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Primarily, one of the new areas that we've been focusing on is the work that we've been doing with young girls, which started out at one of our medium-sized shelters where I started to do work with girls, providing group sessions with these young ladies who were living in the shelter. We also did some work with young men, but unfortunately we didn't get funded to continue the work with the men.
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They also will talk about some of the barriers that they will face just in their daily interactions: peer pressure to participate in sexual activity, peer pressure to get involved sometimes with drugs, which we know again is one of those risk factors that are associated with HIV. We provide them with the skills, which hopefully will help them to make those decisions that won't put them at risk for being infected.
The age group that we're working with is from 10 to 13 years old.
What the program does is that we recruit girls from the shelter with the assistance of shelter staff, flyers, information sessions that we'll have with those families who have daughters who are in that age range to get them to participate in the program.
As you know, working with the homeless population presents various challenges, but we have been working closely with the staff to overcome those challenges -- recruiting them and keeping them in the program just for those four weeks that the intervention will run.
They have a lot of fun learning. A lot of times we don't do the regular one and a half hours. We go over that time because there are so many questions and so much that they may bring up surrounding the topic that we may cover on that specific day, so I'll take my time. I'll take an extra hour if it takes that, or two, to sit and explain it to them. You know the old adage: If you can save one, you know, my job isn't done, but that's a big help.
That's the point of reference that I work from -- providing them information and spending the time with them to make sure that they understand it.
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The second week there's a keychain, then the baseball cap. The final week is a big finale, the T-shirt, and they've always received that well. We use it as an incentive for them to show their friends in the shelter -- to say, "We had fun, but not only did we have fun, we learned, most important, and here are some of the little trinkets and gifts that we got for showing up and participating."
It's been working well with them. It's been received well by the staff and the families whom I've spoken to in the shelter. Most of them have indicated that they would like to have their children participate in it.
Time is also one of the big barriers for them because of changes within Department of Homeless Services. The requirement is that the parents go out and work a lot of times. Sometimes the children who are eligible aren't able to participate because they're helping out doing household chores and catching up on doing schoolwork. We haven't been able to get all of the girls who are within that age range, which is my goal -- to have each and every one of them participate in the program.
We'll be running the program for a year and it should be up until September of 2009. I'm hoping to have more good news about it to share with the public about what we have learned about this population that will put us in a better position to get more funding to do more work, not just with this site, but agency-wide, with girls who are within that age range -- and the young men, hopefully.
How did you get involved in doing HIV work?
It's been an interesting journey for me. I started doing HIV work back in the late '90s, just about when the new HIV medications came out. I started working with a project known as the Bridge Project on Riker's Island, which provided discharge planning services to inmates who were HIV positive and ensured that they had continued services as they reentered the community.
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Most of my interests, my experiences, have also been with the incarcerated population. Then I branched out doing some more work within that population, but more around health care -- advocating for them in the community as they're coming home.
That was very interesting because we saw that although they would have gotten services, leaving the correctional facilities, at times, there were other barriers, such as making sure that they find a place to live, and then maintaining compliance with the medication. So I did more work around that. All of my professional life has been with HIV care.
I do have a passion for the work that I do and for the people that I serve because there is such a need for providing information to those who are at risk, but also to the general population because in doing that, we can help to bring the numbers down.
My spin on it is providing knowledge, giving as much as I can -- as much time and as much energy as I can -- to ensure that someone does not become infected with HIV.
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IMHO - the word RETRO does not mean 'in retrospective' ... but rather a period of time in the Past
I do agree that the original use of the word 'retro' was to describe something new but in the style of as you write - and I'm sure ebay and the media do have something to do with the incorrect use of the word 'retro' from it's pure intention and meaning. However if it means someone views my item because that is their search word, then I'm happy to use it where I feel it is appropriate :sun:m
I think if you are going to use the word retro, you must use it along with the real (approximate) age of your item.
I like that as I feel the seller takes an interest/pride in their item to (try) to describe it.
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What makes a successful business blog?Posted by Mark White, Blog Consultant in Blogging for Small Businesses , Corporate Blogging , Starting a Blog , Writing a Blog
I'm currently writing a series called "The Diary of a Business Blog" (you can find part 2 here) which looks at an imaginary business owner going through the process of setting up and developing a blog for his business. One of the questions that the first couple of posts has elicited from BBB readers (thanks, by the way!) is "what makes a successful blog?" and I guess that this is probably a key question for any organisation looking to create their own business or corporate blog.
My answer: a successful business blog is one which fulfils the purpose and achieves the results that it was created for.
Now that may sound like a bit of a cop out on my part and I suppose that, in one way, it is. However, there is a good reason why.
There's more than ONE type of blog
The issue is that there are so many different types of business blog, it's simply not possible to give a single definitive definition of what success would look like or indeed a blueprint for creating one.
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- Launch it properly: Plan the launch and make sure that you use all of the means at your disposal to tell people about it. Get your Foundation posts in place, use your mailing list, pre-announce it if applicable, create online press releases to support it and ensure that you put some weight behind the activities. If you believe it's worth reading (and let's hope you do!) then tell people and enthuse about it;
- Vary the style of posts: while the content should be targetted, there are different ways in which you can present it from "expert pieces" to lists and from news stories to links to other key sources. Make sure that you break it up and present the information in different ways – it'll help get across the points you are looking to communicate. [Some ideas on blog posts here might be of use];
- Market it religiously: there is no point in having a blog and just letting it sit there – tell people about it. Use all the methods available both online and offline, generic and blog specific and then use all of them again! While your writing will hopefully attract readers over time, you should still "spread the word" at every opportunity.
Ultimately, the person best placed to judge whether the blog you are running has been a success is … you! However, don't make it hard for yourself – know what you want to achieve with it and then going all out to make it happen.


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What do you do after love at first sight? That's the question posed in this romantic comedy-drama set in Chicago. Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) is a novelist who is giving a reading at the Sanctuary, an upscale club presenting jazz and poetry to a bohemian clientele.
Shortly before his set, he meets Nina Mosley (Nia Long), a woman who is a gifted photographer, despite the fact that she just lost her job.
They exchange small talk, and Darius makes his interest clear when -- on the spot -- he retitles a love poem A Blues For Nina. A mutual attraction is sparked between them; soon Darius finds Nina's address on a check and shows up unannounced at her apartment, a visit resulting in a photo session that turns seriously sexy.
So far, so good, but neither Darius or Nina are sure where to go next after this promising start. She's just gotten out of a relationship and isn't sure if she still cares for her old boyfriend or not, while Darius' buddies read him the riot act for wanting to give up his freedom so early on in the game.
Love Jones was the debut feature for African-American writer and director Theodore Witcher; Isaiah Washington, Bill Bellamy, and Lisa Nicole Carson lead the supporting cast.


