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LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — Shortly after darkness fell Monday night, the last group in the Pacific League girls' golf prelims found themselves still competing at La Cañada Country Club. The quartet aimed their putts toward the hole, but because of the lack of light, none of the shots came close to going in.
That left Crescenta Valley High Coach Lee Pope and Arcadia Coach Robbie Greep to reach an agreement — have Crescenta Valley and Arcadia share the league championship.
"It was so dark and the players were trying to locate their balls," Pope said. "I made the suggestion to Robbie that sharing league would be the best thing and he agreed.
"Getting a league title was just one of the goals for us that we set coming into the season. We are pleased with that."
Arcadia won the first nine-hole round earlier Monday, giving the Apaches no worse than a share of its fifth league title in a row. Crescenta Valley, Arcadia and La Cañada, which finished third, will advance to the CIF playoffs.
Irene Maemura of Burbank picked up medalist honors for the second straight match Monday. Maemura shot an even-par 34 during the first round, edging out Jocelyn Chia of Crescenta Valley by a stroke and Melissa Leo of La Cañada by three. The second round on Monday was the first of two rounds to determine the league's individual champion. The last round will take place at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 17 at Brookside Golf Course No. 1 in Pasadena and will feature a field of 18.
"It's a short course," Maemura said. "I was able to hit the ball about another 50 yards with my driver.
"I hit my shots close to the greens and I feel like I'm starting to play even better."
La Cañada came into Monday's competition tied for the third and final available playoff spot with San Marino. The Spartans shot a 228 to edge the Titans by 12 strokes.
La Cañada Coach Rich Wheeler said the Spartans thrived on their home course.
"I looked at our scores over the last few matches and saw that we are getting three to four strokes better," Wheeler said. "We came through at the right time.
"We came through in a do-or-die situation. It's great to go to the playoffs because we earned it."
San Marino Coach Wyeth Collo said the Titans struggled toward the end of the season.
"It's disappointing with what happened because we started the season off well," Collo said. "Then we just started to stumble toward the end.
"We have to go into the offseason and work on some things."
Arcadia received 37s from Michelle Cheung and Kayla Yn and 44s from Ashley Cheou, Cynthia Guo and Mikaela Santos in the first round to finish with a 206. Crescenta Valley notched a 213, receiving a 42 from Alice Yoon, 44s from Audrey Chung and Andrea Han and a 47 from Gina Chung.
La Cañada got a 39 from Jennifer Kim, 46 from Madelyn Merchant, 49 from Keilee Bessho and 52 from May Lo.
San Marino, which took fourth with a 240, was led by Caroline Van Hiel with a 40. Also scoring for the Titans were Tess Denham with a 46, Elizabeth Van Hiel with a 49, Valerie Wang (51) and Gaby Arifin (54).
Burroughs finished fifth with a 228. Joany Gao had a 46 to lead the Indians, who got a 51 from Alex Chandler, 55s from Stephani Adachi and Evyn Freedman and a 59 from Tiffany Mirabal.
Burbank fielded a three-member squad Monday. It got a 47 from Tess Apinchapong and a 64 from Alexis Poche.
Players advancing to the league individual final will be Chia, Maemura, Leo, Cheou, Gao, Yn, Audrey Chung, Cheung, Caroline Van Hiel, Han, Santos, Gina Chung, Alice Yoon, Guo, Kim, Apinchapong, Bessho and Denham.


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The Mets have until midnight tonight to sign Hisanori Takahashi or lose the right to negotiate with the left-hander until May 15, which would be moot because he'd be gone by then.
If reports are true, that Takahashi wants a three-year deal at $4.5 million a season, then it is a sure bet the Mets will let him walk. The Mets want to offer a one-year contract with an option with a total value of $3 million.
So, the difference between what the total Takahashi wants (at least $13.5 million) and what the Mets want to give ($3 million) is $10.5 million. Despite how versatile and productive Takahashi was for the Mets last season, considering the potential dollars he wants and his age at 36, I can't see the Mets bringing him back.

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Marin County was ground zero for sudden oak death, so it's only fitting that Marin is leading the way in eradicating the pathogen that causes the disease that has devastated oak forests in California and Oregon.
"The devastation in Marin turns out to be the place where we find solutions to meet this challenge," said Marin County Agricultural Commissioner Stacy Carlsen. "It's come full circle."
Although the origin of the disease is unclear, it is believed that the sudden oak death pathogen — Phytophthora ramorum — can spread from nursery plants into the wild, and more than 100 plants have been identified as hosts.
Since sudden oak death was discovered near China Camp State Park in the mid-1990s, it has spread to other counties, spurring emergency regulations to control the outbreak within commercial nurseries. A nursery found to have an infected plant is quarantined until it can be shown that the disease is no longer in the soil.
On Tuesday, scientists at the three-year-old National Ornamental Research Site at Dominican University in San Rafael unveiled breakthrough "green" technology they have developed using an ordinary commercial steamer to heat soil to 122 degrees, killing the sudden oak death pathogen.
"It's low-tech and high impact," said principal investigator Sibdas Ghosh, chairman of Dominican's Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Hosting a tour of the facility for regulators from the state Department of Food and Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as some county agricultural officials, the researchers demonstrated how they pump steam into a soil bed covered with a tarp that lifts into a dome as the temperature rises inside and the soil gets to a temperature high enough to be fatal to the pathogen.
The low-cost steaming technique, which one county official called "back to the future," was first tried a year ago.
Since then, it has not only worked under controlled conditions at the half-acre campus research site, but also at a quarantined nursery in the San Joaquin Valley.
"It's a transformation of technology from the lab to the field," principal investigator Ghosh said.
Based on those successes, the USDA has asked the researchers to use their steaming technique at other quarantined nurseries in the state.
"It's critical for the nursery industry to have an operation like this," said Karen Suslow, a representative for California nurseries, pointing out that this is a cost-effective, efficient way of cleansing quarantined nurseries without using chemicals. "In the end, we're doing all this so we can safeguard the native environment, the forests."
The Dominican research site, the first outdoor facility devoted to studying the spread of the sudden oak death pathogen on nursery plants, was established in 2009 with funding from the U.S. Farm Bill.
"Having this kind of research and treatments available not only tells us how many plants are at risk and how they are at risk, but how we can treat the sites to eradicate the pathogen," said Fred Crowder, San Mateo County agricultural commissioner. "It's wonderful the federal government is recognizing the importance of this."
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jsem94 wrote:Listened to the podcast. I had completely missed this, wasn't really aware of the backstory either. Quite interesting hearing her story on the CN podcast. It's encouraging that I haven't seen much abuse after this revelation and I hope we can take further steps for a more inclusive sport. Like was said in the podcast, when will we see the first openly gay rider in the peloton?
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One of Two Winning Powerball Tickets Sold Near Phoenix
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Lottery officials say one of the two winning Powerball tickets was sold at a convenience store in suburban Phoenix.
The Arizona ticket was sold at a 4 Sons Food Store in Fountain Hills.
That ticket and another sold in Missouri will split the record Powerball jackpot of $587.5 million. That's about $294 million per ticket.
Lottery officials say no one has come forward to claim the prizes, and it wasn't clear Thursday whether the winning tickets were purchased by individuals or groups.
The jackpot is the largest in Powerball history.
The winners could split a cash payout of $384.7 million before taxes, or about $192 million per ticket.
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Voters at a special town meeting Monday night overwhelmingly supported the proposed Mountview School Building project, moving it forward to a ballot vote on Thursday.
The project, which would cost $54.3 million, is to rebuild a new middle school directly behind the nearly 50-year-old current building. The state has committed to reimburse 50.4 percent of the cost.
After a presentation on the proposed project, selectmen, the Finance Committee and the Wachusett Regional School District committee all voiced their support for the new school.
Several residents also spoke in favor of the project. William Allison said if the project fails, renovation at the school will be necessary.
"And you can't exceed 30 percent of the assessed value without having to do a full project," Mr. Allison said. "The assessed value is about $7 million, and 30 percent is just over $2 million, and $2 million gets you nothing."
Resident and Mountview teacher Bill Turgeon urged support for the project.
"The costs will increase, but reimbursement will go down," he said of the alternative to rebuilding.
The 615-11 town meeting vote authorized the town to borrow the money for the project. On Thursday, voters will head to the polls to vote whether to increase taxes to cover the cost of the borrowing. The project must be approved at the ballot box to move forward.
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Barack Obama is now a lame duck, three years early.
The first three months or so of a president's term is ordinarily the time to set the agenda. Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 21, 2013. As of early May, we've had about 100 days of his second term in office, and he's managed to demonstrate he's a lame duck. No one takes him seriously anymore. Even the Democrats don't respond to his "leadership", mainly because there isn't much leadership displayed, and whatever leadership he's shown has been weak and ineffective.
I'm not the only one writing about his. Here's a link to Yahoo -- President's first 100 days. What has he accomplished?
Let's consider his possible positives:
Gay Rights -- You might consider the advances in gay rights as influenced by the president. Rhode Island became the 10th state to recognize gay marriage. His justice department argued in the Supreme Court cases for the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act. California's Prop 8 also came under review.
Immigration? – This could be a positive, or a big negative. Republicans want effective border control. They may give away the store and fail to see the border controlled. The Democrat version of immigration reform contains the usual nullifiers and exemptions that could result in total amnesty for existing illegals while luring many more from Mexico. It could be a huge disaster for the country.
Now for the negatives:
Budget – Obama again submitted a budget to the Senate, and again it drew zero votes. The Senate Democrats wouldn't touch it. There were no real cuts in the debt or deficit, and he wanted to spend even more than last year. A very minor tweak to Social Security alarmed and angered the Left.
Gun control -- Many Democrats unexpectedly voted with Republicans to defeat background checks in the Senate. He can blame his own party.
Syria – Obama is out on a limb, because he drew a line in the sand against Syria's possible use of poison gas. They crossed it, and now he's wavering about what to do, and seems to be doing nothing. An effective president would have thought about the consequences of his stern warning.
Sequester -- Perhaps nothing illustrates Obama's petty nature more than his handling of the sequester. Remember, the sequester doesn't really cut any money out of the budget, it merely reduces the increase from last year. Early this year, House Republicans passed a bill giving the President flexibility to manage each federal department's money so as to keep essential functions going. Democrats stopped the bill. Later on, Obama cut out White House public tours to "save money" even as he flew all over the world and the U.S. in Air Force One. One less trip would have easily covered the tours.
Then, the flight controllers were furloughed to save money, and airline passenger service was badly disrupted. Because of widespread protest, Congress quickly threw a bill together to allow the FAA to reallocate money and allow the controllers to go back to work, and the President signed it.
Now, many Air Force squadrons have suspended flying, claiming they don't have the money. This will hurt pilot training and readiness.
Many have accused the President of deliberately causing as much pain as possible, then blaming Republicans for the sequester. This criticism seems totally accurate.
Obamacare -- A total fiasco. Baucus -- "A train wreck" Health insurance costs are going through the roof. Big tax increases are coming. "The most complicated legislation ever passed."
Economy – Not better. Still way too much unemployment.
War on Terror -- Obama's administration will barely admit the Boston Marathon bombing was terrorism. He refuses to blame Islamic Jihadists, even though the bombers were clearly that.
We've all known brilliant people who are totally ineffective in life, who do stupid things in an arrogant fashion, believing they are smarter than everyone else. I think Obama is in that category. We know he never accepts blame for anything that goes wrong. We know he never listens to Republican suggestions, never really works with them. We know he sets general goals, never provides detail. We know he's obsessive about "raising taxes on the rich" and shows no concern about the deficit or the debt.
I have the feeling that no one respects Obama now. We know his stands on issues, and he never seems to change. I think he has reached the lame duck stage three years early. I do fear what he might yet do, because I believe he's irrational, arrogant, and smart. A dangerous combination.


