov. 9, 1996, in Abilene, Texas.He served in the United States Air Force and was an instructor at Webb Air Force Base for the T-36, T-37 and T-38 aircraft and had been named NCO of the year. After retiring, he contracted with the United States Postal Service as a rural route mail carrier for 16 years and then was the custodian for his church. Jimmie was a very humble man and would never speak of himself unless asked.Survivors include his wife, Carol Samuels of Big Spring; three daughters, Debra Legg and husband Robert of Big Spring, Pam Holcombe and husband Steve of White Oak, Texas, and Jessica DeVaney of Big Spring; one son, Randy Samuels and wife Sherri of Sinton; a sister-in-law Edna Burgett; nine grandchildren, Rusty Holcombe, Josh Holcombe and wife Rachel, Bobby Legg and wife Andi, Aline Fuselier and husband Chris, Brett Samuels, Braden Samuels, Stetson Word, Makenzie Word and Landon Wilson; five great-grandchildren, Kierstyn and Logan Legg, Breanna Fuselier and Kaleigh and Aimey Wheeler; and several nieces and nephews.He was preceded in death by his parents, George W. and Irene Gipson Samuels Smith; six brothers and three sisters.The family suggests memorials to the Wounded Warrior Project at www.woundedwarriorproject.org/donate.Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences may be made at: www.npwelch.comPaid obituary


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Men's Golf in 12th at Wimberly Intercollegiate
The Arizona men's golf team finished the first day of the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate in 12th place with a total of 599 (+31).
The Wildcats bounced back from a 305 (+21) in the first round with a collective 294 (+10) in the afternoon, moving from 15th to 12th place at the end of the day's competition.
Much like the Arizona team as a whole, senior Erik Oja had a bounce-back afternoon, shooting a sizzling 65 (-6) to finish the day with a total of 144 (+2). Oja's second-round effort, the best 18-hole total of his college career, placed him in a 13th-place tie with Tuesday's final round left to play.
Junior Alex McMahon was also in red numbers after Monday's afternoon session, shooting 70 (-1) to get to 147 (+5) for the day. He will start play tomorrow in a tie for 25th place.
Junior Brenden Redfern paced Arizona with a 72 (+1) in the morning round, and finished the day in a tie for 40th place with a total of 150 (+8). Junior Dylan Kornberg and freshman Bertrand Mommaerts each shot 160 (+18) on Monday and are tied for 88th place.
Senior Benson Liu, playing as an individual, shot 151 (+9) on Monday and stands in a tie for 51st place with 18 holes to play.
Live scoring is not available for the Wimberly Intercollegiate, but results will be posted at arizonawildcats.com at the end of Tuesday's final round. For more information on Arizona men's golf, follow @UAWildcatsGolf on Twitter.
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South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright has reportedly vowed to stay in the job despite calls for him to quit over a report into widespread child abuse by gangs in Rotherham.
An inquiry report, published on Tuesday, found at least 1,400 children in the town were sexually exploited by criminal gangs between 1997 and 2013.
Mr Wright, a former Rawmarsh councillor, was in charge of children's services at the council between 2005 and 2010 but he supposedly said today that he would remain in his position.
He reportedly said: "I have taken lessons learned in that office and brought them to bear in my new role with South Yorkshire Police. I believe I am the most appropriate person to hold this office at this current time."
Both UKIP and the Liberal Democrats have already called for him to step down.
In the report, council and police leaders in the town were accused of "blatant" failures of leadership for most of this period, where girls as young as 11 were raped by "large numbers of male perpetrators."
The report highlighted that some of the 1,400 plus victims were raped by multiple attackers and even doused with petrol and threatened with being set alight.
Roger Stone, who lives in Kilnhurst and was council leader from 2003, resigned with "immediate effect" following the revelations at a press conference at Rotherham United's New York Stadium on Tuesday. He will stay on as a councillor.
He said: "I think it is only right that I, as leader, take responsibility on behalf of the council for the historic failings that are so clearly described in the report."
However, the council's chief executive Martin Kimber said he did not have the evidence to discipline any individuals working for the council despite the report saying there had been 'blatant' collective failures.
Mr Kimber said: "Officers in senior positions responsible for children's safeguarding services throughout the critical periods when services fell some way short of today's standards do not work for the council today.
"To that extent, I have not been able to identify any issues of professional practice related to current serving officers of this council that would require me to consider use of disciplinary or capability procedures."
According to Professor Alexis Jay OBE, a former senior social worker who authored a report into child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham since 1997, evidence presented to police and social services was "suppressed and disbelieved."
She said: "If all of the authorities involved, officers and members, had been less concerned with their own agendas and prejudices and kept their focus on children's welfare, some of these children might not have suffered the abuse and brutality we read and heard about."
Prof Jay said child victims were "raped by multiple perpetrators. Trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated.
"There were examples of children being doused with petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone."
The report said evidence of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham emerged in the mid-to-late 1990s and a council youth service called Risky Business made the evidence known to the police and social services.
But it added: "In most cases, especially in the early days, the evidence was disbelieved, suppressed or ignored."
Professor Jay said sexual abuse of children continued to this day, with 55 cases on the books of Rotherham's specialist CSE team in June and 157 reports made to the police last year.
The report said almost all the perpetrators were identified by victims as being of Pakistani heritage, but that there was a widespread perception "that some senior people in the council and the police wanted to 'downplay' the ethnic dimension."
Professor Jay concluded: "The question inevitably arises as to why those in a position to do something so blatantly failed to act over such a long period of time. I found no single answer to this.
"I was told some elected members seemed to be in denial about the issue and refused to believe such a thing could happen in Rotherham. Others thought it was a 'one-off' problem.
"There was also a concern not to bring the ethnic issues out in the open, because it might damage community cohesion. Others said it would compromise police operations if the issue had been publicly discussed.
"There were professional jealousies apparent in the relations with the Risky Business project, and a persistent sense that the issue was being exaggerated despite the evidence to the contrary."
The report added that many improvements had been made to services in recent years and that "the protection of children is more secure than it was in earlier years."
There are 15 recommendations for improvement in the report.
These range from improving risk assessment procedures on children affected by sexual exploitation, giving victims more support and different agencies must work more closely together to tackle problems.
The under-reporting of abuse in minority ethnic communities must also be addressed and the report states: "The issue of race should be tackled as an absolute priority if it is a significant factor in the criminal activity of organised child sexual abuse."
The inquiry was announced last September by Roger Stone, who apologised to victims let down by the authority's safeguarding services.
In November 2010 five Rotherham men were jailed for sexual offences against under-age girls.
And in June last year MPs described Rotherham Council as "inexcusably slow" in tackling the problem, while South Yorkshire Police was said to have "let down" victims of grooming.
Earlier this year, it emerged Rotherham council is being sued by 15 women over its failure to tackle child sexual exploitation.
The report also criticised the council for "insufficient" attempts to engage with the Pakistani-heritage community, and a "macho", "sexist" and "bullying" culture which stopped the authority from providing an effective response.
Rotherham Council put out a statement stating that the inquiry found "services to protect young people at risk from child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are stronger and better co-ordinated across agencies today than ever before."
Chief executive Martin Kimber has apologised to the young people who were let down by services.
He said: "The report does not make comfortable reading in its account of the horrific experiences of some young people in the past, and I would like to reiterate our sincere apology to those who were let down when they needed help.
"I commissioned this independent review to understand fully what went wrong, why it went wrong and to ensure that the lessons learned in Rotherham mean these mistakes can never happen again.
"The report confirms that our services have improved significantly over the last five years and are stronger today than ever before. This is important because it allows me to reassure young people and families that should anyone raise concerns we will take them seriously and provide them with the support they need.
"However, that must not overshadow – and certainly does not excuse – the finding that for a significant amount of time the council and its partners could and should have done more to protect young people from what must be one of the most horrific forms of abuse imaginable."
Mr Kimber added: "It is clear that services are stronger and better co-ordinated now than ever before. They are not perfect, but they are fit for purpose, are significantly improved and continue to improve through close multi-agency working.
"The report contains 15 recommendations, all of which are intended to secure further improvements in our services. The delivery of these improvements will be swift and effective, and where they require a response from several agencies we will work with our partners.
"In terms of our organisational culture the report indicates that the organisation is different today from that which was perceived for much of the period under review: issues of bullying have been addressed and it no longer shapes the atmosphere in which the council conducts business."
The report – together with Mr Kimber's response to it – will be considered by the council's cabinet on Wednesday, September 3.
Chief Superintendent Jason Harwin, District Commander for Rotherham, said: "Firstly I'd like to start by offering an unreserved apology to the victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) who did not receive the level of service they should be able to expect from their local police force. We fully acknowledge our previous failings.
"We have completely overhauled the way in which we deal with CSE and that's been recognised in the report and by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary earlier this year.
"In the last four years we've made significant strides in how we protect those at risk from CSE, and the report found that the issue is 'clearly a priority' for South Yorkshire Police.
"In Rotherham we are currently dealing with 32 live investigations into CSE and developing a further 22 referrals where there are concerns around a child potentially being exploited."
He added: "Our recent cases have involved both female and male offenders and people from a wide range of different backgrounds including British, Pakistani and Roma Slovak. We will go wherever the evidence takes us. Equally we find that the victims too can be from any background, there is no 'typical victim.'
"For all of these cases, I'd like to acknowledge the people that have had the courage to come forward. We treat CSE with the utmost severity and sensitivity. If you have concerns about a child whom you believe may be at risk we would urge you to come forward.
"I accept that our recent successes in tackling CSE will not heal the pain of those victims who have been let down but we continue to deal with historic investigations with great success and will continue to thoroughly investigate any new evidence available to us."
Adam Pemberton, assistant chief executive of Victim Support, said: "The extent of the sexual exploitation of young girls in Rotherham is horrific. Almost as shocking as the details of that abuse is the abject failure on the part of social services to protect these children.
"Vulnerable girls were often not believed by the authorities because of their troubled backgrounds, consequently they were denied help not due to lack of resources, but due to a lack of concern.
"Time and again we see the same pattern repeated. Until those in authority focus on the sexual abuse and not the symptoms of that abuse, the lives of vulnerable young people like the victims in Rotherham will go on being ruined."