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Streaming Media Services Role
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
The Streaming Media Services role in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system includes the Windows Media Server role service, which is required to deploy your server computer as a Windows Media server. This role service includes Microsoft® Windows Media® Services 2008, an industrial-strength platform for streaming live and on-demand digital media content, which includes Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) content, over networks.
What does this feature do?
You can use Windows Media Services 2008 to manage one or more Windows Media servers that deliver digital media content to the following types of clients:
Computers or devices that play the content using a player, such as Windows Media Player.
Other Windows Media servers that proxy, cache, or redistribute the content.
Custom programs that have been developed by using Windows Media Software Development Kits (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82886).
Who will be interested in this feature?
Windows Media Services 2008 can be used by anyone who needs to deliver digital media content to customers across networks (either the Internet or on an intranet). The following types of organizations find Windows Media Services to be especially useful:
Hosting companies that deliver a fast-streaming experience to viewers in homes and offices.
Enterprises in business, education, and government that manage network resources while delivering rich communications for executive broadcasts, online learning, marketing, and sales.
Wireless companies that deliver wireless broadband entertainment services by using scalable and reliable Windows Media servers.
Internet broadcasters that deliver content for radio, television, cable, or satellite.
Film and music distributors that distribute audio and video content in a secure manner without excessive buffering or network congestion.
IPTV professionals that deliver a high-quality IPTV experience on local area networks (LANs).
Are there any special considerations?
As in earlier releases, some features in Windows Media Services 2008 are not available on certain editions of Windows Server 2008. If your Windows Media server deployment requires a specific feature (for example, you must deliver content to clients as a multicast stream), see Decide which version of Windows Server is right for you (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82887) to determine which edition of Windows Server 2008 you should install.
After you install the correct edition of Windows Server 2008, the Streaming Media Services role, which includes the Windows Media Services role service (Windows Media Services Administrator) and optional services (Windows Media Services Administrator for the Web and Multicast and Advertisement Logging Agent), is not available for installation in Server Manager. Before you can use Server Manager to install the Streaming Media Services role, you must download Windows Media Services 2008. For more information about how to install the Streaming Media Services role in Windows Server 2008, see Updating the Windows Media Server platform to Windows Server 2008 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82888).
If you have not used Windows Media Services before, we recommend that you become familiar with streaming concepts. For a good place to start, see Using Windows Media Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82889).
You can add the Streaming Media Services role to the Server Core installation option of the Windows Server 2008 operating system. For more information, see article 934518, How to install Windows Media Services in Windows Server 2008, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89041).
What new functionality does this feature provide?
Cache/Proxy management. In Windows Media Services 2008, Windows Media Services Administrator contains a new Cache/Proxy Management plug-in that controls the ability of your Windows Media server to perform caching and proxy functions. You can use the WMS Cache Proxy plug-in to configure a Windows Media server as a cache/proxy server that conserves bandwidth, decreases network-imposed latency, and offsets the load on an origin server. These three factors reduce operating costs for you and create a better viewing experience for your customers.
Playlist attributes. The server-side playlist attributes noSkip and noRecede are now supported. Supported clients (Windows Media Player 9 Series or later versions) that connect to server-side playlists posted to on-demand publishing points on a Windows Media server can fast forward, rewind, seek, or skip throughout a media element. These clients can also skip to the previous or next media element in the playlist. (These controls are now enabled on the client.)
What new functionality or settings are being added or changed?
MMS Streaming. In Windows Media Services 2008, the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol is not supported for streaming and the MMS Server Control Protocol plug-in has been removed from Windows Media Services Administrator. Note that, even though the MMS protocol is not supported, the MMS moniker (mms://) is still supported. When clients that support the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) connect to a Windows Media server by using a URL with an mms:// prefix (for example, mms://server_name/clip_name.wmv), the server will try to use protocol rollover to stream the content to the client by using RTSP to provide an optimal streaming experience. Clients that support RTSP include Windows Media Player 9 Series (or later versions of Windows Media Player) or other players that use the Windows Media Player 9 Series ActiveX control.
When earlier versions of Windows Media Player, other players that do not support the RTSP protocol, or players in non-RTSP environments connect to the server by using a URL with an mms:// prefix, the server will try to use protocol rollover to stream the content to the client using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
To ensure that your content is always available to clients that connect to your server by using a URL with an mms:// prefix, enable the WMS HTTP Server Control Protocol plug-in in Windows Media Services Administrator and open ports on your firewall for all the connection protocols that might be used during protocol rollover. For more information, see Firewall Information for Windows Media Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82890).
Windows Media Services HTTP Sys Configuration. If you use both Windows Media Services and a Web service such as Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) on this server, both services will try to bind to port 80 for HTTP streaming. You can avoid such conflicts by assigning each service to a different port. If you assign a service to a port other than 80, you must also open the corresponding port on the network firewall. For more information, see Firewall Information for Windows Media Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82890).
As an alternative, you can assign additional IP addresses to the server. This enables each service to have its own IP address while sharing port 80 for HTTP streaming. The simplest way to accomplish this is to install multiple network adapters on your server. However, if this solution is not possible, you can create multiple IP addresses on a single network adapter and assign separate port 80 addresses to them. You must then configure Windows Media Services and the Web service to bind to separate IP address/port 80 combinations. The Windows Media Services HTTP Sys Configuration tool that is used in earlier versions of Windows Media Services for assigning additional IP addresses to your services is not available in this version. You must now configure the HTTP protocol stack (HTTP.sys) IP inclusion list by using enhanced Netsh commands. For more information, see "Netsh commands" in New Networking Features in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista® (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82891).
Firewall configuration. It is no longer necessary to add the Windows Media Services program (Wmserver.exe) as an exception in Windows Firewall to open the default incoming ports for unicast streaming. When you install the Streaming Media Services role in Windows Server 2008, the Windows Media Services program is automatically added as an exception in Windows Firewall.
Stream Test Utility. You must use Server Manager to install the Desktop Experience feature before you can use the Stream Test Utility in Windows Media Services Administrator.
Advanced Fast Start. Advanced Fast Start minimizes startup latency in Windows Media Player 10 (or later versions) or Windows CE version 5.0 (or later versions) and is enabled by default. In earlier versions of Windows Media Services, Advanced Fast Start was turned off by default.
Quality of Service (QoS). Windows Media Services has been updated to use Quality of Service (QoS) policies in Windows Server 2008 to manage outgoing network traffic, instead of using Type of Service (ToS) to deliver unicast streams. For more information, see Quality of Service (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82892).
Do I need to change any existing code?
Applications that were designed to work with Windows Media Services on previous Windows operating systems do not require changes to work with Windows Media Services 2008 on Windows Server 2008.
How should I prepare to deploy this feature?
Windows Media Services 2008 does not require any special enhancements to your organization's network or security infrastructure. If you are installing Windows Media Services on Windows Server 2008 for the first time, you should review the Windows Media Services System Requirements (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82893) before you continue.
You can deploy Windows Media Services in many scenarios. After you install Windows Media Services, we recommend that you review the Windows Media Services Deployment Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82894) for requirements and recommendations for your streaming scenario.
Is this feature available in all editions of Windows Server 2008?
Some features in Windows Media Services 2008 are not available in certain editions of Windows Server 2008. If your Windows Media server deployment requires a specific feature (for example, you must deliver content to clients as a multicast stream), see Decide which version of Windows Server is right for you (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82887) to determine which edition of the Windows Server 2008 you should install.