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Acid attacks: the faceless women you can't forget
Since I met her over a week ago, I have been unable to forget.
Every morning as I put on my lipstick and black eyeliner in front of the mirror, I am reminded of her face. Or lack of it.
Sonali Mukherjee, 27, is one of hundreds of women across the world who have lost their faces, and their will to survive, as a result of one of the most heinous crimes against women I have come across: Acid violence.
Nine years ago, three men broke into Sonali's home in the east Indian city of Dhanbad as she slept, and threw concentrated acid over her face.
The highly corrosive chemical caused 70 percent burns to her face, neck and arms and melted away the skin and flesh on her nose, cheeks and ears – leaving her almost blind and partially deaf.
Sonali, who was a 17-year-old college student at the time of the attack, had rejected their sexual advances for months and when she threatened to call the police, they took their revenge.
Despite multiple painful skin reconstructive surgeries, she still looks nothing like the photographs taken before the attack – a smiling pretty, confident, young woman who took pride in her appearance and who wanted to be a teacher in India's poor and marginalised tribal areas.
Sonali says she is living "half a life with half a face" and has endured so much mental and physical pain over the years, that she is now pleading with the government to allow her to end her life. Euthanasia is illegal in India.
According to London-based charity, Acid Survivors Trust International, around 1,500 acid attacks are reported globally each year, with 80 percent of them on women. Figures are likely to be much higher, though, as many victims are too scared to speak out.
Acid attacks are not specific to any one country, but are more common in India and other South Asian nations such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal as well as in Cambodia and Uganda.
Many of the attacks on women, like that on Sonali, are simply because men in these deeply patriarchal societies cannot handle rejection of love or a marriage proposal by a woman and decide to take revenge.
In a conservative culture where women are largely still judged by their looks, rather than by their attitudes, education, career or achievements, throwing a bottle of cheap and easily available hydrochloric acid over them is guaranteed to ruin their lives.
No one will marry them, employ them or even want to be seen with them. Their families, which are often poor, are burdened with the expense of years of medical treatment and soon run out of money – forcing victims with "half faces" to hide indoors, isolated and unable to return to the life they once had.
Despite the long-term financial, medical and psychological support vital for victims, little compensation, if any, is given by authorities.
As a result, these faceless women are left forgotten – but if you meet them, you simply cannot forget.
See Sonali's story here.
Photo caption: Nita Bhalla and Sonali Mukherjee pictured at a Sikh temple in New Delhi which has given Mukherjee shelter. Photo taken on July 22, 2012 by Ahmad Masood of Reuters
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Dear FlyLady,
I have had great success decluttering our home. For some reason I keep procrastinating about cleaning out my car. I still can't seem to gain control over that mess. Clutter is always falling out. Please give me some motivation to get my car clean and keep it that way.
Ashamed of my Vehicle!
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You don't have to feel ashamed another day. We have a basic weekly plan to help you establish a day to clean out your car. Here is an essay I wrote to help us tackle this final frontier. Your perfectionism is why you don't clean out your car. You don't think you have time to do it right.
Don't procrastinate another day!
The Final Frontier
UFOs are Un-tethered Flying Objects in your car! Yes you know the ones I am talking about! Our cars are usually the last frontier when it comes to getting organized. When I was a small child I was hurt by bottle in our car. I still have the scar to show for it. Think of it this way when you are riding in a car going 55 mph if you have to stop abruptly everything in the car becomes a missile. Think about being hit by a baseball or a bottle that was thrown at that speed.
Here is the worst thing about UFOs in your car! You are embarrassed for anyone to ride with you. I know because I am just like you! My car has been clear of clutter on the inside for almost two years. There is no telling how many accidents have occurred because a bottle rolled out from under the seat. Then it got under our foot or brake and we reached down to get it.
So how do we stop from cluttering up our cars? We have to establish simple habits that will keep the clutter eliminated.
1. Don't eat in your car. If you do, then bag up the trash as soon as everyone is finished. The bag the fast food came in is a great bag to hold the trash. When you get out of the car, find a trash can.
2. Every time you get home empty the car of things you put in it before you left. Not only will this keep your family safe from UFOs but it will deter thieves. When there is nothing in the car there is no temptation to break a window. My purse was stolen from my car once when I went into a funeral home to pay my respects.
3. While you are filling your car up with gas; play a game with the children to pick up the trash in your car. Then throw it away. They can hand it to you through the car window after you have filled up.
4. Keep things in your trunk, confined in zippered bags or under a cargo net in your van or SUV.
5. Establish a day for blessing your car. Fill it up, Clean it out and Shine it up! We do it on Fridays. We have some simple tools for this; Purple Rags and Rubba Scrubba. Rubba Scubba sweeps the floor and seats. Our purple rags get the windows sparkling and dash clean. That is if you put them in your hand and use them.
Don't put your family's safety in jeopardy because you don't think you have time. Think of it as Swish and Swipe for your car. Daily maintenance takes less time than a whole day clean up to get ready to go somewhere with strangers in your car. Be sure and keep UFOs contained in the trunk or glove box.
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I could describe this month as one of the most well-rounded training months I've ever had. While I sacrificed some running miles for XC skate skiing, the fitness gained from that should translate very well to running. I think that was evident this week, with a lot of the snow gone and all of my running went really well, including today's 24 mile run.
Totals are:
Running = 130.7 miles (including two runs over 20 miles)
XC Skiing = 90.1 kilometers
Elliptical = 19.2 miles
Snowshoeing = 3.0 miles
I should note that the XC skiing distance really equates to a lot of work, as I am not very efficient yet and those were buttkicking workouts.
Back to today... Blaine was hosting a Fat Ass 50K, though he was the only one that went the distance. I stuck to my plan of doing three loops that were eight miles each to give me 24 total. It went really well. I feel I'm finally getting my endurance legs back underneath me, as my energy was great throughout.
The only obstacle was 18 miles in when my foot broke through the ice and I took a tumble, badly twisting my ankle. After shouting a few curse words, I got back up and got going again, hoping it'd lessen, which it did, but the ankle remained very tender and it slowed me down quite a bit. I'm still hobbling around.
It's not a big deal. I've had my fair share of ankle sprains, and know I'll be fine in a few days. Planned rest day tomorrow, but will play things by ear after that. At the most, might have to take Tuesday off as well.
Here's some footage from today's run, starring many of our Trail Monster Running members... note the icy beards:
Ran 24.0 miles @ 9:51/mile
Trails with ice, snow and bare patches.
Moderately hilly.
Upper single digits to start, around 20 degrees at end, sunny.
Brooks Cascadia 3 (screw shoes), long pants, fleece jacket, long sleeved shirt (shed after eight miles), short sleeved shirt, beanie, gloves.