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Flag Day is observed each year on June 14th – the day in 1777 that the Continental Congress approved the "stars and stripes" design of the American Flag and this year, the Washington Chapter of "Daughters of the American Revolution" and the Boy Scouts are hosting a Flag Day event as part of Thursday Night Live tonight. Julie Beenblossom with the DAR says this ceremony has been happening for more than 100 years. She says the Boy Scouts will be presenting the Colors which will be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the National Anthem.
Beenblossom says the Boy Scouts will also be collecting old flags for proper disposal. She adds they hold a ceremony each year as close as they can to Flag Day at the Cabin in Sunset Park, but they are taking advantage of the audience already at the Farmers Market tonight instead. This observance begins at 5:15 tonight at the bandstand in Central Park.


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All Aboard Florida's Miami to Orlando train hits a costly patch
New downtown passenger train service that would speed users from Orlando to South Florida and back may sound like a tourism dream come true, but there's a potentially unexpected cost to local residents.
Local governments face increased costs to maintain the areas where their roads cross the tracks and some fear the closing of smaller crossings to vehicular traffic to save money.
Elizabeth Fulford lives west of Broward General Hospital and believes if crossings are closed, "it may turn into a life or death issue."
"I am very concerned about the road closures. What happens if I need an ambulance and trains are blocking the tracks?" she asked. "If they close the smaller crossings, how will this affect the police and fire" in their ability to quickly get to the scene? More here.