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In 2008 while making his documentary Delta Boys, filmmaker Andrew Berends (The Blood of My Brother, When Adnan Comes Home) was arrested and falsely accused of espionage at the bustling Nembe waterside in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, while filming women bringing their products to the market. Also arrested were his translator, Samuel George, and host Joe Bussio. Berends was detained for 10 days and expelled from the country by the Nigerian government in a bid to suppress media coverage of the Niger Delta conflict. In the end, Berends was never charged with a crime, but George's and Bussio's legal statuses then remained undetermined. A fundraiser had been set up for people to contribute to their legal fees. Bussio had eventually been cleared of all charges, and George was expected to report to the authorities soon after, and he too was eventually let go, according to Berends.
Berends in a statement said, "It is important that translators and local journalists around the world know they can do their jobs without fear for their lives, their families, or the expenses they will incur on our behalf." Berends's experience in Nigeria is just one example of a government using its power to deter journalists from reporting their stories, but this is not just happening overseas.
This brings to mind a more recent development back in April right here on U.S. soil when filmmaker Laura Poitras (The Oath) returned home from a recent trip abroad where she was detained by Homeland Security at Newark Airport and threatened with being handcuffed for attempting to take notes during her interrogation. Poitras has been repeatedly harassed, detained, interrogated and has had her cameras and computers seized as she attempts to re-enter her home country in more than three dozen incidences.
Cinema Eye Honors, the organization that honors the craft of nonfiction filmmaking (which in full disclosure, I am on the advisory board), released a statement offering a similar sentiment to that of Berends's saying, "It is unacceptable for any American nonfiction filmmaker or journalist to be treated in this manner. They must be able to return to their own country without fear of arrest or fear that their work product will be seized, solely because they are investigating or chronicling subject matter that may be sensitive or controversial."
Delta Boys made its World Premiere last night as the closing film of Stranger Than Fiction's spring season at IFC Center in New York. Berends bravely captures life in a tiny fishing village caught in the crossfire of the conflict of the Niger Delta militancy in the face of corrupt government oppression in this oil-rich region of Nigeria. In his own narration, Berends follows the personal stories of Ateke Tom, the "Godfather" of the Niger Delta Vigilante Force, Chima, a 21-year-old who left home to join the fight, and Mama, a 22-year-old who struggles to give birth to her first child with no access to modern medical care, while raids are launched from a militant camp across the river. These stories reflect a broader global struggle between entrenched power and corporate interests and an underserved population. Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States. Yet, despite this natural wealth, the majority of Niger Deltans live in poverty. Ateke's militants, along with other groups, have called for a greater distribution of wealth and jobs. When their requests have been ignored, they've attacked oil installations and pipelines, kidnapped foreigners and made the entire Delta a no-go-zone. But many feel that while the Niger Delta struggle is legitimate, the militants' motives are not so pure.
Stranger Than Fiction founder Thom Powers led a discussion with Berends after the screening of Delta Boys. Below are highlights of that Q&A.
Powers asked how Berends was able to get into Ateke Tom's camp to film. Berends said that he wanted to be there, and made an attempt to go there, but failed at first. He spent six weeks in Port Harcourt where he made some connections that took him to one of the other big militant camps, but his contacts changed their mind and left him in a village for two weeks where he had given up and returned back home. He wanted to try again and went through some of the same contacts and upon that second try, he was taken to Ateke Tom's camp. Once he got that degree of access, it was a matter of just hanging out with them and sharing the same conditions with them. Other journalists or filmmakers had gone to visit them before, but he was the first to live with them. Besides having to deal with bugs and the heat, Berends said it was often boring.
Given the conditions, Powers asked how Berends was able to manage to power his camera batteries and other equipment, and if there were any language barriers. Berends said it was his big fear to not have power, because he wouldn't be able to make his film otherwise. He shot the film on video cards, not tape. Not only did he have to recharge his batteries, but he had to download the footage to his laptop every night. Fortunately, there was generator power at the camp. In terms of the language, most everyone spoke English to varying degrees, as well as at least one of the region's 200 native languages. He didn't always need a translator to get by. He worked a few months without a fixer or translator. It was just him once he got to the camp, though he did find someone after about three months.
Powers asked Berends to explain the circumstances that got him put in jail. Berends recalled being at Nembe waterside in Port Harcourt, which is the access point to the creeks where there's a strong presence of the army, the police, and black market trading. Some people told him he couldn't film there, but he tried one day and spoke with a commander in charge and told him what he was doing. The commander said he couldn't give him permission, but it wasn't in his authority to tell him not to do it either. He bought him some beer and gave him $20. He got down there to film the waterside on three occasions. On that last occasion, there was a plain-clothed army intelligence man who told him to stop filming and then he was arrested. He said he felt safer when he was in the militant camps.
What was it like getting his material out of the country, Powers asked. Berends said every two weeks he pack up a portable hard drive and took it to the UPS office to send it home. Later in the discussion, Powers asked if Berends has stayed in touch with anyone from the camp, and he said he had lost a lot of their phone numbers when he was arrested, because they told him they were going to go after these people and take his contacts, which is devastating as a journalist. You build trust and get people to agree to talk with you, protecting your source. During his arrest while he was being transferred from one place to another, he had this one opportunity to get his phone and he pulled the SIM card out of it and put it in his mouth and swallowed it. While the police never seized that, he did end up losing a bunch of his contacts' phone numbers.
From the audience, Berends was asked if he had ever been asked by the rebels to ever stop filming in the camps and did he ever feel like he may have been putting them in danger from being filmed. Berends said he only got in trouble once when he tried to film an initiation ceremony. He didn't even get close to it, he was shooting through the bushes. Someone told him he couldn't film it, so he stopped. The next morning, Ateke Tom came into his tent and told him he wasn't happy about it, took all of his laptops and hard drives and gave him $3,000. Ateke Tom told him he wasn't seizing his equipment; he was buying it from him. He tried to talk his way out of it, and he had to show Ateke Tom all of the footage the next day. There wasn't a lot happening all of the time. They didn't all seem concerned to be filmed. There was one time they put their masks on. A lot of the guys were excited and wanted to be on the camera. At that point while he was filming, they had been granted amnesty by the government, so they didn't have anything to fear about being exposed.
Someone in the audience next asked him if he had ever seen violence towards women. Berends said he did not. Some of the men in the camps do have wives, sometimes more than one wife. As far as he knew, Ateke Tom's camp was the only one that women sometimes went to, because Ateke Tom wanted it to be more like a village, than a camp. One time one of the rebel's two wives visited, and he saw that one of them was getting more attention than the other, but he never witnessed any violence towards women.
Who was supporting the rebels, and why were they given amnesty by the government, someone asked. Berends said there is probably not one answer to that hard question, but his understanding of Ateke Tom was that before he became a so-called Niger Delta freedom fighter, he was actually a hired muscle for the politicians and armed by them to help rig elections and things like that. At some point, Ateke Tom either joined the Niger Delta movement or took it on as a guise for whatever else he was doing. He said there's a question of whether these guys are freedom fighters, are they gangsters, or somewhere in between? For him, it's a question if there was anyone genuinely fighting for the cause, and he doesn't know. There had been peaceful agitations, big movements that have not been very successful to the point where one of their non-violent activists fighting for distribution of wealth on the Niger Delta thought now maybe violence is the only way to resolve the situation. The amnesty came after a crack down on the camps. In the film, none of that fighting is shown because Berends said he wasn't present during any of it. Berends tried to re-answer the original question about why did the government give them amnesty over wiping them out? He said the militants probably could have shut down the oil industry, but they didn't choose to. One factor was that there was so much money involved. But he wasn't sure why the government chose amnesty, saying perhaps they wanted to choose a more peaceful solution, and there were relationships between the government and some of the rebels.
Berends' mother who was in the audience asked if he thought the government was just trying to avoid bad press by granting the amnesty, and who was making money besides the oil companies? He said the militants did shut down between 25% to 30% of the oil industry, which cost the country billions of dollars. Everyone who could get a piece of the money was getting it. Most of the money goes to the Nigerian federal government, which is then dispersed to the local government, which doesn't necessarily get trickled down from there. There is corruption pretty much at every level of government and society in Nigeria.
Someone else in the audience asked Berends why he was interested in the situation in the Niger Delta and getting in harm's way, and did he have interest in getting viewpoints from the government side? He said his initial impulse was to put himself in harm's way a little bit. He had seen some footage of the Niger Delta militants. He thought he could handle that level of risk, so he researched the story, and he realized it was a very important story. It's about the environment, where our oil comes from, it's about exploitation. Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States. It is a far-off exotic story, but also about something that is pretty meaningful to people today. He said he did try to interview the other side. He contacted every single oil company working in Nigeria, and they either didn't answer or politely rejected him. He also tried to go to government sources, and they just said, "No." He said his main desire was to document what it is like to live in the Niger Delta, which is the type of film he prefers to make.
Brian Geldin blogs at The Film Panel Notetaker.