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NATAL, Brazil — Demonstrators have burned a U.S. flag near the stadium in northern Brazil where Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to attend the U.S. soccer team's opening World Cup match Monday evening.
The protesters in Natal also burned a flag of international soccer governing body FIFA and shouted against "imperialism." The protest drew only a few dozen people and they posed no threat to security officers who stopped them at a barricade about a mile from the stadium's gates.
Anti-World Cup demonstrations also took place Monday in the southern city of Curitiba before a match between Iran and Nigeria.
Mass protests against the high cost of the World Cup spread across Brazil last year but demonstrations have been more subdued since the tournament began Thursday.


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Defending NCAA champ Boston College seeks school-record fourth straight Beanpot titleNHL.com @NHLdotcom
BOSTON - Nearly 50 years ago, Boston College coach Jerry York, a sophomore playing in his first Beanpot, scored an overtime goal during the Eagles' run to a school-record third straight tournament title.
York, the winningest coach in NCAA hockey history, now looks to guide the Eagles to their fourth consecutive Beanpot crown starting with a first-round game against Harvard on Monday.
Defending NCAA champion Boston College (15-7-2) faces the Crimson (5-14-1) in the second game. Boston University plays Northeastern to open the 61st annual Beanpot that matches the area's four Division I hockey programs annually on the first two Mondays in February.
Another tourney title would give BC's senior class a perfect 8-0 mark in Beanpot play.
"It would be very special," BC captain Pat Mullane said. "It's extremely hard to win even two, but to go out with four would be special and would say a lot about our class and the classes that have come before us."
The Eagles have reached lofty standards in the NCAA hockey world, winning three of the last five NCAA championships to go along with their three consecutive Beanpot titles.
Boston University (13-10-1) owns the most Beanpot crowns, winning 29 overall, 28 of those in the past 47 years. For years the annual joke was calling the tournament the "BU Invitational." Now, even the Terriers hear about BC's recent dominance around campus, located about a mile down Commonwealth Avenue from the Eagles' home.
"You definitely hear that. BC's probably our biggest rival," BU defenceman Sean Escobedo said. "Whether it's fellow students or sometimes professors giving you a little encouragement and saying, 'Hey, you've got to bear down against those guys this year.' It's a friendly reminder that we've got to do our job."
BC has collected 17 Beanpot titles and Harvard 10, but its last came in 1993. Northeastern (7-13-3) owns the fewest, capturing just four, and hasn't skated with the trophy since 1988.
Winning the Beanpot can certainly erase the thought of some tough losses.
"That's the beauty of having it at being a two-game series," Harvard coach Ted Donato said. "I think our guys are looking at it as an opportunity. Playing a great Boston College team is not only a great opportunity for us, but a great challenge for us."
But first they must stop the Eagles' run.
"It would put us in a class of BC athletics that no one has ever touched," goalie Parker Milner said. "It would be incredible for us to do something like that."
And if they win the Beanpot, they hope it's the start of another run to an NCAA title this spring.
"We kind of stress that this is trophy season. Coming back from Christmas break there was an opportunity to win five or six trophies," Mullane said. "I think we kind of take it one tournament at a time with the ultimate goal to win a national championship."