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PALO ALTO, Calif. — Phoenix sophomore Nevina De Luca set a new personal record and placed 12th to lead a strong contingent of Pirate girls to a 19th-place Division 4 team finish at the Stanford Invitational on Saturday.
De Luca improved upon the Phoenix sophomore class record she set earlier this season by finishing the 5,000-meter race in 19 minutes, 35 seconds for a 20-second PR. Three of her teammates also finished in the top 150 at the prestigious meet: Lindsey Vermillion (49th, 20:55), Ashlee Vos (108th, 21:52) and Arin Fitch (145th, 23:06). Vermillion's mark was a season best and Vos' was a personal record.
Cascade Christian's Stephanie Croy placed 18th in 19:53 to lead the Challengers, who also had two boys — Tristan Akery (64th, 17:14) and Alex Cummings (73rd, 17:21) — finish in the top 100 in Division 4.
The Phoenix boys were paced by junior Philip Todak, who set a new PR and placed 103rd in 17:39.
In Division 5 action, St. Mary's placed four boys in the top 75 and three girls in the top 60. On the boys side, junior Chris Martin finished 27th in 17:54 and freshman Elijah Conway placed 48th in 18:29. Senior Brooklyn Gillespie paced the St. Mary's girls by finishing 40th in 22:07, while freshmen Madeline Volk and Taylor Kreul placed 58th and 60th, respectively.
NIKE PRE-NATIONALS — At Portland, North Medford's boys finished 13th out of 23 squads in the Danner Championship division and the Black Tornado's girls placed 25th out of 28 Division 1 teams.
Senior Caleb Diaz paced the North boys by covering the 5,000-meter course in 16:47.45, which put him 70th overall. Junior teammate Ray Schireman was one spot back in 71st at 16:47.51 and senior Blake Spencer was grouped nicely in 73rd at 16:48.29.
Senior Joey Rincon (89th, 17:03.92) and junior Aaran Fagan (92nd, 17:04.39) rounded out the scorers for North, which had a 332 total score. Rocky Mountain won with 112 points.
In the girls competition, junior Jaycie Dickson led the Tornado by finishing 49th overall in 20:44.03. Rounding out the scoring were Jessica Pettegrew-Sam (108th, 21:37.24), Julia Ribeiro (148th, 22:44.20), Molly Mulhollen (156th, 23:00.02) and Kyndall Wiley (176th, 23:35.67).
WOAHINK LAKE INVITATIONAL — At Florence, Hidden Valley senior Sierra Brown placed second overall in the girls race and Ashland's girls finished second to Reynolds in the team competition at Honeyman State Park.
Brown covered the 5,000-meter course in 19:07.80 to finish runner-up to Siuslaw's Katy Potter (18:59.30). Hidden Valley freshman Megan Schiavone finished 21st in 22:05.90 as the only other Mustang runner.
Kia Parrish-Haim was the top finisher for the Grizzlies, coming in seventh at 21:16.60, with teammate Quinn Blackwolf not far behind in ninth at 21:24.00. Also scoring for Ashland were Sara Dunagan (20th, 22:05.30), Madeline Chaves (29th, 22:26.70) and Emma Parker (30th, 22:27.10). The Grizzlies posted 86 points while Reynolds had 69.
On the boys side, Hidden Valley placed fourth with 117 points and Ashland was ninth at 200. Siuslaw had the top three finishers and won with 19 points.
Zach Blanco (16:52.60) and Shane Crofoot (17:07.70) finished eighth and ninth, respectively, for Hidden Valley, which got good showings from Hunter Tillery (20th, 18:01.20), Justin Elkins (42nd, 18:40.70) and Lance Hemphill (45th, 18:43.00).
Lars Ferguson-Rockwell led Ashland with an 18:12.90 showing that was good for 27th overall. Also scoring were Kelly Honsinger (41st, 18:40.20), Jacob Laurance-Thorpe (48th, 18:56.20), Jannik Ehret (50th, 18:59.80) and Louie Snowden (54th, 19:03.30).
TRIAD 90, PROSPECT 50 — At Klamath Falls, Prospect quarterback Boston Ehlers ran for 230 yards and one touchdown and passed for 203 yards and four scores in the District 2 road loss.
Darren Stillwagon hauled in two of those TD passes and ran for another, finishing with 67 yards rushing on six attempts to go with 94 yards receiving on six catches for the Cougars (3-2, 2-2 Dist. 2).
Triad (3-1, 3-0) outgained Prospect 707-374 on the ground, with Gabe Ovgard toting the ball 21 times for 430 yards and six TDs. Ovgard also passed for 119 yards and two scores while leading the defensive effort with 14 tackles, including one for a safety.
The Cougars will host North Lake next Friday.
Prospect 20 0 14 16 — 50
Triad 20 30 32 8 — 90
T — Ovgard 42 run (McGrew run)
T — McCarty 52 pass from Ovgard (run failed)
P — Stillwagon 23 pass from Ehlers (Hatley run)
P — Stillwagon 42 run (pass failed)
P — Kennedy 18 run (run failed)
T — Ovgard 60 run (run failed)
T — Riblett 37 run (Ovgard run)
T — Ovgard 22 run (pass failed)
T — Ovgard 98 run (McGrew run)
T — McGrew 10 run (Riblett run)
T — Safety, Ovgard
T — Riblett 2 run (pass failed)
P — Baker 14 pass from Ehlers (pass failed)
T — Ovgard 66 run (McCarty run)
P — Ehlers 25 run (Ehlers run)
T — Ovgard 67 run (Riblett run)
P — Stillwagon 30 pass from Ehlers (Ehlers run)
T — Riblett 7 pass from Ovgard (McNerney pass from Ovgard)
T — Riblett 19 run (Barret pass from Ovgard)
P — Rowe 32 pass from Ehlers (Stillwagon pass from Ehlers)
PROSPECT 3, TRIAD 0 — At Klamath Falls, Miranda Hedgpeth had 22 digs to lead Prospect to a lopsided Mountain Valley League sweep, 25-15, 25-12, 25-2.
Also for the Cougars (11-3, 8-1 MVL), Heather Lass, Halee Hedgpeth and Taylor Bernhardt combined for 17 aces.
Triad fell to 2-9, 2-7 in MVL play.
TRINITY LUTHERAN 3, BUTTE FALLS 1 — At Bend, Butte Falls won the opening set but faltered to Trinity Lutheran, 23-25, 25-15, 25-13, 24-26.
Senior outside Tamika Funk pounded 13 kills and came up with 14 digs to lead the Loggers. Joli Hobbs, a senior setter, dished out 13 assists and also contributed four kills, three blocks and six aces. Sophomore setter Lisa Davis had nine assists, while senior middle Brittaney Gorman provided nine digs.
NEWBERG TOURNAMENT — At Newberg, Cole Harding scored three goals against Bellevue, Wash., including the game-winner late, as Ashland pulled out a 7-6 victory to place third in the 12-team tournament.
The Grizzlies (7-3) opened the tournament with a 7-4 win over South Eugene on Friday, then beat Wilson, Wash., 13-3 and lost to Newberg 8-4 to set up the third-place game.
Against Wilson, Lewi Kurach, a foreign exchange student from Poland, scored three goals, Alex Sukles and Hoku Eggersten added two apiece and goalie Miles Furuichi had five blocks and an assist.
Furuichi also had nine blocks in the loss to Newberg, and three blocks and an assist against Bellevue.