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Who would win in a fight? Milk or Bread?
Bread, I'm lactose intolerant.
Who would win in a fight? My PC or Charlie Chaplin?
Your PC, Charlie is dead.
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ALFRED — A Sanford man involved in a 2010 crash that took the life of a friend and injured four other people was sentenced last week to two years in prison.
Zachary P. Bubar, 26, was sentenced last Thursday, Dec. 20, to nine years, with all but two years suspended, for the July 15, 2010, crash that resulted in the death of Shawn Beaulieu, of Sanford. Bubar will also be on probation for four years.
Bubar was sentenced by York County Superior Court Justice Paul A. Fritzsche following his conviction last month on one count of manslaughter and several other charges stemming from the 2010 crash.
According to police, Bubar was driving a 1998 Honda on New Dam Road when he pulled out to pass a vehicle in front of him that was making a right turn. Bubar's vehicle crossed over into the opposite lane and struck an oncoming vehicle head on.
Bubar was indicted by a grand jury in 2011 on one count of manslaughter, four counts of aggravated assault with a weapon and four counts of driving to endanger resulting in a serious injury in connection with four other people injured in the crash.
Beaulieu was a passenger in the front seat of Bubar's vehicle at the time of the collision. He died the next morning at Maine Medical Center in Portland as a result of his injuries. Beaulieu was 25.
Bubar as well as the two passengers in the back seat of his vehicle — an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old — were also injured, as were the driver of the other vehicle and his passenger.
The investigation concluded that Bubar was speeding and some witnesses said Bubar may have been going more than 70 mph at the time of the crash.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Chomsky, Noam. Chomsky on Miseducation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.
In this collection scholar Noam Chomsky presents his ideas about the politics of education in America.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1993.
Freire's manifesto details the political significance of critical pedagogy.
----. The Paulo Freire Reader, edited by Ana Maria Araújo Freire and Donaldo Macedo. New York: Continuum, 1998.
This collection includes excerpts from Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Education for Critical Consciousness, Pedagogy in Process, Learning to Question, and other works.
Freire, Paulo and Donald Macedo. Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1987.
This practical and inspirational guide treats literacy in its broadest sense, examining its relationship to politics, culture, and social relationships.
Giroux, H.A. Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition. Massachussets: Bergin & Garvey, 1983.
Giroux addresses the political importance of teaching critical thinking.
Gore, J.M. The Struggle for Pedagogies: Critical and Feminist Discourses as Regimes of Truth. New York, London: Routledge, 1993.
Gore brings together feminist and radical pedagogical theories in this book.
hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Hooks considers critical pedagogical practice from a feminist standpoint.
Sleeter, Christine E. and Peter McLaren (eds). Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
A compilation of writings from thinkers of various ethnicities, this book focuses on the politics of curricula in multicultural classrooms.
Tripp, D. "Critical Theory and Educational Research." Issues In Educational Research, 2.1 (1992): 13-23.
Tripp explores some of the research behind critical pedagogical theory.
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Living in NYC can make you feel like you're surrounded by mythological beasts, sci-fi freaks and fantasy faeries. Take a look into the TV mirror tonight for the season premiere of Comedy Central's animated horror-comedy series, Ugly Americans.
Ugly Americans follows Mark Lilly (voiced by Matt Oberg), a social worker at the "Department of Integration," as he helps new citizens, both human and "other," adapt to life in the Big Apple. There are easier tasks than weaning vampires off blood, socializing land-whales and housebreaking werewolves, but Mark is up to the challenge. Between his stressful job, a zombie roommate and a demon girlfriend, Mark's lucky if he can sneak in a few minutes of sleep. Check out the Episode 1 preview below.
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Ugly Americans airs after Emmy® Award-winning South Park every Wednesday—and both groundbreaking animated series are back with all-new episodes starting tonight.
Click here for more clips and other fun stuff, and be sure to tune in to Comedy Central tonight at 10/9 c for a whole hour of rudeness, ugliness, and general mayhem and hilarity. You'll feel right at home.