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New manager assures residents there's still room at the Elms Inn
East Lyme — As chilling winds hit Niantic's Crescent Beach this week, some residents of the Elms Inn on Ocean Avenue worried the building would close and they would be out in the cold.
They learned Wednesday that the feared situation would not come to pass.
"It looks like the crisis of no power in the cold weather has been averted," said First Selectman Paul Formica.
On Tuesday, the residents received a letter from the Elms' management telling them to seek housing elsewhere. The letter stated that the residential hotel was having financial difficulties and owed Connecticut Light & Power about $7,000.
CL&P was planning to shut off power to the property, said Frank Forrestt, whose brother-in-law owns the Elms. Forrestt said he has taken over management of the building under the name Shores Point Property Management.
But with help from the town and under new management this week, the property, with tenants in half of its 24 units, does not have to close as of now.
Town officials on Tuesday contacted CL&P and sought help from state Rep. Ed Jutila, D-East Lyme, to prevent the power from being shut off, said Formica.
Forrestt, after a conference call with CL&P and the mortgage company, confirmed power would remain on. The owner, Jude Cleary, has been having health problems that, combined with a tough economy and flooding from Superstorm Sandy, has made it difficult to manage the property, Forrestt said.
Forrestt assumed responsibility after Cleary became very sick this week. Forrestt said he has helped manage the Elms in the past when Cleary has been ill.
The building, which had been in foreclosure proceedings, was listed for sale until the listing expired two months ago. Forrestt said it is no longer in foreclosure and he would work to find potential buyers.
Forrestt said he had an appointment with a Federal Emergency Management Agency representative this morning to look at the property, where storm debris remained piled in the front yard months after the storm.
"The town was ready to step up and do whatever they needed to do to keep doors open," he said.
Formica said Wednesday that the town wanted to help "members of the public" stay in their homes during this cold snap.
Forrestt also credited the mortgage company, Colony Capital LLC, with paying the electricity bill. He said the company has been understanding of his brother-in-law's illness and also wants to keep the building open and in good condition. Forrestt said CL&P did not have to comply with the request not to shut off power, but did.
On Wednesday afternoon, Forrestt passed out letters to residents that told them, "You will not be experiencing any service interruptions and we will be remaining open."
Residents who received the first letter Tuesday had been anxious about being asked to leave immediately.
"This is my apartment," resident Sean Houser, who has lived there for a month, said on Tuesday. "This is where I live."
On Wednesday, Houser was in good spirits knowing that he could remain home, but he said he lost sleep the night before over the situation.
Another resident, who declined to give his name, stressed the importance of being able to come home, turn on the light, take a hot shower and have a warm bed after a day of work.
"I go to work every day, pay my bills," said the resident. "All I ask for is to be treated decently."
Forrestt said he had to warn residents about the "worst-case scenario" of no power, since he learned there was an order to shut off electricity to the property.
"Shutoffs are always a last resort — we never want to disconnect power to any customer," said CL&P spokesman Mitch Gross Wednesday. "That's why we always encourage customers with payment issues to contact us, as CL&P has programs and services that may be able to help."
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By now you may have heard about the New York City homeless man who found his daughter through Twitter. Daniel Morales is part of a program for the homeless who were given cell phones. He set up a Twitter account and has been tweeting about life on the street. Just today, he reported that he has been contacted by his daughter whom he hasn't seen in 11 years!
So how can his story help you to find someone in Mexico? Here are three important steps he took that helped his daughter find him.
- He let people know that he was looking for his daughter.
- He posted her name.
- He posted a photo of what she looked like when she was 16 years old.
Another problem is that often there are no photos that you could look at to help you know if a particular person is the one you want to find. Daniel was smart because he put a photo online of his daughter, Sarah, so she could see it.
And finally, Daniel listed his cell phone number. You'll have to decide if you want the world to have that number since you could have that same cell phone number for the rest of your life. But by listing his cell phone number, Daniel made it easy for his daughter to connect with him.
The important lesson for you to take away is that it is possible to find someone through social media. Now this story takes place in the U.S., but you, too, may be able to find someone in Mexico through social media. However, you may discover that the family member you want to find in Mexico doesn't have a Twitter account or hasn't put up any personal information that will help you identify them as that special person you want to find.
Social media isn't a magic bullet for all of us to find family in Mexico, but you should check it out. In a week or so, you could be sharing with your friends (and maybe the world) that you have found a relative or friend. However, if you feel you need more help, especially for Mexico, you should get advice from a company that has the expertise to find family in Mexico.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Opponents have clamped on the Texas Rangers' vaunted running game the past few seasons, so much so that they finally had to adjust after tough year on the bases in 2012.
These days the Rangers don't take as many chances, because the opportunities just haven't been as plentiful. But the Rangers still have the personnel to run a team into submission when given the chance.
Just ask the Los Angeles Angels.
The Rangers stole six bases Tuesday night, and five of them resulted in runs as the Rangers pulled away late for an 8-3 victory that moved them within a game of first-place Oakland in the American League West.
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Yu Darvish endured a rough early going to work seven innings en route to his team-leading 11th win, and the Rangers won for the eighth time in nine games despite not having a double, triple or homer among their 12 hits.
"It was quite exciting to go out there and be able to play the game that we love to play," manager Ron Washington said. "That's go out there and run the bases and make things happen, and that's exactly what we did. It was a night where everything game together, but it's always been an emphasis."
Leonys Martin stole three bases and scored twice, and Elvis Andrus scored three runs and had two steals. Andrus stole second, went to third on an Ian Kinsler grounder and scored the go-ahead run on a single by Adrian Beltre in the eighth, and the Rangers ran their way to four unearned runs in the ninth.
The rally started when pinch hitter Craig Gentry walked with two outs and stole second on the first pitch. Martin followed with a slow bouncer to first base, but Kole Calhoun bobbled it just long enough for Martin to reach and for Gentry to score.
Martin then took second and scored on an Andrus single. Kinsler kept the rally going with another single, and both scored as Beltre and A.J. Pierzynski also laced singles for a five-run margin in a game that had been tied an inning earlier.
"You don't need to hit a homer to actually win or score a lot of runs," Andrus said. "It feels great. As a team, it's sometimes more fun this way than when you have a bunch of extra-base hits. We took advantage today, and we have to keep going."
The Rangers got started quickly thanks to a wild first inning from Angels starter Garrett Richards. Martin opened with a single and stole second, and Andrus followed with an infield hit to push Martin to third.
Kinsler made it 1-0 with a sacrifice fly before Andrus got to third via a wild pitch and a steal. He scored with two outs as Richards uncorked another wild pitch while Pierzynski batted.
But the Angels quickly countered as Calhoun and Mike Trout opened the home half with back-to-back homers for only the second time in club history. Josh Hamilton gave the crowd a thrill with a towering flyout to left field.
"After Trout, it was Hamilton," Darvish said. "I was kind of afraid that Hamilton was going to hit one out as well."
Darvish had to escape a jam in the third, but the Angels took a 3-2 lead as Erick Aybar opened the fourth with a double and J.B. Shuck followed with a single.Richards, though, couldn't keep the lead. Mitch Moreland and Jurickson Profar started the fifth with singles, and after Engel Beltre sacrificed, Moreland scored the tying run on a chopper to second by Martin.
Darvish quelled a two-out threat in the seventh by getting Hamilton on another fly ball to leave runners at the corners. Darvish allowed eight hits, walked three, struck out six and threw 113 pitches, but the right-hander hardly was pleased.
"It's probably the worst outing I've had this year," he said. "But I was able to keep the game close and help us get the win."
The Rangers' legs didn't hurt, either, as they improved to 2-0 since losing their team leader in homers and RBIs, Nelson Cruz, to suspension. But this is a team that likes to runs no matter who is -- or isn't -- in the lineup.
"Raising hell on the base paths is something we always want to do, even if Cruz was here," Washington said. "If Cruz was here tonight, it would have been the same thing. Our game is what it is, and we're not going to change it."


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The inaugural Genomics in Medicine Lecture Series was sponsored by NHGRI, in collaboration with Suburban Hospital and Johns Hopkins. Each lecture was held at Suburban Hospital's lower level auditorium at 8600 Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, Md. The hour-long lectures began at 8 a.m. on the first Friday of the month, from December 2011 through June 2012.
The lectures were recorded and posted on GenomeTV and on NHGRI's YouTube channel.
Advanced registration was not required; however, those requesting continuing medical education (CME) credits were asked to sign in.
For more information about the Genomics in Medicine lecture series, please contact Michelle Christ at the Suburban Hospital, email@example.com, or Alice Bailey at NHGRI, firstname.lastname@example.com.
The heart of the matter: genomics and cardiovascular disease
Les Biesecker, M.D., Genetic Disease Research Branch, NHGRI
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality. While we understand many components of this risk, the ability to provide individualized treatment that maximizes efficacy and minimizes side effects is an elusive goal. Because CVD has high heritability, genomic diagnostic approaches can provide the basis for this by dissecting out the genetically distinct components of this risk.
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Genomics in maternal child health
Barbara Biesecker, Ph.D., Social and Behavioral Research Branch, NHGRI
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Diagnostic prenatal testing was one of the first promises of genetics. Recent advances have introduced a plethora of genomic technologies offered prior to pregnancy, during pregnancy and in the newborn period. These new applications present bioethical, practical and financial challenges. This talk will explore their implications for individuals, couples, families and communities.
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Rational therapeutics for genetic conditions
Hal Dietz, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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The field of human genetics is undergoing a rapid and exciting transition from a largely diagnostic to a therapeutic discipline. Historically, the treatment of genetic disorders has focused on nutritional limitations of a substrate, the purging of a toxic metabolite or compensatory expression of a protein whose deficiency causes disease through gene delivery. More recent therapeutic strategies build upon a precise understanding of the pathogenesis of disease and often exploit basic science discoveries regarding fundamental cellular processes. Examples will be provided that illustrate the strengths and limitations of each approach.
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The Shape of Things: Genetics of Complex Traits in Dogs
Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D., Cancer Genetics Branch, NHGRI
Dr. Elaine Ostrander, chief and senior investigator in NHGRI's Cancer Genetics Branch, studies genes important in growth regulation, particularly as it pertains to disease states in humans and canines. She will explain how her group aims to find genes that control the morphologic body plan of the domestic dog - which shows an extraordinary level of variation between breeds - and seeks to identify disease susceptibility genes in dogs. Her group works on the identification of genes that relate to susceptibility to, progression of, and specific outcomes in, individuals with breast and prostate cancer.
What's bugging you? The intersection of genomics and infectious disease
Jonathan Zenilman, M.D., Chief, Infectious Diseases Division, Johns Hopkins University, Bayview Medical Center
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Genomics has revolutionized the tools used by clinicians to detect and treat infectious diseases. By sequencing the human microbiome, researchers have identified scores of previously unidentified species, which coexist with their human host, and exploration has begun to understand how disease states alter the host microbial flora. Genomic-based diagnostic testing is more rapid and accurate than traditional cultures, and dramatically changed the clinician and public health approach to sexually transmitted and hospital-acquired infections. Diseases like HIV and hepatitis C are managed using direct measures of viral burden, determined by genomics. Finally, microbial genomics has had a key role in understanding and responding to increased antibiotic resistance.
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An introduction to genomics: breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
Stanley Lipkowitz, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute
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An introduction to genomics: breast cancer diagnosis and treatment will introduce the genomic characterization of breast cancer as currently used in the clinic to define breast cancer subtypes, stratify risk and determine treatment. It will also discuss how these are likely to impact the future management of breast cancer.
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An introduction to genomics: breast cancer genes, risk assessment and screening
Lawrence Brody, Ph.D., Genome Technology Branch, NHGRI
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While several factors can influence a woman's risk of breast cancer, the makeup of her genes is the strongest determinant. Rare variants in a small number of breast cancer genes can be associated with a strong family history of breast cancer. A larger number of genes contain common variants that contribute to breast cancer risk in the general population. This lecture will cover how genetics and genomics are used to identify genes associated with breast cancer risk. The current landscape of breast cancer genetics will be described and linked to gene-driven advances in clinical care.
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The human genome and individualized medicine
David Valle, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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The Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, and subsequent projects aimed at identifying common human genetic variation, such as the ongoing 1000 Genomes Project, have provided great insights into the genetic makeup of humans. Studies are now underway to determine the contribution of genetic variation to human health and disease and the utility of this information for clinical practice. In his talk, Dr. Valle will summarize the current knowledge of the genome as it relates to human biology and discuss the challenges and opportunities afforded by individualized medicine.
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1988 Ford Mustang GT Project Hypersilver - SEMA 2013 Unveiling
MM&FF's 25th Anniversary Fox-Body
Our team at Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords have worked some tough shifts to make sure that Project Hypersilver was ready for its big debut at the SEMA show this year in Las Vegas.
The day has come and many folks surrounded the car waiting anxiously for the covers to come off. Before the official unveiling, our publisher Mike Essex, and Editor Evan Smith had a few words about our 25th-anniversary car.
"We were wondering what we could do to celebrate the 25th-anniversary of our magazine so we decided to build an '88 Fox-body Mustang," says Editor Evan Smith. "The Fox-body Mustang is one of the first Mustangs that companies started building aftermarket parts for the car."
A familiar face among the crowd of onlookers included Steve Saleen, automotive legend and builder. When asked Saleen what he thought about the car and he was nothing short of impressed.
"It's really unbelievable. The detail with the dash, the iPad, it has a modern environment but still reminiscent of what we did in the 80's," says Steve.
We couldn't be happier with the turnout for the Hypersilver Mustang. We built, we came, we conquered. We hope you enjoy the car too!