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In this game (Oak Ridge vs. Farragut, 1979) one of the more comical events occurred in the rivalry. Many of the 1979 Wildcats had more vivid memories of one play against Farragut than in the state title game. Former Wildcat Scott Monger sets up for us what happened. …
EDITOR'S NOTE: The first part of this story focused on Oak Ridge's 1977 win and 1978's 'heartbreaking' loss to the Farragut Admirals, whom the Wildcats play tonight at Farragut for their 7:30 p.m. season-opener. Part 2 takes us back to the 1979 season when Oak Ridge not only won the state championship but also beat Farragut along the way.
In this game (Oak Ridge vs. Farragut, 1979) one of the more comical events occurred in the rivalry. Many of the 1979 Wildcats had more vivid memories of one play against Farragut than in the state title game. Former Wildcat Scott Monger sets up for us what happened. …
"We went to Farragut in '79 and beat them pretty bad (37-6), but what stands out in my mind was our receiver. Mark Berry scored on a long touchdown pass and he spiked the ball over the goal post. Emory Hale teams just didn't do that.
Emory met Mark at the 30-yard line and chewed him out royally. What was funny about it was that Assistant Coach Chick Granning had TOLD Mark to do that." Berry himself remembered it the same way, stating: "The week before, we had been practicing at Blankenship and some of us guys were standing around the goal post and it just became the natural thing to start dunking it over the goal post. Now I'm really not that kind of guy but I caught a 50-yard touchdown and something just snapped inside me and I dunked it. I will never forget Coach Hale's face after that — I have never been so scared in my life because he was absolutely furious. If I had to do it again, I'm not sure I would do it but it seems a lot of people seem to remember me for that," laughed Berry.
It was no laughing matter the next time Oak Ridge would visit Farragut for the Wildcats and their 1981 star Kim Pettus. Farragut ended Oak Ridge's 29-game winning streak that night 35-7. Pettus remembered it this way, "They beat us everywhere … in the air, on the ground, in the stands … everywhere. They left no doubt that night that Oak Ridge was not the No. 1 team in the state that year," Pettus said.
Oak Ridge arrived on the field late as Coach Bill Young wasn't alerted when to make the trek to the field and was penalized for delay of game. The short field allowed Farragut to run back the opening kick for a touchdown. It might have been better for Oak Ridge had they never taken the field that night.
Many great games and not so great games have been played since those early games, with Oak Ridge coming out on the winning side more times than not. Before I tie Coach Gaddis back into the rivalry, just some random memories I have over the years against Farragut: The truly amazing game Spencer Gulmire had against the Admirals during the 2005 regular season. Gulmire tallied a school record 351 yards rushing along with his five touchdowns, giving several tours to Farragut defenders riding on his back down the field. I remember Robert Singleton's 50-yard touchdown on the final play of the game in 2006 to keep Oak Ridge's streak of not being shutout alive. Oak Ridge coming into this season hadn't been shut out since 1993 against Riverdale some 237 games ago.
One other memory I have was the 1989 game at Farragut when Shawn Summers made his debut with a touchdown and also when current Oak Ridge School's Blankenship Field landscape artist Michael "Big Cat" Laurendine intercepted a Farragut pass and returned it 32 yards. Nothing special until you know that Laurendine was 6'1 and weighed 285 pounds.
Laurendine remembered it this way, "When I got the ball, I couldn't believe it; I was running down the field with the ball. As I looked towards the end zone, I saw their quarterback in front of me and I just thought, 'I'm just going to run him over and bury him in the field … but it didn't work out that way."
Laurendine was tackled short of the end zone. Laurendine would add that he probably would have done the Heisman pose in the end zone had he scored. Just another great memory in the Farragut rivalry.
But the game that comes to mind first for me was also the first game that Coach Joe Gaddis walked the home sidelines at Blankenship Field — the 1988 season-opener and a game that would set the tone for his tenure at Oak Ridge High School. This one game would tell all Oak Ridge fans that he was about winning and that he would always have faith in his teams to get the job done and they would have faith in him.
The game itself was not a thing of beauty until the end. After leading most of the way, Oak Ridge allowed Farragut to tie it up 6-6 in the closing minutes. The game went to overtime with Farragut scoring on their first play to take the lead after the extra point 13-6. Then it was Oak Ridge's turn. Oak Ridge running back Stan Cooper remembered the overtime period fondly as it was his 10-yard touchdown that set up the dramatics.
"It was our first game of the season and with a new coach coming in you were trying to prove yourself and trying to keep the Oak Ridge tradition going," said Cooper. "Coach Gaddis' attitude has always been the same. He's just got that winning mentality. All he wants to do is win. I wanted the ball to come to me and once I heard the play he called was coming to me, I knew there wasn't anything that was going to stop me from going into the end zone."
Cooper took it in on the first play and then came the gamble. Would he kick the extra point or go for two?
Oak Ridge fans had been used to the more conservative Bill Young the previous years and had really no inkling that Gaddis might go for two. The decision had been made for him years ago when a Gaddis team lost a game that way. Oak Ridge was going for two.
Wildcat running back Joe White in his radio interview years later remembered like it was yesterday. "Coach Gaddis came to the huddle and called the play. It was a play we had been running successfully all night long. He had a lot of confidence in us and that we were going to score. I remember breaking the huddle and coming up to the line, listening to the snap count from Jerry Colquitt. I remember seeing Brad Dew pulling and running off his block to the left. I remember seeing a player coming at me and I spun off to the right towards the end zone. I wasn't exactly sure I had made it or not, and I was almost afraid to look down but I could hear the crowd roaring and I looked down and obviously I was in."
The Joe Gaddis era had begun with a 14-13 win over Farragut. Back to the present.
Friday night (tonight) isn't just another game with Farragut. Far from it. All the hard work, the sweat in the hot sun leading up to this magic moment in the lives of some 60-plus Wildcats. For many of us, we've been there before, but to these guys it is all new. For Joe Gaddis it won't be new but having been around this rivalry and knowing how much it means to him it's like being born again, I know he can't wait to get on the bus and head that way.
As Oak Ridge fans, we can't wait to see what the future might hold and for Joe Gaddis — you CAN come home again. The past is the past and the best is yet to come.


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Baylor's Griner, Notre Dame's Diggins unanimous choices for AP women's All-America team
Brittney Griner is an All-America for the third straight season and joins a select group.
The Baylor center becomes the fifth three-time Associated Press All-American, following Tennessee's Chamique Holdsclaw, Duke's Alana Beard, Oklahoma's Courtney Paris and Connecticut's Maya Moore. Paris and Moore were the only two to earn the honor all four years.
Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins, Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike, Delaware's Elena Delle Donne and Baylor's Odyssey Sims were also on the team announced Monday.
Griner and Diggins were unanimous selections by the same 40-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25.
With Sims and Griner, it marked the sixth time that teammates were first team All-Americans. Connecticut has done it four times and Tennessee once.


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Don't be fooled: This lively cocktail with cherry, berry, dried apple and ginger spiced toffee notes is a love affair all by itself.
1.5 oz. Bulleit Bourbon
2 oz. NV Cordon Brut Rosado
.5 oz. Cherry Heering
.5 oz. Ginger Citrus Blossom Syrup
2 dashes Fee Brothers Cherry Bitters
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well, fine strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with brandied cherries.Ginger Citrus Blossom Syrup
½ cup of Branches Citrus Blossom Honey
¼ cup water
¼ teaspoon freshly chopped ginger
Combine all ingredients into a saucepan. Let simmer for ten minutes. Allow syrup to cool and fine strain it into an airtight container.
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Well coulding be bothered pumping yesterday so I fired up my 15m speed3 16-20 knots.
The sea was lumpy and have head high plus waves coming through.
The speed 3 is a flat water charger. it loves speed and cranking flat water. its certainly the worse kite i have ever used in the waves. Its too slow and that train like power doesn't stop evening if your smash straight through a massive wave lip.... you just smash straight through and carry on out the otherside.
Anyway. lift was emence, timing the ride out through the swell was some what mad because the kite was too slow to react to the fast changing surf. I did some mad high speed jumps over white wash when haaving to release and pop over the waves white the kite was still climbing to the zenith.
Any way. after 15-20 mins of getting smashing miss timing waves I manage to get my grove on and start timing the take off on the 1.5 head pitching wave and yeha.boost.. glide .... watch the wave crashing undernieth me.... buttery soft landing to shit theres another one coming boooost... glide glide... oh dear landing right in the next face ... smash....
what a crazy crazy session.
an unlikely but enjoyable session of madness amongst the waves. not your traditional wave riding session but big grins just the same.