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Mom2Three necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
We are a t-shirt company that focuses on women. We have fitted shirts and our styles are more feminine than other t-shirt shops.
Women in New Orleans who are celebrating Mardi Gras!
I need this shirt to be more Mardi Gras. The text is "Metry Gras" as pictured. I do like a vintage look on the design. Distressed letters. Nothing too manly.
Google Mardi Gras for ideas of what kind of things would go along with this design.
The colors need to be purple, green and gold. The shirt we are using can either be purple or green.
The photos submitted with the contest, one is the text "Metry Gras" use in any font you think looks best with your design. The second photo is just a sample of the distressed/vintage look that we were explaining above.
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Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, writing for Bloomberg, discusses the research on the factors driving increased disability applications and the policies that might – and might not – help to keep the disabled on the job:
"The two primary alternative hypotheses for the rise are that either work has become less attractive or that disability insurance has become more attractive and available. The disability-claims approval process and the wider society itself have become more accepting of people receiving the benefits even if they have no visible ailment."
"Duggan and Imberman argue that changes in the award formulas for recipients have made disability substantially more generous for poorer workers. For example, a male worker who is 30 to 39 and in the bottom 25th percentile of earnings distribution could expect disability insurance to pay 41 percent of his previous earnings in 1984 and 49 percent of his previous earnings in 2002."
"The economists say the most important cause of the increasing number of recipients is the loosening of eligibility criteria. In 1984, Congress "shifted the criteria for DI eligibility from a list of specific impairments to a more general consideration of a person's medical condition and ability to work." As a result, the typical disability recipient today is far less likely to have an easily verifiable ailment."
"As we reform the tax code, we must focus on providing stronger incentives to work, through the earned-income tax credit and reductions in the payroll tax for poorer Americans. The future of America depends on preventing a temporary economic crisis from becoming a permanent labor market catastrophe."Read more!


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American Woman's Family Appeals to Iran to Drop $500,000 Bail Demand
TEHRAN, Iran -- The family of an American woman detained in Iran for more than a year is appealing to authorities to drop a $500,000 bail for her release because they cannot afford it, her lawyer said Monday.
Masoud Shafiei told The Associated Press that Swiss diplomats acting on behalf of the U.S. are asking that the bail be dropped or lowered for 32-year-old Sarah Shourd. Switzerland handles U.S. affairs in Iran because the two countries do not have diplomatic relations.
"I am aware the Swiss are making this appeal," the lawyer said. "I remain hopeful. God willing, she will be released."
In Washington, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the Obama administration is in close contact with the families of the detained hikers and the Swiss Embassy.
"The situation is continuing to develop," Vietor said. "We remain hopeful for a positive outcome."
Shafiei said he had no word on Iran's response and gave no indication whether he thinks the bail appeals will delay or further complicate Shourd's release.
Another complication could be international sanctions against Iran over suspicions its nuclear program is aimed at producing weapons.
A special U.S. government waiver may be needed for a payment to the Iranian state under new U.S. rules that call for no transactions between firms owned or subsidiaries linked to Iran's Bank Melli or its subsidiaries. In past cases, bail for foreign detainees were paid through the bank.
Iran's judiciary granted bail for Shourd Sunday for health reasons. Shourd's mother has said her daughter has been denied treatment for serious health problems, including a breast lump and precancerous cervical cells.
Shourd was detained along the Iraqi border on July 31, 2009 along with two American friends, both men. Iran indicted all three on spy-related charges on Sunday which could mean trials for the two men and proceedings in absentia for Shourd if she is freed.
The detainees' families say they were hiking in Iraq's scenic north when they were detained, and that if they crossed the border into Iran, they did so unwittingly.
Iran's internal battles over the handling of the American woman flared again Monday. The political sniping has again revealed the country's simmering political rivalries and the various groups vying for greater slices of power since last year's disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad, who first tried to shepherd the release of Shourd last week, was rebuked by the courts, which insisted that any release had to be on their terms.
Some conservative lawmakers are objecting to any plans to free Shourd.
Conservative lawmaker Ahmad Tavakkoli called the possible release a "bonus for Quran burners" and a reward for the United States after it pressed for tighter sanctions over the nuclear program which Iran claims is only for peaceful uses. The comment was a reference to a few threats by Americans to burn the Islamic holy book, the Quran.
The Revolutionary Guards made their displeasure known through a rare commentary in semi-official Fars news agency, which is close to the powerful military force.
"If they were spies -- as the Intelligence Ministry has said -- why should they received clemency and escape Islamic justice?" said the dispatch. It said allowing Shourd to "jump out" of detention will have "no result except discrediting security and intelligence agencies as well as the judiciary."
It also denounced the timing. Fars said the decision came "when the worst insults to Islamic sanctities are flourishing in the U.S." -- a reference to the threats to burn the Quran.
Another conservative website Tabnak also criticized the decision. The site is close to Mohsen Rezaei, a former Revolutionary Guard commander who ran against Ahmadinejad last year.
There is no expectation that Shourd would return to Iran for trial once she is freed. Her lawyer said he would not expect that to affect the court proceedings for the other two Americans because they are "separate cases in the eyes of the court," he said.
In the past year, Iranian authorities have allowed bail or converted jail sentences to fines for two other high-profile detainees.
In May, French academic Clotilde Reiss was freed after her 10-year sentence on espionage-related charges was commuted to a fine equivalent to $300,000.
Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari of Newsweek was freed on $300,000 bail in October 2009 after nearly four months detention following the crackdown after the country's disputed presidential election. He was later sentenced in absentia to more than 13 years in prison and 50 lashes.