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Chabad of Northwest Philadelphia is hosting an event on Wednesday, May 15, from 6 to 7:15 p.m., to mark the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, the day that celebrates receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, 3,325 years ago.
The program, for adults and children, will include a reading of the Ten Commandments from a Torah scroll, as well as a dairy dinner, desserts and ice cream.
Shavuot is traditionally celebrated by eating dairy foods, because the Torah is described (in the Song of Songs) as "honey and milk under your tongue." Non-dairy ice cream will also be available. It will take place at 7334 Rural Lane, in West Mt. Airy. There is no charge, but RSVP is appreciated to 215-438-5327 or at www.chabadnwp.org.
Chabad is also hosting an all-night learning session, focusing on the day-to-day lessons of the Ten Commandments, starting Tuesday, May 14, at 10:30 p.m. Morning services will also be held on Wednesday and Thursday mornings at 10 a.m. Yizkor on Thursday will be at 11:30 a.m.


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[Looking for more up-to-date figures? For my latest update, try HERE.]
This is my second look for the 2009/10 regular season at which teams have been hit hardest by injuries by trying to place a value on the games missed by players due to injury/illness.
(The corresponding analysis as at the end of October 2009 can be viewed HERE.)
The concept again - multiply each game missed by a player by his 2009/10 cap charge, then take the aggregate of these figures for each team and divide by 82. This indicator of value lost to a team by injury/illness is called CHIP (Cap Hit of Injured Players).
Exciting new developments...
Following up on one or two suggestions that time on ice per game could be a better (or at least a different) indicator of player "value", I've made an attempt at illustrating a similar metric based on TOI/G alongside the CHIP numbers.
While acknowledging cap charge is a less than perfect measure of player, with a number of limitations and inconsistencies, I'm not totally sold on TOI/G as being any better overall (Tom Poti is more valuable to the Capitals than Alex Ovechkin. Discuss.) - it does provide a decent comparison and the results do vary from the CHIP rankings somewhat.
A quick summary of the new metric:
- TOI/G (through games played on 30 November) replaces cap charge as the measure of value in the calculation
- For goalies, TOI/G has been worked out as Total Minutes Played / Games Dressed For - i.e. a goalie playing every minute of 75% of the games, zero in the rest, would end up with a TOI/G of 45 minutes (or close to it, once you factor in OT and so on)
- This arguably overstates the worth of starting goalies somewhat, but it's simple and you could equally argue that a workhorse goalie is the hardest position to replace, so it's fair for them to have a much higher TOI/G figure
- Where a player hasn't played all year (e.g. Pavol Demitra, Mike Van Ryn) or where a player fairly clearly has a reduced TOI/G figure due to getting injured in their only game or one of very few games (Andrei Markov, Kurt Sauer), I've used TOI/G from last season (or further back if necessary)
- For each player, multiply games missed by TOI/G to get (for a more palatable name) Cumulative Minutes of Injured Player (CMIP)
- Take the aggregate of CMIP for the team and divide by games played by the team to arrive at AMIP (Average Minutes of Injured Players) - it feels more understandable expressing this metric as an average per game (whereas CHIP is a running total)
The table below shows:
- Total CHIP for each team over the first two months of the 2009/10 regular season (through games played on 30 November)
- The player who has contributed most to the team's CHIP figure
- The number of players with a CHIP contribution of over $250,000 (think of it as being equivalent to a $1m player missing 20 games or a $4m player missing five games)
- Movement in CHIP ranking since 31 October
- AMIP for each team over the same period (e.g. an AMIP of 40:00 could be seen as the team missing two 20-minute per game players for every game this season)
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Something in the water in Canada this year? The Flames are seemingly immune from the troubles afflicting their western Canadian brethren - being first in line at the clinic does have some advantages, it seems.
As bad as the Oilers and Canucks have had it, both teams are still behind the pace of the worst hit teams from last year - the Blues ended up with a CHIP figure for the year in excess of $16m. While the CHIP figures are pretty close for the two teams (the Canucks are actually marginally ahead on a per-game basis), the AMIP figures show a much bigger "win" for the Oilers. This appears to be largely due to a greater number of minute-munching defensemen getting hurt compared to the Canucks, whose biggest CHIP contributions come from Demitra and Daniel Sedin, who play less than top-four D-men.
Two teams that stand out as having inflated AMIP numbers relative to the CHIP ranking are the Thrashers and Islanders. Both of these teams have had starting goalies out for the whole year - though trying to find a season where Lehtonen and DiPietro have some sort of consistent appearance history to base a reliable TOI/G on is a task in itself...
Conversely, the Rangers fall down the rankings on the AMIP basis - perhaps suggesting some of their players have grossly inflated cap numbers. Who knew?
The Panthers will surely rise up both tables quickly if Keith "Slasher" Ballard can't remedy his directional anger issues.
The next lists are the top 30 individual CHIP and CMIP contributions:
Markov continues to lead the CHIP race but the brotherhood of injury-prone goalies leaps ahead of him on the CMIP basis.
- Figures include (and are arguably distorted by) some players on long-term IR, such as Mike Rathje (there's a fair argument that Rathje shouldn't be on here, since I can't imagine he'll either play again or that the Flyers are missing him - and his TOI/G number from 1973/74 when he last played is clearly overstating his value a touch). They do exclude a few minor-leaguers who are or had been on the NHL club's IR since pre-season
- There are undoubtedly a few inaccuracies and inconsistencies in there - I did the best I could with the information out there. Some corrections are picked up month-to-month too
- The cap figure doesn't really correlate very well to the "worth" of a player in some cases, e.g. where rookie bonuses are included this year, where players are seeing out an old (underpaid or rookie) contract or where players are horrendously overpaid
- Also, for any player who was acquired on re-entry waivers (e.g. Sean Avery, Randy Jones), the cap hit will only reflect that for their current team, i.e. 50% of the player's full cap hit (shared between his current and old teams)
- I've once again stuck a full team-by-team listing of games missed and CHIP/CMIP numbers by each player on the web HERE
- Injury/games/TOI info courtesy of tsn.ca and nhl.com
- Cap info courtesy of hockeybuzz.com and capgeek.com