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28 Feb 2013 14:00:22 PM
Jake Shields Slated for Do-or-Die Fight Against Tryon Woodley on June 15th
(Looks like T-Wood traded his lay-n-pray for some float-n-gloat. / Photo via Getty Images)
In terms of job security, Jake Shields has every strike against him right now. He's coming off a six-month drug-suspension, his UFC appearances have been either forgettable or memorable for the wrong reasons, his official Octagon record is an uninspiring 2-2, and he's even more expensive than Jon Fitch. It's safe to assume that Shields will need to win his next match to avoid the axe — and according to new reports, that's not going to be easy.
As first revealed by MMAJunkie, a welterweight bout between Shields and Tyron Woodley is being targeted for a June 15th UFC event in Canada (city/venue TBA). The fight will mark Shields's return to the 170-pound division after his brief trip back up to middleweight at UFC 150, where he defeated Ed Herman by decision before that victory was overturned.
Like Shields, Tyron Woodley has endured "boring fighter" criticisms in the past for the way he's used his suffocating wrestling to prevent opponents such as Paul Daley from standing and banging. But in his UFC debut earlier this month at UFC 156, Woodley showed off his tremendous knockout power, blitzing Jay Hieron in just 36 seconds. T-Wood's previous fight against Nate Marquardt in Strikeforce was also an entertaining scrap, although it ultimately led to the first loss of Woodley's career.
So will Shields fight any differently when it's clear that his job is at stake? How do you see this one going down?Read More DIGG THIS


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A's score five in seventh to top Angels
Anaheim, CA – John Jaso and Brandon Moss both homered in the seventh inning to lead the Oakland Athletics to a 9-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Tuesday.
Jaso clubbed a three-run shot and Moss, who went 3-for-4 with four RBI, belted a two-run blast as part of a five-run seventh for Oakland.
Coco Crisp had a solo homer and Derek Norris added an RBI for the A's, who have won six straight.
Ryan Cook (1-0) earned the win after giving up just one hit over 1 2/3 innings in relief. Oakland starter Jarrod Parker was tagged for two runs on nine hits and three walks over 3 1/2 innings.
Howie Kendrick went 3-for-4 with an RBI triple and Mark Trumbo drove in one run and scored twice for the Angels, who also got one RBI apiece from Josh Hamilton, Brendan Harris and Alberto Callaspo. With the loss, LA dropped to 2-5 this season.
Kevin Jepsen (0-1) was charged with the loss after allowing four runs on three hits over one-third of an inning. Starter C.J. Wilson allowed four runs on six hits while striking out seven over six innings.
"We felt that he could get us out of the seventh inning, but it went the other way," said Angels manager Mike Scioscia.
Oakland wasted no time, plating three runs in the first inning. Jed Lowrie and Yoenis Cespedes both walked before Norris ripped a single to left-center to score Lowrie. Josh Donaldson followed with a base hit to load the bases and Moss smoked a single to right-center field to plate both Cespedes and Norris.
Crisp opened the second with a homer to give the A's a 4-0 edge.
The Angels got on the board with a pair of runs in the third. Eric Aybar opened the inning with a base hit but was replace on the bases by Harris after suffering an apparent injury to his left leg.
Harris moved to second on an Albert Pujols single and took third following Hamilton's double play flyout. Trumbo followed with a single to center before coming around an Callaspo's base hit up the middle.
LA added three runs in the sixth to take a 5-4 lead. Mike Trout hit a leadoff triple then scored on Harris' sacrifice fly. Harris, who reached because of a fielding error on his sacrifice, moved to third on a Lowrie fielding error on the next play and came around on Hamilton's sacrifice fly to right field.
Trumbo reached on a fielder's choice one batter later then scored when Kendrick ripped a triple to right field.
Oakland responded with five runs in the seventh. Crisp welcomed reliever Scott Downs with an infield single and stole second base with two outs. Following a Cespedes walk to put two runners on, Jaso crushed a pinch-hit homer over the wall in left.
"A crazy game right out of the gates," said Jaso. "I Was able to connect and just hoping it would go out. When I saw it hit the top of the fence and bounce over, I knew I just got enough of it."
Donaldson followed with a base hit and Moss laced a two-run homer that bounced off the top of the wall into the stands for a 9-5 lead.
The Angels put two runners on in the ninth inning, but Grant Balfour was able to get out of the jam to preserve the win.
Game Notes
Oakland was 4-for-7 with runners in scoring position ... Cespedes went 2-for-3 and scored twice ... The Angels were 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position and left 13 runners on base.


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SheepShaver is basically a PowerPC emulator that fakes an entire PowerPC-based Macintosh in software so that you can run MacOS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and BeOS. As of late, development has been focussed on Windows and Mac OS X, but pre-built Debian packages have appeared for 64bit and 32bit Ubuntu installations too. I grabbed one of these, and got going. Even though SheepShaver can run earlier versions, I'm focussing on MacOS 9.0.4.
You'll need a few things before you can get going. Obviously, you'll need SheepShaver. You can build it yourself, or grab a binary; binaries for Windows and Mac OS X are easy to get, but for Ubuntu, you'll have to try a little harder. I used the 64bit build found here, and it works fine on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
Of course, you'll also need a copy of MacOS 9.0.4. Since I have two Macs capable of running classic versions, that was no problem for me. Believe it or not, genuine and new copies of MacOS 9 can still be found in online stores today, but even if you can't find one online, your local Apple retailer might still have a few copies lying around (at least, that's how I got two free copies). Of course, there's always the option of going the way of the pirate, but this is most likely illegal in your country of residence.
The third thing you'll need is a little trickier to come by: you're going to need the ROM image of a new world Mac, like a PowerMac G4. Again, I'm lucky in that I have two of these, so I didn't have to jump through a lot of hoops. You can find these ROMs online too, but again, that is most likely illegal.
Once you have all these, it's pretty darn easy to get going. Before we start, on my machine, SheepShaver had to be run as root, or else I'd get a "Cannot map Low Memory Globals: Operation not permitted" error. In other words, be careful, and don't run it on a production machine - your SheepShaver environment has root access.
I'm sure there's a more clever way to work around this problem, but I haven't really looked into this yet.
Update: Thanks to OSNews reader nalf38, there's a solution. Edit your
/etc/sysctl.conf, and add
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0. Then execute
service procps start. Now you can run SheepShaver without root privileges.
After launching SheepShaver (I simply use a terminal to execute
sudo SheepShaver), you'll be confronted with the settings window which also happens to act as the launcher for your MacOS 9 environment. The steps to set up this environment will look remarkably familiar to anyone with experience in running virtual machines.
First, we need to create an image file to act as a hard drive for MacOS 9. I know from experience that this operating system requires very little hard drive space, so I went with 2GB. You obviously need to tell SheepShaver where to store this file; I stored mine on my free-for-all Data partition, and called it MacOS.
Now it's time to correctly set everything up. Since you first need to install MacOS 9, insert your MacOS 9.0.4 disk, enable the CD-ROM driver, and set the "Boot from" drop-down to "CD-ROM". It is important to set the "UNIX root" field to a safe directory, like your home directory or a specially created share directory. This directory will be mounted as a drive inside the virtual environment, and since SheepShaver runs as root, it will have full read/write access to this directory and all subdirectories. Note that if you used the solution detailed in the update above, you can discard this warning.
You can play with the graphics/sound tab to find the settings that fit you - I have MacOS 9 running in a 1024x768 window. I didn't change anything in the keyboard/mouse tab, since it all seems to work just fine with the default settings. In the serial/network tabs, be sure to set the Ethernet interface drop-down to slirp (we'll set up networking within MacOS 9 later), and I guess memory/misc is pretty much self-explanatory. I allocated 256MB of RAM to the virtual machine, which is more than enough for MacOS 9. You might want to set this value a little lower if you have less RAM to play with (I have 4GB). I didn't touch the JIT compiler tab at all.
Now you can press "Start" to launch the virtual machine, and if all goes correctly, you'll be asked to initialise the hard drive image you made. Once this is done, you'll be running MacOS 9 as a live CD; you can proceed to install from there. The installation routine is fairly straightforward. Once complete, shut the live CD down, and change the appropriate settings in the SheepShaver window so you'll boot from the hard drive image (I disabled the CD-ROM driver altogether). You now have your own working MacOS 9 environment.
To set up networking, you have to go to the TCP/IP preferences panel, and set the values exactly as pointed out below in the screenshot. Note, however, that the browsers which ship with MacOS 9 (Internet Explorer, Netscape) will crash your virtual machine, so you'll have to either use Classilla or iCab. I was really looking forward to trying out the new Classilla browser, but sadly, I get a very weird memory error when trying to launch it, so it was back to iCab for me. iCab is a decent enough browser though, but it won't blow your socks off or anything on MacOS 9.
I've made a short video showing SheepShaver in action (4.7MB, Ogg Theora).
Now you can play around with MacOS 9. While this guide was written for Ubuntu, the same settings will probably work just fine on other operating systems. It won't give you the full experience, but it's a nice and fun way to get to know an older operating system that has been pretty much obsoleted. While MacOS 9 is absolutely terrible from a technical point of view, Platinum still kicks everybody else's bum when it comes to consistency and nice usability touches.
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by Nick Knight .
Terry Jones, a diamond geezer!
Terry Jones, a diamond geezer!
Back in the late 1970s and in direct response to Punk, Terry Jones, then the art director of British Vogue realised that the most exciting fashion was actually happening on the streets of London and not on the catwalk, bravely he resigned and started a magazine called i-D.
Terry invested his time, his passion and his money into creating a magazine that reflected simply and clearly fashion at its most pure, the fashion of the street. In the late 1970s and early 1980s London streets were vibrant and bursting with fashions way more extreme, inspiring and audacious than anything in the mainstream of fashion. They were the catwalk of the world.
Terry Jones saw this and through i-D allowed the rest of the world to see it too. A gesture so clever, insightful and altruistic which in many ways reflects Terry's whole attitude to life. His clear love and devotion to and of his wife Trish is also the love he expressed for all of us, making us all feel part of their family and is in part the reason they are loved back by so many people.
In i-D they created a platform for a totally new generation of fashion image makers, designers, stylists, journalists and models, who they encouraged and championed. In so doing creating the one of the most important magazines ever.
NB: Yesterday, The British Fashion Council gave Terry and Tricia Jones the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2013 British Fashion Awards