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Day's Best: 53-year-old becomes oldest winner in Iditarod history
A 53-year-old man became the oldest winner of the Iditarod, a 1,000-mile dog sled race, shattering preconceptions about age and endurance competition.
While the dogs admittedly did most of the work, the nine-day race involves a lot of running and sleep deprivation for the musher as well.
"This is for all the gentlemen of a certain age who think it ends at 50, 'cause it doesn't," Seavey said, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
Give it up for Seavey.
In an interesting twist, Seavey's son, Dallas Seavey, won it last year, and at age 25 was the youngest to have won the iconic race.
That's a serious dog mushing family.


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The NHL annually awards the Frank J. Selke Trophy to the forward who best demonstrates a defensive component to his game.
If there were a comparable award in MLS, the Columbus Crew's speedy Dominic Oduro might run away with the honor because of his continued thievery.
Saturday at Sporting Kansas City marked the third straight match that Oduro created a turnover in the attacking end that resulted in a Crew goal. Twice he completed breakaways for goals himself while in the early stages against Chicago on June 22 he drew a penalty that Federico Higuaín converted.
"As a forward you always try to pick your chances," he told MLSsoccer.com by phone following the Sporting match, a 3-2 defeat for Columbus despite Oduro tying the match 2-2 in the 54th minute.
He got his eighth goal, tied for fifth in MLS, by intercepting a lazy back pass by SKC defender Seth Sinovic before it reached goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen.
"I met [Sinovic] going forward and he put the ball between him and the goalie," Oduro said. "The goalie was late and I was able to kick the ball away from him."
While Sporting coach Peter Vermes saw it as a "horrendous" blunder by his player, Columbus goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum said Oduro should be given some credit for applying pressure.
"People look at that as a mistake but Dom forced the mistake," he said.
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It was reminiscent of the game vs. Montreal on June 15, when he stripped the ball from midfielder Collen Warner and went 35 yards for the solo goal.
"That was the game plan for me to sit behind Higuain and try to get the ball and attack and that's what happened," Oduro said. "It was designed in such a way to disrupt the play as much as possible. Once I get the ball and have space, I'm taking it."
He also had a takeaway a week later against Chicago defender Austin Berry on the left flank and wasn't stopped until goalkeeper Sean Johnson tripped him in the penalty area.
Oduro, in his first season with Columbus (5-7-5) following a trade with Chicago, leads the team in goals and his four shy of equaling his personal best of 12 set in 33 games two seasons ago.
He's on pace at the halfway point for 16 goals. That would be the most for a Crew player since Jeff Cunningham's 16 in 27 matches in 2002. Jairo Arrieta and Eddie Gaven tied for the team high last season with nine apiece.


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I'll have to give it a try.
I have noticed that The Bois seems hungrier than usual the past week, and now I may have an explanation. I need to get at least 1800 calories a day for him, and for my own good, I need more protein and more iron.
Little Daniel Boone deserves the best.


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WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT (SOON) ABOUT JULY 98 MEETING Cell Death Society Wednesday,April 8, 1998 1. Dr. Patricia L. Morris, The Population Council, The Rockefeller University "Who gets to go to the dance? Cytokine orchestration: survival of the male germ cell" 2. Dr. Carmel Hensey, Department of Genetics, Columbia University "A developmental timer regulates apoptosis in Xenopus embryos" 6:00-6:30 PM Pizza, 6:30-8:00 PM Talks and Discussion Rockefeller University, 130 York Ave. Weiss Research Bldg., Room 301 Free parking after 5 PM at 66th St. and York Ave. Please car pool as parking space is limited. Important notes: To help plan for pizza and number of attendees, please call Dr. Zakeri's lab (718-997-3429) to indicate that you are coming. If you want to receive information about the Cell Death Society, please contact Dr. Zakeri's lab to verify your phone, fax, and email listings. If you have a new email address and did not receive this message by email, please send it to lockshin at stjohns.edu or register on this page To join the society, please see announcement. Richard A. Lockshin (lockshin at mindspring.com;lockshin at sjumusic.stjohns.edu) check out Cell Death Soc web page: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/~lockshin/index.html


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Can you define 'eyesore' ?
A few weeks ago the LA Times ran the article 7 alleged members of LA tagging crew arrested which included the following quote:
"The tag has been an eyesore visible from downtown high-rises and freeways for months."
This is no ordinary tag. It's a 1/2 mile long. Seriously. I see it whenever I take the 1st or 4th street bridge into town.
Also in the story was this fantastic photo (well, a photo of a photo):
Say what you want about graffiti or tagging, but I bet you can find other eye sores in this photo. I'd start with concrete banks lining every foot of the Los Angeles "river" (the tag is actually on the river banks, if you look close you can see the running water on the bottom of the letters). How about extremely poor use of space? Or the freeways. Those are quite an eyesore. How about the 4,000+ illegal billboards in our city?
I say that if one group of people think it's okay to lay concrete anywhere and everywhere then they shouldn't be surprised when (or have legal cases against) another group wants to paint it. What do you think?


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One Up Steps on a Crew Cab Super Duty - Rocker Guards For GiantsPosted in How To on January 1, 2011
If your truck is big enough, not even the Bestop Powerboards or Amp Research Power Steps can drop enough to give you a reasonable step into your truck. Though the retractable steps are brilliant, they just don't swing down enough to account for 8 or more inches of lift and giant off-road tires that adorn some crew cab Super Duty trucks. On top of that, there is really no protection given with a retracting step that sucks up under the body. That's why One Up Offroad came out with their One Up Steps that install on crew cab Super Dutys and have the ability to accept retractable steps inside them. This not only give a massive amount of protection in case you ever high center your crew cab Super Duty, it also lowers the Bestop or Amp Research step 6.5 inches.
If you've got a giant Super Duty truck, you might want to look into a set to help make your truck a bit more user friendly.


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Despite the stormy weather, St. Louis is beaming in baseball glory, with a successful All-Star Sunday in the books and the Derby and the big game on the horizon. Full story >
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A furious late rally fell just short for the Reds-laden NL squad. More >
Cardinals outfidler Stan Musial homered for the National League, but the Junior Circuit triumphed. More >
The National League recorded the first shutout in All-Star Game history and Max West's homer provided most of the offense. More >