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Last time out was a nice little game for Calgary, which scored five goals in the second half of the game. So why not do it all again before doing it all again again on Thursday?
I'm writing this well in advance of tonight's 6 p.m., so I don't know what lines or anything look like yet, but you have to imagine that this game will take on a fair bit of intensity, given that it's the last one of the preseason.
This is the game in which guys will make their case for staying with the big club, and now there are more spots open than we would have imagined just three days ago. In addition to the injuries to Stajan, Stone and Langkow, Calgary also lost Kotalik and Moss for "indefinite" amounts of time on Friday night, so this game is the closest thing to a final dress rehearsal the kids are going to have.
Guys like Brett Sutter and Stefan Meyer, who seemed on the outside looking in to make the roster when camp opened, now appear primed for a spot on Thursday. And all they have to do tonight is not play too terribly and/or get injured to pretty much guarantee themselves a couple games' worth of NHL checks.
But the injury problems haven't cleared the way for one player to get the NHL roster spot many would argue that he deserves. TJ Brodie gets his last chance tonight to show Brent and Darryl Sutter that he belongs with the big club and a guy like Steve Staios doesn't (well, the latter is certainly true regardless of what Brodie does tonight, but you see my point.) Gotta figure he needs at least another goal and a strong defensive effort to make a big enough impression, eh?
The game will also give us another look at what might be the top line come this time next week: Backlund between Tanguay and Iginla. It worked wonderfully once it got its feet moving on Saturday, combining for two goals and four assists, though that was against the Oilers' defense and Nikolai Khabibulin, so it may be faint praise.
The regular season is now just one game and four days away. Let's just hope nothing happens to Miikka or Jarome.


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Several centuries ago, an Old World string of coastal fishing towns in West Africa began to encounter New World traders. The influx of commerce brought newfound wealth—and power —to local leaders. The outgo was gold, ivory, and human cargo. History Professor Rebecca Shumway is fascinated by this moment in human history—and the ghosts of Fanteland that still haunt far shores.
In the cool of the West African morning, before the sun starts its daily broil from the sky, Eno Baisie Kurentsi holds court. As usual, the session is lengthy, animated, and sprinkled with great passions. The elders and town chiefs sit and argue before Kurentsi, who is about 80 years old. Later, he will retire to a bathing tub, drink rum until midafternoon, and smoke tobacco from a long pipe that rests on the ground.
Kurentsi is an Omanhene, a highly respected and charismatic political figure. During the course of his day, he hosts leaders from the green coastal area of Ghana over which he has wide influence. But he also engages leaders of Europe and considers himself an equal to the king of England. He speaks enough English to recite the alphabet. At least two of his sons study in Europe: one in Paris, another in London. He shrewdly conducts commerce. He even sways decisions about war—including the capture and sale of other African peoples as slaves.
A leader of Ghana's Fanteland in the 1750s, Kurentsi ruled amid the palm trees at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. It was a time when many of the Fante elite grew wealthy trading with Europeans. The cargo included some of the 1 million Africans who were sold from the Ghana coast and sent to the New World. Indeed, Fanteland was a place so vital and flourishing that one British governor, living in Ghana in 1753, wrote home to a coalition of English merchants, describing the region as a world "where the Negro[e]s are masters."
University of Pittsburgh history professor Rebecca Shumway studies this world. She is the author of the recently published The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (University of Rochester Press). Her work offers a century-long look at the often-forgotten Fante peoples during a particularly intriguing era in human history.
For roughly a century, from 1700 to 1807 (when Britain passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act), West African societies changed dramatically. The transatlantic selling of human captives and the gold and ivory trades brought sustained commercial relations with Europe and the Americas. Big ships with billowing white sails arrived regularly on the coast. They were full of Portuguese and Dutch and English traders sent to find goods that would build the wealth of foreign merchants. The Fante canoe men specialized in ferrying such goods and eventually human cargo to the European ships, which couldn't dock too close to the rocky shores.
The enslaved were often traded by merchant Ghanaians with names like Fat Sam and Yellow Joe, men who used the slave trade to acquire wealth and influence. The forbidding white fort, from which slaves were shipped to the New World, still stands in the town of Anomabo. It was built in 1751 by the British to address the demand for slaves in Jamaica and Barbados.
The traffic for gold and human captives transformed Fanteland from a loosely connected set of fishing towns to a united Coastal Coalition that battled the neighboring Asante over control of the growing slave trade—and the wealth that flowed from it.
It's a poignant moment in human history, entwined with divided loyalties, newfound wealth, terrible tragedy, and transient bonds among very different peoples across several continents. In many ways, it's a historian's treasure trove, but it took Shumway time to find her way to it.
Her Fante awakening can be traced to the early 1990s, when she was an undergraduate at Northwestern University. The school on Lake Michigan is home to the nation's first African Studies program. It was founded in 1948 by Melville Herskovits, an anthropologist with an interest in Africa and its cultural links to Black Americans.
This research-rich milieu gave Shumway her first scholarly glimpse of Africa. She took two classes with Ivor Wilks, a historian who stoked her developing interest in the continent. Wilks specializes in Ghana and is an authority on the Asante Empire. In his classes, Shumway was introduced to the storied history of these people and their interactions with the Europeans during the Gold Trade and transatlantic slavery.
She was so beguiled by Africa's gems of history and culture that she decided to study there. In 1993, the undergraduate arrived at the University of Ghana, Legon, an airy campus of white buildings with red-tile roofs. During her one-year stay, she explored all things Asante. She visited Kumasi, the cultural capital, and found indigenous goods like Kente cloth, the colorful woven fabric once worn only by Ghanaian kings. She studied the golden stools, which represent the throne of Asante leadership, and she glimpsed a modern-day Asantehene, the chief of the Asante people.
But Shumway also visited Cape Coast, a teeming city by the ocean, blotted with a huge white slave fort. Shumway toured the dungeons where the enslaved were housed— sometimes for months—before being loaded into ships that would carry them to the Americas. In the fort, one of the most emotional symbols is the "door of no return," the huge portal through which the enslaved were led to board the ships. During her visit to the fort, Shumway stood near the door as it was flung open. That moment, she recalls, was so overwhelming that she expected to see a slave ship in the distance, ready to load its cargo.
Instead, what she saw was a busy collection of people: fishermen, canoe men, schoolchildren. She wondered: Who are they? Is their history connected to the forts and castles that sit in their backyards? What she soon learned is that many of the people were Fante, descendants from the heritage and history lived by Eno Baisie Kurentsi.
Shumway's curiosity was ignited. She wanted to know more. Her quest bloomed amid a budding respect and fondness for the people of Ghana. During her year of study there, she lived in Volta Hall, a women's dormitory, often without electricity. She befriended another "Becky," a Ghanaian woman who shared her stew and fufu, a dumpling-like food that is a staple of Ghanaian diets. When the university was virtually shut down by staff strikes, the friend ferried the young scholar into the lush Volta region to visit her small village and meet her queen mother. The food and generous friendship, says Shumway, "kept me alive."
While at the University of Ghana, Shumway studied with a Fante professor, John Kofi Fynn, who earned his PhD in the United Kingdom and wrote about Fante state formation. He was a proud teacher, a man of noble birth who was unafraid to critique Ghanaian politics and who often held class in a local pub. He rarely, however, covered Fante history and never even whispered about the slave trade. It was almost as if the slave trade didn't exist, recalls Shumway. The silence only made her more curious about those unspoken years.
After a year in Ghana, Shumway returned to Northwestern, but the thoughts and emotions of the Phi Beta Kappa student often drifted back to the coast of Ghana. In school, she wrote an award-winning senior thesis on Fante canoe men. By then, she says, she began "to realize how much I didn't know," and her paper became another step on her path of African scholarship.
Encouraged by her Northwestern professors to attend graduate school, Shumway enrolled at Emory University in Atlanta. There, she earned a master's degree in history in 1999 and continued toward her doctoral degree, studying history with an emphasis on the pre- colonial era of Africa's Gold Coast. Her dissertation would eventually provide the basis for her new book. Her work was archival. She accessed British colonial records in London, poring over scores of old documents. She traveled back to Ghana, searching through the dusty, crumbling records of the Ghanaian National Archives. In Accra, she read the papers of the secretary of native affairs, a British official whose job it was to identify Ghanaian "tribes."
In the meantime, she also began to build her teaching career. After earning a PhD from Emory in 2004, she taught on the faculties of colleges in Minnesota, North Carolina, and Colorado before coming to Pitt in 2006. Here, she has taught the history and culture of Africa, as well as the movement of belief systems from Africa to the Americas and, sometimes, back to the Old World.
In the classroom, she favors maps and visual aids to show the massive cultural diversity and geography of Africa, challenging her students to question: What does it mean when you say someone is African? She smiles when a student's interest in Africa sparks, reflecting how her own scholarly journey began in a college classroom.
In her pursuit to understand the Fante, Shumway has won National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright-Hays grants, among others. At more than a dozen forums and seminars, she has given presentations on Fante culture, identity, and engagement with Atlantic history. She also has published in Africana journals and elsewhere.
With her book The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Shumway set out to reinterpret her earlier scholarship, to put the Fante in the broader context of the African diaspora. She sought to access the voice of the Fante, to have their words and memories inform her interpretations, together with historical documents. She rode in canoes, walked through fields to shrines, and interviewed Fante regional leaders. Once, when she stopped for a cold cola at a Ghanaian roadside snack shop, a waitress introduced her to a local chief. All along the way, Shumway listened, hearing the Fante describe their own towns, their own shrines, their own stories.
The tobacco-smoking 80-year-old leader Eno Baisie Kurentsi is but one example of the rich, complex Fante culture. He lived in Anomabo, which, at the height of the slave trade, was a port city that became the center of Fante society, political power, and enterprise. About 14 miles east of Cape Coast, it was a city of contrasts.
In Kurentsi's time, Anomabo was tropical and cosmopolitan, full of merchants, African and European traders, and mixed-race people. It would be no surprise to spy an Anomabo leader, a figure much like a king, gliding through the streets under a large umbrella of satin and gold lace, gifts from the British. There were extremes of wealth and poverty.
In Fanteland, the oldest members of society held authority, as respect for elders is an enduring feature of West African social life. It was also a place of abirempong, or big men, African elites who held political power. The akomfuo, or priests, were here, too, supervising the ritual oaths, which in oral cultures are a form of legal agreement. Just like the political elite, the akomfuo also received material support—in some cases yards of blue cloth, gallons of rum—from the Europeans, who hoped the priests would help them curry favor from the gods and ancestors.
As a crossroads of global trade, which brought an astounding influx of wealth and interdependency, the region changed dramatically during the course of a century. The roots of that transformation were coiled around the slave trade, says Shumway. It was a most cruel form of violence, displacement, and killing that led to the suffering of large numbers of innocents. At the apex of the trade, the merchant need for captives was so great that it was no longer safe to travel alone through Fanteland—hunters, farmers, and women going to market "were ruthlessly captured and sold into foreign slavery."
The subsequent need in the region to protect people and land spurred the development of Asafo companies, which were military-like squads that provided a matrix of defense and kinship across neighboring Fante communities. Such fraternal bonds were celebrated through distinctive drum and flag corps that have survived into contemporary Fante culture.
By studying the ghosts of Fanteland, Shumway suggests it is possible to observe how the slave trade created new cultures in this part of West Africa in much the same way that the forced movement of millions of Africans gave birth to new cultures across the Americas. It also opens the door, she says, to comparing how inhabitants of the Ghanaian coast were able to preserve their autonomy when other communities farther east and west were absorbed into expanding empires such as Dahomey (now Benin) and Oyo (now Nigeria).
In documenting an era when it was either enslave or be enslaved, Shumway's own march across the archives and fields of Fanteland reveals the light and the dark sides of Africans' agency in the slave trade. Here, the elite Asante were among the most powerful and wealthiest in West Africa, but they were also the main slave traders in Ghana. In the 18th century, their brilliant Kente cloth was woven with threads of silk, cotton, and wool— textiles imported from abroad and often paid for in human lives.
The Pitt history professor hopes her work will encourage historians and others to begin to study how Fante culture is likely sprinkled across the African diaspora, perhaps showing up in Jamaica, Barbados, and the United States.
To know Eno Baisie Kurentsi and the stories of the Asafo companies is to pull the cloak from a hidden history. It offers a chance to awaken the world to Fanteland, just as a young undergraduate was stirred decades ago in Ghana when she peered through "the door of no return."