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On the eve of the release of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell touted the bipartisan benefits of Virginia's budding film industry.
"The increase in jobs and revenue from Virginia's film industry is encouraging and demonstrates the effectiveness of our state's incentive programs for film production," McDonnell said in a news conference at the historic Byrd Theatre in Richmond, Va., prior to a special screening of "Lincoln" hosted by the Virginia Film Office and the Virginia Tourism Corporation.
"It is particularly significant that the industry has added 1,166 jobs during the past year and contributed nearly $60 million in state and local tax revenue," McDonnell said. "Thanks to the bipartisan effort to put in place policies attractive to the industry, Virginia continues to land major films, like Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln.'"
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"Lincoln," which cost about $65 million to produce and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president, filmed in Virgina in late 2011, taking advantage of that state's 15% to 20% refundable tax credit.


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Bentley and Me
26th October 2013, 08:44 AM
6-1/2 mo old Cavalier Bentley has been with us now 2-1/2 weeks, still with breeder when we got him and was not a house dog. potty training was perfect until tonight. i waited too long to take him out. He has a very soft 50x60 inch throw I bought for him which he loves. He scratched and made a nest like circle out of it, then peed on it tonight. I told him no and took him outside then washed the blanket so it doesnt have a pee smell on it. he has never gone in the house before so I know this was my negligence and he has gone potty outside several times since. What I was wondering was why he made a nest out of his blanket before he squatted on it? hoping that was an isolated incident.
never saw a dog do that before.
never saw a dog do that before.


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Almost a year now from my first an last diary entry...
The "coupe de France de robotique" (French robotic cup) took
place in may, with more than 189 teams registered. Botzilla
was among the 144 qualified, and after the fourth day and we
ranked 49th. Some (non-technical) pictures can be seen here.
The official site for the 2003 competition is here
(in French).
It still hurt to say it, but though this was a success for
the team this was a failure for me: we had to completely
change our strategy 1 week before the competition, relying
entirely on a PIC16F877 which original purpose was only to
manage the propulsion wheels. The plan was to use a 68332
board running a real-time executive for the high level code,
but though everything was OK when running in RAM, I failed
to make in run in flash, thus preventing the robot to run
autonomously. I obviously grossly underestimated the
difficulty in making my BSP running from flash, starting to
work about it something like 2 weeks before the competition
after almost a year of work on it (but work in RAM!).
I must have messed up with the chip select settings...
Stupid me. Well, anyhow a time came when we had to make a
decision and we backed-up on a state machine on the PIC.
My 68332 board stood in its box since we came back from the
competition more than 4 month ago until today. Sigh.
On the positive side, as usual, much was learned. You can
still do a lot with an 8 bit thingy like a PIC, though if it
was to be done again I would vote for an Atmel AVR (the lack
of real stack on Microchip is a very real limitation). On
the 68332, I played with the TPU, a kind of coprocessor
dedicated to time-related function like PWM and such. The
trick is that you can re-program the microcode of this TPU
in order to use or create the functions that fit your
application need. I used some microcode from Arno
Morbach providing I2C capabilities to the TPU. I
assembled this on Linux using TAS,
Zoltán Kócsi's GPL TPU assembler. Then I glued all this with
RTEMS and the TPU lib from the motorobots
project. And though quite beta, all this actually worked.
The TPU-I2C function was previously know to work with serial
EEPROM, I can tell that I had it talk with some PCF8574.
I didn't do any kind of serious (non-professional) work this
summer. Robotic hacking is a winter sport.
BTW, if by looking at botzilla's picture you wonder how we
managed to get a
round shape out of wood: this is a special plywood,
called "souplex" (in French at least). This is used for
curved furniture, like bars and such. You can find some at a
professional wood dealer.