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Don't block fracking, Cameron warns
David Cameron has issued a warning to Brussels not to stand in the way of Britain's drive to exploit its reserves of shale gas through the use of controversial fracking technology.
Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Prime Minister said the development of "cheap and predictable" energy sources could help to reverse the "off-shoring" of European jobs to the rising economic powers of Asia where labour costs are lower.
But he warned that the opportunities presented by shale gas - which had helped transform the US economy - could be undermined if the European Union sought to impose unnecessary new regulations.
"To relocate in Europe, businesses will be encouraged by cheap and predictable sources of energy," he said.
"We should be clear that if the European Union or its member states impose burdensome, unjustified or premature regulatory burdens on shale gas exploration in Europe investors will quickly head elsewhere.
"Oil and gas will still be plentifully produced, but Europe will be dry."
Mr Cameron acknowledged there were genuine concerns about fracking, but insisted that if it was done properly, it could have significant benefits both for the economy and the environment.
"We need the right regulations - such as ensuring that well casings are set at the right depths with tight seals. And governments need to reassure people that nothing would go ahead if there were environmental dangers.
"But if this is done properly, shale gas can actually have lower emissions than imported gas."
He was scathing about the tendency of Brussels to produce "incredibly complex and overwritten directives" which deterred business from investing in the EU and creating jobs.
"There are still people who think that the key to success is ever greater social protections and more regulations," he said.
"Some in the European Commission seem to think that if they're not producing new regulations, they're somehow not doing their job and that removing existing regulations is somehow an act of self-harm, while some in the European Parliament are tempted to gold-plate every piece of legislation.
"Let's be clear. We don't protect workers by piling on the regulations and directives to such an extent that they become unemployable. We have to maintain the flexibility for companies to grow and expand."
Challenged during a question and answer session by a Swedish MEP, Mr Cameron said it was a "permanent battle" to hold back new regulation and that the EU needed a dose of "practical, good, Conservative common sense".
"I am confident that we are making some progress. The European Commission for the first time is not just looking at regulations it might bring in; it is now looking at regulations it might scrap. It is going to have a scorecard for how it is getting on. That is a British initiative," he said.
In his speech, the Prime Minister sought to counter the "dystopian vision" that the West was locked in a cycle of "inevitable decline" compared to a resurgent East.
"For years the West has been written off. People say that we are facing some sort of inevitable decline. They say we can't make anything any more," he said.
"Whether it's the shift from manufacturing to services, or the transfer from manual jobs to machines, the end point is the same dystopian vision; the East wins while the West loses; and the workers lose while the machines win. I don't believe it has to be this way.
"Indeed if we make the right decisions, we may also see more of what has been a small but discernible trend where some jobs that were once off-shored are coming back from East to West."
Friends of the Earth accused Mr Cameron of ignoring the expert advice on the the impact of shale gas exploration in the UK.
"Industry experts have warned that fracking won't lead to cheaper fuel bills, and only last week BP said switching to shale gas will do little to cut emissions," said FoE h ead of campaigns Andrew Pendleton.
"The best way to create jobs, boost the economy and tackle rocketing fuel bills is to invest in energy efficiency and develop the UK's world-class renewable power potential."


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Terwilliger recalls time as Jackie's teammate
Wayne Terwilliger is looking forward to seeing "42" after the Jackie Robinson biopic goes into national release on Friday. That doesn't make him different from millions of other people.
What makes him different is this: Twig, as he is universally known, played with Robinson. They were Brooklyn Dodgers teammates for part of the 1951 season; the second baseman was the star's backup. As the Boys of Summer pass away, that makes him part of an increasingly exclusive club.
Wayne Terwilliger is looking forward to seeing "42" after the Jackie Robinson biopic goes into national release on Friday. That doesn't make him different from millions of other people.
What makes him different is this: Twig, as he is universally known, played with Robinson. They were Brooklyn Dodgers teammates for part of the 1951 season; the second baseman was the star's backup. As the Boys of Summer pass away, that makes him part of an increasingly exclusive club.
Terwilliger will turn 88 in June. He spent over 60 decades in baseball, including nine years as a player in the Majors. But there are only a few baseball pictures displayed in his home in Weatherford, Texas. And the one that means the most to him prominently features Robinson, whose No. 42 in 1997, under the direction of Commissioner Bud Selig, was retired across all of Major League Baseball in an unprecedented tribute.
"Jackie is shaking my hand and Pee Wee Reese is standing right behind him, waiting to shake my hand," Terwilliger said by phone. "I had just gotten a pinch-hit against the Cardinals in the ninth inning that won the game. If that isn't something. How many people get to have that happen, you know? That's my favorite baseball picture of all-time, just because of who it is.
"I'm proud of the fact that I played with Jackie Robinson. All those first-teamers are dead now. [Roy] Campanella, Billy Cox, Reese, Robinson. The first baseman [Gil Hodges]. Duke Snider. They're all gone now. But it's an honor for me to say I played with and against [Robinson]. And I have that picture."
Terwilliger signed with the Cubs in 1948 and was in the big leagues the following season. He has a vivid, if painful, memory of his first encounter with Robinson when they were still opponents.
"[Robinson] was on first base and we had a pickoff play on," Terwilliger recalled. "I went behind him from second base to cover first and the catcher threw the ball down. And he stepped right on my foot. I'll never forget that. I mean, it hurt. He didn't spike me, but he stepped on my foot.
"And the umpire called him safe. I pointed down to my foot and said, 'He never got to the base!' The umpire thought different, so that was that," he added with a laugh.
Terwilliger was traded to the Dodgers on June 15, 1951, as part of an eight-player deal. He remembers Robinson as being quiet. "He didn't say a heck of a lot." But there were a couple interactions that remain etched in Terwilliger's memory.
"[Robinson] was getting a minor operation on his foot and I played, I think, four games there in Ebbets Field," Terwilliger said. "One of the games I made a very simple backhand play toward second and flipped it to Reese. And after the game, [Robinson] came up to me and said, 'That was a heck of a play, Wayne. I never would have made that.' Well, it wasn't that tough and he would have made it. But that's the kind of guy he was.
"I also talked to him once in the hotel in Cincinnati. He was sitting by himself in the lobby, so I walked over and I asked him -- I don't remember word for word -- but I asked him what his goal was from now on in. He said it was to win the world championship. And he later got it. He was just a quiet guy. He and Reese were probably the close ones. Reese was really good about all the BS that went on."
Terwilliger said "all the BS" was over by the time he got to Brooklyn. Four years after the color line was broken, the hatred and prejudice Robinson had to endure was largely behind him, and Twig could simply admire Robinson's skills.
"He was just a hell of a player," Terwilliger said. "He was a great baserunner. He wasn't exceptionally fast, but he was a great baserunner. He could start and stop and he could just anticipate things. He was just a hell of a player. Every minute of it, he played hard."
In 2005, when he was 80, Terwilliger managed the independent Central League Fort Worth Cats to a championship. He coached for the team as recently as '08, and he's still trying to remain active.
"I wish I could get a damn job!" Terwilliger said, laughing again. "I've got my name in at Wal-Mart and Target. I've had it in for quite awhile. I finally went down and filled out [an application] to do whatever they want. They have greeters, you know, and the guys who push those carts around out in the parking lot. I told the person I talked to, 'Either one of those. Don't look at my damn age, I can push those carts around with the best of them.' And now I'm waiting to hear from them."
And Terwilliger was just as decisive when asked if he plans to see the movie.
"Hell, yeah," Terwilliger said firmly. "I saw the previews. The guy who's playing Branch Rickey [Harrison Ford]? He looks just like Rickey. And the guy who plays Jackie looks like him, too. So I'll look forward to seeing it."
Paul Hagen is a reporter for MLB.com.