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While promoting 'The Adjustment Bureau' in New York, Matt Damon confessed he has begged the brilliant Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar to do a movie together. He says he's up to the challenge of working in a Spanish language film.
This comes at the heel of the news that Michael Cera is going to Chile to do a movie completely in Spanish with Sebastian Silva (The Maid). Will Ferrell kick-started the crossover movement when it was announced Ferrell would be doing a new comedy in Spanish with Mexican icons Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.
"I've been begging Pedro Almodóvar for years to give me a job in one of his films." Damon said of Almodovar, the Spanish director whose works include 'Volver' and 'All About Your Mother'. "Some of the best directors in the world are [Hispanic], ah, Iñárritu, there's just a ton of guys right now," Damon explained.
Damon is factually right. Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu, Juan José Campanella are all Spanish language directors who either have won an Oscar or have been nominated for one in the last decade.
Damon added how difficult it is for any actor to work in a different language and be successful.
"You know, I think about Penélope [Cruz] or these actresses that I've worked with who are acting in their second language, it's unbelievably challenging, it's really, really challenging, it's a whole other thing. I'd love to work with one of those master directors in a Spanish-language film for the challenge. I feel like I can do it. Obviously as an American I wouldn't pass as a Mexican, Puerto Rican, but no, I'd love the challenge," he explained.
The crossover of American actors over to the Spanish side is beginning to be a wise business decision for many thespians looking for status, acclaim, and yes, attention. The question is who is the next Hollywood actor to take the leap?


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Location: Oak Bluffs & Tisbury, on the Oak Bluffs side of the drawbridge and facing Vineyard Haven outer harbor.
Size: 5.2 acres
Owned by: County of Dukes County (The Towns of Oak Bluffs and Tisbury own small adjacent parcels of beach.)
Managed by: County of Dukes County
Eastville Point Beach is a popular place to view sunsets and the ever busy Vineyard Haven Harbor.
Unlike the other beaches managed by the County, Eastville Point seems to be stable and is not eroding.
Eastville Point Beach supports a variety of nesting shorebirds, from the Federally Threatened piping plover, the State-listed Species of Special Concern least tern and the American oystercatcher. Their nesting success varies from year to year. For more information go to Shorebirds
Fishermen frequent all parts of the beach although many seem to prefer fishing from the large jetty on the southwest corner of the property. Spring fishing for striped bass peaks in June and is good anywhere on the beach. The best fishing is when there are large quantities of sand eels (bait fish) in the area. The best bass seem to be caught after dark. Schools of small bass are present through the summer. From late July on there is good fishing for bonito, while in September and October fishing for albacore can be productive. Because of the calm seas, Eastville Point Beach is a good spot for light tackle and fly rods. Please contact the tackle shops for more specific information. Fishing Tournaments


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Die Burgruine Madenburg ist eine der größten und ältesten Burganlagen der Pfalz. Die Madenburg wurde auf einem in die Pfälzer Rheinebene vorspringenden bewaldeten Felsausläufer des Rothenbergs erbaut. Die von Wald umgebene Ruine liegt etwa 250 m oberhalb von Eschbach auf einer Höhe von 458 m über dem Meeresspiegel.
Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.