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Children's Hospitals Make Room for Mom, Dad and Diversions
For parents, having a child in the hospital is stressful enough, but the physical environment can make things worse: noisy halls, shared rooms, a single cramped recliner in the corner to grab some sleep.
Now, children's hospitals are transforming their approach to care, replacing outmoded facilities and adopting family friendly policies to make an often-painful experience less traumatic for parents and children.
Next year, the first guidelines specifically for new construction and renovation of children's hospitals are set to go into effect. These voluntary—though influential—guidelines were developed by the Facilities Guidelines Institute, a nonprofit group that helps set standards used by federal agencies and most states to regulate the design and construction of health-care buildings. They include a recommendation to scrap shared patient rooms in favor of spacious private rooms, sleeping arrangements for parents such as convertible sofa beds and noise-reducing materials.
More on the Littlest Patients
Hospitals are convening family councils to provide input on their needs and hiring museum architects to design therapeutic gardens and interactive play spaces.
Funding for such projects comes from generous private donors, cash generation from hospital operations and new bond financing, as well as government grants. Hospitals say families won't see any of the renovation costs in their bills.
In Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Children's Hospital opened a new $783 million tower last June with all private rooms, a whimsical atrium filled with giant carved animals, a clubhouse for patients' siblings and room service for family members. The same month, Chicago's 130-year-old Children's Memorial Hospital closed its doors and transported patients by ambulance to the new $855 million Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. In addition to private rooms, it has a CT scanner that resembles a yellow submarine and an outdoor rooftop garden to help patients and parents get a break from treatment.
For the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., which is opening a new $257.5 million wing next year with a five-story atrium, architects designed "neighborhoods" of four to eight private rooms to reduce the distance staff has to travel and to improve communication. The new rooms will each have a refrigerator, closet space and two TVs so parents and children can watch separately. The hospital will also offer laundry facilities, concierge services and interactive play spaces for kids.
"It's tough to come to the hospital, which [children] associate with anxiety and pain," says Chief Executive Kevin Churchwell. "Our goal is to at least create an environment they don't mind coming to which might have a 'wow' factor to kids."
In a 2008 report on the effect of the physical environment on children in health-care settings, The Children's Hospital Association and the Center for Health Design warned that hospitals "can no longer tolerate subjecting patients to noisy, confusing environments that create anxiety and stress." In a review of more than 300 studies they found that steps such as noise reduction can help reduce anxiety and distress, while interior-design elements such as color, furniture and carpet can promote healing.
The changes were inspired by a growing movement known as family centered care. In addition to offering a safe and soothing environment, it calls for allowing families to be present and involved, including during invasive procedures and doctors' morning teaching rounds. The physical changes are costly, and more family participation may disrupt traditional staff practices.
However, a small but growing number of studies show family involvement in hospitals can help speed recovery and shorten stays, increase satisfaction and even reduce malpractice claims, potentially cutting costs.
Safety data incorporated into guidelines for adult care are also being taken into account. For example, private rooms, adopted as a standard for new hospital construction in 2006, have been shown to reduce the spread of infection and decrease the disruption of sleep, an important factor in healing. And special patient lifts and bathing fixtures to prevent falls and injury for obese adults are also a growing need for children.
"This is a landmark effort to apply the same research and evidence for children's hospitals as we do for adults, and recognize the issues of families," says Judy Smith, a consultant who led development of new children's-hospital guidelines for the Facilities Guidelines Institute. This nonprofit, whose work originated in a postwar federal program, is now overseen by architects, builders and clinicians who created the children's hospital guidelines as part of an update of general hospital guidelines from 2010.
After public comments on the guidelines are reviewed, a final version is due to be published next year by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering. Although the guidelines are voluntary, they are expected to be widely used by states and accrediting groups in approving plans for new construction and renovation.
Steve Allen, CEO of Nationwide Children's, says clinicians are increasingly coming to accept that it is important to keep families comfortable and let parents be present 24/7 if they want to be. The hospital, which is also a pediatric trauma center, allows parents to be present even for resuscitation after shock or trauma. It has worked with family council members to determine where the family should be positioned during those procedures to avoid interference, while keeping them fully informed.
"It's hard for some people to get their head around the fact that it is OK to have the parents in there, even if the child is near death, but we are providing care for the entire family, not just a sick child," Dr. Allen says.
Jill Rako is all too familiar with the discomforts of children's hospitals: Her 15-year-old son Daniel, born with spina bifida, the incomplete development of the spinal cord, has logged dozens of surgeries and stays at Nationwide Children's. Although she says the care was excellent, for long-term stays the environment was "a nightmare." The hospital asked her to be part of the family council several years ago. Among her suggestions: more space and privacy, comfortable sleeping accommodations and a decent bathroom for parents whose kids are "frequent fliers," those often hospitalized for weeks at a time.
Still, she says, the family was awe-struck when they came to check in for surgery at the completed facility last April, ahead of the official opening. They found a spacious private room with a pullout sofa bed, a family bath and large flat-screen TV.
The hospital has created an environment that isn't only conducive to healing, she says, but makes it easier for her to keep up with her own work as a project manager via wireless Internet in the rooms. And she never misses a visit from doctors or nurses because she doesn't have to go down the hall to use a communal shower in a family lounge. She even jumped out of the shower when her son's surgeon came into the room, talking to him with dripping hair. "I can handle just about anything with clean hair and a good night's sleep," she says.
Melanie Ide, an architect at New York-based Ralph Appelbaum Associates who led the Nationwide project design, says she drew on her experience working with museums to create public spaces that would provide a delightful experience while helping families find their way around. That led to color-coded paths, a Magic Forest in the main lobby and a wishing tree where family members can write their hopes for hospitalized children.
When she was consulting with hospital staff in her research, Ms. Ide says, she was most inspired by a nurse who said "her day is made when she can make a kid smile through the tears."
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The exhibition "Between Innocence and Evil" will be officialy opened on Friday, November 6, at 18:30, in the Čolaković Legacy, and afterwards the gathering in the Salon of the MoCAB is planned to take place in 20:00.
The speakers at the opening in the Čolaković Legacy: the Executive Director of the MoCAB Slobodan Nakarada, the Ambassador of Austria in Serbia Johannes Eigner, the Director of the Austrian Culture Forum Johannes Irschik, the artist Gottfried Helnwein, and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Information Saša Mirković.
On Saturday, November 7, at 13:00, a conversation with the artist Gottfried Helnwein will be organised (in English language).
With the statement "My art is not the answer, it is rather a question", Gottfried Helnwein explained his work in the best possible way. This artist is concerned with the critique of the political situation, the crimes perpetrated during the WWII, Nazism and Holocaust, bringing these together with the motifs such as violence on children, children violence and pedophilia.
The experience from the childhood spent in the post-Nazi Vienna, where nobody ever spoke about these issue irritated Helnwein, and so throughout his artistic career he expressed his critique and revolt against war atrocities and the politics of National Socialism. Instigated by the atmosphere of such an environment, he began to study the history of the phenomenon of cruelty and violence on helpless and innocent people, mostly focusing on the motif of a child. In his first watercolor he showed a wounded child smeared with blood, whereby he laid the foundation of his own visual iconography that will stick with him throughout his entire life as an artist, with realism and hyperrealism as his main stylistic features. By painting children in an unsettling way, but also in their unrivalled beauty, the artist presents them at the same time as symbols of innocence and evil.
Beside the child images occupying the central place in his painting and the critical-historical subjects, the artist also did series of photos―self-portraits in which, showing himself in the act of self-torture, referring to the vulnerable and opressed existence of contemporary individual. The selection of subjects and the modes of representation makes his works disquieting inviting, at the same time, the spectator to feel the agony and evil Helnwein points at, and to condemn them as the artist himself did.The exhibition Gottfried Helnwein―Between Innocence and Evil showcases 33 artworks from different phases of the artist's work. The exhibition is set in two spaces: the Gallery-Legacy of Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković, with 17 paintings (oil and acrilic on canvas) from different series (Epiphany, The Murmur of the Innocents, Disasters of War…), whereas in the other space, The Salon of the Museum, the audience is presented with 16 photos, chiefly self-portraits, but also the photos from the series created in collaboration with Marilyn Manson.
The curator of
the exhibition is a curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Mišela Blanuša
(MA). The exhibition is opened every day from 12:00 to 20:00, except Tuesdays.
The exhibition is organised with the support of the
Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, the Embassy of
Austria in Serbia, the Austrian Culture Forum, and Uniqa insurance company.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade thanks the
private colectors for loans they kindly made.