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I've had a search on here to see if this has come up but I've not found anything, sorry if this is a duplicate.
I'm trying to use the Google Maps layers with an OpenLayers site, but not for all zoom levels. What I want to do is use the NASA global mosaic from my own map server (which works) but once I'm zoomed in far enough, switch to Google for lower level imagery from them. So far I've set Google as a base layer and used my own tiles as an overlay, but doing this means a request to google for all the zoom levels that are covered by my tiles. It seems wasteful to get tile data from google which will never be visible to the user.
What I want to do is limit the available zoom levels for the Google Layer to those zoom levels that are not covered by NASA, while not restricting the zoom levels available to the map as a whole.
My best guess was to create a dummy base layer covering the correct resolutions and zoom levels, and set a restricted set of Google as an overlay, but this is proving very difficult.
Any pointers would be much appreciated.


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excited to know that there exists something called "component updater" for Chrome!
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You ask me to file a bug?
Hey... When I click there it fails. Theres your bug - please fix it. Thx Raphael
Here is the message:
"This website is temporarily unavailable, please try again later."
How long should it take for flash to update in component updater?
My Chrome has not updated yet, 24 hours after this was published. Is there something I can do to manually trigger it?
Where can we find more information on the Component Updater? What is the expectation for users of the Standalone Installer for hosts with restricted Internet access?
There are additional update info regarding this flash update at :
(re: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/JDbHM80sAg0)
Best Regards
I wasn't aware of a "Component Updater" within Chrome until last night, when Norton Internet Security told me that pepflashplayer.dll was downloaded and it was safe. A little Goggling revealed the fact.
@Liverpool21 @miniwrld My Chrome @ home was updated at around 19:00 UTC, Feb. 13, a little after I turned on the computer and launched Chrome.
@Unknown I was going to ask the same question. I think standalone installer users will have to wait until the next stable release. Ouch!
yea it finally got updated last night which was about a day after they put out the word it was being updated
was trying to make figure it out if it could of been blocked
Why is pepflashplayer.dll now in the User Data folder and not the Application folder?
press ''about google chrome'' ''it up to date'' 24.0.1312.57 what? does anyone else having trouble?
Same here...will not auto update
Who can I talk to about getting Google to stop spamming me?
Every time I open Chrome the browser displays a PricePeep ad. I've disabled the thing from my apps but it keeps popping up.
Google talks about stopping spam and know it is spamming me! Who can I talk to to get Google to stop spamming me?
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At first glance, it would seem that the Packer family is firmly entrenched in two camps, much like the Hatfields and McCoys. Fussin' and a feudin' over one, Theodore Thompson. One side believes he is the Devil incarnate, sent to banish the Packers to season after season of filth and despair. The other side believes he is a man worthy of worship and unquestioning loyalty, and questioning his judgment is sacrilege against the holiest of holies, Lord Lambeau. This is a convenient way of labelling your extended Packer family. I, however, after careful deliberation have devised a more exacting spectrum of the Packer family. This spectrum is a seven-member family, and since most well-run families are matriarchal, it is capped on both ends by strong, opinionated sisters: Great Aunt Florence and Grandma Beatrice.
- Great Aunt Flo - There has never been anything that has ever made Flo happy. "You didn't buy anything?" "You bought too much." "Why did you get that? It's junk." Pretty much sums up how one extreme side of fans feel about the TT-run Packers. Nothing will be good enough until he is gone, they would rather lose than have him be GM, much like Flo would rather be miserable than not.
- Cousin Kelly - Unfortunately, Kelly has low self-esteem and to counteract that, she tends to sleep with any guy she meets. She tries to keep up with her boarding school classmates from out East, sometimes she gets a date, but not two. Cousin Kelly is like the Packer fans who want to spend every last dollar on the new free agent class, getting new players just makes them feel better about themselves even for a short time.
- Dad - Dad is fiscally responsible and sees no need to go out and buy new tools when the ones he has are working fine... and are cheaper. But he just can't figure out young people nowadays and why you would ever rely on them to do anything. Dad is the Packer fan who sees no need to overpay free agents, but he can't get over how damn young the team is, and he is utterly fixated on Justin Harrell. He will never let it go.
- Cool Uncle Phil - Uncle Phil is the guy you always look forward to seeing at the Family Reunion. He's easy to talk to and can relate to pretty much everybody. Give him a beer and he'll talk Packers for days. Uncle Phil is the Packer fan who never gets too high or too low, he can understand each argument and tactfully present a counterpoint without resorting to petty insults.
- Younger brother - The younger brother is a sixth year senior at UW, but it's alright. He plays bass in a jam band and gotten busted for possession twice, but it's alright. Classes and his thesis are going alright. Bro' is the Packer fan who is pretty sure things are going alright, he's not in any hurry and he thinks the best things are yet to come. A late night jam session can bring out the contemplative side, like what if we would have gotten Moss? But he forgets about it soon enough. It's alright.
- Grandpa Ernie - Grandpa Ernie is a product of the Great Depression and veteran of WWII. He believes in saving money and not being frivolous. He also believes in leading through strict discipline, that's how his Sergeant did it and Lombardi too, he should know he watched him. Grandpa Ernie is the Packer fan who believes in sticking to your guns, once you make a choice you stick to it, you don't overpay anyone and run a tight ship. A certain veteran leader would have been nice for Ernie, but no one is bigger than the platoon.
- Grandma Beatrice - There has never been a happier woman than Grandma Beatrice. She is cheerful and unflappable, even in the face of disaster like a burnt turkey at Thanksgiving or a season-ending injury. "We'll just order Chinese." or "It'll give the backup a chance to shine." Beatrice is the Packer fan who supports the team no matter what. The TT-run Packers are doing great and making all the right moves. "The best thing about 6-10 is we can improve next year."
All Packer fans fit somewhere into this spectrum, where are you?
Update: I had a few fingers of The Glenlivet (really any Glen'll do) while writing this, so I had to change a few typos. I also forgot to mention please, please use this to label any and all members of the Packer family, even if you have to call them a mutant cross between Cousin Kelly and Grandpa Ern.