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Achievements in academics, service recognized with CU's 2013 Jefferson Award
Three members of the University of Colorado community –a faculty member, a staff professional and a student – are recipients of the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Award, among the highest honors given at CU, the state's flagship university.
Award winners are those who embody and advance the ideals of Jefferson, the third U.S. president and a Founding Father whose influence shaped American arts, sciences, education and public affairs. The Jefferson Award recognizes CU faculty, staff and students who demonstrate excellence in the performance of regular academic responsibilities while contributing outstanding service to the broader community.
The honorees are:
|Faculty: Anatoliy Glushchenko, Ph.D., associate professor of physics at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). He teaches advanced physics classes, directs the Center for Advanced Materials and Optical Technologies and leads a broad range of fundamental and applied research in biophysics and soft condensed matter, gaining international recognition. A frequent collaborator with many research and government laboratories and industries, Glushchenko was recognized by the University of Colorado as its 2007 Inventor of the Year.
|Staff: Drew Martorella, executive director of THEATREWORKS at UCCS. Besides providing leadership for the professional, regional theater company based on campus, Martorella also serves as a community and regional advocate for the arts and public service. Over the course of 17 years with the university, he led financial reform in the program to increase the operating budget five-fold, multiply the subscriber base by six, and more than triple the number of shows per season.
|Student: Anand Reddi, M.D. candidate in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Although he is not due to graduate until 2014, he already has established himself as a leading advocate for translating public health research into policies put into action around the globe. Reddi has worked to protect commitments for the provision of HIV drugs in resource-limited settings.
Honorees have demonstrated a strong commitment to the advancement of higher education, a deeply seated sense of individual civic responsibility and a profound commitment to the welfare and rights of the individual.
"CU's Thomas Jefferson Award brings attention to diverse contributions made across the university. It also honors outreach into Colorado and beyond, which these award winners have demonstrated in profound ways," said CU President Bruce D. Benson. "The work they do at the University of Colorado improves quality of life far beyond our campuses."
A committee of CU faculty, staff and students selects winners. Recipients receive an engraved plaque and a $2,000 honorarium, and are recognized by the CU Board of Regents.
The Thomas Jefferson Award was established at the University of Virginia in 1951 by the Robert Earll McConnell Foundation to honor teaching faculty who exemplified the humanistic ideals associated with Jefferson. By 1962, six other institutions – including CU – had established a Jefferson Award. In 1980, the university added a student category; in 1988, the staff category was approved. Funding for the awards is derived from earnings on an endowment provided by the McConnell Foundation and from a bequest by Harrison Blair, a CU alumnus.


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These are some notes to elaborate on acronyms and terms used in this document.
When mentioning
First, make sure you do not have a keyboard and monitor plugged in. OBP will use the monitor for output by default if either are plugged in. You will need a null modem cable or a regular serial cable with a null modem adapter to be able to view output.
Standard serial port settings:
Below is a list of commonly used programs for viewing a serial console. Check to see if your serial console application has the ability to send a break, as it can be very useful on a SPARC. The break signal on a serial console is the equivalent to issuing the Stop+A command on the keyboard.
Currently, Gentoo has experimental network boot/tftpboot images available on a local Gentoo mirror in experimental/sparc/tftpboot. Get the appropriate image for your SPARC computer and then proceed to the Netboot HOWTO for further instructions.
This problem is a result of the framebuffer support the Linux kernel loads at
boot time, and the modelines available on SPARC systems. Here we will assume
your monitor and video card will agree on a resolution of 1024 by 768 at a
refresh rate of 60 Hz. In OBP, you can set the resolution by adjusting the
setting for
ok printenv output-device
<output-device> <screen> <screen>
Now, to set this so it will start the display using the above mentioned
resolution, we will use the
ok setenv output-device screen:r1024x768x60 output-device = screen:r1024x768x60
In order for this to take effect, you will need to reset the machine:
ok reset
Additionally, for users using the onboard video card based on the ATI Mach64 chipset (Ultra 5/10 and Blade 100/150), you will want to append the following to your kernel boot options:
If you are booting from SILO, you can append the above string onto the end of a given boot image. The following example would be if you were booting from the LiveCD.
boot: gentoo video=atyfb:1024x768@60
If you were booting from the network, you would append the string onto the end of the boot net command in OBP as illustrated below:
ok boot net video=atyfb:1024x768@60
Most of the time, the default kernel options will be acceptable for hardware
support. You will need to make sure that
Dual booting Gentoo Linux/SPARC and Solaris can be done one of two ways. The two ways are: having both Gentoo Linux/SPARC and Solaris on the same drive, or having them on separate drives. Below are example SILO configurations for each scenario. In the example configs, the following things are assumed:
Single Drive Setup:
Separate Drive Setup:
# Generic config optionspartition = 1 timeout = 50 # Gentoo Linux/SPARC optionsimage = /boot/vmlinux label = linux root=/dev/sda4 # Solaris optionsother=5 label = Solaris
# Generic config optionsparition = 1 timeout = 50 # Gentoo Linux/SPARC optionsimage = /boot/vmlinux label = linux root=/dev/sda4 # Solaris optionsother = /sbus/espdma/esp/sd@1,0;1 label = solaris
One possibility has to do with the way the that the SCSI IDs are assigned. Gentoo/SPARC developer Keith Wesolowski provides us with the following:
Linux, normally, orders devices by SCSI ID. The lowest-numbered disk is
The OBP in most or all sun4c and sun4m systems aliases "disk" to the device with SCSI ID 3, and "disk0" through "disk3" to the device with = the corresponding SCSI ID, if it happens to be a disk rather than a tape, CDROM, etc.
In the desktop systems of this era that support two SCA disks (the Aurora chassis systems), the lower slot is assigned SCSI ID 3, and the upper slot is assigned SCSI ID 1.
If you like, you can change the PROM alias "disk" to match that of "disk1" so
that the
It depends on the type of SPARC, but chances are yes. One exception seems to be the SPARC based laptops from Tadpole, particularly the newer models. If you have a working Tadpole on Gentoo/SPARC, please contact us and let us know the details on the model and anything special needed to get it to work.
The Gentoo/SPARC team maintains a
32-bit SPARC systems vary. Systems with the sun4m architecture have been reported to work fine (SS4-SS20) including SMP configurations with the later 2.4 series kernels. sun4m systems using HyperSPARC or Ross processors in a SMP configuration will have a lot of kernel related trouble. Additionally the author hasn't heard of any user reports in regards to the JavaStations so its status is unknown. sun4d based systems currently do not work in the 2.4 kernel series, and sun4c has been unstable as well.
Often, the problems encountered in trying to run Gentoo on a 32-bit SPARC
system stem from the kernel. Rob Radez (not related to Gentoo) maintains a
For a list of additionally supported Sun hardware, consult the following list
from the UltraLinux homepage -
A partial list of Sun devices which do NOT currently have support under Gentoo/SPARC or SPARC/Linux in general are:
Also, Gentoo/SPARC developer Sven Blumenstein keeps a list of PC hardware that
has been tested with the PCI based SPARC64 systems at
The UltraLinux FAQ has the answer at
The ATI Framebuffer normally expects a PC's BIOS to set the Reference Clock speed for the video card. However, on non-x86 architectures, this doesn't happen. So what needs to be done is to set the Reference Clock speed in the XF86Config file.
In the "Device" section of your XF86Config file, you will want to add a line similar to the following:
Option "reference_clock" "28.636 MHz"
The following URLs contain more information on how to set the reference clock:
Chances are this is due to the fact that none of the Gentoo/SPARC developers
have gotten around to testing this yet, and/or the package is currently marked
with the
If you still want to install the package, you can follow the instructions from
the at
If you want to help ensure a package gets marked stable in a timely fashion,
particularly if it's an application with a small userbase (i.e.
net-im/bitlbee), install the package and test to make sure it works. If it
appears to be working well, feel free to file a bug at
This is a bug. Please file a bug report at
The best way is to join the
Also, many users and developers make use of the
Additionally, you can view the bugs for Gentoo/SPARC via the
A list of problematic packages can be found at
Here is some info on the Gentoo/SPARC project itself:
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Mary Schmidt 86, known by many as Mary Lou, of Kimberling City, Missouri, and having spent many winters in Apache Junction, Arizona, passed away Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at Mountain Vista Medical Center, Mesa, Arizona. Visitation will be 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at Retz Funeral Home, Sheffield. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Thursday, May 1, at Zion Reformed Church, rural Sheffield, with Rev. Art Zewert presiding. Interment will be in the church cemetery.