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Haskell officer fired.
The Haskell Police Department is one officer lighter after the recent firing of Brandon Carter.
According to Chief Mike Holt, Carter was terminated on Jan. 24 for violating a departmental policy.
Haskell Mayor Jeff Arey added that Carter was dismissed specifically for violating the department's Taser policy.
Arey said "there was a complaint made and there was an internal investigation" that ultimately ended Carter's tenure as a Haskell officer.
Arey noted that no person was injured due to Carter's actions.
"The Taser was never discharged in a manner that caused injury to anyone," Arey said. "No one was actually Tased."
Plans to replace Carter already are in progress, including an advertisement in The Saline Courier that ended on Wednesday. Arey also said that he, along with Holt, city aldermen and possibly a sergeant from the police department will meet next week to review the applications before making a decision.
"We certainly want our officers to follow proper procedures," Arey said. "We take (department) policies and procedures very seriously, and we want our officers to adhere to them."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Courier staff writer Matt Burks also contributed to this story. More information about the issue will be reported as it becomes available.


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Thursday, January 16, 2014
What it's like to be John Mahon
One can only imagine where he's been and what he's seen.
On Feb. 1, he'll be onstage with Elton for a sold-out concert at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown.
Here, Mahon — who lives in the Los Angeles area when he's actually home shares some insider stories:
Q. You keep very busy onstage with Elton. What all do you do up there?
A. "Just look good! No, really.... The best way to describe what I do onstage is, I accentuate and color the music rhythmically. There are so many options with percussion like cymbals, congas, tambourines, electronics, etc. But one of the most important things I have to do is sing backing vocals. I sing on every song quite a lot. Recently, we rehearsed a new song with no percussion and I tried to strategically hide offstage hoping Elton would not need me on that song. I was hoping I could take a little break during the show and he says, 'Where's John? I want you to sing on this song.' The crew had a good laugh as they pointed me out! No escape — but I don't complain because Sir Elton never takes a break the entire show."
Q. Where are some of the places you played with Elton during 2013? Was there a favorite show?
A. "Last year was the usual crazy mix for us. We were in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay. Then we hit the eastern USA along with some stints in Las Vegas. There was Europe in the summer, Normandy, France, Ireland (which I love), Austria, Switzerland and always London. The end of the year was Moscow, Paris, Germany and Norway just to name a few places.
Of course, there is Madison Square Garden. Did you know that the floor is suspended and bounces up and down when the audience is dancing together? It's crazy, especially for a dude that lives in earthquake country! Elton and the band just played the 64th performance there. He has the most shows at MSG of any single artist."
Q. How do you keep things fresh for yourself after so many years of touring?
A. "I have the greatest job in the world. Set aside the countless hours I spend in airplanes, buses, vans (contrary to popular belief, we are not always in limousines) restaurants and hotel rooms. When I go onstage, I see nothing but absolute joy on the faces of the people in the audience. Not many people can say that their job makes people laugh, smile, cheer and cry with happiness for two and a half continuous hours. When I was maybe 18 years old, one of my oldest musician friends, saxophonist Paul Whitehurst of Canton, said to me, 'John, play every gig like it might be the last one you ever play.' I try to do that every night."
Q. Tell me something about Elton John that might surprise people.
A. "Elton has an incredible memory. He can remember any song, the artist, the date it was recorded and even band-member names. His memory is also dangerous, so you never tell him anything in passing because he does not forget. He is often described in introductions as a genius and I have actually seen that crazy brain of his in action. It's impressive — he is brilliant. Another thing is that Elton does not have a cellphone or computer. But now that he has children he is addicted to his iPad. He's constantly showing us their pictures or FaceTiming with them. It's how he stays in touch with his children when we are away so much of the time."
Q. I imagine you have lots of dining opportunities traveling internationally. Are you an adventurous eater?
A. "I was going to say no to that question, but when I started writing down foods I've eaten, it seems that maybe I am adventurous. I do like to try the regional foods. I recently had borscht in Russia, shepherd's pie in London, wiener schnitzel in Germany, kimchee in Seoul, dumplings in Hong Kong.
In Australia, I had Moreton Bay bugs, which are like little lobsters. I love Japanese food like sushi and seaweed salad. I'll try fish anywhere in the world. I've always survived being a little adventurous. I tried a street vendor in Bangkok last year that I thought would be the end of me, but it was the best $3 meal I ever had! I've had kangaroo. Is that weird?"
- Canton Rep
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1. Make cards. Have your child make her own cards for holidays, birthdays, party invitations, and thank-yous. Help her write a personal message to each recipient.
2. Collect trading cards. There are card series to appeal to most interests, from sports to space travel, Yu-Gi-Oh! to Beanie Babies.
3. Learn "how to." Is there something your child would really like to do, such as perform magic tricks or add sequins to her jeans? Encourage him to find out how by reading about it.
4. Get cooking. Invite your child to help you bake a cake or a special meal together. If necessary, simplify and rewrite a recipe's instructions so she can read it to you.
5. Play board games. Scrabble or Boggle are specifically good for building vocabulary and spelling.
6. Create signs and labels. Help your early reader build his vocabulary by creating stickers or signs for his room that identify toys or furniture: "bike," "desk," etc.
7. Take a road trip. Write down travel directions and have your child serve as navigator when you drive. Give your co-pilot a map before you go, and ask her to mark the route according to the directions.
8. Put on a play. You can perform the play for a special celebration or family party. Help your child find an appealing script or create one together based on a favorite movie. Remind your child that he must memorize his lines by reading them over and over.
9. Write messages for your child. Even if you spend hours together in the same room, there are many reasons to write to your child. Drop a letter in her school bag or email her a joke she can forward to her friends. Post a list of chores on the refrigerator, and write family news or appointments on a wall calendar.
10. Host a scavenger hunt. Make a list of items that your child and his friends need to find inside your house or around the neighborhood. Provide written clues that lead to the treasures.


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Jacobus Andersonus
Biography of Jacobus Andersonus
Graduate Record for Jacobus Andersonus
Forename: Jacobus
Surname: Andersonus
Degree Information: MA (1625)
Nationality: Scottish
Jacobus Andersonus
University Link: MA (1625) Graduate
GU Degree: MA, 1625; Arts,
Additional Information: GUA 26619 p135
Record last updated: 14th May 2009
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